skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole Buffett vs his secretary tax thing is just as misunderstood as the 1992 hot coffee lawsuit against McDonald's, which at the time was considered to be frivolous and a sign that the legal system in the US is broken. I recommend reading the actual facts behind this case [1] - it will make you appreciate our legal system.

Similarly, the Buffett story can be traced back to an interview he gave in 2007 where he shared that his tax rate was 17.7%, whereas the average tax rate of the employees in his office was 32.9% [2]. On the surface, this is shocking and will make you want to rebel against the system. But a closer look reveals that the bulk of Buffett's income comes from dividends and long-term capital gains, which are taxed at a much lower rate than ordinary income. We might argue about the specific tax rate numbers, but fundamentally there are good reasons for those tax rates not to be identical [3], and as such Buffett paying a lower tax rate should not be causing any outrage (don't confuse this with my view of the overall tax code, I am just focusing on the specific example above).

By the way, you may wonder why Buffett does what he does, including giving the interview I referenced above and going through the trouble of collecting the tax rate of his employees, sharing his own tax rate, etc. He's coming across as being generous for voicing his support for a higher income tax rate for the wealthy (aka, the Buffett rule). But in reality he's just deflecting from other potential sources of taxes, such as taxing people on wealth vs on income (which someone in his wealth bracket can easily live without). This scheme becomes even more obvious when you observe his attacks on Elizabeth Warren [4] (who is pro-wealth tax), while being more "aligned" with AOC [5].

[1] https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts
[2] https://www.fool.com/taxes/2020/09/25/why-does-billionaire-w...
[3] https://taxfoundation.org/why-capital-gains-are-taxed-lower-...
[4] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/03/02/warren_bu...
[5] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/04/ocasio-cortez-and-warren-buf...
At some point advertisers will need to accept they cannot have their cake and eat it too as we fly forward in technology progression.

Plus, most of these objections are based on moralism which is bogus and misused in the first place.

I could see companies putting ad data in an API and saying, "If this block shows up, you must show it in order to continue using this API for free; or pay." Seems fair to me.
I was referring to the consistency of the user interface and other behaviours. For example, themes and key bindings can be made consistent across emacs modes. They share the same config.
Frankly I'd be happy if they stopped using those garbage POLED panels from LG. Three years and every single one of them has a green tint to the bottom half of the screen.
Looks like everybody here has WSJ subscription, and many many other sites.
The niche subs are on the right-hand side of the bell curve's tail.

The main subs are in the thick middle of the curve.

Same problem as with literally everything else in life.
It wasn't veiled at all, it was a bald-faced ask, why dodge it? If the veiled accusations that some people utilize in the name of CRT is bothersome, why wouldn't you call THAT out from the very start?

That tactic is not a problem inherent to CRT, that tactic is a problem with how people deploy and weaponize CRT.

In the absence of anything else, yes, people are going to make assumptions.
> Shadow dom is optional for web components

Not the OP, but slots are part of the shadow DOM spec, so if you don’t want isolated styles, you have to forego slots.

I tend to build my app scaffolding with wrapper components that provide layout and/or functionality to their child components via slots, so as much as I like the idea of WebComponents they’re a complete non-starter for me.
I'm glad you found it, but I don't really see those as really changing my point. They looked for people that beat the system. They're amusing anecdotes when it's a plucky college kid hustling for a job. But when it's a head of a billion+ company beating the system (i.e. laws protecting workers and/or the general populace) it's a different story.
I mean, I have no issues remaining vegetarian, but I wouldn't say that some good chicken wings don't smell appetizing to me (having enjoyed them prior to becoming vegetarian). That being said, I haven't actually tried eating meat in all these years so maybe it wouldn't taste great when I actually ate it.
Same here. Reddit wouldn't be so bad if they literally didn't shut down every subreddit just because the psychotically loud minority said so. Plus it boggles my mind why they would do that. You are actively telling your users to go elsewhere. That's literally money and engagement walking out the door. And a lot of it. Now it's just memes, "The republicans are evil again...!", and "My mother who sold me to an african prince now wants a portion of the money he has, AITA?" The whole karma concept is garbage. The purpose for that was curating content and moderation. Not a "agree/disagree" button. Obviously it gets abused but slashdot and HN do it way better. Nobody can see your vote counts on HN and slashdot allows for more ways to mod something so that we can know it's not just the downvote train saying the comment is dumb but because of various other reason.
> Paul would never fund a founder who wanted to divide all profits among employees.

