skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s how it should work, and that’s why wages have remained suppressed in our country for so long. In my area is a large turkey processing plant - if you ever eat turkey there’s a good chance you’ve eaten something from there. I’m in Minnesota. Inside the plant is cold, wet, incredibly loud even with earmuffs, and the workers are doing repetitive tasks all day.
In the 80s, it was a crappy job that paid well. Local people (including my mom) worked there as a sacrifice to get more money and get ahead.
After that, they discovered they could keep the pay low if they hired on people that didn’t have a better option - illegal immigrants. There was literally a sign advertising for people to come to that town of 20,000 at the Mexican border.
But then they had to stop doing that, both for presumably legal reasons and because Mexicans have integrated and have better options. It just so worked out that our state started importing “refugees” from Somalia at the same time.
I’ve been in the plant a couple of times myself. There are literally no base-level workers that aren’t immigrants. None. In rural Minnesota.
This has suppressed wages for our area as a whole for decades. It’s a huge plant - if they already had to pay people $20 or $25 instead of what they do now just imagine the ripple effect that would have on the local economy.
If tether went away tomorrow, 60 billion of "assumed dollars" backing up crypto asset values would also vanish. Such an event would immediately tank the dollar value of all cryptocurrencies (real dollars, not USDT, that one would explode to the moon instead). And not just by 60 billion dollars of total market cap, but more like 600 billion to a trillion. There's a lot of fantasy value for each actual dollar (or USDT, as long as people believe these are basically equal) in the crypto market caps.
Double taxation is a funny concept because the economy is cyclic anyway. If any given dollar could only be taxed once, eventually you'd run out of untaxed dollars to tax.
In this list only tensorflow requires Python
Could the recovery of whale populations have a role in this?
> You’re ignoring that the companies can just keep lots of cash without distributing it to individuals

Nobody benefits from a company growing indefinite wealth without distributing it to actual people.

> So for example the company can rent houses, cars, and airplanes for every employee

If they could do this, all companies would do this already to avoid taxes. In reality, this is dealt with by (in the UK) considering those things "benefits in kind" aka equivalent to cash.
I hadn’t realized that user stylesheet support had ended. I feel like I should bemoan the loss of user control, but in reality, few people used them.
So, a Makefile written in YAML?
JavaScript Promise for Asynchronous Programming
A short article that ends with "That’s life." doesn't really inspires me anything.

Unemployment is high in many developed countries, and society is unable to occupy people with meaningful activities, to give sense to their existence, or even to give enough money to unproductive people so that they can be happy enough.

I have been depressed and unemployed for a long time, and the fact that you literally have to beg for a job just so you can get out of bed and see other people shows that work doesn't matter. Salary doesn't matter.

Work and labor has become a religion because people are afraid they might not have any purpose or to end up alone and excluded from society. You can even see unions doing politics and fighting capitalists, but completely disregard people who are unemployed.

Once you give enough money to everyone so that they have a right to exist, get shelter and food, maybe people won't be alienated by work.
I wonder how essential the Panama canal actually is. If the Panamanian government decided to play rough and use it as a threat, there are several alternatives for global shipping. Some could use the Suez canal instead with only a minor increase in shipping time. Others could use rail, and the worst affected could still go through the Magellan straight.
Are people culpable for flu deaths, too? That’s a shaky chain of responsibility.
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تواصل اان معنا وتعرف على افضل العروض الرائعة من خلال كود خصم الذي يوفر لكم افضل العروض والخصومات العالمية التى تصل الى 40%
Could you elaborate on when they wouldn't treat regressions as blockers? I'm not very familiar with LLVM and couldn't gather that from the "How To Release LLVM To The Public" docs [1].

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.html
Of course - there was never a real danger of a global thermonuclear war. Police brutality, on the other hand, is real.
The government supports what is known as a Publc Distribution System (PDS) for low cost food grains etc. These are available to people who can show that they have a "ration card" which is given to low income families.

The problem is that the PDS system is quite dysfunctional and so the rations available is quite low even as food grains rot in the warehouses.
Everyone knows that food banks are only for the poor. Vaccination sites usually aren't.
Most MFA solutions are vulnerable to attack because there is a real challenge handling enrollment and lost tokens. It requires verification of the user, which guess what? Hard to do especially with remote users.
It certainly wasn't right from a Haitian point of view, but sometimes, better put up with it and have a powerful ally during your start as an independent country, whatever the debt cost, than be fighting them forever at tremendous cost for every sides.

