skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument somewhat hinges on supposed existence of experts who know how things run and what to do.

Are there even such experts with regard to the economy? The economic academia is full of competing schools of thought which prescribe completely incompatible recipes how to run things.

Which of those are experts and which are fakes? Which one of those schools would you choose to run things in your country?

There was an interesting example of Pinochet choosing the Chicagoans to run the economy in Chile. Chile certainly grew in GDP, but it also grew a bunch of societal problems coming from inequality, and once Pinochet was gone, the Left resurged, though arguably not to the levels seen before.
Maybe corollary to this is that if you can’t do any immediate action with it, skip the read.

The issue to solve is to know when not to read everything for entertainment, which your brain can consider it “useful”.
You seem to be ignoring political realities on the ground by framing it this way. I am not certain it helps the discussion.
It is relevant to the context of this thread in general. Even if Polish consumers are spared the trick of raising prices through fake discounts as the OP mentioned, they still suffer from the same surge in prices that many of the European posters here are complaining about. Nowhere in my post was I calling for price controls.
Yes there was a slight trend before 2020 but then during 2020 it accelerates rapidly. Considering Minneapolis was particularly hard hit by the ACAB rehetoric and the "firey but mostly peaceful" protests it would be hard to not seriously believe that the BLM protests/riots were a significant part of that.

I agree with the fundamental principle being stated but I also don't like bad and manipulative data.
It's a "safe investment" because people need a place to live and the supply is artificially constrained. Personally don't see why the barrier to having a place to live for new generations should be raised just so that boomers can guarantee returns on an asset.
Your dogwhistle bullshit is incorrect. Prices have been dropping for many years now.
I'm a populist and read and follow quite a few populist intellectuals.

My definition of populism is a political doctrine whose goal is to distribute power and decision making towards the people.

It differs from socialism whose focus is the distribution of wealth, traditionally done through a centralized decision making process.

It also differs from conservatism where an elite enforces strong moral rules and traditionally defers to big private institutions.

Populism is firmly opposed to demagogy. Demagogy is the practice of charismatic leaders to make fantastic promises if they'll be given more power. They do not empower the people, they empower themselves.
When I first heard of "E Corp" in Mr. Robot the first thing that came to my mind was Enron LOL
Tesla is experimenting with 3D printing its car bodies
Honestly, PragProg gets you pretty far from a mentality perspective. Practical Object Oriented Design is a nice skills book. You might also try The Mythical Man Month.
In the post You link to, You say that in Georgia they define an unborn person as being in a womb, then You say an artificial womb would not apply.

Why not?

Is an artificial womb not a womb?
There is no point comparing across countries
Not only that, have you ever tried understanding building code in order to construct a "legal" residence? Sometimes it is regulated to the point where I could not build a house unless it had the right angle and shade of red terracotta roofing tiles.
It’s also comparing it to similar midwestern cities with similar population dynamics.
> Jefferson's natural aristocracy was an ideal that encouraged people to have dignity and develop nobility, with the hope that they can prevail in their own governments - and establish an aristocracy that has the legitimacy of popular desire.

If only Jefferson could have upheld his own ideals, but, like the author, the only aspect of his life that could equal his self-regard was his hypocrisy.
For me side projects are fun and so I often think about them and when I get the chance I just remember that really want to work on it.

Leetcode I don't like. I know I should do it, but it's not fun and it is never in my head, so I just don't ever find the time for that.

The lesson here is if you want to do something you will find the time. So phrase it or make it such that either of these to are fun for you to do.
PVC is quite toxic in a variety of ways. I would never heat, cut PVC voluntarily, especially without full breathing protection
> Surely this is just a direct statement that managers have no clue what their reports are up to. Any vaguely competent manager with even a passing contact with people they're managing will know all of this and more already.

By this point in 2023 in the world of social media, everyone knows that management in tech industry is a joke. Leeches who thrive off the labor of the real brains.

This is why there is so much backlash against RTO, and so much quiet quitting and so much job hopping. Until corporate structures continue to treat people like fungible headcount, people will treat corporations like fungible source of money.
That representation's even nicer – the logarithmic complexity is immediately evident:

1/(1 + x) = 1 - x + x^2 - x^3 ...
= (1 - x) (1 + x^2) (1 + x^4) (1 + x^8) ...

late edit: I've tested and confirmed that the naive implementation does in fact work. This C snippet is within at most 1 ULP for most double floats in the range (0.5, 1.0]: I tested a few billion and found no counterexamples.

double recip(double y) {
long double x = ((long double) y) - 1.0;
long double u = 1.0 - x;
long double v = x;
for (int j=1; j<=5; ++j) {
v = v * v; // v = x^(2^j)
u = u * (1.0 + v);
}
return (double)u; // approx. 1.0/y
}
static-server: an HTTP server in Go for static content
> If you are using Tor, try changing your exit node.

