skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assertion depends on an efficient market though, and that is provably not true - the existence of corporate profits demonstrates this, because in an efficient market everyone makes 0 profit, and any rent-seeking will cause every single one of your customers to flee to a competitor who doesn't rent-seek. Everyone has to price as aggressively as possible given the costs, or lose customers to someone who does, and that means zero profit above the actual cost of production/service.

In a world where corporations make profits, some competitors choose to eat the taxes and retain customers, while others may increase prices and lose some customers, and some customers may eat the increased price and remain even though they're getting a worse deal than before. This is the concept of "consumer surplus" vs "producer surplus", and taxes are cutting into those surpluses differently depending on the specifics of each market participant.

All of this has been debated endlessly by economists, in terms of just how much of corporate taxes get passed along to consumers and so on. And the answer seems to be "not zero, and not 100% either", and everything beyond that is up for debate. So no, not "everything is ultimately paid by the consumer", that is the 100% answer and that's pretty clearly wrong in a market where producer-surplus exists.

In reality, real-estate and rents are probably one of the least-efficient markets imaginable. The frictional costs to buying and selling property, and finding a new tenant who might be a problem/deadbeat/etc, or spending a bunch of time apartment-shopping, picking up your life and packing your stuff, and moving, are immense, and all parties involved are highly emotionally invested as well. Landlords are trying to make a long-term calculation about whether the property is going to appreciate - even if they are losing money today, if they expect to make capital gains in the long term it could be worth it. And all parties are operating with minimal information. Out of all the markets in the world, real-estate and rental living spaces are probably one of the least efficient possible.
I mean it's unfair to single them out IMO. Most people are losing money in the market right now.
> But the architecture we're proposing is one people historically haven't even considered. Now, they should.

I think this offering, and this idea, are absolutely fantastic, and if not the future, at least a big part of it, for the reason outlined in the post: namely, that for a lot of apps and use cases, sqlite is more than enough.

But I also suspect this is probably already the case, and we don't know about it because people don't talk about it.

Amusingly, I was recently scolded here on HN for suggesting to use sqlite, by someone who said HN was a place for "professionals":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29908921

Once sqlite is synced to a virtually indestructible storage solution (or several!} then that removes a lot of objections from "professionals".

Could not be more excited by this. Congrats.
> We have also given OSS authors advisor equity

That's a fantastic idea. In retrospect it's a really obvious idea but I've never heard of anyone doing it before. Is this a common thing that I'm just oblivious to?
> Buddhism encourages disconnection, in fact the Buddha said that withdrawing is good and that sense pleasures are dangerous

I don’t think that’s what the Buddha teaches — rather, that we should be intentional in our attachment. (Sense pleasures are unrelated to what we’re talking about — but I agree it says eg, intoxication is bad.)

> What you said is wrong because it implies that suffering is NOT something we should seek to be free from.

Yes — simple disconnection is vapid, it’s only once we choose to live out our actual role in accordance with our True Self or Intentional Self that we’re actually free.

The desire to “escape” through enlightenment, which ends in disconnection, is a false awakening — though one many experience.

> I take it you're a beginner to the practise?

Your need to insult me or denigrate my experience and beliefs because they don’t agree with yours points to a strongly egotistical mindset.

Are you a beginner?
Ah, I think this is answered elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31320995

Short answer: yes.
in no way should this be normal.
Well, thats because I am a theorist who lately had to look at industry technical engineering websites about matters that academics dont care about and I find them to be mostly hearsay and heuristic garbage. I need to know whether your “credentialed” experiences can be written off.

Citation: search for the terms “self-discharge”. I dare you to find something less kosher than the wikipedia page. I already find the wiki page less than kosher.
I find not only losses emotionally hard but missed opportunities seem to invoke just as more distress.

for instance, on thursday I bought a put for a stock that I didn't think was going to make earnings on Friday open.

Before the day closed the put options were at 55%.

The next day, they made earning and my same put options were trading -30% (IV crush).

So in panic and afraid of theta decay, I sell to close on Friday.

On Monday, today, I see the stock has hit my OTM strike price and had I held on to those put options I would be looking at 720% ROI, or a 7-bagger.

It really hurts when this happens. I really do not recommend trading options.
> Maybe if people didn't buy property they don't live in as an investment then things like the stupid housing bubble might not happen in the first place.

Sure would be awful for a rental market to exist. Without rental there’d be only be home owners and homeless and that is clearly a better world.
And I would like to see that minimum wage worker in America say they're "burnt out" to third-world country workers. You would think the old "think about the starving children in Africa" retort would die out by now... Just because things can be worse doesn't mean things aren't bad. Making things better, not worse, should always be the goal.

