skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article seems to assume that only seeing a 5% price increase on items tarrifed at 25% must mean the foreign manufacturer taking a 20% hit. However, if domestic producers become profitable at the 5% higher level then we could just buy all our goods domestically and the foreign producer can stop manufacturing. In that scenario they aren't 'paying' anything except the lost profits on goods they no longer make. If their profit margin is under 20% then they aren't paying "the other 20%". Nobody is. Consumers are just paying 5% more for goods produced domestically. If we impose a tarrif of one thousand percent and prices go up 10%, nobody is paying for the other 990%.
> people that don't want makefiles so convoluted and hard to reason about that they can't edit them by hand..

You've missed the point. The point was that nowadays editing or even looking at a makefile is far from standard practice, because makefiles are autogenerated by the build system and are closer to temp files than to project files.

Who wastes their time reasoning about a temp file that just works?
And here I sit, thinking that competent middle management that can actually evaluate people based on results delivered instead of attendance and therefore allows more flexible remote work instead of commuting 3 hours would help.

No, open source.
But it's not coherent, far from it: it is often broken by various parties involved because there is no architecture and there are heterogenous interests at play. Compared to a FreeBSD or a SmartOS system, architecturally, it barely works, and it's rickety and shoddy.
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According to actual tax filings, he inherited 600 mil in the year 2000 in the form of NYC real estate, which of left untouched would be north of 10 bil now.
> Using Yale economist and recent Nobel-prize winner William Nordhaus’s $31-per-tonne estimate of the social cost of carbon, it amounted last year to $107 billion for energy-related emissions from oil and natural gas in the U.S. Within that, emissions from transportation — the biggest source in the U.S. and the only one still growing — enjoyed a free ride worth $59 billion.

But what is the net tax/subsidy in plain monetary terms? I just did a cursory bit of Wikipedia research so I may have gotten something wrong, but the article neglected this aspect completely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#United_States

> On March 13, 2013, Terry M. Dinan, senior advisor at the Congressional Budget Office, testified before the Subcommittee on Energy of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in the U.S. House of Representatives that federal energy tax subsidies would cost $16.4 billion that fiscal year, broken down as follows:

> Renewable energy: $7.3 billion (45 percent)
> Energy efficiency: $4.8 billion (29 percent)
> Fossil fuels: $3.2 billion (20 percent)
> Nuclear energy: $1.1 billion (7 percent)

$3.2 billion in fossil fuel subsidies (including categories besides motor fuel), versus...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State...

> Federal fuel taxes raised $35.2 billion in Fiscal Year 2014, with $25.0 billion raised from gasoline taxes and $10.2 billion raised from taxes on diesel and special motor fuels.

That's not counting state taxes, which are even higher:

> The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel... On average, as of January 2017, state and local taxes and fees add 31.04 cents to gasoline and 31.01 cents to diesel, for a total US average fuel tax of 49.44 cents per gallon for gas and 55.41 cents per gallon for diesel.

So about $80 billion in net taxes, which exceeds the estimated social cost of carbon from US auto emissions. Of course, fuel taxes go toward the maintenance of infrastructure for motor transportation, circling back and resubsidizing it, but electric vehicles enjoy the same benefits from that maintenance (as well as other subsidies for the generation of the electricity that powers them).
One area describing this is the Circular Economy. There is a lot more discussion about it outside of the US. The US media seems indifferent at best.

https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-economy/co...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy
It is not going to be your robot army fighting a human army. Instead, it will be your robot army fighting another robot army, perhaps less sophisticated.

I don't think there are any current conflicts[1] that could reasonably be described as being between two armies. It's more often between one group of armies from several countries working together and several groups of [terrorists|freedom fighters|"unlawful combatants" ] using guerrilla tactics to attack them.

The exception are the ongoing civil wars, but they tend to be an army fighting rebel groups in that country - would rebels ever get their own robots? How would that happen?

It's obviously possible that we'll see two armies of robots fighting in the future, but that's not really what war is right now.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_confli...
Still seems more likely than an undocumented person filing a lawsuit.
> I love Silicon Valley as much as I loathe Big Bang Theory.

Big Bang Theory: Purposelessly inaccurate in ways that upset you.

Silicon Valley: Purposefully accurate in ways that upset you.
It's worse.
Not with Prop 13 in California..
Cyclists minimize drag and maximize safety. When somebody slows down or they foresee a slow down (roundabout, traffic light, intersection, traffic, etc) the cyclists behind move to the side to get a better view and/or an unblocked path to slow down on their own at their own pace. This is normal for amateurs on a group ride. I've never been in a race, they also maximize speed in those.

