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I've lived in both. HOAs have their place, and really I think it depends on the person. Going into a home purchase, you have to sign the HOA agreement, so you know the rules they set forth. They keep the neighborhood looking a certain way, which is something some people want.

I've met plenty of people that don't like HOAs and purposely avoid them, which is fine also. But be prepared for a much wider variation of look and style of a neighborhood. It makes it much easier for a house to get run-down as well.

One thing not mentioned in this post is that HOAs can be dissolved. A friend had voted to dissolve his HOA (which was successful), due to too many problems. Common-land that the HOA owned becomes a problem, but it can all be worked out.
Because there is no better SW. See Windows 10 or Android for examples.
Just so others are aware, me and this guy have been 'friends' since 2015. He sent me a screenshot of this comment on Signal before he posted it. Its just his way to not address what I said.
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How common are HOAs? I’ve lived in an urban area my entire adult life and I don’t think there are any HOAs. My parents lived in one tho in the suburbs and I don’t recall them liking it. Is there any reason to actually buy a home in one?
How much of a US-specific problem is this? Do similar entities exist in most countries, and do they work any better?
Am I seeing that right, they have a guy stand there, pick fish up, and load them in to a pressurised cannon?

I wad expecting something a bit more sophisticated/under the fish's control, even given the name!
Respectful disagree, i believe you are factually wrong. Wikipedia already lists 2 paxos variants that have byzantine security. Not sure about their implementation, but in production there is also SCP, which is used for real-money transactions by the stellar network. All these actually have proofs of some security and liveliness properties under some byzantine faults. Additionaly, blockchains themselves don't solve this problem properly: they don't even have a notion of "commit", any transaction could be reverted, it is just more and more intractable to do so, thus every property is much weaker and only probabilistic.
I suppose at 5$/month, your instance has 1GB RAM.

I should warn users that such instance may struggle to run even bare minimum nextcloud.

2-4GB is preferred.
Sounds vaguely like Lifestreams (stream processing on a time series of documents, e-mails, visited web pages, etc.): http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html
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Yeah, nobody likes an HOA. We all want to be allowed to do whatever we want. That's why I live in a neighborhood without one.

Leave the kids toys and trash cans out for a day? A week? Forever? No problem! But I can't complain about similar things my neighbors might do. Or, I can complain, directly to them. If I care enough.

Neighbors replaced their roof a year ago. Left the old shingles on the lawn, for a year. Did I like it? No. Did I care enough to complain to them about it? Also no. That's the kind of neighborhood I want to live in though. You want a neighborhood where the houses are in perfect cookie cutter shape? You need an HOA neighborhood, and you get the pluses with the minuses.

What I think most of us really want is to be able to do whatever we want, while also being able to tell others what to do. That doesn't work. You have to choose to either rely on your neighbors being decent, or suffer through life under an HOA.
What I find interesting about where I currently live is rules you'd expect at the HOA level are actually at the township level: how tall your grass can be before it must be cut, how many cars you can park outside and where, maintaining exterior structures like fences, etc. All are laws in the town I live in. I've never seen that before.
I say the same about KDE's counterpart, Okular (and tons of others, Kate, klipper, kolourpaint) truly great software.
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I'm planning to buy an apartment in Chicago (Lincoln Park). All these apartment buildings have HOA fees from $500 to $1k per month, so it seems to be pretty unavoidable here. Does this mean I should just avoid buying in the city all together? Renting for a lifetime doesn't seem great either.
Unfortunately, in some areas you just cannot find one without HOA.
That can be an unbounded black swan event. There are distributions where there is no mean value.

The difference between a square section and welded channels. The difference between 53F and 27F. The difference between putting the waterproofing on before or after the post tensioning anchors. Leaving watertight doors open during a storm.
How do you think people find out about these products to compare them?
> You are well advised to choose a primary key that is not only unique, but also never changes during the lifetime of a table row. This is because foreign key constraints typically reference primary keys, and changing a primary key that is referenced elsewhere causes trouble or unnecessary work.

in one sense I agree with the author that things are generally just easier when you use surrogate primary keys, however they really should note here that the FOREIGN KEY constraint itself is not a problem at all as you can just use ON UPDATE CASCADE.
Free Speech by definition allows for criticism in return.

Consider: if one wishes to justify "nasty behavior", as you call it, using the principle of Free Speech and then tries to also demand that no criticism be returned -- then this individual is clearly non-serious about Free Speech concepts.
I believe the interesting bit is its short length. Usually an aqueduct is part of a river or canal, but in this case it is connecting a lake on either side.

Edit, then there’s also the new Aquaduct Vechtzicht, recently build and at 65m it is the widest aquaduct of Europe.

