skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Prop. 13 created incentives to never move out, and thus killed dynamism in CA. Young people need homes near work. Older people need cheaper homes and can be further from city centers.

Homesteading tax breaks are one thing, but applying them to all property is absolutely insane. This is easily the worst thing about it, and it has to go.

As to homesteading, even for homesteading the property taxes need to be able to go up with housing inflation somewhat at least.

It would be quite different if it was only the actual percentage tax rate that was limited in growth. I'd want that for income taxes too.

A brake on one kind of tax will spill into another kind. Thus, e.g., in TX property taxes function as an income tax via the Robin Hood school funding plan. It would be better to have a proper income tax, but no one will vote for such a thing without a hard constitutional brake on rates.
That's vastly understating the amount of Uranium and Thorium we can access. Without a breeder reactor it might only be tens of thousands but with a breeder reactor the amount of material we could use goes up by several orders of magnitude.
I like the reframing to pretend like this is about personal property.

You can sell your property to whoever you want. But there person who buys it can't do whatever they want. That's how it works everywhere. This is about zoning, not who you can sell your property to.
Everyone should be using a password manager. You can't really trust the average joe to be able to make secure passwords for the potentially dozens or hundreds of sites and services, and even if they do, they probably use just one secure password for everything.

I just wish there was more seamless support for apps to use 1Password to paste in passwords. There are still sites that prevent pasting into password fields!
Sounds like something a bitcoin user might post...
FoundationDB community highlights, two weeks in
In an efficient market, the rental rate (controlling for unit quality) for long-term residents and short-term guests should differ only by as much as the landlord gains from the predictability of a long-term resident's rent payment stream and the lower upkeep costs. This result just tells us that this difference is smaller than the pre-Airbnb gap between hotel and apartment rates.

Airbnb is removing friction and making the market more efficient. It's not some kind of force for evil.
You're right. I misread. Thanks for pointing that out.
Is it more of a problem than definitely dying, though? That’s the real question here.
The reason vegetables are poisonous is because of the animal waste that is being used to grow plants. If there wasn't such a huge livestock industry, people wouldn't be using their excrement for fertilizer and our plants would be safer.
Voting on comments encourages it.
The hydrochloric acid in the stomach is pretty strong, about 1.5 ph. Cooking is mild for most compounds compared to dissolution in strong acid. I don't think we cook too much. Like you said, it is mostly just predigestion.
Yes, but the usual "free games" kids get today, they pay with their attention, and or data, and/or later with real money to make progress in the game.

All the games of my childhood I bought(or pirated) .. were 100% about the game.

vut when I see my niece and nephiew playing and accpeting lots of advertisement all the time in their game, like it's normal, I get a bit sad.

So of course, I push other content to them... but I would say the ordinary kid today, gets a lot worse input today, the I did.

And I would like to see much more real free, open source games out there. But apparently very hard to make money with it..
That's a two way street though. If the ambient is higher it will carry the heat from the outside into places in the drive where it can do real damage.
Ellen Pao challenges tech executives to remove “incels” from Silicon Valley
Question: How would this type of attack be implemented without using Javascript?
So? Are tourist utility-hours somehow different from resident utility-hours?
> Confluence is great for writing documents

Citation needed. I use it almost daily and it's essentially write-only and pretty unusably so at that.
Density is a response to high housing prices, not a cause.
Idk about _the_ problem. Healthcare might be a bigger problem than housing - especially since astronomical medical bills and lack of insurance can cause people who had homes to lose them
People who own property can't do whatever they want with it. That's true everywhere.

This is 100% about zoning laws. About what can be done with a particular piece of property and what can (and can not) be built.
Here's what the BLS has to say about that. https://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm

I think about this when people post about how you don;t really need a college degree, you just need a trade. I have no doubt that some tradesmen do very well but I doubt they represent the entire class of workers.

I do wonder what the numbers would look like if trained tradesmen (and women) were compared based on time spent learning (e.g. years of apprenticeship vs. years of college.)
There is very little to be gained or added from pointing out this was optional -- for some reason the CTO decided to make a point of it.

I think the tone matters. Particularly for matters like this.

To my ear (and many who replied to that Tweet) this reads as "we've decided to do you a favor." Which is very much not the case.
Thanks for the helpful feedback. To answer your question: Asylo is currently x86 specific and provides a simulated enclave backend. We plan on evaluating additional enclave technologies going forward, with the goal of supporting those which gain the most market traction and community support.

Obvious disclaimer: currently working at Google on Asylo.
The technology isn't the problem. It's the companies.
> What's the difference [between Marxism and Communism]?

You're unlikely to get a good answer to that here. HN is a site with heavy entrepreneurial/libertarian bent. Most of the people here (myself included) are chiefly going to be familiar with Marxism through the lens of mid-century libertarian polemics against central planning and histories of various brutal dictatorships that wrapped themselves in the "flag" of Marxism.

