skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one of the reasons some people(i.e me) avoid airbnb as much as possible. It seems airbnb is not even cheaper than a hotel (in most cases)
So what? If banks will be taxed when selling collateral, debt costs will adjust accordingly and pass on to wealthy still.
Neither the article nor the plea agreement say no jail time. The plea agreement says her sentence will be at the judge’s discretion.
> but finding out if a game is Windows only is usually as easy as looking at the system requirements

It's exactly the same with Pixelmator Pro. You click on the "Tech Specs" menu item, scroll to (or search for) the "System Requirements" section, and get:

"Pixelmator Pro requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later and is fully optimized for Macs with Apple silicon."
They all could have just been basic rich people pulling $600k[0] a year at Jane Street, but they just couldn’t get enough.

[0]This number is completely made up and betrays my total lack of knowledge about what finance people make.
You make "almost illegal" financial activities really illegal in the law, prosecute people, and I suspect that 90% of the problems will disappear automagically. Number of people who can become billionaires without committing borderline illegal and completely illegal activities are vanishingly small I suspect, probably only founders of megacorporations and those are often doing illegal stuff too to stay ahead. USA is an outlier probably as far as honest successful corporations go, but in other countries if you are a top100 Fortune person you are likely a criminal too. In my country for sure. Energy - illegal oligopoly, metallurgy - illegal oligopoly, animal farming - illegal oligopoly, etc. The number of illegal schemes happening in the big corps in my country is staggering.
Poor people already pay next to nothing in taxes - the bottom 60% of society, making less than $50k only contributes 7% of total tax revenue from income taxes, while 0.3% of those making more than $1M per year contributes 27%. [1]

I think the US has pretty good revenue structure in that regard. In my country 62% of federal budget comes from sales taxes (e.g. 23% VAT), which disproportionately affects poor people.

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2017/january/feder...
Web/apps have a lot of pseudonymous data points but rarely have a link to your real-life identity. Real-life things like hotels have the latter but rarely the former. Installing an app allows data brokers to bridge the two identities.

> And how is installing the Hilton app going to allow another app to find out information about you?

Both apps rat out whatever they have on you to a data broker which then does the matching.
That would make sense. Just like some overlays could be added later.
That is not true: when some good logic is applied to naming, human names are too in order, with the alphabetic order, so that at any time you could know what you are talking about (at least easily if it is "before" or "after" each one)
Yeah, that's a very easy way... Of making all your modestly rich people close shop and leave

> forbidding any financial interactions with "offshore" countries

And what do you think "offshore" means? This is TikTok levels of financial naivety
The real elite are wearing F-91W's thanks very much. :)

But Apple is not necessarily selling to watch aficionados, they are selling (partly) to people who want to be seen as fashionable in a general sense. Calling it "Apple Watch" instead of iWatch, and putting it next to Hermès straps is about adding that gleam of luxury and glamour.
You totally get it, and I really like the law of nature phrasing.
Early career it's less than that unless you have done something exceptional for them and threatened to leave.
As if the wealthy have never thought of ways to hide their money... The best you'll do is tax those who are actually turning up to get a salary. Ie you will tax people who arguably might be producing something, as opposed to the inter-generational, rent-seeking families that own so much of our world.

If you ask me, and you accept overt governmental control of everything, the best thing to do would be a system of openess about ownership, so that ownership of everything can be seen by everyone - with no murky legal instruments.

If you have the information about who owns what - and everything is owned by people, individuals, even if they hide behind legal and corporate instruments - you can then consider addressing what would be an equitable may to proceed.

My guess would be that something ludicrously minor like a 10% wealth tax on the top 0.01% of wealth owners, would cover us indefinitely.
My problem with rust, is that community is overzealous to promote their language, even in the cost of spreading lies and misinformation and harassment. I was routinely attacked by anonymous accounts. The common thing they say is people using other language than rust are dumb. A few weeks ago some people joined the nim discord and besides promoting rust, they started name calling. I stay miles away from rust, it has by far the worst community. It's shameful.
You can crack passwords with a thermal camera
>sometimes at speeds upwards of 70mph-80mph through mountainous terrain in driving rain at night

You shouldn't be on the roads.
>But how are those debts paid back?

They do not have to be. For instance, it is common to never completely pay off the mortgage in Switzerland to avoid one-off taxation. Instead, the eventual taxes are included in the cost of the debt.
> Muller says new hotel security measures are being developed, including new luggage scanners, which – unlike those at the airport, which may require an officer to open a customer's bag -- uses new technology to detect what's inside without the person even knowing it.

Great if you like paranoia. I guess I am not going to Vegas.
I would be ashamed to put that into my cv. It's like working in a porn industry.
If any single country will try this alone - devastating. For the country :) . If USA alone will try it - maybe it will work, idk. If USA plus EU plus major Asian economies will do it collectively - it will work.
> but rich folks are good at creating capital and governments are notorious for wasting it.

