skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a piece of BS. High ever rising property taxes are good at pushing older people out of their houses. It is fucking immoral. If the author is so concerned about speculative investors (yes they are huge problem) then this problem must be addressed separately. Not difficult to do at all.
> Id much rather read something biased and well researched than shallow and objective.

Seems like a poor way to be informed.
It most certainly would not cost $50k for any size truck to travel down one road once, which is what matters if you're paying the cost to build infrastructure to track usage.

It might cost a semi truck $50k a year, but this also points in the direction of not tracking specific usage even for trucks: Just check the odometer during the annual inspection and then distribute the highway funds to states proportionate to estimated use.

Toll collection is stupid inefficient and privacy invasive.
I've interviewed with them twice (2016 & 2022), didn't receive any feed back other than a generic decline e-mail. And this was despite promises to the contrary from recruiters, I was ghosted when I asked for it too. I even recall teaching the interviewer some javascript quirk during a coding challenge the first time and solved whatever silly brain teaser question that was asked, with test cases too! Yet zero feedback as to why I was not going to move past that first technical challenge. Disappointing really.

EDIT: More on topic, I did really enjoy the MR based technical interview way more than the common coding challenge.
Hmmm DALL·E was a struggling sometimes, you can always keep check on Discord, they keep us informed there.
By eliminating the ability to discharge bankruptcy, they enabled lenders to lend far more money to the point of turning students into modern day indentured servants. Once you sell all these moneylenders their slaves, it causes economic problems when you try and free them.
Just sounds like yet another reason to use Matrix.org to be honest.
They did, and it's to prevent the Archive from lending out digital copies at all. https://www.eff.org/document/hachette-v-internet-archive-hac...
Between us... The watermark is just on the frontend... It's not into the image...
>> I no longer have a big bully (Apple) standing by my side forcing the issue.

Perhaps you missed the news but there is a bigger bully in town. The U.S gov is looking to ban tiktok so you may not be able to use it at all. Not that I think tiktok is worth my time but I am pro choice.

>> I’d say to Apple just stop selling to the EU. See how long it takes them to blink because they would.

That doesn't sound like a good business plan. Are you sure the shareholders would approve it? Perhaps Apple should stop selling in China too instead to handover the approval process to the CCP(btw that's a bigger bully. Do you like it? )

Also although I've been an Apple fan since the ipod I would stay behind EU on this one. First Apple defies us with that open letter about taxes(thinking the siphoning tax money out of Europe is somehow the right thing to do) and now they stop selling in Europe unless we surrender to its monopolistic behaviour?

I think we are all good. Hopefully they will focus more on the hardware value and less on pushing users to buy subscriptions(i.e icloud storage).
That's why I choose to save the webpages as mhtml , webarchive. Then use the tools developed by myself to search, annotate, and read.

All webpages is in my nas. keep them forever.
That may drastically slow down human progress in terms of technology. If one posits that we have a moral obligation to future humans to make sure their lives are ones with lower suffering, and if technology, especially medical technology, will take us there, then your idea essentially says that it is immoral to slow down human progress, because more people will suffer.

That's how I see it anyway. I'm a techno-optimist, given the nature of technology in our species' development.
It's not the quantum but the direction.
The US leveraging its immense economic and political power would be...really stupid? Do you think it doesn't do that? I'm confused. It does that all the time, and if I was a US citizen I would expect it to do just that, although obviously preferably in favour of consumers (which this legislation very possibly is, so to be clear I'm not saying it'd actually be a good thing if the US used its influence to water anything down).
You absolutely should. What's the worst that can happen?
You can try out the model with this interactive Gradio demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/nyx-ai/stylegan2-flax-tpu
It’s said that it avoids objections of inadequate counseling at a higher court. How true is that?
Element (a Matrix client) can be used with a Discord bridge on your own server. I've even bridged Facebook Messenger et al to it. Only install one messaging/VoIP app per device. Battery life much better as a result.
> All of the "magic" your AirPods provide are software-based

This is actually not true. AirPods contain custom silicon from Apple for the controller that speaks bluetooth, whereas most true wireless headphones use a Qualcomm chip, and therefore suffer the exact same ergonomic issues almost regardless of price. The most obvious way this is shown is that you can be on a call with the right airpod in, then seamlessly add the left to the call and put the right back in the case all without dropping the call, developing sync issues, or making the switch obvious to the other party. It's especially useful if your airpods are low on power. Airpods also better than average (in my experience) at switching devices when clicking the connect button from a device they are not currently connected to. This is most obviously good with apple devices (where there is auto pairing based on apple id), but in my experience it works better than the average even on non-apple devices. I am comparing the experience to Sony WF-100XM3 as well as cheaper devices like soundcore liberty neo.

