skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, prices being where they are is at least partially a consequence of taxes staying the same which encouraged NIMBYism to build free equity instead of building.

Second, people who now have 2 million in equity with a 100k cost basis can take out financing for a portion of that to cover taxes into perpetuity and still have a huge equity appreciation.

Third, none of this precludes a slow path to getting people to paying FMV taxes by, for instance, capping tax increases at 10% per year. It'll take 20 years to catch up, but that's better than now. And it should probably accelerate if you hand the property down to the next generation.

Fourth, why does Prop 13 exist for people who rent out their homes or for commercial property? That's just a subsidy to the existing.
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Or corporate properties such as office towers.
> They couldn't have used that money for updates and maintenance?

My understanding is that they could not, yes, because state regulators exercise line-by-line control over PG&E's budgets, including how much money will be distributed as dividends and how much money will be spent on maintenance.
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> spending ~20% of traffic for telemetry

Maybe don't lie if you want to be taken seriously?

I've got 6 different Windows 10 machines active on my home network at any given time and I'm blocking Microsoft Telemetry via Pi-Hole. Microsoft Telemetry doesn't even account for 20% of the blocked traffic.

Pi-Hole is blocking about 10% of traffic overall.
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This might be wrong but it was reported in some publications at the time: "In March health workers administered the vaccine in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Abbottabad called Nawa Sher. The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

I think we'll have to agree to disagree over the possibility or desirability of running low-trust vaccination campaigns. FWIW I upvoted your first comment, even though I disagree with part of it.

Edit: missing word - think
that's not the same, you have to consider the intermediaries who have a ton of responsibility for investing that money. They're not absolved from responsibility , and technically Neumann didn't lie, at all.
That's true, but like many human endeavors we can reach a point that is good enough, or the process of implementing the benchmark leads to useful discoveries. It is not going to be perfect for all situations, but that doesn't mean it's not a valuable tool to use in some situations.
Probably can't get enough memory bandwidth on a motherboard for that to be practical
Certainly, but I think that Nordic model is sort of the aim.

It provides socialism for essentials and capitalism for the rest with a relatively libertarian approach to personal beliefs.

I know it’s my preferred model.
A reminder for whoever has rental properties - use your permanent address or a PO Box for all of your mail related to rental property... it’s dangerous to rely on tenants to pass mail to you - they may simply forget.
> "How did we get here? Simply put, bad government—from outdated zoning laws to a 40-year-old tax provision that benefits long-time homeowners at the expense of everyone else—has created a severe shortage of houses. While decades in the making, California’s slow-moving disaster has reached a critical point for state officials, businesses and the millions who are straining to live there."

To be clear, and fair, the economic implosion circa 2007 / 2008 helpeda lot as well. That "crisis" led to a massive redistribution of (home equity) wealth.

The under-waters bottomed out and those with the resources stepped in and filled the void at pennies on the dollar. With so much control and so much demand rents only go up.
Perhaps they are not storing the personally identifiable data (unclear whether the MAC addresses are logged on-site), but are merely passing it on to advertisers for their own use. Neat loophole if that is the case.
I think that's overstating it a bit. What I would say is that the CRDT added a lot of complexity, and we weren't able to encapsulate that complexity into an "engine" as was originally hoped.

Previous HN discussion on the mini-retrospective might be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19886883
I chose Facebook over Uber on 1/18/2019, which grossed me $92k.
Further Edit: The numbers are for SPARC which is about a 1.65 meter radius. 3 meters is the smallest size for a power plant, so on the order of $1.2 billion for the magnets assuming no significant decrease in material cost.
I recently paid a toll online (TxTag), and I paid the "total balance", but I missed that you have to check a second box (the amount "in collections") in order to actually pay everything that's due, and then I got hit with further late fees for that part, with no warning that, after this payment, I was still accruing penalties.

Screenshot of the interface:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/yAMrNg4VkrP68SLf6
Why should prop 13 cover businesses? It is always defended because some poor retired home owner. Newsflash: not many retired home owners in California are poor anymore. But meanwhile car dealerships and shopping malls are also protected from fair market taxes on their land use.
Raised intersections have also been found to be effective in these situations
If the data being base64 encoded will also then be compressed, it is better to base16 encode (hex) and then apply compression. Base16 is faster to encode and compresses better (probably compresses faster, didn't test that).

2537012 Nov 6 10:10 test.tar.hex.gz
2954608 Nov 6 10:03 test.tar.b64.gz

All the caveats, test with your data, etc.

