skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've always been told that the best way to do a pigovian tax is to make it revenue neutral. You collect the sin tax, but then your redistribute it based on the average level of tax collected.

You were lied to. The best sort of pigovian tax scheme, you collect the tax from those that can pay it. And use the money to help those that can't do what you need them to do.

AKA. Put an excise tax on new gasoline cars. Because someone that can afford a new car can certainly pay the tax. Do the same with business leasing cars. Use the money to fund programs to get poor people out of their gasoline cars and into electric ones.

A gas tax on the other hand will be perceived correctly by poor people as a rubber hose that hurts them a lot. And wealthy not at all.
~0% is what many pay right now because various mechanisms are used to pay the tax of the lowest country tax rate. So if you enforce a minimum then likely they will pay ~min%.

This is a game theory problem not an economic or political one.
>Tax the wealthy. Don't let them take "charitable" deductions or use tax-exempt IRAs. 100% inheritance tax above $4 million.

Agree. especially about inheritance[1]. However, as I've said before corporate taxes are double taxation, corporation are paying their dues as every person involved with the corporation is freed from the liability of the business's actions by way of the state allowing liability limiting corporate entities to exist. When the business assumes liability from the owners, it also assumes tax responsibility.

>has caused massive distortions everywhere:

yeah, like in the global level of CO2, or the amount of plastic in the ocean, or the amount of mercury in fish, or....
Plenty of tiny nations already solved this problem by contracting other nations instead of building their own defense infrastructure. Granted it's not free either but much cheaper than building your own.
I don't think it has anything to do with planned obsolescence.

I've had an iPhone battery replaced 3 times now. It's not a big deal to have the store do it for me, nor is it that expensive.

The bigger use case for swappable batteries is to have a spare, but these days people just carry an external battery pack with them that's the capacity they need, which is far more flexible (hold 10 full charges if you need, not just 1!) as well as not tied to any particular model.

So I just don't see any special interest -- it's just giving people the thinness they want.
I honestly don't know. I've been told that by HR folks that I know but never looked into it since I'm in California and it's illegal here. It's possible that it is bad information. I'll update my comment and remove it since neither of us can verify it.
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The US is getting there as well: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/coal/use-of-coal.php

In 10 years the US has more than halved its usage.

China on the other hand, went up at the same time the US went down: https://www.statista.com/statistics/265491/chinese-coal-cons...
i don't love java but no one can argue with the fact that it has fantastic tooling.

properly written java is a joy.
Equifax and their "The Work Number" service limit your ability to negotiate a higher salary when you get a new job. The Work Number has your salary info — your current employer gave it to them. And your new employer knows your current salary — they get it from The Work Number.

If this isn't a serious violation of your privacy I don't know what is.

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Yeah, poor people are paying this tax anyways. No need to impose it a second time on them
I doubt Garry needs the ad revenue (and in the description, he says he's donating 100% to charity). Did you consider that perhaps many people prefer watching a video to reading a blog post?
Also head of the important Central Military Commission which controls the PLA.
That is literally what you get when you pump more energy into a titanic chaotic system with more possible energy than any human war could inflict. When you boost the amount of energy in the system it's further destabilized and the amount of violence unleashed is well beyond the worst we can do with bombs and weapons of war.

I'm not surprised. I've been saying this for years, along with many people who understood that climate was a chaotic system. People just do not understand what's happening.
"for use in addition to a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity"

So really it's not doing much other than reducing how hungry someone feels.

Want to lose weight? It's easy. Go keto. For people that are fat, like myself, cutting carbs will, by nature, cut calories and a higher fat/protein diet will make you feel more full and eat less calories.

