skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple tax policy is a very tough political sell.

Basically tax policy is a low bar to entry way to get the laws you want but in a lossy capacity. Instead of making something legal/illegal outright you can just make it "illegal unless you jump through hoops and/or pay money" or you can provide a tax incentive for something you like (easier to sell than a subsidy). This lets you get dumb policy that would otherwise never pass. Big business benefits from this by getting carve-outs that make them more money or by getting policy that lets them use scale to their advantage. The authoritarian upper middle class benefits from this by using tax policy to create a carrot/stick system to kinda sorta make the poors act the way they want. And of course the government and politicians benefits from the current system because it gives them influence and power.

So right now we've got big business, the top ~30% or so of society and politicians/the government benefiting from the status quo. In order to remove politics from taxes big business is going to have to pay more (or everyone else will have to pay less, an equally large pill for a lot of people to swallow), the upper middle class will have to lose a set of carrots/sticks to kick the poors around and the government will have to accept a net decrease in power. The only way to get these groups to accept this is to spend a century boiling the frog. I don't think we'll ever get simple tax policy overnight.
> if the government prints money to build infrastructure, where does the value they've added come from?

Increased real productivity. Imagine a toy town where only two goods are produced on opposite sides of a river. To trade them, risky river crossings risking product and person must be attempted.

A bridge removes that risk and cost. The town will become wealthier for having the bridge despite its cost. (Same for e.g. ancient Mesopotamian, Mesoamerican and Hohokam canals.)

> the government makes some money

If the government prints money to fund its deficit then inflation “taxes” everyone. It is analogous to a company selling stock to do something useful. The share count went up but the aggregate value (hopefully) will too.
The printed money is effectively diluting everyone's else's money. So technically you could think of it as an indirect tax, because the overall currency value drops.

Similar to a company emitting new shares to pay employees. It's the shareholders who are paying the cost via dilution.
I'm always skeptical of these studies because I suspect there's more documentation and reporting biases in more socioeconomically stressed areas. That is, my guess is cases are less likely to be accurately documented in India than, say, the US or Germany.

Having said that, there's molecular biological evidence of cross immunity to other forms of coronavirus so there might very well be something to it.

I've wondered along these lines if keeping kids out of schools might in some ways be counter productive, by decreasing exposure to other coronaviruses or other pathogens that increase immunity.

I've often wanted to see if, eg, parents of young children, or people working with young children (teachers, pediatricians, etc) have less severe outcomes from sars-cov-2 than matched controls.
If you don't refresh it too often you could run the display for about a week from a 10000mAh powerbank. Of course then you would need to run it from a microcontroller instead of the rather power-hungry Pi.

It's doable today, just not convenient.
You can do all that today no problem.
“What’s the issue?”

Your belief in unicorns.
> The primary purpose of content encryption tools is to trigger DMCA 1201 anti-circumention provisions to prohibit people from writing decryption tools.

What if those tools are hosted outside of the US where the DMCA has to force?

Certainly the US is a larger centre of gravity when it comes to tech, but it's not the only place.
Math is fun!

The Matrix: https://tixy.land/?code=i%2F%28x*y%29*%28t*i%29*Math.sin%28t...

Matrix Reloaded: https://tixy.land/?code=i%2F%28x%2Fy%29*%28t%2Fi%29*Math.sin...
It doesn't matter if it's doctors or nurses in hospitals or not-so-smart people buying second hand because of a panic, people shouldn't be price gouging or hoarding PPE. There was a hoarder arrested in NYC earlier this year.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/30/brooklyn-man-arrested-for-hoar...
The definition of "value added" is price minus costs, aka profit.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/valueadded.asp
You can configure the Docker client to use the artifactory remote by default.
“Transfer pricing” is why this doesn’t work out.
> Not sure what other than incompetence as a programmers is causing your expensive PhDs "fright of their lifetime".

Memory management, handwritten loops, pointers everywhere, absence of ready made data structures, error handling (or its absence,) epopeia with C strings, sanitizing inputs, and nausea from the slightest smell of SIMD, or basic binary hackery to begin with.
I regularly use software decoding on the 3B+ for (legally) recorded over-the-air (ATSC) MPEG2 content and it handles 1080i@30 and 720p@60 just fine. For some shows I watch at 150% speed and it still handles it.
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At least at the time, the format was really not conducive to it, especially re plugins that should be installed, and on macOS since it used Electron's config mechanism it all got stuffed in ~/Library/Application\ Support/VSCode.app/Resources/macOS/Content/package/config/vscode.config or something horrific.

