skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downside to 'probationary period' is that as a candidate you're limited to a single company. If you have to spend a week/month at X, you can't really consider Y, you won't be able to give them the time. Then at the end of the week/month X gives you an offer and you can't even compare it to any other offer, because you didn't have time to get any.

Another thing is, if they let you go after the probationary period, you pretty much start the search anew. If you applied to another company while you were 'employed' by X and you managed to schedule another probationary period with Y right after the end of the trial period with X, you have to refuse them last second in case X wants to hire you. If you didn't search for anything while at X, you're off work for another week/month while you search for another trial.

If X ends up giving you an offer and you want to consider Y, what are you gonna tell them? Please wait a month for me while I work for this other company and see if it's any better than you? This simply doesn't work, for both companies and candidates.

Your proposed solution works, if X is your dream company and you will accept their offer no matter what. That's not how most job searches go though.
Sure, but that means there is opportunity for other companies to pick up that talent.
"All else being equal, we would expect 50% of homes to be unaffordable to a median buyer."

Unaffordable? Why? There is a difference between "dislike" and "unaffordable." I'd expect the median buyer to want a house that is better than what 50% of buyers will settle for, but that is not the same as "unaffordable."

If a society does a good job of providing housing then 100% of housing should be affordable.

Put differently, if housing is affordable for the poorest citizens, then it is affordable for 100% of the population.
There might be a lot more non-malicious people in the population as a whole but I would not be surprised if there are more malicious than non-malicious people in positions of power, including those positions where you can make anti-competitive decisions for a giant megacorporation.

But even if that is not the case and malicious people are not the norm even there, using Hanlon's razor to try and shut down any discussion of possible malicious actions still ends up empowering the malicious actors that do exist. It's a decent rule for first interactions with human people that you don't know better but is absolutely not the right tool for corporate entities who can much more easily brush off any consequences for being caught acting maliciously. It is outright stupid to apply it to corporations that have a history of maliciousness.
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AirDrop is a particularly egregious outlier. It’s clear that something has gone very, very wrong with that feature. Not only with how unreliable it is, which is already bad enough, but with how clearly broken that basic state machine driving the UI is. Once it has gotten into a bad state, from my experience there’s no way to get it to succeed without restarting one or both iPhones.
This is false.

The law stipulates that you must obtain permission from the landlord prior to subletting (§ 540 Abs. 1 S. 2 BGB, § 553 BGB) which must be granted if the renter has legitimate interest to sublet. The burden of proof is on the renter.

Subletting individual rooms or the entire apartment to tourists (AirBnB) in the interest of earning money is usually not considered a sufficiently good reason and as such the the decision is at the landlords discretion.

You’ll have better chances if you sublet parts of your parts of your primary residence and can show that you’re long-term traveling for work or that the income is required to make the rent payment or similar interest.

The landlord can increase the rent if they grant permission to sublet.

There are exceptions auch as having your parents or kids move in, but they are very narrow.

Even if you obtain the landlords permit, subletting to tourists may run afoul of legal restrictions.

https://www.mieterbund.de/index.php?id=540

https://www.mietrecht.de/airbnb-untervermietung-was-sie-bei-...
Interpreting interest rates linearly is a fallacy.

As we have seen the asset markets have adapted to low rates by increasing assets prices. Thus an increase in interest rates to what historically has been low does not offer a great way to analyze its effect.

The question we should rather answer is by how much the assets will lose in value and what are the options of people depending on this value (retirement, disability funds etc...) and for people indebted, did they forecast and are they able to stomach an increase in interest spending of roughly an order of magnitude?
Building a Rust Service with Nix
That's what the drivers for the new Intel GPUs have to do, since the GPUs were only designed for DX12, and need earlier versions to be emulated
> In time, a jangon develops naturally as people with a lot of shared background knowledge optimize communication within their ingroup

Exactly. Only once humans completely stop working on trying to understand a system, we will only use natural language as suggested.
And because they pay a shitton of money, they have a constant flow of candidates and can afford to miss out on many great ones.
Games don't even work well on my older full-sized TV. The UIs seem geared towards high resolutions and people with really good eyesight.
Verified routes don’t seem to work in components. Is there a reason for that? Can/will it be fixed?
Hate the green so much. It was lovely as blue.
One of the best tips about prompt engineering was to talk to the bot in a similar manner as a kindergarten teacher would talk to a child.

It's similar to how you would talk to speech recognition like a newscaster.
I'm interested in the author's latest SAAS.

Can you really game SEO by spamming out templated articles?

