skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why?

Did you get free DVDs for all each VHS you owned when stores stopped selling VHS tapes?
Considering the shear magnitude of the housing problem, I'm a little disappointed we haven't seen more startups/VC money chasing this problem. After all, housing in the US is worth 30+ trillion dollar industry, and that's just the US.
> Edit: this is exactly what a monopolizer looks like in action. One tactical move at a time, until they have full control of an adjacent layer in the value chain. In this case browsers.

I think this was fundamentally different than a monopoly move. A monopolistic action would require a user of one Monopoly service to use another service by the supplier, such as a browser. That is absolutely not what happened here. In this case, YouTube asked people to upgrade to a number of options, including a newer version of IE. Notice that they did not require tying of one of their services with another. I think that makes it completely different.
Yea but why would they? Their prestige is grounded in the illusion of elite meritocracy.
Totally agreed. FWIW they do have Webauthn in experimental features.
" We got habeas corpus and other processes from the Magna Carta back in the eleventh century B.C."

Not BC.
What if the people accepting bribes have mouths to feed at home? They're just stretching their morals for their kids too.
Apple’s iPhone 7 Smart Battery Case is epoxy sealed to make it water resistant
The IRS would probably not look kindly on universities (tax-exempt) literally selling seats at massively inflated prices. But if you give a lot of money and your kid just happens to have really great “intangibles” well that’s just fine.
Just rewatched this talk on Monday from last year where Safari was called out for the rAF behavior that was fixed here. Cool to see this change.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0
People should also understand that a 'good investment' and a 'wealth building tool' are not necessarily the same thing. Consider a world in which housing only keeps up with inflation, and few people ever raid their home equity to buy stuff (the way it was traditionally). The house then truly is a good wealth-building tool - a savings account that most people never touch, that pays interest in the form of rent savings, and that can be liquidated in old age to use the funds. This view of things is not at odds with affordable housing, and I think is more in line with the traditional view of housing as a wealth building tool. Traditionally people didn't expect to strike it rich by buying a house.
Love this! I think that you could use that to “debug” more things than just software. Like fixing a broken routine, etc.
Thing is, it’s funny to me that you imagine the money declared under fighter jet programs is actually getting spent on fighter jets. Getting emotional about government spending means you believe the government tells you the truth, which they do not.

The money disappears. The line items show up on paper. Flak shows up in the news, about waste, about inefficiency. But there’s no way the shit they say they waste money on is the shit they really waste money on.
Do US universities receive public funding? If they did, would that influence the discussion?
I don’t like the homeless outside my window, so I’ll pass on this opportunity to give all my money to someone who does jack shit for my life.
Do you think Tesla's insistence that LIDAR is useless has a part in this case? To me it's telling that everyone in the ASD game _except_ Tesla is using LIDAR.
Yup and while they continue to practice legacy admissions they claim they’ve tried everything to achieve diversity and just have to do affirmative action.
I don't think the problem in the government is ever the need for "New Tech", its normally just better application of really well understood tech, that being said for a company of similar headcount ( of which there are few to none ) the amount of tape is similar, but its different in that the government has a few specific rules like Trusted Internet Connections, and Paperwork Reduction mandates that private companies don't deal with. Also the other big difference is everything is done via a contract which brings in a few more stakeholders and often adds in a few restrictions to what can be done ( i.e. sometimes contracts say a specific technology must be used ).

If you have ever worked on a contract with a Fortune-100 company its about the same level of tape
> gentrification where neighborhoods can be tipped one way or the other in a self-perpetuating avalanche effect that doesn't necessarily correspond to any fundamental change in their utility

No fundamental change in their utility? Gentrification goes hand in hand with reduced crime rates, better education, increase in available public spaces/restaurants/bars. It's a feedback loop based off of people's tolerances. In one common model, for example, it begins with more desperate braver artists starting to congregate in an area because it's what they can afford. Their presence alone will typically change the dynamics of an area to a certain degree that is enough to create a tolerable pocket for the more adventurous that are better off (think software engineers opting to live in Mission/Oakland 5-10 years ago for the cultural element of the neighborhood). More tax money starts coming in, policing goes up and is partly responsible for crime going down, which also goes down due to demographic shift to wealthier people who are less likely to feel as though they must engage in crime. The children of these people can create a large enough community of kids that are culturally primed to take education seriously that the critical mass of a classroom can shift from boisterous and unruly to more manageable, further stabilizing the education situation for those that come after.

