skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in NY (ah, but not NYC) and inside city limits, within a metro area of 1.1 million people, and I have about 1300 sq ft that cost $165K. And no HOA/condo fees.

I'm not really putting in any effort to evangelize and promote the idea, but the concept of a land value tax instead of regular property taxes seemed like a plausible solution to the problems people have with real estate markets. You tax something, you get less of it. We want people to develop and invest in building on land, but we don't want them to profit from the scarcity of the actual acreage. So why not tax the value of the land away, and leave the buildings on it alone?
Context: I write C++ at work. I also worked on compile-to-js language in the past.

> An arbitrary object should have absolutely no business knowing how to render itself

What should, in your opinion?

I find it straightforward to implement even plural serialize-to-string operations within classes or at least the same module as the class. One example that immediately comes to mind is a quaternion that can print itself as either 4 numbers (raw) or 3 numbers (euler angles). That said in C++ you don't have a standard `ToString`; you do have a standard shift-to-ostream that serves the same purpose. Rust also has Display and Debug traits you can implement, which I guess makes more sense to me than a single `ToString` as it resolves a common ambiguity.

Anything further than string/debug-print, though, I think your objection makes more sense, as "render" (as in "to HTML" and such) is more cross-concerns; in these cases I usually opt for "function in the same package as the class, but a separate source file".

> nor should a string know how to do I/O on itself

But isn't this a different issue compared to the previous case? The representation of "a string" is public knowledge while that of "an arbitrary object" is not.
Bootleg film shot by inmate shows Florida prison in all its squalor
I'm loving the documentation. It's way more fun to use than I expect and the colors aren't terrible cough React cough.

Docs look to be work in progress, but I like the simple API. No fluff, no fuss. Just update on state and stop with the JSX hackery. Yes, please. I'm game.
It's cars, not sedans.

Trucks have taken over US passenger vehicles. With consequence for pedestrian safety, parking spaces, space between vehicles on the road, and fuel consumption.
Nobody is trying to take your grandmother's house away. She can keep her house until somebody offers her enough money for her want to sell it. What you want is for your grandmother to be able to control what everyone around her is allowed to do with their property. If others want to sell their homes for millions so that apartments can be built (bringing in more people and raising their quality of life), why should she be allowed to stop them? The whole point of property rights is to allow this sort of thing.

And free parking? It's city-funded parking. The city owns the roads and maintains them. Long ago, density and car usage was low enough that the city had more than enough parking spots to go around. Now it's different. You have to drive around for a while to find an open spot. You pay in time instead of money. For many of us, that's not a worthwhile trade.

Also, I do wonder what the property taxes are on that $2,000,000 home. If the owner hasn't changed, it could be ridiculously low. In most states, the outcome of property taxes is that they encourage more economically efficient use of land. This is very important because land is a scarce resource in cities. Sadly, prop 13 has made this not the case in California.

My grandfather fought in the Vietnam war. About a decade after he retired, two new families moved into the houses next door to him: a Vietnamese family on his left and a Russian family on his right. This caused him great distress. Should he have been allowed to stop those families from living next to him? I don't think so, and I think building apartments in the neighborhood causes far less distress than that.
TIL. It's funny because one of my motivations for building this site was to have a project that allowed me to work with ElasticSearch.
My incomplete ~240 page dissertation takes about 2 minutes to compile until complete (i.e., running multiple times to get references right, etc.). No TikZ at all, Intel Core i3 dual core processor, normal hard drive.
Just want to point out that in the same time period, Asians were heavily discriminated against in northern California.

And yet there is no trace of it now. I doubt you have set foot in Arkansas, because your implication that the attitudes haven't changed much is grossly inaccurate.
He may be an outlier, but that is only because he chose differently. He didn't get lucky beyond having the mental ability to do a high-paying (software?) career.

I have about the same deal. I'm in a low-density part of Florida, enjoying my 3-minute commute to a workplace across the road from the beach. I can afford my 12 kids. If I were willing to live in a 2-bedroom house on only 0.17 acres (for about $172,000), I could pole vault to work. I prefer my 0.39 acres of course. People wanting a dozen acres have to commute about 25 minutes.

Unless you live in a tiny studio apartment, income simply doesn't keep up with cost of living in the expensive areas. I don't know what income it would take to have acres of land in San Francisco, but it is something frightful that isn't generally being offered.
Did you even read the original comment I replied to where people jumped all over me?

> Outside of a submarine, there really is little reason.

Because unless I missed it, I don’t see where you jumped to my defense.
So, the Purism Librem is a purpose-built laptop. It wants to first, respect your freedom, and second, provide excellent build quality. It succeeds on both of those goals.

