skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think context is important.

This year I mostly spent it planning for the later half. I had a toxic employer and was upset with how dating was going post-divorce (in that - nothing was happening at all. I’ve still never been on a date and find it incredibly hard to meet single women in real life.). I quit my job, traveled, and moved away from SF with the plan to tie someone down and move back eventually.

So, some goals…

Continue lifting weight but get more dedicated. Pursue TRT in the later half of the year.

Go back to work but - preferably with an employer I want rather than one I had to always settle for. I spent the second half of the year not working because I traveled a lot and moved to Manhattan.

Find a life partner. I’m turning 33 next year and time is quite finite. Children and all the other things are quickly falling away as possibilities. Since my divorce - this has been my number one goal but it hasn’t been moved any closer at all even though I’ve taken drastic steps. Peers are now suggesting maybe the $100k matchmaking services should be considered more heavily - but I think it’ll be a waste of effort. (And I don’t like the ethics of it tbh)

Find another city to move to. I’ve spent a few months in Manhattan with nothing to show. I hate to move on so quickly but time is finite. So, I need to move to two other places before the year is up. The biggest hurdle isn’t moving but figuring out where the best place to spend my time is. So far, literally no one has any ideas. Which speaks to how bad things are overall.

Keep traveling through the year to meet new people and keep the pipeline full. This is difficult cause the things I used to travel for more often aren’t happening with the frequency as they did.

Develop a plan to get out of engineering. It’s super bad for my social and dating life. It’s the number one social reason I have a hard time making friends and relationships. It’s akin to being an incel as far as professional stigma goes.
I think that same argument can be made for a lot of the commercial-surveillance that happens in stores and such now. The idea that you can hang out behind the store without being seen is... probably not entirely accurate nowadays.

To be sure, they are different.
Thank you, I'll take care of it! It seems I broke it with HTML I'm using directly in markdown files.

EDIT: Fixed it, thanks again!
The results do not seem equal if you take account for the actual costs and privileges. Owning property has more rights and renting has more costs.

Rights: If you do not pay your property taxes, you will probably have 6 months to several years before your home is taken. If you do not pay your rent, the eviction process will likely start immediately and the landlord will probably make your life more difficult until you leave, even if you live in a state with stronger tenant rights.

Costs: Taxes are somewhere between $500-$5000 per year for an average home, while rent is more like $500-$5000 per month. Rent is on par or greater than the mortgage cost for an equivalent space, I have only seen lower rents when the home was not still mortgaged.

So while owning and renting may both theoretically be a subscription or a service with regular costs, the costs and benefits are not the same.
It starts out strong, identifying bullshitters on the left and right, but if Obama and Pinker are bullshitters, I'm not sure the label has much meaning. Which is a shame, because I too have been surprised at how little the truth seems to mean to people.
Not to forget the German TV tradition of watching the "Die Hard" sequel over Christmas on public television.
I believe inkscape has this: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathE...
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Universities already waste vast sums of money of vice-provosts, middle management, administration, etc.

There's no need to encourage them to start treating their mission as one of data mining in order to "capture" more value from the students.
Re 2. I mean the supply chain issues are real and something like the ODROID is in stock and isn't all that different. It depends on your use case and how adaptable you are. I need a Pi-ish computer sooner than they're going to work out their supply chain.

Also buyer beware - their new Pi Pico series is a microcontroller with no MMU and not something that runs Linux like the Pi Zero.
This is why I visit HN.
It’s turtles. JPMorgan is publicly traded. The renter can just buy as many shares of it as he wants and pretend it’s his home equity.
I wonder why, maybe influence of German heritage South Africans?

This was part of my childhood, and I presumed it must be a British influenced thing.
Rust (what I consider to be gold standard at this point), Java, C#, Clojure (piggy-backs on Java/Maven).. Hell, even Emacs-lisp has better dependency management because lack of dependency version control has established strong backwards compatibility culture within community.

Python has neither standard tooling (de facto nor de jure), has no consensus within community where everyone seems to invent their own yet-another-dependency-management-tool and no culture of preserving strong backwards compatibility (never mind the core 2->3 transition).
Does macOS count? There are large chunks of the system that are impenetrable in real-world use. For example, in order to install the `yabai` window manager, here's what you need to do on your system:

- https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Installing-yabai-(...
- https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Disabling-System-I...

If part of your program's installation process is "reboot into recovery mode", I feel like you're working with an OS that isn't quite as malleable as we sometimes are led to believe it is. :D

(btw I use `yabai` and it is totally worth doing all these things...I wouldn't set it to auto-update, and I review every release carefully, but so far so good. It's a great WM for macOS!)
A little tip: follow the XDA blog label LineageOS in your RSS reader. I've found it the easiest way to know which devices have been ported officially. Devices get added all year long, but LineageOS only mention them in their blog in the roster section of the next version post.

https://www.xda-developers.com/tag/lineageos/

https://www.xda-developers.com/feed/tag/lineageos/
Welcome to the RSS club. Many issues you have noticed are a result of social media. Sites removed RSS after they wanted to push you to Facebook/other.

