skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's valid that benefits would pass to renters if the market was constrained by limited demand and priced at the marginal cost of ownership. If the market is constrained by limited supply, then benefits are absolutely not passed onto renters, and the market will be priced at renters maximum ability to pay.

I don't think we're either purely supply- or demand- constrained in Houston, TX. But I do think that a massive number of rental properties are using cartel-based pricing in the form of YieldStar software. This distorts the market just enough by preventing price drops in large amounts of properties in less desirable areas, which props up demand in more desirable areas.

This only works if large companies like Greystar and Knightvest and Post own both expensive high-end properties where they need strong ROI, and inexpensive crappy properties where they can take a lower ROI because the capital outlay per unit was a smaller % of their total assets. If both the shitty apartment and expensive apartment rent for $1,400/month, the shitty apartment might go vacant but it didn't cost much in the first place. Meanwhile the expensive apartment costs the same $1,400/mo so people say "that's a bit too much for me to really afford but I can't find anything cheaper and this is the nicest one at that price".

Without YieldStar's price distortion, the expensive apartment might still be $1,400 but the shitty apartment would likely be $800/mo. Enough people would move from the nice apartments to the shitty ones that the nice apartments would eventually have to lower their price a bit to maintain target occupancy rates.
That's very interesting! I had never thought that the state could delegate stuff like minimum wage to unions, but that's actually a pretty decent idea.
We have a bunch of off-duty police here in the southeast US that do traffic control for churches, HOAs, etc. Not the same as security, I guess, but tangentially related.

I always wonder how this is legally allowed. The idea of using taxpayer vehicles, training, equipment, etc. to control traffic while also leveraging the power of the badge to hold authority seems legally questionable, but IANAL.
Haha i had hoped when you invite that many people to a conference you’re a little more organized :P
Sorry for the late response.
What I mean by "progressive" here is that ability to divert resource from have to have-not, like progressive tax taking much bigger percentage from rich folks to fund program that benefits much poorer folks.

I think there's a claim that in online dating, top x% (x is a small number) got the majority of the match.

Assuming that there's a huge inherent inequality in charisma, likeability, social skills, etc. You cant really distribute them to those who need.
Ah, okay, brick is the standard in my area so I was confused.
Yes, I talk about that table in a deeper comment. Note to other readers, the table itself is in getaddrinfo(3) but the explanation of the elements is in attributes(7).
Ask HN: Leaders, Would you rather be Loved or Feared?
When I was younger, I read a "The Prince" by Niccolo Macchiavelli where he said it was better for leaders to be feared rather than loved. In a perfect world, a leader can be both - but that is rarely the case and one has to choose.

If you have achieved both, I'd love to know how you did this. If you chose "loved", I want to know how you managed to still optimized for results. If you chose "feared", I wonder what you do to sleep at night (just kidding XD - for real though, I wonder how you keep the team spirit alive or team engagement levels up).
> But there's a real technological change going on. Machines are capable of performing tasks that were nearly unthinkable two years ago. There's real progress beneath the hype.

Like what? What's unthinkable tasks are so useful thanks to AI?
Actual paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10631

Summary: https://pdf2gpt.com/?summary=ecb8a970ea5c4a41ab985eca15b7740...
Depending on your definition of "current chips".

Clear Linux OS defines its minimum hardware requirements to be second-generation Intel® microarchitecture code name Westmere (released in 2010) or later.

source: https://www.clearlinux.org/clear-linux-documentation/guides/...
But tesla employees in sweden do...
As I said in another comment, it's not about everyone installing ssh and pgp and configuring them and learning how to use them, it's about us in the tech community to provide tools so easy to use you don't even know you're using state-of-the-art privacy tools. Like what Signal has done, and now it is expected that any messenger at least positions themselves on the end-to-end-encryption. Or like what Deltachat is doing with automatically configuring PGP such that users don't ever need to read those 3 dreaded letters.
There's an extensive CI setup, but it takes forever to run. And even if it was fast, it would still be a frustratingly slow feedback loop while developing.
"but ongoing costs to the taxpayer to provide the infrastructure and services that give it this value and potential"

Empty land isn't using any of those things. Any future improvement would use those things and be taxed accordingly. If you're concerned about infrastructure costs, the. You want to use a per capita tax or the current property tax that taxes the improvements (where people work or live) since they are using the infrastructure.
> surviving and reproducing is what you get as the result of being able to inflict more violence on the other side than they can on you.

This is a common misconception. A lot of surviving and reproducing is possible when you work together and cooperate. As King Pyrrhus found out the hard way fighting the Romans.

Sure he initially succeeded in defeating a roman army or two. But you know what? Due to their superior organization skills, the Romans could just field another one. And another one.

