skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entirety of Section 230 defense is "blanket immunity is fundamental to us, because it would cost us money if we had to go to court when someone thought we did something wrong", like every other type of business industry in existence.

Yes, Internet companies will have to go to court more. That's a good thing. It means there will be more actual legal precedent around how content should be handled, and it will mean companies will be more careful about doing things that are legally defensible, rather than solely focusing on what's profitable.

Donald Trump was elected President because sensationalism and radicalization drives engagement, and hence, ad impressions. The waves of mass shootings from incels and other radical right weirdos is on Section 230s head. And every single tech industry funded outfit defending it has blood on their hands because of it.

All of these amicus brief defenses come down to "we're afraid we might get sued", and if that's the case, maybe companies should rethink how they operate. Contrary to the positions of Mike Masnick and his ilk, US law isn't arbitrarily and capriciously going to attack anyone who's comment box gets spammed one day. Intent is a core part of law, and you need it to find someone responsible for most wrongdoing.

Tech companies have ill intent. They've chosen profit over responsibility, because the immunity granted by Section 230 makes that decision too easy. The current Supreme Court is awful and will do a lot of awful things, but stomping down Section 230 with absolute indiscretion will not be one of those awful things.

Kinda a sidebar, but I always love to see who actually is behind these sorts of things: The law firm behind this brief, Cooley LLP, appears to be a business entirely focused around things awful for consumers: Mergers and acquisitions, private equity firms, defense against shareholder litigation, protecting healthcare companies from regulatory investigations, and filing patent infringement lawsuits. They are quite proud of all of this on their home page. Wikimedia picked great friends here.
A little confused. People seem to be mixing PascalCase and camelCase in the article and conversation.

Assuming as they're similar they're being used interchangeably in this context?
It's been glorious watching the various communities in California refuse to come up with their mandated housing elements, get their zoning privileges stripped, and then flail about with various stages of grief and denial when the new builder's remedy rules bulldoze them.
Sure, it’s not easy to replace anyone. It’s often not even easy to replace cleaning personnel. But nobody is irreplaceable.
I figure it's the same sort of thing as yards vs yardage. When you're talking about yards you're talking about some specific amount, when you're talking yardage you's talking about some unspecified amount that gets measured in yards usually.

When talking clothing you're talking about an abstract concept, when you're talking clothes you're generally talking about some fairly specific clothes. There's a lot of grey area here, e.g. a shop can either sell clothes or clothing, either works to my ear.
Nobody being?

Some people are all about that.

I'm a ( relatively new ) US citizen and I'm all about that type of taxes. I've seen what taxes can do in other part of the word, and that my go-to solution for all issue in this country. Redistribution.

Pretty sure my enthusiasm will be tempered with time :)

More seriously, highly touristy place impacted by AirBB landlord snatching the whole housing market would be receptive, too.
> It's also a little bit pathetic how some of the ultrawealthy seem to have the hardest time confronting their own mortality.

The man has the money and the time to do this and believes in open-sourcing his 'recipe', good for him.

Also on mortality you can accept that your time is finite and still wish to have a disease and pain free old age, the two are not contradictory.
For those who own a home it's most of it (data is in https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm somewhere).

I'm not sure how much measuring median personal wealth makes sense though - you can generally rely on household/family members/close friends in a way that's not measured. I'm sure children of billionaires have access to a lot of resources they don't own.
Who the heck downvotes this and think it's normal for person LIVING in country for years not being allowed to return to their home and family, just because they don't live there long enough to gain citizenship yet? It's extremely xenophobic/racist approach (which should not really come as surprise in Japan).
Can a country revoke one’s citizenship as easily as it can revoke one’s permanent residency?
It’s the one thing where I’m That Old White Man by now. My favorite is user groups meetups in Germany where there are one or two people who don’t speak German, and then request the talk to be held in English.

Imagine me attending a meetup in London as the only German and requesting to have the talk held in German. It would be ridiculous.
Not OP, but I also work in a remote company. Our company uses deel.com. You only need to set up a corporate entity when the number of employees exceed a certain limit IIRC. When that happens, yes it's a bit of a hassle.
They should also mention Japan loves IC card reader on your PC when you are transacting online on government websites.
> Your (2) proposal is never going to work without an authoritarian government, such as the one in Singapore. People like owning and passing on their homes.

And yet: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/actually-japan-has-changed...

> In fact, Japan’s fervor for constant scrap-and-build construction is a major reason why rent there is so affordable, and why local politics haven’t halted dense development as they have in the West. Wingfield-Hayes opens his article by complaining that Japanese houses tend to depreciate instead of appreciate:

> "In Japan, houses are like cars."

> "As soon as you move in, your new home is worth less than what you paid for it and after you've finished paying off your mortgage in 40 years, it is worth almost nothing.

