skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of those amenities other than the pool don't add very much to the cost of construction at all, especially interior finishes. When the cost of land is so high and the number of units you can build is artificially capped you have to charge a certain level of rent to hit the 3-5% margin required to get loans for a project. At a high enough rent, your renters will demand some amenities that competing projects will build.

All of the buildings you're linking to are mid-rise developments with VERY low lot coverage dictated by local zoning. The look nice, but not that amazing compared to other new development around the country.

My point being, you can't just build cheap housing on astronomically expensive land, the math doesn't work. Crazy zoning laws add to that cost. Pointing to new development as the problem is simply wrong. If people want new construction at a lower level of affordability, then they need to change laws that drive up the costs of building. If the banks won't/can't loan money to a real estate project with an expected margin of return of < 3%, then what do you expect?
What if you're someone who thinks building stack-and-pack residences is the incorrect response for an investor-manufactured housing shortage?
The invading bugs sort of are the purpose, to defend against those. But I find it tedious, so I like to turn them off, and then yes, the game is even more noticeably lacking purpose.

I think though that making train networks is my big pleasure with the game. Very satisfying.
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The wall clocks on those pictures look great IMO.
You’ll find outside Portland that this is extremely unpopular and will eventually be defeated. Why don’t you keep your policies in your ruined destroyed burned unsafe city?
I’m not sure about the founder part (or that it really is the trend you suggest), but I think it’s pretty normal given HN is an American media property with a heavy American user base that anything foreign gets called out with that country. The same thing happens in other countries unless the subject is well familiar. For example, searching HN’s history for Bosche doesn’t label the company itself as belonging to Germany. ARM similar isn’t identified by country either. This is a new company, and typically when manufacturing is involved, the site of manufacturing is labeled (even if in the US by state).
Money laundering doesn't really make money, it just legitimize it in the financial system.
The underlying principle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%E2%80%93Nyquist_noise
"Crank subjects" are not subjects that are themselves fundamentally outlandish or unreal: they're subjects picked up by cranks and integrated into conspiratorial worldviews. Davos is a real summit that happens every year; it's also a crank subject because cranks integrate it into their NWO and similar theories.

Your own Wikipedia link says this neatly:

> According to The New York Times,[1 1] the BBC, The Guardian, Le Devoir and Radio Canada, "baseless" conspiracy theories spread by American far-right groups linked to QAnon surged at the onset of the Great Reset forum and increased in fervor as leaders such as U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau[1 2] incorporated ideas based on a "reset" in their speeches.[1 3]
Region in English, yes, using the definition from Wikipedia: "In geography, regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography)".

Absolutely not "region" in Swedish though, which refers to the 21 administrative units that Sweden is divided into.

I've always found it extremely difficult to translate these concepts between different languages.
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Property taxes in most of america are a made up number. The county needs $X and levies Y% in property tax and the auditors use a formula to solve for $Z, which is the value of an individual home. This is exactly why, all over the country, you'll find houses that just sold for $500k which have an "appraised value" of like $120k. Property taxes are dictated by the size of $X, not really the value or volume of houses.

Some areas have legislation that prevents property taxes from increasing at too fast a rate. In those regions, the formula is changed a bit so that newer residences are charged at a high initial rate.
If the founder/Investors of Northvolt had to choose, I'm pretty sure they would prefer their names in the title. Guess their names are just not famous enough, so better attribute to it to Sweden. More people probably knows who Elon Musk is than what Sweden is anyways :)

//A Swede
Not if the house gets sold by a kid after their parents died. At that point, the capital gains tax basis gets reset.

In the current tax climate, we will never sell our houses. It's an amazing way to transfer wealth while avoid capital gains.

And if they don't want to sell, the kids keep the original prop 13 tax limitations as well. The current housing policies and tax system is a disaster.
I've heard precisely these claims 1000 times.

BTC is not stored energy because it cannot be converted back to energy and its creation does not increase the amount of usable raw materials available to humanity. And a future where mining is constrained by geography and friendly states absolutely obliterates any decentralization - ruining the only benefit obtained by the outrageous energy cost.

