skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tax code counts the price at the time of exercise, not at the time the lockup ends. (A lockup is a contractual obligation not to sell the shares: you still own them, you just can't sell them.) The logic, I guess, is that there are other types of property (eg. real estate, private company shares, collectibles) that you may not be able to sell on a liquid market, but they are still items of value that you've received, and you should still be taxed on them at the time of receipt.

You could argue about the morality and rationality of this decision: some people would say it's both wrong and somewhat unfeasible to levy taxes that people have no way of paying. But that's the law for now. There are other scenarios that can get people into this situation as well: cryptocurrency transactions, property taxes, wealth taxes in general. Indeed, one reason we have Prop 13 in California is because seniors were being forced out of their homes because they couldn't pay the taxes, but that brought with it a whole bunch of other undesirable economic distortions.

From the employee POV, your best options are usually to either a.) file an 83(b) election as soon as you receive the stock options, indicating that you'd like to be taxed on their current fair market value (which is usually zero at the time you receive them, because most strike prices are set at the current market price) and have all future gains taxed as capital gains with a cost basis set at the time of the 83(b) election, or b.) don't exercise your shares until you're ready to sell them.
Javascript is a terrible language and many users actively fight it by turning it off.

Those users don't typically show up in whatever javascript-based metrics you're looking at. I don't think you'd care, either. You're literally building an echo chamber and then yelling into it that it's the best echo chamber.

Chrome is neither the "best" nor the "worst" javascript VM, nor is Firefox. Chrome is simply the most prolific. And that has nothing to do with Chrome's javascript implementation and everything to do with Google pushing hard for users and developers to switch to Chrome by putting it in front of their faces as much and often as possible. Everything from default-homepage being defaulted to Google.com, to that home page then asking users to switch to Chrome, and even "open sourcing" the engine and pushing for games and "competitors" to utilize it.

I have yet to find Firefox use more CPU, memory, or battery than Chrome. Of course I don't go around with Javascript turned on with every website either.

Given that so many websites utilize Google-based services it makes me wonder just how much of the "more CPU, more memory, and more battery" is also just "more of the same underhanded tactics from Google". Google already demonstrably does that for other products; why leave out third parties' websites from the shenanigans?
I'm not saying that domination can't be useful in subduing uppity individuals.

I'm saying that thinking workplace disputes are situations that should be solved through domination rather than understanding is emotionally immature.

Even if the disagreement is entirely irrational, the severity of the disagreement alone can indicate more deeply rooted problems with the current dispute just being used as a proxy war. It might not even stem from a work related problem.

As much as programmers (I'm one btw) tend to complain about managers, this is actually something a good manager is aware of. If a conflict arises or an employee is unhappy it's their job to figure out how to best resolve not just the current situation but also prevent it from recurring -- a bad manager would simply enforce policy and enact punishments, a good manager will try to improve the environment and working conditions.

"Competitive sports" (including team sports which really must be co-operative at the team level even if the teams compete directly) are good for gaining humility and building mutual respect, yes, but the PayPal talk wasn't about that.

It was about using domination (whether literal physical domination through impromptu wrestling or metaphorical) to resolve work disputes. The very idea evokes testosterone-fueled high school bullies, not fully-developed grown adults.

HNers tend to cheer for the idea of meritocracy but this is the worst kind of meritocracy: you're not even filtering for being good at the job, you're just filtering for being good at whatever mechanism you're using to establish dominance (whether it's physical altercations or as you suggest Ben Shapiro like dazzling).
> In the Firefox UI, you’ll then be able to generate a secure password like so:

That's great. But what if I now want to log in to the same site from my iPhone?
> Chang says that the paper is evidence that subtle, nonverbal factors "can have a large impact on the experience of pain"

and Chang is wrong, wrong, wrong. The phrase should have been "can have a large impact on how the experience of pain is reported".

There is no evidence that the patient actors experienced the pain any differently, only that they reported differently on it. Who knows, maybe they tried more to be good actors than they tried to be good patients?

Until a study shows up that measures sham treatment to be more effective than no treatment, I maintain that the placebo effect is simply regression to the mean, or unreliable self reporting, and prescribing a placebo, or a placebo under another name (homeopathy, alternative medicine, etc.) under any circumstances is fraud and a violation of the Hippocratic Oath.
I used to walk alongside Euston to go to work. The air quality was noticeably bad, and you could feel the heat from the consistently running Diesel engines. It’s upsetting they don’t power down while parked.
If I recall correctly there is only one or two licenses among hundreds that aren't both recognized by the FSF and the OSI. The differences are largely ideological, not technical/legal. I'm a fan of Open Source but my main side project is under GPL v2.
Must have that. But make sure it is ready within November 2019 (very important for obvious reasons) preferably before the Tesla Truck reveal.
> You mean to say that Western and Central Europe don't exist?

