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by hocuspocus | 2025-12-02 02:53:33+00:00
And again, if there's nobody that can maintain sbt builds you're screwed anyway. This is precisely what I said earlier: bitrot and lack of upkeep are the real killer. Sbt is the least of your worries in such scenario. There's no way a team of inexperienced Scala developers can bootstrap a greenfield project unsupervised, unless they're committed to a slow and painful onramp period. Sbt is just one small variable here.

For the sake of argument, imagine Scala had had the best build tool of the entire programming landscape in the past two decades. This would change nearly nothing to the current situation and Scala 3's adoption.
by turtlebits | 2025-12-02 02:54:18+00:00
It's known as their technique (not invention) because it got popularized via of word of mouth. Same as the Fosbury flop or Larsen truss.

If you create some novel car design that gets discussed enough, maybe it will get popularized and get named after you. ie Bangle butt, for the E65 BMW 7 series.
by ehnto | 2025-12-02 02:54:27+00:00
I often say this even as a Nissan diehard, all our hero cars are slow as snails by todays standards.

I've had the pleasure of driving a lot of these cars in factory form, like the Nissan Silvia, various years of Skyline, Supras and such. They are connected, more raw than todays cars, and that is their killer feature. But they would get gapped by a 2025 Toyota Camry.
by kingstnap | 2025-12-02 02:55:07+00:00
> The capital growth tax will apply to most assets, taxing both realised and unrealised returns, including appreciation in value and income from assets like shares, cryptocurrencies, and savings. Exchange results on bank balances in currencies other than EUR will also be taxed.

Ouch. I suppose this is supposed to combat the trend of share buybacks over dividends. Gonna seriously suck to be anyone Norwegian and having to sell stocks to pay for taxes on your unrealized gains.

Also if the euro dives as well during inflation its gonna be painful.
by aeonfox | 2025-12-02 02:55:16+00:00
As a further point of contrast between the US and Oceania, the kind of copper theft happening in the OP are disabling communications systems:

> From January to June of this year, 9,770 incidents of intentional theft or sabotage on communications networks were reported, according to the Internet & Television Association, a trade group known as NCTA. That is nearly double the number reported in the prior six-month period. The attacks disrupted service for more than eight million customers.

> The cut lines have disrupted 911 emergency calls and internet and landline services, shut down at least one school and left whole city blocks in the dark.

... and to contrast, here in Australia, the mobile networks hadn't properly QAed their production deployment and access to emergency services causing an outage for 13-hours, likely causing people to die. The response was immediately establishing an inquiry and enacting new laws within 31 days of the incident.

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/-no-excuses--as-optus-upg... https://www.acma.gov.au/articles/2025-10/acma-strengthens-in... https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Sen...

In the past few years I've seen so many instances of day-light smash and grabs happening in the US in broad daylight filling my feeds. I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop – will that wave of criminality reach here? Certainly there's been an significant uptick of knife crime in Australia, people with mental health issues shooting cops and stabbing civilians, and the housing crisis is really causing problems around homelessness, but even still, Australia has nothing on the brazenness and scale of what is happening in the US. So when I say that third world problems are affecting the US, I refer to this broader situation.
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by nettalk83 | 2025-12-02 02:55:47+00:00
I've been working on an experimental write-up that outlines an ontology-based architecture connecting meta-systems, phase-transition logic, and some AI-related philosophical structures:

https://ontomesh.org/OntoMesh-Architecture.html

It's still an early conceptual draft, but I'm sharing it here in case others find the ideas interesting or worth discussing. I'm curious whether this kind of structural approach resonates with anyone thinking about complex systems, semantics, or foundations for AI reasoning architectures.

Feedback is welcome but not required — I'm mostly sharing it as an exploratory reference.

Thanks for taking a look.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 02:56:12+00:00
Its been 3 years and its been the most talked about topic on HN. If you really don't know at this point, you are choosing to remain ignorant. I can't help you here.

If you genuinely are unaware of the issues, it's a very easy topic to research. Heck, just put "AI" into HN and half the articles will cover some part of the topic.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-02 02:56:20+00:00
Usually wealth taxes like this only applies to people with (net) assets in excess of a fairly large amount like 50m or 100m, etc.

Skimming the article I couldn’t tell whether that’s the case here.

