skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I missed a huge generational gap driving a 2017 toyota. None of this lane assist, no backup camera, the only new bell and whistle I get that's different from my car 20 years ago is that this one beeps at me like I have a missile locked on my tail when someone is too close in front of me.
> Maybe the trick is simply just borrow for your whole life then when you die pay back the loans but somehow that payback process results in limited taxes somehow.

The ‘somehow’ is the stepped up basis upon death loophole: https://www.thebalance.com/how-the-stepped-up-basis-loophole...

The cost basis of an asset when inherited is set to the value on the day the owner died.
As someone pointed out above, Tampermonkey has ~10m downloads compared to 2.5b Chrome users, I seriously doubt any one malicious Tampermonkey script can affect as many users as even a malicious AppleScript can.
My too dishwashers are pretty good too. Ive had them for ages, since I was born.
>Channeling my inner Antonin Scalia here. The Cambridge English dictionary defines a customer as "a person who buys goods or a service." There is a perfectly reasonable argument that Robinhood users are not customers at all, let alone Robinhood's primary customers.

I'm not following this. Are robinhood customers not buying stocks from them? Are stocks not "goods or a service"?

>It's not difficult to understand that PFOF entails selling user orders to brokers under common control with enormous asset managers that hoard advertising data and make market-moving trades.

You seem to be beating around the bush here. What nefarious activity are you suggesting they're doing? Front running? Because that's explicitly illegal.

>I see a trend here. People who disagree with you are ignorant or lying.

>[...] but it's hard to see this as anything but pandering to one side of an ideological conflict.

I hope you see the irony here.
> Turning off JS by default in IE

But the only reason to use IE is for enterprise apps that probably require JavaScript to function.

And the ability to toggle JavaScript is probably locked down by Mordac the Preventer, aka group policy.
I'm missing something or the author could have used: Kolmogovov complexity (0), normalized compression distance (1), some research of Rudy Cilibrasi and Vitaniy, and some research that come after it(2).

(0) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_compression_dista...

(2) for example: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037907381...
I've been finding that I'm coming up against the same frustrations as the author.

I'm reading a bunch of textbooks and adding notes as I go to anki. I find that so long as I'm equally as willing to _drop_ a card from anki, it works well. However if I focus too much on this then I lose the flow of just reading and absorbing.
I’d love to know what it looks like now. I knew a few folks doing a lot of GPU work, but so many old folks still making charts and figures in IDL, myself included.
Good error messages have a template: a UUID, a description, and a suggested solution. This gives folks enough to try to solve it themselves and also enough to Google / grep with.
Turning oodles of shares into cash at the prevailing price, without pushing the price adversely, is quite a trick. "Slippage" is how to research this concept.
How do people not see Google search as an advertising platform? Google search may act like an advanced dewey decimal system, but it is not at all the same thing.
Except the rich person can only get the equivalent of a fraction of their wealth as a loan, and cannot use the rest without liquidating. When using this approach they effectively have direct access to significantly less money than they would have if they liquidated their assets and paid the taxes on the gains. You could do the same, but likely want to utilize a greater portion of your wealth to live on.
I was also under the impression this can be served to individuals without the knowledge of their employer, leaving the individual in a position where they can consult a single lawyer about the legality of the request and face jail time for discussing the request with anyone else (including employers).

I would need to re-read the act, but the gov website[1] indicates you are correct that these requests are served to organisations and not individuals excepting sole traders.

[1] https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...
Well, rent seeking corporations have driven land prices so high that even a tar paper shack would cost only10% less, so they build at the top end, add 20-30% and you get those mansions.
Corporations are buying with cheap money 1% or so interest. They then rent for 5-6% yield and make $$ like bandits while the US consumer - who has to live somewhere has to pay 50-60% of income for rent.
They need to add a commercial tax rate in addition to the normal building taxes.
That extra tax rate that is only levied on rented houses would shift the balanbe to fewer renters and more owners.
I’ll grant that these would be two different ways to achieve very similar results, but I don’t read where propublica proposed a direct tax on capital gains rather than a more generalized wealth tax, which very much is a real thing.
I input the following: "dogs are superior to cats in every way". and the model generated the following...

