skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I respect the bodies, and the land, water, air, and other bodies that made them, which is why I prefer my remnants be digested by microbes with minimal resource-cost so long as it is safe enough for the land. We’re so spoiled with luxuries like embalming and fancy boxes. Abstraction layers may still feel like respect, but they distance us from the core of survival, which is the health of the other living things here.
How can we shift our strong, deeply-felt emotions around dead bodies?
I don't think this comment really addresses my point. From what I've seen the dosages (at least for prophylaxis) are similar to what you would normally take. No I don't think it should be rammed down peoples throats without solid evidence but neither should the vaccine. The fact is vaccines take around 7 years to exit trials and so yes I'm hopeful for a proven alternative that's not on trial but the likelihood as far as I'm convinced is nil.
"Part of offering better salaries is also being able to be more selective with who you keep."

If you are a private school, sure. This is not the case for unionized public schools. Did you hear of that famous case where a superintendent fired multiple teachers for abysmal performance and even abusive behavior and was forced by the courts/union to reinstate them with back pay? It's very eye opening.
That’s a very uhm American take on it. Still interesting though
Being poor means being powerless. In every single situation you might find yourself in.
Through state elections. Vote for a government that changes policies. Like every other parent in every other community. I think the main difference is, that Europeans i. general are less individualistic than Americans. Usually, we just accept that kind of things. Except for a small minority.

Philosophically, I would say that a country or nation can only be successful if some common things are equal for everyone. Letting individual groups opt out and in of stuff as they want, just destroys the overall community. And you end up with "haves" picking the cherries while the "have-nots" are left with crap. And nothing in between.
It's in the article, the revoked approvals were not for 'fake' certificates, they were for valid certs from Chinese Bay Area Compliance Laboratories(BACL) offices.

It's unclear the cause of this, one might infer it was US pressure to adhere to the agreement after finding non-compliance, alternatively it could be internally originated investigation.
Bull... shit. We aren't even allowed to give students 0s anymore. 59 is the lowest we are allowed to give students which they literally play like a fiddle to their advantage. Schools, public and most charter, and the overall education system is so bad that it cannot be saved. Not only that but the complete default to cowardice of administrations not wanting to get sued by idiot parents, literally enables idiot parents to be worse idiots and get away with more and more things. EVERYTHING, is rigged against the teachers.
At the company, or in a specific position?

I'd say continuity is fine, if the firm is large enough to offer a career path.
Indeterminacy is crucial for next generation Intelligent System.

See

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3581859
What is low risk tho? Russian roulette is technically low risk P<0.5

I've never before heard of people dying from vaccines so the usual safety bar for vaccines is obviously incredibly much higher than what we have here.
These are extreme arguments with little legroom for nuance. If you are so sure then so be it. There's more than enough news on this countering most of your re-assurances.
There are several subtleties when comparing teacher’s pay. First it’s 10 months not twelve so you need to adjust for that.

Second the pay also usually includes retirement benefits that can pay you 100% off your salary after 30 years. This is hard to compare to private industry since 401ks have replaced pensions. This is probably worth 2-5m when mature, and is accounted for in their pay. I think this is the biggest issue, since private employers pay higher expecting you to invest in your retirement.

Benefits are also usually good with small if any employee contribution. Probably worth a few hundred dollars a month.

It’s almost impossible to lose your job teaching. It has a factor of security that does not exist in private industry.

Pay raises are automatic. Primarily it’s based on years of service and level of education.

I’ve run the numbers previously and it starts seeming fairer, but due to the retirement impact it makes buying a home in the Bay Area almost impossible.
What frustrates people is the percentage paid of income, not the absolute total. People don't like that a person earning $100k pays more as a percentage in tax than does someone earning $10M a year.

I realize the document you shared shows a 25.4% rate paid of AGI for top 1% versus 14.6% for the top 50%. There are a bunch of problems with this though. For starters, people earning under $100k a year have social security tax applied to their entire incomes. High earners also are very likely to shield large amounts of their AGI from taxation in various ways. Poorer people also pay property tax, sales tax, etc.

Anyway, no one is going to argue that a person making $10M who pays $4.5M in tax (or whatever the federal + state statutory rate is) is paying too little. The issue is super-rich people who basically pay nothing. Even the page you linked indicates to me that those in the 90-99 percentile are paying a higher percentage than those in the top 1%, when you count the factors I mentioned above.

