skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, if you want foreigners to pay U.S. income taxes when they invest capital in the U.S., I have to ask, why do we want to discourage foreign investment in the US? Amazon pays sales/gas taxes for much of what you mentioned, and it's U.S. investors, who also pay income and property taxes for the rest.

Second of all, U.S. citizens absolutely do pay taxes on investment earnings. If you hold stocks in a tax deferred IRA, you pay your taxes when you take distributions and at full income tax rates, no capital gains or dividend tax breaks. That's true of any tax deferred account.

Anyone "shielding" taxes in a "non-US shell corporation" is committing tax fraud.

The best solution to that is to eliminate the extra layers of taxes on investing in the U.S, in one way by eliminating corporate income taxes or allowing corporations to deduct dividends as expenses. Then the benefits of hiding your investment earnings become far less, and not proportionate to the risks.
I just had a childish thought.

Why don't we just completely trash the barrier reef and focus on saving the next reef that isn't completely trashed.
I note that the thing "period" movies usually get wrong is the hairstyle, as the actors are reluctant to adopt the historical hairstyles. Even Star Trek TOS is plagued by 1960s hairstyles.
There's a video on YouTube, Gwynne Dyer -- Geopolitics in a Hotter World (2010) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY ), which very briefly touches on it IIRC. I'm talking about the bit that starts at 8m30s on the video, but I highly recommend watching the whole thing (or at leas the 1-hour talk part - the Q&A is practically inaudible for me).

Basically, the IPCC doesn't publish studies - they study compilations of studies, every 4-5 years. And when they start compiling, they have a cut-off date at the very start and only use studies that have been both completed and have passed peer review from before that date.

Meanwhile, the studies themselves have the same problem - they obviously can't start the study with incomplete data and update the data as they go. The studies need to start with data that finished before they started the study.

And on top of that, they're necessarily a reserved body (Icd say "conservative" but that's ambiguous in politics) - IPCC is run by a bunch of governments trying to figure out the bare minimum of emissions reduction they need to commit to, to not be negligent - they don't want to hear bad news unless it's certain.

The end result is that the data in the report is 10+ years out of date.
So there are two problems with this.

One is that you're advocating for a hair-shirt, masochistic lifestyle stripped of all joy. I have no objection to you choosing a vow of poverty, and to pass on children, but don't try and sell it as inconvenience, what you're asking for is basically religious orders.

The second problem is, all you've done is reduced demand for those goods you've chosen not to consume. That makes them cheaper, so other people can afford more of them.

Congratulations, you've done... nothing! But you get to feel good (?) about it? Don't get me wrong, being a childless vegan with a bike and a tiny apartment can be a satisfying lifestyle, but doesn't it undermine the feeling of self-righteousness a little bit to know that all you've done is make it so one more suburban family with four kids can have tri-tip for dinner and fly to Cancun on holiday?
Why on earth would it make sense to think that someone is saying solar powered trains only run at night? I'm a native English speaker so I don't think you're in any position to try and lecture me.

It's absolutely a valid reason to accuse you of willful misinterpretation, especially when you bring this up more than a month later in an unrelated topic. Your reply was downvoted with good reason.
i like how it's entirely possible to read and understand this without thinking of a quaternion as more than just a rotation.
The opposing view is that the leaked data is only valid up to the time of the leak, and there is no guarantee it doesn't go stale, while Facebook has the fresh data.
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I am learning new things about Vim all the time. Could someone tell me why the exclamation point at the end of `:wq`? I generally only use it when I'm not saving the buffer, like `:q!`.
You just have to be able to live with yourself, given that your trip (and presumably your lifestyle more generally) is destroying the very thing that you are visiting to admire. That's beyond me.
It's about mature and immature technologies. 20 years ago, photovoltaic cells had efficiency ranges in the single digits, but rising. When efficiency rises from 5% to 10%, it makes sense to assume that it keeps rising. But electric heaters had efficiency ranges around 95%, even when my parents were kids. Now they have even better efficiency - 99.8% in my newest apartment - which is only 5% better than 50 years ago - because there is a physical limit.

Technology follows an S curve. First it increases slowly, then faster, then more slowly again. It's silly to assume mature technologies will keep getting better at the same rate and silly to assume immature technologies won't get better. Without specifying the technology, one assumption isn't really sillier than the other - physical limits are unintuitive.
I'd probably like to see powershell usage increase too, but I think we may be in the minority. Every time it comes up I check to see if it is available in Debian and see that the packaging bug¹ has been open for years without anyone caring enough to move on it. The referenced upstream bug² points out that it isn't capital-F Free enough to distribute [yet], but you'd expect more comments in the bug if people were pushing(or a package for the non-free section).

