skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a behavior is occurring that is technically legal but the majority believe the behavior is harmful/undesirable we pass laws to stop that behavior.

In this case, stopping or slowing this is actually pretty simple: Change the tax code which is currently overly favorable to real estate investors.

Specifically: No accelerated depreciation, stretch out the depreciation schedule to 40 years from 27.5, stop allowing 1031 exchanges, eliminate real estate step up tax basis on death, etc.
Chickens can be villains.
Not shocked if its true, asking you to validate the assertion with data. I brought citations, I will wait for yours.

> Otherwise, generic extreme argument: give everyone a billion and we all win.

No reasonable person takes this argument seriously. The discussion is "will providing for everyone's basic needs through UBI cause inflation?"
Wayland is like if every single CSS property needed to be written with both "-moz-" and "-webkit-" prefixes forever, instead of the different CSS engines having any standard properties.
I don't think the phone scene at the Istanbul airport is particularly anachronistic, even now. (Cue Phoebe Bridgers' song "Kyoto": "They still got payphones")

The challenge for the showrunners is probably more that that scene was already done in one of the Matrix movies. Neuromancer was so original and has been so influential in so much mainstream media that playing it straight might feel derivative in some way.
I wonder why Amazon think that their best way of dealing with EU investigations into working conditions in their warehouses is not to turn up to committee meetings. If they attend then they can tell the committee that everything is great, how standards are improving, etc etc. Not showing up at all seems a bizarre strategy to me. What are they afraid of?
As a side note regarding bottle caps, the new EU bottle cap regulation that requires soda bottle and milk carton etc caps to be captive is absolutely idiotic, and just causes more problems.
Could you share a source for that if we wanted to learn more?
Ask HN: Which teams/companies produce software that users love?
I know this is a vague question. Right now I feel like a lot is going wrong at my team at work and at the whole company. We're slow at delivering features and the users are not happy about the software.

I feel like this is due to wrong technical decisions. To inefficient project management and maybe inefficient software engineers. I am curious which companies are really good at producing software that people love.

Maybe they publish talks or blogposts and I'd love to read about their development and management processes.
> you should refute each of those specific claims.

Sorry, that's just not how it works.

You're making a number of highly controversial, cherry-picked statements that are being heavily debated in the news. It doesn't really matter if a handful of Hamas employees may or may have worked at UNRWA, when it has a staff of 30,000. It's irrelevant if some educational materials take a locally-biased political viewpoint, when the history curriculum in every nation takes a locally-biased political viewpoint.

But I don't have to refute any of your arguments because none of them have any relevance whatsoever to Shirky's law applying. Whereas you continue to refuse to engage with the analogy to the Red Cross, even after I've pointed that out that you aren't responding to that. So I just can't take this discussion seriously anymore, when you keep trying to divert the discussion into irrelevant tangents, and won't engage with the simple, direct comparison that reveals the foundational inconsistency in your logic.
Ah okay, I misunderstood. I thought you meant inferencing on all the different models and letting them judge to what extent they're the best fit.

What you're suggesting is just simply intent classification and using a specific model per intent. That's what everyone did _before_ LLMs.
I am not only talking about elections. I'm saying money and gerrymandering result in politicians ignoring the policy preferences of a large part of their electorate, especially after they have been elected. If your interests are no longer represented, why bother voting at the next election?

"Even without being able to gauge the actual political power of wealthy citizens, we can confidently reject the view that extensive political power by the wealthy would be of little practical importance anyway because their policy preferences are much the same as everyone else’s. On many important issues the preferences of the wealthy appear to differ markedly from those of the general public. Thus, if policy makers do weigh citizens’ policy preferences differentially based on their income or wealth, the result will not only significantly violate democratic ideals of political equality, but will also affect the substantive contours of American public policy."

https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/jnd260/cab/CAB2012%20-...

"Still, the researchers hold that gerrymandering harms our democracy. “Elections are a way to hold politicians accountable for what their constituency wants,” said Kosuke Imai, professor of government and of statistics as well as leader of the ALARM Project research team, which uses big data and computational algorithms to study redistricting. “But if many lawmakers are in safe seats, guaranteed to win by a relatively comfortable margin, there’s less incentive to respond to what voters want."

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/07/biggest-probl...
Well that task is left to working class. We here are thought leaders.
> Do you know anybody who is financially struggling?

I know plenty of people who are financially struggling. I am not convinced that the best way to help them is to make them perpetually dependent on the state for direct subsidies, instead of addressing the problems that are making it difficult them from becoming more financially secure within a pluralistic economy.
I was more thinking of the divorce sub-plot in S1.
Way things are going, calling a support number and getting a human is becoming a red flag for scams.
It was a slow burn for sure, but I loved every minute of it.
Runzas look awesome!
I wouldn't have posted if I had seen it, of course.
“Just reinstall” is a solution in Windows world even more often.
You're quoting this article, but you're misunderstanding it:

https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/U....

