skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Started reading, but I'm already there. Traveling less quickly and with less energy converted per person is a no-brainer given human population. It's okay to not get everything we want, and in restraint can be found so much pleasure in life.

I would like for young people, out of high school or during college/tradeschool, to be able to travel somewhere(s) else in the world so they can see how similar we all are.
World leaders need in-person meetings, I think. Journalists and authors, so the rest of us can read about their experiences, whether in fiction or non. There are other reasonable exceptions.
Easy for me to say, as I've been around the world a couple times and visited maybe twenty countries after college. I want that for all of my students, and then I want them to generally be okay with flying seldom to never thereafter.

Yes, please stop flying, thus increasing the chances of a slower decline of life on Earth during this extinction event.
https://archive.ph/I30cY
Whatsapp was <50 people when it got acquired for ~$19bn and they had the ability to turn on $150million in revenue at the drop of a hat.

It's interesting people are talking about bloated software in this thread and their love of lean software. Large teams often lead to bloated software.

On an internet with billions of users online, there's a legit argument that most if not all technology companies are severely bloated.
this is me ;__;

Things like Pocket are enablers of this bad habit, though the blame still ultimately lies with me and my moral deficiencies.

I do it with physical books too, but to a lesser extent.
Following A16Z's RSS feed has gotten weirder and weirder, even mostly just reading headlines and leads. Anecdotally, I feel there was a turn when they went "all in" on blockchain and started having people drum out constant "ecosystem-level" booster pieces. Then there was a turn in how I took it all after the new-hotness AI post, earlier this year.

It's all intuitive, but I get the distinct feeling they took a big decision toward conscious reality distortion at the top. Not just to shore up credibility of their investment theses to LPs, but to will the very success of their investments into being. Maybe that's just natural for equity flippers on a particular time scale with enough management fees and brand rec: grease both sides of the two-sided market you turn in. Envelop as many minds as you can.

They route systematically important gobs of capital. I guess I just keep watching the space, to note the content and timing of their big investment-theme announcements. Stick to headlines and leads.

I do wonder who the other 5,000 words are for.
I do believe that the original founders had a fantastic vision that they mostly realized. But at some point they decided to sell the business and move on. Unfortunately that meant that the vision, and, more importantly, the full control over that vision have vanished. Don't know what the solution is for businesses like that... A worker owned co-op? A non-profit? Some legal structure that is capable of withstanding investor pressure and just existing as a fairly successful business.
Utility-wise it's "the same thing" for many.
> Nutritionally, wild salmon is a much better choice compared to farmed salmon

Is it?

Wild: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/173686/n...

Farmed: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/175167/n...

The wild has less calories and some more micronutrients but it isn't a huge margin as far as I can tell.
I don't think the calculation/definition makes sense to capture inflation though. The idea seems to be to measure the quality-of-life-impacting inflation and not just inflation. Which can make sense.

So if people can elude inflation of certain goods by buying differents and if that happens, inflation exists but doesn't actually impact quality of life. That seems to be the theory and foundation of the calculation logic.

The problem is that it's not necessarily true. If people completely stop buying product A (which's price increased 100x) and switch to product B (with the same price as before) then by the above calculation there is no inflation at all. However it could be that B is actually an inferior solution to their problem and while it works, they would prefer A over B when they cost the same.

So for the above calculation to be meaningful, the loss of quality-of-life would have to be measured in the case where one product is replaced by another one. And that is of course extremely difficult to do.

Therefore I would say that the above calcuation generally underestimates inflation.

It would probably be more honest to project inflation by defining a static consumer's basket and following it's price into the future. When done so, it will overestimate inflation the more time passes. So it can be combined with the method above. And the real inflation is somewhere in between.
A single serving of salmon fillet is only 3-4 ounces, not a pound.
An SUV is a minivan that men aren't ashamed to drive. That's why they took over.
When I was working in local government my team, that I was 1 of, had two permanent staff with 7* managers above us.

I was lucky for most of the time I had a great TL and a great manager so I had immediate and mid level buffers to shield me from most of office politics.

When that went away, I went soon after. Who willingly would deal with nutters. Not for that pay.
> realistic games

That said, games don't have to be super realistic to be fun. E.g. I could imagine a game based on GS at "Minecraft resolution".
The government is not the market.
There are a lot of alternatives, and it's not clear why the ones you've suggested are inappropriate. You've listed some perceived costs, but I don't see why those costs are greater than the ones paid by the status quo.

