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> Nonsensical mask/distancing/sanitation protocols for people at low or no risk with no end in sight and seemingly dictated by the teachers' unions.

The US Teachers union causes a LOT of problems. But mask, distancing, and sanitation are not one of them.

You wouldn’t like living in Asia. Here it’s the norm. The only people who get upset are westerners. But atleast I feel like my daughter is safe, and my in laws are safe.
> it's really easy to calculate the value of the land.

No, it's really easy to wave your hands and come up with a number that you claim is "the value of the land". But since that number is not based on actual sales of the land in question, it's just hand-waving. Not to mention that if you ask five different economists to do the estimating, you'll get more than five different answers. Much of the article that prompted this thread is trying to deal with this problem: there are so many widely varying estimates of land value, and no compelling reason to believe any one more than the others, because none of them are based on actual sales of the land whose value they're trying to estimate.
I have felt for awhile societal fees/fines should be tied to income.

A wealthy man gets a $270 red light ticket. (This is the one where turning right on a red light is illegial. It seems like they arbitrarily decide which intersection to enforce?). The wealthy man casually mentions it over din din. Goes to sleep, and has the help drive his spawn to private schools. Yea--I live in a county filled with rich people, and they are obnoxious on so many levels.

To the poor man it might be part of his rent.

So yes--if I ran things; The wealthy would pay more at DMV, bail, patent fees, incorporation fees, etc., and especially property taxes. You want a third mansion so you don't have to look at your neighbors---get ready to pay Zuck.

I would love to see Jay Leno pay a $100,000 speeding ticket.

(I believe they are trying this in Sweden?)
In that case I'm happy Robinhood hasn't screwed you over. Unfortunately that isn't the case for everyone.

In the past Robinhood has done questionable things like halting trading on a specific stock (GME) that other platforms didn't halt. I've also heard horror stories about people getting margin called due to bugs. I'm not saying smart-contracts are immune to these issues but the transparency of the bytecode being public is huge IMO.

This is just a single example of course. Imagine for a moment that we have a decentralized facebook-like app. Wouldn't it be great if we could fork it if they did something we didn't like? You might think that's a pipe dream but my argument is that this becomes less of a pipedream the more we educate people.

> That crypto and decentralization is "the right direction" is absolutely not self-evident. Can you substantiate that position?

My position is that crypto and decentralization give people options and put pressure on existing institutions that IMO have become too powerful. My goal isn't necessarily to destroy Bank of America, Visa, or Robinhood but to inject some real competition into the system. That includes institutions like the federal reserve.

I want there to be a spectrum of centralization <-> decentralization and let people choose what they're comfortable with. I want people to be able to say "Fuck bank of america, I'm going bankless". Or people can stick with what they know. Either way I think competition is good.
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I worked at Motorola's cellular division 20 years ago. I recall a "stop ship" incident when a 911 bug was discovered. That is, we halted the factory and shipments until the bug was fixed and a new software image was available.

The phone's callstack takes a lot of special actions when calling 911, including locking onto any tower even if it is not in the preferred roaming list. As with many exceptional conditions, these code paths are often not as well tested.
I stopped trusting Android when a constantly crashing media scanner service prevented all system sounds from playing (which means no ringers or alarms went off).
> It’s not true. That policy has a reason

Lol, what?

I have a hard time understanding the rest of this post. It's certainly been my impression that Apple indeed has pretty draconian policies regarding who you can be whence you join Apple.

> That’s an aggressive and frankly stupid misinterpretation of the policy which has pretty good reasons to exist when contextualized.

100% matches with what I've heard & seen in the world. Maybe coincidentally zero people who've been swallowed into the Apple mothership still have interest in the work they used to be up to, maybe they're all so much happier suddenly working quietly. But to me the Occam's Razor here is pretty fucking bliss fucking obvious son: these people working on good interesting projects & being vocal all shut the fuck up & stop contributing because they have to. Because that's the corporate policy. Because that's fucking Apple. That's the biggest most enormous computing empire on the planet doing what it does.

Edit: oh look at the edits on this post!!! Yeahhhhhh

Edit2: see my other comment. It's even more to the heart of things. "I'm glad there's the bare minimum of sticks to try to rub together to give the impression Apple gives the faintest most minimal flying fuck about any compute other than Apple computing, that they see any value in a bigger computing ecosystem. Apple is not at all a company that gives any impressions that they care about anyone but those that fall within the light of their empire."

This is such a sad fucking age for computing in general. "Create more value than you capture" is now a bunch of torn apart body parts on the floor, savaged, by massive ultra-industrialized super-powers. Apple is one of the leading forces promoting happiness in slavery, insisting that only by domination can we consumers ever find freedom & happiness. To pretend that such a company relates to open source in any positive way is repulsive in extreme.
The media has a constant need for boogiemen to keep you scared and clicking.

