skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you can have lots of immigration and a per capita contracting economy like France.

France population 1990: 58 million | France population today: 67 million

France GDP 1990: $1.2 trillion | France GDP today: $2.9 trillion ($1.2t inflation adjusted forward 32 years is $2.7 trillion)

They gained 15-16% in population, and gained 6-7% in GDP. A big net drop per capita over such a duration, particularly for a major affluent economy.

And if one wants to be more aggressive about how big of a failure their immigration program has been, the French economy has net contracted in real terms over the last 15 years. GDP was $2.9t at the peak in 2008, and it's still there now; except to just remain steady, it needed to climb to nearly $4 trillion to adjust for inflation. So France has gained 5% in population over ~15 years, and is missing a trillion dollars in GDP they should have just to remain flat (ie they've seen a massive per capita economic contraction over those 15 years).

One might claim the decline in France would have been even worse without their hefty immigration policies. Likely a false claim given the very high unemployment rate among immigrants in France over the past two decades. The French approach to mass immigration has been a disaster (while other better controlled examples have been great successes, as in Canada). Skilled immigration is vastly better than low-skill mass immigration, especially going into the era of basic human labor coming under attack by the field of productivity robotics. It's a far better approach to focus on improving your nation per capita net via attracting highly skilled labor, in terms of productivity and incomes, than just focusing on getting as much raw immigration as you can. That's the core failure of the French approach.

It's far better to be rich Canada, with a flat to very modestly increasing population, in which real per capita GDP keeps rising and they keep focused on adding high skill labor (which makes their country richer and richer over time), than to be an declining France that throws low skill labor at the problem. For one thing, the high skilled labor immediately begins contributing to the tax base in a big way, which is critical for an affluent welfare state; whereas a tilt toward low skilled labor + a welfare state is a recipe for fiscal disaster.

US GDP per capita is on track to reach a doubling of the French GDP per capita, plausibly this decade ($76k vs $44k now and the gap keeps widening year after year). Meanwhile Canada is also now up to $57k (France and Canada were nearly the same on GDP per capita in 2008, now there is a $13k gap), so they're increasingly leaving France behind as well.
“Sorry, we’re actually a pentatonic JS shop. Best of luck in your job search.”
You just learned a valuable lesson, there is a regulatory burden to run a business. There are all sorts of issues like this regardless of whether you hire in California or any of the other 49 states.

Personally, I wish that the states didn't make it hard to do the right thing and pay appropriate payroll taxes and witholding for state income taxes. But unfortunately, there's a Byzantine process to register the business with the appropriate agencies just to set up payroll.

Stop making it hard to hire people and pay taxes!
Article is all about dependencies. And it only mentions JavaScript. So maybe a better topic would be: "How to use GitHub dependency tool to secure your Javascript project"
Unless done for financial reasons I don’t see the point. Time is a finite resource and being frustrated with a slow laggy desktop isn’t worth it.

Might work for the vi/ emacs only crowd though.

They’re very cool for non-daily driver though
Do we have another example than the famous quake fast square root function?
> First, if you read the GP, there’s an equivalency implied.

I disagree. Tho, certainly some similarity is implied so I concede that.

> You’re commenting on my message out of context.

Fair point, sorry about that, I could have given more "good faith" to your comment.
I tried looking for a replacement app for that last year or so, but didn't find anything really satisfactory, either. Didn't try OAndBackupX, though, because my phone's currently too old, but "the results are not great" doesn't sound very encouraging, I guess :-)

So while it's a bit clunky, for now I'm relying on a combination of Titanium Backup (at least on my phone it's still working fine except for split APKs) + SAI to do an extra backup of split APKs.
i don't think the security model of package-install is good enough for my thread model. (to be fair, i still package-install some stuff, and, yes, with use-package, but i'm trying to eradicate that practice.)
It just sounds like this person doesn’t know how to run a business and is looking for someone to blame.
Well, good riddance.

I'm happy to live in California and have a social safety net when I lost my job during the pandemic and had over a year of EDD unemployment payments to keep me afloat. In other states, companies like yours dodge all responsibility for society and their employees (for better or worse)

I heard horror stories dealing with unemployment during the pandemic in states like Tennessee or New Jersey.

Not a fan of government bureaucracy but taking care of your employees is part of running a business.
I started out thinking that fast and easy FFI was ideal and being disappointed that Go's FFI was neither. I've since changed my opinion as it's really nice that one can usually get away without pulling any C dependencies into their dependency tree. I wrote more in the sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31194347
> I never really understood why Nano was so popular when you could use Emacs

> When I bork Emacs and it doesn't work

Only 50 % joking but like you said it's not if, it's when. Nano is there and works.
Yes - there are people who win the lottery too. My point is that there isn’t enough for this to really be a thing we should put up as anything but fantasy. If you think you’re gonna get a recruiter who lands this in your inbox - buy lottery tickets instead.
Many banks set up blended payments so your mortgage payments include property tax. Closing costs occur at the time of purchase and are one-time fees, not recurring. As for the opportunity cost, it's only relevant if your mortgage+taxes are higher than what you were paying in rent.

