skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LED lights are now common in suburbs as they sprawl into habitats. Migrating birds get confused as they fly over cities. Coastal cities and towns mess with aquatic animals.
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Sure, but the point is, you can.
The tax bill was designed in a way to make people's previous withholdings inaccurate (although theoretically more accurate overall). That was politically motivated for two reasons. People were more likely to see a positive (or less likely to see a negative) impact on their paycheck from the tax bill passing. Republicans have also historically wanted to make the act of paying taxes more painful for the average American on the belief that it would generate political motivation for lowering taxes. Tweaking the withholding rules to result in larger payments (or lower refunds) when filing taxes is part of that plan. Both those points have nothing to do with whether the overall tax plan was beneficial for the average American or the country at large.
That may be true, but it's good enough that it should be easily usable by developers.

And I'm personally working on Quasseldroid, improving its UI to make it much more usable.

If you have suggestions on how to make Quasseldroid usable for the people that refuse to use IRC, I'd love to hear them :)
Most people did not save a meaningful amount of money while the wealthy got a massive benefit in comparison.
> I think he just has a heightened sense of smell and that's why he had air filters stronger than law requirements installed everywhere

Quite possible. I have a very strong sense of smell ever since I started hormone replacement therapy and it's driving me crazy how people can put up with some bad smells.

- I can pinpoint mold with a surprising accuracy -- it's everywhere, you'd be scared.

- I can tell when a bathroom is not properly ventilated -- had the office test it out and they changed the entire air ventilation system of that part of the building because it was not up to code.

- I could even smell if the driver in front of me is smoking in their windows closed car while I'm driving behind it with my own windows closed -- changed my air filters.

I'm absolutely certain that a lot of buildings are lacking in air quality and if I were the owner of any industrial or commercial building I'd make sure to invest in top quality air filter.
The only major(ish) browser I know of that seems to give half a damn about performance—by which I mean "does not make the whole system feel slow" rather than "achieves high scores on JS benchmarks"—is Safari, unfortunately :-/

I really miss when Firefox (Phoenix, Firebird) felt snappy and light. So, like, pre-2.0, back before 2006 :-(
The tax change has been in effect for a year now.

And, yes, that's my point regarding inflation. A 3% annualized change, adjusting for 2% inflation, is a 1% annualized change. While that may be interesting if sustained, over a few months it's not evidence of much of anything at all.
The catalytic converter on those cars alone is almost the same cost of the lawn mower. A good chunk of the upper part of the engine bay is filled with EGR components. I doubt you could fit all the modern emissions control equipment into a pushmower.
I've learned to never be bearish in the big picture sense. It's a human instinct that doesn't very well reflect our modern world.
From your link:

> The middle fifth of earners got about a $780 tax cut last year on average, according to the Tax Policy Center.

> The top 20 percent of earners received more than 60 percent of the total tax savings, according to the Tax Policy Center; the top 1 percent received nearly 17 percent of the total benefit, and got an average tax cut of more than $30,000. And that’s not even factoring in the law’s huge cut to corporate taxes, which disproportionately benefit the wealthy households that own the most stock.

Hence (rightfully so) pitchforks. The average American taxpayer was bamboozled.
> It isn't a surprise at all and doesn't seem immoral.

If their advertising was not saying the exact opposite it'd be fine. That is not what they either said or implied. The pay cut alone is not what makes it immoral.

Flexible contract are great - why do so many drivers not have them though?

Plus, it should be noted that the market of riders and drivers is not causing the cuts. The fundamental flaw in Uber's business model is causing the problem as they push towards a very far off goal of profitability.
Phase 1 - give scooters away basically for free
Phase 2 - sell same scooters for 1300USD

This is a business strategy that only works with heroin.
Totally official relationships:
https://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/
Just because things cause death and are widespread doesn't mean we shouldn't research other things. Folks research different things due to specialties, and some things are more easily cured than others.

Besides, sometimes a breakthrough with one disease means a breakthrough with a slew of other things and sometimes a "failed" treatment is simply misplaced and the drug/treatment is a great thing for something else entirely.
> I've been trying to explain to people for years now that reduction in unemployment does not mean people are getting good jobs

Is there a better metric for this? Something that combines the number of people with jobs with the amount they're making?
I know for an undeniable fact I paid more in federal taxes (if you account for inflation) but I'm one measly anecdotal data point.

I suspect most who don't believe it are like me or saw modest cuts. Perhaps if I saw the data and analyzed it myself I might believe it, otherwise, I suspect the majority got small tax cuts while the very few ultra wealthy enjoyed significant cuts.
There is also the U6 unemployment rate which adds is discouraged and part time workers who desire full time.
Umm Multiple apple services collect data on your usage like Google does. They don't use this data for Ads Personalization but they do have the data.
Not all month long. They've found that frogs won't sing if it's too light, making it hard to woo a reproductive partner.
The meter is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Air-Pollution-Formaldehyde-Detector-T...

