skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Book title is a bit startling/clickbaity, so here's a bit of the summary for context:

> A novel defense of abduction, one of the main forms of nondeductive reasoning. With this book, Igor Douven offers the first comprehensive defense of abduction, a form of nondeductive reasoning. Abductive reasoning, which is guided by explanatory considerations, has been under normative pressure since the advent of Bayesian approaches to rationality.
> Consider the rash of subsidized “we’ll pick up your dry cleaning and then save by doing the work at a centralized facility elsewhere).

Is that not the default business model of dry cleaners globally?

Chemicals like PERC are nearly completely banned in residential/commercial zones. Almost all dry cleaning in the developed world is done in centralised depots in industrial areas, for health & safety reasons.
Highly Transparent Solar Cell with 2D Atomic Sheet Successfully Fabricated
whats really interesting is, while some things like electronics and automobiles etc have been getting cheaper, intangibles like healthcare and education have been increasing in cost... whats the cause?
That's exactly the goal! The challenge is that SF is meant to be a standalone solution, rather than a way to "fix" the existing methods.

In the future I hope to make it more modular so you can have the ease of SF, plus the graphical power of Unreal, for example.
“The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from”
Landlords will just pass the extra tax to tenets. And mostly low income tenets will bear the cost as they are least likely to have enough money for down payment.
The article remarks on how it would have been a very heavy sword. This suggests to me it was a ceremonial sword, as a too-heavy fighting sword just means you're going to die. Or maybe the missing blade is just stuck in a stone somewhere.
Yup, someone just posted about TeamViewer's version of this scam a few hours ago:

"30 days before your subscription expires, teamviewer send you a friendly email to remind you to that your subscription expires in 30 days and to be sure to renew before then in order to not lose service.
What that email does not tell you is that unless you cancel your subscription at least 30 days (ie on that very day) before your sub expires they will renew you automatically and demand a full year's subscription under threat of legal proceedings..." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32164897
No, it's $1m of taxable value increase is waived if and only if a parent's only home is sold/transferred to a child's only home.

Example 1: Bay Area home $1.7m; old taxable value $300k, new taxable value $700k (1.7m - 1m), prop taxes ~9k/year.

Example 2: Fresno home $700k; old taxable value $200k, new taxable value $200k (700k - 1m, so no affect)

Grandparent's home? Parent's second home? Child's second home? Uncle's home? Sibling's home?

No. Bay home is now $1.7m taxable, $21k/year
It's typically pronounced D-RAM I assume because RAM is already it's own common acronym people were/are familiar with. DRAM is just a specific type of RAM, Dynamic RAM, hence D-RAM.
You are giving the businesses and other big actors way too much a benefit of the doubt. These large organizations will outright lie to win disputes.

For example, I am an attorney who practices in the space, and I recently filed a dispute with my credit card. In response to my dispute, which I supported with a sworn affidavit, the retailer responded with a blatant, demonstrable lie. They said I never contacted them. Of course, they messed with the wrong person, and I responded with additional evidence and substantiation. I am confident I will win. But most consumers are not going to be able to execute on a dispute the same way that I did. Most consumers just get screwed by the lie. And that’s under the CURRENT system. So now we’re making it even easier for them to lie and screw over customers. Great
I too enjoy having an extra layer of protection from the companies writing apps. (And the companies providing libraries to them, like Facebook.) And for my own stuff, the sandboxing gives me a layer of protection from vulnerabilities in the libraries that I use.

I think being able to side-load stuff, while keeping the sandboxing (and requiring user permission for access to data) in place would be ideal for me. This makes it a bit easier to write stuff for the device and distribute ad-hoc to friends and family stuff that is of no interest to the general public.

I don't have a strong interest in alternative browsers, because I don't believe any of the developers of alternative browsers will prioritize battery life. But I know others have strong feelings about that.
1. Yes- as salaries are still low, you should be skeptical that companies are really trying to get talent.

2. On the other hand, the US(and/or EU) is not the only market. If engineers are being corned by the established large firms here, then instead of raising salaries to compete, smaller firms are simply killed off and replaced by foreign suppliers. China and India have very competent engineers, and make tons of US consumer products.

3. "Companies should just raise salaries and train up talent!" is obviously true, but there's still a large time lag between raising salaries and new graduates. EE salaries have been horrible and hard to find for 20+ years and freshman still get told repeatedly that EE is well paid and highly demanded. In the meantime, people retire later and the eventual crash just gets worse.

All of the above coming from an EE/ECE graduate who immediately went into CS because the TC is easily 3x higher
sms is already interoperable... does this law say they have to remove iMessage to make all messaging lowest common denominator?
More houses built, more sold, more expensive.

