skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for appeal. If a judge gets overturned enough on appeal, they can rightly be said to be unreliable. Which means, if they're elected to the position, their opponent can site how many times they got overturned as a legitimate reason to think they're bad at their job.

All of this functions well... unless the electorate is uneducated or misled, and apathetic. That's the real problem in this case. People are winning popularity contests, because the only thing middle and high school taught most of the electorate was that you should be popular.

It isn't true everywhere. Reputation and reputation systems can and do function well. But they require a functional press, and an interested public.
I think equity, even relatively illiquid equity, should be wealth taxed (at least on amount >$50m). I am sure there will be novel financial tools to provide liquidity to pay this tax if this was the case. At the same time it might discourage bubbles in valuations (eg weworks).
> Yes. That is because of of the impact of their actions.

If you consider a measurement of their financial compensation to be proportional to their contribution to society. In reality, the actual impact of their actions is unknown - such things are beyond our ability to measure, we can only speculate.

> therefore this value needs to be incentivized

Technically, it doesn't need to be incentivized. Life would carry on if it wasn't, perhaps even with a better outcome. It is not possible to know what the outcome would be.
Even this comment got fluctuated between upvotes and downvotes. Intriguing what the karma inflation does now. I've noticed the downvote behaviour is context-sensitive i.e. in regards to the article's content and the general sentiment around the reception.
This was over the summer that I tried it and traded it in for Mozilla’s WebThings.
Yes, and why is it illegal? It's almost like there's no political pressure to allow more housing, because there's no incentive existing homeowners to support that. Almost as if...
It’s one of the stranger things about the US. Electing not just judges but also coroners and sheriffs and prosecutors.
These judges are appointed, not elected, so they’re still “bureaucrats”.
This is very nice work.
If your goal is disemminating this work for pedagogical purposes I would strongly encourage you to add some of these animations to the relevant Wikipedia pages. A lot of students turn to Wikipedia and these kind of animations can be very helpful.
First Results from the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe Yet
No I'm not giving the CEO credit for everything positive that the company does. I said the CEO may generate tiny value for millions or billions of people.

As a thought experiment, imagine a CEO of company making $5B/year of nebulous undefined "value" with 250M customers (roughly Spotify-ish?). That company's "value" per customer is about $20/year. Compared to a teacher, I think this company's impact per "customer" rounds basically to zero. Suppose the CEO is able to raise that "value" by 0.14%. Compared to the workers, it's still basically zero. Being less than three cents per customer per year, it's truly absurd compared to any teacher's impact per student per year. But it increases the company's $5B/yr by about $7M/yr.

This is a CEO who creates (relatively speaking) practically none of the value of the firm, which in turn creates (relatively speaking) practically no value per customer, and yet because they just have so many customers the CEO has created $7M/year of value in this thought experiment. That's the average 0.01% household income.

Small value over many people just seems to have more range than large value over few people.
Property taxes are inherently more regressive than income taxes, since since property (either directly or through rents) nearly always consumes a larger portion of the income/wealth of lower-means individuals.
> Are you defining "abuse" here as "having a good time while on drug"?

There's no reason to make this a moralizing statement. You can define abuse as "a good chunk of people will find that their lives are unmanageable after getting access to this substance"
Except property taxes for landlords are lower. Multi-family residences have a much lower property tax rate. A neighbor left the extra front door on his home as he remodeled just to keep that massiv discount.

Edit: This is just another example of supposedly progressive rules that create a nice safe wall between upper middles and don't have to works.
There was something called Tabworks at some point in time, a reworking of the Windows GUI that I always really liked. Very intuitive and worked well on smaller screens.
I feel like we're screwed until we get over the "ownership" model.

It means we spend more effort on metadata (What are we allowed to do with it? Who owns it?) than the actual data.

It has stood directly in the way of new creative types (sampling in music, for example) and locked away content where the metadata is faulty/lost (orphan works problem)

It falls apart badly at scale (if you wanted to get distribution rights for everything on an OSX/Windows installation image, imagine the number of third parties alone, plus the original developers, you'd need to sign off)

and then it only really incentivizes work that's commercially appealing, not necessarily the technical best.