After these words I'm seriously starting to doubt the correctness of the device. I can't believe I wasn't able to find any indoor location with a low enough concentration for below 0.1 ppm, or only outdoors. I mean, these are rooms where I, my colleagues, friends and family are non-stop, we should all be good as one by now with those concentrations.
Yes, and I think those invested in the last year are going to lose big.

I believe in the 7% yearly number we were taught. But I also can see the economy is damaged.
The article doesn't say the tax cut didn't help most people.

It makes the point that most people didn't notice it because they only pay attention to their tax refund. Their tax refund is going to be lower because they paid less taxes over the course of the year.

They are less likely to notice those incremental payments, but it's disingenuous to say they didn't receive a tax cut.

Ideally you want your tax refund to be $0 and invest the money instead of overpaying taxes.

Basically it boils down to who can manage your money better, do you need Uncle Sam to hold on to your money or not.
Focus on easy of use, however the author did not implement a :focus or :active state.

Not trying to be rude, but quite literally a default unstyled button has better easy of use than these stylized buttons.
Optical scan is electronic voting. Gaming optical scan machines was one of the first demonstrated hacks.

Hand counted paper ballots.
The planet Earth has been evolving continuously for billions of years. Mass extinctions and non-anthropogenic climate changes are evident in the Earth's crust. We're not the only species that left its footprint. We should try to preserve biodiversity and prevent anthropogenic climate change but not at the expense of humanity's development.

We are the dominant species because we deserve it.
I live in a desert. If only that would release enough humidity to make a difference.
Because most people likely spent the extra they got from the tax cut?
3.8 looks fine?

» docker run --rm -ti alpine:3.8 sh -c 'cat /etc/shadow | grep root'
root:!::0:::::

The others you mention though, I agree, they look less than fine.

Also, has anyone reported this to the official Alpine repository? (since the Talos disclosure seems to be confused; it says official but has URLs to the Glider Labs version?)

Edit: Ah, so here's the relevant GitHub issue for official Alpine Linux docker: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/5516

<=3.5 is no longer supported. Everything newer is patched.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps
Which, by the way, was a suprise due to the mostly-unpublicized changes to the withholding rates.

Add in tax penalties and it's a very unwelcome suprise for all but the most vigilant / those that pay people to manage their money.
Neither of those look as good as Slack imho. Regardless, there's a bunch of stuff you can do with Slack that you can't with IRC. Emoji reactions, voice/video/screenshare, easily post files and images... Plus there's a unified experience for all users that's not client dependent, no burdensome technical or protocol jargon, no federated servers (or servers to think about at all)...

I've used IRC quite a bit but Slack is light years beyond in terms of the UX of even the nicest IRC clients. I think Discord is probably even better than Slack though.
It's even less than you'd think - the country's largest employer - WalMart - which is often stomped on as a 'minimum wage employer' only had 4,000 workers on minimum wage a few years ago, and has since raised their own minimum wage to $11/hr nationally.

Minimum wage jobs are in fact exceedingly rare beyond entry level 'starter' jobs...
I can afford to get a high net worth visa but it's not guaranteed and rejection rate continues to go up for that visa.
Sorry.. I meant do expirements measuring cognitive performance relative to co2, find an optimal level, and if so is that level what you'd typically get outdoors?

I didn't mean "why don't you just open a window."
It doesn’t actually need to open, but the frame must be built to support belts. The lower bar of the rear triangle must pass over the belt.
You do not understand the argument: this is NOT about the cost to employers.

This is about ECON101; If the 'take home' money is more for the lowest end of employees, the price that the market is able to pay for goods that have NOT increased in quantity rises to absorb all of the added take home pay.
Far out hypothetical: Laws and regulations can be passed / amended that allow companies to cut the hours of employees by half and allow them to hire twice as many people.

This produces more jobs, but I do not believe it's a positive.

Maybe there is another metric that can be included to better represent if job grow is having a positive.

Maybe under employed captures this. I don't know.
See also: people overinflating their tires because it feels "fast", even when measured performance on real-world roads is actually worse.
It cuts out the sidebar/header content, along with all the usability-breaking stuff sites normally dump on us. Isn't that enough?

I hate that it's depriving them of views and revenue when they did legit journalism[1], but considering how webcancerous most news sites are, and how it probably wouldn't cost them much on net to revert to a sane design, I don't feel all that bad.

