skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So pay rent to the state instead of a private landholder?

You pay rent to the people (via the state, which acts as a layer of indirection) who no longer get to use the piece of naturally occurring land that you're monopolizing.

Think of it like finite natural resources. Who really owns that? It's a gift of nature. Nobody made it. So if one person wants to dig those up and sell them, part of the proceeds should be shared with everyone. Because it's not even their property, so they have no moral right to privatize 100% of the gains in the first place.

Now if someone puts effort into transforming those resources into something more useful, then they should own the fruits of that labor. The distinction is labor (the fruits of which I should own) versus naturally occuring thing I had no role in making (which I should not own).
George is that you?
There was such a magic to ega games, then vga, that I think was lost a bit in the transition to 3d engines. I count myself lucky to have experienced the surprise he mentions about doom and a monster jumping out at you, the land unfolding worlds of sierra games, and quirkiness of Lucas arts stories. It's a good reminder that graphics capabilities can change, but our human software can be entertained by all the old tricks.
Right. In biology, an extinction event is typically defined as a period with an increased overall rate of extinctions, irrespective of any one species. So that was the source of the confusion.
It's problematic. One has to consider occupying a house or apartment if no other valid options are given.
Just like certain rights are guaranteed to humans so should be basic needs. You are not a mere function of income and expenses.
cmake is not as powerful as autotools.
Housing used to be cheap for the same reasons food was. General contractors and laborers didn't make much, and were subject to serious risk of bodily injury.

Nowadays they're paid well, and that is reflected in the cost to build.

Folks wanting to go back to cheap housing are arguing to reduce the compensation for builders.
After reading through this I am convinced that the author learned nothing novel outside of fundamental operations methods I regularly see deployed at companies of all shapes and sizes.
We do - it’s called property tax. How do you think local police, firefighters, schools, parks, services are funded? By land taxes.
Nuclear is the optimal solution only in rather small niches (polar zones with long winters for example). As far as France, the drought has taken several French nuclears offline due to the high cooling water demand for nuclear reactors:

https://www.thelocal.fr/20200825/france-authorities-shut-dow...

That's on top of several major aging and maintenance issues which arose some months ago:

https://news.sky.com/story/nearly-half-of-frances-nuclear-re...

Add in the current European wide-risk of the military destruction of the largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine, and the balance sheet for nuclear relative to solar/wind/storage looks more and more negative.
Totally agree with what you said about non-stick pans. Sounds like a total scam. I myself did not go with cast iron skillet (only for some outdoor/bbq stuff). But I switched to stainless steal pan from demeyere like 10 years ago. It's still like new and made thousands of meals. Now i'm in a (slow) process of converting all my equipment to stainless steel from demeyer, quality is just that good. Buy for life.
The 'f' in 'teflon' is the F from the periodic table.

Florine is remarkably not inert.

Teflon is a relatively stable Florine compound.

But as you say, it can destabilize when the pan is used within a few sigma of ideal cooking temperature.
The point is that a lot of the Y2K doomsday predictions were completely insane and wouldn't have come to pass even if no work were done to fix anything.
A house costs more than some people have. Without a rental market, those people become homeless or completely dependant on government. Neither is desirable.

Without the profit incentive, what developer would build a multi unit apartment building to achieve higher density living in cities?
I like Whereby

https://whereby.com/information/pricing/
It's also not true. MacOS is licensed very similarly to Windows, it's just that every Mac includes a license.
Assuming no economic frictions whatsoever, which in reality is not the case, especially when it comes to someone moving their entire life away from their social network and their familiar surroundings.
I have long supported the privatization and commiditization of water. It should be sold on the basis of supply and demand with markets, futures, and so forth.

Don't like almond farms, bottled water companies pumping millions of gallons for the price of a $200 permit, and golf courses watering their courses during a drought? Then you should too.
So your solution is to burn the computer and yell at clouds?
Well inflation will go up even more thanks to that bill.
Incomes will go down. So housing will become even more unaffordable
The response, above, lists pros but no rebuttal to why government-guaranteed mortgages are not socialist.

In a free, capitalist market, private providers would price and provide mortgages. This is not happening here..