I dream of a day where people who want to create will be able to get a stipend-- it might cover a modest lifestyle, but ensures they can live the dream of being an artist/musician/programmer without having to clutch tight over every scrap of their output to keep their income streams alive. If we did it through a tax-funded endowment rather than market forces, we could probably finance a lot more creativity that way (think how many touring singers we could finance at 50k per year for the price of one Taylor Swift, or how many programmers we could hire to work om their passion projects in database theory for what is currently being spent on Oracle licenses.)
I missed this comment, sorry. FWIW I'm pretty much a recluse these days, this account on HN is my main comms channel to the rest of the world.
2000 or so.
If Democracy is the illusion of rule by the people, what is actual rule of the people?
It's not really houses that are important to tax, it's land, because there's a fixed amount of it, especially valuable land, so it's useful to encourage economically efficient use of that land. No property or land tax means people can just sit on land forever if they feel like it with no real downside, besides missing out on potential revenue.

This is bad for society, because people need land for things, and unlike cars or computers or gold we can't just ship it in from elsewhere if some provider is being obstinate.
The real issue is the definition of "success". Climbing to the top of ladders by spoofing utility may work for their career advancement but to any whose paycheck doesn't depend upon it is clearly a pathology.

The jumping from sinking ship to sinking ship after gnawing at the baseboards success model is success for them and useless sociopaths like them only and actively bad for everyone else. Their fuck ups are /why/ they need to pay consultants in the first place!

Their methods are a plague on society which makes it abundantly clear why the status quo is fucked up and also why big players even can lose vs garage start ups despite their decades of experience and massive funds difference. While the start ups may be good and smart the vested interest's outright failures despite their advantages are more because they are frankly stupid than their rival's vast skill or genius.

If remote working stops the spread of this virulence (I suspect they will need to mutate their playbooks) then it explains the resistance among current management to not having to pay for office space.
Are you a double-clicker or just selector?

I'm a double-clicker and I know of many others. I don't know many "selectors". In that spirit, they should just ignore double-clicking in whatever they wanna present for selections.
Where they will learn that Texas government pays for itself with oil and gas extraction taxes, which don't exist in California.
That’s a very good solution. Thanks.

I began with n being the largest of the sum so that 11n - 55 = 2012 + k. I solved for k in terms of n and then used an inequality to find n which gave me k.

Now I see that the method I used relies on math beyond elementary school, which makes the problem a bit more complicated than it ought to be. On the other hand, the elementary school only method relies on the fact that you have 10 numbers remaining and so you can easily see the remainder. It wouldn’t generalize as well, especially in cases where there may be multiple solutions and you’re asked to find all of them.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11723308/Fi...

While British Pakistanis are responsible for 3% of all births, they account for 30% of British children born with a genetic illness.

Cousin marriages in the UK are 1/200 for White couples, but 2/3 for Pakistani couples.

The solution is to ban cousin marriages. It is unfair on the rest of society to have to shoulder the burden of excess healthcare costs, caused by the outdated and harmful cultural practices of immigrants.
I loved these case studies, and are presented in a great way to engage non-interested stakeholders into usability design.
Sure, but that's their problem, eh?
Anyone every forget to follow up on an invoice?
Spoken like some who has never visited!
i think you mean 1 cubic inch unless your parrot is only 2 dimensional
As far as I know, they are for both purposes. In fact, most of them can be lowered enough to provide thermal insulation but still let light through (they have small horizontal holes for that purpose), but if they are lowered more, the holes close and they block light. So it's definitely a planned feature, not a side effect.

In most of Spain they are installed outside of the window glass, but in the north they are installed inside, so they are protected from cold and wind. As in this picture, for example (just found at random): https://www.inmoatuel.com/piso-exterior-de-90m2-reformado-a-...

But they still seal the window hole perfectly so they block light much better than blackout curtains. I suppose the problem with Monachil is that it's a cold place, but within Andalucía which is generally warm, so they don't have a tradition in the area of installing blinds inside as is the case, for example, in Galicia, where you can definitely see them even at high altitudes where snow is common.

When I go on a camping trip... indeed I just don't sleep well, I'm afraid :)
Real Estate Thought It Was Invincible in New York. It Wasn’t
The prize may have given them political cover that let their violence go on longer
> I do not see the argument that a man is entitled to the sweat of his father's brow.

I expect most people would agree.

However, views change drastically when you turn it around.

A great many people feel entitled to use the sweat of their own brow to provide for their own children. This includes providing an inheritance, especially a house.

Few people are happy to provide from their own work equally for everyone's children without any special benefit to their own.
Show HN: Video Games By Year – video game releases by year and console
Ever decide to build something and realize, "there's probably no one else in the world who needs this"? Well, here's one of those projects!

