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It sounds like regulation is required that when an outstanding debt is shown, a payoff quote good for X days must be provided (and when you pay off, you receive a refund for excess interest depending on when the payment settles). My mortgage servicers do it, my auto loan provider does it, why is the county not required to do it? If you expect citizens to act in good faith in paying their debts, help them to do so inexpensively.
Much like generals prepare to fight the last war, security forces prepare to prevent the last terror attack. The most high-profile recent attack in the UK was someone driving a van into a few people near London Bridge.

The UK used to be calmer about terrorist attacks - they're not worth putting down your pint over, really - but lately the US panic culture seems to have spread here.
I have a Herman Miller SAYL chairs and I hate it.

I have a $100 Amazon Basics Office Chair at home and its FAR more comfortable.
Sure, it's hard to draw a strict line that will make everyone happy. I'm not going to try. But that doesn't mean that removing ED pill spam should be conflated with the government banning books under threat of imprisonment. We live in a messy world and have to fall back on using our judgment and common sense, flawed as they are.

It's obtuse to pretend that it's confusing why one is acceptable and the other isn't. And it's not helpful to say that the lack of an unambiguous, unanimously accepted definition means that certain clearly reasonable actions can't be taken.
Apple has been in the same general area since the 1970s, and all of the many companies that came before them lol.
Facebook fought to keep trove of thousands explosive internal documents secret
Americans don't have an intuitive sense of metric units, and Wired is based in the US and has mostly US readership. I agree with you, and I'll bet the editor also agrees, but they'd probably get FAR more comments to use imperial units because 'merica, if metric was used instead.
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Youre a assuming a lot about me. Who says I dont care about drone strikes? You dont know me.

“ most people don't really care about the places you care about”

Youre right, cause we’ve each got our lives to worry about and the world is huge.

But what are you hoping to accomplish by telling me this?
HOA dues pay for the shared parts of your property. Of course they can seize your house if you don't pay for it.

It's when they try to seize your house over nonsense like minor rule infraction that they become awful.
A worst-possible wildfire scenario for Southern California
Similarly, I wish there was a bollard design that could keep bicyclists off of sidewalks and out of crosswalks without impeding the disabled.
It is an interesting idea, but retractable barriers aren't super reliable, get hit semi-frequently, and you'd need to design additional tools to assist emergency vehicles.

Red light cameras could likely solve the situation with no physical or mechanical considerations.
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HPC is not the real use case (target). The percentage of HPC compared to the rest of the target market (public cloud) is insignificantly small.

The real question is do you trust any potential co-tenants in a public cloud that share a hypervisor with you, when said hypervisor does NOT have Spectre/Meltdown fixes applied? (There is only one correct answer...)

Also you can fairly easily mitigate this in a public cloud setting by running your VM on a dedicated hypervisor. AWS calls these "EC2 Dedicated Instances". Interestingly enough for most compute sizes the cost different is negligable. I imagine that isn't the case everywhere / for-everything, but if you A) need pre-Spectre/Meltdown perf and B) need protection against co-tenancy attacks, paying a few more dollars for a dedicated hypervisor host seems like a no-brainer to me.
It's silly, but when I was moving some projects to SourceHut, this was one of the first things I noticed was missing.
> I don't have a Sugar Bob game on my pro edition.

I don't even know what that is.
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If it goes to the right property, and you still don't pay, you aren't using the property enough to be allowed to have it, IMO. That's what I'm saying. If you're only at that house every couple of years, why shouldn't the county take it and sell it to someone who will actually use it?

This all depends on how much of a warning you get and such. Obviously if you only get a month's warning or something that would be bad, but if you're warned a year or two in advance I see no problem with this.

Set up a system were you can go to court to challenge it. In cases where notices were sent to the wrong address or you simply forgot interest you should be able to overturn this, sure.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ different strokes for different folks, man. Most of what I write is fiction. Some of that fiction also serves as functional requirement documents. :D
Yes, but they weren't the money printing machine back then that they are now and it's highly doubtful they had a meaningful impact on Bay Area real estate prices in the 1970s.
supersonic parachutes, in particular, are hard.

They spent a bit of time talking about this on a documentary about a Mars lander. Supersonic wind tunnels are spendy.
HIPAA is not a blanket protection applied to medicals records but rather restrictions on some companies and personnel that often work with them.