dogs are superior to cats in every way. They are better at watching TV, they are better at using their tails as fans, they are better at eating out of bowls, they are better at watching over children, they are better at giving head, they are better at being pets, they are better at eating on command, they are better at looking up at you when you speak to them, they are better at smelling and tasting, they are better at chasing balls, they are better at listening to you, they are better at being groomed, they are better at eating from the floor, they are better at being petted, they are better at eating from your hand, they are better at sleeping, they are better at eating from your hand, they are better at cleaning their own paws, they are better at drinking from your hand, they are better at sleeping, they are better at cleaning their own paws, they are better at sleeping, they are better at drinking from your hand, they are better at cleaning their own paws, they are better at sleeping, they are better at drinking from your hand, they are better at cleaning their own paws, they are better at sleeping, they are better at drinking from your hand, they are better at cleaning their own paws, they are better at sleeping, they are better
The “double taxation” argument makes no sense to me. If someone has a lot of wage income and leaves it to their kids, they will pay income tax and then the estate will pay estate tax. But if someone has a lot of capital gains and leaves the asset to their kids, nobody pays the capital gains tax because that would be “double taxation” (but only if they didn’t sell before dying). Why is capital gains protected from “double taxation” in this specific scenario but other kinds of income aren’t?
> since wealth has diminishing marginal utility, wealth transfer programs are inherently positive-sum -- and thus, accumulation of wealth so far beyond human need is negative-sum.

Is this really the case? The wealth of most millionaires is probably mostly in bank accounts, but only once you have hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in one place are you able to coordinate megaprojects: space travel, vaccine manufacture, clean transport, chip fabs, Stuxnet...
Which wouldn’t stop someone using it in a declared war - which we haven’t had yet by an actor likely to want it. Doesn’t mean it isn’t sitting in a military port somewhere though.

And since China makes like 99% of the parts used in drones, they very well could already have a couple hundred of those lying around and we’d never know.
I don't think it's just a handful of rich people that are the whole problem, though they're a significant part of it. We also have (in the U.S. at least, though I'm sure other countries have similar problems) a thoroughly dysfunctional democracy where very little significant legislation can happen without the consent of the minority, and an electorate where a substantial minority consistently votes for global warming denialists.

Elections do matter. And while I don't like the idea of being in the "technology will save us" camp, we're at least at the point where renewable energy and electric vehicles can compete on their merits even when ignoring climate costs.
Who is buying stuff directly with Bitcoin? Companies buying out of ransomware, and maybe some HODLers buying Teslas.
I don’t know. I think it’s not a bad idea to do some “stakeholder management”, especially if you’re in new country and/or organization that might be used to doing things differently.

Also:

> Given the ubiquity of Zoom, he could use it to rapidly get out of the building to the U.S. to test some hypotheses and gather some initial insights.

This is definitely easier said than done. But yeah it’s the right thing to do.

Maybe poor Suresh just wanted to vent a bit with an old friend? I wonder if he was aware that their conversation was turned into a blog post.
> especially in industrialized countries

So those exact countries which had a declining fertility rate for ages now and, additionally, contain a rather small percentage of the world population?

> I won't be back to debate

I dislike this a lot, too be honest. Simply dropping a very divisive stance like this and then basically adding "but don't bother arguing" feels very disingenuous to me.
https://archive.is/UnIqF
Isn't redash dead?
"Redash has joined Databricks"
Put it in your garage/closet and forget about it. Life is too short! If they want their stuff back they'll figure it out.
Whole careers are spent wearing masks, though. I mean, fine. I find them mildly annoying and you think they're the devil's work. But we both agree that we should be opening restaurants and theaters before we relax mask use, right?
This comment only uses the ten hundred most used words and "xkcd" to give back love.

Writing that uses such a small set of words will probably be easy to make smaller when you save it. And for young students, it might help to have clear, simple writing because they don't have to learn new words too.

It might be too simple for older students (or people here). I would like to be able to name new ideas, and it sounds better if I don't have to use the same words over and over. The idea is the same, just relaxed a little bit. Give it a try, it makes you think about writing in a different way.

https://splasho.com/upgoer5/
> How does a nation-state that has previously not had a thermonuclear program go about designing and testing a weapon in the age of test-ban treaties?

Openly defy or repudiate the treaty, if you are a party in the first place.

> Say Germany wanted to build up a weapons program - wouldn't testing be an absolute prerequisite?

Arguably not, but the main reason to have nukes is to be able to influence other state’s behavior with the implicit or explicit threat of their use, which is a lot more credible with clear demonstration of their functionality (and, also, with clear demonstration of the will to violate international norms.)
I dislike it intensely, and (to some extent) structure my living situation to minimize that. It's like living in an open-air prison, and in a way that's the intention: https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-panopticon-what-is-th...
When I lived in China, I didn't have the luxury of having access to Google, so I used Bing instead. It was actually quite reasonable for most of my needs, I'm not sure why more people don't give it a go. Of course, now that I live in the states again, I use Google, but most of my searching is on YouTube anyways (which was something else I didn't have access to in China).
Their subsidiary in India is publicly traded.
Kolmogovov complexity and the proofs of its incomputability are there to explain it.
It's both a magic number and a threshold. Married filing separately is just 1/2 of married filing jointly, which is how it should be.
I still remember the Iraq war in 2003 and later. IF they had had weaponized drones available back then I am 100% convinced the Bush Administration would have invaded more countries. The only thing that stopped them was the loss of life of US soldiers. Same for the Vietnam war. The only thing that stopped the war was loss of life.
A few quick thoughts---I stayed around for 3-4 mins so please read this from the perspective of a (techy) user didn't explore much:

The good:

The UI is simple and clean. Definitely feels like something that you can start with.

