skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think cities might be in for a huge reckoning. Most downtowns I have visited in the last year have been dire. Nothing's open, homeless everywhere, graffiti and smashed windows.

So many urban cores relied on a daily influx of white collar workers - not just their money, but even their physical presence. Places that used to be packed with rush hour commuters now have tent sites. Public transit have lost their critical mass of people that make you feel comfortable taking public transit. And it's hard to imagine there is a post-covid switch that someone will flip that will make cities "cool" again.
Bitcoin ATMs, and repayment from friends when I pay for things in cash. There are also p2p exchanges like LocalCoinSwap where you can meet people in person in public places to buy or sell an amount of BTC you are comfortable carrying. Some let you use escrow where you deposit cash to a bank account then you are sent BTC on receipt. None of these methods can be stopped no matter how much regulators demand KYC from the Coinbases of the world. Humans can always trade directly.

Similarly I am also paid directly in Bitcoin by some of my clients I do consulting for so neither side needs to fuss with bank transfers. Lastly I can always buy on an exchanges, convert to Monero, then back to Bitcoin to de-associate the Bitcoin to me.
His point is there shouldn't be red tape at all.
Can anyone point out what's different about using/leaving Windows 11 S Mode and the previous Windows 10 S Mode.
Under literally more than a century of law, domestic and international, the company is deriving value from the employee's work based on where the employee is physically sited.

So basically, you're just arguing against more than a century of essentially universal law.
I would add that Keybase solved the identity issue across logins via PKI with a very neat UI. It's a shame that Zoom bought the team and de-emphasized the product.
Leo Laporte would have him on a variety of his TWIT podcasts from time to time. I considered once coming up with a drinking game where you'd drink every time Jerry would have a sentence that included, "..when I wrote about...", but I realized you'd kill yourself.
I don't know, I can think of multiple use cases.

I for one think a flying, easy to use, autopilot camera is a pretty fun thing to have when going out hiking or to the beach with friends, for example. Just pack one in your bag and set it free pretty much whenever you want. It's basically a camera that flies around you and directs itself. Do you also not see "who is supposed to do what" with a regular camera? Why is this any different?

Makes for fun memories!
It's unfortunately far more difficult to find long-term historical PPP figures.

The bigger question is whether you put much stock into PPP. I personally don't, I consider it a very weak economic metric, poorly constructed and poorly tracked. There are is no economist army traversing the globe every year and actually accurately tracking PPP nation by nation (every nation and to the great depth required); nobody does that, they slap giant guesses on it year after year, trying to extrapolate from a small basket of signals in a given country, and starting from the base GDP figures. PPP pretends that Puerto Rico is above Portugal (and nearly on par with Spain or Estonia), Russia is on par with Greece, and China is on par with Botswana. It's a bad, unreliable joke.

I think in place of PPP, it's almost always better to do a deep dive on a given country on its various quality of life metrics, even though those are also at times difficult to compare nation to nation (due to variances in how each country measures).

For example, I don't think it's difficult to show that Finland has a comparable or higher quality of life than the US (I believe it's solidly higher personally, particularly at the median or lower), despite the $20k GDP per capita gap. The US is typically used as the base for PPP, so starting at $76k for the US, you then have Canada and Finland at $58k and $57k on PPP - do I really believe there is such a gap between the US and those two on PPP? I'd be very skeptical, it's another case where PPP doesn't do a very good job.
If that ever happens to you again, presumably the employee has a state congressperson that represents the address where they get paid, and is a constituent. You can usually email the state congressperson and get a response and they can help you interact with the regulatory body.
There is no need for hypotheticals, we know for a fact they are not buying homws at a similar rate as their parents
Then you wouldn't really be programming in Go. You'd be programming in whatever franenkstein's monster of a language your preprocessor is using.

Preprocessors are a code smell, and indicate that the language you are using lacks the right abstractions for productive programming.
I keep seeing that claim pop up here and on Reddit but their app has been using the camera2 api since at least 2019
Denver has an international airport of some prominence, and since that became "active" it has become a bit of a westish-coast city.

Some areas around it had a very "Portland" or "Seattle" feel a few decades ago, and for a time they were a "well-kept secret". Not so much now, so the next big city may be somewhere else soon.
Tech specs buried here: https://support.pixy.com/hc/en-us/articles/5039928089236-Pix...

No info about battery life anywhere to be found.
Reasons the Fediverse Is Better
First, you would lose money anyway, because most places have property tax.

Secondly, only the people who can afford to live in those high cost of living areas would get rich off of these increasing property values you're talking about. The worst thing a person can do is move somewhere to live beyond their means because "when I sell I'll be making a killing!" Out here in flyover country, unless you live in Chicago or Minneapolis, you're probably not seeing 30% per annum increases in your property values.

