skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a few articles like that on Strongtown. They make for a good story but frankly economically they do not make sense for me. In my surburban town with pretty big lots, school taxes are 2/3 of property tax and things that are more expensive in surburban setting than in the city (roads, sewer, electric, gas hookups) are something like 10% of taxes.

Even in this story, city currently spends 3.2M/year maintaining the roads. City has 15k housing units so city currently spends roughly $200/house on roads. It's $16/month. Author thinks city actually need to spend 4.2M - this is $280/year per house which is only $23/month. That's really not much even if cost need to be doubled. Hardly unaffordable. This is per dwelling - not even per person and does not count that commercial buildings pay more so residential rate is even lower.

Electric/water/sewers generally pay for themselves thru user fee - I think average is $20-60/month/house for sewer/water in US and electric is thru usage fee. School busing in rural setting is probably a bit more expensive but is still rounding error in overall school budget.

Everything else - school, governance, police, fire are probably about the same in rural areas and in the dense city. SF is a shit city with 15k/year spending per person and most rural/suburban areas are much nicer on a fraction of that spending.

Overall rural lifestyle does not cost much more than the city in infrastructure costs - and I did similar calculations for previous strongtown articles. On a feeling level it make sense that dense city should be cheaper but reality is frankly it's not.

US cities has a lot of problems but frankly cost of maintaining roads is not the thing that will bankrupt them.
My guess is that replacing the two [1] with a : the end result would have been the same.
Is ksysguard not similar to task manager? The only advantage task manager has over it is that it can show the rw speed for externally plugged in devices like that, whereas ksysgaurd you have to add it manually?
> By matching up the relative widths of rings from one tree to another, including from bogs and historic buildings, the tree record has now been pushed back to 13,910 years ago."

This is exactly how they did it.

edit: Imagine I have one 50 year old tree in the yard, and a house with a log in it that was cut 40 years ago from another 50 year old tree. They were both alive at the same time for 10 years. The relative thicknesses of the rings will match for the first 10 years of the tree and the yard and for the last 10 years of the log in the house, giving me a 90 year record.
>$40k/year on "data protection services" (?!?)

I'm guessing this is paying an employee/consultant to ensure they are compliant with everyone's policies. At that scale you have to care about every jurisdiction and letting the one dev guess at compliance might not be ideal.

> 60k for "site moderation" (they could instead not moderate or rely on third-party forums and messaging services they don't need to moderate).

Can you even just not moderate? There's some stuff you legally have to due to say NetzDG for German users, and compliance with everyone else.
That seems way more sensible than what we have the US and is more akin to the “land tax” system that’s talked about a lot here. The property tax scheme we use in the US only “works” as long as the city is growing. The moment the population stagnates or starts declining, the city rapidly becomes unsustainable and must rely on funds from the state or federal government to pay for basic maintenance and services.
> Heaters don't cost thousands of dollars

Sure but the point is that this will be earned back easily. If it didn't turn a profit then nobody would buy them today, let alone when they have an extra purpose.

> they can reach higher temperatures without frying themselves

Sure, we can't replace industrial processes like forging steel with mining. But residential heating requires no more than, say, 70°C which is easily within reach of any chip today. I was specifically talking about replacing something like a space heater, not a process that needs hundreds of degrees.

> If I spend 1kWh to just warm water vs I spend some part of that 1kWh to mine bitcoin and warm water, the former will be more efficient.

Is that so? How much then? Because I've always heard it's 1:1 for all intents and purposes.

Edit: of course I have to look it up myself... https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Gaming-PC-vs-Spac... Looking at the graph, it's like I said /edit.

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Note I'm not saying this is necessarily a good idea, it seems ripe for abuse (running the miner also when you don't need the heat) and we'd have more chip shortage issues, but I am interested from a technological standpoint. It seemed to me like it would be an improvement if their waste heat was used.
Can you choose year by year? I’d think most years 37.5bps on assets would be way cheaper than capital gains, but in a down year, you might choose to pay capital gains. (Or you could “bunch” realized gains into every other or every third year and take the wealth tax option only that year.)
What YOU don't understand that bitcoin has 2 key properties: permissionless and artificial scarcity. I haven't heard of any successful implementation of both without the use of Blockchain. Have you? Whatever else you'd offer would have a CA at the core which can censor and block people under duress or at will.

