skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not just moving out of State. California also requires former residents to pay taxes if they move to another country, even if you live overseas for the entire year. Before moving to another country, many people transfer their residency to a State that places no obligations on people that aren’t actually in the country.
What you're positing here is basically the "Broken Window" fallacy.
Right.

Also, if you want to mess with autonomous cars it's much easier to just buy this $15 T-shirt instead

https://www.amazon.com/Novelty-Signs-Halloween-Outfit-T-Shir...
A few years ago, I helped build a (tiny) game based on this subject for a hackathon: http://www.diversibee.org
Well let's talk about infantilization then: I don't mind fearing or being at peace with death. Our society could use that.

It's just that we're in a global plague right now and a large chunk of people just want to do whatever they want no matter if others are affected by their actions. Basically a stage of development such as children before they realize others are also people. It's like ten people walking a tightrope and the last one is jumping up and down. A non-infantilized society is one where we can expect everyone to be a grownup and avoid the bad quadrant of the prisoner's dilemma, and guess what? We've found out that you get an infantile society if people are just asked nicely
people who are interested in this will also be interested in ripcord [0], a native client for discord and slack.

[0]: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
I think its more likely that the state's rules on increasing property taxes hamstrung its ability to raise revenue through the increasing property values in the state. Instead they make up the difference through other means of taxation.
Given that RSS eschewed XML & specifically XML namespaces for so long, the idea that RSS ever would have called itself RDF is hilarious to me.

Part of the whole reason Atom (RFC4287) was began was because embedding content inside RSS was a shit show, a disaster, because while it sort of looked like XML and said xml at the top (maybe), the lack of namespaces meant it wasn't safely extensible & putting rich content inside was a huge mixed bag. RDF on the other hand has always been about flexibility & namespaces, about rich data.

Killedbygoogle.com is a good reference, for sure, but this is kind of higher level anti-internet anti-protocols anti-standardization sabotage. This isn't just abandoned product, this is degrading & reducing what used to be a protocol-centric world of newsgroups to a captive, isolated product.

Oh! The plot thickens! TIL RSS 2.0.1 actually got explicit namespace support! Wikipedia:

> RSS 2.0.1 has the internal version number 2.0. RSS 2.0.1 was proclaimed to be "frozen", but still updated shortly after release without changing the version number. RSS now stood for Really Simple Syndication. The major change in this version is an explicit extension mechanism using XML namespaces
I don't know Bezos or Musk, and I'm not a CEO cult of personality member, but Bezos seems to want to be the smartest guy in the room, and if he isn't he'll elbow the other people out of the way.

Musk does seem to want to be the smartest person in the room, and he obviously likes his public person, but if he isn't the smartest doesn't seem to mind. Battery day was basically him saying high level remarks, and delegating PUBLICLY to the other extremely smart people.
It’s even lower if you factor in that the vast majority of those that died had existing underlying health issues.

The level of social isolation the elderly have unilaterally imposed on the youth is a travesty.
Came here to say this. It was hard enough losing Rdio and now Spotify has been on a rapid decline for the last 1-2 years. It used to be a place to listen to music you already knew and maybe find something new and now they do nothing but shove podcasts down your throat. Who that works there is looking at the current UI as an improvement?
I just heard the Taliban is tithing at 10% a year.

In bad years, they don't expect any taxes.

(It does look like the Taliban has lightened up a bit, but time will tell. Every news station is bashing every aspect of the Taliban.)
Imagine you live in California and get a job that pays you $X salary plus equity vesting at 1000 shares per year.

After a year, you move out of California and continue at the same job.

In year 1, you'll pay California taxes on the 1000 shares that vested at the end of that year.

What about years 2, 3 and 4? You'd guess that you wouldn't pay any California taxes on those vest events. Because you 'earnt' those shares after you left CA.

Not so fast. Because you were living in CA when those 4000 shares were granted (on a 4 year vesting schedule), you'll pay taxes on these proportions of each vesting event:

Year 1: 100% (lived in CA since grant to vest date)

Year 2: 50% (lived in CA for half the time between grant and vest)

Year 3: 33%

Year 4: 25%

So, even though you lived in CA for only 25% of the time, you pay CA tax on over 50% of your shares.
> He taught himself to read by age 2.

Well, I taught myself to read by the age of 3...

> He was taking Calculus at age 7.

...OK, clearly something went awry with me between the ages of 3 and 7.
It could be one of those "if a tree falls in the forest" scenarios. If a cop is near enough to see you not signal, he could easily argue that he himself might have been affected by the turn or lane change.
I havent (needed) a flu shot in a couple decades.
I'm not interested in yearly jabs. Better to lose the waist inches and high BMI. Few want the self-responsibility of healthy living.

