skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US lacks effective regulation and the precautionary principle with respect to chemical safety, agriculture, and food safety. Food safety in the US is mostly regulated by the FDA but it is grossly underfunded, understaffed, aspirational, and ultimately laughable. Largely the only ways consumers can protect themselves is by not buying toxic chemicals and avoiding non-organic foods because there is systemic pollution in the supply chain and a lack of safety standards for chemicals.
They're increasing taxes on land but decreasing taxes on buildings.

So most homeowners will pay less in total property taxes than they do today.
> My experience is that 99% of the people who are agasinst Roundup haven't ever done a day's farming.

Sounds about right[0].

> Direct on-farm employment accounted for about 2.6 million of these jobs, or 1.3 percent of U.S. employment.

Are farmers somehow not susceptible to conflicts of interest? You suggested it yourself: The work is hard enough as it is, so the last thing farmers have time for is to pressure godlike multinational corporations into investing into alternatives. Who else is supposed to complain?

[0]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic....
I'm assuming they are referring to the other 1%. Presumably ones they follow/subscribe to.
Do they have passwords to them?
It rewards people who use land in a way that produces commercial value. If you wanted to speculate on some land while operating it as a private park or a free parking lot you may be out of luck.
Virtually every effective hedge against inflation is taxed heavily. There is no respite from dilution.

When you look at it from that perspective you see a systematic attack against any safe harbor.
Since people can barely afford land and homes as it is, I’d love to hear how this will help make land more affordable or available.
I have a long held belief that engineering managers are mostly a scam, and are actually just overpaid scrum masters. This is from working at some top companies
40% of all land parcels in downtown are _parking lots_.

Tell me more about how nobody's hoarding land.
If it replaces property tax wouldn't this be lowering taxes for people who actually develop on their land?
From what I understand El Salvador went beyond "enforcing the laws" as we'd understand in a peacetime liberal democracy and instead jumped straight to borderline martial law and arbitrary arrests.
> Residents interested in adding vacant lots or side lots to their properties objected that those additions would have increased their tax bills as if there were a house on the added land, even if it was just an empty lot.

From https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-short-life-of-pennsyl....
> it's all personal preference, but "head and shoulders" is excessive.

It's hard to beat Mamoru Oshii trademark style of direction. The TV series ... felt like a TV series. It was competent but no different from any other anime.

When it comes to production values there is no comparison, one is a movie with a fairly high budget running for about 2 hours, the other is a TV series stretch out over 26 episodes.

The level of graphical fidelity of the 1995 movie's animation blew my mind back in the 90s when I first saw it on DVD. Add to that Kenji Kawai's haunting soundtrack ...
There is more music on Bandcamp than you could listen to in a lifetime. More comes out in a week than you could (probably) listen to in a week.

So when you sayd "finding new music to listen to", there's a hidden implication in there: you want to find new music that is on Spotify (which in turn implies things like major labels, artists seeking or expecting breakout etc.

Bandcamp is an amazing resource for discovering new music, but a subset of all new music, just as Spotify is. It's fine to say you prefer what you can find on Spotify, just don't make the claim that Bandcamp somehow isn't up for this general task.
(dig, dig, dig... where did I get that... music... found it!)

http://magnatune.com (correct, there is no 's' there... that's odd in today's world)

> Since 2003, we've found and recruited the very best independent musicians and shared revenue 50/50 with them. Much of our music is exclusively available here. Nobody has spent the time to curate a collection like we have.

They've got some interesting licensing (as in lack of royalties)...

Though... Not entirely sure anymore about this. It feels like it is just running as a zombie site that's paid up (no news in the past decade)... but it's still running and streaming.
That’s a matter of opinion. Many happen to believe it is not wasted.
Heh. For those that haven't dabbled much with neural nets, the key aspect here is the backpropagation[1]. If you want to optimize a process, you typically change the parameters (turn a knob or change a number) and see how the output reacts. If it changed too much you reduce the parameter etc. This is a forwards process.

The idea in backpropogation is instead to mathematically relate a change in output to a change in the parameters. You figure out how much you need to change the parameters to change the output a desired amount. Hence the "back" in the name, since you want to control the output, "steering" it in the direction you want, and to do so you go backwards through the process to figure out how much you need to change the parameters.

Instead of "if I turn the knob 15 degrees the temperature goes up 20 degrees", you want "in order to increase the temperature 20 degrees the knob must be turned 15 degrees".

By comparing the output with a reference, you get how much the output needs to change to match the reference, and by using the backpropagation technique you can then relate that to how much you need to change the parameters.

In neural nets the parameters are the so-called weights of the connections between the layers in the model. However the idea is quite general so here they've applied it to optimizing the size, shape, position and color of (gaussian) blobs, which when rendered on top of each other blend to form an image.

