skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Latinx rhymes with Kleenex.

...which is probably a big reason why it doesn't gain traction. It doesn't make sense as a word in any language. It feels like a foreign object pushed into the language by someone who is obviously out of touch. One could easily come up with something that at least reads and sounds like a word: Latinoa, Latinem, Latines...

Another big reason is that it doesn't solve a problem that most people have. If you look at Urban Dictionary, you see that many "up-and-coming" word creations are solving actual semantic problems, gaining traction organically, from the bottom-up. This is how language changes naturally.

On the other hand, the hypothesis that "generic masculine" forms are harmful is borne out of academia. It is entirely speculative and for practical purposes, unfalsifiable. Most people have to be told that the "moral" position is to comply with such language changes "from the top", for some perceived "greater good". Appropriately, have a word for this: newspeak.
Land taxes are based on the value of the land, not the size of the land. The property tax system already performs land value assessments.

Land taxes are highly progressive.

Note that land taxes are only assessed on the value of the land, not the value of any buildings on the land. This incentivizes land owners to put the land to its highest and best use.
Basically by using as little as possible. Avoid building critical pieces on top of their specialized services.

More or less my approach is if you couldn't build it in a data center with rented hardware, you shouldn't build it in the cloud if you want to avoid vendor lock-in.

This is easier said than done because everyone wants to use all the fancy pre-configured services. Which is fair, it can speed up your development a lot, just at the tradeoff of being locked in.
That's different. The expected value of your work's utility can be positive even if it's likely zero.
>Have you ever read the Economist? Pretty much every article they write about markets is about how to better mitigate exactly the problems you list.

I think maybe you are looking at the situation and thinking that both the Economist and Graeber are "on the left", which from a US political standpoint would be somewhat accurate. Looked at in other context though, compared to Graeber, and Sahlins, who he studied under, the Economist would be better viewed as free market apologists offering helpful criticism whereas Graeber and Sahlins' work often questioned economic activity from a different perspective and has been used by people who question the very basis of modern economics and markets.

For example, Sahlins' work was referenced extensively in Bob Black's essay The Abolition of Work. And Graeber published Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. From that perspective, the idea that the Economist is on the left is a bit simplistic and not very relevant.
Take that up with Christopher Columbus. He's the one who bumbled his way to the New World, saw brown people there and decided he must have found India.
Or else tadpoles and tiny shrimp in a cup dipped into a pond. Grasshoppers thick in an autumn meadow. And now it feels as if the plants are okay but the animals are all gone.
> The same if you bring friends to some social event, you wouldn't bring them if you can't handle them and they can behave in public.

No, this is not the same. You are legally responsible for the behavior of your dog.
EU would need to remove a lot of regulation and red tape, which is the EU's sole reason for existence. So this will never happen.
Foreign nations and companies dictating laws to a country has historically led to much the same things.

Many people in the countries Britain colonised lived under autocracies without even a veneer of freedom. How many of those countries today appreciate Britain's actions?
Of course, no mention that Bernie Sanders had to drag Amazon kicking and screaming to raise their minimum wage to $15. Glad they finally see the benefits...
JPEG XL's party trick is that you can losslessly (and reversibly) transcode regular JPEG images to XL images, at less CPU cost than fully decoding and then encoding, for a size savings of ~30%. I think this will be enough to put it over the top and drive adoption as CDNs will be able to transparently serve either JPEG or XL for a resource originally uploaded as a standard JPEG depending on whether the requesting user agent supports XL.
The amount of bloat in modern websites always amazed me. I remember the first computer I ever had, a hand me down from my parents with 512MB of ram and a single core 1.6GHz cpu (yes I'm a zoomer and wasn't even born in the good ole days of dialup internet and Windows 95) and all websites I visited ran just fine. I could open many browser tabs and do all the things one normally does in a website. The only main difference maybe is that video playback nowadays is done at much higher resolutions and bitrate. And web apps were a very new (or maybe even non-existent) concept. But still, nowadays I see my web browser using 1GB+ of memory with a few tabs open containing some newspaper articles and perhaps a couple other misc non media heavy websites.

This is madness. When not using an ad blocker, the amount of data that a regular website loads that's not relevant for what you need to read (so no text and images included) is huge. I can understand why some complex web apps like Google Docs or whatever the cloud version of MS Office is called may be quite more resource intensive than a magazine article, but there is no reason why a newspaper or cooking recipe site should use memory in the hundreds of megabytes, when the useful content itself that the reader cares about is maybe (with images included) a couple megabytes in total.
I think there needs to be a distinction in law between infrastructure providers (like COX) and application providers (like Facebook or Google).

Infrastructure providers have a monopoly or an oligarchy over a geographic area and do not know what specific activities users engage in online, aside from which websites are visited.

