skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am corrected. That said, condensing exhaust water vapor in a heat exchanger can benefit operating efficiency.
Man it sounds like guaranteed lifetime employment.

If everything is on fire, all day, every day, then nothing is on fire.
Nice to see a Flutter app!
>really large companies to be able to build train lines or advanced manufacturing

They would use the money to buy back their own stock.
That definition is incomplete. It makes it sound like you have to be constantly moving funds around to time the market, vs "buy and hold".

But you can certainly time the market using "buy and hold", by waiting for the right moment to buy. And even if you buy "asap", you're still employing a market-timing strategy, that "buying asap is better than buying later".

Dollar-cost averaging is a form of timing the market, because you're effectively reasoning that fixed-interval purchase will fare better than lump sump or other strategies. You're still predicting market behavior.

Good resource:

https://youtu.be/w_aOERmUWdA
The biggest problem with it as presented in Progress and Poverty (i.e. as a Single Tax to fund the government budget, not some small supplementary levy to fund something like local services) is that the size of the tax bears relatively little relation to the ability of someone to pay it (at least, to pay it without selling their house). Turfing pensioners out of their house because the land it sits on gained in value faster than their pension whilst others earn millions virtually tax free obviously isn't a natural vote winner.
It seems extremely unappealing to me. It seems like something a wealthy apartment-dweller in a tall building in a dense city would come up with to move taxation from himself to the guy in the country with two acres and a mobile home.

The more I think about it, the more I'm sure that's the actual motivation.
Quantum mechanics says there is no such thing. Classical mechanics too for all practical purposes.
On a personal level, I like the LVT as a single tax because then I wouldn't have to do any paperwork. They give me a bill, I pay a bill, there's no exceptions, I can improve (or fuck up) my property, and overall the numbers won't change (unless a ton of people improve or fuck up their properties around me as well). Nice and easy.

But it also seems effective overall. After I quit my last job and before I got my current job, I did not work for several years (some due to choice, some due to circumstance). During this time, I obviously paid no income tax. But I still paid my mortgage (some of which obviously went to property tax, but mostly to the bank). Presumably with a land value tax, my payment to my mortgage company would be notably less less and the tax would notably be more, so during that time instead of paying a bank I would be paying taxes that go to infrastructure and welfare and whatnot.

I think this sort of thing is more accurate than an income-based source of taxes, because I obviously wasn't really in the same economic situation as an underemployed person who truly couldn't find a job for several years. It also allows you to assess your own level of taxation. For instance, I could have sold my place or rented it out, and moved elsewhere to a cheaper place (or I guess a more expensive place, were I so inclined to do so while not having a job).

Of course, the big disadvantage, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is that it is difficult to assess land value sometimes. It also seems like it may force people to move a bit more often, and moving is exhausting. And also presumably you'd have to convince people to pair this form of taxation with more lax zoning laws (with some stricter exception for farmland or something to keep the value per square foot low enough for it to still make sense).

Even weighing these factors, it seems like an improvement over the current system. But I guess the real issue is that in the current world of mortgages and such, even if 90% of the population decided it truly did make sense as a form of tax, the transition seems nearly impossible.
Some data here: https://botsentinel.com/
> There's also the possibility of the Twitter Board's incompetence. Maybe they don't realize the advantageous position they're in and give up before testing Musk in court?

Yeah. Wealthy individuals advised by the best experts can't figure out what is good for them. Only if they would have someone in their orbit who knows how to read hacker news comments. </sarcasm>
Wow this Sherlock Holmes-level research.

Our close friends did notice we launched. Lol.
Tesla pulls all sorts of accounting tricks to make gross margin appear higher than it actually is. Warranty repairs are apparently done by pixies for free, so is R&D, factory amortization, or service centers

A like-to-like comparison would have Tesla's gross margin at ~18%, which is decent, bu not all that unusual for a premium car brand. Ford and GM tend to have much lower gross margins than VW or Toyota. The latter two are usually in the mid-to-high-teens, while competing in a cutthroat mass-market
Not mechanical, but chemical. At that level, brownian motion, molecular charges, and other forces we can't see at our scale are much more powerful than mechanical motion. All of the enzymes, ribozyes, etc. in your body rely on these forces as well as their own arrangement to produce chemical reactions which in turn drive their 'machinery'.

The original idea of nanobots argued that with enough effort mechanical machines could work at that level, even if it would be difficult. It'd allow for these machines to work outside of water and for them to be built out of materials like diamond. We're still not there yet, and may never be.

I understand why researchers use the term 'nanotechnology' to describe their work with molecular biology, but it gives entirely the wrong impression. Just look in this thread, where you have people asking 'what could possibly go wrong?' Pop culture makes people think nanotech = tiny robots = grey goo destroying the world.
Is there a simple way to browse older HN posts by date?
ebikes go belt drive for ease of maintenance and replacement, not for efficiency (they care much less since the motor compensates).