I thought Google filtered out that sort of thing.
This sounds similar to what I hear when people oppose building housing in general: people expect their neighborhood to stay exactly the same as when they bought it. That's not how the real world works, though.

If you live in a city, you have to deal with noise, full stop. That's one of the trade offs of dense, urban living. Certainly there are limits to what you should have to put up with, and that's what noise complaints to the police are for. Police aren't doing their job? Well, maybe you should find a way to force them to, instead of trying to restrict what other people want to do with their property. Or move to a building or area or whatever with a neighborhood association that disallows short-term rentals.
> We have an abundance of rent seekers.

We have an abundance of landlords. Landlords provide lots of value. I own a house and when I tell my friends about all the shit that I have to do to maintain my house, a common refrain is, "that's why we rent."

A lot of people are intimidated by replaced a furnace that just broke and having their kitchen destroyed by a water leak.
> Housing can either be affordable for most people or it can be a safe, lucrative investment.

For most of the period since WWII housing was both affordable and a good investment.

We have no "landed gentry." Stop sharpening your guillotine and deal with reality. People who can afford housing are not guilty of anything -- we should celebrate success, rather than meet it with envy and veiled threats.
Is there anyone with experience on a large Elixir/Phoenix code base? Is the lack of static type system a problem?
Yes, it is a very tiny new syntax so that templates can be distinguished from string literals (so string templates can never stand without a template processor, hence the RAW)
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The theft amount doesn't need to equal the total sales of the store to be a problem. I don't know Walmart's margins, but grocery stores have on average a 2% profit margin.

If average daily shoplifting increases by 0.5% of average daily sales (an additional $1 of product stolen for every $200 of product sold), the profit of a grocery store drops by 25%. If average daily shoplifting increases 2% of average daily sales, the profit of the store drops to zero.

(Typically in these kind of stores employee theft of merchandise is non-zero, so the customer merchandise theft is impacting the business on top of the baseline employee theft numbers. If you're interested in this sort or thing, it tends to be discussed under the heading of "lossage")
Square logo... I heard it was Tesla but it was disputed and their logo isn't square...
> Maybe don't install crap on your dev machine if you're not going to keep it updated.

If only there was some way lastpass could ensure that crap wasn't installed on corporate network connected dev machines...
I had a _really_ bad time using it. I used it for a relatively straightforward application but boy did I regret it.

It's not intuitive at all and configuring it is a PITA. While there are docs, they are as murky as bog water if you're new. Deployment? My god, it had me tearing my hair out and I should have just ditched it all right then and there. Migration? AHAHAahahahah...

And my experience was on a SINGLE node. I struggle to comprehend the herculean effort of getting multi-node to work. And for what? It does not offer anything compared to either Redis, SQL, or anything that is not mnesia aside from "you don't need to depend on an external service".

YMMV of course, but IMO it was absolutely not worth the effort. Yes, I understand people might feel the same way towards Elixir and Phoenix, but at least in that case there are incentives such as an active community and ecosystem. No such thing with mnesia.
I'd argue that more than 50% should be affordable to a median buyer, on the basis that not everyone lives in the most expensive house they can possibly afford, and in the middle of the house pricing range there are multiple homes available at any given price.

Of course, there's also a large set of people who cannot afford to be buyers [in areas suitable for them to live] for various reasons and this median income dataset includes them. Not entirely sure they've used median household income and not median individual income either
We used the Google Scholar counts - and in particular a snapshot of end of february for this ranking. There is no perfect number, but at least this one is generally accepted as reasonable, and public, so easy to verify for everyone.
> Does nobody in the US live with their parents while going to university?

The tuition fees are probably a bigger expense than your living expenses if you go to college in USA.
CryoByte33 on YouTube[0] has videos explaining in details different configuration presets to run games like God of War, Witcher 3, or Breath of the Wild.
He's also maintaining an impressive piece of software[1] that helps optimize your Steam Deck.
Worst case scenario, if you don't find the game you're looking for in his videos, chances are you will find a decent configuration on SteamDeckHQ[2]

[0]: https://youtube.com/@cryobyte33
[1]: https://github.com/CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities
[2]: https://steamdeckhq.com/game-settings/
I guess the name Angelfire makes much more sense now.
I cringe every time Windows says "they" are doing something.
Exactly. Even those that used to be the leaders, Apple and Microsoft, seem to have forgotten the user aspect of a user interface.
Zoom specifically has a mode for this. I've been in Zoom meetings with C-level staff and 2k+ people listening in.

The people viewing couldn't turn on their cameras or microphones. They could only listen and present questions in a moderated chat channel.
In Europe there are "apartment hotels" which offer exactly this.

