skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Debits and credits is the only way to give your team a common, consistent "language" for dealing with money, and being able to speak this language as a dev gives you superpowers.

Accounting was invented before negative numbers. Because of this, instead of counting money as positive or negative amounts, it uses the debits and credits. Instead of subtracting funds from one account and adding them to another, we talk about crediting one account and debiting another.

But it’s the 21st century and we have negative numbers now - why not just use positive and negative numbers? Using positive and negative numbers gets ambiguous.

If your app lets Alice sends Bob $5, we remove $5 from Alice’s account and add $5 to Bob’s account. So it seems fair to say that if both user accounts started at $0, Alice’s balance is -$5, and Bob’s balance is $5. Let's represent it that way in your DB.

Your CFO would disagree. From your company’s perspective, what these balances mean is that Alice owes you $5, and the company owes Bob $5. In other words, if the company went out of business tomorrow, you'd have to go out to collect $5 from Alice so that you could give Bob the $5 he rightfully thinks he’s holding inside of your app. Wouldn’t it be more logical to show Alice’s balance as $5 and Bob’s balance as -$5?

It gets even more confusing if your software deals with financial instruments like loans, investments, or invoices. Dealing with every balance in your application as a simple positive or negative number gets really confusing, and will cause both ledgering issues and communication breakdowns between your eng and financial teams.
Yes, RPi is totally optional. This article just provides an example setup.
I look forward to seeing what will be able to beat AWS in the long run. I don't know what it could be. I guess, maybe, if they stop innovating in the space others will catch up and then price will become the differentiator?

Idk, right now AWS is a money printing machine.
I think "double accounting" is a good analogy, and if you look at it that way, some tests that look like the same thing written twice in a different way start to make more sense.

The problem is just with effectivity - it'd be fine if the time spent on test would be the same as time on code, but very often the effort on test is much bigger while not even covering all important cases. I think we need to look for methods to get a good case coverage without spending majority of our time writing tests.
I know this was made popular by freakonomics but it has since been disproven. Crime rates dropped in other countries that didn't have Roe v Wade and the data better fits the hypothesis that the drop in crime was caused by the banning of leaded gasoline.
I don't know much about NAS and thought they were just a bundle of drives with some [media] access related apps on a longer cable ... 40G RAM? What's that for, is it normal for a NAS to be so loaded? I was looking at NAS and people were talking about 1G as being standard (which conversely seemed really low).

G4560 suggests you're not processing much, is the NAS caching a lot?
It sounds like you're landlords, but you didn't explicitly state it. But isn't your tenant basically paying off each property, over the next 30 years. So right now your debt load may be high, but you're not experiencing that. You're just paying off the loans from rental income and handling the overage (prop tax and fixes) with the dev job. So in 30 years the two of you will have like 40M dollars paid over the backs of renters by selling all those properties..

I mean that's fine, it's legal. But if that's the goal of real-estate, then of course it will never be affordable to the next generations. Everyone wants to do what you are doing.
That the fact has not occurred to you personally does not mean such an arrangement in aggregate would not help solve the problem of housing as a profitable investment. Maybe you didn't think of this on your own accord, but I bet you WOULD have appreciated if the same unit was cheaper, and this would be the case if 50% of the housing in your market was public housing as is the case in Vienna, even if your unit was privately owned.

Plus your single example of being satisfied with your landlord is not evidence that we should accept landlords across the board. My own landlord sucks at repairing things that need repair, and I find it very frustrating.
It was a debate in the trial, but the presence of drugs can not be ruled out.

"An autopsy found methamphetamine and fentanyl in Floyd’s system at the time of his death. Investigators also found pills contained methamphetamine and fentanyl inside Floyd’s SUV and the backseat of a squad car officers tried to push him into.

"Schleicher pointed jurors toward the testimony of a forensic toxicologist who found fentanyl levels were “well below the ratio” of people who die from an overdose and a “very low” level of methamphetamine in blood taken from Floyd at the hospital."

https://apnews.com/article/trials-us-news-death-of-george-fl...
To be fair, I remember the apple website rendering pretty badly on mobile device for a long time, at some point it actually made me feel like this company had really low UI standards. (I think it was the versions between 2007 and 2017 and didn't used their products at that time)
Deadly swatting increasing on Twitch; alarmed streamers press for change
Unless I'm reading it wrong, it sounds from the license[1] like programs made with Jank that you want to distribute must have their source available. If the intention is that distributions of the _Jank compiler itself_ are the only things that need source available, I think it'd be good to spell that out.

[1]: https://github.com/jeaye/jank/blob/main/LICENSE
I think all of them from the 2010's had this, at least my 3 series does.
> Yes, but they probably should not be buying experimental products for this purpose.