For my part, I think we're going to have to distinguish, at least, between Marx's ideas, Soviet Leninist ideas, and generic anti-market central planning. For instance, I think Marx envisioned Communism emerging from an advanced industrialized capitalist society, while all historical "Communist" countries emerged from feudal unindustrialized ones. I think some "communist" thinkers envisioned an end-state that was something like a market economy, except the workers would own the factories in which they worked rather than some remote "capitalist."

I would be extremely surprised (though grateful!) if many on HN had made a serious study of Marxism and could explain it, without succumbing to the biases I outlined above.
German satirist jan böhmermann wants to shower online hate with love trolls
I notice that the submission contains a "?hn" query arg, which I'm pretty sure confuses the dupe detector.
It's an apartment with a kitchen and bathroom and bedroom, not a "shoebox". If you don't want to live in one, that's fine, but prohibiting this kind of housing altogether is a horrid idea.

In America, we don't even have the option to live in that sort of apartment, we instead can only 1) rent a room in someone else's house (and be at the mercy of their awful idiosyncracies and have negligible amounts of privacy) or 2) not have a place to live at all.
In California property taxes are fixed.
I drive a Tesla MX. If Tesla folds and my car gets destroyed I’m tempted to get the Jaguar iPace - it’s the only other “skateboard” BEV currently available. I don’t understand why all the other BEVs go for the “batteries in the trunk”-design when the skateboard model is clearly far superior.
You need 7-zip to read tarball and zip on Windows.
The WHO says glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic," which is not harmless at all.

http://www.who.int/foodsafety/faq/en/
> I don't understand how my car works but it sure works better than my easy to understand bike.

That's an interesting comparison:

- The car might work better by certain metrics (speed, distance, force) but the bike can still outperform it in some situations (high traffic, cost efficiency on shorter distances, terrain)

- If the car breaks I'd need help fixing it, with the bike, I could probably fix most issues myself.

That's why both, cars and bikes, do coexist as each of them fills a specific need/niche.
Trying to apply this to monetary systems sure seems difficult to imagine, but maybe something like that might be the actual solution?
Actually, in California what people did was vote to raise the property tax rates of people moving into the state without raising their own. That's Prop 13 in a nutshell.

I support more development in your neighborhood too.
Maybe not, but it worked out pretty well for him.
> Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process

This isn't a bug, it's incompetence. Remember folks, never, ever use the same password for two different websites. Assume all websites store your password in plain text even if they hash it at some point. With logging and tracking on steroids these days, I expect "bugs" like this to be commonplace.
I have a slightly different take than you. Suppose you believe A to be true. Furthermore suppose no evidence could be presented that would convince you that A is not true. For you then, isn’t it the case that A is indeed true? It may not be true to someone else but for you that truth exists.

I guess I’d say is person and time dependent. Perhaps you agree and would say there is no such thing as objective truth?
>>And yet none of them are landing autonomous reusable rocket modules

I watched Armadillo do that in 2005

>Of all the 100% electric cars on road, he has two in the top 5

And neither invented the category nor managed to turn a profit on it

>Who else has been pushing battery storage and solar systems that aren’t ugly af and simply made of old parts glued together in parallel?

For batteries: Panasonic, LG but also literally every battery company and chemistry department in the world.

For solar panels: also every chemistry department and dozens of companies, "China" as a vague term.

And these other experts: they're making money instead of losing it.

But even then this whole post buys into the idea that I some how have to disprove that Elon Musk does these things. He doesn't. Companies that Elon Musk is CEO of do those things.
It’s not animal waste. It’s human waste.
Show HN: TimerBit – track tasks and projects with cloud-based timers
However annecdotal - I moved out of SF and will not return for exactly this reason. At this point I almost laugh whenever someone approaches me for a position where the main office is in SF and they have a "no remote employees" policy.
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Cooked food provides more energy than raw food. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2011/12/08/why-calori...
I think I've tested all the major podcasts app out there, paid for their subscriptions etc... The one that was clearly over the others has always been Pocket Casts. I'm also a subscriber of https://play.pocketcasts.com, their web platform. I just love them. I'm really happy that they've made the money they deserve (or I hope they did anyway).

That being said, I don't feel confident at all that NPR will now respect my privacy as much as Pocket Cast, the company. I'm really scared that NPR will change the app like all those media companies do when they acquire something good - that is transforming the tool into an ad machine, or at the minimum something to track users.

Despite the blog post where they announce that nothing will change, I hope Pocket cast's team will continue their good work and resist the pressure of a media company.
What is it about mantis shrimp that they have this seemingly comically over-engineered vision system? They eat small prey, so that's obviously one reason to have decent vision, but I can't imagine why they need so developed a vision system where other animals eating the same prey have no such need.

