skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a problem for values of all types, not just errors. One I'm not sure we've figured out how to solve[1]. There are a few languages out there that force variable assignment to try and address the problem, but even then there is really nothing to say that you haven't accidentally ignored the variable assigned.

The difference is that the happy case is well-tested. If you aren't handled the error-free route you probably will notice that very quickly unless you aren't testing your code, even manually.

e.g. it doesn't matter if you ignore normal variable assignments because the programmer will usually catch that themselves. They will not likely catch all of the possible error assignments without some help.

> To be fair, if you are able to completely leave out entire blocks of logic without anyone noticing even under the most cursory of testing, perhaps it wasn't actually needed? Forgetting entire code branches isn't exactly a subtle bug.

In this case we were silently ignoring errors which caused multiple types of issues that we had to then manually track down. This is an entire class of defects that can be avoided with better tooling, either at the language level with checked exceptions, or with a linter like errcheck.
Great now make Uber buy medallions for the (effective) number of vehicles that provide the service based on hours in service.
That would make buying houses cheaper, but would probably make housing in general more expensive- and less accessible to people that can’t get or afford a home loan. Ultimately if there is too much demand, nothing but more supply will make housing affordable.
This is really impressive. Especially the performance in a browser.
Yeah. If you have at least somewhat complicated taxes, you have at least somewhat complicated taxes. But a lot of people don't. If someone only has a W-2 and maybe a 1099, they're probably covered. Even mortgage deductions are less common these days.
That was not the question.
How do you move memory and have all the pointers update to the new position? I didn't understand that part.
We used to play music on the coils of BLDC drone motors when learning to control them in university 12+ years ago when that was hot shit.
I can't imagine they ran out of money, so I speculate that the executors simply did not want to maintain it.
Sorry, edited my post while you were replying.

Your underestimating the amount of food cows need to eat a day and likely overestimating global seaweed production in relation to even supply only 1% of cattle feed.

89 millions cows in the US alone eating eating 20+ pounds of food a day is 890,000 tons or nearly 325 million tons per year. That’s per day. Global production of seaweed was 358,200 tons in 2019. Only about 11% of what would be needed to be included in 1% of feed of every cow in America. And that wouldn’t leave any seaweed to be used for any of its other uses or the millions of other cows around the world.

https://worldanimalfoundation.org/advocate/how-many-cows-in-...

https://beef.unl.edu/cattleproduction/forageconsumed-day

https://fppn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s43014-022-0...

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0990814231045205...
Jesse is on the board of Teenage Engineering and the founder is the Chief Design Officer at Rabbit:

https://www.rabbit.tech/newsroom/teenage-engineering-jesper-...

This is far more than just a consultancy job.
There’s this tacit myth that it’s possible for the lower end homes to get cheaper while, simultaneously, the middle/high end homes continue their regular 6% (or more) YoY gains (on which owners’ financial health depends).

I think this belief gives hope that affordability can improve even without new inventory.

In reality, the entire stock (low to high) moves lock/step as if they are chained together. Gaps cannot exist because buyers will eagerly move a little up or down (in quality) based on pricing changes.
Interesting times intensifies.
> I don't know how many times I've come across "catch" blocks that are empty or something equally inappropriate. Nothing was gained. It turns out that programmers will still forget no matter how hard you try to hold their hand.

You are right, but the difference is that the programmer is making the choice to ignore that error versus accidentally ignoring the error.
Charitably, you can blame HN's (intentionally?) poor UI design, placing tiny up and down arrows right next to each other so that it's easy to hit the wrong one.
Its very easy to explain (Im doing from memory so not 100% sure all the details are correct).

Prerequisites:
1.Terra/Luna was "special" because it was a cryptocurrency(Luna) with its own stablecoin(Terra/UST), with the peculiar quirk of the collateral for the stablecoin being the crypto itself(unlike Tether/USDC/whatever else where each stable is backed by USD/treasuries/commercial paper and etc).

2. The 2nd part is that the peg of Terra to dollar is maintained algorithmically, via a pretty simple mechanism: One dollar worth of Luna is always worth 1 Terra(so 1 USD in crypto land). To convert between the 2, you either burn(Luna->Terra) or mint(Terra->Luna). The peg is maintained by arbing: If you see 1 UST = 0.9 USD, you buy the UST, mint 1 dollars worth of Luna and sell it to get 10 cents of profit.

3. Anchor protocol was a lending protocol that offered 20% interest rates. You deposit your UST, Anchor lends it out to people who want to borrow it, life is good. There were other protocols that basically also offered ridiculous rates on UST(remember this is close to peak crypto bull).