This is calculating the gravitational potential between two point masses. In other words, the potential energy if both masses were singular points at a distance from each other.

I was quoting the potential energy differential between being 100km over the ground, and on the ground. This is 98 MJ for a 100kg object, and that's what you have to cancel out to land back on Earth. The total gravitational energy of that object to the Earth's centre is more like 6300 MJ, but that's a meaningless number.
In a just society, we'd identify what specific law they broke and try them based on that, no?

If you think they are breaking the law then specify what law they are breaking.
Martian Daycare is the new nuking the fridge.
> At the moment there is still a one-time order fee for dedicated servers

For (some) dedicated servers, I think. Last time I checked the lowest tiered dedicated servers didn't have any setup fees. If it's not mentioned, assumed it'll remain.
Huh, I was pretty sure that it was out while I was in high school so before 1986, but I guess that must have been some other adult video game paving the way for LSL.
Things look pretty dystopian as it stands, and if concentration of wealth continues, we'll speed down that dark road even faster. If not UBI, what other solution is there? Especially as automation sweeps through cognitive work?
Definitely, should a reputable media (at least ten years ago NYT was reputable) report this complexity and nuances about these people or about the situations so that readers can get a complete view?
I think I enjoyed season 2 in part because I didn't have any expectations that it would be a faithful adaptation. I just enjoyed it for what it was. I think if I rewatched season 1 with the same attitude I'd probably like it more. It's a really solid SciFi show if you can just view it as its own thing and not constantly compare it to the books.
I believe many of these UBI experiments were also advocated by different billionaires. One idealistic group and one pessimistic group.

Communism is one big UBI. Everyone has something to do and everyone gets paid enough to buy basic goods and services even if sometimes some good and services become scarce. Communism proved it works, but it's not efficient. It means you have to choose between a somewhat stagnant society and a progressive society (not progressive in the political but rather technological sense).

For some this would be good. But for others not. Moreover, the government can dictate what it wants from you since you are beholden to it and don't have much mobility.
Can you imagine HNers in any other context defending a change from entirely open to mostly closed that was made purely to force people to create accounts / boost ad revenue?
No, they are not correct either.
Probably because despite the 1200 citations, they didn't have the ability to apply it to modern LLMs. Nobody cares about an image classifier using 50% less parameters since most of them were small enough to fit in memory anyway.
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That's false, "strictly economic theoretical speaking" inflation is a function of spending and savings (among others). If you take savings and use it to increase spendings, that causes demand-pull inflation.
I have a special compost barrel that was given to me. It has rollers and small holes. Raccoons and other animals are not able to get into it. Bears are not much of a concern.

I’ll try again with more dry leaves. Spring is close to starting in my area.
I'd say the biggest expected problem is massive inflation.
There's a lot of truth to that, but something more is going on when the US spends comparably what the EU spends on healthcare but gets much worse outcomes.
They probably mean that the actual number of malicious repos is probably very hard to get.

The article reaches the 100K number by searching for repos with patches with a particular string contained in this specific attack, so it's likely missing many malicious repos that use different methods of infection.
That doesn't solve the whole problem. It requires more interaction with the state instead of just allowing an opt out. It also doesn't allow opting out at the paying in layer.
You can just press CTRL and click the item. And on Plasma specifically, there's a box on the corner of the item with a '+' you can click which only selects the item.

Well, I don't have my desktop set up to use drop down menus, but as far as i remember, it is one click to do the action listed, not double click. Unless you mean older operating systems?
Seems like this is a general and sadly accelerating trend that we don't own anything any more. We don't own the movies or music we pay for, we rent it. We're not allowed to repair our own devices and machines and finally we can't afford a place to live so are stuck in a perpetual rent loop.

We truly live in a dystopian reality but we're not revolting because we have been slowly boiled like the proverbial frog. There will be time when the people rise up and it will not be pretty.
I think going farther than that, they are going for owning the quality "nerdy" science-ish related content.

See "See" as a good example to add to that list. Silo was incredible and I started working on the books because of that show.

And the show that I was looking forward too every week "lessons in chemistry". Was so good and very charmingly nerdy.

