skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We prioritize economic growth over the wellbeing of our citizens. The prevailing thought for decades was that more growth = more prosperity for everyone, but that facade has slowly melted away over the past ~40 years as more and more of that prosperity is funneled down to a small ultra-wealthy subset of the population.
Where did this meme of them being a cash incinerator come from (other than from Musk, hoping people didn't look into the public statements)? Last time I looked, they had a few profitable quarters on the books. Looking at the last annual statement, I see a 200M loss on 5B revenue, with them sitting on 8B in assets, 2B of which is in cash. That's nothing close to a cash incinerator.

As far as I can tell, tightening up that slightly and reasonably could have turned it profitable again. The only cash incinerator I see in this picture is bull-in-a-china-shop Musk who appears to have made the problem 100x worse.
Let’s not pretend like Twitter has never had downtime, they literally popularized the “Fail Whale” meme way before Elon was around:

- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...
Archiving and indexing public IRC or Discord isn't the same as putting up microphones everywhere to listen to conversations between friends.
Gonna have to keep commenting this on housing posts until it becomes the top comment:

land value tax
I'm assuming you mean SELinux style sys call blocking. I think you need both - syscall blocking for the system/deno layer, which enables app layer security in deno itself. That would be the composition-over-inheritance / functional approach.
do you know why they can't afford a down payment? dave ramsey has some ideas, maybe related to the boom in the luxury industry?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/momma-cant-protect-dave-ramse...
The author misses the big picture: housing is embedded in an economic system based upon perpetual growth.

The scarcity of housing, as the author correctly points out, is related to location, location, location. The old saw is "buy land; they're not making any more of it". As the population continues to grow, there may be more houses, but there certainly will not be more houses in desirable locations that are already built up.

The madness here is the perpetual growth. The author's entire analysis is irrelevant because perpetual growth cannot continue in a finite environment.

Whether or not housing prices rise to beat inflation, and whether we vote for Bernie and AOC or not, our houses will soon be worth nothing because we will all be dead. This is the inevitable outcome of the perpetual growth paradigm.

The only sane way to stabilize housing prices and to prevent the inevitable post-apocalyptic collapse, therefore, is by achieving sustainable numbers.

The insects are gone. The animals and the oceans are going. We are immediately next. If you doubt this, and if you continue your consumer lifestyle, you are insane.
because languages that were popular before but aren't now are always a hit.

see COBOL for example.
> Since DHCPv6 is apparently frowned upon by v6 purists, and not all devices on my network support it, that leaves SLAAC.

The main hold out against DHCPv6 is Android:

* https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085
You can all it "weird" if you like, but people do cheat in relationships, and employees do secretly work several jobs.

If you naively trust people, you will probably be taken advantage of.
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Nitter doesn't use the official API, which seems to be what's broken, instead it talks directly to the undocumented APIs that Twitters normal web interface is built on.

I assume they do it that way to get around all the rate limiting and threat of having access revoked that the official API comes with.
the problem isn't not requiring 20% down. the problem is not setting interest rates appropriately. the banks did a calculation of interest based on housing prices growth, but if you just do the calculation with stagnation/minor depreciation you get an appropriate interest rate for the lower collateral
Eh there's definitely some value in having the tooling be explorable and comprehensible to the line programmers. The value depends on the situation of course, like in the scientific python example probably low-close-to-zero.

But I think that's an outlier and the value is usually higher than that. Not always necessarily enough to outweigh other concerns, and I don't think always using the end language for tooling is the correct choice either. But it's a sensible default that you should make sure you get real value out of deviating from.
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Which vertical do you want?
That's an excellent question. Having given the matter some serious thought, I think what I'd suggest would be to start by making Twitter better, rather than worse.

I'm not a business genius though so perhaps I'm missing something crucial here.
Twitter links inaccessible in outage impacting thousands
I get that but

> despite working hard

that's a non-sequitur. Migrant laborers on farms work absurdly hard. "Work hard and get more" is practically a boomerism at this point. There are many reasons to work hard, but none of them have to do with guaranteed home ownership
Safety laws are fine, we're talking about a person saying they enjoyed a late night coding session.
Why don't you get fixed rate so that the rate never goes up. When the background rate goes down you refinance for another lower fixed rate.
I hope they never remove "old" reddit.
Is there any way to get it on Steam Deck? There's no record for it on Protondb.
> Cities Skylines was great, but I am looking for something a bit more in depth.

Incidentally, Cities Skylines 2 was announced just earlier today. There aren't many details yet, but perhaps that will scratch your itch.
Things are more complicated than that.

Something is there causing those phenomena. People have a theory that it may be unicorns, so they are out looking for unicorns. Those are supposed to be hard to find, and people are still searching on the hardest possible places that can hold them. It may also not be unicorns, on what case nobody has any idea what it may be. Some people are trying to make such theories, but none got a good one yet.

