skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I put your values into this calculator (https://tax-office.traviscountytx.gov/properties/property-ta...), I found that the house in Rollingwood would have about 2K in City of Rollingwood taxes (just as you said), but the house in Austin would only have about 4K in City of Austin taxes, not 20-30K. All other property taxes were the same between the two properties. The overall property tax burden in Austin (adding county, school, etc taxes) for a million dollar house would be 20,298, while in Rollingwood (with the same additional tax categories), it would be 18,388. Certainly the taxes in Rollingwood are lower, but with hardly as big of a gap as you wrote. How did you get your numbers?
It's certainly more likely than a site with no users.
The man page(1) provides a good overview. Imagine a git backend with a cvs/svn front-end (which ought to make Linus Torvalds kill himself(2) just so he can roll over in his grave).

got checkout, for example, can limit itself to a subdirectory of the repository.

1. https://gameoftrees.org/got.1.html

2. "I credit CVS in a very very negative way. Because I, in many ways, when I designed git, it's "what would Jesus do" except that it's "what would CVS never ever do"-kind of approach to source control management. I've never actually used CVS for the kernel. For the first 10 years of kernel maintenance, we literally used tarballs and patches, which is a much superior source control management system than CVS is, but I did end up using CVS for 7 years at a commercial company, and I hate it with a passion.

"When I say I hate CVS with a passion, I have to also say that if there any SVN users (Subversion users) in the audience, you might want to leave. Because my hatred of CVS has meant that I see Subversion as being the most pointless project ever started, because the whole slogan for the Subversion for a while was 'CVS done right' or something like that. And if you start with that kind of slogan, there is nowhere you can go. It's like, there is no way to do CVS right."
This is an extremely circular conversation. Google writes the algorithm that ranks pages.

They absolutely know, that if you search Disney, and Disney isnt the first result, they wrote it incorrectly. They also know their product has less value if it returns spam, which is why they fight SEO artists.

They do try to distance themselves from "choosing" the top result for "best construction store" or "best news site" by shouting the world algorithm, to distract the conversation. That doesnt mean they dont carefully craft the algorithm to return a relevant top result.
I know, it's amazing how it seems like it should be a relatively simple problem to solve, and yet it remains unsolved in real life. Hence my question: How do you propose to make that happen?
Due to missing or repeated characters from the set of the hex alphabet?
> shared hosting environments

I see shared hosting and VPS eventually going the way of the dodo now that cloud hosting is mainstream. Has the market seen any growth recently?
Calling it a porn ban is being generous. It was a content filter that kind of worked, with tons of false positives.
I wish this person the best of luck. I am typing from my dank cubicle.
Some cities in mainland Europe are like this already. They make cars unnecessary. Even bikes, as you can walk everywhere.

I'm talking about midsized cities (100-300k inhabitants) that are really compact thanks to 4-8 levels in every apartment block and ubiquitous use of lifts.

Lifts are the disruptive technology. They make energetically efficient cities possible and cheap.

I also find these cities much more nice to live in. Nice parks, avenues and shopping streets. I guess they are the heirs of the Hellenic tradition of valuing meeting squares a lot.

In contrast, as much as I like other aspects of Anglo-Saxon societies, their terraced or detached house model is energetically unsustainable, and yields both liveless suburbs and downtowns.
Comet and 'Churymoon'
What kind of argument is this? I give factual data showing that since 1988, crop yields are up significantly in the face of all this supposedly catastrophic CO2 emissions. And why wouldn't they be? Plants thrive on CO2. Plants grow faster with higher levels of CO2. Greenhouses literally have CO2 pumped into them to enable more rapid crop growth. The doomsday scenario about humanity's odds in the face of climate change are based on nothing rational. The water cycle that the planet has enabled for the past billion plus years isn't going to undergo any drastic changes. There will be plenty of rice, wheat, corn, and every other crop to go along with my sausage, my friend. For decades to come, short of a meteor impact or sudden increase in volcanic activity.
If an app isn't aware it's being proxied, how do you keep TLS secure but allow proxying anyway? There are already solutions for proxying apps/clients when they can be made proxy-aware. One option is to add your corporate CA to the trusted roots list (and transparently proxy through something that auto-generates certs). Another is to have the app explicitly connect to a corporate proxy.company.com site running a forward proxy (non-transparent proxying). What other solutions are necessary?

It seems like cTLS is not addressing proxy ability because there's no need to address it. cTLS is addressing power/complexity requirements only, right?

For consumer IoT devices, this is all begging the question of whether IoT devices should be directly connecting to anything external. Something like Mozilla's WebThings gateway[1] needs to catch on and become standardized. Even for IoT devices that are capable of supporting TLS to arbitrary internet endpoints, having such devices all talking to arbitrary external sites is a disaster.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=ycombinator+mozilla+webthing...
I don't have an opinion on the authenticity of this particular site. But I would add that having a real doctor endorse something means essentially nothing. And having a "real" news company like NBC, CBS, fox whatever, means just about nothing as well.

