skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially contemporary Georgists seem to be fixated on land tax. In the 19th century a big focus on land kinda made sense because agriculture was such a huge part of the economy.

What's missed is the general idea. It's not land per se but any ownership that can be/is used for "rent seeking" (i.e. getting money without contributing any work). Nowadays things like intellectual property, natural resources and major infrastructure are the major things that should be taxed in this spirit.

Expanding this idea to that all means of production falls in the rent seeking category, one arrives at socialism.
In the UK, you see homes in England marked as either freehold ( you own the land) or leasehold (someone else owns the land and you had a long term lease and traditionally paid a small fee each year called ground rent). The issue was if the lease didn’t have long left then selling or getting a mortgage on it was more difficult.

Recently the home builders on new houses have sold the house and then also been selling the leases to a 3rd party as an investment. These 3rd parties have been radically increasing the annual ground to much higher levels. I’m never going for a lease hold property.
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Yep.

https://x.com/MegaCrit/status/1702077576209207611?s=20
I've thought this for years that a large part of the internet is essentially ghosted by a lot of the bigger search engines. I miss the old Yahoo/AltaVista type homepage where you would get a feed. Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us were essential tools.

Geocities and MySpace had webrings, so once you landed on something you could generally find similar stuff.

I'd love to see a good "home page" with curated feeds, bookmarking and search across it (and with LLM + Graph you can have your own semantic search)
Of course, thank you for the kind words!
It's both under- and over-diagnosed because the funnel for children is teachers who have basically been trained to refer the "problem children" for diagnosis.

I have a son who has extreme anxiety, and kept getting referred by teachers for ADHD. Hyper-vigilance for danger can make it hard to focus on arithmetic, particularly in an elementary school classroom. The psychiatrist ended up putting a note in his file because this was happening.

Meanwhile, I also have a daughter who is so obviously ADHD: she forgets to turn in her homework; there were 6 of her jackets in the lost and found in October; she will go to school without her eyeglasses; &c. But, she doesn't disrupt the classroom and is otherwise seen as a "good kid" so she was never referred by a teacher.
Hotels that allow one to live there permanently, accord what is essentially a private apartment, albeit often with the possibility of convenient meals and housekeeping. In terms of the ability to settle in and feel homey, is not very different from renting some flat from a landlord.
But it makes it difficult to get a classic "liberal arts education" if the people running liberal arts programs don't believe in it.
It's almost like some people don't get that some tools should only be selectively applied only when absolutely needed.
>The Chinese brands are great value HW wise but full of spyware and offer very short SW update support, so that's a no go from the start.

....OnePlus.......
I think it only works for certain kinds of people. I've been working remotely for 10 years. It has worked very well for me. But I've also founded multiple startups and work well independently.

I've noticed that many people just aren't disciplined enough to work remotely. Too many distractions, not enough socializing, or they just need the office to keep them honest (IE: actually working).

It also doesn't work well for junior employees that need lots of hand-holding.
Yes they are. Their flagship Zenfone costs more than the Samsung S23, while offering fewer years of SW updates. That a very bad value for money and a bad deal in general.
Depends on the national regulations.
"Furthering the art of radio." is mentioned in some of them. So is self-training and experimentation.

That can be low tech or something more modern.
Good modern examples are M17, freeDV, NPR-70 and FT8.
As an aside, i'd be curious how this strategy would work for long term farming. Ie 40+ year tree farms, where they own thousands (millions?) of acres which sit for 40 years, harvest, and then go back to being idle.

You could say that they can set the land to being a special tax code for tree farming or w/e. Which is something that already exists. I've been looking for a 10 acre plot (being picky on location, shape, etcetc) for a couple years now and most plots are already taxed at a lower rate due to this sort of tax code.

So my question/point is, people who are selling land (presumably as part of an investment) would be muddled in with people who are holding thousands of acres for tree farming. At least, in my experience.

What's the solution in this area? Be more restrictive on who gets the relaxed tax incentive? Perhaps not care, and assume wood prices will go up dramatically since tree farming is now much more expensive? Just curious on your thoughts
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Just some possibly ill-thought out comments:

> Unlike income or consumption taxes, an LVT is non-distortionary. It doesn't discourage productive activities like work, saving, or investment

It's not great for anyone who chose to invest in land based on the current rules, and then the rules change.

