skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This program benefits the tenants who owe back rent, they indirectly benefit the landlords. Otherwise, the landlords can sue/evict those tenants with the repercussions associated with doing so. California stepped up to prevent this. Other states that don't do this, will have a lot of pissed off landlords and homeless people.

Most landlords are individuals with 1 or 2 properties and would not qualify for PPP, EIDL, Restaurant Revitalization Fund, or the Shuttered Venues Grant.

And even if there weren't programs focused on helping other industries, the way landlords were affected is unique since they had to continue providing service for free.

Were restaurants required to continue feeding people throughout the pandemic with no pay?
It does feel like the propaganda to genuine news ratio has increased markedly roughly since the Trump presidency, however. That's worrying for many reasons, not the least that increases in propaganda are what one might describe as leading indicators of quite shitty times.
Is this actually more private then just opening your chrome/Firefox/etc in incognito mode and using Google?
very little work - 30 hours a week?
I think "older" people at FAANGlikes put max 15 hours a week.
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> The car companies are publicly traded

well kinda. bmw basically is owned to 46% by two people and they control it.
vw the same, most voting stock is in the hands Porsche Automobil Holding SE, basically owned by wolfang porsche, his ancestor was ferdinand porsche.

yeah on paper they are traded. but not controlled. (mercedes is different here)
but a lot corporations in germany are at least still controlled by descendants
This stuff isn't that hard to figure out, given the number of specifications and tutorials already out there. What's impressive is the fact that he thought of a reasonably sized task, and (presumably) executed it efficiently and completely without getting stuck or distracted.
The authors underlying point is that factoring in traits of the population — as described statistically and not anecdotally - is the way to make social structures more inclusive.

For example, let’s say that statistically it was discovered to be that more women prioritize work-life balance over all else. Let’s also assume that you want women to feel included in that little “meritocracy” you created. Is it more or less inclusive that your corporate strategy for promoting favored women who sacrificed their work life balance by working on weekend?

Show me what is wrong with this line of thinking.
Thanks! The idea is to use software to promote this reform (as well as Final-Five Voting...which is Open Primaries + RCV)

As for advanced tactics, if you're really into it, Rob Richie, the CEO of FairVote (leading national advocacy org) put this in the New York Times over the weekend. It spells out a bunch of scenarios (e.g. "I want Garcia to win and Stringer to lose.") and how to tactically vote for each.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/opinion/nyc-mayoral-elect...

BUT the point I'd want to drive home is that ranked-choice allows you to be FAR more able to "vote for who you believe is best" than in the more common most votes wins approach (where you have to be strategic the moment a 3rd candidate enters).
You would be furious that someone who couldn't pay their rent is getting aid while someone who you, who could, isn't? I will never understand why people get so angry and others' lack of suffering. When you fall on hard times do you not wish that others not have to suffer like you did?

"I had known I was going to get a bailout I would have purposely not met my contractual obligations" isn't really the best argument.
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This is another reminder that .com is a US TLD.

It was originally administered by the Defense Data Network, transitioned to the National Science Foundation for a while, and in 1997 the United States Department of Commerce assumed authority over all generic TLDs.

presstv.ir remains unaffected because it is not subject to US law.
Thank you, I was really confused by this because the NYC borough of Brooklyn is actually synonymous with Kings County, and I assumed that OP had merely forgotten the s.
The progenitor Kenneth Arrow was pretty wonkish even among economists. RCV appeals to technocrats, who like the provability of its assertions. It's also a change from tradition. People with these tendencies tend to skew left.
> I wonder what percentage of these women would've guessed right had she straight-up asked "do you think I'm a man or do you think I'm a woman pretending to be a man"?

This is a question that can't be usefully asked -- it would never come up in any normal circumstance, so just the fact that you asked tends to give the answer away.

> not being in disguise helps.

Women don't seem to agree with you. I've seen some pretty dramatic "makeup / no makeup" picture spreads.
> An ideal company is a mix of both

The best company I've ever worked at (retail, surprisingly) squared the circle thusly:

Strategy (i.e. goals, culture, priorities) flowed top-down. And the company spent serious time doing it pervasively and well.

Solutions (i.e. implementations, features, products) flowed bottom-up.

