skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It also requires property owners to do EXTENSIVE research and information gathering CONSTANTLY"

Every year in Chicago.

My house has been, and still is, assessed for 600K over what I paid in Nov. 2021. It had been on the market since 2016, until I bought it. The price I paid is the value of the house.

First assessment appeal denied.

Second appeal lost in the system.

We have to fight against an unfair and arbitrary tax system EVERY year.

Now they are going to index the tax rate to inflation.

Maybe other communities are under-taxed, but mine is not.
I believe VW Vortex[0] is (or at least was) the largest forum by number of users. I have a Tacoma and receive dozens of replies on Tacoma World[1], usually within an hour, on posts I've made with questions or comments about the vehicle. I'm sure there are more.

0: https://www.vwvortex.com/

1: https://www.tacomaworld.com/
Another option for you to try: I recently used https://pypi.org/project/py-staticmaps/ to generate maps in Python 3 on my Mac, and even got the Cairo option working.
My script to generate maps for state and country capitals: https://github.com/pamelafox/chrome-cards/blob/master/genera...
I would love to see "Build your own protocol"
Minqi Jiang, UCL, on environment and curriculum design for general RL agents
Here is a podcast episode with Minqi Jiang where we discuss RL environment and curriculum design, open-endedness, emergent communication, and much more!
Obviously this isn't true at all.
That wouldn't necessarily fix the issue or do anything. A model isn't a perfect average of all the data you throw into its training set. You have to actually try these things and see if they work.
They have changed the areas to less specific. Like in Europe not individual countries and cities, but thigs like "nordic". Try paying a Norwegian and a Finn the same multiplier.

Imagine spending so much time and effort to justify paying your employees less. It makes financial sense for a public company with no soul, but I feel bad for gitlab employees.
I'd disagree re: Figma and Notion. These are very sticky, best-in-class tools which have a lot of use outside of "VC-land". Figma is becoming the de-facto way to share designs across the internet. Notion has a good shot at becoming the internet's default business wiki, killing Confluence.
A contest for criticism of effective altruism
I never found that different logins for different sites had been a problem.
Passwords saved in browser made this quite easy.
Yes, across devices that is a bit hard, but there are ways around this as well.
I don't know what that video is describing, relative to EFE. The paper [1] abstract describes EFE and their findings this way:

Theories of modified gravity generically violate the
strong equivalence principle, so that the internal
dynamics of a self-gravitating system in free fall
depends on the strength of the external gravitational
field (the external field effect). We fit rotation
curves (RCs) from the SPARC database with a model
inspired by Milgromian dynamics (MOND), which relates
the outer shape of a RC to the external Newtonian
field from the large-scale baryonic matter
distribution through a dimensionless parameter eN.
We obtain a >4σ statistical detection of the external
field effect (i.e. eN>0 on average), confirming
previous results. We then locate the SPARC galaxies
in the cosmic web of the nearby Universe and find a
striking contrast in the fitted eN {values} for
galaxies in underdense versus overdense regions.
Galaxies in an underdense region between 22 and 45
Mpc from the celestial axis in the northern sky have
RC fits consistent with eN≃0, while those in
overdense regions adjacent to the CfA2 great wall
and the Perseus-Pisces supercluster return eN that
are a factor of two larger than the median for SPARC
galaxies. [...]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04745
As an LP in a large fund: that's definitely not how it is.

As an LP you pre-commit to a certain level, and when the capital call comes you perform or you will be found to be in default when a whole pile of clauses kicks in that you really do not want to have to deal with. You will have to have an extremely good reason (such as being already bankrupt) to be able to avoid a capital call that you have committed to.
Same in several European places. The fault lines are pretty strong.
The paradox of 'unpopular because its overcrowded' always cracks me up.
Training is obviously very expensive, and ideally they'd want to recoup that investment. But I'm curious as to what the marginal cost is to run the model after it's trained. Is it close to 30 images per dollar, like what they're charging now? Or do training costs make up the majority of that price?
In short "bend over, we're coming in, but SMILE while we do" eh? This isn't working any more. You did this.
What is the "heat death" of Reddit?
The media decline started over a decade ago with the transition from the physical publications to online.

It turned out, the limited space and the delay of printed issues forced the editors to prioritize. The newspapers were competing on quality content. With the advent of the attention economy, the model changed to competing for the strongest emotional response, so the newspapers split into rivaling camps, churning out low-quality online publications made to enrage people, while selling their attention to the highest bidder on the ad market.

I hope people will eventually realize that their attention has become a commodity [0], and will start watching it better. If most people are smart enough to not give away their money to the first person asking for it, we can find a way to do the same with our attention.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy
Makes me imagine stock image sites in the near future. Where your search term ("man looks angrily at a desktop computer") gets a generated image in addition to the usual list of stock photos.

