skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got premium and am using MacOS and I've had to kill my browser several times in the last couple days because it froze up. I'm using M3s if it makes a difference.
How should this be concretely evaluated and measured? A vibe check?
Read some history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_Sta...

“In 1894, Democrats in Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman tariff, which imposed the first peacetime income tax. The rate was 2% on income over $4,000, which meant fewer than 10% of households would pay any. ($4,000 was 19.3 times the 1894 nominal GDP per capita of $207.23; the corresponding income in 2021 is $1.3M.)“
Do you think this Supreme Court is weak on the 4th amendment? I casually follow the court but don't really know their recent history on the 4th.
This is pretty spot-on for where I live (suffolk MA.) Note that there's no saving category, so the 190k/year with 3 kids dual income is to get by comfortably but never retire.

Food is based off https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/low-moderate-liberal-food-plan...

Housing 40th percentile is a pretty good metric for living wage. What would your metric be, 20th percentile, 10th percentile, something else?

Transportation is the true cost of mobility, including insurance, gas, motor oil, basic maintenance of vehicle.

Civic Engagement category isn't what you think it is and the methodology spells it out:

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey, Table 1400 (Entertainment: fees and admissions; Audio and visual equipment and services; Pets; Toys, hobbies, and playground equipment; Entertainment: other supplies, equip., & services; Reading; and Education)

I mean sure, cross that category out completely, but humans can't live on bread alone and this is exactly what this is measuring: living wage, not depression wage.

You can argue about whether median is a good measure, but the fact that this living wage allocates 0 dollars towards retirement and holidays, for me, is still not truly living wage. Any adjustment to the categories you take umbrage to is washed out by a basic savings plan for retirement.
A bunch of my SD cards have a write protect slider on them.

Also one of the SD/microSD adapters in my drawer has it.
“wokeism” isn’t a defined thing, that’s why it’s off putting, it’s just a boogeyman pushed by conservative politicians and media. Even when you ask what they mean by it it ends up being applied to basically anything they don’t like.
October first, Workflowy Pro will increase in price
As someone who starts with the data to try and understand a system, I agree but it feels like we're not the majority. At least in the MS world the rise of code-first has not been well received by me :(
I agree there's an issue with wages vs productivity. However:

- The decoupling is not equal for all the countries examined. For the US, wages as a fraction of GDP has been roughly steady, declining from 49% in 1942 to 43% today [0]

- We're going through major demographic changes - we have two huge cohorts in the boomers and the millennials entering different life stages in huge numbers. We're also living much longer. This will mess with asset prices and wages in weird ways. Lots of old people holding on to their assets much longer than before, and lots more young people entering the workforce all at once.

- Some of the above issues are getting straightened out. Millennials were behind in wealth creation for a very long time, but for the first time are ahead and are now on our way to become the richest generation in history. [1]

- Wealth is not static and cannot be reliably hoarded. Scrooge McDuck may have a hoard of gold coins, but real-life rich people invest their capital in (hopefully) productive enterprises. If they do a bad job, their wealth gets reassigned to savvier investors.

A common example of people trying to hoard wealth is homeowners who interfere with the free market by blocking new construction. This is going to work out great for them... until it doesn't.

As another example of capital reallocation, if you're earning good money by working for an pre-revenue startup, you're enjoying the process of capital getting reassigned to you.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=2Xa

[1] https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/millennials-personal-fi...
The thing is I have seen protomolecule's previous comments in Russia-related discussions, and interpreted these as bad faith questions.
Eco: Build a civilization where everything you do affects the environment
A day in the life of a dishwasher in NYC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyHPuYpetbg
Good wait staff make more. Bad it isn't clear. Do you give a bad tip for bad service - you should
Common questions and misconceptions about creatine supplementation
If that's the case, staying in custody may have been the wiser choice.
https://archive.is/CG0Do

This is such a great summary from The Atlantic for anyone, like me, trying to get up to speed on the MH370 story.
What I call opt out they call a freeze, a la a credit freeze. Perhaps it's possible to unfreeze/thaw/opt-in when you need the service?

I think it should be illegal to be registered for this by employer without explicit consent from the employee, forcing employees to opt out.
The counterpoint would seem to be that OSS now more plentiful than ever and accelerating.
i dunno where this idea of manual labor being treated as something so simple it shouldn't deserve a decent pay... i worked as a dishy also as a bicycle courier & i bet i'm ballparks more efficient than anyone who never had to these jobs

we have a heck of a hard time emulating or creating navigational system for robots, specially if we don't train them million of times for extremely simple tasks like grabbing boxes in a controlled enviroment. let not mention energy usage these things need; point is: maybe reaching a plato of being a dishy is easier than coding/programming C for embedded systems, but we can't deny that a lot of people in tech don't learn or get into different fields projects all the time, so there isn't a "keep learning/tinkering hard all the time" type of thing...

is it easier to build a website for a client with an open-source framework that you used for the 100th time or being at a almost 40 °C kitchen washing dishes in a speed way faster than one would do @ their houses?
Don't forget once this mass sell off happens it's likely to tank the entire economy. But at least for a brief period the federal government will have to borrow $1 trillion instead of $1.5 trillion to cover the deficit.
32% of 2023 graduates had any debt at all; the average total indebtedness (over all four (or more) years) of that 32% was $15,896[0]. Not bad for a school that costs $86,886 _per year_[1].

