skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A vacancy tax no more compels someone to rent their property than an income tax compels me to be unemployed

This is a bad analogy because an income tax is supposed to be for raising revenue, and it is generally understood that it should not be too high that it discourages too much economic activity. On the other hand, the Proposition M vacancy tax is explicitly intended to “disincentivize prolonged vacancies” by taxing up to $20k per unit per year (https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/tax-keeping-residentia...), which the plaintiffs argue violates the Ellis Act which says that homeowners have the right not to be in the business of being a landlord (https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/sm...).
It's their property, they are free to use it (or not) as they see fit.
The solution for all this issues on lack of housing is easy, let people build more. SF is famous for its Kafkaesque regulations and zoning for building.

Remove them, let apartment buildings be built everywhere, and the problem will solve itself.
According to FR24 [0], the decrease in altitude corresponds to an increase in groundspeed. If you're flying through descending air, the groundspeed generally wouldn't change, just the rate of climb decreases. Even if you increase thrust, you'll use this to arrest the sink rate, rather than increase groundspeed. Instead, it looks like they first traded altitude for airspeed, then airspeed for altitude, and ended up close to the original climb track. Sounds more like a straightforward dive to me.

[0] https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/united-airlines-777-dives...
>> Meaning, if there is GNU coreutils around but no liberally licensed alternative, there will be a market for alternatives that proprietary vendors can use. Thus, somewhere out there will maintain a proprietary coreutils library and charge money for it.

And where is that?
I recognize his challenges, but not sure if I can look past his victim blaming and "both sides bad" war rhetoric.
I'm in my 50's so don't quite fit your pattern. But who knows - we are complex beings and no doubt undergo metabolic changes as long as we're alive.
Typical war propaganda one side says about the rival to try decrease their confidence. That is the only reason why they are publishing this.
It's really unremarkable that the company that built Teams would eventually require all employees at their acquisitions to use it over a competitor. Leading aside the obvious cost benefit, even the howls from users are useful: now your PM know what to build next.

But the real deal with something like Teams is that it is not just a chat and call app. The vision is clear: Teams is where people will spend their days. The app integration with workflows like approval of vacation or invoices; the third party plugin ecosystem; the deep support for regulated markets like banking and government...it feels like a glacier that is going to grind slowly but eventually reshape the landscape.
I can see why. She did a great job in highlighting her singing ability without any gimmicks.
That should apply to life in general. The only point of worrying about something is to do something about it, and if there's nothing to do, then there's no point wasting cycles.
women have breasts to 'generate milk' and 'because they look nice'

men have breasts because they're 'fat'

a vicious double standard
If anyone else wants to do a more guided form of this, The Harvard Classics has a 15 minute a day reading guide. This website has the intro and a passable selection of .pdfs to use:

Guide: https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120612_1

.pdf downloads: https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120212

Note that the page numbers are for the book pages, not the .pdf pages.

I did it over the pandemic, and yeah, it's really really good. But you do have to get used to older writing styles. The mid 1700s to early 1800s authors really like run-on sentences. Also, Shakespeare takes some getting used to, so pull up a YT video and read along as you listen.
that huge amount of whitespace is a dealbreaker for me too. needs to be more compact at least as an option for me to use it.
> I mean Bing had like a whole three weeks to slap this together after OpenAI first demoed it's ability to make things up.

How do you know that's when they first learned about it? Perhaps the Bing team had access to it for weeks prior to the demo.

"Microsoft provided OpenAI LP a $1 billion investment in 2019 and a second multi-year investment in January 2023, reported to be $10 billion."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
If hackers steal a database with healthcare records and publish it online, it's a crime, right? But if data brokers do the same, and even profit off it, the law has no problem with that.
This is a misconception about life expectancy statistics. For most of human history, if you survive past early childhood, you can expect to live a pretty long life. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-funda...
Blender should be Blendle there. Sorry, autocorrect.
> Worse, the claim is there that the adenosine "doesn't go away," but there is no cite for that rather key claim. (Did I miss it?)

It "doesn't go away" in the sense that the adenosine stays bound to the caffeine until your body metabolizes that caffeine away. At that point, the adenosine is released back and follows it's usual cycle. It's not that it "doesn't ever go away".
might be a problem now that 10s of thousands of ex faang are back on the market.
And now the server is hosting images and has to police that or it gets shut down. And suddenly content moderation is #2 priority for the service, behind #1 profit, but well ahead of providing a space for communities.
Acquiring property is a rather involved process which is rather difficult to do accidentally. If one wants to avoid all of those challenges, it's rather easy to simply not buy houses which one doesn't intend to occupy. If one already finds themselves facing those challenges, one could also stop being a landlord by selling the house, and avoid them in the future. I hear the property market is pretty hot in SF, so selling the house doesn't seem like it would be an enormous challenge.
But given how pervasive zlib is, it's probably used somewhere in its infrastructure.
In the real world, there are no "good guys vs bad guys", no "white/black", it's all shades of grey, recognizing this is not "victim blaming".

