skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of ways that a tax can raise an amount from individuals that is proportional to the revenue which they enjoy under the protection of the state besides an income tax. Basically any tax on any broadly consumed commodity will do that, because its consumption will be proportional to overall-consumption, and by extension, revenue.

An income tax did not exist in Smith's time, and had it been proposed in that period, it's extremely unlikely he would have favored it given 1. his admonishments against expansive government that intrudes upon the private lives of citizens, and 2. the need for an expansive tax enforcement apparatus, that invades the inner sanctums of the private lives of citizens, to enforce an income tax.
Well put. My only social media connection was via Twitter, which I quit a month ago. This states the motivation, and the resulting benefit, succinctly.
The regulations in The Netherlands in this regard have recently (May 20160) been updated to prevent fake freelance/independent status.

There are a bunch of guidelines, but the main factors generally boil down to these questions: Is the employee working for a single employer? How much independence do they have? (e.g. holidays, working hours, etc.)
Were the contract details mandated by the employer? etc.

Sources (in Dutch):
- https://www.ondernemenmetpersoneel.nl/orienteren/dienstverba...
- https://noestadvocatuur.nl/zzper-werknemer/
I don't exactly see how WSL fits in any "extinguish" strategy. Maybe in regards to desktop Linux? I doubt Microsoft are aiming to extinguish desktop Linux considering its currently irrelevant market share and Windows no longer being Microsoft's bread winner. WSL seems to be more for the benefit of Azure, their real money maker, and backend developers.

I'd wager it started development as an internal tool considering how much of their workforce now works on Azure and the Windows team being absorbed into the Azure department.
It is fascinating to read others' comments how DOS was bad.

In my opinion, it was amazing. Prior to graphical user interface, various DOS were the only interface in non-*nix world. Beating it up because it was not up to 2021 standards, is like beating a horse because it is not as fast as a car, does not have a blinking turn signal, and of course the suspension is too rough. I was delighted moving from writing things down in paper first to be able to do command line in DOS. Sure, it was not Unix, but was getting closer.

TSRs and various memory tricks demonstrates its flexibility at that time, despite hardware and firmware limitations. We wrote myriad of tiny programs, that often functioned like *nix programs, and became part of the users' ecosystem, albeit lost as soon as the user or programmer gave up.

Yes, I am going to be counter argumentative. :)
HAHAHA - "after winds stop blowing" - who could have thought???
This is pretty much the plan with Facebook's "Metaverse", right?
But what makes it even worse is that Microsoft overrides your choice frequently on OS updates, which means you will need to repeat all these manual steps not just for each machine, but also for each major OS update. And you can’t script it.
That's from when 3d printing had the same sort of, er, enthusiasm that Blockchain (and isn't it interesting that my phone decided that needed to be capitalized) has more recently. Proponents insisting that or was going to fundamentally change the world and all that.
I promise I will capture it on video so you can laugh at me.
It's interesting that with all the race-related discussion in the US lately, barely anyone talks about race the concept itself anymore. It feels like racism is deeper ingrained in the collective minds than ever before, people don't even question the pseudo-scientific idea anymore. All they fight over is what sort of racialist philosophy should society prescribe to.
90% of people are fine and code review has tons of benefits.. but the format is an enabler for 'that guy', as you're asking them for approval rather than running it by them as an FYI.

I've seen a few different motivated hard workers get to hard work on demanding as many changes as possible whenever they are on a CR.
Not in the Netherlands anymore according to this judgement. You won't have that choice anymore unless there are some very specific circumstances (an interior decorator working for clients would not be in an inferior position to some kind of organisation, for instance).
Clearly what's needed are single use phones that don't need charging, thus eliminating the side channel.
Yep... solar and wind are fine... until there is a windless night, and you need power.

Nucler just works.
Microsoft will never change.
I've never heard of it having any stimulating effects; indeed, I've heard it can be helpful with sleep. Are you able to point to supporting information?

In my last comment I was speaking from experience too - I tried taking it for 3 months, and never noticed any effects whatsoever.
Windows 10's version was definitely better, but it still had its own brand of sketchiness.

Specifically, they had chosen a window size that placed the "default web browser" selector conveniently scrolled off the bottom. It would never be scrolled into view by default, even if the defaults control panel had been explicitly opened for the purpose of setting a default browser.
I'm not so sure. It's possible all the employees who thought this was dumb left before or shortly after Windows 8, so all that's left are people who don't care and the incompetent.
I can only hope that other countries follow suit in europe. I wish the american government would take action but our immigration system is so broken it would just be a drop in the bucket.
Soybean oil is one prominent and very prolific and profitable example. It is everywhere. It was first developed to add to feed to fatten animals (turkeys). You can still buy it in fifty gallon drums at feed mills. Nasty stuff. It breaks down and oxidizes readily under heat (and in the body). Oxidation == free radicals. Hydrogenation (hydrogen injection) makes it thick at room temperature, otherwise it is a thin oil like any other vegetable oil you might be familiar with.

