skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks pretty terrible to me. I wouldn't want this in my backyard just to benefit people in Mass:

https://static-35.sinclairstoryline.com/resources/media/78d2...
What if a company builds a new apartment block for students, would the taxes apply to them too?
It's more about Americans not wanting to hold their elected officials accountable.
> It just feels like the skepticism is dialed to 11 here.

Dialed to 11? Ours goes to 101!
https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/I-Can-Tolerate-Anythi...
London VC: The secret source for deals dating apps
2021 Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the PRC
We already do. Fortunately Maine is more forested than it has been in a century.

Burning whole tree chips for power at biomass plants is actually pretty big in Maine. Although most of that power was sold on to other New England states that had green energy credits, in the years I was involved.
>I don't need statistics to understand covering the faces of young children for extended periods is going to harm their social development.

You're literally saying you don't require evidence for your views and trying to frame this as a virtue?
What does "Nobody offshore" means here?
First to shuck 50 oysters would fit local flavor.
Memed? It's being accused of assisting with genocide abroad and culture destruction locally.

Memeing is a bunny with a pancake on its head. Facebook is accused of helping dictatorships hunt and kill actual humans.

Good paycheque though eh.
Wouldn't high density living also explode land value though?. The block of land I live on would be worth $10M+.
Quantum Sensor Breakthrough Paves Way for GPS-Free Navigation
Either deterred or jailed, either way you end up with less shit on the street.
He previously worked under Scott Guthrie who manages all of Azure, so if anything, this breaks up any connection between Github and Azure.
Yes!! We must do this! Someone grab a napkin and amend the Maine constitution.
> As a simple concrete example, I hinted at a hypothetical algorithm similar to that of a tracing GC, that could be used not to collect garbage (I specifically mentioned the use of arenas), but to promptly detect all dangling pointers during testing, including those that are not dereferenced, and those pointing at arenas.

I'm highly skeptical that there won't be too many false positives with such a tool. Systems programmers routinely create temporary dangling pointers and let the values go dead without dereferencing those pointers. It happens most every time you call free, in fact.

I also see no reason why you couldn't create such a thing for C and C++. In fact, it exists: the Boehm GC can operate in such a checking mode. The fact that everyone uses ASan instead is a strong indicator that ASan is in fact a better approach.

Finally, precise tracing GC stack/register maps are a lot of work, especially in LLVM which has poor support for them. (I heavily looked into this for Rust.) Without a serious effort (and it is a lot of work) to generate them for Zig I have to consider it vaporware.
But he uses the same tricks as everyone else. I only heard a few statements, one that immediately caught in my filter: "seven out of every ten moves are leaving the state" -- which is a meaningless metric if left by itself like in the video, unless you know what is normal, and also how many are moving in?
My favorite SNL sketch evah!
I would much rather CEOs of large tech companies would post on HN with their (possibly disagreeable) opinion regardless.

You got a real opinion. The fact it offended you shows that at least.
I'm not sure actuary table would work in such case. Actuary tables work when we're dealing with random events. House problems aren't random, and my wish as a seller to hide the problems from the buyers is definitely not random. So each shortcut taken by the buyer allows an opening for me as a seller to cheat. Of course, 95% of people won't cheat. But we're talking about million-dollar deals, even 5% of cheating could lead to huge losses.

Certified used car is under control of the certifier so their risk is minimal, and my risk is as much as I trust a big brand not to cheat me. There's a risk, but a known and identifiable one. When buying a house, there's no such control, so exposure is much bigger. Of course, if a big brand has a house and is willing to guarantee it, it'd be an attractive offer to me as a buyer, but they'd need to somehow reduce their own exposure to the risks first.
In the current market, you have essentially no way to buy from a manufacturer or primary retailer. You have to get _insanely_ lucky to be able to do so.

So you're essentially saying nobody is going to be looking for any warranties on any cards, which is quite wrong.
A serial number is independent of the driver while the past drivers could have a network check.
Copacetic
Of course anti theft serves the manufacturer. And I think that is ok. If you have a stolen product, you have 0 rights to use or posses that product.

Once you purchase the product legitimately, you now have legal protection so that the OEM may not lock you out. Products should respect the owner. Stolen products are still owned by the OEM and not the person physically holding the product.
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I was clear in my comment that I wasn’t advocating for that to be a feature. How is it that you learned to type before you learned to read?
Reports like this one come out all the time for different countries. What made this report stand out for me were these two points:

"
► The PRC is developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that will
significantly improve its nuclear-capable missile forces and will require increased nuclear warhead production, partially due to the introduction of multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) capabilities. China has commenced building three solid-fueled ICBM silo fields, which will cumulatively contain hundreds of new ICBM silos.

