skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm pretty sure the first statement is false, as IRS enforcement has been cut back and tax evasion is at record levels, which was the basis if a recent attempt to fund enforcement (rejected by the GOP who want to 'defund the IRS').

The main problem with IRS audits is that they choose taxpayers at random to be subject to an expensive time consuming audit which the taxpayer doesn't get reimbursed for even if the IRS finds nothing wrong with their returns. Small business owners are generally the ones this happens to because they're the ones who exceed the income threshold to get audited and they're the ones with complicated tax returns that are expensive to audit. Democrats have figured out that if they encourage this, Republicans have to spend political capital preventing it or their constituents get really mad.

This could be easily solved by having the government pay the taxpayer's time and expenses for the audit, but neither party really wants to do that because it would "cost money." (It costs money either way, but that way it would have to be formally accounted for and spread evenly among taxpayers instead of subjecting random unlucky ones to a disproportionate expense.)

But tax evasion is different than tax avoidance. One is illegal, the other is restructuring your activities to minimize your taxes while still complying with the law, e.g. by arranging for profits to accumulate in a subsidiary in a country with a low tax rate. It's typically the latter that corporations and rich people do to have low tax burdens.

> The 1980s tax law changes greatly reduced the portion paid by the wealthy, if I understand correctly.

Before the 1980s the highest nominal tax rates were higher, but nobody actually paid them because there were so many loopholes. People were literally deducting the cost of their personal vehicle from their taxes etc. They closed the loopholes and lowered the top rates at the same time, which basically canceled out. Federal revenues as a percent of GDP have been essentially flat since the end of WWII:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
Texting is also interruptable. If something happens around me, I can look around and then go back and catch the train of thought. If I'm on a call or listening to a voice message and there's a loud noise, I've lost the sentance. Sure, I can ask the other party to repeat, or repeat the message (or even worse, try to get it to go back just enough), but if there's a lot of interruptions, I may never get the information.
The two party system of the US occlude the matter so lets look at the rich well functioning democracies of Europe instead. Better education means there isn't anything resembling the climate denial movement of the us, and on average people are place climate concerns higher on their list of priorities. Every single one of these countries has a green party or similar whose primary purpose is the preventing ecological damage and climate change, and most argue it can be done without or with a minimum of loss of wealth and productivity. Not a single one of these countries is in a majority and most are around 10%. The ones which acknowledge that preventing a 4C rise requires massive investments and outright forced unpleasant changes will be required usually fail to go above 5%. And this is in the richest countries, the poorer countries dont give a rats ass about it, and the green parties are token efforts that idealists vote for knowing that their representatives will mostly make the others feel bad, while helping pass policy which supports the economy at the cost of eg climate as long as a token effort to minimize the negatives are used.

This shows that the vast majority of people in these countries, while publicly concerned, and privately mildly alarmed about climate change, prioritize other things and that their politicians are responding to their constituent priorities. Why would this be different in the US? everything from median education to city planning, predicts that US population cares much less about environmental impact. Poor people living on welfare in some Nordic country sometimes care about climate change, but mostly dont, certainly much less so than average citizens. The number of poor in the US who prioritize climate change over saving 5 bucks on gas so their kid can eat that night is zero.

When people aren't lying to themselves, its easy to see that preventing climate change is a policy favored by, and forced upon the public, by elites. Speaking as one, if of the lowest possible level, obviously we should do it. I'm certainly willing to sacrifice the poor both abroad and at home, but I think tigers are cool, that nature is nice to look at, and I would like to keep it that way. On the rare occasion I happen to meet some of my old friends turned politicians, I naturally point this out. And they listen, far more than they should, given neither my phd nor my career is in an applicable field. The few times I meet 0.001%ers, they have been more concerned than I. They haven't needed to status signal for decades, certainly not in private to someone like me, and they all had significant interests in industry which would be negatively affected.

This changes the story of who is preventing such policy and of if its democratic. There isn't a conspiracy by the elite to prevent climate change from being solved, if anything its the opposite, and the problem is that common people aren't stupid enough to let us get away with it.
Also Foundation, where people are told not to work on Earth anymore and are promptly exiled to the edge of the galaxy. Quite a good take on the Isaac Asimov story to be honest.
Google's camera distorts links in QR codes
German article:
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-Links-in-QR-Codes-6332669.html?seite=all

Translated by Google (hopefully without distortions):
https://www-heise-de.translate.goog/hintergrund/Googles-Kamera-verfaelscht-Links-in-QR-Codes-6332669.html?seite=all&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Thanks for keeping a open diary. I am wondering if you find the big banner ad on your website worth the extra money, it makes the blog feel like a spam website.
You can always use step functions or some janky recursive calls to work around the 15 min timeout.