You may need RSS-bridge (GitHub) as middleware.

I use Yet Another RSS Reader (yarr, also on GitHub), which has very good mobile browser support.

I self host both in my home K8s cluster behind GitHub auth.
>>>A carrier must send out an emense amount of RF.

The US Navy is actually pretty good at avoiding that.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/navy/...
I think maybe an example would be easiest. Let's say the client asked 'can your system respond within 10ms to requests?'. I'd say 'no it can't guarantee this'.

I'd then discuss how the system architecture couldn't give any hard latency guarantees, but that depending on the load and hardware they purchased we would generate different latency characteristics, say, 98% of requests processed within 10ms.

This would lead to an offline discussion and sharing some profiles for existing hardware configuration we'd tested, and maybe some estimates of the hardware costs to meet their requirements.
In my province, you go mark your ballets, then feed them into a machine - that machine checks for errors in how the ballet is filled out.

For instance, if you could select 8 people for the school board, if you selected 9 it would show an error.

A poll worker would then talk with the person and inform them about what mistake they made, and give them the option to have that section not count, or go fill out a new ballet.

You then put the ballet in a box for manual counting later.

A similar system could for for basically any somewhat "difficult" instructions for voters - you shouldn't assume what they want, you should have strict instructions but if they make a mistake that would spoil their ballet, they are informed of it and can fix it.
Many of those perspectives have gained ground in recent years/decades and were not common or popular perspectives in years past, when housing prices weren't in crisis. You make it sound like repetitive nonsense when in fact these are salient points, relevant to the times and worthy of being spread and discussed.
Same for that too in Sweden! :D Funny this…
And the capabilities here are very alluring.

There's definitely a camp of casual tinkerers & makers relying on well paved cowpaths.

But imo yeah, I generally think hobbyists most interesting, best, & most notable character is willingness to fiddle. There's an equal sized camp of very good very advanced programmers who come here to dabble, but dabble hard, & they make & define the space.

These folks often coupled with an excitement & interest in advanced cool new systems. Which this certainly certainly is.
+1, just use NYC please
I was just going on its a lot harder to trick a human in a text format. Most collisions involve a bunch of binary data that isn't valid utf-8, which looks very conspicious in a text file.
At this point? I pretty much oppose them wholesale after voting on them for my entire adult life. If the legislature isn't representative enough, it should be expanded, but ballot propositions give the legislature an out from being accountable for policies they support ("the voters have spoken!") whether it passes or fails when it is their job to advocate for and build a coalition and run on those very issues; and it invites every nutjob to try and pass their own agenda. Tax increases are also locked behind ballot initiatives when complete budgetary authority should be vested in a legislature.

I would support one more additional referendum though: a ratification for a new California Constitution that wipes the slate clean on the old one.
Easier to read https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1609062153918779393.html

The central "why was the fired at 3 months?" answer might be towards the end: "I know I was not up to their standards because I did not have a good handle on how to manage my mind and I had never worked as part of a team."
The entire basis for human society is socialism: the cooperative, collective effort to produce food, shelter, and safety for one’s community (read: tribe, village, township, nation).

It is a damn shame that the term has been so crudely abused and distorted in the USA, becoming the go-to bogeyman for those that wish to prevent the working class from their share of the wealth of the nation. No universal healthcare for you people: it would enable you to find a better job without fear of losing your benefits. No social safety nets, lest it give you the security to seek out something better.

So long as all y’all refuse to work together to better everyone’s circumstances, all y’all will continue to suffer at the hands of those with the money and political power.
This is nonsense. 99.99% of renters can’t buy enough JPMorgan to make a difference. They don’t have the money and that’s why they’re renting.
Which cloud platform is the best to quickly build a CRUD app?
If you were starting an app from scratch that required, say, serving a JS frontend, python as the server, and Postgres as the RDBMS, which cloud platform is the quickest/easiest?
Blog author here. I somewhat agree, somewhat disagree. This line makes me uneasy:

> I always ask them to either prove it or write the simple thing. If the code in question isn't hot enough to bother benchmarking it, the performance benefits probably aren't worth it _even if they exist_.

One of my philosophies is that death by a thousand cuts is fine, but death by ten thousand cuts isn’t. A team of 10 engineers can probably fix most of a thousand cuts in two or three months. But if you have ten thousand cuts you’re probably doomed. And those don’t show up cleanly in a flame graph.

