skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The middle class is getting absolutely hammered by taxes while the rich just keep on keeping on in a tax-free world not experienced by others.

Define middle class. If you make >$250k but <$2M - you're probably getting hammered. But I don't think many people consider that "middle class". The ones with the highest tax rates by far make around $400-$600k. You don't have enough income for it to make sense to spend a lot of money to avoid taxes (accountants, tax lawyers, shielding income through corporations, etc) - and most of your income is "earned" from an employer - so you don't have many strategies to avoid taxes realistically anyway. You're pretty much stuck with a relatively high tax rate. But this is the top 1% - that doesn't seem middle class to me.

If you make ~$100k - you're still in the top 15% - but your tax rate is really not THAT high. Middle class should probably center on FAMILIES earning between ~$40k and ~$100k. By no means are these FAMILIES being hammered with taxes - on the low end, you're looking at hardly any federal or state tax beside payroll (your pension).
The amount of absolutely insane engineering that happens on these mission is outstanding all on its own- then you go and add stunts like this, and it makes you realize something: The folks doing this stuff are just like the rest of us. They're hackers, but they have billion dollar stuff to hack on. And, they're likely far better at it than the rest of us. Still, we're cut from the same cloth. Love it.
> 2 million videos. Approximately 0.2% of ALL videos on the ENTIRE platform of YouTube

Yeah I mean there's no way that's even close to accurate. You think there are only a billion videos on YouTube?
Are we talking about China or the USA? Because having the wrong skin color is also dangerous in China as well (eg being caught African or Uighur in Guangzhou). I get it: the USA is more diverse so ethnic tension is much more common, but China has the same issues, even worse, just papered over a 90% Han majority focused into the east. Frankly, China’s ethnic tensions are a hundred years behind the states.
I thought the pandemic was technically over, and Covid is now considered endemic.
Until I wanted Plex to start transcoding video durring the pandemic, I happily used a Mac Mini from 2008 as my home server, which itself was an upgrade from the Intel Geode FitPC I had been using for years before that. Like most things, it depends on what you're doing with it.
The assessment that it is more difficult to "have the managerial experiences and interpersonal experiences that you need to have to take your career forward in a work-remotely environment" is fair. Because that's office politics.

Also, it's fair that it makes the company culture fragmented and nearly impossible to move together as a team for folks without that experience. Silos are real.

But, in my experience, the main reason is that senior leaders cannot let go of the 'it's work time you should be working' mindset, and understand that some people work best in the morning, some at night, and some in small bursts with breaks between.

I have learned that a VAST majority of companies simply suck at setting goals and measuring employee productivity.
Right - the data are still being sent in packets, but the quantity and frequency of the data packets are such that the chance of miscommunication is reduced to near zero with even a modestly strong connection.
I think you're very much overestimating how much big corporations care about Youtube dislikes. Unless if there is a massive conspiracy of advertisers unilaterally demanding Youtube remove its downvote count, which there is no evidence for, advertisers have no leverage against Google. What's far more likely is that visible downvotes are a signal for people to not watch a video, and Youtube wants people to watch more videos, so they watch more ads.
I like it but it needs more effort. For example, the Zapp/Java joke simply doesn't work. Zapp doesn't overcome enemies "with complexity", he spends his men in human wave attacks. He doesn't enjoy bureaucracy, he doesn't give a f*ck. He just doesn't understand things. Zapp wouldn't be able to program in Java (or in anything, he would delegate everything to Kif while harassing some secretary).

Zapp is probably a Scrum Master (he didn't actually do the certification, he just sketched with pencils a fake certificate).
Though I do think there's a lot of bad managers around, one thing to consider is that executive type roles tend to be people jobs, and people jobs are hard to do without face to face conversations. Office politics requires you to weigh what people want to do, and that's often hard without seeing exactly what expression someone is making. It also thrives on knowing who is talking to who, and that's also a lot easier to figure out in real life than via slack.
I don't know if it is intentional, but your use of omphaloskepsis seems to be an ironic form of omphaloskepsis in its' own right.
I can't believe this kind of conspiracy nonsense gets posted to HN.
all cynicisms aside, if my presence makes an impact then you bet I'd like to be there too and it just so happens execs make calls that matter at the end of the day so they're more likely to want to be present. salaried workers are labourers, having no say in company affairs, and it's little wonder that they feel like they're needed there. to do the work sure, but actual engagement? hard ask as they are decoupled (rightly or wrongly) from decision making therefore cut from the profit.

ps. having stock/options doesn't help either, it's about control and agency and less so about ownership and profit
Yeah, there's a lot of great content in it, but it's very disorganized.
It's pretty simple, until the child is out of the womb, it's not a child. There is no overarching negative consequence if you abort that child.