Just look at all the products that Dr Oz has on his national show and how many times he and those like him get prime news coverage from these so called news sites.
> How is this possible? Don’t seniors have Medicare?

It's complicated and stressful, especially when you're elderly and sick.
Is that the same for 2011-2014 series? I have a Gen 1, I believe they changed things for Gen 2 (2015+).
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Are there any plans to improve the automated porn flagging system which seems to have a very annoyingly high false positive rate at the moment?
Is it really a microservice architecture? It looks like it is a web application with a frontend, backend api and normal modules/packages for the functionality?
If you expect Tumblr to have a lot of autonomy why not let them handle what used to be their core competency?
It would be nice if investment in Tumblr is made to create a privacy focused social network for those who have or would like to remove FB from our worlds.
What kind of range limits are you talking about? 30? 100?
Color Tree: a Clojure editor designed for mobile touch devices
You are literally trying to find things to complain about.

1. It's standard MO not to. We never even claimed outright endorsements...

2. Did you click on the link? We immediately say how superfoods do not exist.

As I said - just trying to fight it.

3. Anahand literally decided to quote the entire supplement section of his strength building guide (which was a section in the published newspaper) to us. If that's not an endorsement, I don't know what is.

Or you can go ahead and tweet at him.

There isn't a conspiracy around every corner.

4. Yes, and we appreciate that. We also note we do not sell supplements. We have no ads. We sell information.

Here's an example: https://a99d9b858c7df59c454c-96c6baa7fa2a34c80f17051de799bc8... - I wonder how you'll find ways to nitpick at that.

> open to feedback

This isn't feedback. This is you trying to find reasons to dismiss the website. There is no good faith here.
Much-needed Outline.com of the wired.com article: https://outline.com/WMzjYK
I appreciate the perspective, but let's be honest.

What you're essentially saying is 'Adult content is hard because the US government is willing to lean on payment providers to enforce quasi-legal, anti-free speech policies.'

Have you considered adopting a federated corporate structure that would legally firewall off a "tumblr-for-porn"?

Most of the goodwill bonfire seems to have been caused not by Tumblr treating adult content differently, but by not even putting up a fight to provide a space for it.

Having a mirror world Tumblr that adult blogs could be kicked to would earn a lot of that back, while presumably amortizing platform development and ops over a larger userbase.

Surrendering because free speech is hard is never a good look.
Makes me think a better idea would be to 3d print something like a ceramic outer shell and just fill the void with casting grain. I assume there's some reason you can't print thin layers of clay and then bake them under the print head.
This should be correct. This is super useful for developers and operations people to debug traffic ... Or for security/monitoring software (e.g. company or parents monitoring people). But limited use otherwise. Considering the hoops you go through to turn this in, this is usually okay, but it is not necessarily apparent to end users when it is on.
I think when he says "show up looking presentable", it may be that he needs to be in suits or business casual, preferably unwrinkled. Also, I am exceptionally disinclined to bike through below-zero weather, snow tires or no (referring to the hypothetical canadian). Let alone Texas summers, which regularly hit 105 this time of year. I don't care if there are showers or not, it's just darn unpleasant to be outside this time of year.
> Is this not a form of violence?

By your own definition, the answer is clearly no.
Laundromat thrift store. You need to wash all the clothing you take in and people want to wash stuff after they buy it.

A food truck might bundle with a tool truck. Considering that food trucks occasionally run out of trailers you could explore the idea with minimal risk by owning one and partnering with someone who has the other

The idea has potential but you'd need the experience of actually running these kinds of things in order to figure out what combinations result in the economics fitting together nicely. I think there's high risk that the regulatory burden of serving food may add overhead that makes other ventures uneconomical to bundle.
The US has both 240v single phase and 208v three phase across the entire country. Any house with an electric range would have 240v service and can likely handle a L2 charger.
Fiduciary duty.
Classic HN strikes again.
yes with some caveats https://generatorgrid.com/blog/tesla/
Not every one has only two kids. It's going to get awfully tough for those with four or five without a minivan.
"Traditional" murders were are not necessarily for material reasons.

"Introduction: Theory of the Culture of Honor is one of the few models in criminology specifically geared toward homicide. It proposes that, in certain societies, men must never show weakness and are required to react violently to any perceived threats to their reputation, thereby increasing their probability of committing a homicide. This has been suggested as the main explanation for the high rates of this type of crime in Brazil, particularly in the Northeast. Underlying this explanation there are complex mechanisms and processes that have yet to be clarified."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5672109/
It's worth pointing out that Auckland has recently added a regional fuel tax to pay for some of their roading infrastructure.

