skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I acknowledge the higher risk associated with crypto and self-custody. I just think the capability it provides is valuable. Like most things it's a nuanced issue and it's not all good or bad.

A lot of your argued side-effects are also true of cash. Yet most (at least for now) are not arguing to get rid of cash because not every transaction can be monitored and controlled.

Crypto gives more capability to individuals which is good (similar to cash). It creates a store of value outside of government monetary policy (in the BTC case more similar to gold).

People tend to simplify these things into "crypto is entirely bad" or "crypto is entirely good". I think it's a new tool that gives individuals new capabilities, but also has its own risks. I value the new capabilities and acknowledge the risks.

> "Crypto, by design, bypasses the legal system. There are some heavy consequences to that design."

This is mostly false. In the case of public ledgers - it's even easier to see transaction history than it is with cash (though this is less true of Zcash). It doesn't bypass the legal system it just requires a higher degree of intervention for your money to be taken from you (which is often desirable, especially if living under an oppressive government). Does cash bypass the legal system by design?
In 1944 the Federal income tax rate was as high as 94% for those making more than $200,000.
This is extremely common among young teens, who are struggling to get accepted and see lying as a quick workaround. I think of it as a crutch for easing the growing pains, something that is abandoned as one matures because it becomes less gratifying.

Kids have lied in all generations to gain respect, the Internet only makes it easier to lie to strangers. There's a problem underneath when lying stays in adulthood, though.
The quick examples seem like they could all be solved using git diff's
--ignore-all-space option.
GPT3 is a really impressive auto-complete. It takes inputs and predicts what text should be output. It's super impressive and it looks like it's smart but it is not running code, it's not Turing complete and if you understand how it works it's very easy to cause it to produce significant errors.
You hit us up when we can build & install it.
I ran into it the first time in 2005 and it was a widely known issue, easy to find if you could find where your program was pseudo-randomly blocking (pun intended). FreeBSD already had unified random/urandom by that point.

I’m not sure if the Linux folks find something wrong with existing, time tested approaches or if there’s some NIH going on, but it doesn’t seem like a multi-decade problem.
Thanks for sharing this, I like it a lot, and yes it does remind one of the Blade Runner atmosphere.

It seems a lot of commenters here are opposed to artistic photo manipulation, but maybe it’s a reflection on the expectations of photography vs. illustration. Or maybe it is a reaction to the given title, which maybe promises reality to some people.

But at any rate keep posting art to HN, some of us long time hackers appreciate it.
What companies are you hearing offering 300k for non senior?
Thanks for your response. Sorry, I didn't report it but will do next time. Thanks for your great work by the way!
The point is that, if you want to incentivize landlords to rent out places, this does this. Other people hear your story and rent it out to a responsible person instead of waiting for a "nice family". Or they auction it off in the time they have and pocket the money.

Responsible people who don't rip up housing are sought after and pay a reasonable rental rate. People who buy and sit on property are taken out of the system. A new equilibrium is reached and most people take reasonable care of their rental properties they are given because they don't want to have to enter lotteries that will likely end them up in a slum. Homeless people end up in better than the street.
I think this is actually a feature not a bug. YC can mitigate risk for many companies who still get great value out of it, while also investing in moonshots knowing that they will get enough of their money back from the less risky ones.

That means YC and the world gets to see where the moonshots go by supporting the less risky!
Something something perfect good blah blah.
How to install a bunch of .deb files
Posters will now stumble over each other to assure you that tax evasion was so widespread that actually the effective tax rate was lower than Reagan's wildest dreams.
The 1% aren't borrowing against stock - or if they are - it's minimal and not worth discussion.

99% of the borrowing is coming from people worth close to a billion or more (0.001%).
damn it, i live in oregon and california
The rates presented are slightly misleading because it's not including the standard deduction. For a single individual in 2021, income below $12,550 is effectively not taxed (or $25,100 for married couples).
Be sure to plan and take trips back to NYC is see friends. That's important.
Once a quarter works well.

You will have to make friends where ever you go so volunteer perhaps join a few meetups. Attend events you are interested in and so forth.
What are the kind of boot/init processes that require the RNG? Is it only a requirement on some systems, or does basically every gameboy, laptop, soda machine etc have init processes that would need the RNG?

The issue that triggered this revert, if I'm understanding it, was that RNG reads had to be minimally decent and non-blocking already in order for a certain system to seed the RNG.

This is definitely breakage, but it'd be interesting to know about the less "reflexive" applications.
I'd love to see these state-wise as well. Looking at the highest ever federal rate and adding my current california rate would put the total marginal rate at 103%.

