skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's several ways to look at figuring out the correct value. You can look at the value of the surrounding land, or you can look at the value of the improvements.

What's nice about looking at the improvements is we should always be able to figure out the cost to build the building initially, we can look at the repair costs.

Say we have a house that was just built. We know for sure that this cost $500k to construct. We have the bills. Make the market price of the lot and house cost $500k and the tax is perfect. Done. If the tax is above the correct value, the auction bid will be under $500k, that's bad! Lower the tax.

Now let's say it's 10 years later. There has been depreciation on the house. It's no longer worth the $500k. If we still tax the building as if its worth $500k, what happens? It turns out we under-tax the 100% LVT. But as we know, under-taxing is okay, not perfect, but okay. It's over-taxing that is harmful!

What happens if someone bids $600k for it? Now we know we are significantly under-taxing the area and have good reason to increase the tax, and send out an appraiser to look at it.

Lastly I just need to point out that in a LVT world, it is kinda going to be like the "Don't fight the Fed" line. If you know that bidding $600k on a $500k house is going to force a tax inspection, you might not be so happy to lose $100k, so you might bid less. You might even bid $500k simply because that's what the home is worth, you might fund the appraisal yourself so that you don't risk your $100k. As the speculation is driven out of the market, the values of homes will be much more steady than they are today, and land appraisal will therefore become much easier and uniform. Even Zillow could do appraisal's with a LVT.
The baseline is meant to serve the greatest number of people possible. Diff. Eq. is far beyond the average person and less useful for them to know for their lives than basic statistics and critical thinking.

I'm not saying US K12 is perfect. Rather that it isn't trying to cater to 90th percentile, independent learners. For those hopefully the parents will recognize greatness and seek a more fitting alternative.
I live in South Africa and the yolks of the eggs my wife and I buy are absolutely not nearly white. It may differ by supermarket though, I generally shop at Woolworths which markets itself as having the best quality food, while also charging extra as a result.

Otherwise, perhaps it's only something which tends to occur with chickens grown by people for themselves in rural areas?
Must be fun coming up with ways to test ideas like this:

> We first got our monkeys to sit in chairs in front of a computer screen and hooked them up to electrocardiograms to monitor their heartbeats. Then we played videos of either a yellow or green cloud bouncing up and down accompanied by beeping sounds. Sometimes we would sync the bouncing and beeping to match the monkey’s heartbeat, and at other times they were out of sync.

> We then used eye trackers to measure how long the monkeys looked at the images. If the monkeys had a sense of their own heartbeats, they would find the in-sync bouncing less interesting and novel than the out-of-sync bouncing and so would spend more time looking at the out-of-sync image.

I wonder if you could get them to tap along or similar to a sensor that was beeping to their heart beat where you made the beep quieter and quieter until eventually silent.
In the case of LEOs or prosecutors, I think many give up the search for truth and give in to the us-vs-them mentality. The cognitive dissonance and pressure of group dynamics make it almost a certainty.

There is huge power in law enforcement and prosecutorial discretion. Yes, some parts of the job have to be strict for safety purposes. There are many other parts that don't.

I've had prosecutors and police know that our rights were violated as part of a citation. They did not care. Cop lied multiple times in court and was caught. IAD merely gave them a warning. The LT of the troop made a bunch of BS excuses - either he's actually that stupid or he's lying too. Filed a complaint about an incompetent magistrate whow also violated due process rights - judicial board doesn't care. Prosecutor instructed the court not to talk to us which prevented us from securing remote accommodations for our witness - the Bar didn't care. Civil rights lawyer said our rights were violated, but unless there was substantial monetary damages, the system doesn't care and would likely see it as frivolous.

Nobody cares. Nobody protects your rights. If nobody can enforce your rights, do you even have them at all? All the trooper/prosecutor/magistrate/judge had to do, was drop/throw out the case. They had the discretion, and even the responsibility, to do that. Their mentality was the problem. We were guilty in their mind because if we were not, that would make them participants in a broken and unjust system.
I had a skim of both links (sorry but just dumping a list isnt exactly proof), and taking the first example [0], I really dont see what a blockchain brings you over a database. When you have a private blockchain, or a managed blockchain by an entity, you inherently have centralisation. What happens in the automotive case if the blockchain is forked? Which chain do I trust?

Every single use case (I have yet to see a single one, and I am) has been a use case for an append only ledger, not a decentralised ledger, and in every one of those use cases the problems that a blockchain actually solved and the advantages of a blockchain are immaterial. Can you provide one example in the two lists (which you've claimed are good examples) where the properties of a blockchain are wanted, not the properties of an append only ledger? Because if you want an append only ledger, a SQL database (or even a nosql database) is a simpler solution that will perform orders of magnitude better than 500 transactions per second.

