skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mind not blown. I agree with that and argue the point with people all the time. At the bottom of all the govt regs and laws is a gun. It seems like an obvious point to me but some people struggle with it.

In my view the govt necessarily has a monopoly on the use of force which is unavoidable. The important part of the "social contract" is when is it valid for the govt to use that force. The US Constitution originally laid out when the use of that force was moral. Using force to extract tax payment from property owners is not on that list and turns the govt into criminals operating under the color of the law which is terrible situation.
I’m excited to see how Apple passive aggressively implements these changes.
I experienced VAT in Europe for some years and it is an overly complex sales tax. Simply have a sales tax which excludes uncooked food at grocery stores and excludes tax on some reasonably small amount of household energy each month. Then delete other taxes.
Good question! We don't currently consider payroll a carbon emitting activity. Generally we think of salary as paying exclusively for human-hours.

In contrast, if your company paid for your metro card or reimbursed for mileage or gas on your commute, we would estimate the carbon intensity for those expenses.
BTW these hardware glue logic is often done with e.g. TI LittleLogic series (i.e. 74LVC1/2Gxx) where you can use a tiny package for a tiny function otherwise not integrated into big chips.
To your point - White steers the game. People only go for wins with Black when forced to. So I don't see how that changes anything?
Check out Artbreeder, it is likewise a ton of fun!

Multimodal.art (https://multimodal.art/) is working on a free version of something like DALLE, though it's not that good as of yet.
Planting trees is not a serious solution to gun violence or mass transit safety.

The correlation between increased, properly-utilized police presence and a decrease in crime is one of the most well-researched, replicable, and best-understood conclusions of social science.
"in a way" -- the region in question is northern New Hampshire.

on balance, the housing price appreciation, and therefore tax burden, on "these people" is functionally entirely due to external macroeconomic factors, which you can clearly see on the Zillow Housing price index by typing in "New Hampshire" or any relevant zip code: https://www.zillow.com/home-values/

The average NH home increased $7k-$10k in value per year linearly for the last 10 years!

Then it increased $25k Jan '20 -> Jan '21.

Then it increased *$53k* Jan '21 -> Jan '22.

10 years worth of price appreciation, and therefore tax appreciation, occurred in a 2 year window.

I understand many people have a pet housing policy issue they care about, but trying to attribute this step-function change in tax burden to "New Hampshire zoning laws" and "these people" as opposed to the massive increase in demand caused by Covid urban flight/WFH & relaxed monetary policy is completely unreasonable.
> People solve the problem for you, but you have to watch and listen.

I love this. It reminds me of my favorite saying about design: “People don’t design ships. The ocean designs ships.”

At work I try always to say “human” rather than “user,” for just the reasons you state. Like you, I think I’ve done my best work when I’ve been able to remove myself from the equation. It’s one reason I like building software that I’ll never use myself — it keeps reminding me that I’m not my customer.
If they don't use DoT/DoH, you can try redirecting traffic for 8.8.8.8:53 to your own DNS server with one or two firewall rules. If they're actually securing the connection that won't work, though.
The comparation is great: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/all-remo...
"Everyone you meet is in the middle of fighting a battle. So always be kind."
As someone who doesn't speak French natively, I feel like its overly similar sounds make it much more difficult to pick up than Spanish where sounds are more explicit from the letters.

Computer languages are read with the eyes (usually also with color coding) so they don't need those little helpers as much to make them consumable.
Yeah, I checked the date after seeing a lack of flakes and sure enough: 2018.

