skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Texas (what the original article in the original post revolves around) has the 5th highest property tax in the country and the urban areas have some of the outright highest property taxes in the country on a per city or county basis. This is both a land value tax and property tax.
the California Tax Postponment Program protects low income seniors and the disabled. They have 0 risk of being displaced by property taxes no matter what.

Prop 13 is wholly unnecessary
> has pretty standard opinions for that intersection

If that's true, that's a major problem that the US needs to solve
My theory is that these are only provided out of necessity for interfaces like email, that don't enable JavaScript.
Remember, in the 1950s a new build home would cost about 1 years salary

I'm afraid that is mostly a myth. This source (https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...) shows that the home price to median household income multiple in 1950 was around 6, or about the same as now. It did fall quite dramatically during the late 1950's, going a bit under 5x by 1960 and nearing an all time low of just over 4x by the late 1990's.

This other source (https://archive.curbed.com/2018/4/10/17219786/buying-a-house...) shows that median household income in 1950 was $3,000 and the median "home value" was $7,400. Which is still 2.45x. By 2000, the multiple had declined to 2.17. I suspect the media home sale price was substantially higher.

Both sources show a surge in home prices during the housing bubble between 2000 and 2010.

Note, you also get a LOT more house now than you did in the 1950's. Much much larger, much higher quality, many more amenities, etc.
I don't think there will be, at least not for several decades.

Things are "bad" for many people in the country, but not third-world-country bad. People will be too focused on just meeting their basic needs. In what little free time they have, they will distract themselves with their phones that will tell/comfort them that the "other side" is responsible for the general malaise (instead of the collective rich elites).
I've read few articles about it today and some are incorrectly reporting that Northvolt will be producing 150GWh of batteries after 6bln investment.

$2.8bln will finance 20GWh production upgrade, therefore Northvolt will need to raise a lot more money to achieve 150GWh production.
It's completely unreasonable to look (for example) at the situation in Brazil and question the enormous death toll of COVID-19.
Yes.

If you believe that no town homes should be built in the U.S. than you might not qualify as NIMBY.

But if you believe that town homes shouldn't be built next to you that's the definition of NIMBY. Of course every instance has a long list of reasons why next to them is especially bad, character of the neighborhood, parking issues, infrastructure, etc....

But the end result of everyone fighting increased density in their neighborhood is we have a less density (bad for environment) and more expensive housing.
Pretty sure a plot of land in Rockford, IL is still worth about $3600 though :)
Even just looking at excess deaths immediately shows the scale of the pandemic. Some weeks during December, there were 25,000 additional people per week dying compared to the typical year. What do you think was causing this if not Covid?

Over 680,000 additional deaths in 2020/early 2021.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Talk to a single doctor that was on the 'front lines' of this - a family member was signing 20 death certificates per week for people dying of horrible respiratory disease with positive Covid tests. One person at one hospital overwhelmed with the quantity of death. What was it if not Covid?
Or Runway will take care of the piping! Integrations with PagerDuty et al are certainly on the roadmap :)
Many counties in Texas have solved this by setting a 10% maximum year over year increase in property/land tax for people LIVING in their homes. There are also locks and exemptions carved out for those over 65 and disabled veterans.
This stuff is not trivial, but it's also not rocket science.

Production is production. Everywhere else, the database is temporary. It is be blown away and brought up to a known, source-code-defined state when the application is deployed. You never migrate any database except production. You always rebuild from scratch. Think of the state of the database as being more like the binary than the source code.

The state of a database is defined as the content of a specific base dump from production, plus some number of SQL scripts to run on top of it.

Base dumps need to be put somewhere accessible. When i worked with Oracle, they lived on the server. You run a command to create a dump on the server, then get a sysadmin to scp the dump file to your dev/test database server. With PostgreSQL, you can dump to a local file, so set up a file server or something where dumps can go. Could even be in source control, using large file support. Base dump files are named with a timestamp, GUID, etc.

In the app codebase, there is some config giving the name of the base dump, and those additional SQL scripts. There's some tool, script, build command, etc, which uses those to rebuild the database - delete (or rename!) database, restore base dump, run SQL.

You might not want to include everything in the dump. When i was doing e-commerce work, we would dump the schema and the catalogue data, but not user data (profiles, orders, etc), because of data protection. If your database is very big, obviously you will have to be very selective about data here.

On one project, the process of rebuilding a database was quite slow, because there was a lot of stuff to add on top of the dump (not just SQL, some of it used some weird data loader tool). To make that faster, we did caching: after a rebuild, we would dump the state of the database, then when doing a rebuild, check if there was already a suitable dump, and if so, just load that. The dump was named as a hash of everything that went into it. Easy to get that wrong! For example, the hash should include the version of the data loader tool.

