skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, wow. I didn't know brass instruments were so... logical!

Another idea, keeping the same "home row" layout as before: Left hand is valves, right hand is "mouth." You can only press one "mouth key" at a time, and that sounds the note. (Brass instruments don't... can't... have any kind of polyphony, right?)

I thought about adding expression by using mouse movements -- wiggle the mouse for vibrato, or use the absolute position of the mouse for volume or something. Kind of only works if you have a trackpad, though.
You've totally missed the point. Landlords are ALREADY passing the land rents off to tenants. The difference here is that the tax would prevent the land rent from accruing to the landlord by taxing it away from them.

It doesn't cause competition for scarce resources to stop - instead, it makes the market more efficient because everyone has to pay their land rents. A single story house in the middle of a forest of skyscrapers would suddenly be faced with a gigantic tax bill and be forced to sell.

The entire goal of the tax is to ensure that profits go to the people who generate them. Landowners are almost never responsible for large increases in the value of their land.
Having usable free space on the drive is not the same as having persistence on the live OS. You still have to manually copy files from the RAM disk to your drive. I think Ventoy even supports actual persistence but its not the same as getting it by simply flashing an image.
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Land taxes are far far more difficult to calculate than property taxes. Impossible to do well in some cases. To know what land and the buildings on it are worth you can look to what people are willing to pay to buy them. There’s no similarly straightforward way to value the separate parts. So you’ll end up with a lot more wasted expert time for a less accurate result.
Addiction is now freedom?

I used to express my liberty by creeping around carparks late at night and sifting through bins looking for cigarette butts to feed my addiction.

Freedom is harming others with second hand smoke?

https://www.cancercouncil.com.au/cancer-prevention/smoking/s...

Freedom is to cost taxpayers billions of dollars?

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/professional/smoking-costs-...
Philosophy, history, reading, foundations of science, ethics, learning how to be around other people.. What makes math so important? Most people can get by without it, if they only know how to count money.
Yep. One day someone will invent a cheap, compact device that makes whatever food you want from air, water and dirt, and half of humanity will starve to death.
How would we go about actually changing the constitution? It seems like there's too much polarization and entrenched interests for that to happen.
> Property taxes can discourage you from using your land to its highest and best use

I agree.

> Land taxes offer the opposite incentives. They encourage you to make your property better.

But it doesn't make the converse true. At most, you can say that high enough land value taxes encourage making real estate generate more revenue, to pay the tax. But given the current economy's tendency to optimize everything legible and whisk away the surplus upwards, it's dubious whether being pushed harder into the economic grindstone is "better".

For a rural example, well separated houses on a few acres are much nicer than ticky-tack suburban panopticon developments (or even worse an HOA). It's hard to prevent the latter from occurring over time due to the economic gradient (eg parents die and kids want the most money possible, so they subdivide), but we shouldn't be pushing it through policy.
Where I live, if you want to test 911 there's a non-emergency number you can call to setup a test in advance. I think they do it all manually though, but I'm sure Microsoft could work something out for automatic testing, especially if they donated a few thousand dollars to buy whatever equipment the 911 operators needed.
I am looking forward to people getting outraged once again when Android does not allow third-party apps to handle 911. There'd be dozens of articles on HN about how Google is being anti-competitive and outrage will keep pouring in.
Nah, it's really easy to calculate the value of the land. Once you calculate the value of the land, then it's pretty much applicable to the whole neighborhood too. It's a one-and-done analysis. This isn't my opinion. There's lots of economic research to back this up.

EDIT: some support: https://www.progress.org/articles/the-implementation-of-land...
Would it really be disastrous?

Say a house rents for $2,000 / month. $1,000 of that is the land, and $1,000 the house.

The land value tax is $1,000. We'll pretend this is an ideal world. If the interest rate is 12% then house+land is worth 100,000.

But imagine the they misappraise the land. So instead they charge 1,500 a month. Then that means the house+land is worth $50,000. That's not ideal but it doesn't seem catastrophic.

If a piece of land is underdeveloped and they charge a little too much, the person just surrenders that land to the government which auctions it off. If no one wants to buy it they know they mispriced the land.
`proto_library` for building the `.bin` file from protos works great. Generating stubs/messages for "all" languages does not. Each language does not want to implement gRPC rules, the gRPC team does not want to implement rules for each language. Sort of a deadlock situation. For example:

- C++: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/cc_grpc_libra...

- Python: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/python_rules....

- ObjC: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/bazel/objc_grpc_lib...

- Java: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/java_grpc_libr...

- Go (different semantics than all of the other): https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/blob/master/proto/def...

