skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The economist in the podcast was explicitly asked why doing things like "heavily tax all non-primary residence homes" wouldn't work. Do you have any argument as to why she was wrong?

The many changes that you are proposing, and the tax evasion that will occur, and the modifications to stop those evasions, and the changed behaviors to those modifications are where the complexity lies. A Land Value Tax isn't a complicated thing. In fact, in a single land tax + carbon tax world, many things would be drastically simpler.

The beautiful thing about a Land Value Tax is that it is incredibly hard to evade. You own the land, you pay the tax. You don't want to pay the tax? Sell the land.

> Tax the net proceeds of rental properties at 90% and slap a 100% capital gains tax on any property that is not owner-occupied.

This disincentives building, and would harm rent prices over the long run. The land value tax does not have this downside.
so shouldn't we have already noticed some of this?

Property tax isn't THAT different, and one component of it is a tax on land.

Are we seeing the LVT effects in locales with high property taxes?
ive found that how we see the world is a reflection of self.

i tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, i guess that is not universal.
What about base58 encoding their company name.
Outdoor Gear Lab is another good one for outdoor gear. Actual things reviewed by real people, though perhaps flawed in the same way as wire cutter. At least it’s real people putting the products through the paces in real use cases.

https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/
No one has a good answer to that. But it's not necessary to answer that to conclude that whatever task a human can perform can be replicated by a sufficiently complex algorithm.
> This is backwards. Such a tax will be a strong incentive to never ever sell since the seller would hand off all gains to the tax man. Who would want to sell?

Good point, thanks for the criticism. There are many ways to solve this problem.

> Instead, you'd want to actually incentivize selling if you're not living on the property. Make the capital gain tax very low, that makes selling it off the most attractive option.

No.

First, that incentivizes treating property as an appreciating asset.

Second, fuck low taxes on capital gains, period. The tax rate on any capital gain should not be lower than the highest rate on labor. Ever.
Thanks! I guess the last 20 years of writing code were not a waste after all. Heh. =)
Yeah it's kinda awesome to me too. I want to travel back in time and go to a lan party with 16 year old Linus.
> and have strict security requirements

The problem is that this browser isn't really suitable for that as far as I can tell.

I don't see really convincing strong guarantees about data security -- they're certainly making an attempt to say that your data is secure being routed through their servers, but can they prove that well enough that a reputable law firm or a hospital is going to be comfortable with it?

If they moved into something like self-hosting for firms, on-premise support, etc... I could definitely see a business use case for that.
It boggles the mind. Who made that call? What were their reasons?
Facebook does not sell users’ information. It uses their information to target ads, which it sells.

You might also be against the latter, fine! That’s a perfectly reasonable position to hold. But don’t muddy the waters by calling it something fundamentally different.
> I guess some people don’t believe this is a prison

> tear up the greenery we could have played on

Can hardly believe HN is earnestly arguing that walled gardens controlled by Google / Facebook / et al are a preferable future for the internet. There's some serious cognitive dissonance on this site when it comes to blockchain tech.
They "de-risk" the company by making sure employees have as little power as possible, as few protections as possible, are as open to exploitation as possible, are paid as little as possible, have as little job mobility as possible, and have as little claim to their independent intellectual property as they can legally enforce.

That's what "derisk" means: it means the company is protected from your interests.
> It isn't like San Diego is much cheaper.

It was a lot cheaper a few years ago at least, a 3-4BD SFR was less than 1BD condo in SB when I moved.
I work adjacent to affordable housing. TONS of tax credits and other funding (relatively) HOWEVER I wouldn't wish these projects on an enemy.

The funding is a million strings attached / crazy opinions. So you have to be EXPERT to apply and manage the intersection of all the credits and funding.

You are still subject to all the zoning / environmental red tape (even if it helps that there is affordable). If you are building luxary units easier to absorb this all, otherwise, again a nightmare.

The places with affordable housing money tend to be wickedly expense. If San Francisco took their affordable housing money, and built out at the ends of BART they could build some multiple number of units. To get 100 affordable units into San Francisco is very very expensive.

Outside of these crazy subsidizes, most other regulatory rules / delays etc argue against building "cheap" housing.

So we house and feed folks in high need in some of the absolutely most expensive places in the US and world. And some of the units (which prioritize families) are relative massive 3 bedroom places. If you go to chinatown in SF, the density is so so much higher (private market) though likely illegal in many cases.

If you spent the $1B/year even in California in one or two of the cheaper areas to live in you'd get so many multiples for it that it would blow your mind. Or if you were allowed to build chinatown levels of density.
> I love that everything is anonymous (down to the account credentials just being a randomly generated token).

