skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peak demand doesn’t line up with peak solar + wind production. Look at an annual graph for spot prices for electricity at each of Californias nodes.

In short, AC demand is variable based on local weather conditions infrastructure however needs to be paid for every day.
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Good. Capital is under-taxed.
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That money isn't being taken from you though, it's being taken from the developer who made that app or service. No matter how you frame it, the developer sets their price and Apple scalps them accordingly. So just because you don't care doesn't mean that the people who are trying to make a living off it shouldn't.
On a related note, Index on Censorship published an entire issue dedicated to this topic in 2019: https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2019/03/magazine-is-this-a...

A couple of the articles are available for free online.
Dear Dang, Semaphor,

To label a thread with 671+ comments a dupe and kill and abandon it for one with 81 comments is dubious. It should be the reverse. Not accusing, but this almost appears protectionism against scrutiny of Mozilla. Regardless, it's odd.
Haven’t used FB as a social media platform in a long time. So I understand the decreasing usage by the younger audience. However, I think FB should pivot to strictly a marketplace.

My experience of selling items on their marketplace has far exceeded my expectations. In comparison to CL, Reddit, or Nextdoor, FB Marketplace was a much better experience.

Not sure if it is the elimination of “anonymity”, but dealt with 0 sketchy people and was able to sell items locally relatively fast (list them before going to bed then have 10+ responses wanting to buy it at listing price).
> The best way to sell books, is to build a mailing list of fans so that you can reach them when you have another book ready

Feel free to put a link to your mailing list at the end of the book, and I might sign up. Please don't sign me up because I purchase a book from you.
What's your preferable, workable, alternative to pay-per-view / micropayments?

Ad-supported "free" seems to have won.

There was a brief enthusiasm for tacking small payments onto mobile phone bills, but that never really caught on.

The trouble with micropayments, I used to say, is that all the enthusiasm for them comes from people who want to collect them, not pay them.
I'd guess that they mean 10% or more total compensation versus comparable positions elsewhere. But I could also see this meaning $10k a year or more because 10% TC is such an insane number.

In my experience, Facebook's offers do tend to beat Google's by $10k or so. But it's all so random and all over the place that it's tough to know if that's a consistent number.
The same taint would apply after working at Google or Apple or even Barclays banks or MIT.
Who wants to go through a 3 interview process just to find out that great candidate simply won't sign until the offer is bumped at least 3x
And flex periods where it gets extremely expensive if you do use electricity. When my son was born we had no choice but to run the AC in a heat wave, during a flex period with rolling blackouts. That power bill sucked.
Early 30s, low 6 figures in 401k. On track for a few million by 65-70.
Looks interesting, can you share what post it was discussed in?
I used to say that at least Facebook gave us, developers, React. (And graphql, I would add.). Its product stinks; but at least its open-sourced tools have moved the web forward.

Sure felt like a gust of fresh air circa 2014. But now I am not so sure it's a blessing anymore.
Will be interesting to see how if other companies join these two in creating new tooling:

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudcontrolapi/
This is all true, but the key point here is that NYT is one of, if not the most, valuable brand in US print media. They had the money to hire a world-class engineering team to pioneer the print news experience online (the creator of D3js and Svelte have both held engineering positions there), but the vast majority of print publications did not. It's not really accurate to extrapolate NYT's digital success across print media as a whole.
> that lack of conflict equates to lack of soul

Yeah, I realize the attitude is a bit simplistic. It's certainly true that serious conflict is way worse than boring mild-dystopia.

I'm thinking however of someplace like the 'second-tier' rich European countries - the Northern Meditteranean, perhaps even a few former 'Eastern Bloc' places. Those might have a better balance.
Agree - everyone should pay taxes. What I'm suggesting is leaving the "no taxation on this type of gain [IRA]" and promote it to the entire citizenry as a method of not requiring social security, or not needing to support as many people on social security. The governments job should be to support people being OFF SS based on their own supportive, good choices....

If more people were off SS, then the entire governments budget would go down - which requires less taxation. We've taken the opposite approach.. support consumerism and spending, thus the government taxation and expanding budgets grow higher as our population ages to support a wider group.
Agreed, but I think what many critics of FB don't seem to realize is, the only solution to this that will really work, is for there not to be a social media network this big. Scale is its own problem. No executive will decide, "I'm too successful, let's split apart into dozens of smaller companies". The problem isn't how FB is run, it's what they are.
Ah yes.

