skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, densely populated countries have some of the most enthusiastic protection of public parks, woodlands, and so on.

For example, when a disused airport in Berlin was converted into a public park then there was a plan to build apartments on parts of it, Berlin's voters passed a referendum blocking development of any kind. [1]

The major downside to buying up land in countries like Britain and Germany is you can get much more land for the same money in less developed countries (although of course there have been 'buy an acre of rainforest' companies in the past that have just pocketed the money, so buying land in distant countries isn't an ideal solution).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Tempelhof_Airport#Publi...
The pressure is on now that Oracle acquired CERNER.

Healthcare is the obvious golden goose in the long-term.
Even as a crypto-sceptic I must give you some serious props for a very well-thought out and written comment.

I found this somewhat persuasive.

But despite being very well written, all this does is say why not fiat.
If you're looking for a store of value, why not gold?
If you're looking to put the money to work, why not value-creating such as real-estate or stocks, growing the wealth through value-creation?
> But this ignores the fact that economic value was destroyed in the process.

Value gets destroyed in the process of using anything, so much that we have a special word for it: depreciation.

Cars and other machines will wear out after enough use. Even more static goods like windows (usually the seals) fail with time and need to be replaced.
Wouldn't we expect tough economic times to equate to a rise in Bitcoin's value, if that is the hypothesis?
You are being made fun of.

Paul Krugman Got Something Very Right About the Internet, the Fax Machine and the Economy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/paul-krug...
In case you didn't know, "More than 8% of American adults are millionaires": https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/09/more-than-8-percent-of-ameri...

On top of that, the percentage of millionaires on HN is probably closer to 80% than 8% so that hackneyed slogan has little resonance with this audience. Then add in that many, many developers get a massive chunk of their compensation in stock or options, which literally aligns their interests with the owners of the company because they _are_ part-owners of the company, and that slogan is DOA.
>It basically boils down to "I lost faith in fiat".

Well, this makes no sense, because the value of crypto is also a fiat backed by nothing. With crypto it's not just the government you have to worry about, any person can mint infinite numbers of new crypto tokens, pump and dump them, take out massive debts and gain infinite leverage and then debase anything they want. The massive collapses and bankruptcies in crypto over the last few months should show you that the rickety row boat is actually an illusion, and you're really just stepping off into the water with no lifejacket. My suggestion? Take a swimming class, if you get my analogy.
Hmm.. A little too interesting for my taste. I was hoping all the other Show HNs today would be lame so mine would get more attention. (kidding! sorta!) :D

Seriously, well done!
Scotland has what is pretty much the opposite - communities can register interest in land and get a "right to buy" if the land is ever going to be transferred:

https://www.gov.scot/policies/land-reform/community-right-to...
Robert F. Curl Jr., Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry [Buckyballs], Dies at 88
Maybe it was just local competition, but in college a gallon of milk at Whole Foods was about $.25 cheaper than the Safeway across the street.
Oh this looks very nice! One thing I might wish for is to use Escape to close the help dialog, but really that's just because I'm still opening the help dialog a lot.

Very smart UX choices here.
I run a community for agencies (Agency Hackers).

I wonder if a flat fee would have been the way to go here? Was that something you looked at?

Also, this was an interesting post, and I would love to have you talk to our community about it sometime if you're up for it.
The major central banks of the world, The Federal Reserve, The European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan all face the seemingly impossible task of trying to control inflation while simultaneously dealing with supply shortages and the downstream effects of sanctions against Russia.

Because the US, EU, and Japan all have significant amounts of debt, the kind of interest rate hikes necessary to address the inflation would cripple their ability to borrow and service debt at the levels necessary to support their current level of deficit spending. So that will either lead to austerity, or pressure on the banks to keep interest rates lower than needed out of sheer necessity. Doing that would keep the governments solvent, but would allow inflation to run wild. I don't think the war is going to end anytime soon, so the odds of commodities going back to normal seems unlikely. Cynically, given the choice between default and having us plebeians lose value due to inflation and recession, our leaders will pick the latter. They won't choose to destroy their own government.

To be clear, I don't think this is an economic apocalypse. I just foresee the most significant downturn of my lifetime on the horizon because we seem to be in a perfect storm of problems with solutions that are mutually exclusive.
We'll leave them with a whole array of low and no carbon energy sources, and the seeds for technology to draw down carbon. At some level our decedents will be born into a different world where people have adapted, they won't know anything else, but they'll have the tools to make the world they want. The future is full of possibility if we only look up a bit and try to imagine something better.
> But Apple doesn’t care about market share.

Are you sure? I distinctly remember them boasting in a keynote about how many Android users were using their app to switch to iOS. I could definitely believe that it's not a high strategic priority though.

