skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would really make sense -> a wealth tax
What we have instead of that -> an estate tax
What you need to make an estate tax work -> a gift tax

Wealth taxes and income taxes are kind of orthogonal. Why do you need a wealth tax? For the same reason you need a progressive income tax, power naturally accumulates and without a force pushing against that you slide towards feudalism. It's also important to note that wealth doesn't work like "I earned a pile of gold and if I do nothing I/my children will gradually deplete it". Wealth makes higher returns the more wealth you have, returns /above/ inflation, meaning that if you throw it into a managed fund it will make you money (on average) forever. So it's less like you own a pile of gold and more like you own a boatload of land and rent it to other people to passively get you money (equity same deal but more steps). So half the people are born into the world effectively owning not a pile of gold but shares on the other half! (Try earning a living without land, water, telecoms, probably soon air, which we allow people to own). If you don't think this is bad because of some sense of fairness and morality, accept that it's bad because "those who make peaceful revolution..." - eventually you get the French revolution.
I don't think so, this certainly has never been effective at that.

I'd say that historically billion dollars fortunes got diluted between the 10 children then the next generation, some of whom might actually burn it stupidly very quickly. Otherwise, it's diluted by wars and calamity.

However, there are no major disaster in the past decades and the number of children per family have dropped dramatically. It surely breaks the balance.
Nokia as a company was doing fine - it was the phone (and, specifically, the smartphone) portion of their business that was having trouble keeping up.

Nokia as a company is still doing well, in fact
They weren't analyzing voice, but what they are doing gets them just as much or more data.

- They watch how quickly you scroll through the news feed at what you pause on, even briefly.

- They have ad deals with many of the sites you probably visit so can determine many of your search terms and interests even if you didn't search those things through Facebook itself.

- They have your friend & family graph and Facebook messenger context. Even if you personally didn't say something, maybe you mentioned it to a friend at some point and they searched it or discussed it in a chat.
So you're basically talking about 3D stacking or integration. This doesn't have much effect, because replacing a single die with a die stack is basically a wash; it's the same transistors on the same silicon area, just rearranged. (3D NAND and 3D XPoint are an exception to this.)

And generally stacking is less area-efficient than a single die because TSVs are enormous. Stacking is more energy-efficient because it allows traces to be shorter (e.g. HBM2) and it's more space-efficient at the product level by reducing the amount of packaging.
>> US politicians apparently don't have time to deal with privacy issues and gdpr. They're too busy

...trying to get re-elected. Every action they take is with that singular goal in mind.
Monthly ACH transactions are surely an option instead though?
Conductors at every door sounds bizarre to me. I ride the Metro North commuter rail into NYC on occasion and when it pulls into the station all the doors open and you get on or off.

What's the deal with this in Boston? Do the doors not have automatic opening hardware? Are they checking tickets on entry instead of walking down the train and punching them at your seat?
I stopped playing facebook games when they tried to get me to log in every hour, to water or take care of someone's farm. Sorry, I dont need another Job...

Then the client started spying on me, so I switched to the web mobile version. Then they removed chat from that. Oh well, I can text people instead.

I'm not playing their game, behaving like they want me too, they want mindless drones, f' them.

I'm very close to deleting my account, but my daughter posts the grandkids pics, so I'm stuck for now.

They want a race to the bottom, they are doing a good job with their damn authoritarian forceful methods. Already filtering what I view, its really worthless now.
I don't think so. Unless the target is very close it's not that easy to hit the head.
But a bulletproof vest doesn't really help you in most kidnapping scenarios, does it?
The numbers may not show up very well as people still use FB as 'single sign on' type thing. What we really need is more specificity in the data to know what's going on.

Also - Instagram is exploding and they are tightly intertwined.
We Didn’t Evolve for Lifelong Monogamy
Fascinating. Do you see a lot of deathbed transfers of wealth? Certainly, there are some illiquid assets that are going to be hard to transfer at deathbed in any country. In the US, you would see tons of deathbed transfer (they had to create a look-back period for gifts to prevent people from "improvishing" themselves via gifts to kids to qualify for government-paid nursing home care through medicaid). Is it just a cultural difference in Belgium, or something else?
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Not sure what he means tbh. The Linux desktop has been improving steadily for years. It's in a good spot now, Proton makes it even more viable, but it's still not perfect. I'd say the biggest barrier is if you require Windows-only programs that don't work with Wine (of which there are a lot).
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Sweet, I've always wished my worms would live longer!
As a german student, i don't really remember the time before merkel.
I was 5 years old when Merkel took the CDU-chair. It's really the end of an era.