Very fattening, no nutrient value. Unless a restaurant is willing to invest in peanut oil (and they will tell you on the menu if they did because it costs so much more than hydrogenated soybean oil) all fried foods are cooked in burnt up (oxidized and broken down) soybean oil. You have to c he ange the oil in a fryer every day to get a decent food product out of it. Good restaurants might filter it and reuse it for one additional shift/day. In reality it is used until it is smoking heavily and not able to cook food without rendering it deflated and dark brown.

There are massive inertia and industry lobbyists (producers and food mfg) behind it that know how to install fear in politicians. We have know for along time that putting it in your body is a bad idea.
4. The decisions are taken by the unaccountable EU. (Precisely what's been happening for quite some time now)
>of playing the game "spot the jew"

That can get dangerous very fast!
> If building a new plant was cheap, I'm sure you'd see a lot more happening.

Not only that, but running it. No private company insures a nuclear power plant (at least in the densely populated Central Europe). We're talking about dozens of billions each year.

Currently the operator does a token insurance of a few hundred million but if things really go south it's essentially up to the society to absorb the costs of the aftermath.

If you can't socialize the risks and have to pay market price the "cheap" goes out of the window fast.
> The irony of the conservative attack is that he was more respectful of conservative students and giving conservatives a voice than anyone.

Listening to other people and engaging in debate used to be the standard. Somewhere about when Twitter became popular we quite lost that value as a culture.

One of my issues today with CRT is that questioning it as a narrative is now "aggression". I generally regard all unquestionable narratives the same.
I think they recognize that, but are stating that Microsoft has taken a hands-off approach after acquiring GitHub and that GitHub mostly runs independent of Microsoft, similar to NPM.
Paywalled unfortunately. found this summary one:

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3739118-facebook-exempted-secr...
https://archive.is/K5yv5
http://web.archive.org/web/20210909032826/https://www.wired....
Speed and lag?! For a remote worker I think it’s not sufficient…
This reminds me of one of the most heartbreaking projects I've ever stumbled across: http://photorequestsfromsolitary.org
Explain then, what should the difference between you and your screwdriver be to me?

Why should I believe you on a word that you are conscious and not believe a smart algorithm?
The prevailing nuclear designs are not an option. They are only suitable for base load production, whereas wind is only suitable for peak load production. They serve entirely different purposes on the grid and are not meaningfully interchangeable. When the wind stops blowing you need another technology that is suitable for peak load production (batteries, natural gas, etc.).
"Wow, Microsoft has really changed!"
I've seen this blog on here a couple of times now. Does anyone know what it's built on (or if it's using a specific theme)?
You will if it not your primary income, but used to supplement or do when you have nothing else to do.

Too many people think that the only people that drive for Uber are people that need it for Full Time employment.

There are lots of people that use it for extra income, that is who these types of laws hurt the most
This is such a hot potato subject that it's difficult to have a rational discussion about.
> energy prices do in fact need to be high in order to support faster deployment of renewables and CO2-neutral energy.

In this case, energy prices are (partially) high because of deployment of renewables (and not nuclear)
We keep "trying" to rewrite a legacy application, and said rewrite keeps failing, then we end up with what we tried to avoid in the first place: A Frankenstein one-off for some specific project.

A lot of people sing the praise of everything being type safe, but I think the dynamic typing of Php and its synchronous nature are what make it so productive.

Also, at least compared to its C# Frankenstein cousin, uses a fraction of the resources to do MORE work, that still amazes me TBH...
For some things, e.g. mass-rename, or glob select file management operations, CLIs are much faster than click-click-click GUI operations. I use both, and I don't consider it to be living in the past to use the best tool for the job rather than using the newest thing because it's new.
Ask HN: Does privacy and data protection law apply to the inside of your home?
Hi, I live in the UK (England) and rent. My current lettings agent inspects the house every 90 days. When doing so, they do not just take photos of damage, they take photographs of every room from the doorway, in high resolution, with a "special app".

Edit extra information: I have a good relationship with them, and have asked them the obvious questions while also posting here. The agents that do it seem to just be doing what they are told, there doesn't seem to be malice. However it is invasive.

My curiosity is peaked every time, as I simply do not understand how this is legal under current data protection measures.

It's not mentioned in the contract, the contract only mentions damage photographs. They do not tell you which app, who creates it, where the photographs go, for how long, if they go to the cloud, or which cloud. Or even which country.

My thoughts are: If you gave me several years of photographs, of every room, every three months I could discern: Political choices. Gender. Age. Sexuality. Interests. Hobbies. Relationship status. Disability status. Approximate income. Field(s) of work. Illnesses. And then how those change over time.

