skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, drive down rent. Of course, each producer in a market wants to get as much money for their product/service as they can get, just like every consumer wants to pay the cheapest price. That's why the role of competition amongst landlords is so important, so that their profit is driven to zero and they have no power to raise prices. People entering the real estate market to become landlords are that competition.

Also, from the article it sounds like a lot of these would-be landlords/investors are having a tough go of things, and aren't in fact able to turn a profit which is why they have to foreclose. Your characterization of landlords as parasitic leaches taking excessive profit without doing any work or risking anything isn't super consistent with the fact that many landlords don't beat the market, or even take significant losses.
Eh, the bureaucracy was creeping in many years ago, RTO has nothing to do with that imho. Amazon has never really cared what's good for employees, and that's both a strength and a weakness, since it allows them to decide what's best for the company with no pretense of some human good like the infamous "don't be evil" motto of another giant, though I did hear that shorly after Andy took over there was an LP added that might make what I just said wrong. I think fully or mostly remote companies are doing to be slower then their competitors anyway, and you're seeing this sentiment shift across the startup ecosystem (and if amazon is going to dust themselves off, looking to more dynamic/earlier stage company cultures is probably the right way), for example: https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1660722639420137496?s=20
So and then 5 years later they changed their mind.

What amuses me in this thread that people who change their mind every 5 minutes accuse a company changing their mind after some years.
Fort Collins housing prices are still high ($550k vs $570k for Denver), typical for CO and much of the intermountain west.
The article claims garbage collection was invented in the JVM! I wonder what that old DEC-20 was doing when it reported to all terminals that garbage collection was ongoing...

Or what the mark/release garden of eden model of Smalltalk was...
Einstein was both conscious and intelligent. A cow on the other hand is conscious, but no Einstein.
In Php Land I would say <?php $no $thanks ?>

It's the red waving flag of this project. I cannot understand how people are still arguing for this kind of stuff or stick with this dinosaur language at all.

I am sorry but I have such an aversion against the attitude of "we use xy because of historic reasons but hey actually it is really good because the design pattern that has proven crucial over the last 50 years imo is just overhead and you can just put some files here and there copy a bit of that and... "
And now he changed his mind. So?
I thought it was pretty good. You can solve a (mathematical/forensic) mystery by searching a database for information collected long ago, that relates to information you obtained just recently.
Passion comes and goes, it's an emotion. To maintain passive 9-5, 5 days a week seems near impossible.
That’s a pretty manipulative graph. Show the pre pandemic spot rates! From the article “ Box-ship operators were among the biggest pandemic winners. Orders for imported goods began to climb in 2020 …” so why doesn’t it show 2020 then?
In other countries, there's often reasons to go adjustable rate, as the discount for doing so vs the fixed rate can be pretty large at times. Ultimately, on every loan worth decades, one side is carrying the interest rate risk, and you'd expect the terms to reflect it.

In the US, however, the US government have found it politically convenient to have fixed rate loans be the majority. Thus, their interventions on the mortgage market work in such a way as to make the fixed rate mortgage a better deal. So yes, in the US, adjustable rates are rarely the best of ideas if you can get a conforming loan instead. Ever see how a Jumbo loan for a really expensive house suddenly has a higher interest rate, regardless of whether it's really a safe investment on the property or not? That's probably what the fixed rates would be for everyone without government intervention. But then your average voter, who is also probably claiming a mortgage interest deduction, can think they bought their house with nobody's help.

In the case of commercial real estate loans for apartment complexes, I suspect that conforming loans just can't happen, making fixed rates different from what a typical homeowner would get for their own house. As the spread between fixed and adjustable changes, the decision of what is better stops being so simple.
Why stop here?

Some workers have shifts, some have to work outside in the rain.

It's only fair that everyone works outside in the rain in shifts?
That's interesting. Did either Ubuntu or Arch Linux patch GNOME to read configuration at different places? Doesn't Ubuntu also have configuration files that actually store the configuration (while the settings panel would be just the UI to the config files)?

