skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In other words, I call bullshit on this entire blog post. Ignore it. Typescript is the correct solution. What is the alternative? Just using JS and letting things break without knowing it?

It seems like you and I read a different article. The post I read did not advocate for going back to JS; rather it advocated for better tooling and documentation (with examples, ideally) for library developers

Conclusion
I love typescript and think the team working on it are incredible. Typescript has completely changed the FE landscape and wouldn't want to dismiss its contributions.
But as a library developer, we need:
- better documentation,
- better tooling, and
- to spend less time making tsc happy.
I shouldn't have to read the typescript compiler source code in order to figure out why it's resolving a piece of my code to a specific type.

I developed a library used by the React app I work on to cache network results in localstorage (to reduce the number of expensive requests made on page refreshes) and generate React-Query query-functions to read the result from localStorage first before fetching from the network as a fallback (if the data is stale or uncached).

It's not an especially large library, but I felt all of the pain points the author describes. It's great that you didn't with your library (and I'm sure there are large classes of libraries whose authors wouldn't feel these pain points), but it's a very real issue if your dealing heavily with generics, serialization/deserialization, and/or complex type interactions
Cool. Let us know if you write one about NetBSD :)
Probably one of my favorite OSS projects to date. I'm not a musician at all but playing with it is a lot of fun. Just make sure the volume isn't set too high :P
Dave Ramsey talks a lot about that - to have a good credit score you’ve got to take on debt, which is counterproductive for a lot of people.
Title should have been "due to TX lacking a state income tax, most Texans pay more in taxes than CA"
The trouble with that (even on a rooted phone) is that the Google Play Services app collects info on everything, it's the most pernicious of any app. You only have to do the slightest thing on your phone and you can watch the size of its data file grow, thus routing its internet access to a VPN firewall is essential.

Unfortunately, Play Services uses the internet for various necessary functions. The only truly satisfactory solution is to remove it altogether and replace it with GApps which is a sort of 'clone' with the anti-privacy stuff removed.
That’s a pretty underspecified comment for a static typing enthusiast. You’re referring to polymorphism.

And to be completely clear: you can have safe polymorphism without type hierarchies via things like type inference.
Brian Eno is somewhat of a god.
The world runs on Java, think banks, airlines, trains networks, stock exchanges, goverment web services, emergency systems. Some you might know that are heavy users are netflix, stripe.
Maybe we should stop perfluorinating every organic molecule
I moved to a state without state income tax. I am +, mostly because I bought a cheap house and save more than I spend.
Look at the source--the distribution of tax doesn't follow red/blue very well.
The Soviet Union accrued massive debt due to internal production inefficiencies caused by corruption and mismanagement. Russia has extraordinary natural resources, by all rights they should be one of the most wealthy countries on earth.
This is what became of it -

"In the largest FDI in the Indian technology sector, US Internet giant Facebook will be buying 9.99% stake in Reliance Industries Ltd’s digital unit Jio Platforms Ltd, for $5.7 billion"

https://indianexpress.com/article/business/companies/relianc...
bot numbers - you are quite gullible but arguing in good faith huzzah
This solely depends on what type of home you purchased in Texas.

If you bought a 200K Pulte box home, you'll be WAY better off.

If you bought a 1MM Toll Brothers new build, yeah, you gonna get killed in taxes in Texas
I grew up in a state capital and lived in 2 metro cities and honestly the infrastructure was better in my home city in terms of electricity, water and flooding.
But there are very few tech jobs, which gives the 2-3 employers there huge leverage due to the lack of job mobility.

Hopefully between fibre penetration and WFH culture things will improve.
I didn't realize adding components added to the price. Here's my $6,900 iPhone: https://i.imgur.com/6yB14mx.mp4
Also, how good is Phalanx at detecting and killing something that comes in 6 feet above the water's surface?
Agree, it's pure adhominem.
Cyberattack is obstructing my research
I need details from a proof in
"Some applications of k-theory to framed bordism: e-invariant and transfer" by K. Knapp which is hosted by Wuppertal but has been rendered unavailable for an undetermined amount of time.
Well Sweden has a lower population density than the US and there is still plenty high density housing, so your argument is?