How did you pay?
TFA has plenty. Don't let yourself get mired in fights on the orange site. Instead, spend the energy fixing bugs and you'll meet less criticism in the future.
> it's a huge pain for the new employer's payroll

They're the ones giving take-home assignments.
It does have, in my opinion, quite clear meaning as a term, otherwise it wouldn't exist as a term.

Obviously it means setting up & maintaining application-ecosystem infrastructure:

Servers/Containers/VMs, CICD, monitoring, logging, integration/production testing, permissions, and various automated jobs/workflows <-- that sort of stuff. So that developers can just focus on programming.
That's nice, but one thing that will be needed more is a wider field of view and the ability to look around by moving your eyes instead of your head.

All of these goals can be achieved with real holographic displays. We need the equivalent of a GPU optimised for computational holography, and a display with high enough resolution to render phase coherent interference patterns (rgb omg). No lenses will be required. This is the endgame for wearable displays.
> by increasing the cost of owning it by fiat

You're ignoring the reductions/eliminations of other taxes. For example, replacing property taxes with LVT is the usual "first step", and would reduce costs for most homeowners (whose land is typically less valuable than the house sitting on it). Same with sales tax, or income tax, or any other non-LVT tax; non-LVT taxes are less efficient than LVT, so replacing them with LVT would maximize tax revenue while reducing individual tax burdens for all but the largest landowners (namely: landlords, be they residential or commercial/industrial).

> taxation is a taking of assets from its owners

The private ownership of land is itself theft from the commons, and is itself the product of state power and authority. A tax on the value of that land is therefore compensation for that theft, and is more than fair.

Modern society has gone on long enough letting land owners have their cake and eat it too. If land owners expect society to respect their exclusive claims over land, then it's on them to compensate society accordingly.
I don't consider my ISP my privacy enemy when it comes to paying my mortgage, or filling out my taxes. I do consider my ISP my enemy when it comes to downloading Linux ISOs, because the IP addresses issued by my ISP can be tied back to a geo location and are known to be the "last leg" address that would be targeted for infringement purposes.
It is an either or situation. If you give people the option to use cars, they will use them to drive 20min to a Costco and big grocery store for all their needs. They will also politically support measures that make their lives easier, such as minimum parking and bigger roads which then lead to needing cars.

Severely restricting cars is the only way to have viable local businesses tailored to non-car shoppers and political support for advancing non-car infrastructure (i.e. sufficient density for sufficient people to live without cars and support businesses in walking/bicycling distance).

The second a road more than 4 small car lanes across gets constructed (or 40ft), you make walking too cumbersome and risky.
You should read the whole article, because TMO does differ from traditional swapping. Notably, swapping usually occurs during periods of extreme memory pressure, where as TMO will offload memory much sooner and more intelligently.
California is growing slower than the US as a whole and lost a House seat this decade as a result. California has had net domestic outmigration (people leaving) since 1990.
Abortion as a substitute for affordable housing? I propose this: we legalize euthanasia then use that as an excuse to strip you of all other entitlements. You don't deserve a home, that's just luxury because you could get yourself painlessly euthanized instead.
Great response to someone who answered your invitation for a specific example. But I'll die on this hill.

I can totally understand requiring them in multi-family or town-homes where there are shared walls - but not in single family homes. A residential fire suppression system for a ~2,500 Sqft home can cost anywhere from $10-25k to include on a new build in northern CA (I know from recent bids). That isn't a negligible cost and mandating them for smaller dwellings (in my county it's anything over 1,000 sqft) is a fine example of regulation that has "great" intentions but is making affordable housing un-afforable.
Blockchain solves the double spend problem here, without reliance on a central clearing house.
Santa Barbara is kind of an interesting informal case study.

It's hemmed in by steep hills and the Pacific ocean and a lot of the available area has already been developed.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4127513,-119.7096148,12z/dat...

On the other hand, despite great zoning in the core parts of Santa Barbara that outlaws the typical strip mall construction pattern, leaving a relatively dense-feeling downtown, it's extremely car centric. There's noticeable traffic both on the 101 and downtown, especially on weekends.

Spending time in Santa Barbara, you can't help but feel that a) there isn't a lot more room to spread out for more development, but b) there is definitely a lot more "room" for Santa Barbara to improve in terms of sustainably improving density. Santa Barbara makes a lot of concessions to cars, which is not going to scale at all if the population grows. If you take car dependence as a given, Santa Barbara probably cannot afford to grow much more.