"If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined"
"Nothing gets sold until something gets built"

I suspect I'm not alone in saying this, but having started my "tech" career in marketing/eCommerce agencies, I have _definitely_ worked in organizations where the sales team would sell absolutely anything they could get somebody to agree to buy -- fully ignorant of whether it had been (or even COULD be) built.
Judging by this (linked up in the thread) - plenty: https://x.com/NationalIndNews/status/1712525993854833142?s=2...
How would your Google account be linked to piped usage?
What? There's no overlap between Crassus' strategy and the VFD's strategy as described above. The VFD asked you to pay recurring fees just in case your house ever caught fire, and when someone decided that was unlikely, they made it more likely by setting fire to his house.

Note that in this strategy, if someone's house catches fire, that's bad for the fire department, and on top of that it looks like they just committed a crime. The fire department is in the business of threatening people until they pay for a service that the fire department hopes it will never need to provide.

Crassus' strategy is completely different; he operates an actual fire department whose services are not available to other people. If your house catches fire, he'll buy it from you.

Theoretically, Crassus could benefit from arson too, but he really doesn't need it.

Crassus is in the business of buying things that have very little value to the seller (who has no way of extinguishing fires) but have a much higher value to him (because he does have a way of extinguishing fires). Unsurprisingly, this is very profitable for Crassus. But what's the similarity?
The part that I think many people have a hard time internalizing, is that this is almost certainly following Google internal "best practices" for how the code is organized and delivered. They famously have "code reviewers" that are there to make sure the code reads well.

You can see it in the translations of having 3 flags for the same data. Somewhere, the distinction was made between what the user is asking for, and what the system works with. It is considered a good thing to have that level of abstraction in many large companies. Heck, many small companies go for that.
Let's say they didn't sign.

Would enough people in Sweeden just not buy Teslas?

I don't doubt it is "tone-deaf" but I see that mentioned a lot and PR spats seem to result in very little.

I find it hard to gauge these kinds of things, lots of PR disasters are declared but I'm not sure many matter, even highly publicized gaffs don't seem to change much.
(1) I think it is expensive to run. You could serve your own videos with a CDN without a lot of trouble, see

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...

for just one service. But the costs add up.

(2) It is a hassle to moderate a public service like that. All kinds of Youtube creators claim they are censored (for instance Ukraine warbloggers can't post any combat footage at all or they get demonetized.) Still YouTube struggles with hateful and deceptive content. (Note one area where YouTube competitors exist is pornography, but a huge number of problems come up with that.)

(3) For all the expenses of (1) and (2), YouTube has Google's advertising system behind it. Not just technologically, but in terms of having a large number of advertisers using it. For instance there was a time when almost every pre-roll was an ad for what a jackass my congressman is. Now I am saturated with ads that praise him and visually suggest that Nancy Pelosi has something to do with why congress is so dysfunctional these days (hmmm... the current speaker is... nobody)

A competitor would have to not just build a technological advertising system but also a sales force capable of bringing in enough advertisers. Given that they are making such a huge investment they're going to want to protect that investment by... blocking ad blockers. If you want a different business model that is highly competitive, see

https://nebula.tv/

https://onlyfans.com/

https://news.patreon.com/articles/introducing-patreon-video

That is highly competitive because the barrier to entry isn't high: you need a user management system, a payment gateway and a video CDN and there you go.
Would be a fun thing in a CTF or escape room. Use the first, obvious key to encode something like "correct method wrong key".
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Most high quality content I've watched on YT were made by people who were genuinely passionate about the subject and were not looking for a few extra bucks in return.

OTOH, most junk I've seen on YT were made by "content creators" with SEO skills who would jump on the latest trends to capture views and big bucks.
It seems you feel that you learn by doing instead of reading, which is fair enough.

Let's take networking for example, there are two ways which you could learn by doing, a bottom up approach focusing on the foundational tech, or a top down approach. Each are valid and have pros and cons.

1) Bottom up. Pick a project in a language of choice like transferring text/audio/video over the network between two peers. Write it using TCP, figure out why that's a bad idea for live streaming, do it again in UDP. You'll have to learn how to program against socket interfaces and other fundamental network stuff.

2) Bottom up extreme edition: write the underlying TCP/IP stack also.

3) top down. Write a toy networking application using something that provides an abstraction over sockets like ZeroMQ. Then you turn your toy application into a behavioural test suite by swapping out the calls to zeroMQ with your own library which is API compatible. Your library passes when the toy application works again.

