skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at Austin a few years ago, and after seeing the salaries I could find vs the cost of housing for 5 in a highly rated school district, I didn't even apply anywhere.
Try Expandrive on the Mac
U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition
If there are enough short sighted investors they will create a competitor that follows the same price dumping strategy.
Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN and we ban accounts that post like this. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using HN in the intended spirit? We'd appreciate it.
I can't say I have a deep understanding but it really looks to me like a banal miscommunication that has become a war.
It's not just Texas though. Like 10 other states have joined.
Your whole comment would have fallen apart if the election was overturned by a smart, capable president with authoritarian undertones.

Imagine if President X had military on their side, supressed courts, had many militias supporting them and spreading misinformation day in and day out.

And getting 100 million votes and had a trifecta (House, Executive Office, Senate) + Supreme Court. Can you imagine?
FWIW Caviar is/was still my favorite app for ordering food. No major quality reduction in the SFBay from what I've noticed (aside from pandemic related issues like slightly longer delays on peek evenings). Hopefully the kinks get ironed out for ya in NY.
Dozens of states and the FTC sue Facebook for alleged anticompetitive behavior
I keep waiting for some company to remember how fast desktop apps are and wake us all from our collective webapp delusion. I imagine native Swift on MacOS and C# on Windows desktop GUI frontends for Google Cloud wouldn't be hard to build or maintain. How often does Google Cloud change their webapp's UI?
Counterpoint to that, all the tools I use most often and am most delighted by are published under a GPL or other FOSS license (Bash, Linux, Emacs, Firefox, Inkscape, etc) whereas the ones I am most constantly frustrated by, angry at, and find the most fault with are closed source proprietary company developed (Anything that starts with MS, VMWare Fusion, etc)
The person making the claims is responsible for providing evidence of them---specifically, evidence acceptable in the courts. Otherwise, you could continue making claims endlessly.
The enemy.
Not sure that is what they meant but in some European countries (France being an example), college means middle school rather than university.
Fair enough, I shouldn't have argued the semantics. I agree with your general point.
Yeas it's different. I'r invite you to drive through the rural west America, through arizona, nevada, wyoming and colorado. Even the rural areas of california have so many people. You will also noticr that the californians are almost all wearing masks even in the rural areas.
Those high brackets really only apply to people that are making a lot of money. I make $100k right now and my state tax in California would be nearly the same as it is in Ohio at that rate. That being said, with my work being remote indefinitely I’m going to Texas to save over $400 a month in tax (and cost of living is about the same — very low).
Big questions: Who pays for credit processing, auditing etc.? One platform or many? Are the managing people allowed to make a profit? How do you ensure that important but boring projects get money as well?

See the ubuntu software store, elementary OS, patreon/liberapay, ....

Edit: Also "commercial" is the wrong word. You mean proprietary. You are very much encouraged to sell free software https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
> Obama added penalties for not having health insurance

Which were easily waived during your tax return process by showing you were below X income line.

I was making $27K a year at my previous job and couldn't afford health insurance. All I had to do was check off that I couldn't afford it in turbo tax which then verified I was below the cutoff line and the fees were waived.
Imagine you're a web hosting provider who builds their business around automation tools and control panels and whatnot tailored for CentOS 8. You really don't want to have to rewrite it all every couple of years because that's not where your business's value comes from. Also, updating will break a huge number of your customers' sites and apps, which will piss them off and bury your already slender profit margins in support costs.

Most of those hosting customers are not tech companies building fractionally "innovative" CRUD SaaS apps. They're SMEs who use their apps and databases to do real work: organizing their employees, procurement, running payroll, managing delivery routes, order and stock management — boring stuff like that. They very much do not want to have to significantly rewrite the back-office systems their businesses rely on because the OS changed under them. They want it to keep working for decades with as little redevelopment as possible.
Wait a minute, where are all these $400k homes you're finding in Austin? I thought those disappeared about 5 years ago...

Joking aside, it wouldn't surprise me if $400k was close to the median price for homes within the city limits.
> I'd love to see data, but I can intuitively imagine this being true, and the common view of "underpaid" being a view that isn't consistent with the history of the space.

Except, you know, the history of the space is consistent with delivery drivers being consistently underpaid, cheated out of tips and hazard pay etc. etc.

With Doordash alone multiple lawsuits against it for payments alone. So far Doordash has been settling those for millions of dollars ($5 mln in California, $2.5 in Washington).
CVE-2020-17049: Kerberos Bronze Bit Attack
>Impressive, a throwaway account that uses the very controversial summary that Barr

Or use the latest findings from the lead on the Senate Intel report: https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases...

“We can say, without any hesitation, that the Committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election."

