skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's any over optimism built in to this. Any attempt to tax an almost $20 trillion market is going to be complex. I find it hard to imagine that it would be any more complex than the current scheme. And on that point, that's all it really needs to be: not worse. The real benefits are in other areas.
Just a heads up, it looks like your script that renders the math bits is failing to load intermittently, making the equations very difficult to read sometimes.

But: this looks really cool. I'm sending it to my brother who is a newbie programmer and wants to know about graphics.
This is not limited to HN. In any group setting, arguing against a thing is frequently counterproductive.

Social settings are "attention economies." Piling on to the argument adds attention to the thing you nominally want less of, yet are fueling. I generally try to not add to such situations.

I used to say "Fighting against the fighting is still fighting." If I am going to wade in, ideally, I should do so without being combative about it.

I have been debating whether or not to send the comment about how this is not accessible for the blind to a group I co-own called Blind Dev Works. Not sure if it is relevant to the interests of others there. I'm visually impaired and generally interested in accessibility, but I'm not blind, nor really a developer (though I actually want to learn to code and I'm trying to do something about that).

I don't know if it would just be seen as salt in an open wound or an interesting discussion.
One of his points is "Focus on large fixed costs, not small discretionary ones", so while that isn't a small amount, that might be half how much your mortgage costs a MONTH. Until you optimize the mortgage, the coffee is less of a concern.
What a strangely disingenuous comment. If the FBI investigated me for two years they wouldn't be able to charge me with high profile financial crimes lol. How absurd.
> So person 1, who made the assertion, gets a free pass on doing research

Yes. It is the difference between a strong assertion and a weak assertion.

> but person 2, who doesn't know the basis for the assertion is being lazy?

Then they aren't asking the correct questions. I have absolutely no sympathy for people with weak communications skills.
Assuming the title is even provided in 4k/HD. For example, I checked right now and Bram Stoker's Dracula is 540p at a reported 838 kb/s, and picture quality is worse than the DVD, with horrible aliasing indicating poor encoding, so it's even below that of SD. This film has a true 4K Blu-ray remaster, so you'd be doing yourself a huge disservice streaming it in the quality Netflix serves.

To really put this in perspective, the picture quality that Netflix provides is worse than pre-digital analog film projection. Dracula originally screened in cinemas in 1992 looked (far) better than what you stream on Netflix right now in 2019. Now I know the consumer has always traded convenience for picture quality, hence the popularity of early home media such as VHS, but that was bound by the limitation of the technology back then. Right now, there's zero technical reason for why quality can't be better, ignoring bandwidth. It's a digression and the fact it's so tolerated makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I'm not even a film buff, it's just that it's apparent like night and day, like a re-compressed jpg is.
> it hits those who might actually try to get rich in the future.

How does it do that? These are just words. Dalio and his hand-wringing clique have no issue speaking platitudes about economic justice, and turning right around and lobbying politicians for more tax cuts, less regulation and fewer consumer protections.

How are you going to get rich in the future when real wages for consumers haven't budged in 4 decades? Do you plan on delivering a product people can actually afford, or simply engage in the financial chicanery that made the 2008 recession possible?
That's kind of a blanket statement don't you think?
>> You change the social goals.

How do you make the majority of the society believe in the same social goals without resorting to tales a-la Christianity during the fall of Roman Empire?
> more polished user experience

I'm forced to use LastPass at work, and personally find KeePass to be a much better user experience.
The things I hate about the Apple app are the fact I can’t swipe from the left to queue a new song, and the fact that if you’re shuffling all songs then you simply can’t use the play next feature at all. That ability did exist at one point, along with play last (it would queue a song at the end of the play next queue, but before the rest of the shuffled songs), but it’s been removed since iOS 9 or 10 now.
The cost of gas does not include the now massive externalities.

If it did, the financial case would already favor a mix of more planet friendly, renewable energy.

