skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Chinese-Americans earn less than many European-Americans.

On the page you link, Chinese-Americans have a lower per-capita income than Americans of Macedonian, Russian, Latvian, British (not otherwise specified), Lithuanian, Slovene, Australian, and Austrian ancestry.

They have a higher per-capita income than Americans of Scottish, Czechoslovakian, Croatian, Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, Belgian, Swiss, Welsh, Danish, Israeli, Ukrainian, Canadian, Scotch-Irish, English, European (not otherwise specified), Bulgarian, Polish, Norwegian, Italian, German, Finnish, Irish, Dutch, French (excluding Basques), Yugoslav, Portuguese, American (not otherwise specified) and Pennsylvania German ancestry.

I am curious to hear how you define "many".
I think we'd want that tax income because a dollar today is more valuable than a dollar tomorrow - making sure we increase cash flow in the short term and stabilize expected cash flow allows us to more accurately set the budget.
Sounds like you just reinvented Ethereum proof of stake :)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not surprised about it. The history of computing is full of inefficient, dodgy systems.
Hey HN! If you're an avid Daft Punk fan like myself, hope you're going to enjoy this fun tribute website I made.

You can listen to the 24/7 radio of only Daft Punk tracks and live sets, test your knowledge of their tracks by guessing the track name or just play some tetris, which plays faster & faster Daft Punk tracks as you progress through the levels.

Have fun!
Great, what's your proposal for the alternative then?

Are you talking about the stock market? Or the companies that have already more or less destroyed the planet to extract every last bit of profit?
Forest Byrnes is from Panic's prior published game, Firewatch.
Mhhh, iframes all the way down. Could make a nice experiment.
When you come up with a problem (in seconds) with a policy (especially one described in essentially one line), ask yourself, what reasonable change could I make to the original idea to make it more reasonable.

For example, you could easily say that only assets that would be declared as having a value over X amount need to be declared in this way. Choose X to be somewhere in the neighborhood of a house, and you would get almost all the value of such a policy without any of the drawbacks you just listed.
could you provide any link or resource for further reading? I never saw anything like that and I would like to know what they are taking into account in this comparison.
I would like to have discussions even for "constant" tax.

Wrote more in the comments below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27434369

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27434819
> Occupational licensing, over scheduling of drugs, civil asset forfeiture spring to mind.

Just out of interest: What kind of problem do you, personally, have with these that you are considering starting a new country?

And isn't it the issue that the rich can already circumvent laws just fine? How is all this going to help the poor who have to stem the main bulk of the tax burden while the rich use loop holes and tax havens? They ware not the ones that are going to live on the ocean.
I think rrrrrrrrrrrryan is talking about the ideal scenario, in the real world there will always be some biases.
Decrypting SSL/TLS traffic with Wireshark [updated 2021]
"Addiction is hardly a problem for psychedelics, as most users don't use them regularly."

Yeah, but if you agree with the concept of microdosing you will be using them regularly. That is exactly what microdosing is about.
Automatic batching appears to cause problems, because the screen doesn't update when it needs to.

Here's the scenario: User is holding down the down arrow key. On each key event you have to update the screen so that appears to scroll up. But React gets in the way by batching setStates, and this causes the screen updates to be jumpy. Now you have to find a workaround. This is an example of React doing too much.
Very interesting. However, there is also the other camp that says let children stay children as long as possible. I wonder if that's conflicting with your line of thought.

PS: This is one of the best discussion I have ever read on HN. This article is inspiring in many ways.
The fact that most users choose to use centralised exchanges over on-chain transactions suggests the advantages of decentralisation do not outweigh the costs in the opinion of a great majority.
I'm curious how many people take advantage of the "borrow money against equity to finance lifestyle" approach. At what net worth / amount of equity does this strategy start to make sense? 100k? 500k? 10M?

I've heard that wealth managers offer very competitive (sometimes zero interest!) rates because what they are getting in return is your social / professional network's business.
I believe the first blackout was during the release of 'It'.

Of course they never called it a blackout... they just always seemed to experience technical issues... and always on Friday or Saturday... on always on a Friday or Saturday when a popular movie was being released. What a coincidence!
I certainly don't, but it's a standard option in git merge (and IIRC github supports it), so I'm pretty sure some teams do.

