skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine you're 75, retired, and suddenly your property tax spikes and the house you bought 20 years ago for 150 is now worth 750K, and now you're on the hook for 30K.

Easily solved by not hitting people who own one property which is their primary residence.

I'd go easy on two-property people; some people need two places for various reasons, and they occupy both.

The tax rules can be crafted such that heavy penalties are imposed on people with three or more properties, and on house flipping activity.

Only reason you don't see more of that is because, doh, the rules are written by the rich. The politicians themselves or their rich chums are doing a lot of that speculating.
iMessage has no concept of a "verified user account" (iMessage for Business is separate), so there's zero indication this message is genuinely from Apple, except an email address that can possibly be faked. It's strange Apple hasn't built-in visible confirmation that this specific Threat Notifications sender is legitimate.
So at the moment I maintain a registry in the form of a JSON file on github (joshburnsxyz/git-plugins-repo) the CLI command parses the raw JSON from that file and then the plugins have a Makefile with the build/install instructions there is also a dummy (joshburnsxyz/git-plugin-dummy) that exists to demonstrate what a plugin looks like and as a template.
A Chemical Hunger – Part X: What to Do About It
It says that we haven’t seriously needed to actually defend ourselves in an extremely long time.
I’m just curious, why do you feel the need to bring up politics in this comment section? Are you trying to stop people from talking about parental leave? How is the choice of a single politician relevant here?
I live in a country where surveillance cameras can only be used, in most cases, to investigate crimes. (although the government is trying hard to change this, lately).

Photography of public space is allowed, but if the subject is a specific person, you must obtain permission.

This also leaves an awkward gray area for things like dashcams, which can be considered unregistered surveillance cameras and as such are not allowed.
Another non-sensical response. You made the claim, not me. It's your responsibility to provide evidence.
I'm not sure why Samsung has decided to suicide, like in the space of a year I've started hearing about unwanted advertising in their smart TVs, flip phones pushed to market with broken screens, phones full of bloatware, now this about their buds, i mean i would give any product the benefit of the doubt, but to be honest I would never consider buying a Samsung one right now
This comment would make sense if the debate was over whether or not students should be forced to take algebra in 8th grade. But it's actually about whether students should be allowed to take algebra in 8th grade.
Better than js
Ask HN: How to know if you should stop doing startups?
I've been doing the startup thing for a decade now. Founded my first company and we raised a few million and had an OK exit - that is to say, I can scrape by without working too hard for the rest of my life, but this would be a mediocre result and career, at best.

So it's been a few years since then and I've been trying to start new things. Nothing seems to stick -- there's no excitement from other people, and I can't seem to stay focused on an idea for more than a few months.

The hype around startups now is also a drag, tbh... It was fun when it was geeky nerds building stuff, and now it's like everyone and their mother is a marketing machine. On top of that, I can't help but wonder if the world really needs another Canva or Airtable or whatever... Yet this is where everyone seems to want to be.

So... I spend more time debating ideas and giving up on them than I do actually building anything.

So now I'm wondering: should I just get a job? Part of my knows I will regret doing that but I also feel like I'm getting stale and useless.

Anyone else been in this situation? How'd you get out of it?
That's how I interview for some roles! I don't work for Lutron though.
> The root of the issue with street photography has a whole lot less to do with the photograph and more to do with the ever present issue of male sexual abuse towards women.

This is low effort sexism. You could remove the words "male" and "towards women" and you'd avoid be being sexist while sending the same message.

> Also food for thought. Would this have been as big of an issue had the photographer been a woman? Would it had gotten the same push back? These are question that dig more the root cause of why this has less to do with the photo and more to do with who is taking the photo and why.

Nobody is required to tolerate being stereotyped based on their gender.
How does everyone back up their iDevices? Every article I read talks about iCloud, which is great and I use, but doesn’t follow this principle and you’re out of luck if you lose access to your Apple ID.

I’ve found some content specific solutions that will backup photos or contacts for example, but I’m looking for a fairly streamlined comprehensive solution that would back up everything-messages, contacts, photos, emails, bookmarks, basically iCloud 2 but without the Apple lock in.
It’s funny you mention that because “just plant trees” was the solution to get coal for hundreds of years; forestry was invented as a way to get sustainable, (incidentally) carbon-neutral (char)coal for iron furnaces.
Ehhhh like I get where you’re coming from but it would be fantastically bad policy for a nation to treat housing like this. A person’s primary residence needs to play by different rules if you’re gonna crash the market semi purposely.

