skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do we guarantee that this entity won't abuse the power to set arbitrary tax valuations?

We don't. They already do that with "normal" property taxes. This wouldn't change that.

Soon-to-be gentrified neighborhoods are often ignored by property tax assessors and code enforcement for many years, then one day a developer reaches out to the tax assessors and says "hey the taxable assessment values in this neighborhood should really be higher". Then the people living there have taxes raised 10-20% every year until they are forced to sell for low prices because they can't afford to hold onto their property until the gentrification is actually well underway when they'd finally see their property value actually go up.

At least, that's how it goes in Texas.

I don't think this system would be worse in that sense, probably roughly equivalent. But it makes sense to at least attempt to tax undeveloped and under-developed land at high enough rates to encourage at least some healthy amount of development. It won't be perfect, but it shouldn't be worse either.
Going dark isn't really a new thing though? That's how Bin Laden stayed hidden for some long. They communicated by "the old ways" . The part I don't understand is why they don't have a few thousand hard core army members ready to go at a moment's notice situated somewhere central to the west bank and to Gaza and can logistically be anywhere along those borders within an hour or so. It took several hours for them to get to the area and the terrorists/murderers were long gone.
Can you please make it possible to delete ones account?
I remember when it was nice.
I wish there were more people like you on the internet.
Out of all the places I've worked, I think my favourite approach was Dropbox's: They ask these algo questions for new grads, because every new grad from a computer science program has been through these classes and it's an easy thing to index on.

But for experienced hires, nobody gets algorithms questions. Instead, you get practical questions -- depending on the role, things like writing an ID allocator, finding duplicate files across a filesystem, demonstrating understanding of concurrency, etc. No "implement this well-understood algorithm that you'll never implement again" questions.
Techno-optimism? lifts hood hey, it was techo-feudalism all along!
No, even __bone structure__ width, shoulders, knees to hips. Airline seats seem sized to accommodate a hypothetical 'average' adult; not the maximum of any given dimension for a even a healthy adult.
Not just piss. Piss is OK (I have several kids and the smell is nothing anymore). It's heavily fermented piss and feces and the odiferous chemicals that stick to your clothes that really sucks.
It sounded as if GP meant to imply the Swedish communist party's attitude to privacy was equivalent to something, without stating what. The Soviet communist party's attitude, perhaps?

The Soviet one spied on everyone. The Swedish one was spied upon. That's not equivalent.
Interesting - perhaps I don't understand quite clearly though?

Assume a long time single family home elderly owner on a fixed income (i.e. social security) that had modeled for only linear increases in accessed land value (and associated taxes) but experienced exponential accessed land value appreciation (and tax increases).

Would the proposed solution be for the original long time elderly owner to sell 50% rights to the property in exchange for another future owner to tear down the single home and replace it with a duplex for the original owner and new co-owner to live in together?

Or is the assumption that only well capitalized apartment owners are the only ones who own the land and have the capability to teardown and re-build as more units or renovate and raise rents?
Everyone works differently; I have to fight to stay awake if I'm listening to a presentation or at colleagues jabbering on during a meeting, lol.
People dont see that some things just do not work?
Such an awesome piece work. Great job!
Nikita Bier put out a tweet about how if he wanted to test an idea quickly, he'd get together a small but great team, purely focus on building and testing the idea in a couple of months - if it's successful within the two months, great! If not, the team disbands - no strings attached.

It seems like the idea resonates because of the lack of commitment - so a couple of us put together this site so people can get together to work on this style of project.

Would love feedback on the website/ improvements/ ideas of how to get more eyes on it.
Wrong plan.

Olmert made multiple peace offer, historic ones. I linked to the one I meant. Wikipedia does not have an individual article on the one I linked, instead it's just summarized in the page on Olmert.

And there have been many other plans proposed by Israel - around 20 or so.

Palestinians rejected every single plan.

The Olmert one and the one Arafat rejected are especially notable because they gave Palestinians virtually everything they wanted. They still rejected them.

There's a reason Israel gave up on ever achieving peace - if they were going to reject those plans, there's nothing left to offer.
In the 90's, the shadows of the P-3 Orions regularly flying out of Moffett Field to hunt for submarines would pass over my house and briefly darken my living room many times a day in Mountain View.
That's what I did for a long time; the main issues with it is the leader music, youtube ads, and that they're relatively short.

There's loads of similar "manufacturing" videos on youtube these days, but they don't have the narration or 'vibe', sometimes annoying thumping music, etc.
> Manual memory management being faster than GC is a function of controlling memory layout

Control over memory layout and manually allocating and freeing memory are orthogonal issues.