The big unpredictable element is home repair costs.
For mobile or desktop? On mobile, Mastodon recently released their official client, and as far as I know it's not web-based.
> Isn't inflation mostly a necessity of printing extraordinary amounts of dollars and euros during covid?

Given that other rounds of QE did not produce inflation, no, it's not a “necessity” of that. Money supply is a factor in inflation vs deflation, but do are lots of other things.
> However I can strongly agree that their needs to be tax simplification and the current state of affairs is a mess.

Very much worth mentioning that companies like Intuit spend money hand over fist each year to keep the tax code complicated.
I hate-skimmed the article because I find self-professed heretics so tiresome. This is next-level faux-heresy because there's not even the usual "stuff I disagree with is orthodoxy" nonsense — it just makes an empty assertion of victimhood and doesn't bother to provide even specious reasoning to support it.
Thanks for the feedback. I want to try to make my dev streams more interesting. It's pretty hard to look cool when your debugging some busted button. Check out this blog post if you liked the dev streams:

https://blog.winterpixel.com/the-tech-stack-behind-a-wasm-an...
Some companies offer tuition assistance programs, which may or may not be applicable to student loans. Shouldn’t be anything wrong with asking about that benefit.
In the national media, it has clearly accelerated in the last few years.

For most East Coast rural areas, NY & DC have been the traditional bogeymen, not california. The mountain west is much more within Cali's sphere of influence so-to-speak.
There's a lot of chatter on twitter about some users getting a lot of new followers in the last week. The people making the claims are generally politically right wing.

I haven't verified the numbers yet. The conspiracy theory is now that Twitter is changing hands, they're quickly ending certain practices that limit reach and influence of some individuals. Is there any truth to this? If so, how is this being done?

I did notice a lot of tweets that I believe would have been banned just a short time ago (you can guess what they're about). Is there any evidence of a policy change or change in enforcement?
Allude not elude.
leetmusic tests incoming.
Building HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code preview using iframe's srcdoc attribute
After 6 months of hunting I’d now strongly recommend Material for Mkdocs.
You end up with markdown split into logical folders, with a natural flow from each page to the next built in.

It’s built with python but you don’t need python knowledge at all to build; configure and serve the product.

The plug-in eco system adds the ability to embed variables into the markdown pages also you can embed html, so d3 visualisation or a vue calculator app will all embed just fine.

Really clean extensible base, insanely simple and fast to get started oh and free to use. I push mine to GitHub and have that auto build into GitHub pages or a free Netlify account.

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
Newsday (Long Island newspaper) did this, when they were found out it killed them. Afterwards, the paper was half the size, they couldn't get advertisers..

https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/news/ny-based-newsday%E2...

On the other hand, for twitter's main use case, do twitter user counts even matter? It's mostly just a direct channel for famous people to the mainstream media.
The trouble is, you can't -- only the commenter can see their score swings, and then only if they pay attention.

Publishing upvotes and downvotes would allow others to see these effects, and would allow them to register a comment as "controversial" rather than "not worthy of notice".

Data on who made what vote could also be useful.
SimCity’s Documentation on the History of Cities
how does loan status effect to ability to perform the duties of the job?

how would this information be used?
? I agree that the second point you made refutes the first point you made.

I make a lot of money, pay a lot in taxes, and do not have "obvious ways of routing around it" outside of a mega-backdoor roth.
Very well written. Mirrors my own experiences with the California tax system as well.

> Congress needs to pass a law that says that hiring a remote employee in a particular state does not, by itself, create nexus for sales or corporate income tax purposes.

As far I understand, Congress does not have the authority to override the states in this way. I don't think it should either.

> stay out of California, and never hire anyone who lives there.

This is the correct way to deal with 'greedy states'. Don't give them the time of day.
Ahh! I thought the idea of 'to street' sounded familiar. 17776 is excellent.
Bloomberg, Refinitiv, CapitalIQ, Factset
Then a couple years later we chucked Starfish Prime into space to see what might happen.
Maybe you meant to respond to someone else, but if you look through the chain of comments, they track back to a post where I was referencing personal experience in healthcare. This included projects redesigning processes where nurses were an integral part of the service.

My position is precisely that "I looked at nursing work in hospital and it was unmanaged." (not in every instance, of course, but certainly in those relevant to this conversation)
> The Go default implementation also uses split stacks or something for its goroutines

This has not been true since Go 1.2, back in late 2013.
Netflix's speedtest https://fast.com/ avoids a lot of the TCP tuning issues of the client/server by dynamically scaling the number of streams during the test to try to provide an all around peak number instead of a "precisely single session to this exact server" number.

