skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or we can restrict it to just the elderly and disabled, instead of letting every single incumbent hitch a ride.

One of my favorite alternatives is to bring back regular tax reassessments, but owners can choose to cede excess property value to the city/state. This forces a choice between having your cake and eating it too.
Why. Park, register with a meter. Your first 15 minutes are free, as they used to be. More time is paid time. Unregistered parking leads to an immediate ticket.

Those who did not abuse the system continue to park for free, and may expect more vacant spaces.
Or controlling the market place where those middle-men are operating from which you're forcing them out? Really, the burden of proof here is on Amazon and I'd be amazed if there wasn't really clear cut proof that they used analytics they don't offer to outside clients (private information) to specifically undercut the existing sellers (under pricing) or selling the products at a profitable point unrealizable if you need to pay their listing fee (again under pricing) or even just delisted their competitors products or discouraged searches from returning them as valid options.

Pretty certain amazon checked at least one of those boxes - reasonably confident they checked at least three of them.
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San Francisco already does. Hell, it might actually be built into the enforcement vehicle (the Interceptors!), but don’t quote me on that part.
I toured the Tillamook plant a couple months ago. It's worth stopping by if you're in the area. The cheese was delicious :)

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Nobody needs a folding phone, but nobody strictly needs a lot of stuff. I'm waiting on them releasing a digital scroll, personally. I'm sure I don't need one though.
who hurt you?
(Disclaimer: I work for Amazon, but not in the retail, legal, or finance departments, and I have no inside information about what the company is doing with respect to its pricing. Opinions are my own and not of the company.)

Yet another sensationalist headline that is unsubstantiated by the article.

"This law student" has a theory. He does not have evidence -- and, in fact, much ink in the article is spilled on the fact that the evidence needed to sustain an antitrust case against Amazon isn't readily available to the public or to the Government.

Nor has any Court ever held, to my knowledge, that an antitrust action can be sustained without consumer prices going up - merely keeping them the same is not enough.

Key quotes (emphasis mine):

"Sussman believes that if Amazon gave the full picture, it would show negative cash flow."

"No current accounting rules force full disclosure of itemized costs. Considered highly confidential, they’re typically redacted from public legal documents, even when a company is sued. More definitive cash flow numbers could help prove whether Amazon sells items below cost."

"Sussman believes that the Federal Trade Commission should force companies to break down their costs in confidential examinations."

"Right now, anti-competitive conduct like predatory pricing is judged under the “consumer welfare standard,” which has been interpreted to mean simply whether a market dominated by a single company results in higher or lower prices. But even though prices are the same on Amazon, consumers are arguably missing out, Sussman explains, because they’re not benefiting from Amazon’s soaring profits." (This is not my understanding of an actionable situation under current antitrust law.)
Out of curiosity, what are the drawbacks of the "contaminated" dusters? I've never noticed the bitterant in normal use.
This is a problem for all of us:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/study-when-local-news...

And it's one that requires money to solve, because to cover local politics well, you need someone who sits through the local city council meetings, with their hours of discussion of things like 'sign ordinances' to write up a summary, or maybe bring attention to something that they're spending a lot of money on.
I've worked in the domain space. Two grand is not that bad of a deal for a semi-common object, especially if there is an industry behind it.
You are preaching to the choir here. I loved when Micah Posner, one of the chief NIMBYs of Santa Cruz, turned out to be an illegal ADU slumlord. That in my opinion explains a lot about how Santa Cruz really works. Or as I refer to it to outsiders: Mayberry politics by the sea.
Am I the only person who saw the headline and assumed this was about onion routing?
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I recently read about this in March’s issue of Duh magazine.
I was certainly not trolling, I was responding to your comment about no fly lists. Sadly you have no response and are resorting to name calling and righteous indignation.

I agree with you that FICO scores are not what Facebook is up to, though a person’s FICO score is likely part of his or her social credit score.

Nonetheless I thought your litmus test sounded overly simplistic.
I used to work at Jaguar Land Rover and the answer is: some customers may take their Land Rover off-roading, but usually only once and in a very tame way. They are absolutely status vehicles.
It isn't. Perhaps you haven't seen what the JVM can do lately. It's got JIT compilers that do this[1], GCs that are getting close to 1ms max pause times on terabytes of heap [2], and low-overhead, in-production deep profiling [3]. Not to mention all of the classic capabilities of the JVM like hot code redefinition and exceptional monitoring. Lots of applications can certainly manage well without some or even all those things, and some want other tradeoffs (like no warmup or lower RAM footprint), but these days it's hard to compete with the JVM where it's strong. The technological gap between it and other runtimes is only growing.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/619885182104043520

[2]: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/slides/ZGC-Jfokus-2019.pd...

