skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never mind the 1 percent, let's talk about the 10 percent.

The richest 10% own 70-80% of the wealth in the U.S.

My point is that the entire wealth distribution curve should be looked at, and any serious discussion needs to go back to first principles and determine what the curve would look like in a fair society.

Of course there are wide philosophical-moral chasms between different notions of fairness, with HN readers, by nature of the hand that feeds them, skewed heavily toward the belief that market forces are the best arbiters of worth and fairness.
What the 'real you' means can be left up to debate.

Imo trying to live up to our own expectations of ourselves isn't faking it, but we don't always manage to live up to them either.
Property taxes are taxing wealth - just a type of wealth that doesn’t affect the people who want more affordable housing.

If (metaphorical) you want to raise property taxes to force people to move to make housing more affordable, why go through the circuitous route? Why not just use imminent domain, take the land, bulldoze the house and put up apartments?
The idea that California property taxes are too low is completely wrong, they are too high.

In Vancouver, my family’s house was paying around $6000/yr in property taxes and the house was worth 1.4M only because the housing market in Vancouver has been crazy for decades.

My friend in Toronto pays $3800 on her $700k single family home.

My house in the Bay Area I bought for $1M and my taxes were $12,000 and in the last few years it has gone up to $15,000.

The idea that Prop 13 is somehow damaging CA is false. Imagine if you were a retiree in the Bay Area and your property taxes were indexed you the house price? It would drive out too many senior citizens and low income families because house prices have double in the last 7 years.

Also before you say that Prop 13 has a negative effect if you look at the actual house purchases, in my area at least half of the houses have turned over in the last 10 years meaning that the taxes being paid were reset drastically. Prop 13 protects homeowners by keeping consistency but doesn’t stop them from selling.
What about them?

Those longtime existing homeowners are trying to maintain the current landscape and don’t want new construction obstructing their million dollar views.

Yes many are NIMBYs, but so would most people if they grew up in a place that saw an influx of new people wanting to change the landscape with ugly high-rise all glass condos that blind you when the sun sets or change the feel of what they’re familiar with.

In a way, I don’t blame them. The majority of newer construction in the past 20-30 years in SF particularly is horrid.
What does this line of code mean?

*(volatile uint32_t *)0x40021018 = 0x00000004;

Why is a pointer being created and dereferenced at the same time?
I want to opt out of any collection of data - not just the exchange of data. Because the best way to make sure nothing will leak is to have no records in the first place.

I accept all the risk. But there is no freedom to do that - leaving the thumbdrive aside, by just bringing papers that I would keep - not them.
Functionally I see many non math people struggle to understand rate of change.

I find integrals useful.

Also I see my computer science pals have a lack of faith in math. I don't understand why.
Yeah, partition size is only limited if you create a local index, because those are strongly consistent.
The top 0.1% make an infinite amount of money... in the sense that above a certain level, more income makes no difference because there's only so much you can really spend, so x+1=x, ie. x is infinite.

But is that a problem, really? Is it a problem if 0.1% of society have absolutely no lack of money whatsoever?

It sounds rather small to me, particularly since most of the money is a valuation of someone's job (or some other productive resource). Taking away the money is also taking away that someone's job.
Turbo codes don't add a lot of overhead if you just want to protect against 1 bit flip per byte or so via FEC (forward error-correction), they're close to the Shannon information entropy limit in efficiency but I don't know of any open source implementations, and implementation details such as "I want to protect against at most 2 bits per byte" or "I want to protect at most 5 bytes per kilobyte" directly matter in the implementation.

I've been wanting to try to understand them to see if I could implement something myself for a while now
Thanks for the prompt, I miss the ambient sound of the arcade.

Early eighties would be nice: Pac-Man, Frogger, Defender, Phoenix, Battlezone.

I daresay this could all be emulated with multi-MAMEs.

This is from the early nineties nice feeling, but I don’t recognise anything:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KNVdREXnOLM
So, it’s useful for both doxxing and namesquatting. What a marvellous invention.