I haven't lived in NZ for a few years now, but I grew up there. I wouldn't be surprised if your analysis on urban vs. rural centers being producers vs. consumers might be slightly off as the economy is heavily dependent on agriculture etc.

New Zealand has two major problems:
1: Housing is completely out of touch with reality in Auckland (and to a lesser extent in all major centers). Auckland is one of the least affordable cities in the world to live in, and unlike San Francisco, lacks an industry that pays enough to keep up.
2: The regions are suffering from a death by 1000 cuts type scenario.

I have a working theory that the move towards bigger and better and more powerful cities has been one of our gravest errors in modern urban planning.
As opposed to not having students arrested for trespassing in Garland Hall for 34 days? The disparity in consequences is striking. Why would you not expel the students who participated? Why did Baltimore's prosecutor drop all charges against the sit in participants who refused to leave after being offered immunity? You have the right to protest, but not for your protest to be consequence-free.
The problem with EV is how do you handle companies with the same name? Many banks have similar and in some cases the same name.

The domain name system already handles this by enforcing uniqueness and leveraging the market.
I ended up subscribing to both. Here's another version of the story:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/08/inside-se...
That ROT is 3 instructions rather than 1 on the absolute base RISC-V design is the most common criticism I see of RISC-V on HN bodes well that it is a good design.
Exclusion by your parents is the worst kind of exclusion. Exclusion causes shame, the damage parents cause is often shame. This is what I am saying.
People use the word NULL and in all caps as well, in particular in bureaucratic processes like those you would encounter at the DMV.

NULL & VOID, etc.

It is entirely reasonable that the system would not accept an empty string for the plate so the process folks worked around that by instructing all employees to write NULL if they couldn't read the plate.
> Only, in this case, by preventing fires we're keeping more carbon locked into plants.

Completely backwards. For example see slash-and-burn farming[1], where fields are intentionally burnt to return carbon to the soil. Plants, on their own, are not great at carbon capture. They grow and die and the carbon they captured gets re-released. To be a truly effective carbon sink you should ideally be converting plant matter into a stable form, like peat- peat takes centuries to form, but locks carbon into the ground. Rainforests also create very carbon-rich sediments. Grasslands aren't the greatest, but when they burn they don't convert 100% into CO2 and lots of carbon is left in the soil.

Farmlands on the other hand are scrupulous about harvesting all their plants and growing plants that don't leave behind much. They grow plants that are mostly fruiting body, and then the parts humans don't eat are fed to livestock, and it all gets turned with very high efficiency into CO2 and methane, which is an even more powerful greenhouse gas (until if eventually breaks down into CO2).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash-and-burn
But keys cost real money. And people want bragging rights, not money.
If the expression spreads, search engines will start showing relevant results. If it does not spread, then we are facing a non-issue.
I think skeptics like you need to be asking a different question. That question is "what are the best informational websites?". And after that question is answered- "is Google ranking the best pages at the top of its search results?".

These are the important questions, right?

I do think there is some minor room for improvement with Examine.com, but what else out there is better? I think people who have spent a lot of time researching supplements consider Examine to be one of the best, if not the best, general website on this topic.

For individual pages, some will be better, some worse. But on average, Examine is quite excellent.

So, this is why many of us consider it tragic if Google makes it almost impossible for the public to find its pages on various supplements. If there were lots of other websites that were more credible, that would be one thing, but for the niches Examine specializes in, there's not much competition. Google is clearly failing here.
It doesn't mean it's going to be like that forever. Maybe they're just saying that for the time being until the deal goes through, and afterwards when they've actually familiar with the product and know what it takes to properly implement adult content handling for Tumblr. Automattic isn't that large of a company, and it could take some time and effort to implement proper content moderation features, assign and train people, etc. Either way, even if they leave everything as is, there is no way they are going to be worse stewards of the thing as Verizon or Yahoo were.
Venice is a museum. I doubt it would be inhabited otherwise.
We can solve this if we focus on what we want to achieve:

1) We want to prevent heat waves of 40+ C, hurricanes, droughts, very cold winters etc

2) We want to prevent antarctic ice sheets from melting and increasing the sea level

3) We want to prevent CO2 reaching 700ppm when it can start to cause serious problems with ocean acidification.

Only way to achieve this is to develop technology that would allow to control the weather, because if we can restore the deserts to moderately green state, their biosphere would consume all of the CO2 that we have released so far.

A very promising way to build weather controlling machine is building large number of autonomous hot air balloons, which by controlling their reflexivity can either heat up the air above clouds or act as artificial clouds by reflecting some of the sunlight.

