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The New Turning Omnibus : 66 Excersions in Computer Science by A.K. Dewdney.

Different applications of CS principles : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30912432 ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30914603

Using AR glasses with [1] to get a "math equation" to send to a 3d printer.
[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-scientists-distill-th...

Software coding is more flexible than hardware coding, just doesn't look as nice : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q
In general, folks who are asking for a small government aren't actually asking for a small government. They are asking for the government to reallocate to the things they care about and away from the things they don't.

"Small government" is just a pleasing label that is more marketable for their priorities.
With a land value tax we could at least come up with pretty straightforward equations, right? Some starting value from being in town, then add something for oceanfront property, then add something some extra bump based on distance from some set of amenities provided by the community (parks, subways, etc). It is at least possible to come up with something, unlike, what, the assessor's gut feeling about how nice your house is? This seems like it is putting much more arbitrary power in the hands of some random person.
Error 1006 – The owner of this website has banned your IP address
I dont get it. I visited this site sometime back since it had an interesting article on webscrapping. Now I try to go back to it, I get this cloudfare error stating that my (home) IP has been banned. I did NOT perform any webscraping on that site or any other site (on the internet) for the matter of fact.

I do perform webscraping on my company's intranet sites for genuine reason of pulling information and adding it to excel etc. my company runs legacy sites which are not exactly userfriendly and no one has ever complained to me in last 5-6 yrs of me pulling data internally for work purposes.

I don't understand why I have been banned from visiting a website of a company thru my home IP

edit - funny enough the site in question provides webscraping and data extraction API

more edits - grammar and more clarification
Any in-person coding exercise with a time-box (say, the standard one-hour slot) is “timed” in some sense. I don’t think we always consider it as such, but if you can’t type fast due to arthritis it could definitely be problematic.
You're oversimplifying with that statement. There are many reasons why housing is scarce, and that is only one of them.

- Existing homeowners trying to prevent denser/more housing

- Regulations and codes that make building much more expensive

- (As you noted) existing housing being wasted as an investment

and I'm sure there's much more.
It doesn't happen because of the structure of society. Capitalism efficiently allocates capital, but does not maximize citizen quality-of-life.
It resulted in you, so I can understand your disappointment.
We could, or we could not deport humans and solve housing and probably be even better off...
Undocumented immigrants provide a significant and grossly disproportionate chunk of construction labor in the United States. If you kick them out, the housing shortage only gets worse.
Baby formula producer expects delays through 2022
Ha ha. The only limit is yourself. Welcome to Zombocom.
Some people argue no compensation is required but I think in reality an LVT at 100% reduces the price of all land to $0. Given that land is substantial portion of retirement savings in our current economy, completely obliterating land prices without any compensation seems morally dubious. Perhaps if you do it slowly enough that you give everyone time to adjust and make the market adjustments gradual enough that people who need to sell land for retirement can still get something like 90% of the value initially it could work.
I only browsed for a wee bit, so take this with some salt, but it _looks_ like the framework is running a JS VM isolate alongside the Go server struct[1], which gets called with whatever script file is being rendered. Since it looks like the render files are, at least in the case of Svelte, individually compiled JS files that are SSR rendered via the V8 isolate, I _believe_ you're correct that there is no CSR (though there might still be JS-hydrated code if the Svelte component included something involving an interactive component).

I think the idea is to ingest a JS "template" and spit out the rendered HTML+JS, kind of like traditional SSR templates, but it could be possible to shoe-horn in an entire client-side router that gets initialized as a DOM object somewhere.

EDIT: I could be wrong, please correct me if so.

[1] https://github.com/rogchap/v8go
Financial freedom is supposed to cover more than just some standard "cost of living" in a given area. It should let you maintain your lifestyle without having to work for it. Maintaining the lifestyle includes keeping your spending habits, so if you have been spending 10M/year, then achieving financial freedom would mean you can keep spending that much for the rest of your life.

It's a different question how many people actually spend 10M/year - I have no data about that, but I can easily see myself spending that much if my income has been 40M/year for several years. To me personally spending that money would not necessarily mean buying some high-end luxuries. It would probably involve trying to make some changes in the world and influence things. But yes, luxuries and interesting experiences too. If you're interested in this question, try finding more information about lives of famous rich people.
Tsarist Russia/The Russian Soviet lost Finland, and Lenin acknowledged Finland's independence in 1917 before the Finnish civil war (in the hopes that the revolution would spread internationally and bring Finland and others back into the fold). So I take issue with the claim that it was the war that caused Lenin to lose Finland.

The Bolsheviks and their Red army (not the Soviets, the Soviet Union itself was not founded until 1922) supported the Reds, but the boots on the ground were Finnish both for the Reds and the Whites, with German boots being decisively added in the landing at Hanko.

