skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, I'm not sure it's actually hurting Kotlin's growth. IntelliJ has, from what I can tell, very close to 100% usage in the JVM world. I genuinely do not know anyone who does Java outside of IntelliJ anymore. [1]

I held out longer than most people and tried to use NeoVim for Java dev, but even I bit the bullet and use IntelliJ. Since Kotlin more or less markets itself as "Java but better", I think that it's unlikely that it's going to drastically take away from their userbase by not providing first-class support for other editors.

[1] Clojure being the only exception I can think of, and even there a lot of people still prefer Cursive.
Relatively new father here. Had no idea what had happened to children's game. Candyland, for example, is composed of a box,plastic player pieces, colored cards, and a board. I had no idea that a company could create such a shit product from such simple parts. The vintage game I found will continue to be passed to generations. The new Candyland board ripped apart after playing several times and is in the trash.
I mean I see tons of shooters (PubG, Fortnite, CoD, etc) and RPGs (Hoyaverse) seeing both mobile and PC releases and they're running on the same engine under the hood. I'm even seeing a few indie games being cross platform. Of course some games simply don't work across platforms due to input or screen size limitations, but Unity/Unreal are more than 3/4s of the market and can enable a release on every platform so why not do a cross-platform release if it's viable?

I just see the distinction you're drawing as being arbitrary and old-fashioned and misses the huge rise of midcore gaming which is seeing tons of mobile/console/pc releases. I understand that a TRUE gamer would not be caught dead playing such games, but as more and more people end up buying APU based laptops to play their hoyaverse games, that's going to warp the market and cause the oppressed minority of TRUE gamers to buy the same products due to economies of scale.
> In practice the experiments in themselves is flawed

Yes, of course. Experimental error is always a possibilities, but that is just another hypothesis that needs to be considered along with all the other possibilities.

> Also there are a lot of hypothesis we cannot reject, but we still build scientific work upon them.

Like what?
>That ever-looming possibility of needing to move again come lease renewal time, whether that be due to rent hikes or the landlord deciding to do something else with the property wore on my nerves.

That sounds dreadful and that's why there should be laws against landlords kicking out long time tenants at their whim. Your home should be a safe space and having that sword of Damocles constantly looming above your head must feel awful especially in lower income households.
Never said it was. People go into creative fields because they enjoy it. That's called supply and demand.

Putting aside doctors, do you know we have a massive nursing shortage? Becoming a nurse is relatively easy, jobs are plentiful, and it pays really well. But it turns out that wiping the ass of a psychotic homeless man isn't something people enjoy. Realistically the shortage would be even worse if the job didn't pay well.
To be fair, another reason for avoiding OCaml, or other kinds of almost-esoteric tooling is a business need for longevity of support and of the ecosystem: if you choose something like Java you have a reasonable belief that, at any point in the next 20 years, if something breaks then you’ll be able to call a phone-number and pay through the nose to get it working again. Companies don’t mind paying large amounts of money for an expert, provided those experts are available. But in 2024 try finding an expert for some dBase 4GL system from 1998 that only runs on AS400.
Yes. Proposition 13 is famous for triggering sweeping tax changes across the country.

In CA, Prop 13 effectively caps how much the assessed value of your home can increase each year to 2%.

So over time, the tax burden of long term property is much less than the current property value.

When the house changes hands (generally) the house is reassessed to the market.

There was also new laws passed a few years ago where a family can bring their current tax basis forward to a new home.

There’s also the phenomenon of businesses buying other businesses, but leaving them formally intact so that their assets don’t “change hands” thus maintaining the inherited tax basis.
USA pretty much is. EU barely matters
I don't have the books of Red Lobster, but the economic rationale is that if the enterprise is continuing to persistently lose money, it is destroying capital not increasing it.

It's likely that the real estate that the Red Lobsters were built on was worth more than the entire enterprise. In such a case the implication is that the ongoing operation is negatively valued. Splitting the real estate off and valuing the restaurants at zero is a rational action -- and good for the economy.

Put a mom and pop restaurant on the spot. Or a nail salon. Or anything that can justify its costs.
I'd like to see business schools codify "brand value extraction" or "enshittification" as explicitly unethical. Any activity that degrades a brand for short-term cashflow--and is reasonably know to decrease future business--is necessarily fraudulent.

If that is codified and taught, then journalists can point to that in all cases (of which we are overrun). It's pathetic.
I agree, preventing the spread of illness in a hospital sounds challenging.

You know what isn’t very hard, is making sure nuts are on bolts instead of in the trash.
Statement by the North Atlantic Council on recent Russian hybrid activities
The thing about retirement, especially early retirement, is it (hopefully) lasts a long time. It is foolish to assume that the trends of the last couple of years will continue on indefinitely rather than return to historic norms. Banking on a 7%-8% return on low risk assets is just asking for trouble.
@ines

I'm interested in the data scientist position, what's the next step?
They're on my lifetime ban list after PE ruined their menu.
I think another big issue with modern twitter style mostly-one-interaction social media is the lack of a community.

