skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hacker News isn't a community in any meaningful sense. I have had interpersonal interactions with maybe half a dozen people from here, all very positive but I don't know these people like I know my neighbours or my friends or even the people who work at the local shop.

Hacker News is a very large and impersonal forum. You can have interesting conversations on a forum, but the degree to which they are a community is the degree to which you develop relationships with the other people. I wouldn't call /r/videos (or any other massive subreddit) a community either, and they have the same level of social intimacy.
Skid Row, Explained - Johnny Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKo8Sv99MkM

Evicted: Most Liberal Neighborhood Gives 300 Homeless COVID-19 Refugees the Bum's Rush
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=As17ZckrPVs

This Seattle homeless shelter is promoting rectal injections and free "heroin pipes," all paid for with tax dollars | Not the Bee
https://notthebee.com/article/seattle-homeless-shelter-promo...

Project Veritas: Central OAC exec admits orgs register thousands of homeless to vote at same address in Fulton Co.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tArtYkILiHc

This LA Musician Built $1200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6h7fL22WCE

585,000 homeless U.S. CITIZENS are ignored while ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS in New York will collect $15,000 food stamps, free housing, and a job.

Tom Cotton: New York’s Homeless Veterans Ineligible for $15.6K Payments to Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/11/tom-cotton-new...
This is really good for the way it touches on pain points that new developments in the Nix world have the potential to fix. Namely:

* the recursive update stuff could be handled better by the merge semantics in the Nickel language[1], which is coming together now and issues like this are being carefully considered
* module-based packages, as recently proposed by Eelco, could also make overrides more natural
* the pain of pulling in all of Nixpkgs just to get the library function is something that Nix flakes could potentially resolve

I'd like to see a considered account of something like nix-thunk vs. Nix flakes for the latter use case, though.

The post also gives a really clear account of what sucks about nix-env.

I hope people who are actually important in the Nix community are also paying attention to this :D
I'm not going to pretend I know a solution to this, but wasn't part of the reason it became hard to involuntarily commit people because it was being abused? Like, fathers were getting their daughters committed for being "too promiscuous"?

If that's a serious risk, I don't know that the "solution" to this problem by committing people is worth it.

That said, it's a hard problem. I know it's extremely hard for people without a yuppie income to get mental health treatment in the United States. I know before I got a high-paying desk job, I realized I had some form of manic depression, wanted treatment, but also could not afford to see a therapist because my health plan did not cover mental healthcare and my job didn't pay particularly well. It became this chicken-egg problem: it was hard to find a better job because of the depressive episodes, but I couldn't treat them without getting a better job. I can only imagine that stuff like schizophrenia and drug addiction (which I luckily have not suffered from) is exponentially more difficult to deal with.
I had a quick look at what various special interest "non profits" had to say about this:

Alzheimer's Association -> very positive, basically an advert (https://www.alz.org/get-involved-now/new-day). " A new type of Alzheimer’s treatment, aducanumab addresses the disease in a way that has never been done before. This therapy slows progression of the disease, rather than only addressing symptoms."

Alzheimer's Foundation of America -> much more measured (https://alzfdn.org/alzheimers-foundation-of-america-statemen...) "We are hopeful that it will improve the quality of life for individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers. Patient access and affordability to all of those in need is of significant importance."

Alzheimer's Association transparency page claims that they received under $300k from Biogen in 2020 and that <2% of their revenue is from biotech - I feel like they are either selling themselves a bit too cheaply or being a bit dishonest. Their whole website feels weirdly corporate as well.
> a third world country that may state they take privacy seriously but as the old saying goes “shit walks, money talks”

You didn't even have to read that much into the article to spot the ignorance. Whether by gun, "law", or money, there's no place where your data untouchable. But you could have stopped right here:

> This is an ENTERPRISE MILITARY GRADE Encrypted setup.

The famed "military encryption".
There are three kinds of people experiencing homelessness in SF:

Drug addicts, who settle in the Bay Area because it is Paradise On Earth for drug addiction. Drugs are cheap and plentiful. Dealers transact unmolested in broad daylight in front of apathetic cops. Needles are provided by the government free of charge. Tents can be pitched on just about any sidewalk. Drug use does not even need to be discreet -- anyone who walks in SF for more than a few hours will run across someone injecting or freebasing. It's not just the Tenderloin either.

The mentally ill, who cannot take advantage of services that exist to help them. There are individuals who are so out of it, so schizophrenic etc., that the only way they will ever be helped is if someone physically forces them into an institution. And can you imagine the response of SF constituents if such a policy was enacted? Totally impossible. One cell phone video of a capture gone wrong and it's over.