I can optimize memory layout in Java too by using primitive data types instead of pointer-chasing objects, or structs of arrays vs array of structs type of things in order to improve access patterns. I can't control alignment and padding, except indirectly, thats true, but that is not what people mean when they say "manual memory management". Rust gives you control over memory layout, but has "automatic" memory management.

> forcing you to be a bit smarter about how you do things, to be less wasteful

Yes this is what I meant.
> The tech crowd on a forum like HN seems to be mostly against it because of issues with account recovery and cross-device use that passwords don’t pose.

Because of an embarrassing amount of ignorance. Own an android phone? An iPhone? Congratulations, your passkeys are on your password manager.

You can recover your passwords when you lose your phone right? Exact same mechanism. (Now, if we want to talk about how solid the protection is for apple/google at keeping these private keys safe in their clouds, and how secure something is when one magic password is enough to unlock literally everything, or how confident we can be that the govs won’t be able to get their paws on them, that’s a more nuanced topic).
This is a GPU compiler that made different design choices to LLVM and GCC.

Autovectorisation of numerical code has a long and not totally successful history. It turns out to be really difficult to determine which instructions are independent enough to pack their arguments into vector registers.

Where Cuda differs from autovectorisation is by giving that data independence problem to the programmer. The semantics of the kernel are that the instructions are independent from one another, thus the compiler doesn't need to prove it, and if you've written code where that has unwanted behaviour it's your problem.

Where ispc differs from llvm is by immediately mapping that implicitly vectorised code onto vector operations in the compiler front end and then optimising the vector form. llvm keeps the instructions in the scalar style until very near codegen.

I think ispc made the better choice here. It makes control flow easier to optimise and basic blocks harder to optimise than llvm's approach and that looks like the right tradeoff. However there's an element of the grass is always greener here and it's an expensive experiment to change llvm over to predicated vector IR to find out whether it is better in practice.

Interesting blog series, recommended.
The vast majority of noise complaints shouldn't require deadly force or any weapon at all. It's exactly the kind of work that police shouldn't even be involved in. I suppose it would be a massive improvement if they even kept their weapons in the trunk of their cars, but ideally you'd have someone qualified responding to noise complaints who could request police backup when needed.
Was thinking about this in mathematical terms recently, in terms of what's efficient vs. what can scale. In general, managers can't do things for reports that don't scale fairly across their whole team, because otherwise it'll give the appearance of favoritism for those reports who get favors and demotivate the rest. So to a first approximation, a manager with N reports can devote at most 1/N of their time to making a report's job easier. (To a second approximation, it's more like 1/2N because the manager also has overhead tasks like 1:1s and performance reviews that scale with the number of reports. To a third approximation the denominator scales supra-linearly after about 10 reports because you start taking up all your time with management tasks and have literally zero time for project work.)

Their goal is to keep their report's time fully utilized, so it is logical for a manager to take on a task if it saves their report 2N as much time in IC work. For example, a manager with 4 reports can devote up to 10 hours/week fairly to each one; taking the second approximation, that's 5 hours of overhead and 5 hours of project work. The report has 40 hours/week of time. Therefore, it makes sense for the manager to do a one-hour task (say, design work) if it saves the report at least 8 hours of work. A manager with 10 reports can devote only 4 hours/week to each, so with 2 hours of overhead and 2 hours of project work, it makes sense to take on a one-hour task only if it saves the report 20 hours of work. Taking the third approximation and assuming overhead is a constant 2 hours/week/report, the first case becomes 8 hours of project work, and so a task makes sense if it saves the report 5 hours of work.

You can see how a manager very rapidly approaches the "Do nothing other than bare minimum performance reviews, 1:1s, and save the report from blatant stupidity" line as their reporting load increases. This is why so much moderate stupidity and waste persists in big companies: the manager is not incentivized to remove it (and doesn't have time to anyway), but the report does not have the organizational power to change it. And ironically flatter hierarchies tend to be worse at this, unless they have ICs step up and do the "improve efficiency for everyone" role, but then they're usually either promoted into management or they leave.

This is also why managers look chronically dumb and entitled to ICs. The IC can see plenty of opportunities where "If you just did X, which takes 15 minutes of your time, it would save me 2 hours of my time." They don't realize that their manager has 10 other reports, so a.) their manager does not have 15 minutes of time to spare and b.) their manager is only going to spend it if saves at least a day. Otherwise it makes more sense for the employee to do it themselves, simply from a scalability perspective.
I have invite codes
for local development, I use keychain [1] on top of the ssh-agent.

this allows to keep ssh-agent On for a limited time, so it will ask for password again in, for example, 10 minutes.

[1] https://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo:Keychain
Indeed there has been.

Tasers were brought in with the excuse that they would replace the need for guns and reduce how many officers would carry guns. Tasers would, as argued when they were introduced, only be used by specialists in cases where previously they would have to use lethal force.

