skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of legalizing weed was for the government to collect taxes. Even if it was the same price as in the black market, it's going to be more expensive because of the additional taxes added to the final price.

This is why legalizing it was never going to work.
Longer Commutes, Shorter Lives: The Costs of Not Investing in America
The raw numbers are different, I’m guessing (I haven’t looked). A tech worker in Norway also pays less for healthcare and housing, is healthier, spends less time in traffic and lives in a society where everyone lives safer and more equally, and has more power to walk away from a shit job than someone in the US. It’s a system that values autonomy for the most people over the power of a tiny sector of the economy to rake in maximum dollars, and wage transparency is just a small feature of that system.

But yeah if it doesn’t bring you personally more money I guess it’s not even worth thinking about
Microsoft is a massive company. Each org and team are very different. I worked there for a few years and my team was extremely old school (waterfall, no automation, all manual QA, heavy upfront planning, etc) while I had friends in other parts of the company where it was pretty much the exact opposite. The same can be said about talent density, innovation, etc.
I agree, but it's near-universal. Not sure what that says about our industry.
How 'A.I. Agents' That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers
Especially when they don’t pay FAANG money.

If I were capable of looking good during the only experience in my adult life that feels like having a solo in a middle school strings recital, I’d be applying to those places, not yours.
We already tax revenue and/or profits in various ways anyway.

If land is in a city, that gives it a high value and revenue earning potential due to no work or expenditure from the land owner, but ongoing costs to the taxpayer to provide the infrastructure and services that give it this value and potential. Roads, schools, hospitals, etc. these are very costly to the public but increase the value of nearby land.

The land value tax gives the owner an incentive to invest in improvements and get the maximum economic return on the land, and dissincentivising sitting on land in order to benefit 'for free' from it's improving value. So it's about making sure the public gets the maximum benefit from it's investments that improve the value of the land. Taxing improvements directly would have the opposite effect.
I only see the teacher's book at that link. Were the copy books elsewhere?
I like this article a lot and have had great success with this tactic (as a hiring manager) over the years. I often give a page or two of code as a take home assignment to discuss at the interview. They get a chance to look at it and research it on their own. And they also get a bit of the crucible of face to face thinking and reacting on their feet while you discuss it with them in the interview.
> If you find the primary source through wikipedia, did wikipedia provide "zero value as a source"?

You aren't using Wikipedia as a source but as a partial and severely biased index of the reference material. You must still be very skeptical because you have no idea what led a page's editors to include or exclude a particular reference. Frankly, you'd be better off contacting the reference desk of your local library. That's what it's there for.
In actual use it would, in most cases, ensure that people would not, could not have long-term ownership of land passed down from generation to generation. There would be significant social downstream effects & likely upheaval caused by this, & that would be compounded by the deleterious results of forcing more & more people to live shoulder to shoulder in the name of that maximum density you mention. No system of taxation is going to be perfect, or even nearly so, but some significantly increase the likelihood of abuse & unintended consequences of bad ideas allowed to run wild. All this without the need for malicious or corrupt action on the part of those in charge of the system, though it strikes me that a system such as the one proposed here would treble the power of officials to strike at groups & ways of life with which they disagree.
Game Programming Patterns – Full Book (2014)
Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
I spent years working on a mobile word game, then never got around to marketing
What if it takes you longer to vet false positives from a static analysis tool rather than just testing your code better?
Anecdotally, I live in corktown (a neighborhood right next to downtown), and while it’s overall a nice place to live and somewhat walkable. There are vacant lots everywhere. Some are totally fenced off and some used as free parking.

I’m new to town but everyone else tells me that the area has massively improved in the last 5 years. Those lots are wasted potential.
The little old ladies I know keep healthy in their garden. It is a gym program for them. Yes, they are slower than younger adults, but they are still active in that garden.
My initial point was to inform the OP about peer-reviewed articles on current waste, not which energy uses are allowed or disallowed, nor a call to judge or curtail individual energy expenditures.

As with many things, there is not a single 'right' or wrong, but degrees of evidence. Highlighting current chain inefficiencies allows future versions to better mitigate these energy impacts. Honing any process to use less energy while achieving similar or better results is not an unreasonable goal.

Re: your first point, am I right to understand that entities that are able to afford higher usage should have no qualms doing so?
I live in Toronto and just got back from my morning 5k walk. I passed 7 cannabis shops and 3 places that used to be cannabis shops. That same route has 6 bars (and dozens of restaurants…)

That ratio of watering holes to weed shops seems a bit off.

> "Others say it's simply a matter of too many players and too much production that far exceeds demand."

This is the real problem: there was a ton of money poured into the industry at the beginning and now there is a ton of people, all who have no idea what the sunk cost fallacy is, getting more money and trying to ride it out and be among the last few companies standing.

