skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the majority are to easily distracted and manipulated to concentrate on all the WRONG issues.That goes for both parties.

The CORRECT ISSUE and primary issue we need to be focused on is conflict of interest.

It makes no sense to try to get a group of people such as congress that have conflict of interest to fix the problems they created and are benefiting from , hence the result of the Princeton study.

The sad part is that BOTH individual republicans and democrats should want to reduce conflict of interest as it benefits both sides and everyone in general. However BOTH party are too successful in keeping them fighting with each other , blaming each other, and chasing their tails trying to fix the issues with the people that created them.
The Codex Arundel: A Collection of Papers in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci
Mostly just to 'poke fun' at Amazon, but I'm sure all their employees watercooler conversations are well indexed and searchable.
If a policy was unpopular with economic elites, they were effective at getting it shut down.

The push for Federalism is a good example of this. If you hear a politician claiming "states' rights", this might just be why. One material example of this is the NRA funding lawsuits against the Brady Bill, despite the gun control measures being popular with non elites.
I don't actually mind RTO 3 days a week as long as (a) it's not 5 days a week and (b) there is flexibility to work from a remote location for a month or two a year as necessary for family/relationships/seasonal-related mental health.

I wish we had a cafeteria though, my location doesn't have one.

Last time I went to the office I spent 40 minutes waiting at the Tender Greens across the street.

UberEats usually runs circles around the office complex, gives up, and leaves my lunch at some random office building and then I have to hunt it down.
Ok but what if the result of contemplating this is overwhelming existential dread? This comment kind of reduces life to a give and take philosophy. One where everything you do is to accomplish a task. I'm not sure that has anything to do with Buddhism. It's my understanding that part of Buddhism is the removal of the self, and appreciating the moment. I agree that focusing on the end result can detract from appreciating being in the moment, but this sounds sounds more like self-deception.

I prefer the Japanese concept that, and I'm paraphrasing here, "every action has a purpose." Putting value on the actions themselves adds an appreciation for the moment you are in, and the process you are doing. It then becomes a sign of respect for you to do everything in your life to the best of your ability. There's a whole philosophy about this, but the name of it escapes me.

A few things I've found that are related:
"The was of the peaceful warrior" - Book

This is water - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7xzavzEKY

Sorry if this is a little rambly, I have ADHD and my adderoll is doing its thing.
> Do you mean in Europe? Pretty sure money has been used quite a bit in many other places.

I mean pretty much everywhere. Money wasn't used the same way it is today, and it wasn't until the 1500s that really emerged as a result of the Dutch being prolific traders. Coins existed but money wasn't spent, or used, like it is today... Barter was the primary way for people, both rich and poor, to acquire goods.
Cinematic Techniques in Narrative Visualization
I think a better analogy would be do we blame weapons manufacturers for making better weapons? Or, do we blame black hats for making better viruses?
Also the same verbiage used repeatedly. Every time. For decades. And I've been here for decades, so I have literally observed this from detractors since the 80s.
For better or worse, this is the stuff you need personal connections with industry insiders to get the scoop on. The chemical industry doesn't have anything like [0] to get internal scoops so these stories are not published anywhere.

It's one of those "go to the right school and know the people in the room" things. Everything I've mentioned is stuff that tons of low-level people are fully knowledgeable about and commonly known to the chemical engineering community around Houston, but I also know people who work with the C-suite and these issues are absolutely reflecting in the top-level business reporting as well. Which I could be bullshitting because when you see "The direct economic consequences resulted from companies partially ceasing their activity (e.g. neighboring chemical manufacturers in the area, and/or customers, or suppliers, etc) and farmers that had to destroy their harvests." in Wikipedia, any business intelligence service could do some research to estimate the potential damages and obviously these things "would reflect in the top-level business reporting as well", whatever that means.

One of BRK's huge advantages is its ability to obfuscate individual company performance in combination with its historical reputation for excellence. Its quarterly reports don't break out how well each company performs so if AAPL goes up 25% it makes up for a lot of mismanagement and performance issues across BRK's portfolio companies. So people just assume its constituent subsidiaries are continuing to be managed well.

But BRK has a huge influence on rail regulation, and we can also see how forward-thinking they are there as well. Inferences can be made from the risky practices they're implementing and what reliability innovations they're resisting. Who in the upcoming generation are going to want to go into the rail industry? Even for the degreed civil or transportation engineers, the rail industry lifestyle is now unappealing when compared to other markets they can apply their talents. The pay absolutely doesn't make up for the constant travel and lack of any social life, unlike, say oilfield engineering compensation which has a similar lifestyle.

That said, do I think BNSF is at risk for losses? No. They clearly fit the BRK model of a business with a "natural moat" and in these times of extremely constrained shipping capacity, they will be able to charge whatever they need to, in order to maintain healthy BNSF profitability. The point is more:

1) This is a concerning pattern in how BRK manages its subsidiaries. Some of its other holdings won't be able to tolerate it and stay above water.

