skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my down payment was 5% for a 3-3 in MCOL…mortgage is only a few hundred more than our friends who rent an old 2-1, although we live in a small low income village 30 minutes from the more prosperous city they live in.

We would not have been able to afford a mortgage there because the only available housing stock requires too much work and $$$ to be worth it. We only bought this house because it was a fair price and all the HVAC was new. Nothing else in our market was acceptable at the time.

So basically, down payment is easy, monthly mortgage is ok, but any contracting work is a painful hemorrhage.
Joe Biden Joined Truth Social, and Followed Trump
There has got to be some kind of legal recourse for the union.
I'd read that as 'the whole truth' rather than a suggestion that the Surely You're Joking series contained outright lies. The books (obviously) don't go into all the details of Feynman's personal and sexual relations, so there is surely much that is omitted. They also don't exactly convey a sense of extreme veracity, being structured as collections of amusing anecdotes.
The thread makes this clear. I'm arguing that "You can only use chrome to view this site." is not the only use. You seem to be agreeing, but adversarially.
Yup. Also the downfall of the Spartans.

Excessive control and violence is almost always as losing a battle as excessive permissiveness/peace.
There hasn't been an election in Gaza in like 18 years, not counting municipal elections.

Besides I don't exactly get the feeling here that Hamas would be all to happy to have a peaceful election and step aside if they lost.

Allegedly (and who knows, it may be Israeli propaganda), the rockets they launch are made by pulling up the water pipes.

And to clarify: I don't side with Israel. I just don't think Hamas is on the side of the Palestinians. I know Nethanyahu is not on the side of the Israeli people and ben-gevir basically shares hitlers pov about Jews marrying non-Jews, which should pretty much prove how much he is not on the side of the good guys.
Choice Hotels proposes to acquire Wyndham in a hostile takeover
Vultures picking what away at parts of a corpse they can.

You see so many examples of this, just straight parasitical behavior, in at least American society. I don’t think the U.S. is economically where the Soviet Union was when it fell, but it’s rapidly approaching the civic dysfunction and deep corruption. You have to wonder, is this the fall of an empire or something like the corruption of the late 1800s and early 1900s, that created a backlash that corrected it and led to more prosperity? Dunno. We’ll see, if the vultures leave anything behind.
European workers are the tone deaf ones. Saab died. Volvo is dying and owned by China. Your working demands don’t meet the requirements of running a successful automotive company today. Enjoy your two months off per year and 36 hour work weeks. They won’t keep any future Swedish automotive companies afloat.
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I don't think changing a job is easy. I hate the current tech interview gauntlet. I actually put off switching jobs for like 3 years at my previous company even when I really should have left in part to avoid going through that (also some other reasons, like having no office to force RTO during the pandemic).

But it did seem to be more effective and easier than some other options at getting me out of the rut I was in at the time. Also when I actually pulled the trigger and put myself out there on LinkedIn, it ended up being easier to find a new job than I thought, although in fairness that was also in 2021 when tech hiring was still white hot.

By change friends, I just mean start going to meetups and meet some new people, find a couple other people you might like hanging out with. They can introduce you to new experiences that way. I've been doing that myself recently. Went to a dinner meetup with 8 people I've never met before just last Friday night, and a meetup at an Oktoberfest meetup with mostly new faces the week before that. And went back to a book club meetup I hadn't gone to since before the pandemic the week before that (and read a book I'd been meaning to read for a long time for it).

Changing which hobby you focus on isn't that hard either, unless you're trying expensive hobbies, but even then there's usually cheap ways you can experience them, like take a few lessons, or watch Youtube videos about it. But for me this wouldn't be enough, I already bounce around from hobby to hobby anyway. For someone who had only had one main hobby focus for most of their life though, or doesn't really have any hobbies outside of work, this could be enough to get them out of a rut.

Again these are ideas for changes and I only suggested changing one of them, not all of them. Some changes will be more suitable for someone based on their current situation than others. And really it doesn't even have to be these, they were just ideas. The main message was just 'Change something significant enough that you'll notice it'.

Like changing your breakfast cereal is likely not enough to get yourself out of a rut in life. But working out three times a week for six months and you start feeling better and healthier? That could be enough.
Apology from Paddy Cosgrave – web summit
I see homestead as completely, 100% incompatible with a LVT. Not because there's any law of man or nature that says the 2 can't work together, but because as soon as an area becomes "hot", that land will spike in value and the government will want its revenue to increase, and at that point they'll fight tooth and nail to overturn any homestead protection that exists.
Because people choose to build upon it, but the land itself was always there regardless of human action.

