skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next steps if nothing measurable develops within a reasonable number of years, increase the rate of change until the overwhelming majority of citizens are no longer taxed whatsoever.

This is the real promise of increased worker productivity benefiting the workers themselves rather than only making them pay more tax.

If that big a majority could not be reached, then I guess as undesirable as it would be, it becomes necessary to start taxing wealth itself. This really shouldn't be allowed to happen though and there's no fair way to accomplish it, but at least the untaxable citizens would not have to worry, while only people who can actually afford to be squeezed step up to the plate as fairly as can be done. There should be no way that taxing of wealth could ever become permanent at all.

Permanent taxes on wage income would have never been allowed if it weren't for their proposed (then later implied) temporary nature in the years it took to finally approve such a massive transfer of wealth away from those who could afford it least.

Remember in the USA, free enterprise flourished like never before or after, but that was only during the period when no wage income was yet taxed.

The only faintly realistic excuse for taxing wages was to use the funds only to pay down debt and reduce ongoing costs forever so that the levy could be lifted as soon as humanly possible.

I do think real honest billionaires are among those who may not want anybody to be able to ascertain what their actual wealth is at any one time. That's fair too.

That confidentiality could be maintained perhaps by an alternative minimum wealth tax, which only the very wealthy could easily pay, for those who do not want to disclose detailed wealth standings at their own option.

After all the dust from such a seismic shift would settle, then the fixed value of the alternative minimum could be focused on to balance the books without any non-rich people having to suffer due to wastefulness and inequality, no matter how long those undesirable financial factors continue to linger. For the very rich, a fixed minimum (rather than a regulated percentage) might still be far less onerous compared to the barely-rich. That's OK, as long as the books are balanced they can still compete among themselves for dominance and stuff, as long as none of the non-rich citizens can get caught in the crossfire any more. There is no other non-revolting choice once tax rates have risen far enough beyond insignificant. The longer that unbearable taxes have been allowed to stand, the more it can be like a dam breaking when sympathies change.

But taxation of wealth itself should really be avoided "at all costs", as the increasing number of non-rich are almost permanently relieved of levies in a systematic way.

Rich people should be able to keep their money as long as none of the non-rich citizens are suffering because of it.

This is in line with people who are already getting so worried about a possible tax on wealth, that UBI looks more urgent to them as years of increasing inequality go by.
At what point does the risk added by using just-in-time inventory methods override the savings?
One micro feature I implement on my blog that I would like to see everywhere: a single-page index of all the posts, like at https://blog.zorinaq.com

Don't paginate this. I want to see at a glance the titles of all the posts the author wrote. I want to be able to ctrl-f to search these titles. Heck, even if you had 100k titles they could still easily be shown on one page, as it would compress to 1 or 2MB transmitted on the wire which is still more lightweight than the average web page size.
Please make your substantive points without swipes.

If someone else is wrong, the thing to do is either (1) respond with correct information and better arguments; or (2) let go and move on.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Note - "most repairable ever" means "most repairable Surface ever". The Surface line was notoriously difficult to repair (I think iFixit has given them a 1/10 rating in the past) so this is a step in the right direction, but still not as repair-friendly as say a Framework Laptop.
A developer’s guide to interviewing (2015)
The article is paywalled, so I don’t know if they elaborate more on this; I’m just responding to your comment.

I’m pretty sure these countries aren’t beloved allies of each other, right? China presumably could politely ask Iran, who’d have to weigh their priorities, and the Houthis might just keep launching rockets anyway, they aren’t exactly a branch of Iran’s military or anything.
Isn't this exactly what Peter Zeihan said was going to happen? I think it is.
The lesson here is that it takes an order of magnitude more time and effort to ‘productize’ an application than it does to make the application.
Yeah, but the prevention measures for loss due to those are well understood by every adult and easy to take into your own hands as either a business or a regular person.

The prevention measures for digital catastrophes are not widely understood by those outside the industry and most people would have to outsource them to someone else without any way of knowing for sure that what they have set up will actually work if push comes to shove.
Feels like many of these features should just be built into the browser. Why can’t the browser assemble a table of contents based on header hierarchy? Isn’t that the point of the number in h1-h6? Why aren’t elements with ids easy to link to by default? Add a “copy-link-to” to the standard context menu in the browser. Etc.
How about this: Yes, linguistics is descriptive. In the world we live in, some people say "aks". And that is regarded as a marker of lower class/uneducated people, and is not generally used by educated/upper class/professional people.