Regarding BBR I've also found it to be a lifesaver for individual streams over high latency internet links, particularly when there is loss.
This is one of our motivations at BoxyHQ, to commoditize enterprise-readiness features. SAML SSO should be available on all plans without crazy markups on the pricing. Vendors should separate their core enterprise features from undifferentiated ones like SSO.
It depends on the contract - don't some universities have an IP clause (like many companies) where all work/research you perform there becomes the property of the university? They then give you limited rights to use this content for personal study, etc. This means that all work performed by the student for the purpose of the assignment is then under the university's copyright.

I suppose they could take this a step further by making students sign a confidentiality agreement for assignment solutions, which is legally stronger than a honor code agreement. I won't be surprised if this becomes a thing in the future.
It’s not that absurd. CA regulatory infrastructure is setup for established, large firms. It’s obvious that small businesses don’t have the overhead to deal with EDD and FTB. As an example, I spent 10x more time dealing with the state for my nanny than I did having to manage her.

The state needs small business rules with simple forms, push button compliance and exemptions for interstate commerce.

The alternative is that most small firms live in the informal sector or do things wrong, not b/c they are bad actors but b/c compliance is hard.
True, fun is certainly different for everyone! I also enjoy being able to just focus on a real world problem, but I also programmed Scala professionally for many years, and I found it a lot more fun purely from the point of view of writing code. Writing a really elegant for comprehension or using currying in clever ways to make your code "elegant" was just enjoyable in and of itself, regardless of what problem you were actually trying to solve. Rust is pretty similar to me in that regard.
> However they are currently running at an interest rate of a little under 4% which is much higher than the rate offered on a typical 5 year year fix. This makes them unattractive when you can just perpetually keep re-mortgaging on 5 year fixes.

Renewing after 5 years will presumably get you whatever rate is then? Which might be much higher.

It's always better to get a fixed rate (for the life of the loan) mortgage. If rates go up, you're protected. If rates go down, you can refinance to cheaper rates.
Your reply made me interested in learning more about David French, so I went to his substack and read his post about John Adams Fear, which I enjoyed and thought was pretty balanced. I was wondering, and maybe someone else can chime in, why the author of this article said:

"OK, so, there’s this thing where if you write a bunch you hope you eventually build up some trust with your audience. You try to be generally reliable and trustworthy in hopes that they come to believe you are generally reasonable, that you wouldn’t try to trick them, and that you aren’t David French. If any of these three things aren’t true, they rightfully come to distrust you."

There is some context I'm missing here, why do you think the author felt tricked by David French?
Unfortunately, I don't expect to have emacs server running in an EC2 instance intended to run a company service since it needs to be a copy of prod instance (for testing/development). In such instances nano is helpful.
One problem is that GC'd languages also tend to have programming practices that encourage the generation of garbage, while languages with manual stack/heap allocation make you think about it a bit more. The sheer number of String and other lightweight (but existent) instances in a running Java program is astounding, because the language simply doesn't encourage you to be parsimonious with creating them.

For most people's applications this is totally fine. But, yeah, you can end up with a scenario where GC pauses are just totally unacceptable, or where you need absolutely predictable behaviour and then you might resort to radical things like what you're describing here and it starts to feel like you've just chosen the wrong tool for the job.

I say this as a person who wrote an RTB ad server in Java, many moons ago... and never would again.
An inability to raise the funds or changing his mind and paying the fee. If Tesla or his other ventures have significant institutional investment their displeasure might influence Elon’s behaviour.
they have to be smart && wealthy && bother to do things to nullify taxes, my second point made an example of smart && wealthy && !bothering to do thing to nullify taxes
Well yeah, there are a lot of those "controversial" subjects that attract far-left far-right flamewars and this has normalized using downvotes/flags as a weapon. Even about innocuous things. Which is... weird and sad.
I'm on a Pi4 8GB now with a 1TB USB SSD (Adata). The only issues I generally have are anxiety around Chromium staying up to date (it is still on version 98.0.4758.106 as of this writing.) and YouTube video playback can drop a lot of frames if the system is any kind of busy. I run Raspberry Pi OS 11 on it at present.
The C2S part of ActivityPub is, to put it mildly, cumbersome. It also shifts way too much logic to the client and prevents an efficient database design.

