skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many IC trucks are expensive, but the best selling truck, the Toyota Tacoma has a base price of only 28k. Realistically, they end up being mid-30s once outfitted by the dealer, but still a big value compared to the lightning.
What do I care if the King of Sweden does the math problem or the guy at the desk next to me? Only knowing the answer is correct is what matters to me
“you can be pretty damn sure that some JSON got POSTed with appropriate signatures/a hash reward attached to it to some nodes listening on a peer-to-peer network and propagated around”
Because the doctors have the AMA. The similar sorts of group for pharmacists doesn't have nearly the political pull. The largest group, APhA, has about half the members as the AMA. AMA pulled in $493M to the APhA's $34.5M last year.
> which is illegal without a tax stamp

Or a Type 7 FFL w/ Class 3 SOT. Stamps are not obtainable post-1986, resulting in a de facto ban.
Good news, the IRS doesn’t levy property taxes.
Or you can use an external hardware security key; the latest versions of most security keys (like YubiKey 5, Nitrokey 3, etc) support Passkeys. Passkeys are basically just U2F 2.0, allowing you to use an asymmetric key pair as the first factor instead of the second.
Maybe also some had good managers but didn't realize it because you don't notice the lack/lessening of bullshit.
So we work for private equity mostly, and they are in the business of buying and selling steady growth, profitable businesses, as opposed to VC/bubble stuff, so our expectations are a lot leaner. But at a guess, I think we'd expect that to be a 40-50 person company. 118 seems high.

The app is tiny, it has changed very little in who knows how long. Infrastructure is obviously the big thing, so there would be a solid size infra team. Then standard business, product, marketing stuff. I just can't see that warranting more than 50 people unless it's raking it in. Sounds like they could be wasting money on marketing initiatives that may or may not be worth anything at all. Six full time writers seems pretty out there given the questionable ROI of those articles.

Obviously, take this with a huge a grain of salt as this is a guess based on being a frequent user of the app, and having done about 60 diligences and been a part of another 30 or 40 in review capacity. But it seems significantly oversized on what I normally see looking at business that have to be run sustainably. For whatever that's worth!

EDIT: someone had a good point that bandcamp takes international payments, which is complex. So I would revise my first WAG up based on that for sure. Thinking further I would probably guess 50-60 people - which is about what I guess it is after the layoffs. Still a total WAG, but slightly better informed...
They'll let you skip commercials, but not without shouting the brand name.

https://www.techradar.com/news/sony-patent-would-have-you-ye...
As I understand it, what prompted Prop 13, aside from the desire to serve the owners of the best land, was that while land values were rising astronomically, municipalities and elected representatives were eager to serve their constituents, who naturally wanted all the amenities that their governments cared to offer.

And the municipalities -- their local elected representatives -- complied. They didn't reduce the millage rate each year to stay revenue neutral. No, they used those funds to supply those desired public goods.

And as land values rose, taxes rose. And eventually, people whose homes were appreciating by half (or 100% or more) of their annual incomes, increasing their home equity at an awesome rate, started objecting to the taxes that were paying for all those public goods.

Remember that in those days, California's colleges and universities were regarded as among the very best. And they changed a lot of lives, particularly of those in the school districts so well funded by those taxes that were ever-rising because the local officials didn't lower the tax rate to remain revenue neutral.

I don't see any sign that California, under Prop 13, has any resemblance to Georgism.

Take a look at a listing at realtor.com for a home in any California city or suburb, and focus on the "Property History" section, on (1) asking and selling prices; and, under that (2) assessment and tax history. (Choose the "see more" option in each section.) Then look at the assessments vs the current asking price. The land and "additions" figures rise by no more than 2% per year, while the asking and selling prices are far above the assessment on which taxes are based.

"The land value component is re-accessed frequently and changes based on comparables (presumably but its mostly black box)." No, they rise by 2% per year, until a sale takes place, at which point their sum is adjusted to the selling price.

But the house next door, of similar age and condition, but not sold in 20 or 40 years, is receiving a huge subsidy, paying a tiny fraction of what the newly sold neighboring buyers are paying.

Where is the equity in that?

The answer, for other states, is not assessment caps or capping taxes at a certain percentage of assessed value, but reducing the millage rate to remain revenue neutral, unless the local property owners approve a millage rate that is higher than revenue neutral because they actively desire more services, better schools, etc.
> Why does Bandcamp look like it hasn't been updated since 2012?

