skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every location (in the US) I'm aware of requires houses to be signed off on by an engineer before construction.

This varies widely by state. In some states, it matters if you're in a municipality or if you're rural.

Where I am, in this county, I do not require a permit or inspections or anything to build a house for myself unless I'm inside a municipality. The government doesn't care until it's time to pay taxes. I may need some sort of inspection to hook up to the electric grid though, or to get water turned on. In (edit: some) other states, you can barely build a small dog house behind your house in the country without permits, inspections, engineers, surveys, and all kinds of other stuff.
That's because winners know when not to play.
There are dozens of examples in the wild of python code getting reviewed, corrected, and enhanced. I’m not a spreadsheet expert. Does that even happen for spreadsheets?
PfSense 2.6.0 Released
I wouldn’t exactly characterize that as “construction costs going up” though. We’re building different things. The standard of living has changed significantly.

The 1910’s were a very different time. Comparing houses now to houses then is like comparing a horse to a Honda Accord. We’re not just talking luxury features here —- You can be pretty certain that a home built in 2022 has indoor plumbing, a refrigerator, and a furnace that doesn’t require shoveling fuel.
As an owner of 90+ year old home. Yes. It's quite dramatic how underbuilt old homes are. 2x4 joists spanning 10+ feet was commonplace. Foundations were cinderblocks holding up whole timbers. Insulation wasn't even a thing!
You don't get that in Central London, you get a 400 sqft apartment and no yard and people are lining up to pay over the odds.
Ask HN: Downsides of leaving startup after two weeks?
Key facts:

1. Company exited in 2020 and I stayed on until Q4'21 due to golden handcuffs

2. Those handcuffs made me Kentucky FIRE so I planned on taking H1'22 off and trying to find employment again in Q3'22 so I can become California FIRE

3. Word spread of my availability and I was convinced to join a Series A YC startup, and my first day was last Monday

4. I joined the same day as three other engineers, making the team the CEO, CTO, First Engineer, the New Hires

5. Today we had a "design review" to go over an upcoming design overhaul. Throughout, none of the three New Hires could get questions in because the Founding Engineer would condescendingly shoot them down. On several occasions the Founding Engineer would out right laugh at the question and make a dismissive remark. On _several_ occasions legitimate design concerns were shot down with inaccurate information by the Founding Engineer.

6. Throughout this, the CEO & CTO would occasionally call out the Founding Engineer, but at large the behavior was tolerated

7. The Founding Engineer was on a roll and after the design review concluded, interrupted my conversation with another New Hire to make a snide remark about how they purchased the wrong type of Cherry keys.

8. I lack full context after only 1.5 weeks, but it seemed clear from the topics of the design review that this company is in dire need of technical & product leadership.

9. I do not have financial motivation to work (for a while). Never in my professional career (10+ years) have I ever been dismissed so offhandedly and all around treated this poorly. I learned today that when salary is no longer a key motivator, the other aspects of work become way more important.

10. My industry is much smaller in the Bay than the general software industry and the CEO is very well connected within my network. I am very concerned about the impression leaving after only 2 weeks would look like. I know I cannot tolerate a year (first cliff on equity) of the behavior I was subjected to today.

11. The work is genuinely interesting

The Question: Is quitting after two weeks a high-risk career move and if so, what's a generally "safe" amount of time to quit after joining a startup? The longer I stay the more my Bus Factor increases and I want to keep it as low as possible for their sake.
Where Mac Catalyst Falls Short
This is a nebulous question you are just going to move the goalposts whatever answer I give seeing as every political regime in history has some degree of enrichment for its leaders. This leaves aside the whole "name a successful example except for these successful examples"
Given that you need a really simple ISA, and probably also good code density, how about a Forth CPU, like https://excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html?
Bytedance (TikTok) is the one most often discussed.
Almost sounds like you’re saying it’s mostly just luck…
I agree with his arguments at a surface level, but I don’t accept that his analysis was rigorous. Especially because his spreadsheet is monolithic and impossible to double-check.
If they're on HN they're certainly keeping quiet about it.
I use the RIF Android app most of the time
I didn't make this, just found it interesting as a geography nerd. I'm not sure if the author is on HN or not
>To pick a popular theatre-related discipline, consider what an actor does:

Not saying you're wrong about what a good theater student does, but a disproportionately large number of arts students I've met seemed to treat their degree as a three year long bludge that allows them to delay taking on adult responsibilities.

Far fewer people go into mechanical engineering or physics because they want to sit around smoking weed all day.

