skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory. In practice, is every single policy that our government upholds currently popular with the majority of people?

It's possible to have government policies that the majority of people disagree with, that remain for complicated reasons related to apathy, lobbying, party ideology, or just because those issues get drowned out by more important debates.

Government is an extension of the will of the people, but the farther out that extension gets, the more divorced from the will of the people it's possible to be. That's not to say that businesses are immune from that effect either -- there are markets where the majority of people participating in them aren't happy with what the market is offering. All of these systems are abstractions, they're ways of trying to get closer to public will, and they're all imperfect. But government is particularly abstracted, especially because the US is not a direct democracy.

I'm personally of the opinion that this discussion is moot, because I think that people have a fundamental Right to Delegate[0], and I include web scraping public content under that right. But ignoring that, because not everyone agrees with me that delegation is right, allowing the government to unilaterally rule on who isn't allowed to access public information is still particularly susceptible to abuse above and beyond what the market is capable of.

[0]: https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/#right-to-delegate
Or similar to why engineers get stuck in managerial roles.

The money stops at a certain level, then they become a manager to reach the next pay grade. Then don't enjoy their job because they're not doing the engineering, but can't go back to the lower salary once they've adjusted to the lifestyle
What's the advantage in having your company provide housing for you compared to buying it yourself? You see it happening for health insurance, but the only reason it makes sense is because it doesn't count as income so you save the taxes. This doesn't exist for housing so it really doesn't make any sense.
Some of that is solved by dramatically increasing density, though. Nobody enjoys long commutes and a lot of people who currently drive probably wouldn't drive if they didn't have to, so presumably with enough added high density housing and public transport capacity traffic could be curbed considerably. Rideshare services are a big factor too, but that could be resolved by enforcing a cap on the number of rideshare vehicles in the city.
The problem with safari is that it's extremely buggy and doesn't support a number of basic web technologies, such as webrtc, very well. And unfortunately it's the only thing that anyone is allowed to use on iOS, so we all just have to deal with it. I'll happily pay for a little extra ram in my computer if I can just go to a website and know that it will work in my browser.
I don't think we can bring the web back to basics in the sense you're envisioning without kicking most users off of it.

Cloudflare's protection is to guard against traffic spikes and automated malicious attacks; Google and social sites are allow-listed because they're trustable entities with well-defined online presences and a vested interest (generally) in not breaking sites. "How do we do away with the need to put up an anti-automated-traffic screen plus whitelist" is in the same category of problem as "How do we change the modern web to address automated malicious attacks?"
With Negative Rates, Homeowners in Europe Are Paid to Borrow
I enjoyed 'Eloquent Ruby' by Russ Olsen. It feels nice and friendly, and it gives you a solid understanding of Ruby, the object model, how inheritance works, how and why to use metaprogramming and more.
Fintech’s Newest Unicorn
interesting, at one point I wanted to use sokoban puzzles to judge how candidates handle complex tasks. did not do it for variety of reasons but might not be such a bad idea to build a mock interview out of such non-whiteboard code schemes.
Switching to drones makes sense to me, it seems to give a lot of bang for the buck. However, the risks and operational requirements are very different than a traditional manned plane so it would require a lot of change everywhere.
Oh I always forget about that feature. Excuse my stupidity.
> Walmart does it.

Walmart has 75M SKUs. Amazon has 350M. For many products Amazon never sees one - it only provides a webfront for vendors.

Would WordPress be liable for a vendor products using them as a web store?
The fact that there are units in pipeline doesn't tell you anything about how many are being completed. As an extreme example, they could actually improve the pipeline numbers by refusing to grant occupancy on any buildings (which would be very bad for prospective residents).
I think this could potentially be the Biters - the enemies in the game that will periodically attack your base. You can guess that they will attack your base, but you are never sure quite when and it's always a concern in the back of your head.
‘Employees happier working for people with little expertise’ is a ridiculous statement so I’m not sure how this could come as any news to anyone.
It's meditation; detachment from being completely possesed by your train of thoughts. There is plenty of scientific evidence that shows meditation can have psychological and physiological benefits for many people
kenneth.css and taylor.css are my favorite
I am just guessing, but those same people are probably monitored on camera in the office too. That sounds like a company culture perhaps fostered by a specific business model. I can't guess what the perceived benefit to this vs. reviewing customer calls and tracking closed issues would be.
That worked really well with the beached whale!
Probably explains why Chrome feels snappier though overall it makes my machine feel slower, if that makes sense
Voters Without Borders, Full Political Rights for EU Citizens
I am not associated with this initiative nor EU institutions. I thought it could be interesting for EU-citizen expats.
This is such an unfair comment. You're basically saying that once people are out of prison, they should commit to a life of poverty and continued suffering. The whole point of prison is to rehabilitate and make a net-positive contributor to society, which clearly this person has. The man did his time, what else can they do? Also, saying, "getting a diversity department job at MIT" is such a racist thing to say overall.
It’s on Amazon, I said the same thing! Enjoy! It’s a two parter.
> you also don’t have the right to tell a community to change its character or compensation.