Weird.
Yes, Pdf.js is a Mozilla project, right?
Cant wait for SSH and FTP File System Providers.
Someone who knows how to do that probably isn’t programming in electron.
Your observation sounds like what Daniel Kahneman described in his book: Thinking, Fast and Slow as the peak-end rule [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak%E2%80%93end_rule
I'm the lead organizer of Mission YIMBY, and we support building everywhere. We have a particular focus on upzoning all of the exclusionary neighborhoods where apartments are illegal. We'd be happy if the entirety of San Francisco had the same zoning rules as the Mission, because it results in a healthy and vibrant neighborhood.

We want both subsidized Affordable and market-rate buildings built everywhere in the city, including the Mission. We don't show up at the Planning Commission to fight for the market-rate buildings in the neighborhood because they get built without our help. Neighbors still regularly fight subsidized Affordable housing, even in the Mission.

I kinda get the feeling you're misrepresenting a movement with which you have an ideological disagreement.
What are other natural fertilizer options?
If my gardener leaves a rake on my driveway, I'll remove the rake. That doesn't make the gardener an employee.
There’s an ongoing effort to understand the SID here

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4150

Lots of interesting analog chip level stuff, it’s all new to me as I’ve only dealt with things at the digital level, but very interesting to see how the fabrication technology works in an analog way..
I'm really not sure that's better. They're not using "masking" and "random" in the way those words would normally be interpreted.
Sure, you can avoid it, but mostly with some effort. Specifically if you're manually changing the column type which is covered by an index, you'd have to:

Add a new column with a new index. Copy the old data over and change the code/add a trigger to keep them synchronised. Change the code to use the new column instead. Remove the sync code/trigger. Drop the old column/index. And you're potentially left with a weird name, because the purpose of the column didn't change, just the type.

Or you could use gh-ost and do it in one go, semi-automated without any code changes, and with the same column name.
Is it the defining problem of our generation, or the defining problem for West Coasters of our generation?
I don't think many people missing this point. I got the point from the article itself and even before this when I saw BBC I figured it was going to be related to video.
I see. I'm assuming "processing" includes stuff like including it in google analytics reports or having a database of EU users who signed up for a free account.

EU is basically inconsequential revenue for me. What would be the minimum required?

1. Shut off sales to EU, or
2. Shut off free account creation and/or email list signup to EU + shut off google analytics for EU, or
3. Block all EU IPs

It's not worth figuring out how to comply. I make less than $500 from the EU each year.

"Ignore it" doesn't seem like a good move as the fine is very large.
> The whole point of Asylo is to provide a hardware abstraction layer to make applications portable across different enclaves; it's the opposite of reinforcing Intel's position.

Yes, I shouldn't have conflated Asylo and SGX (or TEEs in general – where SGX is now dominant for the remote attestation model). The concern was with SGX, maybe even specifically to it being used together with other TEEs for ubiquitous DRM on consumer devices. Asylo could indeed drive competition in the case of remote attestation.
FWIW utility generators are cooled with hydrogen to reduce windage losses and promote cooling. Hydrogen is probably lower viscosity and higher thermal conductivity than helium. It's also very hard to contain due to the small molecular size and has the widest flammability range of any gas with which I'm familiar, making it an interesting gas to work with. ;)
It depends on how supply is increased. If you allow single-unit housing stock to be converted to multi-unit, that causes existing homes to rise in price as you say. But rezoning industrial buildings to high-density residential causes existing homes to drop in price. I believe the solution in SF will mostly be the latter, such as converting warehouses in the Mission into lofts.

Also, California's weird laws mean that property taxes don't go up much even when the value of houses rise a lot.

So most NIMBY homeowners are genuinely defending against property values dropping.
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I don't think many of them have bothered to try.
>To preempt the inevitable question in the comments section: yes, we did run these Turing machines for a while, and no, none of them had halted after a day or so. But before you interpret that as evidence in favor of Goldbach, Riemann, and the consistency of ZFC, you should probably know that a Turing machine to test whether all perfect squares are less than 5, produced using Laconic, needed to run for more than an hour before it found the first counterexample (namely, 32=9) and halted. Laconic Turing machines are optimized only for the number of states, not for speed, to put it mildly.

Does anyone know of any speed-optimized tests of ZFC currently running? I'd expect that they're not using Turing machines. . .
You either can be outsourced inexpensively, or you can't. If you can, but your physical presence in a Bay Area office is effective in stopping your employer from figuring it out, then you should probably stay here.
I...are you serious? You've never washed lettuce before? It's not like washing dishes.
I purposely created a Instagram profile not attached to any email I own (sharklasers.com) The only link between that profile and my real Facebook profile was the mobile device I use to access them. Soon after creating the account people that I am friends with on Facebook started following me and my posts. I never once connected anything personal to this Instagram profile. I'm not sure how I appeared anywhere in their feeds. I can only discern that somehow Facebook inc is able to read the Instagram data on my phone or vice versa. Instagram read my Facebook data, gathers which of my Facebook friends use IG, and begins showing me in the people they may know feed.
Felt strongly that [Twitter] should have... "said we didn't have to share"? "shared"?

