skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are building a lot of housing in Arizona, it is mostly luxury apartments which contributes to the problem of affordable rents because it tends to increase the rents of neighboring apartments.

They also did a bunch of ‘condo conversions’ back in the real estate bubble which took inventory off the rental market and (from my non-scientific survey from driving a cab around the Phoenix metro area for nine years) they haven’t been putting any effort into affordable housing but just build massive, block sized, luxury apartments.

After the real estate bubble unless you want an hour commute all new housing is ‘infill’ and there’s a reason that a lot of that land wasn’t snapped up before. Now it’s super expensive, needs rezoning and quite often they’re tearing down multiple buildings to get a large enough lot size to make it worth their while.

Plus, they need a lot more water before they build a lot more housing. Phoenix is in the middle of the desert after all.
By definition, microservices are independent of stack.
Every service in theory can have its own stack.
My recommendation would be to stick with microservices but start migrating each service to modern stack.
With regards to the stack, you can look at Django if you want to move to a python based ecosystem, Spring boot for java and node if you want to look at server side js backed by a classic RDBMS like MySql or Postgres
Cars being a life line isn't strictly an American thing either. Any rural area will very likely have insufficient public transport, necessitating cars just to accomplish daily needs.

Japan, for example, faces a problem of elderly drivers in the countryside who can't (or won't) retire from driving simply because they need to drive to get to their farm, go shop groceries, and visit the hospital.
that's an interesting take on it. we cant get INXS, but we're okay wth the omttng lettrs in modrn compny names and terms lke ROTFLMAO
I found I have to ease into it. Move it back 30 to 60 minutes at a time.
The cost function is exponential. Ie getting the last 1 microgram out costs as much as getting down to the 10 micrograms before that
It’s kind of weird, because if you live in a place where you really don’t Need one, it becomes pretty quickly apparent what a trap that sense of empowerment actually is.

A car for an individual is empowering, a car for everyone in the city is awful.
Genuine question: what makes you sure I didn’t read the article (because I did).

Nothing in the article contradicts my post. The lady was almost certainly billing time she didn’t work, but I would still ask myself what I’ve done to enable that before I just fired her.

I’m disinclined to assume the good faith and intention of a company using invasive software to monitor every minute of the day.
The context is about strengthening emissions standards, not banishing all fossil fuel use, so I’m not sure where you’re getting any “absolutes” from.
This keyboard is a fully-lubricated mechanical silent keyboard (Silent milky switches v2), which is made by mStone. The feeling of typing on this keyboard is very soft, tidy up, and very clean. It's a fully-lubricated keyboard for entire switches, so the stabilizer bar (space bar and shift) sounds very clean. The overall typing sounds are like breaking chocolates.
I doubt all that much is even in stocks. And if it is, plenty of private stocks to buy up before IPO or fund new companies. Of course nothing beats real-estate. With that kind of money, futures are very appetizing too.
I started using Forth because I wanted a Reverse Polish Notation calculator at the command line. It turned out to be very practical and extensible.

For example, I created many words to perform unit conversion, such as temperature:

: 2fahrenheit 9 * 5 / 32 + ;
: 2celsius 32 - 5 * 9 / ;

Furthermore, I can even pull in live currency conversion rates from Yahoo Finance to go between USD and CAD.

Since my underlying Forth interpreter runs on Python[0], I get the full large integer and floating-point support that Python has.

[0] http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/forth/forth.html
Batman: Arkham Asylum

https://bit-tech.net/news/gaming/pc/pirated-batman-pc-contai...

> "I've got a problem when it's time to use Batman's glide in the game," said user Cheshirec_The_Cat, whose appalling spelling we felt we needed to clean up. "When I hold [the button], like it says, to jump from one platform to another, Batman tries to open his wings again and again instead of gliding. So he falls down in the poison gas. Can somebody could tell me, what I should do there?"
More like - is the government even capable of the outcomes it wants?

COVID hit. Millions of americans, primarily obese, with multiple comorbidities, died.

The government closed gyms and kept mcdonalds open.

If the government instead forced everyone to go to the gym once a week instead of wearing masks, we'd solve the health crises of our lifetimes and had fewer deaths.
Possibly Andrew Carnegie.
If ChatGPT input and output is not being logged for future use, they're missing a trick. They should provide a tool to universities to paste in a given excerpt and see if it shows up in the output logs. Might even charge for the service!
Yes, or. That 'or' includes the sort of person that is so endlessly fascinated with programming that they can't stop themselves from creating things with code in their spare time.
A little while back I did some reading on Zeno's paradox (really Zeno's paradoxes --- he had several, not all of which seem to have survived). I had always understood them as an interesting early attempt to grapple with the concept of infinity, but now more or less solved by modern calculus. And from a purely mathematical standpoint this basically holds.

