skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve never seen these kind of roles even in huge companies. “Sprint master” as a job description? Can’t be serious.
The earlier part tries to write, gets `0` or `-1` with an error, concludes the pipe is closed, and exits? The doc for `write` even specifies the error code `EPIPE` that is set alongside with the `SIGPIPE`. Why the signal, when it's redundant?
I think Square has a flat fee no matter what card. They probably just average out the fees between the cards.
I bet most of the rest are also managers in practice, although they might have had different titles.

Tech companies are full of managers and very few people actually doing engineering. The incentive structures are mismatched since most management practices come from manufacturing or service industries.
IIRC Walgreens actually admitted on earnings that it over-complained about security and spent too much on solutions it didn’t need. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/05/walgreens-may-have-overs...
Indeed https://www.cartanzania.com/en/vehicle_listings/ad-toyota-la...

That's more expensive than in UAE
Curious, can you expand on your jobs vs woz take. My impression is they were both A players with entirely different competencies
Sorry I should have said LIKE a capacitor in terms of function. You are correct they are not a capacitor in terms of design and function. I'd have expected people here be able to understand that.

Fundamentally, at a grid level, lithium batteries can't provide what the average person considers "storage", that is running the grid from said storage. When people hear lithium battery, they think of a phone or laptop - the battery is the sole source of power for 6-12 hours.

On a grid however, lithium batteries provide very short duration stabilisation from "noisy" supply, absorb spikes in generation and boost troughs.

You cannot cost effectivly power the grid from lithium batteries on a still night. Pumped hydro etc are needed to cover prolonged periods of low supply (and absorb prolonged periods of oversupply).
What is the purpose of Code reviews, if not to identify potential issues?
Electric vehicles tend to wind up big because you need big batteries for infrequent but regular long trips like vacations or holidays. The median day can be covered by the tiny battery in a plug in hybrid but there's a reliable number of outlier days people don't want to mess with charging every 2 hours while juggling all the other stress on those longer travel days.
I think you intended to reply to me (GP), not the parent.

You're ignoring my objection to this stuff, which has nothing to do with immorality and everything to do with with the waste and misdirection of resources. Why do people participate in this stuff? Because someone might get rich. From my POV, that's a waste and misdirection of resources. People getting rich is not the right motivation for pareto or utilitarian optimal allocations.
This scenario actually looks completely logical. Are you saying this is a stupid way to think or you agree?
It’s really not clear whether the mass balance graph (in the video) shows overall mass balance, or mass balance over time. I think it’s the latter, which would mean the _decline_ has been stable since 2000 (except for two fields which grew). From the study:

> Surface mass balance

> We estimate the SMB of each ice shelf at monthly time resolution using output from three regional climate models
It’s good they’re trying to match market value. They come up with that assessment by assessing the land value, and the structure value, and adding them together. But they are still taxing improvements at the same rate as the land. Sure, land value can rise and become a greater portion of the total market value. But this is still conventional property taxation.

In a pure LVT system the structure should play no part. The landowner should be free to build whatever they want on their land without such building causing a change to their taxes. A partial step towards LVT would be a “split rate” system, where the value of the land is taxed at a higher rate, say 5%, than the value of the structures, which could be 0.5%.

Pennsylvania is the example case here in the US:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/6/non-glamorous-g...
"Unless either tool was actually a cheat, the mistake in both cases was made by the anti-cheat software: a false positive."

No, they should know injecting/hooking into the engine .DLL would trigger this from VAC. It happened to them before. It is well known in the exploit scene you don't go directly-jacking into things, you always proxy or you're going to be found in extremely short order.

AMD has no reason to be doing this. Let the game engine handle timing and latency. Stick to your hardware and driver stack and focus on making those top-class instead of what they are now.
I'm reading that chart as depicting the amount of mass lost per year, not the total remaining mass. So that means it's consistently losing mass every year
I'll be ecstatic when the inevitable rust-backed python typechecker arrives, python type checking has been excruciatingly slow in the various places I've used it. Ruff is a great start though!
> It's not like Toys 'R' Us stores disappearing in 2018. That happened because big-box toy stores were simply no longer viable as a category.

I thought getting bought and pillaged by private equity was the reason.
> but I’m going to continue to use a platform that gives me access to everything I’d ever want to hear for like, $10/mo.

