skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When not using an ad blocker

why would any sane person ever do this?

oh right, mobile.

so let me ask a different way: why would any sane person ever browse the web on any platform that does not have effective ad blocking?
Improvement:

.tab-content {
background: #ffffff20 !important;
border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px !important;
margin-bottom: 4px !important;
margin-top: 4px !important;
}
New Firefox Takes on Chrome–and Microsoft’s Edge
There are no arguments against early abortion that wouldn’t be either religiously motivated, or based on non- religious logical fallacy. From what I’ve seen on American media, almost all of it is religiously motivated. It doesn’t matter that fundamentalists don’t identify themselves as fundamentalist.
> You’re in the minority

Yes, if I was in the USA maybe I would be in the minority. But where I actually live (Barcelona, Spain) I'm not, as mentioned before. Countless people walk their dogs without leashes here, and no one bats an eye.

> too many dog owners think their dogs are fine and when their dog runs dozens of yards away from their master to bound up to us th egg cheerfully call out, “It’s a friendly dog!”

Sure that might be a friendly dog but in no way is that a well-behaved dog, it wouldn't run away yards away unless the owner explicitly calls out for them to behave that way. Living in ~16th or something biggest city in Europe, you wouldn't have your dog stray that far away from you, easily within a yard of yourself at all time, otherwise I wouldn't call them well-behaved.

So back to the original point: off-leash dogs that don't behave properly have inconsiderate owners, yes I agree with this. Are all owners who let their dogs be off-leash inconsiderate? No.
The WebExtensions API (promise-based) was created by Mozilla. Whereas “Chrome Extensions” (callback-based) was created by Google.

These are not compatible with each other despite being very similar. The former uses the browser.* namespace and the latter uses the chrome.* namespace
Every stereotype of the off-leash dog owner on display here.

Leash your dog. To do otherwise is selfish and rude.
Dataframes...python has R to thank...too bad they suck compared to R.
You mean the first red scare or the one we had for the last four years because it “hurt Trump” to make all manner of connections to Russia?
> The UNESCO charter says, “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.”

> I think the psychedelic mystical experience is one of the strongest defenses of peace that can be constructed.

> Albert Einstein said that the splitting of the atom changed everything but our mode of thinking, and that as we “drift toward unparalleled catastrophe,”
Without stablecoins, people that want to cash out at a certain price will be cashing out to fiat, which generally is not a seamless process and requires stronger KYC, etc.

With a stablecoin like Tether, you have people constantly "cashing out" by just trading their BTC/ETH/etc for Tether. It is much easier to go back and forth between some "hard"-dollar value (scare quotes due to the question around how "hard" Tether actually is) and cryptos, and therefore encourages more trading. Long story short – Tether reduces the friction of certain trades, which obviously is going to make those trades more common.
But then it's highly unfair to tax humans on revenue, but corporations on profit.

I think the right answer is VAT + externalities taxes (LVT, Cabon tax, etc.) + UBI, which is both very easy to enforce and perhaps net progressive enough. Re "progressive enough": I don't so much care if BWM owners are screwed over relative to private jet owners on paper, I think reducing work hours and propping up demand at the bottom with UBI will have a trickle-up effect.

There might be room for a wealth tax, but I think it might be less loophole-prone and better theoretically to attack that problem more directly and less monetarily in terms of socializing key natural monopolies, promoting coops, etc. Trying to financialize the big question of "who controls the means of production" I think might be just too difficult.
the fact that streets are illuminate at night and pollice patrols them is using services provided by taxpayer's money.

Uber benefits from streets more than the average citizen.

if corporations had to pay per use, they would prefer to build their private infrastructures and police forces, while public infrastructure would lag behind chronically underfunded.
How I got interested in science?
Absolutely, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be trying to resolve problems all the same. Teams not having control over their work is inefficient.
Ever play Rainbow 6 games? That's why most games don't have realistic damage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27047148

Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56910393)

315 points | aluket | 1 month ago | 303 comments
Funny, I'll never say that R itself is very academic. The environment maybe, the users sure but the language is very much an mutated Lisp with vectorized operation. Same for the python stuff, I never hit that problem working a lot with it but most of the time when I wanted to check a lib, I landed in C++ aka I am not sure to understand how to read the code.

What in R made it feel academic for you?
> Nobody benefits from a company growing indefinite wealth without distributing it to actual people.

Isn't this exactly what companies like Apple etc. are doing? As it accumulates wealth, the stock price (which is supposed to reflect the value of the company) goes up as well. And thus the shareholders benefit.
I don’t see how that’s a problem. It’s just delaying the inevitable taxation of that cash. It’s not avoiding it.
Finding a possible early treatment for Covid-19 in a 40-year-old antidepressant
Sacha Chua is one of the best-known women in the Emacs world.

