skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a country that has tried "regular property rights, except for real-estate, which is owned entirely by the state and leased directly to its current tenants with no subleasing"? So e.g. an "apartment building" would be a building owned by the state, segmented into units, each of which would be rented from the state to individual tenants; and a "house" would be a building owned by the state with the whole thing rented to one tenant.

In such a situation, there'd be no real real-estate speculation, and levels of rent-extraction above cost would be controlled by municipal bylaw (as they'd effectively be a tax.) Property development companies would all either be nationalized, or would be private government-exclusive subcontractors.

Basically: imagine China, but instead of privatizing every industry all at once, they had kept construction and property management state-run. How would that look?
That's one very sick corporate culture.

I sincerely hope that all the high level cadre at Theranos will find it hard to get new employment. That sort of thing has absolutely no place in any organization.
> In markets like NYC, where demand is ever-increasing and for various reasons supply cannot keep up with demand, maintaining rent-controlled apartments necessarily drives prices higher overall.

It's because of zoning. Allow more high rise to be built and allow more expansion and demand can be met.

It's not some mystery. It's local laws that prevent people increasing height of buildings and prevent expanding the area.

It's a problem that can be seen around the world due to similar planning laws in many places. See the Demographia report below:

https://fcpp.org/wp-content/uploads/dhi2018-fcpp.pdf
I didn't, I'll go back and give it a try. It seems like a really interesting idea.
That should read "Despite the system being stacked against people."
Forbes magazine, work for free, rinse and repeat.
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_countries_result.jsp?co...
Romania vs Spain, Spain is clearly worse crime wise.
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_countries_result.jsp?co...

When you compare Bucharest (the capital city) with Barcelona, Barcelona fares a lot worse.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Rom...

Index Info	Bucharest | Barcelona

Crime Index:	28.48 |	45.08

Safety Scale:	71.52 |	54.92

I know, by reputation the Balkan Region doesn't look good, but when you look at the data it paints a totally different picture. My hunch is that a lot of petty thieves types have moved into Western Europe as the business is more lucrative there.
At the heart of many companies is often a founder who wields the reality distortion field.

As a tool for smashing organizational roadblocks, as Steve Jobs did, this can work wonders. Things that seemed only potentially possible can become real.

Theranos probably falls into this category too. If they had kept going, made breakthroughs, addressed the toxic culture, not been uncovered by investigative journalists while at a vulnerable stage - perhaps they would have made it.

Perhaps Elizabeth Holmes still genuinely believes that all she needs is more time, money and followers for her to prove the nay-sayers wrong.
This same story played out a hundred years ago in the USA, see the Colorado River Compact.

I would initially guess it's a problem now for the rivers you mention because only now do these places have the capital & use for a dam.

And, really, fights over water never end. It's a difficult good- vital to life, inexpensive to divert, and yet both limited & temporal in supply, & difficult to relocate. Additionally, the source is frequently within another state or country. No one has been terribly successful yet in implementing water markets, and no one has conjured a perfect way to apportion water rights- with right of first use & riparian rights both having obvious flaws.

Crazy things happen with water. For example, where I live I am not allowed to capture the water that falls on my own property. It's owned by someone else, and I can be prosecuted for capturing it (with a loophole for garden rainbarrels)
"Sounds like he doesn't believe that they do, and would prefer to be left out of the bargaining unit."

If that were true, then he would be suing to be left out of the bargaining unit.
"Vaping" is somewhat a misnomer. The vapor is really tiny atomized droplets, and is not hot at all. Maybe warm, but far below anything that could cause heat damage to tissues.

Yes, there is a tiny amount of actual vaporized (as in, a gas) liquid, the stuff that Leidenfrosts the rest of it off the hot coil.

That all being said, your main point still stands. We don't know what the long term effects are of inhaling these droplets of propylene glycol, glycerol, nicotine, and flavor compounds.
Not OP but I’ll admit I googled it as well :P
Speculative Execution Side Channel Update
Maybe soviet Russia/GDR?
I think the issue of control rate in PD is often confusing for folks, because there isn’t any “control rate” that is fundamental to the language. There are audio rate signals that are processed every block, and there are messages that get handled ASAP when they are received, and are decoupled from the audio rate graph. These messages could be once an hour or once per millisecond. The control rate thing comes up because most PD objects (e.g. osc~) only update their parameters on block boundaries, which creates timing jitter (variable delay between when a message is received and when it takes effect). You could definitely have an audio-rate object that took into account the precise timing of the messages it received and scheduled the parameter changes a constant amount of time in the future, which eliminates jitter at the expense of a fixed latency. The vline~ object is useful for generalizing this approach to any object that can take audio-rate parameters, but there’s no reason you couldn’t make a vosc~ object that had the functionality built in.