Of course you are correct that there are additional software derived things that make airpods nice on apple products. When they work well, they can be pretty great, but I still find those hit or miss. For me, the way the controller can switch easily between the right and left as well as easy pairing are what makes airpods great.
The Wikipedia page on Paul Morphy says he gave up chess age 22, tried to establish a law firm, all his clients wanted to talk to him about chess instead of legal matters, and he ended up living a life of idleness on his family's fortune.

That seems to put the quote in a different context.
Sending the play command itself would be less of a problem if iOS wasn’t so completely opaque as to what “currently playing” or “default music app” means, but that distinction itself would require more clarity as to whether apps can be run in the background or not.
GitLab team member here. Thanks for flagging. I contacted the owner of the dashboard and asked if they can get it working. Will report back if/when it is repaired.
I assumed culinary institutes were more for prospective chefs who actually have to know all that stuff than line cooks.
This point of view is so tired. It's the same mindset of those who long for the days of BBS.
The tech bubble is popping as we speak.

It’s going to be interesting to see individuals who never had to build software in the days without free money.
Hold em has a lot more of a skill factor than the losers of a game want to admit, bit a lot more of a luck factor than the winners do.
Matrix has pretty much replaced IRC for my needs, can even bridge IRC into it.
> almost everywhere it has a double function in also being an appreciating retirement fund.

That's true, but it's also a looming economic disaster as it prices out the younger generation and entrenches generational wealth.

Chicago are famous for their highest rate of 2.5% per annum, grown smoothly over 15+ years. Thought experiment: What happens if the land value tax rate keeps growing smoothly? What does it look like at 10% per annum? 20%? 100%?

At 100% per annum, the average land value of a house needs to be below $50k or so in current dollars (most would need to be much less). Any higher, and ~nobody is willing to pay the taxes.

A large home costs $200k or so to build vs a small/cheap home at 80k, so property prices now range from 50k (old cheap home) to 250k (new, high-end home).

That's a huge result for housing affordability! People are currently saving deposits of 80k to get a mortgage.

Instead of paying mortgage costs to capital holders, you're paying tax to a government that ostensibly exists to serve you. Instead of buying "the most I can afford so I get a retirement fund", now people are buying housing based on their willingness to pay an ongoing cost for access to amenities.
Private apis are nothing like public. You can’t just document them and toss em out the door because Private means you can change and break them every release without concern because you control all the consumers. You can also start using incomplete ones before the contract is solidified. Public means they are in use and shouldn’t change much, and if you do you need to announce a deprecation and then slowly deprecate. Not that apple has to do that but generally that is the rather large difference and you know the moment they break one everyone will be scream at them for that.
> For example, you used to be able to discharge student loans in bankruptcy.

IMO, a non-dischargeable loan should have a 0% interest rate by law. All banks would get is an origination fee, capped by statute to some low amount (say, 1% of the principal).

I'd be in favor of this being applied retroactively, so that all interest paid on non-dischargeable student loans in the past was applied to the principal and any overages refunded to the borrower (perhaps over a period of time or against taxes owed or similar).

I'd prefer both of these to be done instead of a one-time "student loan forgiveness" program.
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Damn that's so good, when does it come out for a Zoom AR layer.
WhateverBB style PHP forums were never good. They were always regressive technology. Don't pretend something is good just because what we have now is even worse. The user interface was terrible. I don't miss clicking a tiny 10 pixel wide button to go to the next page. The search was always disabled due to high CPU usage or had some major issue. There were RCE exploits galore (largely due to PHP and webshit). Moderation was crap because it was centralized and in practice some loser's opinion. Every single forum I've ever visited had users with 100K posts who are banned because one of the moderation fellas felt like banning them one day despite that 99% of forums are about a topic as opposed to a community.

There's also the fact that these forums tend to exhibit an inner platform effect. For example warez forums. Instead of having a dataset built by multiple parties that provides links to scene releases, you'd post your links in a forum and needlessly make a giant page containing the product title, some stupid copy pasted description of it, maybe the NFO, maybe a plugin to display NFO directly on the page, etc. Then you'd have users who beg for thanks or put their stupid branding on their content, for example I remember a user on a warez forum who felt the need to mention chemtrails and the illuminati in all of his posts.

