skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web Components are Custom Elements + Shadow DOM, and this makes half of that equation server-side. The other half works as a client-side hydration strategy until they churn out whatever Declarative Custom Elements would look like.
> It's pretty coercive. Taxes are usually levied against financial transactions. Taxing not selling something violates most people's conception of basic property rights.

First off, it isn't taxing "not selling something," it is taxing "buying a 2nd/3rd/999th home that nobody will live in and holding it vacant as an investment strategy." It is a financial transaction in that sense.

Second, baseline property taxes have existed for some time in every US state. If you own a home, you must pay taxes in alignment with how your locality has decided it will tax houses to maintain and operate itself. More expensive houses get taxed more, independent of how much of the local budget is spent on serving the house. SF decided that unoccupied 2nd/3rd/999th houses get taxed more than those that don't.

What if they raised taxes for everyone, but gave tax breaks to homes occupied by owners or renters, with a 1 year grace period? That is effectively the same as this bill.
I don't live in SF and don't have a home to rent, yet I just don't understand the rationale behind this law.

I absolutely support rent control and various other provisions, but there could be many reasons for a person not wanting to rent.

Next, will I be forced to rent my car to those who don't have one, or forced to rent rooms in my house if not enough people in my household etc. This is a very slippery slope.

NOTE: I agree with the intent of what this seems to want to do, but not the implementation.
I think we're 1-2 Salesforce related headlines from Marc resigning at this point.
I explicitly said I don't know what the solution would look like because the change proposed is generic.

Give me a specific proposal for how to break the rentier economy, and I can probably give you a specific proposal for how to solve the problems it raises.
https://www.dw.com/en/the-azov-battalion-extremists-defendin...
I think software updating itself is sort of a windows mentality.

Most other operating systems (linux, macos, ios, etc) update through an os-wide mechanism.

Debian already has apt and that downloads a list of package names and versions from each repo and what is on the system is generally hidden. If the user asks to install a package, then the user has opted-in to download and install that package/dependencies. Also the packages can come from a variety of caches and mirrors.
Proof that Neanderthals ate crabs is another 'nail in the coffin' re stereotypes
> Register to read more

No, I don’t think I will.
SHADOW DOM
Reading the comments, it is worth noting that to target someone directly, you just need them to visit a site with a re-targeting pixel. They load an ad 1x1 pixel image that lets google set a cookie to re-target that user when they are shown google ads: https://ads.google.com/intl/en_uk/home/resources/retargeting...

Replace Google with your ad provider.
FYI, Mycroft is bankrupt. They might still be selling their devices, but don't expect any future support.
+1, would like to hear more from remote-only early stage startups. I would imagine in the early stage you'd want everyone in-person to keep everything in sync more easily, but a lot of new companies seemed to come out of 2020 doing really well with full remote.
I've found Teams acceptable for video calls, including large-scale ones. Some of the Office integration is quite nice, e.g. PowerPoint Live. But what I really hate about it is the chat functionality. Very basic person-to-person DMs work ok, but it doesn't scale up to larger groups. Some UI complaints:

- When someone messages a group that you're part of, you get a notification. This makes it hard to distinguish between someone trying to get ahold of you, and the background chatter in a group. Slack just has better defaults here: it'll notify you for DMs, and use a more subtle message count for channel messages (unless someone @'s you).

- When someone calls you on Teams, it's like they're using a telephone from the 1990s. You could be in the middle of another meeting, and your computer will play a ringtone, because SOMEONE IS CALLING, URGENTLY!!! So you have to quickly excuse yourself from the current meeting and pick up the phone (and probably find out that it was nothing urgent anyway). Slack's UI for huddles are a lot better here, and the smooth jazz is just a nice touch :)

- If you set up a "team" within MS Teams, it's supposed to set up a place where people from that team can collaborate. The UI for it is just awful though, and I've never seen teams stay engaged through this. Slack channels are just far more intuitive, and remove a lot of the friction from collaborating with your teammates.

There are more issues, e.g. Teams isn't friendly to my laptop's fan, and it keeps screwing up my bluetooth settings. Although I'm not sure if Apple is actually to blame for those ones.
And they even have the balls to label the blog "DirectX Loves Linux", heart symbol included. What a god-forsaken aberration. The people writing for this blog must be incredibly oblivious or incredibly drowned in kool-aid. Like they know nothing of computing history and how Microsoft has always tried to make Windows the gaming platform at the expense of other graphics APIs and ecosystems.

PS: Fuck Microsoft. Fuck them with a spiked club.
Might also want to add in morbidity/mortality costs from the extra solar radiation.
People automatically equate taxation with fines and coercion, but they're separate concepts. The best example is the income tax. If we slap taxes on things we don't want people to do, then why do we literally tax work, a thing we want almost everyone to do?

