skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is impossible to enumerate the individuals affected by carbon output.

There are no non-enumerable sets of individuals. Presumably you meant "everyone is affected by carbon output". That may even be true. But not everyone is affected equally. Some of the effects may even be beneficial for certain individuals, e.g. a warming climate means more productive farmland in far-northern latitudes. Those living on the coasts (or on islands) are more affected by rising sea levels than those living on higher ground well away from the ocean. Some of that is by choice (you knew sea levels were rising when you bought coastal land) and some is not. All of this needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis before proper compensation can be determined.

> So who cares about compensation?

Presumably the people who are most affected by human-created climate change, and thus would qualify for the most compensation.

> The point of taxing carbon is simply to get less carbon. Full stop.

This thread is about carbon emissions as a negative externality, and properly pricing that externality. When one person's actions have a negative side effect on someone else, that should be handled through the courts in a process which ends with the victim being made whole. Taxes don't accomplish that. Even if we assume the tax is correctly calculated to precisely equal the damage to the victim, the tax money doesn't go to the victim; it just ends up in the government's general fund.

If the goal is simply to use taxes as a blunt instrument to implement the government's social policies ("to get less carbon") without regard for externalities then it might "work" in a sense. All else being equal you do generally get less of things that are taxed—though tax proponents tend to downplay this when it comes to taxes on productivity, i.e. income taxes. On the other hand, carbon taxes give the government an incentive to maintain carbon emissions as an ongoing revenue stream, so it could have the opposite effect over time. (Any proposal with the intended or expected effect of reducing carbon emissions would need to somehow find a way to replace that part of the tax revenue.)
Here's a direct link to the report from the Treasury: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-case-for...
Taiwan Navy launches 'carrier killer' with 28 missiles
Multiply that by 50x and we'd almost cover the spending for this year!
Dec 5, 2020. What makes this news 9 months later? Edit: POTUS ask for an OSHA vaccine mandate
3 tips to managers who are confused about what their own job is

- Enable and empower your engineers

- Be an unblocker. Do not judge engineers reaching out to you. Just unblock.

- Promote your engineers aggressively. Market their work around the company. Let them feel like their work is important enough for you to take time to market around. Give them actual promotions when it's due

Don't do the following

- Stealing credit

- Pushing people issues back onto your engineers just because you are scared if talking to others

- Impede their work by micromanaging their execution (stop blocking PRs on bullshit nits, stop blocking docs on formatting. None of this is consequential to the actual project)

- Do not bullshit and lie about promotions

- Do not insert yourself into every step. Let engineers take charge and also suffer the consequences of their decisions

- Practice what you preach. If you ask everyone on the team to write a doc for their projects, you need to do it for your own. If not, your hypocrisy is visible easily and you will lose respect.

Lastly, remove the boss attitude. You are working with people who are perhaps more skilled than you. Work with mutual respect, not with supervisory dictatorship.
That was my gut reaction. 160bn is nothing to sneeze at but compared to a nearly 3 trillion deficit, it’s clear that taxing the rich (more) wouldn’t get us very far. Not that we shouldn’t try mind you, but I had imagined this would be a bigger figure.
I agree the touch targets are ridiculous, but there is feedback - upvotes make the "unvote" text appear and downvotes make the "undown" text appear.
But the electron app IS a web app and has all the flaws of a web app, plus one more flaw: it doesn't share memory with the browser even though it's the same code (more or less). I believe their are some smaller electron-like projects that are lighter weight, though you're still stuck with a non-native web app in a shell.
The only thing that will stop china from interfering in Taiwan is, universal consciousness willing, South Korea and Japan along with the other Asian nations having enough sway with China to keep them at bay. I very much prefer not to entertain WW3, but as others have said many times recently, if it is going to start, it may very well be over Taiwan.
The optimist in me wants to say better fringe benefits like vacation and healthcare. The pessimist say the your your timezone proximity to inexpensive talent from eastern Europe is a factor
Analyzing the severity of Lake Tahoe's Caldor fire using satellite/IR imagery
Increasing the IRS' enforcement budget to recoup some of this would be a win, financially.
Not much age well with Biden's decisions.. including his method of withdrawal from Afghanistan. I'm surprised that they aren't trying to impeach him
If it were true, China would not have delayed its Anti-Sanctions Law in Hong Kong [1]. Hong Kong is huge in supporting the Finance of China.

> But the Hong Kong government can only welcome the stock listing opportunity to reinforce Hong Kong as the world’s premier IPO destination, especially at a time when the introduction of the national security law
has raised concerns about maintaining the city as a global financial hub.

