skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the US government stopped collecting taxes, that would heavily devalue the dollar. The dollar is the official currency of several other countries so it wouldn't go to zero, unless they too stopped collecting taxes. Of course, even if that happened, there would be some value, because by US law, the dollar is legal tender, which means offering a third party a US dollar should be sufficient to settle any debts. Of course, as the dollar is also no longer useful to any third party, more and more dollars would be demanded as the value slowly fell to zero.

But yes, if the US stopped collecting taxes, the dollar would heavily devalue, and eventually reach zero

In general, the value of fiat currency comes from how useful it is in satiating the demands of the government backing it. Usually, that is taxes, but there are a few other ways fiat is used that have to be taken into account (judgements, etc)
- Scratch

- Swift

- Python

- C[++]

- Javascript

- NetLogo (maybe)
ESP32 device to forward SMS 2FA codes to Zapier, Slack, etc.
I am predicting stagflation like Japan for the next few years.
That's why I always salt my one-word searches with a prepending random string.
I concur, which I think is ironic since I think Javascript is a terrible language.

And I don't say that lightly, because I view most programming languages as being pretty much on par. They're all fine; the differences are more about framework and support than the language in itself. Javascript is one of the few languages so poorly thought out and so badly evolved that I actually say it's a bad language.

And yet it's ubiquitous, easy to learn, and (after decades) has reached a point where you can mostly step around the worst of the landmines. I'd even say that Typescript is pretty good, though it's probably best for a first-timer to be able to skip that.
It's so dumb. Since I live in a different market from my favorite team, I can watch every game they play, unless it involves a local team. :-|
> Think also a bit about who is benefitting and making money from instigating this type of jealousy

I'll bite. Who? Who has the money, power, and motivation to secretly manipulate the pliable masses to turn against the billionaires, for their own nefarious ends?
> has nice hair and is able to conceal his rampaging cocaine habit long enough to make himself too big to fail?

You are indoctrinated into believing that democracy cannot work and good government is impossible.
Dude, you have to respond to these comments. I'm dying to know. That is the most dystopian thing I've heard of coming from the land of "socialized medicine is the panacea".
The actual value being locked up is surely held by the cult, not the owner of the rock? They're the ones who claim to have a bn to spend on a rock after all, the other guy just has a rock. Why can't the cult spend their money on something better than the rock in the first place?

In actuality it's not a rock of course. For a founder of a company the situation is more like you've spent most of your life building something you believe in and suddenly you have to sell it because a group of strangers believe that your thing is worth more money than you've ever seen in your life, and the government wants taxes based on that belief. That seems fundamentally unfair and wrong at least to me.
There are three things going on.

The reality on the ground as portrayed by the media doesn't match the actuality at all.

There is also the perspective of your racist light tech bro that grew up in a traditional racially segregated upper class white neighborhood. That is super annoyed with having to live amongst blacks, Hispanics, and step over random ne'er-do-wells.

Then there are the very wealthy real estate interests who think if only you could push up the blacks, Hispanics, and scruffy looking people they would be even wealthier.
> Not to mention "simple" stuff like circumcision.

You might have stumbled upon the real reason for this seemingly inexplicable delay in accepting that infants can feel pain: The circumcision industry. Presumably some doctors feared that parents would think twice about it if they knew that their son would be in agony (or need expensive painkillers) when undergoing that elective surgery.

https://www.endalldisease.com/baby-foreskin-in-cosmetics-the...
This is timely, I just wrote about good first languages yesterday [1].

In short, Python / JS for quickest to pick up and make something cool. Rust if you’re interested in learning how computers work.

[1] https://blog.basedcount.com/choosing-your-first-language/
I was going to reply the same. Heck, you don't even have to actually be European if you just read what protections you have in other places.
Wildy premature conclusion based on a psychological impression of one over-optimistic tech guy.

We might have, one day, come close to a synthetic Philosophical Zombie [1].

But not today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
Anyone getting an abortion (at least an invasive late term abortion that isn't just induced miscarriage) is going to have some form of anesthesia administered. Since they share a bloodstream, giving general anesthetic to the mother also anesthetizes the fetus. Whether local shares an effect or not I think depends on the type, but it is usually administered along with a sedative. It appears from this that most sedatives other than muscle relaxers will also sedate the fetus, but whether local anesthetic crosses the placenta depends on a lot of things: https://www.openanesthesia.org/placental_transfer_anesth_dru...

