skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Urnial ads are obviously big business. And there are several game companies.

You have a person for X time and they can't use their phone.

I'd imagine the killer app part is easy to clean and doesn't look like a camera.
Yikes!

This is pretty terrible.
Links to efficient implementations would be much appreciated.

I've played around with the idea but eventually settled on binary searched arrays for the small stuff and red/black trees for the rest.

One thing that bothers me about skiplists is having a static number of levels, which will either be too few or too many for most situations.
Not at all. If your interpretation of somebody's words yields nonsense, you should probably try for another interpretation.
I agree that RAII is superior, but it’s not true that compilers and library authors can’t do anything to enforce proper usage of Drop-able types in GC’d languages. C# has compiler extensions that verify IDisposables are used with the using statement, for example. Granted, this becomes a problem once you start writing functions that pass around disposable types.
> Taxes and insurance alone put in a nice dent every year.

Just make sure you know what are you doing. For rental properties, these things will be paid by the tenant in the rent, and for those wanting to get their own property, it will push it even further out of reach.
Even though I'm no where close to the world's best AWS developer, I happened onto a contract for a major stock exchange and ended up writing code that truly commands fleets of computers. What I learned: There are plenty of ways to optimize your AWS spend. Hire consultants, especially ones that do so on commission. There are so many tricks that work 99% of the time and will save you a ton. For example, read-before-update on DynamoDB. Puts are expensive, reads are cheap. Depending on your data you may be able to do the diff in code and only push the delta. There are many other optimizations. If you're a growing business it helps to get help with this stuff. I never would have guessed were it not for the pros that worked for my client.
That was quite nice. The writer seems to be in relative peace about the whole situation, or at least as peaceful as one can be knowing that the end is near.

Unrelated but related: How do we keep stories like this in the "middle" of our minds? I've noticed with myself--and many others--that we read articles and essays like this, contemplate them for a moment or two, think about how we should be more {appreciate, grateful, thankful} for what we have, but then--inevitably--somebody cuts you off in traffic, or the plumber is late, or your coworker does something annoying, and just like that, everything comes flooding in.

Is this just human nature (or my own nature)? While reading this essay, I became much less frustrated about a delayed shipment I'm waiting for, and thought to myself, "ah what the hell! It's just a small package! Life is too short to get worked up about things like this." But I know that tomorrow morning I won't feel that way.

Anyways, I'm rambling. It would be helpful to somehow keep these things somewhere in our minds for longer periods of time--not the forefront because we need to get on with things, but probably not the dark recesses either, where we'll inevitably forget them until we come across another one in a few months.
>You're looking at 80k+ easily, so that's atleast around 4200 or 4300 netto

so 50k?

what's the point of giving salaries not in netto? it just makes it harder to compare
https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j...

> In keeping with a fast growing technology company, all free cash flow is plowed back into R&D to drive down the costs and bring the follow on products to market as fast as possible. When someone buys the Tesla Roadster sports car, they are actually helping pay for development of the low cost family car.

Not only was that the plan in 2006, you'd expect them to lose a bit of money as long as they have available funds, in order to get to mass production faster.
Tourism generally increases minimum wage jobs which aren’t able to pay for increasing rents in the places they live.
I’ve tried to tell this to people and I get blank stares every time.

If you take an AirBNB house off the AirBNB market and put it up for sale, it’s like you just built a house for that community. Even better, the market for houses dips lower because of the increased supply.

I really wish rental housing was banned. There is no real gain in productivity from allowing rental housing other than some scummy landlord who lives three states away getting a bit richer off of the dime of the actual residents in the city.
This is fascinating. But I find it extremely odd that they talk only about Doggerland and, in passing, Beringia (connecting Alaska with Siberia) and "archipelagos of Oceania". Meanwhile, they leave unmentioned literally millions of square miles of prime habitat occupied by modern humans for at least 50,000 years before it was inundated, now called Sundaland and Sahul.

Sundaland is now sea between Indonesian islands, reaching up along Vietnam and out to Taiwan (thus not an island), all the way up to Korea (thus not a peninsula). Sahul filled the gap between Australia and New Guinea.

They also leave unmentioned the Persian Gulf and the sea southeast of Pakistan, more thousands of square miles of recent land. The first cities (that we know of) were built immediately upstream from those parcels. Buildings were exposed in the latter parcel before the big recent tsunami, where fishermen's nets have long got snagged.

Knowing that so much of what we think of as prehistory happened in places that are now flooded makes what we call "Atlantis" and "Noah's flood" legends into legitimate oral history. The old question of where the water came from, and went afterward, is answered: from the glaciers, and it's all still there. Australian oral histories record negotiated resolution of conflicts from people obliged to move uphill and crowd into where other people had lived for tens of thousands of years.

