skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why we're starting occasionally to use the term "location value" instead of "land value". When we are taxing the land, what we are really accomplishing most of the time is taxing the positive externalities that your city is providing, as well as that or your neighbors and businesses.

Building the aqueduct, or a city building a train terminal, both provide positive externalities for the entire region. Those externalities should be taxed.

The soil quality or clearing of forest itself is an improvement much the same way a house is, so that would not be taxed.
I was able to add an addendum to my rental agreement created by a fairly sizeable property manager.

Addendums are much easier for them to agree to.
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I agree LSD may be more predictable than mushrooms, but it is also a crazy intense 12 hour voyage that leaves one with at least two days of recovery time after. Vs 4 hours for mushrooms.

Both are extremely "set and setting" sensitive. Take either on a bad mood day with bad weather, a dirty house, and stuff on your mind... and you won't have a good time.
I'm not a lawyer, and this is almost certainly misguided advice. But when faced with the same, I requested (and got) in writing that the non-compete clause was nonnegotiable, hoping that, should push come to shove, the clause could be found legally non-binding as a contract of adhesion [1].

Also note that Massachusetts recently (2018) signed into law restrictions on non-competes. One of the major aspects is that such a clause provide "garden leave" pay for employees during their noncompete period. [2]

You can alternatively/also simply ask for more pay in compensation, claiming such a clause is non-standard in the field (personally, I've seen very few), and thus it's a material change to what was previously negotiated. That didn't work for me (I was already at the top of the salary range for the level I was assigned to), but since it doesn't involve lawyers, it's more likely to happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract#Contrac...

[2] https://www.slnlaw.com/massachusetts-non-compete-act.html
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What people say must still be legal and harassment is basically not legal. I have big problems to a) see where people see their free speech limited, i.e. examples and b) there are plenty of platforms with much more laissez-faire to no moderation. But the latter has its price, those communities tend to be quite repelling to most people.

To me it seems a theoretical discussion about the definition of free speech that is mixed up with a business discussion which makes no sense.
This is rich.

In 2010 Oracle -a company BUILT on MINDSHARE- failed to understand that OpenSolaris was an attempt at building MINDSHARE, so they killed it over a minor "embarrassment" caused by a minor "competitor" using OpenSolaris. Now they must be wondering how to re-build MINDSHARE and recoup some of their costs, and they evidently think "free for personal use" is going to do it. That's NUTS.
The stop signs haven’t changed (on that note we do have lots of traffic calming islands [1]) but we did get the “Idaho” stop in 2020.

[1]: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1hHn
This is common in a lot of Seattle neighborhoods, but the custom doesn’t extend beyond the city limits. For the most part it just works, but when I’m in a car with someone not from the city I always need to inform the driver or they just expect right of way. I lived near one of these intersections and personally witnessed two collisions over ten years. Neither were serious. I think these intersections largely work as a custom, save for the people not already accustomed.
Employee’s unwanted birthday party nets him $450k after lawsuit
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> The 100% full reason for me was that I had a job where I needed to SSH into our prod server

Statements like this are common, but they confuse two usages: (a) learning vi/vim well enough in order to use it in any unix environment vs. (b) using vim with a complete plugin/config suite as a primary development IDE replacement tool.

The former is IMHO an essential unix skill, but it's incredibly inefficient to try to use core out-of-the-box zero-plugin vim as a primary development tool. But once you start configuring an efficient dev environment, the GUI editors start to really outshine vim, and they still provide core vim functionality via plugins if you want it.
Yes that has crossed my mind. However, I'm also aware of very publicized cases in my area where there was serious interest in a property from several serious, large buyers, it was sitting unused, like as an empty unused parking lot, but the owner, out of state and region, wouldn't sell and also wouldn't develop it (why this is the case no one could tell). These cases went on for decades, with the government eventually attempting to take over the property by eminent domain (there were concerns about economic effects of the property, which actually has relevance to some nationally publicized news stories the last couple of years), only to have them rebuked in court. I don't even remember how they resolved anymore because I got tired of trying to pay attention.

Anyway, to be clear, I'm not advocating for land taxes per se. I have also seen many, many examples of corrupt seizure of, or valuation of, property by the government and that's its own set of problems. What I'm saying is it should be possible to codify into law some "red line" circumstances where properties do get taxed or seized. Someone who is living on the property would be exempt, for example. Neglected property in an area that is targeted for renewal, with multiple serious offers that economists agree are more than fair, being refused by a party who resides in another region, over long periods of time, seems like a different issue.

