skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Suppose you institute the LVT and get rid of the building height restrictions. Now people are going to build a bunch of 5 and 10-story buildings and quickly solve the housing shortage -- great. It actually works. Now the area needs an average building height of 1.2 stories and the average becomes 2.5 stories. Nobody even wants the 1-story buildings because you have to pay 5 times as much LVT per square foot as the 5-story buildings. Local land is no longer scarce because it's being used so much more efficiently.

There would be an equilibrium. If the need is an average of 1.2 stories, why would developers build until there is 2.5 stories? Yes, with a 10 story building you pay less LVT per apartment, but if nobody buys or rents those apartments, it's still cheaper to build a, say, 3 story building. Or whatever the developer thinks they can sell/rent.

> So its value goes down, and with it the tax revenue -- the sole source of tax revenue. Then the government has a few options. Option 1, raise the mil rate. But that doesn't work; if you do that people just build 50-story buildings to minimize the tax and the rest of the land becomes abandoned because no one without a 50-story building could afford the tax on it.

The way I understand it, the LVT is 'automatically' set by the land values, hence the LVT name. Of course the government can play with what percentage of the land value the tax is set to, but presumably it would be very unproductive to set it higher than the rate of return of that land in the first place. So even a 'maximal' LVT would be capped (assuming basic economic saneness on the behalf of the government).

So if somebody builds a 50-story building, then there is suddenly an oversupply of housing, and as result land values drop, and thus the LVT a land owner needs to pay drops as well. So you'll find an equilibrium point where somebody maybe wants to pay a higher LVT in order to live in a single-family home on their own lot, somebody else prefers a bit roomier apartments in a 4-story building instead of shoebox apartments in that 50-story building etc.

And likely the developer of the 50-story building will then make a huge loss, because building such an extremely tall building is very expensive, and tends to make sense only where land prices and demand are huge, not in a place where the requirement is an average 1.2 stories.

> Or Option 3, fund the government some other way. Which removes the government's perverse incentive to create artificial scarcity of land to maximize their tax revenue. But then why not just start there? Get rid of the existing perverse incentive (property tax), and the zoning regulations, let housing become affordable as people build until rents fall to construction costs, and fund the government some other way.

Well, that's the crux isn't it: What is 'some other way'? (Almost) all taxes cause economic inefficiency in some way. LVT, proponents claim, is almost unique in not causing any deadweight loss because the supply of land is fixed. So from an economic efficiency point of view, it seems LVT is the (or at least, among the) least bad tax.
A CEOs job is to find the right people to delegate the minutia to.
Functional Components are not functional in the sense of functional programming. They are shared mutable state.
These saas do innovate, what will I do without my confetti animation when I drag the issue to done.
Thanks! I tried clicking around the various links and nothing seemed to happen apart from popups trying to get me to enter my wallet information, so I assumed it was just some kind of crypto-scam leaderboard.

I've now read the other article, and it's fascinating. Somehow I missed the story about the arrest and this album at the time...
> I did read it.

I see you intentionally omitted the specific part of my quote that made it plain you hadn't bothered to read it. You wanted me to provide an example of something I explicitly stated never happened... and you think that made sense?
Just another thing Germany managed to totally fuck up. I can't even remember something that was done well for the last, what, 5-10 years? All the politicians we have are a disgrace.
Looks (and sounds) cool.

What is the license?
> when navigating to a new screen, it's better to show a loading state as soon as you can (often a skeleton UI), rather than delay the transition.

In a better language, this would be the programmers choice on a case-by-case basis, with no need for the higher-ups to break or fix everyone's behaviour at once.

Either return a Page(Future(Components)) or a Future(Page(Components)).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712344 Here's my own (sry) post on how to pick the good stuff.
I'd give the submitter more credit than that. The title was cut for length, retaining the earlier (and presumably more significant) aspects of the original. As I noted in my other comment, wordsmithing title is a challenge, and most people probably aren't fully aware of HN's nuances and preferences in the practice.

And you did do a better job of it, as I also indicated a few minutes ago.
"simplify, then add lightness"
Market cap of the stock.
> the IP is not built on a valid license

But is "built on" a thing that matters at all?

Plenty of things that will eventually need a license to go into production get "built" without that license. And that's a worse case, analogous to the Nuvia license never even existing.
run by companies trading in New York...
I switched from React to Svelte just recently because the code is so much more beautiful and succinct. I am so happy with the decision. Here are some reasons why you should choose Svelte over React and Vue ...

