skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be wonderful if we could solve global warming as easily and as cheaply as we did Covid.

And I think we might, once we start trying.
Hi fks. Astro looks really compelling, but I’m already addicted to NextJS and deploying on Vercel. Any chance an Astro app will be deployable on Vercel or similar services?
which probably means there are many more unreported and being used ,such as by FBI. you wonder how purportedly unhackable btc wallets get hacked? Now you know. these agencies have huge trove of exploits for all OS and browsers
Loans have to be repaid at some point. That does not avoid the tax, it just delays it.
This might be real star history.

https://star-history.t9t.io/#vlang/v

Or, it's better than a meme that needs mOaR jPeG!
If anyone understands the reasoning behind the US capping your deductible net capital loss in any tax year at $3,000 vs allowing your full capital losses to be offset I'd be interested.
And I thought Louisiana charging a fee for using a debit card at state dmv (OMV) offices instead of cash [1] courtesy of Bobby Jindal was something. Sad to see my state of origin has outstripped that.

[1] I should also mention the time I looked at my driving record in Louisiana and discovered the remnant of their pre-1981 practice of putting race on driver's licenses. Under my ethnic category (which I had never filled out or been asked) was 'O'. I turned to the clerk and asked "What does this stand for?" She replied "Other." I said "I thought maybe it would be Oriental" (since I am Pakistani-American). She replied "That would be too politically incorrect." I said, "My expectations for this state in that regard are not high."
Neither is he
Elder is great! We're definitely fans. both Elder and Astro deliver Partial Hydration and the same "0kb JS by default" story. We wanted something less Svelte-specific and more pluggable, along with some other neat features mentioned in the README that couldn't fit in the launch post.
These are things that are done locally. You can find a smartphone for under 250 at any phone store. Or by calling a number. I got one by text the other day through my carrier. I can't find an iphone 12 for that online or locally legally and I would have better luck getting a stolen phone cheaper locally.

Small business are finding success through facebook and other social platforms. Not sure google is a player here. Remember google+? I can't believe they shut that down with a decent userbase because it didn't reach some scale meanwhile any startup would have called it a big success and built on it.
This is different. With COVID, we knew the problem would solve itself in a couple years, even if we did nothing. We were in a race to save lives, not civilization.

Climate change will not solve itself like this. It will keep reducing food supply and habitable land, causing mass migrations that sooner or later will end in wars. Trying to wait it out is suicide.
I also have a CO2 monitor and see similar readings. I try to open the windows each morning before it gets hot outside to get some fresh air.

I have noticed sometimes when it gets around 1200, I start to get headaches which are almost always relieved by either opening the windows, or going outside (having the dog sleeping in my office doesn't help either, she definitely helps bump up the CO2 numbers!).

The highest I've ever seen it is around 1500.
I don't understand at all who is downvoting you here! I appreciate the thoughtful and wonderful response you've put in, so thank you. I wish so much that people wouldn't use votes to express mild disagreement.

I thought you were suggesting that animals are not conscious, and saying that you believe so because they are not detectably intelligent, suggesting a direct correspondence between the two. Instead it seems like you and I more or less agree on the matter: no correlation, and even an automaton could be conscious.

Thanks also for the interesting Einstein quote. I don't agree that free will is nonsensical to such a degree that it cannot be discussed, but I do agree it is not well defined.

I hoped to sidestep the vagueness of free will by discussing it in the meta sense of 'what broad philosophical consensus is held about it', i.e. that there is rather little to say for certain, but even what most people hold to be true doesn't seem to rule out the idea of an automaton being conscious.
> Just how many times can you go through the emulator dance of downloading all the games then playing each for less than 3 minutes before you give up.

What makes this any different?
> You opted in to G Suite by pointing your domain there, as well. You can opt out just as quickly.

I won't deny that I opted in to a particular service, or that I can opt out just as quickly. But cf. the other threads about my formal recourses, quality of service, and others' expectations around reliability of delivery should I choose to leave the Google bubble.

Google's fault or not, I don't think this is an acceptable situation.
You pay off the interest with the 40k of equities you can liquidate in 0% capital gains bracket, per year.

And yes, a bet that interest rates will remain below effective tax beyond that.
I think it's a good point. Down the road it could be smart to explore an expanded idea of release defaults and the ability to assume away new questions about edge cases that show up in the flow. For now, we're committed to having Runway perform reliably and safely - which to start with means being explicit about options/changes that occur on a third party provider's side.

In general, my opinion (or Runway's!) isn't as important as factors on the customer side - types of apps, industries/verticals, team makeup - which are likely to make a difference in which checkboxes and options are considered important or not. It probably makes sense to include those factors when thinking about how we can further streamline everyone's release process in the future.
Depends on your style guide; it's contested, and has been for a long time.
If you're not trying to justify it, then no, it doesn't make sense at all. The media failed (or purposefully sought not) to deliver information in a useful form.

