skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a really natural solution would be to tax these sort of land restrictions for as long as someone is actually willing to pay. Just assess the value with the restrictions vs without and then tax it at the standard property tax rate. If nobody cares enough to pay for the restriction then it is lifted.
I think the issue is that it's federal land. They would just have to authorize California to do it on their behalf.
Apple Explores Push into Smart Glasses with 'Atlas' User Study
sales is literally you-eat-what-you-kill. you get paid % commission on sales regardless of your gender.
There are so many sales people nobody would actually bother creating a separate pay grade for women and separate for men (and it would be highly unethical and illegal ofc)
This makes a lot of sense, thanks
Which in turn references the 1967 poem by Richard Brautigan:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines...
I believe you're thinking of ritonovir, which is exactly the story in the linked article.
This is an unpopular take, but entirely true. Skilled at a programming language, other than maybe C, does not in any way translate to general skill with system administration, or even knowing how to correctly operate a computer. I once had to explain to a dev that their Mac was out of disk space because a. They had never removed dangling containers or old image versions b. They had never emptied the Trash.
OpenAI in Talks with California to Become For-Profit Company
When I was at Apple (before Steve returned, when it was going out of business), the employees got to pick their titles. Most were approved, but one woman wanted to be "Madonna of the File System", I think that was not. She did, however, know that code inside and out and deserved to get it.
No my point is stop overfunding firefighting. Over fund forest management.
The biggest difference for general-purpose programming is that AWK supports floating-point arithmetic (and in some implementations arbitrary-precision arithmetic), while bash does not. Shelling out to AWK is a much more portable approach to performing floating-point calculations in bash than "bc" or "dc", since it's available in more environments.

Older versions of bash also have extremely limited or nonexistent support for associative arrays, which can pose challenges compared to AWK. I think AWK has much nicer, less surprising syntax than bash, but that's just a subjective opinion.
it got deleted :(
I'm curious, did that action also result in the requirement becoming invalid?
Sure, but it’s a thing that you agreed to when buying the parcel, as part of the overall deal. If you didn’t want that restriction, you may have bid more to get the seller to give that up or you could choose not to buy under those terms.
In most of California, older low-rise buildings are by far the most dangerous buildings out there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_story_building

Rebuilding these as new modern apartments would make everyone a lot safer in case of an earthquake.

Also, we don't outlaw ways of life based on safety. For example, larger cities are far safer when it comes to fire deaths, than small towns, but we're not about to outlaw communities < 2,500 (see Figure 5):

https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-re...
Again, I won't litigate the arguments of the authors. I was on the same side of historical "fact" as you before reading the books I mentioned. They do a good job of explaining their cases. One that I'll mention so that this isn't an empty rebuttal: Remove the verse about Jesus from Josephus's "Antiquities of the Jews" and the narrative about Pilate makes much more sense. Seems like a later revision. Still, beyond that, there appear to be revisions within the revision. Rad verse 2 and 4 without the verse about Jesus at 3 and it's better flow.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Antiquities_of_the_Jews/B...

I'd have to crack "On the Historicity of Jesus," to cite the lines that the author believes were added there, but they included the bit about him being called Christ and some other section. The argument was sound, in my opinion. And it wasn't mentioned in the writings of whatever apologetic a century later when it would have been to their advantage (Origen? Again, I'd have to crack the book.) And not mentioned by Philo, despite his writing about the cruelty of Pilate.

This is all quite weak coming from me and I'm sure there are good arguments against how I've presented this. But the authors do a commendable job of presenting their arguments and evidence.

Final thought: anything that disputed this stance either had to be reinterpreted (Paul and contemporary epistles) to mean something other than what they said or the works were destroyed as heretical. The Qumran caves gave us evidence of this with a handful of works that only remained in existence there (so far as we know). Apologists reference many other heretical works that no longer exist and we'd not know they'd been written had they not been decried.

Once again, posting without proofreading as I have an after-work obligation and I'm only home for a short time in between.
Came here to say this.

I looked at 1/3 of the scripts and not one _adds_ functionality, they only add interfaces for existing functionality.

I hate to say this but I feel like this post got upvoted simply for being hit-adjacent.