When the forces that cause the market to crash are the feds monetary policy it’s a tough sell that it’s actually a free market. To first order individuals should be able to purchase shelter assured that it’s fairly priced. The concerns should be like “the foundation is cracked” not “JP Morgan is pumping house prices.”
What is your response to the idea that it can automate the role of a trusted third party in commerce, thereby removing much of the opportunity for abuse of this role?
I think even Rand was aware of its limitation, which is why the book has an essentially magical ending -- the heroine arrives in utopia by accident when her plane crashes there. But having to reveal the actual process of getting there is precisely the failure of utopian ideologies.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by that? I can think of two interpretations, both wrong:

1. Asyncio is like java.lang.Thread in that it's very low level; which isn't accurate: it's totally acceptable and easy to write async concurrency using asyncio (the python async stdlib) directly. While frameworks like Trio are nice they're nowhere near as necessary when working async as thread/pool managers are in Java.
2. Asyncio is like java.lang.Thread in that it has similar pitfalls to threaded programming in general. This is also untrue: in async programming in general, race conditions are much harder to write, and concurrent modification issues aren't a risk at all in Python async code the way they are in threaded Python or Java.
The question was not really well defined.

But just looking at drag force, there are a lot of things that can be done to reduce it by more than 10%, they're just unpalatable, impractical, or simply haven't been implemented.

Also a lot of energy is lost to heat, even in electric cars if you're looking at the whole car and not just the aerodynamics.
Feels like you can make the same argument about the washing machine, vacuum cleaner, and other housekeeping tools that made life easier a hundred years ago. Doing chores is not "living" and automating chores leaves more time for the wondrous and unique.
I learned so much math when I looked into RLWE based lattice crypto. Some times it just takes a distinct use case to have something click
Why lift one little finger when you can be king of the ashes?
We invest too little in catching white-collar criminals
Folks are lazy and that's expedient. It's good (in the short term, at least) for the people who make the decisions and bad for their customers, who have little agency.
Vaccines definitely have a positive effect. However, at this point most of it has been already accounted for by vaccinating the elderly populations at risk. Most Western world has elderly vaccination rates over 90-95%, including supposedly anti-vax regions, e.g. Florida [1]. The marginal effect of vaccinating young healthy populations with marginal covid risk is likely to be marginal. Realistically speaking, there aren't that many effective levers the authorities can wield. My hope is that the pattern we've seen in US southern states and BG/RO, i.e. steep short delta waves, will replicate elsewhere.

To keep things in perspective, covid mortality in Germany was 1.2/k since the beginning of the pandemic, compared to 10/k annual death rate from all causes. Hopefully the vaccines will help keeping this number even lower. Further confounding the issue, the death certificate cause of death for infectious diseases often times masks other systemic issues, for instance people with cancer are more susceptible to die of influenza or pneumonia [2]. What I suspect is happening is that covid replaced influenza and pneumonia as the Grim Reaper of choice. Remember that flu "paused" last year [3].

[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-trac...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33107375

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/08/flu-season-...
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Thankfully, "as bright as the sun" is waaaaaaay outside of what a monitor is capable of : SDR is (supposed to) top out at 10^2 cd/m^2, HDR10 at 10^3, Dolby Vision maxes out at 10^4 cd/m^2, but the midday sun is... ~10^9 !
People in their 20's and 30's eventually reach their mid to late 30's and realize living as a couple with a child or two running around in an apartment, taking elevators to walk the dog or have the kids play in a park (a park probably with homeless people laying on benches if it's the parks I'm thinking of), and folding a stroller to walk down the subway is -- a giant pain in the butt.

And eventually those people visit friends or see pictures on social media of people similar to them with large back yards, land and big kitchens - and say, shit, maybe we should look into this.

As it happens, just possibly a black swan pandemic event keeps those folks indoors with their kids and dogs, with their nonplussed neighbors, children running around behind Zoom conference calls, and pictures on social media of people with houses and backyards causing massive envy...

And welcome to today.

That's the housing situation in the suburbs and exoburbs. This is BEFORE even even talk about the insanely low interest rates on offer during this time.
A couple theoretical questions.

Has there been any consideration to create AI to work around pathological cases in tracing?

If compiling is done on a secondary thread, aren't you then reaping all the benefits of JIT optimization while still not paying the penalty on the actual JS execution thread?

Why throw away optimized code? Why not add a type check on the parameters and then dispatch to the highly-optimized code version based on the parameter count and types?
Anecdata: I lived in the bay area and moved to Austin, TX. My tax rate went from ~1.5% to ~2.2%
> That article is seven years old and in no way reflects current reality. In fact it has never reflected my own experience or that of anyone I know, where iMessage spam has been near enough to non-existent.

Your anecdotal lived experience is not representative of the entire population.

