skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the author's analysis and appreciate the breakdown of his sources, but I think he took some shortcuts that makes me question his conclusion.

Some examples:

"With more money being saved, and investments yielding higher returns, the more there is to spend on homes."

I tried dig up more information about how exactly BEA calculations the Personal Savings Rate, but it seems to be an estimate based on aggregate consumption. This savings rate doesn't necessarily imply that this money is invested in the stock market. Even if it was and they bought and then sold investments to pay for their homes they still have to pay taxes on those short-term sales. An increasing savings rate by ~26% over < 12 months is interesting but doesn't seem to be a strong argument. I think we need to go deeper here to see if this is a median number and how it would break down by demographics.

"We are in a record low rate environment, we’ve experienced unprecedented support via fiscal stimulus, and mortgage underwriting standards are far stronger than in the oughts, which has lead to less leverage and reduced the likelihood that a pile of cards built on risky mortgages will collapse the economy."

Generally with more expensive homes people are left with fewer options with who underwrites large loans, driving them to jumbo mortgage lenders. People may have stretched themselves to be able to buy a home given the low rates and the need for more space.
If they do this, hopefully they make the airlocks compatible. Just in case..
The biggest change I noticed with respect to legalization is that it used to be the case that you couldn't walk around the streets of downtown Seattle without being offered weed by street vendors, and sometimes other drugs. After legalization and marijuana stores the street vendors (at least those I encountered) basically disappeared.
Consistently impressed by the dedication of the Godot developers. Love to see such a healthy and well-managed open source community!
He is not tenured and until he is he is basically an adjunct.
I agree – their marketing site doesn't exactly go out of its way to help you find out whether there's a free option.
The only reason I didn't try Google cloud is payment. I can't even run a couple of VM, some test db without using the credit card. This means that if someone hacks me, if the documentation isn't clear enough or if I make a mistake I will fully pay for it (and immediately). This is incredibly haunting for beginners and people that cannot afford such scenarios.

With AWS at least I can use a prepaid card: if something bad happens for any reason, at least I know I can afford to eat the day after.
"Oopsies, don't get caught next time, kay?"
That can very well be socialism for a subgroup of your existing population.

I think the divergence in views is in the definition of socialism we have; I see it as an economical doctrine of state centralisation, you probably have other egalitarian ideals attached to it.

Economically, on a scale from free-market to socialism, where do you think nazis rank? I think they were closer to socialism that nowadays mainstream left wing parties
Oddly, Biden is a bigger holdout against full legalization than Congress.

>Biden’s blunt opposition to marijuana legalization

https://www.vox.com/22387746/biden-marijuana-weed-legalizati...
A question with a very obvious answer: Desperation and exploitation.
If that were the case they wouldn't run speed traps.

Letting the hookers go about their business and arresting some fraction of their customers but not a large enough fraction to keep the customers from showing up at all (wouldn't want to deplete the metaphorical fishery) sounds an awful lot like a speed trap.

I wish I could not be cynical but there's just too much evil in law enforcement and the social services that deal with vices for me not to take this as a face value good thing. I'm sure they're happy to not be arresting hookers who've done nothing wrong. Beat cops don't like arresting people who've done nothing wrong. But I'd be lying if I didn't think there wasn't someone somewhere in the bureaucracy twirling their mustache while congratulating themselves on finding a way to both increase in revenue policing and satisfy the politically involved people who want progressive policy points.

Don't get me wrong, not arresting hookers is a good thing. But all my experience with the parts of government that deal with this sort of thing tells me this happened because the stars happened to align, not because someone with decision making power had an epiphany and decided that hookers shouldn't be arrested.
Is it? Linux underpins many medical devices - it too could lead to life and death consequences
> Ms. Haddaway had demanded that the state dismiss unrelated drug charges against her grandson in exchange for her testimony against Mr. Smith and Mr. Faulkner. The recordings also show that the state refused to place that deal in writing to prevent Ms. Haddaway from being cross-examined on the issue. The state, in fact, dismissed the charges three days before Mr. Andrews’s trial was scheduled to begin.

So they didn't just withhold information, 13 years after they manufactured a witness with some quid pro quo?

I think there was a crime committed here.
No, but it is its own county. Each of the five boroughs has a coterminous county, each with its own district attorney.
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They could send such a C&D, and they may be inclined to for the sake of public perception, but what would "legally require" them to do so?
Google cancels products so frequently that no matter now cool it may seem I rarely even bother checking them out - I can't stand becoming reliant and then having the rug pulled out from under me

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Honestly the list hilariously long!
DigitalOcean K8S solution isn't as production ready or reliable as Google's K8S offering.
As far as I know there hasn't been a public source of license plate-to-owner mappings previously available. With open source license plate reader software I've seen in internet videos, it seems like a large scale leak of license plate data opens up new possibilities for private entities to track individual people's travel on public roads.

