skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like looking at an algorithm, thinking of the worse case scenario, running a single step, and deciding that it's not worth it from that alone. This is not a one-and-done rule, and the same dynamics that might push an old lady to move in one situation, might make things much better for her in another, and more importantly, over time might lead to a better situation for her grandchildren when they grow up.

In practice, that grandma is stuck in a city where her children and grandchildren can no longer afford to buy real estate in. Friends and neighbors who rent are priced out and have to move regardless. The local goods and services rise in price and taxes go up, all under the current system. Her support network and community evaporate and soon she finds nothing left but to sell to a corporation, who is the only entity left that can afford the prices her house demands.

The first order effect of a Land Value Tax is that it shifts who pays the biggest burden of taxes. Grandma A who owns a big house in the center of a vibrant city where lots of young families are looking for homes near their jobs might see an increase in her taxes, but the Grandma B who owns a Condo in a larger complex will likely see her taxes drop. Grandma C who lives in a nice well-maintained house way out in the burbs will likely see a drop as well, most of her value is in the nice home she has been tenderly caring for her whole life.

A second order effect of LVT is it creates a suppressive effect on real estate prices. When prices in an area are going up across the board, this is entirely in the value of the land, which means LVT taxes are going to rise correspondingly. This additional tax liability significantly helps counteract a speculative rise in prices, leading to a lower and more stable pricing, and pushing out those who are just looking to speculate on trends. The value that a government creates for its citizens is recaptured and able to be reinvested, instead of going directly in the pockets of land speculators.

The third order effect is that this shifts the incentives around value creation vs value capturing. Perhaps the house next door to Grandma's is currently owned by a deadbeat landlord, Pennybags, who lets the house fall into disrepair, hoping to turn around and sell it as the market rises. Now all of a sudden Pennybag's plan is quickly becoming a bad investment. With LVT his property value is more heavily correlated with the actual quality of the house and less with value of the land. He is finding that despite an increasing demand in the area, his property is actually dropping in price. Meanwhile good ole Grandma has been diligently been taking care of her home, and adding value and the price of her home has actually gone up faster than the rise in taxes. She's able to use to use the increase in value to take out a loan to build an accessory unit she uses to now help her cover her increased taxes, which further increases her property value. Despite all of that, her taxes have not gone up at all!
I think that it is generally not reasonable to convert existing large projects to be multithreaded, in the same way that it is generally not reasonable to fully rewrite existing large projects from scratch.

The alternative that I have seen be successful, is to achieve parallelism by forking separate processes wherever you would have spawned threads, and then communicate through shared memory regions.

It's a lot like having Rust-style unsafe blocks, in that you know that if you are having a thread-safety issue it will definitely be in one of the code sections where you are touching the shared memory region, and not anywhere else.

Obviously there's a higher startup cost for forking, but this makes it possible to gain parallelism without breaking all the thread-unsafe code that is certainly in an existing large project.
Amazon runs Twitch.

Also YouTube is crossing over into that area, for instance, there are pay-per-view movies on YouTube and also YouTube has a service which is very similar to cable TV (and costs about the same.)

As much as people complain about "Smart TVs", Android TV has a very nice interface that blends YouTube with other content, I've seen teenagers have a lot of fun with it.
Ask HN: Where can I get a tabletop programmable "Las Vegas Sphere"
"But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
All debate videos on YouTube are like that now to get views. Declaring X won before you even watch. Usually it's video of Ben Shapiro awkwardly reciting some argument he remembered wrong, while the commenters make disparaging remarks about the other parties hair color.

Debate's have become less about who made good points etc and more like a pokemon battle of debate tactics.

steelmanning, devils advocate, etc
Bimotal Micro Electric Powertrains
Ah yes, the best way to enforce technology decisions is by insults and hostility.
Why is it that I feel they will attempt to with AI and it will result in a figurative agnostic holy war?
I'm sure someone has a good writeup¹, but as to my understanding they had a really weird lineup where the 9-5 competed with 9-3 and both were basically low-end luxury sedans marketed as family cars.

¹) Yep, see dagw's sibling comment.
Source? Because thisnis the first time I ever heard of that interpretation of ITAR in my whole life...

Edit: That approach could get you sued for discrimination so.
I married a Brazilian, but I probably have some misinformed thoughts

Economic — I think it probably has the most potential of any country out there, except maybe India. A bit too protectionist, I don't understand why taxes on electronics are so expensive when Brazil doesn't produce them at home, as well as food being so expensive, or taxing cheap Chinese e-commerce sites when people don't have much money in the first place.

