skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a sort of LVT in New Zealand: council rates are ~0.6% of the land+house value where I live in Christchurch.

* Major issue: LVT is related to valuation, but valuation depends on mortgage rates. House valuations are mostly driven by interest repayments, not scarcity. This was demonstrated in Christchurch because there were homes going for say 30% of “value”, even though housing was in short supply due to the 2010 earthquake. A property could not be insured so buyers could not get a mortgage, and without a mortgage properties were going very cheaply. I bought a uninsurable home for ~$200k that would have sold for about $600k if it was insurable. Insurance was unavailable because the floor was out of level by 60mm due to land movement - but the home was fine. I see friends buy a house based on how much they can afford to pay on the mortgage: the housing market value is not related to what houses are worth but mostly to what people can afford. Mostly a zero-sum game where buyers bid against each other for how much they can pay, and the bank wins.

* An LVT is expensive for retirees. An average home in Christchurch is $750000 which has rates (LVT) ~$5000, a single retiree gets about $21k. There is a rebate of up to $665 from the government for low earners (like retirees). Forcing people to move from their home is pretty shitty - I would like to be able to retire in fair comfort without being forced into a shitty retirement home.

* The NZ government introduced a bipartisan law to force allow infill housing without NIMBY constraints in all cities - overriding almost all city district rules. Housing density will go up, a lot. https://bonded.co.nz/news/what-do-the-new-medium-density-hou...

* Locals complain about farming land being wasted for residential subdivision. This is bollox. Land around Christchurch is low value for farming unless you can get irrigation - water is the resource limitation therefore land is not being wasted. I see similar nonsense reasoning supporting an LVT.

* After the 2010 Christchurch earthquake, about 8000 homes were permanently removed (redzoned[1]). Thousands of new sections were created on existing farmland (greenfield sections) but new housing requires infrastructure that takes many years to build[2]. There are between 100k and 200k homes in Christchurch (depending on when and how you count).

* Saying that LVT is only land value and not the house, is crappy misdirection. Land value is related to the value of the surrounding properties, which depends on the developed value of the surrounding properties. This really shows in Christchurch where a home in a good suburb pays far more rates (LVT) than a similar home in a bad suburb. Land gets revalued by the government, but the figures are kind of made-up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_red_zone

[2] https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/70270288/5000-greenfi...
Legally, a bedroom sleeps at most 2 people.
> Assuming a volume of 10000 particles above 0.3 microns:

That volume is not the same volume processed by all filters in the same amount of time.

In the first minute:

E12 filters 10000 particles @ 99.5% performance -> removes 9950, leaves 50
H13 filters 10000 particles @ 99.95% performance -> removes 9995, leaves 5
RLv1 filters 10 particles @ 99.995% performance -> removes 10, leaves 0
RLv2 filters 1000000 particles @ 99% performance -> removes 990000, leaves 10000

RLv1 only filters a tiny amount of air each minute, while RLv2 filters a lot of air each minute (I've improved the flow, but drastically botched the performance)

By your method, RLv2 is 2000x slower than H13, but in the same ammount of time filtered 99x more particles. RLv1 needs to run 99000 minutes to filter the same amount of particles RLv2 does in one minute.

The example is meant to show air flow totaly dominates performance, and it's not "a trick" to multiply by it.
I also want to point out that comparing the amount of particles "left" (50 vs 5 vs 0 vs 10000) is nonsense and absolutely no indication of performance in any way.
I'm not sure why you would trust them to have a good false positive ratio when the claim is thay their review is influence by their partnerships.
It's not a dirty secret, it is by design. Having mixed income properties is thought to significantly deter the sort of blight caused by "ghetto projects".
If the hiring manager cannot distinguish a smooth talker for a senior role position, maybe the hiring manager is the problem.

There is nothing a work sample can provide what a conversation cannot show for a senior role.
> if Apple allowed other browser engines on the App Store

You mean Gecko or Blink? WebKit is really not the problem. Web Developers' strict compliance to only make sure their site works on Windows may be part of it.
But the Web already is decentralised.

I just launched a web server on my computer (python -m SimpleHTTPServer) which anyone in the world can connect to. If I wanted to I could build an unmoderated Twitter or Reddit and foster a community maybe one day being the biggest in the world.

And if my current government decided to regulate me then I could move to a country that didn't.

Web3 seems to be much more about decentralised payments. Which is not really a problem many people are demanding a highly complex solution for.
Or the community votes to seize your account.
Strong images here. You probably need those to justify all the stuff that is going on in cryptoland?!