An old colleague of mine is the CEO of one of the ground breakers in the industry (started with medical cannabis years ago) so watching his company ride this bronco has been interesting.
for any given dollar a middle class/poor household would be more likely to spend it on housing or additional square footage than a richer household
For take home reviews, I wonder what the impact of generative AI would be. I can see a lot of people feeding the code segment into an AI and using it's comments instead of generating their own. Of course, people will do that with programming questions as well, so I suppose it's up to the hiring manager to decide on the best method to handle this situation.

What strategies do people leverage to avoid purely AI answers?
That most are incompetent organizations, I guess.
Hamas Tunnels and the Wicked Problem Facing the IDF
Sellers agent paying the buyers agent is a kickback. Kickbacks aren’t allowed for referring Medicare patients. They aren’t allowed in bribing government agents. They aren’t allowed in corporate contracting. Somehow in real estate, they are required.
Just independent environments would be the best, like it was done for locale with uselocale. But it is a breaking change, would have to go through posix and will take forever anyway. Also, as environ is a public symbol, it has ABI implications.
There are some shady incentives for realtors when buying a home in the US. The seller and buyer agents often know each other and talk to each other in particular areas. They do favors for one another. Sometimes it helps you, sometimes it hurts you.

I consider them very similar to car dealers, but slightly better because good ones have a network to help buyers out. The commission they get is too high though.
We can look at a cell as a Turing-complete bio-chemical machine. Given the right chemical substances, it produces the desired outcomes. For example, an intra-cell protein building machinery is very much an interpreter executing code (from RNA). All other stuff like replication, cognition, etc is built upon these basic cellular blocks.
It’s almost like the state has a monopoly on force.
This resoning is a prime example of cognitive dissonance at work.

If A is true then B is true, but B is bad and doesn't align with how I want to see the world or myself, therefore A must be false.

LLM fulfil all the requirements that Turing laid out in his paper, but people don't seem to understand that his test was never about getting a boolean answer for a system. It's about the fact that we can't even proof consciousness for our fellow humans, it's just common curtesy to assume that your opponent is as sentient as you are, and he extended that curtesy to machines.
> but still think that time and people watching you will add pressure

When I conduct interviews, I always try to set a conversational tone from the very beginning. Code reviews in general lend themselves more to a conversational interaction and discussion rather than trying to read, process, construct, and respond in a coding challenge.
And better packaging as well (more environmentally friendly).
Given the off-duty soldiers and off-duty police I've interacted with, I'd prefer a soldier over a police officer any day. I know you mean 'a soldier in enemy territory' but it's worth highlighting.
Your underlying logic is flawed. You can have a rifle, that's legal, but you can then sell a rifle outside the legal market to someone without a license. The rifle can be seized and sold on by the police.

The product is not illegal. But still you call that a blackmarket firearm. You call the market you sell it on, the blackmarket. A black market is one where the transactions are occurring contra to established legal frameworks. Gray market occurs when there's legal ambiguity (ie: research chemicals like LSD mimics that are sold for "soap making" when selling for consumption would be a crime).
This significantly disadvantages good money.

Good money being: any company that tries to do things properly (or, relatively properly).

Bad money being: profit, profit, profit. Take risks and misreport. Don’t put anything in writing. Pay bonuses under the table. Etc etc etc.

Not only does the good money need to spend a lot more money to comply, they also wind up wasting a lot of money on “fake” compliance or “over-“ compliance. For example, insurance companies often find ways to make companies insure the same risk multiple times. Or consultants over-analyse and say “This whole thing is a risk for your company. It needs to be fixed. I can do it for you.”

Good money will pay consultants to prepare excruciatingly detailed salary transparency reports, and they’ll live with the cost of their honesty (“you pay women less than men!!!! it doesn’t matter that your state has very few qualified women in that field!!! pay them all the same!!!”).

Bad money will do just enough to be compliant, and they’ll fudge the numbers (with sneaky fringe-benefit bonuses to their employees so they don’t care).
> It's important to recognize that predicting text is not merely about guessing the next letter or word, but rather a complex set of probabilities grounded in language and context. When we look at language, we might see intricate relationships between letters, words, and ideas.

> Maybe when LLMs get as squirrely as humans in their thinking we'll finally admit they really do "reason".

I know we can argue about the definitions of "intelligence", "reasoning", or even "sentience". But at the end of the day we get a list of tokens, and list of probabilities for each token. Yes it is extremely good at predicting tokens which embed information, and are able to predict in-depth concepts and predict what at least appears to be reasoning.

Regardless, probabilities of course contain the possibility of being either incorrect, or undesirable.
>Firstly, everything is only valuable in the sense of being valuable to someone or some people; nothing is intrinsically valuable.