From what I hear the healthcare is amazing. My wife was shocked at how poor our healthcare system was compared to Brazil — apparently free, fast, high quality, thorough. For example, to see a GP here is sometimes a two week waiting list, on top of not being free, and of quite poor quality for a supposed first world country.

Political/Stability — It's a South American country, not much more to be said, corruption abound everywhere as well as bureaucracy (my father-in-law is waiting 5 years for an inheritance). And of course the country is shockingly dangerous

Entrepreneurship/Tech — One thing that amazed me in Brazil was the technology, I haven't been to the USA but in Europe it's at least a decade behind in terms of adoption of tech. From Pix, to NuBank, to iFood, Rappi, everyone adopting WhatsApp Business (no idea why this is barely used in Europe for small businesses). Maybe superficial examples but it highlights that entrepreneurship seems to be thriving there.

Education I have no idea, I suppose English should be focused more in schools since it opens lots of doors there
ITAR refers to "us persons" not "us citizens". Which includes asylees and refuges in America.
Nice one, especially the part about the ancient hypertext/hyperlink system:
“…They also devised an elaborate system of symbols emphasising the connection between the main text written in the centre of each page and the commentary excerpts placed in the surrounding margins. The commentaries became very popular elements of school education, being named scholia (‘school material’) as a result … and … Signs written in red ink connecting marginal commentaries to the main text”

Incidentally, the word scholia in modern Greek literally means comments :-)
Didnt he cheat on wife with his PhD students, had numerous flings and flirted with other peoples wives ?
Sorry, no. Hopefully someone else can chime in, but when I entered the field there simply weren’t any such resources.
In the eternal words of DevOps Borat: "To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is devops."[0]

Not everything in society has to be about maximum efficiency. Paper ballots aren't maximally efficient in terms of resources required to count, but has other desirable characteristics that we may prefer.

[0]: https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/41587168870797312
I don't touch Python much, so last time I wrote something, I used mypy and pyright and pylint and ruff.
The average household size has not decreased significantly in the last 40 years (from 2.75 to 2.5), but units per capita has increased (currently around 0.425 units per person). We went from around 1.5% unit surplus to 6% unit surplus during that time.

You do bring up a good point, however. Nuclear families use housing much more efficiently than singles. For the good of the planet and others, perhaps people should consider the benefits of committed relationships.
> I do not think bypassing or blocking ads is the way forward. In the free democratic world...

Ads are psychological warfare against the human mind. Advertising campaigns are designed/directed by unscrupulous mercenaries trained in the latest psychology, willing to use every manipulative technique known to science to manipulate you on behalf of the highest bidder. This mass-manipulation undermines democracy and is broadly harmful to society in general.
As long as the old server is up, the timestamps are readily available. In the exports, the posts are signed with the users private key. Either way, the new instance can validate what the original instance said about the posts, and put up a banner saying "migrated from...", "date according to ...".

There are some edge cases to consider, such as how well various software will deal with an activity showing up on a url different to the one it was created at, but the date thing is largely a red herring.
> Funny, I see people getting extra bitter and mean in the last decades or so and call that pathetic. The "fragile" people are the ones who are taking appropriate offense to it.

No, sorry. Businesses bend over backwards to coddle people now. Things were much more straightforward a couple decades ago. You could tell people straight up they were doing a shit job. Now you need to dance around it to avoid upsetting people who are wasting people's time.
"Despotism" ( 1946 PSA )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWSqboZr1w

Hardly a new problem, but certainly a recurring theme in history.

It is hypocrisy and lunacy that take over fundamental respect for individual privacy. It is inescapable in the current global exchange.

Have a gloriously wonderful day =)
The police are a gang with the express purpose of preventing another gang from coming into existence.

For if you remove the police, the residents will eventually establish their own "gang", which eventually becomes the police.

Any sufficiently organized crime is indistinguishable from government.
mypy is essentially the reference implementation. pyright probably is better as a type checker, but, for the referential aspect alone, I suspect many libraries will continue targeting mypy.

One potential benefit of mypy is that it comes with mypyc, a compiler that leverages mypy's evaluation of types. Since pyright and mypyc are not exactly equal, it makes sense to use mypy if you want to use mypyc.
And yet machine code is basically untyped and fully dynamic. The world of computing is a strange place.
I dunno, a lot of those 80s rock stars slept with their underage groupies. Harvey Weinstein used his power to pressure young Hollywood actresses, am I supposed to believe that a professor sleeping with his students is a completely different beast?

I still think Harvey Weinstein is worse, like you say, but I think it's disingenuous to pretend like they're completely different types of people.
Only when <Musk company> does something to detract from the future humans want for themselves.
However, the prosecutor often is beholden to local police departments to prosecute other unrelated crime. Most DAs don't have the ability to bite the hand that feeds them.