Maybe this is all more difficult than I think. It just seems to me there are some cases that are so clearly egregious that the vast majority of the population agrees there are problems (in either direction: with government overreach or private overreach) that you could define those circumstances. Right now it seems to me a lot of time is wasted on controversial land use issues and not enough on addressing things where there is more consensus.
I also have this complaint. Where I live there are miles and miles of closed-access bike trails. The state spent loads of money turning old railbeds into trails specifically for pedestrians and bicycles.

But those aren't good enough for the exercise man. He has to ride on the winding, hilly, full-of-blindspots roads where cars routinely are doing 45+. More than once I've nearly gone into the ditch because exercise man was in the middle of the road over the crest of a hill. (I separate people who are commuting on their bikes from the ones that are clearing doing it for recreation).

I'm all for biking - it's great for your body and the environment but I question those that choose to co-mingle with cars when there are other options. In a collision between 250 pounds of bike + human vs a ton of plastic and steel...the ton of plastic and steel is going to win pretty much every time.
That part also exists in Germany. The 100kph on the "Landstrasse" - which does not mean two lane highway, it could simply be the road connecting two small towns that doesn't look much different from the road in town except for no houses on either side - only applies to cars. Trucks have an automatic limit of 80kph. That is sooo dumb! Lots and lots of accidents because cars get stuck behind trucks and get aggravated. Especially on one lane ones that have enough traffic to make passing almost impossible. And since this is Germany, most of these aren't straight like you might expect from the US. These are usually very meandering, which makes it real hard to pass those trucks.

And never mind the actual highways, where there's no speed limit unless posted. And trucks still can only go 80kph. So you have 2 lane Autobahn. Trucks at 80-99kph on the right lane. 90-200kph cars on the left lane. The trucks that go 80 will have a bunch of trucks that want to go 90 trying to pass them. Then add the ups and downs where even the 90kph truck that's passing will slow to 75. Even if you're only cruising at 150kph (actually a pretty nice cruising speed), if you come up on an "elephant race" as they call it behind a bend in the road it's not fun. This extends to 3 lane highways too. Just that now you actually have cars switching from the middle lane to the left lane, because one truck is passing another. So you have an 80kph truck on the right, 90kph truck on the middle lane and a 100kph car in the left lane and the 200kph Mercedes or BMW approaching from the rear.
My strong-man description of your (I think correct!) feeling is that we all have a very specific lens through with we look at the world. Because all of us have very very limited lenses, but the world is actually quite large and complicated, we each end up with our own neurotic worries that are in a way over-blown when compared with the chaotic complexity of actual reality. Just think of that friend you have that always brings up the cost of something, or that person in your life who seems to always bring the conversation to how their political viewpoint would alleviate the problem, or the person who seems to always have a new and exciting reason to not have a kid yet.

Psychedelics just allow us to step out of our rigid framework for a few hours. For people with flexible/creative minds it might not be such a big deal as they are used to looking at reality and asking "but what if it were this way...", but lots of us have rather rigid conceptions of reality. Taking mushrooms and realizing that most of our worries are 'made up' in the sense that they don't relate to our basic needs can be eye opening.
You’ll find these four models:

Traditional recruiters. Focused on f/t placement, paid by employer, usually geographically specialized. Barrier to entry low for this career so finding a great recruiter takes time and effort. Some recruiters will do gig/freelance placement but generally that’s not their strength.

Outsourcing firms, development shops, sometimes called “body shops.” Have their own pool of talent on their payroll. Fill seats at companies and/or take on projects. Often taking up to 50% of gross. May specialize geographically or in specific verticals, i.e. government jobs.

Online gig services, e.g. Upwork, Fiverr. More or less a self-matching service with an auction model, like eBay for gigs and talent. Main value-add is breadth of gigs and talent and handling at least some of the billing/payment process. Rates often far below local market because of global competition.

Agents, e.g. 10X Management. Do not employ talent themselves, but represent freelancers/consultants like an entertainment or sports agent. Responsible for marketing, contract/legal, billing/payment, and dealing with conflict. Take a percentage of gross.

Toptal has some attributes of the agent model and some attributes of the outsourcing firm model — I’d call them a hybrid.

Disclaimer: I have tried all of these models during my career. 10X Management has represented me since 2013.
"Americans rarely stop fully and look out for pedestrians"

Rarely is being heavily abused in this statement. It's just not true. Otherwise pedestrian fatalities would be vastly higher than they are. Additionally, regional driving habits differ drastically. People in Colorado and California drive far more aggressively than they do in Iowa or even more densely populated areas on the east coast, where policing is far more rigorous.
AWS definitely has offices and employees in California. The enforcement is not about where you're headquartered but where the employee is determined to be working. An employee living full time in California would be protected.

