skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also sell gold bars now!

https://www.costco.com/1-oz-gold-bar-pamp-suisse-lady-fortun...

/squeals in capitalism
And I'm sure you believe yourself to be part of the ruling class in this new world.
> By all means, add a clause so the tax exemption only applies for land values below a threshold. In fact I already thought of this by writing "moderately sized".

That implies a size-based exemption, not a value-based one. And that kind of thing is how you get loopholes that the super-rich exploit. Keeping the tax system simple is the only way to do it. Tax all land in proportion to its value, no exceptions.

> The solution is never to tax working people even more just because they want to have a home.

Part of the point of the idea is to (eventually) move away from taxes on working. It's not like having a home is being treated as a special case, and nor should it be. Again: if you're taking the land out of public use, you pay your fair share of tax, in proportion to the value of the land you're monopolising. Keeping the rules simple ultimately benefits the working poor far more than trying to create special case carve outs.
Munis stink compared to even moderately well managed REITs, especially in inflationary times.
Writing cleaner React code for better maintainability and testability
You wouldn't drink hypersaline water either, but that doesn't mean salt is bad for you.
The pointer isn't guaranteed to point into `environ` directly. `getenv()` could copy the value to a thread-local, (dynamically-allocated?) buffer while holding the lock.

Edit: In hindsight, a dynamic buffer would require returning ENOMEM errors (which might lead to some unexpected failures), while a static buffer would limit the value length. I think you might be right about the API being broken.
The LVT was originally envisioned for exactly this scenario, but for agrarian settings.

What happens when there are different agricultural fields with different productivity? Where does economic rent come from in that situation? Ricardo saw LVT as a way to make agriculture fair when some land is fantastic, and other land has very few economic upsides.

Land with environmental problems is like land with a structure with negative value on it. People are still really good at valuing this. Check out home sales of the small 1000sqft cottages in Palo Alto that go for millions; the sale price is pretty much always exactly the cost of the land minus the cost to tear down the cottage.

Gas spills will function similarly.
From a climate perspective, cities should incentivize people to develop their land into dense/efficient usages because urban dwellers have the lowest per capita environmental impact. The alternative is suburban or rural dwelling which requires more resources and more duplication.
Yes, for sure. Don't know if being acquired by MS resulted in this reputation (MS has had the same reputation for decades) but they are well known as a chill workplace.
They asked for the definition. That is the definition in the US. Everything else is speculation.
CPI plays a huge role in our everyday lives though. From cost of living raises to entitlement programs, it all moves based on inflation numbers and the CPI. The Fed even considers these numbers when watching the economy and deciding on fiscal policy, setting the Fed Funds Rate and impacting interest rates across the board.
This looks like a decent non-paywalled summary:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/artific...
Human beings have to live somewhere and gathering them together in a small urban footprint is better for the climate, not worse.
That sounds like a really, really good idea because it would shift tax burden from people that have done socially positive things in a city context like adding population density building multiresidential and shift it to people leaving dead zones of low density decrepit garbage. On the theory of making things you don't want cost more and incentivizing things you do want my making them cost less, that's a great idea. My only concern would be rezoning land into a higher tax bracket causing distress to the original owner, which they could do by grandfathering zoning for tax purposes until a property is sold.
I brought the article into it, as you seemed to deflect the misunderstanding of "low level" to what the article was pushing. And the article goes into several examples and has a "[this abstraction] is conspicuously absent on GPUs ..."

Granted, I can kind of see how the entire point of that rant from the article was that register renaming is some sort of sin of processor design. Problem is, of course, that you lose plenty of other speed tricks on GPU by making that tradeoff. More, my point was that that tradeoff comes from the natural unit of work for GPU, which would be operating over scenes of data. This isn't being opportunistic in looking for ways to go wide on operations, it is literally the reason those units were built. (And I'll ignore that CUDA programming looks a lot like a C program.)

Back to the idea of "closer to the metal," per the article. My further point was how close are we talking about? I know of literally no language that exposes all intrinsic operations of a machine to the end user. Excepting anything that allows inlined assembly? Such that anyone asking "what else is there" is almost certainly asking for those that do.

I'm ultimately open to the idea that there is no "close to the metal" language anymore. Largely for good reasons. To wit, it would be near impossible to code preemptively multitasked programs without something like register renaming. Yes, you could do it in software, but hard to see how that would dodge any of the complaints of the article with regards to the idea.

All of which to is to say that there not being an answer to the question that literally started this thread is a bit of the point? I'm sympathetic to the idea you were answering an easier question. I'm just pressing on the idea that you answered a different question.
As long as you aren’t hosting a public instance, the docker config in their docs should work fine. As for RAM consumption, I have set limits, so not sure if it’s actually happening.
It is harder! Calabi's trick is one attempt at making it easier.