Because it doesn't need to be. Personally, I really like that their site hasn't been brought up to be in line with the current trends. That would make the site worse.
> 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

maybe this would encourage them to actually pay attention to the plight of their neighbors instead of the "fuck you, I've got mine" NIMBY attitudes they so regularly take.
Wait, really? Won't I get accused of pirating my CDs? Is it officially okay to rip my CDs to a cloud provider?
What mute buttons were made for.
And then they were only two - CVS and Walgreens.
Salary to ARR is only one metric for bloat. but yeah, absent that, as I said, it's some guess work.
Software/tech folks have it better than almost anyone else.

We usually get to love our job. We get paid quite well, and work on things that energize and motivate us.

The vast majority of the working population work at jobs that don’t really motivate them. Sometimes, they make a lot of money, but the work is a grind.

Many times, folks work at jobs for the social responsibility of doing stuff. They don’t like what they do, may not get paid that well, but feel like they are stepping up to the plate, and doing their civic duty.

This is a real rabbithole, and there’s a ton of opinions. Also, many managers are, shall we say, less than effective, so if we get a good manager, we should treasure them. A good manager can make difficult jobs bearable, and sometimes even highly motivating.
California cities ban new gas stations in battle to combat climate change
I recently pointed out to our corporate security that a data broker has detailed employee records for our entire company including job titles and start dates. Given the nature of our business, that data cache is a roadmap for security compromises. The most likely culprit was scraping from LinkedIn. It isn't always a good idea to put your data out there for others to aggregate.
> The UAW’s targeted strike at a total of five assembly factories at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis have prompted all three companies to lay off workers.

In other words, this layoff seems to really be about pressuring the autoworkers union to end its strike.
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts, this jibes with mine on the subject to an extent.
People are perfectly capable of protecting their own land when it's not illegal for them to do so, as demonstrated in the early history of the US. You're much less safe in somewhere like Chicago with "well funded" public safety than you were anywhere in the US in the 1800s.
And right now they can afford to wait forever! But with an LVT they have a big incentive to either develop it immediately or sell to someone else who will.

It's no coincidence that people who support LVTs are typically YIMBYs -- we want to reform urban planning and land use to make it easier to build things.
Externalities of progress are very real, and the speed with which the modern age has arisen, and it's brevity, should give us pause every time we assert that it is all good or all evil. It is certainly both.

The great problem of our time is the unrestrained accumulation of wealth. Tech wealth is the product of both innovation and making that innovation artificially scarce. Without the former there is no demand, without the later there is no profit. The techno optimists always seem to forget that second component! Once you've earned Enough, either drop the artificial scarcity and share freely, or give someone else a turn to earn their own Enough. Don't keep hoarding it all for yourself and lying that your wealth is proportional to the value you created. No. Especially in tech. It's proportional to the value you captured with the 1-2 punch of innovation and artificial scarcity, and that itself required a functioning society to which you owe your success and your allegiance.
No, I'm criticizing the people who claim that one group is less wrong about their fake deity than another. I see this all the time when religious violence flares up: "they're not following their religion correctly!", coming from people who aren't even in that religion but think they're experts on that religion's teachings (and ignoring the fact that so many believers have incredibly different ideas of what those teachings are). It really annoys me, so I feel the need to call it out. If someone claims that their religion tells them to murder children, then I believe them; it's all made-up anyway, so it's ridiculous for some outsider to say they're doing their religion wrong.
I thought of life expectancy and took that as a generation. Thinking back, yes generation obviously means 20 years not 80.
State-mandated design and build engineering requirements
Seems like a really nice indie alternative to Descript. The landing page is beautiful too, feels very nicely crafted.
Sounds like they'll be using the cargo variant of semver where changing the leading digit is a breaking change with a common expectation that fewer leading digits implies "better" for varying metrics of "better" (fewer breaking changes, more production ready, etc).
You should check out snooker too.
Seattle (and maybe Washington state) has been changing the formulas to tax land more and improvements. So given my townhome on a small parcel of land, my property taxes have actually been falling for the last few years. It is a bit weird, but I guess this encourages improvements over hoarding land. I bet that my tax break is being paid by WFHs on larger parcels.

Nothing as drastic as Detroit, of course, and I don't think Seattle is alone in moving the bar gradually to taxing land more and improvements less.
ACX primer on Land Value Tax:

* Original book review: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-progress-a...

* Follow-up part 1: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-...

* Part 2: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-part-2-c...

* Part 3: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-part-3-c...

The first review is very much worth a read--well written, entertaining, and informative.
Make games. Join hackathons. Teach the youth (this is a nice lifehack to feel like a 10x).

Do whatever it was that made you excited to start about this profession in the first place.
See the first page of lvtfan.typepad.com for the story! It goes back to November, 1887, and a speech from a then-judge, later congressman, from California.
Sure, but compare that with English, where there are more words are exceptions than follow the rules.
> Just to clarify in case there was any misunderstanding

I am not confused.

