skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about, all income is taxed similarly and a livable minimum wage?

Tip culture is a vestige of a feudal and racist past.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/17/william-b...
And most of our OS' and stdlib's are riddled with blocking IO, where only the OS does the work-stealing.

Beam is an incredibly slow VM, but in situations where everybody is waiting on IO, Beam is king.
Can you get DSVs out of Excel? If not, it's kinda moot.
Does the launcher still steal an enormous amount of screen space at the top of the home screen in order to display the date? Maybe I can ask the AI...

Though seriously, just bought a pixel 8 pro for the camera as my cheap Samsung whatever camera took aeons to focus and had garbage image quality. Overall the default Google app experience is very unimpressive with frustrating quirks and pointless changes.

Though what do you expect from company where your work performance is based on feature visibility meaning useless feature creep is all that matters instead of a quality user experience. Google it's not at all about quality and will never be. AI bullshit being added is more feature visibility metrics so they will keep adding stupid crap and then turning it back on after you've disabled it because someone wants a promotion.
> How about, all income is taxed similarly and a livable minimum wage?

What does this mean? Flat tax? How do you define income? Do unrealised gains count? How granular do we get with livability?

Ad absurdum, would this scheme work across the entire planet? If not, why would it work in Mississippi and Massachussetts?

Your principles are solid. But "similarly" and "livable" econmpass the entire Overton window.
Show HN: Roast and analyze Twitter/X profiles
Sometimes you end up with code in one language that has string literals which contain code in another language.

It would be so cool if you could override the contextual language (likely determined by file extension or explicitly in markdown or whatever) with a different one just by applying a font.
> presume if you are caught, the IRS or the court will hold you in the wrong for fraud and tax evasion

What is the difference between a discretionary bonus and a tip? What if I add a tip line to my business invoices?

The best solution is an income and deduction limit, e.g. you can't claim if you earn more then 2x median wage ($85,600 [1]) and/or the deduction is capped at the greater of $10,000 and 20% of your AGI.

Without an income deduction, I assure you, I will figure out how to get tipped.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
You can have as many free email addresses as you want.
Organisations that start by claiming to be open-source and rug-pulling are something to be wary of. But neither AGPL nor CLAs are a particular red flag for that. Plenty of well-behaved organisations use CLAs or copyright assignments, and plenty of badly-behaved organisations use licenses other than the AGPL (e.g. Redis had a 3-clause BSD-style license but still did the same thing).
Perhaps by checking their Instagram status.
Former S&P employee. The incoming CEO is ex Accenture. Friends rewarding friends :)
Pretty cool, congrats on the launch! Though $9.99 fee for a quick submission seems just a bit steep. Assuming indie hackers often launch multiple products over the years, perhaps first submission could be cheaper?

Not criticizing the model! It's great to see a clear monenetization model right away.
Which means that almost all tips would be taxed. Most tipped workers make over 30% of their income in tips, and certainly the highest tipped workers that pay the most taxes do. That makes not taxing the first 25% of tipped income which would only be taxed at or less than 12% has a very marginal effect.

Plenty of bar tenders make >$100k/yr with <$30k in non-tip income. Taxing "only" $60k+ of their $70k in tip income looks pretty silly. You're going to save them at most $1200 when their taxes are already well over $12k.

I just don't get why one would want to promote tipping culture with financial incentives, when it's already fairly exploitative of the workers.
The Alchemist came recommend that way to me, and it's certainly shaped how I think about certain things.
Yeah, the tipping culture in America is so insane. It drives me crazy when I visit: I have to spend so much mental energy doing a lot of math to figure out how much to leave: find the pre-tax total, multiply by 0.18, then subtract any stupid fees (like the "technology fee" I got at a NY restaurant) so I can pit the servers against their management. Even worse if they charge an extra fee for not paying in cash. It's so aggravating.

In sane countries, there's no such bullshit: I just take the bill to the cashier, take out my card, and pay it.
much of it is measurable, and the measurable part gets acted on. that's part of why they give the sponsorship a special link or code with a discount, if people sign up with that link they track it, and probably attribute the revenue/profit from that sign up to that advertising campaign. If more profit is generated from that link than it costs the company for the sponsorship (including the cost for the time of the employees working in marketing), the company continues that advertising campaign. it doesn't measure everything though yes, but is enough to seem likely to me that online advertising campaigns do work

