skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a campaign of gaslighting that makes you think so.

First, the name "homeless" or even "people experiencing homelessness" implies that the lack of housing is the only problem with these individuals, who are, otherwise, perfectly normal and functional human beings.

Then, there is a motte-and-bailey game with "Look at Pedro, he has a wife and children but lives with his in-laws because he lost his job and is looking for a new one, Pedro is homeless, do you want to put him in a mental institution just for losing his job, you heartless bigot?" and "Yeeep, people doing drugs in the open and harassing the passersby are homeless, just like Pedro, you have any problem with Pedro, bigot?".

Then, there is a "solution", always involving real-estate ("abolish zoning!", "build affordable housing" etc.), which is as sane to me as if they'd called the meth-using vagrants "toothless" or "people experiencing toothlessness" and proposed to build more dental clinics to fix the issue.

In my opinion, nobody has problem with people who don't own property as long as they do not impose on the society. For all I care Elon Musk is homeless at the moment as he sold all his properties in CA and lives in a company house. I have absolutely no issues with this. On the other hand, I have a problem with people who shit on the street, scream, and go through my garbage every night regardless of their property ownership. For all I care they are all retired Hollywood producers who own 100s of millions worth of RE in Malibu, still they should be taken to jail for vagrancy.
If I’m not mistaken, rms didn’t even get canned for comments about Epstein. He was responding to discussions about Minsky’s role and the ethical questions involved. I found it remarkable that Reif got away with ‘that’s my signature but I don’t remember signing it’ and yet the institute let rms take the full brunt of his cancellation. (To your point, maybe I was not astonished but I was certainly disappointed.)

They basically fired (forcibly resigned) the guy for talking.
(Edited for clarity)

IBM hasn't been doing that for decades, despite the supreme court decision being quite recent - I think that was more about clean room reimplementation than APIs.

My point wasn't about ruling differently but the lack of rulings/laws making it explicitly legal creating uncertainty and opportunities for Oracle/Apple to go after people. Some countries have other ways to deal with it too, e.g. NZ allows reverse engineering for compatibility purposes, which seems likely to cover APIs (not sure, haven't needed to know).
>Spain is a NATO country involved in many American wars in the past 30 years

Which doesn't mean much. NATO is not some alliance, it's the US calling the shots and others doing as told, or else (insert diplomatic, economic, etc. pressure).
Micro-models: purposefully overfit models that are good at one specific thing
Good riddance. "Wealthy" people contribute capital. The government can print more money to replace them at the expense of the same "wealthy" people who most likely got "wealthy" from exploitative practices opposed to conscious capitalism.
Generally people resent unsolicited approaches. Money, power, trust and prestige are not completely interchangeable.
This is my side project, a music player for Mac, I hope you will enjoy it.
Ethereum just activated its ‘London’ hard fork
So long as the various states operated as competing democracies, they couldn't pull together into one country.
An egg beater, perhaps?
Simple staff like: alert (Do you want to install Pegassus ?); prompt (yes).
ISS spun one-and-a-half times by errant Russian module's thrusters
> 3. Key backup and recovery is handled automatically via the cloud (iCloud / Google Drive). Additional backup/restore options are available in our SDK. 4. Privacy: unlike OpenID and some other passwordless solutions, Keyri’s server does not store or see any private keys or any personal information. Our API simply facilitates the transmission of public keys and encrypted signed authentication requests

I was curious if you could speak more to this. There seems to be some tension between:

"Key backup and recovery is handled automatically via the cloud" and "Keyri’s server does not store or see any private keys or any personal information" but maybe I'm missing something. How can you do backup/recovery if you never see the private keys? Is there some kind of trusted reset functionality?

Thanks, and congrats on launching!
That also seems to miss the point, as for most of the stuff you’re describing the phone is a thin client and the computation is on a server, and that would still be true even if the phones themselves ran only GPL-licenced code and came with pre-installed compilers and IDEs.
This is why we at Beam.gg thought of introducing game theory into the picture. In online communities, gamification is used to engage and excite members with playful user experiences that complement rewards systems. You can learn more about how gamification enhances your community’s experience by reading my article here: https://community.beam.gg/post/How-Gamification-Enhances-You...
Whether Cuomo "followed the science" in his nursing home directive is debatable. From Wikipedia (see above link):

>Cuomo repeatedly stated that the order was based on CDC guidance issued by the Trump administration. PolitiFact rated that statement as "mostly false" because the guidelines issued by the CDC and CMS indicated that a medically stable COVID-19 patient could be discharged from a hospital to a nursing home "only if the nursing home can implement all recommended infection control procedures."
The observation that it is in everyone's interest for society to function is a core plank of libertarian thinking. If everyone was going to opt out then libertarianism would not work.