¹ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834756

² https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/5869
This could enable offline-first sync
OP-DITTO: Proper 2nd analog stick mod for the PSP
Still a bit of work left to do (just putting all the pieces together). Everything - including the CADs and logo - is open licensed.
I resonate deeply with this.

I think this is strongly associated with effective altruism; It would be helpful to start with the very basic things you could do to improve the lives of others: volunteering at local food banks, teaching in places without suboptimal education, donating to reliable organizations, e.g., but since you have a highly valuable skill (you presumably have a high paying job), comparative advantage would suggest to apply your technical skills towards social good.

It would be a good idea to start by identifying problems in the world, at a macroscopic scale. The UN Sustainable Development goals would be a strong place to start. Dive into a problem, learn it’s intricacies, and figure why it cannot be resolved. We’re usually not limited by resources, but rather our allocation of these (I read somewhere that 30% of food grown is not eaten). If the limitation is something that can be lessened with technology (e.g not politics, insufficient resources, or other non-intervenable factors), then it simply comes down to creating a solution or to join an organization with an idea, but needs help.

If you find something, please do reach out. This is also something I’m searching for.
I like Keepass but I am looking to drop Dropbox and I need to be able to sync it with mobile as well.
Somebody needs to start contacting the US politicians whose private numbers are in this leak. There must be a few?
berberous says " If 1 out of 10 new drugs is a miracle drug"

I think this is a very high estimate, possibly off by 4 orders of magnitude or more.
I have a similar issue with climate change strategies. The people behind are surely more educated and mentally skilled than I, but I have a feeling they couldn't avoid ignoring false assumptions in the current model, which leads to bad policies and wasted time (and also anxiety).
For comparison it looks like US gini coefficient was about 0.48 in 2019.
This blog post is great, but I think it ends too quickly. It goes into a lot of detail, but then skims over this "few circumstances where copy elision will happen" without the same level of detail or examples. And it doesn't provide examples of copy constructors, or explain anything about what happens if you delete the copy constructor.

This blog post was just getting good, then it stopped!
You would be “stunned” by 1% of the Great Barrier Reef and wouldn’t notice the missing 99%. This bias is the central topic of the book “The Once and Future World”.
Nope. Chaos theory says very much the opposite, and our experience is tending to back chaos theory here. I mean yes what you describe would also be bad, but it's not that we're going to see. I can't speak to the thermohaline cycle: perhaps you're describing something that'll happen specifically in the depths of the ocean? Sounds bad.

Up here where WE live, the possible extremes of weather are factors of chaotic energy, and small increases in global temperature will produce wider potential swings in weather behavior. So we are not at all going to see 'a lack of variety' and we're not seeing it now. We're seeing 'wait, WHAT' weather and it's only going to get worse.

The challenge is surviving those energies. Never mind colonizing Mars or Venus, the challenge we'll face is clinging on to THIS planet, and a hell of a lot of people will end up not able to survive what's coming. And it's subcultures like Hacker News we'll depend on, for people who'll come up with the 300-mph storm windows etc.

I own a house: I'm not thrilled at what's going on. I'm trying to work out what I've got to do in order to not be taken out by some kind of weather extreme beyond what we used to have when I was growing up.
you're extolling energy density (energy per unit volume) but your example is about power delivery (energy per unit time). the former is the real progress. the latter just needs low internal resistance, which is a thing we've had.
I didn't even go down that road. There's nothing compelling a Dutch company to comply with the DMCA. The context of "illegal" that was quoted a few comments up isn't "DMCA", it's "illegal". Like, against Dutch law. Child phonography might be a good example.

On that matter though, here's what copyright.gov has to say:

"There is no such thing as an “international copyright” that will automatically protect an author’s writings throughout the world. Protection against unauthorized use in a particular country depends on the national laws of that country."

https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf
Were lithium batteries really that popular in 1990? I would think think that they were just starting to get popular so that would make a lot of sense.... but in the last 10 years the price probably didn't change that much.
I guess it's not that I expect the "play" button size to be adjustable, rather I think it should be prioritized (larger) than other buttons. The play button is the same size as each of the three shuffle option buttons.

After spending a while removing stuff (blurred album art in the background particularly, plus a few tabs, and unnecessary options) I like the interface more. Was getting a bit of stuttering on bluetooth when driving earlier, hopefully that stops.

