skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because a non profit cannot keep the profits (duh), thus all the extra money has to go back into the economy. Since every purchase has VAT they are effectively already paying a tax on their profits and shouldn't be further taxed
If it is, we’ll probably heard about it from Matt Levine’s newsletter.
It is weird that in this case insurance company is not taxed on the 72k "profit" they made...
Tree-shaking originated because it wasn't just about unreachable code, but also all other kinds of data in a live image.
> Ugh yeah I turned down a job offer even from seemingly ethical and nice startup in large part because I’d be exchanging actual publicly traded RSU vesting in the future with equivalent in options.

I did the same thing. The options were from a company that had just IPO'd named Google. You may have heard of it. ;-)
Well, if we could fix even a fraction of the Nitrogen, we could support a lot more plant life, that’s for sure! Oxygen is very reactive, Nitrogen, not so much. I don’t think the lack of Nitrogen would be very noticeable even if it dropped by half.
Ha. But it is weird as well in Germany, because the churches are not bound to the normal Labour law and can for example discriminate against gay folks without recourse. Which is even more ridiculous given that most of the funds for the catholic/protestant schools and hospitals are payed by the tax payer/health insurances.
For-profit hospitals that actually turn profits do pay income taxes. The concern is with non-profit hospitals. They don't distribute profits to shareholders. But some do pay high salaries to employees or have large and growing endowment funds. The author is arguing that threatening to tax some of those funds would incentivize non-profit hospitals to lower prices and give out more charity care. This isn't necessarily a bad idea but I am skeptical whether this would actually achieve results.
Funny little story as I try to hire a temp CTO
I don't know that we can generalise this though - some people mask their autism very well, sometimes without even knowing that's what they're doing.
Generally, nobody has authority. Even the highest executive has to fight procurement in a big corp. Own a VC-backed startup, the investors want you to get prior agreement on 'large' purchases. Maybe if you are the sole owner of a small firm without a purchasing department.

Politics always has people insert themselves in the flow of money.
Merchant of Record. Vat. Payment Fees. Stripe or Paddle?
I think it’s more complicated than that and one big factor is location.

In my midwestern experience startups are paying more cash than other businesses where software is a cost center.
> "Axis" was an American propaganda pitch

invece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers#Origins_and_creati...
Quantum consciousness, AI and you: Exploring the implications
It's funny, I can't make myself practice the talk out loud, but I can make myself go through it mentally a bunch of times. On the last mental pass, I guess what the next slide will be. Being able to do that enables smooth transitions during the talk.
Why? To give terrible service and managed by bureaucrats? Or being a leech of the state medical system?
> BME680 and BME688 are hot garbage.

I agree 100%. What they measure (which is already very non-precise), only vaguely correlates with air quality and there are many factors that would throw off the readings.

Reading from their reference manual, one can already see from all the complicated expressions (regression) and numerical factors that they tried too hard to come up with something that looks like an air quality metric.
The idea is that we want more of what nonprofits do. No taxes is an incentive.

A nonprofit that turns a profit is presumably putting it to work eventually, such as adding a new wing. It's not as if they can do stock buybacks because there isn't any.

There are many ways this structure is abused but the idea isn't absurd.
I'm not an expert on the rules for charities, but there are rules that specify some ratios for genuine charitable spending, overhead, management pay, and rules re nondiscrimination, etc. As long as these regulations are strict enough to prevent gross abuse, requiring nonprofit orgs that accumulate endowments to adhere to those rules should be sufficient. But evidently those rules and the way they are enforced are not preventing gross abuses. More transparency about nonprofit finances would help guide reform. And that should include religious orgs.
Just because you call it an "init replacement" doesn't only make it that, it describes itself as a "system and service manager" which should clue you in, that (de)compressing stuff is something that is commonly done during system management.
How are the current for-profit hospitals not the same in addition to being hilariously unaffordable?
If they are for-profit they do. HCA Hospitals is the biggest for-profit and they paid $1.6 billion in taxes last year.

A lot of hospitals are non-profits or not-for-profits. Profits they make must legally go toward furthering their stated cause and cannot be paid out as dividends.
This is not good for you in long term. This is how the insurance mafia operates and why everything is so expensive. U maybhave a so called "good" insurance but someone is paying somewhere. A 90k bill should not be a thing regardless.
For two reasons:

1. Humans get input from real life, not just other humans. An AI can’t go outside and smell the flowers. As the % of AI input from other AI approaches 100% they will be cut off.

