skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a different analysis, it's my core point. Land is valued very differently depending on what it can be used for, and what it is close to, and is completely non-fungible.

Zoning restrictions have been used as a means to massively inflate home values in the US in high demand areas, and that program really came to fruition in the 80s and 90s as areas became "built out" according to allowed zoning. Which then fueled the massive inflation in housing costs.

This restriction on allowed uses has differing effects depending on whether it's applies in small areas or large areas: downzone a single lot or single neighborhood in a city and it may prevent those parcels from becoming too valuable because they have limited use. Downzone an entire city and it causes housing values to soar because it has created a housing shortage.

In the Bay Area we have a massive shortage of land that allows more housing to be built on it, and even land for which we can build offices.
While not giving up entirely, I feel like many people, if presented with facts, would be willing to greatly reduce their consumption.
Exactly. Perhaps the AI is just smarter than us. After all, there’s really no correct way to upscale — it’s all just making up data that isn’t there based on presumptions.
Now this is interesting - I also got a nickname in highschool from a popular kid that helped me gain an identity in other people's minds and be much more social and involved, but I don't think it was an alter-ego. I think it helped make me memorable to other people while giving me a confidence boost (as the nickname was complimentary), but I think that it just brought out the real me. I don't go by that nickname since I left highschool, but I feel the same as I did then. It was more about getting over shyness and being included than being someone else. I suppose it varies from person to person!

Edit: The super pervasive nickname is a fun phenomenon, eventually even the teachers and principal called me exclusively by the nickname.
Jeff Bezos' monetary wealth stems from billions of Amazon customers voting with their collective wallets. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
I'm confident Wuhan does not have community spread of Coronavirus. To eliminate the virus, China tested all 11 million residents of Wuhan for coronavirus in just 14 days [1]. That's more than 500,000 people per day. Dozens of asymptomatic carriers were found, who were then quarantined. Wuhan hasn't had new cases in weeks.

China used a similar mass testing strategy in Beijing. When an outbreak appeared at the Xinfadi wholesale market in June [2], the government had a short (several weeks long) lockdown and tested more than half the city's population. Some days they did ~400,000 tests per day [3]. This was possible because they sent in testing resources from across the country to Beijing. The outbreak was eliminated within a month.

I believe mass testing is an effective way to reign in the coronavirus. It's impossible to have a widespread outbreak if you preemptively test and isolate all carriers.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/30/asia-pacific/sc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinfadi_Market#COVID-19_outbre...

[3] https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-07-08/One-Million-Tests-a-Da...
The problem with matomo (not their fault) is that Microsoft flags your site as distributing malware and you disappear from search engines. You have to fill out a bunch of forms to fix it. It’s listed in the matomo faq and is basically either from a bot falsely reporting you, or some other glitch. It’s why my blog is still invisible to bing users: if you visit in edge, you get huge menacing red warnings.
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They can change that though, by having the foundation directly employ Firefox contributors
It says “up to” and restricts to “select” models. I don’t see the improvement, the press release isn’t claiming anything.
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That's really helpful. My Android TV will let me do voice commands to "Play X on <Service>" but if it's not on the play store, it won't respond to "Find <X>". Unfortunately, I'm not in the roku ecosystem right now, but this would be something that would make me change!
Evaluating policy proposals for a single person, specifically the single most outlier person, is disingenuous.

Policy proposals need to be designed and evaluated for the total population they might effect, not just the single person at the very top.
>the app store won’t let you download old versions of things

Any app that you have previously downloaded can be downloaded again while viewing your purchase history (which includes free apps). For apps you never downloaded in the past, you would need to download the current version of the app on another device first.

You will receive the last version of the app that was compatible with that device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1cmTfJq-M
Ask HN: Can we add a mute microphone multimedia key?
Hello guys,

While exploring the idea of making a big USB mute button, I found out OSs (Windows/Mac at least) don't easily support the ability to mute the microphone as it does with sound output.

Multimedia keyboards have a key even for launching your email client but we now more modern needs for having a physical button to un/mute the Mic in any type of headset/built-in microphone would greatly help avoid the daily "sorry I was on mute" or taking time to find the right conference-call window for mute-by-default types of calls.