Linux even shows you a path, yet you reject it for reasons that don't seem compelling to me.
A salmon fillet, at least for my family, usually feeds 3-5. Let’s say 4. So it would be 12 times a year.
When municipalities share problems, it's possible that many of them are experiencing them for the same reasons. It certainly doesn't mean the problems don't exist.
My adopted home also doesn't have a capital gains tax. I agree that if you want to have a capital gains tax, it should be inflation adjusted. (You can put in place an explicit wealth tax, if that's what you want.)

> When inflationary systems are well controlled, they do create some positive incentives (primarily to spend money and put capital to productive use).

I find that those incentives are a bit silly. First, the central bank can print enough money to get any level of aggregate nominal spending they fell like. No need for inflation. George Selgin's book 'Less than Zero' even makes a convincing argument in favour of deflation. (He essentially argues for a fixed nominal GDP, and an economy that's growing in real terms would thus see the price of goods decline.)

Inflation is also not an incentive to put capital to good use. That's because money isn't real capital. If I have a factory or a piece of land that sits idle, that's a real cost to the economy. But if I have a hundred dollar bill that's siting idle under my pillow, nothing of value has been lost: hundred dollar bills are essentially free to print.

The central bank can put them in and out of circulation by buying and selling assets. So when I remove my bill from under my pillow to spend it, the central bank can react by selling assets. (They don't need to monitor my pillow. They can just go by statistical measures of spending or inflation.)

In fact, in order for me to have a hundred dollar bill under my pillow, it means I refrained from consuming some real goods earlier. So those real goods are available for investment by the wider economy while my pillow serving as a piggy bank.
All new R&D

All new supply chain

All new tooling

All new mfring procedures

All new distribution and sales channel

More than your usual front end costs. It kinda adds up
It is because an electric vehicle needs to move its own batteries as part of itself (obviously), but you also need more batteries to provide competitive driving range/power because the energy density is so low.

Thus, you need to install more batteries to compensate for the increased workloads that a truck would forseeably experience, but you need more batteries to convey those batteries which requires bigger motors which requires more batteries and herein lies the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation.

At some point you need a breakthrough in energy efficiency or energy storage density because you hit an upper practical limit on how much energy storage you can haul around.

ICE cars and trucks must also technically contend with this, but in practice they do not because fossil fuels are so energy dense that we almost never meet that upper practical limit.
FWIW, note that the `User git` in your config means that you don't need `git@` in the clone command.
Here's an issue on extending Ruff: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/283

I think the philosophy right now is to treat it like Black, but I'm not going to speak for the authors or maintainers, it's just my opinion.
Right, so Cloudflare makes their money one way or another. If at some point they decide it's not worth it to host free content anymore then you're out of luck.

That's what I mean, there is a cost of doing business and someone has to pay it. It sounds like Bandcamp was a shitty partner too, but the larger point still stands I think.
Drink the verification can.
It was definitely a pain in the ass before the official docker image. Have you tried that?
I don't see that as a fair comparison. The number of people who are rich enough to buy a particular home for more than the hypothetical actual value is orders of magnitude greater than the number of people who can afford to buy up all the lots around a home at a premium and affect its property value. As a result, the perceived threat to the homeowner is substantially different. I also think you're ignoring the psychological costs of this. It doesn't actually have to happen, just the potential that it could happen would be a real fear for many people. Moving is one of the most stressful events in people's lives, much less unplanned moving. There's also empirical data showing negative outcomes for children.
Belt and Road: Is China's trillion-dollar gamble to transform the world working?
I suspect typical point-cloud feature extraction techniques would work. Things like identify planar regions, from that join connecting planar regions into clusters, etc.

The time component is super interesting here though!
I am really worried about Ableton. Feels like music production industry is going through a consolidation stage (NI/Izotope) and Live is absolutely the prime real estate in the business.
I would encourage you to look through some of the studies published on this at Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C34&q=far...

They are both fish, so you're not going to see vast differences like between Twinkies and salmon, but macro-nutritional information doesn't tell the whole story.
If Perl isn’t available in the environment try ‘systemctl start oyster-farm’
John Legend Looks to Take on Yelp and Google Reviews with His First Tech Startup
I I’m just saying it’s not practical for everyone to be replaced because it will crush the economy.

Your health depends on you having money to buy food.
Electric car will very soon be far cheaper to produce because they are not as complex and use less man hours to produce.
> Where’s the Chrysler all electric Pacifica? This is the class of vehicle that we need in my family.

There's nowhere to stuff the batteries you'd need. (Modern) minivans have a low ride height, and not a lot of room under the floor. The hybrid Pacifica puts its batteries in the underfloor storage area where middle seats would fold in on a gas only van. The volume used for the engine and transaxle isn't going to get you very much additional range.

