skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which Annaberg do you mean? And: How could it go upstream, from the source of contamination? I’d expect levels to go, downstream to upstream, like this (each digit one sample, 9 being the highest): 4567893210. Source of contamination being between 9 and 3.
Right, but unless somebody states that is the type of tax they are looking for, it is not appropriate to presume that is what they mean without further information. It seems pretty clear that a primary residence, one secondary home that is used for family vacations at least some of the time, one building/ piece of land that is actively used for a personally operated business, and all other real estate are each distinct categories that should receive different incentives and disincentives from the state - unless you are against governance, but that is another conversation altogether.

I personally think that primary residences should have a 100% homestead exemption, because I don't think you should have to rent your home from the State. And to make up that percentage of income, other real estate should be taxed a little higher. At the same time, there should be intelligent programs in place to make it easier to reach the point where you can own that first home. This last point would undoubtedly work best if there were either financial and/or statutory restrictions on ownership of residential real estate for investment purposes. So, in principle, it makes perfect sense as part of a larger goal of promoting home ownership. The conversation of how to best do this is of course more complex and there are many factors that need to be balanced - more than anything because high taxes raise rents, which would point towards regulation as an important part of the best way of dealing with this.
The 'S' in iot stands for security.
>a basic human right

You do not have a basic human right to the labor of the people who build and maintain these houses.

This is where this entire discussion collapses for me. Yes, I agree there needs to be more access to housing. And it’s frustrating to me that our government is too inept to simply provide it. For instance: we have committed to about 45 Billion to Ukraine.

At a cost of $100k/unit (achievable at scale), that’s around 450,000 single family homes.

The “inflation reduction” act, at about $600 Billion, represents about 6 MILLION single family homes.

The “build back better” money, which appears to do approximately no building back of anything whatsoever would build about 40 MILLION single family homes all in.

This entire discussion is absurd to me. You’ve got politicians burning money, some people talking about housing as if they have a “right” to a house (that is: a right to force people like me to build them a house at gunpoint), and still surging homelessness.

Nobody seems to actually want to have a real discussion about any of this. When our elections come up, the “housing is a human right” group votes against any policies which would lead to people actually owning a home, and for the politicians looting the treasury. It’s all just absurd.
Honest question: what is worrying to you? Is it the idea that infectious disease being used as the pretext to create an environment of fear and compliance, such some unwanted social transformation which is actually predicated on ulterior motives can proceed over objections? Is it the idea that people overestimate the degree of control people can actually exert over these diseases, leading to hubristic reactions? Do you object to being alarmed about infectious disease as such?
It's unstoppable. The big difference between today and hundreds of years ago is that it's not enough to have a roof over one's head. Few people farm the land to make a living. One must live close to employment, family, friends, community; ideally in a neighborhood with low crime, close to commerce, and with access to quality affordable education for one's children. Not every neighborhood or property is equally appealing (or revolting) to all, but neither is the appeal of a specific neighborhood or property broadly debatable.

To bemoan the securitization (not commoditization, for not all real estate is equally fungible) of real estate is, ultimately, to bemoan that certain properties are closer to employment, closer to community, closer to commerce. But this is inevitable.

To seek otherwise would be to try to persuade businesses (through tax incentives etc.) to relocate to less-desirable areas, so that people will follow and invest with human capital. This has been tried, many times, in many countries, for reasons ranging from the economically to politically ideological. It has failed. Again and again.
Maybe we should all take turns cleaning the toilets. Like jury duty.
"our" neighborhood implies that you own it - so if you owned something, and sold it, how can you complain that someone (or gasp, a corporation) is buying when you're selling?
If you want to skip the creation tool from Microsoft's official download website, just change your browsers User agent to Android and it will prompt you to download the ISO directly.
People are quite sure the government is involved in some way, either by this being done by a government-owned companies that were stuffed with their own as soon as the current party got in power, or some of them allowed it to happen and they will be protected at all cost.

They provide a perfect level of incompetence, and bigotry. If they win the next election the country is done for.
No. I am against any "Government is your big brother" kind of thing, real estate is just like any other goods, like an internet or water or electricity, nobody feels uneasy when these were commoditized, so why would anyone feel same about real estate?
> There are problems in the housing market, but they are not to be found by worrying about people acting speculatively. People are responding to the real problem, whatever it is

We should do both. Build more housing and crack down on speculators.
In case the GP is unaware of the magnitude of the problem, this article says that already in April exactly half (28) of French nuclear plants were offline for maintenance. Likely the situation hasn't improved with the summer heat wave, since the plants all need water cooling.

https://news.sky.com/story/nearly-half-of-frances-nuclear-re...
It’s not really socialist at all. It’s in the governments best interest to have owners of properties. This leads to improvements making the capitalization of the country larger. It also develops more property tax capability.

