skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is gambling a zero sum game? According to the article, taxes from the Casino operations are $393M, and from clubs operations $300M, so thats $693 tax revenue the government wouldn't otherwise have. How many hospitals, schools and other social facilities can be built with $693M per year. Also add in the venue staff running the place, the builders building the facilities, the engineers and technicians building the machines, etc. An enormous amount of people are employed in the industry, and the government gets $693M per year extra which it wouldn't have it Gaming was illegal. How is this a zero sum equation?
I don't think it's hard to find societies that subsist on income that comes 'for free'. Investors, traditional aristocrats - hell, the ancient spartan citizens. These are all people who had their wealth decoupled from their productive labour.
Here's a copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190116210359/http://articles.l...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180621182847/http://articles.l...

https://web.archive.org/web/20180701133913/http://articles.l...
Funding the space program doesn't help the infrastructure, education and much needed aid for Opioid epidemic that's rampant in our country; therefore, we shouldn't fund NASA.

This is a wrong way of thinking.

You may have heard of the term "Throwing more developers at a problem doesn't help or too many cooks in the kitchen."

Slack should absolutely work on those issues - I agree, but not by sacrificing the rest of the business needs such as Branding.
It's a swastikoid, like the Sun Microsystems logo (also Columbia Sportsware Company)!

https://latticelabyrinths.wordpress.com/

https://goodlogo.com/extended.info/sun-microsystems-logo-238...

https://goodlogo.com/extended.info/columbia-sportswear-logo-...
I learned about Cristosal and their mission because they run weeklong short courses on how to move towards justices in Central America. Some friends said, "come to this!" and I said, "well, OK."

In the course, they focused on some themes in the book "Toxic Charity," and how they are doing their best to avoid those pitfalls. Also, they're suing--successfully--the government of El Salvador for redress of wrongs from some massacres during the civil war of the 1980s and 1990s.

Their short courses include both norteamericanos and local people. So some level of relationships are built.

You know how South Africa had a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" that enjoyed some success? El Salvador had a "Reconcilation Commission," but they left out the truth part. That Doesn't Work. The government is weaker than the MS-13 and Barrio 18 rival gangs now. Cristosal is persistently trying to rebuild civil institutions.

That short course is a pretty good development tool; spreads the word about the challenges and gets people enlisted in the mission.

And if you travel to poor communities in Central America, bring soccer balls.
Show HN: email-securely-app 2.2.0 - Tutanota / ProtonMail desktop client
Unfortunately, there is hardly any good measure for future market demand. There's just unproven heuristics, overarching anecdotes and random guesses.
You're being downvoted for trotting out well-worn and eye-roll inducing ignorance. It'd be one thing to approach this conversation with an open mind, but just stating blanket nonsense raises hackles.

> Nature has never been stable especially not for humans

Yeah, it changes on geologic timescales, i.e. thousands and millions of years. We've subjected nature to catastrophic shocks 1000x faster. It does not respond well. It collapses. We're in the middle of shit storm because of our own actions. It is absolutely not business as usual for Earth.

> I would still ask those most worried to point to a scientifically demonstrated consequence of climate change

We're not really sure how Earth is gonna function if the oceans are dead and there are no insects, and parts of it are literally uninhabitable for humans because it will be too hot to go outside (~130F).

> If anything we have made it more stable

Nonsense. We chopped down most of the forests in the US [1] to make farmland. Literally. My home state of Indiana was _literally_ solid hardwood forest 250 years ago. Take a look at it on Google maps sometime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_the_United_St...

Edit: added handy reference
Good question. As will all previous shutdowns, I have not noticed any impact whatsoever.
For what it's worth, ProPublica Illinois has also been looking at tickets (though just parking, not speeding/camera tickets, at least not yet).

https://projects.propublica.org/chicago-tickets/
The Marijuana Billionaire Who Doesn’t Smoke Weed
> 1. An appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. However, authority does serve a purpose. People will take Harvard astronomers more seriously than backyard astronomy enthusiasts. Therefore his credentials are relevant.

