skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Repeal it ASAP for commercial properties and rental properties (even if SFH).

For single-family, owner-occupied housing, remove Prop 13 provisions for new sales, but grandfather in all current owners until their death or 20 years, whichever is sooner. After which their assessed values are gradually (say over 5 years) allowed to rise to the fair market value.

Force a reassessment upon the property being inherited, and remove Prop 13 protections from it. Right now, there's no reassessment if a child or grandchild inherits the property.

Eventually all grandfathered owners will die off, sell and leave, or start paying taxes based on the fair market value of their property.
This isn't true for internal software tho, user facing, sure, but, chrome dependencies have a version pinned to them.
If you have any proof of fraud at all there is a guy in the White House that wants to speak to you pronto.
You mean the Trump-Russia collusion that ended up with Michael Flynn going to prison?
Yeah, this is basically what I do as well, I didn't mean to imply it is all or nothing. The practical solution is tiered backup of the stuff you really care about + some local fault tolerance for stuff you don't care about as much.

What I wanted to point out is that of course backing up everything is the solution per the parent comment, but the reality is that costs for punting and mindlessly backing up say 10 TB of data properly are still fairly high. So you pick and choose the important stuff and do the best you can for the rest.
Where did I claim omnipotence?

Yes - when your own government feeds you misinformation, it should come with warning labels. Trusting your government without any consideration is handing over freedom foolishly.
NX is a good starting point IMO. It’s targeted at monorepos but the concepts of libraries and boundaries apply well to large applications
It's an unrealistic expectation that the user is going to do anything other than click "allow" the 273rd time you ask if the extension they installed 5 years ago should be allowed to update.
The media has been the propaganda division of military industrial complex for decades. Mainstream networks spouting lies is nothing new.
Yup! SGS from Italy and Thomson from France, in 1987 (not '88, corrected). ST in fact used to mean SGS-Thomson.
ARM is owned by a Japanese conglomerate since 2016.
YouTube is not serving its users very well. It's becoming an unreliable service. Creators walk on eggshells to avoid political or copyright censorship. Users have a hard time finding interesting content since so much of it is being deleted and replaced with corporate media.
How about the nuts between San Antonio and Austin that tried to run the Biden/Harris bus off the road. There are plenty like them in Texas. I live here I know.
If you think the ones weaponizing disinformation are unable to also weaponize centralized unelected censors, you're a fucking moron.

These centralized censors will be weaponized by the same actors weaponizing the information.
> The democrats were claiming fraud 4 years go due to a supposed Russian influence

I’m not a fan of either party in the US — they both have glaring fatal flaws — but this comment is an irresponsible level of whataboutism.

The folks commenting on Russian influence in 2016 were doing it with some basis in reality, and it turned out that the facts were confirmed by the current administration’s DoJ. I will add that Russian interference was not their top beef — Comey’s statements seemed to be more disconcerting for these people.

The crazy shit that Trump is saying is a figment of his own imagination and nothing more. There is no basis in reality. No one will come in later and confirm that any of his ramblings were actually correct.

Free speech has always had limits when it has had the potential to harm others. While the line is not always clear, undermining the mechanics of US democracy with verifiably false accusations can easily be seen as something that is harmful to others.
I know a lot of religious people, but none of them think themselves exempt from basic laws of nature (e.g. immune to artillery fire). This kind of belief goes way beyond usual religion.
> The article suggests she was fired because she asked for a meeting with Musk about floor mats after failing to get the proper response from the regular chain of command. In my experience, everywhere I worked had a chain of command and consistently stepping outside the chain of command and going over your managers heads rarely leads to good results.

Tesla's PR claims that it's a non-traditional, innovative company, where if someone finds a serious problem that can't be resolved by the chain of command, they should e-mail Musk.

The reality of course, bears little resemblance to the myth.
The logic in an ad blocker rarely needs to be updated, only the non-executable filter lists.
I have many complaints about DoorDash, mainly that the platform has degraded a lot as they've grown (customer service used to be top notch), and that their tipping policy was not clear for years. But I've used it for 5-6 years, and for a chunk of that almost daily (I'm lazy), and they've never refused to refund anything that was incorrect/missing.
I don't think anybody knows. We can't mechanically reproduce the motion of owl wings so there's no chance to see how far it scales.
Calling this a simple supply and demand problem is not the whole picture. How come you can't just build new housing to accommodate for the population growth? What's the tax burden in CA relative to other states? Where do those tax revenues go that don't benefit the taxpayers quality of life? What other factors negatively influence quality of life for families which are encouraged by policy?
As far as I know the biggest change was hosting the pictures on Facebook server infrastructure. So it requires copying the pictures to another infrastructure and replacing the URLs ? Of course it will be a huge task but I don't think that FB and IG are sharing a lot of code.
Great, I agree on both those things and now I'm deciding that the election was frauded by Elvis.
Just eyeballing this, but trading at $180 gives DoorDash a market cap of $60 billion. The IPO priced it at $30 billion.