A governments 2 main assets are its people and its land. Ensuring that people have ownership of the land ensures the people will continue to support the government as there’s mutual interest. So subsidizing loans via guarantees isn’t socializing so much as the government investing in itself and protecting its assets.
I used to agree, but things like Jakt have an even better version:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt

Notable differences:

1. param:value is used, but convention is param:value not the gratuitous Engrish verbingParamProposition:value ObjC inherited from Smalltalk.

2. param: is optional if the variable holding value in the calling function is named "param" at compile time. This pushes you to name your params "param" everywhere that makes sense.

Jakt's popularity is limited, obviously, but it's a compile-to-C++ language, so you could use it many places.
Yes, but the spirit of what was meant is that smaller groups could only be the owners. Perhaps a different kind of "corporation" is needed. Maybe one with limits, reporting transparency and other benefits wrt maintaining and improving the property.
I have just started a business recycling peoples' cast iron. Please ship me your offcasts, and I'll sure that they are re-seasoned and re-released into the wild.

Jokes aside, you can buy some flax oil, wipe it on thin, and let the pan sit a few months and the oils will polymerize on their own in a few months. Or, you can buy a naturally pre-polymerized boiled linseed oil (flax oil that has been heated--just make sure you get one without chemical dryers like Tried & True brand) and it'll polymerize on its own in a few days. Likely it'll still smoke a little bit when you cook.

But you could also get a cheap hotplate and take it outside if you're really worried about the smoke. You don't need to use the oven method, just use a very, very thin coating of oil, bring it up to temp slowly and hold it there. Cast iron is a decent heat conductor, so you can get good coverage.

People get way too obsessive about seasoning cast iron, like it's magic to get a good seasoning and a horror if the seasoning gets stripped away. It's not. Badly damaged seasoning is like 10 minutes inconvenience.
Yes. The commons morally shouldn't be owned by anyone. They can own the building on top of the commons, because they built it, but not the commons (land) itself, which they had no role in creating. If we want to invent the concept of land ownership, then people should pay rent to society for the privilege of monopolizing a slice of the commons (and the privilege of soaking up a larger proportion of the benefit of public investment in the armed forces, police and public infrastructure such as roads).
Are you sure the logging out when switching issue isn’t a setting by your organization?
> For instance in Britain solar in winter has 1/10th of the output in summer, and we can have lulls in wind output for many days at a time.

Wind has higher output during winter
Company ~50 people uses Hangout/meeting/ or however google calls it now. All good. They’ve improved massively, you should give another try
Transactional NTFS:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/about-...
My mistake. He has some JS skills, logically. I have not included it in the description.
Rent seeking has never been considered ethical.
Sorry but I cant sign this. Stainless steel with and without enforced bottom is the way to go.

I have also cast iron and I polished and seasoned the living shit out of it and it still sticks omelette.
For delicate things like eggs I use an non stick pan from tefal for 10€ that I buy new every 2 years….. why not? It works way better than stainless and way way way better than cast iron.

The only advantage of cast iron is heat retention but this is solved with reinforced stainless steel.

Btw copper is for sauces and marmelade … got them too….

Here some other downsides of cast iron…

You have to maintain it realy well with regular seasoning and cleaning. You cant clean it with a ironsponge. Acid stuff will atack it. And du you realy want whatever this seasoning is in your food? That stuff has to be polychained burned oil. And Iron is one of the most agresive free radicals that you can pump in your bloodstream ;)

Ps: I am french so I am a complette ashole if its about cooking
In my country (Brazil), it is traditional to cook in cast iron. There are pans, pots, skillets… everything you can think of. It’s also cheaper than steel, ceramic, etc. Funny to see people elsewhere “rediscovering” these products.

The one I have is like this (around $ 20 USD):

https://www.apaneladeferro.com.br/frigideira-de-ferro-fundid...

I cook everything on it: steak, fish, eggs, sautéed tomatoes, etc.

> They are easy to clean ( with one of these)

I never have to clean it with anything, just wash ;)

If you have to scrape, either you burned the food or it wasn’t seasoned. You don’t need to do anything special to season, just cook everything on it and don’t scrape clean.
Jitsi Meet. They can just paste a url into their browser and that's it.

https://meet.jit.si/
If someone can spoof an ISO url, they can also spoof the page/file that contains the ISO hash.
I like science as a concept I think it's a cool technique. I liked science courses I took, and I got very high grades, partly because I understood it's dark side, its secret double life as a whore, and knew when an experiment in class would just never produce the results the teacher could buy into for the grade I needed for the college admission results I wanted. The teachers were good, but usually didn't have the deep knowledge of physics to see when there were fucky things at work in the experiments.

