skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While eminent domain is the overarching legal means through which all properties are seized, there is plenty of sketchiness to be found in the process of declaring a property "blight" so that it can be seized. My city has done a good job of condemning blighted properties in terms of having 0 public scandals surrounding their decisions, but there's still a tinge of corruption surrounding every old mill that is declared to be blight only for the original structure to be converted to luxury flats with only minor modification and landscaping. "Blight" to me means a property and any structures on that property being so unfit for use that it will require significant rehabilitation (think major ddmolition and environmental cleanup) to return it to a bare-ground state before it can be used for anything else. Seizing a propery, giving it away for nothing/practically nothing, and then watching a developer flip it for a massive profit reeks of corruption when the same developers happen to be the winners over and over.

There's also the issue of slightly sketchy property tax reassessments that are a hallmark of many neighborhood revitalization projects. There is almost always a law stipulating the maximum year-over-year rate increases but slap the maximum rate on a stubborn holdout for enough years in a row and that 15% maximum annual reassessment increase (the maximum in my city) can turn even the least valuable property imaginable into an unaffordable anchor around the owners neck within a few years.
It's not just outdated. It's horrendously outdated.

No one outside of Java developers wants to deal with it. Take your pick why, constant security problems, Oracle's shitty litigious attitude, miles of crappy java code Ops people have to deal with that was built by the lowest bidder, the fact that the JVM/virtual machine pattern that has been superseded by VMs/docker/serverless/microkernels/take your pick.

Just about the only people who greenfield in Java these days are academics who learned Java as an undergrad, Enterprise people who are stuck with java everything-else so why not, and java developers who don't know anything better. Oh, and business guys who force Java in their applications so it can be easily outsourced to India once the buyout check comes through.
Babylonian Method for Computing Square Roots
You could do it with webbing. The installer would have to pop a few tiles off the edge to match things up. Those tiles could then be used to fill in gaps. Depending on webbing size and installer skill, perhaps 80% of the tiles could be left attached to the webbing.
hence the quotes.
What services will cost more for the city?

The usual costs per new resident (that property taxes are normally earmarked for) perhaps?
it's about having a chip you can truly trust

This gets repeated over and over but I don't get it. You could build a blob-free ARM chip. Existing RISC-V chips already have/had blobs. Freeeeedom is orthogonal to the ISA.
Self-locating belief and the Sleeping Beauty problem (2000) [pdf]
I was with you all the way to the end...subscriptions will always have to be higher than ad revenue to the publisher. Take facebook as an example. In 4Q2018 their average revenue per user in the US was just shy of $35. If no advertisers paid anything to FB and instead lowered the cost of their products accordingly then yes Mike saves some money...BUT, if he wants to continue to use facebook...facebook will have to charge Mike at least as much as what they were getting from the Alices, likely much more. There is no way Nick can provide a newspaper without either advertising or subscription fees. It's the basic rub of the modern internet, at least content providers and as of now advertising for a "free" service is the dominant approach.
I like the syntax.

I also like the interesting direction you went with pattern matching selectors. That is a nice change and quite different from your typical Smalltalk or Objc code.
Can't keep up? Or doesn't really want to keep up? Not a month goes by where there's not a HN post on this subject (or very similar). If they're making a profit then there is - at least at this point in time - not enough incentive for them to change.

The KPI we need to know is: As bot accounts increase what is the churn of real accounts? Unless real accounts are falling, and it's because of bots / spam, then Twitter is unlikely to do much about the problem; because to them it's not really a problem.
Except you need to live in Texas. You’d have to pay me 10x to live there.
A [u8;32] doesn't work with Pin. Pin only works when you wrap it around a pointer type. From the documentation on Unpin:

> Since Rust itself has no notion of immovable types, and will consider moves to always be safe, this trait cannot prevent types from moving by itself.

From the documentation on std::pin:

> In order to prevent objects from moving, they must be pinned by wrapping a pointer to the data in the Pin type. A pointer wrapped in a Pin is otherwise equivalent to its normal version, e.g. Pin<Box<T>> and Box<T> work the same way except that the first is pinning the value of T in place.

> First of all, these are pointer types because pinned data mustn't be passed around by value (that would change its location in memory). …

Looking at Pin itself, it appears that it works by only implementing DerefMut if its target is Unpin, thus preventing you from mutating (and therefore swapping/replacing) the data unless the data supports Unpin. But beyond that, it also only implements Deref and DerefMut if its wrapped type itself implements Deref/DerefMut, which means using Pin around a non-pointer basically prevents you from accessing the wrapped data.
Apple's money comes from money we have voluntarily given them to own one of their phones and to be part of (and actually we are then forced to be a part of) their market, since only Apple approved software can run).

