skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t, though. The price you seek to rent the units for dictates your profit margins, which impacts the financing sought. If you’re taking out a 10% construction loan and are building into your business plan $3,000 a month for your two bedroom, you can’t turn around and rent it out for $1,000 a month because city ordinances say so after the fact. That’s why rent control needs to happen now, and then a public finance corporation needs to be established to provide financing to build new units if the market won’t. It’s not rocket science, it’s just not politically expedient, so it’s not talked about.
As an (academic) friend of mind mused rhetorically recently over a few beers, "Why is there so much politics in academia... Perhaps because the stakes are so low".
H alone is the propellant in a nuclear rocket. H needs an oxidizer to explode. No oxidizer, no explosion.
It's funny I've been hearing this trope for decades, and at the same time hearing nonstop complaints about the "insane" forward looking valuations for Tesla, Nvidia, etc.

From a P/E standpoint, Wall Street is less about "short-term extraction" than at any time in history.
In a footnote to Chapter 9 of “Democracy in America”—addressing what maintains Republican government in America—de Tocqueville writes about Philadelphia and New York:

“Also in [their] midst is found a multitude of Europeans pushed daily by misfortune and loose behavior to the shores of the New World; these men bring to the United States our worst vices, and they have none of the interests that could combat the inﬂuence of those vices. Inhabiting the country without being citizens, they are ready to take advantage of all the passions that agitate the country; consequently we have for some time seen serious riots break out in Philadelphia and New York. Such disorders are unknown in the rest of the country, which is not worried about them, because until now the city population has not exercised any power or any inﬂuence on the rural population. I regard the large size of certain American cities and above all the nature of their inhabitants, however, as a genuine danger that threatens the future of the democratic republics of the New World, and I am not afraid to predict that it is there that they will perish[.]”

The America that de Tocqueville wrote about is America. At least, it’s the America that’s special and worthy of emulation. It’s a democratic America, where free, independent citizens engage in collective self-governance.

New York City is the antithesis of that—a place where elites leverage ethnic conflict to garner votes, to control a population that mostly doesn’t have the tools or traditions necessary for self-government.
The original comment was talking about VS Code, wasn't it?
> Every American child is offered free K-12 education (with free lunches)

Spend some time in the south. Parents don’t let kids go to public schools and send them to parochial schools that teach creationism as science, and deride anything that disagrees with God’s word as false. That’s the schooling many kids get in the south.

Go read up a bit on A Beka books and the Bob Jones curriculum.

Those kids didn’t get a choice as to which parents to be born to. It was luck. That’s the point.

> and easy loans for college.

Hahahahahahahahahaha. Yes, “easy loans,” that depending on the job market you graduate into, you may never pay back.

Those students didn’t get the choice as to when they would be born and, thus, when they would graduate school. Entering the job market in 2003 and in 2008 was wildly different, and those that entered in 2008 were stunted not just for one year but many, as those that entered in 2006 or 2007 had more experience, fewer unexplained gaps, etc., all because of when they happened to be born.

Speak to people who don’t have money. Listen to what they say. Based on your responses, I can pretty much guarantee you’ve never done that.
I was speaking more generally about MS vs. Google.
But isn't that far better than what most competitors would do... Just upload all the data to a server and do ad-targeting there.
> Have you heard about a country called Sweden? It's cold, dark and damp..

and has a national population of two Berlins or half a Lagos, and a total (from everywhere including the EU) net immigration level of [edit: was "about half a million, or 5%." but I now have conflicting citations…]
When to Satisfice (and When Not To)
False equivalence. 20 years ago, it was much easier to “get out of poverty” than it is today.
Jeff VanderMeer popularly uses sci-fi biology. Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam does as well (content/themes warning as always with Margaret Atwood)

Both are dramatically better writers than the vast majority of sci-fi authors I come across these days.
Could you point to the chapter or page?
These are two different things.

Youtube ads can potentially found in all videos and you don't really have a choice because there's no practical alternative to Youtube. So you either pay or use an adblocker (while it works). There's value in Youtube and I can easily see why would someone pay for the ad-free subscription.

Then again creators who choose to advertise or promote commercial products in their videos have a fraction of the leverage that Youtube has. If you don't like them, simply don't watch those channels and find something else. By choosing to promote products they'll implicitly choose to filter out some segments of their potential audience, and that's their choice. Youtube has nothing to do with that, they would place promotions in their videos no matter what service they use as their video outlet.
Why you need to follow specific techniques just to relax? They sound like more work and skill obsession.

