skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Extremely progressive taxation isn't effective.

It pretty clearly is, which is why each downward shift of the nominal tax burden in the US (stretching back to the income to payroll tax burden shift under Reagan) has had noticeable effects on accelerating inequality.

> The very rich have ways of hiding or deferring income.

Mostly, as a direct result of tax policy directly designed to frustrate tax progressivity, most notably giving preferentially low tax rates to kinds of income mostly earned by the rich (long term capital gains are a big example), and loading up extra taxes (on top of normal income taxes) on labor income.

Making taxes more progressive is less about increasing progressivity in nominal rates as it is about addressing those issues (though making the nominal rates more progressive may also be part of it.)
I'd be down. I would be curious of how the governance would work for a situation like city-funding(?). Would funders get some special say, or are they simply along for the ride?

What if a corporation started a city instead of a billionaire? "Hello, welcome to Amazon!"
$5 million would be roughly 100 years. :)
Its straight up webaudioapi making use of the fluid soundfont - see credits at bottom of website. I have not used tone.js though I have come across it.
That's true. That's why in my most recent dispute with insurance in Washington state, I filed a complaint to Washington State Insurance Commission. The Commission sent then a formal request to the insurance company in question, which suddenly made the insurance company much more eager to pay me what I think they owed me.

Of course, just as you mentioned above, responding to complaints is distracting and expensive, which is why all insurance companies folded up the business up here, and there's no more insurance to be bought in Washington.

(I'm kidding of course, insurance companies work here just fine.)
the whole metal fitting (no clue how to call it correctly in english, this was my best guess) is standardized just like the article suggests.

millions of manufacturers over the world, all doing their own designs, but you can screw most cabinet door hinges with the same holes in the wood just fine.

or vesa mounts. etc. lots of industries already saw how good it is.

now, others profit from the lie that this is impossible. like sony using its monopoly on some markets to try to push silly things like minidisc, memorystick, etc. or Dyson making vacuum attachments that aren't interchangeable with even their own equivalent models. Which make them filty rich since a fool is born every minute, unfortunately.
I wonder if all these sour grapes about cars will simmer down if a generation comes along that can more easily afford them again.

The area I live in is pretty dense (a mixed commercial-suburbanish area in the most densely-populated state) and also very car-enabled, and it works out fine. The stores I go to are within minutes of driving for me, and work is 10-15 minutes away. I don't know the official term for such a thing, but near my apartment is what's like a micro-city that you can easily walk/bike around while car use isn't very hampered. The major grocery store's plaza gets a large parking lot and otherwise there are street parking areas. In the other direction are major high-traffic roads that connect to interstates. There are also major businesses around here with tech jobs, and they use large complexes with their own large parking lots. There's a lot I don't like about New Jersey but this kind of mixed area seems to work out really well and makes me question the necessity of block-style cities where it's just depressing concrete towers in a grid as far as the eye can see.

Maybe there are more solutions that just take some imagination to support both cars and others in increasingly-dense areas. More car bridges, extra lanes by replacing some sidewalks with sky bridges, underground tunnels, parking lots on the roofs, more reversible lanes, allow motorcycles to use shoulders. Just brainstorming here but I don't like the idea of throwing out the baby with the bathwater with cars - nothing else provides the same freedom to spontaneously go wherever you want on your own terms instead of being beholden to transit schedules or only being able to go as far as you can walk or bike.
Great point. I work in the pharmacy space and most of the cost is meeting regulations. Other than for the most common medications there are regulations for most all drugs. Add to that the complexity of drug delivery (some medications need to be cold, have tight expiration dates etc.,) its very hard to push down the prices like they have done in other areas.

I would love for Amazon to come in and transform this space. There are lot of improvements to be made but all the well established players know those improvements but unless the regulations catch up its hard to innovate.

One thing Amazon might be able to do is to take a hit to their bottom line by essentially selling drugs at a loss and wait it out till they drive everyone out of the market and increase prices. But no one cares when the price of a book/toy increases by x%. Everyone cares when the price of a drug increases by the same amount. (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/mylan-hit-with-racketeering-...)
What are the benefits over a prepaid credit card?
My favorite is the Spanish city of Girona (couple of hours north of Barcelona by train). You can walk clear across the city in a half hour, but the buildings are typically 3-7 stories tall.
Finland vs Sweden is the ideal example:

https://i.imgur.com/dooDKYT.jpg

If Finland had controlled their own currency, they could have made adjustments based on their unique circumstances. Instead they were left to suffer through a miserable near decade long rolling recession.
I was super confused too. Thanks for sorting it!
To be fair, it is very easy to remove those adds.
The author of the plugin works at JetBrains and works on it on his day job.
Is the bitstream actually frozen now?
There was a weird "AV1 is there" message recently and then some comments saying, "but not really, bitstream is still not frozen". I saw several claims of bitstream freeze, but never sourced by any official statement.