Maybe the twitter mob could make itself useful for once...
Long-term residents are also doing something productive for society -- they are providing stable communities around which longer-term plans can be made, in which cultural memory of e.g. local climatological risks can be preserved, etc. Housing is definitely way too expensive in the bay area, but calling existing residents "unproductive" is pretty astonishingly, callously, selfishly offensive.
I've often wondered why they don't teach the law in grade school or high school, since it is (in theory) supposed to be known and followed by everyone. The best answer I have so far is that education is in the public sector too so it's subject to similar problems with lack of training and inflexibility.
No, I’m talking about income. I’m certain you have heard of things like interests and dividends. Capital do in general pay better than work.
If the extension language of Emacs were implemented in Common Lisp, as grandpa suggests, then it could run fine on the JVM using the ABCL implementation, as well.
The issue is, someone who owns a house they bought for 260,000, 30 years ago, isn't paying tax on the current valuation of 1.4m, they're paying a much much lower rate because of Prop 13.
This response is the most callous and gutting. People are genuinely raising concerns about things that are objectively broken here like housing, transit, income disparity and drug use, and right on cue someone comes along and says "then leave". Isn't this allegedly most inclusive and welcoming region in the country?
Interesting project, how do you manage to achieve consistency of the data?
Because that's the purpose of zoning laws, to prevent accidents from occurring at all, right? :rolleyes:
Yes, but it was promising to be more than a review. Author was going down the path of a whacky binge watching adventure, probably comparing 1940s cinema to 2019 Netflix Originals on the way, before detouring off to a story about gaming the resolution.

For people like GP and I, who care more about content than format, the first premise was more enticing.
YouTube’s incognito mode is not entirely incognito
They had all of £700 revenue when SoftBank invested £500M. Not a clue as to what Improbable needed that for? to get those military gravy train contracts?
I have always felt that Youtube's incognito mode is not so incognito as it keeps on suggesting me videos of interest even after quitting and launching the session again. So I did a bit of investigation to figure out if this was actually the case.

I have recorded a demo video that seems to be validating my point.

The video is recored on a fresh install of Youtube on iOS 13.2.3. That means I uninstalled and installed the Youtube app. The demo that you would see is on the very first launch of the app.

Here is the timeline, also posted on the video description.

0:04 I am logged into my personal account. You can see Formula 1 video suggestions because I tend to follow Formula 1 quite a bit

0:10 I switch to incognito mode in Youtube. The popup says that once incognito is turned off, my activity from this session will be cleared. At this point, suggestions in incognito seem random to me

1:00 I search for Formula 1 while in incognito mode

1:26 Quit incognito mode. At this point, I believe that my session is cleared

1:35 I switch to incognito mode again. My video feed seems to be heavily skewed towards Formula 1 video suggestions. This holds for subsequent incognito mode activation as well
I was more thinking about making the licensing attractive to cloud providers. The idea is that cloud providers are the dominant players - so for Open Source to survive it needs to be adopted by them. But yeah - I don't know how to do that. Licensing is not a core of their proposal, open sourcing their software does not impact their revenue directly - but might indirectly by letting other cloud providers compete with them using their own code.
So that's your anecdote - and now mine: the building I live in is worth well over $5 million, and the property tax is currently $3500 a year.

Edit: just to add - I don't know where people get the idea that we need to evict people from their homes over property taxes. Just put a lien on the property for the tax bill. This isn't rocket science.
Portability of Scheme code between implementations is still difficult (I'm working on it), but the portability of Scheme implementations is usually good, and the Scheme48 interpreter on which scsh runs will go anywhere Posixy without problems. There's a Windows port, but of course scsh won't work on top of it.
This is funny to me because I remember being at Chirp, the first Twitter developer conference, 10 years ago. There was a bit of a chill in the air because they'd just announced their own mobile client, effectively competing with their own ecosystem. Part of their justification for doing this was that the onboarding process, as you describe - the user testing video they showed was pretty damning. Surprising to hear no progress has been made.
Yes, and he did loads of work on the structure of the nervous system, including developing techniques, which is an inseperable part of scientific research, which was entirely valid.
Future Tools: Tor and the Dark Web
yes, that's a subtle but important point. be rather than tell. being is self-directed, while telling is externally-directed. that is, it's trying to exert power on others, and most folks don't like that.

with that said, there is an asymmetry in viewpoints that gets lost in the tribalism of ideologies: while both can be short-sighted/misguided (in different ways), many right-wing/conservative positions are about preserving the status of the already powerful, while left-wing/liberal positions are about empowering the disempowered. robin hood, not the sheriff of nottingham, is the hero we generally root for.
None of these proposals are going to address the main problem: most Emacs modes depend on a lot of regular expressions for syntax highlighting and many other things. Regular expressions are slow; it is a computational complexity problem. That is, for example, the main problem behind long lines being slow (and why they are not so slow in fundamental-mode). Now that Emacs has multi-threading, pervasive regular expressions are the last big thing that is responsible for noticeable performance issues.
of course. it's a thought experiment. theoretically given enough time and extremely precise instruments it would be possible to get measurements close enough. so the question remains- is this really an issue of "artistic interpretation" or just accuracy?
What a myopic, hateful comment.

You are no more entitled to keeping it as whatever idealistic version you have in your head as they are making it into theirs.