Does it succeed at build quality better than Apple? It's arguable. The UX on Apple laptops is great, however the durability on the Librem is commanding. Does it respect your privacy more than Apple? 100% yes. There are hardware switches for wifi and microphone / video. It comes by default with a Debian-based, FSF-approved OS, which I personally replaced with Ubuntu for reasons. I consider it a fine laptop equal in build quality to everything but a late-model ThinkPad, especially since Apple's been screwing the pooch in that regard.

I've owned a System76 Galago Pro, not the current gen, and the Librem blows it out of the water in every single category. I buy a lot of System76 hardware, having purchased three machines in the past year. The Meerkat is a great little powerhouse. But their laptops just aren't as focused hardware-wise as Purism's offering. If you want that ultrabook experience in a durable package with curated hardware for Linux compatibility, there isn't anything else to buy, except perhaps the Dell XPS, but Purism.

That also said, if you're looking for a desktop replacement, the Librem won't be your cup of tea. System76 just came out with their Adder 4k which looks amazing and I've been resisting the urge to drop $4k on one for weeks. I dunno how the build quality compares but I don't think it can really touch the Librem in that regard. I'm thinking S76 is competing with Dell while Purism is competing with Apple. YMMV
There is plenty of technology to do this. Well known brands like Rockwool or Quietrock. Its less labor intensive and probably better for earthquake country like California. But they do cost a little extra and many people are still not willing to pay the extra cost during house construction.
Efforts to ditch any C remnants are being made[1].

[1] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/
An equivalent perspective would be that their marketshare will increase significantly when they introduce more models. An "SUV" (crossover) and a pickup.
If you're upfront about it, it's fine.

If I'm reading a piece by an author whose 1st language is not English, I'll make adjustments in what I think mistakes say about them. Most readers will. And I'll be focusing on content and ideas and glossing over sentence details.

It can be even be a positive, "This is impressive writing for a non-native speaker..."

If, on the other hand, you are trying to pass yourself off as someone with the same command as a native speaker, I'll be turned off.
> CoCs are a way to bring in that civility in discourse

I can’t even conjure up an example of anything that is failing harder at it’s intended purpose, then.
Are you making a nativist argument?
No that is incorrect, macOS is app-centric and it’s really not a truer form of anything in particular other than its self. That’s why you only see one icon in the dock per app and not per window or document. And you cannot switch directly from one document in one application to another document in another application. You have to switch apps first, then you can switch documents/windows.

Windows is window-centric. That’s why when you do alt tab, you see all of the windows. That’s also why you classically see a separate task bar item for each window.

I’d like to hear an argument in support of your view though.
The Dutch aren't moving.
It's mostly a matter of finding the right environment and developing strategies to stay on track.
It's not like law was ever going to fit onto a note card, unless the law was "What King George says, goes". Even if you assume no interference from organizations manipulating the law, life is complex and sometimes morally ambiguous. Even simple board games have rule books of many pages- or, those that don't, frequently leave the players wondering about some ambiguous circumstance.

Remember, too, that our legal system was designed to temper the "everything is probably illegal by some interpretation..." nature. That's why you have a right to confront your accuser, a right to a jury of your peers, the "reasonable man" standard, so on and so forth.
Switzerland is an example, but at less than 10 million people, it doesn’t compare well to many other economies like Japan, Korea, Germany, Russia, China, etc.

Pivoting is much easier at small scale.
I disagree. The existence of a walled garden to opt into is a meaningful choice. As long as other choices exist, the existence of a walled garden limits nobodies choice. Based on some other comments in the thread I'll add that it would be even better from a choice perspective if Apple offered two configurations of iPhone, one where sideloading was available via a software toggle and one with hardware that cannot run unsigned code. Ultimately though, an approximation of this choice is available by substituting some Android device for the first option.
Quite the opposite, it would promote new high density building construction, because the incentive is to maximize utilization to spread the costs.

For instance, owners of a single family home on a given piece of land would pay five times as much as 5 apartments on that land, because each apartment would only pay 20% each.
I hope this is true. Anyone else think the iPhone 8 form factor is the pinnacle of smartphones?
Starting a blog is a great way to demo your skills and ability to solve problems.

Here's a relevant article with a few other ideas:
https://daedtech.com/programming-job-without-degree/
https://www.feastgenius.com/recipes/javascript-alert-quot-xs...

You might want to add/move up reporting to the feature list -- this recipe is currently on the front page.
I switched from 1Password to bitwarden. I feel like the browser plugin is a better experience for me. At work I set it to require 2factor to authenticate to use and at home only require my password. On my iPhone it uses faceid or thumb depending on phone model.
Algorithms, Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne

https://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/

Is my personal favorite.

CLRS is a great reference but learning algorithms from it is like trying to learn English by reading the dictionary.

