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> what the difficulties of implementing this

Not every problem is technical. Modern journalism is still just a participant in capitalism.

This is a business model problem, and figuring out how to build a healthy company and news organization with a reliable stream of revenues to allow long-term planning. Add in the pressure that most journalism is now private sector with growth expectations, such that the BBC and NPR are outliers.
I worked at IBM, '91 - '93, in the PC Business, in the sales channel.

We had a couple of problems that IBM's competitors didn't have. For one thing, we couldn't make too powerful a PC that might cannibalize the minicomputer sales (AS/400). IBM made much more money on an AS/400 than a PS/2 model 95.

Our cost structure was too high. How high? We lost $1 for every $100 we sold.

Part of the reason the cost structure was high were the number of IBM'ers: I worked in an office of about 15 people supporting the NY/Long Island region. Four years later, it was down to 1 person.

Another reason was our physical costs were high. For example, we couldn't buy RAM from Intel; we had to buy RAM from IBM (which was fabbed in Kingston, NY, not to be confused with the Kingston RAM mfr).

Also, we were struggling to get the correct mix of sales channels. For example, we couldn't sell PCs directly through the IBM sales force (too expensive, IIRC it added 36% to the sales cost). Instead, the IBM sales force would partner with dealerships (which added 21% to the sales cost).
The web didn't exist yet, not really, so we couldn't sell through there. We could have done direct-response (an 800 number, like Dell & Gateway were doing), but that took a while to spin up. And it was similar in cost to selling through dealerships. Also we didn't sell through distributors, which was the least-expensive channel (16% IIRC).

I remember looking at the price list. We had two levels of dealers: those who bought large volumes, which typically purchased equipment at 30% off list, and those who worked in smaller quantities, which would get ~20% off list.

As the PC Market became more competitive, we couldn't afford high list prices (we were too expensive), so one of the ways we brought down our list prices was to shrink the discount we gave to the dealers.

The dealer was not allowed to sell online or via computer magazines: there had to be in-person contact. That helped prevent the Atlanta dealers from poaching the NYC dealers' business.

It's easy to armchair-quarterback the decisions IBM made, but a lot of those decisions were nuanced. For example, you could say, "Why didn't IBM have an 800 number to buy PCs?". And the answer is that a lot of our biggest customers were corporations, not individual consumers, and they felt more comfortable purchasing through a dealer they trusted.
Inflation would say otherwise. Everyone had the same purchasing power before, and so could buy roughly the same things. Now, Jeffery has more purchasing power than anyone else, which means they can outbid and can keep the better things for himself.
Can you imagine when one day cartel got their hands on robots?
Airbnb was always going to exist post internet (in some name or other).

People like renting their flats, people like not staying in motels, etc.

There will always be abusers in any system that substantially relies on good will. Go after the abuses.
>It’s not your responsibility, you can simply not visit their site if you don’t wish to participate.

Agreed, this is the best answer. If I don't agree with a sites choice in terms of background scripts/privacy/funding method, I just stop visiting it.
The problem is not that billionaires are spending their money on space exploration. The problem is that we have many billionaires and millions (billions world wide) are barely surviving.
Do you want our species to expand to other planets with this kind of society?
We will all end up being slaves if this keeps going on, not in 19th century sense but modern kind - forced to work endless hours just to scrape enough money for food.
Elysium style society but without happy ending.
I would divide the projected total task in to 5 equal part and again each part in 5 equal part, and just worry about first of the first, after every part completion we can revise the target
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>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

It does not. I lived in the midwest for the majority of my life and never once had to water my lawn to keep everything green and alive.
Oh, so you’re the guy.
The basic problem with lie detectors is that if you know what you're doing you can trick the machine. Also, people tend to react to the sensitive questions, producing false positives.

While they aren't used for it they can in certain circumstances produce results with an accuracy quite sufficient for the courtroom, and there isn't even any Fifth Amendment problems with the approach:

You need things which the criminal will know but which others will not--you have to keep a bunch of details out of the press. The suspect is not asked any questions, but rather asked to read a bunch of statements about the crime--"she was wearing a red blouse", "she was wearing a green blouse", "she was wearing a white blouse", "she was wearing a blue blouse", each statement is innocent and thus will not trigger a reaction in the person who doesn't know the details. There is a 1 in 4 chance that someone will show the strongest reaction to the true statement--but what happens when you do the same thing with a bunch of details? Show the strongest reaction to the true one on 20 such 4-choice questions and now what are the odds it's a random?

