skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see you too are familiar with the Azure status page.
I can only control my own actions. If Bob does that then I'd stop being friends with Bob and stop going to his BBQs. If other people want to keep using Bob's services thats entirely up to them. And their continued use is entirely voluntary. If they want they can stop.

It's already balanced. All anyone has to do is make a personal choice rather than invoking calls for coersion.
https://twitter.com/solanobahn/status/1547604262527463424
It seems to me that your argument against taxing billionaires reduces to “we shouldn’t tax them because if the commoners have more money then residential housing will be more expensive.” I would argue that is more indicative of issues in the housing market rather than a good reason to continue to allow the extreme aggregation of wealth.

The sharp rise in housing costs in the past two years in some areas is down to complex confluence of factors, real income being one, artificial scarcity being another, the entrance at scale of corporate interests into residential housing being a third. Add historically low interest rates and fears of flooding, lack of water, and fire, and I’m not sure the increase in prices is such a simple relationship as indicated.

I’m also not suggesting we take the money and rain it down as stimulus checks. That was a desperate response —- we can do better.
- this seems highly specific for a SPA and not server-side

How would you expect users to enter numbers on the server?
Are you using a google voice number or something? A lot of big tech wont accept that type of number for verification.
Isn't that technology in a nutshell?

Doing tasks that used to require human labor in an automated fashion.
Hahaha. I see what you did there
My best guess is that it was a proof designed to verify the success of the casting process, not resistance to theoretical real-world exposure.

All metals have a ductile-to-brittle transition temperature. Ductile failures are generally preferred to brittle (think bend/dent vs shatter). Some steels have a D2B temp around 0°C, which makes them basically untrustworthy in colder environments.

The D2B Temp can be lowered by altering the elemental makeup of the metal, controlling the crystal structure, and other various metallurgical techniques. These same techniques are utilized to produce metals with other desirable properties, like increased ductility, higher tensile strength, corrosion resistance, etc.

Casting, especially large complex castings of custom tailored alloys, are temperamental. Controlling the elemental makeup is relatively easy, but controlling the crystal structure is difficult.

My guess is that they were paying for a specific alloy & temper of metal because it had their desired properties, and successfully cast samples would have a D2B below -70°C.

It is a standard & easy test to perform, but I could see how the tech running it would not connect the dots above. That being said, they don't need to know why the test was ordered & paid for, they just need to run it.
If you can afford it then lock in now for 6%, re-finance in 5-10years when interest rates go down.
True, and Office 2013 on MacOS does not work on newer versions of the OS (Intel chip).

At least Windows 10 has backwards compatibility, but even that is ending with Windows 11.
Yeah, but back in the 80's etc. houses were nowhere near as expensive as they are now.
Oh interesting, had no idea Zoom was so robust. The projector bit is good to know, thanks for sharing!
You can always refinance when the fed inevitably reverses course.
"pointing out that it might make ETH, the network's native token, deflationary."

Isn't deflation basically the whole point now? Anyone who buys crypto with the expectation of its price going up is essentially betting on deflation. That's what economists predicted when bitcoin launched and it seems to have held up. Most crypto (certainly BTC and ETH) have no intrinsic value. They pay no dividends, offer no equity. They are described as currency, not assets. So price fluctuations must be explained in terms of inflation and deflation. Rising price is deflation.
You don't see many breeds of dogs doing any of those things either.

I think you both overestimate dogs and underestimate cats.
So, what exactly happened to the old standardized, interoperable, properly distributed VoIP?
It seems like this only affects areas where tech workers make up a lot of the population, like the bay area.

Also, it assumes that non-tech workers won't just move to cheaper areas.
Vladimir Putin’s war is failing. The West should help it fail faster
And I'm telling you that the production cost is tied up in blocks, not transactions. This is not up for debate, it is intrinsic to how bitcoin works. If you send a transaction, the only power consumption involved in that act is involved in the transmission of the data and its broadcast to the network.

The monstrous energy usage comes from trying to brute force a single hash. It is entirely decoupled from transaction volume.
what? im going outside
It depends on what you are using on the back end. So for the record my own app's back end is Ruby on Rails.

If you enter the value "3.9e3" which represents the number 3900, Rails param parser will simply use the number 3 and toss the rest of the value away. Do you really want to add special functionality on the back end to covert that value into the actual value? Most of us would not.

I'd be curious to see how other languages and frameworks handle this issue but the e for many of us is a real problem. Most people aren't even aware of it, and learn the hard way.
I guess I don't understand yours. There is no functional difference between offering shares to the public directly or offering shares to the public by proxy through Adobe. Either way the public controls the company and gets to decide the fate of the product. If they see value in continuing it, they'll do so. If there is more value in letting it die, they'll do that instead.