It seems to me that linguistics should note that, yes, it is used, and it has a very definite meaning, and it has a connotation about the social class and education of the speaker, and is therefore considered socially improper even if it is linguistically proper.
Using CUDA on Modal
No. Gren will instead pursue parametric modules (OCaml functors).
First, a disclaimer: this is a great article and an important moral issue, and reminded me of the fantastic museum the Germans set up at the Charité in Berlin, a longstanding medical institution that obviously had a significant role to play in murderous Nazi “science”, and regardless deals with those sacrificing their wellbeing to science via testing and tissue donation to this day. Definitely do not skip, if you’re ever in town.

Ok now what I’m really curious about — I would ask that we take “AI is a big deal now that the frame problem is tractable, and LLMs are shockingly good at encoding human brain activity” for granted in this discussion, if possible:

Is anyone else way more scared than they’re ever been about (science) news, and feel unable to read stories that are objectively interesting and important to you because they remind you of the uncertainty to come? Even if we abstract away all the economic automation, aesthetic and cultural conflict, and ethics/safety concerns of the new tech… we are reading people’s minds. Sure it’s mostly in fMRIs for now-it’s clearly in its infant stages, they’ve only had since early 2023 to work on it in earnest—I think it’s moving at lightning speed for life sciences. For example, look into the explosion of consumer/prosumer/freelancer BCI tech, such as EEG headsets (g.tech Unicorn being my hacker fave, $1000 for a modular Bluetooth headset) and fNIRs visors (Muse being the big player in the consumer space, the prosumer space is still coming down in price to feasible levels). For another example, this paper is what first alerted me to this underreported situation (tho now that there’s a whole issue of Nature on it, I imagine it’ll gain prominence):

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14030v2

So, anyone have advice? Again, other than “you’re wrong it’s not a big deal”, please :)
Why would gravity require a water supply other than what's already in the canal?

o To go up you sail in, close the gate behind you, and let water into the lock from the higher level until you can open that gate and sail out

o To go down you sail in, close the gate behind you, and let water out until it has dropped to the lower level and you can open that gate and sail out

At, least, this is how normal canals/locks work.

What's special about the Panana canal ?
Posting like this will get you banned here. No more of this, please.

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Edit: your account has unfortunately been repeatedly posting comments with swipes in them. Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40229264 (May 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40224510 (May 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38495066 (Dec 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35970720 (May 2023)

That's one of the things the site guidelines specifically ask you not to do, so if you'd please not do any more of that, we'd appreciate it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note that this also includes "Don't be snarky.".
That would be a red flag for me in most cases, as the person being interviewed. If the interview is to gauge my knowledge of Javascript, then using sets should be in my favor since I'm using the most optimized approach to demonstrate I know the language well and can adequately do the job. If it's "not acceptable", then what is the goal there? To wrack my brain as part of some pseudo intelligence test? Shall we break it down to 1s and 0s too?
I totally agree here. My point was more that I am more happy with the improvements to windows than I am annoyed with ads I can easily disable.
China's state-owned space company beats private sector to reusable rocket test
You tell the user "hey, don't use on congested networks". And yeah, since most internet software has this exact disclaimer, it works kinda well.

But people do appreciate software that doesn't have this restriction, and even go out of their way to talk about it (more on mobile networks than on wired connections).
This is the first time I felt a reality in space travel became closer to "For All Mankind".
That's not what I said.

X11 did network transparency wrong. Nobody in that ecosystem stepped up to do it right. The web does it better, even with its warts. Citrix is going to find its way into the same graveyard before too long. This isn't a problem Wayland can solve given the way desktop and mobile apps already work.

Delivering a working desktop experience is more important than trying to achieve some kind of purity about what seemed like the right thing to do in the 1980s. Even RISC CPUs have adopted SIMD and task-specific instructions like cryptographic acceleration. VNC and RDP are good enough. Wayland has taken so long to reach maturity, I think, because it tried to do too much more than what was actually necessary.

But most of all, the biggest strength and weakness of open source is that it allows anyone and requires someone to put in the work. If you think X12 is the right solution, then all you need to do is make it happen. For all my gripes about Wayland, it exists in large part because nobody was really trying to keep X alive and working well on modern computers.
Suppose the key comparisons are much more expensive than the array or pointer navigation. Like the article does: it says that it is about theory, and it is looking at number of comparisons as the performance measure.

The fact that we can search a B-tree node that has, say, 256 children in 8 steps means that the node effectively contains the equivalent of a small balanced binary tree.
> Notorious for paying below market in engineering and IT

Why assume that good people are only driven by money and pay? Further that good people know all the opportunities and can get a job paying better? Also there is no evidence that I have seen that the places that pay better don't suffer from cyber attacks or ransomware.

