skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Renters are already paying for the land value, so if a renter can afford a property, so to can a homeowner. Under a Land Value Tax it is even easier to be a homeowner, as you no longer have a huge upfront cost of buying the land. As we saw in PA, current homeowners saw a tax decrease because so much vacant land went up for sale. A larger land tax would see even more positive effects. A larger land tax would also allow us to start reducing sales and income taxes, since that would end up simply increasing land values by more than they tax.

Since this incentivizes increasing the housing supply, zoning would quickly change from exclusionary to abundant. With those new homes being built, people would choose to move from their worn-down house into something new and better, and their current property would eventually have the same fate. It's not kicking people who love their homes out, it's letting people leave their homes for better ones.

You would still have apartments. You would still have AirBNB's. You would still have co-ops. You would still have houses.

Any tax money in excess of what is currently paid would be currently would simply be given back as a citizen's dividend, unless that tax money could be better spent on infrastructure, infrastructure that would pay for itself in higher land taxes that would yield even more land tax share dividends.
I do wonder what you mean by "get up at 6AM and start working." Do you immediately get out of bed and get on your computer or do you shower/eat/every other morning activity first? Does that mean you work at 6:30 or 6?
> At press time, representatives from the world’s leading economies had signaled that they would continue to heavily rely on fossil fuels until they had something more than an overwhelming scientific consensus to go on.

Lol
I'm trying to avoid that if I could automate that typing process and just do voice over to explain the code.
Why wouldn't it be bad for his teeth?

It's my understanding that soda is typically acidic, and after you drink it the soda coats your enamel, in turn wearing it down.
No, we attribute that to startup culture’s cavalier attitude towards code quality.

Asian cultures’ have similarly cavalier attitude towards privacy.

Noone said anything about races. Asia is a continent.
The garage can charge ridiculous amounts of money for trivial features and upgrades. Although the manufacturer may benefit from an App Store, the garage gets nothing.

Toyota, for example, charges something like $150 for a single satnav maps update, although now CarPlay/Android Auto is a standard feature and has tanked that market.
I installed ‘Banish’ on iOS to get rid of the nagging dialogues. I haven’t seen one since.

No affiliation.
According to Google, a typical chainmail hauberk could have as many as 45,000 10mm rings - if we assume that 2cm rings are not excessively more difficult to make than 10mm rings, then 45,000 2cm rings linked end-to-end would stretch around 900m long.

Even assuming the chain didn't float in the air and instead draped down the rock and along the ground, it would likely take "only" 3-5 chainmail hauberks' worth of rings to cover the distance.

It wouldn't be an easy task, but there were far more than 5 people in medieval times with full sets of chainmail armor, so it's definitely not outside the realm of possibility.
This article seems great. I can't help but think that given the job market, the "best choice" for somebody in the program can often be to get a masters and go into industry, which honestly seems quite a bit easier than finishing a math PhD. The academia jobs are hard to get and they pay relatively terribly.
no. i seem to recall only intel had a board in an S100(?) chassis? i think that’s the one i had access to.
Who knows. User error or misunderstanding perhaps. I use Authy with many Google accounts without issue.
As others have said, this is an absolutely terrible idea and highly destructive to renters. There is simply no reason to boogeyman real estate investors so long as they are renting out the property. Renting is no less valid a form of housing than ownership and policies like you describe are already in place in many jurisdictions such as Ontario and it is already as we speak harming renters.

For all the people saying "it doesn't matter how much you tax landlords, the market rate is what the renters are willing to pay", don't be silly. Just take your argument to the extreme then. Why stop at 4x, why not charge 10x, 100x, or 1000x? Obviously as you raise taxes on landlording, the number and/or quality of rental units will go down and/or the prices will go up.

See Oh the Urbanity!'s recent video on the topic https://youtu.be/q3gtZcTdXaI
> Sometimes also referred to as Kokotto-kiri (ココット切り) for smaller versions. I have no idea what that is in reference to.

This likely refers to “cocotte” [0], the French term for a kind of casserole that might be used for dishes for which that vegetable cut shape is typical — or maybe the shape of the cut is reminiscent of the shape of a cocotte.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocotte_(cuisine)
FreeCAD is getting nearly $500/week from Liberapay. Let’s see if we can get this up to $1000 to support an OS alternative.

https://liberapay.com/FreeCAD

I’m going to contribute.
When I have really stubborn stuck items to my cast iron. I boil salt in it.
I believe filtering on programs that actually have a gui by using .desktop files and using their icons while at it is significantly more convenient. i3-dmenu-desktop, despite its composability, was insanely slow, so I switched to rofi as soon as that became available.
The HTTP server is serving source code because of the braindead system of HTTP routing that PHP encouraged (because it's "easy") whereby scripts are stored in the root path amongst resources, and the file system is used for routing. In other languages the HTTP server doesn't even know where the source code is.
vterm inside emacs.

vterm is sufficiently standard terminal emulator.
Emacs plays the role of a windows manager (manages multiple vterm windows (buffers in emacs terms)). Easy to save/restore window configurations.
i have it’s programmers guide around here somewhere.
I'd like to see more projects that redefine the web.