Supply and demand my ass!
As an Asian I dread this. Europeans are not the best negotiators and seem to be ok with being overcharged, raising prices of all sorts.
:-p
According to the article, he made $936 million on the sale. So I'm not sure where this comment is coming from.
No, that's not how it is. If the LP doesn't pay their capital call they go into default and the returns on all the money they've invested so far can be taken away. The only LPs who default on the capital call are individual investors who are flat out broke. They will of course default on their capital call before their mortgage.
The narative here seem disengenious, framing everything as one extreme to another:

Then came the coronavirus-related market shock of 2020...everyone assumed the absolute worst...then everything ... went nuts... around the beginning of this year, when it all ground down to a halt.

I don't doubt you can find (many) examples to support this, and yes, the themes are along these lines, but this is not the absolute reality in many industries, geographies and companies. If companies that have been hit hard are still able to raise, though maybe it's more painful.

My take-aways are:

* This is not the end of the world

* Poor fundamentals will be recognized and punished (finally) but only for a while

* There are some really good deals out there
> How is localism supposed to enable things like mobile phones, internet, video games, movies, travel, etc., function

Forget all that tech. "Localism" couldn't even produce a single 2B pencil, which is such a trivial thing when we consider the scale of society as it is today.

I was honestly hoping there was going to be a better answer than this handwavy nonsense.
> It's cognitive bias in both cases.

What I’m saying is maybe, just maybe, it’s your cognitive bias that is allowing month-old accounts to post endless fear-mongering pandemic posts.

Like this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=MuchoMaas
Your comment is radically naive. You can't literally believe what a business writes in its PR spin. The only thing you can take away from this is that Visa intends to tip the balance towards merchants and away from consumers when it comes to chargebacks. The problem with this is chargebacks just barely work as is.

Punishing honest consumers is not the right way to go about this.
> I don't know much about the Apple ecosystem, I am sure it is great, but did they survive the mobile apocalypse and managed not to mess things up?

They didn’t. Flat design, invisible scrollbars, lower contrast, rounded corners, unintelligible monochrome vector icons, and other loss of affordances have found their way into macOS (and iOS of course). But at least the macOS UI does not try to be touch-compatible.
step 1: ICE cars are bad for the environment! we must add taxes

step 2: ICE cars are bad, electric cars good. We remove taxes for electric cars

... too many people get electric cars ...

step 3: its time to start taxing electric cars... reasons!

translation: governments likes to take money from its citizens that it can spend on whatever it deems worthy, and will happily come up with a reason, sometimes justified, sometimes not.
Who else apart from IOHK?
I'm currently working on next iteration of my own forum software that I am using to run private forum about classic space games and I am now torn between traditional and "infinite scrolling". I've got a prototype that was infinite scroll but I've moved it back to paginated. I also have simple categories structure but I am considering going back to classic one where there was category that stored forums which in turn stored threads.

When Discourse and Flarum first appeared infinite scroll was hailed as killer feature that will bring back the life to the forums, because navigating to next page of content supposedly was the issue that prevented people from discovering all the content. But on large forum "all threads" view will just flood the user with everything (forcing them to category selection) and neither of those two offer a way to bookmark a position on threads list (or even make it easy to just browse threads older than given date) - something that paginated threads list makes easy.

Link to prototype for interested: https://v4.misago-project.org/
Source: https://github.com/rafalp/misago-local-dev
It may have been a scimitar lobbed by some moistened bint.
Isn't it experimental?
I haven't had to do a chargeback, but it's the only reason I have a credit card. Visa just flushed all their value, in my eyes, down the toilet. Reward programs and fancy priority lines don't mean squat if I can't leverage the power of my creditor when fighting fraud or unfair transactions.

On the other hand, my Discover card has been my go to for as long as I've had a card.
I bought my starter home to live in for 5 years while I continued building my career, not to flip.
Man, this is so cool -- an old-school programming resource that isn't encrusted with ads and trackers, just the information you want in HTML format. Kenton Lee's X programming guide was another such resource, but sadly that appears to have been eaten by the internet Langoliers.
> The hunter Biden stuff is disinformation in that it was being used to imply joe had something to do with hunters actions.

This has been the go-to defense in the media for why the Hunter Biden stories don't matter. But this is just more media disinformation. There are messages from Hunter literally complaining that Joe makes Hunter pay 50% of his salary to his dad, and that he isn't allowed to move any money around without his or his lawyer's approval. This is clear corruption. There's also messages where the Secret Service was bailing Hunter out of his (illegal) actions again and again. There's also content that's been leaked that makes it impossible to understand how Hunter isn't in prison right now for soliciting underage prostitutes if there's not more corruption than that going on.

