skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How exactly do you expect to get people to change their attitude?

That is indeed the question. The people who stand to gain from a HCOL area being HCOL are almost certainly not going to do so on their own. Which brings us to...

> Perhaps some legislation and removal of zoning restrictions would help.

Perhaps. And luckily, renters typically outnumber landlords in these areas, so you'd think that'd be a slam dunk, but then said areas end up with milquetoast approaches like rent control instead of actually addressing the issue of land value speculation driving up rent.

My preferred solution would be to pull a Henry George and institute a land value tax, with the revenues going directly into a UBI program. This would readily stifle the idea of "investing" in land (since it'd be a waste of money to pay LVT on land you ain't using), while not stifling any incentives to develop on that land (since only the land itself would be taxed, rather than the improvements on it).

And then yeah, zoning restrictions need to get chopped down by quite a bit.
I don’t see my estate going to my kids as their doing, but instead as my doing.

I have private property rights over my money and house during my life and it’s my choice to consume during my life or live more frugally and pass that property to people I love. When I give my kids money for school or give them dinner, that value is not taxed additionally because it benefits them and not just me.
Amazing how easy it is to forget this
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Right. But that was exactly what I was saying in my initial post (above my previous reply).
Because they are going through the bankruptcy process - if you intentionally destroy assets during a bankruptcy without permission the judge can deny your bankruptcy and you might even be charged with a crime.
What is the difference between this and “labs” set up by companies?
> It looks like he’s got enough to sustainably generate about a median household income

Oh come on. He's 89 years old and has millions of dollars still. How long do you expect him to live? "Sustainably generating" a median household income in perpetuity is an interesting bar to set. You're aware that most of the country doesn't have any savings at all, yeah? That the current median _at_retirement_age_ savings for the US is around 150K? That he's still getting an actual income from social security payments because why not?
Lord Nikon, is that you?
That’s assuming it’s prosecuted which is rare. However, just looking at the laws directly you notice the odd exclusion.

In California for example vehicular manslaughter is specifically excluded from involuntary manslaughter and carries a lower penalty. It is also frequently just a misdemeanor.
Ask HN: How can I improve my writing skills?
I want to get better at writing clear and short sentences without making grammatical mistakes. I'm a developer and I think this particular skill can help me communicate better with my team / users by writing better documentations or describing any problem.

I keep iterating on the things I write and never seem to be satisfied, and see there is always a room of improvements. I don't feel the same way when I read others articles / blogs.
The idea of elimination of victimless crimes is problematic. That doesn’t account for second and third order consequences such as trafficking in persons or stolen goods. It also eliminates most traffic crimes which is very bad for personal safety.

Ultimately, yes, the number of criminals would decrease dramatically if people are no longer prosecuted for crimes but does not mean crimes would decrease.
A remarkable and somewhat singular voice sharing insights from a long contemplation. Well deserving of long consideration in return. Most concerning is how long it took someone to come along with the capacity to see that there was someone 'in there' - and who could connect him with the help he needed.

To some extent all of us are in a similar state. Each of us is far more than what we have been able to do for others. Much of what we are and can be is invisible to most people around us. The reverse is also unquestionably true.

Recognizing and internalizing that, we can also appreciate that our efforts - to make it possible for more and more people to express themselves as Michael has done - are very important to very many. Including ourselves.
This exactly.

Whether OCC specifically is well suited to do this work is more of an open question.
Chinese database details 2.4M influential people, their kids, addresses
I think today's kids are used to the epoints/reward paradigm.
Agreed, but maybe the bias of liking the "waterfall of metal coins" is just sentimentality. I'd like to see some studies comparing physical coins to electronic rewards.

I get a sense that the vice industries (gambling, porn) are often a bit more consevative with changes and/or data driven in their decisions, so I suspect they have some interesting data on how people react to coin rewards vs. electronic rewards. I'll bet their data says the various electronic versions earn them more money
We all should be worried about these conspiracies. They're growing in intensity and are corrosive.
It's rare to see something as mass market and expensive as a modern AAA open world game making a "statement" that isn't extremely watered down and tepid - there's just too much at stake. And a piece of media that's fully embedded in multinational corporate culture is unlikely to seriously challenge that culture either. You'll have to look to the indie space for that.

Blade Runner was provocative, but it was also a box office bomb. Both times. The aesthetics of cyberpunk have broad mass market appeal - that much is certain. Yet the more philosophical, political and artistic questions and themes that define the genre, maybe not so much.
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I’m frustrated with youtube. If they track me by IP, it’s not working. A whole page of videos that I have zero interest in. It’s like the anti-analytics algorithm.