What happened:
1.From the above description, the biggest question is: What is the value of LUNA? Sure, it has a value with regards to arbing UST, but what is the value by itself(0, turns out). What ended up happening is that during the bullmarket people wanted both UST and Luna(you want Luna to bet on the ecosystem, and you want Terra to farm the 20% yield). For example, if people are buying UST(to put it into Anchor), UST price goes up. You are then incentivized to buy LUNA, burn it to get 1 UST, and sell UST for above a dollar. As you can see, this is a pretty classic flywheel.

2.The actual blowup: Most people blame Anchor cutting the interest rate. Basically, certain large accounts quickly dumped UST for USDT/USDC(actual stables), and this knocked off the peg. Here, under normal conditions, arbitrageurs would massively buy the discount UST, mint LUNA and sell it. There was one problem: LUNA was also massively falling, so it was impossible to do the arb. As a result, the price kept falling as no one was buying, and as the price of LUNA fell the peg could not be defended.

tl;dr It was a stablecoin that was not backed by any actual assets but by another crypto.
A unit being used for short term rental may as well not exist.
Why are Midwest grid operators turning away wind power?
I'm not against exports in principle. I'm against the destruction of my local environment for the profit of a group factory farm owners which as far as I know number in the hundreds. 0.5% of this country is wild nature - again 50% is pig feed! - and we need more wilderness and more forests both to maintain our biodiversity and capture carbon to reach our 2030 goals. This cow tax is actually part of a larger deal that also sets aside money to buy land back from farmers to achieve that.

And if you're asking me whether I think it's fair that we can buy computers from Asia for around the price of the raw materials and labour, and not have to worry about the environmental devastation of both the production of them and the handling of them when they're discarded, the answer is a firm no. I want environmentalism both here, in China, and in Africa. Production should be sustainable, and if I then have to eat less meat or make my computers last longer, then that's just how it is. Just because I want something doesn't mean I have a right to it when what I want has such a profound impact on others.
Fair, it would have been more accurate to say Apple shipped no Intel Macs in Q1.
AFAIK many of the tales that Grimm collected were told in the context of Germany during the 100 year's war. Due to economic and geopolitical conditions of the times, it was literally true that the woods were full of predators. They were just human veterans of a lifetime of war and deprivation, rather than wolves. It was a very good idea to instill in your farm daughter the notion that the world out there is not safe, and don't trust people.
> Why the heck would we want tax collection to get more inefficient every year?

There is a subset of Republicans who believe that taxes should be painful. They should be constantly front-of-mind for every American. It keeps people from forgetting about income taxes and having them fade from public discourse.
Presumably that skips the code that sends the event to the backend?
Not just that but I also resent the fact that many modern apartment buildings are "luxury" apartments that come with a gym, a pool, a coworking space, a garden and whatnot. I don't care about these amenities. Renting these places makes me think I'm wasting part of my rent on these amenities that I'll never use.
It's really cool, but the flame profile is that of a blowtorch, not a rocket engine
It was satire. The joke of the sketch was that the if the WH and their damage control campaign were being genuinely transparent, the response would have had to have been an act of sheer genius, and not the clear debacle everyone knew it was.

I mean, the sketch was written by Al Franken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live_season_12#....
Top recipe: you force some people to have a very shit life, selection based on race. Some lawlessness is naturally bred and in some cases encouraged. You then take away the rules that made it shit but you leave the economic, societal and mental damage of a polarised society. You start uplifting people but you mainly focus on a small group and do little to help most people. You allow education to go south because teachers are unionised and you want their votes. You demonstrate corruption at the highest levels and then dismantle the parts of the law meant to fight it. You let the economy grow too slowly because you’re so focused on cutting pieces of the pie for yourself that you forget to grow it. You let public health and policing go to waste, so only wealthy have access to good healthcare, education, security. You break the electricity generation capacity through corruption. Poverty never really gets fixed because a kid in a rural village has a massive hill to climb to be economically active. You also add other broken countries nearby so you end up with a lot of job seekers. Add some resentment of those people.

The kids who make it through all that to e.g. get a job in a bank are absolute heroes.
Sure, but the car industry is pretty old and there's plenty of competition still.
Does anyone know of a way to implement this at the network level? Maybe with a pihole or something?
The article’s premise is flawed. Banning Airbnbs obviously won’t reduce housing costs; rather, it aims to prevent even further price increases. One study confirms this link[0], but it’s unclear whether the effect size is meaningful.

[0]: https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/...
> The biomass of livestock is 14x larger than all other mammal, combined[1] (not counting humans). You have to be really intentional with the way you phrase things to point out that, yes, wild ruminants are essential to ecosystems.

