skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sprawling suburbs are uneconomical

That is not what your linked article says. The article says is that US cities have not charged, and are not charging, enough property taxes: because of $reasons. If cities were to charge costs correctly, which must happen eventually, then suburbs are economical.

It is really difficult to compare like with like when it comes to property taxes in different countries. Costs, percentages, house valuations, plus other confounding factors mean we need to take all numbers as indicators only. But let’s compare Kansas City with Christchurch, New Zealand.

KANSAS CITY

[2021] The median property tax in Kansas is $1,625.00 per year for a home worth the median value of $125,500.00. Counties in Kansas collect an average of 1.29% of a property's assesed fair market value as property tax per year. Kansas is ranked number twenty six out of the fifty states, in order of the average amount of property taxes collected.

1625 / 76000 = 2.1% of median household gross income on property taxes[1].

Kansas City, MO's Taxpayer debt is -$8,700[2]. That doesn’t seem outrageous compared with household values and household mortgages.

CHRISTCHURCH

Suburbs pay for themselves in Christchurch, when they are built, and for their ongoing maintenance upkeep.

In 2021 average residential rates (property tax) nationwide [NZD]2,572. That’s about USD1750.

Christchurch is a city with significant and increasing urban sprawl. “Christchurch City Council continues to have the highest liabilities (debt) per household compared to any other council ([NZD]30,096)” with median property price in 2021 of [NZD]650,000 (I am guessing - rose significantly during the year). All new suburban developments in Christchurch have front loaded costs to pay for the extra infrastructure - the city does not subsidise infrastructure. Property taxes in Christchurch are about 5% of household gross income.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSKSA646N

[2] https://www.data-z.org/state_data_and_comparisons/city/kansa...

PS: Strong Towns is epically biased against suburbs - using them as a reference is taking a ridiculously partisan position.
Samsung, OnePlus, and other phone manufacturers have all been accused of throttling phones and have acknowledged the throttling and/or released patches to give more user control. You can google "<manfacturer name> throttling" and get new reports of throttling as recently as last year for Samsung.
Stand back! (I do this with ♥, 🩷, 🩵, and 🩶)

🫸🫨🫷

If you have a 🫎 would it rhyme with a 🪿 when there were more than two?

Probably shouldn't be a 🫏 to dang; the code just hasn't been updated to filter out the new naughties.
Why are those the only ethical choices? What ethical framework are you assuming?
Yes, we all sat down and unanimously agreed that we should perform JNDI lookups to execute arbitrary code stored in an LDAP directory.

No regrets.
There's no scientific evidence to support this. Even in the Pfizer RCTs, there were more deaths in the vaccinated group than in the control group (but this wasn't statistically significant, as the overall sample size wasn't large enough to make a conclusion WRT death reduction).
I’m not sure that’s it’s clear. If the Congress passes a budget, does it create debt? Or is the debt created only when the Treasury issues a bond to pay for it?

Let’s say that Biden directs the Treasury to ignore the debt ceiling law, citing the 14th amendment. Who has standing to file a lawsuit to challenge him? Who is directly harmed? You and I aren’t allowed to sue the EPA to force them to do anything about climate change, because our harms are generalized. We need to prove we’re directly harmed.

Ok, but let’s say that someone is allowed to sue. It works its way through the court system and Biden loses. Does that mean we have to claw back all the payments the federal government made?
> incredibly cheap-looking cancerous blobs.

Oh I assure you, they're cheap all the way through. Take the mass-produced bottom of the barrel construction practices of modern developers, the architectural sense of gluing pre-made block of house together, and then just keep gluing until you hit the target square footage.

It's all limestone concrete, softwood, asphalt shingles, hollow doors, plastic floors, drywall, spray painted hardware, a single layer of brick if you're feeling adventurous, a chimney that doesn't actually work, a fireplace that's electric.

It's unbelievably depressing that for how expensive they are you can't actually pay for quality only for more house.

