skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can make sense to allow offsetting costs of housing (rent and interest) against income tax. That helps those who don't own large amounts of equity and have really high outgoings.

However it also reduces the incentive to reapay mortgage capital at all (is that bad?)

Currently if you have £500k in cash, you can either

1) Buy a house and pay no rent

2) Pay £1500 a month in rent

Why would you pay £1500 a month in rent (which at a marginal rate of 40% means having to earn £3,750 a month, or £45k a year, extra in income.

Effectively you get a 9% roi on that £500k by buying the house (ignoring house price inflation). Someone with £500k in cash and £50k a year is better off than someone with £0 in cash and £90k a year, despite the latter being nearly twice as valuable to the economy.

Now in a situation where £1500 a month is tax free, you'd have to earn £18k extra a year, and that roi on house ownership drops to 3.6%, and that's good. Housing should be somewhere to live, not an investment.

Of course on the flip side, the extra money available would likely push private rents and house prices up anyway. Perhaps the solution would be to ringfence the interest into some form of long term savings (either to use on buying a house, or to fund a pension).
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hydrogen maybe the only economical way of transporting goods on medium and long distances

The word "only" in your sentence is only meaningful in a world in which diesel fuel and natural gas don't exist.

Check out this map from the US DOE: https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/natural_gas_locations.html

Why there must be dozens of natural gas (both LNG and CNG) fueling stations around the country. There are even a handful in Canada. Almost nothing, but still way ahead of hydrogen.

If you look at pure hydrogen (same map), there appear to be a few dozen stations in the entire country, all in California.

In comparison, the number of electric stations (same map) is huge.

Pure hydrogen is in last place. It's a joke. Toyota has wasted billions of dollars on it. Nobody is going to build out a hydrogen infrastructure given all the alternatives.

Hydrogen as a transportation fuel is deader than the parrot in the Monty Python sketch. No amount of wishful thinking can change that.
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Speaking from experience, lucid dreaming is not as restful as normal sleep. Furthermore when I was lucid dreaming often, I would get much more regular bouts of sleep paralysis, which only happens to me when my sleep health has severely deteriorated.
It's the same in Norway, and it seems completely indefensible.

1) It's the opposite of progressive taxation, since the tax deduction is higher the larger your mortgage is (and there's no deduction if you don't have a mortgage).

2) It artificially inflates housing prices.

Overall, it's a shifting of cash away from those that want to enter the housing market towards those that are in it, i.e. taking from the poor and giving to the rich. The policy seems like an obviously indefensible mistake, yet no political party dears to touch it because the majority of voters are beneficiaries of it, and the topic is slightly too complicated for there to be an informed public debate about it.
Okular has support for comments, although I don't know if they're compatible with Acrobat's.
Yes, I heard that with Sweden mortgage you're not really buying your house but kind of renting it to the bank. You know you're never going to pay it off.
My experience as well. And you don't even go into the whole licensing headache.
You can't survive on a burger a week and you will eat other food too between your $5 burgers. So maybe it's worth spending the $4 / week covering "most of the other food" you gotta eat anyway.
That just makes it worse doesn't it? When the suppression has increased in scope to include "standard" views?
Or trains.
What is the unit on the x-axis of the first plot?
Isn’t it astounding that we used to get by without graphene?
> I would argue that code that is sensitive to scope is bad code no matter which language it's written in

Then you have argued that using any form of functions or subroutines in any language is bad design.

> since now you're constantly asking "When does a variable leave scope." If I change the scope of a variable, it causes a subtle change that breaks the closure.

Yes, that is what one must ask oneself as a programmer and that is what programmers who have not been taught wrong practices by having used Python as their introduction are instinctively constantly asking themselves.

Python programmers must also ask themselves this whenever they use functions and Python comes with a variety of ugly hacks around it's initial wanton design by a programmer who clearly does not understand scope how he originally designed it such as `nonlocal`.

Inside any function in Python there are four kinds of variables in terms of their scope: normal, formal, global, and nonlocal, each of them has a different scope and the programmer best be mindful of which is which as he codes, because they have widely different semantics and because Python has the same syntax for assignment and initialization and this difference especially creates very different interpretations for those four types.

> In that case I would prefer to be explicit that the closure "wraps" a new instance of the variable rather than relying upon implicit language behavior to guarantee the scope is correct.

I feel that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a closure or function is if you think it even possible for it to wrap a new instance of a variable.

You seem to be of the same misunderstanding as another user above that `let x = x;`-esque behavior would affect this issue in any way rather than be an irrelevant line.

> As python says in "import this": "Explicit is better than implicit."

Not only is this very rich coming from a language that uses exceptions for flow control, and the same syntax for initialization and assignment, it's also irrelevant and not a matter of explicitness versus implicitness.

