skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define intelligent.

Very tiny animal life shows what we would consider intelligent behavior. There is no particular reason to believe that evolution has even come close to size optimization that intelligence can be reduced in, as there are a large number of other dimensions it is working on at the same time, survival being the big one.
This is quite awesome. Can you make them shareable?
> And a fair tax is just too simple. Politicians wouldn't have anything to sell anymore.

You’re right! Without the ability to carve out exceptions, why would a powerful lobby need to come with a proverbial suitcase a cash?
Because of the highest property tax in the nation.

This is a feature, not a bug. It’s very difficult for the wealthy to hide their property. There are also a number of ways to reduce the tax rate on one’s primary residence. Combined effect of this is surprisingly progressive, closer to a wealth tax.

Another effect high property taxes, is that most existing homeowners feel some pain when real estate prices soar and therefore there is a large contingent of voters who want to make sure that supply keeps up with demand so that their taxes don’t go up.

By contrast, where I live (in San Francisco), the existing homeowners make out like bandits when the government policies are punitively exclusionary towards outsiders. Soaring home prices mean nothing but good for homeowners when their taxes are both very low and virtually frozen at the original purchase price by prop 13.
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> It’s intellectually interesting, but nobody could actually dance to it. In Dungeons and Dragons terms, the song has astronomical Intelligence, fairly high Charisma, and low to medium Wisdom. I’d rather hear all this craft being poured into a straightahead groove that’s more amenable to audience participation.

It's kinda nice to see someone getting all elitist about Music Should Be Danceable; usually when I see this sort of attitude it's connected to people sneering at music that makes people wanna shake their asses for being "simple".

But there's lots of things you can do with music, and some of them are danceable, and some of them are most emphatically not. You can't dance to bebop, you can't dance to Gregorian chants, you can't dance to ambient. And if this Collier dude wants to chase cold intellectual undanceable thrills and has an audience willing to pay him to do this, then it ain't my problem if I don't like that, there's an uncountable number of other musicians, past and present, who have made music chasing other goals.

Personally this was the first I'd heard of Collier and he's not doing much for me. I'm not at a point in my life where I wanna hear cold crystalline overdubs of one white dude's voice. But whatever.
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Nobody earns a billion dollars.

People who take your view that billionaires deserve their money because they "work hard" -- and I'm sure some of them do work hard -- usually don't realize how much money a billion dollars really is. An individual could never work hard enough or long enough or smart enough to deserve that amount of money.

- A million seconds ago was 12 days ago. A billion seconds ago was the 80s.

- With a 5% return on their wealth -- most billionaires actually make closer to 10% returns -- you make $137,000 a day if you have a billion dollars. So the poorest billionaires make more money in a day than 99% of Americans make in an entire year.

- https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/you-have-no-idea-how-m...

Nobody should have that much money. Nobody.
Part of the problem with housing prices in California is that property taxes are too low. Prop 13 means existing homeowners are shielded from higher property taxes, so growing property values are only good for them, no matter how high. Thus, there's no incentive to increase housing supply, which could lower prices.
So don't commit code before it's gone through automated CI testing, codereview and QA? Or never make mistakes that require any of those to catch them? (At least before CI, it might not even compile correctly everywhere)

Git can easily handle getting rid of or modifying commits, so why not make use of that ability in a controlled manner?

I.e. I'd typically not re-build the history of the master or another major branch just to fix a bug introduced a while back at the source (although I guess backporting fixes might be similar). But for work in progress, one or a few commits about to be merged, smaller fixes are better made at the source. Not to talk about entirely irrelevant commits like "it's the end of the day, let's commit and push to a branch so it's not just on my machine".
I was skeptical, then I checked [1] and apparently even if you separate by state you only need a household income of $512k to be in the top 1%. High, but certainly not unfathomably so to HN readers.

1 - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/27/how-much-you-have-to-earn-to...
Net comrade, my soviet domain names are still valid [1] and free from this private equity capitalism nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
It worked for me until recently. So a few months back... for android apps you need an app key, but there is no way to do that for a web app afaik, maybe if you used the google api instead of the standard web api. But i prefer platform independency and privacy over quality.
Why would the government review a headquarters move?
The tax code enables and reinforces outlier wealth using tired arguments like "encouraging investment" and "double taxation." United States centric observations:

For example, charging lower tax rates on capital gains than ordinary income promotes a concentration of wealth to people with wealth. Suggesting this is purposeful policy for society to encourage investment is comical -- what else would wealthy people do with the wealth? Store it under the mattress? Or spend it (in which case that would accelerate the velocity of money, also good for society). Capital gains taxes are only on the gains -- income that had not yet been taxed. Actual double taxation is a wealth tax.