You're basically saying "appeal to authority is a logical fallacy but it's an OK fallacy"

We should judge his opinion on the validity of his claims, not on the credentials he carries. If the backyard astronomer makes a more cogent argument, we should prefer that over the Harvard astronomers. Ideas have merits, credentials don't.

Carl Sagan famously said

One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." ...
Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong.
Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else.
Not sure about Chicago, but my small hometown in Central IL is depressing to visit, glad I left Illinois.
> Nature has never been stable especially not for humans so that's hardly a useful premise.

Sure, but making it more unstable is clearly worse for us. Sure, we have ways of making even the most unstable environments survivable (like the Moon!) but saying that we should just make things worse and hope that we can undo it in 50 years isn't a really good strategy.
Michael Gerber’s ‘E-Myth’ fails in the internet age
I was unsure myself until I got to this:

"This is awesome because there's no heat or hot water in the storage unit I'm renting. That's a subject for another post, but I just need a parka and a pair of fingerless gloves to get the exact same experience as those co-working hipsters."

a spectacular work of satire
Same, bedbugs in India, had to go to a proper hotel costing me more than $1000 between room and cleaning all my belongings, I take bedbugs seriously and didn’t want to bring any bug back home. I had pictures of the bugs and the hotel and cleaning invoices. They asked for a medical (!!!) report. Airbnb refunded me 1 of the 2 nights out of 7 I didn’t spend there. So Airbnb costed me more money than going directly to a hotel. Not to mention how distressful and time consuming all this was. I didn’t ever use Airnb before and I’m not going to miss them at all...
The biggest players are Facebook and Google who are further entrenched by this regulation, even though it seems like they were supposed to be the targets. All the other sites suffer as a result, while only large ones like NYT stay viable. Many smaller players are now looking at paywalls or patronage to stay in business.

You can easily avoid sites you do not like but I don't see what that has to do with integrity (of what exactly?), or why you think that everyone else would also be ok with losing 80% of content and jobs? Billions of people over decades have shown they prefer free and plentiful content and it's unlikely that is changing anytime soon unless you can somehow change human behavior first.
> Firestore -> field level triggers. Right now we have only document level trigger.

For what it's worth, if you have an onUpdate trigger on a Firestore database, the event you receive has the before & after state of the change, which would include field-level changes: https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/firestore-events#...

Is there a specific use-case that this doesn't handle for you?

Note: Work at GCP, not on Functions.
Fee rebates have become really common as well in my experience.
Redfin itself has a licensed brokerage sub company in many states.
"The EU is far more democratic than the UK."

This is demonstrably false.

+ The UK (like other European nations) has a fairly vibrant democracy, with representatives who make legislation.

+ People know who their reps are, and vote on the basis of party ideals.

+ Governments live and die (i.e. they fall) on votes made by reps.

+ Governments are hugely responsive on many issues, and have no choice but to bend given popular demand.

+ There are popular plebiscites on major issues such as Scottish independence and Brexit.

Contrast that with the EU:

+ Nobody related to creating legislation, or providing strategic or material guidance is elected. Nobody speaking on behalf of the EU is elected.

+ MEP's cannot introduce or amend legislation.

+ Pragmatically, there are very low voter turnouts, and people have generally little knowledge as to who their MPs are, or what the platforms are.

+ There are no popular plebiscites, but worse, due to the above, the EU Executive is notoriously tone deaf to the will of the people. (They just don't care, because they think they are 'right' - which is a natural thing frankly in any body that doesn't have to worry about the status of their power)

+ The legal foundation of the EU, based on various treaties, most notably the Treaty of Lisbon, is on shaky ground. French voters literally voted against the Treaty, and it was enacted anyhow. This is not a 'trade agreement' - this is about devolution of major constitutional powers, so this is a problem. Referendums were cancelled in other nations because they would have been lost.

