skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This line has been repeated ad nauseum but I have never seen any backing data. Why would salaries decrease? Software development, done well, is a highly technical craft. Maybe for the first rung of developers it'll go way down but those Staff/Senior Staff I would expect to still command large salaries.
> Have you ever seen a flat parking lot in the downtown of a US city?

Houston.
The page wont load for me so: https://web.archive.org/web/20220719051909/https://phys.org/...
The DHS Bought a ‘Shocking Amount’ of Phone-Tracking Data
Pro: Forums can have much more granular moderation than public places like reddit or discord. The making of a new login and having it accepted keeps a lot of the crap out.

Con: PHPBB is a pain in the butt, but is one of the most popular forum softwares. It needs regular and constant maintenance and upgrades, and if it's a busy forum can be nearly a full time job to moderate and maintain.

Slack has message sunset in free instances. Discord is hard to search and has a cruddy UI. Reddit is... Reddit, and it's moderation varies wildly. Twitter is like standing in front of a firehose, trying to drink just what you need.
We can always use Apple's favorite defense on why they don't have an app store monopoly: use your browser. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc. all still work via the browser. I don't know a single one that doesn't (though I could be wrong)
It just doesn’t match the reality of market forces and it’s obvious.
https://tailwindui.com/components
Do they value any employee at all? As per the latest grapevine, they have stopped giving RSU refreshers as well; I guess that may be a smart decision if they know all the smart horses have left the stable.
Proposed mechanism: You declare the value of your land, but the government can buy it at the declared price if they want to. This also makes land acquisition for infrastructure straightforward and transparant.

There is a risk that the government will increase taxes such that people can't declare high land prices, which allows the government to buy up land for cheap. I haven't found a mechanism for that yet.
Those testimonials are convincing ;)
Just look at their track record on the BIOS for server boards. A company I worked with ran into the exact same PCIe probing bug in the BIOS on every new generation of Intel server motherboard + CPU. And it always took 6 months for the BIOS guys to get around to reimplementing the same fix because the next gen CPUs fork off before the production fixes are complete.
I don't claim to "never write security bugs."

However, it appears that the norm in the industry, is to write lash-up code, as quickly as possible, in the hopes on an MVP that will get brought up by a FAANG.

And I am doubtful that most OSS actually gets all that "other eyeballs vetting" that everyone talks about. Most folks that I know, that use a lot of these dependencies, would be unable to understand what goes on in them, let alone offer fixes.

In fact, I remember a founder, on this very forum, declare that "If you don't get physically sick, looking at your MVP code, then you are spending too much time on code quality."

That posture doesn't exactly inspire confidence. I'm pretty good at what I do, and I tend to "overengineer" my security-related stuff, because I don't really have huge confidence in that. It's not my forte.

But writing good code, is something that I can do.

Like I said, WFM. YMMV.
If you work in crypto or fintech, run.

Otherwise, I don’t think there’s much you can do to insulate yourself. It’s never obvious how resilient your employer is relative to the rest of the industry.

Just reset your expectations on what working in tech will be like for the next few years. And prioritize learning and building your network - whether at work or outside - over trying to climb the career ladder. It will pay off in the long run and you’ll be happier.

Also, articles like this show that we’re nowhere near capitulation. When we actually get there, stay passionate about tech. There will be another boom.
If someone can make money doing it they might.

Heck: If the cost to entry is prohibitively low they might do it at a loss and take over the site
Ok you're right. I just think about how empires like Rome that collapsed in on themselves at the height of their power and can't help but see parallels with what is happening now. An affluent apathetic population that just let things slide back into chaos. But I suppose that's hardly an original observation
Your walled garden gets better, mine (existing Apple ecosystem) gets worse. Less people -> less revenue -> less developers/features/customer support. Just want to highlight the no free lunch in this situation.
Ask HN: Did HN's page rankings become more extreme?
Sorry, the usual question... :P

This morning I read the post "The Rust Performance Book (2020)" and when I wanted to upvote it 10 hours later I had to go to page #4 (ranked currently #108 with 184 votes "20 hours ago") => finding it on page #4 was weird for me (I would have never found that precious post if I would have checked HN only this evening).

The usual reply to my kind of question is "click on 'past' to see a kind-of-better ranking" but after having done that exactly >now< I see for example:

- at position #41 "Logo and Learning (2015)" (63 points, 3 days ago, 26 comments) and...

- at position #42 "America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach" ( 270 points, 1 day ago, 569 comments) - btw. I read this and for me it wasn't great but still interesting, so in the end I liked it, at least 10000 times more than "logo and learning" (which I glanced over).

I don't like the current ranking :(
The usual solution to that is a property tax deferral to death or transfer. Phylis would pay nothing, but her estate would be required to.

