MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nmhancoc | 2025-06-06 22:00:22+00:00
This actually gets at one of the main criticisms land value tax (LVT) proponents have of traditional property taxes, which tax both land and buildings.

Let’s unpack your example with some rough numbers to see where the logic leads.

You assume rents are currently $1,000/month and that a new tax causes them to rise to $1,500/month to maintain the same return. That implies an added tax burden of $500/month per lot. If the lot is 10,000 sq-ft (common for single-family homes where I live), that’s about $0.05/sq-ft/month, or $0.60/sq-ft/year in land tax.

Now let’s look at whether this disincentivizes development.

Say a developer replaces that single-family home with a fourplex:

* Each unit is ~1,000 sq-ft - Construction cost is ~$270/sq-ft, so total is ~$1.08M * Required rent for a 5% return = $1,125/month per unit - The land tax ($500/month) is now split over 4 units = $125/month per unit * Total required rent = $1,250/month per unit, or $1.25/sq-ft/month

Compare that to the single-family home:

Rent = $1,500/month, also $1.25/sq-ft/month

So the developer earns the same return per square foot, and houses more people on the same land. Renters gain a cheaper overall option at the same cost per square foot. New development isn't disincentivized — it's neutral or even encouraged under a pure LVT.

Where your argument usually does apply is with regular property taxes, because those are assessed on both the land and the structure:

Single-family home is taxed on $240K (structure) + land Fourplex is taxed on $1.08M (structure) + land Per unit, that’s $270K in taxable improvements vs. $240K Unless the land is very expensive, higher-density development pays more tax per unit, even though it uses the land more efficiently. And that penalty grows with scale (e.g. high-rises).

That's the core issue LVT proponents focus on: property taxes tend to penalize building, while land value tax does not. In fact, LVT often makes better use of land more attractive by decoupling the tax burden from how much you invest in construction.
by bbartlomiej | 2025-06-06 22:00:46+00:00
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by dtaxer | 2025-06-06 22:00:47+00:00
On June 2, 2025, Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 150, officially establishing the Texas Cyber Command (TCC). Headquartered at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), TCC is now the largest state-based cybersecurity department in the United States. This initiative safeguards Texas's critical infrastructure, government systems, and private sector entities from escalating cyber threats.

TCC's comprehensive approach includes the establishment of a Cyber Threat Intelligence Center, a digital forensics lab, and an incident response unit. These components will work collaboratively to identify vulnerabilities, respond to cyber incidents, and provide training to state employees on preventing breaches. The initiative is backed by a $135 million investment from the state's General Revenue Fund, with UTSA contributing an additional $60.4 million for property acquisition and renovation.

San Antonio's selection as the headquarters leverages its status as a cybersecurity hub, boasting the nation's second-largest concentration of cyber experts, surpassed only by Washington, D.C. The city's existing infrastructure, including partnerships with federal agencies like the NSA, FBI, and DHS, positions it as an ideal location for TCC's operations.
by treetalker | 2025-06-06 22:02:03+00:00
Nothing to read: action is what matters, not theorizing.

Put the two rules into practice, starting now. What action am I taking now? (What am I choosing to do?) Keeping in mind that what I do now is what I always do, what will happen / where will I be if I do the same thing 1,000 times/days in a row? The answer leads to these questions: Should I keep doing this? Should I be consistently doing something else?

Today I went to CrossFit even though I have a pulled muscle in my hip. I didn't feel like it, but exercising every day is what I do. I skipped the usual workout (running and squat/hinge work) because of the injury, but I did challenging chest and shoulder work instead, and I stretched afterward. Tomorrow I will go to yoga because when I do that 1,000 Saturdays in a row, it will supercharge my CrossFit and I'll have fewer instances of this (for me) already-rare injury.

Tonight if I start to feel like reaching for cookies/snacks to eat on the couch while watching TV, I will notice and either stop and decide I've already eaten enough for the day, or else I'll grab an apple instead. I'll also grab a book and read a chapter instead of watching drivel. That's what I do, and after doing that 1,000 more days in a row, I will have a better physique, less disease, and more knowledge.

Action is what matters.
by cyberax | 2025-06-06 22:02:05+00:00
I used to think like you, until I saw what the lack of neoliberalism does to countries. And before I witnessed the magic of market economy that adapts to changes far, far, far better than anything else.

