skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a good program overall, just disappointing they still haven't adopted remote work, especially for engineering positions. Maybe I am wrong or missing something, but just looking at their application page (US focused) you still have to relocate to one of a dozen or so cities in 4-5 states (probably similar elsewhere).

Not everyone wants to relocate to one of those places and the number of people like that is growing. You would think with so many positions open they would be adapting to remote teams and fill at least a portion of positions that way. Not everything can or should be remote, but a lot of what Amazon engineers do can be remote easily, especially with the smaller team sizes they supposedly follow.
It's a very vague website, but it almost seems like they're a business that sells the answer to that question? If so - yuck.
enthusiasts of video games that are looking for a unique experience.
I think it's only a matter of degree. And at every level someone can complain. So where do you draw the line?

Watching a meter spin or reading it once a month you can tell if someone is on vacation. Isn't that equally private and personal information?
Nothing interesting in them. Wage income, standard deductions, some realized cap losses from a few stock sales. Looks like any other tax return.

What bit of information do you expect that tax return add to the conversation of "Are the rich evading taxes?"
All of the drugs on this list seem to treat some pretty nasty conditions. I wonder what the payback time for the research is and the target market looks like for each one. I also wonder what the landscape of medicine will look like when generic versions of these become available. How many awesome treatments are out there but uncovered by insurance and thus, out of reach for all but the most rich individuals.
Regarding your first point, is that from experience? Have you known of a case where a large institution sends a legitimate email to a small provider, the small provider rejects it, and the large institution does nothing about it?

If you're paying for your email provider, I would think opening up a ticket and asking to let their email through would not be much of an issue, if this ever happens.
They don't have to win it. They have to make Google think carefully about what boundaries exist for them, politically, and make sure that they don't cross them to the point that Ohio (or whoever) can win. And if that restrains Google's behavior, Ohio may have in fact won, even if they don't win the lawsuit.
> https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp

Some rebuttals to that critique outline that the author doesn't fully understand the arguments Thomas Ptacek laid out, and may have a simplified understanding of PGP:

https://lobste.rs/s/tyaze3 and https://redd.it/negkdl
> Modern CIWS are designed to be effective against substantially faster and more agile rockets.

The thing is exactly that those drones are so slow, and low.

Phalanx performance against sea skimming missiles is know to be poor.

And that on dielectric, flat sea surface.

Even military drones weighting few tons can fly autonomously under 100m.

Ironically, it's now depressions in the terrain which will provide more air defence since they will force terrain following drones, and cruise missiles to move at oblique angles.

Basically the problem is the same as with low, and slow cruise missiles, except worse.
I've worked on and off with React since its inception, and the main reason I would use it is simple ergonomics. If you are working with an MVP or a small widget project, you gain a lot of velocity. You don't need to worry about scoping, naming collisions, class toggles, etc. and as long as you use decently small components, it all fits snuggly in the same file as the component definition.

The price you pay comes in the way of performance and maintainability. Since the line becomes very blurry between styling and markup, it's up to the dev(s) to bring order to potential chaos.

For any bigger project, my go to solution is SCSS modules. It's by far the most versatile solution I've tried if you want to roll your own CSS and not rely on a CSS framework. You don't need to worry about scoping, the bundle process is excellent, you have access to all of your normal SCSS shenanigans and most important it's a solution that makes it dead easy to collect or break down parts into logical units.
A possible solution I haven't seen yet. Eliminate stock buybacks and force firms to deliver dividends again.
The tax laws are public, but it's hard for most of us to understand how those laws apply in practice to people whose taxes are radically more complicated than most, and are prepared by the best tax experts money can buy. We also don't know the inputs. I think there is public interest in seeing how the tax code works in practice. I'd wager the results are a lot of different than the average person naively assumes.
Loops and Learning about Array Languages
Experts Weigh in on Pentagon UFO Report
I am not aware of any city or town that has utilities and allows property owners to opt out and dig a well or put in a septic,

Maybe you could use composting toilet however you would still be required by law to hook up and maintain a connect to the public water and sewer system or the city would condemn your home
Right, which is the problem.
The rise - and continuous rise, even though anthropogenic CO₂-emissions went down substantially during the lockdowns in 2020 - is largely dependent on the oceans warming up and outgassing CO₂ [1]. Historical records from ice cores show that CO₂ concentration lags after temperature changes - the concentration goes up after the temperature has gone up, and goes down once the temperature has gone down [2, see fig. 3 (p.431) for the relation between CO₂ concentration and temperature]. As long as the temperature continues to go up, the CO₂ concentration will go up. Once the temperature has stopped rising the CO₂ concentration will stop rising with a lag of a few thousand years [2, p.433, The CO2 decrease lags the temperature decrease by several kyr and may be either steep (as at the end of interglacials 5.5 and 7.5) or more regular (at the end of interglacials 9.3 and 11.3)].