Restrictions and regulations exist for a reason, here I agree with you. What I don't agree with it that this regulation is good. I think most of it is very very bad for people, designed to keep them under control. In my country, this control takes very draconian forms against anyone who is in opposition to the (criminal) government.
Everybody complains when someone gets inexplicably/stupidly banned by an AI and there are no humans to review it. Spending money on moderation by actual skilled people is how you solve the problem. This is one place I’m very happy to see them not skimping.
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> I wouldn't watch a live sports match online, certainly not something like an England match

Unfortunately, some of us have no choice - no working aerial on this block (and a satellite dish wouldn't help.) It's online or nothing.
I was assuming based on the age of the town they where continuously paying for roads, grants make this much easier.

If they didn’t have to pay for the roads to begin with they have 30 years to set aside money for the replacement. Even minimal interest would drastically reduce their out of pocket costs. Grants turn this into a question of bad fiscal management, which is definitely an issue but says little about how much infrastructure they have.
I have noticed that Netflix tends to default the audio to 5.1 even when I'm watching on a TV that only has stereo speakers attached and switching back to stereo significantly improves the dialogue situation.
It's not to dissuade bitcoin mining. It's to move us away from emitting carbon as fast as possible. Crypto is just sideshow.

Carbon emission are not priced according to their future impact. We need to price it correctly. And it's better to overcorrect rhan undercorrect. The only downside is that this pricing will propagate into the economy (as it should). When it reaches people that can no longer afford to live we can prevent them from dying by giving them money we got from tax.
visually, maybe. in taste, not at all. Comte and Beaufort maybe, Comte and Gruyere? no way
Silicon Valley on HBO was a prophecy.
> The original design intention is that the number of triangles encodes the sense of distance, but maximizing the #triangles actually leads to interesting places.

The design intention was saving resources.

The game probably streams the nav.mesh along with map tiles; the cost is disk I/O and RAM. Once the nav.mesh is in RAM, the game runs raycasts or A* search or whatever, the cost is CPU time. In a big flat nothing, NPCs can walk any direction they want without colliding into things, having a dense nav.mesh at that place would be a waste of resources.

The fox AI doesn’t quite maximize anything. It does something similar to random walk over nav.mesh triangles. After long enough time, random walk algorithm causes the fox to be randomly distributed over nav.mesh triangles, i.e. probability to be in any particular nav.mesh triangle is about the same. However, because nav.mesh triangles have very uneven area, the fox distribution over space is very uneven too. The fox is way more likely to be in places with dense nav.mesh because that’s where the majority of nav.mesh triangles are.
Lots of pets here, not many cattle. When you get to this scale, tools like Kubernetes make more sense. Then you can just think about your system in terms of "how much cpu/ram/storage do I need total?" Unless every one of those servers is running at or near capacity, there is a lot of cash being wasted there. There is also a maintenance cost, too. If one of these vital boxes goes down, what is the downtime implication and restoration cost?

I am not saying any of this to be critical of Lichess. There are different ways to solve these problems, and their way is clearly working. This also happens slowly over many years, so it is hard/impossible to see the end state until you are there. The app is very quick and responsive. I got my ass handed to me on my first anon game :) My feedback is more for the community here in the context of using this as a byte-sized case study.

At the end of the day we are reading and writing 1's and 0's to a network device, or a disk. Have to imagine you can run and persist chess games with a lot less resources.
No, speed of light will not move faster inside in the event horizon. It is still at the same speed.

But the spacetime is so distorted that a photon will start orbiting the singularity, thus it doesn’t get out of the event horizon.

https://phys.org/news/2014-03-orbit-black-hole.html
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> Bitcoin’s value isn’t coupled to energy.

Then what would happen if the energy and materials needed to compute the hashes were literally zero cost?
Sales tax, VAT.

They need to eat, buy cars, houses.

If they have more money they buy more -> more tax income.
I can think of many reasons why MIDI 2.0 might be advantageous. But microtonality? Why? MIDI 1.0's MTS supports everything Scala can throw at it, doesn't it?
This is completely unsubstantiated but I think Americans watch so much television that they learn the majority of their behaviors from actors and producers who exaggerate everything for the screen.
The BBC should have chosen the encrypted FreeView route when digital first came in so they could switch to subscription

Their focus on the easy money of a license fee, along with lines of “everyone loves to pay it” was going to land them in trouble sooner or later

If they'd have go subscription then, they could have chosen their own destiny
It's very misleading that the author decided to use external libraries on the other examples, yet used the built-in URLSession on Swift.
If it is against trump, it doesn't matter, it must be 'good', is an actual sentiment, felt by many, including the people drooling here.
A big give away is they now mark your feedback as 'we have seen this, thanks' less than a minute after you post.

The link "what we do with your feedback" I'm sure is just Rick Astley
Saved this from HN a while back: https://neildavidson.com/downloads/dont-just-roll-the-dice-2...
> I don't believe it rejected either thing. [files/command line]

I understood that you believe that. My point is that you are wrong.