On this level of detail, there is nothing wrong at all with any party of the above. All of the problems are with finer details.
I thought a new means of breaking out on your own are food trucks. A quick search shows that they often net 6 figures, though I don't know if that includes the salaries of the help.
its specifically said series s|x at the end of hte video
Well say what you want but imo there's just a huge wealth transfer going on with companies hitting record profits and US, and other countries, suffering from homelessness, poor education and overall worse financial outlook than it was generations ago.

The system is rigged on a higher level than talking head politicians can manage or even comprehend. Leaving the normal people just facing a bleak reality of either being slaved as minimum wage renter or having to come up with resources to find a way out through say education.

We are basically the same as we were in Middle-Ages so it's no surprise though. With the peasants being basically property (and lets not talk about US). And the situation is better, no doubt. But accumulating wealth is a rich person's hobby.
This isn't so different from lots of offices, except that instead of hanging out the rest of the day at the office chatting and generally getting no work done, you can do the shit you need to get done around the house, so you can actually enjoy the weekend.
Honestly I think this point is understated. Twitter (executives at least - but that's how capitalism works in America right now) basically won by offloading a dying platform onto a sucker with more money then sense. If they'd spread the joy around so that everyone who worked there got a golden parachute to glide away on before Musk walked in with a kitchen sink I think I'd be singing praises of them as folk heroes - as it is they're at least assholes that managed to pull one over on a larger asshole.

Edit: Blargh - switching word order.
I quit Twitter when Elon took it over. It provided me with:

Easy access to information and articles about breaking news events.

Community.

A feed of interesting articles and discussions.

Enjoyment gained from following quickly evolving memes, discussions, and jokes.

A way to verbalize incidental thoughts, and the pleasure of crafting those thoughts into small nuggets to share with my friends.

Of course there are many negative aspects to Twitter, but those are the things I found value in.
Not sure that's the main culprit in this particular case, but yes, bottom trawling is incredibly destructive and should be banned.
When my wife and I bought our first house we made significantly less money but were in this situation. We worked with a local bank that would do downpayment assistance where you'd have 2 mortgages, but your primary mortgage would get a 20% downpayment that would prevent having to carry mortgage insurance for the life of the loan. It worked our pretty well for us. I dunno how common this is or available it is to people.
Just because they're blowing money on it doesn't mean it's a successful concept
I was just literally this morning thinking of building this same thing! Very nice work.
I'll be so excited if this allows multiplayer city building. Imagine the possibilities...

First of all, you get to collaborate and build things faster.
You could have a voting mechanic where the citizens (AI) resolves conflicts.
You could assign roles to subordinate players to manage things like traffic, services, new developments, etc.
You could implement trade across city lines, and have acquisitions.
It could easily turn into a MMO of epic proportions; with whole worlds built out.

So. Many. Things!
Not sure if it counts as privatized when the vast majority of Americans are homeowners.

The gov had a ton of programs to increase the home ownership rate over the last 50 years, they were somewhat successful. Now you have a situation where the networth of 65-70% of the population is tightly coupled to their home price.

And we wonder why it's so hard to get them to vote for new housing.

As Munger says, Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.
It’s worth noting that these stats don’t show a difference in moving between cities, but between residences. And if you do look at stats showing moves between counties, those have been fairly flat going back to at least 2005 (I couldn’t find data going back farther).

Which is to say that it seems people find less reason to move from one house to another where they already live than they used to. I expect this is because the difference between your current house and a better house has become substantially more expensive than it used to be, making it harder for people to improve their standard of living over time.
> It's simply a concise way to say "read / watched / listened" when context of which media doesn't matter.

It's barely tolerable when used in that sense, but typically it's not used in that sense. The problem is the widespread abuse of the term. When I first started hearing it used, it was weird but didn't irritate me because it was usually used in the sense you're saying here. But then it started being used all over the place, even when speaking of a single sort of media.

I'm not saying this is right, but it has become a bit of a "red flag" word to me these days, indicating to me that the the piece where it's being used is not of great quality.
The point is that if housing prices tank, they won't have made 3x on their investment. They are talking about the case where you sell below what you paid.
This is more disconnected from the real world than Twitter, because you're focusing solely on a US-centric viewpoint. There are plenty of other places in the world where Twitter has been a core piece of communication.
Our home was $200K. If we own it for 30 years, the property taxes will average to about $180K over that time. If we have $70K expenses (roof, HVAC, etc.) then the total would be 250K.

If we sell our home at the end of 30 years for exactly what we bought it for, no raise in value at all, 200K, then 250K of maintenance works out to around $700 per month for each month of those 30 years.

Any amount we can sell the house for over the original $200K price, reduces the taxes and maintenance down from $700 potentially to zero.

