skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are mixing his income with the increase in his net worth. Those are not the same thing. The $175 millions are the increase of the value of his stocks. Until he sells those stocks, he earns a total of $0.

You can't really tax "increase in net worth", because net worth can - and does fluctuate both positively and negatively, As opposed to income which just accumulate more or less linearly.

Imagine Jeff Bezos stock has a perfect seasonal effect: on odds years, he gains $1 billion and on even years, he loses that amount. We can all agree here that Jeff sin't getting any richer, on average and thus should not be taxed since he is not getting any stable income. Yet you would want to tax him, every odd year, on the $1 billion - which is unfair, unless you also give him back that tax money every even year. This means firing those workers and asking them to give back their undue wage - which you can't do of course.

The way we solve this is by not taxing the increase in net worth, until he does actually sell the stock and converts this increase in stock value into what is called realized gains. At that point, his net worth won't fluctuate anymore since he sold the stock for cold hard cash. And we tax him on that cash amount. You might argue that we should tax him more on those realized gains - which is fair discussion point.

But trying to impose a tax on virtual net worth increase is a quite risky path because you would also need to pay billionaires when their stock portfolio decreases. And although everyone wants to tax billionaire when you hear about them having a fantastic month on the stock market (even tho these gains haven't been realized yet), but no one want to send them money when a headline says "$25 billion wiped out in a single day" (and rightfully so).
Except that in the US it just takes some health issue to put you in debt for years/life. Or that to exist in the US you are required to buy a car and so on, since it has a third world public transportation system.

The pont being that you can still have somewhat higher life standards with less purchasing power but a stronger social state.
I’ll add that for casual usage, the iOS ecosystem has been very enjoyable to use after I’ve gotten over the initial shock and have learned some tricks. Many tasks feel very natural and easy for every day usage. When I need to get some serious work done though I am much more productive with a keyboard and mouse. I have an iPad Mini 6 that I put into a case which gives me a usable keyboard and trackpad, and for me it has turned the iPad into a killer small portable device that gives me a nice blend of casual consumption device plus a real productivity device.
Bun's Priorities
For peace of mind I'd go with the connector, which should be sturdier and doesn't dictate a board thickness.

The one I use starts at $0.27 for 1, and goes down with bulk pricing:

https://lcsc.com/product-detail/USB-Connectors_Korean-Hropar...
Cheap stuff, including Google's software solutions running on 'commodity hardware', won't handle that. You get what you pay for.

Sounds like the downside of the "pets versus cattle" methodology is that natural phenomenon will wipe out your entire herd, while the pets survive.
Capital dividends and interest payments are proportional to how many assets you own. Profit pays interest and dividends. People pay for profits in the form of higher prices.

Consumers who spend a majority of their income on food, energy and housing are paying more in than they get back because the income they receive from assets is smaller than their living expenses aka the income share of labor is less than 100%.

Imagine being so rich that you can live off dividends, there is no reason for your wealth accumulation to ever stop. The amount you pay into the economy is much lower than the income you derive from your assets.

This is the reason why there is a constant flow of money toward the top. When you think about how a market economy worksy the above is completely illogical. The entire point of markets is to trade which means those who have too much give to those who have too little in exchange for monetary compensation.

Why doesn't the same happen with money? Why isn't money flowing from those who have too much to those who have too little in exchange for their labor?

Instead, those who have too much get more and those who have too little get less, this is highly inefficient.
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> because capitalism favors maximizing profit and considering tolerances too wide as an expense.

Lack of foresight isn't exclusive to capitalism. Would socialist data centres be built to handle temperatures several degrees above the highest ever recorded temperature?

Even in a socialist economy, building systems with an excessively high tolerances would be seen as a poor allocation of resources.

It could be equally argued that capitalism favours private companies like Google ensuring their DCs are as fault tolerant as possible, to ensure they have a competitive advantage. There's also plenty of cases where companies sell unnecessary and excessive goods and services to maximise their own profit.

> and being done with it potentially forever if its made to be repairable/upgradeable

DC cooling systems are repairable and upgradable. They're a far cry from a residential split system AC unit.
I wonder how a week of low dose amphetamine usage, like adderall, might help disrupt no-motivation mood loops. A friend of mine (cycling through many antidepressants) seems like he would respond well to this. As in, he would feel better and be able to “shift gears.” Not to get more work done, but say, enjoy going to an art museum. And feel what it is like to be enthusiastic again.
My two cents: if you have to use `python -m pip` because it might be the wrong pip or something like that, if you have multiple versions of python and you don't know which one you're using, it means you have a mess in your system, and you're probably going to cry sooner or later regardless of whether you use `python -m`. If there is confusion, `which pip` can help.

