skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is precisely what Graeber said at the end of his book Bullshit Jobs, and it's a solid argument. Quoting from the book:

"Basic income might
seem like it is a vast expansion of state power, since presumably its the
government (or some quasi-state institution like a central bank) that would be
creating and distributing the money, but, in fact, its the exactly the reverse. Huge
sections of government and precisely, the most intrusive and obnoxious ones,
since they are most deeply involved in the moral surveillance of ordinary citizens
would be instantly made unnecessary and could be simply closed down. Yes,
millions of minor government officials and benefit advisors like Leslie would be
thrown out of their current jobs, but theyd all receive basic income too. Maybe
some of them will come up with something genuinely important to do, like
installing solar panels, as Leslie suggests, or discovering the cure for cancer. But it
wouldn't matter if they instead formed jug bands, devoted themselves to
restoring antique furniture, spelunking, translating mayan hieroglyphics, or
trying to set the world record for having sex at an advanced age. Let them do what
they like! Whatever they end up doing, they will almost certainly be happier than
they are now, imposing sanctions on the unemployed for arriving late at cv-building seminars or checking to see if the homeless are in possession of three
forms of id; and everybody else will be better off for their newfound happiness."
Please make your substantive points without swipes, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sugar and other lobbies
> Market research and testing has shown that users dislike "just playing" a game in the browser. This is particularly true in the AAA segment that webassembly and its perf gains would best serve.

> Players who play the high profile games that web assembly would allow you to make games for (think Fortnite, CS:GO, etc) all want to play games from a trusted download from a trusted store, not some random website.

No doubt this is partially thanks to the numerous game-like ads that link to exceptionally cheaply made web games. I remember a time in the late 00s and early 10s when browser based games were starting to flower, but then the spammy stuff took over and their popularity dropped like a rock.

I would hazard a guess that the overhead of navigating to a specific site and the clunkiness inherent to browsers being a 1024-in-one multitool doesn’t help matters. It’s nicer to just fire up Steam and have all your games neatly listed, all free of extraneous browser chrome and whatnot.
I have never, ever considered that the use of nails is their ability to bend slightly. Very interesting idea.
YC Names Surbhi Sarna Its First Group Partner for Healthcare and Biotech
Lots of young people have taken up vaping. Smoking is on the rise IMO.
A peculiarly characterized factoid. What proportion of taxes ought to be due to those activities in the article's view?
Google App Engine?
You can make a tax far more gradual than a ban. Slow boiling frogs and what not. And that is exactly what happened with cigarettes, at least here in Europe.
https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-corporation
So we only incentivize and control the behavior of poor people? A $60 parking ticket is earth shattering for someone at or near the poverty line. That same ticket is essentially meaningless for someone making $150k/year.

If your incentive isn’t pegged to income or wealth, it’s just creating two tiers of society
Elon Musk Had a Good Day
1. No, when self-hosted, server files will just run on your server :)

2. You can use the `keys` prop to prevent that (this is still very experimental and the API is not finalized).

3. We will be sharing more on this soon, but yeah still early days.
It is a combination of both. Majority support was needed as a prerequisite to enact bans.
Me too! Thanks for posting the URL.

Surprised that this complaint isn't voted higher up (currently). One of the things that make HN discussions better than in most places is the unofficial requirement to read more than just the headline.

If we don't read stuff before we comment, we'll slowly become just like any other forum on the web. Even if that's the destiny of any web forum, I'd like to fight it for as long as possible.
How to Create a Restful Client in Go?
I'm not entirely convinced alcohol or cigarette abuse cost the public much money.

Healthy or unhealthy, everyone dies. Liver cirrhosis or lung cancer is expensive. But getting Alzheimer's in your 70's and living another 10 years is extraordinarily expensive.
From the article:

> We also find that heavy purchasers of one sin good (those in the top decile) are likely to purchase larger amounts of other goods subject to corrective taxation. This phenomenon is particularly strong among households with smokers, who tend to also consume larger amounts of [sugar-sweetened beverages] as well as beer and spirits

There is a fundamental fairness question in play here.

I'm okay with the "individual responsibility but don't except affordable healthcare coverage even from medicare/medicaid" approach. I'm also okay with the "coercive policy to force people to change themselves" approach. And I'm okay with a combination of cost/coercion sharing.

What I'm not okay with is all of society bearing the cost of the 10% of the population that smokes heavily, drinks heavily, and consumers larger amounts of sugary beverages.
Smoking actually decreases an individual's use of public resources - because they die so much earlier, smokers use less medical resources than non-smokers over their lifetimes, and they heavily cross-subsidize Social Security payments to non-smokers. From a purely fiscal perspective we should be subsidizing cigarettes, probably to the point of giving them away for free. (Hopefully it goes without saying that there are some really good non-fiscal reasons not to do that.)

