jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
it doesn't really make sense to tax long-term capital gains as income, especially under a progressive system.

LTCG is simply any capital asset held for longer than 365 days. It makes perfect sense to tax gains on assets held for a year or two.

Moreover, capital assets include real estate and other items that appreciate faster than inflation. It absolutely makes sense to tax those assets, since those assets are generally not held for productive use. (See, for example, all the empty storefronts in NYC. Those properties are held with an eye toward making money on the eventual sale of the building without regard to ongoing income; the finances work out as long as incoming cash flow from rents in other units covers debt service payments.)

Indeed, not taxing long-term capital gains would be the biggest subsidy to the wealthy that the world has ever seen. It would encourage the wealthy to acquire assets en masse, hold them without use for long periods, and then sell them at appreciated and untaxed values despite having done nothing to earn the appreciated value.
We have to remember that not everyone agrees on the problem that needs to be solved, much less how to solve it.

On the surface, it may make sense to adopt a Slashdot-style moderation model, where moderation is delegated to user space and only overtly-libelous or illegal content is censored at the admin level. If moderation is derived solely by consensus of user opinion, and if each individual user gets to decide how much moderation if any is applied to the posts they see, that would seem to avoid the original problem of Trump whining because Twitter banned him for expressing his views.

However, if you ask Twitter, they'll say they banned him not because of his opinions, but because he was using their platform to illegally incite violence and undermine the democratic process.

That gets to the real heart of the problem: conservatives who believe that it's OK when they do it, whatever "it" is, and who behave accordingly. No amount of tinkering with the moderation approach will solve the problem if a subset of politicians in power believe that platforms should be forced to carry speech in their favor regardless of concerns about legality. The argument regarding moderation is a red herring.
My solution is split services into “platforms” and “providers”, where only “platforms” enjoy immunity for user uploads but are subject to common carrier regulations in exchange.

It would be up to any company to decide if they’re a “platform” or “provider”.

Let people self-select if they view themselves as platforms or providers — with benefits and costs to each option.

Not everything should be a platform; I think companies like Twitter, FB, and YT would be happy to adopt platform/common carrier status if their immunity would otherwise be revoked.

Are there still edge cases? Yep.

But let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good — this change would improve the regulatory landscape in a way that helps end users.
Hopefully the world after COVID will feel something like the feeling that Watterson captured in this last Calvin and Hobbes strip.

"Let's go exploring" will be a long-awaited fresh take on the world and gratitude for all that we have taken for granted for so many years.
I think you are being unfair. Just look at the various Julia forums: addressing startup latency has been the main focus since 1.3 and each of the version since then (especially the 1.6 beta) have had significant improvements. Same with the REPL comments: you can easily just write scripts instead of using Revise/Pluto/IJulia or another REPL approach.
He’s right that one core goal is saving Black lives. But there’s also a more primal aspect, whereby many people in the US simply won’t acknowledge that Black lives matter. Which plays out in a lot of ways, but it also defies the sort of utilitarian calculus Scott seems to want to do here.

The reason I’m saying it’s myopic is that yes, it’s also about systemic racism and the prison-industrial complex and a ton of other things that probably even vary person-to-person. And even if Scott doesn’t realize that from the jump, surely he realizes that it deserves more than a single paragraph comparing it to fighting malaria… right?

Anyway, if you’re committed to looking at this through this strictly utilitarian lens, let me save us both some time and say we probably won’t be able to agree.
Sure, but I haven't heard much of an argument against his stance. This is especially interesting since he was a very progressive and pro-union leader. This is just a small excerpt.

"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters."
Interesting! In the embedded systems arena it has been happening even longer than that, including developers. Maybe that explains part but not all of why webserver developers make double on average an embedded developer's salary, or last time I checked.
> If you grow up middle class or better then it’s pretty much impossible to make good decisions and end up poor.

That seems like a tautology. “Didn’t end up poor? Of course you didn’t, you made all good decisions. Ended up poor? Must have been those dumbass decisions you made.”
premake is something like cmake. The sources are at https://github.com/premake/premake-core.

The binaries in the repo are from their github actions builds, from whenever I last updated the premake binaries in re3: https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3/pull/945
Go NYC?
Yes. For example my app has a hash table which it fills upon every request. After this initial filling, not more hash table entries are set. At the end of the request the hash table is deleted, and a new one is created at the next request. I improved performance a bit by clearing the hash table instead of deleting and recreating it. What gave me an even bigger boost in performance was by using a custom allocator that allocates big chunks of memory in a single operation.

