skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not correct. The real reason is capital is more mobile than individuals are. Most Americans won’t (or can’t) leave the country if their taxes go up, but businesses are constantly making decisions about where to invest and hire people. Under the old tax code, the US had the highest corporate income tax rate of any OECD country:

https://taxfoundation.org/us-has-highest-corporate-income-ta...

and also taxed corporations based on their worldwide income, which led to a number of high profile tax inversions.
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Ah yes, one of the resources I follow is a newspaper where I pay for the news weekly (FT). I only get the title and a link.
On Ethereum and decentralization
I don't think you're discussing the same threat model as the author. You're talking about fighting an army. He's talking about other dangerous, non-military people (e.g. Another gang of survivors, who happen to have guns while you just have food)

To be fair, military presence is certainly a problematic situation, but it seems more likely you'd encounter other, uh, less-than-savory people out there in an apocalyptic scenario, who are more likely to be dangerous to you than military personnel.
"You're wrong because you used buzzwords" is no better than a buzzword itself. Can you address their actual point?
Small arms will hold off the army if the army has a supply chain that isn't vulnerable. If the army's supplies originate from the contested territory then it becomes possible for the insurrection to sever that chain.
Those are all arguments for why UBI will work, since all of those are direct effects of the conditions of current means tested aid programs that are eliminated with unconditional basic income.
not true in CA, property taxes are basically locked in when you buy a home, and can't increase more than 2% per year.
Regulations like mandatory minimum lot sizes and density restrictions make it a lot harder for younger people to buy their own piece of the ownership pie, which creates scarcity, which in turn causes property values to skyrocket even further. I can’t help but see this as a form of regulatory capture.
I've said it before, but the millennial generation will not be kind to boomers when the history books are written. Our parents have basically fucked us over in a million different ways, but especially with housing. I see a ton of boomers who have basically shredded the economy by creating multiple bubbles in the stock market and housing, destabilized the middle east and thrust us into many unwinnable wars, blown through all the home equity they had with home equity credit lines, never saved for retirement, and now expect to be taken care of by social security and medicaid during retirement.

This is apparently what happens when you have a strong cultural revolution during the 60s, but everyone grows up and gets greedy. Although I'm not too optimistic the millennial generation won't do the same exact thing when they turn 40...

edit: forgot to mention wars...
It's well known that ultra-nationalist governments thorough history has been always very strict with both immigration and emigration.

Also ideas (books, movies, even music...) can influence a country even more than immigrants. Unsurprisingly, heavy censorship is very common dictatorships.

It's interesting to look at what rich and poor countries import and export ideas, ranging from academic research, literature, art to popular movies...
I completely misunderstood what he said.

I agree with him, I consume most of my news using RSS and even in pages that do not have RSS (like soundcloud) there is a RSS server somewhere serving the feed.
Are you arguing that Facebook is watching you in your bathroom or listening to phone calls? To my knowledge, nobody in the physical or virtual world is doing either of these things.
They will say that, despite it having no bearing in reality. The only time the FCC cares is if you're fucking shit up for others.
This is a tricky question for me to answer because I've been doing more research on the "back end" aka why minorities weren't getting housing as opposed to what's happening now w/ re-urbanization.

Part of it is that many homes sold during the white flight and blockbusting era did not go to minorities, there were explicit causes in the sale to prevent this. Another part of this is the fact that minorities who did buy bought "on contract" which means that they did not owe a mortgage to a bank but to an individual (who most likely was a blockbuster) they did not build equity (wealth) and were subject to very harsh loans. I don't know what percentage of homes sold to minorities during this era were "on contract" so it's hard to quantify the effect.

Based on an anecdote it's definitely true that some amount of minorities benefited from re-urbanization.. I was in NE Portland a few weeks ago and had a very interesting conversation w/ a local Uber driver who lamented the fact that his family had sold his grandmothers place in the 90s, this home has probably appreciated at least 3-4x since then.
Except over time the young will find it less and less likely that they'll be able to afford a home, up until it's impossible or the system breaks entirely...
Bernstein's "Young People's Concerts" taught me more than school ever did on music: highly recommended to at least try to get into/get your kids into. (They seem unfortunately dated now, even though the sound still hold up well). Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxwWlQNGeKE
No, because you are not calculating imputed rent into your equation.
To counter some of the reflex resentment and lashing out - when a population under pressure seeks another way of succeeding, its not always about you. Its not evil or racist or 'reverse discrimination'. You can always tell those things - that's when the favored population is getting all the advantages, again. When the underrepresented population works hard to find ways to create programs for them to succeed, that's just sensible.
I have a hard time telling which elements are clickable, and which are not, with material design. Flat buttons , of course, are similar to labels.
Agreed Qt is a great framework and I'm excited to see this development.
Not all things called "comics" are always funny all the time.
An extended low-interest rate environment is a (the?) major factor in increasing income inequality. Assets become much more expensive, benefiting owners (in this case, of houses and real estate) and hurting those who strive to own. Further, savers are generally barely breaking even with inflation, which leads to less saving.

