skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those are expetions rather than the rule. I don't see any way of getting rid of them other than requiring you to submit your tax return when you buy a game. For a $60 purchase, country of residence is a good enough metric.

Beside the fact that I find your formulation dangerous ("getting ride of them [poor people]"), what I am suggesting is to base the price on the production cost + a margin for that specific good, which is a way to not discriminate between purchasers. This would better respect everyone's privacy.

> Apps are also mostly < $10, so affordability is less of an issue.

Maybe that's the future
It's been a while since I played with Perl. I haven't looked at Perl6 at all. But reading Damian Conway's addendum at the bottom, really makes me want to play around with it.

Mostly this:

>Ultimately, I think that we’re pretty happy with Perl 6 being the “World’s Worst ML”, so long as it can also (simultaneously) be: the “World’s Worst Smalltalk”, the “World’s Worst Lisp”, the “World’s Worst Snobol”, the “World’s Worst QCL”, the “World’s Worst Erlang”, the “World’s Worst Prolog”, the “World’s Worst Python”, the “World’s Worst C”, and even the “World’s Worst Perl 5”.

Because that was one of our design goals too. :-)
n=3 (3 people were studied)
>There's still a lot to be discovered if more people start writing software to decode the signals.

You might be interested in the GNU Radio project, a modular suite of tools for building software receivers.

https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/What_is_GNU_Radio%3F

You may also be interested in WSJT (ultra-efficient data modes) and FreeDV (ultra-low-bandwidth voice). A number of people in the amateur radio community are working on modern modulation and codec systems.

https://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/

https://freedv.org/
Is Youtube written in Angular? I find myself having to refresh the page (Firefox is my default) to load the proper video fairly often; annoying UX.
I am not sure I support taxing capital gains as ordinary income unless there is some way to adjust the gains for inflation.

For instance, if your capital gains tracked inflation precisely it seems fundamentally unfair to tax a percentage of the gains, as the person has not really "gained" in real terms.
I don't think I would argue that reading itself is as hard as learning and using math concepts, but it is a skill that can be lost. after a few years of mainly reading documentation and forum posts, I feel my skill at reading longer-form content has atrophied.

> I've met plenty of STEM people who knew a thing or two about history, economics, and the arts. It's relatively rare the other way round, though you do get the occasional renaissance man from that side.

most interested people can read pop-history, pop-econ, etc. type books and sound pretty knowledgeable in casual discussions, but all they are really learning is how to parrot a couple popular authors' opinions. I think the real observation here is that humanities are much easier to "bullshit" about than something like math, where it actually has to make sense within a rigorous framework.

I would argue that the type of deep dives into original documents that you do in a humanities degree is actually quite difficult. to do this type of learning well is no easier than learning STEM topics, imo.
Cheap is a function of volume/demand.
This list recommends many foods that are rare in common western diets. You can eat none of the foods, some of the foods, or exclusively all the foods listed.
And this is the problem. You know the ramifications for you as an individual are fairly small, but this is a problem of scale. Billions of people handing over their data allows the creation of much more sophisticated and insidious models. The costs of your decisions are externalized to society as a whole and will affect you one day. You just don't see that.

It is the classic tragedy of the commons. Everyone doing whatever is best for themselves leads to the absolute worst outcome for everyone (including yourself) in the end. E.g you running 50 kWh of AC per day is pretty inconsequential. 2 billion people doing the same is not.
I would also recommend Spectacle if you like simplicity and believe in open source.
The EU is quite neoliberal. Austerity was the policy there after the recession. It has also presided over a massive financialization of the European economy. The US is far out of the political mainstream with other wealthy countries. In comparison to where they were 20 years ago (as opposed to where the US is now), Europe has shifted markedly right economically.

The subsidies of agriculture are kind of ludicrous, I agree.
The article contains a number of flaws IMO. Its argument seems to be:

1. Graduates with any degree earn more money and have less unemployment. No doubt true, but how do you discount selection bias here? Given that it's on average the smarter / more diligent part of the population that goes to university a better question would be what's the value add of university (and then break down by faculty / degree)? Maybe their employment rate is higher due to the necessity of having to pay off their tuition fees :)

2. Some humanities people are successful. No doubt. Plenty of smart motivated folks take humanities subjects so it's not surprising that some of them are successful but I'd like to see some data on expected return across the board rather than cherry picked examples. Wildly successful people might be outliers anyway. Also if you're from a wealthy background you could probably do anything and still have a shot at being a CEO.

3. Most examples of jobs for humanities graduates given in the article are not really graduate jobs, e.g. after sales support for Uber (do you really need a degree for that?). Management roles perhaps, but the article doesn't delve into those jobs, presumably there was some sort of vocational experience involved before they were managers?

