skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...dividends and buybacks create income for individuals who will pay tax on that income)

This is an important point people miss. The owners of those companies eventually pay taxes on the profits, so a corporate tax is a double tax.

There are a lot of things that get taxed: property, income, sales, corporate profits. You can vary these rates and still come up with a viable government revenue model. Oregon doesn't have a sales tax; Washington state doesn't have income tax. The only problem, and it's what this deal is about, is when these varying policies interact, or one jurisdiction does something very different from others.

What you end up taxing is a social policy lever, but it's otherwise not all that important. The important part is getting some degree of alignment so you don't encourage people to live in Vancouver, WA, but buy everything in Portland.
no website hoses a browser / laptop faster than the adwords dashboard

I looked into it once -- it's some kind of shitty CPU bound loop in dart-to-js logic

we're talking 10-second pauses on an older mac, full crashes on a linux laptop prone to OOM. This is for a site that does one or two basic crud actions. Few other websites do this and adwords is the most consistent offender, i.e. the worst.
How the hell do you decide who is non-indian?
Voloconnect by volocopter is a fixed-wing flying taxi for longer distances
If you're aware of it another thing that helps is to put the audio over a normal phone call and mute all the audio on the video call.
Are you familiar with the term "sea-lioning"?
Thank you. I might reach out and ask if she might consider making one. Thank you for your constructive response.
> I know the popular image of UBI is a paradise where nobody needs to work anymore, but that's not actually the basis of actual UBI policy proposals. It's really just a different model for structuring social welfare. The problem is that all the studies have shown that in practice it discourages work and reduces overall productivity. People work fewer hours, students study less, take up of retraining opportunities falls.

Yes. That's exactly the goal of the UBI. That nobody NEEDS to work anymore. How many burger flipper are there that work as burger flipper because they like burger flipping?

Your implicit assumption is that only paid work is real work. But if you remove money as the main motivator for work, people will look for more meaningful occupations and that's where we circle back to Graeber's bullshit jobs which don't qualify as meaningful work.
So, um, how did you post this comment if you are paying $1.40 a month for electricity and presumably need to turn on at least one lightbulb for a couple days?
Do you use someone else's electricity to charge your phone or laptop?
You did one load of trash in two years. That's great. I suppose that means you received zero packages in the mail, and bought zero things in any store that might have packaging?

Because Bill Gates is rich, you have no excuse not to be rich. Obviously it is possible. Now that you know one person who is rich, you are 20% of the way there!
I tried a couple pages from SourceHut, which famously prides itself on its fast performance.

The projects page (dynamic, changes with user activity on the site) https://sr.ht/projects: 100

A patch page https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-dev/patches/23162: 99

A source page https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/pages.sr.ht/tree/master/item/ser...: 100

SourceHut often "feels" a bit slower in that the browser does a full navigation whenever you click, but the absolute time is definitely low and I applaud them from building such a fast (and accessible!) experience.
It's the proximity to Google's economic activity that makes the land valuable. A plot of land right next to the Googleplex that has nothing on it is immensely more valuable than an equally sized plot of land in the middle of the Nevada desert.
> I've had the unfortunate experience of running machines behind other people's corporate firewalls.

This is our bread & butter. We have to deal with many unique and extremely secure environments (banking).

99% of these sorts of problems can be eliminated by being up-front with your system requirements and expectations from your customer. We are in a position to fire our customers if they are not willing to work with us on critical technical constraints like this. You should not punish your technical team because your customer is unable to satisfy their part of the bargain, unless there is some special fee or other compensatory measure in the contract.

That said, we are also mindful of the impact & suffering that shiny new protocols may cause with arbitrary network middleware, even if the customer is willing to work with us on everything.
The full amount of a short-term capital gain (property held for less than 1 year) is taxed as regular income. Long-term capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than regular income, but the amount depends on your tax bracket. Long-term capital gains in the 10% and 15% tax bracket aren’t taxed at all, those in the highest tax bracket are taxed at 20%, and everything in between is 15%.

In the US, capital losses can reduce capital gains and up to $3000 of regular income. If losses are $3000 more than gains, you can carry them forward to future years.

If you make 90,000 in Florida City, Florida. You purchase a home for 100,000 sold for 200,000 your capital gains is:
$15,000
15% federal
0% state
0% local

In VermountVille New York State
21409
15% federal
6.41% state
0 local

In Sf 24,500
21,000 if you are married.

In order to pay 36% you have to be earning over 500,000 to pay that rate and single.
Thank you for your constructive response. I'll take a look.
Yeah, readability is high, it's writing that can be a bit harder IMO.

Especially for someone unfamiliar with rust, it can be hard to really know why someone is using self, &self, or &mut self. Yet the code reads the same.