The problem with shareholders made up of the general public is that they aren't interested in the product itself. It it goes by the wayside, oh well. They never used it in the first place. This doesn't serve to protect the offering in the manner the customer expects. It might work out, but often it doesn't. Adobe's products themselves are a prime example of what happens when the general public has more say than the users. No user-controlled company would play those shenanigans, but the general public doesn't use Adobe products, so they don't feel the pain. They only see the profit pleasure.

This is why, traditionally, customers who want to ensure that a product remains aligned with their expectations pool their resources and enact a buyout before it reaches the hands of outsiders with other ideas. This allows them to put priority on the product itself, not competing concerns like profitability. But there is no evidence that happened here, so they decided it was okay to let it go to the whims of the rest of the world.

It's a tradeoff. Such is life.
Maybe not as much as you'd expect. I assume you are talking only about homeowner mortgage interest deduction, not landlord (investor), so that is a large chunk of the inventory that would not be affected.

Also, with the temporary (TCJA) increase in standard tax deduction, fewer people than ever get any tax benefit for their mortgage interest, not to mention those who don't have mortgages because they've lived there so long.
Tell me more about your house, what your mortgage rate is, etc. I'm looking at houses in the Boston area but I can never seem to grow enough balls to buy one even though I could.
I mostly don't want to commute. If I could walk or bike, I would be more inclined to go in.
I'd go for a much simpler solution. Make the cookie tracking opt-in, no popups or other barrier allowed. If the added value is supposedly so significant for users then surely those 0.1% of people will open the settings and enable cookies.
So I read the script used to compare 'dbm' and 'sqlite3', and in sqlite it creates a table with no index. Hard to take that comparison seriously. I wrote a little benchmark script of my own just now and sqlite3 beats DBM handily if you add an index on the key.
No. FAANG and their wannabe competitors started paying more over the past 15 years. But all other tech jobs have been stagnant that’s correct. It’s because companies view engineers as code monkeys. And they’re right for the most part because that’s how our profession behaves. Unfortunately you take a group of smart (sort of) people with below average social skills, and they WILL get exploited to the max.

Even FAANG underpays by a factor of 2-3x.
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You can always refinance as well
The employee ownership model is quite different than what Patagonia has done here, but it's still a powerful and useful way to organize a company and try to make it more equitable for those who work there.

A magazine for my home state did the same thing that Bob's did, upon the founder's retirement at a similar age. [0]

The Publix supermarket chain is also employee owned, outside of the founders [1].

Mondragon is a massive employee owned conglomerate that was recently on the front page of HN [2]

[0] https://greensboro.com/news/local_news/for-employees-our-sta...

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
I actually do that myself. I also use Fireworks 8 on windows when possible. I am yet to find a software that actually replaces it.
Honestly I have some trouble following your comment. While not conceding your assertion about underperformers naturally skewing to a particular race, I'd like to point out that a company saying they're going to view things through an anti-racist lens likely means as little as checking to see if there's a disparity in who is being let go, and, if there is, double checking to make sure they're not choosing who to let go in a biased manner.
I use teams every day for meetings and never have any issues.
as are mortgage rates
Tall people die younger, have more joint and back pain, and have trouble finding shirts that fit.

See a shirt in a store? On me a L is a belly shirt and an XL is a baggy belly shirt.

I’m tall and wish I was average and I’m not even “super tall” just 76”/193cm. I straight up feel sorry for people taller than I. They end up on crutches before dying in their 60s.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1600586/
teaching is pretty chronically underpaid. there's more to medicine than just doctors, nurse don't come out that great after adjusting for hours worked iirc. not sure how 60k is comically overpaid in any sane sense, coming from this field of all places where 6 figs out of college is pretty common
Which is strange because that's exactly what very large language models like GPT-3 are good at. Keeping the context and generating plausible next sentences, paragraphs, etc.

Wonder what's blocking that from being applied to systems like Alexa.
Hmmm. Define art for us then?
I don't see your views reflected in [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/art] for example.

Only some people define porn as degrading and rape-ful. Galleries are full of paintings of slaughter, is art about snuffing out life? Is all erotica porn? Where do you draw that line?

You sound anti-sex in dismissing sexual stimulation as non-artistic. I could stimulate rage and sadness in you with a painting of two girls stabbing a kitten in the eyes, why is that painting less art than a painting of two women making love to each other? Sex is a good thing, even outside of marriage imho.
The title is wrong; doesn't have anything to do with Swiss government; seems to be a physics professor at ETH instead (see https://www.phys.ethz.ch/the-department/people/person-detail... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich).
That only works if all processes accessing it share a memory namespace (aka, are not in containers/jails/VMs and on the same physical machine).
The thing you're forgetting to mention is that you're probably a very good and talented SWE. The average SWE is not. :P
I mean the simple answer is that I think AT&T should be able to restrict their network based on those criteria. If the people of the US don't like that, they should vote to either build out equal infrastructure to replicate that functionality publicly, or vote to buy out AT&T's infrastructure.
Agreed, the leetcode stuff is unnecessary. I never did for my FAANG job. Really just the following in depth: hash tables, heaps, string manipulation, 5 min of O(n), and then a review pass through other algos/data structures.