I think it would be good to do away with these simplistic this or that doesn't work here because... The US society was remodelled quite dramatically to be very car centred over a very short time and now people say that it can't be any other way because of the geography? The US was literally different 70-80 years ago.
People do post the discussion threads. Although I doubt a lot of people go back to read them. Some, of course, but not all. I do kind of like the idea of posting the discussion thread as the item of discussion itself. Anonymization is probably needed although personally, anything I wrote 2 to 3 months ago always feels like it was written by someone else.

I've always liked Slashdot's attempt at moderation. Moderators chosen at random with a limited set of options/votes to give to posts.

There's very little you can do to game that system.
Which state is a fascist regime?
That money (or some portion of it) is currently flowing into the housing market via Freddie and Fannie and the loan guarantees provided for 30 year fixed.

You could imagine other programs that could encourage renting, for example (no thought has been given to this, just an example/idea) - federal guarantee that you would pay NO capital gains tax if you could prove that you continued to rent out the property and never increased rent more than 1%, say.
There might be people who move due to taxes if they are unattached singles doing remote work, or people who aren't dependent on a job to live. But I think the vast majority move to where they can get a job that pays well ... Relative to the cost of living.
Well, actually I wouldn't say it's clickbait. They are saying that 'unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena' is not man-made.
I find it weird that the two are directly tied together. In my hometown, property taxes are proportional the overall market and the cities budget. E.g. during 2020 my house valuation increased 1.5x, but the property taxes barely changed (because everyones house valuation did the same thing, but the city budget didn't change).
Imagine you had a drone that could dive to the ocean floor, pick up a chunk of rock, fly up one foot above the deck and drop the rock, then fly back down and repeat

That would take a ridiculous amount of energy.
In most cases I presume this isn't a big deal but is it wise for your auth key and signing key to be the same key pair?
There is probably a place for hydrogen filled (electrolysis[1]?) blimp drones[0], although needs height since blimps are slow and large targets, so perhaps fixed wing always more useful. Deploy when wind is favourable?

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hMCqXmzzWFA

[1] https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/images/pubs/Chisholm-Chapt...
Piloting isn't the main bottleneck. It's easier to automate the piloting than the maintenance, and unless we're talking one-use drones (so, guided missiles really) - there's a lot of maintenance. Somebody needs to transport the drones to the front, program the goals, recharge the batteries (which takes hours often), rearm them after the mission, download the gathered data, change the encryption keys, etc.

And if you manage to automate some of that - automation make your drone swarm vulnerable to disruption. Enemies can wait near automatic refueling/recharging station and capture the drones one-by-one for example. They can put a gps tracker on the automatic drone transport system and shell the enemy base once it gets there. Or they can put a grenade on a captured drone, release it, and detonate it when the drone is recharging destroying the whole swarm cheaply.

Ultimately there's a trade-off between automation and resilience that should be familiar to web developers.
Burning karma to speak truth to power is its only valid use. Policing my own "tone" to please fools will never happen.
Yes, The ambulances are waiting outside the hospitals with the last patient so they can't go to get the next one. Source: Family members have recently waited some hours outside A&E in an ambulance.
I am not sure if you are responding with actual information or just anecdata. There are hundreds of thousands of students who actually want to work in the US but are unable to (and are sent back) because of H1B Visa lotteries and archaic green card processes.
This article makes some unwarranted leaps. The fact that lower income Texans pay a larger fraction of their income in tax than higher earners doesn't support the claim that " [l]ow-income taxpayers bear a disproportionate share of the tax burden in those states", since the tax burden of a group is what that group as a whole pays as a fraction of the state's tax revenue.

