skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting audited or not doesn't change if the act is a crime. That's like saying "did Mr Y commit a crime when he murdered Mr X, if he didn't get caught?". Of course he committed a crime.

Not paying taxes certainly can be a crime.

The point of the person above is valid - it's bs to call something 'tax abuse'. It's either illegal or not. It might be a grey area which hasn't been tested yet and there is a process to decide the outcome. It is eventually deemed illegal or not.
Think about how many years over-building went on before the collapse in 2008.

There's a good chance that, in the coming years, labor and materials prices will fall such that builders will start construction on too many homes. But that's a while away. material prices are falling, but they are still elevated. And houses take a while to build -- four months minimum, nine+ more typical. So even if overbuilding started today, there's still a good year or so before that stuff comes on the market.

In these situations, I'm a big believer in contrarian outcomes. Because if a large number of people think some event will occur, then they act in a way which gives them the best outcome should that event occur. The popular trend right now is to speculate a housing collapse. Thus, I think most people are going to put off buying at "elevated" prices for a few years, until it becomes crystal clear that they were wrong.

My prediction: House prices will be like the stock market circa 2016. Everyone will be predicting a collapse "any time now" while prices soar at a crazy pace and continue to do so for a decade.
Cheers. And yep, it’ll try to persist the document to local storage if your browser lets it.
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A lot of it is also due to French pronunciation changes. There are many "french" loan words where the english version is much closer to the original french than the modern french pronunciation is -oyster for example.

Then again several of the more obviously "french" words are drifting the other way as people assume they should be pronounced like modern french - valet is a great example here where most english people now drop the final 't'
We have two be careful (I have Schiozoaffective Bipolar Disorder) when going on to social media. I cannot use Facebook at all. For some reason it is always a huge trigger for me. On Twitter I go back and forth. Even Hacker News frustrates me when they keep telling me I am "posting too fast". Most times nothing is too fast for me. :)

But in total, I would say some social media platforms are worse than others. I long for the calmness and organization of the old MyBB forums.
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I think the risk in the US is if house valuations fall too much and you're severely underwater, people will just walk away from mortgages. I believe we saw this in 08. Not as direct a risk in non-fixed mortgage countries, but still an issue.
Yey, yet another reason to help people make informed decisions.

Ignoring policy for the moment.

It would be cool to know in advance if say whooping cough (for example) would hit me hard or not. If the price of detection could be driven down it would be better than having to store or produce expensive vaccines or treatments for people who won't significantly benefit from either.
Hope that tech like this actually takes off :)
This is the best rebuttal to the CRT panic I've ever read. Thank you.

I, too, used to think that "oppression matrix" = "all white men are evil," but putting aside the paranoia and simply thinking about it calmly helped me realize that it's not that radical of an idea.

Even as a kid I instinctively understood that as a white dude I have it easier in America than most other identities, even though I didn't have the words to express it. It's a pretty simple idea, and all the knee-jerk reactions against it just come from an emotional unwillingness to face that fact head on, I think. Which is its own deep issue that I won't pretend to fully understand or to be immune from.
The American "left" is soft right wing. These disputes are the right squabbling with the other right. Much of the silencing of the hard right, for "decorum" and such, is not recognized as censure by the soft right. At least the hard right is honest about banning speech.

Because all of the focus is on soft and hard right wing cancellation, anything actually on the left is seen as extremist. Extremist speech can be silenced and, just like with the hard right, not acknowledged as being silenced.
Someone's lawyers seem to understand it better than he did, company's seem eager to settle rather go to trial when they are found to be violating it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox#GPL_lawsuits

https://www.pillsburylaw.com/images/content/1/6/v2/1655/A9A2...
Great! That's cheap for what you get. As soon as we've built out a few $trillion in battery storage, we can get going on long-term hydrogen storage and distribution!
I think you did not read the article. In the future, please put more effort into your comments or refrain.
I personally love looking through used book stores, finding crazy gems of the early and not-so-early sci-fi (and any other) works: there are one too many good books, and I am happy to go with not-the-latest stuff.
Fixed rates have been close to 1% in Italy for a long time. I don't think anybody went adjustable rates in the last years, it could get negative (I think it happened somewhere in northern Europe) but it can easily grow and bankrupt people in the 10 - 20 years lifespan of a mortgage.
That was actually a reason I never used my sr.ht account. I like my README.org files.
I was renting an apartment in Portugal, and the landlord said me the same thing. I love curry, It didn't bother me, but sounds like an issue.
If you count pumped hydro, gravity storage is the #1 storage of the USA.

