skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, if they're not tied to property values, you get what's happening in California: Older people, simply by virtue of them being here first, end up being able to enjoy million-dollar neighborhoods while paying $hundreds in taxes. While younger people pay 10X more in taxes to live in 0.25X the neighborhood.

It's like domain squatting but with homes.
> properties are so cheap in Detroit

From the article:

> Owners of the arts incubator, who bought the building for $185,000 in 2000, sold it last year for $1 million, public records show.

Not so cheap...
This makes me wonder if anyone tried describing cryptocurrency to a bicycle thief.
As I mentioned early,
" human error often, configuration changes often, new changes often. "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20406116
Maybe if a big company started funding it.
> how does one avoid it becoming a system whereby undesirables are vanished?

I think the simple answer is to limit to people who have actually demonstrably committed crimes, which is exactly what this article is about.

I'm not suggesting that someone talking themselves on a street corner should be locked up forever. I'm saying that if you've got someone who already has a record assaulting people, you put that person in jail. Even if it's not to their benefit, it is a benefit to their would-be future victims.

Of course, ideally, we'll remediate them too using the mental health facilities (which need more funding and better laws). I'm not saying I prefer using prison. But it's better than letting known violent people hurt others people.

A wild tiger is not an evil animal that deserves to be locked up. It's done nothing wrong and as an animal is not legally considered responsibile for its actions. But that doesn't mean you'd just let one roam the streets even after it's mauled a couple of people.
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You’re either a moron or a liar, because the entire point of these scooters is that you don’t need to deal with the hassles of ownership such as keeping track of their location, charging them, maintenance and repairs, being tethered to them anytime you leave the house because you need to bring them home afterwards, etc.
To clarify, I think that:
1. There is a housing crisis - both availability and affordability
2. Lack of housing caused the housing crisis
3. Lack of housing is caused by NIMBYs preventing new housing and California's Prop 13 which reduces the incentives for cities to build new housing.
4. Some people are homeless because they cannot afford housing.

However,
Mental health issues are the reason for violent, mentally ill people being on the streets. Given their issues with addiction and illness, they would not be able to hold a job or afford even $500/mo rent.

The links you pointed to aren't convincing. They are links to a blog that links to sources such as Fox News and Business Insider.
I mean there is an element of that. Several of my friends have converged on the same neighborhood in Lakeview. My experience is colored by living in DC the last couple of years, which is mostly devoid of kids. (Of course, not in primarily minority area, where there are still kids, but those families are being pushed out by gentrification.)
I used to be really into regex and I'm now rusty, but wouldn't the desired representation of .* .* =.* be something closer to [^=]\* [^=]\* =[^=]\* ?

I feel like it could be optimized further but this would be the first step, and wouldn't most experienced regex authors use that from the beginning, nipping the whole backtracking problem in the bud and making the regex much more performant?
Tangential to your point, why are artists uniquely carved out as a privileged group ( or under-privileged depending on your read on things ) here as opposed to other similarly suffering groups?

Isn't a HVAC-technician with a small family just as not affected by sky-high rents & the displacement that follows gentrification?

I don't get why artists are owed a 'quota', as such.
Counterpoint: higher property taxes force property valuations to be based closer to the “current use” value (ex, what is the value of this house based on its use as a place where someone lives), lower property taxes allow property valuations to be based on the “speculative” price (how much will this land be worth in 40 years, regardless of how I use it now). In general, jurisdictions with low property taxes have a combination of high property values and more rundown buildings/land banking/speculative investment (where speculative investment means owning an empty lot or vacant lot in a highly productive urban area for 40 years) as the carrying costs are lower (houses are valued more on the “what will this be worth in 40 years” and less on “what is it worth for me to use this house as a house right now”)
Not anymore. The only cheap ones left are the ones that need significant investment to not be immediately condemned at closing.
That particular property isn’t cheap, but I think they’re saying if you’re looking for cheap property in Detroit there is property to be had for cheap, if you’re willing to work on the property and improve it (as the previous owners of property in question did).
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I agree, proven and delayed, when and where it makes sense to do so.

It remains to be seen if this will become a common deployment generally speaking, though with more grid scale wind and solar being built it does seem likely, in my opinion.
I don't see how that use case is affected. Could you post a specific example you think would be broken?
No they don't. If I sell a diamond ring for $20k and Visa passes that the card is valid but it's not. The buyer just got a free $20k ring. Card could be expired, cancelled, or not have enough balance. The merchant must be paid, their processor has to pay them, the bank that issued the card must provide that credit until the card holder pays it back. If the card was expired or a card with a $10 balance. The card holder will refuse, it get's really mess fast. Visa is not willing to assume such risk, they simply provide a network. If it goes down, it goes down and everyone on their network is screwed.

