skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, I'm not stupid, but you're pathologically paranoid.

I'm not paranoid, I want the world to be a better place. Banks and governments are the cause of the global financial crisis/recession. Lots of families and people's future were destroyed by them.

The US is 4.3% of the total world population, there are other 6 and a half billion people in the world.

Most of the other 6 and a half billion are completely unbanked, they never had access to a bank account. Bitcoin can help those people.

> Something that solves a problem for <1% of the global population and some niche cases is of virtually no utility.

I don't know how you can say that. You must be blind.
Ending the debate on inline functions in React
Right, I knew it started to phase out (over 6 quarters) after the 200,000th US delivery. My question was more if this proposed legislation could terminate the EV credit entirely, or it would prevent new automakers from taking advantage of it.
I met Chad when I lived in Pittsburgh and we had great times regularly hacking on Gratipay in a coffee shop. Chad would teach regulars how to code by making them do small pull requests on the project. Even when Patreon swooped up the market he had a profound sense of why the project still mattered -- Gratipay was open source, took no fees, and was funded entirely on its own platform. Chad you are a badass, cheers man!
> For one, Tesla superchargers in NorCal and SoCal are insanely busy, with lines and valets during busy hours, so the usage is definitely there. Head over to TeslaMotorsClub forums or Facebook group for owners to witness the mini-dramas playing out regarding hogged supercharger spots.

Oddly enough, two years ago, Hacker News insisted that I was an idiot for driving an ICE hybrid, because of how long it takes to stop for gas.
What's the biggest specific subsidy of oil or gas right now that you know about?
Ah right. I think in Europe most people just buy the iPhone standalone from an Apple store without going through their carrier and put their own SIM in.
I use a lot of custom Serializers (not tied to any Model), and lots of SerializerMethodFields to selectively override generated ModelSerializer fields; this can get you quite far.

I agree with your point that the further afield you go, the less you gain from the framework, though.
Developer of The Banner Saga when asked if the second game would be on GOG.

> sadly once we released DRM Free for The Banner Saga we saw our game get pirated like wildfire. Which is something we're keen to avoid as much possible. We haven't given it much thought at this point to be honest when it comes to GoG.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/281640/discussions/0/39218452...
It's a maze of generic crap that no one wants to wade through?
I have a lot to say on this...

> Critics say electric vehicle buyers tend to be wealthier than average Americans and do nod need subsidies.

I love how this gets buried at the bottom after an avalanche of criticism. A free $7500 for the rich and an additional $7500 in revenue for manufacturers. Say what you want about the American political system, it is a master class in manipulation.

"But the environment!"

Assuming someone who buys a $100,000 car is unwilling to spending $107,500 for the same vehicle. Yes the environment would suffer, that is also assuming electric cars (in their current state) are less impactful than fossil fuel vehicles (which isn't the case). In fact, used internal combustion cars should be given a subsidy if you care about the environment.

"But the poor can't afford these cars without it!"

The poor can't afford it with it. How many bolts do you see driving around? I've lived in Asheville NC, Nashville TN, and Portland OR. I've seen 3 bolts total and hundreds of $100k Teslas driving around.

If you're poor, you probably live in an apartment without an electric car charging station. You probably can't afford a new car so you buy used which is exclusively internal combustion. So how does this tax credit affect you at all?

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I'm intensely fascinated by conversations and how they are framed to manipulate opinion. Depending on your political slant, you could have easily framed this as "tax breaks for the wealthy" or "an attack on green energy" or "supporting domestic manufacturers" or "hurting domestic manufacturers".

It's all bullshit and I can't stand it anymore...
Why? There is no evidence for that, is there? Also, look at the great cathedrals of the middle ages - people built them during several lifetimes and at huge expense, and the only "practical" purpose was to have a space for religious services. That and maybe the hope for eternal life after death etc...
> What's the biggest specific subsidy of oil or gas right now that you know about?

The lack of a carbon cap. And also the fact that large ships and buildings are allowed to burn oil sludge without particulate filters.
Save all the most meaningful data local. Route interest packets to communicate messages. Like the Endless Computer. Transport data over anything that moves. Checksum validate signed data. Trust. Named Data Networking.
Estate taxes aren't really there for you and I, the common man. I think most estate taxes are marginal anyways (you pay lower taxes on the first X thousand dollars, etc.).

They exist to prevent the ultra rich and powerful from vacuuming up all the wealth. Daddy makes billions, gives it all to his children who go and buy more companies, make more billions, and after two or three generations, the entire country is owned by like 3 families. It exists to prevent Rothschild from ever happening again. You can't have a functional democracy when everything is run by a handful of people.
The Pyramids were originally cased in a layer of white limestone. Almost all of that is gone, since, if I recall, they were small enough that they could be carted away, unlike the granite that remains.