Turns out that pumping water up-hill and running generators when the water flows backwards is a very efficient energy storage mechanism.
A few years ago a beaver started taking some trees from the wetland-type area of the back part of our property.

It was pretty nice, actually.

But he went too far, of course, and there was flooding a little downstream of us (really not much more than a drainage creek though technically it connects two bodies of water and is optimistically titled a "river").

So he (or she, I don't know) was trapped, and the free landscaping ended.

Of course, it may have become a problem for me too, once I found my house in the middle of a new lake :)
What? That makes no sense. More expensive housing increases the incentive to build more, which decreases prices. The problem is many governments, local councils etc regulate land use so heavily that if a developer wants to build a block with 200 apartments NIMBYs are up in arms to protect their own interests while locking out anyone trying to get into the market.

House owners are fine with this arrangement, as they get all the benefits and bear none of the costs inherent with excessive land regulations. Non-owners get screwed.
As someone who has maintained an AMP implementation for a big (albeit non-news) site for years, I think "AMP does not allow as much customization of ads as papers are used to" is a feature, not a bug. There are constant demands from sales and advertising partners to add more and more disruptive and broken web experiences, and having a bedrock of "Google will penalize us if we do this" to fall back on is really, really important.

I don't care whether AMP "helps publishers"—I think AMP holds publishers accountable for their (accidental or careless) UX disasters, and prevents them from happening in the first place.
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if you select domains which don't align so closely with the buzzwords of the day and accept a more modest paycheck you may find more success in your search for a dream job (personal anecdote, not a prescription)

there are a lot of people looking for jobs right now with keywords AI, blockchain, cybersecurity

meanwhile many disciplines struggle to find decent candidates due to lack of interest
The worst epidemics and pandemics in history
> no longer than a year ago negative comments about amp where drowned in downvotes

This is the strangest case of revisionist history I've ever seen.
GDP growth doesn't care about whether spending is on durable or consumable goods. If anything, falling aggregate spending on durable goods is probably hampering our GDP overall.

A lot of this consumer preference - people just want new things more often than they want things that last. And social media has probably accelerated the half-life decay of trends to chase.
> we enjoyed traveling to other places and generating CO2 along the way.

by travel I meant travel by airplane
Smallpox is roughly as contagious as SARS-Cov2 Delta and therefore more transmossible than the original variant. However those numbers are the unmitigated numbers.

Public health and other authority figures have some advantages in fighting smallpox versus SARS-Cov2. IIRC, smallpox is not infectious until the "pox" are visible on the body, greatly improving ability to screen for the disease and the vaccine traditional used creates a small but visible scar, again aiding screening.

The world also maintains a significant (300M doses vaccine stockpile in the US as well as other countries) with already approved vaccines that can begin manufacturering immediately.

Finally, smallpox is so deadly and obviously horrific that it "should" help public health officials get past vaccine and other mitigation "hesitantcy".

A smallpox pandemic would truly be devastating and much worse then Covid19, but thankful there is reason to believe outbreaks could be controlled before pandemic status was reached.

One of my biggest worries coming out of Covid19 is how epidemiological public health has become tied up in political identity and that the next pandemic will see significant portions of the population actively resisting outbreak control measures.
Your comment is going to age like skim milk.

Covid killed so many people because it was novel. It'll likely decline year over year as the population either develops antibodies or dies (of covid or natural causes).
> The popular trend right now is to speculate a housing collapse.

Price action is sentiment. Words are hot air. People are NOT speculating on a housing collapse. Exactly the opposite.
yeah - in many other dependency systems, you only get protection for versions you use, as those are in your lockfile. the public gosumdb helps prevent a few more cases of re-releasing something + you upgrading + pulling it from a different provider (... which is mostly relevant due to its more-distributed setup, if it treated goproxy as canonical it'd be unnecessary because it wouldn't contain that re-release), but not "downloaded module does not match repository".