Another one I remember well that apparently was more obscure than I realized is ISLAND.MID. It's the last one in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ome3vfadYvs&t=586s
Hey, that's about the same time that I had the same experience! I never wrote anything super complicated, but it got me interested enough to choose a Computer Engineering major when I applied to college.
The Long History of the Quest to Find a Peak Taller Than Everest
> California has a large surplus of renewable energy

No they don't. You can see California's energy supply here: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html. Pick a nice sunny day, and you'll see that they're still often using 10+GW of natural gas when renewables peak, and ~5GW of imports from much dirtier neighboring grids.

When the sun is down, renewables (including batteries) are often around 10-20% of demand.
I'd recommend reading the proposed provisions themselves directly from the Ways & Means Committee instead of the main article urging action: https://www.advantaira.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WM-Tax...

Highlights:

1. You can't add new contributions to tax-advantaged accounts if their total value exceeds $10 million and you make over $400K for single filers, amounts indexed to inflation.

2. There are required minimum distributions if you have tax-advantaged accounts over $10M and make over $400k. There's a more rapid drain if you have over $20M.

3. Closes the backdoor Roth IRA (https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Backdoor_Roth) only for people making over $400k. Closes the mega backdoor (https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Mega-backdoor_Roth) for everybody.

4. Prohibits you from using a tax advantaged account to invest in securities that require "accredited investor" status (hedge funds, etc). You also can't use the tax advantaged account to invest in businesses where you have 50% or more of an interest.

Unless you're super rich, were using a tax advantaged account to invest in your business, or were using the mega backdoor, which isn't available to everyone and still does require a pretty high income (investing more than ~$20k/year in a 401k), this doesn't really impact you. You can also still do whatever you want in a taxable account, so to me this just seems like a roundabout way of increasing taxes on wealthy people's investments.

I do wonder how much revenue this will raise, though. I can't imagine there are a ton of people with retirement balances over $10M. Maybe the expectation is that revenue will compound over time as more and more assets are held in taxable accounts.

EDIT: I think I was wrong about the backdoor Roth still being available to folks making under $400k (point 3) since you can't convert any after tax funds to a Roth with the proposal. So, this does affect people above the Roth ceiling ($140K single income, $208K married), if you were maxing out pretax contributions and making after-tax conversions to a Roth. I think pretax contributions to a traditional IRA for 401k can still get converted to a Roth.
On the flipside, if Facebook is losing talent because those talented workers are demanding that the company degrade its products, then having to pay a premium can be partially or wholly offset by the positive revenue impact of avoiding this sort of activist employee.
One way I'd like it to work, us that you can choose to sign up through Apple, and have the service pass their cut % along to you as a greater cost, or sign up without apple's system for presumably cheaper.
That is the situation already.

Evidently they're not attracting enough donations to not consider advertisements.

https://donate.mozilla.org/
That’s a different issue. Base load power plants are supposed to produce maximum power as close to 24/7/365 days as possible. You don’t want a fully base load grid because demand isn’t constant.

Insufficient supply for rare peaks is a sign you lack peaking power plants.
You can do exactly that in Terraform too. Declarative and deterministic do not mean the same thing. Again, you cannot instruct the Pulumi engine.
At the point, I'm shocked that anyone actually trusts the media.
I use both brave and firefox daily. Nothing against brave, it has privacy protections as you mentioned, but ff also has privacy centric features that are not in brave. I have not made an empirical evaluation to measure which is better. That said there is a ton I normally configure in about:config that I just can't in Chromium. I only use brave because Firefox isn't good at handling memory intensive sites.
I don't use google search but every once in a while I get sent or stumble upon an amp link - so even for those limited times a $4 extension is a no-brainer.
So Instagram runs on Python? That only proves that the Instagram team can build Instagram in Python. How does that help me with my technology choices?
But developing on SBCs is exactly the use case!
Oh? Then how did Peter Thiel shelter billions in a Roth IRA?

https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...

This is direct action against rich people abusing a middle-class retirement account. What percentage of actual middle-class people are investing in "private placements and single-member LLCs"? I'd guess it's close to zero. And it probably should be. The whole reason governments create retirement accounts with special advantages is to make sure people are self-supporting in old age and don't need additional state support. That means they should be investing in a broad spectrum of low-risk stuff, not exotic, hard-to-value instruments.
Early 40s. I could retire now if I wanted to, but I keep working because if I'm going to dick around with computers all day I might as well get paid for it.
In the court’s defence, these documents are rarely sealed forever. Usually they become public after the ruling has been made.

If an appeal is being made, and current decision being temporary suspended, then there's no reason for the original decision to be public. The courts decide on matters of law, so the publics view on the original decision is irrelevant, and up to the parties involved to convince the appeal judge their interpretation of the law is correct.

Once the matters been settled by the courts, it make sense to make everything public. But a no point during the process should or can public opinion influence the outcome.
> I think it's the media's fault for this

Sort of, but not completely in my opinion. In some sense they give people what they want, the same as Facebook giving people content that they "engage" more with (which is often negative).