2. Current LLMs are not “sufficiently advanced”.

They even talked about #1 in the article, if you had bothered to read it
Bonuses are subject to payroll taxes. So this seems fine.
Writing highly scalable backends in UDP. The solution
Last week I shared a test I used when interviewing backend programmers at Network Next. This week I share the solution.
The point of adding solar is you don't need a battery sized for multiple day outages, just enough to get you through the night. And instead of a generator which you need to spend money to maintain every year and otherwise just depreciates, you get solar panels which make you money every day.
What would replace it? I'd expect a thinner atmosphere.
Great workflows! If I was starting a new project today, what are the cases where I should consider Convex vs. not?
Google should improve their abstractions until there isn’t room for that anymore, haha.
Algae with nitrogen fixing organelle (nitroplast) can be such "plant", because it will need air, water, and micronutrients to fixate CO₂ and NO₂, so it can be used as fertilizer, which will offset cost of CO₂ fixing.

See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90204-8
Also nonsense, but irrelevant regardless.

By exactly your logic, technology has always increasingly displaced demand for labor. This isn't new at all. So-called "reskilling" is always outsourced to the responsibility of labor. The professions you describe are regulated into scarcity on an ongoing basis by capital. Any exception to this rule is simply that. In the aggregate, capital accumulates.
Radiohead's "No Surprises" always gave me this vibe, and made me yearn for a quiet life right from college.
I mean, the topic doesn't resonate with me either, but this is exactly the kind of mad tech tinkering that should get posted here.
This was long before HTML though. HTML was always at least ASCII.
You, and everyone paying those absurd prices, is getting ripped off.
It really bugs me when it is blindingly obvious a professor doesn’t actually know how cognition works. The actual study of human performance is outside their field, therefore untested or flawed assumptions form the basis of their research.
Google will never come up with a branding and stick to it. They could’ve built a better walled garden than Apple but chose not to because it doesn’t align with their financials currently and their org is basically 100 startups in a trench coat all funded by ads.
Hidden dependencies in Linux binaries
That’s correct. The post you replied to has the common misunderstanding of how write offs work. They’re not a magic way to make money. They’re a way to not pay taxes on money that want actually made.
haha good catch. we've only been tracking happiness since 2012, with Finland in the lead, though worry isn't the opposite of happiness, it would be fascinating to be able to have a global tally of how humans are feeling.
>Abstract
We document a convex relationship between earnings rank and cognitive
ability for men in Finland and Norway using administrative data on over
350,000 men in each country: the top earnings percentile score on average 1
standard deviation higher than median earners, while median earners score
about 0.5 standard deviation higher than the bottom percentile of earners.
Top earners also have substantially less variation in cognitive test scores.
While some high-scoring men are observed with very low earnings, the low-
est cognitive scores are almost absent among the top earners. Overall, the
joint distribution of earnings rank and ability is very similar in Finland and
Norway. We find that the slope of the ability curve across earnings ranks is
steepest in the upper tail, as is the slope of the earnings curve across cognitive
ability. The steep slope of the ability curve across the top earnings percentiles
differs markedly from the flat or declining slope recently reported for Sweden

.. important to remember that while the average relation is very strong, individuals scatter around.

>Finally, it is important to note that, while the average relation between cognitive
ability and earnings in the population is very strong, most variation in earnings
does not relate to cognitive ability. Individual ability cannot be reliably inferred
just from observed earnings or vice versa. For example, even among the top 1% of
the earnings distribution, where the variation in cognitive ability is at its lowest, 9%
15
of men in Finland and 14% in Norway scored below the population median in the
cognitive test. Conversely, among the bottom percentile of the earnings distribution,
about a 30% of men scored above the median in both countries.
AMA is not a union, it's an association, akin to the National Association of Realtors, or even the "National Association of Photoshop Professionals." There are big differences between a professional association and a union. For starters, a Union would likely demand required overtime pay for the on-call shift, a cap of max hours worked, likely plenty more. I'm not in a position to judge whether those kinds of demands would be a positive or a negative, but it's a big example of a difference between a union and a professional association.

> The flaw is the AMA is just a union for doctors not a body that represents patients in any way.

Ergo, AMA is not a union, hence that cannot be a flaw in the AMA. Chastising the AMA for not representing patients because it is too busy being a doctors union is a straw-man argument.
I apologize in advance if you're sick of hearing this, but...

I clicked through to your sites 'cause I dig your angle and I saw the bit about the kindle. Ouch, dude. Money sure ain't everything but holy crap.

You have my condolences. Keep building awesome shit, please.

edit: followup question - do you still have it?
Streaming Food Eating
Respectfully, I don't think it is an uncharitable reading at all. It is a response to a literal reading of the question "we just need to stop mining and drilling fossil fuels, how is this not obvious?".

It is an obvious idea - and it's totally fine to put out obvious ideas! - but that's also why there are so many well known and top of mind reasons that it is not the solution to our predicament.

