skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when it comes to "tax loophole", that has colloquially come to mean "any means by which a special interest group gets to avoid taxes". "Tax loopholes" can be intentionally added to the tax code, even if "loophole" implies something unintentional.

You're wrong. You just have been using the term wrong and listening to people who do as well. Loopholes are unintentional. The things you are referring to are intentionally placed in the tax code for people to take advantage of.

Do you consider the solar credit a tax loophole for people with solar?

>Remember that English is a living language, and meanings change to suit how people use words, not how the dictionary may have once defined them.

Great but this doesn't apply to "loophole". You're just wrong and doubling down.

>tax loophole

>A provision in the laws governing taxation that allows people to reduce their taxes. The term has the connotation of an unintentional omission or obscurity in the law that allows the reduction of tax liability to a point below that intended by the framers of the law.
Grass can be greener on the other side. Usually hard problems are expensive to solve, and the business end wants nigh endless amounts of justification and planning for those solutions lol. You think you'll be designing cool architecture (and you will!) but you'll also spend a lot of your time making powerpoints and sitting in meetings to "touch base" and "tag up" and whatever lol.
>>> there can be an inherent competitiveness in white-boarding interviews. the interviewer can implicitly want to show their superiority over the candidate

This can be present even in non-FAANG interviews. Early in my career, I had an interview at a financial company and for a question about how do you style html pages, my answer was CSS and the interviewer expected something about ASP.NET webstyles. He was't ready to accept my answer saying you are a dotnet dev and should use ASP.NET functionality since it was more superior rather than CSS. I was like CSS is a web standard and anyone even designers can modify CSS.

So yeah, it depends on the maturity of the interviewer.
The reason to have anyone in an office is because it makes managers and executives feel better. It’s really that simple. No one who has ever worked remotely themselves could possibly believe that employees are more productive in an office.

I think the delusion most people tell themselves about in person being better for spontaneous conversations, and better productivity comes down to just wanting human interaction. Which is totally normal. But all of the talk about how being in person is better is just a cope. Working from home is better in every instance where it’s possible.
It's just very convenient to convert some time-frequency domain to sound, even if frequency is shifted for easier hearing (e.g. how they slow down black hole mergers).

That's because human ear is very good at hearing small changes in frequencies. E.g. first movies vere silent not because they couldn't play the audio, but because they couldn't synchronize between the video and audio.

Human eye is very forgiving to uneven or hickking-up video playback, but not the ear.
The part about expecting them to sell the job is a good point, and important. Don't think that's a bad habit at all.

I also tend to make it clear from the outset I will not come cheap, in a "are you sure you can afford me?" kind of way. Not mentioning specifics, but making it clear I know my market value and won't consider low offers.

Some get very taken back, but it sets a tone. I think you're absolutely right you need to make sure they know it's two way, and to give a clear impression they're chasing someone high value, and that they're not the prize, you are.

But if their pitch is all about "changing the world" but they're not willing to share the upside, I know I'm wasting my time, so I want to make sure they know that I expect my share too, not just fuzzy feelings.

E.g. I a while back came across a company that was very proud of how rapidly they were growing, but somehow thought that mattered to me when they were not willing to offer any shares or options. I was meant to be excited about making other people rich...

I pointed out to them I've not once taken a job on terms like that in the last 25 years and called off the process after the first interview. I also explained to the recruiter just how far off market they were for someone at my experience level.

If that had happened after 5-6 interviews I'd have been incensed...

FAANG recruiters in particular also seem to get confused when I insist on getting an indication of salary range and option/rsu amounts before being willing to agree to an interview. Several times I've had recruiters come back to me days later after digging up the information, as their first line seem to not even know, just expecting people to be all excited they're even calling. For my part I'm shocked more people aren't having that conversation. But that does explain leaked info some time back about how Facebook is dealing with high rejection rates once they actually give offers.
This is the conclusion in the Abstract:

Our results suggest that some sexually transmitted parasites, such as T. gondii, may produce changes in the appearance and behavior of the human host, either as a by-product of the infection or as the result of the manipulation of the parasite to increase its spread to new hosts. Taken together, these results lay the foundation for future research on the manipulation of the human host by sexually transmitted pathogens and parasites.
That's not what I observe in my city. They tear out a few single family homes that you would need a deposit of $200k to even be competitive for, thats probably why its a developer buying it vs working people anyhow, or its like a few old tire shops occupying a parcel caddy corner from a subway station or a few bus lines that really should be repurposed into something more useful the the community anyhow. Hardly ever do you see multi family older housing being demoed and rebuilt because these things get more complicated with more tenants.
I had plenty of interactions at Google over lunch, in the hallway, while taking a break, etc that we brought to a whiteboard and either ended up with a potentially interesting project or saved us time by finding out something didn’t make sense. These often came from a series of multiple, low stakes conversations that were much more difficult to have remotely. I don’t contend they are impossible, but for me they were at least much less frequent during wfh.
I agree! I’ve got a GBA, PSP, DS Lite and a PS Vita. Are there any pico-8 emulators out there for these platforms?
That's exactly where he won me over.
So, you are trolling then. I answered these in upper comments.

> If you say no, then how many conservative views must one hold to belong to the group?

When you proclaim proudly "I am conservative" and share 70% of conservative opinions or more. Or, when you talk about liberal snowflakes. Same thing, really.
With my AT&T fiber modem/router and Galaxy S22 Ultra or ThinkPad P1 Gen 3, I typically get 600-800 Mbps both directions, either in the same room as the router or an adjoining room. It drops to 300-400 Mbps if I go outside and the signal has to go through stucco on chicken wire. The interior walls are drywall so they interfere less.

The router is on the floor; I haven't tried putting it on a high shelf to see if that improves the outdoor coverage.

I haven't done any special configuration on the router or phone/laptop, just running everything as it came out of the box.
Housing Market Faces a World of Pain
> What would have been a 1:1 over coffee or a corridor huddle now needs a meeting room reservation, and there aren't nearly enough of them to go around.

Genuinely curious because I’ve yet to encounter this myself - but why would you need a meeting for something like this? Can you not just ask your colleague via slack, teams, etc? Or better yet, can either of you write up a proposal and put out a RFC on it? That way there’s no burden of having a meeting just to discuss something?

Sorry if that comes off rude. I’m just genuinely curious what you’d need to meet about.
Yes. Along with getting them to wash teeth and shower.
> Also known as basically all music prior to 1940

Sure, if you ignore blues&jazz, traditional folk, and all non-western music.
I don't understand why we continue to legislate all these rules around cars, but yet companies that are perfectly capable of employing a remote workforce are allowed to mandate that people drive to the office to sit on a computer.

I guess it's more fun banning shit than it is building a world where we don't _need_ to drive _ANY_ car to an office. Or, a world where I can simply get on a trolley/etc to go where I need to.
When have landlords cared about design life? I've lived in 100 year old structures with floors so warped it looks like the tide and dealt with water flowing like a waterfall from the ceiling, or heating that only works on one floor. If its still barely legal to rent it will be rented out. Most landlords don't care if its a mere gust of wind from blowing over, until it actually blows over. Plus if they ever want to get out of the slumlord game, the new fad is for buyers to be waiving inspections.
This isn't true either, not in an accounting sense. As in, there is no expense line in a casino's income statement for "payouts".

A casino's revenue is, with a few technical exceptions, the difference between all wagers made by customers and all payouts made back to them. So "payouts" are more like negative revenue.

It's sort of like Visa, when it processes a $100 transaction, it doesn't record $100 in revenue and a $97 expense. It just records $3 in revenue.

It's an important distinction since in most states in the U.S., casinos are taxed right off the top as a percentage of revenue, in addition to normal income, sales and employment taxes. (Not true of native American casinos, which are often exempt from most or all taxes)
Around here poured concrete is usually more expensive than cinderblock, though it is also usually better.

It’s even cheaper if you do the laying yourself of course.
“Difficult” is the critical consensus of what Soulslikes are about, but it’s not necessarily what the devs are thinking. If you let go the idea of having “goals” for a bit - well now it’s not “difficult” because there isn’t anything to accomplish. Sure, it’s still a game where you die all the time, but according to Miyazaki that’s 1. slapstick comedy and 2. masochism[0], not a punishment.

That’s also why there isn’t an easy mode, but if you want to make progress there’s other “modeless” ways to get stronger.

[0] Japanese media has a lot of running jokes about BDSM fetishes, which they think are personality types
Wait for info. Especially wait because Reddit is your source.

Remember that time they found the Boston Bomber?
Don’t forget the pre meeting meeting to discuss the upcoming meeting and the post meeting meeting to review the meeting.
Ask HN: How to change web page's grey text to black?
I am at my wit's end with modern web designer's love for thin grey text on white background.

