skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doubt it .. I've seen this pattern play out with about 50% of the companies I've worked at. Looks closely enough and you'll find it everywhere. It's specifically bad with internal tools because there are no market forces at play, just CEO/CTO whim. A single person can remain irrational longer than you can likely tolerate having an unpleasant job.

If Apple did this to say their iOS team and stopped shipping OS updates for 3 years, people would switch to Android in droves.

If your companies CRM / accounting tool / PNL dashboard / etc type tool stopped getting new features for 3 years .. what happens?

Internal teams become upset, complain to the CTO who is the one who made the call.. CTO promises them the new thing is coming and will be 100x better. This can go on for a while until CTO is proven correct, starts firing sacrificial lambs on new team, or slowly backtracks and lets old team start delivering again.

In the meantime other departments jobs get slower/harder/more annoying and theres indirect, hard to measure impact on sales/revenue/profit/etc.
I’d love to go back 100+ years on that. Houses were made with better quality materials in many cases, but were much smaller and without things like fancy kitchens and bathrooms.
>The level of support is: install this update if you want to be secure.

That is as useless as is it is passive aggressive to someone who needs to plan and prioritize updates on a large number of machines. Pissing off your current customers with shitty support is a good way to lose future business though.
MWh

.. appreciate your are trying to get a sense of scale, but it’s important to note that short-duration batteries are not there as a generator to serve load, they are good for providing peak demand support to the system and the local LV distribution network, and to help regulate frequency.

I’m not familiar with the US market environment, but in Australia where we have a number of VPP operators, including Tesla, it the latter service that is the most used.

Frequency regulation services are associated with absorbing and injecting energy into the power grid over milliseconds.
That is no solution. The limits are so low you can't do serious transactions with it. I think it's 1000$ instant daily transfer max, then 2500$ daily non-instant transfer.
Apple is spending $275B to advance Chinese manufacturing.[0]

They can easily afford 1/10th of that to build a fab that's ready in five years right here in the US if they wanted to. (Las Vegas is ideal, no natural disasters of any kind.)

Hell, they could write a check and buy Intel outright.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/report-apple-ceo-tim...
I do foresee pricing pressure ahead for them as a lot of competitors seem to arising.
Not on hand, but I'll put together one in a codepen now.
I was enjoying this essay until it was interrupted by this pseudoscience gibberish.
Interestingly, in Japan, at least until recently, the way credit cards worked is, when you buy something you'd have to say how many payments you were going to pay it off in and your bank would automatically take money from your bank account at that level.

In other words, you'd go to some electronics store and by a $2000 TV and they'd ask "how many payments". You'd say 10 and you'd end up paying $200 a month. I don't know the origin of why they did it that way. To be clear, this was bank credit cards, not store cards. I imagined it was something to do with the commitment and knowing you couldn't just pay off some minimum. Purchases under a certain amount and/or by store you were not allowed to divide up.

I've had Japanese friends come to America and want to buy something for $500 and ask if they can have ask for 4 payments and have to explain that system doesn't exist here. If you want to make 4 payments you make 4 payments.

I've never looked into if the bank is giving all the money to the merchant and then charging the customer per month or if they're sending to the merchant per month. Nor did I ever look into interest fees. I just know it is (was?) common.
> single family home hellscapes

"Hellscapes" is uncalled for. Many people like living in single family homes. The goal of housing should not be to enforce a single cookie cutter configuration on everybody. It should be to enable a free market in housing so that all of the different preferences people have for housing can have a reasonable chance of being met. I agree zoning laws should not favor single family homes to the detriment of other types, but equally they should not disfavor single family homes.
I would like to show you the national payment system in Norway, BankAxept[0]. It's used in 8/10 purchases in physical stores. The system verifies the card has a sufficient balance before the transaction is verified, and charges the account instantly on purchase.

The subscription to the network is 150 NOK/month, with each transaction costing 0,21 NOK each, before volume rebates. 1 EUR/USD is worth roughly 10 NOK at the time of writing, so about 15/0,021 for the subscription/transaction cost. I don't know much about VISA and MasterCard costs, but I would hazard a guess they're higher.

I think the only time I ever use VISA is when purchasing things online, and even then I'm not quite sure it's always VISA. Fun fact, BankAxept stopped accepting the magnetic strip in 2011. Now chip & pin or NFC are the two main ways of paying, with NFC transactions under 500 NOK not requiring the PIN to be entered, except periodically for verification.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankAxept
I haven't seen U-Boot in a while (I use levinboot on PBP), but if it has LCD and USB support already on PBP, then the user should be able to just self-erase the bootloader from eMMC using a command or two and then be free to boot from SD card or USB. Or just erase it from the booted default Manjaro.
Lol. Talk about straw man argument.
If we take that as true, then either the top commenter or the UN is utterly incompetent to perform this very predictable prediction. Because the UN predicts steady US population growth over the next few decades, not a collapse. The Census Bureau predicts similarly.

