skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Criminals have for decades anonymously hidden ill-gotten gains in real estate, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in March, adding that as much as $2.3 billion was laundered through U.S. real estate between 2015 and 2020.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-set-unveil-long-awaited-...
I bought a personal laptop because I value a large screen, and I don't want to do personal browsing/shopping/netflix on my work laptop. I will probably transition to a VR headset for all that within the next 5 years.
All this is available (including names of owners) from your typical government assessors web portal. Or via consolidators where the ownership, zoning, acreage, tax assessments and other data is available via an api call.
> FWIW, it actually looks like we're on a path to 2.5-2.9 °C of warming with current policies.

This is true, I actually used 2° C as a shorthand for 2° C - 3° C. I shouldn’t have done that. I actually believe we are more likely to be closer to 3° C at the end of this century than 2° C.
I'm referring obliquely to a specific nitpick from select CS folks who argue that because the theoretical optimum is not computable in finite time/memory that the statistical basis for understanding ML is irrelevant.
Plenty of opportunity to [for a book](https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/07...) or [two](https://www.amazon.com/Lies-Across-America-Historic-Sites/dp...)
Maybe, but that's completely irrelevant to the original question of whether the quoted $500k was OP's gross cash revenue or net financial income.
What non-null portrait is being drawn here: sub-wastrel ne'er-do-well with a successful private practice who can't navigate the real world and who has servants and an elegant summer house?
> Yet it doesn't disengage when you take your hands off the wheel

Well you don't want it to immediately disengage, which would be insanely dangerous, but it knows if your hands are on the wheel. It will progressively alert you more prominently if it hasn't felt wheel torque from your hands. It will then begin beeping loudly and stop and lock you out from using Autopilot. It also knows whether you are looking at the road from an internal camera and will beep if you are looking at your phone, watch, or the car's screen. This system works quite well.

> lane assist, assists you in keeping in the lane. It doesn't pretend to be able to drive for you. It also, as far as I can see, doesn't attempt to fling you into cars you're overtaking. (unless you don't use your indicators....)

"Pretending to drive for you" is meaningless. It's a feature that takes over driving functions that requires active supervision and that if you do not pay attention can cause a crash. The conditions of how it might cause that crash are not particularly important conceptually. What matters is that there is an expectation you pay attention or you might crash. The primary difference is cruise control is worse at driving.

> Yes, because they have been told in no uncertain terms that if you obliterate someone in your car, its your fault and you're going to jail. More over, you were the one driving, so its down to you to not do it. Tesla are shipping untested systems and telling you, as an untrained roboticist supervisor: "don't worry, its safe, it drives it's self!" give you the impression that you don't really need to pay that much attention.

This is also the case with FSD. You're told its your fault. You're told it's your responsibility. They do not say "don't worry it drives itself" or give you the impression that you don't really need to pay that much attention. In fact it says the following, among other things you must explicitly accept, enable, and agree to:

> Full Self-Driving is in early limited access Beta and must be used with additional caution. It may do the wrong thing at the worst time, so you must always keep your hands on the wheel and pay extra attention to the road. Do not become complacent. When FSD is enabled your Model 3 will make lane changes off highway, select forks to follow your navigation route, navigate around other vehicles and objects, and make left and right turns. Use FSD in limited Beta only if you will pay constant attention to the road, and be prepared to act immediately, especially around blind corners, crossing intersections, and in narrow driving situations. Cabin Camera is used to detect driver attentiveness while FSD Beta is in-use to provide you with audible alerts, reminding you to keep your eyes on the road.

> I will not endorse a barely credible level 2 system who's QA system involves YOLO deploying shit to unqualified customers.

I'm not looking for your endorsement, I was trying to explain why the system is legal and probably less dangerous than you think. Also obviously they QA it before it goes out to "unqualified" customers.
The pine terminals and credit card acceptance cost the merchants hefty fees.
Which many of the small businesses prefer not to pay, specially given the infrequency of card purchases.

