skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reasoning is how it was sold to the Californian voter in the 70s during the era of popular rebellion against taxes. The writers and underwriters of that ballot initiative knew what they were doing, keeping grandma in her house was merely a pretext.

The average homeowner benefits directly from Prop 13 and fails to see how it has impacted other aspects of their life.

The implications for the municipal governments have been disastrous. Municipal tax inflows went from being ~95% property taxes to being closer to 40% in the present day. The rest of the income comes from new taxes and fees invented to fill the gaps.

Prop 13 is a major (but not sole) reason why CA has underbuilt housing for the last four decades. The tax assessed has no relation to the value of the land it sits on, so the trend is to underuse and underdevelop land. If your house is taxed at $1500 a year and keeps appreciating, why sell? Have that 4br/2ba to yourself, or rent it out and make a net gain of $60,000/yr. Either way it makes no sense to sell the property and allow it to be redeveloped into something that could house 10x the people.

I know property owners who bought for $40k in Berkeley and are now sitting on 2.4MM$ in value, doing the minimum in repairs while renting the unit for $6k/mo. This is not unusual. These people do not deserve your pity, and they do not deserve a massive systemic wealth transfer in their direction.

Unfortunately I think the dysfunction in California will have to reach catastrophic levels before Prop 13 repeal becomes politically^Wemotionally feasible for CA voters. The knock-on effects of P13 are too far removed from the average voter -- most won't connect increased crime, failing schools and public services, increased cost of living all the way back to it.
Which would be sad, what we're seeing is too many quants dependent on twitter for "fast breaking news".
I was curious about how the self-climbing forms work. Here is a video showing how one such system pushes/pulls itself (~45 seconds in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sforIL7rU3Q.
Absolutely love things like this that encourage a little bit of discovery instead of instructions - makes it a bit more magical, I think
I don't think your attempt to show a difference between that and software makes your point.

The bulk of software project costs is labor. And there are certainly a lot of business folks who say "ok, the bulk of the cost is labor, so labor is a commodity, so I should be able to hire any programmer to do any type of software" and hire cheap devs and see things go sideways if they don't stick to fairly simple, rote, lowest-common-denominator technologies that are much closer to 90s-style-PHP than they are to "the latest Python or Javascript."

If you've spent your whole career in coastal California startups or FANG you may never have seen these people at all, they don't really live in the same job posting/hiring/skill set universe. But it strikes me as very similar to "labor is the most expensive part, concrete vs lumber isn't gonna be that different in parts, so I should be able to pay the same for labor for the unusual things."
Agree in principle, but it's not quite as cut and dry as one might hope. The most prominent example of this are the various Indigenous matters the country is still working through. For many of these peoples they did not create agreements with the Canadian government, but rather with the monarch of the day. Over time we will likely disentangle ourselves, but it is definitely a multi-faceted question.
It's all because of me. I've been watching the same music videos for the last 15 years. Sorry guys.
So soothing! Todo: implement Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner (L-S-W) theory of particle coarsening for soap bubbles (avg size increases with cube of time) ;)
Originally? Checking in at places, letting your friends know where you are/what you're doing. From the time before SMS/MMS group messaging was well supported
I have a 2013 MacBook Pro with 16 GB that I use daily.

If you buy a computer today and want to use it nine years from now, I would say yes.
Jeez. Why are you guys so cynical? I am trying to assume the best of what the PR release says. No wonder this place is becoming toxic. It only raises my own cynisism that folks here are acting in bad faith because it is Tesla or some kind of an ideological trope people have gotten sucked into.

The parent comment is frothing with hate and bad faith.
Says 1 MW?
Thought this was using three.js, but they built their own physics engine: https://github.com/saharan/OimoPhysics
Reminds me this interesting history (in Spanish, but many people here most probably will speak it) mostly about the experience of being sued by Arduino, but also telling the secondary history of how a big telecom lost all contracts to update to 4G in one entire country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw_q1Hjkuxo
>> When you're living paycheck to paycheck, you can make an occasional mistake and be fine, but you're likely to be much more risk-averse.

> If you're in America, you've got no such excuses. You're not going to die if your business fails. There are tons of businesses you can start with zero capital.

You talk like people don't have dependents or opportunity costs. If everyone living paycheck-to-paycheck followed your advice, I'm sure you'd have a lot of parents explaining to their kids that they're going to have to live out of the car for awhile, because some rando on the internet said they had nothing to lose.
Arduino has a terrible reputation for hardware and software from a professional, reliable point of view.

It's fine from a easy, hacked together hobby project point of view, but that's an entirely different thing.

