skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You solve this easily by assessing value and buying the land rights for a period of time - say 7 years.

So basically you lock down the price in an auction once every 7 years giving you enough predictability and time to justify your investment.

This is how these groups operate in present day already

1. businesses renting space in cities - they lock down rent for say 10 years

2. individual apartment renters - price is usually locked down for 1 year

3. domain name system - you lock down piece of land in "string space" for a year

4. electromagnetic spectrum auctions (LTE, 5g spectrum bands for telephone companies) every several years usually when new technology is deployed

5. technology patents locked down for 20 years

6. Government LAND to LANDOWNERS - locked down once, with expiration time at infinity and passable down through generations

It helps to see what Georgists actually want to achieve with LVT - proper auction mechanism for something everybody needs and there is scarcity of it - land.

For political reasons they attack it from the position of tax, not from the position of an auction. Which makes it a bit convoluted and confusing unfortunately.
Apparently nobody turns to Tillable. It's Tillable that's turning to land owners and tries to convince them to not renew their contracts with farmers so Tillable can negotiate new contracts with higher prices, likely with the same farmers (as farming is very much a local thing, you can't farm a piece of land from a thousand miles away).
Neil Ferguson's Imperial model could be the most devastating software mistake
Which can be further abbreviated as C19. I have seen this in personal chats and wonder how long it will be before it gets into newspaper headlines where space is at a premium in print editions.
This would be really neat if it actually happened!

I think we usually see two distinct failure modes; either a company rots from the inside and loses a significant portion of its peak value before finally succumbing to an acquisition, at which point the single acquirer picks their bones dry. Or a massive company fails in a spectacular fashion, like we might see with some airlines in the next few months, but isn’t it also true that either they will restructure in bankruptcy or a large single competitor will come and sweep them up?

I guess the difference is that there’s nothing in the ocean that can devour a whale in one bite, the only option is for many very smaller creatures to feast on it over a long time period. TFA also mentions a crucial factor is the whale needs to fall in the deep sea, coastal water falls don’t result in the same effect. What would be the analogy for the deep sea effect — to preserve the company over time to allow the smaller entities to “feed” on it?

If there was a way to better emulate the natural effect I think it would be hugely beneficial to market diversity and competition. I think markets continue to evolve in ways that support and encourage monoliths. This long-term trend has just been massively accelerated over the last couple months.
I just use Maps that ships with Windows.
I think he is saying that because with webapps you have

- control over your software and updates

- no one can pirate your software/service
We get comparable treatment as Germany in Australia and pay comparable tax to America. I don't buy that this is a luxury of high tax paying countries. Something is systemically wrong in the US.
Not yet for music production. DAW's, software synthesisers, drum machines, latency matters here.
definitely, prepared to do 1yr of followup. just focusing on the launch now. thanks!
> For example, a voter with a budget of 16 vote credits can apply 1 vote credit to each of the 16 issues. However, if the individual has a stronger passion or sentiment on an issue, they could allocate 4 votes, at the cost of 16 credits, to the singular issue, effectively using up their entire budget.

It would be better for this individual "A" to find another one "B" who feels strongly about another issue, and agree to both use 2 votes each on A's cause in exchange for both using 2 votes each on B's cause. That way they each pay only 2^2+2^2 = 8 instead of 16, for the same outcome.
This assumes some amount of trust between A and B in case they cannot provide each other with evidence of how they voted.
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To give another fantastical yet limited viewpoint, the extremely short period of time in human history where

A) large scale production and innovation were required

B) but globalization hadn't arrived so there was an extreme lack of supply of educated and experienced individuals to deliver the objectives of A

Produced a lot of "great" companies in the sense that they offered for both labor and knowledge workers good jobs with upward mobility, and a strong sense of self-identity and orderly progress.

As soon as point A was subsumed by corporatism (patent and copyright wars, debt servicing) and B faded away (so labor lost its seat at the table) companies have become "commoditized" - there's absolutely zero point in establishing or aboding by a corporate identity today when you may have new masters tomorrow.
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Actually at first I thought idiot was a bit harsh.. but then I reread what I had forgotten about that post - I think if he's juvenile to promote the vandalism of wikipedia over a completely fantastical, out of context reinterpretation of history to label Thomas Edison a "douchebag", well then it is fair to label him an idiot on a limited forum.

Also, there's no accounting for taste but I find even his non-serious comics puerile and not terribly funny - pretty much one step above Taboola chum, or Jim Davis for millenials. Most of the "humor" and overplayed hook is simply describing everyday things with odd adjectives, ie hair cave=vagina, saliva=evil mouth juice, wow. There's probably a term for this trope.. Anyway, it gets clicks on Facebook.
Thank you for your contributions to wikipedia.

