skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really thorough argument. While it seems like a great idea, the last bit is what gets me: the wealthy owns the vast majority of the land. Our gov is effectively captured by financial interests. At what point will the rich give this up? We can come up with a million reasons for taxation but the rich will evade them like it's their job. The problem is still wealth inequality caused by greed. I had never heard of Georgism, Here's another person that thought land ownership was immensely important https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata
Training Neural Networks with Fixed Sparse Masks
Same. I'm one of a handful of people that have used Julia in my circles. It's an enthusiastic handful, but the ranks don't seem to be swelling that fast.
I mean, you're not wrong
A Twitter thread by one of the authors, for more context: https://twitter.com/colinraffel/status/1468618801134592012
Lol I had this tab open like a year ago & closed it last night.

@Mlerner, what's your story? Why do you keep posting Facebook centric tech articles? Who are you? What do you enjoy? What's your role here at HN?
Aren't they still paying property taxes? You wouldn't be adding a tax to them, you'd be replacing a tax on them with a differently calculated tax. It might go up, or down (the auther says his would go down).

And there is no "middle of the game" here, because there wasn't a start and won't be an end... it's all middle. You don't have a right to live by the same laws your whole life. By point 2, as everything is currently in process, we couldn't ever adjust taxes, or change laws.
My gut feeling is that most are nation-backed trolls.
Since I don't use Find My Phone often enough, my Pixel 3 helpfully decided to remove location permissions from it. Would've been in for a surprise the next time I lose my phone had I not caught the notification.
> This is missing a key element:...

This is where I get frustrated with Land Value Tax articles: They tend to ignore all of the complexity by sweeping it into the idea that Land Value is something that can be accurately and arbitrarily assessed in a vacuum, without influence from politics, zoning or other real-world factors.
You can't twist this to make it about both parties.

The burden is on the acting individual to not harm others with their choices.
Real world personal responsibility is where the line is drawn. Not some idealistic notion of freedom to do whatever you want.
I with my team always admit failure as progress, because it is impossible proceed without failure being the catalyst toward success. To succeed without consequence is to learn or experience nothing. Failure while bad is its own reward.
Because now we're getting screwed. The concept of fairness is cold comfort.
Exactly. It’s been weird seeing so many people who have lived through several technology curves failing to imagine where these current trends are pointing.
The way you handle retirees is tax deferral: they don't pay the taxes every year, they pay the whole amount when the property is transferred by sale or inheritance. In this case it would just be the land transfer.
What are some decentralized naming initiatives?
In terms of software development and testing practices, what the military/aerospace/medical industries do would never scale to any other industry. If the law were to mandate those practices across the board, that might sound great, but it won't matter because you won't be able to afford the resulting products.
FWIW, I just looked up my own property tax records and there's no breakdown, so not sure how common that is.

That said, it is done for property insurance, so I think your point that it's already done stands.
This paper is from a conference a few months ago (SOSP), it's possible you read a pre-print (or maybe the CacheLib paper [1]).

Facebook publishes lots of systems research! FWIW I also write a fair bit about the other systems research from Microsoft Research, etc - what you are seeing in my posting history is me sharing my writing a few times (as permitted by HN rules)

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/berg
Thank you for the deep response!

That is kind of what I figured, basically it always boils down to divide and conquer.

It just feels like with software, it's simultaneously easier than mech eng in so many ways (everything is in silico, near infinite abstraction power, ability to automate so many parts), yet it feels like we are constantly struggling with complexity. It starts simple but then quickly becomes a ball of yarn.

Maybe that perception is wrong, but if there is some truth to that intuition, I think it is due in part to this: software is all degrees of freedom and very few invariants to start, but then the system space quickly fills with rigid rules than can intersect in unpredictable ways. Physical engineering, you start with lots of invariants (the laws of physics, materials, chemistry, electronics, and geometry) but they are all thoroughly documented at this point. Things intersect, systems interact, but it feels much more bounded. You're only ever gonna have 3 dimensions, 6 simple machines, 92-ish usable elements, the standard model and universal constants.

This is why I value Rich Hickey's "Simple made easy" as the the exemplar of software philosophy. It's easy to say "oh yeah modular code good" but it's another to actually write code that is naturally decoupled.

As an aside, both disciplines tend to benefit from "throw more hardware at it!"
TFA is a shallow, fact-free, ideological rant based on the premise that "If you want to change the world to a better place, the best way to do it is a for-profit because for-profits have to take feedback from reality." The author is at best uncritically free-market favourable, if not considerably more so, based on this and other writings.