The thing is my app is already not doing a lot of work per request so almost any speedup is noticeable.
Yeah, but availability zones are not geographical zones. Amazons outages were only in one datacenter.

Didn't know what HIPAA meant, but apparently they are certified for storing medical stuff.
Cool topic but this page has so many annoying ads and feels so much like a spammy rip-off of a more reputable site that I wanted to click "flag".

And this:

>These airplanes designs as well as the text and illustrations of them here are original copyrighted work and may not be reproduced in any form (except by folding an airplane for your own use.) It is illegal to create or publish instructions for folding them whether you take the trouble to create your own duplicate illustrations, or not.

... sounds highly dubious to me?
it doesn't mean that the language's closure semantics have suddenly changed.

Yes, but what are the issues with fresh let-bindings per iteration?

Presumably the alternative you mean is where the variables present in the local environment are copied on creation of a closure.

No, that's bad -- it leaves you unable to show that objects with mutable state are reducible to closures.
I know it's not much of a big deal, but I have always been deterred from using Puppet, Chef, CfEngine because:

a) You need to setup a central server (I hate adding non-core infrastructure)

b) You need Ruby. IMHO a whole new world of dependencies to taint and un-simplify your precious production servers.
I prefer wide over tall, assuming the same area. I like to view two documents side by side, and it's nice to have two 80-column terminals open on the screen without overlap or tiny fonts.

I'll also always pick two monitors over one large monitor for the ability to separate workspaces.
It can't possibly not be, if you'll pardon the double negative. There's no way they'd switch to white "Google" text after so many years' investment in the bright colours.

(Yes, I know Apple removed its colours, but that's different.)

It's sure to be back to normal tomorrow.
I've read all of them (I think?) but The Tipping Point is still my favorite. Always thought it might be interesting to model the ideas in it using some sort of multi-agent system.
And a similar article, since the one I posted seems to have gone down: http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/214707,goatse-securit...
Someone on reddit mentioned this works for now: https://www.google.com/
A Hello World page would give a good lower bound for Rails' part of things, I think... Beyond that, it's only going to take up more of the total, right?
This is probably just my personal bias kicking in but, to me, all of those illustrations that are in an outdoor setting, look like a view of a golf course.
Health insurance is weird because it’s become the way you pay for something expected. In every other insurance you will absolutely get denied or charged a huge sum if you’re knowingly going to be a loss.

It’s like applying for home fire insurance and saying you burned down your previous 3 homes and will likely burn down this one.
No drivers were needed for my Ubuntu setup or phone, but to have desktop Yubi authenticator app and turn on Linux hardware auth for sudo, login, TTY, I did add a ppa. There instructions for that were good though.

And when setting up any 2fa, need to have two keys and enroll them both, to give a chance of account recovery.

edit I purchased one for my wife and only properly understood when it arrived that it would need to be first used for all my 2fa, and then when helping her get setup I would need to have mine handy as her backup too.
I've only heard it in the software sense of intentionally restricted, but you're right - nerfed is better.
Sure, you can make a bunch of funny comics:

Someone is furiously writing as much code as possible, and the next panel is someone else furiously trying to delete it as fast as possible.

Someone stayed up all night to rush to complete something after someone asked for a feature, and then the next day they find out that guy didn't even work there.

A team spends 5 months refactoring their webapp to force it to fit into 512mb, and then in their final presentation someone asks, why not just buy a 2gb stick of memory? https://thedailywtf.com/articles/That-Wouldve-Been-an-Option...
I worked with Steve Sinofsky briefly, and he was a brilliant engineer. Unfortunately had to lead some products with very stiff existing competition.

What I find interesting is his fascination with the periodic table. I recall Bill also being very fascinated with it, and could talk about it’s intricacies for days.

I’m wondering if that’s a strong predictor of technical curiosity, or mere coincidence. Or Bill just liked hiring other nerds with similar interests!
Let's hope not, I like autodiff (and this project :( ).
> I agree that the healthy should not be compelled to subsidize the costs of healthcare for the unhealthy. Can you tell me why it's ethical to force my compliance?

Because it makes health insurance impossible to get when you need it most. It makes health insurance a scam because any serious illness and your company will fire you and you won't be able to get any other insurance. Insurance becomes cheap because it's useless.

Wealth inequality is a problem because money = power. Extreme wealth concentration is not compatible with democracy because eventually these people and corporations are so wealthy they can just buy votes. Spiraling wealth inequality gets you a Russia situation, an Oligarchy in everything but name.

