skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good question, and could get philosophical: what is value? The tax would be based on the market value, how much the land could be exchanged for. But where does that come from? There's sort of two ways of looking at, in my understanding (which may not be fully complete): how much can the land produce, and what is the mismatch between supply of a location and demand of a location.

The first way is that the value comes from what you can do with the land economically, what economic opportunities does that piece of land afford people?

So take plot of land zoned for a office anywhere in Pals Alto and compare it to a plot for offices, in St. Louis. The values are going to be immeasurably different, because there are economic opportunities in Palo Alto that simple don't exist in St. Louis, and being physically present in Palo Alto affords connections and value, at least according to what people are willing to pay for access to that land. This "land rent" is the same whether you're bringing in gigantic government contracts as Palantir, or if you are selling insurance in offices on University Avenue, but the prices are generally set by the greatest opportunity.

Secondly, looking at plots of land for single family homes in Palo Alto and St. Louis, the big difference in the value of the land, millions of dollars, largely comes from the mismatch in supply. Many people in Palo Alto are raking in the gigantic economic opportunities of building software companies on the network of highly specialized labor and capital that exists in Silicon Valley--and they need to live nearby. And there's not enough land to go around, so prices increase until the poorest have been kicked out and are set at the price of that least wealthy wealthy person. In St. Louis, the same number of wealthy people wouldn't have that impact becuase there's enough land to go around to them and more.

The idea of a land value tax is that it make more land available by encouraging far more productive use of that land. The person hoarding a vacant lot has zero carrying costs essentially under a typical property tax, so while land prices are rising, they have very little incentive to develop it. If they wait another five years, they might be allowed to build an even larger structure for even more profit, and in any case the land gains in value provide little incentive to sell.

And unlike commodities, where the cure to high prices is high prices, they aren't making more land. It's finite and limited. So high prices do not result in more land production. Instead, we need to set up the economic system to that as land prices rise, each bit of land itself becomes more productive: it must be put to better use.

Traditional property taxes disincentivize increasing the productivity of the land. But a land tax shifts the property speculation equation: it's never profitable to hold onto land that is less productive than it could be, on the thought that it will result in a windfall of future money. Or rather, it puts a high price on that speculation that matches the amount of value that the land speculator is taking away from society.
Security team of 5 people…
The greater part.
I know the team that made this app. It's low price labor who cobble together Java... It will be just as terrible an experience to use as any other 'old tech' banking app.
Ask HN: Who are the technically competent CEOs in tech world?
Besides Elon Musk. I know Apple, Google and Twitter CEOs are just administrators.
I honestly now have no idea what you are trying to say.
Maybe I'm crazy but I think it's already possible to make a basic movie, if you have dozens of GPUs or 100K$ to burn on cloud instances
I've come around to the opinion that (POSIX-style) filesystems are no longer a great idea. Instead, I think something more like Git (plumbing, not porcelain) would be preferable as the underlying storage abstraction.
Netflix’s Sacred Games. It was their first domestic production and is a straight faced noir cop drama. It’s my favorite crime series of all time - I think it blends The crime boss mythology of The Usual Suspects with the multi-decade story telling of The Godfather. It is told in a way that it feels like a picture coming into focus, rather than a linear narrative.
I joined a group of vintage computing enthusiasts recently, dedicated to a specific platform. During a recent online meetup, I watched as one of the members attempted to archive newly discovered cassette tape copies of previously unavailable commercial software applications from the late '70s. These may well be the only copies in existence - at least as far as we know now they are.

During the meeting, there was a hairy moment where the tape broke and got tangled up and likely ruined. This happened because of an old splice, but fortunately was at the end of the tape just as everything got successfully archived (at least one copy of it anyway).

It was a cool moment to observe, and I now have copies of these applications in my possession.
If this works with Docker, it can work in AWS ECS with a bit of wrapping, right?
I think it was more useful for evaluating videos with low view counts. Maybe the video was good/useful, just not by an established high subscriber YouTuber. Or it's garbage spam but I can't see the 200 downs next to the 20 ups.
It’s still worth using them for some trips. They know a lot, and booking anything even remotely complex online quickly becomes a hassle. As far as I have seen every large company still engages with travel agencies, although having humans on-site is Marne not that common especially post-pandemic.
there is no use for this, or most of the stuff around docker/k8s that's posted here. It's all just a fad. And people keep mindlessly pumping out more code.
Good old jQuery.

Thanks for your kind words!
Yeah, it's tons of fun. It's a big goofy action movie, and they really lean into it in all the best ways. It's basically a superhero movie.
Diesel is a scandal many orders of magnitude bigger than asbestos and smoking, and we'll look back on it with that reverence.

