skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Portuguese, articles have the additional function of conveying the gender of the noun.

Interestingly, the presence of articles is not actually mandatory, but adding them gives a more colloquial tone, whereas removing them provides a more formal tone, e.g. "China proibe bitcoin" reads like a news headline, whereas a person on the street might say "A China proibe o bitcoin".

I suspect this could be related to learning of word gendering, since communication with children is always colloquial, and article omission tends to only occur when there's an assumption of a minimum level of sophistication.

This observation more or less holds across the entire Portuguese vocabulary, so I think it's quite a different case from the historical analysis of the discrepancy between "american" vs "french" in english.
> I think most people would find it bad if a BMW branded car could only take gasoline/petrol purchased using a BMW credit card

I'm not aware of any alternate payment processing on the Xbox store, PSN Store, Nintendo's eShop.

In each case, the platform owner has a monopoly.
I believe dwm[1] by suckless is around 2000 lines of C. That used to be my go-to for a WM until I got too used gnome. As much as I loved the simplicity of that style of window manager, I am far past the days where I'd delight in tweaking my Linux installation to my personal tastes. If I could have a git repo with a static config that just built my OS the way I like it with minimal messing around, I would love that. I've heard NixOS is meant to work like that but I haven't found the time to try it. Perhaps someone here can enlighten me?

[1] http://dwm.suckless.org/
For free access to actual discussion groups (not binary downloads), go to eternal-september.org

There are still good discussions going on in particular newsgroups. You have to do a bit of searching. comp.misc would be of interest to Hacker News readers.
Equity is taxed on sale. He will never sell it. He will give it to a bank and take a loan against it. When he dies bank can sell it and pay itself back.
But how exactly do you short stablecoins? You can't and even if you did the game is heavily rigged against you.

If you remember in the movie, Cohodes got his ass handed to him as banks margin called him out of his position and that's in a regulated market. These guys own their market and the exchange on which it originates. There's no way to even verify if they received dollars for every tether issued and by some miracle the yield on USDT is incredible. You'd be losing 4-5% a year guaranteed holding a short position.
Texas politics are infuriating in their lack of humanity, particularly for the disadvantaged but for the reader of Hacker News, you would hardly notice. If you live in Texas, it’s easier to ignore the politics and spend time and money helping those who are affected.
Not related. But no real (even if configurable) button sucks a lot. It is not because old hand but imagine a pure iphone like camera for very quick photographic decision. Or video.

Move to a moving platform.

A lot of our muscle memory and sense help us.

God bless.
I was on the job market a few years ago and on a whim decided to look at the careers sites of SpaceX and Tesla. While there were openings that were interesting to me, both companies' listings had spelled out in clear terms – this job is for people who are passionate about the work. You will be expected to work long hours, nights and weekends. This is an exempt position so there will be no overtime pay.

I backed away real quick.
Yes, correct. Or just having already budgeted for the existing rental prices, or have savings from when their annual compensation was high whether they get to keep that compensation or not in the new place.
AI Used to Select Targets from Satellite Photos
Great writeup! I just jumped from 900 to 1200 in rapid within two months.

I'll definitely try what he proposed to hopefully get the same rating gain.
>budding

Literally Dell Computers is from Austin.
Also maybe most car manufacturer employee want to drive a car rather than ride a bus for transport?
Whenever I looked at Mastodon, it seemed cool technologically, but I couldn't really imagine anybody outside of the tech crowd using it. Is that an accurate perception?

LJ was cool because you had quite a diverse group using it. Artists, musicians, teenagers, etc.

This was before MySpace siphoned away the youth crowd, fifteen years ago or whenever it was. I wouldn't see them ever coming back to blogging. In fact I don't really see anybody returning to blogging.

(No disrespect meant to blogs. Blogs are awesome. That was a really good era for the internet.)
Do you have any studies documenting incidence of child to adult transmission?
I think there is a strange narrative that people assume Tesla as a company is a "progressive" company. It isn't. It is a company made up of many people - at their core they are an energy company that sells cars. Some staff are liberal, many are libertarian and some are conservative. Their CEO is a libertarian. I would wager there aren't many political progressives in the company TBH.