Here are some examples: https://www.visitberlin.de/en/hotelthema/apartment-hotel
"For a source of iron Popeye would have been better off chewing the cans."

Go on, ruin my childhood.
From the moment that Google acquired Firebase in 2014, it has been the go-to BaaS tool for businesses wanting to build, release and manage web applications. But like any software solution, it has its downsides and limitations.

Here, we will first take a look at Firebase, including its pros and cons. Then we will run through some of the most popular alternatives you might wish to consider.
Be helpful and link to the wiki or paste in the definition.
Many moved out to the high desert by the mid 80s, because SoCal was already too expensive for working class folks.

Parking requirements are a big cost I've read.
a) The use of guns cannot be regulated effectively without physically removing guns from a society.

b) One of the first and foremost items on gun-regulation todo-lists is to get rid of the kind of guns with the specific use-case of making killing people as easy as possible, aka. miltary weapons, automated weapons, easily concealed weapons, etc. So the regulations against guns are already targeting use-cases.

c) Physically controlling guns is a proven method, its effectiveness is supported by decades of evidence in countries implementing it.
1985 article: THE DANGER FROM JAPAN
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/28/magazine/the-danger-from-...
At least you guys can have the bona fide real feudalism. We others have to pretend the Lords are just accomplished citizens, only a bit more equal than others.
It’s not a problem for me, I was just making an observation that the bans on thin plastic bags may be counterproductive with some people.

Accumulating & eventually throwing away the reusable bags in bulk is a minor inconvenience compared to making sure I’ve always got one on hand which I pretty much always fail at.
An intern's productivity sort of lies in "how fast they learn". Can they pick up things by just being pointed into the right directions or do they need everything spoon-fed, in small doses, with repetition, to then still get it wrong?

At least in our place, we do not really expect them to be productive in the usual sense, but they definitely have ample opportunity to give us a feeling of their place on the bell curve.

(as an anecdote: We currently have some 17 year old apprentice which puts some of our seniors to absolute shame, myself included. The amount of motivation, learning hunger, quick thinking and ability to ask the right questions is really astounding, especially given that he essentially just started and has next-to-no education in our area to speak of as of yet)
why do you need the phoenix part? maybe consider a short-distance wireless comm like bluetooth or zigbee and have them broadcast to nearby devices? have the devices respond to the re-check broadcast and physics will take care of the locating nearby devices part
You don’t need a physical robot to replace software engineers. I can envision one person scripting an entire complex application and an AI generating all of the code to perfection. To update the app, that one person adds qualifiers to the original text and the AI will update the code and automatically handle api/schema changes.

I see this happening within five years, maybe sooner.
On top of that, I always loved that standard GUI elements like buttons and text fields came with batteries included: they could be navigated with keyboard only, they were easy to read for screen readers, they followed OS contrast settings for the vision impaired, and so forth. All of this required minimal or no effort at all on developer's side.

Accessibility has dramatically gone downhill since then. Everyone's re-inventing the same thing in Electron, but rarely do they reach the usability of a standard dialog in Windows 2000.

Dark Mode is particularly my pet peeve: as long as applications in that era referenced OS color constants instead of hard-coding color values, they automatically followed OS color scheme without any extra work. Nowadays companies put out press releases and blog posts and parade dark mode around as if it was an achievement.
"paper" materials are often enriched with plastics, so that your teabag does not rip if you pull it to hard or softens up in hot water.
As a power user, I much prefer denser and more information rich UIs. Just tried Windows 11 for the first time today. The file browser's "detail" mode (which I'd consider the power user mode) has been destroyed by making it multi-line and adding a ton of padding, so now I can only see half has many files on a screen as before...
Citations are of course only a distant proxy for real world impact. What would you recommend as a better early indicator? We also looked at Tweet count, but that seems more biased towards marketing and hype, and in fact does not even correlate very well with citation count.
Why is construction so much more expensive than 70 years ago?
> We have no "landed gentry."

It's just a bit less immediately tangible than it used to be. It's still there, and the market still ebbs and flows.
Is ruff a good replacement for pylint yet ? It replaces flake8 well but since I use black and pylint, I don't need flake8. However, pylint does a lot so if it does replace it, even without plugins, that would be amazing.
Live and dead views and apis ... all of it can be served from one Phoenix app at the same time... and?

Anyway, what does taking out LiveView change with the harder server deployment or lack of ready-made solutions or big entry barrier problem?

