skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also be very suspicious of this Pareto distribution, to me it implies that the 20% of work we're talking about is the hard part. Spitting out code without understanding it definitely sounds like the easy part, the part that doesn't require much if any thinking. I'd be much more interested to see a breakdown of TIME, not volume of code; how much time does using an LLM save (or not) in the context of a given task?
"a company owned property can't just be used privately."

Why not?
Yes, it is. Unequivocally.

You might be overindexing on the loud voices.
Besides browsing job offers on platforms where big companies recruit (like LinkedIn in my country), you can also try applying directly on corporate websites. They usually have a „Careers” section. In my opinion, large companies don’t have unique requirements. Your previous workplace shouldn’t matter as much as whether your CV’s tech stack and experience match what they are looking for. Unfortunately, the IT job market situation is extremely bad right now.
My mistake, please disregard that.
>That happens once every 10 years. They use tax records and other records to estimate it otherwise.

Good thing we did a census in 2020, and the housing crisis (and associated allegations about absentee owners) far predates that.

>Also people will just not return the form, and once again they have to estimate.

Apparently they're pretty persistent. If you don't fill out a form you'll eventually get an enumerator that shows up at your door.

>And in places that impose a vacancy tax, they have incentive to lie or deceive the housing authority to avoid the tax.

The housing authority is independent from the census bureau. Is there any evidence they share data?

>And in my neighbors case for example they come by once every few months to pick up mail and probably fill out those types of forms.

So they're willing to go out of their way and lie to the federal government in order to maybe move the lower the vacancy rate by 0.00001%, when many (most?) people (as evidenced by this thread) are going off vibes and likely won't care anyways? I didn't know that foreign vacant homeowners had such a tight knit cabal.
HCI Research Methods: The Missing Link in AI Engineering
So, sleep-depriving high schoolers in the USA with 7:30am classes will do what for their long-term brain health?
Operators of Cryptocurrency Mixers Charged with Money Laundering
I've been somewhere that no there was no rewards for fixing monetary loss. However thats not really what I was getting at, I was more hinting at embezzlement going on at LOTS of places.
That's a weird take. I am not blaming people trying, I am blaming people cheating. I have no problem with people being inexperienced, but if the amount of seemingly inexperienced colleagues I have to deal with goes up, and it's because a growing fraction of them are cheating, it is natural to feel frustrated. Especially because you can't know which fraction tried their best and deserve patience and mentoring, and which fraction are lying and wasting your time.

I work for a university. I have literally caught student workers putting the result of an LLM in the code without reading it, because they did it during screen sharing. You can't teach somebody who does not want to learn (because they just want to pass the semester and have no incentive to try hard). Now it's just way more easy to pretend to have put in effort.
It's illegal according to European Union law so this is just one more lie by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

https://www.vozpopuli.com/economia/el-castigo-fiscal-a-los-c...
> all Git operations were unavailable due to a configuration change

eats popcorn waiting for explanation of why they didn't catch it in non-prod
Now compare walkability. You're going to have to rent a car when you get there anyway, may as well just drive.
> Suppose that a person feels that Black people aren't being helped to succeed in our society, and are actually being harmed, by the way they are being told they are always victims

> The idea that people can be harmed by hearing ideas they disagree with

You seem to be arguing that Black people are harmed by being exposed to ideas about victimhood, and then ridiculing the idea that being exposed to ideas can be harmful.
I think what you're not getting is that there are lots of places in rural America that are violently queerphobic. Queer people are targets of hate crimes. There's a mainstream religion and political party in America that's tiptoeing around rhetoric of eradication of queer people.

So yeah, it can't be assumed businesses are queer friendly because lots of American Christians and conservatives would prefer queer people dead, or at least back in the closet.
I've just ended my Pro plan; enough is enough. I've been debating moving my repositories to a self-hosted forge for a while; it'll be an interesting opportunity to move more CI operations out of Actions and into Nix.
So, most trips.
I disagree. The large corporations in total own hundreds of thousands of homes in their portfolios. The value of renting or selling can be boosted significantly by introducing scarcity on the margins between supply and demand. A vacancy of a small percentage of the portfolio can ensure the rest of the portfolio is worth much more.

To elaborate a little further, it’s not necessarily the act of having it sit empty but rather keeping the pricing high regardless of whether the property stays empty. That becoming industry standard becomes a recipe for prices spiraling out of control, at least for a bit of time.
Without more context, this doesn't look great for Snyk either way: either they have an employee using NPM to live test their own services, or they have insufficient controls/processes for performing a legitimate audit of Cursor without using public resources.
> The Bud Light brand may have been permanently damaged by it

What did they do that was "An aggressively performative focus on social justice."

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

Seems like they did a branded tie in with a celebrity who was trans?

