skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "more effectively" part is important here. Plenty of people will happily vote for increased corporation tax here in the UK to stick it to those evil billionaires and just end up ruining small businesses in the process (while of course the likes of Amazon, Google and Starbucks carry on paying essentially nothing).
I was hoping there would be a section/mention on data privacy, but a CTRL+F revealed no mention of the word.
>I did not imply anything with that statement but the pure and simple fact that the Jakuza has at least one big extra problem to deal with since police are actually allowed to tap their phones.

I seriously doubt it is a problem for them, much less "a big one". What kind of amateurs speak openly on their regular phones about covert action, whether it's legal or not to wiretap them? Besides the fact that the police could be listening in (illegally, but still routine in most of the world) to get useful tips (and use them, just without expecting to use the recordings in a trial), rival gangs could also listen in on their plans, and so on...

>And you could also be more honest by saying that total privacy is more important to you than a significant portion of criminal convictions

Considering that Japan is perhaps the safest countries in the world (and was for decades while wiretapping was not allowed), and the US and UK with dead easy access to wiretapping warrants and mass surveillance are of the worst western countries in regards of crime, I don't think there's that much to teach the Japanese with regards to getting more "criminal convictions"...
Remember using it a lot in mid 2000s. On iPod Mini and the HP Player. Also Sansa.
IIRC , on iPod it let you play more codecs and then there were a few games thrown in.
Loved it and that is what switched on my "change the native firmware" mode. Before this I did not know it could be done. I also realized how OEM hobble the hardware with restrictive firmware.
Now I try not to buy Hardware (phones, routers etc) that can't be flashed with custom firmware.
If you're earning 300k (estimated from the almost 150k you said you pay in taxes), are you really in the upper middle class? from this article [1], 300k salary puts you in the top 5% of income earners. i don't know how you figure that makes you upper middle class?

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom...
> But with Tesla, there are lots of rumors that the queue for getting stuff fixed it really long, and that after warranty expires, really expensive.

Rich rebuilds did a great video on the out of warranty costs of older Teslas [1]. The summary is: they're surprisingly expensive to run; major systems break much more frequently than I would expect of say... a Japanese car.

The newer cars may or may not be better.

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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq5c4jGR2gM
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This article doesn't do a good job of explaining the income breakdown of the top 400 households. I imagine it is nearly 100% long term capital gains and dividends. That doesn't explain the change in the chart that occurred in 2018 though.
I had both an Archos and a Cowon MP3 player back in Middle/High School that I loaded Rockbox onto one of (can't remember which). I remember being able to play Doom, watch pirated Family Guy, and listen to my music all on one device and thinking this was the pinnacle of technology.
I commented on another post a while ago that the simplest way to "do Agile right" is to give the developers more power. There's just no other way. Whether that means: ownership, reporting direction, I don't know, but people can feel it, power is power.

I don't mean to imply this is a panacea. "Doing Agile right" is one thing, but business is about more than software development, and an engineering-led organization can of course ignore financial or marketing realities.

But there's an expertise-for-the-job phenom going here. Managing software development is a skill. It requires "navigating ambiguity," that favorite phrase of managers. It requires being able to expect and roll with punches, and chart a new course---every few minutes to every few months, depending on the context.

I suspect the best thing would be for boards to take a more active interest in their company's SD activities. Bring the CTO in, figure out the tech landscape the company is confronting. "Giving devs more power" is probably a no-sell, but "boards taking software seriously" might fly. And when you do that, you unavoidably become the devs who already have power.

I know, a digression, sorry. But it's just night-and-day, the diff between technical and non-technical management.
They have higher marginal and effective rates. The title "The Rich Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You" is so false and ill-intentioned it says a lot about journalism and the left.
There's a huge imbalance of power between the company and an individual worker. So it's "kind of" not the same at all.

Why are people so quick to defend the powerful?
It's slightly unfair, but I read this as Waze deciding to route a bunch of cars down a narrow residential street to divert around a congested highway then going "whoa, that's gonna be chaos! Watch the sparks fly!"

More seriously, I hope they're using this accident data - particularly involving pedestrians - to avoid making routing decisions that increase their risk.
> If you accept the trans community's claim that misgendering is an act of violence...

I've found that members of the cisgender community almost uniformly take offense at being misgendered. And responses from the cisgender male community often include threats of physical violence, especially when one persistently misgenders them or challenges the validity of their maleness.

