skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, those who have been born into wealth have a gilded life, while the rest of the states struggle.

I think it's important to remember that California's wealth comes not from internally, but from externally. By exporting the goods from labor in the state, labor that is largely the result of immigrants into the state, California is leading the way to a more environmentally friendly path, with greater wealth, for all of humanity.

Wishing to cut that off because of a few conservative "native born" Californians don't want to see apartment buildings is the height of foolishness and greed.
> Maybe, but those WAN show lectures are often starkly mirroerd[sic] by strongly worded submarine advertisement playing as segments on his various shows.

Every one of their videos clearly mention who the sponsors are i.e. the "sponsored showcase" videos. And when they're not those types of videos, but just have regular advertising, they say out loud and clear "and this segway's to our sponsor...".

I'm not shilling for the fella but their content is some of the best when it comes to being transparent about who's paying for their videos. He can't risk getting that wrong.

> Narcissist is probably the word.

He's clearly offended you somehow and sometime in the past so why continue to watch their content? If a content creator offended me this much then I'd just walk away.
Sure, but you also can't squeeze blood from a stone.

That said, I was mostly talking credit cards, since that's what most tech services would fall under in a zero-money consumer situation.

>And if not, why don't poor indebted people simply default all the time to remove debt?

Some do, but having your credit ruined for seven years sucks for most people. Likewise the courts don't exactly smile upon those who run up huge debts with the intention of defaulting.
That’s very good. But what do I know about “Cure53” other than they are saying “Yea, trust them bro”.

Is Cure53 incorruptible? Would there be any blip in the world if they were not and Mull was really an NSA op?

I’m not saying I don’t trust Mull over say, Nord. I am saying the nature of the whole thing is non-falsifiable with our existing technologies. We can only determine who was lying by looking back after an incident, and most are kept secret.
do you pack a little bottle of dawn in your bag? Do you use it as a general detergent, or do you use it to spot-clean stains? I love this idea, just curious about the logistics.
Unless I'm missing something, those aren't cross-game cosmetics. They're cosmetics for a single game themed off of a different game.

A hearthstone card skin has no use in WoW.
>They’ve moved on from denial, nowadays they say far more hateful things. [1]

All I was getting at is not having a rainbow or supporting a company who changes their logo or whatever doesn't mean somebody is denying the existence of LGBT.

>No, but it’s not for the kind of reasons you’re trying to get at with this kind of questioning. Fundamentally, I don’t much care about people changing their app icons for causes I support. And for causes I don’t support, I will simply uninstall their app if it bothers me at all. I feel no need to make noise about app icons in this way.

I'm not a fan of app icon changes. I don't care if it is for political or just a permanent changing of their logo. I have uninstalled apps which changed icons because it bothered me. I highly sympathize with the OP for those reasons. Changing for political reasons is worse since it is a temporary change and will go back to its original icon later, meaning there will be 2 icon changes in a short time period.

I think complaining about something seems reasonable. Look at various posts that make it to the front page on HN. Huge numbers of them are complaints about things many people don't care about. Maybe you don't think it is a big deal, but many of us do.

>I disagree with this assertion, but it isn’t possible to know. What the author did was say things like “I _might_ even agree…” (emphasis mine), which leaves plausible deniability either way.

Unless the OP states otherwise you don't know either. I don't like to make assumptions when the poster goes out of their way to not bring up the topic.

>But one thing that is certain is this: app icons change frequently, for non-political reasons. It would be trivial to even _mention_ that in the article, but the author did not

I think he was complaining about all icon changes in general and political changes in specific:
"As part of that bargain, you have to identify your app visually so I can find it. To that end, I am happy to have on my device your logo or a picture that hints at what the app does."

>So while neither of us can prove it one way or the other, it certainly sounds like the real problem is the political messaging. Context is one of the most important parts of communication.

Unless his point was he doesn't like temporary app icon changes in which case complaining about a specific change would lead to proponents of that political view attacking him.
Getting that first promotion after new grad is a big bump and anchor for sure :)
Um, you do realize that photographs don't actually take your soul right?
There's a big difference between getting caught up in a 5-eyes dragnet vs some local police investigation vs a copyright subpoena.

A VPN headquarted offshore that will only respond to local subpoenas with local legal representation is pretty good protection against the second two.
What does “web text editor framework that powers Facebook” actually mean?

I don’t use Facebook, but AFAIK, there are no “blog features” in the platform, are there?

Other than a WYSIWYG editor [1], what other use cases do you intend this project for?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG
Wireless is a game changer. Being able to just put it on and play is a blessing compared to the last generation and the ability to turn around 360 without worrying about getting entangled makes the experience so much better.

