skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2% is not a reasonable amount when housing prices are regularly going up by 3x-5x that percentage.

There has never been a bubble crash that brought housing prices anywhere down to the Prop 13 valuations, so it's pretty strong evidence that it's not a bubble.

I think that we need to start charging a huge capital gains tax on local property transaction, assessed by the local government, not the federal government. Maybe 25%-50% of the capital gains. Or maybe 2% per year if ownership, with a max of X%.

Long time property holders have been exploiting the economy of California, taking in unearned profits, and taking that money out of poorer, more productive, people.
Yes, exactly! Copying, renaming, backups, hierarchy - it‘s all there already!
Once we are dead, our legacy is what is left of us. Since it all amounts to nothing, might as well try to make a dent in history. Maybe we'll be one of the ones people are still quoting two thousand years later without even realizing it ([... do]lorem ipsum dolor sit amet).
A flat file database? It is a single file. This means you need specialized tools to read it, and if you want to sync it a lot of cloud storage solutions will force you to resync every change. This is why a transparent file system db is great for integration into native storage. Databases don't really optimize for the file system layer. I am hopeful one-day we'll have an auto organizing flat file system that auto sorts and sections data in a predictable manner.
Lack of sun exposure is allegedly the reason Japanese kids get myopia, so they don't seem to get much sun exposure at all.
Were it my responsibility I wouldn't worry too much about using FreeBSD binary packages in production. The way ports are set up, typically you'd have to go out of your way to install a bleeding edge version of something. If you're relying on something (e.g. ruby, python) with a bunch of commonly used versions you can alias the default to your preferred version. This may make audit compliance more difficult but not by much (especially considering how laborious compliance is anyhow).

At this point my biggest qualms about FreeBSD in production aren't really around the ports themselves but more around how much stuff has become Linux only (e.g. dockerify everything).

At megacorp we had to use an old version of CentOS (ugh) and the whole "keep updating ancient versions of third party software" thing came with plenty of caveats and frustrations. Regardless of the operating system it's not an approach I'd recommend.

Edit: Fink is the OSX port of dpkg more or less.
The heavy income tax is not disappearing if Prop 13 is repealed. They'll just raise the property taxes and distribute that money for themselves.
"Protecting most people's savings" quickly becomes "90% of the population only has access to officially sanctioned apps and websites". Not good if you want a free society.

But since you haven't offered any details of the social engineering attack, I'm going to assume there's a freedom-respecting way to prevent it that you're ignorant of, just as you were ignorant of how random people may be prevented root access to non-manufacturer-controlled devices by something as common and trivial as default, buyer-changeable passwords.
But also being outdoors in CA is better than say MA.
>Why not wear it?

The argument that is mentioned in the article -- "increasing helmet wearing rates make cycling more dangerous per mile... because while helmets definitely help in the event of a crash, that risk compensation results in more collisions. So riders wearing helmets take greater risks, and those driving around them take greater risks too."
A SQL dump is incredibly portable.
The article isn't claiming that everything everywhere is always racism. It's claiming that there is the possibility of the recommendation being racist. Perhaps you should read the article to decide for yourself how fair that characterization is.
The three sets Wikipedia admins, HOA board members, and Karens have an intersection with a large cardinality.
Is it possible to convert this to Spotify or YouTube music?
This add-on is using solvespace for solving constraints.
It is still oddly too much and each time on head. Most bike falls don't end up hitting head either. You seem to be crashing more often then ordinary and the amount of times you hit the head is higher then ordinary.

And yes I use bike fairly often. I know multiple people who use bike fairly often. The only people actually hitting protective gear that often are the ones doing mountain biking. (Which seems to be genuinly dangerous even with the gear.)
Your tan isn’t doing anything. Radiation is still penetrating deep into your skin and damaging DNA, leading to potentially cancerous mutations.
I would really like to see smudge/clean like-filters for git which convert between git objects and work dir files in deal with structured data or binary files more efficiently. So that diffs are minimal and readable even with those formats.
Maybe I would as well. Who is Uncle Roger though?
What if they enjoy cars?
Yours is great but I love this one :)

https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/
Please go live somewhere else if you want fewer people around you, and stop preventing others from gathering to become more productive, happy, and more evinronmentally sustainable.

There's an entire country to experience if you don't want to experience the benefits of California, which come mostly from the people.
Hmm you sure about that? It literally just happened:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/intruder-shot-in-armed-...

Have you considered the possibility that your media sources intentionally withhold such news cases such that you’ve evidently been left with a confused view of the reality?
That is a lot of inflection points...
The other advantage of power density is that it creates stronger convection currents. Whereas data centers have traditionally been actively cooled, it’s not unreasonable to imagine open air dcs with air channels to support convection.
While I find the article questionable, though interesting ...