Here is a study of how effective various forms of anesthesia are for abortions, but it's not going to tell you the prevalence with which each form is actually used: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK561096/

Unfortunately, for various reasons, there is quite a bit of need for privacy on both the patients and the providers parts as the act of getting or performing an abortion will make you a target in a lot of places.
I get plenty from Amazon but there are whole categories of products I won't buy there because of poor confidence that I'll receive a genuine product.
I don't think anyone who says a billionaire shouldn't have power also believes that someone born into the right family should have power. Ideally those in power should be democratically elected by the people they hold power over and be protected from lobbying attempts by wealthy individuals.

Someone like Elon Musk having political influence is a bad thing because he's raging capitalist that can, will, and does exploit those below him. It's why he has such a love for his Chinese labour force. They have less rights and they will work 16 hour days in his factory making the cars that make him money.

Elon Musk is great as a wealthy private businessman, that's where capitalism firmly belongs. But he has no place in any sort of politics. Countries aren't run like businesses.
Lua is one more option to consider - simple syntax and environment like https://love2d.org/ look kid-friendly.
Same. The only category of products where I've personally encountered a fake was SD cards, and that's a large problem everywhere online. That's the only thing i buy now directly from manufacturer-authorized retailers. Idk if that's even common, because I've only gotten a fake once out of many times i ordered sd cards.

Everything else? I've been buying all sorts of stuff from amazon, from electronics/hardware to clothing to furniture to almost anything you can think of, and not once was it fake. Before anyone asks how I know they weren't fake, most of them came with a "register on the manufacturer's website to get extended warranty/extra stuff" unique serial number, and i was able to do so just fine. Ofc that doesn't apply to everything I bought, because not every product allows registering itself on manufacturer's website. But for those that don't, I haven't noticed a single sign of fake/counterfeit items.

Ofc this is all just anecdata and isn't an evidence of anything. But i gotta say, as others have mentioned, their extremely easy and efficient return process definitely makes my decision-making efforts much easier.
> If you think billionaires should exist at all

That's a big "if". It's pretty dang hard to amass that much wealth without robbing the people around you.

That's indeed pretty generous severance-wise, but that $110,000,000 happens to be enough to keep each and every one of those laid-off employees on the payroll for another year (assuming $100k/year salary).
This doesn't answer your question, but I thought it was worth sharing in the broader context and actually changes the figures we're looking at just a bit.

>The problem? Thorough reviews of medical evidence reject the idea that fetuses can actually feel pain at 20 weeks. They don't fully develop the proper neurological structures to feel pain until later, around 29 to 30 weeks in the third trimester.[1]

>The bigger problem? There's really no such thing as "fetal anesthesia" in standard medical practice. And the law doesn't specify how doctors are supposed to make it happen.[1]

So now, goalposts have shifted to pain not being present until 29+ weeks, which is the third trimester.

>Abortions at or after 21 weeks are uncommon, and represent 1% of all abortions in the US.[2]

Which means that the question you're asking pertains to likely less than 1% of abortions in the US, rather than 10%.

[1]https://www.vox.com/2016/3/30/11331414/utah-abortion-anesthe...

[2]https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/fact-sheet/abortion...
A handful of niche subreddits

A handful of niche Facebook groups

Twitter (not sure if you would classify it as a "forum" ... but it can act as one)
Lua on the Pico-8 Fantasy Console. It's easy to work with, has a built in editor, and it's very easy to make games in. I think it's a fantastic environment to learn programming with. What kid doesn't want to make a game? :)

Lazy Devs on youtube is currently producing a "Making a Shmup" tutorial that is very "from the basics" as well.
> If they are low get on TRT

This blanket advice is a bit dangerous. Once on a test cruise for longer than a couple months, it's a lifelong commitment. Low testosterone has a LOT of input variables. You need to know your cortisol, your LH, your FSH, your E2 and SHBG, your TSH, and T3/T4 levels as well.

Some men can be fixed with stress reduction methods, some can be fixed with interventions that increase gonadotropins, like clomiphene or HCG. Sometimes you need to inhibit aromatization into estradiol. Sometimes you just need to lift heavy weights.

Check all your hormones, because your HPTA is not a one-variable function. Then decide on a course of action.

Hitting up Big Mike in the locker room for 500mg test cyp because your testosterone is low is a bit premature.
- The most common side effects associated with Olumiant include:

upper respiratory tract infections, headache, acne, high cholesterol (hyperlipidemia), increase of an enzyme called creatinine phosphokinase, urinary tract infection, liver enzyme elevations, inflammation of hair follicles (folliculitis), fatigue, lower respiratory tract infections, nausea, genital yeast infections (Candida infections), anemia, low number of certain types of white blood cells (neutropenia), abdominal pain, shingles (herpes zoster) and weight increase.