Uber's market cap is $95 billion.

Lyft's market cap is $14 billion.

UPS's market cap is $120 billion.

Delta's market cap is $40 billion.

So with this naive analysis, I assume there is a lot of potential in last mile delivery. And moving things is more profitable than moving people. Or moving things is stickier than moving people.

In general, curious to wonder how durable this trend is. Or their proprietary gifts. And the pivots they take in the future. They are capturing a lot of taste and preference data on top of logistics.
Phase synchrony, where two signals rise and fall together. Cross correlation measures out of phase synchrony
Freedom from and freedom to are often in opposition. Saying there are no buts to freedom is paradoxical.
1) it's a big deal for democracy, that's correct.

2) well, it is crazy claims from some crazy / cynical people.

3) no, it won't be thrown out by a _local_ judge. (1)

In reality, the election is long over and not close (2)
Containing to fabricate an alternate reality via vexatious litigation isn't healthy.

1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/09/texas-supr...

2) https://twitter.com/wolfblitzer/status/1336760093313032192
And then it would eventually come back together. See ATT.

https://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/att-merger-hist...
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a VR headset worn on a human face - forever."

(Apologies to George Orwell.)
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See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24813641
Yes, I totally agree that Manifest V3 solves some real problems — in the case of many webextensions, I would welcome the ability to manually control which domains the extension can run in.

However, the move to Manifest V3 also involves curtailing the power of extensions, including those that I trust as much or more than the browser itself. I want uBlock origin to be able to intercept and filter requests according to the logic that gorhill deems most sensible rather than however Chromium wants it to be done, since I trust gorhill far more than Google (and possibly slightly more than even Mozilla). I don't think that any of the tiny extensions that I've written to scratch my own itch require any of the capabilities removed in Manifest V3, but if they did, I'd also want them to keep having them.
It's my first week with him; he hasn't had all his shots and I don't want to stress him out with too many new things all at once.

Right now it takes around 5-10 minutes to just get him comfortable with a car ride to begin with, so even that's not a fantastic option.

In the future that's definitely the plan but it's just not practical right now.
The FTC allowed the IG merger because

* No ads (lol)

* Competition from Google even if it did have ads

* FB had no competitive photo app
Tinder for vs Code
The only expectation that I expressed is that installing program A on Monday is not automatic consent to automatically downloading and running a different program B on Tuesday, which I think is a wholly realistic one.

It seems you believe that I was indicating that the user should be presented with prompts to update, when I said no such thing.
Well this has to be examined further: she could only be the most prominent case among others.

What about the "1000 lawsuits" the article mentions? Unless it was done by collusion (ex: a union).

In terms of averages and probability, Balan's case does stand a point as a whistleblower, hinting a covert truth behind the company.
I don't see in your [1] where they admitted to any such thing. It seems they came to an agreement in court, that from that point forward, each party could have 60 representatives present.

So, based on this thread alone (which was written as happening live on Nov 5), which you provided, we don't know if at any point election observers were previously kicked out, how many, when or where, or for what reasons. We also don't know if the observers were allowed to observe much of anything (there's something about not allowing them within 100 feet in that thread).

The rest of what you wrote is speculation. Nobody need be concerned with the 'why' someone did something, merely the facts. Were the elections carried out in accordance to the law, or weren't they. That's what's being litigated.
We have laws like this for computer hackers. No-one ever defends themselves by saying "everything I did was enabled by the poorly designed system, therefore I am not a criminal". Why not for the financial system?
If you have automatically updating data the extension can be an interpreter, which can be asked to do anything.
We won't have that problem here. There will still be New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc. More weight should be given to these legit sources than to social media. On the internet everything can appear equally legitimate. Breitbart looks as legit as the BBC. That's a problem. More on that by Sacha Baron Cohen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM
What? Don't know where you heard that but fat has about 9cal per gram. That's ~4000cal.

Did you mean 500?
Got it. After looking into the details, it seems like Tesla received around ~$111M of additional benefit from SGIP due to being in-state. $111M isn't nothing, but I'm doubtful this is a big factor in Tesla's success.

In-state incentive explanation: https://energycenter.org/sites/default/files/docs/nav/buildi...

SGIP program budget here: https://www.selfgenca.com/budget_public/program_level_summar...

