skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quite familiar both with Vancouver's and Oakland's vacancy taxes, and have endeavored to get them enacted in my town. Not because it will solve any housing problem, but because it's a nice revenue stream for various much needed services, and it eliminates one way that people try to wriggle out of the need to build more homes.

If anything, Vancouver is solid evidence that vacant homes are not the problem, despite so many current homeowners being desperate to use them as an excuse not to build more homes. In Vancouver, the tax provides a small income stream, but has changed nothing at all structurally. And that's in combination with the foreign purchaser tax.

The one solution is to start building what people want, what you derisively call "stack and pack", in sufficient numbers over a long enough period of time to satisfy everyone's desire for housing.

We are not off the mark by 10% in the amount of homes needed in LA or the Bay Area, we are 30%-50% off or more. We have been under building for decades now.
Using your analogy here...

Imagine there are only Chevrolet and Honda (Apple and Android).

Imagine you could only go to Chevrolet-approved locations. That Italian place you like is on the destination list, but only because they pay 30% of their revenue to Chevy.

The movie theater is protesting the 30% fee, so your car physically can't even visit. It's prohibited.

The new boutique really wants to get business. After all it bought land and paid for real estate in a prime location. But Chevy doesn't like the look of it and asks them to tear it down and rebuild.

All the artists at the market your Chevy brought you to are mad because they have to fork out to Chevy, and they're not even sure what Chevy has to do with any of this. They just want to sell their art.

The builders are complaining because everyone is driving these damn cars with their silly rules, and nobody used to work or think this way. But suddenly everyone thinks Chevy's demands are okay. They're not entitled.

Customers like Chevy.
The proposed semiconductor fabs seem legitimately crazy. It's a desert state with 87% of the desert in extreme drought. The state is already planning on needing "mitigation" water. Don't fabs need water? I recall reading something about tsmc and water usage.
It's a bit of an itch I've been scratching for a few years.

Most especially, given two or more instances of what you suspect to be the same or a substantively similar work, how can you assess this in a robust and format-independent manner, programmatically?

For works with well-formed metadata, this isn't an issue.

For identical duplicate copies of the same file, a hash is effective.

But for the circumstance most often encountered in reality --- different forms and formats derived from different sources but containing substantially the same work --- there is no simple solution of which I'm aware. As examples, say you have a reference document The Reference Document.

How do I determine that:

- An ACSCII-only textfile

- Markdown, HTML, DocBook, and LaTeX sources

- PDF, MS Word (which version), PS, DJVU, ePub, or .mobi files (sling any other formats you care to mention).

- Hardbound and paperback physical copies

- Scans made from the same or different physical books or instances, versions, and/or translations.

- Audiobooks based on a work. By the same or different readers.

- Dramatic performances, films, video series, comic-book adaptations, etc., of a work. (Say: Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet. What is the relationship to "West Side Story" (and which version), or Pyramus and Thisbe?)

- Re-typed or OCRed text

... all refer to the same work?

How do you define "work"?

How do you define "differences between works"?

How do you distinguish intentional, accidental, and incidental differences between instances? (Say: translations, errata, corrections, additions for the one, transcription errors for the second, and scanning or rendering artefacts for the third.)

If you're working in an environment in which instances of works come from different sources with different provenances, these questions arise. At least some of these questions are prominent in library science itself. It's the technical mapping of digitised formats I'm focusing on most closely, so the physical instantiations aren't as critical here, though the presumption is that these could be converted to some machine-readable form.

In bibliographic / library science, the term is "work, expression, manifestation"

https://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2011/2011-dp03.html
If you're concerned about Trump and Russia, you should note that the pro-Russian Nordstream 2 didn't face any sanctions from the Biden administration.

Breaking Keystone benefits Russia, but y'all smart people ain't ready for that yet.
OSI didn't invent the term, and weren't the first ones to use it.

Why shouldn't they be the ones required to "make up their own word"? "Open source" has a reasonable plain english meaning which doesn't automatically include all the requirements of OSI's "definition". I don't see why the simplest plain english interpretation shouldn't be considered "the real one".

You say OSI's definition is "the widely accepted one", I'm 100% certain that's not true if your sample group is representative of "english speakers" instead of "hacker news readers".

(And I'm pretty sure your linked xkcd supports my argument here more than yours.)
>It's worth noting that this doesn't enable a true digital nomad lifestyle if that's what you want.

