skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oops, I missed that extra clause, thanks.
What other States allow their DMV to do this?
Anyone coming up with a Ted like teddy bear conversational experience in AR. Cracking jokes at consumed content at hand will make a killing and will silence all critics. This is an article from a conservative that could have written an article like why the Electronic vehicle will never be a car 5 years ago. We know nay sayers do not have the power of imagination they just consume the fruit when it's ripe.
This is easily possible with a 9 second 0-60 if the on ramps are built properly. I have a Ford Fiesta, and it's lucky to hit 0-60 in 9 seconds. I always make sure I'm at highway speed before I merge.
I don’t think most alcoholics would agree with this, btw. People who get drunk a lot usually aren’t one single emotion each time. This is almost on par with the belief that different liquors get you “different kinds” of drunk
This is so naive I suspected it was intended as satire a couple of times while reading it.
For those defending this decision as rational, are you aware the expected 0-60 time is 9 seconds?

That's not just a little slower for comfort. That's pitiful for any car. I am not sure I've ever owned a car that slow. For comparison, Mazda's full size SUV, the CX9, does 0-60 in 7.1 seconds. 9 seconds is more on par with the Mazda 2, a tiny sub-compact.

We need EVs to take over for the health of our planet, and the way we do that is by making them superior to gas cars, not nerfing them so they aren't competitive with them. The average buyer doesn't need a 4s 0-60 time but quick acceleration eliminates objections and perceptions that EVs aren't as good as gas.
RSUs and options are already taxed.
Indeed!

Rather than losing 5% of your wealth in the form of taxes to the US government, you can lose 200% in the form of cryptocurrency wealth redistribution and volatility.
Sure, but if you understand this concept, you're not likely mistaking wealth for income on a survey.
Belated edit. Medical care being about money is one issue, given the Hippocratic Oath. But it's possible to have medical care systems where economics drives good care.

The US doesn't have that.

As I said, there's a very similar situation in the US about child care and education. And really, it's about everyone who isn't effectively competing for resources.
Why not an overall raise for all coworkers, even percentages?
Pretty much all states sell this data. It's vital for auto insurance companies to be able to get up-to-date driving records for policy quotes.
This is the most accurate description of a "weight loss journey" I've ever read. I was obese (40%+ body fat). Now I'm fit and healthy. Like you, it took me a decade to get there. Anyone who thinks it's easy or simple to make the lifestyle changes that requires, hasn't done it themselves.

It's not about the diet - most diets actually work, if you can stick with them for the rest of your life, but that's a huge if. CICO or keto or IF or carnivore or whatever, doesn't matter. Permanent weight loss requires the much harder task of fundamentally changing your brain's relationship to food. The only way that happens is through practice and painful failure.

You do have control over your weight. But losing fat and maintaining a lean body will be one of the hardest things you ever do.
Yes, but people take it as if it's not, as if there is some scientific basis for calling certain groups "marginalized".
Our design decision documents have essentially four sections: Problem description, solution options, comparison of the options, and decision. I find it helpful to clearly distinguish what is part of the problem and what part of the solution. The size of the sections varies a lot.

Meta information could be: Status, stakeholders, decision-makers, and rollout description. It also often has links to meeting protocols and tickets.
I campaign for the extinction of the human race
That would require vehicle tracking, and people in the US don't want that. Fuel taxes only work for vehicles that use internal combustion engines. A tire tax is a possible vehicle-neutral option.
Oh no, how will those poor powerless multi-millionaires survive? Oh wait, they still control the government.

This situation is kind of silly to talk about because the very people who would be subject to the tax will just tell their congresspeople to vote no and that will be the end of it.
You get a degree of cryptographic security by using a sufficiently large and random token - ie, attackers computers cannot spam guesses fast enough to get a hit in any reasonable amount of time. I can’t remember what the exact requirements are though.
You're arguing about linguistic prescriptivism vs. descriptivism. Is the definition of the term what the coiner says, or is it how it is commonly understood?

A lot of people are going to disagree with you if you claim that prescriptivism is somehow more correct.
The distinction between wealth and property seems pretty fuzzy here and it's hard to clearly reason about this without addressing it. Property taxes are a great example - you're paying them on things like houses to support local infrastructure, right? And you still have the property afterward.

So let's say you don't want to pay a wealth tax on the money in your bank account - buy a house with it. Now you're not paying a wealth tax, because it's a house instead of US dollars. Instead, you're paying a property tax! If the wealth tax is too onerous you can just park that wealth in a house or something instead, maybe rent the house out (with the help of a management company) and make money off it. That's good, right? Get the economy going, create jobs, and you get a return on your investment.

To me even if a wealth tax isn't the right solution here (I'm not convinced, and I'm not sure it's feasible to implement), the distinction between "wealth" and "taxable property" is kind of arbitrary nonsense at this point.