As for upgrading pip in Windows, that's a silly argument. When I want to upgrade pip, I will use `python -m`, no need to use it all the time.

Yes, it's a pain to keep your Pythons in order. We can use pyenv and the like. I wish there was a better way and it's unfortunate, but at the moment it's what it is, and having to use `python -m` is only a sign that you don't have control over your own system.
I think what you're looking for is called bitemporality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitemporal_modeling).

It allows you to query a system (some databases support this) in a temporal context. This is useful in financial services where you have market data baked into a price you've offered to a client, where the underlying market data might have been later corrected by a vendor.

So you can query how the world looked last tuesday 4pm; but also - given what we now know, how ought the world have looked last tuesday 4pm.

Interesting stuff.
Songsmith! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E
As for getting people to join. LEAVE THE APPLE WALLED GARDEN. After that it's entirely as easy as sticking up QR codes of equivalent.

I'm not talking about working within the system. Buy crypto, and with it rent a self hosted NON CHINESE SERVER, not a website, and do your best to keep the box accessible to known popular not yet banned VPN used in China, for the day when the firewall gets you.

Again, with regard to getting people to join these servies, if people aren't willing to sacrifice some minor discomfort of not using the WeChat interface, they're hardly likely to stand next to you in a street protest.

Yes if you want to start a large viral movement you have to dress it up a little, improve the chinese locale or fix some UI issues, but this is massively easier than starting from a text editor or compiler on a remote box. But if you just want to go viral, use WeChat, get a knocked off account or 10 and expect that knock on the door when they turn up because you're protesting _WITHIN_ the system.

Again, VPN are massively technical but hugely popular even in mainland China (I've known enough Chinese apple users to even know this is the case). People are capable of following "click here" instructions better than most people imagined, otherwise technophobes wouldn't have social media.
Some senior core developers were definitively let go, though, e.g. David Baron (who is now working for Google on Chrome instead).
Most people read these things because it feels good to read them, not because it provides any lasting benefit.

It makes sense that these productivity entertainment books include the simplest, least controversial ideas only. Anything else would reduce the size of their TAM.
One guy becomes the exec, decides to up the prices a bit, gets promoted. Next come in, decides to up the prices a bit, gets promoted...

There's no reason it isn't just an interminable series of short term steps.
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You can't recover where your references were but all the objects (anything with a SHA1) are still there.
> shipping code that I don't know how it works, but it passes tests

We call that machine learning
Does that mean that he can get in trouble if he lies?
You're forgetting Ukraine.
> Putting a sprinkler next to the condensor (outside) unit is a hack.

However, water companies have been telling people to reduce water usage during the heat wave since demand is higher than usual, so this may not be a great idea.
Environments don't help you if you want to use different versions of Python.
> why can prices not serve to regulate people's consumption (beyond a certain minimum human right to have a certain amount of water available for subsistence)

You said it yourself in the same sentence. It's a subsistence need, which makes the politics especially acute.

There are places with pay-per-use water metering, both in western and non-western countries, but I've not heard of any that have a basic allowance or dual-rate system such that a "normal" amount is cheap and higher amounts are more expensive. Nor have I seen this for electricity.

> How about agriculture?

California prioritizes agriculture over residents because agriculture has concentrated political power.
6. You are paid an amount for every hour of being on-call. This should be on top of your base pay.

This is important. If you are on-call, you do not have the freedom that you would otherwise have and you should be compensated for this.
SSRIs appear to work through the vagus nerve in a similar way to psychobiotics. Their direct effects on neurotransmitters are probably an unwanted side-effect:

Oral selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors activate vagus nerve dependent gut-brain signalling (2019): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50807-8

Identification of SSRI-evoked antidepressant sensory signals by decoding vagus nerve activity (2021): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00615-w
The article says that.
I have a request for hacker news, in remembering Tom Lord: do you have any of his code lying around? It's hard to find. In addition to GNU arch, I know he once worked on these things:

* a c library called hackerlab

* a Scheme implementation called Pika Scheme

* a regular expression library called rx (may have been renamed to rgx)

* an embeddable VM called Furth

* a graph reduction engine/functional language runtime of some sort
> Sorry buddy, but, do not be proud of this.