Why not? He explains what YC is looking for in a founder, and I don't see "what will the founders do with the profits" mentioned at all.
The history of why dealership came to be is an interesting one, and why the laws was originally passed was in some way valid

However today dealerships collectively enjoy HUGE state level political power, as in most states the bulk of sales tax revenue is directly tied to the resale of cars, thus the dealers of said cars have out-sized pull in state governments
Thanks for the introduction to the concept of Feed Conversion Ratio; that's a useful measure.

That led me to look for comparisons between FCR for poultry and cultured meat, and so far this report[1] seems informative.

Selected quotes from the report, as relevant to the topic of (land-use) efficiency:

"These results suggest that alternatives to the current mix of livestock production systems could substitute current animal products and substantially reduce the current agricultural land use footprint from food production."

"Although, the two most efficient products considered, i.e. imitation meat and insects, both come with consumer perception barriers, a shift towards poultry meat, eggs and milk was also found to offer land use and associated environmental benefits, of only slightly smaller magnitudes."

[1] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221191241...
Using leverage is one aspect. Another is persuading people (e.g. to invest in you), and this game can be dishonest. And in our system winner-takes-all holds: even if you are only 1% better than anyone else, you receive the full 100% of rewards.

One route to becoming a billionaire seems to go like this: you persuade a group of investors to make a pile of money that's so big that you can corner a market. Which is often true. But is it fair to the people already in this market? And is it fair that it makes you a billionaire?
So if Google had chosen to use a different language for Android then Sun would still be around? I don't think so.
If you know the ip address and it's the same one just blacklist it...
Yes. The money isn't coming from my pocket our yours. It comes from a Central Bank punching keys --literally in the case of America's Federal Reserve-- on a keyboard and updating a ledger balance.
I take some of your points and think you are right to call out that platforms that have a wide center but are hostile to extreme views are not echo chambers.

However, I think the qualities that you are saying define post-Trump Republicans are a caricature that is convenient to believe in but not fair. Trump's unexpectedly broad support has to do more with the fact that he's willing to stand up against a far-left influence that has been spiraling out of control and taking the near-left and center with it, all the while facing little critique or checks from other politicians. This is a deeper topic than I can articulate in a single HN comment, but my point is that the quick takes that portray Trump voters in such negative terms feel good to us but are not fair because people have deeper, and often legitimate reasons to support him despite all of his drawbacks.

I also think we should remember that progressive activists are only 8% of the country (https://hiddentribes.us/profiles/#progressive-activists) but they are forcing their views on everyone else, through aggressive/uncivil/authoritarian tactics and due to the physical location of influential media/tech companies. These mainstream platforms are marching to the tune of this 8% (an extreme) rather than the broad center in my opinion.
high-quality, fresh meat more accessible

We're still arguing if GMOs will be toxic to humans in the long term, and now we want to grow a whole chunk of animal in a lab, and proclaim nothing's wrong with it?
Anyone have any insight into how well the Ts2Fable tool works these days? (It translates TypeScript type definition files into F# for fable consumption.) https://github.com/fable-compiler/ts2fable

I just now dumped a 350KB JQuery.d.ts file into it, and sure enough it spit out F#, but confirming how well it works overall would take a lot longer to ascertain.

Always seemed to me like having a really robust tool for this purpose (or else, just a rich direct Fable-typing selection) would be a huge boon for the whole Fable ecosystem.
They'd have to pay $200,000 to all dealerships, not just the ones who wanted to leave. Plus I am sure that equipment takes up land/space, and reduces the number of service bays. And requires trained staff.

$176 million is different than $20 million. And that's not the only cost the dealers are incurring including reduced revenue from land that could be used to sell cars.
When the food riots start, Paul's piles of gold won't save him. We're completely fucked as a species, and SV VCs are totally out of touch. Off with their heads.
That's a terrible idea from a user perspective. All of ionity and tesla's superchargers are in urban or shopping areas that allow you to quickly buy some food, go shopping or go to a bathroom in a respectable location.

I personally would have zero interest in going to my car dealership as their locations are typically far away from anything urban or of interst.
Cadillac did try that, they called it the "Pinnacle Project", but the dealers (mostly the smaller ones) didn't want to do it.
That question doesn't really work: I mean, for you perhaps all meat is now the same and "gross", but there are many people who become vegetarian because of the ethical or environment aspects. I fail to see how it is far-fetched to assume that many of them would go back to eating meat if those concerns were resolved.
Yes. You can still send an EOF to quit (ctrl+d), or do "raise SystemExit()" which is all quit() does anyway:

>>> print(inspect.getsource(quit.__call__))
def __call__(self, code=None):
try:
sys.stdin.close()
except:
pass
raise SystemExit(code)
I heard estimates that fixing it could have cost up to $150M.Yet just in the last few years, Astronomers were able to find funding for:

MeerKAT: $330M

ELT: > $1B

GMT: $1B

Thirty Meter: $2.4B

Vera Rubin: $473M

James Webb: $10B++

WFirst: $4B

FAST (China): $180M

SKA: $1B

NOEMA: $70M

The last three are radio telescopes, which show both the range of funding available for new radio telescopes, and also serve as evidence we've gone beyond Arecibo.