4. Critical thinking skills. I'm not convinced that humanities degrees do lead to better critical thinking skills. I am biased but it seems to me Maths and hard science subjects would hone your critical thinking much more (isolating variables, logic, understanding complex material) and it's not like Science grads don't read books on other subjects. The author demonstrates a complete lack of critical thinking skills IMO.

5. Understanding of statistics seems like a pretty valuable tool to bring to most occupations and it would be nice if journalists had that and I doubt you get that from Humanities.

6. Empathy? Seriously? You need a degree to develop empathy?
Came here for this comment. For me there is no other WWF, damn it!
Anyone find the source? NEC study?

This didn't seem right:
> Yet, the performance when working with a 30-inch monitor dropped compared to the 26-inch “champion”.
Revisiting Chernobyl
seriously what i thought when i clicked on this ...
We swapped out Windows for Linux on our TV-connected video game PC, and have had pretty good luck. Windows 10 was getting really obtrusive with its ads for stuff like Office 365, as well as frequently making games stutter because it decided that it needed to start an update in the background right then. I’m sure some of the Windows issues could have been fixed by someone more familiar with Windows, but I mostly saw Proton as a way out.

Xubuntu installed easily for me, and Proton has done a good job for all the titles I’ve tried. But the games themselves are a bit more of a hassle than Windows. I had to dig around in Steam to enable Proton for every game.

My wife and I recently played Divinity in split screen (Linux native) and occasionally ran into audio issues if the game had been running for a shameful number of hours. Divinity 2 (Windows version), doesn’t work out of the box, though ProtonDB forums had a straight forward fix. So far, I think Divinity 2 in Proton might be at least as stable as the Linux version of the original.

But... it’s a bit of a gamble. I mean, I bought D2 on sale so it’s not a huge loss if a game doesn’t work out, but also you want to play the game. So, there’s always a little voice asking “will it work?” that you don’t have with Windows.

We have two Steam controllers, which probably makes things a little easier for us. For whatever reason, we grew to like the Steam controllers and have stuck with them. I would guess that the Bluetooth controllers would be harder. I haven’t gotten the hang of making bluetooth work anywhere really, and I could imagine the interplay of bluetooth, steam, and proton all to be a bit problematic.

On balance, I’ll probably not move our game machine back to Windows barring some title I really want to play early in the release cycle. The hassles of Linux feel like things I can figure out, whereas the hassles of Windows feel like I’m fighting the established order imposed by a product manager at Microsoft.
One could say the same thing about salaries; most (salaried) people get a minimum 3-4% "raise" every year just to keep up with inflation and living expenses.
Read a Paper: Bitcoin – A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Ah yes. We should just accept body builders mugging us whenever we step outside because the reality is they are stronger than us.
> Just before taking on the role of ITEP’s director of federal tax policy, Steve spent more than two years as the senior tax policy analyst for Sen. Bernie Sanders and as a member of the senator’s Budget Committee staff.

Some background on the author.
You definitely raise some valid use cases where you need more real estate, but I think a big reason people on Mac/Windows feel like they need more space is because window management is so poor on those platforms. I came from Linux where I used tiling window managers and I really missed that on Mac. I ended up installing Amethyst and while it's not nearly as powerful as the window managers I was using before, it almost entirely killed my desire for my real estate. Now I can quickly and evenly split my editor, terminal, and browser into various layouts and adjust them as needed.
I rather like this idea. Among other effects, it will get rid of the "carried interest loophole" for real, since carried interest will be taxed just like everything else.
I could have dropped and taken a different class, but I lost my patience.

I rationalized it as an experiment to see the intellectual value of the class I was taking. I feel like I learned a valuable lesson, but not in history.

Sure, there's supposed to be push back on any claim. But it's very much lighter if the professor/TA believes it to be true already.

I am not claiming I am an amazing historian who is right and the professor is wrong. But I expect my ideas to be evaluated on the merits: how well I defend the idea given my level of study.
How does taxing a unrealised sale help? What if it loses value the next year - will they get a refund?
Like when I buy <non-consumable-item> online I see ads for <non-consumable-item> for weeks after.
There are probably more bipartisan approaches, like focusing on increasing taxes on things like carried interest instead of capital gains broadly.
I'm guessing there's some actual reason we tax capital gains at a lower rate..

Didn't find that in the article but it's probably along the lines of : the stock market would plummet like a rock otherwise, also real estate. And everyone's net worth is tied up in those asset classes.
I don’t understand American politics... Is this -again- just for show? Why wasn’t something like this done during the Clinton or Obama administration? You know, when the democrats had the majority vote?
Why focus on a sector and not take advantage of the market. Every day there is a new opportunity. You have to just adapt and take advantage of it and make profits. I would trade options for the different stocks available and leave the rest in AAPL.
This is more or less why I fell into mathematics.

I eventually learned I have ADHD, which definitely explained why I couldn't keep up with the reading and writing workload in the philosophy and literature courses.
Reading the title, this seems like an awesome proposal, but paying attention to the details...