User poetically, in the best pg sense, critiqued the core of the argument:

Truly refuting something requires one to refute its central point, or at least one of them. And that means one has to commit explicitly to what the central point is. So a truly effective refutation would look like:

The author's main point seems to be x. As he says: <quotation>

But this is wrong for the following reasons...

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Graham%2...

poetically is practicing pg's highest form of disagreement precisely to specification and form. The post was flagged (groups never admit failure, after all), and you as moderator stepped in and admonished them. You're wrong, dang.

The refutation reads as a "generic ideological tangent" strictly because the article is a generic ideological tangent. The refutation is absolutely on point. The gericism and ideology are in the source, and must be pointed out as such to be an effective refutation.

If a submission cannot be properly refuted without descending into "generic ideological tangent" then the fault lies with the submission.

At the very least, restore poetically's comment and withdraw your admonition.
All the land value taxes would be public record. Think it'd be hard to have your land valued differently than your neighbor.
Creative effort is scarce, so the argument is about how to securitize it. It’s not artificial scarcity, it may just be a poor proxy method around the actual scarce resource.
Actually, we have a number of studies-- showing lower transmission rates in schools using mitigations (ventilation improvements, screening, teacher microphones, and masking)-- and we have aerosol-model based physics providing justification for why this works -- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.23.21253503v...

And, anecdote: I'm at a school with windows open & masking. We have a fair amount of mandated testing, and there's been no transmission at school detected despite several primary cases. Compare to other schools with a lot of transmission detected.

I don't financially need to work. I find teaching rewarding, but I'm not willing to kill my dad for it, kthx. I'm glad to be at a school which is making a reasonable compromise in this area.
There's a decent amount of evidence that early schooling variation doesn't correlate to future achievement once you control for IQ, income, etc. This is supported by your anecdote.
> We’d have an entire book full of LVT modifiers, exceptions, and tax breaks in no time.

Indeed, and even without these, we'd have the "LVT assessors" getting bribed or being buddy-buddy with rich landowning families. Obviously we already have that today with property taxes (not to mention permit approvals).

Paraphrasing what you said elsewhere, "The interesting part is to explore the net effects."

I suspect LVT would end up, overall, encouraging building more housing. It could even be sold as "lowering or eliminating taxes (on improvements to the land)". I also suspect there would be no end to the shenanigans played to manipulate LVT's. I doubt it would be much worse than today's situation, but I might be very surprised!
Until this moment I didn't know the Apple version of bash was outdated, I reluctantly started using zsh when Apple defaulted to that. Now I don't care about bash.

Was that good for bash?
Yes, I don’t think “test they with the user logged out, the phone can still dial 911” is a test that any sane person would come up with, nor should they be expected to. The permutations that level of paranoia unlocks are basically infinite.
I didn't say you were against it, either! It's also worth criticizing the things you're for.
I don't understand the point you're making. I'm all for Gene Roddenbery post-scarcity space communism, but the entire crypto space is based on scarcity...
I think Hidekatsu Yanai was largely correct about the mechanism of action in fat tissue back in October 2020.

https://cardiologyres.org/index.php/Cardiologyres/article/vi...

It's disappointing that public health agencies haven't put much emphasis on telling people to reduce body fat. While the vaccines are fairly effective at preventing deaths, breakthrough infections are quite common and getting down to a healthy body fat level further reduces risk.

https://www.wfae.org/health/2021-09-30/novant-says-9-of-10-c...
Isn't this already done as part of property insurance?
Awesome for people who have pixels that no longer get updates... Like me and my family. Now I have to buy new phones?!
That summarizes a lot.

The system is not simple at all.

The benefits are only potentially here (eth fees are wild).

The solution involves the opposite of religious principles the mob believes in.
Even if they were, why would you assume this would be relevant to re-infection?

The vast majority of people testing positive for the virus are not dying from it.
> USD depends on a large number of people collectively agreeing that x dollars are worth y loafs of bread.

Hum, no. That is horribly reductionist. USD is a currency, who has a central bank enacting monetary policies. It also has a very big government behind it that wants to have some oversight over the economy.

> PoW (...) is the only thing proven to be resistant

Again, no. PoS is doing just fine, it allows for a much larger and diverse pool of nodes. Meanwhile in PoW systems you have hardware manufacturers who "test" their equipment on mainnet before delivering to the buyers and quite frequently gets scared with the concentration of hashpower by one pool or another.

> mining is one of the most concentrated sources of renewable energy demand

Can you provide one example of a place where has cheap, renewable energy and that can make the energy distribution more profitable than bitcoin mining?

Do you understand that it doesn't matter if the energy production is 100% clean (which is not, and likely will never be given that energy is cheaper in countries with bad environmental records), the problem is that if mining is more profitable than selling the energy, any excess energy will always go to mining and all of the "advantage" you are talking about is ending up in a closed-loop system?