Asking the media companies (who are as profit driven as anyone else) to be the adults is like asking social media companies to do the same. When it comes down to it, they will optimize for profit, and if not enough people are really interested in good journalism and reporting, that will get cut and replaced with sensationalism.
HN delusion about their own self-importance is strong on this one.

There are millions of talented Engineers who'd die to work for Facebook, Google, Netflix.

Top 0.1%ile of 8,000,000,000 is 8 Million.

Most woke, liberal graduates were protected from competition from other countries due to their location advantage. Ironically these woke employees are demanding remote work, displaying their usual cluelessness about unintended consequences.

Like Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, its time for CEOs of tech companies to voluntarily kick out these entitled SJWs and hire true Capitalists, Libertarians, Indians, & Chinese. There are millions of them in this world and they are extremely talented and hard-working.
I don't know about the sleepwalking part. I'd say we sprinted towards it. We've had dystopian scifi for much longer than we've had the tech, but the reality makes some of the scifi authors look like they didn't have much of an imagination. Now that we've seen some of the "tech", the modern dystopian scifi like Black Mirror scares the bejeebus out of me. There's somebody out there that sees Black Mirror episodes and thinks "YES!! That's exactly what we need!" Except, we have the tech to actually do some of it.
True. But the associated user might not be identifiable and I think you are free to edit any details here any time. You cannot really do much with raxxorrax or asdff.
I'll take wishful thinking for $1000, Alex.

To be fair, there are generally two reasons for these kinds of predictions:

1. People in a bubble think something is way more important than it is. I hate to say it but user data privacy is in this category. Like 1% of people actually care about this. I'm not saying that's right but it's true; and

2. People who make a lot of noise about an issue to make people care or to bring about some desired outcome. Think Yelp complaining about Google "stealing" their content.

The second can be really harmful too. A good example is articles posted about how [high X]% of people have suffered from "sexual harassment or assault". To be clear, both of those things are bad but they are different levels of bad. Cat-calling on a construction site shouldn't be treated equivalently as a violent assault.

But people do it to make things seem more alarming than they actually are and I think it has the negative effect. These bad faith arguments actually turn people off.

It also leads to situations like a 19 year old having sex with a 16 year old is on the same sexual offender list as a child molestor.

I digress.

The only thing you see here is that the Economist doesn't like Facebook. That's it. I mean there's some bad PR for FB recently but companies have survived much, much worse for much, much longer. And FB will continue to attract talent as long as they pay them.
For a transaction to create wealth the two parties must collectively be more wealthy than they were before. If they are collectively as wealthy then no wealth has been created. Some criminal activities destroy wealth in aggregate even though money or goods changed hands in a way that superficially resembles a trade.

I suspect though that the distribution of money itself between people can increase net wealth, because it shifts how that money will then be used economically in useful ways. The same $1 in the hands of a minimum wage worker might have different economic value than if it was in the hands of a millionaire because how it is likely to be used in the economy is different. I don't know which is better though, will the minimum wage worker pay for services that are more beneficial, or will the millionaire invest it in a company that creates jobs and provides services? We need both things to happen though to some degree, so maybe the answer shifts with the economic cycles.

If I buy a coffee and drink it have I just decreased net wealth by destroying valuable coffee, or have I increased it by transferring the money to somewhere it can do more useful economic work in downstream transactions?
No, the LLC is the same as the plan in terms of rules against prohibited transactions. Apple thought experiment works, but if you are personally generating revenue that moves the needle on a IRA investment that would be a no-no.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines suggests that the answer is "no".
> (...) with the departure of Rescript (Bucklescript) from the OCaml community (...)

I wasn't aware anything like that is happening, is it? Rescript departed from Reason, that's all, right? They want to focus solely on js target, because... that's what rescript is. New stuff they're doing looks really good.
> Or that low and middle income should use it as a model and the practice should be encouraged?

Problem with the low/middle income is that where to begin? Rich people hire lawyers to do the work. Low/middle income like myself knows this is available but can't utilize it as we don't know where to start, how to do it, who to contact and can't afford to hire a lawyer.
To them they're not rich because Bezos has more money than them. "Taxing the rich" is normally defined as tax the people who make more than me
No. The income phase outs only apply if you or your spouse is also eligible for a workplace 401k plan. If you don't work somewhere that offers a 401k plan, there is no income level limit for contributing to a traditional IRA.
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seems similar in concept to an i401k in the US for self employed people. Its pretty much the only option they have though besides IRA's which are capped at an annual contribution of ~6k per year depending on your age.
Does anyone use this? How does AssemblyAI compare to Google’s? We are considering adding speech recognition to a small part of our product.
I’ve never understood why we tax income rather than wealth. Taxes pay for a stable society (army, police force, etc), which has more value for the wealthy.