Cyclists on a slow ride with friends and family are a different thing with different dynamics, more like people walking. They maximize chatting.
URLs should not contain PII data. That is a very bad design.

[Edit] I've got the wrong end of the stick it seems.
A hard fork that resets the mining difficulty would be the only option then I think.
GDPR rules? Less money for government oversight?
That and the idea that he would wear skates to a meeting where he intends to show a group of comedy writers the seriousness of his work make this anecdote very unbelievable.
From "Goto considered harmful": The exercice to translate an arbitrary flow diagram more or less mechanically into a jumpless one, however is not recommended.

Djikstras problem with GOTO was that the source code structure does not correspond to the execution path. GOTO turns the execution into a state machine rather than a nice tree. Avoiding GOTO by implementing a state machine with flags is just creating the same problem one level up.

The problem with GOTO is not the keyword itself, it is what it does to the code.
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Putting a price tag on common resources is not communism by any form of definition. If we view things from a feudal perspective, all common resources were held by the crown. You could only get access to things by purchasing or being given a license to it. One of the things we often talk about is the tragedy of the commons. Things without an owner are gobbled up and this is precisely what's happening.

Putting a price tag on externalities is about asserting either a state wide, or even world wide ownership on some resource -- whether it be fish stocks, clean air, electromagnetic spectra, etc, etc, etc. This is completely different than a collective/shared ownership by a group of people.

Such an idea does not detract in any way from market capitalism. In fact, giving these common resources an owner who can establish a price for their use is exactly what capitalism is all about. We could even go so far as to enact economic fascism by giving ownership of these resources to "elite" companies who will be able to manage them most efficiently (also read as, "giving ownership of these resources to our friends who will be able to maintain their vast wealth and power eternally"). I only mention it since fascism is about as far from communism as you can get (unless, as is often done, you wrap around on the other side of the spectrum ;-) ).

The US has a particular view that government ownership should be kept at a minimum. This idea suffers from the problem of either tragedy of the commons (for unregulated common resources and externalities), or with monopolistic ownership of key resources by certain companies (the latter tending towards an economic fascist ideal). I think it's this idea that somebody has to own this stuff and the government is probably the best somebody to own it that's very difficult to swallow for American ideology. But that doesn't mean it can't change.
Is Google Chrome sending browsing history and webpage content to Google (via Google Translate) even when sync is off? I didn't see anything about that in the settings.
So why are you still using Chrome?
Where did I say URL? I'm talking a POST based form.

Put a value into it a text field and Chrome will helpfully save it for future auto-completion. Then it'll upload it to your account on their cloud if you're logged into an account. How do you think it's able to fill out your name, address, etc. on all those web forms?
Anecdotally, I look at the public repos of any company advertising a job I'm interested in before I apply, so open source certainly attracts some class of developers.

The problem is the assumption that people who do that are "better" in some way. I've known some brilliant engineers who don't care at all for open source code; they wrote great code that no one besides the customer would ever see or use. That doesn't make them bad engineers.
This may be a nitpick, but hopefully it's also an interesting rabbit-hole:

HTML was originally contemplated as more than a method of rich text formatting. It was created as a way to describe and link arbitrary media and applications. I'd recommend reading the first published proposal for (what later became known as) the World Wide Web written by Tim Berners-Lee [1]. In my reading, I see it as being intended applications as powerful as the kind we build today - at least as far as could be contemplated and described in 1989, and given the degree of abstraction with which the document as written:

> "Hypertext" is a term coined in the 1950s by Ted Nelson [...], which has become popular for these systems, although it is used to embrace two different ideas. One idea[] is the concept: "Hypertext": Human-readable information linked together in an unconstrained way. The other idea [...], is of multimedia documents which include graphics, speech and video. I will not discuss this latter aspect further here, although I will use the word "Hypermedia" to indicate that one is not bound to text.

An example of anticipated usage:

> The data to which a link (or a hot spot) refers may be very static, or it may be temporary. In many cases at CERN information about the state of systems is changing all the time. Hypertext allows documents to be linked into "live" data so that every time the link is followed, the information is retrieved. If one sacrifices portability, it is possible so make following a link fire up a special application, so that diagnostic programs, for example, could be linked directly into the maintenance guide.