...

Summary: the UK, much like most other European nations, is considerably 'more democratic' than the EU.

If you're going to take a boldly contrarian stance, the onus is on you to provide the evidence.
Down-votes are not for factually correct or incorrect comments. They are for comments that either do or do not contribute to the discussion.

Saying that he believes that "aliens created a solar sail-powered pancake-shaped spacecraft 600,000 years ago just so it could fly by us and say hi" is incredibly dismissive, and also a misrepresentation of his views, and his point.
> However, I think realtors have a demographic tidal wave about to hit them, consisting of first-time young home buyers and some slightly older home sellers who are used to doing things online and want nothing to do with realtor-mediated transactions ... or will scoff at the ridiculously high fees charged by brokers.

No way. Find me the mythical millennial who wants to deal with a first-party negotiation.

In some fantasy land where you ride your unicorn to work and shop for pre-fabricated houses on Amazon.com, sure. The reality is that your bank demands due diligence, houses are always in some state of disrepair, and nobody wants to deal with that.
> All experience a monumental retraction the likes of which our economy has never experienced the moments ads go away.

Such hyperbole; computers are embedded in every aspect of daily life now.

Moreover, even if by some miracle you happened to be correct, propping up the adtech software industry does not justify its negative externalities any more than preserving tobacco jobs justifies the continued sale of cigarettes and subsequent deaths or preserving coal jobs justifies the pollutants produced and its subsequent deaths.
If we were to do an interstellar ship with current physics it would probably rely on:

- Preacceleration strategies that speed up the craft without using its onboard/deceleration reaction mass/fuel (gravity whips, launching lasers for a solar sail, cannon-fired fuel pods)

- Pulse nuclear acceleration using "preseeded" fuel pods launched ahead of the craft and captured as the craft caught the pod

- ion drive once the preseeded fuel pods weren't practical anymore

- ion drive, solar sail, and pulse nuclear and more gravity whips to slow down

Pulse nuclear/orion ships are the only thing that gets close to specific impulse and performance to get to Alpha Centauri in anything reasonable. It becomes a LOT more feasible if fuel pods are prelaunched, or seeded by a leading disposable fuel seeding ship (it doesn't have to slow down, it can just, uh ...

.... fly through the target system once it's done.

Uhoh.
I always wondered why that happens at all but then I thought maybe it is because of their historic origins starting out as book seller - where showing another book after you bought a book makes absolute sense. While for refridgerators it makes no sense, they should put stuff in categories to distinguish that but then they are a super big company and I am single selftaught developer trying to make my living out of it.
Both subjects male, so why on earth did they fail to title it 'The Men Who Flew Too Much'?
What we're talking about here is Ocasio-Cortez's suggestion for a 70% marginal tax rate on income over $10M, right? Because this would be a new tax bracket, it would only apply to the money you earn over $10M.

So first: how many doctors, lawyers, software developers, traders, small businesspeople, or etc. make over $10M in income? (You wrote "small business," but to be clear, we're not talking about business tax rates, we're talking about personal income.) In 2016, less than 20,000 IRS returns showed combined adjusted gross incomes of $10M or over. (That includes married couples pooling their income.)

So for the incredibly vast majority of taxpayers, adding another tax bracket higher than the ones established now would have no effect at all. Period. Given that the top tax bracket in 2019 doesn't kick in until an AGI of $510K (or $612K for married), what are we talking about? Say, a new 50% tax bracket that starts at 5M and a 70% one that starts at 10M? How many people would truly be affected by this? Far under a million. Quite likely well under 200K.

My mother had a financial adviser years ago who half-joked that his life goal was to pay personal income taxes of $1M a year. That gets at an essential truth that people who think that this tax would "hurt" people seem to miss. If I was in a position where a 70% marginal tax rate on income over $10M a year had any material effect on me whatsoever, it's not an exaggeration to say that I'd be too rich to care.
If it's easily disproven; please do so.