What would be nice is an email/http resilient compressed format that could be stuck inside of json strings that can be easily recovered.
This is a great way to think about it.
they might, if your benchmark IS your special requirements.
It's not particularly disastrous in the rest of the country, however.
"It looks like the money in your savings account/investments in your investment account haven't been touched in a few years. We're taking it and giving it to someone who will use it."
Nice! My approach is very similar except that I have width mappings for non-ASCII characters. Also, since DejaVu Sans (the font that shield.io, pybadges and healthchecks use) is heavily kerned, I have a table of kerning widths.

You can also opt to use precise text width measurements (important for Arabic, Chinese, etc.) but then you have to have the font file available on your system.
The injustice is actually larger than this paragraph makes it seem. First, people can pass their low property taxes on to their children using trusts, creating a sort of landed nobility in California. Second, Prop 13 results in neighbors who receive the same public services paying vastly different taxes to fund them. Taxing similarly situated individuals differently violates the norm of horizontal equity.
I've tried many of those exercises and I agree that you can easily do 15 minutes the first time. Consistency is the problem I found. When I started at 30 seconds and built up slowly, I found it much easier to build a habit and do it consistently. Again I use the weightlifting analogy - I can squat close to my body weight, without any warm up, when I'm out of shape. But I can only do it once and I need a week to recover and I'm likely to injure myself. If I start with the empty bar and increase weight gradually for a month, I can work out every other day and hit my target consistently.
> The alternative is that we basically force people out of houses they've bought by gouging them with taxes.

So presumably you're also in favor of rent control^? The alternative is that we basically force people of out houses they've lived in forever by letting landlords (themselves benefiting from Prop 13) gouge them with crazy rent increases^^.

^ For the record I think both Prop 13 and rent control are bad ideas.

^^ The crazy rents are themselves due to Prop 13 removing any incentives for property owners to sell or upzone because property taxes on single-family homes are unaffordable.
Well. No one is “entitled” to live in California. There are 49 other states in the US. There are also many other cities where the pay vs cost of living makes a lot more sense.
I know this is a repost, which is rare for this site, but I feel such a camaraderie with him and the homestate connection I'll vote it up again and again.
I prefer "boom" and "bust" cycles rather than bubble, to describe these scenarios.
> Anything running a browser needs it because of js.

All the javascript engines have implemented spectre and meltdown mitigations.

EDIT: Are the downvotes because people don't believe that the JS mitigations are effective?
I think you're thinking too small :-)

To actually get anything, you should ask for 10-15 million in seed capital.
Of course! My point just being that even if it were simply free pizza, that’s still an influence, even if small. Talking about what to allow or disallow would be So much easier if we could all agree that the phenomenon exists at all (which of course I am convinced it does).
No. Once someone has your DNA, there is nothing anonymous.

You would need your own home lab kit that can do all of the diagnosis in your home, without being connected to any external networks at all.
Also wanting the neighborhood to be preserved in amber from when they bought the place.
> To some extent, I think it's a positive feedback loop that doesn't require advertising at all to drive it. If you know the admit rate is low (because of all the applications being sent), then it's in your best interest to send out lots of applications -- throwing spaghetti at the wall. Then the admit rate gets lower...

Don't colleges charge around $100 per application? Seems pretty expensive for poorer students to have to apply to increasingly more places.
It would not be applicable to those who only “censored” illegal material in response to a court order. The difference being whether the operator decides to “censor” content themselves for their own reasons/agenda.

Same as newspaper vs postal service.
Yes, of course, and after we've driven them from their home, maybe we can put them in a reservation instead /s
The heart wants what the heart wants. Good on him.
It's gotten kind of ridiculous. My daughters applied to 18 and 22 schools respectively. Why? Because the admit rates of the schools they wanted were so low. Hence, the cycle.

It would be slightly illuminating to also publish the statistics of how many applications aspiring freshmen are submitting. Not to mention, we paid $70-$100 per application.
We live in society; everyone is interconnected. One's own self interest cannot outweigh the needs of the group and, in California, all the stats are showing that the group is suffering due to the needs of the few. Prop 13 is part of the problem and should be reduced in effect (commercial property taxes, max rise of 3% annually) alongside changes to zoning until the housing crisis abates.
Thanks for sharing this! I know it's included in Win10 and in iOS, surprised it's not in OSX yet!
Or golf courses. My god how are people ok with private golf courses in the middle of cities?
Other disincentives to sell are fairly high realtor commissions and fees, as well as capital gains taxes on the amount over the exclusion, which isn't very high given CA prices.