It's great if you already know stuff and are looking for clarity or in the context of a course / class because someone has structured the curriculum already. But on its own is just a bunch of info.

Sedgwick and Wanye is easier to pickup and play from scratch with.
This channel is full of interesting content. It's sad it didn't last very long (something like 4 months between the channel creation and the last video).
I remember when Stack Exchange was about fixing broken code.
(NYT cooking very much excepted.)

This is a consistently excellent resource, and I love the many small, essential bits of polish they've applied to their iOS app, like preventing your iPhone's screen from turning off when you're reading a recipe.
> And enough people put it into eval that several companies started prepending while(1); to their JSON messages.

while(1); existed to work around a browser vulnerability where the same-origin policy could be bypassed by including cross-origin JSON as a <script>. Nothing to do with eval.
Have you seen Pixar's movie "Inside Out"?

If not, this is irrelevant, but if you have, you will likely recall that the film's core narrative is about memories.

All those memories are depicted as audiovisual records of events, often (literally) colored by an emotional overlay.

I think they represented them that way because most or all of the core project team shared that experience of memory.
Leaving the Bay Area is an appealing prospect in order to save on housing costs, but there are two issues that some people would need to consider in order to make that move:

1. There are some specialized types of jobs in the software industry where there are only a small handful of employers and where most of those employers are located in Silicon Valley. There are some areas in the software industry, such as web development and enterprise software, where there are plenty of jobs outside Silicon Valley and similar tech hubs. Plenty of businesses need custom applications, and the Microsoft software stack of Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET, Azure, and other products is commonly used outside of Silicon Valley, which seems to be focused on Linux. But suppose you work in the area of compilers, or you're an operating systems developer. The chances of moving to a place that isn't a tech hub and finding a compiler or operating systems development job is lower than finding a web development or Microsoft enterprise app development position. My line of work is in research in systems and AI, and it would be difficult for me to me to find similar work in most American metro areas outside of the Bay Area, Seattle, Austin, and New York, all of which (except for Austin) are expensive.

2. The Bay Area is famous for its acceptance of diverse cultures, lifestyles, and worldviews. The Bay Area's cosmopolitan atmosphere is one of my favorite aspects of living in the area. However, cosmopolitan urban areas in the United States tend to be expensive. New York, Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles are still expensive places, even if they are not as expensive as the Bay Area. An exception to the correlation between cosmopolitanism and expense is Sacramento, a very diverse place which by California standards is also still affordable despite rising housing prices. I would not mind living there, but it's a very long commute to Silicon Valley, and there are not many jobs in my subfield of systems and AI research in the Sacramento area. If I couldn't live in or near a diverse, cosmopolitan area, my next preference would be a tourist town with a nice, laid-back atmosphere, such as many of the towns on the Central Coast of California. But, once again, those areas lack the jobs I want.
Only a program with elevated priveleges can record keystrokes when not focused. Unpriveleged programs can see the clipboard data much more freely.
If you’re not saying that Cloudflare has done anything wrong or illegal, then I don’t get the point of what you’re saying. What are you trying to say?
I don't understand why this comment was voted into the negative, but I suspect that it has something to do with the world view of the people who oppose taxes on a fundamental level.

To those of you, I ask - why?

New York's flat non-distance based fare is one of the great democratic institutions of the city. Whether you live in Flushing, Rego Park or Gramercy; whether you ride one stop or make four transfers - you pay the same fare. The only way this can work is if those of us with more wealth take care of those of us with less. What seems wrong about this?
The Chinese government has been taking environmental concerns quite seriously as of late. This article actually originates from a feature story in the official newspaper of the Chinese Youth Communist Party Central Committee. It's very much party-endorsed.
Mapquest RIP
Care to enlighten us peasants who are Monty Python fans?
Perhaps they just want to find out who the dissenters are, so they can be summarily dismissed. There is at least one other instance in the gender wars of requesting feedback, only to publicly fire the hapless person which happened to take them up on their word.
I did delete all my accounts when this first came out. Fortunately I've been around long enough that I don't find stackoverlow that useful for myself, but it does mean I won't be providing help to other people anymore. Hopefully a new stackoverflow will arise soon.
Yup. And equivalent to providing free parking. You have a captive audience, and the price isn't high. Any time I use one of those "free" level 2 chargers, I always buy something where it's possible to do so. You're only talking like one or two dollars worth of electricity (I think people who don't have electric cars don't realize this), and then only if I stay an hour or three.