That said, I'm rather troubled by Monica's treatment in this situation, especially its coincidence with Shabbos/Rosy Hashanah.
I don't use it quite that frequently but awk/sed is a strong addition to the toolbox.
Most likely they are an at will employee in the USA so they would just be fired.
My understanding is as such:

Communism (the ideal): a classless, moneyless society where all states around the world have withered away and people are free to organise themselves outside the tyranny of the state or private property owners

Communist Party: Authoritarians who like to use the above as a carrot and seem to like to create one-party states who never wither away. They claim to represent workers but tend to stick their own representatives anywhere that has any economic significance. Leftist critics of such societies often characterise this as "state capitalism" where the state is effectively one gigantic, brutal monopoly. In Lenin's words "He who does not work, neither shall he eat."

Socialism (marxist): Workers own the means of production as a vital step towards communism

Bourgeois socialism: A pejorative for what we call social democracy or democratic socialism

Social democracy: The distribution of value to society through highly general programs, as you put it, within a liberal, capitalist society.

Democratic socialism: Social ownership (i.e. co-ops, municipal ownership, some nationalisation) of the "means of production", usually still within a market and otherwise retaining liberal democracy and usually also aiming to implement social democratic policies, too.

Also interesting: Ricardian socialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardian_socialism
As others have commented, their very choice of the top 1% when talking about the super-rich is a disingenuous one.
I thought Bolivia and Afghanistan were the leaders in lithium
Is there something wrong with your Volt that needs updating?

I have no interest in owning a car that tracks everything I do and is the control of someone else.
300 employees spread across the globe: how Alconost built an officeless business
> Why turn a $1.00 into $1.10 this year when you can turn it into $15 in ten years?

Because there's a very good chance you go bankrupt in year 3, turning your $1.00 into $0.00 instead of $15.

> Being "profitable" is irrational and stupid. [...] Profitability is a very narrowminded view of how to run a company.

What a weird, weird thing to say. As if it were straight out of the Silicon Valley TV show.
> In government... I don't think pensions ever went out of fashion.

There are a lot of different pension schemes out there as the feds, states, and localities do not use uniform plans. What I've seen, though, is that there are now "two tiers" - one for older employees and another for younger ones. You can guess which plan is more generous...

A lot of localities and states see the writing on the wall - that their perpetual 9% growth rates and population increases won't keep up, and are thus moving new employees into 401K plans, no different than the rest of us in the private sector.

Honestly, I don't think I'd be able to tolerate being a teacher or state employee, and knowing that my manager, 20 years older than me, has a retirement worth 3x as much, and it will be funded by increasingly shorting me on salary and benefits (along with tax increases) as the pension liabilities become harder to pay. Look at certain cities like Chicago and Baltimore and states like New Jersey for a current example.
>Well, if someone isn't willing to accept that easy evasion of surveillance (normal phones) rather than more difficult evasion (burner phones, code words, walkie talkies) is a benefit to criminals, even though countless criminals are convicted because of exactly that surveillance, there is no common reality left over which to argue, is there?

Well, if one can't use basic common sense, and instead believe that just because wiretapping was illegal, criminals the Yakuza casually talked in normal phones and didn't already use burner phones, code words, walkie talkies, etc, I don't know what is left to argue...
> "Perl was a popular programming language about 30 years ago"

That's inaccurate. Perl was released 30 years ago. It was quite popular by 2000, or about 20 years ago.

That said, something dies when it is no longer useful. Perl is quite useful and still comes bundled up with any modern Linux system.
Maybe it is, but that Wikipedia article doesn’t illustrate any controversy (unless I missed something), only that we should take the source with a grain of salt.
I really want a carbon tax especially on investment, it's the only solution to the investment problem, isn't it?

But imagine the riots in France as the price of gas goes up.

I can also imagine the News Corp/Sinclair spin on it in the USA.

It has to be supplemented with other programs to take the load off of average people. A really disproportionate percentage of the burden needs to be taken on by investors. Doesn't it? What would that entire package look like?
Did the same in thing in college but with Toki Pona. Think Esperanto but even more stripped down to under 200 words that you combine to express ideas. If you work hard at it, you can reach an intermediate level over a weekend. My roommates and I exclusively used Toki Pona for about a month and I would say we all became very comfortable in the language.
A fund? To what, pay the IRS to target specific individuals? After the IRS targeting controversy [0], I would highly doubt the IRS would accept that money.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
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I still think it's only a matter of time before Apple takes another bite at Tesla. They want into the space, and are just too far back on the technology curve. They could engage someone to build the car for them, ala what they did for Foxconn, but they are not going to deliver better technology then what Tesla already has. There is a insane amount of overlap between Tesla owners and Apple's most lucrative customers, and Tesla's owner satisfaction is through the roof. It would be pricey, but I can see Apple making a huge bet there.
Depending on location, that could still be low enough that it's difficult to own a home.

