skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Won't work because all truly wealthy people can secure their wealth against inflation, while poor people cannot.

I don't agree with this. The "truly wealthy" don't have any magic recipes that are better long-term than just MSCI World ETF or similar

> As a simple example, consider owning a house vs. renting. If you own the house, the actual number doesn't matter. If you're renting, the ratio between rent and salary is highly critical for your lifestyle.

If there is inflation you don't feel it as a renter either, because your salary and the rent both increase in lockstep (and in many countries, rent increases once in contract are tied to inflation)
Most economists around the world support eliminating the corporate tax and raising capital gains to compensate. In addition to vastly reducing the amount of accounting needed it would make structures like this pointless. Perhaps governments should get on this as a priority. It seems like early movers would attract a lot of investment.
Sure, so Microsoft still (not so) indirectly contributes to the tax coffers. But it's still pretty bad that the rich MS shareholders can benefit from schemes like these, while employees can't.
The Frobenius theorem characterizes finite-dimensional associative real division algebras as being isomorphic to the reals, the complex numbers or the quaternions. The hyperreals aren't finite-dimensional as a vector space over the reals (for example, if Ɛ is an infinitesimal hyperreal, then Ɛ, Ɛ², Ɛ³, Ɛ⁴ ... are linearly independent over the reals).

A simpler example of another real division algebra (and in fact, another field) is the field of rational functions with real coefficients. This field is also infinite dimensional over the reals (for example, 1, x, x², x³... are linearly independent).
Building a Home in the U.S. Has Never Been More Expensive
> do I NEED 1 liter of sherry vinegar to cook one thing?

It will last years though, do you NEED to cook only one thing with it?
Wow, 400 CHF is a lot! NL does guarantee emergency treatment will be provided, and the excess above the deductible will be paid by the insurer.

Aside, I’ve had friends who moved and found that Swiss income taxes are also much lower than NL in most cantons. Is that true in your case too?
I'm surprised Facebook hasn't been mentioned (yet).
The mobile application is workable but the desktop version is just awful
We live in a culture where the schools are teaching devs to just want to sudo-apt-get and create-react-app and stop-using-brain. I dont think its a container problem especially when you talk about security concerns.
Default encoding is now UTF-8, due to the way the RFC process works it is not in the original document:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/csv
In these recent discussion about Biles, I've seen this exact conversation a few times. People say that gymnastics organizers need to keep it competitive to have audiences, and people disagree and say the organizers shouldn't worry about that. They should worry about fairness. This implicitly accepts that a dominant competitor at the top level decreases viewership.

Is that true? I don't think so. And, I think there's lots of obvious evidence it isn't. Did people stop watching swimming when Phelps was dominating? No. Did people stop watching cycling when Lance Armstrong was dominating? No. Those sports had a huge increase in viewership, at least in the US where I was at the time. It's not even limited to the home country. I certainly hear more about sprinting after Usain Bolt than before.

If we extend to team sports there are even more cases. Remember when everyone around the world stopped watching NBA basketball because of Michael Jordan and the Championship-Era Chicago Bulls? I sure don't.

So maybe gymnastics is totally different, but that seems odd. I can pull examples from local sports, worldwide sports, team sports, individual sports, big money sports, small money sports, fighting sports and even auto racing. There's nothing about gymnastics that seems different from all other sports.

Maybe this is an unsatisfying conclusion, but I don't know why people keep thinking this, that you need evenly matched competitors for the audience. There are people who keep commenting it, and the judges act like it's true. And maybe an upsetting conclusion to some, but after writing out this whole comment I can't come up with a better answer than "she's a Black woman". So maybe that's it.

If someone can name a case where a dominating competitor decreased the popularity of a sport, I'm genuinely very interested to hear about it.
Opening CSV in excel rather than importing is pretty much broken by design. Import data from text and you can set the column types. Open by default and suffer consequences.
We need to do it without the central planning the economy (which incidentally Lenin also wanted to do on a local/cottage industry level).
How can you stay in the office if you don't have after school child care?

If you WFH and have a child >5yo you're likey to be able to spend a few hours working with them at home. You can take a regular break and pick them up from school. With more than one it is more difficult. But in either case, how do you manage to stay in the office without after school childcare?

I'm speaking as a parent who has exactly the same job as my partner. If neither of us were WFH, we would be unable to get by without after school support. With both of us WFH, we can trade pickup and childcare responsibilities. It's way more flexible and completely the opposite of what you're arguing.
The way to reduce carbon footprint is to put a zero on the price of gasoline, diesel, natural gas and all other forms of carbon-based fuel. A 900% tax should do just fine.