The bad:

Email went to spam folder.

Nobody within 100km of me (which is the max distance) and I live in a very busy city. Maybe for launch, allow a distance of infinity so people that just want to meet new people stick around and don't forget about the website.

Also, I am not really a fan of setting an intent and not being able to change it for 24 hours. It wasn't mentioned anywhere either.

I couldn't explore more as thats as far as I could explore without any people around me.

Also, what's the value of this being open source?
You would almost certainly destroy the jobs of innocent workers who did not even know the crime was taking place. That is punishing innocent people along side with the guilty.
>You say that would be double taxation, but that's only because bezos avoided taxation entirely on that appreciation while alive, a nice perk the vast majority don't get.

Isn't this pretty easy to pull off? Just buy a home (most americans own their home), and get a reverse mortgage when you're retired.
Quoting myself in my first comment on this thread:

> I spent most of my life shielding myself from admitting I’m queer, and nearly all of it shielding myself from admitting I’m non-binary and admitting I’m autistic, using this logic.

You really think there isn’t more to shape me, to who I am and what shaped and continues to me, than what I described here? You really think the kinds of pain I described in responses from the process that led to these recognitions about myself are low information?

You’re talking to me like my life and my self is distilled down to the words I’ve written in a HN comment thread.

Honestly this isn’t worth my time. Go dismiss yourself.
There was a time a few years ago when a co-worker and I liked to trade interesting esoteric programming languages that we found.

One of my favourites was Piet, https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet, which also has images for source files.
Tips and Tricks in JavaScript
Do you mean SAML and/or generic OIDC? We’ve got a Metabase instance authenticating people via Google Workspaces (G Suite).
I think the whole argument is setting up the presupposition that Google kills non competitive businesses, and that's not what antitrust law is about. It's about protecting consumers, not competitors.

Take Android for example. Did Google kill Blackberry with Android? Or was it other factors like the Blackberry CEO cannibalizing their R&D budget, and stubbornly refusing to give consumers what they wanted?
The article reads more as "you don't know what customer discovery is" and less "at your position you don't need permission". The title implies the opposite.
I'm not sure what public utility means in this context.

Does it still mean privately owned?
I do for every language that isn't Common Lisp! I learned to program on a machine that had a copy of vi that refused to go into visual mode; instead of trying to fight it, I started using ed.

Everything about UNIX is oriented toward being a programming environment in itself. There are plenty of developers who just use UNIX as their IDE. Drew DeVault, as an example, is pretty notorious for it.

Complexity distracts and makes efficiency impossible. Modern IDEs are nothing but complexity. UNIX-as-IDE simplifies.
The article has no details of the plants technology.

Anyone here has more information about the projected products and other technical detail
"popular does not make something a monopoly"

I didn't say that, though, or anything like that.

I did mention market share dominance. But that's often related to things like "A firm is a monopolist if it can profitably raise prices substantially above the competitive level.".
Why does it not make sense when goods are not fungible? The buyer and seller can ascertain how fungible the good they are interested in exchanging is. If it’s not, then the other prices will not matter as much. But more information is better than less information.

Also, while employees might not be completely fungible (pretty much all are replaceable though on a long enough timeline), the employees are buying money from the employees, and that is fungible.
> Seems to be exactly the intended effect

This API change is making it worse for Tampermonkey than for malware.

"Malware" extensions canstill be explicitly "sideloaded" to Chrome in developer mode. Closing this API means Tampermonkey won't be able to run even when sideloaded. If this was truly their only concern they could have just blocked Tampermonkey and comparable extensions from the webstore. , rendering just as 'safe' as any other sideloaded chrome extension.
The same way I discover new movies: See what everyone else is checking out.
There's a variable called maxnest* in the HN code which determines the depth at which these 'more' links show up. It has been 20 for years but I set it to 3 the other day and didn't realize I hadn't changed it back. I only just noticed that now. That's why you've been seeing so many more mores.

I'm going to revert it now. Sorry for the inconvenience—I didn't mean to leave things in a state that people needed to write code to compensate for.