The said forums contained a sea of useless metadata that nobody uses on top of avatars and profile fields that you could spend hours going through. Same for configuration options. Since they're webshit and you have no control over what you see save if you build some screen scraper which will bitrot eventually, all it took was one moderator to make a stupid color theme and you can no longer discuss the topic at hand without straining your eyes.

Singing up to any of these forums was completely standardized: it usually only requires username, password, email, and captcha, and then the email has a 40% chance of arriving in your mailbox. The boneheaded type of person who moderated these forums were the same type of people who vehemently insisted on email verification because they haven't even thought it through enough to know that it doesn't stop spam (yes, the reason was "stop spam" and not "recover password").

Basically, these forums were a shit ton of overhead to support the very basic use case of having an anonymous discussion over the internet.
I think people long for the cultural and social zeitgeist more than they do the platform and technology itself.
And the browser sucks on purpose for app development/distribution.
How realistic are anonymous abortions?
There are many articles about efforts to prevent the discovery of abortions in states where they are illegal. When I read them, I wonder why writers think it is possible to remain anonymous in 2022. The attack surface seems wildly large:

- Phone geolocation

- Payments

- Text messages

- Web history

- Public security cameras

- Biological tests to determine past pregnancy

Some specific pitfalls:

1. How does one secure one's browsing history? One need take many, many steps these days, and even then, it is rarely secure.

2. How is one to complete a payment online anonymously?

3. Do parcel shipping companies intend to resist court orders mandating disclosure of sender/recipient addresses ("outside the envelope")?

4. How does one travel on a US highway without leaving a record via security cameras?

There are better and worse security practices, but I don't see how a truly determined adversary can fail to discover abortions. And the attacker seems determined.

It suggests the only way to make abortions undiscoverable is to completely rethink our privacy regime.
Old process: Me -> Privacy.com -> My checking account

New process: Me -> Privacy.com -> Patriot Bank credit account -> My checking account.

My concern is I am forced to sign up for Patriot Bank credit services. Also Patriot Bank gets my checking account information.
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many illnesses are reproducible. you can give people viruses and they do indeed get sick. so i don't think you need to discount the entirety of medicine.

afaik, there is no reproducible causality for depression; we can't induce it. we only measure it's correlations and have % confidence in hypotheses.
There's a strong argument that copyright is no longer a net good.

Copyright's value proposition is providing a monetization framework by allowing people to prevent others from sharing. Its only function is to limit creating copies. This made sense in the days of the printing press.

Nowadays we have many other monetization models which aren't predicated on limiting sharing. Many large and in some case (open source) leading systems are built on these non-restrictive models.

I think the negative aspects of copyright - the chilling effect on the free exchange of information - is non-linear. The more information we have, the more collective cost is paid by society having to worry about the chilling aspects (is my youtube video legal? Is my software? etc).

If the benefit of copyright is linear and the cost is non-linear as the number of works in the world grows then at some point we should abolish copyright entirely as the collective costs would be greater than the benefit provided by its incentive structure.

I think we probably hit this point in the 1990s, unfortunately. We are long overdue to repeal copyright entirely.
The difference is that if it's baked into the rent you would be free to move around more often. Instead, every move costs one month's rent.
Pirating should be a breath of fresh air on mobile. Maybe the streaming services will finally start providing more value.(i.e shared catalog)
Except how do you know who’s using your ground water? It could be someone 20k away creating a depression in the water table with a deeper well so it drops just below yours.

It’s far more complex then you seem to think it is
Hardly. Profiles are extremely minimal, and it's not much more fleshed out than the average WordPress comment system is. I can't follow people on HN (AFAIK) either.
The platform belongs to the people who pay the web hosting cost.

The people who are there for free are not the customer. They are the product.
As a non-economist also, I am quite sure moving $1 of your yearly expenses away from CO2 heavy suppliers will encourage the market to find other solutions.

What you spend your money on matters, even more than voting.
> 4. Check your ego, and learn to love being wrong. Put unfinished work in front of people. Cheerfully accept all feedback without explaining or defending. Always expect that your design solutions are not good enough, and can only be improved by testing them with real humans. You are not your user; you must position yourself to be surprised by them, and to react well to that surprise.

As someone with 15 years of UX experience, this is the "tool" that I find most valuable when it comes to improving a design I am working on.

I often tell my clients "I am not an expert" as a way to communicate this. I could never know as much about the problem users face as the users themselves, and I can never know as much as the entire team of people working on the solution. Instead I tell them I'm an expert at being a sponge, and learning from multiple inputs.

