skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not when the thing we're doing has a positive feedback loop. We continue until we overextend, collapse, and then start over. Humans are intelligent, so we usually try to do things differently after the collapse. Sometimes, individuals are smart enough to see the collapse coming and build an ark to ride out the chaos.

There is clearly is no strong consensus that bitcoin is bad, since it's worth over a trillion dollars. In fact, people are jumping into bitcoin because they believe the existing financial system is bad and on the verge of collapse.

We'll see.
>No, many bars still allow smoking.

Where, exactly, is that the case?

I've traveled all over the US and haven't been in a bar that allowed smoking indoors in at least 15 years. And as a smoker, I would definitely notice.

Edit: As kube-system pointed out[0], there are a bunch of places that don't have indoor smoking bans. Although the Wikipedia[1] link they provided does say that ~80% of American live in a place with some restriction on smoking indoors. I stand corrected. Thanks kube-system!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29003693

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_the_Un...
Question: if 100,000,000 people use some common phrase, innocently unaware of its history/roots, and one person finds a racist definition for it from 200 years ago, why should the entire population be beholden to an outdated definition? Shouldn’t we be able to change the definition (after all, that’s exactly what dictionaries do)
Been using (and paying) MobaXterm for years and have nothing but good things to say for it. All my servers are added the right tab my project, having the ability to just drop files over to be scp'ed and a slew of other useful tools embedded into the program.
1990 had neither GUI nor sound nor network on consumer devices. 2000 consumer device did not have video input and could not playback video even of standard TV quality. 2010 basically had all that even on mobile but lacked fast cellular data.
Lots missing really, you can add nutrition and scaling things to that list.
I think you have an issue with the entire class of eink notebooks because both of these points are completely immaterial to their designed purpose.

You want a general purpose eink tablet. The reMarkable is most definitely not.
https://supabase.io has:

- Postgres DB (+ admin panel + realtime sync + search + workflows)

- Auth

- Storage

- Functions (beta)

(disclosure: am small angel investor)

its interesting that you consider workflows a "standard cloud primitive". what do you currently use? (i work on a workflow engine myself)
I somewhat agree. I think that all that might happen is that the headline would change to something along the lines of "10% of households pay 50% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes". I think it's easy to look at these things, see how they disproportionately affect the poor, and try and draw a causative relation based on that. I get it, I'm guilty of it, but I think a lot of these problems are substantially deeper than that.

I think the more important question is "why are these 10% so dependent on alcohol and cigarettes? what about the way we structure society leads to this behavior?" and I think focusing on the "sin tax" part of it really misses the mark. Eliminating sin taxes would be, at most, a band-aid patch, not a "solution".
> my refute would be about my local environment

Is it an urban environment? Most people's environments isn't a reasonable reference.
> By altering how posts about vaccines are ranked in people’s newsfeeds

Facebook has been enjoying the fact that they are not held responsible for the content that users post. But since they started to heavily manipulate the timeline, and decided to promote content they became a publisher instead of just a forum, so I think that Facebook should be held accountable for what it promotes.
> Heavy smokers and alcoholics are likely to use more healthcare resources compared to somebody who doesn't engage in those activities. So in my mind it seems "fair" for those things to be taxed higher.

There are a lot of things that people do which fall in the same category. Unhealthy eating. Extreme sports. Unsafe sex.

Should we tax them all?
> 4) A bit too opinionated on DB/Auth (maybe I don't want to use Postgres)

This feels like a weird criticism considering Next is React only.
The reason I love Next.js + Vercel though is because I don't need anything else for the frontend (besides a CMS maybe).

If I have to use:

1) Pusher for realtime

2) Supabase for DB

3) Temporal for workflows

4) Vercel / Netlify, etc. for functions / cron jobs

My backend becomes primarily a bunch of stuff glued together, rather than something cohesive like Next.js
I plugged in my iPod to my computer and it just worked: New music was copied, and any cleanup that I made to metadata was applied automatically. The formats that iTunes used were some of the highest quality audio available at a bit rate that would fit onto my giant iPod.

Before I had an iPod I had a Creative MP3 player. The player itself was decent, but manually copying the files to it really was a pain in the rear end, especially when I updated metadata.
Except it's not true. Smokers die sooner so they actually reduce the cost of the healthcare system.
I think it's important to distinguish between sin taxes and externality taxes.

Drinking alcohol, for the most part (although not entirely), is purely a sin, and does not inherently affect the public. Smoking does, either in a minor and indirect way due to pollutants entering our shared atmosphere or a much more direct effect if someone is smoking in your local vicinity. I'm all for taxing the thing that affects people but isn't so horrible as to ban outright, but not so much the "sin."
This seems to be arguing on both sides of the aisle:

- CEOs do these things right for allocating their mental energy and physical health, and therefore are bursting with energy and happy, but also

- CEOs aren't necessarily happy and they aren't working 100 hours all the time despite their energy levels indicating that.