I do think the sumdb setup is worth others copying, it's relatively cheap to maintain and it does clamp down on some issues. It also makes it much harder to revoke things though, as you can't remove anything from it ever - after a couple versions, Go finally added "redacted" versions, but the need for that is partly a consequence of having the permanently-immutable sumdb + not having a canonical source. Unique self-inflicted pain -> unique workaround, though it's all relatively reasonable and I think a net benefit.
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I mean, to be fair, paying 20% over asking in the San Francisco Bay Area has been just a normal fact of life in the last 10 years.
Robert S. Hartman's scientific axiology: The structure of value
The author's value theory approach apparently was far too much ahead of its time when it was published in the 60s and 70s. With all the intellectual capacity now much more common due to ubiquitous computer science, it certainly merits to be re-examined in light of ethics and axiology related to contemporary AI.
Probably not as much as you'd think. Ammonia is used as a refrigerant in a closed-loop system. You'll eventually have some leaks and have to recharge the system, but the ammonia isn't a consumable item in this process.
> "I don't care who started it, I only care that you stop fighting"

I stopped doing that when I realized this is systematically enabling aggressor. The kid that minds own business is on the defense and effectively forced always do what aggressor wants. Because if it protects or defends itself, adult steps in to tell him he is equally wrong.
A house.

The new generations have very little chance here of ever obtaining a house of their own.

I'm sure that wasn't the kind of answer that you were looking for, but 'perks from the past' is potentially quite broad and for me this is the one that stands out above all of the others. Which is odd because housing is considered a human right and if you are relegated to renting then you will essentially be sucked dry for many many years.
They ignored a crash bug for a month and a half. Nobody should have to explain to a security package maintainer that a crash bug is a priority. If I were running a distro I'd be advertising to my users that there is a problem too, so they would know that the distro is considering alternatives.
For the case of RKE, which I mentioned, I think they do it to have the cluster config available, but no idea why they use a configmap rather than a secret (https://github.com/rancher/rke/issues/1024 is the relevant issue)
Academia - a notoriously right-wing institution.
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"Cancel culture" is a recent term invented by the right as a pejorative for the left, so if you're going to use that loaded term you're signaling which side of the partisan divide you are on.
instead of quiet desperation, people can now lead lives of shrieking desperation
Yes and:

- https://dougnoll.com/de-escalate/nonviolent-communication-ba...

> Many people ask me about the difference between Nonviolence Communication basics and the Noll Affect Labeling System. This lengthy article explains those differences. Fundamentally, we peacemakers want to minimize human conflicts, calm people down, solve problems, and make durable agreements for lasting peace. Peacemaking and mediation help achieve these goals. Unfortunately, as will be explained, psychologists, counselors, therapists, peacemakers and mediators have mistakenly tried to create empathy through the use of "I" statements during active listening. "I" statements are important, but not for creating empathy and certainly not for de-escalating anger or other strong emotions. The inappropriate use of "I" statements comes from a misunderstanding of the work of Thomas Gordon, the inventor of active listening, and Marshall Rosenberg, the creator of Nonviolent Communication.

I highly recommend Douglas Noll's book, _De-Escalate_.
Can someone please ELI5?
Yep, that's the short term bear case. The long term bear case is: demographic pyramid inversion, interest rates bottoming out, and asset owners becoming a minority of the electorate.
Lies are more than untruth.

A lie is "[leaving] out the important context"

The most effective way to lie is to use facts. Selectively
That's comparing covid without vaccine or widespread natural immunity to flu with vaccine and widespread natural immunity.

Consider the 1918 flu pandemic where people were unprotected against a new strain and 1-3% of the world's population died.
I bought my house (suburb of Seattle) for $300k seven years ago. It's been feeling pretty small lately, so I occasionally check Zillow to see what's on the market. I can't find anything within a reasonable commute (~45 minutes) to work without paying at least $800k, and even then, it's usually a derelict property that probably will need to a few hundred thousand more to bring it up to par.

My three options seem to be:

1. Live with the small house (and awesomely small principal) we have, at least until the bubble bursts
2. Suck it up and pay a ton of money
3. Move far from Seattle.

I'd actually love option 3, but with established relationships in the area, it's not a great option socially for the family.
The sequence of the smallpox virus is publicly available:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/9627521

What sort of labs have the skills to reverse genetics it into a cowpox backbone?

Are we talking 2-3 labs in the world, or basically any decent lab? Could a PhD in virology/microbiology do it?
> Electrical grids don't store energy. If you wanted to store just 10% of the U.S. electrical generation from summer to winter using lithium-ion batteries, it would cost roughly $42 trillion dollars. Yes, trillion.

Do you mean 10% of the generation on a typical summer day? Or 10% of the generation of an entire summer?