The arguments for an LVT fall into both economic & moral categories. The economic argument is that the elasticity for land is zero. It's always there, always will be there, and no human action is going to change that (barring things like landfill, which are a literal edge case that doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of land area). The only economic questions are "Who owns the land?", "What kind of returns can be generated from it?" and "How is it distributed?" As a result, a tax on land has zero deadweight loss. Most taxes reduce economic activity by disincentivizing the transaction they're taxing; as a result, productive activity that would've occurred without the tax never occurs. Land is different. The land will still be owned, just by different people, regardless of how high it is taxed. That means that the government can raise revenue without curtailing economic activity.

The moral argument is that nobody built the land out of their own labor, they only conquered it. And so what right do they have to monopoly returns from its ownership? Land was commons that existed before humanity, and so returns from ownership of it should go back to the commons, in the form of funding (presumably democratically elected) government and public-sector improvements that raise the value of the land for all.

Property on the land is different, in that it is built through human labor & ingenuity, and the returns to doing that should accrue to the people who actually do it (or compensate them for creating the built infrastructure).
I wish I'd included it in the piece, I'll maybe write a follow up: right now I don't think it makes sense to implement queueing just for your observability data. But if the queue is already there, it's worth considering handling OTLP data with a Kafka queue.
That’s what I thought but then I don’t get it in the context of the parent. Their teammates are spoiled because they’re not bargaining, to what end? Needs more context I think.

I would expect this to be some justification or benefit present in the article.
That is a contradiction of the definition that you supplied.

Maybe decide what you think the words mean before you decide how other people will use them?
Words have meanings.

> sexual predation

I don't think this term is appropriate for anyone who is less than an attempted rapist.

There are many existing words to describe Feynman's behavior. Pervert, philanderer womanizer, consummate cheater.... Let's use existing words that lead to the correct assumptions by those unfamiliar with his sexual behaviors.

A sexual predator evokes Harvey Weinstein. AFAIK, Feynman sounds more like an 80s rock-star, and all the positive + negative behaviors associated with that stereotype.
Google came after Ask Jeeves, Altavista, Yahoo,...

As for finding information on Google, maybe 20 years ago that was true, now I find mostly ad sponsored results.
Saying rent isn't quite right. These land value taxes are usually taxed on potential as zoned. Empty land isn't bringing in rent. The whole point of these land value tax schemes is to tax it based on its highest zoned value so you force (re)development of the highest use case.
Can you cite how you know this?
and kids whose parents never cared about their homework

and kids whose parents never cared if they did dumb or illegal things

etc etc

we don't live in a world of equal outcomes and never will

I mean...you were born in the West instead of being born in a hopeless place like Gaza...how unfair!
> Nobody happy with their pay and job is going to grind leetcode.

I'm not going to grind leetcode regardless of how happy I am with my pay and job. I have very strong objections it. If a company requires it, I take that as a pretty strong signal that I won't get along well at that company.
What kind of advantage? Unrestricted access to firearms? Hows that playing out for you in the USA?
I went to a machine learning conference in Tromsø and talked with many people there, and I met the newspaper people at a local business fair in my hometown. I had a little android app to demo it, but the backend was too expensive to have up... optimizing the use of cloud resources was a can of worms I didn't even get started on!
As I said in another comment, I'm not expecting everyone to actually learn and install those tools, I want all the people who can use them and modify them build on top and provide tools that spread the use of these technologies. I don't expect everyone to configure tor hidden services, but if we can make it so that most traffic goes through tor, because the clients and the servers use it by default, then that will be a nice step. The Tor Browser makes using tor way simpler, if that could be used and advertised as a default browser, that would be great.

To me, the sociological aspect is in the way we act together as a society, helping others do what we think is good, providing support. Not simply how one is expected to somehow learn and do everything out of nowhere.
Hosting costs. Basically. People have forgotten how to build a stack on bare-metal. Those that remember are either working at places that still run on bare-metal, or working for "the cloud."

For example, I'm running a 3-node, bare-metal cluster with 48 cores, 384 gb of ram, 3tb of redundant storage, and 1tb free egress ... for less than 150 bucks a month.

These same 3 machines, in Azure, would cost ~2k a month, or ~1k with 3yr reserved instances. That's a difference of an entire person's salary and then some.

But "scale!" ... yeah, if you're actually global, your "scale" is pretty consistent with a small lull in the UTC early morning. There's barely any reason to dynamically scale except for extenuating circumstances.