Unfortunately it has to be a throwaway because these kinds of facts might as well be thought crimes here.
Discretion is discretion. If you disagree, get hired by Google and change it.
Incoming: 6PN Private Networks
First, Japan's lower incidence of homeless is an anomaly mostly owing to the countries culture of extreme personal responsibility. If you've ever been to Japan you'd notice that extends to basically everything they do in public. Changing the culture of a melting pot of 300 million people is significantly harder than reading a wikipedia page. Side note (as someone whose been to Japan several times, and has several close friends who are Japanese citizens) Japan's homelessness problem is much more extreme in severity than raw number would lead you to believe. They have a smaller incidence, and the homeless themselves tend to try very hard to stay out of the way, but in the words of a Japanese friend "Japanese homeless are very very homeless". They aren't just people down on their luck, they are people with extreme mental and developmental impairments. Japan has an altogether different problem when it comes to homeless than other nations, not to mention many non-profits think the government's official numbers underreport the population of homeless by 2-3x.(TL;DR: Japan is a really awful model for any other country to follow.)

Second, the US has a lower incidence of homeless people than many countries with much more generous social programs (Canada, France, UK, New Zealand). Saying we just aren't throwing enough of our wealth at the problem is also evidently wrong. (You can look that up on Wikipedia)

Third, the homeless rate in the US has been on the decline for decades. So blowing San Francisco's problems up into some larger conversation that the US as a whole is failing is just inaccurate.
Initial account - yes. But not for member accounts in AWS Organization, these are created with just an API call, yet treated by support as if they are fully validated: not allowed to close other than by sigining as root, refusing to change root account email, etc
There has been obvious evidence of voter fraud. Please see the videos of the poll workers running ballots at the State Farm Arena in Detroit after they kicked out the poll challengers from the room. I know many people will eagerly spin this evidence (and countless others) so I'll compound it with tangential evidence not related to voter fraud, per se.

1. Why hasn't Kamala Harris resigned from her senate seat?

2. Why hasn't any of the Dominion Voting Systems <or> Smartmatic executives been willing to comply to subpoenas to testify?

3. Why did voting stop on Tuesday night? Historically, vote counting has continued non-stop; even with the Gore-Florida fiasco.

That should be sufficient to pique anyone's attention that there's something funny business happening.
Why? The purpose of those subsidies is to benefit all of us. Not to benefit Elon Musk. He's just the only one who stepped up to solve the problems for us.
Do you have data that 'trading' is how the app is being used? Does anyone? I find the article frustrating because it doesn't have data to prove it's core assertion.

Full disclosure, I've been using Robinhood, for a several years, to buy small amounts of stocks or ETFs I want, with limit orders, when volatility drives the price down. Everything I buy I intend to hold for a *long time.

And I really appreciate that they offer low fees, in % terms, on small orders. So it allows me to gain experience as an investor, not trader.
Texas has a really high property tax.
Nothing you've said was in any way coherent, while my point is pretty clear. You should not be punished for something you did not do.
> the entire Democratic party, with media allies, promulgated for the last 4 years and pressured social media leadership to adopt as well.

Democrats have claimed pretty every election for the last 20 years has been stolen, or at least could have been stolen, due to dominion's voting machines having the ability to flip votes undetected. Bev Harris's book Black Box Voting literally came out in 2003.[1]

Now apparently not only was this election the first not to have been stolen, but it's not even a possibility that something like that could happen. Go figure.

[1] https://blackboxvoting.org/
Manifest v3 prompted my permanent move to Firefox as well. Good riddance, Chrome.
> It was directly linked to religious fundamentalism that barred a large group of people from getting vaccinated

And it just happened to be perfectly in sync with the rise of anti-vaxx content on social media? You do realize these "religious fundamentalism" with fringe ideas also use Youtube, FB and other sites to share their anti-vaxx ideas and have their own ideas re-affirmed?
I wasn't responding specifically to Musk's tax burden, but the question of why would someone who moved out of the state still be paying taxes to the state several years later.

It depends on what type of shares/options/equity grants, and what's still vesting, and what isn't.

ISOs that are exercised in a qualifying disposition are taxed based on residency on the day of exercise.

RSUs that vest while you're a resident are taxed on vest day, and any capital gains from that are taxed based on residency on the day of the sale, yes.

RSUs that vest while you're not a resident are taxed on vest day, and a portion of the income will be california source if you worked in California during a portion of the vesting period, or if you were a residing during a portion of the vesting period.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1004.html#E-Restricted-Sto...
Generally no, because trying to convince a state actor to break his own state's laws is criminal conspiracy (though the details are specific to each state). These states have laws about how elections are run, most/all of them criminalize election fraud, and none of them allow the legislature to select electors directly.

