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> goes dark when you're taking a long shit. so you have to get up and wave your hands with your trousers down and asshole covered in shit, like a psychotic

This is hilarious to me. I am currently taking a long shit lit only by my laptop's screen.

Also, I have fortunately long mastered the art of wiping my butt without looking.
No more regulations like the EU please.

Instead we should just make a deal with China: You allow all of our apps in China and we'll do the same. If not, we'll ban your apps.

The first thing people should think about in trade is fairness. Let's not pile up more ungodly regulations hamstringing everyone and the problem still wouldn't be solved. Chinese apps will continue to skirt the loopholes of any law we can enact barring complete ban.
ABS is very simple and only needs to know the difference between the speed of the tire and the speed of the road. It is more complicated systems like ESC (which works with ABS) that need to know about steering inputs.
I dread seeing an answer on a google group past about 6pm, since the CSS for dark mode is completely broken…
The joy of exploitative recommendation algorithms. I had a discussion with my daughter about TikTok's Glamour Filter the other day and now my whole feed is full of glamour filter posts. This is so unhealthy (mentally).
It's not black and white, as you so needlessly assert. Please reevaluate your hyper-reductionism.

People can be tired of both America and Russia's lies. I know I am.
Yes, it did succeed in that regard.

To use your example, Godel would not have been able to explore those ideas without using mathematical logic.
Users of facebook and whatever other US-government sanctioned communications platforms continued to be available.
I'm running Linux on a LG Gram laptop and that beast feels way sturdier than any Mac laptop. It's lighter than any Mac laptop too (hence the LG "Gram" name, I guess). FWIW my Mac M1 laptop's screen died after about a year without any good reason. Meanwhile my years old MILSPEC LG Gram laptop keeps cranking just fine.

Do I miss the retina display? Yes and no. I may miss the tiny pixels but I sure as heck do not miss the brittleness: a laptop has to feel like something you can count on. Not like some fragile piece of porcelain which you must take extra care of.

Now I'm excited by Asahi too but in my case it'd be more for a desktop than a laptop (I think I'm really done with Mac laptops).
Power as it pertains to a union is about their ability to negotiate working conditions, pay, and worker protections. I know of no large group of public employees with better worker protections.
I'm a communist, I've been on HN for 8 years or so.

I've found that the political bent of HN is much, much more varied than "taken over by commies". In general, I've met many folks here from across political spectrum -- from arch-capitals to libertarians to progressives/socialists/leftists to neoliberals.

When we can be up front about our own beliefs and share our perspectives on them in a non-demonizing way, the discussions can actually be quite enlightening.

I might not agree with a libertarian ethos, but I've met many libertarians here I could have elucidating chats about things with.

And before you ask, "Why bring politics into hacking at all?" I'd argue that hacking is, by it's nature, a political activity (whether that's hacking in the cyber-crime sense or in the 'assembling something from spare parts' sense.) There's something about operating outside of systems, about putting one's mark on the world, about expressing yourself through what you choose to build and how to build it that is inescapably political.

Politics doesn't have to be a team sport. We can disagree and still converse.
There were plenty of people outside the Bay Area who knew how to build distributed systems before 2010. But a lot of that was in secretive industries such as defense and finance so you never heard about it.
I honestly can't even imagine putting all my faith in pledge and chroot like you do. It genuinely boggles my mind that you think this is a good approach.
I have never heard people chant "Defund the schools" though, so it seems like teachers has much more political support and power overall. Qualified immunity isn't thanks to police unions, the supreme court decided that because they thought that policemen shouldn't risk go to jail just for doing their job, the police union didn't seem to have much involvement.
Within a couple years wealthy technocrats will absolutely be spinning up low cost minimal ad LLMs in your browser. Running these things certainly isn't cheap on your battery, but that's a cost they're willing to pay.
I had the opposite experience, had an LG Gram from work and it felt cheap in comparison to my m1 macbook pro. A while back I installed asahi on the macbook, best linux experience I've had so far. The trackpad and screen are still unrivaled, keyboard feels much better than the gram, and battery life is significantly better
Anyone have insights onto what hurdles might be in the way of organizing a multi-state teacher strike?
"they're so powerful, they refuse to be paid more"

what? Have you heard yourself?
How much quantity did they use?
Only while listening to NPR
I'll give you a half billion for a water wheel, roll of wire, and a magnet.
Yes, that's right. This page has more info: https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2021/10/apple-ii-compos...

The PAL color circuit was initially an expansion card for the Apple II+ in 1979. The same circuit was built-in to the later Apple IIe and IIc models.

A novel part of the design is that the TCA650 is actually a PAL decoder chip that is meant to split a composite video signal into YPbPr components. The Apple II drives the TCA650 in reverse to generate the composite signal.
Ring doesn't craft minimally-responsive answers to subpoenas and warrants either. No big tech company does. That would take money (having a staff lawyer and some help to handle those is expensive), and they don't really care that much about your data.