The data on drinking is much fuzzier (because so many people drink in moderation) but my impression is that, as you suggest, it's significantly under-taxed relative to its negative externalities.

Edited to add: For comparison, IIRC a Pigouvian tax on sugary drinks should be something like $3 per 12 oz can. People who drink lots of sugary beverages also tend to die sooner, but they use a ton of medical resources while they're around - the average lifetime treatment cost of Type 2 diabetes is over $100k, and that's just one condition.
It's 2021. If somebody still doesn't know about harm from cigarettes, drugs and alcohol it's 100% on them.
At least on linux you can have /home as a separate partition, which should reduce the risk of losing user data. Unless I'm completely wrong and this doesn't really matter that much during updates.
>but it is a pretty particular audience.

With massive amounts of discretionary income available to spend, influence and connections in (at least) the tech sphere, and access to networks full of literal billionaires.

The right post/series of posts could grant you access to all of those things.

Hell, I bought a remarkable because of an HN post. That's just one thing, but it's real.
The moral is, you can escape from bullies by offering up your classmates as more attractive targets.

/s

Or maybe it's that it doesn't pay to be the bully, because eventually you try to bully someone bigger than you.
How about increased taxpayer funded healthcare costs?

Note that, politically, there is no problem collecting higher premiums for tobacco use. But apparently alcohol was not politically unpopular enough to be a factor allowed when pricing an individual’s insurance premiums. Or vaccination status.
It's available to try today under an experimental flag. React 18 is still in alpha. We'd love to hear your feedback!
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? I just had to warn you about this elsewhere in the thread. This is not cool.

You obviously know stuff about this topic and that's great, but the benefit of that is smaller than the damage you cause by flaming. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop this going forward? We'd appreciate it.
A weekend to Spain starts to pay for itself.
It's worth looking at who Arendt is not depressing for, but rather, enlightening, and who she provides a pragmatic set of analytical tools for.
Or if you travel. If I ever get a generator installed (with automatic transfer switch), it would be primarily for the case of a power outage during the winter when I'm not around.
You became a coder after leaving medicine? I'd love to read a blog post about that journey!
It has changed! But it's changed because class mix of the people going to college has changed. Wealthy people used to make up a significant proportion of people going to college. People who didn't need to work for money. Now it is more lower and middle class people, with different needs.
massive reduction in population is a very ugly thing. There's basically no good way to do that.
Related hilarious (and depressing) quote from Obama (which is in the book Bullshit Jobs):

“Everybody who supports single-payer health care says,
‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’
That represents one million, two million, three million jobs [filled by] people
who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are
we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”
Vercel's Edge Functions are built on top of Cloudflare Workers. The runtime is designed for any similar provider, but we've chosen Cloudflare for now because they have an amazing product.
I loved iTunes. To this day it was my favorite all-in-one player, metadata editor, and syncing tool.

(Granted, I don't use it anymore now that streaming services are so awesome. But I miss it like I miss the feeling of buying a CD and listening to it on the way home.)
There is some evidence that smoking actually reduces total healthcare expenditure, as smokers die more quickly than non-smokers (who tend to linger in hospitals and cost a lot of money at the end of their lives). If true, does this mean smoking should be subsidized?
Check out supabase

https://supabase.io/
I assume this is just because you can stop smoking altogether, but can't stop eating altogether.
I'm personally curious how the Next is able to achieve the claim of "zero client-side JavaScript" mentioned here[1] using react server components? It just doesn't seem to make sense to me, and the HN clone example and my barebones test project also clearly still load about 74.2 KB of JavaScript. Is the claim supposed to mean that the server components won't require additional JS, or maybe that they won't need to execute any client-side JS to be fully rendered?

[1]: https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/react-18#react-ser...
Yeah, Deno is using it as well!
There may be some policies/actions from the Chinese government I don't like but certainly not that one, I think it's laudable to take measures to shrink the gap between rich and poor and raise the standard of living for everyone before having some tiny percentage of the population living like kings.

In many western countries this divide is increasing and it doesn't look like it's stopping anytime soon unless measures are taken.

As an example, in the UK, where I live, the median yearly salary is roughly £31k, which means you take home about £2k each month. Start subtracting rent/mortgage, car/public transportation, bills, groceries, toiletries, and just stuff necessary for living and you won't be left with much for pleasure and entertainment, i.e., for living beyond surviving.