You misunderstand. i didn't back the phone/laptop. i backed the first pine64 boards, which were marketed as being much more capable than they turned out to be:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-1...
You fix it by deprecating only the improved value.

The land beneath a building does not deprecate, whereas the value of the building should.

Since for most properties the majority of the value is in the land itself, your basis to deprecate would be much lower, and more realistic.
The millennials are the largest voting block in the US. What is everyone else supposed to do when the group with the most voting power "feels" powerless? I sure hope millennials are just late bloomers. Where are the great political leaders, engineers, scientists, artists and writers from the millennial generation? All these future problems are hard but solvable when there are people working to solve them.
This hit piece offers much fact but misses the mark on the intent.p and usage. I looked into to this last year and they clearly state you do not own the land and you get a laird title by being part of this estate and the land is held in their name. I don't think anyone thought you are getting an official lordship from the queen. If you did you would be forced to give up your citizenship in Canada unless the prime minister blesses you. You can buy official titles for thousands of dollars but no one expects the same.

The amount of people who are scottish or have historical roots to Scotland is very high. People buy clan colors, people buy fun titles because they want to feel connected to a history that has shaped who they have become.
> We also lag behind those comparison countries in hundreds of other metrics--food security, housing, segregation, relative public spending on healthcare, education, services, etc.

Most of this is simply not true, even though it feels good to say. For example, US public spending on healthcare is greater than all of these countries: https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health...
Interesting! Thanks for this comment and update.
When you effectively take someone's home for government benefit. People think that when they buy property they own it. You're model is more the China version. You don't own property, you only lease it from the government. Hence, your model looks more like the communist model than the traditional Western one.
I use a MacBook, given to me by my company, for work, which is mandatory. Everything else is decidedly non-Apple. Behind the fancy aesthetics, Apple products aren't inherently better than any other, and their company practices suck, so I prefer not to support them whenever possible.
The typical US poster on HN likely makes 3x or 4x the US national median income.
>The "exceptions" is where racist attitudes get broken down. It creates the cognitive dissonance. It doesn't happen right away, but its a significant step in the right direction.

This is why I've never liked the notion of sneering at those who say "some of my best friends are race/ethnicity", as if that is proof of that person's irremediable evilness. Isn't it a good thing for people to, however superficially or insincerely, consider "exceptions"? To put another way, if people instead said "I consider race/ethnicity to be 100% bad", would this be better? Of course not.
I'm curious as to what the solution in this case is then. If election days were holidays, wouldn't the same people still have the same issues with employers? Do shift workers not work on holidays?
This is a misleading citation, because when you read it, it attests to the issues Sachs discusses in this interview and not to the point you appear to insinuate.

"""
Task force chair Jeffrey Sachs, economics professor at Columbia University in New York, told the Wall Street Journal that he had shut down the scientist led investigation into how the covid-19 pandemic started because of concerns about its links to the EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit organisation run by task force member Peter Daszak.1 “A lot is going on around the world that is not properly scrutinized or explained to the public,” Sachs told the newspaper, adding that the task force would broaden its scope to examine transparency and government regulation of risky laboratory research.

The decision came as evidence continued to accumulate that Daszak had not always been forthright about his research and his financial ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Daszak now faces increased scrutiny from scientists, the media, and members of US Congress.

...

Shortly after the pandemic began Daszak led a February 2020 statement in the Lancet alleging that it was a “conspiracy theory” to argue that the pandemic could have started from a laboratory leak in Wuhan. “I have no conflicts of interest,” Daszak later told the Washington Post, regarding his collaboration with Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.4

But Daszak’s story began falling apart last November when the non-profit group US Right to Know published emails gathered through a freedom of information request that showed he had orchestrated the Lancet statement without disclosing that he was funding Shi Zhengli through grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Daszak’s credibility took a further hit this June when Sachs published an essay that called for an independent investigation of the pandemic’s origin and charged that both China and the NIH should be transparent about virus research, including “gain-of-function” studies that make viruses more transmissible and virulent.5 “It is clear that the NIH co-funded research at the WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology] that deserves scrutiny under the hypothesis of a laboratory-related release of the virus,” Sachs wrote.
"""
> it occurred to me that the target market for these fake title companies overlaps considerably with the online history community.

Reading any amount of European history and coming away with a desire to have a title of nobility is bizarre to me.
If you are in Canada, you might find this helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV-vNltqasA
I love fun projects like this. I would love to know if I could make one a router since the nic has two ports.

