skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxing property on land, as well as the land, creates perverse incentives & disincentives.

If we only taxed land, renormalizing for the same total taxes:

1. It would be much more expensive to hold (absolutely or relatively) undeveloped land as an investment that parasitically increased in value due to surrounding investment.

Land is the exclusionary resource, so fully taxing it makes sense.

Renormalization would tax unused land hard, reducing its passive return, and the supply & availability of less used land will increase, and prices decrease.

2. It would be far more attractive to further develop land for economically rewarding use, since adding living spaces and other increased use would not directly raise annual taxes. Which today are essentially a heavy disincentive to development.

Ironically, property (excluding land) taxes, are a recurrent never ending wealth tax, inhibiting both the wealthy and non-wealthy from increasing their properties utility value.

We are so used to it we don’t really consider how much it warps our choices that putting in capital or labor into home improvements or increased multi-housing actually raises our taxes.

If they didn’t, improvements would be far more attractive for both utility and property value appreciation.

Ask any accountant.
This is not the defense of the Cybertruck the author seems to think it is.

"It’s impossible to know exactly which tires this Cybertruck has, but judging by their lack of knobby tread, they seem to be the factory Goodyear all-seasons."

So the factory all-seasons are pretty bad? But there's more.

"Unfortunately, Cybertruck owners have already reported that their tires are barely lasting 6,000 miles before becoming completely worn."

Well, two things come to mind there. 1) That's insane, that's grippy sports car tire life. That's motorcycle tire life. And 2) you can clearly see the tread in the video and while you can't see tread depth they're definitely not bald.

I wonder if the owner thought about putting the floor mats under the wheels, that's how we used to do it.
You say we can't find anyone responsible as if we haven't settled the question on culpability symbolically since we started leveraging hierarchies. You oversee it. You did it.

Start at the top. Move down. Heavy is the head, as they say.
The entire state of Massachusetts had nearly all of its old growth forests cut down to make room for farmland. Only 2742 acres remain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_old-growth_forests_i...

These countries are responding to incentives. Since ancient times humans have converted land into what is most monetarily useful. In fact Mesopotamia became a desert because the silt in the irrigation canals was full of salt, slowly turning fertile land into a barren wasteland, and destroying their society https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Mesopotamia

If you want to preserve virgin forests in poor countries, you will have to pay them. You can’t take away take their right away to earn a living because we in rich countries have the luxury to scold them for doing exactly what every human in civilization since all time did
Sounds like the lesson learned here from reading your travail is not to invest in an ecosystem that makes it difficult to do a standard operation.
Thanks for adding that clarification that yes it includes two hashes: one not meant as a crypto hash; one proposed to be a cryptohash. The text in the README means it (the second one) is proposed as a crypto-hash. But the wording you used looks unclear, is that what we really have in there?

edit: AH, I see you mean in the comparison table. Yeah that wording could be improved. I'll change it now. The rest of the text is hopefully clearer:

"Consider it (rainstorm) experimental, but designed to be secure. Note on Cryptographic Intent: Rainstorm's design includes concepts from cryptographic hashing, but without formal analysis, it should not be considered secure. Feedback and analysis are welcome."

Although without a bunch of accepted analyses people shouldn't trust a secure cryptohash that merely claims to be a secure cryptohash - which this doesn't claim.

It is funny people get obsessed with wording when what's really needed is evidence.

I will take a look at the wording again now and if there's any wording that's insufficiently clear that rainstorm is proposed as a crypto-hash and requires analysis, I'll update such wording.
Not trolling, it panics for me. It came with 15.1.1. Let me see if I have a photo of the panic. If I'll post the backtrace.

https://imgur.com/ycyVIzF
For well over ten years now, companies like Facebook/Meta and Google have perused research code by academic and other researchers, seen what is catching on, then soon made better versions themselves. Google in particular has soon also offered commercial services for the same, outcompeting the smaller commercial services offered by the researchers. Frankly, I am glad Google does it because the world is better for it. It's the same with Amazon because frankly it's a lot of work to scale a service globally, and most smaller groups would do a far worse job at it.

