skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LVT doesn't punish or reward any land use. That's the whole point of the argument behind it not having any deadweight losses. LVT is the same, no matter how you use the land.

The opportunity costs between different land uses is exactly the same with LVT as without.

To illustrate more:

Without LVT, when you use a plot of land costing x dollars that you own outright, you 'pay' the opportunity costs of not being able to employ those x dollars elsewhere (or rent the land out etc).

With LVT, the price of that plot of land will adjust to y << x, so that the total of LVT on a plot of land costing y and the opportunity cost of y, will equal the opportunity cost of x amount of capital.

(This discussion ignores risk and other taxes for simplicity.)

Slightly off-topic: I'm also against capital gains taxes. We want more capital employed, so that workers become more productive, and so that the different providers of capital compete. So if anything we should encourage more deployment of capital, and capital formation rather than consumption of wealth.

(Also thanks to international mobility of capital, I suspect that a big part of the burden of capital gains taxes mostly falls on the users of capital, less on the providers. But I am not sure there.)
That’s true. There were many people, including commenters on HN, recommending people ignore Israel’s booster data and recommendations because it was an “outlier”
I am curious if the most optimal solution is to design it with unsigned ints?
Many cultures celebrate the annual harvest although maybe not all of them combine it with gratitude.
If Apple learns of NSA surveillance of a specific individual... maybe? Beyond that what are you suggesting they do, send an alert to everyone in the US that the NSA might be spying on them?
Applying generalizations to a unique problem is a recipe to make the wrong conclusions.
Should I be allowed to walk around naked in public? Play my music as loud as I want? Set up a tent and live there forever in public?
Very interesting map. I've always thought of the TV and telephone networks as separate up until the time of the Internet. So, if the map represents Ma Bell, then of course they ran their telephone traffic over these microwave routes.
But who's TV signals were being routed over the microwave routes? Was the TV portion of the microwave routes rented mostly to the public broadcast stations? (ABC/NBC/CBS/etc) ??
Does the time spent in the cow make up for the cow re-releasing the carbon as methane instead of carbon dioxide?

The same carbon was in the air, but not necessarily causing the same greenhouse effect
I did not know there was a “fraud triangle.” Interesting.
You broke it!!
Go Syntax: Functions
As someone who has spent a few years on this problem: what do you think are the the fundamental physical reasons why controlled fusion is unlikely to be a practical commercial power source?
8 millibits per second, sound a bit(!) low..... /s
I don't think this is good advice. Your intuition about the vulnerabilities is mostly correct, but the absolutism here seems likely to lead to worse decisions, not better.

> SMS "2FA" is not actual 2FA

That's not correct. I mean, of course it is. If you have SMS authentication as one factor and a password as the other, you're safe from compromise even if the carrier hands your phone number over to someone else. That's the whole idea behind 2FA, and it works here. A "SIM swap attack" is, contra the article and your points, not sufficient to compromise a working 2FA environment.

You need something else, like a crypto wallet system that uses SMS as a single factor, which seems plausibly to have been the case here.

> Social engineering mobile phone operator customer service departments to execute a SIM swap attack is trivially easy

True, but that's a hole in that one system that can be patched, and it's not something specific to the PSTN network at all (literally everything can be human engineered, including the customer service departments of authentication providers like Google/MS/Apple!). For example, require physical mail as a second (third) factor as an authentication mechanism and the whole problem goes away. This is already implemented for e.g. address changes, and it works fine.

Don't take a specific hole in one system as evidence that the system needs to be replaced or redesigned. That's generally a recipe for creating new security bugs, not fixing them.
> his entire liveihood and business runs on the fact that AWS pricing is not even remotely clear

Corey's business exists because prevailing engineering culture encourages pretty much the entire industry to consider optimization as an afterthought, not because engineers can't understand AWS pricing, or interpret a few bar charts in Cost Explorer, and in the face of a deadline, if it's not on the agile board everyone knows it doesn't exist.

Many of Corey's technical posts are around finding sweet technical substitutes for niche use cases, but as I'm sure he'll tell you, 80% of what he does is easily discovered a few clicks away from the AWS home page.

> as they build out their pivot towards targeting the enterprise market

Cloudflare have a solid sales pipeline, but they're a sitting duck if any of the big clouds ever decide to replicate the business model like-for-like. One of the reasons this may not have happened yet is because Cloudflare's whole presentation is consumer oriented, starting with domain configuration management that is hell to version correctly when 20 people have access to the account. Outside some sweet Javascript cold start hacks they basically have no moat, and there are far more situations that could send the company into desperate measures than otherwise.
Landlords provide housing opportunities, much like ticket scalpers provide concert experiences.
HN is the best place I've found to discuss medical stuff in a serious and sciency manner, for which I am endlessly grateful.
> Let that sink in for a moment, there are 17 companies doing research on a hugely important topic with only 2.4billion in funding(disclosed). Magic leap alone has burned more money than that. Theranos has burned almost a billion.

