skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both are benefiting from the labour and value created by the rest of society, outsized to their contributions. Land receives its value due to all the infrastructure, people, businesses, and so on that are around the land, and everyone who owns land benefits from this as their land value increases. Owner-occupiers benefit just as much as landlords (they are, in fact, lords of their land too, but their tenant is themselves). They should return to society the value that society created for them, in the form of a land value tax.

This should of course be offset by a reduction in other taxes, but it is a supremely just and efficient tax and far preferred to most other taxes.
Sort of. The truth tends to be more complicated. Religious groups were important in the weekend becoming a thing. It's not a coincidence it includes the two days Jews and Christians typically attend religious services.

Unions did have a role in the Civil Rights act, but they were not the only backers, and were hardly uniform in their support. Unions in the South had pushed blacks out of entire industries.
Perhaps, and that’s a risk for people to take at their own prerogative.

FTX sold people coins and then didn’t actually keep them on the books.
You've replied to me three times and responded only about the 'nationalistic' aspect. From this I see that I did a poor job of explaining why your comments were so abusive of HN. Even if we accept your definition of the word 'nationalistic', it ought to be clear that you broke the site guidelines extremely badly.

By nationalistic flamewar I simply mean the kind of flamewar that happens when people put down other countries on internet forums. It's a shallow, simple definition that doesn't have any nuance; nor should it, because internet hellfire doesn't have any nuance.

If you don't like that use of the word, that's fine—it's not the main point. The main point is that you started and perpetuated an aggressive flamewar that wrecked this thread, and moreover would completely wreck this forum if we allowed it to. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34200065 where I've explained this in more detail. You've been a good HN user otherwise, but we can't allow this kind of thing, so please don't do it again.
The thing about tech unionization is that too often the conversation is to assume that such an phenomenon would be exactly resemble that of mid-century heavy industry labor unions, when that is neither predestined nor even feasible. Given how relatively new the software industry is, how its production processes differ from those of manufacturing or mining, and how tech seems to embody its own unique Silicon Valley culture of its own. Not to mention, a sweeping all-encompassing unionization of tech is unimaginable given how for a long time now, unions have been seen as completely unthinkable, due to libertarian sentiments in the industry and employer relations favorable to labor.

Thing is, tech unionization is most likely to happen in gradual patchwork efforts, as it is now, and is far from the bogeyman that critics pose it as. Not to mention, there are different halfway compromises that could be a good initial step, such as introduction co-determination or bringing back board ombudsmen.

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22367243
Why do you assume they don't know?
One codebase sounds great but I always feel devs try to ignore that there just are significant differences between platforms that you must address if you want a well integrated app. Writing separate codebases in native iOS, Android, and web has a huge amount of waste but you can achieve higher quality and os integration, writing react native and react on web means you get just 2 codebases and higher dev productivity but at the cost of pain in libraries which typically also means less native integration, the solution proposed here means 1 codebase and even less native integration. If it is right for you great but like everything it is tradeoffs, pick your poison.
In a similar vein, "Sound of Music"[1] about the Austrian Trapp family is a very popular Christmas movie in the US, but barely anyone in Austria (and Germany) watched it. The reason may be that Schnitzel is served with noodles in the movie[2]. NO Austrian would ever do that!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music_(film)
[2] - https://oe3.orf.at/stories/2916424/ (German)
Install Asahi on all their machines?

I actually tried this 6 months ago and in no way found the Linux experience better than macOS even though I would on principle prefer living with an open source OS (I also don’t actually notice a lot of issues on macOS). Of course that was still pretty early for Linux on M1 so I’ll probably try it again in the future.
Honestly all of these are pretty appealing, and reasonable. Excellent list.

I didn’t expect to be swayed, yet that was a tilt in the direction of unionization. The H1B situation in particular is indentured servitude, and I’m not sure why it hasn’t become an issue yet. I remember one fellow in particular from my time at Scottrade; it seemed like he was there 14 hours a day. I only noticed because of my erratic sleep schedule. In hindsight it was pretty obviously an H1B situation.

The advisors are a benefit I never knew I wanted. In hindsight it seems strange to have to navigate it by ourselves.
i really hope we reach a point where more parents play video games with their children, especially as a teammate rather than a hoverer. it seems like in most homes vidya is usually tolerated as a necessary carrot or a babysitter rather than something that is shared. kids learn from the people around them, this is why sportsmanship gets such heavy emphasis in junior sports leagues. we recognize that it is not enough for them to learn how to hit the ball, they need to learn how to be gracious competitors as well.
imo this is equally true of games. if kids aren't given an example of what good habits & moderation look like, then why are we shocked if they emulate the grinders and the nolifers?
"Live with" is a weird framing, isn't it? If we accept the claim for a moment, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the restrictions exist to give the 95% the best chance at a reasonable, unmolested life?
A report [0] on the Google/Facebook invoices. Such a simple idea, if they had stuck to a few $500k requests and stopped, they likely never would have been caught. As I recall (not in the linked story), one of the reasons one of the expenses was flagged was because the scammers invoiced a higher amount ($10million+) requiring additional approvals.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706715377/man-pleads-guilty-t...