Whether wrapping variables would be implicit or explicit in this context would not have solved the issue at all. Even if Python mandated explicit wrapping or made shadowing illegal, which some languages do, for which there is argument to be had, it would not change this subtle bug at all.
> do you think you are entitled to shares?

No. But if someone already earned years on their pension, or earned their shares, they should keep them. If they didn't do what was needed to earn them, they don't get them.

It's the removal of something I do not understand ("X fired, loses pension" is what I see a lot).
1: Suddenly there are confounding factors? Why didn't that stop you from claiming the correlation in the first place?

2: This isn't how taxes work. High-tax countries essentially do collective purchases with that money, which usually means lower cost per individual for services like education, healthcare, pensions and so on.
No argument there, but I think it's funny that just about all of the Venezuelans and Iranians that I know (fairly large sample in my case) would see "the bad guys" as the Venezuelan and Iranian governments.

Me personally, I see "the bad guys" as RT. Not a big fan of their work.
It's more the case that as Carl Sagan said "If you're making an extraordinary claim you should have extraordinary evidence".

So where is the extraordinary evidence for Climate Crisis? People have been claiming this or similar for the last 30 years giving us deadlines that have been repeatedly passed. So what's different now? nothing as far as I can see.
Graphene manufacturing was not needed as our best ~5nm chips could use copper wires to transfer electricity. I suppose the ones that are on R&D now (3, maybe 2 nm) also use copper (that's my guess only). But going smaller will require something better (meaning less resistant on such scale), so maybe Graphene will be back in the game.
Recent trends in WHOIS (in Europe, at least) is to not show people’s names. People both deserve and need to be able to be anonymous:

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Re...
Hey Jonah,

Perhaps you already covered this in the video and I missed it, but I was wondering how the team went about hardware upgrades/disposal? I maintain a just few servers in my own homelab so upgrading is pretty trivial for me, but I can't imagine what its like on that scale. Also, which hypervisor are you using to manage all of those VMs?

Thanks again for the talk, it was very insightful and fun to watch!
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Yes, there is the unstable plugin system that can be used for that
IANAL, but I did some research for Germany: Assuming you need a bank loan to buy your house (and assuming the bank plays along), it seems you're able to deduce the interest on the loan. Same holds for anything you perform to increase the value of the house (e.g. new roof).

Now of course if the company pays e.g. 1000 Euro per month for the loan(s), it has to charge the tenants (=me & my SO) more than that plus taxes. The question is now if the effective tax rate can be pushed down to zero% by deducing the interest. As for the companies earnings, maybe that money could be "reinvested" into the house (better WiFi), so that MIGHT just be as good as putting some money aside. Or you actually buy another house for renting out. Obviously it's a good idea to talk about this to a tax advisor. For me this is only a Gedankenexperiment ;-)
The only thing stopping battery electric trucks from taking over long haul trucking is constrained battery supply. You will see battery electric trucks on the road in large numbers within the first half of this decade.
I've built some things in Power Apps over the last few months. Not the most pleasant experience. Anyone tried to get non US date formatting to work? Please tell me if there's a simple solution.

Occasionally I'll have flashbacks to a younger me doing a similar thing in Access with VBA 15 years ago.
[herewegoagain.meme]
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I think it's relatively widely recognised as a bad idea now, but the challenge is that people have made long-term financial plans based on it, and if you were to suddenly cancel it altogether, lots of people would probably get in trouble. They're imposing further restrictions on it in the Netherlands, but it's all gradual and slooooow.

Disclaimer: I don't know much about this.
Sad to see the crap brexit-generated misinformation spreading.

Direct and indirect contributions to EU coffers are minimal as % of state expenditure, particularly once you look at the outsized returns in the wider economy. When German banks lend money to Greece to buy their tanks, public debt exposition grows in theory but in practice German coffers win twice. That's why Northern European countries are the big winners of the Common Market. If you have an issue with how this dynamic allocates the resulting "loot", you should take it up with Northern European leaders who allow most of the returns to stay in the private sector.
I don't understand this vegan processed food propaganda to push people not eat meat. What would be much more efficient is making laws for more quality meat. US is very weirdly regulated(drugs, healthcare, doctors compared to food quality) Reduce the steroid meat. The prices would go up, the consumption down. If you want to eat meat, you would pay more. I would. I love meat, all types.
You don't also have to eat beef every day. Chicken, pork and other types of meat are pretty much equal in quality if you avoid fat cuts for example of pork. I also love bread and vegetables. And I also think it is much better to eat fresh meat and fresh vegetables then heavily processed vegetables, grains and industrially processed oils. There are much more efficient ways to curb down emissions than fighting holy war against meat(coal anyone? trans oceanic shipping).
I abhor the low-information manipulating, cognitive-bias exploiting, self-serving, anti-scientific YouTube conspiracy charlatans as much as the next rational, reasonable person.