Maybe it would be cheaper. I imagine it would one day. And maybe it would have a more liberal usage license.

At any rate, I look forward to this. And I look forward to the inevitable debates over which is better: AI generation or photographer.
It's funny, I can find ten different charts of this. On some of them, Texas, Florida, and/or North Carolina are 'less dependent' and on others they are just as dependent as most of the rest. A few disagree about Tennessee, Missouri, and Georgia. But for the most part, they agree on just about every other state.
That is some rare foresight. Typically, this is not how it goes. Usually, the pressure to keep adding new features is too high, the codebase too large, and the desired functionality too amorphous for any sort of refactoring or rewrite.
An alternative is to have tie-breaks for every game, playing increasingly rapid time controls until the result is not a draw.

1. Classical game, win = 5 points.

2. Rapid game, win = 2 points

3. Blitz game, win = 1 point.

4. Armageddon game, win = 0.5 points.

This point layout might backfire and make the classical games even less interesting because the huge edge for winning is probably going to motivate extreme do-not-lose style play, which trends towards draws. But, nonetheless, wins in classical should be weighted well above the tie-breaks.
Intel does not value software. This is well known, especially by SW people who worked at Intel and had to learn the lesson the hard way.
The problem isn't global representation; it's local fairness. (The 538 analysis is correct in that sense.) The problem is that for any given district, the probability of overturning the gerrymander is, in practice, impossible.

In states with legislatively controlled redistricting (the bulk of them) without controls on the redistricting process, the disenfranchisement is global to everyone — even if you're a blue voter in a blue district, or a red voter in a red district. The person who wins is the incumbent.

For instance, based on ACS and latest CVAP, my district is ~65/35. More importantly, my representative explicitly drew several GOP contenders out of his district to seal his re-election chances. I know he did this, because he had this conversation with Abbot (Governor of Tx) while I was standing a few feet away from them.

The point of a gerrymander is to maintain power, not to have some sort of ideological, or political stance.
It's always a little disappointing to see a forum start promoting a discord server. Splitting the community rarely works and results in a worse experience for both groups.
It cost me ~$600 in app purchases to switch from Android to Apple. So “just buy a different OS if you don’t like it” is not a reasonable solution unless you only have free software and it is also free on your target OS. The fact that these licenses can’t be transferred is part of the problem (though I’m not sure that is even addressed in this legislation).

You don’t personally have to benefit from this legislation, you can stay in an “official” configuration until the day you die. For some of us, this opens the door to have a FOSS App Store, or custom apps without having to rebuild them once a week.
Personally, I hate Discord.
I always miss where I got a notifcation for a post.
The velocity of content is too high.
It's hard to search for content.
By leveraging their ability to ban people from all servers, see the discussion from a few days ago.

A) Ban from all servers (even private): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860168

B) Forcing people to provide personal information to play the game at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32142847

Together create effective permabans for anyone Microsoft wants
And there are five Ernest and twelve Daniel, maybe we should name most classes the same also. When compiling the code a prompt may ask what Ernest do you mean.
Nice condescending snark. Is it based on anything?

My own position, in comparison, actually is. Contrary to your insinuation, it is based on jadedness and cynicism. I’ll give you the Cliff’s Notes of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163704

1. Facebook and Google, to put it bluntly, are not exactly product powerhouses these days and any attempts to present yet another platform will be met with skepticism and they simply will not have enough new apps to lure over users.

2. Without customer interest, third party developers will keep their apps on the official App Store, just as they do on Android on the Play Store, because that’s where the users are. They want the most eyeballs.

2.5. Sure, Facebook and co. can try to cut exclusive deals with third party devs to get apps on their store, but that is tricky, just see Microsoft’s or BlackBerry’s failure to woo devs to their platforms.

3. Consumers are tired of all of the accounts and services they have to deal with at this point, and dealing with more app stores will be a source of friction. Users are tired of this shit.

4. Facebook or Google trying to spur artificial growth of third party iOS stores by making their apps exclusive will likely run into regulator pushback, especially if those stores permit greater user tracking.

Okay, now justify your insult.
I'm thinking about things like Filecoin, a blockchain which is meant to power IPFS. To be fair though, IPFS itself is not a blockchain
9% of Americans say they believe werewolves exist, and 13% are not sure. Numbers are about the same for vampires too. 20% of Americans say they've actually met a ghost.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/entertainment/articles-repor...

28% of Americans say they believe that seeing a shooting star brings good luck.

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/jmh49rcs2g/toplines_Luck_and_Sup...

24% of American millennials say they have an actual plan for the zombie apocalypse.

https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/d7rutytxs2/Zombie-Plans-Data.pdf

The message to take away from this, I hope, is that people who answer these surveys like to troll.
I misread this as cheese-guesser and, as a Swiss, got super excited!
Property taxes paying for local services keeps poor people poor. I don't understand why people think this is ethical.