Simply if they aren't a "medical" institute and you give them your health data it's theirs to do what they want and HIPAA plays no role.

https://www.hipaajournal.com/who-does-hipaa-apply-to/
Repealing Proposition 13, state-level permissive zoning, and using the resulting money to build social housing is the only way I can see out of the crisis. Everything else is just a put-off so the financialized speculation and money laundering can continue apace.
For the marketing itself consent isn't needed, but for collecting/processing personal data for marketing I'm pretty confident it is. Why wouldn't that fall under GDPR?
https://lasp-lang.readme.io/docs is another very interesting project that makes heavy use of many different CRDTs
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90% of taxpayers don't itemize with the standard deduction expanded to as high as it is now [1]. And if you want to get crazy, all of that data could be reported trivially to the IRS (my health insurance coverage already is [1095-B/C], reporting my health care spend from my insurance company is a few extra bytes on that form electronically sent).

It is entirely reasonable to have tax collection agencies send a good faith estimate with a window of time for corrections if you have data they do not have. There are enough threads about the evil that is Intuit that their efforts to block the IRS from offering free tax prep need not be rehashed here.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/90-percent-taxpayers-projected-tcj... (Nearly 90 Percent of Taxpayers Are Projected to Take the TCJA’s Expanded Standard Deduction)
Ya Typora was my first thought as well. It does almost everything I need except generate the table of contents (TOC) for things like GitHub. I've used markdown-toc and similar CLI tools, but it would be great if they were built in. A few others for ideas:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11948245/markdown-to-cre...
Shame on me... I didn't check the date on the source - the Vatican number was taken from a Time Magazine article from 1965. I came up near the top of the Google results and it never crossed my mind that Time published articles that far back.
Yeah, that's the tricky thing. Individual ownership of information as a principle doesn't cover the set of all things people care about when information is shared between individuals (or infer-able about another individual based on information of a sharing party).
SpaceX had plans to send Dragon to mars, that were cancelled at about the same time propulsive landing was cancelled for commercial crew. It's likely that cancelling it for commercial crew also cancelled the mars plans.
Of course prop 13 "seems" fair, that's how it got passed. But it has terrible consequences.

Adjusted for inflation, it makes taxes drop to 0 in the limit, which means there's no incentive for rich people to ever sell. Which means real estate becomes hoarded across generations by the wealthy class, which recreates the main feature of feudalism.
It's not like these things happened over night. If someone bought a house for 100k and it is now worth two million, I'm not sure they can claim they are being gouged on a 2000% increase of equity.

Buying land still doesn't entitle you to be able to perpetually afford to live in one of the most desirable places on earth.
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Because they have a house and ~$1.9M in free equity. The younger generation doesn't have that opportunity. If they can't afford the property tax they can downsize easily. It's not easy for young people to afford $2M houses, especially when paying high state income taxes to make up for the lack of sufficient property taxes.
Major intelligence agencies have people working at all these companies like Google, Facebook, 23AndMe, Ancestry.com, etc with unfettered access. Just like how they infiltrated the nuclear programs of various countries and stole secrets, it's the same thing except 100x easier because the level of security is so much lower and easier to hack.

If you don't think that squads of spies for Russia, China, the US, Israel, India AREN'T working at these companies you are woefully naive.
Can you elaborate on this? It seems like they would be relatively inexpensive and effective at preventing a type of attack that would otherwise be fairly simple. That being the case I don't see much reason not to use them.
Maybe they could include NBASE-T nics that’d also support 2.5 and 5 Gbps speeds?
I don't disagree with the general premise that a single filesystem might not be applicable or appropriate to all cases or that existing filesystems apis are generally deficient.

My primary issue was with the two specific assertions I addressed, one of a given filesystem's origins and that of choice should being used as a proxy for evaluation of adequacy.

As for ZFS enthusiasts "recovering from wrecks every week", I suspect you're specifically referring to ZFS on Linux or one of the BSDs -- which is not the same as ZFS when used in its original environment -- Solaris.
> The alternative is that we basically force people out of houses they've bought by gouging them with taxes.

I would argue that being able to afford a place in the 1970s does not endow one with an inalienable right to remain there forever. Locking the property taxes creates an artificial incentive to hold onto property forever, thus creating market stagnation.
Is riak still actively maintained or supported by anyone? Last I heard Basho just sort of vanished as a company a few years ago.
I've been waiting for that as well, and while the hyped models from usual cheap brands are unobtanium, HP and Lenovo have quietly kickstarted the sector with Lenovo m715q Tiny, HP ProDesk 405 G4 and HP EliteDesk 705 G4.