But there's also no real cohesion within the community. The biggest effort to date has been in https://github.com/stackb/rules_proto which integrates with gazelle.

tl;dr: Low alignment results in diverging implementations that are complicated to understand for newcomers. Buff's approach is much more appealing as it's a "this is the one way to do the right thing" and having it just work by detecting `proto_library` and doing all of the linting/registry stuff automagically in CI would be fantastic.
Can you name any of these alternative companies? I’d like to at least look into them.

One of the weirdest trends I’ve seen in Web3 discussions is the insistence that better alternatives exist, but for some reason nobody is using them, talking about them, or even naming them in discussions.
OK so... I forget the username, but... what was That One Guy's trick to getting insane returns??? :)

Cos it sure as feck wasn't skill, i refuse to believe it!
> And the OP's attempt to paint one side as some manner of angelic bastion of virtuousness is patently insane, disingenuous. and absurd

Your attempt to paint my comments that way is more absurd, as I did no such thing.

> everyone involved here is evil

Maybe so, but one side literally just tried to overturn an election they lost to hang on to power. They're playing a different game.
I feel like the lengthy focus on the Swift for Tensorflow project by some of the key Swift figureheads (including Chris Lattner himself) slowed Swift done a lot. SFT was eventually scrapped, and I can’t help but wonder where the language would have been if those minds would have focused on things like landing async/await & ABI stability earlier and working on other new language features.
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Saying that something has a side effect (here: unfairness) is a really shallow criticism. The real question is whether the side effect can be productively/efficiently dealt with.
> all seem to be presented in a way that deliberately ignores any downsides

If I understand correctly, the point of this article (one of several) is just to establish that a land tax would constitute a large amount of money. I get the impression the article was supposed to merely establish whether a land tax would generate a substantial amount of money whether good or bad, though admittedly the author tips his hand as to what his conclusion is. I'm also hopeful for the next article, I've been wanting a good reference on Georgism that wasn't book length to point people at for years.
Oh wow. I literally visited this page last week and it was the same layout that it’s been for years. I was wondering when they’d update it to be more Apple-esque
I wrote a script today to try and exploit this on our Grafana 8.1.2 instance but couldn't. Using Oauth for auth and only got 302 redirects back to the login page. Anyone else able to exploit this with Oauth?
When you’re paying six figures careful coding isn’t too much to ask.
When people use 'you'd have to change the Constitution' as a criticism, they are mostly noting that it's extremely difficult to change the Constitution, and are probably not motivated by a deep reverence for the document. The US has the most difficult-to-change constitution of any democracy- you'd have to pass two-thirds majorities in the House & Senate, and then get three-quarters of the states to sign on. It's more likely that I'll join an NBA team than that a measure to basically increase taxes is going to get that level of legislative support. So, the unlikelihood of this happening is meant to be the ultimate argument-ender, as you put it
Property taxes are already commonly broken down into the value of the land vs buildings, IIRC.
There are plenty of states with 0 income taxes. Plus, the article mentions benefits that are orthogonal to tax revenue, like more efficient resource allocation. A trial run at the state level could be a 0 income tax state keeping their tax revenues equal by substituting property tax with LVT. Building structures will be taxed less and the land underneath taxed more.
Ah, that ol' "argument"

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Tennis is very good exercise for your eyes.

Focusing on a small ball that is coming from far away, all the way to you and back again, 100 times per game.

Lots of ball sports would be similar.
big fan!
I've only had to call once. Live operator, and somehow already knew exactly what I was calling for! (It had literally just happened, too, so I knew exactly how quick they'd gotten their info together. That, or I got the same operator that got someone else's call.)

(I agree that having them handle tests might overwhelm the system. Still, it would be comforting to have the ability to test.)
Cities are major industrial centers. In the twisted logic of the generals at the time, destroying them wholesale was a legitimate way to strike at the military-industrial strength of a country
But if we go to a land tax, don't you have similar problems? Can you really say that land that has a 20-story highrise condo on it has the same value as the same land with a house on it? Because if you're going to buy the land - no matter what you intend to do with it - you get the land with the existing building.

So, if you want to disentangle the price of the land from the price of the building, then you're back to appraisers and accountants... and deadweight loss.

And:

> A land tax wouldn't impose an additional tax to the landowner for improving the value of their land.

How would it not? Do you just keep the land price from 1874 as the "value"? Or do you use the current price of raw land? What's the current price of raw land in Manhattan?
Yeah I should have specified I’d use vanilla first. I’m often using JQuery at work for legacy reasons. For a new project I’d try to avoid it or use one of the smaller libraries if needed.
I went through exactly the same thing. Pre-pandemic I loved going into the office. When our office opened back up last summer most people continued to work remotely. We went from having ~40 people in the office to 4 including me. I continue to show up because I have my own office at work that is much better than my home office, but I don’t enjoy it nearly as much. If I had a better home office I would stop coming in.
Does it? What other politician has made those same claims such a central part of their platform?
There is still a lot of value in "kinda decentralized". For example, you can download smart-contract bytecode and verify it. Go ahead and call up visa and ask for their source code.

