skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HOAs typically only have teeth when they are based on covenants that run with the land, which in most cases means that they started as a single property (e.g. a farm) and were split out into a planned neighborhood.

In other words, the owner of that farm had the right to split it up into little chunks that have restrictions and sell them. When you buy into the neighborhood, you are buying the property burdened by the covenants the previous owner attached. So your full rights would interfere with the previous owner’s effort to do what THEY wanted with the property.
Sure, but the publisher is Wiley (from USA), and the journal is the British Journal of Pharmacology. Seems like these entities should provide someone to proofread the paper before it gets publicized in any way?
Do you have a reference on this? It'd be quite interesting to read further on why studies using mice are often poor predictors of human reactions to exposure.
Classic nerds, can't differentiate between substance and minutia.
Yes and No, it could be worth it depending on the HOA board. I successfully penetrated my HOA board (24 years old with no experience) and in 2 years became the president. I then rewrote the HOA covenant to be more sensible and cut the fees by 50% with a plan to phase them out in 3-5 years. 98% of the neighborhood voted my changes in. I only put leans on houses that absolutely refused to cut their lawn for multiple months and pay their HOA dues.
Great news for aging rodents all around the world! Too bad most experiments that work on mice have no or negative effects on humans, so we probably won't be able to benefit from this.
Source? It would be nice to scope such vague statements. Some kind of pharmaceutical mechanism of action ~totally transpose to the human while some other do not at all, it's heavily topic dependent.
For example mitochondrial targeted antioxidant are specy agnostic.
Smoking is magnitudes more addictive than alcohol. Regardless, a lot of people do ask why anyone would drink alcohol, given that it offers up an enormous array of detrimental health effects, the possibility of addiction and social troubles (DUI, violence, etc), and as a mental "holiday" altered state is an incredibly poor mechanism.

Alcohol hangs around because it was accessible in earlier eras. There will come a time, I suspect in the very near future, when it will look ridiculous. Where having a `drink' will be an anachronism.
Here's the problem I fundementally have with HOA's even ones that are "laid back" is that at any point in time they can decide to not be "laid back" you get one bad idiot in charge of the HOA and then suddenly they start passing all sorts of rules. That is the problem they might be benign but when they fall into the wrong hands they become terrible quickly and in the process can destroy lives and livelihoods.
The side effect is that people who like their hoa’s would vote you out.

It isn’t popular on the internet, but many people prefer their hoa. So you would be solving a problem that many people don’t believe exist.
>> I don't find the HOA oppressive our violating my rights at all.

But this is addressed in the article: HOAs may not feel oppressive... until they do. And if that happens, then you'll essentially be powerless because in most jurisdictions, the law heavily favors HOAs.
Wasn't most meat also salted in the past?
Bingo. In Germany, regulations enacted by municipal governments definitely cover a lot of points mentioned in the article. The main differences are that they are not quite as intrusive in what they cover (their goal is not explicitly to maintain property values), and you have legal recourse.
The desktop is broken not because of the file/folder paradigm but because we stopped using files to represent information. Figma, Slack, and Notion should save their information to disk. You should be able to open a Notion document, or a Figma design, from your desktop, instead of through their Web interface. You should be able to save a Facebook post or Tweet and their replies to disk.

Why can't you? Well, for one, social media companies don't want you to save stuff locally, because they can't serve ads with local content. Furthermore, browser APIs have never embraced the file system because there is still a large group of techies who think the browser should be for browsing documents and not virtualizing apps (spoiler: this argument is dead and nobody will ever go back to native apps again). Finally, the file system paradigm fails with shared content; you can't save a Google Doc to disk because then how can your friends or coworkers update it? It's much easier for Google to store the data on their server so that everyone can access it instead of you setting up some god-awful FTP-or-whatever solution so that your wife can pull up the grocery list at the store.

I'm hoping the new Chrome file system API will bring a new era of Web apps that respect the file system and allow you to e.g. load and save documents off your disk. However, this still won't be good enough for multiplayer apps, where many devices need to access the same content at the same time. I don't know if there is any real way we can go back to the P2P paradigm without destroying NAT - WebRTC tries but WebRTC itself resorts to server-based communication (TURN) when STUN fails.
No, that is a condo association that is necessary in a building with shared structure that needs to be maintained. Not quite the same as a HOA that doesn’t have any purpose besides forcing people to conform with dumb rules on their own property.
I got myself addicted to nicotine gum and I never even smoked. To the point that I was constantly using it. Going through maybe 10-15 2mg gums per day. I used patches and regular non-nicotine gum to quit but I still have the urge, especially when I have difficulty focusing at work, because it does actually seem to help with that.
> Now, sometimes a table has a natural primary key, for example the social security number of a country’s citizens.