Are you aware of free and open source recording of shlokas that a beginner can hear and learn to recite?
If you follow MMT, taxes are the way governments withdraw money from circulation.

> So you collect the money for the infrastructure project by land "tax" before you begin with construction.

No, you use land taxes after completion to pay back the debt incurred to create the infrastructure. Adjustments of valuations based on the advantages of the infrastructure result in a greater burden of that repayment on those that receive the greatest benefit, but everyone contributes.
If you filter that list to US companies, it does seem to be mostly in services, with logistics and manufacturing coming up next.

I'm fine with taxing the hell out of Exxon, btw, or at least not giving them cash-in-a-briefcase subsidies, but you're not going to replace the income tax on that.

We collected 3.46 trillion in income taxes last year. How do you get there on a land-value tax? Do we weight it so Manhattan land owners are paying more in tax than the entire midwest?
We've had some success with 2D AutoCAD on WASM, but it's not as easy as just recompiling when you are dealing with a nearly 40 year old codebase and care about pixel level accuracy. Also, it will never be as responsive as native, mouse events lag on the browser even if you are doing nothing else. AutoCAD users care a lot about such lag.

The BIM stuff (i.e. Revit) is very Windows-specific so a straight port with WASM is a no-starter.

The actual 3D rendering with WebGL is the least problem, we have that nearly solved (in terms of performance relative to desktop -- we never really needed 60fps anyway). The problem there comes in when you have a huge design that does not fit in the allocated/allowed heap space.

(throwaway for obvious reasons)
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On Office 365 (desktop version), sometimes when you click a dropdown like the "different kinds of bullet lists" the whole application freezes for a couple of seconds while it builds the menu content or something. This didn't happen with earlier versions, if memory serves me right. I'm not sure if this is web tech or some other kind of new framework under the hood, but it makes me sad that with the speeds and cores we have on modern processors old-fashioned things like word processing have got slower than they used to be.

Native Applications in the platform's toolkit (not some cross-platform abstraction on top) will always squeeze a little bit more performance and usability out of the corners.
The best way to get actionable feedback is to ask ICT companies to pay you money for your product.
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I don't think this article makes a case for the validity of the question itself. The author seems to believe that their sense of esthetics is universal. This kind of belief is known to be false.
Why does the denominator change? You're looking at deaths per 100,000 population, and the 100,000 doesn't change for each city.

You're doing very simple fraction addition: 1/100,000 + 5/100,000 = 6/100,000
Bonus points if it includes offline documentation. As nice as it is to have "updated" online docs, the reality to me seems to be defined more by broken links than by actual up-to-date documentation.
Yup, just like the formerly innovative companies that end up being managed by the financial types.

They now optimize for current profits and not market-leading innovation, so profits improve - for a (sometimes long) while. Then, the profits decline, and no amount of financial sleight-of-hand can make it improve, and the company is too far behind to invest in R&D to again lead.

It is making money by extraction not by creation. Nice while it lasts, but unsustainable.

If this method takes over for farmland, expect another 1930's dust bowl type of farm out put crash in some years (esp w/the increasing scarcity of critical potash/potassium).

So, let's hope this new 'Tillable' biz model dies sooner rather than later.
Funny that the other day I discovered bandlab. It's not professional but for my hobby usage it's the best I've found
I agree. I think the single tax was conceived in a time where most productive activities took the same amount of land. Nowadays, you have farms on the one hand, and something like tech companies on the other. It would be kinda crazy to tax them both based on the amount of land they use.
I started my own blog last month and I am following this advice 100%. I'm not using analytics or trackers of any sort, not only for believing they create they same delusion you mention in your post, but also because I try to block all types of trackers when visiting other sites.

Why would I use the very thing I'm trying so hard to avoid when surfing the web? It's basically a matter of respect to the reader. So I designed my site following the values I consider so important for websites in general: no trackers, no mandatory javascript, no obstacles between the user and the content.
> update the DB and then publish an event

It can make sense to do both, so to de-couple internal table structures from externally exposed events. Debezium supports you safely doing this via the transactional outbox pattern [1]. Events are inserts into an outbox table in the same database as the actual business data, both updated in one transaction. Debezium then can be used to capture the outbox events from the logs and send the events to Kafka. To me this hits the sweetspot for many use cases, as you avoid the potential inconsistencies of dual writes which you mention while still not exposing internal structures to external consumers (for other use cases, like updating a cache or search index on the contrary, CDC-ing the actual tables may be preferable).

Disclaimer: I work on Debezium

[1] https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/configuration/ou...
Watch till the end.
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In some (most) cases, desktop apps could be better - performance, latency, offgrid capabilities, and even privacy. In most cases, I prefer offline desktop apps, then their online counterparts.