Finally, yeah, we in the midwest already know Chicago is not cheap. You buy there because you're well off, and you're going to make those ridiculous returns you were talking about. But the rest of us just deal with the areas we can afford. Which is probably not Tribune Tower.
Superior was around a lot longer than that. Regardless based on the extreme water height swings since the glacial retreat water level seems to now depend more on climate and what the outlets are doing than anything to do with the melt off from the last glacial period. With humans already having much to do with both of these what will happen to them in the long run seems strictly up to our choices.
Men will literally devote hundreds of hours to building a bespoke database tracking every moment of their lives instead of going to therapy.
His take seems to assume that French has changed his positions, but it seems (from my reading anyway) that French is still quite conservative. I think this is more about how the definition of "conservative" has changed over the last 5-7 years or so.
at first i thought you were being pedantic somehow and then I got the joke.
> Moreover, many people are just going to run their CI on amd64 Debian or RHEL and assume it works for all targets.

Rust has a strong concept of "tiered platforms", and so lots of people support at least Mac/Windows/Linux. Nobody uses Jenkins (for open source packages that will become your dependencies, at least), they use GitHub Actions or CircleCI, which make it easy to support many platforms. I personally run Windows, no WSL, and 99.99% of the time, everything Just Works for me.

But yes, that's why I wasn't saying it's purely just as good. For sure. But it does generally work well.

> My whole thesis here is that Go leans less on FFI than other ecosystems,

Gotcha, that's fair. Pure-x for any x often is really, really nice! Full agreement there.
While this article went into some of the details of the great lake s(seas?), I would love to read about the ecosystem and marine life in the great lakes and if they mimic the seas in any way. Anyone know a good resource about that?
Only available in US and France
What are some nice neighborhoods around Chicago?
Somehow made me remember the Dave Secretary stories. Unfortunately, I cannot find any link to those stories...they were really funny.
Thanks for the links. I am not trying to refute what you said above. But I don’t want anyone to think that I am spreading misinformation here. So I checked the Netflix Downfall documentary again. It says at 34:30 that the pilots did what Boeing instructed them to do.

The documentary talks about the Ethiopian crash from 32:00 onwards. The below excerpt is from 34:30 onwards. Name of the person talking is in '[]' brackets.

[Pasztor] Soon after the hearings got underway, we managed to get more information about what actually happened in the cockpit of the Ethiopian aircraft. We got the information from the FAA within hours after they received it from the Ethiopian investigators. It was very late at night, and we tried to put together the most comprehensive story we could. When it came out, this was the first story that revealed that the crew, in fact, realized that MCAS had kicked off. And they did what Boeing instructed them to do.

[Tajer] When the MCAS kicks in, it runs for ten seconds and pushes the airplane very powerfully nose-down. Runs for ten, off for five. Runs for ten, off for five.

[Cox] They’ve got this cacophony of stick shaker, master cautions, airspeed disagree, altitude disagree. All of these…these warnings going off. The captain, who’s flying the airplane, is trying to figure out what’s gone wrong.

[Tajer] The first officer called out, “Stab trim cutout switches, Captain.” I think he said it twice. He did what Boeing said. He turned off the MCAS system. I remember reading that, and I said, “Man, the kid got it right. The kid got it right”.

[Cox] The problem now is that the airplane is going too fast. And because of the force on the tail itself, they cannot manually trim the airplane to be able to recover.
Euthenasia is already readily available in the united states. It costs somewhere around 10-15 cents per round.
I've always liked the approach Honu takes: https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/gpce12-rf.pdf
I thought this was fixed?
It may amuse you to know that in some prisons, the guards wear dark-coloured shirts, and their supervisors wear white. The nickname “white shirt” is used for supervisors. Think of that the next time someone says their dress code is for managers to wear white shirts!

——

There is a historical reason for dark-coloured clothes being associated with people of lower social status/rank. In earlier times, poor fabrics didn’t dye bery well, so the only way to get an even tone was to use a dark colour.

To get a white fabric or pastel shade (like cream), you needed to start with better fabrics, higher-quality dyes, and have the dying done by experienced craftspeople.

The result was that light-coloured clothes became associated with wealth and prestige. This has carried through to this day, even if the rationale for it has been obsolete for a century or more.
> and possibly publicly shame them, too

You accidentally hit upon what "free speech" means when used by whales. If Musk berates and bullies an employee with endless racist and sexist slurs, he'd get in trouble. But if he points his mook armies at that same employee and subjects them to the same abuse, it's all good. Just freedom of speech.
I'm not fond of this framing, which suggests that go is for bad programmers and rust is for good programmers. If Go makes it easier for bad programmers to write decent code, it also makes it easier for good programmers.