Sometimes you do though. There are real cases where the acid rain produced by City A falls entirely on City B. Surely in that case City B should be able to tell City A to change its character? Local government alone will never solve a problem like this.

The people who pay the price for SF's character are not people who live in SF, but people who commute a long way from outside the city limits, or who don't live in the Bay Area at all but would if they could. The SF government should care less about them than about current SF citizens, but their interests aren't zero. Which is why you need a higher level polity like the CA government to overrule the local government .
In geriatric medicine, there is a somewhat defined, albeit difficult, process of declaring someone medically incompetent to manage their own affairs; they usually are committed to specialized (memory care) facilities. In some cases, the symptoms and rationale are clearly obvious. In others...these patients can be vulnerable to less scrupulous individuals.

For a wealthy high functioning billionaire, but one who is arguably affected by dopamine dysregulation that compromises his faculties, I'd imagine it's a trickier path to walk...
If new supply outpaces demand, wouldn't housing also in that case cease to be a good investment? (I think your first sentence has this wrong)
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/entry ?

They will probably fix it
> I think we all know, of course, that Chrome is Internet Explorer at this point.

Mobile Safari is extremely popular and seems closer to old IE
Is it the lack of housing supply, or that wage/salary growth has stagnated, or both?
My mortgage has decreased from 5.25% to 2.25% in the past 20 years.

It’s weird how so many things seem to be geared to help people who don’t need the most help (although I appreciate it). Locking in a mortgage and not having to move is one of the best things to square up a financial situation.

Especially hard on friends who rented for 20 years who have been saving to buy but hurt by increasing rents over and over.
Grosse Pointe Woods is a high end suburb north of Detroit. It's just North of Gross Pointe which is where the old school rich live.
I kinda agree. It's entirely possible that they were being callous and greedy, but from what I've read, it sounds like they made every effort short of getting fired. Now, maybe they should have all worked together and risked him declaring them all disloyal, but it's not like they didn't try.

Plus, if I had a close friend who was doing mushrooms and nitrous oxide, I wouldn't necessarily think that was particularly dangerous. I, perhaps ignorantly, would have considered those to be relatively safe things to experiment with.

It's so easy to say what should have been done after the fact, but it can be incredibly difficult to know the right thing in the moment.
It's as if a plutocracy is managed for the benefit of plutocrats...
> You don't see a difference between the state removing your literal freedom vs not being allowed to be on a committee or a board?

This is an interesting question and comparison, but not at all the one to which you're replying.
Also, you might end up with a bunch of industrial engineers who may not code (yet).
It would be helpful to maybe elaborate on _why_ that is a stupid thing to say.
I personally use Firebase for all my static sites. Completely free and fast. If you need to run some backend function they have Firebase functions which is free to a certain degree too.

Example site: https://jeremyshaw.co.nz

Other than that I'm sure Github Pages and Netlify are fine, both very popular options.

Worst case you put it on Amazon S3 and get charged a fraction of a dollar every month .
I hear what you're saying. I'm not super fond of anyone "turning themselves in to a brand", but maybe that's just because I've never been able to do it. But I would like to imagine there's room in this world for people to make mistakes and to redeem themselves.

If this man can never make himself in to more than a criminal, maybe it would be better to just end their life immediately after the crime? A life for a life? If they can bring good out of their evil, should there be a limit to how much good they can bring?

I'm not asking these questions with a specific point in mind, other than to present some additional context.
Housing is consumption, by definition. A house doesn't produce anything. It shouldn't be a good investment. It's probably optimal for it to rise at the same rate of inflation over time, to ensure that people aren't immediately under water on their mortgages, and so that they become cheaper relative to median incomes over the long term.
It is bad in a lot of places. A starter home less than 10 years ago was $75k. Now it is $300k without an increase in wages for people starting out or working less technical jobs.

The housing pinch has already hit Twin Falls if you can believe that. One would have to move all the way to Idaho falls to know what it was like in the Boise area 10 years ago.
Hades ransomware operators are hunting big game in the US
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I've played with a free .tk domain and use their framed redirect (http only) to point to a itty.bitty.site page. Works transparently as far as a user goes.
Yes. I did underestimate. I thought it was annual not monthly.
why not use html2canvas?
Or use MaidSAFE where you get paid to serve your website as opposed to the other way around.
New York launches nation's first 'vaccine passports'
By traversing the string?
By that logic an empty plot of land in Manhattan would have no value.
I'm not sure it's recovering at all, given the fact that SLS is just rummaging around in the Shuttle parts bin try and build a 'new' rocket.
It's actually Chosun Ilbo - I searched for the phrases I can read, and found the matching article (2019 Oct 14). (See the article's title ending with "...아니다".)

https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/10/14/2019101...

