skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
supporting HOA's is supporting a key tool supremacists used in the USA for a long time to enact oppression and violence on people of the global majority.

You can keep supporting it. if we were hanging out IRL I would clock[0] you (unhappily, regretfully) as someone supporting supremacy.

a belief in authority can get real dangerous, real fast.

Update:

[0] I mean "clock" in the "to note the flaws of" sense. Urban dictionary gives one definition which sounds right-enough:

> used in gay vernacular especially among drag queens

> to call out someone's flaws, to uncover or reveal the truth in a situation or one's true gender

Here's a few quotes about HOAs, zoning, and policing from https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/p...

> If the targets, their family members or associates wouldn’t speak to deputies or answer questions, STAR team deputies were told to look for code enforcement violations like faded mailbox numbers, a forgotten bag of trash or overgrown grass, Rodgers said. “We would literally go out there and take a tape measure and measure the grass if somebody didn’t want to cooperate with us,” he said. Rodgers said people sometimes would fail to pay the fine, which would result in a warrant being issued for their arrest.

So, the gap between HOAs and police (deputized slave patrols) exists only for the people that want to imagine it as existing.

mountain out of a mole hill? perhaps.
no, but I see it's a popular request, a bit embarrassed by how the code looks :) I never planned to release it
You missed the parent's point, which is that a significant fraction of people flying to London because they have business to do in London, and the value of their time is not zero. If their time is wasted, that has a real cost in terms of lost productivity.
Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2019)
What really upsets me personally, as a Canadian, is that this feels like being backstabbed by your best friend.

If it were China or Russia doing this, of course I’d be upset, but when it comes from the U.S., it feels like a much deeper betrayal. I’ve had countless interactions, friendships, and business ties with Americans. Heck, even my first girlfriend was American.

We’ve always shared a close bond through love, friendship, and mutual respect, so actions like this strike on a very personal level.

Some might say that is a naive perspective, and maybe it is. But I am not ready to throw away decades of relationship and shared history with our neighbors to the south.

Despite the negativity, I remain hopeful.
> A census literally counts every individual. Census public reports are aggregated for privacy.

Is there any evidence of how accurately the US census actually does that job? Having spoken with a number of people who were involved with the 2020 census (mostly on a volunteer, local basis) the answer is not "absolutely every person in the country got counted exactly once". There are a number of sources of error that would seem essentially impossible to fully remediate, due to people being complicated and error-prone and the census being largely self-reported:

- People in multiple households being counted twice, e.g. college students being counted both at college and at home.

- People who refuse to participate (one of the census-takers I know had someone wave a gun at her face when she tried to follow up on their household's non-response).

- People who are transient or disconnected enough from the social fabric that they are hard to maintain consistent contact with. I knew someone involved with taking the census for an urban unhoused population and there was no doubt that they both missed and double-counted people; I'm sure it's even more difficult for rural populations that might be even less connected and even more transient.

It's not hard to imagine that, on net and despite there being rules and processes for handling each of those situations, there ends up being regional and/or urban/rural bias in the final counts.
It’s kind of like ChatGPT writing, where it can easily fool people who see it for the first time, but after a while you start to recognize the common patterns.
Of course it's possible to hold both of those views. I'm just telling you what happens in practice.
Its because we incorrectly conflate language with intelligence, which is why so many people are ok with cruelty toward non-verbal animals, and which is also why we delusionally call LLMs "AI" when they are nothing of the sort.
The 'uninteresting' metadetails are what gets people to reach the interesting details so your first instinct was probably right but I don't think it really matters much in your case as you have enough local reputation to just blobpost plus you're around to talk about the stuff in either form.
4 USB-C ports almost 10 years ago was inspired actually.
My favorite quote about this was:

"The improvements lead us to believe that a large number of the cars in NYC were driving around with no particular reason"

Effectively, people were spending time in their cars that they DID NOT VALUE at $9.
Announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBQzViR4xU4
Your options there are basically the Apple Vision Pro (UX designed specifically for that use case but it's awkwardly heavy and unbalanced), or the Quest 3 or Pico 4 (more comfortable and much cheaper, both will be much worse at it from a software perspective since their design effort is mostly as standalone video game consoles).