Maybe the duality is the point, but then I don't think the title is accurate.
The person created spyware for profit- something that clearly lacks of integrity.

The fact that this is even a question shows why no one who worked at Facebook should be in charge of any integrity project.
The matter in your reference is/was more about an eagerness towards reducing contagion and avoiding DoS on health services - meaning, the drive is/was not "in a vacuum" but instrumental towards these goals. Many other historical cases tend more towards the utter lack of concern and prudence.

(In fact, said eagerness has been a partial factor in creating distrust, as some perceived it as a "whatever it takes" - another immense communicational failure).

Surely, the new shout "trust the science" I have seen misused and abused by the very many, in political activity, in the medical profession, in the press and in interpersonal communication: used without providing the required scientific substance ("Which rule or regulation?" // "Yes.") they gave the idea of a psychological manipulation ("Buy this stereo, it's organic"). Having used the idea of "Science" as a "totem" has been a great damage against civilization - probably clumsy instead of malicious, it still counts as dis-education.
Seems you're confused about the difference between articles, editorials, and op-eds. Not a big reader are you?
deadweight loss is the term you are thinking of, and this is the same reason milton friedman called land value tax "the least bad tax."
In the parking ticket case I think it's interesting and not clear-cut b/c on one hand you have the "treat all equal before the law" and on the other hand you have desired outcomes.

It's hard for me ethically not to fall on the side of treating everyone equally under the law versus trying for specific outcomes. If you wanted to go for outcomes can you help me distinguish why you wouldn't sentence a poor person to lesser jail time or insurance payout (car wreck) or w/e lesser amount than a rich person? Does a wealthy person have more to lose by murdering someone? Less? I just don't think it's clear cut but for my part I'm definitely open minded on it. It's kind of the equality of opportunity versus equality of outcomes thing - I'm definitely on the equality of opportunity camp with probably a base versus equality of outcome.
would prefer no having an operation, but if it's the proven path that helps I'd definitely consider it.

Just not sure if it's worth it if I'd need to wear glasses after a few years again.

For me the goal would be to at least stop if from getting worse.
So much of the “never buy a rental” stigma is ICE-specific. EVs don’t rely on hundreds of hard-to-reach soft parts that can disable the vehicle if you drive them too hard.

But I’ll definitely be checking the battery and motors before buying a used EV.
Nothing to worry about. Ignore those parasites.
> because they die so much earlier, smokers use less medical resources than non-smokers over their lifetimes

Although technically true, if you apply a reasonable discount rate the analysis flips back in favor of smoking cessation [1].

If you ignore the fact that old people aren't just sent out the pasture to die, then sure, maybe you can set gamma to an unreasonable small value, you can decide that more early death is cost-effective.

But such an analysis, which again nets out positive for smoking cessation when applying an appropriate discount factor, ignores the fact that healthy older folks still contribute to society.

The retired population is an enormous social asset. They contribute disproportionately to community volunteer work, play an important role in family formation/childcare, and many also work well past retirement age. The average retired person is still performing an significant amount of socially valuable labor, regardless of whether they're filing a W-2. In many communities/families, Social Security and Medicare are at least in part a significant state-subsidized childcare allowance.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199710093371506
I'm going to be downvoted to hell for this... but the more I see the level of complexity and amount of engineering going into this, the more I miss Rails and how simple things are there, given most of us are just building CRUD apps anyways.
I guess https://dapr.io/ could also be considered a contender in that space, though the developer experience is not as polished as next.js (yet?).
Oh yeah, "that wasn't true communism".
TFA doesn't contain much advice for article authors. It reads more like a guide to farming karma. In which case, here is a better trick: When a decent article is posted, go and post another article from the same author/website, another article about the same topic or a competitor (release announcements trigger this pattern reliably). You can probably automate this.
I hate smokers because they they don't police their cigarette butts and leave the things littered everywhere, including parks, playgrounds, nature reserves...

If nothing else, I'd tax them for that BS. It's the shopping cart test, at least 90% of smokers are like this, unable to do function in society unless their incentivized not to cause harm, and I disdain them for it.
Awesome!! Thanks for the answer :)
Note: this will significantly reduce the life of your oven. The self-cleaning cycle is torture for the oven components. They are not really built to withstand the heat.
I think you're right that drinkers probably use less social security and medicare. But probably the damage of drinking and driving overwhelms these.

I always thought a solution would be to tax beers 1 dollar, and then give it back to the patron in untransferrable rideshare credits.
All of it isn't important, in an absolute sense.

