skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody earning a wage pays tax on revenue, not profit. Property taxes can be even be on value, not revenue or profit. For any given tax burden, I don't see the "justice" problem by shifting more of that towards value and revenue and less towards profit. You could argue that in a vacuum that it is more just because it slightly incentivized investment over saving. And I'm sure you could argue the reverse too.

However, to me this mostly looks like a practical issue, and the traditional dogma that a broader tax base is a better one likely holds here too. Taxes should be on all three categories, and for both legal and real persons - and thus each specific category lower (and in particular thereby reducing the height of specific niche corners cases such as this one, and also reducing the opportunity to game the system).

Also, it's interesting to listen to anecdotes like this, but caveat lector; the article's author's experience may not be the norm; and the issues they experienced may be due to the specifics of norway's taxation system or their personal choices, not the principles behind it; and last but not least as long as money can flow mostly freely between tax systems it's not enough for a system to be fair and well designed in a vacuum; it also need to consider how shifting wealth/income/profits across borders will affect outcomes.

To my mind, this is all pretty orthogonal to justice. Clearly, you see that differently. Why does this smack of injustice to you?
That's the UI. There's no actual interaction with the screens.
You misunderstand. You pay to "collect this highlight to permanently own it", not just highlight it.
How does this avoid Cgo? In the case of Ltk (FFI-free, Common Lisp bindings for Tcl/Tk), I know that the library communicates strings to a Tcl interpreter. This means no FFI is involved, but it does mean the user must have Tcl -- specifically, wish -- installed. Is there a similar requirement for this library?

Unfortunately, GitLab is locked behind Cloudflare turnstile and I can't access the source code.
You're right. But unfortunately this mindset moves us closer and closer to having algorithms exclude people from society and life. And as the stories already told here show, it can happen to any of us for no apparent reason.

It's like, imagine a magic wand that, if waved, would make life a little better for 99% of society, but much worse for 1%. Would it be moral to wave that wand?
That's what I'm saying, if you wanted to preserve it, preserve it where it is. If you're preserving it by moving it to east london... you're not really preserving it. There are plenty of distribution centres in east london already. So it's not really a loss to give up on the Dagenham plan.
> Norway imposes a wealth tax that taxes unrealized gains at approximately 1% annually. Calculated on the full market value for publicly traded assets and the book value of private companies. On New Year's Eve, whatever your net worth - including illiquid assets - is subject to this tax. It doesn't matter if you're running a loss-making startup with no cash flow, if your investments have tanked after the valuation date, or even if your company has gone bankrupt—you still owe the tax.

"unrealised gains". gains, not losses.
I think the rules are you have to put a Show HN: in the title when you self post
I'm skeptical there is any epistemological collapse. Checking Wikipedia because I'm rusty on that stuff, it has epistemology as "the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge." As someone old enough to have been reading paper books pre internet I don't think that's collapsed at all. The very fact that I can look it up on Wikipedia and reference Reddit is a step forward.

The article reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes 'Academia here I come' (Reddit reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/1300k80/ac...)
A "surprising" out of left field win is likely due to the simple fact that a large amount of the population has tuned out mainstream media and is getting information from new sources that the traditional establishment pollsters and media have ignored.

This would not be a trend that is unique to Romania. On The (Canadian) Strategists podcast recently one of the strategists remarked that they wouldn't even know how to run the digital campaign they successfully ran in 2014 because the entire social media landscape has changed over. His point was that it is not at all as clear to him as it was in the past how to actually reach people.
I had the same thing, but this was a business address while I was working remotely and had no idea about the area. Told them as much on the phone while looking the answer up on Google Maps. They just accepted that and opened the account.
In the 1960s there was a long overdue correction to the Australian constitution because the preamble mentioned the continent's "flora and fauna" in a way that implied Aborigines were part of the "fauna." The wording was grossly racist, and had to be changed because of the politics, but from an ecological standpoint, there was some truth to it. Australia's ecosystems were stable because of how Aborigines interacted with them.
When I had the same problem in my language, I disabled all unsafe code to be expanded - IO and calling native functions - in such automatic cases inside an editor. A sandbox.

He also forgot the case of ordinary functions being called in the coda. Similar problem as Office VBA startup code.
Wouldn't that be more communism than socialism?
Does Norway perform well in various well-being metrics essentially because Norway is extremely oil rich?

(I don't pretend to know the answer, and ask because I don't see how to figure that out)
For a small country with that much oil money, "better than average" is a pretty low standard.
And I would add William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell to that list.

After all, it's the anniversary of his Birthday today.
That's called "ccache"
Interesting to see they have data for Russia now. I think that's new.
What kind of ambiguity? A ship with a Russian crew, registered in China.
how does this handle state management and event delegation? As in, when state is modified in one control , it instantly updates in the other controls.

