skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm... makes sense. Even a thin translation layer has a measurable impact then. Maybe the reasonable performance is probably recovered by other parts of the stack.
Some jurisdictions do, particularly in smaller cities like suburbs, where police staff aren't fully occupied with higher priority calls. However, many bigger cities are simply too understaffed compared to the past, and ignore property crimes as you say. This is especially true in West Coast cities like SF, Portland, and Seattle.

For example Seattle has lost hundreds of police officers in the last year due to the push for defunding, hostile attitudes towards police from activists/local politicians, and the opportunity to have a less stressful/better paying job elsewhere after a very rough year dealing with near-daily rioting. At present, the city has only around 1000 officers and it is expected to lose some more due to the vaccine mandate. This is around half of what the average city has per capita, and in the last decade the effects of a lenient city attorney, crime-friendly local government focused on "restorative justice", and falling per capita officer counts has led to a massive increase in crimes. Just like in SF, people have given up on even reporting them since even if someone is arrested, the city attorney will just release them anyways, and insurance claims require a deductible. Even businesses have given up on crime reporting (example: https://tinyurl.com/4nhn45bw).

A good overview of the Seattle situation can be found in a couple documentaries, "Seattle is Dying" (https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw) and "The Fight for the Soul of Seattle" (https://youtu.be/WijoL3Hy_Bw). The city's transformation from a safe clean city to what it is today took place in a decade. I expect it can also be fixed just as quickly with only a small set of changes like a) doubling the staff counts at the police department b) replacing the activist city attorney with a moderate c) enforcing existing laws d) cleaning up drug dens and theft rings masquerading as homeless encampments e) increasing the number of patrols and beat cops f) using technologies like facial recognition.
Imagine if that was policy during the dotcom boom and bust.
They have an ability to not work there in the first place?

If my employer were the North Korean government, would I get a pass because my relationship with them is merely "transactional?"
Which opens the government up to actually having to pay back substantial sums from the IRS, in the event of an equity downturn.
There are millions of millionaires in the US. A lot of fairly normal doctors, lawyers, and engineers will reach this bar by late middle age if they're saving and investing part of their income.
No, it’s the YAML, really.
It'd be pretty easy to levy completely fair and progressive tax structure that only directly impacts the wealthy, and is sufficient to cover the spending.

- Tax capital gains >1m a year as regular income.

- Fix loopholes that allow for equity as collateral for perpetual loans without ever selling the underlying.

- Remove step up in cost basis on inheriting assets.

- Tax stock buybacks at same level as dividends.

- Don't bring back SALT deduction.

Pretty easy to justify. Why should capital gains get favorable tax treatment over income, especially for wealthy who have this as a primary income source? Overall, proportion of assets allocated to investment capital would not dip due to change in tax, where else would they put the money?

Buybacks are effectively a technique to consolidate wealth primarily for the CEO and board of a company, who are paid primarily in equity comp. Very few companies do buybacks for legitimate operational reasons, like purchasing stock when it's undervalued to reduce operational expenses re dividends. It's mostly a buy at any price to juice valuations. I'm not against companies returning money to shareholders, but buybacks shouldn't be tax advantaged vs dividends.

SALT is a direct handout to wealthy homeowners. The fact that this is even in the spending bill shows how far the narrative of fixing wealth inequality has deviated from the actual legislation.

I suspect Congress doesn't do these things because it would actually impact their own finances. And of course they need unilateral agreement on any approach.
Warren Buffet would be welcome but he'd have a hard time meeting new founders and companies to invest in. Gabe Newell has been hanging out here for a while too and he's fairly down to earth.

I guess my point is that you lose a lot of the perks of being rich by leaving the USA. If you are happy without them then maybe the wealth tax doesn't impact you anyway and you stay where you are
The point is, it's irrelevant whether I personally have an issue with poaching or not. What if I sit here and say "Not only do I not have an issue with poaching, but I personally went on a rhino hunt last year and scored myself two kills"?

Your conversation is having effects on the site, and it's important to think about those effects. You probably feel the effects are positive. But angering all the meat eaters (which are numerous) changes nothing. The outcome before and after your thread is the same, except now a lot of people are unhappy. If you're not careful, your devil's advocate streak will come to an end, because (much to my dismay) unhappy people will email complaints about you to the people who run the site, and they'll go "Oh, yes, this is off-topic; in fact, they've been posting quite a lot of off-topic things." Then they'll press a button which either sinks your comments to the bottom, limits you from posting more than 5 comments every 3 hours, and other various unpleasant behavior modification techniques. I've experienced them all. If you want to experience them, then off-topic subthreads that make a lot of people unhappy is an excellent way.

