skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> avert catastrophe

Catastrophe, you mean like thousands of radicalized people meeting securely in secret online to disrupt an objectively legitimate thing?

I would like more widespread penetration of critical thinking (such as teaching people to pattern-match on the most common fallacious techniques used by cults, conspiracy theorists, propagandists, modern snake-oil salesmen, and other ne'er-do-wells) before we deploy some "mass security recommendation" that would enable people to more comfortably plan things like firebombing vaccination centers based on secretly-exchanged nonsense. I mean, isn't that why "the authorities" (assuming they are good actors, which is of course an unknown) are nervous about pervasive, easily-accessible security?

Fortunately, it seems like most bad actors are idiots who have zero qualms about insecurely broadcasting their thoughts on social media leading up to their committing of despicable acts. But your efforts might make such "precognitive noise" "secure by default".

(In principle, I agree with you. This Martin Fowler piece on privacy, I consider seminal: https://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html I'm just saying that no single technology seems to be a universally-satisfying panacea.)
Why porkbun? Do you despise cloudflare in registraring?
Not just ecommerce, basically anything that relies on confidentiality or data integrity.
Confused why you don't think this is a problem?? just because family will be there for you when no one else will doesn't mean they are financial liquid enough to support you with $50,000-$100,000 in cash. Clearly that is your situation but for the VAST majority of Americans that is not the case.

Average home price in America is over $400,000 which means a 20% down payment is $80,000.
This is a signifier that there is less social mobility within American society than in the past. The newest generation should not have to rely on the Bank of Mom & Dad for a down payment to do what Mom and Dad did without that assistance.

Also, parents giving you money has zero correlation with your "good, supporting family" statement. Don't draw a comparison of two completely unrelated things.

"Everyone wins", yeah expect for the people who's parents don't have a spare $60,000 to give their kids for a down payment on a home.
By this logic is there any problem with nepotism?
> The EU Data Protection Board, the European Parliament’s Research Service and the EU Council’s Legal Service say they are warning of chat controls. Ursula von der Leyen is not interested in these opinions <clown and red flag emojis>

This is straight up crass and off-putting. These shitposting emojis do not belong in a serious pitch.
If you don't consider static type and built in concurrency primitives features then ok, at what point does nice to have features outweigh performance gains and the robustness of static typing that directly impacts the quality of the end user experience and the readability of the code to other developers?
> also means that you are slowly losing

In the way I'm losing every time I buy food.

> don't like a "low odds but catastrophic cost of losing" game. So I don't play that game.

If you have assets, you're playing the game. If you're alive, you're playing the game. (Civilization can be modeled as insurance.) Unless one has an incantation that makes risk disappear, not playing the game is ignoring one's place in it.
>was around 6%,

How much was the house and how much do they sell for in your area now ?(approximately)
Programmers understand the efficiency and inefficiency of everything... and the value of nothing.
Is a city full of pet stores valuable?

I don't see why this would encourage economic homogenization.
Photonic Crystals Bend Light as Though It Were Under the Influence of Gravity
Sadly, that ship has long sailed for the US. Second amendment and all.
maybe that’s why successful start ups disregard laws

sometimes they get big enough comply or change laws later

remember there’s always later
Exactly. A lot can unexpectedly go wrong during a background check, some companies ask employees for (very old) W2's they may not have, etc. There was a time when I worked at <redacted> and a new co-worker suddenly disappeared without a trace, and I was told in confidence by a VP they "were not who they said they were" which I presume means they failed a background check. This was during growing pains, they were probably doing checks after hiring.
So basically Marcus Licinus Crassus strategy for money making is still alive, 2000 years later.
Nothing in this world is an unambiguous good, but social stagnation sure doesn't seem like the better option.
Well, let's hope it brings something. IIRC there was turmoil with the German union as well. How many facilities has Tesla in Sweden though?
A stylus should cost between $2-10. Maybe $15. Not $79.

I think that using Apple products is about status signaling more than anything else.
And if I know the Bay Area, 47 people with pitchforks came to the community meeting where that development was being considered for approval, screaming about how “their neighborhood” was now being “overrun by gentrifiers,” right?
In fairness, if you are choosing a language based on language features, you are not going to choose Python either.
From that same link:

"After six learning sessions, everyone in the video watching and type-writing group had learned the Arabic alphabet and could identify each of its 28 letters. However, people in the handwriting group—who used pen and paper to write each letter during their learning sessions—gained the same level of proficiency after just two learning sessions."