Would it be woke to have an advert with a black, Jewish, female, immigrant, albino, gay, Chinese or Hispanic celebrity?

I kind of feel like it would have been at some point in the past.

Is there a list somewhere of what kinds of celebrity is "politically correct" these days so that corporations trying to advertise beer can avoid these accusations?
> You can't hire a nominee director?

Yes, you can, and it's very common. Couple hundred euros in Cyprus [1].

[1] https://blog.wamo.io/how-much-does-it-cost-to-open-a-company...
Yes, subsidiarity is a great principle.. in-principle, but in practice it often gets the curb. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity

So far, having individual small countries seems to keep the centralisation at bay for longer than just having states in a federation.

(Look at Germany, Austria, Australia, the USA for examples of the latter. Interestingly, the UK is legally not made of federal states, but in practice they have granted more autonomy to eg Scotland over the years. And everyone knows that Scotland would secede and get away with it, if there was a power grab by London. In that sense, they are more federal than the US, where secession is very much verboten.)
> Unbelievable how anti-pg hn has gotten.

Frankly, I find it more concerning that anyone thinks HN should be pro Paul Graham by default. He should be judged by his ideas, not who he is.
China mulls potential sale of TikTok US to Musk, Bloomberg News reports
What attracted me to it is the idea that sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. are forms of bullying that are definitively antisocial. At its core, it should be about stopping bullying at the level of individuals, society, and institutions.

And, despite being "pro woke" or whatever it should be called, I had my own lessons to learn: I had to learn to stop interrupting women. I had to learn that interrupting them was wrong and that it was a form of sexism that I needed to address.
The UK first needs the will to do something. The UK is renowned for shell company purchases and laundering. What is wanted by the little home buyers is very different from what is wanted at the top of the pyramid. As the current uproar about the decades long grooming atrocity has shown the rot runs deep.
No, pretty easy actually. You can sit and seek rent on something you built.
(I accidentally posted my comment before I was finished, so I was still adding another two paragraphs you may not have seen while writing your response.)

> learn the norms of what will be considered disrespectful in that context.

PG said "treating people with respect" which is not the opposite of disrespecting someone. To me, disrespect evokes a different concept, despite containing the same word root. When I say "treat someone with respect" it's not related to the old ideas out of antiquated honor cultures about formal honor or dishonor, where "disrespecting" someone is taken as an offense and affront to their legitimacy.

The modern concept of 'treating with respect' simply means initially engaging with people you don't know yet with a default neutral posture and general assumption of good will and good faith. To me, the opposite wouldn't be overt disrespect or insult but rather treating one kind of person I don't even know yet, any differently than I treat all the other people I don't even know yet. It's equal default treatment vs unequal default treatment.

Personally, if I'm a visitor to a foreign culture, I'm not overly concerned about the risk of accidentally offending someone over some local cultural norm. I've lived around the world immersed in several cultures different than my own and it's never been a problem. My good will, good faith and sincere best efforts have always been sufficient to form new and lasting friendships, even when I've unknowingly committed some unintentional faux pas.
Why did you move the goalposts from employee stress, what we were talking about, to business failure? That's a ridiculous level goal move.

I gave an example where the stress from lack of reinvestment in core company infrastructure (the scheduling system is KEY to a successful airline, and the airline knew it was an issue of stress/deficient because it was an important talking point in union/company talks because of the stress it was causing way in advance of it escalating to causing a billion dollar expense). That it didn't shut the company down completely (just for a few days, during one of the business travel seasons) is not relevant to causing employee stress.

Southwest spent billions in the immediate run up on stock buybacks.

https://www.tipranks.com/stocks/luv/buybacks

Southwest did not upgrade a known deficient scheduling system vital to their core business.

This poor scheduling software had major impact on flight crews during the same period as stock options (to the point their union complained) proving my initial point.

Not only that, Southwest's neglect in order to feed stock buybacks resulted in a cost of a billion dollars to the company itself, let alone my original point of needless stress on employees sacrificed for stock buybacks instead of business re-investment.
At the end of the day I don't think we're arguing here and I'm not saying that the OP _shouldn't_ speak to a lawyer but here are a few choice comments from this post that I'll use to prove my point:

First - the TOP comment in this post:
>>" I would advise you to temporarily close your site and hire a lawyer straight away."

And other top level comments:
>> You should asap bring the app down, contact all users, send them their info, delete them from your servers, notifying them of that and get a lawyer specialising in health related law.

>>If you can’t answer that question you really need to listen to the people telling you to take it down until you can work it out.