Hmmmmm. If you're ok with the real version... well another way to write down the real version is "lines through the origin in real 3-space" (that's what the equivalence relation turns out to be). How do you feel about "lines through the origin in real n-space"? How about "planes through the origin in real n-space"?

If we start with "complex lines through the origin in complex 3-space" (the complex projective plane we're trying to understand), and throw away all the complex stuff, then that's "some real 2-planes through the origin in real 6-space", i.e. it's a subset of planes through the origin in real 6-space. It's a proper subset because every complex line is a 2-plane but not every 2-plane in 6-space is a complex line.

So maybe that's a start? It's not a perfect way to visualize it because (a) 2-planes in 6-space aren't exactly easy to visualize either, and (b) okay but which planes in 6-space are the special ones that come from the complex structure that we ignored earlier. But maybe it's something.
Identifying potential bugs within a unit is only a part of a good code review; good code reviews also identify potential issues with broader system goals, readability, and idiomaticness, elegance and "taste" (e.g. pythonicity in Python) which require larger contexts than LLMs can currently muster.

So yes, the ability to identify a bug and providing a unit test to reproduce it is rather basic[1], compared to what a good code review can be.

1. An org I worked for had one such question
for entry-level SWEs interviews in 3-parts: What's wrong with this code? Design test cases for it. Write the correct version (and check if the tests pass)
Apologies on misunderstanding your role here, most of the speculation on this thread has been related to finances and staffing so I made an assumption there when I shouldn’t have.

> I have purchased tons of music on it, and the articles have not made any difference to me as a user at all

n=1, but that’s true of my perspective as well so perhaps it’s a wash. I do think the editorial staff were more important to some genres than others.

> they sure like to sell their companies to them

I might suggest that this is a case where upper management’s desires directly conflict with the people making the noise (staff and users)
I don't observe this. Invidious was super easy to setup (docker-compose.yml) and I never restart. Has worked flawlessly since 2 years.
Yes, you can abandon land if you no longer want it. You can do this for most property.
Why SSH keys?
Where I live, their Prime Shipping is excellent, but that would be the only reason I would get Prime. I don't want the other Prime features and will not pay $15/month for just shipping benefits.
Since its a common ask I wonder why Mastodon has not implemeneted it yet...
I wonder what the mass balance picture looks like when you add in the glaciers on land behind the ice sheets. It seems plausible that the ice shelves that seem be be stable or growing in size may be doing so simply because glaciers are moving out to sea faster than the edge of the ice shelves are calving, but I don't know if that effect is larger or smaller than the accumulation of new ice on the shelves.
Why does forest fires need 10cm resolution? I'm fairly familiar that space (in Australia though) and I've never heard that requirement.

There are other fields where 10cm resolution is required though, obviously.
An offsite is [in my experience] a dedicated series of days where a team comes together in one place (including from remote and satellite offices) to discuss strategy or other high importance problems together. Historically they were held "off site" (usually in someplace cool like a resort) Usually you have meeting(s) during the day and then there's a social activity in the afternoon or evening. Sometimes the location is someplace really desirable (Hawaii, Tahoe, etc) and you spend a few days alternating between focused meetings and fun activities.

Recently many companies are cutting back on the fun part of the offsites and holding them onsite or nearby the office to reduce costs. I've been to a few "on-site offsites" that were just in a different building than we normally sit in with light refreshments served afterwards. I imagine since Dropbox doesn't have much of an office presence anymore they probably still do destination offsites and fly people in.

Source: this is just something you learn working in tech in the bay area

I'm pretty sure Dropbox flies people in for these.
Scrum masters are the real scam. Let some non technical with neither a background in engineering or tech or management run things.
BB(3, 3) is Hard
I thought the same with the NIH article, but the date on that one is May and the nature paper is October-- unless I am confused.
https://www.yardimatrix.com/publications/download/file/2530-...

Large institutions own 5%. Most of these "investors" are house flippers and small landlords trying to "make it big in real estate". It's not the 1% strangling the working class, it's the 10%. Any solution that doesn't hit them the hardest won't be a solution. Infact, we want more density, we need more gentrification, so I don't want to discourage large institutions from investing in a new apartment. But at the very least, if you claim to care about housing prices, don't prevent the government from building more housing.
The metaphorical rocket equation's worse for batteries than for gasoline, since they don't get appreciably lighter as the energy is used up, whereas with a gas engine you can throw the spent fuel out into the atmosphere for someone else to deal with.

The rocket equation's only metaphorical here because the rocket equation's tyranny is really about how much reaction mass you have to carry, not so much the energy store. Chemical rockets kill two birds with one stone by extracting energy from fuel+oxidizer then using the waste products as reaction mass. But you can go with a nuclear powered rocket that gets all its energy from uranium and just uses plain water or something as reaction mass. The rocket equation's 'tyranny' is that your rocket constantly has to accelerate the reaction mass it plans to use later.