Agreed, so when tech and globalisation are pulling towards unification for practical reasons - your argument reduces to "I'm going to force others to use what I like because I don't like the decisions people are making".

I'm not arguing we should make anything official or force anything.
I agree that we need different use of funds, but it's worse than you're implying: we need to replace the "Killology" escalation training with something sane, like transition to the sorely needed explanations of the 1st Amendment.
Good point, it's not about specific vendor attestation. My Yubikey 5 supports user verification via PIN, but it can only store 25 resident keys :( That's my hardwares' fault.
Can we unequivocally distinguish computation from non-computation in the real world? What's the difference between the physical processes inside a computer and inside a star that would let us say definitively that yes, one is computation and the other is not?
Top economists unanimous on 'higher for longer' rates – inflation threats linger
Mindscape: David Deutsch on Science, Complexity, and Explanation
This might sound humorous, but in all seriousness, it is a perfect chance to do some interesting armchair science with a gin and tonic in your hand. Try various lemon seeds, a gradient of tonic-to-gin ratios, maybe a control with water and/or plain soda, measure the oscillation rate (or lack thereof). Break out the statistics and see if there's correlation with the percentage, and whether it's significant and how large the effect size is.

Write it up and publish it on arxiv for bonus points.
Youtube recommended this video to me, which concisely explains splatting. Information necessary for trade is there but the trade is left to the viewer.

The key drawback that isn't highlighted is that you need a physical space to be a close approximation of what you want to render. So if you want to make a few counter strike maps based off of your workplace (not recommended) then this would be a good technology, but if you want to make an open world on an alien planet you're likely better off with traditional rendering.

https://youtu.be/HVv_IQKlafQ
I love a good book to build a solid foundation for understanding, and understand that you can't rewrite the fundamentals every release, but does it matter that this book was published in 2012? I expect it doesn't cover all the highly relevant IoT features added in 4.2 and 5.0 and on...
Prepare for your music to disappear at any point. Licensing deals end and albums you love are suddenly removed from platforms. I understand that's an acceptable trade off for a casual listener. I actually use Spotify for previewing albums and consider it great value.

However any music I care about I buy as I plan to own my library for decades to come.

Plus, you're missing out on a lot of great music that never has been available on streaming platforms.
That can already occur with regular property tax. Some regions have "homesteader" tax relief programs to counteract the problem and I see no reason we couldn't do the same on a land value tax scheme.
Good question as it's somewhat counter intuitive. I think that all roads are not equally looked at by the police.

So you would have lets say 10 major roads that get a patrol twice a day, and a deployable manned speed camera between them. If we add 20 minor roads to the jobs, then the police would need extra manpower to drive down these roads and another couple of speed cameras and crew to cover this increased demand. The assumption I am making is that many of the 20 mph roads were not previously under active patrols / enforcements when they were 30mph.

Perhaps it's a kind of active enforcement versus a passive kind.
The taxes can be delayed until the property is sold. This still disincentivises using land as investment but works fine for people who just don't want to move.
> Higher level protocols (profiles) can be handled by libraries, rather than baked into the spec.

But there needs to be a spec of a protocol in order to enable interop? The question whether it is baked into the protocol stack or distributed separately as a library doesn’t seem that much of a distinction. What is important is certification, because otherwise connecting different manufacturers would never work smoothly.
I don't know how they communicate with FPV drones 20-30Km away on the battlefield. They can't use cellphone networks, because they're compromised. I doubt you can fit a starlink terminal to a drone.

But this thing could be fitted with frequency-hopping comms, and could control a swarm of attack drones from 70,000 feet. It could also have a backlink to the pilot, allowing him to control any drone in the swarm.

I imagine the Ukrainian nerds are already all over this sort of idea.
No, the point is that the "free speech absolutists" don't show up in these sorts of cases. If it isn't about left wing college students, left wing professors, or social media companies then the "free speech absolutists" are typically nowhere to be found.
They are not that stupid. Things like that emerge more from the margins. If it became reasonably acceptable, then they would move to dominate.
Regulating ammo will just transform that market, expose exploits and waste money and time in bureaucracy and theater.

Serialized bullets and proposed microstamps will drive up manufacturing and end consumer costs and expand a black market for it.