[1] other than worshipping the mantra of "the Economy depends on high consumer spending", of course.
Boosted is launching a scooter next week too: https://boostedboards.com/coming-soon/scooter/
I think the author is cherry-picking numbers to support her thesis. In any case, here are some opposing views:

U.S. consumer spending surged 0.9 percent in March, the biggest gain in nearly a decade, as inflation pressures remain non-existent.

The March gain in US consumer spending was the biggest monthly increase since August 2009, the Commerce Department reported April 29. while inflation rose just 0.2 percent and has risen only 1.5 percent over the past 12 months.

http://www.alaskajournal.com/2019-05-01/us-consumer-spending...

Average hourly earnings in April were 3.2 percent higher than a year earlier, the ninth straight month in which growth topped 3 percent, the Labor Department

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/wage-gro...
How do you define "frivolous"?
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I have a market argument against thorium reactors - basically, if they were as awesome as their proponents argue, then someone would have built one by now, for commercial purposes. But there hasn't ever been a commercial thorium reactor, and there hasn't been a serious build since the 1960s. Fifty years, and a lot of countries that aren't full of namby-pamby treehuggers to blame for it. Even India, which is sitting on like a third of the world's thorium reserves, doesn't build them.

This makes me rather suspect that thorium isn't nearly as awesome as its proponents think it is.
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I'm opposed to any form of electronic counting. If the first hand count of paper ballots has a problem, then they can be re-counted. By humans.
IMO it’s probably that wheels are a lot lighter now. Rotational mass is a killer.
The biggest problem with the new tax plan is that the withholding tables changed to be more accurate. This is because a large number of people's standard deduction went up enough to almost match, or exceed, their mortgage interest and SALT deductions.

And since payroll withholding doesn't account for the mortgage interest deduction, but does count the standard deduction, they ended up taking out less taxes (basically giving everyone a couple hundred dollar "raise") during the year, which made the year-end refund much smaller.

And too many people budget big items based on that year-end overpayment refund, instead of setting aside that extra pay every month. So lots of people feel like their taxes went up.

Now what would have been nice is if there was an information campaign that would have business encourage employees (via auto payroll deposit) to divide their paycheck into checking and savings accounts, having that "extra" money go into savings automatically.
Apparently, you haven't been to the west coast of the US in the summer, when lightning, dryness, etc all works together to release millions of acres of CO2 per summer..
It was an across the board tax cut, yes wealthier people get larger tax cuts because they paid more taxes in the first place. I received a $2,500 tax cut.

If your taxes did happen to increase, it was most likely because you used one of the deductions that was removed.
Linux itself might not have been (although I'd challenge that if I could remember dates a bit better); Apache and Perl certainly was.
The American middle class is shrinking because the majority are moving into the upper class, while the lower class remains constant. There's plenty of reports on this, check out intragenerational financial mobility.
The market in regarding to China is not fair, so all is moot. Germany isn't play so fair as well [1].

[1] https://www.export.gov/article?id=Germany-Trade-Barriers
I really like WP-Cerber: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cerber/
Do you have a link for that? Every time I look into one of these/similar stories it is a shitty insurance company either heavily encouraging or basically forcing the suit if the person wants to be covered for their injuries at all.
But since the top 20% of taxpayers pay 87% of income tax[1] and the top 1% pay 37%[2], this makes total sense.

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-20-of-americans-will-pay-87...
2: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
That’s only 14% of Americans. If we start spending only 14% of our transportation budget moving those people and storing their cars, that would be great.
But it’s not how it was sold. The absolute number is not the issue, but the optics. I have seen this first hand with Trump supporters (extended family) who are having an unpleasant tax filing season (owing when they have never owed before) and feel lied to. I have delivered the bad news that their tax burden was already so low, how would they expect their tax cut to be generous? Like I said, optics.

EDIT: I know how tax refunds and liability work, but I am not the general public.
fwiw Matrix provides pretty comprehensive moderation tools as per https://matrix.org/docs/guides/moderation, hopefully exceeding Mozilla’s requirements
A philosophical question... but what do you think is the objective value of privacy?
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The average user isn't willing to pay more for their devices just to avoid the seamless sharing of their data with google. There's a reason people stopped buying desktop computers and are relying on mobile devices and cheap laptops for more: its cheaper and they don't care about the hidden "costs" of their data being shared.

In addition, sure, people could absolutely create local, non-cloud ways to accomplishing a lot of this. But who is footing that bill? Where's the value proposition to anyone who has the manpower
This already happened to me. Around 14 years ago I created a MySpace musician page and apparently I put in my real birthday. It must have been public although I surely didn't intend it to be, and some sort of large data aggregator site picked it up. Later I deleted my MySpace page but the data aggregator still had my info.

