skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy your property tax rationale.

You would end up with people paying property tax for their gym memberships and apartment rentals. Those too are contractual encumbrances that would impact a buyer
It seems they already are illegal, at least in some jurisdictions.

> "In June, for instance, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who is also litigating against the merger, fined Albertsons $25,000 for imposing a land use restriction on a store it sold in 2018 in a low-income section of Bellingham, Washington. As part of the sale, the supermarket giant put a requirement on the deed that no grocery store could open there until 2038. Ferguson found this provision was a violation of the state antitrust law."

The fine imposed doesn't seem all that significant though.

Perhaps they could also be prosecuted under federal antitrust law?
This seems to be a ghost job at this point.

I've applied to the backend position with the correct requirements listed but got rejected.

Does the job exist?

There's so many ghost job postings in this thread it's hard to know.
There's really only one: find and buy a decommissioned Itanium server.

There's no complete, working emulator available.
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What Is Window Dressing in Finance?
I presume a lot of the harm that hedge funds and similar housing investment operations do isn't in the buying and selling of a single house (though there is that); but in the buying and selling of houses in whole markets, artificially impacting the price over the long run.

And barring a catastrophic event like the housing crisis, housing prices never really go __that__ down.

It's like broader inflation. If prices increase by 2% and wages by 1%, after 10 years that's a much broader gulf that is far, far harder to recover from.
My markdown file format is really simple too
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/zoning-laws/
Presumably they can use Cloudflare or similar for free or relatively cheap, or perhaps find someone willing to gift CDN service to a Linux distribution.

Redirecting the requests to the closest existing mirror also obviously drastically reduces bandwidth requirements and should presumably be doable with a few (for redundancy) colocated dedicated servers running efficient server software.
I think it's a little different because you knew the situation regarding 4plex on your land when you bought it. You knew you'd have to ask someone's permission to do it and you knew the answer might be no. You also felt like the market was such that local businesses, like grocers, would be competitive and not gouging you with monopolistic strategies
Wrong Stephenson connection! This isn't a data center, it's a submarine fiberoptics cable – hence clearly a reference to Mother Earth Mother Board [1] :)

[1] https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Kubernetes is awesome but I understand what the article is getting at. K8s was designed for a mostly homogeneous architecture when your platform requirements end with "deploy this service to my cluster" and you don't really care about the specifics of how it's scheduled.

A heterogeneous architecture with multi-tenancy poses some unique challenges because, as mentioned in the article, you get highly inconsistent usage patterns across different services. Also, arbitrary code execution (with sandboxing) can present a signifiant challenge. For security, you ideally need full isolation between services which belong to different users; this isolation wasn't a primary design goal of Kubernetes.

That said, you can probably still use K8s, but in a different way. For smaller customers, you could co-locate on the same cluster, but for larger customers which have high scalability requirements, you could have a separate K8s cluster for each one. Surely for such customers, it's worth the extra effort.

So in conclusion, I don't think the problems which were identified necessarily warrant abandoning K8s entirely, but maybe just a rethinking of how K8s is used. K8s still provides a lot of value in treating a whole cluster of computers as a single machine, especially if all your architecture is already set up for it. In addition to scheduling/orchestration, K8s offers a lot of very nice-to-have features like performance monitoring, dashboards, aggregated logs, ingress, health checks, ...
this may be true generally but not the case with California, CalFire and binding legal agreements for responsibility, that were enacted under Gov Newsom. The State budget is cyclic, but there is a lot of cash in those cycles. CalFire is funded very well at this time.
HOAs are a creature of state law and only have power to the extent state law confers it. They are not voluntary associations of the sort contemplated by the First Amendment. You can't choose to join an HOA unless you own land that belongs to it, and you can't choose not to be a member when you acquire a property.
If one is north south and another is east west, then they have to cross each other.
> Part of the reason women get paid less where I currently work is because they ask less.

Yes, and that’s because as study after study has shown they’re less likely to successfully get more and not have it held against them.

> New research by Berkeley Haas Professor Laura Kray shows the belief that women don’t ask for higher pay is not only outdated, but it may be hurting pay equity efforts. Contrary to popular belief, professional women now report negotiating their salaries more often than men, but they get turned down more often, Kray found.

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/new-research-sha...
> Somewhat meta, but can someone explain what an organization like this CEPR .. actually is?

It's a think tank. They generate good policy and good ways for politicians to explain that policy.

> How do they actually make money?

I've given them money. They've been around for a long time. I'm a big Dean Baker fan.

> All they seem to do is just spend year and year pumping out various "studies" and articles.