Edit: Fixed typo
Wow! As an American that feels somewhat knowledgeable about Native American history, I can't believe I've never heard of this!?!?

Sadly, the effect of past racisms and prejudices still distort what has become common knowledge today.
One model: YT for persons without an adblocker.

Or: This lecture brought to you by Pepsi.
rephrasing orignal request with search engine terms "elementary school" "scratch" "python" "platform"

came up with: https://www.codewizardshq.com/scratch-coding-for-kids/
which may have better ideas about inexpensive hardware for use with programming python/scratch for age group.
Does that also apply to things like Symantec Endpoint Protection, which has many additional modules like SONAR - is that mostly marketing and loud yelling?
1. Eat better: less red meat, more vegetarian meals

2. Run and walk more often

3. Swim more often
Yeah this year was particularly bad with that stage manager stuff that really added nothing useful to the desktop. The idea is ok but it wastes a ton of space.

On the iPad it's arguably useful but that's mainly because it doesn't have real windows.

I also felt that every year Apple was sawing the legs off my chair by changing or removing features I used. At least now with KDE I have choice.
This is based on observations up to 2013.

We’ve had two big societal changes since then that seemed to make things worse to me, the latest being Covid.

I really wonder if that 5% would be noticeably higher today.
I wasn't talking about changing the (interpretation of the) law, but from your reply I would argue that you're the one who has a massive misunderstanding regarding the law, fwiw.
Three suggestions:

- Let users switch the primary time zone by clicking/tapping on an hour hand.

- Display the true day/night line for the current time zone.

- Visualize the different dates (angle between the date line and 24 hours). Maybe color the hour hands differently when he date differs.
ChatGPT and Copilot: Concept and Context
From the charging documents, at https://www.geekwire.com/2022/office-space-movie-plot-gave-z...

Specifically, and at different times, he inserted three types of malicious code in the checkout process at Zulily: (1) an original code that diverted some customer shipping costs from Zulily’s account to Castro’s personal account beginning on February 28, 2022, through which Castro unlawfully obtained $110,240.71 from Zulily; (2) after Zulily began investigating that first issue, a replacement code that double-charged a small percentage of Zulily customers for shipping, allowing Castro to route a ‘full’ shipping cost to both Zulily’s accounts and his own account, through which Castro unlawfully obtained $151,645.50 from customers; and (3) unrelated to the first two issues, by reducing the cost of expensive items that he was purchasing on Zulily.com to pennies per unit, a method by which he unlawfully obtained $40,842.31 from Zulily. Through these three methods, Castro stole a combined $302,278.52 before he was terminated in June 2022.
Absolutely. Many H. subspecies were tool using.
> I always ask them to either prove it or write the simple thing.

Even if they do, they also need to make a case that in this specific case, performance matters enough to pessimize code simplicity and maintainability.

Also, if performance is that critical, it's imperative to benchmark again after each compiler release to guard against codegen regressions. And benchmark after changing this piece of code. Otherwise, we can say that performance doesn't really matter.
Physicists Investigate Phase Diagram of Nuclear Matter
Digital health wearable startup split
Hi all, questions about cofounder shares. I started this about a couple years ago and had gone through 2 teams before this.
Im the CEO. There is a software who does the clinical application who wants to be CTO (first engineer at another startup). There is an AI guy who has had a failed startup now coming out of academia. There is a design guy who has helped out on design who seeks 3-4%. I'm thinking <=8 for the first guy and <=4% for the second guy and 1% for the third guy. Setup another 15% for ESOP for other people that come in later. Any opinions? Thank you.
I’ve seen people who are very nice and one context be very not nice in another.

As an example, try being a medical doctor on HN. The toxic few are why I stopped posting about medical things here.

I’m not saying those responders are generally mean people. I think they’re normal people who for whatever reason feel wronged and are part of my world’s 5%.
TBH I don't know how to interpret the oneweirdkerneltrick :'D
I think the rule applies in both directions.
Just to confirm: are we talking about the same laptop? Can’t seem to find on Lenovo’s website that any distro is officially supported (although I may be missing something obvious).