Also, I'll note that trying to sow discord between groups of people in the US, and very specifically promoting the secession of California, is a known Russian active measures tactic.[1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41853131
This is like expecting physics, engineering, or medicine to be simple.

Law is inherently complex - partly by design, partly because of politics, but also because law is based on established concepts that are non-trivial.

Even a supposedly simple concept like "guilty" includes shades of culpability that an untrained view won't appreciate. This has a direct and very obvious effect on the level of fairness and justice available in the legal system.

So no - generally you do not want untrained people making important decisions about other people's lives. Ideally you want people with wisdom, maturity, and strong personal integrity making those decisions. If that's not available - it often isn't - then a professional knowledge of precedent and case law is the next best thing.

Lawyers are only over-educated in the sense that law is also about manipulating juries, judges, and other lawyers through drama, rhetoric, and grandstanding.

Essentially you can win a case by putting on a good show rather than winning on facts and substance. And that's not a good thing, because it has no relationship to justice.

Without that element - or at least with much less of it - lawyers would have to work harder, but the results would be fairer.
What beta products are you referring to?
Levels of Origami [video]
Or implemented in clojure, which is a more modern lisp...
Give Thanks for Progress?
Can't some reasonable person refresh our website so we would have more useful content like this? :-) also include Sketchviz https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21518152 don't include anything from haters though

You can fork it on gitlab, https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz.gitlab.io
I've sometimes wondered if it would be worth getting something like 4e4eee247a69fab841ec36eabc95eee9.com [1] and only using it for email hosting to host my contact emails and for my other services.

The idea is:

1. By having no other services on it that minimizes the chances that it could get hacked and used for nefarious purposes that might get it seized by law enforcement.

2. By using a meaningless name like 4e4eee247a69fab841ec36eabc95eee9 there is no chance someone will come along with a trademark claim or an accusation that I'm squatting on a name that they have a better claim to.

[1] dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=16 | xxd -g 16
Hey! Sorry about that. I was trying to learn how to use the platform on my phone. :) Do you want me to delete the comments? Or can you delete them?
> If you like this area of study I recommend studying object relations and reification.

> Object relations is all about how we strive for consistency in how we observe the world. It helps explain how people react and understand things.

I am very interested in this sort of thing, are there any resources or names you can recommend looking into?
That packet looks familiar, and that one, and that one
That's not always true. Some companies want and have an intentional international presence, for example.

Many companies head quartered outside of the bay area create and hold parts of their company in the bay area. Not just companies from other states, but companies from other countries too. They do this, because they know how hard it is to get smart and talented employees doing difficult and cutting edge tech work outside of the Bay Area.

Now if you're an accountant or are in sales, ... yah you're going to TX or finding a new job.
A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745726

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825366

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10974948

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893319

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1541452
Reminding people that they need to be more careful about the tracks they leave?
I don't really care who sets it up, but since everyone that is currently on facebook chat (be it Messenger or WhatsApp) is also a customer of some mobile carrier, having the carriers create an alternative is not a completely ridiculous idea when we want to make the chat infrastructure distributed/federated. I'd be happy to MMS my uncle if it didn't cost like two euros per 640x480 picture; RCS seems to be the way I'll be able to do that without going through Facebook.
Devil’s advocate: it’ll never change because where’s the money in being the provider of dumb pipes?

More to the point, if you’re a publicly traded company with stock price and future earnings based off on this kind of rent seeking being priced into your valuation, and let’s also say you desperately wanted to do some the honorable thing and ramp operations down to dumb pipe level, how could the markets and shareholders ever let you do that?

The Ma Bells of this world are in over their heads and it’s hard to see things change without state intervention (a politically sensitive topic over in the UK, but that could get pretty off topic.)
On gTLDs you have the protection afforded by ICANN. ICANN is an international NGO that was spun out from US government control awhile ago.
ok got it!
Tacrolimus, one of the main transplant anti-rejection drugs was discovered in soil samples also.
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission

How is this tool not a violation of its own CoC?
How about (4) stop importing density from India and China. Immigration is by far the #1 cause for extreme density in the Bay Area and the #1 contributor to inflated real estate and higher taxes.
More about this optimization technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_caching
Heh. I was skeptical but yep, loads almost exactly as fast on my phone.
What sort of Regex are they using? The garden variety can be compiled to DFAs (O(n)) which a modern computer should have no issues handling. Further optimizations
No. I don't. It is just a rumor in the market.
No, I mean, it's no surprise to me that people would enjoy an hour commute in a huge vehicle; not seeing it as "ugh an hour out of my day" but instead "yay an hour of luxury time and escape from life".

