skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why when I was in the market for a new printer I went for a model meant for a medium sized office - a pretty hefty Xerox Versalink.

The toner cartridges last 8-10k pages and if you purchase at least one a year (easy enough to do) they extend your next day onsite parts and labour support contract.

I got an amazing deal on it as well - but not the typical $80 "make a loss on the printer and make it back on ink" that consumer models adhere to.
just use use linux...
Yes, but the difference is that borrowing against your unrealized investments is a way of dodging taxes. I think the tax code can handle that level of subtlety without paying attention to your flippant reductio ad absurdum.
The growing horde of new outdoor goers has longtime public lands users worried
Can you point out exactly when they crossed this line? Seems to me like they're pretty much doing what they've always done, and being punished for being the best at it.
You may be curious to see how many people in China are actually contributing and doing stuff in V. That's actually surprising and cool.
"Climate change will not solve itself like this.'

Well, it will but in 10,000 years, so noone will be around for that except neo-cavemen or something
depending on the valuation, buying back stock is a much better use of capital than paying a dividend, even when disregarding the tax implications.
We have a whole section of the government dedicated to figuring out whether people are evading taxes and then pursuing them for it. It could use some more funding, but that’s the appropriate way to do it.

What are you going to add by having uninformed members of the public inspecting tax returns they don’t understand? Keep in mind there are people who turn down raises because they think being in a higher tax bracket will cause them to lose money. These are the geniuses you want to catch tax evaders?
Well yeah that's obvious. I could summarize this whole article by saying that wealthy people don't pay much income tax because they don't report much taxable income. Since we don't tax wealth separately from income, they don't pay much tax.

There, I summarized all their intense reporting in an obvious way. What does it tell us? Nothing that we don't already know.

All they are arguing about is taxing wealth separately from taxing income. That will never happen for many reasons.
Flying nape-of-the-earth is a hard counter to CIWS-style defense systems. For antiship missiles this tactic doesn't help a whole lot, but for drones over land? C-RAM can't see through a hill, let alone shoot through one.
What is the alternative? It seems that now we are trusting the rich to pay their share, which--as a percentage of their wealth--is a rounding error in practice.
Haha given the sea aspect of this, your post makes me think of BioShock
A change in your usage pattern could be used to ID any number of private things that could then be used against you:

- When you’ve gone on vacation and your home is unattended.

- When you have an additional tenant, a long-term houseguest, have a new significant other or even have a baby.

- Whether or not you’re actually working when you’re working from home.

- Homes that use greater than X amount of electricity are at greater risk of Y and so your home owners/rental/car insurance premium goes up.

- People who play computer/video games late at night are at higher risk for health issues is your health insurance premium goes up.

And I bet there are other, much more subtle things they could figure out once given the opportunity to vacuum up your data: like estimate what temperature you set your AC to and determine whether or not someone in the house was awake at any given moment of any given day.
There may be unintended consequences in forcing successful founders to over time sell down a controlling stake in their company.
"Large IRS leak of personal income tax data" should be the real story here.
I like the preface part of the book.

Law 27: Play on People's Need to Believe to Create a Cult like Following

It explain a few things for me.

For those read the book this podcast goes into more detail from the author's perspective.

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/robert-greene/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27440032

But feel free to look up any older thread on the language. It’s the musk of PLs.
It's hard to argue for legal changes, when you can't even describe the problem.

Bill says "The rich should pay more taxes".

Bob says "No, they shouldn't, they pay plenty."

Neither actually has any idea of how much in taxes the rich actually pay. You can't have an informed discussion in that situation.
I disagree. See https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/feb/22/amy-klobuc... (drug costs come between 15-17% of total spending). And given how you can divvy up spending (drugs, facilities, doctors, nurses, admin staff, overhead, etc.), one sixth of total spending seems like a very large amount.

And, it's especially the case that for certain individuals (this page also made the top of HN today, https://www.goodrx.com/blog/most-expensive-drugs-period/) that drug costs are a gargantuan, total-lifetime-salary kind of expenditure.
I think this might upset the millions of people who take large loan to do things like purchase real estate to live in.
It was literally written because the United States government did not have a standing army and there were no immediate intentions to create one. Every other reason is secondary to that one.
I'm seeing errors on each.value.foo when using for_each. Also, this gives me errors:

locals {
foo = {
for bar in local.bars: "${bar.x}.${bar.y}" => bar
}
}

Then, optional(bool) is "is not a valid type constructor".