I can't find any serious prediction of imminent collapse.
$3.00 gas could be around the corner By Chris Isidore
I always found it disappointing that 'the pocket' of this argument was never focused on. I 'audit' many communities which are for bigger blocks and the amount of substance around the logistics and decentralization of lack there of with bigger blocks is sparse. I'm completely open minded to the debate, yet for some reason only the small blockers rest on the core of the argument, while the large blockers make semi-conspiratorial adjacent claims or make the conclusion seem forgone - in a world which respects 'trust not verify,' some communities really need to reflect on how their narratives live up to the mantra.

To actually address the video:

Citing Moore's law for storage costs as justification to allow blocks to be some arbitrary size is always a kludge. A blockchain which scales for real will have dynamic market prices for block space.
>> FM does not guarantee most mortgages,

>What? Of course Fannie and Freddie guarantee the MBS they issue

Yes, they guarantee the MBS they issue, which is on a minority of all loans. The fact remains they do NOT guarantee most mortgages. They guarantee conforming loans, which are around 40% of all mortgage loans. And of all conforming loans, they only end up buying ~60% of them. So they at most guarantee around 24% of all mortgages, which is certainly not most mortgages.

>Alice, who ....

Ignoring the other side where landlords write stuff off and renters get tax breaks. On the ownership side, you're also missing lots of tax changes.

So not identical.

Also, the govt has an interest in property ownership as they have solid evidence that people owning property in a region make them less more stable. So there's very good reason to provide tax incentives for policy reasons. It's been shown that tax incentives, dollar for dollar, are pretty good incentives compared to most other forms of government spending to affect policy.

>The IRS already taxes tons of benefits based on the imputed income, even if no cash changes hand.

And they have tons the other way too - all because they desire to affect outcomes. So that they can do it is not really strong evidence to if they should do it, unless you address all the reasons they desire to do it.

>Not if the supply of housing is completely inelastic.

Which it is not [1]. "most areas that are widely regarded as supply-inelastic are, in fact, severely land-constrained by their topography" which is not most of the country.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1193422
Right click the generated map, turns out there's a menu.
It does: that's what the byobu-enable part does. It modifies the .profile or .bashrc or whatever. All subsequent remote logins to that user account will automatically start/reattach to byobu (which uses tmux backend by default iirc).
“grossly mishandling the Murfie customer data“. Yep!
Sure, but it requires a fork of the EMV/global platform protocols, and a technology change that obviates payment terminals. It will always exist as a legacy integration, but you basically need a parallel infrastructure with better economics.

An open wireless tap protocol for cryptocurrency hardware wallets would do it, and then there would have to be a delegation wallet / cash register version where you can delegate payment collection to an employee without giving them the whole bank account, and then some kind of insurance to backstop inevitable fraud, and a market for securitzing and trading the bonds for that insurance, all with transaction fees that are competitive with cards and interac. Nothing current crypto exchanges and companies can't do today.

I actually foresee these becoming popular as a reaction to CBDC's and the cashlessness that will very severely marginalize people and cut them out of the economy. Further, I could see shops themselves polarizing, where just like you may not go to a McDonalds (I haven't been in one in decades), there are places you go, and places you don't, and the places that only accept govt fiat will be the places you go when you don't have a better option. It will be like going to a small town greengrocer who accepts crypto or gives credit by private arrangement repayable in crypto vs. some globalized big box store. There's a floor on how stupid and overreaching regulations can be before the economics of peoples individual risk/reward calculation switches to evading them. It's literally the mechanism behind pervasive low level corruption in authoritarian regimes, where past a point, governments themselves have invented the incentives for citizens to evade them, and created massive underground economies as a result. Worse, the state benefits from the black market money and turns a blind eye to the criminals who support it, and that's how you get places like Chicago, Baltimore, LA, and to a lesser extent, Vancouver.

Yes, the duopoly will be broken, but it will be the side effect of emerging cashless society policies from some spectacularly naive policymakers.
It's because we wanted our team to be aware that we'd have this intention so we don't miss out! If someone leaves PostHog voluntarily to start a new company (i) that's sad for us but is a pretty cool reason to leave and (ii) if we were willing to employ them, we'd be willing to invest in them more.

There are some pieces of missing context I guess. Primarily that we're small still (30 people) so we tend to hire a lot of ex founder / generalist type people (and most are technical) who'd be quite well suited as founders.