It makes things even less attractive because most of flagship Phoenix/Elixir projects, e.g. LiveBook uses LiveView.
Can you share more about your side business? For some reason it's really exciting to hear some is doing something other than SAAS.
The decline in legal immigration is almost entirely due to USCIS’s drastically decreased productivity during covid. Illegal immigration is still at all-time highs in the US. Why only consider legal immigration? Those industries you mentioned are all big employers of illegal immigrants.
You are right; it is more defeatism than optimism really
> fucking things up for everyone - [...] vacationers.

Huh? As a frequent vacationer and user of Airbnb (I'm staying in one right now, as it turns out), Airbnb has made vacationing so much better.

I get to stay in a larger variety of neighborhoods and locations. Kitchens are usually standard (good luck finding one in most hotels). There's more space if I want to stay with family or friends. Prices -- even in places where Airbnb hosts are required to pay local hotel taxes -- are much more varied and, in general, better (and when I do decide to choose a hotel for whatever reason prices are often lower due to competition from Airbnb). I could go on...

> Anyone that bitches that the rent is too high, here's your starting point, all those Air BnB rentals are driving the long term rental market up significantly.

I hear this a lot, but fail to see any hard evidence that killing short-term rentals would fix this problem. I don't doubt that short-term rentals are contributing to housing unaffordability, but there are much better solutions than banning them. Which brings me to:

> Adding 20% more units to the market would save you a ton of money.

Agreed! I've been saying that for years. Please, build 20% more units, and I think prices will indeed go down. Hell, don't stop at 20%, even. If there's demand, build!
That's right, we only counted the tweets for arXiv papers (base on URL), not for the other publication venues. Looking into how to improve that.
ruff is exceptionally fast and capable, but doesn't handle all constructs, match/case are not handled correctly yet for example
If my girlfriend was laid off and started watching Netflix and browsing Instagram for 14 hours a day I'd find that intolerable as well.
Strong disagree. “Did you just fall?” is more confusing: in that case, the watch is not directly telling you what it thinks happened; instead, it is asking a leading question.

It’s way less clear. You’re relying on implication to convey the fact that the watch thinks you’ve fallen, rather than just saying it.

If you’ve hit your head and are concussed, that extra level of indirection and confusion that your question introduces could have a significant effect on the outcome of the situation.
Show HN: I made calling WebAssembly from Python 25x times Faster
I found a serious bottleneck in Python binding of Wasmer and Wasmtime and I found a trick to make 25x faster. Then beat all that using NumPy.
Couldn't be that the UX/design team is doing it's job?
https://archive.ph/vIjTK
These are very valuable resources! Thanks for sharing.

Another very good resource for learning DSP / computer music is the Bela course. You don't need to have a Bela for the course!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCrgFeG6pwQmdbB6l3ehC8oBB...

I am also developing a computer music language here at: https://glicol.org

Book recommandation:

Pirkle, Will C. "Designing Audio Effect Plugins in C++: For AAX, AU, and VST3 With DSP Theory." (2019).
European law is a lot less precedence driven that common law (though it still is a bit), so why shouldn't we demand clear rules instead of dangerous vagueness?

And for a small open source project, a 500€ fine is enough to make development and publication unattractive, a percentage of a devs yearly income is painful, and tens of thousands of Euros would be dangerous to the long-term financial well-being of the developers. Even if the fines are a lot lower than 15M€, this proposal stays shit as written.
I know exactly what it means, and only 'good landlords' think it doesn't fit.
A person I'm vaguely acquainted with runs a web store as a solo venture. She was in a traffic accident and injured badly enough to be unconscious for an extended period of time and unable to do anything with the website, it kept selling product until everything registered out of stock and eventually she was able to shut the site down (no idea how the merchant account didn't get suspended in the 5 months or so as nothing shipped and obviously there was no response to any charge back)
At this point, US regulators (notably the SEC) have done such a terrible job of basically everything. Eluding them is not a sign of anything questionable, it's the pragmatic realistic approach of anyone who just wants to get on and do their business...
Yeah, it probably is confusing to some. You might be able to skip the title entirely.
One of the things about "landed gentry", in the countries where they actually exist, is that they inherited their land.

In America almost all of the homes sold today are purchased with money from income, rather than being inherited.

Almost all of the people who are buying homes today can afford them by themselves, based on their income. They aren't "landed gentry", they are just successful people. To demean them by implying they don't deserve their success is insulting and wrong.

That is very different than being angry that the Compte du Whatevertheheck inherited a chateau from his parents. And it requires a different response than fulminating about how the "landed gentry will have to be brought to heel" which is total nonsense.