Why not elaborate on what the walls, fences and guard towers are for us non-paranoid people?
p8g 0.3.0 – 2D graphics library for C and Java
“The USSR is a free market, you can just move to America if you want to buy something that isn’t for sale there”
My paranoid interpretation of this is that they have already been, or are expecting to be served with some kind of order compelling them to silently hand over billing information.

I will admit that I know absolutely nothing of the Swedish legal system.
To continue that very last sentence, you are doing yourself a disservice, or like a lot of startups I think people just legitamately don't know how to value stocks and I think there is definitely a predatory nature to that. Perhaps I'm reflecting on my own experience too much, but at my first startup I never asked the simple question "Assuming this company IPOs or gets bought and exits, what is the most this stock would reasonably be worth?". Investors and company leaders know what success looks like, and you multiple that company success by the percentage of stock you'd have when acquired and that's the actual payout you should expect if successful. Now go ahead and multiple by probability of success, and you have what you should expect. I was so proud of myself for negotiating for once, getting both a higher salary and higher amount of stock, but in the end, the company sold in a decent exit, and I pocketed a whopping extra $20K. A rounding error in salary given the risk and below-market salary. I definitely learned the hard way.
I actually subscribe to Which a UK consumer reports guide. And mostly it's kind of like subscribing to the Guardian newspaper - putting a few quid where my shrivelled liberal conscience used to sit.

Oddly there is a episode on this on BBC podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-bottom-line/id2643...

This podcast is not the best (it's often too lightweight and too frightened to dig deep, or the format is wrong or something). But anyway this week was particularly terrible - hardly any teeth at all. But in amoung at all the annoying self serving justifications of the guests, it did try to raise the fundamental problem - truth, trust, and a sea of opinions, mendacious or not. How do we deal with it all?
If it is difficult to use or poorly designed, then yes.
Perplexing for sure. I first read this in my fave newsletter Ancient Beat. James manages to break things down into easy-to-digest chunks that I so appreciate. Here's his summary, "Archaeologists have uncovered a huge number of frog and toad skeletons in a 14-meter ditch near an iron age roundhouse in the UK. According to Dr. Vicki Ewens, “To have over 8,000 bones coming from one ditch is extraordinary.” As to why they are there, no one knows. The bones have no cut or burn marks, so they probably weren’t eaten (though they could have been boiled). Many ancient civilizations saw the frog as a symbol for fertility, so it’s possible that it was ceremonial. Or the frogs could have simply been trapped by chance. It’s a mystery. Here's a link to James' substack for more of his curated archaeology news breakdowns https://ancientbeat.substack.com/p/-ancient-beat-16-mass-fro...
I was so worried they were winding down or something. I really love Mullvad and would hate to have to find a new VPN.

This decision makes me like them even more.
> Far East Sports Instructor Feriba Nimeti, who lives in Tehran, the capital city of Iran, founded a team called “Kabura Vahdet Team” from Afghans who are also interested in the art of defense [...] with students of different ages from various branches such as taekwondo, kung fu, gymnastics, and ninjutsu

I find the whole endavour (including the social aspect, and the intentional publicity) fascinating, and also quite interesting that this sum of many martial arts is fused into something said to be inspired by the idea of the ninja.
I built a CVSS2 calculator amongst other things; I came to the conclusion that they are trying to turn an art (how problematic an issue is) into a pure science and they keep realising they need ever more parameters. I’m glad they have tried but would rather trust a pen tester to help me rank issues within my organisation than attempt to use a one size fits all formula that doesn’t account for my specific situation perfectly.
I think all the good reviewers have moved to YT
I mean, file formats like VRM are a thing, which allows sharing avatars across many games.
let me get this right:

- modern web apps offload loads of computation to the client, bogging it down (AKA “bloat”).

- Mighty discovered that the actual bandwidth/processing needed by a client to render any page is significantly less than that forced onto the client today.

- Mighty sits in the middle of the connection to shift the processing burden off the client, and onto their own machines.

notice that (1) Mighty could sell this product either to the end-user or the web provider and (2) when the end-user buys this product they’re just subsidizing app developers and enabling them to continue to ignore bloat.

don’t do it… you’re just opting to play the role of sucker even more than you already do.
That's mostly the case. Anecdotal experience here has the cheap ones losing accuracy as the batteries drain, and of course when there's no notification of when your batteries are drained and not being able to actually turn them off, is a problem.

I could live with the cheapies if I had to, but buying a Mitutoyo or even that nicer Shars import brand (Aventor) is just such a huge quality of life upgrade. Except for Harbor Freight. I absolutely love Harbor Freight but I will never use another set of calipers from them. The accuracy loss as the batteries started to drain was just ridiculous.
> Every one of those items would need to be intentionally added by the game devs.

