skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people who get to have the option of a multi-multi million dollar exit are the ones who start at the beginning when the company is worth nothing. Most people who can't afford basic necessities also can't afford to take the risk of starting something new. In fact, I would say it's a terrible decision in that case, akin to buying lottery tickets. The far easier way to guarantee "basic necessities" in tech is train up, get a good job, be frugal. You could have enough to never need basic necessities within 10 years, max 20.

The vast majority of founders I see are relatively self-sufficient already and live comfortably. They're founders because they're addicted to it, love making something new, and potentially are chasing that mega-exit. 10s-100s of millions, not a few.
Well yeah, but almost nobody is in that position and that's the problem. You could always help out the people around you.

Until everyone in our society is taken care of by default, these noble businesses will keep being extremely rare.
> I happen to think it's interesting, but for reasons unrelated to the article-- it's kinda goofy for the state to tax personal property that happens to be fixed to a location, like a fireplace, stained glass window or chandelier.

The 'goofiness' is on purpose: you tend to get less of what you tax. Most taxes are taxes on some kind of economic activity.

The supply of land is fixed, so you can tax it all you want without impacting economic activity, like working a job or investing capital or even just shopping.

> [...] even if the connection to Detroit's problems is very unclear.

Detroit suffers from a lack of economic activity.
Proper, non prop 13 land value tax limits this infinite value growth.
I wonder if this only applies to the dns resolver, or also other NSS modules, like the systemd resolver. And don't forget about nscd: if nscd is running, then all of the nsswitch stuff will be done out of process.

That might mean a viable workaround is enabling nscd, oddly enough.

And frankly, maybe libpthread should just overlay thread-safe getenv/setenv like I believe it does for a couple of other libc symbols.
I actually like Bandcamp website, its fast and efficient.
Why does he include "John Galt" in the list of (real) authors to read, but not Ayn Rand? What am I missing?

Indeed, in the spirit of Rand using an agreeable term "Objectivism" to label her confused hyperindividualism, A16Z uses the agreeable "Techno-Optimism" to repackage the same.

I'm highly optimistic about technology, but not whatever this blog post is about.
I would hazard to guess that it’s been on the market for over half a century and has been controversial for eons and mountains of independent research has been done on it by this point notably by national health orgs.

Of course Monsanto is putting its finger on the scales of both the research that is done and the research that is seen but they are not some sort of omnipotent evil.
I would be kind of shocked if you can't compile C to an unholy sed program.
Yeah to be honest I think approvingly quoting the author of "The Fascist Manifesto" probably well exceeds the cutoff for "dogwhistle." At this point the only thing left is for a16z to start a youth brigade and invade Ethiopia.
> to millions of consumers.

It's billions!
Couldn't agree more. I lived in the middle of nowhere USA bc of my spouse and an amazing remote job found me on LI, circa 2015. Would never have happened otherwise
there are lots of programs that access `*environ` directly, so while this might be good, it wouldn’t solve all classes of the problem. There are also uses out there which are performance sensitive (and often just as if not more unsafe, such as holding pointers into the structure over long periods).

threaded programs should probably seriously consider retiring libc, but we don’t currently have a common ground replacement.

name related activities are one of the worst areas, contributing significantly to the glibc linkage and abi challenges, but also lacking sufficient standards for alternatives or even consensus to be built quickly.
In high value land areas, the only people who own their own homes are those who are either very rich, or who were very lucky in the past and who are now very rich due to having bought a home in the past.
Are they actually bankrupt or just trying to get out of paying for all those lawsuits?
> provided a link to the actual raw data, e.g. prices & relative weights over time (do you have such a link?)

Yes [1][2].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/

[2] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/home.htm
Is this really splatting gaussians? Or is it rendering ellipsoids?
I’ve been searching around, and you can find a bunch of discussions about this online. Your ’sarcastic’ argument is basically the one I’ve seen in most places.

They could easily be made thread safe, but, paraphrasing, most arguments seem to come down to something like:

“setenv and getenv are POSIX functions, and not defined to lock. Just like many POSIX functions, they’ve _never_ been thread safe, and it’s an error to assume they are. Should we really start papering over client errors in use of a supposedly portable API, even though it’s working as specified? And if we make that choice pragmatically for this instance, should we be trying to do it for _all_ of POSIX? That’s impossible for some things, and would add complexity even where it’s not. For all these reasons, it’s better if these just stay dangerous like they’ve always been.”
Thanks for that link! I’ve recently gotten into metal (Holy crap what an awesome genre of music I’ve neglected to explore my whole life! I feel like a kid in a candy shop hearing all of these new amazing sounds) and started learning guitar because of it.

