skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a red herring when prop 13 was passed, and is a red herring now. 49 other states don't have prop 13, and yet seniors aren't priced out of their homes.

There are plenty of other solutions. Some states allow you to just pay the same amount each year and put the difference as a lien on the house until you sell. Some states have something like prop 13, but it is applied to entire counties. ie. They allow the entire county to raise their income from property tax by 1% annually. So everyone's home gets reassessed for its value and then the tax rate is set so that the whole county goes up 1%. This means that in some cases people's property taxes actually go down if one area had a massive increase in value.

Every other state figured out a way to avoid this problem. California just loves its "rent control for the wealthy" which is what Prop 13 is.

Prop 13 is the single worst law in California and must go.

And I say this as someone who owns multiple properties in CA, and in fact for one of them, the profit comes entirely from the fact that the tax rate was set in the 70s. If I had to pay property tax on the current value, I'd just sell it because there would be no profit to be had. And in my primary home, my neighbors subsidize me by paying twice what I do even though their homes are worth less. And I subsidize my neighbor who has been here since the 60s and pays 1/10 of what I do for the same services.

And if you're still really concerned about old people losing their homes, at least support getting rid of Prop 13 for all non-primary homes. There is absolutely no reason a rental property should be protected from property tax increases.
Planned downtime means only one thing: you have an atomic update, that needs some downtime.

It doesn't inform you that the steps are "precarious" vs. "predictable" or that you have have or don't have quick way of recovery, or how small or big the update is.

You can just as easily screw up your application state without downtime.

You gotta be careful thinking purely by association. It's natural and intuitive, but often causes you to group unrelated characteristics together.

Maybe my update is as simple as adding a column to a table. If I have millions of rows, that won't be instant, it can take say half an hour. In InnoDB for example it'll do a full table copy to add a column. But it's not precarious or fragile, or dangerous. It's just what it says on the can. It'll either do the copy or it won't.
> Laundering money in poor countries directly hurt the citizens of those countries because the government doesn't collect the taxes it is entitled to

Minior nitpick: Poor countries typically have authoritarian, corrupt governments, so keeping money out of their hands is actually a good thing :)

But more to the point: the whole idea of money laundering is that criminals WANT and DO pay taxes on their illegal income by pretending it came from legal sources. If they just kept those money under the mattress they would never pay a penny of taxes, but they also wouldn't be able to actually spend the money. So, money laundering in poor countries actually increases the tax income of their governments.
primarily-online-banks are close to non existent in latinoamerica
It's fees all the way down. I'm not even joking. I wanted to buy an ENS domain last week, so I put $100 CAD into an exchange (~$80USD). I abandoned the attempt because, after the fees to transfer out of the exchange to a private wallet and the fees to actually make the transaction on the blockchain, I wasn't sure if I'd have enough money. That's $80 to buy something that's supposed to be $5. I couldn't even figure out how to figure out what the damn thing would actually cost in the end.
Scrivener explicitly targets non-fiction writers as well. There are template projects for essays, papers and proposals, with support for LaTeX as well as various citation styles (I recall at least APA and MLA). The notes and research sections of the project are even more useful for non-fiction writing in my opinion.

For programming books especially I recall Scrivener 3 added basic support for code blocks. No syntax highlighting, but if you export to HTML or LaTeX you can use a library or package for that.
Can someone ELI5 what the actual impact of this is? Is there security concerns I'm not seeing here?
9-6-6 is a lot of work, but not too much for someone that loves it.

He advocates 9-9-6, which is just crazy.
How does it work? Don’t you still need O(n) bytes for the payload?
Major Scientific Leap: Quantum Microscope Created That Can See the Impossible
>There's a similar number of people crammed into a similar geographical area on the east coast.

The east coast has unlimited supplies of fresh water. California does not. The east coast megalopolis is also situated on a coastal plain, with a deep hinterland unconstrained by any mountainous geography. California crams a similar amount of people into a tiny sliver of coastal land in between the mountains and the sea, surrounded by some of the driest deserts in the world.
of course crypto would not help criminal money laundering. Bitcoin and Etherium are very traceable by design. In fact, it is often much, much easier to trace to origin of Bitcoin funds than the origin of USD funds, especially when cash was involved. There are "private" coins like Monero but they aren't getting much traction.
Hi, Chris from Airy here. Glad that you like it!

Yes this was a very challenging problem. After many iterations we came to the conclusion that in general it's best to have no opinion on the structure of the content that is being sent. So we store every message exactly as we receive it and do platform specific file interactions in a separate stream. We then store the results in a metadata topic and use that to render messages on-demand. This immutable approach makes retrying and storage migrations easy and safe.