Your argument is not a far stretch from "why don't we just let poor and sick people die". It's pretty much equivalent to "why don't we allow anyone to discriminate however they want", which got us great things like slavery
I can't figure out why you're putting so much stock into that site. It's a random Google Sites page that looks like it took about an hour to set up. In the past 1.5 months, it's gotten a total of 5 submissions. 5 submissions from a company of over a million employees. And of those 5 submissions, 2-3 are from people who do not even work at the company. One of the submissions literally starts with "I've never worked at the company", and one of the others is a NIMBY upset that Amazon is building a warehouse in their town.

If you're telling me that in 1.5 months, a company of 1+ million people only generated two complaints from employees, then that does not at all support the point you are making that Amazon is terrible to work for. That is an astonishingly low complaint rate.

>Does anything like the above exist for any other company? Not that I can find.

Have you never heard of glassdoor? Blind? There are plenty of sites that have literally hundreds of times more complaints against tech companies than what is shown in the site you linked.
> Chiropractors are no different.

Chiropractors are not doctors, nor hold any other medical-based degree.
People who commit violence out of ideological devotion may rise to the level of competence required to assemble weapons from over the counter components. It already happens occasionally, like with the 2005 London bombings. I very much doubt that the typical gun toting criminal of today will rise to that level of competence. I wouldn't expect the median member of the law abiding public to successfully make a rifled firearm and ammunition given a machine shop, a shed full of agricultural chemicals, and a year to practice. My expectations are even lower for the median armed criminal. Most will get distracted or injure themselves before reaching success.

I don't think that a cottage industry of weapons-for-criminals is going to spring up in the same way as illicit drug production. The drug trade is nearly impossible to vanquish because so much of it is victimless; neither the seller nor the consumer attracts much attention in the usual case. But if you're dealing weapons specifically to people who can't get them by legal means, that's much riskier. Most would-be attackers who meet with a "bomb seller" are actually meeting with LEO.

The novelty factor of "3D printed" firearms leads to law enforcement worrying about them disproportionately to their actual significance. They're mostly an exotic hobby.
probably not, but that's irrelevant. the point is facebook's robots.txt says you can crawl it but their TOS says you can't. facebook have already shown they are willing to sue anyone who tries to crawl without permission. this new model that facebook is trying to use isn't scalable, it favors the big guys and is bad for the open web.
In the real world, DB's servers are more likely to be breached than file-level encryption, by orders of magnitude. So encryption would be a very welcome addition.

Unfortunately it has a very real cost for DB: data redundancy could no longer be leveraged to save storage (because 2 identical files would appear different to DB). I suspect at their level of scale that would move a few cells in their CFO's spreadsheet.
None. Cached links are only visible to the user who saved them, and that seems to do the trick.
Surely the service is exposed to copyright claims. If the developers/business owners are reading, I would be interested to hear about what issues have arisen so far.
what happens to the site when the alarm goes off?
Yes it could happen.

Links are parsed with regular expression and clicked in order.
There is not some sort of link recognization (like confirmation one vs unsubscribe one), every link is treated the same way.
Yes, but they will be also bookmarking a lot of stuff that only they bookmark.

In our dataset of over a billion bookmarks, 80% of urls were only bookmarked by a single user. These urls comprise about 50% of all bookmarks (user-document pairs).

Incidentally, worio.com (my startup) offers full-text search of your bookmarks (though not a viewable cached copy, like these services).
I dislike Facebook because they’re mediocre.

Quote of the day - I never could clearly express what exactly I dislike about Facebook. It's just not joy to use. UI is mediocre, functionality is mediocre, even API is mediocre.
Yeah, there are plenty of tutorials out there for teaching Python to kids. I also remember seeing a book once, but can't remember the name.

I would like to see if currently anyone in the HN community has taught kids at a young age (preferably below 8) to code in Python and how well they could grasp it and implement it.
Definitely check out http://readme.io. Their docs look beautiful and set-up is a breeze.
> Google’s head legal honcho David Drummond joins the Uber Board. So, this means that any municipality thinking of messing with Uber (which seems to happen monthly) will now have to think twice about getting into fisticuffs with Google. Well-played, Uber, well-played.

Wow. This is potentially bigger than the investment itself, because it will probably do more to ensure the survivability of the company than the money they received, which they would've gotten from other places later anyway.
Tony Jaa is a hacker?
Absolutely nothing surprising. Any company can be bullied and all companies have good incentive to crawl when government asks to bend.
A capacitor meter to test capacitors that are soldered onto an PCB?
I understand Enron tried the same thing. These people are idiots.

http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2007-June/000884.html
I saw a video titler which solved the problem of expensive memory by keeping the frame buffer compressed, and decompressing it at frame rate. I remember that composing the image was very slow (on a 4 MHz 68000). The compression algorithm was run length limited.