If not, it seems like it would have pretty bad implications for the average person who isn’t super wealthy but who are trying to build wealth.
by MindSpunk | 2025-12-02 02:56:23+00:00
How does it know what isn't visible? Can it handle glass? Frosted glass? Smoke? What if I can't see the player but I can see their shadow? What if I can't see them because they're behind me but I can hear their footsteps? What if I have 50ms ping and the player is invisible after turning a corner because the server hasn't realized I can see them yet?

To answer all those questions you either have to render the entire game on the server for every player (not possible) or make the checks conservative enough that cheaters still get a significant advantage.
by ggreer | 2025-12-02 02:56:51+00:00
An 8,000lb van will be using fossil fuels and emit particulates from tire and brake dust. Unless it was incredibly efficient and electricity for the drones was coming from coal plants, the van would emit more pollution.

But the biggest harm is people getting hit by vehicles. Delivery drones are much smaller and don't spend nearly as much time near people. Since drones can deliver stuff more quickly than large vans, they also substitute for individuals driving to a store to pick something up. So the total risk to pedestrians is even less than you might expect from eliminating many van deliveries.
by TZubiri | 2025-12-02 02:56:52+00:00
It seems to be a general phenomenon with most brands that their quality is reduced with time.

There seems to be a lot of profit in buying brands with a reputation for high quality and then replacing it with lower quality and reaping the profits.

It shouldn't be legal if you ask me, it has elements of fraud, the brand should be consistent, Apple implies quality for example, if Apple where to release a cheap badly made product at an expensive price, they would be breaking the brand-contract.
by parpfish | 2025-12-02 02:57:31+00:00
When I was a youngster getting into cars, I obsessed over the quantifiables. Which car had better horsepower, 1/4 mile, or skid pad scores. I couldn’t drive, much less afford, any of the cars so it’s the best I could do to form an opinion.

Now that I’m a grownup, I’m capable of doing qualitative assessments on cars because I can drive them and judge their intangibles.

Lots of cars have sub-par specs, especially compared to modern engineering, but it overlooks that they are just fun. The top speed doesn’t matter because you’re rarely going to touch it. But how does it feel when you downshifting into 2nd to pass somebody? Or take a windy corner a little faster than you should? Does it make you grin? Because that’s a good car.
by jerrysievert | 2025-12-02 02:57:35+00:00
when I became old enough to drive, my parents decided (in the family tradition) to purchase me a car. apparently, the options that my father chose from were a 1982 Honda, or a 1978 datsun f10. he settled on the less reliable f10. it was a wonder-car, it was a 5 speed that started at reverse:

R 2 4 1 3 5

its clutch was so loose that when I was driving with my friends, I'd yell "punch it chewy!" to switch from 2nd to 3rd in one swift pull without touching the clutch.

it was a hell car, but I'm still nostalgic for it, likely more than I would have been for the honda that would probably have been much more reliable.

I still have an affinity for Japanese small cars, and am glad it was in my life.

datsun, I miss you.
by jmyeet | 2025-12-02 02:57:59+00:00
Good. IMHO unrealized gains and profit shifting are two of the biggest problems in modern taxation that need to be addressed.

Many people will have heard about the Buy Borrow Die strategy by now. In case not, it's basically where you don't sell an asset (and thus have to pay taxes on the gain). You use it as collateral for a loan and just spend the laon while the asset continues to appreciate (hopefully) faster than the interest rate. What's particularly gross about this is that many asets in many countries can be inherited by children on what's called a stepped up basis, meaning the base value for determining any capital gains taxes resets to the current market value when the owner dies. This is a massive tax break for the wealthy.

Companies have their own version of this. This has been somewhat (but not entirely) addressed in the US tax code now but it used to be that foreign corporate profits did not incur US corporate taxes as long as the money wasn't repatriated, meaning it stays overseas. But you know what you can do? That's right. Borrow money used those foreign profits as collateral and wait long enough for the US government to give you a tax holiday or to otherwise change the rules (which they did).

IMHO borrowing money against an asset should be realizing a gain and borrowing against foreign profits should be repatriating those profits.

Some will argue how you can't tax unrealized gains or it's not fair, we do it all the time. They're called property taxes.

Profit shifting is still a big problem. This is where, for example, tech companies would sell ads and services in the UK at "cost" to their Irish subsidiary, who would make all the profits. Almost nothing in UK profits where the tax rate is higher. Transfer pricing is (generally) illegal. Profit shifting isn't. What's the difference? Yes.