Changing a blobs position say might make it better for one pixel but worse for another. So instead of doing a big change in parameters, you do small iterative steps. This is the so-called training phase. Over time the hope is that the output error decreases steadily.

edit: while backpropagation is quite general as such, as I alluded to earlier, it does require that the operation behaves sufficiently nice, so to speak. That's one reason for using gaussians over say spheres. Gaussians have nice smooth properties. Spheres have an edge, the surface, which introduces a sudden change. Backpropagation works best with smooth changes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpropagation
Reddit does it as well, now: https://www.reddit.com/contributor-program

Both instances feel less like an olive branch and more like a last-ditch effort to retain the important users. Instead of listening to user concerns or fixing the apps, they've decided to incentivize popular users to stay active. It's not a draw for newcomers, who'd pay $8 a month for every $0.20 they earn. It's not a draw to developers, who now pay out the ass to access their platform. It's a "you're locked in here with me!" play that doesn't bode well for the treatment of users.
This 7digital? https://0x0.st/HJov.png I get the impression they really don’t want me to figure out how to buy music from them.
Municipal bonds?
The Happy Dysfunction of Dover
What piqued my curiosity was that multiple and diverse characters were learning something on YouTube. A video how to use a Glock hand gun for one character, and their nemesis whom they want to kill, ALSO happened to watch a YouTube video on handling a gun. Everyone is learning so much with YouTube!

It felt strange. I recall the discussion about the aggressive advertising on YT so.. maybe I was primed to think this in reading.
High levels of displacement and instability.

The proponents of this I have met are generally wanting to use it force seniors with paid off homes out of them so they can live in them instead (or often build on them, as they are property developers).

It also assumes that NIMBYism remains at the same level, which is challenging, as every new build or development nearby increases your own taxes. It would also encourage the childless to fight things like schools, as they would pay extra tax having them nearby.
Slightly related (I'm not sure if it's the same mineral.):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_del_Inca

https://www.google.com/search?q=puente+del+inca&tbm=isch

It's a natural bridge (from nowhere to nowhere) (arch?) and an abandoned hotel with thermal pools, all of them partially covered by the minerals of the thermal water.
I can code. I hate meetings. I like my home office and have been remote for about eight years.

I don't think you know what people managers do.
You wouldn’t print a car, would you?
You can’t just buy a house young and live there forever. It requires successful people in real real estate investing to develop in order to maintain property, which could piss off neighbors.
The job market for "real jobs" is strong.

Contrast with the market for "jobs" paid from investment rounds where the "work" is playing with computers and the objective is "growth" instead of profits.
If the output of such activity was the production of actual, sustainable businesses (cf. short-term investment opportunities for small sets of sophisticated investors), then these employees would still be needed.
And I would hazard a guess that this "mountain of evidence" was bought and paid-for by Monsanto.
If it's constant and at that scale and done in parallel by multiple entities doesn't it become just trading?
That is nothing like a ‘very basic code review.’ The LLM discovered a bug and reproduced it via a test.
Is that a pun on Georgism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
Living in a world that is post scarcity on 20 MT nuclear weapons is kind of exciting while being terrifying. I hope we become a multisolar species before that happens because we will need to be able to lose a few when the above happens...
So more non-solutions in search of a problem, there is no use case for this only burning more computing cycles.

This is the best way to take something that doesn't work at all for the environment and make it even worse.
Most of these services just don't exist in that timeline.
I no longer need Netflix.

Seriously. I just watched 3 fascinating videos I would have otherwise never given the time of day.
Also ensures communication vertically and horizontally across the org, works with partner teams, provides guidance and mentorship, and who’s efficacy is the number 1 cause of attrition.

If you deal with “bad” managers, that’s a function of working at a “bad” company and you only have yourself to blame for that.
> The Great Reset 2.0 which might save SO:

> Everyone whose downvotes exceed a certain threshold has their reputation points reduced to zero.

This could be reasonable or not, depending on the "threshold". SO/SE already have mechanisms (which aren't perfect) to deal with emotional up/down-voting. It already 'punishes' with a 2 rep cost for downvoting an answer. It doesn't for downvoting a question.
I don't know the history exactly, but my assumption is that trying to bootstrap an industry-wide union from nothing is exceedingly difficult, while making one at a single company is much more viable. Presumably the idea would be to merge the company-specific ones into industry ones after they're more stable.
It would tend to pressure owners of land that is undeveloped or undeveloped (parking lots) to either build or sell to someone who will.
I'm not seeing the issue .. we already ramp and block cars and trailers about every 18 months and relube hubs etc, have done for years (since ~1960 by my recollection).

I mainly leave that to my father who was born and 1935 and still loves doing that kind of routine maintainence, he used to ride ring pounders through the Kimberley floods back in the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47q6RiwcILg

It's just routine vehicle maintenance, make it a habit and tthey last for years.
> If you think that people saying that glyphosate is safe are arguing in bad faith I can see why you'd think there's a lot of disingenuousness around here.

