skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Texas has high property tax rates, but some of the lowest sales tax rates in the country (6.25%), and no income tax.

It it is the higher property tax rates that cause property prices to be lower, so that the actual property tax paid is not too high compared to a low property tax rate/high property value state like California.

Effectively a lot of the money that, in California, goes to landlords or housing investors, in Texas goes to the state via taxes on land.

This is due to the superior efficiency of land taxes versus income taxes. Land taxes are "free" money that do not hurt economic activity. But property taxes cover both land and structure, so it's not the perfect tax system - however it's pretty close.
Some data to back up your argument would really help here. The VC market has never been more founder-friendly, and the amount of VC invested is at an almost all-time high. Additionally, last year was the 3rd highest in the last 20 years for the number of IPOs. So just because you found yourself in an overly negative HN thread shouldn't skew your view that the chances of doing well are higher now than ever before (which is not meant to imply that they are high on an absolute level, but certainly in comparison to prior years).
I'm a software engineer but I work with a lot of projects that require recorded voice narration etc. I've already been able to replace some small/low budget projects with synthesised speech but it definitely does lack the depth and nuance that a real actor brings to it. Is there anything you have seen specifically that you were inpressed by? The one that really stood out to me is the 'deep fake' voice synthesis (though it relies on hours of captured performance first)
Thanks! I'll check out the RX 580. They're a bit more pricy now than usual even on the second hand market, I guess due to chip shortage and miners.
NSA warns of ALPACA TLS attack, use of wildcard TLS certificates
I don't remember where I read this: "Product-market fit is like porn, you know it when you see it"
EU law supersedes local law. So if your country one would prohibit such actions, EU law would take precedence and allow it.
It's difficult for me to imagine how this would work in my country's case. As a user of a product, you can't just say that the law doesn't apply to you even if the vendor wants you to say that.

> in exchange for not being held liable under other laws

And what other laws would apply here?
Looks like reactionary bullshit. I'm all for the Butlerian Jihad, but not like this.
This is such good advice to filter out all the recruitment emails XD

Instead of responding “not interested”. I’m just gonna start saying “show me the cap table”. Love this idea
John von Neumann was certainly involved in a lot of scientific discoveries, but from the review this looks more like a hagiography with a goal of rehabilitating the reputation of an incredibly gifted scientist/mathematician whose coziness with the military-industrial complex remains controversial to this day. 'John von Neumann, the theorist of mutual assured destruction', is how many still view his record.

John von Neumann's record illustrates why brilliant scientists may not be the best architects of foreign policy.
In particular, von Neumann's belief in the inevitability of nuclear war led him to call for a first strike against Soviet cities before they could develop a nuclear arsenal. This is a rather difficult political-moral-ethical position to rehabilitate. One also gets the sense that a JvN was a bit stingy with sharing credit on major breakthroughs in computing.

Generally I find these 'heroic genius' books about scientific personalities to get stale over time, while books that focus on the discoveries themselves and the many people who contributed are far more interesting and historically accurate. Richard Rhodes's excellent work on the American and Soviet nuclear weapons programs is an example of the latter approach.
The future of adblocking is an AI-based system that detects already loaded ads visually and simply masks them from you on the client side. Such an approach (sans AI) has been used in the past, but it fell out of favor due to bandwidth and CPU usage concerns. Since then, bandwidth and computing power have grown exponentially, such that the disincentive of the load-and-hide approach will continue to diminish over time.
No, the hydrogen is mostly consumed for industrial processes immediately after it is produced.
US Gov doesn't prevent you from starting your own.
But I think you’re ignoring the liquidation preference discussed at the top of this thread: surely RSUs have the same junior rights as the shares from options if the company is acquired. One difference is that people are generally required to exercise options (and pay taxes on that) before they leave the company. But you also talk about selling RSUs on public markets so maybe you are thinking of something else?
Updated Debian 11: 11.1 released
Not an article about Peter Dinklage aging gracefully.
Not defending China's idea at all, but with private media in this country having a financial motivation to knowingly lie is pretty reprehensible. They have the right to do it sure, and they should, but if a good portion of a populace lives in a fiction, that isn't great. And to be clear while leftist stuff can be extreme, sure, the current major problem is right wing extremist lies are clearly more detrimental just because of their popularity. It is not really a both sides issue.
In the US, sales taxes don’t have any deductions. Some things aren’t taxed, though. It seems like an important difference.
I’m an engineer at NASA working with nuclear space power systems. I ignore most of the more trite software / internet / money making bullshit. Some of that stuff is legit but most of it feels like “advances in advertising technology” or media delivery. I’m old enough to remember the earlier days of the internet and it’s sort difficult to admire the people that worked hard and made a lot of money turning it into what it is today.

