skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Properties are bought up to be flipped, added to the short term rental market, and/or bought as secondary/tertiary homes.

I have several friends in the contracting/home services industry. The stories I hear about home flippers buying houses, asking for the cheapest paint/flooring/light fixture work possible, and then relisiting the homes with a 50% markup are wild. It seems a lot of people got into flipping homes around the start of the pandemic and lucked into one of the sharpest real estate market increases in a long time. They assume it's an easy way to make a lot of money with their interior design skills, but really they would have profited just as much or more if they just sat on the home from 2020 to late 2021 and sold it after the market went up.

I generally don't think outright bans work because the binary solutions become controversial and prone to political manipulation and stalling. Increasing taxes on these speculative transactions is the way to solve this, I think.

Simply eliminating the 1031 exchange that allows investors to defer tax liabilities on real estate investments would make a huge, immediate change in the velocity of speculation. The real estate lobby would go ballistic at the proposal, but I think it needs to be done ASAP. It doesn't make sense that real estate investors get such special tax treatment.
I think its like saying:

"2 times (but instead of mutiplying do the oposite thing that makes it smaller)"

Is where the "logic" comes from.

Hm, I bet this parses as well:

"An hour is .5 times more then a half hour."

Although not quite as well.
I mean, a lot of things in Casablanca are cliche because of Casablanca. The impact of it on the pop culture zeitgeist is massive.
Medication helps, but it doesn’t cure ADHD on the spot, you know.
>the tragedy of the commons is that so much of the information space is filled with stuff whose information value runs between low and negative.

There is a saying in economics: “bad money drives out good money.” The same is true of news, and in this case marketing
To me it's more the topics he's covering that are clickbaity, I personally can live with the titles but I feel like Veritasium intentionally find topics that have some controversy(or fabricates some if they don't) like the physics debate one, and the "misconception" about electricity one. Instead of focusing on teaching and explain practically how things work in our world he chooses examples that are very abstract and frankly not relevant to most viewers. I feel like it's the Mr. Beast model of doing youtube and one that I'm not a fan of. This combined with the issues other commenters have noted about getting things wrong which in itself if fine but when others have called him out on it he hasn't handled the feedback well. I only noticed this trend the past few years, but really turns me off.
This is revisionist/wrong.

Obama also pushed for more spending in NATO - and got commitments to do so as % of GDP. Growth was generally higher but spending was moving towards the % committed to.

What the last guy did was tried to piss out allies off and destroy NATO. Even then most in the US generally agreed w.r.t defense spending, just thought he was going about getting our allies to do it counter productively and not recognizing the fact that they were spending more (mostly from commitments made during Obama's 2 terms).

Folks who worked with trump claim he was planning on pulling the US out of NATO in his second term:

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obama-nato-pay-fair-s...
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/obama-warns...

https://www.businessinsider.com/bolton-putin-waiting-for-tru...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
I’m happy about the California state government overruling local governments in certain zoning disputes, although it’s still a subpar solution to letting the market work. But that’s politics.

On the other hand, that’s the same state government that is adding $25-30k to the cost of building even an ADU/in-law unit because now all new residential construction has to have solar panels!
It depends how you define things.

I find it more useful to talk about “security” than “class”.

Are you or do you feel secure in your ability to secure shelter? Water? Food? Transportation? Land? Education? Healthcare? Retirement income? Vacation? Disability income? Legal services? Ability to give friends and family money? Permits and political access/favors?

I doubt any household with $75k income in the US is securing their retirement, or even healthcare.
I don't think your car from 10 years ago has all this stuff, plus it's a Honda.

It's not my feeling. Just off the top of my head: See GM AFM lifter failure. See Kia/Hyundai engine failures. See direct injection carbon buildup on Lexus IS250. I could probably go on and on with some more research.

I didn't even mention the transmission.. Nissan CVT is one of the worst but the Subaru CVT isn't even proven to 200k.
Though it is through these unfortunate means, I am glad that the wider community is realizing just how much large companies can and do fingerprint and track their users. Maybe this will lead to widespread questioning of trusted American companies that sell and share users data like it's free real estate. Who knows?
I think the best idea I've heard would be to excessively tax capital gains for the LAND appreciation. We don't' want to discourage people who actually provide value by buying properties and making them nicer or creating more units.

A neighboring city of my suburb has large swathes of ranchy style homes on half an acre, those can easily be converted to triplexes or at least large family homes rather than tiny 3 bedrooms. We don't want to discourage investors from that sort of development.