also i would propose that you should spend $100 on advertising (including cost of time reaching out to people etc) to generate $100.10 in profit(not revenue) if the return comes fast enough. you can estimate the opportunity cost of spending that money by seeing what interest rate somebody would loan you money for, if that .10% ROI is more than the interest rate on the money, then it's worth doing, even though it's only $0.10. then if you do need to do something else with the money you can take out that loan.
I guess it might be harder to calculate opportunity cost of your employees time since it might take a while to hire more employees, but you can estimate that based on their hourly salary. also hard to calculate opportunity cost of your brand reputation from doing more advertising. and yeah hard to calculate opportunity cost of your own time but you can just estimate a hourly rate and good enough. most of the math is clear though and companies go on that.
(disclaimer: i am not an expert on any of this)
I can't find a problem with the 429 ...
Some people in HPC groups are working on better toolchain for that. GUIX/Nix may (i can't say how far they got) be able to describe how you want to recompile your whole stack very precisely to leverage your cpu features as much as possible.
America Has a Hot-Steel Problem
This is classic class division: "You shouldn't want to get X because your neighbor is getting X+1."
Cool. Let me know if it turns out it's the same thing.
Poking around I found this video, where a university professor demonstrates the principle with a snow globe (containing virtually the same beads) and a strontium 90 source.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3kHfXntPMoI

I think they would work as advertised. I'm not sure that makes them entirely not snake oil, though.
You should also definitely checkout The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides.
Halide's 'Anti-Intelligent' Update Makes iPhone Photos Natural
but if the sponsorship is relevant it could be a conflict of interest for the editorial
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This is a dangerous myth. Electricity takes all available paths, with less current flowing through the paths with greater resistance.

As far as I understand, the main reason people don’t get electrocuted even with improperly grounded shower head heaters is that (as noted in the post), tap water is generally not very conductive in the first place, so you’ve effectively got a gigantic resistor between you and the wires (assuming there’s a continuous path through the water at all). So even if the least resistance path is through you, the amount of current will be tiny due to Ohm’s law.
> Why would I say something less true

Presumably the thing that you would say if you weren't "using a technique" is the most true thing.

> why does your mind go there automatically?

Because people who say things like what you said are usually making excuses for lying.
What's wild to me is that in the wake of touchscreens asking for tips at places you never thought to tip before, I felt like we in the States were having a national discussion on tipping.

If any portion of tips is declared tax-free, I believe the practice of tipping will be locked into American society forever.
I rate limit because of aggressive bots (scrapers and ones trying random injection attacks etc).

And yes, it's returning 429 ...
Oh please.

A campaign staffer who isn't allowed to speak to the press singing her praises behind her back. Who buys this stuff?

Economists don't like it because it's unfair? Economists?

Everyone loves this idea. Tip workers love it. People who tip love it. People tip with cash when they can just to help tip workers avoid taxes. Tip workers prefer cash so they can get away with not declaring them. Of course the vice president adopted this for political reasons, the proposal by her opponent is just too damn popular not to. Her opponent did so too in case anyone's frothing at the mouth over me saying it.

I just got done watching a horribly made movie called "Jones Plantation". Terrible, terrible movie with a very interesting premise. Watching people argue about how to better pay taxes really drives that premise home for me.
How Meta animates AI-generated images at scale
> Either you or the company pays tax on the tip portion of the reimbursement

Who tracks this? Either it's unenforceable or you lose Nevada because you de facto banned tax-exempt tipping on business meals.
Ecommerce => the statement about iPhone adjacent revenue is probably false.

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Apple does not exercise "tyranny."

The people would probably stop using iPhones if Apple was rotten. Consequently, the majority of those against Apple publicly are either regulators, Apple competitors or want more money from App Store to themselves and their point would not stand in a direct democracy. But even the most ugly attempt to twist the public opinion for private interest works if you have the resources.

I believe the right approach would be instead to encourage competition with Apple, to the point where Apple users start switching from Apple because of the higher IAP & subscription prices.

Seems awfully lot like Chicago / Austrian vs Kaynesian debate. Do you see any good reasons why, HOW, the Apple thing IS NOT the same as old econ school vs. another debate?

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In real world, for some reason, one can find many examples of this behaviour that are legal. Look into Airlines for example.

Rent where lots of humans are is higher. Airports are like the locked ecosystem, bringing your own lunch is perhaps like jail-breaking the Airport.

Is not the iPhone essentially an airport? Digital area with lots of of traffic and want, but artificial limitations (and for safety reasons!)

A difference: airports are less easy to systematically attack globally

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ALSO, I know many old software humans that advocate for the old "integrated" desktop model, PARC style. On HN, at least user kkfx has often written about this. Apple is not the same but it is the closest one, is it not?

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Apple unlocks everything, but all (including non-Apple) software must be free software, would be a great legal compromise. Might as well ditch CR.
The Customer-Centric Delusion
So if they pay you $1 for your services and decline to tip you, are you OK having no legal recourse?
> Tip workers prefer cash so they can get away with not declaring them

In New York with honest friends who report their tips. They don't like cash. On card, it's automatically documented. With cash, they have to (a) manually enter and (b) deal with distrusting coworkers.