As to rebases to clean up history (and not just the PR itself)... personally, I don't think that's worth it. My experience with history like this is that it's relevant during review, and then around 95% of it is irrelevant - you may not know which 5 % are relevant beforehand, but it's always some small minority. It's worth cleaning up a PR for review, but not for posterity. And when it comes to review, I like commits like "pay respect to the linter gods" and the like, because they're easy to ignore, whereas if you touch code and reformat even slightly in one commit, it's often harder to skip the boring bits; to the point that I'll even intentionally commit poorly formatted code such that the diff is easy to read and then do the reformat later. Removing clear noise (as in code that changes back and forth and for no good reason) is of course nice, but it's easy to overdo; a few typo commits barely impact review-ability (imho), and rebases can and do introduce bugs - you must have encountered semantic merge conflicts before, and those are 10 times as bad with rebases, because they're generally silent (assuming you don't test each commit post-rebase), but leave the code in a really confusing situation, especially when people fix the final commit in the PR, but not the one were the semantic merge conflict was introduced, and laziness certainly encourages that.

It also depends on how proficient you are with merge conflicts and git chicanery. If you are; then the history is yours to reshape; but not everybody is, and then I'd rather review an honest history with some cruft, rather than a frankenstein history with odd seams and mismatched stuff in a commit that basically exists because "I kept on prodding git till it worked".
I commented above but from my understanding heat pumps are worse than baseboard electric heaters when the temperature outside is below zero celsius (assume the air is exchanged outside) because the fins start to ice over due to condensation and it's why no heat pumps are used in so many countries that are cold. But I have only researched a bit would appreciate any expert opinions!
Price obfuscation always benefits sellers and disadvantages buyers, and is always just a tool to extract more from buyers. There is never any reason the bottom line price cannot simply be stated. You do not see a breakdown of labor costs, materials costs, waste disposal costs, utilities, etc.
It is about $80. The subscription that will make it useful is the other $100 which is what you'll be paying annually to keep using it.
Title should have a (2020)
...and watched its stock decline from mid-20s when MP launched to under $5 if I remember correctly. Later it became a WSB meme stock, but that is a different story.
Hi! I'm an optometrist. There are usually no symptoms for glaucoma, which is why it's known as a "silent thief of sight." Dryness and irritation are not symptoms of glaucoma. It is usually suspected when your doctor looks inside your eye at the optic nerve and sees that the cup in the middle of the optic nerve looks larger than they think it should be and your eye pressure (measured with either the air puff test or little probe that quickly touches your eye) seems a higher than normal. There's also a machine called the OCT which can help to see if you might be suspect for glaucoma. The visual field test checks your side vision to see if there is functional damage from the glaucoma. Your doctor may monitor it and make it an official diagnosis if they see progression on any of these things (optic nerve, OCT, visual field).

There is one kind of high eye pressure (acute angle closure) that can lead to glaucoma that may be accompanied with redness and eye pain, but this is more rare and happens more quickly. Otherwise, most forms of glaucoma (normal tension and open angle glaucoma) are extremely slowly progressing and don't have any symptoms until it's too late, when lose your side vision and are left with tunnel vision.

Quadrant Eye uses some tests which can help to screen for glaucoma even when you have no symptoms. Thank you Quadrant Eye for making a higher quality online screening! I can't wait for the entire comprehensive eye exam to be available at home and reach more people who otherwise may not have easy or convenient access to a doctor's office on a regular basis.
Please show me that evidence, because I have seen otherwise, and a basic understanding of supply and demand leads to the default assumption that increased supply will lower costs.

The ONLY way to make housing affordable to make market rate housing affordable. That means you need to build enough that they are forced to lower prices. Couple this with a vacancy tax to prevent manipulative property management tactics, and there is no logical reason why increased supply would not lower prices.

Here is a paper addressing many concerns of "supply skeptics" : https://furmancenter.org/files/Supply_Skepticism_-_Final.pdf
I got my start around 11 but kinda squandered it. Spent most of my time reading about random obscure languages/technologies/frameworks I wouldn’t understand until years later (though it’s great because I can hold a conversation on a topic for a little bit while being completely incompetent) and swearing I was going to make games until I realized I couldn’t do asset design worth shit. To this day I don’t think I’ve ever made (graphical) game.

I was around 14 when I first heard about Haskell, I didn’t know anything about it, functional programming, type theory, lambda calculus or anything related. I just knew it was a programming language. Nowadays I see people around that age programming relatively fluently with it.

All the actual programming I ever did as a kid was make terrible websites, console apps that did nothing useful in particular and a few desktop app shells that did the same. I was probably around 17 before I did anything “serious” and even at that point it wasn’t great.

Now I’m not very old, so I’m not sure if it was simply the environment I was in, but I didn’t know that many other people that were into programming when I was a teenager, even with the internet and all I was normally the youngest guy in every chat/forum/site/group I was on. Nowadays though, I know several teenagers that could code circles around me.
Also it’s a handheld for which it will be (if all works as advertised) very easy to develop.

One thing that irks me is that the Dev environment is clearly at least public beta ready. I’d like to see and try it before preordering though.
Diminishing marginal utility is a basic economic concept.
Smell marijuana > Search vehicle
Half the junior programmers I worked with during the last 10 years got into programming because of Minecraft with no other motivation at all until much later.
> Medicaid asks a LOT of questions, the food bank does not.

