skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
on the contrary, property tax is actually a good way for people to pay for what they voted for. If your town voted to increase the education budget, your property tax directly goes into that. You are not paying for something that your town did not vote for.

Property tax can be regressive within a community, but can often be progressive within a county/state. Different towns can have different property tax rates. Rich people would actually prefer a higher property tax to a certain degree to keep the poor out. If the avg property tax is 2k a month, then everyone living there needs to make at least 6 figures.
> mob pressures the Senate into accepting a slate of "alternate electors"

That would have to be one hell of a mob. How would they exert pressure? Unless their "pressure" is lawful then they'd just be arrested like the Jan 6 people.
Oh, my bad. I misread that as year. But still, competing with youtube would require much more than $1.2 million/year.
I can see studios licensing upcoming actors in perpetuity for a pittance. Alternatively, they can synthesize a persona that never ages/complains, and have dozens on nameless grunts be the underpaid talent -like the thousands of people who've donned Goofy suits for Disney
Media now is just another "business" or "corporation" looking to maximize profits and shareholder value and/or influence politics. And when there's not enough wealth to go around, bad people extract wealth from things that provide value and corrupt them in the process.
Hah I work on this every single day. I'm building tiny web-servers for consumers over at https://pibox.io - we like to say were "distributing the web; no blockchain required". Customers love the product, but VCs hate it xD
PSA: Data on these kinds of questions is available. Here's the data for Chicago on Uber/Lyft vehicle type: https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/bc6b-sq4u/visualization

It will vary by year and city, but generally speaking Toyotas tend to dominate ride share with Camry usually #1, then Prius, Corolla, and RAV4. However, the long tail is very long and you're about as likely to get a ride in a less cost effective vehicle.
AB5 and the Independent Trucking Community
I have to admit, though I was around and participated in forums during the time period specified, I now kinda hate them. The culture is different now than then, and really, that's what's "dead" now. A lot of little shits grew up with the internet, and I mostly don't like them.
Although it is comparing with a thing they basically say "we define it as not having these benefits". I know companies I would define as "hybrid" were not all those negatives apply.
If that isn't wanted, why even bother with having separate states in first place? Just place everything directly under federal government. You could even get rid of all other levels.
How is the nutri-score flawed?

I looked at the rules and it seemed like a really good idea.

I even got the impression, products got changed for the better in the last year to get a higher nutri-score.
No, they're not. Urban sprawl is the result of deficient density. People who want low density can commute. For any fixed population, decreasing density must, obviously, increase commute times and sprawl. This isn't complicated, though appeals to "return on investment" cloud the issue.

Of course, part of the subtext of these discussions is that proponents of SFZ and owner-occupancy tend also to believe that their favorite cities should have controlled population growth. It's just not a good look to say that out loud.
That immediate page doesn’t seem to list any explanation for this program’s existence. Can somebody please explain what’s the ostensible reason for this program to exist?

Entering a time period where food insecurity might be a real thing, reducing the number of farmers doesn’t seem like the wisest course.
I agree with this article, housing shouldn't be an "investment" but rather a place to live and have a good life.

By taxing it, it provides disincentive for people to use it as an income generating or speculative asset.

We shouldn't view housing as a way to "get rich" but housing actually provides much better utility if it's price is stable and not prone to boom bust cycles. Since more people would be able to buy at any given time for their budget if prices stay low.
That makes no sense. Most stuff you consume is not produced locally. And even then, why would I want to be a local firefighter or whatever if some other people get to sit on their ass every day?
Are you imply that if Android got rid of advertising IDs like iOS, then Facebook would take their app off the play store? Not so sure about that
Both of the forms I linked to have no advertising.
Equal and opposite reaction. Right now may literally be the best time to be alive in the world history for those who have direction, purpose, inner strength. Endless possibilities and safety nets.
if you were a real chump you'd kickban them then teardr0p them
Ah, yes, both sides have tried resorting to violence.

One side has tried resorting to violence in order to prevent the other side from voting, enshrine one religion as the law of the land, guarantee one "race" its supremacy, and literally overthrow the legitimately elected government.

The other side has tried resorting to violence when the first side asserted control over half of their bodies, murdered them in the streets while under the supposed motto of "serve and protect", and tried to take away their right to vote and literally overthrow the elected government.

