skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want high quality home goods from amazon then you have to search for high quality materials: silk, linen, wool.

Same for knives: damascus steel, high carbon steel, etc.

If you just search for knives or sheets, or even cotton/bamboo sheets, the results are all a commoditized race to the bottom on price.
I assume this is what is being referred to: https://spectrum.ieee.org/lithium-ion-battery-disruption-rea...
A tax bill that includes everything you have to pay but no deductions. So you have to pay for tax software or someone to do your taxes anyway or you get ripped off by the government. I would rather get ripped off by a corporation.
This gets to the heart of the argument Christopher Schwarz makes in his book, The Anarchist's Design Book [1], which is that it's nearly impossible for people who aren't rich to buy high quality furniture that will last a lifetime. An alternative is to build it yourself. The Anarchist's Design book presents relatively simple plans for building high quality furniture without requiring a ton of experience or tools.

[1] https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-design-book
IKEA is like a chain restaurant, you know what you’re getting into and there’s a fair bit of supply.

It is probably a lot easier to acquire a set of used Ikea furniture that matches reasonably well, than doing it with the random stuff that gets out there.
https://www.gingkofurniture.com has plenty of stuff in the $400-2k range, and most of their pieces are also buy it for life. Solid hardwood (walnut) construction, steel-framed shelving, etc. They have physical locations in the bay area.
Great, let’s do it.

Who here looks at the current US government and thinks “this is working great, let’s have more of it?” Because that’s what more taxes does. It doesn’t fix deficiencies.

Didn’t take 5 minutes before the “roads are good” straw man emerged.
> For extra points you can wipe polyurethane along any raw particle-board surfaces to seal them, like those on the bottom of a vertical unit.

This alone is probably worth its weight in gold.
I got into a bit of a fight over whether or not "Merge" should be an option on one's own PRs. "Trust" suggests that a developer should be able to review their own code changes, especially for small/trivial things or "expert" level things that no one else feels qualified to review and just leave open for weeks/months instead of even trying to review it (in turn often making it harder to merge without conflicts).

There's a great value in "every change was peer reviewed by someone", of course. There's also a value in "not every change is significant and sometimes you can trust developers to know that".

You can possibly install the fear of accountability if a bug happens in code that the reviewer was the developer until they want that learning opportunity of a code review.

In my experience, most of the "expert-level" developers almost always would love any feedback anyone wanted to offer because their imposter syndrome tells them it is awful and not to sign off on it, but are also more likely to get blocked if their PRs don't move fast enough.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. But you do understand that from an enduser view, this doesn't really matter? What the original commenter meant that they like the simplicity of Trello, because it's just a kanban board. Notion is much more flexible than that as a user.
God help me if I ever took my GF to Sur La Table, I'd need a line of credit handy.
They can last a lot longer than that but that’s about the duration that frp has existed for boats, probably early ‘60s is when production boats started to use frp hulls.

Frp is great for fuel tanks and exhaust systems - it’s superior to stainless for these applications (corrosion resistance being key factor). But yes as mentioned by sibling UV will definitely degrade
I find this "spiral" concept showing up in other cases as well, and I agree that it's under-rated (or under-studied) as a way to understand the complex numbers. By thinking about periodic points on a complex spiral, you can extend many useful properties of polynomials to those with rational coefficients. We can begin to talk about the roots of equations like x^(3/2) + x^(1/2) = 0 and we find results that very naturally extend from roots of similar "standard" polynomials. We can see that x^(1/2) = 0 has half as many roots as x^1 = 0, and x^(1/4) = 0 has half again as many roots, even if they all "project" down to 1 -- their periodicity on the spiral is 4pi and 8pi instead of the standard 2pi. I feel like there's a lot going on there that hasn't been explored.
They lobby to keep the situation as it is against numerous attempts to improve things.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...

https://www.propublica.org/search?qss=intuit
I'm actually ok with a usage tax, but it's nearly impossible to have a sliding scale usage tax and maintain relative anonymity of the user.
I was going to comment this as well. Similar to a used Hondas, IKEA furniture can fetch higher prices because it’s so ubiquitous and easy to own. You know it will be easy to move, what to expect, and where you can find spare parts.

Not to mention when people need only one thing from IKEA, some will pay a premium to get it from down the street versus driving to IKEA.
There are a number of influential libertarian & fiscal conservative lobbying groups that have significant sway, that argue that doing so means people become unaware of how they're being taxed, and for how much. Signing the form becomes a tick box exercise.

I can see and empathise with their concerns, but... eh. Just let me have my form thank you.

I really miss the UK's PAYE system.
A better solution would be to scrap income & capital gains tax altogether, thus sparing 90%+ of taxpayers from having to file at all.

Shifting to a higher consumption tax would put the onus on businesses that sell things, not the average person.

