skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The is no shortage of Lithium, just need more mines to open up. The price rising will make more places profitable to mine Lithium.
> And how can they afford the $30k/yr property tax?

The suggestion is to make them no pay that annually in cash, but rather on the future gains of the house.

Their house (or rather, the land) is going up in value far more than that per year. Asking them to forgo a fraction of their speculative real estate gains, when they never even plan to access it (according to you), does not make sense.

So what it seems like you are really saying is that they deserve to have full speculative real estate gains accessible to them, just because they are wealthier than younger people and were able to get into the capitalism game earlier. That due to their unearned wealth, that they did nothing to create, that comes purely at the expense of others being able to live in the area because land is zero sum. They should have to pay less just because they have greater power? Absolutely not.

Saying "I'm so wealthy that I can't pay taxes, and I'm not willing to even delay paying taxes until sale" is fundamental wrong-headed.
> new column/truth source

I think we need to be a bit more explicit in this part.

Database columns are your system of record. If the code treats them as the source of truth, you need to break that first. If your code is factored properly you only need a toggle in the retrieval code. If it's not factored properly, now you understand why some of your peers are pushy about separating data retrieval from data use - it concentrates any mutation to a point in time before first use where you can easily find it when surprises happen and where there can be no concurrency issues. If that's too daunting you can settle for the lesser solution of replacing use with a function call.

Once everything is using the new source of truth, you can put a toggle there. And after the migration you can decide if you want to keep them separate or fold them back together.
I got my Uber account taken over this way and I wasn’t using my cell for recovery of anything. SMS is terrible for all these purposes
This is super cool, thanks for sharing! I am always excited to see dashboards in different large products because it helps us understand how to push our product to make it so that the dashboard is buildable in Explo.
Yes, but you can still protect your wealth once it’s out of the exchange.

I guess the answer to the exchange problem is to have a decentralised exchange.
Just send it to them, anyway :)
Sorry, I was making a weak joke. Weaker than I realized, I'm afraid. Apologies.
My lamp is a Beurer lamp. It has Bluetooth app-control. Anything labelled as SAD lamp will do as they have the correct spectrum and don't emit UV.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affe...
even if the bid-ask spread is zero, the fact that someone put a bid at that price implies they value the item more than that at most that exact amount of money, and if someone put a ask at that price, that implies they value at least that much money more than that item, so it is STILL a non-zero trade.

Note that the bid-ask spread is a LOWER BOUND ESTIMATE on the amount of utility created by a trade, which is almost always nonzero.

Of course values are subjective, so you could press the "issue bid" or "issue ask" button and a fraction of a second later have your values shift, and then have the automated system execute trades... But I would say... that's life. Maybe don't click certain buttons if your preference schedule is so flighty?

Also, sure, someone could have a (metaphorical) gun to your head when you place the bid, which introduces external factors which could violate the platonic ideal that these trades must create positive value.
Not just land, but regulations and building codes are so strict that the base cost of new high density housing is so high that it isn’t economical to offer as lower rent or lower cost than “luxury” without some form of subsidy. So these things need to be built and sold or rented to the relatively wealthy so that 30 years from now they are depreciated enough that they can be offered to lower income groups.
> Residence-first real estate policy needs to include tax that increases on the number of properties owned (and maybe even more steeply in a supply constrained market).

People might try to get around this by forming corporations or trusts that hold max one property each. There is really no need to count how many other properties someone holds. Just do a re-assessment every year and ratchet up the assessed value on all housing that the owner does not occupy, including vacant property and renter-occupied. Seems a lot simpler.
That "BAN worker" button... bit morbid
They've done mass revocations in the past. There was one about a year ago from what I remember. So whatever study could be done, likely already has been. The question now is whether the issue is sever enough to warrant that action.
>A realistic parking minimum should be 2.5 spots per townhouse.

A realistic approach in the face of coming climate doom would be max 0.5, for the people that really need cars as primary transport due to disability etc.
Did Uniswap3 write itself?
Are there humans that wrote the code and deployed it?
Why is Uniswap3 protected with copyright law and who does that protect?
Why is there a company called Uniswap? Why were they funded?
Does the protocol receive tokens (sole control) and can it send them?
How would you define custody?
TOTP has the downsides of U2F, but those downsides are comparatively easier to mitigate.

Put a plan together for the "house burns down" scenario.

With U2F I need to enroll multiple tokens and keep some off-site. So what does this entail? I keep maybe 3 tokens, two on-site that I add the new account to, then on a regular schedule I rotate one off-site and bring the third one on-site and go back through and add it to any accounts I've created in the meantime? The whole process is a pain in the ass, and not all sites allow multiple devices to be registered (e.g., AWS). And new accounts are still vulnerable during the time between registering and rotating the third key on-site.