> "It bewildered me when I first moved here as a correspondent for the BBC - 10 years on, as I prepared to leave, it was still the same."

> Weirdly, this is presented as a chronic problem — something Japan should have fixed long ago, but hasn’t. But in reality, depreciating real estate is one of Japan’s biggest strengths. Because Japanese people don’t use their houses as their nest eggs, as they do in much of the West, there is not nearly as much NIMBYism in Japan — people don’t fight tooth and nail to prevent any local development that they worry might reduce their property values, because their property values are going to zero anyway.

> As a result, Japanese cities like Tokyo have managed to build enough housing to make housing costs fall, even as people continued to stream from the countryside into the city.
And yet.

Outside of HN, most people I know refer to Elasticsearch as open source.
120 comments and no one has mentioned Henry George yet. For shame, HN.
My suspicion is that iTunes for PC won’t even show listings for DRM protected podcasts, which is why you can’t find it.
Singapore did it by purchasing the land incrementally from private owners. It's not like they confiscated it with coercive authoritarian force.
I am trying to automate my job away, but i'm not succeeding.
I've worked for a large News Corp paper before.

The amount of user generated content in comments, letters to the editor etc is tiny and was moderated by a single person.

It is simply incomparable to the estimated 500 million tweets a day by Twitter:

https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2020/04/14/twitter-statis...
> C is a structured programming language that uses functions, so our processors like functions.

So were most of the structured programming languages from 1960's.

PL/I, ESPOL, NEWP, ALGOL, Pascal, ...
This and other articles and talks can be found on Mickens' web site: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
> The numbers here are not adjusted for inflation, but there is no straightforward way to do so

This is extremely important because the value of 200k from 2002 is quite different than today.

I get it'll never be near perfect, but I really wish they attempted some method and simply stated it instead of ignoring it. The counter example is go back to 1940's and we're all screaming what happened to the 5,000 starter home?!

I want to believe the conclusions of this piece, but in a way, it's manipulating data to fit the hypothesis.
They cut down from two SSD chips to one, but without reducing capacity.

Saves money and time to assemble the SOCs.
I am with OP, if someone is living in a foreign country for around 10 years and still dont speak the local language, that is displaying a certain disregard for the country they decided to life in.

As others have replied, maybe that is less of an issue in a certain tech-related bubble, but...

I have seen foreigners working in customer service who dont speak the local language sufficiently. People like you maybe expect the customer to speak english such that these people can fullfill the job? I don't.
But you can't claim in-depth knowledge of the country if you can't access primary sources. Which might be important to some jobs.
Hawaii triples the property taxes for non owner occupied residences over $1 mil.
And the answer to that answer is inheritance taxes and redistribution.
For an explanation of the shift in policy around 2006 that caused the Great Recession and the current housing shortage, I recommend Kevin Erdmann, “Housing Policy, Monetary Policy, and the Great Recession” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3667309 and his other articles https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/kevin-erdmann. Erdmann disputes the standard explanation of the Great Recession that excess credit and behavioral economics caused a housing construction boom which caused a pop (e.g. the first Planet Money podcast The Giant Pool of Money, the movie The Big Short, the book House of Debt). Instead, he claims that there was never a construction boom at all; regulators killed the housing construction sector and entry-level mortgages because they mistook a shortage of homes in the Bay Area for a glut of homes in Las Vegas, and unrelated cities such as Atlanta were innocent victims.
“Bookmark this comment. See you in 2022.”
I also use an Epson Perfection (V750 Photo). These machines produce very good results if you are careful with film positioning. I still haven't figured out a way to scan really old negatives in rolls: despite buying several magic holders, I've yet to find one that can oppose the force of a nearly 80-year old film roll.

I would not recommend third-party software, though. The problem with scanner software is that every developer seems to think that I have unlimited time to tweak the settings for every scan, and that scanning those 5 negatives is my only job for the next month. That might be the case for some people, but trust me, if you're looking at several thousand scans, you do not want to tweak each one individually. You want software that works with you. And so far every third party program I tried did not have this approach.
1.2 million seems pretty low for Santa Clara honestly, if you are talking about a single family home
Here [1] is a graph of the Japanese markets. Keep in mind the logarithmic scale. Japan's economy was substantially healthier 30 years ago, and that's not cherry picking COVID stuff since it had nothing to do with that. Similarly, they've also seen their population start to die off by the millions. [2]

That makes it impossible to really compare US and Japan on many things. 30 years of economic stagnation/decline paired with population decline are going to be a driving factor in things like corporate compensation and shareholder returns.

[1] - https://www.macrotrends.net/2593/nikkei-225-index-historical...

