skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can use a flat tax system

Maybe you could help me with this because I never understood it. It seems like the tiered rates of our tax is the least of our worries.

I can see an argument that mathematically it's more complicated than flat, but it's just arithmetic. And practically speaking, nobody does it anyway. The computer figures it out, or they look in the tax table. And that's the same thing they're going to be doing if we have a flat tax, right?

You mentioned the additional complexities of the tax code, which I agree are titanic, but doing away with those doesn't mean we need to do away with tiered tax rates.

I guess in my mind, flat tax isn't really much of a gain. And we have to be extra careful to not make it regressive (with something like, as you suggest, UBI.)

Am I missing something?
AI at Work
> This can contribute to run off and groundwater contamination.

More than straight up synthetic nitrogen fertilizer? Or any of the many other commonly used inputs that stick around for way longer than the organic alternatives?

You sound like you’re not convinced that I actually do this for a living, and continue to make up a reality that suits your preconceptions.
How are bureaucrats insulated, exactly? Congress can change laws whenever they want. Read your history ... when congress first provided the federal government the ability to collect tariffs, they didn't include in the constitution instructions for how the US Coast Guard would work. Hamilton did that, providing regulation for exactly what kind of boats, equipment, employees, and many other details. It would have been unthinkable by the founders that the Supreme Court would be able to vote to disallow the use of a certain kind of boat, or the policing of a specific waterway. These corporations are attempting to get the US Supreme Court to re-litigate the entire 250 years of settled law and regulation. There are no words.
battery powered devices is a whole segment rpi cant even put a foot in the door

do hobbyists care? usually not
If you accept that people are going to rely on things you didn't contract for by mistake then you're right back to Hyrum's Law. It's that easy.

Hyrum's Law isn't about what you should do, or how things should be, it's telling you an observable fact about our world that some people don't like. So no, the law isn't going to fix people's beliefs any more than Newton's Laws did for weird beliefs about motion.

I'd actually say the importance of documentation is better understood in the Rust community. Including, which is vital here, the importance of not relying on humans remembering to read all this text when you've got better options. Rust has documentation telling you that you're not promised whether or not some elements which compare equal are swapped when you [T]::sort_unstable. But it doesn't need to spend a lot of time warning you that that you shouldn't [T]::sort_unstable a slice of type T which doesn't even claim to have ordering, because the compiler rejects such nonsense anyway.

Indeed even the naming is an example. In C++ that function is just named sort. Because you know, an unstable sort is faster†. Will it sometimes surprise some poor noob because it's unstable? Sure, but apparently that's OK because if they had read and properly digested the documentation they would know it's an unstable sort. I suggest if the function were named better the user is much less likely to make this mistake before they even glance at the documentation.

† Typically
I've used it with nuxtjs (front-end) and it's the greatest thing ever. Forces Junior devs to make front-end files that can be inuitively found by the nature of what they are (the file's filename has a logical relationship with it's URL in the browser), no longer need to maintain large garbage piles called router files. Objectively, there's literally no advantage to manually managing a router file. NuxtJS proves this for the front-end SPA.

I've been looking for a backend nodejs HTTP framework that is a) Typescript-first b) actually good that has file-system-based routing and so far haven't found anything. Adding HTTP methods on top of what nuxtjs' filesystem based routing does has me a little skeptical of what's possible, but I'll investigate Hono on this basis alone.

Also the "Edge-first" thing tells me this backend framework is probably better tree-shakable than what most other ancient/modern nodejs http servers have been doing. Cold starts will be better no matter where you deploy.
10 years ago would've agreed with you, these days I'm not so sure.

Where do you think people looking for long term relationships are looking ?
Recognized tribes in the US are their own legal entities, with similar theoretically legal status to US states. You're right that it seems unlikely they have $1B lying around to invest. I expect they'll need to finance the project in some way.
The VSCode-Neovim extension does this for VSCode, I use it over the VSCode vim extension which is just an emulator.
Last time I checked, Agile had zero to say about documentation. Is there any improvement on this front ?
The patent system is what promotes R&D. Once your patents expire anyone can manufacture your drug without ever having done any of the initial work. Drug companies have a pipeline of new drugs going through the decade of studies and trials it takes to bring them to the market and the ongoing survival of the company depends on some of these being a success.

Would love to see some of the people here crying about obscene profits try their hand at investing in pharma companies. Its an easy way to lose a lot/all of your money.

This podcast provides some interesting color on the industry:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/novo-nordisk-ozempic
Are there countries which have universal healthcare, and health care data is not stored already at a centralized place? This is not new at all. At least definitely not in Europe.
Figured this out because I was curious- This would makeup about .17% of total US electricity consumption in 2022.