In total, SGIP has issued $841M of incentives. SolarCity's market share is ~20%. The in-state incentive grants an additional 20%. $841M * .2 *.66 = 111M
If you work at Facebook it's time to seriously consider leaving to avoid damage to your own brand. Future employers are going to be scrutinizing your record and will ask you difficult questions about why you stuck by Facebook despite an overwhelming consensus that they are damaging to the global social fabric.
They can if they are monopolies providing essential services.
Oh man I love this. I have long had a sort of back-shelf idea to create a "Month Old News" site where you can read headlines from a month ago with more context and thoughtful analysis.
They're trying very hard to create that fire using the stuffing in the seats as we speak. So far it hasn't worked because some people still have their heads screwed on. But it's not for lack of trying. About 10 people stand between a full blown attempt at dictatorship and a functioning democracy.
Not a problem, there's NO shortage of billionaires in CA:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cartercoudriet/2020/04/09/the-s...
Out of interest, what’s the trend in that? Is it fading out or increasing?
Hyundai Cars + Boston Dynamics Robots = Transformers?
You may be right, this case looks less than clear.

I'm mostly playing devils' advocate here, as newspapers, lawyers and shortsellers usually have their own axe to grind and are continually searching for good David against Goliath stories.

Just dropping in that having a toxic effect on the company and being respected / appreciated by peers are absolutely not mutually exclusive. Often times they rather go hand in hand and you've got such people rallying up others over non-issues (in the big picture of things). As others already said in the comments, cohesion and alignment are far more important to a high risk / high growth company than "solving all the problems".
Rails 6.1.0 Released
I think the strategy is to get rich in California then leave when your are financially secure. Very few software jobs in Texas have salaries in the 300-500k region.
One book that changed my life this year:

Yuri Rytkheu - When the Whales Leave
Why the hell is HN so downvote happy?
> I think there almost certainly was some fraud, but not enough to change the outcome. (Whether or not "some but not enough to change the outcome" counts as "widespread", I don't know.)

Yea, that's what he said.

Regarding the rest of your comment: I don't think _anyone_ is arguing that the US electoral system is without flaw. A large system of any kind will have many flaws. Ask any software engineer.

Indeed, I'm also not aware of any person that wants to avoid, indefinitely, having a discussion about how we can improve the US election system. That being said, RIGHT NOW is decidedly not the right time. I'll be all for having an honest, bipartisan discussion as soon as there are no longer parties actively trying to steal an election. When it comes to election integrity, 100% of our focus needs to be on making sure that the results of _this_ election are respected. Then we can focus on improving things for future elections.
> "The public" is not some perfectly rational collection of human beings. Rather, it's droves of people susceptible to propaganda and misinformation campaigns.

Correct.

> Let's be clear: there was no widespread election fraud, certainly not by large enough margins to overturn the election.

I am not 100% committed to that being an impossibility, but I have yet to see any evidence to make me question the final outcome of the 2020 US election. I'm legitimately concerned about small scale voter fraud, but nothing significant enough to invalidate the final result.

> Videos that purport otherwise are not improving public discourse; in fact, they're causing it to disintegrate.

I agree. But far be it from me to determine what constitutes "quality public discourse". I have a history of being wrong about a great many things so I'd rather not have myself - or any individual or organization - arbitrate on what the public is allowed to discuss.

> I agree that Youtube should not have carte blanche to remove content that it finds objectionable per its own capricious standards. But that doesn't mean it should have no discretion at all.

Maybe I'd be less critical of Goolge if they actually had some sort of guidelines for objectively determining what content should be allowed on their platforms. This inconsistent "whatever we think is best" policy strategy is way too susceptible to abuse and Google hasn't proven themselves trustworthy.
Really cool idea ! I Land on a 404 for now unfortunately
The most interesting part to developers: they may require facebook to offer certain APIs?

> The complaint also alleges that Facebook, over many years, has imposed anticompetitive conditions on third-party software developers’ access to valuable interconnections to its platform, such as the application programming interfaces (“APIs”) that allow the developers’ apps to interface with Facebook. In particular, Facebook allegedly has made key APIs available to third-party applications only on the condition that they refrain from developing competing functionalities, and from connecting with or promoting other social networking services.

> The complaint alleges that Facebook has enforced these policies by cutting off API access to blunt perceived competitive threats from rival personal social networking services, mobile messaging apps, and other apps with social functionalities. For example, in 2013, Twitter launched the app Vine, which allowed users to shoot and share short video segments. In response, according to the complaint, Facebook shut down the API that would have allowed Vine to access friends via Facebook.

Making API's available "only on the condition that [developers] refrain from developing competing functionalities" is one thing; and I can see how that seems anticompetitive, I dont' know enough about the law to say when anticompetitive is illegal.