My criteria for what is good vs bad is what makes the world better or worse as a whole, not what makes me better off. It is clear to me that the availability of AI triggered by GPT has made the world better, and if OpenAI has to violate copyrights to get there or stay there, that's a worthwhile sacrifice imho. There is still plenty of commercial scientific and media writing that is not going away even if copyright laws were to disappear.

Book readership (outside of school) is already very low now, and is only going to get lower, close to zero. You might be defending a losing field. An AI is going to be able to write a custom book (or parts of it) on demand - do you see how this changes things?

Ultimately I realize that we have to put food on the table, but I don't think copyrights are necessary for it. There are plenty of other ways to make money.
I hear impressive things about Singapore’s health system. Maybe USA could trial that system in one state for a while?
Harsh dude, why not just keep quiet?
No "paywall" unless Javascript is enabled.
Crash-only peopleware
Markets are inevitable: create an arbitrarily oppressive prison and you will watch some “black” market emerge: markets grow like weeds: it’s just silly to argue that we should have markets or not.

But markets are not a-priori useful to the broader society just by being markets! A necessary (but not sufficient) condition for a market to be useful is that it substantially avoids lasting and structural market failures.

Market failures are almost as common and ubiquitous as markets! They vary in duration and consequence.

The ultimate market failure is to have costs which include a profit margin but little or no competition to get the benefits of a market.

Healthcare like other mandatory purchases (you can buy an ambulance ride and six figures of hospital while unconscious!) is especially prone to market failure.

The United States especially (though late neoliberal “capitalism” to some degree generally) and HN/SV/EA especially now go so far as to actively endorse induced market failure as the goal.

Fuck that. Fuck everyone who is on board with it.

This is your goblin brainchild @pg: renounce it.

https://youtu.be/3Fx5Q8xGU8k?si=0lnuIjUZNHYjYuxg
The creator of HTMX and Intercooler.js? I think they already know.
Could that be done without murdering a lot more CEOs?
Here is part of the backtrace in case it brings it to the attention of someone:
https://imgur.com/ycyVIzF

I already sent it to Apple but who knows when they'll maybe look at it. Panic at IOPortDPDelegate.cpp:256.
>The US can't even make a smartphone any more.

Well they are trying. Purism has a "Made in America" phone: the Liberty Phone.

https://puri.sm/products/liberty-phone/

Why do you think cars are leaving the US? Tesla is a fully American manufacturer with some of the most US sourced components, GM/Ford aren't moving their cash cows out of the country anytime soon. and the Japanese and Germans are expanding their presence in the US. You cited a long declining brand that has had an agism problem. Thats your best evidence? I guess you can make the argument that there are too many brands in the car industry but the car manufacturing sector in the US is still quite strong.
I always find it funny that doctors never think their huge salaries are part of the problem. Doctors in other countries earn way less than doctors here. That helps keep costs lower.
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What else did every doctor tell you?
1) Little as in "0, but maybe someone wants to quibble that technically it did something so I'll hedge". As far as I can tell literally everyone I know caught COVID, so it is fair to say the vaccine had no impact on transmission. Raising the obvious question of why it matters where people caught it.

2) If catching COVID is going to kill you, by now you are dead by now. Factor in that there'd probably be between 40 and 60% uptake of the vaccine just by people being prudent and the authoritarianism was not only a betrayal of the principles our civilisation is supposed to be defending but also ineffective.

And, as the current article showcases, extremely ill-advised.

