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Classic hit piece from propublica, trotting out the classic villains. If only the poor IRS was allowed to go after those neer do wells!

I've known wealthy people, but not plutocrats, who the IRS has gone after. Auditing (harassing) them year after year. Referring them to be investigated by DEA, BATF, etc. It's totally insane how unaccountable the IRS is.

Of course someone in the gun sites of the IRS is going to avail themselves of the best legal and accounting talent they can get. If you have lots of money, you are in their sites.
Soil may be a key reason for the preservation of Terracotta Army bronze weapons
That's a good title
Unless I’m reading it wrong, it looks like the paragraph above the one that lists 800ml is the more interesting. The 2004 reading was 2.4L above expected, or 192% of expected.

Also, the freediving exercises are not just about stretching the lungs, they’re also about opening up the rib cage, since it constrains lung volume, and exercising the diaphragm, since the further down it can flex, the more air is pulled into the lungs. Freedivers also train the ability to stretch the diaphragm up since lung volume decreases significantly under pressure.

Anyway, it’s an interesting topic. And since you mentioned cycling, there’s one other area where apnea training intersects with the world of professional cyclists. You mentioned that the speed at which you can perform gas exchange in the lungs was the most important, and to a certain extent that’s true, but also important is the blood’s ability to hold oxygen and deliver it to organs/muscles. And, as I understand it, increasing the blood’s ability to hold oxygen is the primary effect of the banned substance EPO that cyclists frequently use to cheat. Now what’s interesting is that apnea training has a similar effect to EPO as well as increasing the body’s ability to reduce haemoglobin oxygen affinity. What I gather that to mean is that repeated exposure to hypoxic conditions triggers adaptations that allow freedivers to store more oxygen in the blood and, once reserves are running low, deliver more of that oxygen to the organs where it’s needed. The original study where I read this has since gone paywalled, so I’m not sure I’ve still got the correct link to give you, but one of the conclusions was that the effects of apnea training could likely be beneficial to the performance of endurance athletes like distance runners and cyclists.
I look at this differently.

The way I see it, if you default to working for or starting yet another ad-tech/surveillance company, it's a sign that you aren't creative and probably don't have anything original or useful to contribute to society. If they weren't on the ad-tech bandwagon, they'd just be going for the next path of least resistance.
This could get complex fast, but if the consumption tax was graduated according to a subjective measure of how critical the need was ...

Food purchases get taxed at 1%

Car purchases get taxed at 2%

First home purchases get taxed at 3%

Second home purchases get taxed at 6%

Private airplane purchases get taxed at 99%

that sort of thing
"No one said the developers didn’t need to understand how to do it. I said we didn’t have to worry about maintaining infrastructure and overprovisioning."

If you do not do something regularly, you tend to lose the ability to do it at all. Personally, and especially organizationally.
Tell HN: Bye for Now
I've decided to disengage from HN for now.

I have found that the content here is trending away from what originally attracted me. I find that there are more and more topics here that draw me into feeling like I need to argue a point. I'm not necessarily very good at that -- I'm a typical tech introvert, never took a debate class or felt drawn to politics -- but I'm finding my attention engaged in a way that I've decided is not useful and borders on unhealthy, especially in regards to the amount of time I've been spending here lately (more reading than commenting, generally, but spending time nonetheless).

A couple of example topics in this vein include climate change, universal income, government health care, wealth disparity, identity politics, etc. I guess in a nutshell, I see more clickbait topics. I try avoid that. I'm not on Facebook or Twitter or other social media. I don't read mainstream newspapers or watch television news. I don't like spending my time on stuff that tries to make me feel angry or outraged.

I get that the topics here are whatever the community wants them to be. I'm in no way trying to say that people shouldn't talk about what they find interesting and important to them. Why don't I just ignore those sorts of topics? That's a fair question, but I find it difficult to do. I guess it's become something of an addiction. So I'm going to stop. Cold turkey.

Just leaving this note here for posterity, in case anyone would be curious. Though I've been here for a while, I doubt anyone will notice my absence any more than a drop of water would be noticed missing from a river. I won't be reading or responding to comments.
Story time. I worked at a decently-sized game studio, and lived through a very well-publicized shutdown. The company didn't make enough money, and on the one game that made a lot of money, the publisher got most of it, because executives signed a very bad deal. Tensions were high, disagreements with managements were huge, and crunch was a big issue. We had too many projects. There was light at the end of the tunnel when new estaff came in, cut down on some of the chaff and refocused us around some better games, but it was too late. The company was already doomed; something something deck chairs on the Titanic.

As for where the money went? Salaries, publishers, investors. There's still a grudge held for the new CEO, because he laid us off without severance; if there was another round of layoffs with severance months earlier, everyone would have been understanding. We all knew our games didn't sell well anyway.