Monumental buildings almost always end up being wholesale building supply once they aren't revered and maintained.
It's not clear that oil revenues actually improve stability in the Mideast. A considerable proportion of the revenue is quite literally diverted into forces intended to cause states to fail or stagnate.
Plus they'll be able to increase the fees by x% little by little...judging competition
Using 20 cas to update 20 ints it is probably not the best idea. There are significantly more than two approaches (seqlocks, RCU, persistent data structures, etc). Which one works best depends on the actual use case.
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> Lock free algorithms are generally better when the odds of contention are high, as you can devise algorithms that allow all threads to make progress at the same time. In general, this allows more parallelism, but the cost is that it typically requires more overall atomic operations.

I can't say I agree here. It really depends on the cost of the swap operation required to make this work. Consider a lock-free map for example. Under high contention, I'd prefer to wait for a lock than copy the map while spinning on an atomic. What would push the needle for me one way or another (with respect to locking vs lockless) is a blend between the probability of contention, the cost of the loop itself, and the cost of the swap.
Is there a way to add a delay to let JS render?
China and India definitely can pay for a ton of oil.
These subsidies were almost on the way out for GM & Tesla anyway.

The qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicle credit phases out for a manufacturer’s vehicles over the one-year period beginning with the second calendar quarter after the calendar quarter in which at least 200,000 qualifying vehicles manufactured by that manufacturer have been sold for use in the United States (determined on a cumulative basis for sales after December 31, 2009)

There is a chart here [1] which shows GM and Tesla hitting the 200k sold mark in about 3 months. Sucks to be Faraday Future, but first-to-market is real.

[0]: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/plug-in-electric-vehicle-cred...

[1]: https://www.pluglesspower.com/learn/forecasting-the-sunset-o...
Personally and cordially getting in touch with reporters with a difficult to refute fact sheet helps. Being cordial is super important.
>> HERE WeGo for maps (free)

> i'm not sure that's any better in terms of privacy

Yeah, I would recommend at least checking out OpenStreetMap and any tools that derive their routing and tiles from it first. Of course its usability varies by country (and even by locality!), but that's no different from Google Maps or Apple Maps.

At least with OpenStreetMap I know that my contributions benefit people in general (due to the free software licensing) and not mainly (the shareholders of) Google or Apple.
Maybe it's not just about cost, but about driving a vehicle that doesn't directly contribute to diffused emissions? And use motor oil, hydraulic fluid, coolant, belts, etc?
Works for me with Safari Technology Preview 43 (Safari 11.1, WebKit 13605.1.12), High Sierra 10.13.2b1 (17C60c).
Yeah, it seems like the real problem here is that employees are required to have an excuse to take a short unscheduled break from work.

That a society decided that "I need a cigarette" is a valid excuse for this is secondary.
But they're elementary bugs you could have just fixed for yourself. You clearly were trying to do something and the mistakes that were made were easily spotted, I'm confused as to why you just didn't do it at the very least for yourself?

>That's obviously not happening with his attitude.

Seems he's making a lot of things happen with his attitude as evidenced by the thread that was linked.
it's because video ads pay better
US gas subsidy, clean coal research subsidies, tax credits for oil transportation / refinement. Totalled together its in the 10s of billions range
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A paper copy never survives an accidental home fire.
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I'm generally in favour of allowing the market to do its work. That said, in the case of emissions, it is too expensive to attribute and process torts, so the true cost of emissions is rarely ever passed on to even very large polluters who have damaged a lot of property. This is why the original mandate of the EPA is so legitimate.

I'm with you on the subsidies though.
Yes. See the paper I linked to. I work on a parallel and distributed dataflow system called IBM Streams. When we have thousands of our operators running on a large system, it is realistic for there to be 100s of threads.
How does the standard deduction going up benefit the rich or harm the non-rich? Aren't lower- and middle-class people most likely to take the standard deduction, and thus be able to deduct more?
Low performers (and especially the bottom 2%) can often provide negative value to the company. It's quite possible there is no net additional work to distribute, or if there was, that they had additional capacity in the rest of the workforce for the same tasks.

They may not need to be replaced. If they do, we can safely presume they determined those resources (cost / time) involved in doing so were less than what it takes to replace them.

