skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's generally difficult to optimize taxes beyond a certain level, but of course, there are tax attorneys who can advise you on that.

If you are in CA, maybe you can move to a no-income-tax state and whack 12% off your tax bill. That requires advance planning as far as I can tell.

But again, with a 1 million W-2, you can hire a tax attorney to advise you on this. You can also talk to an Enrolled Agent (EA), an advanced tax preparer, to see if you can scrape up some savings or get some good advice for the future.
Forced population control - either preventing or requiring people to reproduce - is a terrible idea. The low birth rate has a huge number of external factors, not least of which is given the current housing and job market many people simply cannot afford to have a child, and much less give their child the attention required to raise a healthy, functioning human.
It's a cliché at this point but they don't want a hobby, they just don't want to be an outcast from society (especially in the last year and a half)
What makes you think theyre dropping PCVR support? They just spent 3 years getting wired and wireless Link working. They clearly want to unify their products into a single hybrid standalone/pcvr lineup.

PCVR software sales are just absolutely abysmal, there is no way to make a profit on a large scale app, so theyre only going to invest in AAA content for standalone now.
Maybe they’re not dumb and they’re making their own choices differently than you make yours.

Oil spills harm the environment. We regulate them because the ocean can’t just choose to not receive the oil, not out of a desire to make sure we can keep eating fish.

EDIT: To say the thing out loud: I buy smart TVs on purpose, and I’d like to think I’m a smart person who understands the technology involved. Is the case you’re making that I am in fact dumb?
Also with eggs and cholesterol
hmm. it doesn't seem all that different from sony or microsoft subsizing the cost of gaming consoles and then locking down what can run on them so they can recoup those costs by getting a slice of the game sales.

nor is it all that different from apple or google dumping millions and millions into ios and android os/base level platform development, software update/delivery infrastructure and proactive platform security and then recouping those costs on sales and in-app purchases through the app stores.

it's been going on since the original nintendo entertainment system with its approval process. prior to that was the atari 2600 debacle, where the platform languished and the ecosystem of software was such crap that people just sort of gave up on it.

that said, are they a form of monopoly? it certainly amortizes the costs of developing hardware and os platforms to the point that consumers are willing to buy in, but it also results in undue control over the resulting platforms. hard to say... i think it all comes down to how that control is wielded... (and without it, it's the atari 2600 all over again)

only alternatives i can think of are to regulate the platforms for fairness or force platform vendors to offer full price/off contract versions of their hardware.
Thank you, I will check it out
At least you could play it. I missed the part that said it was Chrome-only and started to try to play it only for it to crash Firefox.
Apple's daisy recycling robot is a taste of what's coming. Personally I wouldn't use a product that has been in an independent repair shop, having worked in several as a side gig while I was in college. They hardly ever use ESD precautions, often deceive and overcharge, may steal data, and are rarely qualified or trained, unless iFixit YouTube videos count. This is doubly the case if it's an Apple product. I will simply value my time properly and replace with a new model. I want to be using and not disassembling the product. Even the Apple geniuses aren't qualified IMO. After it leaves Shenzhen, it's a disposable product, as designed.

And so it comes back to money. Now these very advanced tools are primarily used for building wealth.
If you're making money, replace out of date equipment as routine as an expense. If you aren't making enough to replace your equipment when necessary, the problem isn't the design of the laptop. It's your failing to earn. That's where the rational and successful will focus. Disassembling your laptop and it's 300 tiny security screws all over your desk on an ESD mat with little magnetic boxes to save $50 is totally insane. It's a waste of your valuable finite time and energy.
> This is more like someone giving you key to a filing cabinet in order to retrieve some documents

No. It's like someone asking you what you need, you telling them "I want all my documents and the ones from my neighbours because I feel like it", and them proceeding to hand you everything you asked for neatly collected in a folder.
Actually, the US was one of the first to crack down on the bribes and corruption part. I think that the law that can get you in trouble for bribing a foreign government official arose out of fighter jet sales to a European country.
This is a great post that identifies a large problem. I wish it could be solved one day.

Being a moderate right now is like being stuck between a rock and a hard place.
I'm probably misreading the posts but... The worry is that too many humans may mean consuming too many resources which depletes/damages the earth too quickly.

A case could be made that if we were to somehow go back down to about, say, about 1 billion humans (it's a nice round number) we could both keep our knowledge, transmit it, make new discoveries, yet not pollute too much.

I'm not a big fan of the idea that "civilization" should be about packing as many humans as possible in as little space as possible ("because energy efficiency") with as little liberties as possible.
We could start by asking this guy:
https://apnews.com/article/business-california-95b6935d64ab6...
> I think you can make an argument that 10 billion humans are more likely to wipe us all out than 10 million

I think that argument is weak. Geopolitical instability is probably the main threat to us[1], and I think that would be much worse affected by a shrinking population in a world where every policy decision since WWII has been predicated on continued growth.