Some people can’t detect astroturf - that’s why it works. Consider that you may be one of them.

> I've defended glyphosate in plenty of threads

Can I see an example? Google couldn't find your name + glyphosate, or + roundup together anywhere.

> I've seen no compelling evidence of any significant danger from it in general

Respectfully, I don't have any idea who you are. I’ve seen compelling evidence. So have many judges, and respected scientists, and health groups.

> This isn't me deflecting or gaslighting.

The way you blow off the link between glyphosate and kidney disease is concerning, tbh, but let's say you’re on the level. That does nothing, absolutely nothing, to dispel the notion that a giant corporation with a long history of evil and greed might employ PR goons to spread FUD and manipulate votes to warp a narrative and protect profits.
So if your neighborhood gets popular you get kicked out? Sounds like a healthy policy. Have you ever thought more than 2 minutes about it?
In reality in Russia there has been planned a very ambitious reform aiming to radically simplify the orthography in the Khruschev time, but as he fell out of power, everything Khruschev was condemned and undone :(

https://sergeytsvetkov-livejournal-com.translate.goog/105625...
Google+ didn't, despite holding Youtube hostage.
I thought of it like it was a concert. A band might have sponsors and advertising in the concert venue. It makes sense in a business mindset that an author might be convinced to put product names, etc. in their popular novels for a large fee.

I can't help but feel .. tricked in a way, but .. I am maybe too sensitive to the advertising in general. I hope advertising does not invade my books, too..
https://web.archive.org/web/20231016235131/https://www.econo...
In theory by encouraging more efficient use of land, i.e. denser building. So you make land more affordable by using less of it per person for apartments.
That I can understand! If you like a brand or product, as an author, you might want to spread the word! Maybe Mr. Sandford has an appreciation for YouTube.
GM is all about pushing farmers into a dangerous monoculture and beholden to buying seed without an ability to save even their own non-GMO seed.
> EPA can't sue the forest ...

> Mother nature doesn't respond to court summons...

Conceivably, the EPA could demand changes in forest ownership. When government owns things it does whatever. Some of the worst pollution was from socialst countries without meaningful private property.
You could provide exceptions for a primary residence where the increased taxes would be sufficiently burdensome on the owner's income. Doesn't have to be all or nothing.

Just don't do what Prop 13 did in California where they applied the property tax limit even to commercial property for some reason.
Between that and the "I've been unemployed for 5 months and am about to lose my house" posts with 1000 replies telling them how to network better, it's very very depressing.
The subtitle is pretty instructive:

> If you tax blight, will you get less of it?

I think the theory is that it will prevent “hoarding” by forcing land owners to make efficient use of their property, or sell it, thereby lowering the overall price. It creates a less favorable risk profile for speculative real estate. You buy land to do something useful with it, not to wait for the next market boom before you sell.

I think the problem it aims to solve stems from the fact that once you own enough of the land you essentially can charge whatever you want.
Unfortunately that tends to already happen. Gentrification pushes populations out as rent and property taxes increase. I'm honestly not sure how this is different and it seems like this may, as you pointed out, make gentrification worse.
Pufff, Brazil does that since forever. By paying some tax over your land, basically your government is taking it from you every generation or two.

Roughly, 2% each year and in 50 years and it's gone.
Half their decision.

Workers can obviously decide to make their own decisions WRT RTO if their employer demands it vs seeking new employment.
At least they don’t control any militaries yet, since the natural outgrowth of that is making reality meet their answers.

Or at least it would be if they were human!
I think that's probably why they use Bandcamp. They aren't interested in setting up their own ecommerce presence.
It can not be decided on compile time but it provides the basis for a build time "error". It's enough to have a testcase that registers your routes and the bug is descovered even before you commit potentially.
Glyphosate is used because it is more effective and less toxic than the alternatives, and because it's straightforward to make some plants immune to it.
That is already how property tax works, except in California. I think most people agree that the California system is a disaster.
i put a period after my first name, same idea
They're not making up the weight of the scientific evidence there.
If an animal consumes poisonous food, is injured by the poison (but not killed), then is butchered and none of the poison remains in the meat, then the animal has “filtered” the poison for us.

Our livers and such do filter such things out, but we are injured before/during that filtering.

A vegetable that is coated in some preservative chemical to keep its shiny coating does not filter that chemical out. Additionally, herbicides and pesticides that are sprayed on the plots may or may not be picked up by the crops and may or may not be filtered by those crops before they get to us. Or may or may not be converted to some other chemical that isn’t the same!

It’s such a complex scenario that we cannot know whether we are dosing ourselves with health or behaviour -affecting chemicals unless we spend far, far more money on research (both wide-spread statistical research and hyper-focused chemical pathway research).