Application providers can build their monopolies based on network effects and potential competition is not constrained by an external limitation, like geography. They know what users do on their platforms.

DMCA treats them the same. Cutting off someone’s Internet access seems like a very early 00’s solution to piracy, when you could still conceivably walk into a business and fill out a paper job application. Legal concepts need to evolve with the Internet and we need finer grained distinctions.
Wow, you weren’t lying.
Eh, I actually think Germany banning Nazis was a good idea in hindsight, but there's some special context there. :P Specifically, looking at Germany, I don't think it's a Paradox of Tolerance situation because we've seen over decades of experience that the Nazi ban is not being broadened or overapplied. And there's no need for it, because the actual Nazis remarkably seem to be unable to help themselves, even given the very specific and limited ban we're running. So I'm going to explicitly carve out an exception for the Nazi ban in my otherwise liberal ideology - on consequentialist grounds, since as far as free speech restrictions go this one seems to be operating productively even within its sharply curtailed limits. In other words, it selects Nazis and approximately nobody else. If more limitations of free speech had the character of §86, I'd be a lot more on board with the concept.

In other words, the Nazi ban is one case where the dialog went like this:

"Come on, this is pointless, they can just use other symbols and dogwhistles. You'll fall into an escalating spiral of swatting down new Nazi symbols, negatively affecting pretty much everyone but Nazis."

"Yeah but look, we won't fall into an escalating spiral of free speech restrictions. Because they won't change their symbols, ever."

And they were right. I don't entirely understand why, but clearly they were right. My standing theory is that Nazis are either really dumb or in some sort of symbiotic relation with the constitutional protection office where going to jail is actually their goal. Works for me.

Tl;dr: my rule-consequentialist ethics don't have a problem with "liberalism, except where Nazi paraphernalia and holocaust denial", since those modifications have clearly demonstrated their worth and limited character.
I don’t think it is proper to try to mobilize people to harass a Twitter account.
R: Introduction to Data.table
Tax on revenue is just a sales tax on the consumer of that product or service. You might as just increase sales taxes and remove corporate taxes entirely.
> Do you feel cost/value ... is 0 or free?

No, of course not. (Why the insulting tone of your rhetorical question?)

> Corporations use more services than you would think ...

How many publicly traded companies have you started?
To be fair, walking your dogs without a leash in the city of Barcelona is already illegal. You can walk past the police and they won't do anything though, unless your dog is not behaving, then they'll use the law to give you a fine for not having a leash.

So while it's setup like you say it is, in theory, what you think cannot happen is what happens in practice. Same with public drinking and other laws. The police usually look the other way unless you are abusing it somehow, being too drunk, loud or otherwise annoying. Sitting in the park with a bottle of wine is fine and won't end up with you getting a ticket, even though it's illegal. At worst they'll tell you to stop whatever you're doing, and if you follow their command, that's the end of the situation.

Maybe the big difference here between law officers in Spain (Barcelona at least) and wherever you're based, is how strict they actually enforce the laws. Here is maybe a bit laxer, which also fits in with the whole culture here, and it's represented in how law officers behave as well.
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Except Apple who don’t have the incentive of browser advertising and are currently selling privacy as one benefit of choosing their hardware (and by extension their software and browser [safari])

Mozilla make money from Google deals and so have outside incentives to not rock the boat too hard on this detail.
Square considering developing a Bitcoin hardware wallet, says Jack Dorsey
This is a troll, account registered today and this is the only activity
> Both me and others without leashes are indistinctive from people who are using leashes.

If this is true then you should have no problem putting a leash on them where it's required. By your own admission it wouldn't affect your activity.
Rchaeology: Idioms of R Programming (2019) [pdf]
> the first level was being created and I had no clue about the following events, and even less about how the game would end

I wonder if there is actual danger in this. Could you paint yourself into a corner and wind up in a situation in the story that just cannot be continued from?

Seems you could always come out of any situation, especially with sci-fi.
The ineptness of the astroturfing (if anyone's wondering what we're talking about, turn on showdead) is rather fascinating.
The company doesn't have an obligation to pay this money to their shareholders, ever. You might die (of old age) before you get your initial investment in Facebook shares back as dividends.
This seems a fine place to ask: Is there a way to get a Spotify-like user experience, but for creative commons music? I'd happily pay a few bucks a month if someone else's back-end would divvy it up to the various artists' tipjars.
I said at least cost wise not that it was the best option for every one.

The pricing just seems absurd.
I live near a wildlife refuge. They allowed dogs on leash for many years. But fewer and fewer complied.

About 5 years ago after trying all sorts of signage they banned dogs altogether.