Renewables are obviously not cheaper than fossil fuels in any general sense because we are still building coal and gas plants all over the world for purposes well beyond having flexible energy sources. It is abundantly clear that the problem of transitioning to a largely CO2 free energy system is not a problem of deployment. And even if it was, sucking up the fixed deployment to support ever more BTC mining is harming the transition to CO2 free energy. You've swapped now to "The UK will just not mine locally because they are never going to switch off coal" when the original argument was "BTC adoption will speed world transition away from coal".
Certificates were mis-issued. Even if the answer is "no, definitely not", the question of whether to revoke them has to be asked.
Monero is pretty popular in Venezuela right now.
Thanks to the Fed for low interest rates and constant QE. Can't wait for tomorrow's inflation numbers - just kidding they'll juice the numbers like they always do with hedonic adjustments so they can pretend the standard of living for the middle class isn't in decline.
This is a "no brown M&Ms" kind of violation. The direct impact of this violation is basically nil. However, it's a violation that suggests that the requirements haven't been very carefully read and that conformance to them hasn't been very carefully audited. So how can you have be assured that there aren't violations of more important rules still lurking about?
lol, that’s not even that dense. We have SFH here in the Bay Area just like that. Lots of places where people have 4000sqft lots with their relatively normal houses.
Limited amount of BTC is easily circumvented by issuing new cryptocurrencies.
Ethereum is to transition to PoS late 2021 / early 2022. https://blog.ethereum.org/2021/05/18/country-power-no-more/

Rest of GPU-mining is likely small enough so that we will see lots of GPUs on second-hand market.
Part of the issue here that I don't see people addressing is that SMS as an only-factor recovery tool is often not optional. I hit a case like this just the other day: the service would not allow me to log in at all without adding an SMS number. This is becoming increasingly common.

The irony is that my security is now worse. At least my password was randomly generated.

I'm not sure what there is to do about this, other than educating as broadly as we can and hope that engineers advocate in their own organizations to change this.
Elon already clarified that Tesla did not sell their Bitcoin.
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I thought you needed the PIN if you wanted that, too? As in, if you lose your phone and don't have the PIN set up with your carrier, you've lost your number and can't restore it.
I'm not refuting it. I am pointing out that this is a pattern with much precedent, and is not restricted to Republicans or conservatives. A number of comments in this discussion seem to be ascribing belief in improbable scenarios to one political side. If anything, I would say that election denialism is a tit-for-tat game that is now reflecting back the same disbelief that was shown in prior elections. Furthermore, the GP comment suggested that half of the population holding a "crank denialism" is something new. My evidence shows it is clearly not something new.
The worst part is, Coinbase will not cover your losses. They have absolved themselves of any responsibly for users being hacked, only if they [coinbase] gets hacked.
I also wonder this.
Increasing the rental stock in an area of low rental units is one thing, but is not what the article is discussing. I'm not sure the relevance of the European housing market.
You have onchain BTC, and you can decide to put them in a LN channel with another party (this causes an onchain transaction)

You and that party can now transact freely between each other with no fees, but if that other party is a gateway, it can route payments through it and through other gateways too, and each of them charge fees for routing.

Once any of the parties decide to close the channel, is when a new onchain transaction is created with the last balances state.

While the LN channel is open, only the parties involved know the current state of the balance.
> (Sadly there’s no exact equivalent to Erlang-style message-passing, where producers target messages of arbitrary type at a specific consumer, which all go to the consumer’s single inbox; and where, if that inbox is full, then the message just “evaporates” en route

Train stations plus circuits can do this. Trains can be configured to leave a station when not empty (after receiving a
message item of any type), and recipient stations can be disabled by a circuit if the receiver is full, causing the train to skip the station. The last station on the train's route would empty it before it goes back to waiting for a message item to deliver.
I think a lot of the negativity comes from the fact that this is largely a forum of technologists, and Bitcoin is objectively inferior technology. That's not necessarily a knock against Bitcoin, it was revolutionary when it was introduced, but it was the 1.0 cryptocurrency and it's already essentially fossilized and become legacy technology. Miners hold sway over the community and they're not really interested in changing anything significant about Bitcoin, so now people are talking about absurdities like Lightning layered over Bitcoin to try to mitigate some of the flaws. We can save the effort and fix the flaws of Bitcoin by just moving on from Bitcoin. It's as though we were stuck with SSL 3.0 forever or something.

The only reason the vast majority of people advocating for Bitcoin are advocating for Bitcoin specifically is because they have invested in Bitcoin specifically, and they want the price of Bitcoin specifically to go up. Seeing people advocate for us all to be stuck with inferior technology forever because they have a financial stake in the inferior technology is exactly the sort of thing you should expect negativity about on HN.
Makes some sense, still, especially for renters, if they don't want to have to move the system and have a big (yes, it's big to some people) up-front expense. If it's just for drinking water, it looks like you can get over 2500 person-days of drinking water in the form of CostCo 16.9oz 40-bottle packs ($2.95 for 40 bottles) for the same price as a cheapish RO system (~$200—you can buy about 333.3 gallons of that Costco water for that). About half a liter of plain water intake per person per day on average, in the US, from what I can tell. Even if you double that to account for tea and coffee, that's about two years' drinking water for a couple.