Now for some context my background is video games. Which means the team knows they need to hit an aggressive performance bar. This isn’t true for many projects. shared_ptr is a canonical example of death by ten thousand cuts.

That said, I strongly agree with the principle of “just do the simple thing”. However I think it’s important to have “sane defaults”. A project can easily have a thousand or ten thousand papercuts that kill performance. But you can’t microbench every tiny decision. And microbenches are only a vague approximation of what actually matters.

I’m also wary of “the compiler will make it fast”. Because that’s true… until it’s not! Although these days you don’t have any choice but to lean heavily on the compiler and “trust but verify”.

No one wants a super complex solution if it’s not needed. However I am very amenable to “do a slightly more complex thing if you know it’s correct and we can never think about this ever again”. It’s much easier to do the fast thing upfront than for someone else to try and speed it up in two years when we’re doing a papercut pass.
US property taxes are effectively rents.
Success is more than what school you attended. It's about doing things. Many of the people that attend top school succeed because they are actively trying to move forward not necessarily because they went to an elite school. The best advice you can get is to be a "doer". Don't stand around hoping someone will pick you for their next project. You need to be the one creating the project and getting the people to help you. You learn by doing and eventually you learn enough to be successful. The elite school is only a small part. It's all about the individual.
That is the book I was remembering!
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/10/29/how-macos-is-more-reliab...
Vanilla Dpup – Puppy Linux with Apt and Wayland
I run a centralized data and analytics team at a large, online university that primarily serves adult learners. I’ve been responsible for our data and analysis for 10 years.

I think this article rings true for most universities, but for some, like mine, we’ve had unified systems for the last 20 years. While that’s been helpful in a lot of ways, the primary thing we’re looking for - helping students graduate and get better jobs than they have today - is surprisingly challenging. Adult learners often fail to finish school for a variety of reasons, most of which aren’t academic and often can’t easily be forecast using all available data.

Unifying data sources or mining them further doesn’t solve student health issues, childcare, jugging work responsibilities with school, etc.

What’s more, universities are slow-moving, heavily bureaucratic, and highly regulated. So even when we have good ideas to relieve burden those often come head to head with accreditation rules, financial aid regulations.

In my opinion, for my students at least, data is the least of our problems.
The idea is to increase the amount of real estate tax to be paid accordingly to the amount of real estate properties you own.

If you own a house you should pay higher tax on it than your neighbor that has the same house but doesn't have 30 other houses like you do.

And of course you should pay more on each of the 30 houses you own.

Basically large propery owners should pay higher real estate tax than it would be paid if their real estate was split up between multiple smaller owners.

That's why I mentioned subsidiaries, so you can't fake-split ownership.
Well, I’m responding to the direction to be bold, so it’s not that I think these are slam dunk acquisitions, but they are halfway plausible and I wouldn’t be shocked to see them happen.

Amazon is hungry for content and needs a gaming play.

IBM is in long-term stagnation and Oracle has a more aggressive vision of owning “The Enterprise”.

Microsoft already has a stake in Meta, and I expect the price of Meta to freefall once they abandon the metaverse gamble. Microsoft could pick up the pieces and exploit the value of the network. They did it with Linkedin and they would just love to own consumer social/messaging and a big slice of the ad-targeting pie with which to challenge Google.
This isn't down from COVID highs, it's down from the purchase price 2 months ago (2022/10/27, long after COVID highs vanished)
This should now work regardless of your locale. Please let me know if you notice any more bugs!
Look, I have a lot of strong opinions but I cannot get over the fact that housing as an investment is a thing, especially by corporations.

Let's back up a bit.

The richest country in the history of humanity has a ton of homeless people yet its corporations buy up houses purely for the sake of preventing others from living in the house so they can sell it at a higher price later on.

Is that not absurd?

Even canada, vast beautiful land with most living close to the US border. Yet land or house in the middle nowhere in the Yukon costs a fortune now. All because this one simple disease: corporations, which are legal entities constructed to allow a group of people to use their collective wealth to advance a goal (such as profit) are treated the same as natural persons whose rights and liberties are naturally justified beyond the scope of any country's laws, all because collective wealth meant collective power to influence lae makers and judges?

The answet to this and so many other first world ailments is simple:

1) corporations as legal entities are not the same as natural persons. They are not created equal to individuals and do not enjoy human rightd or civil liberties.

2) Land and housing is for individual needs first (because of #1). Investment housing by nature forms a perverse incentive, investors can instead invest in derivstives or ETFs where they can build equity in a similar way without robbing people of housing.

I am really shocked that these things are missing from mainstream discussions. It sounds like everyone wants to avoid the big fat elephant in the crowded room.
I switched to Accuweather after IBM ruined WeatherUnderground App. Still not as good as the old Wunderground app but it is 90-95% what I liked about the WU
> newspeak, propagandistic language that is characterized by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings.

https://www.britannica.com/art/newspeak
That’s the point. If you own a valuable piece of land, the government needs to incentivize you to density so that the community has cheap housing. Putting a single wide on a in demand spot is wasteful and should be punished.