Cars - electric or gasoline - do not require any reaction mass, though.
…what?

I get the idea, but having money shouldn’t mean you should be able to just choose someone’s land and decide its yours.
your first paragraph applies pretty much equally to taxing land+developments. Also, in the context of a city building to the maximum of the zoning is a good thing in nearly all instances because higher density means you need less land to provide shelter for the inhabitants and it's way, way easier to provide most services to higher density.
here is a 2022 ($14B) "budget explorer"

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/san-francisco-budg...

The port is just $190M. (But the airport is part of the SF budget at $1.2B - Less than transit at $1.4B)

Police is only at $710M (good things they got a raise after that :-)

Here is a good one. "City administrator" is $600M. Only because it's in addition to HR, planning, controller, IT, etc.
Maybe we are looking at different charts, but the one I see says 1997-2021 and the individual glacier lines almost all trend downwards over the whole period.
I moved over to Silicon Valley fairly late (in 2018), and I was immediately shocked at how frowned upon... even disincentivized technical knowledge was at the management level.

To the extent that people started removing hard numbers from their presentations and replacing them with smiley faces.

Needless to say, I left and that company TANKED.

I think Steve Jobs said something about A people versus C people... well he was right (even though he was bullshitting, b/c as we all know, Wozniak had the A team at Apple, and Jobs at the C team)
Ask HN: Vanilla JavaScript Code Organization Projects Recommendation?
Hello!

In 2011 I've used to write JavaScript on a single file. Then I stopped using JavaScript (I happen to like it). but my career has been mostly with Java.

Fast Forward 2023. Do you fellows have some projects that are good examples of how code is organized for JavaScript applications (Client Side) without using any Framework? I am aware of the new additions JavaScript has added in the last years, my question is more related to good examples of Software Engineering using Vanilla JavaScript.

Thanks!
I used additive gaussian fields (restricted by bounding regions) for this back in the late 90's for audio visualizations in a ripper/player called "Siren" (back when we actually thought we could charge money for something like that).

The technique worked well on non-accelerated (CPU only) hardware of the era, with the additive approach saving the pain of needing to keep a z buffer or fragment list.

Gaussian voxel reconstruction is useful in medical and GIS settings, which, if memory serves, is where Kyle Freeman from Novalogic drew on for his work on Comanche. As far as I know, that was the first commercial game with voxel rendering... It's been a bit since I played it, but the swimming jaggies make me think that it was Manhattan distance height map offset by planar traversal (kinda like Doom raycasting) or some similar trick. I don't recall any intersections or overhangs, but, to be fair, I was a middle schooler when Comanche came out.

It also ran fine on my weak sauce PC.

Once acceleration hit, transformation of triangles with fixed-function pipelines took over. The ability to push textured triangles with minimal per-pixel value adjustment took over. Slowly but surely we've swing back to high ALU balance (albeit via massive stream parallelism). We've shifted from heavy list/vertex transformers to giant array multiply/add processors.

It's a pretty great time to be a processing nerd.
Any company that could make an electric car that wasn't treated like a trim would run out of lithium or rare earth metals to make batteries because it'd be too popular. They've all massively underinvested in lithium 5-10 years ago and are just catching up now.

That explains why they seem on overcharging for an electric car. Because right now, demand is above supply.
All of those reports strike me as deceptive. The reports are just for the current state which include startup and R&D costs that will be recouped over the lifetime of that model.
Not sure who you're actually referring to in terms of virtuosos, but I'm assuming you're referring to the likes of Wooten and Miller and Graham and such, but as a band leader I'd pick Paul over any of them because his track record (heh) of elevating the song, even with his distinct simplicity, adds more to the composition (more often than not) than any other. Sure, I'm biased toward a steady diet of Beatles and blues as my musical foundation, but even dipping into jazz, latin, afro-beat, etc, his compositional contributions are second to very few, and to me, that beats out flashy playing (even when it showcases complicated understanding of theory) every single day of the week.
If that were true it would not be the case that Detroit will be the first to do it. Land Value Taxation is a concept with a history going back to the Gilded Age when someone realized that NY's prosperity was in fact related to its higher levels of homelessness, and that that was due to the land rents that were free-riding on the economic production of the urban area, as they do to this day.
This is something I never understood in most people.

If you are snuggling under the covers, isn't your thermostat set too cold?
Some companies make exceptions for people who cannot go to an offsite for various reasons. It will be interesting to see what Dropbox policy is, but I agree with you that 5 weeks is a lot for individual contributors (except sales team).
Not at all, they could simply report the real cost difference in the basket as well as the adjusted cost. Every year we don't see a matrix of GDP compared to both the real and nominal GDP of all previous years. We see those two numbers compared to last year and it's left to basic mathematics to do longer term comparisons.

