skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Setting up the environment, dealing with dependency hell, upstream dependencies assuming everyone is using $OS or $ARCH or $FRAMEWORK

- Dealing with documentation that lies to you

- Trying to understand and modify code written by people who didn't give a damn to whoever was going to read it some years later -- and resisting the urge to refactor the problematic bits because it would risk the schedule
> If the rental price of the apartment is above that, they won't pay it and find another place. If there are no places they will go homeless. Since landlords are already charging for this value, an increase of taxes does not increase the rents.

Nope. Sorry but that's not how it works.

If the landlord has to pay 4x tax they will pass some (all) of that increase to the renter. Also, a 4x increase in tax != 4x increase in rent.

So, say the property is worth 1mil$, and you pay 1% tax. That's 10k. You charge 3k rent. The taxman makes the tax 4%, now you have to pay 40k. You decide to pass 30k to the renter. So now they pay 36k+30k rent per year. 4x tax, 2x rent.

If a landlord does this, sure. Renters find a new place. No brainer. If all landlords do this, the renters arr fucked. Finding a new place will not save you. In effect you make it way worse on the renters.

The solution to the housing crisis is not some trick involving taxes, rent caps, adding more rules etc. The solution is simple: build more housing. That's the only thing that will work and will bring down the pressure.

We also need to stop conflating affordable housing with home ownership. If you are having trouble finding a place to rent you can afford there is no way you can buy a house. I feel like the HN bubble w/ our high sky salaries is somewhat disconnected from what the average person can actually do.
You are repeating the same tired bullshit here. When supply is constrained, greatly increased demand can drive up prices. That doesn't mean storage doesn't scale, it just means we haven't built enough factories yet.

I'm sure you can remember many episodes in computing where the price of something (DRAMs, GPUs, whatever) temporarily went up because of supply constraints. It would have been deeply foolish to proclaim this mean price declines were over.

A similar thing happened with PV back around 2009 or so. The long term decline trend appeared to stall, because of poly-Si shortages. Dishonest skeptics claimed PV cost declines were over. What happened then? The prices provided incentive for more manufacturing capacity to be added, and the decline tracked back to the long term downward trend line.
>b) is selling a propery for more than 3% (inflation adjusted) of the intial purchase value

This makes it more profitable to sit and collect rent than to sell. Property will never change hands. I hope the current owner knows how to build.
When I’m falling asleep too late, exhausted, I say to myself: I’ll be alright tomorrow, just tired. I’ve been tired many days and I got through just fine. It doesn’t solve the dead battery problem but it removes the anxiety around not getting enough sleep or dreading the next day.
No, you’re ignoring all the maintenance your landlord would usually be responsible for.

Things like internal plumbing, internal wiring, air conditioning and appliances.
I do use the numpad (both on and off num lock) and the other keys on the computer.
> scripts are stored in the root path amongst resources

that has been a known and documented bad practice for _at least_ 10 years.
Time has no measure here in the abyss.
Yeah we use it.

It’s however a database within a database. PostgreSQL does not natively text search on these kinds of languages.
agree agree agree. but it's completely unrealistic to hope that humans will do what must be done on their own...
That, and gas is used for heating not for electricity generatuon. Which part of Germany's problem with high CO2 emmisions.
I like what the article is going for, but I would prefer to have the actual const { parentPort } = require("worker_threads") code and everything below it at the top. Everything else is fluff.
I feel like just when we start to realize we're destroying things with our chemical creations ...

FWIW, this was understood quite a long time ago. Consider that the EPA "SuperFund"[1] program began in 1980. And it's not like that was the first time anybody understood that some chemicals have very harmful impacts "in the wild."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
There are still houses in the US being built right now that have zero water and all must be delivered by tanker.

No wells to be dug, no neighbors to beg from, and now that the Colorado River is dangerously low they are stopping the delivery trucks.

This means people will have to move eventually, and good luck selling your 1.5 million dollar home with no water access.

Lol, California has 'severe drought conserve water' as all the businesses keep watering their 100% unnecessary grass, Nestle bottles it up and sells it back to us, we have almonds being grown to make fucking almond milk, and we have strained power grids warning of high power consumption while every fucking business leaves their signage and parking lots lit up like fucking Christmas.

But it's we the people taking showers and running the AC that is the problem.

None of this makes any sense!
Tell HN: Apple products come with ungrounded plug in India
The standard 3 pin plug is required for grounding in India but Apple do not sell chargers with 3 pin by default or include it in any of their products. If you buy a macbook and use the default charger, you will feel a slight buzz on the top of the laptop. Your ports might also shock you.

This is quite unexpected given $200-400 laptops come with a decent grounded charger here.

Kids can get shocked while touching your laptop in charging state.