One should also note that "[s]tudents from families making $90K or below, will receive a no loan financial aid package (package will consist of grants and work-study)" and "[a]t least 20% of first-year students in the past three incoming class were Pell eligible students." [2]

[0] https://www.finaid.caltech.edu/typesofaid/loans/disclosure

[1] https://www.finaid.caltech.edu/documents/25301/2324_tuitionf...

[2] https://www.admissions.caltech.edu/afford
More data on fasting should be available from Ramadan - annual muslim month of fasting. (The article references Ramadan in passing.)
Yeah, no worries.

In 2011 the hotness was "puppet", coming from cfengine, so I spent time learning puppet, it's quirks and desired ways of working.

Then I "grew" into using Chef instead, being similar but very different.

Then I went to a company that had to start fresh, in a predominantly Windows environment, I tried "round-hole, square-peg"-ing chef into the situation. That failed and I found myself working with SaltStack (as its windows story, while slow, was workable).

Then Ansible became the defacto standard. For a long time I felt like I had stalled as an engineer because I did not pick up Ansible.

I returned to industry never having acquired those skills, but now almost nobody is using Ansible, it's all kubernetes, helm and if you're really new: NIX.

For 6 years I used SaltStack and felt like I wasn't growing, because the treadmill kept going without me. Turns out, I never needed it, I could just jump on the train whenever I needed.

See also: Linux administration pre vs post systemd. (and linux administration in general since everything is kubernetes based nowadays).
If that were the case, why did they make such a fuss in the media about arresting him though? If they wanted to make a deal with him that wouldn't really be helpful.

Personally I think the legal basis for his arrest is just so thin that bail was granted. After all he is not personally responsible. The buck stops with him, sure but he didn't personally partake in any of the alleged activity on telegram.

Keeping a person in custody is a very heavy measure that a judge won't grant lightly.
> In terms of user experience, that’s a conflict — but from the CRDT’s perspective, it’s still a single consistent state upon which all peers eventually agree.

So then Git uses a CRDT internally? Merge conflicts are user experience "semantic conflicts" within the Git application.

The internal state in the Git commit tree contain all commits consistent across the synced replicas. Without further inputs, all the repos would render the exact same user experience conflict.

"The data type i.e. Git's internal state is conflict free - but there are times the user needs to correct the semantic state."

"The Git application wants to guarantee semantic state, so unless the semantic conflicts are resolved, the Git internal state i.e. 'data type' will continue to be conflict-free using the 'rollback technique' to reconcile conflicts with the local copy's 'data type'."

Roughly: git fetch would be the conflict-free update of the internal data type. While git merge would be the application level, semantic conflict resolution.
I had a summer job as a dishwasher, which paid minimum wage. I was required to join the union, so after union dues, I was paid less than the minimum wage! Being a union member provided no benefits whatsoever for temporary employees such as myself.

This reminds me, the artist Gregory Blackstock retired with a union pension at 55 after 25 years' service as a dishwasher[0]. His art provided another source of income, but apparently he was swindled out of his estate.

[0] https://www.historylink.org/File/22894
Your dishwasher might be tipped depending on the restaurant. My wife served at several restaurants where expo, dishwashers, and kitchen staff got a portion of tips from the service.
As a firewall-admin this comment really annoys me.

Heres why: Lots of calls from people complaining their application is not working because the network is broken. Look! at! this! traceroute! supporting! my! complaint!!!

Yeah, it is because udp from any to any is blocked on the firewall for good reasons while icmp traceroute is open. And be carefull because -I specifies the outgoint interface on some os, not the use of ICMP.
A really long time ago, I had once visited a police station in Tamil Nadu (India). One of the lower level officials there had the rank "SSI". I was perplexed as I had never heard of this rank before. So I asked the Inspector about it. He said it stood for "Special Sub Inspector". He then smiled and added, "There was some court case involving some government official or union who complained about not being promoted even after serving for many years in the same post. The court ultimately ruled that was unfair, and said even if an official doesn't get promoted by virtue of merits, their experience also matters. Thus, any official who serves a certain number of years (I think it was 5-10 years or so), and doesn't get a promotion on merit during those years, should automatically be promoted by virtue of their experience. Ofcourse, some government bureaucrat in the Tamil Nadu civil service and police service weren't happy with this ruling as police officials who don't get promoted don't because they are either corrupt and / or incompetent. Thus, the government created a new rank (in between the ranks of Head Constable and Assistant Sub Inspector) to "comply" with the court ruling but cheekily called it "Special Sub Inspector" to convey their own disagreement with the ruling."