> It is far more profitable now than it would be in a race to the bottom as a commodity hardware maker.

Agreed, but I don't think it would have to turn into a race to the bottom. Apple is a luxury brand now, and I expect they would continue to maintain that. The Apple logo is very much a status symbol (particularly for the young. My teenagers are literally made fun of at school for having "Androids" instead of iPhones), and I wouldn't expect that to change much. In fact I think as more people adopt it, being an Android user would become more of an aberration from cultural expectations than it already is.
That's because more often than not you're not the target audience. Growth > retention in many cases, so it's more important to give a good first experience than a keeping a good continued experience.
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I don't view that as a loss. JSON by itself is just a string with no context information so either the context is in the programmer's head, in a human-readable document, or in a schema file.

Adding a schema to it seems natural to me (as someone who prefers strong-typing), and the JSONSchema implementation seems pretty lightweight and sensible.

I'd go even further down the mining XML's legacy route and add better XPATH2.0 + XQuery - style support. XQuery was a great tool, so expressive. Though it did spawn XQueryX [1] which I'm still unsure whether it was a joke or not.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/xquery/0596006349/ch22s...
How long has “wage growth” been red? Since the 80s?? lmao
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We have a large database of carbon intensity factors generated using government data from two different sources (the EPA and Exiobase). Comparing our merchant specific factors to those industry standards, you might be surprised by how accurate it is.
Didn’t a handful of Coinbase employees make out like bandits before Ethereum was listed? What’s changed since then?
50% or greater is not particularly unusual... even for Bitcoin. Going off some highs and immediate lows from the top Google result:

* June 2011: -99% ($32 to $0.01)

* August 2012: -56%

* April 2013: -83% ($260 to $50)

* December 2013: -50%

* December 2017-December 2018: -84% ($20,000 to $4,000)

* March 2020: -50% ($10,000 to $4,000)

* May 2021: -53% ($64,000 to $31,000)
Bingo. Also I would note that it is incredibly not a zero-sum game. A person could dedicate their life to playing Video games, zex, drugs, charity, religion, science, the environment, etc. Spending time and money on science does not remove time and work from climate, in fact it may increase the amount by adding public interest.
Poor taste is stringing along your client and fleecing them for every penny.

That said, I'm not convinced this is the company.
U.S. federal courts are frequently called upon to interpret foreign law, and are presumed capable of doing so. They may not have practiced law in the given jurisdiction, but since federal judges are appointed there's no strong reason to believe they are qualified to interpret U.S. laws, either.
> It would be valuable to know which JSON-Schema it supports, since there are currently 4 different versions that differ in their capabilities (as one might expect).

There are 9 drafts, at least six of which seem to have support in implementations. (Plus there is a different variation [an “extended subset” of Draft 5] defined and used within OpenAPI 3.0.)
Almost no voter has the expertise to accurately allocate resources in a country. Why would a popular vote, where expertise means nothing, result in anything better than we already have? There are plenty of issues people don't even know exist, but are nonetheless essential. People also in general do not know how much is necessary to maintain infrastructure of a whole variety of things. I'd expect a catastrophe.
>Notably, the strategy in the post does work for a random walk.

I don't think this is true. Rebalancing doesn't work in the oscillating example provided if you change the rewards from +50%/-33% of bet to +/-50%.

I built their model in excel and tested it, and you can too.

The Kelly Criterion defines how much of your bankroll to invest in a asset with known upside and downside.

For the plus EV game of +50%/-33% you should bet 50% of your bankroll to optimize long term gains.

for the neutral EV game of +/-50%, the criterion yields a bet of 0% of bankroll because there is no edge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
https://archive.ph/LQw36
Ya, and mounted on 12 to 18 inch risers to boot. No wonder recoil is a "bit of an issue". It really looks more like a back yard job done by someone who did not want to damage their personal rifle.
Your Warren Buffet example would absolutely be illegal.

Trading on the basis of material non-public price-sensitive information or tipping someone off so they trade is market abuse (ie illegal) in Europe. In the US, the rules are a little more complex but basically yes it is illegal (if that's what he did).

You absolutely don't have to have fiduciary responsibility, and you don't have to be an official insider, you simply have to trade on the basis of material non-public price-sensitive information in a product that's covered by the regulations or give that price-sensitive information to someone else in the form of a tip (with some expectation in the US of benefitting iirc).
> So lower property values just mean less taxes for me.

In my state, your property's assessed value for taxation purposes cannot rise more than 3% per year, creating a pretty long lag time from the value going up to the taxes going up.

My home is worth about $650K, but it's being taxed as if it was only $250K.
It has not been my experience that for at least 95% of developers their needing to exhibit "spontaneous creativity and improvisation" to a degree greater than what a contractor might do while planning how to run a water line, is a good sign. As in construction or home repair or whatever, it's more likely that it means the person doesn't know the right way to do it.