Sounds like VR is not for you, and that's fine, but mocking people who think wireless is a big deal is just nonsense.
If the bugs are fixed, put 'em in your CI and blog about it. Taking my own advice here, I've got better things to do than argue with you.
git's performance increase came around at the right time, too. Code bases were becoming bigger and bigger, and Agile's popularity preached a lot of branching. SVN branches were a full copy, making things way worse.
I think calling Atlassian mediocre is a bit generous. Confluence is a steaming pile of burn garbage that still can't get basic thing's like SVG working[1]. Atlassian can't give a darn, they have their captive market and they are just riding the gravy train now. The last good thing they did seems to be to buy trello, but they will likely turn it into garbage if the rest of their portfolio is any indication of what to expect.

[1]: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-1762
Ah that makes sense thanks, especially the 1 real = 1 USD period. When I visited Brazil around that time, people were accessing Orkut in these LAN houses. Having a PC at home seemed rare where I was in Bahia, probably because the economy tends to be a bit poorer there, so even with those favourable conditions a PC would have been out of reach for many ppl.
You know they fly the planes even if they're empty, right?
I don't think you can categorically place Musk into any political ideology. To be honest I see him like I saw myself as a teenager, whiffling in between different beliefs constantly.
I laughed so hard at Gordon Inkeles' response.

Wendell Berry:

My wife types my work on a Royal standard typewriter bought new in 1956 and as good now as it was then. As she types, she sees things that are wrong and marks them with small checks in the margins.

Gordon Inkeles:

Wendell Berry provides writers enslaved by the computer with a handy alternative: Wife - a low-tech energy-saving device. Drop a pile of handwritten notes on Wife and you get back a finished manuscript, edited while it was typed. What computer can do that? Wife meets all of Berry's uncompromising standards for techno- logical innovation: she's cheap, repairable near home, and good for the family structure. Best of all, Wife is politically correct because she breaks a writer's "direct dependence on strip-mined coal."
History teaches us that Wife can also be used to beat rugs and wash clothes by hand, thus eliminating the need for the vacuum cleaner and washing machine, two more nasty machines that threaten the act of writing.
Why do you keep writing "EFF / govt" as if they are somehow equivalent or related?

The EFF are a non-profit that has nothing to do with the US or any other government.

They have no power to do a "fairer job", they're an advocacy group, not a regulator. That's like complaining that Greenpeace haven't set decent climate change policy.
Netherlands activates energy crisis plan, removes cap on coal plants
Two equivalent lots next to each other should taxed the same or very close to it.

Beachfront vs non beachfront isn’t equivalent, but two random fields in Northern Virginia next to each other with similar features should be. Anyway, LVT definitely doesn’t care about what you built on the property so this distinction just doesn’t matter.
If you define "Internet" to be email and such, yes. But as soon as the World Wide Web went mainstream in the mid 90's, being pseudonymous while online was very much a core principle of the internet. "No one knows you're a dog on the internet" was a common saying.
It’s nice to read about a truly improved product, which led to packaging innovation, and such a simple logo and slogan.
what I've found from playing a lot of VR over time (was an oculus dk early adoptere waaay before they were acquired by facebook, then got a vive, then got an index) is that my brain is rather easily fooled even with cartoon graphics. the world reacting like I expect the world to react seems to be the major factor in whether the vr 'sells' itself, and is only tangentially related to graphics.

I do agree with you that the resolution is still to low to replace screens.
I bought the covid dip in SD getting a place under asking, just over a year ago. Small condo facing the ocean in one of the popular beach towns. Best financial decision I've ever made in my life given that it has gone up at least 23% and given the area, won't go down over time. There are deals to be had, you just need to know the market, understand who's selling (and why!) and have a bit of luck with the timing of things.
Open source the designs and drop the aggressive ad business / develop privacy preserving technologies
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent

Economic rent isn't the same as just paying landlords rent, though it's related. Economic rent is basically you profiting from owning stuff and doing nothing. It's a pure wealth transfer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Rent seeking behavior is when you try to acquire more wealth without creating more wealth. This would include behaviors like regulatory capture, or raising housing rents or other necessary goods to whatever the populace is capable of paying because they have either little alternatives or switching costs are prohibitive. Monopolies, IP law (and abuse thereof), and cases like Apple prohibiting other app stores are all examples of rent seeking behavior as well.

A nice quote from the first article on Land Value Taxes and why this is directly relevant.

> "Henry George, best known for his proposal for a single tax on land, defines rent as "the part of the produce that accrues to the owners of land (or other natural capabilities) by virtue of ownership" and as "the share of wealth given to landowners because they have an exclusive right to the use of those natural capabilities."

It is a generally agreed upon problem, going all the way back to adam smith. It's not possible to have a self consistent economic ideology that does otherwise. You get some radical free market capitalists who think otherwise, but if it were up to them we'd all be living in the United States of Standard Oil by now. They're safe to ignore.

