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Had to go to 'pixy support' at the bottom, but it still doesn't tote the length of each flight.

https://support.pixy.com/hc/en-us/articles/5039928089236-Pix...
A thermometer doesn't measure temperature any better than a meterstick measures length. And we all know what Einstein had to say about the relativity of metersticks.

To paraphrase from the paper I linked in another reply to you, a thermometer is just a heat bath equipped with a pointer which reads its average energy, whose scale is calibrated to give the temperature T, defined by 1/T = dS/d<E>.

You can read the thermometer if you like, but if you know the exact microstate of the water to begin with, the thermometer reading will tell you much less than you already knew about the water. And precise knowledge of the water's microstate will (theoretically) allow you to extract much more work from that water than you would be able to with only the thermometer reading.
Not even a little tiny bit.

This question is as old as outsourcing itself; I've been hearing scare stories about how all the programming jobs going to cheaper developers in India or Eastern Europe or wherever else for literally decades.

Language/cultural/communication barriers are a real barrier. Working around significant timezone difference is a real drain. In the long run it's more expensive and has lower quality results (not, I emphasize, because non-US developers are less skilled; simply because clear, synchronous communication is so important to good software development.)
it depends on the pace of work, but i usually have music, or soundtracks from various video games.

ive wondered at times how well the elevator ride would go if the canned muzak was replaced by inhouse creations.

something like ministry is a pace to keep while rote typing, but things like elder scrolls, or torchlight, when the task is about developing an abstraction or an unorthodox proc or func
Total Federal US Tax Revenues in 2021: $4.05 trillion
Total US Mortgages in 2021: $17.1 trillion

Once you add the taxes for other jurisdictions of government I can see taxes reaching 30% of total mortgage value. It's fairly clear to me that owning land is extremely expensive in a Georgist society that needs to generate the levels of taxation that fund current government. If land value tax replaces income tax it needs to be fairly large, taking over 20% of mortgage value for just federal costs.

Some number of homes are owned outright and no longer have mortgages so the mortgage number may be a bit misleading. If we account for this we might get to a level that suggests 10% of mortgage value in taxes federally, raising to 15% of mortgage value when accounting for other levels of government. Such numbers suggest you'd need to be able to pay for your current property with an 8-year mortgage in order to pay the Georgist taxes on it.

I think a modern society that kept existing levels of government spending would see widespread downgrades in housing quality in a Georgist society.
Sure but other countries can figure it out. So that's a you problem, not an us problem.
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May as well keep all liquids in one container, everything from lighter fluid to milk to bleach to shower runoff.
Yeah, similar experience. There is never a song stuck in my head. I can remember the lyrics and often sing along to modern pop songs because the chorus is the same or they use very predictable words.

But I can remember what touch feels like. Like I can re-imagine it and re-feel it from memory. Its like other memories in that it isn't exact or anything, but I can definitely somewhat recreate the sensations.
I agree. I'm always talking to people who are going to sue "for millions", but when I go through settlement agreements and jury awards they are generally much lower than headlines would lead you to believe.

Often they can even be zero. I had a district attorney send me a very rude letter recently (under non-disclosure) saying that he didn't give a fuck if I won a case against the county because he loses cases all the time. He said that even when he loses he gives zero shits because he'll get in front of the jury when it's time to figure out damages and paint the plaintiff as such an asshole that the jury will award zero damages. I believe him.
I'm in the UK. AFAIK we don't have any ongoing property taxes to pay, at least not if I have bought the freehold. Leaseholders may have to pay ground rent, but that's often a peppercorn and anything above that is being legislated into oblivion this year[0].

Regardless, ownership is a useful legal construct the benefits of which seem to outweigh those of being a tenant.

[0] https://landlordknowledge.co.uk/ground-rents-banned-under-ne...
> Nobody Will Admit The Best Novel of Our Generation is About Football

Just stop. We all have different preferences.

Personally I hate American football (it's too much like a stupid video game now), so you'll never even get me to read whatever book this person is talking about.
This is a good point but it's not a problem with georgism per se so much as the transition to get there. There are a multitude of policies that can be used to ameliorate the change from a system based on taxation of labor and capital to that of land; a common one is giving tax credits equivalent to mortgages so that lendees are not underwater. But any shift to land value taxation will be gradual anyways, so it would be less dramatic than people imagine.
I bought a Raspberry Pi to use with my 3d printer. I left it on all the time and that was a mistake. It killed two SD cards over a period of less than a year before I figured out that the constant writing to system logs was responsible.

I bought a third card and now I turn it off every time I’m done with it.
I think this is such a fun/playful idea, kudos to Snap!