Just nobody is brave enough to do it, because it would be political suicide. Even if you gave the money back to the people in the form of tax breaks and social programmes, it would still be political suicide.
Poor people usually don’t have any wealth so if wages would be directly tied to inflation I don’t see how would this would benefit the wealthy more. Of course historically wages tend to lag behind inflation, often quite significantly.
It's not just the money, you also save time and effort which in my opinion really accumulates to something significant and distracting in the long run. It's just nice to be able to focus on your work and have someone else worry about food, and not having to take breaks for preparation/cleaning/doing dishes etc.
I read portability and rush to the link waiting to hear about pip and all other mayhems and I landed on a math page. Boy I need my coffee.
Yes, it's very hostile to independent contractors, especially with the new rules this year.

I'm not a conspiracy guy, but it's amusing to note that Rishi Sunak, under whom the changes came in this year, is related (son-in-law) to a cofounder of IT consulting behemoth Infosys.
Trouble is, C doesn't typecheck without pragmas or compiler flags.
I feel you. Been in similar situations. Cape Verdean father (black skin tone), and a Jewish (she didn't have a bat mitzvah I didn't have a bar mitzvah, we're not religious) and Irish mother produced me, an ethnically ambiguous person with multiple passing complexions.

Skin tone is olive-tan, get pretty dark in the summer (if I stay out, but usually indoors working on something), eyes are almond shaped. I've had/get people coming up to me on the street asking questions in Spanish often, Tagalog and a few other South East Asian languages not as frequently, Russian, have Hasidic kids coming up asking me if I'm Jewish so they can try and drag me off to their Winnebago of a mitzvah tank. Once had some guy approach me speaking German with a beer in his hand and after realizing I don't speak German said, "Oh sorry, you look German" (whatever that means) and then I warned him of open container and the precinct up the block. Most assume I'm just a white guy who is either Italian or Jewish (might have to do with being from/living in the Northeast US idk).

I don't like talking about my ethnicities because I just don't care, but when it's brought up in the context of someone saying, "black people do this" or "okay white boy", I get offended because to me it's primitive and, excuse my language, retarded. Those things are usually said by those who don't know my ethnic background (not that it should matter), and when I call out the ignorance behind the statements made and that doesn't come across, I explain my ethnic background, which usually results in "what's a cape verdean?" or "what!? You're black too?". And if that doesn't come across, I'll flash a photo of me with my grandmother or father and they stfu.

This is going on a tangent, but to your point, I believe that having marked off african/black and caucasian or "two or more races" on my job applications has positively impacted my response rates in the past, but has also lead to negative results post-interview once seeing me and not believing that I am in fact Cape Verdean. I dont have empirical evidence, but having the technical capabilities and drive required for the jobs, after taking and passing test after test with well known organizations, having interviewers emphasize "inclusion and diversity", and having many interviews that left me feeling "wow that went awesome. Totally got this" (I'm more of a realist. If it sucked, it sucked), only to get a rejection, I've come to the assumption that there's got to be at least some percentage of rejections where the potential employer thought "he's lying... he doesn't look black".

The whole corporate "inclusion/diversity" thing here in the states is a fucking joke. My older brother, who's darker and a little less ethnically ambiguous, has commented on his experiences, which are relatable to a degree, saying he "was always too light for the blacks, and too dark for the whites"
I think practically speaking such concerns are way overblown. There are tons of megacorps with lots of very ethically questionable practices (not just tech wrt privacy issues, think about money laundering banks, food and energy companies causing environmental damage). The majority of consumers don't seem overly concerned unless they are very directly victimised by said practices.
So there is no solution then. The entire concept of "corporate taxes" can be thrown out the window because they will just set up "shop" wherever is offering 0%.

And whichever country that happens to be at the moment gains nothing other than a shell company with zero employees.
What life event had the best impact (value over replacement event) in your life?
Value over replacement event akin to the baseball statistic, value over replacement player: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_over_replacement_player

While one's life is a product of a huge number of events/decisions, for most people, there are a small number of events/decisions that have far reaching impacts on their trajectory.

Some common things that often have a significant impact on one's trajectory (vs the replacement level decision/event) include:

- moving to a new city/country

- getting hired for a new job

- who you marry

- what to study in college/where you attend

Sometimes, far more narrow and specific things can change a persons life like deciding to travel somewhere, taking up a new sport, starting a blog etc.

I am very curious to hear, what events/decisions, where you could have easily chosen a different path that did not lead to the same outcomes, had the most positive impact on your life?
One company’s single year profit is three quarters of GDP of a nation of 5 million people!!! With that much economic power, it is no wonder these multinationals write the rules as they please
I remember having Prof. PRUSINKIEWICZ at the UofC giving lectures about physical modeling and animation: one of the most passionate and interesting course I have attended!
What makes you think salaries will suddenly increase in lockstep when they’ve been increasing slower than inflation since about 1970?
When I'm at home, I wash my behind after using the toilet. At work that's impossible. Not looking forward to getting back to the office.
They are doing it illegally. My point still stands.
This is unjust and unfair! Advice to local governments in EU countries and elsewhere: just write laws to tax such companies locally with "internet tax for companies with over 100 million USD in revenue" and do it NOW! These corporations will do this for so long as it is possible... they don't have any intent to stop it... it is legal, but it is unjust and unfair...
A reasonable point. But then the money is being taxed, because money is taxed when it is returned to shareholders.

