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The same was said in the early 2000s.

In 2008 we found out there was a massive housing bubble.
>until 2 or 3 software releases ago. Now it seems to be entirely resolved

user's comment disagrees with the title, says phantom breaking is resolved.

You: "It's worse on radar free models"

them: "It's entirely resolved"
Ask HN: Webflow Downtime?
At my new company we are using Webflow for marketing pages on our website. We set up a web monitor for our domain just to keep tabs on things, and have been seeing brief outages (1-2 minutes) for the last couple days.

Is it just us? Something about our setup? Have you seen the same?

Thanks.
The Cost of Developers (2018)
> A drawn out conflict favors Russia

Probably true. But there's no situation in which Russia ends up richer for having gone to war than had they not bothered in the first place. Which is to say, everyone has lost already. It's a tragedy for all parties -- and it's Putin's fault.
We download, install and run scripts and binaries written in a variety of languages ALL of the time. This one's in Bash - even a child can sort of check it out. It is intentionally written in Bash and the code base is small (for this kind of project), so as not to obscure much.
What does nobody living in the datacenter have to do with the price of tea in China?

In order to receive a CO in the US, an inspection has to be done to show that the build was done according to the plans on file. Part of that is a fire safety plan. You have to show max occupancy for any room in the space. That max number is determined by the size of the room, the number of egress points, the size of the doors, etc. Then the fire marshal sends a rep to insepct everything.

So just from all of that exeprience, it has nothing to do with people living there and surprised me that it is not done in a similar fashion in the EU
If you are wondering what his argument is, just don't.
Maybe there are also path-dependent constraints. We shouldn't assume Earth life has tried every existing possibility so far. Or that we would know about every path taken.
Didn't even know about this one. It is one of those 'optional' features -- the standard puts it like "Any implementation may legitimately return nil as the lambda-expression of any function." And indeed, CCL choses to do just that. SBCL seems to put in some effort to decompile the function.
I'd say it's quite likely that people would fully depress the accelerator when they meant to fully depress the brake. Especially with cars with cruise control where your foot might not already be on a pedal.

I don't think you need to reach for any more conspiratorial explanations when there's a blindingly obvious one available.

It would be interesting to see the data just before - were any pedals pressed?
(Hopefully)Most phones are locked when they are woken up.
'Recently'
This made me chuckle. I've done this a handful of times in the form of SO answers. Always a fun feeling to discover you've helped yourself somehow.
Buying an NFT is like buying a new car as soon as you sit in it the value goes down.
In fairness, there isn’t that much competition between large subdivision developers, and an even smaller number of firms that are able to navigate the gauntlet of gatekeepers in major urban areas.
Welcome to CaaS! Soon people will find themselves having to pay subscriptions to drive their own car! Crazy!
This was not improvement
This will happen in any part of the country Dalits exist. So all of it.
The oppression will be localized to that region. Like in southern states there is no ritual where a from rides a horse. So this won't happen there. But in a lot villages in Tamil Nadu Dalits are not allowed to wear footwear while crossing an upper caste St. They have to carry it on their heads. Please Google for these if they are mind boggling
Russia has had significant difficulty finding troops, and has taken various and ominous steps such as expanding the age limit of eligible soldiers, sending in their training teams, drawing troops from otherwise important geopolitical areas, and dipping into pretty much every reserve they have.

Russia has many many more people, but it has shown hesitancy to do a general conscription. People don’t want to fight in this war.
Recently I tried buying some shoes from somewhere that wasn't Amazon. My order never arrived and I never heard anything from them. To get a response I had to call their 1-800 number. "Oh yeah, it looks like that shipment has been delayed. I'm not seeing any estimated arrival date. Would you like to try ordering them in a different color?" Then I had to read my credit card number over the phone to get a refund.

Amazon has problems but in my experience their competitors are worse.
Tesla's PR department is Elon Musk and his PR team. I don't understand how people view him as an engineer, he's full of flim-flam and bluster.
Currently working at a PA one, I even get a .gov address.
Original tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/konradybcio/status/15319631309343...
This is not a constructive or informed comment.

Interest rate policy is not singularly to blame for the housing crisis, just as it wasn't in 2008.

The issue in 2008 was lack of internal enforcement at banks or by federal regulators of interest rate products.

In the case facing us today it is less to do with Fed policy, more to do with land use policies that have made housing construction literally illegal.
I will do anything possible to avoid ordering from Amazon, including paying more to buy it from someone else

previously I was a prime customer for nearly a decade, but in the space of a week I had two deliveries ruined by their terrible delivery agents (and they blamed me) and repeated harassment from a seller for posting a review that they solicited
Hardly a cross-platform solution like what the current Docker app does, with tons of moving parts which you are 1 upgrade away to breaking everything with that installation and its back to re-installing it again or wasting time digging down and trying to fix what went wrong for just one distro in the worst case.