Ford has an e-transit commercial offering, but range is only 126 miles, fine for around town and a lot of contractor work, but we do a lot of weekend trips in our van where that small of range would be problematic.

Wikipedia talks about an e-Transit Custom with estimated range of 263 miles to start production in second half of 2023. If that turns up, it might work for you.
Your health depends on you having money to buy food.

I’d say most jobs are some type of welfare.
> In my career I saw from 5:1 to 20:1 IC to managers on a direct level.

I was once put in charge of over 20 direct reports against my wishes.

At that ratio, you’re not really managing the team in a traditional sense. You’re providing high level direction and dealing with the individual issues that are most pressing.

It invariably becomes a situation where there are team leads acting as pseudo-managers for groups of the people you’re managing.

On the other hand, it did make me more efficient as a manager. Whenever I encounter teams with 3-4 people and a full-time manager who only manages them, it feels inefficient. Either the manager is stretching managerial duties within the team too far to fill their time, or the company has an unreasonable amount of process and cruft that takes up managers’ time.
Agreed. I was primarily highlighting that California (and many states) tax code has components of LVT already and therefore have elements/influences of Georgism.

It's just not purist Georgism.

And even if LVT was the only source of tax income - it could be done at punitive level to prevent all land speculation or be more relaxed.

I think somethings that I haven't seen addressed by pure Georgists:

- Where to stick schools and playgrounds to support the newly built residential towers

- Water/sewage/gas improvements/transportation stresses

- Displaced people who get kicked out of the single family home if no private developer wants to build condos for them

From what I can tell - it'd require proper pre-planned zoning when the city is in its early stages and for the stuff to be written into the city charter.

Or some strong government intervention that could just plop new 3 story schools and 10 store public housing towers where it wants.
Ah good point! I didn't think about international payments in my first WAG - you're right that that would certainly need some people. So I would up my initial guess based on that, like maybe up another 25-30%, but that would still land us at around where songtradr is going if they are laying off 50%.
I hated my life when I worked at this style of company.

When I worked at (a beverage company), one of the unfortunate realities was that the company did not really compete to make their money. The profit at the entity I worked at was completely based on the price of ingredients that was set by a parent company. We could have reduced complexity and improved efficiency by large margins easily, but it didn't matter because the parent company would have clawed back a larger share and pumped their profits, while our efforts were of no benefit.

In this aimless zombie corporate mode, they hired people without much thought, and everyone was busy looking busy (8 hour meetings were common for "developers"). However, if you are doing something for real, people don't see any point in helping you out; so even if you really do want to improve things (in my case, I wanted to help the poor souls on 2ch who had to work on the weekend because of poor internal communication that prevented hand-offs), no one wanted to lend a hand.

Since profit is not a big deal, and everyone simulates being busy, no winds up in charge, and the inmates run the asylum. If you are the guy in the unimportant job, you suddenly realize it is a bullshit job and are constantly in fear of your job vanishing. Moreover, since you cannot accomplish anything, it is nearly impossible to find a new job when the company inevitably encounters reality.
Like it or not, the whole way "free" services on the internet work with ad-blocking, and always have, is that the people blocking ads are taking advantage of technological measures to avoid them, so that the actual cost of serving content is paid (by ad-viewing time) by all the suckers who don't know how to block ads, or don't want to for some reason. It's basically like that with sponsor segments, though here I think it's more like a television or newspaper ad: the sponsor is simply hoping enough people will watch the segment and go buy their stuff (since it's personally recommended by the content creator!!) to make their sponsorship investment worthwhile.
The government doesn't set the lands market value
maybe my family love to eat fish, a fillet is not enough for my family of four. We usually prepare one and a half fillet for a meal
industry standard is 8:1, per https://lethain.com/sizing-engineering-teams/
> Not sure what the point is exactly.

A promotion to "manager" is expected to come with a pay raise. Acting as a "mentor", less so.
I truly and thoroughly loved this essay, and am appalled (but not too surprised, unfortunately) by the pearl-clutching comments from a few apparent neoluddites in here.
I think you've identified the major problem for musicians: there's so much music available today that the value of writing more has crashed. The value to listeners is now in the delivery infrastructure and recommendations.
all of these videos that zoom into the static image just get me every time I see one. anyone have any insights on how to create a somewhat accurate 3D image like this? I'm sure there's a data set available for public use since it was publicly funded. Really curious how much hardware RAM/CPU/GPU it takes, and what kind of render times are involved to make these types of videos.
Perspective from someone who was born and raised in the bay area…

> Around Market and 9th to 11th, a mostly residential and expensive main and small streets …

What?! This is just flat out wrong. The area around 9th and Market is basically civic center BART station; which was a low rent neighborhood where most of the residential buildings were SROs. Twitter got tax breaks to put their office there because it was and still is a dump. Even after you cross Van Ness into Hayes Valley you are still not in a fancy / exclusive neighborhood. Like the projects used to be right there.

