skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but it’s extremely unfair to young people who want to buy homes and don’t have luck of coming from a family with a house locked into a low tax rate. Your “stabilization” is everyone else’s inability to buy a house

None of this would be a problem if the proposition had been sane. They could have just allowed primary home owners over a certain age (59.5, 65, etc) to have locked-in property taxes. The bullshit is that the “stabilization” applies to corporations with indefinite lifespans, and that the tax rates can be inherited. By corporations we’re not just talking big, actual business like Google. The way the proposition works incentivizes real estate funds to simply buy all the land they can as soon as possible to lock in a low rate that can be maintained indefinitely. This brings housing prices further up and disincentivizes actual land ownership over the long term (it makes it cheaper to rent from a group that structurally locked in a stupid low property tax rate).

It’s such a stupid fucking law. Clearly nobody bothered to think of the long term consequences
Much discussion on that article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14011793
How many other businesses are going to open branches, if not headquarters, in Des Moines to be close to the Apple data center? How many other companies can they now attract with larger employee counts, as a town that was chosen by Apple?

If I lived in that town, and wasn't a ruralist, I'd be thrilled with the city's decision.
This this this. That's why there are a million fly-by-night Craigslist competitors, and then there's Craigslist.

It works the same way it did in 1999, so my grandma can still sell stuff on it. That's it. Done. It's probably made way more money by not changing anything than by increasing CPMs 5% by playing a fullscreen ad every 6 seconds.
Individual landlords are indeed already setting their prices to maximize revenues. The limiting factor is competition—if one landlord arbitrarily increased prices, tenants would defect to other landlords, reducing revenues. However, if a tax or regulation is imposed which increases costs for all landlords then they will all raise prices simultaneously (or go out of business), so tenants can't just move somewhere else. As the landlords' profits will already be marginal, the majority of the tax can thus only be paid by the tenants.

The idea that a significant portion of a tax will be payed by producers is only realistic in non-competitive markets where producers receive a nontrivial economic profit (revenues minus opportunity cost). In competitive markets, producers' economic profit approaches zero.
> We will soon start open sourcing our content management interface, so users have the opportunity to customize the CMS UI to their needs.

"We're going to open source the interface" is a disingenuous answer to the question. Documenting an interface isn't open source. If your plan is "proprietary SaaS", just own it.
Talks from Mike Acton and Scott Meyers, specifically "Data-Driven Development" and "CPU Caches and why you should care" respectively.

I forgot exactly where I got that number, but it's been a pretty good metric so far.

In a nutshell; the compiler is great a micro-optimizations and absolutely terrible at macro-optimizations. The former will get you a few percent of perf boosts while the later usually results in orders of magnitudes of performance gains.

Its near impossible to apply macro-optimizations at the end of a project without massive refactors.
I agree with your stance on aspects of copyright specifically as you point out in the Disney vein.

For me it doesn't hold when an individual or small business invents a unique product only to have their product design stolen and sold at knock-off prices removing any chance they have at reinvesting and continuing to produce additional unique products.

The "don't deny the ladder" argument is still a bizarre mindset. There are lots of laws that come into place after a situation where someone has already made lots of money via exploiting the thing that the law now explicitly prevents. Specifically because the now illegal thing was shown to be wrong.

Some obvious extreme examples:

Child labor, legal prior to the 1900s. Should China be putting pre-teens in factories for 16 hours as well without any guilt because "The US did it while it was bootstrapping."?

Slavery, the United States used slave labor in the establishment of it's economy. Should China be allowed to use slavery?

If your counter argument is, "Well those are humanitarian issues violating individual rights where copyright isn't." then you're just attempting to divide what's considered wrong into "more or less morally acceptable shades of your own making" which doesn't have the effect of suddenly making those more morally acceptable things now acceptable within the greater opinion of humanity at large. Simply put, "Yes, there is scale but copyright infringement is still on the 'wrong' side currently within our society."

If you want to argue that copyright infringement is the right thing to do on the grounds that all copyright infringement is inherently good then I'm willing to accept that's your stance.

If your stance is still, it's "OK" for China to engage in copyright infringement (when you think copyright infringement is wrong) just because the United States did it 160 years ago, then you're holding what to me is a viewpoint based on your own bias towards wanting it to be "OK" for China to engage in copyright infringement and your rationalizing why after the fact.
No, no, it's because contractors being contractors, they aren't in the office half the time. And vendors are in the office even less.

