skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The report in question doesn't say whether Texans or California's actually pay more per capita - it's entirely as a percentage of the total state tax collected

The graph shows what percentage of their income people pay towards state and local taxes.
I've always wondered why, exactly, a handful of companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google somehow dominate the internet in spite of a nearly nonexistent cost of entry into the internet and the fact that they, themselves, don't really do much - definitely not something somebody else couldn't easily do. This plays into my conspiracy theory thinking that they're so dominant because they've been propped up by entrenched government interests as long as they pay back the favors when the favors come due.
ungoogled-chromium and Bromite do it for Chromium, so it should theoretically be possible for VSCode.
Wasn’t there an article about exactly this topic a few years ago or am I crazy? Feels weird to do a tweet thread about it without even a reference to it.
On the other hands 2.4GHz is perfectly fine for a lot of people. Actually I often select 2.4GHz on purpose at home because 5GHz works really bad with thick walls and I barely get any network in my kitchen and rooftop.

People will say it is easy, setup a mesh network or some powerline adapters but:
1. It is much more expensive
2. It is not practical in an old flat with very few power outlets, especially when you are not the owner.

And I don't really run into use case where running 2.4GHz limits me.
Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods are an example of each. Many others, some entrepreneurs who post on HN, hopped out of California before taking a capital gain. I think that also might be why Amazon is in Washington, but possibly that was just sales tax and California’s large population.
> Headphone jack at the top

You're putting it in your pocket wrong.
Google is setting caps on white and Asian students for a prestigious fellowship
Oh, yes, thank you! I can't edit my comment anymore, but, yes, Rinki Sethi, apologies for the confusion.
You don't have to be all that skilled (depending on the field). You do need the money to self-petition though. Many pretty average people use the O-1.
> Same thing that happens when nation state actors decide to refine uranium to weapons grade: sanctions that kill the economy.

You can't disarm America, Russia or China's nuclear weapons like that. The example of nuclear weapons only shows that cat like this won't go back in bags. The only way you'll get countries like this to disarm and renounce a class of weapons is if those weapons were never very good in the first place (e.g. chemical weapons) or were rendered obsolete by new sorts of weapons (battleships.)
The end of the article mentions that VS Codium, while having less telemetry, still calls out to Microsoft services.

They try to remove all telemetry, read more about that here.

...

However, VSCodium can’t shut out all the data collection as it is the same codebase. And since extensions act independently with regard to data collection, you still need to be mindful of what extensions you install.
I already addressed this: all these costs are already factored into the monthly rent.

In my case I had to replace the dishwasher. I wanted a quiet one, so it ran about $1200. I bought it on credit and got 0% financing. So my housing price increases by $100 for the next year.

Now if I were renting? $2000/month. The landlord gets the absolute cheapest dishwasher they can find. It maybe runs them $300. So the landlord would be saving me ... $-475.

Paying $5700 extra a year to avoid a $300 added cost makes no sense. Paying $6000 a year in perpetuity for a one-time expense that lasts the next 20 years also makes no sense.

The point is that the tenant is not being protected from any added costs, they are paying way above market value for them.
Of course they do, they can just buy advertising to convince locals to vote against their own interests. Works quite well. See uber and Prop 22.
Bank Shot: Abe Assassin’s Wild Success
Scientists Debunk Myth About Yellowstone Wolves.

https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-debunk-myth-yellowstone-wo...
Anything far enough away to not be targeted by a ground to air missile would also probably be too far away for a drone to make a round trip. A quick Google search says even SAMs from the 1950s can hit targets over 30km away.
Ask HN: Why is airfare so expensive in Africa?
I understand why Europe has incredibly low costs (cheapo airlines, lots of competition including with trains, etc.) but within Africa flights are just incredibly expensive (sometimes I found it cheaper to fly from one African country to Europe and then to another one rather than within the continent). Just wondering if anyone has any ideas why and if there are ways to solve it?
Re rooted deGoogled phone. This is a huge topic and I cannot do it justice here. I suggest you look up the principles of phone rooting and or go to a repterable site on the subject such as XDA Developers.

Re: VPN, see my comment below to zen_1..

Re: Windows, yes, it's possible with routers and even a Raspberry Pi but it's equally complex and very different indeed to that of an Android phone.

Finally, I could have largey expanded my reasons for why I failed to fully understand the reasons why values within the population have changed in respect of privacy but I don't have the wherewithal to do it justice in the space available.
Pure Data is awesome. The UX could be better, but it showcases elements of what could be for visual programming languages.

I have always liked this example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW1haAOxWWk. I'm not sure if the music was also created in Pure Data. It kind of sounds like it. There are loads of other examples like this on YouTube.