The data site had tools to remove your data, but before I knew my data was even there, Google bought the site sometime around 2011 and shut it down, and added the data to their own system.

Today, if you search my full name on Google, it shows an infobox on the side with my real birthday. Google considers birthdays non-private enough that they won't let me remove it. I'm no celebrity but I get that info box because I had a MySpace musician page once over a decade ago.

My birthday now appears nowhere on the internet except that Google search infobox. MySpace, the original aggregator, all gone - but the data lives on.

We don't have a Right To Be Forgotten law where I live but if we ever get one, I know where I'll be going first.
Mostly it's just to make articles (text content) readable as their text content.

I, personally, have little patience for being advertised to or being asked to check out "interesting related content"... someone linked an article they thought was worth reading so I wanted to read it, this makes reading the article as simple and direct as a plain text file.

I linked it here because I know other folks enjoy it and I thought it'd be considerate to minimize the number of times the article needed to be reparsed to strip out the weird bits.
> and supposedly more "locked down") ecosystem

Is it not? Your entire post only argues "It is, but here's why it works for me...". Removing the "freedom to tinker" is taking two steps back from what a computer should be. And smartphones are growing to be the primary computing device for many, so in my mind it's ridiculous to argue them being locked-down a merit. Relying on apps from a walled-garden app store is not a solution even if it works for you or others. Many legitimate apps are banned from the Apple app store entirely, and users cannot install them even if they choose to because iOS prevents installs outside of the app store (unlike Android). I want to run my own code on my own device, freedom to do so is not "hugely overrated".

And as for privacy: what is privacy if its decided for the user and not the other way round? You cannot have true privacy without freedom, you only have Apple's definition of it. Tell Chinese Apple users about privacy, why Apple stores data in China.

And freedom extends to hardware, too. You purchase an iPhone and Apple tells you it's too dangerous for users to fix it themselves, and lobbies against right-to-repair [1]. Do you also consider freedom to repair your own devices overrated?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19791438
Why did they censor the closing speech though?

Kyle: That's because there is no goo, Mr. Cruise. You see, I learned something today. Throughout this whole ordeal, we've all wanted to show things that we weren't allowed to show, but it wasn't because of some magic goo. It was because of the magical power of threatening people with violence. That's obviously the only true power. If there's anything we've all learned, it's that terrorizing people works.

Jesus: That's right. Don't you see, gingers, if you don't want to be made fun of anymore, all you need are guns and bombs to get people to stop.

Santa: That's right, friends. All you need to do is instill fear and be willing to hurt people and you can get whatever you want. The only true power is violence.

Stan: Yeah.

— The closing speech, which was censored by Comedy Central[2]
>> two-thirds of April’s new jobs were generated in lower-wage services industries

Um, yeah, no shit. That's one of the segments this administration wants to help and create job market competition for: small businesses, low income people, folks who were SOL under previous administrations and voted for this one. Nearly every major economic initiative by this administration is targeted at tightening supply on the lower end of the job market: from stimulating manufacturing jobs, to China trade war, to NAFTA, to strengthening the border, and cutting off the flow of illegal low-wage labor.

Reduction in unemployment means less supply, less supply coupled with higher demand means labor can command higher prices. This is economics 101.
Without knowing for sure, I imagine acrylic to be inert and most like any other dust on the time scale it takes for our bodies to expel it. But I could be wrong. Certainly, there are modern dangerous materials which do affect us, such as asbestos and heavy metals.
It doesn't matter, as most people like OP have no skin in the game so can spout any type of nonsense to feel better.
> the top 1 percent received nearly 17 percent of the total benefit

Given that the top 1 percent pay more in taxes than the bottom 90% combined, that doesn't seem entirely unfair.
He is probably referring to the fact that most people pay their property taxes out of escrow holdings along with their property insurance. Payment into the escrow account is part of your monthly bill and is rolled up into the "mortgage" payment even if it is not actually part of the mortgage. Most people won't even request these broken out by line. In those situations, you would expect your monthly payment to change year to year based on property tax assessment.

Since it seems that many people can't differentiate between total tax rates and tax refunds, it seems reasonable to assume that people would consider their property tax escrow part of their mortgage payment.
The median 5th of earners earned from 30-48K last year, which includes a huge chunk of people who pay zero federal income tax. A $780 tax cut in to someon who only pays $1000 is not insubstantial.

It's kinda the way math works - if you cut taxes for everyone, the people who pay the most taxes in absolute dollars will see the most benefit.

Oh, and you're not disproving my point - claiming a tax cut is not a tax cut because when people in fact paid less in taxes is kinda hard to do.