Those all seem "language" aspects. For a resource like "github_branch_protection" it seems to not recognize the right properties. That seems to be more of provider issue.
> Delaying a tax is not avoiding a tax.

Stepping-up the basis amounts to exactly that, and is unfortunately not mentioned in the article. Too bad the author doesn't have friends in finance to challenge his thinking.
I have similar perspective and it is very depressing to see the world marching towards destruction of the modern civilization.

I was speaking about this to a friend and he recommended to read book called Drawdown to lift me out of despair. The book is published in the library and all of it is available at https://drawdown.org/. It was great to see that the work to fix or at least slow things down is already underway. But of course by no means guaranteed to succeed. Especially since that collection of essays did kind of dance around the biggest challenge of industrial rapacious capitalism really being incompatible with caretaking of the entire planet in a fair and balanced way.

On that note, somehow right after reading The Drawdown I stumbled on (I think via HN maybe?) Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future) which I swear takes a lot of the stuff from The Drawdown and lays out a path to turning things around that includes a lot of people saying no to the current way of doing things and finally caring for the environment. It was interesting to see the pleas of Mary to the bankers who the book makes a great case are actually the rulers of the world with the quotes of USA's central bankers from just a couple of days where they explicitly state that climate is not within their purview.

I don't know. I got children and I get really depressed about shit they will have to deal with. My parents were similarly depressed when they were my age now, and I was my children age now, and nothing got done.

Wishing us all lots and lots of luck.
People like other people using python because it makes it easier to share and exchange and built a community of knowledge and libraries. Science is a lot about ease of collaboration.
Was going to come here to say that. Played around with this a bit for compressing small fields using a learned dictionary:

https://github.com/spullara/corpuscompression
Matthew Confer, VP Strategy at Abilitie
>>Cherished one of a kind item?
Can you give an example of an item with a large resale value that is cherished? Most sentimental valuable items tend to be of lower value. The ones I can think of, e.g. Wedding rings etc..... well if this would drive people to spend less on diamond rings or useless trinkets that generate a lot of pollution because it's the sentimental value that matters, that would be a win.

Any item must be purchased at a +30% premium over the recorded value with that extra 30% going to the state if a sale occurs. So if you did want to hold onto something, you would declare a higher value and get paid extra.
This is like saying that homeowners are being forced to sell their homes over time to pay for property tax.
So is ed. That doesn’t mean it’s a better coding environment than modern IDEs, even though it’s far more “standard.”
You can also bill users for peak usage times when electricity is expensive or requires falling back on non-renewable resources for production with hourly data.
'Lockdown' states like California did better economically than 'looser' states
The btrfs filesystem is polarizing, and some have had bad experiences with it, while it has treated others well.

Many argue for ext4 or xfs, but so many features are absent from these legacy filesystems.

The only place that people appear uniformly happy is FreeBSD.
Don't forget to take breaks short breaks while reading this article, which itself is a long break from doing other things.
There's no short-term solution effective enough to make much difference, that doesn't reduce the standard of living in rich countries, and/or cap the standard of living in developing countries. It's not happening. Rich countries aren't gonna say "OK, everyone, you get a lot less stuff and can't travel as much now" and developing countries aren't going to accept that they can't aspire to a "Western" quality of life. Hell, an abrupt decline in standard of living is one of the surest ways to get political unrest, violence, and revolutions, even when the reduction is from "very, very high" to "very high" (and even "very high" would probably still be too high, in this scenario).
And what, exactly, is replacing them? What else can convert a digital document to paper form?
Switch the `<link href="">` value to point to a high contrast stylesheet.

Or alternatively, apply a class to the body tag – e.g. `<body class="high-contrast">` – and declare CSS rules accordingly. Specificity should take care of overriding the 'normal' style rules where needed.
Only this evening I was listening to Tim Hartford's Cautionary Tales podcast episode which refers to the book The Return of a King. It's a really good episode - https://timharford.com/2021/04/cautionary-tales-masterly-ina...
The Seductions of Clarity
The article is disingenuous for two reasons.

1) The "so what" is that capital gains is a different thing than wage income from an economics standpoint. Capital gains taxes have different economic effects than income taxes. Most economists agree that capital gains should be taxed lower than income. Most countries tax capital gains far lower than wage income. For example, in Canada only half of someone's capital gains are included in income, and is then taxed at the ordinary income tax rates.

2) Worse, the article just looks at paper wealth and ignores whether there is even a capital gain. If Amazon's stock price goes up, and Bezos makes $10 billion on paper, the IRS doesn't tax him on it. Which is fine--to actually do anything with that paper wealth, he needs to sell the stock or engage in a similar realization event, in which case that gain will be taxed.
Do you carry a mobile phone. If so, you have bigger privacy problems than how much power you use per minute.
> What are you going to add by having uninformed members of the public inspecting tax returns they don’t understand?