Been like this for a month or two.
For those who are wondering, FPTP stands for first-past-the-post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
Summary notes: Mostly 50 year old men, happened during March during the virus' peak, it is assumed that many "thousands" more caught it from the same resort, and as for the future

> Behind the scenes, work is going ahead in anticipation of another tourist season starting in November
It doesn't have to appreciate, the amounts just have to satisfy the loan-to-value ratios that the lender is looking for.
Yes, I'd prefer a ticket sequestration strategy
He’s a rich finance guy who is a major campaign contributor and fundraiser. That’s not the same as being a political operative, working in the White House, or the like.

For example, Brian McAndrews (also on the NYT board of directors) maxed out his campaign contributions to the RNC, Mitt Romney, GOP PACs, etc. But he also isn’t a political operative.
I wonder how much they cost. Alibaba shows 1.88 for a roll of 2000 for orders of a 1000 or more. I bet you can push it down to a $1 for that volume not factoring shipping costs. Which would mean all these tickets would cost $3.5mm.
When your simple blog page is crashing Spice and virt-viewer, there is a serious bloat problem. I can't even view this blog because it immediately crashes.
7 billion tickets. That must be good for the plastic spider, finger trap, and a Frisbee. Well not a real Frisbee brand Frisbee. More a flying disk.
Am I ok with someone having control over the company they founded and have successfully led for multiple decades? Yes, I am.
People with home machines might want to buy some reels for collector value.
That doesn't sound like a smart strategy to me, because it leads to the conclusion that every regulation is necessary for safety and noting can be cut.

Meanwhile at the same time lots of people are saying "too much regulation drives up costs," which means that the implication is still that nuclear advocates are asking for less safety fit cost savings.
Here's the problem. The person was being paid to pay attention to the road. According to the below news article, the person was watching the voice on their mobile phone while the car was driving. Perfectly acceptable if the vehicle has already been rated to be fully autonomous but, in this case, they are still testing the automation and the car detected the bicyclists 5.6 seconds prior to the accident.

Uber should be partially at fault since they deactivated the automatic emergency braking.

Yes, I agree when vehicles become fully autonomous, people will be less attuned to the environment, but in this case, the person was hired specifically to pay attention at all times.

https://news.sky.com/story/uber-safety-driver-charged-over-d...
Yeah, they changed the pizza a couple years back. I wouldn’t say it is great by any stretch of the imagination, but it is improved.
If I remember my childhood visits to Chuck E. Cheese well enough, I'm pretty sure 7B tickets could redeem approximately 12 plastic frogs and an eraser.
> First of all, one common statistic is that 90% of trash in the ocean that comes from people dumping it (in rivers) comes from just 10 rivers, all in China/Asia.

Just thought I'd factcheck this: turns out this statement is not accurate. The original paper [1] lists the countries, and two of them are in Africa, 4 are in China, 1 is on the China-Russia border. Jurisdictionally, there seems to be a few parties involved and the insinuation that "they" don't care about the problem seems like an oversimplification and a projection.

Secondly, that snapshot was a while ago and assuming that nothing hasn't been done since then is also incorrect [2].

I have to admit I felt uncomfortable with the cultural assumption expressed in the sentiment about "having a hard time believe they'll bother with bubble barriers". It felt a little presumptuous because it assumes a culture is immutable. The sentiment that these types of solutions are something "only first world countries would implement" also seems a little bit dismissive.

I work with people in non-first-world countries every day (I work in a global company) and have often been surprised how ahead of the curve they can be in certain areas, and I've learned not to make assumptions without first informing myself of the true situation on the ground (which is often more complex and nuanced than the tropes we have in our heads).

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.est.7b02368/suppl...

[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...
That it's easy to say with the benefit of hindsight that the rival bidders for Starbucks would have been cheated out of a fortune, but unclear that the fortune was theirs to be had even if they'd won the bid.

What's more likely is that Schulz would simply have started a different chain, and we'd be talking about that company the way we do about Starbucks now.
Seems like this should be just a theft issue. If Fedex goes bankrupt while my package is in transit, I wouldn't expect them to be allowed to auction it to pay off their debt.
The people moving to the tech cities mentioned are all techies sorry.
Where I live the local government told us to stop putting glass in our recycling bin and to throw it out instead. The reason I’ve heard is that the glass is breaking and making it harder to recycle it or the things it contaminates.

This is unfortunate because I don’t think most people are taking their glass to the supermarket to be recycled and instead a highly recyclable good is ending up in a plastic garbage bag at the landfill.
The problem isn't inherently that the drivers are closed source, it's that Nvidia is actively hostile towards the ecosystem. For instance Mesa added a generic buffer management API (GBM) allowing compositors like Weston to be hardware accelerated using OpenGL. Nvidia could have followed suite and supported GBM but instead went their own route with EGLStreams. So now Wayland, XWayland and every single Wayland compositor has to implement Nvidia specific code to support their hardware.
I would say the same thing about Ted Lasso
I hate it. But I knew I'm never a fan of this kind of overly joking style (the same reason I can't stand famous YouTube Channel "half as interesting", despite I love his main channel.)
Is there any good reason we can't start putting damn near every liquid into huge aluminium (or tin?) cans?