In the US, governments have been doing that for quite a while, of course.

Edit: I guess that kind of tracking is already possible if car dealerships and mechanics sell that information.
Every time an industry calls for new taxes, what they're actually asking for is a way to hide unrelated cost increases.

That is likely to filter through to consumers. The boss of the world's biggest shipping company, Maersk, recently told the BBC the cost of tackling climate change in the industry would "translate into something like six cents per pair of sneakers".

No freaking way. Sneakers will go up $10 first year, and an additional $10 the year after, because everyone in the chain will take the carbon tax opportunity to pass the costs of a million unrelated things down.
A Neuroscientist’s Poignant Study of How We Forget Most Things in Life
> But both parties are against it.

The Senate is split 50-50. It's fair to say one half of that is more strongly opposed to it than the other since their states even rejected the Medicaid expansion accompanying Obamacare.

So it sounds like the Senate is doing a poor job of representing the people. Which leads to the obvious question: why have a Senate at all?
> What's the source of your information that some US government agency has control and/or influence over Linux developers?

(I'm not the user you're replying to.)

Nothing, frankly. But why can't any agency tell them that red-teaming is a good idea? DHS Cybersecurity is interested in keeping Linux secure, so it will tell them.

There's no "American exceptionalism" in the parent comment, just that the US is a pretty influential country and it may want to give its opinion.
I'm one of those "you'll get my baremetal and systemd out of my dead cold hands", kind of guy.

But I have reasonable exposure to both AWS and GC and I can say that, by far, Google Cloud is easier to reason about. As a consequence, it's much harder to misconfigure. The 2 large AWS deploys I've seen have, at best, had billing issues no one really understood (incl AWS), and at worse, security issues.

Complaining that maps prices went up re Cloud Hosting is, to me, like complaining that Amazon raised the price of the Kindle, e.g., not particularly relevant.
This seems like a valid use of mandatory minimums to me.

State actors should be subject to mandatory minimum life sentences for violating the rights of the public.
It's the university that allowed the research to take place. It's the university's responsibility to fix their own organisation's issues. The kernel has enough on their plate than to have to figure out who at the university is trustworthy and who isn't considering their IRB is clearly flying blind.
The blog post actually just regurgitates HN comments, and now people are going to comment on that. The ouroboros has been perfected.
Maybe it was Taiwan, you make a convincing case. But the CCP has history for this kind of behaviour
Schumer has legislation in the Senate teed up. Needs enough support to get past Republican holdouts and Biden.

> Key Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), said Tuesday they would work to repeal federal prohibitions on marijuana cultivation and use, vowing to make progress on an issue that has growing public support but still faces sharp objections from most Republicans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-schumer-mar...
Manhattan is part of NYC, but also it is so large that it is its own county as well... county of New York. And each county has its own DA.

Other counties of NYC:

Kings County (Brooklyn), Bronx County (The Bronx), Richmond County (Staten Island), and Queens County (Queens).
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I've been through a couple of countries with government-run medicine. The very first thing that happens in these systems is people are assigned to a specific medical center, usually using either home or office location.

Rest assured: hospitals in Washington, DC will never be short of personnel, out of supplies or, god forbid, overcrowded.
Majority of Americans supporting Medicare for all is meaningless if they don't also agree on the details, like how to pay for it.
Except Greg K-H disagrees with the students, stating it did make it to stable.

I trust Greg over the students.
The story behind a lot of these innocence project stories is one of corruption and/or incompetence. We don’t punish those things too hard in the US unless the target is poor or brown.
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Safari is notoriously the new IE. It's probably a perfectly spec-compliant page that happens to trigger a bug.
That existed before legalization. The only difference is now you can't tie up precious law enforcement resources because of unfavorable air currents. You can still appeal to your city or landlord. They might not take it seriously, which, given the level of your personal suffering, seems reasonable.
Well, that's a knockout vs. league outcome, right? The FA Cup has 5 winners in the last 10 cups.
see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2186915_cod...

"Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited. The scale effect of legalizing prostitution, i.e. expansion of the market, outweighs the substitution effect, where legal sex workers are favored over illegal workers. On average, countries with legalized prostitution report a greater incidence of human trafficking inflows."
It's more interesting than that. Burroughs was one of the Beats after all.
Microsoft stock price is, literally, within $1 of its all time high.