With TOTP you can... just sync your TOTP database. Some apps such as Microsoft Authenticator do this on their own. Personally, I put all my TOTP secrets into a Keepass database and sync it off-site with Nextcloud. There is no way for the site to limit how many devices I enroll so it's easy enough to create as many backup devices as you need. If you're really old school, you can print the secrets and put them in a fire safe.

FWIW, I have several yubikeys. I primarily use them as a secure store for TOTP secrets and to store a SSH key (generated off-device and backed up), not for webauthn. It's just too annoying to deal with in a way that ensures I don't lock myself out of an account.
>why would my opinion change when I get older?
Your opinion might change if property price around East Bay continue to appreciate and your new neighbors are paying even more.
Where I live now is planned to be a 15 minute neighborhood. I moved into one of the first new developments of many, all residential, all within a 5-10 minute walk of a train station.

There are about 1000 housing units being built, and there has been zero commercial development. It's great that they are building dwelling units here all around transit, but the only businesses that already exist are industrial, a gas station, and a dollar store. Commercial land owners have been refusing to sell to developers as they watch their land value increase. It's a real shame, but it does seem better than what existed before and the area certainly has potential.
Well that's just plain rude.
Which makes me wonder if other certificate authorities handle this scenario.
"Ideally, all those savings would be channeled into productive investments such as research and development, or practical equipment, or new roads, or even new
yachts--investments that would promote growth in the economy."

It's important to keep in mind that even when that money is spent, there's no guarantee it'll be spent domestically.

Just as an example, Jeff Bezos bought his $500 million superyacht from Oceanco, a Dutch yachtmaker.

Increasingly, the ultra-rich are, like many of the companies they control, multinational.
30 million Americans are uninsured. You can't just conveniently pretend 30 million humans don't exist to make a point.
Interesting article!
40 years ago a home in the Bay Area cost about 3x median income. Now it is more than 10x. Buyers in 1981 benefitted enormously from high interest rates. I know they whine about it now, but objectively it was a massive windfall for buyers.
> The only reason the vast majority of people advocating for Bitcoin are advocating for Bitcoin specifically is because they have invested in Bitcoin

And people only hate on it because they missed out. It doesn't matter how hard they try to justify the negativity with technological argument. Everyone still knows it's just jealousy speaking. I'm guilty of this and so are you.
They offer commercial options.
I disagree.

I think they intended your reading, but if I attempt to read it as strictly as possible I'd say they have defined a representation of a particular set of points in time, not intervals, and the "inclusive" in the definition of notAfter tells us that the interval is closed, not that it extends to the beginning of the following second.
You can request that your mobile provider put a port freeze and SIM lock on your account and require you to be in-store with a valid photo ID to transfer your number to another device.

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/privacy-and-security/d...
I don't want to be that guy but I feel like Americans and majority of the democratic World have forgotten that the laws they keep criticizing are the ones THEY voted for.

Protesting is fine but I never see voters take responsibility for their own bad choices. They are heavily influenced by so-called influencers and vote according to them instead of their own thinking. CA Prop 13 is something people of CA voted for. It is obviously working for majority of the people in CA. So whats the whining about? People of SF elected Boudin and are not signing enough recall petitions, surely its working for most people.

Democracy doesn't guarantee utopia, their will be some people mad about the system. But they have to accept they are in minority. There is no conspiracy, voters need to take responsibility for their own wrong choices first.
I want warn people about U2F.

U2F is only an authentication tool, not security/encryption one.

If you have your smartphone/browser/pc pwned, you are even more screwed than with offline key table/token.

For something truly security critical, you need security against MITM on your own device, which only leaves smartcards as an option.
Trust with whom? To me acting like an automaton lowers trust.

The suggestion to invalidate millions of certs over a second longer validity sounds like terrible judgement.
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Mon-entreprise is the official French assistant for the entrepreneur, a French public service (coming out of Betagouv).

It's also 100% open-source, 3 millions simulations launched to date, 983 rules translated from law, 1 in-house DSL for editing rules: Publicodes.

The team speaks French, so this is a requirement as well :)

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There's also some DB updates that, even if strictly speaking non-backwards compatible, run in just a matter of seconds. Additionally, in postgres you can set statement_timeout, which should abort any query that takes too long.

If you have a reasonable deployment strategy, then the chance that someone will talk to your application in the exact moment that the app is in some invalid state, might be quite small.
To be clear, that framing was chosen to _politely_ continue discussion.

