skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They totally can. Go to any marketplace and see for yourself: sellers set prices. Buyers can negotiate, accept or refuse, but the seller setting the price (ask) is completely unilateral and happens billions of time every day.

There is some subtlety about talking about prices conceptually. Both sellers and buyers can make an offer or a bid at any price, but market prices are the result of sellers and buyers meeting - about making the actual exchange.

In this context, saying "sets prices" would mean that the buyer takes the price, not that the seller has made a listing at an arbitrary number. Offering 1$ for a car and not buying a car is not setting a price - neither is Asking 1000000$ and not getting an offer.

Rent prices are paid at all because there is a benefit to the land. If the Ask for the land is higher than the value, it will meet demand and validate the price.

> If this theory had been correct than raising taxes on businesses would not result in the increase of consumer prices.

Thats not true - economic incidence requires evaluation in a case by case basis. It depends on the relative market strength or demand/supply elasticity. For example, a tax on life saving medication is borne by the consumer, but a tax on skittles is born on the skittles manufacturer (as consumers replace skittles with other candy).

The point is that the economic incidence on unimproved land is very much against the landlord - he can't do anything with the unimproved land but rent it.

For longer, wider and more interesting historical analysis of LVT I recommend reading from source - Henry George and Provery and Progress, a book denouncing homelessness and land speculation in...San Francisco, 100 years ago.
> No doctor actually writes a script for it; they just say "hey try this for your pain."

Author here.

I don't mind criticisms of my essay, but that is factually incorrect. Doctors do in fact write prescription for over the counter ibuprofen in the United States and often do so as a remedial solution to various ailments, which may or may not benefit from pain relief.
Here are two philosophy books that makes more than just surface-level connections with computer science that I’ve found so far, if anyone’s interested:

- Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/intelligence-and-spirit)

- Yuk Hui, Recursivity and Contingency (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786600523/Recursivity-and-Contin...)
Sanctions and Strategic Bombing
"Industry are against it since it will add significant cost and regulatory problems, and with the UK already struggling under Brexit importation issues, it would be very self-destructive."

That isn't the case is it. Lots of people with vested interests say there are issues, but it turns out they just want government to ease the path for their operations and bring in lots of immigrant lorry drivers so they don't have to pay a proper wage. Pandering to exporters and big business is why Brexit happened in the first place.

There is no reason for the EU directive and it should be scrapped. The market can then decide what weights and measures are appropriate for their supply chain. That allows an increase in competition which is always a good idea.

Very likely little will change other than milk will return to just being in pints, beer will have a pint label on it and we can sell things to the USA in the measures the USA uses, while potentially avoiding the relabelling required for US imports.

The UK import mechanism is entirely under the UK's control. If it is onerous then now we are out of the EU we can streamline it. Given our very strong consumer laws we don't need the 'hard shell' approach so beloved by the EU. The extensive liability of the retailer will ensure standards are maintained via back pressure in the supply chain.

There has never been a single suggestion by government that imperial measures will be required. Just that their use won't be banned as the primary measure - as it is now.
I've been using Spark for years and love it. Snoozing is great though it is not an exclusive feature any more. I believe there are some privacy concerns with Spark but I'm very happy with it overall.
The Commodore 64 manual literally taught people how to program -- it was as important as the machine itself.
This raises an interesting question. Presumably you are referring to search results on a browser where JS/Ecmascript is disabled.

Another interesting place where Ecmascript comes into play is the pages that have been scraped. One difference between search engines is how they handle SPAs, and 100% Ecmascript rendered pages from frameworks like React.

I wonder if they execute JS in order to build good search results from pages that are React style SPAs.
Not really. Again you have to look at unit economics. Do you think a taxi company can book a higher profit on a single ride using human dispatchers and radios than say a Go application (what Uber is essentially) and automated routing and an iOS/Android app? I doubt it, plus if the taxi company is to handle more rides they have to get and pay more dispatchers, whereas Uber's software more or less scales for fraction of a penny per extra ride.