If you're interested in Pure Data, I recommend the following two books:

* Multimedia Programming with Pure Data: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1782164642

* Programming Sound with Pure Data: Make Your Apps Come Alive with Dynamic Audio: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937785661
I did wonder about this ever since the Ahmad Abouammo story broke. How did a media partnerships manager have access to so many random users' private info? That stank of poor access controls:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-twitter-employee-found...
That's a big one, there are also wage/employment and medical coverage issues. Housing and personal safety are complex but important issues as well.

The National Women's Law Center has a nice landing page with a rundown: https://nwlc.org/state/texas/

Texas Women's Foundation has some resources, including research/grants and advocacy: https://txwf.org

To see a complete picture of the US that offers to contextualize each state's position, here's "The Best and Worst States to Be a Woman" research from 2020: https://giwps.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-...
I didn't mean the few expensive products that are meant to be half decent, like Impossible; my comment was more about the bulk of the market, which is frozen aisle nuggets and the like, mainly made of high-GI cheap shite and pea protein.
> FWIW, I've never actually heard anyone complain about state taxes in California or consider moving because of them.

Because you don't know where to look, or what you're seeing.

Source: am tax lawyer. In California. Have seen and helped individuals with hundreds of millions in annual income escape to other places.
One could argue that the value of a company is the sum of net present value of the future free cash flows it can produce. If the market crash is because of peope realizing there is a recession coming for example, it makes sense to update your expectations about the net present value of future cash flows - probably in sum a bit lower than before probably.
True and True != False
As long as we're imagining we could use that same amount of energy and drop tungsten rods from orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
Top 40% pay less in taxes in TX. The article's graphic averaged 3 income brackets to create the middle 60%.
I think this is a good reason to take this study with a grain of salt. Having lived in WA most of my life, I have never had a reason to complain about taxes here. They feel far from regressive - I basically didn't pay anything until I owned a home.

FWIW: back when Planet Money tried to find some sort of political consensus among economists, lack of an income tax was actually one of the proposals: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/499490275
> $100K income, $1M house

Methinks you may have picked these numbers to tilt things in favor of CA. If the income were _slightly_ more in line with what might be considered “reasonable” for a $1M house, like say $250K, suddenly the math makes
much more sense in Texas.

And this doesn’t even get into the whole “house that costs $1M in CA wouldn’t cost $1M in Texas” thing...
Granted. The internals now take up so much space only a 500mA battery can fit and the phone lasts 2 hours on a charge.
You see to have misunderstood a couple of things. Those numbers are not ”a percentage of total taxes” but are a percentage of a person's income.

Comparing per capita taxes tells you more about per capita income rather than relative taxation rates.

The whole point is that the average texan pays a higher percentage of their income in state taxes than the average californian and Texas taxes are more regressive.
Can I make mine without a screen? Actually serious.
I mean that's the same deal with browser extensions. Good to mention, but hardly a surprise.
A former employee accuses Twitter of big security lapses
That would be very helpful, thank you!
Ignoring the whataboutism about Iran (I brought up middle eastern governments as an example of the effects of deplatforming when it's organized by people with different biases to you, not to imply some kind of ridiculous tit for tat).

Really? You don't think the main reason the US is as desegregated as it is today is because of a strong supreme court that issued rulings such as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Allwright , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia ,
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boynton_v._Virginia?

Clearly these are all examples of the supreme court failing to protect subaltern groups, which is why all white primaries are still the norm, schools and buses are still segregated, and interracial marriage is still illegal.

Is any court system perfect? Of course not, but the American court system is infinitely better than the court of public opinion when it comes to protecting individual rights for all individuals, regardless of identity.

What planet's history were you even referring to, again?

I'm not even American and I'm still aware of these civil rights victories. But oh no "white (well mixed-race in Tate's case) male misogynists" will also have their speech protected, so I guess these rights have got to go.

Your rights are not predicated on your identity or your beliefs, no matter how abhorrent.
https://poohitan.com (in Ukrainian but there are several posts in English)
Because you get what you pay for.

A significant number of engineers that FAANGM and a lot of others brings into the US from their Indian offices are top-notch. The salaries they pay in India are in the $60k-130k range which is incredibly good there. Same with a lot of good startups and core engineering firms.
The off-shore consultancies you might be familiar with are sweat shops that are a dime a dozen with engineers coming and going a revolving door.
They're optimized to make a quick buck with as cheap labor as possible. Just like the US firms that hires them.
> like having to present ID when voting

Complaints about this usually revolve around the fact that voter ID laws aren't accompanied with increased funding for and availability of voter ID services. Show me a law where they added Saturday and late-evening DMV services, or pop-up voter ID registration services at grocery stores, pharmacies, post offices, churches, community recreation centers, and schools.