There were places the shore moved inland another meter each year, for centuries. Your grandparents' seaside village was always just offshore. It is easy to imagine how stories would have turned that into a dramatic deluge, over subsequent millennia.
It creates a performance degradation for applications that are correctly using Vulkan. And from conversation with Khronos people they do definitely consider this a failure (either of the spec or of the driver); among other things, it makes benchmarking rather difficult if new threads are spawning constantly as you submit command buffers. But my assertion (backed up by radv benchmarks) is that effectively nobody can use Vulkan APIs "correctly" which is why implementations like that are helpful in practice.
It was even better working on a system that versioned files automatically so programs didn't need to re-implement these sorts of wheels continually.

Dave Cutler was right.
America seems to have always risen or fallen to the level of its competition.
Respectfully: if you're going to attempt to co-opt a political framing to which you are less than familiar, drawing a transparent parallel between the fundamentally consumerist nature of tourism and needing a place to live that lets you get to your job, and then attempting to tag it as nativism--let alone an "extreme version" of it!--is probably not the least disingenuous way to do so.

You are describing something functionally on the same scale as to the "extreme blowback" rich people get when people make fun of them on Twitter for, say, burning untold amounts of dead dinosaur goop to make an NFT or to not quite go to space as a personal stunt. It is somehow, however, though not the "economically just circumstances" of the hand-to-mouth mom. Which is a situation to which I will confess some confusion, but whatever.
Non-stationary correlation in https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjourn...

It's probably spurious.
Why can’t we create enough supply that it’s not worth investors hoarding?
If you are a fan of skip lists, you may want to look into treaps as well. "Treap" is a portmanteau of "tree" and "heap": it is a binary search tree with respect to the search key, and it is a heap in another random or quasi-random quantity such as a hash of the key. Treaps have essentially all the properties of skip lists, and they are even simpler to implement.

One way to look at treaps is to start with a skip list. A skip list has variable-size nodes, which is kind of annoying. If you transform the variable-size node into a linked list, you end up with something that is essentially a binary tree, but now you have redundant information in multiple tree nodes. If you remove all redundancy you get the treap. This is not how one usually thinks of treaps, and it is not how they were invented, but it's good to be aware of the correspondence.

For a given set of keys and hash function, the treap is effectively unique (unlike binary search trees) irrespective of the insertion order, which is sometimes a good property to have.
Innovators gonna innovate, they don't need ginormous returns to get out of bed.
Saying something is a poor fit in the real world is a perfectly valid criticism. Arguably complexity analysis is such a poor fit programmers should never actually use it, but vastly simplifying problems can make for a good first approximation.
I'm with you about that. As I mentioned upthread, I'm not in the "burn it all down" camp -- that strikes me as being along the same lines as declaring that a problematic but huge piece of software should be fixed be rewriting it from scratch.

But the status quo isn't acceptable.
I’ve gotten in the habit of running a page through the Wayback Machine and bookmarking the archived URL. Would be nice if that was automated.
The social consequences to a tourist going to a hotel instead of an Airbnb are nowhere even near the social consequences of an even modest increase in rents.
One of the best plot twists of the decade.
Strikes me as someone buying a massive SUV, to only use it to move one bag of groceries from the store every week. Some day in the future they might suddenly have a family of 6 to feed or have to haul a boat somewhere, so better get the big, overkill car.
I mean... on the cell network, IP alone is enough to put you within a quarter mile or so.
Is it really right to equate a tourist's interest in accommodation with a resident's interest in a strong community?
The student (and post author) says he is Indian, not Nepalese.
They need a consistent framework to understand what is happening - "variables are like little boxes where you can put a number or some letters" and "The equal sign lets you change what is in the box."

x+=1 just complicates the situation; use x=x+1 to avoid adding more special rules for now.

This stuff is teachable, but it doesn't help that the framework is very different than the similar-looking expressions from math class, where "x=1" followed by "x=2" is not allowed.
I had to Google it and scroll a blog post.
The opportunity cost is there, whether the actual water is exported or not. Especially if the local resource is somehow subsidized either directly or indirectly.
> Is there anything like it on Linux?

VSCode. I use it on Mac and Linux and make heavy use of this feature.
So if other unskilled jobs pay better or have better conditions, why are hundreds of thousands of Americans taking these “horrible” Amazon warehouse jobs then?

Are they all being irrational? Are they being forced at gunpoint to take these jobs?

The real issue is that removing Amazon from the equation doesn’t suddenly make these people’s lives a utopia. They still won’t have healthcare or get higher wages, our laws (the real issue here) will remain the same.

In fact, smaller businesses tend to pay people less and closer to the minimum wage (or even below it, in the case of many Texas and California businesses who employee illegal immigrants).