However, we do want to discourage investors from 'flipping' homes and riding up appreciation, or even worse, investors buying houses that just sit empty.
+1 on exercise, this helps me when I get down. Not only because I spend time outside and clear my head and feel better after, but also because it helps me meet people. I'm not very social to begin with and even more so when I'm in a rut and I've met a lot of people hiking or running and ended up having a good conversation which helped me.
Well in the true sense of moving the car completely sideways. They even had it working in the 50s on production cars to some degree with the extra rear wheel.
As William Gibson put it "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed"
Ask HN: Why was Materialistic (HN client) removed from Play Store?
I can no longer find it in Play Store. Even the link provided in its official repo fails to load. There are no mentions of it being removed, so is it just me?
Small time (e.g. 1-2 extra properties) landlords would still exist.
Unfortunately enforcement mechanisms for rental law in NYC are virtually non-existent so AirBNB and like are still rampant.
> The default 15 years ago was open, now it is default closed.

Yes, but 15 years ago far fewer people did far less with computing devices of any kind than they do today. Imagine if, for example, I made this argument:

"In 1992, the default for using a personal computer was to both create and consume information, e.g. writing and reading email, writing and reading documents. Today the default is to just consume information, e.g. YouTube, TikTok, AppleTV."

That would be true, but not because of locking devices down. It would be true in because in the last thirty years, the industry had expanded the number of users and their use cases by orders of magnitude.

The people who sent and received emails are still sending and receiving emails. Same for the people writing and reading documents. But all those people are also now watching TV and YouTube and TikTok on computers instead of analogue televisions in their recreational time AROUND the documents and emails.

And there are many, many people who just want to consume content for every "maker" generating content of any type, whether it be programs, documents, videos, music, whatever.

How many people are involved in the construction and operation of the Webb telescope? How many people just want to see pictures of what it sees?

Makers are a small proportion of humanity, and even for makers, making is a small proportion of our use cases for tech.
Yeah 8/9/10 speed transmissions are another issue. So are CVTs
Because nobody spending 50% of their take home pay on rent will ever be able to retire.

This all basically boils down to defined benefit pension schemes being a thing of the past. My dad worked for the same company for 30 years, paid off his 3x gross income mortgage, and retired on a final salary inflation-linked pension.

I'm earning 3x as much as my dad ever did, still borrowing almost 5x my salary over 33 years for a worse/smaller home, and have no guarantees on my pension beyond what I sacrifice and what the stock market yields.
What if you followed your gut? Quit your job, stop working on your game, quit smoking cannabis and being lazy. If nothing in your lifestyle brings you joy, get a new lifestyle. There will be a period of initial listlessness, but it sounds like it can’t get much worse anyway!

I think everyone with a good life goes through this. You’ve got everything you’d need but there’s still some itch left to scratch. My advice would be to close this chapter of your life and start the long journey of finding out what really makes you tick.
Yep. As long as interest rates are held below the inflation rate, this outcome is inevitable.
Perhaps Hulu recognizes that some people just want to watch TV and not be bothered by campaign ads.

Also perhaps I'd be more sympathetic to the Democrats here if exactly this sort of deplatforming hadn't been part of their own playbook for years.
Every thread on JWST starts this flamewar.
And FWIW, every major company does have to support a thousand novice devs, every year, over and over, forever.

Honestly, this issue screams education problem. "Time is a mess" should be taught alongside buffer overflow attacks and networking theory (in fact, networking theory is a great place to teach "time is a mess," because you can roll it in alongside ideas like "simultaneous action is a lie" and "clocks are always wrong anyway").
And here is the really shocking part, if the local government wanted to clean it up and fix the problem, it could but it just does not have the willpower to do do. This is not the Apocalypse, it just local government sucking at its job.
Which policies, if implemented, would aim for steady-state population levels?
Every tax is easy to game. Most people don't do it because the threat of enforcement is enough to get to 70-80%.
This is one of those weird things where in principle, a monopoly should be both interested in providing the best possible service (to keep their position indefinitely, even through technology shifts), and in a unique position to invest in research to make it so (under competition, it's harder to invest in research.)

In practise, that's not what happens.
There isn't a regular drumbeat of secession from the state's own politicians and political groupies in those other places, and in California when it is discussed it's a worst-case scenario to protect ourselves, not an isolationist fever dream. There was a Russian-sponsored "CalExit" thing a few years ago, but that wasn't organic. It's in the water in Texas.

edit: spelling
That option is available to the elderly or disabled: https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/bud-kennedy/article262...

"If you’re age 65 or older or fit one of several other categories, you don’t ever have to pay the property tax on your homestead right now at all. Get a tax bill? Forget it. If you file an affidavit, your tax bill is magically delayed. Nobody collects until you move on."
TLDR: Stack overflow and similar question-and-answer sites.