> tax the appreciation of assets owned by the very wealthy as income each year, an approach known as mark-to-market taxation

> the proposal would be structured to affect only the richest 0.1 percent of Americans

Yeah, it's almost certainly a terrible idea.

(1) Mark-to-market is terrible, unrealistic, and arbitrary. Imagine a 70 year old grandma owning a house in SF... it's price rises 20% in a year, what is she to do? She has no money... the only thing she can do is sell the house! Even worse, what happens when there's a crisis, and house prices fall 20%? You lost more than you gained, and you still owe last year's tax!

(2) only top 0.1% and like ordinary income is fundamentally incompatible - I agree that capital gains should be taxed like income (and with the tax / offshore assets reforms that the US has done in the past few years, it's uniquely positioned among countries to actually implement such tax), but I see no reason why it shouldn't apply to everybody (same as income tax).
Or we could tax income like we tax corporate profit. The profit of a person is what remains after all the expenses. So only the net cash year over year is taxable.
Not necessarily, for instance several US states like Texas and Alaska have sovereign wealth funds. Their assets include land (that they sometimes sell) and royalties that they collect on from oil and gas production. So yes, you have the wealthy oil tycoons, but you also have the state benefiting as well.
Of the five Guiding Principles on page 52 only about 1.5 of them are primarily concerned with the nutrition content of the food. The rest are mostly focused on their environmental impact.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. And clearly that's aligned with the mission of the WWF. But I think you'd get a much different list if it was just about maximizing the health of the eater. E.g. meat.

When I choose food at the grocery store I'm focused on which are better for me, not Earth. If I were convinced that there is a genuine discrepancy between those goals, I'd likely still choose me. Am I the bad guy?
Ask HN: What Happened to Google Discussions?
Google Discussions appeared to be a widely used and well liked product and then one day it disappeared. What happened?
> The CBO [2, "The National Flood Insurance Program: Financial Soundness and Affordability"] calls that out as clearly as possible without naming names.

The CBO is calling out FEMA's estimates of future losses as being too low. As far as the administrators of the program are concerned, premiums are set appropriately. This report doesn't really apply to this discussion, other than to highlight that the coastal counties cost significantly more (and pay significantly more) than the inland counties covered by the program.
It looks like this plan would only apply to a fraction of the economic top 1%. Most people tend to support a progressive tax system, probably because it seems reasonable that the richest should help out a little more than the poorest.
Meh, the feedback you speak of is often subjective. The beauty of STEM is that you can objectively take stock of where you stand.
That's a dumb attitude. Cacti produce some amazing fruits that I bet even a simpleton like you would enjoy. I eat about 60% of this list on a weekly basis, so some countries (not America) do actually have access to healthy foods already.
So what's wrong with being bought off? People in Kuwait have it very well.
I like the idea of your device giving out fake advertising id's out.
> stock market would plummet like a rock otherwise

Why would it? I mean, it wouldn't affect the fair value of companies... just the amount of actual cash you get out of selling the price (and if only gains are taxed, the tax is proportional, meaning that you it can't tax profit into loss, only profit into less profit).
Ask HN: What are your most recommended GitHub repos to learn from?
My background is mostly frontend development and I'm always looking to learn more about C.S. fundamentals and how JS libraries can be practically used for app development. I find myself checking out the following from time to time:

https://github.com/gothinkster/realworld

https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses/blob/master/README.md

https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

Any good gems out there you recommend?
I have no issue with this for some things, like webservers, for example...it's not too difficult to compile from source, or find an alternate package source, or run in a container, etc.

For desktop stuff, it's harder, because there's often a dependency chain that forces you to upgrade everything just to upgrade a seemingly simple piece.
This is a very mature approach. Skipping the fanboyism. Especially now unless you are doing something very platform specific (e.g. iOS development or need Visual Studio) all platforms can have a decent workflow for development.
You introduce it now to setup being able to pass it later when you have a majority.

The Republicans now have to officially go on record opposing it which means you can use it as a campaign issue when running against them. If you then win a majority while having raised the issue during the campaign you can claim a "mandate" for passing it.
Having done a bit of tech writing, "how hard is it to explain" is my proxy for simplicity / complexity.

I've read everything I can about measuring complexity. I'm just not smart enough to understand most of it. So "simple" is still like pornography for me: I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.
Seems like you could write it off as a business loss. It would tank government revenue in a recession, but perhaps it would also provide an automatic stimulus effect.
As a user I have to say I did want that. Windows Phone peaked with WP8 though, IMHO. W10M has always been weirdly buggy, inconsistent and not performing as well.

I guess the two API and forced hardware changes did most to cement its demise.
Reddit communities aren't the same as in person social communities, they don't have any real structure beyond the moderation class. The "buy in" you're talking about is the fact that this site was built.