I have a poweredge now which works fine but it's nowhere close to 20 watts and I barely use a quarter of it's cpu and memory
Inflation is still a huge issue. The last numbers we got indicated 8% inflation. The fed target is 2%. That means that not only are people seeing huge decreases in buying power, but the fed is going to have to continue putting the hurt on the economy in order to get things back under control.
With every bottle of Laphroaig (Scotch Whisky from Islay) comes a code you can use to register 1 square foot of land at the Laphroaig Distillery on Islay. Of course, it's also only vanity, but you can actually visit the plot and they pay you "rent" (1 dram of Whisky at the bar) when you visit the distillery.
I worked there for 2.5 years before escaping the state finally. Not a place I'd want to live (I commuted a long distance each way instead).
It's always 7am on the dot for me. "Daddy, the sun is rising!"
You can use hofstadter to build a live boilerplate? Can we see it somewhere? Highly interested since it's something I tried to build unsuccessfully in the past.
I disagree with the original phrasing, but not necessarily the point being made. A cops job isn't to "get home safe", but rather to make sure everyone gets home safe. If in trying to make sure everyone gets home safe, they reduce the chance they do... well that's the job. It's not for everyone, and there's no shame in it not being for you (there's a reason I'm not a surgeon or physiologist, despite those being actual careers I considered), but if it's not something someone is capable of, we shouldn't be putting them in that position.

Way back in my first year of college as I was getting ready to leave for class I saw a guy in my bushes. Needless to say I hesitated leaving, then I noticed a cop car up the street. I called 911 and told them about the guy hiding from them, and put the dogs in the back yard. A few minutes later, they chased him away from the gate and he started messing with the front door. I went out the back, hopped the fence and headed for the cops through my neighbors side yard, where I was met by one of them. He was naturally suspicious (remember he's just received reports of a guy in the bushes) but after explaining that I was the one who called (and I think showing him my ID that I lived there) we went to look for his partner. At no time did he so much as reach for his gun. We found his partner at the end of the driveway, she had seen him hide behind me car, and he had been ignoring her instructions to come out, so she was waiting for her partner. With him there she proceeded to walk behind and car and bring him out. She was maybe 5'2 and 120 pounds I'd put this guy at 6'. Obviously she had no way of knowing if he was armed, he could easily have had a gun in his cargo pants. Despite that, she too never drew her gun. Just walked back there, told him to turn around, and put the cuffs on him.

This is what I expect from police.
> I'm not sure how you'd "fix" that without penalizing non-rental companies for expanding.

A land value tax would be a pretty straight forward solution to most of the issues around this.
answered on the parent comment - plz let me know if it doesn't answer the question for you
You can also take NAD+ intravenously. IV clinics in most major cities will be able to offer it and it's nothing short of incredible. The difference to energy levels and mental clarity after taking it are both immediate and undeniable.
Imagine wanting to learn Postgres but not knowing how to use a package manager, for example
Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory?
>We still do not have the '30s dream of flying homes or semi-autonomous starships that can be moved easily everywhere... So far we do not even have flying cars (while they might be there technically)...

There is a kind of home that can float anywhere though, I'm quite far long in my plans to move onto a sailing yacht. While my main motivation is a lifelong love of sailing and a desire for a nomadic lifestyle, I'd be lying if I said a small part of my motivation wasn't that shovelling money hand-over-fist into keeping a boat I own seaworthy is much more satisfying than shovelling money hand-over-fist into some random baby boomer's BTL portfolio every month!
I agree with you on this one. the person you are replying too is correct in that it does not matter how much you learn or teach yourself, getting a new number is far from trivial, whereas with getting a new anonymous email account, if you take the time to learn, it is trivial, depending on what you care about.

Do you just care about making burner anonymous emails that just work all the time? There are vendors that you can pay for that service (my go to is protonmail), and there are free options out there as well (my go to is riseup). The problem is finding the vendor that suits your need, since these are niche services for the most part.

If you care more about the privacy / sovereignty side of things, you can set up your own mailserver, and once thats done, its incredibly trivial to spin up new burner emails. But that's an even bigger knowledge gap, to the point where its fairly common even on tech forums like HN for folks to be like "Self host email? nope thats to hard".

So yeah, I agree. This is not really an option for an average user. But in the context of signal, I think it makes perfect sense to allow it as an option, even if its not the default.
> It is not possible for someone to buy their way into lordship or ladyship.

Life peerages are still routinely created (excessively so, in fact) and, arguably, giving generously to your favourite political party might improve your chances of getting one.
The next version of JunOS, JunOS evolved, is moving to Linux though.
How does this work if there's no physical storage?

Can WASI use memory as a virtual filesystem?
"give"
... which is a shame, bc the linked landing page does a great job of explaining what jank-lang is, and it looks really cool.
Yes. I just figured I would compare new for new. I love eBay for electronics shopping.
I have here a piece of paper which states that I own this piece of paper.
Sorry. Where did i mention anything about AGI? Why is that the “context”?

