skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Renters are living in housing which is itself eligible for business loan deductions. If you believe that landlords use the cost of holding real estate as an input that shapes the supply side of the supply-demand balance in the broad rental market (as I do), then it seems that renters do indirectly benefit from the deductibility of the loans on the buildings in which they live.

The mortgage interest deduction serves to put the purchasers of owner-occupied real estate onto a more equal footing with commercially-rented real estate. That seems like a valid public policy purpose, even though the mortgage interested deduction became substantially less valuable with TCJA-2017.
I was at law school during that merger and it was a major focus of the Competition Law course, one of the most obvious monopolies that was ever allowed to proceed in recent times really. I think entire academic staff expected the opposite outcome too!
>> Days before the crash, an employee had warned his superiors that the vehicles were unsafe, were routinely in accidents, and raised concerns about the training of operators.

>So despite all the safety failures by the company, just the hired driver was charged...

A thought experiment: if a municipality was warned about safety failures about its streets (high speed limits, poor lighting/signage, lack of pedestrian crossings), and some kid got killed in a car accident, should the municipality be liable? What if everything that uber/the municipality did was within the law, and the only thing they're guilty of is not taking additional safety measures? eg. dropping the speed limit to 20mph in suburbs will probably eliminate all pedestrian deaths, should the municipality be liable if it set the speed limit to 30mph and the kid died?
Maybe I am not as crazy as I thought

"After reports speculating about Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s whereabouts, CNBC’s David Faber reported Tuesday that the billionaire is not missing, according to a person familiar with the matter. Instead, Ma has been lying low for the time being, Faber reported."
The Cure for Fearful Rites
Teenagers are a small percentage of the population. The solution for them is to let them sleep in later, and potentially start school as late as 11 am - that's independent of what this bill does.

Restaurants, for example, would love for an extra hour of daylight. It brings patrons in an extra hour.
A related concept/tool is Theory of Change: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_change

An organization that intends to "help people" or "make a difference" needs to specify how it plans to do so, how it defines change in the first place, and how it plans to measure change.
Why? The old control panel is infinitely more useful in most cases than the new one. Just look at Add/Remove programs -- the new one is ridiculous compared to the classic one.

I'm not against the new Settings dialog but I don't see why anything that works needs to be removed.
They have been lending at negative interest rates since 2019. 0% is for suckers to get burned in the recession economy.
> We won't ever know.

I sure hope we will understand these things better, in the fullness of time. Even if the answer turns out to be some boring mix of cultural practices, genetics, and luck, it's still worthwhile having that understanding for the next time.
How about scanning binaries instead archive? just sayin'...

well it seems an useful tool for windows enthusiasts.

Russian programmers are generally very accurate on programming ;)
The listener in this case is the microphone, so it has a fixed position related to the sound it would cancel (the keys).

So the issue in this case is just that the sound keys produce varies.
If I understand this correctly:

Typically, I think of an FPGA as something used to accelerate specialized operations. But sometimes, in the middle of one of these specialized operations, you might want to do something more general, like run a network stack, without returning to the CPU. A soft processor like this allows you to run an ordinary network stack (with ordinary code) inside the FPGA.

Is that right?

I thought one of the things people used FPGAs for was accelerating network stacks, so I don't quite know why you'd want to use a soft processor for that. But it does make sense that you'd want to be able to run ordinary code in an FPGA (as part of a larger FPGA operation that is not ordinary code).

EDIT: Also, I don't understand this statement: "for example, one main compute kernel, which is too complex to deploy on dedicated hardware, is run by specialized soft processors". What do the authors mean "too complex to deploy on dedicated hardware"?
If you do something right; no one can tell if you've done anything at all -

Futurama
There are an insane amount of car accident-related deaths & injuries every year. At least 30,000 deaths/year in the USA alone. Because humans drive tired, drunk, while texting, etc, and sometimes just make mistakes.

With fully automated driving the number of crashes (and therefore injuries & deaths) will go down -dramatically-. So you can argue all you want about the ethics & morality of the ~100 deaths/year or so from automated car crashes. But that's far preferable to the current situation. Even if we still have 10-20k deaths/year from automated driving systems, that's still a large improvement.

This argument about the ethics of contrived car accident scenarios totally misses the boat. In my opinion the only ethical argument is to move over to fully automated driving systems as soon as -safely- possible.
They have since restored the account, so your argument is invalid.