Picture with current testing device: https://ibb.co/YbqtgVX
> Academics just quietly assumes that any recent Ph.D. is just obsessed with research, even apparently useless research, and will pursue it neglecting nearly everything else in life including being financially responsible.

This isn't even an assumption. It's borderline enforced. I dropped from the program after paying my own way because my lack of interest in being financially irresponsible put me at the bottom of the bin for good research opportunities.

Academics force you to take 9-10/hr. and work 60 hours a week (of course on a contract for only 30 hours), because if they don't have the constant meat-mill of H1Bs and young financially irresponsible people the entire industry would collapse into itself. It's not unlike tech itself which relies on exploiting the revolving door of new grads to get cheap labor. The only difference is the new grad working for BigCo for sub-par dollars can usually afford to eat. Where I went to school the MAJORITY (not an exaggeration) were on some kind of assistance. Either food or housing. Post-docs were barely able to afford rent.
Wait when you start learning the Chinese cutting techniques:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXCCfwuPwy8
The Joel on Software post about open source software is relevant: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

For DreamWorks, they no longer see rendering as a differentiator for them. Now they are seeing it as a cost and want to decrease the cost of rendering improvements by making it open source.
Just like the Uber credit card. They've removed every benefit and re-issued a vanilla master card.

Its a company you can't trust.
Maybe capitalism has some serious side effects
No spaces in Thai also. Difficult to discern word boundaries.
Essentially like if every car was a ICE BEV hybrid, but the ICE in some power plant somewhere.

The reving and idling or low power output of the ICE can be avoided if it is in some power plant somewhere.
Usually the pursuit of perfection is FUD.

In my area, a local republican committee is very concerned about the fate of bunny rabbits, birds of prey and riverbank erosion. Amazing and inspirational, except the catalyst is that a bunch of land was cleared to build a factory, in an polluted industrial park, to manufacture wind turbine components.

Even though said turbines will be installed ~200 miles away, windmills attract a lot of ire in some circles.
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Not just factories, also the mines that are needed to feed input materials to those factories: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/chart-lithium...

You know what we call it when factories and raw materials can't keep up with the demand and lead to skyrocketing costs? A system that doesn't scale.

DRAM and GPUs aren't bottlenecked by raw materials the way energy storage is. It was a shortage of electrical components, not a shortage of copper. It is a very wrong assumption to think that resource extractions behaves like semiconductor manufacturing.
Do you think it is wrong for society to have contractual requirements such as "I will help you if you are trying to help yourself"?
It’s not that we haven’t solved some major environmental problems; it’s that we haven’t solved all of them. In the U.S. we are also in a political environment where one party absolutely does not care. Republicans have gone from creating the EPA under Nixon and using cap and trade under Reagan to now considering environmental mitigation a leftist plot to destroy America. Dropping per capita carbon consumption is not the relevant thing to look at. When it comes to pollution and environmental effects the total amount is what matters. If x tons of a chemical causes a problem then talking about per capita values is meaningless.
Taxi companies never did rewards programs, and they had cheaper cost structures.
The US imported gas from Saudi Arabia and other states that

They were in conflicts with the US a lot.
I mean 911 was pretty much all Saudi Arabian terrorists.

With other nations like Iraq, Iran as well though depending on
who ran it and who the president was.

I believe the US is producing enough oil domestically.

Yet I know the US was importing oil from Russia prior to the
Ukraine war.

States like the US or EU do it because it makes economic sense.

The scope of oil is far too narrow.

EU and the US rely on many commodoties to mkae the country, industry and
ecnomomy work. A loss in some of the more serious ones can have a devastationg imapct.

Thus, the question should be extended to:
Why do states and unions make themself dependent upon commodities they must
import. Should each state / unnion be self sufficent in all critical supplies?

That is of course impossible, or nearly so.
Each state/union will remain voulnralbe ans exposed if supply lines get cut off for any reaosn.
Is there any practical impact to this? Zoom is broken, shouldn't need root at all, and there's no excuse for this kind of sloppiness, but...does it matter? Is there any Mac out there where this is a problem? Is there a single Mac out there with multiple users and Zoom installed? I'm being slightly hyperbolic, but this is a giant nothingburger.
While that strategy in general makes sense, energy is much more critical for the buyer than the seller and that ultimately gives Russia leverage over Germany instead. You want codependency that harms both parties as equally as possible
Would the fact that the capital held by a lot of investors is provided by companies that are not co-ops limit their ability to invest in co-ops?
Both, of course. Depth in one or a few areas, breadth in many unrelated areas.
The quantity of artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, etc.) in that many cokes, many of which were shown to be carcinogenic in experiments with rats, can’t be good for him…
This one might be a tough nut to crack. The carbon-fluoride bonds present in these chemicals require much more energy to break than what is found in nature, e.g. as heat and sunlight. These chemicals simply do not degrade, and due to their surfactant properties, they are almost impossible to contain once spread to the environment.