The stock market doesn't seem at all concerned about Microsoft's "reputation".
Punishing women, especially women in the sex trades or involved in sexual scandal, has never been unpopular in any society at any time in human history.
Can China Rise Peacefully?
You can still run WSL1, you know ...
Are there any goods to legalize marijuana? If there had been a chance, I would have voted to ban cigarettes as well.
They're not just smuggling Marijuana and that's assuming they're not already deeply entrenched in their localities.
Could an explanation be that people are lying about being non smokers both out of shame and for insurance reasons?
Probably would have been better for the author to have taken the "don't sell out to a single cloud vendor API" angle. But I guess no clicky-baits for that approach. I've been screwed over by both AWS and Azure, and never by GCloud, but that doesn't mean I trust any of them.
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I've experienced the Canadian healthcare system (similar to Medicare for All) as a patient, and I've experienced the American healthcare industry as a "customer" (Note: I've always had private insurance through great jobs).

I can easily say, "having private insurance in American, frankly, its not that good."

Proposals I've previously heard: Medicare for All, Medicare for Children, Medicare reduced age, a public-private option, improved transparency in costs (i.e. a menu), pin costs to Medicare + X%, allow insurance companies to operate across state lines, better subsidize preventative medicine, force clinicians to be able to speak to costs (similar to dentists/chiropractic/optometrists/dermatologist), reduce patent length or add a maximum return on investment to patents (e.g. 10x or 100x R&D costs?), etc.

Literally any of these would be an improvement. Please tell all of your representatives (regardless of politics) to fucking execute on any of them so things improve at least a bit from where it is now.
I know you just brought it up as an example, but I'm much more interested in a Direct Primary Care healthcare strategy over Medicare for All. https://www.dpcare.org/
Disclaimer: I work on this.

You should check out Clarity (clarity-lang.org). It's an on-chain interpreted language, so what you see is what will run. It's statically typed and decidable, such that you can reason about all the halting states of the program as well as the upper bounds on the amount of computing resources used. It's used by the Stacks blockchain and Algorand.
Interesting insight! Do you use Stocktwits? I see a lot of the same issues you describe with people abusing the cashtag & spamming their discord channels. Working on a new discussion site and I'd like to attract a community of people interested in stock/RE/investment etc.
I am interested in the devil's advocate to current trend of Marijuana legalisation. _EVERY_ discourse on the internet (besides religious cranks it seems) tends to favour legalisation. If something is too good to be true, then it is.

There could be a significant population who are risk of adverse outcomes, especially 18-24 users whose brains are still developing.
All limited-liability companies are government-supported entities and it's perfectly fair to impose corresponding social responsibilities on them. In this case Google is in a monopoly position which means they have a stronger responsibility to not only be fair but be seen to be fair.
No screenshots on that page. See here https://9to5linux.com/firefox-89-enters-beta-testing-with-st...
It makes complete sense. Being right handed, I prefer to keep the light to my left so that my right hand doesn't cast a shadow over what I'm doing. Right-handers outnumber lefties.
I have been waiting for Godot ..... 3.3....
I know folks have pre-supposed that, but I haven't seen any evidence. Any references would be appreciated!
> if you placed it there with the intent to trap someone who you expect to be looking at your computer, you may well be liable if their computer blows up

Liable for what? You haven’t promised that the code is safe, and they chose to run it.

> there's no significant difference from active retaliation

There is a significant difference, in active retaliation you choose to attack someone elseks computer, with a trap file the attacker chooses to run files they have stolen from you. Big difference.

> You'd be just as liable as for physical boobytraps on your property, with pretty much the same reasoning.

The reasoning is different, lethal or injurious man traps are prohibited because you don’t respond to trespassing with lethal force and you don’t know who or what may trigger the trap. Man traps that lock the intruder in a room without injuring them are fine, and used in high security installations.
I’ve been using Godot for the last month. It’s been so fun to get back to game development as a hobby (it’s how I got into software development). I’ve tried many other game engines in the last few years but Godot just really ... works for me. It just clicks. Love it. Excited to try the new version!
Their Wavenet Text To Speech is gold
Philip Roth biographer Blake Bailey dropped by agent over ‘grooming’ allegations
That is not a good reason I think. It sounds like we should legalize something because we already have no control of it.
> When you use YouTube you accept the terms and conditions (at least the parts that apply in your jurisdiction) which (probably) should state that you are not allowed to circumvent ads. If you do so you are in violation. Not sure what the consequences of that are though.
I don't think so. Can you provide a link to the section of the ToS that says that?
I'd like to hear arguments on this topic that aren't just moronic. If you'd launched your company on Google App Engine 10 years ago, what harm would have come to you in the meantime?
Funny enough in this case how Kamala Harris feels might be more important, since she'll likely cast the deciding vote in the Senate. I can't see Biden vetoing the legalization bill if it passes both chambers, regardless of his personal views.
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I think a lot of Americans want neither.
I still don't understand how DUI is going to work? The testing doesn't seem to have kept up with the desires of the public.
Isn't that what you would expect when you initially legalize something that is illegal everywhere else? It gets worse before it gets better, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't follow the moral path and legalize it. You should be aware of that effect and prepare a response in advance, however.
Sometimes it is because of the title length limitations. I guess HN can could extend it a bit more by say 25 characters or so.
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It sounds more likely they would like it to be illegal for one to force others to be subject to second hand smoke.
I am wondering if Aditya didn't respond the way he did (using corporate lawyer's langauge), Greg would have not reached to this conclusion? I am a bit surprised by the entitlement he was showing. Why would anyone use those words despite sending a nonsense patch! What kind of defence he was thinking he had among a group of seasoned developers other than being honest about intentions? I wouldn't be surprised if his professor doesn't even know what he was doing!
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I don't have an answer to your question, but do have some security advice:

Never use the same email for utilities in your house as you do for anything else. Have a dedicated e-mail address for the purpose.
The best (silliest) business model I've seen is the new thing of vendors promising to make you cross-cloud...via locking you into the platform offered by the vendor (which is usually entirely hosted on one specific cloud provider anyway).

There's valid reasons to support multiple providers, but that is definitely not one of them.
If they ignore cellebrite using their stuff they may have waived their right to be upset about someone else doing the same thing.
I think it’s more accurate to say that “we know that they approved something. Whether or not that something turns out to be exactly that this professor and his student did here is I gather a different question.
When we subscribed to Spotify (I don’t use it unsubscribed, as I have difficulty with interruptions from adverts) I found the UI infuriating (an opportunity to notice what I’m feeling and then decide whether to rage or not, but that’s another topic). Trying to tap (on iPad) the options for a song other than the one playing carried the chance that this song might start playing, as the hitbox is too small. Same with Tidal. Neither have an option to increase the size of useful buttons. I don’t consider myself to be differently abled physically, but I do try to promote broader accessibility, understanding there’s a cost in time and effort.
From my side - I have never seen an easy Google Cloud deploy but have no problems working with AWS.
It is becoming increasingly hard to justify a prohibition on gun ownership due to marijuana use. These two issues will clash soon.
Submitter (& author) here. I just changed the submission title to exactly match the original.
The story is unproven nonsense. The burden of proof lies with the accuser and it has never been met in the first place.
I don't know why all the cloud companies make you jump through so many hoops to get more quota - but Google has consistently been the fastest for me. Fill out some random Google Docs form (why does it have to be so dodgy?), receive quota within 24 hours.

Contrast:

Microsoft - flat out refused me more quota despite spending 10k/mo with them. Required me to convert to invoice billing, and then wanted a bunch of proof of incorporation and when my trading name didn't match my registration name they were unable to proceed.

Oracle - took 3 months of escalations and deliberations, required me to explain on the phone to a VP why I needed the quota.

AWS - frequently requiring me to write up a spiel about what I'm going to do with the quota before they approve it, increasing the RTT to 72hrs+ - do they actually verify this? How would they? Why do they care so much? We've spent 50k+ and always paid the bills, what's the issue?
Google has been using their own "BoringSSL" for a while internally.

But the fact is? OpenSSL has reached an age where we go about 12 months between severe vulnerabilities. The code itself is built on compromises that made sense in a different era, with major changes bolted on. And then more changes bolted on top of that. And then again, more bolted on top of that.

Losing wide-scale Linux adoption of LibreSSL? Has left us more dangerously monocultured.

GnuTLS exists. OpenSSH exists. But each finds itself most applicable in different circumstances.

LibreSSL was a relatively drop in replacement, but the lack of TLS3 support? Later ended up killing serious Linux support. There was so much code to audit, overhaul, rewrite, or simply remove? That the team writing it still has their work cut out for them, before TLS 3 support can even be considered. https://www.libressl.org/goals.html

So to see Google help put an auditable, open, safe-language alternative out there? It is a fascinating move.

Im suspicious that google's involved, same as you. But so long as it is auditable? And someone more trustworthy is at the helm, keeping it honest? Im excited to see this exist.
Still not sure why we don't legalize the whole thing. What are we trying to prevent or protect by having it be illegal?
What's the advantage? If anything, this plan only kills what is arguably the best part of Windows, which is the kernel, and leaves all the worst parts (e.g. legacy Win32 APIs)

I don't think the intersection of people who want a Linux kernel but a Microsoft-managed OS is very large, especially if it were the same cost as Windows. Just use Windows, and if you need to run Linux userspace apps then use WSL. Doesn't that already solve the use case you are describing?
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