This is 'Show HN', not code review. You are being excessively negative.
If I could just convince colleagues to `pull.rebase`, so CI isn't constantly building 'Merge branch master' on the master branch, I'd be happy enough.
Love it, thanks for creating it!
I suspect it wasn't that the cooling broke, but that the cooling couldn't keep up. Ie. The cooling could only remove XX kilowatts of heat, but that the equipment in a particular room was producing more than that.
The title of the story is potentially misleading. Germany is not thinking about building new power plants. It's just thinking about letting the existing ones run a little longer than originally planned.
Offloading CPU usage - and some people just love the feeling of physical equipment. Also, even if you map all controls to keyboard shortcuts, changing parameters by physical knobs is usually much faster anyway.
Meta: It's weird, it says I submitted this 3 hours ago but I was not on the phone/computer at that time. I recall submitting this at some point but it would have been yesterday or earlier.
You can make them extremely rare to non-existent. Why the US people do not jump at the opportunity is beyond me.
Burger King Austria Made Plant-Based the Default
The psychiatrists themselves don't need to do both, as doctors practicing EBM they are interested in proven results. The decision to recommend a treatment (and to accept it) is based on the pros and cons only.

What people really care about is side effects. That's one of the reasons modern pharmas are so fixated in testing old drugs for new disorders (the other reason is they might be able to get a new patent case in point when Eli Lilly made pink fluoxetine for girls with a new indication for PMS [0]).

Similarly, the best way to identify side effects is by looking at the molecule and guessing (static analysis), testing with cells, animals or other non-human biological systems (I guess this is alpha testing as we rarely think of the testers as human...), and then in human studies (early access).

Even then we roll out incrementally (phase 2), before widely testing in phase 3 and collecting feedback.

[0] https://money.cnn.com/2000/07/06/companies/lilly/
The existence of studies attesting to a link does not demonstrate causation beyond reasonable doubt.
Simple. For every operation performed by the user, you push a function to the end of a list that undoes that operation. When the user presses undo, you pop the function from the end of the list and call it.
Companies are not doing anything wrong when they are profiting off a permissive license. Its only a problem if they do something which is not in line with the license.

If people want to make money off open source, then dual licensing is a good way.

Permissively licensing code and then when companies use it as they wish (due to the permissive license), complaining about it does not look good.
Generation moonshot: why young investors are not ready to give up on risk
So escalating the war with experimental weapons is going to keep "us" safer?

Who is us?
As a 30y FF user I wish Mozilla would focus on innovation and building the very best browser to get back market share.
I think codecs are where I have most of my remaining BT annoyances.
AptX is great (but there's also AptX HD, AptX.. is it variable? etc) - and exactly which AptX is supported varies by the Qualcomm chip in your phone and the device you're connecting it to.
Or you can go with Sony's LDAC. Works great on my Pixel, once I've turned on "quality" in the Sony App, then turned on the LDAC opton that gives in my bluetooth settings (and optionally can go into the dev menu each time I connect, to adjust the bitrate).

I do like bluetooth - but working out what features will work with which devices is a PITA. It always falls back to something functional, but fallback masks a lot of improvements that could be made. Although maybe that's the right approach. It works, and if you're somebody who likes to fiddle, you can.
At least that! For a period some 40-90 years ago we had stable to decreasing prices in gas... In the United States of America :)
> Should they be doing both? I can't imagine shipping code that I don't know how it works, but it passes tests...

If that were the criteria, then we would not have medicine at all, because biological systems are so incredibly complicated, nobody understands even a tiny fraction of how a particular chemical will affect them.
It would also help to have mentally healthy streets and neighborhoods that kids and adults can safely play in. Ideally without worrying about violence of any kind.
They changed laws to allow rivers getting heated more to keep plants running. Germany won't need nuclear and we have completely different problems with our infrastructure that leads to energy going to waste. We pay Austria and Switzerland regularly to take our energy because we have too much, we stop wind turbines and disconnect solar panels because the net is overflowing. This has created an industry because these countries have pump storage plants. Granted, these are required for wind and solar power to be effective. Germany has storages too but they are not attached to the net because of old laws that would make it costly. Basically you have to pay for the energy you save AND the energy you put back into the net.

And France currently shows that nuclear isn't really a good choice for base load since they had to restrict power output due to heat. The plants are getting older and require a lot of maintenance.

Energy production of the future should not concentrate on nuclear. It cannot compete on price and environmental factors in Europe. There are other places were it would fit better.
They don't have to agree to pay you money though, or offer you service. What in the terms of service are you referring to?
Hi, great experiment. One thing I would have loved was seeing more details about each idea, like what they were about, target customer, and so on. But I also understand that it is more about the process, rather than about the ideas themselves.
Load Testing: An Unorthodox Guide
Scratch is great for learning programming for kids/people who it doesn't come naturally to.

Natural developers like myself and plenty of others spent our childhoods hunched over a zx81/spectrum/commodore/whatever because we thought it was _cool_.
I find this to be very interesting, but before that:

1) The test is aimed at older individuals (50 and older), so no, toddlers are not expected to pass it

2) This is a pop-sci article after another article; the paper is here: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2022/06/22/bjsports-2021-...

