skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They tend to cluster in certain metropolitan areas in the Rust Belt (St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cleveland, the latter two of which used to have regular JAT flights in 1980s) that have been hit hard by deindustrialization.

Source: I'm from Cleveland, aunt married one of the (many) Slovenian-Americans there
Not a coincidence -- in the first paragraph! :)
> everything else Google does has a mainstream alternative that is a click away.

Except no one clicks away (most people).
Yes. It will make you better at listening and reading, but not at speaking.
I would rather be governed by a public actor with constraints than the arbitrary interference of a private actor.

This is the core republican (as in the political philosophy: Discourses on Livy, Philip Pettit, etc.) insight. If you want a stable society, you cannot leave space for arbitrary private individuals to become domineering forces on the rest of society. It's literally textbook how civilizations will fall, yet as a species we seem incapable of avoiding our own mistakes.
I'm sure there are different geographical and utility costs, but every well I've ever priced was between 25-100 years to break-even
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But borrowing is not equivalent to selling, tax wise or any otherwise.

When you get a mortgage to buy a $750k house, do you want to be taxed as though you had $750k income that year? You’re just borrowing against the value of an asset after all.
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I am confused. They were clearly discussing unrealized gains as wealth throughout the article. What am I missing here?
I don't and to be fair, from what I recall, these were dropped from the V website as soon as the Nim community challenged them.
You are aware that public utilities CHARGE FOR THEIR SERVICE A LOT? Ask Texans and Californians about their power bills in the last months. The level of entitlement of people like you using a free service and expecting to impose the rules as they see fit and getting all angry at the company giving them an absolutely world class amazing service for free because they don't want to piss off the advertisers that pay for the whole deal is very hard to understand.
Not to be dismissive, but when I hear of an individual reporting symptom X given a meter saying Y, I always wonder whether you read the meter and then focus on whether you feel Y (ok, easy enough to control for by not reading first), read the meter only when you have a headache (perhaps it's above 1200 at other times as well, but ok that's also easy to control for if you care to), or even just get used to the pattern when it's high like in the morning before you open windows, or you can feel when the windows were open (colder/warmer depending on outside temperature). You'd need some completely random CO2 level, not have any way of indirectly knowing the value, then spend time in there and repeat it a few times to say that this is really it.

However, I remember ~1000ppm being the level where studies also said that people start to report headaches. It appears to vary from person to person; both of your observations (you at 1200, GP claiming 1100 is no problem for them) are likely correct, but I wouldn't trust either observation. Just google/ddg it if you want to know what can happen at different CO2 levels.
China was already way past this by the late 90s.

This is old thinking. Same battlefield with different technology.

The war that changed everything was the 1st Gulf War.

20 years ago they could see how stupid it was to use weapons to blow things up that cost more than what you were blowing up.

Our military has already been lapped. We only don't think so because we waste so much money on outdated expensive weapon systems and then use the amount spent as proof we have the better military.
Sure, but those not-irrational reasons are locale-specific. I've never heard of someone self-reporting the meter reading here in the US. The meter still keeps a local log of how much energy was used, so worrying about being framed for using too much energy still feels a bit irrational to me.

OTOH, smart meters allow the utility to charge TOU rates, which helps even out the load on the grid. It benefits the utility, of course, but also customers. For example, it is minimally inconvenient to set my car to charge or my dish washer to run at night instead of day, but I might not bother to do so unless the utility charges me below average rates to do so. I calculate that I am earning several hundred dollars per hour for the time spent taking advantage of TOU rates.

As for selling the data... the solution to that is banning such sales, not banning smart meters.
We are not living in a world of absolutes. To put it simply, being able to replace the presentation layer _easily_ is a benefit to many projects

> I've never seen a project that actually had meaningful "separation of concerns" based on technology.

With respect, you just need to look a little harder.

I've used react libraries which are fundamentally tied to their styling, due to the fact they use CSS in JS.

Applying custom styling has been more difficult than it should have been.
We can do both. We don't have to choose between welcoming the many highly skilled professionals who want to work here, and welcoming the asylum seekers and economic refugees who are fleeing violence or poverty and eager to build a better future here. We can do both, and we would benefit from both.
The simple solution is to close the loopholes. Complexity is a tax on the middle class
Thomas Piketty proposes a progressive annual global wealth tax of up to 2%. I think it's a good idea.
Css variables can be exported and modified in js through some libraries and without having the constraints of css in js.
The closest part of any other US state to Hawaii is an Alaskan island: https://www.quora.com/How-far-is-Hawaii-from-the-nearest-lan...