2) Some of the individual things are so bad and reflect on BRK so directly (appointment of obviously terrible C-suite leaders) that it's prima facie evidence of BRK deterioration. We would need strong counter-evidence to reject that conclusion.

0: https://www.theinformation.com
I discovered it while looking at raster solutions, and it is pretty great! The raster stack is pretty bonkers. TiTiler uses at least three fundamental layers: GDAL, RasterIO, and rio-tiler. Each contribute a fairly significant improvement (for the use-case) over the underlying one.
>, but that they chose companies that were struggling or undervalued, brought them into the fold and multiplied their value.

Fyi... That's the opposite of Warren Buffet's preferred approach. He's made it known that he's not a "turnaround artist" that buys distressed companies and fixes them. Some private equity firms specialize in that type of buy-and-flip but that's not Berkshire's preferred method.

Warren's approach is to buy great companies generating free-cash-flow and with excellent management already in place.
I prefer coming into the office, but my commute influences my decision: 15 minutes of stress-free, pleasant driving, and I charge my car (free) at my office.

Selfishly I wish everyone would come in -- way more productive side conversations, and more humanity. A coworker opened up to me a few weeks ago about a vacation that got denied, and just needed someone to vent to. That wouldn't have happened over a scheduled Zoom.

I also suspect some coworkers are working 2 or more other jobs, or are just insanely checked out and filling their day with errands, long workouts, ballgames, etc. The same few people have "internet issues" all the time, etc.
No, he's not cured, he's just rich.

Money makes A LOT of problems and difficulties and blockers go away.

I agree that no level of any autism-like issues should absolve him of being a massive narcissistic cunt though.
Steam has the option to let you pin a specific version of the game if the publisher supports it, but Cities Skylines does not.
I personally don't mind being in the office a couple of days a week. As many distractions people complain about being in the office, I think people have the same at home.

I can't agree with you more regarding the commute. It really does suck.
Is Code Insecure by Nature?
Is code insecure by "nature" or because of instruction architectures?

For example, are some architectures not susceptible to Meltdown like attacks because they are designed properly or because we haven't found a way to yet?

You can't escape the JVM, but you can escape a Virtual Machine.
Any similar .NET nuget to recommend, anyone? Thanks
Vector tiles?
I'm not even sure we can extrapolate that the NSA is storing anything like every text message long-term (as opposed to metadata, or samples, or the full transcripts of individuals targeted for investigation, or a machine learning trained weights set to flag messages that indicate someone should go on the targeted-for-investigation list).

6 billion text messages are sent per day in the US. That's about the volume of Google web searches, and I know from experience Google doesn't have the capacity to log every search or the logs of evaluation of every search. If Google lacks the capacity, I suspect the NSA lacks the capacity.
When you're as big as Amazon, you probably can. They could coast for a long time and be ok.
And most of the reason they are not lagging SP500.
Of course employers love arbitration. An arbitrator is not bound by precedent, the law, or even the agreement itself. Why does every corporation say they'll pay for the arbitration? Because when you're an arbitrator looking for work you want the corporation to come to you. So you rule for them as often as possible. There's no official collusion but a giant load of perverse incentive for them to be as corrupt as possible.
No, it was fair. I used "they" to refer to the plural legislative body, and incorrectly used "he" to refer to the governor.
> If your answer is something like Go or Node.js, then Rust is probably not the right choice. If your answer is C or C++ or something similar, then Rust is very likely the right choice.

I've been saying that for a while. If you're building web backends, Rust is not a good choice. Go is so much easier. The green thread system gets rid of the thread/async distinction, garbage collection means you don't have to obsess over memory management, and the libraries for web backend stuff are the same things Google uses internally, so they're well-tested.

A big problem with Rust, long-term, is that the kind of programs that really need it are somewhat out of today's mainstream. It's not that useful for webcrap. It's not that useful for phone apps. The AI people use Jupyter notebooks and Python to drive code on GPUs.

Where do you really need Rust? Heavy-duty multi-threaded programming. Operating systems. Compilers. Routers and network infrastructure. Robotics, maybe. Hard real time. It ought to be used more for high-performance games, but the game infrastructure isn't there yet. Unreal Engine is C++ and Unity is C#. Rust has Bevy and Rend3, but they're not AAA title ready.

Perhaps Rust is fighting the last war - the mess inside C++.
> which transmits its location and height unencrypted on an open frequency

Usually once every hour or every other hour for a quick second long burst, otherwise they are powered down and just floating. Pico balloons can't carry more than a few grams and depend on solar panels to charge up a battery enough to transmit.