There is more than a little nuance here:

- governments are notorious for being called out on supposed inefficiencies.

Too often, it turns out that there were very good reasons for those inefficiencies, but the criticasters forgot the lesson.

- "rich folks are good..."

I wouldn't know. Superrich folks are good at manipulating the system and extracting wealth from others, that I can believe. We see that happen often enough - the superrich lose money if they were to pick up a 100 dollar bill (they make more money in that time if they work), while their employees have to pee in water bottles or are exploited in other ways.

I strongly doubt that the superrich are better than governments at creating capital for anyone else but themselves in an ethical, human-respecting manner.
Won't beat entropy. Next!
Anything and everything the app and its 30 social, ad, and analytics SDKs are able to capture and exfiltrate from the phone.

Maybe they won't upload the list of my installed apps (which can leak information like religion or medical issues), maybe they won't track my location through the entire hotel (or everywhere), maybe they won't snoop on my pictures... but maybe they also will, and I don't like maybe.

Almost certainly I'll have to agree to lengthy ToS that will then be used as justification to inundate me with spam.

The Android permission model is particularly messed up because it changes every few SDK target versions, so it's hard to build a mental model what exactly you're allowing. Many apps that had a built-in photo-taking capability required storage access and wouldn't work without. Any app using bluetooth had to request and be granted location access (because Bluetooth could be used to track location... so any app acting as a key automatically also got to track you via GPS on top of that, and even if the app maker didn't want to they had to request the permission for Bluetooth to work).

I've seen too many companies pushing their apps aggressively and with massive rewards. They're clearly getting something out of it, and probably not something I want to give them. If you're very, very lucky, the main goal is only to make them more "sticky" (make it easier to use them over someone else next time), but that's the thing - I don't want past service providers to stick to me.
If resources would be distributed evenly, would society be better?

Who would make better allocation decisions than some arbitrary elite that happens to be rich?
Without those riches, where is the surplus money that can be invested into innovations? Right now, the masses could pool some small amounts of money like $10 and have millions and billions to start new companies.

There was 'Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?'[1]. I am not aware that something has been started, despite all the skills most likely being available. Without somebody fronting the money to make even more money, how can people be motivated to create progress?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33999296
What's fun about SE, XR and XDR?
You’re assuming an infinite perfectibility of human nature. The problem with government planning is that it’s removed from the best, local information and inherently has broken incentives.

By the best, local information I mean that in the market, the people with the need for the good or service, and the people who bear the cost of providing it, are the people with the best information and also the ones making the decision to purchase and produce and at what price. The market automatically aggregates this information and produces a price level, which creates the incentive to produce and purchase the appropriate amount of something.

By broken incentives I mean the entire body of work that is public choice theory. Don’t think about government agents as benevolent actors. They are on the whole not good or bad, just about as self-interested as anyone else. They don’t make decisions based on what produces the best outcomes for the public. They make decisions based on what advances their own immediate and long term interests as individuals and social groups. Democracy tries to align those but it doesn’t do a very good job since most decisions do not rise to public political issues, the public can only have a limited understanding of, and elections are too blunt an instrument for adjudicating, the propriety of thousands or millions of public sector decisions.
Oh yes Eir is what Meteor used to be, right? I've been gone a long time.

I live in a big city now but I still use 4G as backup because my fibre provider can be a bit hit and miss. Fibre is usually installed on the outside of buildings here so it can be pretty dependent on weather.

I've been thinking of upgrading to a 5G CPE but there's not much point - 4G is enough for working from home and cost me only 25 bucks for the modem. And most prepaid plans here don't allow 5G yet anyway.
What about, say, a webhook server that must call User-provided webhooks, and retry them on failures, or handle maximum request duration?

I’d argue throwing well-nested exceptions, catching them and retrying is the most elegant solution to this problem there is.
Regardless of the rest, I like how this article shows the relationship of it's not the same bet to get back to where you started. I've observed very similar mistakes a number of times in how that % relationship works.

It really reminds me of Eve Online. It's been a many years, but once upon a time when I did play it, we were looking at different sensor jammers. And the ones that looked like the worst were actually the best, because they couldn't be countered. Most worked like a +1/-1, but one applied as a fraction. So if the jammer cut a value by 50%, the counter to it added 50%. But adding 50% doesn't get you back to where you started, the opposite increase is 100%. 20 - 50% = 10. 10 + 50% = 15, not 20.