A bigger part of the problem (maybe) is the fact that there is a vast amount of info published which helps people improve their hacking skills and make more attacks possible than would be the case if that info was not as easily available. (Note I did not say anything that indicates it wouldn't still be possible or happen but that it wouldn't be as easy to do).
> Is it possible to run Counter scale on-prem against logs from HAProxy, Nginx, or Apache?

Probably. But it's not for that use case (for example, Counterscale intentionally strips IP addresses).

> There's also a newcomer called Plausible which has a FOSS Community Edition [1] which can be self-hosted.

One of the goals of Counterscale is that you can deploy it "fire and forget" with a single terminal command.

Contrast this to Plausible CE, which makes it clear you need some basic adminstrative skills to operate the software:

> you should have a basic understanding of the command-line and networking to successfully set it up

The point is that Counterscale is designed differently than traditional "self-hosted" solutions in order to promote ease of deploy. It comes with serious constraints (like a dependency on Cloudflare). But some people may prefer those tradeoffs.
I'm skeptical of that "proof". Specifically, for example, one of the first statements in the proof says:

> We ask our question, call it question 1: “Does there exist a strategy that statistically significantly
(after accounting for possible data mining) makes money (after accounting for transactions
costs)?” An answer to that question essentially tests each of the possible 3n strategies.

which is non-sequitur. It's like asserting the only way to find the shortest path between two vertices in a graph is to exhaustively check every path, because waves hand.

Also note that paper doesn't appear to have undergone any form of peer review.
The problem with Zeihan's predictions is that they are predicated on the assumption that America is retreating from entanglements around the globe. I'm not sure how anybody watching what's happening in Gaza and Ukraine could credibly make that statement.
It would be nice if it were configurable where the notes appear, either foot side or end.
> But what difference do you think this makes in reality? The process ends up being the similar.

But there isn't a middleman with big facilities and staff to feed, so the resulting product can be cheaper, with the process being streamlined because the middleman's job is to milk you for all they can, meanwhile the original vendor just wants to sell their product.
More than just books, this is internet for people without home internet:

> “A lot of people come here for internet access, so it’s been quite a blow to the community,” a librarian at the Greenwood library said.

> Some individual library branches have put together lists of nearby places that could offer similar services. But they’re not great.

> The downtown library recommends a FedEx, a quarter mile away, but internet access costs 39 cents a minute. There is a public law library in the King County Courthouse, but computers there are intended for legal matters only. The nearest branches of the King County Library System are all about 40 minutes, by bus, from downtown.

What an enormously awful impact this weasel hacker / group has imposed upon innocent people. It's not bloviating to say this is what evil looks like: is causing suffering and further dividing a group of people from those that do have home PC/internet, for no good reason.
You’re looking at it through the “money-only” (for lack of a better word) perspective when it comes to China’s geopolitical decisions, which in my view is entirely wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I see your view as understandable, because I assume you’re writing this from a Western country and it is known that the West has long put money above everything else, but that way of looking at things completely misses China. The same discussion can be applied almost identically to how Russia views its geopolitical interests.
As a counter point, the hat is a great way to protect against AC water drips.

My biggest fear about walking around any city (but NYC in particular) is an actual AC machine dropping onto my head. Maybe you could offer the choice to drop down a hard hat on streets with high AC unit density (and then pick it up when I leave the area).
It boggles the mind that none of these "solutions" can parse JSON from an API endpoint, even after all these years. Consuming web API's is the whole reason Javascript exists in the first place!
I think you're missing a key point here and that is you have no chance of buying a Hermes bag unless you have a relationship with a specific sales associate and buy a lot of other stuff there. Very few other categories of goods can get away with something like this.

In some ways Rolex is like this but Rolex is relatively high production volume and there are many situations where you can get lucky and buy one relatively easily, especially now that the hype has died down a bit from 2021-2022.
Guess I should wait to sell my investments.

Inflation is only bad if you don't have debt.
I can't cope with it anymore. I work in grocery and we're seeing weeks long waits for containers and shipping dates, coupled with items arriving with the minimum allowed life, leaves us with very short turnaround frames. It's no wonder people can't keep the shelves stocked. Getting out of SC as soon as I possibly can.
> reasonably

Based on what?
And yet that’s exactly what happens under capitalism.
> idk respect that this is the decision of the user.

You have it completely opposite.

The argument is that the user should be given full power and permission over their own device that they own, and should be allowed to choose, on their iPhone, to install whatever they want.

If a user doesn't want to install an app, thats fine. But give them the choice to do so.

> Don’t force me to install another App Store

Then don't install another app store! Just don't do it!
For anyone wondering without time, the solution is E=MC^2
You are correct, but a country like Iran doesn't have any trade partner other than China, so if China wants it can put enough pressure on them to stop. I.e., Iran will be forced to listen to China, not that it likes.
Thanks for the info. I'd say you're speaking from some position of authority about what redux is and isn't. And to some degree, what react context is and isn't. I vaguely recall seeing this blog post before, maybe.