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaduct_Vechtzicht
I think you got "gold" and "currency" mixed up. Gold is not supposed to be cheap/free to exchange. It is a property of a currency.
As a NixOS user of 3 years, this rarely happens.

When it does, I either:

* build it via Nix, 10-15 lines, equivalent to packaging it.

* build it in a nix-shell that contains its dependencies
> Brazil explicitly allowed England to sink Brazillian slaver ships

Killing all slaves in the ship?
This honestly speaks more to the authors inability to organize.

I personally seek to intentionally stay away from walled-gardens,
reduced reliance on huge corporations seems like a winning move in the long run.
I think there is a high variance in how involved different HOAs are, so it's hard to make a blanket statement that you should totally avoid considering buying a property that's in an HOA.

My current house is in an HOA that's around ~$20 / month (which pays to keep some of the common spaces of the development maintained), has never gone up in ~4 years, and we've never been notified about anything needing to look better even when our lawn was in pretty rough shape the summer we moved in. We did some research and were pretty confident going into it that we weren't going to be dealing with an overbearing HOA, and I also like that the development and community areas (including a tennis court and basketball court) stay well maintained. In our case, it feels like we're getting a good deal for the cost.
I think we are law the old desktop metaphor - but for different reasons.

Once upon a time there was a "manager" whose job primarily was to communicate via memo with his peers and superiors, and the cycle time for data to pass from his (yes, his) employees, to him, then he processed by him on his desktop and sent out to his peers etc was at least a day usually a week.

So there was plenty of time for him to arrange things in a single "document" called a spreadsheet, and maybe update a memo on Wordstar and send that via the typing pool etc etc

But the cycle time is now down to maybe hours if not immediate - and if the company is doing its job right in automation terms there is no need for manager to send out his documents - the data is in several warehouses already.

The desktop metaphor is as dead as middle management.

Want a new metaphor - look at Jupyter Notebooks - that's a layer on top of the existing data - kind of like middle managers were on top of their employees.
A bunch of classic “golden era” science fiction novels feature characters with unexplained mental powers, like Asimov’s Foundation series, Dune, Niven’s Known Space series, etc.

Those seem like obvious fantasy now, but from about the 1950s through the 1970s, a lot of serious people believed that there were undiscovered powers of the human mind that science was on the verge of discovering or confirming. Mental powers are therefore a common anachronism of sci fi from that era.

Most science fiction stories are going to feature some elements that are essentially unexplained and therefore act like magic in the story. I think most folks would consider 2001 to be science fiction but the powers of the monolith are at least as crazy and unexplained as what the Jedi can do.
>Beginning at late Genx to early millennial, you're in this for the money.

Huh, this is interesting, maybe in some areas of America? But broadly speaking... Outside of America, no. Take a look at even senior dev salaries in Canada.

They're equivalent to master's of social work positions, oftentimes less. Having had education and work experience in both social work and computer science, I can tell you that if you want a stable, low-stress job that requires an "easy" degree, that MSW degree will serve you far better.

Not to mention that remote work is still rare. So that 90k senior AI research job, requiring a Phd at the Autodesk office in Toronto is... not great. Most computer scientists I know are happy with being middle class and just really enjoy the subject matter. Maybe this is rare in your area of the world?
A big part of my process for quitting was associating smoking with feeling disgusting and sick instead of feeling relaxed (which was never true anyway). For me it was more like reprogramming than deprogramming. But in broad strokes my experience was similar to yours.
I’d love to see some national crackdown on HOA/CCR rules. In particular you should never be stopped from growing food on your own property. If covid taught us anything it’s that the food chain is fragile.

The people who run these organizations would literally rather die than see a few corn stocks drying in the backyard of a neighbor.
That's awesome, thanks for the update. Always curious how it's being handled for us in the tech industry. Seems there are a lot more WFH opportunities that we never thought would come (like Facebook). Gives the opportunity to a lot of people to live where they want to. Just hope employers don't cut salaries too much as a result of a persons location. It would make sense of course but, who wouldn't like to make FAANG salaries while living somewhere with a much smaller cost of living?
That's interesting, haven't heard of countries using pdf digital certificates.
I've heard a few countries implemented certified email: anything in a certified email is considered a legal document (including a plain pdf)
Very nice! Hopefully it'll avoid the uh...issues AI Dungeon had.

When GPT-NeoX comes out, is there a plan to switch to that? Is such a thing even feasible without a lot of hosting cost?
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You do. Install blockada. No more ads and trackers, even in apps.

https://blokada.org/
Personally, after all these years, I think the desktop metaphor is still ingenious. When I watch kids using it, and touch screen phones and tablets, it's pretty amazing how fast they get it.