You know, you think that, but it's never that simple. The field was added incorrectly and nobody noticed until the value is in countless tables that you now need to simultaneously update or the value is something that's supposed to be semi-secret, so now a low level support staff can't reference the row when dealing with a request. Or the table's requirements change and now you need to track two different kinds of data or data that is missing the field.

Me, I always just have the table make its own ID. It is just simpler, even when you think it is overkill.
WTF does that have to do with anything? Isn't this whole discussion about how the WMF shouldn't be based in the fricking most overpriced city they can find?
Funny thing with HOAs is that they are usually based on covenants that run with the land, so you don’t actually sign anything. You just bought property subject to covenants.
Yeah. The parent post really drives home the point made in the article: HOAs are simply a mechanism to make other people conform to one's wishes.
I'm not talking about banning HOAs, just defanging them. So people who just like being in them wouldn't mind, since they could stay in them. The only people who would mind are those who like forcing all of their neighbors to be in them against their will.
Books are a rather dry and old-fashioned way to experience a story. Text in general works best for reference works and non-fiction since it is so easily searchable.
People quip that with podcasting and audiobooks society is returning to an oral tradition. I'm inclined to agree and can only encourage the development. Narration adds such a richness to a story.
Most everyone subvocalizes when reading anyway.
I don't think suburbs are a complete explanation for this though. HOAs are super rare in Canada (outside of apartment buildings and maybe townhouses), and we have just as much suburban sprawl as the U.S.

Based on people mentioning maintaining commons (i.e. building parks, etc.) maybe it's a function of having comparatively less government provided common services in American suburbs? That would fit the stereotype in my head, but I admit I don't have a lot of solid data one way or another.
> we should treat any cop without his camera on as a regular civilian.

I endorse this.
This is my experience as well, and I can still occasionally have a cigar or hookah on special occasions a couple times a year without any problems. Then again I only smoked about 1/3rd of a pack a day for about 3 years, so maybe the addiction levels also depend on the quantity and the length of time
The therapeutic treatments aren't meant to go into the "k-hole", they are lower dose in comparison. I did feel woozy, drugged, and mildly dissasociated after the IV and needed a bit of help getting up right after. Something that may have interfered was that I was scheduled for IVs 3 times a week but they were down to 2x per week because it was during the holidays, which kind of sucks. This was done in a hospital setting so it's very clinical and this particular one was right next to the ECT room so it wasn't exactly chill. However I'm used to being in clinical settings and didn't mind it much.
Three movies were referenced in the comment I responded to: Return of the Jedi, Star Trek: Into Darkness, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Two of those movies are definitely not focused on future technologies.

Many people call Star Wars "science fantasy", but I'm extremely confident that this is used less frequently than "science fiction" to describe it and I am absolutely confident that I'd be able to find marketing copy by LucasFilm or distributors describing it as science fiction, even if that aggravates people who are really into more cerebral sci-fi.
I pay $100/mo for these proto-fascists to explain to me why the pool and other amenities are unavailable.

They do a decent job with the common grounds and the trash contract, so there's that.
UUIDv4 has performance implications. But I agree, if you are already coupled to the DB (due to the check loop), generally you might as well use sequential.

Seems too easy to screw up.
For Japanese go server, I'd suggest IGS aka PandaNet.

It's hard to say how much larger it is than OGS. OGS has an enormous population of correspondence players but generally smaller for live play maybe by 3x?
Seconded. It seems like over the years I spend a greater and greater fraction of my screen time either setting something up or un-fucking it after an update/new version ruined it.
That ends up being easier said than done, too.

Most "buildable lots" tend to be in subdivisions ... which already have HOAs. "Infill lots" tend to either be in terrible neighborhoods or amazing neighborhoods that are out of reach, budget-wise, for most.

Building on a rural "plot of land" is often more restricted than you'd think, due to zoning regs on minimum lot sizes and rules about water meter availability. And frankly, buying and caring for 10 acres puts the whole project out of reach for most.

Not to mention internet availability is problematic as you get into rural locations with more flexibility.
> What about signed a lease on an apartment? That's pretty common. The landlord owns it, but you have rights on it and they can't do whatever they want with their own property anymore.

Of course they can, they just need to wait till the lease is over.

With HOAs on the other hand they're forever restricted by some old farts who have nothing better to do than nose their way into other peoples' private lives.
I started because I thought it made me look really cool. Plus menthols tasted great
> not nearly enough

Can you estimate (1) Bitcoin's value, as you see it and (2) the mining costs?

Various actors (of varying legality) benefit from Bitcoin to varying degrees.
You could also swap out the sheriff, there's a vote for that. Conversely, I once rented from a landlord who was financially overextended, and the first sign of that was that he stopped paying for trash removal. The following week, the heating failed. One call to code enforcement (this was NY State) was enough to get things fixed until we moved out. It's hard to imagine tenant's safety and comfort to be high priority in a HOA, their purpose is to keep property values up.
Could you share a bit about your motivation and resources, tools or mentorship that helped with this achievement?
Any kind of transferrable contract that has 'positive value'.