Granted, they work at high-end bars and restaurants. I can imagine this varies regionally.
This is wild! It’s always mind blowing how people is hacking HTML/CSS.
The email doesn't seem to be going through. I am trying to send it to jaboutboul@msft.com but am getting this message "There was a temporary problem delivering your message to jaboutboul@msft.com. Gmail will retry for 46 more hours. You'll be notified if the delivery fails permanently." Could you provide me with an alternative email address?
Author's entry on Delaunay triangulation is pretty rad :

https://ianthehenry.com/posts/delaunay/
'Eripuit caelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis' (He snatched the lightning from heaven and the sceptre from tyrants)
> if they pay you $1 for your services and decline to tip you, are you OK having no legal recourse?

Plenty of third-world business arrangements work like this. The problem is it incentivises extrajudicial enforcement.
Get Plex. There's a ton of free live streaming channels for a ton of tastes and genres. Some of them I think to myself "This should have been a steaming channel years ago".
US has a lot of public spending fraud and wastage. Just a few examples

1. San Jose Failed To Adequately Track $300 Million In Homelessness Spending

https://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/mercury-news-audit-san-jose-....

2. U.N. Has Flown More Than $2.9 Billion in Cash to Afghanistan Since the Taliban Seized Power, Diverting U.S. Funds https://www.propublica.org/article/united-nations-cash-afgha...

3. California put hundreds of millions of homelessness dollars at risk because of its “disorganized” and “chaotic” anti-fraud policies, according to a critical federal audit released today. https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/08/hud-hcd-...

> For once I'd like to see a politician promise to raise taxes and use that revenue to fix things and actually win. Perverse financial incentives are ruining everything.

No. We should vote for no more new taxes (not a single cent more) till we audit at all levels of government and find out how much fraud and waste is there and have a plan to fix it.

Anything else would be illogical.
There is also https://github.com/zifeo/dataconf that relies heavily on dataclasses to represent configs.
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> Bartenders in California still make on average $200 per shift in tips

And California is one of the few states without a separate tipped minimum wage [1].

[1] https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/labor/wage-hour/tips/
So many receipts have a tip line already, why not?
We're talking about "knowledge of the web." As in, the ability to recognize what a URL is and use a browser to access it.

I posit this segment of the overall population in non-developing countries is flat for the last 5+ years. Apps surged for a decade and caused a lot of handwringing about the web's future, but it's clear the web is here to stay. The new AI craze wouldn't have even gotten off the ground without the web's corpus of recent and relevant data.

The web is just too frictionless. It's old and crufty and for old fuddy duddies (I don't know how Gens Z/Alpha view the web vs. apps, but that's not this conversation -- they know it exists and they're savvy enough to use it when necessary). It's like email. Will it ever be sexy "again"? No. But I think it'll always be there.

Kids don't use email... until they need to for their job or college, etc. Email will never die. The web will follow a similar trajectory.

If the money flees the consumer side of the web (more focus on paid native apps, the death of third-party cookies and possibly the ad ecosystem, etc.), that inches the content back to the 90s/early 00s ideal, which I'm all for. But that might be overly optimistic.
As a subscriber to his substack, I think that is a mischaracterization of his work that borders on lying.
It's not. Why should the back of the house pay more on taxes just because they don't get tips?
A collection of facts is not and can not be copyrightable, especially when it was mechanically derived/collected (no human creativity). So, no, it is absolutely not "Equifax's IP".
I think most of those right wingers are against illegal immigration. There's a big distinction here.

I think very few of those so-called right-wingers are -say- against doctors immigrating to one's country if there's a doctor shortage. As long as immigration is all done using legal means. And with proper checks and balances.

I'm a right winger (but not born and raised in the UK). And I am very much against illegal immigration. I also don't want to be required to wear an identity card / passport with me at all times.

Actually, with proper immigration policies in place, the state can be sure that most people inside the state are legal, law-abiding citizens. I don't think in such cases it does make sense to require people to wear an id card with them at all times.
Polyvinyl toluene is scintillation plastic.
Seriously, if there’s any security risk here it’s Chrome.

Ffs, even the FBI recommends using an ad blocker.
i mean in the near future if all ads are preventable. we probably will just be paying to use internet products. i mean its the only reason its free right? or maybe the isp will become the new apple google fb and they will provide browsers and websites. and most likely these isp will lock exclusives. eek
The GP said that income should be taxed as little as possible. That doesn't necessarily mean taxes, period, should be as little as possible. One could just tax things other than income.

From an economic standpoint, it makes sense not to tax income because income is production, and taxing production reduces the incentive to produce, which is the last thing we need. If we have to tax something, it makes more economic sense to tax consumption, for example with a national sales tax.