One area which is really tough to nail is cross-platform support though. Getting a good app on one system is hard enough, getting it in all three - rarely done. This is one of the things where web shines.

From business standpoint, I think web-first with an eye on native works for majority of cases. That is, as long as the majority of users don’t care about the above. In some future, if we start valuing efficiency and especially privacy more, this could turn around. But it feels like, even then, web will probably find a way to make more sense for most people.
The standards should fall wherever society wants them. If Facebook is upset about that, they can exit the markets.
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If one explains well what it is then they can’t be expected to support the parts of what that project is not.

I second the comment above about having a honest description to waste other people’s time.
Some employers may do that. But, from the github profiles I’ve looked at, I’ve found that writing an ok README file and any coherent inline documentation or comments would put you in the top 5% of job applicants. Even if the code itself is crap.
Well, the position I'm arguing against is that the lords should be left alone, that it's better for them to have their fiefdoms be isolated places than to actually employ anyone or purchase anything, and that we should use tax law to incentivize the lords to never interact with the peasants.

(Or in other words - my actual position that the nobility should be abolished. I'm just surprised to see someone say not only that it should stay, but that the world would be better if they didn't provide any of the benefits people usually claim in defense of feudal society, so I'm trying to understand what their position is.)
They wouldn't necessarily. The better question is: Why would Facebook's Users know better what they, as individual human beings, want, rather than whoever is in charge of the society, including their meddlesome neighbors, self-aggrandizing politicians, and repressive religious leaders?

(n.b. there are real meaningful answers to this question which respect individual agency instead of simply collectivizing all decisions about who is allowed to send bits to whom; it's just much more work to nail them down.)
I downvoted it because it’s mostly factually wrong.

First paying a commission is not correlated with participation in order flow payment. Commissioned brokers also get paid for order flow.

Second if you interact with an internalizer your order will execute faster not slower. And you will usually be getting better price execution than if you try to route manually.

Third all brokerages have routing tiers that involve self matching/dark pools/contractual discounts etc. Most of them will let you pay for the privilege of using the same router the non-premium orders go through.

At the end of the day if your trade is that sensitive to execution you are not a retail customer and should not be using a retail brokerage.
Video tag ≠ video file
Do you know OnShape?
Considering the noisy ads on some websites I visit, I believe they're using some other metric.

But the metric is bad.
An acre of farmland might be worth $2500 or $5000, and that land has been improved by clearing, draining, fencing, etc. (improvements done by the current or an earlier owner or his tenant). LVT is based on the UNIMPROVED value of the land, so if there were an as-yet-uncleared acre nearby, it and the acre of farmland would be assessed at the same value.

An acre in midtown Manhattan might be worth $250 million to as much as $1.25 billion, before we look at the building that is on it. (An acre is a big lot in Manhattan -- a whole city block.) A tiny lot in Manhattan sells hundreds of thousands of dollars, due to its location, which the seller didn't create. The old building on it may be worth nothing.

And the 100x100 lot with a new hotel on it and the 100x100 lot next door with just a parking lot, or maybe just a chain link fence, would be assessed identically. The unimproved value of the land.

Farmers would pay little under LVT. In fact they'd be advantaged, because their buildings and equipment would not be taxed. The owners of sites in our major cities would pay in proportion to the value of their site. And frequently the land is already leased to someone who puts a building on it, which gives a sense of the value of the land at the time the lease was negotiated -- a value which is not always made public.

And why would we want to tax wages, or sales, if we could obtain from the value of land much of the revenue we need, while providing a boost to the economy via removing the deadweight loss of dumb taxes?
Sure. I'm saying I don't understand how the rational part of their brain isn't overruling that, though.

The best thing you can do for evolutionary things is to donate all the sperm and eggs that you can. Literally do that as often as you can. I understand why people don't, though, because humans and animals only instinctively connect their will with procreation, even if it's connected, and instinct doesn't do abstraction. It only does connections with what's worked before. Wide hips, health, liking sex, etc... that's what we've evolved to. But who knows, the few mutated humans who give to sperm banks nonstop may become the majority in a thousand generations, and wanting sex may be a trait that'll be phased out.

I want to stay home and eat candy all day, but I don't. There are many things humans don't do that the "reptilian brain" would have them do nonstop.

I don't want to pay into my pension, and realistically my survival post-65 in the west isn't going to affect how my genes live on. Yet I do pay into my pension.

On the scale of human civilization so far, especially after the pill came around, procreation is not that connected to nature. Same as our other pleasures. What's tasty to eat is largely bad for you. Evolution hasn't adjusted to that. And it probably never will, since we'll invent just-as-tasty-but-healthy before it'll adjust.