And lastly, there are tons of people who are 100% content with living on the streets by choice. There have always been transients in society who adopt this lifestyle, in every era of history. It's basically urban camping! No job, no responsibilities. It's a beautiful place with amazing weather. If all of Earth could easily navigate to the Bay Area, you could fill this city to the brim with people who'd "hobo" it by choice.

There MUST be a fourth type. The person who is on the street due to financial misfortune, who had horrible luck and found themselves in a spot they couldn't get out of. Statistically this has to exist. And we need to make sure those people get a ladder somehow to climb themselves out. Absolutely.

But to pretend that this fourth type is all that exists? Or that it's the majority?

Not even close.
>Chia plotting is extremely I/O intensive and destroys most SSDs in under a few weeks

More like Proof of SSD-shredding.
In science, yes. In the financial markets I’m not so sure the truism holds.
Because stocks don't always go up
I'm working on a language app and thinking about pivoting to focus on Mandarin. I would love your feedback on the lesson format:

https://chatlesson.com
There are many implausible aspects to this scenario.

Firstly, the tax will be nowhere near 10% p.a.. The order of magnitude yield on real estate is 5%. Unimproved land will be less, of course. 1% seems to be a more likely order of magnitude for LVT rate.

Secondly, would "Big Ag" really offer 20x the intrinsic value of the property? Seems unlikely.

Thirdly, who wouldn't be dancing for joy to receive 19x the value of their property in cash (after paying off a possibly hefty mortgage)?

Finally, if you are sitting on land that has economic value but you are refusing to unlock that economic value then yes, LVT is a pressure to sell. That's (part of) the point of LVT.
"Wouldn't it be great if we could get criminals to use a 100% public transparent ledger???"
I agree with your general point, but your specific example of selling highly appreciated real estate is a poor one, since you incur no tax when selling your primary residence (up to something like $500k gain - over your cost basis which includes any capital improvement you made to the property) as long as you lived there for two of the last five years.

It’s a huge tax advantage for homeowners. One could argue that it is in itself unfair as it advantages people who already have large assets over those who do not.
Another point is that $500k is not in the 1% everywhere. In the Bay Area, it wouldn’t even put you at the top 5%.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/01/upshot/are-yo...
And yet we also have a massive under-occupancy in some areas of LA cough Venice Beach cough Mar Vista cough where a lot of homes are owned by corporations for occasional use by traveling employees, people in other countries parking finances here, or people who AirBnB them for 180 days/year.

In one block where I was working in Mar Vista, four older homes have been knocked down to build McMansions in the past year. All four are owned by LLCs, and all four are vacant.

As for homelessness, we could solve a significant chunk of the problem by having decent healthcare/insurance available to people. I know two people - who had insurance - who ended up losing their houses due to healthcare expenses.

Of course, the above personal experience should be tagged as "anecdotal" not "evidential."
Heh, this reminded me of _why's comments from the Zed drama waaaaay back: https://gist.github.com/brianjlandau/186701

> Let me put it this way. Suppose you’ve got Zed Shaw. No, wait, say you’ve got “a person.” (We’ll call this person “Hannah Montana” for the sake of this exercise.) And you look outside and this young teen sensation is yelling, throwing darts at your house and peeing in your mailbox. For reals. You can see it all. Your mailbox is soaked. Defiled. The flag is up.

> Now, stop and think about this. This is a very tough situation. This young lady has written one of THE premiere web servers in the whole wide world. Totally, insanely RFC complaint. They give it away on the street, but everyone knows its secretly worth like a thousand dollars. And there was nothing in that web server that hinted to these postal urinations.
There is an interesting inverse correlation of Mozilla CEO salary and amount of users Firefox has.

I think it's normal to pay competitive salary too, but the salary should reflect one's impact on the company. Looking at the current state of Firefox, I can't imagine why their CEO is compensated as they are.
Um, at various times I have had a home equity loan...
Never microdosed (or macro for that matter), but nothing comes close to the elation I feel when I play with my kids at the park.
Verifiable Supply Chain Metadata for Tekton
> leaving the bank holding the bag

You probably underestimate the ability of banks to evaluate risk. Yes, they absolutely could end up underwater on an asset backed loan, but you also shouldn't assume that you can take out $1 in loans on every $1 of stock.

On Schwab's page, they say: "Schwab Bank, in its sole discretion, will determine what collateral is eligible collateral and the loan value of collateral". So, if you have some recently highly-appreciated shares of AMC for example, they might decide they are not eligible collateral, or only offer to lend you $1 for every $5 of stock.
So homeless guy should go to job interviews, and visit shrinks, but without taking showers. This is just fascism.