Keep in mind that US Government agencies that administer sanctions laws (the Treasury, in this case) are the ones interpreting what these laws mean. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natu....
You can already do all that with https://bellard.org/jslinux
I assume this will be your last post on HN then...
I eagerly await a third control panel.
you might be able to do something like "predict the next prime number" or "predict the next zero of the Riemann zeta function".

you could try something like this for statements in a formal axiomatic system, but know that you're running up against things like the halting problem / entscheidungsproblem / godel incompleteness. so it may be possible to train a neural net to decide the veracity of a statement and do so more quickly than a human might, but you would inevitably be running up against things that are truly undecidable in nature. which is not like go or chess where although they are difficult, they are decidable.
It's an incredibly toxic cycle. The book is expensive because it is required for completion of an already expensive task (a class). Teachers and departments require the latest evergreen textbook because of incentives from the publishers paid for with the profits of the sales of said evergreen books.

How does education get off of the treadmill? Students can't reasonable refuse to buy the new textbook. They could organize and demand that professors stop, but in some fields the subject matter does change relatively frequently e.g. advanced medical courses. So the opposition would point to those and ask the rhetorical question "Don't you want your education to be current?. It is unlikely that professors at scale will act unilaterally because they are at best neutral in this situation.

It could be solved, perhaps, with legislation, although it seems that such things are fairly universal across countries (although I am somewhat ignorant of how it works in Europe) and if the Europeans haven't tried to regulate it yet, it is incredibly unlikely that the Americans would try.

Book piracy is the logical result of this cycle. If book prices were reduced either through reduced evergreening causing the used market to exist again or by some other means then piracy would reduce as well.
It appears that you are pretty much the only one who gets it. At least from anyone who responded.

I find it rather shameful, that apparently everyone who responded to my question, did so by explaining that a US company has to abide by US law. You don't say!

That was never the question, but apparently even reading is even too much to ask from people these days.

Of course US companies have to follow US laws. But if that conflicts with law in wherever their services are offered, they no longer have any business operating there. They should consequently stop offering their services in that territory.

Since that's unlikely going to happen on their own initiative, maybe the EU should simply declare companies like these as illegal on their market.

Actually, that might even help to finally get rid of the stranglehold which many US have had for a long time on any emerging potential competition from EU companies. Something for which US companies have regularly used and abused differences in law and economy (between the US and EU), in order to obtain an (unfair) edge.

Maybe it's about time that comes to and end, so US companies can prove that they can compete on equal grounds. I personally doubt that, because for most of the last century this competition has been dominated by the US exploiting artificially created advantages.

Politics aside, it's rather sad that this aspect of legality is even a discussion topic. It should be a no-brainer that US companies should abide by whatever laws exist on a foreign market they operate on (of course on top of US law).

If they can't, the only (legal) option is to stop operating. Either that, or the company is a criminally operating organization. That is, the violations are systemic and not just a few unintended incidences, of course.
I think it's more about preventing user error. It's easy for legitimate apps to suddenly start recording on laptops/desktops when you're not expecting it.

One example is when you're waiting for a video conference to begin, you don't want the camera to suddenly turn on when you're not ready for it.

I like there to be an explicit action before I allow recording. For smartphones there's a permission model where I have the ability to explicitly grant permission every time an app wants to turn on the camera.

However such a stringent permission model doesn't exist on desktops/laptops, so a slider is a simple low-tech solution to the absence of a sufficient software permission model.
> Your argument is that it doesn't matter.

Never did I argue that it does not matter. In fact I didn't even take a position on the matter. I specifically asked _you_ about _your_ beliefs.

> So in that case why not pick the one that actually makes sense according to the motion of the solar system? If I have to make a choice between two equally logical solutions, I always pick the most beautiful or most symmetrical. Why not?

Why not? As I pointed out, there are other considerations at play like morning/evening light. You apparently believe that the balance of beauty and symmetry with the solar system is the most important consideration. I don't personally consider that very important.
They can't see a chess piece but they can see humans well enough to tell them apart?

Analogies don't work if you deliberately make assumptions that are inconsistent with what they are trying to convey.

We could rephrase the analogy such that the aliens are listening to a specific broadcast from earth from 1000 light years away. Some percentage of the time the broadcast is "White won", the rest of the time the broadcast is "White lost." Is it reasonable to assume that it's a game of pure chance just because you don't have a good method of predicting the outcome?
Part of the problem is, a lot of districts need to stagger the start times of early/middle/high school, because the same buses are used for multiple groups of kids. So they can't all just show up at 8:30 or whatever is most convenient for parents.
>>That's your job and its called driving. If you cant handle that simple task then you should not be driving.