That said - if you believe that there's no chance the Wuhan Institute of Virology had anything to do with this, then you'll believe anything. It's the largest virus bank in Asia and we know it was doing Coronavirus research. This is not tin foil. The Chinese government is not remotely accountable to the truth as Western governments are and should not be trusted an inch. Plenty of educated people are very concerned.
Very low bandwidth, very low power, very long distance comms are really cool. The limiting factor tends to be the clock frequency precision - if you have precise enough clocks at both ends, there isn't anywhere in the universe you couldn't communicate with, as long as you're happy to go slow enough.
No, not all my "media" was subsidized by ads before the internet. The author also fails to support the title, other than to weakly imply that somehow excluding ads on Netlifx has something to do with increased ad revenue on Facebook.
People with knowledge, why are fuel cell cars not under 20k USD, because production is low or something fundamental?
solar panels in the Sahara

Given the inefficiency of

photovoltaic
-> hydrogen
-> liquid hydrogen?
transport (how, not easy)

It would probably be easier to create and ship LNG. At least we know how to do that.

But you're much better off just putting 2x or 3x the number of solar panels in countries that don't have as high a solar irradiance as the Sahara does.

Or even do HVDC from the Sahara to Europe. That is probably much higher efficiency than trying to use hydrogen or natural gas.

BTW in case anyone is interested, here is a map of solar irradiance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance
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My thoughts as well: the benefits during development outweigh any downsides during transport and deployment.

My other thought is that I simply saw it wrong and there are no screws in the rover, just things that look like screws, nuts or bolts.
> yet for it's entire existence so far, the block reward has made it more inflationary than all major currencies

Why does every HN bitcoin thread have this ridiculously incorrect statement being mindless parroted? The inflation rate of bitcoin is currently 1.8%, this is easily confirmed for anyone willing to put in 10 seconds of research.

In comparison the US M1 monetary supply is up over 60% in the last year and the S&P 500 valuation is at all time highs despite a massive global recession. At what point will people actually capitulate regarding the value of cash in their wallet being rapidly inflated away across the planet?

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m1
Is it simply dusty/hazy?

Some of the fuzzy photos remind me of the Sahara Desert when there was a little wind.
seems to be percentage of household income
Some have resizing and scaling for free (e.g. AWT, most HTML renderers) while others do not (e.g. VB, as much as I love it)
The argument even applies to competitions where you play with your own real money. Any non-zero prize moves the slider a bit towards the riskier strategies.
Okay, I'm stumped. Isn't the gaussian function a probability density function, which means it should have an area of 1 by definition? Are you taking it as f(x) = exp(-x^2)? To keep f(0) equal to 1?
> Who do you believe then?

Scientists all over the world.

> Why would you believe a largely Chinese controlled organization [...]

Who came up with the idea that the WHO is "chinese controlled"? The orange guy?

Maybe the current leadership of the WHO is leaned towards China, that should be tackled as it's not suited for something as important as the WHO.

Also countries should probably "invest" more in the WHO to make it financially (and therefore politically) more independent.

Nevertheless I don't think that the WHO as a whole is "controlled by china" and we should not trust in their findings.
But politicians need votes within 4-5 years. So who really cares. At least the young people getting apartments now are getting a good deal. Who cares about the future??
what does "alt-right" mean?

is it the same as "alt-left" but with negative sign, like (-)AOC?
My understanding, from international friends, and many internet articles (like the recent Bloomberg piece on Berlin rent control), is that housing policy is pretty bad in almost all desirable places globally, be it London, Berlin, Stockholm, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco or Amsterdam.

The economics around housing are usually simple, but the politics seem intractable. Increasing attractiveness of some location always leads to higher prices, which can only be relieved by increasing supply (or decreasing the local attractiveness). But there are almost always forces opposing increased building, so politicians revert to demand side policies such as loans/interest rate policies or price controls, which have many downsides that are less immediately visible.
Who said anything about "sitting around crying"? Also, I don't understand why you agree that animals should be killed humanely where possible if you don't care about their emotional state.

>> I don't have a huge pile of care to spare for the emotional feelings of chickens and pigs, sorry to say.

I get it. Most people are way far removed from the animals we eat to feel any emotional attachment to them and even most people who work with animals, because of the scale of farming today, can't really think of them as anythng but things we cut up and eat. But this is only one more symptom of the disease of industrially produced food that is making us sick, depdenent on bloated corporations and destroys the environment.