Replace handwriting with any other activity. It is probably the same. Doing something helps learning faster than just watching.
In what ways is it harmful?
Interestingly, when you compare housing prices, interest rates, and inflation, current housing prices are very similar to what they were in the '80s if you're borrowing: https://matthewminer.name/data/median-mortgage-payments/
Someone once remarked that American society is anti-Georgist, in that land speculation is actually seen as the only honorable engagement with real estate.

Having un-utilized land in your family generation after generation codes as noble, but economically this is much worse than owning an AirBnb or a vacation home or being a Chinese investor who collects vacant luxury condos, or any of the other boogeymen of housing discourse. These people hold one unit off the market, and in the meantime they maintain it or finance its construction. The landowner builds and holds wealth for nothing but parasitism.
> How can we further improve leveraging AI beyond discovery?

Poorly. AI does not extrapolate. It can explore defined interpolation spaces with an outcome artifact in input areas where there is little data, but typically cannot extrapolate outside of convex hulls, provided classes, or other hard boundaries very well.

In effect, you have to be crafty and clever about the space an AI is to search within.
My parents bough in the 70s and their mortgage rate was like 10%. The super low rates era was much more recent and brief.
I've never spoken to or met the realtor I used to buy the house I live in now. He didn't even come to the closing. He was paid the standard commission for signing some paperwork.

We bought from a builder and they insisted we be represented by a realtor or they wouldn't sell to us.
That is not true, I am curious as of why we all are accepting the double standards of the conflict.

Also, there is a lot of smart people in HN and I would like to hear different opinions to get a better understanding.

Having some threads talking about this matter wouldn't hurt, and specifically for the same reasons you mention in your "about":

"Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides."
“6% of what” is where the answer lies.
Damper on social mobility is inequality itself and that young people can not afford flat without help. Families helping their own kids is not damper on anything. Moreover, it is completely normal behavior historically.

Inheritance is a thing and always was.
What I’ve seen in HCOL areas of California is either of a couple's parents flat out gifting them a few hundred thousand dollars for a house, it’s not a loan
This doesn’t really give any examples of what working conditions are bad at Tesla that are causing the strike
How to ensure no one wants to live in your city 101.
yeah? you take out a loan for a toothpick and a couple of dimes at 6% APR?

the problem is inflated asset prices combined with low wage growth combined with high interest rates. now i have some avocado on toast to finish
It's still a crime if you're not prosecuted for it.

That just means the DA's likely in on it and the criminality is systemic. Doesn't mean the activity becomes legal.
You can embed videos from an Invidious instance instead; on a video's page[1] there's an "embed video" link[2] you can use. The instance can be one hosted by you if you don't trust public ones, and you probably want to enable proxying by default if you don't want your clients to stream the video directly from Google's servers. You can also use a browser extension like libredirect[3] to automatically replace YouTube embeds with Invidious ones while browsing the web.

[1]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xzTH_ZqaFKI

[2]: https://yewtu.be/embed/xzTH_ZqaFKI

[3]: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
Piped uses a proxy server so that no direct connection is made between the client and Google's servers, for added privacy from Google.
It's not like it's some mechanism that they "fight" against the antibiotics. Once their protein structure has evolved (naturally selected under external pressure), it comes for free. Now remove the antibiotics, they will start diverging from the "resistance" yes, but the baseline will be "resistant" and as soon as you re-introduce the same antibiotic back, they will become the dominant strain. The only way to prevent this is to make sure they never become the dominant strain under selection pressure - although it's too late for most of the cases.
As someone not familiarized with background checks, why is it weird to do bg checks after handing the offer?

If the employer does the bg check before handing the offer, that means the candidate hasn't resigned yet from their current job. So wouldn't the bg check expose the candidate? (E.g., my boss would know I'm thinking about leaving)
Given the shortage of cops, I am not sure there is the appetite for this. Politically, cops shaking down businesses people associate with trouble seems more palatable than exacerbating the police shortage.
It feels like very few people read the article, just the headline, and are arguing about that.
... yes, that's exceptional. The majority of Americans do not save much at all - https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/10/average-amount-of-money-amer....
> Its name inspired by Star Trek, it would indicate how close we are to a new epoch of abundance and prosperity.

UFP, as a 'utopia', is only possible due to the elimination of a monetary system and by giving generous handouts to anyone who arrives within its borders. Is this capitalist turned author ready for that?
The issue here is the pricing is consistent, while each transaction is different. You wanted high-touch service in a fast-moving market, great. But another buyer who does not want or need that service still has to pay for it.

An approach used by other service providers is hourly billing. Realtors could even offer distinct service packages like accountants ($XXXX to prepare taxes). A reason they don't is because the line items or hourly rates would be absurdly high to generate the same level of fees they get today.
> Nightclubs often are required to have security beacuse they are a nuisance to the surrounding area

How many night clubs are located in non-urban residential areas? The commercial properties near them would be closed because, you know, they operate during the day and night clubs don't.

