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> Free speech improves the human condition.

Free speech is an amoral tool, which can be used to improve or degrade the human condition, when wielded appropriately. It's our job to decide when and how to use it, and not act naïvely and pretend it's a virtue in itself.
Does it also reduce proliferation concerns?
Do inheritance loopholes apply to rental properties?

I've seen the counterpoint sentiment in this thread described as "right to place". Some have a deep instinct to want to stay where they grew up and continue to build it. Maybe we should find a way to support that dream as well as the needs of people moving from outside to take advantage of the growth produced by their predecessors, instead of vilifying anybody who has something we want.

Otherwise you end up with an entirely transient population with little sense of ownership, responsibility, or community.
Austin is decently affordable, but part of that is just that it's not as much of a tech hub as SF/SV, NYC, Seattle, or Boston.
Are arbitrary textbook physics formulas HN worthy?

He title didn't even copy the formula correctly, a + is missing.
I would say "spartan".

"Aggressively hostile" more brings to mind the pop-up, notification-requesting, cookies-warning sites that don't render, double-render, or GIGANTICALLY-render elements when you (wisely) turn off JS that most web entities use. : P
Before Uber/Lyft existed, I never took a taxi. It was just prohibitively expensive compared to buses/walking. If Uber is forced by the government to provide all drivers with a living wage and health coverage, I imagine I'd immediately stop using the service since it would become prohibitively expensive again, just like the old system.
This reminds me of a mean prank the cast of Mythbusters pulled on Adam Savage[0]. According to Adam, the team was forced into doing this by someone who wasn't with the show anymore (2015)[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SEBFGGEcI

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cfqzf/i_am_adam_sava...
The GPU doesn't need to read texels or calculate fragments that aren't visible.
So, every frame it is only copying the visible chunk of the scrollable buffer to the framebuffer. GPUs are efficient at that. More expensive rendering to the scrollable buffer, when it is either static or infrequently changing, can be as-needed instead of every frame.

That's a really well-favored set of trade offs for many cases where you need smooth scrolling.
Someone on quora said they recently began trying to look again:

>"Sir Robert Marx and I are now in the process of reinitiating the research we began in 1983 on this location where we found 3rd century Roman amphora. A sub-bottom profile scan by Doc Harold Edgerton identified a large non-natural object deep in the sediment, below the place we found the amphora. We believe that this is in fact a Roman wreck and are out to scientifically prove it.

#jameslynchexplorer"

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-a-Roman-galley-was-fou...
All it could take is an API call to turn it into an associated phone number.
Hmm, but that is criticising bourgeois behaviour in the name of bourgeois and/or Christian values, no? Whereas Ibsen criticises the values themselves…. Of course, this dichotomy is too simple, and tags like "bourgeois values" are shortcut descriptions of a moral world with as much complexity and contradictions as the present day's….
Mmmm, love me some ICD code hilarity

Less funny is the human condition reduced to billing codes as only available option
in the age of electronic health records moving towards precision medicine.

What if clinicians were able to describe what they observed at a granularity
they found appropriate in terms they went to great (and expensive) lengths to learn?[1]

What if untrained people could describe patients in a way that could be equally
meaningful (if not better informed)?[2]

What if instead of dead ending on an insurance ledger,
the codes describing your medical condition were part and parcel
of an extensible logical framework over which reasoning and inference engines
are run (okay fine... call them AI & ML if you are feeling buzz word deficient)[3]

What if using these alternative codes afforded way of leveraging that science stuff
grad students have been inflicting on little critters since time immemorial?[4]

Note: Most everything is available on GitHub and work is ongoing ...

1 [https://hpo.jax.org/app/]
2 [https://hpo.jax.org/app/help/layperson]
3 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)]
4 [https://github.com/obophenotype]
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The problem here is that “is not prime” doesn’t imply “is composite”. The number 1 is neither prime nor composite. Why? Because that is the choice that makes more math look nicer. If 1 were considered a prime, lots of theorems would have to say “let p be a prime >1”, rather than “let p be a prime”.

Mathematicians have struggled with this for centuries before agreement was reached. See “The History of the Primality of One: A Selection of Sources” (https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL15/Caldwell2/cald6.p...)