I personally have encountered at least a dozen spam iMessages (not SMS) in the past year, and several friends of mine have described the same experience. I googled iMessage spam and this was on the second page, just from last year: https://thisrupt.co/lifestyle/imessage-spam-not-thai-chana/ Feel free to research yourself to discover that it is in fact a widespread issue for many people, if not as widespread as it once was since the "Unknown sender" tab was introduced.

Regardless, SMS spam remains an issue, and on iOS, many users may not know the difference, as they're in the same app.

> And even if there were a spam problem, the risk is mostly on the upside anyway. It would only be an issue if iMessage got a reputation for flooding people with admonishments to take security seriously, purportedly from Apple.

You're missing the point. iMessage spam (though it does exist as I've shown above) is not the problem. The problem is iMessage doesn't have a good way to "verify" that messages that purport to be from Apple or anyone else truly are from a known and trusted sender. This deficiency is what enables iMessage spam, and creates the same potential for abuse with this new feature.
Land ownership monopoly is definitely a problem but it's independent from interest rates.
You can always plug into your computer and use iTunes for a local backup. Not elegant, but it’s still there for those who want it.
Google's approach (and possibly Apple's) is commendable, but very poor UX-wise. Google specifically seems to include "phishing attempts" in their government-attack detection, and the direct reason seems to be that phishing was used in compromising the DNC in 2016. But there's a huge difference between a hacker-for-hire group that may have tenuous government links sending a mediocre phishing email (as in https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/updates-about-gove...), and advanced zero-click zero-day use on all personal devices by a direct government body. Lumping them together makes zero sense.
Proactive! More like telepathic
Cryptographers furious that “crypto” now means something else
Not bad for an "art piece". We have plenty of art in the house and office that costs more than this, and they don't _do_ anything.
Facebook's push is the least of your concerns, honestly. Mass-surveillance is an industry-wide effort, driven by government pressure.
No one in the nuclear club will listen to such pronouncements. In fact no country with nuclear weapons has ever been invaded to date.
But factor in hybrid remote and the palatial mansion has become an option again - what's 2 days a week of a hellish commute if you can stretch out on a lawnchair the other 3?
The community edition is definitely enough for sbt projects.

Any reason you're using sbt for Java projects? That's an odd combination. Anyway, I believe Metals is getting close to supporting this particular use case if you want to keep using VS Code.
You might want to check out a pedelelec to see if it fits your need.
For anyone not aware, this method of discussing individually with stakeholders ahead of time before any decision or approval meetings is a common way to make the meetings go smoothly. Stakeholders won't be surprised by any items you bring up, you won't be surprised by anything they bring up and can address issues ahead of time, nobody will be embarrassed at the meeting (you really don't want to surprise a VP with some fact which might be construed as his team not performing well, especially in front of other VPs), and everyone will be able to see that everyone else agrees with the conclusions of the meeting.
With that attitude, you might as well do away with teacher certification, mandatory training, and just give the job to anyone who passes a background check.
Wikipedia cites ~60M bison pre-1800 [1]
USDA ~93M cattle currently [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison#Hunting
[2] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2021/01-29-2021.php
I’m taking paternity leave now and it’s so great and rewarding. As the article mentions, caring for a child is a skill that needs to be learned over multiple weeks. It also takes a while for a baby to be comfortable with a new caregiver. If a man doesn’t take that time, then it’s really unfair to the mother who now has so much more responsibility on their shoulders. It’s sad to me that the push for profit in so many industries has driven margins so low that companies can’t survive if workers take leave. I guess that’s ruthless capitalism for you.
After failed fix, researcher releases exploit for Windows EoP flaw
Sure. I hate that too and don't want it to be normalized. FB is just an example.
> 1. For large swaths of the population, hardware key-based 2FA or TOTP-based 2FA are too difficult to use, and they can also be more difficult to remediate if the user loses the hardware key or TOTP secret.

This doesn't mean software providers should not offer the ability to use TOTP instead of SMS. This irritates me to no end when applications force me to establish MFA using SMS before I can also establish TOTP.
Collective societies value the greater good of society over their personal needs and thus more receptive to vaccines, self isolation, mask wearing etc
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You're right, I phrased that poorly. I added an edit to clarify. My mistake.

What got to me was the idea that people want a personal assistant to run their lives, rather than their business. That seemed like a red flag, but it sounds like a lot of people disagree.
That does nothing to verify authenticity within iMessage itself, creating the opportunity for abuse and impersonation I outlined in my other comment in this thread. A simple solution to this problem would be a "verified" indicator for users to know that the iMessage did in fact originate from Apple, without them having to first know that such a support document exists.
I think most people assume it's okay to for example, use the office printer to print a return slip for a package you're going to mail back on your lunch break.