- Olumiant comes with a boxed warning for serious infections, mortality, malignancy, major adverse cardiovascular events and thrombosis.
I see a lot of comments like "Putin will never attack Eastern European/Nordic countries". No. Some information about the main topic of internal Russian propaganda for the last month:

- Russia must return all lands that once belonged to it

- Russia must solve "the Ukrainian question"

- the west is our enemy, Russia have reliable allies in the east

- Putin is the reincarnation of Peter the Great (hello Finland and Sweden)

Any peace talks or "business as usual" will lead to a new war in a few years against Poland, Finland, etc. and more blood and refugees. This is how an authoritarian, fascist militaristic state works.
>Billionaires provide value as alternate sources of power to the state.

You haven't yet figured out that all institutions and corporations are merely instruments of the monied classes?
Pretty much. I often wonder where people find positions claimed on the internet where they're working 2-3 hours a day. I've increasingly throughout my career saw more and more slack evaporate to a point it's almost nonexistent.

I always wondered why people complained about how much time certain aspects took up they could automate away and my question was always: well, once you automate away that nice simple task, what do you do with the extra time? You created more slack and someone's going to come looking to fill that void the second they're aware. And the new task is going to be more difficult until you get to sets of tasks so cognitively intense and complex you can't simply automate them away. Then your day is filled with incredibly challenging stressful work.

I have no issue with doing complex work, I've spent my career doing it. What I have issue with is the amount of such work I can do in any given time span. At some point I need a break where I do something simple and mundane. Continous complex problem solving is the road to burnout. You'll be greeted by more and more failure and lack of visible progress combined with ever increasing stress levels.

If you're an entrepreneur, small business owner, or manager looking to optimize your labor force then you may want the opposite. You want more time to focus on the complex and the more simple you can automate, the better or if you have a workforce, you want your highest comped individuals focusing on the most optimally complex tasks they're capable of handling. You don't want your Fellow level engineer refilling the coffee maker because it's empty or implementing some basic features on some UI, go back to inventing new algorithms, math, or building new technology... but people need those nice relaxing breaks and slack, they can't run at their best constantly.
For me, I am convinced that they create jobs, spend money in the economy, help provide valuable goods and services to society, etc. Amazon is famous for not hoarding money but re-investing their profits. Most 401ks invest in index funds that are buoyed by the tech stocks. I don't have ready citations but I believe these to be relatively uncontroversial statements. This whole talk about "net positive" and what is "net" is a pointless discussion that is going nowhere. There is no way to prove anything unless we have an alternative universe without Amazon to study.

What sort of citation will make you happy?
It doesn't need to challenge NFL or NBA for there to be a lot of success and money made all around. The potential room for growth for MLS is massive in comparison with the other established big leagues that already have reached a saturation point have have less room to grow.

This is why the NHL has spent the last few decades starting up hockey teams in the American South where there's few fans instead of say, Saskatoon, where there'd be a legion of fans. In Saskatoon it's a small market and you'd already be top dog with no growth. In Phoenix you may never reach the other leagues, but even if you can move viewership by a few percentage points, the size of the market ensures massive gains.
Specifically from a Finnish perspective:

Russia has a weird imperialist interest in Finland. Our history can largely be summarized as "trying to cope with living next to Russia, with varying degrees of success". From the dawn of history, until Napoleonic wars, there was an invasion from the east every generation or two. The invasions only stopped after Sweden lost Finland to Russia. After Finland gained independence, it took only 22 years before there was another invasion.

The Cold War and the decades after the collapse of the USSR were the exception. We had a lifetime of peace and prosperity by leaning to the West while maintaining good relations with Russia. But that is over for now, as Putin no longer cares about having good relations with anyone. Russia is big, it's next to us, and it has become unpredictable again. Dealing with that takes priority.
Yeah, mine have persisted all day along for as long as I can remember... I guess I'm not the stereotypical hyperactive, but when it comes to the attention span it does fit me a glove.