It would also greatly reduce the need for governments to surveil citizens to make sure they're not evading taxes.
How poignant, that the obvious solution is the worst "solution" of all, due to human nature.
TST is great, but it's nothing like Edge vertical tabs, which contain exactly the right amount of functionality for zero friction use. I have tried to get the same effect in Firefox, Vivaldi, pretty much anything that isn't Edge, but I keep coming back to Edge because it is so central to how I use the browser at a basic interaction level and, simultaneously, so simple to use that I can put up with (and deactivate) the other annoyances.
Deep nets are notoriously overconfident in their predictions. So why do you expect this approach to succeed?
It's the same news event, but it's not the same article. Perhaps one is written better, or is somehow more appealing to HN? Who knows. Not sure if "materially identical" would account for that.
Google announces free bigger screens for all users!
> reliant on the assumption advertising revenue will be going up forever?

Who has that assumption? At some point ads just reach steady state as a percentage of an economic sector, and therefore their growth simply mirrors GDP growth. Yes it will grow forever as the economy grows forever, but no faster.

I don't think anybody thinks advertising is going to eat the whole economy, so I don't think there are any implications in that not happening.
Same, brother.
This reminds me of a case I saw a couple of years, working for a company that delivered a document software. We had documents accessible through the web, open, but with a obfuscated URL, as a good amount of other companies in similar spaces. One morning we found a good amount of documents indexed in Bing, as well as invoices from some of Norways largest credit card companies, e-invoice suppliers etc.

We never got to the bottom of how it happened, but our theory was that Edge would send browsing history back to MS; and MS/Bing would index based on this. So this seems to be a practice that has been going on for a long time

Some old articles about it:
https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/norge/fodselsnummer-fra-br...
https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/norge/felleskjopet-beklage...
Microsoft Q3 2023: Windows, devices, and Xbox down again
Can US taxpayers not just do a freedom of information request to to the IRS, and base their tax return on that?

https://www.irs.gov/privacy-disclosure/irs-freedom-of-inform...
Not sure if this is due to Google "being unhealthy" or overall economy contracting. If the drop / stagnation is due to economy contracting these results are still very good.
I love the idea of solar panels, and being fully independent without reliance on government systems. Not to mention, the sun hitting your roof is energy you don't even want. Why not convert that back into electricity?

But that price tag is brutal. I assume to solar panel your roof would be around $20k+. Plus the price of an EV. These aren't items you can really buy used either. Old/weak EV batteries aren't "repairable" like an old car is.

It just comes back to my point of it being a nice luxury for rich people. I keep my budget for my vehicles at $5k max. I will never see a new/used EV & solar panel system for that price.
The point is the _amount_, not whether we co-evolved or not
You seem to be assuming that the only reason someone would downvote you is because they are tin foil hatters, or "nutters". I did not downvote you, but I could understand someone doing so for either or all of these reasons:

1. Your comment was kind of a "me too" comment that added nothing (or little) of substance to the conversation. On HN these types of comments are typically downvoted, regardless of topic or whether the voter is wearing a tinfoil hat.

2. You complained about the downvoting, and in addition added a personal insult to the downvoters. Personal insults are typically downvoted on HN as well.

3. You dismissed and strawmanned the "entire discussion" as "mostly people ranting about things we don't even know to be true." This type of thing is also frequently downvoted as it doesn't add anything substantive.
The problem isn't that taxes are complicated. For most people, they're really not complicated. They're simple enough for most of us that - like OP suggested - the IRS really could just send you a bill calculated from the information they already have and you could just pay what you owe (or deposit what you receive).

The minority of tax payers who have more complicated taxes would still have to file returns like they do now. But the overwhelming majority of those people are probably already going through professionals or using commercial software (like Intuit's) - not looking for FOSS tax software to do it themselves.
Actually it might be, but we shouldn't give it the negative connotation "coping mechanism". That suggests that there's no inner change and that it's just a coat of paint in someone's life. God helps us cope because His promises are tangible, true, and good. It's a lot deeper than a "mechanism", it's a change of heart.
On the off-chance that your use-case is "minicom to some Linux serial-console", you might be surprised to learn that minicom has rz/sz support built right into it! Assuming that your remote device has lrzsz installed, you can copy files right through your terminal, exactly like you're describing. It's certainly not the fastest transfer-rate, but it's handy in a pinch.
I'm glad you're calling out that the US in general has had a complicated tax situation well before the Intuits and the H&R Blocks of the world came into being. It's easy to look to a singular demon when the problem is complex and generational.

However, the callouts for tax return preparation companies lobbying against simplification are still valid. It's also fair to advocate for changing the allocation of energy by the US's IRS from auditing underprivileged folks and slapping them with fines to assisting them in validating that they've met their tax obligations.
For how often the article talks about end-to-end encryption, and the chat control regulation looming around the corner, I have a hard time trust their statistics that child sexual abuse "category A" has doubled in the last 2 years.