Feynman talks about this in one of his books, he was going to Brazil to help them out with efforts to educate their students in science. So they had a test--I believe a standardized test, multiple choice, or there was a rubric with a right answer and a protocol for demerits for other answers--and it was about a cylinder filled with water rolling down a ramp and onto a table. The right answer was a wrong answer. Feynman told them, clearly you did not actually perform this experiment, the inertia of the water--some turbulence thing--makes it roll...from memory I think it was a seventh longer roughly. Feynman knew. I believe the Brazilians actually then carried out the experiment and saw it knew its master, Feynman was right theoretically. Hey first the teacher must learn, then the teacher can teach the student. So for teachers like that, who didn't have that Feynman scientific depth--but were honest and dedicated and helped us learn--for them you had to massage the numbers. And that massage always had to lead to a happy ending. Or no elite college admission.

So well I was a great student, perhaps the best mathematician in the grade, while also very into science very early on--loved it, loved studying insects, loved carrying out experiments, loved my chemistry kit, my electronics kits, loved soldering to the point I made a sculpture by soldering (wire and lead, the electric hound from Fahrenheit 451), plus I fixed all kinds of stuff around the house, and understood the material, so when it came to pulling numbers out of my ass, a strict necessity in that context, I pulled out some pretty good believable numbers consistent with theory but with maybe a little noise, not to the level of making up systematic error for credibility, but yeah a little noise fudging. And that's what's on the curriculum, get real, a friend actually performed tons of experiments verifying Newtonian physics, only he had to pull numbers every time, Newton did not check out experimentally, my friend had to massage the numbers heavily according to the theory. And they all had happy endings.

Like science is good but it depends on the honesty of scientists, the academic environment, and even then, needs to be taken with a little sodium chloride.
> To seek otherwise would be to try to persuade businesses (through tax incentives etc.) to relocate to less-desirable areas, so that people will follow and invest with human capital.

I saw this in rural Austria, Im not austrian but it seems to have worked well. Many large industrial factories seemingly in thr middle of no where.
1. How many people live in cold weather areas like rural Sweden?

2. How many live in warm weather areas like rural Bangladesh?
Ha :) Though cast iron pans are not a tool, that no one ever managed to succeed entirely.
I can highly recommend Georgia to visit, lovely place, friendly people, amazing food, amazing wine.
Fwiw, this would fail Android's Compatibility Test Suite:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/cts/+/3ece5ae7a51d...
I read somewhere that iron and steel expand at a microscopic level, when heated, such that you can fill these small holes up with oil and get a non stick cooking surface.

Whenever I’ve washed up an iron pan I always put it back on the heat with some oil. You can literally see the water bubbling out of the surface as the pan gets hot and the water boils off.
Overseas investment in something so unproductive as housing is deeply problematic, yes
And they pay more property tax.
We just tried this last night, wasn't a good experience
Reminds me once again how essential ublock origin has become to browsing the web. Most of the time you don't even think about it and take it for granted, but it's the most essential extension to any browser.
We have plenty of land.

When I moved to Manhattan, I was shocked to see how many apartment buildings that are only a couple floors tall and don't have elevators. I assumed every building in Midtown would be at least 50 floors and house thousands of people.

Counting the office space, which is completely unnecessary when people can work from home, even the densest neighborhood of America's most populated city has tons of room. I would bet that we can fit 20 times more people in Manhattan if we got rid of the height limitation laws and converted all the offices to apartments.

On the other hand, when we consider the average suburb there is a ridiculous surplus of land. We could fit the entire world population into Texas if we used it more efficiently.
The government created the programs that gave massive tax breaks to the boomers who bought homes.
>I definitely do. It's something that turns a basic necessity into a speculative asset, with a price distorted by the money poured into it

The 30 year mortgage is one of the greatest inventions in the history of mankind. Being able to swing hundreds of thousands of dollars of margin on a near-zero-down investment that requires nothing more than proof of income and has a manageable monthly payment is the single most powerful financial tool available to the vast majority of people.

That kind of leverage is only possible with the commodification and securitization of real estate. It’s not a perfect system, but it has led to intergenerational family wealth accumulation among the common population more than anything else before.
See my comment below to a similar concern. There are as many different kinds of landlords as there are people. The value the good ones bring are cared for, affordable places for people to live who prefer to not own a home. Repairing, maintaining, improving, insuring, all take a lot of costs and risks. The government does provide public land in which people can live for free. Why isn't that more popular?
My comment isn't related specifically to going green, but replacing infrastructure that works perfectly well just for jobs is basically the broken window fallacy in economics.