I should probably get it checked. Thing is I'm afraid of "faking it", if it makes any sense?
Side note on Heroku: they've been very aggressively upgrading old app dependencies this week (I've had ~9 apps go down for mandatory Postgres maintenance in the last 24h, with almost no notice for some of them). With how little information they've given regarding this incident, I can't help but wonder if it's related.
a not in-depth definition would be a 1 sentence definition of a hash map with probably give me an example of when you might want to use it.

an in-depth definition would be that, followed by how you implement a hash map (thus if your language of choice already has a hash map, don't use that but show us how you would implement this classic data structure), how do you avoid collisions, maybe discuss some various ways that you could implement it and what the tradeoffs are. This would be you 'understand!!' what a hashmap is, like deeply. (I hope my tone makes clear I do not advocate for this)

on edit: I think it seems you might actually be advocating for this deep definition? If so, probably you are working at relatively low level?

on edit 2: for example if you were using Python you might say a hash map is a dict, and talk about how to use dict, the in-depth definition would not allow this. Which I think is what the other posters were worried about, being asked not to use your language's implementation of the concept but go lower and show you can make the whole thing.
Thank you for the links, looks like something definitely worth checking out, especially the name of the whole series "Simple Code, High Performance" because it sounds like the core of my approach to writing code.

"non-pessimization" is my most loved technique because a design reduced to the minimum amount of necessary work and abstractions is more often than not has better performance and is easier to reason about.
> Jeff Bezos can get an audience with any Congressperson, any State governor, most countries's heads of state and probably the President of the US, with a telephone call

Can he?
ADHD is not a disease. Expecting children to pay attention to boring adults is. A good portion of teachers are incredibly unanimated and boring. They should not be teaching ADHD kids.

Look, my mother has ADHD (or something like it), and she had no problem teaching the (mostly boys) in her class with ADHD. A few even went off their meds in her class. Unfortunately, the next year, they were put right back on with a new teacher.
I wonder if it's really (or entirely) a financial investment. If was me paying 14.4 million euros, it would be because it's an emotional investment.
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i understood the statement

there are plenty of problems love, support, and teamwork can't fix

to imply that love, support, and teamwork are not always what is needed to fix a problem. and that the solution is elsewhere.

but at least when it comes to problems that affect the family and the relationship, without love, support, and teamwork nothing can be fixed. only if you have love, support, and teamwork then you can find a solution. they are a necessary condition.

i think in the further discussion we reached a common understanding that this doesn't mean that love, support, and teamwork are sufficient. they don't make the problem just go away. sometimes the solution requires further action, or outside help. nor does it mean that the love and support of one partner can solve the problems of the other on their own, but rather it is the process of collaboration and consultation of the partners with each other combined with love and support by both that enables the finding and implementation of a solution.

one thing that may have lead to the confusion is that to me, the teamwork part already implies that there is more work being done to solve a problem. love and support alone can help address a problem without hurting the relationship further, but teamwork then makes it go away. to me it implies all the work being done to solve the problem.
I technically got 3 months of severance when covid started, however after taxes it reduced it to 1 month. That was so depressing.
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many may be too young to remember but Eddie Lampert did this with Sears in the 80s and 90s as a thinly veiled attempt to turn the company into some kind of obscure land broker. It did not end well, and serves to this day as a textbook example of ideology eclipsing principled, well researched business decisions.

in the article Bloomberg attempts to invent reasons this practice is dicey for Amazon that dont involve "you arent a real estate company" but fall short. the regulatory landscape they paint simply doesnt exist in the places (texas) they want to buy land.

the real reason is likely to prevent competitors from setting up their own warehouses, as Lampert frequently did the same thing by buying out anchors and real estate in an attempt to funnel customers back into sears during its declining era as it was being bled dry by VC style profit chicanery that doesnt involve store refreshes or new markets.
We're achieving on this thread levels of boot-licking previously considered entirely theoretical
It's somewhat different.

Oil is, unfortunately, used everywhere. As you say, inflation due to high oil prices can kill people. And do you know what else can kill people? Starvation due to lower crop yields due to sudden lack of fertilisers. Ask Sri Lanka how their sudden ban on fertilisers went to see what happens when suddenly a country is forced to switch to fertiliserless agriculture.

The results from high fertiliser prices and lack of availability are drastically worse than high oil prices.
C is harder than Python, and Scratch to C is quite a jump to make, so maybe those last two should be the other way around. But I do agree that they expose different aspects of programming.
> a federation of states like the USA would probably work better than the current setup where a short guy from Moscow is sending Buryat boys to die in a country they haven't seen before

Excuse my ignorance… but how is it different from a tall guy from Connecticut sending, I dunno, Montana boys to die in a country they haven't even heard of? I'm just trying to understand the difference.
What's the difference from regular photogrammetry?
Compass’ stock was trading at $4.42 per share midday, down from a 52-week high of $17.70. Redfin’s shares were down to $8.16, compared to a 52-week high of $65.41. Its market cap is $874 million, while Compass is currently valued at $1.885 billion.