I think the EU and the US in particular need to start doing what I call profit apportionment, meaning if 50% of your revenue is booked in the US then 50% of your worldwide profits are taxable in the US.

You might say "they'll hide profits in subsidiaries" but really this is a solved problem already. We ahve ways of dealing with subsidiaries that are at arms length or not. We also have financial reporting to stock markets and there's really no reason tax authorities couldn't use published financial statements as a basis for taxation.
by hekkle | 2025-12-02 02:58:14+00:00
The compose key and Ctrl+K in Vim both assume the use of Linux, or janky 3rd party software. Compose is the same argument I have already covered with Windows, you need to enter a cryptic key-combination into the keyboard, which is not intuitive.

As for the Vim argument, I'm struggling to work out how to use Vim to type on here? Perhaps you could shed some light? I suppose you could yank-put it, but I fail to see how that is less effort than copy-paste, the other argument I already covered.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-12-02 02:58:19+00:00
It partially automates the process of lodging a complaint against a call, SMS, or WhatsApp communication.

On IOS, you still have to copy/paste the incoming number into a form, provide a screenshot of the message, date/time and it uploads the complaint to their systems.

They inform you that they will not send updates.

What I've observed is a huge drop in scammers, and new scammers get tagged as potential spam by the operator upfront. So they're doing something on the back end.

You can only file a police complaint if you actually suffered monetary loss. I haven't, so I don't know how that works.

The other benefit is that you can keep an eye on id theft used to get connections using your info. This is a huge problem in rural India. Scammers use this to create bank accounts to move money.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-12-02 02:58:48+00:00
Yeah but the previous paragraph says

> The bill regarding Box 3 introduces two main categories of taxation: capital growth tax and capital gains tax. The capital growth tax will apply to most assets, taxing both realised and unrealised returns, including appreciation in value and income from assets like shares, cryptocurrencies, and savings. Exchange results on bank balances in currencies other than EUR will also be taxed.

And normally unrealized capital gains on these sorts of assets aren't taxed.
by xp84 | 2025-12-02 02:59:20+00:00
What’s really out of touch is how they don’t seem to think users would be excited for that. Literally nobody is enthusiastic for more complexity. Literally everyone hates the buggy, flaky mess on iOS, iPadOS, macOS. Maybe a working magical Siri would make an impact but Apple has prove definitively that they can’t build that ever. So, rather than ruining all the OSs further, just fire all the PMs and designers and let the engineers fix the bugs for a couple of years.
by da_chicken | 2025-12-02 02:59:33+00:00
Sweden's population is only around 11 million people, and you're geographically concentrated in the southern mainland provinces or near Stockholm. Both of those make thing a lot more practical to manage and make it a lot harder to abuse because you don't have the scale to make profit as attractive, or the distance to make oversight more difficult. You're also relatively culturally similar.

It doesn't seem like those should matter so much, but it really does make everything about democracy easier.

Things get much weirder when the population isn't so low or isn't relatively concentrated.
by noduerme | 2025-12-02 02:59:44+00:00
I think a lot of people in the US are clinging to the hope that this type of friction, along with judicial decisions, will cause the process of removing our legal protections to stall out. I'm not optimistic that this is the case, because the party currently driving the federal incursion on private and state-held data is the one that until recently was opposed to things like national ID. Anything can be done in the name of protecting people from N, if you can get a majority to be afraid of N.
by lordofgibbons | 2025-12-02 02:59:51+00:00
How are situations like lack of liquidity to pay the taxes handled?

i.e, As an employee you get stock options, which you exercise when you leave the startup. Then long before the company has a liquidity event the FMV shoots up because the business is doing well. How do you as a wage worker pay the taxes on your paper riches without a way to sell your shares?
by chii | 2025-12-02 03:00:11+00:00
> It's like saying that Maximizing Shareholder Value is always the right thing to do. No, it isn't.

it is, for the agents of the shareholders. As long as the actions of those agents are legal of course. That's why it's not legal to put fentanyl into every drug sold, because fentanyl is illegal.

But it is legal to put (more) sugar and/or salt into processed foods.
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by jmyeet | 2025-12-02 03:00:43+00:00
This is a solved problem. When you sell a house in the US, you ahve to determine what your capital gain is for tax purposes. That includes all purchase and selling costs (eg agents fees, transfer taxes, etc). Those are all added to the purchase price to determine your cost basis.

The capital gain is simply the sale price minus the cost basis, which might be a loss.

