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> Sorry if I haven't heard enough of this crazy talk yet to understand it.

I get that this proposal is a significant change from the status quo. That's the point. The status quo has some glaring issues. I understand it's difficult to take proposals for big changes seriously, but does that mean we should not take the problems of our current system seriously?

> You're saying that residential property gets a special restriction on how people who own something are able to use it or enter into agreements on how they can charge others for the use of it?

Yes. Specifically, no one can enter an agreement where housing can be rented. The core idea is that housing can be owned and sold, just that it can't be rented. There can be some discussion as to whether short term contracts like hotels could be allowed, but they would have to be regulated to prevent abuse.

The only question left is what to do about extant rental contracts.

> Who occupies a house then? Only the owner?

The owner or a guest. That's how housing works outside renting.

If you can't charge rent on property, then you are incentivized to sell it, thereby flooding the home ownership market and lowering the cost of housing.

This is a concept that has been discussed at length elsewhere. I encourage you not to use me as your only source of education.
Why does (b) look so bad?
Sure. https://archive.is/L2zir

Another way to do this is to turn off javascript and force pages to behave like documents. Only a single image will load but all the text is there and that's what matters.
Another caveat depending on your jurisdiction: where I live, claiming part of your home as a work place excludes it from qualifying as you "residence" for tax purposes and can mean you get hit with a raft of other complications.

For my case, I claimed 1 room of my house as a home office for 10 years, and then when we sold the house my accountant told me we had to pay a huge sum of money in tax because there is a capital gains tax exemption for your primary residence but 25% of the house now did not qualify for that. I paid something like 5 times as much in capital gains tax as I saved from those minor tax writeoffs over the years.

Also - make sure to check insurance. Costs could be higher or you might even not be covered at all.
> There's definitely a significant self-absorption in this project.

I felt the same thing about your comment.
I second that - this is very interesting, I would love to see some sources, too.
> tax all drivers based on (... kms driven

This is just not realistic to apply, and especially in Australia. You'd need someone to actually record those numbers, which would be a massive overhead of salaries on its own. Then you have crazy distances... you'd either send the inspector to that single farm 300km from the nearest town, or force people running it to being the trucks in for a check monthly.
Jedberg was (is?) an administrator at reddit which is an ad-supported business. He has a financial incentive to like advertising.
I don't think that's accurate - your example is closer to asking a programmer to take a typing test and hire them based on wpm. Both are hitting keys on a keyboard after all.

I agree that, if you're hiring someone who will primarily be managing others or, maybe, architecting some systems, without doing the actual implementation (which, btw, I think is a suboptimal way of doing things), then you shouldn't test their coding. But if you're hiring someone to code, you need to check they understand how strings, memory, dynamic programming etc works.
Because they'll be rang at 4am...
Progressiveness should happen elsewhere -- in income taxes and transfer payments. The road user charges can be regressive without making the whole system regressive.

If every part of the system needs to be progressive it's much more difficult to get the behavioural incentives you want.
Right, because the default behavior of sending all default searches (and therefore, data) to Google is so much better. Mozilla's entire existence being beholden to Google being afraid of being sued is so much better.

It's not a perfect solution. But Mozilla moving away from being dependent on Google is the best they can do. And it can entirely be disabled.
The ideas here are interesting and suggestive but far from definitive and could be cut in different ways. History offers a lot of different ways to look at a series of events, so the fact that looking at things with this lens or that lens is suggestive of one narrative doesn't make it true.

But there's some guesswork to making sense of history, always, so that's not a knock to the author.

There are definite elements of truth here, there are cultural divides among whites that play a heavy role in partisan politics, the Social Gospel did have a heavy influence on the Progressive movement and some of that remains in Progressivism today.

However, I don't see "this is only a competition between sections of White America" as the best way to analyze politics and history. For instance, the author's argument about the post-WWII presidents belonging to the Southern+Ethnic faction of the Democratic party, if you expanded that to Southern+Ethnic+Black (ie, not Northern Protestant), then you can cover all of the Democratic presidents post-WWII including Barack Obama.

While he concludes his argument saying that the real fight is between sections of whites, nothing in his argument really excludes the possibility of the fight having minorities involved.

My view is that there are always many simultaneous conflicts going on, and while some conflicts may be prominent for a certain period, it doesn't mean the others are irrelevant.
It's possible to configure Homebrew to only install stuff in your home folder. But you do need a "manual" installation to achieve it. I have done it.
Thanks for the reply incredible work!