I feel bad for the small minority of dog owners who complied and kept their dogs on-leash
Amazons warehouse wage no longer holding back the market for non Amazon workers. FTFY
Yes, because we don’t have infinite enforcement resources we need to decide if we are going to prioritize type I errors or type II. Given the balance of harms minimizing type II errors (i.e. requiring leashes where they aren’t necessary) seems the better choice.
> I think the assumption is, at least from mine and others like me, is that if your dog is off-leash, you can handle your dog off-leash.

Which may apply to 90% of off leash dogs. Unfortunately, the other 10% that have dogs that *cannot* be off leash, but do so anyway ruin it for you.

There are people that are afraid of dogs. They have no way of knowing, at a distance, whether your dogs will behave or run up to them. So when they see any dog off leash in a leash required area, they have to take a large detour to give the off leash dogs a wide enough berth.

If you’re in an area where leashes are required, and you have your dogs off leash (no matter how well trained they are) you are being extremely inconsiderate of the other people around you.

As a dog owner as well, I wish there were more acceptable off leash places in society for dogs, and I cherish the areas where off leash behavior is acceptable. But taking them off leash, when others have a fair expectation that they will be leashed is rude and inconsiderate.

Finally, in my personal experience the number of well trained off leash dogs (that can behave appropriately in a “leash required” setting), is nowhere near 90%. In fact, I would say the majority of off leash dogs I run across do not behave appropriately. It’s probably closer to 25% of the off leash dogs I run across that are trained well enough that they behave acceptably in on-leash settings
But this is a rare case where you can use a derivation-extension function like PBKDF2 to make the hashing take practically any amount of time you want. You could probably make each run take a full minute on USA Today's hardware and still have your results in a reasonable amount of time.
Show HN: List of apps people pay for but have low rating
Do you know of a replacement for the last resort for transforming a web page into something readable for an individual with accessibility needs?
I believe the article is referred browser extensions as plug-ins.
> to take advantage of a program that was not meant for them

What’s wrong with this? Our whole society operates like this, but it’s suddenly wrong for some small fries to “take advantage of the law”
?” Write your laws correctly, and don’t blame people for looking out for themselves using completely legal means.
Yes. I'm aware that zip, gzip, and PNG all use zlib DEFLATE compression.
But A/B testing shows people love those links with that behaviour, they follow those links 73.523% of the time!
Nope. I know what floating rope is and that was nowhere on the packaging. It was also the only rope for sale in the store, alongside (very cheap) carabiners etc. and not in a boating or pool section.
This is a good start, funding the IRS enforcement division and having them focus on the big fish would be an excellent next step.

The working class shouldn't be subsidizing large corporations.
I think it's because if you think about it critically for more than 3 seconds, you will see that it is a tin foil hat idea with many, many holes.
Target does accept Apple Pay and Google Pay.

https://help.target.com/help/subcategoryarticle?childcat=Acc...
Can I ask where you're from? This might be a cultural difference. I mentioned originally in another comment (then removed it as it looked a bit hostile) that this might be something more US-centric as it hasn't been a problem anywhere I've seen in Europe. I don't mean to bash the USA here, but I think there might be more "this is a free country and I can do what I want..." types over there who (if they have a dog) are more likely to not be considerate of others or respond aggressively when confronted about such behaviour. We'd be talking in cliches and stereotypes of course, but I imagine that sort of person is antisocial generally. I dunno, I'm just trying to rationalize the stark differences in our experiences because here dog owners are by and large extremely considerate.
An Improved Algorithm For Hypot (2019)
If that was deemed likely, the company's shares wouldn't be worth anything. Facebook and Google routinely do share buybacks these days (which is equivalent to paying dividends)
Slightly off topic: Standard Ebooks published many of Poe's works:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe
If you're going to legally treat corporations the same as actual humans - then tax them the same.

We pay taxes for services we expect from governments, defence, policing, justice, water, sewers etc etc I don;t see why corporations that use all these things shouldn't pay their share
Half a year of the Liquid Tensor Experiment: developments
I don’t know, I still see bats every night in a ~250k city. And don’t get me started on all the bugs that get into the apartment. I hate when I have to kill that helicopter-sized moth.
Turbo Vision was quite good.
I'd prefer Discord extension rather than Discord app.
I found this post to be almost unintelligible.
Politics other than his own, probably.
9. Pocketed by corporate executives / board members

Trickle up economics, right?

Now make a list of all of the things the money could do if it is taxed and gets to the government. Schools, roads, etc.
Python is certainly more popular and for job prospects I always tell that to newer data folks. That being said if you want to load in some data do some SQL like manipulation, run some stats and make a graph or output a report I would argue R is way better experience than Python but that’s much more about the package ecosystem and less a comment on the language. Dplyr is just more friendly to use than pandas (often 3-5 ways to do something and as a beginner this can be disorienting) and ggplot2 vs matlibplot. For interactive graphs you are probably going to use plotless anyway from both languages.

