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by throw0101b | 2025-05-02 12:40:14+00:00
> You have agency over your business. You're just betting on a stock. You wouldn't own enough stock to have meaningful agency over it.

Yes you have more agency in deciding how to run the business, but you have little to no agency about the economic environment you're in. You're highly concentrated in one financial asset, which means any little hiccup can have huge repercussions for your life, especially since you probably only have one business in one particular economic niche.

Whereas if you own a portion of dozens/hundreds of businesses, you have less control of how they are run, but no one business doing badly will impact you as much, nor even one particular economic segment (energy, transportation, tech, agriculture). By owning a broad index of companies you are more diversified.

Further, with modern financial products you can diversify not just between market segments (S&P 500, Russell 3000), but across countries (which deals with the now do Japan retort).
by lotsofpulp | 2025-05-02 12:40:18+00:00
> Tax homes based on the number of rooms and people suffer without closets even though total revenue remains the same

How is this relevant to land value tax?

> Income taxes have this wonderful property where factory workers can’t game the system thus avoiding distortions. Land taxes high enough to offset income taxes results in all sorts of unpleasant side effects.

Why would earned income taxes not have unpleasant side effects if land value taxes have unpleasant side effects? All taxes affect the market, and they are supposed to.

Isn’t it unpleasant that people in large lots who inherited from their ancestors’ pay very little tax for all the security an orderly society provides and all the courts/police/military that keeps their land safe?

Isn’t it unpleasant that too low land value tax rates keep empty store fronts, empty lots in the middle of urban areas, increasing the lengths people have to travel and removing the ability to walk anywhere?

> The US approach of funding local schools is horribly inefficient. People like it because it reinforces the class system,

Only because it’s a flat tax rates. If it was a power law formula, then people using less land (aka those in apartments and in general, far poorer) would pay far less than those on 0.06 acre lot townhomes who would pay less than those on 0.15 acre lot mansions. Not to mention all the rich landowners (via REITs and other real estate holding companies) paying far more for commercial real estate, incentivizing them to make productive use of their land, such as dense housing and not keeping spaces empty.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-05-02 12:40:21+00:00
The only, actual objective way for VR to work is for it to be properly world-scale.

We need spaces/buildings dedicated for this, and we need setups and headsets from manufacturers which acknowledge this situation.

We specifically need users to understand that VR really means VR + giant GPU in your backpack (or I guess laptop in this case).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DvB07X84HM

Seriously, this video came out 5 years ago, and nothing has improved what-so-ever with VR.
by tinthedev | 2025-05-02 12:40:27+00:00
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by rlpb | 2025-05-02 12:41:12+00:00
> Don’t let the leopards eat your face because you were too attached to your ideology.

You're conflating ideologies. User-focused ideology doesn't care about business models. Leopards aren't eating their faces. They're perfectly fine where they are.

Business model focused ideology might care, but the AGPL exists and meets Debian's requirements. Those who care can choose to use it, or not, as they wish.
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-02 12:41:33+00:00
> Not wanting a mix of programming languages in a project is a fairly reasonable opinion

That's a not what happened. Hellwig asked that Rust in Linux guys not write common bindings to his layer but do it per driver.

In other words he as DMA code maintainer gets to choose what and how other people use his interfaces for. That's not how interfaces (as in two environments in software interacting ) work.

By that logic if he hates Logitech drivers he can sabotage them because he doesn't like how the devices look?

> In other words he as DMA code maintainer gets to choose what and how other people use his interfaces for.

He as DMA code maintainer choose no Rust code. However he then can't choose to veto Rust code bindings. He could have choosen to have Rust code and that would have given him the veto.

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wgLbz1Bm8QhmJ4d...
by iterance | 2025-05-02 12:41:39+00:00
I don't think this is exactly correct. One purpose of a de minimis exemption is to clear the way for small overseas businesses to integrate more easily into the national economy by minimizing border wait times and overhead importation costs on cheap goods / goods only found overseas. It has the dual benefit of reducing customs labor costs for the taxpayer. From an economic perspective, business models like these are a desirable and purposeful consequence.

We focus on businesses like Temu because everyone agrees they sell cheap garbage, but a lot of overseas businesses sell high-quality or even essential goods. (And clearly, for many people, whatever Temu sells is good enough.)
by deeThrow94 | 2025-05-02 12:42:03+00:00
> So it adds legitimacy to the free market spirit seen in markets like EU, which has been criticized for making up arbitrary rules for self-interest.