When you finally release to production, then as long as the dump is similar to what is live, you just run the SQL scripts; it's like a dev deploy but without deleting the old database and loading a dump (deleting prod and loading a dump of prod peephole optimises to doing nothing!). 'Similar' means that the schema is the same and the data, if any, is reasonably fresh. If the dump is behind production somehow, you have some dev work to do where you update to a fresh dump, and amend the SQL scripts as needed.

Some time after a release to production, take a fresh dump, and propagate it into the source code: update the dump filename in config, and remove any SQL scripts which have now been released. You don't have to do this right away, because the fresh dump should really correspond to the old dump plus the scripts anyway.

If there is additional data or schema you need in some lower environments, that's fine. Include that as some extra SQL scripts which will never be run on production.
The Apple ][ display was effectively a 1 bit per pixel display (not exactly, but close enough). I understood this to mean that while synchronizing they painted the entire screen white except the lower right corner pixel which was black. Once synced the 6522 could generate the timing signal it needed independently and the display could do whatever it needed.

The prime number offset mentioned in the article is the other necessary piece of the hack. And a beautiful one at that.
Just have some patience.

From TFA:

> They have nine years, as it turns out, to get this trial

> done, and I feel safe in predicting that it’s going to take

> alllll niiiiine loooong sloooow years to get this done.
El Salvador is not Venezuela as much as you'd like to think we're all the same, it's a totally different political landscape, we had a civil war where 80k people died in a cold war proxy and the guerrillas were consolidated into FMLN and death squad members formed ARENA, nowhere else in Latin America did a communist/capitalist conflict had this outcome, guerillas never became a party anywhere else as a means to end the war, all these deaths, for the very same people who formed political parties and for what?

Endless corruption when they got to power, we're sick of it.

check how the former ARENA candidate for presidency Javier Siman, who's also a high ranking member of ANEP and ARENA's party leader lobbies in the US for support of his own interests, it's not a secret except for the vast majority of people in El Salvador who are not educated enough to research on that, oh btw, who didn't prioritize education for 30 years? You guessed it ARENA and FMLN,

you might call giving most kids in school a populist move by Bukele, but he's actually closing a technological gap by doing that.

Wanna know how FMLN handled tech? Like this: https://youtu.be/FVxkvnWek-0

> What's your twitter president?

> It's twit-twitter dot com heh, that's the party one right? Eeh

A disgrace
Ah, I know the answer.

At the time, a CP/M machine was a business machine, because it could run a word processor, a spreadsheet, and dBase. (Literally the name of the database program from Ashton-Tate.) So you could buy a "serious" CP/M machine, but not an Apple II, which was an educational/hobbyist machine.

But if you bought an Apple II with the CP/M card, it was a business machine again.

The ways of people and accountants are strange.
True. I find the denominator chosen to be weird.
People bring it up because BTC evangelists keep arguing that bitcoin is a game changer for remittances, the unbanked, transactions, etc.
Lots of people want to buy a move-in-ready house. Many don’t know much about construction, don’t know which end of a hammer to hold, can’t afford to have a house sit idle for 3 months while a renovation happens, and want to have the “Apple” experience for one or two hundred a month more in their mortgage payment.

That’s the service flippers provide, IMO. (I’m not one but I think they’re more helpful than not in terms of providing housing that owner-occupants want.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/24/republicans-...

> May opinion poll finds that 53% of Republicans believe Trump is the ‘true president’ compared with 3% of Democrats

> About one-quarter of adults falsely believe the 3 November election was tainted by illegal voting, including 56% of Republicans, according to the poll.
I'm not the OP, but I assume it's an error and it should be "diverting", perhaps with negative connotations
Can you elaborate? I find D quite readable, personally - and I've never written a line of D.
I'm in Canada too and a couple years ago my regular bank sent me a notice saying they needed to increase my fees on my account plan by $1 making it a total of $16 per month IIRC. I already thought $15 was a total ripoff and trying to squeeze the extra $1 a month out of me got me annoyed enough to go looking for alternatives.

I got a free Tangerine account for free unlimited debit transactions. As a bonus I can withdraw cash with no fees at Scotiabank ATMs in addition to my normal bank. They also give you a VISA debit card that can be useful as a backup card for important online services (as long as you keep some money in it).

I also got a free (prepaid) Stack Mastercard. They give you a virtual credit card number you can use online plus a physical card. The main benefit though is 0% (or near 0%) foreign exchange fees. Most online services bill in USD and my normal bank charges around 2% extra in fees for the foreign currency conversion.