The “math looks nicer” argument isn’t unique to this example. It also is, for example, the ‘reason’ that 0⁰ equals 1, or that there are as many integers as rationals.
Is setting up a speed traps and harassing motorists for money instead of fighting crime is not a misconduct?
> cyclists tend to break laws in ways that mostly harm only themselves

Clearly you're not a pedestrian in Manhattan.
If you read the theories or Karl Marx, his theories are pretty accurate in terms of explaining why people work "gig jobs" even though worker protections are basically non-existent. Marx basically described a class of people as being the "industrial reserve army of the unemployed"...obviously these are people who are either unemployed or unemployed. For these people, they are basically going to fight for whatever job they can get because having a terrible job is better than no job at all. Thus, as long as this class exists, people will work terrible jobs without much ability to fight back. It is also important to note that the industrial reserve army of the unemployed exists for each relevant skill set. For obvious hard to get skillets....the reserve army is basically non-existent. It also explains why all of these "gig economy" type startups almost entirely focus on services that are low-skill by nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyrhoHtSkzg
I was once forced to change the initialization of all the structs in an old codebase that used them for almost everything.

The senior programmer that requested the change came from the application world and used the same argument.

When I told him that the compiler gave lots of warnings about being compatible with C99 through an extension, he asked me to just disable the warnings and keep on going. We did some testing and pushed the update (we had remote devices connected via GSM)

Two weeks later we were pushing a remote downgrade to the previous version because we started to detect anomalous bugs everywhere.
Same here.

Friends for 5 or 6 years. All the same feelings you mentioned.
Thought it would never go anywhere but was happy with it as it was. She initiated it being something more. Now we're coming up to our 4th wedding anniversary and I can confidently say both of us could not be any happier and we're even trying for kids.

Anything can happen. Never say never.
A regression to hieroglyphics, a collation and rendering nightmare, a security morass, AND a volley in the culture wars...

Unicode is the gift that keeps on giving.
I'd rather prefer a society that values someone being able to live comfortably of their work over you being able to get a cheap taxi with the least amount of effort.
So, in a Python-only org, someone with no Erlang experience decided to ship his first ever server to production, thinking Erlang would be a magic bullet to “scalability issues”. Obviously, there were maintainability issues and the org, blaming the language, decided to switch back to python.

To me, the fact that a novice was able to deploy production code that went on unmaintained for months, running a crucial part of the operation, speaks positively about Erlang.
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Subsidized daycare attracts scum who abuse children and exploit the system for free money. Several daycares have been caught falsely claiming to be taking care of hundreds of absent children so they can pocket money stolen from the taxpayers since they’re paid per child claimed. For each corrupt daycare caught, there are probably dozens more getting away with it. We might as well just be paying mothers to stay home with their children rather than adding insult to injury by stealing those mothers’ tax dollars and distributing it to human filth.
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"...In 2018, Agrawal...studied...661 open source and 171 in-house proprietary projects. In that sample, over 89% of all projects were hero-based..." In theory a "professional" project would want efficiency so all developers contributing fairly equally however the data does not support that. Wide variances in developer productivity are widely documented. I would think open source projects also have to work to onboard and mentor new developers or they would eventually die out. You might say that professional projects are possibly larger but the study indicated size didn't matter "...the bug injection distributions of heroes and nonheroes is barely changed after stratifying the data according to project size. Hence, when discussing the external validity of these conclusions, we need not explore issues of team size and hero prevalence." I don't see any data that suggests this study would not generalize to professional projects.
It looks like raw html styling. Maybe browsers' default stylesheets aren't keeping up with the needs of all users.
Has anyone here integrated emoji web picker in their website/web app? What's the recommended flow.

I see that the library by OneSignal is rated high[1], but it's 2 years since updated; I guess it misses out on few emoji sprites.

Isn't it high time input type=emoji is made a standard or is it a bad idea?

[1]:https://github.com/OneSignal/emoji-picker
True, those are worse. Maybe my eyes are shit but I just can't even read that page.
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Thanks for your candor. I grant you it's not very prettified. For someone with my personality (sounds like not for yours, that's OK), that could be a good thing: I like text, lightweight and skimmable (though I know elegance and pictures are more popular and pleasing). I try to make it so someone can read a page, and click parts of interest for more details, something like an outline, to make it navigable & useful to different interests, even with large amounts of information eventually contained there. Also, it is generated from my OM organizer software, so each page is not designed separately. And I have to prioritize limited time & energy carefully.

Having said that, specific suggestions are very welcome. It also has an email address for feedback (in the small footer). :)

Edit: would a sans-serif font, and/or larger, help?
"Love" is a terribly overloaded word, perhaps because billions of people intentionally abuse its meaning. An aphorism I enjoy is "love is something you do, not something you feel".
Also, "love is when you value someone (or sometimes some thing) else as much as you value yourself."
> If our government provided healthcare, eduction, a real pension program, non-terrible unemployment programs, etc. (as it works in most other developed countries) it would not matter if you are a gig worker or full-time employee.