I have always wondered how merkel can do such a hard job for so long. She is 64 and looks very healthy.
Standard initial training in most places are that train shooters is “shoot center of mass”; more advanced training is usually “shoot center of mass first, then...”.

Shooting other than center of mass drops likelihood of hitting a lot, and even most well-trained shooters aren't accurate enough to reliably hit anything else under conditions where you actually are going to be shooting in earnest.
I'm not a "prepper": I like backpacking; I like gardening; I like shooting (but not hunting, as I'm a vegetarian); I keep a hurricane kit at home with a couple months food and a generator.

This is just enjoying my hobbies combined with good sense preparedness for living in Florida.

As for plastic compasses, they work fine and are hard to break, orienteering is a fun hobby, and bow hunting is a popular sport here.
Google AI Impact Challenge: Working Together to Apply AI for Social Good
Tech giants face 2% UK digital services tax
The inventor who created the saw stop tested it on himself. The saw stop automatically stops a saw blade when you finger comes in contact with it. That guy definitely stood behind his product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop#Invented,_1999
Not the OP, but this is a Big Thing for me too (and I'm from Uruguay). I am aware of a lot of other differences, but I don't see that many other things that I'd care about.

And I've been to middle-of-nowhere, USA and have family there so I know it's not a bed of roses, but you also don't fully realize how good you have it in many other ways.
At an earlier job we installed a VC history plugin (I don't know which one) to at least have basic history of configuration changes, but it had several problems:

- It would often get into an unrecoverable state, and we would have to SSH into the box to clean things up to allow it to continue (and in the meantime we would lose all history).

- Trivial automated changes from another plugin would flood the log. Not this plugin's fault, of course, but Jenkins is unusable without lots of plugins, most developed in isolation from others.

Everyone I've talked to about this prefers the GitLab model of telling the server everything relevant to your build at build time. Where Jenkins would need copies of jobs or synchronized configuration updates, GitLab just assumes that each commit has the job configuration it needs.
Sam’s Club is opening a cashier-less store in Texas
Try to install kubernetes by hand.. It reminds me of the old days of "dependency hell"
I disagree with her premise that the government should fund people to have fulfilling creative careers. That's not how the world works. Creative outputs generally do not have 'efficienciecy' increases like other fields. Creative outputs are zero sum: people only have a constant amount of time to use to consume creative outputs and consumption time has already been saturated.

Efficiency upgrades for entertainment are tied to technology advancement (think the invention of TV, electronic audio devices, VR, video games), not creative output.
Even marriage doesn't guarantee safety from a break-up, yet most marriages split finances. Suppose you thought with all sincerity you would get married, then helping your partner makes rational sense, especially if your partner is paying interest on a loan. That's your future joint account being drained.
It's all fungible land, rent, concrete store walls, and staff. They have many competitors with practically identical overlap in business. IBM is not like at all like this.

Ermm yes it is. What do they do that HPE, DXC, Accenture, Crapita, Fujitsu, TCS, Infosys, Wipro yadda yadda don’t? All IBM had left is the rapidly tarnishing prestige of their once mighty brand.
If

1) There is a way for all Americans (including the poor, minorities, indigenous tribes, the homeless, and people without a physical address) to obtain this ID without any prejudice, opportunity cost, or privacy implications
2) There is significant political will to rolling out 1)

Then I'm with you. If not as it currently is the case, then voter ID is a means of disenfranchising the vulnerable groups I mentioned in 1) and I'm opposed.

Update: You might argue that I'm contradicting myself in that voter ID law would be good and ensuring that the groups I mentioned were protected in 1) would be asking for perfection. My rebuttal would be that any scheme that allows for legal disenfranchisement of otherwise legal voters is not good at all.
Slower:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpWJuSvd7A

A hole does appear in the outer jacket
Wikipedia tells me that "pitot" refers to the device for measuring airspeed.

Does anybody know what "load" means in this context?
It's much older than that.

The first bulletproof vest dates to the 1890s, and the inventor photographed tests on himself for publicity.

https://culture.pl/en/article/the-monk-who-stopped-bullets-w...
Those intermediate organizations have been biased in the past and seem to have become increasingly biased to the point of becoming useless for those that want to focus on facts rather than opinion & commentary.

I'm not convinced that is true, but even if it were the important question isn't "are they biased?" but "are we replacing it with something worse?". So far, the latter seems plausible.

Developing a general skepticism isn't a bad thing in and of itself, so long as it is tempered by the real goal which is to have a reliable mechanism for evaluating and accepting new information.