That in the UK most diesel drivers remove their particulate filters to increase fuel efficiency (meaning that essentially every white van on the road is rolling coal like a Texan), makes it all the worse.

It's not even the lung damage, the brain damage that's been caused (there's ongoing research that may yet associate the spike in autism and neurodegenerative diseases in Europe with diesel exposure since it was incentivised) could be even more prevalent.

Margaret Heffernan did a willful blindness Ted Talk about this just about ten years ago that really rings true on this topic.

https://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_the_dangers_of_...
It's all fungible. You can buy drugs with untraceable dollars you buy with crypto.
Ahh yes, but by being careful stewards of their wealth, they ensure that the British economy is productive and healthy /s
What is unpredictable or unreliable about the monetary policy of bitcoin?

In 2028, how many new US dollars will enter circulation? How many bitcoin?
There's also an app called bouncer on google.
Yes and Microsoft has constantly paid the cost by not being able to move as fast and having security issues because of some long forgotten piece of legacy code. Apple was able to have basically the same core OS run on phones, tablets, watches, set top boxes and monitors (yes the latest Apple display runs a version of iOS on an iPhone 11 era chip with 64GB RAM).

Back as early as 2005 there were more than half a dozen ways to represent a “string” in C on Microsoft platforms depending on which API you were using.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/text/how-to-convert-bet...

Of course this led to an early easily exploitable security issue in Windows where all you had to do was encode a DOS command and put in the url for the browser and you could run any DOS command with admin privileges on a web server running IIS.
I’ve been trying to get to grips with FreeCAD for a few months and it reminds me a lot of pre-2.8 Blender - the UX is very opinionated and clunky, needs some serious re-thinking…

(I am trying to avoid using Fusion 360, which has a much more streamlined experience)
This is a well-made website, but I will concur with others that I've been dreading the day this tool gets created.

IMO the core value of using Reddit for reviews was that it wasn't easily searchable. Sure, there's already some astroturfing that occurs, but not nearly at the scale of every other hit you get via Google. Please don't ruin a good thing!
> working on projects that seem meaningful and useful for the world instead of what will make your investors the most money

Having your business choose projects based on what engineers think is neat rather than what the business needs seems like a profoundly terrible idea. If your employer's goals don't match the stuff you want to do, get a different job. You're not entitled to use Facebook compute (or whatever) to pursue your passion project. There is more than one company in the world.
> Classical Electrodynamics By Jackson

I'm so sorry. You have my sympathy.
Rather they should only do what you let them. It's nonsensical that mobile OSes don't let you fake certain permissions being enabled (for example having a location spoofing option).
1) Short of blocking communications and/or electricity, there is no technical switch you can flip to ban something that can be decentralized like Bitcoin mining. That's why I used the word technical above. We're in agreement that you can actually try to ban Bitcoin mining by jailing/shooting/seizing/destroying various people and things, I just don't want to do that.

2) We're probably going to disagree sharply here, but I don't believe that climate change is causing clear and present harm. And if it was, nuclear energy is the solution to it, which many environmentalists desperately reject to the point of destroying their countries. I can't take climate change peoples' ideas seriously when they reject the only workable solution to the problem they claim will cause great harm.

3) PoW is a proven system that has been proven to work, no pun intended. PoS solutions are extremely interesting, but have security and centralization concerns and have not been proven as workable in the same way as PoW. Going from PoW to PoS is not necessarily a magic solution for anything and might ruin something good for humanity. Maybe Ethereum pulls it off and there's no long-term changes or problems, but nothing has been proven yet.
Coutts has (in)famously gone through a digital transformation recently making talking to a personal banker exceedingly difficult. They are getting slaughtered on social media and on review sites for the change, because the new website and app are extraordinarily bad, even for a bank.
> We’ll let you know when we recommend upgrading to iOS 16.

Oh, how kind of you.
I’m intrigued by the fact that there exists alternatives to UML’s diagrams?

What alternative sequence diagrams are there? Because you are right, we always twist them to include supposedly-orthogonal aspects such as state or actors.
Not to be confused with bowdlerization: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expurgation
The demographics should not matter, period. The idea that few people use the app or that direct communication is the standard at a wealth management bank like this doesn’t mean lack of preparedness is okay. In other words what omissions or lapses should a millionaire be okay with.

I’m not in the market for this type of bank, but software update reliability is important… As important as things like 2FA maybe not? But this seems like a non-trivial mistake.
"The Kashmir Files" is the most serious movie in the recent past.
Would it even be possible to formally verify such a system as a whole? From my limited experience with formal verification, even small designs can take over an hour to verify.
I'm tripping on the first sentence of the blurb:

> A type system is a syntactic method for enforcing levels of abstraction in programs.

Why is it called a syntactic method? Because type errors are caught at compile time, by analyzing the source code?
> Americans who (recently) have history of pretty bad unions.