You may not be able to fully print ammo yet, but you can still buy primers and powder-actuated tools that’ll help get there, and then we’ll have to pivot and regulate that too.
Do we talk about “alternative” browsers? No, because there (still) is no “official” one, there’s (still) no single governing entity. Just standard protocols anyone is free to implement and join the party. See Mastodon – there is a kind of official web client and a kind of official native app and a kind of official default instance, but everyone is mostly free to do whatever they want. There are many great instances and clients. Not alternative clients – just clients. The difference being that an alternative client can be one day just cut off.
Ask HN: How do you see Brazil?
Would love to understand how the friends here see the Brazilian ecosystem, from the economic point of view, political, stability, entrepreneur and education.
No he’s right. It used to be in my state that prospective employers could ask for salary history with proof. If you are leaving a place because of bad pay or just that you want to make more money the discussion was always tethered around your previous pay.

A few years ago my state made it illegal to ask for that information, and can now only ask our salary expectations. It’s now tethered around what you want to make.

This led to a HUGE increase in my comp.
I want to know the salaries happening at level 80!

(I also want to know wtf is happening with their levelling system in general)
Nice theory but this hasn’t been borne out in countries where wage transparency is already the law.
The only reason that mobile went the way it did was because Microsoft was so afraid of government Antitrust action that they let Apple survive
IMHO, the biggest problem with the US housing transaction market is... home inspectors.

No other required party to a transaction has structural expertise, which by far dominates the cost of owning a home.

And their liability is typically limited to "what would be obvious without detailed inspection." Which is a pretty low bar for diligence.

Afaict, they're all ex-contractors who realized it was easier to fill forms than build (fair!).

But which is terrifying when you realize they're the only check against construction-ignorant people (read: the vast majority of home buyers) buying a nightmare property.

"What about building codes?" Well, you'd better hope the code inspector was doing his or her job the day your potential house was built. Flip a coin.

The mortgage company generally doesn't care, other than the inspection checkbox being checked, because if your home falls down you still owe the loan amount (albeit now unsecured).

Things I've had home inspectors flat out miss, that I caught with a tape measure and flashlight:

- Undersized joist systems
- Misframed houses
- Serious termite damage

If you want a chuckle, ask a realtor what the appropriate joist size for a given span is. Hell, ask your next home inspector. (Hint: the table for common woods is a 5 minute web search away)
Why would you be entitled to know my salary, or anything else about me and my life? “I want to know” is obviously not a good enough reason.
No. Youtube is an enormous data pool sitting on an even more enormous CDN, with all free content. Users have the choice to pay up or get served ads.
why opting for an "home assignment" instead of doing that as part of the interview?
Yeah, me too. I was checking out the Lucky framework the other day. At least on paper, it looks impressive.
"A living being is something that keeps going long after it should have stopped already"

I really like this quote from Sean Carroll. Kind of inspirational as well, for me.
Stock ranges look accurate. Base numbers I'm unsure about but the base change more frequently than the stock ranges.

Still peanuts but you don't work at MS to maximize $$$ but rather for WLB
Show HN: Generate OpenAPI from Your Tests
Ah yeah, by set prices I meant via tax levies. I should have been more clear. It does indirectly set prices, but you're correct they did not say "1 oz sour diesel is $10".
> Am I the only one that is a little turned off by how everything nice on Earth needs to be monetized to death?

Do you have an idea about how much does it cost to run a website like YouTube?
I don't know if this is what you meant, but to me this reads as: "I don't know anything about data structures or algorithms".
Security Vulnerability of Switzerland's E-Voting System
220k base
350k stock
"Berger notes that chatbots can be fantastically useful for early-career researchers whose first language is not English. He thinks that these editing assistants are probably already playing a part in improving cover and application letters from students, as well as abstracts of papers submitted to journals, adding: 'You can tell the English is a lot better.'”

So basically fraud.

"Romanowska says that, for the students she supervises, she recommends using ChatGPT to code, especially when they are struggling to get their code to work. 'It is very easy to copy and paste problematic code into ChatGPT and then ask what is wrong. Not only will it most often point out the problem, but it will also highlight other potential problems,' she says."

A great future for scientific computing.

"But the scholarly work, which takes time, deep thought and ingenuity, chatbots can’t do. That, she says, is 'the actual core of what we are supposed to be doing'."

Agreed.
Your comment has no relevance to the article.

Article is saying that chemical/physical properties can be mistaken for life and the line is thin.

You seem to be trying a version of the argument, "if evolution exists then why the heck do we still have monkeys?"
Azure AI material Safety is a new service that detects and filters potentially dangerous user-generated and AI-generated material in your apps and services.
I recall my mother writing a personal letter to sooth a family dispute. It was long. She wrote it on the computer, so she could edit it and arrange her words to fit her meaning, printed it, and copied it out longhand for the personal touch.
Webb Detects Tiny Quartz Crystals in Clouds of Hot Gas Giant
Looks like they're using LoRa for communications from the sensors.

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And that's why I still buy all my booze from the Chicago mob.
NTS Radio, Rate Your Music or Discogs should be great, deep rabbit holes that lead to new and interesting discoveries.