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20413-warmer-oceans-r...

[2] Petit, J. R., Jouzel, J., Raynaud, D., Barkov, N. I., Barnola, J.-M., Basile, I., … Stievenard, M. (1999). Nature, 399(6735), 429–436. doi:10.1038/20859 (https://doi.org/10.1038/20859)
Perfect *is* the enemy of the good here.

Major components of the economy are not valued regularly, e.g. private businesses. Sure, if a buyer paid $10MM last week for a private business, we might say it's worth $10MM today. But what about a business that was started from scratch by the founder? Or one that was last sold 30 years ago? Or one in a very niche industry?

Put simply, valuation is not only a science, but an art... and it's an expensive art. The cost and difficulty of administration alone would be reason enough to steer clear of a wealth tax.

Lastly, although I'm not a fan of higher taxes on anyone, even simply a more progressive income tax would make more sense than a wealth tax.
In the famous frog-boiling experiment you're referring to, the frogs were actually lobotomized before they were put in the pot. Which makes your analogy even more accurate, IMO.
a simple compromise grab for zoom/facebook/google video users, that will also force a bunch of ppl to create apple IDs that didn't before. Lame.

But also, web wins again. Your iMessage/Facetime isn't anything special, never was.
Do you trust politicians to redistribute money fairly and with accountability?
> What's secret? Income and capital gains brackets are public knowledge.

That you are speaking about income and capital gains brackets indicates that you don't actually know how the rich hide their money from the tax man.

It, at a first approximation, gets laundered through foundations and into trusts, that they retain control of, but don't really pay either set of taxes on.
I agree. There’s no going back, only forward. We need alternative sources of energy.
As a point of order "we" don't make these decisions at all. We elect people who do. And, you can support something being legal/illegal on principle alone.
In Australia, in the state of Victoria all meters are smart meter for few years now. They are also growing in number in other states. There has been no hacking incident. in fact it makes peoples life easier by allowing them to track energy usage at every 15 mins interval with historical data using an app from the utility company. This data cannot be sold either. In fact under the Govt. Open API scheme very shortly you will be able to give access to your own data for comparison to select the best plan for you (just like open banking).
Idea is to prevent people from offsetting large incomes with capital losses. This simply appears unfair to many - earning lots of income but paying little tax.

A more sophisticated argument is that since you can control capital losses by choosing which assets to sell you would be able to manage your taxes. With enough assets and some planning you could never pay taxes despite having a large income.

The $3,000 cap prevents this. Similar approaches are used throughout the tax code to prevent abuses.
...I see what you did there
I've never actually had a problem printing in Linux. It had always been plug and play for me. My trick is to make sure the printer actually can be plugged in (USB or Ethernet) and that it isn't the most recent model.

Also, get a laserprinter. Inkjets are going to be a problem regardless of drivers.
The Old Boss
I noticed this a while ago. Some people with the ability to downvote, downvote some comments for no reason, other than hating the comment somehow. They try to release their hate through the downvote, which is funny actually.
> until they're undeniably upon us

We're undeniably impacted by climate change right this very second. You can take a drive along the Eastern coast of the United States and see water flooding the yards of homes that are all for sale. Likewise everyone I've heard of buying costal or near sea-level property has had a hell of a time getting a mortgage because it's hard to find flood insurance.

You can watch the Arctic melt almost before your eyes [0]. If that doesn't shock someone right now, then I doubt the first blue ocean event will make a difference either.

Coral reefs are being critically threatened right now from ocean acidification, you can watch them die.

Arctic winds leaking out of the North as the polar vortex fails wreaked havoc across Texas.

The Sierra snow pack, essential for the maintenance of the fresh water supply for both California and Nevada continues to worsen and worsen with what are becoming rare years of it returning.

Record drought in the West causes continually devastating wildfires which are also sources of massive CO2 emissions.

All these are just a few off the top of my head that I've noticed.

Just like pandemic, which still has its fair share of deniers, there will be non-trivial subsets of the population that adamantly deny that climate change is happening even if the entire Midwest were to turn into a dust bowl again. Demagogue after demagogue will emerge to point the finger at some group of people.

But I full agree with your sentiment. Compared to climate change, solving pandemic should have been a cakewalk. If we had solved pandemic quickly I would still be skeptical about climate change because it is so much harder to stop. But since we utterly failed to address pandemic, it is already far too late to image we have any change to alter the path climate change is taking.

Maybe denial is ultimately the best approach for those that can't move towards horrific acceptance.

[0]. https://www.arcticdeathspiral.org/
The Criminals Thought the Devices Were Secure. But the Seller Was the FBI
It should be possible to target this. Have it kick in say over $10 million or when a loan is backed by existing rather than new assets purchased with the loan.
Some things the author could have included:

- const is not the same as immutability, you could have a const variable pointing to a non-const data structure.