If Uber is losing money it's because they are willfully pouring money into unrelated things not part of the unit economics of fulfilling rides (such as R&D into self-driving cars, upgrades to their tech stack or infrastructure, new feature development, etc). Part of raising money means you have to spend it, and actually booking losses is a great tax minimization strategy as well. Better to give out rider and customer incentives and lose money that way than losing it by giving it to Uncle Sam.
Anti-aging effects in mice*
With the open source app xDrip, any Android watch has been able to act as a collector since G4 days already. With AndroidAPS you can even dose insulin directly from the watch.
> So if you charge the tenant the tax, prices will fall by $2000 making the landlords absorb the cost. If you charge the landlord the tax both the supply and demand curves are unchanged and the tenants pay the same.

Beautifully correct. Can you imagine peddling in politics a tax on renters claiming it is in their benefit?
I've been experimenting with Rust for web apps instead of Go, so I haven't used it in anger yet, and have started working on a blog post to get my thoughts straight. My experiments are for web apps that focus on server side rendering with just a little javascript through HTMX and AlpineJS.

The main thing I'm finding an issue with Rust so far are things that I could find packages for in Go. The main one is having an oidc helper library that can take various oidc services (github, twitter, etc), and provide me a standardised 'account'.

Apart from that, I'm finding the experience nicer overall. Examples:

* I have better/easier control over errors in ways that don't clutter up the readability of my handlers. I can easily define global rules about how errors from different systems (database, IO, etc) should be returned to the client.

* Compile time checks for things that would fail at runtime in Go, and therefore require more extensive tests base to catch when refactoring --sqlx and askama are examples enabling this (askama is particularly nice for this -- more work to get things to the stage of compiling)

* When it finally compiles, it usually just works, due to aforementioned fewer ways for failure at runtime

* Can express/encode some functionality much more succinctly than Go

* Macros for auto-generating code (though I haven't needed this in Rust yet), where with Go I'd make a small external tool for auto generating code. I use generated code a lot in Go, and even with the new 1.18 release, I see that continuing.

With more time for the ecosystem to grow, I can see Rust being just as useful. Apart from the ecosystem and the nice fact that you don't need .await's in Go, I can see Rust being really good for this sort of thing.
dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)
>From poorly shoehorned diatribes about sexism in second-rate Vox articles

This got really bad during the Trump presidency. One could be reading the least "political" article imaginable, and suddenly see something condemnatory about Trump that smugly assumes that everyone reading surely agrees. Nowhere was safe: Film reviews, book reviews, articles about cooking, travelogues, minor human-interest stories, you name it.

>Of course, there’s another thing that’s tiring, which is having to constantly reassure everyone that I am still very liberal even though I critique left-leaning folks.

During the aforementioned Trump years I thought at times about creating /r/ihatetrumpbut, a collection of articles/posts/comments in which the author felt the need to declaim "I hate Trump, but [something Trump/US government did may not necessarily be 100% fascist/evil/a bad idea]". Hey, maybe I'll get more motivation to pull the trigger in November 2024!
I don't think the flesh of farmed salmon is actually soaked in dye. Rather, farmers use an additive in the food pellets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astaxanthin Note that astaxanthin is also what colors the flesh of wild salmon, they just consume it naturally. https://wildalaskancompany.com/blog/heres-why-salmon-are-pin...
Well, you know that customary imperial fractional units work a lot better with IEEE754 math than metric fractional units…
I can’t speak to the market, the volatility, etc, but have noticed a definite increase in the number of tech people openly talking about their skepticism. They invoke the effects on climate, the limited real-world uses of blockchain outside of crypto since it’s beginnings decades ago, grifters, etc.
It surprises me that even after all of tha you still consider using autopilot and seem to have accepted the phantom braking as a way of life.
Building a World’s Fair: A Closer Look
> Available for purchase in the U.S. only

Whoops
> People can be wary of these bolts-included/on-rails solutions because there is typically hell to be paid as soon as you venture slightly off of the rails

This is so very often the case, and you often can't tell in advance before you use the framework or library or whatever. You just have to use it, and get to a certain point of maturity in your project before you discover these limits.
>unlike pundits predicting the future

Isn't your example pundits predicting the future? So why are hashes useful to those pundits in your example?
...and our hospitals, and our police, and our schools, and our military, and...