3) That logic is silly. We don't mandate people do anything special about flus and that'd save far more lives than thousands. Do you consider people who advocate normal life even though influenza exists to be some sort of malign force in society? Even COVID is still killing people. 100s of thousands are still going to die from this thing. But you want to support an abandonment of basic human rights over a few thousand maybe-deaths that can't even be detected? In the extreme, more people have been purposefully murdered to secure basic liberties than that - these aren't the sort of rights that should be casually taken away.
Branding is a very weak moat outside fashion industry and similar places - outside visible status symbols. It's a relatively strong moat for clothes, watches, even things like the iPhone.

But for things you do alone at home, this quickly goes away. Uber is a strong brand, everyone associated non-taxi taxis with Uber. When Bolt came around in much of Europe, and offered the same service with better wait times (they were paying drivers more, so lots of drivers switched), people moved over to Bolt in droves.
I was asking about that figure in particular. I thought it was an actual statistic.
Like what, genetic engineering? People have been drinking themselves to death for thousands and thousands of years.
What kind of stutter, blocks/valsalva or repetition?
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Maybe. But what are the options? Windows? Not really. Linux/Debian/Ubuntu is great, in theory, but it lacks tools: Acorn, Keyboard Maestro, OnniGraffle, Alfred App, MS Office, MS Teams, and a dozen more. Plus Apple silicon. I test LLMs locally.
Won't that be demand / supply issue ?
Must be willing to work hard core. Must always be on site 100%

If you are not sleeping in the office, you aren't waking up with a job!
Did Elon Musk really only take 9 minutes to read, consider, and respond to Ilya & Greg's thoughtful "Honest Thoughts" email? That seems remarkably brief, crazy.

I'm surprised by OpenAI's resilience through all this drama. It's impressive to see how far they've come from 2017 to 2024. This journey has given me a whole new appreciation for startups and the individuals behind them. Now I better understand why my own past mediocre attempts didn't succeed.

Thank you for sharing this information!
Sick and tired of any server-side rendering of web pages.

If you don't have to deal with incident response you can be quiet.

It doesn't scale and it complicates meeting any client requirements. Get this trash outta here. For real.
"You want the forest? Buy it. Until then, it's ours to do with it what we please."

Agreeing on the price will be hard though. The supply is limited.
I first learned that Georgia was a country when Russia invaded 16 years ago. I found the headline very confusing and shocking at the time. I took it as a lesson and haven't been confused by headlines about Georgia since.
Doesn’t need to be journalism, just needs to compete with it.
My personal opinion, is that the biggest mistake was passing the healthcare act congress did in 2009 instead of national single payer Medicare/Medicaid for all.

Socialize it all; call in the military doctors to provide care that's missing. Train up more. Break the education cartel and '(evil/dark) company' style hazing of new grads in grueling 12-36 hour deathmarch shifts. Train enough doctors to fulfill society's needs.
That was the first thing I checked, and it looks like they’re using some existing python package to parse docx files. I wonder if they contributed to it or vetted it strongly
A bunch of doctors do recognize the issue. Just like every other group there are a diverse set of opinions.
I think it makes more sense in context of entertainment. However even in journalism, given the source data there's no reason an LLM couldn't put together the actual public facing article, video etc.
I worked with server side rendering for close to a decade. It's very reliable.
This is proved day in and day out. Im sorry but you are 100% wrong here.
Don't select the wrong one!!
Something can be transformative long (long) before its "completely available to everyone ". Clearly electricity is transformative despite 660 million people not giving it.

So I guess it all depends on your definition of "transformative".

If a billion people are affected? 2 billion? One continent? All of them?

If something is big in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America, is that enough to describe it is "rock the world"?
I'm confused. Rome didn't have a 7 day week until Constantine introduced it in 321 CE

Rome used an 8 day cycle called "nundinal cycle". (And yes the name of the 8 day cycle contains the root of the number 9, novem, because Romans of course also invented off-by-one errors)

Days were named with letters from A to H.

What does it mean that the Panis Quadratus was baked on a Wednesday?

That sparked my curiosity and I tried to find more accounts of this alleged ritual of baking specific kinds of breads on specific days of the week but I couldn't find much.