A government's (a monarchy is a form of government) money comes from taxes from people who wish to be part of that system and benefit from the security and markets it provides (otherwise they can leave. Sort of. But in the past they likely could), and they are limited in what they can do because the government enforces the rules.

It's not totally dissimilar, in my eyes.
I feel like sweatshops need a re-branding campaign. It's so easy to paint them as a negative, and even the most vocal capitalists will shrug and suggest they're something neutral.
Sweatshops are a tool, and a powerful one at that. As opposed to outright slavery, which I regard as fairly rare, sweatshops are used by entrepreneurs to deliver value in excess of the costs to produce the value. Spread out over the size of a community, region, or nation, that's like magic!

Furthermore, they're not cold and unemotional, as is suggested here. Value almost always has an emotional component. The profitable clothes that sweatshops produce aren't going to be worn by automatons. They'll be worn by people - people who will date, get married, have children, people that will graduate from high school and college, people that will march in parades, protest in political movements, enjoy and create culture. To look at the value that companies want to create in sweatshops like a shameless cash grab ignores the very humanity that assigns that value in the first place.

Sweatshops are not evil. They're a tool for efficient production of value, and value implies a benefit for humanity.
Another inequity: corporations can deduct their SALT, but individuals can only deduct $10k of SALT. So many people derided Citizens United (corporate campaign contributions case) as granting personhood to corporations. But the new tax law actually grants more rights to corporations than to people!

Of course, I understand that corporations have always been able to do lots of things that people couldn't do, such as enjoy limited liability. But these are very close analogs, and there aren't any compelling policy reasons as to why corporations should get unlimited SALT deductions if people aren't given this privilege.
>> I have no obligation to make a business profitable.

Do we have an obligation to allow script in our browsers? >90% of my "news reading" on the internet is done with NoScript running; from my point of view it's all good, no ads, no GDPR pop-ups, pages load quickly, fewer worries about tracking.

It's probably not what publishers want, though.
I think that defeats the purpose of learning from reading. I just finished the Learning How to Learn class on Coursera and it emphasizes the active learning by doing that needs to take place for one to internalize ideas. By watching summary videos to just get the gist of each book, I think you end up with a not so useful illusion of understanding.
Makes sense, given they pretty much depend on either ads or pay to remove ads to survive
It turns out we're both wrong at least with respect to the way NY appraises property. https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/property/learn/howassess.htm

(This is very different from how CA appraises property, and doesn't take into account how counties appraise tangible business property.)
I clearly interpreted CalRobert's comment differently than you did. To me, it read as a comparison between "domestic servitude" and working a job.
The title is kind of meant to provoke that reaction (at least in my case, can't speak for the one I'm responding to.)

The point is really that taking VC money requires you to try for a billion dollar company. Founders should think hard before they commit to that path.
> Even at the most expensive places US side it's <3.50

Not true; I live in the US and a coffee from a fancy place is easily >$5. A starbucks frappawhatever is way more.
Interesting. Really great to see music programming environments!

What a coincidence, I posted about a music programming language called Musicblocks, just a few minutes ago!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19118738
Given how long it took to deploy CAC and iron out the major issues I'm not holding my breath on this.
Because it's romantic, an optimistic fantasy, to believe freedom of choice and personal responsibility will become valued over "I am special" and "world should work around me" attitudes.

It's not owner's job to fulfill other people's dreams or to mitigate other people's poor lives.
You're right - I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so careless with my words. What I meant was, we've never had a problem with the insulin in his pump's cartridge/reservoir even in 90+ degree heat for 3+ hours with him running and sweating.
Spotify isn't reaching into your computer and running ads, you are running Spotify. If you don't want Spotify and its dependencies, you can simply not run Spotify.
Yes by waiting a few years the money will double.
The second edition of Hacker's Delight does have a section on "Testing for zero reminders after division by a constant", but it uses the multiplicative inverse.
I honestly expected significantly less (I figured home plate would be the largest group) but was not surprised at all to learn 3rd base was the smallest group.
Awesome to see how developed this tool has become.

Unrelated: Always love watching your sailing videos!!
It's notionally similar in that at b-school you read the case and then discuss in class, but in practice it's a very different activity. Real doc reviews at Amazon are far more rigorous.
Perhaps it is ill-advised to spend valuable career time on unrealistic goals, but that is subjective after all. And even for the cautious, it is great that there are resources right here to assist with life-style through unicorn start ups.

And while I assume ycombinator's target are high risk, high return ventures, it's extremely nice that this forum exists under their purview. It must incur some cost to run after all.
Exactly. Poor musical piracy has been losing users to this service for too long.
> most papers are collaborations, and usually your co-authors do not share your convictions.