But that second one is more interesting. "shut down the API that would have allowed Vine to access friends via Facebook" -- they didn't just not have Vine have access to it, they removed it, and that is being complained about. The implication to me seems to be that facebook must provide certain API's to avoid anticompetitive behavior?

The API I personally most miss and am interested in is Events. My interest is definitely in reducing facebook's lock on users. A lot of people I know find missing out on events the hardest reason to leave facebook, and if an API was available show Facebook events on other platforms, it would definitely aid people in leaving Facebook, which is I presume exactly why Facebook got rid of the API, which sounds pretty similar to the Vine complaint, although I don't know whether there was a specific facebook competitor threatening them with events integration. I would be thrilled if the FTC made Facebook restore an Events API, hopefully in a way that was sufficiently full-featured for the kinds of integrations that would help people get off facebook. ("Help people get off", it sounds like an addiction, yup).
A belief that morality improves over time as you describe, aka whiggism/meliorism, is itself a kind of religious tenet of a particular set of worldviews (often called left, progressive etc). So I don't think one can say that rejecting that tenet places one outside of the Overton window of acceptability, while at the same time claiming tolerance of a wide range of viewpoints.
I'd like to think the current situation is (at least partially) a byproduct of people creating their own echo chambers then never leaving them - before the internet, national communication was very limited since it required a lot of resources, so your local newspaper and library would need to cover news and topics without partisanship in order to sell to everyone in town. Now, you can specifically look for sources (even outside of actual news companies) and other people that have your same political views and limit communication to them, only looking at other circles and opposing viewpoints in order to criticize them out of context.
I’ve lost multiple acquaintances, and my significant other works at a hospital that has been slammed with COVID patients for over 6 months, and she is so burnt out and so tired everyday, and there’s nothing I can do to help her. Your assertion that this is a godsend rings very hollow to me.

Of course we have and will continue to learn from this, but that doesn’t mean this is a good thing.
Were Youtube truly acting in bad faith, the correct response would be for the government to intervene (either by lawsuit or legislation). But of course, the government should respond to actual harms, not hypothetical harms.
Reminds me of The Hacker Classics. http://jsomers.net/hn/

It includes every HN post with a date like "(1999)" in its title that has earned more than 40 votes. Some good gems in there.
I first bought after the clearly emotionally driven price dip at just under $20. It was obvious no one looked at the amount of hard cash they pulled in, and thought using their emotions.
i dont think mapbox api should collect anonymous data since it become licenced product..... or provide ability to turn off the data collection from developer level instead of end user level...
This is the thing I have a hard time understanding, as far as I'm aware the FTC approved all this, these were not forceful takeovers.

What would be the precedent if regulatory approvals could be challenged with a change in administration?
Your comment makes me wonder what the reaction would be if one political side starts screaming, without any evidence, "Bleach is effective against the virus! Drink it right now, guys! MSM is not talking about it, or even downplaying it, because they want you to take the vaccine and be controlled by Bill Gates".

Well in effect QAnon is probably spreading crazy shit like this, but QAnon is way way more fringe than the current "won't-admit-Joe-Biden-won" movement, which comprise a lot of the "R"-branded people, a lot of them are even allowed on Fox News.
If something like this happens at such a company as Tesla, what's stopping it from happening at any company?

It looks like one of the core issues is that it seemed to Tesla that a recall just might kill the company at that time. So they felt that in order to protect the existence of the company, they really needed to be quiet about the floor mats at all costs. They probably rationalized it as "well, how hard is it to check if your floor mat is curling up" or something.

So that seems to be a structural issue. When it comes to the existence of your job or your company, it's too easy to rationalize unethical acts. At least for most people. Especially if their boss tells them to do it.
You can believe what you want, it's (for now) a free country. But the SCOTUS has not ruled on anything yet.
It's not really "simplistic" to judiciously apply Occam's razor to extraordinary claims.

And what exactly is your claim? It's just not plausible that there was such a large amount of voter fraud in key states (a net of hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes for Biden. How many fraud votes for Trump are we willing to allow in this scenario?) and no tangible evidence for any of it. You have claim after claim from "internet sleuths" who think they saw something on video, but so far, it seems that all of these claims have only shown ignorance of the viewer (ballot curing being an example I saw).

And I'm not sure what point you're making with your link. Can you explain?
Bought all the platforms people were going to jump to.

The "Onvao Protect" traffic snooping VPN to identify what up and coming products people were using was one particularly shady part of this strategy.
Wait, is Google our government? Google is exercising their freedom to moderate their content. If this were USAtube.gov maybe you'd have a point. Fortunately such a thing doesn't exist!
I trust Gates way more than government.
You're getting downvotes from apologists and shills