Someone who has been interacting with their support a lot is reporting good compatibility with some workarounds: http://null.rip/2022/09/linux-on-the-thinkpad-z13-all-amd-al...
> but my guess is that if the government banned Signal tomorrow, fewer bad guys would use encrypted communication just because Signal is easy to use and most criminals aren't James Bond-style supervillains.

I was with you until this part, because I can't create a successful parse tree from it.
There are a few problems with unions, many of which can be summed up as principal/agent problems. But another issue is that unions are fundamentally democratic, which leads to some misaligned incentives.

Seniority is a completely legible and unambiguous criteria, and it’s one that most workers can eventually benefit from in the long run. Merit is more of a judgment call. Management at least has the incentive to get that judgment call right (which isn’t to say they do get it right, but at least they have the incentive to, modulo the same principal/agent problems that unions also introduce), but unions don’t. So if I’m part of the top 20% of workers at a firm, or part of the top 20% that the firm could reasonably hire, my incentives are actually better aligned with management than with the other 80% of workers who would dominate the union. The classic union solution to this problem is closed shops, but that’s hard to achieve without specific legal and regulatory moats.

Also:

> My guess is in most cases you'd still end up with an avenue for merit based layoffs, they just wouldn't start until new hiring had been completely stopped

This is another common failure mode of unions. People who already work in a given field are in the union, but people trying to break into the field are not. So it becomes harder to hire new people, which actually leads to longer tenures and makes seniority seem like a better deal for the union members.
What's so wrong with the settings screen, apart from looking like iOS? It seems fine to me.

Once I learned to stop caring about OSX updates, they make pretty much 0 difference to my life.
The old adage: 'The customer is always right' which means a business should always have the best interests of customers at heart and always assume good faith, has turned on its head. Now customers have weaponized that old adage and presume an air of ugly hubris and are mean spirited because hey, 'The customer is always right'. Eh no, sometimes the customer is an asshole.
It also means that the moment you buy land yourself in CA, you have a strong financial incentive to maintain the status quo. And thus the cycle continues.
On the flip side, there can be industry-wide practices that are only avoidable if you switch professions. Prior to the pandemic, unless you were lucky to already WFH you were basically guaranteed to work in an open office as a SWE in tech, not even a cubicle.
you're aware that your government is already doing this, right ? (your argument is invalid)
> The thing about tech unionization is that too often the conversation is to assume that such an phenomenon would be exactly resemble that of mid-century heavy industry labor unions, when that is neither predestined nor even feasible.

I’d definitely welcome more comparisons with professional guilds or similar, and especial non-English sources. For example, I’ve been told by multiple people German and Scandinavian unions are quite different culturally.
Checking for overflow is basically adding a conditional branch (usually to out-of-line code) after arithmetic. It's very cheap, almost free, if there are enough execution units, I-cache isn't a bottleneck, etc etc. But yeah, it is theoretically an overhead, which is why I avoided it for Virgil.

I suppose range analysis can eliminate many overflow checks, e.g. in counted loops, but it's not completely zero cost.
Second this. I’m 40 and have been gaming since the Atari 2600. FTL is among the greatest games ever created.
Other suggestions for HN audience include Factorio (of course) and Civ games (Civ 5 with all the DLC is my favorite). Terrance Tao apparently enjoys Civ as well FWIW.
Stop buying their products. Stop using services. Maybe... 3-5 years, if sales decline enough, they'll 'listen' to the 'feedback' of people leaving the ecosystem and ... ask what you want, and deliver it another couple years later. Maybe.

Not trying to be a troll or sarcastic, but there's really no way to get that sort of feedback to a company of Apple's size. Or, at least, there's really no way for individuals or small groups to get any impactful feedback to them.

I had a set of AirPods. I bought the AppleCare - which I rarely do. In a 2 year period I had 5 'fixes'. 5 replacements. In 2 years. PERHAPS having those sorts of metrics for them to review - an actual cost to their bottom line - wakes someone up to address quality issues. But... what do you do about the decline and usability in a settings panel? Stop using the settings panel? That'll show 'em! :/
> even the top Admirals find it hard to ignore the fact that the men and women who serve on the front lines are America’s most valuable asset. So, will America’s best and brightest be motivated to join a Navy that’s overworked and underappreciated by Pentagon brass?

It's almost funny to imagine what kind of war fantasy bubble those people exist in. Not going into the "best and brightest" which is just an insult to people doing much more meaningful work, maybe the history of politically motivated never ending or unsuccessful wars has anything to do with the "best and brightest" not wanting to sign up to be cannon fodder.
Saw this a lot in Asia during the late 80s, never understood the hate for it, most of the jokes are on the old white men and he was a real gentleman in real life.
The title has a made up word because it would never pass editorial to call it "fuedalism" as you rightly stated.