- Type-stability can be checked using the '@code_warntype' macro.

- While Julia's built-in arrays are columnar, user defined array types (for which there are dozens in the wild) can be formatted in any way.
"Increasingly, it appears, intelligence agencies the world over are beginning to appreciate agents with a strong academic background."

John Le Carre's upper-echelon spies seemed to be mostly Oxonian. I am not particularly a historian of the CIA, but its leadership seemed to have fairly expensive schooling, to, didn't they?
Yeah you’re right https://www.researchgate.net/figure/In-situ-CO2-concentratio...
How do you defend against the argument that it's just a matter of degree?

I can tell from your old spinning mechanical meter that you're at home and not on vacation. That's personal information. Why is a smart meter so different?
> If a bank is still using Cobol, it is interesting and a testament to how a Cobol programmer can still make a good living on it. But if a scientist is using Perl to carry out calculations, this is somehow bad?

Yes. The negative externalities of doing scientific analyses in Perl are much greater than a bank having a legacy COBOL codebase. Only a handful of engineers within the bank will ever see that COBOL codebase. Science is globally collaborative; many people at many different institutions across the world would have to deal with some idiosyncratic scientist’s decision to write their analysis in Perl.

Also, the bank only has a COBOL codebase because it’s reluctant to make major changes to an extremely important system that’s been working flawlessly since the early 60s. There’s absolutely no reason to start a totally brand new project in Perl (or COBOL, for that matter), when far superior alternatives exist.
I like the sentiment, a month might be a bit long though. For many businesses, something like 4 day weeks might be more achievable.
There is a reason we do have the second amendment if they don't.

Like, it was literally written in the constitution for this purpose.
They don't "avoid selling," at least in the way you and others are implying. They only delay selling. At some point the loan must be paid back, and at that point they will have to sell something or take income, which incurs either income or capital gains tax.

And a trivial way to work around your proposed rule: borrow without collateral. Why would a lender be willing to do this? Because they know the other party is wealthy, that in the event of bankruptcy they have ways to collect, they make money on interest, and it is tax efficient under your new rule.
Apple Shares Details on Designing 3rd-Party Accessories Compatible with U1 Chip
It's certainly true for a lot of corporate graduate schemes require a 2.1 in a relevant subject and reputable university in the UK. It's typically used as an initial filter.
Borrowing against your stocks isn't a loop hole. You eventually have to pay the loan back, when you do, you sell stock, pay taxes on the profit of the sale, and use the rest to pay the loan.

You didn't avoid anything, you just deferred it until later.

By the way, if the bank "forgave" the loan, and said you don't have to pay it back, that forgiveness is taxed - usually in a form 1099. So there isn't a loop hole there, either.
It's unlikely to perform well, so it may not be the right tool for the job.
Haha yeah... I think it shows where their overall focus is placed.
That's exactly it! Thank you!

> Tiny nitpick

Haha, 10-4 - I'll drop the habit
Should I parse that to read you disagree with my characterization of Google? Care to elaborate?
> In their case, it's likely that the disease has multiple causative factors and the drug in question only treats one specific cause.

The problem is that every drug that has targeted amyloid has failed to do jack shit in any cohort--not early, not late, not alien--none of them.

Any rational science system would conclude "The amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimer's is WRONG."

But, no, the bio people just plow on further because amyloid gets published, and funded, and, now, approved.

One day we'll look at this time as the alchemy period of neuro.
I’ve had great luck achieving that with CSS custom properties. I assign a custom property to a style rule and then change that property with JavaScript when needed.

I also find much state has a nice selector (e.g. :hover, :checked, :invalid, :empty, :focus-inside, etc.) or media queries `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)` which I can change the custom property values inside. So it is really an exception when I manually need to change the value of custom properties with JavaScript.
The tax code is the product of the legislature and the courts, both of which are accountable to voters.

The bureaucrats are functionally accountable to nobody. This leak was instigated by a bureaucrat.

Fuck the bureaucrats.
Honestly, at HN’s scale, maybe it makes sense now. After spending today using it, my gut reaction was to be sad that people will feel reluctant to throw a bunch of effort into replies that will immediately be hidden (as with Reddit). But after the server meltdown yesterday, it’s understandable.

14 years was a really good run. I suppose even lisp has its limits. :(

Yeah, adding the descendant count would make it pretty good. Hard to think of anything better.

I’ll be honest: I’m really worried this will become another tool for moderators to control discussions, while concealing the fact that it was a moderator (rather than algorithmic) decision. But no one can stop you if that’s the kind of control you want for your team.

The flip side of that is, since 2018, your team has done a stellar job, as far as I can tell. I don’t know if something changed, but things seem calmer now. I can’t even recall the last worrisome moderator decision, and I’ve found myself arguing on your behalf more than once.