We know that widely available information is generally good for democracy.

This is only true if the information is correct, and quite the opposite if we are talking propaganda etc.
If there were many companies per "other country", that would make sense. There are very few companies outside US in the list, and the only country with two entries is UK; both companies are in London.

If the chart had, say, 10 companies from India, showing the borders of India's states on the map would definitely make sense.
I've been thinking about this a bit, and my main concern about SOLID powering a social network is that it would thrash Pods from users with thousands of friends requesting thousands of documents on the same pod every x seconds, which might work for commercial servers but end up being a DDOS on smaller Pods.

I guess I'm worried about the power need to do this at scale, and that we'll end up with something analogous to bitcoin mining pools where there's few practical options for the average user.
As for HN, do you think it’s less than 30% today? If so/not,how do you know?

What do you count as “fake”? Actual bots, sure, but what about a real person running an automation that spams overnight? What about many real people mass-typing “opinions” on behalf of someone who pays them? What about a single businessman typin a falsehood that helps his business? Which of these count as fake?
Ah, that's exactly the trick I was thinking of. I think I learned it from [1], but I'm pretty sure Protothreads predates that post. Thanks for the link!

1: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
I have difficulty reconciling news like this against Facebook's stock price. Yes, they're growing in the rest of the world still, but America has the number one large scale source of highly monetizable advertising targets. The survey was carried out on the 5th of September when Facebook was at $167, it's now at $141 and that's with an avalanche of other recent issues to pile onto this.

Was this already somehow priced in, or what?
the bodies depicted in such images are not capable of caring about how they are treated anymore, though. i agree that often relatives get upset about images of their loved ones bodies being used in newspapers or tv, but sometimes the journalists have to weigh the public interest value of showing the image against potential distress. for example, the famous vietnam 'napalm girl' photograph. i'm not suggesting a return to 'if it bleeds, it leads' shock-value journalism, just pointing out that sometimes distasteful images have real value and should not be censored.
It probably won't work, sure, but I'm not going to continue to support games that I can't play without downloading cracks. And I feel they are crossing a line requiring that much control and integration with my system to run.

And being an outlier doesn't mean you are insignificant. Sure, the latest Call Of Duty won't miss my income, but a smaller dev that was thinking about using easyanticheat because it was cheap and easy to integrate might think twice when reading comments from me, or if their demographic overlaps with people like me that won't put up with it.

I can't in good conscience talk about how much I dislike invasive anti-cheat programs while still buying every game I want that has them.
I used to keep a small notebook. This one specifically:

https://www.amazon.com/Leuchtturm1917-Medium-Hardcover-Noteb...

I'd have a new one for each year. The rolling aspect kept things off my mind as someone else mentioned. I'd note everything in there.

But more recently I moved everything to digital. I keep an iPad pro with me at all times, and I use apple notes. I create a new note for each month, labelled Oct 2018 for this month for example, and keep the rolling tasks list going for that. I keep all of them in a notebook labeled "Daily Notebook". Apple notes lets me access it from more places, and share sketches digitally, and it's free (obviously except for the initial expense of the tablet).
You can very likely read it for free in a day or three at https://www.cringely.com/
This headline is nonsense. It should tip you off that the author isn't a scientist. He's "Writer of fiction & non fiction".

My partner of several years is an evolutionary biologist. She says there's selective pressure for some monogamy and also some non-monogamy. Each has pros/cons and increases adaptability in certain situations. Evolved behaviors are never black and white or universal.

There's also not much evidence on what selection occurs after reproductive years end, but having more grandparents to raise children is likely selected for.
I would argue that subtype polymorphism is functionally equivalent to Ad-hoc polymorphism especially in the presence of multiple inheritance.

The distinction is how polymorphic code is written not what the semantics can be expressed. E.g. rust traits allow for dynamic dispatch. While there is a distinction between ad-hoc polymorphism and subtype polymorphism, I don't believe it is necessary when comparing what semantics FP and OPP languages express.
Free cash flow is after R&D expenses.
The goal of parent's disengagement doesn't seem to have been privacy but rather sanity and productivity.
I work on IBM clouds all day and what they have been doing for the last several year(s) is embracing Linux, much the same way that Microsoft has been embracing Linux with containers, WSL, github, and Azure.

The first thing I thought when I read this news was - good maybe they’ll take their 360,000 employees, make them all use Linux, and as a consequence standardise a developer laptop to compete with MacBook.