> Until we find those solutions we have Bitcoin and PoW.

Let's pretend for a moment that there are no better alternatives today: suppose that there will be one day in the future (2, 5, 10 years? Doesn't matter...) where there is a chain that demonstrated to be more efficient, can make more transactions and is just as secure as PoW. Let's for the sake of argument assume that the new tech is so undeniably superior, even BTC's core team announces plan to adopt it.

How do you think the transition will happen?

(a) BTC users will continue using only BTC's until the devs manage to create and implement a migration plan?
(b) BTC users will slowly migrate away to the new chain?
(c) BTC devs will just freeze the old chain and make a new genesis block on the new chain?
(d) BTC users will panic-sell and move to the new currency on the new chain?
(e) BTC users won't even be able to notice the new chain resurgence until it is too late?

For the question above: what about the miners? Are they just going to dump their mining rigs and get on board with the new system, or do you think that their operation is just too profitable for them to let it go?

What I am trying to show is that - if you assume today that there can be something better than BTC and can supplant it - then the future price of BTC is ZERO. Given that BTC does not pay any kind of dividends, and that the future price of BTC is ZERO, then there is no point of holding it. Every bag holder is just playing a game of chicken now.
The same exists elsewhere, in South Korea that I know of. Bridges and dams disappear or move on maps, Google Maps doesn't have high res sat pictures, etc. Just to say, it's not great IMO but not only totalitarian states have a need for such obfuscation; healthy democracies too.
From page 1:

> Previous infection was ascertained based on SARS-CoV-2 testing from rapid antigen tests or molecular assays (e.g., real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) performed before mRNA vaccination and ≥14 days before admission; testing performed after February 2020 was primarily within network partners’ medical facilities.
Well, 1 is right. Land just doesn't matter that much today.

Take Google, for instance. What does Google own? They own some land - some fairly expensive land. But they also own a bunch of code and data, and they own google.com, which is probably the most valuable of the three. Why tax the land, and not the domain name?

And, if you go by just about the first thing the article says, if your goal is to cut down on rentiers, well, land isn't the primary mechanism for rentiers any more. Intellectual property, maybe?

From the article:

> For Georgists, land is the key to understanding the whole economy.

Yeah... it really isn't. That was becoming decreasingly true even in 1879; now it's laughable.
I don't understand why everyone is blaming pixel here. If it hijacked 911 and refused to let your app that provides your actual phone service dial it or similar, people would be up in similar arms. Especially from an antitrust / competitive angle. This is what I expect to happen honestly when apps (teams in this case) register as phone services and then refuse to call some numbers.

Sure there should be a way for the call handler to reject some dials and have it go to the next in chain, but honestly this seems like a mess to me overall.
I missed that the date was a year from now. Seems strange they'll be shutting everything else down before which is why I didn't notice it. My mistake.
This LVT is lower because the land is closer to a highway, therefore less desirable due to pollution.

This LVT is higher because the land is closer to a highway, therefore more desirable due to ease of commute.

This LVT is lower because the land is closer to heavy industry, therefore less desirable due to pollution.

This LVT is higher because the land is closer to heavy industry, therefore more desirable due to being closer to the largest employer.

This LVT is lower because the land is more likely to flood.

This LVT is higher because the land is closer to the beach.

I agree these superficial "examples" would appear absurd to the people who own the land, but so much of property taxes are already shenanigans. I'm not convinced that Georgist LVT will make this any worse than it already is, but things are currently terrible in this regard and I expect they'll continue to be terrible with a Georgist LVT.

Maybe a little better because at least with LVT there would be fewer variables to hide the nepotism behind.
I mean... I'm one of the investors... I'm also the former maintainer of Protobuf and former startup founder myself... but I could be clueless, yeah.
It seems like we're heading towards Lexx more than Star Trek.
I don't want your dad to get covid either. But every single school child and teacher has access to a vaccine at this point and teachers who feel they are at a special risk have access to KN95 masks. Instead, everyone has to wear some kind of cloth mask to show that "wearing is caring". We now have almost two years of data to look at. The risk to children is absurdly low.
yes. who says america doesn't have tax funded day care system.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/us/schools-closed-fridays...
> These numbers are very small for distinguishing between the effectiveness of two different and effective immunization methods (natural and vaccine). By now, we should have more data to support if the effect size is that strong. Do we?