If everyone is taxed fairly, you can eliminate lots of means testing and systemic complexity because everyone's paying in so everyone has equal right to access all of the systems and benefits a functioning state can have to offer, whether it's health care, public transit, education, etc.
A Different Kind of Conference
Devil's advocate, why not let Vermonters vote in their own privacy law for their own government?
“This is how life is supposed to be”
i was so hoping this was about vvvv.
I bet he's really fun at parties. :P
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-bet-youre-really-fun-a...
I need to play through this again. So many great memories. It was one of the great early indie games that paved the way for thousands more, alongside World of Goo, Braid and Super Meat Boy.
Great question, the first year my sponsor said "avoid those events or have an escape plan"

avoiding was a non starter so the "escape plan" was I committed to leave, akwardly as it may be, before i picked up a drink.

aka if someobdy was pressuring me to drink to the point i felt i had to i would say "ok get me a beer i have to go to the bathroom" and then disappear and blame it on an upset stomach

and believe the truth that unless you take somebody else's drink away from them or ask them to stop drinking nobody cares if you have a beer or a coke in your hand

After the first year I learned that caffiene has a similar effect on me in social situations if i need to ramp up and can be just as engaging / moreso
On a percentage basis, yes. In terms of absolute numbers, it appears that men are still "winning".

I do expect women to catch up--despair is ultimately an equal-opportunity killer.
First off, please don't take anything I'm saying out of context which is in terms of regular people that make enough to pay their bills. Lower income types struggle with these things so I wholly recognize they're in a different type of game.

However, this whole article sounds like some pretentious westerner who thinks because they opened their mind to some sort of zen meditation that their problem became easier to solve. Also this same person chants the praises of writing things down and decrys the usage of software because you can't meditate while typing in stuff. It's literally no different than writing something in your checkbook.

When you have multiple accounts at different financials, have a 401k, and other assets, paper management gets complicated and time consuming incredibly fast, especially if you entered something in wrong. Can you imagine adjusting a ledger for a whole year because you transposed a number? Sure reconciling the difference can fix it, but it's sloppy and isn't right. Software takes all the hard work out of it and turns it into very simply data entry. You can also back it up too.

Budgeting is a problem with the individual. People who inflate their worth with the things they have tend to blow their money away on the latest and greatest or on literally anything they want as soon as they can get it. These people don't adhere to those stupid questions this meditative system says your supposed to adhere to. These people don't associate spending money as a bad thing. It is an instinctive behavioral pattern and not something taught. How many people actually know how to read over loan docs and understand proper debt management? A lot of people know "Pay your bill" which, yes, is very easy. But how many people actually factor in their interest in the cost of the thing they buy? People ignore the incremental costs, and forget the total cost in the end.

Remember that the reason a large majority of the economy works is because of suckers like this. Impulsive people would rather buy something at a quoted low price than risk never having that sale again. They don't look for trends or remember the costs of things down the road. They also don't factor future costs for things they need like car repairs (which is why lots of people max their loan amount for a vehicle, only to end up not being able to repair it when a serious issue occurs).

Honestly in my life, I've just become incredibly apathetic to other peoples financial situation. The few people that actually do know a solid means of budgeting truly know the value of the dollar and time. They aren't perfect, but they learn from their mistakes. They forgo spending $5 on a cup of starbucks and instead opt for $5 of a can of folgers. Instead of Rolex, they get a Seiko. If they see a 50% off sale, they consider the final price, not the fact that it happens to be 50% off. Also impulse buying is a big one. Being able to deny yourself something long term is one I rarely ever see among people without money.
So, I hear this a lot, and I was curious what it actually looked like.

In 1944, it was 94% for two years. The bottom bracket was 24%. Then in '51 through '54 it hovered around 91%, with the bottom bracket hovering around 20%. This seems like it must related to World War II, though I didn't do enough research to know otherwise.

The bottom bracket today is 10%, with the top being 37%. Is this a "what's good for the goose..." situation? You think the rich ought to be taxes 90+% on their income, and the poor out to have their taxes approximately double, or only the rich should have increases? I'm not sure current scenario justifies the kind of extremes that World War II may have.
Giving money to the government is the same thing as giving it to the wealthy. Example: trillions of dollars in student loans have been captured by private education.
I believe most states do this. Or least, Vermont is not unique.
The CoC can't issue permits, for anything lol.