This isn't that hard to circumvent with a mailing address. The real blocker has been pre-covid management not being comfortable with 100% remote.
It is unrelated, not it's not "related". The video above is talking about nightvision footage. The twitter thread about Radar data. First, nothing showed "how wrong he is", as the claimed "debunking" that it was an out of focus plane is not very smart, because a plane doesn't just sit there and hover. Please don't believe this crazy "Thunderfoot / Mick West" stuff without some critical reflection on it first. Second, even if the debunking had showed "how wrong he was", so what? The footage does not originate from nor belong to that guy. He's completely unrelated to it. He's just a release vector. Even if you want to see him as someone you don't think has credibility, that cannot alter the credibility of the nightvision footage that's confirmed by the Pentagon.
Crying out for help to be convinced. It's a sad sounding existence you related in that comment. Without hope. Defeated. ;p ;) xx

1997 phoenix lights, Italy 1960s Friendship case, Belgian UFO wave, Mexico City mass sighting...it doesn't "always turn out to be something explainable" at all
My “results” are Postgres. And curl. And gcc. Etc., etc. Are you seriously arguing that we didn’t put our money where our mouth is?
Thank you. I wish I didn't fail all the time.
My brother is a very avid fisherman - every time I call him, he seems to be out on a river or lake somewhere in western Massachusetts during the afternoon.

This article really struck me, so I shared this with him, along with the video of the Binghamton, NY Susquehanna River Dam accident, which is mentioned in this article. In a light tone I said to him "don't ask why I'm telling you this randomly now, but never go near a low head dam."

He quickly reminded me that I have a family member who died when I was young that drowned. I never knew the details - turns out it was a low-head dam.

It's easy to think that in modern society there aren't many almost unseeable risks like this lurking out in the world.
I got the meter because I was getting headaches here and there. I haven't done a proper study, but anecdotally, if I make sure to open the windows and get some fresh air in the mornings before it gets too hot out, I'm usually ok (and the meter reflects that).
Don't let Apple PR fool you into thinking commercial decisions like this are anything like principle based :-)

If Amazon, Uber and Lyft drop iPhone support, people will atop using iPhones and that's pretty much the only reason Apple doesn't charge them a commission.
I suspect that when GP said "using", they meant "incorporating it into your own code".

No one at any company I've heard of or been involved with cares if you simply use, i.e. run, Linux or other GPL software. That doesn't affect the licensing of your own software.

What they do care about is if you take the GPL software and incorporate it into your own product.
Hahaha, that's exactly my point. They doubted him when he was true because of his reputation. Hahaha, thank you so much!! :p ;) xxx
Assuming we avoid extinction, computer UIs will probably be symbiotic by then. THE_THING_WE_ARE_TALKING_ABOUT will still be prominent, but only conceptually.

Busy glass blinkies - holo or not - will look about as convincing as the Flash Gordon cockpit does today.

A long time ago there was a Russian movie called Solaris directed by Tarkovsky. It featured a bizarre library-in-a-space-station which completely subverted the usual SF tropes.

I'd expect more of that in the distant future. If you're going to have space travel, you might as well be comfortable, cultured, and brain-interfaced.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/434034482834578070/
You don’t need to worry. Smarter people have figured it out.
And you completely ignore the content and judge everything based on reputation? Well I've got a great reputation, why don't you trust me!? :p ;) xx You must be so gullible. But I don't think so, I think you just take it to the extreme. i don't discount reputation. i treat it separately. there's reputation here, and information here. and i examine each separately. what i try to do anyway. can be tricky tho ;p ;) xx
Note that that's starting in October at the earliest, depending on how/when your local office reopens up. The Menlo Park campus is only "10% open" right now, so the only people in the office are the ones desperate to get out of the house, and we're not expecting the office to be 50% open until September. There is plenty of notice and time for people who really care about working from home to either apply for remote work or slowly adjust back to office work.
One of the issues with 'raising money' is that the investors typically want to see you spend it, to generate a return.

VC were famous for this. Spending money, growing to the 'magic' 50 employees, etc. became full time jobs. That's part of the reason a lot of startups are basically 1 year contract gigs - its very hard to tell backers you're stretching the money for a longer runway.
I do actually feel safe getting in public transit while covid’s ongoing, and I’m in Tokyo (and taking two of the busiest lines in the world as part of my commute - Chuo and Yamanote).

At this point it seems obvious to me that having windows open, everyone wearing masks, and everyone shutting up, is sufficient to make public transit safe. Because if it wasn’t Tokyo would be in a _much_ worse situation. I fully admit I don’t have rigorous data to back this up, but I kind of can’t see how it could be otherwise.
I'm going to make a sub /r/nonewsecretsanta and claim the original secret santa was a hoax. This is the hill I die on.
> we also employ by the hour

do you punch a timecard or do you get the same check every month or whatever your pay period is?
IMO bitching about bad middle managers is like bitching that the kid making minimum wage at McDonald's isn't the epitome of gracious customer service.

I have been a middle manager, and can say pretty confidently that it is a very difficult and a very shitty job. This is one reason that it tends to pay quite well is that there are fewer people who want to go into it (as opposed to, say, high level IC).