When dispute is at play, it's a hot potato that no one wants to hold between the merchant, processor, ISO, sales agent & bank. The card networks have been smart to eliminate themselves from that step.
Wow. Bobby hit his biggest home run, metaphorically, after retirement.
|A 6.6 kW system installed retails at(AUD 2700 /USD 1870)

Is that right? Pretty sure in the US most kits that size are literally 10x that cost?
That's not quite right, these things didn't come in with 62304. For a (US based) example, before adopting it the FDA still expected you to demonstrate risk & hazard analysis, V&V, and generally SDLC lifecycle management to your SW products (just like hardware ones). However, they offered no opinion on how you should do it.
But the overarching standard you were held to as a manufacturer is (still) ISO13485. And coming from a hardware centric view of things, the FDA wasn't sure how to evaluate SW processes, and different panels did things differently.

What IEC62304 adds to the mix is specific guidance on your SDLC process. If I recall correctly you are still not required to audit to in the US but new projects should follow it or demonstrate why they are not.
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Cross-origin is based on the domain name. It offers no protection against an attacker poking your local IP addresses.

You can have multiple IPs for a domain name, so if I set "hack.tlb.org" to include both a server I control and 192.168.1.1, I can repeatedly do fetches from "hack.tlb.org" until one of them gets your router instead of my server. And they're in the "same origin" for CORS purposes.
It makes sense that 'coworkers' went down. Merely asking a girl out in the office is now considered 'harassment'.
We're living in a simulation designed by aliens who are very vindictive about proving that their computers are better than ours.
The purpose of the criminal justice system is to protect the public. When mentally ill people present a danger to the public then the criminal justice system should be involved.
Previous responses about my experience with my 5kW PV generation system in Sunnyvale, CA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17509166

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19163235

Based on your question though, you assume that utilities are somehow optimizing to provide energy at the lowest possible price. This is not true. In the US the utility is granted defacto monopoly status in exchange for its ability to ensure that it can make the capital investments in core infrastructure without going broke. Such arrangements allow the monopoly to demand rate hikes for any pretty much any reason (even for paying of litigation judgements against it when it was found liable for burning down a town).

With the existing system, there is no future in which the utility company makes any large scale investment in renewables at scale because it doesn't make enough money on that. It is sad but it is also the truth.

When a community decides to not use the state monopoly it can act a bit more rationally, but even then you need the equivalent acreage to provide the solar.
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Here's one of the fifteen API ref sections in pandas:

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/serie...

Even though it's long, it undersells the problem, because many of these methods have nontrivial overload semantics that open up like a fractal when you look in turn at their docs. The link also undersells the problem because this junkheap is evidently so incomplete that people are frequently forced to rely on numpy to extend it.

APIs should make hard things easy, but API gloveboxes like this make easy things hard. Minimal API + Performant Glue >> We do everything for you + You can't ever touch your own data or your perf dies + Good luck reverse engineering these semantics if you've forgotten the context and need to port it.
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Similar question on Quora from 2012[1] per sense:

Vision: 10Mb/s => 100Mb/s
Hearing: 30Mb/s
Touch: 135Mb/s
Smell: 100k neurons
Taste: 100kb/s
Proprioception: ??
Balance: ??

Total: ~10Mb/s=>~1Gb/s

Internal brain bandwidth is also worth mentioning as this is the last remaining wetware advantage over hardware due to the three dimensionally fully connected heterogeneous cortical substrate. I can't seem to find a figure on that though.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-bandwidth-does-each-human-sen...
If you try EtreCheck, you’ll find that it has nothing in common with system optimization scams. EtreCheck has no (or very few) magic “fix it” buttons. It only finds issues that appear to be problematic and (optionally) gives the user instructions on how to fix those issues. EtreCheck is definitely an end-user tool. It is designed for people who don’t know what software they have installed. It will even provide people with anti-scam tips if it detects that they might have installed scam apps in the past. For other users, it could still be helpful in listing partially uninstalled software like what is being discussed with the Zoom issue.

The latest version of EtreCheckPro 6.0.2 has more features that might appeal to very tech-savvy users. It has a storage analysis feature to help find how your disk is being used since Apple’s own tools are notoriously bad at this. It also has a graphical view of the analytics data that macOS automatically collects. You won’t find this analytics display in any other tool.
A quick search gives figures of AUD 5-7K for a ~6KW system.

https://www.solarchoice.net.au/blog/6kw-solar-pv-systems-pri...

https://mcelectrical.com.au/blog/what-size-solar-system-do-i...

https://solaray.com.au/6kw-solar-power-system-price-output-s...