People are going to be living very differently 50 years from now, maybe sooner.
I'd say a better solution would be to universal income, or a freedom fund of sorts. So people can be free to go and do their passion jobs, be it making music or writing games.

Game development companies might become more like a collective where the developers who are all on universal income pool together and treated as equals. One can dream.
Just to follow up here. The error is due to the site not being able to handle international addresses. I've updated the homepage to reflect this. Thank you so much for helping me out.
You lay people off so that the company doesn't go bankrupt. Going bankrupt ruins more peoples' lives.
I'm saying that the web is slow because of JS, not just the DOM (though I'm not contending that the DOM isn't the bigger issue).
A friend of mine (CEO of Enerpoly) recently got his PhD in this space and have made a breakthrough in the battery space (extreme life cycle extension). His most recent prototype can reach less than 40euro / kWh. The space certainly is exciting and will be fun to watch over the next few years!

http://enerpoly.com/technology/
Growing cljfx: wrapper of JavaFX inspired by better parts of react and re-frame
Right, but if all you are saving is $5 a few times a week you aren't really saving... and that's the point the article is making.
Nobody said it was unsustainable. The point is that if you have to borrow almost 4% of your GDP to generate growth of only 3% of GDP, your underlying economy is not performing strongly enough to support itself. That we can’t escape deficit-fueled growth in a supposedly “booming economy” is a scary sign for future economic hiccups.
Gitlab (YC W15, All-remote) is hiring 17 back end engineers
>> but that soul is metaphysical and immune to experiment -- and therefore doesn't conflict with science.

> Yes, it does. Being untestable is about as incompatible with science as you can get.

Math is not testable with the scientific method, but it is obviously compatible with science.

> And arbitrarily labeling an untestable claim with a fancy word also doesn't make it compatible with science.

Like "multiverse" perhaps?
Is GP getting downvoted because we're assuming this isn't what they meant?
A Teacher Is Fired over a Topless Selfie, Stirring a Debate over Gender Equity
Their 4k's also almost exclusively for their own content. So it's low quality and you can pretty much only use it for content that doesn't much benefit from it, assuming it's worth watching at all.
Do you have a link to your blog? It'd be interesting to see how your comments look. I've also built a commenting system, if you're curious; link in my profile.

(Feel free to send me an email if you don't want to reply with a link to your blog publicly here on HN)
Also, it should be noted that all but 5 states already have sales tax. So the infrastructure and processes to collect are already in place. And the questions that you ask about what should or shouldn't be taxed already have a history of debate and consideration.
I don't think the analogy applies. It is pretty easy for reasonable people to agree that that fuel line loophole is not in the spirit of the rules, since we know that the point of the rule is to ensure each racer has the same amount of fuel. In that case, of course, patching the loophole is trivial: just limit the total amount of fuel that can be stored in the car.

The difference with taxes is that there isn't some well-agreed upon precise amount or percentage of money that companies are supposed to pay. The rules are very complicated, even for companies that most people wouldn't consider to be "searching for loopholes."

In other words, it may be easy to get a lot of people to agree that Apple should be paying more taxes to the US, but how will they agree on an exact amount?
Usually some form of. revere income tax / EITC is proposed.

Alternatively, an employer of last resort effecting a living minimum wage.
Layoffs are the price we pay for stable employment for some people. Otherwise, we all get to be "consultants" scrambling for the next gig, basically.
A form so simple it only needs 117 pages of instructions.
Firstly, let me make it clear that I am not saying that only humans have a theory of mind, and I am also not saying that it is a binary property, either you have it in full or not at all.

Having said that, one can still consider when, where, how and how often it evolved. For example, there are many species that cache food. Some (some squirrels and also scrub jays, for example) will either only pretend to cache the food they are carrying, or move it later, if they notice they are being observed. Is that an application of a general theory of mind at work, or an instinct that evolved for one particular circumstance? As far as the ethical treatment of animals is concerned, I have no objection to assuming the former, but if we want a scientific understanding of what is really going on, that assumption cannot be made without further evidence.