The issue with most of these things is that governments, especially the US government, are generally worse at providing things than competitive businesses. For people who actually have health insurance, outcomes in the US system are better than in most other countries, the US higher education system is generally considered one of the best in the world, etc.

The key is not to nationalize services, it's to provide a baseline of support. Pay everyone a UBI. Then if you need healthcare, you have money, go buy healthcare. If you want to go to school, go to school. You don't actually need the government to operate the school, and you especially don't need it telling people what to spend the money on. (See also student loans and home loan interest subsidies and the effect on education and housing costs.)
Pretty easy to defeat: don’t allow executable attachments.
All that.

I've told people who scoff at $32 million "for a website" that $32 million might actually be low, depending on requirements.
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> Do inheritance loopholes apply to rental properties?

In California, it's all properties. Regardless of purpose. You can inherit dear old dad's office building and its tax assessment.
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PayPal owes me $200.

I had received ~$200 from friends to start a video game project. They froze my account. I did everything they said to do to get it unfrozen: sent photocopies of my ID, etc. Still frozen. No human interaction.

Two years later I get a letter from the state comptroller saying that PayPal had been trying to reach me to give me my money back, and if I wanted it to call a certain 800 number (of PayPal's, not the state), otherwise it would revert to the state. I called the number and they asked me, "Do you want to be mailed a check, or can we just credit your PayPal account?" Since the account was still frozen (as far as I know, I haven't tried to log in to it in years) I said send me the check.

That was the last I ever heard about it.

No check was forthcoming.
I would argue that Zero is generally considered to be a natural. The naturals are often constructed via an initial object, and you can call that initial object whatever you want (some people write Z or Zed), but it's metaphorically a zero.
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> I feel like there’s a lot of tools out there to [...] but none that do it how I wanted them to.

That’s as good a reason as any. Similar reasons to that are why there have been some large changes in the way people use computers at all.

Nice work and good luck
From the company's perspective, you'd need at least 2 people doing that, preferably everybody. Bus factor of 1 isn't great, and when the rest of the team already knows Python, the benefits of switching to a language everyone knows is huge.

You're also presupposing Python is inferior to Erlang, which I'm not really going to argue about here, but I think we can all agree that Python isn't so bad that the decision to continue to use Python substantially and negatively impacted the org's ability to succeed.
I've described it as such:

Love is both the emotion and the action. As humans, we should expect love the emotion to wax and wane, and there is beauty in that ebb and flow. But love the action, is steadfast and true, as in we can always make choices to keep it as such.
which generally was a better time for family life in the USA.

I suspect a good chunk of the population would dispute that statement. In general I think there is a lot of rose colored glasses about that period of time.

Regardless - I haven't seen any evidence that we are returning to a general viability of supporting a family on one income, at least supporting it well. Do you know of any?
Is China still communist operationally and economically?

I would classify them as authoritarian capitalism or mercantilism.

I do see a relative difference between the two.

BATH have integration and alignment with China’s government and PLA strategy and objectives.

They have near 100% market share in China and have begun to export their model at both the citizen user level as well as the sovereign enterprise level.

The US government is unlikely to incorporate enhancing FAANG+ network effect within its trade partners, while it’s far more likely that China could/would use One Belt, One Road initiative to nudge trading partners into the digital BATH equivalent.

The massive amount of bilateral trade between the US and China doesn’t allow for a traditional Cold War adversary model.

So how does one develop leverage over the other, build the biggest and most integrated geodigital network.

Focused on Metcalfe rather then Clausewitz.

With a destination described by an analog to Zipf’s Law.
> The road's natural limit is what the road should be.

I agree with the principle, but I don't think that in practice this principle can be satisfied by having a posted speed limit that you can be ticketed for exceeding. The "natural limit" of a road is not a single number. It depends on many factors, some of which (e.g., weather, driver skill/fatigue) can't even be known when a single number is being determined for a posted limit.

If posted limits were advisory only--in other words, you could not be ticketed simply for exceeding a posted limit, but if you were in an accident, the fact that you were exceeding a posted limit could be considered as a factor in determining fault--that would be different.
If Uber drivers are supposedly all unemployed and so poor they have to grab any terrible job they can find, how can they afford those nice cars I'm seeing? I am employed in high-tech and I've been in Uber cars better than mine numerous times. People driving didn't look desperately hungry either.
The erosion of worker rights by reclassification is not a panacea to discrimination. Removing these protections just makes it objectively worse for every employee.