A middle manager gets to make very few decisions but gets to be the messenger for the majority of them.
You can build something like this on Skynet. Links on Skynet (called skylinks) can point to hashes of data (similar to IPFS)or can point to a pubkey. If the data points to a pubkey, it can be tweaked repeatedly and people with the old links will see the new data.

You can also point to full webapps. So for example you could have a pubkey point to a webapp that then loads the database from a list of moderators who update the data under their pubkeys to point to the latest version of scihub. Then you can even have different moderators curate articles of different subjects, and the webapp can combine everything together.

All the data is stored on Sia, which is a decentralized cloud storage platform. Skynet allows anyone to upload or download data from Sia directly from the web, no need for extensions or custom software. The Sia network handles what IPFS calls "seeding", so contributors don't need to worry about leaving their machines on.
> Why do they need support!?

People manually installing certificates who are unfamiliar with the process. Which, to be fair, is a complex and very technical process if it’s some self-hosted or shared-hosting shell account running an outdated version of cPanel.
I did consider this, and I would also like to believe that my first thought would be "I am being phished" rather than "I'm sure this is the right web site." I do understand that many users (including myself on a bad day) might not recognize a phishing situation. But at least there is a layer of defense that SMS doesn't have.

Maybe the Bitwarden extension should warn users when they try to copy/view a TOTP code by searching for a login rather than using a matched entry.

U2F is my preferred method of MFA, but many services don't support it, and there can be practical issues even for the ones that do. For example, some services support U2F in a browser but not in mobile apps.
Caves of Qud is amazingly fun, and I've spent far more time with it than I ever planned to. +1
Whiteboarding has been a real loss here. It feels like ages since I picked up a marker and made a data model.

There really is no remote alternative that isn't super expensive or lacks the responsiveness of in-person.
Nitpick: background processing doesn't generally kill battery life because the platform API's provide guardrails around how long/frequent you can run, and batches as many wakeups together as possible. You essentially have a runtime budget you deplete as you run.

That said, you're right that most apps dont truly take advantage of background processing. What you have to understand is that the lack of background processing is what keeps notifications unsupported on iOS. Not only can you not support push messaging natively, but you can't _replicate_ a push messaging system either because there's no way to run code when your webpage/PWA isn't in the foreground.
QScale builds Data Center that use excess heat to warm greenhouses
Or someone else. There is not hard evidence that it was Epic.

Apple might have had that in the works even without epic.
Isn't oil one of the most fungible commodities?
Apparently Japan withdrew funding from the company developing this[1]. Hopefully another company can pick this up eventually to see if its worth using. iirc the fraud was financial and the tech was legit, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

1. https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/1204/pezys-future-is-uncertai...
How do you know your anti-vax friend was actually infected? I think a very real risk is that people decide they don't need the vaccine based on false-positive tests or otherwise mis-diagnosed illness.

This study appears to be based on following up with a single hospital's own database of people who tested positive. But I imagine you would get different results if you just found a bunch of people and asked them to self-report their prior infection status before enrolling them in the study.
I've been binge watching Nordic Noir since the pandemic started. I think I know what you mean (My grandpa was a Swedish-American)
Google’s terminal level is L4. Not sure what happens if you’re not promoted in the given timeline.
Largest collection of passwords ever has been leaked online
All very good reasons to invest in a domestic refinery and let Canada enjoy its own riches.
Everywhere else has government cost controls on healthcare on the insurer/payer side.
Not entirely surprising, considering ketamine and nitrous oxide both act as NMDA antagonists. I think this is the primary mechanism they have in common, but there may be others we aren't yet aware of.
No, they can actually just memorize a seed phrase. The distress mode shows an entirely different wallet ID. So, you're wrong on both counts.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Seed_phrase

> However, the bitcoin key generated is not the main key. It is effectively a completely separate wallet!

https://coldcardwallet.com/?ref=producthunt
State taxes are generally not something you want to circumvent.

Ps - great baldurs gate 2 ref in your username :)
I used an SSL CA (Startcom / StartSSL) that used Client certs as its (only?) method of authentication. It was a terrible experience if you ever had to log in from another browser.
JBS Paid $11M to Resolve Ransomware Attack
> certainly can expect some invasion of privacy

On certain public things, yes. On illegally obtained private finance info - no.
AFAIK, Google has a very similar policy. At FB, E5 is a "terminal level", so once you hit that level, there's no push or expectation to reach beyond that. I've been in the E4 red zone at one point, and spent about a year getting evaluated at E5 levels before getting the promo. You're not automatically out if you don't reach it in time, but you have to be showing progress, and it does get more urgent the longer you spend in that zone.
I’ve always felt this way about learning too. I’ve never had anyone offer to be any kind of a teacher or mentor long term. However there is a huge narrative around mentors and people talking about how much they learned from others so I have to conclude its either my personality type or just something that used to happen more in the past.
The market.
Microsoft and Sony have been doing it for years.