The examples show how to draw controls, but that’s the easiest and least interesting part of GUI apps
In the early 80s I visited an IBM plant in France near Paris, and they were customizing gate-arrays by direct write on wafer, I think ion implantation, making the chips for mainframes on demand. From what I saw in the plant, they were doing chip design work locally. The only non-IBM equipment I saw at the plant were some very fast end of line test machines.

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This works until you start using macros.
It’s fairly disingenuous to mix both actually when they don’t mingle. Especially when you consider that both heating and transportation are going in the direction of using more electricity which is actually favorable to the French choice.
> If i were to design security from the ground up

You might be interested in Librem Key, based on free firmware?
I signed up and immediately got banned because I was accessing through a VPN, which I think is a common problem others have had. I emailed them and their advice was to stop using a VPN and try again.
Just to add some JS engine info - every engine stores numbers as 32 bit integers if possible, which is usually done by tagging a pointer. Also, JSC needs pointers to be represented exactly as-is, because it will scan the stack for anything that looks like a pointer, and retain it when running the GC
What type of fraud exactly? You mean like stolen CCs? It feels very medieval as a financial trust system if every little vendor can’t trust payments, even when you pay up front? Like this is in some ways worse than cold hard cash. And then we pay VISA premium on top of that, for the convenience of being mistrusted..
There’s nothing about cheap that implies terrible customer service. Or rather, the reverse isn’t necessarily true.
I'll open by saying that I've bought about 50 albums from bandcamp and qobuz this year, so broadly, I'm with you about supporting artists.

However, the whole "Spotify is terrible for artists" argument seems ill considered. Terrible compared to what? I lot of what I buy is relatively niche artists on relatively niche labels, who would never have been signed to a major and would never had had international distribution. These artists can't make a living through streaming, sure, but I don't think they could have made a living in the old world, either.

I still have a Spotify subscription - mostly for the family - but I use it to listen to albums before deciding to buy them. I'd buy a lot less if I couldn't vet it on Spotify first.

A lot of artists seem to think that they're entitled to make a living off their art, which seems to me to completely misunderstand the history of the music industry.
Show HN: RP2350 Standalone Computer Redesigned
Am getting close to release of my BANDIT ColorForth computer so a redesign was in order, it's still only renders though. You can see the a working prototype in the hackernews page
Arguably, we wave that magic wand every time we decide not to donate to starving children in third-world countries. Which is pretty often!
As someone who doesn’t know a lot about go: why is CGo-free a feature? In what situations is CGo (which is basically just calling C libs from go, right?) bad?
And how would they pay back a loan?
I thought of the smoothie blenders first too, but I can't see how they would ever have failed given how great they are. My life has changed since buying the first such blender about 4 months ago
Here's a thought: as long as some countries somewhere have enough freedom to innovate, and entrepreneurs can leave their countries and get to the freer ones, countries like Norway can piggyback off all the innovation from others (or outsource it). I think it would only be a problem if for some reason there was technology that couldn't be copied.
Cooking with A.D.H.D. Can Be Overwhelming. Cooks Are Finding Ways to Thrive.
They in fact import far less gas than Germany and let’s not even look at coal.
France, unusually, actually does, or at least did, use significant amounts of plutonium (a combo of decommissioned weapons and nuclear reprocessing output) in nuclear energy generation, but yeah, primarily uranium.
Yeah ew sounds like a mess. I'm sorry, thanks for sharing. Death by a thousand paper cuts is never fun. The solution in looking at for my problem in this area is to add another layer of indirection and make a config generator so that there's only one config file for users to define their service in, and the program goes off and makes all the necessary changes to the pile of yaml files.
https://archive.ph/E4Kci
Strange. Nothing special about it. Here's the raw PDF file.

[1] https://ops.group/dashboard/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GPS-S...
To be fair their pre-change allowances were insanely generous.
Send them a copy of your ID?
> Apple Music and Tidal play multiple times more to artists.

Seems like Apple pays 3x what Spotify pays? It can't be as simple as that though.
Nvidia won’t sell these quantities of RAM at Apple’s pricing. An A100 80GB is $14k, while an M3 Max MBP with 96GB of RAM can be had for $2.7k.
This is a bad solution to taxation. It brakes the long-established tax practice of "realization principle".

Suppose the same principle was applied to a home owner. At the end of each year your property is evaluated and you're taxed on the difference between last and this years price. You own an asset and this asset is valued by the rating agency as more expensive than before. Now you have a liability that you need to pay and if you don't you'll be in big trouble, because you owe the money to the government.

So independently of your own actions & impossible to predict you will need to plan for this expense. How many homeowners and rentiers would like that?

The "realization principle" in tax law specifies that income is not subject to tax until it is "realized" through a taxable event, such as the sale or exchange of an asset. In the US this was established in early 20th-century U.S. Supreme Court cases such as Eisner v. Macomber (1920). In this case it was established that mere appreciation in value does not constitute taxable income until a sale or exchange occurs.