Regarding WhatsApp Business containers we are still waiting for them to wrap up their Beta. Currently we support WhatsApp and SMS via our Twilio messaging source (https://airy.co/docs/core/sources/whatsapp-twilio), but we definitely plan on making it a first class citizen.

Hope I could answer your questions! :)
If the survival of a single person is "high stakes" in fiction, then what do you even consider "low stakes"?

> I admit I'm limited to the sample I've experienced personally but it's over 90%.

You need to read a wider selection of books, then. Try, say, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Of Mice and Men, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, A Christmas Carol, The Grapes of Wrath, The Time Machine, Dune, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Foundation series, anything by Ray Bradbury... there's a very long list of books that are not driven by simplistic good vs. evil conflicts.
Very very long post, criticizing everything insider sources say, twisting definitions (ethnocide becoming genocide), while providing absolutely zilch evidence of the said genocide... I dislike China pretty much or more than the average guy, but come on, if the stuff is real there should be more convincing evidences. In anyway case, the journalist here is pretty good at producing exactly the Western propaganda she mention in her own article...
Couldn’t this entire scenario play out exactly the same with SMS codes?
I don't think truth/outlandishness is all that closely related to whether a particular belief is a crank-y one. For example: horoscopes are fake, but I don't think that people who believe in horoscopes are cranks, per se. Or unfalsifiable claims: plenty of people have crank and non-crank views about things that just don't adhere to proof/disproof.

To put it another way: a lot of religious (particularly Christian) views amount to metaphysical claims that we can't really falsify. That's maybe sufficient to make them "irrational" in a narrow analytical sense, but insufficient to label them as crank-ish.
> not because its was a real problem (and, even if it was, Prop 13 doesn’t focus on dealing with that problem.)

California politicians were working on solutions to the property tax problem for years. The same year prop 13 was on ballot, something else was on ballot to fix the problem, which would have done a much better, targeted job - but unfortunately big money poured into prop 13 and that got passed.

My parents bought a new house in 73, and by the time prop 13 passed it was worth around 3x the purchase price. They both worked in tech and were close to having to sell their house (they had 4 kids).

It was a real problem, prop 13 was just a bad solution.
Not sure what impact this would have though.
It isn't as crazy as you might think depending on how far you want to take it. My charitable interpretation of the comment you're replying to is that they believe COVID is real and does cause deaths, but that the number of deaths is not as high as what is claimed.

As an example of why that isn't "crazy", consider that recently a major Bay Area county in CA revised their COVID counts downward by 25% (https://www.foxnews.com/health/california-county-cuts-covid-...) because they had previously included deaths of anyone infected with the virus, regardless of whether the virus was a direct or contributing cause to the death. This is in a state that took the pandemic very seriously, had lots of governmental organization around it, and 'believes in science'.

People have been raising concerns about how deaths are counted throughout the pandemic, but they've largely been ignored, despite it being a legitimate line of questioning. They were always told "there are standards", which isn't really a convincing argument, given that there have been a non-zero number of proven instances of over-counting. You could argue that excess mortality is the metric we should look at, and that may be appropriate in some countries where such data collection is rigorous. But the way excess mortality is tracked is also inconsistent between different nations, and outright non-existent in most nations.
As far as I can tell there's zero real world impact here, I think they just want to maintain a stellar track record for any reported bug that would affect the certificate issuance in any way.

Basically, had it been a second, a day, a month, doesn't matter - they still treated it seriously. That sort of thing goes a long way towards building trust.
> As others have said, it is not that SMS 2FA is insecure; it is that thieves have figured out how to defeat it using SIM jacking and a bit of facebooking and googling

It is 100% insecure, and been exploited for nearly a decade.

1. Anybody with access to raw SS7 network can basically click a finger, and have you traffic rerouted

2. GSM interception gear is widely available

The person who invented "SMS verification" was a round idiot
Ask HN: Which Linux CLI apps could use a GUI app?
There is zero actual security impact.
The issue is that in areas with sufficient parking, on-street parking has few restrictions; maybe you have to move your car every few days and might have a scheduled street cleaning that you need to move for, but you don't need to obtain a permit or feed a meter or worry about where guests might park.

If you put a building with insufficient parking near there, users of that building are likely to park on the nearby streets and that reduces the utility of the street parking for the existing residents; either they may no longer be able to find parking readily, or they need to manage permits, etc.

It's different if you build in an area that already has tightly restricted parking. If you move into a downtown LA building without enough parking for your vehicles, you're not going to be able to find a free spot nearby and you won't reduce the utility of your neighbors.
Wouldn't the bugzilla entry [0] a better choice since the discourse community entry just points there? The preamble by Josh (ISRG Executive Director) is literally just a copy of the first paragraph from the bug, no additional data.