> the taxpayer shouldn't be picking up the tab because you decided to overserve your customers

The solution to overserved customers is to not overserve them, not to have off-duty cops or security there to manage them after the fact. This is quite easily remedied by having the cops come by and fine them until they stop doing it. The fines will pay for the enforcement, so the taxpayers will be fine. By paying off-duty cops to manage overserved customers you are making real law enforcement improbable and making the problem worse.

> The off duty cop requirement is the only odd part here

Strange to qualify with 'only' when it is a major point of the piece.
not imho...for example, if I own a company and wish to make my son or daughter the next CEO...that is my right and my decision if I have the ownership rights to make it happen

if my kids screw it up then I would lose not only my own wealth but their inheritance...so there is still risk even to the beneficiaries of nepotism

I have zero qualms with people putting family first
Why stop at doubling? Those staff should come and sleep at SpaceX shopfloor next to Starship!
> How on Earth is it relevant that I'm a Spaniard?

He probably can't trust you because _he's known too many Spaniards_. (Sorry for being off-topic, but I really could resist making that reference to the greatest movie of all time;-).)

More on topic:

> Hungary and Poland, are still immature barely-liberal regimes with more than a whiff of political repression

I don't know what reports you've read, but I don't think we have any "political repression" here in Poland. Mind you, we had a huge demonstration opposing the ruling party 2 weeks ago (and many more in earlier months/years), and I haven't heard about any nasty consequences for people taking part in them. Though there is a lot of propaganda, both in the country and abroad, painting the government (which, by the way, was more or less voted out two days in an election) as some kind of evil empire, but that is just that - propaganda.

That said, I understand that (almost) nobody has time to study politics of 50+ (or more) countries just to write a blog post or something, so it's not like I blame you.
This is a protocol bug hence affects pretty much any implementation.
I would argue that a lot of public APIs are a mess. We used to joke that instead of firing the bottom 10%, Google just reallocates them to the Android team.
What you call bullshit, they call job security :)
This exactly: psychology and psychiatry have fully-developed lexicons for describing various phenomena which AI researchers would do well to adapt.
Is SpaceX urging congress to raise their taxes to pay for more staffing? I doubt it.
Bluetooth is a thing because the big players backed it in the late 90s. It's hard to say what it would look like now if profiles were at a different abstraction level in the spec. I see WiFi as a counterexample - the protocol doesn't make assumptions about your application and it seems to be successful enough.

Agreed that lack of profiles and proprietary nonsense is a problem, but at least in my experience, it is much worse to deal with bugs baked into various implementations. In the past, getting maximum throughput (or minimum latency) between different devices required all kinds of nasty hacks. An escape hatch to the L2CAP connection would have been a lifesaver, or even better, if profiles were implemented outside the HCI layer. An OS update shouldn't be necessary to fix a bug in the heart rate profile.
you are generating pride by doing something for your own family.. but it is stated in the general case, not the personal case. Public policy is tricky that way.
Most people already pay rent for housing, going from rent payments to mortgage payments is not a huge change for them. Down payment is harder as most people usually don't accumulate large quantities of cash.
It's not a complicated scheme: there's a semi-fixed price you pay to the public for removing land from its use, and you can do whatever you want in order to overcome that fixed price and keep whatever profit you achieve.
In the 80s it was 12%, 90s 6%, then in the 20-somethings 3%

Plus dropping interest rates also does cause economies to overheat so there is job creation.
> On the same note: I'm glad I don't understand the nuances of zodiacal signs.

Thankfully I was born an Aries so I'm rational enough to not believe in that junk.
Of course, I was saying animal excluding humans.
Some thoughts art was exclusive to humans.
In the end, nothing is really exclusive to humans, we are just a bit better at a lot of things.
I'm not doubting your reasons at all; I have many myself. What dissapoints me most is that it would usually be so easy to do better, get better results, leave everyone happier.

Think also of all the reasons you have to believe; we see what we look for. People will let me down sometimes and will lift me up others. Neither solution, cynicism or optimism, gets perfect results or guarantees success or happiness. The latter sure feels better, especially if you accept that it won't always work, and most of all I think: Which sort of person do I want to be; where do I want to lead people? And finally, I find that people follow where you lead and act how you treat them, to a shocking degree; IMHO they follow the norm that they perceive; I try to set a positive norm and people surprise me often.
By this logic, 38% of young buyers have no one else there for them, but family
Indeed.

You get paid to deliver more value to someone than you cost them (or someone else might cost them!)

