skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deferred tax payment.

If someone is lucky enough to win the lottery by buying a pot of land for cheap and then seeing its value rise astronomically, they would be given the option to defer their tax payments until the sale of their profit when they realize their gains.

Obviously, there is still a large incentive for them to move sooner rather than later, but they would not be forced out of their home. I think this would be much fairer than the status quo as it would increase the incentive for them to move.

Ultimately, it is not an efficient use of land to have someone keep their single family home in the middle of high-rises like you see in the movie up. We've got a homeless crisis and random parking lots or low density is making it worse. There needs to be a compromise here. Deferred payments lets you balance the scales in a way that would be fair to all.
This is equivalent from seizing the properties... I can't imagine this or something similar working well for Spain at all. It will just kill inflow of capital and they will alienate anyone willing to work with them.

Advantage of Spain is that it has good climate, prices are not high and it is lawful country. As soon as you trip this last one, it is the same like some 3rd world country.
> Too bad Git lacks a distributed bug tracker

Not your point, really, but fortunately, git is easily extensible. This in-repo issue tracker is surprisingly feature complete: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug. Anyone else given it a whirl?
The Luckiest Marine in Fallujah
Let me share the perspective I have as a member of a class of people that have been subject to racism for thousands of years, including enslavement, arbitrary murder, and systematic mass murder. Please forgive me, but being quiet didn't seem to work so far.

At least hundreds of thousands of polite, quiet, reasonable, assimilated urban Jews were murdered in the holocaust. It is deeply wrong that African Americans and other minorities or mentally ill people live in a world where the police can be every bit as dangerous as the gestapo. I feel like it's wrong that millions of women have been murdered simply for not doing something a man wanted. Millions or billions of women aren't treated as if they have the same value as men.

Please look at the bully pulpit standing against us. Most of the power in American society is concentrated in the hands of a very few white men. How loud do you think someone has to be when they have to stand against the megaphone of society? When someone needs to stand up against trillions of dollars in wealth?

Pretty loud as it turns out!
This piece is coming up on two years old now - it was written in March 2023.

I think it holds up. Saying "LLMs are useful for code" is a lot less controversial today than it was back in March 2023 - there are still some hold-outs who will swear that all LLM-produced code is untrustworthy junk and no good engineer would dream of using them, but I think their numbers are continuing to drop.
Seconded. Bastards.
Personal anecdote: I pushed some LLM generated code into Prod during a call with the client today. It was simple stuff, just a string manipulation function, about 10 LOC. Absolutely could have done it by hand but it was really cool to not have to think about the details - I just gave some inputs and desired outputs and had the function in hand and tested it. Instead of saying "I'll reply when the code is done" I was able to say "it's done, go ahead and continue" and that was a cool moment for me.
I’ve been using SonoPhone and SonoPad.

It now works instantly. Even my customsd sources work, and they work better than the previous app too.

Only thing is I had to go to the desktop app to get the customsd sources working on a new network.

I haven’t used the official
App in months now.
I wonder if it has something to do with advance economies growing at 1%-2% a year while the least developed countries are growing at 4% - 5%?

This would cause the demand for building materials to skyrocket as billions of people can enter the market to purchase lumber, steel, and energy who 10 years ago couldn't.
Looks like NEX stand made a new version, K1 Carbon Fiber, which is lighter than og roost.

However, more expensive than it so depends if shredding those grams is worth it or not
Well, the US could build ten thousand Burj Khalifas and the property tax from that would sustain Medicare for All.
The only interaction i have with wordpress is sleazy small consultancies selling it to clueless mgmt as the magic solution to all their problems. I really have never had a positive impression of wordpress due to this.

I can't even remember all the times I've been suckerpunched with "hey we hired these people to implement <magic wordpress> and its not going so well. They tell us its because our systems are bad and our employees are not doing things right. Can you get with them and see what the <Insert Manager speak for blames you> seems to be....?

ME: The problem is they are some hack shop that "sold you" and bit off more than they could chew and they also don't have a clue about systems integrations.

MGMT: Nope the problem is our employees that have been working here getting "Exceeds expectations" on reviews that are the problem. We have no explanation for why though... So we are hiring McKinsey to come in and do a department evaluation to find out.
Forgejo, a Gitea fork that I use, has support for it according to the page you linked. But the FAQ for Forgejo mentions it's on the roadmap so not sure how complete ActivityPub support is in Forgejo either.

https://forgejo.org/faq/#is-there-a-roadmap-for-forgejo

I only use my Forgejo instance for myself currently so I haven't looked at the ActivityPub features of it before.
Taking legal action to protect the public from abusive AI-generated content
> sheer earned disdain I've seen expressed for health insurance providers recently

"Americans' positive rating of the quality of healthcare in the U.S. is now at its lowest point in Gallup’s trend dating back to 2001," yet still, 71% rate the quality of their own healthcare excellent or good, with 65% saying the same about their coverage [1]. (I'm guessing the quarter to third minority that doesn't have a positive view of their own healthcare or coverage overlaps significantly with the one fifth who view Mangione very or somewhat positively [2].)