As someone who's not deep into AV1, but watching interested from outside, I can say that communication is not ideal.
I was really surprised to see this was getting so much attention when the amount of money he made was only $75,000.
I would imagine part of the difference is explained by the fact that if you move within the US you'll still encounter the same language and similar culture. If you move from one EU country to another, odds are you'll encounter a different language and culture, so moving intra-EU is a much more difficult proposition.
A review of net-zero emissions energy systems
Montana VC investment per capita goes from $3 to $79 in 2 years
It shows a willful stubbornness that is incredibly difficult to work with. Obviously I'm not asking you the question because I'm a masochist -- I'm asking it because I'm trying to glean something about your abilities. The fact that the author would rather flaunt their ego as a "real developer" than suspend disbelief for a few minutes marks them as unnecessarily argumentative in my mind.
Gentoo's GitHub repository seems hacked
For a driver, you have many contexts you're running. That's what the windows error "IRQL not less than or equal" blue screen means, that someone called a regular kernel function from within interrupt context. In drivers, you almost always heap allocate in your non interrupt contexts in order to dynamically handle load. This would be even more necessary in a unikernel, where you don't have a user space to defer that kind of work to.

What I'm saying is that the necessary heap allocations happening in other contexts will block progress of your non allocating critical path, irq code on a GC based unikernel because of the need to discover liveness information. There are potential schemes to fix this, but they aren't implemented by MirageOS/OCaml, or most other managed unikernel environments I've seen.
ProtonMail confirm ~500Gbps DDOS attack with possible Russian connection
>I don't think the problem is with ML. You could easily train a net to make boulder selections with an appropriate data set.

Ehhh... mathematically, most ML methods basically assume that the underlying data and label manifolds should be smooth (in the real analysis sense). Sharply peaked output distributions, small mountains of "loved it!" surrounded by valleys of "ugh", are hard to work with for many models, compared to a wavy surface between "ok" and "ok, I guess".
Reporting hierarchy is there for a good reason. If you report to multiple people, you're the one that's going to have a bad time when they're not aligned with each other, each trying to give you a different list of priorities.
Not OP, but what do you mean by benefits? Like options / bonuses?
If a competitor like that existed, there’d be no incentive to use them. Car dealers, banks, employers don’t care about your security, they care about your credit worthiness.
Thanks! YC published an interview with me yesterday.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/henrique-dubugras-and-anu-harih...

Let me know your thoughts on it :)
The plugin already has paid features in the sense that the debugging support only works in CLion. That seems like a likely future path to me.
> Or, just let people build what they want.

Uh, no. I wouldn't want something seedy or some industrial manufacturing plant next to my kid's school. There is a purpose behind codes and zoning that is good. It's just as you mentioned when they are used to push an agenda that hurts everyone.
Llogiq on stuff – A Self-ish Bug
The desktop computer will likely be a lot more responsive, let you do a lot more, have a higher resolution and screen size, let you have more tabs running at once, etc. Using nothing but a smartphone for all my home computer usage would be a major setback.
Maybe because some subset of the audience on HN seems to have a habit of downvoting facts they don't like, or data points that counter their narratives.

I can't count the number of times I've posted factual, verifiable information — with sources — and been downvoted (or, often enough, downvoted, then voted back up, then down again, and so on) for my troubles, or the number of times I've seen such comments from others treated the same.

The most plausible explanation I can come up with is, "Your facts dispute my narrative, and we can't have that!"

EDIT: I'm not saying that's what's happening here, and I'm certainly not saying there's brigading or shilling going on (indeed, I think it's purely individual action), but this is a clear pattern, which I've reliably observed happening for years.

It doesn't even have to be on a controversial topic; I once linked to an explanation of a nuance of copyright law, of which the other participants in the thread were demonstrably ignorant. The extent of the response? Downvotes.
As I said, Italy is already in the EU. Why would the small territories of Italy be "feuding" if they were all part of the EU? And I'm not sure that the administration would be much more redundant than it is now.

On the other hand, you seem to be taking in account only the economic aspects of a unification. Yes, a unification process with poorer countries would be expensive, but maybe that's not the major issue with it. The issue I'm more worried about is that in a democracy the prevalent culture shapes the administration and, of course, the society. Unifying the US with, say, Venezuela, doesn't mean turning 31 million Venezuelans into Americans; it means making the US 10% more like Venezuela. It changes the identity of the country, and you might like the current identity better than the new one.
I don't think that is what OP was saying at all.
> House prices aren’t included anymore in CPI. Imputed rents are

CPI calculates something called "owners’ equivalent rent of residences" [1]. This is reasonable as nobody purchases a new house every year; instead, one "uses" a portion of the home value over time. When house prices go up, this measure goes up by a similar measure.