Then I reduced my normal bank account to the bare minimum $4 per month plan. So instead of squeezing an extra $12 per year from me, my bank gets $132 less per year now. However, that shows you why it works. Even if 9% of their customers do what I did they still make more money and I'd bet a ton that barely anyone reevaluates their banking because of a $1 per month increase in prices.
I explained why I think this is argued in bad faith: trying to frame mining in a law framework for the single purpose of killing it vs something like: "ok, this is bad, let's try to fix it. here's how we can fix it"
> but we probably don't want to live in a communist country where the government owns every home and everyone is renting either.

Yes, like the famously communist state of, checks notes, Singapore.

Sorry for the snarky reply, but I don't think calling the breaking of monopoly power/taxing unearned rents is communism.
Yeah, different cabal.
To me, the issue depends in large part on the context: What kind of area are you in? Rural? Urban? And what is the availability of housing and the economic diversity of the neighborhood?

I don't think it's useful to try to determine if some loaded, politicized, pejorative term applies by definition.
> for this reason they are printing money to lower the overall debt obligation of the US

Except the way the US does it, the Treasury issues debt and then the Fed prints to buy the debt. So when we print $1T, we also take on $1T in debt. I know you mean lowering through inflation but as long as it's done this way I don't see how it matters. If the dollar looses 50%, we then need to issue $2T in debt and print $2T the next time.
Since your reading comprehension is so high, you'll agree then that supporting yimby groups won't be sufficient to generate the credible threat that the original comment suggests will be sufficient to dissuade investors
The greatest day of my life will be the day I owe the IRS $1 million dollars.
Thanks for replying.

Precompute whatever you can I guess, but I'm guessing the app has parameterized queries and stuff like that which are hard to precompute. In that case even a cache or LRU list is fine, say precomputing the handful of most common views people will encounter most often.

Imagine even if only Jira's new ticket page and 'open tickets' search result were pre-rendered so loading them took <200ms. The amount of hate would probably drop by 90%

Separately if you can reduce the workflow for a page from being a task in its own right (most of which is waiting around) to something as simple as a click, it can increase user confidence a lot. If something that took 5 seconds (+4 of which is just waiting) suddenly completes in 200/300ms, folk learn new tricks for your tool, like middle-clicking open a bunch of screens, or noticing they can open and close it much more easily. It makes the whole experience feel more agile, which definitely has an effect on loyalty
> "if ... everyone used self-custody"

I said 'anyone can', not 'everyone does'.

> "disappear, but others may. Similar for Bitcoin"

The risk of the bitcoin blockchain disappearing, and your BTC holdings thereby becoming worthless, is not an instance of counterparty risk.
Changes to the Android Choice Screen in Europe
That's a common meme - that asset appreciation is unearned wealth.

But it's not.

That investor could've spent the 3600 on hookers and blackjack.

Investors freezing their money in communities in the form of real estate or other investment is a key part of those communites becoming richer and more complex.

There's a real risk of losing your money - there's no worse financial nightmare than holding real estate that you're trying to sell for years... but no-one is buying
You're describing the line mode browser:

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

But that didn't just spit out the HTTP response - it parsed and rendered the HTML.
The most useful math formulas
The point about lumber is accurate. We are getting a fence built for our house, and our contractor says the lumber has gone from $12 a board to $28 a board over the last few months. He's had to revise his estimates upward lest he lose money on the job.
If they are paying over asking price, this just means sellers don't fully understand the market. No investor is going to persistently overpay.
Blackrock Vanguard et al have tremendous influence as shareholders even if it's via an index fund... see what they did to Exxon Mobil a few weeks ago!
Fastly shares jump after outage takes down thousands of websites
I'm square in the second group. Factorio is fun for a while, but after somewhere around mid-game you realize that it's much more frustrating and less enjoyable than actual programming.

I can't easily "refactor" parts of my factory without fearing it will break some pipeline that depends on the changes. I wish there was a way to "write" "tests" or do mass changes safely. Blueprints and robots help automate things, but it's not that flexible.

I wish I could use a "debugger" and step through the execution and play with changes to see how it affects the factory.

And then I finally get to the conclusion that this would all be easier from a text editor using proper programming tools, and more enjoyable to work on a real project that could have tangible benefits (and then never finish that either...).
It would be interesting to where on the train is statistically the most survivable.

> Interestingly, 7/7/05 isn't on the list, presumably because it wasn't an accident

Yes, would also be interesting to know how many crime / related incidents are 'managed' by crew or station staff.
I'm curious what you would like instead of spinners? This product makes database calls that could take an unknown amount of time to complete. How should they indicate to the user that they are waiting for the data to build the chart?
Like the maths of trying to urinate silently on a tin roof.
If BTC used proof-of-stake or some other scheme that was less energy-intensive/made graphics cards a scarce resource there would probably be less hostility towards it.
A company I worked at 8 years ago, stopped tracking monitors as an asset. It was felt the cost of tracking exceeded the value. I assume because no one ever bothered to steal one.