That's the funny thing about rust.
Ring lights help in this area as well and are cheap enough nowadays.
I have a friend whose pet dog killed one of his other pets, is known to growl at children, and to me seems genuinely dangerous. Friend insists that the dog is a good boy and wouldn’t ever hurt anything. Friend insists dog loves children.

Friend is an intelligent, gregarious, kind hearted tech worker. He’s also completely delusional and in denial about his dangerous, demonstrably violent pit bull.

Friend routinely takes dog off leash in places where that is not permitted.

This is the problem.
I think this idea, but I always thought that a country or countries should just be on the cap table.

Forget tax, but if I want access to the Canadian grant ecosystem they take 7%.

I want Delaware Chancery courts the U.S takes 8%

Swedish bank secrecy, 6%

And we access states more like VCs and their value add.

Obviously all numbers are made up
> Personally, I would say it matters because that scenario is BS.

Which scenario?

To be clear, I agree that the IRS’s guessing game system is ridiculous. I’d much prefer the Scandinavian system. But I’m not clear on what that has to do with double taxation, seeing how those countries do it as well (via VAT or any discretionary tax.) No country can accurately tax you ahead of time on discretionary spending, and I don’t believe any does.
I think sometimes windows settings (the modern settings application) fails at this too.
> but there’s no denying that Go is much easier to program than Rust.

Well here I am to deny it. I personally find Go super hard to write anything that is not a few lines of glue code (and in that case I just reach for Node).

Rust made me lazy. It's just so easy to be guided by the compiler and the architecture that emerges naturally is just so beautiful and easy to navigate.

I don't like Rust for its safety guarantees, I just find it pleasurable to write and even better to read. Safety is just a plus.

I'm not saying this is a universal truth though, Rust just fits my mental model. It isn't even a matter of past experience: I code frontend JS for a living (though I've been exposed to all kinds of code throughout the years) and I actually enjoy JS.

I tried really hard to like Go. I just couldn't.
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering to Digitize Parking
I see this a lot on here especially, where people regard themselves as being well-informed, at the bleeding edge, etc due to reading and quoting scientific papers, especially ones with interesting or counter-intuitive results. But one paper that may or may not have used valid statistical analysis doesn't really prove anything.

That's exactly what the article is about. It's fine for scientists to propose weird and outlandish theories with just enough analytical duct tape to ensure they aren't completely absurd. But those theories are meant to be analyzed more deeply and critically before anything is done with them, not just blindly assumed to be true because somebody published a paper on it and nobody refuted it yet.

There's a lot of statistical tricks that are tough to detect. Like is your sample truly random and representative? How could you even prove that? Like the rat part study purporting to show that drugs are only really dangerously addictive if you're also socially isolated and miserable. It's cool, and I kind of want it to be true, but it seems it's actually highly dependent on exactly what kind of rats you have and where you got them. Similarly, most of the time when you analyze a bunch of statistics, you're looking for a conclusion like that it's 95% likely that A is caused by B. That's only 1 in 20 though, so you should actually expect that if you do the same check for B through U, and none of them really cause A, you will falsely find that one of those letters causes A. But nobody published a paper for checking C through U, so you can't tell.
It's simply the "Rules for Radicals" playbook. It's a pathway of:

subterfuge -> corporate/governmental entryism -> control.
For that reason, some urban legend says eating onions could help.
A couple of reasons:
1. We like the thread-safety properties that Rust offers
2. We don't have any Go experience

Does Go offer similar guarantees for concurrency?
Assuming it's legal in your jurisdiction, consider recording the interview. Mostly so you can go back, cringe, and hopefully note where you could do better next time. But it never hurts to have some documentation of the hiring stage if you need it in the future, either.
AI “Artist” Creates Near-Perfect Toonifications
> ... but most countries think they are entitled to some tax revenue from companies operating in their nations even if the company is wholly owned by foreigners.

Any individual in the EU buying anything from a foreign company operating in their EU nation pays the VAT on the good or service. That's usually 21% and up to 25%. And that's not on the profits.

That's already quite something.
Jobs was extremely intelligent as well (I'm not sure how you could be disingenuously extremely intelligent, btw :P ), but his decision to cure his cancer with this route was always mysterious.
I'm not the one you responded to, and I haven't used Rust much myself, but one of the issues I've seen raised several times is that its async ecosystem is fractured. You have to select an async stack, and sometimes different libraries and frameworks use competing stacks, causing problems.

It's not like JavaScript or Go where everything is just built into the language afaik.
That's works only if you're an investor. You're going to rebuild your home immediately, finance optimizations be damned.
Mostly, limited visual field. Screens aren't able to lure you in through peripheral vision
VolunteerMatch is an easy way to find opportunities:
https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/?l=United+Kingdom

That said, it looks like environment related volunteering might have less opportunities in the UK than elsewhere.
> DHCP will provide a nameserver and search domain for the network you connect to

No, it may provide a nameserevr which I may or may not want to use.