It may not negatively impact their production rate. They may be able to improve their production rate by spending that money in a more targeted way now.
Wow this looks really cool.
The videos that I speak of are ones that have replaced basic informational articles -- information that might only take a few paragraphs to disseminate, and which allow the reader to quickly glean the content. When given as video, they impose a time and data penalty just for the viewer to either get the nugget of information or to realize there's nothing of value for them. +Edit autocorrect
I'm with you. That seems to be the the reality of politics, it's persuasion wars where it's really hard to get ahold of the facts, and even with the facts it's hard to tell what the better option is.
The Last of the Old-School Tech Reviewers
Oh...the trillions we've spent on warfare in the Middle East comes to mind...
Working on Safari 11.0.1 / macOS 10.12.6. Maybe 10.13-specific?
Probably not the time yet to write about the proposal as if it is sure to happen/stay the same.
There's no Pythonic analog in JavaScript and there are still many useful libraries and applications. There's the entirely orthogonal MINSWAN in Ruby and yet there's Rails. On the numeric side, there's Boost in Cpp and BLAS in Fortran. And NumPy is useful because of the development using C where Pythonic is irrelevant.
How Gravatar hurts your visitors
It uses a combination of everything to extract information incl. custom parsers. The data returned to the user is always in schema.org.
Considering the extremely toxic work/life balance most large Japanese companies pressure their employees to conform to and the compounded health effects of stress(i.e lack of time off) and smoking, I find this perplexing.
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Yes, I do begrudge the dickens out of people who insist that being able to deduct oil exploration costs is an unfair "subsidy" to oil and whose removal would instantly turbocharge renewables by itself.

Letting companies deduct expenses like everyone else is not a subsidy.

It's like it's become part of the common mythos, that US oil companies get massive cash subsidies that are the sole reason they're not beaten by renewables, but the moment you apply any scrutiny it falls apart.

(Environmental concerns are legit, but the lack of better regulation is a non-standard usage of "subsidy" and people go further to claim that tax-deductions-everyone-gets are subsidies.)
If I run a paint factory and all my competitors have to pay to to have their toxic waste hauled away and properly disposed of, but the taxpayer foots the bill for disposing my waste, that sounds like a subsidy to me.

Does it cease to be a subsidy if I'm dumping the waste in a river and the government is hauling it away from there, rather than collecting it at the factory gate?

Seems to me anyone who's opposed to government subsidies would also be opposed to profiting from negative externalities.
Productivity generates consumer surplus.

"A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation."

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...
> "They simply don't have the resources to write and maintain (at least) three desktop apps."

I feel Signal should have implemted the core messaging components as a non-gui program or library or plugin to another Messaging app (e.g. Pidgin). Then if they want their own app, they could have used a lightweight cross platform window toolkit (e.g. WxWidgets or Qt).
> So what we need are more restrictions and regulations.

Like what?
The top marginal rate is the same, but because they're moving the brackets you can make twice as much money before you pay 39%(for a married couple)
Of course things get framed to manipulate opinion.

Now, I actually don't mean this with any snark, but how is what you're doing any different? This tax credit applies to plenty of vehicles sold for much less than $100,000.
According to the article it was illegal to purchase the ‘legal’ clones for personal use. They were for business use only and cost the equivalent of over a year’s salary.

These illegal clones were ‘only’ 5-6 months salary, mostly built from ‘faulty’ parts smuggled from the factories.
Would any of this apply?

https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html
>that is also assuming electric cars (in their current state) are less impactful than fossil fuel vehicles (which isn't the case)

Is that true? Got a reference?

The problem is that external costs like pollution are not being priced into the cost of ICE vehicles by, say, a pollution tax. This limited subsidy is a backhanded way of doing that.

I don't see the issue with rich people benefiting from it, because it's exactly those rich people buying 100K Teslas that are paying for the cost of driving research into better battery technology and cheaper cars so everyone benefits from cleaner air and reduced global warming.
>A considerable proportion of the revenue is quite literally diverted into forces intended to cause states to fail or stagnate.

Yeah you're gonna need a credible source on that claim.
Do you plan on passing 5.49 million at time of death?

Why not move that money around while still alive?
I have a friend whose family owns an apartment next to the Eiffel tower. Apparently, her ancestors got it for cheap because people were afraid the tower would fall down and nobody wanted to live next to it...
Also it is a tax credit.. meaning you only get the $7,500 if you actually owe at least $7,5000.. AFTER the standard deduction. Basically, anyone with under ~$100k annual income would not even receive the whole credit, if any at all.
Yep. I am pretty left leaning on environmental and economic issues. But the tax credit from the start was a redistribution of wealth upwards. A side effect being that more hybrid cars were bought.
Thanks, but I'm OK with it.