For example "Bob agrees to lend $5k to Fred, and to ensure Fred is given flowers every day for 10 years. Fred agrees to repay Bob $10k in 10 years time".

If bob dies, bobs heir can take on bobs side of that contract of delivering flowers, and getting the 10k end-of-contract payment from Fred.
Are those private entities enforcing that though? Usually preserving the historical look of an area is more of a government-enforced thing than a private leasing arrangement.
That's actually quite a lot.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for freedom of speech. I just think it's weird that people try to pitch vicious online cancel mobs as a threat to free speech, when it's much more accurate to call them the price of free speech.
If you are a beginner, try the Color Go Server (CGS). https://www.colorgoserver.com/

CGS "enhances" Go by coloring the board, giving you a visual way to estimate your territory. It also can count liberties so you know how you are doing in a capture race or when a group is about to die.

It's a great way to build an intuition around the game. It came out just a couple of months ago.

If you want to practice puzzles, try https://blacktoplay.com/ or https://badukpop.com/
Who do you think you're fooling? HOAs are not termite damage concealed from buyers at the time of purchase. The existence of HOAs is disclosed before the sale and every single person who chooses to buy a home in an HOA neighborhood has weighed the pros and cons and decided the pros outweighted the cons. I have never lived in an HOA neighborhood and, for as long as my preferences remain the same, I never will. I have never and will never be forced to buy a home in an HOA neighborhood against my will.

Somebody living in an HOA neighborhood might reasonably claim to regret their decision, but it was their decision. Some people want to have their cake and eat it too; they want to live in that nice pretty HOA neighborhood but don't want the HOA that made it a nice neighborhood. Such people are immature. You may as well choose to live in the woods, then complain about trees.
One issue is that developers will often set an attractive low rate to sell the initial units, and it doesn't get appropriately adjusted as the building ages. Then down the road, when expensive stuff (roof, elevators, etc) need to get fixed or replaced, there isn't enough capital banked and the fees spike dramatically.
ML dilettante here!

I wouldn’t discount ML. The nonlinearities are the bread and butter of modern ML models. In fact, two linear layers without a nonlinearity inbetween is equivalent to one big linear layer. So nonlinearities are required.

To put it another way, I would gladly bet any reasonable sum of money that in a double blind test, the listener wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from a genuine guitar pedal. (Not necessarily this pedal, but I suspect ML will model the effects more than adequately for human hearing precision.)

FWIW, I say this as someone who used to argue that graphics programmers were doing gamedev all wrong because they weren’t modeling light, they were approximating light. ML models were the way out.

I also think much of the problem is that ML devs often don’t have traditional signal processing experience, so they haven’t been modeling signals in quite the right way. (I’m trying to rectify that a bit with my FFT tutorials: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1398796224921321472?s=2...) It remains to be seen, but Fourier space has recently been making strides in ML, and it’s likely much easier for a model to approximate a nonlinear waveform in frequency space than as a raw waveform.

To put it another way, if human speech is getting to the point where ML models can trick people, what are the chances that a future model won’t be able to do it for guitars?
I spent 18 months making a decision; here’s what I learned – The PacMan approach
We will be moving soon, ended up with an HOA, I am currently doing everything in my power to end up on that HOA board to Ron Swanson it up hard, including throwing BBQs for neighbors, making contacts with everyone in the neighborhood and picking up trash.

But I didn't want to, I want to spend my life doing other things, but now I've been forced into being a local politician simply because I can't run the risk of some nosy moral (racist) busy-bodies putting a lien on my home because the tree in the front yard died.
Perhaps it's part of their natural diet, and not part of the typical "lab diet".
don't try drugs because you might just like it.
> Too bad most experiments that work on mice have no or negative effects on humans

Really? I'm curious where you heard that. (purely curious, not saying you're wrong)
> The Linux version is freeware now

I can't see such statement on linked site; instead its clarifies to use "legitimate copy":

> This site provides information designed to assist an owner of a legitimate copy of a version of WordPerfect, who desires to use it on a current Linux distro, in doing so.

BTW, Here is Reddit thread[0] & screenshot[1] posted in comments.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/cgw9f5/using_wordper...

[1] https://i.imgur.com/mhZ4Ahm.png
> The desktop is broken [...] because we stopped using files to represent information.