Which is btw why I find some HN users are sometimes in such a bubble when they make comments about how they despise ad-supported websites and would love for them to be paid instead; that's lacking empathy, not realising that soooo many people wouldn't be able to afford a system like that, or if they did they would have to give up a bunch of other things instead.
There are no "Marxist" countries on the planet. I'm not sure there ever were. I think I understand what you're trying to say, but someone could very easily take what you wrote as the suggestion that there are two types of countries: "capitalist" and "non-capitalist (Marxist)". That's... you should actually read Marx, or decide on a less fraught descriptor.

For that matter, how much of the ecological devastation in these poorer countries is being caused by a Western mining company or Western oil company or a Western baby-formula company?
If you’re just basing this on experience / memory idk if this is true. My memory says public opinion was swayed by advertising and health risks not cigarette prices. Without some hard data on this i think either story is just as likely true
esbuild is a bundler like webpack, it also does Typescript transform but the API is limited, e.g. you can't access the ast. Meanwhile swc is a Rust alternative to Babel.
That's a weird way to spin competent reporting (of misdeeds by the powerful).
The argument against proof of stake is it leads to centralization of the network in the hands of those holding the most coin. Not everyone can participate. People need what, 32 ETH in order to run a node?
Regulation aside, I think we should take ethics much more seriously.

Engineers sign off on a building, if it falls hundreds could die. We don't do anything that grandiose usually, but sometimes software can have extreme impact on the world, and thus we should be prepared to consider the consequences of our actions thoroughly.
TopLyne: Newsletter about SaaS growth stories
Posting like this will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

We moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the topic [1], but "less" doesn't mean "zero" and egregious comments like this are never ok. If you'd review the rules and stick to them going forward, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
18-22ish is a formative time for many people. If you were fully formed at age 18 with just exposure to the family any friends you grew up with that’s great, but the new perspective and easing into freedom of college is valuable for many people.
> There doesn't appear to be any inordinate lock-in or something of that sort.

For now. Perhaps they're on the "embrace" phase still.

> Or do you mean "Freedom" as in the GNU?

Basically yes. I'm asking whether this is actually better in any way than the FOSS tools it's competing with.
So, I've not read much of this kind of stuff before. Can someone tell me if the following response is just a standard legal way of talking:

43. For example, US Patent No. 5,592,405 (Assignee Texas Instruments) discloses:
“There is thus a need in the art for a system which handles multi-processors having multi-memories
such that the address space from all of the memories is available to one or more processors
concurrently[.]” 2:5-9.

Answer: Altair Logix does not dispute the quoted language comes from U.S. Patent
No. 5,592,405 to the extent it is quoted correctly. Altair denies the remaining allegations in
paragraph 43.

It's just very odd, as there is literally nothing else in the paragraph that they are "denying". Now it seems clear, that they just tack on "denies everything else in this paragraph" to every single thing they say, but why?

Is it better to deny some unknown thing in case you miss it, than to not respond to it in a legal document? if so, why is that?

Is there some other reason for it?
It's also "sale" price of $6,700 with a 2TB HD and just a 6-core CPU. Going with the 8-core xeon bumps price to Bump it up to $6,900 and moving to 8TB of SSD goes up to $9,200 ($8,000 for the 4TB version).

The 2TB M1 macbook 16" is $4,300 and the 8TB, max-specced version is $6,100.

I know Apple has a bad rap for high prices, but that machine's prices make Apple prices look bargain basement. You could almost buy TWO M1 macs for the price of one 4TB Dell.
Here in Seattle, we have no income tax. We also don't charge any taxes on things like transit, groceries, healthcare, rent, and utilities.

It's quite possible to live as a lower-income individual in Seattle without paying almost any state or local taxes.

But if you smoke tobacco or marijuana, drink alcohol or sugary drinks, eat fast food or prepared food -- you'll pay a ton in taxes. It's a bit ironic that such a progressive town has found a way to push so many taxes on poor people in an attempt to help them.
That's... My point.
I feel like if this were true we would be seeing a major decline in the sales of pesticides, at least on consumer-level volume. Has anyone dug into those numbers?
Holy shit dude, nice medical claims on a supplement
This is exactly the reason.
It is much easier to network in college, no matter how extraverted you are. Career fairs commonly require you to be a student to attend, so I'm not sure how being an extravert accomplishes anything for the most common way for students to network.

Anyway, the diploma is what's actually important. Most white collar jobs won't even look at you if you don't have one.
I was in high school about 6-8 years ago now and I can tell you that high schools constantly push going to University. It doesn't matter if you're going into a program like psychology with 800 other students or if you're going into STEM, they push you to just go to University "because employers want it". And parents often feel that same pressure and just want their kid to have a degree. I went to university for software engineering, but I minored in psychology. So many people in my minor seemed to be doing it for their parents and not as much for themselves. When they graduated they weren't really much further in life than before University. If anything a lot of them were further set back. Because their job prospects with such a degree are basically non-existent. The university will happily pump through tons of students in degrees that have almost zero demand. In a program like psych the only way to even find a job that needs you and would pay a bit more is if you get a masters or PhD.