> Many landowners hold onto vacant or underutilized land as a speculative investment, waiting for its value to increase

This is a symptom, not a root problem.

> encouraging landowners to develop or sell their land

The land may now be worth less than it was, as it has an instant and recurring negative sign attached to it.
I have this happen, I noticed reading is something I kind of need to practice. Maybe short comments ruined my brain lol.

I started getting into reading long books again last year. The beginning was rough, I was starting to think there was something wrong me. Sometimes I still do, but just being consistent and not hard on my self, I'm able to focus longer on reading and enjoy it. Some books and authors are easier then others too. LOTR series was work at times, enders game was pretty easy.

Alot if non fiction sucks too though and is pretty long winded.

If your worried about missing out on writing, there are short stories, and novellas to read
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Dan Luu, please, I'm begging you.
I meant it in a more technical sense, as in “I start my morning by checking 4-5 news outlets from different corners of the political field and try to figure out what’s really going on by comparing the narratives”. That of course is not sufficient; one has to do their homework on prior history of whatever the contentious issue is.

And yes, probably it’s not an activity most people engage in.
its always a bit suspicious when reporters get paid by someone other than their employer, innit?

https://www.humanosphere.org/basics/2013/02/a-personal-view-...

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-melinda-gat...
> there the multiple meanings of "is" (which is also very commonly used to mean it is my opinion that X "is" Y) makes sorting things out very difficult.

I'm not going to hype the technology more than it needs, but it seems to do a pretty damn good job of just this. And to the author's point, it does get this right.

And in fact, I'd suspect many of the cases where the LLM gets this wrong are caused by lots of examples in the training data which were written at different times, where someone else was chancellor. Or where the LLM gets numbering wrong (which is a well established problem).
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Most devs, including myself, will continue to work boring dev jobs while wondering when their job will be replaced by a combination of AI and low cost overseas labor.
I love curl. It just works.
Any good LVT in my mind would robustly employ "conservation easements", which lower/waive taxes on land that is preserved for environmental protection. These are a common tool of land trusts today, and IMO they would fit great alongside LVT.
I think the elephant in the room is that if LLM's improve at the same pace as diffusors. Then there won't be much to educate towards. What does a decade of agentic multimodal model progress look like?

https://rocketdash.io/midjourney-and-the-progress-of-ai-in-2...
LLMs don't derive or follow rules. LLMs don't have anything to do with rules.

They implicitly recognize (and model) patterns in text, then continue those patterns.

While the patterns that an LLM has modeled may align to the high abstraction we call language, LLMs actually work at a much lower level of abstraction: plain text.

It's the content of that text that is significant. We encode language into text, and LLMs infer something "close enough" to language by blindly modeling it.
I’m not sure this is the right lens. Poorer renter isn’t a static label, we need to build paths that allow the lower and middle class to build equity.

The goal of these policies, IMH(umble)O, should be to help poorer renters become richer homeowners.

I feel like you do that by reducing the total cost of walking that path. Not by increasing their tax obligation every step up the socio-economic ladder they climb on their way out of the lower class.
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That idea is absurd. No matter how big your “sponge”, all it takes is a few dozen to land on major cities for the US and its economy to be devastated.
Or just make it known that if you want support, here are the languages our IT staff know and can help you with.

Otherwise, you're on your own.
In summary, even 3.5 solves it correctly.
I don't think that takes like this one that yes-and URLs as a narrowly technological concern help anything. I'd argue it actually does more harm than good.

> URL is a central concept in web browsing.

Two responses, depending on one's mood:

1. So?

2. Resource identifiers—which URLs are—are a central concept to information science, scholarship, and society and culture.

Aside from the (admittedly often irrational) tendency of some non-technical people to strike a pose of helplessness,* you also end up with technical people making comments like this one: generally taking the stance that it's not too hard to pick this stuff up, with the goal that non-technical people will end up with an appreciation/conception of a URL's technological bones that at least approximately matches the informed mental model of the technical person who is speaking—and who themselves doesn't stop to consider what they themselves have got wrong and are possibly continuing to do wrong by society wrt their role in (negatively) shaping the information architecture of the world around them.