The problem with this kind of calculation is that battery technology (and cost) is very much a moving target.

LFP would probably be the better choice today. It's cheaper, safer, and can handle far more load cycles. That comes at a cost of a lower energy density, but that hardly matters for utility scale batteries. Tesla's megapacks use LFP already - https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/11/tesla-transitions-to-lf....

Like you say, there are many other energy storage options like pumped hydro, compressed air, etc. My personal favorite is the train full of concrete that goes up and down a hill (https://interestingengineering.com/concrete-gravity-trains-m...).
So they'd prefer to manually grab header files and audit those instead?
C++ ABI is PITA indeed, but exposing a C API for external linking is totally possible and is being actively used. Various cases of static linking (or header-only files) do indeed exist, but no sane C++ project (I'm not sure one can call ROS that without reservations) uses nearly as many static dependencies as typical Rust one does.

> Also, that's really only true of a small number of Linux and BSD flavors.

This is true on all major Linux distributions.

> Applications shipped on Windows, macOS, Android, iOS

If we are talking about security closed-source walled gardens are out of consideration right?

> or any of the Linux "application bundle" systems like the Steam runtime, Docker, FlatPak

This is sad indeed. Docker used right is just a distro inside a distro though, so anything that applies to distros applies here too.
I’ve been contemplating that problem in relation to Facebook. I had a forum that had relatively low activity, and the sole admin disappeared. When I finally got ahold of him, he suggested start a Facebook group.

While I think this would have less friction to discover, I find Facebook groups to be super disjointed. It feels more like a bunch of people talking at the group, rather than conversations, and it feels very transitory - which falls in line with Facebook’s approach: the most important thing is what’s next.
are you a chemist? 5 year old bottles of ether have to be treated exceptionally carefully to to free radicals.
I want to believe that you are correct. But it seems like everybody is so damned hyper-sensitive and over reactive to everything these days... sigh
Sounds like that scene from Austin powers :) where he keeps saying the pump isn't his.

But you're right that's pretty damning.
He tried to make a coup ffs. Armed rebellion which was not successful. And he’s still alive.
That's exactly one of the benefits of free speech. A kind of inverse of the "remain silent and be thought a fool, or speak up and remove all doubt" saying.

Free and open discussion lets me know who's worthwhile listening to and who should be ignored.
>Back then deducting your interest from your taxes was very important.

Because of how mortgages are amortized, the deduction's value to the taxpayer doesn't vary directly with the interest rate, but with the total value of the mortgage. Your payments are always going to be mostly interest in the first few years, transitioning over to principal in the later years.
The rarer the disease the easier it is to get approved. Once approved you can tell doctors can use it for anything, and you can tell doctors what else it "might" work for. Doctors can then buy it for those other things, which they might do. You are supposed to study the other things, but that takes time and a lot more money (to be kind)

Note, the above is an over simplification, good enough for discussion, but not for any other use. Those who the above is useful information for already know many finer details of the above, and how it varies from country to country.
As with all things, there are pros and cons to Singapore's approach.

Having better surveillance is a tool which can be used for good and bad, contingent on circumstance.

For example, I live in the SF Bay Area. One highway near me (880) suffers from a very large amount of excessive speeding. A system capable of identifying speeders and charging them for their actions would be a boon for public safety. So surveillance here would be a net benefit to society.

However, surveillance being used to prevent alternative ideas from being discussed (alternative solutions to problems or alternative philosophies) is less clearly positive. On the one hand, being able to prevent bold-face misinformation (see a Trump speech for an example) could be beneficial. Preventing reasoned debate, however, detracts from society.

I don't think luddite responses to surveillance technology are effective. The technology is here. Pragmatically, its growing use in society cannot be prevented. We should instead focus on trying to maximize the good aspects of surveillance while minimizing the bad.

As an aside, I find one-sided pieces like this one off-putting. I understand the desire to spin a narrative, but in focusing exclusively on the negatives of the Singaporean approach we (the readers) are left wondering about the other side to the story.
Assuming you're a tech person, have you ever observed a debate between two non-tech people on a tech-adjacent topic (say, responsible disclosure or net neutrality)? It's quite easy for this to happen if you went in agreeing with one side, and that side omits what you consider to be important arguments.
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This was one of the bottlenecks that COVID vaccines faced, as well. Researchers made COVID vaccines relatively quickly, and it took a relatively long time for mass production to ramp up.