So if you've paid unrealized capital gains taxes along the way, you either get credit for those taxes already paid (and possibly get a refund if you've overpaid) or they're simply added to the cost basis.
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by bane | 2025-12-02 03:01:26+00:00
You have good points!

For me, eliminating the few hours dealing with some stupid config option I messed up is easily worth $250, which unraid basically makes go away. But yeah, most of the things the system does are really just some basic linux distro with various bits installed.

The terramaster NAS's are surprisingly reasonable for pre-built NASs. And I think they'd be fine if you want an <4 bay NAS solution.

There's a few tiers I think of home NAS users:

0 - add an external hard drive to my base machine, maybe share it (or the content) to other users on the network

1 - put the drive on the network, there's a bunch of OEM "drive on your network" options there

2 - the 3-5 bay home NAS user. Used to be a medium user, but now can easily hit ~100TB.

3 - the greater than 6 bay home NAS user.

At some point, I moved from #2 to #3 and decided that I had enough spare drives lying around that it was worth it to invest in a big case and centralize everything in one box. It's around this time that I think the cost efficiency of the NAS hardware really left me behind.

A 6-bay terramaster is around $500 and provides an N95 and 8GB of memory. So basically in rPi5 territory.

A 12-bay terramaster is like $1800 is with an i7-1255U and 16GB of memory.

I built a 16+ bay unraid system this year for around $1500 that included an i9-12900k and 128GB of memory + an unraid lifetime license. I know I'm a #3 NAS user, but the different in price is a bit, for less capable equipment.

You could build the same system, and save about $400 if you put it together and just put some linux distro on it.

I guess that point I was making originally still stands, I think these retailers could build really nice NAS options on a big price undercut. At volume I bet they could negotiate moving unraid licenses for much cheaper as an OEM option.

Note: Yes! I acknowledge none of these choices really include the actual drives, any of these options might allow for a gradual in-fill and replacement of drives over time.
by alex1138 | 2025-12-02 03:01:28+00:00
And by the way, this is as an outsider, I have no insider knowledge, but it's from the same company that sent women (teenagers) ads of beauty products after they had deleted a selfie

I was all gung-ho for "You don't need regulation (imprisonment) for something that's just a mirror held up to society" before realizing Facebinstapp literally does things like this
by wezteoh | 2025-12-02 03:01:38+00:00
I’ve always wanted to build sports simulations with ML, and trajectory forecasting is fundamental to that. But when I looked into recent SOTA models, many achieved good per-agent prediction metrics yet struggled to produce coherent and plausible joint futures across agents (players + ball). So I built CausalTraj to address this, and it is now open-sourced.
by icegreentea2 | 2025-12-02 03:01:38+00:00
I think in more general usage if you asked people what assets "taxing unrealized capital gains" would cover, you could get a basket if things like shares, real property, businesses, etc.

The article indicates that the Dutch government has decided to treat startups and real estate under the bucket "capital gains", and stuff under "capital growth".

So for an more informal standpoint, the title is a reasonable way to summarize what's happening to the layish person.
by zbentley | 2025-12-02 03:01:38+00:00
I didn't say radiation exposure, I said radioactive particulates in my body. 0.1% increase in radiation exposure is a high altitude plane flight. Nothing to be concerned about as you say. 0.1% increase in radioactive particulates in my body is a Fukishima sand grain in a clam. Or a leaky medical iodine cell. Or a speck of Chernobyl ash stirred up by passing soldiers and inhaled. That's a much bigger concern.
by Aaronontheweb | 2025-12-02 03:02:13+00:00
That's not what the link the OP included said and not what I said either, but I concede your point - that's my fault for checking individual health care marketplaces (like eHealthInsurance and Aetna direct) or not looking closely enough on healthcare.gov.

Looking through some plans now, but TBH these are genuinely not much of an improvement in the cost department and a massive downgrade in the provider selection department. Hence my whole section on trade-offs.
by jmspring | 2025-12-02 03:02:26+00:00
Recently sold a condo I had in NE California. When I first bought there ~8-9 years ago, a town near by had old railroad cabins for ~100k or less. As the housing / migration boom to Reno took hold, those cabins are now in the 2-250k range. The median income in the county ~40k.

The town I was in saw prices for something that was ~175-200k 7-8 years ago peak at around $425k in 2023/2024 and now "cratering" into the low to mid $300ks. Median income hasn't changed, just people with 2nd/vacation homes and wanting to offload them due to the economy.