People will revolt anyway. For instance, in California they revolted when we attempted to remove Prop 13 for businesses.
I maintain forum for my customers. I also know enough companies that host forums as well. Personally I am very much prefer forums to FB/Twitter/Whatever similar. Actually I liked when it used to be a newsgroups but that type is really dead.
I'm currently residing in Central Europe and 42C are scheduled on Saturday. I think it's a new record for the town. But other than about 2 weeks of heat wave per summer, the rest of the time the weather is quite livable. I'm renovating the basement a bit, where it's a lot cooler, so it's not all that bad.

The worst will be in a couple of decades when climate migration will become a thing, I suspect.
This reply makes me happy. This app is great :)
> I would care a lot though if you told me I never wrote anything great. That’s what I’m most afraid to fail at....

Sounds like he's always taking care of the bills from others but running away from the bills he owes himself. Giving writing a real shot might mean giving up running each day until after there are at least a hundred words on that day's blank page. (36,500 words of first draft each year.) Prime the pump every day.
A little aside. In early 2000, the problem was how to introduce and educate businesses about UCD and UX design processes.
Nowadays, in my personal view, we have to balance all the UX/UI trends/principles/research with business goals more.
Starting with well-defined set of product requirements and KPIs and "keeping it in focus" is essential.
We aren’t talking multi-level though we are talking about an actual flat parking lot in the middle of a downtown core which is what speculators do and have done in my city while they wait to sell expensive land.
What author is saying is that if a property has a high yearly ongoing costs, it becomes tougher to just hold onto it and not put it into the market i.e. this causes increase in supply. If I have a $10k/year expense on a property, I am forced to at least generate a yearly $10k+ from the property. This would keep the rentals and property prices in the area in check
The fact that so many Americans are thinking about Civil War and political violence probably does make it more likely that we could see atrocities like Kristallnacht.
Mussel Slough Tragedy
I would say it helps to first think what you want to get out of it.

If your task is "show me something that breaks through our hyperspeed media", then I guess some obscure museum is a better place than an ML model.

If your task is "find the best variation on theme X" or "quick draft visualization", they are often very useful. I am sure there will be many further tasks to which current and future models will be well suited. They are not magic picture machines. At least not yet.
In Texas property tax functions as an income tax by proxy, as the state lacks an income tax but redistributes property tax monies from rich school districts to poor ones. Therefore property taxes are high. Well, high compared to many other states, though not compared to, say, New Jersey. This is not really healthy.
That actually sounds pretty ideal. Add 3 people to your killfile, and you've removed most of the noise!
Another interesting one

W61.62XD Struck by duck, subsequent encounter
Computing just for the sake of it. I miss that. But at the same time I ask myself: why? It looks pointless to me now.

However, back then it didn’t look like that. It was amazing, it was fun, it was full of possibilities. Not anymore.

It’s true that things have changed. But we have changed as well. Maybe it’s more because we changed than because technology changed.
given that as per the article Democratic trust in the media fell after the election of Biden the explanation is if anything the opposite. The news media isn't partisan enough for the tastes of the audience.

This seems also intuitive to me given that the media despite obviously having its own biases depending on the paper appears significantly less polarized than the electorate. I find it interesting how many people default to blame the media rather than the consumers of news despite the question being entirely open if the issue is perception and expectation or media output itself.

I think the dominant narrative is also thrown into question by what people replace established media with. It's not like they're all signing up for the CS Monitor, but rather consumers appear to flock to pundits or online communities who are highly self-selected and cater specifically to particular groups and viewpoints.
Both of the professors say it was not appropriate:

Wood: ".. I ask forgiveness for this error in judgment. I regret my decision and I understand the hurtful nature of these symbols. ..."

Sharland: "In retrospect, I can see why someone might find the image hurtful, and I regret this attempt at humor that clearly failed. It was not my intent to hurt or be offensive, and if anyone is offended by this picture I apologize.”"

They quoted one person who thinks institutional repercussions are not appropriate.

Terr: "the university had no authority to act on calls to sanction the professors"

But ... it was at 'faculty, staff, and student Halloween contest held in the Mitchell College of Business'. How does the university not have authority to act on what happens by staff at a university event?

Terr: "Punishing one of the professors despite finding his conduct did not violate any university policies highlights how arbitrary and unjust the whole process was,"

Without a more complete context, that quote doesn't seem meaningful. For example, even if the university guidelines don't explicitly say staff must follow civil rights laws (eg, EEOC guidelines on "hostile work environment" or Title IX issues on sex discrimination), they are still obliged to do so.

Terr: "might target them for protected speech they engaged in years"

Is Terr really making the argument that the choice of costume by a staff member at a university-hosted Halloween party is protected speech?