Their first hardware product pretty much bombed but this is oddly one of the first consumer tech toys in a while that I've felt I wanted. I can definitely see this being a fun thing to bring out in the backyard or to cookouts/parties, especially as a dad with young kids too.

A couple things I'd be a bit worried about:

* Battery life would need to last long enough to use this on and off for a few hours. If it's like 15 mins then no way.

* Would there be an audible hum in the video it records from the 4x propellers?
I appreciate your viewpoint but it seems to be a strong reaction to a throwaway joke which isn’t at all the point of the article.
You are correct. They did not technically lie. Just clever wordplay to tilt the blame on one party.
Thanks for the link. I am going by ballparks I've heard internally, from less than 3 years ago (so, with newer allocators), and unfortunately can't provide a reference. It would be great if there was more public information from large-scale studies.
Seriously. I thought it was my computer at first.
At the very least I think I’d need 16 color support though for syntax highlighting, in order for it to be practical.
you can buy one by clicking the shop button. it says it’ll only ship in 12 weeks though.
Is it really a pivot? They are all about letting people share video stories made using their ecosystem. They pushed the software (filters, etc.) as far as they could so now they are pushing the hardware. You can't code a "first person view" or a "third person view" filter. So glasses & drones it is.
On the other hand by living in a state with no income tax I can save that money for retirement or if I'm unemployed. I'd rather manage it myself than having the state manage it.
^^ This!
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I was under the impression commercial reactors consumed like 1% of the available U238 vs the fast reactors which got closer to 70% (based on the article linked as [1]).
I haven't been able to comment on HN since my controversial post which mentions civil unrest. No doubt your comment is related? I'll eventually be able to post this response.

>Always wondering exactly what people mean when they talk of "civil unrest", and who and how will it start. Do the various riots in 2020 America or the Jan 6 storming of the capitol count?

For sure those count. Racial civil unrest, riots, and insurrections are contemporarily happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932022_United_State...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_att...

It doesn't take a crystal ball to predict this will continue. Occupy wallstreet and teaparty stuff started 10 years ago and the USA hasn't really stopped since. We can go into reasoning or causes but that's not important.

The bigger reality is what's next. We have some pretty seriously bad economic numbers going down. High inflation, strong possibility of a recession, very probably food security issues.

When you mix civil unrest and riots with hunger. It's going to be bad. A civil war isn't inevitable, though if i'm predicting correctly, it wont be democrat vs republican or north vs south.

>I think it's unlikely that merely raising rates will do anything, for two reasons: firstly there's a real need to do some fiscal policy as well, and secondly this inflation is being driven by real shortages not just the bidding up of goods. Chip shortages, fossil fuel shortages due to cutting Russia off the world market, food shortages, and the war in Europe's sixth-largest country destroying a lot of production capacity. Not to mention ongoing COVID costs.

May 4th, I'm expecting a huge rate increase. Probably headed well over 1% and nothing you or I say matters. Supply vs demand inflation is certainly debatable but won't change their course of action.

Something we should seriously be looking into is massive seeding effort for lakes. Get tons of fish growing this year. Get fishing boats out into the oceans pulling fish in. Major culling and harvesting of sharks.

Effectively the plan would be to produce significant more food than necessary and proactively deal with consequences like overfishing.

By eliminating this problem, we may eliminate the possibility of the unrest/riots becoming something more.
I definitely went into the article thinking you have to be an idiot, but you exposed a lot of reasonable issues that can certainly bubble up depending on the type of application you are working on.

I primarily work on web servers but even I've noticed a handful of the issues in present. For example, the net/http package is not all that great, in my mind. It has a lot of downsides, and the timing out section really calls this out quite well. The native functions pretend to have sensible defaults, but in any production-ready application those are all discarded and you'll need to create custom clients to handle the different types of requests you are making.

I will say I'm a fan of Go. I think it has made my life much simpler in that it was probably the first language to expose me to the world away from "magic" - with Java being my first language, frameworks are far too rampant and Go helped de-mystify a lot of that for me.

But as I've progressed to learn other languages, I think this is less a strength of Go and maybe moreso just a negative of Java/Ruby/Python oftenntimes. I've not played around much with Rust but I've heard great things.

As much as I wanted to think this was just a Rust fanboy attacking Go, I think your article was quite well written - and also helped me question "why do I even care?" I didn't write Go, I just happened to land a job that uses it where I excelled well, and I think in my early career that's largely because Go is extremely beginner friendly. It's a tool disjoint from me - I wouldn't be upset at someone if they told me they don't like hammers made by DeWalt, because it's not an attack on me. Same with Go, or any other tool we use to do our jobs.