Not sure what you're talking about. Medicaid is extraordinarily generous. The only questions that are asked are in determining whether one qualifies to enroll in Medicaid, but once you're in, you pay almost nothing. Even prescription drugs are capped at $75, no matter how rare or fancy.

> Food differs from health care significantly

I disagree. Both are examples of critical goods/services without which humans die. They both factor into long-term health and quality of life.

> Secondky, that we have food banks at all is deplorable and embarrassing.

I completely agree. While I've been extolling the virtues of pricing systems to provision goods and services, I've also made it clear that welfare is extremely important. The US currently extends welfare to low income people, through SNAP/EBT food stamps, Section 8 Housing vouchers, and EITC. In my opinion, there's still room to further expand the generosity of these systems, and even consolidate them into a basic income.

It's worth disentangling welfare from public vs private, because it's easy to conflate the two. It's entirely possible to rely on private markets to bring down prices and increase availability, while using publicly funded welfare to enable access for those less fortunate.
Tell someone else about the issue.

This would solve a lot of problems, I think.
The non-seriousness of Canadians about free speech is part of the reason I was happy to move to America. I used to defend hate speech laws (as in formal public debate), but in hindsight I was naive about putting the power to define hate speech in a political process. Such laws and their brethren in private organizations that nominally exist to promote public discourse, are used to silence opposition and therefore I find them repellent.
I bet the folks who had a buy order sitting at $31,500 are happy with their purchase.
Using "microdoses" (i.e. doses that are too little to be intoxicating) of drugs such as LSD, shrooms, ecstasy or weed. There is some evidence that microdosing LSD and shrooms is beneficial to mental health (depression, anxiety etc).
You don't go your shop with gold bars either. You store them in your bank account and use 2nd-layer currency (fiat used to be tied to gold). Same way you store bitcoin and use 2nd-layer currencies like lightning-network.

I'm not saying it works particularly well yet but the idea is sound.
So no one ever retires?
Glad someone mentioned it. The man is pretty much unanimously worshipped around here but his writing just doesn't resonate with me. It's not just that I don't agree, I think it's possible to appreciate someone's talent without agreeing with it, but it just doesn't feel particularly thought-provoking or insightful to me. That might say more about me than him but it is how it is.
iOS 15 Includes Secure Paste Feature That Hides the Clipboard from Developers
Git histories are only as immutable as the signatures applied to them. There are plenty of git repositories that follow rebase only "linked-list" history policies and require commits to be signed and through distributed consensus agree on what is the most recent commit to next commit against to keep the history a straight line.

On the other side, forks happen in block chains all the time and it is an illusion that a block chain is only ever a "linked-list". It's just as much of a DAG at a technical level. The "cost" mechanics create a marketplace distinction between forks (branches in the DAG) far more than any technical distinction between them can possibly exist.
Are you allowed to use a private company's name like this? Not trying to be annoying, just curious.
WDYM? The price is steep, but more overpriced hardware sells like hot cakes too.
We started having decent decentralized exchanges fairly recently and there have already been days where they have processed more volume than centralized ones.

It takes time to build/deploy/grow these exchanges (since they are essentially a 2 sided marketplace).
Better yet you take the whole of dose and then walk in Nature.

Closely related Psilocybin is the only sacrament that is clinically proven to work better than a placebo:

https://www.wired.com/2013/10/timothy-leary-archives/

and it is widely believe to enhance the outdoor experience as well.
This is correct. Piketty's research has shown that as one moves to progressively higher echelons of the wealth distribution (top 5%, top 0.1%, top 0.01%), a higher and higher proportion of capital is accumulated through returns on capital rather than income. That being said, we shouldn't discount that while taxes on income are more progressive than taxes on wealth, they're still significantly less progressive than those of most other Western countries (and we have significantly higher levels of income inequality compared to those countries.)
I think the only thing that would solve almost all the issues is taxing the movement of money in all forms at a small rate. there have been some thoughts on it by people smarter than I but the gist is you tax money every time it moves at a tiny percentage rate. the rate is so small that for the commoners are not affected much but the people that trade money or move money off shore or buy up large commodities would be the ones that pay the most. I'm sure there are some downsides to it but there are many upsides too.
Really enjoyed the listen, haven't heard of the changelog podcast before, but the hosts are pretty fun IMO!
>This approach is called Proof-of-Work and involves miners taking transaction data and feeding it into a cryptographic algorithm that generates a string of numbers called a hash.

There is more to Proof-Of-Work than just hashing [1].

[1] https://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-min...
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Apple has coincidently released functionality as part of iOS 15 for verifiable health records data. Note the use of digital signature crypto primitives.