The purpose behind these laws is quite clear. It's fundamentally unfair to add voter ID laws to depress turnout under the guise of "election security".
In a sense, I don't disagree. But when the only Labour politician of my lifetime to win an election is Tony Blair, you have to consider that the UK is a pretty Tory country, and you have to work with what you've got...
Funding may go up but demand increases more because UK population is old and overweight… and getting more so. This is the reality of an aging population plus socialised health care.
VSCode supports a wide range of languages and workflows. The workflow of the VSCode developers doesn't necessarily align with the workflows of other VSCode users.
Because sponsoring an employment based GC takes considerably more time than filling for an H1B. We're talking at best less than a year for an H1B (filling in April and you receive it in October of the same year) vs 18 months minimum for an European (10+ years for an Indian).

I actually got my H1B at my 2nd try. I did not get pick at my 1st try and had to wait until next year but it went quite smoothly.
However for my GC, it took 4 years between the initial conversation with my employer and getting it in my hands. The actual process itself, from the moment the lawyers received all the documents, took 2 years.
There's good empirical evidence that the portion of property taxes that falls on the unimproved value of the land (ie, the location's value minus the value of the building), is not passed on to the renter:

http://gameofrent.com/content/can-lvt-be-passed-on-to-tenant...
thanks very much my friend is very pleased.
Unique Strings and Unicode
Sure, but it's embracing that by showing and not telling, then giving tips and examples of how to do it effectively.
I'm well aware of both the note and the jump. If you think that increase is merely an artifact of a change in methodology then you should spend a bit more time researching on what you're looking at. The jump is quite real.

There's actually a good stack exchange post covering this: https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/45886/has-ther...

As well as the FRED itself release and explanation: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...

> In late February and early March of 2020, the Fed cut its policy interest rate dramatically to help ease credit conditions during the COVID-19 crisis. The resulting acceleration in the supply of M1 can be understood largely as banks accommodating an increase in people’s demand for money.

This leads back to your original "money will be cheap again" point. It won't, since we're partially living in the consequences of doing this during covid. Inflation is being driven by many factors, but the FED will continue to increase interest rates to try to fight it.

Again I'll be more than happy to see you proven right but so far your responses haven't given me much confidence.
Only 27% of education funding in California is local property taxes. Most of it is from state income taxes or Federal government divided out based on school student count and other factors. Many states are in the 20-30% range for local property tax funding but there are a few where it is much higher like 47% for Texas and 57% for Illinois.

https://ed100.org/lessons/whopays
Better source:

54 years for eb2/eb3. And that was 2019 backlog. Covid should've added half a decade more

https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/immigratio...
It doesn't help that he's a "disgruntled employee who was fired".

I added that "disgruntled" part but... who gets fired for poor performance and doesn't become at least slightly disgruntled?
The emergency department fills up because they can't find beds to admit people to. When the emergency department is full, there's nowhere for the ambulance patients to be put.

Just one of many, many stories on this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-61395685
Homeowners insurance covers a lot of that stuff
>Raptor Lake to Offer ‘Unlimited Power’ Mode for Those Who Don’t Care About Heat, Electric Bills

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/338748-raptor-lake-to-...

If that isn't a return to the Pentium 4 strategy, I don't know what is.
Property tax is rent like a condo fee is rent: It at least approximates a (progressively, in most tax schemes) assessed user fee for community services. The size of the fee is proportional to services rendered.

The LVT as envisioned by its advocates isn’t like that. It’s a fee—largely determined by market forces—to continue to occupy and make use of “your” land. If the government can insist you pay some market-set cost to remain on a plot of land, you don’t own it in the way we classically think about land title ownership. You’re not the market participant, the government is.
Regarding too easily getting frustrated over messaging, I have only one rule to avoid that and it's been working well for me -- Whenever any message threads that requires more than back and forth once over, hop on a Zoom call.
> Blame a combination of protectionist legal barriers and regulatory hurdles, mixed with inadequate infrastructure, high taxes, and stubborn nationalism… Countries across the continent have displayed protectionist tendencies to limit others’ access to their own airspace. Those instincts began a generation ago, when newly independent nations sought to assert themselves by creating national airlines, and continue today… The problem is compounded by the generally poor state of Africa’s transportation infrastructure… Various fees and tax schemes also contribute to big-ticket prices.