>Located near the town of False Pass, the tip of an unnamed peninsula overlooking Ikatan Bay is exactly 2,259.28 miles (3,636.44 kilometers) from a part of Tunnels Beach on the island of Kauai.

So yes, thousands of miles.
Sadly this used to be a fairly good place for mostly-snark-free discussions, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. At least for some topics of discussion.
What best practices were dropped? The vaccines moved quickly because everyone gave them priority, and because there were many cases in the wild so the trials could amass the needed events quickly.

mRNA vaccines have been great. But multiple conventional vaccines were developed about as fast and we’d probably do fine just with those.
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I think they even proved themselves in the recent Gaza campaign.
This is not on topic, but to me it's ridiculous that something like HELOC exists and is somehow widely accepted. Like dude, you'll never pay down that debt. Your house is not an ATM machine.
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People manifest in the streets because they have to put on a mask to stop the spread of COVID. A simple mask is seen as anti-freedom.

Now, just so we're clear, I'm not judging these people and I don't want to polarize COVID and the government response in any ways.

But if wearing a mask is seen as restrictive, imagine the societal changes required to truly address climate change.

Folks, the party is over. The response to climate change will make COVID measures seem like a day at the water park.
> I mean, everyone has more engineering capacity to fork Chromium than to build their own browser/engine from scratch

That doesn’t contradict my question. If google does go through with crippling ad blockers at a deep level of the engine, how long till forks will break under backporting every security update, etc. And that is without thinking of any sort of malice. If google deliberately builds heavily on top of these changes, they will pretty much cripple every fork, except for perhaps edge.

And I do agree that V8 is a superior engine when it comes to performance, but for me the minimal performance gain is meaningless (especially with good ad blocking it is almost insignificant for the majority of websites)

And just because it is a symbiosis where Google won’t face anti-monopolism lawsuits if Mozilla is around and Mozilla gets some money, I doubt it would shine negative light on Firefox.
> if more people want products sourced from ethical materials suppliers, the trend becomes more products being sourced from ethical materials suppliers.

Or rather, the cheaper option is chosen: companies just lie. This is what actually happened.

> A more informed customer base makes more informed decisions.

The market has already worked around this. We've created the marketing industry. The business world has learned how to bamboozle customers at scale. We're at the stage where spending a marginal dollar on marketing has a better ROI than spending it on improving the product.

> I couldn’t care less about good software engineers making more than “climate scientists” or “nuclear engineers” because those lines are more blurred than ever. If you’re in one of those roles and you can’t code, you’ll be obsolete within a matter of a few years.

And I do care, because while I agree that coding is becoming essential for productive scientific and engineering work, it's not those people who get the good salaries. Guess what programmers are getting the most money? The ones building technology for advertising. Because of course they do. See my previous point: we've created an industry that can play customers like a fiddle, undoing the main feature of a free market that made it socially beneficial.
Ok well it seems kind of cool, maybe I'll try it out. :)
> the country is fundamentally broken

As in people ascribe ongoing debates to the system being broken, yes.

Literally in this thread we have good arguments for reducing capital gains tax exclusions and special treatments and arguments for.
I don't see what any of that has to do with it being impossible to appeal or contact someone about the ban, though.
> Angry, pissed off, outraged users are, from the perspective of social media companies, the best users

In the long term, these users make a community toxic and less viable in the long run. People don't come back after a long enough time.
I’d probably knock one up in nodejs ad follows:

Import a csv reader library that can stream.

Read each line and apply a series of regex, each one classifying on match.

Eg

^0\d{8}$

Means string

Then have a reduction rule e.g.

If so far we think it’s a numeric column and we get a string then treat as string.

If so far we think it’s a numeric column and we get a number it is still a numeric column.

Then doing the regex and reduce in a loop will give you the final answers.

Happy to knock up some example code if you wish.
"but we still fully intend to profit off your data."
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"seem not too cryptic"

nice.
this stupidness always ends up lost in people's lack of understanding about what Google is, how the internet works, what SEO is etc. Waste of time and Google's right, not grounded in any kind of legality.
Unfortunately seems unavailable in Europe...
Yeah I’m increasingly optimistic we might actually succeed with carbon sucking solutions. Stripe Climate is a very exciting program, for instance.

And I’ve been quick pessimistic on this issue. In 2010 I determined our society was default dead.

It still is….but it’s looking more and more likely we move the cost curves on carbon capture and can actually just pay to remove the excess and solve the problem.
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Exactly, this should be absolutely obvious.

If an oil compnay gave away cars for free and became a car monopolist, people would be up in arms, vut Google's BS is somehow acceptable
I'm confused, do you not believe there is "political organizing" outside of the guise of astroturfing? And even when political organizing is just astroturfing, isn't the motivator just the same as Google's profit interest?