Nobody's saying these people are illegaly evading taxes. The question is: "Should what they are doing be legal?". And that is absolutely a question for a layman. That's what representative democracy is all about. We get to collectively decide what is appropriate, and inappropriate in our society.

Enforcement of the rules is for an unelected executive and judiciary, with limited public input. Determining the rules is for an elected legislature, with significant public input.

There is no government department responsible for determining whether or not the current tax code is fair. We, the public, get to decide that.
On the flipside, a treatment for Wilson's disease that was first authorised for use in 1985, Syprine, is now well over $200 per tablet - the problem here, it's probably not worth making a generic as the market is pretty small.
I would be in favor of that if it came with the elimination of all other taxes
You Shouldn't Pigeonhole Yourself
One is connected to the internet and sends data every second of the day (hopefully only to authorized recipients) while the other provides only one monthly datapoint and is quite a pain for bad actors, or anyone really, to collect. It’s like the difference between showing someone you have $X in your checking account vs showing someone all of the transactions you’ve conducted in the account over the last month. One is far more invasive because it’s a window into your daily habits.
How do they afford lavish personal lifestyle if they're declaring no income (I get the cap gains part, I don't get the mansions, parties, cars, food etc. Bit)
I wonder what are the best ways to take breaks when you're on the computer for 7 hours or more a day without losing your concentration when you have to go back to the screen (NB: I often have several client projects to manage in the same day, my brain goes crazy)
I suspected this. However, I wasn't able to grok the documentation well enough but I didn't able to find a convincing example. It seems to me that these Python compressors get "frozen" and can't be used to compress further data.
The title is definitely trolling and should be changed. (The article also looks that way to me, but there's no HN rule against it.)
Firefiox:
I remember the first few versions since the rewrite. It was very fast. Fast forward to today and it's so slow.

What is the reason? Are the privacy changes affecting this by using more resources or pages are requesting domains that hang for too long?

It gives rust a bad name because this is one of the bigger rust products I know.
The idea is to incentivize long term investment while also trying to smooth out volatility by making short term investments less profitable. Or, put differently, people want day traders to be taxed at a higher rate than average people investing.
12-Year-old graduated from high school and college in same week
Comparing the prices of unavailable medicine?
Pypa/pip #8187: Parallelizing the Pip install process
I don’t trust politicians but as David Harvey has said, “wealth redistribution is the lowest form of socialism”.

The ideal way is that wealth is more equitably distributed before it is created. Instead of a system where business owners represent a tiny minority, who then grow very wealthy and are taxed, we could have a system where everyone owns a little piece of the economy. At its simplest this could be realized by a growth of worker cooperatives, though other schemes exist. [1]

So no, we don’t have to trust politicians to redistribute the wealth and we shouldn’t. But we can build a society where billions simply do not accrue to a tiny minority of the population.

[1] I prefer situations that do not rely on “the state” however I found this historical study of the German Democratic Republic to be very interesting: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhHMtkNa0BDl2oz-8z9cGR45Z...
Plato's classic quote of Socrates:

τούτου μὲν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐγὼ σοφώτερός εἰμι· κινδυνεύει μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν οὐδέτερος οὐδὲν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι, ἀλλ᾽ οὗτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴομαι· ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

I love this quote though my Ancient Greek never went as far as being able to parse the original. That being said, I find the definition game mentioned here and covered in the Dialogues tedious. It's like asking what "the number 2" is: One can answer that pointing to two apples, two car, etc. sets with two elements and define "two" to be the common property of all these sets. Cannot one proceed similar to define courage?
> generally, you cannot go back to traditional Medicare

You're always able to go back to traditional Medicare, you just have to wait until the next open enrollment. In fact, after the first trial run with MedAdv, you can switch back before open enrollment if you want. Traditional Medicare is always an option.

Great to hear that you're staying healthy otherwise.
Seems about right ballpark, if not undercounting it.