The solution to this problem is not clear at all and varies dramatically by ideologies.
Absolutely it is, and anyone in denial about that can look at European GDP growth, GDP per capita, youth unemployment, firm valuations, or about 20 other economic metrics to back it up.

You can't start a company there because all this social spending makes it super hard to get going. I think the US is heading this way too now, toward lots of big companies with fat required benefit packages the little guys can never match (even if they eventually go on to become huge).

I wish people who would being so starry-eyed about Europe. One of the 10 biggest companies in Italy is the post office. Lots of industrial power, that.
I don't know anything about English law, but this seems like just a proposal.

"A new proposal would give England's central bank regulatory oversight over stablecoin issuers should they pose a risk to financial stability."
> ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692 )

Is there any proof of this? It seems like the original author was wrong and deleted the article.
About that romance 87 …

French in France: four twenties seven

French in Switzerland: eighty seven (octante sept)
Like, not to be dismissive, but how do you know? Talk is cheap.

Edit: thanks for the link to the video.
I don't think that this is a correct model of how a high LVT would work. But more importantly, let's say it did- now you don't get any of the supposed 'efficiency' gains.

I think LVTs are a great idea for a brand new society, and they certainly would work- by making land too valuable for SFHs, so that it has to be used for its highest & best usage. But if you're not forcing homeowners to do that, you're not capturing any of the efficiency gains, so LVT just becomes another tax. It's either forcing landowners to develop apartment buildings on valuable land or it isn't- you have to pick one
Generally, you don't. With CDNs and other hosting providers, sometimes one can use heuristics. For example, all AWS sites require SNI and do not support TLS1.3. As such, before connecting, I can match the IP against a list of AWS IP ranges. If the site is using AWS then the page is retrieved from archive.org instead of Amazon. Internet Archive does not require SNI and supports TLS1.3.

How do "tech" company-sponsored browsers tell if a site requires SNI before connecting. They don't. What so-called "modern" browsers do is they _assume_ all sites require SNI. That solution favours "tech" companies over user privacy. Same story with QUIC.

I take a different approach. I assume no SNI is required and I train the proxy to recognise the sites I have accessed. I assume TLS TLS1.3 will be supported. No user-agent header. And so on. This is why I know there are many, many TLS sites that do not require SNI. As I learn about sites that require SNI or do not support TLS1.3, or have some other requirement, they are added to lists. These lists are "map" files that are loaded into the proxy's memory.

Considering the two approaches, each involves a "guess" as to whether SNI is required before connecting. The first approach, i.e., assuming all sites require SNI, is, for me, wrong most of the time. I am not only accessing sites that require SNI. The second approach, i.e., "machine learning", uses stored information to educate the decision of whether to send SNI, use TLS1.3, etc. The second approach is, for me, right most of the time. And on a return visit to a site, the proxy is almost never wrong (unless perhaps the site has changed hosting providers); the proxy "knows" whether the site requires SNI.
I probably still have a USB 3 1/2" drive somewhere but not sure sure how many old drives I could read. And certainly would have to build a system that could read a 5 1/4" drive and there are various other old formats where reading would be a major project.
I don't think it will be that far along in 10 years, or if it will, it will cost $5000 and won't see widespread adoption.
Anecdotal but I knew many people who got motion sickness from last generation. None of the same people who has tried Quest has gotten it so it's definitely improving.
The insidious thing about rivers, is that the flow through places. Seems to create a perfect storm of detachment of cause and effect, and deniability for anyone's responsibly to act.
> Is it fair to say that MapBox is moving into auto services?

It seems so

https://www.mapbox.com/fleet

https://www.mapbox.com/dash

https://www.mapbox.com/navigation/

Perhaps that's just their 'thing' for now and their core mapping/viz work will continue - I hope so as it's great tech and still relatively open compared to other cos.
>your equal share of land value

what's an equal share? land is not fungible.
Oh but the hubs stations in Switzerland do feature synchronized arrivals and departures on a 30 min schedule. It works so well you don't generally have to look up connections. Just be there at the sync time to board wherever.

This is a plan that shows the hubs and their sync time:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Kn...

You'll notice the ebb and flow of passengers if you sit at a hub for half an hour. Most people won't see the ebb because they're on their connecting train.
This is like saying we don't want companies primarily motivated by candidates' competence.
This sounds like a great way to track people
That seems weird... is it too hard to feed everything into an Elasticsearch index? Even with default settings and some decent hardware you'd get good stemming and relevance ranking pretty easily.
OH MY GOD. I've had to stop watching F1 in Australia because the only app that has licensing is like $27.50 a month and I don't love it that much.