I would say they are all capitalist countries. I cannot think of any European country after 1990 which prohibits private enterprise.

What you are referring to is still a capitalism, each with their own different taxation, social security and welfare system. You can argue which works better, which not. It is not that it does not exist in US at all, it is probably less developed or is just different. And European countries also differ between themselves, by large degree. But that is not socialism, it is still capitalism.
>>The contract was made in 2013 between Dr. Obbink and Hobby Lobby Stores

>extremely prejudicial ... to emphasize the purchaser of the fragment when the story is really about the person who is accused of illegally taking and selling the fragments.

i think laws are pretty consistent everywhere in civilized world - knowingly purchasing stolen staff is a crime, and buying ancient texts from an Oxford professor instead of buying them from Oxford doesn't really pass smell test (or like they say in legalese something like what would a "reasonable man" do)
The funny thing about consumer cloud storage is it's only useful if you aren't using all of it. Stuff just automatically showing up there is the point. If it's full, that doesn't happen.
> companies have a monopoly in one area that they leverage to extend their monopoly into "the next thing."

This is also illegal in the States for being anti-competitive. e.g. if you have a dominant market position in one market, and leverage that to enter another market and/or gain market share, this tends to be the source of many Sherman cases.

Ex: Company X is a monopoly in market A but wants to enter market B. If I use extracted rents from A to significantly undercut prices below competitive level in market B to gain share, even if it's unprofitable in the short term - THAT's a problem.

Note that startups don't get as much scrutiny when they do this, partly because it's very rare for a startup to have dominant market share.
Even if we take that post to mean they don't ever look at the content of your email at all (I don't see that), can you tell us who independently verifies that claim? Or should we just trust Google because, hey, a large corporation would never lie to anyone or try to abuse the fine print of a user agreement.
This is brilliant. A progressive enough government could even give people “a free trial” of a carbon tax by having this part of it kick in a few months before the tax starts, with the check explaining what the money was coming from.
Perhaps you don't appreciate how a review looking at 100 different setups & methods and 93 of those all arriving at the same endpoint (RF leads to oxidative stress) represents FAR stronger evidence than a single study showing the opposite under very specific conditions.
IIRC they even collected the tokens on behalf of sites that didn't sign up, creating a quite weird and rather unethical "you basically have to sign up now" situation for publishers.
> A resounding no and shudder would be the answer even if we had an undeniably "better" universal language for the purpose that didn't have any "politics" to it.

So not JavaScript?
> I've recently seen a ton of FF fans state that the reason they love Firefox is that it doesn't have ads or track you and preserves your privacy.

> However, Firefox wouldn't exist without Google and (to a lesser extent, Google Chrome).

These are unrelated issues, though. A connection, financial or otherwise, to Google, does not mean that users aren't getting a browser that prioritizes privacy.
So company employees should send you handcrafted "Please confirm your email address by clicking this link" transaction emails?
Using Statamic to build a custom theme
And your point is exactly what
Oh, please. You make it sound like Mozilla is equivalent to Facebook. Is that a smear campaign ?

You can donate to the Mozilla foundation. Have you ? Have you convinced your company or your friends to do so ?

Because that's a better alternative than outright singling Mozilla out for their ties to Google. Which last time I checked didn't make the user the product of Google like Chrome or Android does.
well, that's weird because according to the institute that runs the entire thing (https://www.niis.org/blog/2018/4/26/there-is-no-blockchain-t...), there is no blockchain technology involved, it merely uses some hashes to link data together, as do plenty of age-old protocols.

This is a good example of why these PR campaigns are silly.
ML on the edge.
https://www.agerpoint.com high-resolution crop data through LiDAR
Or you could go all in with Multi-Account + Temporary containers :)
1) Your meme-image does not show there is no relation. In fact, the source of one of the lines in the image is by Berner [1] which states (p. 201): "This means that over the long term there is indeed a correlation between CO2 and paleotemperature, as manifested by the atmospheric greenhouse effect." The source of your image directly contradicts your claim.

2) RE "unlikely that [...] there would be only one control knob": I never said there was only one. I said it was a control knob. And it is in fact the most important one (but not the only one) [2].

3) RE "I've seen all of potholer54's videos.": I think you need to watch them again.