Some similar feature is likely to appear sometime soon because we badly need to do something about top-heavy pages. But if we use the 'more' links, they'll show number of descendants. It will either be 'more' links or starting off the sub-subthreads as collapsed. The disadvantage of the latter is that if there are 10 replies that need collapsing then you'd need to show 10 collapses, which is a pain.
It’s hard to answer completely because it varies by municipality and I’m not an expert. But the public utility commission does regulate quite a bit, potentially ranging from where a utility can build, how much renewable sources they must have, how much they can charge, etc.

In exchange, the utility can essentially be guaranteed that competitors will not be allowed to enter the market. In the past few decades, there has been more movement towards deregulated markets but not without issues. (See the documentary “The Smartest Guys in the Room” if you aren’t already familiar with the story of Enron).
>In short, dominant market share in web search.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27440321#27443928
I've been involved in the French/Parisien startup world for half a decade.
If you pay taxes as a startup you missed a few turn and you should talk to a accountant. ( At least the first 5 years )

Regulations can also be a opportunities. Your client might start dedicating money to fulfill that regulation. If you are able to help your client with that in a timely manner, it's easy money. ( B2B setting )

To the point:
Our main frustration as a high growth entity was how hard it was to jump from market to market.

We got into Spain because nobody was there, cool. let's replicate in Germany. Oups. Total failure and the brand is damaged.

Every single country is a battle that you have to understand intimately. We got a way out thought a random re-seller in Holland that started distributing us in China.

Our roadblocks were made of small market with already implanted competitor. Not regulation or taxes.

( To be fair: we were selling hard/softaware on very niche and finite market. )
Sorry; I'm not making myself clear. The current tax law makes it very possible to pay taxes on lost money. My perspective is that this is horrible policy.

A simple example is an equity distribution that sells for less than taxes owed on it. The distribution is taxed at last trade price, and the loss in the sale is limited to $3000 annually.

Many people do not realize how disastrous it can be to assess tax on anything that isn't legal tender, and this article seems to be promoting that.
You seem to be assuming that the heirs of billionaires are going to sell everything eventually, but I see no reason to think that should be true. They can live off the interest forever and the state will never touch the principal.
How does it compare to SvelteKit which, AFAIK, also lets you ship no JS + hydration?
"What's immoral about... spreading information about you and your business?"

Non-consensually forcing anyone into anything is wrong. Advertising violates the NAP.

"But advertising itself is immoral?"

Indeed.
How Neil Gaiman kept control of the Sandman characters
> I think it is wrong to assume that the developers are deliberately malicious or uncaring about users’ interests

They are not 'uncaring' for users interests, they are just more caring to their company's interests than to those of their users.
There are two kinds of Steves in this world: Blanks and Klabniks. There are the Blanks, who write about not needing permission, and there are the Klabniks, who write about needing a borrow checker.
Ask HN: Are We in a Mega Bubble?
I don't know why but I cant help but feel that domino pieces are in place and whole thing is about to crumble.

Stock prices feel weirdly high, when thousands of people were dying they were rising fastest.

Crypto/NFT/Coins feel like graph of a chaotic equation that starts going crazy the longer it goes on.

The housing market seems to be on steroids too, house prices have doubled in last few years.

I feel either very bad inflation is about to happen to or huge correction, or both

Am I just imaging it?
El Salvador to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender: A Milestone in Monetary History
I'm a principal at AWS and spent years dealing with this on CloudFront and Route 53. A lot right, and a little off, in the post. Yes, we should definitely communicate to the viewer what's happened and appropriate next steps if any. But there are a handful of challenges that Ive not seen reasonably solved.

The first problem is that different viewers need different context, which is especially true for service providers like CDNs. Telling an end user "the page is taking too long" makes sense. But what if its the CDN customer (developer), theyre going to need request IDs and other diagnostics just like Fastly did display. Playing the "we need the RID from the headers you didnt know about to capture" game is a losing proposition. The post and it'd "good" examples suggest a way to contact support, but there is ~0% chance support can help without additional information that isnt included.

Expanding on that the post is making really dangerous assumptions and carrying those through to the semantics of the text. Exposing authnz failures as Access Denied vs Not Found is problematic in its own right. Going further to tell the user "You need to login first" is asking for pain in the other 10% of cases where it's a credential or authz problem. Again, different users need different context. And there's no way to know what context to provide apriori.

Lastly it's somewhere between incredibly hard to impossible to distinguish the cause ("why") on a per request basis. Especially for service providers like CDNs. The CDN has a cache miss, but can't retrieve the content. Is it a 504 Gateway Timeout because the origin is not responding, 502 Bad Gateway because the origin TLS is broken, 502 because the local clock is off, or a 503 Service Unavailable because of an internal service timeout? Even if you can distinguish what does the CDN represent to the end user; a general fault in the CDN? A specific failure of the origin? Or a simplistic "unavailable." Again, different viewers need different context and semantics. Which you're not going to do at thousands or millions or tps.