Considerations: that's not even the cheapest filtered water one can buy, and the RO system has consumable filters (= more expense—frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the bottled water is straight-up cheaper, overall), maintenance, and installation to worry about.

I don't think buying bottled water regularly is necessarily irrational. FWIW, we do have an under-sink filter on our kitchen sink rather than buying bottled water, though I'm not convinced it's justifiable based on cost—we don't live in so-bad-you-can-smell-the-water land anymore, but the filtered stuff still tastes a lot better, and it's nice not to have to remember to stock up on water at the store, though we're so bad about maintaining the filter that I think if we did it right the extra time and more-stuff-to-remember would make buying drinking water more convenient after all)
That’s only true up to a tipping point when poor people move in. Parts of Detroit are a great example where poor people are diving down the value of houses around them.

People essentially want to be surrounded by people of almost exactly their economic class to somewhat richer. To rich and stores they can’t afford to stay ie gentrification, to poor and you have to move ie white flight.
Government pushed for higher homeownership by tinkering with mortgages, taxes and regulations which resulted in banks issuing increasingly unsafe loans.

Government then bailed out the banks
About time the real estate market got more efficient

I was always turned off by how slow and illiquid that market was
In another discussion somewhere on the internet, someone mentioned using a service but I could not find any details and the person didn't reply.

The service is to send & receive email. But the storage capacity was less and the service only has a imap & smtp address and no webmail. Basically the service focuses on ensuring the emails are sent & received. The person has a webserver hosted at home that copies the emails from that server and incase of sending email, sends via that server. Then all the content of the home server is backed up at some off-site backup service.

Any idea which is the services being used and how would such a system be rated? It sounds like you are doing something similiar.
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Question: Have people used Google Voice SMS accounts or Twilio SMS accounts for 2FA? Would that be more secure?
con•spir•a•cy kən-spîr′ə-sē►
n.

An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

Like, maybe the Fed is conspiring with the gov. and big banks to fleece the American people of their real estate assets…? Have you no ability to question things?
Or working class people. For a large fraction of people if their taxes are going up faster than their wages are going up they do not have a reasonable way to get higher wages to pay for the tax.

There is very little controversy over not taxing unrealized gains when it comes to income tax [1]. I'm not sure why doing the same thing for unrealized gains in property value is controversial.

It's not like most of the things property taxes pay for are proportional to the value of the property. The changes each year in costs to provide roads, schools, libraries, police and fire, and utilities to my house and my neighbor's houses generally has little to do with the changes in the market value of our homes. So why should the taxes that pay those things be tied to market value of the house?

More sensible would be to take the costs to provide the services the tax pays for, and divide it among the houses that receive the services, equally or taking into account usage (e.g., the amount for sewer might be proportional to the number of bedrooms). If we want it to be a progressive tax, apportion it according to the relative market values of the properties, but determine the total amount for the neighborhood solely by how much money the tax needs to raise to provide the services used by that neighborhood.

[1] There is controversy over tricks and schemes used to effectively realize them while escaping taxation.
I had to laugh at “the most dense development”. 400sqm is absolute luxury in Europe, and plenty of space for a massive detached house with a garden and garage. A house on the high end here sits on less than 150m2 (northern europe).
Yes.

The point is the TOTP is precisely as bad as SMS for the common case (phishing) and only safer in a rare case (SIM-swap). This comes with large downsides (losing access).

TOTP is, at best, a very marginal improvement over SMS. This is what makes the online push to complain about services that use SMS 2FA and demand a switch to TOTP very strange.
Ask HN: Why there is nothing related to RockYou2021 in HN?
I was hoping to find something complete and serious about this subject on HN.

Thank you !
> Grzegorz Prusak

> Comment 5 • 6 hours ago

> I do not understand the math behind the mentioned problem.

> Is either the RFC or BR really specifying a DATE of 1s precision to be an INTERVAL rather than a POINT IN TIME?
It specifies a granularity of points are allowed to be endpoints of a validity period, but these are still POINTS AFAICT.

> It means that, for example 10:00:01 is AFTER 10:00, even though 10:00:01 is not a valid endpoint of a validity period (and it doesn't have to be, as it is a measurement result, not a validity period endpoint).

> Does RFC or BR requires a browser to round down the measured current time to full seconds, before comparing them against the validity period?