I'm going to continue to use a platform that can only cost as little as it does because the people who create the art that motivates the entire existence of the platform get paid essentially nothing

well, uh, bravo, I guess.
Since ads are personalised, this would produce a new stream per view which would come with a computational overhead. The stream would have to be rendered on the spot and not in advance, which puts further pressure on compute resources during peak times. That would decrease margins, maybe so much it isn't feasible at all.
Oh, I thought the top photo was a joke photo. That’s the real deal. It’s so clearly a butt plug that there is no way they didn’t know.
You mean need to be desktop clients.
The rocket equation says nothing about how much acceleration you're going to get. It relates fuel mass and exhaust velocity to payload mass and delta-v. The 'tyranny' isn't 'you didn't accelerate fast enough and you will not go to space today', it's 'for a given rocket exhaust speed capability, there is a maximum payload you can possibly lift to a target delta v (i.e. to a target orbit or planet or whatever), no matter how much fuel you throw at the problem'.
I don't think the size of the update was the issue here.

I guess it's something like the US Export control systems for arms, but for imports? I'd love to know the details of what legislation it was under - possible it was on the UK side.
That is all also true when doing the same thing in an init func.
For context: your average outsourcing companies like Infosys pay their new hires ~$4500/year. And before you say thats a lot for India: it's not. That's paycheck to paycheck life in cities where these outsourcing companies have offices.
Go ahead and reread what a land value tax is
There is a fine line between "I'm freezing" and "I am slightly cold and this is really comfy and cozy!". I don't know, it's hard to explain, it's just that magical feeling when the body is perfectly at peace and ready to fall into a slumber.
Could've read the link, but quoting here works too.

I did read the link, but was hoping there might be something more to it.

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

So 17th best in the country in prices doesn't seem like a huge win? Neighboring Montana is doing better at 11th best (2014 - most recent price data from your link), and North Dakota has been dropping in the rankings, from 10 in 2010 to 17 in 2014.

You can't really tell if there has been a small benefit or small penalty to consumers. But definitely doesn't scream huge win on this policy.
That's incorrect. Bandcamp does not require sign-in for full preview, and you do not need to buy it either.

There are decisions that can be made by some artists, although I don't recall being offered "full preview requires signin" when I put my own album on BC.
These funny shaped containers are the normal things that industrial powdered materials are displayed in tradeshows / showrooms, if you goto a plastics moulding expo in china there are probably >500,000 of these things on display with all sorts of different grades of plastic granules in them
First, most places in the US at least already have a form of property tax. So you should be comparing LVT to property tax, not LVT to no tax. So most the above doesn't apply.

But even if you did use your example above. Imagine as well there is someone else trying to open a fancy large bookstore containing as well hangouts like cafe, a bar and lecture halls for reading and book discussion. Their main draw is foot traffic and to be a neighborhood lounge where people will stroll by and stop in to pass some time about a subject they like.

They also want use of the same land, and for them the downtown location will also benefit their employees but critically it is also extremely important for their expected customers. For them, they would profit more from their location downtown and wouldn't likely be able to stay in business in the exurban location. So they would be willing to pay more for that dense urban location because it largely benefits the greater economic activity and better use of the locaiton - they would correctly outbid the manufacturer who can open a manufacturing plant just about anywhere and only marginally benefits from being in the dense urban location.

So in result if the LVT means less manufacturing in downtown (where it really isn't needed), and more businesses can operate where they benefit from the density then that's a plus for society and LVT working as is should.

And even all of tht said, neither of these are really the main examples to show the true benefit of LVT.
#conspiracy
I'd rather a silent black screen than an ad.
You will rent everything and love it!
Property taxes that factor in existing improvements doesn't leave the owner as far behind chasing potential value that they are already being taxed for. When your tax burden is a factor of expected market value of the land plus permanent improvements they're taxing you on what you already have. When it's based on an expected optimal value of the lad they're taxing you on what *they* think your land *should* be worth if fully developed.

Assuming that higher density is always better ignores the externalities required to maintain such a system. Higher density cities require more outside inputs brought in from outside the city. Those inputs strip resources from other lands, require input to process the raw materials, and require fuel and vehicles to transport the goods into the city frequently. The city's waste must be transported and processed somewhere, again adding impacts to the environment even if those impacts aren't directly felt within city limits.

If the goal is to minimize impact, cities would only be as large and as dense as they can reasonably be self sufficient. That doesn't preclude trade between cities, states, and countries, but it does mean the city isn't entirely dependent on a constant churn of bringing in resources from elsewhere and shipping out waste.
Exactly. ST seems to want to conflate areas that would probably be considered 'rural' with actual suburbs of large metro areas. Look at some of the towns mentioned in their 'suburbs bad' articles and you'll note they are usually quite far from a city, and usually that city is 2nd or 3rd tier (and likely facing its own financial issues.)