Think of Prop 13 as "rent control" for homeowners.
I think the greater impact of Prop 13 is the disincentive to downgrade into a smaller house after the kids move out. A better measure of housing supply would be in terms of bedrooms. I imagine there is a massive gap in CA relative to other states in terms of the efficiency of bedroom allocation.
Same. In an effort to minimalize, my work PC is a monitor with a NUC sitting under it. No bulky case, wires everywhere, etc. I've been trying for two years to find an AMD equivalent to no avail.
Everyone benefits, not just "boomers". Anyone who buys a house ever gets the same protection. No more than 2% property tax increase/year. So if you bought a house in Silicon Valley for $1.5Million and the house next door sell for $3MM because someone had a lot of cash from their facebook stock, your property tax doesn't double.
The website is broken for me on mobile (iPhone 11 Pro Max).
That would be great too!
<3

So glad to hear!
This could push public corporations away from using private jets, or at least to do it in a way where ownership is obscured -- however repeated direct flights from City A to City B where A and B are not major cities could be predictive in themselves... The hub/spoke model for major airlines helps hide this by aggregating traffic.

As it is, I think the SEC could be concerned about this as an information leak.
Try this experiment. Build an image from a non-trivial Dockerfile today. Then make another image from the same Dockerfile in another couple of months and see if it is identical to today's image.
Not all of them. I’ve been stung for penal payments when I called up to see where the bill had got to. It had passed 30 days since issued and therefore interest was due. I’d be pretty unhappy if the house got taken over that.
You can crow about gains when you realize them. ;)
By “administration”, are you referring to the office of the POTUS? I bash that office as much as any, but this is a state level issue, and even at the national level, it would be a judicial, not an executive, branch concern.
12mph is the speed limit around a stopped school bus here in New Zealand.
This is a perfect example of why sometimes the Second Amendment is justified. At 83 years old, there's not much stopping him from hunkering down with guns, publicizing how evil the county is, and daring them to take it away from him.

What the county did is absolutely evil and all the administrators should be held accountable.
> It was sold for $24,500 [...] estimates the property is worth $128,000
> In the contrary, Intel has a lot of failures the last 2 years. Spectre, meltdown, ... This isn't bad luck anymore, it's more like bad karma if you are religious.

AMD also suffered from Spectre and Meltdown. Admittedly not all the variants of it that have since come out, Intel has done way worse there, but AMD instances _are_ vulnerable if they lack microcode updates and OS patches.
That's slightly underselling where he was going. Ive said before, there is some genius to his strategic acquisitions. It was looking like he was building an "Office 365 / Adobe Creative Cloud of Building Management Systems."

But, they are giving up, and venture capital is reducing the company to the value of its parts, not its potential, before that Building Management Suite gets assembled. There is a future where their software stack becomes the de facto standard for all building management, the Outlook/Excel of owning property. WeWork could pivot from a real estate company to a property ownership enablement company.

Thats not so much spray painted shit as "im using free cash flow from real estate to build this grand well defined vision, (with a coat of hippie mysticism paint) do you want to come along for the ride, for better or worse?" Because he is an executive, talking to executives, his pitch always came off as vague. But the actions of the company, and the parts they were assembling, paint a much more strategically sound and intelligent portrait.
I found it useful the IPFS research repository in Github [1], there are a lot of resources there including background concepts.

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT
Election polls aren’t broken, but they still can’t predict the future
For many purposes they seem to have automated/script-based customer service that requires little manpower.

I reported a bug in their app in a review I left on the Play Store. Uber responded saying to report it on their website instead. I did so, they told me it wasn't valid because I didn't include screenshots. (Even though there was a clear description of repro and expected/observed behaviour). After a few days I got around to sending them screenshots, and received an auto-reply that the issue had been closed and my reply rejected.
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If you’re a solo developer, why would you have something as complicated as k8s? I’m referring to dead simple VMs.
Both definitely have their place, the pretty good house is an achievable goal even if you're retrofitting and gets you most of the benefit. The passivhaus pushes the envelope, figures out what's attainable, & develops new techniques & appliances that can trickle down.
Is social housing really a good focus in extremely valuable real estate areas? Many places in the world are too expensive for most people to live in. Places like Vancouver and Toronto though, have a skyline of cranes building high rises to meet the demand. Social housing in high prices areas is manipulation that doesn't help many people. Letting the demand be met on the high end and shooting for social housing in more reasonable areas makes much more sense. I'm not convinced that market distortion in pricey areas helps anyone when people who are in danger of not having basic needs met need something accessible, not a multi-year process to win a cheaper place in a hot area.
Whether you look at things per-person or per-group is a matter of adopting a punitive outlook versus a practical outlook. If your goal is punitive, sure, it's relevant that the average billionaire makes hundreds of millions of dollars per year, while the average middle class person might make $80,000.