Property tax is possibly the worst way to fund the government. The only thing it's really good at is imposing a market force. It's largely regressive. In fact it's almost identical to gas tax.

All flat taxes are regressive.
> They have changed the areas to less specific.

but with a rental-price index for local-ish area instead of trying to capture that in their regions? or total flat?!
Who is paying the news agencies? They are all online these days and hardly any readers pay. This leaves us with funding from institutions.
Ironically the same thing used to be true for forums :)

Someone really enthusiastically started a forum, added 420 different sub-areas and sub-forums. All of which have a maximum of 1-10 posts. Most of them by the forum admin.
This is an excellent resource. Lots of great films on here. Piotr Szulkin is on here as well, for anyone into sci-fi. I've been looking for some of these films for awhile...

Golem:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080806/

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/golem

The War of the Worlds: Next Century:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083335/

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/the-war-of-the-worl...

O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089714/

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/o-bi-o-ba-the-end-o...

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091096/

https://35mm.online/en/vod/feature-films/ga-ga-glory-to-the-...
If you like these puzzles, consider giving Nikoli some money, as they are a relatively small Japanese puzzle magazine and invented many of them. I find their handmade puzzles a lot more fun than the autogenerated ones this program makes.

https://www.nikoli.co.jp/en/puzzles/

https://nikolibookshop.stores.jp/

I recommend 'The Pencil Puzzle 2022' (and other years) which has puzzles from their entire range. English instructions are included.

My absolute favourite is Slitherlink. I've never been more addicted to a puzzle game than the DS version: https://www.eurogamer.net/puzzle-series-vol-5-slitherlink-re...
> Except this is the norm in science if we look back historically.

Science, for better or worse, is paradigmatic. The paradigm is strong and drives careers. Only when the paradigm is toppled and a new paradigm established does Science begin to advance in what will be ultimately seen historically as a leap or bound, metaphorically of course.
> 7.1% of respondents said they'd be willing to kill someone over politics.

I can only assume it's that low because people tend not to think very hard about poll questions, so are considering only some narrower-than-the-actual-question version of it that they've replaced it with in their heads. Or else a whole lot of people are very honest and don't think they'd be able to actually do it—should, yes, but would? Doubtful enough that they'd answer "no" to the question.

I suspect it's the former because I doubt that many people would be open and introspective enough to admit they don't think they'd have the stomach to do things they think they should do. Try another angle with some extreme but plausible hypothetical scenarios rather than such a general question, and I bet that number shoots way up.
Meh, useless employees will be there either way, union or not. That's just the world.
Mine does that too, but the process is clearly flawed because you can't buy land for the assessed price, and you can't build a structure on that land for the assessed value.
In the past month, women in large swaths of the United States have lost their right to bodily autonomy, health, and even life. A woman in Wisconsin was forced to carry her dead fetus inside her for ten days because the hospital was afraid to perform an abortion to remove the fetal tissue due to the law from 1849 being unclear about when exceptions are allowed to its complete and total ban even in the case of rape and incest. A ten-year-old girl in Ohio had to cross state lines to get an abortion after being impregnated via rape since their state's 6-week ban does not have an exception for rape. Some hospitals and pharmacists are refusing to fulfill methotrexate prescriptions for lupus because it could be used to abort an ectopic pregnancy (which is definitionally not viable). Women are being denied mifepristone and misoprostol prescriptions to evacuate miscarriages because they could be used to induce an abortion and are instead being forced to carry necrotizing flesh inside their wombs until they hopefully expel it. Cancer patients are being denied chemotherapy because no oncologist will give chemo to a pregnant woman and the doctors in their area are afraid to give these women abortions until their vital signs literally start falling because the so-called exceptions for the life of the mother are so narrow as to open them up to prosecution by a zealous force-birth DA.

And this hasn't even touched on the ground-shaking effect this is going to have on women's ability to participate fully and equally in society.
https://honda-tech.com/forums/

https://www.m5board.com/forums/
> subject to county maintenance and oversight.

Incorporate a town and do what you want. After incorporating, set up contract to pay county to do maintenance until the town has time to bid it out.

Curious thing here is that with the limited ability of the town to meddle, town council election is occasionally cancelled because it is not contested. There is little to fight over, so not a lot of grift or power.

Am west of Mississippi river.
> They are here to make money out of the hype in the form of a pump and dump and psychological manipulation

They sold at around their carrying value of around $30k. Seems like they had a stop-loss set. Strange way to pump and dump ...
just look to Vietnam. The military can occupy but it gets expensive. To win a true war you have to keep the local population happy and bombing them Won't achieve that. Plus you have to think the people in the military are going to be ok bombing local populations and possibly areas they have family. It isn't so cut and dry. I think a break could happen. We are at the end of this empire and the fall is going to be bad.
Honestly that part pisses me off. Who cares if their AI "makes porn" or something "offensive".
> With security, you need some online service so you can find the new CVEs every day.