[3]: https://craftingjava.com/using-java-flight-recorder-with-ope...
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Optics don't seem to matter as much in some cases. There was a big hue and cry in 2014 when Condoleeza Rice was appointed to the board of directors of Dropbox. She's still around on the board. [1] All the protests with #DropDropbox, the threats to ditch the service and actions by many to ditch it didn't achieve much.

I doubt if many people understand the deep implications of The Patriot Act as much as they may understand water boarding and other tactics.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/about
But currently all phones have an exposed screen ??? You have to go back to clamshell phones or blackberry designs to have protected screens. If you don't buy a shell or screen protector, your screen gets rattled by coins, keys, and various objects.
No? No you're against a good idea that helps because it doesn't outright solve the problem?

Band-Aid or not, it's solid and well thought through. Don't be so quick to dismiss something because it doesn't solve all the world's problem immediately.
I like this better. I would remove the spaced repetition paragraph, and everything below it. The key parts to convey are what and why. How comes later.

I would also skip the "metadata" term. Everyone that understands it can see that if there is a note layer on top of the content, it's metadata. To people that don't get it, it's techno babble.

I actually like the "reboot the internet" catchphrase.

@OP I trust you've been around the internets enough to not let the HN negativity get to you, but in case some of the shit comments in this thread pierce through: good job, keep at it :)
Yeah, we kicked the poors out of the cities. Let's kick the elders out of the cities as well.
Baby steps. Getting any change through at all is liable to cost several political careers.
Here's one data point. 24% of the people who claimed the "EITC" did so fraudulently (or, at best "in error") No high earner can claim this.

https://taxfoundation.org/earned-income-tax-credit-still-fac...
I just see this as part of the impending economic downturn. Ads are always the first to go.
1956 Soviet study into animal ESP
These days, the farmer and I are equally devoted to this. If the farm goes away, the farmer and I will start again somewhere else. Highly unlikely the farm goes away though.. The farm could possibly change names down the road.. small things like that.
>VT is about the only one around that has less tolls than MA.

Don't forget Connecticut! Connecticut borders Mass and has no tolls in the entire state. There's been some movement since the election to add tolls though.
Maybe watching tv is their goal, for the time being.

If they were given an opportunity to travel the world, most would gladly take it.

Having free time isn't of much use if it isn't coupled with resources to do interesting things. Since most people have very limited resources - tv is the best bang for your buck way of spending the time.
> Is the installation stateless (no scriptlets/lifecycle scripts)?

I feel like the reason `npm`/the node.js ecosystem has these is because... as soon as you want to do anything serious, you need them.

How else do you build native modules across different platforms, run initial post-installation configuration scripts, etc.?
Pegged to the front page for hours, with 51 points and no comments. How does that work?
Coding is a craft. I wouldn't work on something I had moral issues with. There are grey areas for sure, but for me, work for the defense industry or a local gun shop.. nope.. go find someone else.

There will always be someone that doesn't have any moral compass about their work or income. That person is simply not me.
IMO, the kind of people who work for and who would join Facebook are the ones who're self-selected to not care about morals or the ill effects of their work on billions of people. So optics doesn't come into the equation for Facebook to recruit people. Those who do care about optics would never even dream of working at Facebook.
We have been designing space vessels and spacesuits for the better part of a century with moving or flexible or rotating hinges that can protect every thing and everyone inside from the vacuum of space and transfer of moisture and debris. This article from iFixit and the included photo from The Verge clearly explain and display how Samsung Galaxy designers missed the mark of creating a simple inexpensive hinge mechanism that would have prevented the OLED from being exposed to any external material or uneven pressure.
That's what makes this story unique. The domain speculation industry thrives almost entirely on the opposite.
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But this is really not any more useful than a monolith. You're applying a complicated criterion for something that should be simplifying my life, and now it's just making things harder in every services.

Again, the default should be a no.
Why put this on programmers? The guy making the decision to make Dragonfly is a Stanford MBA with a materials background. It's not some working class kid who made it through a Javascript bootcamp that is making decisions about the direction of future Google products. So, why don't we let the MBAs be the ones to form an ethical organization to police themselves.
The article mentions something called “Naturally Occuring Affordable Housing” that doesn’t require public subsidy and then goes on to talk about a plan to publicly subsidize these conversions in the very next paragraph. Feels like a bait and switch.
That's an interesting thought, is this just a hunch or have you looked at data/analyses that say ads dieth before the fall?
I cannot imagine Bitcoin becoming the major world currency without a wealth tax in place.
Tesla is working on new battery that lasts 1M miles to come out next year
This comment furthered my confusion that the title was referring to some kind of astrophysical phenomenon.
> The PATRIOT Act had pretty broad support.