But let's avoid flamewars irrelevant to the discussion.
Like I want more emails. Why did Skype start a blank chat every time I talked to someone? Close the chat? Bam, go find that transcript
> It’s be somewhere with a reasonable CoL but still nice to live in…

The funny thing is, this is why companies were in San Francisco. Back when the tech industry was far less than it is now, San Francisco was "a reasonable CoL but still nice to live in" even though it was all the way over there in California.

Then San Francisco got expensive so people tried Seattle...then Denver...then Austin...and so the wheel turns. And each time, we fail to learn the lessons of what made those places get more expensive as more people wanted to move there. Then we try again somewhere else, expecting that new people won't have the back story and existing people will happily move.

I've been working on computers for a job for decades and we still haven't gotten it right.
How did you install Gitlab without an official build (such as the official docker images and Debian packages from their own APT repo)?
wow do you have the reddit link ??
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/mental-healt...

Check out the privacy policy and where the data goes. Maybe I misunderstand how much data Google is getting by having their Analytics script running? There's no way a child is going to be able to knowingly consent to this collection. Children are the ones this service is advertised to, up to and including personal recommendations from our PM.
> Have they changed the thing where you only see a circle with people's initials during meetings and you have to click on them to see their actual names?

Nope.
Best history teacher I ever had was a guy who's "real career" was coaching.
Most crypto exchanges provide free websocket endpoints with millisecond latency for trade and order book data
> war mongering western governments

What do you mean?
This whole situation with UFOs feels kind of like moon bears.

Normally this sort of stuff wouldn't even be reported to media, right? I've seen some people elsewhere imply that it could have something to do with keeping attention off the happenings in Ohio...
I use what I thought was dimensional analysis very often after learning about it 10+ years ago during my Physics studies. It's a very powerful technique to both check that your equations are correct (i.e. do the same equations but just with the concrete dimensions and you should end up matching with the dimensions of your result) and checking you have correctly carried the magnitudes (kilo, giga, etc.).

I've never seen dimensional analysis without using concrete dimensions, so this blog post was really eye opening. It seems a little magic to me, so I'm interested to learn more about a quick and helpful technique I thought I mastered.
There is a post about a 38 year old becoming CEO in 2012 https://www.mortonsalt.com/article/morton-salt-announces-new...

But he claims to have remained CEO until 2019 https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-herrmann-cfa/
Not only that, but if you're disconnected and reconnected again, you lose your ident if your nickname contains uppercase characters or underscores: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1...
Ironically I have had the exact opposite experience, it's interesting to see how the app behaves so randomly.

I used Teams on Windows for work last year and the performance was horrible on a relatively beefy workstation machine, getting into a call or loading a chat would have a visible lag or delay.

But using it on my personal Mac it was a fairly okay experience, just a run of the mill app I would say.

Perhaps the difference is O365 (Enterprise) Teams versus Teams for Life (Personal)?
They can try. You will note that nobody except government employees and the guy running the website ever got in trouble for reading cables or classified information. We have the Pentagon papers precedent to the effect of it being a freedom of speech issue.
Did these people take pay cuts when they went remote because they got some time back? They did not, so they’re not taking a pay cut.
The landlord can move into the property themselves, sell the property, or make the property more appealing to rent.

There is plenty the landlord can control. What this tax does is say the landlord can't just sit on empty properties without penalty.

Heck, the landlord could even work collectively with society to make the area viable for tenants!
I am confident enough that the West is still able to decimate a middling power like Russia. They have the GDP of Italy for fuck sake they're not the USSR.
But, to explain the categorical meaning of the term, you have to lean on the sexual meaning. That is a pretty big difference. And unnecessarily scopes the audience to people that wouldn't be offended by this. Especially when ⊥ exists. Why is that not available as an emoji?

Granted, I don't think everyone needs to be prudish, such that this is a bit of a tempest in a teapot. But it is very different than claiming that explicitly sexual reframing of other items is the same thing.
Can't directly reply to your comment. I have just found rtings very reliable for IT / appliances. They go into a lot of detail, very data driven. Trustworthy IMHO and trust is what it is about at the end of the day.
Z-lib has more content than lingen and was more well known and had more traffic.
Sorry, but that's insane. That's fine for high-level
near-professional sports

To be clear: high school sports seasons typically last for only 3 or 4 months. So that schedule doesn't seem excessive to me.