The point is, very little of this is just some arbitrary decision with no impact on the function of neighborhoods. Over the course of gentrification, neighborhoods change dramatically in ways other than demographic shift.
What law is broken by an explicit quid pro quo for admission?

I'm pretty sure there's nothing illegal about that, it just is avoided because it doesn't look good.
I do not, but I know for sure commodifying housing doesn’t create favorable housing conditions.
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I’m sure someone has a reason to not like this, but I actually think this is a fantastic approach. Especially when you raise the bar that high (a million) that it could fund many students. There’s just got to be a way to enforce it so the money doesn’t end up in some stadium renovation fund or executive bonus.
either way you've been swindled.
I realize that their system of government isn’t great and violates human rights on a massive scale, but in terms of foreign policy and the actual usage of their military for the past several decades, they’ve been a lot more reasonable and done far less damage than the us has.

Basically, because the US geopolitical strategy has kept them in check. Give them access to the world's oceans and the global stage to play in, and one might well see a lot more of that not-so-great stuff from China.
While I love oneplus, and a 5T will be my next phone, ther are not completely clean.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16240485
Except the company never claimed that.
Plenty of people make donations for reasons of prestige, legacy and even genuine care, which have nothing to do with making sure their kid gets into a certain school.
As I have said other places in this thread, you're slowly reinventing Fido/u2f/(as was expanded by others)WebAuthn.
Enterprises will absolutely want nothing to do with this; they’ll have a team that handles endpoint provisioning and management from a gold image & other distribution tools. The endpoints will be as homogeneous as humanly possible because they are all leased in huge bulk orders, so you won’t need a tool for diverse drivers.

Besides, an end user will never have enough permission to download and install a driver - because if they did they’d be in a position to defeat the DLP, VPN posturing, shitty antivirus and disk encryption tools that have to be installed to satisfy the four nearly identical checklists produced by at least as many independent IT security organizations who most likely hired the same auditor multiple times.

Small to mid sized businesses would probably be all over this though.
I don't like this development but I don't see what can be done to counter it in the long run. For over two thousand years China dominated East Asia. The American dominance since the end of WWII was due to China being flat on its back, but now that China is industrializing, it seems destined to come to an end. That's because China has a far larger population, and this is its home waters.
I think it is about status signalling for the parents
and the social status prospects for the children more than its about career prospects for the children.

What college your children attend seems to have a big affect on your social status in the US, and the children's social status is definitely hugely affected by what college they attend. Apparently it is much cooler to say you went to USC then the University of Arizona.

Maybe it shouldn't be this way, but I think the parents aren't stupid to be worried about their children's social status in this way.
Even the NLRB (pretty much the most employee-friendly place you can find, if you look through rulings) found they didn't.
Google employees should unionize. They should set the example.
I included omniscience specifically for that reason, I agree that murders must be punished because otherwise people will see fewer downsides to committing murders themselves.

Can I push this to the concept of Botany Bay the far away prison colony - if murder results in the murderer being shipped off and everyone in society understands how terrible it is there... do you actually need to send people there? Wouldn't the effect on society be the same if you just shipped them somewhere nice and (again lots of omnipotence and omnipresence here) could ensure no one ever learned of your deception?

I'm mostly pushing this out in an effort to clarify what we as a society get out of punishment (in my opinion) we are seeking to reduce these sorts of actions we consider to be bad for society, any punishment that exists solely to inflict pain on someone (even if they're really bad) without any associated benefits to deterrence or a decrease in recidivism ... it's pointless and cruel (again, in my eyes).

And yes, I like philosophy, so this scenario is super removed from the real world.
Housing affordability is part of a larger demographic/economic problem - due to extended longevity and declining birth rates, many Western societies are facing a higher ratio of retirees to workers.

This is a problem because essentially all current consumption is created by current workers, and retirees aren't working. The transfer from workers to retirees happens in one of two ways: either through taxation ("Pay As You Go" systems like Social Security), or in exchange for transferring a financial claim from retirees to workers. So as the retiree ratio increases, a combination of several things have to happen to balance the flows of goods and services:

1. Retiree consumption decreases.

2. Worker productivity goes up.

3. Taxes go up.

4. Workers spend more of their money on financial claims.

If you look at what happens when the first three are relatively fixed, what does the last one happening look like? The only household budget items big enough to swing the needle are things like paying back student loan debt, their rent or mortgage (basically equivalent here), 401k contributions and other retirement investments, and to a lesser extent automobile financing and other consumer debt.

