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>But another part of me isn't okay with a world in which the vast majority of people do nothing (or do something that doesn't really produce value) while forcing higher-income people (like many of us, myself included) to fund that lifestyle.

You fundamentally misunderstand the subreddit if you think this is about weflare.

This is about being paid your value, being treated fairly and upholding your rights. The subreddit is more capitalist than most American companies these days that instead of actually paying higher wages to find labor, are actively trying to undermine it instead.
I understood that to mean there were two dimensions: location and class.

More often than I am comfortable with, I am told I'm very easy to understand. I recommend using a middle class Midlands / South Midlands accent when abroad.
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All I can say is read the empirical results! It's what happens in actual reality in plenty of studies I can cite. Landlords charge the maximum rent that the market will bear, but the land taxes shift what the market will bear, because you can't make more land, and changing how much we make of something is how producers are able to pass on taxes to consumers.

> If they can't make a profit at that rate then they'll eventually sell the property, or develop it for a more profitable use.

This is exactly the political purpose of land value taxes, by the way! Under a sufficiently high land value tax, the only way to make land more profitable is to IMPROVE it by building useful stuff on it. So if the improvements go untaxed (you don't get penalized for building stuff), but the location is taxed, you incentivize people to build stuff lots of people need, such as dense housing rather than parking lots and single family homes.
>> I assume good SSDs will move full unchanged blocks around occasionally to distribute write load more equally on the physical blocks.

I hadn't considered that. Make sense. Better to move never-changing data to blocks that are still good but not worn out so those available writes can be utilized.
I live in a moderately sized Midwestern city. We don't have a shortage of new construction or regressive zoning laws.
The software fails before the hardware with apple products in my experience.
I have an ipod touch 16GB from 2013, that I still use to play music, and itunes still supports it. But I can't browse the internet on it.
The "unrepairable" apple devices have far FAR higher resale value and lifetimes than most the Huawei / OPPO / etc used phones out there.

This is really the proof point.

This is a combination of apples total system engineering and software update story. You don't need applecare to get updtes on an iphone.

For example, looking at recently sold items on Ebay - Iphone 5S 32GB is going for $100. That's an 8 year old phone.

Take your 8 year old HTC - nothing close to that.
"but over time these policies tend to settle in a place where thing are more affordable."

I seriously doubt that to be true in a low supply situation. In the Netherlands, the government reduced real estate transfer tax from 8% to 2%, and sometimes even 0%. This should make houses more affordable to newcomers.

Another well intended measure was for older people to share their wealth to their children via early inheritance, tax free.

The market simply adds this discount and extra start capital to the price "room". In a situation of perpetual scarcity, the price will rise to the maximum people can afford/borrow.

And with "people", I mean only the buyers. It doesn't matter if 90% of the population is priced out of the market if the richest 10% is still enough people to buy up all supply.

This last bit is most worrisome, because it means that even the nuclear instrument of increasing interest rates is unlikely to resolve the issue. The interest cannot be jacked up much because that would bankrupt the middle class. A minor tweak will be no issue at all for the richest 10%, so the price will not come down.

Increasing supply in a dense and popular area isn't a structural solution. Not only does it meet a lot of resistance, new demand will forever continue to outpace the constraint of delivering new supply.

Which is why I believe in reorganizing demand. These dense areas are dense because it gives people access to jobs and education. If we reorganize that into a more sane distributed way, we truly address the problem.
No problem! Yeah it looks a bit scary to me so I'll only try it if I can really dedicate some time and focus on it, and only if I really want to install the mod. I think this same mod is needed if you want to use X220 keyboard on the X230.
Increased ridership on roads does increase revenues via gas taxes.
How about "immediate placeholder scripts"?

"Immediate" is meant to accentuate that they can be deployed and start delivering value right now, something that (usually) can't be said for the implementation of actual automation.

And "placeholder" is meant to convey that you don't intend to stop there.
Ah I misunderstood your point, I agree with you
> It's surreal how universally so many orgs makes the same mistake of trying to throw more and more process at problems.