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/654044/view-healthcare-quality-...

[2] https://stratpolitics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/UHC-Pol...
As a non American I don't see MAGA policing online or in tech companies, but I see a lot of woke. So while the things you talk about might be local problem to USA, the woke problem is something USA exports to the entire globe, so it seems like woke has much more power than maga and thus is a bigger problem.
It's "political" in quotes. In the sense that there are factions, and they represent mostly evergreen moral and civic ideas either real or fantasy (the religious fanatics, the militaristic autocrats, the death obsessed). Disconnecting them from reality, from the early 21st century political obsessions and framing allows for a much more long lasting approach and, frankly, a lot less preachy.
Ask HN: Would you make every country have a wealth tax like Sweden used to
I know that Sweden abolished it in 2007 because so many companies / individuals left Sweden, however, if there was a button that reinstated it for EVERY country in the world, would you press it and why/why not?
I made ab AI teddy bear that can talk and feel
I made a AI teddy bear that can talk and feel.

I came across my sister old toy a few days ago, inside I found a voice box and 4 buttons on each limb. It's a smart teddy bear, but it's limited by the microcontroller capabilities and all voice scripts are fixed.

Then I had the idea of somehow making it work with a local LLM model on my computer and make it speak through that. And the cherry on top is making the LLM to speak like Ted from Ted.

For the hardware, my first thought was to try to find a way to boot a new firmware on the existing board, but it was too time consuming to make a simple PoC. So I just swapped the core with an ESP32 and use it to communicate with a modified GLaDOS Personality Core version on my computer. You can look that project up as well, I believe it's been featured on Hackaday.

The result is a very fun teddy bear that you can interact with either by holding his hand or by talking to him. I have to warn though, he’s very sassy.
Technically comments are considered blank lines, so indentation can be arbitrary. This is against PEP8/linters, but it's not a formatting error.

Triple quoted docstrings just require that the initial marker (""" or ''') is indented properly (since they are not considered blank lines). All contained text, and the closing marker, can be at any indentation level. This is the cleanest way to include a page of free form documentation, mid anywhere.
Page title: Your Personal AI Financial Coach (of this account creation screen)
SONOS prices a premium for its network features. No one wants a few Chinese wifi device at home, otherwise SONOS would be gone.
One important point (I think) is whether the cause or outcome of the box can be understood or predicted without full emulation of the entire box. Can it be distilled down to a more simple set of rules, or is it a chaotic system that turns into a different system if any part of it is removed?

That is, can you trace unequivocally the reason an LLM produced a certain token without, in effect, recreating the LLM and asking it the same question again?
No one ever said the average person is smart.

It only works because we're in a society of judging people the moment we see them. Mimicking the language of "bad people" will get that association. I don't think we'll ever truly "fix" that.
The app update has been so bad I basically stopped listening to music completely. Decision making opposite of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"... went from truly one of the best app experiences to now the worst.
Dragonfly's extreme loop-the-loops
He can do that if he wants, but it's pointless if he can't land an interview
They were also down a few days ago, but HN flagged my submission as a dupe. :)
Yeah this is me too. I've always thought this is normal. I don't experience any primary symptoms (e.g. sudden bouts of sleep or cataplexy), so it's probably no real cause for concern.
Printing massive amounts of money is what caused the inflation.
but it is ad-hom to say the authors of those comments are "unable to argue logically", "unable to see things from other positions". I didn't say you are unable to post better comments, I'm just annoyed that you didn't.

That you and the parent comment, and the sibling comment, are doing the "pat ourselves on the back for being cleverer than the morons posting here with THEIR stupid ideas and THEY don't even know we're laughing at them! :D :D :D" empty back-patting which can be seen by people on all sides of all kinds of topics. In almost every thread on 4chan, in many Usenet discussions of certain programming languages, on YouTube vaccination videos posted by anti-vax people, in the comments of tabloid news articles on immigrants. Atheists are patting themselves on the back about how they are laughing at all the religious people, and religious people are patting themselves on the back about how they see the truth and the idiots will only learn when they are burning in Hell.

Lament that this type of thing is endemic on the internet, used to be scarce on HN, and now isn't.
well on my side I'm the proud owner of a new ed25519 key.. The status page didn't update quick enough
Thankfully I use Forgejo! No reason to stick with GitHub when Git itself is distributed by nature
> “In the 1950s, you had this mid-century hubris—technology could conquer all,” says Ty Smith, director of the California State Railroad Museum. “Part of the reason this episode happened was this unyielding optimism that we could solve every problem. In the face of a blizzard in the Sierra, that just wasn’t true.”