What you are overlooking, I think, is that there are several possible explanations for the externally-observable behavior, and once you recognize that, there should be no paradox. In our case, we, as privileged observers of our own minds, can see our theory of mind at work, and, through language, we can talk to other people and ask how it seems to them. Neither of these lines of inquiry are an option when it comes to studying other species.

There is an interesting parallel in ethics: some people are well-behaved because they are fearful of punishment or ostracism, while some do so out of respect for other people. You can't always tell motive from actions alone.
Not everyone needs to buy in London or Oxford.
Nobody positioned this as a 'freedom of speech' issue, except you. He's entitled to his words. The public is entitled to see said words as the hypocritical doublespeak they are.
> What would it take to make that happen?

Dismantling the capitalist system and giving workers control of the means of production? Or at least taxing capital at the same rate as income? I'm not entirely sure in which direction your sarcasm is running, but if that's what you're proposing, count me in.

Edit: nevermind, your edit makes it clear that we disagree here.
In that case bartering would suddenly look very appealing.
Tesla is a powerful brand that could easily migrate into the soon to be booming aftermarket electronic car parts market.
To be fair, Cities Skylines is very much a sandbox game. Outside of maybe 2 or 3 scenarios, nothing in it is very hard, or meant to challenge you a whole lot.

I don't build Water Treatment plants because I'm worried about losing, I build them because I don't like looking at the gunk in the water.

Same with a landfill vs recycling center. I build a dump when I feel that it suits the city (young city, or new rural area) Later as that place builds up I will relocate the dump outside of city limits, plop a recycling center in the dense part of town, and build an incinerator somewhere else.
The article is misleading and there's no indication there was any intent to target Latinos, rather, as a result of the handover, Latinos ended up being targeted i.e. if Latinos are more likely on ICE's target list (entirely plausible) than this is going to happen after cross referencing. Edit: re-reading now and it indicates ICE was highlighting Latino names specifically.
What do you mean Disqus is blacklisted on your mobile phone? How does that work? (who has blacklisted it? is it an iPhone? maybe it's the iOS anti tracker features?)
This doesn't make much sense. Amazon was a name given by the Europeans that colonized the place. Either they are fighting to keep the name of those they claim were their oppressors, or, more likely, this is just a stunt to get some attention:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River
Well anyone who has dealt with ICE, Border Patrol this does not even remotely surprise me. I had a French-American friend who went to France without his daughter's American passport. When he returned back the Agent did not even ask to see the little girls passport.

Had this guy been Latino he would be called a child smuggler.
Ask HN: How do you look for a new job?
Do you look at job posting sites and which one? Do you use sites like Glassdoor or any other alternative? Do you ask friends about open positions at different companies?
This is why edge computing is going to be different. You have to be able to fetch and rely on data from the closest nodes, prefetch all the likely queries all at once, merge updates locally to keep relying on them while resyncing in background, etc. All while also not having data loss or weird hard to reason about inconsistencies. Basically all the reasons CRDTs were invented.
Probably because it's not 1 million Swedes entering the country illegally every year.
I'm a trucker. A few months ago I went to pick up some freight from "Bayer," at a distribution center, and it was consumer bottles of Roundup destined for a retail garden supply company.

I was a little confused, until I remembered "Oh yeah, right, Bayer bought Monsanto."
I've done both CheerpJ and TeaVM. CheerpJ is awesome - it's a complete port of the JVM to JS and apps often work with no modification. However, the app + runtime is about 75mb (uncompressed) and can take minutes to load from a cold start.