It's actually kind of amusing to think about what a marginal rate over 100% would lead to. If the top bracket is $1M+ and you earn $100M, and that last $99M is taxed at 102%, then you owe roughly $101M of your $100M earned, leaving you negative for the year. Better not go above the max! Quick! Donate that $99M in order to maximize your earnings!
Flying internationally was great. Planes felt mostly empty, lines were faster and shoes weren't taken off. Upgrades were more common, even as a child.

On the other hand people sometimes smoked and luggage was sometimes lost.
Why tell us the couple's names and tell us they were childless? Strange. I'm not inclined to trust anything you said after that.
> its useful because I don't have to change locks every time a get a new renter, I just change the codes (specially if I consider doing short term rentals/airbnb at some point/season) and I don't have to worry about any spare copies of the keys made by the renters.

Is that something that people generally worry about? I’m pretty sure none of the rentals I’ve lived in over the past decade had the locks changed between tenants.
Yes, when your friend says it's a loan and you treat it appropiately on your tax return it's not taxed. Else it will be. And if you can delay capital gains tax, great for you! How do I delay income tax?
I mean we basically don't 12% of $20k (ignore marginal rates just taking the top braket) is $2.4k and the standard deduction is $12,400 for single filers.
I’m not sure that was legal in USSR (private renting out) until well into perestroika
Do you think if the engineers took lower salaries, that money would go to front-line workers instead?
> Students who perform should be ... encouraged to participate in competitions (these are ranked) ...

> Grades are simply not the tool to use beyond the level of "doing fine".

I am having trouble square rooting these two seemingly opposite claims.

I think you are saying: in a school environment, use grades only to measure degree-below-standard. Outside school, use competitive ranking to measure degree-above-standard.

Close?
>It's not their house. It certainly is their home. I would prefer those be the same person as often as possible to align incentives.

If you take something you're obliged to pay for without paying for it, it isn't "yours."

>Tenants, like many contract participants, have legal rights that cannot be waived (see also minimum wage.) They also have contractual rights due to the contract.

Minimum wage is another thing that crushes the poor, as do eviction protections. Both serve to make jobs/housing (respectively) more difficult for the poor to acquire via regulatory barriers.

>Certainly, withholding rent from a breaching landlord is appropriate while the breach is resolved.

Conversely, withholding housing from a breaching tenant is appropriate.

>Unless the landlord lives there, the landlord's home is unrelated to the property.

In the US, "Home" can simply mean a house [1]. My apologies if you're using a different dialect of English and I misunderstood; I was using home as it's used in one common interpretation of the word in English in my country.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home : refer to 1b
my neighbor at one time worked on canning technology as a scientist in the Army. He was very proud of canning food well, to prevent starvation. I made the mistake of speaking poorly of it once, since fresh food is abundant where I live, and has better nutrition. I thought about it for years afterwards, because he was sharp in his response. Not everyone has the benefits of fresh food in this world. Baking silly cakes is not the worst thing in the world. Its an emotional topic if you go deeper into it.
A reminder that comparing old tax rates with modern ones is very hard, since there was a huge amount of deductions available for the high income earners, and hardly anyone actually paid anywhere near the nominal 91%.
This is wrong, and I know several legal process departments who will tell you otherwise, e.g.,:

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...

Please, post about legal issues only if you know what you are talking about.
Also avoiding the "they don't even pay taxes" talk about people with low incomes.
Any way to donate to the cause?
As a home owner I don't want a smart lock. That just sounds awful, I don't want to worry about power or internet for my door.

As a former renter I find it dystopian.
It's not clear in the article, but I didn't get the impression that it was common knowledge that Betty Crocker's advice and recipes were actually the work of a collection of women. What the article did talk about was the fact that they really weren't taken seriously within the company. It was probably the most glamorous job available in a time when there were very, very few opportunities for women and the idea of women working outside the home at all was frowned upon.
If you would consider $12,400 a value of "say $20k" this is already the case... and the tax rate on the remaining $7600 is 10%. Someone earning $20k qualifies for other benefits worth more than $760, so their total effective tax rate is already negative.
I actually did pour blood and sweat to a campaign that did have this as one of their policies. I don't think this can be solved until lobbyist money and the Senate is fixed. Even if there's 90% support for an issue, politicians follow the money.
Is Hawking Radiation /big-bang-anti-matter?
Is Hawking radiation big-bang-anti-matter?
KASLR, for one.

The original gameboys have absolutely no entropy sources other than reading uninitialized SRAM memory.
I love this, it would be cool if we can submit blog to be indexed. Of course you can review first to avoid spam.
> Having a higher than average amount of empathy seems to be a disadvantage in many ways.

The grass may be greener, etc., but I am jealous - I would love your superpower and its tradeoffs; I'll give you mine. What a way to experience the world and people.

(Though maybe jealousy is a form of empathy? ;) )
Supabase's row level security is just postgres row level security, it's not proprietary to Supabase. Postgres documentation, blog posts etc on RLS will apply to Supabase too.
That's what the standard deduction does.