There's also the Xreal glasses, but those are much less 'virtual monitor fixed in space' and much more just having a screen strapped to your face that's tuned to an acceptable focal depth.

Steam is rumored to be releasing a standlone headset soon as effectively a Quest 3 competitor that can also play non-VR Steam games and presumably works with PC/laptop streaming, but there's no real info available yet.
These headsets can absolutely cause prolonged periods of nausea. People don't get diseased, but they can get sick.
There’s also the issue that if one trips, it’ll like cause havoc with the other one.
There's a German Wikipedia page: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinhive
TBF: many state lotteries are operated by franchises which may be engaged in fraud and/or abuse, or simply skimming a large share of the take.

Texas, notably, recently:

"The Texas Lottery Is Accused Of Fraud, With Calls For It To Be Shut Down"

The Texas Lottery is under fire once again, after Lt. Governor Dan Patrick paid a visit to a store in Austin, where an $83 million dollar winning ticket was sold. Upon arrival, Patrick discovered a warehouse of lottery ticket printing machines, run by a ticket reseller....

<https://ktrh.iheart.com/featured/houston-texas-news/content/...>

Lotteries also manifestly fail in their often-posited goal of funding beneficial services such as education. In reality they shift tax burden from the wealthy (who know better than to play) to the poor (who are desperate even against very poor odds), and cut overall educational funding. See:

"The Big Lie: Gambling and Education Funding" (2012)

“Don’t insult me with those ridiculous claims like “the money is for education!” Money is fungible, and education is already a high-priority budget item. Money raised from slot machines and earmarked for education is simply money that would otherwise have been diverted from some other budget item. The disingenuousness of this claim is jaw-dropping, and it’s even more appalling to me how many people fall for and parrot it.”

<https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2012/10/the-big-lie-gambling-a...>

Perhaps, though, with UBI, that desperation factor would be reduced.
Beat Saber is another big title for VR enthusiasts. For the past couple of years I’ve been using BS custom maps to add some consistently fun cardio to my days and have logged almost as many hours as I spent on WoW back in my high school and uni days.
Looks like the author has fixed that; it’s now available under the Apache License 2.0.
Of course it works without frontend frameworks, but if you develop a frontend application using plain JS your core problem is still the one frameworks solve: syncing your application state with the DOM.

At first you can do this manually using selectors, but a complex app will need to be capable of doing this to hundreds of elements whenever state changes. At that point you will build some kind of abstraction because manually updating every element would be insanity. That abstraction might be a simple virtual DOM, and now you are halfway to building your own React.
VNC with compression does already exist in the form of TightVNC[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TightVNC#Encodings
This is also common in Mexico. Spanish influence. It creates a private space for the residents, which I think is nice.
It's a different system. In NYC I think most parking is charged. In London most on street parking is residents only which makes the small amount of parking for non residents expensive.
I do anthropomorphize other things like builds, etc. I guess it's natural.
https://archive.is/jl83u
Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back
I tried to create more of a apple-notes type of app, but I get the appeal in full featured apps like Obsidian and logseq
Looks like catch up to China: "China’s J-36 Stealth Fighter Prototype Makes Second Public Appearance" - https://www.eurasiantimes.com/chinas-j-36-6th-gen-fighter-pr...
Also: solid fuel motors may be quite hard to ignite for launch, but solid fuel itself is damn easy to ignite when you're making it yourself. Take care, keep containers pointing away from your face at all times, and generally FIRE HAZARD.