I wonder if voting on the front page is a bad setup.
It's a cheese touch situation. Last human to make a decision.
> FDIC found a buyer for the bank at zero without too much difficulty, so in hindsight the taxpayer's money wasn't actually spent here

At risk, not spent. The FDIC will typically agree to take first losses to maximise the price it can get for bank assets.
If you really care about the security of your email, run Qubes OS and use a qube dedicated to email separate from your other qubes.

https://Qubes-OS.org
When was linus/Linux ever "openly abusive" to users ?

He can get pretty heated in arguments on the LKML for sure, but those are arguments between devs, and usually for the benefit of the user.

I still think this way of working out disagreements sucks, but as a user it does not really affect me at all.

And other OS'es abuse their users on a whole other level and I'm quite sore that some of apples/microsofts middle managers can also be quite abusive to their devs behind closed doors, with linux it's just all in the open...
Thanks! I'm looking those up now.
> You're not the target demographic. It's an enterprise play.

> You're talking about it.

I love these kinds of arguments. If we think the marketing isn’t working then we’re not important enough to matter, but then also the fact that we’re talking about it matters and shows that it’s working.
Absolutely, but if only the games console could be forced to go full screen in the browser... It keeps moving when I'm playing

Edit: strangely this seems to happen only in Firefox mobile, not Chrome mobile
If you know nothing about Python or coding it is not really relevant as the code is probably read and written more by those who know coding and/or Python?
my favorite story about quincy is that at as a 22 year old he was selected as the music arranger for dizzy gillespie’s band, and they all went to iran and gave a series of concerts. around 1954. RIP.
Do you have any examples of Linus being abusive? I always thought he was a straight shooter but wasn’t aware he was being abusive to users.
This.

Distrobox and podman are such a charm to use, and so easily integrated into dev environments and production environments.

The intentional daemon free concept is so much easier to setup in practice, as there's no fiddly group management necessary anymore.

Just a 5 line systemd service file and that's it. Easy as pie.
Not sure how it went down but https://archive.ph/6wz6K
> But alas, we don't have browsers capable of editing

Don’t anymore. Didn’t Netscape Navigator have a full editor in it? The big bloated one that begat Firefox as the slimmed down one.

But like you said, WYSIWYG HTML editors were common in those days.
> Not without Congress doing something to enable it

Why? We played with the farfetched hypothetical of California unilaterally acting on federal land. But if the Forest Service says “come on in” and they do, I’m struggling to see who would face any real consequences given the Congress’s power of the purse isn’t being touched.
I've found llm generated code to work amazingly well for visualisation since you can just look and check you're getting the right results.
For the same reason companies shouldn't be able to band together with other companies to not allow raises. They're anti-competitive practices, which eats away at the entire point of having a market, which is for competition to force parties to offer better prices, bid higher amounts, and produce better products/services, which benefits everyone. For example:

- Landlords should not be able to collude to keep rent prices high. They should be forced to compete against each other, either by offering lower rent or better premises and services to tenants. The result is that over time, society gets better and better places to live, that are nicer, updated, and safer, at cheaper prices.

- Healthcare providers shouldn't be allowed to collude to set uniform prices for services. They should have to compete on price, quality of care, or access to treatments, ensuring patients can choose better or more affordable options. The result is that more and more people can afford healthcare services, which themselves become increasingly effective over time.

- Internet service providers shouldn't be able to divide territories or coordinate to prevent competition in specific regions. They should have to compete, driving down prices or increasing service quality for consumers.

- Software companies shouldn't agree to not hire each other's employees to keep wages low. This prevents employees from negotiating higher salaries and better benefits, hurting workforce dynamism and innovation.

Etc.

Capitalism is simply a collection of laws and regulations that blocks all means of profit other than simply offering a better deal or better services. The goal is for those to be the only real ways to profit. The side effect of workers and companies all competing to do this in order to profit is that society benefits by having a ton of innovation to make better and better things, at cheaper and cheaper prices. Which is the central reason why, today, the average person can have a cell phone, a TV, the internet, amazing healthcare treatments, and an almost infinite array of options for clothing, food, entertainment, etc.

Allowing people to profit in ways that disrupt competition gunks up the entire functioning of the market. Maybe you get some short-term benefit, but ultimately you end up with a system that doesn't create nearly as much wealth and prosperity. Because why go through the trouble to create great things for your customers (as a company), your employers (as an employee), or your employees (as an employer) if you can instead benefit by simply banding together with others and colluding, or monopolizing some essential resource, or fixing prices, etc.
The lecture by Larry McEnerney was a great recommendation, I just watched. When I was in college I had a revelation reading Clarity: Toward Style and Grace by Williams. Really put into concrete terms why some ways of writing "sound wrong" and how to avoid them.
Bad philosophy. Less prescribed burns mean more uncontrollable wildfires which means in the long term costs are even higher.