Delivering such information is supposedly the reason the media exists. There's no merit or utility in extending that abject failure to the information source or destination.
The question isn't about Perl vs Python (which I still think is a clear winner for Python, although there are some uses where I could perfectly understand reaching for Perl first).

The question is whether Perl's PDL is better than ScyPy/Numpy/Pandas/Cython, the Spyder IDE, bunch of plotting libraries...etc.
Run `npm create astro` in any directory to load one of 4 starter demos!
If only they got something in return for providing those incentives...
What if? Most jurisdictions assess property taxes annually, and many of them regularly reassess the property value on which the tax is calculated, rather than waiting until a sale to reassess.

One question is whether we want to encourage pure ownership/holding of assets (the current stock ownership situation) or whether we want to encourage productive use of an asset (the current land ownership situation).
yeah but that assumes the game is fair. the evidence suggests it is not as fair as it shoudl be
I think if the free market could solve climate change, it probably already would have. Clearly the more lucrative approach is to use the growing disaster to sell air conditioners and privately guarded bunkers in New Zealand. So please forgive me for not wanting any more companies to try and profit off of crises, there's not a strong track record of structural solutions coming from that sector.
Are foundations available to folks on a tech salary as a similar tool?
It's for people not really interested in games to buy and then proclaim breathlessly on social media that it's just so amazing and lifechanging, before it goes permanently to a shelf visible in all their Zoom calls to never be played with again.
There are plenty of island states and micronations in the world today. Some of them, make money be letting corrupt people from other countries deposit money in their hidden bank accounts, or create shell companies to get around tax and finance laws etc.

These countries continue to flourish, even though any of the top 50 armies in the world could clean them up in half a week without breaking a sweat.

Why do you think a few thousand people floating out into open seas will be invaded, if they are not threatening physical violence against any other state in any way?
No, its products are forced down your threat and impossible to avoid.
I think the parent comment was referring to the characterization of ProPublica as just a “website”.
I take it as a sign that Mauna Loa is about to erupt.
I mean, I can appreciate some basic stuff like this but how about measuring rendering performance on low end devices? Like having large, medium, and small css files vs having the same thing BUT moving state changing things to js so that some specific styles are applied inline.

Somewhat superficial content but might spawn a few interesting discussions.
Not true. Perpetuity's exist.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/perpetuity.asp
America Fractured into Four Parts
The number of people that laugh at even the idea of seasteading, yet can't wait to colonize Mars is confounding.
Even if what you're saying is true, how do you supposed we "ban" cryptos or stop them? As a person who works on software, you'd have to realize how non-trivial it would be to stop.

What about banning people from going for a drive just for fun, or on a holiday via aircraft ?

It's a lot easier for governments to ban coal fire power stations and fracking replacing them with renewables and hydrogen storage.

This is actually something we can control and do without taking over people's freedoms.
The article is a well-written celebration of human quirkiness.

Published to a most modern website featuring all of the latest innovations.

The Amish are a bit more convincing in their Luddism.
it's not income so it's not taxable
It’s hard to value a potential large liquidation. A market sell by Jeff Bezos of 40% of his Amazon stock to pay for income tax would destabilize the markets. Also, if there was no tax advantage to holding stocks long term, the entire stock market would have been liquidated to zero in q1 of 2020. market volatility would certainly be much higher than it is now.
I agree that taxing unrealized capital gains is a fundamentally flawed approach. However, the problem with the current system is that these ultra-wealthy people just end up borrowing against their equity, avoiding selling if possible.

I think it would make sense to count borrowing against equity as tax-wise equivalent to selling that same equity.

With that loophole closed, together with raising the capital gains tax, I think the tax system would be much more in line with what people expect from it.
I can see in the page that last PDL release was on February, okay. Probably the presence of activity indicates that there are people using PDL, and more than that, maintaining it. Since PDL existed for many years, I would speculate that these people presumably didn't jump into PDL yesterday. There can very well be large codebases using it for a long time.

All the comments suggesting that this somehow shouldn't be and that people should move away from PDL, are depressing in the way that, in a split second, years of effort and thousands lines of code that are probably doing good work are dismissed just like that.

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?
Tiktok has a lot of interesting videos and a big english audience
The government is taxing you anyway. I'm not proposing a new tax, I'm proposing more flexibility on how they accept payment. Right now, they only accept the taxes to be remitted in dollars.

For simple income tax, where you're paid in dollars and hand the government a percentage, that's fine.