Livestock have supplanted the biomass of wild ruminants and ungulates. As an example, North America had at least 60 million wild bison for millenia before it had 90 million cows. And that's not even accounting for the megafauna that existed prior to the mass extinctions of the Pleistocene (mammoths, giant bison, ground sloths, tapirs, steppe bison, saiga antelopes, giant muskox, wooly rhinos, etc etc) What do you think occupied the Great Plains before they mowed it down for corn fields?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IgvgvDbG-Q
Imo the best way to get your message out is to have a better message
What's next? One million sliders? One million rich-text widgets?
I would definitely use Draw.io over Google Drawings. That sounds a bit masochistic to be honest!
I find this a strange claim. 1: Are people living on milk? Never heard of that diet except for infants. 2: Many things are both cheaper and more nutritious, see https://efficiencyiseverything.com/calorie-per-dollar-list/
Google slides has other pretty major problems for presenting things.

Notably if your corporate identity requires the use of a specific font, then its not possible.

Figma is a lot better in this regard, but the pricing is aggressive for the design part.
All fine and dandy until somebody can’t stand that somebody makes more than them and wants to point out that because you make more and maybe even spend less that your overall tax to income rate is smaller than somebody else.

Taxes are not just about revenue. It’s a political tool first. As the US government could just print money and dilute the value of the dollar as the tax.

Recent moves that show it is political. Trump administration changed rules on how income is reported that affected blue states with high house prices and income tax without affecting red states with sales tax and low house prices much, by way of limiting the deduction of interest paid and state income tax on your federal tax bill. Meanwhile the current administration often says how bad trumps “tax cuts” where without even trying to undo the increased taxes on blue states.
This is giving me me waking nightmares of marauding robots searching for humans so they can slice their faces off ...
The Cortex A9 had 32 byte cache lines for one prominent counterexample.

But my point was more that the size is baked into x86 in a pretty deep way these days. You'd be looking at new releases from all software that cares about such things on x86 to support a different cache line size without major perf regressions. So all of the major kernels, probably the JVM and CLR, game engines (and good luck there).

IMO Intel should stick a "please query the size of the cache line if you care about it's length" clause into APX, to push code today to stop #defining CACHE_LINE_SIZE (64) on x86.
The arc itself. The plasma generates the sound. This is a very low inertia speaker.

Link [2] shows the commercial version of that speaker, with a large helium tank.
> Are 16/24 bytes that much worse than 8/16 (with weak refs) for ref counting?

No, but that's not the right question. Most allocations in languages like C/C++/Rust aren't using ref counts. In fact excessive use of std::shared_ptr is a well known footgun in C++!

> the ability to use non-garbage collected arenas would mitigate that issue

I agree that not using GC is a way to mitigate GC issues! But if you're only able to performantly use GC for a limited number of allocations you also aren't getting much benefit from GC.
This is cool from the tech vantage point. But the labor-sympathizer in me would like to see a person employed to do it rather than licensing the right to their image.
I have no issue with billionaires, and don't resent their cash. But if you drop all income tax, and do only sales tax you'd miss a lot of their income.

Same for the moderately wealthy too.

I suspect you'd need 100% or even 200% sales tax to capture what you so now.

That's going to lead to black markets, reduced economic output, etc too.
That’s fair. Looking at the other comments in the thread, I think I gave your comment an unfairly pessimistic read and the other comment an unreasonably optimistic one.
Strictly speaking, the word "only" isn't in the original title (it was editorialized to fit the character limit). And the article barely discusses the effect on housing costs, this is the one paragraph devoted to it and it comes down to "further research needed":

But Airbnb and other critics say the near-ban won't do much to address the housing crisis and will hurt homeowners who relied on the rental income and visitors who couldn't afford sky-high hotel costs. There is a slew of factors — including new housing construction and migration patterns — that impact housing costs and vacancy rates. But there's some evidence, including from Irvine, California, that restricting short-term rentals can reduce rents. It's not clear how much of a role LL18 has played so far in changing these conditions.
The article is meaningless after 10 years

A hard look at these common criticisms of the MBTI indicates that none of them hold up. I sometimes wonder if academics are not a little jealous of the commercial success of the MBTI and therefore look for ways to shoot it down.

This does not mean that the MBTI is beyond criticism. As I see it, the major problem with the MBTI is not with the inventory itself, but with the way it is normally scored and interpreted. No personality inventory is reliable enough to sort people into 16 type categories, which is why people can get different type profiles when they take the inventory on multiple occasions.

I have always found MBTI useful, especially during initial assessments with clients to assertain the basic structure of personality and how the person interacts with people and the world.

Knowing early on whether the client uses thinking, feeling and doing (action) strategies to navigate the world helps to keep the conversation going.

In the most basic sense you wouldnt ask a thinker "what do you feel about that?" the thinker would slip into rationalizing, you would instead ask "what do you think about that?" then his mind kicks into gear.