The problems may run deeper than initially thought.
Would the OS keep it loaded if it also played sound?
The article does mention closed loop systems.

> That's what Beta Bionics, amongst others, are focusing on. Their iLet® system literally bills itself as "a fully automated bionic pancreas".
This is a disingenuous comment.

I just Googled the Kerrygold thing. A single person sued, making claims. Suit dismissed by judge four years ago.
If your analysis is correct, then the only honest thing the CEO could do would be to shut the service down. And that obviously isn't going to happen: no one shutters a profitable company over the trivial inconvenience that its core product doesn't work, and the actual stakeholders have obvious incentives to convince themselves that it DOES work.

If you are unwilling to sell something useless, then your best bet unfortunately is to quit.
If only there were some local energy source that you could install on enormous amounts of super-flat land whose output peaks when the sun is brightest and air conditioning usage is at its maximum...
I pay for Superman (well my company pays for it).

Their 1:1 onboarding was got me hooked. I use Superman everyday multiple times a day.

It’s a pretty amazing piece of product. Their focus on UX speed is impeccable.

I legit loathe using gmail interface even though Superhuman is an extension of gmail data and api capabilities.
Interesting, so maybe I should have used a different prefix. Weird design.
It's available in dense cities of the Paris areas at least, probably in other big cities. The providers are Free (offer "Box Delta") and SFR (offer "Box 8x").

The two others, Orange and Bouygues, offer "only" 2Gbps max.
From Wikipedia:

> Also in 1958, Rexall employee Joe Coulombe was asked to test the launch of Pronto Markets, a store brand to compete against 7-Eleven. After running six Pronto Markets in the Los Angeles area, Rexall asked Coulombe to close them down. Coulombe decided to buy them out instead, and eventually renamed the chain "Trader Joe's".

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexall#Growth)
> Ideology is any belief system where the fundamental ideas are defended with insults, censorship, and threats

That’s a very _ideological_ definition of ideology.

Ideology is any system of ideas or beliefs, period. That goes for the good ones as well as the bad.

Your description is just defining “someone else’s ideology”. Obviously you wouldn’t defend your own ideology with insults, censorship and threats.
It looks like really nice hardware. Two sodimms. Bright display. Personally I love love love having a nub pointer. If a workplace gave me an option, I'd pick this in under a heartbeat over the traditional Macbook. Especially given that the modern Macbook can't fruggin run linux, like a frump.
It's happening, see https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-async . Everyone is aware that current async support in Rust is very much at "MVP" status.
Thanks for the data on pilot compensation.

So it doesn’t come anywhere close to software compensation: https://www.levels.fyi/2021/
Manufacturers need to produce laptops with 4k display if they are willing to compete with Macs... And also a decent touch pad and battery.
This is a good question:

> Horvath used four different epigenetic clocks to assess each patient’s biological age, and he found significant reversal for each trial participant in all of the tests.

Presumably the "epigenetic clocks" are correlated with age, but it's not clear if changes to the epigenetic clocks causes aging, or aging causes changes to the epigenetic clocks. (Maybe it's both?) Is this like overhauling the engine in an old car to make it function like new, or is it more like rolling back the odometer to make it seem new?
Here is a nice nostalgic video about them:

"Howard Johnson Restaurants - Life in America"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbNvT0vxrzM
:)
Are you thinking of ips4o (sample sort)? That's about 2-3x std::sort. There's also a pending patch to std::sort that replaces it with BlockQuicksort which would narrow that gap.