My takeaway was the opposite. A hundred years before this, a different group was stuck in the same pass, and couldn't get help for 4 months. This situation resolved in 3 days, and there was no cannibalism. When something similar happened to an Amtrak in 2019, it only took a day and a half, and people still had access to Twitter the entire time. Not to diminish the suffering, etc., etc., but it seems like there's cause for optimism when it comes to technological progress.
1. No, this is not the point at all. The actual view that you're referring to is that sometimes people are in fact harmed by verbal behavior and cultural phenomena, that we should recognize that, and when possible and appropriate seek to mitigate it. That doesn't mean punishment or book-banning (ideas which come from those most often associated with being anti-woke) but rather a willingness to examine reality through the eyes of people other than ourselves and above all to be kind.

2. No, that is also not the point at all. The actual view is that there has been, at least within the world once controlled by various European powers since somewhere in the range of 1200-1500, a wilful ignorance and downplaying of the horrors created by the colonialism perpetrated by those European powers.

3. Since you don't elaborate, it's hard to respond to this. But I will note that the recognition that gender and sex are not the same thing goes back many decades, if not centuries; that gender roles and sexuality have not been even remotely close to fixed across the time and space in which human civilization has existed; that the response from people who declaim the "woke" approach is so often summarizable as "I don't like it and other people should lead more miserable lives because I think so".
> Of course this isn't always going to be great. Debugging this code is probably going to suck, and even with the best engineering it'll likely accelerate big balls of mud. But it's going to enable a lot of code to get written by a lot more people and it's super exciting.

This is quite literally what junior engineers are.

I've worked at many places filled to the brim with junior engineers. They weren't enjoyable places to work. Those businesses did not succeed. They sure did produce a lot of code though.
'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms
Fountain sodas are a crap shoot. Maybe the syrup bag is running low, maybe the carbonation source is about to fail, maybe someone switched around the diet coke and cherry coke lines and didn't switch the syrup:carbonated water ratios. Maybe the water line is too warm (which can also throw off ratios), or maybe a shifty manager adjusted the ratios to steal from the customers / company. Or maybe your ice just melted =)

Plus the whole smell == taste thing to account for. Maybe drinking from a straw obscured the smells you can get versus an opened can.
> The complaints about, say, LatinX have far surpassed the number of actual proponents of it, which were a small number of people of the left.

It was not just a small group of people. Almost all progressive Democratic politicians started working that word into all their speeches to virtue signal and most centrists also fell in line too. CEOs started saying it in company meetings and we were subjected to HR trainings that noted we should say LatinX to be inclusive of trans people, among many other performative rules.
Please make the corner/base cases more prominent. For instance, the question obviously arises: can we have this:

def function(x) do
end

without writing "pass"?
Where are you getting these numbers from? Do you have stats to back them up? When I worked as an app developer we would only support back 2 or 3 versions, and that was 5 years ago. Anecdotally I have not noticed a shift to only supporting more recent OSes.
Show HN: IR_evaluation – Information retrieval evaluation metrics in pure Python
I created this library for personal use and also to solidify my knowledge of information retrieval evaluation metrics. I felt that many other libraries out there are overly complex and hard to understand.

These metrics are useful in many different domains such as search engines, recommender systems, and RAG with LLMs.

This implementation has easy to follow source code and unit tests. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions, thanks for checking it out!
Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption sets data-destruct timer for 7 days
>But the more expensive devices don't support airplay, which seems like an odd choice.

i'm not sure what device you're looking at, but i've got a wiim pro plus and it definitely supports airplay - i was just using it yesterday.
Do you have figures?
>As far as I know every EU business has to have an eu citizen representative.

Not at all true, infact it's becoming the exception rather than the rule, look at;
Estonia,
Ireland,
Netherlands,
Cyprus,
Bulgaria,
Hungary.

Even in Germany I think it's beginning to become possible.

>Additionally, a company owned property can't just be used privately.

Um yes, the company rents it out?
Right, but the problem is that consequences for a cop shooting a black person for dating a white girl don't seem to be the same as the consequences for homicide.
The led screen is disappointing
No need to, just Meta. This is Meta's fault
What text editor do you use?
like house prices falling to affordable levels?
Same reason gold increases in $ value just by existing or people passively invest in S&P500. New money is created and it has to settle somewhere. There's plenty of cheap land or land that barely moves in value, but the desirable spots in cities are limited, so that's a natural place to invest.
been using SONOS for 6 years, never feel their app is best, imho v2 app is ok. you don't have to use app in many cases.
US Charges 3 Russians for Operating Cryptocurrency Mixers Used by Cybercriminals
Agreed, I wonder what their downtime percentage is. If guess it's down on the order of one hour per month, so 1/1000.