Americans don't have a history of bad unions, they have a history of unions being gradually eliminated (along with rising wages and improving working conditions), and are exposed to constant anti-union propaganda. 15% tops of the workforce is unionized, 98% of the people who complain about unions either have absolutely no experience of them, or their experience of them consists entirely of stories that their reactionary grandfather used to tell them about the lazy bum they couldn't fire.
Because collective bargaining against multinational corporations is the only leverage you have. Unless you happen to be one of the 15 or so people on earth that are literal programming gods... then yes you do have exquisite leverage.
Especially in Apples case, because Apple have a copy of every binary ever signed to run on iOS.

That means they can theoretically make every app run exactly the same on new or old OS, and they could totally have a fuzzer to ensure this.
Isn't that the same thing as asking all environmental policies to be removed?

Let companies do whatever they want, people will decide winners and losers with their wallets.

Something tells me the general public will go for the cheapest/most profitable company and only a minority will try to do "the right thing".
I make a note of the PUK and IMSI in the family OneNote. Have so for years.
Ask HN: How do you feel about learning something for the sake of interviews?
Like doing leetcode or memorizing System Design interviews?
If reading Data and Reality, please read the 2nd edition [1] (the 3rd edition has a co-author who replaced half the stuff with his own "notes"). The 2nd edition is out of print but you can get a PDF here [2]

[1] https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/why-you-should-...
[2] https://github.com/jhulick/bookstuff/blob/master/Data%20and%...
What I find interesting is you think the ultra-rich do their own banking?

They are not paying assistants and accountants so they can do mundane tasks like login to a banking site and pay a bill.
I would criticize the bank for suggesting to non-technical customers to disable automatic updates.

I think that’s a major security issue for the average person.

Companies like this act like their services are special and that customers should bend over backwards to accommodate their own shortcomings.
Awesome, this is the culture that we need more of
> Say what you want but Google loves fast loading sites and gives a good rankings boost

If you're passing your Core Web Vitals scores, there is no further ranking signal.

Transcribed from a 2021 Q&A with Google engineers

> beyond that point [of a good threshold for all Core Web Vital metrics], you don't get additional boost for reaching it even better. Like if you have your LCP at two seconds and you get it all the way down to one second, um, we've kind of publicly stated that that will not increase your ranking

https://youtu.be/HWm6WNkHs90?t=1676
"Yang is betting that more people will volunteer in beneficial projects if they’re incentivized with a crypto carrot on a digital string."

Paid volunteers? Aren't people who do that called employees?

"Earlier this year, Yang announced his new firm Lobby3 was intending to use blockchain technology for political lobbying. Lobby3 is technically a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which promises those who buy in can get a seat at the voting table to determine how they try to influence Washington politics."

Crypto-graft is still graft. Now you can buy votes as part of a distributed collective. How innovative!
On the other hand here’s the email I received from Revolut (European neobank similar to cashapp) yesterday:

Apple sent out a notification on Wednesday 17 August warning of two security issues within their operating system, and advised users to update their devices to the latest version to resolve them.

As you've previously accessed your Revolut account from an iOS device, we advise you to follow this recommendation as soon as possible.

You can update your device via Settings > General > Software Update.
It’s no different from Reagan Republicans. All the rules are for thee(the poor) but not for me(the wealthy).
No videos? WHat's the point of sharing?
Could you automate browsing to an archive link instead when a link runs to a common paywalled site?
Do you think non-musicians could benefit from Effortless Mastery?
> The problem here is that modern libs and standards change so fast (similar to JS) that it really is hard for anyone without a megacorp's worth of software dev employees to keep up.

Are you so sure of this? I have apps that haven't been updated in years that still run on my iPhone 13 Pro Max using latest iOS.
99% of Coutts and similar customers absolutely will not mind, they're not the demographic. And nobody else should either, because they're not impacted. Speaking as an ex Coutts customer, until recently they didn't even have a mobile banking app. The bank I moved too as a marginally better one, and it's one of the reasons why I moved to them.

I absolutely do not operate day to day from these accounts, they are for doing specialist things and making large movements. Only a very small portion of this banks customers will use them for day to day needs.

Private banking is more like business banking for personal use. Oh and also networking events for people who speak a certain way to meet other people who speak a certain way. /eyeroll
What is the right way to do it?

Because sugar coating is not helping at all. The majority seems to like it.
Because all their wealth trickes down eventually. Any moment now...

/s
You think? Just read all the ones in black:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell

But as so many even here keep repeating so idiotically, "We live in a society. We live in a society. We live in a society..." Gotta keep trading that liberty for more safety. Gotta keep 'em safe.

Anyone see the new messages you get on Twitter when its AI pre-judges your tweet to be Intellectual Spam?

