skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not strawmanning, some people actually belive this. In some limited scenarios or with a limited differences, it can work. Providing there are controls in place to correct any runaway effects.

Maybe, but they don't call it 'trickle down' economics. That's only ever used as a slur.

> I understand filtering, but it does have limits. If you have too many rich people building houses that they don't need to sell, or want to keep as investments or vacations homes, them you can end up with problems.

Land value tax would be your friend here. Though I don't see the problems: as long as they are building enough, that's great. If rich people want to have a few extra houses, that's fine. Just keep building more, as long as they want to pay for it.

Houses are (or should be) a manufactured product. We can make more of them.

> Likewise, if the percentage of rich people goes down significantly, many of the larger homes may not be economical for middle class people to live in depending on things like tax or utility costs.

Most taxes on houses should drop, if their value drops. Eg that's the case for property taxes.

Utilities don't drop automatically, yes. But you can eg not run the heated pool, or you can retrofit insulation etc.

In any case, capital costs are often the major source of housing costs. Ie that's either what you (or your landlord) pay for the mortgage, or otherwise the opportunity cost of the equity you have in your house.

But those costs can drop a lot just by virtue of the market value of the house dropping. If necessary, they can drop all the way to zero, if the price of the house drops to zero.

So there's an enormous buffer before utility costs by themselves become a limiting factor.

You can also subdivide homes.

> It's not just that they aren't building enough.

No, that is exactly the problem. Another related problem is that it is hard to get approval for anything but a single family home in large parts of the US. So density is illegal.

Vacancies aren't much of a problem.

I don't know what you mean by 'affordable units'? I mentioned already that quantity of units on the market is what matters. If you add a new unit at the top of the market, filtering will make sure that we get another affordable unit at the bottom automatically. Building explicitly shitty (sorry, affordable) housing for poor is a bad move. Requiring developers to do so by law is worse.

Have a look at https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/the-housing-shortage-is-... and the other work by Kevin Erdmann.

I do agree that a land value tax would be an excellent way to raise revenue (without impacting the economy), and then those pesky rich people, and especially rich foreigners, bidding up home prices would just be straight up tax revenue, instead of an ideological war.
I'm with you on that. I don't need a screen full of soon-to-be outdated software on it. I carry one with me everywhere and it works just fine.
So no actual advice then...
If you go back and read the various dicussions, arguments and controversies from around 1984 regarding the enactment of HMOs it is my opinion that things aren't dramatically worse than at that point.

Executive compensation is an issue in a lot more industries than healthcare. I think that there are big problems there. The structure of hospitals as a medico-legal entity is a complicated business in most states. When you say "CEO of a hospital" it typically does not bear much relation to what you say when you say "CEO of Disney". In healthcare there is among other complicated things "corporate practice of medicine" laws which prohibit non-medical ownership of medical organizations. So a "Hospital CEO" may often be the head or a chairman of a foundation or entity that owns the real estate that a hospital uses or sometimes is just the practicing head of medice of a medical organization or any of a myriad of other byzantine structures. That doesn't make excess compensation any better but it's important to identify what someones role actually is and what they are compensated for. Most hospital systems are a little more like medical malls than any singular beast.
I recall trying to archive a story on a Des Moines local news site. It was publicly available and searchable. I understand people can request of IA not to allow their content to be stored, and there are situations where content is removed on request. Beyond that, it is all opaque to me what goes on there.
Honestly it sounds like the kind of harassment that involved the phrase "who will believe you?" at some point.
the bug is the diy csv loader. use instead the csv module or its equivalent. My experience parsing csv's (how hard can it be?) often end with nested lists of iterators, complex logic to deal with edge cases, and other things that fail on painful-to-diagnose corner cases - exactly like what the author describes.
You'd be, if you got into computers only recently. It got this bad.

Only those who have used systems yielding low input latency (e.g. Commodore 64, BeOS or the Amiga) can tell that something is very wrong.
That pay vs productivity graph is the only one on the link https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/productivity-workforc... in the comment I replied to originally.
It's possible that them being on the lot and not out with customers might also tell a story.
> I was referring to ... many PhDs with ambitions of an academic career having to leave academia...

I see. I don't think this makes the system broken and I don't think a large portion of people going into industry is a bad thing. At the end of the day, schooling, even at the PhD level, is training. I am not concerned that we do not have a high retention rate, though I am concerned that the retention is not targeting the best of the best (but that's a different conversation). I do not think this is what most academics are referring to when they mention a broken system.