Also air to air missiles are not magic. They don't have secret decoders for every imaginable protocol to lock on to targets (and assume they aren't lying about their location). They are either slaved from the planes radar, contain their own radar, or use heat signatures to lock on.
> being in-person lowers the friction to asking questions and exchanging ideas

This is a downside, not a benefit. I don't want to hear about your compilation error when I'm heads down on my own work.
knowing upper management, theyd be happy with this
Trusting what you read in a poll is how you wake up the next morning and Trump has won the election.
Getting fired for not reporting for duty is different from a layoff
Why is this being downvoted? It’s a simple explanation of Berkshire’s value investing approach
I used this when modeling a shed-to-house I built. Like most open source software, it's not SUPER polished but it's useful. Making basic walls, doors, windows, and placing furniture is fairly easy. It gets very complicated using their workaround for things like ceilings, roofs, and such but it's doable.

One great feature is being able to export a 1:12 scale reference for my shed builder. It took some very careful toying with background layers, but I was eventually able to get a large-scale Kinko's printout from a PDF where 1 inch on the printout = 1 foot in the real world.
No wonder they blamed F-35 programme as the main reason why American roads aren't fixed.
I think it's more socioeconomic class than geography.

A blue collar tradesman that is a partner in an urban business and nets 250k/yr probably going to have more in common ideologically with a guy who drives a tractor in BFE than he does with a techie or a doctor.
The Intel Etann Analog Neural Processor
What really makes code hard to read is having multiple paths to disentangle. There is one little error deep in the call stack but you have to vandalize the 10 functions above it in the call stack to carefully separate the error and non-error paths -- what's the probability that you will end up cleaning up properly in both paths when it isn't done for you with finally? What's the probability that somebody looking at this code is really going to find the subtle error in the error path or an error in the happy path caused and hidden by the complexity of the unhappy path?

I think the first C program I saw was a type-in terminal emulator from Byte magazine around 1985 and I was struck by the akwardness of the error handling in the C stdlib, spent a lot of time looking at the code when I realized the author had "spaced it" at one point such that the error handling was wrong and thought "this sucks" but learned how to write C programs with 3x the LOC because of all the alternate paths I had to put in to handle errors.

When I saw exceptions for the first time I felt strongly liberated because I got for free what I was working for so hard in C so I got to spend more time thinking about algorithms, the needs of the customer, things like that.
For me, this company was Network Solutions. Never have I ever dealt with a thing so bizzare. They even uppercased my email address when communicating with me.
You do notice a lot of things about older items by actually using them. Little touches, weight, balance, the way the design is remarkably nice for some particular use or other in ways and for reasons you wouldn't have guessed just from looking at it, the satisfying feel of a hinge or knob or pull. Our local art museum has a collection of elaborate silver tea services—originally intended for actual use, not just decorative—and I bet one would notice a lot of things about them by actually using them, that one is unlikely to spot or understand just by looking, but no-one's likely to ever use them again—at least not for quite a while.
Rather curious about the URL query parameter length constraint. Excluding IE11/Edge, don't most major browsers have at least 64k query lengths these days? Could you just serve the low quality jaggy poly to few percent still on IE11/Edge and a high detail one to the rest?
I too fully expected this to be a demonstration of semantic search, with AI in the company name and all.
I think this is a really good detail you bring up. Often, I see the conversation talking about the absolute worst forms of in-office setups: cubicles or open office, with teams far apart, and long driving commutes everyday.

In my world, my team and I are in adjacent shared offices (not cubes), and we all walk or bike to the office. It works wonderfully.
I imagine the 15min commute (by bike! lol) is why you enjoy it. Commute was always my driving force for hating in-office. These days i want land, some chicken, a few goat, etc. By your assertion i would likely have to find a new career, because there's basically no way i can afford 5-10acre and have a sane commute.

But i've been WFH for coming on 10 years now. I don't judge office people, but if i can help it i'm done spending 3h of my day commuting on I5 every time there's a wreck (which happens easily 3 times a week in my area, ugh).
I never wanted kids anyway. Especially not in my 20s. I'm 47 now and never had them. Life is for fun, not raising kids :P
Exactly what we need, more traffic & crowded public transport in Seattle...
Actually, another thing. JSON works. But what about doing pattern matching on the tagged enum? Each variant should give access to its fields

Can https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/functions-conditional.htm... be used to do it?
I don't see how any of that follows. If the ground is accelerating upwards, then making an object levitate would require stopping that acceleration. Even with scifi magic, that problem sounds more difficult than "blocking gravity" in one location.
Well, to summarize Vince is dead. He died a long time ago but it still feels like he just died.
John Carmack on lead time to push fixes in startups
I'm not tied to FAANG. It's been pretty bad for me. 6 YOE looking for mid and senior roles all over.
As a junior(? definitely not senior, might be toeing the line of junior/not) remote employee, what's the peril here?
Not really.