The prices could be better however.
How else do you expect the HOA to collect on legitimate debts? I have zero sympathy for freeloaders who fail to pay their share for association facilities.
What about Lake Bloomington? Miller Park "lake"? I suppose you could sit on a surfboard in knee-deep dirty water until you got bored.
Why should someone who bought a house for $100k get $2m years later?
I'm not sure what value your comment is adding - look at uber's option chain, there's plenty of volume everywhere: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/uber/option-ch...
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This maybe true of Infosys or Wipro etc. This is not the case in FAANG companies. They get the same salaries in FAANG and are no different from regular employees. Don't let HN skew your world view. It's cool to be anti FAANG where as people posting these are living somewhere remote, salty about immigrants.
Yes dry ice is best, but it is about $1.25/lb, vs $0.25/lb; also regular ice is available in most countries year-round, dry ice has limited availability, even in the US.
Xi experimented with using CRDTs to merge state changes produced by plugins running asynchronously on different threads, but they decided that it was a failed experiment.
Actively impacting new tunnel registrations (we also had a number of tunnels fail). Logs include the status page.
This however, does mean that genetically targeted genocides would be possible...
To make it even worse, they were built using taxpayer's money, then sold for peanuts to those companies.
It's corruption at an astronomical scale.
And living in my rural area, Sprint and TMO are both weak performers. Consolidating may make for an okay third carrier.
BizSpark is not still a thing. The replacement program, Microsoft for Startups, requires being associated with a partnered "startup-enabling organization."
I've seen retractable bollards in European cities to keep cars out of pedestrian areas (but allow service vehicles, buses, police, etc), so it seems like something that can be solved with a technological solution.

The problem in the US is the car culture of boomers, and they're the ones who run the government.
Fair enough, but saying the engine not having ads is a feature is not productive. If it's out of scope, it's out of scope, but that's not what you said
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That was more like the devil's clown.
With follow-on Props 58 and 193, property tax assessments can be inherited/assumed by children and grandchildren. So not only do they inherit the property tax-free, but get the added benefit of often well-below market property tax rate in perpetuity. Then expand this to not only primary residences, but also second homes and commercial property.
I think you would agree, though, that people shouldn't be able to get Prop 13 benefits on properties that aren't their primary residence. For example, someone owning multiple houses and renting them out at market rates.
This is such a veiled racist attack. "immigrant devs" bad, "American good". You know nothing about FAANG salaries for H1Bs. They are on par if not more than regular devs.
Notification wasn't received.

Come on, the owner knows that there is a property tax bill every year, and if they don't receive it on time they should get worried. Everyone knows when their credit card bill should show up and promptly pays even when the post office lost it.
Is holidaying by train that much better for the environment?
This Hacker News link title accurately reflects the headline on the verge.

But when I read it, I thought to myself: "Are they referring to an electric vehicle that Ford made, say, in 1971? Or did they just make this thing?"

The better way of phrasing it would be: Ford has made an electric Mustang with a manual transmission. In fact, the first sentence of the article uses the perfect tense: "Ford has created..."

I suppose journalists think the simple past tense sounds cool -- even though it doesn't communicate as well?
Emacs org mode can also do this, it's really enjoyable to not see some of the semantic entries, but having them still exist in the background.
Why can't you fake a PassMark? I'm legitimately asking. Seems like an aggregated public data set would be particularly prone to intentional cheating.
Send it to who? This was an absentee landlord in a low-rent property.

This is a very aggressive law, but there are reasons that the law is written this way. Drawn-out processes to seize property tend to lead to higher levels of vacancy and destruction of the property.

Local governments often don't know who the beneficial owner of a property is, especially with low-end rentals. I used to consult to a local utility. Probably 30% of the properties were owned by LLCs where the owner was unknown. At least a half dozen had bills sent to people known to be dead. In this case you're looking at a landlord in his 80s who doesn't get mail regarding his rental property sent to his home. It sucks, but once there's a lien on the property you're SOL as a property owner.
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I think this isn't quite true.

People who develop new filesystems generally have a problem with existing filesystems and have some goal they want to accomplish.

There is also the issue that somebody else's "existing" file system becomes your "new" filesystem when support comes to your OS. For instance Linux has support for many obscure filesystems such as Amiga and the old mac filesystems because somebody might want to mount an old disk. I don't think anybody really wants to run a volume like that because they want to use it to do their ordinary work on Linux.

XFS, ZFS, JFS to name a few are foreign filesystems that claim to be good enough that you might want to use them on a Linux system not for compatibility but because of performance.
Perfect case to hold the administration personally accountable.
> Are you implying the regulators forced PG&E to be awful?

Yes. See https://twitter.com/cjg2127/status/1187969182182166530 and https://twitter.com/cjg2127/status/1187972495250341888 for the mechanism whereby this happened. If state regulators are striking specific line items to do with maintenance from PG&E's budgets and the awfulness is that PG&E doesn't do enough maintenance, then yes, the state regulators are forcing PG&E to be awful.
I guess this is an American perspective, but I cannot see a scenario where someone wouldn't have a good reason to carry one. At least where I grew up, not carrying a pocket knife would be considered irresponsible.
> The alternative is that we basically force people out of houses they've bought by gouging them with taxes. That seems much more unfair than the alternative.