If we sell at the end of 30 years for $450K, even accounting for taxes and maintenance, we lived rent free for 30 years.
There's no way to make it better if you don't start with the root cause.
iPad's text size adjustment control works perfectly.
A high Land Value Tax accomplishes this. It negates the appreciation generated merely by land scarcity and value of surrounding land, which means the only way to get gains from your real estate holdings is indeed to put labor and capital into improving it.
The hole in that argument is that we can annotate token sequences with a "good/bad" score, train a model on annotated token sequences, then add "high good score" as a condition during inference.
Yes, but my recollection is that the whale fail was usually due to huge growth or unprecedented traffic peaks. I don't think Twitter is growing at a fast rate any longer.
That is how it is already going with physician assistants and nurse practitioners, as I understand. Instead of 1 doctor seeing 20 patients in a day, 1 doctor “oversees” a bunch of PA/NP each seeing 20 patients in a day.
"Just go somewhere else" is causing even the 'boring' places to have problems:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/business/economy/spokane-...

We need some more fundamental reforms.
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what are you doing to deal with this?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Georgism(LVT) would fix so many things.

I'd literally vote for a single issue party to get it passed at this point.
> One assumes that twitter has it together enough to pay ASAP once site goes down

I don't assume that. ;-)
> especially the 20% needed so as to not need to get mortgage insurance

PMI affects the affordability but not by much - maybe $300-400/mo or so, and if you can get a conventional loan with a 3-4% down payment (which do exist) then it'll drop off once you've paid off 20% of the principal.

For conventional mortgages, the max DTI most lenders will be fine with is 45%, but let's be safe and go 40%. Let's take a household income of 150k, that's $12,500 a month, so you can have up to $5000 in monthly debts (DTI is based on GROSS income). If you have, say $1000 in monthly debts (eg. minimum student loan payments, minimum CC payments, and cars), you'd likely be approved for up to $4000 in housing expenses, which with 3.5% down and a worst case scenario interest rate of 7.3%, means a maximum home price of about $500,000. But when you factor in PMI, you'd only qualify for $450,000 since PMI is about $358 a month.

That's not all that much of an affordability drop - the difference is that you're basically forced to fall in line with urban sprawl by buying a smaller house further out, maybe even to the point where you're driving 40+ miles to work.
The headline may overstate whatever happened.

I'd never used tweetdeck prior to now. Yet, it just now loaded fine for me. Once it loaded, I clicked a button that said something like, "setup some fields", and then tweets were displayed. What's not working? I'm just a free user of twitter.
Granted, we have all moved from receiving updates to languages/frameworks once every 1-3 years (C# etc) or C++ with 3-8 years and instead get them monthly (sometimes even daily).

Devs from the past who wrote chunks of FORTRAN that sat on a "dusty 386 in the basement for 30 years" are still around, what do they think of the constantly evolving field/goalposts vs more traditional, slower release cadence of languages/frameworks/software in general (afaik; I wasn't around for it).
He intentionally demanded the site be jury-rigged to force-feed everyone his posts regardless
I know this is tangental, but will WASM ever get the ability to manipulate the DOM? And will JavaScript as we know it survive if it does?

All these people building JavaScript tooling in other languages would probably be so happy if there was no need for tooling in the first place.
You can buy fresh products at a reasonable cost in the USA, just have to make the effort to look.

Talking about processed bread, here is an example from Sam's Club [0] for sourdough boules, at $6 for four (about 1kg total). The ingredient list contains nothing ultra-processed.

[0]: Soudough boules at Sam's Club https://www.samsclub.com/p/members-mark-sourdough-boules-4-c...
The Path 2.0 system is a new RPG-inspired skilltree for personal development, offered by the Guild of the Rose, which is itself an online community-based organization for structured self improvement. You can pursue the Path system independently as your own system for personal growth on rails, or you can join the Guild and pursue the path in concert with fellow members.
Do you believe your income is unearned? Or are you just virtue signaling about what the labor market values?
What, they didn't go with something like 420, or even 69?

I guess there's still one aspect of the company that Musk hasn't "fixed" yet...
I'm not so sure. There is a Planet Money episode that talks about the effect the digital spreadsheet had on accounting employment:

> Thanks to spreadsheets, there are 400,000 fewer accounting clerks than in 1980, but 600,000 more regular accountants.

Might something like GPT-6 cause employment to shift to higher value job responsibilities?

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/25/389027988/epis...
The interview snippets make it clear that SimCity 2013 was hopelessly compromised from minute one

If nothing else, consider the mandates from EA:

1. Make it "unpirateable" even if it compromises gameplay
2. Make it depend on EA's online service, b/c we need to sell that even more than we need the game to succeed
3. Make sure it can handle a steady trickle of "expansions" like The Sims

If you are going to implement those mandates, you are gonna end up with something bad. Even if SimCity 2013 had not been otherwise brain-damaged or screwed up, just EA's goals for the product were damning.