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3145952/why-chi...
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1% of approximately 144 million filers is 1.44 million which means about $113,000 per filer.
Imagine believing that

I'm not here to only disagree, like everyone else, I'm genuinely curious what influences you have to believe this
That raises an interesting possibility. What if we made donating to a campaign itself taxable? Like, for every dollar you donate to a Congress critters or PAC, you donate $1 to the government.

Lots of reasons why this wouldn't happen (it's of questionable constitutionality under Citizens United and some other precedent), but it's fun to think about.
I have no disagreement with any of your points, though I don't think our statements otherwise conflict.

My knowledge of world history outside the West is scant. That's why I restricted my statements to the Western world.
How much server resources are used before asking the client to do work? If they've got 100k clients, and each opens 100 TCP connections to your server, is your TCP stack or your load balancer going to fall over before you even start to do a TLS handshake?

Can you manage as many TLS handshakes as they can throw at you?
> Not sure how we got from 600B to 160B. Also, isn't that closer to 6TN versus 7TN over a decade?

They probably are using nominal dollars and the gaps per year are expected to increase at a rate similar to, or greater than, collected revenue.
Ligatures aren’t rare and archaic.. they’re a standard part of many fonts today. I actually looked at that and didn’t think as favorably as you. Lots of mistakes all over.

To me good results is like 99%+ correct, and the ability to highlight where it’s confused.
Number of times I’ve logged myself out...
My anecdotal life experience as a person in their mid-forties: my happiness depends upon a balanced daily rhythm. And I need things I "have" to do to capture that rhythm. With too much free time I just fall apart. It feels good for about three days, maybe a week or two tops, but after that I need my schedule back.
I think a lot of services would be happy to silently allow bots on their service to help inflate user numbers.
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> it's well known in tech that you're putting your job/livelihood at risk by speaking contrary to the political groupthink.

Have you ever tried it?

FWIW, coworkers in my org pushed for a blacklist of words we’re not allowed to check into the codebase within the last year. I raised my counter opinion. I did so respectfully. Today, there’s no blacklist, and I still have my job.

Btw my presidential vote was a write-in for Bernie Sanders as president with Yang as running mate. Laugh if you like. I’m vaccinated; I wear a mask wherever the property owner of whatever establishment I’m in requests it (e.g. signs posted on the door), and omit the mask where not. I think my governor’s recent mask mandate is a mistake because we could already navigate the problem organically with the above approach, and anyone who wasn’t previously respecting an establishment’s masking policy isn’t going to respect a top-down legislative one given there’s no intent of enforcement.

People will disagree with my political opinions. And if they want, they’ll downvote me to communicate that. But I’m confident I won’t get banned from HN for stating these in the unusual event that it’s relevant to the discussion, much less that any future employer of importance is going to comb through here and decide against hiring me because I respectfully put forth an opposing political viewpoint.
Unfortunately in my situation it was all "this will be over soon". I never expected more than few months of this. If I assumed this from the start I'd probably have a business growing by now.
GUIs are one of the domains where object orientation shines. The ability to express in code a set of physically bounded widgets with visual a representation that matches their state is probably a biggest win for OOP. FP, I guess its not that intuitive.
This:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28474997#28475663

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28474688
The money created doesn’t necessarily go back to the bank. When you take a loan you use the money for something, not to keep it in an account at that bank.

It will typically end in another bank. Then the bank that gave you those $900k still has just $1m in reserves and cannot lend anymore. Unless it gets some deposits or additional funding from another bank (maybe the one where those $900k ended).

It seems we all agree that “if a bank has $1 million in deposits it can make only $900k in loans.” In the aggregate banking system there are now $900k more, some bank may use the reserves created by that deposit to lend $810k, etc.

That’s not the same as

how it works -> "if a bank has $1 million in deposits (of actual cash that people gave to the bank to put in their checking accounts) the bank can make $10 million in loans"

which is wrong.
Bot farms exist because they are cheap. You don't need to be perfect, ultimately one needs to adjust the cost of the handshake to ensure that it's higher than the average earning of the farmer.

E.g.: the handshake can be made more expensive choosing a "harder" function for the handshake and giving clients that behaves "good" the possibility to reuse the connections. Bots are penalised because they constantly have to make new handshakes.

But the economic incentives of a botnet are very different from those of a bot farm.
Is it me or does "failing to pay" makes it sound like a very innocent, act of overlooking?