You say this as if it were a bad thing.
Yes but the concrete types at the byte level can be used to say: "these five bits are, concretely, a type tag, and always a type tag", and so it goes from there.

I don't want to be typing at the high level the same way I'm typing at the byte level.
I have no faith in managers to try to understand or correctly apply any metric. I collected metrics this year that showed I did a lot for the team/company. I still got a shit review because my TL gave me bad feedback. I asked why the feedback was taking precedent over the data. They said that just how it works. The company previously agreed to extra coaching as an ADA accommodation and failed to provide that for 4-5 months out of the year. They refuse to listen to reason, so maybe it's lawyer time.
"Gender studies" is usually used as a dog whistle for low rigor Liberal Arts programs like Psychology (as opposed to high rigor STEM programs like Physics).

Colleges aggressively enroll low-SAT high schoolers in these low rigor fields, because they want their federal student loan money at overinflated tuition. Colleges have only incentive to overproduce students and hand out diplomas like candy in exchange for student loan money.

The problem with over-enrollment of low-SAT students in low rigor fields is Replication crisis[1]. A lot of "research papers" are being produced every year due to sheer over-production of graduate students in these fields, and with pressure to "publish-or-perish" a lot of research ends up bogus, fake, non-replicated or p-hacked.

This NYT claim caught my attention because they used words "average wage per gender/race" - which is telling sign they used simple Excel's AVERAGE() to get their "insights".

In a more rigorous field like econometrics/statistics, you would be laughed at if you make such claim because average numbers hide a lot of nuance, required to understand the field. If one were to control for certain confounding variables, one would get a much better understanding of a "wage gap" or "racial gap" issue and understand each individual components of the gap, rather than blaming everything on strawman "institutional racism" or "institutional misogyny" or whatever

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
> I don't think this is true. In California and New York City, vendors at farmers markets can only sell what they grew themselves

Oh, the US. Do you really think Americans aren't (capable of being) corrupt? As in if it is not allowed, no one does it?
> do firefighters not get qualified immunity when acting in their official capacity?

Putting the matter of settled law to one side, I think the discussion here is about criminal liability, not civil.
The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young has an interesting overview of multiple traditions and how they overlap in a lot of ways.
The government could probably choose to define the terms used to define retail activities in the covenant as meaningless.

Menard's does this in Michigan, and then tries to get the taxes on their replacement stores to be based on the restricted property. It's nuts.
> an HOA can force you to paint over the mural on your garage whereas a city government could not*.

Zoning ordinances (which are the closest analogy to HOA CC&Rs) restrict all sorts of expression but have been held lawful as long as they can be characterized as a time/place/manner restriction. See https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/zoning-laws/ for a pretty good case law overview.
In this scenario k8s is orchestrating the hypervisor,
not VMs themselves. Hypervisor then orchestrates VMs + network (eg OVS) + other supporting functions (logs shipping, etc) on each individual “worker” node. VM scheduling/migration component needs to be completely decoupled from k8s apiserver (but itself can still run as normal k8s deployment) bc scaling kube api with unbound users is challenging. And yes, hypervisor will need to run privileged but you can limit it to worker nodes only
These are the restrictions placed by the companies themselves when they sell or lease land, not government policy.

That said, government policy could be more proactive in disallowing those sorts of restrictions and punishing companies when they try to impose them.
I love duckdb, but their concurrency model is very limiting:

DuckDB has two configurable options for concurrency:

1. One process can both read and write to the database.

2. Multiple processes can read from the database, but no processes can write (access_mode = 'READ_ONLY').

https://duckdb.org/docs/connect/concurrency.html
> Modern cables are fiberoptic and do not increase their bandwidth once laid.

That's not true: The amplifiers they use work at the analog (and in fact even optical, i.e. without conversion to electric and back) level, and it's possible to upgrade capacity by only modifying the endpoints, not the entire cable.
Lovely post. Thanks for sharing.
I've used both extensively. I disagree with this. I dislike the HP48 series but I dislike the TI89 more. It's probably because most people don't understand how to use the 50G properly. You really need to go through the HP training video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTPruRVV-e8 ). Incidentally if you haven't watched that it's worth watching on its own - great production! In an engineering context, the 48-series was designed to produce small composable reusable programs and tools in the file tree which can be executed quickly.

Try a quick EE example for parallel resistor calculation that takes 2 and puts 1 value back on stack

<< 1/X SWAP 1/X + 1/X >>

Store that in RPAR in whatever directory you want or HOME. Then you whack in 2 resistors and hit the RPAR F-key. There is nothing faster or more efficient than that.