Note that this is more like an energy-based physics analysis than a force-based ones - it illustrates the overall tradeoffs that have to get made somewhere, but doesn't specify causal mechanisms. The actual causal path is something like the increase in saving pushing down interest rates, which makes financing desirable long-term goods (housing, education) more affordable on a monthly cash flow basis, which drives up prices until the market clears once more. In other words, college and housing became more expensive because the aging population needs to loan more money to the next generation to fund their retirement.

Also, the demographic that's currently getting squeezed the hardest by all this isn't Millennials. It's middle-aged folks stuck in the awful gap of having aging parents and maturing children. After all, "retiree consumption decreases" is a really bland euphemism for what goes on at the ground level - retirees not having enough food to eat or being unable to afford medical care. And on the other end, it's getting harder for children to afford to take the steps required to become independent, so this unfortunate demographic also has to set aside more housing and other resources for their children than before.

I really don't have good ideas for any sort of practical action to resolve these tensions. It's extraordinarily depressing. Personally, I'm expecting these trends to continue, and for this all to result in lower per-capita retiree consumption when I'm of the appropriate age, so I'm saving at a higher clip now to compensate. All this does is, though, is increase current retiree consumption and improve my rank-ordering in my retirement cohort; saving more doesn't fix the problems my cohort will end up facing.
This is called the Halting Problem. We don't waste time trying to make machines that do that because it's theoretically undecidable.

Furthermore, you're then throwing more neural network (that has to be trained improvably across the dataset which we have no proof is the full dataset required to fully enumerate the problem space), to successfully detect the problem areas in the data going into the driving NN for edge cases. Repeat ad absurdum or until most of your self-driving car's energy is consumed trying to solve the Silicon equivalent of Plato's Cave.

Or... You just teach people to drive the blessed car, which is what the absolute best a theoretical NN implementation would converge to anyway.

The only benefit to a theoretically perfect NN which simulates the average driver being the car doesn't run on a processing system that is adversely effected through the recreational and voluntary (by the processing hardware) application of ethanol to the processing matrix.

Well... Thermally speaking, it could end up causing serious problems if someone were dumb enough to build the capability to do that into the car for some daft reason, but we're talking existential failure of computing hardware rather than gradual degradation of functionality like you'd see with a brain, but still I think everyone gets the point and I can stop torturing this poor analogy.
Probably the greatest lie of the boomer generation was the presumption that quarter acre single family stick homes were ever going to be, in the long run, "inexpensive".

The externalities have come back to bite society at large in numerous forms. The unmanageable maintenance debt on the infrastructure to support them. The dependence on private enterprise storefronts to supply developments that can close up shop at any point and leave whole regions without access to a proper grocery store. The ongoing maintenance cost upkeeping all the land and structures. The time lost commuting around areas of extraordinarily low population density. The structural macroeconomic expenses in building supply chains to support such a spread out population. The social isolation and resulting depression that plagues the society as people silo themselves off behind their picket fences.

The broader trend must be towards density. That doesn't mean to compromise privacy, or even necessarily individual usable space - but it does mean a move away from stick houses with 4 lanes in between towards 4+ stories with bus and train access.
Also reminds me of this “simple puzzle” http://wiki.secretgeek.net/a-simple-puzzle
It’s USC, not UCLA, unless I missed something.
Your being downvoted indicates why that is the case. Unfortunately, it's not about objective approach, it's all about being part of the group think, feelings, etc. These companies resemble kindergarden as far as their social dynamics go.
It is absurd. There is a black woman who was sentenced to 5 years in jail for falsifying her location so her children could go to a better school district. Yet this outright fraud only sees a 2 year sentence by comparison.
On average us students make far higher incomes than the average call tech grad.
No. No amount of money should get you a way to get into an "elite" school if you don't deserve it. Unless we're ready to admit that these schools aren't really elite if any billionaire's dumb dumb kid can get in with enough money thrown at the institution. The issue with trying to solve every single problem with money is that capitalism isn't designed to solve problems where a moral compass is needed.
That's because it's not either-or. Read more slowly, it's a wide-ranging spec and there are many different implementations/extensions.
This looks good. Buying and partially reading two of Judea Perl’s books and taking Daphne Kollar’s first PGM class make me feel like I only slightly understand probabilistic reasoning, Baysean optimization, etc. BoTorch looks to be simple enough for me to use.
Haaa.. thanks for the laugh.
This article takes a really bad situation and paints homeownership in general with the same brush. That’s really not helpful.

