skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent background, thank you.

"presuming the goal is maintaining a liberal democracy, modulo what's minimally required to maintain Israel as a religious state" - squaring that circle is going to be tough in the long run.
Paul Sellers is a giant among us mere woodworkers.
> Shipping is the most important quality.

There is something to be said for the good old days when we modified PHP files in an editor over FTP :)

Never done it professionally. But developing in production would make me ship faster, and using php would probably limit my tendency to make gold plated solutions.
> What would you do if you were me?

id follow the script...some employers look for people that think out of the box, not that act out of the box...two very different concepts but id say usually come together in the same package (ie. person)
States already set limits on what zoning decisions local municipalities can make. The towns only derive their power from whatever state laws delegates to them. If the state really wanted to they could strip this power and run all regulation itself (similar as how local towns only have limited flexibility in terms of setting education or police policy).

California has passed some laws recently which already take a step in this direction. SB9, for instance, made it so that on some parcels of land local municipalities were not allowed to block existing property owners from building a duplex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_HOME_Act
Specifically:

* your SSH client will check the host certificate. There's a reason it does that prompt for new hosts!

* a userland process can no more MITM that than any random middlebox can.
> Yet pedestrian deaths keep going up:

That's not unexpected. There are factors constantly being ignored, besides speed

- drivers age: the population is getting older everywhere in the west, older drivers pose more dangers.

- cars are getting bigger for no real reason, bigger cars means they are more dangerous even at lower speeds

- urban areas are flooded by very large commercial vehicles, the "instant delivery market" wasn't a thing 20 years ago, trucks and vans weren't as ubiquitous as they are now and they are obviously not really "urban vehicles".

a couple more less obvious

- less people driving increases the risks of driving, people are less experienced or are forced to drive when they don't feel safe doing it. When my grandma was the age my father is now, we told her her car broke to stop her from driving. Now my dad, who never really liked driving much, has to keep doing it because my sister doesn't want to drive herself, but she has a small daughter and with children there are always emergencies that require to drive a car

- related to the previous one: the European Commission concluded that "In general, drivers travelling fewer kilometres have increased crash rates per kilometre compared to those driving more kilometres". People drive shorter distances, it means they are less exposed to different scenarios, which in turn means drivers react poorly to unknwon or lesser known circumstances. One of the most common being driving fatigue.

In my opinion driving tests should become harder to pass, more frequent (no more lifetime licenses) and should include some basic course of safe driving and simulated environment for weather conditions and high speed driving on track, to compensate for the loss of real life practice and urban areas should be restricted to urban vehicles. A pickup truck or an SUV do not fall in the category.
People of retirement age do leave; but probably not fast enough if you’re trying to “raise” taxes that way.

That said, it depends on people’s total state tax burden. If it’s too high they will leave to lower tax burden states.

This is one of those slow moving things like when corps were leaving NYC in the 80s. It’s hard to stop it. Adding taxes is too attractive. Eventually companies and people will have enough reason to leave.

Many are not there yet. You will never have everyone willing or able to leave. But on occasion you get enough leaving so that a state is left with a potential which will not become realized.
It's not just about payment. It's about licensing. Preserving/archiving legally-obtained copyrighted works without a license is in a grey area even if you never share the archive with anyone until the term is over. Grey area means "do at your own risk". Preservation without distribution is not fair use, since fair use can only be decided on a case-by-case basis in court. What if the copyright holder charges an unaffordable amount for a license for archival? (Don't forget, the preservationist is the one doing the preservation work.) What if the copyright holder doesn't offer a license to archive their works for any price? What if the copyright holder wants their work to go away forever, even though that completely flies against the stated purpose of the Copyright Clause [1]? (You can't have progress of knowledge if the knowledge disappears.) What if the US Copyright Office didn't grant an exception for archival in the current three-year round of DMCA 1201 rule-making? (Why do these crucial exceptions to DMCA 1201 have to expire every three years?) What if you can't find the copyright holder, especially in the case of orphan works?

Copyright is a real, not hypothetical, obstacle to preservation [2]:

> Films have disintegrated because preservationists can’t digitize them. The works of historians and journalists are incomplete. Artists find their cultural heritage off limits. (See studies like the Hargreaves Review commissioned by the UK ns of the availability of copyrighted works and public domain works, and economic studies of the effects of copyright.)

I'm not arguing about whether copyright "holds back humanity". I'm just pointing out that "you just need to pay for the material" is a fundamental misunderstanding in the context of preserving copyrighted works. And personally, I think the US Congress should add a bright-line exception to copyright for preservation/archival without distribution by anyone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause#Effect

[2] https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/
I’m currently working through this.

My fibre internet is faster than the 2.5 GbE.