If you are new to nix I 100% recommend starting with flakes. It simplifies so much for a newbie, e.g. no management of NIX_PATH and simple upgrades (`sudo nix upgrade-nix`). It also enables essentially single-line machine bootstrap on a new box even if you use home-manager.
It sounds peculiar that some places would have requirements for bells and fenders in order for a bike to be "street legal"; this strikes me as more of a quaint historical holdover than anything else. Some cyclists might be more comfortable with ringing their bell a than raising their voice if they need to urgently signal the attention of another road user, but a requirement for a bell on any bike is mystifying to me. Likewise fenders; cycling on wet roads can cause dirty water to be sprayed onto a vehicle that is driving close behind a cyclist, but people don't tend to cycle on road bikes in wet weather in the first place (unless their bike has been adapted), and people should maintain a safe stopping distance, especially in wet conditions. But the use of lights when cycling at night is a perfectly reasonable legal requirement (more or less universal in my experience), and perfectly effective temporary lights can be easily attached to road bikes if necessary.
2. This is the term if you want to find more results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence

Employers pay taxes + net wages and employees only receive net wages no matter who the government says is paying a tax; it should mostly be shared based on price elasticity

Although most people don't understand that well, which likely affects behavior irrationally:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2017/11/15/economists...

Another consideration is that wages are sticky, so while tax burden might be shared more based on price elasticity for new offers, new taxes probably would actually fall upon the side the government says (since employers are unlikely to adjust pay up/down for existing employees just because one side has to pay more taxes)
Well, the mainstream media certainly has not exaggerated the adverse events. If you know something is definitely not exaggerated, the distribution falls between “perfectly accurate” and “downplayed”. My money is on some level of “downplayed” being correct.
I have a 2017 Toyota and never has that problem. Though for awhile I did have an issue where audible kept starting randomly but it seems to have fixed itself.
I saw a list of companies that paid the same regardless of location. There were even a few bay area companies that didn't cut your pay when you moved away, I wish I had that handy.
Sorry this was annoying and messy for you, but I look at many other countries and on balance this doesn't sound too bad, and certainly not "broken or incompetent" as if the US was on the verge of collapse because of things like this.

If anything, this sounds like a system working, and you doing a bit of whining. Yeah, there's political game playing, that's called the price of localism and democracy.
Again, why? What bad thing could Comcast do to you? I know they're like a regional semi-monopoly, but they don't control anything else in your internet life.

Who knows if some 'suspicious' DNS queries sent to Google will accidentally set off some tripwire that causes them to lock you out of half the internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30771057
Am enjoying coffee by the creek right now. It's awesome, but to each his/her own.
for those of us rural folk, why do big cities need brokers?
My mom's Subaru... has that god awful 15 inch monitor in the middle of the dash. Every time a phone call comes in, the music starts playing WHILE ON THE PHONE CALL.

And I thought, wow, this huge-ass monitor will be awesome for Android Auto and CarPlay. NOPE, only like 1/3 of the screen gets used for CarPlay. This little tiny 7 inch section of the screen. Total joke these infotainment systems are. Give me back my goddamn double-din hole in the dashboard!
If I were Apple - the way I would have gone about it was to sell an open developer phone that supported changing the defaults, etc.

That way when the inevitable "Apple has been hacked and is no better than Android" media driven hit pieces come out - Apple can highlight that this is happening on the open developer phone meant for the fringe consumers, not the safe walled garden that most of us normal, non bleeding edge consumers have in our pocket.

And us folks who just want a phone that works can sigh in relief versus having to read a 1000 word article only to find its because some guy went through several hoops to install some obvious malware.
Sure, but being able to do the same thing at 100,000x the scale for the same price seems like a pretty big difference. Throw in the ability to target narrow constituencies with custom messages via modern ad networks, automation-assisted astroturfing, et c., and the whole thing looks like a powderkeg to me.
Even if you imitate someone's style intentionally, they don't have grounds to sue. Style isn't copyrightable in the US. Whether DALL-E outputs are a derivative work is a different question, though
Assuming BlackBerry's annual sales were trending up YoY prior to the start of the graph in this article [1] (IMO a safe assumption), then Apple sold more iPods [2] than Blackberry every year starting at least by 2004, 3 years before the first iPhone. They were never a "tiny company" in comparison to BlackBerry.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-phone-sales-decli...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_quart...
I just tried it out and it looks like DALL-E isn't as inept as you imagined. Exact query used was 'A profile photo of a male south korean CEO', and it spat out 4 very believable korean business dudes.