For me it's just a matter of time until the damage of our predatory overcultivation catches up with us in a systemic and global ecosystem collapse. There's only so much damage an ecosystem can absorb before it gives in and there are quite some indications (i.e. the "Insect Apocalypse") that we are reaching the tipping point. Just think about it; how can an ecosystem support humans, if it can't support insects anymore? And I'm not only talking about flying insects but everything in our agricultural support system; e.g. soil.

Again; please disprove the 'hyperbole', I'd be really glad.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Disclosure: my spouse is a home inspector

It's a bit extreme outright dismiss an inspector just because they are recommended by your own agent (there is no reason whatsoever to even ask the selling agent for such advice). After all, you've hired them for their expertise and advice, and they see and know a lot more home inspectors than you. Of course, look at the recommended inspectors and do your own homework, like anything else. But if you can't trust your agent to recommend an inspection I question why you are working with them in the first place.
I'm curious about what indicators in your personal life you'd use to judge the difference between a country-level 2.7 and 2.8% GDP growth rate for the year.
When the parasite consumes the host.
No, the Mongo license explicitly forbids cloud providers from using the software without open sourcing the entire stack. Unless you have an example of Red Hat doing the same, I'd retract the statement.
California might have a similar problem if the Sierra precipitation comes more as rain than snowpack in the future. One possible solution is to re-inject water into aquifers in high precip years and then pump it out during droughts. If it can be done politically (the tech already exists) then this is even better than dams for water storage as evaporation doesn't happen.

Currently in California people can pump as much water as they can from wells with no restriction. Some changes in the works, but until the person who pumps it in gets to pump it out or sell it, this idea will not work.
Airbnb will open a San Jose office
Not all adaptions prove themselves advantageous. Additionally, would not expect new developments in food science or chemical warfare to have evolutionary genetic adaptions.
> The original estimate that the partial shutdown would subtract 0.1 percentage point from growth every two weeks has now been doubled to a 0.1 percentage point subtraction every week, according to an official who asked not to be named.

> The administration had initially counted just the impact from the 800,000 federal workers not receiving their paychecks. But they now believe the impact doubles, due to greater losses from private contractors also out of work and other government spending and functions that won't occur.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/15/source-white-house-believes-...
Wow. So you're telling me; that the icon that you've been viewing as the symbol for Slack over the last couple of years looked more familiar than the new logo they released today. That's mind boggling
I also like his take on the WeWork fiasco.
> I will also ask you to provide an example of a scientifically demonstrated consequence of climate change we don't know how to deal with.

You'll have to define "deal with". How many billions dead is a success?
That really isn't a big deal since you need to prove residence to register. There are a limited number of votes that can be made. If two people show up saying they are the same person, that will create a red flag.
I didn't get on usenet until 1998 (didn't have internet access before 1995), but I found it quite informative for the topics I was interested in. Unfortunately, the groups frequented died out around 2013 when pretty much all the regulars stopped posting.
Millions of people around the world use glaciers to get their drinking water. It's pretty easy to see that those disappearing would affect their ability to get water.
That sounds like a very reasonable scenario.

I'm going to cry in the darkness now.
It's gonna be a bitch not getting anything to eat because Earth won't grow our crops anymore because we done fucked up all of its life support systems and it's just too damn hot outside.
Paula needs to retire. She has ruined the Library of Congress logo - the classic Library of Congress logo by C&G&H with this crap: https://www.pentagram.com/work/library-of-congress/story

It's like they recycled left overs from the EFF logo job.