Yes in many terms it's a "waste" but your suggestion of not driving and working from anywhere changes a morning from "get up think about home and family, escape to comfortable car for an hour think about anything, start working for customers" to "get up and think about family, immediately pressured to start working for customers". I'm trying to frame it as daily psychological experience, rather than cost of hydrocarbon burning. Driving is at least "a change is as good as a rest", and on low-traffic big roads, pretty low effort too; and if it's "forced upon you" by circumstance, well geez I just have to go sit down and listen to music for an hour while you're stressing out, what can you do, y'know, byeee. Driving as socially acceptable rest without accusations of laziness.
Left to their own devices even the most talented of workers will not be able to make forward progress. Leadership structures must emerge, and compensation structures will emerge with them. It's up for debate whether CEOs deserve $100M/yr, but it's not up for debate that they can make or break a company.
You need to be a customer of that specific bank. And if you are a Deutsche Bank customer, they don’t have that card reader here at all.
User profiles on publicly available websites are not private information.
If they have truly crazy plans for .org, one can drop a domain name and still block its assignment based on IP infringement..

The oddity here is that no matter what they do it makes no real difference to the kind of organization that regularly hires lawyers. I see this as more of an existential threat that every name connected with ICANN could end up in a free market pricing similar to rent.
The hardest easy ladder problem
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6792010

One comment from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14070102
No one else here is arguing about the merits of a property tax. The issue is that people are paying wildly different tax amounts for the same asset. This is exactly the same issue we see in industries where the entrenched companies put up huge barriers for newcomers.
It's also very similar to how I used to use backbone.

Compared to how I work now it feels outdated, having said that, though with static site generators being a growth market, maybe markup decorators like this could be a way to get more custom UI behaviour into said sites without the kinds of massive complexity in the editing process that usually result in 'enterprise' like content management
There are even ccTLDs like .af (afghanistan) where the root zonefile is edited by hand for every new domain, in this case by some persons at the "ministry of communications" in kabul.
Yes, I agree: the GLSL is a adding value.

I found great and fabulous this:
https://www.michelemorrone.eu/glchaosp/

glChAoS.P ⋅ wglchaosp.p - Real time 3D strange attractors GPU explorer... and hypercomplex fractals

It's both OpenGL and WebGL (via WebAssembly), also opensource and multi platform.. and explores over 100 types between attractors, fractals and also DLA3D (Diffusion Limited Aggregation)

Very beautiful!
Was the Web of the 2000s really based on completely decentralized ISPs, registries, and hosting providers? I was there and I seem to remember there being a small number of ISPs, a small number of registrars, and a small number of hosting providers. A site like this would be registered at GoDaddy and hosted at DreamHost.

Of course many people could fill out the ICANN paperwork themselves and run a server from their own home, but many people can do that now too. And if you do that, you still run into the issue of hackers being able to install malware on your systems. But instead of the police seizing your domain, they kick in your door in the middle of the night with guns pointed at your family.

Maybe it would clear things up if you could lay out for me the exact scenario that combines "the web of the 2000s is rapidly disappearing" with "registrar, ISP, and hosting provider centralization is the issue" and ends with "if that wasn't the case, this website would never have had to shut down". I feel like you're remembering the web of the 2000s very VERY differently than I am.
That's a great idea, especially if they don't evict people, but just take a chunk of the house that is the state's now if they don't pay taxes.

If house prices go up, the state profits when the house changes hands, or the state owns all of the house and then needs to evict people.
I see this (like a lot of things) as a negotiation tactic:

1. SF levies taxes on companies headquartered in SF. The message: “Pay us for the privilege of being in SF”.

2. SF companies move their headquarters but promise not to cut jobs in SF. The message: “We already provide lots of middle-class jobs in your city, providing tax revenues. It is not in your interest for those jobs to go away.”
Why does it need to be "fixed" if it works fine? Just because is it is deprecated doesn't mean it is broken.
Of course there is: the X11 Windows System. You might enjoy
https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/x-basics.html
"such as an electronic address"
We changed the linkbait title to what seems to be the most representative sentence from the article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Edit: the sentence was "What Rowan wanted was clout". Since changed.)
What a neat and timely teaching tool! Literally just an hour ago today I was reading an article in Chemical Review titled "Concepts of Artificial Intelligence for Computer-Assisted Drug Discovery" [0]. There was a lot of pretty standard stuff in there related to AI work but the real puzzle for me was trying to come up with a clean way to store and work with these data sets. I had come up with a few possible solutions that seemed decent but I knew there had to be a more standardized format. After struggling to get the correct search terms I decided to take a coffee break and then lo and behold, I come across this post. Thank you Mr. Hansom, you have successfully kept me busy the rest of the night :)

[0]https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00728
> it trivially easy to triangulate their identity

And this is good because it removes the illusion that they can speak freely and saves them from repercussions coming from eventual de-anonymization.