skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should you get deduct $5,000 from your federal taxes when someone in a no income tax state like washington cannot deduct the other state taxes they pay that make up for not having a state income tax?

Edit: after looking it up, I'm wrong, you can deduct most state and local taxes such as property, income, and sales, although you can only pick either income or sales so it does incentivize states to only use one.

It still encourages wasteful tax spending though as my comment below explains.
Every time I read something Paul writes, or articles like this one, all I can think of is: privilege.

All this stuff about “do things you love” and “work as though you’ll never die”, or how they were successful because they thought so differently...

What they did differently is they had a ton of money before they started it, and they decided to make a fun club for themselves. It’s a club for smart people of a certain bent, and the number one thing that made it work was that they established that brand (as the in-nerds) and had enough money to pull it off.

The brand says you have to be really smart and nerdy, and willing to sacrifice money to prove you’re worth being in. People who can sacrifice a lot of time and money? Generally well connected, well educated, well off nerds like them. Of course it’s successful. By being the first to get that brand they set up a self-selecting system that brought them those people. Simple as that. And it only works in tech because not many other industries will gravitate towards a brand of (nerdy * altruistic).

Sam is the epitome of smart kids club. He hasn’t really ever done anything impressive (in public, that I’ve seen) but he certainly talks the nerd talk. In every speech, interview and article I’ve read of his I come away thinking 98% of his success is just literally that he nerd-speaks so well and always makes sure to mention mental models or reference some paradigm, and always makes sure to triple-counterfactual himself. But when I look at what he’s actually saying, it’s never interesting. Like this article. I think it’s fundamentally not getting why YC worked, but because it’s so altruistic sounding and has a few counterfactuals, he gets a pass.

It’s the first mover brand, exclusivity, required sacrifice, the club-like aspect that made it filter for already-going-to-be-successful people that made it work.
I have Google advertising to me, on my Pixel 3a using Google Fi, in my Gmail app, telling me about how I should sign up for Google Fi.

I have a pretty good hunch that these companies often do stupid stuff like this.
The year bought is not the only thing that matters. Other factors include history of squatting. And whether the domain was bought in bad faith.
> there is little argument for favoring foreign students over domestic students besides an economic one

How about an educational one? Colleges put a huge of effort into recruiting diverse student bodies, one justification being that students learn from interacting with classmates of different backgrounds. This is most often cited as a reason for racial and economic diversity, but when I was in college I found it applied much more strongly to diversity of nationalities. I took a seminar on the history of revolutions which I found was improved by the fact that I got to hear what my French classmate had to say about the French Revolution and what my Latin American classmate thought about Simón Bolívar. I did an art/graphics project with a German student who taught me about the Bauhaus style, which we took inspiration from. My language and linguistics classes were vastly improved by having native speakers of other languages easily available. And it was a bit uncomfortable, but I think it was valuable that I got to talk about LGBT issues with students who had recently come from countries where queer people are much less visible/accepted. As a native student, my education would have been impoverished if I hadn't had as many foreign classmates, and I think I probably would have benefited from having even more.

> It seems that colleges have lost sight of being primarily a system to educate the next generation.

International students are also part of the next generation.
I read on another site they're using Windows and DirectX to maximize the amount of games that can be played without porting.
Sure, a second startup always has better odds than the first one, because it comes with a built-in runway.

But also, because it's helmed by people who have successfully built a startup and exited with a pile of cash.

I don't have any examples of second startups which crashed and burned handy; I'm sure they exist. What is too commonplace to mention is first startups which start with a huge war chest and squander it.

What's disingenuous is comparing someone who exited with a big pile, and turned it into a huge pile, with someone who inherited vast wealth. No, it's not like saying anything about Kylie Jenner, at all.
The Deafening Silence of the Royal Society Open Science Journal
We have many credibly reports that slaves have been placed in concentration camps virtually entirely because of their ethnicity and or religion where they are obliged to work for free. The malfeasance of China in this regard and others for example using religious minorities as literal organ banks to be slaughtered for parts has been discussed for years. Anyone who claims at this point to be "investigating" is entirely dishonest. Characterizing this as one report is entirely incorrect.

They haven't changed because moving away from china would cost them billions and they as most people would rather keep themselves warm with a pile of money than worry about the ethical implications.
I honestly tried now when I am back in college because I just thought its a bad habit from old times when we learned pascal and basic from help files. But no after trying all the labs I could I started building my labs and just focusing on portfolio.
> The fact you think there is a "right" direction means it is not a hackathon but a work session.

> If this not the programmers initative expect them to be looking for new jobs. For many programming is not a spectator sport.