Can't you just publish in two journals then?
Announcing Sourcegraph 3.0
Some people say the 2008 mortgage crisis was sort of a land grab.

It would probably be giving the 'financial engineers' who came up with credit default swaps too much credit to say that they planned it that way all along.

But as a side effect, tons of properties dropped in value and were, surprise surprise, sold mostly in blocks.
> Because the final consonant is actually pronounced softly in related forms ("Rad/Räder" vs. "Rat/Räte")

Because it isn't anymore the final consonant in the listed related forms. The rule is that simple. Note that it also affects some vowels.

> German speakers tend to "hear" a difference, purely by association, that isn't there phonetically.

This is so annoying. Some then try to prove you wrong and try to stress the soft consonants at the end of words until realizing that it sounds stupid and wrong. Such stubbornness.
It even zooms in for you when you use chrome://dino! I feel weird getting this excited about this simple game...
How dare these users block malware from their machines!
Not really. I just don't remember exactly which years I went. I think I went to my first TSO show in like 2004 or 2005, and for a while I was keeping to a cadence of going every other year... but I haven't been for the past couple of years, and I've lost track of exactly how many times I've seen them.
It's your choice to use the malware site too
In humans, the optic nerve routes in front of the retina, creating a 14 degrees wide blind spot in our vision. The nerves could equally well route behind the retina, eliminating the blind spots essentially for free. Given how important vision was in our evolutionary past, and given our numbers, presumably people without blind spots would already exist. If so, where are they?

"Evolutionary Occam's razor" arguments do not work, because evolution gets stuck in local optima all the time. There might simply be no short evolutionary route between "conscious" humans and equally fit "non-conscious" ones (whatever that means).
But neither of those contexts are an article on the internet or casual conversation, which could very well be about ballpoint pens, little flags, or anything else.
> Stealing is taking property with the intention of permanently depriving the rightful owner of said property.
> One cannot steal data by not watching ads because you can't deprive the owner of said data.

Well, it is. Spotify grants you the temporary license to play the copyrighted song for you listening to their ads. They _pay_ for the right to distribute that song. It's like taking something from a store and refusing to pay for it because "that store does not decide where my money goes".

> I am in fact entitled to decide what runs on my computer and spotify is entitled to decide who accesses theirs. If spotify closes accounts for not watching ads and I choose to block ads literally nobody is in the wrong. We are both exercising our respective rights.

Fully agreed.

> On net spotify will save money on bandwidth which is incredibly cheap to start with, gain a modicum of new subscribers, and shrink their supply of free users that are their primary source of paid users.

Well, as said above, they pay licensing fees and that is actually most of their business cost. I highly doubt that they loose many customers who would bring in any money with this move.
Marking up documents with your notes and questions is a critical part of the process. It's ultimately why I end up preferring paper.
You're not supposed to use the array, it's just supposed to exist on the stack. I'm not sure how to ensure the stack space isn't reclaimed; maybe we can do something with declaring it up top, then putting the `if` that initializes it later on, and hope the compiler still reserves the stack space for huge_ary ahead of stack for other variables?
IIRC, the original RasPi SoC was intended for a Nokia smartphone that was cancelled
I second this, as someone actually doing this thing. :) And with light rail extensions and transit expansions it's getting better all the time.
> That is, if you have a 1/10 chance of having a $10 million payout, vs a 1/1000 chance of a $100 million payout

1/10 chance of $10mil is higher expected value than 1/1000 of $100mil. Of course anybody sane will take the former and not the latter.

I think you'll find the tune different if the latter had been 1/1000 chance of $1 billion.
Maybe look no further to when human babies become conscious, their first moments that they remember can say a lot about what consciousness is. Having memory is a big part of consciousness.
> I find your definition of capitalism

I didn't provide a definition, I just pointed to a factor which is intrinsic too (and the fundamental motivation for) capitalism.

> not meaningfully distinct from already coined terms like aristocracy, oligarchy, and plutocracy.

The described factor is more specific than those because of the identification of which specific class is privileged. It is, however, an instance of all three of those things.
Ask HN: What, to you, is the most inspiring philosophical/social movement today?
Just curious. There is no right or wrong answer. I'm going through a personal revolution right now and exploring the world with new eyes.
Now if the HiFive could be scaled uo to match the performance of a current x86 CPU, this might become a serious contender for a decent set of applications.
What would be the point?

Copyleft licenses ensure that the code itself remains open source. MIT-style licenses ensures that a developer can use the code without encumbrance. And there are already plenty of licenses out there that are incompatible with the GPL through other conflicting terms - non-commercial licenses come to mind.

What would be the goal of an anti-copyleft license other than to stick it to copyleft projects?
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Me neither, the thing that seems to be unique with Marie Kondo, is that she encourages people to bring a spiritual dimension to their relationship with objects.