Assuming 4 trillion kWh.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect....
If it's a requirement why don't you care that they are running a scam?
"not profit from" != "work for free"

The healthcare system in Europe doesn't gauge its sick citizens the way the U.S. healthcare system does, and yet, last I checked, doctors in Europe, while certainly earning less than in the U.S., do not "work for free" or are unable to provide for themselves and their families.
Being poor and active.

I think the whole “high sugar/calorie food is prevalent and cheap” is a symptom of relatively wealthy counties that have leisure time.

I feel like if bad food wasn’t so cheap and we worked 7 days a week, that would “fix” our culture.

But since the cat’s out of the bag, I don’t see us going back to constant work. We seem to like leisure time and sugar is really cheap. Even in “poor” countries, diabetes is creeping up because we’re getting the processed foods from Europe and the US.
> pip wasn't pythons first package-manager, and obviously wasn't it just created with version 1.0. There were already years of history at that point.

All the more reason it should have been so much better if it has already had time to learn from & iterate on past efforts.

Don't get my wrong, there's plenty of examples of projects ignoring well-known best practices (see the community backlash at Cargo's approach to name spacing or Homebrew loudly ignoring community feedback on FS permissions for 10+ years), but at this stage in 2024 you'd think we'd have gotten a little further than we have.
I have. I have some huge Markdown documents I've needed to load and VSCode cannot render them without becoming super slow. In contrast, vim gets it done.
The Pleasure at Being the Cause
We've been there with that, though. It creates cliques, or worse, it promotes a charlatan to a position of relative authority.

I agree; there are more options than my imagination can muster, and I hope you find a successful one.
Yeah, that's the textbook explanation, I guess. So I'll stick to it in interviews, as useless it is in real life.

All the hoops for this... Codegen, excluding from coverage, Lombok, and all that magic to hide you from a simple obj.field that is all you're doing in 99.9% of cases. It's just so rare in practice. I think the language itself should allow for readonly fields and property setters for the extremely rare occasions where you need this.
What do you propose as an alternative? Coal has to mine their source material. Oil has to drill for their source material. One is much cleaner than the others. Nuclear is where I think we should moving in a perfect world, but the general population is fairly misinformed on modern day nuclear power generation.
>>2) Computer crashes cost lives. If e.g. your doctor's device has an issue mid-surgery, you potentially pay.

>Sounds like a good reason to regulate medical devices and force them to undergo certification as well. Surely you wouldn't want the the computer to have ECC memory, but it decides to reboot for a 2 hour update?

Did you know that medical reports are frequently viewed on consumer or consumer-grade hardware? Or that there is software that is classified as a class II medical device that runs on iOS devices and commodity desktops? Or that class III devices like pacemakers now often use phone apps for things like managing telemetry? It's all well and good to make sure the hardware in the OR is reliable, but that's woefully insufficient.
It sounded like he had a pro rata, but he couldn't afford to exercise his pro rata. Borrowing money to invest in a startup that you've left and that the board values at approximately worthless is a pretty tough sell, both to yourself and to a potential lender.
I’m guessing you’re a man?
Startup would have to be terrible for me to bother.

VS Code starts in under a couple of seconds, and I have it open all day long; once open, other windows open even faster than that.

If it took any longer than a couple of seconds, I'd start blaming the extensions other editors won't have.
Grass doesn't need direct sunlight to grow. Since the sun moves, only a very small percentage of the area is in shadow all day anyways.

I am passing by a solar farm as I am writing this. And The grass below and beside the panels looks the same.

Here is a pic I found on the internet:

https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Sheep-Solar...
I wonder what kind of capacity factor they're using.
Maybe propagandize/recruit more women. 60% of university enrollment female, 25% STEM. If you want bodies for technical military roles, there's your recruitment bottleneck.
ASML took over as the No. 1 chip equipment maker by Revenue in 2023
Xcode only, AFAICT from the article. No idea what languages will be supported.
I'm taking issue with the claim that not doing something that Putin doesn't want you to do is being "literally pro-Putin". There is an infinite list of things that Putin doesn't want us to do- nuking Russia, for example- and there are many reasons other than supporting the guy not to do them.

I must admit I also don't have the charity in me to believe you made any attempt at being charitable before responding to only the first of my three sentences and calling me deliberately obtuse. 'You sound so stupid that I am convinced it is because you are a bad person' is a lot ruder than I think people realize. I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I'm above average; is it really so inconceivable that a random stranger is as dumb as half the people on the planet that you must immediately accuse them of malfeasance?
Testing the Quest 3 vs. the Vision Pro – What does 7x the cost get you? [video]
In favor of just dividends or what?
I have filters set up. But that's treating the symptom; it requires constant maintenance of the filters because people keep adding more lists, or some manager decides to change the name of the list because they re-branded some internal team name, or whatever. It's just noise. It's work to deal with it. Reducing the noise at the source is better than trying to filter it, and filtering it is better than ignoring the entire system, but the end result when it gets bad is that many users ignore the entire system.