You know, you can just lay low and relax...
I wonder who this feature is for…
Great, now I'm thinking of my edgy teenage days calling them Micro$oft or just M$ on Gamefaq's forums.
Probably not because the medium is the same spacetime everywhere and there isn't anything we know of that slows down or blocks gravity.
Accountability would necessarily include this armed gang that committed numerous violent crimes being treated like an armed gang that committed numerous violent crimes, and getting locked up away from society for many years. Do you have any reason to believe that the outcome of this situation will have anything resembling this? Because I foresee the best plausible outcome, even with all this attention, is going to be something like a bunch of payouts from civil suits, without much really addressing the overwhelming criminality.
I think this post, like yours is simply forgetting that start-up culture isn't some immutable meritocracy of free market behaviour with these odd abberations of irrational behaviour. The whole thing is built off irrational behaviour, because becoming a "successful" startup is all about hunting VC funding.

Look at Uber for instance. Aside from one blip in 2018, it has never had a single year of profitability. Yet it receives year after year of VC funding and investments because surely any day now they have to turn a profit, right? All these people couldn't be wrong...right? I mean this is the revolutionary business that was a mArKeT DiSruPtOr and deregulated entire vast swaths of industries to do it, so surely their success will materialize "any day now" into profit. Afterall, its the most free-market principles-based business right?? It overthrew the tyrannical state-regulated taxi industry! It HAS to be more efficient and better! Except it isn't.

Quantum computing isn't a "cargo cult" of VC startup business models, its simply another VC startup business models like all others hunting for sustainability through venture capital funding.
I never will fully trust Microsoft for obvious reasons, but man I do sometimes snap back and look at how disgustingly closed everything has become ever since Google introduced their "guidelines" back during web 2.0 and just cringe
This depends, Hyprland has their own flake, and rather than overriding nixpkgs they recommend adding their cachix binary cache. You get binaries for Hyprland from Cachix and for it's dependencies from cache.nixos.org.

Works well for me. Though when doing configuration changes I usually pass --no-substitutes (or smth) to not query all my subs for derivations that'll never be in a remote cache.
Title inflation.

Guess how many VPs Salesforce has.
> In Ruby, comparing two symbols requires string comparison, which is slightly slower.

Is this true?

The docs provide this code for Symbol equality:

#define sym_equal rb_obj_equal

Which is:

VALUE
rb_obj_equal(VALUE obj1, VALUE obj2)
{
if (obj1 == obj2) return Qtrue;
return Qfalse;
}
It's not that interesting - it's just that there is a much larger number of parties who have to be in agreement about the sale, and the sale price, than is typical - you end up with probate court judges, lien holders, the executor, the estate's attorney as well as possibly a second real estate attorney for the estate and absolutely all of them (and their staff) can be sick / on vacation / golfing which wreaks havoc on the closing timeline.

Plus if there is any FUBAR paperwork it is much more difficult to fix if it means going back to probate court to (for example) add a spouse who was wrongly omitted from the approval to sell ... in this case, I ended up getting the mortgage and deed by myself and then quitclaiming the property to the two of us because that was less hassle.

Oh, and short sales in probate are basically always as-is because the estate has no money to make good any repairs to the property.
It is kind of funny to me. I'm not sure he could help it though, ha ha.
The battery is already thicker than the logic board even with a slot on it.

And because of that the trade off really goes the other way. If you're that tight for space you could put some logic on the part of the logic board beneath the slot and make the logic board smaller, leaving more room for the battery and allowing you to have a thinner battery with the same capacity.

Moreover, "light with good battery life and good performance" doesn't even specify thickness. And quite sensibly so, because that's always been more of a marketing number about who can shave off an extra millimeter than anything that really matters. It's not as if one of them is 7mm thick and the other one is 70mm. And the pointless obsession with trivial differences is how we got this:

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/24/17389220/a...
I am the last guy to play apologist to Microsoft and Google.

While the potential for abuse is there, these are the same sorts of concerns raised over UEFI secure boot, and the sky failed to fall over that. You can still run Linux if you want, it's fine.

Things will likely be OK. Maybe more annoying than before.
Most people don't want to see ads... But if they do see ads, they don't really care how it is decided which ones to show... Phase of the moon, random numbers, or the third word of every email in my gmail account are all equally fine in my eyes.

However, I do care about what other uses my data might be used for.

Therefore, googles solution of using all my private data, but with the opensource code running on my machine within my control, is actually perfect for both me and them.
There are about 6000 professional baseball players in the US, in both major and minor leagues, and while I can’t find how many tenured chemistry professors there are, his assertion seems within the realm of reason.
I legit have to go to bing (or duckduckgo if I wanna keep it private or so they claim at least) to get actual search results lol...
Neither, they just have different priorities and blindspots in hoe they try to help. While one may be more correct or effective, nobody is trying to make the world worse on purpose.
just a reminder that docker has a rootless mode that works perfectly. it does require a daemon, but it runs as the user not as root.
It’s not some ads. It’s like 90% of ads.

