skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's incoherent anyway - in the annoying way these analyst reports often are. Just confusing startup and presales costs with steady-state operations to claim they're losing massive amounts of money when it's obviously just the launch expense + engineering + prototyping amortized over the first few thousand cars they'd sold. By that silly measure, they've already cut "losses" to only $30k/sale.
I did wonder how they never modernized their name and mark into something distinctive, like CVS pulled off with the initialism and the red heart. The syllable "rite" isn't intrinsically bad, but it is associated with torpor, which is offputting to potential customers.
I think the problem is in setenv(3), not getenv(3). Reading shared global state is okay as long as it is not mutable. If someone relies on modifying environment variables, one should use execve(3), not setenv.
I don't necessarily disagree.

But the issue has been that municipal taxes are a zero-sum game. People expect taxes to stay at a constant level unless they are getting additional services. So allocating more taxes in one place pulls taxes from another.

By not funding retirement immediately, you can keep taxes constant and not diminish current services.

But most importantly, the single-most-explanative reason why we services have gotten more expensive is because of this ignored tsunami of additional costs caused by the proliferation of the automobile.
...unless it's the mind of Fabrice Bellard.

If you thought BT was huge, the cellular mobile specs (ETSI GSM etc.) are more than an order of magnitude bigger and more complex.
Most people would expect getaddrinfo to be re-entrant, and in the Linux man 3 page it is: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getaddrinfo.3.html

There is no clear/obvious mention of the fact that setenv could interfere with it. It is a glibc footgun/beartrap that this re-entrancy doesn't actually mean calling it with non-shared memory in the arguments ensures no data races.
Thanks, I enjoyed "Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep", didn't know he had a pod
SBCL now uses the "write-bitmap"/"card marking" scheme on some platforms, which is a tiny bit faster (1-2% mentioned on sbcl-devel). More interesting is that doing the touch-detection in software allows for finer grained precision (e.g. #+mark-region-gc uses 128 byte cards) than hardware (e.g. 4kiB pages on x86-64, 16kiB on M1) which can drastically affect scavenging time [0]. The precision is also really nice for non-moving generational schemes: if old and new objects exist on the same card, writes to new objects (which are more common too!) will cause old objects to needlessly be scanned by GC, which is called "card pollution" by Demers et al [1], so reducing the card size reduces the likelihood of that happening.

[0] https://tschatzl.github.io/2022/02/15/card-table-card-size.h...

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/96709.96735
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Switching to full-on Dirty Hippie mode here but, goddammit why why WHY can’t we just have nice things without profit motives or acquisitions or shareholders or growth hacking and just enjoy the ride and the gifts that these kinds of resources give to the world? Why is the default setting “always sell out”?

IUMA was the Bandcamp of the early aughts. It was THE place to go for discovering new exciting music that you never knew could exist, the equivalent of listening to pop radio all the time and then one day turning the knob left to the local college station. (“What is this?” “It’s NEW.”) This was what the internet was FOR—accessing the inaccessible. Then some corporation bought it and smashed it into ash.

I get it, really. I’m naive af. People need to eat. Infrastructure isn’t free. Licenses need to be licensed. But fuck, I’d rather these sites never existed in the first place than have my heart broken like some middle schooler seeing their crush dancing with the rich kid.
Texas is not Georgist. Property tax is assessed on the full market value of property, not on land. And Texas’s land speculation and sprawling, inefficient land use reflects this.
For those who, like me, are a bit rusty on the man memorization:

execve(3): https://linux.die.net/man/3/execve
I think the same tax should be on vacant rental properties. If you're still sitting on a rental property after 6 months to a year, you're charging too much for it since its apparently above market rate. At the very least you shouldn't be able to claim write off the loss on your taxes past a certain period. Maybe depreciation is another thing that should be fixed.
Just because something is written in terms and conditions, does not mean it is the word of God (or courts).

More generally, do you have to legally agree to Terms and Conditions to communicate with service provider's servers over HTTPS? Do you legally agree to them after you communicate one packet in such a way?

I don't think when Google crawls various websites, that Google has to agree to various licenses those website owners may have, or that its crawling of them implies such agreement.

It's ridiculous to believe that a magazine publisher, or a TV provider can require users to watch or hear the ads. Real life shows many people intentionally don't, using various methods, and I see no reason why Youtube provider should be different in this.
Yeah, we know all that, I mean that's literally what we do. But I can tell you that I have seen companies with the same feature scope range over an order of magnitude in seats. There's a lot of overhiring in this business.