Whether you believe it or not, you have a lot more power to influence government (locally at least) than you do to affect what Google does. That was my only point.
Fully agree. It's usually the people that have never worked with it that share their opinion, always ending with "why do we need this"

Can encourage others to give it a try as well. Dev productivity through the roof indeed :)
Capital gains should be taxed as income when it's realized as income. You can't reinvest your capital gains without the tax penalty.

However, it is completely unreasonable for long term capital gains to be taxed any differently than normal income. A dollar earned should be a dollar taxed.
That's exactly what a bot trying to impersonate a human would say.
Life imitates art :) https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_news_ticker_messages
I think genetically modifying human embryos (think “designer baby clinic”) could plausibly fall in this category. Rich people (and their surrogates?) show up, get baby IVF’d and then go back to their home countries. Potential clientele, small high tech industry, not quite distasteful enough to attract a cruise missile or two.
Look at this sentence in the Propublica article:

> No one among the 25 wealthiest avoided as much tax as Buffett, the grandfatherly centibillionaire. That’s perhaps surprising, given his public stance as an advocate of higher taxes for the rich.

It is clickbait, emotion inducing garbage. Buffett’s stance for higher taxes has nothing to do with the fact that he had less income than other rich people.

I expected better from ProPublica. Arguing for taxing unrealized gains is fine, but trying to make it seem like Buffett is doing something sneaky to churn emotions is bullshit writing.
As others have stated, the article conflates income taxes with capital gains taxes. It also conflates asset ownership with income. Saying someone is "worth" a certain amount simply because they have a large stake in a corporation is an oversimplification. What they really own are illiquid assets, intellectual property, etc. Put to use, they produce income for the corporation as well as it's shareholders and employees, all of which are taxed in various ways and various levels.
Paul Graham's essays now reflect his life which is obviously much less about startups and YCombinator and much more about family life.
It isn't the fault of the driver that drives 100 mph nearly as much as it is the society that sets the speed limit to 110.

No fan of the billionaires, but they're just following the code. None of these things are "loopholes" or bugs, they're features. Stop voting in people that do the bidding of these ghouls and you might get somewhere.
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The material point is that an ISP is what you need to get to Google. You don't need Google to get to the ISP.

You need electricity to get television, you don't need television to get electricity. You need electricity to get the internet, you don't need the internet to get electricity. Now whether or not television or internet are more useful than electricity is an entirely separate question. But which of the three is the baseline utility is a bit obvious.

But again, the intended purpose is probably not to make Google a utility, it's to score political points. So none of these arguments are really relevant to the calculus that a politician would work through before taking an action like this. This is still a brilliant action from a political perspective because it will undoubtedly win incumbents some votes.
Thanks, Bill.
> But: All of these super-rich have probably created many, many jobs. I guess all-in-all it is a positive game for society.

Pinning the credit for job-creation on the rich is absurd. They'd have no motivation to hire anyone without demand, which is something that others provide.

Seem absurd? Yeah, of course it is, but keep the capital but take away the demand and see how long those jobs stick around. Lots of capital and little demand, few jobs created. Lots of demand and little capital... well, give it some time, and not even very much, and you'll have tons of capital and lots of jobs, both. So, which perspective, exactly, is absurd? (nb the judges will accept "both, equally" and "both, but crediting the super-rich with job creation is the more absurd of the two" as correct answers)
Link should be https://help.play.date/orders/when-can-i-preorder/ to differentiate from the main site since there's no blog post about this 'news'
you say that as if .5 % is trivial.

you say that as if solutions can't be composed by aggregate
And additionally, a significant fraction of most people's net worth is in their housing. With a typical tax rate of 1%, most non-wealthy people are effectively already paying a large wealth tax on a huge fraction of their net worth. But if you are ultra rich and have most of your wealth in capital instead, you get away with practically no wealth tax at all. The system is rigged beyond belief.
I'm not familiar with this case study but was wouldn't that be due to retaining asset ownership? Even if the dollar became worthless, presumably I'd still control all my assets(the stocks in my brokerage/401k, my car, etc.). The companies I have ownership for would still be able to generate goods/services for Dollar2.0

People storing money under their mattress presumably were in trouble, but doing that already puts you at risk of devaluation through inflation. And I'd imagine that most wealthy people are wealthy because they do exactly the opposite and hold assets instead of currency.
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That has zero relevance here
> I am a little bit skeptical of the assumption that a wealth tax encourages riskier investment strategies, though. After all, the effect of a fixed rate wealth tax is the same irrespective of your investment strategy; riskier strategies still yield both greater potential returns and losses.