And I don't really think it's anyone's fault per se but more the reality of mass-produced junk getting cheaper and human labor getting so much more expensive relative to it.
I can dream.
I'm familiar with dweb, but it seems that they're just preparing to relearn the lessons of the early web (federation doesn't work; you need mechanisms to maintain Byzantine fault tolerant consensus; explicit economic incentives are required if you don't want the system to develop out-of-protocol centralizing economics; etc.).
> But we have selected an economic system that depends on ownership to drive exchange in a market, so... that's why.

For extremely loose values of "we", perhaps - I didn't select it, and I would vote "no" if the idea were proposed...
This mirrors my sentiments.

I love YouTube and pay for it.
Someone help me understand, as a non American. I'm in finance by trade so I understand the mechanics here. When the budget is passed by congress, it is known that the debt limit will be exceeded - this is fairly trivial to model. So why not include the commensurate debt ceiling increase as part of the budget bill?
Microsoft Workers Won't Get Annual Pay Bump Despite $18.3B in Profit
You could buy Microsoft stock while working at a job that gives you an appropriate raise. I'm not sure what you're even trying to say here.
I emphatically do not want another to-do list from option 2. I would suggest a toggle to disable it if you end up
implementing this way.

> “one-tweet”

I want to “peek” at this tweet but I do not want to use Twitter.
Without building any more housing, SF could be a nice place (for those who can afford it) by simply strictly enforcing existing laws. The desire to not strictly enforce existing laws generally comes from a progressive leaning I believe? Basically, it is <some flavor of mean> to enforce the laws, because those breaking the laws were put in a bad situation by society? Which I think is the gist of a lot of progressive ideals (not asserting that they are wrong here).
At least the 2012 live demo went better than the 2010 keynote live demo when they unveiled Google TV... and the lead presenter was stuck on stage for 10 or 15 minutes because no one could figure out how to pair the wireless keyboard. Apparently having 5,000 people in the audience all with Bluetooth and WiFi-enabled devices was not accounted for when preparing for the live demo...
Sigh, Really? You're obviously not an artist then, many of my friends and I have already replaced our Wacom dedicated tablets with an iPad with the pro pencil.
I love the design of this site. nicely done
A $1000 iPhone leaves enough left over for an iPad (even pro, almost).

Of course, that's not directly comparable, but it's notable.
That rule falls apart as soon as you start extrapolating out any further.

If everyone stops riding the subway, the city will lose the same amount of money and the subway will be underfunded. If everyone stops skiing and instead decides to build snowpeople in their back yard, the resort will go out of business. If no one shows up for the music festival, the artist will make zero dollars. So is that theft?

Generally most people would say no. None of those things are theft of service.

Deprivation of revenue on its own is not theft. That's not to say there's no moral implications behind watching public content without paying for it -- there is a moral implication -- but "morally problematic" is not the same as "theft". And a definition of theft that boils down to "loss of potential revenue" is not a definition that stands up to any serious scrutiny.
10 Million dollar bump

220,000 microsoft employees

Assuming each was in line to get more than a 5$ raise (obviously), the bonus to the CEO MORE than offsets the cost saved to the employees.

From a financial perspective, a bonus to the CEO makes perfect sense. Welcome to capitalism.
I had a look at the project. Looks very interesting, but for something like this code examples = marketing. I don't believe the buzzwords, and can't make sense of what it is. My best guess is it is like a "backend react for permanent state"... maybe?
> This isn't true in many places for lots of reasons.

Fair point, but are any of those places in states with no income tax? Thise states have to make up for that loss of revenue somewhere.
I disagree. There is a lot of good and information dense content on YouTube. Shorts as a format though mostly tends to be dopamine rich garbage.
Are you at all worried that by posting an open problem on HN and claiming you've found a simple solution, someone might scoop you to the paper?
I thought it was rather confusing how people with 2+ conditions died from covid(?) You could also not count them but it would be equally wrong. How hard does one have to sneeze to blame a traffic fatality on covid? It can never be statistically significant with so many people in bed and working from hone.