Yeah, that whole story was probably the moment I was done with the media altogether. Them condescendingly explaining after the fact that sure, it might have been real, but they didn't want to report on it to protect me was enough for me.
I wonder how much of this is in reaction to people doing chargebacks on transfers to failed crypto exchanges (which apparently people have been doing) ...
No, I hate it. It’s a tax on just living and we don’t need to do this in the US where we have more land than we know what to do with.
This is the pessimistic view of Uber. If Uber was just subsidizing car rides, that would be fine. But since they’re dominating the industry in an unsustainable way, they’re hurting public and private transportation infrastructure. Cities aren’t investing in trains or buses because of Uber, but if Uber goes under, we’re going to be out of luck.
I actually think this is an awful decision, and will likely result in the erosion of the data/privacy guarantees Apple has established, for little to no benefit.

“We’ll be able to side load apps” great. Good for you. I eagerly await the proliferation of trash app stores peddling all the apps that were rightfully rejected from the Apple Store for good reasons.

“You’ll be able to iMessage android users” fantastic, now I’ll have to trust that whatever random developer added iMessage support to their android app did it properly, and doesn’t violently leak keys everywhere and sell the contents of my conversations with every possible ad company. This is definitely an improvement.
- Third-parry app stores exist, the app in question is available on one of them. You have a choice: install it, or ignore it and stay fully under Apple's aegis, as before.

- The app in question does not exist because the only existing app store run by Apple rejects it. Tough luck, no choice, but you still can stay safe.

Don't you agree that the latter situation is a strict subset of the former?

Also, if I were Apple, I would implement a one-click return to "safe defaults", and a prominent badge to tell Apple's software and setting from third-party.
I've never understood the conflating of JSON-like with "unstructured": I would call this richly structured
No matter what country I am in and whether they had consumer affairs ombudsmen, filing a chargeback dispute with the merchant (in my case Visa) was the best protection I ever got from dodgy vendors charging me after I cancel a subscription or fail to provide the agreed upon services. Even the hint that I am going to do it usually gets the vendors to act and quickly. I hope that this doesn't go away.
So you want the world to be the way it is?
Where's our right to get out of unwanted subscriptions more easily? They're disputed because that's the easiest way out sometimes! Marking the dispute as "leave existing charge, deny future charges" would be more consumer friendly.
> DNSSEC protects against that for well-configured domains

This isn't effective against DNS-level censorship, though. A DNSSEC validation error is just as effective as a fake NXDOMAIN or bogus IP at keeping me from visiting the correct site.
> These parasites wiped out the network of local dry cleaners, in particular in SF.

Huh? I’ve never had an issue finding a dry cleaning shop in SF and there’s tons that pop on Google maps - hardly seems like a dry cleaning “desert”.
Fossil fuels are responsible for about 60% of greenhouse gases emissions (in CO2 equivalent), the remaining 40% being split between: deforestation, farming and various chemical processes (to make concrete, to reduce iron ore, to make fertilizer from natural gas, etc.). Your equation seems to solely focus on these 60%, so it's quite incomplete, given that we also need to get rid of the remaining 40%.

For example methane and nitrous oxide, two extremely potent greenhouse gases, are mostly by-product of agriculture/cattle rearing: methane from cows and rice fields, nitrous oxide from the usage of fertilizers (from memory, I might be wrong).

Another example: the chemical process behind concrete production (CaCO3 -> CaO + CO2) emits more CO2 (about 4% of global emissions) than the world airplane fleet (about 2% of global emissions). That's without accounting for the energy necessary to trigger the chemical process, usually coming from fossil fuel...
> kids inheriting their parents house and running it as an AirBnb

This doesn't exist anymore as of Prop 19. If an inherited home is not primary residence, it is taxed at full market value.
LOL @ credit is too cheap, so increase taxes instead of stop overprinting.
Too bad Apple didn't implement RCS
Like most things, this is a complicated problem.

The only way to actually make a good cheaper is to produce more of it.

But home owners don't want their homes to stop increasing in value.

If their was a bill in Congress to magically double the housing supply, I guarantee you it wouldn't pass.

Plus passing a property tax hike won't get you re elected.
Ok, so what is the solution then? To me there isn't one. It's like, how do you prevent all car accidents? The only way would be to ban driving.
Perhaps this explains the rise in American Express's stock price today. Amex has perhaps the best customer service I've experienced (maybe that says more about me than them :).

While Visa is a card network, Amex is both a network and an issuer. Visa works with issuing banks like Chase, so as a Visa cardholder, you would interface with the bank rather than with Visa when reporting an unrecognized charge.