Zero Runtime Overhead: Svelte shifts much of the work to compile time, producing highly optimized vanilla JavaScript at build time. Unlike React and Vue, which use a virtual DOM to update the browser's DOM, Svelte writes code that updates the DOM when the state of your app changes. This results in faster initial loads and smoother runtime performance.

Simpler Syntax and Less Boilerplate: Svelte offers a cleaner and more intuitive syntax compared to React and Vue, reducing the amount of boilerplate code developers need to write. Its reactive assignments feature allows you to write reactive statements naturally, without needing to use special APIs or functions like useState or useEffect in React, or computed and watch in Vue.

Built-in State Management: Svelte's reactivity model is baked into the language itself, eliminating the need for external state management libraries (like Redux for React or Vuex for Vue) for most applications. This simplifies the development process and reduces the bundle size.

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> What is a primordial forest

It is a forest that humans have not touched. There are still a few in Europe, and some are strictly protected. However, in countries where corruption is at a high level, local politicians can be bought to issue concessions for the deforestation of those natural jewels.
Bullshit. Regulation is what has a bogger influence.

Within the group of consumers, there will always be only a small (if not neglible) fraction that does care and has the means for a boycott.

A bit of organized activism can force regulation and will have a way bigger impact.
"move fast and break things" as zuckerborg himself said

most of the js ecosystem is made of stream of consciousness kludge that is constantly being "refactored" and "deprecated"

effing tiresome as hell dealing with that sh-t...and this mentality seems to have seeped entirely into nu-dev as i see it also in other ecos now
I wonder if these new-tech oil fields are just those using CO2 to extract more oil... https://www.desmog.com/2024/06/10/carbon-capture-will-extend...
OK, this fungus breaks down polyethylene, which might even find a second use as fuel in combined heat and power stations.

But a large part of microplastics found in aquatic environments is abraison from car tires. So we need more and different fungi ...

[sciencenews](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/car-tires-and-brake-pads...)

[theconversation](https://theconversation.com/how-your-car-sheds-microplastics...)

[springeropen](https://microplastics.springeropen.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s43...)
German government subsidized fraudulent Chinese "Green" company's.
Terrible shitshow. Web dev is all broken and horrible. Well at least the popular stuff is. No idea why anyone uses this outside resume building.
Russian Economy Collapsing
The only sure way to avoid degenerate chat rooms is to stick with topics that are less appealing to degenerates. Trying to gatekeep your way out of those situations is a lost cause because now you’ve admitted that you aren’t there to build communities but rather to divide them for selfish reasons.

Most of us figure that out by our mid 30s and I firmly believe that is a main reason you don’t usually see people over a certain age in that kind of environment. Some platforms like Discord or Reddit can have a network bias effect toward this as well.
Agree. Many feel like “I had an idea, I daydreamed a bit, then I wrote down my daydream”, leaving me with a shrug.
I have used yarn since 2018. It was developed in 2016.

What does dominant even mean in such a short term context? It hasn’t even been 10 years.

As far as companies go, we move so slowly that when someone brings up a tech fad, the fad is gone by the time the committee actually gets to decide. So we stick with the status quo.
Elon Musk can't vote his shares for his own pay package, I assume.
And go on a factory tour with Elon https://x.com/Tesla/status/1795410566099374251?t=xICSqi-3l1p... some of it is so ridiculous that it's funny.
Didn't Musk join them ~2 yrs after it was incorporated and didn't start the company?
Shocking...
I have an understanding that the notebook is something other than laptop, but I can not find neither the definition of the word nor any synonyms in the article.
Desktop apps should be C++/QT, not javascript.
Astro is very good at building flat static light HTML with no JS on most pages. It strips the JS from the page and loads it in "islands" only when needed.
From the Pacific to the Himalayas, the republic of China will be free?
Looking at the Tudor map, one thing that really stands out is how many abbeys and monasteries there were (shown in pink), and how much of London was taken up by them.
What if Musk is just pretending all this to sell to the MAGA people?

He has pretty much always supported democrats after all.
Is it just me or the article is completely in German?
> Agree on the rest, except that ARM obviously doesn't retroactively limit the license they gave to Nuvia, these terms were already part of Nuvia's license from the start.