[1] Unless you think the main threat is unfriendly AI with short timelines, in which case population in 50 years matters much less than whether we can get our shit together in the next decade or so.
Relevant John Oliver coverage on the PFAS topic: https://youtu.be/9W74aeuqsiU
În Germany it might stand, but you are forgetting the American legal system is very much moneybased, so Amazon can just fight it in court an win, or at worst settle, which I have no doubt it's overall still a win
dotcom was a completely different situation. VC money flowed to companies that had no meaningful revenue. FAANG, on the other hand, are printing billions of dollars per month.
All you're really doing is pointing out that "tribalism" doesn't mean what people think it means.

Reactionary anti-X mentality is just as bad as group-think, if not worse.
My strong suspicion is that the general plan is essentially:

- let a whistleblower (who seems intent on describing Facebook employees as smart and humanistic folks, despite those employees designing and maintaining FBs content delivery systems) make a case that Facebook needs government regulation.

- agree that such a regulatory agency should be created, and offer FBs assistance in outlining the parameters involved — because who better than the problem to design the solution?

- agency is created. Perhaps the whistleblower can even be a high level figure within it, as the face of the issue.

- Suddenly FB is no longer liable for anything because they are “adhering to government regulation”.

- Regulatory capture ensues as expected.

FOR FB this is preferable to thr other options:

1. Calls for FB to be broken up

2. Regulation that FB doesn’t have a primary role in designing.
The do indeed call it out in the keynote, including a slide with graphics indicating what each stage does.
Oculus isn’t secretive about the cloud account requirement. When you go to buy it, you’re buying it as Facebook chose to build it. And once you have the hardware you own it. But they aren’t required to sell you a device that works the way you wish it did.

If the pitch here was that vendors were lying about cloud/connectivity requirements, and we wanted legislation to prevent them from obscuring the truth, I’d be 100% down. Thankfully, we already have those laws.
So instead of an authoritarian policy that you can't have more than one child, forcing a lot of people to not have kids they do want, you want an authoritarian policy that you can't go on birth control, forcing a lot of people to have kids they don't want.

Come on.
typically niches are found or created, rather than listed on job searches. If you're already a contract software engineer, the most accessible 'niche' would be contract/interim CTO positions. Beyond that, specific expertise or contacts in specific industries would be the way forwards; at this point it's not a matter of applying for jobs, but creating opportunities.

[edit] forgot to mention contract (cloud) architects and project managers. They can make a lot, too.
It's not just your paperwork. In many countries you'll be denied seemingly basic financial services by institutions because FACTA would make their paperwork too much hassle.
1. Not true, my mother-in-law, who works in healthcare, caught COVID early during the pandemic, and received a positive test. The vaccine mandate recognizes that and her vaccine passport consider her adequately vaccinated with a single dose.

https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/health-issues/a-z/2019-coron...

"you received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, or Covishield) at least 21 days after contracting COVID-19 (confirmed by a nucleic acid amplification test) and it has been at least 7 days since you received this dose;"

2. The jury is still arguing this one, but another aspect is that the more people who gets vaccinated, the lesser they risk going into the ICU and overloading the healthcare system.

3. There's a reason why they ask you to stay after getting the vaccine, to take you in charge of a medical emergency in case of an adverse reaction. That applies with any other vaccine, and if the first reaction is severe enough (according to a professional), they'll receive a proper exemption.
The prophet mohammed. there's another 2 parter about him that's also unavailable iirc too.
> Isn't the correct response to high costs of living to have fewer or no children?

The rational response for an individual or a couple is to not have kids. That's why we're seeing so many articles about "omg the birthrate!". People aren't having kids, it's too hard.

From a nation perspective, however, you will die out as a people if you have negative population growth. Immigration can boost the numbers for a while, but not forever. Especially not if you're also trying to keep the immigrants out as many conservative policies are.

So what is there to do? Governments need to make having children easier, if they want more children. If they do not in fact want more children, then all is good.

However the current economic policy is based on infinite growth. How are you going to infinitely grow an economy if you aren't producing more consumers?
Important tip for people considering startups: only join ones that recently raised an A or B round from one of the top VC firms. VCs get to see all of the numbers and won't invest unless there's some sign of upside.
Marketing + regulatory capture. They seem pretty confident any regulation won't mandate they open their social graph to competition
The high costs of living don't come from legitimate sources. High education prices, housing, etc are all assaults by the upper classes that now own the vast majority of the wealth of the country. The proper response to a biologically insufficient distribution of resources is to take from those that have more rather than make do with less.
Yikes this sounds like a terrible deal for an employee. How long as these expiry dates? So if I get options in a company at a high valuation and pay taxes on the fair market value at that time and the valuation dips by the time I am able to exercise them, I have effectively lost money? Sorry, just trying to figure this out.
I don't know either, but from the description it doesn't sound too good:

> What doesn’t work?