The product was the Vidstar-2000 from Video Data Systems in 1984.
Betteridge's law of headlines [0]. The answer to the question is generally no - that doesn't make the article useless link bait though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
>It's because Chicago's culture is excessively risk averse.

Again this seems like selection bias at play. Chicago's history is actually built on the back of excessive risk taking, not risk aversion. Its a cultural touchstone that is built into the cities image.

And if you look at areas outside of the web, there have been huge payouts for risk taking very recently (trading is the most obvious one).

I suspect that what people are saying is "Chicago doesn't do as good a job of building SV style startups as SV. The kind that is based on a constant flood of inexperienced dev talent, high turn over, and equity based compensation. Due to this there are very few blockbuster technology firms and relatively fewer people with that kind of experience to lean on when trying to emulate the SV model."

I think that is probably a fair assessment, but I also think that it is generally a bad idea to try to emulate the SV model, when for the price of a cross country voyage, you could be in SV.

SV has similar problems in the reverse direction. Talk to bootstrapped founders there some time. They walk around feeling like they have 3 heads. And don't get me started about the misconceptions of the way capital markets work. Having been pitched a couple of SV startups that were going to disrupt commodities trading, I can assure you misconceptions about how "business" works go both ways.
Yes, don't operate heavey machinery when using any mind altering substance is good default rule. Unless you are a fighter pilot and you've got your Uncle Sam issued speed.
> Would be a picture for the gods having the Chinese executives and CEOs abroad cut off from their email and crying "foul!" "foul!"

The government could care less about the difficulties of CEOs as long as their power is consolidated and ensured. I used to believe that the CPC's first and foremost goal is economy building. How naive I was! Their priority has always been power.
The group therapy laptop UX comments on that post are hilarious.
Problems are connected, but still separate. I agree Social Justice Warriors are a cancer on society, but this kind of government actions is like getting attacked and cut by a knife. Sure, the cancer might make everything go to hell eventually, but the knife wound needs to be patched up now, before we bleed out of our freedom of though.
My first thought: this reopens the market for video streaming services.

YouTube may permanently suffer for this. Anyone who reads and understands the conditions will consider whether they can agree to Google's terms, and secondly, whether they can trust Google's future T&C updates.
I was surprised Dyn weren't faster. Drilling down, I wonder what was going on between 25th Feb and 11th March? http://www.dnsperf.com/provider/Dyn
Or, more likely, someone will buy it and screw it up. That's pretty much par for the course.
I agree, and it does surprise me, but I think it's a mix of 1. tether has been around a lot longer and is on a lot more exchanges 2. tether is.. less well controlled by US regulators and hence better for.. questionable exchanges to list.
I'm kinda glad BTC is up, this means I can do an exit with break even or a little profit. I just sold half my crypto assets on the two exchanges I have an account on, I just hope I can have the money transferred out before they become insolvent when the next great crash happens.
I switched from Simple to USAA, and have been really happy with their customer service. Their app sucks compared to Simple, though, but that’s probably true of 100% of banking apps.
> I've seen this movie several times over the last 10 years.

When you take into consideration other languages and their ecosystems this was happening from the start. It is just evolution.
If this lib gets enough traction and goes into the right direction, whatever that may be, it will become popular. Ofcourse chances are small, but..
That's true although many (probably most) of the tech-related jobs are not actually in the city. In my experience, most people working in those jobs live in the suburbs/exurbs (and even in NH). It's mostly the branches of the west coast companies that are in the city as well as other industries like finance and healthcare.
>Can you imagine how expensive SF would be if it actually got its act together? It boggles my mind to imagine.

SF will never get it together in its current form. The easy tach money being dumped into it breeds perpetual greed and stupidity. The money will have to run out and it will have to crash and burn before they get serious about not sucking. They will have to go through a Detroit phase.
Tethers only value is as a proxy for the dollar, as such it can only ever be worth a dollar. The exceptions are when a market is crashing people would rather have dollars, and we will see prices above a dollar due to high demand - though the intrinsic value should never change.
Why would I want in-app services and purchasing like Facebook Marketlplace in my chat messaging app? It should facilitate chat and messaging, and no more. This is how it used to be, until Facebook acquired and ruined WhatsApp.
Here is a photo of children put in cages during the Obama admin[0] by Donald Trump.

[0]https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2018/06/18/ap_1816885517410...