Anyway, without the economy of bare-metal, doing something like YouTube is basically nearly impossible. On bare-metal, you can pretty much get started on a single person's salary and still be able to eat dinner -- while servicing thousands of users.
I was responding to the other guy. I knew you were talking about him. Maybe the coelacanth was talking about Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Elagabalus
I suppose I should expect my phone to start refusing to run gcc at some point then?
The "sympathy strikes" where other workers (dock workers, etc) pitched in seemed to be the killer for McDonalds. I wonder if that will happen to Tesla also.
Your reply is pretty much spot on.
Land is unique because it's a productive asset with fixed supply. The problem with most taxes on assets is that they decrease the amount of productive assets in service by making the economics less favorable. A tax levied against land however, will (obviously) not change the total amount available and therefore have no negative effect on total wealth created.
https://www.riffusion.com/
So why doesn't Sweden simplify their labor market by figuring out a reasonable lower boundary on collective agreements and installing a minimum wage? That seems particularly backwards on their part as a system failure. It would simplify their economy, remove inefficiency and benefit everyone - the sole possible arguments against it would require one being in favor of inefficient bureaucracy or abusing workers with lower wages.

If you install a reasonable minimum wage, it increases the freedom in the labor market by reducing the chains of collective agreements. It gives employees more options, flexibility, and power of self determination which can only be to their benefit.
Such a sad and brave story, makes me count my blessings.
Late? It's not late.

> hat is on top of new entrants such as United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket, Blue Origin's New Glenn, and other smaller rockets coming online. Then there is the increased flight rate by Virgin Galactic, the return to flight by Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital tourism rocket, and the potential for high-altitude balloon flights. ... "We see a trainwreck coming,"

> For example, when SpaceX sought to move its tank farm at Launch Complex 39A in Florida, it submitted...

> "The range has an operational bent, and they’ve been very supportive about being able to support our launch rate,"

> ...has slowed down the company's progress not just on development of the Starship program, but on innovations with the Falcon 9 and Dragon programs as well.

So what I read that FAA is involved into all of falcon flights, into object movements within their territory, with new hardware for falcom, with starship, with new entrants....

And why do I need to repeat the article? They propose the following near-term solution:

> The company also believes that license applicants should be able to opt-in to help fund independent third-party technical support to assist the FAA surge in the near term while the agency goes through the hiring process.
I'm glad you ask. There's a whole 100-or-so page paper on this form of taxation with enforced sale on the books which explains why this approach is in fact far less perverse than our current system (which might be degenerately modeled as a 0% system, where every good has a forced sale point of $∞.∞∞).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2818494
Maybe they don't care.

The thing about values is they only count when they're actually tested and have consequences.
I've done something similar for product designer interviews in past roles and at my current company: rather than any variation of take-home or design challenge (which are unethical and unhelpful), we ask candidates to do a design critique with us centred around a third-party product of their choice.

It gives us great signals into the things we care about in designers: communication skills, design and product thinking, their mindsets and approaches to thinking about and evaluating products and design, and even their craft.
Impunity is the source of corruption
I ran an American office in brasil. The best developer community! But drug down by bureaucracy. The reality is that running a company in brasil is about 1000x harder than the US.

Much stronger rights for the enployees. We had employees essentially start protesting against “imperialism” (ie against the american company employing them) and stopped working and would disrupt meetings with passionate speeches anbout gender annd worker rights. This was the result of learning their American engineer counterparts made 3x more than them when they converted their salaries from reals.

we couldn’t fire them. In fact we had to pay them 1 year of salary when we let them go after months of discussions with brasil lawyers.

So good to hire from. Terrible to have an office there.
Minimum wage is only one point among many for decent working conditions. Dealing with (some) employment conditions through a union seems so much more efficient than dealing with it through the state.
On Linux/musl, the man page also specifies that LOCALDOMAIN and RES_OPTIONS are inspected.

The man page for OpenBSD indicates the same thing: https://man.openbsd.org/resolv.conf#ENVIRONMENT

Apparently it's not a gnu-specific behaviour.
The time is now, you just are not allowed to convert most agricultural into solar farms...
What's wrong with GraphQL? "CAN-OPEN-WORMS-EVERYWHERE"
I'm an expert on big mainstream web frameworks. It's not about what I like. It's about you being wrong. Orms are apis that are one to one with SQL queries. They do not turn SQL database into key value stores. It's not even a surface level change. On the surface the orm API is designed at it's core to allow you to construct a SQL query in the form of an oop object. And the SQL query is clearly not a key value store API.

Ask anyone. The primary usage of a SQL database is definitely not primary key queries to fetch one row at a time. Not at all not even close.

The primary key thing is just a unique Id that orms could use for a shortcut method that returns a singular row. But make no mistake primarily orms return lists and you have to filter those lists.

SQL is designed for relationships and sets. The mathematics behind it is all about creating a new set as a composition of other sets. Tables are sets, joins are relationships. The composition of tables results in a new table or aka set.

>If you look at the ORM APIs and the way mainstream web frameworks use them, fetching an object by primary key is very much the primary supported way of using them. MySQL even added the option of querying via the memcached protocol after their benchmarks showed that for typical web services it was taking 3x as long to parse the SQL as actually running the query.