Similar tax policy that results in concentration of wealth are:
1) 1031 transfers (where income on sale of real property isn't taxed so long as the proceeds are used to purchase real property),
2) Qualified Small Business Stock (where federal tax isn't paid on gains of sale of small business stock)
3) Economic Opportunity Zones (where tax is deferred on gains so long as the gains are invested in an Opportunity Zone, and all additional gains aren't taxed).
Things like this being a potentially career-limiting move — especially these days — is a strong argument for more software developers to start their own businesses.

I consider it a serious and grave problem that if someone takes issue with your worldview — or if you merely ask the "wrong" questions, or even if you ask completely innocent questions that are misinterpreted — they'll go after your livelihood.

Case in point: http://www.tersbakis.com/news/17661/how-swedish-professors-l...
"The brokerage giant heads for a state that doesn’t punish finance"

opinion, indeed!
Why TV networks may be afraid of investigative stories
That's a rather strong accusation...

In the article it says REST was studied previously in contexts that have nothing to do with aging.
That may be true now, but if you are saving/investing any appreciable amount of money (say, $100k/yr) then in 30 years you will also likely have generational wealth, which is another big difference.
The attitude here is we are fully developed and thus done developing. I don't imagine a bright future for California with these housing policies.
Having a guaranteed basic income, free money, or whatever you want to call it, would assuage a lot of the resentment surrounding the perceptions of effort, luck, opportunity, merit, worth, earnings, taxes, parentage, connections etcetera that inevitably come up in these discussions, as they have on this post.
I also said, that SF isn't the entire Bay Area.

If you gave weightings to crime categories (we all do this internally), property crime would probably be the lowest weighted next to white collar crime. Violent crime would get exponentially higher weightings.

It's one thing to have $200 worth of stuff stolen in a car break-in. It's another to be violently mugged for $200 in cash on your person. I've lived in bad areas and the Bay isn't one of them. I'll trade property crime for knowing my family isn't likely to end up the victim of a horrendous violent crime.

Manhattan also has high property crime rates but low violent crime. Even has high real estate costs, but you don't see anyone knocking it as a hell hole.

There are people with some weird agenda/vendetta against the Bay Area, and they're obviously pouncing here.
Ask HN: Open-Source Version of Quartz Compositor Look-Alike?
Hi!

Reading about Quartz on the Mac I became super interested in Quartz Compositor and how the Mac renders windows. The linked article says the Mac is a able to render windows with holes whereas Windows (at least at the time) couldn't do that.

I know nothing about this—but I'm curious to explore this concept.

Is there an Open Source library similar to Quartz Compositor to learn from?

Good article on Quartz Compositor:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100609024323/http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/10/11/what-is-quartz.html?page=3

Only result on Github that references Quartz Compositor directly:
https://github.com/jcampbell05/OpenCompositor
The problem with housing in California is that we do not build it because regulations prohibit new housing. Look at a zoning map in San Francisco. Housing is illegal.
Yes. I'm building a distributed engineering team now (hiring people both inside and outside the bay area). Everyone underestimates how much talent there is outside the core hubs (Bay Area, Seattle, NY, etc). Yes, talent does cluster in those cities, but they don't have a monopoly.

There are lots of smart, driven people outside the talent hubs. Also as a sweeping broad generalization that I frankly can't back up with data, they are a lot less entitled and don't job hop as frequently.
Thank you so much for reporting this bug. I just released an update a few minutes ago to fix it.
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This comment and its parent are the two keys for me in this whole rotten situation. ISOC are like Esau selling his birthright for a mess of pottage (i.e., a bowl of lentils). They could have done so much better for themselves, for the Internet and for society at large by holding on to the domain.
It's in the top 5 but not the highest.
Prop 13 basically just limits increases in taxes from purchase time. So it benefits existing land owners at the expense of future land owners.

And it also benefits speculators - makes it cheaper to hold onto property for longer.
There is some bugs i think:

digraph "CK-Build" {
subgraph rank_0 {
rank=0;
"a";
}
subgraph rank_1 {
rank=1;
"b" -> "a";
}
}

On regular rendering, this does not render a box for the subgraph, plus, a and b are displayed in the same box, at least it should be in separated boxes.
Even that seems better than dealing with SF's bullshit for the next 5-10 years.
I would love to use Fossil, but git is too entrenched. The only thing that would allow me to use it right now is basically automatic, two-way migration between git and Fossil, so I can use it locally and other devs can use Git, and we can all still use GitLab for the CI, etc.

Unfortunately, this seems pretty hard to do, so I'm afraid git is too powerful. I absolutely detest its porcelain, but what can we do?
The point is pharmacists have 0 legal training.

No matter their expertise I wouldn’t want the construction worker working as my pharmacist without any training.