By whom? Congress, constitutional lawyers, or the people?
"getting into the position where you could build (or not build) a system capable of broadly violating human rights on behalf of an oppressive government is not an opportunity most workers have."

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A good reason to support Coreboot, Libreboot and similar projects since most of us already run hardware that can be exploited remotely, probably by design.
https://www.eff.org/it/node/95854
From an outsider point of view, why aren't there any high-rise residential buildings in that area?
People like Kim Dotcom and McAfee just seek to be constantly in the news by creating controversies.
What was the comment, Bob?!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15003606
I'm still grappling with this question.
What signals are you using to determine this? How bad is it going to get?
Loss leaders are legal, right? What's the effective difference between those and predatory pricing? Is it just the intention rather than the actual effect?
Which pretty much everybody when I grow up. I wonder if that has changed.
This ADU law was passed at the state level. The state could, if it had the political will, go even further. It could re-zone every SFD lot (even ones in Larkspur, Palo Alto, Beverly Hills and Berkeley) into one that would allow, say, a 4 unit apartment. Magic!
I really think we as a society need to figure out how to properly fund unbiased reporting without letting the government step in as a censor but while letting outlets be called out for outright falsehoods - I think this is a very hard problem to solve and solutions have been tried many times in the past.
A metric is a distance function. Defining a metric on a space is one of ways you create a topology.

I'm not sure what the parent means by the metric being the identity function, however. The Euclidean metric is basically the hypotenuse of a triangle parameterized by two vectors. The adjacent and opposite sides of the triangle are measured to be the Euclidean norm of each vector (their length), and the hypotenuse is the shortest distance between them.

The Euclidean metric is not the only metric - you can define distance however you'd like as long as it's consistent. But I'm not sure how the identity function works as a metric, because that would map a vector to another vector, not a scalar.
My vague impression is they were conservative, didn't make the leap to Net valuations based on traffic and little revenues.
I know a guy who owns large sheds / warehouses around the place and he finds homeless people around the place and allows them to live in the sheds so that he always has someone protecting them from theft.
On one hand, there are some things that are simply too complex to attempt implementation with bash a script.

otoh, there are many things that could or even ideally should be kept simple such that a bash script is the best practice, most simple, proven, reliable solution.
And if you don't pay?
McAfee: "I'm about to unmask Satoshi"

Press: "Where is he?"

McAfee: "You are looking at him."
It depends on the code. You can write PHP code with all types either explicitly specified or inferable and no dynamic variable fun without it being too unidiomatic.
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You make it declarative instead of scripted.

Scripts aren’t truly platform independent. You’ll branching logic for different platforms. Why not capture that with different declarative structures for each platform?

Running scripts as part of software install is something we, as an industry, need to solve.
Look, what’s going to happen? Garages prove to be a safety valve, it’ll become a new normal that allows this “can” of housing issues to get kicked down the road. I don’t see how this helps.

It’s not all that different from saying allow six to a room or something. Sure, it increases “density” but it’s not a solution.

One of their examples is garages in the mission (SF). Those things are low ceiling, dingy, etc. Students might be okay. Not grown adults. Like I said, it’d become a new normal, an accepted solution. But it’s not a solution. It just postpones things and makes sub-par acceptable.
I don't believe it. 1) Next year. 2) 1M miles. Proof? Show me.
Ok here's my answer.

> Why don't these "equal outcome" groups make a fuss about that? What about trying to get more men into nursing or day care?

They do. They are.
“Standard” is one of the reasons costs are so high. New builds and large remodels in my city require overhead sprinkler systems... why? 2 car garages too, even though everyone I know uses them for storage or as a workshop. We need to lower housing standards if we want to house everyone.
Amazon has a team called "Amazon Profitability Group". I used to work for said team, albeit only briefly.

The purpose of the team is to calculate the proper price to sell items for, the "discount" to vendors, and the items to put in the "buy box" in order to make the most profit for Amazon. I think the what is described here in the article is only the tip of the iceberg. Amazon isn't doing something as simplistic as cutting out the competition with low prices... they are feeding all the numbers into neural networks and analyzing and predicting competition and profits, and then doing what the systems tell them is the most profitable.