On the same note suicidal or depressed people can similarly be called privileged, spoiled, or what have you, but that would seriously be tone-deaf.
FWIW my first thought was the same as GP, and then only later did I consider that maybe it's punning on bastard, but I still wasn't sure. Probably better to pick another name and not have to keep explaining it.
Maybe. but like crypto scams where everyone keeps stealing from each other and paying yeild farmers to get leverage, it's really hard to see what the net net of all the money flying around is.
Tech bracing for historic slump: VC pullback, looming layoffs, plummeting shares
I just googled a bit to see how much space could be saved by converting Blu-ray AVC content (1080p non-HDR) to AV1 with subjectively same-ish quality, and from what I gathered one can expect to save 40-50% storage space on average (with a spread of maybe more like 20-80% depending on the video). So it’s substantial, but maybe not substantial enough to run and reencode all your movies, unless moving to a free codec is the important motivation.
This is where I am with h264. Pretty much everything supports it, maybe even your toaster. HEVC and AV1, not so much.
I can sympathize with this strongly. I have tried vim/emacs a few times, and frankly I can't see any improvement from just using any reasonable editor. Also from my own experience they tend to be much inferior IDEs than even a not so great one like Geany.
Sector rotation based on the macro. Capital fleeing to asset classes with more favorable risk adjusted returns in a rising interest rate (with possible stagflation) environment.
People were opening businesses to take advantage of the PPP. I hope this gets addressed.
You can group files in Finder by kind, all image files will then appear together. In list or column view clicking on one will preview it directly in finder in a side panel. You make this preview panel bigger. Tapping Space will open a preview window and you can use the arrow keys to navigate the files behind in Finder. Or select them all and tap space and use the arrows to browse them.
> Their conclusion from the people that had looked into it is that it is sort of impossible for states to do this. Can't really remember the reasons.

adverse selection is the usual objection raised. If you can live in Montana while you're healthy, and move to New York when you're sick, then New York effectively becomes the dumping ground for the nation's sick and ends up picking up a hugely disproportionate amount of the tab without the revenue base to make it up.

That said, since coastal states make up a disproportionate amount of the economic activity anyway... they may be able to power through it, especially if they can all get onboard with it at the same time. It's not like de-facto cash transfers to the poorer "heartland" states are a new thing in the US.
The solution to the article was because they already had the equipment on hand. So it actually was $0 expended and was just an excerise in "what if" and someone else said "hold my beer".

So, why don't you just go ahead and spend those "few bucks" and do a nice little write up on the experience whether or not it was successful or not? It's just a few bucks after all
> The purpose of the “stimulus” funds wasn’t to give what was needed to the people who needed it.

Agreed, and providing direct payments to people who are working to put together food or pay their rent makes perfect sense to me. The potential disasters we would have seen if we hadn't done that would've been horrible.

And providing loans to small businesses so they can keep functioning also makes sense. But firing the inspectors who are supposed to oversee the small business loans (as they always have done), blocking pushes for basic transparency of even what businesses receive the loans, and then "forgiving" 97% of all loans as a gift from the govt is beyond wildly irresponsible.
And these are two fine examples of why if you have anything at all, you want to put as much of it as possible in a trust. Properly constructed and administered, this will avoid all of the above sort of nonsense related to estate probate processes, properly avoid many taxes and processes, keep it all non-public (probate in inherently public), and greatly reduce the burden on your family/successors. Find a GOOD Trust & Estates attny (not just a rando hanging out a shingle, of which there are many), having an LLM degree in T&E is a good sign. Is not necessarily that expensive, and if you have any significant house equity, etc., and especially that with children, it's a very good idea.
> Also both Qt and GTK support styling with CSS by the way.
Except they support what, 20% of the CSS rules?
The same goes for react native btw.
The OP didn't mention PPP.

The PPP was much different than the other forms of stimulus. It either went to employees, or it had to be paid back. The interest on the loan was low though.

I doubt much of PPP funds were being used in the meme trading game.
Software is also, in fact, not math. Nor is the math the utility of software.
Software's utility (usually) is the business problems it solves. The processes are encoded as math, and a lot of writing software is about improving those processes, but that is not in fact the utility.

Think of the guy who invented the equi-tempered scale. All throughout history you had to make instruments that are tuned to play in one scale. Now you can suddenly make instruments that can play all of them. Solves a real problem from music by making an improvement in the representation, so it can be viewed as all math. But is it really "just" math?
I'm so looking forward to proper first light. Waited half my life for it!
Migrating data out of firestore is a bit tedious, but not difficult. It just requires a lot of iteration. That said, if I were simply looking for realtime updates for a subset of my data (and was determined to use the firebase system) I would go for realtimedb over firestore every time. It's much simpler, cheaper, and export, when necessary, is straightforward.
> A good chunk of our health-care "system" is just a giant jobs program.