For some Americans this may be difficult to digest since there may be cognitive dissonance…how can an American ideal be characterised as socialist.
Is it me or they did some actual performance benchmarks without including any reference code? Because there are many different ways to load csv files for example even in R, so we have no clue what they used there. The same goes for "calculations".
The book draws from the author's experience but it doesn't necessitate that the problems at Stripe were actually solved by what's in the book. The author also draws on experience at Uber and Digg. The author also left Stripe some time after publishing that book.

I always take engineering management advice in books as a "do what I say not what I do" sort of thing. It's rarely the case that companies actually operate as well as the stories published about how well they operate.
Unless promiscuity has gone way way up in recent years, it seems like something else might be going on. There have been previous outbreaks of monkeypox outside of Africa, including in the US about 20 years ago. They all pretty rapidly petered out.

Why is this one different?
I have no idea what country you're in, maybe wherever you live has that (albeit most likely it's woefully insufficient).

I'd just add that a property tax isn't that, because it also taxes the building.
Your sentiment is valid, but I don't think anyone in this thread knows what the word "commoditization" means.
Interesting read :-) With cats, apparently one can spray water on them when they're at the border to ones garden, and eventually, also when you aren't there, they still think they'll get water on themselves if they go outside the garden. So they don't -- a border has been created in their mind.

I wonder if that works with goats, instead of the gate? I guess not.

Maybe also doesn't work with smarter cats, hmm.

(I suppose it's not your boy in the video?)

> the stripped area can be bridged with thin shoots embedded into the bark on each end of the open wound

Didn't know, I was surprised to read that it actually worked :-)
Like another comment here mentioned, housing is complicated. People don't want to live in a random house in the middle of nowhere ('roof over your head'). Some people prefer to be homeless on the street versus getting to a roof over their head that they don't like.

People want to live where they want to live (near family, jobs, culture etc)

Take NYC for instance. Politicians try to address the NYC housing crisis from a demand/cost perspective. Rent is too high? Let's just screw the property owner and cap the rent. Or let's just raise minimum wage to make it easier for people to live in those properties.

The result in both cases: you didn't have enough housing before, you don't have enough housing now. You give more money to people, rents will just go up. You cap the rent, there's still a huge number of people that can't live where they want and you make it impossible for existing tenants to move (or for new/more development to be built, for that matter)

So, what instead? You want to build more housing in NYC? Great, that should work. But you have to make it cheap. Deregulate construction, get rid of unions, prioritize developer rights over tenant or homeowner rights. What? You don't think these are good things? Okay, but then you'll have to sit back and watch new construction trickle in and result in 'luxury' housing because that's the only way a developer can recoup their enormous land acquisition, regulation and construction costs.
So the challenge with housing is that it requires fundamentally difficult decisions. To pretend that you can just spend 100 billion (or even a trillion) and the problem will be solved and people will be happy, is an illusion.
Do Superlattices have any use for ultracapacitors used for charging vehicles quickly?
Who's paying for the move? How does the move affect commutes and how close is the new dwelling to essential services?

If you were already in the lowest priced area and that became too expensive, where do you go?
Folks talking about housing tend to only consider the list price when deciding if it's too expensive.

Far more interesting to consider, I think, is there cost per square foot to construct; which has skyrocketed in a few generations.

Dimensional lumber and other materials just cost more. Labour is compensated better. And yes, fees have gone way up in many municipalities.
>> "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" by Will Larson

- Direct link to book mentioned above:

https://press.stripe.com/an-elegant-puzzle

- And collection of reviews/interviews of the book on author’s website:

https://lethain.com/elegant-puzzle-press/
If not housing, what do you consider to be the set basic human rights?
House repair and maintenance is not really what a landlord does, though - they rent land. Perhaps as an added feature they can offer services like repairs and maintenance, but that is not inherent to the "job" of landlord.
Showing my age, but back in 1976, where I lived, water was being brought in by tanker day and night during the hottest summer on record.