If the heating bill would be the problem we would all have died?

The article is as wrong as all the others, perhaps more so but I cant tell? can I?
Panels are typically installed at an angle
IRS claiming $44B from FTX bankruptcy
How does it feel to work on tech to spy on people?
I’m really tired and based on the headline I thought scientists had a cure for male pattern baldness and the new hairs increased your sense of hearing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_d...

Basically looks like another exercise of legislating for the hell of it, rather than making lives better for Americans.
WHOIS is still useful for telling you registrar, registration date, and nameservers. That's mostly what I ever used it for.
The rest of the city is not as bad as downtown, but it has gotten worse.

Car breakins, violent street encounters, general lawlessness has definitely increased in the outlying areas.

It’s not horrible mind you, just more prevalent than say 5 years ago.
Because this is a bullshit game of politics. The politicians come up with absurd ways of log jamming the system. They all want to use any tool as a weapon to get their way.

Average people don't matter in America.
Folding phones have some good use cases like video/photo/music editing, desktop publishing, word processing, and probably some other things I can't think of. However, those are all great things to do on a tablet or laptop. The foldable phones seem to be the next evolution of the phablet design but those didn't exactly sell well. Although the reason those didn't sell well was because of how big they are, a foldable gives you the package of a phone but the screen size larger than a phablet. Do you need to do all of these editing/publishing tasks on the go and don't want to carry any more than a portable keyboard? A foldable might be for you. Google just doesn't want to miss out on the potential market. Will they continue to sell? Honestly who knows. Carrying around such an expensive device like you would your phone seems risky but I'm probably not the market for these devices. Google is just looking to make sure that Samsung doesn't corner the market even if its just a fad.

With Apple bringing Final Cut and Logic to the iPad, they can cut further into the "creative on-the-go" market without having to bother creating a foldable and just leverage their existing tech.
You and your creators use yt as a service. Their servers and network. Payment and others. That services don't come for free.
If you don't give them any money, why Google need to provide the services?

If you don't like that, you can build your own server and steam from that.
In year of fairly high inflation this is a big deal and I don't suggest it will go down well.

To be a bit cynically Machiavellian ... 'any' kind of raise would have allowed them to at least avoid the 'no raise' kind of language.

This feels like a short sighted tactic - the economy is doing 'well enough' and MS is definitely forward looking at this point, this is going to be a bit of subtle 'sand in the gears'.
Looks fine on Edge/Windows too.
Worth pointing out that WHOIS is sunsetting in January 2025 and that RDAP (already live) is the replacement.
And Canada! I had no idea. Thanks for posting this. I usually don’t need things urgently, and shipping seems to add up really quickly with digikey. I could easily handle the added wait times.

The other day I was thinking of ordering an $18 microcontroller and the shipping was $8. It doesn’t seem worth it, and it’ll be a while before I can justify ordering $100 of parts to get free shipping.
Yeah, I'm pretty okay with sponsored segments. By and large, the people I watch only accept sponsors that appear to be legitimate, and the read is generally "here's this service and what it does, give it a try and thank them for feeding me this week!" Or "I've been using this service since they started and I think it's pretty cool"

They're generally not low quality scammy products or designed to extract money or spy (with the exception of VPN ads, but that's a different issue).

