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They’ve been saying they want to repeal Obamacare since Obamacare and they haven’t been able to do it.
Pretty much all the stats coming out recently show youth male vote has gone much more +R than in recent history, so could very well be the case of the next gen of SWEs joining HNs and being mad about affronts to orange man.

Some of it just feels like a small part of a constellation of cultural/society/business leader behavioral changes which are the natural pendulum swing overcorrection from peak +D sentiment in summer 2020 going back to the other end.
Would love to know your thoughts on what differentiates people. Perhaps race?
Likely for Iran, they're overkill for Yemen. Hopefully it's just to put pressure on them for the negotiations. But I expect it's also to be ready if diplomacy fails.
Hi, I've been here almost a decade and have over 10k Karma. I am not allowed to post more than 4ish comments per several hour period.

It is not an automated system. I was punished years after creating my account, and after accumulating strong positive karma. It only took like one flagged comment for the punishment to be put in place, imo it was not a significantly out there comment or set of comments either, and it is now years old and it's pretty obvious these punishments have no automatic expiry or re-evaluating date.

This is despite plenty of other members of the community posting about 10x the amount I was at the time with zero repercussions, and despite the fact that I've gotten only a couple gentle warnings in particularly heated topics, which I demonstrably took to heart.

There is no justice or fairness inherent in HNs systems, and assuming so by default is less than great. The team is tiny, the rules are most likely set in stone from the early 2000s, the tooling is basically just whatever they can cobble together, the rules are purposely opaque, and Dang is a mere mortal full of his own biases and experiences that are impossible to fully prevent from affecting his decisions. I think he puts genuine effort into his work, and despite the occasional complaint I'd give him probably a B+ or better, but there are probably hundreds of HN commentators who were given a punishment, hopefully for good reason but don't take that for granted, literally reformed or just changed over time, and nobody even informed them they were punished or COULD have that punishment removed.

I have not emailed dang to get the punishment lifted because sometimes the limit is helpful to limit how distracted I am at work. Other times it completely prevents me from doing the exact kind of useful and productive conversation that HN insists it wants.
So libs are going to follow Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias again; they're really making a serious marketing play for "abundance." Why can't we have our cake and eat it too? Why not make the poor richer and the rich richer? Why can't we have a billion immigrants and raise wages?

Meanwhile, they only support policy that makes the rich richer, an endless supply of weak immigrant labor doing gig work, and that assigns guardianship of the cake to their foundations. But now, they've blamed woke, which was something they 1) forced into government in order to support their family members who work at nonprofits and foundations, and 2) used to terrify their base into loyalty, a base whom they've encouraged to think of themselves as a Rainbow Coalition-style coalition of minority groups (while getting whiter and wealthier.)

The prescription is to drop the pretense of 2), I think they're saying. It's a distraction from the abundance of allowing large landowners to subdivide lots infinitely, without adding parking. Abundance is when you can sleep in an affordable above-ground coffin in SF; and the person who owns the land that it is on becomes 100x richer, forces small landowners out of the city, and coordinates with the rest to raise the rent again. Abundance: more opportunity to live more compactly than the law currently allows!
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Based on about as much hard evidence as the anti-vaxxers have.
Plenty of schools in the US have kitchens and cook their foods from scratch...
Essentially relying on COTS software with likely exploit bounties targeting dozens of high-value targets other than the USG – what could go wrong?
There is a huge market for populism in the US electorate.

You would be floored by how many Obama 2008 voters are now Trump voters. Obama beat Clinton in the 2008 primaries and people believed he did it by running to left of her. People thought he was going to burn for-profit health care to the ground and deliver a single payer system, and that he'd throw the bankers who triggered the 2008 crisis in prison.

The disappointment when he governed like it was a third Clinton term did major damage to the party, and it let Trump pick up the populist mantle.

Populism, however, is like candy. You can add it to something wholesome, like Sanders does, and get virtuous results. Or you can add it to antifreeze, like the Musk/Trump regime, and get what we're getting.
People don't put 10k of their money towards the bakery opening up next block either. They put it in the bank, which will loan it out. No one needs a million negligent single-rental landlords to create housing. But it does mean you are not entitled to having the same style McMansion built on the close empty lot in eternity, it might just be something with some more space efficiency. It means you can't continue paying a tax rate set 30 years ago for land that has appreciated many magnitudes in value.
>It will have a domino effect because the last house in the neighborhood full of subdivisions will have the lowest sale value (and the first house to subdivide will be the most valuable).

