skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
France experimented with a wealth tax for a few years until they decided to scrap it after they realized it resulted in _lost_ tax revenue [1]. Morality aside, every billionaire probably has the resources to retain a few lawyers and tax accountants and find a loophole to avoid this, or failing that, move to a more billionaire friendly country (and there is no shortage of those).

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/26/698057356/if-a...
Good. Grief.
Because you're a dumb fuck.
Tips and Tricks for Azure Event Grid: Authenticate Webhook Subscriptions
So you actually agree a wealth tax is a good thing, your argument is just, "we can't make it perfect we should not do it at all"

That's not a helpful argument because it is so general that we can bring it up against anything. I'm very certain you don't follow this principle in real life either.
The pagination is only because of performance issues on the server to begin with. Rather than adding extra complexity at the top of the thread, the solution is to improve performance and render the whole page like we used to.
It's not straight anywhere though. It came over years of watching CP
defend literal incel terrorists beating up lesbians who refuse to have sex with them, while gaslighting the victims and defending the attacks. CP didn't coin "Cotton Ceiling" but they sure go on about it. If kinkshaming is bad, what is it to personally shame lesbians who reject men?

And I didn't lead with it, I used it to explain why I found your reference to be less than compelling.

> So if you were talking to me and saw someone who looks like Blair White across the room, and wanted to single that person out, do you think you'd spot that person's biological sex and say "him over there" to me rather than "her over there"?

You and I are already talking about Blair so I'd say 'He'. But If I thought it might be ambiguous I wouldn't use either. Like I wouldn't use a shirt-color if I couldn't see it clearly, or thought that you couldn't.

And I won't use people's chosen pronouns but I don't pick fights either so I'd sidestep the issue in their home or at their event.

But if you mean, would I spot Blair if I didn't know them? Ehh, I dunno.

Do you think this means I'm reading their gender expression? Doesn't that implicitly assume that there are only two gender expressions then, such that I'm being fooled into seeing the other one? This whole angle feels like it'd be labelled regressive, and it brings up the question of how one would be expected to recognize 'Moon Gender' at all.

It feels like it'd be simpler to just say that I would be mistaken about their sex.
Spec was released after we switched to Java.
(1967)
That sounds awful. My wife has Stills and went through a similar experience before getting a diagnosis. Has she been seen by a rheumatologist? Her symptoms seem vaguely auto-immune/inflammatory.

https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/reactive-arthritis/
That's not entirely correct.

The Intercept published this article last year [1] with leaked audios showing how Coca Cola undermines efforts to make things better while blaming the customers. It is a great read with plenty of sources.

Coca Cola might not have put that garbage there themselves, but they have actively fought efforts to make the consumer behave better. That's almost as bad.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coca-cola-recycling-plas...
>There are millions of people who can provide at least as much insight as Pinker can ever manage

That takes for granted what it should instead prove. Pinker, regardless of who he fraternizes with or what moral causes he supports or not, is an acknowledged scientist.

>Let's listen to them instead of the creep who hangs out with rapist pimps.

Who people hang with is irrelevant. We don't and shouldn't change who we listen to on technical/scientific/etc matters based on their personal morality (even less so based on someone's idea about that). We change who we listen to on those matters based on the quality of their arguments and domain knowledge.

In any case, we should not bring moralizing and posturing into discussions and into who we listen to, except if the morals in question are related to the subject matter.

E.g. I would be suspect to economic arguments from an economist who has been found to take money from states to push some agenda. But I wouldn't be suspect to economic arguments from someones who enjoys killing kittens. I just wouldn't take environmental / pet advice from that person...
> "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of ivy league, probably learned Java, probably practiced lot of competitive programming. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to churn out some replaceable boilerplate. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

Fixed it for you
That's on purpose:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25087113

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25065663

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24042165

If you guys complain enough about these comments at the top of the threads, it might actually get me to finish the damn performance improvements so I guess keep complaining.
We've done this song and dance 1000 times: Someone says "DDG is bad" or "DDG is good" and all of the replies are basically "No, DDG is <opposite>".

Let's try something new: Let's give examples. I'll go first:

Let's say I have a nebulous recollection that there is a wifi module with "NRF" in the model number. If I search for `nrf wifi` on both Google and DDG, which do you think provides better results?