I know so many people who graduated programs like psych and they are barely making above minimum wage and didn't really get to utilize their degree. And not only that, but they often have a lot of debt.

On the other hand, trades are in very high demand. Most trade programs here are just 1-2 years long and you'll exit them with a job secured almost right away and already be making fairly decent money. You'll be making more money than almost anyone with a Uni degree in a non-STEM field. But despite this, it was barely even presented as an option in high-school. We had Universities come and give talks about what it's like, and what kinds of programs they offered. Did we get the same about other education options? Nope.

For some reason there is this view in society that you have to have a degree otherwise you won't be successful and that you're not smart. In fact media/entertainment often also pushes this same narrative which doesn't help things either.

So many of those psych grads I talked about ended up going back to college (In Canada college is like a trades school or community college in America) to take additional programs on HR or admin related topics. They find their degree didn't get them anywhere and they end up having to go to another kind of education to make themselves hirable.
I'll update my post to point to yours. Thanks.
Please name 3 advertising-free newspapers.
> Unfortunately, choosing to not use Steam, GoG, or similar is simply out of the question

Sure but that situation doesn't change by simply distributing a webassembly package through a website. Or rather, that situation is no different than if you distribute a desktop binary through your website. In both cases you are eschewing the storefront.
Here's a video of Stanley Kubrick talking about DOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlsZoZLlwC8
what's that quote about re-inventing Unix, poorly?
I see this mentioned on multiple threads.

What is the accusation here?

(FB employee, opinions are my own)
Addictive properties in a behavioral sense are defined differently from chemical dependency. Physiological and psychoactive aspects of neural stimulation are similar among these alkaloids.

Tropane structure of cocaine, scopolamine make them accumulate in liver whereas vanillin, capsaicin etc do not accumulate.

Scopolamine stramonium etc are fascinating too. Datura stramonium (DS) is a widespread annual plant, containing atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine, which can produce poisoning with a severe anticholinergic syndrome. In some parts of the world, ingestion of the roots, seeds or the entire plant is a trick to obtain its hallucinogenic and euphoric effects.

Also was used to poison royalty and by dacoits. It also has medicinal properties. Has been recorded in medical textbooks at the time of Takshila university and in Buddhists texts. Very effective as homeopathic preparations. Jimson weed is still a common weed on road sides in America. Datura is in the same family of plants as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants and it contains a lethal set of alkaloids. But they don’t have the same kind. Tomatoes, for example, doesn’t have any alkaloids. Only tomatine.
Seems he missed your question, which I’m also curious about.
The taste of vine ripened tomatoes is incomparable to the 'industrial' tomatoes that are picked when they are still green. They are picked green so that they are firmer for transport and they ripe just enough to be red in the store.
Let the same tomatoes ripen on the vine and they are truly amazing.
I've grown my own tomatoes, same F1 Hybrid strains as the commercial growers use. There is a world of difference in taste.
It's not experimental and it's not 100% unknown or new. Scientists do know a lot about long term effects of vaccines in general, though of course, not about these specific COVID vaccines.

The thing a lot of people overlook is that we also don't have knowledge about the long term downsides of the virus infection. (And there is some overlap between what's in the virus and what's in the vaccine...)

Also, the size of the group for whom the risk is miniscule (less than the expected risks from the vaccine, even the estimated but unknown long term ones) is not that big.

The covid vaccines are by no means an example of "neomania". The experts are well aware of the trade offs and the uncertainties. But you have to compare the probabilities of the two choices that you have. (Most people aren't aware that they are basically making a choice of getting vaccinated or contracting the desease. Yes, you can get infected if you are vaccinated too.)
That's inflation for you

All the assets which are not cash seems to be going up.
i think this logic makes no sense and is backwards

obesity has the largest impact on healthcare cost by a large margin. might as well tax the obese now because we will pay them back later by keeping them alive

how about: we don’t need to tax lifestyle choices on anyone. because if you’re serious about increased costs to society you very quickly get to a social credit system. where you can show you don’t drink or smoke, aren’t fat, don’t take part in dangerous activities…
Is this actually true? It seems to vary significantly by 'sin', and by level of consumption. Many smokers die at a younger age than non-smokers, and so end up financially burdening medicare for a fewer number of years. On the other hand, many other dietary habits that are not currently taxed as 'sins' have a long-term medical cost - e.g. diabetes and heart disease.