Oh no! People with a multiple millions in assets have to choose between paying taxes on their immense wealth or selling it!

Sarcasm aside, this is how it's done most places in the US. It works just fine in those places and isn't considered unfair. Why is paying taxes on your wealth considered unreasonable here?
I mean, the thought experiment isn't about the logistics of redistribution, it's about the sheer amount of wealth. These counterpoints amount to saying that actually redistributing wealth like that would have terrible unintended consequences, which I agree with, and I think just serves to underscore that there is much less total wealth than most people think there is.
This Lucet thing seems pretty awesome. It's apparently an AOT WASM compiler with WASI that runs anywhere. (Disclaimer: Family member works at Fastly but I truly find this impressive.)
>This is often done by designing a system of landscape boulders, street furniture, retaining walls, and steep berms into the landscape around a building which (possibly non-obviously)

isn't a non-obviousness a bad idea? while I understand that it is motivated by aestetics but then you loose the deterrence factor?
Except that the law can't usefully distinguish between the "average Joe" and a teenager on their way to a gang fight.

The law allows anyone to carry a non-locking folding knife with a blade of up to 76mm in length, unless there is evidence that they intend to use it as a weapon. The law also allows anyone to carry any bladed article if they have a lawful reason to do so - a chef can carry their knife bag to work, a carpenter can carry a utility knife to a job site, but you can't just drive around with a knife in your car for no good reason.
This is if Orion's position is replacable. Holding a project "hostage" because the project has only enough manpower.

What if the company intends to keep Orion because the company knows that Orion, even though not holding any "hostage" situation, is accelerating the growth of the company?
SpaceX pivoted to building an entirely new rocket for Mars called Starship.
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Is mocking and blaming senior citizens for everything OK on Hacker News? Given the age discrimination in Silicon Valley, it's sad that Y Combinator, which actively moderates these forums, seems OK with not removing inflammatory posts about those people born between 1948 and 1965.
I'm from a former Communist state (one of those states that became Communist at Soviet-tank-barrel-point :-) ). So Communism doesn't have much appeal to me.

My personal perspective is that equalizing things fully doesn't work. You want incentives to motivate people. However, it's quite amazing what motivates people - after all, for the average billionaire going from $62bn to $63bn isn't really some sort of milestone, unless they somehow surpass some other billionaire. Sometimes the things that motivate people are a lot more fine grained that it seems. So pure financial motivation is rarely the main incentive.

On the other hand, such huge imbalances do eat away at democratic principles.

My personal opinion is that at some point, companies should be treated as utilities/companies of vital national interest. After all, that's how rich people make most of their money, through shares, not through salaries.

So, basically, once a company is taller than X, the country this company is based on gets a certain share of the company, 5%, 10%, 20%, it doesn't matter. I'd also make these shares non-voting. Even better, I'd force these companies to give out a certain percentage of these shares to employees (after all, they're "the people").

We'd have fewer billionaires, we'd have more stable middle class people, we'd have higher state revenues, we'd have less of a disconnect between totally private companies, regular people and governments.

As the owner of a company, you have a choice: create a huge company and have to share the spoils or stay small and nimble and have greater control.
It's what it costs to provide the services around it. They are getting all the benefits that tax dollars are paying for and not paying an equitable contribution towards those benefits.

Yes, they would be forced to sell for 10x-20x their investment and be forced to move somewhere more affordable.
I would actually love to put it up for sale through itch.io, but what happens when someone actually buys the game? They have to lie to Oculus and say they're a developer, and we all have to hope that Facebook doesn't Alter The Deal. I wouldn't trust that arrangement after taking someone's money, and I won't give the game out for free either.

Really the answer here is competition. If Quest had a competitor, I could take my game there and tell customers to buy that product instead. But it would be even better if the competition was open source.
> A NoSQL database brings with it an entirely different approach to your data

NoSQL has no specific definition, so no it doesn't necessarily bring anything different.

> the core of every software system is its data.

That doesn't really mean anything. One could also say that the core of every software system is its use cases.

> isolate your code from that choice.

It is very important to isolate code (e.g. business logic) from the specific details of how you persist your data.
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Totally agreed. Repeal prop 13 and allow deferring property taxes on market value gains until the property is sold.
According to the title of your video, it shows a different test scenario with only a 2500kg vehicle but higher speed.