> Safest it has ever been

Yes. There was a time when you could get shot in the Fillmore, Chinatown, the Mission and most definitely in the TL. Now the only place where you might run into that kind of trouble is bayview / hunters point / sunnydale - and I don’t know why you would ever go out there.

Transit is awesome. Best public transit in western US mainly because of density - the city is only 7 miles across. Have you tried public transportation anywhere west of the Mississippi before? I’m terms of schedule / timeliness, who looks at the actual muni schedules? Just use NextBus and go out the to stop like 3 mins before your bus arrives like a normal person.

Anyway, I could go on…

I agree that for all the fact base / revenue that SF gets the quality public schools are a travesty. But they have always been trash - with the exception of Lowell.
Give me a date when it will be done.

That’s mgmt for you
See also:

* "A proof that Unix utility sed is Turing complete" https://catonmat.net/proof-that-sed-is-turing-complete

* https://github.com/izabera/cube.sed
Unless it's a commenting system ;)
That's only if you derive zero value or income from the land. In which case, perhaps the land is not in the hands of the best steward.
Can’t you outsource all that to AWS? Bandcamp seems like an extremely simple site to me. It has some customizable artist pages, static file hosting for large music files, a web music player, and some e-commerce features for buying music.

I wouldn’t call it “one person and a weekend” simple, but the site has been around since 2007. A dozen people could have built it fairly comfortably from a basic site at the start to the scaled up version of today. 118 people just sounds like “hiring for the sake of hiring” to me.
So much of commerce is predicated on contracts, and courts/the government help enforce them. So it'd seem to me that income/wealth taxes, much like land taxes, are a just tax for the service the government offers in providing enforcement mechanisms.
Agree with this as both someone who depends on projects that introduce breaking changes, and as an author of libraries that follow this convention.

Introducing breaking changes can be a hard decision to make, especially knowing that downstream consumers might disagree and their things might break, but the version numbers let you know that it's still unstable and introduced breaking changes.
Their definition of PFAS is interesting... it says:

> substances that include any member of the class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.

Isn't that pretty much all of modern chemistry?
That's up to each services to implement, but so far all the sites I use with Passkeys have my two Yubikeys registered.
Pretty sure we did remove CAFE exemptions for trucks and it made things worse. Unified CAFE standards by footprint mean small trucks are unsellable, a 4 cylinder, single cab, 6 foot bed truck is all the truck a lot of people need, but they don't get enough mpg for CAFE, so make it wider, longer, and give it a bigger engine, and make it taller while you're at it.
The site has always been the cancer that you described here. No idea how you ever got decent use out of it.
And also in the Jack Reacher movie, where I would say he was the best part
Never let a good bogeyman go to waste when it's just right there for taking all the blame (at least a good portion of it). All of these people will need new jobs. Do you think "opioid lawsuits" or "business incompetence" will help these fine folks find their next positions?
I was just about to ask why not use a sphere? since it could be thought of as a nn, it will be into NN someday. guess the splitting and merge can be compared with dropout then.
The same way most 'career' creators make their money these days, channel memberships, merch, superchats, sponsors, patreons etc.

YouTube has already made it pretty risky for creators to stake their livelihood on advertisement money, as YouTube can decide to demonetize videos and channels pretty much arbitrarily with no quick recourse (which is important given how front-loaded video view rate is) if a recourse is available at all, and companies can steal a large chunk of advertising revenue even for content that should fall under fair use. On top of that, YouTube can also put ads on videos even if creators haven't set them up, in which case the money does not go to the creators.

As such it hasn't been worth it for creators to rely solely on advertising revenue or YouTube premium revenue for a while. YouTube, through its total disregard for creators, has long since made it not a stable source of income in the way that the others can be.
Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in non-compliant CANSPAM mails?
Over the last several months, I've seen a surge of emails hit my inbox that don't contain unsubscribe links.

Examples just today:

- Google "You can now move Fitbit to your Google Account"

- Southwest Airlines "Big changes coming to Rapid Rewards!"

Neither of these emails are compliant because they don't contain unsubscribe links. Unfortunately as far as I know, CANSPAM does not allow individuals to sue, only State Attorney Generals.

I've written the Attorney General of Missouri a letter asking for their office to send a warning shot over the bow before this trend takes off, but unfortunately was met with a canned response.

Anyone else notice these? If so, please send a letter to your state Attorney General and see if you can get them to take action.