I'm assuming either the founder got played or is a bad actor.
No lawyer would tell you to get a permit from the CoC.
Joining the CoC gets you some piece of paper but its basically just a marketing organization.
I was disappointed to recently learn that Canada also has capital gain tax loophole weirdness - up here income from capital gains is counted half, so if you make 75k in salary and get a 50k payout from options when your company is acquired then you're taxed as if you made 100k... there is no distinction for capital gains from primary property ownership or any other limitations, all capital gains at 50%.
I would venture a guess that "property tax" doesn't quite feel the same as a wealth tax to most people, because most people don't have a paid-off house, so it's just one more component of their mortgage (and paid through an escrow account rather than directly). If you're paying a large aggregated bill anyway, it feels like just one more tax associated with money changing hands.

If your house is fully paid off, such that your only remaining costs on it are property taxes and insurance, then you're already far more well-off than the majority of people.

Also, financing schools and other local services via property taxes is a bad idea; doing so perpetuates inequality by giving more funding to services in more expensive neighborhoods.
RFCs: A 50th anniversary dive (2018)
Yeah, I never say this, but I think this fellow should smoke a joint.

Experience with a real lotus might, I think, engender a useful readjustment of priors, eh?
i've only seen studies specifically targeting alcoholism and not other types of addictions. in this case it may actually be physiological and not just because LSD "gives you a new perspective" on something
We've cut taxes repeatedly in the US and repeatedly cut benefits spending but we're still starting new wars. Starving the beast isn't going to fix anything, there's always money for war.

If they're really salivating over additional income why aren't taxes increasing? (Other than on the poor, of course)

Want to stop wars? Stop wars, directly. Then once the war expenses are gone, you have way less government spending (we drop an OBSCENE amount of money on the military every year) and you can easily argue that the brand new surplus should be returned to the taxpayer via tax cuts (or via benefits program expansion).

Instead, we have everyone arguing over whether we can "afford" to make university cheaper or get uninsured people onto health plans even though those things are a massive benefit to the people and potentially even cost-neutral. Meanwhile, we cut taxes, to make absolutely sure the only thing we can afford is more wars.
It is stunning how quickly self loathing turns into condescension.
Pretty much all of them. NY DMV shares information with the private, foreign company running the 407 toll highway in Toronto. Canadians from other provinces have better data protection that prevents such sharing.
I appreciate that you took the time to include helpful links, but please don't cross-post. Copy-pasting lowers the signal/noise ratio here. If you want to refer to what you posted elsewhere, please use a link to do it, and perhaps add some new information that's specific to the new context.

(In this case, of course, that's not necessary because the entire thread has been merged!)

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If anyone is curious about a billion animal deaths figure in the article here's what this appears to be based on [1]

[1] https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/08/australia...
>0-60 in 9 seconds is not only terrible, it is dangerous.

This is a downright laughable statement.

My car does 0-100 km/h in about 8-9 seconds. Plenty fast. In fact, I'm not really encountering any road users that accelerate faster than I do. No issues with merging, no issues with overtakes, nothing.

Here's someone joining the Autobahn with the same engine and gearbox as me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUiXwbbITGQ Please watch and observe at how undramatic this whole thing is.
REALLY? You would like to introduce the poster to the concept of "portion control" and "vegetables"? Did you skip reading his comment? You might as well respond to a comment about how long it takes to develop a new feature with a recommendation to learn keyboard shortcuts. How absurdly condescending can you get?
But what do you do with it? Is it just nostalgia or the challenge to make it do something it couldn't do 20 years ago?
Most of them do, I believe.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california...

I know MN and WI do.
It's a good point.

I got:
http://www.spectrum-soft.com/download/mc12cd.zip
sha3-256: 1e9c7d1ec04019446fa448fec74af36f53eaf6508def75068eb32ae0d7f5109a
Keep in mind the article is talking about individual fires rather than the all the fires going on simultaneously. So far 26M acres have burned in this season and in populated areas unlike most other bushfires.
Yeah, I agree that would be interesting, but I don't think we can say right now.

One problem with collecting this data is that breathalyzers are cheap, easy, well-known, and available. If there's an equivalent for detecting impairment from other drugs, I don't know of it.
Some people are able to moderate drinking after periods of binge drinking but if you find you can’t moderate after multiple attempts to do so, your best strategy is to just quit.

It can be hard to not have anything to drink when everyone else is, but it’s better than making a fool of yourself somewhat frequently
I'm waiting for it... hopefully when it does arrive it doesn't have all the touchscreen and autonomous/surveillance b.s. that seems to have become prevalent in EVs.
>Boz posted an explanation on Facebook, where he advertises the post as an organizational, internal call-to-debate. But while it's great to have a safe space for internal, organizational debates, it's still hugely concerning when that internal debate is whether we should all have a free and fair election in the U.S.