And I don't agree with headline of "grim", as it was obvious a year ago this was coming. Who lost any excess weight in the past year?
New maintainers needed for the Thunderbird Lookout Fix-version add-on
The pretense all along as far as I can tell from most countries has been one of "zero COVID". Meaning a total removal/extermination of the virus. Whether or not this was ever realistic is really the underlying debate that hasn't yet fully surfaced.
That's not the joke. The point is that the sun exploding is extremely rare, so you can essentially conclude that the trial is a false positive. If you just look at the p-value you ignore p(B| not A) (false positive), and conclude that the sun exploded (no actual statistician would make that claim in this example, but they sure do in more subtle situations).
I love endless sky, so I guess I've gotta check out highfleet next
Mortality doesn’t seem to have spiked. It’s just continued the trend upward that started in 2009. Looking at a chart of mortality, I don’t see anything.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN?location...
I agree that the type of articles you envision are no good. I aslo dislike them and think they are unnecessary "outrage porn". However in this case I have been seeing this news for a little while from a number of sources, so I don't think it's that type. My feeling is about this topic, the "too many tourists, we need a break", this is definitely a significant (25% -> majority) view from Hawai'i residents. I'm sure there are some residents who are stoked at the surge, but let me take a look and some sources for you about the anti- push.

Also...I think you miscategorize the article, it doesn't seem to me like the mayor is "against" tourists, just that he "wants a pause" in the numbers, in order to prevent some of the downsides of such high demand.

Anyway, I think it's an interesting topic. I definitely plan to visit Hawai'i as soon as possible, but I'd prefer to wait until it's less crowded: not really because of the issues here--although I think it's important and I'd like to consider them more; know more about them-- but because I'd want less people: it's more pleasant holiday then :)

edit: I couldn't find as many articles as I expected, haha. Well that a lesson in how the 'reality' can be distorted by whatever tech/media filter bubbles we are passing through. So my view now is that this is still definitely a thing, but it's less of a thing than I expected, probably. Still, I think the best way for me to know would to actually be there and sense how the locals feel about it. But there are articles, here are a couple, and a search for more:

- https://www.google.com/search?q=hawaii+news+tourist&rlz=1C1G...

- https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/07/26/tourism-surges-pre-...

- https://www.staradvertiser.com/2021/08/16/editorial/our-view...

- https://www.khon2.com/local-news/several-native-hawaiian-org...

- https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/08/trisha-kehaulani-watson-a-...
China used to buy plastic waste from the west (95% of Europe and 70% of USA's plastic waste). China isn't some poverty stricken unaccountable backwater where it was just being dumped, they were explicitly engaging in contracts and giving good rates for backhaul routes on cargo ships. If they then mismanaged the waste after they took ownership of it, that's China's failing.

China have since mostly banned that, which sounds like what China needed to do to reign in their incapable plastic recycling industry. So that's fine, but the problem remains that about 80% of ocean plastic waste comes from Asia. Almost 40% from The Philippines alone even when most of the west's waste was going to China. So this can't be handwaved away as being due to "the west", it's a systemic problem in many countries in Asia in particular.
> And mailing list operators, and charities, and free software projects, and...

You will whitelist these once you subscribe to them.
Ask HN: What is your favourite operating system?
What OS do you really like and why?
Starport: Galactic Empires[0] is an MMO in which I spent many hours in the early 2010s.

If I remember correctly, it exhibits many of the mechanics of EVE, and appears to be very similar to Endless Sky.

[0] https://www.starportgame.com/
This is basically my understanding. Any income that could be connected to California will be subject to taxes. Or at least the FTB will try.

I know some folks who left the state and got a “taxes owed” notice from FTB. They replied with “i haven’t set foot in CA for 3 years, I don’t owe anything” and the FTB dropped it.

It’s basically the same as NY and NJ which does it’s best to get its pound of flesh.
I thought the most interesting part of the text was unrelated to the war:
"American society(...) can only understand the world as projections of the country’s own domestic neuroses. (...) Who is the PoC? Who is the Nazi?"

I've recently realized how much of the discourse around the word HAS to be trapped within terms the Americans can understand. Every experience that is not translated to Americana is 'confusing' or 'irrelevant'. Much like the Author himself points, the progressive wing of the Democratic Party has no idea what to say about a victory of an extremist group against the American Military-Industrial complex to the loss of minorities who themselves hate or dislike American progressivism.
Likehood of mutation might be, but spread of variants is a more complicated function. Vaccination for sure might affect how likely one variant predominates against others.

