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I love Ruff. It's amazing. It's blindingly fast. I dig it.

But. v0.1.0 comes with a breaking change: the old `--output` option is now named `--output-format`, and it was only deprecated 3 weeks ago in version 0.0.291 (https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/releases/tag/v0.0.291). That's bound to break some CI pipelines, and definitely breaks the python-lsp-ruff language server plugin. If you use the latter, I have a PR at https://github.com/python-lsp/python-lsp-ruff/pull/48 that will get you running again for now.

To be super clear, the Ruff team doesn't owe it to anyone to make the command line stable. This is a little inconvenient, but that's our problem, not theirs. They've made an amazing free tool we can all use. Still, it's something you'll need to know about and deal with.

Edit: “our” as in “us end users”. I’m also just an end user of python-lsp-ruff and not associated with it. I realized on re-reading that it might sound like I’m one of its developers. Nope!
> I wish it wasn't so expensive

And yet they're making a huge loss on each unit sold.
A founder friend confided in me years ago, "It is MUCH easier to raise more money than it is to fire someone... I just keep raising and hiring and eventually everything will get done"

No surprise that this approach was very much a "Low-Rates Phenomenon"
They refer to the registration-gated "Developer API"
Yes. The remote image is not the leak. The URL request is the leak.

If this is confusing, control the server and have it return an image, or 404 instead of an image, doesn't matter, while logging the request.

You will find the exfiltrated data in the request log, and you will not find an image in the request log.

Of course, if your request handler is an image generator, you can generate an image containing your URL request. But by the time your generator gets the request, the data was leaked.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with it being state funded or not. It can be funded by the government and still fairly unbiaised. Why hide it? It's fine to be state funded, as long as the public is aware
Are you guys not super sketched out by that website? Self-hosted (and unavailable on f-droid) download (why not just use NewPipe at this point?), vague About Us page, duplicated and almost certainly fake "positive reviews" left by different outlets, etc.

Personally, i just install termux and yt-dlp. Admittedly, i am on a rooted device, but i think some additional tooling is available to give termux access to the shared user storage area.
We’ve built a micro transaction engine that helps reconcile payments really quickly & cheaply. This means that creators from anywhere around the world can create amazing content & reward each other instead of having to sell merchandise. We’ve tested the model with two labels so far & we’ve seen it even promotes collaboration “can I pay you for this tune to remind in my track”. This could never happen on any other platform & we think it’s something special.
> nobody blames them for it

I do.

If somebody has to do wrong by their customers to do right to their family, they've seriously messed everything up.
> So, yeah - this isn't a good idea. If the Weird transpiler only changes the encoding of each character with a really weird equivalent, it makes a lot of sense that it doesn't compress better than the source one - the ideal scenario would be to compress the same.

If your results disagree with your premise in unsurprising and obvious ways - please start your article with that so I can stop reading it.
> There's a reason "rents" are called "rents"; land rent is the most classic example of them. The "owner" of a piece of land does nothing to produce its value, they just take money for nothing because they hold a scarce resource.

Rent seeking is a clearly defined economic concept that is not related to the seperate concept of renting an asset to somebody.

> Rent seeking is an economic concept that occurs when an entity seeks to gain wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. An example of rent seeking is when a company lobbies the government for grants, subsidies, or tariff protection.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rentseeking.asp

Renting an asset to somebody has a very obvious reciprocal consideration of value.
A lot of the covid supply chain high prices were(and are being) captured by car dealerships who then used a portion to buy off politicians to stop car companies from selling cars directly, on top of existing laws.

E.g. https://reason.com/2023/06/15/florida-doubles-down-on-anti-c....

So car companies couldn't build a rainy day cash fund or increase wages or pay bonuses(or pay dividends to shareholders). Dealer markups on some high demand vehicles are still insane, easily 10k to 20k+. I wish more car companies could sell directly like Tesla does(which is banned from selling in several states including Texas where they have a big new factory).
The radio station is still broadcasting, but no longer signals the top of the hour once per day.
> Everything is a cost center

Their gas/diesel trucks are definitely a profit center.
It seems so? See https://www.pharmacist.com/Publications/Pharmacy-Today/Artic...

> A federal judge in Ohio who oversees the National Prescription Opiate Litigation (NPOL) has recently issued a ruling with significant implications for pharmacists and pharmacies. The ruling requires pharmacists to document refusals of opioid prescriptions based on so-called “red flags.” Pharmacy companies are required to share these documented refusals with pharmacists at all of their practice sites. Pharmacists are required to consider their colleagues’ documented prior refusals during their screen of subsequent opioid prescriptions.

I'm not sure if (or why) they aren't going after the doctors making the red flag prescriptions, however.
You just agreed with the parent.