The point of files and the command line is not to have some sort of analogous mechanisms somewhere, no matter how far you had to stretch the analogies, and you had to stretch them pretty much to or slightly beyond the breaking point.

The point is to be integrated into the Unix filesystem and the Unix command line (or the Windows one, doesn't matter). Because they are integration mechanisms.

> It blows my mind that people still think Unixisms are somehow some kind of universal apex of computing

Well, that should blow your mind, because they are not the "apex", they are the lowest common denominator, the minimum that you need to play. But if you don't adhere to this minimum, you can't play. And so Smalltalk got left behind.

> [..] Smalltalk is exactly that it takes the identity between programming language runtime and operating system seriously

The point is that this, while an attractive idea, and a locally productive one, it is not actually a good one, because it creates isolated worlds. And it turns out that not being isolated is more important than being locally optimal.

Just like the image is a great hack, because it provides so many things "for free" that other environments have to work really hard at. But, paradoxically, it turns out the price is still too high. Which doesn't mean that other systems couldn't and shouldn't learn from the image. Just not duplicate it.

What Objective-S is trying to do is combine the two, because I don't think you have to isolate yourself and try to be the OS to achieve the good parts of Smalltalk. And no, GNU-Smalltalk wasn't it, otherwise I would have just used that.
"useful" I take it you've never had long hair?
Looks like a good randomness source
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At least in Italy we tend to consider the western/eastern division to be the ex iron curtain.

So here we would consider the balkans to be eastern.
If this is the case, why did the BBC vote 5 to 1 in favour of Remain[1], despite the Conservative party being down the middle on Brexit.

75% of comedians are explicitly left wing [2]

Anecdotally, the sidebar of BBC News UK edition is littered with articles attempting to argue that any inequality between sex or race of people in a unvaried analysis is indicative of system X-ism. Very rarely do people leave the BBC and join right-of-centre media - more often than not they join left wing private organisations.

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1549752/Abo...

[2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047049/Seventy-fiv...
Not a hot dog
Nice to see the super dimensional fortress is still chugging along <3
To-do lists didn't work for me for a while, but I eventually figured out the secret for me. I kept dropping off on my usage, forgetting to write down my to-do's. They usually only worked when I was feeling motivated/inspired, not on a daily basis.

I found that the secret for me was To-do's in a spiral bound notebook, so that my list was always staring me in the face and begging to be added to / crossed off. The physical act of writing and crossing off helps tremendously.
Main developer gets a monthly salary of $4705, is that normal in Europe? (Assuming Europe because they pay French taxes).
Downstate Illinois has been in decline for fifty years. The climate is harsh, agriculture requires far fewer workers, light industry departed, and like upstate New York the region is given short shrift by a metro-dominated state government.

Urban planning may be a factor but smart planning could not have overcome the headwinds.
> (they could instead not moderate or rely on third-party forums and messaging services they don't need to moderate)

Have you ever used the site? How does that work by not moderating? When I report someone for being racist, spamming or submit a game where I think someone cheated... who handles that, what forum or open service doesn't have some type of moderation and in this case were you want a seamless experience with your app as they do with chat, blog, forum and multiple daily tournaments.
Perhaps when we discover why the universe is expanding, then we may have or not a solution for this.

The expansion of the universe can be faster than the speed of light. Would it be possible to use that to create FTL travel?
Yet if you do install Windows 11 on said hardware, it gives no warning that it's "unsupported"
You are correct. I should have such such a grinding sound in a new car warranted a second look.
That's funny. I miss xkill on windows so much.
We know the price with current methods though. It is prohibitively expensive, so no one will agree with it.

And for the second question: no. Why would we? You pay for the pollution you emit. If a company agree to provide you the means for free, or even pay you to emit this pollution, all the power to you. What happen in the present should have no impact on current taxes.
one thing to note is that websites in this style, some with marquee tags and all that, are still quite renderable using the parsers we have today (with a lot of specific settings and modes, but still). even the weird hacks they would use to overcome some limitations often survive. which is a testament of the dedication to backwards compatibility and to the weight of weird code in the browsers we have to continue to put up with as well
BNSF Railway has a major classification yard in Galesburg. Just like other railroads, they use their Chicago yard for intermodal traffic (loading containers from the trains onto trucks and vice versa), and use a nearby yard outside of Chicago to manage general traffic.

According to the Knox County Area Partnership [1], the largest employers in Knox County (of which Galesburg is the urban center) are BNSF, the hospital, the schools, Knox College, Blick Art Materials, Gates Corporation, the local government, and the prison.