But nobody writes news stories about tiny warehouses nobody has ever heard of overworking and underpaying their employees.
There are airbnb investors as well, people buying properties in order to rent them out.
Levels.fyi always a good resource:

https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Berlin-Ger...
Because theres not enough land and investors have more money than you. As an investment the average american will always be priced out.

Its priced to hit your maximum threshold on monthly wages expendable to rent with minimal savings.
What if I can’t afford to buy a house? Do I need to get a loan from the bank? Do you also believe banks should be forced to lend money to people they don’t think will pay it back?
Absolutely. I don't want my fief Lord to throw me a morsel of food every now and then. I want to throw him down from his castle and share our wealth fairly, so I can buy my own food myself.
Supply increase difficulty has not changed recently. Demand increase has. So if we're going to blame it on one factor, it makes sense to pick the one that has changed and is easier to control.

Less friction in increasing supply is also not an unalloyed good. You can look at the commercial office market, which is much less restricted and has huge boom/bust cycles. And that's before we get to the externalities of rapid housing growth.

I'm actually for increased supply, but I'd rather we stuck with better arguments for it than helping Airbnb get off the hook for the reasonably forseeable consequences of their actions.
"EDITING THE FINAL DETAILS of one’s life is like editing a story for the final time. It’s the last shot an editor has at making corrections, the last rewrite before the roll of the presses. It’s more painful than I anticipated to throw away files and paperwork that seemed critical to my survival just two weeks ago, and today, are all trash. Like the manual for the TV that broke down four years ago, and notebooks for stories that will never be written, and from former girlfriends, letters whose value will plummet the day I die. Filling wastebasket after wastebasket is a regrettable reminder that I have squandered much of my life on trivia."

Hits pretty hard.
Because space in desirable areas is finite? Because the creation of that proximate supply does reduce the desirability of those areas, not merely in terms of the upper class but the middle and--eventually, given a far enough point on the curve--the lower classes too? Because ruining things for everyone because of the investor class is antithetical to a humane society?

(Which is to say that there is absolutely an argument for increased supply, but rather that the interests of the REIT-helming class are not congruent with the interests of the people who live there, and thus can either come congruent or be ignored.)
I didn't knew about the pneumatic and noise annoyance, thanks for sharing
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/07/blog-backlog-2.html
This is it. It would be quite the sight to see people with real money/power (Jeff Bezos, for instance) discuss that.
You assume economics is a zero sum game. Which I don't think is even remotely proven.
> I've tried switching to both Emacs and Vim

It is an endless source of irritation that the fans of these editors are so relentless in their refusal to shut up and stop denigrating alternatives that people are left feeling that they must use them, regardless of whether they're a good fit or not.
> (and no, we don't care what your ideology is)

Unless you happen to present a articulate, reasoned objection to the use of the term "sex worker" to describe camgirls, in which case your comments go "poof!"
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Luckily, any member of the public is free to buy AMZN :)
I'm not familiar with German job listings, but in the US, listing are "gross" (or "brutto" for German speakers).

Providing the gross amount could make it easier to compare internationally.

(Perhaps it would be even better to list net salaries everywhere, but taxes can vary by person, so that's not always possible.)
Note, also, the prerequisite: For the police to talk them down they must have been on the brink but not jumped for some time, otherwise the police wouldn't be there to talk them down.

I don't think the ones that are talked down are a remotely representative sample.
Your feeling is shared by many. One way is to curate a set of tools that are your very own. By this I don't mean you build all your tools from scratch. Rather create a mix of "off-the-shelf" open source tools, custom scripts and methodologies that are your very own. You should have deep familiarity with them and improve your tool chain with time.

Keep this tool chain stable over the course of your career and over time you will see your effectiveness and personal velocity improve.

My personal examples:

- I maintain some simple scripts and tools of my own for dealing with AWS deployments and logs.

- I have my own flask app skeleton/scaffold for creating a new web app or web tool from scratch.

- I stick with vi for any kind of text or config editing

- I maintain a bunch of simple bash scripts for common tasks etc...
> I use Vultr or Digitalocean if I need a server somewhere because at least it's just a pre-set cost.

To be fair, AWS Lightsail should be an option too. Lightsail machines come with a fairly competitive amount of bandwidth.
Again, the context of this rant is a list of actually kinda funny jokes. Just wait until this guy hears about SIGBOVIK :)
I'm not worried at all, because the jealous, anti-progressive, pessimistic commenters littering this thread are not the dominant force in society (even if they did have a numbers advantage, which I don't believe they do, they would lose by the inherent virtue of the weakness in their personalities), and people like Musk, Bezos, and the thousands of engineers executing their visions will ensure humanity has self-sustaining off world colonies in just a few centuries.
That's what I've been doing with Notepad++ for years and years. It doesn't even prompt you to save when you exit, it just restores your previous open file panes, including ones you didn't save.