The elasticity of the belt could also be an advantage if the engine is at the pedals (rather than in the hub), as it would allow for a less smooth engine programming, using the belt’s elasticity to absorb some of the harshness.
My mother did not want me to have glasses as kid, because glasses damage your eyes. It is a scam of the optometrists. They sell you glasses to damage your eyes, so they can sell you even more glasses later.

So when I became nearsighted, I did not wear glasses until I was almost an adult.

The myopia remained rather stable with -1 to -1.5 D. Which fits the distance of the computer screen. It was very unhealthy that I spend 12 h a day programming thinking I was a professional teenage software engineer.

But I got really bad astigmatism with -3.4 D according to an aberrometer.

Perhaps myopia turns into astigmatism if you squint too much?
What? How is Tesla's car quality relevant to this conversation? You're really stretching here.
This site is now a “shinobi website”
Inflation triggers California law to boost minimum wage to $15.50 in 2023
super cool! have long been interested in tooling for making code archaeology easier!

any plans for building extensions for various issue/work tracking systems, wikis, email archives, etc? i've longed for comprehensive views across tickets, pull requests, bug reports and wikis for all relevant knowledge for a given effort in past.
Ra and the Idea of a Malign Establishment
Just a tip for the demo video - check out Descript.com for an easy way to edit out the “ums” in videos and screen recordings. I use it regularly to tighten up a recording quickly. I likely wouldn’t edit or make videos in the first place if I didn’t have Descript. No relationship to disclose, just a happy customer.
> Build a Minimal Hacker News Clone in 15 Minutes with Bud

I started my programming career after following the Rails how to make a blog in 15min youtube video. Always a good choice.
Elegant Development Experience with Zsh and Hyper Terminal
By a wide margin, Americans view inflation as the top problem facing the country
I mean, “chan-speak” isn’t limited to the far right anymore, it’s relatively common in younger far left circles and even growing among “normies”. I’ve seen guys on discord servers who never would have otherwise heard of 4chan pick up slang.
Randomness/unpredictability doesn't give you free will. But maybe replace "determinist" with someone who believes free will is merely an illusion.
> where employees demanded equivalent pay increases to housing cost increases

How can employees realistically speaking even do this?
So many Estebans…
Housing supply finally improving as high prices and rising rates weigh on sales
SES is not political appointees. SES are career executives, and generally serve through many administrations. Political appointees are usually 'Secretaries' and that ilk, which may be 'SES' equivalent, non-career/competitive appointments, but are not Career SES.

There are TONS of SES folks below the appointee level.
I just went through all the comments and I am so humbled for taking time to respond. Its good to hear that someone somewhere shares a similar experience to what I am going through and I can be hopeful of a better tomorrow. Thank you once more.
I did some further digging and it turns out "However, Twitter reported 229 mDAUs in quarter 1 of 2022,"

229 million monetized daily active users (mDAUs)

Which means there needs to be no more than 10.3million that are bots.

I'm sure pretty much every account gets an advertising ID and is monetized.

That means that there can't be more than 10.3 million bots..... That are DAILY ACTIVE.

There can be bot campaigns, and bot swarms, short term.

But they claim less than 10 million daily active bots. Seems pretty reasonable window? Still allows for 50 million bots, as long as they don't post daily, only during key crises.

Source: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/twitter-miscounted-users...
Framework Laptop Mainboard Schematic [pdf]
I watched a video recently on how to make fire. 30,000 years we’ve been doing it, and videos like that are still interesting!
“The Canary in the Coal Mine ” A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge
There's a chicken and egg here: Plenty of places make it perfectly possible to thrive without a car.

The US decided (with plenty of support from the auto industry) that the convenience of building cities around cars was worth all the death, destruction, illness and poverty they cause/enable.
You say chip on the shoulder. I say low tolerance for entirely predictable BS.

When I was poorer, even the "minor" cost of cables would have meant even more missed meals. (Fortunately that wasn't an issue because residential internet wasn't a thing back then, but you get the idea.) Losing a security deposit would have been an absolute disaster. I went to court twice to avoid exactly that, and could well have ended up homeless had I not prevailed. Not every landlord is forgiving, and not everyone has the option to prioritize freedom to make modifications over things like location, price, square footage, etc. Being able to shrug off costs and risks that loom larger for others is practically the definition of privilege.

Even among the more affluent, not everyone would put up with visible wires in every room and on every side of the exterior, or with the effort/expense of "doing it right" by fishing through walls with multiple obstructions. They might well prefer the tradeoffs represented by wireless, even if it's not perfect. Do you use landline phones because you never have to worry about being in a dead zone? Different people, different choices. That's all I'm saying, but somehow people who can't conceptualize that other people aren't exactly like them think that any choice other than their own deserves an inquisition.
I would be immediately suspicious. I’ve had strangers come up and compliment me, but something about a cat call would just feel overly cartoonish.
> That's pretty judgy, IMHO.