I would recommend using docker containers and writing it in a way that you can swap out lambda/ecs/k8s/etc as the backend infrastructure. That way you you can punt on doing any fancy work to try and break the jobs up across lambdas under that 15 min constraint.
I think Hillel Wayne needs to go further down this trajactory. Focusing on the classification individual workers is myopic.

The fact is, the computing industry in the US arose during a huge wave of deindustrialization and offshoring. It has grown up in a completely different economic context. This, more than anything intrinisic to the field, influences the norms.

This macro perspective must be the starting point.
I was strongly tempted, but that was after 01900. LSD's psychoactive effects were discovered in 01943, and it was first marketed (as a psychiatric drug) in 01947, barely before The Third Man came out in 01949.
Gold? That soft, malleable metal? Forever?
Sure, gold is somewhat resistant to chemical corrotion from just being left alone in a normal environment.. But how does it stand up to scratching, beating, bending and a forest fire ?
> France, Germany, South Korea, Japan, and India all have enough unique, untranslated culture to get people to consider learning the languages that culture is written in

India is different from the other countries that had been mentioned. India is a union of many larger states. The government of India is actually called as Union Government in the constitution. India has 23 officially recognized languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India .
How really can you tell me how many project migration project that involve changing a whole basic infrastructure is done in less than 5 months from idea to completion in your company?
For a personal project where you may not have a lot of time to invest in this is quite short.
Language is the classic case for network effect, the more people speaking one language, more information would be communicated in that language, more beneficial it will be for learning such language.
You missed the part where USA baked the second coup in that country in a decade and put in power people, that were intended to kick Russian army and fleet away from Crimea bases.
Same with my dad after a hemorrhagic stroke and he was on warfarin blood thinners. It basically felt like dementia, couldn’t remember a thing and couldn’t use half his body, confined to a wheelchair. I still mourn the loss of my former dad who is a shell of a once great man.
zettlr is also missing - opensource and really nice (also goog for zettelkasten)

https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr
I don't see how it seals the deal. If you say something you believe in order to stir up trouble, is that trolling? What about something you half believe, or that you're unsure about, but claim you're sure about?

It seems to me he's unsure whether the earth is round, and unsure about the definition of trolling, and thus doesn't know how to answer. He basically goes along with the interviewer because the interviewer is friendly and charismatic. He sort of wants to answer no, but doesn't want to make his friendly interviewer upset. The interviewer is trying to lead him to say yes, and he navigates it by avoiding the question.

What seals the deal for me is even in his last interview, where he seems genuinely sorry for what he said, he still doesn't say anything along the lines of "it's obviously round, I was just joking", because he doesn't want to say something that goes against his beliefs. Instead he says that if you have those beliefs you shouldn't say them publicly.
At Google, design documents are a big deal and I have really come to appreciate them a lot. My previous employers were not so big on design documents so it was a big change for me.
People only use it because they have an iphone and that's the default way to try and send a message. No one past maybe high school where you are judged for everything says "I need an iPhone so I can use iMessage." I bet most adults don't even understand that iMessage is its own protocal that is separate from sms because other than the blue color and sending confetti or whatever, it functions exactly the same from the end users perspective as sms. Most people have no clue at all. The only people who care are the people writing these articles and the techie people reading them.
Some/most recruiters seem to be just handed a job spec and told to get on with it.

I asked a few of them recently about simple things like how many were on the team, out whether it's a remote position, and they simply didn't know.

This, to me at least, is a red flag of a dysfunctional company culture, probably siloed and entrenched departments not communicating.
This has been a legacy feature for quite some time. Honestly, if it was just about email I think there would be nothing wrong with it. The main problem is that it's THE Google account for some people, which includes all their purchases and data and there's no way to move it.

Using G-Suite as your personal email has always been hell anyway.
At least in Japan's case, I highly doubt the pace is «paced stylistically, so that each shot lasts long enough "by design" to read the subtitles».

If anything, they are usually at the other end of the spectrum, in that most local releases don't even include japanese subtitles (To be frank, I'm quite surprised this is even legal, considering the impact on deaf people)

So more than for artistic reasons, I think it's more often in order to lower the number of quality key frames required, so budget reasons.

I also can think of several shows that achieved significant fanbase in contexts where keeping an eye off the subtitles can be hard, while still being appreciated for their visuals: Tatami Galaxy, Monogatari Series...
It took them the failure to dominate the next two new markets and the fear of remaining rich but becoming marginal.

With the internet they had a success with IE but saw companies developing their services with new non Visual*/.Net languages and running them on Linux and MySQL.