If anything, many of these rural/exurb communities are already at the minimum population needed to support the industries that must exist outside of dense/expensive cities. These aren't the overpriced McMansions full of entitled upper class folks, those tend to be located near the city, and are quite healthy financially due to outsized local tax revenues.
Sure it's legal, it's a side effect of "S Mode", their absolutely infuriating safety protocol that locks down just about every useful feature of Windows. A lot of manufacturers enable it during initial installation prior to sale. You have the option to turn it off and things run normally.
(a) indulge in abstract theories

(b) engage in social engineering

(c) disconnect from the real world

(d) delude themselves

(e) appoint themselves

(f) play God with anyone else's life with total insulation from the consequences.

That seems to describe developers, and this VC was one, Silicon Valley VC and/or SBF-types. Who the heck even comes close to (f) except Big Tech.

With respect to (e), "unelected", does anyone know when the next ICANN, ARIN, or ISOC "elections" will be held. Even assuming hypothetically the web is not controlled by private companies, and "non-profits" are actually governing it, the internet is not and has never been a democracy.

It's a truly hilarious quote, even if taken out of context. It's like he is describing himself and his portfolio companies. Who is the enemy. Look in the mirror.

But maybe SillyCon Valley VC knows the best way to communicate with developers who will potentially work like dogs to make him money is to speak their language. Maybe he is a meme maker.
I had a few late night conversations with the Bluesky devs last year at dweb. As others have mentioned, they care a lot about being able to move your entire account. It’s also very important to them that people can have millions of followers, and have the platform still perform well at that scale. That’s not an easy thing to do.

I can’t remember the details, but I’m pretty sure activitypub is missing a bunch of core technical capabilities that they needed to make it work well.

They’re certainly aware of activitypub. Christina (the author of activitypub) was at dweb too giving talks on Scheme and whatever her latest mad science was that year.
Call getenv() in a loop and you run out of memory.
Huh? Radiologists are hardly obsolete. They are busier than ever.
This is what frustrates me so much about the deepening surveillance state: it just doesn’t work the way that its architects believe it will.

It makes sense that a high-tech barrier is relatively sparsely manned on a given day if the idea is to automate as much of the defense apparatus as possible. And it would be doubly embarrassing if the reports that Israel was warned of a potential attack were true.
This is a land value tax, not a building value tax. So essentially the exact opposite of what you say. It would solve the french problem.

With an LVT they would be taxed identically regardless of if their building is in pristine shape or falling to shambles. Meaning there is now no longer any incentive to let the building rot.
As an engineering manager, my team doesn’t know half the crap I keep off their shoulders. But that’s the part I play these days if we want to get things done.
Have you tried searching Google jobs, Indeed, or...LinkedIn? Your milage may vary, but these are typical results for large tech cities.
the antibiotic in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaucin
Okay, but people buy all sorts of impractical to things. I just said it was different and listed how. Sounds like there are more ways it is different.
Easy easy checks.
And when you extend it back to 120k years before present?

Or if you don’t use a smoothed averaged-sliding-window for everything except the most recent datapoints you’re trying to draw attention to?
Here in Japan, the run-around the system has been QR code payments.

Those apps are easy to make and don't have to get any special system access to NFC hardware.

Small merchants can just use their existing phones or get iPads, although the payments are now also integrated into merchant systems and the standard card readers in shops now also have a camera to scan QR codes.
Python is the original meme language!
How do those small urban footprints survive though? They bring in outside resources, external zing the impact elsewhere and adding in the cost of transporting goods into and waste out of the urban centers.

There isn't a magic answer to it, but simply saying dense areas use less footprint for shelter ignores all the other necessities and conveniences consumed by the people living there.
Yes. Watch it with subtitles on and Japanese audio; the subtitle translation flows much better than the English voiceover dub IMO
Wing Twist (2017)
It opens a socket to the same process that called getaddrinfo. That is, it's just communicating with itself, using a brand-new randomly-generated port for each call. This should be completely unnecessary.
> LVT addresses property speculators that buy land to sit on it for 10 years and do nothing with it.

Didn’t Detroit raze the lots in the first place, since they considered an empty lot to be better than one with a decaying house? I really doubt many of these lots will ever actually be developed to any reasonable extent, since they aren’t exactly in nice areas. And likewise I bet there won’t be many people dying to buy these lots either. My guess is the city will be taking ownership of a decent amount of land in the not-so-distant future.
I forgot that Apple is syncing passkeys but my understanding is that iCloud sync is enclave-to-enclave (unless you have an old Mac I guess) which is just as secure.
Complexity introduces additional chances of creating loopholes and allowing people with enough resources to game the definitions to avoid the LVT. More basic implementations are also preferable because they're easier to administer, with your definition (or any that depends on the current year to year usage of the lot) you have to create a whole cadre of inspectors to check on the lots to ensure compliance and check people aren't just lying on their taxes.
LinkedIn is the only social media where we can have a meaningful social following as a small software company. It has a positive impact on our sales.
Awesome guys. I had a poster of Helios on my wall growing up. I'd be curious to know more about the construction. 13 lbs for a first prototype is pretty good. I have a 4'x25' autoclave, so if there's anything I can do to help, let me know! I mostly make 16 lb canoes, but have lots of extra machine time. The only problem, I am in Hawai'i. :)
A large aspect of school is the social aspect. Learning is secondary, you can learn pretty much anything you want for free, now.