It uses alot of power to smelt originally but it recycles forever with no degradation. Aluminium at least.
I do this too, but my window of I-can-still-take-my-meds is shorter because it’s only one dose for the day, and if I take it too late, I’ll be up all night. I’m usually halfway to dropping off the kiddos at daycare when it dawns on me, and I have to race home before going to work.
Combine this with that crude oil they were paying someone to take off their hands a while back and you’d be cooking with gas.
You could have 10 times as many people in prison due to honest mistakes - if they were still in prison their numbers would not be included in the survey. My hypothesis is that its very hard to get a verdict reviewed by a court unless you have evidence of police or prosecutor misconduct.
This is one the of the funniest things I've read in recent memory. He made an Instagram post 30 second check of Chrome's dev tools into a narrative I couldn't stop reading. Thanks for brightening my day author!
> (or maybe they already have?).

See [0]:

> YouTube Music will replace Google Play Music by December 2020.

0: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-will-repl...
Well, speaking from my experience of working with people on the "bottom of the pyramid" across the world, I can attest that there are various regulations which has led to the traditional banking system to not provide credit or opportunity to these entrepreneurs.

Prior to fintechs getting into the remittance space, fees were as much as 20% on average of transactions.

Prior to microfinance institutions and then true fintechs such as Tala, Branch, GoPay, Ant, etc. there were 10 of millions of merchants who could get no access to credit.

Prior to fintechs, you needed to physically go to a bank to become eligible for a loan and fill out paper forms. This may not seem like a high barrier to you.

Short of it is, heavy regulation leads to:
* High compliance costs
* Low appetite for risk
* Slow to little innovation

There are regulations that don't make sense for small merchants: Anti-money laundering laws for instance which are generally good, but impose a completely undue burden on merchants that want to borrow $500.

Or a risk modeling team at a bank that has dozens of staff may make sense cost-wise for loans of $100k+, but they don't make sense for < $10k loans and their risk models also don't work at those levels.

This also isn't just Silicon Valley. It's a common problem in most countries of the world, speaking from experience.
> That doesn’t account for second and third order consequences such as trafficking in persons or stolen goods.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean, but wouldn’t the trafficked person and person stolen from be the victims in those scenarios?

I don’t believe “victimless crime” typically refers to things like trafficking and theft — I’ve heard it more commonly used to refer to so-called “social ills” like petty drug dealing, public intoxication, and graffiti.
thank you sorry i missed that bit
Last time I was there with kids (which was a few years ago now), they had already started to migrate away from rolls of tickets for some games. Instead, you got a receipt-like printout that represented a certain number of "tickets". So, instead of getting 42 tickets, you'd have a receipt with a barcode that said "42 tickets". It's all very similar to casino slot machines with their receipts.

While this doesn't quite have the satisfaction of tubs of tickets, it is significantly easier to manage for the parents. And it makes it more possible to save tickets from multiple trips for larger prizes, should your kids possess the appreciation for delayed gratification (mine never did at that age). But I will say this -- I don't think my kids or their friends had less fun with the transition away from individual tickets.
And yet she was probably paid like the test pilot for a beta web application. A test pilot for experimental aircraft doesn't even bring their phone in the vehicle with them.
The context: he was on a PR tour of a farm (or factory or something), and grabbed it from a pile and just started eating it like it was an apple, whilst continuing the tour.
It caught the public attention at how normal he made eating a raw onion look.
What did you think they did with the tickets after you redeemed them. They were always destined for the landfill.

I worked at a Dave & Buster's as a tech. We were required by corporate to destroy any redeemed tickets, usually by shredding them. The shredder would go on the fritz because it was not designed to run 8hrs a day 7 days a week. When it did they would bag and bleach the tickets. Eventually I heard that they had outsourced the destruction to a mobile document shredding company.
That sounds like a pretty easy/fun daily routine!
I mean isn’t no-version effectively just date versioning so tools like that just say “any version after $date” is patched?
If you're a kid that has grown up with electronic devices your entire life, e-rewards are what is normal to you. This is the target audience of Chuck E. Cheese.

If you're an old fart that can remember living without electronic devices, then you'll probably have a natural affinity to a more physical type of reward. You might even be able to remember going outside to play.
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It is indeed a praiseworthy endeavor.