Also in terms of workers rights etc - I wouldn't put Tesla in the progressive category either.

HQ in Texas makes a fair bit of sense given Musk lives there and he can split his time more readily between Space X and Tesla. That and building out in Texas is incredibly cheap and the level of talent needed to stock up at this point doesn't need to be as capable as the early company building staff - its more operational at this point.
> And pinging with active sonar loudly announces to everyone around exactly where you are.

From what I overheard in cafeterias frequented navy navy men while living in Vladivostok is that active sonar is used all the time unless deep blue waters.

Navigational active sonars are nowhere near as detectable as long range military ones.
Dwm is quite slick. If it had unicode support upstream, it would be an option.

But they refuse unicode, and I refuse dwm.

i3 is workable, and that's what I am using.
That's what I meant. The "menial" adjective was more describing something that is uninteresting to a person that is either basic and mechanical in the simplest form. As someone who loves good food, I am well aware that good cooking takes skill and effort. The meal made when I get home from a rough day at work and would rather be doing anything else is rarely an example of that.

I made some seasoned rice, a cucumber salad, and some sesame seed encrusted seared Ahi the other day. It was delicious and healthy, but it took 2 hours to put together, eat, and clean up after. That's not something I'm going to have the desire to do every day.
What kind of fan are you using? Would a box fan work?
> If California somehow repealed Prop 13...

In November 2020, California scaled back on some of the benefits of Prop 13 for families. Prior to Prop 19, properties could pass from parents to children and the property tax basis would not increase. Now, the benefit is limited to the parents' primary residence, the inheriting child or children need to reside in the property for one year as their primary residence, and the amount excluded from reassessment is limited to $1m.

The main proponents of Prop 19 were realtors who expected the change to result in more sales of properties after parents die. I haven't seen data on it, but they were probably right. There will probably be more sales as children who inherit their parents' properties can't afford to keep them after reassessment.

Prop 19 was titled the "The Home Protection for Seniors, Severely Disabled, Families, and Victims of Wildfire or Natural Disasters Act" because it allowed seniors and victims of wildfires to sell a home and buy a new one anywhere in the state and carry over their current property tax assessment, regardless of the sale price. However, it totally undermined one of the best ways for families to pass wealth on to their children, the acquisition of properties for investment. Corporations, of course, were unaffected.
This is a huge reason that property values are cheaper in Texas. Either you pay high property tax rates on (relatively) cheaper property or you pay exorbitant rent to your landlord that just keeps escalating.

There is very good evidence that property taxes are capitalized into property values. Land taxes in specific are fully capitalized (which is to say, they lower the price of the land, and the landlord can't pass on the tax to tenants), right in line with long-standing theory:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201108135554/https://dors.dk/f...

Paying property tax might sting, but those ruthless assessors and high rates are one of the few things keeping housing affordable in Texas.
> The new approach could be useful in emergencies, on construction sites or for security applications.

Fleeing into the woods will no longer be an option...
Good luck finding a million dollar house in the Bay Area.

And TX has a sales tax of 6.25%, while SF is 9.25%.

And no state income tax in TX.

It’s not even close.
This perspective of "the vaccine" may not be the best approach. It might be better to instead say given the choice of Moderna Vaccine vs Pfizer-BioNTech vs Johnson-Johnson etc, which vaccine is the best choice for the recipients demographics and wishes.

Maybe convenience is the highest priority (prefer single dose).

Maybe effectiveness against delta is the highest priority (prefer Moderna).

Maybe minimizing risk of myocarditis is a priority (say you have a history of autoimmune over reaction).

Ultimately, not only do we have the choice to get vaccinated, we also have the choice of which vaccine to get and this new data allows the population to make more informed choices about which vaccine is right for them.
Both will have to pay CA taxes regardless. The California tax board does not mess around. Rich people are generally more afraid of them than the IRS (which has become toothless in recent years).
As someone who used to live in Tampa Bay—and may have to move back for family reasons next year—I find that a little dubious as well. :) Although to be fair, Tampa and St. Petersburg both got measurably more interesting in the last decade than they were when I left in 2002.

