skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be no sales tax to begin with, Or income tax or property tax.... Most taxes can be simplified and reduced to a 1 simple wealth tax.

If you look at this matters with some attention you realize system works against poor...

Only income taxes are progressive. And Rich don't get richer because of their income.

Whether you're a trillion dollar company or about to make your first sale to pay rent you owe same amout of sales tax.

Wether you live in NYC and pay 3k in rent or live in Alaska you pay same federal income tax.

.... Wealth tax is way simpler... It let's govt tax wealth/income on its last form. Like a fraction in reduced form, or equation that's been simplified.

Easier to conduct business, easier to start business, easier to pay taxes, easier to be poor. Much much fair to all.

Capital tax is not same as wealth tax. In fact if you have wealth tax there is no need for capital tax.

I suggest 4% wealth tax and remove pretty much all other taxes.

If your wealth is 200 billion, first year you pay 8 billion.
If your wealth is $5000 then you pay only.. $200, doesn't matter if you earned 400k. If you didn't accquire assets you spent it and some else have that now so they will pay it...if you bought stuff then your wealth isn't really 5k
Not even eventually. Right now. How many companies out there absolutely depend on all the value add services that AWS provides that are hard to replicate?

Does your business depend on Amazon Transcribe (or any other AWS-only service)? Do you have engineers competent to turn around an equivalent product for you in a short release window? No? (Don't lie to yourself.
It's no.) Congratulations, you are now Amazon's bitch.
List out every bad agency/organization/corporation that we dislike and every company of which those agencies, etc. are clients. Then, boycott all of them.
Tesla to close a dozen solar facilities in nine states
Multiple sourcing is the key. All of the above products can be bought from multiple places, this API could be "bought" from a single vendor.

Any usage kf SaaS would require a solid contract in place and a plan B (and C, and D, etc) to reach even a fraction the reliability of e.g electricity or food.
You read more into my comment than I wrote and you're dead wrong in that physicians do not study nutrition.
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This 16TB thing has Active read/write up to 8.7/10.6 W, Idle 4.0 W power consumption properties, and HDDs range from 4 to 10 W ( https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/desktop-hdd.15-st4000dm... from 2013 ), so pretty much the same. And you don't have to worry about vibrations with SSDs, so you can blow a lot more air at them.
I'm very sorry you've gone through that. Did your kid only swallow magnets, or did he swallow other objects around the house as well?
America is insane. Probably the only country that will argue for banning magnets and against banning handguns.
Your anger is misdirected.

The fight isn't whether or not ICE should have facial recognition software. The fight is to make ICE act in accordance with our values. Some agency (ICE or whatever replaces it) will still need to protect the borders, and that protection will require facial recognition software.

If you hate ICE, you should also probably hate defense contractors more, because they have very little moral qualms about accepting contracts from the government, even ones that may violate human rights. And that's where that money is going to go now.
For starters, "Oh for crying out loud. Do I have to make it even more clear?" is plain uncivil.
Does this argument apply if there was a signed contract with years remaining?
Taiwan's Foxconn calls Sino-U.S. trade spat a 'tech war'
They can't just randomly decide to "demonetize" thousands of users. Patreon has to be fair, as it depends on people using their service. Youtube doesn't have this incentive, it relies on advertising money.
If the advertisers don't like some videos, they have the leverage to demand their exclusion and demonetization.
This is the fundamental difference: youtube is paid by advertisers, patreon is paid by transaction fees.
He specifically swallowed “Bucky balls”, which are small yet powerful magnets.
Support people however are often powerless

I don’t think it’s possible to label someone as support if they’re powerless.
Please don't post ideological rants to HN. That's a particularly bad variant of the flamewars we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wait you say its brand is so closely tied to Google but yet don't realize YouTube is owned by Google?
Ask HN: Multilingual CMS with proper internationalization/l10n support?
Most CMS come with simple support for multilingual content, i.e.

- detecting browser language

- allowing each page to have a parallel page in each additional language

- displaying the right version depending on browser language or user selection

But multi-lingual software isn't created the same way. Instead, of creating parallel pieces of content, you instead export strings that need translating, translate them in some tool (e.g. Matecat or Transifex) and then import the translations. This has a few advantages, including:

- you can always see which strings need translating

- if you update the primary version of a page by switching two sentences or paragraphs, all the other pages will have the same transformation applied, with no need to re-translate or do anything

- you can see at any time which strings need translating

There seem to be two obvious solutions for a multi-lingual corporate web site that works in this way:

1) Django CMS (which uses .po files and the usual Django i18n/l10n process)

2) WordPress with the paid WPML plugin (which can import/export XLIFF, which is the standard format used by CAT (computer-aided translation) tools).