This is a fantastic idea! Thanks mate!
Is this true in single family dwellings or only in apartment complexes? I would believe that sprinklers have a lot of value in apartment complexes but less value in single family homes. Not to mention that people who buy single family homes are a lot more likely to have more expensive furniture that would be ruined by a flood.
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I bookmarked this as a reference. I dream of a nomad life, but with a twist: my wife and I would permanently turn our house over to a property manager to keep it rented, each have a backpack kit like Vitaly uses for changing locations, BUT: plan to stay 3 or 4 months in each location and have a few large travel trunks for each of us that we would ship to the next destinations. We are both in our 70s, so staying a long time in each place would be less tiresome and provide more time to make local friends. I prefer renting a furnished house and not staying in hotels. Our house is in a top tourist location so we would get enough rent income to pay for short term rentals wherever we stay. I am trying to talk my wife into this - wish me luck.
Matthias Wandel recently did some experiments over several options. A decent furnace filter, when duct-taped to a box-fan, did surprisingly well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDZ9yUdM2wA

It turned out that my local hardware store had a similar pre-manufactured offering with a slightly less Jerry-rigged aesthetic. We bought one for my son's allergies but I also noticed an improvement on the whole upper floor of our house. Box fans can move a lot of air. Furnace filters are cheap commodities with a large cross-sectional area that also allow a fair amount of flow.
Wife is also partially self replicating and somewhat field repairable in austere conditions too.

A level of technology unlikely to be achieved by computers anytime soon.
I'd not even worry about the steel used in his typewriter.

Paper is made through an energy and chemically intensive process. I'm sure someone can math out the kwh that go into each sheet of paper, but it is far from 0. Paper costs anywhere from $0.005 -> $0.02 per sheet and that price point is going to be very closely tied to the energy used to produce that paper.

Here in Idaho, power goes for around $0.11/kwh and is primarily non-co2 emitting sources (hydro is the big one with nuclear, solar, and wind up next. Coal exists on our grid but isn't the prime source of power here). So, that'd put the power cost for one sheet of paper at a max of 45 -> 181wH.

If he wants to be energy conscientious, then I'd argue a raspberry pi with a low power oled display will beat the pants out of paper and pen in terms of energy consumed per page. Especially since writing with a keyboard is much faster than pen/paper or a typewriter.

Rpi = ~5W of consumption
OLED display = ... idk, can't really find good numbers on this but certainly less than 100W which is where a 65' oled display maxes out. For a 13' display, that's what, ~9W?

So, with a 15W system, you can write for 3 hours before you get to the max possible energy cost of a piece of paper. I'm guessing the author can use more than 1 piece of paper in that timeframe.

And, of course, you can pair such a system with a solar + battery setup to get completely coal free writing (except for the cost to produce the chips for the rpi, display, solar, and battery)
I didn’t use PXE to boot diskless machines, but I do find it great for remote maintenance. I’ve used it for rebuilding servers remotely from a boot image with only a very limited KVM. Serving boot media over PXE was a life saver. Honestly, I’ll be keeping a PXE server (with an HTTP server for images) on all my future clusters. It’s just that useful, especially for disaster recovery.
Warning: this comment is just for fun

Missed opportunity not naming it "Markdown for When (feat Lil Jon)
Apple is a monopolistic freedom-denying exploitative corporation which has essentially created a digital fiefdom for itself where it's allowed to tax companies for the privilege of reaching "their" consumer base.

I worry about the people living under such digital serf conditions. It was only a matter of time before they started promulgating changes like lords, like the client side scanning "feature" they tried to push. That is absolutely a problem that needs to be addressed and the answer is always computing freedom.

With that said... I shed zero tears when Apple screws over even worse exploitative corporations like Facebook. I simply have no sympathy for advertising giants complaining about being unable to continue their surveillance and exploitation of the most profitable market segment. The only problem is it took an Apple to put a stop to them when simply saying no should have been sufficient.
I could have just as easily said the higher population density property had a lower LVT as it’s an arbitrary choice. Perhaps the higher population density is in the worse school district as the better one. Hell the district boundaries my have changed last week specifically to shift the burden to a different school district.

So sure, it’s of course possible for properties next to each other to have significantly different values per acre, but nothing says the higher density one must have a higher or lower value so let’s just assume their identical for simplicity. Any way you slice it it’s clear LVT doesn’t care about the actual population on the land.
Salacious is an eminently accurate word for your string of source-less comments describing your feelings about their advertisements under the guise of actual accusations of wrongdoing.

I don't "disagree with you", I dismiss you. I provided an accurate description of their financials and incentives and demonstrated that your salacious claims literally don't make sense.

This is good and normal! We should always dismiss peoples feelings especially when they directly contradict all available evidence. However, I happily await your evidence demonstrating that Linus has been corrupted by a hardware partner into producing devious advertising! We'd all love for you to back your claims up.
Doesn’t the single example you yourself have experienced actually confirm that it is false?
Yeah mapbox gl js is sooooo incredibly good I will continue to pay for it as long as I can at this point, technically it’s so far ahead of competitors for building customized spatial viz