Good programmers aren't good because they're insanely clever and whip up brilliant combinations of abstractions. They're good because they write maintainable, understandable, simple, and effective code.

Or: they write code that understands the problem and solves it, not code that is stylish.

Go helps good devs do this.
Honestly, this is pretty normal, if aggravating. When I moved to TX, a registration for an out of state LLC was $750. The registration system required a credit card up front to levy a $1 charge for every name search on a web forum to ensure the business name didn't conflict with an existing entity. Though, they will refund those fees if registration occurs. After registration, I spoke with the comptroller and they told me to register for sales tax and that would be the only tax paid. A year later, I received an angry letter from the secretary of state that I owed gross receipts tax and their estimated payment was over $1000. After some investigation, I discovered that this tax was only levied on revenue of over $1 million and TX knew precisely what I had made because of the sales tax filings and they significantly under that amount. Further, it's unclear to me why there are two different departments levying taxes in TX and why the first wouldn't give a heads up about the second. Additional filings made the problem go away.

The point is not that this situation is the exact same as yours. The point is that each state has bizarre, unintuitive tax and employment law. Even if you ask, you'll likely get incorrect information from the state until an angry letter shows up. As long as your paperwork is organized, these problems can be made to go away. This is the cost of running a business. It should be easier, but it's not. Some states are easier to work with than others. Even "business friendly" states like TX are aggravating and much more so than other states that I've done business in.
Nyquist–Shannon Sampling Theorem
If he runs in the next Republican primary he might sweep the field
> Rather, "Nobody Will Admit that A Novel about Football is the Best Novel of Our Generation".

It’s interesting to me that I staunchly agree with your correction, and your interpretation of the original title. I unthinkingly parsed the original title to mean exactly this (to mean the corrected version) and didn’t ever consider its “incorrect” literal meaning.

It makes me wonder if the original title uses a widespread sub-dialect of English grammar which I’ve subconsciously picked up.

Or if it’s just always been common to rearrange words inconsistently/arbitrarily and we learn to rearrange them as correctly as we can manage.
>People who don't like the idea of Musk owning Twitter left

really? thousands of people just left twitter at the idea of Musk owning it, and thousands joined out of love for Musk? within a week?

Maybe rhetoric like this is why it's a mystery.
The problem with hiring someone who has past experience at "it" is the Peter Principle + Market for Lemons + Market Dead Sea Effect.

- Peter Principle : Everyone is hired to the level of their incompetence. Consequently, the pool of people who had this job before is full of people who couldn't get promoted from it

- Market for Lemons: It is hard to tell whether someone has succeeded at "it". Consequently, you pay at average for those who suck at it and those who rule at it, but those who rule at it won't take the average pay.

- Market Dead Sea Effect: Everyone who is good at this role isn't in consideration because they're excelling at it and are going to get promoted to the next level. Those who are average at it are available and going to stay. Those who suck at it are very available and always interviewing but otherwise have the same history.

Personally, my heuristic is always whether we can detect an individual whose recent motion is upwards towards this role, i.e. optimize for f(x, ∆x) not just f(x). I'm hoping that high ∆x means the person is unlikely to end at a specific x.
Check out SayCan from Everyday Robotics / Google Robotics which just came out a few weeks back - RL agents are already entering the real world! BC-Z is promising for that, too.
> why liberal accounts have lost thousands followers but conservative accounts have gained thousands

Since what reference time? Any explanation for since Musk took over will differ from one about, for example, the start of this year, or the last, etc.
You don't need the first 10 trendy technologies you can think of
So, 5-8 minutes max of flight time per battery…sigh. Even assuming 60-sec is the “default” flight time.
I'm sure if California had to pay the costs of hiring them, they'd magically find ways to simplify the code.
They are still one set of eyeballs and one brain to advertise to. Since the metric is mainly for the purpose of "how many eyeballs might see these ads" it still makes more sense to count them as one.
They asked fewer than 600 developers to answer a loaded survey. This is not useful data.
I wasn't aware that JustWorks can also handle state income taxes and franchise fees. Is this true?
Emerging funds trends and tech tools: Q&A with Max Fleitmann, VC Stack
You're right, I thought I'd remembered they'd gone bust.

> part of an umbrella corporation

meaning their former glory is gone. When I was starting out Tektronix was a very big deal in computers and electronics. I haven't even heard their name in 20-30 years.
just skimmed through the article, but it somehow reminded me about "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham[1], but that one is probably a somewhat lighter read ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_for_Pizza
Why do you conclude shadow banning and suppression?maybe libs are more likely to leave the flamebait social media platforms? I did.
61% of homes in San Jose metro area sold for above $1M
Much like mid range phones, it's perfectly usable, and leagues better than anything I had access to as a kid. One way to think of it would be as a point on the cost vs benefit curve. There is a region of the c/b curve that is almost flat. There is also a region where the curve is very steep. The Pi is on a steep part of the curve.