Now that I'm a much more senior engineer I find I use Go out of convenience purely due to expertise, but I've been itching to work with something new. I think for my next side project I'll take a stab at Rust.

Anyway - great article! I'm happy I read it (even though in the beginning you tell me not to, hehe).
I don't see the article explain how this works, or how it works in El Salvador. Are they establishing an official exchange rate between Bitcoin and their existing currencies? Or picking some market rate and letting it float?

If you have more than one official currency, people will pay their debts in whatever is cheaper. So I don't know how that's supposed to work.
> A lot of error handling procedures are based on reacting to C, which was awful

Go's design decisions in general make a lot more sense from this perspective. "X was horrible to deal with in C, how can we make a (reactively) better version?"

The problem is a lot of these choices (willfully?) ignore the decades of language innovation that have happened since C. They are incremental, reactive improvements, where it doesn't feel like the designers necessarily stepped back and looked at the bigger picture
Yep. Particularly if you're at the point of hiring an employee, you can afford at least one meeting with an accountant.
I feel like this is "water is wet", except that they need Science (tm) to justify teaching music to kids in school, because the only reason to learn how to play music is if it will make you better at something else that really matters. ?!?!!
The same works with Brave too! D'uh!
Respectfully, I think that's the point. Why should a single-employee company have to outsource to deal with all the red tape?
> You can't have 'states rights' (which, for better or worse, is how America claims to govern itself)

No, it's not.

“States rights” didn't really enter the political lexicon until it was injected there by the proponents of permanent institutionalization and expansion of slavery, who eventually revolted over it, lost, and whose ideological successors keep raising as a motto for their (usually unsuccessful, beyond the short term) attempts to resist progress on equal civil rights.

It is not “how America claims to govern itself”, it's how reactionary dissidents against the way America governs itself complain that they would prefer America to govern itself.

In the way America claims to govern itself, people have rights and governments, including those of states, have powers.

You probably mean “federalism” or “dual sovereignty” or something like that.
I would challenge you to rephrase this without the loaded language, not only because loaded language invites a flame war, but also to see if your argument is compelling without assuming outright that the language is bad. I.e., can you make a persuasive argument that the language is bad rather than simply coming up with myriad different ways of implying that you don't like the language (or perhaps even the people who do like the language).

I think this is a good way to debate/discuss in general; nothing particular to Go or programming languages (although it may not yield as many upvotes).
If I open a branch in California, and hire one person, is my firm subject to California's laws?

Yes, obviously. The part of my firm that is operating in California is.

Why does not having a physical location for the office change anything?
Stop being so pedantic. It's worthless. You had an employee, and so you were doing business in the state (this is business 101 stuff). By having an employee, you were subject to certain laws California has. e.g. You literally didn't comply with everything you were required to.
What an extremely convenient template to dismiss any nuanced argument against "worse is better". You even get to question my credentials a couple times! (I apparently pick metrics that are convenient to my argument, and fundamentally misunderstand programming language design).

Even if I accept the premise that "I'm challenging Go on things it doesn't promise to deliver" (which is disingenuous to begin with — correctness underpins /everything/, it's not a hobby), I can't help but notice you carefully use the word "attempt" when referring to the promises Go /does/ make.

One of the things I'm saying is that Go does not deliver on those. It does not deliver on "speed of coding", precisely because everyone, even seasoned Go developers, keep hitting its many design pitfalls.

It does not lower mental overhead, because it prevents you from building abstractions, and pushes complexity out of the language and into your head.

There's a lot to be said about safety and performance, which gets bleaker real quick once CGo enters the picture (hence why the Go team likes to remind folks that CGo is not Go).

But say we disagree there and you truly find it a breeze to write large amounts of Go code: as soon as you deploy something to production and others start to rely on it: you don't get to choose not to care about "correctness". If you don't, you're just pushing the problem onto someone else.

You may be pushing the problem onto ops people, other devs, or your customers, but it does land on someone. And nowadays that someone is often me: my frustration is fueled by years of real world use, I do not, like you seem to imply, enjoy thinking about these things in the abstract, just for the fun of it.

Of course, you can choose to ignore that too, and that's fine! But let's please drop the pretense that this kind of response is anything other than "I refuse to think about this".
Interesting product, although nowhere does it say what the flying time/battery life is, which doesn't give me much confidence.
Not really, many of these are more "joking" dislikes than actual strong disdain/dislike that California, New York, etc. engender.
2022: Deepmind releases paper on bootstrapped meta-learning and scaling RL agents

2023: RL agent trained for multi-task learning solves majority of perfect information games. It's a scaled up decision transformer. Scaling laws for RL agents are discovered, similar to language models.

