skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Income tax may be progressive (before deductions, of course). But payroll taxes definitely are not, and if you earn under 50, 60k or so, your payroll tax burden is going to be higher than income tax. Sales tax and gasoline taxes aren't progressive either.
Just curious what years you lived in Boulder and (roughly) what age you are?

I tend to find that most places were at their peak when we were in our mid-to-late-20s and started to get less-cool as we entered our early-30s and beyond.
I am a little older than you and was writing c++ for windows 2000. One of the funnest things i did was write something called an MS-GINA driver. It let you completely replace that login screen with your own login screen. Think of the possibilities: write your own login screen that looks just like the original, but sends credentials to my remote server.

But if you had any bugs in your driver, BSOD all the way and there was no recovery. Complete reinstall.

edit: reference https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauth
Here are four things I've been certain of for my entire life and become more certain of with every passing day:

1. We will never go to Mars (and it is an insult to my intelligence to try to argue otherwise).

2. Computers are never going to gain consciousness.

3. The Multiverse is the stupidist load of horse*h&t to have ever entered anyone's mind. Only unserious thinkers take the idea of the Multiverse seriously.

4. There is no materialist explanation for the existence of life, and the existence of life is the only interesting question in existence since it forms the foundation for the existence of every other question.
I suspect it does fingerprinting to tie it to another advertising id to extract it all evetnually
Why do you feel HEVC is any less viable than AVC? At this point in time, as long as you have a digital file and a copy of FFMPEG (the Swiss army knife of video), you'll more than likely be able to convert to anything else later.
Oh BTW I forgot to say. For topics like "Life Extension" it's true that there are not a lot of links. But that doesn't matter too much.

Just add it to your brief and when something pops up you'll get it.

I have about 5 very low traffic topics in my brief, and it's actually quite nice when they show up from time-to-time. Kind of like a bonus.
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Ask HN: What would happen if all GNSS (like GPS) satellites go down?
Essentially nobody was using GPS before the Iraq war in 1990. Now in just 30 years all of us using it, including backend systems like datacenters of Google.

I don't know how to use compass for navigation, and don't think any of my friends do either.

Are there any portable easy-to-use self-contained Inertial Navigation Systems out there? I know high-end military machines have them, like fighter jets and navy ships, but I was thinking more in terms of cell-phone sized devices that we can simply enter coordinates of where we're starting from, and they automagically keep track of our location as we're on the move by foot or by car.
This is not true. It's not that React was specifically designed so that incompetent programmers can create apps. It's that with any good framework or technology people will always flock to the popular one. This is the exact same reason why Java is bashed and Linus prefers C programmers.

An excellent programmer will write excellent code using React, in Java or in C++. It's not about the tool, it's about the one wielding it.
Flagged for USA brand censorship fact purification.
There is no reason to suggest increased availability will result in increased affordability. The only way to impact affordability is to lower values, the prices people will sell for.
2007 implies right before the 2008 recession where housing prices tanked.

In 2007 people were panic buying houses because they thought that if they didn't buy right now, they'd never be able to afford to buy a house.
Yet incompatibilities persist from day 1: big integers, duplicate keys, keys order.

On the other hand, XML allows comments, yet I've never seen XML parsers incompatibilities.
What would stop a tired/drunk/hungry/distracted human from overdosing as they sometimes do?
This is not completely true. The oceans are still absorbing some of the emitted CO2, so if human CO2 emissions were to cease the atmospheric CO2 level would begin to decline. This will eventually cause the surface waters to become saturated with CO2 though, so this decline will slow before all the anthropogenic CO2 were absorbed. Eventually excess carbon will be transported to the deep ocean, allowing more CO2 to be absorbed.
" land, trees, and nice quality living." are mutually exclusive, High-Density housing is terrible and I NEVER want to live in a highly dense urban settings.