But what surprised me was that Zeno was not fundamentally interested in the mathematical implications of his paradoxes. He was more interested in their philosophical implications. To give a bit of context, Zeno was a student of Parmenides, who was perhaps the purest of the monists. Parmenides held that all things are a single unity and that any change is an illusion. Most other Greek philosophers found this idea absurd since it seems pretty self-evident that things are changing around us --- arrows fly through the air, runners race around a track.

Zeno's purpose in devising these paradoxes was to show that it wasn't so self-evident that things were actually moving at all. And it was a counterpoint to the Pythagoreans, who believed that all things began in the number one, but then proceeded in multiples of the number one (the number two, three, four, etc., and through the numbers, all things in the universe since the Pythagoreans believed that all matter was fundamentally composed of integers). In the arrow paradox, Zeno was essentially trying to show that it was logically absurd to start with a unity and go to a multiple as the Pythagoreans held. And in the Achilles and stadium paradoxes Zeno was trying to show that it was absurd to start with a multiple and go to a unity.
If someone is flooding the area around them with high PM2.5 thus that everyone nearby has respiratory problems, but the overall rate of PM2.5 across all of the US is very low (because generally, it actually is) then your proposed scheme would ensure that areas (generally cities) are going to be completely unlivable, but there'd be no reason to change because overall the tax would remain low.

In fact they'd have no reason to improve anything provided that their projection for the cost of improvement looked marginally more expensive then just paying projected future cost of the tax.
Google as a company operates entirely by abusing human rights. Sergey Brin in particular is a particularly awful person, known for things like stating "the point" of hiring female employees was f***ing them.

I think we should take at least $99 billion of his $100 billion and do something decent with it to offset the fact that we have to deal with him.
The way I had the 0.999…=1 concept explained to me (evidently late, I was out of high school when I encountered it) is that there are infinities which are larger or smaller than other ones.

I now know this more familiarly as sets: the infinite set of half distances in Zeno’s paradox is a subset of another infinite set in the same paradox, where the distance to travel is greater. If, for instance, your destination is the chemist down the road, that’s a smaller[1] infinite set of half distances than traversing all of space.

Because we are living beings who move beyond our initial destinations, with compounding goals we reach the smaller infinite set because it’s a subset of a larger one. And because we're living beings who are mortal, we eventually cease movement presumably at some increment less than 1/1 of some particular destination or goal.

There, not a paradox! We are simultaneously able to move because there is no singular infinite subset of distances to traverse, and unable to move at a distinct point in time because we die before we exhaust the infinite superset of other distances to traverse, but we’ve already traversed some subset of it by that point.

1: peanuts/1, and this is the first time I’ve got to reference the same joke on HN twice in totally different contexts just a few days apart.
> An entire web browser could be written from scratch independently for that kinda cash.

It honestly couldn't be. Not one that is on par with Chromium.

I can't imagine how much Chrome "costs" if you add up all the engineering man-hours that have gone into that browser. I wouldn't be surprised if it exceeded (exceeds?) $3 million a month at times.

Everything from V8 to pretty much full standards compliance (and beyond). Web browseres are an immensely complex beast.
I’ve never heard of a university that doesn’t respond to plagiarism with expulsion. Is that a thing?
There are the interests of the public, represented by government institutions and individual public servants.

Those interests are separate from PR for politicians/parties, and sometimes incompatible, like perhaps in this case.
Google in Sunnyvale was like this. We had lunch together but the office was eerily quiet. People would catch themselves talking, apologize, then go to a meeting room if they wanted to continue. Low key hated it and I'm not a social person and prefer quiet while working.
WebRTC in Jetpack Compose
This project demonstrates WebRTC protocol to facilitate real-time video communications with Jetpack Compose.
So much of this conversation is breathless: who said anything about "solving all our problems"?
A coworker mentioned her partner was struggling with long covid. The wait time for a long covid specialist was long, and the eventual appointment yielded little.

Seeking a referral for the specific underlying symptom and abstaining from mentioning long covid finally resulted in better care it seems.
The first step is admitting that this is a problem.
Probably - in the united states - because lasting change can't come from a president edict, but from legislatures in the form of laws.

edit:spelling
Totally agree.Database with both row and column storage engine could help a lot.T hat's the reason OSSInsight like workload can run on top of TiDB easily, whether scan the whole table or scan part of the index.
The invisible hand of the market has decided that profits for landlords is more important than national forests.
Id daresay that what you asked isn't philosophical, but legal. And from what I gather, yes, it is a sale. And if you don't pay, they ding your credit. Hard.