Another category of use-case was web crawling, link-based document search, and other data analysis.

These and other anticipated use-cases envision more than text formatting; the primary purposes of the proposal were, in my opinion, the inter-linking of information and the formal modeling of information, especially for the purpose of combining different programs or facilities into a single user experience.

[1] https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
They ask those questions when they have to compare many candidates because they can't think of anything automatic that scales. It's the street light effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
Is it really a programming language if it isn't turing complete?
The only place where I see any references to it is on HN and conferences like StrangeLoop.

For the kind of customers I work for, if it wasn't for Angular adopting TypeScript, we would all still be using plain old JavaScript on our Web apps.
Even the Presidents shit stinks. I'm really wondering how fragile your ego has to be to be offended by watching Silicon Valley. Are these really people who should be trying to "change the world"? Better to work on themselves first.
There is a line you can draw in the sand here. I usually define it in terms of the Product; I don't believe companies should feel compelled, or even desire to, open source code which directly relates to the product they're trying to sell. The number of companies which actually do this are few and far between (Red Hat, Gitlab, others of course).

However, companies should desire to open source code which supports their product. Libraries they've written internally to do important things. Services. Infrastructure tooling. These are all great things to open source. There are many reasons why this is a great idea, beyond just recruiting and marketing.

1. Every company has shit code. Most of this is centered around your business domain (aka product) because that's what changes so often. Its alright to find a balance between "we're hiding skeletons in the closet" and "don't make a snap judgement based on a few Github repos, we have mentorship and you'll learn a lot about the context and intentions a lot of this stuff arose from."

2. It forces your developers to think beyond just their team. Now, suddenly, anyone can see this. Woah. I mean, its pretty likely only a couple dozen people will, but I guarantee you'll get really high quality READMEs, you'll get documentation, clean APIs... all of this benefits your internal team tremendously. Why doesn't this happen as often "by default" with strictly internal projects? Developers know the internal requirements, and they're usually not a strict as their perceived public requirements many open source projects live by. Crazy. True.

3. It forces your developers to think beyond just your product. This is HUGE. I cannot stress how important this is. "Evolved" companies develop everything with the little voice in the back of their head that it could just be thrown away tomorrow. Because, whether you like it or not, pivots happen. Maybe small, maybe big. If all of your code is intricately intertwined with your latest Uber for Canaries idea, you'll find reusing it during one of these pivots to be very difficult. But if its open source, there's this invisible force telling you that it can't be like that. It forces you to find the right APIs to work with both your product and Generic Use Cases. This takes longer. You should find a balance. But its worth it.
The ram copy doctrine is not current case law since Cartoon Network v. CSC Holdings.
Sorry for responding late but my company gets all the Jewish holidays off and most of the leaders are Jewish. We even work half days on Friday in preparation for sabbath. There’s no hatred or “anti” anything. Quite the opposite.
Nice tool btw! I wish I'd known about it 5 days ago, when I taught a class that involved a little bit of web development. I used devd, but getting it in the PATH was a non trivial task for some of the trainees who used Windows. Serve has an installer, which presumably solves that even without scoop or chocolatey.
Webpage text is only transmitted when you have Chrome translate a page.

Language detection happens offline using https://github.com/google/cld3
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This doesn’t make sense.

If I don’t want to pay the cost of alcohol I can just choose not to drink alcohol.

If someone drives drunk and injures me, I can sue them.

I can’t sue anyone for increasing the temperature of the planet. And I can’t opt out.

That’s why it’s an externality. It’s a cost that’s forced onto someone with no legal recourse.
Getting away with carbon pollution, if it's a subsidy, is just part of the subsidies the fossil fuel industries get in the U.S.

The 20 billion the United States provide each year in national fossil fuel subsidies is a real issue. (per 2015 see https://www.odi.org/publications/10058-empty-promises-g20-su...).

I see other numbers that are lower then 20 for different years (This says 8+ billion for 2016 https://newclimate.org/2018/11/14/brown-to-green-report-2018...).

I'd guess there are different ways of measuring subsidies, but all of the measures for fossil fuel subsidies I could find were multi billion per year while EV subsidies were only 2 billion over the entire lifetime of the program.
>To get the latest headlines I suggest using a RSS reader (e.g. 'News' on Nextcloud/Owncloud) and subscribing to those feeds which you deem interesting. This gives you headlines, sometimes with a snippet of content, often without but subscribe to a few different publications and you'll have the same news described using different headlines which often give enough insight into whether the item is worth your time.

it also locks you into a bubble of your own creation with very little provocative or interesting content
> The place where REST falls down, really, is transactions.