A UDM-Pro could be added to the mix but simply pushes the issue out.

A used datacenter/server grade SFP+ switch could be the way to go but have to get up to speed on the basics of the equipment I’d need.

Open to ideas and suggestions!
When they installed a gopher client at our local university Vax system, it was a thrill. So many hours using Veronica search stuff. And I remember kept using gopher during the Mosaic and Netscape 1-2 era.
Why not use the name? It's very memorable.
It's a little sad that those went away, but if they can successfully do battery-electric busses, I guess it's ok. It's nice when a simple, hundred-year-old-plus technology can just continue to work though.
There's no Russian server. The broader IMSLP network has:
- Main server: for files thar are PD in the US and Canada
- IMSLP-EU: PD-EU and PD-CA, but not PD-US
- PML-CA: PD-CA, but not PD-EU or PD-US
- PML-US: PD-US, but not PD-CA

Anyway, there's stuff we're working on in any case... some infrastructure improvements.
I really enjoyed Seveneves.
He and CodingTrain are my favorites.
So basically, you need to make sure you close this particular bank account before you leave the state?
Out of all of things that Microsoft was actually found guilty of, bundling the browser with the OS was never one in the US.

There was never a time since MS bundled the browser with the Windows that they were forced not to do so.

There was also never a browser choice mandate in the US.
Prop 13 means that any property tax increase won't apply to anyone who's owned a home for a long period of time, or purchased at the bottom of the market in 2008. It's only going to apply to homes recently purchased, and would mostly dissuade people from moving into the state.
> people in the central valley living of water from trucks

Would these be the same communities pumping their aquifers dry [1] to export almonds and alfalfa?

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019483661/without-enough-wat...
Hahaha - love it, person went on a massive rant and didn't even read the article
It’s a good thing. There are too many people and too much money in California. Places should indeed compete for things and people should move more freely.
Yeah, come on, saying that using SSH is hard in a different port is facetious

Worse case Google the commands and run them
It's crazy how poor I feel in this state, namely northern california. Basically the state is for anyone that bought a house 20+ years ago, or multi millionaires. Everyone else is squeezed to the point they see no option but to move.
There are more workers employed in manufacturing in real terms now than 20 years ago as well. In a % of population basis that’s not true so maybe there is some effect on sentiment based on the % of people employed in that sector?

I’ve not seen that put forth as a hypothesis anywhere but I’m certainly not an expert.
^

US States often orient their taxes to take advantage of local economies, attracting certain types of businesses or residents.

Sometimes the reasons are political or weird quirks, like in Texas where taxation is (by design) very difficult to change under their constitution.
Isn't that avoidable by making exceptions for primary residences? That would disincentivize ownership of multiple properties and associated rent seeking, but it wouldn't price out residents who actually live there.
Is the build quality and backlighting as good as the Kindle? And do they have a seamless option (no notched screen)?
Sure, but the whole point is to avoid the need to do that! Manipulating symbols is the way to automate reasoning, i.e. to get to a result while completely ignoring said "facts." Using the symbols to merely "state the facts" is abuse (of the reader, mostly).
I'm kinda confused, shouldn't this kind of app be developed and diffused by government, open source and not include paid plans to have better information in case of emergency since it should be funded by your taxes ??
That wasn't my question. I wasn't asking "why are property taxes necessary". I was asking: how is that inherently better than taxing income?

As to to the question you answered, I could understand land value taxes, or some other forms of taxes that are actually based on the infrastructure cost for supporting your home. (And you could add exemptions/tiers for people who can't afford it, that's beside my point.) But property taxes seem nonsensical for exactly the reason you mention: that they depend on the value of the home (at whatever point) rather than on the cost of the infrastructure itself. Whether my home sells for $1 or $1M, my pipes and wires are going to act the same. And neither of those tells you anything about my means for payment - I could easily lose more money on a more expensive home.
> because you cannot save all data (waste of time and resources)

AFAIK, at least for ATLAS and CMS, the sheer amount of raw data the sensors produce, like 40TB/s or more[1], requires using triggers to reduce the captured data rate. Even after that first trigger there's still over 100GB/s, which is too much for storing directly.

Interestingly though, due to its design the LHCb detector has a lower intrinsic luminosity (ie less stuff happening) and so was able to move to a fully software-based trigger system[2]. This allows them to change the trigger parameters "at will", unlike the hardware-based first-level triggers of ATLAS and CMS which can't really be changed much once installed.

[1]: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-nucl-...

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5012
The states predated the federal government. They created it by ratifying the Constitution.
The FTB will attempt to contact you by mail at your last known address about not filing for the year you moved out onward. If the FTB is unable to contact you, the funds in the bank account will be seized for the "estimated income tax"...probably a few years later. Perhaps you can give the FTB a notice that you moved out of the state before this happens?