I still use a 15C all the time though. Even easier! 99% of what I do is on paper though and ends up getting chucked in the numeric solver.
There are much bigger asks from the union. For instance extreme limits on being able to terminate employees. Which… yikes. If nyt caves on this, look for it to go the way of police and teacher unions where incompetent people flourish while the quality of output nosedives.
The deployment procedure is too complex. Have we learned nothing in the past 30 years?

One of the major shortcomings of the WWW is that it requires technical skills to publish content. If this was as simple as consuming it, and we had the equivalent UX as the web browser, the centralization we got and all its associated problems would've been minimized, if not avoided altogether.

Maintaining the P2P distributed nature of the internet is crucial in protocols of this type. Otherwise once (if) it ever gains traction, the alternative will have the same problems. Gemini doesn't address these issues directly, other than by being very niche and deliberately brutalist. This means it was never designed to be popular, so this article will not appeal to anyone who doesn't already have an interest in it. Let alone entice anyone to escape the current web.

Yes, the current web is deeply broken beyond repair. Using it is a hostile and frustrating experience. I'm not sure what the solution to these problems is, but it's certainly not Gemini.
> The point was "most people dream of cruises to interesting places, not cruises themselves" and your response was "people don't want to take vacations to boring places either"

No, my is that just as many people dream of going on the cruises themselves, so you can't simply slice that out and say "transportation is transportation" just like you can't simply slice out the fact that the beach someone is going to is in Thailand and not closer by. It may be an incidental part of the vacation fro some people, but the people paying more to go to Thailand are doing it because Thailand is important to them, and the people paying more to be on a cruise are doing it because a cruise is important to them.

I understand that people who don't cruises might not understand that, but that's not terribly surprising, is it? The people who do will pay vastly different prices depending on the ship they're going on, and some people say they don't even get off on certain destinations and stay aboard the ship. Depending on the individual, the destination is more incidental than the ship. This is also obvious if you notice that when people take a cruise, they are significantly decreasing their time at these destinations in order to increase their time at on the cruise, which wouldn't make any sense if the cruise was just a means to get them to a destination.

At the very least, people should notice all the people who will pay money to have a boat take them around in a circle for an hour, and realize that some people do really like just being out on the water (though cruises are usually much more than that, but it's another topic).
> How do they actually make money? They say they've got 33 staff members and 14 board members/advisors. Do they all work for free?

Propublica's nonprofit explorer[1], and specifically the Form 990 filings[2], may be useful.

[1]: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522...
[2]: from 2022 https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/522...
The possibility of people leaving really has little to do with the Laffer curve. It's just the simple observation that if taxes are extremely high, people will change their behavior: for instance, if you have a choice between staying in your stable job with mediocre pay and middle-of-the-road tax rates, or taking a big risk to start a new business, but be subject to such high tax rates if you succeed that you'll make no more money after taxes, very few people would even bother starting that new business.
corporate real estate valuations which make up a big part of management's investment portfolios
Note this article is dated June 23, 2023
Skyscrapers weren't seriously impacted, though.

The biggest damage was sustained by bridges and concrete road viaducts built in the 1950s and 1960s which were not built to modern standards.
BPSK and QPSK are modulation schemes, but the optical amplifiers used don't demodulate and re-modulate at all, so the modulation used is irrelevant.
How to Become a Billionaire in Skilled Nursing by Scamming Taxpayers
I'm one of the last people at my workplace to use a calculator. I'm a scientist, not an engineer, so I use a scientific calculator. ;-)

The schools ruined calculators.

I still find a calculator handy, even when I've already got Python going on my PC. It's easier to use the calculator with one hand, especially in the workshop. You can get a Casio solar at Target for 10 bucks.

My wife really prefers RPN, so I gave her my last HP when hers died.
Prescribed burns don’t generate the fear to buy as many shiny new toys.
Well she's been saying this for at least 10 years now I think, so she's lived longer than she expected to.

She also has guests and visitors, so even if she doesn't care about ingesting microplastics herself, she should worry more about them I should think.
you can do a little scientific experiment yourself: Change your linkedin location to San Francisco, add the buzz words and $big_tech_company to your profile, make sure you are of under-represented minority in profile, and watch recruiters banging your door and offering to apply and headhunt you for pay raise
Same. After finishing my breadboard computer, I followed along Nand to Tetris:
https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Combined, hardware is finally approachable down to the gate level, even when modern systems add many layers of abstraction.
Excellent podcast on defensible space and how very few actually have it

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/
I find that a 6-month-old JS project will often not even boot since its exhaustive dependency list will be out of date and now mutually incompatible. You have to feed a JS project with updates every couple of hours, or it will die like a Tamagotchi.
Nice that a human at the FDIC really either was incompetent or a fun whistleblower. Either way, glad to see how the money was spent.
Believing that they should, just because they can, is a destructive zero-sum worldview.
As always happens in these threads - and for good reason - let's be sure to mention the book "Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources", by M. Kat Anderson. I learned about this book here on HN and it has transformed the way I think about this topic.