Even the good old forums, I recall, would have people show up and behave more poorly than was acceptable, get banned, and then you could go back to interacting with your online friends. There’s a sense that the angry person who showed up is the misanthrope, so their opinion doesn’t hurt you.

Plus you have more of a model, so-and-so is grumpy and will insult me, but it’s kind of good natured or at least I know how to calibrate their ire.
If China starts a war with Taiwan we're gonna be looking at WW2 level of taxation. Ordinance shortages are already here due to Ukraine.
And in Barnett's case, he'd been talking since 2019. Even if one thinks Boeing would be willing to have people murdered, the time to do so would be before they became public whistleblowers, not a half-decade later.
The Carolinas, near the Blue Ridge Mountains where it is also pretty. Not quite the Sierras but it’ll do
Live in a multi-unit under rent control. New landlord has very limited options with you.
The author should spend some time reading root of good's blogs.

The guy takes his family of four on multi-week vacations for essentially nothing...
Great band recommendation, thank you! From a fellow Cretan
Oh, most definitely. The distances covered in older travel tales are often shorter than many people’s contemporary daily commutes.
How does it work? Make it look like a consensus
There is the Franz Edelman award from INFORMS [1] that used to publish accessible articles about how OR techniques are being used in industry.

The MIT LGO program has some theses published online that show how OR techniques are applied at smaller scale in industry.

I’ve been involved in some smaller scale projects that used mathematical programming techniques to help with scheduling manufacturing lines and call center shifts. We’ve used simulation to help understand how improvements can be made in call centers and warehouses.

Lots of this stuff is under industrial engineering at the operational level.

At the supply chain level, often a company is using the services of someone else. Sometimes they’ll have industrial engineers working with these techniques.

[1] https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/INFORMS-Prize...
I stopped using Facebook years ago but recently returned to it to keep up with some college friends. I absolutely loathe how much Facebook keeps pushing content on me that I neither want, nor find any interest in.

To be clear, this is only on my phone. When I am using Facebook in my browser I am blessed with the F.B. Purity extension which gets rid of all of that. I realize FB wants me to engage more, and this is their hapless attempt at forcing that engagement, but it has been next to meaningless to me and deeply annoying.

https://www.fbpurity.com/&ved=2ahUKEwilwaHave-FAxVt4ckDHR5ED...
My god I read up a little on the vulnerability and it might have been written as a feature to recover your account with any email address?? The module was called RecoverableByAnyEmail or something.
It's important to remember that 70% of the statistics on the internet are fake.
There's a solution, I posted it in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238807
Reading Twitter, or YouTube comments, or FT comments or any comments section, is pretty much the most pointless thing to do these days unless you want to marinate your brain in Russian/Chinese/Israeli/far right wing disinformation. There is far left disinformation too but that is usually the Russians or Chinese co-opting the political left, which seems to be really effective. For instance Jill Stein more or less parrots Russian propaganda.

To me it's fairly obvious but I know some people just look at whats the most prevalent view and put weight in it. The paid trolls are not very sophisticated, they're rigid and repetitive, make numerous cultural mistakes, even as they claim they are American/European/the victim/the perpetrator, but they are legion.

Comment sections should have a warning these days: "For entertainment purposes only, do not base anything important on what you read here".
Usually when something's value and limitations has been proven people stop referring to it as AI. AI is used as a marketing term to generate hype for new thing.
…but, like drowning, plane crashes aren’t infectious.

There might be something to your analogy if a crash in Boise caused everyone in town to come down with a plane to the head, but that’s not how that works so it’s kind of apples to oranges.
It would be selection bias to point out that none of the Russians I've worked with mentioned any such problems. Even of the non-Europeans, only the Nigerian mentioned an issue.

Oh, just realised I forgot about the Mexicans, Brazilians, and Argentinian in the previous list.

A completely unrelated Russian has mentioned that his parents had to explain to the Russian conscription department that he wasn't in the country, but that's as close as it gets.