The carry cost has gone up, forcing action!
There's a strong tendency to think of network calls as entirely universal and not tied in any way to to locale settings in the environment.

Time, date, physical spellings, ... many things are locale dependant, but socket stuff?.

It comes as a Surprise!!, and not the good kind, to many a network programmer with just a few years under their belt to discover threaded networking can segfault because of this.

Once you know, you know and don't forget (until next time), but I suspect this was the motivation behind the blog posting, the principal of potentially most surprise.
The idea of increasing per-capita energy consumption to 1,000x current American levels is so ludicrous Andreesen should immediately be laughed out of town without any further consideration.

I did some back of the envelope calculations (and obviously made a few assumptions about what he meant), but, roughly, 1,000x current US per capita energy consumption is about enough to keep you airborne in a (fully occupied) corporate jet continuously with fuel synthesised from air and water.
> common sense

What is "common sense?"

Why is it a foregone conclusion that whatever proposal is automatically "common sense?"
The ability to sell these controlled substances is not a right. They must adhere to strict government rules and oversight. They (and others) knowingly turned a blind eye to systematic abuse since it made them lots of money.
What company were you at and what were you paying? Did you directly hire or use 3rd party contractors/bodyshops?

If you underpay talent anywhere they'll do their bare minimum.

I've hired and (product) managed Indian employees and they're equally as capable as our Israeli, Eastern European, and SV employees - we just pay them market rate in Bangalore/Gurgaon/Hyderabad.

Depending on the age of your friend, they might just not be as used to dealing/communicating with non-American background people? I remember some assholes like that when I was a kid and my dad was working in the industry in the 90s and 2000s.

It's gotten better but you still see some dicks here on HN.
> That land is provided ongoing services, security, and utilities which cost money each year to maintain

Yeah, and I already pay PG&E, Comcrap, and whoever else is maintaining those services, I don't need to pay it again to the IRS. The IRS wouldn't do jack shit on land I own.
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> I'm one of the highest ranked people on SO.

Here's a prototype of an average tone-deaf user of SO who think their imaginary internet points actually count. The point being raised here is the difficulty new users (with no imaginary internet points, but with dignity and self-respect) face while submitting a questions/answers to SO. Not people like you who've normalized the bullying for "getting info". Guess what, now with ChatGPT you can get answers that are on average of much better quality than average new SO answers without tolerating pricks.
I don't know if you have been on the other side of what market makers do, but its not exactly a day at the beach. Once you gain enough insight to see whats going on the charts you just see it as a graveyard of traders positions, stop losses and their capital. This happens every minute the market is open at every timeframe.

Have you ever wonder why the markets appear so irrational? Great economic data and the worse drop in months or vice versa. These are the expectations, emotions and psychology of the masses that are liquidated by market makers. Have you also just had a gut instinct to buy or sell and market moves completely opposite beyond your psychological limit. Only for it to start moving into profit once you have closed at a huge loss. This is all market makers do all day.

In principle there is nothing immoral here. Participants are all taking risks voluntarily, no one is forcing you risk trading the stock market. But in practice market makers take positions at the stop losses 90% of market participants giving them significantly overwhelming supply of assets at the best prices, while everyone else sees consistent intractable losses.

This is a Darwinian environment where only the biggest, fiercest and most aggressive players will win by killing weaker, smaller and less knowledgeable players. The only way for a small fish to win is to understand the rules the market makers play by. Their strengths, desires, weaknesses, limitations and once you do you realize that this was someone's capital, but it's also capital not going to the market makers.
sounds like an Innovator's Dilemma...
> It takes a lot of guts to ask for help.

Among coworkers you know, yes, but among internet strangers?
What are the alternatives to batteries if you want to fly through the night?
How do you propose that DNS resolution precede without opening a socket?
Keep in mind: Don't use multiple threads unless you really, really need to, and have thought long and hard about concurrency issues.

In a way, I think the fact that many library functions are not thread-safe should be viewed as an encouragement to not use threads, or use them only for the bare minimum necessary.

I say this from a few decades of experience fighting with race conditions and the like, and whereupon several times I rewrote an existing multithreaded process into a single-threaded one and greatly improved performance and reduced memory usage. The architecture astronauts may have moved on to stuff like microservices now, but in the 90s/2000s threads were overused just as much.
lots of discussion about the topic in Radical markets if you're interested. I forget how exactly they address that concern, but they do talk about it.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/ra...
Loss? Are you thinking of Rivian?
I wasn't sure if this audience would recognize the term ‘accelerationist', but yes. Of those on HN who do recognize the term, I wonder how many would consider that a good thing.

Back in the day we had another word for accelerationist groups: apocalyptic cults.
Seriously avoid any product with tencent before its too late.
> where two vectors are equivalent if one is a complex scalar multiple of the other.