And yet here we are ~20 years later and tasers have started to become part of a routine carry.

In Q2 2018, Avon and Somerset police record 1 use of taser for the whole quarter.

In 2022, they recorded between 80 and 120 uses of taser per month. Although I suspect "use" in the 2023 report may be drawn not fired, the Q2 2021 reports 230 uses of taser with 51 firings, so applying a similar ratio is still an escalation of 100x over a few years.

Statistics from their "use of force" reports: https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/about/our-priorities/u...
If you're not interested in the lore or you know it already, https://www.youtube.com/@VaatiVidya is also a really good channel, the man has got a very soothing voice and speech mannerisms. Since Elden Ring came out, he's made some 'movies' of up to an hour long where one storyline (of the many that intercross in the game) is highlighted.
Project Aya is one such attempt at a multi-lingual model (targeting 101 languages):

- https://txt.cohere.com/aya-multilingual/

- https://aya.for.ai

I'm a contributor to the project and all data and model will be open-sourced.

We're looking for contributors in many languages!
You're right about the level of discourse, and it's become especially obvious to me whenever there's a discussion about passkeys. Everyone keeps repeating the same debunked arguments over and over, with only maybe one argument (attestation) holding some water.

It's too bad, I'm really excited about passkeys increasing authentication usability (and security second, for me), but most people here seem to want to hold on to passwords, as if they aren't both terrible UX and terrible security.
There's no "in theory" or "breaks the 100% hardware guarantee". Passkeys were specifically designed to be able to sync. There are also device-bound passkeys that can't be synced, if you want that. That is all.
I'm not saying it's the best possible utopia.
I know they aren't equivalent, I just think they show that actions that most people would consider unthinkable (the state lying to justify a war) are in fact relatively common. Israel sacrificing the few for the many is only unthinkable if you think states are generally just and care about their citizens.
How is an assessment which includes improvements (the status quo) less complicated than one which does not?

Distinguishing between lot value and property value is already a very common exercise in the real estate business.
Oh my, he actually quoted Italian futurism. We live in sacry times.
Unit area material costs are small next to the costs of design, marketing, manufacture (where both extra large and extra small items take the same time to complete, have the same number of cuts and the same number of stitches -> same complexity of construction).
I don't like your parent comment but there's merit in avoiding people believing those things actually think and are actually intelligent. In "thinking", there's reasoning, which those things currently don't. They output text statistically and that's what mass media should tell their audience.
I liked the first half of this headline
“Defund the police” is a terrible slogan.

“Oh what we mean by that is actually the opposite where we want to redistribute funding in different ways blah blah blah”.

And all a critic has to do is “left wing radicals say they want to defund the police”.
That section actually has an error. "There's no minimum weight requirement to become a sumo wrestler", there is, it's 67kg. Though they're getting rid of it next year, probably because they've finally figured out that it's dumb for high school students to force feed themselves 20 big macs a day just to hit some arbitrary weigh in.
We have tried to offer / show an implementation of Webauthn-based cross-platform PassKey support over at mailpass.io, where you can mix and match your devices as needed to any one account. The only known limitation at the moment is Mac TouchId via Firefox, which is being worked on by FF community (but could take up to 20 years based on some recent bugfix times over there :\ )
Anyone find it odd that Fireship suddenly stopped releasing?

And, that the last content was related to privacy centered Tails OS?

What kind of sign is this?
Yet somehow you are far less likely need to service sealed phone...
> forcing JAL to lay on an additional service for 27 wrestlers

I've never seen "lay on" used this way before, but from context I take it to mean they added another plane.

According to Mirriam-Webster "lay on" is used by the British to mean "hire" (as in the opposite of "lay off") and I suppose this is a similar use.

-- U.S. English speaker.
The "polemicist" you mention is a literal jew-hating national-socialist.
Pleasantly surprised to see Tz on front-page for once rather than Ke.
Micromanaging, yes. Another one: synchronous meetings and random phone calls.

If I have a synchronous meeting at 11am, I get nothing of value done before 11am.

If I've loaded an hour of context to search for a hard bug and at 4pm I'm forced to answer a "just 2 minutes" phone call, then I'm done work for the day.
Lingua: Romana:Perligata – Perl in Latin
Systems Administrator -> Cloud Engineer -> Infrastructure Engineer -> Site Reliability Engineer.

The more to the right, the less I had to interact with bare metal servers, but apply my knowledge of building them and operating almost every day.
And those people exist and are handled specifically in Brave New World. It's just that the system fucked up a bit and took a long time to find the protagonist of the book. But consider the world you and I live in where a vast majority of people who want challenges like this can never have them as they are stuck being dirt poor, or in criminality or something. It's gotten a lot better in the last 100 years, but it's no where close to BNW.
The issue raised in the article is that there may not be enough training material in many languages to do this.

