skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the single taxers.

The author mentions Decentraland. The whole point of Decentraland, which is a crypto metaverse, was to make land prices go up. They didn't. Decentraland is boring and nobody goes there. But it does work, and it's up and running all the time. There are other crypto metaverses. Most of them never got beyond the hand-waving stage or the occasional demo of a small virtual world, but that didn't stop them from trying to sell overpriced land. Despite all the noise from the metaverse crowd, few of them got very far on implementation.

There's Second Life, which is a single-tax system. You pay Linden Lab a fixed fee per square meter, regardless of what you're doing with the land. Land prices vary widely. Waterfront land is usually expensive; land on rocky plateaus far from roads is cheap. The supply of land is not limited; for a standard monthly fee, you can get another server provisioned with more land for you. You can buy land and rent it as raw land or build on it and rent houses or apartments, so it works economically like real land. Despite doing things the way this author likes, Second Life has overpriced desirable land held off the market to keep prices up.

Virtual economy theory is interesting. It's discussed in various game dev books.
But this paper is too much "_ is the answer. What was the question?"

There are a few real-world cities in the US which tried a single land tax. Here's how that worked out.[1]

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/05/the-land-tax-wha...
>Part of the problem is that since they’re only available on the PS5 only exclusive games tend to get real work put into it, if at all.

This is what GP was arguing about regarding lazy ports on current hardware.

>While the switch is capable of something more is it really used anywhere besides those two games?

The success of the feature is kind of orthogonal to its inclusion into the console though, since console makers won't know how successful it'll be until it's developed and released. I agree with you that it didn't really take off, but that's true of other things like button pressure sensitivity, or Kinnect-style controls.

I'd also argue that HD rumble is but a small portion of a much larger and game-impacting package that is the Switch controller, while the PS5 controller is a refinement of the same controller they've had for decades now.

Playstation and Xbox have seemingly abandoned novel hardware that enables new gameplay experiences.
That doesn’t fit my experience. Anything that involves typing out paragraphs of text almost immediately revert to a quick phone call where you can get the idea across in seconds instead of lots of minutes. These are people in their mid and early 30s.
There is no “international law”. It’s just some term western politicians made to give them legitimacy. The world also doesn’t care since all countries have border disputes and potential conflicts. Freezing/seizing the money is seen as a serious risk now.
You have no leverage. When you negotiate salary, it is because they compete to attract talent. Why would anyone pay more than they absolutely have to to let someone go?

Your colleague, if they did in fact do it, probably looked foolish.
So don't release it directly to the atmosphere, it has industrial uses.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...
How would a smart contract release a decryption key at some point in the future without external input like this? Couldn't someone just fork the chain and manipulate it with arbitrary amounts of self-mined ether?
No, it would be 10% - 10*90% = -890%. What is a negative hallucination? I don’t know. Maybe it summons facts into being but doesn’t believe them.
Free to be SRE, with this systems engineering syllabus
Why, given the harm we've done to life on earth, would we want to bring about the Industrial Revolution by default in this time-traveling scenario?

I'd even argue against the Agricultural Revolution, and for remaining in nomadic/semi-/nomadic (seasonal) societies, but this experiment, allowing communication like on this forum, is also really interesting.
Sweden has most forests in Europe, yet its IKEA sources wood from Poland and Romania while selling furniture from cardboard. What happens with all this wood?! Unfortunately in Poland and Romania plastic bag of cash and premium German car go very far while Sweden has more climate activists than trees.
Agreed, but when it waa introduced, their dramatic presentation leading up to pricing and availability, I had it pegged at $7000 as an order of magnitude.

I think the front-facing display is adding expense for something difficult to understand. Maybe it really makes a difference in the usage of this thing; the approximation of transparent ski goggles is a big statement of how they want this to add to experiencing an environment, rather than just more isolation.

The whole device is an uncanny, expensive hack. In 2024. At some point they have to get it out there. Battery pack and all.

Here's to the crazy ones...
You should write a book about this stuff!
Some alternate ideas:

- make a python library/driver for Excel sheets that imitates Pandas Dataframe API but (a) has reactive cells (b) imports equations from Excel

- make a notebook IDE that integrates excel spreadsheets. Make everything reactive. Have a split notebook/spreadsheet view.

A little off-topic but it would be rad if Excel had more Airtable/Baserow/Grist features.
Simpler ways of going about it are indeed possible and are discussed in detail in the article; a simple regular leasing of land accomplishes all the benefits of an LVT without any of the more complicated bits.

Also -- you can just make a game where land isn't fundamentally scarce, that's an even simpler option too.

> I'm not entirely sure how this makes much sense if one can't generate any revenue from land and lots are limited to a single tenant - which seems to be the norm.