I can get an intuitive understanding of equivalence classes of real vectors being equal if they are real scalar multiples of each others, and understand that this is an equivalent case because of the field and linear space definitions/axioms, but I struggle to visualize it, possibly because of the larger dimensionality and the fact that there are two "kind" of dimensions, 2 (complex plane) x 3 (the linear bases).

Are you able to visualize objects like that? Any help?
I'd be really interested in a much smaller / cheaper version, like an all-electric maverick.
I remember interviewing someone once that claimed to have 200 direct reports. I was really blunt and said "nobody has 200 direct reports".

They assured me that they did. So I grilled them on the mechanics of it.

If you had biweekly 1x1s with all of your DRs, you would have to do 100 per week. If 1-on-1s were your fulltime job you could at most do 80 per week (2 per hour x 40 hrs). Thats just rotating through 1x1s. That's not doing anything else.

He claimed "team leads" did 1x1s, which is fine, but its hard to call them a direct report if you're not even aware of their daily work. Theres just no way you can adequately manage 200 people. As mentioned above, you are just a glorified HR person, you're no longer in engineering.

I would never hire a manager below Director level that isn't themselves an individual contributor. I know its possible to have that but I wouldnt hire it, because we expect IC on our teams.
Apparently as long as they are eligible for unemployment - https://www.natlawreview.com/article/advantages-and-challeng...

Ford pays sub pay, and that combined with unemployment benefits is 74%, Ford doesn't pay the entire 74%.

It is not unusual in factories like that to have weeks long temporary layoffs, do to reduced demand or shutting down to retool, so it makes sense for automakers to offer these types of benefits, rather than severence, which is more of a permanent seperation type of thing.
I get the impression that people want evil tencent to succeed, but this really has no place in the free world. thanks for reading.
I’m not conflating anything. I’m drawing a comparison, and asking you to back up why you think “the press” literally means “the printing press, as an object” in a way that would somehow extend to “3d printers”, rather than the concept of printing and distributing news and information.

You’re the one who keeps bringing up the terms journalists and journalism. It’s not clear to me why the constitution predating those terms implies that “press” was meant literally.
Yoko Ono is often blamed for breakup the Beatles, but watching Get Back, it seems clear to me that the person who really broke up the Beatles was Brian Epstein. His death — and their grief — hangs over this documentary, especially in the way that McCartney tries to be both band mate and task master in keeping the group together. I have always favored John over Paul, but this made me appreciate Paul despite his faults.
20:1 is terrible. You may not have managers but other ICs then need to burden themselves with management duties. Even if you have 1:1 for half an hour every week, that’s 10 hours of just 1:1s. There is no reasonable way to keep track of it. It’s bad for the manager, it’s bad for the IC. Anything more than 10 is bad, ideal would be 7-8 reportees.
US embodied carbon imports are not nearly as large as is sometimes assumed, apparently in the order of 7% of total emissions:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-the-us-didnt-outsource-our-...
What's the alternative?

Returning a"Result" struct doubles the size. This is one less register to use.

Exception handling is even more invasive.

They are great for high(-er) level language, but less prefect on lower level where performance is critical.

EDIT: Linux kernel use negative return value for error. It's good and efficient when it work. But it is not always an option when you need the full register width
> - There are deeper problems with valuing land. Land values in cities are directly related to approved zoning (i.e. what you are allowed to build), so the city government can rezone neighborhoods and unilaterally alter the land values the residents pay tax on. This may not agree with everyone's view of fairness.

That's actually a feature, especially if you make sure that the authority who can do the zoning also gets the revenue (or at least shares in it). That way aligns incentives.

> - LVT encourages building tall and is hostile to lowrise development and unbuilt/green spaces. Those policy preferences may not be shared by everyone.

LVT doesn't do anything like that. The whole point of LVT is that it has no influence on land use choices: you literally pay the same LVT no matter how you use the land. It doesn't encourage or discourage anything. That's why it is economically efficient.

(However, alternative taxation schemes like income tax or capital gains tax or taxes on improvements do discourage building tall. And if you lower those taxes, people will build taller.

Btw, I think that for all its faults a conventional property tax that doesn't distinguish between land and improvements is still miles better than income tax or capital gains tax or sales tax etc.)

> In a city bare land almost never trades.So you have to extract land values from building+land sales, which is much much harder and possibly impossible to do fairly.

Often land changes hands and the new owner tears down the structure and build a new one. You can reasonably assume that the old building was valued at zero, or even negative because tearing down costs money and time. So that gives a lower limit on the price of the bare land.
Not fundamentally, they aren’t. Tesla and a few Chinese companies are making very good money on EVs.
You don't know Bandcamp's revenue, so how on earth could you smell their bloat?
When you tax something, you get less of it. By reducing the supply of a good, taxes deter otherwise mutually beneficial transactions from happening; the loss of mutual benefit from a tax (or other policy) is called "deadweight loss".