For example, 57% of households did not pay any federal income tax in 2021: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/25/57percent-of-us-households-p...

That's not even from COVID, the percentages are fairly similar going back a number of years.
Why is random so hard? If we assume best intentions then:

uint64_t lemur64(void) {
static uint128_t s =
(uint128_t)426679527491843471ull << 64 | 2131259787901769494ull;
return (s *= 15750249268501108917ull) >> 64;
}

Passes bigcrush and PractRand and it won't ever cause your system to hang on boot.
You know, it didn't even occur to me to try that. I'll give it a go tomorrow.
Isn't RSU the middle ground already? You can part of your compensation in salary, part in ownership of the company. If you work and the company does well, you do better.

The % of comp in RSU raises as you get promoted to higher levels, where you (theoretically at least) actually have more impact on the success of the company.
You are right that assuming you completely understand another person’s mind can cause (serious) problems in your relationship with them. But people also “tell you how they feel” with more than just words. So it’s not as simple as “ignore everything but the spoken or written word”.
How is it deceptive when it clearly states that is what it is doing?
> Who cares about the extremes?

What fraction of taxpayers pay the minimum rate?
And I just read this story about gun-tracing: https://www.gq.com/story/inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-ma...

Lobbyists have way too much power.
Did your wife's case actually go to trial, or was it also plea-bargained? If the former, why would the defendant not take the plea in such clear-cut case?
It's also arithmetically impossible to pay the highest bracket given that it's a marginal tax rate.
Please tell me the final output of your PhD was a differtation.
It’s still interesting, and I bet many on HN hit that top bracket.
The majority of LInux devices do not have any keyboard or mouse, and those that do will see absolutely no input during init, you've never seen "move the mouse around a bunch to begin boot".
While classic voting has it's drawbacks it does produces a winner which has the clear majority of the voters. The problem with many of these alternative voting systems like "ranked choice" is that they are very complex and this allows a sufficiently sophisticated entity to game the system to such an extent that it produces a surprise minority result without a clear mandate of the voters.

Cautionary Examples

Another example of this problem is demonstrated by what happened in
Australia (which uses ranked choice voting) in the 2010 election. The liberal
Labor Party won the Australian House despite receiving only “38 percent
of first-place votes on the initial ballot, while the second-place Liberal-National coalition [the center right choice] captured 43 percent” of first-place
votes.

In other words, more voters wanted a center-right government than
a left-wing government, but ranked choice made sure that did not happen.
Or consider the mayor’s race in Oakland, California, in 2010, in which
the candidate that received the most first-place votes lost the election to “a
candidate on the strength of nearly 25,000 second- and third-place votes”
after nine rounds of redistribution of the votes.6
This also happened recently in Maine. In 2018, the first-ever general election for federal office in our nation’s history was decided by ranked choice
voting in the Second Congressional District in Maine. Jared Golden (D)
was declared the eventual winner—even though incumbent Bruce Poliquin
(R) received more votes than Golden in the first round. There were two
additional candidates in the race, Tiffany Bond and William Hoar. However,
the Maine Secretary of State, Matt Dunlop, “exhausted” or threw out a total
of 14,076 ballots of voters who had not ranked all of the candidates."

Source: https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2019-08/IB4996....
This is already the case and has been for quite some time. The table depicted at the link is shows tax rates before deductions. Think of it as a "top line" or "nominal" tax rate. People making under $20k (and more) have an effective tax rate of $0 in the USA.

As Mitt Romney pointed out in 2012 [1]: "Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax."

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/sep/18/mitt-romne...
I don't know how long ago you used teams, but that feature has been active for a while now. Since that was your main complaint, maybe you will like it now.
It’s Pretty Cringey to Self-Anoint Yourself Any of These Four
I use vim for all my editing tasks.

But that being said, the people behind Go do a survey once a year where they ask about what editors people use https://go.dev/blog/survey2020-results

> VS Code remains the most preferred editor (41%), with GoLand a strong second (35%). Together these editors made up 76% of responses, and other preferences did not continue to decrease as they had in previous years.

Vim is at 14%
FreeTaxUSA charges 19.90 for that, so still 20 bucks cheaper than TurboTax
Wrong. If it's not a loan then it's a gift and that's not taxed either for $1,200 as I mentioned. No need to even report it if it's under $16,000 per year.
> About once every year or two I'll miss something about the way Windows does things, compared to normal (meaning "linux"). Like the NTFS permissions model, that's cool.

FreeBSD would be up your alley. Its native ACLs are NFSv4 format, a superset of NTFS ACLs. You need to enable it explicitly on UFS2, but it's default on ZFS.
There was only one extant US dragnet surveillance program in Snowden's leaks, which was the phone metadata collection, so I don't know why you have the plural. Snowden's leaks showed the lawyers' justification for that program (https://www.aclu.org/files/natsec/nsa/20130816/2009%20OIG%20...) which said that the data does not fall under Fourth Amendment protection by Supreme Court precedent, and it was never ruled unconstitutional, only exceeding the law that the government claimed had authorized it.
> As others have noted, the IRS doesn't know everything, and some things may be to your advantage to report to them.