I punch up. Even if he has Aspergers, with his amount of wealth and power he doesn't get to escape my judgement.
I think that's for a good reason. I suppose the implement a hardware public-private encryption and they transmit random data everytine you press a button
This small alias can clear the formatting from whatever you have copied to your clipboard on macOS (not sure what the equivalents of `pbcopy`/`pbpaste` are on other OS's):

alias noformat="pbpaste | pbcopy"
He has autonomy into buying the absolute top of the 13 year bubble. Locking the purchase price at t minus 4/6 months. In 4/6 months when the acquisition is completed the S&P could be at 3210 and he'd have paid 54.20/share.

Or even sub 3000 if inflation becomes deeply entrenched in the economy.
Actually, I think it might be the other way around...don't put a convention center over a major highway. The freeway through downtown Seattle was built in the mid-60s, the convention center twenty years later.
> or use the enormous amount of free press to launch a competitor with mandatory device attestation.

That's what I think he's actually trying to do, as part of his "master plan part III". Twitter is only valuable because of users - but they are not worth this incredible premium. He's seen how attempts at launching 'free speech' platforms have gone.

He can easily build a competitor for a fraction of the deal's price. He can easily outspend any company. But that doesn't guarantee users - eyeball time is a limited resource. However, if he torpedoes twitter, he can get a bunch of users from the wreckage.

And, you know, profit from some nice pump and dump in the meantime.
> However, small research projects are an incredibly cheap way to learn things and invent new technologies

And recessions are the time when this research is at its cheapest.
I've always wanted one of these kicking around. Just yesterday I realized I need to update my cats RFID tag and I could use a copy of a apartment key.
That's what he wants people to believe he is doing. But he actually started aggressive. Even if you don't take Crimea cause supposedly there was not much blood spilled, the invasion into Ukraine started on April 13, 2014 when Russian special forces killed a group of Ukrainian internal security officers deep into Ukrainian territory. There were no "victims" to defend at that point.
Metaculus AGI forecast date just crashed to Nov 2026
Oddly satisfying.
The search engine the form at the bottom takes you to is pretty good and has sorting by date. There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/front
Record diesel prices, tight supplies could be next blow to the US economy
just want to add point that Tesla is not just the car company, they are into energy (battery, panels etc), AI, robotaxi etc areas as well, that could be one of the factor in higher valuation.
It looks like integration with ticketing systems is on the roadmap https://github.com/orgs/watermelontools/projects/1.
So you are saying TWTR reported fraudulent financials?
"Experts" have been telling us to sell $TSLA for over a decade..
This was a really great read, thank you for sharing. I’m blown away by the quality of the reporting and the material the intercept were able to gather.
That’s surprisingly low, not too different from US tax rates!
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Even earlier speed limits and speed cameras. Seems simple enough. And maybe some speed bumbs.
Yeah. He lied. Again.
i agree. if someone did threaten my family and they were serious it would be a problem.
Wouldn’t a LVT mean that the taxes on the mobile home be much less than the apartment in the dense city?
The create page is nice but the first thing I always look for is a demo. Stripe always provides these on their pages.
> I've been reading that "ideas are cheap" for over a decade now, but I can honestly say that I haven't once come up with an idea that would make any money.

Ideas are cheap.

Good ideas are darned hard to find and even harder to recognize.
At some point they must realize, "I'm different, these are not my people, I must find others that are like me".
Replacing electrolytics that'd gone bad was my entry point to electrical engineering.
I would be shocked if they were able to maintain those margins.

They’ve faced relatively little competition in the EV space until this point and benefited from a shortage juicing prices. As demand eases and more entrants come into the EV space, they will have to lose margin, market share, or both.
The first time Netflix stock ate shit, so in January.
It's a distributed hierarchy with rules. Every release group is a cell competing against every other release group. It's like the Mafia, you get respect for breaking releases.

Then the releases trickle down to the usenets and private and public torent trackers.

Some sights have rules to encourage speediness, like that only the first 1 or 2 releases per format/quality are allowed to be uploaded.

Nobody cares about second fastest. It's about getting shit out, and out fast.

The rules are designed to do that.
But alopecia, although affecting more men, also affect some women so it's not an exclusively male characteristic..
I consider myself a pretty solid experience embedded developer(20+ experiences continously, starting from motorola then, mostly embedded linux) but I just could not pass the leetcode(or similar) tests from FAANG. I actually passed it once at Amazon but was told I'm lack of 'leadership', strangely some of my old team members(that I was a tech leader for the team, and I also founded a startup) got the offer at the same time, I was rejected by Amazon(I was later told somehow one of their interview just dislike me no matter what, even though the rest all wanted me). Since then I lost interests in preparing leetcode to try at other big ones.
At smaller companies the compensation is not as good as I would like indeed.
Disclaimer: I didn't downvote you.