A few days ago I was making a top list of video game releases from the past decade, when I found there was not a great resource for seeing a clean list of games, sortable by year and console. So I made one:

https://www.videogamesbyyear.com/

No tracking, ads, or even images - just a Github Pages-hosted archive, from 2019 back to 2007. Select your year(s), select your console(s), and viola, you have a list of games that match your filters.

I built a quick scraper to grab the data off Wikipedia and organize it, but pre-2007 the tables get very whacky so it'll require a new scraper to handle 1995-2006. Prior to the `1995 in video gaming` article, the data is no longer scrapable (no tables, just blurbs) and so will require manual data entry, but my goal is to add everything back through to the early-80s.

In the meantime, here is a thing.

It's written in Vuejs, with Vuex handling all of the lifting. It's built mobile-first so it'll run and look great on any device. It was a little weekend project but I love working with Vuex and large amounts of data - if you're interested in the code, here ya go: https://github.com/gedrick/video-games-by-year/

Thanks for checking it out, hopefully someone else in the universe can find some use for it.
Not that you can't learn a language with it, if you are persistent, but Duolingo is a Game first before being a learning tool. It employs all the mobile gaming tricks that get you addicted.
Voters would think harder about what they vote for if their votes were effective instead of being ignored like children.
>> In our use case, having attribute model as the primary key in one of the GSIs (Global Secondary Index) which always indicated the type of row was very helpful. With a simple query where model was a hashKey we could get all Members, Channels, Roles, Audiences, etc.

Won't this cause problems with having every item of a type on a single node in AWS since the hash keys are the same? Or, are they suggesting that on the GSI they use KEYS_ONLY, and even though every item lives on one node, the size of all are only the keys (even so, I don't see how that's very useful short of counting number of items).
I just bought a .in domain for a side project and was a little worried about this sort of thing being possible based on my experiences with registration.
This is great. Garbage collection is one of those things that tends to scare people, even though a basic garbage collector can be very simple (though a naive approach is usually also horribly slow..). Great to see the amount of illustrations to make it easier to grasp.
The companies may have contractual obligations to the city. So they'll check and see if the company is violating those.
"Who's using document.write for anything these days?"
It doesn't matter if anybody use it, someone could use it, as such browser must adapt to this possibility and be performance constrained.

"what do you mean document.write prevents parallelism?"
I don't remember the details but it force some critical browser operations to be sequential.
Museums stuffed to the brims with artifacts taken from all the peoples of the world, downright stolen or bought for a penny under colonial occupation pretend they have any more standing to copyright them...
The City & County of SF has the seventh highest median income of all U.S. counties [0]. The GDP of the Bay Area ranks ahead of all but 16 countries [1]. If taxes are correlated with prosperity it'd seem as though SF had found a way to tax itself to prosperity. (Of course in reality economics and tax policy are far more complicated than this).

0: https://bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/lapi/lapi_newsrelease....
1: https://web.archive.org/web/20171208145551/https://www.bea.g...
Yeah, it's funny to see a bunch of people complaining about both ads being ineffective AND conversion tracking being pervasive. But the reality is that unless there's perfect conversion tracking, garbage ads will be inevitable. This is why I have a (very unpopular) opinion of putting precise conversion tracking into the web standard (No, not the garbage one that Apple recently proposed).
Definitely therapy. It will not solve your challangers and anxiety,but it might show you other ways how to think about your anxiety and then you might be able to relax.
I think it is flat in the sense that our 3D space has no curvature beyond the provided by gravity.

Of course this is totally different than saying it is 2D flat. We know this because of cats.
Surprisingly tiny Wealth Tax is even more effective at curing it. The part that's interesting is not where it's transferred from one entity to another, it's the extremity of the phenomenon in the first place.

The distributions we currently see have no excuse or purpose. It's fine talking about the value of exceptional individuals, but if a Jeff Bezos is even ten thousand times better than your average schmoe, never mind 'millions of times better', then he would be able to have his influence without the aggregated power given him through accumulation of capital.

Never mind whether his dumb kid deserves to have the accumulated power of entire countries abstracted into the form of capital: HE himself has no business possessing that kind of power on top of his functional exceptionalness. He can damned well fend for himself, and will likely still be a big winner and have all he could wish. He has no right to the accumulated power our system awards him, on top of what he can do with his own intelligence and efforts. It's a magnifying effect, fully exploited by just the sort of person Bezos is.