Whenever I use someone else’s account or am not logged in I’m shocked by how ad filled YouTube is. Easily my most automatic subscription and worth every penny.

The creators typically have one 30 second spot where they often do a humorous riff. Not that big a deal.
YouTube censorship works really well whenever it hears swear words or god forbid you show a bit too much of human body, but apparently 10 to 60 seconds of ad crap is undetectable to them.

Demonetize the shit out of the video, on subsequent offense demonetize whole channel.
So manually obscuring the control flow/business logic with boilerplate bubbling up is more readable at debug/read time than it being implicitly, trivially there?
Getting billions out of something doesn't make it smart.
> More affluent places hire maids, gardeners, handymen, drivers, etc. The even wealthier ones have places for them to live on the premises.

I’m trying to tell whether this is a serious argument. Yes, the very wealthiest might allow their most trusted servants to live on their estates but that’s like saying that anyone can go to the moon or win an Olympic gold medal because some humans have done it. Most rich people do not do that and those positions are not widely available: for example, the most common would be live-in nannies which often require things like college degrees and the “right” background. The far more common outcome is that most workers commute to those exclusive places and they often have very strong rules (the last time I drive through an expensive area outside of San Diego, it was noticeable how often the roads were blocked by landscapers’ trucks because they weren’t even allowed to park in the dozen car driveways every estate has). It’s not even uncommon to have things like shuttles so they can park where it’s cheaper and not have to drive all of the way in.
I'm surprised to not find the "well technically, it does process in milliseconds" argument here. Many many milliseconds
No OS supports just waking up "specific" processes only after a resume from standby. IIRC Apple does but in a fake way - they just wake up the T2 chip and its dedicated OS, which is a ton of work to get right (as state of hardware must be coordinated between macOS and bridgeOS), and only Apple can do this because (other than servers with iLO/equivalent) no x86 machine has a similarly capable coprocessor.

Edit: never mind, I must have gotten something wrong, T2 is not capable of that.
Interview with Alex of DocuSeal – open-source DocuSign alternative
Having to find and install separate firewall software is exactly what I mean by not remotely user friendly, regardless of how relatively user friendly any particular firewall may be.

Why can I not simply disable network access in the app settings? Why am I not being asked to grant this permission just like I'm asked to grant access to my photos?

Permissions systems on desktop platforms are mostly useless for regular users and only somewhat less useless on mobile.
I started learning haskell about 6 months ago and I'm quite enjoying it as it requires a different mental model compared to any C-like language (Java, C#, etc).

Learning Haskell has helped me to cut a good amount of BS from technologies (and engineers too). Haskell needs Monads, Transformers and more things that I don't understand yet because sometimes operations need to be sequenced. And on top of it because it's not possible to perform any non-deterministic (IO) action without telling the world about it, as any non-deterministic behaviour is wrapped in IO.

I also find it interesting that Haskell feels lot more polymorphic that every statically typed OO language I know, when polymorphism is one of the pillars of OO.
Canada has better health outcomes than the US. Same with Scandinavian countries, Au/NZ all of which have dispersed populations and spend less.

Also, all the proposed HSR corridors are in populated areas. The population density of the north east is similar to Japan but with twice the Japanese per capita gdp.

None of what you said explains why US cities which are similar to size and population as EU ones have such poor public transport.

People in the US have become proficient at justifying their delusions.

The US spent 2-3 trillion in Iraq and Afghan to achieve nothing. But no complaints are offered, no one is punished. Imagine if that money had gone to health care or HSR/transit with even 10% goals met.
I use podman orchestrated by systemd to run my home automation stuff. It took 30 seconds to set up and Just Works.
> In this case, nobody was actually being sold a defective product. Salesforce is very careful to “safe harbour” their statements about future products and their actual customers know that.

I don't see any of that in the linked blog post by salesforce describing genie. Can you provide quotes of where they do that?

What I see is a blog post describing current capabilities of their product. They even make a point of sayong how all their customers benefit from "Genie".
Joel is wrong. The 2001-2003 timeframe was very hard to find a job, even if you were a really good engineer.

There is a good reason Open Source development exploded during those years, as there were a lot of unemployed or 'underemployed' good engineers that had time to do some open source work while looking for a job.

By 2005 (when that article was written), the market had already recovered, and what he said is true (good engineers had already found a job), but that doesn't negate the fact that 2001-2002 was bad even for good engineers.
Puffery

Off topic: in many industry’s, like CPG, puffery is a very common marketing practice. Eg “Best Cookies in America”

It seems puffery in tech is way less common.

Is there a reason why?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
> Uncritically

Blindly pick one to trust sure that’s a poor choice.