The second thing I thought was - if there is 360,000 people with Linux laptops in your enterprise, what sort of creative uses could you come up with for container orchestration.

The third thing I thought was - I wonder how much they pay in Microsoft licensing per year.
> Mad props if he actually did this, but a bit skeptical here

Skeptical of what? Bulletproof vests do stop bullets, there is no crazy claim here.

There are many special forces training videos on YouTube where they do get shot in the bullet proof vest with live ammo. See 0:45:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj2dOioMoBE
Inside these fibers, droplets are on the move
Social media is named wrong. It should be called antisocial media.
Please do a write up. I've been interested in doing something like this, but it's hard to find appropriate resources to do it.
Regarding the claimed market presence of Azure Stack can you explain why it's not in the recent Forrester report?

https://reprints.forrester.com/#/assets/2/431/RES141562/repo...
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And how would he get from the Ecuadorian embassy in London to Russia?
Except most people know that heroin isn't like candy. The side effects and consequences of snorting a few lines of cocaine isn't some secret.
Except by now, even Foxconn has openly admitted that there aren't going to be tens of thousands of $60k+ manufacturing jobs. WI spent 4B+ on the "deregulated manufacturing hub" idea and it's still going to fail to materialize well-paying jobs for non-college-educated folks. This by Foxconn's own public admission.

Furthermore, the attitude that "either you're a coastal elite or you believe in the future of well-paid manufacturing jobs" is extraordinarily presumptive.

Has it occurred to you that some of us want "middle America to let go of the dream of well-paid manufacturing jobs" precisely because we are from/currently live in middle America, desperately want what's best for it, and believe manufacturing isn't going to provide that?

By the way, why on earth do you believe the Midwest needs manufacturing for a robust economy? That assertion -- that the Midwest can't build a thriving information/services-based economy -- seems far more like "turning your nose up" at the Midwest than your parent's post!

Frankly, whenever I encounter this mentality, I read it as: "oh yes, those [small-town] midwesterners, what could they ever do for society if they don't have assembly lines to work on."
More fatally than that, perhaps: IBM's business model for half-a-century at least including renting time on hardware at as close to commodity costs as IBM could push them (and still make a very healthy profit admittedly). The Cloud model was IBM's invention in a time where computers were expensive. IBM's failure to transition that very business model the company was built upon to a time where computers are plentiful, is like watching an Olympic swimmer forget how to swim in a lake.
There are plenty of programs that simply don't and won't work on Linux. For the people who need any these, using a VM with passthrough is the best solution if you prefer using primarily Linux.
There are definitely some set of users that have dropped the app for technical reasons, but are still active Facebook users.

I've uninstalled the app, but that's because it was a huge battery drain.
A small Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, MapleChange has been hacked
Personally, I always just list the salary range. I offer them in the range.

By being upfront about the amount you're willing to pay, it doesn't really matter if it's "fair". "Fair" is what they are willing to accept and they go in knowing that. If I offer $120k to get a job done, who cares if it's in San Francisco or Nigeria? If they're the correct person for the job and I budgeted, I'll make money either way.

Its a world market for remote workers, you price accordingly. The best developers in the world appear to congregate around a few locations (with high pay), so it's likely you'll have to make a competitive offer for those highly skilled developers. If you just need any old developer off the street, then offer them that price (regardless of location).

I always find this debate interesting... I remember working at 14 years old, making $8.50 an hour doing software development. I'm sure the guy next to me was making $70k a year, but given the situation I was happy to have the job, happier than he was (we did comparable work). Not many people were willing to sign the paperwork to enable me work at 14, and I was making more than my friends at $5.50 an hour.

Go with your gut, find the right person, and offer them what you feel is fair. If you really think they can deliver high value, offer them more money. If you feel they can deliver less, offer less.
Type-safe metaprogramming with Java
Just look back 50 or 100 years ago to find what was absolutely evil beyond question that is today seen as acceptable. Without freedom of speech, such groups have a much harder time changing social norms. I guess this isn't a problem if we think that today's norms recognizes all the groups that deserve it, but I feel this is the same hubris shown by every generation previous.
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This is incorrect.

Facebook already needs a permissions from multiple regulators if it attempts to buy competitor – not just from US regulators.

WhatsApp and Instagram acquisitions needed approvals from EU before they could continue.
They are not available on TV (Smart TV, Fire Stick, PS4...) which is used more and more. So I guess, fortunately, they are not that important to Google
With regards to number 1, I think it's interesting to differentiate between genetic, and drug induced changes to lifespan. If only for the reason it's too late to genetically engineer me :).