We're not talking about 52 weeks x 5 days x 4 years.

Not sure if you were already aware. Or if this impacts your thinking.

Now, some parents book their kids' lives so full of sports (multiple sports, multiple leagues, etc) that it DOES become insane in my view. I'm sure that we at least agree on that.
I mean no disparagement to the OP, but maybe the team is just really bad at planning. Or perhaps they’re stretched thin and are having a hard time seeing the bigger picture.

I’m not saying such a claim doesn’t need more info, but I’ve been on teams before that lacked anyone with a good project management skillset.
https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce

> The Dockerfile used for building public images is in Omnibus Repository
Doubtful.

They read Orwell and Huxley and based on the state of the world those lessons don't appear to stick.
High probability things have high probability of occurring?
11111111 is technically possible to use, but it would cause some problems. Sending it over the wire would break telnet, for example. Also since we already introduced 11111110 for 7-byte encodes, we're getting dangerously close to making the UTF-16 BOM character (11111111 11111110) accidentally show up in UTF-8 (this is also why 11111110 wasn't in the original maximum-6-byte UTF-8 spec). I still don't think it's possible to have the UTF-16 BOM show up in our hypothetical extended UTF-8, since 11111111 could never be immediately followed by 11111110 (or vice versa) in a well-formed UTF-8 stream.

Also note that if you did add 11111111 as a valid head octet representing an 8 octet long encoding, you'd still only have 42 usable bits (since the first byte is still entirely consumed by the length indicator)
*grapheme cluster
How did you get "certain sounding comment" from "However, it's important to note that this is just a possibility and I cannot say for certain that this is the company the person you mentioned was referring to without additional information."
I commute to work most days on the bus in Washington, DC, and depending on the hour of the morning will see unaccompanied school children, admittedly more from middle-school age up.
All technology giveth and taketh away, so yes it will create jobs while taking away others.
However people that aren't able to come along, and there are more of them than you can feed, are very much threatened by this all.
You either dispose all these so called career wise immobile people or you find them to do some interesting and fulfilling work, if not they will cause a lot of problems.
I personally think the latter is the most wise way, besides, they are the majority on this planet.
> This is such a depressing post about the sad state of open source.

But it's also a depressing post about the sad state of single source. I work in a portion of the software world that interacts with real world widgets, 5 factory buildings are right next to mine. "Single source" is a cuss word around here. We do everything we can to avoid it. I think it's awesome what this guy has done; terrible that it's just one guy. A whole aspect of open source was that it shouldn't become reliant on a single source like this. It's supposed to leverage the gestalt of cooperation. I agree with you, it really is too bad.
This doesn't take into account that C-suites might like going into big offices in the city and walking around seeing all the people who work under them. Maybe being an executive lacks panache when it involves leading Zoom meetings in your pajamas.
If day == Tuesday, print "Please put out the bins"

If day == Saturday, print "Be home by 9pm"
The autopilot parameters and control inputs would still be captured by the flight data recorder.

Aviation as an industry is built on blameless, honest post-mortems. There's a strong safety culture, and pilots are encouraged to share their mistakes so that other pilots can learn from them.

In most cases, filing a safety report will protect the pilot against any retribution from either the airline or the federal government. At worst, they'd be asked to undergo additional training. There's no reason for the pilots to engage in deception here.
>> It's simply demanding more from those who are already giving.

If you are giving away source code, the GPL doesn't ask you to give more. It does require your downstream to continue giving should they take and extend or modify.
It’s been a year since I’ve used teams but my biggest gripe is search. Conversations are contextual. My work often requires me to find conversations that happens months ago. When unused Skype I could god into my email and recover it that way.

With teams , back when I used it, you could search no problem. What you couldn’t do is go back to a conversation and get the context. I’m not sure how on earth you ship a search feature without the ability to go back to that message In a chat application.
> Name a game developer who's done this in the past 20 years

I'd imagine it was really popular among console developers, who would usually develop two versions of their game anyways (a DirectX one for Xbox/PC and an agnostic one for Mac/Playstation/other). DirectX is traditionally considered easier to use (and comes with PC tooling) so I could see how people would prefer it for debugging.
Not all ESPP's can be sold instantly. At Asana we have to hold ours for a year before selling, so it's not risk free money.
Definitely can see what you mean about the younger kids in the afternoon, thanks -- I'd definitely been missing that in my thinking.

