skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
School is only a glorified daycare for students when the desired societal outcome for them is to become a member of the 9-5 grind where the end goal is to eventually achieve a career akin to a middle-manager. It's no wonder America ranks 38th out of 71 countries in education[0] when public school funding has plateaued since 1997[1]... how do we expect students to explore and grow while they're relegated to learning whatever is left after every single soft-science related course and elective has been cut away?

As a sidenote, teachers in my state start at $35k... for a profession that requires a degree and special training, that is pathetic and deserves to be a national shame.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-student...
[1]https://apps.urban.org/features/education-funding-trends/
IMO the biggest issue with property taxes, land taxes, or any other similar idea, is that they arbitrarily tax one kind of wealth over others. Why should a person who owns a house worth $500k (and perhaps has a mortgage on it) pay not only the exact same tax rate, but also the amount of tax as a person who owns a house worth $500k (and doesn't have a mortgage on it), but also has $5 million in other assets? (This isn't even getting into the fact that the wealthier you are, the less of your total wealth is likely to consist of land/property/etc.)
>If I have $1, I should be allowed to transfer it to whomever I want, otherwise I don't really own it.

This argument requires further justification. I really don't see how spending constraints would imply you don't "really" own your dollar.
> Maybe one for young people too

If we're concerned about fairness in the housing market, a special tax which only applies to young people isn't the policy I'd recommend.

As an alternative, you could give each person an allowance of land area/value (perhaps based on the median value, or an equal share of the nation's land territory) and say that anyone who uses more than that (with a mansion, or multiple homes) would pay the tax, and perhaps people who own less land than that should get a rebate.

Obviously corporations wouldn't get such an allowance, as they are not people for the purposes of this calculation. Also, you could make the tax exponentially progressive, to put a downward pressure on the size of land holdings and encourage competition between landlords.
Taxing land:

* violates no human rights (unlike taxes on income and sales)

* costs very little to assess and enforce (unlike taxes on income and sales)

* is impossible to evade (unlike taxes on income and sales)

* causes no economic harm in disincentivizing productive activity

* enables the funding of public goods (in this respect, it is similar to all other forms of taxation), and

* increases economic efficiency by discouraging wasteful use of land.
I'm a huge fan of mathematics.

However... Being able to communicate effectively and work with groups is a hell of a lot more important to modern life than mathematics. Being able to organize oneself and complete projects and assigned work is important. Being able to peruse written material and absorb information is a critical skill.

These are things students learn in school. Yes, they come naturally to some students, the way mathematics comes naturally to others.
Opening a smartphone is reminiscent of opening a wristwatch.
New Zealand to ban smoking completely under radical plan
> the suburban hellscape is definitely a lot more economically productive

Neither dense suburbs nor rural suburbs are defined by economic productivity, because they're residences. If this shifts with work from home, their focus will still be on quality of life rather than packing people in as close as possible for more "specific revenue".

> the rural living you describe is probably no better

If you have to drive everywhere anyway, do you also want to be looking through your neighbor's windows? I do miss being able to walk many places (city living), but that isn't the density tradeoff I'm talking about here.

In general your arguments seem to be extrapolating from comparing urban to rural/suburban. Comparing rural and suburban directly, I don't find your points compelling. Going from houses on 1/2 acre lots to houses on two acre lots is one half the linear density. The costs of transportation and utilities increase a little, but aren't going to double - once you're rolling or trenching, going a little further is easy.

Furthermore I'm currently in a quasi-rural area with gigabit muni fiber, so I don't buy that argument either. Whether there is the political will to build out modern Internet access or suffer the extractive oligopoly depends entirely on the politics of an area.

> what about kids who grow up with fewer opportunities?

IMO kids in suburbia are the most caged in. Having to be driven anywhere sucks, but that's a given for both areas under comparison. Once you get past the nadir of suburbia, the increased space helps - kids in rural areas can go play outside, wander in the woods, build stuff, fly drones, etc.
And here's an analysis on soviet foreign aid to third world countries

https://www.jstor.org/stable/151493
Oddly enough there was no evidence provided for the original claim, either. This despite there being many sources of this estimattioj laid out directly in the original article. The comment didn't mention why the original articles' various methods do not work.
I believe if you are definetly moving the camera in a 'robotic' way and predictable way, using a tool like PTGui and their Align to Grid function, will help for those shots which dont have distinct features.
Sure, if you questionable morals.
This is how I feel about the exchanges generally, which wield an incredible amount of influence in the crypto markets, for better or worse.

This isn’t really true as there’s a bunch of decentralized AMM’s(automated market maker) now: uniswap, sushiswap, pancakeswap
Airboat
Private citizens don’t maintain the US’ national security policy, as this article clearly shows, but you are commenting on a theoretical reality that has lacked consensus or wasnt even on the table during every administration of the same country.