Though try working as a contractor at Microsoft without your ass in that chair eight hours/day and see what happens.
Scholar of patent law takes on the Massie bill
High demand for electricity may increase the price of energy as a whole, which may make the production of electricity from fossil fuels profitable enough to expand.
>> Unsurprisingly, USA near the top with 1780 hrs worked annually by the average worker

According to the chart, US workers work < 1% more than the average for OECD countries. There are only two countries that are closer to the average.
"Near the top" is not even a close description of this data.
Given that your premise is false, how do the rest of your claims follow?
The middle class pays more for needs and less for wants then it did 40, 50, 60 years ago.
The 2% growth thing is the biggest mistake. It should follow the CPI or some other inflation metric. That way, you are taxed on the fair market value, but the growth follows the market. It's still not fair, but it is better than what is there now. They made the same mistake with legislating 7% growth into pensions.

I still hate the "fair market valuation lock-in". So much of it comes down to timing and nothing else. When rates were high in the 70s and 80s, people locked in a tax rate at a low price. Therefore, it's probably advantageous, from a property tax perspective, to buy in a high rate environment in CA. Rates have been going down consistently since then, and thus we have all of these older people that have locked in their property tax rate at a ridiculously low valuation. There is just so much the market can do that legislating these things like growth into the law just has too many unpredictable effects.

I was renting a place for 2500/mo from a woman's son who paid $600/year in property taxes. He wasn't the least bit interested in maintaining it either.
Holllllleeeeeyyyyy sheeeeet!!!

I went from a buffer bloat of 1.2s UP and 0.6s DOWN to effectively 0. It's like I have a whole new internet connection.

OP and everyone else involved gets a million internet points from me!
Appalling nonsense. This is a straw man, and obviously not based on any reputable evidence.
There's nowhere to deploy it that will generate a return for the investors. There are plenty of ways to deploy it that generate a return for society as a whole - you've listed a bunch, plus founding new universities, conducting basic scientific research, distributing medicine, or even just giving money to the poor.

That this is even a distinction should indicate something in our conception of capitalism that doesn't click right. I'm decidedly pro-capitalist compared to most of my peers, but even I think that there's room for some targeted interventions that would both improve equality and make the system as a whole function better. (Top on my list would be for the government to start breaking up monopolies - or at least stop actively creating them, the way the FDA, patent system, and Sarbanes-Oxley do - and for higher taxes on certain economic rents like capital gains and a land-value tax.)
Quantum Cascade Laser
>Python 3 adopters, can you give me a reason, a technical reason, why I should chose P3 over P2 for any project?

Perhaps not yet, but soon enough, sure.

The year is 2025. You want to set up a webserver to do something in python2. The Letsencrypt api doesn't have official python2 bindings, SQLAlchemy hasn't provided any database interfaces for python2 in 6 years, and so you can't use recent versions of postgres without writing your own dbapi.

There's been a couple of major security bugs found in various system tools, and sane flags and defaults have changed as a result, but python2's standard library never updated to call them safely, so you're default insecure. And libraries like smtp and BaseHTTPServer don't support modern standards like HTTP3 and extended MIME types.

You're banking on all that maintenance being easier than porting to python3.7 or whatever (which in my experience is actually very easy once you know what you're doing, you can port a decently sized project in a day or so).
They seem to be benchmarking very specific things and not actual applications. These numbers do not hold in the real world.
Another complementary reference: http://course.earthrightsinstitute.org/?q=node/99
This is true, but goats do observe and learn from each other, and this is especially true in terms of causing trouble. If one goat figures out how to get out, everybody else follows. If one sheep gets out, she is very upset (generally) and does her best to get back in!

Anthropomorphizing again, it looks like goats are more intelligent than sheep. But I'm not sure that's actually true; I think it's just that the same local minimum in the flock dynamics space that cause goats to fight each other for grain also causes them to be more inventive in their random walk through life.

When you house sheep and goats together, the sheep learn to do some of the same things the goats do. If you want to introduce your sheep to a new food, give it to the goats first. They'll eat it, the sheep will see them eating it, and then the sheep will eat it. I've seen goats stand on their back legs to get to the lower branches of trees. The sheep had never thought to do that on their own. But once they see the goats doing it, they try it too. That tells me the sheep aren't inherently less intelligent; there's just less variation in their nominal behavior.
It's not like someone from the US who has only drank clean processed water
They're probably not against bitcoin, crytocurrency is a controversial topic these days and they just leverage on that.
Most of the US is sprawl and seems to be adequately handling maintenance. Density is not a necessary precondition for economical maintenance...NYC's subway system is in a shambles despite the highest density in the US, and mostly affluent residents.