I'll leave you to it. Perhaps you'll get lucky and fly under the radar now that HN is another order of magnitude larger. But your lucky streak won't last forever; sooner or later, if you keep calling people insufferable douchebags (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28984926) or leaving generic political comments about America (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28982669) or bringing up tangents about race (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28979634) or trying to imply that everyone who has a problem with poaching should also stop eating meat, well...

You clearly have a lot to offer conversations. For me, it helped to channel my intellectual curiosity side, rather than my "pointing out how terrible society is" side. It made me happier in the long run, too. Hopefully you'll have a long run.
To be fair, colloquial-Linux-the-operating-system (namely, apt et al) loves doing this (and worse) due to bogus transitive dependencies on things like gcc-10-base, or systemd-shitwared, or nvidia-brick-the-install. The real difference in this regard is that you can effectually force Linux to stop.
"So an ongoing disaster of a far larger magnitude than covid all told, which is only 20 years worth of automobile deaths so far."

I'm sorry, this sentence makes no sense. 40k annual auto deaths is of larger magnitude than 400,000 annual covid deaths? Are you saying that auto deaths are a more serious phenomenon because covid is . . . new?

I certainly think 40,000 auto deaths is far too many. I would love to see the government step in with safety measures, as some levels of government have done for covid. We have indoor mask mandates where I live, as well as vaccine mandates for a number of public-facing job categories.

People certainly have different thoughts, and sometimes those thoughts are muddled.
Travis CI predates Gitlab CI by several years, and uses YAML. Definitely a big source of peoples’ YAML experiences these days, but not one of the original ones.
I guess it really depends on what you are working on.

If you are writing some non-trivial algorithms or working on some projects which requires delicate handling of things, then Copilot is most likely going to mess up.

But if you are working on many of those frontend code or backend CRUDs which are usually quite repetitive. Then Copilot could be helpful.
The "first" comment is offtopic; pirated content is not the issue here, and in any case, there are solutions FB can use to that, such as 1) not amplifying sht without checking it for something other than their profit criteria (which they already do for various types of unacceptable content w/tens of 1000s of contractors), and 2) using the usual immediate takedown processes.

It is not merely a mob that wants to hold FB accountable - it is people who actually think about more than a relexive mantra that all tech should be exempt from responsibility.

If the content that actually inflames genocide, election interference, and disinformation (yes, it is all real despite your clever quoting to act as if it these are some kind of empty accusations) is indeed perfectly legal for any newspaper or publisher to disseminate, then FB should have zero problem being held just as responsible as any newspaper, and should indeed volunteer to be held to those standards.

Yet in contrast, FB instantly, reflexively, and vigorously opposes any* suggestion that they should be anything but an ignorant carrier like a telephone company that connects two parties in a tel call. The mere fact of FBs vigorous opposition shows that FB knows that they would have deep problems living up to such a standard.

It is not legal to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, and it is not legal to incite riots or insurrection, yet FB has, via its relentless amplification of both dezinformatsiya and insurrection incitement, resulted in real deaths.

The desired course of action is to 1) implement steps to prevent this sort of action in the future, and 2) to hold to account those responsible for those actions, who quite clearly showed wanton disregard for the consequences of their actions.
The best practical advice I can offer:

- For your own projects use yamllint, put it in your CI pipeline, and your pre-commit hooks. You can forbid the use of flow sequences like [ and {, require quotes, and forbid truthy values for bools.

- USE JSON-SCHEMA. It works on YAML.

- For programmatically generated YAML just generate JSON and call it day.

- If you have a tool that for some reason requires YAML but not JSON then don't write YAML. Write your config in $programming_language and only dump the YAML at the end. Troposphere is a Python library for CloudFormation JSON that embraces this idea.

- Don't template YAML files (or JSON for that matter). Again just use variables in your programming language of choice and then dump. Helm is an abomination and the authors should be ashamed of themselves. Ansible had the common sense to only allow templates in the values instead of at the file level.
The lisp folks are probably wondering why it took us so long to figure out the whole “all configuration is code” thing haha
You may have arrived at this view due to lack of visibility on what WWV does.

WWV also provides:
- stable reference frequencies for maritime and aviation radio and also for terrestrial radio tuning
- space weather alerting for radio system operators
- GPS system status updates for maritime and aviation
- High accuracy intervals and UT1 corrections (which used in conjunction with GPS for highly accurate position measurements)

Despite sounding like some legacy thing, this is a highly active system used by a lot of folks. I built a stratum 1 NTP system for power grid a few years ago using EndRun high accuracy appliances and we used GPS and WWV as the sources.

https://tf.nist.gov/stations/iform.html
This is not really true. There are plenty of people that are retired with ~$1MM in assets and thus, are not part of the rat race. But they live a frugal life if they continue to live in America.
Saving is when you put your money in the bank, who then loan it out to businesses and homebuyers.