To me, this is like a new student of algebra who thinks, "division is defined for all values of the denominator except zero, an obvious solution to that special case is that it should be defined for zero as well". It's an interesting idea for a student to have, but the reasons it doesn't work are very well known.
Every church and religious order I've done work with on commercial projects paid taxes like any other commercial entity. The factor that determines if they pay taxes seems to be if they're engaged in what the government sees as commerce or if they see it as charity/practice of religion. Church bookstores, at least the ones I've been involved with, had to pay taxes. Donations for the operating of the church and charity work was not taxed. Apparently the IRS has plenty of tests to determine which is which.
As a kid I didn't know much about "government", but I thought surely it must be Police, Firefighters and Medical Professionals.

If you have a siren on your truck, you are government was my thinking. These are all "public goods" and even as a kid with minimal "civics" education (and what I had was pretty much 100% Pro Usa America Is A Christian Nation for those formative years that I'm talking about).

I understood that as a basic. Nobody told me that "no, actually. Despite having sirens, ambulances are not (usually) driven by workers for the government." It wasn't til I lived on my own that I really understood that.
That is a loophole every business would use if it worked that way. Why wouldn't every banana Walmart sells be $500 on their books then? Losses need to be actual losses, not profits that never materialized.
> [...] rust have ergonomics [...]

For starters Rust's official linter, clippy, would also tell you that this function has too many arguments. ;) The default (max) is seven[1].

The above function has 36 named arguments ... That is a code UX wtf with or without type annotations.

[1] https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#/t...
I don't see how any of this can't be explained by just hallucinations.
The key for me is to practice and rehearse. Once I'm actually doing a talk the notes become superfluous, but all the practice means that, despite the terror and the fight or flight response cutting in, there's enough in my subconscious to carry me through.

On another note, there's now a huge pressure on people to do presentations - many requirements for senior engineer include things like presenting at meet ups and public speaking.

I find this very unfair on people. If you don't enjoy doing something then you really shouldn't feel obligated to do it. Talking at a meet up or a conference is very different from running a meeting or doing a presentation at work.
you shouldn't be proud of this. people like you ruin games.
Isn’t the distinction that non-profit hospitals have to plow surplus’s revenue back into the hospital versus distributing profit to investors / owners?

If so, the tax exempt status seems aligned with how for profit businesses are taxed?
I haven't been keeping up, can I write webpages that replace all javascript with wasm yet?
There should be more public university capacity to compete with private university tuition rates. Some things, like health care, may be so shot through with perverse incentives in both for-profit and nonprofit configurations it should just become a public good.
You can't "just" spend more on residency training without also "just" making med school classes bigger. You can't "just" expand med school classes without "just" increasing teaching staff, who are 9 times out of 10 physicians themselves. And very few physicians are going to willingly turn down $500k/yr clinical jobs to teach for a fraction of that.
Really good interview. Ezra Klein knows how to do interviews.
Random things like cancer and genetic diseases happen, but an awful lot of disease is caused by personal choice. Drinking, smoking, unhealthy lifestyle, etc. Personal behaviors are the cause of a huge portion of our healthcare costs.

I feel the same way about the recent auto insurance increases being caused by the shopping behaviors of others. Expensive EVs get completely totaled in accidents, and now everyone has to share in these high costs brought on by the choices of others.

The healthcare system is already one of the biggest line items for the US federal budget, yet you can see the largesse and inefficiency. Perhaps we should think very carefully about putting more money into it.
Or. It's more like this

- $90k bill
- you pay your annual $10k deductible
- the remaining $80k is only covered 80% because emergency visits only have 80% co insurance
- you now owe $16k, after you've already paid $10k out of pocket for the deductible

This is a real thing that happened to me recently. Not to mention I pay $1500/month for a family of 4.

Nothing, absolutely nothing about the U.S. healthcare pricing structure is good for patients.

It seems to have worked out for you because you appear to have very good insurance. Most people are like me, and have the type of insurance that should be illegal.
Impermanence is an interesting take on this using NixOS https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
There's a huge golf course in my neighbourhood that doesn't pay property taxes, but they can't build on the land.

If they had to pay property taxes, the land would probably be parceled and built upon.

I don't like it that rich people don't have to pay taxes on their little game, but I think the neighbourhood is better off with this green area.
Even if you consider ambulance emergency service should be public service, that "sirens" argument doesn't apply to non-emergency care where you have time to make a selection among private competitors.
This is silly and false. Corporations that inflate management expenses will generate less profit for shareholders. I don't think any shareholders would like that idea.
They can just create their own medical equipment supplier and funnel money that way.

Bottom line is that when you let privat businesses decide they will always choose profit over people.
> There are religious organizations that own hospitals. I was flabbergasted when I found out about this recently.