Disclaimer: Not a lawyer.
Literal bean counting, eh?
I've been getting a few emails from Amazon recruiters weekly to both my personal and work emails.
Social media has/had the potential to break the monopoly on force[1]. Granted it was the the form of assembling large groups of cannon fodder into one place to basically absorb ammo and abuse, but it did have some positive effects as well in terms of political change. It could again. I guess what I'm saying is that a monopoly on force doesn't always mean a monopoly on power.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
Sorry, didn't see this until just now. I wasn't intending to be flippant, but I also wasn't aware of the concern people have over broadening the usage of "trigger warning." I'll take that into account next time.
You have something younger people can only dream of - experience. It sounds like you've got some incredible stories to tell and plenty of advice to dish out.

My advice would be to simply switch your focus from you to others. What can you do with all that experience to help others? I think people often misinterpret this kind of advice to mean the only way forward is to drop everything and go volunteer in a soup kitchen or start doing charity work. While there is nothing wrong with those things of course - it's important to pick something you genuinely care about. Otherwise it's your ego making the decision for you. If you don't genuinely love and care about how you help others, it won't work out.

Start by figuring out what your message is then decide on a medium to express it. Many people start by trying to write - maybe it's the start of a book, or a blog post or even just a private journal. I recommend writing as it's extremely easy to get started and the quickest route to realising what you don't know about what you don't know. So then - temporarily at least - the game turns into a quest for knowledge. Once you've plugged all the gaps, maybe you'll continue to write to get your message across. Or maybe you'll choose to express it through music or painting or a video game or a YouTube channel or blogging or giving a talk or starting a new business, or something else altogether? Pick whatever medium you love working with the most.

If you can avoid the trap of letting your ego take over and stay disciplined enough to do the hard work necessary to get your message out there for the purpose of helping others, it should make you feel better over time. If you slip into doing it for the success or the money or to show off around your friends, then you'll probably continue to feel the way you do now.
For office workers, yeah. And disregard to work-life balance on many teams.

For warehouse and delivery workers... There's probably a chapter in the Bible just covering that.
Quite right!

This process is exposing the hypocrisy of the Twitterverse. They, the vocal blue-checkmarks, were happy and smug when "their guy" -a billionaire, was setting the tone, now that a different billionaire would set a different tone, they are now expressing concern where before they did would dismiss it with, go set up your own platform and a private company can set its own speech rules!
I don't know why people would use a text editor in a terminal when they can use that same text editor as a desktop application.

Fonts are better, colors are better, it is faster, less latency, running a terminal inside your editor works better, pop-ups and overlays work better/are more flexible/easier to read, mouse interactions work better, resizing works better, it is easier to run multiple windows, it is easy to run multiple different fonts with different font sizes, etc etc.

I also don't have to figure out solutions to conflicts between the keyboard shortcuts between the shell, the terminal, the terminal multiplexer (screen/tmux/tabbed terminal emulator), and the editor.

> I can use my editor over ssh and edit anywhere

I can just have my editor use ssh to edit files anywhere. Remote editing is a thing.

Anyways for proper system hygiene you shouldn't be shelling into anything except to troubleshoot problems or for checking things you don't have monitors in place for. This is why we have things like ansible or puppet.

In fact the whole insisting on having an editor in a terminal emulator thing is probably holding Nvim back as a whole. Which is why you don't see the obvious benefits.

Since the community wants to use terminal emulators so heavily then all the add-ons and features of the editor must support the lowest common dominator between desktop apps and terminal emulator, which is almost always going to be the terminal emulator.

Just remember that you are not avoiding a GUI by using a terminal emulator. It's still a GUI. Just a GUI designed for running command line applications in a Unix-style shell. And Neovim really isn't even a command line application.
Thank you for this explanation. I didn't know profile READMEs were a thing and have to be named the same as the user account. I can see how this could be confusing when the functionality is different between users and orgs.
I'd rather comment than downvote. Who cares about about a kernel build from 1997 (25 years ago)? What was the hardware back then, Pentium 2? Sorry for the snark in advance but: Why make mountains out of molehills? Life is hard enough as it is.
I actually don't see any issue with this either. The 1995-2008 web was sorta like this and it was quite beautiful.

The problem these days is people, for better or worse, walk towards platforms.
This law makes a lot of sense to me, having been off and on a bike commuter. But I wonder if its sensibility depends on a variety of circumstances. A lot of non-cyclist drivers complain about exactly these behaviors, but in my experience it’s helped both to keep me safe on the road (typically climbing a steep hill, where a hard stop would make starting again less stable) and to let traffic continue to flow. I’m not sure I’d feel the same way in a flatter city with larger roads. Or with heavier car traffic in areas with more obstruction of view.
ouch. what awful advice. lying by omission is not only a terrible way to enter into a trusting relationship with a new employer but could also be committing fraud.
Apple does far less with your data than others, to the extent that there are things they cannot do that others can, e.g., in the line of recommendations: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-privacy-rules...