It would be nice if the FTB contacts your bank about contacting you before the seizure, but that's not what they do. It can be particularly inconvenient if they seize all of the funds (and they will if that's what is estimated to be owed), as it may be difficult to hire a CPA in that event. Hopefully the paperwork is in order or a CPA is already hired.
I think you misunderstand triage.

Triage happens early on but it isn't about antibiotics or blankets or any other specific help. A triage drone shouldn't be treating anyone.

Triage means identifying who needs what help and allocating people to do it. Often this is about identifying who is at most urgent need of help.

So the job of a triage drone could be to identify the people who need help the quickest. Perhaps identifying someone who is unconscious but has a pulse in a larger group of dead people.
> Both of these were the foundation of Firefox, so wasn’t such a bad decision after all

From a business standpoint or even market share, can you really say that Firefox is a success?

It only survives because its largest competitor is also its biggest funder.

We also have an existence proof that if the competitor is better - ie Chrome - people will go out of their way to download an alternative.

You see that people download Chrome on both Macs and especially Windows.
Funny, and he does? I love Chappelle. Primarily because he bends the rules of entertainment. The irony...
> one with our logo, authors’ names, and sundry other pieces of information removed

If they made the effort to remove that information why assume they left the contact info?

Either way this absolutely wasn't a case of fair use. They sent the claims to the wrong people.
It's not bothering your eyes. It's bothering your brain. In a dark room a red light will not make your eyes lose their ability to quickly see in the dark like the other colors do.
I don’t know about C&C but in StarCraft units are constantly walking into each other, getting temporarily hung up and stuck a bit.

If they were constantly re-pathing around each other though you would certainly also run into issues too.

Why shouldn’t the units use the information they have about the current destination and path of the other allied units instead of just constantly seeing them as moving obstacles.
This is a fair concern.

I think it could be something to start seeing instead like not paying a cell phone bill.
> Should switch to 400Hz like aircraft do.

Higher frequency lets you get away with smaller transformers, but decreases the skin depth on transmission lines which increases losses.
> I honestly believe we should ban fireworks and firework shows across the country.

Oh dear god, no!

Fireworks are on my list of "top favorite things". They're right up there with music, summertime, and barbecue.

Drones are not "just as cool". Half of the time drone shows look like the clunky laser shows from the 90's, but updated in the form of 3D point clouds. The drone kits are sold so often to advertising firms that the whole technique is cheapened. Every drone display I've seen has been an ad.

Not all dogs freak out at fireworks. The ones that do are more than likely scared of thunder too, and we can't ban that. (All of my dogs flat out ignored the fireworks, fwiw.)

Soldiers can have PSTD triggers from a variety of sources. Car backfire, crowds, news, lightening...

If you want to treat these as negative externalities, it seems like you could add a small tax on fireworks to pay for veterans causes.

Banning fireworks would ruin a lot of fun for a lot of people, and the upside seems negligible.
A couple I don’t see that I love watching are good machinists and restoration. So here are my go tos:

my mechanics

Hand Tool Rescue

Cutting Edge Engineering

Inheritance Machining
Right. And if they stopped doing that, the water level would not be replenished. Groundwater aquifers are not a renewable water source, and when you extract the water from underground you can compact the soil causing it to sink and lose its ability to store water, which is also happening over there according to the USGS.
And worse, it might justify animal abuse to some.
Domains can be decommissioned once no emails are coming across them, which can be reasonably tracked.

I had no idea or time to figure this out and luckily we weren’t the first to come across this :)
I worked for an eary/mid-90s mom-n-pop ISP started out of a spare closet of another business. Every customer was sent two 1.44 MB 3.5" floppies (which I also had the pleasure of having to duplicate), with Netscape, Eudora, and Trumpet Winsock so they could dial-in.

Having had Internet access through an academic organization before that (and pre-WWW), I fundamentally think that the Internet would not have taken off before web browsers -- even Gopher sites were too unfriendly. We were able to just barely get people to install one floppy after the other, copy a few files, and type in their username and password. The idea of working with the other CLI-based protocol driven ways of accessing information would have simply been impossible for 99% of our users.

No OS at the time came with a dialer or browser out of the box, we had to supply them for every user.

Netscape made the business possible.
I'm in NJ so not sure if this applies but since I'm in another high tax state I thought this would be relevant. One thing that I find interesting that isn't really talked about is the difference in property tax rates between different towns. In NJ for example, my parent's home is worth $300k-400k and they pay almost $10k in property taxes per year. Meanwhile, an out of state investor could buy a $3 million property in NJ's Long Beach Island and pay just $30k in property taxes on it (1/3 the rate my parents pay).