> You may not be able to run this default image under MacOSX, although dock scripts themselves are fully compatible.

Probably developers using Windows are also unable to run this script as well. So I guess they are no better off with a 1 click install with Docker Desktop.

It seems the video I saw had more than 2 steps. If it is really a 2 steps installation then it is 50 steps back when it all breaks.
https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/05/california-housing-cr... : example..more recently as to how unions control housing supply..

[..]Anti-worker or pro-worker? Why labor unions are fighting over a housing bill

The bill, which has the support of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, would allow housing that is 100% affordable to low-income households to be built “by right” on areas now zoned for offices, retail and parking. That means skipping many city council meetings that tack on costly delays as well as the state’s premier environmental law many blame for its housing woes. Livable California, a local control group, has already dubbed it “the worst bill of 2022.”

The bill would also allow mixed-income housing, with a minimum of 15% of units affordable to low-income households for rent or 30% of units affordable to moderate-income households for sale, along commercial corridors such as strip malls.
[..]
The Carpenters and the Trades are at loggerheads over how much unionized labor developers would have to use to take advantage of the streamlining. The Trades are pushing for language requiring a certain amount of the workforce be graduates of an apprenticeship program, which effectively means union members. That’s common for public works, but unusual for residential construction. [..]

Still think ‘NIMBY’ism and Prop 13 is why we have housing shortage. California is controlled by Unions. We just live in it and pay taxes.
Considering software developers in Portugal make €2K/mo and are still able to “survive” in the cities, I’m sure you don’t need a SV salary to live well in the rural area.
>Random person: recieves a physical mail right after installing Brave.

>Brave: we are so so private and don't ever sell or use your data.

>Random person: how did you get my address then right after I literally installed Brave?

Can't you make the argument for any sort of ad? eg.

>Random person: sees a static banner ad[1] right after installing Brave.

>Brave: we are so so private and don't ever sell or use your data.

>Random person: how did you know to show me a brave ad right after I literally installed Brave?

Are you basically arguing that brave shouldn't advertise at all?

[1] static in the sense it's placed there by the publisher for all visitors, rather than through some sort of ad network
It would be less popular it Tesla had leadership that lead by example instead of dictate and if they stopped making promises they can't execute on year after year.
Apple has gotten pretty good at protecting the idevice class from Linux. There are millions of these old devices sitting on shelves unused, still in working condition, and useless.

It should not take so much effort to make our devices useful after Apple has moved on from them. There are tons of uses for a capable device after the manufacturer has abandoned the customer.

We need Right to Repair now.
Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback.
Age of Empires is far from being abstract like Chess. It is heavy on violence.
Yeah better not say anything at all. Don’t want to end up being accused of “PR bullshit”.
It sure seems like they ought to be able to, yeah. But they've been pretty spineless about Musk's repeated violations. And their actual enforcement power is pretty weak relative to Musk's wealth, which is the criticism the headline is making.
So to me it sounds like you do acknowledge the concept of underlying value. A house has utility, it is scarce, there is competition for it, ergo its value is a function of demand for the asset (aka a proxy for the utility of owning the asset). This can be extrapolated to other assets besides houses. Unclear if it can be to crypto, it’s sort of you believe or you don’t on that one. I think that’s what people mean when they say it has no underlying value.

TLDR scarcity + utility is where value comes from. Crypto really only has scarcity arguing for it. Much like collectibles actually.
Given how hard it is to convince most Americans to use prefixed metre measurements instead of inches, feet, yards and miles, I think it would be even harder to convince the world that a megametre, picometre, etc is the way to go.

Not that I don't agree (I fully do!), the ease of using multiples of 10 is way easier. But it is very difficult to introduce change to the masses, no matter how sensible it is.

The US is one of the only countries on the planet that still fully stick to the old system. And they're also one of the only countries that spell 'meter' instead of 'metre.' For everyone else in the world, 'meter' is a measuring gauge or tool, and so is everything that rhymes with 'thermometer' except for the American pronunciation of 'kilometre' that too many have adopted up here.

Likewise, adult Canadians still use pounds at the gym and their body weight, and feet/inches for their height. Young people are far more reasonable about measurements these days.

Change is hard, and seems to get really messy when everyone goes in different directions from the start.
Price is defined on the margin. Lack of forced demand from local workers will drive prices down, unless the leisure aspect of the locale outweighs the work aspect.

It's subject to debate which locales would stand to net gain/lose from WFH, but I'd pick NYC as a net loser. You gain some who enjoy the city life and amenities, but you lose more to lower COL locales.