In the absence of income tax, taxes come from sources like consumption (e.g. sales taxes) and other things like property taxes. Lower income people save less money; they spend more of their income and so will pay more of their income in consumption taxes.
That might be how it starts, but history shows rates balloon over time. We already have senior being kicked out because of property tax. Your definition of "tons" of land is vague and may be used against people who have moderate amounts of land (.5-1ac).
The Case Against Scheduling Your Fun
I don't recall the NRO or the military using the shuttle much. The shuttle flew for NASA projects. No NASA, no projects.
The Why Behind Side Projects as a Software Developer
It's okay, but on the back in an indent is better.
Without knowing exactly which town you’re talking about, I would posit that that’s likely still dense enough to have some pretty direct comparison points somewhere in Western Europe. It’s not like all of Western Europe is a city.

Which doesn’t mean that the same infrastructure you’d see in a dense European city would make sense in your town, mind you. I just think that Europe and America aren’t as incomparable as some people seem to think.
In Idris, you've typed your types. Much easier to deal with.
Morally, I am 100% behind this. If we can reduce the carbon footprint of food, we should.

However, everyone's morals have a limit, and mine is eating mushrooms. Nothing against people who like them, I just can't stand them.
For those wondering: that phrase has to be read as “C99 and later reserve identifiers ((starting with "int" or "uint") and ending in "_t")”, not as “C99 and later reserve identifiers starting with "int" or "uint" and identifiers ending in "_t"”

It’s not as if a program with a variable called interest_rate or ford_model_t would be nonconforming according to the standard.
Apartment complexes are for more economically efficient compared to single family homes. We need to incentivize these instead of letting them buy up homes meant for a single family.
I don't think this is at all correct. I am resilient not because I had a rough patch. I'm resilient because I had a safety net when that rough patch hit. Without that safety net the story would have been much much worse.
> A person who can sit in a chair for 12 hours waiting didn't have an emergency. Instead, they were using the ER for non-urgent care.

Or the ER was crap. Like the time I waited 12 hours (because I had no choice, I needed a surgeon) to have my foot put back together.
Not sure why you were downvoted, as those are valid points. Twitter is the best medium when it comes to talking about subjects in depth. It is good when it comes to making a quick hot take, but not in depth articles or explanations.

Unfortunately, a lot of people don't engage much in long form discussion as much as they would a tweet. Tweets are much easier to discover, find, and view compared to a blog post. It's much easier to click like on a tweet or retweet something, and bigger engagement numbers == better. So people instead will write out tweets instead of blog posts. I don't care for it much myself, but such is the modern internet I guess.
Wow, that chart is quite compelling.
As a UK tax payer, and as a UK tax payer that winces every time they see how much they lose to taxation in their P60 each year (six figures in tax), what are people's solutions to this?

It seems like the NHS budget keeps on going up and up and up [1], as does the number of doctors and nurses (while "managers" has either declined or stayed relatively static) [2]. So NHS is getting more funding, and there are more doctors and nurses. Yet there is still outcry about how we need MOAR MOAR MOAR!

We're spending ~10% of GDP on the NHS at the moment [3] - how much more do people want? 10% appears to be roughly comparable to other developed nations (except USA...) and the data says that nurses and doctors are increasing in numbers while "managers" are not, so the usual cries about the money being spent on "management consultants" appears to be ill-founded, as does the complaints that it is the Tory party reducing funding.

Throwing money at the problem appears not to be working because the budget keeps going up, the numbers of doctors and nurses keeps going up, yet people are still complaining about it being awful? What gives? What is the solution when just spending more money isn't working?

1 - https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-w...

2 - https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/audio-video/key-facts-figures-n...

3- https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/audio-video/key-facts-figures-n...
Speakers ? That’s what HomePod minis are for !
Traffic from housing is generally fairly minimal. Traffic and parking are the big NIMBY fears and are generally unfounded.