So, almost certainly not from American soldiers.
Is there any analysis of the scale of foreign investment and its impact on pricing and valuations? The every-so-often headline is 'international billionaire has high rise apartment over central park for his/her cat' ... but I don't know the actual data on it
Thank you Tesla for showing others how to make their products and experience of "ownership" worse. /s

At least some car makers have now seen through the marketing garbage and decided to go back to buttons for critical functions and options to disable tracking etc.
Haha true. Well at least its distributed.
It does, and it's very likely that we'd eventually win in court if it became an issue. But AIUI, we'd need testimony to 20 years of continuous access as of right to our house (not any of the others on the street). As a newcomer, that's not entirely trivial - the people we bought it from were only here 8 years, and I think we'd need to go another two owners back to get the full 20. And in any case the court case (and inevitable buggeration in the lead up to it) would be expensive and unpleasant.

Anyway, the building society (mortgage holder) wanted better security than that, so insurance it is.
Or maybe don’t “hate” folks who are just trying to put some content online and don’t want to deal with botnets taking down their work? You know, like what the internet was intended for.
dupe/posted earlier etc

I also got confused about this page as there's another project of theirs around right now about RIP Google Reader that's on a seperate domain...

Funny a site that's all about google this and that doesn't have clear URL/pages for their articles that can be linked to easily geez

Original post/discussion from the source, 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25417067
> Just like you shouldn’t have the right to take my property to create additional housing

That's fair enough. But the federal government provides a ton of incentives to promote home ownership. If a local community doesn't want to meet its endogenous demand for housing, it's essentially offloading the problem to other parts of the country.

A local government that artificially restricts housing should automatically lose all of these federal incentives. Because when supply is inelastic, it doesn't actually increase home ownership, just makes the existing landowning class wealthier. If a community refuses to build housing that's fine. But homes in that community will never be eligible for Fannie or Freddie mortgages. Homeowners will not get a mortgage interest tax deduction. In fact they should have to pay income tax on the value of imputed rent. No more capital gains exemption on their primary residence.

I expect some communities will still choose to keep their policies in place. But I think the vast majority of states and municipalities would change their tune pretty quick.
A few things:

Companies(up till the pandemic) seemed to cluster in all the same spots due to network effect, SF bay area, NY, Chi, Boston, Austin etc, with little to no jobs (that pay well) in midsize or small cities.

People now are extremely knowledgeable about great towns and what areas are good, thank instagram/facebook, zillow/redfin, and a multitude of blogs and sites that report on this, there is really no longer the idea of a "secret town" that is perfect, if one is found, people flock to it and drive up housing prices.

States/Cities stifling development in favor of incumbent owners. This is a real problem in California, and even when I lived near Boulder it was shocking to see how much they tried to have people stop building in that town.
This is a tragedy and I sympathize with everyone involved. Also, a lesson to not surround yourself with sycophants and drugs. It's easy to blame the sycophants, but Mr. Hsieh would have replaced anyone who tried to help. Imagine you're around and care about him. Is it better to stick around and try to help, as they attempted with the wellness center and doctor, or just leave him to the wolves?
Huh. We've had ten digit dialing in Maryland for so long that I had assumed it was everywhere by now.

If you post a picture of something (like a sign or a business card) people will say, "Look how old it is. It only has seven digits in the phone number!" Any such object would be at least 30 years old at this point.
If you're booking each leg with different carrier, I find it best to pay the little extra with kiwi.com and they give you guarantee for the connection. I missed connection twice and they always got me on the next flight to the destination for free.
"Heh, you think those 4-5 giant multi-million LOC programs you use in your busy life are burdensomely bloated? Good, rewrite them all by yourself in your free time. What, they're proprietary? Sounds like a business opportunity (even though you're already working two jobs and can't pay your mortgage)."
Yes, that’s the point!
It doesn't matter how fast any of these routers is. There's no way I'm buying any of them until they lose their buggy, vulnerable management endpoints and get automatic, managed firmware rollouts.
Should Socrates be forced to wire his electric according to fire codes?
Reporting of low house prices in the city limits of Houston is a bit of an illusion, true, because the city limits expand to many low density suburban areas that can have an hour commute to downtown in traffic. And there definitely several neighborhoods where one can participate in California-style bidding wars with other rich folks -- if you want a safe, walkable neighborhood close to the city center next to a good elementary school, expensive salons, and several fine sushi places, you will pay a lot. However, in Houston you always at least have the option of buying a cheaper house farther away. That's not even to mention the rents, which as far as I can tell have barely budged in the past 6+ years.
I assumed it was self evident, but I just did so anyway.
A change in control of the LLC is considered a reassessment event so a single LLC would not be enough. I’m not a CA tax lawyer so not sure if there’s a way to avoid that through two layers of LLC. Having the LLC be out of State or country would probably help too.
The link has a disclaimer noting the stats are inaccurate.