> Find out how you can securely request access to someone's verifiable health records and incorporate that data safely into your app. The Health app helps people download, view, and share their health records, including their COVID-19 immunization and test results — and iOS 15 brings support for the Smart Health Card, a verifiable health record that incorporates the FHIR health data standard. We'll show you how your app can go about requesting access to this record and how you can verify the signature of the file using CryptoKit and the issuer's public key.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10089/
You might want to try filed !

This was for serving MPEG4-TS files with, IIRC, H.264 video and MPEG-III audio streams -- nothing fancy -- from a server running a container living on a disk attached via USB/1.1.

While USB/1.1 has enough bandwidth to stream the video, the other HTTP servers were too slow with Range requests, because they would do things like wait for logs to complete and open the file to serve (which is synchronous and requires walking the slow disk tree).
I think this has been addressed.

https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/
From a more in-depth article from Ars:

> This "stereo dock" doesn't have a price yet, but it will ship with a preinstalled online radio option, dubbed Poolsuite FM, that Panic says will include "expertly curated Soundcloud playlists that will transport you to a magical, sun-kissed musical zone between the past and the present."

This sounds ... suspiciously like Poolside.fm
I lived in Berkeley, there was no circle in which microdosing is more popular than going to a park. Sure, people know of microdosing, but nowhere even close to a majority do it regularly.
I said they were "proto" NFTs and one thing they have in common, again from my view point, is that you buy them and hope that someone else will pay you more for it later. Beyond that it's just entries of hope on the block chain.
The cynic in me thinks this will just allow them to drop the hybrid model when 'it sells badly', although I guess someone's buying FWD CR-Vs and RAV4s - they're both in the top 10 sellers
Care to explain why? :-)
Blaming Our Genes: The Heritability of Behavior (2012)
How to use TensoFlow to recover AES keys from power traces
I'm always interested to hear about people developing OS's. Hope they implement some stuff other ones don't have.

I never heard of V so I looked it up:

https://vlang.io/

An implementation of 2048:

https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/examples/2048/2048.v in V
Not quite a fair comparison. Consider how much real estate is used to "park money" in large cities, which in turn leads to artificially higher prices and shortages of housing? What other resources are abused as money substitutes, making corresponding markets less liquid or less predictable? When Bitcoin reaches sufficient capitalization and maturity the landscape of money is going to become simpler while the markets in stocks/real estate/commodities become more fair and efficient. This may have huge implications for overall efficiency in the economies.
This is something well understood in the electronic music space. The limitations of the equipment can define entire genres of music. The programmer in me is very excited about doing some dev work on a limited platform.
I mean, this isn't even really all that far-fetched, other systems do work like that, such as e.g. word's track changes or gdoc's history - or even a database's transaction log.

And while those histories are typically unreadable, it is possible to label (even retroactively) relevant moments in "history"; and in any case just because a consumer-level wordprocessor doesn't export the history in a practical way doesn't mean a technical VCS couldn't do better - it just means we can't take git-as-is or google-docs-as-is and add millions of tiny meaningless "commits" and hope it does anything useful.
I’ll refrain from commenting on the first point - you already accused me of “bias and reactivity” and now that I asked you to flesh out your thoughts you turn to personal attacks, just like you did with the author. That’s something to reflect on.

It’s not “the negative interactions of the few” when you have thousands upon thousands of people jumping into the latest issue of the day. Usually they’re people from all over the world, without any access to context or more information on whatever is going on, which means there is no room for analytical thought - you watch the events unfold from afar, without interjecting, or you join the mob. See the recent basecamp controversy.

You’re intentionally ignoring the evidence as “not the majority”, “the lazy”, but it’s a fact that this is happening, and happening on platforms like Twitter and Reddit. We didn’t have this on Usenet, forums, news sites or any other previous media tool - it is evidently a product of social media, it’s format and reach today. The existence of this phenomenon was not even in question in the article, the point is how to interpret these events.

Those quotes are not statements of absolute truth, but the author is trying to paint, in broad and colorful swathes for illustration purposes, the mentality that emerges from this phenomenon.
> How did people even manage to come up with it?

Reminds me of the old saying: a zebra is a horse designed by committee.
If you tax loans that means every credit card purchase or mortgage would trigger a tax. If you receive a $400k loan for a mortgage, that would mean something like $100k in taxes for an upper middle earner.
Investment vs. Speculation
The foundations listed are basically political entities. When you or I make political donations, we have to do it with post-tax money. Why shouldn't the wealthy have to do the same?
lawyers, buildings, contracts, the person selling keys for PO Box, guards to watch over your PO Box, mail system.

Plus all the other things on top that are associated to flying in to Bermuda for the week of business to setup your PO BOX.

Oh and then there’s the airport, staff to maintain the airport.

All that plus more for a simple PO box