So taxes aren't fines or fees, and they don't force you to stop doing something you want to do or do something you don't want to. People still buy groceries despite sales taxes (which, again, we want people to buy stuff).

Thus, the argument that a vacancy tax compels rental property owners to rent their places falls. I'm not compelled by income tax to be unemployed, nor am I compelled by sales taxes to purchase no goods, nor are owners compelled to rent their places.
Yes but 'no carbs' doesn't mean 'low carb'.
> I also find that s-exps act as a visual diagramming tool making your code more scannable because you can visually see the relationships between statements by looking at the nesting.

I think this is where people disagree regarding syntax. I love Clojure and agree with all the benefits of s-exps, but find it basically impossible to scan and very tedious to read. While it tends to be easy to refactor do to the REPL, at least for me it's on the wrong side of readability vs expressivity.
>Why are IEA forecasts spurious?

What do they have to do with the war? Renewable energy was projected to grow anyway in spite of the war because of the declining costs of renewables.

However, since they are capital intense and war made capital expensive... that'll be a drag on investment, won't it?

>Would the article be better if it just commented on the acceleration of investment in renewables, leaving unsaid the cause of said acceleration

It would be better if they were honest about the cause.

>This is one of the more surprisingly anti-intellectual threads I’ve seen on HN.

If you say so.
The key claim of the article is: "the adenosine that it blocks doesn’t go away" (thus the borrow/debt analogy)

This is false, it does go away. Adenosine is metabolized back into AMP, then ADP, then ATP (the fuel for cells). And this does not only happen during sleep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_monophosphate

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246291/

Not sure what's with all the articles that have citations throughout then conveniently exclude the one that matters.
Understood! My point was that, while dimensional analysis almost always works (including for this problem), you have to make sure you are using the right dimensionful quantities. In this case that there are constraints here due to orbital mechanics that were not respected, and hence the 12,000km is way off.

To successfully apply DA in this problem, we should start by noting that since we are talking about impact, it is a foregone conclusion that the earth and the asteroid will be in the same place at the same time (your application instead was related to figuring out where earth and asteroid would be in relation to each over at a given time).

Once you've specified that they will be at the same place, asking where it lands _on earth_ amounts to asking which part of the earth will be facing the asteroid at that time. Since there is a quoted uncertainty of +- 10min, the range of outcomes is almost entirely defined by the angular distance that the earth with travel in those 20min -- about half a time zone!

This gets us much closer to the actual projection from ESA. The actual central location at the nominal time is defined almost entirely by the direction the asteroid is approaching from -- i.e. the relative inclination and phase anomaly of the orbits. So, the rest of the projected range can be chalked up to uncertainty on the geometric fit of the object's orbit based on astrometric observations. Which we can't apply DA to without further information.
The Algae That Might Save Earth’s Coral Reefs
The basic body plan is female, and males are 'customized females'. Male breasts are vestigal.

I heard a podcast once with two male biologists talking to each other. One of them said "The world is female, and males are only around to do the absolute minimum necessary."
Thats still a mistake in your thinking, however.

Non-WSL Linux systems are the majority. They are in your pocket, in your car, your TV, in space, on Mars. Microsoft will never be a player here but is still invited to the bazaar if they wish to participate.

And yes, I agree with Microsoft on this: all apps that people care about their 3D performance should move to DX12 or Vulkan. Microsoft in-house works on supporting DX9/10/11 and OpenGL purely as a legacy API, and eventually, Windows won't allow drivers to implement them anymore, and it will be some shim. I'm not going to shame Microsoft for promoting DX12 over Vulkan; they're both largely the same API, driven entirely by AMD and Nvidia development teams to reflect the current state of hardware, not the whims of some bald CEO that threw chairs at people.

Could the shim be just DXVK-based? Sure. Could the shim be DX9/10/11 state trackers being added to Mesa, and then the Mesa-on-DX12-on-Windows method used? Also sure. Intel is already using DXVK as a legacy shim in their new Arc drivers, and its performing quite well. DXVK also outperforms Nvidia's DX9/10/11 emulation in some games. I could easily see a DXVK-based solution just ship with a future Windows.
Hi, I created hnrss.org so I can take a stab at this:

1) Yes, adding `?link=comments` is the right way to switch the `<link>` RSS element from the submission URL to the HN comments URL. And since that's a global option, you can also do something like `/newest?points=25&link=comments`. Just join multiple parameters with `&`.

2) The difference between news.ycombinator.com/rss and hnrss.org/frontpage is `/rss` appears to be an exact replica of the HN homepage just as a RSS feed (so the submissions move around in the feed like they do on the homepage) while `/frontpage` is a reverse chronological feed of all HN submissions that currently have the `front_page` tag applied to it within Algolia.

(When Algolia indexes HN submissions, it attaches "tags" that can be referenced later. One of those tags is `front_page` which just means the submission is currently on the front page. See https://hn.algolia.com/api for more.)