(not sure if I had to change a setting for this)
Then I'd expect someone to actually propose to address this in the future versions. Question is how easy they can do that, given there is some backward compatibility guarantees I suppose.

I'm not sure what their approach for that is. May be they break it at some point and then the driver can offer more knobs for such features to be optional or behave differently in the newer versions.
>There is no real gain in productivity from allowing rental housing other than some scummy landlord who lives three states away getting a bit richer off of the dime of the actual residents in the city.

Aren't you completely ignoring the customers of AirBNB in this picture? Namely, the people who only visit the city for short periods of time?

Also, it is not very clear from your phrasing, do you mean that nobody should be allowed to rent at all? Like even with leases of 1 year or longer?
I think it's very reasonable to hold that view (I do as well). But to propose a solution, it's necessary to understand the facts of the current situation, which is what I'm trying to learn.
> Question is: that 207 billion, did he accumulate that fairly himself or did his workforce accumulate that for him? Hard to answer from the outside

Not hard to answer at all, the answer is of course not. The unbalanced property relations ensure that the workers who build the wealth are not fairly compensated and have to consent to surrendering the lion's share of the value they produce to their boss.
> The problem was that the Workplace Shell (the GUI) had some sort of single message queue that could be blocked by a misbehaving program. This would cause the GUI to hang.

Windows 9x had very similar issues, and even early versions in the Windows NT series weren't altogether free of them. The viable fix was to hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and force close the misbehaving application.
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I don’t think it comes naturally to most, at least not at first.

Practicing mindfulness and instituting a habit of expressing/feeling gratitude are two intentional things that can help maintain perspective.

But to your point, if you don’t practice this intentionally, I think it will always fade.
Godot and Unity will export to HTML5, and there is a Javascript-specific framework called Construct 2.

If you're talking about something like a visual novel, Godot and Unity probably have plugins for that.
But the designers really, really want that aesthetic: https://stopthemingmy.app/
Are they published somewhere on https://github.com/Automattic?
> Windows (though technically inferior to OS/2 in many respects, at least until Windows 95)

In many respects maybe, but which aspects matter for success is highly contextual, and some just didn't really matter for the general public. Is the system in protected mode? Does not really matter during that era. What did matter however, was resource consumption. Maybe for speed of legacy programs OS/2 1.x targeting only 286 was not good, compared to even Windows 2.1x which had Windows/386.

On the memory front, OS/2 1.1 requested 3MB of RAM. Windows 2.x/386 requested 640kB. Windows 3.1 requested 2MB (or even just 1MB in standard mode). OS.2 2.0 requested 4MB (release date 92). Windows 95 requested 4MB too...

So OS/2 was arguably kind of technically inferior to Windows on many other points, and that was the points that were actually important for most people at the time.

Windows NT was "far better" (abstracting away e.g. the resources required) than both, but was out of reach of consumer system for years...

On the other hand, Mac OS on 68k was quite problematic until its end but it was not what made successes and failures of Mac during that era.

The success of Windows was certainly not only about backward compat. It was also about requirements. And price. And add to that, of course, about what was provided by default by nearly all OEMs...

Sure OS/2 was with a certain modernist view of things "technically better" than some Windows, but you know what else was even better in 92? A SPARCstation 10 :D
You can only make more calls over packet switched than circuit switches if the packet switched network is cheating: silence elimination is common, compression is also common. If you're comparing PRI to SIP over T1 without silence elimination and using uLaw, results are going to be pretty similar. Maybe you get a benefit with SIP because you eliminated the control channel of PRI, but you also increased latency and jitter and lost clear overload behavior (all circuits busy) in favor of degraded calls on overload.

Of course, it's a lot easier to multiplex SIP with other IP traffic, I don't think you can split a T1 as a couple PRIs and the rest IP, and even if you could, you probably couldn't do it dynamically. Having a system where data can use the bandwidth when you're not making calls, and calls can use it when you are is pretty valuable.
You don't have to change a setting, that's the default behaviour :D
What I mean is the grass monoculture, trees, shrubs and flowers that for the ur-lawn in the US most of the us that requires a lot of extra watering to maintain.
I recently downloaded an iOS app called WeCroak. It sends me 5 reminders per day that I’m going to die and if I choose to open one of those notifications it has an interesting quote on life/death. I’ve found myself several times on social media when the notification comes in and I immediately close it and get back to do something better. So far the I’m really enjoying the reminders and finding them useful for bringing me back to the moment.
Vscode was one of those “Microsoft made an editor on electron? Why would anyone use that” to “WSL2 and vscode is way better than mac” debates I have now.
Am I the baddie?
Btw I would just use Linux if my friggin corporate overloads supported it. I could BYOD but all my devices have some sort of pirated movie or a doom2 wad from the internet that I don’t feel like talking to HR about.