Some others like Prehistoric Planet, Hello Tomorrow (which wasnt great, but it had a certain charm too it), and whatever that D&D show was I can't remember the name of.
A lot of the point of the experiments is specifically to provide for evidence that critics tend to have about what poor people do with money. Because a great, great many people basically believe (falsely) that poverty is essentially a choice made by poor decisions more or less and that it is a personal or moral failing. There’s so little evidence for this it’s kind of crazy but then we take a look at those with that kind of attitude and see a huge bias
More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534616
The whole "corporate profiteering drove inflation" narrative is/was entirely driven by click farming economically distressed people. It never was the case and even mild understanding of economics/finance quickly unravels the narrative.

Inflation was driven primarily by low interest rates, very generous financial support/relief(rent moratorium, student loan pause, bolstered and extended unemployment), and the ability for most white collar workers to keep on working from home.

Supply chain issues didn't help, but it's not even clear if 2019 supply chains would have been able to keep up with the insane consumer demand of 2021.
Money from the state does come from the money printer these days thought.
It would be really nice if configuration was scriptable, so that you could have one configuration script, and run it on every new install. Would remove the need to hunt and peck.
It's obviously far from ideal. I was just pointing out that "welp, proprietary drivers it is" is not the only way forward.
I actually really enjoyed season 1 of Invasion and then DNF'd season 2.
When you say the wealthy own too much, you mean they own productive assets. They run companies. Sure there are some that just have a pile of cash sitting in a vault but that's rare.

So if you take away their wealth you're transferring ownership and control from one group of people (who have managed and grown that productive asset) to another (randomly chosen). Naturally you would expect the productive assets to stop being so productive over time, kind of like what happens when a state expropriates businesses as if there is some magic in the walls of the building that generate value
I understand not wanting to write C++, but what do you have against merely using a program written in it?
The implication for me was, even superheros have limited power. So if they waste it on trivial things, they will be defeated.
In a just society we would have laws that prevent this sort of thing, instead of lobbying by these corporations to prevent the passing of them in the first place, so people like you can go “well it’s not illegal therefore it’s ok”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
Show HN: Dice Guess – which side lands up?
Based on a X post: https://twitter.com/typedfemale/status/1757510140524482988
I wasn't trying to extend the analogy to saying landing F9 is trivial. But F9 surviving re-entry is fairly trivial, which is the important difference between the two. Once you've survived re-entry and slowed down to terminal velocity, there's not a huge difference between landing from orbital and sub-orbital trajectories. I agree that the way it's phrased is fairly meaningless and reeks of baseball commentary cherry-picking, but surviving from orbit is still a very different milestone than surviving from sub-orbit.
The labor 'market' is totally asymetric, since workers are forced to work ... or starve, whereas companies can and do stop hiring, and even fire people, sometimes in a cynical move to suppress wages (witness the current tech scene).

UBI would turn it into a real, consensual market.

No doubt people benefiting from the status quo do not want change.
And of course bytes are divided into eight bits - but that's just a coincidence, because bits came first and byte sizes weren't standardized until the 1970s.
I would argue UBI is in the latter category.
Come hang out on the [redacted] social network:

- you're required to post at least 1 video every day or the platform doxes you automatically

- video content autoplays with audio

- surge pricing

- every video within the viewport autoplays, with audio

- the audio volume of each video is based on its trending score

- posts disappear unless you share it within a (random/variable) time limit

- no video longer than 4 seconds

- LOWERCASE GETS YOU BANNED

- dark mode for premium subscribers

[redacted] Social: we were worst first.
https://archive.is/USTPM
Taxation to address collective action problems like the military or the legal system is not charity. This is captured in the US Constitution which provides for the "General Welfare" not welfare for individual citizens.
I love how you put that!

As a voracious reader of Asimov/Clarke/etc. as a kid, I can confirm that your description fits a depressingly large fraction of that era of SciFi.

That kind of SciFi is at its best when the ideas (which are often the only thing that really matters) are so strong, they carry it all — Nightfall, Rendezvous with Rama — and at its worst when it's a bunch of “just men sitting around drinking alcohol, smoking and congratulating each other” (God, I love that description!). Even when the rest of one of his books is good, Heinlein can't resist inserting at least one pompous character just like that, and I can never believe it's not him!

The more recent deluge of female/non-binary/asexual/etc. characters and authors in SciFi is such a breath of fresh air.
I wanted to go with cubic acres ...

https://sundaycomicsdebt.blogspot.com/2015/02/scrooge-math.h...
Biden Executive Order Bans Sale of US Data to China, Russia. Good Luck
As I said in a sibling comment, I really did like the Tencent version of 'The Three Body Problem'. They did add a couple original characters, and condensed certain sub-plots, but overall it is a good watch and a pretty faithful adaptation.
I thought Foundation was great. A direct adaptation of the books would have been terrible, which is why nobody had done it yet. In case it helps, the companion podcast gives an episode-by-episode story of the changes - I agree with most of them, but can understand why they're controversial.