Alternatively, US citizenship doesn't guarantee any beneficiary of national security or evacuation from another place when shit hits the fan.

So before I answer your question, what did you mean specifically?
I think the “flow” comes from long experience with and mastery of the tools. I have used vi/vim for so long that I don’t think about it — the editor just gets out my way. I work with languages I know intimately. When the tools and language and all of that fade into the background of mental muscle memory you can focus exclusively on the actual work or project.

Everyone who replies will list the tools and languages that they have mastered and feel comfortable with. The “flow” doesn’t come from the editors or IDEs or languages, but from familiarity and confidence.
I'm helping introduce some DevOps concepts to an ops team that has been doing things in the "traditional" way for a very long time. They've been building scripts in the past couple years to replace what had always been manual work, but it's been interesting to see their perspective. Nothing is idempotent on purpose: they know whether a database exists, whether schema changes are pending, whether a hostname needs to be updated in DNS, so their mindset is simply to not run those scripts if not needed.

I thought the big task would be introducing source control and CI/CD, but I quickly realized idempotentcy is actually the more fundamental and key concept that I need them to embrace.
Nobody here is making this argument. You're setting up a straw man.

The point is: people who have recovered from the illness are immune, and should be treated as such.
It's a single userland component; why would it make the rest of the system GPLv3? I mean, Linux distros ship BASH without it somehow infecting the rest of the system, why would Darwin be any different?
Disagree. Even with Atlas 5 this was not totally unreasonable.

> If the rocket blew up and took the satellite with it you're never getting approval to launch again.

That's not accurate.
Please change the background. Kinda hard to read your article for fear of getting dizzy lol
I guess now that 50% of internet users are boxed into 5 websites it doesn’t mean much to rank the rest, huh.
It really astonished me how doctors still continue to suggest NSAIDs and RICE for muscle or tendon injuries. I would understand if doctors didn’t adopt best practice for uncommon ailments, but muscle / tendon issues are so common…
Ask HN: How would you go about measuring the carbon footprint of a website?
The scary thing is that nobody in any position of power seems to want to do anything about it and we seem to be past the point of no return.
Increase of hustling delivery drivers doubling up on DoorDash and Uber Eats?
I've been using an IODD for years, works on Macs too. I have every macOS release back to 10.6 as a bootable iso.
Small companies don’t have loyalty to any specific nation either. Nor should they. Companies should serve customer needs and wants (profits are a measure of this), not become soldiers in political battles.

I’m confused as to why people think this is an $insightfulComment.

Would you rather have countries wall off their economic activity from each other so governments have to bomb each other to acquire resources by force?

Any economic intertwining of Chinese and American interests is a good thing, no matter how evil you think the Chinese are. Because the inevitable alternative is war (re: all of human history).

Historically, the only thing that prevents tribes of human animals from blowing each other up is mutually beneficial economic cooperation.
Teams isn’t the issue here. It’s an Android design issue. No app can highjack 911 on iPhone.
Georgism makes a distinction between Capital (value produced by labor) and Land (value that existed before humans showed up). Rewarding owners of capital incentives people to make more, but rewarding owners of land benefits nobody other than the landowner.
> There was an opportunity to make Rust more like "safer C". Sadly, it's creators wanted a better C++ instead.

Fortunately for us. Though calling it "better C++" is underselling Rust by quite a bit IMHO.
I have come to realise that the most important thing about my MBP is the large trackpad. I am getting a standalone Apple trackpad to see if it will work with a PC / Laptop.
If it does give me the same experience that I am so used to, its time for me to ditch the MBP.

I am seeing older, professional users move away from MBP, making way for the younger 'use and throw' generation. Repairing is already a dying way of life.

And the Apple tax is only getting more and more soul-sucking.
Hey Edwin, if you're open to providing feedback, I'd love to understand which types of searches worked well for you in Google Code Search but not in Sourcegraph. We've invested a lot of thought into our query syntax, supporting literal matches, regex, and the Comby pattern matching syntax with a rich set of keywords and filters—but we know the syntax isn't always intuitive for every user. We're always trying to improve the experience for all our users (I'm the CTO at Sourcegraph), so if you have any recollections you're open to sharing, would love to hear them!
This is a great question.

Land taxes are great because there is less of a deadweight loss. Governments need money to operate. All else equal, we should get governments the money they need without wasting people's time to comply with complicated tax laws.