It is medical health crisis because there are no basic facilities. It is not "making it nicer", but stoping deadly diseases. Look how Bangladesh builds refugee camps! California has 1000x more resources!
I'm working on a language app and thinking about focusing on Mandarin. I would love your feedback on the lesson format:

https://chatlesson.com
It's not about the same people working for the same company anymore. Remote-first orgs can now hire from far bigger pools of candidates for less money overall, possibly keeping the same quality/time of deliveries. For me, it looks like a classic case of equilibrium price moving because the supply of something has increased, in this case, workers. What this bigot fails to realize is that while in her sheltered part of the globe the "white techies" will see their wages moving down towards the equilibrium, the rest of us "non-white techies", especially in third world countries, will see our wages moving up to reach it. It's happening already. I live in a poor Brazilian state, 1/3 of my colleagues switched to remote jobs for companies abroad in the last year, 1/3 are now simply working for companies elsewhere in the country that pays more. But anyway, maybe once she stops hiding behind pregnancy, insomnia, and her bigotry towards a particular skin color to push her outdated perspective on worker-company relations down her employees throats, we can have one more person in a position of power working to improve it.
It was a combo of being a fresh/new dev on my part and IE6/7, but I recall spending (wasting) days and days of my life working around IE issues.

I know we don't want another situation of one browser dominating the web but Chrome (and Firefox) improved building for the web so much. I don't know if people forget or weren't around for the IE days but it was absolutely terrible and a life-waste.
Strateos Cloud Lab Closes $56M Series B
A possible causal factor is that much of the crypto world actually thinks BTC is private. It's not. It's the opposite: a 100% public fully replicated ledger.
I haven't read the court documents, but this seems theoretically solvable by just only accessing the backdoor on any particular phone once you've seen it send an incriminating message to a phone you are already accessing (and getting judges to sign off on warrants for it, paperwork is probably a nightmare).

You start with the head honchos phone, someone texts him about a drug shipment, so you get a warrant to access the backdoor on that phone as well, and so on.

As long as there aren't isolated cells, you get every cell phone. Since you're relying on the head honcho to push the phones, there probably aren't isolated cells.
Is that with or without auto-save? Though, that might actually be interesting for some academic research if enough data was collected.
I'll try to dig up the original study I found months ago, talking about correlation between speaking practice and language acquisition in Japanese students learning English. When controlling for method of study, the researchers noted that students who tended to speak more ended up doing _worse_ on final exams. This could potentially be explained by the tendency for early speakers to way over-focus on correctness, which slows the whole process.

In the meantime, this book by Krashen may be of interest! He touches on some of the same ideas, roughly. Notably, around page 100 or so, he starts to define what he would consider his ideal learning environment: http://www.sdkrashen.com/content/books/sl_acquisition_and_le...
They use bitcoin exchanges around the world that are connected through Bitcoin Lightning network. Your dollars are exchanged to bitcoin at your local exchange, transferred via Lightning Network to an exchange in El Salvador, exchanged to dollars, and the dollars are then available at a local bank or ATM (or just kept in the app to pay someone else). Strike itself doesn't provide the liquidity, they use available local exchanges.

If you pay someone in the same country with the same currency, then it works probably like Paypal. You can't do that between countries, because the actual dollars have to be in the local bank.
The lack of U2F or YubiKey PGP support is sad and something they could allow.

But the lack of wide deployment of PGP is not their fault, surely they can't be blamed for that. It offers you the functionality and makes it quite trivial to use, assuming the recipient actually has a key. That's your contacts' job really.

True universal E2EE e-mail between people was something that Estonia tried by giving everyone access to S/MIME. Clients sucked and still suck in that aspect, it was rarely used because of that reason. The functionality no longer exists. Way ahead of its time I guess.
Those are also the industries that unceremoniously dumped a large portion of their workers a year ago. Many of those workers undoubtedly moved to other industries and now that they have gone to the trouble of switching, they aren't going to switch back without getting a much sweeter deal.
> For Americans to get some context on that, when the US declare its independence the Russians annexed the Crimea. Ask yourself how much sanctions the US would endure in order to protect Norfolk Virginia and then realize that Sevastopol is basically the one practical harbor, while the US has 100s on multiple coasts.

In this hypothetical what made the US give up Norfolk Virginia to Canada?