It's fairly common for small US towns to have the local health system, local school system, and Walmart (or the local grocery store) as the largest employers. Galesburg is more fortunate and is more like a typical midwest town, with a handful of manufacturers and warehousing-type jobs that exceed the standard rural fare, and a college also.

[1] https://www.knoxpartnership.com/top-employers/
I've always found it weird and funny that in many parts of Europe taxes used to be based on the width of the front of houses. That's why you'll find extremely narrow houses in some older downtown areas. Cologne is an example of this.

As soon as the author started doing the math on street maintenance per lot, this medieval taxation system made instant sense to me (although I believe there also were taxes on windows...). Maybe something like this would be more beneficial. In general zoning that encourages density rather than discouraged it is definitely more in the interest of cities. Yet, most people get angry with me when I mention this.
iPlayer asks if you have a license and you say Yes...
Prosecutors move to dismiss a high-profile China Initiative case
That attention to detail... The IDE is "HooliCode".

"platform=hoolistore".

Very impressive.
End to end encryption will surely make a government's task of protecting the public much harder. It allows paedos, terrorists and the like to communicate freely, and any efforts to track what they're up to must be an absolute nightmare.

The problem is, getting rid of encryption is replacing a bad situation with a disastrous situation. If you ban locks so the government can obtain access to the house of a terrorist, it means anyone now has access to anyone's house.

If this article is to be believed, it really feels like someone just hasn't thought this through. Surely there's tech people whose job is to explain this to politicians.
> It pays for federal roads (Autobahn and Bundesstraße) and badly at that

If the tax brings in €9.4B and the expenses are €10B per year, that seems pretty balanced to me.
I think that's because it's about communicating it to the people around you. It's easy to notice someone crying, it's harder to notice someone that felt something strong and showed almost no signs.
"If it were a reasonable option, the billionaires of a country would take their own private army over a government funded one"

We already ran this experiment, it was called Feudalism. We don't have Barons and Lords because they got obliterated by unified nation states in wars, every time.

There are people who'd give their life for America/Freedom/ etc, have you ever met anyone who would for Mark Zukerberg?

Under current system police enjoys mahor privilidges - qualified immunity, resisting arrest is a crime, etc. Since such multiple private army/police's might come into conflict, those privilidges have to go.
We'll be back at feudal warfare
Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Though I wonder how that study accounted for the placebo effect ;^)
ITV still don't broadcast anything with 5.1 audio. BBC have done since the launch of BBC HD twelve years ago.
Also from patio11: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...
No one cares about the desktop any more, and linux won the mobile race, in some fashion.
I've heard German speakers say German is a good language for philosophy.
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So, if everyone was mining Bitcoin, they would earn around US$0.15 per month (assuming 8e9 people, a 6.25 BTC coinbase mining reward every 10 minutes plus some 10% transaction fees, at a price of US$40,000/BTC, and zero energy/mining rig cost). Yay, Bitcoin is solving global poverty!
If, as you say, they're so indispensable and useful, they should have zero worries making their money like everyone else instead of plundering the public by force, including those would don't want to consume what they produce.
Fair point :D I did it without much thinking but it certainly looks silly if I look at it now.
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Isn't it?
Did someone sum up all the environmental impact of all the dollar infrastructure? Including airplane fuel used by executives traveling all over the place?
An 85 yr old man getting in his car and driving through the night to make love to his girlfriend is not the same as a 24 yr old man doing the same. What happened to any degree of self-separation in our otherwise obviously age segregated society?
I'd call myself an Alan Lightman fan (Einstein's Dreams is a lovely book) but I think he missed on this one.
Then mining operations would expand further until they hit some other cost constraint, like labor.
BTC bad.

Giant faceless banks in bed with the government good.

You dind't get the memo when you signed up?
If you can, get on the air - it's the most rewarding and fun thing to do. But not everyone is lucky enough to have space for antennas at home.

You may enjoy the competitive side of Morse code: You can practice your code speed and compete against yourself and/or others in a number of ways, for example:

MorseRunner (pileup simulator): http://www.dxatlas.com/MorseRunner/

RufzXP (callsign speed training): https://www.rufzxp.net/

LCWO (callsign, word, plain text training): https://lcwo.net/

Good luck!
I'm curious to know which 90's software was used for the graphics in https://www.heavensgate.com/
Yes, malicious actors can also be found within the government. This is the reason behind placing limits on the power of the state.
Or worse, the charter school interview and disciplinary practices ensure that these kids are not admitted or are expelled and the small charter school then takes the full payment but needs 0% of a specialist.
> My drive doesn't have enough space

The recommendation here is to buy a larger drive (and a usb->sata adapter if necessary), clone to the new drive, and keep the old one as an offline backup!