Let's look at the top URL hits from both (this is in an incognito window, with ublock origin on!):

Google:

1) nordicsemi.com (the manufacturer) homepage

2) <manufacturer website> press release

3) <manufacturer website> random Q & A page

4) arduino.stackoverflow.com (question about how to use it)

5) Some blog (someone's guide to using it)

6) nrf.com (National Retail Federation) conference category: wifi and bluetooth analytics (unrelated result, but I can imagine someone going to this conference might google the exact same thing, good thing Google knows to show it...

--- A random box showing questions relevant to the device ---

7) arduino.cc (question about how to use it)

8) <electronics blog site A> (someone's guide to using it)

9) <electronics blog site A> (another page on using it)

10) <electronic parts retail site A> (sells it)

DDG:

1) <electronics blog site A> (someone's guide to using it)

2) <electronics blog site B> (someone's guide to using it)

3) <electronic parts retail site C> (someone's guide to using it)

4) <electronics blog site D> (someone's guide to using it)

5) <electronics blog site E> (someone's guide to using it)

6) <electronics blog site F> (another guide to using it)

7) <electronics blog site G> (someone's guide to using it)

8) arduino.cc (question about how to use it)

9) <manufacturer website> random Q & A page

10) <manufacturer website> another random Q & A page

As you can see, Google seems to prefer authoritative sources (the manufacturer, the conference that coincidentally has the same name and category), while DDG seems to prefer blogs and how-to guides. I won't say which is better, that's entirely subjective.
Your typesetting website is absolutely gorgeous. I will totally keep it as a reference for beautifully simple websites.

On the template front: this is exactly the type of resource I wish I had in college while learning and using Latex. Thank you for your contributions! I'm forwarding on to a few academic friends.
Sounds like you misunderstood the point of the article. Not surprising, since it's written as a cryptic poem.

The question is meant more as a metaphor for a larger problem american culture (in particular) has with lumping a lot of very different things together as "disabilities" and the problems that stem from doing that.

Like the author said, if a (public) building is physically inaccessible by a significant subset of the population then the building design is the thing that needs attention and reconsideration not the people.

In other words, we should put more effort into designing systems and things that accommodate differences rather than asking people to identify with the poorly defined and highly contextual term "disabled" as if that's a solution to anything.

That's closer to the point of the article, despite going over and over the question for the sake of poetry.
Microplastics are in literally every synthetic clothing item we wear. I don't see us ever getting rid, or cutting down on microplastics if thousands of companies, even self-proclaimed eco-friendly ones, sell these as their main product.

https://www.patagonia.com/stories/an-update-on-microfiber-po...
Not my private life but the poor soul who is working long hours 7 days a week.

I guess farmers have done this for extended streches over the millennia.

15 Hour days would be rough but people have done it and will do it again in the future too.

Definitely not a lot of free time for someone to have an active private life.
You can do that, but why? There's a dark irony in using a language that's propped up as a better alternative to Java, and then dealing with the pain to wire in Java halfway through the pipeline to overcome the perceived deficiencies of the language that was supposed to be a better alternative to Java. At a certain point, just using Java is much easier.
> allow installation of apps via links without requiring an App Store altogether.

this is the most important aspect. I don't care how big a cut apple takes off the appstore - it's irrelevant what people "think" they should charge, because the cut is going to be determined by a market rate. But this market rate determination requires competition, and the lowest denominator competition is allowing installation from outside app store.
To clarify: According to German law, any sexualized content in any media (including text) containing persons who can reasonably be thought of as below the age of 18 are illegal. Here, 'thought of' is quite literal and is allowed to contradict facts. There is no need for real or even just virtual children to be involved.

So if you draw a hentai image of someone who is 18, or 20, or 25, but could also be seen as younger, that's illegal. If you've seen hentai, you'll know that virtually all of it belongs in this category.

Two 17yo vampires having consensual sex would be legal in Germany, but writing a fanfiction about them would be child porn.

If you think that's batshit crazy, you are right.
Higher than average? That's very much a [citation needed] moment if I've ever seen one.
This article is not really worthy of Hacker News. We already have a tax system that is designed to do a fair amount of wealth redistribution. That moral argument was fought and largely won a long time ago.

Now, that system certainly needs tweaking, and the technical details of that are worth discussing. What is the optimal amount of money that can be taxed from the wealthy before we suffer consequences like capital flight or low private investment into the economy?