Still, like I said, selection bias. I can only see the ones who could get out.
Both Win Forms and WPF work with .NET 6+ though.
I have some very basic understanding of greek, so I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. But the way that they pronounce (sing) diphthongs is not quite right and I feel that makes the song sound... rougher somehow.
There is a difference between what is experienced in the mind and consciousness. What you're describing are aspects of emptiness (and content or lack of content) as experienced by the mind waking/dreaming/deepsleep. But consciousness / Atman is always aware and awake.
As a healthcare tech investor, I do see a lot of startups selling potentially dangerous AI systems into the healthcare system. That said, there are also a good number of companies that are implementing systems thoughtfully to address a number of issues that are very real in healthcare like staff burnout, continuing education, adherence to standard of care, managing complex value-based payment contracts and coordination of care, etc. The trouble I see is that clinician/hospital buyers of these systems can't always tell the difference. A basic initial filter that can be used is simply (a) does the team have an experienced medical professional with power on its executive team, and (b) does the team credibly know how to measure clinical quality impact of what they're building and do they have a plan to honestly measure it.
You're suffering from FAANG Derangement Syndrome.
I recall using TrueBASIC on the Mac in the early '90s, and IIRC, it had already been around for a while. It was a nice, structured dialect that didn't rely on line numbers.
Not to mention how old some of them must be.
Boeing is a private company in the sense that its stock is owned by private indviduals as opposed to entities like Amtrak, USPS, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, etc, which are companies that are owned by the government. That is it's a private sector company (vs public sector or government).

It's an admittedly weird overloading of the term "private company" but it's a useful thing to know about - usually context clues can help, but definitely gives me a pause when I encounter the term.
Can you provide more context on what you do? I’m curious about why you don’t think an LLM can provide that audit trail!
Once your number as high as $5.6m, is that even plausibly within the scope of early retirement?

I feel like a lot of the value of getting a specific number is getting spooked by it! And then facing some real choices. Is it really worth N years of my working life to [live in the most expensive city in America] / [buy a large home] / [pay for 4 years of expensive American universities]?

And this isn't even touching on stuff tech people often want that OP doesn't (private schools / resort vacations / expensive winter sports).
That's an excellent idea. I posted in the thread another angle I'd love to see get traction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238807
Tim Hortons is part of $RBI [1] and not private equity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons
Pretty cool. A little slow for a search engine, have you tried in-database embeddings for semantic search like PostgresML?
Youth Cultural Drift
> The first one said “if anything happens to me, it’s not suicide”.

That's what one of his female friends claimed he said. You don't think it's more likely that a grown man of the boomer generation might not be up-front about his mental health to his female friends?

Meanwhile, others who were closer to him said he was having a tough time. And he was found in his own truck, shot with his own gun, with his hand on the trigger, and a note, across state lines from where he lived. And the responding investigators didn't report any signs of foul play.

It's certainly a possibly, but the evidence just doesn't add up that way. As humans, our brains are wired to fall for the narrative fallacy, even when it isn't a good explanation.
> Guys, have you considered taking from the commons? There's all free stuff there, it's benefited me personally.

Classic Reddit joke: “Did you know that the ducks at the park are free? You can just take them!”
I look at private equity as sort of like a bacterial infection. The infection may be the thing that kills its host by sucking of all of its energy, but the reason the host was infected in the first place was because of some other problem that led to a weakened immune system.

Private equity firms prey on companies that are already struggling. Yes, they take a struggling company and hasten its demise. But healthy companies don't end up getting bought by private equity in the first place.

In this case, I think dining culture has just changed in a way that's incompatible with Red Lobster's brand. It used to be considered higher-class fare, but drifted down market like almost every large restaurant chain does (see also: Friday's, Applebee's, etc.). For a while, it survived on the unusual combination of being a nice-seeming sit-down seafood restaurant, but not actually that expensive or close to the sea.

But, of course, the way they were able to do that was by cutting every possible corner (for example, calling langostino "lobster"). Diners today care more about their health and where their food is coming from. The post-WWII culture of "we can trust big companies because they're successful business" has been replaced by "we can't trust big companies because they must have grown by doing shady shit".

Frankly, a cheap restaurant in the midwest that lets you eat unlimited lobster no longer seems a delightful treat and a hell of a lot more like a suspicious food poisoning trap.
The Dutch have rent control.

Rent control means the end of new supply from the market. You get new supply from and only from Government funding/projects, and that works as well as any Government-run service. The supply in Holland is inelastic. It simply does not respond to the market, which is to say, to the level of demand.

So you end up with stories like this.

It's even worse in Sweden. In Sweden, last I knew, it's actually illegal for a private person to rent from a private landlord, unless the State gives permission. There's a queue to be given permission, you accumulate points over time, and it takes about two decades to be allowed to rent in central Stockholm.

Hard to imagine a worse fuck-up, and of course being State, it's political, and it's impossible to get rid of.
> Even after mapping the entire visual cortex to all visual features, it just doesn't get us any closer to understanding that raw experience of "sight" that happens when you look at something. It's not the same thing.

Seems plausible that a detailed enough mapping of correlates one day uncovers a single thing/feature/location/architecure/pattern/whatever that is present only when qualia are, and absent in all other processes. That would at least point us in a concrete direction.
we are assuming that the state of health care technology somehow starts with high data integrity that isn't reckless to begin with anyways. As a technologist, it pains me to say that medical personnel having a healthy sense of interpretation and distrust for the system is a good thing.
No one will push against the claim there's far too many calories available, on average, in Western countries. That consumption is the automatic answer to anything that ails, it could be argued as well.