The war was not a war for independence, but a war born out of the circumstances of the breakdown of Tsarist Russia, a famine, a lack of police force, and a general dissatisfaction among the working class, largely fueled by ideas from the Russian revolution of course.

>If you insist on nit-picking years, I only supplied the years of the start of the conflicts.

1941 was not the start of the conflict, it was the second in a series of two wars. The entire interbellum time was used by both sides to prepare for further conflict. It is not a nitpick to say that Finland was involved in the winter war (1939-1940) and the continuation war (1941-1944), these are the two main wars that Finland was involved in during the second world war (the third most important one being the Lapland war against Germany).

1918 was an incredibly short civil war that caused no direct losses to the Bolsheviks, except that a Red government would have been sympathetic to the USSR and possibly joined it.

On a more general note, using terms like "twisted view of history" is not a sign of a good-faith discussion, be civil.
I generally agree that the people you’re talking about are unique in how they obfuscate their intentions when they talk about this stuff. It’s always parsing slogans and decoding in-group concepts.
Azure Terrafy – Import Your Existing Azure Infrastructure into Terraform HCL
The first product every candidate experiences is the interview loop. If they have a sloppy and redundant loop, it directly impacts the quality of talent they get. People who have lots of options aren't going to put up with BS. Usually also shows they have no idea what they're looking for.

Another challenge with hiring, esp. at a startup is that many candidates who "qualify" will not be comfortable joining a startup, so you have to find both high quality and high intent people. There are some solutions that address this like https://topstartups.io/ and https://angel.co/ to some extent.

In general, there needs to be clearer signaling of preferences. Too much time wasted.
theres about 12 million illegal immigrants in the US currently.
Absolutely! The biggest advantage for most, particularly readers of HN, is described in part II (http://gameofrent.com/content/can-lvt-be-passed-on-to-tenant...): "...landlords cannot pass Land Value Tax (LVT) on to their tenants..." Renting an apartment in SF would therefore both be cheap, because the LVT encourages high-density, and tax-advantaged, especially if the LVT is (as it is supposed to be) the only tax.

The bottom line is that this idea has literally no downside.
Finding and fixing regressions in Lyft's data infrastructure
> Need to buy a house? bid 20% more than asking, if you don't - someone else will.. in cash.

Buying in cash is being done to skirt the tightened up lending standards that followed the 2008 Crisis:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/uflzht/the_2022...
I'm sorry, but can you expand on this claim? Do you believe that laws are not enforced at the border? Do the agents let anyone in or what is your believe that is happening?

Just FYI I live close to the border and go often there and it's swarming with officers, all cars are being checked even when on the US side and crossing the border is quite an ordeal even if you are a citizen forget being an immigrant.
Do you also consider the limits of working from the office? I’m thinking of things like lost productivity from open office floor plans, for instance.

I wonder how many firms arise simply to feed the ego of the people who start it? Certainly you must address this part of WFH? That fact was brought sharply into focus by the pandemic, no?
How would you fault anyone for applying some of their surplus resources to their own survival if the doodoo hits the fan? Better we don’t make the doodoo and build giant fans, but that’s a worldwide “we” and out of rational control in the near to medium term anyway.

I’m not a fan of the super-entitlement of the super-rich, and the establishment of the plutonomy and global plutarchy, but this one I get.
Here's what prompted this. Yesterday Elon saw a bunch of obvious bots[1] and asked "If Twitter can tell the difference between real and fake users, why does it allow these in our comments?"

That's a good question. Anyone have a good answer?

1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1524909413462573058
NEVER!

Jk this is coming up surprisingly often - we'll make it happen as soon as we can - if you add your name to the list we can keep you posted!
> Someone who has a resume with accomplishments means that person has a proven record of getting the job done.

This sounds good, but experience has taught me it’s just not true.

It’s so easy to claim credit for accomplishments where other people did 90% of the work. And in a big company it takes about 2 years for a bad hire to get pushed out, if they ever are.
Please don't still your car to carvana. They are destroying private party used car sales in many communities around the country.
I used to drive there all the time. I didn't know anyone had a problem with it.
Yes! We're exploring Jira, and Notion integrations mostly. We're discarding Slack for the moment because of the technical feasibility, but would be something we look further down the road.

