HackerNews Summary (2023-05-25 08PM)

Source: Greater Idaho measure clinches Wallowa County win

Summary
Greater Idaho measure has won in Wallowa County, Oregon, with only 7 incomplete ballots left to be cured by voters. The movement has won 12 out of the 12 counties that have voted on such a measure and believes that joining Idaho would benefit Oregon’s state budget.

Fact

🗳️ The Greater Idaho measure has clinched a victory in Wallowa County, Oregon, and has won 12 out of the 12 counties that have voted on such a measure.

💰 Professional Portland political operatives trying to hide who they were and how much money they were spending lost, despite outspending the greater Idaho movement this time.

🌄 Eastern Oregon overall has an average of 60% in favor of Greater Idaho ballot measures since the first election six election cycles ago.

💼 Greater Idaho believes that joining Idaho would benefit Oregon’s state budget and rural Oregon will elect more kamikaze Republicans who are willing to bring the Oregon Legislature to a halt every year to block unacceptable laws.

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Source: tidwall/jj: JSON Stream Editor (command line utility)

Summary
JJ is a command line tool that retrieves and updates values from JSON documents without parsing irrelevant sections of the document. The tool can be installed via building it or using a pre-built binary.

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💻 JJ is a command line utility that provides a fast and simple way to retrieve or update values from JSON documents.

👀 JJ avoids parsing irrelevant sections of JSON and skips over values that do not apply, increasing its speed.

✨ JJ uses path syntax for finding values and can retrieve not just a single value, but an entire block of JSON too.

📈 JJ supports JSON Lines using the .. path prefix. It treats multi-lined documents as an array.

🎛️ The -v value option is auto-detected by the tool as a Boolean, Number, Null or String. But raw JSON blocks like objects, arrays, or pre-marshalled strings can also be entered by including the -r option.

🤖 JJ can also be used to update or append to array values by index or to set an array value past the bounds.

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Source: Fluent 2 Design System

Summary
Effortlessly create icons in multiple sizes with just one drawing using the Icon Scaling Tool.

Fact

🖍️ Draw icons once and scale to multiple sizes with a single click.

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Source: The Supreme Court Made Just About Everyone Happy for Once

Summary
The US Supreme Court has ruled that states cannot keep surplus funds from the sale of homes whose residents failed to pay property taxes. The decision blocks around a dozen states and the District of Columbia from holding on to the extra money. At issue was Geraldine Tyler, a 94-year-old Minnesota woman whose home sold for $40,000 in 2016 after she did not pay $15,000 in taxes and fees, with the county keeping the additional funds. The court found keeping excess funds from tax sales violated the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Fact

🏠 The Supreme Court’s decision centered on the case of Geraldine Tyler, a 94-year-old Minnesota resident whose home was sold for $40,000 in 2016 after she did not pay $15,000 of taxes and fees. The county kept the $25,000 owed to Tyler.

🏛️ In a class-action lawsuit on Tyler’s behalf, the Pacific Legal Foundation argued that states’ and counties’ practice of keeping excess funds from tax sales violated the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause preventing the government’s taking private property without “just compensation”.

👥 A broad range of groups such as ACLU, which is a liberal organization, filed amicus briefs to support the PLF’s position.

👩‍⚖️ All nine Supreme Court justices agreed with the Court’s decision blocking around 12 states and the District of Columbia from keeping surplus funds from tax sales. 

💰 Neal Katyal, Obama’s acting solicitor general, tried to justify Hennepin County’s position during oral arguments. But Justice Neil Gorsuch told him that he didn’t understand the relation of this case with the Statute of Gloucester of 1278, which allowed feudal lords to recover their land from tenants.

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