The core argument is that the government doesn't need to step in to fix society, because the incentives are so strong that society will sort itself out through people realising that if the ship sinks they will drown so they have to keep the water outside the boat of their own initiative.

Given that it is already in everyone's interest that the ship floats, the people loudly claiming "our enemies are trying to sink the ship!" are probably lying and should not be put in charge. However, such people infest government.
There's how things can be done and how things ought to be done. This if nothing else demonstrates a learning path.

And yes, I am shocked that the developer didn't know about bit shift operations... but hey, modern development is just different I suppose.
> It's so irritating to be an American that has moved overseas. Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else, just because of where you were born.

This is exactly why these people are renouncing US citizenship: They’re living overseas as citizens of another country and, like anyone rich or poor, don’t want to be paying taxes to a country they aren’t living in.

It’s not exactly unfair or nefarious. If they’re no longer living in the US and they are citizens and residents of another country, surrendering US citizenship is a logical choice.

Renouncing US citizenship is a common move for this exact reason. This article just happens to have drawn an arbitrary line in the wealth of people who renounce US citizenship and made a headline out of the wealthier subset. The wealthy are also more like to have dual-citizenship but relocate to another country, so they’d be over represented in this set.
Power attracts those who pursue power, and those most willing to go to any ends to obtain that power are those mostly likely to wind up with it.

I don't think that power itself is necessarily a corrupting force, but it is a magnet for those who are corrupted.
People who want to be clever use language to make simple things complicated. People who are clever use language to make complicated things simple.
But you more or less have to get on the ballot at all, which is much easier if you're endorsed by a party. That requires connections, is aided by corruption, and doesn't require a public vote.

During the most recent NYC gubernatorial elections, eight parties had "automatic ballot access" due to getting enough votes on their party line from the last election. One of these eight is the "Women's Equality Party," created by Cuomo and his running mate Kathy Hochul in 2014, when Cuomo was already governor and running for re-election.

Those eight parties ended up nominating three candidates: four including the Democrats nominated Cuomo, three including the Republicans nominated Marc Molinaro, and the Greens nominated Howie Hawkins.

Two other parties without automatic ballot access were able to get onto the ballot - the Libertarians and the new "Serve America Movement" party. 15K signatures are required to qualify. The Libertarians got about 30K signatures and 95K votes; the SAM got about 40K signatures and 55K votes. There were also about 7K write-ins. Meanwhile, the two major nominees got millions of votes each.

It is technically true that an independent or write-in candidate could win. I don't think a write-in candidate has ever won state-wide office in New York. One write-in candidate has achieved federal office in recent years, but it was an extraordinarily special case that does not back up the general idea that write-in candidates are viable: incumbent Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski won re-election in 2010 after losing her primary.
America has one of the most progressive tax system of any country.

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-of-the-latest-federal-inco...

>The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (38.5 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (29.9 percent).

IMO, this is one of this is why the American government seems so bad at spending money. It's not their money, so there's little incentive to care if it's misappropriated.
Sorry for the offtopic, but having a working CNN anchor drafting statements and advising someone very much in the news without taking a leave of absence of his job, that's certainly an insanely low bar on journalistic ethics : https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/biden-calls-andrew-cuomo-resig...

There are always double standards for journalistic ethics for primetime anchors, it's certainly not a CNN nor even a US only thing, but this one is a bit too egregious to spin, surely ?

I would love to hear the discussions going on on the international side of CNN (which I would argue has fairly high standards to reporting)...
> Imagine being in the middle of a coup, calling up your consulate for guidance only to find out that they all left the country or are hiding in their bunkers. Been through that before.

What, exactly, was your expectation? That they'd send out Navy SEALs to rescue you?
My understanding of the US process is the same, that the “emergency” approval was just an expediation of the normal process.
It's not the final anything. It's a pre-alpha developer's preview.
The insides of pro bowling balls
However ReactOS has a more challenging/bigger goal for a few reasons. It aims to be binary compatible, not just source compatible. Much more of the underlying tech is proprietary while the BSD subsystem on macOS is free for them to use.
I say: let it go. We need to stop saying that it's the only alternative to Chromium and thus we must not lose it, because users would not have a choice. Users have already chosen and Firefox is out.

In a post-Firefox future we might have bigger Chromium forks and new choices for the user.
> even in supposedly backward counties such as Essex

I nearly choked on my lunch when I read that! haha
https://nypost.com/2021/08/04/covid-19-cases-in-children-sur...
That kinda 'sarcasm' for folks you just laid off is pretty harsh ... you sure that's sarcasm?
Those are past connections to companies. How many hires are sons/daughters of people still on boards or regulatory bodies. Active family connections are much more difficult to regulate or even document.
There are quite a bit of places in EU with low capital gains tax and can be gorgeous to live in if you're wealthy. For example Croatia is a EU member - capital gains tax is flat 12%, and is a popular tourist destination with beautiful coast. It's not a bad deal if you're a remote freelancer - you end up paying like 20% in taxes total + something like 300€/month flat for health insurance and minimal pension contributions.