Part of their corporate culture was that a manager above team level should never suggest how to do something. You could bounce ideas off them, but they were pretty serious about it being the person doing the implementation work's decision.
> where they do a runoff at the end to cover some extra cases

One major motivation for the runoff at the end in techniques like STAR (Score Then Automatic Runoff) is to encourage voters to give different scores to candidates (assuming they actually feel differently about them) rather than strategically voting all 5s and 1s and basically making it the same as approval voting.
Would you mind elaborating a bit on that point? From what I've seen RCV does tend to have a really strong moderating pull on elections that something like MMP manages to dodge, but it does mean that big tent parties will often experience strong pull off and, honestly, the African American community is often under served by a lot of Dem economic policies - though I'm really speaking in demographic generalities here.
Where I live Californians have absolutely decimated the market. A few realtor buddies of mine say they almost exclusively deal in cash buyers from there and I was almost outbid on my own house several years ago by the same people.

The net result is either these homes will go to the wealthy in a state with outsized influence (California), or they will be purchased and lived in by them. This pushes the locals even further out of the market and doesn't really do anything to resolve the current supply shortage we have.

For Duplexes though I think you are correct. Likely they will sell to far more stringent mega-corps capable of withstanding 100 year events.
back when I was a postdoc my group had a journal club and some joker decided to include a paper comparing different alternative voting schemes (US seems to be mostly "majority vote and full runoffs with ties).

We made it through instant runoff, and a few other approaches, and then Of course, the Joker decided to lay a landmine at the last minute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...) at which point the hardcore quantative biologists all started paying attention. "Wait... there are interesting math problems relevant to politics? Math... solves a real world problem? Why am I working in biology?"
Thanks for your reply. I thought there was a point being made about education at a more meta level, since the piece was very old and it begs the question of why a really old essay is on hackernews.
Whenever online dating comes up here, it inevitably leads to discussions of imbalances in favor of women and elite men.

This predicament isn’t really unique to online dating though. Lots of society throughout history have had polygamy (elite men get many wives, others are shit out of luck).

I’ve been wondering if war mongers in times past have been driven by this—decimate men to rebalance the scales towards the general male population (and also the elites who don’t fight).

There were baby booms after the two world wars. How much of that was due to a perceived scarcity of men among women? Did that cause them to settle quickly?
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I would not feel upset in that scenario. I would feel upset if my mother didn’t pay my brother’s rent and then my brother stole from me for food money and set up camp on my sidewalk, then died 9 months later.

Homeless isn’t just something that impacts the person without the home, it effects everyone.
Because liberal (progressive) areas are full of people who are advocating for change. What that change should actually be varies greatly between individuals, so there is lots of fragmentation and in-fighting. The idea that you could vote for your specific niche but fall back to your preferred monolith is desirable because you don't feel like you're wasting your vote by voting for a minor party who will likely never win a seat. Conservative areas are full of people who want to maintain the status quo. They have varying ideas about how things should be but are unified by the fundamental idea that things shouldn't change. Since there is far less fragmentation, there is far less need to give your voice to a niche so they're happy to have their vote go directly to a monolith.
Is there room between "evidence" and "magic"? We all believe a ton of things that we personally don't have a viable mechanism of action. (Just ask the average person to explain how a car works! Or the economy!)
Huh... yeah, so this pizza ballot (which I'm just going to have to assume is similar to the real ballot, as otherwise I'm not sure why they are doing this ;P) definitely isn't at all what I was expecting, as I was at least expecting to get to rank all the candidates; I can definitely see some weird effects happening with a ballot like this if people have to decide to use up ranking slots on people they dislike just so they can provide comparative rankings between them as maybe they'd end up in the final round. I mean, wasn't the entire point of this that I'm supposed to get to just vote for the people I like in the order I like them, rather than having to second guess stuff like "well, I hate both of these people, but since I hate this one less than that one and I bet a lot of people like both of them I'd better rank at least one of them above a candidate I prefer"? (And yes: I appreciate the trilemma that says that no voting system is perfect, but truncating the rank mechanism is seeming to leave some of the goal sitting on the table.)
> Being wrong is part of the path to being right

Only if one is willing to acknowledge being wrong. I'm not seeing that here.
I think there is a difference in online and in-person communication styles for most people - at least for those of any literary bent at all, who get beyond stream of consciousness, unfiltered blathering of words into their keyboard - so that's why I don't see any contradiction in preferences of women who might want a literary written communication style but also want in-person chemistry that a woman pretending to be a man wasn't able to create.
The problem is you can pull any old programmer in off the streets to work on the stuff that brings in 200k/mo per person, so I'm doubtful there will be a surplus of engineering talent at the desired skill level.
Exactly my reference :(
The claim (from one of the people working on JPEG XL at Google) is that better image compression is going to reduce latency (or allow higher-quality images) and thereby improve other metrics besides bandwidth costs, giving internet companies even more incentive to adopt better codecs.
All the trans people I know actually like his jokes, it seems that you are living in a wrong decade that doesn't exist.
http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
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Some people do. My team within Adobe discourages it.