Given that Amex is an issuer, I could imagine that there might exist more incentives to side with the cardholder versus a merchant for disputes, as compared with a company that operates as a network but not directly as a card issuer.
Chicago also has a colder winter than SF and NYC, i didnt see the author price that in their conclusion
This is 99% of the "creator" economy.

Making content for the 99% who haven't become successful content marketers yet.

Super boring in my opinion, and exploitative to some extent.
Well Chicago is one of the best cities in the world to live in based on rankings so I don’t know what you’re implying here.
Why would a computer program get bored?

Why would it be interested in anything then? These questions assume that the subject emotion works on a computer level rather than on a level of intelligence model itself, which runs on whichever hardware available, be it of electronic or biological nature. We may as well ask how an FPS character can get tired of sprinting, he’s just a program. But it is not a correct question.

Next question is why would it have emotions, but that’s probably how something we could ever call AGI works, by definition. Maybe there is no way at all for something that we call “intelligence” to exist without a “boredom” and other basic drivers.
> (for airlines, this is credit card points)

In the United States, maybe, the only market where credit card points are meaningful?
> The streetcars were replaced because they fell out of favor with the public who wanted to try the new and shiny thing.

You might be correct, but it is very simplistic view of history to attribute change to the will of the people. Democracy is not such a driving force for change as to become the single factor for it. Historically corporate interests has weight far higher as a driving force (as evidenced by our current global warming crisis; but notable exceptions include e.g. the new deal).

Sometimes the will of the people might align with corporate interest, and that may have been the case here. But I would argue then that is only a bonus for the politician which will reap the returning votes. The main point of the change was first and foremost to serve the interest of the corporation which funded the campaigns.
Re: student loans.

Wow really? I thought that abuse would be a certainty given grads have no assets and you can’t repossess a degree.
One thing that people need to be aware of, is that Visa does not get to set all of the rules for chargebacks and disputes. You have dispute/chargeback rights that are secured by federal law. They are not as comprehensive as Visa, but in some ways they can be stronger. The problem is there are very few attorneys who practice in this area. I know, because I’m one of them. But some of these protections have Real teeth.

For example, I recently had a client who had his crypto.com account hacked. That account was tied to his checking account. The hackers debited his checking account, by buying bitcoin, and then transfer it out the bitcoin. My client disputed the charges, and the bank denied all of his disputes.

This was all in the context of a well documented breach of a major telecom company. He had all of the substantiation. It was clear that the bitcoin had gone into a very large wallet for purposes of fraud. Despite all of this, he was denied his dispute.

Long story short, we got his $10,000 back, got him another $5000, and the bank pay my fees. That was all based on federal law, not visa dispute rules. So the good news is that these changes do nothing to diminish those lasting rights under the law. But it should put this issue on your radar. If they are starting here, it won’t be long until they start lobbying Congress to soften the protections in law as well
I think of it like a volcano eruption. I'm not going to be able to stop it, and no amount of political campaigning will change anything. Just get out of the way.

Experts have mapped which places will be underwater, e.g. https://www.therakyatpost.com/living/2019/11/06/9-msian-citi...

This was semi-confirmed by recent floods. People would say "City X never flooded, it was a drainage issue." But the floods were drawn along these lines, and you can't drain the ocean in the long term.

The 2050 maps are decent to plan around. Even if we slow climate change and turn it around, it might be the state of things in 2075.
I don't think this statement is true because in high cost areas developers still don't develop because higher price also mean higher land costs. On top of that places like NY have lower taxes but not enough development over a long term scale. This taxes codes don't change on a whim. There is also a factor of zoning when it comes to build there very well might not be any land to develop near a city because it's all saturated from long term speculation
I don’t know about NY, but in SF property taxes are effectively frozen based on the value of your home when purchased.

I rented a house once in West Portal where the landlord was paying property taxes on the 1970 value of the home, which was something like $70k. The owner was gifted this house and taxes basis from their parents, who originally bought it. The tax bill came out to just a few thousand dollars as of 2020.

Meanwhile my neighbor at the time bought their house for $3m and was paying something like $35k.

I thought about writing the property taxes in front of each house on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk to make a point how messed up this tax policy is, but I opted instead to keep the peace and do nothing.

This loophole is used by families in CA as a way to pass assets to their heirs. The worst part is the tax rate also gets passed down, but one generation tops.
Electric car battery replacement costs more than car
You do realize countries routinely buy electricity from other countries? Just because there's a country border doesn't mean trade can't flow over it.

Now, of course, if you were at war, such dependency would hurt, for sure. But on the long term, country borders don't mean that much to capitalism.