What do you use? Are there are other great options around (if you don't want to roll your own)?
This disincentives savings and is in many ways the opposite of VAT taxes, which many tax scholars hold out as one of the most efficient ways to raise revenue without distorting desirable economic behavior.
> Sure you'd still eventually need to migrate away but at least you could then do it on your own terms.

I think people often underestimate the value of being able to manage their own destiny. They key point here is "manage" though: you have to actually do it - it's an active process.

If, on the other hand, you simply stick your head in the sand and ignore the situation it will eventually get to the point where it becomes extremely difficult and expensive to deal with due to a variety of factors such as no clear migration path, loss of institutional knowledge, and so on. I name no names, but worked for one UK company in particular with form here.

I'm not making an argument against SaaS (we use a few of them), but it's important to understand the trade-offs you're making in terms of ceding control.
In a case like this what's left other than an empty sack? Unless you're able to pierce the corporate veil there isn't anyone/anything with assets left to be made whole by (e.g. sue).
Yes he's definitely done a lot of burning lately. He's burnt a lot of bridges.
I'm not sure what you mean. If they have a business arrangement it probably explicitly includes a one way transfer of accounts into PS4. Sony would clearly be willing to pay for this (both minimize friction getting in and maximize it getting out).
Personal attacks are not allowed here, regardless of how badly someone else behaves, so please remain civil. When another commenter behaves egregiously, flag the comments or email us (hn@ycombinator.com) instead.

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IBS Software inks multi-year contract with British Airways
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Twitter will never change how they do business, replacement is the best strategy.
Truly competent Ops folks are setting up Terraform/Terragrunt modules for multiple providers and designing with cloud agnosticism in mind.

If they aren't, either they're incompetent, the CTO is, or you don't really have a company yet.
So where are all the Django jobs? I am trying to compare apples to apples here. Data science jobs and academia don't mean much for web developers.
What matters in addition to grades is personality and people you know. Things stay anonymous in university during undergrad for the most part, but if you are really good professors will start to notice you and then you get invited to join seminars, do internships etc. Especially in intellectually very competitive fields like math and physics everyone recognizes that tests do not really matter, they are nescessarily trivial or test only a small subset of skills you need to do research.
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Attacking someone else like this is against HN's rules and will get your account banned, so could you please not do it here? Instead, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly or not at all.
Neither Hack nor Flow are reified, so it's a different matter.

Both of these languages started out with strict null-checking — Hack because there were too many bizarre falsy values in PHP to allow otherwise, and Flow because it worked out so well in Hack. So neither had to tack on strict null-checking afterwards.

There have been some similar large-scale migration efforts. For example, Hack's record types were built on top of PHP arrays, which don't distinguish between absent and null values. Consequently, Hack's record types didn't distinguish between optional and nullable fields. Furthermore, records support width subtyping by default. This is unsound: you can construct distinct types A and B with A <: B <: A.

After a lot of effort, we did migrate the entire codebase to resolve this unsoundness. Essentially, we changed every record declaration to be an "open" record type and made all new records "closed" by default (referring to whether they supported width subtyping).

The analogue, then, would be something like refactoring every type declaration in every consumer's Dart code to be annotated as nullable, adding explicit null-checks, and allowing them to write non-nullable types as the default thenceforth.
That's like saying that causation doesn't matter; correlation will suffice. But the causal directionality of separating subject from object in a relation is essential to forming or sharing an idea usefully. In the synthetic game worlds you mention, causality is decided by play sequence. But at no point does the agent ever have to employ abstraction, or 'think about thinking', which diminishes the needed depth of thought greatly.

No, probability alone simply isn't expressive enough to support higher cognition. At best it will deliver a purely reactive agent, no more cognizant than Kahnemann's knee-jerk level of thinking.
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Unemployment numbers also aren’t low because the economy is producing tons of new jobs; notice the record numbers of homeless on the streets? It’s the labor participation rate. People are only counted towards unemployment stats while they are actively seeking employment; after awhile they give up and drop out of the labor force completely.

Of course much of that drop is also demographics; the baby boomers are starting to retire en masse.

Still, the illusion of job abundance does not hold.
I completely stopped doing this.

I read always more than I wanted and I didn't like to work after it because it killed ever chance of flow.

Now I look out or on the output of drink something or optimize what I'm waiting on.
I recall Firebug being one of the reasons for sticking with Firefox before Chrome had dev tools.
I worked at a smallish company in the 1980's. None of the above is new in any way.
Thank you. As far as I can recall, it's my only flagged comment in my ~8 years on HN.
ah, thanks for the information ! having used 'isolcpu' on dedicated-systems, i completely overlooked this aspect.
Also, while buying & holding an ETF based on the S%P 500 is the canonical low-effort investing advise, it is trivially easy to beat this strategy by choosing an index that performs better historically. E.g. the Russel 2000 or some other index that captures the price movements of medium sized companies. The S&P 500 tracks the biggest companies, which necessarily are the ones that have done most of their growing already.
Difference between CSM and PSM certification?
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Often not.