Yes, I can see that "both sides" are clearly equally bad. After all, if someone stabs you in the gut, and you punch him in the face, you're just as bad as he is, right?
I don't think it's going to be a real App Store anyways. It's going to be updater for their own apps - one without fees, reviews, UX demands and API restrictions, just like Play store.

Facebook doesn't care about Play store on Android. They have deals with most operators on the planet to preinstall their app and Play store is a nice updater only. A user never installs Facebook, it's already there.
Every news article has a viewpoint because time and attention are limited. If there was a protest in your city today was it reported as "Citizens Air Greivances at City Hall" or "Traffic Downtown Snarled by Protest"?
I think in general the best forum software is discourse, its very well made, fully open source, and is pretty popular.

forem, which is a new commer is a lot lighter, so it might be useful, but I have never personally used it.
Very disappointed that it has DRM...
One can find instances of corruption in any party that has sufficient power. Key members of the Republican Party tried to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021 so from my perspective the Republican Party is the one more deserving of ire.

It is clear the Supreme Court is taking an activist stance. One member of the court has pretty much stated he is in favor of overturning previous rulings that granted sexual rights. The Court is now erring on the side of taking rights away rather than on increasing them or keeping the status quo in place.
There are books about this![0]

> Why would anyone hire someone just to make sure they stayed busy?

1) flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, store greeters, makers of websites whose sites neglect ease of use and speed for looks;

2) goons, who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists, community managers;

3) duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing bloated code, airline desk staff who calm passengers whose bags do not arrive;

4) box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers, quality service managers;

5) taskmasters, who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Except, while it was always rhetorically useful to talk about seniors with limited and fixed incomes being able to stay in their homes, Prop 13 also benefits people with multiple homes, landlords with rental properties, kids inheriting their parents house and running it as an AirBnb, etc. It benefits _corporations_ and non-residential property. Corporations can also skirt around it by not triggering a reassessment by not transferring ownership all at once.

Meanwhile, why are only senior home owners worthy of that stability? Why do seniors who rent not get rent stabilization as a matter of law?

If this were really motivated out of altruistic concern for vulnerable retirees, the law would look very different.
The most useful "social media" sites for musicians are fairly vanilla forums. Heavily moderated, single well-understood focus, &c. &c.

Example: https://talkbass.com is for people to talk about playing bass. And as you suggest for crafting, there are lots of old posts that are valuable today. For example, bowing (arco) technique on double bass.
Why? If both do the same work in the same location, why would one get more than the other.

Either you don't adjust the pay when they move because you are already paying everyone an equal salary. Or you adjust it and pay everyone a local salary.

Gitlab does the latter.
"In contrast with the scenario in 2000, most of today’s tech companies are real businesses."

I disagree that many startups have viable ideas that will generate black numbers and organic growth.

Bold founders have sold startup ideas which are not sustainable.

Ie investment capital have prefered bold founders that could give vision of high future returns wework for example.

A small number of startups will become awesome but the majority wont.

Zero interest rates was a money rocket that fueled startups going to the sky. But what goes up usually comes down eventually with gravity/interest rates.

A small fraction of startups will become super sucessfull but the majority wont. The number of sucessfull probably follows some kind of statistical distribution of which startups is great vs bad.

Higher interest rates will adjust future return calculations that is brilliant from the article!
I have C-PTSD, which is a little different, but I'm also not a fan of talk therapy/'conventional' therapy. I have also heard good things about EMDR, but haven't tried it myself (I ALSO have eye muscle control problems; go figure). I have tried and am working with a therapist who focuses a lot on somatic work, which is basically relearning and managing your physical responses. We don't spend a ton of time on my thought processes because for the most part those are fine: My problem is that my body hasn't gotten the memo that we're not in danger and I'm so dissociative that instead of dealing with my body's symptoms, I bottle them up until they hurt me.

So we go over things like what panic actually looks like/feels like in the body, physical actions I can take to ground myself and/or help myself mentally and why (what parts of the body are being stimulated, etc.)

Regarding gaming, there are some interesting studies about the impact of playing Tetris (and possibly some other puzzle games) on mental health and stress responses, but I can't remember if they addressed PTSD in specific or not.
I think you've missed the big one, which is contextualization. Outlets A and B might both publish the same quote from the same source making some claim. But outlet A might contextualize it by talking about his degrees, credentials, and experience, without mentioning that he's a pariah in his field. Outlet B might contextualize it by ignoring his credentials entirely and going to great lengths to emphasize that he's a pariah in his field. Readers will come to very different conclusions depending on which contextualization they see.
The whole point was to rein in Big Tech, and to protect consumers. Facebook or other companies forcing exclusivity into shady third party stores to suck up user data does not follow the spirit of these antitrust actions. I don't think regulators will just accept them doing that at face value. At the very least, the public outcry of "where's my Instagram?! Why do I have to sign up for this new thing?" will force some sort of inquiry.

