skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically your argument boils down to: The USA is substantially an undeveloped shithole full of corrupt/ineffectual law enforcement, barely functional or legitimate government, broke unemployed people incapable of solving problems peacefully with nothing to lose, and powerful thugs beyond the reach of the law, so we should feel great pride that we aren’t quite as violent and dangerous as places where the gangsters are the primary source of local force and the law enforcement / military are essentially gangsters themselves.

I guess....

But on the flip side, the USA is almost incomparably richer than those countries (in natural resources, infrastructure, human capital, ...), has a much better developed and more legitimate set of public institutions, has a tradition of settling disputes via political/legal processes instead of gang warfare, and in most ways looks much more like wealthy industrialized countries than new developing-country slums.

So, instead of giving up and patting ourselves on the back because it could always be worse, as an alternative we could, y'know, try to get the most desperate people access to basic essentials required for human flourishing, and aim to reduce the levels of violence and corruption over time, the way people have successfully done in many other countries around the world.
You are simply factually wrong in your description of this data. 3 of the 4 indexes I listed provide defined tiers. The US is in the top tier on only 1 of the 3 lists. On that one list there are 60 counties in the top tier. On the other two lists we are in the 2nd tier defined as "satisfactory situation" and "mostly free". The organizations behind the lists clearly think there is room for improvement. This data does not corroborate your point.
>I'm not going to call them racist

...because that would be absurd.

If there are possibly valid reasons, shouldn't we instead discuss those?
Personally I prefer non-antialised MS Sans Serif, and turning off antialiasing is one of the first things I do (but they seem to make it harder with each new version to eradicate it completely) because it physically hurts my eyes and makes me feel dizzy after looking at "smoothed" text for too long. But I think the gradual loss of customisability is definitely something we can all agree against. (For another one, I don't think I've ever put the taskbar anywhere other than the bottom, but I definitely think it would be better if people were free to put it where they wanted.)
Caste system in India will not die till there is caste based reservation, which only seems to be expanding.

Those who benefit from the reservation have incentive to keep the caste system alive.

Those who do not benefit from caste based reservation develop resentment against those who benefit, furthering the caste based divide.

Due to the abuse there is no political will to change anything.
So I found this article that says in 2018 it was around 17% (and rising) of employees are at an employer 10 years or more and similar for 20 years and more https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/we-don-t-job-hop-a...

Also note in some states where it's after 10 years you actually start accruing the leave after 7 years and if you leave the company prior to 10 years you get paid out for the amount of long service leave you have accrued. Again from the article at 5 to 10 years tenure is around 18%

Even with low participation it would be political suicide to make long service leave harder to gain or even try to take it away. Probably why Victoria actually made long service leave kick in after only 7 years.
I've had showdead on for months, mainly to read old Terry A. Davis posts. Generally the people I see are actual trolls.
This isn't quite right, unfortunately: you can only have 4 units per parcel, not 6. That's because SB9 includes ADUs in the definition of "unit," so it cannot be used to create a duplex on a lot that already has ADUs.

Thus, SB9 increases the limit from 3 units to 4 units, not 6.
I have experience there.

Person B wants to have a difficult conversation with Person A and wants to use NVC to keep the passion low and understanding high.

Person B says how they feel using NVC.

Person A says “hey, just spit it out, talk to me like a normal person”

Person B “spits it out”

Person A gets angry and “gives it right back” to person B.

Both parties fight until 1 walks away.

In other words, if Person A is calm, NVC won’t trigger them. Person A usually wants Person B to drop NVC because they’re more comfortable fighting than they are finding a peaceful common understanding.
You do realise that a UI overhaul is, for a surprisingly large number of users, essentially bricking the computer, right? And it's not just a UI overhaul; the Home version cannot be used without a Microsoft account.
If housing becomes affordable in California, I'd call it a big win.

I'd look to Tokyo for an example of where it has worked.
So 3 boosters kill less than 2?

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There's a reason that national, electronic, centralized medical records happened before we started hearing these pushes for red-flag laws.
>> UX groups don't want to fix existing UIs, they want to design new ones.

Maybe they need to check their ego at the door and do the job they're paid to do? There's a reason it's called work and not happy-fun-time.
> The CEO made a dumb bet and lost. You can't be mad when you offer unlimited PTO and people use it

This is such a dumb take. Unlimited PTO does not mean you take two months off.

I'm tired of everything needing a footnote and qualifications because people like you only understand things in the most superficial sense.
Woooowwwww, I went to their website and scrolled down and of course they're bragging about them donating to cancer research . Oof...
“Companies Don't Give Me a Fair Shot,” Says a Blind Developer
Idk why the downvotes for orangepurple, that is basically correct. Heterogeneous societies are much harder to govern. Different kinds of people living side-by-side fight. The calmest, most in-control societies around the world are homogeneous. SK, NK, and Japan are the most ethnically homogeneous countries on earth.