But we make choices based on our experience and what information we have. I won’t trust anyone forever blindly, but I will pick some for now over others who I find untrustworthy.
At this point I’m more hesitant to hire FAANG employees who are used to really strict guardrails both culturally and technically to keep them “on track”. Most startups don’t have the guardrails and need people who make good choices without the bumpers. Hiring a bunch of FB and Google people did not improve Airbnb’s average engineering skill, rather it sank because a substantial part of our population only cared about promo and promo projects.
I also love Youtube (I've learned a staggering amount from it), but maybe qualify your "anyone" here ;-)

> nor why anyone would not just pay the very small fee for YouTube Premium and do away with all the ads

Assuming you mean the no-ads-plus-music offer, in the UK that is £12.99 a month. So the yearly cost is worth more than a whole month of food for me, and I don't eat badly (I just shop well).

A month's worth of food for a single adult is objectively not a very small amount of money, spread over a year.

Me, I skip the ads, for now.
Well, I was thinking of Canada. I found quite a few nice, basic houses (by this, I mean a place you can actually live in, not reno projects) for around $60K USD. I'm talking about sparse provinces like Saskatchewan. I also found some now with a quick search in Alabama (US) for around $70K. Check out sparsely populated, small places in the US, and search for small houses. Hey, I never said it would be a mansion.
> I like having an LLM for GitHub

That LLM was trained on FOSS software that others like myself wrote and did not consent to have used in such a manner. Even if you're also a FOSS contributor and you're fine with it, I'm not.

So you like it, but you're not the party whose consent matters. You're the customer consuming the laundered goods from the fence.
You could probably build a 4-axis FDM machine for less than that too, which might be better for average users(No powder mess)
Lua has a feel very much like javascript, but is much less conversion happy. It helps that there's separate operators for addition and concatenation, so you won't get 1 + 2 = 12 unless you ask for it.

Sometimes it seems javascript has a mind of its own, and turns all my numbers into strings when I'm not looking, so I have to sprinkle x = x | 0 throughout the code, like hanging garlic.
Historically lots of US goods have been manufactured in Mexico. The difference is that Mexico's government is not highly coordinated like China's. The same resources would not achieve the same outcomes.
Honestly just look for companies that have bounties on tickets in their open source software and make a name for yourself that way. They'll know your name when you apply. You'll start to make money right away too. [1]

[1] https://github.com/djadmin/awesome-bug-bounty
It’s a research institute so I don’t think it’s directly a government role, more like a university. I see adverts at Oxford University for sysadmins at around £45-65k so it’s on the low side for what I consider comparable jobs, but my thinking might be flawed
For that you may use containers, private mode, the menu to delete site data, and auto-delete.
The problem is that the stock market is moving in an increasingly greater-fool direction. Companies that don't ever pay dividends, companies that don't yield control rights, companies that have extensive protections for the founders, etc.

The problem with the stock market is not that its hard to tell whether you should be in or out. Its that there's so much pressure on the general population to own stock that the stock issuers can now get away with releasing essentially worthless stock (see Snapchat for an example) and still expect it to sell anyway.
Actual paper text.[1]

How the mouse's brain is scanned, very intrusively.[2] That's both impressive and scary. They're scanning the surface of part of the brain at a good scan rate at high detail. They're
seeing the activation of individual neurons. This is much finer detail than non-intrusive functional MRI scans.

Does the data justify the conclusions? The maze being used is a simple T-shaped maze. The "state machine" supposedly learned is extremely simple. They conclude quite a bit about the learning mechanism from that. But now that they have this experimental setup working, there should be more results coming along.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.03.551900v2....

[2] https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-01...
their IaaS system. it hangs. this gives very bad CI pipelines that you have to surveil. also it makes, eg. Github actions, insanely expensive as they are billed. per. minute, and render can hang upwards of hours or unbound if not stopped.
I was offered a job coaching under-12 soccer for the top local club where parents pay thousands a year. The offer was $700 a month to run (by myself) 3 practices a week plus a game on the weekend. So less than $20 an hour, which doesn't even cover transportation costs.

Similar story applying to work at a bakery down the street, and same for working for animal control.

I agree doing work in your local community is rewarding, but it amounts to full time volunteerism. Our economy is truly horrific for the middle class and below.
i just created an account for you :-)
save it as an PWA to your machine, if you have no internet it will cache the last version - so you will be able to go fully offline and not even need to fetch the dns queries
None, because the data asymmetry is how Google earns revenue. If they just sold the data, you'd set up a competing ad network that undercuts AdSense by operating on slightly outdated snapshots.
My plan? I’ll go out on my own terms. I fought my entire life to escape a bad childhood of poverty and homelessness. Not going back.
My LG G8 ThinkQ didn't have trouble till just recently when the battery started wearing. Do you run anything special or high performance?

There are some things I avoid, like switching away from Obsidian due to slow loading, but in general stuff is pretty snappy.