If a DA comes out and says "hey, I'm investigating a racket that is put on by local cops" those local cops (and their union) will fight tooth and nail to remove that DA, no matter how effective their other investigations are. If that AG or DA is out of a job, and try to spill the beans, they can be threatened, or ignored outright by local media or other prosecutors who have legitimate reasons to not rock the boat.

Organized corruption begets more organized corruption.
The review above takes less time to write, how does your argument work again? Also, tone isn't about mentoring
thanks for the link.

Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told Cointelegraph that the company hasn’t entered into any ad-related agreements with any Russia-based companies, including MTS:
“They may be accessing Telegram ad platform features via one of the global ad agencies we work with, but we can confirm that no partnership or agreement exists between Telegram and MTS.”

ideally telegram should confirm it's not selling phone numbers to anyone. but this is a relief.
Just this morning I wrote "to err requires a human, to really foul things up requires automation"
Hmm, I'm getting PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR
User discovers paid plugins from third parties, blames first party, completely ignores the plethora of free plugins and the ability to also add it yourself, manufactured outrage ensues.
I love to code, hell, I do it almost 40 hours per week. And I get paid to do it, isn't that cool?

Sometimes a side project catches my eye. But I have more than a singular interest. And kids. And to be honest, when a side project catches my eye, work suffers a bit because those tiny moments I have to fill with thoughts are spent on my side projects rather than work projects.
My union representative is currently working with my boss to get rid of an employee that isn't pulling their weight. It is harming both the company and colleagues when someone doesn't fulfill their duties. In the Nordic countries it is quite easy to get rid of workers, as the welfare state is supposed care for people til they find other work. It makes for a quite flexible labor market.
I think Americans are finally beginning to wake up to how much of their lives are absolutely sucked dry by rent-seeking middlemen.

Any consumer surplus must be meticulously optimized away, eliminated, and recorded on quarterly profits. Hopefully the anti-trust pendulum will swing back in a big way in the 21st century.
So what is the proper solution for this in POSIX?
Hamas is a business model. Dead Palestinian civilians for money. So, first, of course, all Palestinians are civilian. And every Palestinian corpse is at least 10 dead people. Also there are no fighters. Of course, this is lying, but is perhaps the least problematic of their behaviors.

That's the business model: dead civilians for money from extremists and states.

So right now they're doing everything they possibly can, from firing rockets at an overwhelming military force, in an attempt to anger them, to force Palestinian civilians to stay in locations being bombed, to killing Palestinians themselves.

As a result: Hamas is not very popular in Palestine ... of course. I get that everyone claims the opposite, but most people are sane. If you try to kill them or try to force them to die ... you're going to lose a bit of popularity.

They came to power with a massacre. Yes, they won elections, but that didn't mean the Palestinian Authority gave them all control. It just gave them seats in the legislative council. They immediately killed people until they were the only one left, which Fatah tried to prevent. Needless to say, this is NOT what Palestinians voted for. Since then it hasn't really been any different, ever. There's movies of Hamas throwing civil servants of buildings.

It's very likely that even after Last week's attacks Hamas has still killed more Palestinians than Israeli.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah%E2%80%93Hamas_conflict

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28896346

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-condemns-6-informants-fo...
oh dear, I thought that was common only in my own marketing-in-tech career! My solution was to move away from the agency and to the agency's vendors, instead. Worked so far, a decade on!
Unless you manage every Wordpress site out there, you're biased.

YOU, are a technical person and understand the value of updates, vetting plugins, etc, yet a majority of these sites aren't run by people like you/me.
They are run by end users, with all of the baggage.

You have a point, to an extent. I wholly disagree with your stance on WP though.
It's got issues, numerous issues, and a majority of the sites aren't professionally managed.
I remember being very interested in ispc when it appeared since the model was just right. It wasn’t obvious to me that it would go on to stay though ( and I used to be irrationally wary of intel software ) so I decided against using it at my day job.
> The initial vote count was reported November 8th (the day after voting, which was November 7th).

This is immaterial. The State did not consider that number as official, even though it had been widely reported. The official numbers are the only thing that matters.

> It's not really fair to cite that case an example where either the votes were not counted in 1 day, not counted with little corruption, or not counted fairly accurately

When talking about a legal process, it's pointless to ignore the statutes that govern the certification process (including automatic recounts and challenge windows), or the inevitable legal process around voting. These things happen. That's why election certification is not the day after voting in any state. Certified results are the only results that matter.

If it was reasonable to get final results in a day, then certainly there is a state that statutorily requires certification by (say) Thursday or Friday after the Tuesday vote? So which state is it?

