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by tptacek 3mo ago
The entire point of anti-dumping actions is that left unregulated, people will buy these unsubsidized cars.
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I don't know how this is supposed to respond to what I just wrote. If an EU country restricted contracts or usage with Google or OpenAI, I wouldn't call them out for doing so. All I'm saying is that it's especially clear
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by tptacek 3mo ago
"Dumping" is a term of art in international trade. It's the thing that happens when a foreign exporter sells goods in your country below their production cost (or far below what they're charging domestic customers). It&#
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by tptacek 3mo ago
You can't buy Chinese EVs in the US because China is overtly running a dumping campaign for them. It's an interesting story, read up on it!
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by tptacek 3mo ago
I live in Oak Park, just a couple blocks from the studio. The Unity Temple is the thing to see. :)
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I've drastically sped up commercial shipping C code by implementing arena allocators and Go is my daily driver and it's not clear to me why you're making this claim.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
HALF?!
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by tptacek 4mo ago
No? It's significantly harder to become a police officer than a truck driver or a skilled tradesperson, and, in particular, in most departments there's an actual higher ed requirement.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
What does this mean? Most people select jobs based on projected compensation. I get that there are people who do things for love, but they're the ones doing something remarkable. It'd be especially strange to be a software develop
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by tptacek 4mo ago
The word "mostly" doesn't belong in this title, because YC has funded over 5,000 companies, and this page accounts for 100 founders.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
SQLite is used in a lot of unconventional settings (for SQL databases) where these settings don't make as much sense. But that's what makes the "edition" useful; it captures the use case we all mean when we're think
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I don't see how you don't have the pragma compatibility problem either way. The edition proposal captures a bunch of behaviors that already exist.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
For some of these pragmas you have the same issue with or without "editions", right? Busy timeout is per-connection. And then: if you're running in WAL mode, you, the user, have to know that, or risk messing up the database b
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by tptacek 4mo ago
This isn't so much a list of pet peeves as it is the almost universal way people that work seriously with SQLite configure the database. It's reasonable to suggest that the alternative settings for each of these suggestions is pro
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by tptacek 4mo ago
It's possible to make a not-especially-material vulnerability HN-worthy by writing it up exceptionally well. A lot of cryptographic vulnerabilities are exactly like that! But a meaningful vulnerability is probably interesting no matter
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by tptacek 4mo ago
"This vulnerability is not meaningful to most HN readers" is a good argument for not upvoting it. "The one detailed description of a new, valid, meaningful vulnerability is AI slop by its discoverers" is not. I don'
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by tptacek 4mo ago
27 years of DNSSEC, you say!
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Police officers are screened in a way that intentionally prevents people with exceptionally low IQs from entering the field.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
The vulnerability is real or it isn't, it matters or it doesn't, it's clearly explained or it isn't.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Neat! Thanks for taking the time to add to this thread!
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by tptacek 4mo ago
This is such a venerable and ancient class of bugs, going at least as far back as AIX 3. Glad to see they're still makin' 'em like they used to. (If you had SSH access to a host in your Tailscale ACL, you could log in as `-i`
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by tptacek 4mo ago
You can always find more loops if you want to write the next version of this post. Anything that runs software is a loop of instruction execution.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Every piece of technology deployed by the police is provided by a for-profit company.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
They're pretty comparable in that the people most het up about them tend not to know what either actually was. The feds do not have full access to search everything on Flock's platform except through the same mechanism by which th
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by tptacek 4mo ago
The cameras would have been removed. Munis don't generally destroy random tech infrastructure they pull off poles, though they might throw it in a big pile. Flock could invoice for the cameras, but most munis would probably tell them t
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by tptacek 4mo ago
This is a pretty Oracle-specific situation, isn't it? They bet the company on an AI infrastructure buildout and levered hard to do it. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft aren't in comparable situations. Oracle is transforming itself
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Your argument is conclusory. The whole question is the extent to which the regulatory environment is preventing upzoning. If you think San Francisco should remain zoned the way it is, say that, and say why.
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by tptacek 4mo ago
No, Abundance is the semi-official home of YIMBYism in the Democratic party. The opposition to it from the left is uniformly anti-YIMBY. (Strong Towns and YIMBYism aren't totally aligned.)
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by tptacek 4mo ago
I did; the top comment on this thread is my response to the article. I don't think you fully get the argument: San Francisco needs to upzone and do large amounts of infill development. Most of the most important areas of economic oppor
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by tptacek 4mo ago
Whatever Chaps says about this, take to the bank.

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