What's your opinion about the create docs direction we're exploring to complement your Indiana Jones coding? (Love your "code archeology" term).
What sustained value? If you bought bitcoin 6 months ago you lost 50% of your money.
Considering I’m on the beta channel because I have dev account I don’t think that’s true.
The land value tax incentivizes the owner of scarce, valuable urban land to put it to good social use, such as building apartments for hundreds of people to live in. You would have to be astronomically wealthy to own two acres in a dense city and keep it solely for your own enjoyment. If you want two acres all to yourself, you can move to the countryside, where land is cheap, and one person can conceivably pay the property taxes on an engineer's salary.
I think the truth is that the American political system is structured in such a way that substantive policy change is monumentally difficult and not correlated with how angry or how vocal the citizenry is about any particular topic. Virtually everyone I know was appalled by the Snowden leaks, yet I know of no one that actually changed their vote. Or, if any candidate ran on dismantling the surveillance state got elected in the aftermath.
sci-hub comes up empty.
Do browser extensions keep anyone away from fake news sites? Maybe a tiny bit
Gonna make a guess that this is not meant to be used as a source of propulsion outside the e-bike ecosystem. To lllustrate, here in Toronto, e-bike must have pedals that can be used to actually move the bike. Electric assist must be "pedal assist" and not throttle based. My guess is that the Free Drive system is intended for that purpose.
Regardless of what you think about legal or illegal immigration, the use of the drivers license data is seems like quite a violation. The states that do this to setup all people in the states with driver's licenses so that they are:
1. meeting the minimum bar for being a safe driver.
2. driving a registered and insured car that meets the laws of the state.

This is good for citizens, I've been hit by someone driving an unregistered, uninsured car who was undocumented and it was a nightmare to deal with. I had to eat the cost of fixing my bike, and luckily I was covered by the military health insurance for my injuries or that would have been exponentially worse.

Using this data for immigration enforcement pushes drivers back to the illegal, unregistered, uninsured situation that existed before. It puts a tax on regular citizens who are following the rules.
>One particularly tricky nuance of contract law is that their must be someone with legal standing who wants the contract to be enforced

> but they were legally obligated to consider an accept a fair offer of acquisition because it would be in the best interests of the share holders.

Musk buying the company at 30% over market value seems like it would absolutely be in the best interest of the shareholders as well

> Suing Musk for wanting out would not be a sound financial move and could even result in Twitter becoming insolvent

Why not? This seems like an easy case and a huge win for shareholders. I feel like shareholders could sue Twitter into insolvency if they didn't pursue Musk for massive reparations if he flouted the contract
Over here in America be like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-wmOYelnM
David Attenborough does not make the same style of programming that Curtis does.

Curtis has a very specific world view, or world vibe, let's say whereas Attenborough does have views about the world but not much else beyond visual grandeur.

His earlier stuff is definitely better than his more recent work, but I refer specifically to the hypernormalization documentary because it's absolutely full of "Syria this", "Assad this", "[large country or company] decided to do [remarkably simple thing]". Maybe it's right, but the point is that it's structured and edited in a way where he wants to make you feel his argument that the world is being forced into a state of inaction, not convince you that his argument is correct.

In this specific documentary, he is undeniably flying extremely close to the sun in how he presents his argument versus what he is arguing against. He argument is all about the "theys" and the men in palaces, and obviously some decisions are, but some inference one makes in this mindset are simply the result of being fooled by randomness.

Don't get me wrong, I like listening to Adam Curtis docs while I'm working, I just think that he goes too far. When he is covering identifiable flaws he is absolutely brilliant, e.g. his piece on Nick Leeson is really nicely done, when he is kind of mumbling about some kind of incompetent conspiracy to do [something] he is often charismatic but shallow.

Also (a point about documentary filmmaking in general) the use of interviews is actually something I sort of disagree to an extent with unless it's a documentary like the fog of war where it's about a person in particular. It is extremely easy to manipulate interview.

This (https://youtu.be/BBwepkVurCI?t=90) is an extreme example demonstrated by Charlie Brooker, but you can be really subtle. And what if they're lying? What if you end up lying by accident? Trust but verify.

https://youtu.be/itqMwuB8gOk This is an interesting documentary about secret maps and information in Britain. I find it interesting, use my above writing as a barometer for whether that entices you or not.
So you're saying that Elon Musk made an offer to buy Twitter without knowing about the above issue

I'll say that makes him look like an amateur ..
> What if there's internal data indicating that it's closer to, like, 30%?

Pretty sure users would notice if 1/3 of all tweets are computer-generated.
How are they doing that?
Well, if you're in California and don't own a house, you move. It's not a great option if you were raised here, but a whole bunch of people can take a small pay cut (especially thinking about down equity and inflation) to move back to their hometowns right now. For me, a home (3/2, 1500sqft) in the neighborhood I'd move to in my hometown (US city; 1 mil metro area) is less than my household income, which we'll realistically keep 80+% of when we move. I'd wager a healthy segment of Bay Area mid-level, domestic-born engineers fit this profile. I'd wager that holds true in many metro areas, even those we don't consider tech hubs because it is all relative.

I wouldn't want to be a mid-level Bay Area manager in my 40's with a mortgage on the peninsula right now. Who is coming to buy that house? Who is going to train all the 22 year olds moving here?