I don't know how much this applies to California, I think they cap property tax increases there, not sure how the rates differ by town?

A single state-wide standardized marginal property tax rate would probably work best. Those with $5 million+ single family homes should be paying a higher percentage to discourage that type of housing. Additionally that tax money could be collected at a state level and distributed more equitably (to towns that aren't as wealthy).

Ultimately single family homes need to be phased out in these kinds of places and replaced with higher density along with mixed zoning. Mixed zoning should reduce the need for more car based infrastructure which is extremely expensive and allow more efficient public transit to be built. That would lower costs for regular people since they wouldn't need a car to get places.
Is there wide agreement it is misbehaving and ought to be changed “somehow”? Perhaps it could be modified.

There are other ways to achieve the basic objective without creating the same side effects. For example, Colorado’s TABOR has a very similar objective with a very different mechanism that slows property tax growth but does not pressure people to stay put in their current home.
> I say "most drivers dangerously overestimate their ability"

I say "most road users dangerously overestimate their ability". At 10mph (about 16 km/h) most bikers dangerously overestimate their ability to safely turn, brake or handle road bumps without invading other lanes, crashing or falling from their bikes.
The FTB will track you by your SSN. If you open a new bank account, the funds in that new bank account will be seized.
Nevada at the state level specifically levies taxes on mining rights and gambling.

Nevada is mostly desert with vast strands of land people do not inhabit. They rely on mines, the US government, and being next to California for their money. Area 51 for example. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository as another.

California in the past banned gambling so that is how Las Vegas got started. As far as I know now you can only gamble in the state lotteries or on Native American reservations.

They are also trying to do the Delaware thing and be a place for corporations to incorporate in. Many states charge franchise fees and income taxes on corporations. Nevada charges nothing except yearly filing fees. Last I checked Microsoft chose this state for their legal headquarters.

Local jurisdictions levy taxes on property and sales.
I hate that tweet. It was coined in the context of whatever Meta was doing with "the Metaverse" which for some reason everyone decided to lose their minds about as some sort of imminent threat rather then just a ge nobody wanted to play.

The thing is, The Metaverse wasn't a problem in Snow Crash. It just was - it was a thing, and it was generally regarded as one of the last places not totally under the dystopian corporate lawlessness that the rest of the world was.

So the motivating example is built on misunderstanding the original text, in the same way that Meta doing it was built on misunderstanding everything about the concept.
Learning materials are more available to more people, especially people without resources, than at any point in the preceding 150 years. That expansion of material and access to material occurred during a historic expansion of copyright.
You're being far too polite. He's just plain wrong on this point:

> do not change your standard ports. do not use fail2ban.

That used to be my attitude too. But reality intruded.

Example: I ran a SIP Server for a business. SIP Servers are very attractive targets because if you get past the security, you can make then call paid numbers and make real money. Knowing that, I used huge security tokens. No one got past them. But - it didn't stop them from trying. 100's of times per second at times. The CPU load created by processing the login attempts was so great the SIP server started dropping calls. As it happens, asking the kernel to drop packets from miscreant IP's takes far, far less CPU. Fail2ban to the rescue.

Example: Move on a few years, and now spammers costs have dropped so much it is worth their while to target IMAP, POP and SMTP servers. The story is the same: they never got through, but despite that their attempts increased to the point the server became overloaded. I can't listen on a different port. Fail2ban to the rescue.

Example: Move on to the last couple of years. I move my personal stuff to a VPS. To save costs it's very memory constrained. A problem soon arises. After a few weeks of trouble free operation it keeps slowing down, and sometimes becoming unresponsive. Turns out it's running out of memory; the OOM killer is running amok. That's odd, as there should be almost no load on this thing. Well, apart from ssh login attempts it seems. Turns out there is one of them every few seconds. They have no hope of succeeding of course as I only allow pubic key auth, but the load it creates is a problem. Fail2ban to the rescue.

I don't see anything wrong with the principle, which is you block these attacks at the cheapest point possible. That happens to be the point of entry, before you spend CPU cycles processing the packet (even in TCP). Fail2ban leverages that by using the kernel's networking stack. It's forced to glean the information on who to ban from log files, which is messy, error prone and fragile. I don't like that either, but I'll take what I can get.
Another solution is tailscale. Disable all admin ports (including ssh) on public IP.
This is a nice approach.

Having too many active domains can be a pain tho
What a load of crap. How about you get a treat, after a slap in the face?

My cats are scared of fireworks regardless of the amount of treats I give them.

Wildlife doesn't get treats at all.

Animals deserve our compassion and respect, just as we would prefer to be treated with compassion and respect by others.
And was in the news today because their Twitter account hit the API limit and so was unable to send out emergency warnings.