skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would we ever want to copy European tech? So that we can become irrelevant outside ourselves too? For all the talk of protecting users most advocacy from the cyber crowd boils down demonizing large companies simply for being large and inventing new forms of damage because consumers don't feel especially harmed by the current environment. The tech scene that is showering users in free and useful products didn't come from Europe or European practices.
> It is common practice to pay a fee of 0.5-2% to a wealth manager. In practice for many people this fee is worthwhile and wonderful - the benefit is a safely managed and vigorously growing pool of assets.

You pay that fee because the manager supposedly does something that helps your wealth grow faster than their fee.

When Vanguard comes along and shows you can get the same or even better returns with a 0.04% fee instead of a 2% fee, what happens? People take their money and move to where the lower fee is. Why would it be any different for a wealth tax?
> If your net worth is $10+ million and isn't increasing by at least ~4% a year you're doing something very wrong.

So the argument a tax is good is that it's your fault if you don't make enough money? Is it everyone's purpose in life to make enough money to pay taxes?

> So ~1% of your wealth going to taxes is eminently affordable.

Being affordable does not mean it is right. I can afford a $1200 iPhone, but I will never spend that kind of money on a phone, so asking me to pay $1200 for a phone is not right just because I can afford it.
If I'm reading this right, this looks more like it's for intents, so that other apps have to specify exactly which external camera app to use. If they don't do that, then the built-in app is selected. You camera app should still function, though may require an update?
Good overview!

I work in a corporate research lab. We're not big (market cap ~25B) but there is a real thirst for innovations.

I'll echo the point about Research v Development. We're much more heavy on the development side of things, with time horizons of ~3.5 years. Research is ~10 years. Our research department is just me and 4 other guys. Our development department is much larger.

One thing I found different is in M&A. We've purposefully not done a lot of M&As. Mostly because the bureaucracy is so thick here. Monopolizing the time of the smaller companies is simpler and faster than trying to onboard them. I suspect there are healthcare issues involved too.

It'll be interesting to see how long things last.
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The reason the government issues savings bonds is so they can spend the money used to buy them. The same for t-bills.

It is never sitting around as cash. Again, the fact that it pays interest is the clue that it is not cash, it has been spent "helping anyone".

Nowhere in your description is there money idly sitting around as cash.
I work in counter-intel, I am well versed on what we actually use, assets are not "spies" and to get technical about it nobody is actually called a spy. But generally a "Spy" as is commonly depicted, denotes someone with governmental or diplomatic cover, an asset is an independent citizen that provides Intel usually a national of the country in which Intel is being gathered on, and generally has no cover. A case office is not an handler, a field officer is, a case office is an analyst. There is no such thing as a paramilitary officer, their are field officers, special agents and military liaisons. <- all of the above mentioned with the exception of analyst and assets would have formal training in evasion, which would include how to flatten a lie detector.
Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old well built by Neolithic farmers in what is now the Czech Republic.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-well-oldest-wooden-stru...
Yeah, the authoritarian method is brutal beyond compare. But it does let them "get shit done."

Building the pyramids and the great wall and many other "wonders" took literally slave labor for multiple lifetimes and yet somehow people still admire these "achievements". (They have lasted however!)

They need a city, or ten. Not an outhouse. There is no way to build a city and make everyone happy. Do I think they do it best? No, obviously not.

But the Western world would be bogged down in NIMBYism while the chinese engineered cities are built and done.

As for quality... I saw a few things on my holiday trip to China many years ago so I don't doubt poor quality is a thing.

But here in Australia any high rise apartment building built in the past ten years in Sydney or Melbourne is now suspect due to dodgy building practices too. Maybe the building is fine. Maybe it isn't. But they are all tainted with suspicion.

So while I think the Western world still has the edge on China in quality, it is a slippery slope when "homes" are in a market to "make money" rather than "house people".
Cal state school tuition is <8K yr.
If it takes 25 years to pay off a 32K debt with a CS degree in California, you may have other challenges.
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In a short story I'm writing, things like this are sent every few hundred years to stars with life. Your species is invited to the galactic community once you can spot it, catch it, and utilize the tech without killing yourself.
How do we decide the value of companies' externalities if not through a system of government?
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This article gives some couched pseudo-philosophic reasons why we should believe "tipping points" don't exist, without any citations, numbers, or scientific observations. Sorry, but you're going to have to do better than that. Data, or it didn't happen.

Also, this article was from 2013. Scientific understanding has changed since then.
No doubt Zillow’s data must be fascinating and deep and extensive.

In general, I’m curious about how an individual could use this type of data to their own benefit—to “game the system,” as it were, by surfacing / finding “outliers”, by which I mean properties that are renting / selling far below their “market-calibrated” price.