Yes, and government systems are peak efficiency without the slightest semblance of a jobs program.
Looks like it was a fun project but I prefer the flexibility of https://devdocs.io as I can keep all my framework docs searchable from one place. Also the instant lookup in DevDocs is super useful, especially for Python: https://devdocs.io/python~3.10/
> buying lots of “luxury” items drove up inflation

How so? buying stuff cures inflation. Are you referring to supply chain shortages making non-luxury stuff not get produced?
That was for dense urban areas where people walk instead of using a bicycle. If most people are comfortable using bicycles, businesses have fewer reasons to concentrate on more expensive central areas, as people can reach them equally well a bit farther away. The more mobility people have on the average, the more mobility the society will expect from everyone.
Reading these comments it looks like almost no one read the article or read very far. The main point isn't so much no-code but tightening the feedback loop between tool and UI, where tools can be both code and no-code integrated. I particularly enjoyed this analogy:

> ... writing HTML feels like trying to draw a picture by shooting arrows at the target. You shoot one, see where it landed, adjust, and shoot again. Code feels like the gap between you and the target.
The parent's point was that you don't need Javascript for that; some of the state (i.e., the state of the parent dropdown) could be stored in the URL, or in a form variable...which is how things were done in the days before Javascript.

Yes, you would need multiple pages. But that is how most form-based SPAs work today anyway, and avoiding a page reload isn't always preferrable to just reloading if the SPA version requires heavy amounts of JS and the good-old-static version loads in the blink of an eye.
Countries other than the US exist. Doctors, health care workers etc are significantly less paid in Japan and yet they still exist.

The idea of 'market forces dictating absolutely everything' is proven objectively wrong by countries that still have a large amount of doctors despite being paid less. The market theory would posit that all of those doctors and what not would move to a country that pays them more but there are many, many other factors other than just pay.
yeah here in NZ we pay 39% marginal over $180k, 33% $70k-180k - no state tax - mostly free public health (5$/drug $100 max per year, $30 to visit GP, nothing for hospital/urgent care/everything else)

What we don't do is spen d all our money on a military industrial complex
I believe typeless is the default because of largely historical reason. Namely, typeless was the original mode and strict mode was added later. But, that’s not the only reason. There is a whole page on why typeless is a feature and not a bug.

https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html
What if developers built too many apartments so there is no shortage? What if the builders all decided to tear down the cheap apartments and build a bunch of Luxury Condominiums when the the housing market is full broke college students who can't even afford to cover the taxes on individual units?

You can say the market won't let it happen, but the second case is the current real estate market for the town I went to school in.
Because they are responding to the OP (who is talking about NYC) and further elaborating on NYC taxes, while describing their (supposed) NYC tax burden.
It's true though. Any company is a selling a product to a consumer or is part of a supply chain whose end product goes to a consumer.

Granted, the consumer in question may be on the other side of the earth, which isn't great for creating healthy incentives, but it doesn't change the fact that consumers need to consume less.
Geany doesn't have org-mode for notes/programming/workflow and zillions of more features.
No, pretty much none of the land that we farm only produces fodder for livestock. When it does, it's because the land has been turned over to grass for a year. This is important, because if you don't do that the soil rapidly becomes useless for growing anything. We then cut and bale up the grass to feed to cattle and sheep over the winter.

If you don't do this, you end up with nothing to eat, either from livestock or arable farming.

We don't have enough arable land for everyone to be vegan.
No, I mean they need stronger protections. Knowing that I would probably prevail and get justice after spending 10s of thousands of dollars on lawyers was not enough protection for me to speak up about what I saw after pressing F12, and I suspect I'm not the only one who simply chooses to keep quiet and let the world burn. Give me stronger legal protection if you want my help.
My sons recently completed the Nuclear Science merit badge, and one of the experiments involves the creation of a cloud chamber. The 'old school' method for obtaining a radioactive source is using a lantern mantle, which is a practical item that a scout might be able to access. I did not previously realize that old school mantles were dipped in Thorium. Alas, these are somewhat difficult to obtain today as you might expect. It was pretty fun to discover that the modern solution is to just order some Uranium ore from Amazon.
I'll inline the single comment to save you a click:

> This article gets why Emacs is awesome so right, that, to be honest, there's nothing to add.