[0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1715455
This illustrates what I miss using WYSIWYG programs like MS Word or Google Docs: the ability to easily comment out lines without deleting them, or leave notes to oneself.
I feel like the citizens of El Salvador may have different standards as to what is an acceptable level of volatility in their currency.
The security concerns of this particular bug are essentially zero. The meta question is if there are other related bugs that may not have been caught. We should stamp out bug classes, not individual bugs.
Fastly says single customer triggered bug behind mass internet outage
> If Bob was willing to sell the house for $270,000 and Alice was willing to buy the house for $330,000, then there was at LEAST $60,000 of value created by the transaction.

Where each participants marginal utility function is represented by their name, and P is the actual transaction price, there is exactly Bob(P-$270k) + Alice($330k-P) value created.

Calling this “at least $60k value” is wrong, and even calling it “$60k value” ignores the fact that value of $ is no more constant across different market participants than any other item, and that the benefits accrue in particular places.
Respectfully, but what would your response be to the claim that this is racially prejudiced?
This is awesome. I regularly find myself generating issues for dividing "burn-down" tasks across a team. Such as migrating different sub-directories or files. It is a nice way to remember what is done and what needs to be done.

Jira natively supports this and is very flexible. GitLab supports this as well.

It would be nice if you could assign the issues to a milestone to help track the overall progress. Otherwise it is easy to lose track of the bunch of issues after importing.
That's why Israel is begging the US for another billion dollars for reloads for their Iron Dome system. They're using expensive guided missiles to shoot down cheap unguided rockets.
Ransomware revisited: As attacks worsen, tried-and-true defenses falter
I fail to see how this servomotor is actually innovative.

The bearings built in don't seem to have much ability to withstand off axis loads.

https://genesisrobotics.com/wp-content/themes/Theme/pdfs/Liv...

For example, here is a Harmonic drive of similar style

https://www.harmonicdrive.net/products/rotary-actuators/holl...
You don't get a refund for the intervening years of mania. Oh we're sorry we almost kicked you out of your house because everyone else was paying out the nose for houses because they speculated Amazon would build it's hq there that year so sorry about that. Here's your 50k in taxes back with interest.
These programs often have terrible red tape and even awareness problems. They also ignore people who aren’t seniors but may be going through temporary rough spots. I prefer to have the prop 13 rules fundamentally built in an applied to all primary residences as a measure to provide a more universal stability of a home.
I want my digital cash to work like regular cash. I need to pay the lawn guy, send an iMessage. I wanna buy lunch, swipe my phone and pay with the money in my phone. I don't need the charge going through my bank or some intermediary.

I want freedom to use my digital money the way I want without someone holding my account hostage, if I do something wrong. Additionally, I have no problem losing my money, if I send the money to the wrong person or lose my phone.
LN now has routing, so you can open a single channel with a well-connected node and transact with everyone. They will charge you a fee for this, but it is on the order of 1/100th as much as a regular bitcoin transaction.
It can be exactly 0, but that's the exception, not the rule.

If you treated them as true real numbers, the odds of bid and ask being exactly identical are zero. In reality we round the prices to some minimum unit of currency (or rational fraction thereof), so it's not impossible for the difference to be precisely zero.

Nonetheless, it demonstrates why it's not zero sum in general. If it happens to sum to zero, it's by coincidence, not a fundamental truth of the market.
How often do people trash a previously un-trashed residence on the way out when being evicted or foreclosed? I suspect it’s much more common behavior than anyone wants to admit.
Covid's Done, SF's Still Fun, Meet Everyone in Summer 2021
Thinking about putting together a series of events for those of us still in SF after the mask mandate lifts next week. Who might be interested in joining, and what kind of events should I look into?
Uh, really? I bet Prometheus would do a better job
>Minimum of 3 parking spaces for a 4 bed in the UK?

This is certainly not my experience, unless you are counting on street parking and even then, that's a stretch

I'm only thinking of new developments
This might just be me, but I expected this issue to be taken far less seriously than it has been in the given communication [0]. In the linked similar issue [1], they even talk about revoking the certificates, which seems insane to me for being one second off. Is there any actual serious problem with this extra second I'm missing?

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1715455

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1708965
I don't see why people are so fixated on LN, it changes nothing, you might as well be using something like coinbase.
1M/year is roughly 500K after taxes in Bay Area. Starter house is bad school district (means you need to pay 25K-45K per year per kid for private school) is over 1M.
More people directly use linux today (in the form of Android) than windows.
I'd gladly go back to my iPhone SE (2016) if I could downgrade it back to iOS 13, where it was able to do both turn-by-turn navigation and music playback when using wired CarPlay.