But I don't think Americans are punitive. They're not deeply troubled by the mere fact that there is someone out there with $8 billion. To the extent they care about billionaires, they're concerned about whether they're paying a fair amount to support the county that gave them so much. And from that perspective, what matters is the aggregate income of the group. And $130-150 billion just isn't much compared to the $6-7 trillion in annual government spending in the U.S.

Politicians thrive by disguising the punitive outlook as a practical outlook. They point to how much money Zuckerberg or Bezos have, and quickly pivot to how they could pay for universal healthcare, universal education, etc. A necessary aspect of that strategy is keeping people ignorant of the fact that even confiscating the total income of every billionaire would only pay for say 25% of U.S. higher education spending, or 4% of U.S. health spending.
Yes, I would as I consider depressurisation an extreme event. I believe the pilots have a separate oxygen supply, so a double failure is even more unlikely.
> Why would someone who bought a house for 100k be expected to pay taxes on 2M years later?

Well why would someone who bought a 2M house today be expected to pay taxes on it? Because the community has a lot of expenses - fire fighters and police will protect their valuable asset, the school system needs to pay its teachers to live somewhere in the vicinity of this expensive neighborhood, the lawmakers (who these homeowners have elected) need money to regulate vaping and plastic straws and run the most inefficient homeless services in the country.

Someone who bought a house 30 years ago is getting all these same benefits as someone who just bought a house. And since they've been voting there longer, they're arguably an even bigger part of the reason that all these costs exist than the newcomers. They're also a much bigger part of why the housing supply is so constrained, they've been going to community hearings for decades to block any new construction.

Why shouldn't they have to pay for it?

If anything I would be more convinced by an argument that newcomers should pay a lower tax rate than people who've been there a long time. But that's obviously quite an extreme position, I would settle for everyone paying the same property tax rate that our elected officials have set. If we think that's too high, then lower it for everyone equally.
You're saying that taxes on a 2 million dollar windfall is unfair.
"Airbnb for Gamers" according to the infographic isn't taken. Any potential there? Letting people rent out their physical gaming rigs to other people in the area, in their homes. Seems like it'd be pretty easy to set up.

I could see it be kind of like gaming cafe's in Asia, except you'd be renting a rig in somebody's actual home. I don't know if there'd be any market for this, but it seems like it wouldn't take to much to whip up and to a trial run in a city.
Godot is a fun engine but it’s not ready for serious production of 3D games beyond those with very minimal assets and gameplay. Graphically it’s fine but not great, performance is an issue. They went down a rabbit hole of rewriting their rendering engine several times and the latest iteration is supposedly better on the vulkan pipeline. However the real barrier to development is the rest of the system. This shift in focus and new-feature-syndrome has led to stagnation in other parts of the engine that affect usability when developing a 3D game. There’s an issue in the tracker called “everything wrong with godot in one video” or something where someone goes over all the usability issues they had with the 3D engine. AFAIK a lot of those things didn’t get addressed and the issue is still open. Not enough priority is given to ergonomics and usability and most focus is given to new features such as graphics. Tooling is critical in game dev and godot falls just short of being professional grade that it’s heart breaking. Minor cuts and inconveniences everywhere plus poor graphics performance just add up to be too much of a hinderance to actually build a game. But hey, at least they implemented global illumination right?
I identify a lot with what you're saying. I'm one of just a couple females on a big engineering/product team and it often doesn't feel good.

If you're in the Bay Area would be happy to meet up for a coffee. I understand the desire to just want to stay home a lot too, so no pressure. Email in profile.
In Photogrammetry, at least, some programs have codepaths that run concurrently: part heavily parallized for CPU, and part heavily parallized for GPU. I built a monster system with dual 1080s when they first came out, and my i7 became the bottleneck.

There's algorithms that haven't yet been optimized for GPU parallelization. And there's datasets that require memory access patterns that aren't amenable to GPU.

That said, now I'm curious what a 128-core system would do to memory access. Better hope the algorithms are L2/L3 coherent?
From the same author, https://lemire.me/blog/2018/08/15/the-dangers-of-avx-512-thr... tl;dr Isn't that extreme.
That's fine, though if you have to worry about sufficiently-privileged and insufficiently-knowledgeable DBAs/devs, then it's best to have such triggers on base tables. After all, you want referential integrity at all times -- it should take drastic action to perform operations that don't adhere to your business rules.
CA didn't have rent control until after Prop 13 passed. Howard Jarvis rallied renters by claiming that landlords would be nice and pass the tax savings onto their tenants. Somehow people believed this and, when it didn't happen, lashed out with aggressive rent control laws in our major cities.