That's not to say that if we cared more about the animals we eat everything would fix itself, but the fact that there is now considerable backlash against the inhumane killing of animals that is part and parcel of industrial farming, is nothing but the birds of our mass-production dependent way of life coming home to roost.

People have lost the balance necessary to raise animals for feed. Their relationship with those animals is broken and is lying in pieces, two pieces, opposite extremes, equally mad: one that meat is murder, the other that all we should care about is how much meat costs.
hark is not a right word, might be you are searching hack.
Yep! I also repeat some of the advice here, but in a different context: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/cost-of-living
I have a war story about this.

I was not having the best time mental-health-wise anyway about 10 years ago. I was freelancing and writing an application for a doctor's surgery in C#, using some of the cool new toys they'd produced for it. Including Entity Framework. Which came with lazy loading of object properties, cool. Except I kept bumping into cases where the object hadn't lazy-loaded, and data I knew should be there, wasn't. Digging in through myriad stacks of documentation and notes, all of which said that data would be loaded if it was asked for without needing to load it, I finally bump into a small note, obviously written by an actual dev, that cheerfully pointed out something like "to ensure your data is actually loaded into the object, you'll need to call the loadData() method before using it" (I paraphrase from memory).

I lost it. I completed that project, then uninstalled Windows, installed Ubuntu, and started learning Go (I intended to also learn Rails and Python, but fell in love with Go's simplicity and haven't moved on since).

It actually helped with my mental health. Realising that at least part of my problem was that people were professionally lying to me was an insight I needed.

I'm never trusting a Microsoft technology again. It's always nice and slick on the surface, and then a twisting pile of mess underneath.
Because they lived there half if not all their lives and want to continue to live there. It's as easy as that and it's a legitimate reason.

In the end, the Senate of Berlin is looking out at least in theory for the people of Berlin, not nomad developers or other people looking to move there.
> Electric batteries are getting better faster

Are they? Any sources on that?

Besides, the issue with batteries is that you carry dead weight all the time regardless of how much energy they have stored in and that weight is very high, making the driving experience "not for everyone". I guess, the weight also would mean higher asphalt and tire consumption, which as I read recently is the prime polluter of the driving activity.

I don't know if fuel cells actually have a promising feature or not, but I like seeing people working on alternatives to batteries. Light vehicle propulsion is something to be desired, it opens up possibility for aviation too.
Came here to say that, am satisfied.

It was twice as cold on Monday than it was on Sunday. /duck
project verona is _one_ attempt at doing this, ebpf is another
What is the order of time complexity in big o notation?
What about the medium sized companies?

In my opinion when a FAANG dinosaur publish some source code, the quality doesn't seem much different than anything else.
How to add payment methods in CastNow Ecommerce Platform?
Can someone help me to add stripe payment in castnow platform.
I'm sorry I don't get why you're downvoted. In what way is a Pixel phone more secure, hardware-wise?
martin_a, you're way out of line.

It was the job of the Wuhan Virus Lab to study bat viruses, and they published papers on it.

The scientist in early 2020 "debunking" that behind the scenes was both an associate of the lab, and of WHO.

NTD media has also covered this extensively.

Nobody is seriously eliminating the lab as the corona source at this point. They have eliminated the wet market.
Ah, the no-code dream: https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2020/10/07/the-no-code-dream/
I can read text clearly in my dreams. Many dreams about slack sometimes. Ugh.
sorry to steal topic a little bit. I am a backend engineer and usually create an API stuff for our frontend engineers. Tried to work on my side project recently and pixel perfecting front end and adjusting it to mobile seems very time consuming task.

Are there any services I can use as a drag and drop front end builder and connect data population to my backend? checked out wix and webflow, they both seem to require storing data on their side and most of tutorials are showing how to populate that datastore with airtable or zapier, which is not an option for me.
Good points, thank you! I didn't mean to say that it's inherently bad - I am actually puzzled that here companies (who want to make money) can save at least some taxes on buying a house as an investment, while a private person has no such option. This doesn't seem like a fair market to me, as a company can ALWAYS out-compete a private buyer (assuming both having the same cash reserves).

The flip side might be true, but I think it's not as easy. I have a meeting now, so I can't go into detail (and not think about the details; ergo you might still be 100% right!). But if private buyers - those who would rent - can more easily compete with companies on buying, companies need to make renting more attractive. But maybe that effect is negligible.
Supporting pushing them out while not offering any solution besides saying they have "a claim to some kind of housing" is essentially supporting throwing them out on the street in their 70s period.
Thanks! Really appreciated.

I've gotten the hang of SVGs, is MBostock's blog still the best place to start with D3?
Possibly a lot more if I could make it convincing...