"Luxury" apartments are, 9 times out of 10, just brand new apartments that happen to be in an expensive location.

It's kind of like cars - a brand new Toyota Corolla is not the cheapest car out there. A 20 year old used one is going to be a lot more affordable. But you don't get old ones unless you build and sell the new ones to people who have the money to buy new cars. If there are not enough new cars, those people will drive up the price of the used cars.

Indeed, this is exactly what happened during the pandemic.

As someone who lives in a former mill town myself, feel free to write if you're curious about organizing in favor of housing. It's a lot of fun!
being against bad tax policies doesn't make you unreliable.
That’s bs. In Texas you pay just 1-3% property tax. That’s it.

Car registration is dirt cheap (<$100/year), housing is dirt cheap (200k get you a house with a swimming pool), electricity is super cheap (when it is not snowing) and gasoline is almost half price compared to California.
I had a rental car wheels bottom out on a road in Highland Park (Dallas). Scraped the air dam all up. Hertz didn't care. It's one of the richest areas in TX. Great public school though.

Spanish toll roads are nice too, if you can afford them every day.
Yes, US citizens can sponsor foreign nationals both within and outside the USA for green cards through marriage. The process itself (current status or no status) to green card easily takes 2 years. Once that person arrives, they can get citizenship (not residency) within 3 years.

The sentence structure though seems to imply marrying solely for status, which is fraud, and reflects very poorly on both applicant and petitioner. This kind of thing definitely happens which is why it takes 2 years for the honest applicants to get though, as the immigration system doesn't do a sufficient job filtering out fraud at the beginning stages of the petition and leaves too much of that work at the end of the petition stage (interview) which is where the biggest bottleneck is.

source: personal experience as petitioner
Sounds like an explanation Adam Curtis would approve of. I wonder if he's made a film that's explored this in full yet? I know he's certainly mentioned Brexit.
O1 visas are for skilled workers without getting tied to a company.
But you have to be really skilled!
People have lots of food choices available, a decent understanding of food, reasonably legible information about ingredients, nutrition, etc.

Google (and other tech monopolies) do not have readily available substitutes. Network effects and such funnel usage. Most users don't know policies, nor understand their implications if they are.

I think it's extremely disingenuous, at this point to argue that AMZN, MSFT, GOOG or whatnot are merely a popular consumer choice. In any case, you accept the outcome of elections in a democracy, or maybe even a sports league committee. "Voting" with dollars is an analogy. The people affected often aren't even google's customers. The actual dollars come from elsewhere. In conventional, industrial terms, most users are a resource being transformed into a product with technology. For example, Apple receives money for setting users defaults to Google. Google receives money for advertising to these users. There is no "sour grapes, move on" here. No actual election to adhere to.

Whatever about theoretical voting with dollars, we all know how "voting with votes" would turn out.
Terrible as opposed/compared to what?

Maybe a language with better type guarantees would be better suited for library developers; but if the alternative is plain javascript, then no. Just no.
Resale value is probably one of the number one things car buyers look at when shopping.
Very cool.

I'm using Elixir to listen to change events via https://github.com/cpursley/walex (which I basically ripped off from Supabase).
Are you flapping your meat as you write this?
> Not going to quote the whole paragraph? The paragraph that goes on to say that there's an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and other issues?

I'm glad that you quoted the whole paragraph, but this seems to put a damper on your conclusion

>"the available data is contradictory and far from being convincing"

>Personally I trust a jury of 6-12 laypeople or the European Chemicals Agency over a company with a vested interest in keeping their product on the market.

Their conclusion is:

>the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) classified glyphosate as causing serious eye damage and as toxic to aquatic life, but did not find evidence implicating it as a carcinogen
Ethernet is likely a Realtek chipset (on the docking station). Intel does not do Ethernet over USB chipsets.
> just the safe topic to broach with an adult

Why is it unsafe to ask people about hobbies, even if they "can't afford these things"? They can just say that "I can't afford hobbies" and then you can talk about that.