It's a lot like phone calls: 90% of incoming calls I get are spam. I no longer answer calls that aren't in my contacts list, I add businesses I interact with to my contact list if I want to get their calls. Everything else goes to voicemail, and my voicemail is "Due to a high volume of automated calls, all numbers not on my contacts list are voicemail only. Please leave a message." Filtered! But also makes the phone pretty useless for initial immediate interaction.
Poor comparison.

- Apple doesn't make critical products that people must have or they will be sick or die.

- While Apple certainly benefits from some tax-payer funded basic scientific research done at universities (like all tech companies) that pales in comparison with the amount of NIH-funded research that Big Pharma relies on (to be clear, I don't have a problem with taxpayer funded research).
Yes, absolutely. Different parts of the body heal at different rates. The heart, stomach, and liver adapt very quickly. Other muscles improve less quickly. Joints improve and adapt over weeks. Bone density and flexibility is almost impossible to regain once it’s lost even for young people.

That is why slowly building up slow running speed for long distances, such as 6 miles or more, is vital for improving physical health. It’s not about just the cardio. It’s about strengthening the entire body.

Cheating that and immediately pushing for speed gets people injured.
It must have been tricky to cover nutritional needs.
Economic integration was the main difference between the end of WWI and WWII, and we know how those turned out. One resulted in a horribly burdened and depressed German people. When a charismatic figure who could and would speak to the people emerged (Hitler) preaching nationalistic righteous anger, he rose to power to horrific results for both Germany and the rest of the world. It could have happened to any country in the same boat.

After WWII, the allies learned from their mistakes and instead of saddling the German people with mountains of debt and economic punishment, they sought to rebuild, quickly established trade and economic integration. It went substantially better the second time, and to this day seems to be working.
compared to their non-mac versions?
And I believe that there was a clever legal game played.At first, the band tried to get MS to use a live version because it would cut some band members out of the royalties. You can read more in Brad Chase's memoirs.

https://www.bradchase.net/startmeup
According to a banker
Is a coal mine better for the land than a silica mine? Are a few mines worse for "land" than tens of thousands of square miles of it sinking into the ocean due to sea level rise, taking millions of homes with it? I think people generally value the coastlines more than piles of rock in an unpopulated area of West Virginia or what have you.
Some tribes were able to secure federal recognition, which grants them a more official diplomatic relationship in regards to their dealings with the federal and state governments of the United States: https://www.bia.gov/faqs/what-federally-recognized-tribe

> Because the Constitution vested the Legislative Branch with plenary power over Indian Affairs, states have no authority over tribal governments unless expressly authorized by Congress. While federally recognized tribes generally are not subordinate to states, they can have a government-to-government relationship with these other sovereigns, as well.

> Furthermore, federally recognized tribes possess both the right and the authority to regulate activities on their lands independently from state government control. They can enact and enforce stricter or more lenient laws and regulations than those of the surrounding or neighboring state(s) wherein they are located. Yet, tribes frequently collaborate and cooperate with states through compacts or other agreements on matters of mutual concern such as environmental protection and law enforcement.

From https://www.bia.gov/frequently-asked-questions

Unfortunately, this is just a continuation of the numerous betrayals the US and military units have inflicted on them for the past centuries. Our government and soldiers routinely violated the treaties we signed and forcibly relocated and murdered many people.

Many tribes did not retain their federal recognition and just kinda exist in a no-man's land between states and the federal government, lacking much of the autonomy of the federally recognized tribes.
I've witnessed both scenarios, yes. In contrast, vim simply works.
The definition of capitalism is an economic system of relations that prioritizes the right to exercise existing capital to accumulate more of it, above anything else. That's why it's called capitalism.
This reads like an LLM fever dream. A huge old man touched your shoulder? From the best "luxury area"? His "idea around hardware" was compelling?

The inclusion of generic/non-essential/irrelevant details and exclusion of anything remotely specific/unique/relevant makes this a very bizarre anecdote to consider.
Zero problems? Very unlikely. The thing about memory corruption is that it tends to create problems that most people don't recognize as memory corruption issues. A random BSOD or freeze. A corrupted file. A video glitch. A website/JS code fragment misbehaving. Etc.
help bridge the gap from VSCode and old Atom users

I went from Atom to Pycharm to Vscode. Both transitions were fairly easy. Though I’ve never had any complex configurations.
Certainly within an order of magnitude or two of any other 1bln project that isn't just shoving money at penpushers. Money that isn't frozen but circulating will cause materials to be mined from the earth and transformed into stuff and/or emissions.
I'd worry about test coverage as soon as the team commits to actually fixing every bug found.
I’m sure there’s at least some of the latter, and I haven’t heard anyone in the same physical room as me saying they were personally deeply offended by it. I heard some online people who seemed genuine say that this was something that bothered them a little bit each day at work, and they asked if we could collectively use another word. It didn’t seem like an unreasonable position that someone would have to go out of their way to be offended by.
Are SSDs less prone to corruption than SD cards when power drops for those milliseconds?
I never found the diving boards bad, but I think that is due to starting to use trackpads back when they had physical buttons under them, and I never changed my technique. I use my index finger to move around, and my thumb hangs out near the bottom of the pad for when I need to click.