My team doesn't releases a mobile client but we release desktop client / chrome extensions every week. It takes about a day of work for an engineer to go through the builds, QA, prepare notes, check the status of things in flight that are trying to land in there, fix some related bugs and so on. And that is with a lot of automation we have. It is also a big distraction from other work, so the opportunity cost is quite high too.
Thanks for that. It's exactly what I've been looking for. My mind has been on this whole topic for the last year. Even the name is a big hint I'll like it as blindsight is fascinating.
one reason I've heard against smart meters is that it would make it easy for power companies to start charging non commercial users for apparent power rather than real power, as a way to indirectly raise prices.
Using commercial rockets to deliver supplies not as far-fetched as it sounds
Sure and borrowing $750k to buy a house is a nifty way for me to get $750k without having to pay income taxes on $750k worth of income. What an amazing loophole that gives me completely free money and no taxes!

What the government could do is stop loaning out money at 0% (i.e. printing free money which inflates assets, like stocks held by wealthy people). If the prime rate increased, the rate banks would charge on asset-backed loans would also increase, which would make it less attractive than just selling the asset and paying the capital gains tax.
Could you explain this take further? I’m tempted to write this off entirely, but I’m curious if you actually have some reason to associate corporatism with monarchy.
FBI Snooped on Criminals Using Encrypted Messaging App
It is a matter of degree, but that degree is not small. Anytime you decrease the interval, you need to justify the commensurate loss of privacy. You can't just handwave away these concerns like posters in this thread are doing.

A rough inference of which months might involve vacations (data about which is probably already being sold from other sources) is far less invasive than a daily record of your sleep cycle.

With the lack of privacy laws in the US, it is pretty much a given that this data will be sold as soon as the private utility companies in the US start collecting it.
That doesn't matter. Millions of adults orchestrate a secret conspiracy without any direct coordination even. The faculties of the target will only change the coordination and sophistication required.

If everything in the world were an illusion, I doubt that any group would be able to orchestrate that for all of us. But large groups can coordinate secret happenings, and they do, all the time.
To be clear - when I need to toggle a basic state with a class or set of classes, that is the strategy I use.

Where that technique fails is when you have hundreds of possible values that can occupy a given state.

If I want to set the rotation or opacity for a control and I want to use a range of values, there is nothing native in CSS to allow me to do that.

You can use SCSS to dynamically generate the CSS class declarations for every possible value, but I would only ever use that solution if I needed the performance boost and that was the only way to get it.
This only applies to inheritance, right?
I thought Edge was supported but I havent tested it. This is a list of the browsers that are supported: https://github.com/fmeringdal/nettu-meet/blob/main/frontend/....

Are you running an old version of edge? If not, do you mind filing a issue in the repository?
If a smart meter gets hacked it's not unreasonable to imagine the local logs are compromised. This is a bit like all the arguments against voting machines but in a less concerning setting.

TOU rates are a thing you can get with pre-programmed meters. They may not benefit the utility company as much as tailored rates but they probably have 90% of the benefit while having 0% of the privacy implications.

The companies don't even have to sell the data, they can just mine it for information, such as which rate to automatically put you on once your contract finishes to make the most money out of you etc.
Most of these aren’t available in Europe or European approval lagged the US (not that the US is as fast is it should be.) Europeans have had to fundraise to personally pay for such niche medications.
> If you have a billion in stock, you could leverage that to pay personal expenses.

And how do you pay back that loan?

> You could use an unrealized loss over there to balance out the cash you're taking in from a gain over there.

So can everyone.

> If you play that game long enough, your descendants will get a cost basis step up.

That's a strong argument for reforming estate taxation.
What kind of types?

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p... is pretty powerful (see also "parse_dates" and "converters" parameters). See also parse_excel()

You can also use procedural code to look at the column data and change the type:

# if all values in col c2 when converted to string begin with "0" and and values are of length 9, convert to int64
if df["col"].str.match("^0").all() and set(df["col"].str.len()) == {9}:
df["col"] = df["col"].astype("int64")
This is simply g*rbage.I wish all my utilities were as cheap and amazing as google. Why don't we go the other way and make a law demanding that?

- Google services are free. If they are a utility they should charge you like any utility, go ask Texans and Californians about their recent power bills.

- There is an endless amount of comparable alternatives to Google, here you have 17 https://www.searchenginejournal.com/alternative-search-engin.... The idea that google is just as important and monopolistic as you power provided is just incredibly stupid. Sorry about been rude but I have heard from the same crowd that "facts don't care about your feelings" and that door swings both ways.

- Nobody forces you to use Google, its not the first option installed in a Windows computer, that would by Bing.com and I don't see any complaints. Users go out of their way to go to that site because is the best option. It's a perfect example of the free market. And even in the case of android phones the different brands like Samsung or Motorola make that call. Google gives you an amazing OS completely free.
I'd use CSS variables for colors and write another stylesheet, using the cascade so I only override the styles I need to.