But unfortunately we are not even looking for solutions like this, all the suggestions about geoengineering are dismissed out of hand, activists try to block experiments like the recent one form harvard, and proposed solutions end up as some combination of not eating meat, not flying, not having children, adding high co2 taxes, or subsidising renewables that are not profitable on their own.
Got curious and decided to go through their SEO.

- First off, according to Ahrefs, their dofollow / nofollow ratio is a staggering 10:1, which is a huge red flag right away. A more natural ratio would be in the neighborhood of 1:2 so we are talking 20x less. But hey, maybe it's the niche that naturally attracts a ton of dofollow links - let's move on

- Looking at another of the main spam indicators, anchor text, most of them are just single keywords, like "ashwagandha", which point to the page optimized to rank for that exact generic search. The entire website is targeting single-term searches, which are notoriously hard to rank for and attract a lot of spam websites. This falls into anchor text over-optimization. They have 210 referring pages linking to their curcumin page with the exact anchor text "curcumin", same with "catechins", "creatine", "caffeine", "vitamin d" and the list goes on for all the keywords they are trying to rank for. This is not just unusual, it's literally impossible for it to just happen naturally. This has the Penguin penalty written all over it. Moving on...

- Their backlinks are for sure interesting. Among their top backlinks, we have pages such as:
https://www.herbalsupplementreview.com/retro-lean-forskolin/ - with a URL rating of 46 for a website with zero traffic. In SEO terms these are called “PBN links”. Not that unusual for the health niche, but definitely not white hat. Here’s another one with the same identical metrics as the previous one (this time, it’s a homepage link), also from a dubious website with zero traffic:
https://best-testosteronebooster.com/.

All of these with exact match anchor texts leading to their corresponding Examine.com pages.

- Mind you, I’m not saying that they don’t have great editorial content, and I’m not sure who helped them with their SEO, but I’m not the least bit surprised that Google might have penalized them multiple times for several reasons. There's probably more stuff but this is what I was able to find with a quick analysis.
The article addresses this point, in case you missed it.

> According to the official report, a search pilot saw “signs of recent habitation” there. But because nobody waved them down, the search team left and the Navy dismissed the theory. What the sailors didn’t know was that the island had been uninhabited for 40 years.

> Earhart landed on the very edge of the island, Dr. Ballard believes. As tides rose, her plane may have slipped down the underwater slope.
It’s not only that. YAML also interprets on / off as boolean.
Right? Thirty years ago, Bill Clinton smoking pot was still a major moral question and Beto was a teenager writing weird short stories on forums. Now he's a bland mainstream candidate, his drugs-and-crime teen handle was about a three-day news story, and a former federal prosecutor candidate is making up stories about smoking pot to sound cool. "This makes my job harder" indeed...
This sounds really useful. Can you intercept communication with GPS as well? One of the most frustrating bugs I had to deal with was GPS misbehaving on like 1% of Android users with with no pattern among OS version, manufacturer, carrier, physical location etc. Maybe it would have been helpful in that situation.
Who is "we"? I don't know about where you are, but where I live, there is tons of public transport, with more being developed all the time, but nobody wants to use it because the design of the area is fundamentally unsuited to mass transit. If we spent 1/10 the time and money making infrastructure for EVs, everyone would be able to have one already, but we don't. We keep trying and failing to make public transit work.
> Have you considered adopting a federated corporate structure that would legally firewall off a "tumblr-for-porn"?

That is literally the convoluted situation photomatt was trying to avoid.

I also think that the suggestion is hilariously naive. Presumably the founder/head of the company has considered a variety of incorporation structures.
Sub-zero weather isn't too bad down to maybe -10C. After that, it's pretty brutal.

I do try not to take superfluous trips on my e-bike above maybe 95 though.
I recently bought a *.ninja domain name and started using it for my personal email address. Probably 20% of the time, when I try to sign up for a service it gets rejected by web forms that have been hardcoded to check for traditional top-level domains.
It's funny the stuff HN fixates on. If all you read is this comment thread, you might actually believe that non-porn Tumblr really is just "an exercise in blowing several million dollars", rather than a concern for a very loud, probably rather small subset of Tumblr users (or rather: former users).

What seems at least as likely as "adult content is vital to the future of Tumblr" is that adult content has much more valence in an HN discussion thread, since people have opinions about adult content and not so many opinions about the overwhelming majority of Tumblr content that isn't suppressed. So it takes on an importance on HN that it doesn't have elsewhere, simply because of the fundamental dynamics of message boards ("controversy is always important").
Oh cool. And does that actually work? That's great.

And the syntax is surprisingly similar, especially considering we are supposedly comparing a low level language to a high level one.
I think we all know who's going to be the ultimate owner of Tumblr.com

https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/06/pinboard_acquires_delicious...