Yes you're fully correct, in principle it should be no different financially. But for people holding straight up cash, there's a psychological hit to seeing your nominal amount of money go down due to a tax bill. If you hold $100k and it turns into $99k, then $98k, then a few years later $95k, you'll feel some drive to compensate those losses. If you hold $100k and it stays that much, a lot of people feel very comfortable and safe with keeping it just like that. (particularly in Europe where many countries don't have as much of a direct stock-investing culture traditionally, and where stocks are still seen by many as a form of gambling, or a world full of scams where only a few clever people profit, particularly the older generation).

For example in many European countries banks now charge minor negative interest (e.g. -0.5%) on your savings account (due to the negative deposit facility rate of the ECB). Suddenly there's an uptick of people who take their savings and invest it, because otherwise they'd 'lose money' and actually see their savings drop over time simply by holding it in a bank account.

However, these same people happily let that cash sit for 10 years at an inflation rate averaging 2%, losing 20% of their purchasing power in this time, responding differently to a universe in which inflation was 0% but the bank or taxes took the same 2% a year. They also happily ignored opportunity costs of various low-risk assets (e.g. a 3y savings deposit) that they could've invested in but didn't. Compared to letting the cash sit idly, the 2% inflation or 2% opportunity costs on low-risk asset-returns were happily ignored, yet when a -0.5% interest rate is charged by a bank, many spring into action. It's likely because while it may not be financially as bad, psychologically seeing $100k turn into $99k, or literally seeing interest charges being deducted from your account, feels worse than if $100k stays $100k nominally but is only worth $98k in real terms due to inflation, even though that's worse.

The fixed wealth tax works a bit similar. You have all these people who, every year, receive a tax bill, and are seeing a chunk of their savings having to be sent to the tax authorities. It inspires people to seek out financial advisers to help them compensate this. If at least you're compensating the fixed tax bill with a return on the stock market for example, it doesn't feel as painful.

Anyway that's what I'm seeing among friends/family and cobbling together from various sources, but it's just a hypothesis.
What sort of horrible privacy issues do you suppose your smart meter has? You already tell your utility how much power you use.
it seems like it's just an OSS project no need to make money
There's not that many things about the smart meter that are much worse than the vulnerabilities of the plain old spinning disk meter. There were many problems with old meters too. And the benefits far outweigh those issues. Smart meters are not being hacked left and right.

And your privacy concerns are just a matter of granularity of time. You report your usage monthly -- that is also private information. Smart meters just do it on a finer timescale. Not a fundamental difference.

Anyway, back to the main topic.
Yeah, let's get that weather app engineer working on NTFS privilege flaws.
Desktop printers will have the same demise as cable tv and landline phones: quality will continue to go down and prices up as providers squeeze any remaining profits out of the business.
If you want to replace all the styling in your project, because you've had a rebrand; I would argue that CSS in JS makes your life more difficult.

If you want to share styling between your app and your website; I would also state that this process is made more difficult.

If you want to create, implement and maintain an atomic design system to build in consistency and reuse .. again, more complicated that it might have been.

To add to that, this article suggests that there's a performance deficit.
Which is weird because it seems like the perfect use of crowd sourced knowledge. You could probably get translations just by offering free subscriptions. I think you'd see a bit of national pride help fuel it too: I'd love to see regional variations/dialects. (For instance, Quebec French). You could even have crowd verification like what Google Translate and Duolingo do.
It's going fast because the original ways were (euphemism) sub optimal. Example: compiling configuration into a release was clearly wrong based on my experience with other languages. A small mistake and another run through CI/CD with production down vs edit a configuration file and restart? Ouch. Maybe inevitable with a lot of servers but very wrong for a single server application.
We have a "write tachyons/tailwinds CSS-in-TypeScript" project [1] that can sit on top of any CSS-in-JS runtime (emotion and fela are both supported).

I'm hoping to eventually find one of these build-time CSS-in-JS frameworks that is smart enough to partially eval ~80% of our `<div css={Css.m4.black.$}>` expressions to be zero runtime.

And, if/when this happens, do this as a seamless upgrade to our existing codebases, i.e. without any lines of `css={Css.m4.black.$}` in our app need to change.

Basically we're using our Truss DSL both for atomic/utility class names today + a decoupling layer to switch CSS-in-JS libs in the future if/when needed.

I think Linaria and https://github.com/twstyled/twstyled (based on/forked from Linaria) are the closest to doing this eval during compilation, but haven't had to dig in so far (runtime emotion has been fast enough for us so far).

[1]: https://github.com/homebound-team/truss/
You mean shareholders, not employees.