My complaint about the system being broken is more about the incentive structures and metrics that are used within the academic setting. This is the more frequent usage of this phrasing that I see, so I was quite surprised at the mention of your background. The problem I am more concerned about is the entire existential question of academia. It is being treated like a business but academia is explicitly about not being subject to such things like a short term return on investment. I think an important aspect of academia is being able to do risky and low level research where the returns are going to be years or decades. So I think we have a broken system when we are trying to perform high pace output with high impact. I simply do not think you can be fast and revolutionary at the same time (at least consistently). It seems that h-index is of greater concern and this is a compounding metric that does not requisite the highest quality work but rather is more dependent upon frequency and highly influenced by publicity.

In my mind, the system is broken when the it is not encouraging academics to be the best scientists they can be. When the system encourages bad science and when a noisy process is held up as if it is the arbiter of truth (journals and conferences are even given the misnomer of "peer review" when this, as you know, takes place before and after venue publication and peers still review "preprint" works that never end up getting "published." The whole language is misleading when you break it down). I'm sure a lot of my feelings come from working in ML where the signal to noise ratio of venue publications is exceptionally low (nearly all CS domains target conferences rather than journals and so there is little to no rebuttal period. The number of submissions in each conference is well over 10k now and you cannot assume a reviewer has domain knowledge in your subfield), but I do believe that it still parallels other domains and that the problem is growing not shrinking. I think the system is broken when we discourage foundational research and the pursuit of knowledge for scientific value. Certainly something is broken when we hire a ton of administrative staff and the administrative tasks given to researchers only increases.
Although I understand your point, Shoshanna Zuboff would say otherwise. We are the resource; not the product, neither the consumer.

According to her, "their" product used to be information. Then it became prediction. And now it's behavior modification, which they achieve by constantly mining us (the data we provide them).

At least IMHO, this is a more accurate depiction of the current state of affairs. Although in the end, it may be quite a similar metaphor, either way.
Didn't everything seem like science fiction at one point (sufficiently in the past)?
Steam trains, air-flight, computers...
In my experience it's the sum of them, rather than just one. I have at least a few dozen tiles in Okta.
That's right! Front-end staff trump any company policies. Polestar is amazing though. I am telling you this as a Kia EV6 owner.
No. Mercurial.
> According to Wikipedia the organization was started in protest to George Bush's faith based initiatives and was designed to get federal dollars while intentionally being repugnant.

Really? I can't find that in the Wikipedia page [1]. Perhaps you would share exactly which part says that?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_School_Satan
I don’t think this comment is disputing any of that.

It did mention the financial and public sector industries, which you call out, and only being able to speak for the UK however.

While it didn’t include HFT, that doesn’t employee the same number of heads as the others
That is just another fascinating side effect of society that I never realized but makes complete, obvious sense.
Yep that's me
IANAL, but having gone through this a few times, a few things to be aware of with the WARN Act:

1. While the WARN Act is a federal provision, some states have their own versions of it that are more demanding or that change the definition of what qualifies as a mass layoff. Look up WARN Act provisions for your state if you're unsure.

2. The WARN Act stipulates _either_ 60 days notice _or_ 60 days severance+healthcare payments in addition to the legally mandated payouts+healthcare.

3. The Warn Act does not cover equity, though I have heard of some folks negotiating better severance agreements.

Anything beyond WARN is not something your state will entitle you to during a mass layoff. WARN provisions cannot be waived, but your employer may incentives or pressure you to waive rights (to sue for wrongful termination, harassment, etc). You don't need to sign anything for WARN, so speak to a labor attorney if anyone tells you otherwise.

EDIT: One thing I learned today is that there are exceptions to a company needing to announce a layoff as per WARN. Page 7 of the DOL WARN handbook[1] notes:

> 1. A "faltering company" is not required to give notice of a layoff or plant
closing when, before the plant closing, it is actively seeking capital or
business, which if obtained would avoid or postpone the layoff or closure, and if it reasonably believes that advance notice would hurt its ability to find the capital or business it needs to continue operating;

> 2. A business is not required to give a full 60-day’s notice if it could not reasonably foresee business circumstances that led to a layoff or closing at the time that the 60-day notice would have been required, (e.g., a business circumstance that is caused by some sudden, dramatic, and unexpected action or conditions outside the employer’s control like the unexpected cancellation of a major order); or

> 3. A business is not required to give notice if a layoff or plant closing is the direct result of a natural disaster (i.e., hurricane, flood, earthquake, tornado, storm, drought, or similar effect of nature).

1. https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/Layoff/pdfs/Worke...
It seems that many (maybe most) cancers are kicked off by inflammation, or otherwise stressed tissues, after the conditions are just right (genetics, carcinogen, or otherwise damaged dna). Cells that are damaged enough to spread as cancer can avoid getting replicated for years or even never without a trigger. So, it could be that we aren't more exposed to carcinogens, but more frequently encounter the conditions that make the damaged cells start spreading. So, vitamin-D and Omega-3 could indeed help in that regard, and some other cause of chronic inflammation could be responsible for the upward trend.
The door plug falling out is a mistake.
The MCAS crashes were caused by criminal negligence and outright fraud driven by money concerns.