If I could seemlessly pay about 120% of my residential rate to slow charge, I would for convenience sake alone. But no one has really figured this out, yet.
Throughout history when societies enjoy above average improvement, it is because they are able to displace inheritance-based systems. These inheritance-based systems hand out benefits to random children, they subvert progress by enabling the incompetent and disabling the competent. Commonly, people who inherit stuff (money, authority, property) keep skewing laws to prevent others benefiting from the fruits of their labor, so that inheritors can maintain ownership. They do this by paying to skew laws to benefit owners over achievers.

If privacy doesn't exist anymore, then the inheritors will receive a level of power they have never had before. They will be unstoppable. We will reach an end-state of cultural-political development where the inheritors will no longer be challenged. We have had dark periods of time when inheritors have ruled for long periods, ancient Egypt with mass enslavement for example. Without privacy we will reach an event-horizon of wealth inequality, and no political counter-movement will be able to take root to challenge it. We are seeing the beginning of this in Hong Kong, we are seeing it in an uncompetitive pay-to-play patent system, in an increasingly monopolistic corporate environment, in increasingly uncompetitive marketplaces in dark pool trading systems, and in Apple/Microsoft/Facebook/Google/Amazon app stores and tech markets.

The threat to privacy is the greatest threat to progressive civilization we have ever encountered IMO.
SwiftUI tutorial for liquid-like animations
Sounds like you feel entitled to live in the Bay. Since we live in a capitalistic society, our actions are determined by what we can afford monetary wise.

But on a brighter note, trust me, there’s a lot of great places in the US! Many people from around the world immigrate to America to make it and I think those who are lucky enough to be able to stay in America due to citizenships (just cause you happened to be born on American soil) or via the Visa lottery should be grateful for the opportunities that they have.
This is interesting but I just use my bookmark manager Bookmark OS for organizing recipes https://bookmarkos.com
How do the fare subsidies compare to other subsidies like road maintainence?
I am starting to feel that academia and scientists have a lot more dogma than they would care to admit.

People believe whatever they want to believe and find a 'paper' or 'stat' to back it up.

In the end, a person should weigh out all the costs of a meat-heavy diet and consider the all the benefits of a plant-heavy diet. It's not even a debate for me.

I still allow myself to try unique food when I travel to fully experience a culture. I don't overdo it though, my body just feels different when I eat meat after getting used to life without it.
That's a pretty large canyon you're leaping across to conflate someone's personal preference to how they get addressed and rudeness being "required religiously". Oops, I just used "they" without asking the hypothetical "someone" how they'd like to be addressed.

I assume youd also say someone believing a man cannot be a woman is someone who should be wiped from the public discourse of the internet as well. Can you be offended by it? Absolutely, but there is nothing inherently "rude" about such a statement.

I prefer to be addressed "Sir Knight of the Round Table". Failure to do so will constitute breaking HN and SE CoC. It doesn't take far down the rabbit hole for the shoe to land on the other side.
Do you feel that way about art too? Most of these cars are more like works of art. Sure as transportation it doesn't give you anything more, just as an original Warhol doesn't give you anything more than a print.
Peak and especially distance based pricing are fundamentally regressive and unjust tax schemes that penalize the poor. Subway fares are already regressive in that they represent a larger share of income in poorer people than in the rich, making it distance based so that people who can't afford to live in the core are charged more makes the problem 10x worse.
The open letter, for context:

[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-barr-signs-l...]

[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-letter-to-ma...]

[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-letter-to-ma...]
Except most people don't live in NYC. Here in LA, all the taxis I've ever been in were dirty, the drivers drove recklessly, and were much more expensive.

Whenever I'm in NYC or other cities, it's also much more convenient to just use Uber or Lyft than to have to download and register an account for whatever app that city's taxis use.
Because professionals working full-time jobs and commuting at rush hour can typically afford the higher fare, while people working part-time/odd jobs/commuting to interviews/not working at all probably aren't the ones taking the rush hour trains.

Sure, there are some working poor who need to be in the office 9-5, but the majority of people working full time regular hours aren't poor. And for people who can't afford the increase, you just introduce an exception (if you make under $40,000 per year you don't pay the increased fare, or something like that)
Well, if you look around at older houses, they tend to be small, so it doesn't really make sense to frame it as some elevated consciousness.

When I was a kid, we didn't have anything like the monster SUVs of today. That's because an SUV in those days was basically the same as the now-mostly-discontinued mini-pickup trucks with a built in cap and two doors. There was nothing with seven seats and four doors and 300 hp and so on. So people weren't making conscious decisions not to buy that.
Yeah, I pay over double to the state for my electric car in extra EV taxes than I would for state gas taxes. It's actually punitive for EV owners (ostensibly because they're "rich," but I bought mine used and am definitely not rich).
It reads like a clinical PR piece. Mostly it reads as they're sorry it blew up in their face, and it doesn't really feel like they're sorry about what they did except harm themselves.

Then again, I might just be a bit jaded like GP.