Supplying the race and sex information seems to prevent new keywords from being injected. I see no problem with the system generating female CEOs when the gender information is omitted, unless you think there are?
Uh, if you actually read the page you linked to it sounds like actual progress? Popular with patients and nurses, increased Breast feeding, cost effective using a standard mass-produced object…
Created an account to say: citation needed.

Giants can afford to skimp on any single customer relationship. Go read Amazon reviews, etc...

The one-person show with only continental shipping taking PayPal payments for their hobby business absolutely cannot afford to screw over 10% of their customer base. PayPal (or any other provider) has no patience, and anecdotally will always side with the customer.

And sure, citation needed, I know :)
The largest flying bird in the article had a wingspan of 24 feet and an estimated weight of 90 pounds.

By contrast the largest pterosaur was Quetzalcoatlus northropi with a wingspan estimated around 36 feet and a weight around 500 pounds. (Fun trivia, its outstretched middle finger, half that wing, is the longest vertebrate digit in the fossil record.)

Why did pterosaurs get so much bigger? Because of a simple quirk of vertebrate genetics!

It turns out that there are things which are evolutionarily easy to change (like your overall size, or when you hit puberty) and things that are essentially impossible. One of the things that is essentially impossible is the sequencing of when different parts of your body hit growth spurts. Hands+feet grow relatively early, but arms and legs only catch up near adulthood. It's cute when puppies and human babies have big hands and feet but stubby arms and legs. However it has consequences for flying vertebrates.

Birds have a wind that is all made out of their arms. Bats have a wing that is half arm, then half hand. Therefore both birds and bats are unable to fly until near adulthood because their arms have not yet grown yet, so their wings can't support their weight. This imposes a huge parenting burden as the young have to be taken care of. And the bigger the adult size, the bigger the parenting burden!

But pterosaurs had a wing constructed entirely out of their hands! Because hands grow early, models say that pterosaurs should have been able to fly from birth. Fossils of juvenile pterosaurs that died at sea confirm that they actually could. And because of that a large pterosaur would not impose a parenting burden, which means that pterosaurs were free to grow much larger than birds or bats.

This did not become important until birds evolved. Animals tend to compete through specialization. Each species focuses on what it is best at, and then they coexist. But feathers are more aerodynamic than a pterodactyl's fur. Therefore birds flew faster and farther while using less energy. The only thing that a pterosaur was better than a bird at was being big. So after birds appeared, the small pterosaurs all disappeared, and the big ones got REALLY big!
> It has been shown that LVT reduces blight

Did you mean to post a different source? The one you posted doesn't "show" anything, equivocates on whether LVT actually reduces blight in the few instances where it's been practiced, and makes meaningful suggestions for solutions other than LVT that it indicates have been shown IN PRACTICE to reduce blight (e.g. a land bank).
> I mean, either you are cruel to home owners who have capital or you are cruel to poor people.

False equivalence. There's no reason you have to be cruel to either.

You can always build more housing or provide financial services to help poorer people buy homes. Or just, you know, lower the cost of homes so property taxes don't have to be astronomical and force older people out of their homes to begin with.

If housing costs and property taxes are so high it forces older people out, I don't see how that somehow benefits poor people anyway. They still can't afford those stupid expensive houses.
Yes, I agree anarchy is a dead end. The original idea was govt has monopoly on force to avoid anarchy (and the violence and injustices it entails) but the Constitution was originally designed to limit when the govt can validly use force. We have obviously drifter far away from that ideal.
Lol yeah. The main job of those middle managers seemed to be reviewing reports so they didn’t make it sound like they were driving people anywhere, even though that was half the job. The state side bureaucrats probably did the same thing! So it’s even worse than a useless job, but a useless job done twice!
The premise of a market is that everybody is acting with partial information, and the market aggregates and allocates over time. I'm no anti-government squish, but there is no evidence, and a lot of countervailing evidence, that local governments can effectively (or even non-harmfully) make policy to influence the housing mix.