Then you go read the zeroMQ source to figure out all the concepts and edgecases that it's normalising for you that you didn't think to consider in your replacement. This means you still employ the fundamentals needed in the bottom-up approach to get things working, but after reading the source you're also mapping out things which were unknown unknowns to you so you have a better mental map of where you might have opportunity to learn more.
An IQ score of 140 is considered near-genius or genius level and places you in the top 0.25% (99.75 percentile) of the population.
> everyone wins

except those without rich parents
It taints the whole “woman he loved” routine as he openly acknowledged his misogyny and objectification of women throughout his life. He can’t love women so how can he love this woman?
> as a parent, my obligation is to my family, not someone else's

As a member of society, however, your obligation is to other members of society.

I'm not going to argue that you're not doing that. I do think tax rates are too low on the top 10% in the US, assuming that's where you're from (seems safe) -- but the biggest shortfall is surely on the top 0.1%.

The reality is, opportunity for others is objectively declining.
> Host meetings in front of your giant glass wine cellar larger than most your employees apartments. Bonus points if you talk about belt tightening in that meeting

Lol, name the company please.
Do you know about Pyright? It is a Python type checker implemented in, and apparently influenced by, TypeScript. It is from Microsoft, so the influence is not that surprising.

There was a recent HN submission about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34222407.

I use Pyright as my primary type checker and mypy as a secondary. (For example, Pyright won't run in Termux on my phone. I could likely fix this, but mypy just installs with pipx.) There is a document comparing Pyright and mypy in the Pyright repository: https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/b09f35889a9cc9b262....
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I had to face that grind when I was younger too, but I swore I'd never ask a question someone shouldn't be able to work out on the spot under the stress of an interview. My strategy is to take that question and expand on it in a fun way - touching different topics the candidate feels comfortable with. Make it concurrent? Solve it in the type system with Peano numbers? Etc... To me, tech is fun and I try to make the interview and fun and interactive as possible! But it does also help keep people out who literally can't code, which somehow still pass previous rounds.
I’m guessing “this” is the ability to collectively bargain if conditions aren’t good or, in this case, if you don’t have the ability to collectively bargain.
Those sound like tiny facilities. I'm a little surprised.
> corrupt police shaking down small business owners under threat of losing their business license

I am almost certain that qualifies as "crime".
That’s a good point. I guess this is just how it goes right now. I’ve found that retaining members on a team is the best hack for high performance. You need management bought into paying them well and giving you some autonomy around HR processes and what you work on, but if you can do it i believe the returns are real.
7 years old. Basically it's a tax on people who don't have a new diesel. And on businesses who require vehicles to get goods in.
This isn't a story of racism but a story of power. It's not that white racists in power want to coerce non-white business owners but that people in power want to exercise that power to advance their own agendas. This same stuff happens to white business owners who aren't part of the inner circle.
The exact same points could’ve been made in a nicer fashion. Needlessly aggressive language imo.

Would you speak to your teammates this way? Your child?
BB(n) refers to Turing machines that have n states and 2 symbols. The version with two arguments lets you specify the number of states and the number of symbols respectively.

So BB(n) = BB(n, 2) .
Fine, but I explicitly refrained from defending Feynman. The point I made is that it is a sign of a horrible social sickness that we can be confused that it's possible for a person to commit some sexual sin and also for that same person to love somebody.

To further clarify, note this sentence in my comment:

>it still doesn't make him some kind of paradox

I did not say, e.g.

>it still doesn't make him, on par, more bad than good
They all have video CDNs. They either don't have an advertising business or they do have an advertising business centered around their version of social media which is different from YouTube's.
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For context: I and others have written about the usability of LLM's as translation assistants before.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35954259

And Translating Akkadian clay tablet with chatGPT? https://www.janromme.com/2023/05/ChaptGPT-transaltion-of-Akk...
> So what?

Well, it means I usually need either ℕ or ℤ, not ℕ₀.

> And since you frequently need to refer to the nonnegatives

It depends on the context. You don't use ℕ₀ much, if you agree that counting starts at 1. You then use either ℕ or ℤ, which just looks cleaner. No reason to complicate such a simple concept as {1, 2, 3, ...} with something complicated such as ℤ⁺. As I said before, to understand {1, 2, 3, ...}, you don't need the concept of negative numbers at all, so why drag it in through confusing symbols?

> But ℤ⁺ is absolutely unambiguous. It's the positive integers.

Or the non-negative integers. And that's not just my opinion. Here is what ChatGPT has to say about that:

*system*:
You are a mathematics professor, and happy to chat about mathematics and the philosophy of mathematics.

--------------------

*user*:
What would you say ℤ⁺ stands for? Are there multiple options?

--------------------

*assistant*:
ℤ⁺ typically stands for the set of positive integers. This usually includes all the whole numbers greater than zero. However, there can be some variation in its definition depending on the context.