At least in my line of (admittedly quite "dirty") work, I'd choose someone with experience at McDonalds or Kmart over an arts grad any day of the week.
What an awfully easy to make take that offers no insight.
Anyone else getting an SSL error from the page?
Splunk’s addressable market is every business right? How is Temporal larger than that? Consumers too?
No, but, I see great trends in threat reduction in using stuff like Oculus in military and space applications -- let's build some crazy robots, get some low-latency links between the front line and an operating base, and let the COD trained kids go ape-shit on whatever enemy might be out there. They use Oculus' (or similar VR technology) to stay on base where they can be well protected, vs the (hardened) robots that are on the front line.

I've completely written off FB and IG -- deleted my FB account about 7 years ago, I still have a 'legacy' IG account that I might log into once a year with a name that nobody would be interested in...and that's my extent of the Meta I have in my life. I have zero desire to get into VR (until they come out with something that will work for the guys like me that have poor vision), but, who knows what the world might bring in the next 40 years.
No I mean stimulus. If I meant corporate welfare I would have invoked the DoD budget.
Me too. The app startup times in particular make it a pain. And the pollution of the mount table and worse integration an annoyance.

I still use it for servers as everything I use is available in apt anyway. But some desktop packages are only in snaps now.
Perhaps. The current site and documentation appears to lack anything of the sort.
> Accounting correctly for both human capital and effect of subsidies in student lending plans, almost a third of all student debt is owed by the wealthiest 20 percent of households and only 8 percent by the bottom 20 percent. Across-the-board student loan forgiveness is regressive measured by income, family affluence, educational attainment—and also wealth.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/st...
We're not talking about the lenders investigating the value of making a loan. We're talking about the student investigating the value of obtaining a degree.

>>> Look, I’m not against choosing whatever degree you want. But fiduciary responsibility is doing even a tiny bit of research to see the LTV of that degree.
even the word "creator" these days often means someone making a podcast/youtube channel/mail list, instead of... you know someone who creates things those people talk about (engineers, film makers etc)

Related https://www.swyx.io/meta-creator-ceiling
Seems difficult to prove where the sound came from. Couldn’t one contest it and say “that wasn’t my car, it was a different vehicle making the violating noise”? Unless you’re the only vehicle on the road it seems more difficult to prove than, say, red light cameras.
Swiping down doesn’t work, it’s in-browser only in the address bar. As for in safari, I don’t get options, but if the extension is enabled it redirects the search to Kagi.
Lowering the risk of student loans drives more people to take them out, putting more money in the system. More money in the system increases the cost of schools for everyone. Assuming you are in the US, then you, I, and everyone else here is paying for this debt forgiveness via taxes.
I’m using https://wordle.nyc it uses the original words and graphics.
I hear all the Canadian banks are down and there might be a Bank run.

Let’s see what happens next.
Honestly, man, I barely remember high school. I was class of '99, am now 41, so the 36 months I spent in high school currently represent about 7% of my life and that number keeps getting smaller. I guess they're impactful years because of puberty and the experiencing of a lot of "firsts," but even so, it's hard to imagine at this point that doing things differently would have put me in much of a different place right now. Don't make any gigantic mistakes. Don't get put in prison. Avoid injuries you can't heal from. Don't have any kids. Don't completely scuttle the relationships you have with your family.

I think the exception is if you're some kind of elite athlete. You don't get much of a chance to make up for key formative years in which you need to be training if you want any realistic shot at the pros and certainly a scholarship to a D1 school if it's a sport in the NCAA. Other than that, academically, getting into an Ivy only matters if you're trying to be an MBA or get into finance, and whatever else you might do in terms of honors and AP classes at best saves you a year of college in what's likely to be a 90 year life.

College itself matters a lot more. Don't pick a useless major unless your parents are rich and you're going to get a great job no matter what. Don't saddle yourself with a bunch of debt. Still don't get arrested and don't have kids until you're graduated and have a job in a more or less "permanent" city you're gonna stay in. College is when my regrets started, but even there, the crappy and stupid things I did were easily overcome by the time my 20s were over.
"A 100% land value tax. If you bought land for 10k and sold it for 100k you owed the government 90k."

I think this is fair - the land itself is a natural resource that the owner has (presumably) done nothing to improve - they are just hogging it so that nokne else can use it
Agreed that the solution is not to _not_ enforce laws but the article is about enforcing the law without using Police “on the ground” to do so which helps alleviate the issue of possible escalation. The parent of my comment calls out that issue in response to their parent saying “let’s just get police involved” so in that regard this is a totally reasonable point to make in response to it and on topic for HN as it’s about automation of enforcement vs alternatives.
In another HN post recently a commenter said something about the stock market, and they invoked an image of people collecting money from Brownian movement.

It struck me that comment was excellent and insightful, and was only possible because both the commenter and myself were once taught something that neither of us uses in our day jobs, and may never have learned through any normal self-driven persuit.

The more I hear about this book the more ignorant it sounds. The benefits of having a significant, as large as possible, portion of everyone being at least somewhat educated on a wide range of basic ideas (not facts so much) isn't quantifiable. It's effects are in countless infinite small thimgs that no one can tally.