When it comes to housing construction and tax incentives, what they need to do is (1) set tax incentives to discourage egregious misuse and encourage density, and (2) get out of the way.

As someone living in the middle of one of these debates right now, the idea that we need to carefully control the mix of 1bdr apartments vs 3bdr apartments is... risible? The frontline of this issue is SFZ, not what kind of apartments we build.
I think you're both right to a degree. Yes, nobody's specifically hiring people just to keep them busy. But there are many instances where people are employed to make some manager (and it could be management at any level) look good, or retain power within the organization or even just for them to retain a management position within the organization long past the time when their position could've been eliminated. This is more likely in larger organizations, but can also happen in mid-size ones as well.
Can we? Sure KissAnime and 123movies clones will always pop up when one gets taken down, but that’s not a replacement for YouTube.
oh. I retract my OP then
Tough to agree with some of this. For one, these days it's pretty obviously a false or irrelevant dichotomy to frame the situation as Mac OS vs. Linux. A better comparison would be more like Mac OS vs. $distro. Linux is what, my Raspberry Pi? My phone? My kid's laptop? My work desktop? Am I supposed to average all those out?

Since e.g. iOS isn't being included here on the Apple side, it makes more sense to pick one of the author's footnote distros and use that comparison instead.

> but if a user hits a minor snag, then I guarantee they will have more difficulty fixing it compared to an issue found in macOS.

I wouldn't take that bet. Not even close. The customizability and openness factors in favor of Linux also provide a benefit in yielding gobs of workarounds.

However, Linux critics who focus on ergonomics are well known for not being able to step out of some-imagined-user's seat for a moment and make things work for themselves as they go, and so they essentially refuse to use workarounds, and they get stuck in a panic loop where over time they slowly reveal that they want COTS, perfected, ASAP. The archetypal context is the intellectual critic selecting an OS for the just-do-it performer; it's another tense dichotomy that will result in a loop where the critic constantly asks, "does it just work? Can I just do it? If not, then fail." The critic is too sensitive to the performer archetype.

Still, I think it's better for the author to stick with the original argument from ergonomics based on one side they perceive as lacking. Going into comparative issues raises the "some distros are actually amazing" spectre again.

And IMO: Tailored hardware's equivalent in Linux is asking around or searching hardware databases to see what works best. Quite often it's a brand.

The Linux "tailoring" interface is easily observed in headlines about Linux developers communicating with specific brands. NVidia being a famous one. Linux devs are trying to tailor (remembering back to OOTB Linux hardware support in the early 2010s vs Windows--when it worked well, it was amazingly automatic and made Windows look bad. Windows caught up a little bit since then, in that area), but the Linux devs need direct brand support in a lot of cases.

At that point it becomes almost a consumer rights issue, which highlights another big-picture value of the Linux ecosystem and the reason a lot of people decided they'll simply look for needed ergonomics workarounds as they go.
Usefulness comes in many guises. Think of a parking structure as an enzyme to catalyze transactions with people hailing from a further distance away. Without that space, the exchange can't happen.
I've been rather curious as to what the license would legally allow one to do with this. Should this end up applying for some of the capable but disabled frequencies?

Context: I have a flipper zero and have been thinking about testing for amateur radio licenses.
That seems like the point, though - the land tax makes it so that it is productive to add more density. We want people to demolish that SFH and turn it into a townhome because we need more housing, so that's a feature of the tax, not a bug.
That's true, but at least the mental model roughly holds. Somebody who is barely technologically literate will understand that "more bars" is better, and that's exactly what the abstraction should do. Communicate something simply at the cost of precision.
I've gotten into it recently by skimming the docs, then diving in and using flakes. All of this from a multi-user/single user install on linux, I'm not ready to jump into managing the full OS yet.