I'm confused a) who is taking the concept of free markets seriously, especially in this context where markets (and competition) are arbitrarily defined and owned by corporations and and b) who would view self-interested laws as either surprising or bad? Of course laws are in self interest. Why on else else would you pass a law?
by infecto | 2025-05-02 12:43:03+00:00
The de minimis threshold dates back to the 1930s and has only been adjusted a handful of times—most recently in 1993 and then in 2016. The 2016 increase was substantial, and in hindsight, probably too high. Still, at the time, few could have anticipated just how fully it would be exploited. The business models we’re now seeing at scale—like Temu’s—didn’t meaningfully exist back then. Even Shein was far from the force it is today.

The loophole may have been visible, but the ecosystem to take advantage of it at this level simply wasn’t in place yet. So no, this wasn’t as obvious as you’re pretending it was.
by andybak | 2025-05-02 12:43:21+00:00
Whatever if you think of the amount spent or the direction in general it's disingenuous to say "lost" when it's actually "spent". It was a deliberate investment in r&d and a pitch for a future platform. It's not a business that's desperately trying to break even every quarter.

I'm not a big fan of meta and I'm not convinced they've made correct decisions all our even most of the time but Zuckerberg has been consistent in saying that this is a long-term plan. (Weather he sticks to it or not here's a different question. The rise of AI and the looming antitrust threat might well change his priorities)
by igtztorrero | 2025-05-02 12:43:30+00:00
The Altair didn’t survive for very long, but essentially being responsible for the creation of Microsoft is a pretty Big Deal.

Bill Gates: "Popular Electronics" magazine cover of January 1975 change my life"

Paul Allen write the simulator on Harvard PDP-10, Bill Gates write main code of Basic, Monte Davidoff write Math package. They coded day and night during 2 months.

Micro-Soft was born.
by cableshaft | 2025-05-02 12:44:05+00:00
Puzzling Places and Walkabout Minigolf would like to have a word with you.

They're the two games I keep coming back to the most, and both have a ton of varied and interesting content.

Making 3D puzzles in 3D space where you can twist and turn everything in 3D to see where things might line up and leave the pieces floating wherever you drop them is very compelling. And the puzzles themselves are sometimes animated and/or have dynamic atmospheric audio for some puzzles depending on what pieces you're grabbing. It's great.

That being said, they're both getting kind of old now themselves, at 4 and 5 years old.
by remram | 2025-05-02 12:44:07+00:00
What does "losing transactions" mean? Some transactions will have committed before your backup and some will have committed after and therefore won't be included. I don't see the problem you are trying to solve?

Whether a transaction had started and gets transparently rolled back, or you had prevented from starting, what is the difference to you? Either way, you have a point-in-time snapshot, that time is the latest commit before the LVM snapshot.

You're discussing this in terms of "safety" and that doesn't seem right to me.
by rgunther | 2025-05-02 12:44:12+00:00
I mean "backdated" in the sense that the repo history shows earlier commits-dated before I filed, but those commits are filled with unrelated, low-effort content (junk, gibberish, or placeholders). The later commits-after I filed - contain material that closely resembles my system. It gives the appearance of an older repo, but the meaningful content is recent.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-02 12:44:16+00:00
Domestic production can’t keep up with demand for things like clothes and PCBs.

Weddings are about to get interesting. May regress (“regress”, arguably this is totally fine) to the 1980s and earlier where having special complex color-coordinated dresses for all your bridesmaids was something only the upper-middle and higher could afford. Lots of perfect Disney wedding dreams about to get a ton more expensive.

[edit] it could keep up, of course, especially with depressed demand from higher prices, but it’ll take quite a while to ramp that up, and there won’t be a lot of takers for that investment while de minimus remains in place for other markets that could take over that manufacturing cheaper than the US—India, Vietnam, Indonesia, DR, et c.
by h2zizzle | 2025-05-02 12:44:34+00:00
>Go to open field/park (irl or virtually).

>Look at your hand.

>There is a virtual Pokéball/Yu-Gi-Oh card in it.

Something like that.

OR

I put on my headset, look at my computer/call for my NAS. I ask to see my photos folder. They appear around me as I'd configured previously: as a mass of images that I can manipulate as if they were real, but also if I were psychic. I wave one over, pluck it out of the air, gaze at it. This is way better than scrolling on a tiny phone screen.