In the 80s it was Russia, and in the 2020s it’s China.

Of course it doesn’t make sense when looking at it rationally. Because it’s about emotion.

I’m waiting for the 2040s after China’s population decline really gets going—-maybe India or Indonesia becomes the new boogie man. Fun!
Paper towels for me everytime.

But their blowers are not just better at drying hands than a standard blower - they are also better at spreading nastiness from people who don’t wash thoroughly.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60...
Erm Sopranos?
Microsoft just hopes it can keep selling operating systems and Google has no market in China because the Chinese hate information. So they back off on anything controversial hoping for a better day to step in and sell something if possible.
Ah, just pointing to a cartoon doesn't make an argument irrefutable.
While the material is I think easier to understand than some of the high flung math and physics the publication talks about in other articles, this is still an above average read.
That seems like a bit of a murky distinction, though, right? Taxing land disincentives economic activity a large component of which is in the land value (running a parking garage or hotel in downtown Manhattan, or a farm in a fertile region, etc.) but incentivizes other types of economic activity.
Julia has the `@infered` macro in `Test` that throws an error if your code isn't type stable.
How is this issue only related to Pixel phones? If the issue is in the platform level and Teams app (or other apps that act as catalyst to this issue), how are other manufacturer phones safer?
I couldn't understand this point on why only Pixel users are affected?
Not doubting it's dated, but that description exactly fits a lot of enterprise stuff today.
This is Microsoft at fault for building a terrible app (and why are we surprised about this), not Android.
I have used my Android phone to call 911 and it worked correctly (though I don't remember if it was the year I had a Pixel or after I went back to Samsung).
The linked Reddit thread has a whole subthread about that. A bunch of people who claim to be phone system installers say they regularly call 911 to test that it works. Apparently it's fine as long as you tell them that it's just a test and maybe ask to verify observed phone number and location. They probably don't like it if you just call and hang up and then don't answer any callbacks.
Part II includes an empirical assessment of over a dozen studies that assess whether land value, in the actual real world, is passed on to tenants or not. I look forward to your comments after it posts tomorrow.
I'm familiar, I've gotten a few free AMD cores. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19Ms49ip5PBB7nYnf5urx...

At the end of the day, I don't understand the umbrage at companies segmenting by software instead of hardware. As long as it's obvious what you're getting when you buy, and what you buy lives up to what you were promised, why should I care what it actually is?

If the company chooses to look the other way and allow relatively easy unlocks without promising stability, well, that's nice. But nothing I'm owed just because it was physically on the chip.

Now on the other hand, if a consumer company switches from a product model to a lease/HaaS model... that's an entirely different can of worms, and they can go to hell.
If you like being dead or enslaved, go ahead and challenge the Chinese government. They have an internment camp bed with your name on it. They have express lanes setup in airports to sell your organs to the highest bidder.
Ah, I agree, but a lot of that is specific to CA. There has to be a way to fix it. Over regulation is a thing; a relative that is a civil PE related a story about how someone from CA was trying to push for these ultra-specific signoff requirements on buildings and everyone laughed at him.
HN might bean outrage machine some days, but like every Voip thing ever says you can't call emergency services with them. I always believed it to be a SLA deficiency in consumer internet? I'm guessing a strong preference for the real cell network to handle the calls would be necessary until this changes. Unless you can actually swap out the "phone" app on Android to have a 3rd party app make a real phone call?
Write a counter piece then, or don't.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I'm not sure I agree with this:

> since that number is not based on actual sales of the land in question, it's just hand-waving

Actual land is sold in a lot of markets. That sets a great benchmark for "comparable transaction" types of valuation analyses which tend to be the most reliable.

If one acre of land is sold, there is a great baseline for the whole surrounding area.

I passed all 3 CFA exams and agree it's not an exact science, but as far a valuation analyses go, this one is pretty easy. Valuing something like intellectual property, goodwill impairment analyses, 409a valuations are much harder.
Ok now I'm pretty interested in this company:

1. Very technical founder at the bleeding edge of the field.
2. Many people against this idea

Usually a sign there's something really good here... or at least something that is super non-obvious to most people.

I'm curious to learn what I'm missing... mind if I reach out?
Ownership disputes exist in many places across the world. But making an island appear larger than it is, is a unique demand that reminds me of Indiana trying to pass a law that declared the value of pi to be equal to 3.
Yes, they do that, or at least they claim to. Out where I live, they can probably come close, because there is still some vacant land out here. When it sells, you get an idea of what nearby land would sell for if it were vacant.

But here's a building across the street from Central Park in Manhattan. What's the land price? When was the last time that a vacant lot sold in Manhattan?

