skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would break US tax arguments down along a few axes. Individual political identities line up all over on different ones.

- Progressive rate vs flat
- Detailed vs simplified
- Policy via taxes vs outside of them
- Low taxes vs high taxes + benefits
- Use tax (e.g. sales) vs income tax
- Labor tax vs capital tax
- Gov-cooperative filing vs adversarial

My read on how we got to where we are is (1) all politicians love byzantine tax codes, because it allows sneaking favors in without repercussions + (2) people love getting money.

Consequently, we get a convoluted tax code that advantages special interests who can lobby, sold and balanced with enough direct benefits to people that they're happy.

Which... is a complicated sausage, but doesn't seem like the worst way to resolve a fundamental tension?

And then everyone stares at the resulting Rorschach blot of de facto tax codes and sees what they want to see.

"Look, it's ridiculously complicated! That's why we need a simple, flat rate tax!"

"Look, it's ridiculously complicated! That's because the corporations/wealthy are trying to screw you over!"
Five years away, I’m sure!

The really good stuff is perpetually five years away…
Have juniors plan out work first in design doc form and broken up into small deliverables. Helps to catch things early when they start down a rabbit hole.
It doesn't ignore the cost of rent. The numbers still pencil out on average. To put it another way, renting gives you an option to buy a house at any point in the future from a strictly better financial position than you'd be in than if you bought a house now. Owning a house is expensive, and the cost basis of the landlord is almost always much lower than your cost basis, so they can make a profit renting it for less than your cost if you bought it.

This is particularly true in the current market. For example, if you bought the place I own today with a 20% down payment, the monthly payments after subtracting payments against principal would significantly exceed the rent on the same place. Yet I could rent it out at a profit. If it was purely about optimizing financial outcomes, it would make no sense for anyone to buy my place.

You can very easily come out ahead financially by renting in many markets.
> Even if spacex does what is needed, the kuiper project alone is not what the board oversees, it is the entire company and its future profitablity to share holders.

That calls more into question than you would think. What is the business case for Project Kuiper in the first place, other than the self-dealing?

> Yes, bezos and musk compete, it's a business and you need to trust your business partners. No business will partner with another buisnedd they believe does not have their best interests.

Apple and Samsung compete, but Apple routinely buys Samsung parts for their products when Samsung parts are obviously the best choice that is available at scale. They don’t buy parts from a side business Tim Cook set up that has failed to produce a single part, and if they did, they would face the exact same type of lawsuit.

But it’s worse than that because Apple is already in the business of making their products. They aren’t launching a new product category the way Amazon is with Kuiper.
Quickly shipping a thousand lines of buggy code that you then spend the next month fixing (by writing thousands more lines of code) is a good way to fool everyone into thinking you are productive.
New Tesla Model 3 (Highland 2024)
I used sqlc with sqlite. The support seems fine there.

In general, sqlc is very nice to use. It works well out of the box with a standard config. You can also override a lot of things.

One of the nice extras about sqlc is that it doesn't feel like a real dependency.

You don't actually include sqlc anywhere. You just use a config and the cli to generate Go code that relies on the std library. The generated code is very straight forward std Go code that you could write by hand.

A couple of reasons to use Go in a project would be great support for IO, stability, great tooling, low operational complexity and minimal dependencies. sqlc fits nicely in there.
> I think you are significantly overestimating the average American's willingness and ability to calculate and understand something as simple as their "cash on cash return".

I think you are also underestimating market forces, average American doesn't need to calculate, real estate agents will tell you the price, they are not going to sell your house for 100K, if it costs 1M
I don't think this is really new. In first year of uni, my linear algebra professor would sometimes rant about how bad the business math students were at the subject, and they at least were in a major that required math. Students in majors that don't require math at all aren't going to have good math skills.
I've had this same cancellation conversation many times with JS programmers. I think it's fair to say there's a need for standardization. Evidence for this need is network request management is really poor in pretty much all JS apps.
> you have a rich multi-sensor mobile device as your authenticator

YOU, a relatively wealthy programmer/middle manager living in a first-world country, have access to such a device.

Ever think about who you're disenfranchising with tech like this? Or to whom you're ceding socioeconomic power and political influence?
> after a few years of Reddit, I started calling this kind of thing "internet advice"

Reddit "kama" is a popularity contest and has nothing to do with factual accuracy or genuine advice.
Sadly, IIUC Drew DeVault actively refuses to consider one for mainline Sourcehut (even if somebody else makes one for them).
> In my experience GPT is tuned to be totally deferential, "you're right, i apologize, let me try again!", no spine to tell me "yeah the task looks good"

This is definitely annoying, but considering their tendency to hallucinate facts it's usually preferable to something like this: https://scoop.upworthy.com/microsoft-chatbot-fights-with-hum...