It reeks of ignorance and obstinate privilege to claim people are too rich to care about food [1] [2], that having to travel 3 miles to get food is not a barrier to access [3] [4]. Saying that processed foods are more expensive than fresh is an outright lie [5][6][7].

The HN discussion forums are one of the last remaining places where we can expect civil and informed online discourse. Please try and keep with that spirit.

1: https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/53-millio...

2: https://gitnux.org/food-bank-statistics/

3: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/food-bank-use-highest-in-cana...

4: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-are-food-dese...

5: https://foodispower.org/access-health/food-deserts/

6: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9967271/

7: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/healthy-vs-...

8: https://www.aier.org/article/why-unhealthy-food-is-cheap-and...
If you think this is an example of one-sided journalism and want to convince anyone else if your position (as opposed to coming off as a one-sided musk supporter who compresses all musk critics into a single group and then strawman them), perhaps you could make a case why the firing of the supercharger team is actually the smart move here.
Agreed. Kotlin is already fairly niche of a language with most people using it already using a jetbrains product (like Android Studios).

I've tinkered with the idea of using an LSP for development, but when it comes down to it Intellij is just too nice and works perfectly (most of the time).
Compliance with various POSIX standards remains useful and relevant, though the only list of actually certified products I can find[1] includes only RTOSes.

Even without certification, POSIX remains a useful baseline for implementing and consuming cross-platform system services, taken with your suggested grains of salt on the consumer side for any details not specifically documented as POSIX-compliant.

UNIX certification seems mostly only relevant in terms of OS marketing, in the sense that it signifies a vendor's intention to provide a usable POSIX-ish programming environment.

As a target for cross-platform application developers, the list of certified UNIX platforms is at best weirdly specific:

macOS: supported

AIX: supported, though even IBM seems to prefer Linux for new development; IBM-supported Linux runs natively alongside AIX on the same hardware, further limiting appeal

z/OS: supported, but only a "UNIX system" in that it offers a POSIX compatibility layer on top of a system that's fundamentally non-POSIX in design (EBCDIC, expensive process creation, etc.); IBM-supported Linux runs natively alongside z/OS on the same hardware, further limiting appeal

HP-UX: supported until 2025-12-31; Itanium-only

SCO UnixWare and OpenServer: supported (?), but no substantial updates since 2018 (?)

[1] https://posix.opengroup.org/register.html
Chick fil A is privately held and their franchise operator model doesn’t require a large infusion of cash from the franchisee. Only 10k cash, so it’s more like a manager job with profit sharing and I don’t see how it could be a MLM.
Yeah I recently looked at rent costs down in the South Bay (thinking “tiny shitty apartment to avoid 12-15 hours of mandatory commuting 3 days a week”) and it’s insane - like “more than my mortgage payments” insane.
Teacher Pay and per Student Spending
> Russian/Chinese/Israeli/far right wing

Did you omit "far left wing" out of cognitive bias? Or was that just an accidental omission?
Stadia was doomed to fail:

- You have to buy all the games all over again

- people, that are familiar with google ways, didn't want to invest anything into stadia

- stadia controller, while nice, didn't want with anything, but stadia until recently (still doesn't work with ATV for some reason)

- Google own devices didn't support Stadia for absolutely no reason (you could have side-loaded the app, and it worked just fine)

xCloud always felt much better than Stadia when playing.
I think any time you string together a series of worst case scenarios all being true at the same time, you're going to end up with something ridiculous. It's silly to ignore social security since at the bare minimum, if congress does nothing, people will still get roughly 75% of the benefit.

One tool I like better than the online calculators is the spreadsheet at https://earlyretirementnow.com/safe-withdrawal-rate-series/ . It'll give you the actual 0% failure safe withdrawal rate, based off of your numbers. I'm sure in OP's case it will be higher than 3.00%.
You seem to misunderstand.

If a company owns apartment buildings and earns $1B a year, and pays out $500m a year in dividends at 5% yield, that is a 50% payout ratio and very safe margin of error on cashflow for real estate.

If you buy today and hold, that's locked in. You are in a safe position, if you assume that rents aren't going to decline nationally and materially. There is no "good times and bad times" you're in the position and in the game. Just hold it

If you buy Costco today at a 45x earnings multiple and 0.5% dividend, and expect to be able to sell it down at 4% a year and earn a better yield at lower risk, that is quite clearly poorly conceived in my opinion.

(among many other large caps in a similar position)
Doesn’t really solve the cost of living problem being in coastal CA :)
Orangutan was seen treating his wound with a medicinal plant
Oh there are more. I think hundreds are known, but only a few populations have each one.
Will they ever release Crypto II?
Have to admit I'm slightly disappointed that the FF version only shows two users still and one of them is me.