The problem is a lot of people like myself want to lose weight while still eating fast food and sitting down all day. No pill/injection will change that.
Ah, the ol' "a perfect world is one where I pull everyone down to my level" logic.
There are a lot of deeply awful things in the world, but I don't really understand how this is one. Don't know what pieces you have/want to get an idea of where to start? Use the app, but then don't follow the generated instructions. Want to enjoy the act of following directions, without needing to buy more kits? Use the app as intended. Want to build things from your imagination instead of instructions? Just don't use the app.
We need to just catch up and actually fund these controlled burns. It doesn't help that lands might be managed by different forms of government depending on where it is, and they all have different policies and funding levels to this sort of thing. When you look at Mexico its an entirely different story than even nearby southern california. Fires in Mexico in wildlands have historically not been fought, so there is much less fuel, and they don't get so unnaturally large and catastrophic like they do in the US and Canada.
i've used emacs for 20 years. i still spend 80% of my day in it ... and vscode is vastly superior for development.
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This was said a couple years ago when Fort McMurray burned, or before that when Barriere was wiped out. And let's not forget California, which seems to lose a town every year now, or the Australian wildfires of 2020 which was very newsworthy until COVID came along. Somehow a single town getting wiped out doesn't actually register in the global awareness.
An unofficial Electron Webapp port of Discord to Apple Silicon has been released
Literally everyone I know except for me uses and enjoys their smart TV features. Many people I know are programmers or other technical people.

I think you may be over-estimating how typical you are.
I just bought a Thinkpad (my 3rd in a decade) and there's one big problem with it - the fan runs while the computer is asleep. From what I could find this is due to Windows' modern sleep (or connected sleep) which means the computer is still basically on, just in a lower power mode. Super annoying to hear the shhhhhhhhhh coming from the machine 24-7. To get rid of it, you basically have to turn off the fast boot option and power completely down rather than put the machine to sleep.

It's surprising that the thermal design can't passively cool the CPU while in this sleep mode. It feels like a design flaw.
Blessing in disguise in retrospect. Too boring to televise outside of PRC.
State leaders have an incentive to get reelected. Companies are only beholden to their shareholders which represent a tiny fraction of the population.
How does turning the poorest people in a country into wage slaves "benefit" those poor countries? Those poor people would be better off just being self sufficient farmers at that point. Workers at foxconn were literally killing themselves because of how bad the conditions were. When do we as a society decide that industrialization makes life worse for a huge percentage of the population? These multinationals go into poor countries with no worker protection laws specifically to exploit people. That only benefits those multinationals and their owners.
If you can't see the difference either you are naive or you are pushing agenda.

One is a random guy recording the cops then being able to cut it and edit it how he pleases to spread any info they want. Other is full recording of what happened from the officer's point of view.
Isn't that sort of hard to separate though? Are they doing this on their own, or to stay in the good graces of the current administration? Would they even admit it if they're being coerced? The would have to go to the government to ask for help and that's certainly not going to work very well if those are the people instigating the problem in the first place.
I'm just glad that this completely not-racist scholarly masterpiece passed peer-review in such a prestigious journal.
> They also removed access to root folders on a whim.

I don't know what you mean by this exactly, but from the manufacturer's view, any method of allowing the modification of the operating system software is a vulnerability (because the same could be done to e.g. install rootkits). This is why many devices allow unlocking the bootloader (as the official way to modify the OS) but announce this loudly on boot.
Why not? If Amazon is facilitating fraud and computer crime by cutting corners on stock management, they should be called out for it by the companies impacted by it.
BC Parks has a campground called Skihist right near where you describe, and in my stops there on long summer trips I could seldom sleep because of the heat there in the "rain shadow" area of the province that never gets the moist Pacific air typical of the Vancouver area. Temperature highs in the mid or upper 30s were often seen in the high summer, but never in the high 40s. What a glum, sombre Canada Day owing to this devastation in Lytton, the findings at residential school sites, the lingering effects of COVID... so much tragedy in 2021.
"trap" in this context means "coordination trap" which is a scenario in which competition forces individual actors to adopt policies they don't want, but can't avoid.

Imagine you and I are neighboring farmers who irrigate our fields from the same river. Our farms grow, as does our water use, until we're each using half the water. I buy a bigger water pump and start sucking up most of the water, leaving you with dying crops. So you go out and buy an even bigger pump; now you're getting most of the water, and some of my crops are dying.