It seems that somebody wrote a piece about panem quadratus on Wednesday and a few other types of breads and that's got copy-pasted around including some touristic website from Naples.

I call bullshit, but I may be wrong. Does anybody know more about it?
So you're saying the US outpaced areas that didn't have vaccine and didn't even take social distancing seriously?

Are we controlling for age and health of the population then?
I'm curious how people pronounce this when they've never heard it. Do people assume the 'e' is silent as in "eye". For anyone curious it's basically "Turkey-yeah" & the "yeah" is short.
Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso instilled their current names as the only acceptable names for a long time. Pretty successfully though.
So happy every time I see HTMX.

I'm hoping there is more innovation in this space with React engineers rediscovering the benefits of server-side rendering and Backend-For-Frontend efforts.

I think the perfect stack involves all 3 paradigms (initial loads, hypermedia loads and data/AJAX loads) used in parts of the application as makes sense.
You can tell his keyboard doesn't have n-key overlap with how the asdf is distributed. Totally checks out as real DoD with those $20 dell keyboards.
Sony-Honda's 275-mile electric sedan set to launch in US
But nothing will be happening on the planet, except a few rovers, because there is nothing of value whatsoever on Mars that is not literally a thousand times cheaper to find/do on Earth.
I'm a pretty conservative person, and this is the one view I break with hardliners completely with - I agree completely.

The funny thing is, most people you talk to on either side of the aisle are for it. The healthcare lobby is so large as to buy politicians to make it seem like a wedge issue, but even a ton of conservatives agree with single payer in principle.

I'd wager if you put it to a national vote, it'd break something like 80-20 for.
Huge salaries are not the direct problem, high cost of schooling in the US and the requirement to have an undergrad are.

Other countries allow you to go straight from high school to medical school, plus other countries have free schooling.
My critique is that the western hand-wringing about these stupid boobs cutting down their beautiful forests, is that we all did the exact same thing.
If you’re deeply in favor of capitalism as a principle (like I am) then this clique of underendowed aspiring monopolist fascists is your sworn enemy (like it’s mine).
> For example, the Git DAG would be one place to use it

I read that as you thinking Git is a motivating use case for this hash.
Piracy generates works that are neither derivative nor wholly copies (e.g. pre-cracked software). They are not considered creative works in the current framework.

They are however, considered to be infringing.
The senate and house never had the votes for that.

Obamacare was always a compromise between what the democrats wanted and what the centrists and republicans would allow.
Rather than cutting salaries we should expand the ability earn an MD. But expanding medical school causes shrieks of hysterical anger from doctors. Same with importing foreign doctors. My pearls
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... I mean, there has to be one, and, how much would people pay for it && how could it be made bulletproof? Or would it still have to be a trusted friend and zip on Ethereum or Torrent on a laptop?

edit: there was already a comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413585
Show HN: Elegant Chat for Slack
Getting work done quickly with little guidance? That’s not a problem for me. But when it comes to chatting with people outside my circle, my 5th-grade-level English has always been a hurdle. It’s tough to make a good impression, and I often miss opportunities because my language skills aren’t quite there. Even writing a simple message takes me forever—what takes you a few seconds could take me several minutes.

That’s where ChatGPT came to the rescue. It made my life so much easier, and my language skills have improved a ton since I started using it. But here’s the thing: the process is still clunky. I have to switch windows, write, copy, switch back, and paste. Sure, my grammar is better, and I write faster now, but it still feels like a chore.