This is it right here. Our entire world and notion of the internet is based on serving data stored in a file from one person to another. Once the developer started drawing too many conveniences and started to "move fast and break things", we thought it's good enough to just store everything in a database, or serve it as Javascript. These technologies are great, but they go completely against everything our computing paradigm stands for.
And then they go to https://termsandconditions.game/ and get some ideas to creatively violate GDPR.
Not in every case naturally, but land can also be worth nothing in circumstances where it has become unstable. Japan has places where old homes exist and new home building is not permitted because it has become a hazard zone for landslide. No wells can be dug, no foundations, it may trigger a collapse which affects your surrounding neighbors. Eventually, earthquake will take the place and no one will buy in the area with this knowledge.
In cities of India, condo building are called society, & the HOA equivalent is also called Society. Old or near to retire or retired uncles serve on those Society boards. they make rules like not allowing any occupant renter or homeowner from different religion or with different food preference or singles or Bachelors or different sexual preferences.
Allen Carr's Easy way out. It's a book. He explains the mind hack that smoking is. Once you grok that, quitting is easy.
Don’t forget that most people live in towns/cities, counties, states, etc. All levels can and have made idiotic rules. Does anyone really think that the FCC’s current interpretation of Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 is anything other than the droolings of a moron? The congress that wrote the act was apparently not firing on all cylinders either, but at least the act is pretty coherent.

Also, don’t forget that not all HOAs make the stereotypical idiotic rules about grass length and garbage bins. Some of them have invented entirely novel classes of idiotic rules! And many of them are just boring and stick to maintaining common areas for the use of residents. Cleaning the neighborhood pool, mowing the median of an avenue or two, trimming the trees, and so on.
Why should the previous owner's interests matter once the property is sold?
I just took a look and laughed-- you think $200-300k for an exec is _high_ ???
Depends on the past.
This says one of the highest natural sources is from olives. Association with Mediterranean diet maybe? Anyway this is linked to quercetin and other citrus bioflavonoids supplements. Pretty sure selegiline still knocks this out of the park though.
I suppose that you are right that it is an infelicitous turn of phrase: I mean what you mean, i.e., that the long battle eventually was won. In China, the vindication of 4 June looks more distant a prospect than ever.
I think in one of the Scandinavian countries, people cannot be charged or punished for attempted or actual escapes from prison, jail, or custody, as the desire for freedom is assumed to be a natural human motivation.
Last time I checked, these phones are not allowed in my country.

In my country all phones must have permission from the government to operate, and the phone manufacturer that need to ask this permission in first place, any phone detected by cell towers that aren't one of them, can be legally banned from the network (not just YOUR phone, but all identical model phones!)
She could be a serial killer that’s not the point.

It doesn’t matter if she’s guilty or not, what matters is can you be charged with a crime if you remove a piece of surveillance equipment from your own property if so it sets a very bad precedent what’s next if the police sets a wiretap on your phone and you switch numbers you gonna be charged with interfering with a police investigation or some other nonsense too?

She might as well be very much guilty in regards to the drugs offenses but it doesn’t mean she can or should be guilty of theft or any other offense due to removing a device from her car.
> So what you do in yours affect your neighbour in an objective way. E.g. you planting a tree right next to a fence may soon block sun to neighbour for a big part of the day.

The problem with HOAs is that often, your next-door neighbor (the only one actually affected) doesn't care, but Karen 15 doors down does, so you have to remove the tree for no good reason.
Tone hounds do a good enough job of fooling themselves.
The comparison to OAuth is quite reasonable. Perhaps the most obvious parallel is the use of a state parameter during the three-legged exchange, without which it's exposed to a CSRF clickjacking attack.
Nearly everything this article takes issue with could be fixed by treating rich metadata at the filesystem level as a first class citizen, and enhancing basic dialog functions to reflect that metadata.
Geroprotectors often transpose well into other species. E.g mexidol has a partially related mechanism of action and show health benefits in humans.
The idea that geroprotectors in mice do not transpose in human needs to be substantiated with rationale/evidence and scoped to specific classes of geroprotectors.
Of course they would mind. The fact that they can enforce their vision of the neighborhood is exactly why people like them.

You make a choice to live in a neighborhood with an hoa. If you don’t like it, leave or don’t buy. Not sure why we should pull the rug out from under those who choose to live their because others would prefer not to.

And I say this as someone who does not live in a neighborhood with an hoa.
> Most everyone subvocalizes when reading anyway.

That's a huge assumption to make. Did you not know that not everyone operates with an inner monologue?
Does it matter which organization actually carried out the orders?
So why should Wikipedia supporters donate to wildly overpriced American healthcare?
I personally like and appreciate how messy and chaotic the desktop computing experience is. My computer is super disorganized, practically every file is some variation of ooisajfisajfasjfdaosijfdaoisdjfaoisfdjasdfoijsafd.jpg. But when I need to go find something, it's fun, because I get to shuffle through all my files and see everything, and that experience is like perpetually a fun reminder of all the stuff I've collected on my computer. If it was easier to find things instantly every time, I'd never go looking at all the stuff scattered around everywhere, like someone who has a bunch of old pictures they have in their attic and never see again.