I'm alright with them. I tend to skip them more these days because I can only hear about Brilliant and Squarespace so many times in a day
It was okay back then, I was young and didn’t know you could design websites that are easier on the eyes.
Serious question from the article though…why do Americans account for an outsized percentage of hearing loss sufferers?
Idea to paper is non trivial effort. Lots of iterations need to be done.
How often do these come up? I studied some OR stuff in grad school when I was evaluating solvers and brushed up against the OR tools community for some research ideas and from what I could tell the businesses that really needed it already use these tools and the other businesses just don't have enough business dependent on optimization to be worthwhile.
Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers
I'll drop a contrarian take.
I love youtube premium. The content I "comsume" (yech!) is well worth the 12ish dollars. I could skip ads with a blocker, I could join every creator's patreon, I could watch/listen in firefox on my phone, I could yt-dl the videos for offline play.. But none of that is as convenient*cheap as a premium subscription.
Open spaces are pretty easy to divide as long as they're horizontal. Vertical 'lawyer foyers' are a bit harder to use well.
Venice did a good job with this, New Orleans still has hope.
I couldn't disagree more.

The majority of my usage, and the usage of _many_ others based on the view count for DIY stuff, is watching people fix or build stuff. Usually because I'm in the middle of a project trying to figure out how to do something, or because I'm thinking about a project and wanting to get an idea of how difficult it'll be. Youtube University basically.

I pay for premium because it saves so much time, and I hate ads when I'm under a car trying to remember what bolt goes where.

Also, from an economic model, Stratechery has a great article last week discussing this - worth a read. https://stratechery.com/2023/the-unified-content-business-mo...
YT premium money does partially go to creators though??
I think the technical term is pixel f*cking. Personally, I could care less about a venture capital firm's brand identity, but I absolutely sympathize with wanting to make a technical improvement as seamless as possible, and respectful of its less technical content. Furthermore, there is a valuable art in doing so. Even something like the separation of view and model is beautiful in itself.
What low voltage wiring do you have in your house?
As someone who has been through the addiction loop, I can say a) it's a good thing that he's thinking that way, it is good to be conscious of these things; b) that even the slightest question about addiction points to something significant, something to watch very closely; and c) consciousness about these things can never be used as an excuse to ignore it.
It is basically, and you're supposed to get the "hint".

But the way it's structured - at least on paper, there's supposed to be some way in which you can pass the "test" and endure an extra run of gaslighting and ostracization until they figure out another way to get rid of you.
> Many no longer do because of this. YouTube "demonetizing" videos they don't like, while continuing to show ads on that exact video and keeping 100% of the reward for themselves is certainly not fully in the right here,

If they are no longer using Youtube then it is not longer their problem innit? Good for them.

> dark pattern

This I agree with. I think we as a society need to accept that we are apes. This is what libertarians and free thinkers refuse to accepts. There are certain things that we just don't want to fuck with. You can't actually just say "lol just don't watch it" or "the free market decides what they want!". Guess what, people don't know what's good or bad for them (sometimes).

I wouldn't object to a full ban on short videos like TikTok or Shorts. inb4 "but I can control my desires!" . Okay good for you. Some people are immune to drug addiction too but that doesn't mean it should be legal.
"assault on the senses" is a well-known idiom. Or so I thought. Apparently it’s offensive to quite a few of you, I’m sorry.
bzrp is doing a concert tour now, he just played here in buenos aires a couple weeks ago, i have the t-shirt

also maybe lindsey stirling counts?
Went from a Note 8 to iPhone. Lack of stylus bugs me all the time. One of my favourite features was being able to hover over foreign language words and it would translate them, even if the word was in image or a button on an application.

On iOS if you wanted to translate the text on a button you have to take a screen capture, then translate the screen capture.

This was possible partly because of the stylus hover feature, but also because the Android permission model allowed for applications (translation service) to 'see' the screen of other applications. Something I don't think iOS allows.

If you enjoy using foreign apps, learning languages or living in an area with a different language the Samsung Note series was fantastic.
See the replies to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896620
I just encountered a case of a hardware OEM adding a LLM chatbot to their parts lookup page.

I asked it for the part number of a common failing part for a given model, and it confidently replied - with a part number that does not and never has existed...