Low interest rates "stimulate the economy" which means those who already have (applicable to both people and companies), can borrow more and multiply their assets much more rapidly than those who don't have, can catch up.
Relaxing zoning rules is an "easy" one. It doesn't deprive anyone of a home.

Alternatively, if you want to get a bit more radical we could turn all property ownership into 99 year leases from the state, as is the case in Singapore, potentially reducing the length of time on leases over time to spread out the pain. Though it would be a long process.

I would also support legislation that reduces transaction costs on buying/selling homes, which actually suppresses the price of homes because it takes a longer term commitment for buying to make sense.
Interesting. It looks like a variant or an object whose type list is only known at runtime.

What I have in mind is a language able to convert functions calls from dynamic to static (and the opposite). If the compiler can infer the type, the call is static else dynamic (with multidispatch for function overload).
> Maybe that's why hackers tend to not be very xenophobic, they have something to focus on other than dividing up the morning's pie.

There was a study (I don't have it handy, I'm afraid) showing that women were a much higher percentage of programmers in the earliest decades of computing, and those numbers fell swiftly and kept falling as the field became established and commercial.

That at least implies to me that women felt the pressure of an increasingly unwelcome environment in computing, as the field matured and expectations stratified.

Hackers, in my experience, are less xenophobic than many groups, but I wouldn't hold them up as a bastion of acceptance either.
Isn’t the consequence usually unrest and war?
Well it’s your choice, open hardware or billions of dollars invested in an industry employing millions of people...
> The Qt binary runs on your PC as normal, but instead of opening an X11/Win32 window, opens a network port. You can open the URL in a browser to see the interface.

GTK 3 has something like that, too. Tried it once; super weird seeing Nautilus inside a browser. Cool, but weird.
Yes, this is unfortunately one of the great mistakes (or intentional deeds, depending on how you look at it) of US economic policy of the last few decades.

> I have thought about this before and really think we should stop treating home ownership as an investment. However, I can't think of a way to do that which is fair to those who bought homes already..

Correction: fair to those who bought homes recently, rather than 20 years ago and are sitting on top of unrealized capital gains.
Make Electron-like desktop apps but with Qt or within a browser with navigation/menu etc. bars? Running both over Internet and locally at native speed? Avoiding JavaScript for Web UI? I'd be happy to have that!
hot take: the border patrol is a self selecting group of people and in particular it self selects to be the most fervent traditionalist culture warriors. There's a reason the border patrol union was one of the few professional organizations to back Trump. Trying to police them into doing things like respecting statistics is going to be a game of whack a mole unless you can somehow tare the whole organizational culture down.
Yes this article makes some good points but the rhetoric is all wrong. Here, this guy says it much better than I can:

>Home is where the cartel is. I use the word “home” not “housing” advisedly. Homeowners understand their actions not as monopolizing the housing market but as protecting their homes and neighborhoods from the market. The libertarian “deregulatory” rhetoric by which market urbanists sometimes make their case is counterproductive. Telling people to think of their homes as a commodity upon which market forces should be brought to bear in order to ensure production of housing services at competitive prices is obtuse. People purchase property, rather than renting, largely to gain security and control, to escape the vicissitudes of the market. The worst place to emphasize “deregulation” is in dense urban environments, where almost every sort of action has spillovers.

Policies like up/rezoning which decrease current home prices in order to lower rents are directly redistributionary and I think you have to make your case in those terms and I just don't find redistribution on the basis of age that convincing.

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6287.html
Slight off topic but the graphs are terrible on the site, could someone smarter than me explain what the blue/red splits on the graphs represent?
Because they're making fun of a comic, not out of a personal tragedy: it was a gag-a-day comic strip about video games with limited plot, and giving the characters a deeply personal tragedy was extremely out of character for the comic strip.

Plenty of people make fun of webcomics that developed a serious plot and actual characterization over time (MegaTokyo and Questionable Content both come to mind). This one went from 0-100 in one strip.
Descript, a text editor for audio
I personally find Chrome's current tab style very geometrically pleasing. I'll even admit that it was one of the reasons why I wasn't using Firefox back in the day (it did have a Chrome skin, but it couldn't replicate the animations). Why give up the iconic shape? Wouldn't flattening suffice?
> I think few people would argue that the probability of revolution in the US in any given year is as high now as it was in say 1800.

Are you saying it's not? Were they cavemen in 1800, and now we are a thoughtful civilized breed?