I find this very plausible.
Even if everyone filled up this way, the policy would still be counter productive. Since gas stations are less common, instead of being able to fill up when you are at e.g. 1/4 of a tank, you fill up when you are at 1/2 a tank. You spend more energy visiting gas stations (idling, decelerating) and use more energy carrying more fuel.
Well, environment variables are not "global" globals. They are just my globals, or my post-it notes for some variables. Because they are not per-user even. They are per user session.

10 processes can have completely different set of values for the same environment variables, because they are in their own environments, and apparently, that's useful.

There are foot guns, and there are unintentional consequences of implementation and design details. This is why we patch, improve and rewrite our software over time. To iron out these kinks.

Fire is also have a tendency to cause collateral damage. So use both fire and environment variables responsibly, and world will be a better place.
I definitely think a lot of filesystem access is a code smell and probably not the right thing. That one causes me a lot of pain. But that’s largely because I work in games and you really need to use the Unity/Unreal/whatever asset management system instead of direct file system access.

I’ve got a small build system and the first thing it does is nuke PATH to empty. It’s glorious. No more grabbing random shit from a big blob with untracked dependencies that varies wildly by system!

I could easily live my entire life without environment variables. They’re just a fundamentally bad idea. Every program that foolishly uses environment variables can be replaced by a better program that takes a config file or arglist.
While it's not trivial, assessing un-improved land value does not seem too different from other complicated accounting tasks that both governments and private organisations have been performing for a long time. Cost segregation studies are already a thing.

A good starting point can be the relevant part of the Georgist primer published on ACX:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-part-3-c...
The Green and Fascist coalition is going great I see.
Energy that could be getting used to displace fossil fuels and instead is being wasted on the shittiest database you could imagine.
> people cannot revoke your mandate

Most elected position have an unrevokable mandate, unelected positions are typically easier to revoke.

> If you are appointed you do not need to be accountable

They need to be accountable to who can revoke their position, which is generally elected officials.

I am not defending the EU here, I am not well informed enough in that regard; I am just criticizing the false dycothomy of elected/appointed when electoral systems create a much bigger variance of effects.
I don't think the 39m primary E-ELT is designed to do full sky surveys. AFAIK it is to do targeted observations using multiple instruments.

The Vera Rubin (fka LSST) Telescope will survey the southern sky every 2 or 3 nights with an expected data rate of 20-30TB/night, depending on the source.

https://www.lsst.org/about

https://www.lsst.org/sites/default/files/docs/Site%20Selecti...
Stackoverflow, how do I do x?

SO: Closing because it’s already been asked and answered

No it hasn’t.

SO: you have been warned

ChatGTP: here's how you do x. Ask me again fifteen different ways and I'll tell you again fifteen different ways.
There's 12 parts to this in total:

1. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins

2. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/19/ispc-volta-is-born

3. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/20/ispc-volta-going-all-...

4. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/21/ispc-volta-c-and-spmd

5. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/22/ispc-volta-first-resu...

6. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/23/ispc-volta-users-and-...

7. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/25/ispc-volta-avx

8. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/26/ispc-volta-more-on-pe...

9. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/27/ispc-volta-open-sourc...

10. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/28/ispc-talks-and-depart...

11. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/29/ispc-retrospective

12. https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-fin
It's even worse than that. Those are the half-lives. From the paper:
"These glyphosate-metal complexes
increase the half-life of the herbicide dramatically, from 90
days to 7 years in water and 47 days to 22 years in soil."

On the plus side, things should get better soon: "In 2012, Sri Lanka imported >5 million kg of glyphosate until a ban was imposed since 2014."
It's ironic he talks about markets yet Netscape came from Mosaic, developed at a public university (Urbana-Champaign in Illinois) without market forces. HTML and HTTP developed at CERN, another public institution.
But we got surveillance, it was a good bargain :D
Do you have any critic proof suggetions?

I suspect they're rather hard to coin.
I wonder truly, is there any company above say 300 employees which does not have custom software.
> land is not substitutable

Then why do realtors do showings for multiple locations? It’s because the locations are substitutable, with buyers balancing price and amenities. Land is substitutable.

> confusing second and first order

Prices are a second order effect, not a first order effect (unless there’s price fixing). LVT makes land with amenities relatively less attractive, which lowers demand. Lower demand then moves the price, but the quantity demanded will still be lower since the demand curve has shifted down. This causes an exodus from urban centers to the periphery.

>property taxes disincentivize development

True. Assuming constant revenue, a move from property to land value tax would create a relative migration from city cores to a highly developed exurbia. If the LVT was high enough, we’d get single plot high rises with multistory garages only accessible by freeway surrounded by untouched nature reserves.