She ran a podcast about Emacs for a while, which might be relevant:

https://sachachua.com/blog/emacs-chat/
Science Made Stupid [pdf]
Must've been a reason they mentioned it.

I was picturing an island well off shore. It's right next to a highway! Not sure exactly which island in the complex held the eggs, but one is about 100m from a campground/RV park.
That problem already exists, and I can't see it getting any worse than it already is. And you solve it the same way that you do now: by regulating which expenses are actually deductible. Basically any benefit that primarily benefits an individual is counted as income to that individual.

What goes away is the incentive to locate all of the company's IP in a subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, and then rent it all back to the subsidiary in New York at wildly inflated prices that ensure that all income is technically earned in the Cayman Islands. Because it would no longer matter where the income was earned, it would only matter to whom it is paid out to. Less protection for billionaires who are primarily interested in asset inflation.

I'm pretty sure this would actually increase total taxes collected because it shifts tax burden away from low and easily avoided corporate taxes, and towards individuals that pay higher income tax rates that are much harder to avoid. But even if it doesn't fully compensate, you can easily adjust top bracket rates to fill the gap, without any worry that it will hurt workers like the corporate income tax does.

https://taxfoundation.org/labor-bears-corporate-tax/
> Paul ends up tweeting about it and making a huge deal around something he has no idea about. He gets a bunch of people on Twitter upset about something they don't know about.

I gave him the benefit of doubt, but should have been more skeptical upon seeing pronouns in bio. It's a curiously predictive heuristic. For whatever reason, pronoun people tend to be particularly good at generating internet drama.
Because taxes are necessary and we just make up a rule that works in practice. This is not "foundations of logic", it is just "where can I shoehorn a tax so I can fund the public services and the military". It does not need to make sense when put in weird hypothetical made up edge cases.
Anecdotal, but I was told some original treaties are between 'usa and indians', so to change names may place those treaties in jeopardy.
Sao Paulo banned billboards and public advertising for over a decade. It's certainly an interesting idea. I'm very grateful for the lack of billboards and advertising in my town, as well as the rest of my life due to using adblocking software and extensions. I realize that it's still endemic in media but appreciate the visual sanity in my life.

This article has more info and some revealing pictures.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...
Yeah, or we want to be treated like humans. Find a better heuristic.
Where did the scare quotes around assault weapons come from? I don't see them in the article's title.

Previously by barbacoa:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27402505

Federal judge rules California's ban on assault weapons unconstitutional (yahoo.com)

20 points by barbacoa 10 hours ago | 7 comments
I'll add that my individual action has led through my podcast to working with CEOs, politicians including four of New York City's mayoral candidates, and leaders in sports, arts, and other areas, as well as other podcasts within the This Sustainable Life family.

My personal action is only the starting point to lead others. Mostly I do it to live by my values, but it gives me credibility to lead others too.
To me "spent on wages" means on every employee's salary, not only the top 0.01%

It would be pretty awesome if companies increased salaries for everyone at the same proportion of their interment of profit.
Eve: Programming Designed for Humans (2016)
Personally, I don't know, but one argument friends have made is that you "tax what you want less of" and taxing businesses might create a smaller economy.

I also wonder about the laffer curve, where sometimes higher taxes might lead to lower tax revenue and vice versa.
I was about to share this with my peers and end the day with a happy discovery but you had to ruin it, didn't ya?
> 3-4 seconds after load. It's just enough time for me to identify the result I want, move the mouse there, and then proceed click on the new, different link that just loaded under my mouse.

You have in duplex in one small fragment enunciated wonderfully why the rodent is never to be used for anything but video games and image editing.
Bermuda is an island of 65k people in the middle of the Atlantic with 40k registered companies.

Claiming sovereignty to take registration fees from multinationals that want to obfuscate their financials is just absurd. This is just blatant financial shenanigans:

https://www.gov.bm/38865/google-bermuda-limited-thomas-hutch...

https://www.gov.bm/18571/general-electric-bermuda-ltd-marcel...

https://www.gov.bm/30983/caterpillar-bermuda-holding-company...
There is a large contingent of people who support the ruling party (BJP) who vote down any article which doesn't give a flattering opinion of BJP and its handling of the situation in India.
Dear Nature peer reviewers, maybe could I introduce you to the 112,000 jumpback whales or the 40,000 fin whales returning to the area after its chase was forbidden just 6 decades ago? It seems a fact that would merit to be discussed in the article at least. Several big populations of whales where at the brink of extinction then. Maybe the euphausiacean population was abnormally high before, and more normal now?.