That being said, society should not be at the mercy of the whims of billionaires. Their very existence is a grave error.
The folks at Tap (https://findtap.com/) are trying to make it easier to refill a water bottle while your out and about or traveling. It doesn’t solve the problem globally, but it’s great to see companies trying to reduce plastic waste and make it easy and free/cheap to access clean water.
> The ex-ceo of Burberry works at Apple.

If you're talking about Angela Ahrendts, she left last year.
There's still plenty of garbage on Google News and especially YouTube since the democratisation of the partner network and nearly all the news organisations being present. But I've seen worse and its coming in the form of 'actual news'.

In the UK, we have a tax-funded broadcaster with a royal charter called 'BBC News' and a look at its online content is essentially a new level of woketopia. There's mountains and valleys of clickbait littered everywhere and its impartiality stance is evidently non-existent.

If I had to choose, I would rather pay for YouTube Premium or Netflix with all their junk than look at the hot garbage that is paid with a TV License to the BBC.
That's a long paper and I am interested to read it.

From what I have heard, there is more adoption of Pearl's methods in Epidemiology and in Social Sciences, in contrast with Econometrics.

To me, it reminds me of Dyson Freeman's, "Birds and Frogs". For most Statistician's and Economists Regression is their goto tool and the Potential Outcome Framework is much more natural to them. You could say the same about the synthetic controls methods you mentioned.
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It means when people are trying to do things like experiment with how to make for example frame timing more useful, such that specs like Vulkan can advance[1], we can't experiment with & try to advance & figure out what might work, because closed proprietary software doesn't allow mankind to explore & progress.

We basically have to keep going back to Nvidia & relying on them to be authorities on their own system & to be acting in everyone's interest when we try to develop extensions like VK_EXT_present_timing. This greatly injures the development of good standards, obstructing there from being a collaborative healthy environment where people can work together to make standards that work well.

Another example is EGLStreams which is not that bad but very different approach to handling video buffers from what everyone else does which has been obstructing the use of the newer Wayland display server on nvidia hardware for 6 years now[2]. Nvidia wants their thing, & closed drivers mean no one can play around & attempt to make their hardware work if they wanted to. Ridiculously harsh limitations, no choice, no experimenting.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VK_EXT_p...

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTgxMDE

This creates a science-free vacuum where research & experimentation & progress wither, where peership dies.
An inner child doesn't see that far ahead... we're not talking about someone's inner adult, after all.
Transport energy cost is a challenge. Luckily, that whole sector is moving towards using clean energy. So, it matters less as long as we clean that part of our economy up. Also, it perhaps incentivizes manufacturers to recycle and produce closer to consumers. That's the beauty of making this the manufacturers problem: they get to be creative finding solutions to these problems.

Germany already has deposits on things like soda cans, plastic bottles, and beer bottles. It works and isn't crippling the economy. Also the likes of Coca Cola are operating in Germany and turning a profit despite this. They face similar rules elsewhere in Europe. This is already part of their business today. A lot of the plastic bottles are ending up being recycled. Half the success is simply collecting them separately from normal waste so you get all the PET plastics sorted together. That makes that easier. Some of the bottles are actually cleaned and reused.

Simply making recycling a concern for the manufacturer is the key to getting businesses to compete on being more sustainable because it becomes their problem to solve. Single use plastics only make sense when you get to dump them for "free" without regard for cleaning up the mess.

IMHO the main challenges with plastics long term are ensuring the stuff either breaks down when dumped or does not end up in land fills and our oceans. Secondly, we are using oil for producing plastics and could long term be switching to synthesized carbohydrates produced using clean energy. This requires a lot of R&D to happen to scale this and do it more efficiently of course. But it would change things a lot. We'll need stupendous amounts of cheap energy for this. That's actually a good thing when the cheapest form of energy we make is increasingly from renewables. So, the more demand we have on that the faster the demise of dirty energy.
Machines get stuck in mud, trample / cut plants, pieces of plants get stuck in machine, and require frequent maintenance. The more degrees of freedom, the more failure points. Also, robots are $$$$, while unskilled human labor is $. Still, there several agro robotics startups.
That would be an effect of ocean warming. The melting itself occurs at a nearly constant temperature and is correlated with, but not causative of, the ocean warming.

But, perhaps you're trying to point out that the thermal expansion of the oceans has a greater impact on sea level rises than the correlated problem of glacier melting.
Why don't they just throw them away? It's not like the tickets have face value.
This is a not good line of thinking. Good genes? What does that mean, greed? Competitiveness? What about positive human traits like empathy, compassion, generosity and contentment? The things that make society work in the first place? Plus it's not like billionaires have more kids. "Leeches" aren't poisoning the gene pool... Your "leeches" are the gene pool.