I know tax time there is almost not a single loop hole for me to exploit (dont know if that is the cause or symptom of me not being a top 1%)? The best "advice" my tax advisor gives me is "oh if you don't want to pay more tax now why don't you pay more of it during the year"? Sometimes I wonder if the advisor is just taking the Mickey out of me!!
Exactly. Look at China. No Facebook.
They don't want to get us anywhere. They want to eliminate any large differences in wealth and try to make everyone equally poor and dependent on governments.
They launched a cloud version a few years ago and have seen most growth there. It’s not the best API (it requires polling; no webhooks. Yuck), but it does include their latest engine at entry level pricing.
> If there were a war there'd be no "Made in China" goods being exported.

Who are you kidding? If there was a full scale china vs usa war, there would be nobody left to import the goods either.
The side effects to those two people are very real and very severe. Meanwhile they didn't get COVID because they practiced all of the things like social distancing and wearing masks. As one of the other commenter on your previous comment stated with facts...there have been 650K reports of side effects from the vaccine and many of those are extremely serious. The math is there...and if the unvaccinated people are suffering from COVID worse than vaccinated...then it's their own choice and they shall suffer the consequences.
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[I'm on the clubhouse team, but was not involved in this decision]

1) the CH iOS app itself has a long history of powering other prototypes / small communities before CH existed — so I think the early engineers were leveraging what they had already, vs starting out from zero. (I think this is why they were able to find fit with CH - ability to move fast and try different things.)

2) I built an app with RN at a previous company and it was a reasonable experience, but custom UI / transitions / etc was pretty much out the window. I don't think it's an obvious choice by any means to go with RN, especially for a media-heavy app. Also, expanding that particular RN app I had built to Android was no easy task — the UI mostly "just worked" when we built the Android container, but many of our third party libraries didn't work at all on Android, and managing app navigation was a huge hassle between the two platforms. We ended up shelving the android effort altogether and shut the whole project down a bit later. :)
I wonder if there is just any point in doing translations for software unless you are fully committed to having full time I18n people testing the actual app in the language. At my past job it was basically a throw over the wall thing where we send them yml files and they send us back yml files without the translators ever touching the app.

The translators also likely did not understand which words were key app terms which should stay constant. For example "benefit" is a key term which can not ever be substituted out with something like "improvement" even if it seems like it makes more sense in the particular string. But without knowing the app well, you wouldn't know this.

Seems like it would be better just convincing everyone to use the English versions of everything since those are perfect and the majority of the world knows it now.
Bingo.

At least this is up-front from the beginning, unlike what they did with the Oculus Quest. Though, I daresay many people won't realise this is the case until they get a pair and set them up.
Multi-Tenancy in Apache Kafka
If you can't figure out whether natural immunity or vaccines are more effective based on the information we have available, the problem is with you, not the science.
> Size doesn't really seem play an effect aswell.

This holds true in all areas of software development—nay, in business in general. To the point where I’m not really sure why people do expect large players to do a good job, because they just about never do.

Large organisations are very close to incapable of producing good results—their software will be clunky and slow, their translations present but bad, their customer support painful. Small organisations are more likely to be able to produce good results. Notwithstanding this, small enterprises are often unable to match large for certain resource availability (including time!), which acts as a balancing factor so that small is not often uniformly superior to large, though it’s much more likely to be superior in a certain subset of fields; and this is the case with i18n/l10n.

I think this actually stands to very simple reason when examined numerically: have enough mass and you’ll produce average results (regression to the mean); be small and you’re more likely to deviate from the mean, whether for good or for bad, and if for bad you’re more likely to fail, so you’ll tend to end up with more above-average small players.
Thanks so much! This is fun.

I think, with your explanation, there's still a big handicap for the halting machine code.

To illustrate.. If I were to say to you: Is the correct answer yes or no, considering that later I will reverse my answer, and enforcing that you can't later change your answer? It's like, okay, of course, with that model, you can never win. I don't think it reveals any limitation of your understanding, you just got pulled into a game that you can't win.

The limitation that is put on the code and in your example too is, although the machine can take in extra input along the way, at a certain point the mathematician gets the last word.

If you have G(H,M) which at each point gives you [0|1]:H', a more interesting question is if what happens if you define M = "if H(M)[0]: print H(M)[1] and then loop". Then, does the printed out H(M)[1](M) produce any contradiction?

Hopefully I'm making sense here! Thanks again for engaging.
Can user behavior be controversial? Absolutely.

An exploding battery is not, to my knowledge, “controversial” in that we’ve all agreed that fire is unwanted behavior. This is why I’ve found issue with your battery analogy.