► The number of warheads on the PRC’s land-based ICBMs capable of threatening the
United States is expected to grow to roughly 200 in the next five years.
"
It's the official and national language of UK.
The Commerce Clause also gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, not just between the states.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei#section8
It means they don't hire non-Americans, which tells you something else about the company.
You ask seller to confirm the card is not stolen. If the seller lies to you, you get a refund, eBay will side with buyer if seller lied via official communications.

If you know about the theft and specifically don’t ask, you are knowingly receive stolen property and deserve whatever penalty EVGA does.

(This leaves the question of people who just buy stuff on eBay and have no idea about this news story. It would be nice if marketplaces could show warnings next to certain classes of items, but I am not holding my breath on this)
> Why not? I'm genuinely curious... The web feels completely different without ad blockers, at least to me.

To clarify, I prefer an ad-free browsing experience.

However, I haven't seen an alternative to ads that works for adequately funding content on the /open/ web.

I like that most journalism, YouTube, and social media are free for all.
You worked for all of these places?
> but it's pretty silly to look at the evidence and conclude that Biden is perfectly mentally OK.

Yeah, can you even imagine President Biden saying "person, woman, man, camera, TV"? I guess that proves he's got some real issues.
The hard part about choosing the small business route is you have to do a really good job (and somewhat get lucky) at screening the owner and company. I had only ever worked at mega corps my entire carrier until my latest job at a <100 employee founders run company. The company is post "come join our startup and try to make crazy money/change the world" but pre "as you can see on document 3 section 7 process 4 paragraph 2 item 2a sub iii it says we next need to get approval..." and has a solid income stream already while also focusing on sustainable growth rather than max growth. I knew one of the founders from back in the day and was able to meet with the other and some of the senior management and a few of the engineers multiple times before joining. I wouldn't have jumped at the time had I not had a similar level of confidence that I knew what the people and day-to-day were like.

Now I could have missed some red flags or just had bad luck and regretted it/had a bad experience but just passing a year in I'm happier than ever with work and really excited about the future for at least the next 2-3 years (after that will depend on what the company looks like at that point).

At the same time one could have missed red flags or just had bad luck with $MegaCorpN too. The company I left ended up outsourcing it's entire IT staff of thousands and rehiring a few core architects who now are all disappointed with the workload and most are looking elsewhere if they haven't already jumped ship. I've actaully worked toa get a few of those folks to come over to my current place.
I think you're missing a few things here.

1) Literally any real estate market is going to have vacancies, because otherwise how would people move between spaces?

2) The question is 'what percentage of vacancies is too high?' Given the EXTREME carrying cost of owning an unoccupied home in SF, I think it's highly unlikely that SF is 'too high'. You neighbor may have had the wealth to pay that cost, but few others do.

3) 'Luxury' housing in SF does two things: house yuppies that would otherwise move to historic neighborhoods 2) turn into shitty non-luxury housing in 30 years. This idea that the fucking NEMA or whatever won't be a relatively low-rent building (a la Fox Plaza) in 20 years is not grounded in thoughtfulness.

4) The real 'villains' are property owners who want the value of their house to go up (as an investment). And what do those people hate more than anything? New construction that is more desirable than their home.

WE HAVE A HOMELESS CRISIS BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH HOMES, DRIVEN BY THE FACT THAT THE RESIDENTS OF SF LIKE HAVING EXPENSIVE HOMES. You can spin it any way you want, but it's the truth and if you don't watch out, the same thing is coming for you in your town, because SF is just ahead of everywhere else, not on a different path.
Of course it should have distinctive look compared to a call where order matters, but I actually like your idea as it would require reordering just once. I think the order should be fixed in the source code too.
Doesn't this just reinforce the point of the parent post, that there are two types of homelessness?

They are explicitly separating the worst cases from those like the working mother in the RV?

Looking at the 2019 report[1], the chronically homeless better fit the negative stereotype.

Sixty-three percent 63% of chronically homeless survey respondents reported alcohol or
substance use. 53% reported living with a psychiatric or emotional condition, 52%
with post-traumatic stress disorder, 48% with a chronic health problem, and 21% suffered from a traumatic brain injury

This is from self reported survey data, so the actual numbers could be more grim (e.g. problems not acknowledged or diagnosed).

https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/FINAL-PIT-R...
I've been conducting a little mental exercise over the past few years. Each time I see a news headline about something China is doing to grow its economy or its geopolitical strength, I try to think of anything similar the US is doing. If I can't, I tell myself: "China wins."