The United States has been at war most of my life. My parents lived through a war with a draft. My grandparents experienced World War 2. Seems like war is normal and peace is the aberration.
Not true. Landlords may prefer to forgo a new tenant and keep rent increases reasonable for many reasons. The cost of tenant turnover can be very high. They may not want to take the risk of a new tenant over a know good tenant. The local rental market may not support a rent increase.

I have been a landlord and not raised rents many times. I have also been a renter and have had no rent increases or very modest rent increases for many years while renting.
Phase in high land value taxes (not property taxes) when personal residences are sold
And what exactly is wrong with that? So some marketers know that someone in the world likes to do X, lives in a certain place, likes to buy things, etc. It's not tied to your specific identity - it's just a collection of data.
There's nothing inherently wrong with that.
That assumes that there is something about "planets" that makes their discovery more important than the discovery of other orbiting bodies. If the IAU definition isn't fit for purpose, don't use it! That's literally the point of the article. If you do your hunting from ships, it's not wrong to call whales fish.
Detour (walking tour app) is shutting down; existing members will lose access
I got this email from Detour today:

"Hello,

We're writing to let you know that Detour's technology and content has been sold to Bose.

The Detour app will continue to operate until May 31st (and all tours are now free), at which point it will shut down while Bose pursues new partners to host the Detour tours as part of its upcoming augmented reality platform.

Sincerely,
The Detour Team"

I paid a one-off $19.99 for (non-time-limited) access to all their tours (or maybe just all their San Francisco tours; I don't recall). But now that they are shutting down, I will lose access to those, and no refund has been offered.
Why does policy need to be "fair" to investors? New government policies move asset values (including real estate values!) in both directions all the time. Investors -- including homeowners -- are not entitled to an investment that always appreciates.

This belief that we cannot do a thing unless that thing benefits wealthy homeowners is harmful.
tying engagement to ROI is a pretty difficult. It falls into the larger attribution modeling issues that marketers run into. You can try to use affiliate links, but that can only measure webtraffic/last click conversions. it doesn't do a great job at identifying high assist channels similar to YouTube acquisition.
html/js/css was used as both an authoring format and distribution format, at least until recently - minification, compile-to-js, webpack etc. - and those latter are often regarded as a regression in this context (breaks "view source", etc.)
Thanks for this. I've been really interested in learning about housing policy and trends lately & wanted to come across a podcast about it.
Theories like this one do not explain how it is that immigrant groups do reasonably well. The history of the USA is filled with people who arrive with no money, poor language skills, sometimes traumatized - and yet wind up doing well within a generation or two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U... is a good starting point to think about. Look at groups such as Vietnamese and Cambodians. They mostly arrived in my lifetime. Everything is against them. Poor language skills, widespread PTSD from what they witnessed, no savings - pretty bad picture.

And yet, look where they are today versus blacks. How did that happen?
>That is intuitively wrong. Surely, the probability to have a violent revolution must be minimal right after the end of the last one, when the new status quo is in its most well established, everyone is tired of fighting, etc etc.

Is that intuitively wrong? How many civil wars and revolutions have we seen spiral into madness after the official end to hostilities between the "governments" involved? Iraq, Libya, and South Sudan are among dozens of examples we can pull from recent memory. The defeat of a government or other high level of societal organization does not imply the defeat of the reasons why the war began in the first place. The rise of the Jim Crow laws and the incessant waves of black emigration fron the South after the collapse of the Union state's Reconstruction efforts speaks to the inherent instability of post-war societies. There are more historical examples of "post-conflict" societies which almost immediately descend into further conflict than one can count. Once the seal of peace is broken, it's incredibly hard to recreate.
I built this to make it easier to link users to certain parts of YouTube videos and have it auto skip each part without having to give timestamps. Hopefully others will find it useful.

Any bugs or feedback, please create an issue here: https://github.com/cxam/skipvid.com
I am pro paying user of flickr since more than 10 years
With over 140 millions views and 15000 followers
I am doing mostly artistic nudes and sharing ideas and experience with other photographers in the same domain.
flickr was one of the only place i found where i could share this content with adequate curation
If smugmug policy is applied , it will delete 90% of my content and 10 years of effort in buidling a network around my work
Qt is great and probably the best cross-platform app-development environment.