Prescribed burns are expensive now because we haven't done them for so long. California banned the indigenous practice of cultural burns before it was even a state! But the more we work on restoring this practice the cheaper it'll be for everyone in the long term
>This is informal collusion between the large supermarket chains, enabled by a long tradition of lack of antitrust enforcement.

But you linked to figures for the PPI, which as the name suggests, is the price charged by producers, not distributors or retailers. It might be evidence of collusion between whoever is making ketchup, but not between the supermarkets stocking them. It's hard to take the rest of your comment seriously given sloppy mistakes like this.

>If running a Chinese SOE well means a promotion in the party apparatus, then that would give some real competition

How's that working out with all the senior party members mysteriously disappearing?

>but US capitalism is delivering only for the billionaire class.

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

In other words, working as intended.
If it was about giving customers products yeah sure. But it's really about making the stock price go up. Politics is a great way to adjust the stock price. See esg scores.
Automattic is 'short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama
You may have experienced this due to it being Sunday school designed for children...kinda like Pop sci but pop religion. It's day care mostly and not taught generally be the more knowledgeable people at the church. That's probably not a good thing but it is what it is.

Even fairly conservative evangelical churches like the one I grew up in were pretty much totally in alignment with modern scholarship when it comes to topics like the authorship of various New Testament books. If you are into debating the "Q source" or other fun stuff then there is no better place cause most elders would know what you are talking about, whereas this is all a niche topic at best outside of that environment (but thankfully not on HackerNews).

Study of ancient languages and strict study of the base texts is kind of a foundational aspect of most serious Protestantism.

Basically what I'm getting at is that everything you've written is reasonable, and I don't think it would be remotely out of the ordinary to hear in an adult Sunday school or other sort of adults oriented class (for adults interested in these sorts of things...we usually don't do classes on Sunday lol, that's too long at church for one day).

I'm as irritated as you are by the way a lot of the childrens content comes off.
https://wicg.github.io/local-peer-to-peer/#security-same-ori...

The W3C won't ever adopt a system like this. They intentionally nerfed all local-loopback servers to never be able to effectively use websockets or ssl. That seems like a place to start before adopting this.

I honestly don't believe we will be able to meaningfully change or improve browsers without abandoning the w3c and starting standards over almost from scratch. Brave exists, but we would need to do better than that and design more general p2p protocols and systems.
The straw man is usually that employee metrics should be used as the primary factor in performance reviews. Well, I guess it's hard to call it a straw man because some companies, allegedly, really do operate like that.

The steel man argument would be that employee metrics can provide a couple data points that a manager doesn't take action on by themselves, but can help a manager know where to look. Metrics can flag unusual situations. Sometimes there's a great explanation behind employee X making 80% fewer commits than the average employee. Like less rework, making more impactful changes, or simply bundling more changes together. Other times, it can be a sign that someone is having trouble onboarding or simply not performing at the necessary level. When you see that a metric is different than what you expect, it's your responsibility as a manager to figure out why.
What special tools? Since when is vim a special tool? What special file format? Special file formats exist but none are required. I don't see an answer to the question here.
Some recruitment firms had some reports that corroborated that. HIRED’s annual report showed that too.

In person, I’ve seen many women colleagues do things at odds with the competition

For example, being worried about how to move up in their organization without coming across as “too bitchy”, as if it was a unique phenomenon to their gender

When the competition is:

- losing opportunities for being too cocky, and they keep trying until they find a different organization “looking for someone to make the hard decisions”

- emphasis on a different organization. the competition is coming in at a higher level by bluffing and trying, not focusing on going up the corporate ladder, or worried about being married to a company

its a widely replicated experience that changing jobs will get you 30% pay bump and the same level of responsibilities, while trying to move up gets you a ton more responsibility and single digit percent compensation increases

if many women are adverse to doing that, it would be a significant factor in some industries
OP is talking about CA paying money to the park service. Different than them handing over a license to burn.
Not just experience but desire. They're fighting for their right to take care of their land throughout most of California. The indigenous practice of cultural burns was banned before California was even officially a state. To many tribes, the practice was really important for generating staple foods like acorns so its banning was important to the overall strategy of mass genocide of native Californians
HOAs’ most redeeming feature is they serve to coarsely segregate people who like to live under HOAs from people who don’t.
To be clear, I think he's very right in this article about abuse of monopoly. I just wish he'd cede that for California, and other highly in-demand areas, he's wrong to pooh-pooh the monopoly of land use, and it makes him seem a bit foolish to me.