FWIW I'm in the top 1%, but I'm not Mark Zuckerberg. I know some of the tricks, because I use them.
Don't forget supporting small strings (<= 7 bytes) in the pointer itself using tag bits. No allocation or dereferencing required.
It's not clear whether you mean it this way or not, but the impression I get from your post is that you're implying millenials are to blame for the downfall of America. It's hard not to take offense to that.
Sure, but than you write a book, or multiple, and not a 2 minute article boiling down to the EU exists because of Truman.
That's a silly and highly unscientific definition that there is no way of demonstrating outside of "just so stories". Oh, someone had an experience and afterwards have symptoms - it must have been trauma.

There is large heterogeneity in the reaction of individuals to the sane exact experience, and sometimes what initially appears damaging ends up doing the opposite.
They dont even have to occupy anything, merely cutting the West off TSMC would make China position 10x stronger.
This is a naively exceptionalist view of America‘s role in the world.

> enabled secure trade between countries

Unless you’re Venezuela, Iran or (until recently) Cuba, or anyone that didn’t play ball with the US in the Cold War era and after. Then you get sanctioned to hell and your ships seized for daring to trade with anyone else.

> brought 75 years of peace to Europe

If you’re referring to WWII, the US had very little role in ending the war in Europe.

> allowed the rise of China

It is Chinese economic policy that allowed the rise of China. The US literally engaged in a trade war against China.

> brought billions out of poverty by removing many of the limitations of geography

Economic globalization was brought on by the development of nuclear weapons, not by the generosity of any individual country.
The king would say “the peasants have no idea how good they have it”, and would be right in many ways, but is this the best we can do?
Nice comment but I think this is a bit wide of the mark. Schools are a state and local issue in the US where party is less significant. Look at the difference between a "republican" in, say, California's central valley vs. the same in Alabama. In most other places, that'd be two different parties.

Though I agree we'd be better off with something more like Germany or the UK, with coalitions.
Put some keywords into Google Scholar and you will find heaps of research on this topic. Here’s the first one I found. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/eej.2014.22

> We estimate several models with an extensive list of control variables and high school fixed effects. Results consistently show that high school GPA is a positive and statistically significant predictor of educational attainment and earnings in adulthood. Moreover, the coefficient estimates are large and economically important for each gender.
Must be a bunch of idiots working over there on YouTube, huh? Sounds like you have some inside knowledge about Google's resourcing of and attention paid to the COVID epidemic worldwide.
That was intentional, nodding to the dead living on in living memory.

I’m okay with the spark of life being a result of a collection of stuff and the interactions amongst it all.

I treat the dead with respect because I’m my own panopticon.
> pushing narratives that directly contradict our scientific understanding to an audience of nonscientists.

How do you know the audience are nonscientists? Why would that be so bad,are nonscientists to be kept dark until 100% agreement among scientists is reached?

Science advances on many fronts, not just in peer reviewed papers.
Congrats! You just created a massive incentive to churn your investment holdings!

Make an investment in a new technology? Best to sell before your returns are 10% (or 20% in 2 years, etc), then immediately buy back in and repeat.

No doubt this would seriously disincentivize long term investment.
I admit I got your comment a bit confused with another talking about local government. But the solution I think is in the same direction - start local. The few hundred people in congress aren't self-sufficient. They need support from the rest of the party machines to get campaign money and turn money into votes. Changing what the parties will support at the local level changes who gets the big money and who gets elected.

Shorter version though: campaign finance reform, oppose voter suppression, and ranked-choice voting.
But why is the state the right level for decision making?

Why is decision making at a lower level wrong? And why is decision making at a higher level not better? Why did you pick 'state' level and go with that?
The Economist is a British magazine, and their Charlemagne commentator writes about Europe.
Yeah it is, I can definitely type my SSID in any device that I have.
> climate change isn't some liberal fetish

It's not and I'm pretty sure most people agree. But the activists are focusing their efforts in all the wrong places. We have Extinction Rebellion extremists gluing themselves to electric trains in London. Electric. In the mean while, the likes of China and India are by far the biggest culprits while Africa is projected to quadruple it's population while rapidly industrializing. The growing number of people is the main problem.

The world is heading for the climate catastrophe and getting Americans to swap their trucks for Teslas is not going to change anything.
Jumping at the opportunity to lead and fighting (figuratively) to spar with the instructor first seems like behavior that some would find heroic and others would find unfair. (note that boys that behave this way in elementary school are mostly advised to take medication to calm down and behave like their female classmates).
Because some people react badly means everyone does? Stellar logic there mate.
> If you’re referring to WWII, the US had very little role in ending the war in Europe.