Yet we’re ok with giving essentially the entire power of the state to people with no training or experience in law.
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Why should it be a linear relationship? If talent is normally distributed then supply should decrease exponentially. Assuming that a company can afford it, wouldn't this make a linear demand produce an exponential forcing on salary?
Exactly, I find it far easier to explain LD as just fast subtraction combined with multiplication to my kid than common core methods which I had to stare at for a while. The most critical method here is how to break up components of a number into addition "parts" as well as decimal positions.
Damn, what a toxic and misguided comment. I have a MS in Applied Mathematics and there are many areas of math (especially “pure” math) that I’ve never touched. Same goes for my professors. The field is so vast and so deep that it’s impossible to learn even a negligible portion of it (unless you’re immortal). Are our degrees fake?

It makes perfect sense that prospective educators would specialize in different areas of math than those with a pure math (or engineering, or physics, or statistics, etc) degree.
something went wrong when I changed subgraph cluster 0 to:

subgraph cluster_0 {
a0 -> a1 -> a2 -> a1;
label = "process #1";
}
While probably a larger scope than you are looking for, the fed.gov has written volumes on security policies in the NIST 800 series.

https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/NIST-800-Series
> Here in Denmark the highest tax bracket applies to almost 10% of the Danish population. The Top 1%, Top 0.01% and billionaires are not taxed more than the Top 10%.

Because in America, the top 0.01% makes their wealth through investment income, which is taxed at a lower rate. So, the top 0.1% pay a considerably lower rate than the balance of the top 1%.
Don't forget the joy of parcel taxes, city and county sale taxes, and other ways of bleeding you out to make up for the people who aren't paying their fair share because of Prop 13; which you still have to pay even if prop 13 doesn't help you because you were born in the wrong decade.
Important to note it's household income. If a family has 2 software devs at a FAANG (not the OP specifically), quite likely to get to 1% with work experience. If they are doing a european vacation, bathroom and a car one 1 year, definitely top 5%.
Property taxes in fort worth are ~2.85%. What is bay area?
> I don't think it is that much.

I can't find a good reference, and I think it's gotten better since the 70's, but yes, depending on who you ask and how you do the accounting (and which nation or region you're talking about) losses are from about 10% to as much as 70%.

I'm glad you're not against improving efficiency but you should check it out, the scope for improvement just in efficiency is great.

I. e., ICEs emit streamers and blobs of unburned fuel (not to mention other still-useful chemicals that instead become pollution). You can install a spark plug in your tail pipe and send 5m flames shooting out the back. People used to do it for kicks, I'm given to understand. There's a whole cottage industry of fringe-tech gadgets to atomize fuel more finely to improve cars' fuel efficiency.

Or consider the refrigerator, it opens like a cabinet spilling cold air on the floor every time.

We can get 2x improvement in energy consumption just though greater efficiency.
> The point is pharmacists have 0 legal training.

Sounds a lot like 1/12th of a jury.
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Dude. You jumped the shark too early there. (People behaving like you is the exact reason why HN is becoming more like reddit nowadays.)

You can read my comment in response to bkor's. In no way I was trying to glorify Singapore or the authoritarian nature of things.

I actually left Singapore and moved back to China because there are more acceptance and appreciation for liberalism in China than Singapore. And more grey areas to navigate around too. And I'm one of those people that believe in making a difference in China. Making a difference in Singapore is much harder and requires more resources.

I have a few friends that tried to run some form of NGO in Singapore. One of them did a project called Make It Share It (https://www.facebook.com/makeitshareit2017/) to promote art and freedom of expression. The Project closed down a year plus later due to lack of funding because it was entirely self-funded and they didn't give too much thoughts on the self-sustainability part. I would say it did manage to bring some positive impact to the society a lil but in a very limited way. Afterwards the founders left Singapore and now they got settled down in Berlin.
My two cents: given the breadth and complexity of modern law, a legal degree (or at least, a bar certification to practice law) should be mandatory for any judicial appointee.

I am currently in the final year of a law degree. When I started my degree, I already had degrees in medicine and information technology, and I'd just founded my third startup.

Despite the legal exposure I'd already obtained as a doctor and entrepreneur, it was humbling to realize just how much about the law I didn't know - not just in terms of actual laws, but also in terms of interpretation of the law as a technical discipline.

For sure, if I'd been appointed as a judge with only my (pre-law degree) experience, I'd have messed up in all sorts of basic and fundamental ways.
nobody's claiming Reddit invented the concept, it's just more salient to the average reader. are you seriously saying, if you were an Engadget editor, you would have said "change it to Usenet"?
Why y'all downvoting this man? He's right.
I think the point is rather that they are not lawyers.