Parag needs a Comms director to handle is Twitter account.
That's true for nearly every single internet facing service, no? A compromise resulting in point-in-time access to traffic is a bit different than a bug that creates a persisted historical record of every single user who signed in for a period.

Maybe I miss the point behind this comparison? I guess I'd understand more if I thought the number of folks with node access and log access were in the same magnitude at Twitter, or if the TLS stack persisted data over time.
Iceberg lettuce is the most pointless waste of time and money in the entire agricultural industry.

You are absolutely correct in your assessment of vegetable quality. Everything is bred for transportability, appearance, and shelf life, then flavor and nutrition go out the window.

It's exactly the same story as the Red Delicious apple. They were bred to be very red, not at all sour, and to not bruise too easily. So they look good, but taste like garbage.

I have noticed the same devolution in watermelons. You used to be able to get huge, arm-filling watermelons, juicy and sweet, but shot through with big black seeds. Now at the supermarket they're all seedless, nearly flavorless, and small.

Same with strawberries. They used to be small, but intensely flavored, and ranging from very sweet to slightly sour. Now you can find them as big as your clenched fist, but then bite into one, and it just tastes like dirty water.

I don't buy food to look at it. It seems like the greatest minds of the last agricultural generation have all been wasted on making foods look like they'll taste good, and look like they're worth the money, but then become a total disappointment to your tongue.
Nero burning Rom
BattleTech is a more tactical, punishing view of mech battling
> Additionally, it would require compiling 7-Zip with a modern compiler like VS2017

Ahhh, but does say VS2017 produce a smaller executable file, or a faster executable?

I am pleased Igor cares about individual 1% improvements - they stack up to significant savings. However I agree for our work usage security is more important.
Edit: Should have been "18.04". I need a better proof reader. (Perhaps that is why this was downvoted.)
It might be fair if true. But is it true? In general java desktop apps that I've used have been heavy users of memory & cpu resources (I don't think any of these were JavaFX-based though).

On my system, Everest is using a lot more memory than Insomnia. Perhaps an unfair comparison as Everest is an alpha, whereas Insomnia is very polished. But I see nothing to support the claim.
Sounds a bit like the pragmatic theory of Truth as proposed by William James.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_theory_of_truth
Except long-term tenants also have tenant protections that short-term guests do not for good reason.

Markets often fail to price in externalities, such as the fact that short-term guests make terrible neighbors to long-term residents, particularly if they are in the same hallway of an apartment building. That's why hotels are regulated in the first place, because the citizens of the polity involved often don't want hotel guests anywhere near them.
>Empiricism is one way of providing evidence for a true statement, but -- from a philosophical perspective -- it is not obvious it is the best or only way.

But it does stop being science when you abandon testable predictions.
The drive produces heat, so it will always be hotter than ambient (proportional to the heat generated times the thermal resistance).
The big barriers to adoption of a new product, service, or whatever are:

1. People knowing about it.

2. People needing it.

3. People trusting it.

Like a fire needs heat, oxygen and fuel, new products survive only when they get all three corners of the triangle. If your product is cheap enough, some people will try it when they think that they have a need for something like that; trust comes eventually. Open source builds trust that in the worst case, people using your product will have a glide path out instead of a sudden brick wall.

In the instant case, Mellanox gets a highly visible, reputable customer telling everyone in their industry that Mellanox NICs are high-performance, are trusted, and can be adapted to their needs. Anyone who reads this article and thinks about high-performance NICs will have a bit more trust in the Mellanox brand as a flexible system.
> Sorry to say that I'm one of those guys. I never comment code that is straightforward and easy to understand if I succeed with naming classes, methods and variables right. If I need to solve something in an illogical way due to other requirements/bugs that are out of my control I comment it.

I think that's fine. I only comment code that is not obvious, breaks common idioms used in the code base or stuff that seems stupid but is actually needed because of legacy code or systems.
I keep all my passwords in a text file. I can't imagine remembering them all. I suppose I should keep that file encrypted and synced to multiple devices with rsync or so. Would a password manager give me any advantage over this scheme?
Based on my reading it seemed like SB 827 was doomed because there was no way municipalities were going to support it (it basically removed their power to decide on the matter), even if they believe in the policies it enforced.
They can be erased or tampered with. Try signing a mortgage, or other notarized or apostille document with a pencil sometime - they won't accept it.