You can always stick to cash and card as your preferred mode of payments in India.

Having a UPI wallet can be a convenient backup for travellers though. You won't have to run around finding an ATM in case you get stuck.

And the verification process might seem "difficult" but its one-time and less painful than visiting a doctor.

Given the applicable forex regulations, I guess that's the best we're allowed to enable right now.
Here's an article which compares meta-narratives in Texas vs. California:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-c...

Fights over textbook content are ancient and written about constantly. Since these battles are more heavily scrutinized outright falsehoods won't be found easily — rather meta-narratives are achieved by omission or emphasis.

I would not argue that these meta-narratives are "ahistorical", though — rather, I would say that they reflect the interests of certain parties. Perspective is inseparable from "history".
> digg.com

"Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time."
Freeze more meat and veg. Puree or dehydrate the ugly stuff. Educate people on how to not overbuy and how to fucking cook.

You can't eliminate food waste - but many well off Americans have no clue about how to properly feed themselves while minimizing waste.
I am asking for science. That before we decide if we want to teach phonics at school we guinea pig a few thousand to see if it meets some p-value.

Is that technocracy? Maybe. Is it something easy to explain - yes. Is it something for some reason is not explained fully and at length? Yes oddly it's not.
LOL. Yup. And I've been in a company that had a product like that. One man, one file, one function. Scads of GOTOs. It was a state machine, managing ports on a terminal-to-ethernet box circa 1987. Oh my.
I built one of these when I was a kid with a piece of plastic tube, filled with filings from an iron pipe and two metal pushed into either side. I tested by clicking the electric started on the stove and flicking to reset, I was amazed when it actually worked.
I'm confused, what does WordPad have to do with TLS and IPMI?
Why should real estate have MORE stringent requirements on ownership disclosure than stock ownership?
The fact that the HN crowd, the "selective view" have downvoted my comment and not the one saying clickbait titles is good is enough for me to be reminded how braindead the community is.
One of the better Onion takes: https://www.theonion.com/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-how-radios...

Probably some sound advice for the new owners hidden in there.
In the past I've tracked down the names of people in old photo's with a viable house number by guessing the city and searching newspaper archives. Then confirm with a streetview. The archives will have articles mentioning people with their street address.

My thought is Americans have become really paranoid compared to people 50 years ago. And people are often under the illusion that people can find out a lot about you with little effort isn't true.
Hard disagree.

Degrowth is the only reasonable future if you understand the big picture: it's all about energy. Climate change and biodiversity loss are consequences of what humans do with abundant energy. Again: biodiversity loss is not due to CO2 at all, yet we are currently living a mass extinction. Replace fossils with nuclear fusion, you may solve climate change, but you will still be in a mass extinction.

Now let's be honest, we don't know a technology today that can replace fossil fuels. And fossil fuels are not unlimited (we still have enough to finish messing up the climate, unfortunately, but we are around the peak of production globally right now). So anyway, the days of a world with abundant energy are soon over, you've got to deal with it. That's called degrowth.

Either we go into a controlled degrowth, or we go into uncontrolled degrowth (that's poverty, global instability, wars, famines, ...).
Do you enjoy the work and feel fairly compensated? If so, carry on. Who cares what others are doing?
I sometimes wonder why computer-literate people still use Google Search. Basically for all search queries I can imagine, DuckDuckGo or Yandex consistently give much better results.
Yep, we build a foundation with plywood and styrofoam and then someone comes and asks you to build a skyscraper on top of it.
Reminds me of the American Plant Foods deal in Louisiana.

They promised 100+ jobs at $120K+ a year salaried.

What they actually came up with was 13 jobs at $56K a year.