So redux is for "managing and updating" shared state. And context is for "sharing values". All this seems to suggest that react actually isn't that good at shared state, at least when it can change.
Nice paper on an interesting topic. I’ve not had a chance to read the paper thoroughly, but the judgmental equality ended up weaker than I anticipated. I’d hope we’d end up with alpha-equivalent codefs being judgmentally equal.

Which makes me wonder what the next steps for a proof assistant based on this is. Will the de-/refunctionalization play an active role in the proof assistant as well, thus solving it as described in section 4.1?
The other answers mentioned _what_ happened. In terms of next steps:

(1) Generally, receipts should be scanned (and perhaps re-printed, depending on your needs) for any sort of conservation effort. The heat from scanning (not in any modern tech, just as an FYI so you can decide for yourself) can cause the same degredation. It doesn't necessarily take a long time either. If you ever order a pizza where the driver tucked the receipt in the box you'll also notice that chunk of the receipt is illegible.

(2) If it's partially visible in its current state, you can probably get away with increasing the contrast and applying a decent OCR to the result. You'll get some hallucinations, but if you fill in the most likely characters conforming to the grammar of a typical receipt you're likely to be in the right ballpark (if you need a particular warranty code or something you might have to manually try a few options for particularlly blurry letters). Pair that with a photo of the receipt in its current state for any distrusting shopkeeps.
Wow. Thanks for building this. Downloaded just now and will sure promote it to my network.
Something like 70-80% of Iran's budget comes from oil sales, and around 90% of Iran's oil sales are to China.

I'd guess that would make Iran take requests from China very seriously.
Point still stand though, the heads up makes the inspections mostly pointless
There are historical reasons why Russia would want to control Ukraine that don’t imply that they would want to keep expanding into Germany and France.

But they do imply they would want to start messing with Poland and the Baltics (and Russian leaders have stated as much openly).

I think the notion that Russia seeks to take over the world ...

No one is saying Russia seeks to "take over the whole world". But it is openly seeking to subjugate a country of 44 million people to whatever extent it can get away with, and has issued recent threats to other countries (see above) it has invaded previously, some multiple times.
> Late in the 90s we had a 27” CRT. That was absolutely sold as a big screen. I don’t think you could get much bigger.

CRTs were 4:3 aspect ratio. I remember that a 19" CRT was about the same size as a 21" LCD with 16:9 aspect ratio.
They solve very different problems. Smartphones are pretty much use geared towards consuming content. They are awful at creating anything meaningful.
Or perhaps that prices are 43% higher as a result of Apple taking their cut.
China purchases about 90% of Iranian oil which is the only meaningful source of revenue for this fiscally starved country
Wanting to build robots etc. is different from wanting a job building robots etc..

Building robots etc. is as simple as building robots etc.. Jobs building robots etc. have vague requirements and involve moderate degrees of luck. Going to school, might make a difference. It might not. Jobs are out of your control. They have external dependencies.

There's also the plain fact that many building robots etc. jobs are military related. Not saying that's good or bad for you, only that it's worthy of awareness whatever your relationship to that fact is.

And a lot of building robotics etc. jobs are in China. Likewise worth awareness whatever your relationship to that fact is.

Good luck.
Yes, a Christian school is going to have a problem with pagan religious rituals.
Candles were the big flashlights of the time. Most people having to work in the dark would have used something like an oil lamp if stationary, or a rushlight if they needed to carry a light with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushlight
Cuneiform as a Service
LCDs get way brighter than OLEDs, thats an issue. And OLEDs often do thing a to avoid burn in like dim static scenes that can be a problem when watching movies.

There is an advantage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ro-dr6t36g

This one is better as it shows the pumps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh79YSCC8mM
I read that book and it get so much wrong. Its views on Russia for example have been completely flattened by the Ukraine invasion and response.

Russia has successfully switched to a war economy, US companies that pulled out are co-opted by Russian ones and doing business in a more or less normal manner. Sanctions have failed, and pushed Russia closer to China (not to mention North Korea).

When you view purely through the lens of demography, you can't extrapolate to global politics.
Just use a heat map instead. /s
It's not that simple.

For one thing, lead times are long and costs are high so there is a huge risk that your capital will be wasted if costs come down before projects are complete.

Secondly not all the bottlenecks can simply have a new entrant. For example, the article cites panama canal constraints as a factor. Launching a competitor to the panama canal requires more than just time and money, it requires political and geographic opportunities.