If you want a static economy that supports gradual decline (preferably with a mineral-based income stream), then a lot of state spending is fine.
by wenbin | 2025-06-06 22:02:08+00:00
Let me guess - the keyword here is "Section 174", just from the title alone :)

Dealing with Section 174 amortization in those first one to three years is a real headache (and your tax bill ends up higher than if it didn’t apply). Once your startup survives that the first few years of doing Section 174, things do get easier... but, sadly, most don't make it that far.
by trinsic2 | 2025-06-06 22:02:24+00:00
I often wonder if national intelligence interests are behind or have taken control of major corporate players like Microsoft, Google and Apple. There was an article [0] back in 2015 that brought forth the proposition that google was created by the CIA. It would explain the current enshitification of these companies and the lengths they are going to take away choice.

[0]: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...
by dtaxer | 2025-06-06 22:02:35+00:00
Texas just launched the largest state-run cybersecurity department in the country. $135 million in state funding, headquartered at UTSA in San Antonio, and built with serious intent—incident response, threat intel, digital forensics, the works.

This isn’t just a tech upgrade; it’s a structural shift. Texas is treating cybersecurity like critical infrastructure and positioning itself as a player, not a bystander. Curious to see how this plays out alongside federal efforts and whether other states follow suit.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-06-06 22:02:44+00:00
There was match fixing in the US before legalization. In fact, the US is one of the only places where you have had major sports events being fixed due to gambling, despite gambling being legal in many other places.

One of the greatest incentives to stop match fixing comes from having regulated operators who will report unusual betting behaviour. For example, the massive problems with match-fixing in low-ranked tennis has been tackled by bookmakers.

There is an issue with advertising but that is unrelated to the match-fixing one. The latter is one of the absolute oldest lobbying lines the Republicans used when they were getting all their money from Adelson (it was accompanied with some mad intellectual gymnastics about how sports betting at casinos was also magically unaffected by this, same with underage gambling).
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-06 22:03:09+00:00
That's a judgement call. It would be too much to review all code change of all dependencies unfortunately.

The corollary of reviewing all code on all dependency updates is you should review all code or the new deps you add, including the transformation by build processes that might mean what is in the package manager might be different and same for all transitive dependencies.

Same with the language and runtime tooling.

It is too hard to be perfect!
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-06 22:03:30+00:00
People often run programs that are supposed to use 98% of the resources of the system. Go ahead and let the admin set a limit, but trying to preemptively set a "reasonable" limit causes a lot more problems than it solves.

Especially when most of these resources go back to memory. If you want a limit, limit memory. Don't make it overcomplicated.
by ianferrel | 2025-06-06 22:03:59+00:00
I'm in my 40s, and I don't know anyone personally who's dealt with any kind of significant issue due to identity theft or fraud.

Like, occasionally my credit card company will call me up about some fraudulent transactions and then they'll mail me a new card and take the fraud off my bill.

A problem can be simultaneously incredibly acute for an unlucky subset, structurally really problematic, and also on average have very low impact. Those problems generally don't decide elections.
by ttshaw1 | 2025-06-06 22:04:41+00:00
You shouldn't need to prevent gaps entirely. You only need to make sure there are no holes larger than roughly the wavelength of the radiation you're trying to block. Which, for 2.4GHz wifi, is about 125mm. I think what you saw is that a single layer of foil isn't enough skin depths thick to block radiation sufficiently at that frequency.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-06 22:04:50+00:00
"You can also request zero data retention (ZDR) for eligible endpoints if you have a qualifying use-case. For details on data handling, visit our Platform Docs page."

https://openai.com/en-GB/policies/row-privacy-policy/

1. You can request it but there is no promise the request will be granted.

Defaults matter. Silicon Valley's defaults are not designed for privacy. They are designed for profit. OpenAI's default is retention. Outputs are saved by default.

It is difficult to take the arguments in their memo ISO objection to the preservation order seriously. OpenAI already preserves outputs by default.
by anthk | 2025-06-06 22:05:24+00:00
Hispanic can be any race, from African Black to Nordic White. Also, there can be huge differences between Hispanic themselves, an Argentinian, Mexican, Peruvian and Asturian might share common traits (Catholic Culture -not beliefs, culture, something affecting even Atheists, and I am not talking about superstitions- , food) but their customs and worldview can be totally alien between ourselves.

Just compare a Mexican Mariachi with an Asturian folk guy playing Celtic songs with bagpipes. Or the differences on ideology, state support, progressiveness... as much as a Brit and the average North American if not more.
by sfn42 | 2025-06-06 22:05:31+00:00
I'm not really disagreeing with you but I have a 700/700 fiber connection that generally works perfectly for anything I do, and youtube craps out pretty frequently. It'll just fail to load videos and I have to refresh up to multiple times before it starts working properly.