We integrate vqsort into ips4o, calling it once subarrays fit in L2. That speeds up ips4o by 2.9x (single thread) and 1.6 (parallel - bandwidth limited). More details in the paper.

I previously also worked on radix sort: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2849
Interestingly, that 12 year old result on dual-socket/8 cores is only about twice as fast as a single AVX-512 core today.
The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World (1920)
Yeah, that whole keyboard and trackpad setup feels like no real thought was put in to it to make it a "developer" machine.

* Arrow keys not inverted-T

* No physical trackpad click buttons below the pad

* No middle-click button for the trackpoint

* F1-F12 keys not in groups of four

* Weird column of home/pgup/pgdn/end buttons

* Power button as a keyboard key directly above the backspace

* No Fn-tenkey

Just another macbook clone. Sigh.
Inflation. Remember inflation. I'm old enough (and from a non-wealthy enough place) to think 6 figures was basically superwealthy. Part of me still feels like I make more money than could be imaginable. Another part of me thinks- you are so so underpaid.

Honestly I think it's smart to pay huge paychecks to out of college grads. Incentivize them. "Manage consulting"? Yeah, sounds like bullshit, especially from a group of people largely defined by having no life nor practical experience. But heck yes, pay the promising ones money, and find out. Many of the long experienced folk in any position are going to draw huge salaries simply for "experience" while only semi-covertly being more jaded, having endured more being broken in by a useless impotent system that can't manage them or put them to good use- get fresh people, throw them into shit, hope they don't know any better & don't see all the constraints & difficulty. Heck yeah. Very avante-garde.
Interesting. Personally, I was thinking what "Dev" would be okay with only Full HD (on a 14" Laptop) in 2022.

Edit: I should have been more clear, I am not confused about the estate (which seems fine for 14") but about the lack of higher DPI.
Yes, many people deployed a lot in OVH. Their reputation wasn’t perfect but much better before the fire (and the loss of the managed backups drama). They were also big before AWS or Azure arrived in Europe.
And by the corner you mean the one we already turned down several blocks ago.
I guess what bugs me about this is that to me, if you're ordering "white tuna", escolar is the thing you want, not albacore. Albacore belongs in a can. It's not "counterfeit" so much as oddly-named.
Thanks for sharing this. I installed and read their site a couple times - I'm having trouble figuring out what it does outside of simplify the design.
From "Discover and Prevent Linux Kernel Zero-Day Exploit Using Formal Verification" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30194993 :

> Can there still be side channel attacks in formally verified systems? Can e.g. TLA+ help with that at all?

Side-channel attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-channel_attack
Don't Drive Away Your Developers: IT Processes to Defeat Burnout
Yes, I too favor

* Privatized postal services

* Zero governmental services/benefits for illegal aliens (certainly no driver's licenses or working papers)

* Point-based immigration policies, as opposed to family reunification and "diversity" visas

* No "affirmative action" programs

* Significantly stricter abortion windows than what Roe v. Wade imposed nationwide in the US
I can the recommend recent interview with him on the The Knowledge Project podcast. Had a lot of aha-moments listening to that.
I agree, we need to adapt to a world increasingly powered by AI. Trying to stop or ban AI is just putting off planning how to adapt, and will make the world worse, not better. Also, an AI ban would likely be implemented unevenly around the world, leading some countries to have a significant advantage.

I see AI as a new tool and an advantage for humanity in general. Work to negate how the tool can be used as a disadvantage, as with every new or evolving technology.
Uber lost 1.3 billion last quarter not including its outside investments

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/business/uber-earnings-re...

It’s only “approaching” cash flow break even and that’s after diluting existing shareholders by offering stock based compensations. Most profitable companies would institute share buybacks to counteract dilution.

You don’t spend more money than you make to avoid taxes. These aren’t accounting losses.