Debt between countries don't matter much, and I certainly hope one day we'll have the budget to repay Haiti, but I'm happy we solved it with this infamy rather than murdered each other for decades. It's not the most optimal way we could have behaved, but we've been more abject with former colonies.
I realize that habitat loss is a big thing, but I also know that some krill-eating species like the big whales have rebounded over the last 60 years. Could this decline in krill be the result of the return of the whales?
This is really a case of 8. I doubt that Apple has an account full of US dollars, and I mentioned that low yields on safe investments is already a way of “taxing” this money in order to encourage spending or riskier investment.
> And, I've seen it in Rust as a "workaround" for the borrow checker, where that framing tends to make it feel like cheating or settling, which IMO is unfortunate since when people arrive at it for other reasons it seems to have a lot of other benefits!

Great point! I've been using Rust for 4–5 years now and putting objects in Vecs and using integers as "pointers" felt a lot like cheating (i.e., "I'm doing the wrong™ thing!"), but every time I tried to "fix" things to use references my code ended up uglier, harder to understand, and sometimes slower.

In time, I've learned that it's perfectly fine way to structure data. And as you point out, it makes it easier to work on a large structure structure itself rather than having to go through its individual components (e.g., you can manipulate all the nodes in a graph with a simple for loop rather than having to do a DFS/BFS traversal).
Yeah, sure! especially if the information contradicts your worldview
You can even use https://ideasai.net/ to get ideas on your email!
However, within the EU they also have a nice (or at least automatable) online system where small businesses can process inter-country VAT sales declarations through their own country's tax system. It's not particularly onerous for small businesses to sell across borders to other countries within the EU.
Hi guys!

We're happy to show Vuestic UI library to you!

It is far from being perfect but we're aimed to gradually improve the lib. I houpe you'll find it useful and would love to hear your feedback :)
To the point that we call the bundle of rights corporations get “corporate personhood”. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood)

Frankly, if OP doesn’t want me to anthropomorphize corporations for tax purposes, they’ll need to go back in time and stop the courts from anthropomorphizing them for various rights.

If a company gets 1A rights under citizens united, then it can have tax obligations as well.

I’m pretty over this double standard where companies are handed various rights, but not commensurate obligations.
If I've understood the science stories I've been reading the organisms closer to the bottom of the food chain (plankton, krill, insects, etc) outnumber us in terms of biomass, and we are incredibly dependent on the part they play in our ecosystem. The decline in these species is something to take very seriously.
States Fight over How Our Data Is Tracked and Sold Online, as Congress Stalls
Or you could click on the article and see for yourself, under the safe presumption that the researchers would do a more thorough job than the lay person. From the article, figure 2:

> Mean spatial abundance of euphausiids per decade in the North Atlantic from 1958–2017 split into six time-periods 1958–1967; 1968–1977; 1978–1987; 1988–1997; 1998–2007; 2008–2017.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-02159-1/figures/2
This assumes an elastic supply of labor. Higher wages in warehouse work will draw more marginally-employable laborers into the general market, and off of public assistance.
Change through government regulation is really only compelled individual change. If everyone changed their behavior of their own free will -- well, we wouldn't need laws at all; this would be a solution for everything!

So, on the one hand I agree with you, justifying one's own failure to change by claiming only federal action will work is mostly just laziness and selfishness papered over with a thin excuse. On the other, mass personal enlightenment will not occur nearly fast enough to solve the problem if it's even possible at all. And in the meantime you'll have unrepentant selfish people freeloading, some of them rolling coal to spite you because they take your virtue as a personal slight or because they're sadists.

By all means, everyone should take this seriously and do what they can without compulsion. I've been striving to do this since the eighties. But honestly if we want to fix the problem the only thing that can come up to scale with sufficient speed is decisions by people who control large segments of the economy, i.e. governments and corporations.
Yeah tensor flow is python, and is a nightmare to work with.

That's not Rs fault though
The government could tax shareholders, i.e. the people who receive a corporations profits to begin with.
Isn't this more about epigenetics? Your environment does control how the future generations evolve.

What fascinates me is how living things can practically "will" a gene mutation that would help the offsprings adapt to a changing environment, the most vivid example of that being Darwin's finches:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2017/09/06/how-do...
Would be great if we can link to a html instead of the PDF. A live demo.
There sure are a lot of roadblocks in our country to having enough medical professionals to keep wages from going down.
Even though this isn’t official guidance at my FAANG, I’ve started weeding out anyone who (as best as I can infer) cares about political activism. They are damaging to an organization. Even if they don’t start political interest groups at work, they will bring up political topics in casual conversation which will exclude certain people’s viewpoints.

My stance is, we pay you to be an engineer, so I hire people devoted solely to engineering.
Code density
Do we just downvote people now who contradict the majority’s opinion?

As far as I can say this adds to the discussion.

Someone literally said people who don’t have their dogs on leashes are prone to violent confrontations.

Then someone else retorted this is not the case for them and asked for elaboration to better understand their interlocutor’s point of view.