> The region’s endeavor to liberalize intra-continental air transport service and create a single market in Africa has been long coming and slow going. In 1988, African states agreed to principles of air services liberalization, in the Yamoussoukro Declaration. In 1999, in the Yamoussoukro Decision, 44 members of the African Union signed their commitment to “deregulate air services, and promote regional air markets open to transnational competition.” In 2018, the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) was launched, with participation from 33 African states, laying the framework for the implementation of the Yamoussoukro Decision. But as a quick Google Flight search will affirm, there has been little implementation.

Source: https://theflip.africa/newsletter/expensive-air-travel-in-af...
Yes, I agree with this. I think a good life is finding that balance; how much of yourself goes into production, how much into consumption. How much do your push yourself to be better, and how much do you accept and live with your flaws? How much do you invest for the future verse consume in the present? Too much either direction will lead to a bad life.
I know this is a solved problem in certain contexts, but realistically how does a third party prove that your private keys are yours?
I don't have written much TS but the author's experience is exactly what I felt while writing TS. The bolted on "gradual" type system makes typing harden then even dependently typed languages I have used. I honestly believe TS has done irrecoverable damage to the perception of types to millions of web developers.
Fred Brooks is still around I believe
The land value tax is a good idea, assuming there is a tax on the pollution created when building the property. Unfortunately, there usually isn't one. A property tax is kind of a substitute for that tax.

There should be that tax because bigger and more luxurious properties usually cut down more trees to clear space, and usually use building materials that are pollutive/environmentally destructive than commonplace materials.
> 1. Twitter employees could fabricate a criminal conspiracy by creating messages between multiple Twitter accounts.

Could be thwarted by some kind of "source" database column/field/value that says "this is a tweet made by God mode"

Whether Twitter has that field, if it is internal only, and if they would share it with the public/a court of law, I have no clue
The "Nimitz" incidents all happened in the most highly instrumented naval test range in the world.

And all we got were fuzzy pics.
The problem with the word “costs” is that it’s too easy to conflate this with money, and just think it means spending more of an abstract and essentially unlimited resource (money).

The reality is that it means we will HAVE LESS STUFF, food or otherwise, because we are increasing the effort required to generate a unit of food.
This is amazing! I think a lot of immigrants should really use their talents back home, building their own country. It will be good for everyone, for the world as well.
Ok, stuff it! lets just use a kettle cord
A day with dispatch on a pilot boat with Shawn Boland(F bombs aplenty)
> Within Yellowstone National Park, no hunting of wolves is allowed. Outside the park, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming regulate and manage hunting. Because wolves do not recognize political boundaries and often move between different jurisdictions, some wolves that live within the park for most of the year, but at times move outside the park, are taken in the hunts

So there's a clear evolutionary advantage for wolves that do recognize political boundaries. I wonder if that has long-term effects on wolf-pack territories.

Edit: quote from https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolves.htm, meant to answer to bombcar who mentioned it
Twitter has a comms department but there has been a revolving door of ineffective comms leadership.

I can't even get someone from Twitter Comms to pop into the Twitter subreddit to engage with users there.

Rebecca Hahn doesn't even have a Twitter account afaik.
> A quick look at Redfin says tax on this $385k home is about $564/mo

The tax estimate is based on an assessment based on a sale that happened 6 years ago, which ends up valuing the house at $100k (roughly 25%) less. :-) A new buyer would have a hard time paying the same tax because this would involve successfully arguing that the property is worth $100k less than what they just paid for it. $800/mo is likely in the ballpark of what the new owner would be looking at.

EDIT: Since millage rates are public, we don't have to guess. The topline Austin (Travis County) millage rage is 2.1767, so if that property were in the city of Austin its taxes on a $385k assessed value would be 8,380.29, or $698/mo. It may actually be in Pflugerville (hard to tell at a glance) where the taxes are lower due to letting Austin taxpayers pay for the big shared muni services.

The other effects are interesting, but my experience living in TX is it is definitely not a low-tax state.
Did you see the list of what the guy did? At no point did he include rest and relaxation. He's clearly fetishizing productivity.
Google being able to censor things is indeed bad for freedom of expression in liberal democracies, but less bad than what authoritarian states do. I trust Google’s respect for freedom of speech more than I trust the Pakistani state’s.
It seems so clear that the way forward is not to try to convince people to sacrifice the foundation of their financial security but is rather to compensate them.

Make it so neighbors are competing to host whatever they are NIMBYing about currently because it comes with a package of goodies that will offset the problems. It doesn't have to include much new spending, rebalancing or reprioritization of existing resources to ensure fairness can be part of it.

Is this the norm? I feel like I haven't heard it often during debates over unpopular new developments.
This is where the QE comes in (assuming it does). That will give a false hope for a very short time (my bet is weeks/months at most) and then hyperinflation will take over as people beg for QE to continue like a crackhead finding a rock under the sofa.