The theory here is that the US Constitution, because of wording in Article II ("Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors [...]") that if interpreted hyperspecifically[1] implies that the legislature alone, and not Governor or state law, has the power to appoint electors. That has never been tested in practice.

But regardless, it would still be a state crime to do it. So no, he doesn't have the right.

[1] Obviously the reasonable interpretation of this line is "States decide for themselves how to choose electors", not something that makes assumptions about the structure of state government.
Sure. Extremely high rent, rolling power brown outs (electricity), massive forest fires...etc.

Every area has its unique challenges and benefits. For example, there are many jobs in California in a variety of areas including tech.
Houston in August is pretty much just misery. That said, we're pretty wimpy in the 40s and acting like it's the ice apocalypse when it's 30, so we earn similar ridicule.
On the spectrum of "anecdotes about how a few of my friends didn't get their votes counted" to "fraud that swung the results of the election" it's clearly something close to the latter, not the former. And the latter has been repeatedly debunked.
The previous loser was pretty quiet about it. There was a special prosecutor appointed based on credible evidence that kept it in the news.
I don't like what YouTube is doing.

But...

What is going on in the US just now is unprecedented in modern Western democracies - we've reached "peak fake news" in the USA. Mainstream news networks like Fox have talking heads spouting venomous lies that are demonstrably and trivially proven as such. The POTUS is lying on an hourly basis (many of those lies just brazenly, ridiculously false), and has millions of people believing his every word - he's personally profiting hugely, while brainwashing them and whipping them up into frenzy. It's fucking dangerous, especially with the US' lax gun laws.

I don't like private companies getting to decide what's truthful and what's not, but it's not like the US government is doing a better job, and is it safe to allow mad conspiracies and obvious lies to become "truth" for so many millions?

I don't think there are any good outcomes here regardless - it's one of those "least worst" choices.
Is Google also going to ban all the people who pushed the baseless Russia-made-trump-win nonsense? What a giant waste of time and money that was.

Do it equally for everyone, or don't do it at all.
If a publisher decides not to publish my book, they are not "deciding what people are allowed to see."
Good luck getting suitable legislation through parliament without power. Power listens only to power.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bryant/pubdir/ieeetc86.pdf
I don't see anything that makes me think Robinhood is villainous. Sure they have poor customer support and UX designed for engagement, just like every other major consumer tech firm.
The point is that the axiom that all men are mortal was thought to be true, and then was later discovered to be false. My comment was actually in agreement with your previous comment.
To give you an executive's perspective on this one: I'm saying the same to my employees (and I mean it). But there are two types of ways this happens in reality:

Case 1: An actual smart and caring employee bypasses the chain to give me evidence of a manager not acting in the companys interest. Usually that's not the first indication of such a thing and listening around reaffirms the conclusion quickly. The manager is approached as quickly as possible and since at this paygrade it's in no-one's best interest to burn bridges, they suddenly decide to spend more time with their family, a sweet severance package changes hands, employees are happy again and you don't read about this in the news. It's exactly why I said this in the first place (and meant it).

Case 2:
An employee with issues not bringing the company further (usually one or more of paranoia, toxicity, not-seeing-the-big-picture, searching for problems instead of solutions or emotional health issues) bypasses the chain of command with "evidence", but listening around almost nobody shares this employees' opinion. You fire them. Suddenly all problems disappear, employees are happy and then you read about this in the news, because the only person left unhappy did really not get the memo.

Judging from the type of problems here (something something starship about floor mats at a time when Model 3 just wasn't ramping up production and cashflow almost ruined the company), I do have my opinion about the type of "privilege escalation" in this case but I obviously won't share it.
Property taxes. This also means more taxes stay local and in the communities paying them. Of course there are opposing viewpoints on if this is good or bad. But the state still gets a good portion of those taxes.

On the east coast some of our states have high state income tax AND high property taxes (and property is very expensive) and I’m not sure the services or infrastructure are any better than in states like Texas. At least in California your property tax is locked in, which has its own problems of course.

At least where I live, a good deal of today’s tax revenues go to pensions to people that retired to Florida or Arizona (or some other tax free state) in their 50’s. I think Texas has avoided this trap many states are in today.
And I'll link to how cities, including in the Bay Area, are catching up to their price gouging shenanigans and puttig a stop to it https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/07/13/food-delivery-berkel... .
What if Youtube were a truly bad actor. (genuinely, a theoretical) and were working to actively censor the truth? What would be the right response here?
FB is on a lot of chopping blocks lately it’s hard to keep track. I guess this won’t really help with the Diem
But… there's nothing wrong with the business model, no? It's not that they aren't making money by selling an enhanced version of the software, it's that they aren't making as much money as cloud services? Or did I misunderstand?
I don't agree it's "useless" but I can see your point. We don't learn it for commerce or for historical/cultural insight. We learn it to know who were are.