One other thing I would mention is knowing SQL well is the most translatable skill. A lot of dplyr and pandas are doing SQL like operations (in fact dbplyr will generate SQL equivalent commands for your dplyr code for various backends).

In summary know how to manipulate data in SQL then pick a language (because you will need to do some IO/reporting stuff outside just data work) where the ecosystem of packages feels user friendly to you and your work flow and roll with that.
gtkmm works across all those 3 platforms, and had modern C++ before Qt did (e.g. actually using templates and libstdc++ instead of preprocessors and custom "standard" classes).
No, it’s not the same.

Grains often languish in warehouses due to inefficient or staff/vehicle shortages or simply due to delays in the paperwork for replenishments.

Grains have a lifetime. If they aren’t consumed within a particular time, then they rot due to exposure to humidity or just natural degradation.

When one gives the grains for grinding into flour at the local flour mill, one needs to sometimes tell the flour mill attendant to please add one’s grain for grinding only after other good quality grains. Otherwise Good and bad flour gets mixed up.
RDP, XWindows and VNC have worked for quite a few decades now.

My first experience with remote XWindows was using IBM X Windows terminals in 1994.
The American tax system is similarly frustrating. I’m a senior engineer and I have a hard time navigating tax forms even with the help of Intuit, and it frustrates me that I have to pay Intuit (or someone else) to help me do taxes which are complicated in large part because Intuit et al lobby for complex tax codes and against the sort of Swedish model you describe.

Worse, when I moved to Chicago the state of Illinois wouldn’t even accept my taxes electronically because their form required one of a handful of authentication methods—the only one of which that ought to have worked for me was to use my Illinois driver’s license number—a 12 digit sequence; however, their form only permitted 8 digits. It was a significant hassle just to get them to take my money.

I’ve also had difficulties figuring out how much to withhold. In the US they give us a form that calculates “allotments” (or something—I forget the term) but it’s unclear whether more of those correspond to more or less withholdings and in any case the form computed incorrectly for me for several years (I’m sure it was user error somehow and senior engineers are just not reliably smart enough to figure it out, even with the help of HR) and I would end up owing thousands in taxes as well as a separate penalty for not withholding enough.

It’s maddening that our government makes it so difficult for earnest people to pay their taxes.
While there is a lot wrong with the central government, not everything is center's responsibility. Unless you accurately understand how the governments operate, you can't bring in any improvements.

The article linked itself mainly places the blame at the state government. Also, the way public distribution system operates is follows -
"The central and state governments share the responsibility of regulating the PDS. While the central government is responsible for procurement, storage, transportation, and bulk allocation of food grains, state governments hold the responsibility for distributing the same to the consumers through the established network of fair price shops (FPSs). State governments are also responsible for operational responsibilities including allocation and identification of families below the poverty line, issue of ration cards, and supervision and monitoring the functioning of FPSs."[1] Based on these, the following are clearly shortcomings of the state government -

> In the press conference on 18 May, the CM had announced that the scheme for people without ration cards would be along the same lines as last year. However, last year in addition to rice and wheat, an essential kit consisting of cooking oil, pulses, sugar, salt and masalas was also provided. The guidelines make no mention of these additional essential items.

> The guidelines do not state when the distribution of grains will start. There has already been an inordinate delay in the announcement of the scheme.
Note: This date was finally clarified only on 2 June.

> The guidelines state that in the initial phase of distribution, grains will be provided to two lakh beneficiaries and later as per demand and need assessment from the field, up to the maximum of twenty lakh beneficiaries. This is grossly inadequate.
Ration to be distributed under this relief initiative is only a one-time relief measure. Economic distress is long term and does not go away immediately with the lifting of the lockdowns.

> Finally, we are concerned to note that the guidelines do not have provisions for transparency and grievance redress which are crucial to ensure that grains reach people in need

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_distribution_system#Cen...
European VAT, for instance, applies even for non-European companies. I can totally see some EU politician thinking that they deserve some portion of the profits of each sale (income tax) as well as a sales tax.

Potential for having to pay income tax in countries you have customers in, sometime in the future, is > 0%.
So i posted this an month ago already, the response was lot more than what i expected so kept going.

Some changes:

* I made it all https

* Added more marketplaces (as sources for apps)

* Added login and with that voting, commenting and posting custom ideas

* Added discord and patreon

* Published the api to get the apps data

And i am happy to add more features
To me the issue isn't generally having a dog off the leash, but specifically having a dog off the leash at a wildlife reserve where they may be running around disturbing the wildlife. It isn't a dog park.
> inability of governments to fulfill their responsibilities

So, governments don't have trillions in tax dollars a year to provide necessary services for citizens?

Billions more should radically change everything for the better, right? Clearly, that's just a modus ponens logic 101 right there. Yup.