Land value taxes have a special property in that land owners cannot respond to the tax by producing less land; the supply of land is fixed. This means LVTs do not generate deadweight loss, which makes them very efficient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Efficiency
Texas Two-Step: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_two-step_bankruptcy
I wonder if GPT et al. would help with this kind of thing, or if it's too esoteric.
At least where I live, the vast majority "ghost guns" that are getting used for crimes are polymer80 glocks that can be built with just a drill, no 3d printing required.
200 reports per manager means there’s a lot of ICs who are managers on IC salaries doing free added labor.
Their articles are fantastic and they curate and promote such diverse and unique musicians. I don't know any other publication that goes so in depth with such niche music. I hate thinking about this in terms of profits. Those articles celebrated and expanded on music culture so much.
Basically any technology that makes any difference will have a military value, and will be used by the military.

One of the few things that are not obviously, if in any way at all, usable for any military purposes is targeted advertising. Whether it's used by the good guys more is an interesting topic.
I’m not saying it’s necessarily a bad way to run a city specifically, I’m just pointing out the different compromises that are made in regards to property rights with these different forms of taxation.

I would really only object to property taxes (as a concept) in situations where intensified high density infrastructure doesn’t exist (or isn’t required to exist).
If they're using semver, having a major version number of zero means that any change can be breaking. Additionally, while it's not part of the semver spec, to me having the minor version be zero as well is an even bigger indicator that nothing is stable.
A good engineering manager is worth their weight in gold. Sadly, a good engineering manager is hard to find.
Pretty sure there's value in owning a platform where small independent ("undiscovered") artists release their work and where listeners go to find that work. In particular, it seems likely that having the metrics and historical data could give SongTradr insight into which artists seem likely to catch on, etc.
The Salmon on Your Plate Has a Troubling Cost. These Farms Offer Hope
I agree, but internal combustion engines also die if you drive in a surprisingly shallow flood. I think it’s a design flaw for them too.
The "jobs bank" concept, which all detroit automakers have a form of, has been going on for decades. You come to the factory, and play cards or watch TV, potentially for years, draw a paycheck and benefits...until you take your retirement.

It was originally conceived as a way to make it less likely to offshore production: "look, you have thousands of workers you're already paying, just twiddling their thumbs! Give them some cars to build!"

This has not quite panned out.
But this doesn't make sense because there's been outsourcing for over 20 years by now and this is clearly not true. And having somewhat better tools for teleconferencing doesn't materially change the situation.
A lot of property taxes go to funding schools, so...more housing = more kids = more money need to educate them. It is nice that they use property taxes from businesses as well, but to completely detach the education need formulas from tax formulas sounds really dangerous.
This is called Georgism, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism.

It was proposed over 100 years ago and apparently has been endorsed by most economists as the least distorting tax.
But many do. Who is right?

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092134492...

[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/14/4254

[2]: https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30255-7
I can't tell if this is satire. It's certainly worded like it, but it's close enough to trigger Poe's Law.
> Bridges are even more financially burdensome. Recently, we replaced a culvert that was so small I could easily jump over it, and yet it set us back $700,000.

Why? Why didn't you all agree to go down to Home Depot and load up on one big short metal pipe and some cement if that's the case? How was 700K spent?
Civil rights shouldn't generally hinge on affordability.
The tech industry failed the invidious team and other projects like this. This should be 100% legal and allowed based on a right-to-mod precedent but not lawyer is willing to take it that far because this is open source.

This project gives control back to the user. It shouldn't be a grey zone and it shouldn't put maintainers at risk to work on it.

Till this issue is resolved, OSS projects like this are unsustainable.

Some evil megacorp is already carpet bombing maintainers with C&Ds and there is ZERO help for this.
You are not alone!

I listen to podcasts about topics that fascinate me. I fall sleep within mins and have to relisten during waking hours the next day.
The article says that they expect it to lower tax for 97% of residents.
> Dealer markups on some high demand vehicles are still insane, easily 10k to 20k+.

So there's obviously a demand for them at that price.

Sure, maybe Ford should be able to sell cars themselves if they want to. But they'd be selling them at the same price and pocketing that extra $10-$20k themselves, rather than letting the consumer keep it.
Tesla nor the Chinese have been doing business with the UAW for 50+ years; nor do they sit in the same regard with stock analysts as the detroit companies.
>If you put a hundred dollar bill under your pillow, it will be worth less and less as time goes by thanks to inflation. And if you use that hundred dollar bill to buy an asset that hopefully keeps its real value, you pay capital gains taxes on the nominal increase in value (even if there was no real increase in value).

That's because capital gains taxes that don't account for inflation (which is most of them) are essentially a stealth wealth tax.