Bitwarden doesn't run an onion service? Anyone who acknowledges Tor and wants to support users there and doesn't have an onion is missing out.
> “So how is productivity? Are the employees getting their work done well and on time?”

I can guarantee that this will not be measured because it will make RTO bosses look bad.
>to live in a house

I’ll just rent until the price bottoms out

>To sell to people who want to live in the house.

People won’t buy and you’ll be stuck renting.
Experimental validation of free-energy principle with in vitro neural networks
I've been excited in the abstract about PRQL for quite a while. But something FQL seems to have a much better handle on is the value of document-orientedness, or what you might alternatively call "gradual schematization".

This problem has been solved (if not beautifully, at least acceptably) by modern SQL databases that support a JSON storage format and associated "secondary query language".

I know PRQL has had an open issue on this subject for a while. I just want to note that I think this is truly one of the critical "missing pieces" to PRQL, without which it may never be able to break out into common usage.
I am totally fine with my ISP seeing my DNS traffic (it is bound by GDPR & more; I trust it more than CF or Google). I want to ensure the DNS traffic info does not leave my ISP (other than to other DNS resolvers recursively).

And as per Spamhaus, the DNS traffic in a datacenter may still end up in the Spamhaus passive DNS DB.
Top Gun one frame at a time on Twitter got shut down…

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/par...
Yes they were but if you look at the actual chart it went from median rents slowly going from 100 to around 95 from 2017 to 2020 and then dropping drastically to 80 in 2020.

If anyone believes that the "firey but mostly peaceful" protests didn't have an effect are trying really hard to believe that 2 + 2 = 5.
They never implied that. Your insult is completely out of place.
just run your own and use vaultwarden so your passwords aren't on someone else's server
Agreed. “Philosophy” in the previous comment was being used in the “philosophy of x” sense, not philosophy solely qua politics, or whatever else.

(I think your taxation example is great, and it’s one I’ve used before to test myself on my own stances. More generally, that sort of test roughly rhymes with Kant’s universalization test.)
So the harm is people will invest in the stock market instead of buying real estate to rent out?
I guess that is technically the truth. As a business owner, I also charge the most I think my customer’s were able and willing to pay.

But in all cases I am familiar with (US/Canada/UK/Germany), there are sufficient competing grocery retailers that the price most customers are willing to pay is only a couple percentage points higher than the cost of goods sold.
Uncursing Ncurses
Meritocracy is tyranny by another name. "Natural" aristocrats are still aristocrats, and being aristocrats it is their "natural" inclination to take power in their own personal and (when they are numerous enough to be organized in a coherent group) institutional interests. Meritocracy is a another false god, like its cousin, money. It is dangerous because it is exclusive, and self-reinforcing. Technologists, of all people, should be the first to recognize how vacuous and pernicious such an anti-egalitarian approach is, and should be repelled by it: because we know how empty and meaningless our own relative merit, based on our fortuitous collection of specialized knowledge and skills, is.

Am I really better, morally, ethically, or spiritually, than someone who _doesn't_ know how to patch an Oracle database? Even the landscapers blowing leaves into the street next door know that forcibly asserting ownership of another human being is wrong, yet this seems to have escaped the superior intellect of "the Founding Fathers" (who my own ancestors, having emigrated as impoverished peasants from Italy at the turn of the last century, had no connection with: something they sadly later forgot). Jefferson was a slaver, an oppressor of the weak, and a rapist, and the majority of high society and Congress were (and are) accessories before and after the fact.

The US Civil War was an aberration, because it was one of the few times that the schemes of one part of the oligarchy coincided with the growing disgust of the commons with a horrendous institution (chattel slavery). The moral outrage over slavery seen in the diaries of Union soldiers didn't disappear with the Confederacy's defeat, but the interests of the oligarchs worked against the success of Reconstruction and the later imposition of Jim Crow (whose legal framework provided inspiration for 20th century fascism in places like Germany).

We loosely categorize ancient Rome as a civilization. It was an oligarchic slave state, as were the later European and American empires. The main difference between them seems to be the mechanisms of slavery employed. In 21st century America we still have a feudal model of governance in most workplaces, and in governments bought and paid for by unfettered oligarch cash, the will of the common people, to the extent that its expression is able to pierce the corporate media bubble, is mostly ignored or explained away.
Great idea - your demo made me think that Web assembly finally permits proper Web applications with a proper UX and without abusing HTML, HTTP, XML, JavaScript and the browser.

I wish there was a new standard for that, instead of everyone brewing their own thin client app soup; perhaps now is the time to get something like that started.