This post links to the TeaVM version. TeaVM is also awesome - but it has a reduced runtime, conditional compilation and better built-in DOM support. The whole app + runtime is 1.2mb (compressed) and loads in seconds (instantly once cached).
Creating Trending Animated Bar Charts Using R
This is the thing that gets missed is renuables are competing with peaking power which is more expensive than base load power. The way to think of baseload power is it's the lowest quality power source. If you contract for it you have to use it. And it's generated when other consumers don't need it. Which is why it's cheap.

Batteries are competing with very expensive grid stabilization technologies. Solar is selling into the peek daily power cycle.
Excellent work, looks great. I have been wanting to implement a simulation game for awhile, but have been hindered by the lack of learning material and example code out there. Everyone wants to build 2d platformers it seems. This will be a wonderful reference.

Thanks so much for making this open source. I'll be contributing on Patreon.
F-35 is a $ trillion project...why even risk it?
Why Go contracts are a bad idea, review CVE-2019-5736 and Go aircraft simulation
Maybe because the whole lower-right corner of Turkey is a well established CIA base and they want to do it themselves? The airport there has been a CIA base for at least 50 years, and that's probably being understative by decades. At least 50 years, at the leastest.
Is this the same sort of thing where a solution may require several necessary prerequisites, none of which are sufficient? Meaning, you may successfully complete eight prerequisites and see no change in the problem, which would be discouraging, until you finish the 9th final prerequisite at which point it would be solved.
Do you attribute your learning the most to the live coding? If so, what was it about it that helped you?
Citation requested.

(I've looked for wealth distribution by asset class. It's remarkably hard to find.)
" I'm pretty sure ICE's actions were what tore those families apart."

No, crossing the border illegally is the 'root cause' - not ICE. ICE's shenanigans are an artifact of that.

But yes, it seems weird that a private entity is in trouble for doing what a government agency 'required' of them.

These grey areas really need to be sorted out, it seems the laws are still unclear.

I think there are probably a ton of ways to sort the border out if there weren't so many extreme voices on all of this.
I'm curious how people envision a bank run looking in the era of digital banking. You already can't get much cash from a bank in good times because hardly anyone uses cash anymore for large purchases. Presumably Venmo, Visa et al will work just fine.
Guile is a traditional scheme, its niche being scripting and extension of existing programs.

Racket is more batteries included, and comes with an IDE, a package manager and build tools. It self describes a a language creation platform and includes a typed language, a prolog like language and several learning languages, used in their book How To Design Programs.

I’ve used Racket at home and work and enjoy using it, but I prefer traditional Lisp syntax.
The basis of Netflix’s U.S.-only disc business is that in the U.S. for physical-medium movies, there is no distinct rental right, but the first-sale doctrine allows Netflix to rent movies that have been offered for sale on disc and that Netflix has bought on disc.
> Don't use loopholes

But what counts as a loophole? There's a law that says you can deduct your interest income, so is doing that "using a loophole?" If that doesn't count as a loophole, then why does the double Irish arrangement count as a loophole? They are both just taking advantage of a law.

The obvious response to this dilemma is to bring up what lawmakers intended. That makes sense. But why not just have the lawmakers themselves clarify their intentions by closing things they consider to be loopholes? It seems unreasonable to expect each company to guess the intentions of each tax law.
Took me a while to find the lines, so here's the magic:

# ~/.config/mpv/input.conf (lines 20-22)
LEFT sub_seek -1
RIGHT sub_seek 1
This is... strange.

When the federal government comes asking for your help, I think it's pretty normal for people to provide that help.

In a just world, if the government asks for something inappropriately, then the party at fault is the government. (In other words, Washington should sue ICE, not Motel 6.)

If we want companies to require a subpoena to share information with the federal government (and personally I do want that) then we should set that standard in law. And we should enforce it fairly, not based on the hot political topic of the day. (How much information does the CIA and FBI vacuum up from Washington telcos in a day in violation of this law, and why isn't anyone held to task? Maybe because they have better lawyers than Motel 6.)