> Caring about every penny you spend is definitely not how you want to run a company doing groundbreaking work, but there's definitely a middle ground.

Private business allocates funds toward profit. Apparently, investors don't see much potential return on additional funding compared to, e.g., electric cars, phones, online retail, etc. An investment's value can be calculated, in one sense, as risk x potential profit. Given the latter is very high, investors arguably must perceive the former as very poor, though possibly they perceive that the companies don't need more funding at their current stages (i.e., it's marginal return on additional funding that matters for investors, not total return on all funding).

The people of a country, through government, can allocate funds toward work based on importance and regardless of profit. Such work, such as basic science, is where the market fails. (Probably much of the basic science behind fusion was already funded this way.) Per the OP, we've allocated $22 billion toward ITER. So fusion is pretty well funded.
Thank you @pledess and @ksaj for your feedback around TOU and Privacy Policy.

The intent is to create a friendly environment for kids 13+ where their privacy is fully protected!

There is no plan to take away privacy while using the service. The verbiage will be revisited. Thanks again for this constructive feedback.
Why this city is Europe's best kept cycling secret
> land is very cheap

*was

I'm between Taylor and Austin (Bagdad Rd, Leander). 1 acre lots along this strip have gone from ~$115k a year ago, to some recent sales at ~325k.
https://blog.nativehope.org/what-does-thanksgiving-mean-to-n...
The government inflated the price of speculative assets (housing and stocks) using long-term low interest rates. They're now totally out of whack relative to consumer goods and wages.

Deflation causes defaults, the disproportionate wiping out of the wealth of the middle class (because mortgages are leveraged) and a financial crisis. Inflation, if done by printing money and giving it directly to individuals, reduces wealth inequality.

To get things back into alignment, your choices are: deflate the price of those assets, or inflate the price of everything else. Which do you choose?
(He/him).

If your app is super-sensitive and absolute security is an absolute must then sure, using a separate database for every customer will help you answer those pesky security questions "How do you ensure that resources are not accessed by other tenants?".

My experience though is that if you are after velocity, and ease of maintenance, then you need a single database and tables with a "tenant id" column in them.

Even simple things get hard when you have separate databases. Say I want to know how many customers have how many widgets on average. If everyone's in one database, that's a SQL query. If they're all separate, it's ten times harder to answer.
I think it's unfair to blame a military pilot specifically, as they are part of a much larger machine, where the responsibility for that part of the team effort has been clearly delegated. F1 drivers aren't blamed for a loose wheel nut after a pit stop, Airline pilots aren't blamed for a gear failure etc.
Good link! I'm familiar with Frans de Waal. Perhaps I'm a primate chauvinist, but I'm less skeptical of ascriptions of anthropomorphic social behavior in chimps than in parrots.

Unlike the "altruistic" parrots, chimps are very aware when their neighbor gets a treat and they don't--and they get enraged!
Thanks! This looks perfect, and look forward to supporting them.
What basis do you have for saying that it won't? Offering a fake bet isn't evidence or reason.
Planes like this are built on the edge of what is possible. They might be over priced and have huge budgets, but that doesn't mean you can just throw more money at it to add more "stuff" and come up with a better plane at the end.

They are an optimization problem. Anything you can get done on the ground is a gold mine if that means you do not have to cart more sensors and wiring and computation and potential information and procedures that the pilot has to deal with in the cockpit.
Thinking about all the folks on call for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday crush. They were some of my favorite days working in e-commerce but, then again, everything always went smoothly during my tenure. Thanks for holding down the fort for the rest of us!
Happy thanksgiving!!!
Well, to be fair, if you compare the national highway map, proposed by Eisenhower it's almost 1:1.

Why? Federal funds, and the Government finally interconnected itself.

Amazing, not really, corporation taking advantage of a new opportunity, Yes.
The picture you drew and had it turn into rocks is actually really cool!

I think I would have been more generous to the project had I known it could do that. Maybe I X'd out of the frustrating tutorial too early? :)
What are your thought? You have actual expertise to contribute. No need to test the GP.
You might like https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ and Slate Star Codex.
Just a PSA, the term "carbon capture" people are throwing around now almost always means capturing CO2 at emission sources like fossil fuel-fired power plants. It generally does not mean capturing CO2 from the air at large. There really is no viable technology for that. Except trees.
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Great site design, great topic. 10/10
I'm trying to say that if it is cheaper to let climate change happen, because externalities are determined to be $X and taxed away, but people value energy more, then climate change will happen. Which is bad if one doesn't want it to happen.