I mean, I guess you can go by the cost of the last place that sold with a building on it, and the buyer tore down the building. (Subtracting out the cost of the teardown.) When was the last time that happened across the street from Central Park?

So in the places that the land is already heavily used, this is not all that easy to do.
> Actual land is sold in a lot of markets.

But much more land with improvements on it is also sold, and that's the land that all these hand-waving formulas claim to be determining the "value" of--not the total value of land + improvements, but just the value of the land itself.
Wearing masks is also about keeping schools open.

Yes, the risk to kids is low, but they are unvaccinated so outbreaks can and do happen. Substitutes are hard to get right now in most school districts and if you have an outbreak and even 5 percent of the teachers are home sick it is a very real possibility there won’t be a substitute to cover. In my local school district principals and administrators are covering classrooms for sick teachers because there are not enough subs. Teachers would traditionally just go to school sick, because they don’t get much sick time and even if they are sick they have to write a lesson plan for the sub, but now what do you do? Do you go to school even though you have a cold that could be covid? Do you write sub plans for a sub that might not be there?

Bus drivers are also opting out because many are elderly and at high risk and the pay sucks so the risk reward isn’t there even if they are vaccinated. Same with lunch ladies, janitors, you name it. There is a staffing crisis in education right now. Teachers are burned out and those that can retire are at a higher rate than before. It is a mess.

So no, children, even unvaccinated, aren’t likely to have complications from Covid, but wearing masks in schools might help just enough to keep schools open and operating.
My point was that if Apple didn't adhere to maximizing profits, they simply wouldn't exist and we wouldn't be talking about their behavior in China. Regardless of whether you are a libertarian or not, you are wagging your finger at the wrong party (or to say, the party isn't really in a position to fix things). If you want change, it has to be via whoever is setting/enforcing the rules (in our case, government). The USA, ironically unlike China, doesn't really have the framework to force companies to adhere to some kind of moral code (outside of national security, etc...).

And even if we go down that rabbit hole, we just become more like China with some kind of state mandated moral code that can be easily perverted...maybe we can't really win on this.
Someone else's comment further down on this subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29491371
> The second part looks to be more interesting: I’d like to see some arguments for why a LVT wouldn’t just be passed along to the renters like every other expense is currently.

I think the general idea goes something like: a new apartment can collect $10k/mo rent, and so after construction expenses a developer can pay say $5k/mo for the land. These numbers don't change with a LVT or not.

Without the LVT, the $5k/mo that they can afford translates to say a $500k mortgage, which roughly determines the land price (as multiple developers bid for the same land).

With a LVT, there's say a $2k/mo tax, so they only have $3k/mo to pay the mortgage, which translates to a $300k land price using the same logic.

So by working backwards in this simple thought experiment the LVT is just reducing the value of the land without changing much else about the housing market. Intuitively it also sounds reasonable that taxing land values might reduce land values as a result.

I'd be interested to see the upcoming detailed analysis though.
Emergency numbers are for emergencies.

Your phone can be locked, your SIM can be invalid, but you will still be able to place an emergency call because an emergency is a crisis, by definition. I believe that there is actual regulation governing this - a phone must be able to try and place an emergency call.

The expectation is that the phone will absolutely "hijack" an emergency number to ensure that it takes place. It's a critical path that _should_ ignore everything else going on with the device.

If, instead, you allow any call-handler to take control of whether or not an emergency phone call takes place, you open the door for malware to prevent emergency calls. You open the door for subversive apps, like those used by abusive spouses, to fake emergency calls, and report the victim to their abuser. You allow a malfunctioning app to prevent someone from getting help before going through a debugging process, which isn't reasonable if you've fallen and broken a leg.

You insert the platform, in this case Google, into situations where they may become liable for allowing someone to be in danger. Possibly even actively assisting. That's a legal bombshell that should terrify the platform.
How is this appropriate for HN?
How do you brainstorm ideas with your team remotely？
I want to reach out to see if anyone else is thinking about similar problems. We are a remote team and we are recently thinking about how we can brainstorm better to encourage really creative, innovative ideas.

Before COVID-19, we used the old way to run brainstorming sessions. Usually get everyone in front of a whiteboard and talk and draw. Or sometimes a question is raised, and everyone goes on to think about it by themselves. When they think of something, they can just turn around and talk to their teams.

A lot of that doesn’t apply anymore when we are now working remotely almost 100% of the time. We are able to coordinate really well when it comes to organized, structured work like writing reports, delivering features. But creative thinking usually comes out best for us in an unstructured setting. When being remote, sometimes unstructured talking sessions lead to no results, or no action forward. Now this might start to sound contradicting, but we are experimenting with different ways to actually come up with a structured process to brainstorm.

What we want is a process that gives us the space and time to have deep and meaningful thinking but also gives us a good way to communicate the ideas to our teams and in the end a way to reflect on the ideas so they actually move us forward.