I am also a programmer :) This is a real hackathon, with no expectations of "work" that needs to be done. I just want to make sure we hit the finish line with an MVP is all.
You are going to learn a lot. Congratulations, leading a team in a hackathon can be an exhilarating, terrifying experience.

Create minimum (but not zero) formal communications and lots of informal routes with ways to find out information.

Slack is a great suggestion along with periodic all-team checkins/reports.

Set clear goals and a sense of mission, with open methods on how get there. As a leader, be involved and check in with team members to help clear roadblocks, connect resources and generally know where the team is at and their plans/progress/obstacles/workarounds is at any time.

A sprint model can work well, with a board of tasks and periodic checkins on process.
Yeah... and once you're no longer paying by the page there's really little upside to using a small font you have to squint at or use margins that are too narrow to easily scan the page. I have no idea how long the books I read are, but I probably read them a few hundred words per screen simply because it's way easier to keep my place. Average for a small paperback exceeds 300.
> But charging 30% for using their app store is not.

The issue is not that they charge this fee. Instead it is that they prevent competing app store on their platform, through the use of anti competitive practices.

If, instead, it was quick an easy to install a different app store on the iPhone, then few people would complain.

> Every reason you provided is more reason to build a competitive solution

Apple prevents competing app stores. Thats not really possible to get a different app store on the iPhone.

This is anti-competitive, due to the size of Apple's market share, which is around 50% of the US smartphone market.

This anti-competitiveness is therefore illegal, according to section 2 of the sherman anti-trust act.

> If you don't like the entry fee, build your own clubhouse or find another one.

You missed the other option. Which is to prosecute apple for their illegal, anti-competitive practices, and make them follow the law by allowing competing app stores.
Keep in mind that part of the problem in the US is that the wealthy pay an outsized portion of the taxes (top 1% nearly half the income taxes at both State and Federal levels).

Other OECD countries are able to fund more progressive spending by (counterintuitively) taxing more regressively via broad-tax-base middle class taxes and VAT.
> People like you are why I hate IT these days. You seem to think that because you have some specialized knowledge about computers that you're smarter than everyone who doesn't. You're totally willing to sacrifice hours of peoples lives, ruin their projects, and break their systems in the name of "I know better". It doesn't matter what they're doing, or how important it is to their lives, what matters is what you think is important.

A thousand times this.
That's an interesting narrative, but is there any support for your notion that services "got cut?"

1) Excluding federal funding (which is directed to poor school districts) 20 states provide meaningfully more per-student funding (> 5% difference) to poor districts. In 6 states, poor school districts get 15% more funding than rich ones. Only 4 states provide meaningfully less per-student funding (> 5% difference) to poor school districts versus rich ones: https://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/39d5daf/2147483647/resiz....

2) More generally, per-student spending, adjusted for inflation, has more than tripled since 1960: https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/blog_.... Aside from a very small dip in 2008-2010, spending has been monotonically increasing for the last 60 years.

3) In the United States, nearly everyone, about 95% of students, attends our well-funded public schools: http://www.oecd.org/education/EAG2014-Indicator%20C7%20(eng).... The OECD average is closer to 80%.

4) Public social welfare spending, as a share of the economy, has consistently increased over the last 50 years, except for a brief dip after the 2008 recession: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long.... In 1990, we spent about 13% of the economy on social welfare. Today, it's over 19%.

So please explain to me, what "got cut?" There is so much talk about "austerity" and America being "hollowed out" but it's not reflected anywhere in the numbers. If I were being cynical, I would say that people are gas-lighting the public to deflect attention away from the fact that the Great Society project didn't work. (Or at least insofar as it did work, some other aspect of society is crumbling faster than the government can increase spending to remedy the effects.)
Apps aren't removed from devices in the event they're removed from the store.
Government accountability is a tricky thing, as you have a limited number of choices, each of which has a basket of different positions on a very large number of issues. Since you can only make one (of a few) choice(s), voters each have a very limited ability to hold the government accountable on a few issues.

Charities are held to account by a very different constituency (the donors), who are in a much more powerful position.

I'm also not sure your assertion that "people will chose to transfer their wealth to those in their own tribe, and not to those outside of it" holds much water. I think donors often give to causes which affect people very different from themselves, and anyway, your state or nation is really just a different sort of tribe. Given some convincing evidence, I might believe that state-welfare programs are more equitable than private charities, but I have not seen such evidence.
There were times where I would not be able to sleep when such a release was done :). It isn't as much lately, but still, fantastic work by fantastic team. Congratulations!