Helping the federal government do its job and then getting sued by the state seems like mom getting mad at you for doing what dad asked you to.
There is certainly the case to be made that physical DVD/Blu-Ray rental is still a viable business due to the stagnation of internet improvement in the US.

With that said, I'd think that Redbox basically does Netflix-by-mail more efficiently, no? It seems like the speed of the mail service guarantees that it will take at least a few days between you sending your finished movies back before new ones arrive, as opposed to driving to your nearest grocery store or gas station to pick something else.
> If you earn more, you've clearly benefited from living in that society more than someone who does not.

No, those who consume more have benefited more. Earning more is just the opposite: it shows that you've provided more benefit to society than someone who earns less. The ones who benefit most from society are the ones who manage to consume more than they earn.
Right, and most of the gains will be in the last year because exponents - so if you have to pull out early those gains are ded.
Not sure. I hate the Lenovo style "the whole clickpad moves so much when you click that you're almost certain to miss" thing. But I also hate the soft "you have no idea if you just clicked or not, do you" thing too. So I really need my buttons and don't remember which variant the XPS has :)
Can someone explain this reply tweet?

https://twitter.com/vijayravindran/status/111167101012907212...:

> Oh yeah, but what about rickb’s home directory?
CppCast: Boden Cross-Platform Framework [video]
Recovering 95% of the economically valuable materials [0] used in batteries is pretty much a solved problem. Using plastics and other low value materials might ruin that number but there is no reason why governments can't mandate to build batteries that can be easily recycled.

[0] https://www.audiworld.com/articles/new-power-from-old-cells-...
It's not wise to give up permanent rights to solve a current (and perhaps temporary) problem.

Governments can solve problems, but we should limit their tools such that our rights are respected.

If you ask me, a lot of our problems trace back to a lack of identity and culture. When you don't know who you are, you signal that you're part of a group by upvoting lies. When you don't know what our country is about (freedom), you just try to get whatever comforts a politician is promising you. When you don't have philosphical grounding for life, you are easily manipulated.
Most property taxes are assessed on improved value.

LVT is assessed on unimproved value.

The former discourages development & density, the latter encourages it.
http://doctorbeet.blogspot.com/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-...

Or lets look how LG explained it to advertisers: https://youtu.be/jffJWEPMt1E?t=46
Equal rights for girls/women leads to avoiding drugs? I'd like to see how you think that works.
From the article:

> "According to our interviews with employees at Motel 6," he told NPR's Scott Simon, "ICE agents would circle the names that looked Latino-sounding and ran those names through a database and then would detain individuals based on those random checks."

Seems pretty intentional targeting to me.
API to host the data? Data storage isn't a huge cost really (GPT-2 was trained on only 40 gigs of data which they got from just crawling reddit). It's the compute to train the model that's the costly part.
I'm pretty sure the greatest con copyright holders pulled is getting copyright to last longer than 5 years.
https://twitter.com/JoshTheJuggles/status/105455194210439987...

To anyone who is an expert, this is a profoundly uninteresting question. Literally no modern system is programmed this way, and many people would argue that telling a system who to hit is, itself, unethical.

A more interesting question might be if our models will hit certain groups of people more often, without anyone having explicitly asked them to.
Along side of this theory is "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis, which more artistically proposes that ecosystem management with discrete measurement was the way to manage complex dilemmas. Ultimately he concludes that each change to the ecosystem so fundamentally changes its components (which couldn't really be measured in the first place) such that the problem erratically changes and outcomes are unpredictable. He uses this to suppose that AI is a failed attempt to optimize these sort-of-NP complete problems of cooperation.
> Sure, there's probably some instances where it's pretty obvious what you're doing is a loophole.

I don't know if it's that simple. If we define a loophole as a tax exemption that was not intended to be used in a certain way by the lawmakers, then I don't think it's fair to call something a loophole if it has been widely known about and used for many years. It's on the lawmakers to clarify their intentions with new laws. That's literally their only job.
The distribution channel is part of the platform.