It links to the previous HN thread on this, in particular, a V8 dev noting the Safari stats didn't include _any_ of the rendering processes for _any_ tab, and their surprise that an informal benchmark with extremely surprising results wasn't checked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26186114
You might like shapez.io
Well, robot servants are coming. Sure, there will be some truly rich individuals, who will employ human servants, but that will be a minority.

I agree with your point, but you will often find the plight of the poor is.. low on the priority list. It should be higher based on the average presence of guillotines on various message boards I frequent, but I assume the well-off have some sort of survival plan.
I’m still on iOS 13, and I currently have two TestFlight apps. One of which I cannot download because I need iOS 14. The other works fine.
> It is important to emphasise that this learning does not only apply to databases. Imagine there was a RESTful service that had some sort of rate limiting for an API. Calls to this could be abstracted into a DataLoader

GraphQL isn't exclusive to databases.
A lot of big data datasets are de-normalized to make queries faster. Joining is very expensive.

Source: Worked in big datasets at Bing for a couple years.
the solution is a land value tax. instead of taxing properties based on how much the building on it is worth, tax properties based on how much a theoretical building could be worth on that same piece of land. if you want to have a bungalo but the market wants a skyscraper, that's fine, but you have to pay the same tax as a skyscraper would.

it encourages your solutions without "forcing" anything.
+1, anyone that was telling him the truth gets removed, so what are they supposed to do? Looks like they tried with the wellness center and doctor. It's more grey than black and white.
But can the drivers move to another country?
I'm not a particularly good programmer, so I may be missing something here, but I'd think that moving the items should be its own function that happens in between gets and sets, no? Besides adding a decidedly non-read-only operation to what should be read-only, shouldn't the movement happen when you're not trying to do anything with the hash table?
Is there any existing tax system that encourages new developments? I wonder if that would help with this situation. I understand that communities resist new apartments/high rises that will increase density and traffic etc, but if there was a tax incentive to existing homeowners, that might help people change their minds.
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Thanks for making me look up "Mossad is gonna Mossad" -> Schneier -> Mickens' essay titled "This World of Ours".

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
combine this with Putt's law, and you understand hell.
"Technology is dominated by two types of people,
those who understand what they do not manage
and those who manage what they do not understand."

Putt's Corollary: "Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion."
with incompetence being "flushed out of the lower levels" of a technocratic hierarchy,
ensuring that technically competent people remain directly in charge of the actual technology while
those without technical competence move into management.

have fun ;)
I'm curious what difference would be if they compared it to the first and second standard deviation above median income, ie. the 68th and 95th percentiles. That would paint a more accurate picture of income inequality, etc.
Best general explanation I've seen so far, thanks for posting the link.

Unfortunately, it still completely sidesteps any discussion of the relative risk of a vaccinated person (who is protected from a severe infection themselves) still a) getting infected and b) causing a severe case in someone else who is not yet vaccinated.

So while "efficacy" may not be relevant on one dimension (MY chances of severe infection) it still seems important in another dimension (the chances of ME nonetheless getting infected then giving a severe case to someone else).
It's been quite a while since I've run into a Safari bug. What's far more common are sites which either lock functionality to Chrome (most Google properties) or didn't implement it following the standards (e.g. GitLab's FIDO implementation checks for the first Chrome U2F API and they've been slacking on the standard version).

To be honest, one of the best reasons for using Safari or Firefox is just to remind companies that “web” doesn't mean Chrome. The added performance is a rather nice bonus.
While it makes sense that it should basically grow with inflation, I think that housing does arguably produce humans. Humans which work and drive the economy. This would imply that it should rise with inflation of course.
A coop is just another corporation, just with a different ownership model. This means they will likely have to hire engineers, customer service, business analysts, lobbyists, an executive team, &c. None of your examples is unachievable with a coop. The main blocker is initial capital acquisition.
This ship is doing more to combat climate change than all petty carbon taxes combined.
Those aren’t complicated problems. Buy more buses. Build more real estate for restaurants. And so on.
That would mean acknowledging the problem.