The fact that we're stuck at 3 or so browser engines shows that we've reached a dead end in terms of choice.
The climate change hypothesis presumes re-animating poison that was dumped some time in the past. And that perhaps the sediment is being disturbed.

In the past, the Soviet Union controlled this area, and they are well known for the massive ecological disasters they created.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if this turned out to be the case here.
SSDs Are Worse for the Planet Than HDDs
> Now if the game is deterministic and multiplayer works by only sending user inputs around, why the save / continue feature wasn't implemented that way?

Your only interpreter for the data is the entire game engine. By design it's going to use most of the power of the target hardware, so cannot run faster. Ie, 30 minute load time if you had played 30 min.
That's probably much stronger in Japanese culture sure, but to continue the Julienne example, 'properly' done it's not simply matchsticks - it's thicker and shorter than people often think/would do to show off their knife skills.

But yes sure, deviate in France and you might get some bad reviews, be labelled avant-garde, but it's probably fine, and you might be on the way to greatness. I'm pretty ignorant of Japanese culture (not that I'm French either, just spent many holidays there and none in Japan) but I can believe there'd be a stronger visceral reaction to that sort of thing. Boycott the insauspicious restaurant or whatever.
He does discuss VSCode towards the end of that clip.
Why not offer a small list of most relevant studies then? I can claim there are hundreds of studies and that MIGHT be true or not, offer a small glimpse is not only useful to teach readers looking for sources but also to prove I've done my research not just claim to have done it.

Beside that: I doubt. Cyclically we see promise, like IBM research that cyclically say they achieve a hyper-big advances in storage, something that "in the near future" can store Zettabyte of data in a rice grain etc, and I still have to see anything even similar. I have built my new home, just six years ago, well insulated, airtight, with proper ventilation, recently upgraded from passive temperature recovery (classic VMC with a paper heat-exchanger) to a heat-pump one, with a small p.v. and lithium storage, all electric again with heat-pumps etc. well it can potentially be "autonomous" IF I'm willing to waste a very big amount of money in a very big battery, much more space for solar panels to have enough energy to recharge the bigger battery AND still depending on a grid or generator for backup because a "reasonably bigger" battery (BEVs alike size) suffice to be comfortable just from a day to the next. Just two day means I need more land to harvest enough energy from the Sun. Oh and that being in France south Alps so in a significantly sunny place. Oh I'm just talking about a home, not a factory.

Sure we can already made let's say a glass production AND recycling factory 100% circular and renewable, we just need mountain hydro nearby. Enough, perhaps, if we are Norway with many mountains, water, little population. Or maybe Iceland with geothermal. Hardly for France.

So far we have seen MANY promises in terms of new battery tech, but essentially nothing really ready. Potentially in 2050 we can even have finally achieved nuclear fusion, witch is renewable formally. But we can't forecast that. It's a hope. It might be even computed in a game-of-if: if we finally discover a battery tech with this and that characteristic we can produce on scale with this and that intensity what time it take to spread it? It's still a study, but just an hypothetical one.

What we see so far is that FOR HOMES we can made single-family homes almost everywhere and power that with electricity only at rate "small enough" to be sustainable even at some arctic latitudes. This on scale means we need abandon dense tall-buildings since YES, we can made them TODAY with similar energy needs BUT we can't really upgrade them in the future, so to be future proof we need homes like cars, with a longer life-cycle but still small enough to be created and re-created after a certain amount of times (like a single human life) to align them with current needs and tech at any point in time. It might be doable if we agree to do so even before 2050 at least in western world, but I see no real push to do so. Just few do so on their own, no plans to design a new society seems to go in that direction, UN New Urban Agenda goes actually in the OPPOSITE direction. The rest are collection of dreams.
This assumes that the people are living far away from the railway, which is obviously the opposite situation in much of Europe and Asia.
The update says that Zoom said it was “newly reported”. The article says it was reported eight months ago!
Yeah, also what's wrong with making a product first, marketing it, and seeing if it sells? No need for this landing-page-with-fake-pre-orders lying to your customers overhead.