Maybe adjust your expectations? IMO, a tutorial, because of its handholding nature, targets beginners. If you consider yourself an intermediate, you don't need tutorials. Your options are a combination of struggling though material for experts, re-reviewing material for beginners, and asking questions.

Stack Overflow's question-and-answer format often means that the highest-ranked answer is a tutorial that targets intermediates. The answers are terse enough that they assume you have general knowledge of the subject, but also assume you aren't an expert.

One more thing to realize: In software engineering, you're always a beginner. You're always working with some kind of new something, either developing something new, or working in a new stack, or working with a new API, ect. Get used to being a beginner, intermediate, and expert all at the same time.
To elaborate the risk vs benefits[2], circumcision can reduce the risk of UTI in males by 10x. Not 10%, but 10x[1]. It also significantly reduces the risk of STI's particularly HIV. And as you said, there are no lasting negative side-effects (though a very small risk of complications).

[1]https://health.choc.org/circumcision-and-urinary-tract-infec...
[2]https://www.center4research.org/circumcision-health-benefits...
Land value taxes make it much more expensive to have lots of land with relatively small amounts of building improvements (e.g. a single family home on an acre lot).

They lead to increases in density (i.e. more housing) because there is stronger incentive to build more living units on smaller pieces of land.
So we need any american to relicense any CC0 work as 0BSD and then it should be all good.
Google The Hustlers University.
> You will face discrimination even if you speak fairly fluent level.

Are you speaking from personal experience? Just curious because I am aware of this reputation but haven’t experienced it directly myself.
1. The first thing that has really helped me out at work is sometime in the morning I message my boss something I am going to work on today, and at the end of the day send an update of how it went. That little bit of accountability gives me the motivation to do things where normally I'd think "I'll do it tomorrow", instead I end up doing something(s) every day.

2. If I'm having trouble getting myself to start on something: One thing I actually do when I need to make myself do something is in writing, break down the task into the first step, break that down into the first substep or prerequisite if needed, etc. until it's something I can do now, and writing things down as I work on them (sort of in an outline fashion). After a while I forget to update the list because I am finally deeply involved in working on the thing. But at the beginning the steps could be as small as "turn on computer."

3. I don't actually do this but it's probably a good idea. Pleasure prediction sheet. Take one of your thoughts (your post is a good source of thoughts you're currently thinking), like "I can't get excited about the tedious parts of my work, and I can't even get excited about _automating and eliminating_ the tedious parts of my work."

Make 3 columns. Put some things you would do, either tedious or working on the automation. Second column, put a percentage from 0-100% of predicting satisfaction for doing it. Try doing them, then put actual satisfaction from 0-100%. Some that you think might be high could be low, and some that you think will be low could actually be high. It helps test your original thought. It could be for other things, like working on your game, playing the game that's coming out. There is also a version with another column for who you're doing the activity with (if any). https://feelinggood.libsyn.com/074-five-simple-ways-to-boost...
Yeah, it’s a cute optimisation, and might make sense in a game engine; I just question whether this would ever be worthwhile writing as custom code in a single game.

I’m not sure I agree it’s more readable. The optimised version is reasonably regular, but it’s still longer and has more constants, hence more opportunities for sign errors and the like.

It feels sort of like jumping through hoops to avoid a matrix inversion, say. Sure, matrix inversion is “slow”, but unless you’re doing it millions of times a frame it doesn’t remotely matter. If matrix inversion or atan2 is the most direct way to express a transformation, just do it that way.
Since I have enough light these days, I'll probably attack this problem from the other end.

There's a thing called a Light Shelf, in which instead of mounting top-to-bottom blinds on a window, you install a shelf a distance below the top of the window, and a blind below it. The shelf is sized and placed so that no direct light gets into the room. Instead the light passing through the window is incident on the top of the shelf, and bounces onto the ceiling. This not only creates more hours of indirect sunlight (nobody ever prioritizes cycling the blinds to optimize for daylight), it also moves more of that light into the center of the room.