One thing I will do is add a more detailed handbook entry to create more clarity around this benefit so we don't mislead/confuse. Issue made (https://github.com/PostHog/posthog.com/issues/4013)!
You need a network of some sort, unless each bank has to maintain a direct interface with every other bank.
The author said that he found that most beginners spend exorbitant amounts of time finding the best way - I don't have the same experiences; It goes mostly like this:
Imagine wanting to play a game of chess but not knowing the rules - of course, you won't be playing much chess, maybe you will be moving some pieces, but that would not be the chess, you don't know what moves/games are possible - it will feel daunting and impossibly difficult; now if you ever watched chess master play the game, it feels so super easy, mostly because he has the idea/intuition about the game; he doesn't have to think about every single possible move, only a portion of them that he knows (through a pattern matching - he played tens of thousands of games, and probably more) that are good;
now replace 'game' with programming; beginners are handicapped by abstraction and complexity that is today's world of programming, and not the by the 'perfectionism'. Once they understand the scope of the problem they are trying to solve, and the possible ways they can go around solving it, the implementation is just trivial, even for beginners.
For example, take junior web devs for example. How can you not expect them to waste time finding the 'right choice' (not even the best one), when there are hundreds of new web frameworks, css toolkits, html preprocessors etc...

Also, about the 'best way' - given the 'right' set of constrains, there is the best way to do almost anything. Unfortunately, most of the times, there is almost no constrains.
I've implemented tens of accounting systems, always multi-currency and usually multi-lingual. Originally in RDBMS, but in the last decade generally with triggers in SQLite. The most complicated one I've done was Kraken (~2011) which needed arbitrary precision support for unknown future crypto asset types.

Opine: (1) Accounting as a profession is being automated away as governments create APIs to facilitate report submission and SCM/ERP/payroll become automated. Not too soon. (2) Yes, IMHO absolutely the debit/credit account terminology needs to die. It's backward and a source of confusion for the non-indoctrinated. Use negative numbers and present formatting for antiquarians where required. (3) As a student of ancient history, falsely ascribing off-handed western-inventors to things is so 19th century colonialist. Double entry is just an overly-lauded stage in the development of accounting anyway, not the endgame. Ancient societies got by just fine tying knots in cords (ancient China, Maya, Polynesia, etc.) and many ledgers run fine without double entry now. It's primitive compared to what's available in computer science today. (4) Distributed transaction systems are an algorithmic problem, not an excuse for manual documentation. Let's give away autonomous implementations for free, make GAAP about reporting, standardize account and transaction identification and innovate on process.

New systems recommendation:

(1) For account identification, use IIBAN which provides IBAN-compatible account identification and checksums and is an open system @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/iiban

(2) For all accounting, use UTC.

(3) For transaction identification, use UTC second of origination (UTCSO) + account of interest (AOI; eg. IIBAN) + intra-second transaction identifier (ISTI).

Free thoughts on forward-looking accounting systems @ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/globalcitizen/ifex-protoco...
They are being built, just sort this list by % change and look at population over the past few decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area

A bunch of places towards the top of the list (not just a few) have doubled or more in population over the past 30 years. It is just that in the US people have a death wish and often flock to places like Phoenix and Las Vegas and San Bernardino rather than some place sensible and organize cities into the same endless sprawl everywhere.
‘Like Wildfire’: Covid Cases Skyrocket on Marshall Islands
Even if this is true, those communities always have the class of people moving through and that class deserves a vote, even if the individuals within it are changing. For instance, take a university town with population of 100k, 25k of whom are students. The students themselves come and go, lasting about 4 years each, but it still makes sense that 25% of the vote each election should go to the student community overall. This doesn't happen for a variety of reasons, but some of them are the sorts of artificial barriers like voter registration that depress the vote of these sorts of communities.
> while hackers and builders who prefer not going through a custom Linux install/config for their project

That's a false dichotomy, nobody is demanding that users be forced through "custom Linux install" (whatever that means). The problem is also not primarily that Pine64 have chosen a "flagship" distro, but how they and said distro behave towards the other options. I'm sure the quality of the flagship distro is massively improved by making life hard for the project that did useless things like making the camera in the phone work...
> do away with the whole dog and pony show.