Is there a body that governs this standard like with Emojis? How would we go about adding a new multimedia button as a standard?
This is almost identical to a project idea I've had banging around for...um...6 years now. :) Glad to see someone is running with it, and also that you have data privacy as a 1st-class citizen. One idea for the data model: domain-specific descriptors (ex., not just a date, but a human birthdate with specific parameters (think healthcare applications: pediatrics vs general inpatient); this could be derived from sample/production data, but when designing a new application, one might need to have finer control over things like distribution (normal vs. skewed), min/max, etc.). If someone is designing a new report for an existing application, but wants synthetic data to use for dev/testing and UAT, the report "target data profile" may diverge from historical production data in very specific ways (ex., introducing new types/classes of products).
a) it does better

> If you add bookmarks, their webpages contents' will be saved to ensure that you will always have access to it

b)
It's not inline with the idea of archiving things you care about. If you don't control it you can't rely on it. You definitely can't rely on wayback machine to always exist. Someone's got to keep paying for those servers and it's not a huge profit center, and there have been questions regarding its survival before because of lack of money.
I think this doesn't change his argument. Probably people naturally want to work at places where peers share similar opinions
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So that people read the headline, and then have a vague recollection at some later purchase time that Samsung has longer-term upgrade commitments than most Android OEMs?
Do services like Fakespot [1] for evaluating reviews work and, if so, how?

[1] https://www.fakespot.com/
$20 a day is shocking.

Eat rice, beans, potato, tomato, cereals. That will be an order of magnitude cheaper while tastier.
Is this some kind of straw man? If not, please enlighten me because I have no idea how this relates to anything that I said.
Wouldn't this lead to people moving (after starting up a successful $100M company) to live in places where there is little tax?

If NYC has a wealth tax, well...people are moving to the Hamptons. If they institute a wealth tax, they'll go to Canada.

How can this be avoided?
I'm pretty sure tourists would be flocking to Buckingham Palace (Hotel) after we became a republic, just as tourists flock to Versailles.
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It seems as if an aggressive and extended lockdown at the start has worked?
No, the $100,000 commitment represents the opportunity cost compared to a higher paying job.

That is, if the distinction is between:

1) $150,000 + 0.1%, or

2) $250,000

Picking (1) would equal trading $100,000 for 0.1%.
> Plus most of the top US billionaires are self-created. It isn't really comparable to aristocracy either.

That's just a function of accretion. The pearl has just begun to be produced. Do you think that the kids of the current top billionaires will not be at least middling billionaires? The US has lower social mobility than most European countries. Considering the fact that Europe is part of the "Old World", that's a worrying fact in my opinion.
Who wants to tell Paul about investing money once you have it.
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All we "know" from Modern Monetary Theory is that Modern Monetary Theory says certain things. Whether it corresponds to reality is not something that we know. Saying "MMT says" as if that proves something is useless.
This "compound robbery" line is utter BS. I can't imagine anyone who has enough assets for this rate to apply, who isn't getting much more than this in ROI from some other investments.

Fear mongering, not any sort of financial reality.

And I, a less than five-figure a year software engineer, officially think PG is too damn entitled and sheltered for his own good. I know he doesn't care for a fraction of a heartbeat about my opinion of him, nor does he have any obligation to anyway, but there you go.
I don't buy this argument at all. This is exactly the type of thing experts write policy papers and perform economic research to answer. If your claim were true, we could never debate policy proposals because they all rely on what people will do in the future based on a policy change.

Medicare-for-All is a hypothetical policy change that has lots of research (data and sources) on how things would play out if implemented [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://www.peri.umass.edu/publication/item/1127-economic-an...

[2] https://www.urban.org/research/publication/sanders-single-pa...

[3] https://www.mercatus.org/publications/government-spending/co...
If you can "redirect" somebody's money you don't need to bother stealing patient medical records.
It's worth noting that every time there's been estimations on carrying capacity applied to humans, it's eventually turned out to be wrong.

The reality is that we are not very efficient at agriculture in all of the places where agriculture is practiced. Most carrying capacity models make the assumption that we are at or near peak agricultural output, but this simply isn't true, so the models' predictive powers fall apart.

For an example from another industry, where people have been similarly predicting capacity-related doom since the 80s, look at oil. In the 80s, people thought we were going to run out of oil, because "proven accessible reserves" were dwindling. Between the innovations of low-cost fracking and more effective "proving" tools, this problem evaporated.

The moral of the story is that, where demand is high, capitalistic pressures means that, given enough time, we will always finds a way to open up more supply.

All this to say, be very critical of the assumptions made by whatever models you find, or doomsday claims you may come across. If agriculturalists are not concerned about this, the burden of evidence for us to be concerned should be rather high.
I haven't implemented it yet, but I plan to make it read the user's do not track setting and automatically opt out.
I like your take on Kotlin being Typescript with a better build system. I often show our Kotlin devs our Typescript apps and say, "see, it's very close... we just add semicolons". Many of them are former Java devs, so they're used to blindly believing, "JavaScript == bad". (yes, everyone can see what I did there) I like showing that it can actually be quite good in some ways. For high performance db crunching, I strongly prefer Kotlin. But for pure network services, REST request to sending files via SFTP, Typescript is really nice.
I wish I had again the intellectual confidence I had when I was 15...
If you're interested in adjusting your seafood eating habits towards eating more sustainable seafood, the Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains a guide on which seafood (based on species and location/method of catch) is most sustainable, somewhat sustainable, and not sustainable.