Some form of AGI under some circumstances might be black ball tech. There can be other black balls which have nothing to do with AI let alone AGI.

> The thing you're scared about

I’m scarred about many things but black ball tech is not one of them.

One can discuss existential risks without being scared about it.

> they won't have the other two

If you say so? I don’t agree with you on this, but it feels this would mislead the conversation, since AGIs and black ball tech has at most some overlap.
RethinkDB (RIP) was really big on this concept and we used it for a few applications back in the day. Even since then (~2016) it doesn't seem to have caught on to any other major DBs.
Basically petnames change the addressing architecture from “one global mapping” to “many local mappings.” This means that petnames cannot be used as shared identifiers; you use a global UUID when you need to identify information between users. There are some contexts where this works great (the phone address book) and some where it doesn’t (Web URLs). In effect, if I wanted to drop a URL in this comment, the petname model requires that I use the UUID. You can share petnames with each other to help people, and you could publish petnames and do searches (but this creates trust questions - how do we verify a pet name is accurate?).

It may be an entirely suitable approach, but it basically means there are no global short names. I can’t tell you Im at pfrazee dot com if there’s no global dot com registry.
The chip doesn't really have the performance for audio processing. It operates at 1 MHz, but since it operates on one bit at a time, you'd probably only be able to perform a couple of additions on each audio sample. So not really enough for effects.
As the article explains, debits increase the balance of debit normal accounts, whereas credits increase the balance of credit normal accounts.
Fine, as long as you tax based on what was paid for the property. The father is giving his invested money, no one chose to 'realize' at the current valuation, it is happening because of a traumatic family event.
Not so clear cut. The forensic expert Michael Baden said there was drugs involved.

https://apnews.com/article/trials-us-news-death-of-george-fl...
Agreed. I liken this to computer chess, and later computer go. It was long believed both were impossible.
Just a note, if you are in the context of a particular application command+`/~ will cycle you through the applications windows.
Ask HN: What’s the Current Preferred API Frameworks for Java, Go, Python& Node?
As the title says really… have spent a lot of time building APIs on Nodejs using Express as a base but what is the current best practice frameworks for core langs such as Java, Go & Python?
The transport of the French jam is likely rounding error. This BBC Future article goes into more detail:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220429-the-climate-bene...

Search the page for "the climate impact of food miles" to jump to a graph that breaks down the source of CO2 emissions for various types of food. (The caption also references the source article from Science 2018.) Of the things there, the jam is probably closest to coffee or chocolate.

I'd be more worried about Bonne Maman's packaging's CO2 footprint. However, our kitchen floor is concrete, and the kids break a glass every month or so. We stopped buying glasses for them and use the (extremely low quality glass) jam jars instead. When they get older, we'll look for jam that comes in larger containers.
According to the wikipedia [1], the company was founded in Prague by 3 Russian developers. Now you can say that those ties are hard to break, but another way to look at it is that the founders have (likely) been living abroad for 2+ decades and building a global company there.

They have publicly condemned Russia for attacking Ukraine and closed their Russian offices. They also suspended sales in Belarus. [2]

And closing offices here means letting go of developers (with possibly offering them the opportunity to relocate, of course) which sounds like a pretty hard decision to make both from the human and the business perspective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains
[2] https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
The hard part about learning new languages for me is purging all the old information I have. For example, Perl sigils messed me up for a long time because other languages don't prefix variables and stuff with a symbol. It felt so wrong!
You're repeating my own argument, not contradicting it. Suburbanites freeload off nearby density.
Lol. There are a few chemistry for the sake of drug subs. Judging by the level of discussion though, there aren't a lot of people who really know what they're doing. Most drug production involves some pretty advanced chemistry
> Once you hit that bar, your job becomes buying up housing like it's a Monopoly board.

I agree with your comment, but I enjoy the irony of it even more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie#The_Landlord's_Ga...

TL;DR Monopoly was based on The Lanlord's Game--a board game demonstrating the issues with land monopolism.

> In 1906, she moved to Chicago. That year, she and fellow Georgists formed the Economic Game Co. to self-publish her original edition of The Landlord's Game.
To be fair, I doubt that they expected that nuclear weapons would be developed, and I'm sure they wouldn't be okay with chemical weapons either. But that's the strawman argument.

After all, the 2nd amendment was written at a time when civilian ownership of warships was okay, so I don't see how it shouldn't extend to all arms—past, present, and future.
Aka, a house?

It's gonna be an obligation no matter what
Hi again, for those interested the source code is now available at https://codeberg.org/wavy/rocket-drone
The future of programming probably resembles the holodeck on Star Trek, or minecraft redstone.
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