If it's the very best you can get, of course, it's still awesome.
3 million babies were born each year, but they're not contributing to the labor market.
I got a 3 month lock from Chase this past October but it might be that things have changed since then.
Hotels/motels are dense enough that they don't take usable land away from residential housing while still allowing for short-term residents to enjoy the city.

However, AirBNBs and rental houses suck away the usable land such that you begin to meaningfully remove potential long-term residents from the city. The flipside of this, of course, would be apartments/duplexes, which would add more long-term residents than single-family zoning would allow, even with the problem of AirBNB proliferation.
As often? Come on.
I don’t think this will be a huge hit but it looks very cool!
> To a ruthless cold-blooded optimizer, deleting the elderly should be good for the economy because you save on their maintenance costs and their resources get redistributed to more active investors. This might decrease GDP

Right, and the upthread discussion was about GDP, not some abstract unspecified quality of the economy.
Designing Your Time as a Leader
Based on the dates in the URLs and the synopsis, it sounds like it was a direct predecessor to 17776.
Federated protocols have been used for email and message boards.

Multiple times, in fact, counting FIDO and Usenet and Bitnet as separate developments.

So it isn't like this is a new idea, or like it's impossible to do with current copyright law.
When you are two person startup with no revenues, you don't have luxury of going through arcane laws of each of 50 states. You are surviving on ramen in your parent's garage and you can't hire lawyers. As OP describes, there was nothing "minimal" in what CA demands including 40+ pages of forms you need to fill out.
Celebrating the Contributions of Jan Oort
any specific band?
Ontario is filled to record high levels now because the inflow exceeds what is lost to the St. lawrence and evaporation.
I too think about this project all the time. I wish I could have a wall-mounted raw display to use with a Pi or Arduino as a picture frame that didn't cost thousands of dollars for the panel.
I disagree. IMO, there's much more cognitive load in parsing dense, "minified" code than there is in scanning code whose control flow mirrors its visual structure. Humans are very good at seeing visual structure (which is why we tend to indent, split code across lines, and other syntactically insignificant usage of whitespace). By convention in most mainstream programming languages, this visual structure mirrors code flow, so we can see the control flow at a glance; however, many languages have special hidden control flow (exceptions) or control flow which is otherwise isn't part of the visual structure and thus easily overlooked at a glance (e.g., Rust's `?`). In my opinion, this "hidden" control flow allows more errors to slip past reviewers (though some languages might recoup some quality by other means).
For an angry rant against the language in general, this seem like arbitrary minor critiques, largely involving trade offs where there is no right answer but the author prefers the other one and refuses to acknowledge the trade offs involved.

My opinion of go did not change after reading this.
What counts as a trendy technology? I’m sure tcp/ip was once trendy, as was HTML, RDBMS, etc.
Java and Erlang both have phenomenal tooling, especially when it comes to runtime introspection and debugging.
If there's one sure fire way to fuel polarization, it's to hide dissenting view points.

If there's one thing we need more of right now, it's the patience to listen and have a conversation. Turns out telling someone they are dumb and wrong, doesn't make them go away.
No, don't touch the definition of this water source.

This appears to be the beginnings of social dialogue to get them reclassified so that they can be used "like a sea" instead of "like a lake", and therefore pump the water out of them as fast as they can make money doing it.

I hope we all start recognizing the manipulation of society over the past decades in media. They seem to start with this approach, ask a question and make people think without realizing the end game.

Then it escalates beyond control because no one recognized the dangers from an early enough point.
> It’s difficult for Enterprise Orgs to ensure only vetted actions are used.

You can already to this

1. Visit Settings > Actions > General Actions Permissions > Policies

2. Select "Allow non-org actions and reusable workflows"

You can then allow GitHub authored actions, verified publish actions, and OR provide an explicit allow list of actions.
At a glance, I like it.

They look like the "110 pocket camera" of the drone world.

Little more than snapshots, handy, super trivial operation, I guess "5-10 shots per battery".
Nicely succinct explanation of this stance. As someone who agrees, I like this bit:

"One of the most promising and new developments in recent years has been a renewed interest in building decentralized systems of all types. Many people are looking into building a system of decentralized identity and giving that control back to the users."

IE, decentralization is great, but blockchain type concensus building is rarely needed or useful in such systems imo.
> But if he points his mook armies at that same employee and subjects them to the same abuse, it's all good. Just freedom of speech.

What does "points his mock armies at the same employee" mean here? Any examples?
So long presentation.. I can't imagine real people using it. Should divide to three parts or even four, or very radically shorten.