So, I decided to build my own app to fix these pain points—especially since the other apps I tried didn’t have the features I really needed. Surprisingly, there aren’t many apps like this out there. If this sounds like something you can relate to, give it a try. It just might make your life a little easier too!
I fear this post's argument incorrectly assumes that the cap on insurance provides as 20% percent of revenue is the limiting factor on insurance company profits. In fact, it mentions cases where insurance company profits are below the cap! Their interest is not obviously to grow healthcare spending. So I'm not sure to what extent they truly endeavor to deny care so as to increase profit in the long run, and not just smooth a turbulent market.
It just works and it's so, so much faster. Went from an Ender 3 v2 to a Bambu P1S. No more re-leveling the bed, no more first layer adhesion problems, and your prints run 4-6 times quicker.
Ask HN: Simulation Based Synthetic Data Generation
Is it possible to generate simulation based Synthetic data using LLMs ? i.e. Imagine a simulated network with a windows server and 3 windows PC clients. We want to generate of System and application logs for each entity using an LLM.
Any help is apprecated.
I’m sorry but didn’t we fix this in 2008?
I've been using an Aeropress for years (long enough to have had to buy new gaskets).

Our kitchen doesn't have much counter space, but that Presso Smartshot looks good (at least in the video). Do you happen to know if it's actually good?

BTW I had no idea Aeropress now sells a non-plastic version. I guess the output is the same.
Tell HN: Annual changes to the Nasdaq 100 announced
I tried to link to the Nasdaq press release, but the post was immediately killed. @dang, maybe look into this?

Anyhow, this years changes to the Nasdaq 100 are:

Newly added:

Palantir
MicroStrategy
Axon

Removed:

Illumina
Super Micro Computer
Moderna
Instead of trying to cool the surface of the glass sphere rapidly, maybe it would be more practical to heat the interior.
Am I right in reading that this guy's message is "this is a systemic problem", but primarily just complaining that spending is too high, and that somehow healthcare spending will collapse society? High healthcare spending that was effective would be great! A healthy population is a productive population, not to mention the moral benefits. The problem is not at all that we spend too much, it's that we toss the money at a loosely regulated market that captures the value rather than using it to deliver excellent results. This is the predictable outcome of any market that can push costs onto externalities or that defeats competition. Some markets are incompatible with competition, and the best you can do in those cases is nationalization with oversight. You can't meaningfully vote with your wallet when you're willing to pay anything for treatment, so at the cost of the optimizing force of markets we fall back to voting with our actual votes for the policy we want. This doesn't guarantee a perfect healthcare system, but it does give better outcomes than what we get by trying to force it into a marketplace.
Socialized healthcare is also failing all around the world. Have you seen the situation in the UK recently? Or Canada?

The cause of the malaise seems to be the same everywhere. See the biggest shift in the US healthcare system over the last 50 years for example:

There was a 3,200 percent increase in the number of healthcare administrators between 1975 and 2010, compared to a 150% increase in physicians, due to an increasing number of regulations:

https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/practice-manageme...

>Supporters say the growing number of administrators is needed to keep pace with the drastic changes in healthcare delivery during that timeframe, particularly change driven by technology and by ever-more-complex regulations. (To cite just a few industry-disrupting regulations, consider the Prospective Payment System of 1983 [1]; the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996 [2]; and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Act of 2009.) [3]

In contrast, the fields of medicine in the US less affected by this surge in government intervention; cosmetic and laser eye surgery, have seen prices increase at below the rate of inflation. [4]

[1] https://www.cms.gov/medicare/payment/prospective-payment-sys...

[2] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg...

[3] https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/h...

[4] https://healthblog.ncpathinktank.org/why-cant-the-m
Here’s a Canadian man who had to wait many hours in the ER, went home instead, died https://www.newsweek.com/adam-burgoyne-death-aneurysm-canada...

He would have been saved in the US. If health insurers ration care in the US, they are just replacing the role of bureaucrats in socialized medicine countries. You can’t solve the problem of too much demand and too little supply without a free market. Yet everyone keeps trying (and pretending) in the medical care field
What happens when your static stie infrastructure goes down?

I fear your argument is turtles all the way down.

Edit: I'll show this to my boss. I'm sure he'll get a chuckle.