It's like Python vs Rust. I wouldn't introduce a beginner to programming with Rust, but I also wouldn't program my manufacturing line (or whatever) with Python.
Can you please share a link - who/what is TC?
Leverage aside, there is no clearer evidence that we live in a SciFi dystopia than this article.
I didn't know about doomgeneric. Sounds like it might be an easy way to hack on doom without having to get a whole DOS environment set up.
The beauty of stick-build houses is that they are easily modifiable. Move a wall. Build an extension. Move the plumbing. Add new fiber runs. All very incremental, marginal-cost work.

I'm very curious about your statement about insulation leading to faster fires, though. Like you say, codes tend to move very conservatively - are these new insulative house wrap products and such not getting fire tested as part of their approval?
The EV charging pads are 99% efficient. These are not at all the same tech as your toothbrush or cell phone.
> Ahaha, good old "if you don't drive a gas guzzler you're a vegan poof". Auto marketing departments are really worth their salt.

Yeah, good old "ignore the argument and insult the argumenter" ad hominem style of arguing - very useful for fueling your self-righteousness and "I'm right, you're wrong" style of thinking.

Good pointless talk! Hope to have one again soon.
In my experience clean code has nothing to do with its size.

Some people write clean but long code. Others write super compact code that nobody else can decipher (except the compiler I guess).
From a mobile view, that is nowhere evident. I only had the URL and the title to see if anything made sense.

Given the hypercapitalist point of view here, I figured it was some auto-degrading NFT.
I'd have to see a source for all three of those claims to believe it.
You may inadvertently publish unsavory things. It's a risk and for that a reason the author gave admins the option to turn it off.
Exactly. I always understood you could allow your remains to be used for organ donation or for science. Not for some entertainment before Friday drinks. May be no worse than the way some med students treat donated bodies, but that doesn't make it any better.
I'd also like to know why the press don't cite their sources or provide references numbers for readers to do further research. It feels like some lesson that must be taught in journalism school so as to ensure some kind of "oracle" status of the press with respect to its readers.
False dichotomy. Just like green anything. Kill the planet or go back to pre-industrial living standards. How about no. Why not use our talent and resources to find ways to increase the standards of living while also improving their affordability and lessening their impact on the environment.
I spent a summer in Texas interning at a bank and baked chocolate chip cookies on my dash one day. Tan car with heavily tinted windows, so far from optimal from a heating perspective, but it still got up to 180F in the back seat.

The cookies baked decently but it wasn't hot enough to brown them properly so the flavor was a bit lacking.
We have bare metal HPC nodes, but some users want to run containerized apps for their batch jobs: it's not either-or, it's both-and.
Watermelon – Your Code Archeology Toolbox
> Everyone deserves safe and clean public spaces.

There is a cost to this and that cost includes the coercive use of force to prevent that behavior.
I strongly believe that iron ore liquefaction ultimately proved the ship's demise. More about how this can happen here[1]. The facts all line up:

- Tons of water likely getting into the cargo hold, wetting it down, especially if the
crew didn't take care of shutting the cargo hold top.
- Lots of rocking back and forth
- They were carrying tons of iron ore
- That stuff can absorb a ton of water, then when rocked, let it all loose at once,
thus causing a top-heavy rocking motion that will capsize a vessel within minutes.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG_EknYj5go
NB: JSTOR, to its credit, Larry Lessig says "great credit" (<https://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bul...>), didn't pursue prosecution of Swartz. M.I.T., however certainly did (also noted by Lessig). From Abelson's report, commissioned by MIT:

If the Review Panel is forced to highlight just one issue for reflection, we would choose to look to the MIT administration’s maintenance of a “neutral” hands-off attitude that regarded the prosecution as a legal dispute to which it was not a party. This attitude was complemented by the MIT community’s apparent lack of attention to the ruinous collision of hacker ethics, open-source ideals, questionable laws, and aggressive prosecutions that was playing out in its midst. As a case study, this is a textbook example of the very controversies where the world seeks MIT’s insight and leadership.
A friend of Aaron Swartz stressed in one of our interviews that MIT will continue to be at the cutting edge in information technology and, in today’s world, challenges like those presented in Aaron Swartz’s case will arise again and again. With that realization,
“Neutrality on these cases is an incoherent stance. It’s not the right choice for a tough
leader or a moral leader.”

<http://swartz-report.mit.edu/docs/report-to-the-president.pd...>

pp. 100-101

And the US DoJ and courts have bloody hands.

The careers of Ortiz and Heymann (DoJ) have suffered somewhat: Heymann left the DoJ, Ortiz's ambitions for higher office (reputedly she'd had interest in the Mass. governorship) were thwarted. The judge remains on the US District Court of Massachussetts.
> Are there reasonable Go alternatives to pandas, numpy, and sklearn?

You got me there. That is one of the things I keep asking Santa to bring me for Christmas. ;-)

I wish someone would come along with a competitive Go ML lib. That would be awesome with a capital A !