For this, they're getting a $47M tax break. If you want to know why Louisiana is consistently one of the most poorly educated and poorly funded states in the country, it's situations like this. The locals end up subsidizing out of state businesses who get sweetheart deals with local politicians in exchange for favors.
> if he was not re-elected

He didn’t say that. He said this investment wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t been elected in 2016.
But do you realise that the research you present here is not actually evidence? It is a link to a historian's opinion. It would be like reading a quote from the guardian about how Bulstrode is presenting remarkable research.

Meta analysis such as this, based on hearsay rather than personal verification and assessment of the actual evidence, is assuredly not the way to get to the truth of the matter.
> There is no such thing as degrowth outside of recessions and wars.

If we don't degrow now, we are heading towards recessions and wars anyway. And not small ones: count billions of climate refugees... that's probably the end of democracy everywhere.
At a certain point, the compiler can’t save you and you have to actually know the limitations of the data you’re working with.
I just need a single 100uF 100V Electrolytic NP Capacitor
That excerpt you quoted reminds very much of Herbert Butterfield's The Whig Interpretation of History.

The introduction starts by directly talking about that topic, on page 3 of the following PDF if anyone cares to read a little.

He starts talking about the perception of the historian as an avenger, beating the high and haughty while raising the downtrodden, and that it would be better for the historian to be a reconciler instead rather than one who divides large swathes of humanity in good and evil, black and white. He prefers a historian who finds common unity between two different sides and pities these two sides who perhaps had no pity for the other.

His comments in the intro also touch on a phrase I personally dislike, "the right side of history".

http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/LojkoMiklos/Butterfield,...
In Russia it was the case even in the 90s, but all locally produced consumer electronics in ex-USSR quickly got replaced by Japanese and Western devices.
I'm not sure how many orgs have seen it. I've heard of two and we don't have any way of knowing if they saw an edited or full copy and from all available angles. They apparently haven't been allowed to make a copy of it and broadcast it so we can make up our own minds.
France in the 60s was a repressive colonial power with access to Uranium via their colonies.

I certainly hope we have learned the horrors of colonialism and won’t repeat that disastrous period.
I agree that you can always own more of the vertical to potentially make the customer happier, but you will always reach the point of diminishing returns. How much happier will your customer be with your homegrown flour versus King Arthur flour you picked up at the store? Is the cost (money and time) worth the possible marginal increase in happiness? If you manufacture your own machine, does the capital expenditure of doing so even offset operational expenditure over how long you even plan to be making cookies?

Running a business is not about innovating at all costs at all times, it's about using what time and money you have on hand to optimize customer satisfaction. Whether it's off-the-shelf wheels for carts or grinding your own flour, you have to draw the line somewhere otherwise you are just optimizing for some theoretical optimum. Maybe when you have some more slack in the budget it's time to think about reinventing the wheel, but doing so at the get-go is already losing sight of the customer.
They were going to produce LCD panels. Presumably Detroit auto companies would find value contracting with them. Otherwise there's no point in making something to be shipped back to SEA for assembly.
Did you try reading the next paragraph ("Hold on—what is consensus?")?

Sometimes concepts are too "big" to be introduced to someone with no background in a single paragraph; such is life. However, the linked article is a great intro if you manage to keep reading.
Public transport advocates have been saying things like that as long as I can remember but I'm not seeing much more public transport. What I am seeing is accelerating adoption of electric cars, along with an exponential drop in battery costs.

However, if you can get governments to finally roll out lots more public transport, definitely go for it. Preferably with something electric, we don't really need more fossil on the road.
Does your adblocker let you set exceptions?

I've got an FF profile with uBlock that's disabled on some sites like that.
They don't even have fully automated butchers yet
Similarly, Dostoyevsky at #13, Tolstoy down at #63, and Bulgakov not making the list.
It looked like the window was just drawn at its new position on each frame, without the previously drawn object being cleared by whatever was responsible for that (compositor, window manager)... I guess it meant that some OS processes crashed while the process drawing the window being dragged was still running.

I also think I remember that this often happened during Windows 98s notorious recoverable crashes, where waiting or mashing Ctrl+Alt+Del would sometimes allow one to kill the rogue program and/or explorer.exe in task Manager, sometimes not.