Oh, and SK is an oligarchy. Essentially everything is run by a handful of families (those who run the chaebol), everybody knows about it, and it's been the status quo for years. Not that that's necessarily bad, though it isn't ideal. SK has risen from destruction to dictatorship to mostly-rich-and-democratic.

I disagree that weapon laws really matter, they matter maybe a little. Most of the variance in murder rates is more productively explained by things like homogeneity, rich-poor divide, cultures of violence, etc.
The idea with SB10 is that, once the next RHNA cycle starts and cities are required to zone for their share of housing (or face punishment), they will use SB10 as an "easy way out" to upzone while skipping a lot of the usual red tape (CEQA, etc).

Under RHNA and the HAA, if cities fail to zone for their share of housing, many projects will be approved automatically and the city loses its discretionary review authority.
Who thinks that touch sensitive buttons make sense here for turn signals, wipers, etc???

I can’t believe any regulator allowed this kind of terrible design on the road
Don't forget miscarriages and birth defects, if they don't die first.

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> Why does everyone quote "Shall not be infringed" but ignore "Well-regulated"?

Because the former is pretty clear and unambiguous, and it is the part that actually describes the limitation of the power of the government.

You can quibble over the meaning of well regulated militia and whether or not it is necessary for the security of a free state then or now, but that is clearly separate from the prohibition on infringement of the right to keep and bear arms.

It does not state if a militia is necessary then people the right to bear arms. It does not state that people who are members of a militia have the right to keep and bear arms. It says all people have that right.

Here's something to think about -- Why do people think hunting or personal protection have anything to do with the second amendment?

EDIT: I'll give my answer to my own question, because it might be too ambiguous or obscure. It's actually not that I believe the second amendment has nothing to do with hunting or personal protection, actually the opposite. Those were such obvious things for people to use guns for that back then they did not even have to be listed. That obviousness is why those things still come up today in discussion about the second amendment despite being enumerated nowhere. It would have been utterly absurd when the document was written that people should not use their guns for hunting or self defense. Clearly statement about the militia in there had no intention of the restriction of the right to have and use guns.

I also believe the security of a free state begins (and more or less ends) with the security of the free man so I think guns are a very important tool for self sufficiency, but that's another story.
What is the exit strategy going forward for Adelaide or NZ? Is there any, or are you going to keep the borders closed or quarantine every incoming traveler forever throughout the rest of human society?

When does this end? "Until Covid goes away" isn't an answer if Covid never goes away.
"On Jan. 13, nine days after the report was circulated internally, the first post appeared on a new CJNG Instagram account: A video of a person with a gold pistol shooting a young man in the head while blood spurts from his neck. The next post is a photo of a beaten man tied to a chair; the one after that is a trash bag full of severed hands."

OMG!
Kind of related: I have a 'firstname@lastname.email' email address. I had booked movers online as I am moving apartments. I thought it was confirmed because I got an automated email back confirming the booking. I gave them a call about a week later to double check everything was OK and it turned out they never booked me in because they thought it was a fake address ("Wow, this is really weird, I've never seen an email address like this").

Luckily, they could still book me in but at a different time slot...
Agreed. A bit embarrassing she doesn't even mention that Sunny Balwani is charged with the exact same crime as Elizabeth Holmes. I feel like it would be legitimate to ask why the media covers them differently. However, very silly that her best arguments of sexism is to assert in throwaway lines that we could charge Zuck criminally for anti-vax statements on Facebook.
I run into constant bugs and annoyances these days on my iPhone. Anyone else?
Those aren't enforceable, and haven't been for decades.
Well, sure. That part's pretty clear.

But, in terms of delivery, form-factor, packaging, etc., they have no idea how to pull it off with any coherence.
Australia: Strategic shifts led it to acquire nuclear subs
The US is at an extreme in where it draws the line on free speech compared to other western democracies. Would you say that every other western democracy is on the path to authoritarianism because they drew the line somewhere else?
If you're worried about this sort of thing happening to you - and you should be - this comment is a reminder that disability insurance exists and is extremely reasonably priced on a software developer or other white-collar professional salary. With an insurance policy paying the bills, you can plan on taking unpaid time off to take care of your partner if the worst should happen.

It's morbid to think about, but going into these situations with a robust contingency plan absolutely beats the alternative.
> SB 9 does end single family zoning in that it allows duplexes to be built on all lots currently zoned for single family housing

But that's not the same. Ending RH-1 would mean something like "no more RH-1 buildings will be permitted, you must build at least two". Instead, it's "if you have an RH-1 lot, you are allowed to build up to two units".