Finding preys to quit gradually the surface and search for deeper areas when its main predators gradually increase is not a strange outcome, or one that would need necessarily a climate change explanation as the main factor. The study toke samples of the first 10 meters of water only.
S&P 500 CAPE ratio says the US index is in an epic bubble
Pocketing corporate money is illegal. If they do it legally, it’s taxed as income/dividends/capital gain.

I don’t see the problem.
Physical security is a public good, while computer security is a private good. (Websearch the definitions if you don’t know them already.) The economics just don’t match up.
But China and Iran are not democratic nations. And he has less than 2 years. If Iran has the power and will, and hoe come they have routinely fail to stop those sabotaging their infrastructure. I think China is the only one with that unique capability right now.
"Ability to terminate account => ability to supervise customers." What? :D
This is perhaps true of revenue tax. But for VAT You can deduct VAT of sales from VAT of purchases.
Because it all works out in the end. If a company is taxed more it just means less profits which means I have a smaller 401k, fewer employees and so on, buys less materials, does less work...

Corporations aren't magic money trees. It's like damming a river, you don't get magic free water and get to send water downstream too. Dams have lots of downsides in return for controlling flow.
Imagine what could get done if a $10k-$30k "donation" wouldn't work on a Congressman.
Coming soon: Tingler.

Tired of swiping in data apps? Tired of having to come up with Instagram worthy profile pictures? Tired of ice breaker questions? With Tingler, that's all in the past!

Just put on a pair of our patent pending funderwear w/ 360 tingly and step outside. First, our GPS enabled guidance system will tingle you to where the party is. Once you arrive, just start mingling & tingling. The embedded engorge-o-meter will sense blood flow & take note of who turns you on. If someone else REALLY likes you, too, we'll tingle you together. It's a lot easier to get into someone else's pants when their pants are trying to get into yours!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/0...

“Rock mythology has it that even though they were around only for a few years, everyone who went to a Velvet Underground concert went out and started a band.”

Several other versions of the quote exist there too. They all support the idea of the outsized influence of a small hyper loyal following. This is consistent with the 1000 (or 100) fans idea.

https://a16z.com/2020/02/06/100-true-fans/
The apologism is pretty remarkable here. Yes, the attempt was to save masks for healthcare workers, but the message was clear that masks didn’t make that much difference. Fauci should own that, not twist words to claim he never said it.
This looks really great.

£35 Individual, £100 Team, £600 Company, seems like fair/straightforward pricing for a team that has members who know some Rust but haven't built out a production API with it yet. I wish every tech stack had a book like this, and I think it'll be particularly valuable for an exciting new language with a learning curve like Rust.

I will note, though, that I'm currently consulting on a team that's transitioning away from Rust for their startup's GraphQL backend because they found it too slow/difficult to onboard more junior engineers to the language. Personally I find the Rust code pretty great, but the learning curve (and perhaps even talent cliff) is something to keep in mind if you're considering Rust for a standard web api use-case.

TypeScript is probably a more appropriate choice for most situations – still a rich, powerful type system, great performance, and much faster compilation times (and thus iteration speeds) and much, much easier to find engineers who will be productive within a month on your codebase.

EDIT: To be clear, I still consider myself a fan of Rust, and am keen to have an excuse to use it.
Previous attempts to unify the world have been somewhat unedifying, to say the least, but let's not go there...

The main problem with removing boundaries and autonomy, whether this happens on a small scale such as a family group, or on a global scale, is that the very worst actors and ideas no longer face obstacles to their influence, there is no means of escaping them, and no better alternatives by which to judge them. It creates a race to the bottom.
Not my concern really, but if you need to comment that someone else used a conservative website as a source for something and that’s “an issue”... you might need more conservative sources in your own reading.
Bring life to your AWS infrastructure
The IRS would be self funding and generate huge net profit if it would be allowed to hire more people and enforce tax regulation.
I'm not entirely sure why you think what corporations -prefer- matters when it comes to a discussion on taxation?
The same way it did with Afghanistan, presumably?
The Mystery of the Phantom of Heilbronn
Well easy is relative, but yeah you can do quite a lot better than the basic bilinear or bicubic upsampling that seems to be common. However most common image tools (and video players) don't seem to put in the effort, with very few exceptions.
> like to the value created.

Or to the value stolen. You have to understand that by giving state power to the wealthy, they will declare their own actions legitimate and the actions of the poor to be illegitimate.
So I've just tinkered around a bit in Rust, and I'm not intimately familiar with the language. My experience has been pretty good, but I don't see how it's a good fit for the web domain. At least not the enterprisey, CRUD, business apps I'm used to building.