You may not agree with that perspective, but to me it's a nice change from the other de-cluttering consultants.
Sounds like what humans do. We notice features in our world that we're looking for or just learnt about, patterns we've noticed before, things we're attuned to, things that produce emotion - these seem significant - and don't notice others at all. (This is called "cherry-picking" when other people do it.) Over time, we come by a lot of evidence for our private pet theories. Some people write that all down and make books from them. Good luck to them.
Creating a system that requires the collection of personal data does not justify the collection of data. It's begging the question to presume that basing amusement park season passes on biometric authentication is okay in the first place. That's why informed, uncoerced consent is important: that's when people decide whether being able to enter the park is a legitimate use of biometric data. Making it the only option so people have no other choice doesn't do anything to legitimize it.
I saw the same and just assumed the author meant monthly growth targets to reach 20% growth per year. Did they really mean 20% month over month? That's insane.
Overwriting the heap is pointless if you immediately crash due to hitting the guard page(s). The point is to move the stack pointer without actually writing anything, so you can then write what you want into the heap without crashing.

The 2Mib was assuming you've already pushed the stack to its limit and are sitting just above the guard page(s). You could replace that with whatever size you think is appropriate.
The misunderstanding is that UBI in the first world is some kind of benevolent gift to the unemployed. UBI is the government's and elite's way of making sure people don't revolt against them because they have no way to support themselves.

The big fail is that the proposed way of giving it is the no "strings attached" method. A total waste of resources. If people get so lost, that they can't provide for themselves; how is money going to solve the situation? It can't and it won't. A societal characteristic is that their will always be levels. People that are taken care of are always at the lower level. UBI will only keep people at the lower rungs of society.

If UBI is ever going to be a reality it needs to come with guidance that helps people get out of the hole they are in.

The idea of a future with no jobs is silly. It will only come to be if that's what we make it. A job can be anything. I go out and I see ads for a local Palm reader. A BS job if there was ever any. But yet, it's been a business for at least 20 yrs. Don't tell me that people can't be creative and create jobs but without any force or guidance to help people out of the problem there will never be a solution.

I will go as far as saying that a future with a widespread no strings attached UBI will cause a future with no jobs.
Love your site - ty for sharing.
I guess you’re getting downvoted because some people think this is nit-picky?

But I wholeheartedly agree. This is a correction that is important in my job as a technical proposal writer.
It important to call “tools” etc. by their correct name. “CAC card” is technically incorrect and it’s always my job to fix mistakes like these at work.

Edited to add: in the case of this article, the author should have led with the spelled-out words then abbreviated afterwards.
I wasn't intending to imply it was one or the other, I was trying to get the parent to clarify their comment, and those were my 2 best guesses, sorry if came off like that.
Would you apply the same hiring filters to military vets? Police officers? Petrolium Engineers?
why not tie twitter accounts to some strong real world identification? One cent payment to twitter, national id or something of that sort?

Just push the bar up for people. The flipside is that people who want to stay anonymous or people with privacy concerns will stay off the platform, but I think fundamentally there is a price to be paid if you want an authentic community.
Northern VA - McLean/Tysons is the third wealthiest zipcode in the country currently. Houses are a million plus for 3 bed 2 bath ramblers.

As far as the traffic, it's the worst in the country just about, usually fluctuates between the worst or 2nd worst.

Most major tech companies have some presence in DC and those that don't are coming here everyday it seems.
They don't have to search your computer to figure that out in most adblocking implementations. If you're blocking the ad's network request but listening to the music, they can detect that server-side. If you're muting your volume while the ad is playing, they can detect that in the client with simple volume APIs.
https://www.populationconnection.org/
That has to be awesome when viewing historical documents. On the other hand, kids will have a much easier time reading the Constitution in Comic Sans instead of the original cursive.
Not saying SSDs have consciousness however
> You don't have a right to use Spotify how you want.

Of course they have that right. Spotify has no right to restrict how anyone uses their service.
Fails my "WTF is it" test right out of the box.

The first paragraph of any software README should answer:

What is it?
What does it do?
Why would I use it?

ORCA is a ... that ... and can help you ...
> I just don't get why so many founders are getting suckered into it.

because they either don't understand what's being done to them (after all, VCs can be very smooth talking), and the prospect of faster wealth gains for the founders also doesn't help.
Great response, thanks for clarifying.
Property taxes require people to pay a portion of the assessed value of property they hold.

Land value tax implies the existence of a third party with no aligned incentive that punishes you for not using your property in the manner they deem most suitable.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/behind-tr...
Read his annual shareholder letters. I'm floored every year.
A return to conservative values after 50 years of leftist ones.