An innocent can't incriminate themselves because they don't know which are the sensitive answers. Note that you can't exonerate someone this way--someone who doesn't remember the details being asked about will look the same as someone who is innocent. However, if it fingers you to a sufficiently high degree of certainty guilt is assured.
SpaceX actually brings things up to orbital speeds, which is the minimum bar for useful space activity.
Most cities have plenty of land but it is zoned exlusively for low density single family houses.
>There is no real gain in productivity from allowing rental housing

This is the argument this thread had started with. Do you really believe there is no real gain in productivity from allowing people the freedom to freely move between cities in search for better jobs?
There's a whole preference pane called "Menus & Shortcuts" which lets you set new keyboard bindings for virtually everything.

I'm not sure what behavior you're looking for with the tab key in structured text, but if you're complaining that by default it will replace selected text with a tab character rather than indenting the whole thing, you could always go to the Keyboard preference pane and check the box by "Allow Tab key to indent text blocks"...
Aside from the fact that this whole argument is risible, I somewhat resent the implication that my renter neighbors are somehow responsible for crime and hygiene problems. I think it's ironic that you think my argument is the one cabined by limited experience of the world. There is nothing moral or prosocial about financing residency with a mortgage versus paying rent. If anything, housing policy throughout the US is far, far to biased in favor of owners over renters.

The issue here is short-term rentals, not the deeply weird idea that the only properties that should be available for rentals are multi-family dwellings.
No, he means “governments.”
That's a very SaaS-centric way of looking at software development.

Unit tests and type systems are useful across the whole stack. Systems developers, application developers, embedded developers, mobile developers, even sysadmins and IT people - they all have a use for these basic principles of how to design a piece of software.

GraphQL and Kubernetes, on the other hand, are solutions designed exclusively for web services deployed into the cloud, and they're primarily useful in situations where there are many different teams each working on different services, with differing release schedules and engineering priorities. These situations might seem very common in large companies, but I don't think they represent common aspects of software development in general.
No, you’re right. It’s like picking your nose. Don’t ever do it. I don’t ever do it.

Unless no one can see.

Somewhat more seriously, don’t do it in anything other than one-off code once you’ve experimented enough to get the result you want unless you aren’t scared of the people who will yell at you about circular imports.
>I've long thought that AirBnB allows people to profit off something that others around them bear the negative externalities from

The more you think about it the more you begin to realise that this applies to almost everything you can think of. Our economic system is just bad at properly allocating rewards and value.
Like others have said, your tax rate differs depending on situation you're in. Also, there are more things to take into account in Germany specifically. For example, many if not most companies (not sure if they still do, haven't been there in a while) will pay you "vacation money" and "x-mas money"/"13th salary" on top of this. I.e. in IIRC July you get an extra half month's salary and in November you get a "13th salary" i.e. an extra month's worth. These do count into all these tax implications (though some aren't taxed in the exact same way) but aren't included in the quoted salary numbers. They're listed as part of the contract usually.
Yes, I don't see this doing much. There are no federal right to repair laws to enforce. And I think that's a good thing as burdening manufacturers with interpreting piles of regulations requiring a team of lawyers to figure out is a sure way to kill small manufacturing start-ups, create moats around big manufacturers that have the lawyers and resources to handle right to repair requirements, and kill innovation.
If you have people capitalizing on their positions in government, that's not capitalism. That's private ownership of public property, also known as kleptocracy. Insider trading is simply an indirect, historically-unprosecuted way of carrying carrying a suitcase full of cash out the front door.
Airbnb should be a boon to the local economy. Tourists with money to spend at local businesses is literally the basis of the entire economy for multiple regions around the world.

It's only a 'problem' because our local governments have perverted the housing market (and hotel market) with a Gordian knot's worth of regulation and red tape. How is it that we as a society are so dysfunctional as to be unable to build concrete cubes with windows at an affordable price?
Z80 machines w/ CP/M and the IMSAI 8080. I like the old IMSAI 8080 machines and got to use one many years ago and it’s fun and visceral to program with machine code. direct understanding.
Can anyone explain what the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act does to protect the right to repair?
> At least I had a role in electing the government and can change my vote based on their performance.

The real crux. You want control over what other people do.
I mean your response pretty much proves what sort of character you have and implies that you were doing exactly what I accused you of. Good job.
I've met people before who do exactly that.
Margins aren't huge, but it's profitable for people in both countries.
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The targeting isn't all that good. We note the dramatic hits, we don't note the far larger number of misses.

I used to get a lot of dating and foreign-matchmaking ads stemming from the fact I like chess. Never mind that I have been off the market since before there was a www.
See the section titled “What the Magnuson-Moss Act Does Not Require” of the FTC’s “Businessperson’s Guide to Federal Warranty Law”[1] to understand why this is not even close to “enforcing right to repair”. Aside from the fact that the FTC can’t enforce a right to repair law that doesn’t exist, the promise to enforce the Magnuson-Moss Act doesn’t even scratch the surface of what right to repair aims to accomplish. For example, farmers who have famously campaigned for right to repair for years (decades?) aren’t covered by the Act because their equipment is for commercial, not consumer, use.