The main reason people work is to make money. The social aspect will always be secondary. Given the choice of remote or in person, most workers will choose remote.

However, many businesses absolutely benefit from work done in person. So it’s up to leadership to decide if their business fits in this category or not.
That is a myth. The AMA has no control over the supply of providers. In reality the supply is constrained by the number of residency program slots, and the AMA has been lobbying Congress to increase those.

https://savegme.org/
Hahah, wow, I haven't engaged with any of them, but that's a fun anecdote. Thanks for confirming.
Never knew that NTN required nanosecond OTA accuracy! Great read!
Amazon pharmacy is the best. No hassle, no line, no stupid questions, no "closed for lunch", nobody coughing on you. And the price is so low you don't have to deal with idiotic insurance limits, I just skip insurance altogether. I get 90 days supply in about 2 days. Never going back to regular dumb pharmacies. Why is that a joke to you?
I already liked the piece, but the cynicism on display here makes me like it better. It may have struck a nerve, which is usually a positive indicator that a set of ideas is hitting something in the zeitgeist.

The ideas aren't misunderstood. But then again, you didn't give any specifics. :)
Damn - as a dev who hates doing UI and animation this app looks amazing, something I would never have the patience to build.

Congrats on the project! Even if not launched!
If that kind of fear is a problem for people, it will just be reflected in lower market prices for land.

Someone who has more of a fear for can put up her self-declared land value. They'll pay a bit more in recurring tax, but would get a significant windfall, if their fear were to come to pass: Yes, there might be some psychological downsides to moving, but getting a extra few million dollars (or whatever) has psychological upsides, too.
VS Code Timeline – A local version control system
Useful when I want to keep my programs local. Found this partifully useful. Previously I used 'Local History', which was downloaded from VS Code's marketplace.
I'm not really seeing your logic here. Yes, things are "free." What does this have to do with network effect driven monopolies, or open standards as a solution?
We took a similar approach like MemGPT (working memory: summarized conversation with eviction), but our long memory is a graph we can operate on (add/remove/edit nodes & edges). We bring the top_k nodes and their neighbors in the working memory.
That's not actually true about ad targeting. The tech used there is a big information warfare thing, which has major military applications
In general, mastodon servers (well behaved ones at least) are kind of vouching for the timestamps of all the messages they host.

If a user transfers their account over, with an archive of posts, and uploads them to a server saying 'trust me, bro, I totally posted all this stuff last year'... they're dumping a bunch of posts into that server's feed whose timestamps can't be vouched for.

There might be mechanisms for a server to pull in the timestamps from the original host server, or to recognize the posts as having been streamed over previously... but uploading post archives is definitely a 'high trust' action for a server to take on behalf of a user.
Obtuse? It’s still in private beta. If it’s obtuse, that’s by design. They need time to figure out how the protocol should work before other implementations exist. Once an ecosystem of clients and servers appears, it will become very hard to change core details of the protocol.
Read the other comments in this thread: HN, like much of west coast tech, has started to fracture along political lines.

When I first joined HN many years ago, it was a haven for techno-optimism (not unlike this essay), but has fallen back into being reactive, resistant, cynical, and sanctimonious. I guess that's what happens after too many years of b2b saas paychecks.
Seriously, if stores stop selling discs it won't be long before studios stop releasing them.
GPT-4 is Getting Faster
Because Amazon retail is a joke. I don't trust ANYTHING on amazon to be a legit product. there's no way in HELLZ I'll trust drugs from there. I'd rather take my chances on Silk Road. My rule for buying from Amazon: if it goes in me, if it goes on me, or it is an electronic item, it doesn't get bought from Amazon.

To get legit products from Amazon is like winning a scratch off. It's not rare, just not common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles?wprov=sfla...
Great write up & very accurate detailing of the problem. While I was head of growth @ Kalshi (YC19) you would be shocked to discover how much we spent on data licensing.

> But, I started to get an idea of why there aren't great apps from indie developers focused on the stock market: getting quality financial market data is a nightmare. The good data you need for commercial use will cost $2,000/mon to start.

>I wouldn't ship an app with unreliable or inaccurate data. It never met my quality bar.

Stammys data challenges really resonated with me as I work to solve this problem for betting markets (instead of stock markets) with my new startup wagerapi.com