Because that sounds like a great way for an asshole to choose a provocative costume, just to get a rise out of people, then declare the equivalent of Arjen Rudd's "diplomatic immunity".
> More restrictive and more transparent handling of permissions. Maybe this mechanism was caused by Uber bundling some sort of library that led to permissions leak. Perhaps the OS could expose that permission being triggered.

I don't think you've thought this all the way through. Once a user grants me permission to send them push notifications because they want to know when their ride shows up, you can't really stop me from pushing them ads through the same channel.
You're still worse off as an airplane at an airport. Runway incursions are a big problem. One of the worst air disasters ever was when two large passenger jets collided on a runway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster
For me, it's Michael Mann's 1981 Thief. Heat was good, but I feel like Thief had more soul.
That can be right in the short term, but in the long term you'd expect developers to stay out of the market, so how is it that Chicago has a "glut of high quality housing at very low prices"?
There's a link on the page:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/nyx-ai/stylegan2-fl...
They’re going with cheaper (but safer and longer lasting) 100% Cobalt and Nickel-free LFP cells, right? That could explain it.
Companies are, internally, command economies. Of course they're full of inefficiency and crazy shit like people hired to do nothing. Competition curbs it somewhat, but economies of scale and various moats and probably some under-the-table collusion and such are very effective at protecting them from what we might consider desirable market effects.
Do you think that this would mean providing these new services to phones outsides of the EU i.e. would the whole world benefit from this?
You can do that with an NFC-equipped Android phone and this app: https://github.com/johnzweng/bankomatinfos

It's also available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/at.zweng.bankomatinfos2/
This is fantastic, the fake news the world needs.
I do not think elderly invested wisely. Cities grew. They got lucky. It's as simply as that. The remote working is taking pressure off the cities. And you can see many crying about return to office, who have multi year leaseholds or own the buildings.
Image search, I guess. No results, it's original enough.
How would that work if you build a house on your land that you cannot just move to a different lot?
I doubt speculator demand has anything to do with anything in the long term.

I also doubt that developers would bother with a market like the one described. Why not go to some other state/city where construction costs are low and property taxes are also low?
Tax the oil companies for the difference.
> Values (and thus prices) go up and down.

you might be underestimate the importance of narrative in a startup. a startup takes a tremendous amount of belief to will into existence, and a lot of belief depends on an unbroken narrative. to most outward folks, a startup generally wants to appears to be continuously crushing it - people understand that there are ups and downs, but generally have no patience for a "well we had a slow 3 years where we made a lot of mistakes" nuance.

if you doubt this, consider how you eval a startup when joining as an employee, much less as an investor.
It might force Apple to allow you to distribute a version of your app on a different store or sideloaded from a file, which doesn’t necessarily follow the restrictions on the official App Store. That’s how I understand it at least.
Is it one of these perhaps? http://www.lardlad.com/about.shtml
I think the "what a service does over time evolves" is probably the best argument I hear, but for me it comes down to a numbers game. Especially with microservices the majority of them don't evolve. So it becomes a question of which is preferable

1. 10 services named after Darkwing Duck characters

2. 8 services with descriptive names, and 2 with slightly wrong names

I think most people would prefer 2
I wasn't sure about the slightly. What I read elsewhere indicated that for safety reasons, gas and coal fired steam turbines back off load when the ambient heat rises. I had assumed it was the output cool/evaporate efficiency but it might be something else.
Creative. So anything with a linked list can be 'wordled'?

One thing to watch out for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_(chess)
Surprised nobody is talking about what a huge bonanza this is for software piracy. Sure, it'll come with Lovecraft-grade eldritch horrors in the malware space, but that's the price you pay.
A lot of people think /r/The_Donald was banned for dubious reasons.
Is this referring to the first version of the model, or DALL-E 2?
Sure, iOS has had 0-days in the past. Which major OS/Hypervisor hasn't? The point is that Android is more susceptible to "lower hanging fruit" attacks, such as in the examples below.

For example: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/camscanner-malicious-android-...

Very recent example: https://www.techradar.com/in/news/more-brutal-malware-laden-...
Both can be true. Did citizens air grievances? Did they do it by blocking traffic and causing a snarl? Were they peaceful or not? Did they shout slogans I would agree with, or offensive things?
It's also an unfortunate consequence of game theory. If one party Gerrymanders and the other does not, that party will solidify their hold over the House tighter and tighter. They'll also solidify their grip on the states (who run the elections, and who set the rules on who can vote and when they can vote). Trying to play nice and believe in the system is a recipe for being eradicated - it's exactly what's happened to the Democrats for the last 20 years.
This is one area where (I hate to say it) the red states have tended to do a better job than the blue states.

Take Texas as an example. Up until this last year at least, Texas had relatively low property values but high property taxes. But high property taxes on a $200,000 house aren't the end of the world.

But here's a big one: in Texas, seniors (65+) can defer their property taxes to be settled upon their death. This allows seniors to stay in their house if they really want but incentivizes seniors to downsize to avoid passing on that liability onto their children.