At any rate, how are you sure that this bug only affects Ubuntu but not Arch?
I suppose now is the time to see Spike Jonze’s “Her” if you haven’t already.
Mark Fisher touched on this in his essay “The Slow Cancellation of the Future”, discussed by him here: https://archive.org/details/markfisher-theslowcancellationof...
I love this! You should continue!
It took 22 years and almost $7B to build 22 miles of MRT (not high-speed rail) just outside of the DC beltway, and much of the route had an existing right-of-way. It's a populous area, but the DC to Boston route is quite heavily developed.
The one I played was flawless, but that ofc is a sample size of 1.

My Push 2 also has one rotary knob that doesn’t rotate as well and it always annoyed the hell out of me. The plastics did age well on my Push 2 though.
That $150B estimate seems wildly optimistic to me as well.
How to solve the two language problem
Absolutely! Aider does most of this.

It notices if your local repo is dirty and asks if you'd like to commit before proceeding with the GPT chat. It will even provide a suggestion for the commit message.

You can run aider with --no-auto-commits if you don't want it to commit to the repo. This is similar to your suggested --dangerous flag.

I have considered various magic/automatic branching strategies. But I suspect they would be too confusing. And people probably have their own preferred git workflows. I feel like it's probably better to let folks explicitly manage their branches and PRs however they like.
Sounds like some of the companies are playing a war of attrition to drive competitors out of the market.
It seems intuitively like there would be potential for inland use along navigable waterways as well as coastal use-
What's the benefit for Meta? They are now the true open source AI providers (after OpenAI got closedAI), but I wonder why they keep releasing such models for free and kinda open source?
Played CS 1.6 religiously.

However, you can base the democratic system based on the reputation of the user, rather than total number of votes. CS1.6 did not have these advanced systems in place.
c. don't mess with the dude who's combing his skull with a piece of some other dude's skull
Exactly! And also the rest of the benefits of speculation apply to housing just as much as anything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation#Economic_benefits

Namely, real estate investors provide liquidity to the market, bringing price stability and absorbing risk from developers and homeowners.
Jump-flooding is inexact and can jump over significant edges. The runtimes claimed are also incorrect - as it sets every pixel, it is O(N^2) in the image dimensions, just like flood-filling. If you're working with an image and setting pixels, you cannot avoid being O(N^2) in the dimensions of the filled area.
Thank you! These are great reads
> The rates for both trade lanes are hovering around 2019 levels, but fuel and labor expenses are higher now than before the pandemic.

Hard to really feel like this is a crisis, since all of the reporting is how there was a brief, glorious period (for the companies) of 10x prices, and the crisis is that the period is ended.
They probably pulled another Winget. Their product manager will tease an acquihire and bingo your business's stolen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23331287
On technical debt in mathematical programming: An exploratory study
In the spirit of sharing, I wanted to mention a project I'm working on, called JustDo.com . We've been developing this enterprise-grade project management and planning tool and have seen validated product-market fit with some Fortune 500 companies.

We believe strongly in the power of open source and we're preparing to go 'Open Core' by this summer (See Community Edition in the pricing page to see what will be Open Sourced). Our intention is to give back to the community and enable more people to benefit from our tool.

If anyone is interested in exploring more about JustDo or participating in our open-source journey, I'd be more than happy to chat or answer any questions you might have :)
It is not a random acronymization. Philip K Dick has long been referred to as PKD. There are printings of his novels with the recognizable initials PKD being printed larger than his name written out, like so:

https://www.bookforum.com/uploads/publication.000/id30191/co...
Regular internet usage associated with half the risk of dementia
Let the people who can work from home work from home. The money saved on office space can be used to increase wages for the people working in warehouses and doing deliveries
Thanks for sharing that, it’s a heartbreaking and yet extremely practical perspective that will stay with me for a long time
I thought it was clear what they were saying but funny. Why not?
One famous specimen flew SF to NY, but the long-way around[1] (and obviously not non-stop)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Clipper
A few years ago I was working on optimizing scientific data delivery by switching our compression algorithms to use bzip2 instead of deflate64 for our zip files. I checked the zip standard and saw that bzip2 compression was added in 2001 so clients have had 20 years to implement it.