Throwing around “wealth tax” as a slogan to argue over is not going to bring about that constructive discussion, though.
Eh, ideas have a life of their own, independent of how much sense they make. And the meme that "the rich have too much money" is a popular one. It helps that it has a kernel of truth: it is much harder to make your first million than it is the second, even if for the simple reason that you can afford a competent secretary, accountant and lawyer. So in this respect I do get the appeal.

I disagree with blaming the rich and looking at taxing them for a whole host of other reasons that don't really have much to do with fairness:

- best way to distribute resources in a society is to give more to those that have proven they can use them best. And "who has more money" is a decent heuristic for "who can make more with the money he has". It's not perfect, of course, and it's trivial to think of exceptions, but it's very handy compared to any alternatives.

- "raising the tax" and "collecting more tax" are not the same thing, especially when you deal with people that have competent accountants and can move their wealth around.

- I'd much rather hear talk of lowering the for work, than raising the tax for the rich. It would directly encourage creating jobs and getting money in the pockets of the people.

- I'd also (and this is my old pet peeve) rather have higher tax for things which are valuable because of commons. Land, for example: a piece of land in Manhattan is 90% valuable because of its location, and 10% because of what's built on it. And its location is valuable because of New York city in aggregate. This would be a very common sense thing to tax, up until the point where cities actually spread to avoid higher taxes. But I'd also try to legislate this wider, to other things where commons create most of the value. Think how much value Facebook gets due to the actual software, and how much due to many people using it.
Hugo on Apple M1 Benchmark
Tenseless Language
> So you actually agree

> I'm very certain you don't follow

Don't say what I think for me. It's condescending, makes you look like you're more interested in cheap points, and suggests that you can't actually come up with an intellectual response.

I don't think it's a good thing; I think it's better to address the root of the problem rather than the symptom; and it's worth noting when a course of action isn't going to work. Otherwise you fall prey to the classic mockery: "we need to do something! This is something. We should do it."
Cushy jobs pay much more than labor jobs!

> If you want to imagine that all jobs can pay equally well

That's not what I said at all. I said that harder jobs paying more is NOT the problem.

I don't want all jobs to pay the same. I'm happy with some jobs paying ten times as much as other jobs. But there's a limit to overall inequality before problems start to happen.
This looks like statistical research through the investigators' lens.

They spelled _two_ wrong.

10a. An even more innovative person, after identifying the smallest and fastest action that will produce the required learning, will move forward as fast or faster, and much more effectively with more than just the smallest action most of the time.
Because the government is corrupt and proven to be bad with money.
Hopi Time Controversy
> The world of Java development has a lot of bad taste and questionable practices enshrined as best practices.

I've never seen a "best practice" that wasn't horrible dogma parroted by developers that can't do their own thinking.

As I get older I care less and less about FP, OOP, imperative, and language fads. Or Martin Fowler. Especially Martin Fowler. What I really crave and value over anything else: consistency. I don't want to look at the code base like an archaeologist, digging through layers of fads. "And this code is when James and Adam were going through an ORM phase with such-and-such library" Please no. I don't have enough remaining time in my life for this shit.
First Apple used the MOS 6502 chip because it was $30 verses $300 for a Motorola 6800. That kept the Apple 1 down to $666.66 in price. Without that there would be no Apple.

Cost cutting can mean making your own chips so you don't have to rely on a third party and also foil the Hackintosh makers.
It all still makes you pull you pull your hair out. I’ve tried Selenium for E2E and RTL and others for integration and unit testing. As soon as you want to do anything remotely complex like testing an auth flow or a chained change of state you start running into issues. Mocking can be truly infernal. I tried to mock Firebase and I found myself thinking way too much about the internals of the Firebase SDK and their relationship with my own application to the point I didn’t know what I was testing anymore.

Compare this to testing the back-end where I can crank pages of tests like I’m the Beethoven of testing.

I love front-end dev but I cower at the thought of testing anything that’s not a pure data function or a very dumb presentational component.
I’m not sure it is crucial; economists have become very good at creating post-hoc justifications for the leviathan they serve.
>In what way does google invade your privacy that has made you worse off?

This made me laugh. Let's talk about an example. Imagine the nicest house with all of the features possible. You get to live in the house and enjoy all benefits at not cost whatsoever. Only catch would be that the house would be made of transparent glass and everyone outside gets to see what you are doing at all times. Would you still choose to live in the house? Sure you might, I for one will not because it would make me extremely uncomfortable. It might not directly make me worse off but tracking my every move does not sit right with me.