Edit: Even though I think it’s beyond ridiculous to paint this as “right to repair” I am absolutely going to report Microsoft’s Xbox to the FTC for their egregious Magnuson-Moss violations. Maybe that stupid sticker will finally disappear.

[1]https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/bus...
No this is incorrect. If you're in CA, you are looking at a tax burden of roughly 30% if you're making 100k.
then why are applications installed by default categorized only by their name? or by category, as in the case of Win95/98/NT/2000?
https://rightingsoftware.org/

"Based on first principles in software engineering and a comprehensive set of matching tools and techniques, Löwy’s methodology integrates system design and project design. First, he describes the primary area where many software architects fail and shows how to decompose a system into smaller building blocks or services, based on volatility. Next, he shows how to flow an effective project design from the system design; how to accurately calculate the project duration, cost, and risk; and how to devise multiple execution options."
> Neither Bezos or Branson achieved orbital velocities, which is the minimum bar for doing useful things related to space.

Well, ICBMs are very useful, and only require sub-orbital velocities, though I don't necessarily want Bezos or Branson to get those.
Any country that legalizes cocaine will get on the US sanctions shit list which would cost the Netherlands hundreds of billions per year.
Also there would be massive drug tourism.
> Also, the economy was considerably smaller in those days, and so the Apollo program took up a much larger share of it.

Isn't that what adjusting to today's dollars essentially does? Those $28 billion were back then what $257 billion are in today's economy.
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When I moved to New York for a job, I spent over a month in an Airbnb while searching for more permanent accomodations. My roommates in the Airbnb were all in a similar situations, needing a place to stay for 1-6 months.

Without the Airbnb, where would we have gone? A hotel? But a hotel with a useable kitchen and good wifi would have been too expensive for any of us renting one of those rooms.
> How do we keep stories like this in the "middle" of our minds?

I hope this is helpful. A part of Stoicism can be remembering death. There is a nature walk that I often do and I see two cemeteries on my way. I'm reminded that I need to do what I can each day and take responsibility for myself. If I smile at another person and help someone, then I've done what I can and that's enough
In the real world spacetime is very close to Euclidean geometry near earth. Complexity analysis on the other hand can be wrong by literal orders of magnitude.

If carpenters needed to worry about the internal angles of a triangle a ding up to between 9,672 and 1.72 degrees then I think people would consider Euclidean geometry a waste of time, but 180 +/- 0.0000001 is fine.
>I'm surprised it took this long for AWS to launch something as basic as this.

I'm not surprised. I'm convinced AWS has strategically focused on making costs difficult to keep on top of so you just pick a service, assume it's magically cost optimized for you and use it even though that's not reality.

Side note, I love the Vantage EC2 instance comparison chart, I've used it a few times recently and it made my life so much easier. Thank you and your team(s) for providing this freely and publicly:
https://instances.vantage.sh/
Not HN approved, sorry. Plus, I don't think that Yarvin still has his mojo since his wife died. He'll be back, but Urbit is way too convoluted to just coast into success.
IQ is highly impacted by schooling and wealth. The 1965 immigration reform act filters immigrants based on skills and wealth, increasing the average IQ of immigrants. 60% of Asian-Americans are first-generation immigrants, and the total population has increased from ~1.5M in 1965 to 17M in 2010.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_immigration_to_the_Unite...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_American...
That's easy. I don't. I have no problem parasitically eating them for long-tail information while paying for my primary sources.

uBlock Origin and rampant infotheft it is. And that's okay, I don't really care if they live or die. Just like they don't really care if I live or die.
Don't some listings on airbnb do the exact same thing? Would those be ok from airbnb if they stopped the other types? Is the only difference having a landlord on site?
I have to admit that the ‘profiles’ of possible customers are a hoot.

E.g. real people get high when they are under stress, but entrepreneurs who ‘watch y combinator videos’ micro-dose instead.
That's all true but it's completely unrelated to what I was saying. My point was that I would rather pay a flat rate for unlimited data than pay per unit of data used. I like the freedom of using it however I want. I like not having to think about whether, for example, watching a video in 1080p is worth the extra ten cents over watching it in 360p. I just don't want to feel bad for treating myself to the best experience.
In multi-repo, on all projects I've worked on, there is no such problem.

First, inter-repo dependencies are managed by pulling specific a commit or tag. So changing a library has zero effect on the program depending on that library.

Second, if you are introducing breaking change and you know not all client will want the change, you can have multiple branches. No, you do not want this as the default choice and not on the long term, but for the short-term transition, that is possible.