Funny I never thought about it till now -- in my public elementary school back in the day, the (minority of) kids who didn't have a parent at home in the afternoon, stayed an extra 2-3 hours at school for the rest of the afternoon at no charge, mainly doing art activities like finger painting etc, and they even provided snacks. I remember joining a few times just because I wanted to hang out with my friends there. It was very minimally structured/supervised -- just something to do to maintain interest but not be rowdy, not intended to be "educational" or anything.

I've never heard of that kind of thing since though. But it sure makes a lot of sense for that to be provided standard by elementary schools, now that 2 working parents is the norm.
Chimera – a Linux that *isn't* GNU/Linux
You are overstating the problem:

>This really pisses me off. I want to buy a home. There are millions of people in the USA living on the street

In January 2020 , there were 580,466 people experiencing homelessness on our streets and in shelters in America. Only 226,000 were unsheltered and on the streets. This is nearly an order of magnitude less than the claim above. Homelessness is a big problem, and we need to work on it, but lets do so with a clear-eyed understanding of the problem.

Source: https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
> Unlike the two-party democracy of US, India has a multitude of political parties holding power at the state level. Many of these parties (AAP, TMC, DMK, etc) whip BJP's arse in state elections. There are talks of a third party AAP gaining enough support to contest at a National level in the future.

This is basically the state in Russia. I would not call Russia a democracy therefore your argument does not convince me India is one either.

The parent is correct. Control over media, and jailing witness who implicates top government employees is exactly what happened in Russia just before the invasion.
That seems like the fairest way to do it, make it part of your property taxes. Before, your property taxes are $T. Now, your property taxes are $T + $T x F x M, where M is the number of months in the year the property is unoccupied, and F is some factor. For everyone whose home is actually lived in, your property taxes don't change. A supercharged version of the homestead exemption.
> First of all, I use the mouse a lot, I don't believe in the keyboard-driven mentality that tries to undermine the mouse. Although I do use the keyboard heavily, not just for typing but for shortcuts.

For me, I've generally tried to have things set up so that I can operate my computer either entirely with the mouse, or entirely with the keyboard. Generally this means a combination of Vimium and a mouse gestures plugin.

I really miss the wheel gestures that the FireGestures extension (lost in the Firefox e10s migration) had, which let you map actions to right-click + scroll. You could have the gestures bring up a menu, which could be navigated by continuing to scroll up/down while keeping right-click held, which made for a really nice UX. I had right-click + scroll down bring up a menu with the history for the current tab, and right-click + scroll up bring up a menu with recently closed tabs.
Ask HN: Any HNers have air quality sensors near-ish 'East Palistine, Ohio'?
Anyone have better data than whats being reported, be it air, fish, frogs, birds, livestock?
Foveated? It seems to be the orthography, nifty improvement yes.
Until Twitter was acquired by Musk, that was the state of that website.
Like the Nreal Air?
In recent years it’s felt like there are always more stories about mental health in males. Job market, etc. Not sure how you’re missing them?
Suddenly so many people are actually pacifists, yeah I don't buy it either. And in their anti Western hatred they are willing to sacrifice a sovereign state to a Russian invasion.

A question I pose to these people- after Ukraine what other land is Putin allowed to grab?
It depended on the season: touch football and soccer in the fall, basketball and wresting in the winter, softball and running in the spring. There would be also calisthenics--push-up, sit-ups, jumping jacks, occasionally burpees. And their would be drills such as "touchlines"--running on the basketball court.

It has been fifty years, but I think that PE was twice a week. Class was about an hour.
Teen Girls Report Record Levels of Sadness, CDC Says
IDK if McCulloch established that. Maryland wanted to tax the Bank out of existence, and Marshall clearly addressed that use of taxation, not taxation in general:

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation. A question of constitutional power can hardly be made to depend on a question of more or less. If the states may tax, they have no limit but their discretion; and the bank, therefore, must depend on the discretion of the state governments for its existence. This consequence is inevitable."

This is about destruction, not coercion. In this case, an example of a destructive tax would be "we levy a tax 100% of the value of your property. That isn't what's happening here.

FWIW governments do more than coerce. Ours does stuff like pay millions of teachers and explore space. That takes money, so governments raise revenue. That's not coercion, that's funding stuff we want and need.
I think it's also fine to just say no when people ask for an escape hatch. Say, no and tell them use another tool.

Not every tool, has to solve all problems.

But I do think people should spend more time articulating what their tools don't do, rather than what they do :)