Having someone share their curated music is way more powerful in my opinion than some algorithmically generated playlist.
I love Bluesky as it's so much better and faster than Mastodon and I'm only missing DMs.
Relatable.

I built a working concept of a mobile app and pitched it with a friend to FUTO for one of their grants. Project got declined, and the 2 months I spent developing it in every spare moment ended up going nowhere.

The failing to land a grant kind of killed enthusiasm. Project still builds, and oddly it’s still a viable concept. But it remains locked away in the confines of my SSD. :|
Here would be an example:

North Texas homeowners getting 'sticker shock' with new property tax appraisals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu5jAqB88tc
I am dying to leave the management track and go back to SDE. Pretty much every company out there bloated their ranks to include more middle managers and it became an unbearable mess. After 12 years in management, though, I can't get interviews for SDE, so I am kind of stuck. Imagine writing code for a living? DREAM.
I think we're talking past each other a bit. In this moment I'm not trying to persuade you of anything about glyphosate though I obviously disagree with you, just saying that there are plenty of us out here who do argue in good faith and asking you to consider that what may look like astroturfing is just honestly held opinions by people who disagree with you. In this case, I read the article, the paper, skimmed a couple of citations from the paper, the Wikipedia article, and a paper cited in Wikipedia on contaminants, especially fluorine, and kidney disease in Sri Lanka. I found it all quite interesting and didn't do it out of a desire to blow off a link (blowing off work on the other hand...).

Sure, if you find a comment section spammed by new accounts with thin histories that look synthetic, call that out. I'm not even trying to persuade you that it doesn't happen (though to me it would feel like a misallocation of resources to do it to HN if you were going to do it). Maybe I'm bad at detecting it as you say.

As for examples, I've mixed up message boards a bit as well as glyphosate/Monsanto, but here's me from 2017 implicitly arguing that controversy over Monsanto suing farmers is a bit overblown (no pun intended): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794627

From around the same time here's me saying that Monsanto's editing of a paper related to roundup safety was dumb but didn't concern me as far as glyphosate safety: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14974180

In that second link in the wider comments Dang replied to a flagged comment: 'Someone holding a different view than you do is not evidence of bad faith, and the internet trope of you-must-be-a-shill is poison'. I agree with him and it's part of why I enjoy the HN community where this isn't the typical mode of reply.
> But per your quote, the way I see to implement this is rather to have lower stakes

On the other hand, there is this law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law .
You can trivially structure such a tax in such a way that going through a "forced sale" is going to be very lucrative (edit: elaborated in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37909570).

> It also defeats the object of land ownership[...]

So no, most people could keep land they'd like to keep in practice.

The entire notion of any sort of property tax is also predicated on the idea that individual land ownership is a tradeoff between the interest of the individual and society at large.
Just to be clear: land value taxes by themselves don't encourage more efficient use of land. Removing taxes on improvements (and on capital and labour) encourages more efficient use of land, and a land value tax can help finance those other tax reductions.
Some more explanation would have been helpful OP
Thats one perspective.

Another is that the government is simply a service provider which you pay a yearly subscription to.
If you seal it too well it becomes an explosive
Oh man, I was hoping that this would be one of those things where they tax land to encourage new building, but it's just another city hurting for revenue looking to squeeze it's population a little more.

Not that it won't spur development. It will. But not as much as anyone hopes. They have to eliminate taxes on all improvements to the land and tax the land itself only. Also remove code and zoning restrictions on it. They could rebuild the city if they got serious about it.
His comment was: "how do i transfer some file(s) between two computers in the same room".

All the problems with NAT traversal should be avoided in that case.
Gamification hijacks the part of your brain subject to addiction and redirects your attention to some dumb bullshit you don’t need.

If you needed the app, you’d already be using the app.
excellent point and excellent example
> `errno` is another relic that needs to die yesterday.

ok, i will bite: what is the problem with it ?
Another link https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2...
If it did, I'd probably stop using Bandcamp.
What should I use instead that doesn't open a socket?
Detroit still has more houses than people wanting to live there.
Hosting costs money and you're getting that for free, so there's something else going on there.

You're paying for PayPal on their margin.
The government is meant to represent the commons.

God doesn’t need money. Money is a human concept!
That table could really be called "USB Made Complex"! IMHO things went really crazy starting with 3.x, when they should've really started adopting a more consistent naming scheme like e.g. what Ethernet always had.
While I love this in general. It should also be mentioned that there are systematic falures in how land valuation works in the US currently. While in general taxing land value makes much more sense, with a proper system of land value valuation this is still far from optimal.