Never lived in Jacksonville, but I’ve visited it and have a friend who used to live there. Jacksonville is to Florida what Fresno is to California: bigger than you think, probably perfectly pleasant, utterly non-descript. :)
I want a program like this to work, and this is of course an unpopular but factual statement - most of these kinds of programs define "disadvantaged" on your sex, skin color, and country of origin. This makes sense because they're the programs companies like to fund to pad their diversity portfolio.thst protects them from Title 9 lawsuits. It follows the money. But it doesn't actually target "disadvantaged" people, it targets whatever criteria they've created.

But perhaps this program is different, there's no details given for maybe good reason.
Ask HN: Feature requests? (Any Microsoft-owned product)
Next week is Fix-Hack-Learn week at Microsoft. Basically a whole week where you can work on whatever you want on any product across the whole company. Want to add some new feature to Github? Add VR support to MS Teams video chat? Mess around with Minecraft? Add a missing hotkey into Excel? Literally anything is on the table for anyone at the company so if your request sounds interesting enough to work on chances are it will.

My brain is overloaded by the sheer magnitude of possibility.

Crowdsourcing ideas from the HN folks because I am sure lots of you will have some great ideas!
> But he never has to sell any Tesla shares, he can just buy hedges against them and take out loans

So he takes out a $1 billion loan, and he offers $1 billion in stock as a security, and then also buys a futures contract (or a put option) on his $1 billion of stock to lock in the current price, so if the stock goes down in value over the life of the loan, the lender doesn't lose their security? And then when the loan falls due, he refinances – get a new loan using the same mechanism, and use it to repay the existing one? And he doesn't owe capital gains tax on the stock he uses as security, because he doesn't actually sell it?

I suppose though, you can't just go on refinancing forever. One day he will die, and then it will have to come out of his estate, and I guess his estate may pay the capital gains tax then? So it is really delaying paying tax, rather than getting out of it forever?

Unless, I suppose, he leaves the stock to a trust in his will, and transfers the loan to the trust too, and then the trust can continue this process long after he is gone? And maybe, if it is a charitable trust, even use some charitable tax exemption to get out of paying the tax permanently?
Has Dell done anything innovative since the 90s? It repackaged computer hardware in a cheap package filled to the brim with bloatware.
The ship this wood is harvested for is older than the DoD and most states. It had to come from somewhere. The DoD isn't even mentioned in this NAVY article. Not everything is a conspiracy.
I've used numerous X window managers, and XMonad is my favorite. (I've tried to switch to i3, by using it for a couple years at work, while still XMonad at home, but XMonad is still more productive for me.)

One thing that I set up in `xmonad.hs` is `additionalKeys` that switch to or launch particular programs. For example:

((mod3Mask, xK_f), raiseNextMaybe (spawn "/usr/bin/firefox-esr") (className =? "Firefox-esr"))

For programs run in a terminal window, `-name` works well enough for distinguishing them:

((mod3Mask, xK_r), raiseNextMaybe (spawn "urxvt -name mtr -e mtr 123.45.67.89") (className =? "URxvt" >> title =? "mtr"))

My layouts are standard, and I mostly work from the large window on the left, and then the windows on the right are only wide enough to fit 80 columns in terminal or Emacs.

myLayout = tiled ||| Mirror tiled ||| noBorders Full
where
tiled = Tall nmaster delta ratio
nmaster = 1
ratio = 1/2
delta = 3/100

Occasionally I switch a window to fullscreen or switch to the big window taking the full width. When work needs the full screen or multiple windows at once for long at all, I usually switch to desktops 2 and later, and keep 1 for comms like email and chat. When docking laptop, work ends up on the external monitor in front, and then comms/monitoring is on laptop to the side.