Also: a bad fuel mixture will clog your nozzle with "solid combustion residue", as we called it with my friend, leading to the infamous rapid unplanned disassembly (the motor will promptly explode), so if you value your life and not being in prison, never ever use metal containers for it. Thin PVC pipe dangerous enough in case of RUD, but is much less likely to kill you.

(Obviously, I too somehow survived childhood unharmed...)
> Yes, they are fascinating and yes they solve real problems but they are absolute overkill to your problems (except collab editing), at least currently. Why? Because they are all about conflict resolution. You can get very far without addressing this problem: for instance a cache, like you mentioned, has no need for conflict resolution. The main data store owns the data, and the cache follows. If you can have single ownership, (single writer) or last write wins, or similar, you can drop a massive pile of complexity on the floor and not worry about it. (In the rare cases it’s necessary like Google Docs or Figma I would be very surprised if they use off-the-shelf CRDT libs – I would bet they have an extremely bespoke and domain-specific data structures that are inspired by CRDTs.)

I agree with this. CRDTs are cool tech but I think in practice most folks would be surprised by the high percentage of use cases that can be solved with much simpler conflict resolution mechanism (and perhaps combined with server reconciliation as Matt mentioned). I also agree that collaborative document editing is a niche where CRDTs are indeed very useful.
Seized property should be held in a neutral escrow account until the case is adjudicated, and then automatically returned to the victim if they are not convicted of a crime within a reasonable time.
> In the rare cases it’s necessary like Google Docs or Figma I would be very surprised if they use off-the-shelf CRDT libs

Or CRDTs at all. Google Docs is based on operational transforms and Figma on what they call multiplayer technology.
Yes, polite, but direct. I'm just an occasional user, though. I haven't done tests back and forth to see whether I get better results by using a different tone in my messages, so I stick with what's comfortable for me personally.
I've been in New England a while and have the same experience. And for all the talk about "evil HOAs" I can't say I've run into such a thing here. Maybe they are more popular elsewhere and became a meme.
I think you’re spot on here. What has been lost at Apple is Steve Jobs’ product mindset.
Interesting! I'll give these a look.

Edit: I watched the presentation (which I really enjoyed) and also read the blog post. For anyone with less time, the answer is essentially: don't sync everything, treat the local data like a cache. Sync as much as you can into that cache, and then reach out to the server for other things.
Can Parrot Brains Teach Us About Human Speech?
The concept of Don't Repeat Yourself and the concept of You Ain't Gonna Need It are the yin and yang of software development.
> Nobody gives a hoot about profit.

— W. Edwards Deming
Some also substitute grass with plants like creeping thyme.
Clover is easier to maintain, easier to setup and remains green longer. You might want to make your lawn at least 25% clover by just thrown down some seed - apparently that's what the country used to do in the past.

It won't be "homogenous" look but IMHO I think that's even prettier.
>but that's not profit.

Did you mean profit margins? OP mentioned profits in absolute dollar amounts, not in % terms. Otherwise it's absurd to claim that dollar profits should stay the same, even with inflation.
https://www.tesla.com/inventory/used

Tesla resells some trade ins
I don't think those alternatives are comparable.

People can't afford housing because it is scarce, and made artificially scarce on purpose. It is not possible for a million people to each own a home in an area where there are only 650,000 homes which is why the price increases until a third of them can't; there is no other solution than building more housing. The people opposed to this are opposed simply because they already own property and want housing prices to remain high and then come up with various excuses to rationalize their avarice.

Congestion pricing is a trade off. The proponents will point out that it "works" in the sense that high taxes deter use, but that's ignoring the other side of the ledger. There are many other ways to reduce congestion than deterring use through taxation. One of them is to build more housing, for example, so that people can live closer to work and have shorter commutes. Another is to eliminate the fares for mass transit, so its relative cost advantage increases but the difference is created by using ordinary general purpose progressive taxes to fund the system instead of imposing a regressive tax on anyone with an unavoidable need to drive a vehicle. The latter also improves privacy for both drivers and riders by removing both mass surveillance systems that tie everyone's movements to them through the payments system, and increase government efficiency because revenue collection through general taxes has much lower overhead than transit collections infrastructure.