Edit: Oops, misread that 150k was before taxes. 150k after taxes should be enough to own a home
what is a dead language exactly. Is COBOL dead, it had a version update just a few years ago.
You also see it in the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that drop bombs on civilians in other countries, the global surveillance system, military aid to despotic regimes with no regard to human rights, the border guards that imprison children and harass travelers.
I consult and I've been at places where a 4 person standup take a half hour. Usually then I start telling people "We don't solve problems in stand up."

I've also worked at places where a 20 person standup took < 10 minutes and helpful b/c sometimes someone not on your team will know how to fix your blocker and just help you out afterwards.

I think as long as you have a standup czar or just post your updates to slack, then it's a super useful meeting. If it ever goes over 10 minutes then whoever is running it is just making everyone late for work.
This is wrong in every way possible. The entire concept of road surface preservation revolves around a sufficiently resilient but elastic (non-brittle) impermeable coating. Equally important is a well drained base.

The whole point is to keep the water away from the dirt, and when it's not possible, minimize (distribute) loads from the tires across as large as area as possible.

They tested alternatives extensively in the 50's, driving trucks in circles on different test tracks for literally weeks and months at a time. As poorly planned as some people believe the interstate system to be, the government didn't throw billions of dollars at it blindly.
It's not--the article is missing important aspects of tax such as deductions/exemptions and other forms of tax paid.
One day my comment on the article might get approved showing that the syntax is also "modern" since like 2008! 2014 was formal support in the core of the language with `use feature 'signatures'` in version 5.20
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>>> The CGI example you mentioned is broken, but is also using a module (CGI.pm) that's been bad and wrong for so long that even Perl, with its eternal love for backwards compatibility has removed it from Perl Core.

The CGI example is straight copy/pasted from the official Perl guide, November 2018. https://www.perl.com/article/perl-and-cgi/
> The graph in article is effective, not marginal.

The article is not very clear on that, and there is nothing to indicate such on the plot itself (which will be taken out-of-context at some point).
What's the story with AV1 based image format to replace JPEG?

Also, is HEIF royalty free? Looks like AVIF is using it for container, which is surprising.
Also seems like a viable vector to DOS something - if Microsoft runs this on some sort of cloud infra with a fat pipe
Oh boy, I can see how this ends.

The US already has a very progressive system. The aim here appears to be: increase govt spending. Okay, the only way to do that (looking at other countries that have high shares of govt spending to GDP) is to reduce, not increase, the progressiveness of the tax system.

The quantum of "taxes were higher in the past" is utterly wrong. They were marginally higher in the past but not by much (the big step change was JFK, then Reagan, then back up through Clinton)...how does the author even think govt gets paid for? Revenues are not swinging wildly all over the place.

If you are worried about middle-class income growth, it is worth asking how their income growth has been so low given that a huge chunk of people pay no tax at all and the middle-class pay substantially less than almost anywhere else. That is the truly concerning thing about progressive tax systems, how do you pay for stuff when most people don't pay tax? And the political response to taxation is always: "someone else will pay for my stuff...someone else!!!".

A global minimum corporation tax rate of 25% is ludicrous. I remember talking to a fund manager who talked regularly to Peter Oppenheimer about Apple's offshore cash...the solution, according to the genius Peter, was just for all the countries in the world to just make their tax systems equal to the US...easy...and then the problem would be solved. What is extraordinary about the charlatanism of the article is that the author actually thinks this view is logical. Apple just believed it so they didn't have to pay tax...but this is apparently someone's logical view...2019

Tangent: the US has gone way down the path of "economics and politics as objective science"...this has led to a host of people battering other people with apparently "logical" but totally impractical "solutions". Common-sense thinking and understanding history (i.e. what people have actually done in similar situations) is useful info that would help here.
> I have yet to meet a single person who hasn't enthusiastically agreed that we should separate healthcare from employment. The reluctance comes when nobody has any idea what we're going to replace it with.

Sadly, I have, and it is invariably from people who basically say those who don't work don't deserve healthcare. It is disturbing to hear people say this. They don't want to "pay" for someone else's healthcare. They don't get that they already are.

> We're at an unusual social state in this country where nobody trusts the government and nobody trusts big business. What does that leave?

Where did we go so wrong? Is it because we treat government like football games? One side has to dominate the other; all or nothing? What happened to compromise for the greater good?
> All the apps are in one desktop because there is delay in switching between macOS multiple desktops.

Huh, this is a weird one for me.

I believe there is a Terminal command to shorten the animation time which I've used, but other than that it would take more time for me to cycle through so many windows to find the one I want, than to just lay out task specific desktops and switch between them with Ctrl+Left/Right.