>>Speaking as someone who works in IT in healthcare - you need to close your site down immediately, do not pass Go, etc., and hire a lawyer.
> the local agent fraudulently changed the bank accounts into their own name and locked out the owner

This sounds like a front more than a nominee. A front legally owns the company and has a side deal with someone conferring control. It's pretty much straight-up fraud. A nominee is similar to a Delaware registered agent; you pay a law firm or whatever a few hundred euro a year to be your glorified P.O. Box
Totally. It used to be that LoC was widely accepted as a a terrible metric to measure dev productivity by, but when talking about AI code-gen tools it's like it's all that matters.
> - Access policy enforcement (who can commit and when);

Interestingly, what GitHub mostly enforces is where your branches point to. Not who can make commits. That's mostly because of how git works, not because of any grand design on GitHub's part.
Why exactly should arguably one of the MOST important parts of a state get exceptions to the law and transparency based on feelings?
this, especially if it's a business
> How much of a productivity increase is that? Well jeepers, if you’re only doing 1/5th the work, then you are… punches buttons on calculator watch… five times as productive.

To state the obvious -- only if all units of work are of equal difficulty.
Blaming foreigners for housing prices is misdirected. The real culprit is slow bureaucracy & zoning laws making it impossibly slow to get a permit to build anything in both Spain and Portugal. Both of these countries for example have so many abandoned houses needing to be renovated, and so many foreigners coming in with money to do it - but they can never do it because you can't get a permit in literally forever... I don't know about Spain, but another problem in PT is the building companies too, are unreliable, and typically don't deliver houses in less than 3-5 years if you decide to build new. Increase the supply, and the prices will go down.
You are most likely giving the only real answer. However I just say its better to not care. Look how much energy and mental strife you are going through to line someone else's pockets against their will. That only is not even including the actual work just the unnecessary work around the work. Its not worth it. If the tech is this dysfunctional then so is the rest of the organization, you breaking your back to fix one support structure is just masochism.
I guess not. I just like the philosophy: don't argue but act on the differences of understanding.
It's this type of negativity ruining the internet. Nothing thoughtful to say, nothing to add, and hoping for failure. I hope everything is okay over there...
it's not for you to decide, but for Automattic to decide how much contribution is needed for them to allow you to use their services.

the code of WP is free software. free-as-in-freedom.

the services are not, and never were... they were free-as-in-beer.

RMS taught us about this, and it comes in handy again.
Seems Canada has a similar money-printing MO as the US. CAD money supply doubled in the past decade.
> How do you calculate the unimproved land value?

The first thought that immediately came up for me:

- Take the average property value per sqft for each given property

- Multiply it by a fixed percentage

- Take the (your favorite mean / average type) value per sqft and apply that to the empty lot

If that undeveloped land and its surrounding developed areas are controlled by one entity: Recursively expand outwards to factor in the value of the surrounding areas as well.

Compared to the methods outlined by fastball's link [0] later in the article, it's much more weighted towards public valuations & has fewer subjective areas, with the cost being that it can be gamed if certain properties were sold cheaply (but then that's an auditing issue).

No solution would be a silver bullet, but it's 70% silver, and that's good enough to start from.

[0] https://www.gameofrent.com/content/can-land-be-accurately-as...

> This is an interesting question with the fires in LA right now. Is the land still as valuable as it was before the house burned down, minus the rebuild cost of the house? Or is the value intrinsically tied to the community that was there but no longer is?

IMO, the land value is lowered because of the destruction of the properties built on top of it, on top of the rebuilding costs that will come later.

> Or is the value actually higher now that a developer can come in and remake an entire neighborhood?

Not until (a) the land is actually developed, or (b) the market reflects that decision back onto the land values for that area.
I have a lot of problems with bluetooth, including connection troubleshooting, latency, and getting notification sounds on top of the media stream.

I've never heard a problem with fidelity before, and I am often picky about that. Like I can't stand the sound of satellite radio. Codec sounds horrible to me.
Looks like a Miura fold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miura_fold.
When going to theme parks and the like, I love folding the physical maps like this. It's nice that the maps stay rigid when fully open, and the single-motion for opening and closing is glorious.
Gdelt – A Global Database of Society
TikTok Doesn't Need America
Just a reminder that Snyk was founded by ex-IDF Unit 8200 soldiers. I would not trust them given what we've seen Israel do to supply chains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyk
> why should I have to declare that and it not just be assumed?

That’s an easy question with an easy answer.

Because it can’t be assumed. Because there are people (who own businesses) who are not friendly to LGBTQ+ people. And people (such as LGBTQ people) may want to find or avoid certain places.

Is a good-faith interpretation of such a signal that it would be some sort of silly performative measure?
Sure, but as you say those hobbyist developers aren't responsible for keeping a specific server up. They are 'just' writing some software.

(And even among professionals, there's a big difference between Site Reliability Engineering and Software Engineering.)
I was talking about housing inflation specifically. Housing has increased in price more than the rest of goods plus it’s been increasing in price for a long time, long before covid.