There are plenty of games that support user-created assets. There's like zillions of skins in CS:GO that don't need to be "manually created, textured, and animated" by Valve (by design). Your argument just betrays a complete non-understanding of modern game engines and how cosmetic items work/are created.
A five star preview.
This just gives fuel to the Christian street preachers who complain about pride being shoved in their faces and being unable to opt-out.

To oversimplify and quote Obiwan, you were supposed to bring balance to the force, not destroy it.

There are some people you're never going to win over, and pushing them into a position of persecution is sadly a naive political move.
Good luck buying a Mitutoyo from eBay that isn't a fake. I won't buy measuring tools from anything except a factory authorized retailer anymore.
This website is… plain wrong? The first company listed is Airtable, which offers google SSO on their free tier.
Ah, that’s the one I was confusing it with, thank you.
Some of the building codes are probably overkill, but part of the difference in California building costs compared to other states are energy efficiency requirements (like more expensive windows) that quickly pay for themselves in reduced costs to live in the unit and also reduce per capita energy usage. Unfortunately, neither the developer or landlord (if the unit is built for a rental) has incentive to build an energy efficient building as the tenant is going to eventually pay the energy costs. These requirements absolutely need government regulation because the "free market" leads to a non optimal outcome.
how many bedrooma should a famiy with 4 kids have?

What if a grandparent or two lives there?

More bedrooms meaning more people makes kitchen and bath more efficient.
Incident with GitHub Actions and Webhooks
Random thoughts:

At various points in the past, record labels were the ones taking the big risks and getting the big paybacks, just like any business, fronting the funds for expensive studio time and the people to run them.

And many bands took personal offence at this, and continue to do, despite being the beneficiaries of the whole sordid industry at the time. Now that the costs of production and distribution have dropped in certain areas - there’s still things that you need Abbey Road Studio One and 96 expert musicians for - artists expect a fairer deal.

But who decides what the value was of the label’s work in the first place? If they did all the promotion and legwork to get the artist into the limelight and keep them there, does or doesn’t that work deserve perpetual royalties?

I don’t know why streaming rights and licensing weren’t newly negotiated deals but I guess for artists like FourTet who arrived when they did, downloads and streaming were covered by a ‘digital’ clause.

Labels are full of people who love music and work their nuts off promoting musicians, building their web and social presences, getting them booked onto support slots, playlists, radio shows, festivals, cleaning up after them, and championing them, but labels are also cynical and heartless and will drop an act without compunction if sales don’t happen. I’ve hundreds of brilliant promo albums on my shelves from my days on student radio and nearly all those acts released nothing more.

Given the scale of competition and number of acts, I have no idea how anyone could be a sales success without a central organization coordinating things. I don’t know much about Taylor Swift but is she a huge success without the involvement of a label?
It's not a neutral tool. Jira makes micromanagement easy and trusting people hard; you can use it for good, but you're working against the grain of it the whole time. Everything is default deny (issues can only go through approved transitions, by default regular users can't change the available transitions), the default issue forms have way too many mandatory fields, and a bunch of reports that only micromanagers want or need are front and center in the UI.
>Shouldn't they be mostly Studio and 1-bedroom apartments

No. It's not an intuitive result, but it makes sense when you think about it. Bedrooms are cheap to build. Kitchens and bathrooms are expensive to build. Building 3 units with a total of 3 bedroom, 3 kitchens, and 3 bathrooms is a much less efficient setup than building a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom unit. If you incentivize people to have roomates or co-habitate with extended family by building bigger suites you can make housing cheaper overall.
I don't have any teeth filled with gold. It's not necessary unless you are Post Malone.
It is interesting (and cool) that this uses Typescript over Flow. It seems like Flow is still being developed too.

Just looking at the top level package.json [1], I wonder at which point you abstract all those copy/pasted targets into a script that takes an argument.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/package.json#L...
I think just "get more RAM" is a good blanket suggestion. A lot of cheap laptops come with 4 or 8 gigs of memory, which can pretty easily suffocate the average user's Chrome session. Even the 8 gig M1 Macbook Pro could get saturated pretty easily, swap enabled or not.
Why don't they just get rid of the process?

Hold a referendum to elect the constitution. Assuming it passes, you select a commission of people in charge of it. They get absolute power over anything relating to property - eminent domain, changing zoning laws, and giving building code exemptions.

It would only work if there's a democratic majority in favor of it, but if it did, what would be the issue? Then it would be very simple: just buy up some land, start building, and rezone anyone who complains as heavy industry and evict them.