Are there any FPGAs out there with an order of magnitude more memory you have considered?
We Fooled the Internet with a Fake Jetpack at the Airport
Never been brave enough to run Arch, but I've had Manjaro in a VM as a torrent/vpn/media server and it's been rock solid for like 4 years. I use ubuntu LTS for most things but I can't complain about Arch/Manjaro stability.
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> What a bizarrely great site.

I was organizing a ton of old saved files (including saved webpages) from many years back (some over a decade old). One of the pages I had saved was "X-Ray Solves Secret of Life (Jun, 1939)" : http://blog.modernmechanix.com/x-ray-solves-secret-of-life/ (interesting read on what can happen with emerging tech).

I checked to see if the site still existed (lots of my old saved files point to dead domains or interestingly, domains that have been repurposed for completely different businesses unrelated to their original content). As I crawled around the site, my impressions were exactly like yours. Treasure trove of interesting historical info!

I came across the ASCII article and decided to post. I love ASCII art but also wanted to point HN users to the site.

> luck of the draw that they chose a free maintenance-less platform

I was curious about this too. Just checked and it's running Wordpress 5.2 (released 07may2019). Some of the other backend tech is a little dated...

side note: Years ago, I was always curious if I should have been saving webpages as MHT or MAFF files. Now that both of these containers are dead, it turned out that Mozilla's MAFF was the better solution. It's just a compressed format, easy to unzip and all the pages were as viewable as the originals. For MHT files, I needed Pale Moon running with an MHT extension (used this to resave pages as "html complete").
I don't agree, of all the jobs I had, I've never had to do anything close to a typical coding puzzle. There are much more real-world scenarios you can test people on.
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Show HN: Share Shopping list and recipe book
I have programmed a simple app in the evenings to share shopping list in real time with my significant other and create shopping lists from often used recipes with a press of a button.
There is a known bug with the camera option and the image pick. Works if file is chosen from file explorer.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sandor.gan...
Node 15 released: Unhandled rejections are now raised as exceptions by default
First hand experience.
Expense reports aren't that difficult. I will buy something using my own money if necessary, but I'll try expensing it first. Usually that goes through, and it's saved me thousands of dollars over the years.
Yes. GoDaddy is bad. That's why people have been discouraging its use here and shaming people for using it, for a decade? More?

I recently got a notification that someone logged into my GoDaddy account. I angrily log in, knowing that I don't have any resources.

I'm greeted with a login log that shows "Android app" logging in every day for the past year, from multiple different countries. And my account required email confirmation (which must have been being by-passed on the Android app?)

It's bad. Don't use GoDaddy. While you're at it, you should really actually make backups and use a password manager too.
>A mask is worn for the others, not yourself.

so, imagine one "other" without a mask and everybody around in masks (actually "face coverings" which allow air in/out from sides) commuting everyday in a densely packed bus. Do you think that "other" has much improved chances when aggregated over several months? (again, i'm not arguing against proper mask's efficiency during occasional exposure)
I empathize a lot and I hate that a small handful of companies like Google and Facebook have become the not just the gateway to the internet, but the internet it self for many people.

That said, any measure that Google sets for "quality" will be gamed over time and that is likely part of their motivation to constantly adjust how things are measured.

When keywords were important, people used to stuff them. When back links became important, people would buy them. Then back links from spammy domains become a negative thing and people would black hat them. With the rise of domain authority back links from EDUs have become gold.

It seems stupid to me that an EDU link to a "fly fishing blog" could be some sort of powerful signal, but that is just where we are today. As Google improves semantics perhaps they will be able to more properly direct users to quality articles without back links as signals, or more likely they will just continue to evolve into a omnipotent Wolfram Alpha answer engine.
Please stop posting articles with clickbait titles from Quanta magazine.
The most ridiculous part of Facebook’s anti-privacy crusade is that FB allows its employees to “lock their account,” making absolutely all information private / only visible to friends, even cover photos.

FB’s website claims the feature is “only available in some countries and on some devices,” but it’s BS, it’s actually an easy opt-in for employees.

It shows that FB understands the need for privacy, but only if you’ll help them spy on others.
Being intentional with our blah blah’s
The question is, if not by backlinks how do you algorithmically judge and rank search results?
Conversely:

If you were paid and work there, but every time you did something that looked like socialising someone would come over and tell you to stop, reminding you that you are there to solely to work, would you stay there?

If you'd leave, you are probably not there solely to work.
Maybe not the USA but Asians countries which one could argue will carry the torch of progress did improve.
Windows and macOS died?
I remember my dad telling me that when I was in my late teens. That it’s the fourth power startled me.

To give an idea of what this means:

For a 50 tonne semi-trailer with five axles, (⁵⁰⁄₅)⁴ = 10,000 units of damage.