What's the result? There are only two outcomes here: either we agree to split the water, or we spend more and more money on larger and larger pumps until neither of us has any profit left over. The latter outcome is the "trap" - neither of us wants to spend every spare dollar on pumps, but unless we come up with some agreement, that's what will happen.
Executing an action against the user's will is a security issue, even if that action is allowed according to the user's credentials.
Remember folks: BLM doesn't, "burn cities to the ground." Climate change does.
They police and federal law enforcement did this in Portland during the BLM protests last summer.
Agreed, customer service folks feel like they need to give an answer (totally understandable) and ... customer service isn't given many tools so they just make do with what they think might be true.
A magnet does not always switch the pacemaker off. For pacemakers that are vital, the magnet usually switches to a safe mode, e.g. some fixed non-adaptive frequency and voltage. Frequency and voltage are chosen in a way that the patient will not suffer injury from it and have sufficient circulation to survive. However, due to the necessary higher frequency and pressure when standing up, walking, those things will lead to weakness, fainting, dizzyness and all the other symptoms of low blood pressure. Safe mode will keep you alive, but it definitely won't be fun.
>>Right! So I think we agree.

Kind of. I'm just not sure if what you mean by norms is as a moral prescription or as a non-binding longitudinal study into what makes successful group dynamics. Your original statement implied the former. Though I may have read too much into it.
Jamie Spears is a known wife abuser
He said he didn't play it for himself. His immediate surrounding and those in it are exactly what would make it public performance.
We should try to help Brittney.
People have very short memories - the wild swings are in full effect. Four years ago almost to the day dozens of wildfires started all over BC thanks to a series of heat waves, forcing a record 65,000 people to evacuate and burning over 1% of the entire province.

I moved to Seattle in August of that year and it wasn't until September that all the smoke cleared up. Literally moved a thousand miles north of California fire country and stepped into.... Pacific Northwest fire country.
Fuck both of these companies.
I own a small business, and have resolved to NEVER use any Intuit product. It's not very hard, and actually opens one up to possibilities that make life a lot easier.
Having worked tech support, I can provide an alternative explanation:

Customers hate not having a reason, and many techs will simply make one up rather than be yelled at again for not knowing.
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I use RH sometimes to look at prices and then go back to Etrade to make actual trades.
For the first ~15 years of my career, multiple teams, the model was always that engineering was responsible for all the test coverage of all areas. It was wonderful. A separate dedicated QA team will never, almost no matter how good they are, have the same deep insight into the code both big picture and small picture. So they won't be able to exercise it via tests as well as the engineers who wrote it. I always thought, this is the only way that makes sense.

To my surprise in subsequent roles, I've seen many development teams, even good ones, who don't have that deep instinct to break their code via tests. Which was very alien to me. I've seen enough cases now to realize it's somewhat common. For such teams, separate QA engineers are a must.

I still feel having quality responsibility in the engineering team ultimately can offer the best quality outcome, but only if you can build a team with the right attitude about testing. If not, having a separate QA team is vital.
> war based on lies

That's quite thick agenda for these millions, heh.
If our species survives, this sentiment may become more widespread. If we have to wait for this sentiment to become more common before we, as a species, do anything about climate change, we will be doomed.

One might have thought that a healthy regard for one's own descendants would have provided the motivation to address climate change.
Apple never cared about EMI or self regulation.

When the entire industry agreed on max power to cellphone radios, apple said YOLO and used triple that.

If you were in a place where everyone had one bar, suddenly an iphone3G showed up and it would have 2 bars and everyone else dropped to zero. I mean, great for apple.
https://www.bmi.com/faq/entry/what_is_a_public_performance_o...

> A “public performance” of music is defined in U.S. copyright law to include any music played outside a normal circle of friends and family that occurs in any public place.

This is a quote from a RIAA member explaining their interpretation of public performance.
Someday, perhaps the vaccine will be the major disease vector, as it is now for Polio.

This is not an anti-vax position. This is desirable, but I'm really curious how to manage the message of "The only way you'll catch this disease nowadays is from this vaccine, but you still have to get it".
vCPU can mean entirely different things between providers, which sometimes makes it hard to compare prices.

In general, we treat "vCPU" as a single hardware threads, which is pretty common. Our hosts use Epyc CPUs with two threads each, which is also pretty common.

So a single CPU dedicated VM on Fly is equivalent to owning a hardware thread, which makes $31/mo comparable to other places. These are roughly the same as DigitalOcean's "general purpose" droplets.

Basic Droplets, and most Vultr VMs, use shared CPUs.