As far as I know my sending money to my friend is not illegal under US law, but it is illegal for my friend to use it. That's what I meant by "evading state control" - those of Venezuela, not the US. I'm not terribly concerned about the Venezuelans coming for me :)
Yea, I'd be far happier scrapping this and putting an even bigger credit given some requirements. As a fake example: %10 discount on electric cars @45k. %15 discount for electric cars at 25-45k. 25% discount for cars below 25k.

Way too much I'm sure, but that's besides the point. The lowest tier there is one of the most important imo. Because you're absolutely right, buying used combustion cars is what credits like this should be targeting, imo. Conceptually at least, I clearly know nothing of what I talk about.
My fuel is already taxed - I pay about $0.59 tax per gallon in Virginia.
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To start a container Docker does a lot of expensive setup like preparing network stack, volumes, logging etc. One can trivially see how expensive is that just by timing the command line and dropping expensive Docker options. On my laptop:

$ time docker run --rm ubuntu true

real	0m0.641s
user	0m0.036s
sys	0m0.018s

$ time docker run --rm --net none --log-driver none --read-only ubuntu true

real	0m0.399s
user	0m0.039s
sys	0m0.018s

Compare that with the unshare utility that one can use as a Docker replacement for simple containers (options create all new namespaces that the utility supports including user namespaces):

$ time unshare -m -u -i -n -p -U -C -f -r /bin/true

real	0m0.029s
user	0m0.001s
sys	0m0.009s
So for something to have an evolutionary effect (whether positive or negative), it must affect mating rates? I'm trying to clarify what the definition is here, because I seemed to have made a habit of rationalizing every aspect of human behavior with an evolutionary explanation (is this a known fallacy, btw?). E.g., feeling sad is evolutionarily useful because it teaches you to avoid things that cause you to be sad, and encourages you to seek out behavior to dispel the sadness, e.g. socializing, which seems evolutionary useful. You can do this with pretty much any emotion. Is that the wrong way to look at it?
It's pretty interesting when companies implode in a way that's clearly visible on a graph.

The Digg traffic stats look similar in summer of 2010 after their controversial redesign where you can clearly see their users leaving for reddit: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2005-06-01%202...
> On one hand, I can see how being more valuable makes it more likely to be supported by retailers / banks / etc

I doubt it. If anything it's being more stable that will make it more attractive to use in commerce.
Nice! I should try to focus on my breath at least for some of my meditation. I forgot about that style. I've been meditating on my own for too long probably.

There's another thing that I do that I found supportive, but perhaps again this is deviating from meditation. I count my breaths to keep track of how many minutes for each meditation that I do and I associate each number that I count with a feeling, memory, or emotion that I want to affirm in my life. It's kind of the opposite of mind-wandering, more like planting or reminding yourself of good thoughts. For example, #9 I think about what it feels like to be grateful even for a seemingly difficult circumstance, it's never going to be quite like this again and what unique aspects of it are actually good.

thanks for sharing!
The majority of the EV market is high-end, luxury vehicles.

There is a 200k cap on the credit. Meaning mass market EVs do not receive the credit. It exclusively benefits low volume, high margin EVs. Which are exclusively marketed to the rich.
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Experience with a Reseller
I know some will say it was a bad idea to begin with. I actually had inherited a client who was on a reseller account, a company called WebMazda, a GoDaddy reseller service, which offered Shared Hosting, unlimited.

She runs a fairly popular website, mostly locals and tourists in the area looking for a fun activity. I figured she'd be alright, as she had been for almost 2 years.

While I was on vacation, the site went down. I called the company and they said they had to remove it due to high resource usage. They warned us in an email about it. Maybe a week earlier, saying that her website was overutilizing resources, which she missed, as her inbox gets full from customers, so I did not know, either. One email. That was it.

After the date they gave her to fix the issue, they deleted her database. They had made some backup, but it was corrupt. I had to import bits and pieces of it just to get it into the website later on, but it was tedious. They did this during the Halloween weekend, a very busy time for her, so she lost out on thousands of dollars.

I had told them they likely lost a client but it did not seem to phase them. Nothing they could do in helping us get back to a functioning business. She called them, offered them whatever it was to restore her website, and they refused. After that, I knew it was time to move on: We outgrew that reseller account.

I'm not saying we weren't wrong.. obviously her website grew in popularity and was consuming more resources, but the way they went about it was just indecent, inconsiderate, and shameless. A woman whose livelihood depends on this website was deleted just like that.

I wish they would have just disabled the website and told us they couldn't re-activate it until we were able to consume less resources, but instead they deleted the database.

Anyways, it was a learned lesson for me: Don't host busy clients on Shared Hosting, especially Reseller companies. Just thought I'd share my story.
Reader readies Radar regarding Reader regression.

(Please don't continue this. I just had to get it out of my system.)