I didn't read the the article but from others have said here they didn't offer a better one.
I lived in a village in the UK where windows and doors had to be painted a certain way, you couldn't have visible satellite dishes, you couldn't change the structure, and there were other rules about random things like no tents on front lawns (for some reason? nobody does anyway though.) I think it's pretty uncommon here.

I liked it - mostly sensible rules designed to preserve heritage for everyone.
"American culture is increasingly seen as something entertaining or strange, not as an aspirational role model."

This is true.

But the USA isn't the only WEIRD nation.

Other WEIRD nations think of the USA as over its zenith too.
I guess my only thought here is: how can someone like me talk about my experience if I'm going to get shouted down by someone like you? I was trying to share an anecdote to explain a potentially interesting alternative view, but I feel now that if I don't toe the orthodoxy line, I'm not allowed to participate.

I don't think I'm immune, but I am certain I'm not addicted to nicotine despite having smoked dozens of times, and I think that's a story worth sharing, even if you don't.
HOAs could be studied as what happens with poor government models.

If you ever thought you want single party rule, you might be able to look to HOAs as a cautionary tale.

I’m biased, lived in one that a lemonade stand war that would have made Animal Farm seem like a lesson in good government. The sex scandal and the embezzlement didn’t help change my opinion later.
In places where new communities are being developed HOA and CCRs (the actual rules) are extremely common. In fact in my area they’re required for all new home building communities.
Also note that some HOA's are "voluntary". Check with a realtor first to make sure that means they have no teeth with regard to covenants, etc. Basically, if they can't put a lien on your property, they have no teeth.
Actually yea - I was wrongish on this one. It's a state level decision[1] with different requirements and generally a requirement of suspicion of guilt. I was mostly thinking of surface level information (identification and the like) rather than any sort of detailed information that might contribute to guilt - but even that surface level information is still protected information.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_identify_statutes
> Literally the first Google result for "ketamine opioid" is https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/08/ketamines-ant.... There is tons of other primary research too.

Read the responses to this paper. It has been pretty much debunked. As summarized here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pcn.12902

“ However, there has been much debate about this paper.217-221 In contrast, pilot data from Yale University demonstrated that pretreatment with naltrexone did not affect the antidepressant actions of ketamine in patients with depression and alcohol use disorder.222-224 Further clinical trials using a large sample size are needed to better understand whether opioid receptor activation is necessary for ketamine’s antidepressant actions in patients with depression.

Recently, we reported that naltrexone did not block the rapid-acting and sustained antidepressant effects of ketamine in a CSDS model or LPS-induced inflammation model.225 If opioid receptors are implicated in the antidepressant actions of ketamine, (S)-ketamine must be more potent than (R)-ketamine in animal models of depression. Therefore, the opioid receptor system might not play a role in ketamine’s antidepressant actions.225”
6. Corner-cutting. I consider that distinct from blunders or bad contractors. See: the Pal-Kal construction method.

I consider that not part of the safety factor because IIRC it was basically fudged or outright ignored, often times with building inspectors paid off.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_wedding_hall_disa...
Unfortunately, in competitive markets like the Bay Area, HOA neighborhoods are the only option available to you in your price range for most people starting out. Your other options are to rent, or to move to a location far from where you work. (Or to live with your family if that is available to you, and all parties agree on it).

Now, of course, if you can and prefer to permanently work remotely, then moving to a further location from where you work may be a good option for you. But then you will have to consider the risk of you being able to continue to have a job that allows permanent remote work.
When I see an HN message pointing to medium, I first check the comments to see what it's about. I don't even want to click on the link.
While I kind of like the idea of fragments, and them being universally searchable, IDK: it sounds like a pluggable search engine is what that OS needs, more than rethinking the FS.

Search is great, when it works. When it doesn't, it is frustrating. Github's file search regularly fails to find some files that I know exist (one of our YAML files at work, in particular, is invisible; I've learned to just not even try). "Shell" won't find the sea shell emoji in OS X. "sea" will. "Place of Interest" (the command key symbol) is also similarly frustrating.

> who cares, disks are big, save it all, forever

Except they're not. Laptop's preference for SSDs means my work laptop has <300 GiB, which was full within a year.
Another in the UK is the Iron Trunk, carrying the Grand Union canal over the river Great Ouse:

https://www.nationaltransporttrust.org.uk/heritage-sites/her...