My home in the suburbs with 1/2 acre lots is FAR FAR FAR too dense for me... I want less density than that, but newer subdivisions are dropping to 1/4 or 1/5 acre lots, it is terrible
While I agree that FB has fallen down the list, Amazon will have to improve a lot to get bumped from the bottom of the list.

Hiring bar at Amazon is lower, WLB widely recognized as terrible, constant stack ranking horror stories, etc.
> But the way react deals with state makes it so much easier to build and maintain complex applications.

Real question; not being snippy...

I didn't think React had any state management included. A lot of people I've spoken to seem to use Redux, a third party library for handling state.

Is my understanding incorrect?
Had an in-law that ran a group that made good money off the casinos. Card counting and everything else you can think of.

One guy was found with a crowbar in his in his head in front of his house. It didn’t go well for the others. I think they are all died middle age.
Except that institutional credibility is literally a made-up resource that tax payers like myself are subsidizing.
Justification: We have 2 billion people who need energy. They are going to get that energy, whatever it takes, because we want them to have a decent standard of living.

That is easy to see. Nobody should need to spell that out for the COP26 delegates.
Could you give a piece of usable code that highlights the problem? I really did not understand the point you are making from the example you gave.
Are you unaware of Amazon's cut of purchases? Lenovo also uses FBA so Amazon makes even more from those sales.
For the apps, but away from those apps’ websites / alternative means of avoiding the Apple Tax.

Yeah, that fits “nefarious” in my book.
Until your dependencies start to form a tree, and you can't just rely on all the global variables being loaded in the right order anymore…

Vendoring every dependency and having to manually keep track of all the updates was objectively worse than NPM as well.
Or tell people no, and be happy with a place that works.
Eventually people will leave when they can't be there.

The option of "growing to meet exponential need" rarely, if ever, actually works in the end. By works i mean "leads to an equilibrium that actually is any good"

Usually what happens is people push on creating housing, and think once they've done it, the rest will take care of itself.
This is the easy part. The rest is much worse - now you have more people!
The density and scale of population will increase until the local governments/etc fail hard enough at providing services, which often happens quicker than one would expect. Being effective at providing public transportation/police/fire/schools/health/etc in a dense, populous area is much harder and more expensive than often seems thought. Especially if you haven't been planning to do it for 50 years and setting yourself up for it. It also requires ever more careful planning as it grows (in how land is laid out, etc), and you will hit tons of problems anyway.
For a random example: When your police/fire grows large enough, it ends up with lots of political power of its own.

It's also much harder for governments to stay efficient in spending at all as they grow, making services/etc even more expensive to provide. The places that i knew that were successful at becoming denser were willing to admit this.
The ones that were not, often pretend they will make it back in increased taxes on their own, but they never did (and often end up in cycles of tax increase/drops/etc until the infrastructure fails)

Once you are forced to raise taxes/bonds/etc, you end up with a whole host of practical problems (politicians winning on short-term-lower-taxes-long-term-destruction platforms)

This is just a sampling. Overall, it's like scaling anything human. Having a team of 10 works really well. Having a team of 1000 is really hard.

Lots of cities that go down this path end up as basically tax revenue Ponzi schemes - they have to keep growing because they need to keep borrowing against the ever-more-expensive future

In the end, it simply isn't unreasonable for cities to not want to play the game, and to be happy with sustainable size, services, and tax revenue, even if it makes things unhappy for others who want to join in.

Thankfully population growth is slowing down, and we are below replacement rate right now.
I'd like to see the Cop26 president go to rural EM's and personally tell the people, where few to none (state run) corps are really looking to build out any infra for anything, green or not, that they cant use things like coal…

Might as well write the eulogy now…
I'm no economist, but I'm willing to bet in most markets, must of the time, an increase in supply is often followed by a decrease in cost.

Not always of course, and were talking about housing which has a bunch of other factors going on but it's usually helpful.
https://archive.ph/oeL7t
I don't think we're disagreeing. the fact that math doesn't change is exactly why I'm saying it won't go obsolete
‘ अनि हेडसर भाग-भाग भन्दै कराउन थाल्नुभयो’
> The real issue is poor and inept leadership.