But I do think it should be toned down a bit, especially if the user is just saying something like "are you sure that's right?"
Where? I found press releases stating some of this, but none of the actual docs/software.
Again, at anyone point in the last several decades when Democrats had control they could have pushed it through. Your quotes don’t change that reality.
Do you know anything about the history of striking? Can a scab walk past the picket line and take their job? If not, why not and how do the strikers enforce this? If yes, then what exactly is striking that makes it different from quitting or getting fired?
I recently looked at SICP again after first reading it many years ago. I had retained the overall impression that SICP demonstrates how to build many of the celebrated creations of computer science - interpreters, compilers, databases, logic programming systems, circuit simulators - using a very simple programming language with just a few constructs.

But I had forgotten many of the details. Here is just one: in 3.1.1, Local State Variables, SICP shows how to, in effect, define classes and create objects using only function definition with lambda and set! (that is, assignment) in the definition body. The function you define this way is a like a class, the functions it returns are like instances. So you can do all this without any specifically object-oriented language features. This occupies just a few pages near the beginning of a long book - the whole book is dense with worked-out ideas like this.

I would add that the cumulative effect of all these examples in SICP is to demonstrate that you can solve any programming problem from first principles - that is, by combining a few simple but powerful constructs in the several ways they describe. Moreover, a solution constructed this way might be simpler and easier to understand than a solution made the more usual way: by looking for a specialized language construct or library that seems to offer an already-made solution to the problem.

(This is copied from a comment I made here several years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8495934)
Nonsense. Most people write pretty useless unit tests. Gotta get that test "coverage" high though!
Then you pay someone to help, of course. That's the value add they can offer - no 'compromise' to appease them required. If they don't offer enough value to enough people, then they don't get to stay in business. No reason for the government to artificially sustain these businesses if they can't offer enough value without government aid.
That is a great example. By not taking account of risk on the front end by embracing change, the system gets progressively more expensive to maintain (extended support contracts) and the risk of eventual inevitable change grows higher. Further, the system becomes progressively less valuable compared with newer systems.
You don’t file a form with the IRS when you get married, have a child, divorce, pay for daycare, spend an unusual amount of income on healthcare, enroll at a local community college, leave your job, switch to selling pottery on eBay, buy a house, inherit money from the death of a relative, …

We could have IRS forms and the IRS maintaining an expansive database to cover all tax-relevant events and amounts, but that hardly seems desirable.

Federal income taxes are complex. Everyone will trip over that complexity multiple times in their lives, Federally-provided “easy file” or not.

EDIT: Just look at the qualifying criteria for the EITC, simultaneously one of the most important tax credits that many eligible low-income filers miss, and a massive source of tax fraud.

https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/earned-in...

How in the world does the IRS figure out automatically if you’re eligible?
I do wonder how many of the "owned" properties are neither rented-out nor resided-in.
> I currently have an 8% yield on cost that I am living off of and renting $1800/mo in Palo Alto.

That seems really cheap for Palo Alto.
>"My software crashes so often that it's worth the time to automate restarting it" is what I'd expect of a windows user.

This is insulting even for windows users.
Related discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37315802
OP here. You are right, but the minimum point totals eliminates any benefits that can be achieved from scrum, it forces engineers to incentivize survival over project momentum. If a story is really a 3 pointer but I know that if I close 2 3 point stories in a week then I am pipped, suddenly those 3 point stories are 5 point stories.

On the teams that played fair, it was a mix of sr. and jr. and the sr. measuring that story at a 3 meant the jr. was working the weekend. Over and over again.

Note: On the happy team, we had almost no supervision, not even a scrum master. We just looked out for each other. That 3 point story often suddenly became an 8 as the end of the week approached and no one blinked. That team incidentally was the only one that consistently got good reviews from management.
This comment is a beautiful example of just that - if I read this correctly, you're already judging them for their take on spirituality .
Please correct me if I'm wrong - but personally, approaching new ideas with an open mind, instead of a mind that has already come to a judgement, has served me very well .
> really strange for someone to ace "honors physics" to then fail qualifications for intro calculus

Famously, there can be "plug in the numbers" physics. Zero conceptual understanding required, And then all you need to know about fractions is to "divide" that entry on the calculator.