We should not be abusing downvote privilegies by discouraging viewpoints that we disagree with, when these viewpoints are relevant to the discussion. In the long run that will be harmful to ths community here and the next generation of hackers will go to different forums, or, worse, learn from our example.
Talk to a person who spent a lot of time in nature 60 years ago and they'll tell you about water was overflowing with fish. Insects basically clouded the skies in summer. Forests and fields were full of animals and they'd regularly wake up to wild animals at their front door every morning.

It sounds like tall tales to a large number of people today, but even in my short life of only 30 years, the change is huge. I remember being a kid and windshields being covered in insects after a 30 minute drive. I remember turning a light on outside at night and the sides of the house being swarmed luna moths, hordes of bats swooping by and grabbing everything they could, and possums scattering away from the porch. I'd walk around the lake and see snapping turtles lazing about in the sun. Fish splashing in the water. Walking in streams, there'd be so many crayfish that they'd slip inside my sandals and I'd accidentally crush them.

Now I see nothing.
As programmers, we have the ability to automate such things (given enough time).

Not everybody is so lucky.
Recording brain activity with laser light
berth
Oh nice! Coming soon to a https://kraken.io near you.
Well, this region includes China, Afghanistan and Pakistan .. thus in comparison India does look most reasonable.
The “cover your ass” culture in the US is getting out of hand. Since when did we expect church lady behavior from everyone? I object.
> It's causing a fair amount of panic, because 96% of sites fail the test.

Good. That sounds like a realistic estimation of the number of slow and bloated websites. What good are nice animations and designs when they destroy the UX?

You'll never see someone gaming in 4k with hardware that can't render it with more than 15FPS. Yet we see that kind of "tradeoff" every time we browse the web. Users get loading times for the site itself, then processing of JS to redundantly do the browser's job of arranging the 20 layers of <div>s, then loading animations for the actual contents, and then a couple seconds after that you might get the first thumbnails.

And I'm absolutely not surprised Google's pages fail this test as well; Everything from Google Images to YouTube got increasingly worse with every new design iteration, with both slower loading times as well as an increase in breakage.
Our company had just transitioned from social networking to social commerce, and was starting to build out features like a shopping cart, product listings, etc. So the valuation was mostly hand-waiving based on the fact that we were the most recognized e-commerce brand in the region, despite not really being an e-commerce business yet.

We were doing about half a billion in annual GMV but none of it monetized yet.
> So for example the company can rent houses, cars, and airplanes for every employee ...

there's already laws in the books today that those are taxable as in-kind compensation
I wonder what might motivate someone to post this. Oh, right.
How about the self-sustaining farmer who doesn't need to work in society? Completely capable individual, has a certain way of life, and suddenly they don't need to contribute?

How about the person who has so much wealth that they will never need to work in their life?

Government is labor that benefits the people. The only way an individual can escape the duty is if they are incapable or if society deems that they deserve a break.

Taxing only income misses the mark by a bunch.
The deadweight loss of taxation is much lower for a land tax than an income tax. The deadweight loss is the economic resources allocated to complying with the tax. The armies of tax lawyers would be able to perform other economically productive activities if they weren't pouring over the tax code.

Pigovian taxation is even better. Taxing gas is a great example. Gas consumers emit carbon which has a cost for society. We should make them pay for this negative externality via a gas tax, so their consumption is economically optimal. This is how to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons.

I'd argue that some taxes are objectively better than others and not all equally wrong.
It truly is a terribly site, in terms of performance. Streaming HD content used to be the "hard problem", but now it's displaying the site hosting the videos that the issue.

You can stream HD content on the lowest end device, or hardware almost 10 years old. The same hardware just isn't powerful enough to let you use the YouTube website in a performant way. I cannot fathom how YouTube doesn't see that as a problem.
I hope background pages is still available for manifest v3 at least in firefox as service worker still has limitation in comparison:

[meta] Deprecate background pages in favor of service workers: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578286
It's also incredible that the article has the word "extension" nine times, and the word "plug-in" zero times, but they throw that in the headline.
Another thing to consider is where are the Amazon warehouses located? They aren’t as ubiquitous as Target, Home Depot, etc. Our closest one is a 40 minute car drive away by the airport. And no public transportation goes there. So do I drive in my car for 40 minutes to go to work for $15/hour, or do I go to work for $13.50-14/hour (the typical minimum wage where I live) at a place that is a few minutes away?
Author's bio is cringeworthy, why is this even on HN.
Optimise Node.js performance by avoiding broken promises
I don't normally get on THIS soapbox, but there is a difference between "Indians" and "Native Americans".

Indians are from the country of India. Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the America's. And the subject of this article.
Western dotcoms are pretty impotent when it comes to the Chinese ban. Local alternatives will always crop up
His prediction was overly pessimistic, but based on OP's article it appears his account of the current state of the ice was spot on. This doesn't seem surprising since his specialty was observing the ice, not modeling the future.
Anyone who orders anything besides a coffee at Starbucks is evil in my book.
With less food the only avenues for adaptation I can see are becoming fewer or smaller.