There was a joke that you just had to say "hash tables" 3x fast and you'd just get an offer. So many interview questions get torn apart by a good hash application.
“No politics” Coinbase rolls out feature to promote crypto-friendly politicians
Viruses may be ‘watching’ you
The only cowardice I see is in those thinking they can not fight by themselves and for others, and want to have a soothing voice telling them how to feel.
So the interesting question is how much of this private equity money is investing on the hope that house prices continue to rise?

so when house prices flat-line, their investment thesis is fried.

Obviously the clever PE funds have a way to deal with this. But not all of them are clever, and the question is which one(s) are going to blow up?

It isn't The Big Short, but there is a systemic risk from the PE investment
I think that is at least misleading, if not inaccurate. They may not have been "designed" in the sense of a graphic designer choosing the most pleasing or user-friendly colours, but there was logic behind the choices. They're the eight permutations (three primary colours (red, green, and blue), three secondary colours (yellow, cyan, and magenta), black, and white) that you get by setting each of the three RGB channels to either zero or maximum.

It's not great for terminal text on a black background, but it's better than the CGA palette, IMO.
Oh shoot didn't even realize I did that, will update

EDIT: turns out I can't :/ oh well
Please go ahead and provide proven solutions to those of us who are exhausted and desperate. If you profit while you're at it too, it's a clear win-win!
You're not responding, you're just condescending, and you've only quoted from the parts you cherry-picked as you could easily be responsive to them.

What is a qualified investor? And why do you have to be one if you want legal access to unregistered securities?
That is expected to a degree: the revised colors are less saturated because some white is blended in. The point is that they stand out more against a black background. Is that also your observation?
Yes but it's a balance because running is high impact so if you overdo it you risk injury. Ideally you should be getting some exercise every day but you can't run every day without injuring yourself, it just doesn't work. The recovery days aren't optional if you want to not permanently damage your knees.
I was pretty interested to see how this worked as well. I think you are right, this is a toy. It will be interesting to see if they can solve scaling.

It would be cool if you could ditch the graphql layer. It seems like there are other alternatives that go the vfs route so you still get to use a standard sqlite client.
Adobe is to software as Nestle is to water.
Be honest: would you start an Android weather app that's totally dependent on Apple's goodwill?
'“e” is a valid part of a number, I don’t understand why you have issues with it.'

That's a very programmer-centric take. A very, very programmer-centric take. The use of "e" for exponent in scientific notation is a very computer-oriented take on the problem. Such other places as you may have seen it used are leaks from the computer representation. Nobody else sees numbers that way; scientific notation is generally written as 3.278·10³⁶ (only with better superscripts), which is how it is taught in schools for the most part. There are many contexts where I would say it is not a valid part of a number, because I don't expect my users to know scientific notation, let alone an idiosyncratic rendering of it used only for historical reasons in certain niches of the programming world.
Can someone explain what this means to us not in the loop?
In order to argue that wicked corporations are wasting massive amounts energy for profit, yes this requires the idea of finding very cheap power, i.e. something like off-peak or excess.
There's that open-source one also mentioned on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851262

Sketch, Balsamiq (for simpler wireframes), Adobe XD
I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not sure that current SCOTUS precedent agrees with you, and that's the framework I'm working under.
Same here, in Germany.
You need to look at the ratio of price to interest rate over time, not just interest rate.
This exactly!

If you can assume long-term stable interest rates and have access to a 30-year fixed mortgage - the difference between a 2% mortgage and a 1% mortgage is the same as the difference between a 12% mortgage and a 6% mortgage.

Every percentage points that central banks artificially reduce interests by exponentially distorts the markets.

A 0% mortgage with a 1% property tax - theoretically - costs you -2% (x 5 for leverage per year). On a million dollar house - you'd get paid $100k per year to live there.

The effects of this policy have been a moral hazard unseen before, and if it ever has to end, we're in for wild times.
The weird part is, in New York vacancy is because the rent is so high or the price is so high that investment firms are unwilling to let people live there for fear that it'll drive down prices. They rather make 300% gains on 70% of their properties and let 30% go vacant, than let those 30% get sold/rented and let all prices drop to normal rates.
Today's rate of inflation means very little to a 30-year mortgage.

The rate of inflation 5, 10, 15+ years from now is what matters.

But if you think inflation really will be that high for so long, I got some TIPS to sell you...
Agreed, but the big mining pools and stakeholders went with ETH, and with its minority hash rate, ETC died a slow death.
A 10 year development cycle and the exact same monopolistic practices we are discussing here.