If the volume for your line of work is tens of thousands of pages, maybe printing 470 return slips is just y'know, fine, gets lost in the noise and makes everyone's life easier to just let it happen.
She doesn’t schedule things on Fridays and if it were required for something important she would communicate it to you.
For more information, please re-read.
Wasn't Trump derided for wanting to plant a billion trees or something (I'm going by memory)?

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-touts-tree-...
Conartists always find a scapegoat
I dare say that Wirecutter used to be a great resource before NYT bought them... not so much these days, it's mostly a pay-to-play machine.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/our-response-to-nextdesk/

Don't even get me started with Wine Spectator and wines in general... https://freakonomics.com/podcast/season-11-episode-6/

Like other have pointed out trust is difficult to obtain these days for review sites but I hope you persist and have a successful product.
Ask HN: What's stopping you from automating your business processes?
Are you still performing manual processes across teams? Emailing backing and forth? Why haven't you automated these things using zapier or some workflow process software?

Curious because most companies I join still do a ton of things manually. My guess is it's just due to non-technical managers, or no one's taken initiative, or job security. Thoughts?
> So that's out.

Nobody is entitled to live in the same space forever. It’s perfectly reasonable and expected for for someone on a fixed income to sell their appreciated home rather than paying the higher upkeep. If the value proposition makes sense for someone with a higher income then they’ll fill the void. If not, the price will drop and it will all adjust anyway.

The alternative is to end up like CA and we all know the shit show that has become.
Same, except my team is in the office again.
Isn't there a risk of disease transmission? Or is the waste heavily processed first?
SCSI was the unobtainium of my childhood. There was one day where we had a borrowed SCSI card in the family computer for a Zip drive and a scanner and I felt like I lived in the future for a brief moment.
I basically don’t, at least not at the device level. Photos get synced to my home server using PhotoSync every once in a while (manually, but eh, it works). Texts are backed up on my laptop technically, but I pretty much consider them ephemeral. I don’t really care about bookmarks, and everything else on that list is cloud-first.
Regarding the issue at hand and the associated stigma of it, politicians often try to lead by example as he stated so himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_pulpit
What sort of argumentation is this? You know full well that something broken in one regard can be further broken in an unrelated regard.
> I don't think it makes sense to see human settlements as separate from nature

Sounds like heidegger and marx! I agree
Android Bluetooth open source project, please star it if you like
Nobody mentions the pollution this brings to Texas? Cause it's a lot and Samsung should pay billions to to Texas for the mess they are making and not get public money for destroying it's valuable drinking water.
Symbolic imports.

Basically, the way every programming language newer than C++ or Objective-C does it.
So instead of solving the actual problem, you scale it up by bringing even more racism but now against whites, because now their vote is not as worthy as other groups, and now polarizing people even more by bringing more significance to the fact that someone may belong to another group.

Imagine a classroom of students, where the teacher says "the black student is not like the rest of you, but he is not the same with you. His vote is worth more." How would you imagine that would go? Why would you think that this is not equally racist?
The reason that major cities are where they are is because either there's a ton of traffic that flows through the area OR because they were the highest, easiest point to build on near a major source of fresh water. So no, they're not going to just appear because you build a city there. That's not how cities or infrastructure work.
Irresponsible? I don't know, maybe? What responsibility does Taylor have to Kytch in the first place? Certainly no obligation to say "Their product is safe to use on our machine."

Defamatory? I don't think so, but I guess the courts will decide.
> Remote Work' is like an 'unlimited, free H1B' program.

As someone who manages people in many different countries from the US I can definitively say this is not true. You have to comply with local labor laws wherever you hire your employees. For example, many countries like Poland, England, and France require very longer notice periods and changes in job responsibilities can be a sticky legal issue. HR has to be equipped to handle all of these nuances.
Do you want an EA or a PA? They aren’t necessarily the same.

An experienced EA isn’t going to be pleased when you ask them to get your dry cleaning or pick up your kids.
» Imagine you're 75, retired, and suddenly your property tax spikes and the house you bought 20 years ago for 150 is now worth 750K, and now you're on the hook for 30K.

I propose a complete overhaul to this tax. We make this tax a federal tax, no exclusion allowed for any reason. Increase this tax rate to about 8% of the property value meaning if the property is worth USD 1M, you owe USD 80k in property tax each year. No exclusions for anyone. Walmart pays. Megachurches pay. Amazon.com pays. Yes, even the state capitol pays and public schools pays.

Now, to make the math work, we must make a calculation we revise each year. What is the median price of a two bedroom unit in the nation? Every adult gets this allowance for the year. Ideally, this more than offsets the cost of the property tax for this person. If it doesn't, the person is responsible for the difference.

The beauty of this scheme is every building pays and failure to pay for about five to ten years is enough to confiscate the property and put it back in circulation. Everyone has some money for housing. If some place is too expensive, move elsewhere and make money.