Humans also generally agree that progressive taxation is a good idea. Rich people should pay more to fund the government. Rich people own a lot of land, so they'd pay a lot of land tax. Poor people generally don't own any land and wouldn't be subject to this tax. Land taxes align well with what a lot of people think is fair.
Who pays for the roads, water, electricity, internet, and postage that connects rural regions?
Except this issue isn’t Microsoft fault. It’s Google’s.
I've called 911 before. The other end picked up instantly. It was a shock how fast they answered. I gave my location (cross streets) and the police were there in less than 30 seconds. Pretty impressive.

(The incident I called in was... I was looking at my window and saw this bus unloading. The passengers formed a big group and started pushing each other into traffic. After seeing a couple of cars swerve and narrowly avoid the innocent victim, I thought it was time for governmental intervention. The police arrived, ushered everyone onto the sidewalk, and that was that.)
I wholeheartedly disagree and find the whole show extremely over the top and cringe. Perhaps it's an accurate depiction of working in Silicon Valley.
Folding in half is still better than crazy origami robot yoga (that's my new band name). Also I could readily envision a supersize fairing built on the Starship/heavy booster platform.

More lift capacity also means less weight optimization and more emphasis on robustness, reliability, redundancy, and power.
The cons of centralization are significant. The decentralization narrative spawned because the world has become increasingly centralized. It's a balancing force.
So then you can never get exited about anything for literally the rest of your live no matter if its the largest scientific or technical improvement ever.
I dont smoke and it's easy to pick on smokers. I think the totalitarianism we see today has its roots, or at least it's proving ground, in the ostracism of smokers we saw in the 90s and early 2000s. Of course it's best to start with an easy target that is widely reviled, but once it is realized we can repress them, pressure mounts to do the same thing to other groups we disagree with or want to push our agenda on, and we get the current disregard for any personal freedom. This is a loss for all of society, not because smoking is good, but because personal choice is.

(And that ignores the fact that prohibition doesn't work. Guess what just became the most coveted drug for New Zealanders 14 and under)
No, I was asking about "just a fork of khtml". That implies that there wasn't meaningful work. WebKit is at this point (and probably a decade ago) a functionally complete rewrite.

When webkit forked KHTML, KHTML couldn't render the vast majority of the top 100 websites properly, just by the time the first safari was released webkit was already able to render those correctly, or in many cases even usably.

When I say WK rendered correctly, I mean matching Firefox/Explorer, not just a bare "is useable".
> I don't want your dad to get covid either.

Welp, students in my classes wearing their masks is a big part of how I'm still able to see my dad and not kill him.

> Instead, everyone has to wear some kind of cloth mask to show that "wearing is caring".

Because it's one of the most effective measures we have. Research (both observational and based on aerosol modeling) implies that surgical/cloth masks and getting windows open each reduces risk of infection about 4-5x, and they stack on top of each other for a ~20x total reduction. That's enough, with vaccination, to make me comfortable seeing my dad (masked).

> The risk to children is absurdly low.

About 70k kids hospitalized in the US so far-- so that's not absurdly low. And, again, the risk to children's families and faculty (and faculty families) counts too.
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>This certainly reinforces your point! It sure sounds like Amazon retail is a sort of loss leader.

"Your margin is my opportunity" --Jeff Bezos

Jeff's ethos seems to be undercut everybody at any chance. That seems to include people using his platform in the form of plainly labeled Amazon branded products or Amazon owned brands of other names. Open a platform to sell things. Open that platform to allow 3rd parties to sell things while taking a cut. Aggregate all of that sales data to find what items are worthy of selling those items directly screwing the 3rd parties.
For Metamask alternatives, Rabby https://rabby.io/ (MIT-licensed) (it routes all queries through its own RPCs atm) and Frame https://frame.sh/ (GPLv3) are the best desktop alternatives I've tried. The latter is my preferred client and IMO is a strict upgrade from Metamask. It's also getting a $7/$1 match on Gitcoin Grants GR12 right now if anyone wants to contribute in the next week: https://gitcoin.co/grants/1143/frame

There are many, many WalletConnect https://walletconnect.com/ compatible wallets that can be used with most dapps as well. There are close to 100 of these: https://walletconnect.com/registry/wallets

As for RPCs, here's a list for you: https://github.com/arddluma/awesome-list-rpc-nodes-providers

If you want to run you're own RPC node, it's not so hard as there are docker and docker-compose images that will let you get geth (or nethermind, or erigon) that will let you spin up an RPC pretty trivially.

The more important thing for decentralization IMO, is that you can reasonably switch, even if most people don't. Think about how this plays out in the browser or email markets and compare it to how much of a difference that is to completely locked in services like Facebook.
Wealth is not always zero sum.. it could very well be a case of the pie getting larger.
I'm a kiwi, and if that's how you feel you should stay away. We're probably not the place for you.

We have a a target of being a smokefree country by 2025 to encourage a healthier population, especially among our more vulnerable communities.