I guess that's the luxury of keeping your day job. If the product doesn't sell, oh well. Bills are still paid. Try again. If you're banking your entire livelihood on the product, you have to know there's at least some chance of success, even if it means alienating potential customers with bullshit
The breach was pretty limited because of deliberate security design. All they had was email, recipient address and message. Still, a SQL attack. That's pretty bad.
is this just a submarine ad for BUSY? lowkey seems like it. anyway i feel like a user friendly layer on bazel might be a good solution to a lot of problems, maybe along with a port to a compiled language so no JVM dependency.
> it's also pretty important that the build system is written in the same language as the rest of the project so that you don't add another dependency just to be able to build

I tend to believe this, but to me the issue with all build systems is the point where you need to build multiple languages in a single project.

For this, there aren’t a lot of great options, and the ones that exist are complex. Maybe they need to be complex, but that lowers the uptake of those tools.
His Twitter thread was written to justify public violence against this man:

https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer
On the subject of books, there's an advisory email Carmack wrote to a kid years ago, telling him that his methods may be outdated compared to the modern advances in learning, but when he studied books he would read multiple resources describing the same thing because sometimes one resource may not transmitting information in a way that clicks to him.

I remember how insane it sounded to me that someone as talented as Carmack would look up for a second or a third resource describing a concept just because he couldn't clearly understand it on first try because, contrast to how we react when a student fails to grasp pointers. Our kneejerk reaction to someone not understanding a concept on first try would be "You want to re-read that again? Guess you're not talented. And you keep making mistakes after an hour? Sigh you're a lost case".

And here you have literally Carmack himself not caring how many books he has to reference, because all that it matters is that it will eventually click, he will own it, he will make progress and that's all that matters.
I've noticed a pattern in comedians who have a funny set but never make it big. They have a shtick that works, lean into it, then end up using it as a crutch.

It doesn't scale to a funny second performance.
So, one of the things they discovered as part of the back and forth was that C#'s generational garbage collector was actually an advantage. Because it made finding memory for a new object allocation O(1), while for C++ it was O(N).

That observation was actually key to the C++ version ultimately producing the fastest version. Chen replaced malloc() with an implementation that was tailored to the problem in question.

I guess the thing that I always find lacking in these discussions is a cost/benefit analysis. Yes, C++ will let you do things like that, and they will absolutely allow you to wring every last drop of performance out of what you're doing.

But, if you aren't in a situation where optimizing to that extent is cost-effective, and you're working in a business domain where frequent heap allocation of short-lived objects is what you do, so that idiomatic, standard C++'s default way of doing things is known to generally be not significantly better, and often slower, than some of the faster GC languages, then it's just possible that that you should go for the pragmatic option.
Every single homeless person in Boston can get free transitional housing but the Mass and Cass street area is still packed with tents and drug users
> It's complicated because we've made it complicated.

And thus, it is complicated. Also worth taking into consideration: we may not be able to do otherwise. Currently, for sure (hence the commonality of conversations on this topic), and perhaps never if we don't/can't change the way we think.
Right, you're pretty much on the money: you want transactional storage to build upon.

If NVME or flash interfaces worked reliably as you suggest, then you could do this today by just treating them as memory, but right now there is an fsync (or equivalent) somewhere in the call stack. And even then, hardware complexities are wildly abstracted to the point where a lot of storage devices have no guarantees in the face of e.g. power loss.

Older hardware actually excels here! Tape can be used very, very reliably because the interface is simple and obvious in comparison to flash-based storage.
Here we go again. It's 2001 all over again. This must seem novel if you're not old enough to remember it. If you are, it's just incredibly tiresome to have to go through it again.
You're in luck, Andreas has been hacking on that since a couple of months. They're calling the Linux version of the browser Ladybird: https://github.com/awesomekling/ladybird
Yes but that is nothing to do with walkable cities.
I want to see (edited highlights) of the film now.

It is extraordinary but then again it's just "the container will be here in three weeks"
The magic of Kaketsugi restoration [video]
While that’s a valid case, such details can provoke discussion/flamewar
I don't feel bad for the millionaire elderly taking up inordinate amount of space so young people can't afford anything.

However, if you feel differently, we could make gains in property tax payable on death or property sale.
Why is it that the stereotypical love of intense systematisation and specialisation in Japanese crafts doesn't seem to extend to software?

I have seen a few pieces of Japanese megacorp software that's you would have thought would be produced by their better teams (kernel code for major profit-centre products) and it was always dreadful.

I know megacorp software is often terrible, but this was a whole new level. It was like the "the intern's code" jokes on The Coding Love, but real and very serious (NDAs and everything).

Certainly when looking at it, I didn't have visions of a grandmaster lovingly using the exact, named, carefully maintained, tool for the job.
Poor craftsmanship is likely the biggest culprit, followed by thermal shocks, putting the pans in the dishwasher, and not following care instructions.