We often look at private companies going from initial bootstrap to their first exit, and I'm telling you, those are a whole different ball of wax. They manage to do a shit ton with not very many people.
a "syscall" is not going to call back into your code to get the environment. If a "syscall" is using your environment, it's part of your code, probably better described as a library call.
I envy you greatly.
The Strong Towns YouTube channel makes many similar points. Suburban construction in the US is terribly inefficient and wasteful in the long run by maximizing the convenience auto accessibility at the expense of everything else. If infrastructure had a technical debt equivalent, it would be suburban planning.
Are they more expensive than motors? Maybe ford has good economies at scale already to make it up.
Apparently he's been shot at multiple times
No Pentagram? Dang, I thought they'd have at least one album by the band that wrote the song for whom the label is named:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6V-EhW8xCk
> My grandmother (greatest generation) built her house in the 50s

I'd love to build my own house, but it's practically impossible for my generation because of the policies those older generations have voted for.

> and lives on a fixed income. Should she be forced to sell (assuming she couldn’t afford LVT)

Yes. There aren't enough places for the rest of us to live, at least not anywhere where there's work, so those of us who are doing something productive (i.e. not lucky enough to be paid a "fixed income" out of other people's taxes) should get priority. If the older generation doesn't like it, they should make it legal to build more housing so that there's enough for everyone.

> for an investment she took all the risk to develop?

Part of the point of LVT is that it mitigates the risk. If the place where she built it becomes popular, she doesn't just get to trouser all the gains. But if the place where she built it becomes unpopular, her taxes drop.
This is exactly what LVT is supposed to incentivize.
Bandcamp Anxiety (a.k.a. it's been sold [again] & there's plenty to worry about)
This article is literally talking about using renewable energy to do proof of work.
I think you might be missing the context. The scenario we're discussing is a parking lot surrounded by skyscrapers in the middle of a major city. Under a property tax regime, the owner pays little taxes because the structures on the lot are not valuable. Under an LVT, the owner pays the same (high) taxes as the skyscrapers next to it, which would be obvious uneconomical.

So under property taxes, the parking lot owner can afford to wait and have the lot sit empty; under an LVT, they have an incentive to develop.
A silent black screen would still be a win. Ads are disinformation.
> We also released an alpha version of our Black-compatible code formatter.

Interesting that Ruff has replaced so many linters, and now going for formatter next. One tool to rule them all!

Extra interesting that Ruff appears to provide more knobs than Black, which will likely be a big plus for those not happy with how opinionated Black is.
It's not a syscall, it's a C standard library function that may read files, talk to dbus, read env vars, etc. The problem is people quite understandably expect its re-entrancy to mean more than it really means.
This is a great situation in which to use an LVT.

Shifting the tax burden from homeowners and productive businesses onto idle land holders means that those that drive the community will penalize investment less and use limited resources in more effective ways.

Efficiency helps the wealthy, but it can help those with less even more, as it matters more.
Voters ultimately have to pay those taxes and politicians want to get reelected, so there’s a definite check there.
As housing fads change, some styles will go out of favor. Great rooms replace lots of small rooms.

Technology changes, too, will make some houses obsolete; older roof technology, plumbing, HVAC, inefficient systems, too little insulation and no space for more.

Houses that are obsolete for their location will sell as teardowns. In that situation, the land value is measured by the selling price plus the cost of removing the old house from the site. Assessors can work with those figures very well. Connect the dots from one to the next to the next, and the land value map shapes up.
Oh, that's my error. Shows you how much code I write that calls into libc, i.e. almost none.
Indeed, and the mechanism for adjusting any unfairness in assessment you encounter there is always going to be more byzantine than a fair self-assessment, and probably impossible in practice.

E.g. let's say you live in a neighborhood where everyone's paying a premium for fanatic views. Except your house is the only one that doesn't have that view.

Even in such an obviously unfair scenario the government is likely to stick to some assessment that's going to be unfair, e.g. some mean sale value of the N lots adjacent to yours.
He's an incredible wordsmith.
Technically the F-150 has a base price of $33k -- but in the real world, the ASP for one is north of $60k now. Similar to how the $28k starting-price Tacoma actually sells for north of $40k on average.
> Most modern devices do contain a hardware based Secure Enclave.

So like Intel's SGX was so secure until it was not?
I guess those dumb farmers just wanted to waste money on roundup then. I mean come on.
the namesake Lightning was an F150 gussied up with some suspension work and a supercharger, it sort of fits.
The importance of handwriting is now better understood
there could very well be a bug. if there's a bug, fix it.