Considering cross-immunization between variants with natural immunity, it might be more efficient to refrain from vaccines to give cross-immunity with a weaker variant.
While in principle you're right, I hope you realise that the Iraq work was fake and Obama chose to not pull out of Afghanistan even when laden was dead
I think the plan so far is to use it as a land corridor between China Pakistan and/or Iran.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/21/china-taliban-afghanist...
The big one is if you still work for a company that only has Californian offices that requires you to visit for work. That's the leash a lot of tech workers will find hard to break.
I would respectfully submit
that the death rate of covid does not justify the scale of the response. It is unreasonable to shut down society for a disease whose median age victim is about 80 and whose whole population case fatality rate is in the low single digit percent at worse.

The elderly and well off want to minimize their risk at the expense of the young and the poor. Who do you think delivered your Amazon packages while you worked from home?

At both extremes a part of the population is unwilling to compromise and is willing to force another part to pay for their "freedom." In my opinion the yuppies obessively using instacart and Amazon are just as selfish as the Trump supporters and rednecks who may have denied covid existed. Both groups want what they want the cost be damned.
> the point is to provide high-level abstractions that hide a bunch of complexity

And these abstractions are not hiding the model of the machine? For example the machine has a small set of fixed-size registers, but your language probably has an unlimited amount of arbitrarily sized, lexically-scoped local variables.
I'm surprised North Dakota is top of the per capita list. A few others are very high, Alaska, Wyoming?

Is it industry taxes? Another method of income?
There seems to be some evidence that having a longer duration between the first and second doses provides better long-term protection, i.e. gaps of 7+ weeks, compared to the 3+ weeks the US and Israel have generally done.

NZ is currently thinking about increasing the gap to > 6 weeks because of this.

I wonder how much that would affect things.
Texas requests five mortuary trailers in anticipation of Covid deaths
Yes, the old and sick are the real people at risk.
That's part of the problem with "genius" - an emphasis on innate talent, excluding hard work or the degree to which the "genius" worked hard.
OAD was just on HN first page again last week, seeing it agai now that sounds like too much for no reason.
> Gulf War One, we went in, did the job and got out.

No, we didn't, we were perpetually militarily engaged in Iraq, at a lower level, between the 1991 war and the 2003 war.

We weren't occupying or administering Iraq, but we didn't leave, either.

> Let's go back to congress needing to authorize wars

Both of the long wars started under Bush had Congressional authorization.
I’ve never heard of “posh houses in the beltway” that are owned by people involved in defense, yet you and another poster both brought this up. Is this actually a thing?
So to escape the evil tax board after moving out of California you have to...do normal stuff that you are legally required or otherwise expected to do as a resident of a new state/city — like switching your drivers license, registering your cars, registering to vote, making your address change official, not spending >9 months of the year "visiting" California.

Yes some well-intentioned people unfortunately get caught in this mess at times, but a far greater number are those who worked for a SV startup for years and conveniently moved to a no-tax state a month before IPO when all their stock became "real".
The original strain of the flu was also more deadly. But it eventually mutated and became less
You know. I've never been interested in these e-ink notebooks where you can write on a digital screen that acts like paper. I've always felt that actual pen and paper were superior.

However, if you add some good spaced repetition software to one of these e-notebooks then I think you will have finally surpassed pen and paper for note taking.

I'm thinking of something like, you take a note on a page and then save it. A week later the page of notes you wrote is presented to you again and you can draw boxes around parts of the page and blur / hide bits of text, etc; these then become your spaced repetition items. I've heard of studies showing that hand written notes are superior for memory, this is the best of both worlds, hand written and then automatic spaced repetition.

And how much easier is it to surrender your life to a spaced repetition algorithm when it is it's own dedicated device? The idea of being able to memorize math, and other visual information, in addition to the usual written content (which is, again, better remembered if hand written) is so promising I'd happily pay hundreds of dollars for such a device.

I know there are some fairly hackable e-ink tables out there, has anyone done this?
How do you transfer residency? Do you actually have to live there, or can you rent an AirBNB in Puerto Rico for a month?
Likely oil and gas taxes for those states.
I’ve tried many times to play games that replicate Escape Velocity, but have never come close to reliving the feeling of being 10 and playing that game to death on my Macintosh.
Here’s an example of statically hosting map tiles on GitHub Pages:

https://seagl.org/maps/2019

Source: https://github.com/SeaGL/seagl.github.io/pull/148
I'm a freelance web developer for https://gamerguides.com/ which also uses Leaflet for video game maps. It's a little weird to get working with at first but it turns out it's well suited for that sort of use case. I love it.
"There, a nonresident sole proprietor performed all of his services outside of California. However, some of his customers were located in California. Is that enough for the poor guy to attract California tax liability? The California taxing authorities said he was operating a "unitary" business. Therefore, his tiny business was subject to California's apportionment rules."

"The California Franchise Tax Board matched income records showing that he collected $40,000 of income from California companies. Not surprisingly, Bindley did not file a California tax return. That meant California’s statute of limitations would never start to run."