That is, anything that Amazon can predict will make them more money or gain more market share... they are doing. I have full confidence that they are doing all of the terrible things outlined and more. The bigger question is whether government and law allow them to continue doing this. I think that it will continue to be allowed, despite being super shady and destroying both small and medium size businesses.

It cannot easily be proven that there is anyone orchestrating the monopolistic processes, because Amazon has essentially turned the process of dominating the market into an equation and they just do what the equation tells them to.

Amazon will claim "we are just being smarter; we mean no harm", and without providing open minutes of their internal discussions it will be impossible to prove wrongdoing.

What is needed is open accountability for internal plans, but that is against the "American way" so I doubt it will happen anytime soon.
There are plenty of people who don't work at these companies for these reasons. There could be more of those people. But there will still be enough who are willing to do it for the right price or who actually support the morality and ethics of doing it, that it will still get built even if the vast majority of the tech industry conscientiously objected.
EFF, FSF, ACLU are all great organizations. ACM is unique here though because it's specifically a professional organization meant to push the industry forward. EFF, FSF, and ACLU are great and should be supported but aren't as broad as ACM.
In short: "it's only fun when there is no boss".

But I don't buy into that, I believe that you can lose the joy just as much, or more, when you are following the self-employed model.

Working for a boss it's still quite possible (but maybe not easy) to separate work hours from leasure projects in the same fields, but when self-employed, all "off" projects have the potential to become "on" or something in between.
Apples to oranges comparison. Of course nVidia are going to claim their GPU processes stuff faster, and ignore the part where you have to get the results of the calculations off the GPU.
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I'm ok with rewarding people that choose to live in one community for a long time by reducing their property taxes -- living in one area is what helps build communities.
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Amazon took away his prime membership. - South Park
My knucklehead friend, who I grew up with, keeps insisting I ship the onions in a heavy wooden crate, for aesthetic value. He says I could upsell that "value-add". I've yet to implement that idea.
But yet still not a calculator.
Property taxes are one of the few expenses in CA that isn’t exorbitant.

A repeal would only happen with reduced taxes in other areas, like income.
"[T]he Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected." Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 351 (1967) (internal citations omitted) available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/389/347.
My favorite application of Paint will probably always be The Big Lez Show [1], a 4 season long animated series drawn entirely in Paint, culminating in two hour-long films. Its not for everyone (Australian druggo humor), but if you are in a niche which would appreciate that, its definitely worth a look.

It makes brilliant use of the medium: the creator, Jarrad Wright, started making the show in high school on his school-provided laptop, and as the seasons progress the viewer witnesses Jarrad's progression as both an animator and a story teller. Eventually Jarrad embraces the medium to the fullest extent possible, bringing Paint into the storyline in an absolutely mind-blowing meta-animation sequence.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/guitarfingerz2112
But that's the point, I was paying full attention. By writing things down, I had time to process and think about what I wrote. I had time to fully follow the derivations. And that's in addition to the reinforcement effect that the act of writing has (at least for me).

Merely sitting there passively listening would not be paying full attention.

Of course, this required the lecturers to write in a suitable tempo.
Newspapers used to be the gateway of fast changing information. The Internet changes that completely. With so many different kinds and sources of news on the web, and with ever faster publishing speed, newspapers have lost their biggest moat. It's only a matter of time they will be gone.
For what goal?
The article is referring to the entire state which is geographically diverse. Cities like San Francisco, L.A., San Diego, and even Sacramento have some taller housing options. Also, CA has major earthquakes so high-rises are generally not as common. We've been building out vs up but can't match the demand. Part of it is also due to CA's strict building/environmental regulations that make any construction project a slow and tedious process.
My wife paid for her grad school entirely by selling direct-from-manufacturer fashion goods, from China, to middle-aged upper/middle-class women in central Europe. The crazy thing that made it all work, IMO, was that the website was invite only. The women used the exclusivity as a status in their social circles, and invites as favors.

It's fascinating how these small market niches exist but it really is the other 95% that makes them take off.
you're welcome! Thank you for that feedback - I was concerned that it'd come across as a humblebrag.. I just like sharing neat things people can do on great domain names.
> none of them work, only support random subsets of the hardware, and crash left and right

Anecdote for anecdote, you just described my experience with NVidia's dreadful hardware / drivers.
What is the problem again?

You used google while signed in and now the world knows you like barbies?

Serious question, because I do not feel violated.
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