But from what I read, it's documented as not threadsafe and this problem is happening in a threaded environment. That still could be called a bug. You find bugs, you fix them;

That's better than hyperventilating about how there is some massive problem with an operating system that you are using because all the people who came before you who knew more than you decided it was the best thing to use. The other OSes sucked more. This OS is simple enough that you can actually learn how it works, it's all laid out in front of you.

Should it do some additional things? sure. Help write the code.
How has property managed to get you to defend such an extreme version of it without also tempting you with a slice of the pie?

This is like saying:

> Harry Potter is the best story ever written and I have no interest in ever reading it.

Property rights are made of consensus, so I'd recommend you stop consenting to the short end of the stick.
> 1- the laws dictate minimum terms for the agreements, they don't put ceilings on the maximums

That's not how it works in many jurisdictions: if a company does a round of layoffs and exceeds the terms ... those are the new terms going forward for that company.
That’s the dilemma. Being progressive means being empathetic and a pacifist. Hauling people off the street into jail or other institutions against their will doesn’t play well with the voters. Until there is a tipping point and it does hopefully.
If you are a prospective shop owner deciding where you want to locate your shop, LVT makes no difference at all. If you move to an agglomeration to make it bigger, you might raise other people's LVT slightly. 'Tragedy of the Commons' style.

Perhaps if all the shop owners got together as a cartel they would face the incentives you talk about. But not for individual owners.

Also, LVT does not change the total yearly cost of some land. It obviously doesn't change rents; and even for land owners it doesn't change the recurring costs: the sum of cost of capital for the value of the land plus all taxes is the same with LVT or without. (Basically, the market will prince the LVT burden into market prices of land. Imagine a city where some plots of land have to pay LVT and some don't: the total cost of ownership for comparable plots would be the same independent of whether they are LVT plots or not. Same for renting plots.)
I got a little nerd sniped by this. I wrote a program that takes an input (/usr/share/dict/words on Debian 12, specifically), and compresses it with gzip and Zstandard, and also expands its binary representation (by replacing each 1 bit with A and each 0 bit with B) and compresses that. The result is:

gzip expgz zstd expzstd original
263120 421278 252449 389004 985084

So unlike in the article, expansion + compression is at least better than the original. The ratios are (smaller # better; the opposite of how most compression algorithms advertise their performance, but what the original article used): 0.27, 0.42, 0.25, 0.39. gzip and Zstandard aren't a lot different in either case. Whatever patterns that the Javascript weirdifier uses is less obvious to compression algorithms in general than just bitwise substitution.

Here's the program if you want to look for bugs: https://go.dev/play/p/wwNXVzO2TO-
This comment is so much more informative than the article. They made a medical UX that people actually wanted to use but oversold the AI. I wonder why nobody tried to merge the front-end with a different AI, or did that fail too?
Pie menus present somewhat of a problem for keyboard, but they're excellent for mouse. Every button on the menu is the same very short distance from the initial click point, but it's difficult to click the wrong one because their effective size is very large, just like a button in the corner of the screen.
You know what would be awesome, an electric minivan.

The id.buzz looks great, but has low range and lacks a lot of nice amenities. The Canoo looks really great, but low range and I can’t tell if the company is actually ever going to produce their van.

It seems like rivian has a platform that could make a great minivan, 400 mile range, maybe an adventure style one. Where’s the Chrysler all electric Pacifica? This is the class of vehicle that we need in my family.
So there's just no way to convince you then, right? Well for my part I say that all the anti glyphosate studies (not that there are many of them) are financed by competitors in the herbicide market. Just super convenient
Yes, on Linux you can even write `int main(int argc, char* argv[], char* envp[])`.
It isn't the size of their geographical footprint. Rather, it is the location. Actually, locations, for the individual practitioner: their business and their home. They want to be in a good school district that educates all its students well and sends them to good colleges? They pay for the privilege.

They want to be close to high-paying jobs? They want to be close to highly-paid homeowners? They want to be close to their own workplace? Location, location, location!

But instead of paying the previous owner, who didn't create the land value, they pay the community, year in and year out, for those services.

Makes sense to me.
Ah, I think I was able to think a kind of a visualization myself.

You can think of a complex 3-vector as a triplet of labeled points on the complex plane. Scaling this vector by a complex number is equivalent of rotating and scaling this triplet (0 as origin, so no affine transformations).