I primarily use Linux, but I don't want something as crucial as my editor to unavailable or differently configured (so I can't just clone dotfiles) on macOS which I might sometimes use. Which, again, last I checked, means no Electron for anything that 'crucial'.

(I think it's fair enough for maintainers of these things to defer to Electron on config locatio, but it's unfortunate that Electron decided what 'platform standard locations' are irrespective of what the tool is, whether $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is explicitly set, and what other tools do or user preference is.)
The fundamental issue with this article is that the inflation number is a lie. Housing costs are the key cost for every consumer but are excluded from CPI.

Western countries have been running fiscal deficits consistently for decades, QE and low interest rates for 10 years. Yet for academics and central bankers the only answer to growth is more debt.

Low interest rates benefit only the asset rich. They deprive everyone else of investment income. They also prevent essential restructuring as zombie companies stay alive instead of going bust.

High housing costs, caused by low interest rates, are causing a demographic crisis in the west. People literally can’t afford to start a family.

Our economies and culture have a skills crisis not a growth crisis.

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Edit: To provide some clarity on the comments below highlighting that housing costs are included in CPI. Each country calculates inflation statistics to various methodologies. CPI in the US includes a rent equivalent value which is independent of the actual cost of purchasing a home.

The weighting allocated to housing is also unrepresentative as those entering the job market in cities now are facing housing costs representing 50% of income when most inflation metrics have it at 50%.
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I've been on a ~2 year sabbatical where I finished an around the world trip of visiting all seven continents of the world. I'm not entirely up to speed yet.

Lately, I've been working on a side project for fun – https://randomdailyart.com/. I am doing a lot of work with Go Hugo. Also, a ton of cool automation stuff with Huginn, n8n, etc. I'm starting a video course on automation stuff.

I think it's better to start with the fun stuff I enjoy. Slowly, I'm getting back into the heavy TypeScript react work from before my sabbatical.
This post is about the architecture to pin multiple tasks (read erlang processes) that use the same data shard (read shared data) on to a single thread to avoid lock and furthermore, never block on that thread to avoid context switch.
> But ya, we don’t need to import someone doing JavaScript over to America anymore (which, believe it or not, is what I’ve witnessed). There’s no rhyme or reason to it, we have a solid home grown talent pool for that.

Being able to program language X isn't really the marketable skillset at the high level. You don't hire good javascript programmers. You hire good programmers
VAT is not a tax on business revenue. Only end-customers pay tax, that's why it's called "value-added" tax.
How can you subtract 1 from data?
This experiment has been tried. During the 70s energy crisis, gas price controls succeeded in creating the longest lines and shortages.

No other subsequent oil crises had the same disastrous effect, because the market was allowed to solve the problem.
In that case when supply is the sam, demand increases, and prices stay the same then you run out of stock. Someone then needs to distribute the product "fairly". I assume you think that should be the government?
Hi everyone, I'm the creator of JUST SCREAM! I am calling it a public sound art project. My goal was to create something playful yet responsive to the often overwhelming feelings of anger, fear, resentment, frustration, and helplessness that many people are experiencing right now. I am an elementary school teacher but have been coding for my own amusement since third grade.

I hope you can find a moment of joy in this ridiculous project. Please take a moment to let me know what you think. (And if you find any bugs or areas for improvement, I'd love to know that as well!)
I would love to see some Fuchsia + Firecracker project, where the host os is Fuchsia and you can run Linux as Firecracker "VM"s.
MMT proponents will have a list of reasons why this will not happen with the USD (because it is a reserve currency etc)

The arguments are unconvincing because the USD could lose that status.
Anthropogenic climate forcing is happening at a rate similar to that of a major extinction event. Will natural selection take place and fill the gaps? Eventually. It can take millions of years for the ecosystem to recover from a serious disaster.
Very cool project. I particularly like fretboard.py, I'm a sucker for charming command line tools like this. For what it's worth, I have a bachelor's in classical guitar and I taught guitar for 6 years. It would be cool if you could get a single form of a scale instead of an entire fretboard of scale notes, and maybe even limit it to some number of octaves. It would be useful to generate scale charts for students one piece at a time.
Intel to Purchase SigOpt, an AI Software Optimisation Platform
But what's a marketing spiel without comparing to incumbents.
Input limited to 32 chars. Wanted to make a Game of Life.
> With that in mind it makes perfect sense that systemd manages what it does.