Part of the challenge is with how frequently they decide to change the basket of goods. If the basket was largely stable over time we would have a pretty good estimate simply by aggregating annual data, especially if they focus on staple consumables that don't change drastically over time.
I'm actually surprised at how insanely terrible the "compression" is.

Looking at the table at the end, I'm not surprised at all that the "weird" obfuscated code is ~2000x the size of the original source.

But I am surprised that that the gzipped weird code is still ~25x the size of the original source, as opposed to ~0.25x for gzipping the original source.

After all, the amount information in the weird code should still ultimately be approximately the same as the original source code, right? Or maybe double or something like that. I'm very surprised it's twenty-five times as much.

The only reason I can guess is that the "weird" process results in information structures that are represented in an extremely hierarchical way, and gzip is built for stream compression, and is unable to find/represent/compress hierarchical structures?

And if that's the case, it makes me wonder if there are any compression algorithms which are able to handle that better? That might not be based on "dictionary words/sequences" as much, but rather attempting to find "nestable/repeatable syntax patterns"?
You sound like a great community member!

Where I live we see tremendous value in the property taxes we pay. The kids get a quality education, the parks are well maintained, the streets are good and the walkways are clean. It’s not cheap but it’s all accounted for in a public ledger. And if you don’t like it you’re able to run for office to change it.

Look - I’m with you when it comes to government inefficiency, corruption, etc. the further from home the worse it is. At least property taxes go into my community and we directly benefit. It makes a place desirable.
Every monopoly that exists (and has ever existed) does so because of some combination of government granted monopoly rights. Mineral rights, patents, intellectual property, and all other regulatory barriers to entry.

There is no "natural" culmination into monopoly, monopoly is THE ANTITHETICAL END of the market. Where monopoly exists there is no longer a competitive market floating prices. The state itself in then in control of all production or in affiliation with a stagnant racket that controls all production. There is no market anymore, because the state (a monopoly of its own) has ceased to enforce a market. It is a choice for the state to make. The contrast between the choice between a market and monopoly is as stark as the contrast between South Korea vs North Korea, or Norway vs Venezuela.
So my house is worth 500k, someone looking for house in range 500k-700k, really really likes my house and just kicks me out for 750k? Sounds like terrible idea.
> we’re focusing on a lower cost system, and a larger payload which will enable more use cases.

So you want to beat Airbus but also be cheaper. And do it with off-the-shelf components too, because those specialized ones are just too expensive. Not to say it's impossible but wow
This taught me awk, from an HN submission years ago: https://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html

I've had some fun using awk to generate C# classes for an Ultima Online emulator.
This could turn into one of the all time great promotional campaigns.
That sounds a bit extreme. What if your land suddenly appreciates without you knowing?

I think this is not a very fair system and would cause lot of middle class people lose their home to large owners.
With enough money you can already do this. You just propose a road building scheme through your enemies garden, sponsor the scheme so it looks like a great deal to local government, and the government will compulsory purchase the garden.
That doesn't make sense. The building's value wouldn't affect the land tax.
Thinking further though, I assume government project name generators have word lists, and I assume that BLOOD is not in those lists.

The general proximity of both words to the retro previous-century hacker subculture conceit (guilty!) suggests to me that this name was chosen. I could be wrong, of course.
Au, 15usd/m.

> but 2$?

>> Yeah, I highly doubt that covers the cost of serving up videos ad-free while also being able to provide anything of substance to the creators (which earn more per user from premium viewers than from ads).

Well if 2$/m with a 12x conversion rate doesn't cover, then neither does $24/m at a 1x conversion rate, so the current wouldn't be sustainable either?
> while people might like to make public noises about hating PE, they sure like to sell their companies to them.

I suspect that there's not a lot of overlap between people who publicly fume about good companies being ruined by profit-hungry buyers, and people who start companies explicitly so they can flip them to profit-hungry buyers and ditch.

Does anyone still start businesses with the intention of building and maintaining a really excellent product/service in the long term? Do any of them hold on to that ideal after a few years?
That depends. If you’re hauling massive loads like an RV behind you it may not be feasible outside of 100-150 miles on a charge. However for most other things like hauling things in the bed of your truck, or a small camper, you can get very close to the advertised range which makes it very useful and far from hypocritical. Add on benefits like a massive moving source of electricity and it more than makes up for its transitory (batteries are improving fast) deficiencies.
To be clear, we still get an awesome amount of time off but deadlines pushed are comical to the point of, "well that's not Happening" except not everyone realizes this and is driving towards unrealistic deadlines they will miss.