Imagine telling a bunch of Jews that Hebrew was a load of nonsense and they're better off learning German, French or Spanish. I would agree though that the level of spoken Irish amongst the general population of Ireland is poor.

For them it's not about more opportunities it's about preserving something meaningful. Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.
I think he's pretty tired of being used as a punching bag by various elected representatives.

He's not a perfect person by any stretch but he's been a net benefit and gain for CA, the US, and maybe the world?

The guy constantly gets called out for his twitter shitposting and people think he's some evil overlord... these same folks don't seem to care at all when their elected reps sell them out w.r.t housing, development, healthcare.
It's not a reach, it's factually what happened. Here's the summary from the lead on the US Senate Special Committee on Intelligence:

https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases...

“We can say, without any hesitation, that the Committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election."
Or we're just saving up to afford all the future tax hikes to suck up the Fed's money printing.

Maybe the Government should stop thinking up new regulations that force us to buy things they think we need.
I wouldn't read too much into that warning, at least in terms of overall safety. The fact is, they're releasing these vaccines on a broad scale much faster, and with less safety testing completed, than usual. So there's plenty of things that we normally wouldn't know yet at this stage of development; in this case just leads to authorities being extra cautious, because this is an experiment. It's just that with other vaccines the general public would never become aware of issues like that, because the vaccines wouldn't have been released so early to so many people.

FWIW, looks like the HPV vaccine also had problems with occasional severe allergic reactions: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vaccine-reaction-idUSN314...

That article is from 2008, so I don't know if that issue has been fixed or not. Regardless, it obviously wasn't a deal breaker, as Gardasil is still being used.
Paris climate targets will have done far more to push EV forward than Tesla/CA.

Most governments e.g EU, UK, China all looking to curtail/ban ICE cars within the next few decades. And of course this has resulted in car manufacturers rapidly pushing EV cars.
Most who claim that HN has a rabid and irrational pro-Tesla cult must have missed the last seven years of incredibly critical commentary. I started noticing in 2015. Maybe I'll put together a montage one day. The claims of a pro-Tesla cult are certainly more widespread than uncritical fanboyism.
Just a nitpick, while Texas' state wide sales tax is 6.25%, every local municipality is allowed to tax up to 2% for their own revenues. I have yet to make a purchase anywhere in the state in my entire life and not been charged the full 8.25%.

Texas also exempts grocery store food purchases from sales tax, barring a few specific luxury categories, so that's something to keep in mind as well if you have a large family. Saving 8% on food could be a decent chunk of change for a lot of families. Restaurant food is still taxed at the normal rate.
While censorship is certainly a real thing that happens, many of your examples seem to fall on the side of "History is written by the winners." Selective omission and censorship are not exactly the same thing (although the result can certainly be the same).
Can you explain your qualifications to help me contextualize this opinion and compare to say, Ron Coleman?
2020 strike again!

Seriously though, this article makes some assumptions I’m not sure about. One of them is that Mapbox’s move will be successful. I’m not sure it will be, most users of Mapbox probably won’t upgrade to the new version or will upgrade to whatever fork becomes most popular. In the meantime this is going to make people a lot warier of using them as a tile server and give impetus to their competitors in that market space. It’s quite possible they’ll start to see declining revenues pretty soon.

The success of their strategy is tied to the greatly expanded 3D capabilities of version two. It’s really cool and the demos are super sexy but for the vast majority of use cases 2D maps are a better fit. Given the distrust they’ve generated and the massive increase in licensing cost attached to their new model for many customers, there are now some extremely compelling reasons for customers to drop them.
Nice! They are also going after API terms of use!

This decade is going to be lit.
It sounds like California is really not the poster child for pension woes. For that, critics should really look to Illinois.
>ironically property taxes are much higher in Texas than California.

The rate may be higher, but the total paid will probably be less.
I think this comment is underrated. Even using the term "censorship" is somewhat dubious when/if the "censor" is acting against the interests/wishes of government.

That said, I think google are making a bad mistake here. They've crossed a line that they've been toeing.

Social media isn't just a mass media. Media is always edited. Editing isn't censorship. But social media is also a communication channel. Haphazard interference in a communication channel sits wrong. We have no frame of reference for it.

Meanwhile, there are credible claims that social media fallacies have caused horrible things (including possibly genocide in Myanmar) in other countries/languages. FB (in that case) has no knowledge of the language or interest in getting involved in that. How can you justify one without the other?