> which will resolve domains in that search domain properly

It may, or may not, provide a search domain. Chances are I'll be using that domain server for all domains, or I'll choose to use my preferred server (4222, 9999 etc)

My vpn on my laptop doesn't even use dhcp so not sure how that would apply.

> FWIW, I don't think having a local network (with eg. a NAS drive on it) and connecting to another (VPN) is so uncommon.

Bridging networks, generally not a good thing.
In this case, they are being paid to leave, so it's a commercial transaction rather than an act of holding themselves to a moral standard. Not taking a job or resigning from a job for political reasons would be such an act, but I don't see how that would be relevant to "silence is violence" if you aren't pressuring others to do the same.
Well, the shareholders may live in a different area or country than the one in which the company operates. If a corporation is largely owned by American investors, but does its production largely in a developing nation (relying on their infrastructure to operate), then I think it's fair to say that both the developing country and the US should both get a slice of the pie: 1 for providing the infrastructure and labor market, and the other for providing the comforts of a developed country to shareholders.
Point 1 is bad advice.

If you want clear and good communication, the internal mic in your laptop is insufficient. Get a wired headset with a boom mic. Audio is waaaay more important than video.

He also lists a bunch of stuff (grooming? really?) that is standard interview/business stuff and has nothing to do with video calling.

Good video conferencing is simple: good light on your face, wired ethernet connection (wifi off), wired headset with boom mic close to your mouth. Avoid sources of background noise.

If you need to be told to shower and brush your hair/teeth, you probably shouldn't be giving interviews in the first place.
And nothing will ever come of this
You don't understand what I am saying.
>> This is people saying their own jobs are useless

Yes, people have jobs that they know are useless. They know they are just going through the motions. They are in complicated organizations that can't measure their value and they know they are free riding. However, there are also people in the same type of organizations who think they are really valuable, who may actually have a negative value. My point is that in certain types of work it is hard to measure and this results in poor attribution or exploitation (pretending you are doing something).

>> Ultimately it is testable. Have people quit or get fired and see if anything bad happens.

No, that's exactly what I disagree with. You are also thinking about work the way a horse does it and not considering real world situations. Let's say I have three development execs at a movie studio and I fire one. Does something bad happen? I am still going to pick a script from one of the other two and it will be a hit or a flop. That tells me nothing about what the work out put of the third fired executive, which I might not be able to judge the impact of until I look back a few years. I know-- from experience-- that is the same with the creative director of a video game. You may not know for sure if their ideas are good or if they are did a good job unless you see through what they are doing. Or artists who are most time the useless, or mediocre, but every now and then produce an essential piece of key art.

In case it isn't obvious I work in entertainment. But I believe their are similar cases in software engineering, recruiting, strategy planning, human resources, general leadership, etc. Where firing a person tells you nothing about what they would have done had they worked for a year.

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As others have pointed out, a lot of these become important game mechanics and fully incorporated into the game, you can think of it as a kind of serendipitous or accidental design. An example of roughly Quake-vintage is 'skiing' in Tribes, fully incorporated into the game in later versions:

https://tribes.fandom.com/wiki/Skiing
That was an interesting presentation, thanks for sharing
I wish synthetic mescaline was more available. It seemed to have most of the upsides without the downsides of peyote.
Not all Americans. Just a mentally unstable, vocal minority.
If you're already calculating the projection, it's cheaper.
> We have no idea whether your dogs are properly trained or not.

This is interesting to me because we have no such assurances about other humans either. But acting on the fear that a given human isn't adequately trained and restrained is labeled with every variant of ignorance.
I don't really disagree with the LVT tax idea, I just want people to be clear about hoarding and single family homes. In regards to pushing single family homes out of high value areas, then LVT does make sense.

That said, I'm a crazy pro individualism and no tax no government guy, so I have no real place in this thread. : p
Can you point out the section of the release notes that discusses this change? I'd like to read more and I'm not able to figure out what you're referring to.
No, they aren’t. Foreigners in China often get around the Great Firewall through foreigner-specific SIM cards or VPNs. A tiny, tiny amount of locals is able and interested in avoiding the Great Firewall. But for the vast majority of Chinese, the Great Firewall is never overcome; few even feel motivation to evade censorship. Compare that to a situation like Belarus where nearly every computer-literate person is aware of what to do.
> I would literally ask in chat rooms for a group to define one thing they all agreed on, and then watch as fights broke out
> It's all meta-justification for a person's existing moral leanings

There is a vibrant and ancient school of Christian moral teaching that still permeates to the core of western law and governance. Talking to strangers in chatrooms is not a serious confrontation of this reality nor any basis for dismissing it all.