> They completely leave out that people who get sun exposure are typically doing something more active than sitting at a desk or watching TV.

Did the research (not the article) leave that out? Researchers aren't idiots and spent 10,000x as long thinking about the issue as we did about these HN posts.
I love the distinction between stronger and weaker road users.

With more power comes more responsibility, put into practice.
sqlite seems better here. text files need to be parsed and loaded. fsOpen has sifficient overhead to be noticable when you use it a lot. unless you're statically pregenerating the html, sqlite is a super fast format with good library support and will give you the fastest access to the disk and its still a flat file.
If you think of UV light exposure as a therapy of sorts, then it's fair to weigh its benefits and risks against alternative treatments.

If the supposed benefits of UV light exposure can be achieved through an alternative treatment that poses a lower risk of skin cancer, then why wouldn't that be the superior treatment?
Hell, they didn't even compare debt per capita[1]. Seeing numbers like that into an opinion piece is the easiest way to know you're almost certainly being deliberately lied to.

In fact the whole idea of California being somehow spending irresponsibly is simply false. State budgets are high because state revenues are high, and it's been beating US aggregate growth numbers for most of the last century. Maybe there's a good case to be made that the end of this period is approaching and that the gravy train is slowing down. But that's an argument about second derivative. California is and remains extremely wealthy and has a comparatively well-managed state budget. Period.

(I don't live there, btw.)

[1] Which per this link is almost dead-on average among US states at $3850: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/debt-by-sta...
Somafm digitalis has been my beat since 2008ish
I have an UniFi AP Nano flashed with OpenWRT which only acts as access point. Highly recommended, it's pretty cheap and has a solid range.
I prefer looking older when I'm old than have to have greasy coconut-smelling skin my entire life.
It can be a hurdle for people who aren't already familiar with the machines and their arcane rules. That quickly becomes a problem if the store doesn't have enough staff to dedicate an employee to the self-checkout area.

I've been seeing this more often in the past few months at understaffed low-cost retailers. When there's nobody around to override the machines, people get frustrated and move on to the next open machine without understanding what went wrong.

Five minutes later, the entire self-checkout area is offline, and the would-be customer sometimes feels sufficiently annoyed and neglected to walk off with their groceries.
> I can only assume people who don't treat code formatting as a rule read every.single.thing.line.by.line.every.time.

That's why I assume too. I don't understand how one can code like that.
I went down that rabbithole when I had to set up Graphql with federation. The reason it seems complicated is because they're attempting to fit bootstrap processes of different libraries into their own IoC style by writing tiny wrappers.

You end up with large blocks of config in ugly decorators but what they're doing is trying to supply that config to the underlying libs.

I consider Nestjs docs to be among the best written docs in the node community. Virtually everything you need is in there.
Which platform do you miss, which SQLite does not support?
Don't worry, somebody will find the evidence to support respiratory spread and then some governor will be "just listening to the data" by being safe and demanding more masks.
For example, the fastest growing economy in my lifetime last year.
Well, possibly... They seem to be well designed institutions (https://english.radio.cz/new-drunk-tank-opens-prague-8084119), although I've never had the pleasure of experiencing it. ;)
Recommending a product to a person who doesn’t need it does not become racist just because the reason they don’t need it is related to their race.
It's a beautiful channel, thank you.
Firefox Browser Hacked in 8 Seconds Using 2 Critical Security Flaws
It is common for people to take offence if they recognise you, but you don’t recognise them. It is not pleasant to unintentionally cause offence when you don’t recognise someone.

I suspect feeling offended has something to do with reacting to perceived social hierarchy signals.

Although I had someone take offence the other day because they had got fatter, and I didn’t recognise them, and they were over-sensitive about their body figure.
Brain.fm was a good deal when lifetime memebrships were available. It’s not worth the current monthly fee.
https://musicforprogramming.net/latest/

Is my go to. The web design is slick, all tracks are downloadable mp3s, and the tracks are great background noise
Zyxel firmware extraction and password analysis
Supernova: Electronic Arts Machine Learning to automate AAA games testing
I'll offer the counterpoint that it's only complicated if you want to make it so. If you only need e.g. monospace ASCII, that doesn't take much. Do you really need proportional fonts? Vertical layouts? Keming? In my experience, a lot of the time the answer is actually "no" --- and thus the simpler (and more efficient, less bug-prone) algorithm works just fine.
Parsing and displaying a floating point number, a la strtod() and printf(“%f”). I think that’s always the prime example of something that looks simple, but simply isn’t.
One issue is that they won’t add fillets and chamfers.
The fundamental problem is that there isn’t a good enough open source parametric kernel. FreeCAD uses OpenCascade which is the best available, but quite dated, FreeCAD is pushing it to its limits.
It was not staggeringly expensive. Google says 6-7k and I vaguely recall a trustee ponying up 15k so that the (private) school had a computer. Time sharing services were probably a manageable expense.