I have one window that's a tough size and location for blinds, and the time of day when the light hits me in the face is pretty close to the time when a light shelf would work.
Not a dupe, per se. Derek Lowe's summaries of current events are themselves valuable and aren't just "hey look, [this thing]!".
That was the entire point of the Borkist/Chicago school movement. The capitalists knew they'd never be able to repeal those laws legislatively, so instead they changed its enforcement by winning the minds and wallets of the judiciary. Now they can consolidate as much as they want to, no judge will stop them and most lawyers won't even try.
A few of these (I am Cuba, The Cranes are Flying) have only recently been restored and publicized so maybe they weren't available as well back when you ran the club. :)

I work in the Google NYC office, and there's even a fairly large new screening area (floor 6). But I think office-based clubs and such are practically dead because of remote work. Maybe they'll come back.
The "resurrection scene" from "Das Boot" does that for me: In the scene, a German submarine, against better knowledge, follows orders to pass from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and gets - to absolutely no-one's surprise - plastered with British water bombs. After pushing the machine far beyond its construction limits, they lay 'dead' on the bottom of the sea until their attackers call the search off, then manage to survive. The suspension, the fear of imminent death, and the resurrection-style resurfacing is intense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANbZsnjx9Q
Data Parallel C++ [pdf]
It already is a massive wealth transfer to them. The question is what's the political will to put a stop to increasing it further before it collapses society.

It's basically "inflation that affects you less the more property you own" and people seem aware that inflation can collapse societies if not tamed.

A counter-balancing wealth transfer like a UBI or some kind of pension scheme for people not yet retired that ties into the tax raised from land would work. But we'll bumble into it step by step as usual, no point rushing to create a better world when we can keep making it worse for a few decades.
Any solution that begins with "All we need is X people to ..." is an almost guaranteed failure.

> We were able to build a massive countrywide network of roads and highways and train tracks a 100 years ago.

Building the first road/train track connecting A to B pays for itself (probably many-fold) in increased revenue from taxes you can collect because such a connection significantly increases the economy.[1] It's not clear that more housing will have that impact.

And for all the people complaining about zoning and NIMBYISM: That's a very local phenomenon in a few cities. Where I live we have neither of these problems, and housing is still a major issue. I'd wager that's true in most US cities that have housing problems. Preaching about zoning and NIMBYism is merely showing a disconnect with the rest of the country and is a red herring.

Solve the incentive problem - at current building prices builders cannot afford to make housing for lower income folks. Either make the cost to build cheaper or, as the parent says, get the government to subsidize building it so they can make a profit.

[1] Fixing up existing roads doesn't, which is why if budget isn't properly allocated for maintenance, you'll get poor infrastructure.
IIRC, NYC and Jersey City already made Airbnbs illegal unless if it's owner-occupied. Outside of ultra-luxury apartments like 432 Park Ave, there isn't really that much vacancy in NYC. Disincentivizing investing is a good way to make homes cheaper to buy, but it won't make renting any cheaper in places with already high demand.

We can discourage investments simply with more equitable property taxes. Currently, more expensive apartments are taxed at a much lower rate than cheaper ones.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-new-york-property-ta...
Situation: there's a problem, and our current way of coping is something we've done 27 times so far.

Reaction: let's stop using the system we have some practice at doing, and instead open up the question again, but really just have big tech corporations dictate to the world that we need to do something else.
Saying "I watch porn for the athleticism" feels creepy and wrong to me, but then again I don't understand the fervor for professional sports so maybe I'm just not tuned into the zeitgeist.

I would much rather get turned on and get my little dopamine rush from watching two people enjoy having intense and romantic sex with each other than by watching some sexual gymnast pull off a zero-g inverse mating press with hammerlocked arms while covered in enough lube and sweat to fill a 55 gallon drum.
It is upper middle class if everyone else around you is poorer than that no?
Summary for those who can't readily read a docx?
True, even though a current "light client" can run on Raspberry Pi, really there should be even lighter clients for validating on-chain state. See [1] which is an area of development.

[1] https://nimbus.team/docs/fluffy.html
About 30% of people itemize their taxes, most of which are high income, the very same people buying all of the housing.
This comment is bad regardless of what "you own a company" means.

If "own" means "control of a company", this is trivially proven false by comparing the price GOOG (without voting power) vs GOOGL (with voting power). The one with voting power actually trades lower than the one without voting power (probably due to better liquidity), which is not what we'd expect if control was "One big reason shares have value".

If "own" means "claim on future profits of the company", then it's also wrong because you don't need "enough" shares to have a claim on future profits. More is certainly better, but there isn't some arbitrary amount you have to reach to have "enough".
Hard to say how it would all shake out. I believe one of the benefits of a land value tax is that it incentivizes maximizing utility:space and denser living as a result. Put a skyscraper in the place of a McMansion and you've got a whole lot of people sharing that land tax burden. So, fundamentally it should result in more wild spaces.

Of course, it would be a change from the existing setup, resulting in a different layout, so some ecosystems might be damaged and "replaced" by worse ones.

One would hope that, if a big change like this were to occur, it would be paired with some support to protect existing habitats.
Show me some useful source which says that there have been investments missed 5 years ago and which is why that lead to the current problem. French is ok too.