It's important to remember that just because something doesn't generate "monetary" income, doesn't mean it isn't providing value, and players will pay for value -- either in "hard" currencies like real money or in-game gold, or "soft" currencies like time, effort, and putting up with pain-in-the-butt. Housing in MMOs is typically a vanity item, but consider that social status, vanity, and the like are real genuine utility for human beings.

> If the land can't really be used any more efficiently, outside of repossessing unused plots owned by absentee players, then all this does is ensure the wealthiest players are the only ones who can afford the most in-demand lots (assuming the valuation varies).

If something can't be used any more efficiently (which suggests that it either is already being put to its highest and best use already, or that its potential use is severely restricted, akin to real-world municipal zoning restrictions), then there are several ways to look at that:

1. This is fine, actually; the asset is actually being used for its intended purpose and not simply hoarded
2. The developers could remove restrictions on the use of the thing so that there is a higher and better use for it than currently exists
3. The developers might reconsider their underlying assumptions for making the asset scarce in the first place

Did you have a concrete example of this scenario? That might make it easier to discuss if you provided an illustration from a particular game (or one you could imagine).
You are making the situation sound much less precarious than it is. The reality is that the US has only really done something in the last few years, and those changes and attempts to hedge will take a very long time to materialize.

Odds are the US and Europe will never enjoy the comparative advantage Taiwan has in the semiconductor supply chain.

What does that mean? One of the west’s key strategic advantages is the ability to lead in frontier compute technologies. China, in addition to rapidly working its way up the value chain and nodes, can easily mitigate much of this advantage if it deems the calculus worthwhile. It need only disrupt Taiwan and basically all leading edge fab capacity is off the table. Outside of the work Intel is doing, the US does not have leading edge fabs.

We do not have the skilled workforce or supply chain to take advantage of leading edge fabs.

Why is this situation with Taiwan so difficult to unwind? In the West there is a fantasy that if war breaks out, we will just load all the Taiwanese onto a starship and bring them over to the US where they will happily resume their work in OUR fabs. But they don’t want that. They want their home and ideals to be defended, and they’re willing to do the work… from their soil.

The reality is the fabs are bargaining chip with the West, far better than any iron dome. The question becomes, how did we get in this position? And the answer is deliberately. The US saw putting semiconductor production in Taiwan and a way to reduce cost and challenge the Japanese, but also a way to imbed incentives into our foreign policy for protection of tenuous Taiwanese democracy and independence.

We have known this for a very very long time.
That's what I was expecting. But it never did. The crypto metaverse crowd mostly took in money up front and never delivered working virtual worlds.
in that sense it is funny how all "tallest builings in europe" are in russia.
I agree. Completely ridiculous.

> The facial recognition start-up doesn’t have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit

Too bad! All these corporations keep throwing excuses like this. Can I do that even for something as simple as a library fine or parking ticket?
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There's always fortune(1), fortune -o, and if one is particularly adventurous, one can roll one's own store of fortune cookies.

Bugzilla apart, I have fond memories of the time when plaintext email was the default, and the mail client allowed one to append the output of fortune (or similar) to one's email.

Oh well.
Elon Musk's father owned an emerald mine, Bill Gate's father was a high-powered lawyer and his mother was on the board of directors for United Way, Mark Zuckerberg's parents are a dentist and a psychiatrist. I don't know the numbers of "even most", but I think it'd be interesting to get some numbers.
> In freecad I didn't encounter any issue doing just that.

Nice. I'll have to try FreeCAD again.
Yep, all valid. When I started on it we had to do everything ourselves. But by the time I did serious dev on it our engine team had already build vector/matrix libraries that worked on both ppu and spu and had a dispatcher that took care of all the double buffering for me.
>> You can come to McDonalds and order a salad, but you won't.

But I often did.
If they're in the same country, talk to a suitable lawyer. A letter from a lawyer may be enough to get them to stop.

Follow thesuperbigfrog's suggestion too, but don't just link to their pages, quote them (maybe as screenshots so search engines don't grab the bad things) and link to archive.org copies.
Ask HN: Windows Recall and Court Subpoena
Would a court in the USA be able to subpoena your password to get access to your windows recall history (aka all your actions on the PC)?
Canberra, ACT has it, too: https://www.revenue.act.gov.au/land-tax
I'm really bummed that Parabix went nowhere: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6169041

It's apparently still alive, though: https://cs-git-research.cs.surrey.sfu.ca/cameron/parabix-dev...
WSL2 already works on Windows on ARM, so I would assume so.
> Hope phones won’t go the path of desktop where it seems they are making them worse with every release.

Got some bad news for ya...
I think the implication is that there's just currently a bug.
I used usemassive.com for awhile but eventually cancelled because i wasn't getting any follow ups.
> But more often than not leaving someone to their own devices when they clearly can't cope with the situation by themselves makes them look for a different source of distraction that in turn will make you wish they were "just" addicted to social media.