My favorite version of the guide is the printable version that you can fold up and put in your wallet: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/consume...

Here's the main site where you can search for a fish by name: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/

This is geared towards the USA but I think the guides are at least somewhat useful in other countries.
Would you take vacation the next time your laptop breaks?
> In the Bay Area you're already subject to a form of wealth tax called property tax. And it's substantial.

No, it's not

> If you live in San Francisco you'll get charged 1.1801% every year [1] on the value of your wealth (property).

That might be the average amount of taxes on real property, but it's not the rate of property tax. That's capped at 1% of the tax basis value, which grows at a capped rate excluding sales and certain other qualifying events. There are also Mello-Roos assessments, but those are per-parcel not as-share-of-value taxes.

> If I bought a house in SF and live for another 60 years I would be taxed 60 times on that same asset.

At a declining rate, because property value tends to increase much faster, on average, than California allows tax assessment value to increase.

> It's not as if property tax has kept a damper on Bay Area house price inflation.

Property tax assessment increase limits have accelerated it because they discourage sale of property.
Guess I should go to jail for daring to make a script for me and my friends that uploads screenshots to my server without having a professional certification, huh? Same for releasing open source software.
I disagree -- I think unfairness is about morality, and in many of these conversations people often conflate inequality with unfairness.

A perfectly equal society can also exhibit a great deal of unfairness, and a perfectly fair society would most likely be unequal.

"Fairness" should be the metric under discussion, not inequality.
It's disingenuous to propose it as a viable option when every proposal involves spending the money on something. These things do not happen in a vacuum.

Nobody is talking about "leftist politicians."
> Adopting an alter ego is an extreme form of ‘self-distancing’, which involves taking a step back from our immediate feelings to allow us to view a situation more dispassionately.

What's the difference between this and repressing feelings, emotions and basically not dealing with it ? Does it work only in short lived moment (a presentation, a concert, etc.) and can't be used 24/7 (or even less) ?
250 new humans are born every single minute. This is the biggest issue we are facing. This problem must be solve immediately. Once the population stops growing efficiency measures become effective.
”negative compounding" doesn't really do anything for your argument. All else being equal, the taxes amount would go down each year.

Paying a .1% weath tax on a billion dollars for 60 years is cheaper than paying a flat 100,000 per year for 60 years.

Any disencentive of the wealth tax comes from paying higher taxes, not from any "compounding" of the taxes.
"relinquish ownership of your own company". Only down to the very generous floor of the wealth tax, and only in the very worst case where you have no other way to access liquidity based on the value of the company, which seems unlikely unless that value is extremely inflated. I see you make your case in a bunch of comments in this thread, and it seems to me applicable to a very narrow case, and even in that case doesn't have drastic consequences.
There's a difference between personal and private property.
Yeah, pretty much the same reason people keep buying Seagate drives generally: They cost less and they aren't so much worse that it is worth paying a higher price for a drive that's less likely to fail.
It's possible I'm a bit jaded because I spent a long time working on things like Wayland and next-generation graphics technology, where people would suddenly show up and name-drop the terminology "network transparency" as if it meant something, or solved useful problems.

I just find it funny that CORBA-style RPC is now considered a dated, bad approach in the world of distributed systems, but the same thing in the X11 world is considered way ahead of its time and a design ideal.
Eh? Pg’s twitter account is one of the most interesting. I follow over a thousand, and pg is hardly a blip when it comes to pontification. (That word is surprisingly hard to spell out.)
Where are you buying them ? Some countries call the younger fish "sardines" and older ones of the same species "pilchards", both have been sold for food for a long time. Maybe this is just a change in how they are labelled.
Thanks a bunch for the correction, I guess the answer is that potentially the acquisition has helped WD drives a little bit :)
The Perl Foundation (https://www.perlfoundation.org/) has existed for many years. I've been a board member for a year or so.

We began life primarily to support the YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) community-run conferences, but now we also support development of the language itself.
Maybe its a matter of language.

A typical HN startup is wannable Unicorn get rich quick scheme. Maybe we need a new term for that.
can't speak for the author but:

* obsidian is a proprietary piece of software so you can't rely on it for long term archival. There's zero guarantee the company that makes it will exist next year and keep updating it to work with new operating systems.

* obsidian doesn't download page contents

* obsidian doesn't handle bookmarks in any notable way.