> Most apps downloaded through the Oculus Store because of entitlement errors (including Virtual Desktop :/)

I would assume Immersed uses this.

Disclaimer: Considering getting a Quest 2 just for Immersed.
it probably is a lot of 1).

Right now, Cycles does not have any GPU acceleration on Mac. Windows and linux its fine, but mac is very limited.

Having a group of people, even if its a small number, be vocal about avoiding their computers and have a good reason behind it, isnt worth the 120k a year that it would cost them to be a sponsor.
Installing a different Python version shouldn't break installers, but here we are.

laughs in https://xkcd.com/1987/ .
The Vive is all but irrelevant. It's specs are wildly outdated. It also doesnt have more game support, since Quest can play everything thats native to it and all the PCVR titles the Vive can.
What individual right is being violated here?
Just at first look it seems the 50th percentile is roughly the same (slightly higher) on the Robert Half numbers.

But either way, not everyone can work for FAANG, so I think looking at the overall picture is fair.

I'm pretty confident even with 20 years of experience and I can't even get a FAANG interview (let alone pass it), I'm just not their type.
It's actually pretty complicated.

https://www.ncsl.org/Documents/Elections/The_Canvass_May_201...
Because government power is not the only power capable of suppressing individual freedoms. Corporate power is too and we need the government to keep it in check. Case in point, Facebook trying to restrict how you use hardware you own.
C, C++ etc are similar wrt domain as Rust, maybe even go. Haskell isn't the same kind at all.
> This is far from the case. Case in point: nearly 3 trillion and counting in public stimulus over the last couple of years. In fact, even the Republicans are mostly on board with many items from Biden's infrastructure bill, which is in the 2-3 trillion range.

Lets think about how this would play out.

Money will come down from on-high at the Federal level. States will analyze their road systems, and decide "This traffic light should be converted into an overpass, causing 20% reduction in traffic in this area" (or something similar).

And what will happen with the local population? They'll go nuts. Some rightfully so (any such large infrastructure project would cause some houses to be displaced, to make room for the overpass). Others will care about gentrification and rising home prices. Still others will worry about debts and budgets.

That's what I mean. You'll have to force the infrastructure down people's throats if you actually want it to get done.
Apple Continues to Retain over 50% Share of Premium Smartphone Market in Q2 2021
"we haven't been hacked before, why switched to hashed passwords?"
It's time to rethink how we report election results
It depends how frequently it vests and what percentage vests every period. Amazon is notorious for vesting more of the grant towards the latter part of the vesting period with yearly vesting, while companies like Google are actually frontloading the grant and vesting monthly.
Well let's hope that some C-Suite got punished.
The person I was responding to appeared to be worried we might run out of people. I was pointing out that this isn’t an immediate concern :)
> A new paper on America by Melissa Schettini Kearney and two other economists comes to similar conclusions. They think fertility is declining not because of economic pressures, but because people’s assumptions about life and families have changed. In particular, children are thought to require much more effort and attention than was the case in the past.

This mirrors my observations as well. Even in my cohort, most of my peers can afford to have children, but many are choosing not to. Or having fewer.

I think something underdiscussed is our generation's obsession with "uncompromise" - you see it in our media, what we demand from celebrities, our policy choices. Something in the way we live our lives publicly makes it easier for people to choose to do nothing rather than risk falling behind their peers.

And people have it in their mind that having a kid needs to be an enormous amount of work.
Based on the data, do you foresee a correction or dotcom-esque bubble situation?
This makes me wonder how many deaths the widespread use of plastics in packaging has saved over the years from improvements in nutrition (reduced spoilage lowers net food costs and increases food availability) and reductions in food-borne illnesses.

The death rate from food-borne illness is pretty low now (with advances in processing, transportation, packaging, phase-change refrigeration, and surveillance of outbreaks).

We might be able to have our cake and eat it to with better/different packaging, of course.
I generally agree with this, but there is more nuance involved- like what if the library has a sign that says "Keep out"? Does the trespasser then bear some responsibility? i.e. Being served a 403, then appending some URL param that grants access. I wouldn't call this hacking, but it's something else- like "Digital trespassing", after all the 403 is a sign, not a cop. All of this to say The Simpsons did it.
> I don't get the argument against having less children.