This is different from supercollider (and I think sound), which have an explicit control rate.
Property taxes are one of the few ways you can concretely tax the wealth of people that hold large amounts of property for speculative purposes, its far too easy to play shell games with liquid money.

If you eliminate property tax, or prevent it from rising, you make the absentee owner who only cares about a payoff 20 years from now leaving perfectly livable homes empty many magnitudes worse. (as evidenced by california)
Yet, it was still my choice to live there. And, and this is the most important part, I still earned that money through my work. Having it auto deducted from the paycheck isn't any different than having auto pay set up on my bank account.
I wonder what the failure modes for this would be like.

Consider a Boeing 777X going along at its cruising speed and the locking mechanism for the wing tips just disappears; primary and secondary. The wingtip is effectively unsecured. What happens?
When it comes to public unions the "unconstitutional conditions" doctrine comes into play. The Supreme Court has long held that the government cannot indirectly infringe free speech rights by imposing conditions on government employment, such as requiring employees to contribute to or join a particular political party. As Rehnquist pointed out, those cases are "indistinguishable" from situations where public employees are required to join particular unions. The public unions in Janus, for example, which are given special status and powers by state law, are nothing more than adjuncts of the Democratic party.
I think a pretty good spot in the design space would be to respect specified incompatibilities with specific versions, but not ranges. Maybe even require a comment attached to the incompatibility constraint, which would explain the problem.

Bugs happen, and users should have some tools for that situation, but if a library is repeatedly releasing one broken version after another, you probably just shouldn't use it.
Thanks! That's interesting, I've been unsure about the importance of PolySporth. It seems important if you want to create generative compositions in the traditional sense, by which I mean focusing more on the sequence of notes rather than the timbre. But for me, I think I'll always return to manual sequencing if I want to get this kind of traditional result. Whenever notes are generated, I just want to manually re-arrange them. I guess that's one of the reasons I still haven't learned PolySporth.

But if I want to create a piece where timbre is central (or if I want to work on the timbral portion of a piece that has both), then programming is actually a super effective tool, and that's where Sporth nails it for creative exploration.

As for using my examples, yes, you can totally use and modify them with attibution (I should probably add a proper licence :)
Er, shouldn't they outright go to prison?
That first story is the nightmare of anybody working with blood. As an analyst you can take a guess at what a particular sample might contain because of the tests ordered but you treat each and every sample as though it contains the worst of the worst. To have a sample container explode in a machine with blood spattered all over would be a one-time occurrence in any responsibly run lab, and the clean-up after an incident like that would take a long time.
You guys must come from another planet, because I spend 90% of my time coding in Prolog debugging my code. My code sure makes sense to me- but the interpreter frequently disagrees.

Additionally, there are some constructs that are pretty damn hard to debug. For example- deeply-nested recursive loops with multiple clauses and free backtracking; you never know which clause you're in or how deep in the recursion. Well- you do but it demands a great deal of concentration.

Or take my personal tracing nightmare- DCGs. At some point, you inevitably end up with something like this:

_24234 = _12734

Then you have to squint up the trace to find the two variables to figure out what's going on.
I really hope this is really going to be released. And I really hope this technology can be integrated with standard Linux desktops.

The ability to read PDF's on paper-white would be really nice.

The ability to read/write code on the paper-white would probably improve the lives of many developers, myself included.
I think that's a great example!
This reminds me of a recent HN post about a simple datalog engine being used in the rust borrow checker.

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2018...

via

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17107527
Gnosticism is mostly just Greek Neoplatonism filtered through older near eastern religions.

Really multiple waves of Greek philosophy swept through the near and Middle East after Alexander, leaving new religions in its wake — including mainstream Christianity.
The gov set out to artificially control housing costs.

Now there are so many units under market value that:

1) there is an incentive for landlords to be aggressive.

2) any unit that comes off rent control is driven up in value; to make up for the "loss" of control units; and control keeps units off the market which also drives up price.

Long to short, yesterday'price fix is today's mega-cost __and__ shady biz / landlord practices.

Does that help? I wasn't trying to be vague. I honestly thought the gist of the situation was fairly obvious. Sorry?
Also look at how Houston has grown:

http://www.harriscountytx.gov/CmpDocuments/74/Budget/FY18%20...

It's grown by 67% since 1990. Far greater than NYC or LA or SF in percentage terms.

The other thing that should be mentioned is that Texas has fairly high property taxes. They also help.
Under what crimes would you like them charged? What proof do you have to support the charges?