I find it very interesting as balancing on one leg logically is a full-body exercise, and thus doesn't look suspicious as a _general proxy_ of overall health. Also, this test does not require anything but willingness of the testee.

Next it's about negative feedback - standing on one leg for 10 seconds doesn't mean longer live (the linked article title is, of course, poor); and failing the test is also not a "death sentence", but rather a very clear and simple sign to the testee that "you should be exercising more, ya know".

Passing this around my elderly. And no, I won't be recommending buying anything.
Nitter mirror of the same twitter thread that this HN story links to.
"I keep trying to hire using <old model of the world> and keep coming up short in <new model of the world".

E.g: I can't hire developers! Nobody wants to work! (Actuality: Nobody wants to spend £7k/pa to commute into your central London office for no good reason)
Interesting that a stealthy design but no internal weapons bay. I wonder why that is? Are weapons bays so complex to develop?

I guess it still can be used stealthy in groups where some of the planes don't carry missiles and relay targeting information.
How many refugees in France end up in managerial roles, working alongside the grads from elite schools?
Xterm integrates perfectly in fvwm. And it does not need GB of RAM to render text.
Same, well, until they were banned here anyway.

After they were banned there was no disparagement, only "where did you get those?".
Methanol in South Africa Teens Deaths Often Fatal
Its still hypothesis without any proofs. So why another fear sensation articles?
Modern capitalism does have a built-in short-term view though. Companies can try planning ahead for decades of use, but if someone comes in and designs for a shorter term, they'll be a lower bidder and thus more likely to get the job. By the time that the short-comings are discovered, the lower bidder is long gone. The stock market also provides an incentive to just aim for short term gains at the expense of the long term.

Socialism can prioritise quick fixes or long term solutions, but it depends on the wisdom of the people involved as to whether they'll build in enough capacity to allow for future climate changes.
> Who is us?

Who you are?

I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395897
Partially true, they weren't wrong that nuclear isn't a good option though.
How does the quote relate to not wanting to work?
> I'm relatively new to python. I use venv, pip and requirements.txt. It's dead simple. What am I missing?

Compare this with Node. It always installs locally by default and always installs in node_modules regardless of which package manager you use. This is integrated into Node so you never need to modify the path like in Python. You don't have to guess whether your packages are installed in .venv, env, environ, or whatever someone else decides.

`pip` actually has a lot of issues with regards to deciding which version to use. That's why people moved to pipenv... then pipenv stagnated and people moved to poetry.

Using `requirements.txt` is dead simple but it ignores issues such as version locking. If you just add the packages you need to `requirements.txt`, then every time you install you could get a different set of packages. If you do `pip freeze > requirements.txt` then you don't know what comes from what.
If it's in the contract you sign, then it's already priced in. I don't see much value in specifically outlining which part is base and which is for oncall, if oncall is mandatory.
YT could charge people who make claims and pay people to investigate them. Wouldn't that solve the problem ?

You make a claim ? That costs $50.

You win : we refund you

You lose : we make $50

And here you go
Netmd-exploits: all the available exploits for Sony NetMD devices
Sounds like yet another argument for investing in that energy storage low-hanging fruit of thermal reservoirs. Datacenter cooling does not need a huge delta from ambient, the advantage of pumping against nighttime ambient over pumping against daytime ambient would be huge. Datacenter cooling should be dispatchable demand.
This is a point Scott Adams talks about at length in his podcasts.

"People don't have opinions. People are assigned their opinions according to their choice of media that they opted to consume."

(obviously phrased as an absolute for punchiness. the context here is "unless you're the kind of person who makes it their business to observe media on different sides and analyse the differences", which is generally the focus of his podcasts these days)
There are definitely electric and natural gas rate plans that take into account pricing for basic necessity or reasonable average use ("baseline usage") and have tiers above that.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...
I wonder if there can still be a statistical discrepancy due to the electrician favorite color.

It seems blue is strongly favored by psychology students for example : https://www.livescience.com/34105-favorite-colors.html
In the Netherlands, there is a small wealth tax. It fluctuates based on net value of holdings. Pretty straightforward, actually.

Personally, I wish the income tax for high earners could be deferred for the first year or two. It’s like, right when you are first building wealth, it goes away so fast… but then, once you got wealth, why not plan to pay a percent or two a year in tax?
There is more than one way to give positive feedback. Think of it like metric buckets. Imagine you could only rate movies out of one.

Sometimes you really like something and you want to tell the person you really liked it.

This obsession people develop about the "right" way to use upvotes and comments is inane.
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