I think what I like most is that I can adjust id3 tags etc in-app, for multiple files at the same time - it feels like a real computer program, instead of more typical cell phone crapware.
The only way the data can lose value is when everyone in the list change their numbers. If making it public drives them to do that, then good, but the inertia to do that is so big that I doubt most would. Spammers and marketers don't care if the list is being used by competitors, so the value of the data as spam target is also not reduced by making it public.
You can add infinite to both sides, then you end up with:

infinite + 1 = infinite
> 99+% of every single person you meet has either FB, IG or WA installed on their phones and shares their phonebooks with them

citation very much needed
The idea that our society must necessarily be based around wealth is what we need to move past. Open source and free software have demonstrated that wealth is not the only incentive that can drive progress and innovation. In fact, the incentive of wealth accumulation is frequently an obstacle to progress. We can make all manner of technical advances in medicine, food production, or energy generation, but while the primary determinant in decision making is whether an activity is profitable, that progress can be effectively nullified. If it's more profitable to withhold medical care, or destroy food, or burn coal, or exploit workers, or sell customer data, or compromise safety, what should we do? Do we need complex wealth redistribution regimes or could we perhaps rise above this fundamentally flawed and increasingly dangerous incentive of wealth?
I love Bertrand Russell man. His essays are so beautifully written.

In praise of idleness is a banger. The conquest of happiness is a joy to read. His writings are so clear. The way he elucidates his thought process is sublime. What a cool guy.
A thread where someone posted to ufile

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26684827
Only one of the two sides needs UPnP, no?
I believe the Trump tax cuts only provided a temporary benefit for repatriation of foreign earnings.
Because the prefix stays the same. And many ISPs that provide IPv6 don’t rotate very often, if at all.
Corruption? Nah, corruption is the cause. Unlawful search and seizure, theft, and illegal detainment are the actual crimes. Time to put some badge carriers in jail.
Great, would that work with pipes and redirections too? At that point you might as well use sh[1] which is a more advanced abstraction. My issue with these approaches is that you'll inevitably hit a bug or limitation where just using a shell language would've been easier to maintain and more portable.

Python has its uses, but replacing shell scripts is not one of them IMO. It it was then the problem didn't need to be a shell script to begin with (doesn't shell out often, needs complex data structures, etc.).

[1]: https://amoffat.github.io/sh/
Would CEO's stop with their visionary cultural moralizing?

Why is it when people get in power they do this?

Just ask that your team has 'x,y,z as important behaviours' maybe put a few things in place to help that - get over yourselves and get to 'making'.
I don’t think modern quads would be possible with combustion engines. They aren’t precise and responsive enough. Modern brushless motors paired with some pretty kickass electronic speed controllers and flight controllers create a pretty amazing thing.

I mean modern quads can fly in “3D” mode and almost instantly reverse the direction of all the motors so the quad can fly in all orientations, right side up and upside down.
If everyone who cares about the environment doesn't have kids, this just ensures that the children of those who don't care about the environment will rule the world.

And political stances are remarkably heritable.
Think on the margins. At zero net investment and holding other expenses constant, each marginal revenue dollar can either go to corporate profit and be taxed at 21%, or go to an employee’s pocket and be taxed at their individual marginal rate. For the highest paid employees, this will be 37%, plus additional taxes for FICA/Medicare (“payroll tax”). Even this ignores the fact that corporations are much better at legally avoiding taxes than natural persons are.
We already have million-KM batteries, and we're headed toward million-mile batteries.

Even if the battery does die, I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of secondhand batteries with half a million Ks of mileage put up relatively cheap. You don't need to go straight to brand-new.
Here is a counter-example. Dr Michael DeBakey, pioneering cardiac surgeon, suffered an aortic dissection at the age of 98 and refused surgery until the decision was made for him by the hospital's ethics committee. Fortunately the surgery was successful and he went back to practice medicine after a lengthy recovery process. From what I could gather he was pretty please with the outcome.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/health/25surgeon.html
Watch “I am a New York City landlord and I'm Homeless.” on YouTube
This is exactly correct. The briefest quality time left at the end of life is preferred to a longer quantity of life in pain and suffering. To choose otherwise, is to live in bad faith, according to Sartre. Many people recoil in horror at this realization, because they have bought into the idea sold by our culture that we should continue to extend our lives by any means necessary, no matter the social and human costs.
Python has some non-expression statements and you wouldn't be able to use them in match expressions.
> the single largest data breach/leak in history?

if something sounds like a hyperbole, it probably is. In this case I believe you are mistaken, and the Yahoo breach of 2013 was the largest, with data leaked from over 3 billion accounts.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/technology/yahoo-hack-3-b...
"developers not because of differences in cost of living."

No, the primary driver of those differences is cost of living.

Vancouver is not actually a 'high cost of living' place - it's just the real estate.

It's supply and demand as well and since most people work 'local' and Van doesn't have huge and powerful software companies HQ'd there, pay will be less.