Buying a home is generally a good idea even if the “asset” isn’t growing very rapidly.
There are a lot of socioeconomic benefits to ownership, which I won’t rehash - google is your friend there.

For the financial benefits, provided interest rates make sense and the buy vs rent trade-off is sane (in SF it may not be), a mortgage essentially acts as a forced savings account, while providing you with a place to live.

Say you take out a 30 year loan, in 10 years, roughly 19% of the principle have been paid down. Assuming the house roughly stays with inflation and you made ZERO real profit on it, you are still wealthier.

Now, if the market moved significantly down or you had major repairs, it could still be a crappy savings account. However, all else being equal, it’s generally better than the exactly equivalent rent.

In the end, everyone’s situation is different - do your research and talk to professional advisors (the ones that are fiduciaries and not just sales people).
True to all of that. The point still remains though, US will need allies in the quest to challenge China and India is absolutely the one. The prime vantage point in Indian Ocean and an economy that can sustain the Navy. India will never to friends with China, due to border dispute and Chinese ambition to keep India confined to South Asia. Pakistan is a threat that will always remain due to their sponsorship of terrorism, but the nuclear angle is overhyped. US understands that and a lot is happening in this specific area of countering China. ASW exercises with all major powers. India has their P8I networked with US centres, and Bell ASW helis have been ordered recently.
That's the reason the public outage is directed at the parents, though; the choice they made is a conversation topic. Accepting the bribes is just run of the mill corruption--much less interesting.
It was tied for a short while.
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Agree, further complicated by NATO and other alliances which arguably make the US forces a mercenary tool for the enforcement of the global ultra wealthy's agenda over defense of the USA as a nation state, alongside Halliburton, Erik Prince's mercenary armies etc etc
Hrm, I don't think that's illegal in and of itself. I engage in quid pro quo transactions all the time. For example, when I go to the grocery store, I give them money and I get bananas. This for that. Quid pro quo is only illegal when the money is in exchange for otherwise illegal behavior, such as bribing a government official to assign a contract to your company.

Of course, it's not illegal to admit someone to a university for a price. The donor couldn't deduct the donation from your taxes, or at least the portion of it which was required to secure enrollment for a given student. But other than that, I'm not aware of any law which would put someone "on the hook" for this.
Just for clarity, Tencent bought a 40% stake in Epic in 2012 [1]. I don't know if this ownership percentage has changed since then.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/news/how-tencent-changed-fortni...
You are not missing anything. They have that and gave details in their last Autonomy Day event.
I was kicked out of Amex before it had online bill paying. There was a world before the internet.
Why should Bezos, poor billionaire that he is, need to pay such a ridiculous price for his child's education. Wouldn't it make more sense to just publicly fund the creation of these seats and have people pay their fair share? I think the scenario you set up for Bezos is actually unjust against him - maybe people should pay admission costs to support the education of society's children in a manner that fairly spreads that cost across those who benefit from that education.
The rents as they are now have no relation to the underlying costs.
Theocracies justify their existence by enforcing a moral code.

They haven't worked out very well.
"The privilege to speak up against the status quo is important. Especially when you have less power, and even if your opinion is unsavory to some"

Well said.
Much of the messaging was "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", people weren't just told that recycling was magic.
I’ve heard this type of speech before. It’s a very candid almost scary talk designed to shake you up and get you focused. The gist was don’t think this degree is all you need. If you get lax some jerk with a history degree is going to take your job and you’re going to flying airplanes full of rubber dog poop from Hong Kong (sorry for adding the top gun reference... for me everything boils down to 80s movie quotes). And these speeches are right - you can’t rest.
Lucky you because there's an OS that tweaks everything to your liking. The fact that Pop!_OS is not a rolling distro might be a big - for many people.
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