The [current] economic model presupposes infinite growth. You can't have infinite growth with a declining population.
> The evidence is undeniably clear that limiting exposure to toxic phthalates can help safeguard Americans’ physical and financial wellbeing.

It's kind of sad that "this could kill you" is followed by "and think of the hospital bills"
>You don't have to be a citizen to have a driver's license, either, but they're accepted.

A driver's license proves state residency (one of the requirements needed to vote), a student ID does not.
>every time I see an article like this, I think I am doing something "very wrong"

there's a comment like this in every single thread like this. and the recommendation is always the same: grind LC for however long you need in order to be comfortable solving hard problems cleanly in 35-45 minutes and then collect your pay bump. the fact that the

1. data

2. complaint

3. recommendation

crop up with 100% perfect regularity means that it's the solution that simply isn't palatable to all of the people that express the complaint. to which i say: what exactly are you expecting to give among these three things?
What if bad actor took your family and friends as hostages and made them beg you to join them.
standalone VR is pretty garbage running off a phone graphics card. The quest is only interesting where you connect to PCVR, and then its not standalone.
I've had a similar phase and just switched back to Ubuntu a week ago after having used a number of different distros since 2011. As a software developer myself, I think there is a mix of two emotions that lead to this; fear of missing out (FOMO) and imposter syndrome. I was trying to learn as much as possible for a while, adding skills to my resume, thinking my peers were doing the same. (They were not). All that time I ended up suffering from some pretty poor UX issues (Audio/Bluetooth/Wifi) that I tried fixing unsuccessfully or ignoring for the longest time, that I forgot what it was like to use a system THAT JUST WORKED out of the box.
I was born in the US to Canadian parents who promptly moved back to Canada where I have lived for the subsequent 55 years. Other than a US birth certificate I had no interaction with the US gov - we politely ignored eachother like a huge number of Canadians in the same situation. The informal status quo was that we both acted as if the "US citizenship by birth in the US" thing had not happened.

Until a few years ago when the US gov declared that I would be a criminal unless I became a full fledged US citizen. They also made this as difficult, expensive, confusing and time consuming as possible. For example having to find some paper documentation that is was living in Canada in 1967 etc. Huge costs - all of it going to specialist accountants - none to the IRS. And a huge complicated ongoing burden.

I am not even allowed to renounce until I have gone through this charade for a few years.

What has the US got out of this? They have processed lots of paperwork on my behalf and they have sent me some (unsolicited) stimulus checks which paid a tiny portion for the (Canadian) accountant fees they have saddled me with.
No point. "Don't worry, be happy" is far more relevant than most people think.

My happiest time was a period where I made no plans for anything further than six weeks ahead. I literally lived in the moment. Of course, that is a self-centred attitude, and is almost impossible to maintain if you have anybody else significant in your life.

Everybody is an individual, the point to my life is almost certainly not at all the same as the point to your life.
A somewhat unstated reason why decreasing birth rates are considered alarming is because our entire economic system is built around growth that's only really possible if both the labor pool and/or the consumer pool grow. The only two ways that can happen are if we make new workers and consumers (birth, immigration) or we make people who weren't previously workers or consumers into those (this happened post-WWII when women entered the workforce in larger numbers and was probably part of why economic growth was so strong for so long after the war).

Fundamentally, if the number of people participating in the economy shrinks, the economy will shrink, and our late capitalist system is extremely ill equipped to deal with that.

Now there's also a powerful movement against immigration, that is also aggressively for increasing birth rates to fend off an imagined conspiracy to "replace" them, which makes this a particularly thorny problem for the political class.
No voter id requirements is a pretty neutral option.
You're reading between the lines correctly.
Capitalism demands an ever increasing number of mouths to feed.
It’s very naive to think this problem has been caused by the conservatives alone. Why do you think we need to build hundreds of thousands of houses a year to keep up with demand given we have below replacement birth rates? You would think house prices would be crashing even if the supply of houses was kept steady.

This is both a supply and demand issue, although low interest rates and various help to buy schemes have also contributed.

As a home owner I’m far more frightened that people will get fed up of the costs of mass migration than labour attempting (and almost certainly failing) to keep up with our growing housing demand.
This was said about phones 10 years ago, and electricity 100 years before that.
plus, shrug it seems that locked down platforms present a nice challenge for young tinkerers to break that can ultimately kindle their interests in technology.
> Isn't the correct response to high costs of living to have fewer or no children? And if one willingly has children knowing full well they cannot provide, isn't that wrong?

No one in a Western country is unable to afford children. What's happening is that they believe they can't afford children, but they are wrong.
Brilliant read, thank you for sharing. Looking back, would you have stayed in Portland?