Price will always be a factor weighed alongside amenities, even if one area is objectively nicer from an amenities perspective
Hope they won't ban cash payment.
> as a reference for how Rustaceans would achieve comparable functionality
> Ukraine is already struggling to halt the slow grinding Russian progress in the east.

This war was supposed to last 3 days. It is now day 101. Russia was supposed to take kyiv. It was entirely pushed back. It then tried to take Kharkiv, and was entirely pushed back. It’s now trying to settle for severodonestk in the east and it’s not clear that they will take it despite a very large manpower advantage in that area. Meanwhile their control of southern areas like Kherson is beginning to falter.

Already struggling to halt progress in the east seems like a wildly misleading claim. Significant advances have been completely repelled.
Poorly. Quantity may be a quality all it's own, but that quality is poor. There is a lot of music that is not on Spotify, while other music is there but only inferior versions.
> she'd find a hackable Linux device much less useful.

No she wouldn't. You're not forced to install linux on a linux-capable device.
Ah yes, introduce rules and people bend them to meet their targets.
Man, I don't know... I joined a startup last year thinking that, but then found they were way more into process, Jira, estimation, etc. Plus a bunch of tech debt from the CTO's MVP and "don't touch it".
I would just call it "destructors". It's a little imprecise because some GC languages also have destructors, but arguably they shouldn't.
Yeah, and one called `[[nodiscard]]` in C++17 as well.
It's a little presumptuous to come in and say "I don't believe this, change my mind." I don't think anybody is going to bother to, frankly. You ought to put in a slight amount of effort and give some modicum of evidence.
A good example would be curlie (go frontend for curl - https://github.com/rs/curlie) vs httpie (pure python - https://github.com/httpie/httpie). Originally I used httpie for its easier syntax, but it is very noticeably slower than curlie. I presume this is why they are asking for a rust version.

Another reason is that python is a bit harder to distribute due to the nature of python packaging, where as rust compiles to a single binary.
Russia has also suffered massive casualties amongst its officer corps and is expected to barely be able to recover from this.
Remove “combine” and make it “or”

I assume footer here means fixed position footer. The normal footer or “tags near end of document” is fine by me.
A robust electricity grid needs a variety of energy sources, wind and solar are great until it isn’t windy or sunny for a week. Are week long outages acceptable to you? Not to me. It is not inconceivable that a weather system results in calm weather with clouds for an extended period of time.

So other energy sources are necessary. Nuclear is another practical low carbon energy source and it is worth considering as part of the energy mix. There are many nuclear plants operating and under construction in the world. That they are uneconomic in some countries speaks more to those countries than to nuclear.
Why would having them just be library functions make it better? (I don’t disagree, just curious what you’re thinking.) The actual differences between pipeable programs and library functions might be hard to pin down concretely. Btw do you use unix & pipes a lot, or not much?

Here are a few thoughts, maybe helpful or maybe not. Part of the beauty of pipes and simple lego-brick programs is the complete integration with the operating system, and more specifically the file system. Being able not just to write your state to a file, but furthermore having that be the default mode of operation is pretty powerful, especially combined with special files. Writing to a file in a scripting language that’s not a shell is usually easy, but not the default, and would be cumbersome to do at every step. Part of do one thing well is to keep the shell DRY - don’t add sorting or searching or filtering functionality to another program if you can already use grep or sort or sed. Done right, this helps people stay fluent with a small number of tools. Another implicit benefit of the unix philosophy that wasn’t mentioned here, but does go hand-in-hand with pipes and small-good tools, is the idea to process and work with human readable text files.

One way to look at unix beauty is to do some command line data analysis. I like the general philosophy of data exploring with piped commands for one-off and small projects. Sometimes more focused tools are needed, but most of the time perhaps you can get away with unix tools. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ad_Hoc_Data_Analysis_From_The_...
“Florian”, the DVD Burning Robot (2008)
Wasn't most of the Amazon issue on fake items related to the UPC barcode issue they ran into with books? I recall they only stored the UPC code of items and pulled from their own stock or resellers (who had fake copies with the same code).
Given that EDDM is an official offering from USPS, and that USPS is a government agency, it's reasonable to conclude that this activity is state sanctioned. In that case what permission do they need to ask for?
>>Russia has failed to achieve most of its objectives in Ukraine because...

>The opening comment makes its seem like this is now all in the past. I think its a bit early to comment on how much Russia achieves here - this is very much WIP with a lot dependent on the solidarity in the West and the reaction of the populations to the cost of the war and the war effort as it drags on.

Essentially, the manner in which Russia will have to prosecute to the military side of the war to 'win' their military objectives, will make the political objectives that were the reason for the war in the first place, unachievable.