> interpretation of a "sacred text" which is broad enough to rationalise pretty much anything, including some appalling and terrible things. (History has plenty to say about that.)

Interestingly, those Christians who did appalling things used the same cherry picking strategy with Scripture that you use with history.
In Romania if you're a regular employee, you don't have anything to do. Flat tax rate, taxes at the source, no exemptions, no deductions.

You don't even file.
Agree with this. Nvim-R plus dplyr and the plotting libraries are the best tools I've found for manipulating and understanding the characteristics of a dataset quickly. Eventually I moved to Python for the specific reason that the R packages for interacting with cloud platforms couldn't really keep up with the development of those platforms, and I got tired of having projects that mashed together both languages. I haven't checked, maybe things have stabilized enough now that I would be happy going back to R.
Photos of the Wuhan market match my description.
If you move rural you're not hoarding. If your holding a small single family home in the core of a dense city where lots of jobs are, you are hoarding.

That land would probably serve society better if it had more than a single family dwelling on it, you could have 10 families in walking distance of their jobs rather than one, and 9 families commuting via car.
That's last years modern web. This years modern web splits up the JS bundle based on the pages so you only load what's required for each page. So we're basically back to square one.

> I was thinking about converting my old server rendered web site into modern web. Still wondering if it's worth it.

As usual guideline I tend to use: Are you building a website or a web application? If you're building a website, you're best off with just static pages or static pages generated dynamically. If you need lots of interactivity and similar, better to build a web application, and React fits well for that purpose.
> Nobody benefits from a company growing indefinite wealth without distributing it to actual people.

No, many would benefit in very obvious ways, if you just think about it a little bit: if you want to accumulate wealth you prefer to be taxed on what you spend rather than what you earn. That allows you to save more quickly, it allows you to create a dynasty where wealth is passed to your offspring, who in turn would prefer to pay taxes on their consumption rather than their income.

So if a company served as a type of money making engine but didn't distribute anything, you can save by purchasing shares and letting compound interest work to your benefit and then spend some of that in your retirement by selling some of your shares and give the rest to your kids. You would have a lower overall tax burden as you could earn like a king but live just a middle class lifestyle, allowing your kids to live like kings even if they earned just a middle class lifestyle, and with some left over due to the magic of interest.

This is why if your income >> your consumption, you really want only consumption taxes.

There is also the issue of precautionary saving. Most people prefer to have money in the bank to insure themselves against future loss of income, and this type of precautionary savings benefits people even if there is no consumption, just as having insurance provides a benefit even if you never get into an accident. So if you don't need to pay taxes on savings, then you can shield yourself more easily from future income losses and smooth consumption so you always prefer taxes on consumption, which do not make consumption smoothing more difficult, than taxes on income, which do. Think of it in this way -- a tax on insurance makes insurance more costly and thus more difficult. But financial savings are a form of insurance for when you lose your job or face some other financial setback.

So in summary, one can argue that the purpose of money is consumption so "nobody benefits" by acquiring money that they don't spend on consumption. But this is a naive view that ignores the role of risk, time and inter-generational concerns.
For people interested in the consequences of this diversity, look into lambic/geuze and other spontaneously Fermented beer using coolshipping as part of their inoculation. There is still ongoing and healthy skepticism on the actual source of yeast for these beers, yet they still rely on some sort of expression of the local microflora for their flavors and that is awesome in the literal sense.

Lambic itself is an amazing culture of fermentation and companionship via blending from your own and other brewers stock, I recommend Belgium and the senne Valley to anyone that is adventurous when it comes to beer/wine/cheese

https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2019/2/15/a-recipe-for-...

https://newschoolbeer.com/home/2020/11/de-garde-brewing-cool...

https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2017/10/18/dont-call-it...
Can you still mine Ethereum in a GPU? I thought you need an ASIC to be profitable.
> Google Ireland charges Google USA a license fee of 100% of the revenue they made.

This can be solved by placing a duty on large cross border IP fee transactions.

US is the country that's opposed to putting tariff on IP
This happens at scale too. European colonists brought their diseases to the Americas, resulting in deadly epidemics amongst the locals. The Europeans had built up their own immunity after centuries of exposure.

Complete isolation (e.g. closing borders) feels like an unsustainable strategy, as the local population would fall behind in the human-germ immuno-arms race, risking total wipeout when the borders inevitably become porous. So, ironically, while a high degree of global population mixing may be responsible for pandemics like Covid, it's probably healthy for the species in the long run.
Not just software either. I mean what great business idea at this point is only going to have local consumers.

It is just a terrible idea on so many levels. It is like something Jay Gould would come up with once already at the top.