Followed by the inevitable ranting about “shadow IT”, AKA the requirements gathering they really should have done.
It's possible to overbuild roads where there isn't demand for them. But for major metropolitan areas, there are large numbers of people who want to go to similar categories of destinations, and their choice of specific destination is constrained by convenience. If expanding a road reduces congestion (and thus time to reach somewhere), more people will travel farther distances to get there until a new congestion equilibrium is reached.
At the moment I see a few comments criticizing the mixed results in accents and pronunciations. I am a Brazilian who speaks English at work, so I just wanted to share my use case for Youglish.

I go to Youglish whenever I have no idea on how to pronounce a word. I read English much more than I listen to English (HN contributes to that), so it is not uncommon to find such words. I don’t need (nor want) to find the right accent to emulate or reach the perfect pronunciation to pass for a native speaker. I just want to be able to pronounce in a way that my coworkers will understand which word I am using.

My coworkers are kind and reasonable, so they don’t expect perfect pronunciation from me either, they just want to understand the words that are coming out of my mouth.

So, for me, it is not relevant at all that the accents might be mixed. As long as I learn a way to pronounce it, no matter which way. Youglish is a great resource for me.

(another is Grammarly, I stil don’t know why they don’t direct they marketing to non-native English speakers more, as it is perfect for us)
I think the idea is there is a hub where all of those things are connected and live to some extend. Like if your web browser was basically a mmo experience and when you went to do any of the things you mentioned some type of avatar that represents you would be present doing those things rather than just cookies and network traffic from your computer.

My understanding is its just a way to do all the things you do currently but in a more "connected" way.
Yes, and housing is massively more affordable than elsewhere. And there's less homelessness, because people can more easily afford homes.

Not to say that it's necessarily a model to follow: there's a lot of sprawl involved. Just saying that "abundant housing has some real benefits".
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I honestly find it quite humorous at how quickly your accusations of other’s nastiness and bullying, and apologies for hyperbolic rhetoric turns into doubling-down, and worse, deflection from your specious logic with the idea that instead of being an illogical comparison that it surely must just be high above anyone’s head who doesn’t see any congruent logic to it, and that they must just be upset and flustered. That definitely tracks with a person who can’t distinguish the differences between banning the obese from society, and vaccine mandates. Maybe your concern and über-patriotism is lost on my flustered, upset little mind, or maybe it’s just a specious red-herring of a point since you’ve already decided that vaccine mandates are fascistic overreach of government power? I don’t think we can both be right.
Actually your comment is pretty bizarre.

You're distilling your impressions from thousands of people into a single sentence, and then you're taking a single person's response and using that to push your agenda that "people just love to hate big tech". It's fascinating that you think this is a valid observation on your part.
Got an example? I'd like to see a low-density city that's actually been consistently able to pay for its road maintenance.

And not a place that only has relatively new roads, mind you: somewhere that's already had to go through the process of repaving them as they deteriorate at least once or twice.
But why don't the shipping companies want to pick up containers? Was this always the case, or what changed?
I think the main issue is not whether "good" landlords are affected, but the impact it has on the market. If renting to regular people is a huge liability, the smart landlords will prefer keeping units vacant or bring them up high in the market - where tenants have more means - to avoid dealing with the risk. This leads to the people in need with very little supply they can qualify for. It essentially backfires.
Sönke Ahrens has a good point on forgetting in "How To Take Smart Notes". We view it as a negative thing, but if we remembered everything we would be drowned in details and we wouldn't be able to distinguish signal from the noise. He argues that forgetting makes us able to learn.
At Google back then "leadership" might as well not even show up. It was super bottom-up, and _you_, not "leadership" were supposed to identify and fix issues. No "leadership" would stop you, either, at least in most cases. I don't believe that in all my years there anyone ever told me what to do. It was very easy to start projects, shut down projects, get headcount, get resources (if your business case is sufficiently persuasive to others). Not a complete free for all, but certainly _a lot_ more freedom than you'd normally see in companies of that size. And (IMO) people used that freedom and autonomy pretty well.