Most cases of child sexual abuse is found either by health care professionals, people working in education, or by common police work. If the rate has doubled the last 2 years than society should react sensible by increasing funding to those institutions and departments that are responsible for catching that kind of criminals. Are we? If not, why?

To provide some data points here that I do trust, the Swedish government has a government department responsible for researching and collecting data around crime. They also publish yearly statistics with graphs. There has been a 10% increase since last year of cases involving sexual assault where the victim is in the age 0-15, and decreased by 7% for those of age 15-18. Those numbers seems a bit more realistic, and the appropriate response would still be to increase funding to those institutions and departments that are responsible for catching that kind of criminals.
... they're crashing on purpose? What are you trying to imply?
I build software for a living - building a program to take a list of 1000 brackets and compute the graduated tax rate would take about fifteen minutes (in a vacuum).

This is not a real problem.

(In response to your edit)
Do you think accountants are currently working by slide rule? The tax code is currently extremely corrupted by loopholes and exceptions. My original hyperbolic statement was to highlight that the graduation of income tax is dirt simple. We've currently got seven tax brackets and it is trivial to calculate what you're going to owe based on them, even if we pushed seven to a thousand it's still a trivial calculation to run.
Much of that "marginal land" originally had animals grazing on it anyway. We have barely more cows in this country now than buffalo at their peak. "Re-wilding" land would just mean we have animals grazing at that we don't eat.
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Yoshino
Cloud turning a profit is a good thing, and makes sense. But cloud is also a super competitive market - not so for Search or Ads. Those two feel like the places Google can rely on money coming from - revenue falling for those is worrying!
> What about their hardware business?

It was never taken seriously (source: worked there)

Pixel sells as many phones per year as iPhone sells on the first day.
How is MySQL simpler? I'm a big fan of simplicity even at the cost of features, but they seem like the same level of complexity.
Of course but that's not what the parent comment is asking clarification on. Dividends are, generally, not taxed at income tax rate if you are buy and hold. They are taxed at CG rate.

A bigger downside of dividends is that you can't offset qualified dividends income with capital losses (except up to the $3000 annual limit). And compounding is different because you pay tax only at the end rather than every year. But those are different issues.

While I'm at there's the additional wrinkle that being able to actually get a significant LTCG rate difference by deferring the income really depends on structure of your future income and when in your lifetime you will sell.
Not really, but that doesn't mean they would continue to exist without it.
> They didn't do a good job of it;

They didn't do a good job of representing women, at all; they did (for something coming out of the 1970s wargaming community) a phenomenal, awesome, unmatched, beyond anyone’s wildest dreams (especially anyone at TSR) job of marketing to women, and that’s even before (and largely why) they actually started to try.

> modern feminism has a lot to say about the misogyny of the entire franchise.

Sure, though I am not sure how that’s at all germane to the discussion.

> I'm assuming you're defensive as a fan of the genre

You are, of course, free to make any assumptions you’d like.

> You don't have to dig very far in any online enticement/runaway case before you discover something like:

> Both the teen and the Hunter Fox account made frequent references to the online furry community — a group of people who roleplay as anthropomorphized animal characters.

If you “something like” extremely broadly, so it encompasses all kinds of exclusionary subcultures, including fundamentalist religious groups, then true. If you mean it a narrow enough sense that the word “roleplaying” is at all germane, then, you aren’t paying enough attention or are doing it through media that is painting you a highly-selectively filtered picture.

> "Role playing" is a common denominator in these cases so frequently it's on most lists of grooming red flags published by every credible international child safety organization, and for good reason

This is true only in the same sense that “conversation" or ”joking” or “accident” is on those lists for good reason. That is, in the portion of the list of warning signs that describes the sexualization of the relationship, common examples of how the groomer will do this include things like “sexual jokes”, “sexual conversation/roleplay”, “accidentally exposing the child to sexual/pornographic images”, etc.

Neither “conversation, “roleplaying", or “accidents” (either as concepts or words that might be used by a child) are the problem.

> I like RPGs myself, so I'm not panning them or trying to imply all role-players are pedophiles or trying to instigate the next Satanic Panic,

And yet you are taking these exactly as out of context as would be consistent with that.
For me it's one of those learn it once and get it over with. They really are powerful and if you spend one weekend on learning, it should be enough to go a long way.
discord isn't on there.
Other countries have this figured out, but I guess it just must be impossible in the USA. Thank God we have Intuit to help us!