Eliminate the personal income tax. Everyone in personal tax side of HR Block and IRS can find some other career which is useful. Rake the beaches or something.
When I cam to Canada from the USSR in the beginning of 90s people at place where I worked were telling me that I am more of a capitalist that they were.
When I was much (much) younger I bought one of these titles. Obviously its complete BS and I never called myself a 'Laird' because its cringe. But you would be surprised how beautifully put together the packages are. The paper is like thick parchment and there is this nice looking wax seal. They also put together a kit with lots of information and photographs of your so-called "land." The land that I "bought" was part of a nature preservation project so they were at least using some of the money to do something good with. I'm not saying its not completely misleading. But I think it would still be a cool gift for someone if it was priced right.
These tend to be the same group.
In New England, all our ATMs are covered or in vestibules because of weathet-related concerns, so this isn't an additional issue.
VPPs are actually a treatment for this issue. By recognizing the value of these new customer-owned systems can provide back to the electricity system, we can give people a reason to stay connected and to contribute back to the common resource.
biiig asterisk on that is necessary

basically friends in the same country using a select few major banks are likely to have instant sepa available between them and it seem like the normal thing, while the reality is that instant-sepa is a massive patch work of availability between countries, banks, currencies

an outsider to the EU trying to do business is unlikely to be a part of a social circle where everyone is using the same thing

theyll encounter super slow multi business day SEPA, where no bank knows where the transfer is yet, the same as ACH in the US
> buildpacks have been a nightmare.

Can you share more? I thought a Fly.io person said _the opposite_ some time ago so I would love to know what the pain points are.
I assumed they were referring to the % cash "back". For example the Apple Card

> Get up to 3% cash back on every purchase you make

https://apply.applecard.apple/

I've always assumed I'm paying that 3% so might as well try to get some of it back.
Seems fine for reserve power but not for emergency power. And in an emergency you don’t want back-feeding anyway.

But I’m not an expert on any of this.
Maybe a per tab memory limit.
Step 11 talks about increasing memory.

https://www.guidingtech.com/fix-google-chrome-out-of-memory-...
The root of rich countries problems is the rich.
Yeah, but the danger is that cash-only businesses will have smaller check sizes, and at the end of the day that probably translates to less in alcohol sales. So, if sales decreases because of unfavorable payment methods (such as cash), then it's the high-margin item (alcohol) that probably gets affected most.
There is no such thing as a "secure language", it's very dangerous to think like that. You can have exploits like SQL injection, for example, in any language.
If you live in one of the 26 states that have time-of-use rates (mine is 21¢ peak and 1¢ overnight), you can enroll in that, import your schedule in the powerwall app, and it will automatically deliver the bonus power to your house during the peak, allowing you to export even more solar to the grid during high demand.
I can't find the article now, but I remember reading about SecDB and comparing it to programming in traditional languages. The point that stuck with me is that the software industry has spent decades taking other industry's data and lifting it from flat files into databases, yet our own code is still in flat files.
Applicability of Big Data in Climate Change Research: System of Systems Thinking
Factors also depend on the age of the house and your location - harsher climates are much worse on various house factors.

A new house will have much less costs to maintain over 25 years than a 50 years old house.

Having owned a few houses (both relatively new), and having gfs with houses and seeing the stuff they've done, and with helping my mom and sister with their house decisions and fixing, the list above is not far off.

State Farm says to budget 1-4% of the value of a house for annual upkeep costs. You're significantly below that it sounds.
Ugh, I love his stuff. I wish there was the source to this like his town generator. Makes me miss my old gaming group.
Only if they live in it.
APFS can't do incremental updates, they need to always replace the whole snapshot

I won't give exact technical reasons, but each update since APFS was made default is few GBs
"Based on an input of human transcriptions – a few dozen pages will suffice – the computer develops a reading model that can be more precise, and that will certainly be quicker, than handing the transcription work out to humans. "

I really like the idea of per-document OCR models.

So much of Europe's culture and history is locked in latin books that have been scanned onto the archive but not successfully OCRed. Progress on this front would be nice! (As someone ignorant of both European and Chinese paleography, China's historical text digitization projects seem to be far in advance of Europe's - I was able download 200k classical chinese poems like it's nothing in a nicely formatted json archive on GitHub, for instance).
Neat! https://github.com/PostHog/hedgehog.vc/issues/1
> Foxconn was able to recruit more than 8000 workers overnight...This level of efficiency used to belong to the US.

is that efficiency or just control/desperation of workers?
i'm not sure i'd like to see that come to the u.s...
> consumers can dispute anything within x days and merchants have to issue a refund. No administration.

Er merchants will get instantly crushed with first party fraud. As soon as people realize they can acquire a good and then get an instantly approved dispute the day after, game over. Unless thats not what you mean?
Yep, and actually I'm ok with that. We don't have to be blind to the fact that Saudi Arabia locked a bunch of people in a hotel until they agreed to give money and control to a dictator. We don't have to forget that they killed a journalist in one of their embassies for the crime of being one of their critics.

And it's not like Saudi Arabia, China, or certainly Russia would be very fast to extradite someone to the US anyway so this is just sort of the way it works.