That kinda deteriorated over time, culminating with Sundar "McKinsey" Pichai, and then went rapidly downhill from there, and now I flat out reject their recruiters, based on the feedback from friends still employed there.
Disaster recovery is not a backup, nor should it supersede physical security in importance. Time Machine solves all of these problems.
It's not a bubble. New housing construction fell by ~30% when the pandemic hit and still hasn't yet recovered to fill the deficit. At the same time, the US has been printing money like crazy and keeping interest rates at zero, which makes housing prices rise. This is why Blackrock and other PE funds have starting buying housing. They know that, in this market, it's a great bet to make. It unfortunately means your rent isn't going to come down or even stop going up anytime soon.
The Pirate Bay under Peter Sunde's management comes to mind as an example of a small team working mostly autonomously to create a large project. Though I think they worked as such to minimize exposure to legal liability and to keep their legal opponents guessing and fumbling about as they tried their case in court. But they (and a lot of other underground sites) are exemplars in 'solitary nerds working on sheer competence'
I’m a fan of Mindustry (https://mindustrygame.github.io/) which is a mixture of tower defence and rts

Also, if you want to play through the story mode of an rts, I’d recommend Zero-K (https://zero-k.info/)

Both have worked well on an X220 for me
Roblox and Minecraft are great examples of what Metaverses could be. I think that is largely the appeal for many players.
In California this would be framed as a repeal of Prop 13. Not sure why you think that is easy to legislate away.
This sounds like credit, but not credit origination. If new units of the numeraire are created, that is origination akin to a bank loan. If not, that is not origination. I don't know of an English term that describes 'not originated' lending, as everyone sees to use the term 'lending' for both behaviors. What do you mean by 'borrow collateral into existence'?
Makes me wonder how the soy mince I used in the chilli was made from the soybeans. Or the oil extracted from whichever vegetable vegetable oil is made from. Or the creatine I put into chilli (the packet says to put it in water and drink it, but it’s nowhere near soluble enough so I put it in food instead).

> Benzoic acid and its salts are used as a food preservatives

Why would I bother? And objecting to a preservative is like objecting to refrigerators. If refrigerators didn’t exist, I’d put something like that into my chilli, no problem.
Reminds me of The Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth Falls from The Mad Scientist' Club by Bertrand R. Brinley.
It's better to just look for a game /you want to play/. Chances are, it'll "just work" via proton even if there's no native version. Right click game -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Pick any recent version.

Or, to answer more directly, I've recently played on linux via steam and can recommend:

- Total War Warhammer II (native, don't need the DLC unless you want to play specific factions)

- Frostpunk (proton)

- Don't Starve (native)

- Civilization VI (native)

- Factorio (native)

- Crusader Kings II / III (native)

- Valheim (native)

- Pathfinder: Kingmaker (native)
A slight tangent: I wonder what is going to happen to rents over the coming year now that most of the moratoriums have expired and the evictions are starting to work their way through the court system. Some landlords are going to try to work with delinquent tenants on some sort of payment agreement. Some of these will work out, some won't, which will mean more evictions in the legal pipeline. The people who are evicted aren't going to be able to easily rent another home so there should end up being a glut of rental properties on the market. In theory this should drive down prices as landlords compete for tenants with clean rental records but maybe inflation will end up eating the downward price pressure. Some percentage of those evicted won't be able to find alternate living quarters and end up on the street or living in a vehicle.
I don't want the overview. I know someone spent a lot of time on it and is probably proud (as they should be) of their dynamic ordering of the windows so you can see them all, but I don't want that view. Also, like I said I want the launcher available all the time - I've got tons of space for it and don't want to have an extra step to get it. I also don't have a Win key - maybe it's disguised.
And personally/family managed doesn't imply that a landlord is small. Some people with a considerable amount of property still manage it themselves.
It's in a comment in the HTML source
> 41% individual

> 37% LLP, LP, or LLC

All of the individual real estate investors I know wrap their rental properties in an LLC. It's trivially easy to set up and manage an LLC these days.

Unless those numbers are somehow separating out individual LLCs, I would assume a lot of those LLCs are owned by singular individuals.
I plan at some point to implement some benchmarks to test exactly that. I have the feeling that the gain is not going to be as significant as I initially expected. Rust is pretty good at optimizing fat pointers. Though another advantages to word-width objects is that they can generally be used in atomics, whereas sizes greater then a word usually can't.

Do you have a link to your hobby interpreter? I would love to take a look at it.
Just turn off the electricity and it's gone. Imagine what a solar flare could do.
While lots of people are disappointed (to say the least) in the rendering of the books into a TV show, citing unfaithfulness to the source material and the spirit of the books, there are also a number of people who praise the representation of gender, approach to things like smoking, race relations, and other modern ideals.