Putting cash under your mattress just takes it out of circulation.
Is that comparing ivory wth plastic keys, or ivory with some synthetic version of ivory?
Why does thanks read as “mindless and insincere” but best “always works?”

Superficially, they seem about the same.

Yours, &c.,
nuclearnice
> If he's great at his job I presume shareholders would want to keep him on as CEO and would compensate him handsomely in cash money.

This really isn't how the real world works. It's easy to design rules that would work acceptably if no humans were involved, but in reality this would ensure there are no sole owners of companies with control. Sooner or later, every CEO does something that "conventional wisdom" doesn't agree with, and if he doesn't have corporate control, he's out.

Yes, this would "hurt" gaming and the economy, because it would change the ownership of companies for the worse. If every game company was Bethesda, mediocrity and micropayments would rule the gaming world, because every company would pursue whatever strategy is perceived to be "obvious" to make shareholders' money increase.

If this tax had existed when Doom came out, Id software and the effects it had on gaming as we know it would never have existed.

On a side note, the people here commenting that companies could just pay a salary to their CEOs large enough to cover the wealth tax apparently have never owned or run a company. Any company being forced to pay out liquid cash equal to 20% of its stock valuation would go under. The usual killer of small to medium companies is cash flow.. having enough money to buy what you need to keep producing and paying bills until your customers pay their bills.

Also, if they're trying to tax theoretical gains, are they also going to pay out when companies' valuation decreases?

In corporate performance, you get what you measure. If the tax is charged based on companies gaining value, companies won't gain value.

That plus the fact that certain corporations are exempted from it (hedge funds) makes it a non starter.
any actual data to back that up? Looking at the top 50 American businesses by market cap probably 90%+ aren't run by founders, and plenty of the largest ones have continued to grow just fine. Apple, Microsoft just two name to trillion dollar businesses.
A $4 aromatherapy room spray made in India. These types of micromorts really sometimes give pause to me when buying impulse products and not knowing the supply chain behind it.
But of course we have never been safer statistically (at least in developed countries).
This is why I don't use it. I have a hard enough time managing my email queue. I've found that a good, blunt, "Leave me alone, Bob" is pretty effective at discouraging replies.
> take advantage of SourceForge's massive reach

This ad seems about 15 years out of date.
I mean context definitely matters, but I was not expecting so much hate for 'thanks' in the comments.

I use thanks a lot, especially if I'm trying to get something done. A little appreciation never hurt...
“World's largest” 3D-printed neighborhood to be built in Texas
In the early days of email I would write to a lot of family members who were far away and were also connected to this new gizmo called "the internet". I of course would always sign off with "Love, NAME" as we're family.

That muscle memory would randomly kick in at inconvenient times when I started using it for professional correspondence. Nobody said anything, but I can imagine the cocked eyebrows of someone receiving an email from me with such an effusive sign off!
SpaceX is already run by committee. The president of SpaceX is Gwynne Shotwell and she is widely believed to regularly reign in Elon Musk. For example Elon wanted to cancel the Falcon Heavy project when NASA said they would never man-rate it, but Shotwell over-ruled him until he changed his mind.

Musk controls enough shares that he could get rid of Shotwell at any time, or reduce her power, but he chooses not to.
> if it seems to justify the spending for something totally unrelated

Income taxes pay for almost everything; should they only pay for things related to income? I don't understand that.
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>- Remove step up in cost basis on inheriting assets.

my impression is that the step-up cost basis is there because you've already paid the estate tax when the assets were transferred to you? otherwise you'd end up getting double-taxed.
He had de facto control. Nobody was able to successfully defy him. He used this control to force his vision upon Apple. No committee would have done what he did.
Modern societies are not capital constrained, so capital formation is superfluous. The world is awash in excess capital among the rich, so providing government subsidies to facilitate further capital formation among the rich will not improve living standards.

What you're describing is the failed mentality of the early 1980's : the idea that the wealthy are "better" at capital allocation than everyone else. What it leads to is not some utopia, but simply bigger yachts, and more expensive sports teams, and more expensive land, while the human capital of the poor goes neglected and untapped.

What does the most good for living standards is the government investing in humans and households without capital. More broadly distributed capital, in other words.
VK has a nice PHP compiler
https://vkcom.github.io/kphp/various-topics/walk-through-php...
Sometimes very silly things like "How's the weather our there?" But often sort of radio nerdy things like "I've got 25 watts going into an end fed quarter wave antenna. What signal level are you receiving?" :-) I have been trying to bounce a 40M (7MHz) beacon signal up to Portland OR for a friend of a friend who is testing their own SDR receiver design.
Because I enjoy having light in my morning in Winter, but allowing the extra hours of daylight to accumulate in the evening in summer.