Monaco is the place if you're super rich.
It depends on the cat. One of mine figured out her bell was noisy and broke it off every time.
Monaco?
> Until I see some serious, well-controlled, high-quality data that shows me that there's an unprecedented risk for a lot of people, I'm not on board with taking unprecedented actions that affect everyone.

What kind of evidence would convince you?

Bear in mind (as I'm sure you know), it's gonna be very difficult to get accurate before and afters while in the midst of a pandemic, and it's likely that this evidence will only exist if enough people don't get one of the vaccines.
Is Gina homeless as a result of such action? She seems to be quite fine to me. I don't weep for the rich.
My read is they are talking about an advertisers right to privacy of the ad. This is simply not a thing. The advertisement is unsolicited communication, and belongs to the user receiving it. Otherwise it sounded like they were collecting no user data other than indirectly based on the metadata used by the advertiser to target the user that already agreed to it.
I don't think the cat appreciates wearing one.
Well, Microsoft is apparently willing to do that, for one. Which is what we're talking about here!
Is this from exertion outdoors or office chair, lack of exercise etc.
She's also 22 years younger than him.
"Cancelled" isn't a sufficiently precise term to be meaningful in this context. I doubt many people would have voluntarily booked him for a comedy tour or whatever, six months ago, and my corner of the world (liberals and leftists in NYC) had already been unhappy with him as a politician well before these accusations. But impeaching a governor, or having him voluntarily resign, is a much more involved process.
Had to scroll down quite a ways but I'm glad someone asked. I assume people here wouldn't be taking, e.g. this story[0] at face value. When that one came out I figured it was "big if real", but I decided it wasn't real and from then on realized the NYPost is not to be trusted.

[0] https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-vot...
This is why politics and voting are completely pointless at this point…
We currently live in a world where people who amassed wealth before we were even born, have bought off every politician, locked down our government and closed off every single avenue to real change.

Welcome to our neo-feudal reality!
It might have been XBMC (xbox media center). Great software and it still exists today on several platforms (PC, Android TV, etc) under the name of Kodi.
I think it's an intentionally oxymoronic, witty turn of phrase.

In case you aren't aware of its history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
Annnnnnndd it is dead this thread!

That was fast!
Most countries tax worldwide income of their _residents_ (not citizens). So in your scenario, you'd end up paying tax on the foreign investments if you profit from it when you resume being a US resident. Unless you don't declare the foreign assets, which would be illegal (gotta file an FBAR each year).

There's no loophole here, a large majority of countries work this way, and OECD countries certainly do (although some have different treatments for short term residents). Usually the logic is: if you don't pay taxes in country A, you'll pay in country B anyways. And you'll pay an exit tax when you go from country A to B in many cases, so country A gets their cut.
Well, you know that you pay taxes on the country you live & work in ? So you have to find a job and a house in Cyprus. And on top of that, Cyprus is one of the few european countries that are not yet in the Schengen area. So you'll have to stay on the tiny 9,251 Square Kilometers.
Given the speed of sound, 0.5ms delay occurs when you talk to anybody more than half-a-feet away
Getting a shot is not a medical procedure and more than going to the dentist is. The efficacy is still much, much higher than not being vaccinated. I'm not sure I see what you're getting at.
It’s an opaque eufemism for doing other things he’ll never admit unless evidence comes out. Bill Gates as well as Clinton and lots of other Bills and others spent time with Epstein’s lolitas as well. I think Bill Gates is hedging against that information coming out at some point in the future.
Do you think that prompting the user on a webpage is what is stopping the webpage from installing a rootkit?

Pegasus wasn't even a browser bug, it was installed via text message IIRC.
Haha, yep. I just think it's fundamentally unjust for the developers doing the (easiest) green field development to get promoted while making significant architecture mistakes, then punishing later developers for pointing out those mistakes and getting stuck with fixing them. Until someone makes noise, this is just going to keep happening.
This was actually recommended by the Irish vaccination committee, as long as your infection was within the last 180 days and you actually had a seropositive Covid test.
Texas AG Paxton's Retaliatory Investigation of Twitter Goes to Ninth Circuit
> So you have to find a job and a house in Cyprus

I think Eric Schmidt can afford that

> you know that you pay taxes on the country you live & work in

Yes, I know this. I live abroad.