I went through an acquisition of an unsuccessful company. My employer created a shell which is what was acquired. The old corporation wasn't acquired and existed as an independent entity to wind down contracts / deal with the acquisition hold-back, etc.

If eg smyte was out of money, this is plausible. And all of a sudden no-one was there to run the old corp.

crunchbase says they raised a $4m A in Mar 2017, but linkedin says they had 23 employees. They could burn that in 1.25 years with 23 employees and have hit a cash crunch.

I have no knowledge, just speculation.
What other unpleasant things would you wish on people as a way to educate the public about the realities of contract law? Your internet service just deciding to cut you off with no notice? Water? Electricity? Ambulance or firefighters not showing up when you need them? That might help cull the hopelessly naive from the herd and have an overall positive effect on the state of the Web.
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Yes but the mentioned problem comes from the companies forming an oligopoly.
You can turn on something like manual verification of new users, an alternative security service, or just temporary halt new account registration. All of which don't result in system wide failure.
Even a few abusive users is a small and temporary cost to absorb vs complete outage.
There is a reason industrial civilization has put quadrillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, but taken very little out: It's profitable to emit carbon, and expensive to take it out of the air.

You can absolutely take CO2 out of the air and produce useful output. It's physically possible, no problem. It's not at all profitable, though. Not much reason to produce synthetic gasoline at $20 a gallon when you can make it from fossil petroleum for $3 a gallon.

This is why global warming mitigation efforts have focused on reducing emissions instead of carbon capture.
Ah didn't realize it was the same account. I tried with two 1GB files, one with many lines but each short, another with long lines but not as many:

1.1GB, 10M lines.

Code: ~10s, smooth scrolling, instant jumping.

Sublime: ~50s, smooth scrolling, instant jumping.

Atom: ~10s, smooth scrolling, very choppy jumping: ~5s loads per jump (also got some error messages about text too large for buffer)

1.0GB, 40k lines.

Code: ~15s, scrolling somewhat choppy, quick jumping

Sublime: Application not responding after ~60s, waitied another 60s, no change. Same behavior each of the two times I attempted.

Atom: ~8s, smooth scroll, ~30s per jump, occasional "Editor is taking too long to load" messages.

Note: Atom enforces a maximum line length of ~500 chars before it wraps regardless of word wrap setting. This means the 8s load was only showing a couple lines worth of content. I find this restriction not acceptible for the long-line test case, but including anyways for completeness)

Full "report":
https://pastebin.com/wUv8PSgp
They'd probably make a hell of a lot more if they didn't aggressively demonetize known safe content from their flagship creators.
> Why do you think they don't

I don't.

The points are (i) how do you prove that without invoking the 'humans have language" as an axiom or "I can talk to a human' privilege and (ii) does one use the same standards to prove or disprove that Koko had or did not have a language.

You would need a scientific experiment capable of proving or disproving that the subject possesses a language but the inference procedure does not use the 'human' privilege. If you do need the privilege the experiment is incapable of proving a non-human has language even when they do.
The mirror test works like this: you stealthily put a mark on the face or head of the being and then present the mirror. If the being then tries to reach the mark it is a strong clue of self-recognition.

In the excerpt the exact way of the sniff test is not described. I didn't read the paper, hoping for a summary here on HN. I thought maybey they controlled for confounding effects, for example by presenting other familiar smells, including the smell of self. The modified smell showing a higher level of interest compared to other smells would be a clue of self-recognition.

Anyway the approach shows clearly a bias of the mirror test. You could say the mirror test was discriminating the dogs.

This might be a leap, but I felt reminded of the hearing bias Deaf people experience every day. The majority of people assume that hearing and communicating via the audio channel is the way to go, and so I experience hurdles like needing to phone for identification for services.

I sympathise with the dogs.
I'm using YNAB but probably going to move to my own spreadsheet at some point because their move from product to subscription service provides no extra value - they don't even support UK banks for auto-import which is the only thing they've added.
I'm always surprised that Twitter has managed to stay in business so long. Anaemic growth, massive spam and bot accounts, an advertising platform that's hostile to most small advertisers, a user-base that makes YouTube's comments look downright gentle, constant hostility to third party developers...and yet it continues to chug along.
Isn't it the advertisers that are pushing for demonetisation?
This is the same company with NIH Syndrome severe enough to in-house their own woefully-under-performing message queue.
Twice. And they blamed Rails after the first go of it.

I'm not sure they know what interop means.
That sucks. We (Sift Science) have been building something similar for 7 years and aren’t going anywhere. If we can help, please ping me - jason at siftscience dot com
That had nothing to do with it. I had no idea that Smyte was a YC company (or had forgotten, not sure which). But thanks for letting me know.