NZ is not America, so I don't imagine these other policies would go down well either:

* We have a socialised healthcare system where you get treated for free, it's not perfect but nobody has to sell their house to pay for treatment.

* We have a scheme called ACC where if you get injured and can't work they pay 80% of your salary while you recover.

* We have an attitude of "Guns are a privilege, not a right".

* Lockdown's aren't popular here, but on the other hand we have a population of 5 million plus and so far only about 44 covid deaths.

Something to note here is that we have a representative democracy, which isn't perfect, but you can be sure that the policies in place are those supported by the majority of the population.

I won't be commenting on this any further because I don't really care.

Life is good here, it works for me and there's no shortage of people who wish they could move here but can't.
Interesting. I wonder if Apple privacy policies killed it. Or if the fact everyone is using the same 10 web sites for everything has eroded the need.
You are welcome to share a couple of prominent examples.
How about homeschooling?

https://www.econlib.org/emergency-homeschooling-a-how-to-gui...
I assumed they actually had range because otherwise they're not hugely useful? I recall that people were saying AirTags were just Tile, so maybe they are more functional? This is a real (not intended to be sarcastic or anything) Q as I haven't used Tiles at all.
Response to "Fibers under the magnifying glass"
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p086...

Response to response to "Fibers under the magnifying glass"
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p152...
This quote from your link contradicts a "one-and-done" whole neighborhood analysis:

>There would be an annual value assessment for each plot of land

It seems the OP has better examples of how it would be done than that link.
Yes, but all I remember being taught about the fourth valve was that it was “the same” as playing the first and third, but with better temperament. So you can play a C with it, or even a B if you also press the second valve.
Have any other Rust async runtimes use io_uring/gotten at all good yet?

Best of the best modern systems programmers gotta get good sometime. Not sure if it's happening yet. Ok here's one point of call: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio-uring
Did you read the rest of the article where it established the fraction of wealth in the nation that is due to land?

Why are all the dumpy and decrepit houses in Silicon Valley worth 10x what they would be in the rest of the country? What is the value of the lane in Silicon Valley versus the market caps of the various companies there?

If there's a trillion dollar company, and the houses around it go for 2 million each, and 80% of the value is in the land of those houses; that's only 400k houses to equal the market cap of the company.

Also take note of the other analyses of the growth of inequality in the 21st century. The growing inequality isn't coming from stock market values, it's mostly coming from housing.
HN has tons of that.

The issue is comment quality, not ideological whatever. The GP was a tedious, generic ideological rant - it could appear almost anywhere.
No, they never marketed themselves as a company that stands up against the government (to do so means that they don’t understand how power works). Their PR centered around ethical practices is still true where they conduct business in democratic countries.

People should note that just because someone is aiming for an ethical ideal doesn’t mean that the way there is bound to be perfect—those who are quick to point out other people’s hypocrisies always rest on this fallacy. Apple isn’t perfect, but it seems to be the only big tech company making great strides towards being zero-carbon and pushing for user privacy in democratic countries, and when they were called out about parts of their supply chain using oppressed Uighur Muslim labor, they corrected it.
The original idea behind BIOS was to provide drivers (and a firmware interface to them) so CP/M could run and also read the first disk block into memory so CP/M could load.

This was awesome when your platform consisted of an 8-bit CPU, a serial port or two, a printer port or two, a disk drive or two, and a text-based video display.

ROM and BIOS is a poor place for drivers if

- your system has any notion of plug-and-play at all

- your system has expansion slots and arbitrary people you don't control might develop hardware for it.

and these two things above are desirable if you want a free-ish computing platform not monopolized by one company.

Hardware interfaces are not the same as the firmware gunk ACPI foists upon you. Hardware interfaces are simply a way for the CPU to talk to a device outside of the system, but it doesn't result in the CPU running unknown code behind your back. A CPU that's cordoned off behind a peripheral interface running closed-source code is fine - where that's not fine is on the same CPU that's running my OS kernel.

> Should it take 5+ years from the release of a piece of hardware before linux can boot and work reliably on it?

I mean if the hardware manufacturer won't document their devices it's something they bring upon themselves. Embracing the open source community here would have substantial benefits unless something like market segmentation is taking place.

Option ROMs? Yeah, those are BIOS extensions - your OS isn't dealing with those ROMs once the BIOS has booted the OS unless it's a CP/M era operating system - like actual DOS. Except for the modesetting - but that's just as much bullshit as ACPI. Document the damn registers that do the modesetting change so we don't have to thunk back into 16-bit mode just to change the screen resolution.
The proportion of the US population that is white is 72% if hispanic whites are included. That would be more in line with the statistics I saw showing black and hispanic Americans are over-represented among crypto holders.