I went through half a dozen non-stick pans over a 5 year period that all had their coatings fail. After having expensive brands with lifetime warranties fail on me due to poor build quality, I swore off of them and went with hard anodized and haven't had an issue since.
This guy is insanely skillful. Wow.
RAM doesn’t really provide atomic reads and writes without additional semantics in most cases? (Locking)
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less" — Rick Warren

You can be a central and large contributor on a project and know it. If you lord over other people with that knowledge and position and flex to stroke your ego, that's pride and arrogance.
Competition yields innovation and/or standardization. While it can also fragment, ultimately competition, even friendly or "alternative" varieties, in software usually ends up benefiting the ecosystem in the long run.
You elided a sentence right before: "Punching Nazis is a minor control mechanism: it silences the danger without amplifying its speech."

...which legitimizes the use of violence against "Nazi's" for whatever value you assign to that. Your quoted fragment just disclaims the effectiveness, while the article still clearly supports the idea.
> agriculture, the foundation of the food supply, is one of the most commoditized markets that exist. Does this bother you too?

Yes? Most people who have ever lived have always produced their own food. That most of us in the developed world have lost the ability to do so—and that access to the physical essence of our being is dependent on monetary transactions with faceless entities that value profit above human life—seems deeply alienating.
> Doesn't anyone feel uneasy about it, that more and more people are looking at real estate as a financial tool, not a basic human right to have a roof over one's head?

It’s always been viewed this way, at least in the west. Land ownership quite literally defined western social power structures for a very long time.

That said, the use case for housing is housing. Ownership generally isn’t that relevant, to the extent that prices are still set by supply and demand. If there are enough units on the market, prices or rents will be reasonable. If not, prices will go up.

My suspicion is that the attraction of single family houses as an investment asset on this scale are going to partially fade away. It’s driven by the fact that real estate is somewhat uncorrelated with equities and unleveraged returns have historically been comparable to the SP500. However, historical performance does not necessarily reflect future performance, and single family homes cost a lot to maintain.
There are multiple taxes on rental properties. You have to pay both income tax, and if you are a corporation you have to pay corporate taxes.

That's roughly 20% and then another 20%.

If you wanted to go with this approach, the better solution is to remove tax deductions for corporate residential real estate investment
of course it does have to do with walkabale cities.

to walk in a city that is not set-up for walking is clearly an odd thing to do.

if the city were set-up for walking and people walked it, a group of 4 persons walking wouldn't be an oddity
There's no basic human right to have a roof over your head, for the simple reason that someone has to make the roof. Saying "I have a right to have it [without building it yourself]" is saying "I have a right to force someone to build it for me". I dunno about you, I'm uneasy about forced labor.

Even beyond that, there's certainly no right to have the roof over your head wherever you want - there is simply not enough space for everyone to have it. Commoditization of housing basically lets the scarcity be managed via market mechanism, the best we have - what creates the problems, like making scarcity worse, is /absence/ of commoditization - where someone decides that things should be a certain way, e.g. via zoning, design reviews, environmental rules, etc. If we could commoditize more in these areas (e.g. something like carbon tax for congestion/sewer use/... instead of a committee deciding; removing free public parking and letting the market resolve that and probably save space and reduce car use; etc.), there'd be more housing. If we commoditize less, scarcity would just be managed via different means - like corruption, connections, etc.
I find that a lot of the criticisms of taxation and better housing policy are boiled down to the bad faith, we can't try anything because it's too complicated, but really they mean this is going to cause me or my rich friends problems so don't do it.
I visited Tokyo in 2019 and went to the top of the Skytree. It was one of the few times in my life where my mind was completely blown. The scale of the city from the viewing point of 450m had me spaced out staring into the distance trying to comprehend the vast scale. If you ever get the opportunity to go I can't recommend it enough, Try going on a clear day about an hour before sunset and watch the city transform. Photos really can't do it justice.
Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Justice by algorithm is basically what is already in place - judges are meant to be follow a fairly prescribed set of steps and use their extensive legal training to do what is "usual" for anything that isn't prescribed.

The issue, as the article points out, is that wearing a robe and/or wig does not suddenly make people free from faults. The only solution is systems that avoid centralising power on one person as best they can, and clear guidelines on how that person should act when it is unavoidable.

Which is basically how the thing works.
My grandparents (who were farmers) would frequently joke that city folk always thought beets came from cans at the store and didn't know they grew in the ground.

I imagine the same city folk laughed at all the things country rubes like my grandparents didn't know. Of course, one being the child of an immigrant and the other immigrating as a child, and quite poor to boot, they would have faced plenty of derision for that as well. IIRC they also didn't get indoor plumbing and toilets until the early 1950's, so they probably would have been laughed at for that too.
> Storage via gravitational potential energy is extraordinarily inefficient.

I think the point is that what we do right now and what has been considered good practice is extremely inefficient, engineering-wise and economically.
They have a Star Trek-style replicator.

"Computer, 1 whole of chicken please. Roasted."