On the desktop, there were CUA, MOTIF, CDE, and other proposals [2-10], and ISO has codified UI best practices in [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9241

[2] DIN 66234 part 8 standard [1988]

[3] The Data Company's standard

[4] Apple Human Interface Guidelines [1987]

[5] Motif™ style guide [OSF 1990]

[6] "Advanced CUA" (for graphical interfaces) [IBM 1990a]

[7] "Basic CUA" (for traditional terminals) [IBM 1990b]

[8] Original CUA [IBM 1987] 340

[9] OPEN LOOK™ [Sun Microsystems 1990]

[10] Smith and Mosier [1986] guidelines
Plus you get to watch it in 9:16 portrait aspect ratio, just as Martin Scorsese intended.

I would imagine the reason nobody has sent any DACMA notices or stepped up enforcement yet is because this method of piracy is almost too stupid to take seriously.
If you actually want to simulate an economy, the answer is complex dynamic systems. Traditional static equilibrium models (like Computational General Equilibrium (CGE) or the not actually very dynamic Dynamic Stochastic General Equlibrium (DSGE) models) are pretty useless (they have all these 'nudging' variables to try and push things towards reality but the actual underlying methodology is bunk).

Even weather forecasting moved to dynamical systems models decades ago, economics still hasn't caught up.
The article points to the eruption of a super volcano as the more likely cause.
IPTV sounds like a poor replacement for paying for access to content you don't control on someone else's Plex server, not a replacement for running your own Plex server with only content you want.
well, there are genuinely dumb people out there who think that housing is a market failure. like homebuilders are unwilling to take necessary risks or something. and they definitely don't mean the risk of going to prison (100%)
> fetch the link cards on read instead.

do you mean, hitting a site every time someone loads a post?

that's going to lead to some obvious issues with hammering sites
What is the point? A blog should be your writing, or its just more spam. The net has plenty of filler.
I agree - but in a comparison of Java vs Go - in Go there's no support for checking nulls at all, which is surely worse than Java's situation.

I mean you can literally assign nil to a "func" type, and then call that func and it'll panic at runtime. Neither the compiler nor the JetBrains IDE will warn you about that, and there are no @Nonnull type annotations you can add (even if they're not ideal as you rightly point out).

That literally happened to me last week, just a stupid coding mistake, but took quite a while to find. In Java IntelliJ would have probably warned me about that, and certainly if I'd added @Nonnull annotations.
I built a site for that recently. Simple job scraper, and there is a Remote filter. Here is the link to the current search results:

https://gettjalerts.com/jobs/?description=&locations=&is_rem...
You're right, it's not a sufficient condition (pretty sure Red Hat offers Linux support in subscription form), you also need to have closed source software for a platform.

I don't know about the situation with Unreal, but I would be very wary of using it, considering Epic has been pushing a game Store. (And Unreal's source code is merely source available ?)
Common market means that Apple can't charge for iCloud to Sweden more expensively (before tax) than what they charge to Spain, it doesn't mean that goods made in one country of the union can't have way different pricing in another based on shipping, VAT, taxes, labor, supply/demand, or straight up price gouging.
This came up in a Twitter discussion, too. Contains a link to an interesting paper which I copied below.

> As someone who work with C++ parquet readers and writers I say that different configurations can easily result in 10x differences in size -- the default behavior is usually very poor (Tony Wang / @marsupialtail_2) https://twitter.com/marsupialtail_2/status/17021850155038883...

> TUM have written a great summary about performance niches around parquet file IO performance, @DatabendLabs adopted a lot of optimizations mentioned in the summary and result is great in practice. https://dl.gi.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/9c8435ee-d478-4b... (zhihanz / @zhihanz1205) https://twitter.com/zhihanz1205/status/1702196118472536166
It was like that in Russian Siberian villages with vodka since forever. The train would deliver vodka and it was payday and the whole town shot down for a few days.
indeed - a dream of possibilities, if people can get their act together and implement something that from the user perspective looks UNIFORM (see my other reply).
This is indeed my question as well. I am Czech. We are right next to Germany. Theoretically, this is one huge Common Market. In practice, many mass-produced things are much more expensive in Czechia than in Germany, including food.

I suspect that the language barrier is still real. But then again, German-speaking Austria experiences the same thing.

I wish we had a common European delivery service, like the US has US Post or DHL, with the same cost structure across the entire continent. We don't, a package from Spain to Czechia is much more expensive than within either Spain or Czechia.

A common European delivery service would give foreign e-shops a massive competitive edge. Suddenly, it would be more efficient to buy cheaper things in Slovenia or Bulgaria.
The Nazis were very elitist and extended the power and interventionism of the economy to its extremes. In terms of votes they never were popular. They were the opposite of populists.
Consider

An esoteric subject. Hard experiments.

Lots written though.

So you get a group of "enthusiasts" who like to read. Write about what they read. And argue over the meaning of the cryptic writings. But never actually examine the subject matter firsthand.