Also the frontend is generally very wonky, I'm wondering if its severely over engineered or something. It seems very simple, but it's failing at all kinds of stuff all the time. Shorts fail to load when scrolling, the scrolling just stops working, some times it keeps playing the previous video's audio while the current video is frozen.

Some times if I write a comment and try to highlight and delete some of it, when I hit backspace it deletes the part that wasn't highlighted. A normal <input type="text" /> does not do that. Have they implemented their own text inputs in JS or something? All you need for that component is a form with a textfield and a submit button. As far as I know that won't behave this way so I'm not sure what they're doing but it doesn't seem great.

I went and checked, it's a div. No idea why they would do that for that simple comment form.
by kgwgk | 2025-06-06 22:05:36+00:00
> Held for 30 years, bonds are eaten alive by inflation.

20-year and 30-year bonds yield 5% today. That's well above inflation expectations.

You can actually buy inflation-linked bonds that are going to pay you 2.5% over inflation for the next 20 or 30 years - whatever happens with inflation.
by conradludgate | 2025-06-06 22:05:51+00:00
My favourite algorithm is generic cell rate algorithm (GCRA). It works like token bucket in this post. The implementation is dead simple and requires no background tasks and needs very minimal state.

Instead of storing the current number of tokens, you instead store when the bucket will be full. If you take a token from the bucket, you increment the timestamp accordingly by 1/rps. The only complication is it the filled timestamp was in the past, you have to first update it with the current timestamp to avoid overfilling.

What's even nicer is that it doubles as a throttle implementation rather than just a rate limiter. You know the bucket is empty if you compute empty_at=filled_at-(max_tokens/rps) which is still in the future. From that calculation you now know when it will have capacity again, so you can sleep accordingly. If you use a queue before the gcra, it then starts sowing down new connections rather than just dropping them.

You should still have a limit on the queue, but it's nice in that it can gracefully turn from token bucket into leaky bucket.
by codr7 | 2025-06-06 22:06:40+00:00
After just having tech lead a team for a month at one of the bigger providers of online casinos and sports betting; because I simply couldn't find anything else at that point in time and I had already struggled for quite some time without an income; I can only agree with most in this thread.

I wouldn't mind if we made the whole thing illegal, it's like a giant leech on society.

And I've never before in my career come across a company so stacked with narcissist assholes on the management side.

https://github.com/codr7/yolo
by rbanffy | 2025-06-06 22:07:17+00:00
I don't think so. Dot matrix covers the niches where impact printers make sense and laser and inkjets cover those where they don't. There might be someone making typewriters, but I don't think any of those can be (easily) used as a printer.

I'm looking into converting one into a teletype by doing a MITM between keyboard and logic board.
by k310 | 2025-06-06 22:07:24+00:00
The coming together of two very antithetical groups, maga and tech bro's held long enough to get Trump elected, and for crypto bro's to get their desired un-regulation.

Trump got his election and an entree to the unregulated world of crypto, in the hopes of making billions. He needs them no more. Military parades, not trade shows.

But the common thread of racism and hatred of other minority groups is stretched by tech "elitism" (see below) on one hand, and anti-science, anti-intellectual "religious" intolerance on the other. This fight really exposes the rift.

References:

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...

Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk 'Hijacking' Republicans to Control Entire US Government

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblo...
by runarberg | 2025-06-06 22:07:27+00:00
I know BS in psychology is not a high degree, but I did learn at least that... IQ is pretty much a bogus thing. At least when it comes to population IQ.

The theory of general intelligence is now 100 years old and has produced nothing of value. It holds no predictive power which is not better explained with better metrics (such as SES). The only thing which population IQ has done is attempting to push (or otherwise popularize) racist pseudo-science into the field of psychology. We have no deeper understanding, no new models, no new predictions, as a result of describing intelligence as a set of covarying factors which are measurable and distributes normally among the population.

Now, assessing an individual IQ is a different matter, but even then it holds no scientific value. Developmental psychologists may use IQ tests to detect disabilities, but there are other and better tests which do the same thing. IQ tests have the benefit of being extremely well standardized and available so many developmental psychologists use them, but that doesn’t tell you anything about the underlying theory, especially since you can detect the same disability with other tools which do not claim to measure a general intelligence.

What is more popular though (at least in the literature the last I checked) is to use only the most relevant subtests and never actually assess the full IQ. But even if IQ is useful to diagnose disabilities among individuals, that tells us nothing about how to describe intelligence, just like how breathalyzers might tell whether a driver is dangerous on the road, but cannot tell you anything about how alcohol impairs driving abilities in the population.