I'm not sure there is any logic in believing that. Since even a 4x increase in housing wouldn't provide enough to meet demand, if everyone else subdivided and you didn't yours would be worth more not less. The only way your fears would happen is if they allowed apartment complexes on the new lots and density increased by 10-50x.
Fun, but only lasts about two minutes. Could be interesting in 2d or with some other gimmicks added.
Good article, but i don't understand what it has to do with telegram
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And yet every other Swede in Stockholm knows someone renting out their first-hand rental apartment illegally.

Or taking one class a year as a "student" to qualify for student housing with rent control, etc.
> 1. Writing about Apple simply isn't interesting anymore. Nor has it been for close to a decade. They lost me around the butterfly keyboard fiasco.

I think this might have a lot to do with it. I considered myself a devout Apple fanboy a decade ago, but every software release and new product they've developed has been less and less interesting. It feels like they're abandoning me as a customer as I get older. And every former fanboy has that one "straw broke the camel's back" moment they can point to where they lost the faith. For you it was the terrible keyboards, for many it was the headphone jack. For me, it was a tiny change: They quietly dropped support for 1080i resolution around the time of macOS 10.5 or 11. Suddenly my Mac that ran my home theater could no longer drive my TV, just because Apple decided "fuck this guy, we're not going to support this anymore."

I still have an iPhone 7. No phone released since then have I really cared about enough to bother upgrading. I don't give a shit about emojis and chat stickers and more annoying notifications that butt into my life.
Err—"hopefully"?
An app to never talk to customer service support
I built this app because I was tired of talking to customer service AIs. When calling AT&T, I had to always talk to an AI and wait on hold until I would reach an agent. Now I've expanded it to include other companies like Netflix, Amazon etc..

I have a database of over 50K companies to add. I just wasnt sure if it is ready to handle all of them. If you guys can break it, please do so.
Sometimes people interpret the term too generically and actually implement a high degree of non-trivial, very idiosyncratic complexity, while still calling it "CSV".

One project I worked on involved a vendor promising to send us data dumps in "CSV format". When we finally received their "CSV" we had to figure out how to deal with (a) global fields being defined in special rows above the header row, and (b) a two-level hierarchy of semicolon-delimited values nested within comma-delimited columns. We had to write a custom parser to complete the import.
Yeah, I think form factors like this should be part of the answer. But part of it has to be getting costs down for regular apartments too. It's not uncommon to see that even non-profit orgs take 400k or 500k per 1br apartment in a building in major cities, which is just crazy.
I’m pretty sure that the modem on modern iPhones can only access a small memory address range and that this is cryptographically enforced by the Secure Enclave. So an exploit in modemland doesn’t allow reading unencrypted info (since everything today is encrypted at the application level).

I’ll see if I can find the citation in the Platform Security document when I get home.
If you're on Medicare and trying to figure out whether something is covered, CPT codes are the glue in a rat trap, the pin sticking bug to a board, you get the idea.

Everything is done by CPT codes. But you can't go and reference them yourself, even on the Medicare web site (no, really you can't). Doctors will tell you something is covered, then you have to demand the CPT code from them and call Medicare to find out if it's covered. Or, you can trust the doctor... who will be correct until they aren't. Sometimes doctors don't even know what CPT code they'll use until they see you.
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What you just said means absolutely nothing and has no comparison to this topic. It’s nonsense. That is not how evolution works.
Yeah, but this convenience goes well beyond the "one payment button".

If you order food directly, you won't have the delivery tracking on the map. Even within the app, if the restaurant provides their own couriers, you lose the visibility and arrival ETA info.

And 15% might look impressive, but if you are getting your food from a delivery app, you probably don't care that much about food price in the first place.
David wrote about that earlier. They are running on just about 8 racks in each DC (and they use 2).

That might exclude the new Pure Storage setup, though.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...
Pizza is flour, tomatoes, yeast, salt and cheese with a splash of oil. Cheese is heavily subsidized by the us govt so the only expensive piece is tomatoes. It's made on an assembly line and shipped out as frozen slabs or as constituent ingredients that are then baked on demand.
Is a MacBook pro m series mic not good enough usually?
you don't point out strengths of both browsers by pointing out strengths of only one of them
At this point, I think Apple's platform security teams have to seriously [edit: by default] start mitigating attachment exploits in ways that affect UX – _not_ rendering message previews, or blacklisting formats by defaults. Given Apple's pro-privacy messaging – and acceptance of things like Signal auto delete – think Apple's user base might now be comfortable with taking hits to UX in the name of security.
I dare you to find a Democratic candidate saying "defund the police" any time in 2024. Bet you can't find any.
There's a huge middle ground between WW3 and allowing Iran to fund and coordinate terrorism.