I am sure it looks fine for the designers using Macbooks with high resolution IPS displays with a glossy finish.

But for the rest of us, these thin grey text, combined with Cleartype in a well lit room, on a still modern 1080p monitor with matte finish, are very tough to read.

So I ask HN: Is there a browser extension or any software trick that could turn these grey text into black text?

Thank you.
YouTube Needs to Fix Comment Spam[video]
Yes, Brian Kernighan said it's pronounced "ee-dee": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk
European versions have this rule [1]. I wasn't aware that the US version allowed adjacent ship placement until I bought a commercial version for my kid last Christmas and started looking into strategies.

1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiffe_versenken#Vorbereitung
That's because its not about the number of apartments, its about the ratio of jobs to apartments and it being completely out of whack which leads to only those making above average income winning in the housing market (rental or buying). Manhattan looks like it should be affordable since its so dense, but it doesn't have enough housing for how many jobs there are there, especially high income jobs.
Changes in terms of employment is one of the few reasons you can collect unemployment after voluntarily quitting.
I'm building my own e-commerce, based on a custom super simple headless-cms, using a super simple custom nodejs-express-react server (similar to next.js, but much more simple, no client-side rehydration, no need for client-side JS by default), emotion for styles, backblaze for files upload, render.com for hosting the server, mlab for the db, and I guess Stripe for billing. I hesitated to use WordPress for a few minutes...
This is completely off topic, so please downvote it.

It's a children's story, personifying ed, along with several other UNIX commands.

https://github.com/peterburk/peterburk.github.io/blob/master...

It's not finished, but it did help a couple of young girls from the homestay family where I used to live to fall asleep.
And for those that cannot have children due to infertility? Our 4th and final IVF cycle just failed, so we have to find alternative meaning somehow.
Smart TV SoCs usually have a capture engine that taps into the video stream being sent to the screen after HDCP decryption and allows it to be DMA'd directly to main RAM [1], and from there analyzed and sent to the manufacturer's ad partner of choice. As long as the firmware does not allow the end user to access these decrypted frames in any way, the TV will still pass HDCP certification with no issues.

[1] https://blog.ammaraskar.com/roku-tv-philips-hues
Forgive me for asking, but how exactly do you plan to do that?
1. They’ve called out lucasfilm multiple times, so I’m 99% positive this was a contracted workload

2. Given that they can’t really compete with chrome for general users (there’s not much differentiation to be done there), it makes sense to focus on various niches
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Kamikaze Drones in Ukraine
Used to use Dracula, got a little uncomfortable with it for the same reasons as the grandparent commenter, switched to Papercolor and love it, it's an Industrial Design based theme and in particular the background colour is not as dark as Dracula.
The perspective depends heavily on your position in life. E.g. I can't imagine many parents taking up on such an offer.
It might be true where you are, but that's not strictly correct everywhere. Here in Australia, if a company wanted to fire an employee, the employee has a chance to sue on an "unfair dismissal" grounds. One of the ways a company can protect against allegations of unfair dismissals is to demonstrate that a) there are genuine performance issues, and b) the company has made good-faith efforts to improve the employee's performance, and that's where the PIP cones in.

This means if an employee here were put on a PIP, it's usually (but not always) the first step towards them being fired.
Click the “reader mode” button in Firefox. I think most other browsers have something similar. Alternatively, use the browser’s dev tools to edit the page’s style sheets. This can be much more flexible, but requires learning a lot about html and css. Also, you would have to make the same edits every time you visit the page, which is annoying.

There are also extensions like Greasemonkey or Custom Style Script that allow you to automatically apply a stylesheet to pages when you visit them, to save you the manual effort. Someone still has to write the style sheet, but there are webpages where people show off their creations and let you download them for yourself.
I sure have other issues. You can't deal with everything at once though, so I'm prioritizing.

The thing that stops me out of bed is the shit I'll have to deal with at work. The thing that brings me to emotional distress is shit happening at work.

So yeah, I think at least I can fix that part and get back to fixing the rest then.
Navany team did regular polls for several years. Levada center as well. But they all ended by 2021.

In nearby Belarus independent polls are outright illegal.
Slightly off topic, but I think people are absolutely sleeping on gutenberg for wordpress. If you havent heard of it, its essentially reusable react components within the classic wordpress no code plugin ecosystem. Heavy development in this area could be the true no code solution.
What is the deal with Japanese exclusive bonus tracks/promo thing?