I’m not sure how else I’d do things like a click and drag operation. The whole double tap and drag thing always seemed pretty error prone for me.
ReasonML is simply OCaml, I wouldn't call that unproven, but it does have limited libraries compared to JS or Rust.
Well, they did get a big supply of metal in 1981, and there might have been trading with other islands up to 150 years ago:

> Submerged in the crystal-clear waters off North Sentinel Island is a mysterious shipwreck with a truly hair-raising backstory.

> It belongs to The Primrose, a 16,000 ton freighter which ran aground in a storm while transporting a cargo of chicken feed from Bangladesh to Australia on August 2, 1981.

> [...]

> Footage of the tribespeople taken during "friendly" contact with a group of visiting Indian anthropologists in 1991 shows some members carrying metal tools for the first time.

> It is believed the tools were forged from metal scavenged from The Primrose, which remains in its resting place atop a coral reef near the island.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/hair-raising-story-behind-m...

> Gonschor argues that, rather than being isolated, the Sentinelese visited other Andamanese peoples. Their isolation wasn’t ancient, he thinks, but the product of British and Japanese colonialism, and in particular, the British invasion of the island in 1880.

> We can use Lana Lopesi’s new book False Divides to understand what the North Sentinelese have suffered. Lopesi laments the way that, in the Pacific as well as the Indian Oceans, colonisation interrupted histories of inter-island voyaging, trade and marriage.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/04-12-2018/three-myths-abou...
Why does the right insist on a massive military budget, then complain about sending surplus supplies overseas?

You’re debating two things: whether the US should intervene in Ukraine, and whether the US should get its internal affairs in order.

Your points are that war is expensive*, the US has a poor ability to run its internal systems (yes and no, but how does this imply we should sit on our hands with foreign policy), this war isn’t useful.

*The monetary cost of this war (to the US) is just not a legitimate part of the debate. It’s pittance what we’ve supplied.
I had a similar weight loss journey and agree with much that you are saying. Especially the sweetness of vegetables. I remember making a Bolognese with carrots and onions ages ago, not long after kicking sugar, and finding it too sweet for my palate.
Dear Downvoters... Told ya so...

> One place the economy is showing a weakness is the labor market. January had a blowout jobs report, adding 353,000 jobs to the economy. But Hollenhorst noted that if you scratch beneath the surface, the number of hours worked is falling, the number of full-time workers has decreased, and sectors such as the restaurant industry have stalled on hiring.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39410725
Linux (kernel) has a userland ABI of its own. Which is pretty stable & rarely broken (Linus will probably breath fire @ any kernel developer who does break user space). So eg. 10y old statically compiled binaries will likely run fine on recent kernels.

But as you state: it's the OS-level ABI's (C library, desktop environments, middleware libraries, etc) that keep changing constantly. And thus, keep breaking pre-compiled binaries.

Source-level API vs. binary ABI stability. Kind of a philosophical debate imho. But sadly, even that source-level API isn't too stable in some circles.
I've often wondered if human hair is some how a slightly different organism. But I guess it has the same DNA as the spit from our mouth so I guess not.
Also for context, the quoted 756MW figure is about 68% of a single AP1000 reactor.
Them not being on F-Droid is justifiable because F-Droid app IS less secure than alternatives. It does not use modern Android session installer, which is problematic in many different ways. Granted, there are third party F-Droid apps like Droidify that fix these issues.
They will probably accept a request for unpaid leave, but there isn't a different role I can imagine in that company. We are a small programming team of 10 people managed by a single team manager. The majority of the rest are support people. The rest of the management is family-based. The company has been keeping roughly the same number of employees for more than two decades and is not growth-oriented, but manages to stay relevant in business.
The financial backer of the project (London-based Canigou Group) says they're looking into using the electricity for water -> hydrogen -> ammonia pathways, which is a way around the energy transport problem (the best places for solar are often not co-located with human populations).

https://www.canigougroup.com/news/evaluation-of-green-hydrog...

Methanol is another valuable endpoint, the Chinese version of this (CEEC Songyuan) is using the same approach but intends to make both ammonia and methanol.
Same. Bought a Dell refurb and I’ve had so many fewer hassles. The SD card was perhaps the biggest source of issues and after factoring the cost of outfitting a RPi with something like an SSD, it just wasn’t cost effective anymore.