It's good; it solves a specific set of problems with querying large datasets, the same as a vector search would.

...but the various memory zones you've created make absolutely no difference to the fundamental limitation of the LLM context length.

No matter how you swing it, this is just creative prompt engineering. You're packing the context with relevant information; but, if you have too much relevant information, it won't work.
The IRS has nothing to do with property taxes. Property taxes mainly go to your town and some to your state. They mainly fund your local schools, streets, parks, maintenance, etc.

Do you think all these things just magically exist?
but what if we took an originalist perspective and allow people to have an unlimited number of 3D printed muzzle loaders as that was the weapon available at the time.
You think someone is leaving honest feedback on those forms? It's trivial for any manager who is not a complete moron to figure out who left a bad review and retaliate as I've seen happen multiple times in my career (mostly to other ICs but sometimes entire teams)
> These days we get "upgraded" whether we opted in or not. And we're all the beta testers 100% of the time.

This is exactly why I don't use SaaS stuff, nor software that forces updates.
Show HN: Creating a tiny clone of contexto.me: contextito
Which accounts
This just really isn't true empirically.

What ends up happening is that countries cannot jump start industries that are already established and competitive in other countries. For countries to get into the renewable energy game, for example, they need to subsidize local industry and put a good bit of government capital on the line to the get to a point where they're productive at globally acceptable levels.

Countries don't need to pick _the_ cheapest products from around the world; getting good-enough local work that provides high value-add and keeps foreign currency reserves from going overseas is something that's objectively preferred by most of the global population. Most people are most definitely willing to accept +/- 15% cost of living changes in order to live in places with good employment and quality tax-funded services and infrastructure over having cheap imported crap.
why are homeowners special in that regard? Why not guarantee renters a certain rent level? are they too poor?
I think the pitch is they license their PaaS to you, so you don’t have to figure out CI/CD, monitoring, backups, etc. on your own servers.
It is quite common a pattern setting the timezones with setenv("TZ",...)

There are alternatives, but rewriting every program is not always an option.

These kind of rewriting sounds exactly like what OpenBSD would do ..
>even if the connection to Detroit's problems is very unclear.

Child of lifelong Detroiter here. iirc a big problem in detroit is some ultra wealth like Matty Moroun owning a huge portion of the land and just sitting on it, doing nothing with it. If that's still true, the LVT makes plenty of sense.
Some of those higher priced models are priced so business owners and the truck manufacturer can optimize for the Business Use Depreciation Deduction [0] [1] (and also convos with family friends)

[0] - https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/small-business-taxes/bu...

[1] - https://www.crestcapital.com/section-179-deduction-vehicle-l...
on HN you never see any sympathy with anyone who lost his job...
Related: Sokoban in sed https://aurelio.net/projects/sedsokoban/
You are being overly dramatic.

Yes, you would be forcing people to write a call option. It doesn't have to be at-the-money. Owners just pick a price that they'd be happy to sell at. Not some mystical 'fair market value' that would ruin them.

Of course, land owners would want to keep their tax bill low, so picking the right price to declare is a trade-off.

> [...] and then adding insult to injury by not paying them an offsetting risk premium.

Please be more careful in your reasoning! You are right that the call option is worth a premium. But that obligation to write the call option comes with ownership of the land, so we can just treat it as another (small) tax on the land. The market price of the land adjusts so that the yearly benefit from owning the land is pretty close to the yearly cost of capital plus sum of all taxes.

To simplify: the option premium is automatically offset by lower LVT payments.

> I don't know how any moral person could be a proponent of the kinds of abuse and profitable exploitation of average people this proposal would trivially enable.

Please elaborate. But please refrain from assuming that landowners are morons.
Your linked comment is a good example of something I'd perceive as either written by a shill, or someone convinced by shilling. You say:

> All of the science still says glyphosate is safe in the concentrations we encounter it in.

What makes you qualified to say that? "Skimming a few papers"?

The kindest thing I could say about that is that it's a dangerous oversimplification, on a thread where Monsanto have been caught red handed doing something "stupid" and immoral.

The interactions between chemicals in Roundup can do much worse than glyphosate on its own - synergistic effects, increased bioavailability, etc. Then there's buildup from constant exposure. Then there's unexpected interactions with minerals in the environment, as suggested in the linked study, etc. And so on.

There's WAY too much smoke to declare a total lack of fire, speaking on behalf of "all of the science", even if you were the head of the IARC (who call out a link to cancer, btw).