OR

People don't know what they want yet. All they know is that the offerings so far don't appeal to them, being some combination of geek-niche and corporate blandness. One or two or three megacorporations cannot build and control the successor to the PC and smarptphone ecosystems in the heavy-handed manner that they've tried to. Make the tech cheap enough for everyone to get their hands on and easy to develop for (even if you don't get a cut of every single red cent that passes over the platform). Watch the public weave miracles for you.
by palata | 2025-05-02 12:44:47+00:00
Not sure I understand your message. If you have a copyleft licence without a CLA, then the copyright is distributed between all the contributors, which makes it almost impossible to change the licence. And because it is copyleft, it means that the sources need to be distributed to the users.

So TooBigTech can build a service upon a copyleft project, but they have to distribute their changes, which means that the community can benefit from them. One example I learned about here is Grafana: AWS did not want to use their AGPL version so apparently they pay Grafana to get a commercial licence. That's of course possible only because Grafana own the copyright of the whole codebase. It wouldn't be possible with Linux, for instance, where nobody has the power to give a commercial licence and therefore it is GPLv2 for everybody.

It doesn't prevent TooBigTech from competing by serving the open source project, but that is more of an antitrust issue, I think.
by diego_moita | 2025-05-02 12:44:48+00:00
Fake positions are the "kayfabe"[1] of HN's Who's Hiring.

They are a variation in the "Emperor's new clothes"[2]: everyone knows they're fake but no one should say it.

So, expect your comment to be removed. But thanks for doing it, anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes
by transcriptase | 2025-05-02 12:45:21+00:00
I’m convinced that a small proportion of people fundamentally can’t consider beyond first order consequences. Others can’t consider or imagine beyond second order consequences. One could argue third order relies more on domain knowledge than anything, which could explain why career politicians and bureaucrats genuinely can’t fathom the inevitable downstream effects of an action even if blindly obvious to those with business experience.

It’s the same pattern with discussions of rent control. Despite overwhelming evidence that the third-order consequences make things worse for far more people than the first- and second-order effects help, proponents seem unable to reconcile that “preventing rent from increasing” could possibly make housing less affordable.
by unsupp0rted | 2025-05-02 12:46:11+00:00
I was listening to Zuckerberg's podcast interview by Dwarkesh, and Zuckerberg is incisive, intelligent and well-reasoned about AI and Meta's place in the new world order.

And then I remembered how hard he pushed all the VR/AR stuff just a couple years ago, just as incisively, going so far as to rename Facebook to Meta.

On balance I think I have ever more respect for him because of this flub: most CEO's, especially ones whose entire adult identity is tied to their company, would not be willing to pivot this completely from a lost cause to a smarter one. And of those, only a subset would be able to accomplish it.

Gotta give credit where it's due.
by arnaudsm | 2025-05-02 12:47:03+00:00
400h+ VR gamer too, I disagree on "no crazy graphics". The Standalone strategy of leaving PCVR made VR accessible, but killed game innovation entirely. The entire industry was downgraded graphically of 2 entire generations. Sure, there are wizards like StressLevelZero that can ship beautiful games on Quest, but most studios cannot.

I wish they hadn't abandonned PCVR, and kept pushing the boundaries of the medium like Valve did with Alyx.
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by tomrod | 2025-05-02 12:47:40+00:00
I tried this for awhile, but was dissatisfied. I found myself a constant consumer of intellectual material instead of being an engaged participant. Once I realized that, I set course to become more of a producer of useful things. That's led me to woodworking, to running a consultancy, to producing AI/ML for nonprofits, and to writing academic works. All in all, I enjoy life substantially.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-05-02 12:47:51+00:00
This is HN, the Church of the Free Market is well represented. If you haven't yet seen someone give the "free markets create competition" speech on Monday and the "my company aims to capture this space and then entrench a monopoly with economies of scale / network effects / platform effects / two sided markets / last mile dynamics" pitch on Tuesday, just hang around HN a bit more. You won't have to wait long.
by carlosjobim | 2025-05-02 12:47:56+00:00
> It must have been a paradise of easy luxury a thousand years ago!

Much more recently than this I would say, when abandoned land was given away for free by the government to anybody who wanted it. Almost everywhere in the world, less than a hundred years ago.

Land was not always owned by somebody. I was born in a place which is very sparsely populated. Uninhabited or unused land was considered to not be owned by anybody, until a rotten generation arrived in the 50s-60s and decided that every remote piece of land had to be owned by somebody. Then there was a scramble of which families could lie the most and bribe the most to "prove" that the land was theirs. Now young people cannot live there anymore because they cannot afford to pay 200 years of their wages to have a scrap of land. They either have to be born into the landed gentry or they have to move the fuck out from where their ancestors have lived thousands of years.

