skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Basically what I'm saying is it feels very much like a rails app you could build in a weekend.

Downvoted solely for that comment. Honestly, I feel like it's so tiresome and lazy with the "X could be built in a weekend" or "Why does Y need so many employees?" comments. Sure, I've worked at companies that were easily overstaffed, and it's not hard to find some slack in any sizable company. But these kinds of comments pretty universally are completely lacking in insight of what it takes to operate and run a sizable business. It's basically just selfishness that people only comment on the limited slice (usually of programming work) that they understand.
Worth noting here that the main guy behind Reaper is Justin Frankel, creator of Winamp - would seem like he doesn't really need or want outside investment.
There are many ways to do multiple threads wrong. Seems that the "right way" is to wake up a sleeping but already-created thread, and take elements out of a work queue in a threadsafe way. Your main thread can even be processing elements during the 10000 clock cycles it takes to wake up a thread.
Fraud analytics gets an exception from most regulator laws.
Your weird scenario can happen with most other assessment scenarios either.

If Warren Buffett wants to increase the value of my land, he can bid up all the surrounding plots, and make bids for my land. Any sane assessment method will see that the value of my land has increased, and will increase my property tax or LVT, and I'll have to pay or face the consequences.

(In the self-assessment case, you can give people the right to refuse to sell, if they are willing to eg back-pay the difference of LVT to the higher price for the last year or so. So people can opt to pay the tax instead of moving out.

To be extra fancy, give the would-be-buyer 1% of the extra tax take to incentivise people hunting for undervalued homes and to compensate for the buyer having had to secure funding.)
There are far more buyers for a boring EV F-150 at a competitive price point with competitive range than something quirky, "cool", and impractical (for real work duty) like the Cybertruck.
There's a simple solution to at least the text problem: software control. On most web browsers you can embiggen or ensmallen the font with Ctrl-Plus or Ctrl-Minus. And every app has a way of controlling audio volume, and often the OS and/or hardware that the app runs on can also control the audio. So I don't think that's an issue at all.
Yes, but if SponsorBlock or any other solution like that starts to become popular, sponsors will stop paying creators.
What do you think the reductions in flights would cause?
Why does anyone in Seattle buy then?
Maybe the reason the majority of founders are like that is because the ones who sell out and go live comfortably for the rest of their lives take themselves out of the pool and you don't hear about them.
And the two, in corporate matrimony, shall carve up the country in the time-honored duopolistic tradition of Comcast and Spectrum.
A new GMC Sierra Denali and mega cab RAM 3500 goes for around that much - though to be fair, it's often bought be people who either have more money than sense or (more commonly) by someone running a small business that requires lugging stuff (eg. Construction)
What are you talking about? They work with a ton of labels. The landing page is tailored to discovery... they are long past the sexy branding stage, having millions of users and being the most loved independent music platform.
Music discovery does not have many ambitious players in it due to the lack of potential upside, but I'm doing it anyway: https://remuse.co
This is perhaps just my ignorance, but when do you find yourself needing to set the timezone like that? Not in 10+ years of C programming have I ever had to do that.
There are known methods to retrieve power from the jaws of capital.
Yes - I think pure Georgism works if you don't have zoning restrictions and abundant flat land and slow linear growth.

OR you have proper planning and build it into the city charter. The city needs to have planned for the locations of future additional schools/recreational infrastructure/transporation a priori and have sufficient resources (water, gas, electricity, sewage).

There also need to be proper addendums to any purchase agreements to highlight the potential for severe property tax increases.

Post facto switchovers to or continuation of pure LVT don't seem like they would work realistically.
Yes.

Well, in the hypothetical system we are discussing there would presumably be no tax exemption for primary residences or other tax differences.
it's version 0.x - breakages are expected
Although it may be impossible to build fully trustable hardware with 100% consistency for every possible case, I think it's still a worthy cause to build hardware that is trustable for the majority of people. I think having one's machine tampered during transportation is a risk most people can accept as it would be too expensive and obvious for any entity to carry out chip substitution indiscriminately on a large scale. Most people would not be worth the trouble. What we should be worried about are manufacturers which build malware into their products as part of the manufacturing process.

Maybe a better area of focus than malware prevention would be malware detection and filtering. We could have hardware chips which detect anomalous activity, block it as much as possible and notify the user. You could source multiple such chips from a range of providers to reduce the risk of tampering of any specific chip.
There's RR Alfalfa as well, but your point still stands.
https://archive.ph/q0uAI
> you’re just left with people doing what they want.

God forbid
I believe most of Dave McJannet's opinions are targeted to $HCP traders to have them believe the company is going to skyrocket its value.