And we've learned to trigger dopamine rewards without good behavior too. It's just illegal to consume such chemicals.

Also evolution doesn't demand wanting to procreate. It just demands wanting something that has the effect of procreating (historically), i.e. sex.

Your question is more on point than the other guy who just wanted to call me a nazi. So thanks for that. :-)
You need a desktop app when 1) you’re spending a ton of time in the app or 2) you need every ounce of performance and feature set that you can obtain and 3) you’re willing to pay for it.

If you’re not building something like this, don’t build for desktop.
In the real world, most people don't do TDD at work.

In my opinion it's a good tool in some cases, for simple algorithms or when you know exactly what you want. But most of the time it's too cumbersome or totally not practical. So you should not force yourself to do TDD for the sake of it. That's also why you only find toys examples, where TDD is a good idea for them.
You hold an annual auction for the exclusive rights to the property that the tax will be derived from. The current owner can choose to keep the rights and pay the tax or they can choose to sell the exclusive rights to the highest bidder who must pay and then becomes the holder of the exclusive use rights and the new owner would then also pay the tax based on the known value.

This might also usher out IP trolls and IP squatters.
It's true that many apps could be replaced today with a website, specially those that are basically capturing and showing data.

But there are still many areas where native is king.

- Games

- Audio / Video work

- Adobe type of work (photo editing, motion graphics, vectors, etc)

- 3d

- Office. For me Google docs is enough, but not for heavy users.

- Desktop utilities (eg: Alfred, iStatMenus, etc). You could certainly use a web UI for those, and it would probably be fine , but you'd still need some native integration.
Easily fixed by having an exception for people's primary place of residence. And other reasonable exceptions.
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Ah thank you, that's very interesting.

So that's not markup along "emotional" lines, but rather along "technical" attributes such as speed, pitch, volume, pause between words, and so on.

Obviously coding those things in XML manually would be a nightmare. Now I find myself wondering if 1) these technical parameters can be used to synthesize speech that does sound like a reasonable approximation of emotion (or if they're insufficient because changes in resonance and timbre are crucial too), and 2) if there are tools that can translate, say, 100 different basic emotional descriptions ("excitedly curious", "depressed but making effort to show interest", etc.) into the appropriate technical parameters so it would be usable.

Anyways, just a fascinating area of study.
You can boot up your own custom search engine in a few minutes with YaCy (Ya See!) an open-source, P2P, Dockerized crawler and search engine built on top of Solr.

https://yacy.net/

If you're generous; you can make your index available to other P2P instances.

I wanted to run an API search the other week and was blown away with how quickly I could prop-up my own custom search portal (I didn't want to pay for API access to other search engines, and YaCy comes with a JSON and Solr endpoints).

I ran it locally to test my crawl filters, then pushed a private instance out to Digital Ocean to turn up the heat with the crawling. The only issue I had was the crawler would hit the max memory threshold on long crawls and the container would restart, but that was fixed by scaling up the box.
> It’s kind of like how Spain will occasionally bluster about Gibraltar, despite the overwhelming majority of Gibraltar supporting British rule

Well, I guess that’s what happens when you replace the population of Gibraltar by British settlers. They will probably be pretty happy to be under British rule. Are you going to apply this logic to the areas colonized by Israel too?
The humbling truth about the limits of innovation
Here's how I think about these things. You can either react to the extreme version, focus on the political consequences, and what the person-on-the-street says/thinks. This is totally valid, and closer to what happens “on the ground”. Or you can (if you can afford not to worry about it) take delight in intellectual curiosity, approach everything like a student, trying to be as scholarly and scrupulously honest as possible, gently correcting people when they make exaggerated claims, etc. I mean, no matter how much you use strong words like “debunked” etc., people will tend to just ignore it and keep bringing up the same dumb thing as evidence of whatever-they-imagine and only think you're ignoring/fighting them, while instead if you non-confrontationally give them a proper judicious account of its role, they at least have a positive valence towards what you're saying and there's a chance the accurate version will sink in. Even if not, it's also good practice for being able to extract whatever good is in something: haṃsa-kṣira-nyāya or nīra-kṣīra-viveka as they say in Sanskrit.

(I think I already mentioned this paper being a “dead end” etc in my comments, even in my first comment on this topic from 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14295285. BTW it did lead to something more: excitement over the paper led to a conference the next year in India—see the only other paper of Rick Briggs listed in DBLP—though that too fizzled out and led nowhere... I haven't even been able to find any record of its proceedings being published anywhere. Anyway, telling people about all this creates a mystery and raises questions—if a lot of people putting their minds together couldn't produce anything useful for AI from it, maybe it's not so useful for AI after all?—and invites them to reconsider their position, and generally leads to better outcomes than quick debunking and denial of false claims, IMO.)