It was formatted right, and the correct number of digits. It was just that it was wrong.
I don't believe Apple has released empirical data, but Apple has optimized phone charging built into recent versions of iOS (Settings > Battery > Battery Health and Charging). It will stop at 80% and then resume charging to 100% about an hour before you start using your phone every day. iOS tracks your daily habits to determine the start of your day.

In the most recent iOS versions, if it can determine when "clean energy" is available near your location, it will also try to charge only during those time periods. I don't think any 3rd party has determined if it is effective.
And this is exactly why YouTube should block ad blockers, to force people like you to be honest.
A Backup of Historical Proportions
they mentioned secret sauce: scaling laws and UL2.
> Every minute someone watches them is a minute that they aren't watching a potential competitor

Actually, they would prefer if all of the ad-blocking, refuse-to-pay customers would spend a lot of time on their competitor's websites.
Someone trading derivatives that would be affected by the US govt defaulting would likely have standing
There are quite a lot of articles about climate change on The Economist and as far as I know none of them denies it.

But of course because they posted something that you don't agree with, they must be propaganda.
Ask HN: Why do you make unsubscribing services so difficult?
Constantly receive spam mail from companies I don't know and I have been unsubscribed their new letter a million times, even blocked the domain in Gmail. Still receiving those.

Especially for Japanese companies, you have to login the account that you have never registered in order to opt out for spam mail.

Just want to ask who taken part in these anti-human behaviors.
> due to the way the algorithms tailor so well

People on HN seem to have very different experiences on Youtube than I do. Do people here actually like Youtube's video recommendations? Youtube is my go-to example I give when I need to explain to people why algorithmic recommendations generally don't work well.

> People do not block youtube ads because [...]

I'll take a hardline position on this -- if Youtube Premium was free, it would not be worth using it to watch Youtube videos. The cost is not actually the main issue. The product itself is inferior to using 3rd-party tools.

I spent a decently long time paying for Youtube Premium because I wanted to pay for content, and deliberately not using it anyway because I also wanted to have a decent viewing experience. I can't speak for other people, but for me at least when I talk about the quality of the service, it's not an excuse. I deliberately paid for a product and I still didn't use it; that's how much I disliked it.
That’s actually not as bad, as it’s usually just some big meme gifs that I can disable with my animation blocker extension.
> AIUI there's an established bias that people naturally underestimate how long they'll be stuck in traffic commuting and how miserable it will make them

Grew up in the burbs of southern California so I had 22 years of experience with the traffic there. Turned me into an urban or rural dweller. Nothing in between. It's just not worth it.
Not really. If the CEO was in charge of the direction of the company, and that direction was so bad that they have to make major layoffs and cuts, then they shouldn't be rewarded for this.

This isn't a fucking game. These are human lives. Microsoft laid off 10,000 humans [1] because their idiotic CEO decided it would be a really good idea to overhire like crazy in 2021 and 2022. This was the wrong decision and now they have to do massive layoffs and paycuts.

Compulsively making high-risk decisions in the hope of short term rewards is such a common thing that we actually have a word for it: gambling. This gambling addict has uprooted 10,000 human beings' lives, and yet he still gets a $10,000,000 bonus. Get off your high horse.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/09/tech-industry-layoffs/
Maybe I should try Irish Spring.
Who misses checks if the U.S. hits the debt brink in June
I feel the same way. It's not just about the privacy aspects, too. It's also about the convenience. I don't want to have to create and use an account just to pay for video content. I want something more along the lines of dropping coins/bills into the instrument case of a street musician.
Public goodwill is a thing. Also, their offer was lackluster. But with Youtube Music being a part of Premium and getting better and better overtime, more and more people are actually on the lookout for signing up.
There's also a psychological aspect of it. Remember how it feels when you're just about to do something and someone told you that you have to do it? Taking the agency and initiative away tend to annoy people and have an adverse effect on the task. You might not be personally affected by it but it's a common thing.
yeah. they have about 700 Julia users and are in the early phases of trying to switch all their code to Julia.