It certainly isn't obvious that raising taxes is a net win. Experience to date is that a 100% tax rate is very bad, so logically there is a fair limit somewhere between 0% and 100% - ie, a specific fair rate that is not the word "more".

Certainly Ireland would like a slice of those billions of dollars - but if they try to take a big slice, Microsoft won't route the billions through Ireland. So it is a somewhat moot point in that specific case.
LinkedIn, partly because the tech is so bloated and slow and it makes it hard to navigate/search, but also because literally 99% of the site is bloviating self-promotion spam.
> Howard says the family, who live in Buckinghamshire, has now made an estimated £1,000,000 off the video over the years

What are the pre-NFT means by which one makes £1 million off of a home movie on youtube? Surely not(?) just youtube ad revenue sharing?
Because it's asking about ethnicity not geographic place of birth.
Global food prices post biggest jump in a decade
The (very clear, to me at least) point was that calling war "dumb" because it is unpleasant is irrational. WW2 was very clearly not the product of stupidity.

It's interesting though that you are nitpicking about "distasteful" vs "morally abhorrent" (and will probably do the same about "unpleasant") while calling my point pedantry.
Really? Turn it around, perhaps it's more obvious that it being difficult would act against any desire to be vegan?
It's a mistake to focus on Norton in this context. The "correct" way of reading of this headline should be something like "reputable company puts an Ethereum wallet and mining software in the hands of millions of users".

Now imagine if tomorrow Microsoft decided to add a crypto wallet and mining tools to Windows, or Google to Chrome.
How much does it cost to setup and Ireland+Bermuda combo? I suppose the overhead is not worth it for small companies.
Non-criminals would 'target' you for helping stop the criminals? What kind of bizarro place is that?
Conversely - measuring performance by any means is going to be really hard. Having to pilfer through diffs is probably just as bad.

The notion that 'people want to stay home, away from the office, and have less oversight' is barely worth a survey, it should mostly be obvious.

The question is what can we do to be effective? Communications, oversight, coordination - this is all real, and hard.
Also worth mentioning in the case of Ireland the KDB, whereby you can get an effective 6.25% rate on your corporation tax for certain R&D heavy activities (software etc.). This would be advantageous I think for most smaller businesses HNers are typically involved in if they wish to operate in the EU.
Every team I was a part of between 2007 and 2014 used Jira, and I pretty much haven't used it since. It was notoriously slow back then.
Well, again, this only really helps people who are able to swing such an expensive car as a “work expense”. In absolute numbers, Teslas are a minority of 0.4% in the NL car market.

source - https://www.statista.com/statistics/780316/market-share-of-t...
You also lose your personal allowance between £100-125k, which bumps up the effective tax rate.
The whole NFT thing is completely absurd, but tbh I'd do the same in their position. If someone is willing to pay, then why not?

Not sure I'd spend it on university fees though (fees operate differently here in the UK), seems like a waste.
Venezuela did a lot of things to restrict the use of the US dollar including forcibly converting all USD accounts at their banks to their own currency at an unfavourable ratio.
Nobody's saying “don't use pictures of women” – or even “don't use pictures of models”. They're saying “don't use a cropped Playboy pin-up”. That's not “like Saudi Arabia”.
> Also it's illegal to use other currencies as tender

That's generally not true - it's not the case in the US (https://mises.org/wire/use-us-dollars-mandatory-united-state...) or the EU (https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/euro-area/eu...).

It is impractical in most places of course, but only because there isn't much demand for it, so it's hard to get bank accounts, contracts or purchases denominated in foreign currencies. Companies and individuals are free to do so, but they don't because using the predominant local currency is useful and convenient for everybody (usually).

The places where using foreign tender is illegal or tightly controlled are generally places where they have huge problems with inflation of their primary currency, like Venezuela.

Venezuela is an illustrative example of the original point here: in practice, if you make your official currency very inconvenient/impractical/expensive, people _absolutely_ will switch to an alternative. Even though paying for things in dollars in Venezuela is illegal and awkward, everybody goes through convoluted mechanisms to do so anyway because the official alternative is worse.
One in five want to make it illegal to force employees to work from the office
In a show there is casting. In a sport there is not. All members in good standing have to qualify. It's mostly past results that get them to higher levels of competition, not anything else.