Whether or not you have fun has little to do with it.
Property tax: The more of your money you invest into your property, the more you pay for taxes (punishing investment)

Land value tax: Your tax is unchanged on how much you invest in your properties. A rundown parking lot pays the same amount of tax as the next door skyscraper (encouraging development of limited, high value land, and punishing lazy speculation).

Land value tax is a simple, elegant way to incentivize more (and more efficient) economic development.
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. In 2010, my dad gave me $10K to help with closing costs and the down payment of my first home in addition to the money I already already had saved up. It was absolutely the right time to buy a home since it was during the great recession as I also qualified for a $10K first time homebuyers tax credit. My social mobility has been a hockey stick upward since then compared to my parents, due to going to college and having a good job.
LA - San Jose?
Ask HN: I might sound like an a*hole, but I'm not.Intermediate learner syndrome
I am specially abled learner. Not dumb, not smart, just specially abled. And I am really in a tricky situation.

I did my engineering(computers) few years ago. Now, I am working as a backend helpdesk. It's a position where you are everything that doesn't write code. lol.

I mainly deal with backend engineering (no coding, just debugging, example why slow, find out if there is network issues causing failures of distributed transactions etc). I work with linux, sql, nginx http web servers, docker, kubernetes etc...

Thus I've huge requirement to brush up my computer networking, web security, distributed systems, operating systems concepts.

- Whenever I re-read the textbooks that were taught to us in college, I learn nothing, because I know everything written there.

- Thus I figured out that best way to learn was to use tcpdump/tshark/wireshark and learn to read packets and read the books whenever confused.

- Then I figured out that if I learnt penetration testing and ethical hacking in depth, I can indirectly re-learn all the concepts of computer networking.

- The fact is ccna is too unnecessasry for my position and network+ is too basic.
- Another thing I figured out is reading books like system design, distributed systems are also helpful.

I know all this makes me look like a troll. But I'm serious about learning. Please tell me what should I do, how should I proceed?
I don't know what I could do in half a day that would impress anyone. Especially if other candidates are bringing in their serious side projects.
In addition to the idea that this tax is designed to make better use of land, the best tax is one that will pass. I think most people who support a land value tax would also support a wealth tax. A land value tax is more politically viable.

Also, importantly, you can't "hide" land (from taxation) by moving it out of the country.
My take away is, England made a smart moving getting out of the crazy EU.
Yes, there's a lot of hype and buzzwords. Certainly companies are slapping the "AI" label onto their products and jumping on the bandwagon in order to gin up interest.

But there's a real technological change going on. Machines are capable of performing tasks that were nearly unthinkable two years ago. There's real progress beneath the hype.

AI workloads are going to be dramatically more significant in the next decade. A shift like this opens up real opportunities for smaller players to capture enormous market share. If SiFive manages to develop the best AI hardware, they could become bigger than Apple. Or they could fumble and go out of business. Either of these outcomes is genuinely possible when this kind of technological shift happens.
And, is there anything wrong with this? Parents are supposed to help their children.
That's probably the most self-aggrandizing interpretation. Could it be that other people have other priorities or interests rather than spending their time figuring out how to obtain digital privacy without compromising in the areas they care about? No surely it's their low "cognitive capital" /s
36% of Canadians are renters. The people they rent from are called investors. Fewer investors would mean higher rent.
When McDonald's came to Denmark: https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-de...
What alternative would you suggest?

None of the large companies I worked at used anything other than Jenkins for cicd (well in one place we did use azure devops server - back then called teams If I remember correctly, but that was just for one app development team).

Where they didn't use Jenkins they didn't have a dedicated cicd runner and they used github/gitlab instead. Both of these (although github less) suck for cicd IMO.
> it's a violation of human rights. people receiving shelter based on who gave birth to them

This hyperbole kills reasonable discussion. Right to shelter != right to own property, and any property at that.
Right on. And even if the 100 madmax thugs ganged on you, what’s an off duty cops gonna do, call 911?
And do you think all of your non-tech-savvy relative would go for it?
Meanwhile I'm here paying 1/2 of my mom's mortage to keep the family home. Of all the boomers why did I get stuck with bums? Smdh
Firefighter arson is a relatively well known phenomenon.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fires-set-by-firefigh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighter_arson
The gift limit is $17K ($18K next year) per recipient for a donor. This means that a couple can gift another couple $68K in a year without triggering any reporting requirements. (Each member of gifting couple can gift $17K to each member of the receiving couple.)

You can also gift up to 5 years' worth at once, with some paperwork needed.

Gifts received are always non-taxable to the recipient. The gift tax (when required) is first a reduction of estate tax exclusion of the donor, nothing for the recipient of a bonafide gift to do tax-wise.
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