It was funny but it did make me think - Perhaps in the mid-levels, experience can compensate for the lack of special skills or motivations as an employee will know enough to do his immediate superior's job "well enough" (average or slightly below average) too.
Good point; in that case I may have undercounted! :P

That said, most Aussie kernel devs I know are IBM PPC Ozlabs folks that are actually really nice!
there's also the "everyone is essential to maintain society"
Is there a way to track Congress’s activities related to potential tax rate changes? I’d like to stay informed and avoid being caught off guard by any sudden changes.

I’ve looked into this, but it’s more complicated than I expected. For example, Congress votes on 12 separate appropriations bills related to the budget, and I’m not sure which ones impact tax rates or when those votes are scheduled?
I don't know their individual stances but ideologically their source is pretty staunchly in the pocket of allowing police access to data sources like this.
Fermilab doesn't pay its employees fairly. As such, the only non-scientist engineer employees that stay beyond a few years are ones that would struggle to get a job elsewhere. This is a good way to breed dysfunction. As for management, if they're not scientists doing science, at least half-time, they shouldn't be there.
Yes! My favorite RSS feed reader is mutt (and the email ecosystem around it like procmail).

With email I already have infinitely flexible filtering, sorting, on-the-fly modification of headers and content, and a reader with best in class threading and TUI.

So I use RSS to email to inject all the RSS content into this ecosystem and inherit all the goodness of email for RSS as well.

(This is how I follow HN, for instance.)
That's not generally true. My friend worked at a waiter in the 90's and was making $200-$300 a night on tips on the weekend. Definitely not reported income either.
Biometrics in the workplace may be the way of the future. But at what cost?
Oh that’s so nice to hear! It’s quite an early alpha, but I’ve working to expand support for more resource types and details. Feedback is very welcomed.
Wow, this is fantastic! A TypeScript code playground for visual execution of the code is a game-changer.
Looking forward to seeing how this evolves!
I am with you on that. I think they don’t because this trick is classically used by powerful old money families to generate tax free income from dynasty trusts.
"Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture room with the words, "Here is Plato's man.""
(Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers)
I think that for folks living in the West, Putin and his gang of cyber criminals is much bigger day to day threat than the NSA. So the fact that Durov is still alive (a couple days in a French prison is the least he has to worry about) makes Signal look like a much better bet than Telegram.
> The fact that he's now free from custody sounds like this analysis was likely the right one.

Or they released him because they're required to by law? Normally they need to release you after 24h, but in some cases of organized crime or terrorism, they can extend it to 72+h.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000...
A lot of ISP internal networks is going to be running over MPLS or encapsulation. You're not going to see any of those hops. The packet will just look like it teleported from the CPE to the Internet.
Yeah you used to be able to get nerd street cred as an OSS maintainer, and the cost was your time and willingness to work on A) the code and B) whatever contribution processes you/others came up with. The downsides were known.

Now, you have this yawning chasm opening of large companies taking your work and selling it back to you, or LLMs remixing your work and diffusing it out, both demotivating factors that combined with the economic insecurity and COVID lockdowns forcing people to re-evaluate their hobby priorities, I'm not surprised there's less maintainers.
JWST Has Spotted Six Rogue Planets, Without a Star to Call Home
Yes, I've stayed at the same company for over 12 years. My skills have atrophied and I make less than the median dev.

But if you have a good stable job, why would you leave? It sounds like you make good money and have good balance. What is the point of growing as an engineer if it's not applicable to your job or a future job you want?

Just enjoy your good job until it turns bad, or until the tech would get so outdated as to make finding another job harder.
I've never felt the need to hide taking a break. If I need to, I just say that and take a break. Most of the time, everyone else is ready for one as well so a short recess is called.

But I imagine this sort of thing is probably tightly related to company culture, and yours doesn't allow for this. I have no advice about that situation. I only wanted to point out that isn't a universal thing.
Check out the actual modern DOOM WAD MyHouse which implements these ideas. It totally breaks our preconceptions of what the DOOM engine is capable of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyHouse.wad
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jebara/4771/handouts.html
Oh, the ignorance ..!
Regardless of what did or did not happen the whole thing smells to high heaven. This is analogous to when authorities take your device out of your sight. It must be considered compromised after that.
Yeah I am personally skeptical that WSPR data could reliably track anything
I'm under the impression that this policy would only apply to individuals with over $100m in assets. I'm sure there's reasonable provisions that could be applied to this with respect to liquidity. These proposals are obviously targeted at individuals like Jeff Bezos who do things like take out loans against their unrealized gains so they don't have to pay taxes on their wealth.
It's a story. But it is also an empirical question many people will be able to answer for themselves from abundant historical evidence no? Maybe people don't care about the data if they've never had difficulty paying their tax bill. I'm in the other camp, as are many working class people.
Ever read "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream?"
This submission seemed to get more upvotes, but I did leave a comment on a more recent submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41380671
> it seems like even simple techniques could extract a lot of signal from the noise, which is just too difficult with the tiny number of low sample, high variance RCT studies we currently use.