There are some really great hobby slack channels that I personally check on vacation. Can be hard to ignore the random work questions while doing that.

Once another team investigating an outage tried to contact me on vacation... I sent them a photo of my bike in an empty field in the mountains of Oregon and said "Sorry, bad internet out here!"
Neil Young Archives. Like Netflix, but for Neil Young.

https://neilyoungarchives.com/timeline?position=14.887570892...
I suppose some meaning could be lost if people are voting tactically from the awareness that they're in an IRV election. But on the other hand, if a voting system's implementation incentivizes voters to vote against their true preferences, then that by itself should be an indication that the voting system is flawed. (It's not true that every voting method incentivizes tactical voting; this is a common misreading of Arrow's Theorem.)
A little over 800 BAT this year: https://i.imgur.com/p7o6QKT.png

That's ~400 dollars at current BAT prices ($0.49) or ~1200 dollars at the price BAT was ~1 month ago ($1.50).

It's not a lot, BAT value isn't very stable and I'd make more money with Google Adsense, but this comes from users that block ads anyway. 400 is better than 0.
Relevant cartoon

https://sadmoment.com/putting-on-a-forced-smile-everyday-for...
That's actually a strategy recommended to ADHD folk: do 20m of engaging "fun" to prepare yourself for 5m of forced boring activity. Think of it as recharging a reservoir of $tolerance before draining it to power some boring activity.
I am very happy tooling is helping to make these sorts of mixups easier to find, although sadly C++ is such a hard language to write tooling for that those kinds of nice features are pretty rare. I remember back when I had to work in Xcode a few years ago I could rarely even get basic intellisense to work.
You seemed fairly reasonable up until you revealed that you believe in some paranoid conspiracy to disappear internet nobodies for their social media comments...

>I often wonder how many nobodies disappear for some string of comments on some no-traffic forums/blogs.

The answer is zero. I hope this helps.
"I applied to these companies because I was under the impression that they could be major stepping stones in my career"

I think that depends on what you think working at at FAANG is going to get you career-wise. Better salary most probably but beyond that who knows? You'll get a lot of recruiter interest but probably won't get any offers just because you worked at a FAANG because, guess what, pretty much every company requires you to go through their kind of assessment these days so you're basically starting over with interviews at other companies if you decide to leave.
It looks like this was that article:

Show HN: Find Your Hacker News Doppelgänger

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568709
Looks like the Washington Post is engaging in a bit of self-reflection after all:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-media-cal...

They even recently changed their headline from a February 2020 article, "Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked," to "Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed," although the page title is still "Tom Cotton repeats debunked conspiracy theory" as of June 22.

Here's another take on the strange media pivot that we are observing:

"With President Trump out of office, it should be possible to reject his xenophobic agenda and still ask why, in all places in the world, did the outbreak begin in the city with a laboratory housing one of the world’s most extensive collection of bat viruses, doing some of the most aggressive research?"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...

Or perhaps more damningly:

"It is not too early to grapple with the failures of the media, which reflect the wider struggles of trying to fairly convey the truth in an atmosphere deformed by misinformation. Rather than meet lies with truth, the media often met it with other lies."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/lab-leak-liberal-med...

On a related note, I remember reading a blog post from David Relman (I think? though it could have been someone else from Stanford) early in the pandemic which discussed the lab leak possibility. I haven't been able to find the original post since then however.
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The first photo reads to me as "clearly a woman" and based on that photo I have trouble imagining she actually passed for male. The second photo reads to me as "clearly a loser with no self esteem who is going to cry on my shoulder."

I can imagine the second photo passing as male but not in a good way.

There are subtle body language differences between men and women and that may be a factor.

I'm tall for a woman. I've had very short hair for like fifteen years. It didn't initially get me mistaken for male.

After being homeless for a year, people began calling me "sir" if they initially saw me from the back. (I would turn around and they would apologize for their error.) That was partly due to clothing but probably also my body language changed in ways I was not conscious of.

There are myriad subtle details that help us distinguish male from female. It isn't any one thing.

Edit: I will add her hair is hair that is short for a woman but on the long side for a man. Men with long hair are often bearded. They have hair all over.

The photos are almost an uncanny valley in terms of trying to look like a man. Like she didn't quite get it but thought she did.
> I'm not sure what difference you see between "rejecting someone for not being masculine enough" and "questioning whether they are, in fact, a man".