We have no way of getting rid of these chemicals except possibly to spread more chemicals, which then would need to break apart only those specific molecules AND capture their fluoride ions in some inert matrix to prevent them from forming other compounds as well as directly affecting the environment and our bodies.

We’re pretty much SOL and the only thing we can do is STOP using fluoride chemicals permanently, which we can’t entirely do, because things like uranium enrichment are dependent on teflon.
I completely agree with that last post's reasoning for why a pop-up city might stay empty or become another New York.

I don't see why it needs a land value tax and having one causes anything. All the things you are putting into your land value calculation cause that. Not the tax.

Now don't get me wrong. I'd love me a land value tax as it would probably mean I'd pay less for where I live. But that's it so far. Color me unconvinced otherwise.
Why would you want to replace an array reference by its contents; what does that even mean?

In high level languages "array reference" and "array contents" are basically the same thing.

It looks like in Perl there a passing semantics whereby array objects, denoted by @, when passed into a function, automatically spread into multiple arguments. To pass the arrays as individual objects, they have to be wrapped in an additional level of boxing; the function then has to unbox the outer box to get to the regular box.

It would have been much wiser for arrays to just pass as encapsulated objects, and to have a special syntax for requesting an array to be spread into arguments when that is required.

In terms of the syntax for this feature, it really smells like it is driven not by considerations of what is readable, memorable and consistent but by the design process of "where in the grammar can I still get away with cramming a new operator token, such that there is no parsing conflict?" Kind of like, "how can I cram this camping chair into the packed closet, so that everything doesn't come crashing down, provided I slam the door fast enough?"
Ummm... What
Python's being 2nd best for everything is kind of a meme that's been around for a while, not necessarily a rigorous evaluation of Python's viability for all possible use cases. And this is a thread about pans. :)
That was pretty much the entire joke behind both Green Acres and the Beverly Hillbillies, to show the difference of cultures in America in an absurd way. Seeing everything become homogeneous is kind of sad
If we spend all the oxygen on climate change and yet we are pretty much falling at tackling it, then I think there is way too little "oxygen" dedicated to not destroying the planet.
Daily OTC Pearl: Glycerin Suppositories
I had a boss when I worked in Automotive who used to say “We’re not a car company that makes software, we’re a software company that makes cars”
It’s not such an easy thing to describe.

Yes we join on indexed integers too.

The thing is, we believe as the amount of data changes the planner will give different instructions. Even after lots of analyzing and vacuuming.

It’s happened so many times and so randomly and because of growth we really have to re-examine joins that were very fast 6 months ago that are now really slow.
> Meanwhile coal pollution is killing people by the thousands but this is somehow ok?

There is a tram going on a track, killing 10 children each week. You can switch it yo another track where it has a small chance of killing a thousand and you will be blamed for that.
Environmentalism never turns into death cults.
Fanaticism did not drive 3M to create PFAS nor DuPont to create DDT, nor did fanaticism drive them to continue its use.

Your strawmen need work.
Please don't take HN in high-indignation/low-information directions, or post snarky one-liners.

It dumbs down discussion, as well taking it off topic and turning it nasty. Important topics deserve better than that. Unimportant topics too, actually.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This doesn't really contradict my point (maybe it's a reply to a different comment). Letting fossil fuel proponents hand-wave or ignore or lie about externalities won't make nuclear power happen any faster.
A full land value tax has never been tried.

Currently the closest example is Singapore[0], but they have much more central control than what a Georgist would find ideal. 99 year leases are far to long, and shorter leases would have much more beneficial effects.

Detroit was an example of a city that massively expanded[1] because of it, but eventually lost it's way.

Harrison, PA[2] is an example of a city that 'recently' used a revenue neutral split-rate system to keep from going bankrupt.

[0]: https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/singapore-economic...

[1]: https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2013/0813clevelandg...

[2]: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/6/non-glamorous-g...
The problem isn't that no one knew what's in the fumes and that those chemicals are being eaten/inhaled. It's that in laboratory testing they never showed any impact on humans - but scale it to few billion people and then you notice increased liver cancer rates.

The only good thing is that making non stick pans with this stuff has already been banned in US and EU for a good while.
Kind of related, Textmode Window Environment is interesting.

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

A couple screenshots are on the old SourceForge site.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/
I didn’t mean as a property tax, I meant upon sale/transfer.
Uber had rewards program?
The Windows installers are not activated. You need either an OEM key in your firmware, a retail key or a volume activation server.
Do capitalism!

No, not like that.

As a society we need to decide if we want to have the cake or eat the cake. If I own the land, I own the land. The city has a responsibility to consider this (and many other things) when developing infra.