Technical people knows that HashiCorp tools are good but there are alternatives and any tool can be replaced with moderated effort.
Yes, that's my point. It's already the case that most government indirectly tax wealth. So the proposal isn't some new outrage.
We own a plug-in hybrid Pacifica and it’s fantastic. Refill the gas tank every 3 months or so.
>> "Salmon is the second-most-popular seafood in the United States, where the average American consumes more than three pounds a year. (Shrimp is No. 1, with average annual consumption reaching nearly six pounds in 2021.)"

Color me surprised. I thought seafood is consumed five times more. A salmon fillet usual weight more than 2 pounds, so we only eat 3 times a year on average?
It still looks a bit complex, I'll see how it goes
It's worth mentioning that electric vehicles in general have to contend with the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation[1][2], and something like an electric truck that demands bursts and even constant high power draws exacerbates the problem severely.

The gist of the problems EVs face right now is that the energy density of batteries do not compete with fossil fuels.

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

[2]: "In what has been called 'the tyranny of the rocket equation', there is a limit to the amount of payload that the rocket can carry, as higher amounts of propellant increment the overall weight, and thus also increase the fuel consumption."
Even factory apps ought to be given the minimum permissions needed to do their job - otherwise someone will find an exploit for one and have an easier time doing evils.
Is this true? I'm not sure if sponsors ask for this but I think metrics are available to creators to show how many people watch during different portions of the video, so they could, including post-payment based on the results.

See audienceWatchRatio under https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/metrics

Example: "A one-minute video is watched 100 times. Half of the viewers stop watching after 15 seconds and the rest watch the entire video. None of the viewers watch any parts of the video more than once. In this case, this metric's value would be 1 for time buckets in the first quarter of the video, and its value would be 0.50 for the remainder of the video."

So someone could ask for ratios before, after, and during the ad segment to see if it's worth sponsoring them again. On average they can tell how many people skip the segment, how many stop watching entirely, etc. You can also see this on the UI where it shows peaks above the timeline with other users clicking past sponsored content.
> I don't understand how this relates.

I'm agreeing with you (along with the "heartstrings" comment) that all land is going to have both objective and intangible value, e.g. the view, and that someone grew up in that house.

But I think you're imagining that any intangible interests in the land are going to favor the incumbent.

I think for residential lots that's probably more true than not on average.

But we can easily come up with examples where a prospective buyer has a stronger intangible interest.

E.g. maybe you own it, and don't really care about the land or house per-se, but it saves you 1 minute on your commute v.s. the next lot.

Whereas I used to live there, and was forced to sell the house during the last recession. I've got a deep emotional connection to the lot and house, and my dog's buried in the backyard.

I'd like to buy the house back. You don't want to sell.

Does my interest outweigh yours? Maybe, maybe not.

All I'm saying is that a self-assessed LVT with an auction mechanism (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37909570) will enable both of us to set a price on those intangibles.

I agree that probably nobody's willing to try this out any time soon, for what it's worth the authors of "Radical Markets" suggest phasing in such a system by starting with commercial lots (and perhaps it would never go beyond that).
I'm still dismayed that I can fit an 8' long piece of lumber into a Ford Fiesta hatchback but not into a pickup truck. What is up with that?
Oh man i had no idea we could enumerate the totality of chemical effects in the human body, my b
This stance is predicated on interest rates. Taking out a mortgage is currently not the clear cut “right choice.” It might be the optimal choice, but consider, for a loan issued today at over 6%, twice as much money over the lifetime of the loan will be go towards interest as will go toward principle.
The things which people really want will never be abundant. Social status is a zero-sum game.
There are no salt and vinegar resistant crops. The desirability of glyphosate is that it lets you selectively cull all but your GM crops.
Junodownload is where I buy music most. They have a wide variety of options and fair pricing. It's much easier to find and browse music there.
Our link: https://www.junodownload.com/labels/Ruff+And+Tuff+Recordings...
I mostly agree with you, but sometimes it's not "not likely to lead to productive discussion", but instead just "I disagree with you". Which I do wish we had less of.
how do they dare to invade privacy like this /s
It's not the same thing. The F150 lightning is faster and electric.
> Nothing inherent to crypto makes it more unequal any more than capitalism itself.