On the other hand, RCTs gather relatively well-conditioned data. And we have enough study power across them that we end up with a lot of statistically significant, real findings.... that still have effect sizes that aren't clinically meaningful.

We even know about things with large effect sizes that are controlled by a few variables, that are rare enough that it's hard to find the patients that they apply to.

And, of course, correlation ain't causation: if we used your system and found a bunch of things, we'd still need to figure out how to reduce them down enough to be something we could test before advising practitioners to do things a certain way.
My city passed a "mansion tax" for people who own multimillion dollar homes. However the threshold for where the extra tax kicks in isn't adjusted for inflation or the top X percentile of most expensive homes. So we're on track for the average single family homeowner to be paying the "mansion tax" in another decade or so. It's already hitting some multifamily buildings.

Also reminds me of AMT. When it was originally created, one of the selling points was that it would only impact 155 wealthy families, households who made the then-insane income of over $200k but paid very little in income taxes. By 2017, over 5 million households were paying AMT, particularly those in states with high SALT taxes where $200k/year doesn't afford as lavish of a lifestyle as it used to.
Everytime I read anything from her, she solidifies herself as the leader for Signal. I cant wait to see what they unveil for the 10 yr anniversary
"This Key Is Useless Now. Discard?"
unrealized gains in property are already taxed by "property taxes".

If I buy a $1000 dollars worth of stock, and use that to secure a $1000 loan. ok, fine, I don't see why that should be taxed at all. But if the lender believes the stock is worth lots more, and offers a $2000 secured loan, something's going on there.

I don't think it should be as much as actual capital gains, because it's not actually turned into cold hard cash. And there's still risk of the underlying asset price falling.

But if the lender says my $1000 is worth $2000, I'm getting some benefit of the higher value. And I can see why that would be taxed. I'd really want to see the details. probably that tax should be deducted from capital gains when finally realized.

I dunno. it's complicated.
Businesses =/= Businesses owners
Not sure why this matters for anyone not working for the ISP that those packets go through, and people working there would know about it. And they're mostly completely passive devices like filters.

Traceroute is what we have, and its mostly enough as you can say at which hop things went wrong, then its up the ISP to figure out what devices they need to look at.
Business can take loan if someone loans money to it. The owner of such business can't take loan against it and not treat it as capital gain.
This is awesome, thanks for doing this! Did you use Omni for the sentiment analysis?

Now, for the analysis of the Who’s Hiring posts.
Hypothyroidism: The anonymous Olmec artisan and Velázquez (2017)
They could've just switched to Debian variants with a little effort.

More newly, since 2021, we have Alma Linux and Rocky Linux that are RHEL based.
why is everyone talking about small businesses when every proposal that's been published targets $100million + asset portfolios
Is a small business loan usually taken out with the entire company as collateral? Rather than just based on normal loan terms and risk?

(That sounds unlikely to me, but I know little enough about the intricacies of business finance that it could be true...)
This is not about businesses taking out businesses loans. It’s about the owners of businesses using their shares as collateral for loans.

Most small business owners probably can’t even do this, because banks won’t accept their shares as collateral. So in a sense you could say this would even the playing field between big and small business.
There seems to be two bugs here, one that YouTube seems to have regressed on a popular browser choice, but also that Firefox allows any website to claim enough resources to make the entire browser inoperable.
For many small businesses, that is false. Sole proprietorships and pass through LLCs are extremely common.
Deep strategic thinker and tactical expert[1] that I am, I agree: As the old maxim goes, "the best defense is a good offense".

[1]: Having watched the evolution of a football team's tactics from 5-v-5 (2 min, age 6-7) to 11-v-11 (2*45 min, age 18-19). A regular Strategos, me.
I collect a lot of random demo videos from a lot of fields - every time I fancy honing one skill in particular, there's usually 5-10 videos in my collection that will give me something to work on.

> If you're not also ensuring that others can access that copy then I don't really see the point.

happy to share them if you can buy me a competent enough lawyer to run interference with the litigious copyright overlords.
Why are you making an argument using a law from over a century ago?
Amazon aims to launch delayed AI Alexa subscription in October