Then again, I guess developing that into a product is (ostensibly) the entire job of an analytics PM somewhere like Zillow...

Still, we (collectively) are close to it being straightforward to scrape this data, train a model, and score new listings as they come in. The tools are all there, the tooling to orchestrate it off-the-cuff for personal use is still a bit far off.
Not sure if you know what device you're talking about. The Oculus Quest is very much a platform, not a "peripheral". There's no device that the Quest connects to to be used as a peripheral. It's a completely stand alone computing device that serves as a platform for third party software, the same as your phone which requires an account.
Once again, the Japanese know very well that a nice polished sake like a Junmai Daiginjo will be served cold.

https://boutiquejapan.com/sake101/#:~:text=At%20the%20risk%2...

"At the risk of overgeneralizing, many sake experts say that ginjo and daiginjo sakes are usually best not warmed (since being served chilled enhances their flavors and aromas)"

It is bizarre you go on these rants about how people on Hacker News aren't cultured like you after all your time in foreign cities, but you didn't visit the main neighborhoods, chose a few bad restaurants on Yelp, and clearly don't know how the locals prefer to drink their sake even after bragging about all your experience. Since you don't even drink, maybe you should listen to the people who do and who have toured the sake factories.

Way to be totally obnoxious and ruin the normally polite discourse here. You're posting on a brand new account and already getting flagged for abusive posting. You're not even trying to have a productive conversation. Go argue with people on Reddit.
There's Ę, ę present but it lacks Polish and Lithuanian (mostly, there are other languages that use this particular letter) Ą, ą
epistasis is correct. Very few people live in the mountains and only come to town every six months.

Density mattered a little bit early on, but SARS-CoV-2 is so infectious that it gets around no matter what, unless the strictest possible measures (such as the police-enforced lockdowns in parts of Melbourne at the moment, or the earlier reports of Chinese buildings' doors being welded shut) are adopted.
It's completely expected since acquisition but FUCK. The problem is that there's little competitor for standalone VR and platform's openess.
Weird and surprising facts about coffee
This is why I was quite sad when IBM announced that RedHat would be continuing with “business as usual” ...
This is insane busywork that I hated in college (xUSSR, 20+ years ago). I would scrutinize the example, though. I don't know how "clean" the documents are expected to be, but the picture is too uniform and too clean - no pen marks, etc.
From TFA: "In San Francisco, list prices have fallen 4.9% year over year and inventory has risen 96% with a flood of new listings. This divergence of active inventory is not evident in cities like Miami, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Seattle."

I'm not in San Francisco, but if we were to experience a doubling of inventory here in Seattle, it would be evidence of a big shift in the market. We neighbor-visited an open house on our block in the autumn that was attended by at least a person a minute during the half-hour that we were there.

The article is super interesting for its incongruence with local anecdotes, but it would also suggest that the "techie exodus" in SF has some roots in reality.
San Francisco was one of the tightest real estate markets in the country for years. Even doubling inventory doesn't make it a buyer's market.
Sometimes I think writing reviews for products that I've purchased on Amazon is kind of a civic duty, a way to fight back against all the fakes and help our fellow shoppers.
Raku does this enthusiastically:

https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_ascii
I'd love to! Where can we chat?
Yes.

And while the mainstream view is that Ryan/Boehner never really intended to go through with it because they knew the consequences, a sizable contingent of congresspeople & conservative pundits wanted to go through with it just to show that "they meant business".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_cri...

My perspective, when people tell you what they'll do, believe them. It would be economic equivalent to setting off a nuclear bomb in the middle of the country, but :shrug:, it would own the libs.
Might be insightful to look at the history of xhtml.

tl;dr an attempt was made and failed. Turns out there's not enough incentive for websites to convert to your stricter html replacement.
My understanding is modern compressor tech has already resolved that issue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24201494

Seems related to this earlier post
If only somewhere on the page it explained WTF amf0 is ...
> If a sufficiently motivated activist investor accumulates a large enough ownership, they can decide to fire Elon Musk

If Musk is a value-add, they'd be tanking the value of their own holdings. If he's not, then why should he keep his job?
Yes, I had thought of a buffer for that, probably a design trade off.

But if the pellet track is moved off target you have to follow it.

By the way I like to call it the PacMan Rocket.
Zillow does house flipping on the side with their "Zillow Offers" product. Apparently it is now a significant portion of their revenue.
Just reporting that I had a similar experience leaving a negative review before, or rather not being able to do so.
> Picture the ocean. Can we agree that it's immense? How many ships can we launch until it becomes too crowded?

Except that we're not worried about just the large things like "ships" (satellites), but all the small things as well.