2024: Large scale RL agents are combined with frozen vision and language models via cross-attention, can be prompted one-shot with language/vision tokens to solve novel tasks.

2025: RL agents enter the real world - first pre-trained in diverse synthetic environments, then via imitation learning from youtube videos, and finally in an online fashion via realtime human interaction.

timeline might be optimistic, but one can hope!
Exact origin is obscure. Some think it relates to paying a farmer, some that it refers to a death benefit.
What is untenable exactly? That a state is provided the ability to enforce their laws?

National governments are allowed to enforce laws outside their own borders, such as intellectual property and copyright. While challenging to enforce, it is possible.
Pentatonic JS is a subset of Major JS. If you had said mixolydian JS then that is understandable, have a good day
Many states are not advanced enough to "detect" these issues, even if you W2 someone in their state from out-of-state.

California has a pretty advanced FTB and catches and alerts on these.
Actually, I might be thinking of the ~/Library/Messages/Archive folder, which used to contain a readable backup of your messages and which stops updating with the iCloud sync.
You would think you couldn't do it well, and that either you're born with the ability to do it or you aren't; but you'd be dead wrong. It's just practice. That's it.

Given a couple years of regular-ish, semi-structured practice, you would be shocked by how much you can do. When you dive into music theory even just a small amount, it becomes very easy to improvise a melody in a given scale, or write a nice chord progression. It becomes Math.

Most songs that you memorize are very similar, and the ones that are different you simply learn through muscle memory. I can't explain to you how exactly I can fingerpick a song like Blackbird, but I can do it and all it took was rote repetition until my fingers do it quite literally without my thinking about it.
Likewise it seems many in non-right wing (either left-wing or fairly apolitical accounts) are losing users.
In what way are laws for employing someone in a state indefensible?

You don’t get to set up shop in a state with low taxes and minimum wage then pay your employees in another state using whichever state’s laws you prefer.
I wasn’t aware of the reforms before I just looked it up, but from what I see, it looks like he had distributist goals. He was almost definitely not aware of the concurrent academic movement in England, but many thinkers individually came up with similar ideas.
"When the author starts their post off insulting David French they lose all credibility in my mind as an arbiter of literature." Has got to be the funniest comment I have ever read on HN. Only slightly funnier than: "I'll be clear here that I'm not interested in judgements on literature provided by someone who frames their worldview as hating one of the few writers willing to address the real complexities of real issues today." French stans on HN, I love it! Also, I checked out Bois' youtube and really enjoyed Pretty Good episode 10.
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Ideally, when an element is deprecated, the deprecation notice provides clues toward replacements for the unfortunate user bitten by the deprecation. Too many API's drop capabilities without a hint of what downstream developers should do to preserve application behavior.
To me it makes it that much more interesting, but reasonable people can disagree.
Despite the way it has been spun, Disney's special district status is not particularly unique. There are 1844 active special districts enshrined in Florida state and county law. Disney, Sea World, Universal, and other theme parks, all have special districts to allow them control over the development of their properties.
Not to be confused with the Pixy vision sensor.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/254449872/pixy-cmucam5-...
True. Absolutely. But you miss the point, I think.

The point is "the employment laws described are horrendous and a suppressive force on out-of-state employers hiring someone in CA".
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Is the company not deriving value across the state border? Is the employee not being compensated across the state border?
ever try Ramstien, or Einsturzende neubauten
Well, the usual "reasoning" is that Go is easier to maintain, faster, will require less hardware, etc... all of those things might be true. What is not told in is the other side of the story, the one where you will have to write, test, document and maintain a TON more code... which usually ends up in just overall lower quality as it is pretty hard to find developers writing better code than the code you usually find in popular full stack frameworks.

But managers/directors, etc aren't idiots. They swallow it and they accept it even if they know the trade offs, because what's not told here is that if management says "No, that's madness" then people quit, and that's worse. So there we go with our super performant microservices for our 10 reqs/s app.
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Uh, you might want to learn about tax incidence.

If the bank pays the tax, why wouldn't they pass it on to the mortgage holder in the form of higher interest rates or other fees?

There are exceptions when businesses are investing for growth and expenses are paid by investors, but normally no business is going to agree to a contract where they lose money. The money to pay expenses comes from customers.
It’s the same with programming.

- How do you know what code to type in?
- Ummm… I know what I want the program to do, and just write it down step by step.
- No, I mean, how do you know what symbols to write??
- I… I learned their meaning…?
- You’re so lucky! I would never be able to learn such things, I was always bad at math xD
Hiring contractors abroad is certainly on the easy side, it’s actually even easier than you point out, because you can just hire an Accenture contractor or something and then you don’t even need to bother with having a presence in that country.