Ultimately I have faith that both the public and public institutions will do the right thing, and that we shouldn't put all of our trust into one private corporation to check the power of other private corporations.
This is incredible! When I look at all the advances in computer vision and NLP in the last five years, I can't believe the pace of advancements. I have stopped saying "AI can't do ____ in our lifetime" to my friends.
Yep.

Baptists don't trust the Pope or any Vatican leaders.

Catholics don't trust the Mormon church leaders.

Jehovah's Witnesses don't trust Jewish leaders.

and so on...

"Trust" in religion is almost always going to be "your own" religion, and even then, we see church infighting and splits regularly.
That doesn't mean they should be excused from paying their fair share, especially since the elderly make greater use of public services. Float the tax rates to the market level and allow fixed income elderly to accrue a lien against the property that can be paid out of the estate when they die.
This is accurate. As an engineering manager, one of the primary criteria I'm judged on when interviewing for new roles is the size of the teams I've managed previously. Bigger = better.
Tell HN: Discord is permanently locking out users with multiple accounts
I used Discord's new account switcher feature and, shortly after, I was locked out of both accounts for phone number verification.

Specifically, each account requires a separate phone number, and I am not banned for a ToS violation.

After trying several different methods (including buying a second cell phone plan) I have been unable to access my accounts. Over a few weeks with support, I've spent money and several hours on my end, to no avail.

From our conversation, I understand this triggered a false positive on their "suspicious activity detection system". They couldn't tell me what triggered it, and I have not broken the ToS (no unofficial client), and they cannot remove the hold, and paying for Discord Nitro does not let you keep access.

This is especially painful because it's cut me off from friends and certain developer communities. From what I see from posts on other social media, this is not an uncommon occurrence.

Has anyone else had these issues? If so, has anyone had luck getting this resolved?
I love how they changed the original first rule of Reddit:

>Remember the human. When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

The new rule is there to allow two minutes hate against anyone who is against the current thing.
From my perspective as someone who wrote and moderated his own NIH forum in 2000 - still in use today - the main reasons for the slow decline in usage both by users and publishers were:

- the move to media-heavy content (images and video) and the problems integrating this seamlessly into discussion forums and moderating it (as a non Big Tech publisher)

- the increased politicisation of online discussions and more complex legislation regarding "hate speech", privacy etc., all of which make hosting and moderation of user-content platforms unattractive for all but the biggest publishers, so most moved to FB groups or similar platforms to reduce the effort required to moderate.

- non-threaded forums suck and threaded forums don't work well on mobile phones

- I suspect, but don't claim to know, that the bad quality of popular forum software and consequently many forums getting "owned" regularly with all dire consequences for users played some role in this.
The transition to online came with a transition from subscription to ad-supported.
There used to be a lot of "advertising throwaway" newspapers, found in free racks and dropped on doorsteps. A few are still around. Their news content was just filler to get people to read the ads. "Real newspapers" cost money and competed on content.

Online "newspapers", after becoming ad-supported, were downsized down to the advertising throwaway level. Just PR, news service content, punditry, and an occasional local story to give the impression of being for real.
In my experience, the streetcar driver is unwilling to make contact. It waits (perhaps for the car to be towed), passengers hop off and continue their journey on foot.
Yea, that is the part of the equation people forget. They see a ban and big platform and thing those things are only happening on big platforms owned by big corporate people in shiny offices. Nope, censorship can happen in small communities ran by Billy Bob down the street to. It comes down more to people. If someone wants an echo chamber, they will create an echo chamber regardless if it is a subreddit or a MyBB instance on a shared hosting plan.
From the linked article: "Critically, the venture market at the time was tiny relative to today’s ecosystem"

This isn't quite true. At least for US VC investment in dollars. It peaked at $66 billion in 2000, and didn't surpass that amount until 2018, according to these charts:

https://pitchbook.infogram.com/6-vm-charts-1h8n6m3klxngj4x

https://www.statista.com/chart/11443/venture-capital-activit...