ETA At mass extinctions the things that survive and repopulate the Earth are the small generalists with a fast reproductive cycle. Whales are the opposite of this.
That’s a choice, and one we could change.

My company is taxed on revenue (under the Washington State B&O tax scheme, and similar local tax schemes).

Taxing based on revenue is viable, it just needs to be done with a little more care up front.
Wouldn’t that exacerbate the tech giant problem? Currently their war chests only get opened to vulture up fledgling companies. I’m not saying it can be instantaneously transmuted into gold if the government tried to take more, but I can’t see your proposal alleviating that problem.
Only authoritarians support censorship. Kneel down and kiss the hand that feeds you cowards.
> And when we're talking about companies creating unbannable sites, we're absolutely talking about companies dictating law.

Government banning speech is a very bad thing. This usually leads to death, and violence, like a lot of it, and most extreme one.
While it is true that Amazon raised their wages to at least $15/hr, they also cut healthcare, benefits, and other things their employees were receiving.

Why Amazon is Begging For Regulations: The Twisted Economics of Amazon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPGZgujnVek
AntiX Linux
Krill is a keystone species. Lose krill and the food chain collapses — at least krill is thought to hold such a role in the Southern Hemisphere. There, it is harvesting for omega 3 supplements that’s causing the decline. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/mar/23/fishing....
Google makes small Android advertising concession in wake of iOS 14.5
I'm not the GP but I'd like to comment on this because it's an interesting question.

Some people are afraid of dogs. Others come from cultures where dogs are considered ritually unclean. And no stranger can verify just by a glance that your dogs will behave themselves.

To take the third point to its logical extreme, imagine a town where police wear street clothes and openly carry firearms. You, a visitor, cannot determine by observation alone that they are all highly trained officers of the law. You simply see people with firearms. That could be unsettling, despite the fact that the presence of those people actually makes you safer.

I suppose that if everyone is walking their dogs without a leash, it's not really an issue because the culture has adapted to that practice.
The problem is I don't know your dogs are well controlled. I've been bitten twice over the last year by leashless dogs.

This could of course be solved by introducing stiff penalties for owners of unleashed dogs who bite -- how about a fixed 10,000 dollar fine?
These taxes are paid by various stakeholders and entities around the business. The public gets the tax income and uses it for services to allow the business to operate.

Do you feel the cost/value of having the ability to a call a number and have a well trained team put out a fire in minutes that could ruin your business is 0 or free? What about rules/services that allows your business to have an advantage over another in a different region?

Taxes need to be paided by everyone. Corporations use more services than you would think and rely on a stable government that they need to contribute to.
Delhi Government has done many mistakes, but still let's keep HN clean from shady websites and politics. Thank you.
that is an idea that I've been floating for a while, unfortunately people who don't understand economics and rely mostly on their feelings don't approve, and those are the majority of votes hence the politicians don't want to commit political suicide by promoting something like that.

Think about it, a no tax corporate tax, yet taxing the recipients of dividends and distributions would:

* eliminate tax heavens
* foreign companies would come to the US
* stimulate the economy
* benefit the shareholders at large

Of course the shareholders would pay taxes, and distributions to foreign entities could be taxed at the source.

Easy, smart, logic.
The YouTube app for Android even does this. I have slow Internet, so I always read the description while the video loads. But often when I go to click the description box to expand it, a banner ad loads in its place and pushes the description down.
There may be a political aspect to it, but supply for warehouse type labor has been shrinking and demand was increasing for a decade, so they probably saw the writing on the wall and decided to kill 2 birds with one stone.

But I do not think Amazon can afford to stay competitive with Target and Walmart and Home Depot and spend a material amount more on labor costs too. At least not without subsidizing the retail operations with margins from other areas of the business.
Most countries on earth--US being a notable exception--have a better version of this: the VAT.

It's a very elegant tax on paper, but significantly complicated from an accounting POV. It's one of those areas where there are huge gains to be had from digitizing financial records, and countries that have succeeded in this (like Mexico) create a very powerful revenue source.
I'm a bit confused by your post, it seems you are agreeing with me, but you say you disagree?

I am aware of the difference between capital gains tax and corporate tax (also note that not every country has a capital gains tax). My argument applies to both, i.e. one of the reasons for raising inequality is the inbalance of labour and capital and the low corporate and capital gains taxes definitely contribute.

About the effect of income tax on salar, I'm not quite sure what that has to do with my points. I was not arguing that we should eliminate corporate tax and just let income tax handle it. Unless your argument is we should use income tax instead of corporate tax because it lowers salary?