The fact that we often have to do semi-creative things is more a sign that our industry is immature and shitty, than that the work is inherently much more creative than construction work. We keep trying to make spherical houses even though it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper, faster, and in many ways better, to just make ordinary ones. Then we pat ourselves on the back when we "creatively" figure out how to fit parts and furniture designed for normal-ass buildings into the curved-walled rooms of our spherical ones. Meanwhile the customer just wanted a fucking house and didn't care what shape it was.
You must be aware countries have defaulted, even the USA superpowers of the time? Nothing about that is nonsense, it’s in history books.

Whether or not the USA reached that point in our lifetimes as OP is pretty sure will happen, idk, hard to say.
> In other words, and paradoxically, work in labor-intensive jobs will be the last to be automated. Many used to think those jobs would be the first in line for automation, and creative jobs will be automated last.

This is surprising to me but probably intuitive considering the market forces. Creative jobs are highly specialized and therefore expensive. (Low supply + high demand = high cost). On the flip side, labor-intensive jobs are not specialized and therefore cheap (overall, I know supply is an issue in the US right now at least).

If the market is trying to reduce costs it will start with the highest first, especially those with the highest barriers to entry as far as skill development. It probably doesn't help that it appears computer vision is advancing slower than other areas of AI.

Great post. Really enjoying your new writing.
That is barely scratching the surface. I remember reports on reddit of people buying newly listed crypto assets in advance. That was in ~2016 and they didn't even try to hide.
If you want to stop out of control spend, have your analysts learn SQL. Avoid database systems that charge per query (like tinybird) and make damn certain your people know SQL if you do. Ignore and preferably fire people who mention things like “data lakes”.
I would assume so, Singapore for some reason HATES salt. They don't put salt on fries from mcdonalds, so you always end up with a bag of soggy fries.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/singapore-hear...

Taiwan has burger king burgers with peanut butter on them...

https://www.burgerking.com.tw/jps9805
if you look at the quantitative reports on trade, you will quickly see that high tech is massive, but not the only category to have that title. You are arguing a perceived difference without quantitative grounding. In other words, the mind-share of tech is massive, and that certainly is part of the political gridlock here.
In most places, including the UK, there's a legal principle called adverse possession (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession), where anyone can take possession of a property for free, if it's unoccupied/unmaintained by the owner, and the possession is not challenge for certain a period of time, i.e. actual owner doesn't evict the prospective occupier (12 years in the case of the UK).

So people or the government don't really need to actually buy much of the land.
A tale as old as (Internet) time - I've seen this cycle happen, too.

Tangentially, I have to wonder to what extent misapplication of Agile, and similar, project management processes is to blame.

You'd think for most relatively simple sites, like we're talking about here, it ought to be planned once and built once, but something about the mindset that the goal posts can be moved during planning and development seems to drag everything out at length.
When this entire crapshow crumbles down - and it will crumble down eventually - its going to be economic carnage.
See: International comity [1] (more like comedy, as my law school professor joked)

My guess is that since this is a NZ company, that country's laws should apply, but Glassdoor being a US entity necessitates a US court applying (or enforcing) the law or judgment of NZ. For whatever strategic reason, their legal team sought a judgement in the US first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comity

More info for anyone interested:
https://columbialawreview.org/content/international-comity-i...
OMG gimme a break, isn't crypto itself a huge insider-trading sort of market?
Why is this such a big deal for Coinbase unless there are other intentions behind this arrest?
When a coin gets listed its price generally goes up.
Good point, if youre billing every hour you can just squeeze the client. I've never worked in a place like that so I can't comment on what it's like.
I'm sending this ticket back because requirements aren't clear/can't reproduce. \s

Serious answer: depends on the specific bugs or features in question. Some features are harder than bugs, but some bugs are harder than features.
I wonder how many wallets you would need before it becomes a problem to track. I would guess in the millions or more since graph algorithms are pretty efficient these days.
Except that there will be no price to be paid for this (because no one will ever hear about it, and they sell toys), and the people who will remember it are their employees, who will be effectively intimidated from commenting on their experiences at the company after they leave.

The Streisand Effect is starting to function like the Law of Averages in some people's minds. There is no publicity fairy flying around to right all wrongs. Publicizing things is extremely hard if they don't go viral, and they only go viral if they are funny, cute, bizarre, or incredibly cruel.
Ok, Meta for sure. Twitter wouldn't be awesome but I'd take them over anyone else on the list so far.