There are one or two niche libraries around for specific tasks (e.g. anomaly detection) but there's no broad-scope general ML library.
A web app for simulating a waving flag
Even if the "old lady gets kicked out" were a major issue, you could at least repeal Prop 13 for commercial properties, and implement other "prevent from being kicked out" rules.

But Prop 13 will never change, it's a political 3rd rail now.
I was also suspicious "Great, another one that wants to reinvent SQL". But in practice it works very well, to the point of I enjoying it.
I'd like to know too (assuming you mean macOS). I even deleted the iCloud account hoping that would silence it...
I already know some SQL, but I didn't consider it a programming language in the same sense as Python.
You haven't answered the OP's question though.

From the article you posted, it seems like its primary value there has been as a proxy for other [more stable] currencies.

USD did that something like that for a while when it was gold-backed. How is it now revolutionary when crypto does the same thing backed by fiat currencies instead of gold?
Completely agree. And my favourite add-on is if it’s broken apart such that one half of it ends up being a library, adding a second consumer to that library will tend to further reduce bugs, even more so if the second consumer is written by a different team. (Eventually, at least, because the second consumer is going to find bugs so the start)
> - some crapplications do not want to run on custom rom

If you need help getting apps working, please ask on https://discuss.grapheneos.org/ or #grapheneos:grapheneos.org on Matrix. We'll be happy to help you get them working and if they aren't working we'll fix the remaining rare compatibility issues. Nearly every application works on GrapheneOS if you install the sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer and make use of the per-app exploit protection compatibility toggle for apps with memory corruption bugs. The compatibility mode doesn't reduce OS security, it just disables certain features protecting the app itself against attackers. We may eventually maintain a list of apps requiring the compatibility mode to do this for major apps like Among Us automatically. Also, note some apps require dependencies like Google Play Games which aren't installed for you automatically.
Excess liver consumption is a risk factor for vitamin A toxicity though, and the B12 amount varies wildly. Red meat consumption also increases cancer risk. It’s safer to take supplements from a reputable source.
20 minutes minimum for bitcoin transactions, which is a long time to hold up the line at the grocery store. Occasionally this has been weeks or never.

For comparison, credit cards can verify in less than a second.
> She's a dog. She wasn't capable of being comforted (or worried) by abstract concepts in the way humans can.

That was my point, yes.
> The odds are zero for even one head if you never flip a coin.

And that proves what, exactly? If lotto tickets were free, I'd buy a billion.
I say that as someone who has 96GB in their home desktop: it is a sad state of affairs if the average person needs 32GB.
Voronoi Cells just fascinate me for some weird reason.
For the unplated copper, doesn’t the low resistance come from sacrificing a bit of the material each insertion? I know this is the case for most other high powered plugs.

Also, much of your concerns are addressed in the charging system. There are sanity checks in place, with initial and continuous resistance measurement. It’s not just a relay flipping. So, welding together in 16ms is impossible. Maybe a bit longer than that. ;) Plastic melting together definitely is though.
so work somewhere else. My company is interviewing people (some have jobs and only look at us as a fallback in case their job dies, no panic), other companies are trying to hire me. I got 4 pings on linked in this week. I still get random "companies looking for senior or principal java developers" emails. I got one today.

I could imagine it's harder on early in stage career people, because that first job can be harder to get. My resume helps I'm sure.
For professional purposes, you might not need to know more (except SQL perhaps). But I would encourage you to also learn a statically typed language, like Swift or Kotlin or Go.
Pharmac and Medsafe in New Zealand.

Medsafe regulates medicines, what is effective, and Pharmac buys them, for the whole country.

Pharmac drives hard bargains with pharmaceutical companies. There is a lot of money to be made (even in a small market like New Zealand) if a medicine is -bought (read subsidised) by Pharmac.

The effective treatments are available. The highly experimental, might work, might not, might kill you, might make you sicker, might cure you medicines are held at bay by medsafe, and when approved are made affordable by Pharmac.

Of course Pharmac is under constant attack by the completely unethical pharmaceutical industry and equally unethical senior doctors - all hopelessly corrupted by the enormous sums at stake. Huge astroturfing campaigns exploiting ill people and their families. But the benefits are so huge that it has survived.

There is talk about extending the model to medical devices and consumables.

Appropriate regulation is absolutely needed because the incentives that drug companies and medical equipment manufacturers face are opposed to the incentives of the community.

Free markets, in this case, make people sick and impoverished.
Zero lines means Zero bugs.
I just loved the messages while it is processing!
> how do we explain the apparent stability of large but mature codebases

I would hypothesize three potential factors are at play, especially for software like Emacs.

The first is that some bugs becomes, themselves, "features" over time. It might be wrong from the standpoint of what was intended or desired when the code was written, or what is documented, but because that is how it works, that's how it is now expected to work, and so it's no longer a bug.