[2] - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/JPN/japan/population-g...
If you are going to fiddle around with taxes, simply moving to a land tax would do a 1000x more then some marginal tax changes.

The reality is a society isn't richer just because people own home.

I much rather live in a society with low ownership rates and good zoning and land use policies. Then in a society with high ownership rates and bad zoning and land use policy.

It seems to me the US argues way to much about home ownership and not enough about zoning and land use.

The reality of the tax system is that current single family homes are ALWAYS massively undertaxed. Strontowns has lots of data on that. What you are suggesting would make this issue even worse because multi-family homes are often by institutional investors too.

A land-value tax, a fee based service cost (block based) and much higher cost for the highway. Plus of course changes in the insane zoning laws. Are real solutions to real problems.
Home ownership at a young age is an overrated fetish. A home is just a box to keep you and your family warm and dry. Getting attached to a box is silly.

For my first 15 years out of school, renting was the best. Every year I would run the numbers based on the market prices and downpayment I could afford, and conclude that it was more advantageous for me to continue renting, in terms of total cost of ownership.

Renting in my younger years allowed me to move around, following economic and family tailwinds wherever they took me without being burdened by a piece of property that has insane transaction costs (multiple percentage points).

Now that I'm older and less likely to move around in my life, I'm able to afford to be a homeowner. It's good, but unexpectedly having to shell out thousands of dollars every time the house has a problem (plumbing, AC, windows, etc) takes getting used to.

I feel that this was the right call when I compare with a few relatives who are about my age and bought property earlier. They had to change jobs afterwards due to economic changes, and moved to a different city or country, but they didn't manage to sell their property at the price they wanted. So they're now reluctant landlords, dealing at a distance with problematic tenants, and renting a new place of their own in a new city. That feels like a headache I'm happy not to have.
English speakers are notorious for not bothering to learn local languages, eg:

Migrants failing to assimilate, 200-year-study finds

Migrants to Australia have displayed an inability to assimilate with local values and refuse to speak anything but their native tongue, a study covering the last 200 years has found.

The study confirms a popularly-held belief in parts of the country that migrants simply refuse to fit in.

Boat people from as far back as 1788 didn’t bother applying for passports or visas, were set on introducing their own laws, and, in many cases concealed criminal records, according to the damning report.

~ https://www.theshovel.com.au/2023/01/26/migrants-failing-to-...
The whole point of Section 230 was that we wanted to simultaneously incentivize user-content platforms (so, services that just allowed people to freely express themselves without concerning itself too much about the content) while simultaneously encouraging those services to take down illegal content. That was it.

The whole reason it was needed was because these platforms were worried that if they took down content, it might be seen as implicitly endorsing the content that remained. If that was the case, then they'd be liable for the content that remained. Including things like libel laws... it would be the same as a newspaper printing that content.

They didn't want that, so this was the compromise. You can do light moderation and we'll grant you exemption.

Fast-forward to today. Facebook and Twitter do not do "light moderation". They decide what you see and what you don't... they direct your attention from smaller stories to bigger ones, they spend countless thousands of employee hours catering to the whole experience. If that doesn't count as a modern digital scaled form of editorialization, I don't know what would.

I think a law designed to encourage very light moderation in no way applies to full-fledged algorithmic determination, and that distinction needs to be made and clarified.
Yep - property taxes are in the 2~4% range. But, when you can buy an extremely nice home for under 500k, your final tax burden turns out to be quite reasonable.
For local rules it's also because you need to live there to vote.
Considering how much Confluent depends on Kafka, maybe you should consider tying a future version to whatever license is used at Kafka, so you can give your users the freedoms that Kafka gave you.
Is it succeeding in lowering housing costs? What is the net impact on quality of life?
your pathetic attempt at humor will be remembered for ages to come
I assume you mean that Australia wouldn't let her back in. Japan never closed the borders to citizens.

They did make it annoying to come back, however. Several different friends had to do long quarantines in not-great facilities.
How can it have an original Mac philosophy, when it lacks the UI/UX polish and OS frameworks for every level of the programming stack combined in a single development experience?
This is about non English speakers not learning English. I’m missing some sarcasm?
It is wrong. I'm sorry to be blunt, but here we are.

Just because pepsi tastes like coca cola, doesn't make it coca cola.

Open source/free software places no restrictions on use/modification/distribution, end of story. With the sole exception of copyleft, which disallows you to distribute & withhold source, i.e. stopping you from depriving others of the very freedom that you benefitted from.

This places restrictions on use. Ergo it is not open source. Attempting to muddy the waters by using hand-wavey "you get most of your freedom!" type talk just muddies the waters and is precisely why the term got trademarked and why a definition exists. And it really is not hard to understand.
I'm sure there are better tax strategies than taxing capital gains on the house. That harms home owners and savers too. Most people's biggest source of savings is their house.