It made perfect sense to pull in udevd, which had existed externally for a long time, and tightly couple it so that it can no longer be used independently? (The Gentoo folks forked eudevd.)
I'll go against the grain here and say that async/await, wether implemented by one thread-per-core like here or by stackless coroutines is not the solution.

Async/await will make complexity explode because of the colored function problem [1].

The solution to expensive context switches is cheap context switches, plain and simple. User-mode lightweight threads like go's, or upcoming Java's with Loom [2] have proven that this is possible.

Yes, it does mean that it can only happen in a language that controls its stack (so that you can slice it off and pop a continuation on it). I sincerely believe this is Rust's ballpark; hell they even started the project with that idea in mind.

[1] https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...

[2] https://jdk.java.net/loom/
It is a poorly worded sentence, and the meaning isn't totally clear either. Climate change probably will kill people, especially vulnerable populations in low-lying areas.
Because no one is starving in capitalist societies?
Could this be summarized as "algorithm" (or data structure more specifically) beats language implementation performance?
The economy has two components - today and the future. Today, we decide who gets what stuff. Then the people who have most of the stuff decide what to create for the future.

The bridge isn't free - the resources needed to build the bridge (time, steel, engineering attention, government attention, etc, etc) are being reallocated from someone else who would have used the resources to do something. If the bridge is more productive than whatever the person the money came from wanted then there will be more stuff in the future and prosperity likely increases.

The problem with money printing is it is all but impossible to figure out where the resources are being reallocated from - with taxes it is fairly obvious. With money printing it is not. It may well be impossible to say what we lost to get the bridge built because we can't figure out what would have happened if the money had not been printed.
" Yet for academics and central bankers the only answer to growth is more debt."

The uttermost definition of capitalism.

"Our economies and culture have a skills crisis not a growth crisis."

Capitalism can't survive without growth by definition.

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-sta...
React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning
yes, but this process is running inside a single individual. As above, so below.
> It is also a Tax on Saving, Retirements, and responsible behavior

Unexpected inflation is. Predictable inflation is easy to account for.

I live in New York. My basket of goods included until recently rapidly-increasing real estate prices. That is the benchmark against which my money managers are judged. It is true that this forces them to invest more riskily. But that is a systemic lever inflation and interest rates are designed to tweak: low interest rates beget risk taking.
One should read up on the judiciary system in their specific state before they start breaking the spirit of the law.

In some states the judges are quasi-politicians with an implied mandate to rule how they think the people want them to rule. In others the judiciary is a system for evaluating the law and they see they consider it their mandate to enforce the law exactly as written, especially when it gives the legislature and the public the middle finger because that's the incentive for those groups to write and demand good law.
Excellent summary of reality. Why do you think people seem to ignore or not understand these basic facts?
Human's have a threshold where their confidence in the accuracy of something will determine their willingness to participate or take action. The machines/algorithms/authority structures and so forth are in place in large part to provide that confidence.

The issue today is that the leadership (in many areas of life from business to military to government), who make the decision to kill/censor/interrupt business/etc or not, are saying "we have to follow the data" without having any understanding of what that really means.

Ultimately, this creates false confidence both in the decision-maker and those that are following their lead. I find it unlikely that there would be anywhere near the same willingness if the 'intelligence' many of these decisions were based on didn't seem as rich and unmistakably correct as it often does.

Of course, the practical effect here is that leadership gets to blame the algorithm/model/data instead of having to accept the blame themselves. If only those pesky engineers and nerds in the lab were better at the job we'd bomb less foreigners.
And still capitalism creates abundance and plenty of offer while socialism creates hunger and lack of the basics.

I still remember entering a supermarket in the west after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The shock at all that choice... is indescribable.
It comes from the workers' work.

If you print money to buy stocks, the money goes into the capitalists' pockets, where it tends to stay, because capital is already extremely highly concentrated and avenues for investment are few at this scale. Also you get the adverse externalities mentioned by GP.

Whereas if you pay workers for infrastructure, you get some infrastructure (I. E. Productive capital) and the worker will actually spend their money, thus enabling other workers to create value in turn.

All of this is about putting workers to work.

You can try to order the workers to work, with a central planning system (soviet Russia, or any large multinational corporation such as Google) or with money.