Using google's service is somewhat like that transparent house except whatever you do on web is tracked, profiled and used against your best interests.
Could you write code in a better language like kotlin and then transpile it to javascript?
I disagree, here's why:

CISC instruction in are still variable length. People can argue that micro-ops are RISC like, but micro-code is an implementation detail very close to hardware.

One of the key ideas of RISC was to push a lot of heavy lifting over to the compiler. That is still the case. Micro-ops cannot be re-arranged by the compiler for optimal execution.

Time is more critical when running micro-ops than when compiling. It is an obvious advantage in making it possible for advance compiler to rearrange code rather than relying on precious silicon to do it.

While RISC processors have gotten more specialized instructions over the years, e.g. for vector processing. They still lack the complexity of memory access modes that many CISC instructions have.
There's plenty of evidence that "common sense" is often wrong.

If "common sense" is correct, it should be easy to provide a solid argument, backed up with data, that shows the "common sense" view is correct.

And I've repeatedly shown the details of poor waste management seeming to be the actual issue that needs to be addressed: https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution
Cost is a significant difference but I’d be interested to understand why the costs vary so much. For instance, if the cost difference is mainly because of the cost of cold storage and transport then it’s really only the one “trade off” but it is probably more complicated.

Also, the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine isn’t a conventional vaccine but a viral vector vaccine which also has never been approved for use in humans. It acts similarly to the mRNA vaccines but uses a hollowed out adenovirus sheath as the transport mechanism of the RNA into the cell.
Brave Introduces Brave Today, the Privacy-Preserving News Reader
Where's cloudflare?

edit: nvm, it's cloudflare's SSL cert
This wouldn't work without a way to compel people to be paid in government currency and accept it as a form of payment. One of the inherent values of the sovereign currency is that you have to use it to pay taxes with. Without taxes, there would be little use for holding the government currency. People and businesses would probably start trading in gold or cryptocurrencies rather than holding the devaluing government currency.
Dang, is there a GitHub repo where we can contribute, file a pull request, and see what happens?

I only see the API available, not any of the front-end: https://github.com/HackerNews
Infrastructure Costs [pdf]
Financial Education Tradeonix Pro Technical Analysis for Financial Independence
That's not what the parent is asking tho. They're saying how do you actually pin it on them.
You could just ignore the whole incentive thing and demand more recycling.

Here in denmark we still allow Coca-Cola to externalize the cost, but then we have a public system that collects and recycles/reuses the bottles, Funded by taxes (who cares which ones). In this way the product price still doesn't reflect the true cost, but at least the bottles get recycled.
Theres an easy solution: You set a limit and everytime a service needs to spend some many it allocates a small portion of the budget and after some threshold it will put unused money back to the budget. The only downside is that your spending limit will be reached to optimisticly, but i prefer that to paying thousands more than i wanted to. Knowing the system works like maybe a lower and higher threshold for the budget could be set.
Well you’re certainly living up to your username today ;)

All taxes are avoided to some extent but assets are actually easier to tax in many ways than income. If you want to have money and things it’s hard to hide that, whereas if you have capital you don’t even need income and can easily avoid taxes on it.
> The Public Cloud provides a monthly expense that just becomes part of the operation budget.

Ops budgets aren't infinite. In this example, if the cloud egress costs kept rising due to demand then the weather service would still have to find ways to restrict usage.
Because they always have to speak about something, and most news outlets are American based, thus mostly blind to the actual market share Apple products have worldwide, so they do this industry projections as if it would affect the whole world.
New Relic calls it something different so they can charge a lot more for it.
Might steal this one, thanks!
This is complete BS.

The complaint alleges that 1750 messages were posted on an communications system urging employees to blow whistles.

Those messages were linked to an IP address which Comcast pointed at Jones’ home.

Is that enough for a conviction? No, it’s not hard to establish reasonable doubt with that.

But that’s damn well enough for a search warrant to sieze electronics from somebody’s home. Being fired for insubordination, she had motivation, the terrible security practices gave her opportunity, and IP logs are a clear piece of evidence that it could be her.

That’s a pretty solid ground for granting a search warrant.

Hanging up on officers and denying them entry for twenty minutes is a good way to make them nervous about your intentions as well.

IPs can be spoofed? Sorry it would take a hell of a lot of sophistication for that to be what happened or outright evidence falsification on the prosecution. Is it more likely that a somewhat troubled woman logged in to work computers to try to stir up trouble or that a sophisticated act of framing occurred?