https://podcasts.apple.com/si/podcast/foundation-the-officia...

https://open.spotify.com/show/1SIqjOZcJrJSrpcDjI9fyy
How about making it submit the "off" value while you're at it? So I wouldn't need js hacks for arrays of checkboxes on forms.
“Can”, not “does”. Don’t be disingenuous.
Crypto firm Gemini to pay over $1B back to customers in settlement
somewhere between 1.02x and 2x
As a critic of UBI, that's not what I expect at all. I expect all of these tests to have wonderful outcomes where people who get their share are able to make good choices, invest in their future, and become better off than their neighbors. I expect that this will always be the case for any test done with UBI, because I understand that these tests are modelling a situation fundamentally different from what would happen if the basic income granted were actually universal - publicly known and guaranteed by the government.

In the test, wealth is coming from outside the system to individual economic agents within it. Of course those agents become better off than others who are not granted this wealth. But a government does not create wealth by fiat; they take it through taxation to distribute and spend according to priorities (ideally) set through popular decisions. They cannot make the group as a whole objectively richer - schemes to try anyway through blanket money printing result in unwanted inflation.

What I would actually expect to happen, should UBI somehow be implemented, is an immediate capture of the extra wealth by the capital-owning class. It won't be used by the currently homeless to afford homes, because the day after it's announced, rent prices will shoot up by about 70% of the amount. You will still need a job to afford a place to live. Likewise all basic goods; food, fuel, education, all their prices will rise to consume the greater discretionary income that people have. You can't win the Red Queen's race. Speeding everyone up the same amount doesn't change their relative positioning.

True, it would make debts suddenly worth a lot less. The government could also choose to do so by fiat, but they are very unlikely to. It's not difficult to imagine why.

Worse, the expense of doing this - it would cost more than the federal budget in the USA, assuming everyone is given a modest $2,000 monthly - means that taxes would have to rise, making it harder for people to actually rise in economic status through productive labor. I can see, assuming that this state of being continues long-term (which I personally doubt it would), a permanent divide appearing in the economic strata in the population over this, between people lucky enough to own property at the time the UBI was implemented and those who weren't.

Despite the woe about wealth mobility that already exists (at the moment, people in the bottom quintile economically have a 40-60% chance to escape it[0]), it can always get worse. Ideas to fix it should not be judged based solely on their intent. UBI is a solution that is conceptually simple (there are poor people? just give them money!), politically easy (who doesn't like free money?), and absolutely rife with harmful second order effects. People change their behavior according to incentives - this is true both of the poor who historically have been the targeted beneficiaries of UBI tests, and the landlords and corporations that will change their policies to optimally harvest a new bounty if these policies were ever implemented more widely.

[0]: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/stuck-on-the-ladder-wealt...
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We need to be radically cutting immigration now along with collapsing birth rates such that worker supply and worker demand reach equilibrium.
It’s antithetical to the books and it’s just painful, to me, to watch. I kind of like what they did with Empire in the first season, but only made it through two episodes of this latest season before giving up. I hate-read summaries of the rest of the season on Wikipedia and nothing I saw made me reconsider my choice. I’ll grant that Lee Pace is great but they stranded Jared Harris.
Except that is how the registry works. Get-ChildItem -Path HKCU:\ | Select-Object Name works exactly how you think it will.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/sampl...
Figure raises $675M at $2.6B valuation
There was a major loss of confidence and enthusiasm due to things like this. Very much not a project to build a business on

https://dev.to/kspeakman/elm-019-broke-us--khn
I wouldn't bother with Elm. Among other things: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fxvlow/why_im_...

PureScript (https://www.purescript.org) on the other hand is very nice.
I believe the important part is not the date so much as the copyright.

Basically, if you build on Elm, you're living inside Evan's personal project.

There are upsides (Evan did a great job designing the language) and downsides (Evan's goal isn't being a maintainer, and he locked the ecosystem in such a way that many things can't be done without him).
> No it's not 1080p tall?

No, it's nearly :-) as tall as a 1080p screen. It's 810px (edit: modulo some scaling?) but you also rarely get the full 1080p screen height on a Plasma desktop, since you've got a big panel at the bottom of the screen. Hence "nearly".

> Finally, the things you mention are not related to the theme at all, but instead the layout of individual applications.

Widget size, padding and margins are all part of the theme. I use QtCurve (which is pretty wasteful, too, though nowhere near as bad) and it's far more efficient to use.

A theme that makes better use of available screen space would allow one to keep the toolbar around, and make better use of search features (yes, the search panel is usually not folded out, but if you have to fold it out, search, then scroll or fold it back in to read around a search results, that's not exactly useful).

If you need to disable UI elements to make an application usable, that's not a good design.