[1] "Geocarb III: A Revised Model of Atmospheric CO2 over Phanerozoic Time
", http://www.ajsonline.org/content/301/2/182

[2] "Atmospheric CO2: Principal Control Knob Governing Earth’s Temperature", https://science.sciencemag.org/content/330/6002/356

[3] As a side note: your image has no x- and y-axis scales. If you want to spread misleading images, at least use a better version (for instance, https://abruptearthchanges.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/no-lo...)
It's like $20 a yr for 100GB! It's an incredible deal.
It follows pretty logically from any kind of work in the wireless business. There’s a very direct correlation between transmitter altitude, and how likely it is that the transmitter will be able to connect to any given client. It follows that the best transmitter is one that is in space, which is why communications were one of the first commercial uses of satellites.
I thought this product sounds interesting:

https://www.sprowtlabs.com/

To achieve malting (the germination and kilning of barley etc) on a small scale.
Uber and lyft are trainwrecks as well. They IPO’d a business that burns money without any hope for profit. We are just witnessing the slow bursting of the current bubble and people are waking up to basic economics again.
Read a lot... and specifically people that are good at writing.
That's true in vacuum. Light traveling through a medium has to reflect off of or absorb/re-emit from everything it bumps into, so it goes slower.
> we see users just outright refusing to pay

I’m not convinced this is true. Surveillance/Market insight/whatever is just too lucrative.

There’s plenty of examples of company’s that make a living by charging for a service but for a company like facebook, for example, excluding users runs counter to their whole business model.

“Charging” customers is hassle. If you can find a way to monetise without all that icky hassle, you will.
It's already installed, that's not it.
Note to users on mobile - link is a 33mb pdf.
https://www.agrobot.com is developing a robot to pick strawberries. Pretty sophisticated, too.
Yes, there is. Iraqi war and what China is going is totally different. Iraqi war is a consequence of 9/11. China's fight is against anyone that will not bend to their will.

That the US isn't afraid to retaliate, no more no less.

Ps. At least your account is 12 days old :p
I think with points 3 and 4 there are very difficult decisions. Turning people away or not trying treatments sounds pretty bad, but there doesn't need to be an entire new system just to solve them.
Ask HN: Moving to Puerto Rico for the Tax Benefits?
Puerto Rico is the only place a US citizen can move to and legally owe 0% in federal income tax and capital gains tax.

From https://ustax.bz/puerto-rico/

Under Act 20, a Puerto Rican corporation that’s engaged in certain types of service businesses only pays Puerto Rican tax of 4%.

Under Act 22, you can pay 0% on certain dividends and capital gains you realize while you’re a bona fide resident of Puerto Rico.

I guess the most optimal reason to move there is if your day job is an investor. Curious if anyone has looked more closely into this or has actually moved there for this reason and whether it is worth it or not?
Well, if you are going to demand payment of the service you need to be able to ID each client, so just apply filtering according to the rules for the country of that user.

Also, you presumably keep track of where your antenna is pointing anyway.
So you are recommending to anyone new to an area, race through the yellows? To avoid accidents??
Amazon aws security team are idiots and they never run public bug bounty programs
Would You Like Fries with That? McDonald’s Already Knows the Answer
I’m not sure how anyone can say in good faith that Ghost is “just a Wordpress clone”. Even a cursory walkthrough if the dashboard shows this to absolutely not be the case.
Or savers when the currency gets inflated.
did you publish the source code?
If the US really ran out of resources, I wouldn't count it out. In the mean time, it's more like we prop up dictators who agree to sell oil exclusively in our currency (see Saudi Arabia) and invade every country small enough to push around that tries to sell oil in anything but US dollars (see Saddam being in talks with France, or Gaddafi planning to sell oil in the gold dinar). Since the whole world has to buy oil, the whole world has to have dollars. Then we print more US dollars, devaluing the existing US dollars in global circulation and effectively stealing wealth from the rest of the world for the benefit of our banking system. Yeah, we also give sweet contracts to Haliburton so that they can pillage third-world oil fields in the middle of our wars and there is some immediate benefit from that as well, but I'm betting that propping up the petrodollar is the most important way that we're leveraging the military for economic ends.
My apologies for not prefacing my comment with a trigger warning for the comrades in our audience.
Ask HN: How to get past your wife's past?
I recently got married and found a few things about my wife's past that has wrecked havoc in my mind. I'm not able to focus on work, and feeling low self esteem and depression. Logically, I understand that past is past, and it's gone but when I try getting back to work, my mind goes lost and I feel like crying. Have you ever been in this situation? How do you force your attention to your work?
I think there are other factors. I liked lisp without even knowing it. Because my brain wanted the limited amount of syntax possible.

Your mental model will affect how you feel about a language.
Watch this space :)
Iridium Certus is something that may be an option. Their new constellation just recently came online. I am uncertain of end device availability/support though.
> But wouldn't the real test be running both browsers as the active window and comparing those results?

No matter what you're doing, all but one of your tabs will be in the background at any given moment.
Those articles seem to overstate their case a tad. For example, here's a quote from one of the internal-use-only documents being bandied around as proof Exxon knew about the impacts of climate change:

"However, the quantitative effect is very speculative because the data base supporting it is weak. The CO2 balance between the atwosphere, the biosphere and the oceans is very ill-defined. Also, the overall effect ofi ncreasing atmospheric CO2 concentration on the world environment is not well understood, Finally, the relative effect of other impacts on the earth's climate, such as solar activity, volcanic action, etc. may be as great as that of CO2."