After changing our data delivery pipeline to bzip2 I patted myself on the back for finding an easy win which significantly reduced data size and increased compression speed. Fast forward a month or two later I get word that one of our clients is having problems uncompressing the data we sent them. It turns out that there were still windows 10 versions out in the wild that don’t support bzip2 zip files. I begrudgingly cursed windows and reverted my change, robbed of my small victory.

It truly is amazing how terrible compression support has been in windows. I could compress a +100GB data archive in under a minute using pigz, but since we had to support windows it would take over 30 minutes to compress the file using deflate. I calculated that with the space savings of gzip we could ship a gzip binary embedded with the data in a smaller size than the deflate data on its own. Unfortunately it was a no-go to ship decompression binaries with embedded data, but I thought it would be a cool idea to use cosmopolitan libc to create a platform agnostic binary which when run uses gzip/bzip/lz4 to quickly decompress the data in a platform agnostic way. I imagine such binaries would be picked up by anti-virus but it would be cool to be able to compress data with the latest algorithms without needing the client to have the matching decompression libraries.
thanks, this is great info! it seems like you have some premixed starch mixes as ingredients?
Blocked and Reported can be pretty contrarian. They discuss internet, journalism, and political BS.

https://www.blockedandreported.org/

The Gist by Mike Pesca is a daily news/opinion/interview podcast. It’s all Mike; interviewer, host, everything in between. He can be contrarian too, but doesn’t break as far as some of the personalities you listed.

https://www.mikepesca.com/
Paying a person for a commute opens up many and large cans of worms.

Do you trust all of the workers to accurately report when they left home?

How do you handle a person who carpools and has an extra 30 minutes of diversion for that carpool drop off route?

When I was in Eau Claire, one of my coworkers commuted from Minneapolis (for various reasons) - 1.5h each way. As we were not exempt workers (and I suspect that warehouse workers aren't exempt either) should he get time and a half for working 6h in a day? When we had a blizzard one day and he decided to not take a day off and ended up with a 5h trip in (and I suspect a at least 2h on the way back) should he be getting time and a half for that?

Can I get fired for moving further away from the place of employment even if I show up on time for work each day? This year my commute is 30 minutes each way, and then I move another 15m further away next year... and another 15m away the next year...

Alice and Bob are neighbors. Alice drives in (30 min commute) while Bob takes the bus (2h with transfers).

Those crazy SF2G people commute in on bike ( https://sf2g.com ). The half moon bay route is about 4.5h...

Charlie bikes to work in the summer (and drives in inclement weather). Biking to work is 2h while driving is 20 minutes. Does he get paid 2h if he shows up on a bike (and then needs to take a shower and change) vs only paid for 20 minutes if he drives? Could the employer mandate that he drives to work?

David drives through McDs each day for breakfast (adding 7 minutes to the commute in). Does he get paid for that additional (unnecessary) time? Today the drive through is broken so he stops, gets out, orders in and eats breakfast in (15 min). Does he get paid for the entire "left house" to "arrived at office"? Only in the car (+7 min drive through)? Or did it reset when he got out of the car at McDs?

Edward normally has a 20 minute commute. Today, his kids missed the school bus today and so he drove his kids 20 minutes in the other direction resulting in 1h total commute time. Does he get paid for 40 more minutes (turns out it pays better to drive the kids to school rather than the bus pass!)

Freddie normally drives in (it's a short commute - only 10 min), but today is a nice day and the shift doesn't start until later this afternoon and decides to walk to work instead (1.5h).