Or you just do it manually if that service is down. It's weird to me that the argument for not having an automated, 3rd-party service is "if it goes down then you'll have to do things manually", when the alternative is "you always have to do it manually".

If you are comfortable trusting a third-party service to tell you when to upgrade, then that is absolutely an improvement over doing security updates manually. This is why I have unattended-upgrades set up on my Debian systems to automatically install updates from Debian Security every day. Sure, it may fail for whatever reason, but I am certainly not going to take the time to (or even remember to) update every day.
I think that this slow erosion of media confidence is due to bad actors both foreign and domestic.

Domestic bad actors don't like the investigation and oversight. Foreign bad actors like when Americans get bad information and elect bad leaders or fight with each other.

The media is also stuck with a population who either cannot afford to pay for quality information or choose to receive "free" news from TikTok and Facebook. Well, there's nothing more expensive than free.

A strong and free press is essential to Democracy.
I really enjoy these. A screen-sized "slant" puzzle, or a "net" puzzle, can be quite relaxing. And it's fun to work out higher-level logical rules for making several related moves at once.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32162996
Discourse is the least bad of all forum platforms I have found. Especially if you're going to be targeting people born this millennium.
Even Ukrainians were saying they didn't believe an invasion would happen when US Intelligence was broadcasting Russia's plans to invade in the weeks leading up to it.
Does not seem to be a democratic way of handling secession.
Makes me wonder why Hong Kong should be free in the view of most westeners, but not Texas...
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll work more in the landing page, regards
I've gotten a lot of mileage out of following Victor Ponamariov:

- https://user-interface.io

- https://hundred.user-interface.io <- this is especially good

- https://twitter.com/vponamariov <- he often has great threads
Yes. Your point being what.
Fair voting systems need to be both fair theoretically, but also "obviously fair" to those voting. The vast majority of the electorate is poorly educated on how election system game theory works. (Which should not be surprising.)

I plan to start rolling out fair systems locally (my water district) so that people can familiar with both how easy they're to use; and, more importantly, how they're obviously fair. Right now, we're looking at proportional random selection.
With the rise of really good neural TTS engines that can re-create voice actors with a high level of accuracy, I've been predicting the same thing will happen in cartoons and anime for years now.
Thanks Beej been using your guides for a long time. Appreciate your hard work!
I use java.util.logging in a few apps, to cut down on dependencies, and i consider it to be fairly braindead. The fundamentals are okay, to the extent that they are copies of log4j, but there are a bunch of little things that just aren't done right, like:

- logging methods taking arrays rather than varargs (this would be a trivial change!)

- there being no way to create a SimpleFormatter with a custom format in code other than setting a system property before creating it

- there being no Logger:getLogger override which takes a class, only strings

At some point, i am going to write a little facade which wraps jul and fixes the papercuts, which feels like a very silly thing to be doing!
> I've heard people jokingly say, "One side collects guns and the other collects mental disorders."

> That's obviously an unfair shot but there's some truth to it.

No truth to it at all really. I'm pretty much a full-on socialist and I own firearms. In fact, I'm not sure I know anyone who doesn't own a firearm.

There are more firearms in the US than there are people, so what kind of fool honestly believes they are all in the hands of less than one half of the population?
They seem serious to me, and well-argued.
Curious, do people not consider stackoverflow or Quora a forum platform? I wonder if posts like this are specifically talking about oldschool bbs systems like vbulletin.
Except the South, presumably Texas sympathizers, are way over represented in the military. The next largest region of over-representation are your flyover states, which political lean red.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/costs/soc...

You assumption that Texas would have to go toe to toe with the US Marines is a big assumption when many Marines are from Texas or would be politically sympathetic. If it came to it, the US Military would likely face a large breakdown and crisis within itself.
It's on its way

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/16/google-plans-android-privacy...
while true, it is still fair to say Carlsen views nepo as a waste of time. While it would be easy to dismiss this as hubris - i think the bigger point is that he doesnt gain anything from beating him again. It's not that Nepo has no chance of winning.

Magnus specifically mentioned Firouzja as an opponent that he would consider playing the WCC against[1]. So while not the most important factor in his decision, the fact that Nepo won the candidates again and was the last challenger before Magnus made the Firouzja statement seems relevant. Also relevant is that the candidates tournament concluded on July 5th and Magnus released his withdrawal now in the same month.

It seems to me like the challenger being Nepo was the last significant piece of information towards his decision. How specific it is to Nepo or a more general feeling of Nepo being one of many people he doesnt feel any personal benefit from playing against, who knows.

[1] https://chess24.com/en/read/news/magnus-carlsen-unlikely-i-w...