In other words if this port was so important to the USSR why did they give it up to Ukraine, why didn't they take it back from Ukraine when they split up, and why did they wait until 2014 to take it back?
Also, people buying rental property from cash they earned from wages or selling their business pay tax on the wages/gains and the rental income, not just the latter...
Think hard about the concept of bail while you're at it. It is essentially the purchase of temporary rights for people who have not been convicted of a crime. The underlying question being: "Who should be allowed to have their freedoms, and should it be based on your wealth?"
I'm not really up to speed on Ford's AWD system, but if the frame already supports drive to the back axle then I would've thought RWD would be doable, and more desirable in a truck

I guess it could be a limitation of the hybrid engine
I assume you can provide some data to back up the assertion that "it's not even close?"
It is as far as I know
"And it's all in the hands of one person."

Hmmm this quote really doesn’t help the credibility of Jan Boelen’s opinion.
That does not say what you're claiming it does. The article is very clearly talking about the response to Trump:

> correct response should be "consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform".

That's the entire focus of the article is a consistent response from Facebook. It makes absolutely no mention of the action that precipitated the response.
> reinvesting that into the stock market

Yes! Certain classes of loans against securities (e.g. pledged asset line[0]) cannot be used to buy more securities. Margin loans, on the other hand, can be reinvested to add leverage, but come with higher interest, more regulations, limits on borrowing relative to equity, etc.

Of course, like many things, the Very Rich can get around some of those limits viz. Bill Hwang doing (apparently) very much what you describe.

[0]: https://www.schwab.com/pledged-asset-line
It's not about not taking the win. It's about taking the short term win (by contributing to the monoculture dominance) at the expense of a long term loss -- why expect Google to maintain the Web's current advantages when it no longer serves their purpose to? Especially since the writing is already on the wall.
It's popular to extol the virtues of on the web, anyway.

The author explains their reasoning in the article:

>On the other hand microdosing is not common. However it has several characteristics that make it appear more valuable. Namely its difficulty, exclusivity and risk. It activates our bias of thinking that scarcity indicates value.
Your example of loans is tax deferral, not avoidance. As for your examples in general, those are really good.

Collateralized loans on stock we usually call "margin loans" and are easy to get.

Also, anyone in real estate will recognize the term "HELOC", where you can get a loan against the value of your home, presumably after its value has appreciated.

I think both of those are fairly accessible, at least in the US.
I remember Android having an option for showing dates this way, but sadly it seems to be lost/misplaced?
> Web forums and blogs were better.

I don't think they were inherently better. And don't get me wrong, I have a mostly positive experience with forums and blogs and an extremely negative experience with social networks, eventually I deleted every single account I am not required to have for work-related reasons.

However, I believe the underlying reason is that pre-Facebook communities were more "selective". Being part of those forums or reading blogs was more of a deliberate choice rather than the societal average, something like HN, early Slashdot or early Reddit. This resulted in user bases that were not cross-sections of the general population.

In the alternate universe where forums and blogs became the mainstream, I believe we would have seen the same problems.

Algorithmic feeds are literally evil incarnate and I'd love nothing more than to see them nuked out of existence, but I don't think they are the root of the problem, at least not in this particular case.
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That is true - it is, after all, entirely possible that the BTC price drops caused the Colonial ransom seizure. [1]

Perhaps people are correctly estimating that as BTC is likely to lose another use case for it (ransomware)[2], there is now less demand for it, thus resulting in the downward price pressure we've seen over the past few weeks.

Perhaps criminals are correctly predicting that 'their' BTC might be taken away from them, thus causing them to liquidate their positions, thus resulting in downward price pressure. [3]

[1] I am, of course, making a joke.

[2] The writing is on the wall, due to the government reaction to the Colonial hack.

[3] No, Monero is not a solution for them, because the FBI is not stupid. XMR:BTC is largely sideways. If ransomware switches to it, it's likely that exchanges transacting in privatecoins will be treated as international money launderers. https://coincodex.com/convert/monero/bitcoin/?amount=1
Also, this person or persons probably didn't just take the information for a few rich people at the top. The probably stole the information for many, many more people. These are the few they leaked.

What are they doing with the rest of the info?
That was the company that dissed me. They want young, fresh-faced contractors.

I can hang my own shingle, but I don't have a network.
Bitcoin says that whoever has the private key controls the funds. In this case, whoever was in custody before the FBI took the funds was seriously negligent in protecting their private key (which is not that hard to do).
I have never tried microdosing, but how would I manage to get a walk in nature? :p

Alas, when I was a child we used to live at an edge of a forest, so getting a walk in nature was easy to do. But where I am living now, there is some residential housing and some fields. Not sure how far I would have to drive until I get to some point which would qualify as "nature". Perhaps 30 minutes to an hour.
True, a lot of it depends on personal preference, too. I think the idea is to not worry about understanding 100%. Even just 70% could be fine! Or just the gist or emotion of the text could be enough.
At the very least, it makes it hard to prosecute low level drug offenders, which is where the most abuse (originating from the government) is in the system.