Good job Twitter employees, if you're reading. Keep up the great work. Keep us safe from code points arranged in wrong orders.
> tax advantaged B&H

What is a tax advantaged Buy and Hold?
I spent a solid month trying to switch from Fusion 360 to FreeCAD (as a hobbyist maker) and while I got to the point where I could pretty much make anything I needed… it never stopped being a struggle, and taking twice as long.

I really really want an OSS alternative to Fusion/etc but FreeCAD needs a lot of work before it’ll even come close.
I'm a bit into competitve programming, so Competitve Programmer's Handbook by Antti Laaksonen is a solid book if you want a reference for CP.
We have 'representative democracy' NOT democracy - big difference.

One is where everyone has a vote on every option, and the other is where one person (the representative) represents thousands (millions?) of people, for 4-5 years, making all the decisions on their behalf, with no repurcussions for that representative if they lie, cheat or enrich themselves in their role during that time. In fact, the representative only has to be perceived less bad than the other alternative, and they will likely get back in!
Apple releases an update once a year and they give several months of betas where app devs can test and prepare. That’s more than enough for supported apps.
Not at 500k. Exclusive private offices start making financial sense in the 160M to 200M range. There are shared private offices below that, but this* gets nebulous with asset management and such.

Edit: thst -> this. Mobile autocorrects the wrong "correction"
For the firefighters? Here's a starting point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighter_arson
》as more renewable energy comes online.

Maybe better name is "unstable" energy. Some types of renewables are stable (water dams, geothermal).
> I have no idea why anybody would buy an APS-C camera

Perhaps somebody is giving more priority to weight, size, price. Or lacks interest in shallow depth of field.

> Even if you love some APS-C lens, you can just mount it on a FF camera and crop.

Cropping a FF photo, especially from a cheap FF camera, may result in lower resolution than what an APS-C camera offers.
The problem of you seeing them. Out of sight, out of mind.
The Santander app has lost the ability to photograph checks a few times on Android devices I use. It is currently not working on a Pixel 6. It is just an inconvenience but it does not make me confident about security.
Can you expand on this? From my understanding about Apple Pay, anything already working should continue to work, and any new features are optional… so I’m curious what you have in mind.
Isn’t this more of a banking, or even corporate, culture? Our IT group needs a year to “upgrade and test” our applications.

I remember the “we only need to support Internet Explorer” days. Testing on Chrome and Firefox wasn’t important.
I think you mean that the only thing that's changed is that information that was tightly controlled by governments via a small but powerful set of mainstream media channels to advance the notion of an open society that played by a tight set of rules and respect for civil rights has been augmented by a small and even more powerful set of big mainstream internet companies.

Give yourselves a round of applause, Silicon Valley et al.
Tried it out on Edge & Chrome and it's just unresponsive after you choose an epub.
Main mobile competitor in US
> Dietary spermidine is rapidly resorbed from the intestine and distributed in the body without degradation [37].
That's a road straight to library hell. You'd basically have to manage multiple versions of libraries, some of which would likely be system libraries that depend on other system libraries. Are you trying to suggest Apple's iOS should be more like Nintendo/BroadOn's IOS for the Wii? Way to waste users' storage.

Sometimes things break when things are updated, especially across major versions. This has been true for the entirety of computing. Microsoft, who have one of the best track records in the industry regarding backwards compatibility, still break countless programs with major Windows updates. Every platform I can think of that isn't an 8-bit system running BASIC has made breaking changes over time. What is your suggested solution?
https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

However, the list is not public domain - the license says "This work, "free-programming-books", is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." Contact the list owner and see what they say about your intended use.
The only power tech workers hold today is that their is huge demand for their skills and limited people that can fulfill that demand locally. So contributors are paid $200k+ in many markets and a comfortable 6-figures in others.

In effect tech workers control the means of production because computers are commodities and their knowledge is the means of production. Because if this their share of the putouts are enormous compared to most industries. It’s why besides massive checks we are granted RSUs to ISOs, generous time off and parental leave, free healthcare, etc.

The power tech workers have won’t change until there is a larger supply than there is demand. At that point your union is useless since scabs will be hired globally and there’s no picket line to cross.
Growing up, a friend's dad ran a couple of fast food franchises. As teenagers, we talked a lot to the dad about his business, and he was more than happy to impart his business wisdom on youngsters. Anyway, he told us he banked with the local bank in town rather than any of the regional or national banks for just that reason. He could walk in and talk to the top guy whenever he wanted. The top guy understood his financial situation completely, and would easily make arrangements the big banks would take weeks to make, if ever.

My brother did the same thing when he started his businesses, and I've moved to it over time. It's hard to beat talking to a banker who understands what you're doing and is actually there to help you.