With mobile they lost on all the line.
so I opted out from having a youtube/instagram/facebook account

Oh, you didn't lose much. My playlists are decimated monthly by "video deleted/unavailable" and "not showing 3 unlisted video" or something along the lines. And there is no way to know which video that was. I don't even care to add music to playlists anymore, I just search for it.

Also, algorithms stopped delivering new stuff long ago. The right column is full of tricking you into watching some promoted bs unrelated to the video.
That memorandum was never ratified neither by USA, nor by Russia, not even by Ukraine. It never had any legal power.
No email here. Mine is from the very early days, pretty much as soon as it became available as Google Apps for Domains. I have a 200 user cap because I requested more than whatever the default was. I have a total of 3 active accounts, everything else is just a forwarder.

I use it as a forwarder to my gmail, but now I have to migrate my parents off their accounts. It will either end up as Gmail or Outlook.com for them. Migrating their email will be annoying.

I maintain a full GSuite Business account for other purposes, so I can use that as my mail relay service.

Thanks to routing rules, they'll continue to receive emails transparently, it will redirect a copy to their new email, as if they were a BCC.

I'll handle the groups the same, only a few and the routing rule can add 100 recipients.

Eventually, once cloudflare email forwarding supports groups, I'll just move to that. It's on their internal roadmap, so maybe it will happen before 2024.
And the Swedes did not attack German train transports because the traffic was according to a pass-through agreement.

USSR and Germany forced these pass-through agreements after Winter War. USSR was in pact with Germany, and both acquired permission to transit troops to their bases, Soviets to Hanko (Hangö) that it took in Winter War, and Germany to northern Norway which it took in April-June 1940. Sweden was surrounded from three sides by Germany, and in the fourth side was Finland badly weakened by Soviets attacking, with increasing Soviet pressure also after Winter War.
Clean as in clean design, not clean as in spam free.
> The Americans gave us Cartoon Network. If the Germans had better cartoons we probably would be speaking German a lot better.

It wasn’t until you said this that I considered my motivation to learn Japanese as part of this conversation. My whole reason for doing so was for better appreciation of anime.
it will be like the subways in new york.

BMT, IND... it will eventually be centralized and run by the government as a public service.
Yes, "low latency" and "Java" don't mix.
Yeah that‘s the good shit! Wait, what… JQuery?!
And yet, in Europe Apple Messages are not nearly as big a thing as it is in the States.

And similarly in other countries.

There's no "abusing market position".
ERCOT does not have a capacity market. So you can’t get paid merely to have a functioning plant that will never run.

It is the only market not to have one. So you get to set the price when you do run. The price limit is 9999.99 which is the DB column size for price AFAIK.

https://cpowerenergymanagement.com/why-doesnt-texas-have-a-c...
Quora – What did you Google the most in 2021?
Telegram, Viber, Line are also doing just fine.
Irrespective of whether you think the most of the years of her being in a nursing home are a waste, the entirety of it is a touching story to me. Society has prescribed keeping her alive by tending to the extensive requirements in order for her to stay alive (such as helping her swallow and sit up and get around), and the author and his daughter are making the best of it. Reading the book and telling his story are not keeping her alive and making her suffer longer, being in the nursing home likely is. So IMO it can only help, not hurt. He isn't putting forth the argument that his love poem practice has helped her up to this day, but that it at least helped her early on in the progression of Alzheimer's, and I think it did help her early on in Alzheimer's because I think she still had capacity to experience life for some time after her diagnosis. I also think it is a good father-daughter experience, given the circumstances. I think he leaves it an open question as to whether it was helping her in the later stages of it, or if Alzheimer's is nothing but an utter shitshow at this point, so while I see how the article pours salt on wounds, I'm not going to fault the author for it.
> It’s not primarily a technology for transactions.

Well, what else is it for? All the things to be "put on the chain" (including transactions btw.) already existed in a more efficient form.

> Environmental concerns are a temporary issue

The environment is a concern for as long as humanity exists in it. And Carbon emissions are far from the only problem Mining causes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58572385

37,000 tonnes of waste per year. That's 37,000 tonnes of electronics for which raw materials must be gathered and processed, which must be assembled, transported.

> Bitcoin is moving to renewables faster than most anything else for a variety of reasons

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Bitcoi...

https://ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/bitcoin-mining-breathes...

https://fortune.com/2022/01/05/kazakhstan-internet-bitcoin-m...

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/some-stat...

And even without that: It's just a giant waste of energy. Using the Energy requirements of a nation to process less than 0.5M transactions a day, when credit cards alone process 1B in the same time?