Instead figure out some way of differentiating between a house as primary residence and a house as investment, and tax former less and the latter more.
Ongoing current thread:

There’s no such thing as affordable housing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34528025
where I am currently living in redwood city it is impossible to find anything below 1000$/ft^2 today.
> answer is trust fund babies

Trust-fund babies aren’t buying single-family homes for a million dollars in Santa Clara.
Sorry, choose what exactly? (in the context of districts)

I'd argue for a "simpler" method: no district should be non-contiguous and it should be "round" (no weirdly shaped or long districts). Something like: area of the circle that fully encompasses the district cannot be more than 30% of the whole district area. (With some exceptions for coastal areas)
The OSI definition hasn't changed. It barely changed what it borrowed from the Debian Free Software Guidelines before that.

("Open Source" itself isn't a trademark, but the OSI bits are, so I removed it to avoid confusion.)

(There's no indication that the legal construction of a trademark is "going the way of the bandaid", or that bandaids are "going the way of the bandaid" for that matter.)
Why is it my problem that their business model is stupid and doesn't work when treated equally to traditional publishing?

Equality before the law. If your business can't adapt it should die.
"The ultimate glue and scripting language" is taking it too far, I think.

I have loved Python too, but fell out of love a long time ago. Julia is much better in many ways, _in my opinion_.

Lua is a language that I have no experience of myself, but which is often embedded in things like this, because the interpreter is very small (if I'm not mistaken), which makes it convenient, and therefore in some ways superior to using either Javascript or Python.

Just saying that there are many opinions and ways to think about this.
https://archive.ph/wAWZW

http://web.archive.org/web/20230126073138/https://newrepubli...
I understand that by quoting my reply on usefulness, you claim that “calories in, calories out” model is not useful. For the model to not be useful, one should prove that people gain weight while consuming a caloric deficit, or that people lose weight while consuming a caloric surplus.

I don't see how these references show that. They are irrelevant to our discussion. The first Harvard piece is bullshit, written for those feel-good types who don't want to put in the effort of losing weight. The second one has nothing to do with “calories in, calories out”. It just states some observation on contestants. The paper has “calories in, calories out” in the title, yet doesn't talk about the model at all. It talks about something else, called conventional model.

Nowhere in “calories in, calories out” I understand that it is easy to create deficit by eating junk food or that one can go back to their old lifestyle once they have lost weight. People fight with an imaginary enemy.

I think that I've explained my view as well as I could. Thanks for your participation.
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Because those articles were about stock price and not about anything to do with Tesla real economics.
At last some sense. You also cannot build your way out of a housing crisis. Something the UK government and local councils haven't yet understood.
In my own experience, being a foreigner who (seemingly) doesn't speak a local language actually does open doors to unique insights - the people who do speak English are quite ready to tell all the ins and outs, pros and cons, ups and downs, subtleties, gripes, concerns, cultural tidbits exactly because they think I won't go around talking about what they said.
One factor I rarely hear about regarding the housing crisis is that the elderly are wealthier than they have ever been. The elderly are the biggest winners of transfer payments, most likely because they vote at the highest rates. This wealth enables them to maintain their living situations.

I am sympathetic to the elderly wanting to age in place. At the brute level of politics, they can argue it is simply a game of clashing interests, young vs old, and the old know how to play the game better (again by simply voting, it isn't rocket science).

However the economy is suffering because housing near employment centers is often controlled by people who no longer work. This introduces inefficiencies. A retired homeowner could argue, then move the jobs. But that is precisely the inefficiency. Jobs are costlier to move than retirees.

This is why I come down on the side of the youth. The economy is underperforming, and that affects everyone. This makes it more than a clash of competing interests. It makes it a typical political deformation when a motivated interest group controls policy to the detriment of everyone else.
1 - Turn on night lights for screens (redshift on Linux). If possible, turn it on permanently.

2 - Buy glasses with blue light blocking filters.

3 - No screens at least 30 minutes before bed. Longer if possible.

4 - Avoid reading font that are too small. Zoom webpages on computers and boost font size on cellphone/tablets.

5 - Avoid reading in low light conditions. Low light makes the eyes force.

6 - No staring in direct light. Avoid having a direct light source in your eyes. I turn my lamps upwards so they lit up the ceiling and i do not see the light bulb directly.

7 - When my eyes are strained i find ways to make myself cry a little. When i feel a nice tear in both eyes i tilt my head back and close them for a minute. Tears heal eyes naturally. Afterwards my eyes are super red (like someone who cried) but at least they don't hurt anymore. I usually take a nap after that so the red disappears.

I hope this helps and you find ways to feel better.
This was 3 years ago. Today it's almost impossible to buy a single family home for that amount in that area.