Luckily, there are a lot of smart people here who are interested in many other things and that’s what I’m here to get exposure to.
> Since AME is no longer maintained

What do you mean by that? AME 21H1 was released just the other day.

> This project is cute, but I only ever used it for an offline sandbox for running low resource games and cracked versions of Photoshop.

It's perfect for VM use, but I would never use it as my main OS.
Interesting point of view on coworking spaces:

"I am especially against co-working spaces but if you must join one, first walk in and just listen. If it is quiet maybe people are actually working. But if it is loud, run for dear life!"
> I was a Lens app user since iPhone 4. Then Google bought it and incorporated into the translate app. So, I installed it solely for the purpose of using lens functionality.
There are always passive safety systems, Chernobyl and Fukushima had too. The problem with these safety systems is that they are assumed to be built flawlessly, which is not always the case.

And "There are other dangerous machinery in the world" is just whatabaoutism. People smoke tobacco, should we bring back asbestos too because of that? The world lost such a great insulator. If you are looking for a silly argument, I suggest enjoy some whataboutism.

Anyway, the rectors do have a similar problem with the planes: To make it safe after each incident we are making it more expensive or inconvenient too because we cannot afford having fast developing catastrophic incidents of those. A nutjob crashes a plane into a building and now the boarding takes 2 hours extra and involves a cavity search.

IMHO, we should definitely use fusion nuclear energy but it better be a temporary fix until we deploy the renewables.

Oh BTW, the prediction about the nuclear waste so far is that it's going to stay with us for the foreseeable future and we don't know what to do with it. The best we can do is to put it in caves together with scary looking signs and drawings and hope for the best for the next thousands of years. That's not even implemented yet as most of the waste sits next to the reactors because when these were built they also had no idea what to do with the waste. Kicking the can down is not a sustainable solution.

Just take a look at this: https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1435949837158060033

This is a photo of the new head of Afghanistan Central Bank. If Afghanistan had a nuclear plant, we could have s similar photo from the reactor control room.
A friend of mine had one of these (1998-99):

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/home/digital-j...

> The Java Ring is a stainless-steel ring, 16-millimeters (0.6 inches) in diameter, that houses a 1-million-transistor processor, called an iButton. The ring has 134 KB of RAM, 32 KB of ROM, a real-time clock and a Java virtual machine

A wearable device that could run arbitrary portable code was a cool idea.
I hate to put in a good word for Paypal but being able to cancel paid subscriptions on your own is a godsend when signing up for services that take it as payment processor.
I mean you could appreciate his achievements but it does seem weird to have a photo of him on the wall, for some women it might be a red flag
I guess I'm surprised anyone is surprised by this.

Using a third party for analytics is only a convenience. Given enough effort, any system can build in their own analytics.
It's probably just a proxy to something like Segment.
He is guilty of demonstrating USA government/military were complicit in committing and covering crimes

Is that the government we want? Expert in killing and hiding the body? Because it might backfire
There will be some new anti-ad tech becoming popular if first-party ads become a thing. For instance, I could think of some browser plugin that looks for visible DOM elements that change between refreshes. To deal with false positives it could grey them out initially but offer a button to really block/allow for future refreshes.
What about Fonts? Can someone find a "bug" in the font and fix it according to their taste?
i would say that drowning in demand could be intended as:

signups you get per day > signups you can process per day
https://archive.is/Mi3S5
Learning to correct climate projection biases
The nature of addiction (etymologically, “without-say-ism”) is that the problem is most felt by those who can’t stop using it.

We can turn this to a giant regulate-tech topic but the source complaint, simple enough, was a desire to have the feed consume less of life’s attention and be more worthy of what attention he was giving it.
I don't see how I'm being derogatory. It's a simple matter of fact that Neumann, being human and not some sort of Ubermensch, greatly benefitted from the best possible environment and education which unarguably contributed to his genius.
I lived in Iceland for around 6 months and the people were nice enough but because of the cold it is an extremely home bound existence that I hated.
>What if it were a Chinese mine that they hit?

Laying a minefield in international waters (from the point of view of everyone but China, anyway) is an act of war. It's not necessary for there to be any interpretation or misunderstandings at that point, it's pretty much the same as if the Chinese fired ballistic missiles with real warheads at Taiwan, or engaged foreign navies in the South China Sea with swarms of anti ship missiles. At that point, the war has already started, so no one would do that unless that's what they wanted.

Which is why China hasn't placed any mines there, and your question doesn't make sense.
I hadn’t heard of this. Where can I read more about it?
> why wouldn’t you take it?