It's one way of using SQL. It is not the primary way. You are utterly wrong. In your where clause "Id = 2" that would be what you're describing. The problem here is SQL obviously supports more complex where clauses. "Id > 2" "Id != 4" both of which will return lists and sets. And all orms should support features related to list filtering.

Don't understand how memcache lends any weight to your point. What does parsing and caching queries have to do with your wrong point of sql being a key value store. You can cache parsing in things unrelated to key value stores. Again I don't think you get it.
> Saab died

Under GM management.
What was the purpose of ‘very basic’? The semantic value of that diminishes the concept of a code review. Why?
It's because customizing a Wordpress theme is a daunting task at first, especially if you try and use the builtin editor instead of taking a theme and stripping it down. WP's page layout and templating is... Different. Which is why it's turned into its own specialism / industry.
> In fact this is how you become "smart" - some talent and a lot of hard work (grind)

Hmm. I think this is a different definition of "smart" than I'm used to. I would say that some talent and a lot of hard work gets you "skilled", not necessarily "smart".
That doesn't sit right with the fact that we remember passwords or other sequences with our fingers or can type whole paragraphs without minding the keyboard.

There might be a threshold to be good with an input method, but it feels contrived to me to assume that only the most basic ones can be mastered and become intuitive.
I use the SmartTube frontend on my TV and do not have it linked to my Google account for exactly this reason. I just leave it set as the default user.
Yes, it's a bit of a pain if I find a channel that I would like to subscribe to, that I need to do it twice (once on the TV, once in YT on my phone), but that's a very hurdle.
Neither of those trucks weigh anywhere near the quoted weights. The average full size pickup is around 6000 pounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

Technically shouldn't be happening? Also, probably shouldn't be happening period. Every time it does, Stuff Goes Wrong (tm).

I think the relevant Franklin quote was: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

> When the nation falls to all the other nations' intelligence apparatuses and covert operations, you will decry it and ask why the government did nothing to stop it.

I don't quite understand your logic. My naive intuition says that applying the strongest possible security posture in all aspects of society will lead to the society being at its most secure.

I'm aware that sometimes seemingly counter-intuitive things hold. If you state that weakening civilian security might somehow strengthen overall security, you may somehow be correct. But you're not quite connecting the dots for me here yet?
The overlap vd of people with no wealth and those that want to be taxed on it would be more of a circle.
They are. It’s incredibly good PR with a left leaning base to attack Musk as he’s been built up over the last few years as one of the big bad guys.
Doesn’t sound that different from traffic control details in Massachusetts.

While I don't know the details of their agreements first hand, I believe they are required by law to be off-duty cops, they are expensive, and have something like a 6 hour minimum.

What I can validate is that they are usually seen chatting with people or sitting in their car rather than doing a single thing to help streamline traffic or in the interest of safety.

Their union props up laws by saying it needs to be someone experienced and couldn’t be a cheaper certified citizen (as it is in many other states) but the net effect is that you get someone who is entitled and complacent.
I did find something here:
https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-...

As I suspected, we can see a big shift comparing 1993 to 2019.

Share of Homes Owned by Age
1993:
<35: - 14.9%
35-44 - 23.2%
45-54 - 20.2%
55-64 - 15.9%
65+ - 25.7%

2019:
<35 - 9.8% (-5.1)
35-44 - 15.7% (-7.5)
45-54 - 19.0% (-1.2)
55-64 - 23.4% (+7.5)
65+ - 32.1% (+6.4)
It's incredible to think that museums and private collections are filled with manuscripts and clay tablets all writing in languages that scholars can read, and yet, many have never been translated, let alone digitized.

More than half a million clay tablets have been found in the Middle East alone so far [1].

And there is serious interest in using LLM's to assist in translation work [2].

[1] Page 9: https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/d...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37915931
So the DOJ press release [1] states that SpaceX was discriminating against asylees and refugees which is in breach of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Not sure why you think it is unfair for the US government to be enforcing the law. Especially when these are people who are in the US legally and are more than likely on a pathway to US citizenship.

Would anyone here seriously want a situation where tech companies would only hire US citizens and not those on relevant work visas ? This would decimate the whole industry.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-space...
I manage a network of 300+ WordPress sites. These vulnerabilities, are they in the room with you now? I'm joking of course but like Windows, WordPress is attacked because it's ubiquitous. Yet, here I am running a network of 300 sites with over 600 deferent plugins and hundreds of themes over a span of almost a decade without major issue. How is this possible? Should I pick some obscure CMS instead? (aka security through obscurity). WordPress has served my clients well despite being "riddled" with security holes.
Adding more staff will make the 2023 problem worse, but will fix the 2025 problem.