My conclusion, then, is it may be bad to talk about externalities. At least as economics jargon, and it's confusing to use it otherwise.

It's a tool that isn't bound to doing what people want it to do.
Thanksgiving is a bit like Christmas Eve. It's the evening before Black Friday.
Constructors and Evil Initializers in C++
One of the mantras I used when I was a programming instructor was "How can you know what to tell the computer to do, if you can't do it yourself?" This is a great example of that.

Don’t forget that the huffman codes are packed LSB to MSB, but are to be interpreted as an integer in big endian format. Why this insanity?

Because that's what Phil Katz did. I vaguely remember reading about that years ago, and believe it had to do with how he implemented it; not as canonical table lookup, but as explicit tree-walking, since the former hadn't really been invented yet and the latter would fit within the memory constraints of a 16-bit system (DOS on a PC).
Let's just be thankful for what we have.
Let's be thankful for being alive.

EDIT: "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." –Carl Sagan
I think it's all well and good to have discussions about taxation and interest rates, but as a fellow San Franciscan, I can't ignore the fact that I no longer find it unusual to learn that more than a few of my neighbors are making multiple millions of dollars per year. "Normal" jobs, even as a senior software engineer, can't compete with the wealth gap, regardless of the tax rate. I don't pretend to believe that there is a solution to this reality.
Many cultures in temperate climates do.

Much further away from the equator, you can't really do agriculture to harvest stuff. Closer to the equator you can often do multiple harvests a year.

Mentioning this not just to be pedantic (though I enjoy that), but also because the connection between our physical surroundings and culture are endlessly fascinating.

See eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghmjIBD2Fd4
Probably because Wendelstein 7-X is making progress at a far faster rate than the ITER model has the current goal, without accounting for delays, for a 2050+ delivery time for the PROTO reactor.
Some of these scam messages, being tailored to individuals and not necessarily sent in bulk, do in fact come from technically valid Apple IDs that have been created for the purpose by the scammer. So they would show your little verified indicator just fine, so it doesn’t help.

And they did post the solution in the document. It’s an out of band verification. Pretty tried and true solution.
This isn’t possible if you’re expecting all transactions to be in a single table, at some point you’re going to have to share things making any query at scale more complex.
I often use this story as an example for people of how programming can save them time and make them more efficient. It's from the introduction to Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, which is also a good resource for them if they decide they do want to pursue such benefits: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/2e/chapter0/#calibre_link...

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“You’ve just done in two hours what it takes the three of us two days to do.” My college roommate was working at a retail electronics store in the early 2000s. Occasionally, the store would receive a spreadsheet of thousands of product prices from other stores. A team of three employees would print the spreadsheet onto a thick stack of paper and split it among themselves. For each product price, they would look up their store’s price and note all the products that their competitors sold for less. It usually took a couple of days.

“You know, I could write a program to do that if you have the original file for the printouts,” my roommate told them, when he saw them sitting on the floor with papers scattered and stacked all around.

After a couple of hours, he had a short program that read a competitor’s price from a file, found the product in the store’s database, and noted whether the competitor was cheaper. He was still new to programming, so he spent most of his time looking up documentation in a programming book. The actual program took only a few seconds to run. My roommate and his co-workers took an extra-long lunch that day.

This is the power of computer programming. A computer is like a Swiss Army knife that you can configure for countless tasks. Many people spend hours clicking and typing to perform repetitive tasks, unaware that the machine they’re using could do their job in seconds if they gave it the right instructions.
I assume you're saying that this is all due to the respective ages of the populations. If that's the case, then why did the vaccinated group (older) have a lower death rate than the unvaccinated before April?
To continue the circle of life there is SCSI/ATA translation for tunneling ATA in SCSI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_%2F_ATA_Translation
I see no physical limitations. There are engineering hurdles primarily addressed by materials. Making HTS coils cheaply is a big deal and a WIP problem. Test reactors such as ITER and SPARC need to be built as platforms to experiment with first wall and blanket designs. Making nuclear facilities is expensive. I personally do not see any showstoppers here, just expensive work that needs to be done.

Will fusion ever be economical? I don't have a crystal ball, but properly charging for the economic cost of carbon emissions is necessary before answering that question. I also can't predict how much cheaper reactors would be than test machines and how long they would run for. The science needs to be funded to answer these questions. When society decides these answers are worth 5x F-35s then we'll have our answers.
Hadn’t heard of rtings, but just checked it out. Looks good for what they cover, but their categories are mostly useless for me. The reason Wirecutter used to be good was because they reviewed everyday items.