Only a few places in the US have both sprawl and very high labor costs. It would be a crisis if the entirety of the US resembled Palo Alto and had similar costs...but this isn't the case.
This is just “I got mine” as the economists. Meanwhile younger people who want to buy homes are unable to enjoy the way of life that you are, because you were able to buy a home before they had even graduated middle school

Why should society have to slow down just to help you and your little old house? You can just move somewhere else with a garden. Everybody else is also trying to work and live their lives. This isn’t little house on the prairie, it’s quite selfish to buy a house in a city (an inherently dynamic landscape) and then expect the rest of the world to freeze in time
If you remove the block signaling system and use in-cab signaling, you still need to know where the back of the train is. Otherwise a train could run into the back of another in the fog or heavy rainstorm. Currently, railroads use FREDs (flashing rear end device) on the last car of the train. Some FREDs are more intelligent than others but would benefit from being able to send out their location via GPS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-train_device
It is perfectly acceptable for an apartment building to have accessible and non accessible units. The ADA isn’t that crazy, which is why wheel chair bars are probably not in your bathroom.
So use the word "art" or "math" instead. Both are the free flows of ideas, data, information - that build off of one another. Art with a capital A stops being created when there is total ownership belonging to a singular entity. You can't create something from nothing. You can drive yourself crazy trying to do so, but in some variation, every new thing that is created is intrinsically connected to every existing thing, down to the tiniest, most insignificant detail. What amount of complexity between the observation, the thought process, the effort involved in creation, the final product - is required to deem something truly 'new'?

The problem with art or with ideas is that they are fundamentally dependent on the existence of everything they share similarity with, fundamentally dependent on everything they are not to exist independently - every aspect that distinguishes each unique existence from all that came previously. Art itself is successful when it can distinguish itself as something fundamentally radical, fundamentally novel - enough to provoke a dramatic paradigm shift. The world of 'high art' will tell you that this requires a tremendous amount of time to understand 'impact'.

It may be trivial and frivolous to say it is about memes, but there's a very specific, targeted effect being attempted with the usage of such a word. It's the attempt to demonstrate the irony, which is absolutely transcendent and multi layered to the point of being lost on us entirely. Memes were created as tools to be used to communicate emotion when text wasn't cutting it - for many folks. Now they share the same status as material product? Will a meme one day be framed next to a painting by Picasso?

The art world has a long history of being aware of this phenomena: from the painting, to the daguerreotype, camera lucida, the photographic negative, video and television, digital media, and many others. What is Art, what are aesthetics, what is Idea with a capital I, what makes it new, what differentiates it from a copy, what in art is owned? Art influences culture, culture influences art. They are intertwined. Memes and copyright, it's neither trivial nor frivolous, but we can at least be aware - human existence certainly has a profound sense of humor.
The problem is not the office, but you having a method that takes 6 boolean. A method should not even take one boolean ever.

A boolean simple means you need to split the method.
inlove that that is a common arrangement for parents. Do businesses accommodate a reduction in hours to facilitate this?

We’re not very accommodating of parenthood here in the US. Medical costs aside, my employer only offers two weeks of paid parental leave after having a child.
Amazon HQ2 is making cities consider projects they've been ignoring for years
Yes, the open office needs to die.
Thanks for the explanation!

Yes, I guess a part of my question was whether the destructors/finalizers that the JS object bindings in C++ might impose are called fast enough to guarantee isolation and prevent resource leakage. Looks like in your case that happens through the request scoping.
Why not also use an electric cable? Sounds like a problem, since the first car will have to "resist" the rest of the train.
You Don't Need Transit to Build a Walkable Place
Most British passenger trains are multiple units (and most British trains are passenger trains), so there's effectively little distinction between locomotive and rolling stock.
Do you think any system goes from 1 to a billion users without being re-written? It never happens, if you go if into that architecture astronaut mindset from the beginning you will not ship the features necessary to get traction. Saying that Twitter faced language-level issues is absolute nonsense. Any stateless web front-end scales trivially whether it's Rails or anything else, it's the data flow and caching that needs to be designed properly to solve Twitter-type scaling issues.
Build an E-Commerce Progressive Web App with Gatsby
now that is helpfull for me migrating to standard notes!
Racine and Kenosha Counties appears to have a higher average property tax than e.g. Cook County and nearly equal to neighboring Lake County in Illinois. Of course, that's not the whole picture, as properties are more expensive in nicer areas.
In the day of corrupt social networks it's time to revive RSS via JSON
So this explains why there's face-painted neo-barbarian tribal subcultures in cyberpunk settings.
I would rather the beachfront property be owned by those who bought it out of their own savings, which they earned by providing goods and services to others. Not an organization defined first and foremost by its claim to possess a license to practice aggression, which transparently operates in a manner indistinguishable from a protection racket. (Nice property you have there... it'd be a shame if someone took it from you by force... Someone like us, if you don't pay up.)
Your second example is great except that any error messages that get raised from inside getattr are going to be inscrutable. The traceback will be uninformative, and you'll be forced to drop into a debugger to figure out what's going on.