A strike on them to correct their malicious behavior is far away from a global war.

I didn't see much concern about Ukraine leading to WW3 until Trump allowed peace talks to start.

During the Biden administration peace was not discussed and not even considered an option by many.
Why would it take longer to phase out ultra processed food than to supposedly phase out gasoline cars? 2032 is a whole generation lost from now.
There are also a lot of older Windows users, and users of failed platforms from the 80s and 90s, that absolutely hold deep seated anger at Apple and Steve Jobs. There were similar attitudes about Microsoft and Bill Gates in the 90s. After Gates left Microsoft a lot of that vitriol seemed to have dissipated, but some still aim it at Apple. The anger seems to usually be economically rooted, i.e. in terms of how Apple charges high prices for their hardware.
Yeah they're definitely trolling us.
It is just a prompt change if there is a cli tool for GitLab or Bitbucket. I just tell Claude to use the gh cli tool and to use it as external memory to track tasks and to submit PRs.
Source? My Suburban school district primarily heated up foods from Sysco.
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The problem here is talk is cheap.

I've lived in SF and have heard a decade of talking heads prattling on about building housing, and then looking at the plans and they all end up being gobbledygook about "well if you do 20% Affordable, you can do 50% more units, but if it's 40% Affordable, you can do three more floors," and I keep staring at it and just think... why not just let people build more without doing anything?!?

After thinking about this for years, I realized the system is designed to keep growing property values while offering token subsidized units for literal lottery winners. When you're subsidized units are available to people making 80% of median income, you're not giving subsidized units for poor people, you're building lottery-based subsidized units for normal working class folks. That's bananas.

Just let people build more, incrementally, so homeowners feel like they aren't going to be overwhelmed, but you can still build up.

A simply, effective policy would be to, say, allow anyone to double the amount of sqft and units of the median property in the neighborhood.

That way single family homes become duplexes overnight, and when demand is high enough, duplexes become fourplexes, then when the median unit is a fourplex, you're already got density and you can build up.

None of this extractionary bullshit. None of this "yea, but developers need to pay for housing too." None of the, "well you can do this but not that." Just have simple rules so a homeowner can put a wall up in his house and make a duplex, or add a granny flat, without a bunch of bullshit.
Iran has been investing in low-frequency radars that are better at detecting stealth aircraft. Aldo the areas around Tehran and key nuclear facilities (like Fordow or Natanz) have particularly dense air defense coverage. Iran also has a good number of S-300/Bavar launchers which can saturate the air space when radar is ineffective. Not to mention that they have an untouched air force (though they are probably not in the best shape).
first footnote: ok ok they're trained token by token, BUT
Damn, tomatoes are expensive over there? Yeah, the differences are really huge.
The article conflates several concepts about what is and isn't expected from a reproducible build system.

This comment sums it up pretty well:
https://github.com/NorfairKing/nix-does-not-guarantee-reprod... (https://archive.is/KKx0V)

Additionally, I find the author's response of "PRs welcome" somewhat unsettling. It comes across to me like a poor-taste joke: someone writes an opinion piece with misleading information, then expects those pointing out the errors to do the work of correcting them.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention Brandolini's law.

A few references:

- A more nuanced interpretation of reproducibility vs repeatability:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-is-not-reproducible/4268...

- Reproducibility rates on Nixpkgs:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15919
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If you ask me: A recent Ryzen based Framework laptop with Linux is pretty damn sweet....
Many still have the kitchens, but the two in my hometown rarely cook from scratch anymore. I live in a small 5k person town in North Carolina, and recently got involved with the school PTO. And the cafeteria is basically just heating up premade meals these days.
> Unfortunately, we have one party that wants the government to get some stuff done