The more I think about it: I'd love a more knowledgeable explanation too!
I haven't lived in Boston for a few years— thanks for the heads-up! The owner is definitely one of the issues I have with them.
This seems like a tool I'll be using, and this is an almost meaningless criticism, but why the name?

There's already the Vale programming language (https://vale.dev/), but moreover, I don't get the meaning of "vale". You could call it something like "Englint" which actually hints its purpose.
Wasn't there also a site in Mount Pleasant? 3 sites total in Wisconsin?

https://www.wisn.com/article/village-of-mount-pleasant-appro...
The human era is geologically recorded with plastics and radioactive isotopes in our bones. The CO2-CH4 concentration spike is the cherry on top. Meanwhile, the cults continue to incantate to the god(s) as in the neolithic era. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_anachronism
"people will pay more to shop in person because they want the in-person support that our staff provide" is written on the gravestone of every dead retail company.
> [Viewstamped replication] predates Paxos but looks more like Raft.

Heidi Howard and Richard Mortier’s paper[1] on the topic of Paxos vs Raft has (multi-decree) Paxos and Raft written out in a way that makes it clear that they are very, very close. I’m very far from knowing what consequences (if any) this has for the implementation concerns you state, but the paper is lovely and I wanted to plug it. (There was also a presentation[2], but IMO the text works better when you want to refer back and forth.)

[1] https://doi.org/10.1145/3380787.3393681

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K6kt39wyH0
So will be similar article in 2027 in which Foxconn -> TSMC?
That's pretty much it. And that's the elephant in the room, or 'an uncomfortable truth'. The problem is that very few people want to admit it, and even fewer people want to act on it and even fewer people than that are acting on it (and those are not usually near the seats of power).

Uncontrolled degrowth it is, for now. You forgot pandemics by the way, those are one way in which the loss of biodiversity and the ever increasing way in which humans force their way into animal territory is manifesting. This isn't exactly news either but I have to say to see it so vividly displayed still took me by surprise.
Consider using ChatGPT to prepare for programming interviews
> There’s a ton we can do before we talk about degrowth.

And that's far from being enough.

> While I’m sympathetic to the idea of degrowth

I think it's the first step. At some point you will realize that it is just not a choice. We will degrow anyway, because fossil fuels are not unlimited, and we can't reasonably replace them.

I am not in favour of degrowth because I find it romantic. I am in favour of degrowth because that's how we can control the fall. I'd rather have a hard landing than a complete crash.
Didn't work for me either. My first reaction when I saw the new interface was "help, I want to get out!", and I have avoided even potentially interesting shorts for that reason. I ended up installing an extension that plays shorts like regular videos.

There are certainly many "weirdos" like us, but YouTube (and TikTok) don't care. As long as it turns on more people than it turns off, it is a win for them. If there are enough weirdos, some smaller company may get interested and cater to that niche.

In fact, I think it is how current tech giants may fail, by only focusing on the majority and dropping the niches, they may open themselves to a more nimble competitor that use these niches as a starting point to eat away their market share. Privacy is one such niche, but I think it is already an overcrowded market, plus, Apple is on it, so you can't rely on that alone. Maybe there is a niche for an anti-tiktok that can be exploited.
First, it shouldn't be solar+storage but solar+wind+storage. Solar and wind work well together because wind is strongest at night.

Second, you need to specify what kind of storage you are talking. We will need a lot less short-term storage for overnight than we need for cloudy, calm days. Batteries make sense for short-term storage but are too expensive for long-term. Generated fuels, like hydrogen, may work well for long-term storage and we'll them for other things.

Third, we can overbuild solar and wind. It might be cheaper to make 3x or 5x than needed. Finally, we are going to need extra energy for carbon capture and generating fuels.
Your own refs point out it is usually not a problem, and there are very low occurancy rates. The situations it’s a problem, it’s obvious that there was a severe break.