Housing was put into CPI in 1954, when it was included as a user-cost item. It was replaced in the early 1980s because user-cost methods include "ex ante expected gain" while usage pricing "includes actual ex post realized capital gains on the house" [1].

> If you used the same calculation the Fed used in the 80s to measure inflation we’d currently be at 10%

Well, yes. You'd be excluding everything invented since 1980, e.g. all modern technology. We don't spend the same fraction of our budget on hams and eggs, as the 1980 definition measured, and most people have health insurance costs now.

If someone insists on living like it's 1980, I suppose observing the old metric would be perfectly valid.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/pdf/homch17.pdf page 104

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/1980/06/1980b_b... page 558
1 - makes sense... thanks for the feedback

2 - integrating stripe as a datasource for underwriting is definetly in our roadmap!
Ultimate fake data generator for Go
Oh glad that worked out!
1) Yes.

2) Yes.

Was that supposed to be hard?
If there is any coating on the screen, glass cleaner can make things worse. I did it to my old plasma display and introduced weird oily/rainbow smearing visible when off or extreme angles.

Never had any issue with laptop displays, glossy or matte though.
No, it's more like the people who create the garbage and the people who should do the cleaning are not the same, and when you clean a part of the house, somebody will come over and immediately throw garbage on it.
Was there a reason to be pedantic here? If you look at [1] then the US population has grown exponentially, and we are in the higher slope portion of the curve. But if you zoom into 1920-{current} you can form a linear curve.

Anyway, city planners are not looking at aggregate population statistics and making their decisions based off those. Usually, cities grow due to migration of new people. As more people enter the city, city governments decide what infrastructure to add in order to sustain population growth. For many years, the consensus was simply to add more roads. Studies eventually revealed the phenomenon of Induced Demand [2] which caused more roads to be consumed after creation of the roads. This and the realization that roads filled with single-occupancy vehicles don't scale well has led to a more "modern" consensus that transit makes sense once cities become big enough. For a long time, people thought that building more roads was the way to make a city more accessible.

[1]: https://www.census-charts.com/Population/pop-us-1790-2000.ht...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
From the article:

Crypto coins with market cap > $50M

- Scams: 81%

- Failed: 6%

- Gone dead: 5%

- Dwindling: 2.8%

- Promising: 1.8%

- Successful: 3.8%

There's a tracking site for dead coins: https://deadcoins.com
When you are managing people that manage other people, so not everyone _direct_ly reports to you.
> Source?

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-counterfeits-no-starch...

Shipped and sold by Amazon.com means that the product is shipped and sold by Amazon Retail (via Vendor Central or Vendor Express) directly. Basically, the manufacturer sends product to Amazon.com at a set price through a traditional PO process. This inventory is commingled with all other FBA inventory.

...

Richard added, "[T]he consumer always thinks the chain is: Manufacturer » Amazon » Me. But the reality is that is pretty much never guaranteed. The only way that's guaranteed is if you find the manufacturer's listing on Amazon.com and buy via [F]ulfilled by Amazon directly from them, AND they happen to choose to opt out of commingled inventory. In every other scenario there's a chance that you get inventory that didn't come from the manufacturer."
It's still a hashmap. The idea is to essentially use a separate array for the values and only map hashes to indices into that array. That way your hashmap-part of the data structure is far more compact, so you can use lower load factors without increasing memory consumption too much, which often makes lookups faster (because fewer collisions happen at lower load factors, because the same number of keys is spread over more slots).
Well, look at the original purpose for the Interstate. One of them was for the military to be able to move freely should something happen. The actual name is "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways"
If the statistical significance of your results is algorithm-dependent, shouldn't they be regarded as suspect? Perhaps it might be just a failure of imagination on my part, but I find it odd to think that changing a software package might budge estimates far enough to push them outside the zone of statistical significance unless they were only marginally significant in the first place.
you're right i'm being cynical, because i genuinely believe you have not much to learn from people who have failed but haven't succeeded yet.

That said, there are PLENTY of successful people who used to be a failure. In fact 99% of the successful people have been a failure at some point in their life. THESE are the people you listen to.

The things you read in the media about a genius who got it right on their first attempt are very exceptional cases, which means they were not only talented but also very lucky. And you're right that there's a selection bias when it comes to these people and they may be totally out of touch because they don't understand why they succeeded.