For example, in a PSSC high-school physics course, I remember adding four or five terms when analyzing a calorimetry experiment, with no awareness of adding compatible (same units) energy-related terms.

In some ways a high-school student might be better served in a conceptual physics course, if competently taught.
Those are not important at all, or the top software projects would be using them. Linux kernel is doing fine without the velocity point story tickets. Agile "planning" which is used in worse software projects is snake oil.
Agreed. LLMs process information on their own.

I thought you were saying it was "obvious" that the processing demonstrated intelligence.

My point was the level of intelligence shown is relative the quality and quantity of the data used for training. The data is where the intelligence is and the model is a compression of that latent intelligence.
Does it grow two stories high like in the Smurfs so he could have fallen off the top too?
… So you let them enjoy work but fucked them on salary?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364865
There is one basic rule to survive: not sure(like 100% absolutely sure) - don't gather.
>Where do your rights begin and another’s end?

This idea of a nice binary black and white cutoff for rights does not, and has not ever existed. This really is an absurdist American viewpoint. Let's make an example

"it's my legal right to pour a cup of water out on my property"

And, no one would really disagree with that.

"So I'm going to do it with a million cups of water all at once"

In which a flood happens destroying others property..., then we would see that the measure of ones actions is the consequences to others. If you make a car for yourself, go ahead and build it how you want. If you are making a mass produced product it's no longer about you or your rights. It's a superposition of your rights, the buyers rights, and the 'publics' rights as you dispose of that product.
I am always surprised when I hear how americans students learn "Algebra" in highschool. It makes me think that German schools are way behind. I mean algebra is about mathematical structures like Fields, Rings, Groups or even "Algebras" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra_over_a_field).
One thing that no one wants admit and much less industries and investors is that there’s no additive solution for the environmental problem. The way small farms operate might be sustainable but it’s impossible to keep consuming animal products at the current rate in sustainable manner. Consuming animal products 3 times a day 7 days a week is just egregious.
There is one boletus you should definitely avoid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubroboletus_satanas
I’m curious what the purpose of consciousness is exactly and if this is a method of solving the alignment problem? Kind of reminds me of the old brain in 1,000 brains and how that in fact would cause the misalignment
Does Discord charge or have some type of contractual agreement with you? It does seem odd -- they must have some checking on addresses and personal information and what you posted just happens to match that regex.
Seriously? You're still confused?

I believe the article is factually correct-ish, but is sensationalized and is spreading FUD and causing unnecessary potential panic.

That's why. I'm downplaying because it needs downplaying.
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It’s been impossible for me to get a ticket to attend. How do I increase my odds of getting one? You’re lucky to have gone 4 times already!
Reagan believed paying taxes should hurt - the more painful to pay, the more the public would want to do away with taxes. Reagan did soften his stance while in the White House, but the GOP never got on board, even to this day.
One should be careful about what they put in a signal handler. Doing complex things like calling into Foundation, especially in a signal handler that indicates something has really gone wrong, is probably not a good idea.
Who’s to say what comes first? Even if one thinks other things as being more important to fix, fixing less important things builds the ability to fix other thing.
Not everyone thinks purely in how good of an investment it is. While there are of course downsides, there are advantages, like just decorating and building out stuff just how you like, and not having to ask your landlord. Also people who are more risk averse towards stock markets (Hi, I'm German) will probably prefer a house/flat over some stocks.
I'd much rather have actual objects somehow. Building a whole new syntax structure for meta objects seems like a serious folly to me.

And ideally types should (optionally) be available at runtime too. This whole idea here seems like such a halfway idea, solving some needs by inventing a ton of new "meta" ideas & syntax. Rather than accepting JavaScript's once string everything is an object spirit.

"Typescript please give us types" showed up 2 months ago & captured the ask well. This here feels like such an overly complicated syntax-heavy half-measure versus that more pure ask. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637221 https://github.com/akutruff/typescript-needs-types
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t then.
Well my phone is possessed now. Great.
> There’re trademark fair use, and it looks like they try to take away some part of it, through forbidding to use word Rust in other product names.

I’m not familiar with any form of trademark fair use that would extend to use of the mark in a product name that is in any way within the scope where (fair use aside) trademark would be an issue. Nominative fair use of trademark would extend to using the trademark in product descriptions to describe specifically the thing that the mark refers to; it lets you say things like that your product is for use with Microsoft Windows. But it won’t let you use “Microsoft Windows” as part of your product name.
a manager that truly relies on story points as a direct metric of productivity wouldn't be reading blogs like this in the first place to make themselves better. the article is preaching to the choir of engineers and at a minimum half way decent managers nodding and upvoting. the ones that truly need to read this and embody it will never see it
You are describing a typical 1040EZ filing.