Adding millions of people and not building anything makes housing prices skyrocket. One of the two needs to be dealt with and, since immigration also makes salaries plummet for the most vulnerable, why not kill two birds with one stone.
By asking someone you know who has one.
Robinhood has agreed to pay fines of $45M to cover data breach
> Step 3 - is to hold the belief that because it's unearned that no advantage should be assigned to it, we cannot claim that it's preferable, etc.

This is simply a statement against being prejudiced (racist or sexist). We never needed a new concept or word if thats all "woke" meant.

> That's what makes it a kind of funny insult word, because it's logically unworkable and runs counter to well, literally the entire world.

You're completely misunderstanding what someone means when they use "woke" as an insult. I agree with PG here - as an insult, its basically the same as calling someone a prude / prig.

In context, imagine a statement like this: "Ugh shut up woke people, yes - I know you hate kevin spacey. I don't care right now. He's still an incredible actor and American Beauty is still a masterpiece. Shut up. I'm trying to enjoy the movie."

You can replace "woke people" there with "prude" in that statement and the meaning is unchanged. Essentially, I think there's two separate things: First, being against discrimination in all its forms and second: being really annoying about it. Its that second part - the annoying puritanical finger wagging that people are referring to when they hate on "woke people".
China Discusses Sale of TikTok US to Musk as One Possible Option
True. Also there's no reason not to stick with GitHub when Git itself is distributed by nature. That's the beauty of distribution.
I never had a “proper” HT setup; my first was an Arc + Sub. I thought it was pretty great, and then I added two Era 300s for rears. My god.

I’m sure things can get better, but I’m pretty happy with my setup as-is. I’d probably splurge on an OLED TV first. I have an 85” Sony X91J that I quite like, but I can’t deny the absolute inky blacks of OLED (just couldn’t justify the price at the time at that size).
My Macbook Pro lasts about two days on battery while doing work (in clamshell mode, with the screen off). My Thinkpad drains its battery in less time than that in sleep. The removal of S3 is a travesty.
They’re not equivalent products, though. Go compare nutrition labels. Mexican coke has more sodium. So it’s not as simple as saying the difference is purely from the HFCS vs sugar.
They had some more downtime a few days ago, too. And that's just the one I happened to notice.
https://archive.is/op97J
The above is why my company left mercurial years ago for git. Mercurial of 10 years ago was better version control than git (git still can't track a branch and how it changes) - but the rest of github is much better.
Check the feature matrix near the bottom of this page: https://www.wiimhome.com/wiimultra/overview

It seems like the newest and most expensive devices (WiiM Amp Pro & WiiM Ultra) do not support Airplay.
> every week I can see ads for "we buy your house, paid upfront over market value, Chinese investors"

It specifically calls out that they're Chinese? Are you sure this isn't a political stunt?
Tangential at best but I work in a regulated industry and we're starting to get some heavy scrutiny from external auditors and regulators on the way we plan to address extended outages and forced exits from third party vendors. This goes beyond basic DR/BCP and plans are reviewed with at least a high level scenario exercise.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/06/09/2023-12...

On the surface a product like managed git repos would seem to be relatively straightforward to deal with, but these same regulated firms are also under tremendous scrutiny for access management, change management, SDLC, etc etc. They also have a huge software footprint which just increases the impact.

Self-hosting is obviously the traditional answer, but that's not exactly a simple one either.

Just an interesting problem.
It could be openly known among Nazi ranks and that's still significantly different than being publicly known. Was there any mainstream newspaper that outed his sexual preference?
Graham has always strongly opposed censorship, group think, purity spirals etc.
A bloke called Linus Thorvalds created git for Linux development when the commercial service used for that ceased to be useful, for one non technical reason or another.

github basically shoves a webby frontend and workflows on top of someone else's work. That's all fine and good but github is not git.

As a professional IT consultant, I want tools, I use lots of other's and I also create my own and I also generally insist on hosting my own. I'm also a fair carpenter and several other trades. I have tools for all my trades and I look after all of them. That way I can guarantee quality - or at least reproducible and documented quality.

I'm sure you are fine with abrogating responsibility for stuff that you are not able to deal with - that's all good: Your choice.

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to say: "Yay cloud"
The fact they might change their way does not erase the fact that I am wasting the time I spend mentoring cheaters, time I could spend mentoring non-cheaters.

Would you also say it's ok for people to steal because they might one day not-steal? So an increase in robberies does not hurt? I am not sure I understood you correctly.
Its Suspend to Disk (S3)

S3 is suspend to RAM. Suspend to disk is S4.
The WPEngine checkbox was removed late in the week, and replaced with the pineapple question after the weekend.

Developers on WordPress.org have stated that the value was not stored, and still is not stored. Matt also said he didn't care if you checked it or not.

WordPress isn't as legacy as those platforms for whom "too hard to change the functionality, just change the text" is common.
Cities typically don’t have draconian taxes on real estate.