There are a multitude of levers that can be pulled to deincentivize this behavior, but the tragedy is that the people who benefit from it are hand in hand with the people that make and apply the rules.
The guideline is 0.02 ppt for PFOS and 0.004 ppt for PFOA.
Apparently, this is not uncommon issue. The solution is to buy another cable from apple.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/oxvp3f/grounding_my_ma...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17575/how-to-prope...

Do not use the standard charger if you can feel buzz on top of your laptop. Find a replacement and use it.

I'm using a separate USB type c charger which does not have the issue with proper ground support (came with my $400 windows laptop).

While the buzz on top might be tame, the ports can result in more shock.
I agree on that. If you’re going to be involved in the political process you should a minimum keep track of the politicians on what they’re doing at any given time.
Strange to target society's efforts to fight climate change for consuming the political oxygen, rather than those fighting tooth and nail to keep pumping out CO2.

It is the biggest environmental threat facing civilisation, but if only the climate warriors would give up in the face of powerful vested interests and economic intertia, perhaps they'd have time to plant a few wildflowers? /s
Isn't it a bit arrogant to dismiss the creator of ZMQ as "the author complains about his own misunderstanding" without explaining exactly what is misunderstood or how it would be understood correctly? This isn't a random guy off the street...
Some links:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837464/

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/research/car-t...

https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects...
They seem to work ok for me!
> That's not to say these are aliens,

Yeah no kidding. There's a huge ocean of difference between "We saw something in the sky and don't know what it was" and "We saw space aliens."

Governments are mostly saying the former while alien enthusiasts seem to hear the latter.
They would still need to complete their lease or pay the penalty, I dont think 'easily' is the appropriate adverb. Besides homeowners can also do this, it's called selling your home, people do it all the time albeit with a bit more paperwork than the renter.

The lack of freedom derives not from imaginary mobility constraints, but from the provision of shelter coming from a 3rd party landlord. Your roof is resting on the whims of a profit motive for someone who owes you nothing.

You can't see how that presents a fundamental lack of independence?
The point of my comment wasn't to take a position on whether the excursion fare is good or bad. That's a trade-off with pros and cons. Your position is that the cons greatly outweigh the pros, and you make a very reasonable argument for that.

However, what the original article said is different. It said the excursion fare "exists solely to make money" and "it is a scam" (emphasis mine). As if there is no conceivable rationale at all for the existence of excursion fares and the only possible way to see it is that BART is simply greedy.

BART may be greedy, or maybe they're just not seeing the balance of pros and cons. I don't know. I thought the article went overboard in being so confident that BART's motives are definitely nefarious.

TLDR: It's not that I'm favor of the excursion fare; it's that I'm against articles with hyperbolic melodrama.
For selling advanced engines with the proviso that they wouldn't be used for military purposes (sure!). It was a combination of desperately trying to improve balance of payments - though the chance of the USSR buying more than a handful was nil - magnified by Stafford Cripps' Stalin sympathies/naivete.
I think it's indicative that Zoom's genesis was from unhappy Cisco / WebEx engineers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Yuan#Career

"Upon arriving in the US, Yuan joined WebEx, a web conferencing startup, where he was one of the first 20 hires. The company was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007, at which time he became vice president of engineering. In 2011, Yuan pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. When the idea was rejected, Yuan left Cisco to establish his own company, Zoom Video Communications."

Agreed, Zoom does shitty things. But everything else is worse.
https://myigetit.com/

They do it for the big cad programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon#History
"CFC known to be an issue in 1974." What followed was a slow walk of bans that is still progressing.
And it was fought. "In 1986 DuPont, with new patents in hand, reversed its previous stance and publicly condemned CFCs."
There's plenty of non-compliance with the bans: "In 2018 public attention was drawn to the issue, that at an unknown place in east Asia an estimated amount of 13,000 metric tons annually of CFCs have been produced since about 2012 in violation of the protocol."

So, I state that while CFCs are mostly banned right now. They're still an issue, and it took far too long to regulate. It is seriously not nonsense.
>Landlords don't create added value. I'm skeptical that it is a necessary service

Subdividing your land and making it available to others is valuable. The world without that is all single family homes.
Unethical but legal means you have no recourse in a land of the law.
I never said Java took a share of .NET's desktop, but the dominant client-side platform these days is neither Java nor .NET. And by Java I mean the 27-year-old Java SE specification (real-time Java makes up for a negligible portion of Java's market share, and while JavaCard is incredibly popular, I count it separately).
Since PFAS never really breaks down and we're still creating it, is a 200 ppt inevitable at some point?
Okay but what's your solution? The reason land is valuable is because many people want it in specific areas. I genuinely don't have an answer to the question.
Sharing sadness and frustrations is different than complaining.
What? This is a very real subject. Have you worked at a FANG company and been to any lunch room?
I really like Pop for pair programming, etc.

https://pop.com/