A lot of those people will find it difficult to get other work. Most employees in a game studio are not engineers -- games has 10 artists to 1 programmer. And the big tech companies don't have a culture of respecting non-engineers. So, where does a character TD go who has experience with painting vertex weights in Maya for a rig? To another games studio.

Outside of that though, the team and culture was amazing. I loved everyone I worked with, all of the developers were smart, capable and talented. Not just the engineers, but also the artists, sound designers, cinematics team, etc. These people are very understood outside of games, because they are as much "problem solvers" like engineers as they are creatives.

I still meet with ex-alumni from the studio to play Rock Band -- in fact, we're meeting up again tonight.
Investment provides control. Ownership of larger companies, larger areas of land and housing. Consolidation of control makes it easier to abuse.

(Your consumption tax proposal would also have to mark political donations and ad spending as "consumption", or you're making the existent problems in that area far worse)
In my experience both as that employee, and sometimes the executive - they're not. There are frequently legal, secrecy, or other corporate reasons for the lack of disclosure. It kinda sucks - but it's understandable.

To be fair, I'm someone who has never chosen shares over base salary. The equity slot machine is fine, but I (firmly) believe that over the long haul, the only thing that matters is index investing. Benjamin Graham is always right.

I appreciate shares - I work either way. They're just not my motivation. If that works for others - great.
Exactly. One more thing: the fight between minorities and minorities within minorities leads to nowhere. People forgot (and media, social networks only helped here in the negative sense), that each of a us is an unique human being and should be considered like that, not as a member of some sexual preferences group or race or whatever other group. This only divides people.

It is worth to note that Ray Bradbury described exactly that what we witness now in his "Fahrenheit 451" (written more than 60 years ago). The fight between minorities dumbed-down any substantial discussion. Everything that could hurt any minority was burnt and forbidden and people were left with nothing but stupid soap operas about nothing.
Maybe the numbers don't work out but using excess energy created by wind solar etc. to offset the carbon produced by coal burning when we need power but the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining could be a promising idea.

Could be a cheaper alternative to massive battery storage if the desired effect is to always have energy in a way that produces the lowest amount of CO2
Sadly most of their reviews are of similar quality to the point where i wonder why they bother. It is nice that they host a lot of the software they list (there are several programs that their original developers have long disappeared but they are still available by Softpedia) and the screenshots are often useful (...well, except in this case), but i've never seen any software review of theirs to be good (they do have some serviceable game reviews though).
You keep mentioning six figures contracts as it's something big. Most of fortune 500 companies have their own data center and still read database manuals somehow...
Yeah, I visited NYC last year for a week, and it was so much fun, but I would never ever want to actually live there. I could've done with spending a second week there, though.

Admittedly, I had a bit of a skewed experience on my trip: I was in Manhattan during the day but spent my nights staying with my cousin and her family in Westchester. This meant I didn't get to spend nearly as much time in the city as I wanted to (which is why I wish I had a second week there), but it also limited my exposure to noise and prevented me from getting sick of it.
>I'm not convinced that characterizing people who are mentally ill as "ruiners"

They're not. They fall into:

>4. People who can’t survive the modern world without assistance
Why not a War on Off-Shore?

[NB I seem to remember that David Brin's novel Earth has something like this where WW3 is everyone-vs-Switzerland - or something like that].
What about this "perjury trap" thing?

https://shadowproof.com/2019/03/21/chelsea-manning-believes-...
LOL, WTF do machismo and the tech industry have to do with each other? That seems a bit of a stretch to try to connect two disparate topics into a connected "issue". I get the whole problem with Rockstar Games (if that was where you were pointing - I can only assume), but that was a singular studio. As someone who works in the game industry, and has for almost 20 years, that is not representative of the vast majority of game studios. Meek is the work you are looking for, when it comes to game studio employees, at least on the west coast. And that falls in line for most of my acquaintances in the tech industry in general. The only ones who approach "toxic masculinity" (and even then... a hard stretch) are the sales guys.
Just defining the word "income" is a quite complex problem.
True, that's one complaint I still hear about quitting is that a lot of events and groups are still managed on Facebook.
But web dictatorships work great because switching costs are low, so if a dictator doesn't deliver people just go somewhere else. While centralized link lists are often democratic, awesome lists form a network of dictatorships.
This is happening or happened in London as well. This is a short video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIpWAd9SoD4
Maybe one day you'll be rich too, and can work tirelessly to avoid paying your fair share to the government. But I kind of doubt it, because you don't know the difference between "sites" and "sights."
This comes from a really old philosophy called ironically "Modern Monetary Theory", MMT. It has been roundly debunked by both Keynesians (where most of HN sits) and Austrians (myself). A government cannot spend its way to universal prosperity. It's been tried and failed, typically with hyper-inflation.