If the total market price is $1000, I would assume they got a deal and paid ~500.

How much would it cost to just ship them back yourself? Because that is basically what they did to you. Over your objections they sent them. Over their objections you returned them.
It's commonly called "stochastic terrorism".
It’s not which is why I now write software :)
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

- Jamie Zawinski
Thank you for the response. When you say spinning up separate physical application, I am guessing this is for isolation concerns? What would be the best way to handle especially data isolation? Would each spinoff have its own database or it would just be an application but reading from one master for all the schools?

I am trying to think of this from the point of view of a front-end user who graduated from 2 different schools and needs to get notifications/updates from both schools in a single front page. Which isolation approach has a better security vs efficiency balance?
The FBI Ran the Anom Messaging Platform, Yielding Hundreds of Arrests
You mean a safety deposit box at a bank? At a bank most Ecuadorians don't use?
Those are only two of many examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_include...

While Mexico is the only such country today other than the USA, it alone is good enough reason for people to avoid using "United Statesians" or the local equivalent thereof to refer to those of the USA. (Even worse is "norteamericanos". Why aren't Canadians and Bahamians constantly marching in the streets to protest against Spanish speakers' use of such a term to refer solely to denizens of the USA?)

The US, on the other hand, is the only country with the word "America" in its name. All the more reason for the use, in every major Western language other than Spanish, of America/American to refer to the US and its inhabitants.
This happened with the previous election too. For one, Hillary literally claimed Trump stole the election and called him an 'illegitimate president', adding to that widespread belief: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trum...

Democrat voters didn't accept that Trump legitimately won the 2016 election: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/334972-poll-dems...

Half of Democrat voters believe that Russia literally tampered with vote tallies to help Trump in the 2016 election: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

Such sentiments continued even a couple years after the election: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-poll-idU...

Let's also not forget that the Democrats formally challenged election results in 2000, 2004, and 2016 - all the recent presidential elections they lost: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/democrat-republic...
It was brittle beyond belief. The process would run out of memory and crash really easily. You are supposed to dimension resources well, but of course you'd like to handle things more gracefully when a huge inflow of data or requests comes in, good engineering is "graceful failure" such as just rejecting requests, instead of total mayhem and destruction. It was "interesting" to discover that the monitoring plugins included by default would bring down the entire cluster. 5 beefy AWS machines brought down when pointing their own monitor at them! Yes there was significant input traffic, but I would expect more solid behavior from production-ready software.

Shard migration and duplication was a beauty to watch when it worked well, but very often it wouldn't. I tried to establish a procedure to bring instances back up safely and repeatably, but sometimes I would just have to try and try again, no procedure guaranteed restoring operation in all cases. I do remember spending more than one weekend babysitting that cluster. There's a special place in my heart for that memory, and it's not a beautiful one.

I was very surprised to see them IPO successfully - this test was before they were public. I assumed the open source version was just missing the kind of tools and know how to be able to work solidly without paying them or their consultants. These days, I think it's poor engineering resulting in brittleness, we shouldn't have put so much traffic to it, and probably everyone out there experiences the same behavior unless they ensure much safer margins, which probably makes it expensive but I guess who's complaining.

I ended up designing and writing my own (much simpler) distributed system for what I needed (much simpler than everything ElasticSearch does, of course), and it's been in reliable operation since summer 2015. Good engineering goes a long way. Now in the process of turning that approach into a startup. If I get 1/10th as successful as ES I will be a happy camper :)
No offense, and I'll take the downvotes for being blunt, but this is political nonsense that doesn't belong on HN: people aren't going to to buy into a particular group's Proper Noun'd Concept off _obvious_ hyperbole (who actually thinks property, as a concept, is going away) that was apparently erased once it was used to hyperbole and wish a Proper Noun political concept into being.
It was from a series of predictions made by the WEF in 2016 about life in 2030[0].

The claim of many is that the WEF wants to bring about a world in which the vast majority of people don't have ownership.

Reuters "fact checks"[1] this claim by saying that it was merely a prediction, and that it isn't actually a goal listed on their website.

I find the fact check unpersuasive. The WEF says "you will be happy" about not owning anything. That they would even think that reveals something about the values of that organization. If that is part of what they would consider to be a happier world, why would they not push for it (in private, if not in public)?

[0]https://www.facebook.com/worldeconomicforum/videos/101539205...
[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-wef-idUSL1N2MR1UU
Indeed. An unrealized capital gains tax by itself (which does not tax the basis) probably requires you adjust the taxable basis to ensure there's no double taxation at sale. A wealth tax irrespective of basis is administratively easier, I think.