Which is what makes me think "How is this legal?".

Edit extra: Also, are they not risking everything business wise? Giant fines? Rogue employees feeding criminals good targets? I just don't get the logic of it at all from a business perspective.

Thoughts? Thank you.
Under the GPL, a "combined work" must also be distributed under the GPL. Given that use of certain kernel APIs requires the inclusion of large GPL'd header files, the kernel developers require that any modules that include this GPL'd code be also released under the GPL.

In order to make it more difficult for developers of kernels modules that break the law by running roughshod over the GPL, the kernel developers decided to only make these available to modules that claim to be under the GPL [10]. Please note that module developers can still easily distribute modules that use the "GPL only" APIs but they have to explicitly state that they are using GPL only code (thereby signalling that any copyright infringement is willful).

Calling this "DRM" seems a little disingenuous to me. Anybody can legally remove these protections from their own kernels without any legal repercussions. Removing DRM protections (in the USA) is a felony that carries up to five years in prison. DRM is intentionally obfuscated and poorly documented. The kernel makes its license clear and obvious.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/154602/
> In some sense a clean environment and less dangerous future are "luxury goods" that societies and people want to buy if they can afford to, but should not be forced if they can't afford the expense.

While I sympathize with this view on a certain level, applying it to policy consistently and literally is a likely path towards chaos and immense death and suffering 70 years from now. That's a high cost to pay to consider climate policies an optional luxury good.

I'm increasingly convinced that bribing part of the voters with some sort of climate tax dividend is a sensible policy to keep society moving towards climate gas neutrality.

I certainly agree with the view that all climate policies are worthless if they don't take into account real-world considerations such as free will and what significant parts of society are able/willing to afford.

It's painful to watch this slow-motion tragedy play out. Certainly interested in hearing suggestions for improving it.
Which in this case is equivalent to 'if you owe 10k to Bank its your problem, but if you owe 10M its the bank's problem'.

One way or another Mozilla relies on Google remaining its customer for vast majority of money, while Google being their biggest competitor who eats out ever more of Mozilla's market share every year, further reducing any reason for Google to remain their customer going forward.
Advertisement is great if all claims are required to be 100% true and provable.
Formal Verification of High-Level Synthesis [pdf]
But you need to pay your electricity bill today,...

...and buy food to eat...

...global warming is something for future-you to care about.
Converse XMPP webchat client version 8 has been released
I'm pretty sure Biden can do similar with an executive order. The feds do own the entire citizenship pipeline.

Will we take care of the people who took care of us?
What is that "narrative" other than "racism is a thing and affects outcomes negatively".
Facebook IS the problem. Discuss.
Unfortunately, by the third movie, Lucas didn't have to listen when other people said no (or nobody told him no anyway), and the quality plumetted.

It doesn't take a lot to ignore the junk in Return. But the prequels are crap between a lack of interesting story, lack of interesting characters, lack of interesting sets. Somehow character are in the desert of wherever, but aren't hot and there's no sand movement at all. The only way to make those movies interesting is to try to convince others that JarJar is the phantom menance, and that Chewbacca owns the falcon and is just letting the humans borrow it.

Let's say nothing about the holiday special.

Given how far Lucas had run the vessel aground, anything Disney does is fair game.
If you need a tree in 10, maybe don't plant one that takes 20 years to grow.

If nuclear were the only option, it would be different. But the only pro-nuclear policies that make sense for achieving 1.5-2 degrees are keeping existing plants online and reactivating old ones (also policies with reasonable disagreements, but at least positive regarding climate change afaict). Building new ones simply takes too long to achieve climate goals while wind & PV are reasonably quick to do (if the political will is there).
That is a big difference between that and living in a VT100, using VI directly from there, with a Window manager that has feature parity with twm, assuming one is used at all.
It's good to see that the optimal package-merge algorithm is mentioned. The author linked to a paper, but Wikipedia has a shorter description that I found to be more helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package-merge_algorithm
I'd be very interested in seeing a take on this from the kids' perspective
..racism is so deeply rooted in the makeup of American society that it has been able to reassert itself after each successive wave of reform aimed at eliminating it.

One hypothesis is this is largely explained by prevalence-induced concept change in human judgment. What is the evidence that refutes this given the population level changes in attitudes and revealed preferences since the 1960's?
Make money by becoming a smartphone photographer
Bad movies is one thing. Willful fuckery is another. I recognize it because I engage in it, too. But I try not to do it to things that are sacred to other people.
> Social media is like cigarettes and alcohol. Toxic. Addictive. Yet widely accessible.

I never thought I would say this...but I have to wonder if cigarettes and alcohol may be healthier options than social media, simply because they usually accompany real social lives?