Also I feel that it is immoral to steal from the future generations (my children) via inflation. Cash investments should be allowed to gain value via productivity gains, instead of constantly cashing in our productivity gains for Govt largess. We'd probably have that "4-hour work week" by now if it weren't for inflationary policies stealing gains.

I know benefits are popular, and the gov't recklessness (defense budgets for example) today makes uninformed people feel like it's a gravy train out there...but really it's a house of cards, arguably steered by IYIs (IMHO).
A Head-to-Toe Tour of the Neanderthal
I'm speaking loosely, but by "valid" here I just mean "a full person with human dignity and value." James' Heritage Foundation has come out strongly in favor of the Trump administration's attempts to ban transgender people from military service, which is somewhat incompatible with the view that transgender people are valid.
> People from outside Canada are coming to Canada to do research in AI.

This is true. As a resident of Montreal, I can attest to the fact that we've become THE hub when it comes to AI research and development.
Specialists are moving up here en mass to do their thing.
Thank you. This was exactly my thought as I read the earlier critiques.
I'm Jewish. I would not in fact be up in arms if your hypothetical person were on an AI ethics council, if I felt they might have useful things to contribute outside the context of "the Jewish Question". I suspect I would personally be happier if people could be found who could offer similar contributions without that particular viewpoint, but "mildly unhappy" is about as far as I would go in this particular scenario.

Now if the council had multiple people like you describe, or worse yet a majority of them, then I would certainly be up in arms, yes. Just like I would be up in arms if a majority of such a council held _any_ extreme-by-society's-standards position (Greenpeace member, orthodox Jew, Catholic priest, Communist party member, hard libertarian, etc, etc). From my point of view, the most dangerous failure mode for an AI ethics council is groupthink that leads them to not notice problems that should get noticed. If the council is set up right, it should not require unanimity, or even a majority to flag something as an issue.
Moore's law ended around 2015 or so.

Maybe software efficiency might start to matter again at some point.
I'm reading Gerald Weinberg's general systems book and it talks about second order thinking. Also, thinking in systems by Meadows is a great primer
Is this not true of any tax? Either it's "yet another progressive tax" or it "hurts the poor disproportionately".
No, they need a union. Leverage only works if everyone uses it, and collective bargaining is how that happens. If the word “union” bothers you then call it something else. Otherwise you get what we have now: highly mobile individuals able to pull themselves out of bad jobs as individuals, but otherwise unable to affect the industry as a whole.
Presumably peformance data is required.

Otherwise I would expect you'd have the absurdity of:

"Delete all my data!"

"See I didn't do anything wrong, you've got nothing on me!"
How does the performance of path filling compare to font-rs?
You answered your own question. The fact that people will put up with all that overtime pretty much sums it up.
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One narrative is that News outlets knowingly put out false or incomplete information because nobody cares about edits or retractions after the first day or so. They get clicks from outraged people and then after the cpm drops off they edit the story with the real facts, to claim that it was a "mistake". Kind of conspiratorial, but given the political bias of a lot of media outlets not completely out of question.
Techniques for optimizing Xamarin.Forms app performance
Violently and forcibly penetrating someone against their will is a pretty big difference to not using a condom when previously asked to do so. Depending on the country, yes they're both rape by the legal definition, but it's absolutely worth clarifying.
I think you're taking as assumption that the vast majority of people are arguing in good faith, and many are no longer willing to take on that assumption without evidence.

Given what has been seen regarding both 4chan psychological operations and Russian intelligence operations on major message boards, I can see the vantage point where it's fair to not treat good faith as assumable.
>People may get angry about this fact, but it really is the simple reality of an executive's fiduciary obligations.

With all due respect, that's Bullshit, and anyone who cares to look into the provenance of the modern concept of a corporation can see that.

A corporation is a mechanism by which people pool resources and distribute risk such that endeavors unachievable by any individual of that collective group. This privileged collective vehicle, however, was based on the principle that the existence of the corporation was providing a service or good to the benefit of the society enabling the incorporation.

As a sibling poster mentioned, the Reagan/Thatcher years ushered in "the death of Society" and the birth of the "shareholder value" meme.

A corporation does not exist without the societal framework in which it is implemented. If corporations don't take this into account moving forward, the system that put them in a position to do what they are doing may find itself under attack from without by legislators, and within by an increasingly marginalized millennial demographic.

Point being, you can't sit here and say that the only obligation executives have is to their shareholders when the entire arrangement that makes that possible is dependent on the goodwill of everyone else who isn't a shareholder.