I don't think this will "succeed", but not because of anything related to migration; it's just not that good of an idea, from a business standpoint. If they redefine success as something other than growth and user retention, maybe they can create a fake kind of success, but this site will not grow users or any of the things a normal startup looks for when launching a product, and the monetization will never be worth anything of value, but simply because the idea isn't that great.
Feels doubtful (to the point I can't take it seriously).

That said, revenue is half the problem. Excessive spending and waste is the other half. Raising taxes to give mindless politicians more fuel for their boundless spending fire...what can go wrong?
This would be absolutely terrible for the economy. Income inequality has to be tackled by removing impediments that the masses face in participating in the most lucrative sector and professions, not by pulling down those doing the best job of expanding capital (e.g. Warren Buffett).
Pallets, the Ruby workflow engine, got to 0.4.0 Rails support and a lot more
The problem with the tech bubble these days is that people within it assume that everyone has the same internet connectivity they do. And that they have it all the time.

Sadly, Apple has been like this since since at least the late 1980's. Out in the desert trying to help 150 children sign up for health care coverage and need to look something up via satellite connection? Oh, wait... the macOS is downloading Garage Band crap in the background that I didn't ask for and don't need. (I don't remember if Garage Band was the offender, but it was one of the pointless programs wasting space on my business computer).

Just like app developers who only test their apps on the high-end phones they have, not the phones that the majority of people have.

For the web sites I make for work, I test them on all kinds of devices. But I make sure that they all work on the cheapest pre-paid smartphone I could find at 7-Eleven.

The internet was built to bring universal information to all, not just Flash games to the rich.
During the majority of those years Republicans had majority control of one or both houses of Congress.
Taxes need to be voluntary.
The wealthy like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates all want to pay more, let them pay more.
"it will be extremely detectable to make our civilization difficult."?
Taxing unrealized capital gains? So someone like Bezos who's annual increase in wealth is in the form of amazon stock, would have to sell that stock to actually have the liquid cash to pay for this tax? Come tax season wouldn't it lead to a bunch of founders having to flood the stock market with their stock, hence a large decrease in the stock price and consequently lower taxable amount? Hence a self defeating tax?

Then there's the inflation question. If CPI is 3%, and my capital gains amounts to 6% of my portfolio, my real increase in wealth is only 3%. But I pay tax on 6%?
Why would I want the loading behaviour of images to be chosen by the site I am browsing?

I would prefer to choose for myself whether images load eagerly or lazily on all sites I visit. This way, I would always know which type of loading to expect as I browse, and I would always get the type of loading I prefer.
... and that's the real life skills you learned. sometimes you gotta do/say what people want to hear to get ahead. One of the most important life skills ever.
At a 9% nominal return, that would imply an after tax return at a 40% rate of 5.4%. Then take out inflation of 2%, and you get a 3.4% real return on stocks. Which, if you consider the risk is pretty terrible. So would expect markets to reflect that divergence of risk/return that this bill would introduce and lead to a massive stock market sell-off.

Kiss your 401(K) good bye! Genius plan.
Do you eat equivalent amounts of protein when you eat less meat?

I've started eating a lot less meat, but typically through limiting how much of a meal it comprises vs no-meat meals.

If I replace meat with greek yogurt or beans, I haven't noticed much difference.
Markets are made by both buyers and sellers. Demand is ostensibly driven by consumers, and value created by meeting consumer demands.

Are consumers demanding the above with their money and not just their mouths? I doubt it.
I’ll take trash and bad air quality over cancer.
But don’t we tax normal interest as income too? We don’t adjust that for inflation.
I 100% support a progressive tax system, whether it applies to the 1% or everyone, not accounting for inflation strikes me as structurally unfair.
> Eating less common varieties of vegetables... drives demand which will increase the variety of types of crops grown, which, in turn, makes the food system more resilient

I get this, but it seems fundamentally at odds with economies of scale which surely the natural market would gravitate towards. Seems like government intervention would be necessary here to overcome the externalities that growing a single variety at extreme quantities creates?
I don't run an assembly line myself - we use them for gaze tracking in sport science.

Mostly in industrial use they are used to identify parts quickly with AR overlays.
Black-Box Algorithms: Ready for Medical Use?
Much easier to read. Thank you
i understand your sentiment on the first but that’s what originally led to proposition 13 and is responsible for a lot of housing and budget issues in CA.

i am not saying mark to market makes sense but for this rule, if the grandma is in the .1% her net worth is well north of 10m

i’m sure she will be able to afford the 20% increase

i’m not saying mark to market makes sense but your grandma example is not a good counter example
Have you ever been a manager? Again, it's not being cold blooded, it's one of the main responsibilities of the job. Being a leader isn't easy and you often have to make tough decisions and sacrifice in the name of the team. This has been well known throughout the history of leadership.