But they are entities designed to pursue profits as their primary motivation. With proper regulation, when the pursuit of profits align with the needs of society, they can be great to have around.

Problems arise when regulation is insufficient, when regulators are complacent or corrupt, or when governments look after the desires of corporations instead of the benefit of the people.

When that happens, then yes, they become a threat to society.
Those cost differences are striking. An adversary could launch thousands very cheaply. I wonder how militaries would react to so many potential targets.
It's interesting that you claim my statement is nonsense. That seems hypocritically dismissive. Ask for evidence or simply disagree. By saying nonsense are you implying that it's not possible that men's interests could be discounted by the popular opinion of today?
How about the amount of funding and attention that breast cancer gets vs prostate cancer?
Once again I'm not interested in why, just the current state.
One can use yt-dlp, version 2023-02-17, to download. Where should one upload it to? Freenet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet)?
My problem with these arguments (the ones you quoted) is simply that I don't think they're true.
These are definitely better examples than you previously used. That said, I think the tax assessments don't accurately state the value of the land vs the building. I don't think OnlineGladiator is correct about the universality of >10x land:building, but I don't think you're right about ~0.2x in these neighborhoods either. I do think OG is correct about housing as an appreciating asset being primarily about the land value.

1) The nominal land cost has huge jumps up and down. From 2016->2017, all of these properties had their land value lowered 60-70%: $150k->$44k; $166k->$59k; $75k->$32k; $279k->$96k. I find it hard to believe that property prices swung that much, especially since the total appraised value remained constant.

2) The price of the land depends on the zoning of the land. A lot which can't be subdivided further or which can't have multi-unit housing will be constrained by what a single family is willing to pay for the lot. If you compare the last property ($140k land assessment / 19k ft2) to a smaller lot nearby [0] ($50k land / 2.4k ft2), you can see a huge difference in the land price per ft2: $6.7/ft2 vs $20.4/ft2. This price difference reflects legal constraints on what can be done with the lot. If the larger lot could be subdivided, it should be closer in price per ft2 to the smaller lot and would be worth ~$390k. If the total assessed value remained constant, that would be 1.25:1 for land:building.

[0] https://property.phila.gov/?p=344121100

3) Furthermore, the price of the building itself depends on the scarcity of housing. With plentiful land to build new housing, old housing loses value quicker. An old house in a constricted market has more value because it's existing housing on a scarce plot of land. Even though the value is assigned to the building, that building is more valuable because of the plot of land it's associated with.
ChatGPT Chrome extension for Stack Overflow
The election of Trump is a great example of the tyranny of the minority.
Yes, I have called this The Bias Paradox.
If a non-biased AI could actually exist, it would be perceived as biased and we would attempt to fix the non-bias resulting in injecting bias back into the system.

However, the output is not pure as data input is not the only source for potential bias in the system. All of the AI systems are purposely biased to remove harmful content in some manner as perceived by those managing the system.

https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-the-bias-paradox
Learning the Reasoned Schemer
The Computer Science Cabal reading group will begin reading through "The Reasoned Schemer".

Essentially, this book teaches Declarative Programming in the form of Relational Programming, using miniKanren.

Relational Programming is very much different from the usual forms of programming, and, IMO, worth knowing in order to expand your horizons, esp. if you are interested in Architecting software.

The group meets once a week on Zoom and chit-chats on Slack in the interim.

The next Zoom meeting is on Thursday Feb. 23, 7pm EST. Contact me for an invite.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34520537
Now do it for everything else.
My point was just that, if you're a company like Apple and you just spent $5 billion to build a corporate HQ, you're far more motivated to make use of the space than a company that rents out a skyscraper in the city.

Wasn't trying to be uncharitable, there are certainly other reasons why you might want to be in person, but for an Amazon-sized company your choices are either use your buildings or let other people into your buildings, which is going to be some combination of hard or undesirable.
Actually Walmart is also closing offices that were around in some instances a number of years before the pandemic. So they’re downsizing even further than expected.
> Help me understand, it sounds like you're saying that "when the poor people agree with the rich people, everyone gets what they want and democracy is proved to be healthy, nevermind that when they disagree, the rich people get what they want anyway."

That's how I read it too.
When you think about it, not really. The F22 went into service 15 years ago and has a radar cross section about the size of a honey bee. I would hope that our air defenses would be designed to detect aircraft like that, and I would also imagine a balloon with no thought to stealth would show up really nicely on any radar that didn't filter it out.

As for the heat signature, and I admit I'm doing more guesswork here, it works via IR contrast. As long as the balloon was sufficiently warmer than the air around it, and you were close enough, it should track just fine.
What a disgrace of a platform. I'd understand dropping a c99 on a cPanel back in early 2000s but these days? What are the engineers doing at the company, collecting a paycheck and pretending to do work?

Speaks volumes for the culture being cultivated at GoDaddy.
I can see why tax strikes happened in the past.