Hopefully that clarifies why the two feeds appear to have different items.

3) While hnrss.org does have a `?points=X` filter, that's unrelated to `/frontpage`. Like I said, `/frontpage` is just submissions with the `front_page` tag while `?points=X` only returns submissions over X points. You can combine them, but you don't have to.

Hope this all helps!
How about tax all properties at a higher rate and offer a rebate/refund for people that reside in the municipality?
Prices are already highly speculative in that region and this move by Walmart will further fuel speculators who think will try to squeeze a quick buck flipping or renting to a new wave of captive out of town techies.
Why would PMs and sales people have any opinion whatsoever on this kind of detail?
That's what originally attracted me to Clojure back in 2017 when I was ~30.
> Intelligence is not a prerequisite to speak fancifully.

I don't even disagree necessarily, but this is an amazing example of AI goalpost shift in action.
You're making an argument against all laws here.
Please correct me if I'm wrong here: You save $45 on the professional services, but you still pay the same facility fee (~$1000), the CT scan still costs the same (~$5000), labs are still the same (~$110)... etc. So maybe you have saved ~1% seeing an NP, hence why I said "billed the same", although you are correct that they are not the exact same. Now imagine that a NP orders a CT scan that was unneeded 1% more often than a physician, at this point it costs more on average to see the NP.
Jordan Peterson and Nigel Farage are hardly just denizens of the seediest corners of the internet.
Very handy! It would be nice to be able to navigate through the flow steps with the keyboard arrows.
KEW’s Millennium Seed Bank: A Mission to Save Plant Life on Planet Earth
Java has more build tools then Clojure, so thus is more “more fragmented” apparently. I replied “wat” as a slang version of “what” and a short version of “what do you mean” because that’s the only reasonable reply to “spec seems kind of weird and not well thought out either”. I’m asking OP to qualify there statement with something that could even start to be a conversation about various tradeoffs.

But really, i wish i hadn’t hit enter and i wish i could delete my comment because OP’s comment isn’t a good entry point to discussion anything.
Scalar (the integration manager) is not open source [1] (though there was some effort to reverse-engineer its protocol [2]); and some of their anti-abuse scripts aren't public [3]

[1] https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues/260

[2] https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-dimension/blob/master/do...

[3] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues/557
Is this meant for only CS/ML research?

It’s a great idea either way! I look forward to keeping up with it.
Over on mastodon someone posted this interesting find about spices on a 15th century Norse shipwreck https://hcommons.social/@bojacobs/109854101759930123
Earthquake in Turkey: why Erzin in Hatay did not suffer any damage or loss
It seems to me like they bought Authy for $waytoomuch and are now too egotistical to allow things like security keys :/
I've come to see obesity and our production of elite athletes as two sides of the same coin.

When I was in high school my baseball and football practices were 2-3 hours long and I would be exhausted and wheezing by the end of them. I have a knee injury from freshman year that still bothers me 20 years later. That's an insane time and energy commitment, I see why a lot of kids end up doing nothing.

I'd like to see more options that are lower intensity, don't require a commitment, and meet kids where they're at fitness level-wise.
Any plans to add RSS?
Cognitect is pretty actively hostile towards community growth. There's literally no reason they shouldn't have just accepted leiningen as the official build tool.
Disney is the worst place I've ever worked.
It is the exact opposite. Microsoft has always tried to kill gaming on non-Microsoft platforms. Labelling the blog "DirectX Loves Linux" is the ultimate brainwash attempt on those who are too ignorant of computer history.

Fuck Microsoft with a pitchfork.
Why rtings.com?
This makes me want to try and prototype something I've been thinking about for a while.

Keep the lens and display assembly + tracking cameras on headset but power and computing is USB-C to an android device.

So same concept software wise as the Go but not strapping a phone to your face.

With pancake lens and all I think you'd get a very thin and light headset with the same computing power as a Quest 2 with a better profile and something people might actually be comfortable wearing for many hours.
Like narcotics
> it's telling that Microsoft has to require folks to use Teams.

Most people, when they get comfortable with something, are averse to change. Even if the thing they would change to is better than what they have, they still won't want to learn a new thing.

Not saying that's the case here. But without real data to lead a decision, people just do what they prefer, rather than what's better. (I use both Slack and Teams daily within my company, and while I prefer Slack, I could probably learn to deal with Teams)

A large organization may have to force a change in order to reap benefits. And there are significant benefits to unifying communications. There are also workarounds and alternative solutions, so you usually need to invest some serious time in evaluating a huge switch to know what's best. Or, you can just make a decision, pull the trigger, and live with the consequences (an "executive decision")
Walmart recently shut down permanently the store I shopped at in my old town. At the time, there were already three cargo containers on the edge of the parking lot apparently holding excess stock that had been pushed down to the store over the years that they couldn't put out on the floor anymore due to space constraints. I've heard stories about pretty much every store having similar containers because the stock keeps on coming and if they can't get anyone to buy that ancient 500 meg external drive, they are also not able to just dispose of it either.