So I'd say it makes RH-1 also mean RH-2, but doesn't "end" it in the sense most people interpret. (E.g., In San Francisco, you would be unlikely to get planning approval to build a single-family home on an RH-2 zoned lot, because it should have been used for two units).
Yeah both of these points are revisionist bullshit. Go read the primary sources. The gun fetish comes from our origin story being successfully overthrowing the British with civilian firearms.

As to effectiveness: the Taliban just recaptured their country from a US backed military. The point of civilian gun ownership is to force citizen soldiers to decide between defecting and killing their neighbors. That’s exactly what happened in the Bangladesh independence war. The revolutionaries knocked over military depots in Dhaka to acquire firearms. Once the fighting started, Bangladeshis in the Pakistani military defected.
If you want to protect poor homeowners, that's a noble goal, but it should be achieved with a narrowly tailored policy. Thousands of rich homeowners in Palo Alto are paying less than 10k per year on multi-million dollar properties because of Prop 13, and that's both unfair and unsustainable. Not to mention the corporate properties: Disney World, for example, pays an indefensibly low tax rate.

The negative side effects of Prop 13 far, far outweigh any benefit to poor people (most of whom are renters priced out due in part to Prop 13!).
A clear majority of people are more ready to reject things that are true than things that are false.
Instagram has stopped using square dimensions for a long time. In fact if you want to lose followers, you should maintain your photography dimensions and scale. If you don't post in "iPhone portrait" mode, you will soon disappear from the algorithm.
The best technical people may consider the marketing more important than the tech. I'm quite certain I can build a great system for any needs, but no confidence I can sell it enough to support a business.

In fact I'd probably be skeptical of a tech person who greatly emphasizes the challenge of the tech effort over the challenges of the sales effort.
Haha, and python too? But no, those all I don't have a problem with. With Oil, maybe Harry Potter (Snape) has something to do with it.
> Until your last paragraph, I believed what you were saying.

I have no connection to Atlassian, but I've been "forced" to take time off, which I neither needed nor wanted. If I'm working a lot it means I'm enjoying it.

I have also taken quite a bit of PTO when needed by the way; I'm not afraid of doing so. But I don't really like the "one size fits all model" when it comes to this kind of stuff.
I don't know of any single government in the world that doesn't do at least some of the things you describe here. If you're trying to make the case that all goverments are tyrannical because they enact laws to promote safety, that seems like a rather big stretch.
"Guns are good for hunting. All citizens have the right to own and use guns." does not mean only hunters have permission to have guns, nor that people may guns for hunting.
> Culture really matters

I agree with you wholeheartedly. The cultures of SK and the US are very, very different. Particularly, south Koreans are all united by being under the constant threat of devastating war as long as almost any of them have been alive.
Previously, if cities did upzone, a neighbor could still sue their neighbor to stop them from building. In places like SF this means every project is tied down for years and hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal fees.

Now, you are effectively not allowed to do that. So the permitting process to build a duplex is as straightforward as the permitting process to build a SFH.
I may not have much experience in broadband but i’ve spent most of my career in municipal/county software. My email is in my profile if you want to reach out, I’d like to help any way i can.
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...but its a free upgrade. If you think it's worse that is on thing but so its just been better except for the stupid fucking right click context menu.
This is the beginning of the end for single-family houses (it's a good thing).

Regardless of how you feel about single family vs. duplex - this will create too much selection pressure towards duplexes. Only the ultra-rich will be in single-family houses.

On that note - I'm curious, would it be legal/constitutional to have national zoning laws? Are there currently national zoning laws?
I'm not at all a FIRE type person, and don't tend to trust these sort of casual time off in exchange for time worked up front agreements, but I like what you did there. In my area, compabies aren't required to pay tech workers overtime. Thanks EA!
We always expected that vaccination would be less effective for older patients. There are experiments underway now to see if that can be improved with rapalogs.
From the info in the article alone, it's impossible to tell if this is even a correlation at all. I don't know what the expected number of reports would be for a given year, and if 30k is higher or lower than that.

> If a link between vaccination and menstrual changes is confirmed

Even the wording in the article stops short of claiming there is evidence for any link. It's just a bad headline.
Regarding repetitons: the aversion to repeated words can create some amusingly inelegant sentences. These have become known as "knobbly monsters", after a particularly egregious example where a writer needed a synonym for "alligators". British tabloids elevated the practice to self-parody, and they are prominent among the examples recorded by @knobblymonsters: https://twitter.com/knobblymonsters .
Direct storage is coming to Windows 10 but apparently there will be a performance difference, still unknown as it isn't released at all
There are people on Twitter looking at the underlying efficiency numbers for highway and city who think it needs higher kWh than that. That link is from 2020 btw. We will probably soon find out.
We don't need to speculate. There is strong support in the historical record that many cities adopted single family zones for explicitly racist reasons.
Uncertainty makes people shy away from reclaiming their time off. Unlimited PTO is supposed to be a better deal for the employer not the employee. Not saying that some employees don’t abuse the system but on average the needle favors the employer.
I mostly agree with you. For the first time in a decade, we have a County Council in Los Alamos that understands that broadband is an essential utility. We are a small rich county with a population less than 20K. I don't believe financial motivations have affected any Councilor's judgement in the 16 years I've lived here.