I particularly recommend the superb audiobook.

Through a series of interviews, this book makes the case the practice of basketweaving by indigenous people living in present-day California - and the massive and well-organized trade of hundreds of different types of baskets - is/was not merely a mechanism of subsistence, but actually a brilliant wildfire control strategy.

Anderson and her many stunning interview subjects - indigenous people recalling the practices of grandparents and their siblings - make a compelling case that by encouraging the hundreds of different species which went into the creation of baskets to grow in certain places and not others, ancestors sculpted the landscape into one in which fires burned out in predictable patterns rather than scorching a significant portion of the continent.
I’m not sure which of my points you’re disagreeing with exactly.
honest face to face, real human discussion. actual management and creative problem solving. why is this person not doing well, maybe I can engage them in discussion and tease out some hints without putting them on the defensive. maybe I can pair them with someone who knows exactly what needs to be done, and get their take. maybe look for try putting them in another role with less long term planning. the list goes on. and when you've invested enough energy and been repeatedly disappointed, move them along.

what repeatedly fails is 'systems' - scores, infantile task management systems and other easy answers to what is a very difficult and nuanced job.

just the word 'accountable' implies to me that you're looking at this from the wrong perspective. if you're a first-line manager, and don't have a pretty clear picture about your ICs contributions, skills, and weaknesses...you're not even close to doing your job.
> specifically prophets and apostles

Well, not all of it (depending on your definitions of course).

The gospels, for example, have no known authorship. Several of the epistles are believed to be pseudepigrapha.

A problem to contend with in bible authorship is the name on the book/epistle isn't always going to be the actual person that penned that book/epistle.

A great example of this is Isaiah, which is believed to have at least 2 to 3 authors (with most scholars, afaik, believing it's probably 3).

This wasn't really a nefarious action, because the people that wrote the bible didn't believe they were writing infallible works of religious text. Much like the telling of tall tales, it was simply acceptable to write (or relay through spoken tradition) fables of favorite historical characters. So what if Moses didn't exist, it's pretty cool to use him as a figure to unify the Canaanite tribes. (Fun fact, biblical scholars/historians believe that the ancestors of the Jews were Canaanite and that the story of moses was mostly there to unify them).

The bible is a mishmash of historic documents mostly solidified in ~400CE.
do you have an argument to the contrary, besides spelling?
>They're going to jail the governor of California? Newsom has presidential ambitions and I can't imagine anything that would make him more popular and appeal to a substantial number of conservatives than defying federal law, risking jail, in order to literally save the state of California from fire.

You clearly haven't seen the political scene in the past decade. Both democrats and republicans have gone 180 on several issues. Democrats, supposedly the stalwarts of bodily autonomy, fully embraced mask/vaccine mandates. Election security (eg. hackable voting machines) went from being the concern of left-leaning techies to a rallying cry of election denying republicans. It's impossible to predict where alliances will lie based on a few principles.
Not sure what you’re talking about. In general the FDA does not regulate medical “services” or procedures.
That’s a poor headline. Since when does “cough” mean spend? Maybe they meant “cough up,” but spend is so much more clear.

Don’t get me started on “capex.”
This seems to reflect the trendy philosophy of the strongman, the business equivalent of the authoritarian dictator in government (and it merges into an oligarch - a strongman businessperson with political power).

Another possibly word for it seems to be the philosophy of megalomania: Their problem-solving and deep philosophical thinking yields the most basic, self-serving, egocentric outcome: More power, money, and credit for me. That's a pretty big dealbreaker for any rational examination, especially with any understanding of human nature and history.

What I don't understand is how followers of this philosophy overlook the obvious, basic, overwhelming flaw. How do you overlook that?

In a way it seems like the philosophy eats its own tail: Part of the modus operendi is the infinite con - endless agression, unlimited by any constraint, with the expectation that your opponents will be overwhelmed or exhausted, or at least perpetually surrender the initiative. SBF is a leading example, but we can name many more. Is the philosophy itself another infinite con?
I don't see why I should just accept your premise at face value.
I don't think I've met a retrocomputing enthusiast yet who has a positive opinion of generative AI.
https://cepr.net/our-funders/

charitable foundations and donors. basically the same groups as "Sesame Street was brought to you by..."