There is a real question on how utilities and services should be paid for. There are places where water is really cheap to provide and then subburbs that require multible expensive pump stations yet they pay the same amount for water.

This incurages building in the wrong places and a land value tax by itself does not fix these things.

In addition the city also needs to strongly evaluate how it uses its land, specially things like on street parking.

Check out some of the work by Urban3 on land value, tax income and so on. Thy have fantastic visualisation that have changed my view on some things.

So yeah, land value tax, go for it, much better system. It allignes insentives better, but there are many otjer distorting effects. Its one piece of a much larger puzzle in terms of how to make great cities with great urbanism.
Maine has a new-ish law requiring companies that use PFAS aka "forever chemicals" to report their use (and down the line banning a number of products) or be held liable for things I guess. Companies are pushing back because they claim they don't know which things included in their products contain forever chemicals because they come further down the supply chain from like other sources around the globe. I guess this is a link to the law?
Yeah, there's so much misery in the C ecosystem that it's better to eschew it altogether. Even merely packaging anything that depends on C ends up being a hugely painful undertaking since every C library has its own bespoke build system and its own implicit set of dependencies (and implicit versions of those dependencies, and expectations about where on the system those dependencies live).

I mostly like C as a language, but between the security concerns and the tooling concerns (and the community's zealous devotion to ignoring these very real problems) I'm really excited for its increasing marginalization. Unfortunately, it's not being marginalized in favor of "a better C", but rather every ecosystem is rewriting the same stuff from scratch which seems like a bit of a bummer (but still better than depending on C).
I think that it's less about being addicted to spending and more about people being able to meet their basic needs. With the gap between those with and without wealth growing and income falling behind cost of living, the only way to address people's desire to meet their basic needs is with plans like this.

A much better option would be to target the wealth inequality that is driving a lot of these problems (e.g. by ensuring basic needs like medical care, encouraging unionization, etc.). However, there isn't the political will to do that.
It's easy to charge a use fee for wastewater (my city bills based on water consumption). If the demand for a service increases dramatically, it's likely practical to make more of it available.
Written english is often only a second language for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Sign languages have their own idioms, culture, and identity; ASL isn’t signed English.

I previously worked at a video relay service company (VRS in the US is a service paid for by the TRS fund through the FCC, and allows Deaf and hard-of-hearing people to make phone calls through video-chat with a ASL interpreter). In written English-based interactions with Deaf and hard-of-hearing colleagues, there is often a communication barrier as there often is with anyone speaking a second language.

In my personal experience working on tickets written by D/deaf colleagues, while sometimes we could communicate by whiteboard or text-based chat, it was indispensable to have the option to discuss the ticket with someone who could interpret present.
Proprietary software is inherently more favorable for the developer and less favorable for the user. Any way that you look at it, being closed source is an anti-feature that detracts from the utility of the program. So, I never want to use closed source software unless I absolutely have to.
Just taylor your experience a bit :)
Fair, but my comment is for other readers, too.

(Also, being in the same room doesn't always mean direct connection is allowed. I've seen wifi networks that forbid it.)
glibc, I’m too lazy to lookup if it removes the getenv lookup with posix build flags.
Ok fair enough: less relevant.

At least we can stop burning the Picassos to move people from their house to the pub!
if you hated it, how and why did you stay for 25 years? i’m at 7 years as an ic at a fortune 500 co and want out. ideally i’d start my own co without taking vc money, but so far i’ve been too afraid of the risk.
Also a longtime, off-and-on Linux user. Using old gaming laptops instead of Apple HW, though.

My latest thing has been Solus Linux. The hardware has "just worked", the package management is genuinely original, it has a stable rolling-release and definitely cleaner feeling than the Debian/Redhat landscape(I have not opened a command line for packages, not even once!), it has a MATE desktop(which they plan to switch over to XFCE, but it's basically the same to me - tried and true over bold and new) and the remaining bits of snowflake software work in a VM running whatever other OS.

So the computer has finally gotten out of the way for me, at least until I do software development. But that's one of the things I bottle up in the VM, and the only associated hassle of that is the edit/test cycle, for which I just forgo IDE functions to do fast local editing and try not to rely on a fast iteration loop otherwise. I've learned that it mostly gets you to wrong answers faster and the insights need time anyway.
Two advantages to this:

- muscle memory is easy to change

- format is easy to migrate

One migration would be sqlite, which has advantages:

- found everywhere with Python

- A custom command to slot in for mkdir would be maybe 10 lines

- sharing is straightforward

- if kept simple-enough, two unrelated databases can be manually merged offline with two `sqlite dump` text files. I do the manual merge all the time within vim:

autocmd FileType sql let &makeprg='sqlite3 %:r:s/-[0-9]*//:S.db ".read %:S"'

This will feed your vim buffer into a probably-new database
You are renting it from society, not from government. Government is administering the rent.
I don't really understand the pricing. Why is there a "cloud" version where you still have to bring your own server? What are you paying the $5/server for if not...a server?
AI helps decipher "unreadable" Herculaneum scroll
It's not a "false dichotomy" at all.