I wonder what's happening with those containers and if the number grew since I moved away half a decade ago. Does some other store get that inventory dumped on it?
A landlord can’t unilaterally opt out of the vacancy tax though. It takes a tenant to agree to rent it and if society has done a shit job collectively to make the area viable for tenants (due to lack of crime or amount of foot traffic or tenants working from office) then the landlord is penalized with taxes for something the landlord can’t control.

Paying income taxes is the “cost” of having income. You can opt out unilaterally.

The analogy is wrong.
And interest rates were low and investors were willing to throw $$ at these bets.
When commenting on a law it's important to read the actual text because it usually has surprising effects.

https://sfstandard.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Empty-Home...

There are many, but I'll list just one for that great SF flavor. You can exclude a vacant residence if it is currently waiting for a building permit. But the exclusion only lasts one year, no matter how long SF takes to approve the permit. If there are multiple permit cycles, only the first year of any can be excluded.

Build a new large apartment, and it takes more than a year to lease out? As a nice thank-you from SF for your building contribution, you can now pay that vacancy tax.

There is a more general problem here though. This whole thing suffers from Smart Person syndrome, where Smart People will continue tweaking every little detail of life without realizing that they have created a system that is more and more complicated and more and more impossible to deal with.

I don't really know how they are going to be able to tell that these units are vacant. Maybe owners should just lie to avoid the expense and hassle of tracking this. That's also not great.
> But what truly killed the company and product, he claimed, were expenses related to ongoing litigation.

Some of this cost includes defending against the lawsuit alleging that Mycroft and its principals initiated or called for a campaign of cyber attacks and harassment against the lawyer for the patentee and his family. [0]

[0] See, e.g., Tumey L.L.P. et al v. Mycroft AI Inc. et al Case No. 4:21-cv-00113 (W.D. Mo.) https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/egpbkqlzqvq/...
Why do people jump to defend monopolistic, price-gouging pharmaceutical companies?
This, and most of the recession was manufactured to take worker power away that was gained during WFH/pandemic times. It's not a coincidence that the FAANG companies were fined a combined 45M (chump change to them) when caught colluding to stagnant tech worker wages. I almost guarantee they colluded in layoffs/getting people to RTO.
> a multi-dependency project in the getting started page

That's because they basically don't support monorepo multi-module projects. It's incredibly tedious and makes me long for something like Maven or Gradle (tools that otherwise are often too complicated).
Do you code with a magnet and a needle? ;)
Tons of classics are public domain, shouldn't be any legal issues.

See: https://www.gutenberg.org/
Depends. If the database that contains those domains and the account they are linked to is obtained by whatever law enforcement agency gets them, than sure. But the network of torrent piracy detection doesn’t work for this situation so it requires that database to be seized. It is also possible the information is not stored after it is processed. Because copyright trolls can’t get the information like they do with torrents either, they can’t easily send bullshit threatening notices to end users, and it is extremely doubtful that the FBI is going to provide linking information for individual prosecution. I don’t believe there is any example of that, though I’d be interested to hear otherwise.
I wonder if this is somehow correlated with all the layoffs. Return to the status quo, cut down the massive hiring during the pandemic, scare everyone into RTO, get back to pre-pandemic worker relations.
Anything with chilies of any kind -- hot peppers, bell peppers, what have you -- none of that was available outside of what is today Mexico/Central America before 500 years ago. So the "traditional" foods that have these are also quite young.
The site is up but it's no longer what it once was. It's disappeared from news reports. Nor has another one taken its place.

After the prosecution of Assange and Manning and with Snowden in exile, they've mandated to basically stop the whole whistleblower phenomenon in its tracks. Which was probably a bigger goal than one easily-replaced website.

It feels a bit like the Arab spring, a lot of hope in the beginning and then it all fizzled out.
Later versions of the Hydra story add a regeneration feature to the monster: for every head chopped off, the Hydra would regrow two heads.

The crucial line in that article; amusingly enough, it almost reads like a changelog entry.
Office space cost is not an issue for startups. Talent is the big thing. You can get pretty cheap co-working space including a private office without committing to a long term lease (a 6 months lease is pretty common).

You raise a good point. If most startups start remote these days, then next decade most tech companies will be remote. They are (at least some) are the big companies of the future.

I think for startups it really depends on how they start. Sometimes it's a few student friends building a company together and in that case they start in-person and likely to stay like that. In other cases it's one person looking for a co-founder and they meet someone Online who is in a different location and the company stays remote because of that. Then it also depends how they grow. Many hire a lot of contractors in the early days and it's mostly remote folks in other countries.