The only reason I bought a new iPhone was because that functionality stopped working reliably under iOS 14, and it effectively became and either/or proposition, which wasn't acceptable.
i have a gmail account that duplicates/forwards to my fastmail and somehow fastmail shows the forwarded email waaaaaay before gmail even tells me i got the original. i giggle every time.
And yet, there is such a thing as a low-noise resistor, because thermal noise is not the only resistor noise. This application note, also from Analog, explains:
https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/appl...
I don't think you can. MS offers a lot of things "for free".
Nice try. I don't want to get mugged or step on poop.
> Sounds like a great way to live a life, just because younger people feel like they deserve to live in their house.

At one point, I'm fairly sure all those old people you're talking about were young people who felt like they deserved to live in their house. The difference is that, well, they were able to. I don't think you're intentionally saying "You came of age after 1980, kiddo, so suck it," but that's nonetheless the outcome. Proposition 13 certainly isn't the only reason that housing prices in California have skyrocketed, and housing prices have always been more expensive here than the US median -- but the gap between the California median and the US median started increasing immediately after Proposition 13 was passed and just kept accelerating.
It is safe to use the same U2F token for many sites, that's not an issue. Having a backup token is very useful, but apart from that, a single hardware token (not custom - standards are good) can easily be used to secure all your accounts.
I remember back in the day, I saw what android was about to do to the market, the writing was on the wall for palm and blackberry. My only thought was that it would be nice if blackberry rebased itself as a business+security focused flavor of Android devices. Sad to say, I've almost never seen a blackberry since.
Have you ever written anything longer than about a couple dozen pages in Google Docs? Its performance is straight-up atrocious.

Granted, the Docs team recently started rolling out a new canvas-based version of the app that should be faster and more efficient, but honestly I'm not really holding my breath.
All people deserve to be housed.
Rushing a space launch with a mega-billionaire seems like a good way to put inheritance laws to the test.
Funny you should bring up Google. Google is so hard on infrastructure that most big sites have special handling for Google scraper requests. At reddit we put google on their own slower server cluster just so they didn't break the website.

We only did this because of the extreme value Google brings via traffic. But most crawlers and other things that made speculative queries like that were just banned.
I doubt they are getting mortgages on these properties if they are overpaying the half.

More likely is that they have no where else to part their money anymore.
Bingo. In any piece of music gear that is after the guitar/mic preamp, where it is working with line level signal (a higher voltage than consumer audio line level, by the way), it hardly matters where you put the volume knob. If you design it halfway well, it will be quiet as a mouse.
Thats all great until fractional reserve banking enters the game. In the end we will efficiently trade IoUs and the best outcome would be that they are redeemable and we have a gold-standard-like thing again. That in itself would be a godsend already though probably not what Bitcoin maxis vision looks like
The annoying point is that those foundations are not at all charitable.
If the value then drops 10x, you won’t get your property tax refunded. If prices end up going up and down like bitcoin, you’d need to have some protection.
These people you mention aren’t generating these theories nor am I suggesting we take their conclusions into consideration - my point is they have value as relays which are connected to networks you otherwise would not have access to, and as alternative relevancy ranking algorithms over the set of published information. For example, this WSJ article gets an increased weight in being exposed to me as a side effect of not masking out this person who is promoting it based upon their own, more widely scoped, conspiracy theory.
CA school funding per student is above the national median. If some schools are in terrible condition then it's due to incompetent management, not lack of funding. Conditions in my local CA public schools seem reasonably good.
>that asset appreciation is unearned wealth

I'm sure we can agree the vacant lot never improved itself.
It's not unearned -- it's earned by the surrounding community improving things -- which make that lot more attractive.

The incentives don't align. If that community was to massively regress e.g. unfavorable rezoning -- the value of that lot would plummet.

However in this case it's likely to be partially addressed by paying land value taxes which disincentivizes leaving it vacant -- what Henry George was getting at and wasn't there at the time.
Low rates are effectively a demand-side subsidy for housing I think, similar to other policies. But as you point out, if you restrict the supply-side, demand-side subsidy can be counter-productive.
Buying integrated graphics CPU because discrete GPUs are impossible to find. THIS. is my pain too right now. Can’t wait for the Crypto bubble to burst.
"When I started looking at phthalates, around 2000, phthalate syndrome had been shown experimentally in rodents but not in humans. Mother rats given phthalates had male babies with a smaller penis and scrotum, their sperm counts were lower and their AGD was shorter. I ran a study where we measured the stored urine of pregnant women for phthalates and we measured their male babies’ and toddlers’ AGDs – a first – along with some other genital measurements. We found exactly what had been found in rodents: phthalate syndrome. I then did a study of college-age men, where we got them to give a semen sample and measured their AGD, and we showed that the shorter the AGD, the lower the sperm count. This is why I am confident: we have a direct link from phthalates to short AGD and then from short AGD to low sperm count, and those results have been confirmed by subsequent studies."

From https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/mar/28/shanna-swan-...
Oddly, I get told that a lot.