> Someone holding a different view than you do is not evidence of bad faith

I don't go around here accusing people with different views of acting in bad faith. But every time - every single time - the topic of glyphosate comes up, I see evidence of shenanigans. Fucky voting, misrepresentations, toxicity, distraction, FUD, outright lies, smears, etc etc. Look for it, and you might start to see it.
Likely due to:

- Environmental regulations requiring NEPA analysis or categorical exclusion

- State laws on who can perform road construction

- Construction codes for roadways and bridges

- Miscellaneous overhead for other areas (e.g., Human Resources, accounting, etc)
FYI the only kuky.com result for "kuky" on DDG is "web.kuky.com" which loads a "reward money" dialog that errors on submission and can't be closed.
Disclosure: I work for GM. Anything here is solely my own opinion or understanding.

Layoff means something different to automakers. It's a layoff so that they can draw unemployment. Traditionally there was a two week layoff in July for model changeover. It was basically a two week vacation for a lot of workers, while they were technically unemployed.

So yes, it's more or less a furlough.
Bluetooth is huge and designed by committee. I don't know what GPT could help with; it's not that there aren't any good guides, it's that good guides are impossible. The protocol and stack are not designed to be understandable by a single human mind.
This announcement post specifically addresses this: v0.1.0 introduces a new versioning policy [0], where patch versions (v0.1.1) are guaranteed to no longer break "stable" features, while minor versions (v0.2.0) can. At some point I'd assume they plan on stabilizing it such that even minor versions don't break stable features, but as a sibling notes, using v0 as a project's major version is usually intended to communicate that you shouldn't count on things staying stable.

[0] https://astral.sh/blog/ruff-v0.1.0#ruffs-versioning-policy
Riiight, please ignore the existential planetary destruction we are hurtling towards, trust these ubermensch to decide what's best for you.
Well, you can also use whatever mechanism is currently in use for people who don't pay their property taxes.
Stop Tencent, you don't get why a government would want to pervert an entire industry we get it.
Infra. The "non-functional" requirements are going to be expensive and need a solid team. Scaling, reliablility, availability, dealing with huge amounts of bandwidth and storage, all that crap. I'd guess a dozen infra people minimum.
My experience is that qualified engineers in overseas markets are not significantly cheaper than American engineers when all costs are factored in.
I was really impressed with Signal’s choice to add link previews to my secure chats. It struck me as a feature with nothing but upside for a security-and-privacy focused messaging app.

I am glad to be reassured that fetching data from arbitrary servers inside of a secure chat continues to be worth the benefit of being able to see a little thumbnail of a page.
Printers and scanners are already regulated to not print very authentic copies of dollars. Maybe we could do the same with 3D printers?
Given the grandparent was talking about Bytedance, perhaps you're the floor supervisor for dozens of disposable people watching reported or flagged content to identify porn, violence, etc. on TikTok - disposable because depending on what sort of banned content actually gets posted, you might have a lot of mental trauma and burnout that the company would really rather just replace people than deal with.
NewPipe works perfectly fine for downloading videos.

https://newpipe.net/

It doesn't seem to do 4K video on my Pixel 6a - I'm only getting up to 1080p downloads.
The shortcomings of modern monetary policy and the impact of inflation is a seperate topic. When inflationary systems are well controlled, they do create some positive incentives (primarily to spend money and put capital to productive use). As a tax they’re generally not a problem unless you go full Weimar mode. But you’re right that they can also represent a tax, especially in jurisdictions that have a capital gains tax (which the jurisdiction where I am a tax resident doesn’t incidentally).
Thanks, I've added this now! We have a similar message on all of our other posts, but it got removed on this one.
https://archive.md/RoYuu
Disclosure: I work for GM. Anything here is solely my own opinion or understanding.

The jobs bank went away in the 2009 bankruptcies/reorganization.
> What's more, even if you pay more than you ought to, you'll never feel secure in your home, knowing that at any time you may be forced to sell.

That can already happen right now with conventional property taxes..
I'll never understand the attraction of these "light duty" vehicles. Very impractical. Unnecessarily large vehicles. You are sitting so high up and a large amount of your view is obstructed by the hood (additional view obstructed by the pillars). The bed of these pickups will barely fit your lumber for a DIY project. Have to put the tailgate down and secure it properly. Let's not forget the poor efficiency due to extra weight and will drive like shit on the road.

I would say 99% of the people that own these "light duty" trucks are really just compensating for their insecurities.
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/ford-loses-nearly-60000...

Ford as well
I just don't understand how you could, in good faith, start off a manifesto in favor of techno-optimism with a quote from, of all people, Walker Percy.
Are they even going after pharmacists? Or are they just going after corporations to implement a corporate solution because going after doctors and pharmacists isn't scalable?