I'm of course writing this in jest - hopefully they wouldn't have to be that draconian - but why hasn't anyone tried this? Is there not an electoral majority?
People keep repeating the refrain of Google/Facebook selling your data, but is there any evidence of a single case where this actually happened? They use your data, to let advertisers target specific subgroups of the population. The companies that you should be concerned about selling your data aren't the advertising companies, they're the financial companies that are literally selling your transaction data to those and other companies.
There are many, but this is an example in CA:

All new tenants and new occupancies hereafter constructed, which exceeds 3,600 square feet shall have an approved automatic fire sprinkler system installed throughout.
> I remember it being considered a problem for the seller if a potential customer does not like offered product.

That doesn't sound like making a informed tradeoff, that sounds like the adage of "The customer is always right", which is a very different approach to business.

I highly doubt any company making a statement by changing their app icon hasn't considered the impact and I'm sure is actively watching metrics like uninstall metrics. And I'm sure given they're making the change they found it an acceptable trade off.

So in short, I don't really understand what you're point was trying to make, unless you disagree with my premise that the companies made an informed decision to modify their app icon?
I never understood why people are so dogged on hiring - just get a senior consultant - pay 2-3x and save the equity.
it's faster and in the end the expenses level out (cost of hiring, 401, insurance etc.)

Make the contract with 1 months notice both ways and it's pretty much for all intent and purpose a hiree
I've worked in Bioinformatics companies for over 20 years, so a big chunk of my programming career was working with Perl, and I've loved, used and advocated for Mojolicious since I first ran across it. It taught me about API design and testing, contributing to open source, and participating in a generous tech community. It also taught me about not being dissuaded from making the right technical decision by popular opinion or ego (for example, breaking with the consensus around PSGI/Plack interoperability to build the entire framework around async IO).

As the world around me and I moved on from Perl, I've experienced a sense of mourning and loss. I love Mojolicious but I realize I'll probably never again write more than a one-liner in Perl (certainly not on the job; the majority of my current employer's codebase is actually in R). Furthermore, it's become clear that modern web development belongs inescapably to Javascript (and maybe Typescript); In this light, the release of mojo.js feels like an act of love and consolation, a wonderful gift to myself and all other bereft Polyglot Perl expatriates like me.

I offer my love and thanks to the mojo core team - long may you rock on!
I cannot disagree more profoundly with the author. Write in a very different way from which you read? From how texts are formatted in general?
Did you not read the entire article.. They say one of the largest drivers is trying to navigate the bureaucracy and red tape...

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A 2018 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that 14% of the price tag for California’s affordable housing projects was made up of consulting fees and other administrative costs — the highest in the country and more than developers spend on land.

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Inside VR you can have a phone with diamonds for no extra $.

Thinking about it, those diamond-lacking iPhones look quite shabby, already!
Real question is why a blue state is failing at that.
Opinions about Wirecutter notwithstanding, I thoroughly enjoyed this article. I basically believed every singe "myth" exposed here, and especially that a better grade of filter was really important when in fact if you recirculate the air constantly it's really not a big deal.

Also the fact air filters don't work like sieves is pretty mind blowing to me, I must confess.
I'm sure that's true but another point I was trying to make there was that IME even top tier companies exclude a significant proportion of good developers by having excessive hiring processes. The kind of applicant who could get hired by those companies doesn't have to put up with those processes and at least here in the UK the pay at even top tier companies with annoying hiring processes isn't so much better than everyone else that it's worth the sacrifice.
Except that ditch leads to a second prison that you built, but this one has no guards and no rules, and people are getting stabbed to death and a daily basis while a few unelected and unaccountable inmates are robbing everyone else.
For many people, it's a fine thing to learn mathematics by doing proofs. But that's not the only way.

At the college level you sometimes find a division between "Pure Mathematics" courses and "Applied Mathematics" courses. Doing proofs is the name of the game in pure math classes. In applied math, while proofs are used as needed, the emphasis is on gaining intuition about how math works when it relates to the physical world. I found that approach more satisfying and rewarding. Proofs are neither the only way nor necessarily the best way for everyone to "grasp the underlying principles."

There can be great beauty in proofs - I'm not knocking them - but their are other routes to advancing your mathematics knowledge that still avoid the trap of rote memorization.
Well, I want the previous editor back. In fact, just give me a text area. The current editor breaks the selection and, in turn, the clipboard manager, it doesn't work well with Compose and dead keys, and it sometimes ties itself into a knot, and the text can't be edited anymore.