There is an extremely negative consequence if you try to regulate a person who is a grown persons body.

I would only buy the argument of respecting a life if we also extend this to way beyond a child in the womb, and to everyone living. Until we do that, there's no excuse to control a person's body.
Yeah my point is that you don't get those things from the cameras, or don't need them. Look:

> something happens on my property that I could be liable for, such as a trip and fall on the sidewalk in front of my house
- that's a homeowner's insurance claim, and their problem now.

> Or if I have to use self defense
- in your own home? very few prosecutors would pursue this and fewer juries convict it. I have incredibly little trust in the carceral justice system but even I can believe this will end in your favor

> if cops do something unsavory
- camera won't stop them and it won't get them punished either. it *might* help turn it into a big media event which long-term may help erode these powers. but it won't help you.

> someone breaks in or damages car
- evidence for what? again this is an insurance claim, and the damage itself is sufficient evidence for this. the police may or may not pursue the damager but either way you still have a broken car, and still get your insurance payout. why care?

It may cheap in terms of money but it does not cost nothing. It normalizes surveillance and fear, and reinforces our natural inclinations towards distrust and retribution. These things are understandably tempting but we are all better to the extent that we individually fight them in ourselves.
Keep in mind that from a European perspective the US has the _least secure_ elections among the countries that are considered democratic. Even some of the non-democratic countries have better elections.
Not so sure about that, for the first time in my adult life (I'm in my early 40s, I've been reading the "serious" print media on and off for about 20 years now) I saw a magazine like The Economist seriously suggesting that the State governors ignoring a Supreme Court decision might actually happen and, on top of that (and the thing which made it interesting for me), that there was nothing wrong with that (or at least that seemed like the subtext of the article to me).

Again, this was the first time for me reading in a MSM entity that a decision/action that would de facto mean the (at least) partial dissolution of the idea of the United States would not mean the end of the world.

Dark times ahead.

(if it matters I'm not from the US nor have I set foot in there, but I do love the country and I have been trying to read the most that I could find when it came to its history and its institutions).
It's true you can do something similar with Lambda, but our architecture is much better suited to do this efficiently, especially in the case of scripts that aren't invoked very often.

This is a new product in the very early stages, which requires a high-touch feedback cycle with our early customers. You can expect once it's further along, you'll be able to sign up for it without talking to us first, and the pricing will be better than Lambda.
Was Google Sheets not viable for their purposes? This is a hilarious title btw.
I've seen Figure 2 in that document in other places -- and I think it's deceptive.

If you look closely, the range of the US M109A6 is longer than the competing Russian pieces. It is greatly outranged by Russian MLRS, but NATO has MLRS too, just they aren't on that slide.

That said, Russian artillery seems to have been effective in the 2022 actions of the Russia-Ukraine war, at least against civilian targets.
The 1% smartest people in the userbase, who often are also relative ad resistant, aren't an audience YouTube (or any other large publisher) is going to cater to with active effort. At best they'll tolerate it benignly or as a reputation booster.
Any place with a devops team would not disable that.
I don’t think the word “arbitrage” applies when there is high risk.
I don’t support abortion in the case of rape or incest, under the concern that it will simply be a check box that gets ticked to allow all abortion.

From an ethical standpoint, the unborn child has a right to life that is not invalidated by the means or character of their parents.

Unless of course you’re arguing from a eugenics point of view, but I doubt that’s the angle you’re coming from. The two major exceptions I see are:

1) medical experts determine the life of the mother is in danger, such that the child will kill the mother.

2) scientific, repeatable evidence shows the fetus is non viable
I dont follow. Your link shows 65% support for the amendment. what am I missing?
Yeah, this was a really big edge for the USA, not having to rebuild a second time in 40 years after massive wars that killed a majority of your working men. And you got to keep all the scientists (operation paperclip), and take reparations in technology transfers (250K ton break presses used in aircraft manufacturing).
Panic Nova. Serif Affinity suite.

Edit: Nova is arguably a subscription in some respects, there is an optional support & upgrade path for a fee, but the app works just fine without it.

https://nova.app/

https://affinity.serif.com/
We're all-in on zinc oxide for sunscreen (90%+ of the time avoiding other chemical alternatives).