Repaving the highway every six months would "create" lots of jobs too.
Must be convergent evolution because these exist everywhere.
> This is why San Francisco's streetcars are a tourist attraction

San Francisco's Cable Cars are a tourist transaction. They do also move thousands of officeworkers to downtown daily, though.

But the streetcar system is much larger than the cable car system, and it is definitely not a tourist attraction.
I found an old cast iron pan at a second hand store that was antique (i.e. ground smooth). After cooking on the old one, I went out and bought some flap disks to stick on a drill and polish my modern lodge. It does work better. But not as good for eggs as carbon steel (which you also season, and has same durability advantages as cast iron)
Most developers would not accept those terms. That's a proposal for predictable project losses. It's far less risk to own the project and land, seek institutional and similarly deep pocketed financing, then to suffer the fickle stinginess of a multitude of strata members. The developers who accept those terms will be looking to cut corners.
It’s a classical conspiracy theory. There are truths interspersed with assumptions and fabrications sustained by a fantastical desire -in this case halcyon of dependable public transit everywhere which was razed by greedy bus manufacturing companies in cahoots with petrochemical companies.

When in reality it’s closer to the story of the ferries that ferried cars across the bay before the bridges were built. Or the story of railroads before the interstate system displaced nearly all interstate passenger rail.
I make ~4x my country's generous minimum wage and I'm struggling to find a decent flat I can afford - I'm not talking of something like a detached house, just a good flat in a non crappy urban area. I often wonder how people with an average job can stand the fact all they'll ever be able to own is a small flat in the middle of nowhere or in a run down area. The state of real estate is defeating.
I use their family plan and set up everyone (max 5 people) in mine with it and they love it. None of us knew what we were missing until we tried it
There really wasn't any other reason but marketing for buying out the Keybase team, was there?
Yes, easily. But I prefer carbon steel for this.
Not necessarily. There are various ways to conceal a listening service, for example through knocking protocol.
All new technology has come with a mountain of fear and uncertainty.

Trying to cripple or withhold it based on speculative worst case scenarios is an even worse outcome. At least let thing happen and see how the world adapts before assuming its “a near era unlike the past” where everything was controllable and fit neatly into a box, or whatever old lie they are telling themselves.

These are just pictures after all…
Not very unique to Japan. You can also see these techniques in other East Asian countries like China, Korea. Japanese guys are good at promoting their cultures anyway.
The actual cost of construction/materials of the house itself makes a negligible part of real estate speculation. A huge chunk of properties are bought with the expectation that they will not last more than a few decades.

We already face the scenario where people have to commute for over an hour each way to work in a city where they cannot afford to live. Let's not pretend that cost of constructing that shitty house a hundred years ago factors into the conversation. Should rich people be able to buy up land (and mineral rights underneath it) all over the country? What happens when there is none of it left?
I think a lot of people, especially lifetime renters, don’t understand that. Between property tax and maintenance/improvements, land ownership is a burden in many ways.
It's a natural first impulse, but it's wrong. What is the correct impulse is to be concerned about how lopsided most cities zoning is towards single family, as that is what is driving the market power that makes real estate profitable as a financial asset. If most of a city was zoned to allow up to multi residential highrises rather than most of a city being zoned for single family it would cut the appreciation ability of the scarce and valuable land zoned for higher density already and would allow more people to live closer to where they want to live (i.e. close to work/wherever they daily commute).

The market isn't failing to function because someone realized they could buy up current stock and make a large profit over time, people noticed they could make a large profit over time because city governments zoned everything wrong for the actual demand.
> Technology isn't what's stopping us from saving the planet, greedy corporations and corrupt politicians are.

and the anti-nuclear crowd that has been brainwashed for 50 years
Shooting the messenger has a bad record for making things better. Speculators don't drive markets, they just signal how the situation will develop as early as it is possible for predictions to be made.

Cracking down on speculators won't help people get roofs over their heads. Nor will calling them unethical. Speculators are the signal for whether there is going to be a housing problem in a few years time.

We should want a system that allows speculators and encourages them if there is going to be a housing problem so there is plenty of warning. Targeting speculators in particular is the old once-a-metric-becomes-the-target-it-becomes-a-bad-metric problem in a new guise.
Not really, property tax is based on the current value, which in theory includes all development.

"In theory" because in California there are strategies for doing renovations without triggering a reassessment.
"There is no time to get in the car; hurry up and push it!"