Sure, and I'd be ok with giving people the option to deny the default return and file their own using Intuit or something. For people like me, who don't have the ambition to try and do anything clever with taxes, I'd be ok with the default return that they generate from all the information sent via my employer and banks.
I'm going to give my coworkers a beehive with the bees still in it.
Have you gone through TurboTax's filing process? It starts with ~$149 upgrade for me, I believe. They have countless add-ons that popup throughout the filing process beyond just that (annual audit defense membership, get your refund faster, etc). So many up-sells and cross-sells, it is pretty disgusting.

I stopped using them last year because it was just too much. I can easily see how someone could end up with a multi-hundred dollar bill from them. Many of the popups are tailored to look like you need to say yes.
Optimizing DORA metrics to drive better business outcomes
This argument is trying to show that elite colleges are more than

> artificially crafted scarcity designed to create a market and brand.

In that they produce good research results.
Good. Fuck them and their predatory business model.

I know this is where we’re supposed to decry the system of which this is symptomatic, and talk about campaign finance and such. And all that stuff is true, sure. But Intuit has been such a consistently abusive actor that they’re normalizing regulatory capture, with enormous financial, time, stress, and legal repercussions for the entire population.

Seriously, fuck them.
Now adjust those 1990 numbers for inflation
> In dynamic languages there are still features that cannot be practically expressed in static type systems - most metaprogramming and code generation falls into this category

Actually, both metaprogramming and code generation blur the phase distinction between compile and run time - but this makes them a great fit for dependent typing systems, which do pretty much the same thing. So there's no reason why more refined static systems could not express these idioms.
I think you meant cronyism.
Yeah, well, I was thinking of leaving the free-SMS-maybe-with-pics thing well enough alone and just letting you find "Chris aluminum siding" items ...

Might be worth a few cents for their advertising side-business, I dunno.
I wonder if they'd feel better about that if they could instead earn enough where they actually had to pay income tax. It's not much consolation that you have skin in the game if you can only get 15 bucks an hour.
Minecraft but playing with a purpose, Build this, build that, make this farm, automate this, etc.

Factorio.

And if they can handle something more hardcore, Unreal World and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.
When he died, Benjamin Franklin bequeathed $5,000 to the city of Boston. This was a large sum at the time.

Today, it's just a paycheck for a software engineer.
If some politician really wanted to make a difference, then move FICA (employee not employer) to start at something like $30k and continue higher before the cutoff, then add a tax after a million to cover the low income folks' FICA. Then make the individual deduction $30k.

I am really opposed to taxing things that aren't actually realized (stock). The number of horror stories on HN about stock options just leads me to believe we do it wrong. I would rather we do a better job on the transaction to cash out.
In a postitive way? Literature is filled with cautionary tales of
people who find existential truth separate from the opinions of the
world, but at a cost. Becoming a solipsist, iconoclast, nihilist....

Try Camus (Stranger), Cervantes (Don Quixote). Dostoyevsky (Notes from
the Underground), Salinger (Catcher in the Rye), and there's plenty in
Bronte (all of them), Blake and Hardy.

But I suspect these aren't the droids you're looking for.
The key problem for <$20k earners is the constant 7.65% FICA ("Social Security/Medicare") Tax plus any local taxes, not income tax.

After the standard deduction, the net income tax rate for a single filer making $20k is 3.75%. For a couple filing jointly it's 0 up through $25.5k/yr.

In both cases, the EITC guarantees those with at least one child a (substantially) negative effective tax rate, while single child-free filers are left with about a 2.6% effective rate.
Every society does this. We grow, change, and evolve… or perish. Our generation has an opportunity to build a sustainable and robust society. If we do succeed, that’ll be up to us.
The SerenityOS Browser passes the Acid3 test
First of all, I do not believe cramming for an exam and forgetting everything afterwards is "gaming the system". This is what the system encourages and the system is broken. Cheating might be called "gaming the system", but unfortunately it is equally encouraged by the system.

There are students who will find ways to get a top grade and subsequently retain none of the knowledge.

There are students who will actually learn everything and only bother to get a passing grade because the theatre of school is boring to them.

There are also sudents who will find ways to get a passing grade, without having gained any knowledge at all, and they will be content with that.

It is a mistake to lump any of these categories together. I know people in all of them, and depending on the subject, I was also in all of them.

The affinity a student has for a teacher is a major, maybe even the most important, factor in determining the ammount of motivation and interest a student will show for a certain subject. And I believe this stays true at all levels.