Interested about why a significant number of albums have Japanese promo versions with extra tracks. Is that a cultural thing about Japan or is there another specific reason? (I know it's not only Japan but mostly Japanese editions that I see throughout the web)

As if, almost even brouillard has a Japanese bonus track named brouillard in their album brouillard.
Your terms of employment are negotiable. If you don't like them then you are always free to discuss them with your employer. You should never assume that your employer is able to dictate terms, or even that they want to. Most companies want their staff to do good work and are happy to come to an arrangement that benefits everyone.
> Does anyone want to live in a skyscraper?

This tells me you haven’t been to China.
Having multiple unstable boxes and just cycling them round robin style is a valid solution, depending on the use case
A few of them built multibillion dollar campuses, as well.
Eh, if anything you're the one sounding offended because someone dared to provide options and speak out against the holy car cow. One is not "living to work" just because one wants a bike lane. If anything, I bike past thousands of cars stuck in traffic each morning. Who's out here enjoying life, while they waste theirs getting to and from work?
if you like a less polished sound, you should tuck into the Nirvana demos [1]. Back in the day it was really difficult to acquire these things (mainly trading or buying CDRs later on).

Nirvana is an excellent rabbit hole band, though. There are plenty of b-sides, bootlegs, demos, technically unreleased tracks, compilations, etc etc. They've released box sets that have pretty much everything besides the live bootlegs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoBcTBkNp94
A master thesis is not a PhD.
Another thing that adds enormous cost are balconies. Oh and that huge spacious mostly useless landscaped area you shuffle through between the parking garage and your elevator? Common area mandated by law, to be increased in size with the scale of your build. 1

You can't build a boring cheap brownstone anymore according to the law.

1. http://qcode.us/codes/westhollywood/view.php?topic=19-19_3-1...
It's a little easier if you install the vim plugin on VS Code. However, I really wish VS Code had a more comprehensive set of vim keybindings.
That's strange. I can read it fine in both normal and incognito windows. Try this instead? https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Frootprivileges.net%2F2...
we need to target specifically the lack of social element in remote work, not remote work itself. remote work has to change cities and create an ecosystem around it, like the office did. We haven't even started, are there startups working on it?
How would you know? Compare original 30 year old apartments to new builds and see the rent difference. There is one.
That is a great way to put it!
This is even more off topic:

I couldn't resist the urge to actually upvote you when you said downvote it.

So please downvote this one for doing exactly opposite of what you said and being even more off topic.
The train cost is often prohibitive, but can be done at a reasonable cost if you book at the right time (generally a few months ahead), especially if you’re a bit flexible on times. For example, I can visit family in Lausanne in the summer for £180 return from London. That’s a bit more than EasyJet, but not hugely more, especially when you factor in transport to and from the airport and any hold luggage you’ll pay extra for.
I wonder what would happen if we found out that people of similar backgrounds work better together? The reasoning of increasing shareholders value would still apply. Would we start implementing de facto segregated workplaces?
Actually the reason why a lot of apartments have rooftop decks now is due to laws requiring x sqft of common space with y units of builds, rooftops can be used for this space requirement if they are designed as such. If you want to make room for solar on the roof, maybe that means you now have to carve out some of your building to add a big internal void for a courtyard or something like that (pretty common to see these sorts of spaces in new builds as it were).
ok. how do we make managers and execs feel better even when everyoen is working remotely then? lots of opportunity for dashboard-sellers there
3 years working an engineering job will teach you much more than doing a PhD.
$180 per year? That seems excessive. My DigitalOcean ($6/m) box can handle 50,000 visitors every month without going over 15% CPU usage. It's running WordPress.org, using plenty of disk space, but is also managed entirely by me alone.
Don't take it the wrong way, but that's exactly the point of the article. You make the activity part of the quality time, unless you suddenly don't have time for your older kids anymore.

I was reading the article and wondering why that is even called the Maya method. Is that so special? I just had breakfast, my younger one put a new bag into the rubbish and the older one (7) made me crepes the other day (without any help) and was incredibly proud, because the crepes stays whole unlike in previous attempts were it broke when turning. I think this is really about giving kids responsibility and taking them seriously as proper persons. They want to help, they want responsibilities, it is us adults who don't want to give it to them.