Also I had sort of forgotten Wirecutter had comments. They haven’t loaded for me for a few years now due to some change they made, but I also haven’t missed them. I mostly remember the same nonsense that one associates with the phrase “comments section”.
Bob’s first power plant wasn’t an investment. He was covering his short position. Boh was born short.

Why do you think people need to own everything they use, lest they be short?
Yep, it’s weird to see all the cheerful “Happy Thanksgiving” comments. I mostly associate the holiday with genocide. And when people talk about Black Friday I think of the poor working conditions of workers overseas whose country has been turned in to a factory for cheap goods for Americans and Europeans. The consumerist excitement for the next shiny good trains us to see joy in consumption even as our consumption is destroying the most beautiful thing we know, the Earth. It’s depressing seeing all the ads for more landfill fodder and doubly so to see people excited about it. New technology can be liberating but Black Friday is a celebration of overproduction as fantasy and practice and it’s grotesque.

EDIT: Flagged? Have I broken a rule? Or just raised an uncomfortable subject?
Not even phishing, NSO had a zero-click iMessage exploit (so they could just send a message to their victims and then hack their iPhones remotely).
Interesting bunch, thanks for good discussion and thanks to the HN team.
What is the lowest latency voice chat application? Maybe for group calls?
Does it tell you about US sponsored cybersecurity threats?
Not a knock on you but maybe you're too new to Rails too.

I've been using Rails for 10+ years now and setting up a phoenix app is very intuitive. A lot of "oh this is like X in Rails". IME most of the complexity was around JavaScript and that's changed with esbuild.

However it sets up with very similar patterns to Rails. Something I'd expect as it's creators came from Rails. Usually the differences are specific to FP vs OO.

Admittedly coming in from another language especially with an OO background would be harder as it's a smaller community than Rails and doesn't have 10 years of documentation sitting out there. That said documenting elixir code is much easier IMO, so that is sure to change. Also the scope of FP languages requires significantly less documentation IME.

The only thing vs Rails that I have found somewhat needing more attention in Phoenix is SSO integration but it's there and progressing especially with the Phoenix 1.6 changes.
If it's all due to age, then why did the vaccinated group (older) have a lower death rate than the unvaccinated group (younger) prior to April?
This is an easy excuse but one I find hard to believe as being at all legitimate. Out of all the things that lead to promoting sexualization of minors I highly doubt that anyone is going to look back on their chidlhood and blame a book. I also can't help but wonder if I was somehow super sexualized as a high schooler or not. Comments like this and people talking about banning books for high schoolers makes me wonder if somehow I'm the freak. Everyone I knew when I was that age had graphic (misconception filled) images of sex already, actual pornography was pretty easy to access. I almost wish I had instead gotten this from a book, maybe there would've been less damaging misconceptions.

That said, I've been trying to find an example of a book in the "book ban" discussion that contains problematic graphic sex content. I've tried looking and so far everything has turned up pretty empty.
Those were intelligently chosen projects; many more were no doubt rejected. Just throwing money at things doesn't work; beyond the obvious cost, there also is opportunity cost: it takes money from other valuable investments.

What makes you say that management and vision declined? NASA does incredible things, as does NIH, NSF, etc.

> this would have been a _way_ better way to spend taxpayer money.

In order to do research, you need freedom, and political and economic stability, and those require militaries - not solely or most importantly, but necessarily. Sometimes militaries will be misused or used inefficiently, but there is no option to just spend all the money elsewhere.
Why oh why has it become some sort of a religion to deny yourself the comfort of having your own private space? The joy of taking care of your own garden. The discipline of maintaining your roof, driveway and a million other small things. The peacefulness of not hearing your neighbors talk when you are trying to fall asleep...

Humanity has found a way to split atom, to defeat the plague, to send people to the Moon, and now we cheerfully celebrate turning ourselves into caged animals.

I just don't get it, really. We have the smarts and the technology to make comfortable living eco-friendly. We see the birth rates decline, implying that people's satisfaction with their life quality is not worth sharing it with the next generation. And we stubbornly do everything we can to lower it further.

For common sense's sake, please look at the big picture. Your guilt is someone else's profit margin. You are being taught to hate yourself because this way you will settle for a lower salary and won't have a family to distract you from your work. Please, don't get yourself manipulated.
Was up at 1:30am fixing that blocker in production last night. Never a dull moment!
If you want OODA context for the slides, here are my notes from _Science, Strategy and War: The strategic theory of John Boyd_.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/ooda-loop
discovered this site this year! super thankful for that :)
Oh, that's an excellent recommendation, thank you.

I've never really looked in that menu previously, but, yes, definitely have uBO installed everywhere.
Only means older SFH in CA will get much more expensive, especially in HOA neighborhoods.