While not cheap it’s way less than “real” computers and tended to be open for the hackers not the staff.
What are you talking about dude? I’m just saying integrate with instagrams existing api to make your own personal viewer with the contents you want. Where are you getting thousands of hours, crowded marketplaces, and Hollywood from?

It'd take a 1,000 line html file and a couple serverless functions running on some free tier (CORS...), maximum.
I live in slovenia. And I still don't want the clintons in europe. Nor do I want the american army here, including american army bases. Maybe if you guys stopped destroying random countries all around the world (you're sending troops to somalia right now, while pointing the finger at putin), people would like you more.
Yeah, none of that may matter for a "brochure" type of website, or a blog where you are the only person updating it.

As soon as you start processing forms and doing anything transactional based on that, you'll be quickly reinventing a lot of wheels if you aren't using a DBMS of some sort.
There's been some movement to repeal those provisions, and let me tell you, the Nextdoor Karens are very very unhappy that their kids aren't going to be able to live in their childhood home because they won't be able to afford the taxes.
If they hike the rates too much then debt servicing would be costly. This is different from 1980, because back then US gov debt was about 30% of GDP and now it is 120% of GDP (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S#0)

What are the realistic values here? I have no clue, but a good analysis should cover this.
It's not really a fair comparison. There is only one CRC32 unit which means it can't make use of superscalar (at least if I understand the article correctly). If it would have more CRC32 units that would be the most efficient.
> If people sell then, they either are taxed or buy inflated property prices as replacement.

Oh, sweet summer child. In California, you can transfer your below-market rate to a new property. You can also create an LLC for each property so that it need never be sold (change of control of the LLC owning the property does not trigger reset of the tax rate). And your children can inherit your property tax rate, too.

> When prices crash, the gov't shouldn't depend on bubble prices for revenue.

Most rates are so far below the real value of a property that most people still saw (and complained about) the maximum 2% annual increase during massive housing crashes like 2008.
the link mentions that in great detail.

"exercise interest" in a democracy means voting, Arrow's theorem is about the impossibility of creating a voting system that satisfies both representativeness and fairness (in the title of this post is weirdly called "truth").

we are commenting a post on liquid democracy, which is simply a different way to vote.
There is only so much computation you can do per watt on current process nodes. To increase our computation per chip, which is the goal, we need to increase the amount of watts we consume per chip. The goal should be to make more powerful processors, not ones that do the same with less power.
Makes sense, I think I interpreted your original comment differently than intended as well.
are there enough of us that are not beneficiaries of Prop 13 to repeal Prop 13?

are there comprehensive stats of which properties are under that system and how many residents that applies to?

I don't care about the LLC part, its stupid for types of property (house, cars) to have separate transfer tariffs on them to begin with, so therefore it would be stupid for me to care that an LLC gets around them

I'm just wondering about the numbers of people, helps me determine if this is a useful area to spend energy at the moment
I literally bought a wedding gift for a family friend this morning on a site called prezola. Hopefully they are not related to this company.

For our wedding my fiancée wrote a basic frontend on netlify and let people reserve gifts with a checkbox using a basic API that stored the reserved status in JSON. We did it for free with no monetary transaction support. I wonder how much these sites cost.
It turns out comprehensive zoning laws are not universal. HOAs are typically a response to inadequate (or at least perceived inadequate) zoning regulation.

However the concept of nuisance has existed in the common law for centuries and insofar as someone’s behavior might be a nuisance it has always been actionable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuisance_in_English_law
How is it undemocratic? They agreed to the terms of the HOA when they bought the place... They move to some place and then are upset when people don't like them doing certain things? This is a weirdly entitled view.
You still have to say what of the many obvious things you are using here.

Point-free syntax has a different kind of namelessness, where if you have a single thing, you don't have no name it. And the $0 is really a limitation of the language, nobody ever though it was a good thing.
Ridiculously clickbait headline.

TLDR: it's more profitable for carriers to take empty containers back to China to refill with export goods, than to fill them with American cargo.