But IMHO I would try to take a flake centric approach because there's a _ton_ of cruft in the docs about stuff like channels that all gets completely jettisoned and dropped once flakes are the norm. It's just a lot of concepts and CLI commands, flags, rituals, etc. in the docs that will give you nothing of value in a flakes world. Unfortunately there are no real docs that make this clear that the nix world is deep into a major transition and flakes are the clear future.

This 1 page intro to the nix language was all I needed to get comfortable with it too: https://github.com/tazjin/nix-1p It's really a pretty simple data-oriented language when you get down to it.
However, credit isn't approved every year so it goes out of date which is why cities, usually yearly, do regular property value reassessments.
The Hot Potato Process
Both Seattle, WA and Ottawa, ON built out dedicated BRT infrastructure that was later repurposed for light rail. So I wouldn’t say it’s always just a new coat of paint.
Good for them! If it’s anything like EA, their QA workers are overburdened and poorly treated.
the war was only a period of 4 or 5 years. We've been in many wars for far longer than the one specific war you are talking about.
Aye. I like Gitlab for pushing remote work, but sure feels like trying to pivot into selling shovels by claiming to be 'experts' on a 'difficult topic'.
To be fair, I think a solution like Bend would help companies make the kinds of decisions your advocating for. "You can't improve what you don't measure," so Bend offers a measurement tool that enables procurement managers to make smart buying decisions. Companies pay lots of money for other internal reporting tools; why should sustainability be any different?
> include storage, solar / wind has both the worst prices and externalities.

Absolutely false. Most storage used today (95%+) is pumped hydro, which is very cheap. Costs for all kinds of storage are falling even faster than solar or wind ever did.

There are no theoretical limitations on storage. Most storage is just E = Fx, understood and applied for centuries.

If you have to lie to make your case, what does that tell readers about your case?
Look at the timeline for Lithium-Ion batteries for the reason and where they were in the 1990's. Using very heavy lead acid batteries that you could only really use the top 50% of capacity were not economical, which is mostly what they had back then. It was practical in a low speed golf cart that had very few daily miles driven and spent most of its time plugged in and charging, but not much bigger. They also couldn't deliver very high amps compared with what the newer cathodes in LIon and LiFePO4 batteries can generate. Also, none of these technologies were being built at scale in the 90's - they were still mostly inventing the tech and changing rapidly between '90 and 2010ish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_lithium-ion_bat...
Well, then I'm impressed with GPT-3's ability to generate those titles!

The combination of photo/title feels like they come from the more absurd articles published by theonion.

If we aren't living in a simulation, it's just a matter of time...
My point is that EE is inherently simpler than CS.
Fucking feels like that sometimes, eh? :D You’re right, though! The high end of this is something we rarely approach in software — an observer with a clipboard, sitting in a duck blind in someone’s living room for a week, watching them watch TV.

If you do this right you know your users better than they know themselves. I used to think that was a bullshit turn of phrase, but now I believe it completely. I frequently notice things about people and their work that they’ve never noticed before. There’s a real skill to “close observation from a distance.”
What's the problem with that? If Gitlab is not paying top of the market salaries, then they're just going to miss out on top talent, and clearly they're fine with it. It's a free market after all, you don't have to join Gitlab.
So startups that convince VCs they aren't just "uber for x" or similar clones excite greater investments? Seems pretty intuitive.
I'm more worried about product line bifurcation. Europe has chosen this point in time to say "ok, the tech is good enough we're going to regulate and mandate a tech bill of rights now, anything new requires committee and our consent." As soon as something better comes along Europeans will get nerfed Europe-compliant phones and tech savvy Europeans will be importing grey market phones from America and Asia.
I think you meant "in vain" rather than "in vein".