(Of course, it is not JUST the mandates -- the game was screwed up in many other ways as well. But the mandates alone would have been bad.)
I used to run a bot that broadcasted my town's current alternate side parking rules (for snow removal operations) but after twitter got weird the town decided to make a text messaging service for it.

I still use it to follow certain artists but if that subcommunity moves I'll follow them elsewhere.
In these days of 100GB games I’m still in awe of how much fun I had from a game stored in 128KB (SimCity on the ZX Spectrum in 1990). And it was perfectly playable in 48KB.
Since the 2010 nadir of fail whales, Twitter invested a lot into improving their engineering quality.

There's a great 2015 essay by Peter Seibel who was tech lead on their Engineering Effectiveness team:

https://gigamonkeys.com/flowers

I'd guess almost nobody from that era remains at Musk-Twitter.
Maxis had a really cool integration ecosystem for a period. I remember flying my sim copter in my sim city. Driving cars around Streets of Sim City - in my city.

SimCity was the worldbuilder and they let you play in that world in a variety of ways. I must have spent hundreds of hours playing these as a child: these were basically my Minecraft.

What happened to their vision? Was the EA acquisition the beginning of the end, or did the magic start disappearing earlier?
> Usually people choose to stay in abusive situations because they don’t believe they’re being abused

I simply asked OP to list the abuses they think the engineers are unaware of.

> OP isn’t saying they’re being abused as a fact,

OP literally said "It would feel amazing after this much abuse"
In my metro, the median listing price for a home just peaked. Driven by low supply, high demand - stemming from a variety of factors. I've made competitive offers on many homes, only to be beaten by all cash offers or people putting more cash down for an appraisal gap. I get angry when I think about neighboring properties that sold for 50% less only 3 years ago, financed at 2.5% interest rates - while I must make a decision to pay 50% more and pay 7%. My wage increases during this time do not fill the gap. I feel I must accept a lower standard of living than my neighbor. This is a massive source of inequality that I feel does not get enough attention. I am quietly feeling the stress of despair and fomo in regards to my housing situation. How can a society function like this?
Too early to tell, but my cynical mind expects the 30% requirement will be fulfilled by choosing parcels of ocean smack in the middle of nowhere with the least economical and thus ecological value.
The fail whale was very common during a time of sustained growth when Twitter did not have the infrastructure it has today, but it all but disappeared in recent time.

The fact that things start to fail after that infrastructure has been put on place and running find for a while is noteworthy.
A simple and short lived glitch does not a #3 make. Twitter is better than ever now. Elon did good.
If by "something like that", you mean "at a tax rate so low that it's irrelevant"...
Hey if those people wanted to keep their jobs they should've bought sleeping bags[1]... oh, wait.

1. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/twitter-lays-off-...
Twitter seems to have fixed that issue. Your link loads fine for me.
In general, Apple suppliers have to take the “financial risk of storing and absorbing the cost of unneeded parts,” but that’s not the case for Samsung.

Good job standing up to a bully, Samsung! I imagine TSMC is the one other supplier that manages to do that.
If you want to understand what the average American consumes the answer is whatever is on the shelf of their local Walmart (they sell groceries). The average American may assemble food from time to time but generally does not cook. That said, there are hundreds of millions of people in that country, so this is obviously a generalization, and should be treated as such.

That said Lidl is making aggressive inroads into the country and that MIGHT have an impact long term. They have legitimate and affordable fresh bread.

https://www.walmart.com/tp/bread

This is Walmart's store brand (as cheap as possible): https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Wheat-Sandwich-Bread-...

Ingredients: Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Whole Wheat Flour, Sugar, Yeast, Contains 2% or less of the following: Soybean Oil, Wheat Bran, Salt, Vital Wheat Gluten, Molasses, Calcium Propionate (Preservative) Vinegar, Dough Conditioners (Monoglycerides, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Sulfate, Enzymes), Potassium Iodate, Monocalcium Phosphate
For someone who has tried to avoid hearing as much as possible about this drama (and didn't notice this was about Twitter until looking at the comments), what are the condensed "lesson learned" takeaways if you don't mind elaborating?
They didn't pay $8.
I mean, it's the same point, single address to single node, just more often, so need to identify more often.

Minutes or less I guess would defeat tracking, but then what's the point?, it's almost equivalent to NAT it still breaks reverse connectivity? and does it actually work?

It also feels like a workaround for an oversight.
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I personally have seen (twice, both before 2000) people operating as their own IT consulting firm from their desks while working full time. One was fired immediately as soon as it was discovered. The other was told to quietly wind it down within the month or face termination.
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