Something measuring 1 cm on a side can cause critical damage, and things that 10 cm would be catastrophic:

* https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/12/11664668/iss-window-chip-...

Even "the impact from a tiny piece of space debris, possibly a paint flake or small metal fragment no bigger than a few thousandths of a millimetre across" can crack the windows on the ISS:

* http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2016/05/Impact_chip

And I'd rather we worry about these things while they are not a problem, rather than later when they become one: an ounce of prevention and all that.
> And I consider it a fair tax as well - having a house in the middle of Amsterdam is a privilege, and I feel that it's fair to pay for my privilege and redistribute that money back to society.

I don't think that you are paying your fair share, because I am not able to own a house in the middle of Amsterdam, and I think that the wealth gap between us is too big. Your cushy privileged lifestyle is unfair and you should pay more. Consider giving away four fifths of your remaining earnings left after your monthly bills.
Its far less than 40% of what the extremely wealthy earn.
One thing people seem to forget is that leaving SF doesn't mean leaving the Bay Area. A lot of the people leaving SF are going to end up in the surrounding cities, which were always cheaper and considered more boring than SF. Now that SF is locked down, all of the Bay Area is equally boring, so you might as well live in San Mateo and cut your rent in half.
Unfortunately things have been moving this way, even for peripherals such as mice:

https://insider.razer.com/index.php?threads/i-need-an-accoun...
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New neighbor with two young kids is from Portland. He told me he picked up and left in less than 20 days.
There only needs to be one no?
move to Germany?
One reality of liquid markets is that, whenever someone discovers an edge, it is (generally) only viable for a limited time. Either the original observer arbitrages the advantage into oblivion or multiple observers notice the same thing and do so together.

A more-reliable way to go is to determine whether a particular property is selling for less than it is worth to you. If it is, and there isn't a better option, hit it.
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Greater profit. How else are you going to pay a ceo 10mm per year...
I don't want to be the economist who doesn't pick up the $20 bill but the entire real estate market is based on trying to identify dislocations in price. Plus even if you write a python script that finds underpriced houses on average how many losers can you afford to finance and how long can you hold out for a buyer?
Usually the owner hasn't been paying taxes, and the back taxes become your responsibility when you buy the house.
I agree. Ultimately it was Facebooks decision to enact this policy. Why do people gravitate towards blaming him ? Is it just because they feel he’s lied to them and should be held accountable even though he may have only been naive ?

Its funny how in situations like this one, where one person facilitates another’s wrongdoing, they (Palmer) are put under the spotlight more so than the bad actor (Facebook)
It sounds like a double-edged concept.

This regulation sounds like it could create a channel for abuse. Specifically, if someone sues me, then I can't fire that customer for any reason.
I wish there are viable alternatives for Quest.
You'd do well providing some studies to support your assertion. Best I can tell, urban centers have suffered disproportionately from C19, and they present an epidemiological nightmare with their shared public infrastructure and public transportation.
Ships can avoid collisions though.
"I look forward to refuting your claims in court, recouping my legal costs, and publicizing your misbehavior."
based on what we currently know

In two hundred years, conclusions drawn from what we currently know will be as out of date as conclusions from two hundred years ago are today. Or to put it another way, things known to the best of our knowledge are both as good as we can do and probably wrong because one of the things we know is that historically most of what people know at any given time turns out to be wrong at any given time.
My guess is that the people a fast amf0 library is trying to reach know what amf0 is.

For the rest of us, there's always https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Message_Format
These are some very strong assumptions about the prior poster that you seem to be convincing yourself are necessarily true.

Why is that?
Goes to show how great that comic was.
Who does this hurt? Who does it help?
Thanks for being a voice of reason around here, the Apple fanboysm around here is sickening, always trying to justify and rationalize every single bad thing Apple does.
Oh cool let me change my entire lifestyle just to be safe.. For everyone else..
Do the small sats have an advantage by being closer to the target, needing less zoom?
A good start to what end? Who gives a shit about 3D printing when it comes to making statues? The point is obviously not to pimp the technology.
If you want to make promises to a community about what will happen to your company after its acquired, tie them to a contract. "If you make Facebook login required for Oculus within the next 20 years you owe me personally an additional $10B." Then you can tell everyone about the line item in the contract and vow to donate half of it to the EFF or rescue.org or whatever floats your boat. Don't make promises your ass can't cash.
Indeed, he probably did not live strictly by principle as we imagine
if this comes with land, i might be interested. but whats the point of a crumbling house? homes in europe dont come with extensive backyards or gardens.

building tiny homes surrounded by an edible landscape and reselling it could be my next hobby-career. its the stuff of day dreams.

