skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah CRISPR-Cas9 is an incredible breakthrough. I’m just not sure the regulatory environment is geared up for exponential growth, and my assertion is that reverse engineering biology will be a much steeper climb than the history of transistors or rocketry.

I guess my question to you would be, if we were to take a bet on it, what metrics would we use to know who was right? Biotech patents? In the case of rockets and chips we had thrust and transistor density respectively. I’m not sure how easy it would be to quantify progress, though I have a sense of what some of the tangible applications will be when they show up. Maybe mortality rate would be a good measure? Or human population size (a proxy for mortality + food production)?
Personally I'm a huge fan of microemacsen as they allow me to run a friendly editor on practically any hardware and my muscle memory is so habituated to Emacs key bindings I'm less productive with anything else.
Yep. I just got an equity payout from an acquisition. It’s a lot of money, though it isn’t going to allow me to retire early. Would be enough for a house down payment, which is good enough for me!

However, I am paying literally 40% in taxes due to how it was paid out. As someone who desperately needs this money, it’s devastating. To hear that large corps can weasel their way out of paying is extremely infuriating.
How is that relevant for the claim whether five million is or isn't tiny? It's not tiny, as the comment I responded to was claiming.
What firmware?

I need new APs soon.
Also, erasmus and similair programms which makes it possible for (young) people to exchange.
More advanced does not necessarily mean better or more realistic. It might but it doesn't seem to be the case here.
I think it is a bedrock in bridging gaming and real life. From now on you can visit virtual store in real-but-in-game location and do all the purchase without leaving the game. Imagine GTA, but everything you buy is real
It's made to extract money. If you frame it in that context, text books, tests owned by 3rd party companies, smart boards with overpriced contracts, etc. Becomes pretty clear that no one gives a hoot about your child and education, maybe the super frustrated teacher who still doesn't realize this...
Dont forget: consumers also pay the taxes of the companies as they are factored into the costs of products and services. What matters here is the relative incentive/disincentive that taxation signals.

40% on income from labour shows: dont get income from labour! Small percent on income from property (dividents, etc) show that that's the best place to get money from. Almost zero percent on pollution signals: go for it!
I feel a lot of our ideas are no longer valid is the other species has biological immortality.

Then travel time to another star doesnt require antimatter, it just needs a long nap
Doesn't this just come down to them being able to put emerging technology in their devices faster due to not having the same insane supply requirements that apple has?
Does anyone know the appropriate metric here to use/term to look up? I too wish that was taken into account.
> If you are a worker, it is not uncommon to pay over 40% of tax and if you work on your own small business you can pay even more and have very little left to reinvest.

Not true according to this:

https://files.taxfoundation.org/20200225094221/FF697-01.png

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-of-the-latest-federal-inco...
An older, more experienced population may be less inclined to chase the latest new trend but they are better able to weigh the merits of new ideas against the harms they may induce and will generally do a better job of applying existing and new technology to the problem at hand. Experience and knowledge count for a lot and the vitality of youth is often wasted on the young.
Great article with a number of well-known references to biographies of Feynman. For those interested in Dirac, some excellent biographies have emerged over the years including: "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom" and "Dirac: A Scientific Biography ". [0][1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002LDM8QS/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dirac-Scientific-Biography-Helge-Krag...
Carry loss forward....again? No! Exciting it something different.

Looks like depreciation (those bastards!) and R&D tax credits. How devious!

Maybe reporters should get an accounting primer before writing articles about taxes?
December 23, 1947 : Before that the various chemical information processing machines that were used to bootstrap life where running at roughly 1Hz frequency.

A frequency so slow that the billions of years elapsed since the creation of the universe, used negligible computation power compared to the resources needed for a single second one century later when the simulation had to be halted having exhausted all computational credits.
htmx looks super intriguing.

Anyone have recommendations for server-side languages that make HTML templating fun? I’m leaning towards Elixir+Phoenix using sigils[1]

[1] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_html/Phoenix.HTML.html#sigil_E/2
Can people band together & save money doing the exact same thing?
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vquKyNdgH3s

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLevCLNnLmg
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I remember announcement that Samsung pulls out of the laptop market, yet they still seem to be doing those.
At the time I had a Samsung laptop which was an abomination.
This will probably be an unpopular opinion but most software is just connecting a couple layers of abstraction to form a new, novel layer of abstraction that you get to design. You do this all the time with CRUD, what makes you think writing drivers in C is all that much different? If you know to any extent how Node's single threaded event loop works to process HTTP requests, then you know how drivers work too, there are just different best practices, APIs, etc. These things you mentioned are mostly practical and can be learned by doing.