Wow. Except, you know, for Normandy.
Ahhh yes, how Western civilization will end. It will be replaced by the far more equitable and non-corrupt tax systems found in Asia and Africa.
Joining a company out of college that I thought was good and staying with that company to this day (9 years later). I'm a midlevel making under $100k and was screwed over multiple times in contradiction to what the company promised and what the policies say.
They might not use it much, but they almost all seem to have it? (At least at the college level: I live in a college town and am a part of the local government here. For the record, almost all of the organization people do for politics and notifications people get about government services comes via either Facebook itself or Facebook's other service, Instagram. If someone is banned from Facebook, they are pretty fucked.)
>> Also, how free speech are those venues in the early internet? Were they literally "as long as it's legal we'll let you post it"?

Yes. On Usenet you could and still can post anything you want. Even if is/was illegal. Warez, drugs, and other less-then-savory stuff have had whole boards devoted to them.

>>Could you get away with spamming racist posts, or would you get shunned/blocked by the community?

Once again yes. On Usenet, you could get kicked from a particular discussion depending whether an admin thought one was racist, not racist enough, or for any reason at all. However, there was nothing stopping one from making a different account and continuing to use the same board. After all, there wasn't a real name or email requirement a la Facebook back then or even today. Think 4chan or early Reddit but with more academics. That's what Usenet was and, to a more limited extent, so were BBSs.

>>It's not free of scoundrels, but they're diluted and moderated to the point that you don't notice them.

The dilution you speak of is a passive one and never permanent. It just happens to exist because most people are ignorant and uninterested enough to not give to certain types of scoundrels for the time being much serious attention. Their ignorance serves as a buffer against the spread of ideas. But up to a point. That same ignorance breeds naiveté towards seriously considering certain critical issues and leaves them susceptible to manipulation when faced with an issue one "feels" is important, but lacks an internalized explanation for. At a some critical juncture - a word said, a topic raised - the once blissful, sleeping giant of collective ignorance thrusts itself into the tumult armed with nothing by shoddy memes and crackpot ideas peddled by the scoundrels of their choosing. Except those scoundrels don't call themselves "scoundrels". These mainstream-appealing types call themselves "Joe Blow", " just a guy like you", a "clinical expert", a "thinker", a "hard-hitting journalist", etc. Maybe they believe their own drek or maybe they sell their horseshit with knowing impunity. Either way, mainstream audiences are generally less well-equipped (and likely less interested) to actively think through their chosen scoundrels positions, despite the wishful thinking behind the "wisdom of the crowds"-types suggesting otherwise.

On a free speech platform, a la Voat or Usenet, you know what you're getting itself into without any of the pretensions. The value in the content is in digesting the premises and principles behind one's thinking. How close one is to recreating society or its proclaimed values is not the goal or the measure by which one delineates, or should delineate, scoundrels from non-scoundrels. Doing so just breeds stagnation and scoundrels of a different strain: empty-headed, hypocritical pundits.
It's probably cheaper and easier just to jam the Wi-Fi bands than to try this trick.
This was an exceptional comment. Have you considered writing a book about food?
New Deep Learning Tech Can Make Videos Out of Still Images
I'm not sure the level of population in these areas would ever be sustainable, climate change or not.
OK, where's the data?
You shouldn’t have a problem once new players enter and want a share of that pie. Afterall its all good.
Thinking the best course of action is to operate within the bounds of an existing paradigm, rather than lobbying for paradigm altering changes at the highest levels.

Buying into any zeitgeist at any level. Related: underappreciating the pervasiveness of financially-motivated thinking.
I am pretty sure that I can have injection attacks from unsanatized user inputs in any language.
If you're going to bad your business on someone else's business, you're in for a bad time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19... US CIA backed murder of 500k to 1.2m indonesians in 1965

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state-sponso...
"The United States has at various times in recent history provided support to terrorist and paramilitary organizations around the world. It has also provided assistance to numerous authoritarian regimes that have used state terrorism as a tool of repression"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
"they werne't civilians, they were policemen, promise!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinwiesenlager
operating their own concentration camps, not reporting the deaths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Agent_Orange_on_the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._...

it is still not clear why USA completely destroyed libya either
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...

most importantly of all though it is unclear why the USA invaded middle east and directly caused the deaths of millions of people, and has engaged in 20 years of non stop warfare. 23 years if you count yugoslavian intervention.
> And side effects have been tracked. How can we find this number? We already have it.