It's not good enough that some small percent of people would always be educated, because those people still have to interact with everyone else. We already have a bad enough problem of people simply not even understanding what other people say, and therefor not crediting or respecting it at all and going with their feelings on everything.
No Three-Mile Island effects from massive venting of krypton gas, which runs downstream like fluffy water and shrouds riverside neighborhoods, are included in death estimates.
Well you also want to run the program and process the data, so for that later step it’s nice to stay in one language that has support for the data analysis.
Officers can give a ticket simply by inspecting the muffler. They don't need to measure the sound. Non-compliant mufflers lack the EPA sticker required by law.
Playing devil's advocate, I think they're betting on the long game.

Eventually, when XR headsets become the size and have the practicality of sunglasses, they will become as ubiquitous as smartphones are today. It would be naive to think that the current smartphone design is the end-all-be-all of personal computing devices. We're already seeing small drops in smartphone sales worldwide, some of which are undoubtedly related to the global crisis, but let's be real: the design has hardly improved from the glass slab of the iPhone. We've lost bezels and the tech has seen iterative upgrades and small innovations, but in general it's a stagnated market with no clear path forward.

Current generations of XR headsets are still far away from mass adoption, but once the tech is drastically easier to adopt, possibly within the next decade, companies will flock to fulfill the demand, and Meta will already have an established platform.

That's their bet anyway, and while I dislike everything they stand for, I can't say they're wrong in this case. Facebook might be dying, but they're seeing the writing on the wall and trying to pivot to an—as of yet—nonexistent market.
“fishpilled” means take in the wisdom of the late Mark Fisher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher
ackchyually bitcoin requires physical space. think of all the nodes the blockchain is stored on. Those hard drives / those bits as physical. It's negligible when you think about one bit or one block, but when you think about all the copies I think it may actually be quite significant.
Is there any such for Android mobile?
Yeah the scroll wheel was a big quality of life improvement when it came in. I wouldn't want to do without anymore. Though I mainly use pgup/pgdn to scroll. I wish the keyboard had a big scroll wheel. Some 90s keyboards did, like a big rod. But now if there is one it's for volume control only.
I appreciate all that you’re doing, but you really should include a license in your books. Since they’re all public domain, something like the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ would suit. That makes the licensing situation completely clear to anyone who comes across the books.

However, I also noticed a complication. In your FAQ, you state “However, I DO take issue with people just taking all my ebooks, and offering them on their own site, as is, and not taking out my logo and website name first. Please don't do this. If you take out my logo and website name - fair enough - but if you don't, please bear in mind this is then copyright infringement.” That should also be made clear in each book.

Further, I’m not sure if you can really say that your website name is copyrighted. You can trademark a website name, but I’m pretty sure you can’t say it is copyrighted. I could be wrong — IANAL — & will happily stand correction.

In the footer of Standard Ebooks, it says: “Content produced by or for Standard Ebooks L3C is dedicated to the public domain via the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Content not produced by or for Standard Ebooks L3C but displayed on this website may be subject to copyright.” (https://standardebooks.org/) Perhaps that sort of contrast would be a guide (not necessarily about your website’s content, but as a guide to separating things out). While there, you might want to take a look at https://standardebooks.org/about/standard-ebooks-and-the-pub... as well.

Great project! I hope some of these points are helpful to you in your endeavors.
Is it really that odd that someone in a position of prominence in a capitalist society who has a large income from many jobs is able to buy things? Marx himself sure didn't walk around in a loin cloth demanding people give up all worldly possessions so I'm not sure how this is a valid criticism.
There’s a very good subreddit where people share news and their experiences. There also seems to be some overlap between CFS and long covid, Dr. Resia Pretorius has published a lot of work on micro clots in the blood and long covid.
Swiping down on my home screen gives search suggestions but no inline results. Clicking on those takes me to Kagi in safari.
On a macro scale this is likely true. Unless you ship in cheap workers for a season.

On a micro scale, where I live, it’s not. A $2M home in Toronto is maybe $400k where I live, an hour down the road. And I know a lot of local workers who commute to Toronto every day to work on sites. (They do 7-3 to avoid traffic and the neighbours hate their nail gun wake ups)
It’s the size of the correction that can cause problems
As a consumer, that sounds less good than what a credit card provides: I can't chargeback if a fault develops after I've already received the goods. I have to figure out whether to trust this OLX, which is better than having to figure out whether to trust the individual seller, but less good than only having to trust my card provider - particularly when it presumably involves learning their dispute-resolution processes, which are going to be different from everyone else's.

For a seller it sounds more cumbersome too. Having to lock up all the payments you receive is significantly worse than receiving it upfront and paying back in the case of a dispute, and makes some kinds of business completely impossible (think travel agents). It's hard to do usage-based billing - you'd have to figure out how much to ask for as a deposit up-front instead, which is awkward if usage levels differ by orders of magnitude (think cloud providers).