That's different though than "Computer Science in general," which is far more theoretical, mathematical, and logical. These things, while they can be learned by doing, are much easier to learn by being taught. Paying someone to teach you C/C++ isn't going to make you better at Computer Science in General, it will just teach you a new programming language, which is practical. Computer science in general are things like distributed systems, discrete math, algorithms, etc.
yup, basically what you described is what has been an issue with LG android phones from the start - support, especially SW upgrades.
At least in the UK all the deductions the article lists are open to all sized businesses and are regularly used by small companies, I would assume the same in the US as they are very basic deductions.
Apparently Macron said that, though I can find very little beyond that one quote. I doubt that's what the vaccination boards (whatever their equivalent of the EMA is) in France said when they recommended limiting vaccination to under <threshold age>, but I haven't really looked it up. The German Stiko was quite clear on it, anyway.

Edit to add: ... and while Stiko, ie. the vaccination board, was quite clear on it, I'm sure there were like two dozen high ranking politicians in Germany in January who either didn't read or were unable to understand the Stiko recommendation and claimed that AZ is known to be ineffective. Most politicians aren't trained scientists, and unfortunately it shows.
By the way, that link is broken because of a following character being parsed by HN as being part of the URL.
Ah, the old saying:

* There are only two things that are hard in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming thing.

I've always heard it as "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors."
Is there a morpheme-aware version?
The parent commenter is not disagreeing with information theory (and what you're saying is shown in the article anyway).

They're making a practical distinction that you generally don't have access to the actual thing in an empirical format for which compression will achieve true learning. Instead you have access to training data which represents, let's say, a projection of the actual thing in a smaller space with fewer dimensions.

Like trying to learn from images instead of the 3d world. Humans learn to distinguish between objects in a 3-dimensional space using sight and interaction. This learning generalizably transfers to recognition in 2 dimensions. We don't generally equip models with robotic interfaces to train in 3d before benchmarking them on ImageNet.
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And, of course, the Y-combinator which provides recursion:

Y = S(K(SII))(S(S(KS)K)(K(SII)))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator
Similarly, there is an early-90s Russian version of The Wizard Of Oz. Watching it with the help of Youtube's auto-translated subtitles was...quite an experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gbwu0A3s8
Your first link only contains data up until March 2020, so would only include 3 of the ~10 months in the original posts data.
> ... unprecedented government pay-outs ...

The G.I. Bill after World War 2 is a precedent. Do you think CARES is larger, or smaller?
You could incorporate
Live for Speed also had tyre deformation, temperature, pressure etc but it was still based on Pacejka model, applied to different parts of the tyre separately.
Yeah next they're gonna say Netflix should be government run. Keep pressing the naritive till it hurts netflix's bottom line and they bend over. I hate the corporations vs people, rich vs poor, etc. This is nonsense.
I am writing from European perspective, I should add that. However I read that in some states it is quite similar.
So? What reason would I have to trust it? Seriously.

I expect you mean well, but the "news" on that site is just an aggregator, like millions of sites with no-so-good intentions. This isn't a good "trust-me" look.
Not really, combining datasets in (Geo)Pandas is very straightforward, including spatial joins: https://geopandas.org/docs/user_guide/mergingdata.html#spati... Of course, it's all a matter of personal preference, but I have used both PostGIS and GeoPandas extensively.
What is the source for 40% tax on income for labor?

https://www.irs.com/articles/2020-federal-tax-rates-brackets...

If you’re adding state taxes, note that the linked article is discussing federal income taxes only. Even then, including state taxes does not get you to 40% for 99% of people.
In pretty much every western European country your tax rates can easily hit 60%+ (like the 100k 60% cliff in the UK). The budgets of these governments are all largely funded on the backs of middle class income tax - 40% of all receipts in the UK, plus another 10-15% from VAT - compared to a lowly 9% from corporation tax [1]. You have to wonder how the economy can ever evolve given everything is geared towards suppressing middle class earners from ever having significant capital.