If you know people who might be interested in the Broadband Manager position, please tell them about it.
> If civilian gun owners in the US tried to overthrow the US government, the US military would crush them in a heartbeat.

This is such a reductionist argument. Many of those civilians used to be those military, and many of those military would no longer be military if this situation arose.
That is quite a word salad. No I don't support a war over Taiwan. I am just questioning the cause of Post WW2 American Imperialism & Liberal Hegemony in Asia.
Dark matter detector may have accidentally detected dark energy instead
Let me start off by saying I love playing with guns, and really frankly anything gun related. I don't know why it is but I've just been fascinated with them since I was a kid.

Ok that said, I don't understand how guns protect us from the government. I think the biggest threats area slow and mundane. Ie erosion of rights or increasing power of some portion of the government over decades. There's no one cataclysmic event that overnight would make sane people take up arms and start popping off.

Likewise, let's say the government went all evil-like. Like in a movie. And you somehow got a huge citizen resistance trying to fight the government forces, unlike in real life where apparently the country would be split and half would join the government forces. The government has armor, air support, artillery, surveillance, and logistics. This isn't the 1700s. Just access to small arms is meaningless unless the 2nd amendment is broadened to include all weapons. And even then, machine guns, manpads, tanks and heat are just tools and a tiny, inconsequential part of warfare.

You always see gun people plinking away at stationary targets. Arguing about mlok vs picatinny. Maybe practicing their tacticool speed reloads. You rarely see people practicing force on force cqb, urban fighting, how to fight as a team.
I dunno, I definitely feel like it's been drilled into me that in any kind of physical altercation, my duty is to escape and retreat, and that if I hurt my attacker in any way, that might be used against me in court. And even if I successfully press charges against my attacker, and they go to jail, if I hurt them in the course of their attack on me, I can probably expect to get sued.
While I agree with some of your points (such as, the operators of the plant were criminally negligent for not responding to the known flooding from tsunami risk) the overall point of the article is much of the permanent evacuations and decontamination work, and also germany's decision to phase out nuclear power are a vast overreaction.

This overreaction is the reason the disaster was so costly, and also the article makes the valid point the costs of the nuclear accident are conflated with the costs of the earthquake and tsunami by groups looking to discredit nuclear power.

Yes, in the immediate days after the accident/tsunami it was not clear how bad it was going to get, and the initial evacuation was justified based on that risk but once the situation was stabilized then the people evacuated from the majority of the exclusion zone should have been allowed to return home.
The Terner Center estimates that SB9 will affect only 3% of all single-family parcels in California: https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/duplex...
Flying a drone and taking photos seems very disconnected to photography for me. But that's just me. The photos are great however. But it feels like a "photographer" who also just uses their phone.
People probably should just have 2 months off a year, I don't see what your problem is. It would be way better for everyone's mental health, this guy was just smart enough to take it, probably in an effort to see if it would help them feel fine about staying at the company afterward.
AMD ready to flex its ARMs
m_ke: the original (annoying) title is "Governor Newsom Signs Historic Legislation to Boost California’s Housing Supply and Fight the Housing Crisis".

Changing it to add "ending single family zoning in California" is editorializing and not quite accurate.

To fit in 80 characters, while removing the weasel word of historic, I would have gone with "Governor Newsom Signs Legislation to Boost California's Housing Supply".
Coal powered cars have come a long way!
This is a bit off topic but I wanted to say I’m really glad there are still people out there hacking on some ruby + Postgres projects and writing about it. I feel that ruby is an excellent language and dread the demise of it.
See: "fingerprint fuming". The tech has been around for decades, and doesn't require a 3d printer.
we also learned that it sidesteps this by collecting data on UK persons and exchanging it with GCHQ, who does likewise
I think the reasoning behind this is "create a problem, solve a problem". If you never create the problem there's no incentive to solve it. You have other problems instead, like homelessness and crime.

In mathematical terms, you're stuck in a local maxima, and to get to a higher global maxima you need to descend the gradient a little bit and put up with some short-term pain.
Ah! Well TIL. Thank you
Indeed, I think a much better description of SB9's effect would be "legalizing duplexes and lot splits everywhere." About 97% of single-family parcels are expected to remain single-family under this law, in practice.
Small correction. The term "assault rifle" is pretty well defined.

I think you're thinking of "assault weapon" which gets thrown about a lot and for which there isn't a clear definition.