Edit: Oh, and then there's Palantir, Oracle, Salesforce... you know what, how about we just keep tech out of healthcare?
Negative incentives in academic research
Yes it is... which is why the hammer needs to come down and hard.
OP doesn’t cover btc as a native machine<>machine or digital economy discrete value transfer mechanism. Gold can’t do that, presumably computers will still be around post-default though so the need exists. People will pay each other with venmo still, just maybe not redeemable for fiat vs crypto.
Agreed! And I never reach for them, because I work on web apps. If I was a database developer, the story might be different. But I don't feel the need to be interviewed on those topics over and over again. Subsequently, I don't know how to do those things.
Dave Grossman? The fucking Killology guy? The guy who tells cops that the day they kill someone will be the day they have the best sex of their life? That Dave Grossman?
How is this different than just working with the same recruiter over and over?
> 4 different versions that differ in their capabilities

pg_jsonschema is a (very) thin wrapper around https://docs.rs/jsonschema/latest/jsonschema/
it supports versions 4, 6, and 7

> appears to be a conformance test suite; does this carry the same, or was the focus more on speed?

it was mostly an excuse to play with pgx that went surprisingly well. The performance is very good but safety was our main interest.
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I hate this process. It effectively gives someone else rights over the current owners land. The person becomes a tenet farmer in effect and is responsible for the taxes and upkeep while under the control of the organization. And the land is not accessible to the public.

It's much better for the land to be organization-owned and open to public use.

Just my opinion.
Nah, we still don't have JSL (either JSLT or JSL:FO.) And, given that JSON isn't markup, I don't see that as being likely, at least not JSL:FO.
> Didn’t a handful of Coinbase employees make out like bandits before Ethereum was listed?

I'm interested in this 'claim', Any source for that?
Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update on purpose
Firstly b/c the OP's statement is not true. Secondly b/c the question is most easily answered with a simple Google query. It seems inappropriate for HN. I'll flag it FWIW.
> If your knowledge is privileged an non public, and might reasonably impact share prices either way, yes it is illegal.

Unless you’re in the US Congress as there is an exception for their legislative insider info.
Yes. Crypto isn't a new technology it's unregulated finance.
Also the Helsinki Foundation buys land and then distributes veto rights to ensure it is never re-sold.
If job creation is the only factor, why not invest the 10B into digging holes and filling them up again?
> seem quite even keeled in dealing with everything

I'm guessing the money they lost in this endeavor didn't materially impact them.
bitcoin is not fiat.
True. Most of my working class mexican family don't know what exactly is Latinx or why they should be referring to themselves as latinx.

Democratic party is dominated by "college educated females" and media pundits so much so they they have separated themselves into a safe space from people they are supposedly advocating for.
Eminent Domain is nearly never used in the USA for private development, since Kelo v. City of New London. The City won in court, but lost massively in the court of public opinion. Many states passed laws restricting or prohibiting that type of eminent domain use following that case.
Whose version of the War on Terror won?
That's demonstrably wrong:
https://www.motor1.com/news/595006/european-union-agrees-com...
The part where he talks about paying 100% for something that's 80% done but 0% usable hit very hard. As a web agency owner, and multi-decade web builder I've been in this position too many times with sub-contractors.
>The AI is getting precise 3D position data and physics data not only about its car but competitors cars

GT Sophy is receiving the position of its competitors (which is rhetorical statement because of course it needs to know their position), but where does it say that it's receiving the physics data of its competitors? It does mention that it does receive 'the information about the virtual physical forces affecting its vehicle', but only the forces affecting its vehicle and not the forces affecting the other vehicles (which, IMO, would be irrelevant and, quite possibly, impossible to process given the number of cars on track and the limits of its game loop processing time).
Lyra on WebAssembly
Yes, you correctly point out that high cost is a big factor. The other factor in why labor-intensive jobs are difficult, is that robotics has lagged far behind AI software. Even if Tesla or others mass produce robots starting in 2025 or 2030, it will take a very long time before there is enough robots to satisfy the labor-intensive demand globally. Thanks for your readership!
I don't know.

It wouldn't be surprising if the Amazon Care product rolls up into an Amazon Healthcare organization, while it would be somewhat surprising if recruiters started working to staff a new acquisition before it was publicly announced, let alone closed.
That’s been going on for far longer than 2008 and isn’t connected with the bank bailout.
Congratulations! You have discovered the broken-window fallacy! [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Wow, I've previously had exactly same feelings about couple of people from whom I heard "data lakes".
the redesign looks so much worse
I always roll my eyes a little bit when people use the "FAANG" acronym because Netflix never really seemed like a good fit and it leaves out Microsoft which seems like a better fit. Nevermind that "Facebook" is actually "Meta" now and "Google" is actually "Alphabet" now. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FANG,_FAANG,_and_MAMA...