I agree that Theranos is a terrible company and that in a just world and with perfect evidence the execs should be punished heavily but in this world I'd be most impressed if they were just fined into the poorhouse.

There is some hope though, the last paragraph reads:

"Meanwhile, the U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco is conducting a criminal investigation that could result in indictments of both Holmes and Balwani."

But I would not hold my breath.

Now, if they had committed a real crime, such as copyright violation then that would be a different matter. But mere fraud and potentially impacting the health of consumers? Let's not make a fuss.
Yes, before capitalism, which is bad, things were even worse. I can critique both capitalism and what came before it. And it's not just an argument"against being shitty."

Capitalism really doesn't have anything to do with tribalism though. Workers don't have any allegiance whatsoever to their employer beyond that dictated by the imperative of not starving to death. The structural constraint under critique is the one where capital seeks to maximize profits regardless of the human cost. So, when a grower exports food for money instead of giving it to starving people for free, that's what I'm talking about.
Who says that Boeing didn't plan on having warnings? That warnings are required by the FAA in the new rules created doesn't mean Boing wanted to have none, it just says the FAA wants warnings.
I guess it's hard to awnsers have we landed and should we move the wingtips to locked positions? Airplanes afaik have no state machine that says taking off landing taxiing. They may be able to detect it by reading all different systems example landing gear extended altitute from ground radar over 4 feet landing wheel moving etc. But I assume it's too many variables?
EnclaveDB – A Secure Database Using SGX
If soceity must have poor for it to function, as you claim. Nobody should feel bad about opressive actions towards poor people, or be concerned about making their lot better.

Right?
Now the companies are gonna have to dial 0 for a human.

(Imagine a shopkeeper with a thick scottish accent).
"We've got an opening for 4pm wednesday."
"I'm sorry, I could not understand you. Please repeat that."
This entire problem can be explained with one line from the above essay:

>Punishable conduct is rarely punished.

As long as judges allow landlords to break the law without facing serious sanctions, they will continue to do so. Its the same behavior that encourages police officers to perjure themselves constantly on the stand and prosecutors to hide evidence and perform other misconduct in the pursuit of criminal convictions. In many cases throughout society, unfortunately, the law has become nothing more than a tool for the wealthy and powerful to punish and control the poor and powerless. Anyone interested in reading an excellent book on this subject should check out Glenn Greenwald's With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.
I don’t have Haskell experince but I could imagine that traditional debug experience is a bit different if you have lot of functions as values. It’s at least more challenging to visualize function which is composed from 4 another ones and have maybe partially aplied parameters VS map of strings. Or how this goes?

Ps: I currently prefer my .NET as F# and so on but debuggability doesn’t feel biggest strength indeed altough it’s usually ok.
I just ran across a new device called "Tap", a wearable tap glove that functions as both a bluetooth keyboard and mouse!

https://www.tapwithus.com/

I've had any "hands on" experience with the Tap, but it looks very cool, like a modern version of Douglas Engelbart's and Valerie Landau's HandWriter glove!

I asked Valerie Landau about it (wondering if it was her company), but she hadn't heard of it before.

They have an iOS, Android and Unity3D SDK that appeared on github recently, so you can look at the code to see how it works:

https://github.com/TapWithUs

Does this look legit? Has anybody tried it?

If it works as advertised, I'd love to develop TapPieMenus that you can use in VR, mobile, desktop computers, and everywhere else!

I'm excited about the possibility of creating easy to use, fast and reliable pie menus for Tap that users can fully customize, and use with one hand in the same way that Douglass Engelbart described you could do with two hands using a mouse and a chorded keyboard:

>"Well, when you're doing things with the mouse, you can be in parallel, doing things that take character input. And then the system we had, it actually gave you commands with characters, too. Like you had a D and a W, and it says, "you want to delete a word", and pick on which word, and click, it goes. M W would be move a word. Click on this one, click on that one, that one could move over there. Replace character, replace word, transpose words. All those things you could do with your left hand giving commands, and right hand doing it."

It would be cool to have some tactile feedback, so the tutorial could train you to type out letters by vibrating your fingers with a piezo buzzer or something, and maybe it could even secretly spell out silent invisible messages to you while you were wearing it! And you could feel a different silent finger "ring tone" depending on who was calling you, then tap to answer to discard the call, or stroke with a TapPieMenu to send a canned reply.
It's true either way, what could possibly make someone think otherwise?
The CIA has spooks.
SPOILER ALERT

in my mind, a sequel to They Live would pick up ~30 years after the events of the first film, where it becomes obvious that everyone saw the ghouls in their midst and responded by essentially shrugging. it seems to me that's pretty much what happened irl.
No need to apologize. It does, thanks.
Stay as far away from these as you can. I have owned the DPT-RP1 for 9 months now and Sony being true to their form provides zero support. Zero. No updates to the firmware, terrible customer support and no blogs or content about any future for the product.