I am no astro-rocket-surgeon, but I've been led to believe the problem with Arecibo is that it's giant dish was only an advantage for sending signals, while astronomy's overwhelming needs are to receive fainter signals which networks of dishes like SKA can do a much more amazing job at.
> How would you implement and test something something like C++'s unordered_set, a set with constant insert and lookup, using type-level constraints instead of unit tests?

How do you test asymptotic behavior with unit tests?

It would seem that is the kind of thing which is analytically demonstrable from the input types knowledge of the same features of the underlying operations (and, thus, theoretically within reach of a type system, if you wanted to design a type system with that in mind), but only subject to loose approximation in anything like unit testing.
I'm personally in the camp that the group think occurs more in mid 20 year old white women groups than it does in white males.

edit: I don't really get how my comment is any more sexist than saying it's only white men...
> it’s basically impossible to accumulate that amount of wealth through work

Not at all. I have no doubt that Jeff Bezos, for example, works very hard. The difference is not whether or not a person works, but what they work on.

Another poster upthread (mightybyte) suggested viewing this in terms of leverage: how much is the impact of your work magnified? I think this is a very fruitful way of looking at it; see my post upthread in response.
I've had to block Servermania's IP space due to various shenanigans. Due to the large number of IPs involved, I suspect they have a VPN service (that's being abused) as a customer. Being able to narrow it down to a single IP seems a luxury in comparison(!) and I would certainly just block it and move on for now.

"There's a current trend happening with people building API phone call bots designed to flood call scam centres. Is there an equivalent of this for web bots?"

That just sounds like a DDoS to me and not something I would advise, because it could get you into trouble.
That isn't what happened with Nissan. I own a leaf and have been following the whole situation since it launched. They required every dealership to install chargers. Most have moved them to the corner of the lot in protest b/c people just charge and leave.

One of the issues with electrics is that they need almost no maintenance. Dealerships don't make money on sales. So it didn't take long for the Nissan dealers to put two and two together. Fortunately, they are contractually bound to support the chargers at this point.
old.reddit is the only reddit.
Tesla’s also have a 12v battery as well and if it dies, car won’t work.
Many people are not arguing that.
But you're doing the thing. The tactic that you agree is bothersome.

Edit: I agree that one could incorporate some CRT into their worldview without becoming insufferable, in fact I think lots of normal people have without calling it that. That said, there are a lot of true believers out there, that's who I was talking about.
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Why the negative lens? No-one was saying it was as impressive. It's still an impressive feat of human endeavour (as with any project leaving earth orbit), no? And while it might have propoganda purposes, I don't think the CCP would be expecting it to blow people's minds, and propoganda wouldn't be seen as a top tier benefit of this project
I've had pretty good luck with ll bean jeans after I got tired of buying levi's all the time. I recommend their regular line, the premium line has weird pockets and don't seem as durable. They also offer flannel lined jeans if you live somewhere with cold.
Thats true the fees are probably shared between all customers and businesses so its not fair for those who can’t get a credit card.
Or saying anything remotely positive about a republican. Instant downvotes. Doesn't matter who, where, or what it's about. Republican did something to better his constituency? NO HE WAS JUST DOING IT FOR KICKBACKS! Reddit effectively has trained their users to only reinforce liberal ideals, otherwise face the downvote machine.
These are some pretty good guidelines! Many thanks to the authors for writing them up.

Some nitpicks (what would HN be without nitpicks?):

> If your command is expecting to have something piped to it and stdin is an interactive terminal, display help immediately and quit.

I disagree with this advice: being able to spoon-feed input into a program is extremely useful, and is part of the "conversational" CLI paradigm that the authors mention above. Commands that silently block on `stdin` are frustrating, but the right solution is to check `isatty(3)` and print an informational message rather than killing the program entirely.

> Check general-purpose environment variables for configuration values when possible

Consider adding `$IFS` to this! Commands that support different output models based on `isatty(3)` often neglect to support `$IFS`, making them more difficult to use in pipelines. This is especially handy in pipelines that need to deal with messy or untrusted inputs; I regularly use `IFS` with the ASCII field escape bytes.