Contrast this with wrestling. That is a show. There are always tweaks to the rules in these sports to make them interesting but not to the blatant disadvantage of one competitor.

Imagine if they made Tiger Woods play an extra hole all those years. That's what this feels like.
In the end, what gets deployed is the responsibility of the entity doing the deployment.

Maybe the organization wants to deploy the latest trunk on every commit. There are probably some situations where that is reasonable. Those situations probably shouldn't involve people's money, privacy or safety.

Setting up a two-stage local repository isn't very hard. The intake side gets updates from upstream, and the deployment side gets updates from the intake side when the packages have been reviewed and hopefully tested. Do this for everything with an external upstream -- Ruby gems, Python modules, JS libraries, whatever -- and you have insulated yourself against supply-chain attacks. As a bonus, if your leftpad function just goes missing upstream, you still have a full copy in your deployment repository, and will until you decide it's time to implement your own.
If it fails you can always revert to the current failed system.
AI is the fastest path to Communism
I hate this title. Not a bad read though, and I guess it got me to click..
>> I suppose I'm saying that Amazon's massive success should give us reason to think about its HR processes in a constructive light.

Business success does not justify employee exploitation.
And spending more in the food market than the rent market is definitely unusual.
"...for the rest of the population it definitely isn't true."

Right, I was being unreasonably flippant. I was referring indirectly to the bigger problem of the monopoly the Tech Giants have over our telecommunications and the fact that in last 30 or so years that we've gone from maddening over regulation by governments to essentially no oversight whatsoever which allowed the carpetbaggers to squat on and takeover our phones (which once would have been deemed unlawful in many jurisdictions prior to deregulation due to the secrecy of communications laws—it still amazes me how this actually happened without a backlash from governments).

In my opinion, the whole matter is a damn bloody shambles.

...And you're right about LineageOS. When things go wrong finding the right (original) stock ROM can be hard enough let alone finding correct 'official' LineageOS for one's phone in the first instance. I've spent many hours looking for ROMS forked from the official LineageOS because my phone was slightly different (regional differences—modem etc.). This meant that the official version would work but not properly in every aspect. I agree, solving these issues can be very tiresome.

(My 'that's easy' comment comes from the fact that it's now easy for me to root a phone because I've done many in the last few years. It's only easy because I've learned from experience what to do and what phones to avoid. One thing I've definitely learned is that most of the internet advice on how to root phones is crap in that often a general method is stated for many phones and various model numbers are just dumped in to pad the site out—thus much of the advice is either wrong or insufficiently detailed (and often the English is essentially incomprehensible). Moreover, precious few people actually know the important intricacies of the Android OS (as they pertain to different OS versions, phones etc.) such as disk partitioning, why TWRP backup fails on some phones, etc. etc. Furthermore, even advice on the XDA site is often inadequate, or misleading or sometimes even wrong.)

:-(
I say with full confidence that high school was a complete waste of time and sanity. It’s basically a four year prison, menial labor and all.
Did you know that the pilgrims came to America on a ship named the Mayflower? Well there’s a test coming up and you’ll have to memorize that and several other factoids. More than half of the assignments were pointless trivia that aren’t applicable to any modern career path.
The main problem wasn't that 3.0 and 3.1 'sucked' or where unstable, it was that basically no libraries worked. In an alternate universe where the python core developers had coordinated with a handful of the most popular libraries and announced 3.0 with at least usable beta versions of those libraries being available then I imagine the reception being very different.
What makes an event exciting is seeing someone bringing it to the next level and doing stuff nobody has ever done before. The competition can’t keep up? Their problem. Let the next generation train twice as they do so they can get to that level one day.
Was working at a semiconductor company when the pandemic started. They sent a millions of dollars of lab equipment to people's houses who had the space/power to use them; and reconfigured the in-office labs for social distancing + setup two-week rotations; then actively prevented all non-essential employees from working in the office.

As far as I know, there was no outbreak in the company.
Nim uses Python-like syntax but is statically typed. It explicitly lists Python as one of its main inspirations.
Probably licencing the video to both online people and traditional places like (I'm guessing) the daily mail
London property is considered abnormally expensive in the U.K., and £150k is only slightly less than the £157k which the Prime Minister earns.

Median U.K. income is £29,400: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom
Or you live in Europe. The _average_ Danish taxpayer pays 45% in income tax. This is not counting payroll taxes that the company pays on top of that, or of course 25% on everything you buy. So the overall effective tax rate is more like 75% than 50%.

There used to be a slogan in Sweden, "half left", meaning people wanted to keep at least half of their gross pay.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-01-...
The original purpose wasn’t to hide taxation but to effectively get more money via interest by the government getting paid sooner.
that this joke works seems to be a weird ambiguity of the English language. Do you know other languages where you can make this joke?