If your ego is telling you that you need to have all the answers, you're going to miss all the deep insights and therefor better outcome you would gotten within an open mind.

more here: https://sixzero.co/2021/06/02/how-to-design-confidently-with...
Understanding AWS Lambda scaling and throughput
Russia fines Google $370M for refusing to bend to Putin’s war propaganda
Summer is defined at June July August, we are officially just over half way with 50 days left and not close to the end of summer by any definition.
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That sounds strictly inferior to Bayesian reasoning (both to me and to my Wordle program), so I’m curious what advantages abduction has, if any. (If there are philosophers reading this: do you have any good, non-paywalled links defending abduction from the usual Bayesian criticism?)
This is very far from understanding how cats actually perceive the world, but it's possible to extract crude images [0] from a cat's lateral geniculate nucleus (the part of the visual pathway between the eye and the visual cortex). The LGN likely does not perform much (if any) role in high level visual cognition (that's reserved for the visual cortex), but it does perform a lot of image preprocessing.

It might just be pareidolia, but IMO that preprocessing results in the human face looking strikingly catlike.

[0] https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/10-15-...
IIRC there was an internal “competition”, of sorts, between the two head original content buyers at Netflix. One took the HBO approach: buy high quality content, even if it’s expensive. The other had a spray and pray strategy: buy up all the cheap crap and hope you get a few hits.

Long story short the Spray & Pray exec got promoted and the other exec got squeezed out. But now that all of the major studios have started their own streaming services (and have started being stingier with their licensing) original content is perhaps the most important driver of new subscriptions and subscription maintenance for a streaming platform. And it seems Netflix bet the house on building their library out of cheap crap like Emily in Paris and God’s Favorite Idiot with the occasional expensive (but still crappy) Ryan Reynolds action movie sprinkled in to keep things “fresh”.

Netflix made a huge mistake when they went with the spaghetti against the wall strategy and for some reason they just keep doubling down to make their already shitty strategy even worse.
Everyone should use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock.
Uh, the Java edition of Minecraft isn't controlled by Minecraft or Microsoft. I used to run my own private server with its own economy, and tons of custom plugins.
They can still have strict privacy permission controls at the OS level, regardless of where an app is installed from. They’ll just also have to give the same controls over their own software.
Not the original commenter but, from past articles I've read the most effective way to create affordable housing is to let developers build new luxury housing. That has the ripple effect of directing the old luxury housing to become more affordable, since it's no longer the new thing.

Unfortunately, the economics of building new housing on extremely expensive real estate, targeting an "affordable" price point just don't incentivize as much construction as the city needs.
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The point I'm getting at is that some places are much more desirable than others. In a market, it's prices that act as a mechanism for deciding who can live in a limited space. For example, way more people want to live on the beach than there are houses on the beach.
In the US context there are already provisions for this, abusive debtors can be forced from a schedule 7 to a schedule 13 bankruptcy, and in any case if the creditor protections aren't sufficient there are ways to bolster those protections without just allowing the creditors to have debt slaves.

For instance, you can disallow discharging debts for a period of years after the education ends. The status quo is pretty corrupt.
This. Now do government contractors!
Gotta love articles written about papers that haven't been published yet, journaled by someone who thinks a superposition is two states at once.
Like to keep Mickey Mouse out of public domain every time??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Stock market crash!?
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The book that is the parent submission is classified as "open" and you can click on the pdfs for each section to, well, read each section. It seems as good a source about the benefits of abduction as any.
Visa created the cost of a chargeback AND the process, why not take it up with them? They've swung from one extreme to the other, that's not an improvement.
Are you archiving everything automatically or manually. If automatically, how so?
Give the Europeans the choice to own their device and install whatever they want!
Honestly, the EU better step up actually creating tech companies then, because the current situation generally sucks. I'd happily use European alternatives to the products from Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc. but you have very little at that level. For my use cases there's nothing from the EU to replace those companies for me. There are some alternative offerings but they're usually far inferior and so I can't count them as replacements. The ones that are good usually end up moving to the US because it actually isn't insanely difficult to run a business there.

Even Linux is more an American product at this point than a European one with Intel being iirc the biggest contributor. I just think it's a bit of a joke that the EU strategy is to regulate American companies to this extent without having any coherent vision on developing genuinely viable alternatives and providing incentives to stay in the EU.
People have been able to use PayPal for well over a decade to buy in-game perks and memberships on plenty of Minecraft servers, even buying plugins for their servers, and hosting. Bypassing Microsoft isn't really an issue with the Java edition, short of changing the license the game is provided under.