There are some seriously good stuff there.
82 global brands are profiting from Chinese slaves would be even more accurate and doesn't in any way diminish the guilt of both Apple and literally everyone who bought a phone manufactured by slaves.
The article states that operating system "offer a C interface"; that's not really true of Linux, at least. It provide a series of system calls on which a C API is built. It's a subtle difference, but am important one if you're going to provide a runtime system abstraction.
It seems to be a general problem with recommendation engines.

I assume that manually tagging certain types of items with a flag that means "The buyer is unlikely to buy another item in this category within a meaningful timeframe no matter how often we recommend it" is more effort than the recommendation slot is worth. There are probably a number of flags one could imagine setting but it's likely very hard to automate because it requires understanding how people use/consume/upgrade/etc. a given item.
My wife was in the same situation as yours and was under Tysabri for many years (10 I think). Then she got the JC virus and had to stop (she was given a choice but decided to stop).

She moved to Gylenia and so far so good (or at least as good as someone can be with MS).

When she was diagnosed 12 years ago it was the beginning of "modern" MS treatments. 10 years back and it would have been disastrous. In 10 years there may be wonderful advancements.

I feel that 100-12 years ago was a true milestone.
> It's sad how these valuable optimizations are unknown to the average person.

Does the average person really need to understand JIT optimisations?
I don’t think that apps on iPhones stop working just because the app was removed from from the store. You wouldn’t be able to get the app on a new phone, of course, but the old installed app should keep working. The comment might have been thinking of remotely-triggered app removal, which I believe is a rarely used function.
You're helping me along to a realization. The magician has to put themselves first, and create a world that is inviting enough that others want to join. Magic is more powerful than anything else in life. As soon as you stop working magic, it disappears. You are the source of magic. So create a life that makes you able to constantly work it.

You can't make magic that outlasts you, but you can help other people gain confidence.
It does feel like a improvement over Stadia. However the channels strategy does feel a bit like cable TV versus Xbox Game Pass Ultimate which is closer to a true Netflix style all you can play. I do think the post early access price, which will likely be higher then the current $5.99, will be the real deal breaker between this and Game Pass Ultimate.
Maybe some of those fired engineers could fork it. I'd pay 5$ a month for a non-google organization that is not lead by Marissa and is developing an open browser.
A friend of a friend had a break in in his house last week and could see the burglars in his kids room via his cameras on his phone.

He also had the hopeless feeling of there being nothing to do, but had some sort of Eureka-moment and started playing “Fuck the police” on max volume on the floor above (all via his phone), and that apparently sent the burglars running!

(When he later talked to the cops they did call him a genius but questioned the song choice.)
How about we go back to a place we can install whatever we want on our computers? (The phone is a computer, not a "device" or "appliance".)

If you want to use Apple's discovery and distribution system, you pay a cut.

If you want to train your customers how to install on their own, you pay nothing, but have to distribute the app yourself.

The DOJ needs to force Apple to allow this, because they've unfairly strong armed their way into being middle-man for over 40% of Americans for all of the computing they do.
I think the argument that you're trying to make is that the average wage is higher, and therefore you have to take that into account when doing this comparison.

You're absolutely correct about that, and the linked article I showed does exactly that. It computes the multiple of the average wage at which the top marginal rate kicks in. The U.S. top marginal rate applies only to taxpayers whose wages are 9.3 times the average wage. In Belgium the top marginal rate ensnares workers earning 1.1 times the average, and in the Netherlands 1.4 times. This pattern persists across all peer OECD nations. The US is an outlier in its progressivity.
As they set the price of the iPhone, they would just increase the "non subsided" price.
No, certainly haven't seen the worst yet. By early November the Black Death will certainly pale in comparison to covid. Until at least the 4th, then it's smooth sailing when Joe brings us out of the darkness into the light.
> Sweden is less likely to extradite to the US than the UK

And regardless of whether or not you believe that, if he had been extradited from the UK to Sweden, the UK would have to consent to the onward extradition to the US. He would've had the ability to fight it in two legal systems, both of whom would have to agree the extradition were legal, rather than just one.
If you do CTF competitions: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/?cat=morse+code

Notably, the high speed morse sound was super interesting, as I might like to track down a few more samples of it.

When I drop one into this decoder, it's having trouble with it for some reason: https://morsecode.world/international/decoder/audio-decoder-...

In case you were curious, one of the morse sound effects (http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/07069047.wav a high pitched oscillator) translates to:

"P D F H X S T P H I Z UFR U TE4 F 4 L U V X G H I B J AU G G H Q Y P 8 0 P X Y U H B C A X JE P TI F H S T N PH ILK F G WUZ W Z UEI K S"

which seems like a cipher of some sort.
I guess that's nice to have, but not necessary at all.
Why would this differ from any other technology?
This is not surprising. For a long time I've felt that the mortgage industry is ripe for consolidation. Zillow is a great candidate to do it.