Ah, the "just suck it up and man up" argument. Lovely. I hope you drive a manual car with no power steering no power brakes and no abs. Heaven forbid the car helped you with the sacred art of driving, right?
One of mine's been suspended.

istheukstillinthe.eu

Clearly it isn't anymore haha
I mean it makes sense. The employer requires you to only trust Google-approved apps since something like an evil maid (or mugging, or blackmail, etc) attack on an unlocked phone is part of their threat model.
Caution: Windows 10 is beautiful in static Hi-DPI screenshots, but actually using it may present a different usability opinion.

While I find Windows 10 usable and attractive, I find it still has a lot of clunkiness that needs work.
People forget how cold it is an hour earlier in the middle of winter in most of the US.
I know there has been lots of investment in the Gutenberg editor, but one thing that always surprised me is to have the title as a default design element in the block editor. While every page should have a title, it’s not necessarily a design element. In this manner it loses its functional grouping and creates a weird juxtaposition for the user.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this!
There was the case (in Pennsylvania IIRC) of a remote admin actually engaging the camera remotely on school-district owned laptops located in minor students' homes. You could imagine that those minors had an absolute right to privacy in their homes and might not have much of anything secret or private on those laptops.
Thanks for this comment and for your stewardship of WP!

It would be nice to have the classic editor plugin directly within core. I end up installing it on every site, and baking that option into core would save a step.
I know, you'd consider the likes of NYT/WaPo to be 'real journalists'.

The ones that had so cozy of a relationship with the Pentagon that they saw no problem in being government mouthpieces and getting the public to support a war in Iraq that killed 200k+ people on a made up pretense of WMDs. Same for Lybia, Syria etc.?

Because that's how you get the level of government access to be what you'd consider a 'real' journalist.

I am glad that you don't get to define who makes a 'real' journalist and who doesn't. Julian is not one of these[1] indeed.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_journalism
Exactly and makes total sense. Plus, not everyone has infinite income, so people are "rate limited" into choosing the 30 over a 15 or 10.
Don't bring that up, they may get rid of the older, more usable one!
Disappearance of those "0%" things would already be enough for prices to collapse once they have sufficiently adapted to the 0% situation. I guess the winner is, unsurprisingly, whoever owned the land before.
>Whenever things change, some proportion of the userbase pushes back and wants to just keep things like they are.

I think it's remarkable that Wordpress is not forcing the users' hand on this.

I think developers handwave away the users' desire to keep things as they are much too often, often tactlessly referring to their user-UI symbiosis as "old" or "legacy".

I think user choice and stability of UI is vastly underrated today and is only beginning to emerge as a property to optimize for.

We're going to see more developers catering to the crowd who just wants to keep their current working version, because it takes about 10-20 years of computer use to become the grouch with Upgrade PTSD, and we're beginning to reach critical mass on it.
> My claims are common sense and supported by the real life: regular people don't know what ECC is, and those who do find the problem's impact is too minor to get palpable benefits from fixing it. Why are you being pedantic if you aren't actually going to bring arguments at the same level you expect from me?

Regular people aren't given the choice! The things you're quoting about the real world to support your argument are incompatible with a scenario where someone is actually looking at ECC and LED next to each other. And I'm not being "pedantic" to say that, it's a really core point.

> Isn't this exactly the kind of claim you yourself characterize one paragraph above as "useless" because "you have no related data, and logic could support multiple outcomes"?

A claim of a specific outcome is useless. "you can't assume" is another way of phrasing the lack of knowledge of specific outcomes.

> Sure, if people were more tech-educated then my assumption might be wrong. But people aren't more educated so...

It's the kind of thing that can go on a product page. But first someone has to actually make a consumer-focused sales page for ECC memory, and the ECC has to be plug-and-play without strong compatibility worries.

And just like when LEDs spread over everything, it's something that you can teach people about and create demand for with a bit of advertising.

> Sell me ECC memory when my (actual real life) 10 year old desktop or 5 year old phone never glitched. Sell me ECC RAM when my Matlab calculations come back different every time. See the difference?

That's a clear picture of one person. But "never glitched" is a very dubious claim, and you can't blindly extrapolate that to how everyone would act.
Does Zoom does this automatically? I hardly ever hear keyboard sounds during video calls.
>Most WP visual editors / page builders are terrible. They produce bloated code, huge page sizes, poor SEO.

I sling WordPress code daily, and do a fair amount of WCAG and speed optimization work - this statement is not true of all builders. I routinely build fast, fully compliant websites using visual builders.
My bad, I was wrong – can't have both linearity and perceptual uniformity, and I guess that in use cases like dithering, linearity is more important ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25648490
Get hitched when you're sure.