If I'm ever inconsistent, I hope people point it out to me! This isn't "whataboutism" this is me changing the subject to a different area where I wish he'd be correct and use his considerable wonk-weight to correcting. Its not changing the subject to counter his point about grocery stores in Mammoth, California, it's more of a yes, and.

I'm also for improving the market forces in construction, and do devote some political effort to correcting exactly that problem.
Unfortunately, it's not a binary tradeoff.
Equal time is about campaigns having equal amount of airtime on broadcast television/radio. It says nothing about the internet or network packet prioritization.
Yes, go back to primal forest as far as you can, then one dry hot year the country will burn flat?
If we build houses in forested areas = that will happen. Home owners and insurers along with state/city must burden home owners with enforced brush/tree clearance laws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1922
It is TOTALLY psuedo-scientific new agey talk. That doesn't necessarily negate it's validity. What determines it's it's validity is whether it is a testable and repeatable method to accomplish a result, and whether it can be learned, then communicated / taught to others.

Aleister Crowley said in Magick in Theory and Practice:

"In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them."

So, have you studied and received training and tried your own personal practice in pushing up your cerebrospinal fluid / manipulating your kundalini energy / grounding your root chakra / whatever new-agey terms your chosen method uses? Or are you dismissing the validity of these methods without firsthand experimentation because of how other people in your society have trained you think and because you do not like the terminology that they use?
Quite amazing how little traction this story is getting. Back in the 1950s-2000s, when Russia's influence on the West was rather subdued, this would have been the only news in town.

Instead it's more like "nothing to see here, kindly vote in our puppet candidate X, thanks!" for various local values of X.
Hi Nathan, I'm sorry you got turned down.

It is a real position that we are actively trying to hire for.

I myself, and at least two colleagues I can think of off the top of my head were hired via postings like this one on HN.
At the risk of being an idiot, is the problem firefighting? Is the problem that we're continuing a losing battle? That, even when we had proper forest management, the costs were still shifting towards firefighting? Warming making everything drier on average?

In the end though the only one we're truly hurting is ourselves and our desired life style when it burns out of control.
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My dream has always been to work at the company that created the Macintosh. I enjoy thinking about how we interact with computers and making designs like Apple does. I'm not interested in working anywhere else -- I have a pays-the-bills job and I have an insane amount of patience. I like what Apple does and see most every other tech design as a fight for second place.

Apple, get at me -- I have a music UI that I think could improve upon on your work along with so, so many ideas. I'm happy to carry water for you until I can get your interns coffee.

- Dillon
Many bikers in canada, minnesota, and other places where they get snow would beg to disagree
Tencent and Bezos must be happy...
Ah, ok, I confused dropping the cgi module with dropping support altogether. My mistake.
Eh.

There's not much evidence that indigenous Californians were doing any kind of fire management in the California coniferous forests - which is largely what the US Forest Service manages and have been in the news for megafires.

Indigenous Californians lived, overwhelmingly, in chaparral and grasslands near coastal areas and foothills rather far away. There is evidence that burns happened there (mostly burn scars in nearby coastal redwood forests, but also various written accounts by the Spanish).

That said, an estimated 4.5-12% of California land burned annually prior to the Spanish getting here - so whatever wildfire management practices happened still resulted in far more land burning than today and months of smoke filled skies - which matches up with early written accounts.
> Comments. Another symbol here to come: `%`. To be honest, I can't recall any instance I could see the percent sign elsewhere for this purpose.

PostScript is one programming language that uses a percentage sign for comments. TeX and METAFONT also use a percentage sign for comments. There are others, too.
I think it is interesting that people are so quick to understand that measuring productivity is difficult when it comes to software engineering metrics or how promotions can be scuttled by things like internal politics but when it comes to macro scale things suddenly we assume that populations are being accurately evaluated for productivity.
I totally agree with everything you said about information asymmetry and responsibility to provide context. Maybe I didn't explain clearly: it's not an operational failing if someone just decides to "take initiative" to solve an irrelevant problem without telling their boss. It's not the managers job to monitor everything their employees do. It is their job to state goals, assign work, and monitor progress.