A thinly veiled pro-social media post. The quote highlighted alone is very dangerous. It's almost as if people have developed a form of Stockholm syndrome to appeal to social media addictions vs the boogie man that is a "different source of distraction".
Except Section 7 has this embedded in it:

> When you convey a copy of a covered work, you may at your option
remove any additional permissions from that copy, or from any part of
it. (Additional permissions may be written to require their own
removal in certain cases when you modify the work.) You may place
additional permissions on material, added by you to a covered work,
for which you have or can give appropriate copyright permission.

So I've forked it, I'm less then 100 employees or 1000 invocations and ripped their clause out. Go forth and use as much as you want!

GPL has a ton of clauses that appear to pretty much prevent these shenanigans. Explains why I can't recall any Enterprise backed software like this under GPL.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founderceo-and-clinical-presi...
I understand why the author thinks this is a good idea, but 404 exists for a reason. Literally "Not Found", not "I will guess at what you are looking for".

The "implications for SEO" will almost certainly not be "positive" for quite a few reasons. As a general rule in my experience and learning, Google's black box algorithm doesn't like anything like this, and I expect you will be penalized for it.

There are many good comments already and my suggestions would merely be repeating them, so, just adding my voice that this is likely to be a bad idea. Far, far, better to simply have a useful 404 page.

Edit just to add: if you do something like this, make sure you have a valid sitemap and are using canonical tags.
In the context of machine learning, notebooks are a crutch people lean on when the production environment lacks the right abstractions--isn't convenient enough. Notebooks fall under the "prototype smell" in Google's Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems (2015).

I agree that notebooks are best reserved for exposition.
> Animals in captivity are another story. These animals are often obese, develop tics and other neuroses, and engage in self-harm. In the famous case of Hugo at SeaWorld, an orca repeatedly rammed his head into the side of his pool until he had a brain aneurysm and died1. This phenomenon (known as “Zoochosis”) describes the unnatural coping behaviors that arise when you cage a wild animal.

This is wildly incorrect. I volunteer at our local zoo. The animals there are given highly regulated diets that are tuned to their medical needs. They are stimulated often and receive plenty of exercise and care. This isn't the case for every zoo, but 95% of them operate this way.

Animals can be in zoos for many reasons. Many of them come to us due to sustaining injuries that would have otherwise killed them. Others come to us to avoid illegal poaching or the exotic pet trade. Others still come to us to participate in breeding programs that will, hopefully, accelerate that specie's repopulation. Zoos used to keep animals for entertainment but many of them are moving away from this model, and rightfully so.

This flagrant accusation was enough for me to stop reading.
I'm actually not a single-taxer, for the record.

> The author mentions Decentraland. The whole point of Decentraland, which is a crypto metaverse, was to make land prices go up. They didn't. Decentraland is boring and nobody goes there. But it does work, and it's up and running all the time. There are other crypto metaverses. Most of them never got beyond the hand-waving stage or the occasional demo of a small virtual world, but that didn't stop them from trying to sell overpriced land. Despite all the noise from the metaverse crowd, few of them got very far on implementation.

We are in agreement. I thought the crypto metaverses were stupid and said so loudly at the time and predicted they would fail for many reasons; the point about land speculation with crypto games is that charging for the right to upload UGC is literally the dumbest idea in the world.

The difference between a crypto metaverse and the real world is you can opt out of existing in any individual virtual world. This is all mentioned in the article.

> The supply of land is not limited [in Second Life].

This is mentioned in the article.

> Despite doing things the way this author likes

> You pay Linden Lab a fixed fee per square meter, regardless of what you're doing with the land

A fixed fee per square meter without regard to land use or location is literally the opposite of the system I have described.

As for evidence real-world cities, you might observe from evidence real world cities that have done the opposite of an LVT -- proposition 13 in California for instance. And you might notice states with very high property taxes (an imperfect tax to be sure, but one that definitely puts a higher holding cost on land, despite the inefficient tax on buildings).

Tell me, is housing more affordable in states with high property taxes, or in states with very low property taxes?
Lock-free reference-counting a TLS slot using atomics
Ha. He did...
All data structures are compromises. If you want something (such as the ability to interleave queries and updates), you lose something else (such as performance or space-efficiency). Instead of using a single general-purpose data structure, I've found it useful to have several specialized structures making different compromises, with efficient conversions between them.

When it comes to graphs, the naive hash map representation has its uses. But I more often use representations based on conceptual arrays. The representations could be row-based or column-based, the arrays could store bytes or structs, and the concrete arrays could be vectors or something similar to B+ trees. Not all combinations are relevant, but several of them are.