Finding a cofounder is like love: it often happens when you're not looking for it. The best thing you can do to improve your odds is continue to improve yourself and put yourself out there.
Yes, you should hire this guy: https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsGameItOut .
Arizona doesn't swing between anything. They are on MST. It happens that MST and PDT are the same offset from UTC, but the middle letter means something.
Yes! Deployment in particular, as it's never been done before. Launch is on an Ariane 5, and those have become very reliable.
Going by that logic transportation of any sort should never be provided by any corporation.
Sadly, the problem of designing convenient, efficient, cost-effective public transportation is beyond the capabilities of this HNer. I was merely trying to translate the OP's comment as a lot of people seemed to be missing its intent.

As a side note I've only visited Norway once (and would love to return), but I've heard the phrase "Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlig klær/There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes" countless times, almost as if it were the official motto of Norway. And here you are, fretting about rain at the bus stop, dashing my stereotype of Norwegians as tough, hardy folks, undeterred by even the foulest weather! :)
It should be simple in a sane society.

School should be for educating children and shouldn't be a government-provided babysitter. A working, functional society should make children a benefit if it wants to exist past a generation, and it should therefore enable and support families so children aren't a personal financial devastation to people and things like education don't have to be overloaded with other functions. We need to fix these social problems.

The reality is otherwise, of course. So, if businesses really depend on public schools babysitting children to have workers or exist, then it's proper that they suck it up and work with the school schedule if they are really that subordinate to it.

> Which means modifying public transportation schedules and business hours.

Only some major cities in the US have public transportation that's really developed, reliable, and useful enough to have this problem--everyone else commutes to work (or is only taking public transportation because they don't have a car). The cities that have the resources to have the system in the first place also have the resources to reschedule rides--it happens anyway for special events, holidays, etc.
I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought here.

Corporations can't act, people inside the corporations act. If laws get broken, the individuals who made that choice should pay the price. This wasn't a defense of the company, I'm fine with the company getting fined here, so long as the people who did this get penalized as well.

So long as we let companies be a sort of shelter for the people inside the company, this kind of activity will continue.
Among the strongest counterarguments to the textbooks case is the law article "The Uneasy Case for Copyright", written by an academic and published in the Harvard Law Review in 1970. The author argued three principle points:

- That the only defensible justification of copyright is a consequentialist economic balance between maximizing the distribution of works and encouraging their production.

- That there is significant historical, logical, and anecdotal evidence which shows that exclusive rights will provide only limited increases in the volume of literary production, particularly within certain sections of the book market.

- That there was limited justification for contemporary expansions in the scope and duration of copyright.

A substantial portion of the analysis is directed to the textbook market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uneasy_Case_for_Copyright

Copyright at the time of publication required registration, and was for a term of 28 years, renewable for an additional term, so or 54 years, lapsing four years from now in 2024. Subsequent copyright revisions have extended by 41 years, to a total duration of 95 years, expiring in 2065. Best I can tell, copyright is held by the Harvard Law Review Association, rather than the author, presently Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Stephen Breyer.

Though the article is available via LibGen (or Sci-Hub).

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/scimag/10.2307%2F1339714
The Norwegian government has been in support of EVs going as far back as the 90s but Tesla demonstrated that EVs could supplant ICE entirely for a large percentage of the population. Prior to Tesla the market options were lacking and couldn't meet the majority of consumer demands.

Now that Tesla has broken through, the incumbent ICE manufacturers are following suit.
Tasker is one example. There's a bit more info here:

https://notenoughtech.com/tasker/important-tasker-5-9-2-upda...

You can certainly do a lot more with a rooted device. I think it's a reasonable tradeoff to limit uncommon use cases for devices which haven't been rooted. I think the majority of users would prefer the additional security restrictions in place on non-rooted devices. For those who want more control, you can root at your own risk.
Dude, take my money.
MSSQL will lock on Reads by default, and can(will) escalate locks to entire pages for reads.

Making MVCC Mode 'Opt In' requires enabling Snapshot Isolation, and making it default requires another change. It's also worth noting the way MSSQL does MVCC is far more TempDB/Memory hungry than Oracle/Postgres (due to the nature of using snapshots). I've been in more than one shop that did not want to enable it due to the memory requirements.
But it keeps renters renters. I'd rather forego my tax deduction for owning my apartment and bake it into the normal tax. I feel it's unfair a friend can pay the same amount as me each month, but instead of paying down a loan he loses everything to a landlord. And in addition I also get to deduct the ~rents~ interest.
Yes, especially if you have an alternative place to park the money that earns N+1, where N is your interest. Anything above that is marginal gravy.
Crime pays for the already rich.
who cares. Lipstick on a pig....
Imagine a new cryptocoin whereby any submissions to the blockchain had to verify their electricity sources were fossil fuel free.
If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.