Another one is for the property I live in, we're pushing back on the government about losing a subsidy of ~33%. The property management company, managers, accountants kept sending letters saying this will cause prices to go up 33%. And I keep having to explain that the notices are wrong, removal of a 33% subsidy increases prices by 50%, not 33%.
The working poor pay into FICA which is a greater percentage of their cash flow. They get it back upon annual tax reconciliation. The same entitlement programs nonetheless have lots of unfunded liabilities so the money has already been allocated even if it's not currently "there" -- 'The Rich' are beneficiaries of entitlement spending too.
I went from engineering to IT too

Engineering companies spent all my uni years at fairs to show politicians how they develop business in the area, but lack workers and need assistance from the public services

Fast forward to covid, they wouldn't hire you because they didn't have the projects, they wanted to hire workers with experience, market was tight so you had to understand the pay was low, they could find someone else, ...

So I went to an IT company, they really hired workers.
And I'll stay.
I declined interviews with these engineering companies that called back a few months later. And I can't wait to go back to these fairs to call them liars.

In my place, there is also the same case with restaurants. The government gave them money to continue to exist through covid. But most of them fired workers to use the money to buy new kitchens. Now they're complaining about the lack of workforce, blame unemployment benefits (ironic) and are lobbying to give visas to underpaid foreigners.
From the video it looks absolutely terrifying. Those waves seem to constantly rise above the side of the ship, and there's large chunks of ice all around, and that's very far from the worst weather they could have encountered.
An awful state of the industry matched only by the number of applicants that fail them. I shouldn't assume 'they wouldn't waste company time on them if they weren't necessary', but they are, in fact, necessary.
Great tool, really like the simplicity of it as it just makes me do what I want to do, and then leave.
Answered the same question here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34091783
They own part of the company that is worth that much.

They can't liquidate all their assets without harming the company, thus the livelihoods of their employees.

Look at what they create, not only what they are worth.

Also your charity endeavors are more effective with the compound interest of a billionaire vs a multi-millionaire.
I long wished there was C# Intellisense that showed what kind of exceptions I may receive when calling particular function. At least from code it can infer from:

- .NET library has documentation comments, with <exception> tags

- It could look at my code and see what exceptions get thrown.

- It could be clever enough to know that new might throw OutOfMemoryException

- Clever enough to know checked arithmetic might throw OverflowException

- Might understand where/what exceptions get caught and do not bubble up.

- Smart enough to understand if value can possibly be null and properties are accessed, thus may result in ArgumentNullException.

- As for 3rd party code, I don't know if .pdb provide enough info to know whether particular function call may throw particular exception? But it's all IL, so that should be enough to infer from 3rd party code what kind of exceptions I might encounter:

// throw new ArgumentNullException("serviceProvider");
IL_0013: ldstr "serviceProvider"
IL_0018: newobj instance void [mscorlib]System.ArgumentNullException::.ctor(string)
IL_001d: throw

Eh, what a dream.
Or alternatively realise that there isn't a fixed amount of money and therefore if 'rich people' want to count their coins let them do so.

(i) it solves the capital accumulation problem
(ii) you can accommodate the hoarding by guaranteeing people a job at the living wage, which then injects the right amount of new money, both temporally and spatially, to offset the hoarding.

Tax has nothing to do with raising money. Tax is about reducing the capacity of the private sector to hire people so the public sector can hire them instead. If there is unemployment then the public sector hasn't hired enough people or taxes are too high/ineffective.

It's never about money. It's always about stuff.

Here's how it works[1]

[1]: https://new-wayland.com/blog/how-the-job-guarantee-fixes-mai...
No, it means that when housekeeping fails to clean a room, for whatever reason, he can't rent it out.

The people losing their minds and screaming at him is what happens when something else that isn't quite to their satisfaction happens. Like, say, the hotel requiring a deposit and a major credit card and ID to book a room.
By screening people this way, you're missing out on people who have several passions outside of programming and limited time.

Maybe you're only looking for people with exactly the same mindset as yours, but if not it might be interesting to look for other Very Good Signs.
Petrochemical plastics and ICE cars are heavily subsidized, both in the "here have some money we taxed" sense and in the "we don't care if you are destroying the environment and poisoning people, carry on and we'll fix that with tax money" sense.

It's hard to have that conversation if people only care about their next months out of pocket payment. Google whether gas heating is cheaper than heat pumps and you'll find discussion about what is cheapest for ordinary people with the current fossil fuel subsidies. But any simple economic analysis shows it's obviously better to shift to heat pumps and well insulated homes and so sensible countries do that, and reap the benefits.

You'd have to invent some insane conspiracy theory about how climate change wasn't even happening, and all the scientists are secretly conspiring to undermine society in order to stop that, but who would believe that?
Math is your insurance policy
High-end digital cinema cameras are not _that_ grainy per se. The sensors are very clean.

The level of grain you get from digital cinema photography is mostly by artistic choice and added through the camera or in post production. Sometimes the movie is shot digitally and transferred to film, then scanned. This was done for Dune (2021), for instance.