But like I said, the vast majority of accomplished people in the world were once failures. They just kept trying and made it happen. Which is why these people are worth listening to. They are the ones who actually learned from their past failures, applied it to their life, and finally succeeded.

But you don't deserve to tell others what you think is the right thing when only thing you've achieved in life is failure. You gotta earn it by taking the lessons you learned and applying it to come to a true success. These people are worth listening to.

From what I see, there are too many people who've never tasted success but just use their failures as an opportunity to get more attention for the sake of getting attention. Most of the times when you read their posts, they're full of "failure biases", which is much worse than success bias. And I think most of the "lessons" they learned are shit, and most of the times demonstrates exactly why they failed--because they were out of touch (which is why they think they understand why they failed)

So my point is, you should listen to people who have failed AND succeeded. There are many people like this.
While I would love to work with person B, would I completely eliminate person A?

Hell no! In fact, there's a good chance that Person A is good at something that Person B doesn't even know.

Why should the knowledge of what Person B knows be superior to what Person A knows?
Because it’s a 3rd party (we use finicity) there are some issue with some people from time to time :/

Support should contact you soon to help fix it. Noted on making more clear that it’s a 3rd party!
> You must not have read the section "Validation defined on the model is only enforced on the form". The validations I referenced, e.g. `choices`, are only run in when [`full_clean()`](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/?...) is called, and it's not called on `save()`--it is usually called through form validation.

In addition to being wrong about whether I read your post, this is a great illustration of what I found tedious while reading it: since that feature was released in Django 1.2, the documentation has been clear about the relationship between save() and full_clean():

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/releases/1.2/#model-va...

http://django.readthedocs.io/en/1.2.X/ref/models/instances.h...

The direct statement of fact you used as a heading simply hadn't been true for years before you wrote your post and it's not helped by little mocking asides such as “Because nobody ever modifies a model instance expect through its form, right?” which are basically restating the reasons why that feature exists in the first place.

> I should have been explicit that I was referring to not being able to define such computed columns on the model the way one would a normal column, not to being unable to use `F`-expressions.

Strong agreement here. Your post could have been so much more useful if each of the mocking asides had instead been taken as a cue to ask whether it's more likely that so many people have worked on Django for years without noticing such a major flaw or that your understanding of how it was intended to be used is incorrect.

Imagine if your post had been something like “Things I learned about Django the hard way” and had covered things like picking safer defaults or updating the docs to more explicitly suggest how validation is intended to work (especially in this age where people use fewer forms and more APIs than a decade ago), or that Django treats the database as the ultimate source of truth so you should approach various things about validation and transactions with that in mind (e.g. strengthening the the wording to make it clear that e.g. get_or_create relies on database integrity checks so you should either set those or religiously use some other strategy). That post could be a DjangoCon talk and it'd get a lot more positive reaction than another angry rant on an internet full of them, especially since people in the community would be likely to share it rather than seeing a big claim which is not correct and closing the tab.
One project I have worked with was analyzing data in the education industry. Mainly public schools, think student grades and educational performance in general.

You'd think a simple percentage grade would have meaning, but it doesn't. Often times federal and state rules alter how data is to be "perceived" and therefore, analayzed and reported on.

There are a few major players in the data collection and analysis game for public school system, and they all not only have their own way of determining skill level (eg, reading skill level) with their own testing systems, they also analyze their custom data with their own algorithms. Thus leading to quite a variation in their ultimate recommendations/conclusions between vendors.

Then, take into account some schools have many students with English as a second language, and based on how the state views that school, it may be analyzed as "all equal" or take into account the language barriers.

Then mix in that you have to analyze students over multiple years, with students entering and leaving districts, sometimes with data vendors changing, etc... Then there is state and federal laws mixing with multiple vendors data collection _and_ analysis.

So the next time you hear a particular school district is under/over performing based on these vendor's analysis (especially related to budgets), keep in mind how variant the actual reality is to what is being reported.

Maybe every complex system has the same core problems?
What exactly is the problem you're attempting to solve with this?

Bonus questions:

What about maintenance or admin queries which aren't tied to a specific user_id?

What about sql injection?
For desktop apps specifically + functional programming, F# is probably your best bet. On Windows WPF is king, and F# works great. For desktop apps on Linux and elsewhere, you can use Xamarin, GTKSharp, AvaloniaUI...and the list goes on. Desktop apps are a strength of the .NET ecosystem.

Some links:

https://fsprojects.github.io/FsXaml/

https://github.com/Prolucid/Elmish.WPF

https://github.com/GtkSharp/GtkSharp

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios
The US also has a ton of land. I stayed with family in a British suburb once, and everything was still neatly squished in together, even single-family houses, compared to the expansive yards of American suburbs. Kids could walk to school and everything.