There can, theoretically, be a "dumb" AP server that implements both S2S and C2S and expects the client to do all the heavy lifting. In practice, all current ActivityPub servers are "smart". They treat the S2S protocol as more of an API, and have their own web UI with a specific user experience (Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey are microblogs, PeerTube is a video platform, Lemmy is a link aggregator, Smithereen is a social network, and so on). Interactions between these different experiences generally work on a best-effort basis. You can't shove Reddit into Twitter UX and expect something nice to come out, no matter how hard you try.
It was a one-employee "company" (besides the founder). I don't think that qualifies as "any tech company". Just try to put yourself in the owner's shoes.
> > in practice, Go seems to have fewer error handling bugs than exception-based languages

>

> This is based on?

By explicitly annotating functions as fallible the language hints to the programmer that errors need to be accounted for.

With exceptions, the hints only appear at runtime - when your program crashes. There's nothing that nudges you towards handling errors at the point of writing code, so you end up with brittle software.
The main consumer is agriculture. I think the easiest plan is to _stop growing stuff in the dessert_. We can live without baby spinach during the winter. Let prices rise so people find alternatives.

The ridiculous practice of subsidizing all of this harmful farming with massive Tax projects is a waste of money and damaging billions of acres of habitat.
They're dwarf seas
I was fully aware that being an employer means filing all employer-related paperwork, withholding, unemployment insurance, and dealing with various employment-related regulations, and I did that.

I was not aware that hiring a remote employee there required that my business file an income tax return, which is completely unrelated to employment. My income is none of California's damn business if I don't sell anything there and have no other nexus with the state.

Plus, no other state has California's absurd franchise fee, even for small businesses with zero revenue.
Begins with B, ends with R, 7 letters

B _ _ _ _ _ R
I'm not sure I buy this. There is a number of aspects you have not considered here. For the intersatellite links very hop will include an optical/electrical/optical conversion with FEC overheads etc. There is also the question of nearest ground station. It's not clear how many ground stations there are and how far they are from the server you want to connect to (especially considering that they might need to go to a backup station due to weather). It's also still unclear to me how much latency the routing will add, those satellites move pretty fast so during a connection you will likely have to make quite a few handovers, I doubt that you can hold an optimal path the whole time (my suspicion is that we will observe the same as observed in the article, somewhat higher latency with significant variation). That said they are clearly better than GEO, but compared to fibre they will always be niche.
There are no ez ways for W2 FAANG employees to "route around taxes."
> Market price to ensure a nuclear power plant against damages. Why are they so high as to make nuclear power creation uneconomical? A market inefficiency?

Yes. The nonrenewable energies (coal, natgas, oil) in my source are constantly emitting carbon dioxide, an unpriced negative externality. This cost is entirely socialized - insurers don't pay for it, producers and users don't pay for it - it's largely being shifted to future residents of planet earth, with a small fraction of the cost starting to be felt now, and paid by government (emergency relief). Has both high cost and high (100%) risk. Insurers don't take on any of this. Compare that with nuclear, where the negative impact is risk of meltdown - high cost but low risk - and insurers are the ones taking it on.
Are we meant to guess what you're hinting about?
Proto.Actor – Actor Model Framework
Why did you plant this idea on them? The hiring was already ridiculous to begin with. Now, how do I find a musical degree to flex on my resume? >:( !!

Joke aside, I do not think that visual memory matters that much when it comes to doing our job. All we need is problem solving skills and there are definitely alternatives to improve those skills. One crucial being solving many problems on what we want to be good at!
This should probably be expanded to something more like, "don't hire remote employees living in a jurisdiction whose employment laws you don't know."

Because it's not just California that can surprise you with things like this. Colorado could zing you if you hire someone who works there but didn't list the compensation range on the job listing. Quebec can zing you if you hire a Quebec resident and aren't prepared to allow them to work in French, even if they don't speak French themself.
I think when people hear "*-verse" there are two common hot takes: (1) this is something that doesn't include me, and (2) move on folks, nothing more to see here.
HTML is simple. Add CSS and dynamic DOM manipulation and it's whole different situation.
Anhydrous ammonia stores liquid at room temperature under light pressure, stores energy per unit volume close to hydrocarbons, and can be burned where they can.

But in the near future, synthetic methane will be cheaper than mined natural gas. More expensive than ammonia, necessarily, because it needs carbon.
This is pretty basic "running a business" stuff. If you think paying a few hundred to an accountant is a nuisance, you're probably not that serious about running a business anyway.
These days anything anti-California and anti-liberal is guaranteed to be voted to the top over here regardless of quality of the content. It's crazy how things have changed over the last year or two.
Most restrictions I've heard of are placed on the interviewer, not the interviewee.
NSA Re-Awards $10B Cloud Computing Contract to AWS
There are no technical limitations in terms of scaling or permissions preventing you from building something customer-facing on Baseten! Personally, I'm very excited for indie hacker types to get their hands on Baseten and start shipping cool things. However, we are currently prioritizing use cases for building internal tools as we build the product.