So, China is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build new nuclear reactors, and the US is not. The last nuclear reactor built in the us was decades ago. Old reactors, for all their time tested trustworthiness, use obsolete technology. China wins.

China is also building thorium reactors. The US is not. China wins.
Is this everywhere or just certain places ?
Interesting that Shakti also has a Python API from the start.
I do absolutely, for EVGA especially its quite easy and makes RMA requests a breeze (if I ever need to)
There's no need to be rude.

My comment still stands. You asked why the feature doesn't exist, and I gave a very reasonable possible answer.
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It's zero or near zero. Committing crimes generally bars one from being a director, especially public companies. White collar crime sentences generally preclude serving on any board until their dues are paid to society. Even personal bankruptcy can preclude being a director.
In Atlanta it’s called the “stone mountain” problem.
> Find a relatively small firm, still owner-run and controlled.

Is n’t that a single point of failure?
I think the problem is that our JS now does this:

fetch(url);

where it used to do this:

new Image().src = url;

... and that seems to breaking a few edge cases of older browsers.

Can you try collapsing a comment somewhere and then refreshing the page to see if it stays collapsed? If it doesn't stay collapsed, that's another sign that fetch() calls aren't making it to the server.
Yeah, I definitely would want a professional analyst to compare things. The main one I’d be interested in is age-matched rates since as we saw with the Israeli data it’s easy to hit confounds like Simpson’s paradox.
I make about $10-15 a day from mining with my RTX 3090, while my electricity costs are around $2 a day from mining. That's still very much a profitable endevour.

My video card has completely paid for itself almost double what I initially paid for it ($2K in cash from a seller on craigslist, back in January).
It's no different to choosing your level of cover on life insurance or your level of excess on car insurance. Different companies and circumstances will have different risk profiles and will therefore require different levels of insurance.
I'm curious how they discover this if they are trying to stay so distant from US authorities. If you have EU citizenship which is what I assume here then presenting the Greek passport and supporting local documents isn't enough? Or, is it the case that something local like a missing local tax number, or even an accent telegraphed the situation.

With the US, it feels like everything is much more uniform with the tie back to a federal social security number. The SSN is universally requested for many types of financial and insurance setups.
https://wgme.com/news/i-team/cmp-ratepayers-livid-after-stat...

Yep, CMP is terrible to their customers.
Yeah, people generally choose to understand that babies can't help themselves and also choose to believe that the unhoused (literally the group with the least agency in our society) have the agency to help themselves.

EDIT: To be clear. I realize shit is gross. It's the most toxic thing a human regularly encounters.

But the implication of the grossness of shit being a 'bright red line' for lost empathy is that no reasonable human would EVER deal with someone else's shit, when that is demonstrably untrue.

We choose to empathize with babies and not homeless people. That's fine, I guess, but feels sort of gross on the cosmic scale.
In the dystopian future I'm imagining, presumably Android would require jailbreaking/rooting to enable debugging/developer mode, or in some other way make your use of these features visible to the government app which authenticates you to the mobile network.

To develop an app which requires online services, there would be a few approved methods, such as testing in a simulator on a non-mobile device, or with mocked internet connectivity. Other restrictions may apply too, such as having to register your developer ID with the government, being limited to a small number of test devices, and/or being stuck on a dedicated untrusted segment of the internet.
Add this to the 30 year old pile of opinion pieces predicting China's imminent economic collapse.
We don't outsource our employees. All development, IT, etc is in-house.

That's in contrast to "offshore development", where the US team is augmented by contracted development companies in some other part of the world.

We have sponsored H1B visas, on occasion. Employees are required to have the legal right to work in the US, and are expected to make their legal residence in the US.
That's what I'm concerned about. Clinical death is apparently survivable.

> Reduced body temperature, or therapeutic hypothermia, during clinical death slows the rate of injury accumulation, and extends the time period during which clinical death can be survived. The decrease in the rate of injury can be approximated by the Q10 rule, which states that the rate of biochemical reactions decreases by a factor of two for every 10 °C reduction in temperature. As a result, humans can sometimes survive periods of clinical death exceeding one hour at temperatures below 20 °C.[20] The prognosis is improved if clinical death is caused by hypothermia rather than occurring prior to it; in 1999, 29-year-old Swedish woman Anna Bågenholm spent 80 minutes trapped in ice and survived with a near full recovery from a 13.7 °C core body temperature. It is said in emergency medicine that "nobody is dead until they are warm and dead."[21] In animal studies, up to three hours of clinical death can be survived at temperatures near 0 °C.[22][23]

I'd rather not be harvested too quickly, when I could have been revived without issue.
>having _your biological baby with your genes_ and a random homeless person?