So should out-of-state freelancers avoid taking on any CA clients?
The story telling in nova was so fantastic. Endless sky writing is good but nova writing was fantastic
I heard that as well. My feeling is that with all the treatments we are deploying against the virus, one thing we are doing is creating a selective pressure, forcing it to evolve to promote more resistant and transmissible variants. Whether those transmissible variants also contain higher mortality might be a crapshoot game of chance, but I don't hear this sort of idea spouted a lot and I think it's worth considering. It might be similar to the way that antibiotics have helped select for 'treatment-resistant' 'superbugs'.
> The main drawback of ABC notation is that it doesn't capture polyphonic music well but by the looks of it, Alda's notation doesn't either.

Do you happen to know any good textual notation for polyphonic composition?
* "When you say “contractor” I assume you mean “US-based” contractor".

Yes, definitely. I don't have any corruption index, my thinking is this:

To really steal a lot you have to know the system from which the money comes from, and Afghan officials didn't know the US system. A corrupt Afghan officer could at most steal all the funds of his unit, a US contractor could siphon the US budget with all the tricks contractors learnt over the years.

* "If they required our logistics after we pulled out- at what point could they be weaned?"

That's a question that requires very detailed information to answer, and I'm not sure is the best one. IMHO, the better question is: "How much damage (by manpower and money) would the US sustain were it to try to supply them instead of what the US did?".

I don't think that keeping logistics and supplying parts to the airforce was a significant burden. At the worst case scenario, they'd have collapsed a bit later and there would have been more time for an orderly evacuation.

* Beyond self-absorption, The US never had a workable political strategy for Afghanistan. The DOD cannot come up with a political strategy (generals are just bad at this), and recent Presidential administrations are too remote and have little area expertise, they left things at DOD for too long. The US needed a structure with much more civilian input.

The reason Iraq turned out very slightly better (and we should remember just how many people ISIS killed) is that Zarqawi and his successors insisted on blowing up random Shiites, while the US stumbled into a semi-workable political strategy ('give most power to the Shiite majority regardless of what Sunnis think'). So when the insurgency turned into an ethnic civil war, the insurgents were on the minority side. Perhaps this was merely an bloody accident, but even an accidental political strategy has effects.
Japan's 'godfather of Sudoku' dies at 69
Having worked with leaflet extensively it's a pleasure to use. I've never encountered something I couldn't accomplish in the framework.
Miniretro: Testing emulators at scale. New tooling/debugging for libretro devs
Got a source for that? I can say with confidence that I personally know dozens of people who have moved out of state with granted but unvested RSUs from their companies and exactly 0 have paid any taxes to California for them.
Can confirm; I had a slip filled in manually when the computer system was down and my card lacks embossing.
We did fund healthcare to about 10% of the country during the midst of the war on terror.
I think that the reaction we've seen was inevitable. It's less about covid in particular and more that (and I don't know a diplomatic way to say it) there was a risk averse, authoritarian, nanny-state, "we need to save people from themselves" advocate group waiting in the wings that just needed their cue to for the balance of power to shift and their views to be prioritized.

To be clear, I don't mean some coordinated cabal, I just mean that society's views have drifted that way, we haven't had anything bad happen for years, the significance of individual freedom has been forgotten, we're well into turning on ourselves anyway. And so now with a push, there is a new majority, and we're seeing politicians take advantage of strong views and fall in line to represent them, disregarding safeguards and norms that we previously had in place but were not updated to contemplate something like this.

And now viewpoints that would have been intolerant and completely out of line with western democracy, and ridiculed as some mid 20th century authoritarianism are suddenly applauded all over social media.
Japan had an industrial base... well, it had to in order to engage in a long fought war of attrition in all of the Pacific controlling and subjugating very large portions of the population and land area.

So they had an industrial base. No so much for (S) Korea and VietNam. They were very agrarian (like Japan before they built up their war machine). So their problem was peasant farmers with no land + a growing population on the brink of starvation.

US advisors made recommendations to alleviate this problem by doing land redistribution for tenant farmers. South VietNam would have none of that. Korea did appease the peasants albeit reluctantly so they avoided the worst.
I use rxvt as my terminal (2019)
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Comorbidity is a fundamental driving factor in whether or not you survive this virus. We've not heard any recommendations from any health agency suggesting a healthier lifestyle would help - it most certainly would statistically speaking. And 18 months in I doubt we'll see anything like that because it has proven to not be politically expedient. (FWIW Ive been intermittent fasting with some pretty good success)
Variant that achieve immune escape from vaccine-induced immunity are bound to propagate at a faster rate if most people are vaccinated.

Even if that variant is more lethal (from which you might expect a smaller R0), it might be prevalent because of an augmentation in R0 from vaccination (which might be lesser had people developed a more complete natural immunity).