Well aside from the fact that most people don't own crypto....
Exactly. There's a ceiling of span of control, stemming from hours in a week and maximum efficiency.
Financial Times: The case for a land value tax is overwhelming
https://archive.ph/bkS21
Much easier to lie to customers though.
I was using the most aggressive estimates of how much it costs manufacturers to buy batteries on a per kwh basis. Retail replacement cost for the battery is not anywhere near the cost to manufacture the battery.
True, but you always have opportunity to refinance once rates come back down.
As an owner of both, I'd say this video sums up my views on minivans.

https://youtu.be/NvDSTGx9E_s

TLDW: once you have 3 kids, they are amazing.
We just chatted with Atlassian and just installed a pretty large on-prem env. (mandatory to meet restrictions), and think this title is misleading in that you can still buy supported on-prem server products, with support licenses. Will the focus of dev. be for their cloud products? 100% - TBH who isn't doing this now-adays (cough MSFT etc.)

RANT: This force to cloud is total BS though and the S*T that Postman just pulled reinforces my general disdain for 'forced' cloud. Hopefully comps. will realize this and fill this spot in the market. RANTOFF
Yeah they definitely do exist, but it's the exception. That's why everybody knows about valve and epic.

However, if Gabe's family had urgently needed money back in the day, would he have sold? Maybe.

That's what I'm getting at. You need to be in a very stable position to be able to turn down a big offer like that when it comes, and in general in our society we're always one or two emergencies away from being destitute on the streets.

Until we make sure people are taken care of, these companies will keep being the exception.
I would expect more damage to road networks, more rubber through tires, cars would use more fuel to offset some of the savings from flights.

(car/flight focused countries)

more EV stations along long routes would be nice, but its a bit chicken and egg
proven to be beneficial for all parties involved

I'm intrigued, but where was it proven?
Games of Future Past
Conventional property taxes already cause tax foreclosures on homes. This was a big problem in Detroit, where structures were systematically overvalued, forcing a lot of people out of their homes. Land-only assessments are arguably much easier to pull off than land-plus-house assessments.

LVT concentrates development efficiently. It would actually increase green space, since people wouldn’t have to develop sprawling exurbs to escape high rents (too little housing) in the city center. So no, LVT would produce significant quality of life improvements over what we have now.
Most tech companies are hilariously understaffed for what we should probably demand with a regulatory mandate. Tech companies balk at customer service departments and similar things which "don't scale" because using automated tools is cheaper, and who cares about the negative impact?

When you expect a company that's making a hundred billion a year to actually hire humans to make
moderation decisions they cry that it's "too hard". The honest truth is it's just "less profitable" and our political system is unwilling to admit that super high profitability only happens by harming the public.
That's basically impossible in many modern programming environments - even if you never spawn a thread, something else in your executable probably has. By the time your iOS or macOS app has finished launching, it has multiple threads. The Windows loader uses threads to load DLLs.
And that’s a bad thing?
"average American" is doing a lot of lifting there.

Quick question, does half of the US population (~160 million, say) even eat salmon in a year?

The distribution of consumption might tell a tale here, there's a good chance a small percentage are eating a lot of salmon.
musl: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/network/getaddr...
3 lbs a year works out to 6-12 meals, depending on how big of a piece of fish you like to eat.

But still I agree, I'm definitely doing more than my share in contributing to those numbers.
Alaska does not have a universal basic income. Alaska has a state, and therefore resident, owned oil resource that pays dividends to it's shareholders, the Alaskan population. There's no money being created, no tax paid to find it, there is only revenue from real production, that money is paid to the state by consumers of it's oil. You may want to conflate the two concepts but they are qualitatively and fundamentally different beasts. Alaska's dividend is more like a corporation paying dividends to shareholders, in fact it's exactly like that.
I don't think tax law fears complexity

Of course it does. Complexity in the tax law is regressive. It lets wealthier people and businesses take advantage of more deductions and writeoffs to lower their tax burden, due to the ability to hire accountants full time to work on it. Simple taxes that are difficult to avoid (such as LVT) are best if you want a progressive tax regime.

One of the best features of LVT is that it taxes unearned increases in the value of land. While you can do any improvements you want to the property without increasing the LVT, improvements made by the city or other private interests to the area around your land absolutely will increase its value, thus increasing your tax burden.
I think the big issue here is that from a user point of view the "AI" is mostly uninteresting unless it is really amazing and as long as it's not really bad.

As a user I want to resolve my medical issue.

If the AI is really bad, it would become a nuisance and force me to go through annoying and poorly thought through questions to get an appointment, and/or make me answer "wrong" to get to where I want to be. Babylons "AI" had few enough questions it didn't feel like a barrier, so at most it was a minor nuisance.

Had it been really good, maybe I'd have cared, but what does "really good" look like here? If what I have is ambiguous, or need tests, I still need an appointment. From a user point of view there is no happy case there, even if they get it a point where it saves them money, because it doesn't save me money, and I can't tell if it's saved me time, e.g. by routing me to a person better able to help.