Shift your view up a couple levels of abstraction and everything on the planet is ultimately meaningless. People always seem to argue about "saving the planet" as though it has some greater meaning, when in reality it is just a poor proxy for "keep the planet inhabitable for humans".
the major versions are mostly marketing new features. Next has been pretty conservative about how it deprecates APIs, i'd wager many Next.js 8 apps could just be updated to 12 with no change
I am always a bit bearish on geothermal, because the energy flow through the earths crust is just so damn low. Per surface area, it is about 3 orders of magnitude less than solar irradiation, which means that the circumstances in which it really makes sense to exploit geothermal are those where you can effectively harvest flows from a much larger area, most likely due to convection of water or magma. My understanding is that it will never make sense for e.g. every house in a suburban setting to have their own heat probe and pull energy from that, they will be competing with their neighbors and effective energy gained will be negligible.
He (Ivan Kuckir) has been building this online photo editor for 7 years now, and it’s paying off. Last year (2020), he broke the line of $500,000 ARR, and it’s still growing.

https://www.lunadio.com/blog/the-story-of-a-unicorn-solo-fou...
Interesting. Curious to hear how Crypto comes into play?
The solution to that is to make them pay in person after waiting in line for an hour. An hours time to the guy making $150K is worth much more than any flat fine.
Xi's reforms are not just a flash in the pan or motivated by his desire to reign in some rogue companies, it seems like there is a fundamental shift in policy - moving away from free wheeling capitalism which has lifted millions out of property but has also come at a huge cost - loss of cultural and family values and corruption. Xi wants to re-align with socialist values, which is a good sign for the country. But, it remains to be seen how he can successfully maneuver the country in that direction.
Section 5, which they are accused of violating, specifically mentions a release of the software in item (b). Item (c) does provide some ambiguity, but given that the access was unauthorized, regardless of how bad the OpSec was in the part of the developers, I can't imagine a judge enforcing a discovery subpoena. They may have had a case that it wasn't malicious access if they didn't use Trump's name as a handle and post "Pig Poop Balls" meme.

Software licenses apply to releases, and it is not clear this a release. This is the legal question I am asking about, i.e. Does the developers making this publicly accessible for testing constitute a release?
I believe the term is usually "Sweat the onion"
Layers of protection. Laws on what can backfeed into the grid, ground the wires, wear safety gear. No different than in computer science using both a firewall AND salting your password. The more layers, the less likely 1 mistake gets you.
are their methods of death more or less expensive?
>I have to wonder why they went with retinal scanning in this case.

They didn't. It's an iris scan. The article just used "retina" and "iris" interchangeably for some reason. https://worldcoin.org/how-it-works
> Total sin tax burdens are poorly explained by demographics (including income).

While two most-taxed clusters may be low-income, the researchers found a poor correlation between income and sin tax burden overall.

More detail from the paper:

> The second takeaway is that saying “sin taxes are regressive” or “sin taxes are progressive” largely misses the point. There is much more variation among households within income groups than across them in purchases of sin goods (Figure 3). Even among the lowest-income groups, the majority of households pay negligible amounts of sin taxes, and there are heavy smokers and heavy drinkers at all levels of education and income.
I assume the hardware targets battery life rather than performance; the lack of on-device features is quite deliberate. As far as cloud offloading goes, the only thing which seems to match that framing is the handwriting recognition, which is honestly pretty rubbish and I'd happily live without.
It reminds me that back in July 2019. I was using the Windows file explorer to investigate an issue. When clicking on a folder to open it, my wrist slightly twitched while clicking on the folder, which led to the accidental move of a 650 GB operational data folder into a code repository folder.

For some reason the move into the repository folder was instantaneous but the opposite wasn't. All data import attempts errored during the 14 hours required for the data to be moved back to its original place. I emailed and voiced my apologies to the team present both in India and in France.

While I was not fired on the spot, it might have indirectly led to the disappearance of our devops (devoops?) team in Paris. Fortunately enough I guess I was the last team member to be sent away.

For my defense, our dev team had a intervention scope so big that they were essentially super-men once they have been granted access. One the rights granted to us was full write-access to all incoming data folders.
Dying soon doesn’t reduce costs if it’s preceded by needing a decade of medical attention.
Taxpayers billed millions for gun buyback without any guns bought
Would it matter to be out of their job if homelessness would be solved? At least they wouldn't be homeless as a result of job loss.
Would facebook still distribute through the app store (that enforces these conditions) if they provided an open platform?

Of course not. An open platform would decrease Apple's ability to enforce measures like this, and would be detrimental to my experience as a user.
Here in Chicago we passed a (poorly implemented) sugary beverage tax. Nonstop political ads followed and it was repealed after less than a year.
Washington, Ind. police officer wins ‘law enforcement of the year’ award
Yes we should tax consumption over income. That said the distribution of consumption relative to distribution of assets matters imo. We should fix the distribution problem at the top with more equitable stock and income allocations by corporations to labor.
I wouldn't expect a non-engineering journalist to understand or care about sig figs, nor does it matter
Sin taxes produce more revenue than energy royalties, but most of the revenue from the oil and gas sector is income taxes on the companies and their employees.
Training has limited value that depends critically on the personality traits of the person being trained.

