For homes, I don't know if there are. But I think taxes should be levied in line with incentives. If you place a wealth tax on property ownership, the only tangible thing that will happen is rents going up to offset. Since the tax applies to all landlords, it will be the closest thing to rent inflation.

What you really want to avoid is homes built but sitting empty. Whether that's a builder who can't sell at asking price, or a landlord not getting the rent they want doesn't matter. If the city sold a lot to you, they did so for improving home supply, not the developer's profits.

For commercial, my opinion was based on Louis Rossman's YouTube channel about New York. The hypothesis there is that loans are based on property value, which are tied to requested rent. Asking for a lower rent might mean they have to put up more collateral, which they can't. So they keep asking for high rates and leave it vacant.

Yeah, this is a farce.

Same goes for commercial, but in that case, I'd even suggest forefeiture if you are not reducing requested rent within a year of vacancy. Let someone else take over if you overspent.

For general chat bots where the user doesn't understand what a context window is, what do you do about context? Latest few messages and then a memory tool? Compaction?

That sounds hilarious. So I had to look. It's the ISIC: Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee, "compris[ing] five of the major European coffee companies: illycaffè, JDE Peet's, Lavazza, Paulig, and Tchibo."

https://www.coffeeandhealth.org/about-isic

But it's okay, because

> ISIC is dedicated to contributing and consolidating balanced scientific information on coffee consumption – providing a reference for professionals and authorities who address health and wellbeing. [---]

Though

> ISIC works with the European Coffee Federation as well as with national coffee associations in the following countries [---]

suggests they don't work with any tea or soda federations to compare the scentific effects of coffee to other beverages.

Main authors study neuroscience (Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland,) so I bet the results are real, but as you point out, they knew that before even starting.

What are you doing with the authentication servers? This isn't the first downtime I've seen caused by that.

2. Yes, if you only have few people who know how to use a powerful tool, they might have leverage.

3. The supply-demand mechanism is certainly there, but the time scale is never mentioned. It'll take time to remove the unemployed juniors from the pool (maybe they get sucked up into other jobs.) It'll take time for seniors to realize they have leverage. And, of course, the company must not have rehired junior engineers for other reasons (e.g. because the coding tools become so good that seniors are not needed.)

Any objections about "this thesis isn't true; look around you" needs to take this into account. The argument is not that we're there now, but that there's a mechanism to lead there.

But that's for another government to deal with, of course. Not our problem. Oh, and the future government will be happy to announce they are giving funding that will go to new jobs!

I propose a ban on people that use bans as a brain-less cheap way of fixing complex issues.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743553

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743841

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744492

All flagged. Sigh. Maybe this one will stay because Europe is waking up now.

E.g. when splitting a face in OnShape, I might have to redo a whole bunch of operations later because the identifiers change, but I'm often surprised how good it is at matching up faces after a single operation. Like modifying a sketch, then having to add the new face to an extrusion, but then it magically does the right thing for chamfers and drafts.