One reason is because of what you're giving up in exchange. Obviously equity, for one. Quite possibly also control, if the investors also get board seats as part of the deal. If they have a different vision for the company's future (not to mention your personal future) than you do, that could create problems.
If he didn't die, are you saying he's still alive?
No, that generally just means they're forced to take action (ie. investigate to confirm the suit or complaint). For the most part these are municipal laws handled by local law enforcement - the more rural you get the more likely it's just Dave that you've known your whole life that investigates and finds nothing problematic.
> If they are too fucking stupid to take a simple injection

> I'm stating a fact

No, you’re not. You’re just insulting people.
Hydrogen is useful as a fuel for things that demand high energy density relative to mass. Like air travel.

But its use for energy storage is much more limited. Actually producing , storing, and converting the hydrogen back into electricity is much more expensive than just producing the electricity when it's in demand.
It's a great question. Of course it was widely considered. This should come as a surprise to nobody. And yet, here we are.

You might ask the same question about Trump. Surely someone in charge - someone with authority - should have seen the trainwreck a mile off, and done something about it?

The shocking truth is that there's no one with both common sense and overriding authority that prevents catastrophic wrong turns. This was absolutely an expected outcome of Brexit, by anyone with a clue. The trouble is that half the general population doesn't have a clue. Why did the government ask them? Because the party in charge at the time had a splinter faction led by some very radical, very loud voices, and it was beginning to cost them votes. They hoped to put the issue to bed by calling a referendum. Having done so, it was political suicide not to follow through even though it wasn't technically "binding".

Largely it's a matter of various people acting in their own selfish best interest at the expense of the interests of the country, and convincing a bunch of useful idiots to follow along.
Oops. Copy pasted the French link. It's corrected now.
> Rainwater harvesting is legal and encouraged in Florida. Many municipalities even offer incentives and rebates for rainwater harvesting.
Some of the questions are from 2015?
the point is that genius doesn’t come out of a vacuum, people tend to act like he was a miracle… he was highly intelligent AND highly privileged… he was who he was because of both
Are Amazon reviews gamed nowadays?
Search for giant spider on amazon as halloween is coming up soon. Scroll down search results a bit and click into the product with many more reviews than the others (700+). First page of reviews are for a completely different product - art brushes? Either the seller bought these reviews and there was a comms mixup on what the reviewers were supposed to do or Amazon is showing reviews for the wrong product.
Direct cash transfers to low income earners are exactly what America needs. Inequality is at record levels, because the whole economic and justice system is ridiculously rigged.

The EITC helped 28 million families at an estimated net cost of 17% of $70 billion - 12 billion dollars [0]. That's quite a bit less than the at least 18 billion easily recoupable, as mentioned.

If the EITC is abused, then by all means fund the IRS so they can fight the abuse (which they seem to be doing already).

And again - it helped 28 million families, rather than some oily tax accountant, offshore goons, and private jet company shareholders. I'd like to see America start punching up instead of down - it's really the countries only hope of being somewhere worth raising children in.

[0] https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/what-is-the-earned-income...
Imagine not knowing about The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity https://c2pa.org/
That's where some people are apparently going wrong. Some people have already figured out that you don't actually need a septic system, and it's completely legal. Just poop on the ground and call a phone number already set up explicitly for the purpose of having them come clean it up for you, at taxpayer expense. Just say you're homeless in that camper on your own land and you won't be required to put in a septic.
Finland does, they have very long term storage they propose others to use.
I'm an accountant, currently head of finance for an ecommerce business.

About 10 years ago learnt Python as a bit of fun. I have now developed a niche of IT/Accounting. New accounting systems need IT assistance, so being conversant in IT stuff helps the implementations go smoothly and I can write some of the integrations.
I think I've seen electron apps in macOS app store? And I've definitely seen all kinds of webview-based apps on google play.
Ozy Media – The Ship Has Sunk So Deep
Well of course. But between working as a drone for a company and getting VC money to spend (with restriction) on how you see fit, the VC option is pretty appealing.
Sabine Hossenfelder: How I learned to love pseudoscience
Sure, but a lot of people would rather own 10% of a billion dollar company than 100% of a 10 million dollar one.
My experience is mostly UK / USA and small parts of France and Denmark. It's funny you say the UK feels like a 3rd world country...I had that experience in the USA, whereby you see people who were visibly mentally ill just out of hospital (they would still be in hospital gowns) on street corners shouting at cars driving past. Walking around in Miami we were warned from a passer by (she obviously heard our accents and realised we were british) not to walk further down the street otherwise we'd be shot. Days later there was a mass shooting in that area. In other instances in the Miami I was offered drugs several times just walking around a tourist area.

I've never experienced anything on this level in the UK my whole life - and it's not like I've spent much time in the USA - just a few short weeks at a time.