Someone who's fresh to the field and is eager to take feedback and act on it, great! They'll learn quickly and you can mold them, they'll slurp up all the feedback they can get and end up fantastic after very little time.

But someone who already has 20 years of experience and is bitter that YOU, a young'n with just 10 years under your belt has the AUDACITY to condescend to THEM about how they could improve THEIR PERFECT CODE? You might as well just fire this person unless you're happy with their output, they are going to be locked in their ways and while it's possible to "break" a person like this and get them to bend a bit, it's going to be your full-time job which you'd damn well better have political cover for within the org because it can get nasty.
Well, in regard to your opening point, anything that CAN be used for surveillance WILL be used for surveillance.
If you're already using likes of Supabase, Firebase etc. then Parse.com (RIP) was that OG BaaS but Facebook acqui-killed it. Now it's available as a open-source project and is used by several providers to provide BaaS[1].

I had used both proprietary & open-source Parse until 4 years back for several production applications but has since gone back to relational DB(pgSQL), so don't know the current status of the ecosystem.

[1] https://parseopensource.github.io/
The imperative phrase is

> when exporting a static site

i.e. running `next export` to generate a bunch of HTML, JS and CSS files that you just serve from a static file server. It would be nice if that could generate responsive versions of your images too.

See for the feature request: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/19065
Your source has no relation to the claim that you are trying to refute. That claim being: "It wasn’t sin taxes that stopped people smoking on planes, in restaurants, etc. "
Anecdotally, while driving along Minnesota's segment of I94 in the '90s, one would have to stop and scrape the bugs off the front window and grill. Today, this is no longer a problem.
> A huge bet we're placing on our Rust compiler is that we'll control the supply chain much more tightly.

This is great to hear, thanks for responding. I'm looking forward to seeing the Next.js dependency story improve in the future as you are able to complete that migration to swc. And hopefully Vercel's leadership in this space also encourages similar improvements in the broader node and react ecosystems.
Anyone who was actually willing to join facebook is by definition unqualified to work on an integrity project.
> Naturally, among students who drop out, 100% of programs have negative ROI.

This is interesting. It means that education, experience, and network gained in college has no economic value. Whatever ROI college may provide is found entirely in the recognition of completion.
why is every counterpoint a "SLAMS" headline?
The problem I have with such research that it takes college degrees obtained decades ago and compares them against salaries that are happening now. In the best case, it makes inflation index adjustments, but it's useless. College prices raise much faster than inflation, and people that earn today's salaries went in college decades ago. So if college prices 20 years ago were worth it today, that doesn't mean college prices today will be worth it in 20 years.

Moreover, it suffers from one more problem - for certain classes (I'd call it "classes" for the lack of a better word) in the US, everybody would go into a college, because that's what people of this class do. There are exceptions, of course, but they are rare. Those are the same classes that end up working in professions that command higher salaries. Does that mean that going to college caused it? Maybe yes, or maybe if they spent the same time in the libraries, studied online or even went for a tour to Madagascar instead, the outcome would still be the same. We can't really tell by comparing them to people of a different class, that traditionally don't go to college and also traditionally occupy positions that command lower salaries. I'm not talking about positions which require many years of training, like medicine or law - there's, obviously, the question is moot, if you want to be a doctor, you have to go to a medical school, so there's no question of "worth it". But e.g. in software, I am not convinced college really has as much ROI as it is claimed, only because a lot of people go to college (because in their class, everybody goes to college) and later have high salaries.

I personally think that my college education was well worth it - but I didn't pay over $100K for it, in fact, I didn't incur any debt at all that I haven't paid off within a year by working half-time, and later paid for my next degree entirely from my own earnings, with very short-time loan just to structure the payments in a more convenient way. If it were at today's costs, coming with a nearly-lifetime debt burden - I might have a completely different opinion on it.
For unhealthy eating, certainly, why not?

For the other two it's a bit harder to directly tax those activities, but taxing indirectly it's definitely feasible: private health insurance and life insurance already have different pricing depending on amount of exercise, lifestyle, previous conditions, etc.
Here is where I realise how happy I am to live in a country with a pretty good educational system, which is free to any citizen who qualifies to enter.

Commercial healthcare and education seem to really bring about the worst aspects of a market economy, in some countries. Not sure where it works well, it maybe somewhere.
Element CEO here, I don't know wtf got into us breaking Signal E2EE, I am stepping the fuck down.
Thanks for clarifying, Lee!