skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> temporarily-embarrassed megacorps

This is a very perceptive extension of the famous Steinbeck quote. The sentiment is certainly not limited to the blue-collar labor class of which the original referred.
Because a suppression of price would also suppress new development? Why would a builder build anything in an area of low profitability, in a backdrop of rising costs and worker shortages?

So how come there's ample low cost high quality housing in Chicago?

The same remark applies to home owners. Your property won't rise in value, so why buy it? You must really want to live in the area, I guess.

And yes, I know the point of a house is to live in it, but almost everywhere it has a double function in also being an appreciating retirement fund.

For now my theory is that a lot of speculative supply got dumped, leading to a one time effect.
> why try solving it at the lender's expense?

Why should the lender be completely insulated against a borrower's inability to repay? Why should a lender be able to lend for education without any diligence on borrower's ability to repay, but not in other domains?
$5+ gallon gasoline is a significant change for the normies budget. Especially with layoff clouds hovering above.
Hard to refute the comparison, being curly and brown, that building is reminiscent of the smiling turd. Then it's different, and missing the eyes and smile, and frankly, a bit bizarre. Like lot's of newish places in many cities. Like the giant suppositories in London and Barcelona.
I've been trying to understand the medium-term implications of your first point for the market.

My understanding is that if a VC raised a $1B fund, and the fund lasts for 10 years, the investments really need to be made in the first 5 years.

If VCs are sitting on the sidelines now, AND making smaller investments, what happens in year 2 or 3 when they have to deploy those funds?

Do you think deal sizes will get outrageously large because of too much money in the system? Will there be another rush to sign deals to deploy the capital?

Does this get talked about by VCs? Am I completely misunderstanding how this will play out?
Why not just tax imported chips as opposed to just giving a bunch of money away
The pirate party FTW!
Just posting it again:

Going deeper the actually 75% comes is stated on this PDF which links (sources) from a company that sells... sells dispute charges services. https://pages.sift.com/rs/526-PCC-974/images/ebook_Sift_Q4_2...

So, to be clear, a non-impartial actor is providing the “data” justifying the anti-consumer activity. I’m shocked!
Reminds me of this HN classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
https://archive.ph/I3CHT
See also the discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32141358

(713 points, 208 comments)
I think in principle, for mail-order and ecommerce, you're supposed to put a phone number in the field. For in-person transactions, you're supposed to put city and state.

The problems:

* Not everyone has it set up correctly, either inadvertently,or as an attempt to disguise questionable transactions.
* Ir's a cramped field at best, so you may end up with UNRDBL ABREVS.
* Some space gets burnt with payment aggregatoer/gacilitator IDs (the "SQ" part of the example.

A lot of this stuff is remarkably underused. There's Level 2/3 data, a very detailed interface to document individual receipt line items-- but it's typically only used for corporate cards. So even if someone bothers to configure their shopping cart to correctly populate it (often ignored, since most carts prioritize "we support 2340 different payment platforms, at a minimal level" over offering all bells and whistles, the consumer still won't see the info that would help say "oh, SQBLABLABLABLA was where I bought the blue widgets."
I don't really understand appealing to the concept of "fair" regarding salary.

I guess I'm showing some assumptions about labor being a free market, but isn't your salary by definition acceptable to both you and the employer?
Has anyone written a tool to actually does this? I want to add that to my post-rewrite hook immediately so that I can gain peace of mind I will always be able to switch to a branch where I can study the previous reality after rebasing a new one.
What is this gatbage
I think everyone agrees repaying money you borrow is the moral and right thing to do, but pragmatically bankruptcy acts as a governor on lending. In every other industry (including someone lending money for you to buy a tow truck) they need to weigh the possibility that you will never pay them back.
I like that. The certainty that the bus will only travel while full helps with planning, in a way. And of course keeps the cost down.
We have a few hundred years of legal tradition around banking and commercial transactions, that have been carefully balanced in ways to give everyone involved an incentive to prevent fraud and to produce a system in which the amount of fraud is manageable.

Externalizing all the risk out to the individual customers doesn't seem like a preferable system. Banks have done a whole lot of work to make the risks associated with this manageable and even profitable.

Consumers are safer, and also it is more reasonable to trust the payment system to have safe outcomes. As a result it is used more, and banks make more money.
> Her parents spent $11,000 on a used electric car for her. It's a Ford Focus Electric. The car is a 2014 model, with 60,000 miles.

> "In March, it started giving an alert," she said. "And then we took it to the shop and it stopped running."

> "The Ford dealership had advised us that we could replace the battery," he said. "It would only cost $14,000."