But if you give money to rent seekers who are already full of money, they are not going to put workers to work, which is what is currently happening in the West.
The idea is that rational infrastructure projects create additional economic growth in future (i.e. more stuff gets moved across the built bridge, more real value gets created), so the printed money are used to support this growth. So effectively government invests into a long-term project by "borrowing" money from those who are saving them today (in a sense they borrow from "future"). If investments are good, the "loan" gets payed by more taxes being collected. If investments are bad (e.g. as many infrastructure projects in China), they will cause various problems in future since economy gets injected by money not backed by productive activity.
The 'arduino' IDE is for beginners, the standard IDE is now Atmel Studio.
>There’s no way for the money to get out of the corporation without being taxed

Not totally true. Interest free loan to the owner or his mother in law. Company buys a house / car / jet owner can use. Company buys consultancy services from the owners other company based in the Bahamas etc
The “looking for a security contact at XYZ company” thread
Great idea. I predict it will fail.

There is reason why we moved beyond the "bread case" computers. I don't see any problem that this "desktop" solves. A RPi with a keyboard would be the same price.
How would be more transparent than tax deductions?
Housing prices are long term "bound" by CPI, not the other way around. More specifically they have always mean reverted to CPI if you look few hundred years back. Robert Shiller wrote a lot on this topic.

Also, the current level of divergence between housing prices and CPI is nothing out of the ordinary. It will correct itself over time (either houses will become cheap or CPI will catch up).

If you want a simple explanation as to why it is that CPI bounds houses and not the other way around - just look at the recent post-covid deurbanization trend (and the carnage that's going on in San Francisco or New York real estate markets). There's so much land that can be utilised once you understand that you really don't have to be in downtown New York. Then, homebuilding costs are basically CPI.
Presumably for the USD to lose reserve currency status some other currency would have to become more attractive as a long term bet? Are there any obvious candidates at the moment?
I wouldn't say I had experience with Rust, tbh (1 day in 2010 doesn't count!)

I don't remember considering F#, so probably just never occurred to me.
> the inflation number is a lie

It is also a lie to say there is a single inflation number.

There are CPIs calculated including regional food, energy and real estate prices [1]. For policy makers, varying interest rates according to Syrian politics and Midwestern crop yields is too fine-grained. But to suggest the data are hidden is false.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/new-york-new-jersey/news-release...
Take the example of a hurricane in texas.

With prices going up, people are incentivized to buy diesel generators in Maine, load 'em up in their flat bed trucks, and just drive 'em down to texas to sell there. The extra price just needs to cover gas and some time.

In the case of PPE, the extra price might be enough to pay for totally disrupting base material pipelines away from other products and into the PPE pipeline.

There might be production limits that cannot respond quickly. But there are many limits that still can. Over-hours, material acquisition, moving stock around long distance. Normally, these things are un-economical and also bad ideas. In the case of an emergency, these things become good ideas. It makes sense to also make them economical then. Or at the very least, if people are willing to do these things, don't force them to make hugely un-economical decisions out of the goodness of their hearts.
I wonder: Couldn't we have some kind of simulated line breaks, which an editor places virtually, so that it can manage very long lines easily and efficiently internally, while writing out the file without these virtual line breaks? Basically only so make the conditions appropriate for the editor's string data structure?
Yep, I agree it's clearly a disaster. The government shouldn't be the one deciding who gets all the new money and on what terms... That's essentially what communism does with coupons.

It's naive to think that people will still value the dollar and assets which earn revenue denominated in dollars when everyone knows that the value of the dollar is always approaching 0.

I think something big is going to happen when big investors collectively realize that it's not just the dollar which is losing value, it's also all assets whose earnings are denominated in those dollars.

If gold was worthless, then all gold mines would also be worthless. Somehow people still haven't gotten their heads around that.
A startup used webcams to determine whether viewers were paying attention to ads
> I am unsure now as to whether you agree with me or not if we are referring from the same 2016 study.

I disagree with you, specifically about mental performance. Women's mental performance does not drop significantly before, during, or after pregnancy, at least not because of the pregnancy itself.

You keep linking me to pop-sci summaries of Hoekzema's study to try to support your claim. Please go read Hoekzema's paper instead and read it beyond the abstract.

Your assumptions about the academic potential of mothers are not only NOT supported by the data, they are also exactly the kind of attitudes that for centuries have forced women to attribute their accomplishments to men in order to be taken seriously.

My point is, there's a reason that what you are claiming is unpopular, and it's not because of some liberal agenda to silence you. It's because the facts do not support your claims.
Just look at Argentina's economic history.
Shouldn't the more conservative court be against Hollywood liberals? /s

Yes, I know you probably mean the court will be more corporatist.
>Money printing is always inflationary. Either it causes CPI inflation immediately or it's stored up for later.

Japan and Europe disagree.