(The last one suggests that cheap 6KW systems are junk)
I see many versions of Adobe Photoshop CC on The Pirate Bay, versions 2017-2019. At least one on them must work.
That s good question and a fair one. I think it’s because people have s romanticized view or art and artists. Art is for its own sake (not profit). Art is expressive, it captures the zeitgeist, angst and all kinds of negative things in society and exposes them, etc. They are edgy, set customs and mores, poke the establishment... (of course this is group effort involving boring followers, but never mind)

People who do “grunt work” as it were are seen as cogs in a machine, who while producing necessary good and utilitarian goods, are too quotidian and “Joe” and “Jane Public”.
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Also in Seattle, complete opposite experience. Live in Fremont near the canal. I have been swung and lunged at and had someone who was severely mentally ill tear apart my yard and try and break the windows in the house with the patio furniture while home. Absolutely terrifying and had to clean blood off of the doors. On the regular screaming could be heard in the neighborhood in the distance somewhere.

Once the encampments in the area were cleared everything stopped. Turned me into a nimby right quick. Tax me sufficiently to provide adequate services and get them the hell out of my neighborhood.
This is a really interesting idea!
I can only speak about the Midtown Detroit where I lived from 2002 to 2008. It was a group of students, artists, musicians and old-timer bohemians that made that area great and interesting. The only common denominator was that nobody had much money.

Once the suburban kids from more wealthy suburban families started to move in it was all but over. I visited recently and the rough edges and patina and unpredictability has been worn away by the safe suburban values and esthetics of the new residents.

I know it gets tiresome to hear, "You don't know what it was like, man." in regards to gentrification. But I can get over-stylized brew pubs, twee boutiques, foodie small plates and corporate sponsored street fairs anywhere. Those things where not there when it was deemed "Cool". My rent was $400 that I split, the same (rather shitty) apartment now goes for $1600. When the cost of living goes up like that, you've shut our a lot of interesting people looking for a chance to do something interesting.

People with money are chasing "Cool" and it's the one thing you cannot truly buy.
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Or ggplot2 using RCall, which is what I use and it's quite nice.
That was my point
Alas, EtreCheck is far from simple. Early versions were little more than a wrapper around system_profiler. But the current version is very sophisticated (~40K lines of ObjC, C, XSL, XML, HTML, and JS) and has some one-of-a-kind features. (see above)
Or just use that money for solar panels and batteries and not build a combination power plant / doomsday weapon.
People said the same thing about both horses and cars around cities.

If we can replace some of the cars with scooters it should be a net gain for citizens.
As I understand, the tax difference in California is because the tax is based on the property value at the time of purchase. If it were instead based on just e.g. area and zoning, everyone would be paying the same tax rate (barring zoning shenanigans...)
The first one is an article. The other two are links to a blog of mine. I gathered that info together.

Among other things, I've had a college class on Homelessness and Public Policy.
I doubt intel is doing that in this case, as we’re talking about a NIC and not a DRM enforcement mechanism.

...but even if they are, checking a firmware checksum only mitigates risk if you otherwise trust the hardware.

Counterfeit silicon could report back whatever your driver wants to hear. And even the presence of a a genuine intel chipset with genuine firmware doesn’t mean there isn’t a malicious component elsewhere on the board.

There’s tons of counterfeit silicon out there.

Most of them are just cheap approximations or copies of premium components with the motive to make a profit on their sale, but there’s not much preventing any of them from intentionally or unintentionally compromising their hardware.

The popularity of programmable silicon and the standardization of silicon package sizes make this super cheap and easy to do as well.
This is my experience. I fix an error on a page (and not a controversial page, and just fixing an error in some math) and it is immediately reverted by someone's bot. A few hours later the moderator puts the edit back in. Probably pretty difficult for someone to break into the "star wiki editors" list these days.
if you weren't expecting to be burned you'd withdraw your hand automatically
HVAC-technicians could become a privileged group too, if they had more friends working in journalism.
They could invert the tax to tax dirty vehicles more and reduce the import tax. Once the fleet is clean, they would add the import tax back.
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There is still a lot more bribe money in blocking new tech than in advancing it.

Everything that effectively brings the end of the Fossil Economy closer hits roadblocks in government. Anything ineffective has it easier, so dominates funding.
that's a helpful explanation thank you! I was misunderstanding the statement about Pluribus not modeling its opponents between hands as between rounds - it's definitely modeling its opponents and detecting bluffs by understanding when a bluff is likely strategically based on each opponents actions so far in the hand, it's just not taking anything it learned into the next hand.