Taxing tends to remove incentive to do something by increasing the cost. We want people to be productive (get paid an income)

Taxing wealth rather than capital gains and income seems far better, once you set aside the enforcement part of the conversation.

Once you bring that part in, you’re basically arguing we should o what’s easy, not what’s right.
> YouTube has 1,500,000,000 monthly users and 50,000,000 YouTube Premium subscribers.

That is actually about 3.3% which is much higher than ad-click conversion raters (0.77% for display ads). So a premium model is a superior way to monetize long term from a standpoint of what users prefer.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judeclemente/2016/04/03/califor...

California imports 33% of its electricity from other states, which is mostly generated by coal and gas.
Everyone has a different path to fulfillment.
By allowing you to pay via an apple controlled payment method; or (less securely) by contractually obligating them to honor centralized cancellation requests.

I'm almost positive many people would gladly pay extra - certainly temporarily - to be sure no untrustworthy third party gets direct access to their money. The question is merely whether apple gets to force that when both end user and app developer would prefer otherwise, and if there are any conditions on such requirements by Apple.
Is it psychopathic that when you, yourself, hear about a disaster, you don't drop everything to see if you can help, you just go to work as if it didn't happen?
Not true.

>The backdoor Roth IRA conversion is a technique where investors who earn too much to contribute directly to a Roth IRA make after-tax contributions to a traditional IRA and then convert the contributed amount, and perhaps other money in the account, to a Roth IRA.

https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2021/09/22/what-to-do-if-congre...
Then you're defeating the purpose of the requirement, because the scummy scam service will let you "initiate" deletion but to actually carry it out you still have to call them and wait on hold for sixteen years or come show your ID in person at their offices in Northern Alaska.
Then why do Warren Buffet and Peter Thiel have billions in them?
But why not more microscale concentrated solar especially for DIY? For example parabolic mirror from a thin steel plate, or just a bended steel plate, (both in themselves >90% efficient?) -> liquid salt -> steam boiler system -> DC motor seems necessarily to me be a) more efficient b) cheaper to build than perovskite and also c) the skill - level required is very low tech (except the optional liquid salt phase).
And even worse: most of them don’t give a shit about the reputation of {AOL,MySpace,Friendster}. They just want to send messages and share pictures through those apps.
A few are... of course. Most senators could be above average - but they aren't Romney, Thiel, Powell rich. This is jealousy wrapped in political motive.
> This is no skin off the back of the wealthy

it is overly simplistic in USA - real people lose their "wealthy" status every day. You think a "wealthy" restaurant or bar owner is having a good day in 2021?

this class-baiting comes from the previous century, and IMO detracts from real problems right now
Well there are some significantly less hacky / more scalable ways to do this. This looks at the edge of maintainability, but if the lists were 10x as long and people constantly stepped on each other's toes causing outages while making updates, a bit of project investment probably wouldn't be a bad idea.
Valid climate stance, greenest energy often is not used energy and not having it available is easiest way.
Because Bitcoin is a negative-sum enterprise. For the average speculator, total number of dollars out will be less than the total number of dollars in. That's exactly the opposite of what we want people to be doing with tax-advantaged retirement accounts.
I am apparently no longer allowed to read the New England Journal of Medicine
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More complicated: they can contribute to IRA and pay taxes on it, and then they can convert to Roth IRA and have tax free appreciation of the assets, and tax-free withdrawals.

IANAL, IANA tax lawyer, TINALA
The killer is the "The bill also prevents investing in an entity in which the IRA owner is an officer." which is generally how the checkbook IRA is structured (IRA owner is the Manager of the single member LLC that is wholly owned by the IRA).

Sec. 138314. Prohibition of Investment of IRA Assets in Entities in Which the Owner Has a
Substantial Interest.

To prevent self-dealing, under current law prohibited transaction rules, an IRA owner cannot
invest his or her IRA assets in a corporation, partnership, trust, or estate in which he or she has a
50 percent or greater interest. However, an IRA owner can invest IRA assets in a business in
which he or she owns, for example, one-third of the business while also acting as the CEO. The
bill adjusts the 50 percent threshold to 10 percent for investments that are not tradable on an
established securities market, regardless of whether the IRA owner has a direct or indirect
interest. The bill also prevents investing in an entity in which the IRA owner is an officer.
Further, the bill modifies the rule to be an IRA requirement, rather than a prohibited transaction
rule (i.e., in order to be an IRA, it must meet this requirement). This section generally takes
effect for tax years beginning after December 31, 2021, but there is a 2-year transition period for
IRAs already holding these investments