This doesn’t even take into account that there cost for drivers are going to go up as more legislators start insisting on them giving drivers benefits.
Sorry, 1000 nit display? Really? That's sunlight-readable, right?
>Like your railing on frozen food. You realize frozen food is far fresher and less likely to have “chemicals” or whatever is your choice enemy right?

I think you're making stuff up here.
I don't really know what you mean by serverside HTML generation crate. HTML is just HTML. What I usually need is some templating system, and that can be used to produce HTML, SQL, or whatever else I want.

Use askama or tera, for example. Here's an example of using askama with axum: https://github.com/djc/askama/tree/main/askama_axum

If you mean something more significant, like what an ORM/query builder is to SQL, then I haven't really had a need for such a thing myself. It's far more likely to get in my way when I stray past common scenarios.
if your GC eats 70% is your clock cycles, your language has a broken GC. in modern Java/C#, GC time is rarely more than 10%
I really don't care about 4k on a small screen.
> It should be retired.

Cultural appropriation if I ever heard it. What about retiring Anglo-Saxons while at it?
Coffee drinkers may be at lower risk of early death
The thing is - when you get rid of gas stoves you can get rid of almost all other gas appliances. That’s literally the only thing keeping gas in most homes in the USA and continued in new construction.

When you add in gas water heaters, heating, etc. then gas becomes a more significant contributor to GHG. Whereas switching all of those with heatpumps and induction cuts off the gas lobby from fucking with everyone.

Best way to get gas lobby to stop winning? Get rid of gas stoves. Climate Town has a good video on this subject. https://youtu.be/hX2aZUav-54
Can you explain what ahrefs have done wrong prior to this? Not challenging it, but not aware of anything.
Many or even most. I find that HN is really not representative in this matter.
Here's another: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220601111749.h...

"They found that the animals grouped together by molecular trees lived more closely together geographically than the animals grouped using the morphological trees."
https://twitter.com/Butterrespecter/status/15327644046175559...
The article mentions pomegranate as a "super food".. something I've long wondered if these super foods are only "super" because at the time of discovery a lot of them are grown naturally and not commercially min/maxed for yield at the expense of nutrient panel etc.
you've missed the memo. porn is good now. all detractors are literally nazis

I'm not joking
Anton Petrov did a nice video on the subject also: https://youtu.be/tWq3IrO9K3U
First the SEO industry owned google for these question searches, and then Google realized that just making them work was easier than trying to change human behavior.
> So lets say the tech companies start requiring every Indian looking person to self identify their caste

This is a straw man to represent fighting caste bias. Clearly, asking folks to self-identify their caste and somehow creating a list of low-caste folks is not going to be very productive. This is like that scene in "The Office" where Michael Scott makes a "do not mock" list which turns into a "do mock" list.

Ideally what we're looking for is a setup wherein, given the situation that someone who is low-caste is working with a lot of high-caste individuals and files a report about caste discrimination, that this is taken seriously and that a procedure exists to prevent retaliation / yields outcomes that protect the victim.

It's not that different from general discrimination right? How do you prove someone is racist or sexist? There are just different markers, and different lines that can be crossed. If a male coworker gives unwanted contact e.g. touches a female coworker's thigh, that's crossing a line; even if it's not easy to prove that it happened, you would hope that your workplace would know how to react to this & help your female coworkers to achieve psychological safety. Folks suffering from caste-discrimination deserve the same.

Solving all of these problems is clearly not easy. We don't have to come up with the solutions in internet comments, but there are very big, very obvious problems with discrimination in the workplace and to date it generally sucks to be on the victim side of it. You can't just say "nobody suffers from this because caste is hard for _me_ to personally understand or find, and I haven't _personally_ seen it." You don't work at every company, and you don't have to in order to understand that Indian representation is higher at various companies, and some people do care about this and do wrongly mistreat those they view as inferior to them. Why can't you just say you agree that this is wrong, understand that some folks are saying it happened to them, and leave it at that?