Honestly I think the UK has a lot going for it - very low levels of corruption, good law and court systems, good education, low levels of crime outside of London stabbings, the NHS, excellent Civil Service, The National Trust, English/Scottish Heritage.

I think your comment about town centres going downhill is valid, but a symptom of more out-of-town shopping centres taking away the business. Horrible pubs have always existed, and pubs in general have been struggling for numerous reasons for decades.

The South West is where people go to retire - there are no jobs there as there's hardly any major cities, so not sure why you are surprised about the ages of the people there?

> People there are so angry - I'm constantly being sworn and shouted at by fat old (60+) guys because I have a European car.

Do you mean you had a European registration plate? I drove a BMW for years without many people shouting at me (when they did it was because I'd made a driving error).
I post a lot on the /r/learnpython sub (different username) and while it does have its moments the community there is 90% positive supportive etc. I would not say the same for the site as a whole though.
>snarky comments about corporate drama

Season 3 of "Succession" starts October 17
The Qwest Tower building in Minneapolis referenced in the article has been the CenturyLink Building since 2011, and the microwave was removed in 2019:

ref: https://www.startribune.com/after-50-plus-years-the-centuryl...
Oh. Ok. Noted. Fairness achieved and that changes nothing about my points.

The decisions are economically driven, instead of wellbeing/needs based. This is the point. Even if I noted all things weighed and considered, the issue would be that we effectively went back to the same ways of life. Policy makers are carrying on with persisting adultist systems and making decisions without deep consideration of human needs or direct input from the youngest among us.
Usually that's called journalism.
If you're in Academia for the money you're an imbecile. Which would sort of disqualify you for said academic work in the first place. Catch 22.
I recently had to cancel Which? as well and was disappointed and surprised considering the organisation’s mission. My original idea was to re-subscribe when I need the service again but that’s now off the table.
>It's unclear to me why the wall would need to be "blank"

The initial state of the wall (before people are introduced) should be known.

With a solid color wall you can find shadows of people, objects, etc.

But with a wall with objects on it, you need an image of it before the room was filled, in order to interpret the shadows. (From a machine standpoint. As humans we can process out the art or whatever is on the wall)
It is completely arbitrary. Arguably, all roles at seed stage or earlier are arbitrary.
I couldn’t agree more. I can’t stand using Google’s own apps on iOS because they look jarringly out of place to me, like running a Mac app that looks skinned to look like Windows.

Obviously not everyone agrees and that’s OK. I acknowledge this is purely a personal preference thing. But for me, I detest Material apps on my phone and iPad.
To me (just some random person on the internet that works at startups) the defining characteristics of a startup are growth and employee equity as compensation. The second has to come from the first, since equity is worthless if there isn't some future promise of payout.
Did you even read the OP's link? The government, and now by extension via mandates, the vaxxed, are denying unvaxxed any ability to access normal supply channels for personal income, food, education, clothing, home repair supplies and other basic needs for surviving in modern society, and just because they didn't literally put a gun to the unvaxxed people's heads and pull the trigger, you somehow see the recipients living under all those restrictions as the perpetrator of their own demise who deserve death by what is essentially the equivalent of "japanese inspection."

Big John will educate you on Japanese inspection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKGjeqHSy1A
Your example citing Trump’s trainwreck makes zero sense in this context. His record on the economy was impressively effective even if his social policies floundered.
Is that the most boring job in the comments? or the most interesting?
The FT runs a magazine called "How To Spend It" with ideas for what cheeky stylish thing to buy this month after you already spent it on what you want to. That this is apparently a lucrative business possibly tells you that you can max out your quality of life and still have money leftover.

https://www.ft.com/htsi
I remember being shocked to find out that freight shipping isn't fully automated.

I had just assumed that, well, they’re on tracks, and we have GPS and radio, so of course they’d be automatic.

I realize why it’s not that simple, but still find it surprising that automation isn’t more prevalent.
> A similar thing happened in the US military

I'm not saying you're incorrect that the military had similar tech to what AT&T had, but I'll split the hair that they actually worked together hand-in-hand.

They actually populated AT&T Long Lines towers with AUTOVON equipment which was the old military phone system in the US. Also used the same switching network to support Air Force One with the Echo Fox Presidential Aircraft network. Some of the locations were hardened for nuclear attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autovon

http://www.coldwar-c4i.net/Echo-Fox/index.html
Meta: .jsf? I thought Java Server Faces died a decade ago.
Meh. The Scandi-Nordics are functionally similar enough that the local region matters more than which country it sits in. The everyday life experience in the industrial tech centers are more similar across the countries than compared with more traditional cities just a couple of hours away in the same country.
Yeah winter can be hard but summer is glorious. I also love to ski so I enjoy the cold.
I've been using this since W10 came out. It works, but as others mention, some parts seem to stop working magically over time.