Apple also does a pretty good job of securing devices against “back access”.
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There's lots of stop lights that won't change until a car is over the magnetic sensor. This means staying stopped at the light on a bike will never get you the green (until some car pulls up anyway, but where I live that can be a long time).

You can get around this sometimes with a bunch of strong magnets stuck to your lower bracket, but only sometimes and it depends on the sensors' calibrations.

Point being, this change does have some practical benefits if you have to deal with such traffic lights - running the red in sight of the wrong cop is no longer a concern.
With a specific claim demonstrating a contrary phenomenon, one would think. "Vague claims" aren't some rhetorical ace-in-the-hole. They can be argued against, presumably better than "you're wrong, and you should feel bad."
To add to that, there's also a Nim <-> JVM bridge: https://github.com/yglukhov/jnim

And wrapperless C++ interop through macros: https://github.com/n0bra1n3r/cinterop
>I find turning on red to be a pretty bad idea, because Americans rarely stop fully and look out for pedestrians. I think a majority of pedestrian accidents occurs on turn on reds/stops.

Right on red is indeed unsafe: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002243...
While I tend to feel like you do, keep in mind that the hypocrisy runs both ways. While Conservatives were complaining about being gagged by the Left, they were all about free and open speech. But when Trump complains about platforms providing the soapbox for his enemies, it's his supporters that want to wield the gags.

I'm sure that lots of people really do value free speech as such, whether or not it's benefiting them (I know I do, and I don't have any reason to suspect different of you). But it sure seems like at least the activists are only interested in using it as a weapon when it happens to be in their own hands, and stomping it underfoot when the circumstances differ.
First, a lease is not an employment agreement. Different situation.

Second, did the addendum directly contradict or void language in the standard form lease crafted by corporate legal? If not, there's probably more room for negotiation there.

Even in standard employee agreements, there's often an "invention disclosure form" that sort of operates as a built-in addendum for the new hire to fill out. This helps prevent the employer from claiming ownership over things the employee worked on prior to hire.
I don't see how spending less time in an intersection guarantees better safety. Can it really only be about how long you're in an intersection and not what is done while you're there?

Isn't this like trying to make a dangerous aircraft seem safer by only flying it 100 mi at a time? The number of successful flights would skyrocket while the baseline crash count stays about the same.
Its a collosally impractical idea for many reasons, but I'll give the simplest one

Whatever rotating mechanism (call it flywheel) they have needs to be charged up with rotational energy to launch. The amount of energy remaining in it after the projectile gets launched is the fraction M/(M+m) where M is the flywheel mass and m is the mass of the projectile.

Now you see the problem (if you have any physics instinct)

If you dont want a sudden shift in the center of rotation (going off balance) then you need the flywheel mass to be high. But the higher the flywheel mass, the more amount of energy left "wasted" as it spins to a halt in the de-evacuated atmosphere.

Bearings can handle some amount of jerking and some amount of imbalance in most applications.
But here there is massive centrifugal pull of the imbalanced flywheel, the instantaneous jerk as the rotational center shifts after launch, shock wave of the instantaneous rushing in of air into the vacuum (speed of sound), the massive heating up of the whole structure, the precession that may be induced by turbulence etc.

This will most likely destroy the whole shebang in seconds, if not make it completely unusable a second time.

Slingshots work only because the sling has negligible mass compared to the stones that are launched.

This comic book idea dreamed by by some non-engineer is just going to eat up investor money and lots of precision machined equipment
So you want a thing, but only if somebody else will provide it?
> By the way, why is bonding with colleagues such a big deal?

One of the most consistent themes in the “please go back to offices” articles is that there is a cohort of people who appear to have designed their lives around their job. Their social life solely revolves around work. They don’t appear to actually have social lives that don’t involve coworkers. They also appear to believe all that matters is optimizing work performance.

Not exactly what I’d think would lead to a generally good level of well being, but I guess it works for some people.
Said it better than me, at the same time. It's also better than a fully controlled intersection with lights for pedestrians, since you don't have to wait for a light cycle or choose to cross on red.

It's pretty sad to see people having to wait for a gap to sprint across a road, and little wonder that the situation perpetuates people driving everywhere - it's the safest and fastest way to even cross a street.
You're absolutely correct. But: Wikipedia aren't trying to ban all multiplexed IPs. Instead, they're seeking to ban the IPs that bad actors disproportionately use -- and those are the heavily multiplexed ones.

It's kind of the internet equivalent of keeping drug dealers out of your club by banning anyone who lives in a poor area. A lazy (and likely discriminatory) policy, but a simple one, and effective.