The folks seeing higher rates are seeing them because their samples are coming from data sets with specific trauma backgrounds. Which is not surprising. If you look at postmortem results for people who died with broken bones, those folks all had severe issues! They died.

Probably none of them caused by getting their arm slammed in a car door, for example. Most likely caused by long falls off ladders, or car accidents, or industrial accidents, or getting beaten to death, or shot, or any number of traumatic events.

If you look at a dataset of all broken bones (which will be difficult to do frankly, as 90% of them won’t even show up in a database as they’ll be handled in an outpatient setting), the numbers will look wildly different.

In this situation if it was serious they’d just get medivac’d then. Which is not going to be difficult in this situation. If someone gets hit/run over with a vehicle, or hit by machinery, or has a giant pile of lumber collapse on them, or whatever, it’s not like anyone is going to tell them ‘oops, nothing we can do!’.

It’s mud. It makes walking and driving difficult. It isn’t going to make it hard for a helicopter with a decent pilot, especially with a helpful ground team. Reno has a very good medical center (several, actually).
Proving that you don't understand what degrowth is, in one sentence.
> I've noticed 2 patterns in my various gigs in the past: The virtuous cycle where I'm trusted to build something with significant autonomy from the start, I end up being happy, motivated, productive; and the vicious cycle when I'm just a new untrusted cog in their machine, my motivation & productivity plummet.

Yeah, I feel your pain on the viscous cycle. For what it’s worth, I have managed to “hang in there” in such situations and the situation turned around. Normally it requires some change in the upper management or getting into a different team/role though (as you said, a “new assignment”).

> Some would suggest I suck it up and work my way up, but to be honest I no longer have the energy to pay my dues over and over again.

I hear this too! It’s a massive pain to have to go through the “we don’t trust you” phase at a new company. Hopefully as we become more senior, this is less of a thing, but for me there’s always been a period of pain when changing jobs.
The goal is to build a sustainable business which helps customers enjoy the lowest cross border forex rates for purchasing in India.

We're trying to stay away from unsustainable economics

1) Cheq charges a 10$ joining fees to everyone who activates their wallet.

2) We'll eventually charge an add money markup for topping up your wallet using an international card
What sweetheart deal are you referring to?

"According to SAG-AFTRA, only 14% of its members make at least $26,470 annually to qualify for SAG-AFTRA healthcare coverage"

This doesn't seem like the majority of actors in the union are being paid well

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/act...
I was delighted to recently discover that their Ultra160 SCSI cards also have DOS drivers available. I needed to get FreeDOS running for an old application and couldn't get SATA CD-ROMs to work but SCSI was just fine.
Are you going to overbuild nuclear to cover the peaks? Or are you going to build for baseload and then need storage to cover the gaps?

How are you going to get people to build nuclear power plants when they could make more money on solar?

Who is going to pay to decommission nuclear power plants when they go bankrupt? Solar drives baseload plants bankrupt, which is why coal plants are going out of business.
Invented tradition
I think we could argue that Ubuntu is a real security risk for a lot more reasons than just it's popularity. It's the Rube Goldberg Machine of Linux distros.
It's a game. People play it to have fun. Racist, sexist, insulting comments are not my idea of fun.
Does Pi Hole or DNS filtering with an outbound proxy fix this stuff?
The thing with Michaels is there are a lot of products that are nicer to experience in offline instead of online.

I agree, and even wonder what's up with bed bath and beyond's implosion. Many people, mostly but not only! women, tend to really really care what pillows look and feel like.

I think the only reason Amazon works here, is the crazy free return shipping.

But still, how is that the same?? I don't care about pillows, but I know if I did, I'd want to choose! To touch! To see how fluffy, how they look..

Hrm. Maybe I am harbouring an unknown pillow fetish.

Anyway, I don't get it either. If Michael's can't survive, can anything?
Yep. The most famous case I know of a product that was a feature being redundanted.