The plane may be OK after the fixes and now when the pilots are no longer (?) being actively misled by Boeing, so perhaps no need to scrap the whole fleet.

But MCAS was not a “software problem”.
Let's see what god does apart from the people. My money's on "nothing at all"
I don’t care much for it either but lazy game devs only know directX it seems. I’m curious about the performance through a virtualization layer though. You think you lose too much performance or do the m series just muscle it through? M3 is over 4Ghz per core now seems plenty beefy.
> Video game engines absolutely handle text rendering across a wide range of languages.

They handle specific subsets of text rendering across a wide range of languages. There's a ton of interactions with the OS-level text interactions that are both difficult to fully enumerate and even more difficult to re-implement non-natively. Font programming can get really, really complex—some of it might be perceived as unnecessary—ligatures, proper kerning, certainly sub pixel rendering, glyph variants, arguably emoji—but others will really suck, like poor interactions with highlighting and cursor movement; replicating native keybindings; replicating differences in how e.g. linux and Macs kill, yank, copy, cut, paste, etc; replicating differences in how "paragraphs" are split into "lines" (logical or visual?) across platforms.... this isn't even touching the complexity of processing input (do you really want to implement wubi chinese? Do you know how to properly handle unicode normalization the same way the local editor does so that typing the same keystrokes causes the same behavior? how about differences between punctuation glyphs between scripts? Are you even handling hyphenation correctly? Does it reflow as expected when the layout constraints change?) and simply processing unicode in a consistent and well-behaved manner.

(and of course this isn't even touching attributed text or rich text editing or combining fonts on a single line....)

> Accessibility is often language in game technology

I'm no expert, but accessibility concerns must be wildly different in a game than in a data-heavy or prose-heavy app. I can't imagine implementing a screen reader without relying heavily on the OS....
I mentioned it in another thread but this is employers resetting employee expectations. Lay off a percentage and work the rest harder, make people RTO, etc.
SSR that feels as fast as local data
Care to share your 3 top wildest?
> Cofounders Lucien Greaves and Malcolm Jarry met in 2012,[6][12] and The Satanic Temple was active by January 2013.[29] In an interview with The New York Times, Malcolm Jarry stated that the idea of starting a Satanic faith-based organization was first conceived to meet "all the Bush administration's criteria for receiving funds, but was repugnant to them".

Quite literally, the first paragraph of their "History" section on wikipedia.

> Almost, but not quite. In this case, it is the fact that only certain religions were/are being allowed in a public building but not other religions.

That's the article I'd rather read. Do you happen to know of one that highlights this fact? I looked, but couldn't find any direct connection between a State action and this response.

> They also protest and litigate against corporal punishment for children and reproductive rights, among other things.

So do a lot of organizations that aren't trying to start after school programs, which was the thrust of my point, are the children legitimately being served by this or being used by this?
Doing it before the holidays is bad PR
At a previous company we ended up choosing against Cloudflare because their sales team were so terrible.

> It's $200/mo!

>> Ok, but the other quotes we're receiving for $requirements are 10x that, are you sure?

> Yep, sure, it's $200/mo* (until it isn't)

>> Right, so we might pay more than that, what would the pricing be for $requirements?

> $200/mo*

>> Ok, cool, just to confirm, if we put $requirements of traffic through this service, we will only be charged $200/mo?

> Wellllllll, that might work out to more like $4000/mo.

Compared to all the competitors who would happily take our $requirements, stick them in some internal calculator, and give us a real figure.
Finetune Mistral 7b free via Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Dyauq4kTZoLewQ1cApc...
Do you know why it's harder to work with? My untrained brain would have assumed it was easier, what with it being more malleable.
Situational... Like everything else
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#/media/File:...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Temple
>weaboos

Based in Tokyo, actually.

I hope you're not flying anything you cannot afford to lose in Eve Online.
I love “computer people incorrectly try to transfer their ‘expertise’ to law”. Gotta be one of my favourite parts of HN.
This reminds me of the synanon cult that put a rattlesnake in some critical lawyer's mailbox.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-28/paul-mor...
Yes. Alas, mathematicians not in number theory tend to have p-ness envy.

A more troubling example of imposing this world view is decomposing 3-manifolds, where people like to think of S^1 x S^2 as prime. This only makes sense as a form of respect for one's elders.