I like walking in and out with a clear head from threads, voting behavior changed, and you're always going to get downvoted through the floor for disagreeing. Might as well know it was because of that, than because you were incurious or impolite.
Still all sounds really complicated, obtuse and unnecessary. They should've went with a cryptocurrency which is actually usable out of the box as a... currency.
I can't see an immediately obvious attack that would be available by having an extra second of certificate validity. I can think of a possible place it would be useful to know this value correctly - automated expiration monitoring and unit tests
Shells have not dramatically altered pipe character implementations since Dennis Ritchie introduced | into Unix V4.

Most folk's use of the command line interface has changed so much since those days that |'s default "glue" still drops out information that many of today's hackers consider a common part of the contemporary Unix terminal experience, such as text color.
I once created a language parser that supported over 40 languages and was used by over thousand other projects. It was interesting when I discovered it being used at my company. It wouldn't exist if I were crying about how hard life is without tools to do my job for me.
Yes, criminals do criminal things, but normally we don't just execute criminals that are involved in bad organizations. Even criminals are afforded rights here and it is one of the things that makes this country so great. Having law enforcement decide that they get to pass judgement on criminals is an incredibly slippery and ugly slope. Without everyone getting a right to a fair trial, those that are innocent can be impacted as well (e.g.: this is why one of our founding fathers defended the british soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre [1]).

Why is it ok that law enforcement get to decide what punishment a criminal should receive? You don't think that has a risk of trending society towards a police state where law enforcement power is not checked at all?

Innocent people getting thrown in jail happens. Say the police give this type of public exposure to an actually innocent person and that innocent person gets convicted. Say a newspaper article reports on the lie that the given innocent person was cooperating with police and that article is read by a big audience. That innocent person runs the risk of being murdered in jail because they have been marked as a snitch by law enforcement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
There's flippers who truly restore a dilapidated house and help resuscitate a neighborhood, and there are flippers who put a thin veneer of newness on a rotting frame, bury the waste in the backyard, and then still try to charge the same as the first kind. We don't need more of the second kind.
> I am salvadoran myself and I do not support the current president but [ ... ]

The word “but” implies some kind of contrast with what is to follow; there is none. Your support to lack thereof is orthogonal to the next point.
RFC 5280 further says: [1]

> The validity period for a certificate is the period of time from notBefore through notAfter, inclusive.

It says nothing about the comparison precision, just the storage format. It says CAs MUST encode validity dates as UTCTime / GeneralTime. It does not say this encoding must be used for comparison.

So I don't think it's actually defined if 2020-01-02 03:04:05.01Z is actually <= 2020-01-02 03:04:05Z.

That would mean this is not a 1 second-mistake but instead an infinitesimal mistake.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5280#section-4.1.2....
We've changed the URL to that now. Thanks!

Submitted URL was https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1402434266970140676
The Circles of Friendship
It sounds like the sort of thing Jeff Minter (https://twitter.com/llamasoft_ox) -- author of games such as "Revenge of the Mutant Camels", "Llamatron: 2112", and "Moose Life" -- would make.
related: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1402434266970140676.html
You're quite right to ask for a citation. Sadly I can't give you one as the TFL rail condition assessments aren't public. Instead I'll point out that Metronet and Tubelines spend billions trying to dig out of the backlog and failed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Lines

>no one wants to pay to replace them. So every night they need... replacing

Yeah, stupid right?

Imagine a signal is broken (and TFL still used vaccume tubes for its signal systems as recently as 2010). So you have to reduce speed on the line. So now the centra-pedal forces on the corner after the speed restriction aren't enough to counter the camber of that curve. So the wheels on ever train grind down the railhead. So now you have the replace the rail (or polish it etc) much sooner than expected.

Failing to replace one part forces you to replace another part. Replacing that part uses up the time/money you have so you can't now replace the first part.

Take the central line anywhere between Bank and Stratford some time. The screaming of the wheels isn't just deafening noise. It's the actual rail being turned into dust because no one has invested a weeks closure and money to fix the rest of the infrastructure. So instead every night someone has to go check it and make sure it hasn't cracked yet...
D.B.Cooper – the only unsolved air piracy case
Does this mean that Tesla is now required to accept Bitcoin in El Salvador?
Well yeah, that's why I felt like they were conflating two different topics. The bid-ask spread on a stock exchange doesn't really the same as my be willing to pay $350k for your house when you would be willing to go as low as $300k.
Zoom is experiencing degraded performance
Zoom is experiencing degraded performance. See their status page.
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's tedious and invariably reflects the bias of the perceiver.
Perhaps this is a conspiracy to sell more maps. Maps last too long, so occasionally renaming something where no one lives (can't change anyone's actual address) is good for the map cartels. :)
> You can't just conveniently pretend 30 million humans don't exist to make a point.