[0] https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/renault/
I mean it's bound to be true and actually more extreme than that if you're taking the entire population as your reference. If you take as reference the subset of people who are trying to get to scientific breakthroughs, then yeah, it's dubious.
We live in 2022. Eschewing modern inventions and "returning to the wilderness" is a rhetorical cop out.

The problem has nothing to do with taking a "since you can't trust any company" approach is you avoid the reality of the situation -- which is that certain companies index lower than others.

The company making this phone seems a little dubious.
So in your mind it makes more sense that I was genuinely calling Einstein an alien? That the hyperbole of calling someone an alien didn't possibly register as being in jest?

Do you wait for the comedian to explain the joke before you're able to clarify their position?

I don't think you're commenting in good faith because none of the alternatives for what I could've meant make any sense.
Actually, for Western countries with very high wealth equality such as the Nordics you really see comparatively few. The US in particular has very high wealth inequality and a lot of performers.
It's Elon's World
Oh okay I see. When I said "such professions" I meant all of the ones the parent had mentioned: medicine, lawyers, law enforcement. And like you said CEOs and politicians can be added to the list. I know I read something about surgeons in particular having an overrepresentation of psychopaths, but I don't have them handy. I'd imagine it could be true for pediatric oncologists as well for the same reasons, but I don't have any studies to back that up.
> I once got paid almost $1000, in just one day

This is surprisingly high in that I would have assumed it would be far more cost-effective for the company to improve automation here and bring in more equipment to assist — intuitively, even if such equipment would be expensive, it couldn't be more expensive than the labor costs.

What industry was this?
I'm not free to ignore their externalities, though, am I? If my next door neighbor burns motor oil to stay warm in his backyard while promising that he'll switch to something better in six months, "just choose to not live next to him" is not a plausible argument!
One Part of Your Life You Shouldn’t Optimize
The moth went in because "the light was on", which is vernacular for "open for business", but it has a double meaning because moths are attracted to light at night. The punchline itself is admittedly weak -- the humor comes from the fact that you listened to a lengthy story that turned out to be a really bad joke.
Studying feels like hard work when you are a kid, but it's kind of a joke how easy and non-draining it is in retrospect. Doing actual work is just so much more taxing.
It might be useful to make a distinction between async work and remote work. We are remote but not async; if you are going offline for several hours between 9 and 5 you need to warn the team in advance and probably take some PTO because you are going to be missing from your Zoom calls, not responding on Slack, etc.
This is obviously a dig at quality of life in the US.

However, if you must choose between quality of life or higher salary, choose higher salary. Quality of life isn’t a liquid asset.

Also, in the United States your life is substantially better the more money you have.
Do so for the experience, as the costs get evened out by the expense of feeding them (unless you have access to free feed).
> Einstein's first wife likely was co-author of his papers

What’s the source for that claim? This just links to another of your own comments, which is also unsourced.
So, if this is a demonstrated to be a thing that works, what's to stop Google, Facebook, MBS, Jeff Bezos, or any other billionare from simply doubling the money and doing the same thing.

The various right-wing twitter alternatives are already there with polished platforms providing the equivalent functionality, why don't they pay Twitter's users to switch over?
While I get Stross’s point, I suspect there was some level of context lost here.

When the Trek writers penciled in “Ensign, you need to tech the tech with the other tech, and hurry!”, the details of those particular bits of “tech” didn’t matter to the plot. What was important was that a particular bit presented a specific kind of obstacle in the moment. Your phaser doesn’t work, and you need to improvise a solution, so maybe you can open the phaser and pull out the MALFUNCTIONING THING and then smash your tricorder and pull out the OTHER THING and then bend the OTHER THING’S WHATSIT into a pretzel and put it into the phaser in place of the MALFUNCTIONING THING.

Great! From a story standpoint, did you need to know what any of those things were? I’m just going to replace them with made-up words that sound like parts of an effectively magic space weapon. Does it matter if I, the script writer, make up the words or if Bob, the Senior Technobabble Consultant we have on retainer, does it? Not really. It arguably does matter that we all keep a Technobabble Dictionary so it stays consistent—it’s Bob’s job to know that MALFUNCTIONING THING is plausibly the flogiston capacitor, because an episode last season had the chief engineer mention the celebrated Dr. Flogiston—but these are, at best, little world-building bits.

What “tech goes here” is manifestly not is the “what if…” you build stories on. Trek, from its beginning through TNG and up to its present day, clearly builds stories on “what if” centered around science fiction and fantasy conceits. We can argue about whether it does a good or consistent job with that, or whether the “what if” questions it asks are ones that you or I or Stross find particularly interesting. But I don’t think we can argue that it hasn’t put in the work.
> Bottom line great read for all of those tech worker making 6 figures and complaining about how crappy their life is.