I see it differently. The Fallout video games put an interesting spin on the "future" by showing that what was once considered fashionable can become distasteful due to catastrophic events. With Foundation, it would have been more interesting to show how different events lead to the current state of society. The Battlestar Galactica TV series made a point to showing how society turned decidedly against digital communications because of how vulnerable it was to AI.

Much like with A Handmaid's Tale, I wish they would have tried a little harder to bridge the gap between how we see things today, and how we could see them under different circumstances. 12,000+ years from now could be quite different from now in a lot of ways.
Sounds about right. Space is limited and must always be rented. It's surprising that's not already the case.
I love that "coup de grace" is listed in the examples, as it's actually... French!

Reminds me of the famous (fictional?) quote of Bush president saying "There is no french word for entrepreneur !" :-)
Few native English speakers have any problem with various different ways that some words can be pronounced. The kind of pronunciation projects like this are talking about is pronouncing it correctly enough that it can be understood.
Somehow crawling captions? Maybe
Is there any one single representative of "HN" as a body of opinions?
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I did a stint contracting for Goldman Sachs a while back. I can relate. Don't think I can say anything more without a team descending on my house from a black helicopter, though.
"- Are there any plans to have some user-facing API for plugins/scripting? Professional workflows vary widely and automation helps a lot."

Yes, a scripting API is planned. The GUI is being designed from the ground-up to where every action will go through an event system, so script will be able to do pretty much anything the GUI can do.

A lot of the backend components will also be separated into a separate repo under the RustyDAW project, allowing someone else to create their own DAW with their own GUI if they wish.

"- How flexible the UI is going to be? Multi-monitor setups of different configurations are very frequent in studios, free docks and/or floating windows are very important."

We're not too sure on this one yet, it mostly depends on how many features the GUI library we are using will get. We hope to have a GUI that is as flexible as possible.

"- I see you mention sidechain routing, but it's unclear what are the plans on multichannel audio and, more importantly, the routing possibilities. I'd love to see some kind of node editor for this where you can visualize and manage complex routing schemes for your projects just dragging nodes and noodles."

We are currently working on a complex audio graph in the https://github.com/RustyDAW/rusty-daw-audio-graph repo. This will hopefully allow us to support any kind of complex audio graph structure.

So far this audio graph only supports mono and stereo audio, but we can easily add more ports for multichannel audio in the future.

Beyond MVP we will likely add either a Live/Bitwig style horizontal rack, or a FL Studio Patcher style plugin for advance routing. It's still being decided on which one we will go with.

* edit - fix typo
I am definitely anti facial recognition in general, precisely because of your second point. If I felt there were reasonable incentives for recognition to stay offline/individual scale that would be fine with me. But obviously we’re heading in the opposite direction, where corporations use facial recognition to gather even more data on users for ad dollars, and governments use it to surveil citizens for “national security.”

I don’t want to help either of those initiatives, so for now I’m strictly anti facial recognition, even for benign use cases at the micro level.
Related:

Jeff Bezos on Learned Helplessness (2005): https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WhnDvvNS8zQ

Paul Graham on Schlep Blindness (2012): http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
Is there a "translation" guide for distro hoppers?
Something that I can tell which distro I'm coming from and it would tell me to do X in distro Y, do Z?
it's a running checklist, isn't it? Awesome.
Right like looking back, they're setting up a production, user facing service. If I want to just store a 5tb blob somewhere, I think that fits in freebie CNS, so I don't even have to provision resources, I just cat the file or whatever (granted, 5tb was a bit bigger 10 years ago).

Having a rule that "your user-facing service needs to be replicated" is a good rule. Replication being difficult was the problem.
Agreed. There's way too many things to do in reality. I have about 30-60 minutes a day of Me Time, and the last thing I want to do is piss it away in front of a computer when I've already spent 70% of my time doing exactly that.

Go outside, people. Talk to your friends in reality if possible. Experience the place you live in; participate in something physical to improve it materially. There's no end of socialization and minigames in reality, the graphics are better, and it's free.
I had a SPARCstation at my first full time developer job. The Sun type 4 keyboard, OpenWindows, 21 inch Trinitron... it was so exotic and different I felt like I was being paid to live in some hacker dreamworld.

Moving to Windows machines after that was a real drag, but the Mac brought me back to some of that UNIX magic.