You obviously can, especially if the point is about you being privileged and callous.
I've found density laws wildly accepted, its a building boom in Newberg as people add ADU's and more housing. I don't know where you get your information, but if you own a home in a growth boundary in a small town in Oregon, its "Lets build an ADU" time like never before.
As vile as the robber barons were, at least they were bounded by the confines of their environment to care at least a bit about their countrymen and have some patriotic tendencies.
Norrland is one of three landsdelar. Wikipedia translates it Lands of Sweden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lands_of_Sweden
No, as you might guess – I live in Blighty (the UK). During winter, we commute home after sunset. In November to December, daylight hours would only be during the workday (8 am to 4pm).

The only time I didn't have SAD was when I worked in a building with full-length windows.
In theory sure, but that's not realistic, it just induces sprawl.

Great, you manage to artificially limit parking. So the new housing development moves another 10 miles outside of town, to get away from your artificial limit, and now their mowing down a cornfield out there instead for their build, so they can get the parking residents actually need.

If cities want to be a solution to climate change, they have to let people actually live in them. That means, they have to care about the price points of developments (they can't just keep deflecting and saying "luxury housing lowers prices in 50+ years when it trickles down") and they have to care about supporting residents actual transportation needs. (they can't just hide behind "everyone will bike or whatever").

Everytime they deflect on either of those, another farm or forest gets razed instead.
This is the one of the most Hacker Newsy comment chains I've read....
The Fed buying $40B of MBS bonds a month sure isn’t helping
> CA Prop 13 not only makes housing a good investment, but one that you’re extremely incentivized to hold onto forever and never move

AKA "segregation with extra steps"
How could anyone consider investing in China given stories like this?
> Said someone on a website where billionaires are idolized... just because they're rich.

[citation needed]
I'm not sure what parts of Detroit you're talking about, I can't think of a single neighborhood that is struggling with that problem, blight and abandonement? Sure.
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And, at least in California, realtors will always push prices up. It’s pretty much never in their best interest to lower the price. Even the buyer’s agent gets paid a percentage of the sale price, so if they try to lower it they’d be essentially working against themselves. And this is without even accounting for all the schemes realtors create (like listing below market to get a lot of offers and create artificially high demand to put pressure on the top offers to increase their bids as high as possible, as well as make them waive their contingencies).
> Compared to 3.5bn in free money to private operators?

Sadly London is not yet more important than the rest of the UK combined.
Yeah but if that's not the default 2 factor authentication is not secure and its an illusion of safety. For companies and groups to claim its gives you all this security when it doesn't follow through even in the default case is misleading. No shade on you but your talking about a lot of hops to go thru just to make someones broken model work.
This just happened to me. Put my home on the market by myself without an agent - priced it 15% over market - got a corporate cash offer that day 5% more than THAT listing. Cash, no banks and little closing fees. Without agents this is an insane savings and price. We do have a pool and those are fought over.
No, it's still crazy. Data quality is the reason I only stuck to the US figures.

The "Official" death count due to covid in the US so far is 586,000. Excess mortality indicates 680,000.

Believing that "the real" number is somewhere substantially below that is not "skeptical" it's just silly.
This system is a little simpler, it creates a public endpoint that will tunnel traffic to the game server over the playit program. So when the program and game server are running, anyone can connect to the server through the public address.

It has the advantage that only the server needs to run a program. It also does a few tricks like mapping each client's public IP to a LAN IP like 127.5.21.3 so ip banning / whitelisting still works in game.
I thought it was relevant but fair enough.
You should sort the list to notice that at the top of the list are countries that are aristocratic monarchies or pseudo monarchical aristocracies.

The Netherlands topping the list has average house prices at EUR 400k(massive spike in prices in the last year), while average annual income(pre tax) is EUR 60k.
Its fine to blame gov for somethings but for low supply? Really? NIMBYs are the only ones restricting supply in the Bay Area. They are the voters too and millenials don't vote as much on such non-trivial issues.

As for CA prop 13, also voted by people. Don't like it? VOTE AGAINST IT. Else, stop complaining. The system is working exactly as voted by the people who vote. If this is such a big issue then why are people consistently voting for them?
I know someone missing a lot of the high end, and he has really enjoyed the pandemic because all of his social interactions are online, where everyone is wearing headphones, and everyone is suffering from the same handicap:

No conferencing software that I'm aware of has solved the cocktail party effect. Since nobody can triangulate sounds properly, nobody can filter out side conversations or external noises. Everyone has to take turns to be understood, and if they don't, the guy with hearing aids doesn't get singled out by having to bring it up.
Lithium is one of the most abundant materials in the Earth’s crust.