When you own it, you can fight back to your heart's content.

And by the way, you do pay for Ring's lawyers if you use their product.
If that was the case wouldn't we expect private/nonunion schools to pay better?
I'm not super familiar with this aspect, so this could be totally off-base: because this is sort of "out-of-band" income, it might factor into what you should be paying, but you won't be penalized for it; you didn't know exactly what the estimated income was (i don't believe you have to get a 3921 immediately upon exercise) so you can't necessarily estimate the taxes owed. This could be totally wrong? Also, I think there's a lookback period of a year that you can base your estimated taxes on.

All of this to say, I think what you're saying is a much more precise way of saying what I was trying to get at. :)
The Complete Lojban Language (1997)
Probably should end in the death penalty for Christopher Wray and all the other fascists involved.

I prefer the good old fashioned rope in Times Square but each to their own.
Anyone can retire at any age. Those in a defined benefit pension typically get around 2% per year worked of the average of the highest 5 years of pay. This benefit has penalties for retiring before the standard Social Security retirement age. I could collect my pension right now but it would be around $1,000 dollars a month. If I start collecting at 65 it will be much higher.
> Wray told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to U.S. security that the Chinese government could also use TikTok to control software on millions of devices and drive narratives to divide Americans over Taiwan or other issues.

Good point. Now can we have our laws banning foreign control of news outlets and consolidation of media ownership back?
When I was a kid I had a toy electronics kit and one of the circuits was an AM radio that worked without batteries. A normal radio station signal is strong enough to drive a pair of earbuds without any additional power. Since then I've always wondered if you could harvest that same radio energy to power other things without batteries, maybe even a Game Boy. There's electromagnetic radiation in the air all around us. And I'm sure you could build a Game Boy using today's tech that's much more power efficient than the ones from the 90s.
So what? $1M in stock doesn't pay the rent. They'd still get taxed when they sell the shares.
Thats a lot of money they don't need to pay that could be used to hire and retain people.
“Racism” is where southern white people don’t like southern black people despite being from the same place and sharing highly overlapping culture, religion, and values.

When you’re talking about different groups of people from different cultures that’s not “racism.” My parents, who grew up in Bangladesh, an extremely hierarchical and traditional society, couldn’t be more different from my wife’s parents, who are descendent from frontier pioneers. Like they can get along as individuals but neither would want to live in a society built by the other. And that’s exactly what happens when you introduce large scale immigration into a democracy.
A tiktok / short would be better, because yes you could show the effect, show the button, and then show the studios.

Watch the Insider Business shorts, they are great example for exactly this style of stuff.
For my existing products? No.

I made a resume maker product before, and in retrospect I feel stupid not doing more research. I had good conversion, but I quickly realized that SEO was the only viable marketing strategy, and the competition in that space is brutal. Ranking is very difficult without spending money on agencies to get backlinks and write blog spam. After some research I realized the people on the front pages of search had amassed millions of backlinks.

It’s absolutely necessary to understand the funnel before building something. Especially the top of the funnel. For high ticket products it’s simple because the top of the funnel could be ads or cold outreach. But for anything that relies on decent traffic volume you need some kind of organic marketing strategy. You have to figure out how to reach your audience sustainably.
Of all the professions, teachers deserve the least sympathy. I have never seen a more self-aggrandizing bunch of pseudointellectuals in my life. Mandatory schooling needs to be abolished. If you want to go to school be my guest, don't shove it down anyones throat.
Of course that’s not true.
> Richer parts of California often actually have less money in their schools

I’ve heard people say that, but as somebody that switched schools in California a lot in high school, public schools in nicer neighborhoods were categorically always much, much, MUCH nicer.

Like “had an on-site computing museum and shared latin and ancient greek teachers with the nearby UC campus” and “had a couple decade-old pcs for a desktop publishing class taught from a binder by the PE teacher” different.
I don't care for communism. But I do agree with your enjoyment of friendly debate. Have an upvote!
Yeah, it's a bit of a drag. I'm four years in - but supposedly two job changes and one experimental year as a technical product manager at an early stage company seems to have nuked any modicum of hire-ability I had.

If I spend more than 3-4 months looking for work I'm just going to pickup a trade and not look back. Shame I wasted so much $$ and time on college but at least I'm not in debt.
Can't measure uptime if you have no metrics points to head
There's still a ton of DOS running embedded/industrial applications. Quite relevant.
The funding formula is also why CA’s student:teacher ratio is so obscenely high — districts simply do not have funds to hire more teachers and can’t raise taxes to get the money.
Guarana Antartica is very popular in our family. The best part is that they have a diet version and it’s no different than the regular. If anyone wants to try it, there are plenty of sellers on Amazon (no pun intended)

https://www.amazon.com/Guarana-Antarctica-Guaraná-Flavoured-...
Don't know anyone elected in WA state without the teachers' union endorsement.