I'd guess something like 90% of governors are property investors.
And when the webpage is no longer updated?

Heck, we've even seen that model simply to use goods you've purchased, as with digital restrictions malignant books, music, videos, and games, where the restrictions-management servers were discontinued and access to the goods (bads) bought requiring them became useless.
This doesn't line up with my experience. IME these are the major drivers of web "slowness" for different types of sites:

1) Client-side-rendered apps that haven't embraced hydration of pre-rendered HTML suffer for it. Not because the JS is necessarily too large, but because it blocks the content from being visible. This would be bad even with a small bundle. Luckily this is an easy problem to solve today, but not every site has done so.

2) Many public-facing sites are afflicted with marketing scripts. I've seen sites with (I kid you not) several times the amount of marketing JS (by weight) as they have actual functionality-giving JS. The actual devs often don't even have control over these scripts (thanks to Google Tag Manager), and even if they do they probably don't have a say in what can be removed.

3) Complex sites/web-based tools are a separate beast. You're not optimizing for first-visit, you're optimizing for responsive interactions. This has even less to do with bundle size, and often not even much to do with JS itself. In my experience the limiting factor on these sites is usually reflow (DOM/style changes).
We need a lot more tooling to support EDN everywhere well enough though. If you use Clojure(Script) it is absolutely natural to use EDN everywhere. (We do just that at OrgPad.com which you can see in the OrgPage about Clojure: https://www.orgpad.com/o/D6TrZny7tNhYqWygzax7Wx and for the EDN just add download: https://www.orgpad.com/o/D6TrZny7tNhYqWygzax7Wx/download)

EDN is less ideal for Python and other similarly somewhat high-level languages and there just aren't any libraries for C/C++ from what I have seen. In general, XML/ JSON/ YAML/ custom binary or text formats it is in that order for most software from what I can guess. Remember, .docx, .xlsx and other document formats are also basically just XML-based configurations for programs/ interchange formats.
miniDV was around 25mbps with a shite codec by modern standars. going from miniDV to AVC with x264 would save tremendous amounts of space. HEVC would do wonders as well. HEVC transcoding will take you another 3 xmas holidays if you start now ;-)
But why make it so binary?

We can make biofuel at some price. We can capture CO2 at some price. Build that into the product and there's no reason to reduce to zero.
Facebook…erhm Meta.. makes cool and useful services. My uneducated guess is about 20% of their efforts go to delivering something compelling to the user. The remainder goes to figure out how they can manipulate, coerce, farm, and monetize said users. The problem is the level of perversion they have done and justified due to the need to monetize.
I have been in real estate development for quite a few years, and opponents to more housing are never corporations. It is always individual home owners who do not want multi unit housing or smaller housing in their neighborhood (i.e. poorer people) or do not want roads to get more congested, etc. Not once have I seen an agent of a corporation come to a city council meeting and protest against rezoning land for more housing.
I have no idea why you think this is crazy.

a) Apple will be a big customer for Google but nothing compared to companies like P&G who manage hundreds of products or those who have more competitive search terms. And in this particular case it's neither.

b) Apple has a dedicated App Store Marketing team who likely signed up or maybe they used their main account. Either way it's pretty simple and you don't need to ask Google's permission.
I've been doing this when writing CloudFormation, and it helps a lot.
I’m a FB employee and I’m giving my notice tomorrow.

I interviewed with them in 2019 just so I could get a competing offer and had no intention of working there, but at the end of my interviewing run they were the only offer I had. It was 2x my current salary and it was too hard to turn it down when the money was right there in front of me.

I had sincere moral issues with the company but I convinced myself their worst days were likely behind them, that they were committed to doing the work to to fix their reputation. The last 2 years have only gotten worse and it’s very clear the leadership has no interest in making meaningful changes to address social harm caused by the platform. I legit don’t like telling people what I do for a living when I meet someone new at a bar for fear they ask where I work.