> The general ailments and downtrends in American society started right around the time when taxation (especially the corporate kind) started getting cut and we moved away from the gold standard for our money.

I don't think this historical narrative is correct. First, the two things you mention did not happen at the same time; tax cuts, at least if we are talking about income taxes, more or less started with Reagan in the 1980s, but the US went off the gold standard in 1933 under FDR. (Technically the US still claimed to support converting dollars to gold internationally until 1971, but that's a relatively minor change compared to what happened in 1933.)

Second, "general ailments and downtrends" is very broad and I don't think one can pin down a particular time when they started.

Third, as I believe pg pointed out in one of his essays, US government tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has varied very little over decades even while tax rates have varied a lot.

> Perverse financial incentives are ruining everything

I don't disagree with this as a general statement, but I think the tax code is a fairly minor contributor to the perverse financial incentives as compared with the government (via the Fed) printing money. Historically, monetary debasement has always led to civilizational decline.
Re: Alex Jones -- so he created the site, but lets other people run it now. Either way, it's his baby.

He voices much opinion and speculation, but he and his crew do not lie to manipulate us into war.

Instead they lie and manipulate us (some of us, anyway) into accepting Putin's narratives as to how the war started, and into an eventual settlement favorable to his demands. And into believing that nearly everyone in the occupied regions happily voted to be reabsorbed into the Motherland. In an election that was of course free and fair, and overseen by international "observers".

International observers oversaw the election and determined the elections to be free and fair.

Not from any major organizations that usually see to these things, such as the OSCE or the Council of Europe.

Instead -- it's not surprising that the sham referendum also had sham "observers". Here's a report from one who deeply regrets having taken part, saying he felt used by the Russians, and that "I was so naive as to think I could separate the technical aspects of vote counting from the political dimensions of the situation":

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/deutscher-beobachtete-sc...

You are free to deny election results, but you should provide some kind of evidence to back your claims that it was unfair in some way.

So what is your explanation as to why no government on the planet, besides North Korea, has stepped forward the recognize the results of these so-called "referendums"?
I dunno, I make a lot of effort to not hate people, especially people I don't even know

However, I think right now a lot of society broadly is turning against people who market themselves as misunderstood contrarian geniuses, mostly because this is a bullshit archetype in the first place, but partially because viewing oneself this way has become a tribal signifier of a certain crop of industrialists who use this image and a philosophy that glorifies it to justify business and policy decisions that, as people are faced with the consequences, seem less like 4D chess and more like ponzi schemes and mafia shakedowns. People don't like the corporate hellscape where their fundamental autonomy is increasingly restricted by technological and techno-legal fiat even as their economic opportunity seems always to be shrinking, and so as humans generally do, they start to also not like the tribal signifiers of the people they (mostly correctly, though with a bias toward publicly visible figures regardless of how ultimately influential they are) view as responsible for this state of affairs.

I actually view Silver as kind of a misfire from this perspective, in that he hasn't particularly caused the immiseration people are actually reacting to and so his bad PR year seems like people picking up on aforementioned tribal signifiers, though by publishing stuff like this it really seems like he wants to lean into those
> Not sure why you want "no obligation for every complaint to result in an investigation" though

It's trivial to bulldoze a European start-up by having complaints filed in a bunch of jurisdictions alleging this or that nonsense. It's nonsense, so no fines. But the mandate to investigate means this tiny start-up now has up to twenty-eight national supervisory authorities sending it demands, which can easily overwhelm a small team.

> Disagree on fines based on gains and damages on their own. My understanding is that percentage of global turnover usually is a higher number than gains and damages. I'd prefer it be "the higher of either".

Gains and damages contrates the discussion to the malfeasance at hand. Global-revenue fines are subject to grandstanding. That means lots of headlines and fewer fines actually paid.
"Got lucky once" is one of the craziest descriptions of multiple models across multiple domains that demonstrate consistent high rates of calibration across time. Yes his initial success in one election was likely at least slightly anomalous, and that's the thing that made him famous initially. But to pretend that he has not continued to have continued as a predictive modeller is just wild.

While he is no longer with "fivethirtyeight", this is from when he was:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/
Cisco slashes workers as it announces yearly profit of $10.3B
you aren't wrong but i do think an organization that large with that many customers and attention from many more should be able to make and sell useful products to the world. Simply forcing people to pay is a rather crude and unsophisticated approach. It takes a lot of men to cash in the proverbial protection money.

A simple example, we have periodic checks for bicycle lights. If yours doesn't work you get a fine. If you have plastic or cash it would be a good idea if the government employee would fix your light and/or sell you a new one. You are supposed to walk while holding your bike. Everyone does that until they are around the corner. They can fix car lights too, deliver food and drive for uber. etc