Shots across the bow to adoptees. Damn.
I very much appreciate you taking the time elaborate! It’s quite interesting and now I have a new rabbit hole to explore :)
> Is there a reason there’s a short limit on how long my Backblaze password can be?

The current limit is 50 characters. There are reasons we don't let it get super long like 2,000 characters but we could easily double or triple the maximum length it if it was requested. Is there a number of characters you have in mind? I found a chart here: https://i.imgur.com/trR2u8g.jpg that says a randomly generated 17 character password would take 93 trillion years to crack. The chart doesn't even go up to 50 characters. Backblaze also supports 2-factor authentication via SMS or Google Authenticator codes which personally I would highly recommend to customers also.

> who knows what kind of encryption you guys are using

Backblaze has two product lines: "Backblaze Backup" where we wrote the app that encrypts data on your laptop before uploading into our storage cloud, and "Backblaze B2" where you use any third party tool (or write your own) so the encryption in that case is all under your control. You can see a list of 3rd party tools here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html (make sure you scroll down). There are little pictures of penguins by the software that supports Linux, little pictures of an apple for software that support Macintosh, and a little Window icon for the software that support Windows.

For "Backblaze Backup", we use a well known design where we use symmetric AES-128 to encrypt the file, but each file is encrypted with a different AES-128 key, and that key and an Initialization Vector (IV) is then encrypted by a 2048 bit RSA public/private key. You can read about the encryption flow we use in this blog post: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-to-make-strong-encryption...
New Jersey has some of the best gun laws in the country.
hypothetical public program: "We notice you haven't been able to fill this unit for 6 months. We're going to give you market rate based on the neighborhood and square footage, for this person to live here."

property owner: "But what about my right to discriminate of people I don't like the look of?"

> The majority of these properties will end up ruined.

Show me the ruined apartments from a program that tried this. I'm skeptical because there are supportive housing programs, and the complaint I normally hear is that they don't have nearly enough capacity to meet the real need, not that once residents get placed they "ruin" their units.

> Or the government could build their own housing to use for this purpose. I can tell you which idea would be more popular with voters.

And show me the many many public housing projects we've built because public housing is so popular. In SF, neighborhoods have a pretty consistent track record of fighting back against any housing that doesn't increase their comps. Note that mostly there aren't actually public housing projects for them to push back against, but rather projects from non-profits like TNDC or Mission Housing.
Good catch! I missed the word interpreter in there.
PII is not as toxic as many types of data that I have dealt with. Consider legal discovery processes involving many terabytes of documents. These contain e.g., ingestion of laptop, mail folders, document repositories that themselves contain all the kinds of toxic material that you have ever heard of.
So what you're saying is that buying from rando scalpers has increased risk & negative side effects? Cool. Then stop buying from scalpers.
> I don't think I've seen referral bonuses rising at a commensurate rate.

Unfortunately the referral bonuses I've seen have always been somewhere between 'insulting' and 'why bother?'. The only place I know that does decent referral rates is using it to get around their reputation for churn.
Duke of Punishment (Action Movie)

LOL
The hatred is absurd. In Canada, approximately 80% of the population pays less than the average amount of carbon tax, so they receive more from the carbon dividend than they pay out for the carbon tax.

I pay an extra 10 cents/litre for gasoline but get a cheque for most of $1000 every year. Pretty awesome deal for me and most Canadians.

People really like to hate on getting cheques in the mail.
SBIR shops often pay abysmally (with bad benefits) even if the work is interesting.
I want to note that this was accomplished at a government lab (Sandia National Laboratory). I think that because it's hot politics to dismiss government as inept, and because we don't notice all the incredible science and development done in those labs (hypothesis: they don't do great PR, and often it's not something easily understood), and we risk ruining these amazing resources for both the country and the humanity.

Someone with social media PR skill should do a sensational Twitter account, like Musk's, for government research. 'Portable particles in quantum states!' (You can see why I don't do it.)

Also, I love that the author doesn't link to Wikipedia, but to actual science and research, including the actual papers.
> Since when does the US federal government care about democracy?

The U.S. government doesn't care about anything. The people who join, make it to and remain at the Foreign Service, the 13,000-odd professionals who make up the bulk of the State Department, tend to care deeply about it. That doesn't trump national interest. And at the end of the day, a political appointee is in charge. But it's a human factor that can tip issues on the knife's edge.
Then you would like that "Gov. Janet Mills received a commitment from Hydro-Quebec to directly sell enough discounted energy in Maine each year to run 70,000 homes."