There are actually reasons to oppose congestion pricing because there are alternatives to it that achieve the same goal more efficiently with fewer negative externalities.
thanks! can you tell me the Firefox version?
keyboard navigation is a great idea, didn't think of it since I mostly use this on mobile.
From my experience living in central London they just jack the prices to compensate. It's expensive getting a plumber here. Although I guess the charge is only part of it. The congestion charge here is £15 and my last two plumbers were £400 a time.
To me, name collisions are only a big deal if the app or project exists in very similar use case scenarios. In this case, I'd say confusion could easily happen if ''screen'' replaced ''screen'' in the path or a call. How about "Soloterm"? Have you thought of others?
1. Is only the case _when using Quest Link_. Virtual Desktop > Quest Link USB > Quest Link wireless.

2. I never figured it out, since Virtual Desktop fixed a bunch of my other issues too.
Natch, I feared as much. I've been seeing it more and more lately. I've found it's hard for me to look at. I'd say more but I'm already wasting words.
>You can keep supporting it. if we were hanging out IRL I would clock you (unhappily, regretfully) as someone supporting supremacy.

Let me understand you - you would assume that the individual in question knows for certain how HOAs have been used against minority groups, and then you would physically attack them before asking them if they were even aware and trying to enlighten them to the issue?

Edit: And at the risk of pushing HN's guidelines, I'll point out that this is what you've put on your personal website:

>I value coherence, meaningfulness, compassion, and kindness.

One of these things is sure as hell not like the other. Yikes. Maybe go get some fresh air, bud...

Edit 2: And I say all this as someone who very much hates HOAs and will never own a home that is in one.
Finishing investigation is not point in time when people knew it was Putnam.
Cars don’t last forever, and shipping junk cars from the US to the global south doesn’t make economic sense. Eventually there’s a bottom of the chain.
In the US inappropriately obtained evidence, failure to follow chain of custody, etc is waived by the judges and allowed under 'good faith' (the court assumes good faith on the police's part even though the police failed to follow the process/rules/law/requirements and therefor the court doesn't enforce compliance requirements).

Search Lexus/Nexus for 'chain of custody' and 'good faith'. If the judge can waive away supposed rules/requirements/process violations with the blanket 'good faith' (that the court just blanket trusts that police were acting in good faith and not attribute maliciousness to their failure to comply) you don't actually have a system of rules/justice, you just have window dressing to make it appear you have a system of rules and justice.
In my state you don't sign the hoa (covenants). Instead it is just something a dead guy signed 40 years ago, encumbered on the land for infinity*, and recorded somewhere. Maybe the title search will turn it up, maybe it won't, but either way it is enforced whether you know (or even could know) about it or not.

I was particularly enraged that even in unpopulated desert wasteland ( not even roads to get there ) 9 of 10 properties I looked at were encumbered by this nonsense, usually by a dead boomer who was afraid of anything but a mansion next to his mobile home pig farm. Several times I was lied to by everyone and only discovered it during title search and only because I sifted through hundreds of pages of ancient scanned documents.

It is truly a poison on the land and by design the proportion of encumbered land ratchets up with no way to reverse.

* Theoretically the law requires them to have a way to be removed but clever lawyering makes it next to impossible for a regular person.
haha, yeah this combo was pretty hilarious and highly inconsistent from reading to reading: https://www.openai.fm/#b2a4c1ca-b15a-44eb-9cd9-377f0e47e5a6
thanks! no export yet since I wasn't sure how it would look like
what kind of export formats are you interested in?
I've found that refactoring to fix a lack of abstraction is usually easier than refactoring to fix the wrong abstraction.
Recently, something quite rare happened. I needed to Xerox some paper documents. Well, such actions are rare today, but years ago, it was quite common to Xerox things.