If we have surplus electricity, we can use it to power desalination plants, lower energy prices in underserved communities or literally just pump water uphill to store it. Almost everything is a better use than burning through tons of hardware, just so computers can scream SHA256 hashes at each other.
That's where I am these days. I've tried all these .md based knowledge vaults and avoided Notion like the plague. I was really stuck on Obsidian... until one night taking notes on something I had to make a bunch of tables. Creating tables with pure .md is just obnoxious. So I decided to take a look at Notion based on the recommendation of another dev. Been using it for 3 weeks now and I have to say, it serves my needs, is super smooth/intuitive, and actually nice to work in.
yes.

14 years on and still haven't found a way to make themselves any less independent of Google's money. >90% of their revenue derived from their direct anti-privacy competitor makes them entirely on life support.

Rust was their opportunity to escape that, now they just threw it away and now they are back to where they started.

Firefox is in decline. Nothing has changed.
My eyes hurt. No thank you.
Weren't the robbers simply hungry, and using guns to rob is not a violent crime? This may sound sarcastic, but this is exactly politicians in cities kept telling us, no?
At that point it becomes useful to look at some indirection/decoupling patterns like the Mediator pattern.

Then instead of having a IService with 15 methods with a construction with 20 dependencies listed (multiply it with say 50 IServices in your project - mmmm spagheti project), you end up with a IHandler with a single method and a constructor that only has say 3 injected dependencies, only what it needs. The trade off is, you now have 100's of small Handler files, some people don't like that BUT you now have a pleasant git commit history per file and most of the code of a Handler file fits on one screen and it is easy to digest. You can also let a handler trigger other handlers if it needs to (via the same mediator). It also fits with SRP.

Auto-wiring 95% of your dependencies still stays intact as the above plumbing will need it to work.
Nexus phones were cheap compared to iPhone, that was their whole differentiation. For example, Nexus 5 launched at $349 while at the same time iPhone 5 launched at $649. There's nothing comparable in those prices.

If you really did buy all of these, then you certainly didn't pay the same price. And after that, there was 3 years break before first Pixel - so you used a bricked phone for 3 years? Or it worked fine for 3 years?
> Microsoft's Family offering is way better

Well, it's called Google _Workspace_ now and their cheapest offering is _Business_ Starter at $6/user/month, and their "Individual" offering is $9.99/month (currently on sale for $7.99/month).

I guess Google is making the service business-oriented. For you, that means you need to consider whether or not the service will add value to your _business_ before buying them. It's not a family service.

Little rant here: to be completely honest, I don't really understand what Google has been doing in the past decade. As a search engine company, the clerk of the Internet if you will, you'd imagine that they would do anything in their power to create and maintain a vibrant Internet. Things like encouraging custom domain usage, lowering hosting costs etc should be naturally on bucket list. But instead of doing that, they became one of the company who focused on sipping on their user, all the while the Internet is more and more concentrated and hard to search. Well played ...
> Most code written today do not require manual memory management

Rust has automatic memory management.

> or even explicit multithreading.

You don't need explicit multithreading to run into data races. Languages that allow any kind of unchecked mutable state sharing and allow any form of concurrency (explicit or hidden) are prone to that problem.

Even single-threaded programs with aliasing of mutable variables are hard to reason about and Rust improves on that considerably by not allowing accidental aliasing.
There are more options today because the music making tools are accessible to almost everyone and there are more new music now than a decade ago. I think his data sample is just limited to make such a titled article.
You can still make shit websites. Lots of people do. The problem is, they're more fun to make than to visit. So don't get huffy if potential visitors go to social media instead.
At least I was force logged out from the app. It would have been nice to know why that was done.
GitHub.com, NPMjs.org
> Yes, it is always fine to question scientific conclusions with legitimate concerns.

See, scientific consensus is usually based on data and certain statistics. Those who question it usually express opinions without addressing the data and methodology. An opinion is not enough, you need to be very specific.
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I have had convos like this:

Do you know React? "Yes."

Do you know React hooks? Yes.

Do you know JavaScript? "Well, it is what you use for React."

Do you know JavaScript? Yes or no?

Lots of them just have a keyword list.
> It breaks easily

Somehow I've never had plastic parts break in the two decades I've been using computers and I don't think I'm in the minority.

> it doesn’t support the non-plastic pieces (e.g. the monitor)

Support how? Are you physically putting your monitor on top your laptop?
Yes, a bunch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging#Clien...

And Signal also has deniable authentication, although its protocol is a bit different than Off-the-Record Messaging.
Good article, but does anybody else feel weird about the:'what can these countries teach us'? It would be fine in a BBC article, where it is clear who is 'us', but in nature? I would feel the us vs india would be bad enough, but Japan? People from Japan publish regularily there, Japan is one of the bigger players in science.

Maybe I am overthinking this though.
You can use Piwik PRO Core which is free up to 500.000 actions/month:
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Is it possible to FOIA how much it cost the US government to build this page?