And then, through a combination of literary cherrypicking, convoluted logic, and debate, they come to the conclusion that real experimentation is impossible. And anybody who says otherwise is either lying or a fool.

You see it a lot in religious groups. An airtight circle of scripture consumption, excretion and reconsumption.
Either renting is so bad that people will still rather buy the house, or renting is actually not that bad and then it's not an issue if people rent instead of buying the house. It can't be both at the same time.

Also I think your calculation of "rent until price bottoms out" only makes sense if the price is dropping by more, each month, than a month's rent. Idk but that seems like a dramatic drop.
For me, it is not the hours, but the context switch between work, side project, and family that is difficult .
> because there is a multi-hundred billion dollar honey pot for anyone who can break those.

Maybe. Or maybe if enough of the right people are affected like the DAO hack, it will just get reversed.
I Came Out as Intersex in Front of the Texas Legislature
My kids are 6 and 2. The only time I have for this is after they are in bed, which is around 9:30 when they're both fully asleep, and I'm usually just ready to sit down and mentally checkout at that point.

I feel motivated all day to go to my office at nights, like I do right now, but I'm so drained after parenting kids all day.

I'm sure you're aware of this having a 6 year old, but once the 3 year old is a bit older you'll be able to do it during the day. I study and do stuff on weekends with my 6 year old while he plays Minecraft on a laptop next to me. And I try to explain how mods work and such. So you're almost there to when you can have some time back to do that stuff during the day.
"Is this principle or opportunism?“ is necessary but insufficient skepticism. Convincing people to argue or vote against their own interests is also a pervasive problem. In American politics, it is called “turkeys voting for Thanksgiving“.
Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?
What I understood from actual farmer : fuel and fertilizer.
Commodities are routinely compared worldwide, and peanuts could be considered commodities. They are certainly closer to commodities than to services etc., even when packaged for the individual customer in fancy wrapping.

I would understand your argument if you were talking about services.
I’m not a bitwarden user, does this mean users can’t access their secrets on their own machine if they are logged out? Because that’s not how 1Password works. I suspect that isn’t the case but it sounds like it to me
Unless you own a datacenter I don’t think that’s a full solution to the “passwords on someone else’s server” problem.
> Non-blocking code with synchronous coding style? Virtual Threads are much much better than goroutines.

That's going to need some justification. I work with Java and Go. I haven't worked with Virtual Threads yet but my understanding is Go's approach to goroutines and Java's approach to Virtual Threads are pretty much equivalent. (Channels, however, are quite different.) Let me know if I've missed something.
I agree, that is much more likely.
200% scaling looks bad depending on the size of the screen. I have a 27" screen, and 175% is much better, but you cannot do it on Linux (last I checked...)
I did the same but still get its apologetic handwavy crap, although somewhat less.
apparently you have to hire a city building inspector to watch you work and then he doesn't show up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6x3hMObEVc
I use Bitwarden and am able to access and create secrets
It will make home buying a less attractive investment but people need to live somewhere.
Your job is too many hours unless you’re someone with innate natural energy. Judge your own health and if you start to see signs of illness cut back side projects. Maybe consider that even though your current job is rewarding, it might be trapping you in a dead end if you can’t both do your job and the side activities required to stay relevant.
It is possible to believe in something and still fail to live up to it.
>Rather than trying to cram 5 pounds of crap into a 10 pound bag

This is what you call living in high rises in cities like Manhattan or San Francisco?

>There is a concept of being at capacity

Capacity which tax policy has been designed to artificially throttle. It doesn't really matter if the market wants to build high rises 15 minutes from the offices in SF and people want to live in high rises 15 minutes from work if a stick in the mud lives there in a $6 million bungalow he inherited from his mom who bought it in 1974.

Obviously if he were taxed a bit higher for occupying valuable land he would sell up and leave and those apartments could be built. But, why not indulge the NIMBY desire to be "at capacity"? Those NIMBYs probably worked hard for that $6 million by buying in the 90s or by being pushed out of the vagina of somebody who did.
Experiences vary wildly between and IP addresses and browser profiles. The variance increased drastically post-takeover.
What exactly is amusing? Large asteroids have the capability of introducing a sufficient large temporary disturbance of the worlds climate so that an extinction cascade might be triggered. It doesn't have to kill every single animal, just to disrupt enough food chains.

Which is exactly the worst-case with the current, human caused greenhouse effect.
What is it like to be a goldfish?
Is there any other industry where workers are so beholden to their employers that they cannot simply create something of their own without fear of legal action?

How did we get to this point as an industry and how do we change this destopia?
Right. This is so risky. Having to use your personal resources to defend yourself against a lawsuit brought by a large corporation - really sucks.
Yeah... tried to edit a password before and took me a few attempts. It was odd because bitwarden always works very well for me.
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