Another example is the immutability of smart contracts. If someone updates a contract and you don't like it then you can keep using the old one. Go ask robinhood if you can use an old version of their app.

As far as private keys, I really don't know what to tell you. People lose their passwords all the time. Also smart wallets will help you recover you crypto wallet. UX is moving in the right direction here.

> This seems to be a bit romantic to me. The community can talk about values all they want, but it doesn't change the fact that shitcoins are everywhere. We can all agree murder is bad, but that isn't going to stop murders from happening.

So should we stop using email because of phishing? Or stop using phones because of spam calls?

We educate people on phishing.
We educate people on scam calls.
We educate people on the dangers of investing in penny stocks.
We educate people on the dangers of options trading.

Why can't we educate people on shitcoins and decentralization? That's my point, crypto is a wild place but we can absolutely create a culture that moves things in the right direction.
> imagine a couple, 65, retired, paid off their mortgage, paid income taxes all their lives until retirement, now living off their savings. It's unfair to start taxing them based on the value of the land their home is built on, which they already paid for.

Taxes don't end at retirement. I fail to see how this substantially differs from any other change to the tax code.

The retired couple if your example had the opportunity to buy real estate that most young people today will not have. Those same young people have been paying into a social security system that they will be lucky to see much if any payout from.

So what is "fair" here? Is it really fair to let those young people pay higher rents so that the old people don't face the challenge of moving to a new domicile? Indeed, those high rents directly finance the mortgages of property owners and thus increase the speculative value of the property, enriching the very same elderly couple that you are worried about being unfair towards.
Some evidence would be more convincing than a glib "nah, I'm right"...
In this case, bound means that the force of gravity is stronger than the expansion of space time. All of space is expanding, but things that are close (ie within a few hundred thousand light years) pull on eachother enough to resist being swept away by the "current" and only distant galaxies recede. But it's not like there is something special about our position, if you could magically teleport to another galaxy a few billion lightyears away the picture would be about the same: your own galaxy and those nearby don't go flying apart, but all the distant galaxies do.
I should clarify that “inadvertently” is the key word here. The 0day happened because of a number of factors detailed in the post, and it isn’t the fault of any one person.
well you'd be wrong. they sold the 15kw as an extra upgrade for the car. it had nothing to do with the warranty. I paid $2k for it to software unlock from 60 to 75 permanently.
True. But the argument that assessment is subjective, and prone to error, is true. But such errors in land value are at least fairly easy to peer review. It is all a matter of public record.

But for income, if you hide it all in the Cayman Islands, who is to say how much income you made or not? The errors could be off by many orders of magnitude and we wouldn't even know.

And more importantly, taxing the right thing imperfectly is better than taxing the wrong thing perfectly.

Taxing people imperfectly for polluting is good. Taxing people for doing good deeds is bad, even if assessed perfectly.
million dollar question right here
For the winners / losers computation, one thing that's clear is that land value taxes are highly progressive.

Rich people own most of the land. There are no tax loopholes to evade land taxes.
except MacOS, I know it's illegal but if only...
The old projections systems were even made to blow up what you cared about (your country) and be very scale-imprecised on the outskirt.
I didn't say I'm against Georgism, I just listed what seem to me the biggest obstacles in implementing it (some of which may be overcome). Sorry to hear you found my post shallow.
>The article also had an unsettlingly high number of “If we assume that X is true, then Y is a reasonable conclusion” while completely sidestepping an examination of whether or not “X” was true or even reasonable

Those are generally after listing a range of different projections, and are something like "if we assume the lowest projection is true, we see x, with the highest we see y. Both are significant amounts."
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don't post if you have no idea what you're talking about. the extra 15kwh was available as an upgrade. if you found a way to exploit the full capacity of the battery, they would blacklist you from service, software updates, and supercharging until you paid them the upgrade fee. god I have HN people.
I don't like how "Georgism" and any number of other literally hundreds of years old economic ideas are presented as some underdog, unknown thing. Just no. Economists know about these things, and they're pretty much universally in favor of taxing land, just like they're pretty much universally in favor of taxing carbon and any number of other things.
That link also describes the Catholic schoolboy algorithm: ask forgiveness not permission.
I can try... :P

edit: I see a github link, will send a pull request someday (there's quite a lot of text to translate)
> But if the alternative to NFT's is the status quo, then you're choosing between a system where only the privileged get to set up artificial scarcity games (usually there are lawyers...) versus one where anyone can do so. It still sucks, but it sucks less.