George lives up north and in the winter snowmobiles in to the warehouse rather than taking a car. It's another 15 min because he can't take the highway (and yes, I've seen snowmobile parking at a distribution center up north).

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I'm not going to say that it is wrong to compensate someone for commute time. I will say that compensating someone for commute time will create things that other people regard as profoundly unfair and may incentivize things that we would rather not have be the case.
Maybe we can expand X in Y minutes beyond programming languages?
I'm neutral on the wording, but imagine every country has an equivalent law like that...
The salt and vinegar thing annoyed me. If you're putting the worm in a sealed zip lock bag, isn't it going to die anyway, eventually? Salt and vinegar just seems to be gilding the lily.
It's nearly impossible to create a ground effect vehicle that can't fly out of ground effect for a limited time.

They need a significant amount of extra power to get out of the water in the first place, so there will always be more power available to climb out of ground effect.

The maximum altitude would be limited, you wouldn't be able to climb over a mountain, or over clouds. Depends on the exact specs, but should be more than enough to clear large ships, or at least get the altitude to make it safe to do a steep turn.
Isn't this just a sign that the Fed's tamping-down of inflation is working?
Nah, the verb form is definitely 'enshittify'. 'ification' always still indicates a noun.
On the contrary, it means people's spending power is increasing because supply is getting cheaper.
I don't disagree, but I also don't think "proxy rotation" immediately implies sites will be hammered either.
Why does charging my Mac with the left side ports cause it to crash?
If I charge my mac using ports on the left side then kernal_task consumes all cpu resources. It seems something overheats.

I replaced the connecting cable with one from the Anker Powerline III USB C to USB C Charger Cable.

This is a 15-inch 2017 MacBook-Pro
Meta has one of the best if not the best open source track record. They do it likely because it does not interfere with their business model. If outsiders find ways to improve their tech it only helps them.
I think that's a fair point - especially if one prescribes to most economically efficient == most moral - which not all subscribe to (although perhaps of all people Musk would subscribe to this theory).

That said I could for see cases where the laptop class could be isolated from pain when a separate class has to do the physical work. Imagine a scenario where the laptop class engineer does some sloppy work in order to pick up the kids for soccer. The goof up requires 100 production line people to redo step 8 of 30 steps for 3 additional hours.

That goof up will be less visible there - buried in the timesheets of 100 workers - than at a company that has outsourced production line work. At the outsourced production company the goof up will show up as the additional change order which will have a directly mappable line item on the quarterly accounting that the responsible engineer will need to answer for.
TL/DR: you have "scientists" who want to use Python (for fast development) and "developers" who want to use C++ (for speed)? Just make them all learn Julia.

This seems all from "scientist" field of view: there are tons of discussion of how Julia is better than Cython/Numba, but very few words about C++ and other developer-y parts.
Dual quaternions have been used in animation skinning to produce more attractive looking results.
The shipping companies should be fine because they were prudent and kept some of that pandemic windfall in reserve to cover for this scenario…right?
Agreed.

There are people whose jobs involve abseiling from the side of a building.

Therefore it's only fair that we should all be doing our jobs while abseiling from the side of a building.
If I break a law I go to jail.

If a company breaks the law, it gets to continue to break it by paying some money. And claim that doing wonderful technological development and innovating shit.

I mean, if I have the option to get a get-out-of-jail card for 20% of my income I'd probably take it.
Do you really think it's a good idea to apply this logic to native support of a widely used 20 year old file format?
I mean unless you could somehow dictate the agenda on who can dislike whom, a lot of people can just dislike upper middle class, no?
Too many paperclips on the market. Marketing levels need a boost.
> Will you really parrot elite coined phrases like “laptop class?”