Yes, every country has taxes. The tax rates are not the same. Additionally, countries like Singapore have zero capital gains tax. Executives can just take a symbolic job and pay themselves a symbolic salary, but they're not getting rich off their salaries
God no, we've got our own bizarre horrorshows.

But I don't think I've ever seen that political reflex as strongly in Americans nearly as much. It's like for some topics (Tibet, Human Rights, Tienanmen, etc) they're stuck at the height of the Freedom Fries / Dixie Chicks rage machine after 9/11.
The Origin of Innovation
This is not what happened. The mass attack on Stallman happened after Selam Jie Gano wrote her hate piece[0] full of half-truths and manipulations that later were quoted by the media as "Stallman is defending Epstein" whereas the opposite was true. When I compared what RMS actually wrote with what the press reported, I was appalled - it's as if people collectively lost their ability to read.

[0] https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
As a former American who lived abroad for about 11 years before renouncing, “cartoonishly cruel” is a pretty accurate description of the system. It’s even worse an American entrepreneur abroad because that makes things even more complicated.

I gave up jumping through the hoops in 2018 and the self-torture and renounced. I shared my story in case anyone is interested: https://larrysalibra.com/goodbye-usa/
It's true that this approach limits variance of reasonable opinion to within the Overton window (plus a bit or radical thinking either side). That is pretty much how society functions anyway. The window moves slowly but does get moved by many factors.
I read a couple of those accusations. The specific examples that they highlighted (as opposed to the vague ones they implied were so much worse) painted him as a bit creepy as sad while trying to depict him at a high level as a Harvey Weinstein type guy, which he SO clearly isnt.

Bill Gates also had similar accusations thrown at him right after his divorce that intimated vague accusations of harassment by nameless individuals and one specific example of a woman (also nameless, but probably real) whom he asked out to lunch.

It was clearly a hit piece that didnt take (though by whom it's hard to say).
There's a big difference between asking questions in good faith and being open to answers, and JAQing off. And I encounter a lot more of the latter than the former...
or if you don't have a close relationship, then you leave the impression you must be coming from a hard place!
Shelters are traditionally far too restrictive and drive people away. If you want to solve the problem, cities need to provide an option people actually want to use, not the option they hope and dream people want to use.
Like a larger bipedal mammal, they forget to look both ways, or think that that they can make it across in time
I see. Thanks for your patience in explaining it to me.
Elon Musk says Walter Isaacson is writing his new biography
Uh yeah… that’s how it’s supposed to happen. Every code change should have a ticket/issue, a bit branch, and a pull request attached - no matter how small.

What’s not supposed to happen is have those analysed to be used as some dumb proxy for productivity/output.
Yes, but my wife has spent the past four years learning Spanish and every time I suggest Portugal she gets a murderous look in her eyes.

My preference is actually Denmark, but it is an order of magnitude more difficult to move there, and my wife hates the language :(
The problem is lack of constraint. You can build anything, but where does it fit in the world? That transition from derisked, innovative technology to useful product is particularly difficult and typically involves a handoff between two separate groups of people. Does the receiving group need or want an innovation? How well did the innovation group prep the technology for handoff? Was the innovation pulled through development by demand or was it pushed by the inventors? These are not trivial problems and any innovation shop like X is necessarily going to carry a lot of risk. You really only see that kind of innovation focus in organizations that can handle the risk (cash flow sufficient to recover from continuous failure from the innovation department). My (biased) opinion is that it is worthwhile to have innovation focused groups in your company, but management needs to be realistic about risk.

[source]: several years leading a design engineering R&D group
Some of our best features include: gamification, moderation tools, subforums, full platform customization, community analytics, and community monetization

What other features do you think Beam.gg should have? Excited to hear your suggestions!
There was a post written a while ago by someone saying what it was like to be poor when they got their first job in SV. One of the exact points was that they had colleagues who didn't really mind if they missed a couple of months of salary... they wouldn't notice as they had no need to look. Just like GP. It was totally incomprehensible for her, as someone who had to live paycheck to paycheck.

My only real response to this kind of humblebrag is... good for you!?
What do you think are the best AI investment opportunities
Disney's Star Wars hotel stays will cost at least $4,809
It's not just random birds it's random animals in ecosystems (esp in N America) not designed for predators like cats.

I strongly recommend this book for a deeper understanding: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CO34KU6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... There are MANY species that have gone extinct or are approaching extinction because of cats.
In post-soviet russia, correlation IS causation, apparently…
> people taking part in this study felt less close and trusting of those who used a lack of time as their excuse

I'm not too convinced they've got the cause and effect the right way around. It's not implausible that people don't cite money issues as a reason to people they're not close with.
Any liberals arts intern can spell-check outgoing messages and mass-send invites to press events. Obviously the guy was hired to do something different.