having said that..it would depend on how it would be taxed. europe? i am going to go with steep.
Except “constructive free time” mostly isn’t a thing anymore, right?
80% of software is useless, the other 20% is open source
>user: nrp

>Founder at Framework, formerly part of the Oculus founding team

I don't recall it being much different, but I _do_ recall the outcry from Oculus followers and fans when the buyout occurred. This is exactly what we predicted and the fact that PL was assuring us it wouldn't happen would seem to disagree with what you're saying. It seems you may have just been ignoring it at the time for what may be a very obvious reason.
The odd thing is that FakeSpot's "adjusted rating" is... the same as the actual rating.
Great time to no longer use their services!
It wasn't all real estate for all banks, and individuals were getting out, of course.
The definition of naivety means he didn't know any better. He simply backed up what he believed, which I would expect.

Now he knows better. He has changed his mind. Which is what any rational person should do when presented with new information.

On the one hand I won't vilify him.

On the other hand he merely met the base requirements for "rational thinking" - so I am not about to give him any accolades.
None of the bedrock game-changer research from that period - EM theory, thermodynamics, radioactivity, QM, relativity, the original discovery of DNA - was funded by corporations.

Commercial research was responsible for conceptual refinements of existing insights, and for innovations developed as industrial and consumer applications, but not for the original intellectual breakthroughs that made specific classes of inventions and devices thinkable.

Computing itself was state-sponsored - first with Turing+Church's theoretical work, then with various practical implementations whose develop was accelerated by WWII, then with state subsidies and grants for further military and industrial development.

Recently state funding has become less and less effective because of the financialisation of academia. Universities now have explicit financial goals and lean heavily on the grant funding game.

Previously the culture was far more tolerant of blue sky inquiry that might not have an immediate payoff - or any payoff at all.
Nothing open source can take images anywhere near the capability of spy satellites.

We learned this when Trump tweeted an image of the Iranian missile/launch vehicle disaster.
Big Pharma is a classic example of what happens with private enterprise becomes so powerful that "regulatory capture" occurs. They can charge what they like, and undertake other dirty marketing practices, because nobody can compete.
That doesn't hold explanatory power in this case, look at the points, comments, and age. For "Modeling a Wealth Tax", "Canon's Cloud..." and "If founders treated...": https://www.dropbox.com/s/vk1i2q8mlbs5x2s/Screen%20Shot%2020...

I'm also suspicious, although most suspect as sibling comment to yours suggests, that it's likely something automated rather than malicious. Perhaps there's too few comments?
Thinking more about this and taking the wealth manager analogy deeper...

In the case of a wealth tax, I imagine wealthy, powerful people would play a more active role in ensuring the competence of their elected officials. They'd like that tax they're paying to go a long, long way, much as clients expect their fees to a wealth manager to facilitate the best possible work.
> The fact that some people feel irrationally inconvenienced by the prospect of extra taxes - which in reality will not materially affect them

Perhaps it's because we oppose them in principle.
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In another life when I was a consultant, I did work for a startup that scraped public data for exactly this sort of use.

They still exist and use nonpublic sources now, but built a nice subscription business scraping lis pendens notices and such. No reason someone else can't do the same.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification

Preference Falsification is likely the most important, under used theory in economics. I suspect these models will fail miserably because they will always have bad data until we stop silencing opinions we do not agree on.

Let's have constructive conversations please, please, please.
I'm to the point I only buy things on Amazon that have no foreseeable downsides if they are counterfeit. Based on some recent purchases I made:

Fake tent stakes or juggling balls? Who cares.

Camping grill or coffee grinder? Not taking the chance when propane/fire or odd chemicals touching my drink could be involved.
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You won't. Sorry, but people shouldn't be able to just fire their entire society as they would a wealth manager.

On second thought, I suppose you could vote or otherwise participate in politics.
Just a rewrite of the blog post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188791
> You’re arguing that we should use motorized vehicles instead of bikes??

Are you going to bike 100 miles to the next city? Are you going to bike to work with a broken ankle? Are you going to bike furniture home from the furniture shop? Are you going to bike everyone's garbage to the dump? Are you going to bike building materials around?

Given that you're going to have motorized things, they should be for optional, occasional use as an assitance for walking people who then don't need a bike or a car.

Because otherwise, you're going to have motorized things, and walking people, and bikes on top, for no particular reason except a bike obsession.

> Bullshit. Nobody is paying walking taxes. You are enjoying the very same “externality”.

? Nobody is paying explicit sidewalk taxes in the same way nobody is paying explicit streetlamp taxes. People are still paying taxes for infrastructure in the environment they live in, and that covers paying for sidewalks.
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