And fundamentally this OLX is taking a very similar role to a credit card network and most of the downsides of them still apply. They're presumably taking a cut of most transactions that they do this for (either directly or through other fees). They presumably make judgements about what you are and aren't allowed to sell on their platform, and at the point where they're big enough to be useful to the consumer they're also big enough to be subject to political pressure about those judgements.
Tangentially related, but as my hobby is game development, I love collecting old tomes of how to make different game engines in DOS. They're such a great blend of math, design, and hardware tricks.
Valve is partnering with iFixit to sell Steam Deck replacement parts
I also prefer a real scroll bar because it's easier to accurately scan through huge files, but I'm honestly confused at the idea of not having a scroll wheel in 2022.

Excluding touch/gesture mice like the Magic Mouse, I don't think I've seen a mouse without a scroll wheel in maybe 15 years. Is it just a hardy relic, or do you have some kind of special design for accessibility?

Edit: Nevermind, sorry I just noticed the other reply that asked the same thing. It's still a very unusual confluence of requirements, but I kinda get it with a track-ball.
> The next largest concern was that the language would become too complex (33%).

I'm also in this camp, although I would go further to say that Rust is already "too complex." Or maybe not. Go has already done an excellent job of being a very simple and effective language. Rust's complexity makes it very useful for some cool stuff. Like building DSL's.

But because of its complexity, Rust is not the language I would reach for in most cases when building almost anything pretty standard, like a basic web app backend. For that, I would choose Go over Rust every time. The reason being: the cognitive load of Go is far, far lower, and that is super important for maintainability and being able to collaborate with others.

Basically, in the Venn diagram of what Rust can do and what Go can do, I'd mostly use Rust only for what it can do well and Go can't. For example, a real time system that can't have GC overhead. Or sometimes I'll choose it anyway for my hobby projects, just 'cuz I think it's cool and want to use it. But if I put on my pragmatism/business hat and want to build anything seriously, that's the way it will go.

Take that for what it's worth since I'm very new to Rust (and I quite like it actually!). Although I have a lot of experience with a lot of other languages including C/C++, Java, Go, Perl, JS/TS, Python, and more. Rust is up there as one of the more complex languages I've used. I've really noticed it on the learning curve so far. Reminds me a lot of Scala, actually.

The onboarding experience of Go vs Rust is night and day. You can legitimately go from reading "A tour of Go" to understanding most Go projects within a day (if you're already an experienced programmer). And it's not because Rust is lacking good learning resources. It has amazing docs and so many amazing free resources. I'm honestly enjoying and learning a lot about it rather quickly, I think. But it's still taking a long time and I can see I'm in for a ride and will be going "oh wtf is that" in Rust source code for a very long time!
Maybe they should also show the conjugate direction and distance.
Unless your industry is literally 5 college-buddies, I am not sure how it can be a high-risk career move given where you are. For my 2c, you should talk to the CTO - this is the person who will make/break the organizational tone. If they tell you to pound sand, so what? You tried to voice concerns, and they ignored you (it would have been worse to stay). You scrub it from the ol' resume, and move on. The other branch is that they set expectations firmly with this person, and your life improves. I genuinely don't think there is risk either way in your position if I am honest.
> A future myth?

Yes, a story about the future that he wants to generate a collective social belief in.
Back in his day that was still not technically possible, and maybe not even in demand at the time(Even today "real programmers" brag about not needing such things).

Seems like detecting errors like Rust wouldn't occur to someone in a world where basically no "smart objects" of any kind exist. Up until recently, most objects were passive tools under direct human control with no more intelligence than a punch card loom at the most.

Lots of people still don't really think much outside of the "Manmade things as passive tools" mindset or see a need for anything more.
Very minimal, Just the way I like it!

Amazon has enabled 2FA(even from approved email address) for sending to kindle after the 'KindleDrip' vulnerability disclosure[1], So you might need local transfer as well.

[1] https://medium.com/realmodelabs/kindledrip-from-your-kindles...
a truely randall number
Using the same time from the start of the whole operation doesn’t sound broadly right, I’m thinking deadlines retries expire logging
NFTs are a valid idea with one big implementation flaw.
When you buy an NFT you basically have this ownership recorded in the blockchain, but the actual art, gif, bubble gum lives somewhere else with the blockchain just pointing at the actual thing.
Now, the storage of the thing is not decentralized (or it's poorly centralized) for all things. You don't actually own it except for that record on the blockchain that says you own it. If I choose to ignore it, you don't own it.
True digital works of art would need to capture the whole thing in the blockchain and to ensure that only the owner of the piece of art can unlock it and enjoy it. When NFTs get there I will maybe revisit my opinion.