While they both use markdown, and can store notes the similarity pretty much ends there.
The funny thing about this whole story is that this whole story has a much simpler explanation that doesn't involve any conspiracies at all:

"We told the California Public Utilities Commission of a 4,700-MW need through 2022 and that gap started in 2020. Despite all that, only 3,300 MW was authorized for procurement and none starting until 2021," Berberich said during a special telephone conference the Cal-ISO Board of Governors held Aug. 17, following a weekend during which the grid operator twice conducted rotating blackouts because of high demand and tightening reserves.

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-ne...

It's weird that none of the 'experts' in the news could figure this out and we've gone to blaming random homeowners, electric lines, 5G and everything else in this story without this information even coming up.
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You could just set up a private Github monorepo for all your utility projects and experiments. One branch per project, and you check out exactly the branch you want. Since 2012, `git clone` supports `--single-branch`, which makes it download only the commit history of that specific branch.
going further, if sackler family started funding space exploration.... are they now good?
> It's important to note that leaving the United States to avoid future taxation is not an option for even upper middle class without serious penalty.

OK, but if the "wealth tax" applies to the upper middle class, that's a serious policy failure.

(Of course, the income tax rates the upper middle class pay were originally intended only for the very wealthy, so...)
Are resumes still a thing in 2020?
oh the naïveté of youth...

The easiest way to reduce meat/fish consumption is to make the cost reflect all the externalities.
Doesn’t seem safe? Honestly, what do you think will happen to this organization if it were to be headquartered in the US?
Few people in my family use their first and second name in different contexts (family/friends/work). Reasons probably vary. For my mum it just started that way when she was a kid. Family used her second name and when she started working people knew her by her first name.
Never heard that word before, nice!
I believe Jeff Bezos has more power than AOC.
In fact, tilapia from Vietnam and China are fed pig feces and packed in ice made from polluted water, which is why it's so dangerous to eat them.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/consumers-eating-feces-taint...
I feel like the former is a lot of the Internet in the late nineties. People pretending to be someone they’re not. Nobody knows you’re a dog in the Internet.
It's not about turning the US into a European country, it's about decreasing wealth inequality. The US is doing a lot worse than the countries you mention--Gini of 41 for the US, vs 27-32 for Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany. The poverty rate and poverty gaps are also a lot higher in the US.
https://data.oecd.org/inequality/poverty-gap.htm
I've been working on a tool called Amna (getamna.com), and it's been effective at helping me out with this. It has a concept of headspaces. So it makes it easy to separate the context from Work and Home.

It acts as a daily task manager and has a calendar, so once I write down all the tasks I want to get done in a day for a headspace, it's nice to know that I can switch-off. It helps because it gives me a daily goal to work towards.

https://ibb.co/PDHdszR
GDP growth doesn't matter to normal people if all of the growth goes to billionaires. Wages have been static for decades.
> If you work on a company laptop, pack that thing up. Shut it down, and put it in a backpack or whatever. The day is done.

If you don't have a separate work computer, get an external bootable drive, and do your work booted from that drive with your internal drive not mounted. When done with the work day, boot back to your internal drive and put the external drive in a drawer or closet.
Well, I never liked naturalism as an argument anyway.

But with that being said: I like Talapia. I like Salmon. I like various fish. They're all quite tasty, and I'd like to keep eating them throughout my life (and possibly let my children have a chance at it too).

For people who liked one food: the passenger pigeon, that opportunity is now gone, because the species has gone entirely extinct. And overhunting of that species is cited as a potential cause for extinction.

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It has nothing to do with naturalism or the state of things. Just from a purely selfish point of view: if you like a certain food source, you have to take care of it, lest it goes extinct and disappears forever.
The original iPhone SE which sold for for $399 is starting it's sixth year of OS and security updates. That's less than $70 per supported year.
That's right. Good memory. I'd never realized it.

https://youtu.be/mDe-T5JayN8?t=1349

(At the end of this episode, he talks about the short life of vacuum cleaners as compared to vacuum cleaners of the past. Hah.)

https://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/the_music.shtml
It would be even better if people learned to refuse to give data irrelevant to the service that they are seeking and/or if there was some sort of regulation about this (I should not have to give my name and address when returning a product for example).
Society will never overcome this tragedy of the commons. Only a few will make personal sacrifice for the common good.

Only a market-driven solution will be viable. We need to find sustainable alternatives that are better than the foods they replace. Just like we need electric cars that are better than internal combustion engines.
Yes, ADS-B Exchange is part of the foundation that makes this possible.
The story made explicit references to how John us the character‘s legal name and jake isn’t.
Personally I think anything beyond "Rust Foundation" or "Rust Language Foundation" risks merely confusion over purpose.