Buy an iPad Pro. Far better value for money.
Only if you beleive the exchange to somehow be zero or negative sum, which is of course absurd because there would be no point in civlization existing in the first place if that was the case.
You can fly to Russia or North Korea and see it by your own eyes. In short: very small and cheap apartments and lack of up-keeping.
What a strangely negative review of something the reviewer hasn't actually set eyes on. It doesn't make sense to compare the price of this to 5000 sheets of paper or a luxury pen.

The techcrunch blurb is less focused on the price and has slightly more technical info: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/21/sony-shrinks-its-digital-p...
If those actions constituted a tort, the court can award punitive or treble (i.e., "triple") damages (depending on the jurisdiction), plus legal fees.
As with the ReMarkable: call me when you got handwriting recognition on the device. I had a CrossPad, the progress in twenty years is very seriously underwhelming. The CrossPad allowed you to write on a notepad with a special pen and it stored your strokes in a vector format. The ReMarkable and these Sony devices allow you to write on a screen with a special pen and they record your strokes in a vector format. The ability to click an icon to get a new page vs actually flipping to a new page is all what happened in twenty years! The price is about the same, it was 400 in 1997, these things are 600 now, which is about inflation.
It says several planes crashed because of this. I assume they are talking about the same type of planes, perhaps test-models.
> This is a lot simpler in Rust. Everything is value type by default, Box<T> for heap allocations, which even then are managed mostly for you via RAII(yeah I know there's std::unique_ptr but you still also have new, delete, new[], delete[], etc). Parameter types are value, mut ref or const ref. Move semantics are implicit if you have a value type. You don't have const/volatile/etc function qualifiers.

That's not simpler at all - it's basically the same. C++ is also value type by default and you have to ask for heap allocations. And just like in C++ you have types in Rust that look like stack allocations but aren't, like Vec.

So no, it's just value type otherwise Box<T>. That's not true in the slightest. And you need to specify in your function if it's taking ownership or not in addition to whether or not it's pass-by-value or pass-by-reference.

Other than new/delete it's the same shit, just a different syntax.

Rust got to break backwards compatibility which allowed it to remove a lot of C/C++'s old mistakes, yes, but the raw complexity is still entirely there, and very nearly identical.
It doesn't just talk about synthesizing objects of desire based on intimate details of peoples' lives, but that the reason for creating those desirable objects and having the user acquire them is not for making money on the sale, but is in order for the ledger to gain access to that object's observation of user for better understanding of the user.

"The ledger is missing a key data source which it requires in order to better understand this user." (4:22)

It determines if the user is likely to interact with an object that will produce the data and if not then,

"In situations where no suitable product is found, the ledger may investigate a bespoked solution."

The video[1] says it much better that I can. It has amazingly high production values and writhing for an internal company video. Although Google has been higher tens of thousands of the best young people for awhile now, so I should not be too surprised.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqUCX5rPQug&feature=youtu.be
Given the connection to asthma you mentioned, here is something that you might also find interesting per this analysis of a few different factors:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2877483/

> Results of this meta-analysis indicated an inverse association between atopy/allergies and childhood ALL; the pooled odds of any reported atopy/allergy were 31% lower among cases than among controls and were 21% lower for asthma, 26% lower for eczema, and 45% lower for hay fever.

I've always considered myself unlucky for having hay fever and eczema since childhood, but what if those conditions (whether they be from overly clean environments or the opposite) actually do play a role in preventing childhood leukemia? It makes sense that a child with open sores from dermatitis, or with a persistently runny nose and frequent sneezing, would be better at collecting germs than one without those things.

I'm not familiar enough with asthma to know if that could actually help collect germs, or if it's just that eczema and hay fever are so commonly associated with asthma that it's just a common comorbid condition (the "allergic march" as it's called).
FWIW, Carreyrou's unflattering descriptions of Balwani are well-supported by on-the-record interviews of people in the book. It's not clear in the posted excerpt (I don't think Carreyrou ever stated this in his reports for WSJ), but Balwani was also Holmes's boyfriend, so many people had opinions about him even outside his official role at Theranos.
Actual Prolog. Allegro ships a fully integrated Prolog as part of their product.
How would you differentiate something like merge/concatenate, where all the action is in data movement and there are no arithmetic operations (but the gradient is still required)?
Why are so many baby boomers getting divorced?
Additional vendor info:

https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/specu...

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2018/05/21/analysis-...

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi...
If they only had a copy of "How to Win Friends and Influence Others."