"Bowing to China.." implies some kind of Chinese government bullying is forcing carriers to do this. Hey, Yanks. It's your beloved capitalism and free market forces. You should be applauding, not complaining.
Sorry I wasn't clear. How is it optimizing for customers at the cost of drivers, which is what the post I was replying to said?
It's not a key component, in fact a lot of fuzzers do intelligent input culling and whatnot based on static analysis.
Ah, so Godbolt is some guy's last name? That's really cool.
I can only answer for email, but mail rules are you friends. I have many rules that label, categorize, archive, delete, and mark things as important. Almost all automated emails (receipts, reminders, alerts, etc) skip my inbox entirely, so I only have to actually think about things people send to me directly. Everything else gets my attention either in scheduled slots (eg before a stand up, or at 10am, in the case of things like Gitlab or JIRA emails) or just when I've got some time (newsletters).

I'm not an organized person so I get a computer to do it for me.
Depends how obvious it is .

Put a car repair sign up then yeah. Be more “quiet” about it and claim and you are fixing a friends car and it becomes less easy / an ordeal for the city or county to act. Unfortunately the car repair guy was not honest and that was an issue.

Party house was a bit of an ordeal.

HOAs tend to fill a lot of zoning gaps.
If your grandfather robbed a family and left them impoverished, yes, you are not responsible for the theft, but you continue to benefit from it, and you are the one who can choose to make amends, not your grandfather.

If a Swiss banker today is in charge of the gold extracted from the teeth of Jews, Romani, communists, homosexuals, etc. murdered in concentration camps, must he give it back to the descendants of the victims? He was neither a Nazi nor the banker the Nazis sent the gold to originally. He is not responsible for their actions, but he is now the steward of this stolen wealth. What is his responsibility at this point?

Money seems different from gold because it is fungible and abstract. Your standard of living may be based in part upon some historical theft, but which part and how much? There isn't a particular dollar bill or pound note you can point to as stolen. Gold melted down from fillings isn't like that. But this just speaks to the poverty of our imagination, not anything morally relevant.
I mean, lots of folks use a simpler model: “never attribute anything to racism because talking about race makes me uncomfortable”
> What are you talking about, if the system has zero politicians then it is literally impossible for any politicians to become corrupt.

then you simply corrupt someone else.

corruption is not the act of paying politicians. but those in positions of power that can influence decisions.

doesn't matter of they ate politicians or actors or soldiers.
Move everything that you've been putting off dealing with for more than a year to a "some day/maybe" folder. You are welcome to inspect that folder at your leisure, and tackle items on it. Though since I created that folder 15 years ago, I never have.
> I'd argue that software, and in particular operating-system software is perhaps one of the most predictable categories. It inherently ages due to gradual drift on hardware support and growing burdens of security risks and unmet compatibility needs. A 20-year-old operating system is probably only interesting for academic, historic/nostalgic, or special-case legacy support reasons.

Windows XP has only “aged” because Microsoft made a marketing decision to make it seem as though it has aged. Windows XP likely shares millions of lines of code with Windows 10. They only have the appearance of being a different product for marketing purposes. As a copy protected work, one is a direct derivative of the other. This type of life expectancy cannot be predicted.

Good policy is generically applied, fair, and sound. Saying “well operating systems should not have the same copy protections as other works for xyz reason” isn’t effective policy and would likely be found self-contradictory in court.

> I don't think you can draw conclusions from the behaviour of lawmakers, who are likely easily swayed by existing stakeholders who have a financial stake in expanded copyright.

Why not? What is the other side of the coin? The people arguing for decreased protection are doing it with no intention of starting businesses. They are ideologically motivated, not pragmatically. They simply want a world where they can do whatever they want with anyone’s IP because they think that’s how the world should work in the abstract, not because they intend to produce anything of sustainable value. Most of these detractors want to create one-off art pieces for the fun of it. That doesn’t bring food to the table or build a long term foundation upon which more advanced works be built.

The people arguing for more copyright protection do it with the intention of continuing to build more sustainable value. This results in more jobs and a larger economy.

> pieces of a shared zeitgeist that happens to be privately owned.

Chance has very little to do with it. We used Windows XP because Microsoft spent billions in marketing to distribute it and grow the PC market. It didn’t just happen by accident. Look at all the other fully functional hobby OSes that exist today. Look at ReactOS. Look at Linux. It’s not an accident that they don’t have the market share that Microsoft does. They don’t have an institution that is properly incentivized to market them to the masses. The most well known and used alternative OSes are Fedora and Ubuntu, can you guess why? It’s not random.
It's not that... if americans kept to themselves and dealt with their internal politics (like massive student debt, screwed up health system, etc.) noone from outside would care about the american presidents. If one of the options like to drop bombs all over the world, to "protect americas freedom" (or whatever the excuse is), then even the outside people start caring.
Many comments here say this article is bad. I thought so after reading perex saying sunscreen is racist. Can you even write article these days without calling something racist?
That is indeed a problem every once in a while. These people develop a framework and 3 languages. They do not built large systems.

But there are other groups at Microsoft which keep them on track with their real needs.