One of those is a personal taste, the other is an alarm bell that you are being deceived, possibly failing to hit a number of subconscious sensors.
I do my best to avoid sarcasm, but but but... have you looked at other players in search?
Even more interesting exercise.

Let's assume - for the sake of the argument - scientists have managed to scientifically prove some unpopular theory. Pick your favorite one: working women do not benefit the society, some races are smarter on average than others or - god forbid - vaccines cause autism.

What's next? What are we going to do with these results?

P. S. And for those looking to reply "this cannot happen because it can never happen" - remember, this is just a mental exercise.

(EDIT)

> What are we going to do with these results?

Okay, now I know. We'll just downvote them.
Yes, precisely. Hardly anyone is going to guess that organically, so all the little tells that an imperfect pretender would give are just going to read as hard-to-nail-down oddities that will leave many people looking for a polite way of saying "thanks but no thanks." Those sorts of discrepancies are going to be of an entirely different nature than "makeup," it's much more like watching a movie with a performance that you just don't find convincing.
Some more information that's a bit more accessible to the layperson - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/well/move/exercise-icing-...

TLDR, inflammation response is part of healing and icing limits that.
> approval voting is a simpler system that also tends to reward moderate or "compromise" candidates

I don't have a strong preference between approval and RCV. But I think people closer to politics would. Being able to "be behind" one candidate is a meaningful promoter of civic engagement; forcing that decision is deeply entrenched in our politics.

That makes approval voting a tougher sell for implementation than RCV. Given how much better RCV and approval voting are than FPTP, it seems sensible to go with RCV.
Yes, there is always a tension between the home/store owners and the police.

The home/store owners typically want a loud alarm to warn the intruder, deter them from further action, and convince them to flee.

The police want a silent alarm to give them time to get on the scene and apprehend the intruders and thieves so they can get an arrest and conviction.

It is a bit of a Commons Problem that benefits the criminals, where it is in the individual's interest to use a loud alarm that will warn them in time to flee, but it is in the common interest to use a silent alarm to allow police to catch the criminals sooner.

Clearly, these store owners are on the individual side of the fence.
There's a bunch of reasons. None by itself is life-changing, but together they make a big difference.

- Awareness. Sometimes, I notice, "oh, I'm feeling distracted right now." Or, "I'm feeling bored right now." Once I notice, I can avoid doing the unhelpful next thing I was going to do.

- Medication. It does help with focus and context-switching, especially on days I have to do a number of medium-size boring tasks. I probably take it every other day.

- Being present. More present with kids when I'm on medication. My wife says I'm less impatient.

- Self-acceptance. That's why I love Mark Suster's posts. He's open that his ADHD makes him a talented entrepreneur and a terrible employee. I have a different temperament than Mark but feel similarly. I used to feel ashamed of a couple of character traits. I don't anymore. This is who I am.

- My tribe. When I look around at close friends and acquaintances, other founders I know including some you've probably heard of -- a ton of them have ADHD too. An employee at our startup has expressed that he's going to start his own startup fairly soon. I was talking to his manager about it and said, effectively: "of course he is. He's brilliant and a bit ADHD. He's got founder genes."
well isn't most money these internet companies do, put into offshore markets, so neither positive for the us and the eu?
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> Let's just assume such instructions were in fact given to educators on some non-negligible scale.

IMHO, and pertinent to the OP: That is out of textbook of how mis- and disinformation impacts human thinking: Observe something emotionally provocative and follow the urge to dive in, regardless of the reality: 'What if it's true???" I've trained myself not to do it.

I'm always interested in valuable, credible information. (And to be clear, it's not your job to educate me - that's my job - but it is your job to backup what you say.)

> slides circulating on Twitter

Is there any place where amount of propaganda is greater, in the history of the world, than on social media such as Twitter? It must be orders of magnitude beyond anything ever. Serious question: Why are you reading it? It's like digging through a garbage dump for coins.
Plus he's able to reflect on his own mistakes and articulate what he learned from them. Would hire.
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Downside with RCV is it really doesn't do anything it purports to do, but major upside is it encourages voter education. Which, IMHO, is by far the biggest problem with American politics.
I think most people have this weird idea that execs don't actually do anything and their job is ridiculously easy.
Nothing would stop it being forked. If for example, Microsoft wanted something added then they could fork it; add their code and use that in Edge.
Maybe I'm misremembering but I thought the point of the thought experiment was that the Basilisk builds itself?
Looks very similar to Little’s Law[1] which is another broadly useful queuing theory result.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little's_law
Startpage is owned by an adtech company now.
That's an urban myth. Most of us in The Rest Of The World are quite happy with our Universal Healthcare and lack of guns in schools.