In the first few days of the war it was possible to imagine Russia achieving those political objectives. Ukraine might have given up the capital immediately. Huge parts of the country might have decided they preferred to join Russia. Europe might have decided not to respond. But it soon became apparent that those assumptions were wildly off. Any victory now will, at best, include absolutely massive quantities of troops perpetually kept in Ukraine at an incredible cost of resources and lives over future years.
Just flag it. The meta inadvertently helps make it a worse thread on top of a bad post.
Russia made its objectives very clear, and then changed them when they failed to manifest. It’s very fair to say they failed to achieve their goals. They’re now shooting for much milder goals.
Ah, I see your assumption. I don't listen to announcers ;P

Also, I tend to watch very very little American sports. I'm pretty much a die hard English Football fan, and their stadiums have much more interesting names as well as some fun nicknames. The stadiums with corp names tend to be new money/onwers to the clubs. ManCity's Etihad (Emptyhad) comes to mind. Otherwise, "Stampford" Bridge, Old Trafford, Anfield, Goodison Park, St James' Park, Loftus Road, Stadium of Light, any and all much better than Corp$$OfTheSeason.

I am very conveniently ignoring the corp$$ on the jerseys. It doesn't fit my narrative here =)
Due to rampant wash trading in NFTs, it's very possible the seller and buyer in that last transaction were the same person, meaning it isn't a good way to estimate the next transaction.
Emotional investment is a powerful thing!
Show HN: Whattocook.org
Do you have more info about the $100/month to keep a business there? Is that a third-party service or is it an official fee to keep a company on the register?
There's another side to the coin that I think you're, understandably, overlooking. I don't think either side alone is the full story. It's a big grey ball of tradeoffs, no matter how it all falls.

Even with just your own description of your activities you can find perverse incentives and negative externalities.

You aren't exactly incentivized to just create content that satisfies common queries. More fully, you're incentivized to create content that makes people think (rightly or wrongly) their query is being answered while also marketing your goods/services to them as much as possible.

Even assuming the best intentions to actually answer the query - be it altruism, discerning searchers, fear of Google, or something else - the content itself is hardly unbiased. This isn't inherently some kind of moral failure on your part, but it's hardly negligible either for the searcher. Everybody is going to have different thresholds here for what crosses the line, but I think it's understandable that some people are just unhappy having to even put in the time and energy to disentangle this aspect in the first place.

And this dovetails into one of the obvious externalities. Who is doing SEO, and who isn't? That totally unaffiliated small-time blogger that just happened to write up a bit of info after having the same problem as you probably isn't doing a whole lot of SEO. At least, they aren't hiring you to help increase their hosting costs. Somebody trying to find less biased views ends up having to wade through all the sites making enough money to pay for SEO first, to actually find what they're looking for. It should be pretty obvious why that does no favors for SEO's reputation.

But as I said at the beginning, you're not wrong either. This stuff goes deep into 'small' questions like profit-motives and competition for limited resources. Obviously and trivially correct answers aren't here.

I really do appreciate that you're approaching this from the much better intentioned side of things. One of the few things that might be obviously correct is that your approach is better than the sleezy way.

But that doesn't make it all rainbows and sunshine either.
It is my understanding that Teslas have regenerative braking. Are you sure that the brake pedal is physically connected to a hydraulic cylinder?
check your modem
The population, level of urbanization, and amount of information were all far less back then. It would be a lot harder for two parties to completely control an 8000 member congress or gerrymander that many districts.
Discussed at the time, 282 comment thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17237792
> I wonder if the majority of people buying these software/packages at the time found the idea strange, too.

Not at all. Pretty much all software at the time was commercial or, at most, shareware. Pre-web, selling binaries to people to run on their computers was just how one made money as a software developer.

That professional tools in particular were fairly expensive software packages (CodeWarrior, a few years later, was several hundred dollars. Power C was dirt cheap at $20) seemed completely normal. A carpenter isn’t handed a full workshop worth of saws and chisels gratis, after all. If I wanted to be paid to make software, just as obviously the professionals who made the compiler did, too.

(it’s really difficult to convey how incredibly good all of the documentation and examples that came with some of these products were, too. Think C (back when symantec sold compilers and wasn’t a fourth-rate antivirus vendor) came with thousands of pages of physical manuals teaching you everything from the fundamentals of programming to exhaustively documenting their libraries, with wall charts of class hierarchies etc. Pre-internet this stuff was worth it’s weight in gold)
It seems conceivable that the vendor doesn't have the address/name list, but USPS.
Outlet mall retail.

The Nike or Polo clothing sold there isn't overstock. It's legitimately lower quality items sold at a cheaper price. They're intended to attract price conscious consumers that like the brand.
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Agreed. I bought the same item twice from the same seller, and both times a packing label was created but the item was never shipped. I couldn’t leave feedback because it was a shipping issue.
It is just a sentiment proxy, but it is correlated to GDP per capita.