The police, on the other hand, got drastically defunded.
I love this. Regardless of the exact tack taken, everybody who videoconferences for work should invest some time in maxxing out their voice and appearance as much as possible.

At the simplest, this could be a $35 external webcam and a lamp or ring light to give yourself the most flattering possible angle. Or even spending $0 and just rearranging your existing setup.

Love it, hate it, or otherwise... I look like a sack of potatoes so it brings me no joy to say this but, it's reality. The way you look and sound has an influence on how you and your ideas will be perceived by others. Might as well spend some time and (perhaps) a few dollars on it because it's ingrained deep in our biology for better or worse.

The good news is remote work has leveled the playing field quite a bit here. It's far less work than looking and sounding great in person.
> 8) Cooperative ownership of apartment buildings

Functionally, how are these different from condo buildings? Is it about whether the owner is also definitely a resident?
If it weren't for tax handouts, stock manipulation, and crypto schemes, it would be worth zero now.
Since before Kagi existed I use a localhost-bound forward proxy to turn reddit.com into old.reddit.com and a variety of other tasks. I do not use popular browsers much for recreational browsing which is probably why this works so well for me.
They don’t chant “defund schools”. Instead the slogan is “school choice”. There has been a campaign for the last 50 years to erode public education.
Teachers also have solid gold health insurance.
My mom is a public school teacher. The union labor contract forbids striking.
Aren’t you supporting my point? Your current salary is lower because you are also earning a 1,000/month income in perpetuity for the rest of your life. And people who teach for longer, like you said, will get more.

Teacher salaries are low because unions have negotiated them to support pensions, especially pensions of teachers that last long enough to get a “much higher” pension.
> prefer the kind of content that is accompanied by a green check mark?

For most searches, yes.
Dumb question, but does another company count as a single shareholder?
Could you setup some kind of SPAC that only owns shares in the given company, to open up another 1,999 shareholders?
At the deepest level, the core problem is that people who own houses do not have real empathy for people who do not own houses. They don't understand what it feels like, and mostly they don't care either.
God ASP.Net is incredible. I mean it is what runs StackOverflow on "minimal" hardware.

I'm a Rails, Django guy and we run into exactly what you're talking about. The speed we can pump out features is fantastic in both, but once you get to a large number of objects, it's better to drop into pure sql/array handling.

This is mostly for data processing, background jobs where we need to work with >1k separate objects.
On top of this, I don’t see how a contract that you are compelled to agree to in order to do your taxes could be seen as one that you’ve willingly entered.
9) Vacancy taxes: Also high taxes and oversight on properties used as rentals.

In specific, a home lived in by the owner for at least 35% of a tax year (or unlivable due to disasters/etc) should be taxed at a low rate, while any OTHER home should be taxed at a much higher rate and inspected as a rental unit, including being kept ahead of minimum rental code (which would be a more stringent baseline than minimum code).

13) new builds expressly purchasable only by first time home buyers
Yeah. img2img and custom models/submodels are also really important, as they can coax out the composition and style (respectively) you want.
obviously written by a westerner. outside the West, the unrestrained cruelty of capitalism; especially that at the end of the supply chain providing the vast majority of the things you need for Western civilization, keeps getting worse.

example; clean energy is a mantra in the West, but go to Goma in Congo, and you'll see the really dirty, human rights avoiding source of the metals essential for your batteries and electronic devices. Not one mention of this ongoing, daily brutality. it's just black people, so the West ignores it's crimes there for yours shiny future across the sea. but heaven forbid one of the people from there wants to come to the West. that's not allowed. Back to work, African...
Other than Tropicana which is available most “orange juice” is Asia is more similar to Sunny Delight —which is not my glass of orange juice.
With (3), they'd be taxed on the gains when they sell. Not "tax free" at all.

The difference is that they wouldn't be taxed until the gains were realized not when they were imagined on paper.
My wife is an architect who is working with a school district to build affordable housing for its teachers. The district has received a grant, and the district has plans to build the housing with developers building neighborhoods that feed into its new schools. The affordable housing would only be for teachers, and not for other groups that may qualify for affordable housing.

And the broader community (i.e. the city in which the housing would be built) is fighting it because they don't want affordable housing to hurt the values of homes that already exist in the area. Everyone supports the teachers -- until it affects their home values.
I think many of these ideas are sound but IMO your hostility towards “landlords” is misplaced. This isn’t the right forum to get into all the nuance, but the fact is we have an extremely non-competitive “landlord” and “developer” market, and almost all the perversions that we deal with originate in how much corruption, graft, ring-kissing, and (consequently) capital it takes to build anything.