You clearly seem to disagree but you haven't explained why not having rights has been an antidote to deep-seated social issues. I see no causation.
I wouldn't mind if you pasted this at the top of every Show HN. On the other hand, sometimes it's useful to point out similar things that exist. Maybe the author actually didn't know about those things and would like to! Criticism always requires walking a fine line being constructive or being discouraging. It's even harder with strangers whose intentions and motivations you don't know!
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When asked, what do these workers say about their working conditions?

My sample is quite small, but from quick chats with Uber drivers they seemed to like it.

You won't become a millionaire driving Uber, but it's better than being a deli clerk in a grocery store next door.
I'd say two things, the first is that if you're not paid, you don't have that much incentive to contribute hardly so it's no surprise that most OS projects are maintained by a handful of (great indeed) highly motivated developers. Second is that it's something widely known that developers are not flexible, so if they're in charge of their baby, they won't make so many efforts to encourage outsiders contributions. Whereas in a corp environment, managers and other devs should make sure it doesn't become an obstacle to contributions.

That's not very precise but I think people can relate to what I said.
> The real problem, if you look at it from first principles, is the lack of US government protections/services for all workers.

This is so true. If traditional jobs (not gig economy jobs) were better, no one would ever accept a gig economy job. Traditional full-time jobs are required to give healthcare and other expensive benefits (that governments everywhere else provide), so those businesses have cut down on the number of full-time jobs.

The real comparison here is between big companies who refuse to offer full-time jobs and instead rely on limiting hours to keep most of their jobs as part-time. People who accept gig economy jobs do so because they can work more hours per week (not artificially held under 39 hours so their company can avoid paying benefits). Generally people are rational actors when it comes to accepting the best employment opportunity, so if we see lots of people accepting gig-economy jobs it means that their other alternatives are worse. That's not a defense of gig-economy jobs but instead points out that this is a problem for all workers and suggests moving to a system that the rest of the world uses to solve the same problem.
I am an immigrant, from Russia to Switzerland. I don’t have any right to Swiss social security and welfare (despite paying taxes here). I am happy that I have at least something by default if I won’t be able to work in my profession for any reason anymore. Uber is my safety net — if I still can drive a car, I can sustain my living. It works the same for other immigrants.

And yes, I much prefer driving an Uber here to living and working in Russia.
If you're interested at all, it's well worth finding some time to read the thing in its entirety. Yes, it's a long build-up that could be compressed, but the punchline wouldn't be nearly as effective without it.
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Not quite. A working family living in a city for generations shouldn’t be displaced by taxes on unrealized gains. If the city wants to tax at current prices, they should guarantee that price for 5 years.
Then they acquired whatsapp that was written in Erlang.
UBI is cargo cult finance. It's a broken mental model that will kill the system.

Money doesn't have inherent exchange value per se. It's primary value is in reducing friction in trade. Injecting more money into a system without tying it to injecting more goods and services into the system is a known means to fuel inflation.
Defined benefit plans like pensions aren't generous, its merely the workers negotiating with the employer to put money aside pre-tax from their pay and invest it.

This all goes sideways when these funds are mismanaged & underfunded, which organizations have an incentive to do as it can be a nice way to juice profits immediately.

Wage theft is shameful in any color, and what has happened to American Pensions is stealing earned wages from workers retirement.
As someone from the bay area, if you think the setup there leads to 'natives' being able to stick around for the long term, I have some bad news: it's literally the exact opposite of that.

Out of my high school class, people who stuck around are actually somewhat uncommon. I mean, there's obviously still more there than any single other metro, but surprise surprise, most have moved somewhere much cheaper.

With saner density/zoning regulations, rents would be low enough to where more would have been able to stick around. Instead, very few have.

The current setup benefits homeowners who get in early. Their kids may well eventually benefit by inheriting that house, but in the meantime they've probably lived at least a few decades as adults elsewhere.
Or SF...

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Bicyclist-sentenced-for...
Well to be fair, I have no "side" in this. I am saying that there are a lot of incentives for people to crowd in metropolitan areas.

As a resident of a country that only has one big city -- the capital -- I see this all the time: people just have no future elsewhere and come here even though they sacrifice quite a lot and the overall gain might not outpace all the negatives.

Not sure what's the way out, to be honest.