IQ is actually rather easy to debunk on its own merit, and it doesn’t even pass the sniff test. We can tell from experience that intelligence is not evenly distributed, even if you assume that intelligence can be measured as a set of covarying factors (of which there is no proof), our own experience shows that an IQ of 70 is much more mentally impaired than an IQ of 130 is mentally superior. The difference between a 70 and a 100 is much much much greater than the difference between 100 and a 130. This suggests that IQ (if such a thing exits) is negatively skewed, which contradicts one of the fundamental assumptions of psychometricians.

To summarize. The theory of general intelligence (i.e. IQ) is at best an old theory which never amounted to anything (a scientific dead end if you will; I have my suspicion string theory might be on the same track) and at worst it is a racist pseudo-science, used to push racist believes in the field of Psychology.
by epolanski | 2025-06-06 22:07:28+00:00
I don't know, I see your point but I personally know few people addicted to gambling, the damage they do themselves and their families is the worst I've seen of any addiction, including drugs.

If a family father gets addicted to some drugs it's bad, but somewhat limited in impact, if it comes to gambling, those people ruin their families, very quickly.
by vitorsr | 2025-06-06 22:07:58+00:00
This comment does not present the full picture.

First, it presents the snapshot of donations within a given year to the Foundation. The history of donations is not represented by definition.

Second, it does not present contributed development. Those are typically summarily available on the release notes of each release [1].

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/releases/
by godelski | 2025-06-06 22:08:05+00:00
I don't think anything you said is explicitly wrong, but I think there is a lot more nuance and that's where the conversation is breaking down.

Such as "RTFM". You're right. People do need to learn to train themselves. That's the most important skill. But the major problem is that noobs are at the beginning. They don't know where to look. They don't know what questions to ask.

The struggle is important, but it can also be too much at times. A senior shouldn't do everything for the junior, but neither should they let them struggle too much. The trick is in the balance. Let them struggle, but pull them back if they stray too far.

If you don't reign them in, then most of them just go far off course. Most of them just get lost and never return. That's not a good situation for anyone. Most wizards come from them not getting too lost while going on this confusing journey. It's more that we just ended up in similar places. But a lot of luck was involved with that. We know the journey itself is important, but you can't tell me that there weren't times that you tripped and fell and they didn't do anything to help you get where you are now (other than learning resilience). We can make things better.

So don't tell a noob to RTFM, they don't even know what the manual is! Point them to the manual, point them to the right section. Say "hey, give this a shot. Let us know how it goes. If you're still stuck we'll probably need to know what <xyz> is". Your "xyz" should always be a hint as to what your guess to the solution is. Gets them thinking about a certain thing they might not have. This still puts everything on them, lets them struggle, but helps prevent them from getting lost. That's not "RTFM" that's "HTM" (Here's the manual)
by farts_mckensy | 2025-06-06 22:08:11+00:00
Your god analogy is clumsy in this case. We aren't talking about something fantastical here. Reasoning is not difficult to define. We can go down that road if you'd like. Rather, the problem is, once you do define it, you will quickly find that LLMs are capable of it. And that makes human exceptionalists a bit uncomfortable.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-06-06 22:08:25+00:00
This is how Asian books work, they move prices early, and make it back on volume (this is not a wholly geographical designation, Pinnacle Sports is also an Asian book but operates in the Caribbean...iirc).

The problem in the US is that it is a highly competitive market so you have to acquire your customer base every weekend, and these customers don't actually care so much about prices. So having weaker prices is a more effective way to deliver the product. In addition, US gamblers like parlays, parlays are more profitable, have lower volume per bet, and (so far) the economics of the Asian book don't work for this market (i.e. get syndicates to bet your lines early).
by adamors | 2025-06-06 22:09:37+00:00
No, let's not ignore the context, since DOGE is the definition of Theseus' department: regular staffers were replaced by Musk acolytes with various criminal and/or unethical backgrounds, have completely opaque tasks and are vacuuming up data for Musk or for a foreign state (maybe both) https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...

> Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained.
by peanutcrisis | 2025-06-06 22:09:45+00:00
Are you just going to outright dismiss the evidence I provided earlier for this politicization? As I explained before, your point is perfectly compatible with his. If you’re able to follow this kind of research, I’m frankly baffled by your inability to grasp the idea that acknowledging attempts to politicize this topic doesn’t imply that research in the area can’t proceed. The evidence for politicization is all over the editorials in your major research journals. If research in this area is booming as you’ve described (I don’t follow this research), all that means is that the politicization attempts have been unsuccessful.

As for your mind reading about the author’s intent, he is, to the best of my understanding, a standard-issue liberal. As such, I don't really get where you're coming from with this.