I do not believe there is a meaningful equivalence there.
I did a University module on Godel' Incompleteness theotem and the complete lecture notes which gave all the lead up, explanation and the proof itself along with lots of othet related material was only about 50 pages in total if I recall correctly.

Was a pleasure to do that module though!
yes, net worth estimates are all wrong and is more so a form of lust or wealth pornography for the underclass.

the estimates have several assumptions that are all off. for example, aside from publicly disclosed equity holdings, nothing else is listed unless someone was sloppy about their real estate holdings. but for one-off payments, like an actor in a big movie, they assume it is never spent.

they have no way of knowing anything, which is actually pretty nice. but I would say the whole list is completely wrong, even at the top, about who is at the top, even when limiting the list to non-state actor wealth.

edit due to rate limit: this comment is purely about a data collection realities and limitations, and is devoid of any comment on tax realities
Honest question: Why not just give Taiwan nukes?

MAD seems to be a very effective peace strategy. China already has nukes. Seems the essential missing ingredient is the 'M'.
In a separate context I discovered the slow performance of addr2line and wrote my own faster one as a learning experiment:

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2012/03/heap-profiling.ht...
Lots of credible arguments that should resonate with anyone who was there, and interest everyone else who wasn't. Highky recommended (as is the novel by Bob/Albert).
I have bad news for you. We lost Cirque du Soleil to pandemic, last I heard.
> By the 19th century (which is the century everybody talks about) it was almost legally impossible to free a slave in the American south (things like, say, a $200 tax in Florida... which was more money than most people saw in a year).

Believe it or not, most slaves were owned by fairly wealthy people.
That doesn't follow. If this is about tax evasion (according to other commenters; I haven't read the article), then it doesn't say anything about what could be gained by increasing the tax rate.
The consensus that WoW will ever come out has frayed substantially

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/k4xubh/have_we_as_a_...
One in 200 people is a slave. Why? (2019)
> … and may in theory render your device inoperable.

I think this is the part the fuss is about. Account banning needs to be banned, regardless of whether the services are not offered paid.
I used to say, "It's always darkest before the dawn, so bring on the darkness." My younger self is quite happy with the way things are going, but my present self thinks my younger self is a fool.
The ability to "nuke an entire continent" isn't saber rattling, it's holding a dead man's switch. All major powers have been holding them for decades, and piling more nukes on doesn't make any difference at this point. All mutually assured destruction does is prevent attacks in the physical domain from happening*. So instead the fights continue in the political, economic, and digital domains. If anyone makes a physical attack in response to a nonphysical one, they have already lost.

* against other major powers, of course. Major powers themselves continue to test what they can get away with. Russia moving into Crimea. China saying "What? These guys have always been part of China. Do something, I dare you."
This will change motion on the web!
If you're part of a class which is demonstrably harmed in aggregate by climate change (for example, owners of coastal property), you could hire lawyers as a class to sue those responsible. Probably even on a contingency basis.

Most people are not demonstrably harmed by climate change, and thus would have no standing to sue. Which is as it should be. If you can't prove that emitting CO2 is actually harmful, what justification do you have for imposing the proposed carbon tax? Other than raising general tax revenues, that is—but the proponents of carbon taxes claim that it's for the environment, not to cover a shortfall in the budget.
Securities (funds, stocks, options)
I would agree that there are mixed motives in any individuals reason for where they chose to live, but this "study" is being reported as proof that there is housing discrimination despite no actual evidence other than associating one statistic with racism and no research that proves actual causality.
Trump derangement syndrome has been cleanly replaced with Covid derangement syndrome.
> I read it, thanks. The mask they used was much better than what most people are wearing.

Can you give a citation for that? I think you might be in a strange place. Here nearly everybody wears surgical masks, most people were 2 : a surgical and cloth mask.

Also I'm interested in an experimental design or study design you would find acceptable. I saw your comments now on 3 papers showing evidence for mask wearing. It seems you are moving goal posts ever time.
Not to mention that the US deployed strategic arms in more diverse locations (other countries), making a first strike against them that takes out most of their response capability difficult to pull off successfully.
There is simply no way to make payments without bypassing banks. If you think banks are great and have never ever been involved in anything bad, go ahead and keep on doing you.

If you think they’re not, come join us this side.

You: give your data to big corps, make no money.
I: keep my data, also make wild money as an early adopter.

I see this as an easy decision
This is the nuance you are missing:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EXCSRESNS

The reserve requirement served no purpose because banks were holding trillions of dollars in excess of their reserve requirements meaning that the reserve ratio was an ineffective monetary policy tool.