I acknowledge my arguments may not convince a hard core "shareholder value" believer, but I'm willing to put my money in the long run on the state of corporatism in America sidling up to a line after which there isn't going to be much they have to lean on once people start realizing that shareholder/not shareholder is becoming the new social division point. Either we're all countrymen, or we're not. If corporate America pounds the "not" drum hard enough, I have no delusions enough people won't get together to bring the entire house of cards to the ground.
Inclusive is an interesting way of putting it.
That's... not how politics work in America. That course of action leads to you giving money to someone who's not going to change their policies instead of giving it to someone who is actually campaigning for change.
Yes, weak tax enforcement shifts the tax burden from dishonest people to honest people. Unfortunately, giving funding to those scary tax collectors doesn't make for much of a political slogan.
There is a difference between manipulating tax rules for a company and for a country. It's possible to set up rules in a way that a broad chunk of one country benefits (perhaps at the detriment of another country.) But any abuse of tax rules by a company serves only its own interests. (Sans certain companies and industries being in the national interest, etc.)
> I'm not sure GDPR applies to employer's holding information about employee

Above:

> "Please stop calling this number, I am not Joe and i don't own a X computer."

Right, I don't understand how that describes an employee. To me that seems to describe a person who could assert their rights under the GDPR to not be called any more.
You have to balance "precaution" with "knee-jerk".
HPC as you mentioned, but also 200Gbps NICs need it, and those are available today.
The biggest problem is communication and setting expectations. I constantly hear/see people saying "oh that will be quick!" without any real evaluation of the work. Simply saying "this is hard, it will take some time" makes focusing on correctness a hell of a lot easier. In no uncertain terms: don't be a pushover. If it can't be done well in the amount of time you suggest, don't say that it can be. You're just digging a hole for yourself (both present and future) and any one you work with.
How about just Manhattan? Including all of the boroughs is just deliberate dissolution of effect
Here is the easy example:

A dual 100GbE NIC requires a PCIe Gen4 x16 slot to run both ports at full speed. Mellanox ConnectX-6 200GbE cards require either 2x Gen4 or 1x Gen5 slot for full dual port bandwidth. Most of the larger NVMEoF nodes we are seeing are using more than one 100GbE NIC.

Enterprise SSDs will rapidly fill Gen4 x4 lanes later this year as we start to see them launch alongside more mainstream platforms. Four of those will fill a x16 slot.

GPUs and PCIe switches are also great examples of uses.

You are right that for the high-volume server segment, 160 PCIe lanes are overkill, as is even 128 today frankly. For some context, there is a huge portion of servers sold with less than 1 DIMM per RAM channel installed.
Well the comment I was replying to mentioned terrorism and human rights. If we're talking enrichment then it should be stated more clearly :).
There is loud, obnoxious development going on throughout NYC 24/7. I'm supposed to care only if it's bothering a well off broadway director on the Upper West Side?
I don't agree with flagging, there's no point unless there is an urgent need to remove a post.
Ha, would love to as a remote candidate out of NYC, don't see anything for SRE though.
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Seeking cofounder(s) for a privacy friendly social network
In their pursuit of growth at all costs, Facebook has failed in its mission to connect the world, and instead has led to increased isolation, addiction, vanity, surveillance, tribalism, and more.

A true "pivot" to privacy would've addressed more fundamental issues, including:

1. The collection and permanent storage of vast amounts of user data (e.g. locations you’ve logged in from, every profile you've visited, etc.) for the purposes of data mining.
2. Tracking people around the internet, including content they’re reading (e.g. health issues, etc.) without consent.
3. Newsfeed algorithms that encourage addiction, FOMO, and outrage by promoting viral content.
4. Tying user data across owned properties without user consent.

Facebook is likely structurally unable to addresses these issues in a meaningful way, due to technical, business and cultural constraints.

I believe people should have a healthier option and I’m looking for cofounders to take on the ambitious challenge of building a mainstream social network that doesn’t track you. Think: a mobile-first social network that collects minimal metadata, encrypts as much as possible, and is designed to encourage good behavior (e.g. chronological feed, feed updated every 4h, etc.)

This idea won’t be easy to execute, but if it works, it could be massively good for the world.

I have a deep understanding of privacy (having worked at a leading privacy-oriented company) and growth. Would welcome smart, scrappy folks (ideally with skills in product, design, or engineering) to reach out if interested in working on this. Remote is totally fine.

Please email privacychef@protonmail.com.

Thank you!
I don't understand why this post is downvoted. I may (and I do) disagree with the contents, but it looks like a fair expression of a person's opinion.
How so? Clearly Neanderthals were also fundamentally different back in the day, that doesn’t change anyone’s argument.
I have that book, but have only skimmed it so far.

I don't know why everybody online keeps saying this. I haven't studied economics, but a full university degree cannot be just this superficial treatment of a zillion topics that the book provides. One page on profit. Two pages on the balance sheet. Three pages on pricing.

I just refuse to believe that.
I suspect she holds a tremendous amount of resentment towards her government and basically wants to give them the middle finger because she doesn't respect their legal process after it failed her so miserably