I used to have a status bar and system tray, but got rid of them. The only thing I miss is having a clock I can glance at, so I wrote a key sequence that runs a script that uses `osd_cat` to temporarily overly the current time and date, time in other zones I'm dealing with, and battery status.
24 inch drum fan. Box fans might work. The drum fans have higher air flow so I guess its up to the specs of the fan. Try it and see if they stick to the screen.
Republicans are doing everything they can to prolong the demographic tidal wave coming their way in the next 20 years. Texas will be blue eventually.
Quick question for more experienced folks in this thread: What will happen to USDC if/when Tether tanks?
Here's a question, how do you guarantee that every USDT was backed by a dollar at origination? Say USDT holds a bond that defaults, what do they sell to offset the risk? Where does the 5% yield on tether even come from? This is the most plausible form of manipulation: unbacked liquidity. The only way you'll ever find out is with a bank run, and with massive yields and a hyped crypto space, it may be a while before that happens.
I'd assume that apple leadership buys all the land cheap and sells it for a heft profit to the peons.

Then, they can rinse and repeat at a new location.
> What’s the bid/ask on the Oct 8 SPX 4550C going to be at open tomorrow, assuming SPX opens around 4400? Bid 0.00, Ask 0.05

Minimum price tick == 0.05 on ES options. I would sell you some for 0.01 but Globex won’t let me.
Here's another point to consider: the Trump tax "cuts" in 2017 were in fact a giant middle finger to college-educated workers in coastal blue states, in three major ways:

1. The $200-500k Federal tax bracket actually went up;

2. Loss of the SALT deduction. There are 9 states without state income tax. Most of them are red (Washington is a notable exception). This disproportionately hits blue states; and

3. Reducing the cap for the mortgage deduction, which again only affects expensive states.

We have a hung Senate, essentially. A better description is to say that it is controlled by Charles Koch, who owns Joe Machin and the Republican Party.

So these tax hikes on blue states haven't been rolled back under Biden because of Charles Koch, basically. In the proposed bill, the SALT deduction isn't getting reinstituted, the mortgage cap is the same and the corporate tax cuts (you know, the ones that will trickle down) are only getting partially rolled back.

And even that might not pass.

But what this means is that there is now a huge financial incentive for workers in California and New York in particular to move south. Hell, it was a significant factor in me moving from NYC to Florida, as an example.

But I wonder if the unintended consequence of McConnell's and Trump's giant middle finger to the blue states could be the migration of left-leaning voters to Texas, Florida and even Tennessee and Georgia (GA has a state income tax but Atlanta is cheap compared to CA/NY).

Perhaps Tesla's move is part of that trend.

It would be entertaining, to say the least, if this hastened the political extinction of the party of Trump. The trends were such that Texas is likely to be a battleground state in ~10 years as it is.

I can but hope.
That comparison is ridiculous, have you been to Palo Alto? It's a mansion neighborhood like Atherton. A better comparison would be with San Jose or San Mateo that are like, normal cities. Still way more expensive than Austin but it's nowhere near the price of Palo Alto or Atherton.
My bad, didn't meant to leave the rest of the coastline out.

And yes, hopefully these changes will turn Texas purple unless they continue to gerrymander the ish out of the whole state.
You're joking, right? It's 20 minutes away from downtown.
The level of saltiness around this topic is nuts. I’m pretty sure that these comment threads result in a net negative to the total karma of HN users.
Has journalism been this lousy forever or is it just recently? Quoting numbers of complaints per manufacturer is meaningless.

How many cars with the given feature turned on exist from each manufacturer?

How many miles driven with the given feature on?

What speed were these cars at?

That’s just from top of my head.

Oh wait? Complaints? How is that a measure of safety? Let me add some more:

How many people were injured/killed?