There is no discussion to be had here. It's the return of Europes peasant/aristocrat economy back in full swing. Only took a century to come back. Oh well...
Even if you do benchmark something, maintainability can be more important than a marginal performance improvement.

I've seen this happen a lot with JavaScript, particularly in the last 5-10 years as JS engines have developed increasingly sophisticated approaches to performance. Today's optimization can be tomorrow's de-optimization. Even given an unchanging landscape of compiler/interpreter, tightly-optimized code can become de-optimized when updated and extended, as compared to maintainable code that may not suffer much performance degradation upon extension.
Land/location is not a capital good and isn't affected by the same market rules as capital goods, because it is unique and possesses monopoly properties. It's essentially impossible for land and other natural resources to have a free market, by nature.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s a vulnerable population from one that is just at the fringe of its physio-behavioral range. A common bat in the Houston area is the Mexican Freetailed. Looking at its documented range makes me think it isn’t well suited for freezes either directly or by the nature of what it predates or pollinates.

If this species (or any vulnerable population) were to be propped up in Houston, what would be the effects on other ecosystem participants that may depend on periodic removal of the first species?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_free-tailed_bat
The issue was not processing time but bitrate. Mariner 4 sent data back at something like 8 bits per second, and the science team printed it and colored it as it came in.
Ask HN: Slimvoice Alternative?
Slimvoice is shutting down on April 1, 2023.
Since 2016 Slimvoice has been my favorite site to create invoices, is there an alternative that keeps it simple and efficient to create invoices?
Some people suck all of the time.

Most people suck some of the time.

But almost nobody sucks none of the time.
The job description for a data scientist isn't necessarily consistent across companies, but I can imagine a good description would be to act like a real scientist in that you collaborate with product teams to figure out what experiments to run, what data to collect, and how to visualize that for both the product and business team to decide on their approach to make the company more money, ie. specializing in a/b testing and experimentation. A problem I see is creating a data science team just to follow the trends and specifically requesting they try to "study user behavior" or something in hopes the data shows some underlying trend that triggers an "eureka!" moment.
Maybe the fact that someone can get 95% leverage to buy a fixed rate mortgage for _30 years_ is part of the problem. We should bright back 50% down, five year mortgages and cut the rest of the stuff out.
The aggressive drivers I personally know are always aggressive.
$1B is absolutely peanuts, if they spend this yearly on acquiring real estate it will be a hundred years until they could be considered a mega landlord like for example Blackstone with its $550B worth of residential rental properties. They bought a billion and a half worth of properties in the small provincial city of Amsterdam in The Netherlands over the past couple years and it doesn't even make a dent on the housing market. That, and because of their corporate nature they're a lot less shitty landlords than the previous owners were.

I'm in full agreement that big money is a threat to society, but at least be realistic about the numbers. Just imagine how insanely large amounts of money you need to corner the market. I'm not saying it's impossible, but if the articles aren't talking about trillions, then they're simply not relevant.

Maybe if the article was about a thousand JPMorgans becoming "mega" landlords it could be relevant. Also.. who is really losing here? The way I see it, this is a threat to the lower upper class, who are being pushed out of the renting market. Are we supposed to feel bad for them, or is this article intended audience the lower upper class?
Land value tax would fix this!
Tip: this would be more beautiful if drawn with a calligraphic pen (source: just see any comic book).

(a calligraphic pen is simply a solid angled ellipse that you move along the stroked path without changing its orientation)
Pentiment
It will take time to find the right balance of clients and work, nurture opportunities and give them time to mature. You will probably slog through a lot of one offs for a bit, it’s possible to endure if you become dependable for a couple of SMEs that aren’t large enough to in-house yet.
Hear me out – things will get better!
The other possible sampling (which doesn't contradict the author's lived experience!) is that there are is a tiny fraction of uniformly nasty individuals, and a substantially larger (maybe even majority) of individuals who are nasty at individual points in time.
To be fair, he used to be huge in the 80s, 90s, with Knight Rider and Baywatch being essential TV shows for every kid.

Now I guess he's just a washed out actor, I didn't even realize he's still touring
Neo Backup and Swift Backup are my go-tos. First is free and open source, second is closed source and some features are locked behind paying but it's pretty cheap and feels more polished (only supports keeping one backup at a time though, unfortunately, and you can't browse backup files because they're forcefully encrypted).
I wish finder would show the file path of files it found
I think you're missing the point of the previous comment, they are saying a good proxy for it being worth it to optimize, is if you're willing to benchmark it.