EDIT: To be clear, any addictive substance is a bad choice. Please entirely disregard this analogy in that sense.
Not really:

Let
- p := subscription price

- N := number of subscribers

- P:= total spotify money = p * N

In first approximation, let us consider that all subscribers listen to the same amount of music per month

- v := number of minutes of music per subscriber per month

- V := total number of music listened to = v * N

Then, by listening to a minute of an artist, the amount you add to that artist revenue is approximately

P / V = p / v

Which is a fraction of a non-infinitesimal number (in that first approximation)

You got confused by a fact that an infinitesimal number times an infinite number can very much be real
Smart action by the French government. France is not necessarily the most attractive country for medical workers and doctors in terms of income so being grateful for their support and giving them the citizenship is a smart thing to do when France needs more people doing those job.
Am I missing something? The idea behind the site makes sense to me, to collect the design principles from all over and put them all in one place, but I feel like they stopped short of being something "great" when they decided to go not much further than just uploading the data to be looked at. I would have liked to see new data compiled from the aggregate of the collected information like most common words/phrases, maybe collections of principles similar in nature, even silly things like how many animal themed phrases are involved.
Coercion is a bit a radical expression, I would call it dire economic straits, make a quick buck on the side.

Whatever the reason, good on the Dutch and the union not letting them trample on their values by these "honorable" folks and their values, here is the hall of shame:
Wednesday February 22: Cocaine and groping.
Thursday February 23: Investor betrayal and accusations of stolen technology.

Fowler, a former engineer at the company, alleged in a blog post that she was sexually harassed at Uber and experienced gender bias during her time at the company. She claimed that one manager propositioned her and asked for sex, but her complaints to HR were dismissed because the manager was a high performer. She said Uber continued to ignore her complaints to HR, and then her manager threatened to fire her for reporting things to HR.

Isolated incident? Not so
Employees did cocaine during a company retreat and a manager had to be fired after groping multiple women, according to the report. Former employees said they'd notified Uber's leadership, including Kalanick and CTO Thuan Pham, of the workplace harassment.

Google, another Uber investor(!!!!), sued the company for intellectual property theft.

Uber's SVP of engineering stepped down over sexual-harassment allegations at his former job at Google.Singhal went through the standard background checks before his employment at Uber and that the sexual-harassment allegations during Singhal's time at Google never came up.

The New York Times revealed that Uber has been secretively deceiving authorities for years with a tool called 'Greyball'

Escort karaoke bar visit in Seoul, After the evening, a female Uber employee told HR that the trip made her uncomfortable.

Uber delays the investigation into workplace harrasment after information pours in from "hundreds" of its employees

Apple CEO had threatened to yank Uber from the App Store if it continued to violate the App Store's terms and conditions. As an act of fraud prevention, Uber had affixed a small piece of code that could tell if someone was using the same phone over and over again and then wiping it to take advantage of promo codes

Waymo accuses Uber of creating a shell company to bring on a former Google engineer.

Disruptive business practices, eh?
Actually, I really don’t think we are really that far off from each other, as we are both making the distinction that an effective measure coupled with an extreme situation would be needed.

I’m more concerned with the existing proposed mandate, because it is not hypothetical and I don’t think it satisfies either test (an extreme situation with an effective prevention).

A hypothetical Ebola situation would be different animal just because of the mortality rate being around 20+ times the average Covid rate. The other factor being who it kills. Ebola is pretty indiscriminate. Covid danger is significantly higher among elderly and folks with pre-existing conditions and it looks like many of those folks heeded the vaccination call (85%+ have at least a single dose in the US).
Actually, Marxism is the only pseudo-scientific philosophy that needs to be fought. Races are real scientific facts, whether some communists like it or not.
This just seems like a deliberately misleading article. Just taking a glance at it you've got to think straight off -Well sure, dollars go to Saudi Arabia et al, and sure, some of that might end up in treasuries eventually, but let's not pretend that it's anything like responsible for all the value of the dollar.

So I looked it up. How much oil does the US import? It is a net exporter. This article takes a view of the world as it might have been in 2005, but it isn't today.

Even if you buy the idea that the petrodollar is something America does encourage (using strategic alliances with oil producing countries to keep the dollar the reserve currency in order to use it for diplomatic reasons) that has nothing to do with the carbon cost of the dollar. It's to do with the carbon cost of the US trying to project international power.

It's these sort of articles that make me even more suspicious of Bitcoin ownership.
With batteries and thermal storage you can scale up over time. You can have a new small thermal storage or battery facility up and running in 2-3 years and slowly build it out over the next 20 years, with the option to change technology or capacity as needed during that time. With nuclear you have 20 years of 'nothing' before you have anything to show for your efforts.
Mozilla should consider creating an option to switch the whole operating system to Linux.

Obviously huge, but for some users maybe not hard. For some users welcome.