2 tonne vehicle with two axles, 1 unit of damage.

That one truck, only 25 times as heavy as a pretty heavy car, is doing 10,000 times as much damage to the road.

Thus indeed if you have basically any heavy freight at all on a road, the rest is negligible.
I'm googling the name, but all I see are news articles.

Anyone have a link to a collection of writing by Jan Morris?
I got a different vibe with the association to a Churchill quote[1]

I moved from Ubuntu to Debian a few years back, if I need anything beyond the ordinary I can always set it up manually and I am pretty content with that.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/267224-democracy-is-the-wor...
> For electric, it was worse - because they do tend to be more expensive to purchase up front, and they paid no fuel tax at all

California was cutting $10,000 checks to rich people buying $80,000 sports cars called Teslas. You could be a solo driver in an HOV lane for a long period of time, in a part of the world where rich people's negative experience with the outside world is disproportionately traffic.

For every two Teslas worth of subsidies, for rich people who might actually drive very little, you could buy a poor person who actually needs a car a whole Prius.

> Encourage drivers to move to lighter vehicles which cause less wear and tear on the road

As other people said everyone benefits from roads. Cyclists still need food delivered to grocery stations in trucks. Parents still have their kids driven around in busses. Everyone needs construction vehicles to build more housing.

The vast majority of the value of roads is realized by commuters. It's not even just the long-ass trip some sucker makes commuting from his low cost community in the boonies. There are a dozen different trucks that need to go that same trip to wildly inefficiently provide him with services.

The most logical thing to do would be to tax surburban and rural residents at a state level, and sending that money back to cities. That lifestyle is so preposterously inefficient as an alternative to paying a landlord absolutely more but relatively less to live in a city. Suburban and rural dwellers just externalize their costs to the city people collecting their garbage, running their government, banks and hospitals, teaching their kids, training their police, firefighters, running their courtrooms, etc. - stuff they imagine is in "their" communities but is essentially welfare from vastly richer cities.
I have yet to see Michael discuss Nix without spreading inaccurate, flatly wrong information about it (Nix does not have post-install hooks, and `nix-env -i` being slow and unrecommended is a known meme that is addressed in upcoming tooling).

Nix fulfills every single requirement Michael has put forward (except the squash>tar thing, which I still don't understand).

That's all there is to this. I sympathize with Ericson's frustration. It's exhausting watching people re-invent inferior solutions to Nix, instead of just hopping in and fixing or using Nix. Of course, John Ericson is one of the few people motivated, qualified (and maybe has the buy-in) to make changes in Nix. I'm thankful for that on-going work.
Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less secure browsers, apps
Full paper: https://sci-hub.se/downloads/2020-02-04/2c/10.1007@s10393-02...

This presents some alternate hypotheses for the outbreak and claims Anthrax is fairly unique in its ability to survive repeated freeze-thaw cycles.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13091.Jan_Morris
I totally disagree with this approach. Sure, SQL can be used to express domain models.

Let me raise a few questions for you:

- Let's say we want to change the database from postgres to Oracle in the future. How do I go about doing it?

- How about complex logic that needs to be done in a declarative language such as SQL? SQL was not developed to write logic. You could do a lot of things in it. It is turing complete but doesn't mean you should.

- How do you debug SQL views?

- How about version control and updating views, with traceability?

- Do you think SQL is more readable for logic code than say Python? Surely, basic logic can be represented in SQL. But IMO it suffers readability.

- How about CPU/memory consumption and how do you manage to vertically scale?

You're trying to use a tool (views), not for its intented purpose. It was not meant for sticking your company's entire domain model.

This is a completely wrong approach especially in enterprise environment. Might be ok with a small project.
I'm not parent but I follow many professional athletes as well and in my case Instagram is very useful! In fact it's the one social media account I didn't get rid of. For two reasons mainly:

* Announcements - Some of the sports I follow don't have a "regular season" like e.g. Basketball or American Football, they are organised more like boxing where an athlete may compete for one federation or another, and the events don't follow a pre-determined schedule: so you need to keep up with the news if you want to be able to watch them at all.

* Instructionals - athletes often will publish instructional videos and when that happens they advertise them on their channels. Those are usually an order of magnitude more in-depth than anything you can find for free (e.g. Youtube) - I was never very athletic but I'm finally trying to get better so those are very helpful for me. (Edit: Of course this is a form of advertising but I'm very disciplined and avoid overspending at all costs, I buy instructionals once in a blue moon).
REST isn’t an architecture for designing HTTP API’s; it’s an architecture for designing HTTP itself. https://twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/rest.html
I actually think this is quite reasonable. One issue with the "wait until they are a larger share of the market" argument is trying to add a tax gets harder the more people are used to not paying it. The earlier you introduce it the easier it should be.