But cost of living is a primary factor.

The 'my wife is pregnant' thing isn't a fair comparison because it's an individual artifact, not general for a location.

The fact maybe a spouse is pregnant will 100% affect pay because it will affect the demand curve i.e. change the nature of someone's willingness to work at what salary.
Co-sign on a sub-prime? I might as well just give my money away, without paying interest!
Yet Another Token
Well yes, I assumed that anyone interested in the actual implementation could go view-source it for themselves. Obviously this was cut-and-pasted into this website's generic footer many, many moons ago, and the fact that it remains long after the original source is gone is part of the charm.
Those batteries still cost ~$40 USD each from a high end brand. Hoping those can fall in price a bit too.

Some goggle DVR, can check out the current amp draw on bottom left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4V9DMUtTPY
My father died of liver cancer, and even with hospice it was a horrid, painful, death.

It was 16 plus years ago, and I can’t get his suffering out of my mind.

I didn’t even like (I loved him though) my father, but know one should go through what he did. My sister was lowering his dose of medication because she wanted him to spend time with her kids. In all honestly, I believe she wanted him awake, and miserable, so she could get his estate together. Meaning—she wanted more?

The whole process was just awful. His death completely destroyed a very fragile family.

When he first went into the hospital he was basically given the bad news. He had a huge liver tumor. His stomach was greatly distended. That didn’t stop doctors coming in and palpating the mass. I think they were using my father’s condition to learn what a liver tumor felt like? Multiple people were palpating the mass, even after the scans? I finally said it’s hurting him?

He got his death sentence. We left the hospital. A few weeks later a Dr. told him he would operate on him. We went to the appointment. The doctor gave this sanctimonious speech about drinking. My father was obviously very sick. My father said his drinking days were over. I felt the lecture from this doctor was completely unnecessary. My dad left the appointment happy with hope. A week and a half later he got a call from the doctor stating he couldn’t do the surgery. My dad had a Cadillac medical plan, but the doctor said he couldn’t do the surgery.

All I can add is California passed a Death with Dignity bill. When it’s my time I will use it.
List[Int] has more than one monoid
Each country has different advantages and challenges. For example South Korea is incredibly dense and dependent on public transit. Germany has no hard border. China is massive, Australia's government is dysfunctional. We arent special, we just didnt meet our unique challenges
Why not? Which consumer software breaks?

Normally people say games. I have disabled upnp on my firewall and there're two gaming PCs, a PS3, a PS4 and a PS5 running happily behind it. I just finished a Demon Soul's session with voice chat with friends with no problems. NAT type 2, because I managed my firewall to enable this.
There is already a lot of raytracing in the demoscene, no need for RTX.

RTX accelerates ray intersection on a typical scene from a video game. But demos are usually not typical scenes, instead using mathematical models like signed distance fields that work differently.

There are other issues: you need compatible hardware, it is not well supported by OpenGL if at all, there may be too much overhead for 64k or less intros.

Personally I don't see how to take advantage of it in a way that opens new options, but maybe someone else will do. After all, it is something the scene is good at.
while that would partially help, i think there are better use cases for this type of setup. it is less about discovering endpoint addresses of peers (you could setup a statically configured mesh network too) and more about moving packets efficiently between peers. it can reduce load, latency and bandwidth requirements all while being more resilient to outages... a full mesh network should still work after any other node/peer fails, making only itself unreachable to others. a mesh network could even be able to reroute packets avoiding the failing paths if possible at all. for example your phone could be connected to your home network and your mobile ISP network, so when your home network loses internet connection peers could still route traffic through your phones mobile isp network to other peers in your home network. if you use your VPN to connect home from abroad it is pretty useless though. a mesh network between two computers makes no sense and probably should not be called like that. However, just connecting few sites and some road warriors makes this option quite attractive already.
> From what I could gather he was pretty please with the outcome.

Yes! This is, quite literally, survivorship bias. If the dice rolled on "debilitating postoperative stroke," he would have been less pleased. Based on the NYT article, he actually preferred no operation. But it seems there was enough ambiguity that the decision fell on his wife.
If someone can implement a code analyzer that could suggest such optimizations we could save so many compute cycles. Using tries for such problems is a common solution but may be unknown or overlooked by some. Even trying to search for best practices to a problem you feel has likely been solved many times before can be difficult if you don't use the right keywords.
I agreed that it can't be contrasted with China. See http://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports/Imperialism/usmurder..... If only US can focus on improving the welfare of its people, improving its infrastructures, funding new industries, subsidize education and health, instead of spending so much on futile wars overseas, it would not be in the situation it is in now. Sorry for going off-topic.
I hope you're doing okay. Sorry for your loss.