Given that, why would you use this instead of just building a compiled package for a targeted platform?
For many centuries, land ownership was (and in fact still is) the largest source of wealth. Historically, it conferred not only wealth but also power. This was the key characteristic of the feudal system.
Major, major thumbs up for Feedly. The first site I check every morning. >250 sites tied to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS has a footnote after the build number. That led me to https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/. I guess that doesn’t do semantic markup, and I didn’t look at the html at all, but it looks like it could provide you what you want fairly easily (likely not 100% reliably if automated, but chances are Wikipedia‘s somehow keeps up to date involves humans, too)

Alternatively, buy a Mac, set it to auto-update, have cron or launchd reboot it reboot it twice a day, and read the version info from the CLI after rebooting (https://coderwall.com/p/4yz8dq/determine-os-x-version-from-t...)
I'm going to second communication skills. Soft skills can be much more important than hard skills for getting a job, keeping a job, and moving up.
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I agree with the other comments that the analogies kind of hide the ball on the real issues here. But in this case, I think it's more like Home Depot putting up security cameras that send all the footage of you to the camera manufacturer. In turn, that camera manufacturer runs facial recognition to automatically combine your Home Depot activity with your activity from all other business that use their cameras (which is 1/2 to 3/4 of the business you visit [1]), including the pharmacy, gas station, grocery store, bank, etc. Oh, and the information at the registers integrates with the cameras as well. And then the camera manufacturer sells your aggregate, combined data to advertisers who then set up shop at kiosks in the stores (the kiosks are owned by the camera manufacturer by the way), so that they can sell you stuff while you're there. And if the kiosk in Home Depot can't get you to buy something, they'll just get the kiosk at the bank to continue where they left off.

[1] https://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Google-Analytics
I use it daily for years and was shocked to find that it supports pinch zoom on iOS - but not android (where i use it).

Feels like it that's just tip of the iceberg re. things they could improve - for example they finally, finally!, added ability to create categories/tags for free (was paid feature).

I understand it's tough to run a business like this (and why google killed this, at least officially) - but i wouldn't actually mind an occasional ad.
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As long as performance is important, native software will always have an edge. Depends on the application.
Blockchain as process innovation and technological foundation
Homeowners are, disproportionately, voters.

Politicians set the policy that determines supply and demand of housing.

I strongly believe these things are causally linked, but do not know how to empirically test it.
I see responses here with a certain tone of derision. That's sad and may be unproductive. Maybe shouldn't the question be what should "we", not just the smartest people working on and how ?
It certainly is more comfortable; is it more comfortable enough? I'm betting a lot of people would be fine with it.
The Role of a CS Education
I already have global entry / TSA precheck. My preference is still for Amtrak for certain journeys. Consider that flying SF to Fresno costs hundreds of dollars each way. Amtrak costs $30.
Or currency debasement/ asset price inflation.
There would be neither the time nor the inclination for food service. A non-trivial percentage of passengers will be dealing with nausea during the thankfully brief 0g float.
I'm not sure I buy that, are you saying that the only reason that Qt hasn't completely taken over writing native software on (even desktop! not to mention mobile where Qt also works), is a marketing problem?

I would argue that Qt's problem is:

* Licensing is expensive (look it up, you can't just use it for free for large-scale commercial projects, contrary to what many people believe)

* Getting started with Qt is painful and integrating it into an existing codebase even moreso - get ready to suffer with C++ linker nonsense

* You have to write in languages that are not particularly enjoyable to ship a production application (C++, JavaScript but without The Nice Parts of modern JS web dev)

* The "deploy" bit is completely left to the reader, Qt doesn't help you write apps and ship them end-to-end. Contrast this with Electron which has a pretty strong (albeit a bit mysterious) packaging and auto-update pipeline

Qt experts will argue on all these points, "It's a library, it shouldn't do XYZ", but at the end of the day, Qt is a means to ship Desktop and Mobile Software, and by ignoring the entire Developer Experience from end-to-end, they miss the mark.
New report reveals dangerous lack of oversight of global surveillance networks
My enemies in nature, ranked
For example, in the ps3 scene:

Someone developed a exploit, packaged it in usb stick, called it the PSJailbreak, planning to sell it to as a piracy orientated tool. They sent out a few review copies to prove it worked.

One of the reviews obtained a USB trace of the exploit in action, passing it along to a few members of the homebrew scene. The homebrew scene recreated this exploit with an open source implementation (but with the ability to pirate games pirate games superficially patched out) beating the original PSJailbreak to market.

The homebrew scene then set upon developing an open source homebrew devkit.

Many manufactures released their own clone devices of the exploit, the timeframe susgests that they were also working from copies of the PSJailbreak.

It was the homebrew scene who later decimated the PS3 chain of trust, to develop installable modded firmware.
regarding superfluous wind energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas#Efficiency
But still, you could have a centralized service that involves client-side (potentially homomorphic) encryption and stores (and in the case of homomorphic encryption, does operations with) the data on their servers. So that shouldn't give a privacy benefit from blockchain over centralized servers.
Algorand: Scaling Byzantine Agreements for Cryptocurrencies