Cheap calories = people don't starve to death.

"Organic", "free-range", etc. stuff is a luxury for the wealthy.
I can admit it only because I'm not right-wing at all. But I can see how I was convinced.

>Does recognizing it as propaganda not take away some of the power it has over you?

I would say now it does. I didn't recognize it as propaganda at the time. The way it was presented "seemed" logical at the time. There are large organized groups that are sort of trying to enact common sense gun laws and sometimes they suggest things that go a little to far but really don't seem to address the issue of criminals using guns. At the time I was seeing that and recognizing that as a threat.

I suppose I recognize it for what it is now 10 years later after my initial gun fever wore off. I'm a little smarter to advertising tactics now and much more conscious about my money. and then I saw how easily it was to dupe me, I sort of understand why so many people who aren't extreme right-wing can watch something like Fox and be "converted".

But I also can watch my local fox news and see how they're are running stories that are trying to convince the viewers that the city is crumbling, schools are shit, and crime is out of control.
A side theme of these articles is a rebuttal to all the “why does this company need so many people?” criticisms. Because if you’re successful there are Y people (where Y is large) working to exploit your product for their own means.
Exceptions are a bad idea, and as bad ideas tend to go, popular with voters.

Exempting by use, like primary homes or day cares, now means that the government is in the business of snooping on you to make sure that the primary home you declare is also your actual primary home. You also give well-off people with a bigger primary home (or owning a home at all instead of renting) a big tax break. Welfare for the well-off is not an efficient use of funds.

> - Do you introduce alternative tax sources (i.e. increase income taxes on billionaires instead as in California)?

If you do that, you lower your land value tax take. (Of course, if you already already sabotaged your land value tax base via exemption and limits, as per your second point, then bad decisions beget more bad decisions and special taxes on billionaires seem like a good idea..)
Georgism has always felt like a big step in the wrong direction to me. It moves us away from what little concept of personal ownership we have left to more of a collective ownership.
> O'Reilly Membership

Check your local library; mine has free O'Reilly access. ACM used to (maybe still does?) offer O'Reilly access as well, but it was a limited subset.
That makes a lot of sense. You’d need to snapshot environ when the lock was taken (when another thread could be accessing it!), which I imagine would be complicated. Although surely possible.
New catalyst could provide liquid hydrogen fuel of the future
The cost of certifying a new aircraft model is significantly higher than a car. It's like $25m for non-commercial aircraft? I forget the exact number but it's quite high.

It could be lower since this thing has only 1 passenger capacity
Detroit has blight. LVT addresses property speculators that buy land to sit on it for 10 years and do nothing with it. With LVT they have to either pay up, develop it, or sell it. All options good for the city.
That's an increase, but is it a spiral?
I wonder if you could get around this by giving each thread its own environment context, and synchronizing them, asynchronously.
I think the idea is those roads and sewers have the same capacity downtown whether next to an apartment building or a surface-level parking lot. There will be the same number of lanes, street lamps, sidewalks, etc.

I would go further and actually argue that you need more road and sewer capacity because someone inserted a blank patch of land between dense areas.

The tax is an incentive to develop when the land's value is high. The city is basically saying that you have an obligation to build something useful or sell the land to someone who will.

I'm interested to see what happens. I'm hopeful that it will be good for urbanization.

Surrounding towns will probably not do LVT, which will also be interesting.
Yep, if I own something I'd better own it. I shouldn't have to pay rent for owning land, or pay rent for owning a house.

I'll just keep renting, I guess, since it makes no difference.
Thats what I learned growing up, but it seems like time have changed and reversed it.

Now people live by, for, and at the discretion of the government.

There is no personal property, only what the government allows you temporarily posses.
Stream Responses with Laravel / JavaScript
A little app called TikTok.
I don't know the exact reason, but when they don't share the process or prompt, it seems like they're trying to gatekeep their results – which is very ironic from someone using a tool made possible by ingesting other people's work without their consent.
208 democrats joined 8 republicans in voting him out:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-vote-mccarthy-speaker-rol...