From that point on, clients of the library can upgrade to new versions with the changes on their own schedule. The client is never forced to upgrade until there a feature is absolutely needs. The library is not forced to support two versions of code.

That last point is not trivial. If every braking change need to go through this dual-support period in the same single code base it can become a support and testing nightmare. You need to duplicate tests and as the number of such dual-version of API increase, the compatibility matrix grows exponentially.

This is entirely avoided in the multi-repos scenario.
This is a mantra often repeated on hn when anythig related to housing comes up, but is it true? Many cities around the world have experienced the airbnb effect or similar: demand from tourists which can pay better means higher demand and lower supply as houses are converted into tourism accommodation. This is also also the mechanism of gentrification in general, so it's not just tourism.
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Kim Stanley Robison's Red Mars explores exactly this problem of colonising a new world whilst the old world is brokenly unequal and has ecological disasters tearing it apart.

Really good book. I won't spoil it too much, but think it offers a powerful challenge to the techno-utopianism of Mars Colony obsessives. The Martians cannot escape their terrestrial ideologies, because those ideologies are still rooted in the old world that they rely on for survival, and because they carried over those ideologies in their own minds.
> Aside from the fact that this whole argument is risible, I somewhat resent the implication that my renter neighbors are somehow responsible for crime and hygiene problems.

You can resent it however much you want, in the aggregate facts are facts.

The idea that renting suddenly transforms from a detriment to a benefit at the 12 month mark is a priori comical.
Also the standard deduction was recently significantly increased (I think it was doubled in 2017, can't remember for sure the exact the time/amount though), so it's a better deal for even more people.
Van Jones is a garbage reporter.
Self-sustainability is definitely more than 50 years away (barring a major technological revolution.)

Once sustainability is achieved, exponential growth seems implicit (even if the base of that exponential growth is close to 1.)

Full, long term Sustainability is probably centuries away (at a bare minimum and assuming some very significant technological advancement.)

Ironically, the very technology (manufacturing, sealed stable ecological design, etc) that would allow a fully self-sufficient mars colony would also significantly reduce that set of possible civilization ending catastrophes on earth.
They can do whatever the hell they want after they've paid their taxes. That is the consternation, not that going to space is somehow bad.
> The spaceship operator, <=> is C++20’s version of C’s old timey qsort comparison function (it is in fact much better because it also automagically provides all comparison operators). Basically, a<=>b can return <0 if a<b, 0 if they’re equal, and >0 if a>b

Wow, had no idea this operator was a thing now.

Does anyone here know if <=> actually gives a performance boost over separately checking < and then =, at least for basic things like integers and ASCII strings?

A quick search online doesn't seem to provide an obvious answer -- whether it compiles to something more efficient, or whether compilers were already smart enough to compile previous <-then-= checks in the same manner.

I'm assuming it's syntactic sugar, or else it would have been introduced for performance reasons long ago... but surely someone here has the definitive answer.
You can pipeline desalted water just fine.

The problem for agriculture is that desalinization is expensive--several orders of magnitude more expensive than sucking it out of the aquifer. You won't be growing any cheap or staple crops with that.

And, we could certainly supply the people in the Central Valley of California with pipelined desalinated water. However, if the agribusinesses disappear, so will the cities. Thus making a water pipeline moot.
If you look at the data on home ownership rates[0], which is the percent of homes owned by their occupant, the number did take a big drop after spiking up due to the pandemic, but still remains higher than it has for most of US history since the 1960s.

I've seen this black rock conspiracy posted elsewhere, and while it makes for a compelling dystopian narrative that large corporations are secretly buying all our homes to lease back to us, the reality is just not true.

People are leaving expensive urban housing in droves and competing for what seem like relatively cheap houses to them, so they are comfortable bidding wildly (I know many, many real people in this situation). I'm sure Black Rock wants in on the action, but until that rate falls dramatically lower, I'm not particularly convinced that that's what's happening.

0. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
Well it's often my job to come in and fix these messes after both of those fail or there's no one senior and competent to handhold and prevent these messes from forming until they've become unmanageable yet mission critical.
The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide
I was going to say “welcome to 2015” then I saw the age of the article
I think every one agrees that a cop killing an innocent during a swatting incident is bad, but like I said I am not sure if there is a better solution.

You will either get cops going in without fully assessing the situation or taking too long assessing the situation. Both of these ways will result in deaths. Cops can maybe assess the situation more then they currently do, but not fully as a middle ground but since cops are not perfect they will make mistakes.

The problem is it will never be perfect, but it seems like you are suggesting there is a way to make it perfect. That is holding cops to an impossible solution.
shocking: airbnb says study was flawed.

fuck airbnb.