Europe is not very business friendly. This regulation will make creating businesses even harder. When governments need more revenue they need to create more opportunities to create that revenue, not squeeze the current business tighter and tighter. Startups are risky, adding additional risk would just kill more of them sooner.

BTW, it's easy to fix "loan against my equity" evasion by classifying the "money has been loaned" as a "realization" event.
I think this might be a cultural thing. HN, SV, and the market for IaaS/SaaS products is a bit of an American monoculture, where "the customer is always right" and there's a strong desire to make the customer happy. I think this is mostly a good thing and especially a good way to build early stage companies, but in my experience it's less present elsewhere.

In some places companies are happy doing their own thing, don't need every customer, don't need to be everything to every customer, and won't fight for business in the same way. Does that limit them? Maybe? But I suspect not enough to be a problem most of the time.
What does a microwave do to justify that price tag? That's about $2000 more than I could imagine paying for one.
Are Hetzner Europe and US run by different companies or something?

My experience in the EU has been nothing but stellar.
ccache is just a hack to make traditional build systems less stupid.

Good build systems have native support for these things.
Norway doesn't care. It is a country with a reputation for good governance and northern-European economic strength. But economically, it is a country that is largely a gas station: like a democratic Russia with more competent governance.

Over half its economy is based on oil and mining. It has failed to develop meaningful economic diversification, and, because it has wisely banked so much of the proceeds of its oil (over US$300k per capita), there's not a lot of pressure to adapt.

Norway will not be a center of innovation anytime soon, except in oil-related fields. Eventually, as oil gets replaced as a source of energy, they may feel more pressure to change. But for now, they suffer from a more sophisticated version of the resource curse.

Sweden is an interesting counterexample, which has a lower GDP per capita but a much more diversified economy. Sweden abolished a wealth tax they used to have almost 20 years ago.
LoCoS Visual Sign Language [video]
There are quite a few phones with scanner on the powerbutton.
Fairphone 4 + 5 are just a few of them
Irish America wants a united Ireland. And it's ready to fund it
The other thing is what happens when the notional value goes down a year later? Do they get a tax refund?
>You write like you were born after all the events related to the desktop application had run their curse.

>We killed the desktop app, to free ourselves from the Wintel monopoly.

Bombastic nonsensical crap!

There is no "we”, period.
That is a fallacy that you, not "we", impose upon yourself, and try to generalize it to, or foist it upon, everyone.

"We" didn't kill anything. and "we" were not slaves in the first place, so "we" didn't need to make ourselves free.

Maybe you, and some known to you, were slaves, or still are. Don't generalize vacuously.

This is not the multiple Oscar-winning award-winning Ben-Hur movie or the Biblical story of the ancient Israelites as slaves in Egypt or something like that.

Anyone, who wanted to, or at least, any reasonably large group of people (1), could have moved off, from Windows, if they wanted to, badly enough. In the early years of Windows, DOS was still there, right? And had plenty of good software on it, just not GUI-based. and there were some Unix versions around, including maybe some cheaper ones. I rememember Coherent Unix and ESIX, for example. I actually work on the latter, briefly, in an early job. Microsoft's own Xenix existed around the same time too, plus or minus a year or three, maybe.

(1) Say a few hundred or a few thousand people. As an example, they could have collected donations, and hired 20 to 50 smart computer science students, grad or undergrad, and / or professors and / or operating system developers, to create a better OS without the monopoly and bad practices of MS. You bet your ass, at least some people would have queued up for that.

Set up some rules for correct behaviour, and kick out anybody who did not comply.

>We pushed the migration to the Web, because that was the unreachable niche for Microsoft and their monopolistic practices.

So, your only option is to run away from an enemy? And do you think that the enemy cannot follow you there? What about WSL and Azure and what not? Ha ha. Never underestimate your enemies.

See the Stockdale Paradox. The Jim Collins version is a good one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42153495
Ask HN: AI Calendar Tools – Opinions?
Hey everyone,

This is my first time posting on Hacker News! I’ve heard it’s a great place to get people’s opinions, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how I plan my tasks. I like organizing my week with things like work-related stuff or hobbies (e.g., writing an essay or doing an analysis). I usually write everything down in my calendar—it helps me stay on track and (mostly) avoid procrastinating. But honestly, I still struggle with it sometimes.

To make things easier, I often use ChatGPT as a starting point. I don’t copy it word for word, but it’s great for sparking ideas or finding solutions I wouldn’t have thought of.

Then I had this thought: what if ChatGPT could connect to a calendar? Like, it could read your tasks and prep ideas or drafts ahead of time. That way, when you sit down to work, you already have a starting point—no need to waste time figuring out what to do.