The retroactive part is the concept of not being able to transfer the Nuvia IP.

> From the court-documents it seems that Qualcomm doesn't argue the interpretation of those terms, they argue that they should not be enforced.

Earlier you said the Nuvia license was void. Isn't the meaning of void that no terms will be enforced?
So another data point of failed corporate governance. When the Board’s wealth is so directly tied to the CEO how can they function as expected?

Or is this just a naive view.
40 out of 60 greening endeavors by the fossil fuel industry fraudulent in China
Again, such an arrogant US-centric view. You do realise that other countries have agency too, right?

The idea that the US drove the Saudis to lobby the Soviets is absurd: The Saudis were independently lobbying everyone they could because all signs were that the much more powerful Iraqi military would invade them next in order to gain control of much of the world’s oil supplies. That’s why the first coalition response was to form Desert Shield to protect Saudi Arabia from an Iraqi invasion.

34 countries took part in the military operation to push Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which they had invaded without any legal justification at all. The operation was clearly and unambiguously authorised by the United Nations Security Council. It’s as clear an example of Jus ad Bellum in the modern era as you could hope for. And you still aren’t satisfied.

As for your last sentence, you’re conflating events thirty years later. It’s irrelevant to a discussion about whether the 1990 UN-authorised ejection of Iraqi forces from Kuwait was legally sound and justified.
Then again, where all this wood go? Because it's not in IKEA's furniture.
Is there really a perceived difference on the employees side?

If anything subsidized childcare feels like charity and I don't want charity, I want to be paid well for my work, so I can take care of my family.
Thanks anal_reactor
> Why is this situation with Taiwan so difficult to unwind? In the West there is a fantasy that if war breaks out, we will just load all the Taiwanese onto a starship and bring them over to the US where they will happily resume their work in OUR fabs. But they don’t want that. They want their home and ideals to be defended, and they’re willing to do the work… from their soil.

Who is saying or even implying this? I've never heard this anywhere. Otherwise there wouldn't be all these folks gaming out war scenarios because the US would never need to get involved.
What a stupidly misleading headline. That put jalopnik.com on my blacklist forever. Why is this on HN?
Maybe founding bicycle paths in peru was actually a better idea.
Prior to React, most developers just invented a strategy for structuring code on the client side. What’s your preferred alternative?
> Tell me what is better

The slow and steady one, definitely.

> CEO that says I will take this company into the stratosphere

TSLA is -25% this year, -29% since June 2023, -11% since June 2021.

This does not look like stratospheric numbers to me. You pretty much have to go back to the second half of 2020 to see any noticeable growth at all compared to today's price.
He already has left. He's a part-time CEO at best. Employees call him a pigeon CEO because "he comes in, shits all over us, and then leaves":

https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-t...

The board seems to be working for Musk more than they're working for Tesla.
The VRU was a separately sold accessory and not an out of the box capability devs could depend on. The 360 had an ergonomic controller, yes, but didn't offer gameplay experiences other contemporaries couldn't offer.
I was quite excited when I heard Python was coming to Excel but the execution pretty much guarantees that adoption is going to be horrible. If I as MSFT wanted to get people to write Python scripts that can take advantage of Excel's great abilities this is probably the worst way I could have gone about it. A ham-fisted, cloud-first feature implementation that is basically jammed into the product without appropriate contextual abstractions is a pretty poor way to get things done. Given that Excel itself has a strong tabular object model built in, why would a DataFrame be required as a separate construct?

> We wanted an alternative to VBA, but got an alternative to the Excel formula language

Optimistically, I would guess that the powers that be inside MSFT wanted to show they "integrated" Python into Excel but didn't really want to mess too much with a product that has stabilized over the past 30 years. Cynically, I would say that they've messed up the implementation on purpose so they can put a bullet through the "Python in Excel" idea without actually doing anything useful.

A much better way to add Python (or any modern scripting language really) to Excel is to
1. Make a special library that can be called from the language and which only works with Excel.
2. Bundle a minimal interpreter so that the scripts can be run locally without pushing everything to some godforsaken Azure datacenter. Make this a downloadable plugin for all currently supported versions to ensure backwards-compatibility.