And if you adjust for inflation, that year 2000 $66B is $103.86B in 2021 dollars, and the 2nd chart shows 2021 getting to $128B.

Now the two different data sources do have somewhat different numbers for each comparable year. I couldn't find a comparison that covered enough years to show the difference. But I think it's pretty clear that the dot com era was a spectacularly fast increase in VC funding. And the more recent years were slower growth, but did end up getting to slightly higher numbers, if you adjust for inflation.
You need to create the illusion of truth. Surround a fact with opinions, fabrications, and outright lies. Repeat it over and over and always make sure there’s some truth and credibility to it all.

When you understand this you understand how our media works.
Agreed. Reducing or eliminating the property tax benefits the beneficiaries more than the elderly themselves.
"Business monetises their offering" can't say I'm entirely blown away by the prediction
Google Wallet->Android Pay->Google Pay->Google Wallet

I will not be surprised if I'm missing one. Or even three.

We have come full circle with Google idiotic indecisiveness.
That's a very expensive solution, most likely, in terms of harm to the economy & international competitiveness. And we already have a huge problem with race-to-the-bottom dynamics when states or cities race to see who can bend over fastest in hopes of to receiving a few scraps from megacorporations. Start putting things the federal government controls in the hands of states and cities, and corporations will definitely gain more power to dictate things like environmental laws, corporate taxation, consumer protection, et c.

I don't think this idea is compatible with a decent-to-live-in, modern economy and state, as nice as it may seem in the abstract.
I won't disagree here. Before Figma it was Sketch, and before Sketch it was Photoshop etc.
> Opinion: I can sell my 2021 Model Y for $15k more than I paid for it, and my 2018 Model S for $20k less than I paid for it with 100k miles on it. That’s fairly good value preservation imho.

That’s all cars atm. My 2021 Mazda is also selling for more than I paid
I'd tell them that's their job as a manager.
The 10th amendment gives states power to regulate tons of things. Different states can have different laws without the senate.
Even that source has half as many democrat-identifying people owning firearms as republican-identifying people, which is very far from "one side collects all the guns".

But yes it would appear that "less than half the population" is actually correct.
Tesla Q2 2022 Results
The birthday thing is a new years salutation thing for me - which is not my birthday - and not that annoying. Many administrators will wonder about that centenarian who frequents the forums, grandpa really kept with the times it seems. In other words I never feed these things real data, why should I?

While I can see some of the annoyances with distributed forums I'm willing to live with these to keep the 'net decentralised.

Nae lairds, nae kings, we are free men!
Tesla Sells 75% of Its Bitcoin Purchases
Yep, but the people making the 'technical' decision to support Firefox only see the gains from reducing the labor.

The loss from not supporting Firefox (which I agree, is probably more than the savings) will show up on somebody else's balance sheet. IT saves a bit of money by siphoning indirectly out of Customer Retention, and the details get lost in the noise. It's the curse of large organizations.
> The barrier to entry is a feature, not a bug.

Are you saying the people with enough time to jump through all these hoops are the high-quality people? That doesn't jive with my experience.
I am working on something similar. But it's just collection of instruments with limited recording capability.

https://severak.github.io/cyber-music-studio/
> If these abuses happen under the aegis of the current App Store, doesn't that nullify the argument that App Store review is sufficient protection?

Not at all. App Store review is not perfect and no one expects it to be. That doesn't mean it has no value or that we should get rid of it entirely. Otherwise you could make the same argument about any system involving unscrupulous actors: "people still kill despite there being laws against murder, doesn't that mean the law is pointless?"

> This also ignores that it's conceivable that Apple can harden iOS's existing permissions system.

Curious how you think this would actually solve the issue I linked above.
And so there is a way to get a reasonable approximation of land value: Subtract the insured value of the improvements (which should be accurate by virtue of being determined by a profitable insurance company in a competitive market) from the appraised property value (which there are generally accepted methods for figuring).
Land value taxes are not functionally different than just regular property taxes in the places where it matters. In all of the areas that are in the worst of the housing crisis, property value is already dominated by land value; LVT doesn't really change much.

The problem, just like the source says, is that the tax is too low, not mention the absolute disaster that is Prop 13 in California.
Being out of touch only requires one to live in a bubble. It says nothing about somebody's intelligence.
In California, being a millionaire at "grandma" age is no more privileged than average.