From what I’ve seen in university, Western governments don’t really care about getting anything done. But I don’t know who is responsible exactly. As I see it, all parties since there hasn’t been much done to align incentives again in academia in the last decades (even while papers such as Why most published research findings are false by Ioannidis is getting thousands of citations).
It's amusing to me that anyone would think a random smattering of ADUs would do anything at all to push the needle when it comes to housing. This is like fixing linter warnings (but not even doing that!) instead of building an entirely new section of an app. We need the latter.
https://blog.sentinel-team.org/p/1-in-3-chance-of-us-to-stri...
It would seem worthwhile to bank things like umbilical cord blood so that if these therapies work in the future, you have a supply of your own cells. Immunosuppressive therapy isn’t that fun.
Well, in my specific example, I volunteer for a cemetery (making a website, acting as treasurer, and helping get internment data in a third-party online service). There is no one on the board under 60 years old excluding myself. They have certainly helped me get some connections though and are people I enjoy. The other thing I do is volunteer for a nearby farmers' market (website, online branding). Those people are not as old, and they are absolutely wonderful. But I just don't connect with them well enough. I will say also that I am pretty social and outgoing (contrary to the average web/software dev), but I just don't connect with them that well.

I also started a freelance software company in my local area that I have a few leads with that will likely make me some money. www.geneseesoftwarellc.com. Mainly targeting local government and small businesses. I'm hoping this opportunity would look good on a resume or get me some connections so I can grow my skills or the company if I'm being optimistic.
Agreed. They’ve discovered something, that’s for sure, but calling it “the language of thought” without concrete evidence is definitely begging the question.
Tailgating causes a great number of accidents today, no autonomous cars needed.

While tailgating is tiny slice of fatal collisions -- something like 2% -- it accounts for like 1/3 of non-fatal collisions.

We're already basically at Peak Tailgating Collisions, without self-driving cars, and I'd happily put a tenner on rear-end collisions going down with self-driving cars because, even if they stop suddenly more often, at least they don't tailgate.

And it's entirely self-inflicted! You can just not tailgate; it's not even like tailgating let's you go faster, it just lets you go the exact same speed 200 feet down the road.
Reminds me of the term 'system identification' from old school control systems theory, which meant poking around a system and measuring how it behaves, - like sending an input impulse and measuring its response, does it have memory, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_identification
That is really sad. :(
This is a very fun post, not only on its own merits, but also how it spurs many other hard-to-debug stories.

I like the hard-earned lessons that are often taken away from such sessions.

While nowhere on the scale of this story, I helped a fellow student while I was at the University where his program was outputting highly bogus numbers from punched card deck input. I ultimately suggested that he print out the numbers that were being read by the program and presto the field alignments were off. This has now become my first step in debugging.

During a co-op stint during my EE degree program was at a pulp bleach plant in Longview Washington. They were implementing instrumentation of various metrics in the bleach tower. The engineers told of a story about one of their instruments to measure flow or temperature or acidity. The instrument was failing but the manufacturer couldn't find any flaw, shipped it back. The cycle repeated several times until one of the engineers accompanied the instrument to the repair lab. The technicians were standing the instrument on its side, not flat as it was in the instrument rack back at the plant. Lying it flat exposed the error.

Another bug sticks in my mind from reading Coders At Work by Peter Seibel. Guy Steele is telling about a bug Bill Gosper reported in the bignum library. One thing caught is eye was a conditional step he didn't quite understand. Since it was based on the division algorithms from Knuth: "And what caught my eye in Knuth was a comment that this step happens rarely—with a probability of roughly only one in two to the size of the word." The error was in a rarely-executed piece of code. The lesson here helped him find similar bugs.

While three of us were building a compiler at Sycor, we kept a large lab notebook in which we wrote brief release notes, and a one-line note about each bug we found and fixed.

My most recent bug was a new emacs snippet was causing errors in eval_buf. Made no sense, so ultimately decided to clear out the .emacs.d directory and start over. There were files that were over 20 years old--I just copied the directory when I built a new machine.
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The main drive of who you call “far right” is precisely to import less people that want to throw gays off roofs.
It specifically says on the Apple page [1]

"sculpt your sets directly from Apple Music before you perform ... for DJs at any level ..."

That can only realistically mean that you're paying for something to perform with. Otherwise it would be an incitement to copyright infringement...

Does Beatport say "Tracks for you to perform with as a DJ"? If not, I can't really see how the comparison works.

Apple Music even existing relied on trademark infringement so I guess expecting them to care about IPR is too much!?

https://music.apple.com/us/curator/dj-with-apple-music/17982...
Tesla?

TikTok?

Meta?
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> Yet "tangled up in social issues" remains a popular misconception. Why?

It’s not a “misconception.” Democrats choose to spend their political capital changing the status quo on social issues. For example, Americans overwhelmingly oppose affirmative action: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/16/americans...

Affirmative action was banned in California in 1996. Which party tried to repeal the ban in 2020? Republicans didn’t pass a law to ban affirmative action even more!