EDIT: And I didn't even think about all the early retirees the major changes to the workplace will obviously prompt. Who wants to spend the last couple years of their career re-learning how to do a job you've done for decades and have been well-compensated for? I'd be at the beach.
IMHO a more precise way to put it is that by choosing one investment strategy vs another one implicitly makes assumptions about the market.

There's also the emotional side we are kind of neglecting here.
Talk to a Tesla zealot and this is the story: Tesla masters self-driving and their robotaxis take over global transportation leading to complete and unending dominance.

It's almost as if none of them has ever run a business or even studied history. It's best not to try to reason with them at this point. Just smile and walk away. Over time they'll figure it out.
I ordered two, and thy work great. However, note that they are not water resistant.

I took one out with a simple spill, and I now cover the ports on the working one with electrical tape. I use a usbc dust plug for the charging port.
Nobody is arguing for a literal 100% LVT. You'd want to still leave a fraction of land rent (say 10% or so) untaxed, since this introduces a desirable market mechanism in property assessment - and George even acknowledges this. What's nutty is to let land speculators capture all of that value for no real reason.
I think your facts are plausible but your terminology is wrong. The market can be elastic if either the supply or the demand is elastic, or both. You are saying that the price is not elastic but then contradicting yourself by correctly saying that supply changes change the price.
The markets are efficient but they aren’t perfect. In any situation the markets will do the best to optimize but will always fall short of perfection . Since markets aren’t perfect that’s why you can make money by speculation.
Or to but it another way, wages would rise for Americans and legal immigrants in construction, especially those who have been involved with the justice system and have a record.
I’m not intimately familiar with teslas patent strategy, but to my knowledge they aren’t enforcing any of those patents at all. Every single one of those features are present on competitor vehicles already.
another motivation is that companies don’t often want other employees knowing how much the new hire could be making, then realizing they haven’t had a raise in awhile. or that they didn’t negotiate nearly enough when they got hired.
I actually like pineapple on pizza. But not as much as I like pepperoni.
Luna Brothers, Inc
I remember kicking myself for exiting LUNA at 20 dollars early on before it blew up. As I left I kept hearing whispers and sketchy things about it.

In hindsight I’m glad I pulled out when I did.
> There's also torque converters, which are a hydraulic mechanism. This is the basis of most (non sporting) automatic transmissions.

By virtue of being the dominant automatic transmission in the US, where automatic transmission is the overwhelming majority.

In Europe, torque converters have never been much of a thing, historically because of the small engines (at the low end, and demand for control and responsiveness at the high end), and more recently for efficiency reasons.

AT has been shooting up in popularity (in parts because gearings have been getting shorter which makes manual transmissions really annoying), but mostly on the back of DCTs, even at the low end e.g. these days it's pretty common to find a 6-speed DCT on a B-segment car, and C-segments getting 7 or 8-speed DCTs (AMTs sadly still survive at the lower end of AT, but I feel CVTs are eating their bacon, especially with progressive hybridation).
> Now you can't afford the taxes, and you're forced to sell and move to somewhere with lower LVT. It's bought by someone who will put it to better use. Maybe an apartment block instead of your single family home.

> Over time, every piece of land is put to its most productive use. But before it gets there, there will be some pain for the individuals who choose (or are forced) to move because they can't afford to the improvements made to the infrastructure in their locality.

Which is why I think it makes sense that the LVT shouldn't be re-evaluated on a rolling basis. It would only be re-evaluated (or at least put into effect) when it changes owners (sale, gift, inheritance, etc). Otherwise you get bad incentives for people to vote against improvements that price them out of living where they currently are.

Corporate land ownership would likely need different rules, as the owner could theoretically be the same forever.

Over time, land is still put to it's most productive use, there is just a delay introduced that considers the human condition.
The software controlling these things is chemistry.
Why did Heroku fail?
I graduated in early 2000s, and I heard same things from CS students/graduates and self-taught developers. They all said the golden age of computer science was 60s, 70s, 80s, or early 90s when people got into computers for love of it not money. Now everyone is computers for money.

Sadly though I did meet a lot of students in my CS program who were in it for money and openly admitted they hate programming, logic, etc and cannot wait until they get a job and then move into management.
I think this is best illustrated in the pathological US need for every level of the entire infrastructure stack to be revenue positive. The recent whinging about the post office is a great example. Further, people asking "whos going to pay" for trains demonstrates the lack of complex thinking. By way of counter example: the Japanese have figured out how to value the high speed train network by how much business it enables every year as opposed to simply looking at how much it costs vs ticket revenue. This isn't, of course, to imply that somehow Japan is magically better. Just that countries like France and China who have less decrepit, more complete public infrastructure didnt get there by accident.