People also might not have a job/work, so asking about that could get uncomfortable too, if you are not willing to hear negative answers.
Im not taking a stance on disease risk. Im simply pointing out that many people will. And it will favor remote work.
Look at the members of their board. It's obvious.
This is hard to believe. Just wheel the patient through the front door and let the hospital do the babysitting. There is no sense in using an ambulance as a waiting room.
Are you converting currency?
This aspect of the story was entirely predictable:

>Musk lawyer Alex Spiro said they want to talk to Twitter whistleblower. “We have already issued a subpoena for Mr. Zatko, and we found his exit and that of other key employees curious in light of what we have been finding.”

https://twitter.com/donie/status/1562056198425288704
After exemptions, I pay 2% of my home’s appraised value in property taxes each year in Texas.

50% goes towards primary school + 30% goes to my local city but the money doesn’t seem to impact education outcomes or general quality of life near me.

I don’t mind the distribution but it stings when local government seems to be plagued by chronic mismanagement.
"most" and "drivers" are things that need specific usages to be true, but if you drop them and restate, you're absolutely right.

It is really hard to have a complete personal computer on Linux or any other OS that doesn't require closed source / proprietary binary blobs.
I think the moratorium made sense in a general sense, but the CDC certainly shouldn't be the one with the authority to create a policy like that.

Which is why it's being challenged in Supreme Court.

Probably lasted a few months too long also.
> But Linux got its shit together first and was able to benefit from that.

Linux is not a company or person. It's the people behind Linux who got it together, but sadly BSD folks have left behind.

> Apple and to a lesser-extent, Solaris, show that you can still have broader hardware support and drivers without a copyleft license.

You're comparing Apple (a company, and a FAANG of them no less) with community-driven projects. Apples and oranges, almost literally.
Most small landlords don't do the accounting properly and are losing money; this is disguised by the favorable depreciation and the rapid property price appreciation.

For example, many small-time landlords would have been better off just buying a much more valuable property to live in themselves, than buying one to live in and one to rent. Eg, buy a $400k house instead of two $200k houses and renting one.
The solution is high property taxes offset by high homestead tax exemptions.
I would argue the exact opposite. Understanding how marginal taxes work is the perfect reason to stop working so hard to climb the ladder.

But in reality, income taxes mostly contribute shifting income to non income benefits for employees.
funga is the name of the kingdom, a recent change to align with the now-accepted designations flora and fauna (and of course bacteria and protista). Fungi is the plural when referring to organisms (i.e., instances), I am rather referring to the kingdom (i.e., the category).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funga
No, not quite. OP is raising a valid issue, namely reddit is forum where anyone can post anything, so if you want to use a reddit post to support a position, you have to do a little bit of work to verify the accuracy of that information.

Also, OP isn't actually saying the information is wrong because its reddit, rather he's saying it's lazy journalism - which it is.
Brings a whole new meaning to "Singapore on the Thames" eh
Won't dissagree, but it seems like a partial explanation.

Another reason for corporate language is attempting to make the ordinary sound exciting. Executives would much rather talk about their "vision" or "north star" than how many units they want shipped in the fourth quarter.

A lot of the language churn in corporate culture seems to stem from this. Eventually terms seem old and boring, so they have to come up with new ones.
Well, sales taxes are in economic terms considered highly efficient. It also makes sense that in the boom in post pandemic consumption, a sales tax would deliver a surplus.
>PROPERTY TAXES, INCLUDING BOTH TAXES ON INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESS TAXES, ARE USUALLY SOMEWHAT REGRESSIVE. On average, poor homeowners and renters pay more of their incomes in property taxes than do any other income group

They are very wrong about property taxes, which calls their entire analysis into question. Renters aren't the ones paying property tax, especially for expensive areas like SF. The savings property taxes from prop 13 absolutely does not get passed to the renters. If anything, it does the opposite because it disincentivises home sales.