I'd be curious to hear from people who have been using Rust for their web backends, though. Beyond the classic selling points of speed and safety, what benefits have you found that apply to web development? Have you had any issues with the ecosystem or finding developers?
This comment basically drips with a fundamental inability to see this situation from the other person's perspective. Even to see the most basic thing, which is that other people have no oracular powers with which to discern whether you or your dog are well-behaved.
Is it cool now to just link to landing pages where you sell things now?

Am I missing something?

Why the hell are people upvoting a “buy now with discount code” page?
> vodka freezes when you put it in the freezer
Sorry, I am ignorant on this issue , but should vodka not freeze when put in the freezer?
Nope. Employees are an expense. Expenses are subtracted from income before taxes are calculated.
You kid but I've seen product teams put interaction metrics like this as OKRs and ruin their product.

"Data driven" development so often forgets about common fucking sense.
Your 9 and 10 aren’t captured by corporate tax either, because spending money reduces profit.

But your 9 and 10 are captured by the income tax of the people tasked with executing these operations.
Sad-yet-amusing fact: apparently most of the W3C member [0] websites can't pass the W3 HTML validator [1], for some years now (possibly it was the case for as long as both existed). With that in mind, failures to pass fairly complex tests for things conceived recently, which everyone isn't supposed to follow, are far from surprising.

[0] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership.html

[1] https://validator.w3.org/
Thunderstorms have been happening with some predictability since before birds even evolved. A buzzing, hovering, and erratically moving clanking mechanical thing is extremely novel.

Which of those two would the birds have a genetically and socially built-in way to cope and survive through?
I too would be interested in a deep dive into the mysteries of dark energy.

I do know that the DES is just releasing its catalog of 700M+ astronomical objects. It will probably be years before analysis bears fruit. And there is always the risk of raising more questions than answers.

https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/des-year-3-cosmology-result...

Your question also reminds me of the "20 Unsolved Problems in Physics" that is now more than 20 years old. It was thought that many of these would no longer be classified as "unsolved" by now ;)

http://www.calphysics.org/problems.pdf
Hopefully we can have some conversation about the ecosystem and state of rust for backend webapps.
Has there been any effect on downstream prices of the goods and services offered by those companies, or has it all been pure gain for the workers?
Sacha has nice content and might know of other resources. I am sure she has noticed how few publish in that space and how many opportunities for women emacs users to share exist.
Of course, why else do you think corporately bought-and-paid-for dems think immigration should basically be open borders? Probably the largest anti-strong-borders people are Big Ag.

The people that actually care about the workers at the bottom of the totem pole (Bernie Sanders mostly) were strongly against such policies until the increasingly polarized nature of our politics made it untenable to be on the "left" and not pro-endless-immigration.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not generally in favor of protectionism and think our immigration system could use a bit of renovation, but anyone who pretends that low wages is just corporate America being mean and stealing profits for themselves without also acknowledging the impact of importing massive amounts of unskilled labor is being disingenuous at best.
The intent is like the US’s Alternative Minimum Tax: individuals can use all the tax breaks they qualify for but also calculate AMT which has a simpler formula, and then pay the larger of the two.

In this case the agreement calls for that AMT to be 15% or more.
Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
In the UK if you're in full time employment and only have one job, then there's literally nothing to do. Not even clicking somewhere to approve your tax return - your employer does it all for you. I know people who are literally unaware when the tax year ends because they never in their entire adult lives had to do anything with the tax return - it's just completely irrelevant to a normal working person. And on the ocassion that you have to fill one out for whatever reason, most of it is already prefiled from the information HMRC holds about you already.
You have to choose where to draw the line for yourself.

Today, what do you do if you don't want to join society?

More broadly, what DO you want?
This is collusion, plain and simple.
When Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography about establishing a library, he explained:

“The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the impropriety of presenting one's self as the proposer of any useful project, that might be suppos'd to raise one's reputation in the smallest degree above that of one's neighbors, when one has need of their assistance to accomplish that project. I therefore put myself as much as I could out of sight, and stated it as a scheme of a number of friends, who had requested me to go about and propose it to such as they thought lovers of reading. In this way my affair went on more smoothly, and I ever after practis'd it on such occasions; and, from my frequent successes, can heartily recommend it.”
.youtube isn't shocking. Google also owns .dev A lot of people used to use .dev as a reserved, localhost style dns lookup.
Sure, colonies.
Not a good analogy at all. You're comparing inanimate objects that people consume, entirely by choice, to an animal that can maim or kill others? Find a different rhetorical device, I'd say.
I get that many people share your point of view, but I really do not understand it. Could you elaborate on it? Why would someone not want to join a post scarcity society where the only limits on your freedom is to not hurt other creatures and nature as a whole. A global government is necessary for that, in my mind mainly in order to fund blue sky research, respond to crises, and ensure monopolies are busted.