Keep in mind that the country was much less polarized in 2000 than it is now, so it's entirely likely that paper ballots used in 2024 would see multiple state outcomes that looked like Florida in 2000.

In particular, close races like FL in 2000 may depend on ballots from e.g. overseas service members. Those are not required to be received by states until days after Election Day. Without changing the dates service members have to mail their ballots, there's no way to count all the votes until days after the election.

> That summary is a bit revisionist, so the snark is a bit misplaced.

The "snark" is warranted because the fiasco with paper ballots highlighted in Bush v Gore is a key reason we abandoned paper ballots.

EDIT: Also Bush v Gore would not have been "current events" for anybody younger than 35-40, so the reminder is important. (YMMV but I definitely was not following politics when I was in elementary school.)
Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States
"Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities. The United States has a historic opportunity to lead the way in decarbonization by transforming its current energy system to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide. "
To me that actually sounds like a clear example of a business that shouldn't have to hire private security. At least with bars you can claim that the bar is indirectly responsible for instigating the distributive behavior by serving people alcohol. I don't know how you make that argument for a Walmart.
Working for a startup is more fun than working for a financial instrument. Startups take risks, fund wild ideas, and gleefully embrace failure. Financial instruments need to hit their numbers, avoid risks, and only pursue projects with a thoroughly analyzed business case.
It creates an extremely subjective comparison between candidates.

Part of it is like a sibling comment said, if an interviewer's interests lie more in line with devops, then a devops project that solves a problem he's acutely aware of will be given much higher praise in his mind, and allows him to engage with the candidate more. If the interviewer rarely does any devops and isn't totally sure of the problem space, he may be biased towards thinking it's overengineering a problem that doesn't exist, or may not fully grasp the problem in the time allotted. The candidate could articulate the side project exactly the same but have completely different interview outcomes in both outcomes.

And an argument could be made that "it's a test to see if the latter candidate can articulate a problem and peak the interviewers interest" but in this case the former didn't even have to do that, and thus you are judging candidates by different subjective metrics. And it's especially an issue if the side project isn't directly related to the role (e.g. video game vs cli tool vs database vs website, etc...).

It also means that some candidates will be judged on system design (if a side project is wide scoped) while some candidates will be judged based on algorithmic design (if the side project is very narrow scoped with the details in the implementation).

It just adds so many variables to the interview project that you are no longer comparing "which candidate is the best fit for the job I am actively hiring for" and instead "which gave me the best vibes", specifically because you did not actually measure all candidates by the same measure.
I couldn’t disagree more. It’s simply a fact that the needless superlatives are verbose and distract from the point.
Note #4 might not be benevolent.
It's really disappointing to see such a blatant attempt to drag someone's name through the mud. I have seen over and over again people derive pleasure from undermining respected figures, perhaps in a bid to appear more sophisticated or informed. Shame on you.
I run a IT services based in Brazil. Deep pool of real talent and commitment to quality in work (very different from what we hear from customers who hire developers from other countries).
The country is not cheap though. High taxation makes everything very expensive, from cars (a piece of junk costs $15,000 and up) to MacBooks (US$3,000+).
Things like cheese and wine are more expensive than in Europe (and I am talking about locally produced ones).
This is kinda crazy to say for me.. but this is one of the very few apps i actually want an iOS app for. Which to me personally, signals the value of the service. Great job

edit: Though it feels a bit weird to need my phone number from a desktop hah. Interesting mix of not-mobile-first-yes-mobile-first. GPU cost mitigation for bots i assume?
That still doesn’t answer the question
SpaceX isn't profitable as a whole or barely so, they have a profitable activity (Falcon 9), but they invest a shitload of money into Starship and Starlink.

Tesla pays a lot of taxes.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/total-p....
looking at the page, linked in the article:
https://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=I...

one can see that the book's confirmed provenance is:
"Purchased from C. G. Aspiotis, 11 October 1897."

How do they determine it to be from:
"2nd half of the 12th century- 1st half of the 13th century"
?

Where was the document for 700 years? (From 1200's to 1897.) Why should one accept the older date?

Its surely possible that this sort of thing is fakeable... and worth a fortune, etc..
Many Climate 'Solutions' Are Dead Ends or Niches and Should Be Ignored
They took $8m in funding already. Slow, steady, and stable might not be enough now. Those investors will want to get their piece sooner or later.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/bluesky-announces-its-8m-s...
It increases the value of both equally
Just because they use locks doesn't mean it's automatically actually thread-safe.

The comment about "this is safe for people walking `environ`" is definitely a lie, for example, though the bug might be hidden on some common architectures with popular compilers in their default configuration.