As a random member of the public, this seems like a reasonable interpretation to me... though the time format which expiry dates are required to be expressed in is explicitly not allowed to include fractional seconds... so maybe it is meant as an interval not a point in time.
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It makes for good practice. Ideally real and severe incidents are rare, so you should be doing testing exercises to ensure the processes and tools are in place. But when a real incident, even though seemingly minor one, comes along you might as well use it for practice and "do things right".
Spoken like someone that has never actually created an webapp with significant scope. Reading your comments in this thread is a good reminder how strongly the clueless argue about things they don't understand.
Yes:

collectgarbage("stop")

See https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#pdf-collectgarbag...

For such a dynamic language Lua is quite good about avoiding hidden dynamic allocation. Creating a new closure (or plain Lua function), coroutine, string, or table will, of course, allocate a new object. But all of those are either explicit or fairly obvious. Lua's iterator construct is careful to avoid dynamic allocation--I believe it's one reason why iterators take two explicit state arguments. And Lua has a special type for C functions (as opposed to Lua functions), allowing you to push, pass, and call C functions without dynamic allocation.
Likewise for lightuserdata (just a void pointer), and of course numbers (floats and integers) and booleans--no dynamic allocation.

Nested function calls could result in a (Lua VM) stack reallocation. But Lua guarantees tail call optimization. And the default stack size is a compile-time constant.

Finally, Lua is very rigorous about catching allocation failure while maintaining consistent state. Well-written applications can execute data processing code from behind a protected call or coroutines resume (which is implicitly protected) and still keep chugging along in the event of allocation failure anywhere in the VM. The core of the application, such as the event loop and critical event handlers, can be written to avoid dynamic allocation after initialization.
Even as someone who had a reasonably good public school experience, I see no reason to be sad for them. Even accounting for inflation, funding for public schools continues to go up while quality stays flat or declines.

As for socialization, we have a large homeschool community near us. The community has regularly scheduled gatherings, and provides a way for families to work together on teaching various subjects. Other organizations like community sports, 4H, etc. are also good options.

However, it should be noted that socialization won't be (and shouldn't be) exactly like the socialization one receives in public school. The social reality of public school is very strange and not at all like the social reality of the adult world. Homeschooling provides an opportunity to shape the child's social reality to prepare them better for the adult world.
https://elamerican.com/state-department-bukele-corruption/

All these articles seem to implicate his cabinet as corrupt.
No, and it couldn't be, which the point that you seem to be circling. Markets aren't self-governing--they don't set the rules that they abide by (including which externalities are priced in and which aren't)--that's a function of government.
At least you have somewhere to live. Our rental is being sold. There are no rentals in this county and few in the next.

All of our jobs are here.
Crazy. I’d always thought it was because of Nyquist and the 20k ish human hearing limit.
Interesting technology. Is everyone using it? And if not (I recall tsv being used a lot) then why? The wiki entry paints a very positive picture here.
Since you're only hearing from people who didn't pick up on it, I'm just going to say that I got your point and thought the Amazon example was plenty extreme enough to realize it was made up.

Cheers.
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How do you think skunkworks projects fit into this paradigm?
Porting my number to Google voice before moving abroad was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done (in hindsight), for this reason.

I sometimes wonder why Google has kept it running for so long, when they’re so keen to kill off boring, under-performing products.
Where would they live? With a budget of 2 million dollars- they could own an extravagant home practically anywhere in the US while pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I have no idea why people who are living off of social security should be in the most desirable housing in the entire country
Worst part, I mean that’s the majority of the risk of crypto. These aren’t government backed accounts, why would there be insurance.
This is reasonable in the short term.

Pros: You can probably make it work in a day or two

Cons: You now have to manage resources for each school. With dozens it's no big deal, but with tens of thousands you've got a considerable deployment problem.

I have worked at a company that started with a few single-tenant instances and ended up with a thousand. We ended up building software to specifically manage deployments, do healthchecks, ensure isolation etc (it was a long time ago - I expect we'd just run a giant kube farm today).

So, this is a reasonable approach with a painful trade-off as you scale. I would do this in the short term whilst working on refactoring this into a multi-tenant app.
It's a brown M&Ms sort of situation. It's a low-impact situation, but the appropriate response is to audit how the mistake was made and figure out what failed for it to slip through — which might lead to insight into other latent problems.
Printing money for banks arbitrarily is exactly what they do -- what they have to do, if they want to have any chance at meeting their target overnight rate. (Which they are.)

Demand for money comes from the market and is not very flexible, and certainly not under anyone's control. Lenders will meet the demand for money at ever increasing prices (i.e. higher overnight rates) unless money gets printed arbitrarily.