Concerns of inheritance only highlight the problem. The parent is not that much superior to the dumb kid, and humans do not merit so much importance (as 'exceptional individuals') as our system claims they do. The BEST you can hope for is a crazy person like Elon Musk, aiming for some quixotic goal while they blunder around causing damage… and that's a best case scenario.
Shopify's Black Friday Sale shows that Ruby can scale
You also pay for calves being torn from their mothers while the mother weeps for days. You pay for the calf to be slaughtered in the cheapest legal way, and often not even that. You pay for the times the cow doesn't die immediately, but sits in agony haven't done nothing to deserve this.

By the way, the agriculture industry loves that you believe those farms on the side of the road are where your meat comes from. Instead of the factories that actually produce the overwhelming majority of the meat in this country. You pay for them to be cramped up, tormented, and murdered.
That's why it is sometimes necessary for state governments to step in and override local laws on zoning, regulations on housing etc, that just hasn't happened in California yet.
You are clearly not a lawyer. Stay within your own lane.

South Carolina magistrates handle minor criminal cases where the fine can't exceed $350 or 30 days in jail. Their jurisdiction in civil cases extends to matters involving less that $7500.

As noted, if you disagree with the judgment, you get a brand new trial before the elected circuit court judge.

There are no convoluted legal mysteries involving whether a tenant had paid rent (the majority of cases) or whether someone was speeding. All of the legal defenses and the like you mention can be raised by the litigant; they have every right to have an attorney. It's not the judge's job to defend the accused.

The point of these courts is to have a quick way to resolve minor disputes in a forum where the litigant can feel comfortable representing themselves if they wish. If you want a 'real' court, you have every right to one.
The above comment may read to some like a facile argument, but it expresses an important problem in some formulations of utilitarian ethics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox
Thank you. Yes now I think I understand. I had a follow up question. You state:

">As we saw above, a simple program resulted in 2 different relocation entries just to compose the address of 1 variable. We saw:

R_OR1K_AHI16
R_OR1K_LO_16_IN_INSN"

Can you say why two relocations are needed? I understand the address of x is not known until link time however what would the second relocation be for?

Also is there a good reference for deciphering the relocation names?
Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Also, not sure if possible on HN, but send a message if you are keen to give the product a go!
I will post to this thread when the bot is live (hopefully tomorrow)
It reads exactly like an Onion article!

I am very fond of Berkeley. I think that while LA represents the dark,
twisted climb-the-water-tower-and-start-shooting-until-the-Marines-settle-it
side of California weirdness, Berkeley represents the very best of the pure,
innocent-killer side of it all.
I need this for the umbrella of statistical signal processing.
Right, they simply say "it has the opposite bias" for additional reactions, but we have no idea what "opposite bias" will result in. The side effects could be seizure and anaphylaxis instead of respiratory depression and addiction.
If there are as many examples of people receiving the peace prize then going on to be warmongers as there are the reverse, it suggests that the peace prize isn't really doing anything here and we're just looking at the base rate of leaders switching between peaceful and warlike actions.
In Germany, there are lots of people who plan and program the KNX system themselves. The actual wiring is carried out by a professional but the commissioning etc can be done by anybody. KNX requires a specific software (ETS).

As KNX is a global standard this procedure becomes more and more implemented. We have published an ebook about how to get started with KNX, ETS 5 and ETS Inside (cheaper version of it) and share best practices.

Check yourself: https://www.knxtutorial.com/
Great story. Next they should describe how to privatize the government
Possibly related but sometimes things appear to happen instantaneously or even before we, say, click a mouse button. This can be caused by the delays our bodies/brain put in place to make the world consistent. See:

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2009/05/18/104183551/t...
From the article: "The advantage of mindfulness lies in the interiority it encourages: it keeps your employees quiet and more inclined to accept unreasonable demands on their time and energy."

Union-busting has come so far since the goon squad era.
The Bay Area pays for itself with the tech industry.
nice! related, we just added similar capability to librdkafka (the C client) to facilitate better integration testing. hopefully we will expose it in the bindings as well at some point.
_echoes_ N E S T E D _echoes_
You’re not thinking about any number of reasons that could have ruled that out in his mind.

Top of the list? Visa problems.
As someone who's been doing frontend for 15+ years: I hear you. I wish the designers and PO's would hear you too. I am doing what I can to push back on these things, and so are every other frontender in my team. Keep giving this kind of feedback to websites if they ask for it. It's the best ammunition we have.
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