Try it out on your friends and see how they respond.
> it's not clear whether the near-ban is achieving one of its central goals: relieving pressure on the city's severe housing shortage

Shame on Business Insider for running a headline that contradicts the article. And shame on the authors for not even investigating the issue at all. You can pretty easily check the effect simply by comparing the change in rental prices in NYC to those in places that didn’t ban Airbnb. Maybe Boston, a nearby city.
If you want it cheaper - not just to make a dent in the curve - "building more housing" is no guarantee by itself. You need to actually outpace moneyed demand! Most of the places that are the most expensive are the ones that HAVE built the most housing in the past (look at density vs cost).

And developments happen in order to increase value of land and demand for that land, so it's not necessarily trivial. (For instance: people with money go to new suburbs because the units of housing are larger and more upgraded; new in-city units are built that are larger and more upgraded than the old one -> some of those people want to move back. And hundreds of other little interplaying loops of human activity.)
UK is a misleading example since they’re also using 20% less electricity since the 1960s (https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/united-kingdom), probably due to their struggling economy. By comparison the US has increased its consumption by 1.6x. And even UKs data will turn out to be worse if they actually switch to EVs because that’s going to increase demand on the grid.

Yes, solar can supply a lot of daytime power as China has demonstrated. But all that daytime power generation is wasted for nighttime power needs. So overbuilding solar in that way will mean super cheap clean energy during the day and super expensive dirty energy at night (because that dirty energy will no longer have daytime demands). And the dirty power will be dirtier since it’s going to be plants that can spin up quickly instead of the baseload ones that are always on. Think about it logically - if solar was solving all their needs, why is China investing in turbocharging their nuclear industry? Answer: because baseload and a reliable backstop to the grid is super important and valuable and batteries won’t cut it to completely decarbonize the grid.

Renewables are popular because fossil fuel companies don’t find them objectionable - it’s a much gradual off ramp from fossil fuel dependence in the grid than with nuclear. And unlike nuclear, fossil fuels remain in use to handle low energy cases from renewables until batteries magically get good enough for the grid.
Tip: play some modem sounds while waiting.
The politicians don’t personally do it. You won’t talk to the actual rep, you’ll talk to some recent poli-sci grad or intern or whatever.

I suppose some might be so incredibly bad at their job that they don’t have staff for constituent services, but most do. They don’t tend to ask who you voted for before helping. I’m in a very red state, vote for democrats, and have had state and federal republican rep offices help me out several times.
All of this is enabled by the ability to print money and not have the painful consequences that other countries have to deal with. What happens when this is no longer the case? All this old cruft (farm bill for example) will cause a collapse. What would that even look like?
I admire your sincere attempt at engaging with this person. I genuinely cannot tell whether he/she is a troll.
I could see myself considering this. And not just because it's got a great project name.
To be honest, I don’t fault the developer too much for selling out. Offers tend to be very generous and potentially life changing. There was no indication that the acquisition was for malicious means despite being highly suspicious.

I’ve been offered money for control over my PyPi account which I rejected only because I got an Apple security bounty shortly before which funded part of my university costs. I still slightly regret not selling out as it would’ve made my quality of life so much better. E.g. No worrying about the price of food etc.

I do feel bad for the original developer though (it seems the maintainer that sold it is not the original author) who now has their reputation tarnished.
Work on Something Hard and Interesting
These are not 1:1 replaceable. Income tax is progressively structured where higher earners pay a larger percentage in income that falls into higher income brackets. Sales tax is a flat percentage which varies based on item category, not the cost of the item.
There are no heirs for LCM. Allen's will specified what do to in particular with a few of his many assets. But for all the rest, he wrote to sell it all, and donate the raised money to charities. So the will's executor (his sister) does not have the latitude to divert some assets to other outcomes.

LCM was never self-sustaining via tickets. It always needed yearly infusions of cash from Allen. Re-opening it as it was would require similar levels of cash to burn. I wish that Allen had loved the LCM enough to design an endowment to keep it going, and had specified in the will how to treat LCM specially. But he did not. What he wanted instead for his legacy, was large cash donations to various charities.
Awesome - interested to hear your thoughts / feelings after you get a chance to try it out.
This article tries to follow the action via the tweets emerging at the time.

https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-40b-wipeout-the-fall-of-ter...

The last laugh: https://x.com/FreddieRaynolds/status/1524139694388355072
tl;dr

1. Wind farms are producing more power than they can transmit out, so a lot of it is wasted

2. When electricity generation exceeds demand, wind and solar farms are the first to be turned off, because they're easier than nonrenewables to spin back up later.
Hmm sending a bunch of underfed brainwashed minions to the edge of the Western world where they can hear and see what the world is really like. If they survive of course. The ones that do return will have a different outlook on life. Wars always end up causing a mixture of cultures.

This could eventually lead to a more open North Korea. Though I'm still hoping for a future sane leader eventually like what happened to the soviets with Gorbachev.
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