You should check the number of deaths in the original trials used to approve the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. You might be surprised. Even in big trials in immunologically naive populations, only a small number of people became seriously ill -- a total of 10 people became seriously ill across the entire Pfizer trial. No deaths occurred. [1]

Once you've vaccinated your population (or otherwise allowed them to become immune), you're talking about incredibly small effect sizes.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577
The last paragraph is how it appears on the property tax statement, but I think the assessment isn’t created ground-up, but rather more from a market price down, starting with a likely sale price as an input rather than an output and deriving land and improvements prices so as to sum the input figure.
Alexa was the strongest Tranco input, actually think this is quite bad for them.
This is funny I’ve also experienced about 3 times in the last year someone passing me on a neighborhood (1 lane each way) street or passing in the turn only lane, when I have never experienced that before. I thought maybe my driving had changed but maybe this is a wider trend.
True, but this is a case where a difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. There’s a huge difference between “taxes are higher this year” and “taxes will be specifically levied in a way to make that asset of yours worthless”. Generally, the latter is considered a taking that merits compensation like in the case of eminent domain.
Any transition to a LVT should accompany one-time compensation to existing land owners.

The same should apply to any other repeal of rent-seeking institutions, whether it's anti-labor-competitive laws privileging labor unions, licensure barriers privileging taxi medallion holders, etc.

The British used this method to end slavery throughout their empire, which meant: 1. much more rapid end to slavery, due to less political opposition to its abolition, 2. no costly civil war and enduring sociopolitical grievances that emanated from it.

Economic analyses indicate that compensating rent-seekers at an amount equal to the expected loss of economic utility over their lifetime from the elimination of their rent-seeking opportunity, as part of a reformation to end the institutions that enable their rent-seeking, leads to net economic gains, because the economic efficiency gains from expedited abolition of the rent-seeking far outweighs the cost of the compensation.
Seems like a pretty heavy analogy for offering a cheaper SKU with a cut feature.
Nexmix is what most vendors use: https://nemixram.com/64gb-4x16gb-ddr4-3200-pc4-25600-ecc-udi.... Pricing seems on par…
If true, the only question I have is "why?". Assuming the OSS projects aren't a conflict of interest, there is zero reason to block people in their own free time from working on other projects. Blocking any form of participation, even non-code contributions is extreme.

This sounds similar to Amazon policies I'd read on HN, but I can't remember if they were barring OSS activity or claiming ownership of.

As a Red Hatter I find this mindset mind-boggling, but I'm heavily biased and on the complete opposite side of the spectrum. There's always a balance to be struck around policy depending on the org/industry/etc, but a blanket "no" is ridiculous.
Not pure LVT but Pennsylvania does have a two-tiered system where land is taxed at a higher rate than improvements https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/6/non-glamorous-g...
Everything is Microsoft.

Microsoft made a special point of getting people used to the idea that nothing can be expected to work right. Before Microsoft, if something didn't work, you sent it back for a refund, angrily. Since, it is "Have you tried rebooting it?" No refunds, ever.

Everybody else relaxed into a Microsoft level of expectation. Anybody who doesn't, spends money their competitors don't.

(If you are too young to remember: this is literally true.)
Way too primitive for those I think.
Perhaps you conflated /etc/fstab with $HOME/.bash_history? Because for sure that "sudo tee -a" will cheerfully append its stdin to the named file each time it is run, at least until you run out of disk space
Schools are also places of common suffering through which friendships may be formed.
Why downvote when you can just google?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U...

The aftermath of the Second World War resulted in a foreign policy in which the U.S. sought to oppose world communism. The ensuing Cold War resulted in the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter, and Reagan Doctrines, all of which saw the U.S. embrace espionage, regime change, proxy conflicts, and other clandestine activity internationally against the Soviet Union.
That makes them WebKit, not Safari; they share the engine, not the chrome.
I haven’t done very thorough research, but my impression is that there is a considerable cost bloat if you go through hospitals and similar, but that the genome sequencing is essentially the same.
> In one of the clearest indications of rising recklessness, fatal accidents involving just one vehicle also rose disproportionally.

This is also an indication of suicide.
Maybe you other reasons to drop Teams, but this would not be one.

Google/Android are clearly tasked with handling 911/emergency calls. Teams is not - I doubt that it is even in their spec - they should expect 911 to route right past them.

Google effed up this one big time.

They need to fix it for every app, not just Teams.
This really doesn't make sense. Views matter for example, land with a blocked view should be worth less than land without the blocked view.

Land immediately adjacent to a golf course or park is often valued higher. Land immediately next to railroad tracks or industry, not so much while the discount drops off steeply just a few blocks away.

Water rights, drainage, soil quality, contamination, roadway access all matter a great deal for more commercial land.
Do you know about the code_warntype macro and function?
>this exact puzzle also came up in an episode of Stargate SG-1 season 2

Impossible, there's no such thing as 2