At runtime, your second example is actually significantly less explicit because so much is hidden away in mutable state.
Did you read the article? The real point has less to do with intent that you realize.

Most of the discussion has to do with having healthy skepticism for a vendor making exaggerated claims; and ensuring that you retain customers.
If they claim the right to tax it, then they're claiming to own it. Only the owner of the property has the right to set conditions on its use.
I suspect people here that like them have worked in them prior to open office. In contrast I started my career about seven years ago and have only worked in open office environments.

So to me the idea of being in a cube farm seems more uncomfortable.

I think as more people start with open workspaces it'll become normalized even further.
You've been posting a lot of inflammatory political comments, and that's simply not what this site is for. Could you please not do this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I tried booting Ubuntu on it, similar problems.

What model do you have?
Dashcam maker sets up site to submit footage to UK Police
Presidents don't make tax laws, Congress does. Please point me to the majority of representatives getting elected on platforms of raising taxes for education. Outside of a few states like California you'll find that that is a minority platform.

I see where the mixup is with that citation. Tuition is a direct proxy for college funding (think of it as student funding rather than public funding). I meant it to show that increasing funding for colleges does not equate with improving outcomes for most students.
Funny.. in Europe, Germans are considered hard-working and Greeks typically "lazy". According to these stats, the truth is completely the opposite!
More likely that the part time force consists of families where both parents work eg 60-80%. This is at least quite common for friends around me.

Perhaps ‘correcting’ is the wrong word. But the title feels like: this is a ranked list which countries work hardest. I think the figure fails to capture that a family where both parents work 30 hours is not working less than a family where only one parent works 50 hours.

In my opinion, if that’s the comparison we want to make, it would be more fair to look at average hours worked per capita, or average hours worked per capita between ages 16-70, or something similar. That would capture both average hours and labor force participation.
Although, I don't understand the details, this is pretty impressive. But the real question is why do you require it?
I think it is more than simple money. For the new crop of billionaires, sports teams are a fashion item. A really fancy yacht can cost hundreds of millions but they are a pain to get to/from and are generally a private affair. A sports team lets you flaunt your wealth in front of thousands on a daily basis. You get to play host to athletes that everyone wants to know. So owners take public intrusion into their clubs more personally than they do any other simple business.
Yes, there is no dependency on a specific player.

The output is an SVG animation so you can modify it as you want. For example you could add a last frame with the logo of your project.

Not being able to pause the animation is annoying, I will probably add some way to it with ECMAScript in the future.
Also, it means they can't move the team around to court more lucrative tax incentives. It's a bad deal all around for billionaires looking to siphon as much money from the fans as possible.
There's a reason why some bodies ship a reference implementation with the standard. Sometimes what's specified is infeasible, or even impossible (if the spec contradicts itself) to implement.
There were a few pets.com along the way in SV. For every successful startup, there's a graveyard full of failed ones.
I am in a suburb, but I spend spent of time (and credit card money) in urban and rural areas.
Why should they not? Should antisocial and deceptive behavior like this be flatly ignored “because it’s just a game”?
I think standalone is the most outstanding advantage. Many recordings of terminal are using asciiema or youtube, those links in a github readme.md file is a static screenshot instead of animated one, you have to click the link to watch the animation.

You can view the animation without javascript enabled, and it's media type is image, you don't even need to convert it to base64 to use it. It's like gif but relatively smaller and with more colors, and it's Scalable Vector.
In some cases, it said.
'20 pounds of human waste' dropped on San Francisco street corner
This is really low quality. A lot of the explanations aren't even remotely correct.
It is obviously and demonstrably not. We have outrageous amounts of corruption, up to the point that it's been outright legalized. The amount of pay-for-play in our legal system and filthy regulatory capture by the regulated industries themselves in the US is incredible.

The risk/reward situation is not balanced at all. There is such an obscene amount to be gained, and the only repercussion is to lose a cushy job. They get to fall back on a nice executive gig on the other side of the revolving door. Do we hold other criminals to those standards and lay out that kind of weak punishment?

And even when it comes to being voted out, there's all sorts of gerrymandering and bad-faith efforts to obfuscate and soft-rig US elections.

Everyone should absolutely vote, that much is true. You should always vote, even if you think it doesn't matter because they've successfully gamed the system. You still gotta vote to make it as difficult as possible to manipulate results.

But voting alone is not going to cut it one day. Other civil efforts are needed to keep a democracy from becoming corrupt. A lot of people have bought into this myth that most civil progress is bloodless, but despite MLK and Gandhi's good efforts it has taken a lot of toil and death to make society even remotely acceptable and fair, to make it even superficially resemble a meritocracy. It didn't happen by itself or through voting. It took real work.