This isn't the first time Adobe has done this and won't be the last.
how can you terminate it early?
I used fireworks back in the day! Loved macromedia as a young fledgling tech person
Lower interest rates shouldn't result in higher list prices. Yes, as a homebuyer you can offer a higher number on a house to win a bidding war, but why are banks allowed to appraise the house so damn high? It's collusion between banks to keep profits high, plain and simple.

The price should not be a function of the interest rate, it should be an independent variable.

Little has changed from 2008.
Seattle seems to have some affordable pockets now, back when we were in the market in 2018, the townhouse we were in skyrocketed in value and the rent kept going up. We finally bought a place in Renton, which was affordable.

Now it seems that Seattle prices dipped (ignoring Queen Anne) and all the neighboring suburban towns skyrocketed: Carnation is hitting >US$1M? Monroe pushing $700k-$800k? Homes in Kirkland have always been high, but looking at $2M-$3M. Insane. I want a quieter neighborhood for my family, but doesn't look like I can move, ever. I feel trapped in, and if I'm not alone in my situation, inventory will remain low, keeping these prices high and unaffordable.
> I suspect you're older

No, I'm younger than you.

> Imagine every highway is private. Imagine what arbitrary bans from those highways would do to impact how you live. Talk to me about how well we should communicate face to face in that situation

First off, this is a flawed argument because my taxes don't pay for the servers running Discord or other similar services.

Also, your response is proving my point. I said in my original comment that your entire argument is based on the desire for instant gratification through through the use of private services that can boost your voice/reach online - These are private services, and you are not entitled to them at all.

I understand you want faster results (in a time where you can go online), but it's still very possible to get results face to face - That was my response. This is a fact that doesn't lean on any quasi-moral bulwarks to manipulate the conversation.

Your example ignores the fact that you can get anywhere using public roads instead of highways - Which would take more time, but are still very functional. This reinforces my original point. Additionally, beginning your response with made up scenarios is generally a low quality way to frame an argument to your liking, but I'll give you a pass on that.

> Does that make this ok? Nope, Damn well doesn't

Says who? You aren't entitled to any private service. Mind you, you're the one using words like "shouldn't" that don't fall under any moral authority other than the owner of the platform itself.
Hah, fair. Honestly, it's great. It's great in 2 ways:

1) When it's 100% correct, I smile, because it's often very clever, and as a programmer whose very existence is based on work elimination, when that amazing technological weapon is aimed at my own work needs as a developer, this is some Inception-level glee.

2) It's often wrong. Maybe like, 33% of the time? BUT when it's wrong (note that 95% right is still "wrong," so it's still very good), I smile, because it's often STILL clever, even in its wrongness, and this cleverness amuses me while working. For example, I use Elixir, which linguistically (but NOT semantically) is very similar to Ruby, so on occasion I've seen it make a Ruby-flavored suggestion to my Elixir. "Silly Copilot," I'd say smiling as I'd correct it (and probably teach it further).

So basically, it's made my day slightly more joyful, which is great. I already enjoy programming, so watching a program try to write my code ahead of me is absolutely fascinating.

Simple example of labor saving- I was doing some bash scripting and I wanted some constants for ANSI colors. Well I started writing them, and Copilot finished the whole damn table (with correct constant names, using the naming pattern I'd already established). And all the color codes were correct. This was wonderful! It's GREAT for language domains you're not hugely familiar with. Like, know how you have to often look something up working in a lesser-used language? Well in Copilot, you can just start writing a comment describing what you need or what the code will do, and 8 times out of 10 it will then spit the actual correct code out for you, it's just amazing.

Oh, tip: There's a keystroke combo that will advance through various suggestion possibilities. Often the first suggestion is not quite there, but another suggestion is.
EU is getting hit by a double-whammy. Higher interest rates increase the cost of the mortgage (especially since much of the continent is floating-rate), and at the same time, higher energy costs are massively increasing the cost of ownership.
have you not heard of the fediverse?
Another shameless plug, if you'd like to play around with SuiteSparse GraphBLAS using Rust, then you could try https://crates.io/crates/graphblas_sparse_linear_algebra
Both can be true, depending on the regime of operation.

A credible relationship (such as an individual bringing value) can be (and has been) exploited by individuals who want more money for themselves.

Another credible relationship (that the network is the value) can be exploited by individuals who control the choke points.

Your examples are where individuals control the choke points, introducing artificial controls and preventing the healthy accrual of benefits to the whole structure.
Wealth transfer complete?

I assume that isn't the take away, right? Right?
A pre-mine might make it a security, but it's basically the opposite of a ponzi. Not everything is a ponzi. I think you're just confusing different financial constructs with one another