More generally, land value tax returns land to its rightful owner, the people in the community. No one created land so it doesn’t make sense to allow people to profit off it.
> Are libraries entitled to loan any book on the market? Do they need permission? Do they ever provide compensation?

My understanding is the answers are yes, no, and nothing besides the normal purchase price of the book.
The market in tech still seems pretty hot to me. All my news is "layoffs" but all my unsolicited emails are invitations to interview...

Also, it's not clear to me how a union would assist. If your startup is shutting down because it cannot get funded because interest rate rises mean there is no more cheap cash, what will a Union do? Convince the FED to slash interest rates to save your company?
Yes, I used it under MS-DOS ages ago ... and it hasn't changed much.
This is why you have to protect your Hardware Security Module with a passphrase that is kept only in your brain. Compelling the disclosure of that passphrase is much more likely to violate the Fifth Amendment, especially if you set your passphrase to something like "I killed him and buried the body under my garage".

Of course such an important passphrase shouldn't only exist in the head of one person, and instead should be distributed between multiple members of the company (so perhaps the HSM could require N of M passphrases to unlock the master secret, using Shamir's Secret Sharing), which means creating a very complicated on-going criminal conspiracy, with new hires forced to further the crime in unique and creative ways, so that their individually-chosen passphrases can't be guessed.
I root my phone for a few reasons (in no particular order):

* Reverse engineering, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity, but also to verify that the few third party apps I install don't do scummy things behind my back. I mostly use frida [1] for this and if I want to change the behavior of something permanently, I make a module for LSPosed [2].

* Get rid of Android's awful app links feature [3]. I despise Android >=12's behavior of always opening deep links in "official" apps (eg. Youtube) by default. To open those links in third party apps by default, the user has to go into Android's settings for the app and manually whitelist domains. This module forces Android to treat every domain as "unverified", which restores the old behavior of prompting the user which app to use when opening a link.

* Call recording [4]. (Or playing audio into a phone call to rickroll friends... [5])

* Raw access to app data, mostly for extracting information from apps with no export functionality.

That said, I don't like increasing the attack surface of my devices, so I do a few things to mitigate that a little bit. I wrote some scripts to sign the Android OTA update images, apply the Magisk boot image patches, and sign the images with a custom key [6]. This way, I can keep the benefits of Android's verified boot with a locked bootloader while rooted. I also don't allow any third party apps root access. My (hacky) local fork of Magisk only allows executing `su` if the app is signed by my own key or with a password if executing via `adb`. My LSPosed build only allows modules signed by my own key as well.

[1] https://frida.re/

[2] https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPosed

[3] https://github.com/Henry-ZHR/KillDomainVerification

[4] https://github.com/chenxiaolong/BCR

[5] https://github.com/chenxiaolong/BCP

[6] https://github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroot
And we've got more and more outright corruption creeping in, at all levels.
Yes. This is a very “Apple” design (and that is high praise).
Why does it have to be angry? Landowners and those with excessive wealth have fought tooth and nail to keep wages low, prices high and laws bent against working people. Do we consider those landowners and wealthy people to be angry? No, just looking out for their best interest.

But when working people look out for their best interests, suddenly there's something wrong with them.
The idea is to tax land as a percentage of its value (notably, not its size). This is because land is a necessary good which is exclusionary: because there is a fixed supply of land, it can only be owned at the expense of someone else.

So, let's take the scenario you gave: it depends very much where the mansion and the trailer are. Generally, people build mansions on high-value land and trailers are on low-value land, so the mansion will be taxed more than the trailer (a half acre in LA has a much higher value than a half-acre in rural Nevada where I live). If they are on the exact same lot, though, then yes they would pay the same tax. The idea is that taxing this way incentivizes the best use of land. Imagine that you have identical plots in New York, one is a big apartment complex, and the other a parking lot. With a property tax, you take a huge tax penalty for building, and so the housing complex pays a lot of taxes and the parking lot almost nothing. With a land value tax, however, the parking lot and the housing complex pay the same amount in tax, so it incentivizes the owner of the lot to build a more profitable housing complex there as well, and they take no tax penalty.

Prop 13 in CA is a law that freezes property tax assessments at sale, so you have people who are paying taxes on a home currently worth $2 million as if it were only worth the $150k they bought it for in 1980. This means it is always better just to rent the house out than sell it, since you have a huge tax benefit, making housing almost impossible to buy. Worse, you can pass the frozen assessment on in your will. So it is almost literally creating a quasi-landed gentry class.