And low/no credit people can't even use these services.

But to the larger point, there's a lot of things that claim to be a sale, but aren't really. I'm especially thinking of DRM music, movies, software, and generally copyrighted goods like that. Those folks are sure addicted to using the language of "sale" and then removing as they choose whatever they wish.
Yes, but for most C++ applications, they prefer the faster wrong answers, because the wrong answers are not wrong enough to cause any bugs.
Elon paid $44B for Twitter! He's going to squeeze every short-term dollar out of the platform and count on users sitting back and taking it.
Your example takes a tradeoff you personally have complete control over: whether or not you, by your own decision making, build that bunker.

Instead your employer is going to tell you that if you don't go stand under that load being crane lifted, then you're not a "team player" and will be fired.
> It’s kind of weird, because if you live in a place where you really don’t Need one, it becomes pretty quickly apparent what a trap that sense of empowerment actually is.

While I agree everyone having a car in a concentrated city is bad; I’ve lived in the Chicago suburbs and public transport is impractical. Cars on the other hand make loads of sense.

I think this occurs rather naturally. Car parking in the city is VERY expensive, so fewer have cars. It’s also dense, so there is less need. Similarly, where it’s cheaper to house a car, it’s more needed.

Personally, I hate living in the city. I am WAY more empowered, have more wealth and have a healthier life outside the city. I can visit any time with my car, but avoid the pollution and squaller
I live in Portland. 70% of my friends don't have cars. My friends are in the 40-60 age range.

If you live in rural or poorly design burbs, cars are necessary by design. If you live in a city, like the vast majority of the world, you don't really need a car.

100x already assumes the answer, which isnt the case for the majority of the world.
Significantly worse than the flu - multi systemic organ damage. The narrative that covid is like the flu, is both wildly inaccurate as this paper explains, and also dangerous, leading to a more cavalier attitude towards covid prevention.
I empathize and completely agree; I like the distinction made between programming and 'software engineering'; the latter is all pure fantasy driven by the profit motive. I think we've been too nice to capitalists and need to reclaim our hobby from the evil. I'd so like to work in a well organized coop of some sort, on interesting challenges, damn the profit motive.

And agile can go burn in hell, however 'correct' you are doing it.
Happy to take that wager, because the majority of programs written are not video games related :-)
that makes sense, and I like the simplicity of `if (err)`. I'm sure it's uncommon but you still lose the compiler check if the function can return null as a matter of course.
the state built the roads you need to feel that "freedom". It's also the one maintaining them
Great work, it will be interesting to see where this goes.
> if they are in a room with their car while it runs, they will die within minutes

FWIW, that's not true with a modern car and a functioning catalytic converter. It's gotten considerably more difficult in recent years to kill yourself even by piping the exhaust from your car directly back into the passenger compartment.

Also, an increasing number of us have no exhaust pipes, which weakens this aspect of the anti-car crusade.
> Cars are pure freedom

I think this is more a statement about your priorities than a generality about cars.
There is indeed a chance that someone doesn’t want to work and doesn’t have a place on the team. I have let people go for this, but only after extensively attempting to remediate.

That’s why it’s an “indication” and not a “guarantee”.
What a terrible person, selfishly trying to spend their own money to address problems important to them. Again, real piece of shit.
okay - so lets develop the question - what is the damage all of them have managed to inflict on USA through Cuban targeting, whatever that means?
The cool thing about property rights is that when you legally obtain something it belongs to you and you don't have to justify your ownership of it to random strangers in order to continue owning it.
I believe the reason he is pointing out this distinction is that if it is a macro, it can be optimized out causing bugs.
> How does an industry that is at once so discreet and employs so many people find staff? How could I work for a family office if I had experience in business/management/finance/real estate/etc.? Honest question, where do I find these jobs?

Like any other hedge fund or private equity fund. There are recruiters and job boards. Many of the aforementioned fund types actually source the majority of their funds from individuals or families, and would actually be considered family offices.
right, but we don't have good transit precisely because of our car-centric society. You and your wife would likely live easier lives in much of Europe

In the US, the car industry has and continues to actively undermine efforts to fix our public transportation system
> I think the concept of NaNs are sound, but I think relying on them is fraught with peril

Well, allegedly in D at least https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/a1w75c/the_bug_i_did_...
> I think mostly from boredom: down to the store, to buy a tool

How exactly is buying a tool or grocery shopping (what I assume is meant by "the store") driving out of boredom?

But to your point, a tax on driving ICE vehicles may indeed incentivize different behavior in areas where there are other transit options. Proposing such a tax is a very urban-centric view, however. Anyone in an even somewhat rural area would immediately realize how impractical it is. For example, if I personally wanted to use public transit I would first need to walk 5 miles each way along a 50mph road without sidewalks to get to the nearest bus stop.