What was the cost of repair from the accidents?
I'm glad with all these tech companies moving to Texas, it is very likely to go Blue next election!
>I mean, you could just as easily argue that the problems of California are what caused his move to Texas

Who knows. But the biggest fundamental problem for California here honestly is geography: Boca Chica is the best single land based potential BEO spaceport in the continental US, simple as that. That's why SpaceX is there. As close to the equator as they can get, with a lot of water in front of most of the launch paths they want, and no urban buildup there. For the small percentage of polar orbits they'll want to do there will remain Vandenberg, or eventually converted oil rigs for sea launch, but the vast majority of SpaceX's cadence for the foreseeable future will be Starship going to more standard orbits where the bulk of Starlink will exist or eventually beyond Earth's orbit for trips to Mars.

Sure taxes and all the typical rigamarole that typically comes up in these discussions might have weighed a little one way or another, and in the vast majority of CEO/HQ moves weigh quite a bit. But to the extent that SpaceX is the biggest guiding unified dream of Elon Musk, and given the constraints of logistics, economics and the physics of orbital launch, it basically had to be there. Which means he has to be there. Which means it's a lot easier even for someone with a private jet if the HQ of his other big enterprise is around 300mi away nearly due north in the same TZ vs ~1650mi west.

If for some reason the jobs situation and housing was just perfectly impossible in Texas maybe he would have sucked it up but even then I doubt it given his (and Tesla's) resources. At the end of the day like everyone else he can't buy more than 24 hours in a day. He can buy more efficient use of them.
Well, considering most of those heirs who are not using it as their primary home would just end up using those homes to rent out at market rate anyways, it makes sense to tax it. If they don't want to deal with that, they can just sell it. Commercial properties over $3 million were also affected. Those moving into the inherited home as their primary residence a̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶a̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶e̶d̶ EDIT (see comment below): *will be re-assessed, but includes a generous exclusion of the first $1 million.

I'm a would-be beneficiary of Prop 13 Pre-19 and a homeowner in Los Angeles, and even I voted for this reform. I would vote to repeal Prop 13 in whole if I could. Prop 13 was originally meant to protect middle-class Californians from losing their primary home (for which other alternatives exist: see TX. Your primary home cannot be taken from you for tax reasons or in bankruptcy) – not a tax loophole for generational wealth.
There were two instances that were particularly memorable, the first was when passing through a steel bridge with fairly narrow spacing, the car - without any warning - slammed on the brakes just as I was passing the entrance to the bridge. The road surface was wet from recent rain and the car immediately started to spin due to uneven grip. I managed to avoid the posts :) This happened once more in the same spot but then I was already more alert to this kind of nonsense so that time it was pretty uneventful even if the car - again - slammed on the brakes.

The other situation was when in a tight right hand turn a large advertising sign caused the car to believe I was about to have a head on collision (when in fact the object was merely passing right-to-left through my field of view). This caused me to end up on the wrong side of the road, if there had been opposing traffic it would have been a head on collision, exactly the thing it was trying to avoid.

I brought the car to the local dealership, they checked it over and pronounced it sound, I sold it a week later. Murderous beta grade - or not even beta grade, proof of concept - software in that car. I was pretty loyal to the brand but I don't think I'll ever have another one, besides the plastic bling interior the fact that they shipped that junk has made the brand worthless to me.

Now I drive a 24 year old car that was re-built end-to-end. It has an ECU, ABS, an aftermarket mp3 player / navigation combo and that's it.
At least here in Argentina, if you have a check of a bank od USA, only a few banks accept it and they take a huge cut.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8705017B2/ (Photonic fence)
Where I live the ultimate luxury is 50,000 year old swamp trees:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_kauri

They quite literally mine for wood.
Wow Lucy!
> I mean are you seriously comparing affordability of Austin to the bay area?

How is the sprawl in Austin compared to the Bay Area?

A lot of times land/housing is cheap/er, but you 'pay' for that will long/er commutes in bad traffic. And often with few/no options for public transit.
Just to be clear, Landlords and Home Owners aren't the same. I do live in a coastal city, but I think even rural/suburban areas would agree that the real estate market has made home ownership less and less achievable. I suppose that the issue I'm concerned with is more generally about the American real estate market at large, landlords/the rent cycle are just a part of that.