* See <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38277553>
Pretty sure that would violate the second principle of thermodynamics.
forget it. leave the typo as is
On the one hand, I think this highlights an important "blind spot" in human thought. Our ideas and creativity are hugely influenced by our environment and prevailing social conventions. It's strange he doesn't use the term "Overton Window", because that's exactly what he's talking about and it seems useful to place his thoughts in context with the existing body.

On the other hand, I vehemently disagree with the implicit assertion that any truth should be acceptable to give power. It's easy to filter, twist, and reassemble the truth to deceive and manipulate. Humanity has already paid too steep a price learning why some truths and ideas must be rejected. In fact, the ideology of "free speech absolutism" is itself an orthodoxy specific to a relatively small cultural bubble, and it's objectively quite extreme.
LLMs effectively disambiguate in an arguably similar way humans would: look at the same term in multiple contexts to reduce confidence in incorrect interpretations, leaving only correct interpretations.
Fair - I also graduated from an engineering program - though the intensity around finals was grueling. Somehow I think the 80-100% finals weighting might have made it that way.

Why does the boring job blow it up? Not enough stimulation?
Changing society back to 1950's and 1860's values is what conservatives want, and that's not progress, so your definition is wrong. When progressives finally succeed at canceling slavery and making racism unacceptable in public discourse (at least until Trump came along), conservatives aren't suddenly progressive just because they want to change that. They're fundamentally regressive.
What's weird about that other than the mistake of thinking "the EU itself" is a thing in this context?

States are allowed to have armies, corporations are not. States can send people with guns after you and lock you away, corporations can not. Do you think that's weird too? States hold more power than corporations because corporations exist only because states allow them to.

Now whether states are a good thing or not is another question of course.
I feel the same for people with near 0% interest rate mortgages. Like we bought a starter home prior to the pandemic. Buying the same home now would be 3.5x the monthly mortgage payment. Buying a slightly nicer, 1 extra bedroom near our neighborhood is completely out of the question. Since no one wants to move because rates are so high it creates a vicious loop of more buyers than inventory on sale.
It's extremely annoying because his posts get reposted to social media a lot and you suddenly have to go on a treasure hunt to figure out if he's revisiting old topics, or you read it five years ago.
Try to write any large application that actually runs across all Linux variants and form factors. IMO that's a harder job than targeting the three iOS variants.

But you have to draw the line somewhere and the way curl didn't isn't unreasonable IMO.
A comment on Hacker News, of course
I really like the idea of a Land Value Tax. However, the devil is in the details. How will it be calculated? Who will calculate it? How can they be held accountable?

It could so easily go badly though, and be worse than the existing system. The arguments in favor though, are very compelling.
> They key is that it is a tax on the value of the land not the size

Yes, but you could also say:

"They key is that it is a tax on the relationships between specific landowners and the local representatives and lobby dollars spent"
>for companies that will pay them to get access to location updates differently than other apps can.

Source?
It works for simple cookies cutters UI. Anything fancy and original, you are on your own, and there is no way around it. The only thing that came close to combine the possibility of being orignal and readability is SVG, but it went nowhere.
I've used XComUtil and it's great, but TIL about the Primitive Hotseat Multiplayer feature/hack. Flexible engine indeed.
> Why does progress not result in increasing leisure and standard of living in many important ways?

First off it did: the standard of living of anyone in a Western/industrialized society is ridiculously higher than 100 years ago. And even for less well-developed countries reduced absolute poverty and the diffusion of technology (Germ Theory, vaccines, mobile phones) has done wonders.

One interesting metric is that the cost/effort of being about to produce one hour of light has absolutely plummeted over time:

* https://www.vox.com/2015/6/9/8749751/historic-cost-of-lighti...

As Terry Pratchett observed:

> You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, travelling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abcesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say 'yes'.

* http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/msg/ee9e9fb...