Not only that but I already am at a limit where I have so many windows in one of those (several Firefox windows, each with many tabs of stuff to read) where all of the windows become sluggish unless I move the one I'm trying to use to a less crowded desktop.

Did you do something to avoid this slowdown? How do you efficiently move between all those applications in a single desktop?
When I was in Denver last, they had 3 or 4 of them that all seemed to do pretty well. Basically these huge warehouse spaces sub-divided up. Some of them even had full fledged restaurants, art studios, breweries, coffee shops, etc.

The "landlord" usually puts a bar in the middle, which is obviously the highest margin part of any restaurant. They get the benefit of making money on drinks and events, plus they give patrons a great reason to come there to drink with so many food options.
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Why, though?

It seems to me that the long term payoff of colonizing Mars is huge.

The long term payoff of colonizing remote and inhospitable areas on earth is many, many orders of magnitude lower.

I can maybe rationalize that effort if we simply assume that those areas are similar enough to Mars that the experience and technology developed while doing it could be applied effectively.

But I'm not really convinced that most of that experience will transfer - The requirements to make a self-sustaining ocean colony or artic colony are wildly different from the tools and experience we'll need for Mars. At best we gain some general insights, but we'd still have to spend enormous resources developing the right tech and tools for Mars.
Came here to say this. Ssssssssookie!
It's a bloody shame they're squishing in nonsense startups on quantum computing with useful imaging and cryptography startups. The latter are places where investment dollars are actually going to pay off.

Also kind of shocking how nature has devolved into a sort of science tabloid format. I suppose that happened a while back, but I remember when being published there in any format meant something.
You know how you raise the stock price when you're a CEO? You get a tax cut from 35% down to 21% with the nominal purpose being so your company can hire more workers (to handle the business that was previously not profitable enough to cover their wages?), then you use that money for stock buybacks.

Less supply of your stock plus a deep pocketed purchaser? It's bonus time!
Oh, I have fond memories of the H320 (it was released right around the time of the click-wheel iPod with the grayscale screen). I could watch movies on my portable music player in colour! My friends' minds were blown.
If we're going to go with xkcd, the "death date" reminds me a bit of https://www.xkcd.com/605/
Definitely. As someone that helps write wiki content for a open source project it's quite a bit of work, for little-to-no recognition, so I can understand why that happens. Plus you don't know if anyone even ends up reading it.

I still do it because of passion for the project, but it would certainly be easier to be paid for it!
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Some Places Are Much More Unequal Than Others
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I'm curious to know how people who bought Teslas thought about these pros and cons:

• lower maintenance costs than ICE vehicles

• higher insurance costs than ICE vehicles

• possibility of long delays for repairs (moreso than other EVs)

• possibility of company going out of business, and impact on software maintenance, software updates, and parts availability (also moreso than other EVs)
> Great software should be paid for.

Why?

Great software - Linux - is not paid, and it is taking over the hosting world, and the IOT world.

GNU is great software. nano / pico is great software. python is great software. .NET is great software. it is all open source.
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They didn't do that in the 1950s, though.

It does address an important point, though: should you pay tax based on where you live, or on where your income comes from? Governments invest a lot in their country, their citizens, education, a healthy market, etc. For foreign companies to profit from that healthy market but not pay taxes there, seems wrong. Similarly, for people to work in a healthy labour market but not pay taxes there seems equally wrong. These things result in a race to bottom to attract rich people and corporations that make their money elsewhere.

Instead, I think it would be better if income and profit were taxed more based on where it comes from, making tax havens irrelevant. But I have no idea how practical that is.
I believe mini is owned by Bmw, a lot of the stuff is borrowed from Bmw
I don’t doubt this. Regulatory corruption is a real issue. Fortunately this isn’t an issue for most consumer-facing industries in the US.
I believe so many problems in our society would be solved by lifespan increasing technology. It would make people have to seriously consider the long-term ramifications of their actions, and I imagine adopt a kinder, gentler, more sustainable attitude. Climate change is a personal threat to you if you're immortal, not your children or your children's children. Crime goes down, as the risks of having jail time on your record grow and grow - it's one thing to be a felon for 60 years, but to be a felon for 500 years? 1000 years? No one would risk that just for the contents of a 7/11 cash register. Being nice and kind to everyone you see makes more and more sense, because the longer your lifespan the higher the probability you'll meet some of those people again and get your kindness repaid.

The only downside is potential overpopulation issues, but (perhaps this is naive of me) I imagine most people would accept sterilization in exchange for eternity.
They should at least be a major international proponent of CO2 taxes and improve their chances of becoming a valuable relocation target for energy-intensive industries.
I mean on the technical side. The stuff you describe are required for any job.
For example the -signatures example on https://mojolicious.org/