Pentagram is hit or miss depending on who leads the project. Michael Beirut is one of the better partners and designers at Pentagram.
Any implementation of sharing living quarters with other people has too many problems. People nowadays don’t understand what it means to be clean. Back wen cleanliness was up to you and of great practical importance, people were aware of beg bugs, Scabies, fleas, dust mites and the such like. Bed bugs are disgusting and when you stay in a hotel of any kind you risk picking them up. Their eggs stick to you, your luggage, everything and you trail them everywhere you go, including your own house. I just don’t understand why people want to sleep in bug infested cum stained shit hole shared rooms. I sleep in my car instead and while it’s not as nice as a room, it’s a lot better than sharing.
Here's what would happen in reality:

Doctors need insurance against medical malpractice and other forms of liability. So the insurance companies would develop their own form of standardization/credentialing, much like what happens in other industries like construction or shipping, to determine what are actually the highest risk factors for liability and other losses. You wouldn't be able to get insurance without following these guidelines.

The advantage of this system is that it's not written into law, making it much, much easier for it to change and evolve over time. Insurers would compete for business by pushing up against the minimum allowable standards and innovation would occur.

The thing I think people forget, is that legislated mandates are by their very nature, extremely hard to change. Regulations of the sort the FCC uses are easier, as they can be done by the agency itself, but they have their own problems.

I just don't think it requires MD-level training to do everything we need doctors to do today. Nurse practitioners and other less-credentialed peers are already taking up a lot of workload in medical offices and costs are still exploding.
Out of curiosity: on a $8m round, how much is expected for the lead to invest?

I would guess ~$2m, but you gave the impression that it would be more about $5m.
That Perens quote refers specifically to Sunil Deshpande's article about the SSPL and Open Source, not to the SSPL itself. But it's not far off either way…

The reaction on the OSI's license-review list is more varied. Lawrence Rosen and Ken Mitchell argue that the license should be approved. Everyone else is criticizing that it clearly violates the spirit of Open Source software (no discrimination against fields of endeavour!), and that the license is too broad and too vague in the critical section (Rosen agrees with the latter part). Carlo Piana points out that the goal of the license seems to be to create so much legal uncertainty that any serious user would be forced to buy a proprietary license from MongoDB.
Right, but p4 & svn have “checkout” which is similar to staging. Staging is part of what we get because we can edit files without having to checkout / open for edit.

P4 and svn don’t have a strict commit parentage, which is why you can push commits in those systems in any order. Git’s strict concept of parentage is what makes the staging area so important for keeping your workflow similar to p4 & svn Workflows. Without a staging area, you’d either have to always fix mistakes with new commits, which is bad, or rewrite already pushed history, which is worse.
I presume extrapolation from a million of people not receiving paychecks. I assume it's not too different from how you normally estimate GDP.
Agreed that this is lacking.
Staged is what will be included in the next commit (as made by git commit). So it is a diff against HEAD (current commit).

Also, it does not show a particular file, but all the changes in the staging area. To show only one file have to do `git diff --staged -- src/myfile.c`
> Why should someone be punished for making more money?

Taxes are not a punishment, though they may be a disincentive. Taxes are also not a payment in exchange for services.
Dude, that was my entire point. Airbnb was required, via legislation, to do something, thus they are doing it. Advocating that they do something without being required to is what I'm commenting on.
Yeah free software but you need to purchase a support agreement is what I was getting at. In any case you could get around this by just running it in a container, no?
It’s not about the wall being immoral. It’s about it being monumentally stupid and a waste of money. There are much better solutions.
There has been no guarantee of back pay for furloughed workers.

This is also the first shutdown where military servicemen have not been paid.
But is that based on residents, or actual number of people in each? I'd imagine tourists/visitors to Las Vegas must greatly outnumber the population itself.
>Firstly, it’s not change for the sake of change.

Actually yes, it is.
"Canada has 7% of the world's renewable fresh water", but the 85% of the population that lives close to the south border doesn't have access to this water as it mostly flows northwards towards the Arctic Ocean. [1] The rest is underground, glacier water or sitting in lakes.

It isn't as bad as Central Asia as far as I know, but it's still not great.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services...