This is a much better way to ensure that Python becomes the glue language for Excel. There are so many applications where reporting, analysis and visualization can be better achieved through automation using scripting languages. VBA is old, limited and is yet another thing for someone to learn if they want to script any Office product. All of these are hurdles that can be easily removed. I guess though that the part that really sucks is that these are all things that the MSFT of the 80s/early 90s would have done in a heart beat if it meant more people would use Excel (they built in bugs from Lotus 1-2-3 for God's sake) but I guess it's a different story today when everybody does use Excel.
AFAIK all employees have some stock options or RSUs, I knew someone doing customer support for them in europe and even for those roles you get some.
> Weekends now revolve around the sports and activities of our children.

I wish my weekends look the same.
I should probably look this up somewhere on the net, but here goes anyway: What was the basis for Elon not receiving his stock award?

As I understand it, he and the stock holders made an agreement some years ago, that entitled Elon to a certain amount depending on how the stock performed. It turns out the stock performed really well, entitling Elon him to a really, really big bonus. I get that this is somewhat weird given that people are being fired and that Tesla is currently not able to sell their cars at the same rate as they are being produced. But is this enough to withhold the bonus? Are there some aspects of the agreement that Elon did not adhere to? From my point of view it looks like Elon was simply able to make a really good deal with the shareholders.
Person I quoted said good high end. I think you've interpreted good as just "looks good", based on that first minute of the video, which only talks about style.

ÄPPLARYD is a cheaply made sofa that looks nice, with very poor quality fabric just like all IKEA sofas these days

I'm fine with people saying it looks nice but it's tiring when people say it's "high end" and "high quality" and well made
It's weird, in some ways, that we offer benefits. Give people the money and let them use it how they like. When I lived in California I LOVED the parking cash-out law, it meant a few thousand more a year because I rode a bike to work and didn't need a parking spot.

Although, one challenge with things like childcare is that if you applied this on a society-wide level you wind up with childless people having more money, thereby being better able to outbid parents for essentials like housing (this is why a housing scarcity is so insidious). Of course, whether that's a bad thing or not depends on perspective. I have two kids myself and despite living in Europe childcare was so expensive we dropped to one income.
I wondered about that, but that wouldn't be described as parsing HTML, and it shouldn't involve parsing '<' and '&'.
Sure, you can join something like that, too. That's not the important part. The important part is to get a sustainable business out of it. Just 5 years ago nobody believed this was doable.
A fair strategy for new stock grants, but reneging on a agreement from years ago isn't the appropriate time to test your leverage.
He makes the 'real' decisions daily that the company succeeds or fails by. I guess we can play games all day of what 'real' is. Though 'real hard cash' is a crap store of value. Let's graph the value of the dollar versus the value of Tesla stock over 20 years.
When Musk joined the company was barely more than an idea and he joined 7 months after it was incorporated.
Sadly the main consequence of moving to two income families seems to be making everything cost twice as much.
Not to comment on Musk's ability but the other car manufacturers on this list (1) do exist?

(1) https://companiesmarketcap.com/automakers/most-profitable-au...
This is an interesting avenue to add to my search of “where the experts hang out”. I tried to reflect on it here: https://josh8.com/blog/mailing_lists.html
(As you can infer from the title, I decided that ‘mailing lists’ is one good answer).

I also had a brief discussion about the subject with an older person I respect, and this is what he had to say:

> Interesting post. I think you've hit on the central issue: where are
the experts?
>
> Back in the day, USENET was kind of the hotspot for that kind of thing; these days, it's mostly cranks and luddites; a few folks are
still around, but it's just not what it once was.
>
>The challenge is tapping into the current set of experts; the thing is, TUHS and COFF are great for talking to the older generation, but (and I think that Doug, Ken and Rob at least would admit this) they're mostly retired and have handed the torch off to the next batch. So where are THOSE people?
>
> I think that there is no central online presence for that group like
there was for the previous generation with USENET. I mostly chat with them at conferences or idly on social media, but the real work is
being done more or less independently. To the extent that folks are communicating about it, I think it's mostly point-to-point. :-(
That is just a wishful thinking. Russia does not even need dollars, it has all kinds of natural values and of course cryptocurrencies. Whose economy crushing is Ukrainian's one because of so-called safari operations aimed to catch some male Ukrainian unwilling to serve to the country that does not even interested in developing economy any more. Europe's economy is a new Ukrainian's back, OK? Russia is fighting on its own and it is able to keep doing it for way longer than we would want.
To focus on the real important things like sending memes.