So has Epic’s parent company
The leader in that space is Skynet, which basically is like IPFS + Filecoin but also has dynamic elements to it, and a lot better performance + reliability.

Cryptocurrency is helpful because it allows you to incentivize people to hold the data. If you don't have cryptocurrency, you're basically dependent on altruism to keep data alive (like bittorrent, or ipfs without filecoin). Popular files do okay for a while, but even popular files struggle to provide good uptime and reliability after a few years.

On an incentivized network like Sia or Filecoin, you can have high performance and reliability without ever needing any users to keep their machines online and seeding.
That's a possibility and a fair point, but only if these data were not independently confirmed by other sensors, like night vision footage, iPhones, FLIR targeting pod footage, and pilots. You can't say it's faulty sensors if you get the same signal across multiple unrelated systems.

I'm not saying you're saying this specifically, but some people do, and that's crazy, it's a conspiracy theory to invoke the idea that all sensors failed at the same time in the same way, include hallucinating humans, it's very much reaching for a crazy explanation just to deny evidence or preserve a belief system challenged by that evidence.
It’s great advice to focus on a real user experience. It’s easy to get seduced by intellectual thought experiments about user convenience, that don’t translate into real enjoyment that drive real people’s behavior. I’ve made this mistake often, even when trying to predict my own enjoyment.

The subtle thing here is that experience is emotional, not mechanical. It can be difficult to stay attuned to your emotional intuition while you are analyzing and coding all day.
The tests are designed to have high false positives because they have to bias toward few false negatives and there are no perfect tests. What gets me is that the negative result is the one bearing meaningful information but not the positive result, yet everyone mistakenly talks about positives as if they are far more informative than they actually are.
"Proper" app development treats the network as optional. Its surprising how spotty connectivity is in the real world, and so its a huge UX boost to load data predicatively when possible (not to mention that running offline-first is a magical experience for the user).
Original blog post author here. Some quick personal thoughts (i.e. I'm not speaking on behalf of Chrome here).

> - Blocking webRequest to change CSP to authorize our overlay script to execute

I can't exactly say I'm keen on extensions relaxing CSP rules for a site. The approach I'm interested in exploring here is allowing extension resources to bypass CSP restrictions on a given site. IMO a typical extension shouldn't be able to weaken a site's security, but it should be able to load its own images and scripts on the site.

> - executeScript: in most case, the script we execute is just inserting a script tag so it would still work in Manifest v3, but with webapps using Service Worker we have to resolve to download the scripts and execute then directly via executeScript, which will not be possible in v3.

This is not a viable approach in Manifest V3 as reviewers would consider this remote code injection and therefore a violation of the "Additional Requirements for Manifest V3" section of the policy.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/program_policies/...

Bundling the overlay engine with the extension sounds like it may do the trick. Just make sure that the engine cannot be used for malicious purposes (e.g. harvesting user data, arbitrary script injection, etc.).
Seems pretty misleading, since that’s only true of a dollar is a significant portion of your wealth…
It was scrapped either because the Chinese decided they don’t want your tar or because we want to screw them.
Decentralized exchanges will prevent their ability to ban it.
No argument from me at all. Just a bit of sadness.
Ok,

[1] https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo...

[2] Note: This looks like the same issue as above, but it is separate; https://itwire.com/security/krebs-accused-of-doxxing-man-bas...

To his credit, he never claims to be a hands-on researcher who disassembles and analyzes malware himself. I guess that's why I scratch my head when people point to his work as substantial. He has no skin in the game, no hands on technical experience, and just reblogs more technical articles from actual experts. His only real experience is getting personally hacked and hijacked.

Also, to clarify I never questioned his journalistic integrity. I just think he's a mediocre writer. It's his style that I, personally, don't like. One thing he does that I can't wrap my head around is writing about himself in the third person. He uses phrases like "...this author..." in reference to himself. Most authors would not be injecting themselves into a journalistic piece in the first place, but to do it with such bravado is awkward for the reader. Am I supposed to be impressed that you operate a WordPress blog?
Because of corruption.
Unsure how a technologist with any understanding of security questioning the integrity of electronic voting could be considered a conspiracy theory, instead of the default position on which the integrity of the most important election in the world is based.

The entire history of elections is defined by the mechanisms for corrupting them and the rituals used to preserve their integrity and proof of chain of custody. The burden of proof is on the election authorities and using electronic systems did everything we predicted it would, which is sow the discord that results in civil unrest.

When you take the integrity of that process away, the results are predictable.