So the AI was sold to investors as a means to cut costs by being able to take on more patients per expensive human resource, be it doctors or nurses or others. But you need to make really good decisions so that you don't end up with extra referrals down the line to compensate before you save enough doctors time to fund the software developers and project managers etc. to build that AI.

And it seems like they basically got drunk on the valuations mentioning AI got them, took all they money they could get, and then failed to exercise any reasonable cost control when they should have realised that even if they had something really good, the proportion of revenue per patient they could shunt towards development on a per patient basis is small.

E.g. in the UK, the NHS pays an average of around 160 pounds / $195 per patient per year to GPs to cover everything. The margin you can extract from that after paying doctors and general practice costs doesn't fund a very large development operation until you get to a very significant scale.
Costco! Also HEB if you are in Texas.
The rocket equation is not directly applicable. An electric car still works if it has less capacity and lower energy density. It is just slower and or has a lower range.

Rockets need to produce >1g of acceleration or they don't get to leave earth.
One suggestion to the authors - every serious codebase I've ever worked on had their own set of linters and plugins for whatever linter they were using.

How do I extend Ruff? Can I extend Ruff? How do I write plugins and linters? It's Rust in Python and I am generally leery of such things. The fact that it's one tool to do all these things makes believe it's because the tool is inflexible so it must be able to do all these things.
Saying "conditions changed and everyone left" is extremely reductive.
Some newer POSIX APIs, such as pthreads, do return the error this way. But many legacy APIs, such as dup or read, use the positive integer space, thus the negation pattern you often see in syscalls. Notably, POSIX guarantees <errno.h> values to be positive integers.
I would caution against encouraging the billionaires to get into coastal engineering

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/05/fiji-surf-wars
Exactly. If you set your account to "Hibernated" it won't bother you again.

Simply unsubscribing isn't really feasible given the dark patterns in their notification settings page, nested trees of boxes to untick.
That "rug pull" you and other HN commentators talk about has happened after there is a need for cost cutting (eg. IBM wanting RoI after an expensive M&A deal, late stage Confluent investors wanting stronger returns, pissed off activist investors in MongoDB and Hashicorp annoyed that the share value has dropped despite core revenue fundamentals being consistent).

A lot of these OSS-core companies are extremely late stage or already public, so they are at the stage where investors wish to get an RoI out of them.

> seeing that wild ride of the SV VCs is coming to an end

Most of these OSS-core companies switching to restrictive licensing are towards the later stage/age of a company - around 10-15 years old. Their late stage investors (if their a startup) and largest shareholders (if public) tend to be Growth Funds and Mutual Funds - both financial instruments that have different goals and return criterias compared to Venture Capital.
Quoting from the citation I provided:

> In North Dakota, prescription drug prices are more affordable than in two-thirds of all states. Pharmacies are more plentiful, with more per capita than in neighboring South Dakota, Minnesota, or nationally, and they’re more broadly distributed; North Dakota’s rural areas are 51 percent more likely to contain a pharmacy than similarly-populated areas of South Dakota. And in general, independent pharmacies provide higher quality care, studies and surveys of customer satisfaction find.

> North Dakota reaps economic benefits, too, from this local ownership. Without the Pharmacy Ownership Law, a 2014 report from ILSR estimates, about 70 of North Dakota’s independent pharmacies would close. Chain pharmacies headquartered around the country and out-of-state mail order companies would fill the gap, and ILSR estimates that direct economic losses to the state’s economy would be at least $17 million, and as high as $29 million, without accounting for indirect impacts such as lost tax revenue.

So, prescriptions are affordable and accessible to prescription consumers, these independently owned and operated pharmacies are sustainable, dollars are kept local and in the state, and large format retailers (Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid) are kept out of the market. Voted for by 60% of North Dakota voters in their last referendum. "Proven to be beneficial for all parties involved."
The information content of the weird program is the same as that of the original cleartext, so I wouldn't expect zipping a transpiled program to compress better than compressing the original.
Each Gaussian "splat" is literally a little blurry blob. The way to make it sharper is to increase the resolution - i.e. increase the number of splats, decrease the size of each one. This increases both training time and render time though.
This kind of historical baggage is one of the main reasons I now completely avoid C/C++ programming and won't touch it ever again. It's Rust or C# only for me from here on...
Can you calm down? I didn't say that I was special and I'm not your "bruh". The few super rich people who buy 100 million dollar properties in the middle of a city for personal use as their only home are not the problem. By all means, add a clause so the tax exemption only applies for land values below a threshold. In fact I already thought of this by writing "moderately sized". The solution is never to tax working people even more just because they want to have a home.
A project I worked on a while back highlighted the problem of speculation in Detroit’s land market.

https://umdearborn.edu/news/mapping-detroit-new-tool-aims-id...