The main issue I disagree with you on: rent control has been shown repeatedly to help existing renters at the expense of all future renters, which increases income inequality, in the long run is a wealth transfer from the young to the old, and lastly disincentivizes property maintenance leading to substandard living conditions. It also decreases economic mobility and incentivizes people who get rent control to do things like not have kids even though they would like to have kids, because they have an amazing deal on a 1bd apartment and needing more space would basically force them to start life over in a far off place.

If we had a robust free market for housing, like we do for cars, there would be lots of cheap “used housing” available and landlords would not have pricing power, they would have to make an effort to be a good landlord to have a tenant. You can see this with hotels (in areas where they aren’t over-restricted), where poorly run hotels are driven out of business by well-run hotels, including plenty of low cost hotels.
Observe how this amounts to crime. The platform has motive:
-newly single users attract more views
-newly single users are worth more to advertisers because they’re likely to spend on appearance, travel, new hobbies, and big ticket items formerly shared with a partner.
The platform also has opportunity because it has data on exactly what content has highest probability of nudging a particular user to break up. (Perhaps the “you are being abused by a narcissist” stuff others have mentioned works nicely.)
(See also Shoshanna Zuboff)
Whole traditionally white collar industries across the western world are experiencing similar issues, and I believe underlying it all is the financialisation of housing. We’ve managed to keep many other costs roughly in line with inflation despite growing populations, so housing now being so far beyond the reach of many full time workers should be pause for concern for economists and leaders far more than it seems to be.

I have spoken a few times about my thoughts on where this is heading, and I can genuinely see some cities fading out as they lose their service workers followed by lower paid professionals. Sydney and New York come to mind as places where a minimum wage just isn’t enough to exist within commuting distance of the metropolitan areas. Where are coffee shops and restaurants going to find workers when those same workers live elsewhere due to costs? I could happily pay more for coffee but even a doubling in price wouldn’t allow cafe staff in Sydney to live less than an hour from work, and honestly there’s cafes they could work in closer to home, so why work in Sydney? Entry level professional work has the same problem. Sure there’s potential for future growth but if you can earn the same money as a data entry clerk in a suburb, why sacrifice your time and any spare money commuting to a major city?
What worker protection has the police union negotiated that the teachers union failed to get? Qualified immunity isn't due to the unions, and there is no reason to give it to teachers since teachers aren't required to be violent to do their job. If teachers were required to be violent then they would have qualified immunity as well.
Its an odd one, maby something like more churn at low income schools leading to a lower average seniority; and therefor lower average pay?
Is anyone familiar with how the KeePassXC browser extension handles this?
I've got a Sparco R383 steering wheel .. on a Fanatec Podium Hub and DD1 direct drive wheelbase.

There's your real steering wheel, and it won't wear out your car's tyres either. ;)
Could anyone translate this into “The early employees will get wealthy from this” or “they’ll get slightly more than they would’ve gotten from getting a job at BigCo over 4 years”?

My problem with equity grants is that everyone treats them like they’re so valuable, when in fact the EV is usually close to zero. That wouldn’t be so bad if the upside was really good, but dealing with nonsense like this makes them even less attractive.

The whole point of working at a startup — of working very hard, instead of coasting — is to increase your standing in life. Some people care about skill set (you learn a lot more in a startup) but you end up a lot more stressed.

Stripe’s early employees are in the best possible scenario, short of winning the lottery: they joined a unicorn early. If they don’t come out of it with lots of after-tax cash, then that calls into question why to even work at one. Unless you really love hard work without proportional reward, logically you wouldn’t choose that path — pg said as much in many of his essays.
GUS soda available in many supermarkets is not as sugary as most other brands, if you’re looking for dryer soda pop.
Historically it was pricing of Windows IIS and that I'm a person completely enveloped by the Apple ecosystem.

Not sure if either of those points matter 8+ yrs on since I last looked, but I know I'm not the only developer who has these concepts burned into their soul.
I’m far from cover-of-GQ but I did wear a suit every day for a few years to a programming job. Maybe it’s the punk in me but when every person in the company, including the C suite, dressed in a t-shirt and jeans or sweats I felt the need to be a little counter culture. Honestly it was an insightful experiment in biases, seeing how different people treated me (such as your admission) based on my clothes alone.
… and I have no trouble writing fizz buzz.
Thanks. Problem is nobody is subscribing is a binary commitment for a relatively large sum that you need to make an active decision, so you may just not subscribe. If you charge people a small amount for the traffic they access, it could feel less onerous. I'm not in AdTech so I don't know how much revenue a website gets from their advertisers divided by the number of ad impressions, which I guess would be my starting point for how much to charge per view
I am not sure I am following. Say your homepage has a link to a page that shows the top scorers in a league. Where/when does the fetching of the top scorers happen ?