I don't agree. The standard way of supporting transactions with REST is to provide a transactions endpoint where clients start a transaction by POSTing a new transaction resource, POST their DTOs to build up a unit of work, and when they are done just commit the transaction. That's pretty much a one-size-fits-all solution as that's the standard way to implement transactions at the database level.
Alright. Let's say I'd be willing to concede that our CO2 emissions play some part in changing the environment.

But I've also done some research, and I've found that the Earth has wonderful negative feedback mechanisms to ensure that each additional molecule of CO2 released has less overall affect then previous ones - so there's a limited and saturating nature to this phenomenon (hence why we haven't exploded or flooded terribly, etc).

Nobody is willing to discuss the nuance of saturated effects, and limited changes that we should be willing to endure so that hundreds of millions (billions) of Africans, Indians, and Chinese can get out of poverty.

And while we're at it - why are we subsidizing the paper industry, cutting down all those trees? Or the hydroelectric industry ruining aquatic life and other actual environmental concerns.

The fact is that nobody is willing to look at the trade-offs of FOSSIL FUELS and just wants to write them off as evil, "unfairly subsidized", etc. But if you took a true holistic look at the costs and benefits, you'd find that few other industries have been as positively impactful to our lives as those born from hydrocarbons. So people should think really hard before ignorantly demonizing them.

If people are wondering how I could hold a viewpoint so contrary to the Hacker News/Liberal dogma, I strongly recommend checking out the following, which can explain much more elaborately than myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaNPBZ6BZZ8
City Hall in Wuppertal, Germany also has one open to the public. I didn't see tripwires however a few weeks ago.
FTA :

>>> The best students want to go to the best companies.

If you're a parent, maybe it's time to teach your kids that "going to the best company" may not be the best outcome for a citizen of the world.
Boats are awesome but you will always want a bigger one.
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imagine a kid locked in a toasty car for a whole day before the update gets deployed
Remote may not be ideal for everyone. Some prefer office setting. It all boil down to individual needs and preferences.

In my case, I chose Remote option as a necessity when we had our kids. Due to the necessity, the client agreed for a partial remote work arrangement. This gave me a sense of satisfaction and balance in work/life.

After this experience, I continue working with other clients with option of partial remote work.
ASP.NET Core 2.1 and its [lack of] Support for Vue.Js
Note that this point matters even short of full automation: the fewer people a state needs to rely on, the more tyrannical it can be.

(Yes, there have been plenty of horrors with mass participation.)
I'm concerned about privacy insofar as the information collected can be used to used to hurt or oppress me or others. Using it to target advertising doesn't rise to that level. To the extent that advertising itself is acceptable (and there's a legitimate debate there), targeted advertising seems to be a benign use of personal data.

The main problem I see is that corporations cannot be trusted to limit their use of personal data to benign purposes, nor can they be trusted to keep that data safe from people who will abuse it. But there's certainly a significant difference between potentially leaking or abusing data and actively selling it.
Exactly - this is what happened to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrickOS (previously legOS).

BrickOS is an alternative OS for the Lego Mindstorms kit.
You have to also look at the department of energy spending on wikipedia since they do fossil fuel development, which adds an additional half billion. So 3.7 billion per year, at least. But oil companies are also some of the main beneficiaries of things like the foreign tax credit, so you have to consider that as well.
> the Indian guy is the whitest one I've seen

What do you mean by that? Can you explain?
> every Steve Jobs movie

how about "the pirates of silicon valley"?
I feel it's _by far_ the best movie made involving his figure, likely because it came out earlier.
Given the scale the only sane way to unwind it is to grandfather all sales before a certain date. Otherwise you’ll have masses of people forced out of their properties and chaos.
How China Walled Off the Internet
Interesting! As another point in the design space - I wrote a JS UI library (based on React) that uses async generators for state transitions. https://github.com/ajnsit/concur-js
* howdoi: stackoverflow from the shell: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi, don't leave you terminal while programming
why are people downvoting this-the only illogical point is the hours worked thing-sure a poorly trained chinese person may only be productive for 20 hours but they can afford to put 6 people on a task that people in the west would pay a single person for
apart from software manhours do scale and even in software the majority of the world gets by on "good enough"
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