Update: They promise >99.9% on a quarterly basis for enterprise customers - https://github.com/github/docs/blob/main/content%2Fsite-poli...
> If there's only 10 cents worth of sugar in a 2L bottle of coke, switching to sugar is unlikely to change the consumers buying habits.

It matters enough that it determines where things get manufactured though.

> There are two prices for sugar: the price you pay in the U.S., and the price you pay almost everywhere else in the world.

> The price in the U.S. is about 15 cents a pound higher than the price in the rest of the world. That costs Spangler Candy an additional $3 million a year.

> The higher U.S. sugar price is spelled out in U.S. law. You can find it right here, in the latest version of the farm bill, which says the U.S. government shall guarantee a minimum price for sugar that is not to drop below 22.9 cents per pound.

> Because of the higher price here, lots of candies that used to be made in the U.S. — Life Savers, candy canes — are now made overseas.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/04/26/179087542/the-...
Even the second edition is over twenty years old. I don't think there's any reason not to read the second edition.
I actually don't care whether it's centralised or decentralised, or who's managing it.

But you are right that I want reliable and easy-to-use services. And centralisation is often one way to go there.

As an interesting counterpoint: Git itself is decentralised and replaced centralised services like Subversion. And that made git easier to use, especially easier to get started with: no need for a server, no need to be online, just do `git init` in any old directory.

A GitHub-clone could be more decentralised, but they'd need to use that decentralisation to drive those other features that people actually care about day to day.
Moral progress is also a matter of opinion. And that is one reason why it’s annoying.

I am interested in moral progress as a person or community’s growing ability to behave responsibly. But what most people seem to focus on is the colonization of a social order by a different social order. That’s not true moral progress— that’s domination.

I roll my eyes not just because I am reacting to a challenge to a norm, but because my norms are as reasonable as anyone else’s. My norms are not second class norms.

Every kind of norm is a compromise among competing values. When you challenge any norm you are attempting to cut a Gordian knot— which is cheating. And Alexander got away with it because he held the sword and the Gordians did not.
Why does GitHub go down almost once a month?
This resource is not as profound compared to the other 2, unfortunately.
That was one of my initial fears with Shadow Empire, but it somehow doesn't manage to devolve to only that... I guess because there's a variety of brakes applied on trading like trading houses' limited stocks (including in credits), the way how price discovery is gradual between trading regions and not instant cross-planet, and the way they rip off the major factions by taking large trading margins ?
I recommend using systemd-cgls to get a better idea of what's going on.
One problem is that the calculated or measured land value will recursively affect the value of the land.
I need to get a copy of the database asap just for my data archiving neurosis lol. The amount of vitriolic comments here from entitled "service" members is astounding and makea me wish to safeguard it personally. I mean we have people in the comments calling people "extremist" and bringing up founding fathers bullshit ....

Only jarheads seem to think the parental tone of "you don't know what freedom is" actually works.... Maybe because they have been thru boot camp idk.
Forgejo (Gitea fork) has been working for multiple years to add support for this. It will still take a lot of effort to finish, I doubt we will see anything usable this year.

Originally the plan was to PR the federation support to Gitea as well. I'm not sure if this is still the case, considering the rising tensions between the two projects and the fact that Forgejo is now a hard fork.
I very strongly disagree. The most successful implementation of literate programming is the Jupyter Notebook, formerly called iPython Notebook. Even when you write it as raw markdown, there's no issue mixing documentation with triple-backtick code blocks.

Maybe you're thinking of mixing Python with HTML? Python based HTML templating can be ugly, and the significant indentation of Python is a very poor mix for replacing Javascript in whitespace-agnostic HTML.
> believed that cargo they were forced to create for their oppressors

I'm not sure that was in the article was it?
These were exotic goods brought from overseas.

I'm not trying to say there was no oppression, but the examples in which they believed the trade goods should belong to them were still about trade goods which arrived by boat.

"[The leader proclaimed] that the ancestors were coming back in the persons of the white people in the country and that all the things introduced by the white people and the ships that brought them belonged really to their ancestors and themselves."

(edit - certainly these goods may well have been produced through the oppression of other peoples elsewhere!)
So you think producers are putting corn syrup in food just for kicks?
Sick of AI Agent Frameworks
i've been using loads of ai agent frameworks (crewai, langgraph, autogen) and i just don't get why they are so popular. i can literally do everything what they offer spending a few hours with cursor, and better. if i want easy agents i want a platform at a higher abstraction layer where agents are literally ai generated for me and offer robust scalable methods around it like agent workflows, not frameworks that i can generate the code for with my ai. i've been looking at two agent platforms phidata (although still requires quite some coding and workarounds) and omega . ai (more do it for you kind of platform). both pretty impressive and getting some serious agents up, now have a marketing agent doing my daily blogs, social media posts and twitter replies. what are some other non-framework ai agent platforms you use? looking to try out more