And then there are overlays. If one representation is otherwise ideal but it doesn't support a specific operation (such as mapping between graph positions and positions on certain paths), an overlay can fix that. Another overlay could use the graph to represent a subgraph induced by certain nodes. And another could represent the same graph after a transformation, such as merging unary paths into single nodes.

When you have several graph implementations and overlays, the interface has to be pretty generic. You probably want to use either node identifiers or opaque handles. The latter could be node identifiers, array offsets, or pointers, depending on the concrete graph.
SyncThing. It can be run in both Windows and WSL on the same machine.

If you were exclusively working in MS Office, OneDrive could work, but with anything else it gets really frustrating as it syncs when it feels like it - you can't force it.
Standardizing the BPF ISA
If the share is fungible why not? Would you be okay if someone bought 23% of the company and gave that money to people? Or if equity was stable enough to mean something?

Or maybe class action lawsuits are giving more money to the lawyers than the people who are damaged, and the net effect on society is still damage.
What were the reasons!
I am thinking what if Already job holders can benefit as well from such a service i.e negotiations with recruiters to gauge their true market value and potentially make a move due to unexpected market conditions.

I know someone online who worked at major company and was laid off after covid and he was looking for a job and could not find one as his linkedln profile was super outdated plus he was too old for hustling the job market

What do you think?
>AI voice bots would have reduced been able to helpfully answer and deflect 90% of our calls, and do so in a much faster and humane way.

Would they have? I've worked at companies that had AI voice bots, they required a ton of care and feeding like a script. Only reason we used them is they were better at following the script and they didn't cause massive customer backlash compared to customer backlash we got when it was offshored.
> The answer would be don't go to war...

China are, in a disturbingly literal sense, doing dress rehearsals for a Taiwan invasion. As far as I know (not speaking Chinese) their rhetoric has been quite clear that they see military invasion as an option on this topic. They're probably going to be a US-calibre military superpower in short order given their economic and manufacturing foundations.

I doubt your answer will make a compelling case to their ears.

> There is no such thing as "unprovoked US aggression", it's all quite predictable decades ahead

That is suspect:

* It almost rejects the entire concept of unprovoked aggression. Although de-facto it is, damaging or obstructing the US's commercial interests isn't supposed to be considered a military provocation.

* It is at odds with a country like the US that is continuously in a state of conflict because of their commercial interests. On balance they're probably the most militarily aggressive country in existence right now. That is a lot of implicit provocation!

> China, Iran, Russia, NK, Cuba etc instead are still guided by nationalist impulses, which unfortunately can result in irrational decisions (Ukraine, Taiwan)

I can't resist a jab at this one. Thank goodness the rationalists prevailed on topics like Iraq and Afghanistan, leading to glorious success, prosperity and other good outcomes!
The desert has always been a place humans needed technology to thrive in, since the ancient Gardens of Babylon or the Phoenix canals constructed by the Native Americans. The challenge is we need to invest in technology (Did you know the AZ border is only 60 miles from the Sea of Cortez?).

There are lots of solutions that don’t involve throwing our hands up and saying “aw shucks it’s too hard to build infrastructure so I guess we should go home”
Oh, oops! Sorry, should have emailed.
Until you are losing. At that point the decision makers fear their lives are lost. That's when the rules go out the window.

War is not a polite game of chess played by a nation. It is emotions, fears, consequences for individuals at every level.

When the war goes well you may compromise, you may not. But when survival is on the line everything comes into play - no compromises. What do you have to lose?
I'm 49 and got laid off in august, so i'm willing to try anything. usemassive was expensive though $89/mo which I can justify if I'm getting interviews, but I wasn't.
And you decide what is genuine?

Sorry, this whole thread is a fantasy of nerds thinking they can create a punitive policy for behavior they don't like. But there is no actual substantive framework under which any of these fantasies can come true.
IANAL, but, my understanding is that if a court rules that the Fifth Amendment does not protect against providing a password (if they already know what's there from other sources, etc.), the individual may be compelled to comply with the subpoena.
I would think fewer moving parts is less complex. Considering it’s basically a trackpad, I doubt the hardware and software are bleeding edge.
Since you brought up coincidences, a second Boeing whistleblower died not too long after. The first died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and the second of pneumonia.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/02/sec...
For Dell, the customer is corporate Information Technology departments and accountants. Most of their end-user kit is minimum viable brick for business use: if it isn't in the box, it can't break. I find their engineering impressive.

Apple tells corporate IT to get out of the way of their customers, the users. Thus repairing their stuff is a nightmare.

(My laptop is an M1 MacBook Air. My servers are off-lease salvage Dell or Intel OEM hardware.)
Most advertised commercial uses of "AI" are glorified search. This seems like an improvement in that space?