Therefore, two vectors in this space are equivalent up to a scalar if you can find a complex number that scales/rotates one triplet to another. I can visualize a rotation/scaling transformation of a point cloud on the complex plane pretty well so I'm kind of satisfied this visualization.
Building yet another project on ActivityPub and expecting significantly better results would be irrational, IMO.
Disclosure: I work for GM. Anything here is solely my own opinion or understanding. (Repeating because this is more opinionated)

The bankruptcies weren't caused by one thing, but cost of labor was a large factor. Perhaps a bigger factor was the pressure to keep producing non-competitive, money losing products so as to maintain employment numbers. Unions do a lot for their members, and they should, but they cannot save a bad product.

In my opinion, over-financialization was the other top factor. You can read "Bean Counters vs Car Guys" by Bob Lutz for an explanation of this.
ROCm? I hardly KNOWm!

I'm sorry, I know this is a dumb and off-topic comment more appropriate for Reddit, but I couldn't resist. If you check my comment history, you'll see I don't usually do this. Please forgive.
If I were a resident of Detroit I would figure out how to fire literally everyone that runs the local government and return assets to the people.
how about build time? just add a test and the "runtime" become build time.
Nobody is shitting on them. I'm reacting to you comparing them to Boeing. It's great they're doing this, but it's also not something that is meaningful to compare to a company that actually designs planes.
Buddy, Exxon were caught astroturfing with the entire planet at stake, and suffered no real consequence. Big tobacco did it for decades, and those same companies are still marketing and selling to children in developing countries.

So why do you think "Monsanto" (it's Bayer now, keep up) would be scared of getting caught? Do you think they can't use a VPN, or subcontracting, or any of a hundred well developed ways to maintain plausible deniability? Do you really think "no other big company" gets accused of astroturfing?

You don't seem to have given any of this much thought tbh. Even if it's as you say, lol, why would you be happy with them doing "straightfowards propaganda work"? Have you followed the logical conclusions of your "contrarianism" theory more than a single step? Good luck to ye
> All land is unique, so I don't think adjacent land of equal value exists. The difference may be trivial, or it may be substantial.

I don't understand how this relates. My point would stand even if the neighboring lots were slightly different in value.

> just pointing out that fair price discovery for a self-assessment LVT isn't an unsolved problem.

Yeah okay I'll give you that. It's just that we can't ignore how tax policy must match a society's values in a democratic society, else it'll be voted out. I'm saying this probably wouldn't work out since voters put value on the idea that at least some people will be able to get a good enough job to afford to bring up their kids in a stable home.
Yep; We are God. It says so in the bible: he's made in our image. (some dumb copy editor just mixed up the order a couple thousand years ago and they've been misprinting since)
>Because this is literally the direct equivalent of a company buying unassembled products from Ikea, assembling them, and then claiming to be a furniture manufacturer.

Please cite where AAL claims to be an aircraft manufacturer.
i built a robot with two processes. one process is the brain, and all the brain does it wait for SIGUSR1. when it stops getting SIGUSR1 for like 2 tenths of a second in a row, it "ceases all motor function".

the other process, which takes input and game controller stuff and sends camera feeds and turns on lights and measures temperature and blah blah blah, it continuously sends a SIGUSR1 to the brain process. it's like a dead man's switch for a robot. doesn't matter what goes wrong, basically when it stops sending SIGUSR1 then it means bad things have happened and the robot stops itself. now what if it gets stuck in a loop continuously sending SIGUSR1 erroneously? yes, that could be a problem, but it's never happened. unlike before i implemented this where, say, interference with the wifi or dead batteries or whatever could leave the robot running away in 'move forward mode' forever.
Yes, I think the Ruby community is growing and we have a steady progress.

I am also excited by the namespace thing and the isolation will provide.
Huh, my experience is the opposite. Indians work themselves to death, while Americans have very clear boundaries on when they stop working. Chinese Americans & Indian Americans work about the same as Americans, but 1st generation Chinese immigrants easily take #1 for the most hours put in.

> Is there a grain of truth to the “lazy Indian” trope?

I wonder if it has to do with out-sourcing farms. I have been lucky enough to work with Indians who were all full-time employees and generally my equals. The typical Indian who works at an outsourcing farm makes so little, that they don't exactly care to work hard.

> no chill for Indians (SWEs, PMs, etc).

I'll be honest. I occasionally run into people with very strong and vapid opinions about entire countries based on 1-2 anecdotal experiences. I haven't seen this issue with other fields. It is oddly CS specific. In no other field have I met people who are so obsessed with the productivity of their peers, when the entire organization works on making ads software 5% faster.