Couple this with a culture that has masterminded a set of carrots and sticks that gets people to push themselves very hard all of the time, I’m completely burnt out. My GF pretty much told me she can’t handle living with someone so stressed out all the time.

I don’t have another job lined up but I’m not too worried. I’m excited for a reset. I’m taking through the end of the year to cool off and prep for interviews. I think it’s imperative at my next job that I at least somewhat believe in the product. I’ve learned that money isn’t enough to keep me going in the face of giving 0 fucks about the company mission.
You are right that we do provide food assistance but benefits are not always enough to last a month: ". . . most SNAP beneficiaries run out of food after the second or third week of the month; some of them cope by turning to local food pantries like the ones Community FoodBank of New Jersey runs." [1]

In addition, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has written, "many low-income households that receive benefits still have trouble affording an adequate diet. An Institute of Medicine report identified several shortcomings with the current SNAP benefit allotment and noted that most household benefit levels are based on unrealistic assumptions about the cost of food, preparation time, and access to grocery stores. Many families face stark choices between purchasing food and paying for rent and other necessities. If they manage this shortfall by buying lower-cost but less nutritious foods, it can adversely affect their health." [2]

Directing farm subsidies or any other money to current and future SNAP beneficiaries would benefit millions, including working Americans: "The number of SNAP households that have earnings while participating in SNAP has more than tripled — from about 2 million in 2000 to 6.5 million in 2017. The share of all SNAP households that have earnings while participating in SNAP has also increased — from about 27 percent in 2000 to about 31 percent in 2017." [3]

Regardless of dealing with the very problematic farm subsidies, the president and congress must do something about food insecurity.

[1] https://www.salon.com/2014/01/19/what_i_learned_from_a_week_...

[2] [3] https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/the-supplement...
Suggestions for how a city might arbitrarily lower property values? People are willing to pay $750k for my condo. How does the city convince them they only want to pay $500k?
EDN has maps, sets, vectors and lists and is extendable.
>Is it within the realm of possibility that they could offer you an insight that would improve your life?

No. Neither their paranoid delusional fantasies nor their refusal to vaccinate simply because "the elites" tell them to harbors any insight that would improve my, or anyone's life.

And turning the once fringe anti-vaccination movement into a mainstream political identity isn't going to improve society. It isn't going to "own the libs" or "stick it to the man," it's just going to kill people.
It is absolutely comical you can claim that and cite a paragraph that concludes, “in January 2015, the number of Fukushima evacuees was around 119,000, compared with a peak of around 164,000 in June 2012.[174]”
This video shows how it works and from there you might find some more information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Q0nNkQTC

Really about 5-6 min in.
And this is why I do not think carbon emissions will or climate change will ever be curtailed barring the discovery of a new emission-less, highly efficient energy source. The effects of anyone who does individually sacrifice will be offset by the plenty who will opt for 1/2 acre or even 1/4 lots and the energy consumption that must follow.
One interesting demonstration of YAML's complexity relative to JSON is that YAML is almost a complete superset of JSON. This is acknowledged by the authors of the YAML spec.[0]

For example, the following code translates JSON to YAML using only the Python yaml library:

import yaml

data = yaml.load("""
{
"firstName": "John",
"lastName": "Smith",
"isAlive": true,
"age": 27,
"address": {
"streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
"city": "New York",
"state": "NY",
"postalCode": "10021-3100"
},
"phoneNumbers": [
{
"type": "home",
"number": "212 555-1234"
},
{
"type": "office",
"number": "646 555-4567"
},
{
"type": "mobile",
"number": "123 456-7890"
}
],
"children": [],
"spouse": null
}
""")

print(yaml.dump(data))

Prints:

address:
city: New York
postalCode: 10021-3100
state: NY
streetAddress: 21 2nd Street
age: 27
children: []
firstName: John
isAlive: true
lastName: Smith
phoneNumbers:
- number: 212 555-1234
type: home
- number: 646 555-4567
type: office
- number: 123 456-7890
type: mobile
spouse: null

0: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#12-yaml-history
It would make people buy electric cars, or just trade 20 mpg SUVs for 40 mpg small cars.