1: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
I agree that not committing fraud would have gotten her into less legal trouble, but I don't know how much funding she would have got with that approach. Her whole scam was that she was the blond steve jobs of biotech. She needed to promise a "revolutionary" product was possible soon to keep that image alive.
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If they don’t pay dividends (which they don’t) then what does “Get some market exposure” mean?
It’s weird. They were called programs. Startups were called businesses.

I find it weird how generations need to change words. I guess Startup was new, and unconventional? For a few seconds they were? Then they got real slick with MBA’s?
Yes, but...

Decades and decades ago, corporations paid most of the tax. People paid very little.

Then things shifted. Instead of taxing corporations, people were taxed. Said people, with less money in their pocket, required raises. And so, over time, tax shifted from corporate to personal, but with people in the end taking home approximately as much as they had before.

For example, you have $60k pretax, $50k take home. Tax rate goes up. You have less, demand a raise. You now make $65k pretax, yet have $50k take home.

Of course, the numbers are merely there for example.

Why all of this? Why a reduction on corporate taxes?

Well, because now corporations can exist anywhere on the planet. If you tax a corporation too high, it can move, and you have nothing to tax. It used to be that this thing called 'tariffs' and 'duties' were an equalizing factor.

If a car manufacturer moved off short to save corporate tax, why then you'd add import tariffs. The point being, the tariff was there to replace the lost corporate tax.

Of course, tariffs are 'bad', and the goal of international trade now, seems to be to lift the third world out of poverty. Which is a laudable goal, however, with no import taxes on many things, and with corporations able to move at whim?

You must keep corporate tax low, or you lose out to competing regions. This is doubly troublesome in a new economy, in which many goods are entirely virtual, and fly across borders on the Internet.

Thus, taxes remain at the personal level -- for people cannot easily move.

Right or wrong? Well, you have to get tax somewhere. And under the current model, it is hard to get it from corporations, squeeze too much, and they're gone. And this model is enabled by most 1st world governments world wide, which have decided that import tax, tariffs, are a bad thing.

The only alternative to more corporate tax, and less personal tax, is to re-enact import taxes, duty, that sort of thing. Else, how do you prevent corporations from moving?

Of course, it's not entirely as simple as all of this, but nothing at a 10000 foot view is. It's just an overview.
Also, anti-theft? Encode a hidden message into the pattern... And it won't be easy to remove.
MS hires most psychologists in USA;
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White Frenchman perspective:

Napoleon and De Gaulle are characters that are usually viewed positively in France, they were important figures that did big things for the nation (such as freeing it from the nazis). But you don't need to scratch the surface very deep to see the dark side: imperialism, colonialism, racism, despotism...

I don't particularly trust Netflix not to whitewash these leaders. It'd be easy to gloss over the not-so-shiny stuff and present them as one-sided heros to the French people, who are not always taught the dark side of their own history.
There's not much point listing homicide rates when it's so much easier to kill someone in America.

What's more interesting are cases of violent crimes.

Though considering how much more diverse the United States is, it's probably stupid for me to assume France/UK could compete with us on genericized "violent crimes" either.
It is well past time for progressive taxation on corporations and the super rich and to really go after tax evasion. Unfortunately, politicians in the UK, US and elsewhere don't have the polticial will as they are in the pockets of the powerful people who benefits from the current rigged system. In the UK, for example, the newspaper are almost entirely owned by right wing billionaires.
Spot on. I think that nowadays Champions League football (and European football in general) has done more to create a common European identity/culture than all the top-down measures implemented by various institutions, you can have a Romanian and a Swede both saying they’re a Madridista or a Scouse while having no other interest in the Spanish and British cultures.

Re: Italian music, I still have a couple of Ornella Vanoni and Mina CDs in my car, it’s the only thing that I listen while on road-trips (am Romanian).
Django, Hotwire/Turbo+Stimulus, Tailwind, Postgres. The codebase is small, easy to reason about, and maintainable, it's easy to build an accessible site on top of semantic HTML, and it's fast and responsive enough for my needs. It's nice to use JS for things it's best suited for rather than being responsible for running the whole application. Tailwind has its detractors but honestly I've found (as a decidedly non-frontend person) that it's very productive for building out a responsive design with good support for dark theming.
I like opera, renaissance art, pop culture, rock music, Impressionism, jazz, and kitsch, amongst other things.