Over time, the meaning of the word 'Xerox' changed. More specifically, it gained a new meaning. For a long time, Xerox only referred to a company named in 1961. Some time in the late 60s, it started to be used as a verb, and as I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, the word 'Xerox' was overwhelmingly used in its verb form.

Our society decided as a whole that it was ok for the noun Xerox to be used a verb. That's a normal and natural part of language development.

As others have noted, management doesn't care whether the serverless thing you want to use is running on servers or not. They care that they don't have to maintain servers themselves. CapEx vs OpEx and all that.

I agree that there could be some small hazard with the idea that, if I run my important thing in a 'serverless' fashion, then I don't have to associate all of the problems/challenges/concerns I have with 'servers' to my important thing.

It's an abstraction, and all abstractions are leaky.

If we're lucky, this abstraction will, on average, leak very little.
Might have more access to more capital. And they're not very incentivized to use it. There's no competition.
The Desktop Composition extension was never used in practice, check the date on the spec - the last update was in 2017. I don't know the whole story behind the scenes but the feature got pulled early.
https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/hoa-statistics

> 82.4% of new homes sold in 2023 were part of HOA communities

Not sure if this is AI-generated but this almost contradicts it on the same page (though it is constructed vs sold.)

> 64.7% of newly constructed homes were part of HOA communities in 2023, down 2.1% year-over-year (YoY)

> 77.1 million Americans live in HOAs, condominium communities, or cooperatives in 2024; this number represents 22.7% of the 2024 total U.S. population

Of course, not everyone buys new homes.

https://www.nahb.org/News-and-Economics/Housing-Economics/Na...

> Key Findings about the home buyers in the 2021 AHS:

> 7% of home buyers purchased a new home
thanks, good catch! I'll fix that.
I live in suburbia, and I don't think I have ever seen either soccer or frisbees in any of my neighbor's lawns.

I would never buy a house with an HOA. I realize that some places people don't have much choice, and I sympathize with their plight.
I have to assume this is entirely because American architectural practices are ultimately derived from England’s, where courtyards are not particularly helpful.

They make perfect sense in warm, sunny regions like the Mediterranean because they provide a shaded and comparatively cool area on hot sunny summer days.

The courtyard giving shade is a negative in England since it seldom gets very hot and so people are actively trying to enjoy the sun, not hide from it. And as a double whammy a courtyard means more exposed walls so a home that’s harder to heat in colder winters.

Of course plenty of Americans live in places much hotter and sunnier than England - but their English heritage has left them with standard building practices unsuited to their environment.
That's my best guess. Oddest thing is that eID appears to be under their interior ministry, but that's not in the portfolio of the minister identified?
In my case the answer to why not both was unattended reliability and piece of mind. If it's raining and we lose power we have about four hours before we start to get flooding do to a sump pump not running. Our backup generator will run a self test every week and automatically power the house with a ten second delay when the power goes out. While I suspect solar and a battery backup would keep the sump pump running for a long time it's nice to not need to choose what to run and monitor our power usage during an outage. It's also nice to not worry about power while were on vacation. With solar and a battery backup I'd be concerned about checking it while away from the house. I realize I"m somewhat of a unique situation though in just how quickly we get flooding when power goes out.
Sorry, what's the advantage here? People are going to unplug the mouse anyway when it doesn't need charging because it feels much more natural. _Forcing_ people to stop using the mouse to charge is a braindead decision
If trust issues and paranoia are sufficient, you can definitely self-host the server portion of the application, and many do. ;-)

Bitwarden is open-source enough to where all functionality can be self-hosted and run on one's own and reviewed. IIRC, there are a couple of non-floss modules for the commercial release in different directories under source control iirc... Some are more purist than others.
Infocom's Infocomics
Personally I doubt it. Most
goods would continue to be imported. Wealth would flow in from the government and then flow out to external entities.

Local service jobs don’t make for much of an economy unless you have tourism.