Since it sounds like you follow these things closely, I'm surprised you'd be so cynical. If there's literally a single case where someone did that where we haven't chided them, I'd like to know about it. In fact if there are any personal attacks of any kind on HN that we haven't moderated, I'd like to know. The likeliest explanation is that we just didn't see it. In the present case a user (not connected to YC as far as I know) emailed us to complain about the comment, I looked at it, and replied—same as it ever was.
I think we're already there, and it isn't much of a dystopia. There are only 3 big cloud providers, and many major companies rely on them for everything.

But their business is built on providing this service. At what point would Amazon, Google or Microsoft say "we don't want that $xB in revenue, just turn it off. NOW!

Is that what you're suggesting is the future?
I like to use Twitter from a distance. Like a street brawl. It's fascinating to watch, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to get involved. Too messy.
When I started working from home last year, this was my biggest concern as I live in a one bedroom apartment so there isn’t space for multiple desks, and I use the same desktop PC for work and play. It turned out not to be a problem, as long as I am motivated by the work then I have no problem focussing no matter where I am working.
Sure - that's a good suggestion. Thanks for looking out for a fellow user.
I don't agree with the parent either (I'd rather use a SaaS if it makes sense) its also not as easy as you make it sound.

For starters, most smallish companies I know of use housing for their servers. So, they actually do own the hard metal servers and have full access to them. Both over SSH and on the console for debugging purposes. The housing provider generally replaces HDDs in case of disk failures. naturally, you're still dependent on electricity and internet, but even that can be mitigated by spreading your servers across several locations.

All of that is obviously possible with AWS, GCP or other VPS hosts, but doing it yourself is not that much harder if you've got an experienced ops person that wants to bother with all of that.

but i repeat... Its often not worth the time investment to get that system properly set up. Just renting VMs or going straight into dockerized microservices is an increasingly better alternative
Lets apply this to cattle
Can't you tax all the people which have a car and are close to public transportation that makes center accessible, with those taxes finance public transit expansion and slowly tax people close to the new expansion?
Personal attacks on anyone aren't fine on HN, but when there's an entire industry of articles about them it gets a lot harder to enforce the rule.
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I generally don't cook, except for a occasional grilling.

There are always low-carb modifications you can make. There used to be coffee shops here that would make a larger omelette in lieu of potatoes and toast, for example. In and Out Burger offers the so-called protein style for all of their burgers such that you can get your burger in lettuce wrap instead of a bun. Even at McDonald's, a good low carb value is to get 2 double cheeseburgers or McDoubles, toss one bun, and use the remaining bun has a holder for the combined now four-patty Burger (you don't have to hit the button, just use it as a holder). etc.

Meat. Cheese (in moderation). Eggs. Salad greens. It's What's For Dinner (tm).
I’ve been using YNAB (You Need A Budget) for four years now and it has made a big difference in how much we’re saving. I used spreadsheets or other DIY solutions in the past, but they aren’t very multi-user friendly (wife and I share a family budget) and didn’t make me think of savings in the same way.

Here’s a good review:
https://thewirecutter.com/money/best-budgeting-apps-and-tool...
They were also noteworthy for their founder Pete Hunt, who is largely credited with instigating the open sourcing of React. (As I recall, it was internal Facebook tech that he extracted into a separate library when he moved from FB to Instagram after that merger.)
I made a stupid mistake to do with iCloud and after talking to the support manager who wanted to help, but there were some technical details they weren't completely confident in discussing, I was able to talk to a software engineer and decide what to do withe possible recovery options.
I work at twitter and wasn’t able to find out immediately, but have been collecting responses like these + the article and communicating with someone who knows what to do. I only found out about this over twitter and I am personally deeply frustrated and working to understand whatever led to this.
I feel like a warning for one edition and error on the next would make it straightforward as to how much time is left to update the code.
> 2 double-bendy buses is 300 people per minute.

I made a mistake while writing that: it should've been 1 bus every two minutes. Don't know why I decided to quadruple the capacity...

> 9292 says in the spits from the Uithof-Centraal there is one bus every 4 minutes.

Strange. Maybe they did change this, but I recall there being 30 of those buggers per hour during rush hours.
Sure, but a service like Smyte requires significant expertise to make work well and run. Pretending you can snap your fingers and implement a Sift Science or Smyte is ludicrous.

Further, some of the biggest value they will provide is being able to see transactions between vendors. So eg calculating an IP address reputation score by seeing bursts of fraudulent purchases. That is impossible to do in house only.
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Common Lisp has exactly this and it's a damn sight faster than Ruby and Java. Java is the way it is because it was designed to be marketed from the start. And that marketing is the only reason it is popular.