I’m glad we’re in agreement that most people shouldn’t have to file this.
The complex tax code created by the government is the only reason they exist in the first place.
“Winners Take None:” Coworking, Self Storage, Scooters
Nothing to do with hacking or computers but this quote is just ugh

> Getting pounded violently in the vagina, anus and mouth from uncaring men all night takes a serious toll on your body
I can’t imagine having to debug that. How do you assert that hardware behaved as you expected?

Do you post this on LinkedIn/Twitter at all? I would love to share it.
What does earned the right to do what they want even mean. Why ought a society with pragmatic concerns ever concede those concerns based on a defective moral model where a party by doing some good somehow earns the right for society to somehow to put aside the needs of 338 million for the benefit of a dozen assholes in a boardroom.

This is a privilege that in a decent society ought not be available at any price.

It's silly to say that they are under no obligation when what we are talking about with right to repair is literally whether we ought to create such an obligation.

If you disagree you must explain why such an obligation is a net negative for the millions not the few.

I await your argument to that effect.
> The so called democratic process objectively sucks.

It's not the democratic process that's the issue, it's the first-past-the-post. Fortunately the party to win the 2015 election vowed: "To make sure that every vote counts, the Government will undertake consultations on electoral reform, and will take action to ensure that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system.", so it must be fixed...
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which is controlled by state agencies in each state.

The National Board of Medical Examiners which administers the US Medical Licensing Exam just happens to be made up of AMA members. You can't get licensed in any state without passing this exam first.
> Small nit: I can 'jump' (read: charge the battery of) other cars with my model X, as long as the other car is an ICE car. In the frunk there is a panel that pops off and underneath there are (unlabeled) 12V and ground terminals that I can put jumper cables on.

"Jump" isn't the same as "charging the battery" of other cars.

You can charge a 12v car battery with as little as 4A if you're willing to wait. Jump starting requires between 45 and 60A, minimum. For a larger car engine, you're looking at 80A-100A, or even more.

I don't think that the EV 12v terminals are able to provide that sort of current; I think those terminals are provided so that normal camping equipment (lights, winch, things like that) can be powered.
I agree. The model is where the intelligence is which is the compressed intelligence latent in the training data.

I am arguing similar to John Searle that the processing is not intelligent. The model is a Searlean rulebook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
"every software project will inevitably have some risky element or difficult to estimate task"

You are exactly right here. At this company though, that risk on a personal level could mean a pip. So the happy teams inflated the story points massively to ensure that any or no risk was accounted for and they survived to code another day.
This is a very interesting post, thanks for sharing, and even if most are not doing it deliberately as this person is it confirms the issue with such sites.
A union would provide the sort of employment protections much of Europe alreadys enjoys.
Yup, we invited the repost because it looked like a good article for HN and hadn't gotten much attention.

There's a saga behind this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364619 if anyone's interested...
Well, it is still a better Medium.
When I wrote counterpoint, I meant to your opening "Folks, the article is breathless and ridiculous" and closing ":rolleyes:" because those sound (to me) like shallow dismissals. And felt (to me) like you were downplaying safety measures.

I'll delete my counterpoint word. My comment focuses on safety measures.
This is definitely propaganda comment: eating mushrooms in Russia is never considered as risky.
Plastic bags certainly have their issues, but I don’t think that a textile bags won’t tangle and kill marine life and wreak havoc in new and unique ways.
Could you by any chance list the other books?

Just finished reading The Innovator's Dilemma. Phenomenal read.
I am just Russian who live in Russia and have some local context here.
You are free to call me a troll, but I think you are just devaluing opinions that you don't like.

At least I can speak about local mushroom eating traditions and dangers from first hands - I do it from childhood.
I'm less concerned about malware than what it will do to my eyes after hours of looking at it. Will I start having depth perception problems? There aren't glasses for that...
If you're planning for non-24/7 usage, and space isn't at a premium, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
As someone that spent lots of time with Amigas and Demoscene, the complete joke part is a bit overboard, considering the multitasking limitations and the mix of Assembly, BCPL and C.
I think we put that one in https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights if anyone can find it there...

Edit: ah yes -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36812285 (July 2023)
They work fine for everything that doesn't require immediate response on first load, and even the there are ways to address that - for instance special pages for entry points and/or loading indicators.

For general performance you can cache the modules using a service worker.

In any case they are fine for most use cases.