If you're talking about working hours:

> Now it is true that the needs of human beings may seem to be insatiable. But they fall into two classes --those needs which are absolute in the sense that we feel them whatever the situation of our fellow human beings may be, and those which are relative in the sense that we feel them only if their satisfaction lifts us above, makes us feel superior to, our fellows. Needs of the second class, those which satisfy the desire for superiority, may indeed be insatiable; for the higher the general level, the higher still are they. But this is not so true of the absolute needs-a point may soon be reached, much sooner perhaps than we are all of us aware of, when these needs are satisfied in the sense that we prefer to devote our further energies to non-economic purposes.

[…]

> For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!

* John Maynard Keynes, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" (1930)

* http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

An essay putting forward / hypothesizing four reasons on why the above did not happen (We haven't spread the wealth around enough; People actually love working; There's no limit to human desires; Leisure is expensive):

* https://www.vox.com/2014/11/20/7254877/keynes-work-leisure
"The pros" pay for a slice of bandwidth every year.

If you want private communication, use a private frequency. If you want to use a shared spectrum, do it in a way, where everyone can tell you to buzz off.
I assume (hope) they mean hand-poked tattoo. And yeah, if the guy's style gels with my own, then why not. Depending on the size, that free tattoo is probably worth more than the entire year's worth of perks they offer :)
When I worked at a certain three-letter-agency, much of the annual legal training amounted to "Here's our incredibly tortuous interpretation of every relevant term in the letter of the law. Don't like it? There's the door."
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That’s fair and I think you’re wise to only try to verify information yourself, but atleast by providing sources I am giving you more information you can digest to make your assessment. More information is better than less information even if its bad information (since as you say, you’re assessing the quality of the source anyway). So I think it’s still fair to say that it’s better to provide possible sources or support for a statement than not.
That's the dream. Render to WebGL/Canvas. Bypass CSS + HTML.

Make web actually open to other languages by putting them on a very common ground.
The mortgage interest tax deduction is one of the least popular policies among economists because it fails in its objectives. It made homes less affordable and raises prices, and enriches banks, without helping new homeowners.

The concept of imputed income also helps homeowners. If you own a house that you rent out to people, the money you get is counted as income. If you are an owner-occupier and paid off your mortgage, then you effectively pay rent to yourself... money that you otherwise would've needed to pay to others, but don't need to pay tax on it.

So essentially you get a deduction even besides the mortgage interest deduction. All of this is also factored into home values, and thus the purchase decision for new buyers won't ever be dramatically better than renting.

The solution of a land value tax is necessary. It is most necessary in the residential space, including for first homes, because that is the most important place where we need to ensure high and quality supply, and affordability.

Helping homeowners, specifically, but not others is arbitrary and unfair.

Providing a citizen's dividend out of the revenue of a land value tax, to help all, would be fair, and would help enable people to acquire homes if they want them.
I don't know of any paper template that includes the date. Usually it is only found if the preprint paper adds it (like arxiv) or in the copyright notice, that not all papers include.

With topics like ML and NLP that move fast, even the day/month becomes important, not just the year.
> would not meet the legal standard to win court approval;

That is to say, they're targeting individuals who they have no substantial reason to believe actually did anything wrong.
I'd never heard about Placemark yet this fills a gap I've been seeing in the mapping market having worked in local government - data management in ArcGIS is $$$, awful, and limited to a handful of GIS specialists, while Felt has nowhere near the data capabilities like joining and transformations that Placemark has. The real money in mapping is from enterprise & government, which requires a lot of upfront work to sell to. Hopefully other companies in the space (like Scribble Maps, Felt, or Esri via ArcGIS Online) fill in some of the feature gaps left by Placemark.
There unfortunately is no such thing as stock Android… the closest that exists is the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) which is generally considered too bare-bones to be usable on its own and is missing a lot of the things that Android users might expect.

While there are third party Android distros based on AOSP available, they typically only support devices that are a couple gens behind or older, which means they’re not usually an option for anybody buying a current gen device.

I wish Android were more like Windows or Linux where the hardware is somewhat standardized, the OS is the same no matter what it’s installed on, and you could just wipe+reinstall “plain” Android like one does with a PC with Windows to clear away crapware, but that’s not what we got.