Providers use wildly different CPUs too. You'll sometimes find people surprised how fast Fly VMs are because we standardized on Epyc CPUs pretty early. Much of what you can buy runs on either older Intel or consumer grade processors. Which is actually fine! The people who buy our dedicated CPU VMs just so happen to need a lot of power because they're frequently transcoding or generating images.
I don’t think the quote is saying objects have to obey laws because they are extreme (and therefore easy to notice) I think it’s saying all objects have to follow the established rules of physics, regardless of how unusual they are. It’s an interesting idea though! Known, “extreme” objects may be less fruitful places to study unknown forces because they have qualities that overwhelming drown out smaller less known forces.
I think it's far from a fad, the adoption of the semantic web has been enormous in the past 5 years. Almost every major tech company (and many financial institutions) now have their own Knowledge Graph team.
Retreated immediately because they lost. It was even referred to as an embarrassment internally, and directly led to modernization of the PRC military.
poor choice of name. probably many non native english speakers don't know what it means and sounds like a lazily made up word to them
“What to submit. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity”

I don’t see what the issue is.
Thanks, the intent of my comment was to apply the 'direction', as you described it.

Amazing's common usage was too ambiguous for this topic for me. :)
what about the horrible debugging experience?
The young gain a whole ton from their ancestors green house gas emissions.

Consider it an inheritance to match their quality of life.
I have two takes, one the substance of your comment, and another the format it takes.

First, the substance: Of course not. It's healthy to analyze the pros and cons of any significant change to a system. We're definitely in the rose-colored-glasses part of WFH. There will absolutely be negative consequences. My main argument is that given the current supply of tech workers vs. demand for tech workers, and the likelihood of there needing to be more - not fewer - tech jobs in the future, the comment's dystopian vision is unlikely to occur any time soon. The time to start sounding alarms is when the acceleration curve for the growth of jobs vs. available workers becomes consistently negative. That's the first sign a trend is starting to reverse. We definitely aren't there, so it seems reasonable to call OP's rhetoric hyperbolic at best.

Secondly, I've noticed a trend on HN where folks post an open-ended, contradictory question in response to something that they disagree with or don't like. This implies that that parent comment is somehow flawed, but doesn't actually provide much substance in the form of concrete thoughts or opinions. It invites readers to fill in the blanks without ever challenging their (or the original author's) ideas. And it generally invites a flame war instead of a healthy dialogue or debate.

Apologies if this wasn't your intention. Given how open-ended the question is, I don't have much to work with :p. If you do have opinions about why either of my ideas are flawed, I'm definitely interested in hearing them!
> Politically, it sounds great to say, "Make the corporations pay their share!", but who exactly are we targeting with these taxes? Is it the rich executives? Why not just raise taxes on the rich directly?

Pretty basic megarich person accounting: You realize zero income, you just hold a lot of valuable assets, and you pay no taxes.

"But surely they must have some income to live on!" you argue.

Nope, you get a $10 million loan backed by your assets. You spend that loan, which is not income, tax free. When the time comes to pay back that loan, obviously the next move is to get a $20 million loan. You can keep rolling these loans tax-free until you die. "Aha, now the estate pays the taxes!" except there are a multitude of other loopholes for evading inheritance taxes.

On paper and at first glance it seems like everything is fair (which is the goal, to seem fair), but only the most incompetent ultra-wealthy person is pulling anything close to their own weight when it comes to taxes.
Yes, Yes, I got that. (With the atmosphere etc)

But really.. I'd expect some hightech fleece instead, maybe with a hexagonal weave pattern in it, or such.
None in this case, but it's a tactic that can be employed in conjunction with misconduct.
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Would be nice if they provided a way to backup your phone before unlocking the bootloader, or at least put a warning that your phone is about to be wiped. I have personally lost data because of this, and there really is no way to backup an android device without having unlocked the bootloader first.
This comment would be fine in a regular HN discussion but the Who Is Hiring threads aren't really that. Please see the rules at the top.
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I was not drawing want conclusions. I was struggling to understand your comment and those were the only three plausible (and mutually exclusive) interpretations i could come up with.

I presume you had a point you were trying to make, but i could not figure out what it was from your comment as written.
Good point, this is definitely a thing on some hardware. Still crappy, but not a huge deal breaker.