Of course increased public transit options are a piece of the puzzle here, but there are huge areas of the US that have a population density far too low for any type of public transit system to make sense. These areas also tend to the be the areas where buying an electric car is far out of reach economically as well. Like it or not, ICE cars aren't going anywhere for a while.
So what is Twitter's response to the issue? Surely one of those accounts has addressed it... I can't seem to find it.
should be thankful they’re being shielded from the evils of capitalism
Most likely, some of this can be treated nutritionally and will prove reversible.
> I do know that under Democrats and Republicans, the debt keeps rising

In fact it is not. Looking at debt/GDP ratio: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

...the trend has indeed been broadly upwards since the 80's, but mostly due to shocks in 2009 (QE and the aftermath of the financial meltdown) and 2020 (covid). Other than those, it tends to actually be pretty flat.

And in fact has been dropping during the covid recovery, about as quickly as it ever has. I bet the news media you've chosen to believe on economics data didn't tell you that, did they?

> I do know that hundreds of billions of dollars are spent each year on just interest payments on the US Debt and that money could be better spent in other areas.

Oh good, because this is an even better FRED chart to pull out: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYOIGDA188S

In fact debt interest as percent of GDP has not been growing over time. The debt is bigger now because interests are lower now.

And even more interestingly, the debt service cost actually does show a big spike in history, during the Reagan expansion in the 80's, where the deficit was financed with much higher interest treasury bonds. And you can see all that debt decay back to baseline over the 20-30 year terms of the loans. It's history now, those debts are all repaid.

And, it worked out fine. Were the late 80's and 90's an economic disaster brought on by unsustainable spending? Did anything bad happen at all? Most people look back on that period as one of growth and prosperity.

Basically: all your intuition is wrong.
The difference is that xor is available to him (he mentions that in the video), while addition needs to be achieved by combining multiple instructions.
You can put the bounds immediately below the current stack pointer. Since the code runs in real mode, there is no separate "kernel stack", and any interrupt will overwrite the values with flags+CS+IP, which you have some control over.
It kinda amazes me that this device, which sold 10's of millions of units, never had an exploit found till now.

Somehow Apple just crushed the hacking and modding community for their hardware.
I don't see where the GP mentioned property rights. Besides, taxation of property is not a particularly novel concept.
It's not up to him, is it? Sam Altman is the mastermind (or whatever donors they have).
> - empirically incorrect (the idea that very few people beat the index)

Yep, definitionally 50% of stock market capital outperforms the market index average. People recommend index because you don't know who / what will outperform (funds will charge you fees like 1% so random dart choosing a fund means on avg. you get market index - 1%).
You speak with a client. They say what they want. You build it they test it, and state objections and or request more features. You discuss and then build the agreed thing. And then you do this loop untill you ship
The marginal costs of dedicated infrastructure teams is the legion of tickets that product teams want fixed first. The signup team hates that signups take seconds to process instead of milliseconds so there's desire to rebuild the batch job runner, the identity teams want you to make a richer capability-based authz system so that they can sell capabilities as a customer facing product, etc. These infra teams need to justify rebuilding infra like Docker against the marginal opportunities of creating new things for product teams.
Presumably if the size of the heat exchanger can be reduced, the risk of getting hit by a bullet is reduced, and also it can more easily be placed behind protection.
Haha, reminds me of when people exploded over the Xbone's phone-home DRM and rushed to Steam over it, not realizing that Steam always had much more draconian DRM from the start
Whatever part of unreal America you lived in sounds unpleasant.
All of your examples have one thing in common: a very long feedback loop.

Human brains weren't designed to comprehend feedback loops that aren't a few days (hunter/gatherer), weeks (exertion), or a few years at most (gestation, agriculture).

Feedback loops with half a lifetime or more are just impossible unless you practice thinking that way. American's can't even figure out interest rates or long term saving (it is an entirely different argument as to WHY our culture forces people to save for retirement, but I digress). I think most people are too busy or lack the capability to think in terms of long feedback loops.

Or it is the horror of knowing the consequences that cause some people to just shut down and go lalalalalafakenews
Only one of those is valid: a sales tax affects electric and ICE vehicles equally. The gas tax _is_ the excise tax (unless you have another example?).

But yes, the gas tax is exactly what the prior commenter is looking for. It's just far, far too low. US Federal gas tax, last raised in 1993, is 18.4¢/gal. Compare this with Europe, where the average is ~$2.47/gal [1].

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/gas-taxes-in-europe-2022/#:~:text=....