I don't know if the *-benzones or the other ingredients actually pose any health risks to humans and I doubt the risk is greater than the risk of melanoma after sunburn. But it doesn't cost us much extra to stick to a single ingredient, it's something we already smear on our kids all the time (as Desitin), and it's only slightly more inconvenient to apply without looking like a spooky ghost, so why not?
Independent of the insanity that is the npm ecosystem, the API design skill of handling invalid input in a bug-resistant way is important. If somebody sent me a code review with isEven implemented as "typeof x !== “number” ? false : x % 2 === 0" I'd tell them to fix it.
What necessitates the transcoding? Is your TV unable to support some formats?
This is why I use YT logged out in a browser and NewPipe. NewPipe also has a much better UX with more customization than YT's own app. I also only ever use YT/NewPipe when I'm searching for something specific.

I've never got into YT as an entertainment platform, so I'm probably an outlier. If I'm watching something entertaining on there, it's because it was recommended outside the platform by a friend on social media or chat. I ignore everything recommended by the service. It's trash by default.
I suppose it depends on how the dislikes are used. If dislikes are not public info, but feed into the algorithm governing your content feed, that seems to be a very different use than what you are complaining about. (Though, how your complaining is in effect different from a dislike somewhat eludes me.)
Microsoft’s Adaptive Accessories are designed to be customizable inputs
That's not the case, but I don't see your logic either.

There are far more than 1000 YouTube channels putting out good content. Far more than 10,000 perhaps. Why would I subscribe to a junk channel? I subscribe to topics or people I liked. Many put out a video or two a year. Some put out a video or two a day. I end up with perhaps about 100 videos a day to skim through the thumbnails/titles of, watch a handful.. happy days.

I'm confused why you'd think I'd watch every video in the first place. Do you follow every single link on HN or read every single tweet in your timeline? I mean, I don't.. and couldn't.
Equating the responses to the 2016 and 2020 elections is nonsense, most specifically because the loser in 2016 conceded. Yes, she may have blamed a host of other people besides herself, but she conceded, and the previous administration assisted with the peaceful transfer of power.

Compare that with the 2020 election, where the loser is still going on national tours saying how the election was stolen and rigged after trying to get the result overturned, and many in his party believe him, and worse, many leaders in his party privately comment that this is all bullshit but publicly are silent or support his narrative.
Modern rovers just use RTGs and avoid the problem all together. Ingenuity couldn't and had to use solar panels but was mostly planned as a test craft so the accumulation problem would happen long after it achieved it's mission goals so it wouldn't cause a mission failure.

All of the rovers start with a fairly small mission and it gets extended as it provides good science and congress/NASA finds money to continue to staff the support teams and get time on the Deep Space Network.
That's a more charitable (and more reassuring) interpretation than "developers don't know the modulo operator".

That said, it still leaves a sour taste as this effectively implies that a certain set of JS developers is very happy to abuse their (maybe initially rightfully earned) prestige to gain even more prestige while leaving behind a mess for the whole ecosystem. I don't understand why this is tolerated. The Node community needs to have a serious discussion about why certain packages are allowed to spread garbage, create forks of the relevant packages that rip out "is-even" etc. and then eventually converge to these forks. But to this day, I don't see the community taking this problem seriously enough.

Now, supply chain attacks and "too many dependencies" are a potential issue for every language with dependency management (see also log4j, etc.), but no other ecosystem seems to be have such a high frequency of issues and (widely used) "is-even" packages are simply not a thing in any other mainstream language (some languages, like Swift, include similar functionality in the standard library, which is totally fair).
Russia had the brute force power to destroy Ukraines air force.

But somehow, Russia did not. There are lots of rumors floating around, the biggest of which is that Russian long range cruise missiles have far less accuracy than was once assumed.

So if Russia launches 300 missiles at the start of the war (and they did do something close to that), only 180 would find their target. That's 120 radar systems or airplanes that should have been disabled by the Russian plans, but somehow we're not (either Ukrainian anti missile defense, or maybe incompetence from the Russians)

Of the 180 targets that were hit, how many were out of date information and just empty space? It is clear that the Russian battle maps are extremely old, and that they are targeting locations of old Ukrainian bases that have long been abandoned.

Etc. Etc .

Suddenly, that 300 missile salvo doesn't look very good or useful. Far fewer targets were destroyed than expected, and the Ukrainian air force continued to fly and counterattack.
Travian. Figure out how many troop to send after receiving spy report
Could you point to a source for someone being executed for owning a gun? Unless of course you were just being extremely hyperbolic to bring up something completely unrelated to the discussion.
The connection to the constitution was a lot more clear in the case of interracial or gay marriage than that of Roe.
For Roe it took the 14th amendment:

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

This was intepreteted in Roe to mean abortion bans are OK in the 1st trimester, conditional in the 2nd, and prohibited in the 3rd trimester.