But what if you're paying a tax on, say, some equity you were given in a startup?

This can cause huge trouble for people who have illiquid assets, like equity in a private company. You have to pay tax in dollars based on a guess of the value of that equity, even though you can't trade the equity for dollars (it's not liquid). When you eventually can sell the asset, like at an IPO, its assessed value could have decreased and it might be worth even less than the taxes you already had to pay on it.

That's the kind of gift you don't want to receive.

I'm suggesting that, for those who are worried about that risk, the government allow you the option of handing over a percentage of the asset instead. If it ends up being worthless paper, then the government gets nothing, but on the other hand that's also the correct amount for them to get because the tax on $0 should also be $0.

Most likely, the government would choose to (or perhaps by legislation could be compelled to) sell the asset at an IPO, but that's a detail. Perhaps they could also have an agency for managing and directing such assets in the public interest.
I do a GoodRx price check of every drug I see advertised on TV. There is typically no drug that costs less than $5k a month. Is there a problem here?
What does it feel like? And have you tried to mitigate confirmation bias at all? I'm just curious, bc I work in a small office.
It's not a scam.

> For X you get Y.

Scam would be:

> For X you get WILDCARD.
In the UK the government imposed a quota to the utility companies for smart meter installations. Hence they are desperate to boost adoption, recently they have drafted Albert Einstein into their all-out advertising campaign. The government is clearly anxious to push this change which is precisely why i'm not rushing.
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Its rair for something to be so accurately true, yet so irrelevant
This tool undoes a lot of harm of tool proliferation. It's one of the few JavaScript tools I'll actually approve of.

If you're confused, perhaps try not lumping everybody into the homogenous “JS dev”.
It doesn't make sense if your goal is to create a fair internet for everybody, or to build a consistent set of rules based on reasonable principles.

it makes perfect sense if you are a politician looking to hop on the anti-google bandwagon enough to make it look like you're doing something without actually doing anything.
Yup, static site means you can pretty much deploy anywhere! Just configure Vercel to point to the final destination build directory when you set up your project.
I disagree.

You're being obtuse. JavaScript is used for more than presentation.
I see: When I said we need to hold people accountable, you may have heard that we need to fire people. That was honestly never on my mind.

Maybe its a cultural thing. I hear a lot of firing at the US. I am from Europe.
Why would a seasteading nation be inherently more vulnerable than a preexisting tiny nation?

Couldn't the same bilateral relationships with large states be developed by the former that afford the same level of protection that's currently enjoyed by the latter? And if you think not, how is that not merely a failure of imagination?

I do agree however that a venture like this would be much, much more likely to succeed on land. I just don't see your retort as a foregone conclusion.
transcript: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/694548245
The only thing worse than printers - scanners.
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Kids in school don't have time to affect others 24/7, maybe an hour tops if they aren't in sports.
Massive amounts of listening and reading is practice :)
The Problems of Our Remote Work Future
some of these players have had a major hand in setting the rules of this game in their favor
Off topic, but the specific content of Laches’ reply is interesting of itself for how much it says about Greek culture and war making.

It’s a very different reply than you might expect to get from, say, a Sioux warrior, or a European knight, or a samurai, etc. Or from the Greeks themselves, outside of this fairly narrow band of history!
No, the "parts" in ppm reduce, but the "millions" does, too. It's a ratio.

(There might be a tiny effect due to the fact that CO2 is heavier than air, so as you go up you might expect the CO2 to mostly have settled against the bottom of the atmosphere. I suspect as long as you're in the troposphere, there's sufficient mixing to make it uniform, though.)
Mauna Loa has never recorded co2 as low as 250ppm. Started at 315ppm in the 50s: https://www.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/image/2019/J...
Rust from a JavaScript perspective – A tongue in cheek walk-through
For those who find scribd.com annnoying, here is a PDF of the complaint (SNI required):

https://aboutblaw.com/XXw
Wealth tax is one possible solution and one that is used by at least some European countries.
which one are you using?
And that's the key, pry the device out of their hand and send them outside.

Good luck actually doing it, though.
This is a pretty misleading take on what happened. DARPA awarded the grants to research mRNA based vaccines in 2013. These vaccines were many, many years in the making before the pandemic hit and practically unlimited resources were poured into them to push the final stretch out. Even then, it required dropping many best practices around safety and validation just to get some kind of results out the door as fast as possible. So perhaps a better wording is that we got incredibly lucky that this specific grant was awarded over other similar ones and that it happened to bear fruit. It could've just as well been a different kind of pathogen and we would've been out in the cold. Saying we can just invent a fix when a problem comes up is not the right takeaway here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27359269
Given the use of information search, and its importance as the tool for gather factual data, conventional search indexing should be a public utility.