I could see this being an effective strategy in a WSOP, that ability to perfectly forget the previous hand is probably more valuable than anything the way WSOP champions play. I could see it coming down to whether or not the ability to exploit a reliable tell during a pivotal hand matters more than 10% of the time.
That's a guns don't kill people argument applied to facial recognition tech. China is building mass surveillance with every tool available. It is not a secret or a national slur. It is a fact that they use mass surveillance against Muslim ethnic minorities to justify sending them off to re-education camps.

Shame on you. Authors of AI software have a responsibility to act ethically. Just because it might be used for something harmless doesn't justify something that will be applied in a harmful manner to many with certainty.
To be clear, I don't particularly believe that the founder(s) of scihub are the ones purchasing hacked credentials nor do they really know or condone that they are. However I do expect that quite a lot of the ones in use for scraping are hacked credentials, maybe from people wanting to "help out" purchasing them as an easy to access method instead of putting their own graduation at risk, etc.
I wonder if we’re ever going to have a real online friending app. Feels like we’re still in a stage where it’s weird to attempt to find close friends online like it was weird to date online 10-20 years ago.
How do you have a ATM thats not networked?
Okay, but other parties than the energy companies can make the investment of rooftop solar. A simple construct could be that the rent you pay for the solar cells is less than your current energy bill, but higher than the point where the company breaks even.
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It doesn't make sense to me how people who oppose gentrification pushing poor residents out of areas would be fine with higher property taxes pushing old people out of areas. Maybe it's ageism. Both seem bad to me. It's not even like California's budget is suffering - they have a huge surplus.
Thanks to the most essential ingredient: taxpayer 'subsidies'
I did my dissertation using these documents! They're incredibly interesting and give a fantastic understanding of the nature of crime and punishment in England.

@devindotcom mentioned the Newgate Calendars elsewhere. Those are written as moralizing tracts and provide great insight into the morality of the era (there were multiple Newgate Calendars).
Totally agree. If you spend any time in San Jose you feel like you have to take a shower afterwards because the exhaust from the cars and buses is so thick and gross and gets all into your clothes. If only they would take emissions a little more seriously.
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I love the move to clean energy, but the pragmatist within me can't help but wonder: what's the downside to solar from an environmental perspective (if any)? Has anyone conducted any studies on the environmental impact of a large solar farm in a given area (to wildlife, weather, etc)?
Is that supposed to be a negative?
That was my impression as well. Strava willfully ignored their buggy integration with HealthKit, blaming Apple etc. I received countless duplicate workouts in my HealthKit. I emailed them dozens of times...

Ended up cancelling my Pro subscription with Strava and just started using the Apple Watch workout app. It's awesome.
That's part of the reason for that "at least for small to reasonably large lots" exception I made.

Suppose there is a tax, but it's progressive (by square-foot), so you pay ~0 for your first house, a bit more for your second, and so on up to some maximum, same as income tax. That should make speculating on the future price more costly, and so reduce speculation - a bank/investor would probably be paying the maximum tax.
There are plenty of areas to look at for new energy generation just within particle physics alone. Not to mention that we're at the finish line with a net positive fusion reactor (I don't know a single fusion scientist that doesn't think iter will work).

Scientific progress may not be law, but there isn't a thousand year period where humans haven't advanced.
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> I hope this doesn't result in e-cigs getting banned in the US because that would be terrible.

If there is unequivocal, unhacked evidence that e-cigarettes reduce mortality by a sensible comparison in adults, obviously nothing will be banned, but you ought to be able to see why this is a high bar to meet for children.
It was the only one they could get. They kept getting outbid by buyers with more cash.

Which doesn't excuse it. They apparently got the building in part because they were expected to let the artists stay.

It sounds almost like a bait and switch. They probably were not consciously and intentionally trying to scam anyone, but they took the deal and then changed their mind after the fact about how they would handle everything.

Also:

But Allied Media’s staff grew by 40 percent, another tenant needed more space and the City of Detroit wouldn’t allow the building to claim partial tax-exempt status as a nonprofit if it housed for-profit artists, Lee said.
I used to feel this way, too - and I live in Belltown - but over the years the random stabbings have added up, like the couple killed after a Sounder's game a while back, of the 3 random people stabbed a few days ago outside Nordstrom... it's scary, but not in the "late night walking alone" way.

Agree it's a relatively safe place for sure.
Suggestion: it would be very useful to see some examples.
Do you really think most many mentally unstable homeless are tripping? If so, on what? Psychadelics, speed...?
In what world is the monopoly better off charging the same rates but with higher internal costs?
They're both good options, U-235 is "simpler" to make though.