Was Facebook having an internal debate over whether we should all have a free and fair election in the U.S.?
I don’t like how passportjs doesn’t clearly document what it does. After rolling my own as an experiment, I have a mental checklist of things I’d like to evaluate it for, but don’t want to go exploring the code base to get the answers
Most everyone supports a wealth tax. Most everyone thinks wealth starts at a level way higher than themselves.
I think the reason this happens is because there is a belief that, and who knows maybe it's the truth, people buy emotionally. Business and marketing books (E-myth and How to win friends come to mind specifically) constantly parrot that "sales studies" and "marketing research" show that people buy, or this case download, with their feelings. This seems to lead people to add vacuous fluff to marketing pages to "appeal" to someone's emotions.

As you can tell by most of comment I think this isn't the whole truth and that really things live somewhere in the middle and that the domain and scope of interaction greatly shift this spectrum one way or another, picking a doctor/lawyer vs picking and IDE comes to mind for myself, YMMV with that example and might even further drive home the point.

Long story long, marketing is hard and the people doing the marketing often aren't domain experts and have to rely on the information passed to them through a convoluted game of telephone via authors and experts that can't even communicate everything needed to be effective because they themselves aren't good at teaching.
Facebook is just transitioning to becoming the digital equivalent of an oil company. They make a product that billions consume, but that many people think is doing damage to the environment (even though many of those critics still consume the product).

That's why their PR machine is now switching to these slightly astroturfy campaigns. The next step is an advert along the lines of "They call it pollution. We call it life".
My personal experience has been that nobody notices. I have even had people ask me the next day how bad I was hurting from the night before.

But you're right, it is true that it makes people uncomfortable.

When someone offers me a drink, I usually just say thank you, maybe in a bit, or grab something else, or else just accept and not consume it or occasionaly take one small sip. As far as I know my colleagues have no idea that it's not something I ever do. I know this because I also have other colleagues who say, "I don't drink" and have witnessed them become a subject of speculation and intrigue among others when they are not around.

The extent of the myth surrounding alcohol and its role in society seems to drive people to make extreme conclusions about an individual's choice to use it or not ('they must have hit rock bottom' e.g.). My preference is to avoid something obviously bad for my physical and emotional health that has no clear upside, and to just leave it at that.
Take a look at Unihertz Atom - that's my current choice. It is a smartphone that can do it all, but has an annoyingly tiny screen so you won't sit on it for life.
We use shared dev VMs at work to help ensure consistency, and have actually run out of inodes several times solely because of node. The only error message you get is about disk space, so it's a really confusing situation for people who haven't seen it before.
Casper Sleep files S-1 in advance of IPO
Here is the direct link to watch (the run is 21 minutes total):

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/533706108?t=05h29m30s
We might take a page from John Rawls here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance

If everyone were behind a veil of ignorance and had to craft a just tax system without knowing whether they, themselves, would end up as poor or rich in such a system, would they nevertheless agree that those who are extreme outliers in terms of their wealth should contribute more?

My guess is that this proposal probably passes the veil of ignorance test.

Which is not to say that it couldn't have its downsides, or that reasonable people couldn't offer very good objections to it.

But by definition, a question of higher taxes on a tiny portion of extremely wealthy individuals is going to involve putting the question to people who, with rare exception, aren't going to be subject to the tax.

But that doesn't necessarily mean their decision is unfair.
It's all REST these days, sometimes with JSON payloads. Nothing too hard to mangle together.
not only that, most of those studies are paid using public funding just to see private companies profit from them.

That's totally unacceptable and unethical
The idea that they should stay on a fraternal basis was big at NASA: out of the 1,348 pages of the tome NASA had compiled called Human Relations in Transit to Mars, only a single page was devoted to the subject of sex; and that page advised against it.[1]

[1] Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Taking money from the top of the wealth gap and putting at the bottom seems like it should reduce the gap by simple mathematics.
Casper Sleep S-1
I don't think it's that difficult to extrapolate eventual difficulties for the Bill of Rights in a world dominated by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan as the two super powers.
Per the comments below it's what you make it and some groups skew more towards a traditional "God" understanding

my experience in general with norcal AA groups is "higher power" is used instead of "God" almost exclusively, people are very careful to not push God / religious understanding / etc

At step 3 you have to turn it over to a "higher power" which is a reflection of the understanding that it is unlikely you, yourself have the power to control alcohol and there must be something "Greater than" you - that can be "physics" that can be "the moon" and a guy who has been sober a very long time in the meeting i go to says his higher power is the "light fixture"
They don’t want to hire him because he’s better than they are: 48 LoP #1.
Right, we need another monthly hiring thread - "Who is aggregating jobs?"
ZFS wanted to have that too (the mythical block pointer rewrite) but it never happend, instead they add clunky workarounds like indirection tables for.
The money will funnel back into the US eventually anyways. Unless you have some reason to prefer giving defense contractors the money, the money might as well go to whatever middle eastern people like to buy from the US. The advantage of this scheme is that fewer lives need to be lost, the regions in question can become more stable and productive, and US interests are better promoted.