Oh, that is great! Where can I find this tracker and the reports of side-effects? And this number we have, what is it? Can you write it here?

Should I rely for this information on my TV news?
“Loophole” is just a legal tax move people don’t like.

Note - it’s still legal.

So your idea is to punish people for doing legal things?
FYI there is an entire book at deals with this topic called "10% less democracy". Basic idea is that the US has become too democratic.

Places like Singapore have a different attitude toward this that's worth understanding (not saying it's right, just different and worth understanding, like comparing OSX to Windows). There are parts of the US government that operate this way, like the Federal Reserve.

One interesting proposal from the book is having congress pass a tax law that's very simple, something like "the top 10% of income-earners should pay 15% of all revenue" and giving the IRS (career tax experts) much more leeway to write the tax code, in a way that complies with the stated (democratically accountable) objectives, but maximizes simplicity and ease of enforcement. I think there's something to that.

There's a place for technocrats. But in today's extremely "power to the people" moment that gives us Trump and Sanders, it seems like a harder sell.
Oh wow, so that effectively means C's are 50%.
> the US had very little role in ending the war in Europe

This is bonkers-tier delusional.
I've refused to hire people who job-hopped every year or two.

With a record like that, there's zero reason to expect they're going to stick around. Why invest in bringing them up to speed if they're just going to leave?
Much of the competitive advantage that pushed manufacturing overseas was that people in poorer countries would accept lower wages for similar work compared to doing it in the US. That lowers costs a lot and makes up for other inefficiencies like prototyping time (though that has come down since so much is concentrated and can be developed locally in places like Shenzhen) and transportation.
Personally, I love it and will vote to continue it every time.

Do not mind if it is a jobs program. People need the work. Rain sucks. Handling gas sucks.

I get to catch up on a text, queue a show up for driving and pretty much never mind a wait.
In my experience, if you have a PhD you can get a job working with the models. It will likely be called something fancier.

Without the PhD, I feel like you're just a data jockey. Just clean the data and create APIs for the PhDs and consumers to use.
Which included British, Canadian and French forces. Still, US military contribution was bigger than in WW1. The main US contribution was industrial and financial, the blood in Europe was mostly from the USSR.
That's not what it would do. Think about it.

Edit to add color:

If you hold 6 months, the hurdle rate would be ~5%. If you hold 18 months, it's ~15%. You can't avoid the tax by churning, unless you're phenomenally lucky at market timing. The hurdle rate isn't 10%. It's 10% per year. That makes a huge difference. There is no incentive to churn your holdings. Quite the contrary, as the percentage taxed at a lower rate goes up each year.
Everyone knows the US has done terrible things.

But at the same time everyone knows if they had work with one ally it'd be the US because they're less terrible than everyone else.

I'm not American but I know if I had to put my life in the hands of one other country than my own it'd definitely be the US, and I'd be pretty confident in doing that.
Depends on where the definition for "internet" is coming from. I, for one, do believe that from the point of view that the foundation of the internet resides in ArpaNet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET), which is indeed an American invention.
> I am not in favor of states.

What are you in favor of, then?
I have both books but yet to finish

The latter book you recommend is Nand2Tetris I believe
> That’s a very uhm American take on it.

But it's British.
For hardware, I agree. I thought the headline was about software - larger touch-friendly buttons, and more locked-down sandboxes for software. But after drooling over iPhone CPU hardware for a while and being put off by the app store design, I'm very interested in a M1-based machine that I could write my own software on. So Apple's tablet-based hardware is getting a more PC-like OS.
See the following article:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
I'm curious how you think the third is consistent with the idea that minors can't consent to sex. Do you justify it pragmatically or is there something deeper?
Population growth in Africa has approximately nothing to do with the problems facing the American West. The problem in America is due to ridiculous property- and ag-developer-friendly water policies that resulted in “water credits” being tossed around like candy and a ridiculous belief that places like Palm Springs are built on “prehistoric aquifers” that will “last centuries.”

Suburbanization is still in vogue in those parts.

The problems have only begun.
Knowing this makes me wonder if they've ever read their About page. The Goals and Metrics section seems to have not made much of an impact on their own staff.
Beyond just anecdotes of the rich “paying no tax”, do you have a data source to show it’s widespread? All I see are individual examples that are often “off years”.

The latest data I saw from the IRS showed a consistent progressive tax rate right up to the top 0.1% (who pay the highest effective tax rate).

Even the Propublica article showed that Elon paid $500M in taxes when he sold $1.5B in shares.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the...
Then he should now better. Especially with that handle.