Behind the customer service relationship with the broker, nearly every mortgage shop runs the same way. It's the perfect industry to consolidate and make more efficient with economies of scale.
Yes. 23:59:59 is used when somebody wants to get end of day but doesn't know to take beginning of current day and add 1 day to it. End of today is actually 00:00:00 of tomorrow. For some reason developers don't want to have tomorrow's date in the timestamp when they think about events happening today but this is ok, because it should be used as upper limit (ie. with some kind of less than operator).
If it got rid of all the content farm creators and just left people that really wanted to create, then yes.
If they want to actually improve user experience they can always include uBlock Origin by default - its permissive license should allow this just fine.
The key argument seems to be "type checking and red squiggly underlines save you time" - I would also attest to that, but isn't there a way to do this in Python now? I would also suggest C#, with its Code Completion, as great at helping you write quick scripts, especially now that it has a REPL with full Code Completion, red-squiggly underlines and syntax highlighting in Visual Studio, plus language features like pattern matching, tuples and LINQ.
I initially was excited that Swift https://www.swift.com/
had opened it's payment APIs.
Yep, that's called "43 Folders" or a "Tickler File":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file
Is there a restriction on the size of the file or can it save the contents on the fly to disk like streamsaver?
In French this is obviously different than elsewhere: SEP.
> If he and everyone else actually followed traffic rules - then they would all be less likely to be late, they would all be probably somewhat wealthier, especially if they followed the other rules as well.

How does obeying traffic laws make you wealthier? Unless you're just referring to the cost of the infraction (assuming you get cited).
Louis Vuitton data leak and account takeover vulnerability patched
And Verizon is constantly mailing me to switch to FIOS. And when I look on their site to look up FIOS availability, it's not actually available.

For some reason, both Comcast and Verizon also have my address as a variant on my real postal service address that hasn't been true since before I moved here over 20 years ago.
Can you elaborate on the difference you're pointing to here?

I'm seeing a distinction without a difference, but clearly you aren't.
A conversation between David Duchovny and Marilyn Manson (2005)
I never needed repl because I used debug and continue in Visual Studio for C++ and C#. Its awesome - stop at a breakpoint then you can amend or insert any line of code, move the current line pointer up or down. Now I'm not on those platforms any more I use REPL, but I dont like it as much.
No server environment will ever see it. Any sane person will immediately understand this is going to break too much stuff and it is not worth educating thousands of developers.

Everybody just smears it over some period of time.
I don't think Swift really competes with Rust or Go at all.

- Go aims to be simple enough for many engineers to be productive with little investment.

- Rust aims to be extremely reliable and efficient.

Swift is very complex, and makes many compromises away from reliability or efficiency in favor of application use cases.

Swift may fill an interesting role for a "native C#" that is mostly reliable, mostly efficient, and somewhat productive, but on the other hand, C#, OCaml, Java, Kotlin, and so on already have various answers to that, and they're only becoming better at it.

The only real advantage it has (as far as I can tell) is iOS (and TensorFlow almost as a knock-on of being the only serious language for iOS).
Well, it sounds like fewer interactions with people, and so fewer opportunities to get a razor blade.
How can you be so gullible to believe the perspective of that news site?
The thing is honestly, we make incredible progress every decade. What's important is doing it carefully, correctly, and investing in the right areas to make real positive change (less viagra and hair loss probably).

Just a decade ago, Hepatitis C wasn't curable in nearly 100% of patients (in 12 weeks with limited side effects!). It isn't great news cycle content to focus on rehashing the great achievements we have recently made.

It's heartbreaking to have such a methodical approach for sufferers now of course.
to prevent cavities, dentists should pull out all your teeth. if you object to this obvious remedy then you are clearly an irrational person.
What's the USP for swift? To my eye it looks too far away from C++ to catch on without a big selling point, but also doesn't have central thesis as it's core like Rust.
Firefox' scroll behavior seems to be non-deterministic on Linux, so there doesn't appear to be a universal answer.

The default is 100, which seems to work fine most of the time, but for the OP's issue, reducing it by a factor of ten might be a good starting point.
> ... even though Mississippi is and of itself, not important.

I agree that pride/hubris (more saving face) is indeed a significant component, but Taiwan has huge strategic military importance. Taiwan declaring itself independent and allowing (say) the US to set up a large military presence there would be unacceptable for China.
Is this just the language? Will we be able to develop ios apps on windows?
> Apart from "support"

These days there are great 3rd party postgres support firms. We've used 2ndQuadrant for years and couldn't be happier.
You forgot the part about Peter Thiel's money.