Also, ARRI (who make the most renowned cameras for cinematic use) now specifically let you choose a grain texture on the Alexa 35 that is imprinted in the digital material. [1]

[1]: https://www.arri.com/en/learn-help/learn-help-camera-system/...
> you need to sell and get your local currency in exchange.

This isn't exactly true. For things like bread, yes it _is_ true, nobody will let you take out an asset backed loan. For someone with significant assets, large purchases can be funded by asset backed loan. These are available from high street banks, e.g. [0].

> That can be considered income

No, here's where you're wrong. It's considered capital gains and you're taxed on the difference between what you liquated the asset for, and the value of the asset when you were given it. Here in the UK, capital gains rates are tied to your income level, so if you make under £50,000/year you will pay 10% capital gains, or 20% if you make more. In the US the bands are similar (0, 15, 20%), but I'm not sure how they're calculated sorry.

If we ignore the lowest band of income tax for comparison purposes, someone who makes 1 million in salary here in the UK will pay 45% roughly of that in tax. Someone who makes it all in capital gains will pay 10%

[0] https://www.wellsfargo.com/cib/institutional-investing/asset...
to be clear, the single-threaded behaviour of some implementations is, well, implementation specific. There is nothing in the C++ standard that requires that. In particular, for GCC under linux, the issue is that the unwinder need to parse the unwind tables and needs to protect itself from a concurrent ldclose yanking them under it. There is some work currently on GCC to move this cost from unwinding to ldclose and allow concurrent unwinding without breaking the ABI (but it is hard).
stuff like this is one argument I have against language version deprecation. Python 3.* is great for example but in the year 2199 people should still be able to write and use python2.7. That doesn't mean someone has to keep adding features or fixing non-security interpreter bugs. It just means the last release version is made available by python.org and support by OSes forever. Same with perl, rust,golang,etc...

Languages are not dialects, even in computing.
Java is the... uhm... exception here.

That's not how idiomatic C++ is. Nor Rust. Nor Go.

One of Java's (incl standard library) main design flaws is overuse of exceptions.

It should not be emulated. It's too late to fix Java, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
MariaDB value plunges by 52% in first two days as a public company
Forgetting about Aix, HP-UX,....?

It isn't as if it worked the same everywhere anyway.
Right but having contributions in either open source or your current company's github ones will look better than you writing same amount of code for the company's internal repositories
Thanks. I've fixed the pointer issue.

And yeah, HN's html and css is shocking.
The source you provided says that exports from North America are around 751,000 tons annually, with only 300,000 tons exported outside of North America. This NYT article says exports from the U.S. alone is 48 million tons, 25 million of which go to poorer countries [0].

> Data for January showed that exports of scrap plastic from the United States edged upward, to 48 million tons from 45 million tons the previous January. Exports to poorer nations were virtually unchanged from a year ago, totaling 25 million tons.

If these larger export numbers are correct, then the estimates in the article you provided should be multiplied by a factor of 10 at least.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/climate/plastics-waste-ex...
Ah, I misread the bullet points as pointing out problems.
Accumulated spending should be a better measurement than current wealth. Otherwise those with debt has negative wealth.
> If law enforcement is well-funded and works well - which isn't all that expensive or hard on a national scale - than what's the problem about extreme inequality?

Law enforcement in the US is insanely well funded. The NYPD, for example, has 5 billion dollars of budget for 50k employees and serves about 8.8 million citizens. In contrast, in the German state of Bavaria, a budget of 3.8 billion euros [1] supports 45.000 employees and 13 million people.

And yet, Bavaria has extremely low crime rates (the lowest in Germany with ~3700/100k people [2]), and the police stats could be even better if cops weren't forced to waste time on marijuana bullshit... while in New York, headlines referring to a lack of safety are more or less the norm [3].

The most interesting thing to me is: in absolute numbers, Bavaria had 508.000 crime reports filed in 2021 (cleaned up for cases of being in Germany unlawfully). New York reports 95.000 crimes in 2021... a sixth of the Bavarian absolute case count. What is the cause of this difference, and why is public perception of safety so immensely different?

[1] https://www.stmfh.bayern.de/haushalt/staatshaushalt_2019/hau... (page 5, table E, line "Polizei")

[2] https://www.tvmainfranken.de/auch-dank-wuerzburg-und-aschaff...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-is-nyc-safe-crime-st...

[4] https://www.newsweek.com/new-york-city-most-dangerous-year-c...
It also depends on the language. For example, Python very much operates under the "ask for forgiveness, not permission" mantra, and I even see this used for dict lookups. The number of times I encounter code like this:

try:
my_dict[key]
catch KeyException:
pass

rather than

if key in my_dict:
my_dict[key]

is astounding. I don't know what the performance difference is in Python though.
Stanford says don’t use the word blacklist as it’s harmful
The final season is high quality too. Not sure what happened in the middle.