Loving took this and said that means interracial couples and gays get equal legal protection and treatment to everyone else.
The biggest performance factor I've seen is sufficient SSD storage, even on older computers.
Question: do you generally use YouTube signed out? Asking because this doesn't resemble my experience at all. Just glancing at my YouTube main page I see people to whom I subscribe, other similar channels, and stuff I've watched without subscribing, like machining how-tos and stuff like that.
‘Look at That Thing ’ U.S. Navy Jet Encounters Unknown Object
> US is literally build on slavery and genocide

the south sure was, but the north? is that not a topic of the civil war?
When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression, whether leveling up or down.
The bit about getting a handgun permit is completely untrue. You can buy a handgun over-the-counter in California with no more than the normal waiting period and safety test (multiple choice test you take every five years. If you meant a handgun concealed carry permit being nearly impossible, well---yeah that's true in most of California with the exception being Orange County (practically shall issue).
It's not idiotic. It's to prevent automatic sign-ins, sign-in requests etc. especially from hidden iframes.

"User must interact with page for features to become active" is a very common way to deal with quite a few things in various browsers, not just Safari.
Apple's model leads to computer with keyboards whose keys fall off, because they design for surface-lecel appeal and disregard customer desires for the product.
The caption for that first image says that it impacted at "approximately 78 mph (126 kph)".
It brings me great joy to see the retail displays of flytraps in little plastic terrarium containers. Not many of the plants will thrive, but they get to see and be places that they'd never have been otherwise.

All we need now is someone to engineer mobility into them.
I tend to ignore the "endless screeching", and I've long had an optimistic world view somewhat aligned with say Steven Pinker -- we're living through the best times, roughly monotonic progress, with some temporary setbacks.

But this recent video by Ray Dalio made me think a lot, and led me to his books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

He did a bunch of quantitative research and came up with a model for the prosperity of countries, and "the world order".

In the model, there were 4 world leaders at various points: Dutch, British, Americans, and Chinese. The basic pattern is that they were productive and industrious, gained military power, and grew to hold the world's reserve concurrency.

After they hold the world's reserve concurrency, they stop being as productive. The rich parents can bend the rules and corrupt society for their kids.

And there is more internal conflict about how to divvy up a fixed or declining pie. There can be more external conflict once rivals see weakness. In Dalio's view, China is obviously on the rise economically, and you also see signs of their increased military power.

There is more to it than that -- see the video and books, but that's my short summary.

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It sounds a little too "clean", but after some reflection, a lot of it is hard to argue with. (I'd definitely be interested in criticisms -- this presentation / framing is pretty new.)

This doesn't mean America is "collapsing". But I would now say it's clearly "declining". Our energies are directed more at fighting amongst ourselves than producing things.

It always boggled my mind that everything we buy is made in China -- how could that not have an effect? Well it does appear that having the world's reserve concurrency is a huge advantage. That was established long ago, before we were born, and now we're coasting off of it.

But then again, Britain and the Netherlands "declined" and they seem to be doing OK. They lost their empires, but they recovered to some degree of civilized society and prosperity.

And I'm pretty sure I would not want to live in China right now, e.g. especially with what I hear about the COVID lockdowns. (even though I'm ethnically Chinese)

But yeah I think I need to take the idea of decline a lot more seriously. I think the blog post is also "overcorrecting" from the screeching. I think what decline looks like is a bunch of little collapses in all areas of life, and people endlessly arguing about it, while doing little to correct it.
40k is a full time minimum wage job where I live. Does the middle class really consist of just everyone who is fully employed?
What Is Happening to the People Falling for Crypto and NFTs
JSON doesn't have undefined, only null

the partial updates approach works ok for updating 'schemaful' data, where it could only ever mean to set the field to null and could never delete the field from the object altogether

but for editing a JSON document or other schemaless data then both operations are possible and you'd need to be able to distinguish them
The Sound of Bells – The acoustics, sound, tuning and history of church bells
Regular isNaN is very tricky, and almost never what you want: it first coerces its input to a Number, and then checks if that is NaN:

isNaN Number.isNaN
----- ------------
{} true false
[true] true false
undefined true false
"{}" true false
They may have thought G meant thousand. That’s not what I thought but it’s the only number that I could think of. Didn’t think it could mean a billion.
How common is oxybenzone (or octinoxate for that matter) currently? Just a couple years ago it seemed to be in nearly every container of sunscreen (and all the articles I can find about it were from then), as I actively tried to avoid it. I went looking for sunscreen just last week, and I literally didn't see it listed once, even in the most commodity brands like Banana Boat and Sun Bum.
Intel Alder Lake HX: 16-Core Desktop CPUs in Notebook Clothing