Dunno. You’ll get it right; you usually do. Thanks for being welcoming about ideas, and good luck wrestling with transpilers and performance issues.
You can give multiple meaning to freedom:

1: i am legally allowed to do X

2: I am legally allowed to do X and you are forbidden to prevent me from doing X

and you can even push to this one:

3: I am legally allowed to do X, you are forbidden to prevent me from doing X, and i am able to do X without discomfort/sacrifice (this can be broken into smaller parts too, but i think this is enough)

Freedom implies moral responsibility of your choices (this can be debated, but i think the modern debate lean to that conclusion): if you are enslaved and are not responsible, you have no freedom at all. So physical addictions remove your freedom. You can do thought experiments about which addictions remove your freedoms and which do not, but i recon most drugs won't really change your freedom.
This isn't really true. If you receive RSUs as part of compensation, you have to pay taxes according to the value of the stock at the time of vesting. You also have to pay tax when you sell the stock equal to the difference in price from vesting.

You might get a refund or you might pay more taxes when you sell, but there is precedent to paying taxes on stock that you currently hold.
Please read this page first (and note the date): http://pdl.perl.org/?docs=Philosophy&title=PDL::Philosophy
Perl is shipped in virtually every Linux distribution; it's much closer to standard than, say, Node.
> I’m actually surprised that the US hasn’t bought and installed a battery on every single warship it has since the system can also intercept anti ship missiles and even combat aircraft at short ranges.

There have been proposals to add Iron Dome installations to the US arsenal in various contexts, but they've foundered on the difficulties of integrating it with other systems in use, and without access to the source code (which wasn't forthcoming) those couldn't be resolved (so far).

So, it looks like the US military has passed on deploying a system that is yet another special-purpose silo, however effective it is in its original context.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/us-army-iron-dome-cannot-b...

That said, a lot of money is at stake here, so Rafael and Raytheon may yet be able to get the square peg to fit a round hole. Their efforts are, reportedly, ongoing.
More like 10%. Total energy use of a country in a year is something like 1PWh and electricity is 100TWh, those orders of magnitude.

Edit: figured I might as well look it up and be precise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_Netherlands 900 TWh primary energy, 115 TWh electricity.
If the tax requirements were public, there would not be much destabilizing from executives yearly selling off an appropriate amount of stock.
MintPressNews was deprecated from Wikipedia - it should not be used for any claim or purpose - because of its extensively documented history of publishing completely fabricated stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Not...

Even if something in MintPressNews happens to be true that day, in general it's on the level of the Daily Mail. If you can't find a quality source for a claim in MintPressNews, you should strongly question it.
It seems like there's a modern definition of scam, especially with gamers, which is hyping or marketing a game too well and not completely delivering on promises (often imagined) due to budget constraints, design or technical challenges and often just inflated expectations. This happens with products that a perfectly fine but aren't what people expect, and products that "work" but are buggy or don't deliver all features immediately.

See all of Peter Molyneux's games post Bullfrog, No Man's Sky at launch, Cyberpunk 2077, Magic Leap. I agree that putting Playdate even in that category because the SDK won't be ready at launch is kind of ridiculous.
We started using CSS in JS a few years ago because we couldn’t, and still are unable to use CSS variables (some of our customers still require IE11 support and we can’t drop it until 2022).

The main issue I still see with CSS variables is IDE support and static validation. With my CSS written in typescript I know that every variable I’ve imported works statically.
> There's a reason that Google (well, maybe other tech companies) bring you new things, and the electric company doesn't. It's not all roses.

There is a solution: Google writes the software. The utility company runs it.

The problem right now is that Google takes too many roles.
I have my vote. I have nothing over a billionaire.
Hey Elder.js author here. Only browsed their docs but here are the things that stand out in very quick read:

- Framework agnostic but uses their own .astro language/filetype. Elder.js is Svelte only.

- Both support partial hydration and they appear to offer similar options as Elder.js

- Elder.js’ target isn’t building a small site but a large one. So data flow and making the data model pluggable via hooks and plugins really makes this possible in a way we haven’t seen other framework approach it. We’ve heavily dogfooded Elder.js for building major SEO assets. Fetch as the main way of getting external data in Astro where Elder.js leaves that up to you and gives you complete control allowing various database or filesystem sources.

- Unclear on their build process.

- Elder.js is express middleware (SSR) and a static site generator. Astro appears to just be a SSG. (Some of our sites are outgrowing SSG so the flexibility matters).

- No shortcode support, hooks, or plugins.

My take is that Astro might be a good fit for simpler use-cases but may stumble when you need more control or go against their model. Elder.js has similar opinions but tries to put you in full control. That comes at a complexity cost which Astro appears to do a good job of simplifying but I’d need to dig in deeper to see what tradeoffs were made in order to make things simpler.

Happy to see more people taking partial hydration seriously.

Edit: formatting