EVs clearly use roads and should pay to use them. Yes ICE vehicles have serious side effects, and we should encourage a switch. But it shouldn't have to be by giving EVs a free ride. A carbon tax would discourage both CO2 emitting cars, and the coal power generators that make up the majority of Victoria's energy generation.

Note: I live in Victoria, but don't drive an EV (yet).
Aside from an attempt to generate some inelastic revenue during a pandemic, I'm seeing very little talk of the other probable policy goal/implication of this change: that is to say, disincentives against cars and private transport in general with a hope to substitute to public transport. Like comparisons of Apple to Intel debates, this one is missing the clear other player in the room.

While it's arguable about how successful this is in either pragmatic or policy terms, dropping the context that the government is investing in both:

a) cross city train tunnel

b) outer suburban loop

c) airport line through Sunshine interchange

d) faster trains from Geelong upgrade

is to likely lose some important perspective.

This is on top of Melbourne's (which makes up easily the vast majority of the population of the state) already impressive public transport infrastructure.

Again, maybe this seems weird because people are interpreting it from the frame of private vehicle ownership, where the comparison is between ICT and EV. But that's not the correct comparison: it's actually a policy of moving between private and public transport. And from that perspective, it can also arguably make sense from an environment perspective as well.
This is pretty cool. Makes me nostalgic for QuickC.
The ONLY thing I found tricky was getting enough physical activity and movement in days, especially lockdown. I picked up a treadmill laptop stand and every day I walk 3-5 miles while working. I will never go back to sitting in an open office again.
Which schooling is frivolous? The GP could really want to be a professional pilot for all the bank knows.
I support that kind of thinking! Thank you for exposing me to it.
I actually imagined a lobsterman from X-COM: TFTD:

https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Lobster_Man
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> Your belly going hungry is a direct incentive

I assure you a fair number of office workers have come close enough to "your belly going hungry", and its modern extension "struggling to pay the rent and bills", that they are quite motivated to keep the job they have.

Probably not HN tech workers so much. But even some of those will have struggled for basics at some time or other.
It's not harder to walk away from them now than it was 20 years ago, probably easier now with so many things written in cross platform/web app format. I can't really agree with you. If someone comes up with a new OS that has some OMG 10X advantage (due to software or some new leap in technology) over current ones then it will "win" the OS war. I just don't share your concerns.
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? It's not a search engine. Did you not even get past the second page.
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Heh, it's funny you mention that. For the longest time I refused to run Adblock because it felt hypocritical. But eventually the experience got so bad I relented.

I wouldn't say I have an incentive for internet ads to be successful. From the very beginning I advocated for revenue streams other than ads. And reddit is fairly diversified. I don't work there anymore anyway.

I guess I just don't mind advertising if done well and is relevant.
Interesting. Nice to know. Never heard of Wayland outside the context of desktops.
The concern isn't only coercion, it's also vote buying (which was very common at least in the UK before the secret ballot). If you can take the money and then vote for someone else, retail vote purchase falls apart.

The existence of postal voting has already cracked this one open a bit, though.
But for Australia specifically (this article being about Australia), frost damage to roads is typically either non-existent or negligible. There aren’t many roads that are exposed to substantially freezing conditions often.
TIL I am actually a machine-learning model.

(Actually, I wonder if it's easier for a chatbot AI to emulate the writing of someone like me who is on the spectrum, than neurotypical writing)
Most companies don't allow you to do work on non-corporate computers, for intellectual property/security reasons. They might not figure out anything is amiss if you merely add some parts to the computer they provide you, but that's about it. Our corporate network is locked down and you can't add random computers to it -- if something unexpected does get plugged in, someone in IT will be by eventually to see what the hell it is (and in the mean time, that computer is only getting guest network access).
I probably won't port it to other platforms, however, as I wrote in another comment, I am considering open sourcing it when it's done, so others can port it if they like.

I just looked up the MiSTer board [1]. They are using a DE10-Nano FPGA [2], which is a lot more powerful than the iCE40 UP5K [3] that I'm using (for comparison, the DE10-Nano has 110,000 lookup elements, whereas the iCE40 UP5K just has 5,280, so ~20x difference!). So porting should be pretty easy. It also opens up opportunities to increase the resolution, frame rate and render distance.

[1] https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
[2] https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/t/terasic-tech/...
[3] https://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/FPGAandCPLD/iCE40Ult...