I want to ask if anyone has similar experiences, what are your thoughts on this issue? Why do you bother? How are you dealing with it now? What else have you tried?

Any thoughts or comments are greatly appreciated! Thanks! ;)
Honestly the US Govt should be helping solve this with a trade deal. Instead they put the corporation in a position to have to pay this protection money.
I'm speaking mostly about SFUSD covid guidelines[1], which prominently mention hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, gloves, and gowns. AFAIK we have no evidence of those being effective at reducing indoor transmission.

Re: risk, I think that is a completely reasonable position for you to take. I also think it is reasonable for parents to prefer an environment that they feel is optimized for their kids needs.

[1] https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resource...
> pretty fucking bliss fucking obvious son

look at this hard hacker news commenting bruh

spittin fire while dunking on an obvious troll fammmm

screenshot this victory, you earned it, wew
> Brass instruments don't... can't... have any kind of polyphony, right?

Well...If you sing another note you can get 2 or 3 notes at the same time e.g. James Morrison on trombone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEXCBYuInnQ

p.s. Coltrane playing 2 notes at once on saxophone, several times, in this Round Midnight solo from 1960. I've never heard him doing it apart from this solo, no idea why not, sounds awesome! https://youtu.be/eXJ31iveJbw?t=233

Roland Kirk is just cheating here, playing 3 saxophones at once. /s https://youtu.be/ZIqLJmlQQNM?t=101

(Bonus: 10 assorted Roland Kirk videos https://insheepsclothinghifi.com/10-roland-kirk-live-perform... )

I used to be able to whistle 2 notes at once and sing a 3rd, but haven't tried in years as it sounds so silly hehe. I had an idea for getting a choir all doing that...
Thanks! And no I actually haven't, the only time changes I experienced was those moments where your like wow it's only been 20 minutes
>If you have some programming experience, this is for you.

>If you have no programming experience, this is for you.

I can't tell if there's a typo here, or if the "Who is this for?" section could be shortened to simply "everyone", haha.
Part III goes into assessments in detail.
How advanced geospatial technology is changing life on Earth
Thanks - I can see the comparison with electromagnetism.
It seems MenuetOS/KolibriOS haven't been mentioned yet - those aim for an ostensibly "complete" OS experience, albeit one that is very Spartan due to everything being restricted to assembly language (which sadly also makes the platform completely nonportable away from x86).

http://menuetos.net/

https://kolibrios.org/en/

Someone else mentioned Serenity, which is awesome IMO, and probably the surest bet in terms of something lightweight yet modern and relevant.

A long time ago I remember playing around with the Syllable OS, which got to a fairly decent level of development, but sadly fell apart. That one's sadly only interesting from a history perspective, but still fascinating to look at.

I definitely have to +1 the idea of playing around with things like LFS and Buildroot, although I'd suggest a gentler ramp-up by way of something like Slackware, which exposes a lot of low-level knobs and components that you can progressively pick up on as you go along. I incidentally got my start on Slackware on an ancient laptop with no Wi-Fi or Ethernet, installing from a partially corrupted CD. The net result was actually surprisingly awesome, I had no distractions or ADHD catnip to have to deal with, and enough packages installed that the base system more or less worked. It was just the programming stuff (gcc etc) that failed, haha. But... sed worked, and grep, and bash. And so it was that I wound up learning regular expressions pretty much inside out. It was remarkably easy because I had absolutely no distractions. It ended up working too well; the bulk of the package viewer/installer GUI I'd started writing was an entire screenful of regex at one point, and I had to give up because looking at it gave me a headache :/. But I've never had a problem leveraging grep or sed ever since.

I've also played around with booting Linux kernels with minimal initramfs images on relatively ancient hardware (Celeron/Pentium/Core2 class) and found you can generally boot an optimally-configured kernel in less than 1 second if you set the loglevel to 0 during early boot - printing dmesg to screen as the kernel boots is a necessarily synchronous operation, given that the text about what is happening next must by definition make it to the screen before the thing happens in order for the info to actually useful ("ok, so it crashed here"), and while scrolling VGA is trivially fast nowadays the time does still add up. Setting loglevel=0 doesn't disable the internal ring buffer, it just disables printing it to the screen, allowing everything to initialize and reach userspace in maybe 450ms on 10-15 year old hardware, and probably reasonably less on just about everything newer (haven't benchmarked my current machines). This leaves you plenty of room to play around in userspace (start X or Wayland, connect to Wi-Fi, etc) and go from there, and presents a fun full-stack optimal integration opportunity (if you like this sort of thing, look into kiosk systems). I've missed that sort of tweaking, been meaning to get back into it. It's genuinely fun. "Why, again, do I even need udev?" (I only start udev on my Slackware box if I absolutely need it.)