Like rail road, motor road, electricity, which were started as private enterprises, and eventually turn into public utility. Information search appears on the same route.

But, the catch is that "Internet" the physical infrastructure should be turned into public utility first. And then we can discuss the fundamental services running on Internet.

So I support this direction. But I think the focus of the effort to be on turning Internet into public utility, right now.
There are a number of arguments, most are too extensive to fit concisely in an HN comment. Pointers to some might be useful.

At the extreme you have the "utility monster" or "freedom monster" problem. Existential Comics explores both graphically and entertainingly:

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/8

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259

Much of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations actually addresses the issues of inequality and the dynamic between wealth and power: "Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power." That's one of the shortest and most direct sentences in a book given to long and complex writing.

The Spirit Level is a book-length exploration of the problems of inequality and highly-unequal societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book)

https://www.worldcat.org/title/spirit-level-why-equality-is-...

Thomas Picketty's works (Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Capital and Ideology) fit into this discussion.

Oxfam have a set of suggestions as well, notably Branko Milanovic's The Haves and the Have-Nots:

https://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/three-must-read-b...
Fields of Watermelons Found on Mars, Police Say (NYTimes)
previous discussion from original posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13837992
I guess it's not surprising to see "survival of the state" given higher priority than "survival of the people" https://www.nps.gov/articles/secret-symbol-of-the-lincoln-me...
What do physical addresses have to do with this? The discussion was about email.

I understood your argument to be "email addresses are important" + "Google provides email addreses" -> "Google should be regulated as a public utility". But like I showed, the same applies to basically every kind of organization providing email addresses.

So either you are asking for basically every single organization to be a public utility, or there is some discriminating function you're not stating.
In similar fashion there are the Chicago Boys from Chile too.

A lot of this article, whilst interesting, comes across as a 'well yeah'. And with a school with so many apparent connections, I would believe people would want to study there even if there was opposing ideology.
This took a serious double take. When Playgrounds 4 comes out you’ll be able to code a Swift app, build its UI and submit it to the App Store directly from an iPad. So far I’ve not seen this mentioned anywhere in the press, but there it is.
Because the country is fundamentally broken.
I guess you are ready for dictatorship then?
Guggle has little place in my life.
Android phone that has been heavily
fiddled with,no pay store,no jeemail,etc.
This is hard to maintain ,as so many services are interlinked and
useing heavy duty add blockers ,etc
breaks a lot of sites.
Living in a low population rural
area,mobile intetnet is the by far
best choice for me.
And so I am in the process of choosing a new phone that will be
my main device,it will be very tame
and to my liking,and my current phone will get a talk and text sim
with no data and be reset to factory level awfulness and used for those occasions where its just
much easier to let the algorithyms
play with each other and hold my nose untill its switched off.
I will delay getting an actual guggle account as long as possible.
So here I am a hardcore lemyalone
Ill mind my own buisiness type,doing all the workarounds ,and
just finding that non viable and costing me what has become basic access to goods and services.
It's bizarre to see the federal outcry here since in Norway, everyone's tax return is "public". (You can request to see anybody's but they do get a notification that you viewed it. It was anonymous until recently)

It's hard to argue against sunlight being the best disinfectant.
>""Also, what alternative is there for YouTube? there isn't a realistic competitor."

Bittorrent."

I should avoid Google's monopoly by becoming a criminal?
It took me 1 hour to convert a production app from Distillery to native releases when Elixir 1.9 released 2 years ago. And deployment in 2021, whatever the language, is best served with containers. Elixir is not harder to deploy than a Django or Node app.

In fact, releases and post-deploy ops are pretty well documented: https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Release.html

Phoenix also has an example multi-stage Dockerfile which is fine for 99% use cases: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/releases.html
Adding local weather to my task bar but unable to fix display scaling issues and leaving tonnes of zero days.... Lolz
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27441362
Hell yes. After 20 or more years doing this, you build a reasonable bullshit filter. A lot of the time, if the ask doesn’t pass that filter I find it very, very hard to commit. It’s hard enough being useful without that. Life is too short to be wasting it on building something you know is d destined for the bin.
Solutions to taxation do not need to be black and white simple rules. The US tax code is already purported to be 70,000 pages. It would be perfectly reasonable to write one tax code for middle class people below a certain net worth that encourages wealth creation, family wealth, credit and investment. It would be perfectly reasonable to have a separate tax code for the ultra wealthy that curtails loopholes, tax shelters, dynastic wealth and offshore accounting. For example, some countries tax net worth over a certain number of millions.
the highest level since accurate measurements began 63 years ago

Not to detract from the seriousness of the increasing CO2 level, but doesn't _every_ year set a new record for CO2 level?