On the other hand, Santa Barbara is famed for its nearly perfect weather year-round. Good weather and and its small size means that almost all trips within Santa Barbara proper can be made easily via E-bike, if only there were more bike lanes, but there are too many 2 lane roads with cars that move too quickly driven by drivers who are not used to sharing the road. But I suspect that Santa Barbara may be too dependent on famously car-centric Los Angeles to ever consider de-prioritizing cars..

It's all moot point, though, because I think most people who actually own homes in Santa Barbara are older and quite wealthy and do not really care too much about abstract things like "sustainable growth" and would quite prefer if Santa Barbara could just stay "the same" for the next 20 years until they die.
A E12 filter filters out 99.5% of particles above 0.3 microns.

An H13 filter filters out 99.95% of particles above 0.3 microns.

Assuming a volume of 10000 particles above 0.3 microns:

An E12 filter will leave 50 particles.

An H13 filter will leave 5 particles.

That's a 10x difference.
Can anyone tell me what 'Contra Wirecutter' means. It's like I've gone mad, everyone seems to know what this term means, both of these words mean nothing to me and I've spoken English my entire life. You're all acting like they're two words that make perfect sense. Haha. It would be really great is someone could explain the two words to me.
I agree. I would also add that to make it easier to understand: the mind is running on a substrate, the weather is not.
This is confusing. Is it that you agree with the comedian's logic or is it different from your own?
PSA: For those who don't fully understand the second paragraph above, be sure to google 'liquidation preference' before you're next evaluating an offer that includes equity or options in a private company.
Surely the entitlements are enforced via code on iOS, right? It cannot be on the honor system.
I think I share your interpretation, plus it is possible to scope something small that's (gasp!) interesting. The last one I did was use the company's product to create something and then demo it to the team. In addition to a gift card is was (almost) fun.

IMO a (very small) take-home assignment is the least-worst of a lot of generally bad options. A pairing exercise focused on teamwork and communication (vs hardcore coding) is the only other option I even consider these days.
Less than the term of the typical mortgage, i.e. these codes are only adopted when it lowers the cost of housing.

With your $500k up front costs, how many units are you spreading that over?
This is my biggest gripe.

I make an effort to write detailed comments about what I did, what I discovered etc. This is really helpful to reproduce the issues, and a few months down the line it helps to clarify exactly what happened.

JIRA text editor is FUCKED. Try adding bullet points after a code insertion. Does not work. I have to first create all the bullets, then step through them and write out whats on my mind. For more complex stuff, I just write in my code editor. How can you fuck up the most basic functionality?!
I googled it and there's this. I'm not sure if it's what OP is talking about or not. Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bTHSwBZVNI
>When your fashionable beliefs fall out of fashion, it will be your problem soon enough. Just don't cry about oppression then.

The righteousness of these individuals make them blind to the fact the pendulum swings back and forth.
As others have pointed out, a possibly less-than-exceptional comp plus a 4-hour assessment will ensure many people opt out of applying. Given that folks could get anywhere from $400 to $1200+ / day for contracting gigs, you’re asking them to give up $100-$300+ worth of time for the chance at a role that in all likelihood pays less than what they can land at many other places. That may not be a lot of money for some people, but if I were to part with it for little to no upside why not just buy way OTM calls/puts and see if they print later?

A lot of other pertinent comments re: time commitment trade-offs for people with families or even having to decide between burning some PTO for this
Warts on the rhino? That's an idiom I've never heard before!
I can put that website in a container and run it on AWS Fargate.

End to end about an hour. And it would be capable of supporting effectively infinite traffic.
Imagine being so wrapped up in the game that you seriously think it’s as simple as there being a “hate path” and you just happen to have chosen to be one of the good guys.

The fact is normal people are starting to resent being told who or what they should care about.

They are sick of being made to feel guilty for arbitrary and shifting moral reasons.

They have had enough of people gaslighting them and trying to convince them of things that are not black and white.

That is what happens when you mistakenly think you are “on the right side of history”. Of course you’re right, right? Because the alternative is “evil”. So you can justify judging other grownups and telling them what to do because ultimately it’s for the greater good and their feelings don’t matter, especially because they’re bad. And it doesn’t hurt that it feels good to feel justifiably superior to them. But it’s hard, and you’re “tired” but you’re going to keep fighting for [insert cause here] because that’s what feels good to you.

How is it possible that this information about what’s right which is so obvious to you is rejected by half of the population? Do you really think people are stupid? Or do they just value a few different things from you?
You can use IPFS without any blockchain, Filecoin just incentivizes users to host the files
The creditor doesn't put a lien on the debtor's house, repossess their goods, or take them to court?

Obviously this happens with mortgages, cars, and other extremely high value things. IRS debts, student loan debts...