Why would you be surprised at this? In (e.g.) Christianity, caring for the poor and sick has been one of the central tenants since its inception, so why wouldn't formal institutions be organized doing so?

Before the welfare state—which is a fairly recent invention—the largest organization would have been the Church (and its various religious orders: Dominicans, Franciscans, etc), which would have worked towards its three-fold mission of worshipping God, evangelizing, and serving the poor:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9m-pNsFPV0

It can reasonably be argued that the very idea of taking care of the poor, etc, only came into Western civilization because of Christianity. As someone who presumably lives with-in Western civilization and adheres to its (general) values, you take the idea for granted, without perhaps examining where it/they came from:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_(Holland_book)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_Wor...
In most cases, when site S runs story X, asking yourself the question "why does S want me to know about X?" provides an answer that is not only invariant to the veracity of S' statements about X, but also remains fairly constant for stories that S runs about Y and Z as well.

(in the meantime, if you really want to know about X, any decent story ought to provide links –whether explicit or implicit– to better sources of information)

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24459177
Boomers Bought Up the Big Homes. Now They're Not Budging
Agreed, There are many ways of looking at it.
If it is non-emergency, why do they need sirens?
The same is true in the US. Some of the best hospitals (and complete integrated health systems) are run by Christian churches. This is largely for historical reasons: decades ago, churches stepped in to deliver healthcare as part of their mission because governments and secular organizations weren't doing enough. Some of them do refuse to perform certain services, particularly certain women's reproductive services, on moral grounds. This can make it difficult for women in some areas to access care.
What is your max out of pocket that you paid $16k in a year?
Sorry officer, not intimately familliar with your american laws!
I don’t understand what that has to do with source code level licensing. I’ve never seen anything in any open source license that requires forced interoperability at a service and business level. The fact they’re social pariahs doesn’t have a legal remedy, rather it just requires being not such asshats and hurtful to others.
The only way to deal with the terror is to keep doing it. The terror will go away and you will start enjoying them.
A fun thing to do is to include very subtle jokes that only a few people in the audience will grok and most people won't even notice.

It's very nice to have a few people come up after a talk with "I saw what you did there...". It's a great way to connect with people who are on your wavelength.
Show HN: Docker-boot – Run a system from RAM without LiveCD
How often do you screw up the system so much you have to reformat the disk (without losing data) to fix it? Well, sometimes I do, and sometimes I can't be bothered to burn a live ISO onto a USB stick. There's initramfs, but it's hardly a pleasant environment, with network configuration and all.

My go-to solution has typically been to create a chroot with busybox and a few utilities in /tmp, chroot into it, and then kill services that use the solid drive so that I can unmount it. That's an error-prone process, and sometimes systemd itself uses disk, so you can't unmount the drive despite killing all the userland but PID 1.

This script improves the UX. It uses a Docker image as the chroot base, which is much easier to tailor to your needs, and automagically commits all the atrocities, such as tearing down all the userland processes, including PID 1, and re-spawning the host system from the container filesystem.

It also drives libostree and Nix users mad, because it can be used to try out a new DE or even a whole OS without polluting the host filesystem or spawning a virtual machine. The video in the README shows me trying out KDE + SDDM from a host running GNOME + GDM3.
I know HN is more serious that humorous, but I love his interviews
It gets into more arcane policy than clear economic effects.

Why are dividends taxed, but not investments in a shell company that collects dividends?
Corporations aren't natural people (spare me the inane conflation of "legal person" with "natural person", everyone who doesn't understand why those two concepts have distinct legal names), so there is no inherent reason why there's any need to tax organizations instead of the people who profit from them as owners or wage earners or vendors.
There is such a restriction, at least for NY. It was prompted by a wealthy businessman (naturally): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Zion_Law
Stop supporting terrorist.
Yes, it does. Because AI can churn out content 24x7 while traditional SEO spammers at least had to sleep and take time off on weekends.
Sometimes, the networks instead find what the researchers call the “pizza” algorithm. This approach imagines a pizza divided into slices and numbered in order. To add two numbers, imagine drawing arrows from the center of the pizza to the numbers in question, then calculating the line that bisects the angle formed by the first two arrows. This line passes through the middle of some slice of the pizza: The number of the slice is the sum of the two numbers.

I feel I'm looking really dumb here, but it is not obvious to me that this works - seeing as this is a pizza analogy, take, for example, 1 + 1 mod 8 = ?. I do not see how the algorithm as set out in the paper can be properly described in this way.
That's because other animals (mainly) rely on natural selection to deal with environmental changes. Humans can use what's effectively Lamarkian selection to deal the environmental change.
To lure sailors to their deaths