Sometimes, I think about the phrase "human resource" and how it's a nice linguistic nod toward "natural resources", which obviously are meant to be exploited. It makes it easier when you think about laying off thousands of people, or making thousands commute needlessly simply to boost someone's ego.
Damn, how do people have such a bleak outlook. While I cannot see anything but amazing things ahead for me as a engineer/programmer.
Sam Harr-Ish – Typical.me
Doesn't the landing make a huge impact/force on the foils? I would think that they are designed to make the craft go up, thus more susceptible to it going down at higher speed?
How many of those countries have a democratic republic style of governance like the US? Perhaps it is more dangerous to live in a freedom-loving democratic republic, but the number of people clamoring to get into the US vs the lack of people trying to leave tells us there's value in the risk.

That's not to say we shouldn't strive to get those numbers down, but personally I think we should be focusing on mental health, of which social media has a huge impact. Banning the weapon - as is the common suggestion - is treating the symptom, not the cause.

But we also place too much emphasis on school shootings when, as demonstrated, other things are far more dangerous to kids.
You could look at the Unreal Engine source.
I don't buy the idea (with either architecture) that "10x"-type scaling is required for another breakthrough.

Think of a human with below average intelligence. Then think of a human genius. Now consider how incredibly similar their brains are, despite the massive performance gap. It's not like one has 10x the number of neurons/synapses/connections etc. of the other. They're both healthy human brains, and you need powerful technology to even distinguish them structurally.

Considering this, it seems perfectly possible that a model like GPT-4 is just a hair's breadth away from vastly superhuman performance. It certainly beats the average human at many tasks already. The gap between a moron and a genius is a lot larger than that between GPT-4 and a superhuman.
Society in the large operates in many ways this way; I was thinking about community in the small. Groups within an order-of-magnitude of Dunbar's number.
Philip K Dick is to amphetamine psychosis what Charles Bukowski is to alcoholism. Both are good writers, but living in their worlds would be something of a nightmare for the vast majority of people.
great positioning for zuck, impressive
Hey, you might want to check out Rootspace (https://github.com/clearview/rootspace). We just recently released it as open-source, although it was an internal project for a long time.
Remember at the start of covid.

There was no traffic. Even in LA!

How does one not yearn for that. I don't get it.

Also screw the office, coworkers are so distracting. I don't know how anyone gets anything done. Any amount of chit-chat throws me off and gives me a headache.
If you look at the distance between the hydrofoil and the hull midsection, it looks to be about 5ft or so. I would suspect that up to 5ft of wave has very little affect on the ride smoothness.
While this may not solve your problem, I use docker-network-connect which lets me connect directly to containers running in the 172.x.x.x range. By default, macOS does not support routing from host to containers by IP https://github.com/chipmk/docker-mac-net-connect.

In the kubernetes case (I am using k3d on my Mac) pods aren't directly routable but with metallb, load balancer IP addresses can be connected to directly and there's no worry about port conflicts as there might be with k3d's default servicelb implementation (this is my bootstrap script https://github.com/andrewmackrodt/k3d-boot).

If you need to connect to specific pods directly and it doesn't make sense to change your pod config, kubectl port-forward may suffice?
Chechnya as independent country did not exist in 1990s. There was no legal mechanism for it to leave Russia, no democratic process to leave, no recognition by other countries etc. Separatists committed numerous crimes against civil population in Chechnya and outside it and eventually switched to terrorist methods, attacking schools, hospitals and cultural events (e.g. Budennovsk, Beslan, Nord-Ost). Basically, they were Russian version of Hamas or other radical organizations in Middle East. Not the type you would ever negotiate any independence with.
> He’s famous for buying distressed commercial properties and for gaslighting

In his case, it could be solar lighting or else he is not about renewables as he claim to be :)
My guess is this isn't their competitive edge, network effects, products, data and distribution is.

In a way, it takes away their competitors edge while racing to the bottom to compete with open source. At the same time, they establish themselves as experts and keep attracting great talent that wants to publish their work openly. And it benefits all of us, so good marketing amongst developers too.