But what about credit cards? Don't they have mechanisms other than tanking your credit report? And if not, why don't poor indebted people simply default all the time to remove debt?
Internal immigration reduces California’s population (more people leave than come in). It’s international immigration and births that drive’s the state’s population growth.
> Game companies are still using Perforce though.

Maybe the ratio of text to non-text assets?
There wouldn't be an endless series of unfunny comedians making "Comedy" specials called "Trigger Warning: How I'm Canceled by Snowflake Cucks" for Netflix if people weren't watching it.

Our primary problem isn't that there's a bandwagon of male comedians whose whole show is crying about snowflakes cancelling them or making exactly one joke about trans people. It's that there's a ready audience excited to watch them do it. If there wasn't Netflix wouldn't keep making the specials. I'm still going to call the comedians and Netflix immoral hacks for cashing in on it, though. And I hope the cancellations keep rolling in so Netflix can see us vote no with our wallets.
That's not what it means at all, please read more closely and get it together. You won't learn much by reacting this poorly to things you don't understand.

Remember when I said

A subset of regexes (that OP showed) from the total class of regexes that I mentioned in my comment are:

This clearly implies that a "subset" or "subsection" is not the same as a class. I well defined in multiple ways what I meant by class while you continue to bury your head in the sand.
I managed a major territory for one of the biggest digital music distributors in the world. Digital distribution is the bit that gets music into DSPs like Spotify and Apple Music, and processes the resulting revenues.

There are a significant number of very successful artists who do not have a label. We had lots.

Even artists signed to major label deals are often doing a JV with a major after achieving traction themselves - or are doing an “artist services” deal where the label does some things but not others.

Labels are great - but there are lots of artist making a success of things outside the traditional label model.

There are, of course, also lots of artists with amazing music who go nowhere because they can’t market themselves enough to get up the next rung of the ladder.
Totally agree with this argument, INCLUDING almost making the same Churchill quotation joke at the end.
It's more the zoning than the codes.

Though there are some that make apartments more expensive, like requiring two staircases. This also significantly reduces the pleasantness of the resulting apartments, and typically means that you can't open windows on both sides of the building and get cross flow.
Um, but their income won't be taxed, which will provide the capital to find all kinds of less-polluting ways to get groceries and vacation in Mexico.
There are many in CA that are ridiculous. Most are not related to safety, but likely due to lobbying from some industry.

Fire sprinklers are required in single family homes. The very small incremental safety benefit is far outweighed by the initial cost, maintenance cost, and potential failures (more plumbing to leak). If you really wanted to improve fire safety, make it cheaper to replace 1950s-era houses with new construction!

Solar panels are required for new homes, which ironically adds a small amount of fire risk (like all electrical devices). This is required in areas with cloudy conditions, or houses that are shaded by trees. The cost per watt is ridiculous compared to how cost-efficient utility scale solar has become. Not to mention the safety risk to solar workers on a second-story house.

Just in plumbing code, there are several ridiculous restrictions. Some jurisdictions allow air admittance valves, others do not at all. ABS pipe is illegal for commercial buildings, but just fine for residential. IPC allows 1.5" vents for toilets, but UPC requires 2".
> That might be true, but your reputation is at stake as well.

anecdotally, but i see this as well, especially for interviews, people will notice the quality!
I use Tor for that... it's a bit like a free VPN
Of course not, that seems equally absurd, I don't understand why you are ascribing that position to me.
Pegasus spyware and its impact on human rights
Epic can make more money by locking players into their walled garden. Nothing short of government regulation would convince them to spend more money implementing exponentially more items into their game while also taking a smaller cut of each item's purchase and resale.
I've never seen a recent mid budged tv take longer than 4 seconds to boot
4 hour technical assessment is a bit heavy after I've already invested 1.5 hours into the process.
Correct, I value doing the right thing over money. By transacting in something like that, even if for a moment, I would be accomplice to a major environmental destroyer.
I don't use Facebook.

But I do use a whole raft of various companies products and services.

Almost like the web as it is today is decentralised.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31815496

Over an hour with no update - meanwhile, anything that relies on webhooks appears to be hosed.
That's interesting. This change certainly came post-SVN. I don't recall that ever being used as an explanation, though. Still, quite a silly thing to do based on the presumption that a benign word hurt a hypothetical person's feelings
Scott Alexander of Slate-star-codex fame. Now at astralcodexten.substack.com

It is funny you that you have never heard of SSC. Most people I know have found Gwern through SSC.
I'd probably support a page similar to the one used to warn you about certificate problems. "This page is using a user-hostile interface that may cause you to interact with unintended elements. Do you want to proceed?" But, you know, worded better.