Complaining is free for everyone - it’s when you shut up and take action that you can change
Not too long. The left used to care about freedom until they owned the academia, the entertainment and most of the major press, and then they decided the freedom is no longer required. It happened not so long ago. Then the woke movement rose where expressing thoughts diverging from the dogma is equated to violence, and this of course doesn't need any freedom.
I want to echo that our experience of raising chicken and kids was also positive and educational. I was stunned at how social chickens can be. One of my kids could dress them up in capes without complaint.
Do you mind sharing a link to some data that you feel illustrates this? Pretty interesting.
Problem? Is the communication not up to the author? And shouldn't people rather help out than just make demands on an open source project?
I know about not coming back to a website that doesn't let me read its content.
Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (2001)
Unstablecoin
I've been stuck in Egg Hell for years, and old cookbooks and Good Eats (which is so great and engaging on so many other topics).

And it was the Internet that just now added more votes for pre-boil and peel-ability.

Cool Internet, Cool.
> Ddg needs to offer something beyond what Google offers

If you're searching on google for medical terms it builds a profile on you, and you should be concerned that they could be selling that information to insurers, directly or indirectly.
What are the odds that FedNow will service the adult industry?
Get rid of page limits on papers or at least encourage researchers to leave links to further resources on their work. More than once, I have had to complete derivations shown in papers which had some missing steps. So, if access to full, well-explained derivations was widespread, researchers wouldn't have to spend as much time trying to understand other people's work. Sadly this is not seen as much of a problem as it truly is.
What is also baffling is the new state of the FreeBSD Handbook. I am a newcomer, so my voice probably doesn't matter much - I've been running FreeBSD since 9 as my primary desktop. The Handbook was a neat collection of formatted HTML pages. The contents section was where you'd expect it - at the top. Typography, code colors, vertical and horizontal indents were all well-thought - it was easy to find the stuff you need fast. The person(s) who made it were concentrated on delivering information.

The new Handbook is really bad. The contents in split HTMLs is on the left, but then there is another contents section on the right. There contents in single HTML is on the right (why?) Typography is a weak mix of serif and sans-serif and italics in illogical places. Interline spacing is bad - the feeling is that instead of a reference book we are now looking at a poorly designed advertisemsent brochure, but still structured as a book. Chapters, sections and subsections are poorly demarcated - you can't tell when things end and new things begin. Horizontal and vertical indents separating coherent blocks of text are all broken - you simply can't easily find the information you need.

Maybe I'm an old fart, and I like Beastie more than this soul-less flat demon, but I think the new person in charge of the Handbook is concentrated on "design" more than on the content. Sorry for the off-topic, fellas. Just needed to get it out.
Isn’t The Economist a UK publication?

Though I guess that isn’tEU anymore either
Careful with that wishlist. Design diagrams can quickly go out of sync with reality, and with no loop of responsibility to keep them up to date. In other words, brittle. Some artifacts are relatively timeless (like "Why we decided in 2018 to do X") but others are not.
I'd love to see a log of every ad sent to my ip address by how much it cost to place and how much it earned the site.
The more I read news about crypto the more I believe they delivered none of the promises (high transaction fees, slow, burning a lot of resources for nearly nothing) and bringing more problems
Is that really such a massive number of bug reports, for a project as large as FreeBSD? I'm not convinced.
The discord community seems acutely aware of this. When I first became acquainted with the system last year I made an effort to document my confusion when hitting roadblocks after reading the handbook to them, and most of them came down to usability issues with the implementation of the pages. The response was always the same "we know, and thanks for the report."
I believe folks are operating in this general type of space, not sure if any are doing phone interface though. I think Truebill offers some kind of Unsubscribe+ for certain compatible services.

I am aware of Trim, [1,2] which has an interesting proposition. You give it your comcast type login and it pretends to be you in a support chat window. Then it repeatedly attempts to secure a reduced rate. If it succeeds, you pay Trim a portion of the long term cost savings.

[1]: https://www.asktrim.com/blog/trim-a-money-saving-chatbot-rai...

[2]: https://www.asktrim.com/
I am generally in the camp of maximally explicit and consistent semantics for integer types. The old C-style types (short, int, etc) and related promotion rules was the source of numerous bugs in practice, particularly when porting code across architectures with different type models. While not convenient in C, in C++ there is almost unlimited ability to define new families of integer types that follow their own rules.

I don't follow the argument for using signed integers outside of contexts where a negative value is valid. In code bases that always use unsigned integers for values that cannot be negative (common in C++), the MAX value is treated as a sentinel. This extends the range of valid values versus signed types, which is sometimes useful, and there will never be undefined behavior (decrementing zero generates the sentinel, for example).