I have no idea how comparatively complex the law is. But that is hardly a justification for having less training. The potential for harm is the most important factor. That is why you have highly trained engineers or architects (for example). Because mistakes can destroy lives. I think the same should apply to judgeships
I completely agree. The other thing that's a bit of a shame (for me) is that I don't like his voice. He's insanely talented (and probably a savant), and of course has all the voice techniques down, but the timbre of his voice (which the singer sadly can do nothing about) ends up not being my cup of tea. It has a particular pubertal property. Every time I hear his music, I wish he had written it for someone else to sing.
States and cities often give large corporations preferential treatment to maintain a footprint there. I'm not sure if this is the case for Schwab/SF, but if they are getting a break then announcing a move might be a time for SF/California to start clawing back benefits.
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Been in the Bay since 2000. I grew up in NOLA through the worst years. Can't unsee what I've seen there.

NOLA is bad because crime is everywhere. There are no good areas and bad areas -- it's everywhere. Even people in old Metairie need to deal with home invasions.

Uptown? Oooooo-lawd! Who was the rich uptown couple that had a home invasion where they tied up the husband and repeatedly raped the wife over several days as they went to the ATM over a long weekend? I honestly can't remember their names because that stuff happens so often (and said family was even friends with my dad).
karma inflation.
I've never heard of anyone associating the word "hippy" with being a minority. It's more about beliefs, behavior, and culture.
TIL: Lemon Law
Indeed, and for many of us, it's not just our money that makes money, but our education, which is largely a form of wealth passed from one generation to the next. I would be nowhere without the education that my parents paid for, out of the money that they made from their education.
Austin really is a small town, tho. You can see all of downtown from your hotel room, and the rest is just suburbs.
I'm slightly surprised it's not obvious to you but giving you the benefit of the doubt: if we had had more open discussion/education about the horrible effects cousin marriage can have it might have helped change attitudes in the Pakistani community, but this was apparently resisted due to cringey PC fears about saying anything that might offend said community; the latter evidently a completely legitimate fear given the weaponising of offence by the left. If you still dispute what I'm saying, I'm far from the first to say it - below is from 2005:

'The Labour MP Ann Cryer has called for British Pakistanis to stop marrying their first cousins... Speaking to the Guardian, Ms Cryer said: "I'm not calling for a ban or a change in the law because that would mean changing the law for everyone. I'm simply calling for an enlightened debate. We've avoided discussions on this subject. People are being politically correct.'
You're too kind. :-) I appreciate your conversation and reasonableness too.

And I agree with you,

> We need to get everything down on paper and start sorting it out, and then form opinions. And this applies to everything, not just psychedelics. If only people could figure out this incredibly simple idea.

I like to think we're getting there, but only time will tell, eh?

Warm regards
Whoa! Didn't even know about Prop 13 - that basically means no house can currently have a higher taxable value than basically double what it was worth in 1978. Insane!
This. I'd love to see a histogram of tax revenue by income bracket.
If learning about Shakespearean sonnets is actually about building writing and reading skills, then I would say the same for Laplace transforms: they are about building logic and math skills and not about actual laplace transforms per se.

I suppose I agree with you, but I think math is not given enough credit.
I wonder how good their investment strategy is that 1.1B will earn them $120M/year in income, that's nearly 11% return...
Former Facebook employees created Cocoon, a social media network for your family
Microsoft bought the first incarnation of their OS as well, licensing QDOS to become MSDOS.
That’s an interesting idea, essentially to get the usefulness of Vue single file components but without involving a build process.

I would expect development and debugging could be somewhat easier since you’ve just got annotated HTML (no build pipeline), but I would also expect that runtime performance would be worse (or at least it would be harder to write an implementation as performant).

I could see this being a very nice option for simple sites, where you just have a bit of interesting UI on the page (menus, forms) and want to write it declaratively, but going to a full-on SPA framework is overkill.

VueJs fit that description really well at version 1. I love Vue, but I feel it has moved much in the direction of a full all or nothing framework these days, especially with the mental hoops they’ve gone through in v3 (setup + hooks) to take the paradigm and make it typescript friendly.
Super simple project of course, but I realized I had not done something "simple and fun" for a long time outside of the day job.

I'd like to keep improving it and at some point add phrase generation; train a generative ML model. Fine tune GPT-2 or BERT. Then perhaps have it react to Twitter users adding it to threads.

I'll try to keep https://flancia.org/botginia updated.
> ...are all much more complex than the laws governing the cases that come before these low-level courts.

The law is hardly a set of statutes. It's comprised of thousands of judicial opinions interpreting the code and articulating specific doctrines. Court made law is especially important in criminal law. It has nothing in common with reading a construction blueprint. It's honestly horrifying that there are people with legal authority that have no training applying the law.