Sound familiar?

In any case, that doesn't seem to be what this lawsuit is about. If I'm understanding it correctly, Exxon used a higher proxy cost of carbon ($60/ton) in their externally-published justification for why their fossil fuel reserves are unlikely to become "stranded" (economically unviable to extract) due to carbon taxes than they used internally when deciding what would be most profitable to invest money in ($40/ton). The prosecutor alleges that by doing this, they mislead investors into thinking they were applying higher projected carbon costs than they were actually using.

Frankly, it doesn't sound like a very good case. The stranding analysis literally says "We do not publish the economic bases upon which we evaluate investments due to competitive considerations." In addition, higher carbon taxes can affect the profitability of future investments in both directions - making efficiency improvements and clean energy investment more profitable but ones that produce more carbon emissions less so - but only increases the risks of reserves being stranded, so it seems highly prudent to use a higher carbon tax figure than they're actually expecting when assessing the risk of stranding, especially given that it could entirely wipe out the value of their reserves.
Honeycomb Hotel took a short while to figure out how it works (in particular I didn't realize the puzzle isn't considered solved until all walls are placed), but it's quite addictive, thanks for that.

Any others of his that you would recommend?
Much of the Christian symbolism is just there for the sake of aesthetics, but this is less so true for the Jewish (and especially Kabbalistic) imagery - there's actually a lot of overlap between the plot of Evangelion and themes from Lurianic Kabbalah (especially the notion of the ein sof and the traditional interpretation of tikkun olam, which is reflected in the Human Instrumentality Project), so the visual/aesthetic nods to it are a nice touch.
AFAIK, Merino is mostly farmed in alpine regions, a lot of it in New Zealand. There's a really interesting BlisterReview podcast[0] on technical fabrics and wool, featuring an interview with one of the buyer/sourcers for a big wool company. He explains the farming/shearing/processing of merino pretty thoroughly.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/3X5VBJaRvo1jjVElTjxnnP?si=B...
I think in the same lines (I'm building a relational lang http://tablam.org) and think a modern RDBMS could be made alike:

command "city.define miami" |> event pre-process (ie: validations and transformations!) |> write-ahead log |> fire-observers: [post log for later OR block writes]

The idea is to put some of the stored procedures in the "event pre-process" before commit to write-ahead. In the "fire-observers" steps is possible to directly commit to a table (sync) and get immediate feedback (ie: primary key duplicate) OR store the log to be processed later.

The idea is that is possible to send "events" that are not necessarily "insert into table" or similar, just pure business stuff. BUT still possible to operate as always!
This is an amazing time to be alive. Starlink opens up bandwidth potential and global service reliability to bring completely new business models and capabilities. There is no more edge for trading on fiber under the ocean wires either (It seems so to me at least).
Sounds like you want a consumption tax, and not a wealth tax then?
Gitlab 12.4 Released with Improved Merge Request Dependencies and Audit API
Note that this publication only seems to be analyzing the costs post-production. It's important to consider how damaging the cobalt and other rare mineral mining is for the sake of batteries, which are essentially scrap after 10 years or so by current standards. Older ice engines can basically be rebuilt forever as long as they're maintained. Certainly alternative battery technologies will emerge in the future but the current ones seem problematic.

Back in college a few years ago I wrote a paper trying to compare the environmental cost of maintaining and operating 90s cars vs buying and replacing electric car batteries measured by co2 emitted (typically written co2e). This was written around 2012 but I found the break even around 10 years. That is, electric cars were measured as a fairly flat line (not fully flat, assuming some non zero co2e for electricity generation). There was of course a ton of hand waiving but the gas car was assumed to have a y intercept near zero and to be operated for 10 or 15k miles/year (can't remember exactly but I know it was in that range). I would link it but I'm currently not in the same country as the hard drive that might still have a copy of it. Of course I would prefer to have a peer reviewed publication on this, but I had a lot of trouble researching the manufacturing/mining estimates back when I wrote it.
time_t originally counted jiffies (60 per second) and was reset several times in the early 1970s before is was changed to count seconds. This makes it hard to interpret filesystem timestamps preserved in early Unix dumps. The 1970 epoch was chosen when Unix was a few years old, as a convenient round number.
I don't think Haiku's goal is to ever reach 1.0 :) it's been what, 10 years now?
> 80%+ of their reserves, and therefore their book value, must stay in the ground

Can we please stop with the "stay in the ground" meme? It makes for a nice sound bite/slogan, but is not the only way to keep the carbon in oil from becoming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Nevangelion is such a good anime.