$3,000 more than what the family bought the car for. And that quote didn't include installation and labor costs, Ray Siwinski said.
> Mongo (similar for other NoSql propositions) is most suitable for specific data access patterns.
> The most obvious one being where you are requesting data and related data based upon a unique business identifier.
NoSql DBs mostly make this both trivial and fast.

I don’t think that’s right though? Requesting data and related data is the purview of RDBMS, unless your example was a completely denormalized single object (I know Mongo supports links between objects as well but that doesn’t seem to be what you’re saying?)

Also the line point about SQL based databases being relevant when reporting and aggregation misses the importance of relations and operations in relations that is the point.

Maybe the comment was focused in on “SQL” rather than using it as a shorthand for “relational database” like most people do. Yes SQL makes aggregation and reporting easier but it’s primary job is data retrieval, and in most cases via an identifying primary key.
Most implementations probably use algorithmically generated puzzles, which are less fun than human-created puzzles.
Regardless of what people think as impressive, or creative, or sentient, or intelligent, there is one thing that cannot be disputed: stock photos have value in the current economy. There are people being paid to produce these stock photos. And it now looks like AI can do it for cheaper. That's the most important thing to realize imo, is that the value of human production is getting lower and lower relative to AI.
I think the silver lining is at the time of their peak Sears etc. seemed unstoppable. And it took only a few decades for that to be undone. And that is basically guaranteed to happen to any behemoth simply by their inertia and inability to stay relevant for a long time.
> Given the impact of the public health emergency, the Internet Archive decided to ease its book lending restrictions and allow multiple people to check out the same digital copy of a book at once.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/14/cucd-j14.html

Libraries can rent books they’ve purchased. Generally they can’t fire up the photocopier and make copies of books they’ve purchased.
Such a great point. Would love this in reverse.
The types of reasoning:

1. Deduction - given premises and inferential rules, produces conclusions; as certain as possible.

2. Induction - given premises and conclusions, produces inferential rules; statistically probable, but a single counterfactual observation means throwing out the whole thing (e.g. black swans).

3. Abduction - given conclusions and inferential rules, produces premises; no guarantee of certainty.

Any time we retrospectively tell a story of how something came to be, that we did not immediately observe, we're applying abductive reasoning. It relies on the same inferential rules as deduction and induction, but applied in reverse.
The security on iPhone comes from the app sandbox, not from App Store review. There are lots of scam apps on the App Store, despite Apple's review.

Apps from 3rd party stores will be sandboxed just like apps from the App Store are today.
Centenarians are really a special group. My doctors assure me, independently, that even though applied nutrition science is in general very poor once you are past any basic nutrient deficiencies, that a plant based diet is overwhelmingly correlated with better health outcomes. Perhaps not vegetarian, but definitely limiting animal products.
The problem is that they don’t offer „location adjusted pricing”. An engineer in Serbia contributes the same value as an engineer in NY to every buck turned by GitLab.
> TeamViewer is just inertia

Or because:

- you don't know it exists

- you don't know what version of Windows someone is on, and figuring that out is painful

- they can't figure out the Microsoft Store to install it (since apparently it's moved to the Store now)

- or because you don't have a Windows machine to connect from.
Virtual credit cards work great for this purpose. Unfortunately, they are cumbersome, and very few financial institution support them these days.
Is it a junior high math textbook, or does it convey any other information?
I used to believe in Democracy. Then I bought a condo, and attended the Condo association meetings.

Now I’m voting for Darth Vader.
Political shitposting is a problem everywhere.

Even in things like Facebook groups which largely replaced the forums I used to be on.

The lower barrier to entry, and the larger and more diverse audience mean for some of these facebook groups, the mods actually tell members to knock it off.

So then those folks create a separate chat for the shitposting mixed with the original content.

Just what I have seen anyways. A few forums manage to be quite prolific still (like the BoingBoing bbs).
But if you're from the US, remote could mean you're competing with prospective employees from all over the world, who will often be cheaper. So equal pay would be getting lowballed even more, I'd think?
Piracy isn't for the greater good. Copyright is.
Can you provide any examples of "leftist activists" opposing building non-luxury housing?
> Isn't every "new style" just a novel combination of pre-existing concepts?

At the extreme limit, maybe. But within art or even digital art, then new styles are actually not that rare, humans are pretty good at generating them. Maybe they grab inspiration from nature, visual phenomena, etc, so in that sense it's not "new" but it is "new to the medium". In art you new styles all the time. DALL-E will never do that by it's very nature, and so it's easy to see how it's boring.

And that's just the stylistic level, but it's happening at almost all levels. It's almost definitional that it doesn't innovate, only remix.