Do you ever deal with similar struggles when planning or procrastinating? I’m thinking of building something like this and would love to hear your thoughts or any ideas you might have.

Thanks for reading!
Completely unrelated, but I’m surprised how many people actually use the Ryzen 3600, from desktops to servers, it seems to be everywhere.
In all fairness, the number of old people who even know that realistic recreations of their loved ones voices is even possible is probably pretty low.
Yes, but, they admit they’re not lawyers :’ )
He's absolutely very enthusiastic about many things! I take that into account and mentally adjust when listening to him, but he's been great as [one] source of AI product news.
I have lived in Norway for a year and it’s definitely not as bright as you’re painting it.

Rent prices are extremely high and apartments are quite small compared to other European cities.

Alcohol is so expensive, that Norwegians go on alcohol shopping tours to Sweden.

Trains in Oslo don’t run 24 hours, so you have to take long detours with busses at night or pay obnoxiously high rates when taking a cab.

No, Norway is definitely not the paradise you’re trying to make it.

Also, these people that left Norway weren’t against paying taxes. They were against the socialist government trying to rip them off with a completely unfair taxation.
> And the problem with Rust is that it just doesn't have critical mass and, frankly, I don't think it will ever have.

Isn't this premature? Rust is still pretty new.
in person? sure, that's harder, but we're talking about online services, right?

many times verification is simply uploading a photo, GenAI can make a nice fake ID.

are these id verification sites linked to government databases? for usual KYC it's enough to save the photo and do the minimal sanity check, no need to phone home an ask Big Brother.
It's most likely a vCPU. So even the caches are shared.
Always projection with these guys.
Yes, they're just a petrostate. Over half their economy is oil and mining.
I believe so, so that it does not run foul of the CLOUD Act.
Do they give a tax refund if the assets then lose (notional) value the next year?
The unpolluted definition of socialism is about public (e.g. social) ownership of the means of production. Technically, it’s not mutually exclusive of market systems, simply that participants are socially owned in some form. To be more specific about what I said, the roots of socialism called for the “seizing of the means of production” if governments and capital would not voluntarily convert to some form of social ownership

Communism differs in that it takes this a step further advocating not only for social ownership but also the dissolution of of all private property ownership and its corresponding economic role, and distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

For the record, I think communism is a dead end as it flys in the face of human nature. Market socialism might have legs though.

I was being a bit tongue in cheek but taxes aren’t inherently socialism. Taxation has been levied under multiple periods of economic philosophy like in feudal Europe or during the age of mercantilism for example. Seems to be a hallmark of highly organized civilizations

Something like an employee owned co-op is a valid socialist concept, for example. Social doesn’t automatically mean government.

Though communists like Marx believed in revolutionary uprising and those tend to be inherently violent. It’s a shame that the only exposure people have to any form of socialist ideas is via Marx.
As someone who's already using the dedicated server for a ton of things, I have been really grateful. But now, I have a new question, are they going to do this to their dedicated servers as well?
I was customer for 10 years, but for business I needed a second account. Banned immediately even after I submitted a passport copy. Worked after contacting their support. Still happy customer (with both accounts). I think they're just very strict and get their (un)fair share of stolen credit card or stolen identity signups.
Presumably by looking at their competition, and realizing they’re still a better option.
I am very optimistic. I don't remember where I read it but whatever remains after the current industrial civilization will not have access to the energy resources necessary for reindustrialization. Might have been Derrick Jensen but I can't remember which book exactly.
Norway already has an exit tax which levies a 37.84% tax on unrealized gains.

The "easy fix" isn't working for some reason. Perhaps a one-time tax is still preferable to an ongoing one.
There’s nothing particularly scary about “algorithms” making these choices since it’s just people at these companies choosing and implementing the algorithms. It wouldn’t get better if those humans weren’t allowed to use algorithms to make these choices since decisions.
And in some other places it's so abundant that water companies don't even bother metering it, you just pay one flat fee a month and you can use as much as you like.
Humans are animals and animals which do not replicate are selected out of the gene pool. There is nothing to argue here.
This maps to my own experience in the UK. Every time I search for a C++ job, I inevitably end up discussing my fondness of Rust but inability to use it at work. The interviewer will typically reply mentioning discussions of using it for greenfield projects - but I know it won't result in me writing anything of substance.

2 years ago, seeing a somewhat applicable Rust job-description made me 90% certain it was about cryptocurrency fintech. Now, a few defence roles are creeping in, presumably due to the US government distancing itself from unsafe languages. Neither are fields I really want to work in. And what a shame it would be if such a great language was relegated to being an Ada alternative.

I try to keep on top of Rust, - it's the most likely candidate to put me out of a job - but it will be a long time before there are no more legacy C++ codebases. Being the COBOL guy of the future doesn't sound too bad.