The infinite loop example often given for why to use signed integers doesn't happen in practice for "default unsigned" code bases because that is not idiomatic expression of that case -- and this case will come up even in code bases that are default signed. Writing loops like this is often a code smell.
No, it's extremely timely to discuss the wiseness of a pricing strategy that has recently been abandoned, and how it might have been successful with a change in paywall rather than its complete elimination.

If that's not timely, what do you suggest is?
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Preparing-to-Use-th...

The Guix project likes bootstrappility very much. They basically host a tiny assembly C-compiler (only for a subset of C) which can compile a C compiler written in C for the whole subset that can bootstrap the whole ecosystem.
I can remember the original HERO having more power then the machine I would have used to program it :-).

They were really expensive for the time though - $2k, IIRC ?
https://www.schmidtfutures.com/our-work/statement-on-science...

Schmidt's rebuttal.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of "there" there in terms of misconduct, relative to what I've seen elsewhere in the past 4 years. If anything, it's a bit of a new ethical question caused by the structure of a government office. Certainly something to look into but if we want to look at ethical issues of money in politics, there are a lot of easier places to start IMO.
I always ensure any IoT devices (light switches, primarily) I purchase are of the ESP32 variety. There's a solid open-source firmware ecosystem around these chips (ie: Tasmota).
Where are you coming up with this stuff?

Well-to-wheel, covering every single CO2 molecule involved in producing, transporting, burning and consuming ANY fossil fuel used for electricity production, electric cars are still more efficient and produce less emissions per mile. You could turn over the entire fleet of cars on US roads to electric today, and charging them would not pose a problem for the grid.

Batteries do not reach end of life in 5-8 years. Every EV battery on the US market comes with a minimum of an 8 year 100K mile warranty, and they do not get disposed of the day the warranty ends. They have 10-20 years of usable life in a car, then another 10+ years as stationary storage with reduced capacity. When an EV gets totaled out, the batteries never ever go to a landfill, even 10+ year old ones, as they have so much usable life in them they're still worth thousands of dollars.

For one point of reference, a 10 year old Nissan LEAF EV battery -- which were tiny compared to the batteries that come in new EVs today -- will still have more usable capacity in it than a brand new $11,000 Tesla Powerwall for whole-home battery backup and solar storage.
I wonder how a decentralized search engine would fight its inevitable SEO war, should it become successful.

I'd expect that all sites wanting to draw traffic would attempt to grab the reins of the search engine to point toward themselves, and the result would be search results ordered by rein-grabbing power.

Not that centralized search engines are immune to this; they're almost as vulnerable (seeing as sponsored search results exist) but the maintainer at least has to balance that with the utility of the search engine overall, to prevent the search engine from falling out of favour.

With a decentralized engine, parties that have deeply invested in manipulating the results will still want the engine to be popular too, but I'm not sure how you resolve the prisoners dilemma there as a whole.
I agree, but I'd like to get back to my original point which is that we should distinguish between human trafficking and normal immigration and outsourcing.
ublocking the ads is not always effective - downloading the video is always effective unless the creator stuffed their own ad into the video before uploading.

You can also watch it in a proper player that gives you more control over playback than what the JS from google gives you.

You can watch it anytime, anywhere, even when you are somewhere without an internet connection.

You can watch it on any device capable of playing the content, whether or not those devices can access youtube directly and/or can stream from youtube.

You can transcode it for playback on another device that is unable to play the original file.

You can watch as much as you like, pause, take breaks, jump backwards, forwards, go into slow-motion, do frame steps, all without google recording your every interaction with the video.
It depends quite a bit on location too. High COL cities you may as well halve the effective salary compared to generic Northeastern Suburb, even in a place like Princeton.
I've noticed this too. Combine the constant patching with auto-updates and my whole system starts to feel like it's made of sand, constantly shifting under my feet. It almost feels disrespectful. Like, I use my computers to work. The most important thing is that it work for me, reliably and predictably, not that it serve as a showcase for whatever the product manager du jour needs in their promotion packet. There's just a total failure to prioritize the needs of the user.

Needless to say I keep auto-updates off. What a world we've made where updating your software has become something to be avoided.
> They grow spurs in a few years and they will use them on you, and your kids.

I was lucky for a few years until my most recent rooster. He's been the only one that was aggressive with the family.

I used to go out armed with a trash can lid as a shield. He wouldn't attack that, but he'd look for weaknesses in my defense.

I've never actually caught a spur, but it sure doesn't look fun.
"With TLS verification captured by the extension it’s easy to confirm that any scraped data is authentic" hahaha yeah let me know what API you can use for that
...and truth forbid you call it what it is rather than throwing polish on the turd.
To those like me who are more interested in thinking clearly and use writing as a thinking tool may find this book more helpful https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Paper-V-Howard/dp/0688077587
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