I'm not saying privatisation has been a glowing success but supply issues were much worse in the days of nationalisation, especially when you factor in the population growth over the past few decades.
Well, for security code a common mantra is "don't invent it yourself" :)
no, you should crack down on government making housing rare, which is who is at fault in pretty much all of North America. Zoning is mismatched to the task of housing the people who want to live in many areas and local governments need to drastically increase the higher density zoned areas and that is pretty much the extent of the problem and the solution.
> Imagine if we did the same thing with, say, water

Hm, maybe we can do the same thing with Air. We can even keep the same name, Airbnb, but this time people are paying for the best air.
I've been using OnShape for the same sort of work. For now at least it's less user-hostile, but it's web based so they could still turn on you.

I'm still hopeful that Blender will become a great parametric modeler. Check out the https://www.cadsketcher.com/ add-on - it's getting to the point where I might take the leap.
Yeah, that's correct.

But property tax also taxes improvements that the owner made themselves. This disincentivises improving land too much.

The whole thing with Georgists and a land value tax is that it's specifically unearned wealth due to increases in unimproved land value that are taxed more.
> these get reconstructed to pure sine waves by the AD/DA converter

That's not at all how DACs work. They create a stepped voltage output in some way, which is then filtered to remove the steppiness. Yes, if you're decoding a sequence of values that represent a sine wave, you'll probably end up with something functionally indistinguishable from a sine wave at the end, but 'reconstructed to pure sine waves' is nonsense.

Agree with everything else though.
Where is this free public land located in the USA?
I’m not sure there’s a practical or fair way to quantify what someone needs, how can that be measured? Or worse, enforced?
Oh yeah, that is so true... unfortunately because I see something similar at the moment again. I have yet to end up with HR over it so, maybe I'm getting wiser, who knows.

Just heard a comment from Albert Speer on Hitler, saying, paraphrased, that Hitler's ignorancebof basically everything was his greatest strength. And that it turned into a disaster once this ignorant approach failed, the rules of whatever game was played started to matter and things began to fall appart. Ignoring the Nazi angle, this principle is universal it seems. Success in one field used to assume success in unrelated fields, unsuitable first princule thinking, all that works in start-ups as long as VC money can be thrown around. When that money dries up things turn south.
AFAIK, it beat Serral, but he said the setup wasn't optimal (not his keyboard nor his mouse). The games are in the Artosis channel (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nbiVbd_CEIA), and the comments are beginner friendly.
Quite reductionist…

Having one element of a nation state being characterised as socialist doesn’t not equate to socialism… the world is not black and white..
See the definition of landlord and compare it to that of a slumlord.

> slum·lord (n)

> a landlord of slum property, especially one who profiteers.
"Can you rent to the poor without being a slumlord?"
> If I push even more I have to start investigating it. Talk to stakeholders that are not aligned on answers, and it never seems to be about users. It's always growth and velocity

Why is this inherently bad? Growth and velocity can be beneficial for users.
I honestly think exceptions will go down in history as a design mistake. Newer languages (eg Rust, Go) doesn't have them.

Exceptions make it incredibly difficult to be able to follow program flow. Most of the time you just log an exception and then either move on or exit. There's almost no actual handling of an except (other than maybe retrying). It gets even worse when people start using exceptions for control flow rather than errors.

One note about your example:

> std::list <person*> people;

You wouldn't do this in C++. Why? Because ownership isn't clear meaning if people is cleaned up, it won't clean up the elements automatically. You could do:

std::list<person> people;

but you have to be aware of copy semantics. You might do:

std::list<std::unique_ptr<person>> people;

but that gets awkward too.
Teams is dominant?

Do you have any source on that?
In the old days, they finished the pan interiors more than they do now. I've known people who buy a modern cast iron pan and have a machine shop smooth out the cooking surface.
Food has one of the biggest speculative markets in the world, with insane amounts of leverage: commodity futures.
One needs a place to live.
About GDB:
I really like using KDevelop on linux, and they have a pretty good GDB front-end built in. It's pretty similar to VS debugger, with a panel showing local variables and their values, etc. It's definitely not as full featured as VS, and IIRC there was some instability, but if you're on linux and using C or C++ I highly recommend trying it.
Why not rendering a whole site from markdown to HTML in a Cloudflare worker (with cache) instead of on the browser? SEO would benefit too.
Oh no! Who will we turn to to solve this problem for us?