One constructs 3-manifolds by gluing irreducible manifolds together after cutting out balls; one needs S^3 itself to express self-loops in this gluing graph, if there are no other pieces. S^1 x S^2 is S^3 with one self-loop. But the interest is in the pieces, not the graph (which can be freely reorganized), unless one aspires to be a number theorist.
> With Ethernet, applications and network stacks (the usual kind — see below) ought to do their best to control congestion

Exactly. Network endpoints infer things about how to behave optimally. Then they put their frame on the wire and hope. The things that make it possible to use those networks at high load ratios are in the smart endpoints: pacing, entropy, flow rate control, etc. It has nothing at all to do with the network itself. The network is not gold plated, it's very basic.
My ideal is a starter that offers a nice blend of microservices and configures them for me just enough to get them working in easy-to-manage and organized way. Most importantly, they are all optional and easily removable.

I do this with npm scripts for "compose", "start", "stop", and "reset" for every service and tie it all together with dotenv for environment vars. Currently, I have dockerized Traefik (partially), Webpack (dev server only so far), Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PostgREST, Swagger UI, PgTyped, and MongoDB under this and will soon also dockerize the Express-based RESTish API feature.

https://github.com/dietrich-stein/typescript-pgtyped-starter
I worked at a CRM/BPO company doing something like this for customer support inquiries, everything was pretty bespoke. We did all the productivity measurement off of, IIRC, Redshift tables fed by Kafka events (probably some airflow in there to ETL) published during task assignment.
Love this. That being said, I tried a bunch of these and landed on Shiori; I think my take was that ArchiveBox is great if you definitely want options and be comprehensive, but if you're mostly just going for the articles and text and want something simpler, this is it. (I teach at a college and don't want to lose good articles, and also gives me some nice uniform formatting)

https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori
I don't disagree with your fundamental message, but as a non-American watching from the sidelines, what are you doing in a practical sense, other than whining on an internet forum?
The biggest WTF to me is hiding the existence of this system from the pilots, even after the first crash. All in service of pretending that it’s exactly the same airplane as 737 NG.
Flappy Bird clone written in my programming language
Programming Language:
https://github.com/dvtate/postfix-haskell
GeoWorks Geos: The Other Windows
ebay sellers are way more respectable than ebay management.

I'm an ebay seller and I'd never send someone spiders, unless, they paid for them.
The problem I see with the torrent approach being that you need to reach a consensus eventually, right? If I push a commit on the main branch, share that state, and you do the same with a different commit, then we have a conflict that we need to solve...
20% fuel savings is massive. At that point your safety evaluations need to consider the safety tradeoffs that arise because people decided to drive cars instead of flying, and died on the highway.
This is surely illegal!
Ok, well you pointed my comment to your response here.
I "like" how they are carving exceptions for their donors (real estate mandates and Hollywood). Crooks
Cloudflare lays off new hires
Plenty of these on LI today unfortunately.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/skoroleva_opentowork-techsale...

https://twitter.com/BowTiedPassport/status/17451497589921956...
Which country? Had no issues getting small cars in France. Got a Fiat500 last time in France on Hertz. I suspect French rental cos like to "upgrade" the 1-way rentals to get rid of them due to unpopularity. Only time I got upgraded to an SUV (2-lane wide Jeep Compass) in France was on a 1-way.
Okay but, can we type it now? Did it ever get added to unicode?
Try opening a 100 MB file in your text editor and report back.
another Google product bites the dust
I feel like this is ameliorated somewhat by having the original founder at the helm?

Of course that’s not a guarantee either as they’re liable to take a few billion and run off into the sunset.
that would be witness tampering, a major crime in itself.
What part are you referring to? You want to have a bunch of code that uses Google internal libraries and calls Google internal services that won't compile outside of Google?
You were kinda wishy washy in your response. I'm bringing the conversation back on track. Sorry, didn't know you were so sensitive to language. I'll try to calibrate my responses to you.
The demo looks awesome, I’ll definitely bug you once I’m ready to implement it for my project. How long have you been working on this?
Irony: Hertz, the company who's name often refers to an electrical wave's cycles per second, ditches an enormous fleet of electric vehicles
My last paragraph is a direct response to your claim that the 174 changes are "insane" by pointing out that the changes are not insane and are directly instigated by tech's abuse of tax rules (of which section 174 was just one abuse; see also IP migrations, double-dutch structures, etc.)

While the section 174 changes also effect other industries that embraced tech-style accounting (mostly biotech), they generally had minimal impact on other industries because most other industries already capitalized IP derived from R&D...which is why there hasn't been any impetus to eliminate this change.

And quite frankly, many of my non-tech clients were pretty happy that the playing field was finally leveled for tech companies. The abuse of the R&D loophole let tech companies invade other industries for the worse.

I’ll be candid, your brevity and snark sort of make you look like an ahole here.

Brevity is a virtue. And your response was snarkier and ruder than my reply to your comment.
Oh I think we can definitely let this one slide. The common good has rarely been better served.
Cloudflare :^)
I have a paid account on Sourcehut and I like that it is independent. But...yeah there's a kind of "wife’s sister’s puppy fell into the strawberry patch" vibe to a lot of their official communications.