This doesn’t really follow. Why would NFTs be the only way to generate artificial scarcity when people have been doing it forever with one-off art, private experiences and concerts, and limited edition runs?

NFTs seem like a step in the wrong direction: You still don’t have the original art or thing that the NFT supposedly represents. You just have a new blockchain entry that says “This NFT represents <thing>“

> As it stands it's not really clear why I should accept a dollar from a stranger--for all I know, they made that dollar by making the world worse. Why should I participate in a scheme that enables them to continue doing so? But with NFT's I can look at the circumstances of its minting and decide for myself whether that's the kind of thing I want to see more of.

This doesn’t make any sense either. Why do you implicitly trust what people tell you about an NFT but not a dollar?

There’s nothing magical about NFTs that solves the social problems you’re describing. An NFT is just a blockchain entry with associated cryptographic procedures for changing said blockchain entry. It doesn’t give you insight into the circumstances around it. You still have to take whatever people say at face value, just as you would with the dollar example.

But with the NFT you have to pay a lot of money just to accept it. Money which goes to miners who are burning energy at a furious pace just to keep the NFT existing, in a system that becomes ever less efficient as more miners join. That’s probably not what people had in mind when it comes to making the world a better place.
It's either patented or a secret, it can't be both. Patents must by definition be public.

...and hardware manufacturers make money selling hardware, so why keep the details of how to use it secret? In the days of SDRAM and DDR(1) a lot of companies, including Intel, were far more open about documentation than today.

I've analysed the init code from BIOSes and it is indeed not that complicated.
What about all the other Swift packages like Swift Algorithms, Collections, Numerics etc?
The problem is most people won't learn it themselves. Like it or not, most children are not precocious, they are simply average. So in that case, school offers a way to teach kids what they don't know, and also to know what they don't know, and to find that out. Without that loop, you'd be hard-pressed to find children who grow into capable adults.
Yes.

The final round of the Soviet Union's collapse began on December 1, 1991. That day, a Ukrainian popular referendum resulted in 91 percent of Ukraine's voters voting to affirm the independence declaration passed in August and formally secede from the Union. The secession of Ukraine, long second only to Russia in economic and political power, ended any realistic chance of Gorbachev keeping the Soviet Union together even on a limited scale. The leaders of the three Slavic republics, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (formerly Byelorussia), agreed to discuss possible alternatives to the union.

On December 8, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus secretly met in Belavezhskaya Pushcha, in western Belarus, and signed the Belavezha Accords, which proclaimed the Soviet Union had ceased to exist and announced formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) as a looser association to take its place. They also invited other republics to join the CIS. Gorbachev called it an unconstitutional coup. However, by this time there was no longer any reasonable doubt that, as the preamble of the Accords put it, "the USSR, as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality, is ceasing its existence."

The final dissolution occurred on 25 December 1991 as General Secretary and President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned and transferred power to Russian Presiden Boris Yeltsin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Unio...
Indeed. In an environment where we can barely pass meaningful laws, we certainly cannot change the constitution. It just seems like a tragedy that we use laws and court rulings where we should be using amendments, and using executive orders where we should be using laws.

Seems it would be much, much more stable to enforce the constitution to its (letter | intent | reasonable modern interpretation) and force congress to deal with adjusting the constitution....than to short-sightedly ignore the constitution for immediate political and judicial expedience.
> You can't detect all breaking changes automatically. A field can subtly shift semantics on an API level, yet that breaks a workflow for some downstream consumer somewhere.

That is what aip.dev helps with. Following these style guides makes it hard to have ambiguous meaning of a field in an API. Linting APIs is something buff provides.

This isn't a "catch 100%" thing but this is more close to a "catch >XX% of mistakes" which is good enough if it cheap.

> OpenAPI and other API description languages give a clear an unambiguous description of an API that can auto-generate clients just fine.

The last time I used OpenAPI it was very verbose. It wasn't anything like writing code (something I am good at). It was more like writing a large config (something I'm bad at). Protos provide a code-like view on APIs. This is just preference though but I like it.

> Binary JSON/gzipped JSON is frequently very space efficient too.

My assumption is that parsing JSON will require more CPU than protos and much more than flatbuffers. More so when you factor in gzip.

> Using tracing and other advanced techniques require the right knowledge to use, and I don't think it's that common in smaller orgs.

Taking something that's complex and making it easy for people to use sounds like a business prop. Is tracing something people don't do because there's no value or because it's hard to use?

Basically: you don't want to use protos for any one reason. It's a whole ecosystem that makes many things magically better.