> Don’t bother with man pages.

Please do bother with them! Nobody needs to write raw roff or troff in 2020; there are plenty of high quality manpage generators[1][2][3] that will turn your Markdown/ReST/whatever documentation into sensibly formatted manpages. manpages are much easier to search than the medley of pseudo-formats that CLI tools choose to render their `--help` outputs with.

[1]: https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn

[2]: https://pandoc.org/

[3]: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/1.4/man/sphinx-build.html
Not to get off topic but vehicle models aside, it feels like you could be talking about Google.
This is why I read the comments first. Thanks for doing my homework.
Collage(sic) graduate genes?

Genes are determined before college. And education doesn't change genes.
Not imortal, but probably billionaires will be the first to get longer lifespans (250 years). Imagine how much powerful someone can become. There is a very nice book called Pandora’s Star where people live for a very long time and this causes a lot of interesting developments in society.
Same here, I avoid them when I can. It won’t be too long before the gas stations are fast chargers, though- I give it 20 years.
With Apple, it was security theater. With multiple vendors working together, it has to actually work to get everybody on board with putting in the resources.

https://www.wired.com/2009/07/iphone-encryption/
I've been banned from a subreddit because I said Trump did some good things basically. Mod called me a nazi and silenced me after my appeal for 30 days.
It's a small transaction, and GM is on the other side of it, spending money to push the brand towards electric instead of letting it stagnate. Are 150 (likely small volume) dealers a great bellwether?
I find the same thing. Getting the experience can only happen in time I direct. I have scope to use F# at work but still fear that choice is not the best for the company I work for. Yes I will love the tooling and right now I'm there but it won't always be that way. They won't be able to find contractors to make changes in the future. I have to give them solutions they can run with in the future or they will be forever regretting me once I'm gone.
okay, well since the comment I initially replied to has been edited entirely post hoc to represent an entirely different tenor than what you originally replied with, I guess I need to edit mine as well:

No, I'm not doing that right now, I am trying to understand your framing of CRT and where your issues lie with it. It would seem those issues lie with how certain people argue CRT, not CRT itself.

Thank you for clarifying that.
But what about the value of having A tell you what to build? If A = Jeff Bezos, B/C/D, who would just be making a $150K salary at some other company, are now multi millionaires. The difference in value didn't come from their work, which is much the same as it would be for some other company, but by being told what to build by the right CEO.
Not to mention it's foolish to think that such a "swear-proof" encoding doesn't allow swear words in languages other than English.
Then why not pay everyone, not just restaurant workers? And as much as one needs or wants?
The UX initiative, a new JavaScript ecosystem for Symfony
Except when handling an error condition from a hard to test system call that was previously ignored.

Being forced into stupid tricks like adding five useless log statements so that the CI tool doesn't block your change is ... annoying.
I believe G offers a sort of interview workshop at some of their sites. Not sure what they are doing during the pandemic. A recruiter could tell you if they offer some sort of prep workshop.
From a users perspective though, this is terrible. Typically you want to use the chargers when you are on a road trip. And, at least where I live, the car dealerships are not convenient to the highway.

For the "apartment chargers" (aka anyone who can't charge at home or work for whatever reason) this might make some sense as a "visibility" scheme. The chargers will probably be open as well, and allow other car owners to use them… that might help drive foot traffic?
How Microsoft crushed Slack
You could be right. Time will tell as more jurisdictions enact combustion vehicle sales bans and brands transition to electric or die. Single data points aren’t as helpful as momentum signal.
It does feel a little wrong to do a chargeback against the retailer when they aren’t Facebook. Like, it’s not Target/Walmart/etc’s fault Facebook sucks. But it could also be argued that if the product sucks this bad, they shouldn’t be entertaining Facebook’s Quest 2.

I guess it just depends on your view of things.

To be clear: I’d absolutely return (or chargeback if necessary) in this case. Your social profile should have no bearing on your ability to use hardware you paid hundreds of dollars for.
Which is a very different claim.
I think you misunderstand. This is an HR matter, not an "Ethical AI" matter.

The official outputs and products of that department should (hopefully) be public and shared, I 100% agree with you. But that's not what this is about.

This matter in particular is an internal employee/employer dispute and dismissal, and is only public because of the high profile of the persons involved.

And what I meant that we'll never get the full story is that these kinds of situations are always more complicated than they appear. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg, and are not privy to the history that led to this moment.

These kinds of things don't just happen out of nowhere.

If I had to guess who's "more right" here, I'd side with Timnit, personally.. but again I don't have all the facts, so it's just a gut feeling based on what I know about how large enterprises work.