> That said, uselessly being in the way is irresponsible.

But that's exactly what you're doing with abandoned land "investment", if I haven't misunderstood? When somebody actually needs that land, you are there to say "uh-uh, pay the toll first". What other reason would there be to purchase land to leave it abandoned? I have nothing to say against productive investment.

> My current hobby farm project has created 9 new homeowners and is a source of economic support and food security in the community.

That sounds like productive investment.

You buying plots of land out in the sticks is probably not the reason for my problems or for the problems of anybody else, but buying land where people need to live and then just sitting on it for a cash out is one of the most common geriatric investment strategies and has had enormously damaging effects for humanity.
by infecto | 2025-05-02 12:48:06+00:00
This rule goes back to the 30s and for most of its history the goal is to reduce administrative burden. The fact that small business around the world might benefit from it is indirect and never the main goal.

We focus on Temu because they are running a large dollar value business on imports that skirt duty tax. The dollar volume is the important piece here as they playing on an unfair advantage.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-05-02 12:48:28+00:00
> The sad fact that we lost all of these because of the entire electronics supply and design chain moving to Taiwan and China, is why we are where we are. These barriers might bring some back, who knows.

And yet almost all the actual design was still happening in the U.S.

It’s almost like the origin of the components didn’t matter. Access did.

And even if the origin might have shifted the fact that access increased made Americans stronger in Tech not weaker.

Right now, we don’t have origins of manufacturing nor access. Even if some parts of the industry does reshore to the U.S., the access will still be limited primarily to those parts of the industry that re-shored and even there access would be lower due to higher costs.

It’s incredible how America had the fastest growing major economy, was the leader in nearly all the industries of the future, has insanely high per capita income that continues to grow, and decided to throw all that away all because it refuses to undo the decisions that allow all that growth in wealth to accumulate with a tiny minority of the country.
by palata | 2025-05-02 12:49:12+00:00
I meant they have the resources to copy any product in a way that will crush the competition.

As in, they can build an alternative to an open source project, offer it for free (i.e. at a loss) for years until they capture the market, and then start enshittifying. This is an antitrust problem.

> Elastic explicitly allowed AWS to copy and use their source code, then whined about it.

Yeah at the very least they should have started with a copyleft licence.
by moooo99 | 2025-05-02 12:49:15+00:00
People who bought an iPhone are not users, they are customers who bought a product they now own. It’s not unreasonable to expect that the customers who bought product with their own money have control over said product.

Repeating this ridiculous argument doesn’t make it any less ridiculous. Imagine if the automotive world did what Apple does, how damn pound the outcry would be today.
by celeritascelery | 2025-05-02 12:49:16+00:00
The author says that with a 1.2GB bloom filter and 7 hash functions lookup is only 30ns. I have to assume this is because the cache has loaded all the benchmark values. My guess is that the benchmark is only testing a few elements. In real world scenarios with a bloom filter this big most of those 7 hash lookups will be into cold cache since 1.2 GB is too large. That means lookups are much longer than 30ns. Probably still faster than going to network or database though.
by duxup | 2025-05-02 12:49:23+00:00
I think that assumes that there's some fair evaluating of tax status going on.

Harvard defied Trump and that's why they're making this push. I don't think any given argument to the feds will change that math.

If you work for the feds, I think you know that if you were to follow a process and find that Harvard should retain their tax exempt status then you won't have a job long.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-02 12:49:24+00:00
Two questions:

1. I just saw how str_print is implemented. It's so short even though it's asm. Is this why nul-terminated strings were so popular and became the default in C? Would pascal strings be much longer/uglier/harder in asm?

2. Why is str_print repeated in multiple files? How would you do code sharing in asm? I assume str_print is currently not "static" and you'd have to make it so via linking or something, and then be able to get its address using an asm macro or something?
by apwell23 | 2025-05-02 12:49:35+00:00
> DeepResearch which started to actually come up with useful results on more complex programming questions

Is there a youtube video of ppl using this on complex open source projects like linux kernel or maybe something like pytorch.

How come none of the oss pojects( atleast not the ones i follow) are progressing fast(er) from AI like 'deepresearch'
by cardassia | 2025-05-02 12:49:35+00:00
> Whatever content I have seen from NPR looked well-researched, and politically unbiased

I used to really like NPR growing up, so strange for you to claim it's unbiased and well-researched, because everything I've heard from them on public radio starting around 2010 or so has been increasingly and very obviously partisan to an absurd extent. Portlandia levels of generally race-based monomania and other forms of progressivism.
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