I’m not sure what you mean by “more than” pop culture.

There is good art and bad art in all genres, which are just mediums of cultural communication that reach different audiences.

I didn’t understand the reductionist criticism of The Economist, which I have found to publish numerous examples of good criticism and bad criticism, about a range of topics, mostly to do with economics, and occasionally culture.

I don’t think culture is The Economist’s forte. They probably don’t either, except when cultural platforms have measurable economic consequences.
Ask HN: What LineageOS phone do you use that allows you to do Banking/Netflix?
Ask HN: What LineageOS phone do you use that allows you to do Banking/Netflix?
Yes, they fought a war with the Soviet Union but the country didn’t suffer the sort of devastation Nazi occupied Soviet territory did. Finland’s experience since 1918 is sufficiently different than Russia’s that I don’t think one can conclude what Russia would be like today had it had the type of government that Finland had.

To your last point, maybe and maybe not. Who knows what the prevailing thought would have been in the alternate scenario. Would Russians have been more like the war weary French in this scenario?

One thing I think is for certain. The claims of OP are not justified.
> The tech isn't ready to deploy

What makes you say this? All they have to do is grind up olivine and dump it in parts of the ocean with high vorticity like unused shores.
Less money to the govt. the better. I think they have good auditors.
One possible reason is the advent of social media demonstrating how free speech coupled with easy access to large amount of the population can make free speech dangerous very quickly. It is easy to tell a lie, much more difficult to disprove it.
In case of third party content I think it's a valid point. X Plane did not have these add-ons when it was released, they came a few years later. So it's not that strange to give MS FS a bit of time to catch up in terms of third party add-ons.

Missing features in the game itself can't be excused that way, but guess what... X Plane still after many years also doesn't have a good enough for training built-in simulation of a GPS.
The fact that MS did not add mouse yoke to the game, and despite the backlash still hasn't done so (allegedly to push the sale of new flying gear) makes me so sad.

Using the mouse for steering is absolutely superior to a keyboard and connecting a joystick everytime I want to spend a few minutes flying is just non-practical.
I can definitely see the point in choosing XML for the Wayland protocols for the reasons you've mentioned (e.g.: strictly typed information) because one of their purposes is to be able to easily generate bindings and libraries from them.

However, that still doesn't make them a good format for human consumption as in reading them as a reference. That was the main motivation for creating this website.
Flaw in argumemt: real wages not improving for several decades. Can you please provide sources where corporations were the primary tax vehicle?
The linked article is referencing federal income tax in the US.

If state and other local taxes need to be factored in, the situation becomes much more complex and almost impossible to compare.
I think the main reason of their abandonment is Internet.

It just changed everything, people stopped create desktop apps and started to create web apps. However, web as a platform was really weak for complex apps, so only now we see how companies re-discover lost apps from 80s and re-create them in the web (Notion, Coda, Airtable, Fibery)
How much did their employees pay? Including all the actors who worked on the shows they funded.
It's not even just about taxes. Economists largely agree generally low corporation tax is good for everyone.

> Maybe reporters should get an accounting primer before writing articles about taxes?

That will just make them feel bad when they choose the clickbait anyway.

HN is a semi-rarefied atmosphere and even these comments are mostly ignorant rabble. No way the journalists are giving up the sensational headlines for a general audience. Engagement gold dust.
Is Roser actually an academic? Wikipedia doesn't mention any degrees afaict.
The numbers don't make sense to me. Their annual report [0] says pre-tax income of $2 billion, not $2.8 billion (p41). Even if you disallow deducting interest expense and use operating income, that's still only $2.6 billion. Meanwhile, they're paying $400 million in taxes (p43). That looks a lot more like 20% to me than 1%. What am I missing?

[0] https://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReports/PDF/N...
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Samsung sells a lot of phones too.

I think it has more to do with the fact that better and more innovative hardware is the only way Samsung can differentiate from other Android vendors and that they don't have the sticky ecosystem that Apple has so they need people to keep upgrading.