I guess you can say that it really took me 6 years to get a green card via employer sponsorship (although those 6 years were anxiety-filled to say the least). However, if the startup (my first employer out of college) sponsored me work visa and then green card, I would not have gone for the PhD either. I hope it makes sense.
What specifically is not supported on iPhones?
One compiler implements module support to the point it's useful, and that compiler targets one operating system.

I don't think it's hard to fathom that C++ modules might not gain traction when there is little indication of adoption in compilers, let alone code based that could benefit them.
Are you commenting on the right article? This is about a testing library, and doesn't mention SQL?
the team from flipper zero have put in a real effort into the docs.

P.S. docs are built with www.archbee.io
Definitely. I managed to clone my RFID enabled cards with mine.
Yeah . Until they develop the mad horse disease.
Looks like a repeat of the "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured."
At the surface it seems there should be a market solution for this.

One approach might be to do something clever with mortages and property rights. Basically keep trying to keep the current mechanics of borrowing and just shifting around the parties involved so that the all the interest gets collected as LVT.

Might even let the central bank handle both collection and dividends of it all.

Another option might be to create economic incentives for some party to get the assessment right. Like insurance companies and banks loose either customers or revenue when getting it wrong.

Perhaps can play with some margin for speculation such that lender and borrower get to share some profit.

Or just make lenders outbid each other on who can extract most rent for the property.

I guess one concern here is to make sure the commons have a representation, so that not all land get appropriated to private use
congrats Flipper Zero team!
These were previously published on AstralCodexTen and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29493005

GameOfRent is a new site by the author to collect these and similar writings by him and others.
I am surprised automatic shifting technology doesn't exist. Wireless electronic shifters are readily available now, in addition to power meters. We have devices to shift and devices to tell us when to shift. All that is needed is to marry the two together.
I'd consider recommending something like having this person build a website for a club or hobby they have with something like Wix or Squarespace. If they're currently fairly non-technical, this is enough of a challenge that gives them something concrete to work towards and eventually show off to their friends. And while it's not necessarily programming exactly to build a website with one of these tools, the thinking and research process is in the same ballpark as you have to figure out how to solve layout problems and use search engines to research how to approach tasks. Once they have a website in place and they want to proceed further, then they have a platform in place to perhaps do something else.
I took it to this and found it even more so:

https://sliderland.blinry.org/#sin%280.25%20*%20t%2Bx%29*0.5...
I don’t get to authorize anything; I want to advise her with an informed perspective. My sister is a psychiatrist who uses her computer for facebook and MS word. I ask her advice all the time when I need to talk to my friends about sensitive subjects. There is no harm in me giving her advice on technology-related stuff.
Correct. Land "in the country" is worth zilch compared to a similar plot in a dense urban core. GP has it backwards, they're perhaps thinking of some flat tax on land based on square footage whereas LVT is based on assessed value.
It's probably a good time to get a job, because the stock package will be in terms of today's depressed stock prices.
Ask HN: How to make Windows 11 suck less?
I am a UNIX native spending more time in Windows 11 lately (from Linux and macOS).

What are your best tips to make Windows 11 suck less?

Tips be could be for installation, bloat removal, preferred apps, registry hacks, security, daily usage, etc.
It sounds like you are conflating “support staff” with “inconsequential” or low-value work. That is definitely not what the author says.

By the definitions of the article, the head of engineering at a tech company, or even the CEO, are considered support staff. Their success and failures will 100% map to the success and failures of the company.
The way lasers work is to have a material (called the "gain material") and put a bunch of energy into it. The energy, in the form of light, bounces around in the material and interacts with it, causing it to line up in very specific ways. Eventually, that light is spit out of the material, typically in a straight line, with all the wavelengths kind of lined up, in phase. An important detail related to the term "stimulated emission" is that when you pump energy into the gain medium, the normal histogram of energy populations (IE, how many molecules are in each energy bucket) is swapped- more counts in the higher energy buckets- and then they release that extra energy in the form of light.

Trying to interpret that comment, I assume they're saying that you could use algae as a gain medium, solar as the light-energy input, and the algae would eventually somehow "lase". i don't see how this could happen as algae would make a terrible gain medium, and concentrating the solar that much would progbably cause them to overheat and die. That said, "solar concentrators" do exist for algae photosynthesis: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10811-008-9324-6
basically, lenses to provide more light to algae to make it grow faster.
The Ukrainian who walked 225km to safety from Mariupol
Preact-router is more feature-complete than this one, but most of the code there is due to the more ergonomic API.
I don't believe performance related blog posts without benchmarks, and neither should you!