No, Intuit's hands are not clean in this, and while corporate taxes might be intrinsically complicated (the information does have to enter the system somewhere), personal taxes are largely not.
Why in this case would it cause significant problems? Are you referring to the heating (that would make sense with such a large surface area of panels)?
Concerning cooling- with such short times in eclipse I can’t imagine that it would have enough time to have cooling issues beyond flexing of the superstructure (if made from metals). Be interested to hear though if I’m missing something.

As to power disappearing with an adequately geographically integrated grid I don’t forsee that as really too much of a problem. Currently the grid deals with short term outs fairly well especially if they are planned for months in advance.
I left the UK for exactly this reason. I love(d) London so much before - it's the city where I started my career, as a foreigner nonetheless, and it wholly adopted me as near equal citizen with open arms. Plus, being an Indian, it's one of the few places where I actually exercised my right to vote.

But visiting back today, the decline in the country in just a span of a few years, it's simply unbearable to watch. The country is simply on a decline, in spite of some of the brightest minds in the EU and the world studying and working there.

And London was supposed to be the city that dominated New York around 10-20 years ago.
Queue in the metaverse.
Agreed. Individuals/Families make their opinions clear on the issue publicly and through support channels. But 1P cares about the enterprise market which is much more valuable currently and those clients presumably provide less vocal feedback, so this tool will be more to capture their data to make decisions based on that. It's unfortunate, as 1P is such a great product overall, but like products such as Spark Mail, all seem to end up building on the backs of consumers, to make it to the holy grail of enterprise. Then customers are left with the products aimed for mass market that lacks all the power user features they are accustomed too.
If someone has compiled a cost comparison of transcontinental HVDC links compared with the alternative spaceborne solution I'd certainly love to see it.

The space based solution is possibly actually more reliable, as there are actually less components involved that could fail.
It is almost unbelievable to me that anyone who's been able to become aware of & use a niche app like Obsidian has never come across Notion. Obsidian is definitely a power-user tool, which one would usually use after considering the other options, with Notion being almost as default as a choice as Evernote once was.

Additionally, a lot of apps now are even using it as their support bases. It almost feels unavoidable at this point.
Yeah, but how much? The crust is far deeper than humans are capable of penetrating. It's probably a fair concern that it's also far deeper than humans are capable of cooling.
> That's a good description of most teams

Really? "Arch-enemies whose stated goal is to destroy each other and who are pointing world-ending nuclear arsenals at each other" is a good description of most teams?

My condolences.
If the biggest problem is energy distribution, then we've won. Sure, it's not an easy problem, but it's a problem we've solved in the past. Yes, EV's will require grid expansion, but it's a similar problem in terms of scale and rate as the adoption of air conditioning.
I'm back in US

There's DEFI yield in US.
https://www.coinbase.com/earn?filter=DEFI
Foot pound second is such a weird unit. How did that pass the quality controls?

I also don’t understand how one team of educated engineers could decide to use imperial units instead of metric units.
> constant annoyance to me whenever such topics come here.

I'll say that thinking about things at the edge of my understanding, where "Eureka!" moments are low hanging fruit, results in the highest dump of dopamine out of any other activity. Having silly fun speculating (and I make it clear when I am) my way through some thought process is literally the most fun I can have. Seeing those types of conversations, full of genuine curiosity, thoughtful speculation, and all the resulting corrections/discussions/insight, etc, is why I love HN so much, and I hope it's always a place to nerd out.

One mans trash is another mans treasure, I suppose. :)
An almost flat ad business is not bad because of the post pandemic situation.
My favorite candidate for 'getting cheated for credit' on the DNA discovery is Erwin Chargaff, whose work pointed towards the specific base pairing involved. Of course, the arbitrary 3-person cutoff for Nobel Prizes is not at all reflective of how science is done in practice in terms of the numbers of people involved over time in any major discovery:

> "Key conclusions from Erwin Chargaff's work are now known as Chargaff's rules. The first and best known achievement was to show that in natural DNA the number of guanine units equals the number of cytosine units and the number of adenine units equals the number of thymine units."

> "The second of Chargaff's rules is that the composition of DNA varies from one species to another, in particular in the relative amounts of A, G, T, and C bases. Such evidence of molecular diversity, which had been presumed absent from DNA, made DNA a more credible candidate for the genetic material than protein."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Chargaff#Chargaff's_rule...

Not to distract from Rosalind Franklin's contributions, but if anyone is looking for a female role model in molecular biology and biochemistry with a major influence and a long career, Barbara McClintock is probably at or near the top of that list:

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/barbara-mcclintock...
Companies are perfectly happy to sell you down the river to make a quick buck, too. Proprietary software cannot be trusted, because for-profit institutions cannot be trusted. They aren't in the business of serving you, they're in the business of chasing ever increasing profits.

Maybe those goals align at some point, but corporations' alignment drift makes AI look downright peachy.
„Leaking“ makes this sound unintentional