If there is a rural bias, the solution would be to subsidize the rural areas to buy their votes. The solution to a problem of the commons, and the distribution of benefits, are separable (Coase Theorem).
Supply/demand ratios don’t work against fixed assets. You can’t clone or replicate a geographic segment of Earth.
Torture as a metaphor for state government interference with individual liberties over local land use? Sounds about right.
Why is 101 events per second == system down?

Of course there are systems where not being able to process everything right when it comes in means that you're "down". It's not a given though and queuing systems are actually perfect for use cases where not being able to process at the speed of incoming requests is completely fine. Eventual consistency is a thing.

I have the same experience though that it seems to be hard for folks to accept that yes, 100k messages in _that_ queue is totally fine. Some process dumped 100k messages to then be processed over the next hour and that's totally fine. That way we don't have to actually spend a small fortune to process them at the speed at which they can be generated.

Of course it depends on the problem at hand. If that particular flow in the system is one that is highly user interactive, then yes, this means 'system down' for your users. Never mind that the system will eventually process it all. I always smile when I see another system than ours and I can spot distributed processing w/ queues in between in how the system behaves in certain circumstances.
Could those cell radios be used for free internet?
I wish people would stop trying to write programs for which there are no interpreters, compilers, or linters:

name: Install dependencies
run:
> python -m pip install --upgrade pip
> pip install pytest
> if [ -f 'requirements.txt' ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi

That is a program that is hiding in the bowels of a "nestedtext" document ... It is no better than a program that is hiding in the bowels a JSON or YAML document.

We all have to deal with this, but it is beyond stupid.

[Install Dependencies]
run=/path/to/install-script

Then, write `install-script` in whatever language you want ... verify it works. It should have tests. etc etc etc.
For me XML and YAML are about the same. I think I'd also prefer comment-less JSON over both. However, XML wasn't that bad. With a decent editor and schema validation I would say there's a good chance I was more productive with XML than I am with YAML.
You reduce regulation to allow for more units of housing
Since you've been using HN primarily (exclusively?) for political/ideological battle, we've banned the account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But you can build higher density housing which increases the overall number of living units in a region, thus increasing the supply.
Your link's sources are "Canstar Blue electricity customer satisfaction survey, January 2021." I will argue the reliability of that data source, and you can consult OpenNEM's price data per region (note that Western Australia [SWIS], while on OpenNEM, is not a part of the NEM grid). The blackout you mention was over five years ago, as my comment mentioned ("and have only had an hour or two of outages in the last five years."). Large scale solar does have to curtail when the spot price goes negative, which is leading to the development of new transmission to New South Wales [1]. The price of power frequently goes negative during daylight hours in SA due to an abundance of renewables.

[1] https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2021/09/30/nsw-gives-a...
City Mainz now debt-free because of BioNTech
The beautiful one.
Employers Forced to Raise Wages Most in 20 Years: Power Balance Has Changed
I don't understand what this abstract terminology means. Do you believe it is impossible to build more housing in California? If so, why? If not, what are you talking about?
No, no it's not. USD denominated interest rates are whatever the Fed wants them to be. The Fed controls the entire USD yield curve, although that control does weaken a little as maturity goes out into the future, but not more than about 10%.

Treasury auctions are kabuki theater[1]. Thanks to the Primary Dealer system it's impossible for an auction to fail. While the nominal rate may bounce around a few basis points, at the end of the day the Fed absolutely controls rates. They will literally create reserves and lend them to primary dealers at whatever rate is necessary to assure Treasury sells as many securities as it needs to at something near the target rate.

[1] Yes, that does imply artfulness.