> I'm always amazed by the people leaving Emacs for a few years to then come back and falling in love with it once again. Only very good tools make us feel like that. Everything else is nostalgia.
Is simplified failover referring to the currently-in-beta async replicas? Or is there something else on the way that will make it easier to failover?
>Wouldn't a COTS drone be relatively easy to jam

Have you heared Link 1?
I think if you dig a bit you'll find that PPP was absolutely rife with fraud. The verification was "is this going to employees? Promise?"
Isn't this the same governor whose solution was to declare a special day for citizens pray for rain?
Every user input is error.
You can achieve many effects with js/dom although yes emulating CSS is in general absurd goal (slower, more complex). And not everything can be programmatically emulated (except with canvas/webGL/webGPU/SVG/PDF but that is cheating)
> if you treat GME shares as collectables

Why would a rational agent do that?
Try
Teleport.io
Quarkly.io
Framer.com
They don't even have to make it single payer if they just say- no one is allowed to charge any patient more than they charge Medicare. You get the pricing power without forcing everyone into a state run plan.
Type 1 skin is 2000 IU's per hour if completely exposed to the sun though someone may call the cops. Type 5 skin is 500 IU's per hour but all of this is moot if one does not have sufficient precursor elements for the D3 process to occur. This involves vitamin D2, C, collagen and a few other elements. I don't remember the whole chain off the top of my head. I'm lazy and just take pills.
This is interesting! I like using Fly.io today, but I’m currently using a single node for most stuff with SQLite. Having some kind of failover and replication would be pretty awesome. I have yet to try Litestream and it does sound like there’s some issues to work out that could be pretty nasty, but I’ll definitely be watching.

Fly.io is very nice. It’s what I hoped Hyper.sh would be, except it isn’t dead. That said, there are a couple things I worry about… like, there’s no obvious way to resize disks, you pretty much need to make a new disk that’s larger, launch a new instance with it mounted, and transfer data from an existing instance. If it was automated, I probably wouldn’t care, though a zero downtime way of resizing disks would be a massive improvement. Another huge concern is just how good the free tier is. I actually am bothered that I basically don’t get billed. Hyper.sh felt a bit overpriced, and by comparison Fly.io does scale up in price but for small uses it feels like theft.
How is a check for a tax credit wasteful?

No really explain that logic as when we give tax credits to business we do not then again use the same screwed up logic

the biggest example, the Trump org tax credit check from early 2000s. in fact now that the IRs know it was base don fraud there still asking for it back.
No, the worst by orders of magnitude was the fed QE. It lead to system-breaking levels of wealth transfer.
Again, you are getting extremely pedantic about the nature of causality. At that level of rigidity, empiricism becomes solipsism.

What causality means is framework dependent.

If we are making accurate predictions within a consistent framework, it is perfectly reasonable to use a sense of causality within that framework.
> Could you send me his github.

Oh is this is the new measure of success? I better get one then.

Used to be we just pointed to the successful products and companies we created, but I guess we are measuring folks now on mostly pointless pet projects that no one is using?
The only flaw of the article id that it fails to mention devtools workspaces
Anyone else stuck in an infinite "We've detected unusual activity from your computer network" loop on this site?
I welcome boredom. In fact, I create it regularly. It’s an opportunity to quietly think and reflect.

Maybe it’s why I’m not posting “Ask HN: How do I defeat my addiction to social media/smartphones/dopamine?”
If they had got into NFTs early, they would have an investment that's up 100x or so. Why does that sound to you like they're wishing they were born "retarded"?
Of the people I know, ranging from programmers to HR people, most of them prefer the series of pages over the interactive interface for business processes. The series of pages makes it obvious that something has happened in response to input.

OTOH, for stuff like Facebook they absolutely prefer the interactive interface.
This. The perfect program 9 months later would not have been useful.
That doesn't explain why the browsers don't offer hardware decoding but only software decoding. Both implement the same specification. One is just faster (and in hardware which I assume has said license fees paid by the processor manufacturer).

In fact looking at it this way it would be easier to implement it in hardware as you don't just offload the decoding but the whole licensing rigmarole too.

Edit: oops this was already mentioned. Sorry the thread is so long I lost the overview.
My comment was in regards to Bt crops but regardless
I think your perception of how much glyphosate actually gets used is rather blown out of proportion - most likely due to all the anti-gmo propaganda that’s out there. It’s certainly not “new” as roundup ready crops have been around for quite some time at this point and we likely would have seen obvious health problems directly attributable to it by now if there are any. Here’s just one counterpoint from someone who actually farms for a living: https://thelifeofafarmer.com/2016/05/22/how-much-roundup-do-...
I feel like a the early points in the 2012 were taken care of by that time. In 2012 I hadn’t used tables for years except to display a table, was using HTML 5, never used Flash, had ended IE 6 support and certainly my variables were not all global. So, maybe 2008-2009.
Spot check, here's a ~1M apartment in NYC, vs a ~1M house in New Hampshire:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/41-W-72nd-St-APT-8C-New-Y...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/491-Marcy-St-Portsmouth-N...

Property taxes on the NYC place are estimated by Zillow at 715/month, while NH place is 1445/month. NH has no income tax.
I’m not sure why is this being downvoted…

A patent for a drug is just chemistry, which is also just math with a specific ruleset…

Patents are designed to protect work, especially work where most of the effort is in the research / discovery rather than the implementation.

Implementing a video decoder is relatively easy coming up with the algorithms to encode/decode the video efficiently and effectively however is a lot of work.