The slight disconcertingness of the hour changes is worth it.
I don't remember SlashDot's hey-day but in the times I've looked at it, the news that gets posted there seems more political while Hacker News seems more tech-related.
Based on that, Hacker News gives me what I'm looking for.
I’ve always been a fan of “Regards” or its somewhat softer sibling “Kind Regards”. Cordial and hard to infer anything negative out of it. I find signing off with your name as you state in your comment to be equally professional and a bit more to the point, but I like a bit more cordiality as a matter of personal preference.
The main correlations are thermal conditions and how much you plug it in. “Desk bound” laptops don’t fare well.

I’m not running that business anymore, but I’d be interested in changes between 2019 and 2022, as people are running on battery more and using residential electric service.
The loan eventually must be repaid. If it's repaid after death, a 40% federal estate tax (+16% if you're in NY or CA) takes it's cut.

I'm not sure who originated this "loans are an infinite money cheat" narrative, but I've been seeing it all over the internet recently and it's simply not true.
Emoji reactions were a cute addition to Facebook. Result: more “toxicity”
Flexible device could treat hearing loss without batteries
In the Twitter thread, Sweeney proposes a progressive capital gains tax maxing out at 75%. It would hit him personally, but still allow him to run his company. He’s not complaining about the magnitude of the tax. He’s complaining about the mechanism.
> If they wanted to raise more tax revenue, they could just raise the top marginal income tax rate up to 98% or raise capital gains tax rates

> If tax revenue is too low, just raise the top tax brackets. (Sweeney)

That was the original proposal [0]. Republicans and moderate Democrats shot it down.

Part of me thinks this is the "crazy" option, to actually get motion on increasing top rates and capital gains.

Complaints about those ideas shrink when this is the current alternative.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/us/politics/tax-rising-on...
So, you might be making good points, but honestly you come off sounding just cynical, vindictive and shitty.
This data should reflect changes in risk to the young as the distribution of variants changed.

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html
> USA is winning on rockets and EVs but that is 100% because of one person and not wider US policy

The US has been far ahead in space since the 1960s, and advanced work in space is by NASA (and contractors). SpaceX has advanced orbital launches.

The US is the leader in many, many industries, including IT.
Uff, that sounds insane. I suppose they released those "features" gradually and people just went along.
You can also find this in hardware test benches - Symbiyosys (FOSS) and JasperGold (very proprietary) can prove via induction that assertions about your system on chip hold true for all time.
Question I've had for a while.

Assuming a wealth tax gets through, couldn't the wealthy just take out a loan at near 0% against their stocks to pay the bill?

Could they get away without selling any stock at all?

Especially in an inflationary environment that many people think will get even more inflationary and a Fed that seemingly won't let the stock market crash.
that's going to wreak havoc on finances during a recession. if the economy goes to shit, the government has to come up with money to stimulate the economy AND pay back all the capital gains taxes they collected during the boom times, all while tax revenues are down because businesses are imploding.
"Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds."

― Frederick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
I think what most people want is for billionaires to pay their true rate of income instead of artificially low percentages because they have access to financial instruments that most don't.
The 50-year-old P-NP problem that eludes theoretical computer science
I didn't bookmark them, unfortunately, but this question has been asked several times on HN that received good discussion. None of them felt outdated to me, really.

I chose a wireless camera system, with a local DVR that I can access via PC or mobile. You can, if you choose, feed those cameras into different software programs and have all the motion sensing and advanced config you'd like.

That might be more than you want to setup, though, and if that's true, there's some packages that sell DVRs with those same features. My sister, who isn't very tech savvy, has managed to do all kinds of things, like masking parts of the room from setting off motion detection, with the packaged software.

Anyhow, I'd start off with the search feature.
Then tax the loans?
This isn't true. There are lots of recorded instances of wealth taxes (e.g. France prior to the abolition of the ISF several years ago; many countries which levied temporary wealth taxes after WWII, etc.)
He's 'proposing' something he knows is politically impossible. I predict he will find a way to run the company and make billions of dollars.
Oh yeah I can totally see Lob adding this to their API as an April Fools thing.
What made you think the article was about seeking an image? Was it the picture of the typewriter at the top of the page?
HN has been HN for 10+ years without _too much_ change. Somehow it's avoided the Eternal September problem over that period.
"&c" is the archaic form of "etc", the ampersand being a ligature of "et" - Latin for "and".

As far as I can tell the "&c." version was popularized by the 1944 novel "Anna and the King of Siam".

So it literally means "I am, etc.", which I assume only expands to "I am your humble and obedient servant" in a humorous way. Might be taken the wrong way.
I always laugh a little when I get emails from someone still in college. They are so formal, even after I reply in a less formal manner. I don’t blame them as I did the same thing.