This is exactly what you want.

Compare that to California, for example. "But what about the Seniors?" led to Prop 13, which was a massive tax giveaway to Disney and affluent property holders. Capping property taxes deprives the state of taxes to fund services for no good reason.

Even worse, when your children inherit that house, they inherit the house on a stepped up basis (meaning they pay no capital gains tax and the capital tax base gets reset to the market value so if you sell immediately you won't pay any CG tax) and children and grandchildren can inherit the artifically low property tax rates.

New York has a different set of problems. A big one is that single family homes are subsidized. A $1m SFH will pay less than half the property tax of an equal value condo. And there's all sorts of caps on property taxes on SFHs too.

Additionally a $100m condo only pays about 10-15x the property tax of a $1m condo in NYC.

I'm a big fan of making property speculation less lucrative. High property taxes are a good thing. We need to stop giving away money under the auspices of "but what about the Seniors?"
If we give these tax dollars to General Motors, they could turn into anything! Even tax dollars!
To be more clear. Depending on the location, those flat parking lots can be pulling in 1+ million per year in profit.

That doesn’t mean building a multi level parking garage in that same space is actually a good investment because demand isn’t unlimited. What you see as wasted space can therefore actually be a highly efficient business.
Interesting data -- but the survey is regarding "religious leaders" not "Jesus" -- which is very different.
Show HN: Computer algebra in 99 lines of Python
http://dailywrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/DALL%C2%B7E...

Hot dang. Some Reddit subs can be auto-generated now.
Again, it's not a huge leap to imagine someone (in this case, banks or transit authorities) using that unfiltered access to do something gross, like giving your data to an entity you've never heard of.

Using the official API prevents most of this misbehavior, which is why it doesn't bother me if Apple are jerks about enforcing compliance.

If you, or an app you use, feel like access is necessary, make your case to them. Repeatedly if neccessary. Software is nothing if not malleable and most of these areas are slowly opening up, as the company seems to have read the room on a few things and would like to get ahead before the law requires they do so.

On the other hand, especially with hardware that could conceivably track your location, I'm surprised that users - the knowledgable ones anyway at least - aren't up in arms about what access to raw data (e.g, not mediated by an API) by someone other than the platform vendor might mean for them.

I don't think it's necessary to pull an EFF move and demand everything be private, but this is one area that I suspect would meet the standard where people want the bar to be much higher about who gets access to data and what they are allowed to use it for.
There has been a huge flood of these climate doom porn stories on HN. I just flag and move on. There is hardly any "alarm" and, in general, the style of headlines worded like "Alarm as ___" and "Fears mount as ___" are nothing more than clickbait.

Fear porn belongs on Reddit, not HN.

You're all being manipulated for nothing more than a bit of ad revenue. Damn, is it that easy?
You are suggesting the bad energy situation due to the war would make the EU a market small enough to ignore for any tech giant?
The mob of January 6 was close to enough. If an equivalent mob brought weapons (or was willing to use the weapons they had), and if the authorties' response was equally ineffective and delayed, that sized mob might be enough. Ten times that size would almost certainly be enough.

How many Senators are willing to die for the Electoral College vote? How many are willing to do so after they just saw several other Senators shot dead in front of them?
There's something almost humorous about the last video being narrated by a text-to-speech system - hearing a system that clones human speech describe a system that clones human motion really adds a surrealist touch to the whole thing.
Apollo Xi and Friend's Day
Hi, happy friend's day to everyone.

I'm from Argentina and we celebrate friend's day today, July 20. And it is because the moon landing.

We are very proud to celebrate that day, because we are very, very friendly. Friends to us is everything, we can be noisy, we have the motto to be "too full of himself" and we keep doing the same mistakes. But we are really friendly.

And today and thanks to Enrique Fabbraro that was the guy that started today this celebration, it is a day to be with friends. And we need to thanks science too and a lot of people that worked for the Apollo program, because that inspired this celebration. In his own words: “I experienced the moon landing as a gesture of friendship towards the universe and at the same time I told myself that a town of friends would be an unbeatable nation. Then it was decided: 20th of July is the chosen day”

So, happy friend's day! Happy science and keep the memory of those that inspired other people to be better ones.
Tell yourself and others that you're and empath and that you're human-centered. Seek out like minds and converse with them about interfaces. Do it lots - for years.
Simon is also the programmer of PuTTY, the SSH/telnet client for Windows..
> For some reason every Linux user assumes everyone is as smart as they are and anyone who doesn't take the time to learn whatever esoteric config file to manage their DE is a child that can't tell left from right.

Notably, most of the non-technical users I am acquainted with manage to use Windows, which will also let you install any software package you want if you click continue on the warning.
Texas already has a homestead exemption.