This one is just outside Milton Keynes, which might be a bit more accessible to foreign HN readers visiting the UK than the Welsh Marches.
Whole (most of) Europe works without an HOA, why USA can’t?
This kind of reminds me of those for and against CoC (Code of Conducts). Some people find them unnecessary and insulting, others can't imagine working/contributing without them. Different strokes for different folks I suppose.
I am not surprised at all with these results. But what about the bias in the study perhaps? It is very hard to create a neutral study especially with such a small sample. And even picking the small sample itself often involves hidden bias.
I've never lived in a neighborhood where the houses must be in "perfect cookie cutter shape", nor would I ever want to. I want my neighborhood to be diverse and interesting. HOA neighborhoods sound soul-crushing to me.
What I find really interesting is that I keep hearing how Americans love their freedom and hate being told what to do and how to behave. Yet HOAs are such stereotypical American institution....I've lived in a few different countries and I can't think of anything as opressive to your homeowner rights as American HOAs. And people enter them willingly? Can someone explain why? Are the benefits of living in a managed neighbourhood really worth being told when to cut your grass and when you can take your bins out and what you can and cannot park in your own paid for driveway?
I think the difference would be that with an HOA there is a resource of people eager to enforce these rules vs the township that probably can’t be bothered to?
Why are covenants allowed to run with the land? There's no other kind of ownership that can control people forever like it can. Regular contract law seems way more restrained in comparison. If there were a new blanket rule that covenants couldn't run with the land, wouldn't that completely and immediately defang every mandatory HOA (effectively turning them into the benign voluntary HOAs) with no other negative side effects?
When I say software-accelerated, I'm referring to anything that doesn't offload any rendering processes to the GPU. It's not necessarily a turn of phrase, but I think most people familiar with the topic will grok that software rendering = no GPU offload.

Though I do understand the desire to be pedantic, because ISAs like this and their SIMD instructions can kinda blur the lines between what constitutes as "hardware accelerated". That's why I try to avoid it as much as possible for the sake of simplicity.
No idea what you're saying now.
Most of the US isn't under HOA, either.
If I found a box in my backyard that said "Property of <local> police department" - my first step would be to phone them up and ask them to remove it. If they denied that it was theirs then I'd suspect foul play.

It may be a touch naive of me but I'll tend to give the benefit of the doubt to identifying tags.
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We aren't facing resource constraints, we're facing overuse of resources. The problem of overpopulation is not one of an inability to feed, house and water people - the problem is the impact we have upon our own environment.

The single greatest thing we could do to improve our species' odds of survival today is reduce ourselves in number. Because we are currently causing a mass extinction event.
Thank you. The article notes that other pressures such as overfishing also contribute to the decline of fish populations, and that fish ladders on the Columbia river are successful.

No doubt there are some ineffective fish ladders out there, and no doubt dams have a negative impact on fish populations. Could better designed fish ladders and compensation channels mitigate the effect of the dam? I think so.

Fish stocks across all species are collapsing due to overfishing.
Just use GNU/Linux (on mobile, too!).
1k a month!? Why would anyone pay that? There must be some great facilities I guess (pool? gym?)
I don't think you're going to find many (any?) apartments for sale (so, condos or co-ops) anywhere that don't have an equivalent to an HOA/condo association/etc. The common ownership of the building, common areas, and so on pretty much demand that kind of structure.
Yeah, if I owned a condo you'd bet I'd want an HOA. It's one thing when everyone owns their own roof and yard, but quite another when it's a single building that multiple owners are sharing.
HOAs are a kink, for people who like to be controlled or for people who like to control others. Being in a HOA is like being in a BDSM relationship. Some people like this sort of thing.
I haven't had any issues with my HOA. There are bad HOAs, but I feel like for the average person they're fine. Beats having a neighbor that decides to put junk in the front yard, including a toilet. That happened to my parents, who don't live in an HOA neighborhood.
I have been a smoker for over 20 years as well, I think it was hard at first to quit smoking but I agree with the author article, something changes in you.

Every now and then I feel like I want to smoke and I buy a pack of cigarette, I smoke chain a couple of them and figure out I don't really like it and don't want to do that anymore and I don't get the urge anymore for four month or six...

I have been doing this for the last five years or so, maybe i didn't quit fully but I don't do a pack and half every day or have to wake up mid night to have a smoke anymore.
In Lincoln Park as well, pretty much the only way to avoid HOAs are townhomes (which is the route we went, because of my prior condo experience)

The HOAs are so high they also make the economics of rental income very hard, so unless they provide amenities that have resale or rental pricing value you are just paying a monthly compliance fee. How they became so common boggles my mind.
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And now the design of the road with the bridge and the roundabout connecting the road with N707 has a costly consequence. They want to introduce a tunnel to pass the N707, but the altitude of the road due to the bridge leaves little room to make that possible.