In some contexts, ℤ⁺ might be defined to include zero, so it would represent the set of non-negative integers. This is less common, but it does occur in some areas of mathematics.

The symbol ℤ comes from the German word "Zahlen," which means "numbers." The superscript "+" is used to denote that we're only considering the positive members of this set (or non-negative, in some cases).

So, yes, there can be multiple options for what ℤ⁺ represents, but they are all closely related. It's always a good idea to clarify these kinds of notational issues when they arise, to avoid any potential confusion.
Like Rust, it's not an actual FP language. Borrowing some FP features is not sufficient.
A funny question, since on those terms we’re also not able to choose whether we give him credit for writing the book.
No, but the pool of available employees would be reduced.
The idea with a "count" in a British election is that so many people from all the different parties are wandering around (both counting by hand and observing) that it's difficult to get up to any funny business.

There is obviously always a gap but I'm not aware of anything practical being pulled off with such a system
I want to like type hinted python, but there's always some corner case. Which is fine if I'm writing the rules, but there are teams that force things like "no adding ignore/disable for things you can't figure out".
Counterpoint: I've had a Wordpress blog for almost 20 years, I've never paid anyone a dime. I don't know PHP, and I only use two plugins, both of them free. With a little bit of Googling you can just hack together whatever you need, because there is a lot of documentation for Wordpress. The author is a web dev, so I'm surprised their first thought was that they needed a plugin to load a font.
The person confidently submitting this without understanding what they're doing is a serious problem. The kernel maintainers only have so much time. Spending it reviewing things that should have never made it to their inbox is going to piss them off.
This is formally called Tripartism and there is a stub of an article about this on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartism
> people who work on interesting side projects. If your side project is boring, that will probably bore your interviewers -> no offer

This hasn't been my experience at all. The interviewer doesn't care how "interesting" the side project is. What they want to see is what your actual working code is like, that you demonstrate a good grasp of programming concepts, etc.
Only for people who haven't developed for any other OS :P

There are some APIs that are real stinkers (and quite a few of them obviously targeted at use of a single Google app and noone cared to actually make them good APIs).

Several of them are really well thought out and designed to the point that iOS devs were envious for years.

Gain some, lose some. It's not the best API surface, but it aint GTK or Win32 either.
Do you know any cops? I know quite a few. Most of them are dumb as bricks and very easily succumb to their base instincts. They also have very over inflated egos. Thinking they know more than their citizens they're supposed to be protecting. Do you know who runs these departments? The ones with the most over inflated egos who literally think that they are in a war with their own citizens. They are also the ones that easily fall for conspiracy theories. I know we want to think its elitiest to require a college degree to do a job. But I don't think it is. Its a filter to get less of these type of people.
Not buy? That not what is going to happen. The union is going to block them. People will have a harder time physically showing up to work. Maybe trash, mail, etc. will not be delivered.
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The OP, insofar as I can tell is looking at the apparent inconsistencies of a single person that claims that title and is extrapolating from there. Thus their closing question. I'm making some assumption there, but there are enough clues in the OPs text to make that a reasonable assumption. My point is that, without too much effort, you can find others that don't fit that implicit premise.

Another I just thought of is Nat Hentoff https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/309340.Free_Speech_for_M...
This isn't true. Land Value Tax is more regressive than wealth tax. There is a large contingent of Georgists who call themselves geolibertarians who basically support land value tax as the only tax that has a moral basis. They are fine with the inequality that comes from such a class (Middle class people often have 400% of their net worth in land/real estate at certain points in their lives, but high wealth people have portfolio's that are roughly 13% real estate). If you're taxing one person on 400% of their net worth and one person on 13% of their net worth that functions very differently to a wealth tax.
I think there key is respected.

respected to be fair.

respected for reasoned well thought out judgment's.

respected for my values.

I also don't think one can be either universally. I'm sure the worst person in history had their fans or at least sycophants.
The Root of All Evil had a profound impact on me. I read it when Reddit, /r/Atheism and /r/science were still young and cool. It led me to read a lot of Dawkins other works, but perhaps more importantly led me to read folks like Suzanne Blackmore's work on memetics.
Round up or other herbicides are commonly used to uniformly kill and dry out mature wheat, corn, and other grains so harvesting and processing is easier.
As I recall, they married quite young and the womanizing didn’t come until he was older. The optimist in me wants to believe that if Arline had not died, the womanizing wouldn’t have happened. Feynman was a brilliant man but it was clear that losing his wife shook him. Perhaps the womanizing was a consequence of that.

It certainly doesn’t excuse any behavior of his, but perhaps it explains it.