It's strange framing this as pessimistic, it's not really optimistic nor pessimistic, it just is. It's also not AI, and that's important to realize: it's a statistical model that generates purely based on pre-existing training. It's very nature is without-meaning and without-originality. That doesn't detract from it being cool or interesting or helpful or enjoyable. I find it cool and useful.

But it's not innovative or creative or meaningful by itself.
> The link is an Australian paper, too.

I think you missed my point. To spell it out: a modern Australian news outlet should be easily able to report accurate data. In 1911 they presumably relied on the telegraph (small "t") and human transcription, leading to a high probability of errors.

And, indeed, an error seems to have occurred in this case. The maximum recorded temperature for that year was actually 36.7 °C (98.1 °F) [0]. This was presumably due to errors in transcription, rounding errors, or (ironically) deliberate sensationalism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_weather_records
Shifted my stonk holdings to the new (artificially) scarce things.
I honestly love "web 1.0" style niche forums. I wonder if it's the nostalgia of customizing my signature image banner, signature quote and following discussions and arguments, but I love forums!

I honestly considered making a forum (1.0 style) just for myself in a specific technical niche in hopes of people joining.
https://archive.ph/cdjaP
or Absolute World towers in Mississauga, near Toronto. Sexy.
Huh, I didn’t know about abduction. It’s the form of logic that you use if you play Wordle. You can’t prove that you have the right answer, only that your answer explains everything that you see.
It seems like the higher taxes should be applied to non primary residences, along with perhaps some kind of penalty built in for holding the property for only a short period of time.
Magnus didn't destroy Nepo, he was the first to win a game. At the level of chess in the first 6 games catching up after a loss is difficult, and Ian likely decided not to fight too hard. Also he said he overprepared for the match and was to burned out.

A fresh match with a new score could be very interesting.
Not nearly as much luck as poker, especially Texas hold ‘em which is almost pure luck with very little room for strategy or calculation.
Trust Signals in Open Source Projects
I'm not knowledgeable enough to tackle all of those but for most of them they can be summed up as "they add more hermeticity/reproducibility to the system", and (my understanding) is that this is mostly due to how nix-channels work. Basically nix-channels is an environment variable NIX_PATH that works sort of like PATH, and is where your nix derivations would look when resolving references.

So, for example, I could set my NIX_PATH to a private clone of the nix store and have my personal derivations there and builds I did would not be the same as on your machine where you point your NIX_PATH at the canonical upstream.

Flakes require all of these dynamic parts of the build (including the build architecture etc) to be injected as inputs to the system. Similar to how Bazel workspace files work from what I understand.

As part of that standardization of the inputs into a `flake.nix` / `flake.lock` file there was also work done to define a standard interface for a flake as a unit. Before flakes, if you imported another "unit" there was no telling what was being exported by the target (is it a derivation? an overlay?). With flakes there are well-known, enforced patterns on what and how you would expose to consumers.

> How much they replace home-manager.

Not at all really. But home-manager is now provided as a flake and so you no longer need to install it separately, and can instead import their flake to get a fully-working system.

> Context: not a Nix user, but [...]

To be honest, nix is a system you have to actually use to begin to understand and synthesize. As noted, flakes make this hill less steep, but you won't really internalize the value and the system as a whole until you actually start using it some.
That link gives me a wonderfully helpful "Invalid product ID" message.

Not even styled, it's just a HTTP 400 page with some cookies and that message. No HTML.

Yay Microsoft...
Agreed. Underpaying engineers is not funny. Perhaps desirable for a cookie-cutter, third-tier, sweatshop that runs on labor as dumb as their management. But not desirable for profitable firms that require real talent.

As a a manager who's hired remote engineers across 3 countries, Gitlab's salaries are laughably low.
Value possibly, profit not necessarily.

Put another way if building a 5 story building would be obviously more profitable then they would do that but the opportunity costs is now 1+ million per year you aren’t getting from the parking business.
For GitLab it doesn’t matter where their client resides because they don’t charge based on location. A client in Lahore pays the same as a client in Silicon Valley.
I wasn't saying "Just buy an extra phone, 4Head" - I was pointing out how your analogy was actually the equivalent of "Just buy an extra phone, 4Head", because loyalty cards can't be taken and used at unaffiliated stores, and yet people are more than welcome to open multiple loyalty accounts, one with each store.
And to make it worse, suppose it was “NEWEGG.com”. By my reading, that’s the same as saying they’re the same company that owns that website. It removes any ambiguity, which is usually a good thing.
They do it for location access, calendar access, notification access, and clipboard access for every app. Access to shared containers shouldn’t be a common occurrence outside of once when the app is set up.
People tend to join when an issue that's important to them comes up.