Another factor is that some bugs are "shielded" by the surrounding code, effectively two pieces of code offsetting each other's bugginess. Unless and until you either replace one or the other, or need to interact with one or the other in isolation, the bug isn't apparent. Kind of like how going to the chiropractor for one problem can "unlock" other, latent, problems.

The last one, somewhat related to the first two, is that some well factored software systems do a very good job of isolating their most stable parts, leaving their less stable, more commonly changed or iterated parts in separate modules or components. Because the change rate and focus of effort is on the "outer" parts of the system, less time and energy is spent on the "inner" part. Very often, developers of the "outer" parts will accommodate the bugs of the "inner" part, because changing the inner part requires both greater knowledge of the overall system, as well as the potential for a larger "blast radius" (and therefore assumed responsibility) for ones change. So rather than debugging the "inner" part, the "outer" part grows lots of accommodations for the inner part. It's not until that inner part can no longer be accommodated, or it becomes a security vulnerability, that the community developing the system will see the value in "fixing" the "core".

Anyhow, just a set of hypotheses.
I would guess that this theory applies average codebases of average complexity and quality.

Chrome, popular compilers, popular operating systems skew towards the highest end of quality and developmental rigor.
Note physical patches used to correct punched holes by covering them
the money passes through many diffrent hands, contractors, construction companies, government taxes, license fees, architect designers, middlemen...
Twitter is doing for social media what tesla been trying to do to self-driving industry
What are the proscriptions? I'm a (former) lawyer from the US, and based on what I know of criminal procedure, the police could conduct a search based on this.
Not sure if your post is trying to contradict the post you are replying to, which made the very good point that what plunged are US gas futures. I assume that yes, this would be very bad news for European gas consumers.
I had some success with https://microsoft.github.io/tilecode/ (fullscreen button in lower right, works best with gamepad / keyboard) and https://arcade.makecode.com/
These things already exist. Uniswap, Aave. Both pretty easy to use and can not just go insolvent on you.
> Not a great look to introduce sexism into the conversation. Nor labeling grown adults as names we call little children.

You have no idea of what "sexism" is.
Economics is supply/demand.

I would focus on investing, particularly defensive investing.

1. 'The Intelligent Investor' By Benjamin Graham
2. 'David F. Swensen' Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment

If you want the easiest allocation possible put some portion of your paycheck in an S&P500 fund and in 40 years you should have enough for retirement.

Good luck!
Probably they actually would. But neither of them would get their party's nominations today.
Some places have extremely low property taxes.

The combination of low tax rate and low property values is the sweet spot for people on a budget (example: A nearly-retired uncle of mine just moved to Alabama):

https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/property-taxes-by-state

If you're wondering if my wife and I are periodically looking at the economics of living in Hawaii for retirement, we sure as hell are. =)
Archive your Twitter alt text
Twitter offers the ability to archive your tweets and other data they keep about you, but that archive doesn't include alt text. This tool will take an archive zip file or the extracted tweets.js and scrape twitter for all the alt text you've ever written. It will return everything in a JSON file for future work to incorporate with the downloaded archive. For now it also offers https://archive.alt-text.org/search, which will allow fuzzy searching of the alt text you've written.
Chromium has 63,438 open bugs in its bug tracker so the theory remains true, but maybe the broader point is that strong abstractions have enabled us to reach great levels of complexity. Testing, staffing, and programming best practices probably go a long way in making software like Chrome appear to work flawlessly from the outside.

An analogy would be the craftsman-factory. A craftsman knows and performs every step of the process, and the end product depends on the skill of the craftsman. While a factory each worker is limited to a specific job and the combined effort of factory workers allows products well beyond the reach of any craftsman.
Besides, looking at that graph it looks that the "plunge" is on the order of normal price change noise. Just look at the history from before the "plunge". Clickbait.

Clickbait is literally the business model at Bloomberg: https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...
Batman Dies
Depending on the audience I use slides or notebooks. If it's a technical audience and people want to hear the details I use jupyter, because it allows me to mix code, markdown and visualisations. If the audience is only interested in the main results, then I use some slides with the principal results.
>>33567235

I can only think of Futaba-style discussion boards, that is, 4chan. On 4chan threads are linear, but you're supposed to reply to posts by mentioning their unique post nº. For example, the above comment would want to mention >>33566411 and >>33566389. You can mention as many posts as want. The posts get a backlink, so the thread is a navigable, true graph structure. Reading discussion on 4chan can be confusing as a deep chain of replies can branch out to mention a recent surface post, and to understand what's going on you have to both delve down focused reply chains but also be aware of incoming posts that are displayed cutting across any one discussion.

Here is a typical 4chan thread that demos this:

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/87053939/#87081210

I chose to link a post where a picture visualizes a 4chan thread in a directed graph. Also, a screen above there's a "Thanks." to several other posts, in one post.