Carnivore seems like a good way to get some filtering? It’s hard though, it’s expensive, questionably healthy, and questionably unethical.
That's the point isn't it?
I also have this issue, I would put it around 15% of transactions.
But if multiple entities are trying to wash trade at the same time trying to pump up the volume and move the price in the opposite direction don't they just trade with each other as in normal trading? And if they are trying to influencle the price in the same direction don't they just undetectably wash trade?
Wow, lots of pro chemical lobbyists here who have no clue about chemical residues or cross-contamination.

Eat organic.
Perhaps someone who has thought about this more can explain how a 'land value tax' differs from existing property tax regimes that explicitly examine the value of improvements and the value of land...

This Detroit case is interesting because there are different rates of taxation on the land, but the difference in rate could also be obtained by increasing the land component of a parcel's value.
This is decent as a "rah rah techno-optimism" piece, but it continues Marc's pattern of cheapening the discourse when opining on the topic of AI existential risk.

It's easy to mistake this piece as making an argument for accelerating AI development by touting the virtues of techno-optimism. It's not, though.

The claim that "AI has a high risk of becoming unaligned & uncontrollable in our lifetimes", if sufficiently true (e.g. 99% confidence), implies that the current speed of AI development is unwise, independent of how much one likes techno-optimism in general.
That's an upside, not a downside.
Title 38, §1614: Products containing PFAS
> > Try to find a HN thread about glyphosate where no one gaslights, deflects, toxifies or baits.

> That's an impossible barrier.

I know, right?

The notion Monsanto and Bayer would never stoop so low as to employ propagandists to protect their profits is literally unbelievably naive. As in, I don't believe that you believe that.

> Given the prevalence and duration of glyphosate use, compelling evidence should be readily available, just like it was with lead or asbestos.

You'll never guess what people who sold lead and asbestos used to say about lead and asbestos. Also see the denials of PFAS dangers. And fracking. And lobotomies, thalidomide, tobacco, mercury, etc etc.
Quite a few languages do this now, or did until recently, e.g Greek (speak Modern Greek, write in the fossilized katharevousa standard), Finnish (speak spoken Finnish, write in the fossilized kirjakieli standard), and Arabic (speak an Arabic "dialect" -- mutually unintelligible separate languages at this point -- but write in the fossilized fusha standard), etc.
That's the idea of Bandcamp.

Get the benefits of those things without doing them yourself.
Gentrification, which displaces renters (rents become too expensive for existing tenants so they need to leave the area), will start displacing some land owners as well. LVT would increase due to land value increasing, and the current land owners may not be able to afford the increased tax.

If you don't allow deferment of the tax, pensioners might have to move unwillingly (low income that may not cover the tax). Most proposals allow deferment for retirees until sale of the property, though, so it's kinda a non-issue.

In general, if your circumstances change unexpectedly then you might be unable to pay the tax and thus lose ownership of your property. This already is the case for renters, but it does mean a somewhat reduced sense of security for home owners too. Mind you, this is already the case for any existing property tax or council rates, which exist in many/most places, so it's also kinda a non-issue.
The idea is that it penalizes speculators for just holding onto property without putting it to work. I am not an economist so I don't know which of the pressures would win out.
Given that it was never "your" land to begin with (what, did you create it?), that's not an unreasonable approach.
Friends and I have built a number of 3D printers using general purpose parts like stepper motors, steel rods, and plastic parts made with other 3D printers.

Anyone capable of building a gun at home with a 3D printer, also has the skill required to build the 3D printer itself. Next they will try to restrict people from owning a drill press or a welding torch. Or from owning rubber bands and rocks, lest someone make a slingshot.

This sort of law is proposed by the same types of idiots that think the existence or CSAM is grounds to backdoor encryption.
Sounds like a way to convert single family homes into multiplexes as population rises so everyone can be closer to amenities. I’m very for that, especially if the former owner could find a guaranteed way to get one of the units on their land so they can stay.
I'm at LI and my reporting chain is Sr mgr > Sr Director > VP > Sr vp > CEO.

A year ago it was mgr > sr mgr > director > sr Director> vp> svp > ceo.

No one in my management chain was impacted but the flattening has been happening organically as folks leave. LI has a distinctive lack of chill right now contrary to the company image, but generally things are just moving faster.
The large decline is from 30% growth to 2%.
30% is insane post COVID bubble.
2% is normal growth

We are going back to normal.
Maybe REI hired for the insane bubble continuing?
My manager does little else besides asking what everyone is working on every day. We could automate her position with a slack bot and get the same results.
The main downside is that you end up essentially kicking people out if their land gets too valuable.

You can always provide an exception though, for a primary residence where the increase in taxes would be burdensome on the owner's income.
I appreciate you saying that. I'm afraid I've got a very well founded cynicism, but I do try. Thank you.