Everyone (retailers, consumers) unhappy with the chargeback system. Honest merchants lose lots of money all the time. It can be difficult to make a chargeback for many kinds of dark patterns (e.g. subscription traps). The fact that everyone's mad makes me think it may not be too tilted against any party, but one would hope it could work better overall.

> @mlyle: I appreciate you taking the time to dig into it more and raise the controversy to my attention. This is a helpful way to be, you are great.

I have a hard time with benefit-of-the-doubt here and get reprimanded a fair bit. :D Just doing my best to improve things where I can.
> Why are the room rates so highly variable in the first place?

A lot of reasons but mostly due to demand and supply. We are mostly busy on the weekends (Fri/Sat). Weekends rates will be higher than weekdays. If the majority of the rooms are booked 6 months in advance, rate will be higher for those days. Not having enough housekeepers to clean the rooms, increase the rate so that we have less rooms to clean.

> Hotels have also been quick to adopt the nickel-and-dime-customers-to-death business strategy

I would say, not really. Look at the hospitality reits. They have lowest returns compare to other reits.
I disagree in general with your second point. Yeah, sure, this could make sense in some situations, but many tools and products exist for the sole reason that they offer a superior workflow and smoother experience than their existing counterparts.

Wasn't there that classic HN post about users not needing Dropbox because any Linux user could do the same with rsync?
> 4. Check your ego, and learn to love being wrong. Put unfinished work in front of people. Cheerfully accept all feedback without explaining or defending.

Love this so much. As dev we often positioning ourself as user, cut it off by wireframe simulation. The things is, we are not the real user. We are not the person who will use the product. And we conclude the ideal design by fantasize it.
Maybe anti social, but looking for a job
„Come to us, we have fruits in the kitchen and our Team is awesome. We have fun. And do parties.“ - Job Ad for random software developer jobs.

Im not quite sure how I feel about the current mindset. I don’t eat fruits and I’m not quite sure what fun is anymore. I’m one of this people which are working about 70hours a week and love working. At work time I need people to work with. Not to play with. I’m also not confident how this social experiment is working out. Are people really better at work when we are do parties we can’t decline because of the pressure from the group? Even without. I’m pretty sure working together would be better for a good teamwork. But now they all want to be friends.

Im Self employed and I was employed.

Am I just anti Social?
Nice to read something that isn’t hopeless, and isn’t fluff.
Great point, let's trust a retail company instead.
Isn't that the case already? Property taxes are already weighted between land value and property improvements. But shifting to too much land value, even if done gradually, can lead to unwanted consequences.
This echoes my experience. SW pays, EE screws you around. It’s still nice to be able to dive down to the electrical level if necessary but it’s generally not a profitable level to spend time at.
Anecdotal, but every library I have ever been in had a copier that patrons could use to make copies of books for a couple cents per page.
The funny thing is, Apple originally had plans for sideloading all the way back in 2008. An email that came out from the Apple vs. Epic trial last year had none other than Steve Jobs signing off on UI copy for installing apps from outside the App Store! [1]

Obviously, those plans were shelved when they changed strategy for iOS to walled-garden, but it's surprising how in the course of fourteen years the issue went from product roadmap to cultural anathema at Apple.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/c/22611236/epic-v-apple-emails-proj...
I use home-manager as my profile management layer so I might not understand your setup fully, but Flakes dont really mesh with channels. They instead use a flake.lock and so you would need to do a `nix flake update` to get the flake-managed packages updated.

EDIT: you also might be able to inject your local channels "pkgs" definition into the flake so that they reference the same versions. e.g. for home-manager with flakes you would do it like this

inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";

home-manager = {
inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs"; # <- deduped version of packages
url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
};
};
From what I understand, they broke the terms of a legally-binding contract with the publishers. They were allowed to act as a “digital library” — and lend out copyrighted works for free — but only one “copy” of the file could be released at a time.

This makes more sense for real-world libraries (where books are physical objects with manufacturing costs) but this doesn’t really translate to digital files.

During the pandemic, when real-world libraries were shut, the Internet Archive took it upon themselves to give away an unlimited number of copyrighted works. Libraries are a net public good to society, and unexpectedly we found ourselves without them. The Internet Archive was uniquely positioned to share knowledge and educational materials with the world, free of charge, at a time when many people had no other access to them.
Wow

https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel-ai

No kidding.
Time to boot the leaders who made the objectively horrible decisions to raise prices and crack down on acct sharing.

Infinite growth is impossible. Stop destroying your very good magic money making machine.
That's a relatively new development, though. Historically libraries were responsible for making copies of the works they held.
The illusion that NYT and CNN were neutral has been smashed, it won't come back for a generation if at all. Turning to Breitbart et al isn't because people want the bias, it's because they've given up on ever finding a genuinely moderate centrist source.