skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tax it, and individuals will find creative ways to put it to use instead of hoarding it.

You seem to think the ultra rich have Scrooge McDuck style swimming pools of cash or stacks of gold bars in a cave somewhere doing nothing but somehow "storing" accumulated wealth.

This is generally not true. Most billionaires appear to have most of their wealth in the form of stocks in a company they run. (AKA investment in the economy)

There's lots of valid criticisms to be made of extreme wealth inequality. The rich supposedly "doing nothing" with their money doesn't seem to be one of them.
Eh, you can stream Flac from Tidal and their catalog is basically as big as Spotify.
... but where he was charged with rape. So he gave up protection from extradition to the US in exchange for protection against the rape charge. A cynic might think it tells you which one he thought he had more reason to fear.
I wonder how their customers reacted to this, especially as a b2b company.
Ofcourse not. That’d be ridiculous. But the US is somehow special.
And the original constitution's treatment of tax apportionment expressly acknowledged slavery as a legitimate practice. So perhaps a constitional amendment process can do good things too!

Back in the real world, the federal government has always used its constitutional entitlement to tax people, and despite your clearly bad faith insinuations, the Sixteenth had absolutely no impact on its [in]ability to take the possessions of the poor whenever it saw fit or implications for search warrant seizures. What the amendment actually did after nearly two decades of careful consideration and public debate was remove an odd quirk in the constitution whereby in the eyes of the Supreme Court the federal government could directly tax individuals and companies as much as it liked, but only if the total amount contributed from a state was proportional to its population (which made assessing direct taxes based on variables like incomes and corporate profits rather than fixed things like the right to vote difficult).

If your definition of the difference between a "liberal republic" and an "authoritarian state" is based on whether the constitution mandates that the quantity of direct tax collected in each region is proportional to its census counts, you really, really don't understand the concept of liberty.
Ask HN: What tools/methods do you use to focus your time well?
I wrote a piece in my wiki about tools & methods I use to stay focused.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing

I found this system to work well for me. It's a Trello board of goals separated by time. Weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly. Where month goals are ideally based off my year goals and week goals are based on month goals. This kind of system gives me structure and focus and I allocate time with events based on the goals I have set. And more importantly it gives long term perspective to the things I do now & the things I want to achieve in life.

The link also goes over some nice tools I use to automate distraction as I have most 'news feed' like websites blocked (front pages of twitter/hn/lobsters/github/..). And only have few times I can actually visit those sites with goals of intentionally viewing them and not out of a habit.

I also try to systemize as much as I can to the point where I create some guidelines ([rules](https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/rules)) I wish to follow. It helps me keep things in order and I iterate on them as I gain more experience.

I am curious what systems & methods you guys found that work well for you to achieve this goal of being more mindful of your time and the things you truly want to be doing in life?
For anyone playing along at home, when the async/await RFC was accepted, it left the final syntax of "await" to be decided before stabilization. That was a little over a year ago.

There was some debate, but it's been under pretty intense debate since at least November of last year. This has been the most discussed aspect of Rust ever. The tracking issue has 296 comments. There have been numerous threads on the internals forum, and recently, multiple threads on reddit per day. The team (which, I should note, I am not on) repeatedly asked for feedback, and read these threads, as well as participated in them.

It's been going in circles for ages. There are a few options with the syntax, but there's no clear standout winner; it really depends on how you weigh each pro and each con. At some point, though, it's the team's responsibility to decide. And so, on the sixth, they finally reached internal consensus. That's actually enough to just make the decision, but instead of just making the decision, they decided to go the extra mile, and say "here is our decision, and here are our reasons for reaching that decision. If you have something new to add to this incredibly long debate, please let us know, we'll be making the decision on the 23rd." : https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/await-decision/ The internals thread on this post alone is 420 posts long: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/a-final-proposal-for-await...

So yes, there are some vocal people who preferred a different syntax than the one that was chosen. Heck, I actually mostly prefer a different syntax. But at some point, a decision has to be made. Some people are not going to be happy with any decision. That's just how it is. It's not about "not listening to the concerns"; the concerns were listened to, but in the end, a different decision than (apparently) your preferred one was made. That's just how it goes sometimes. There are people who are equally passionate about this that would have been just as mad as you are now had the decision gone your way.

(I personally still wouldn't have made the call they did, but the call is reasonable. I've written code using it, and it's totally fine. I understand why the decision was made. We'll just have to see!)
Thanks - I looked at a video of the sequencer, and it seems a lot like the Tenori-On (which I have).
I think the actual holy grail would be billing everyone a small amount per road-minute spent in the zone, not a large amount for entering. If you enter and immediately park in a garage, you're not causing congestion. If you circle the block endlessly, you are.

(Separately, we should bill for street-parking-minute spent, but that's a separate issue.)

Does the technology exist for this?
Near-duplicate features of C++ (2017)
You have the power to get the elected representatives to write and change every single law of government. But the citizenry often lacks the coordination, direction, and will to ensure the majority of representatives does so.

The problem of secrecy in government is that the situation is not always clear. If indeed there is some classified information that shouldn't be exposed, that is extremely serious and can't just be aired like a tabloid news story. There is no simple way to keep the public informed of classified information. It's likely that the most reasonable safeguard is to have elected representatives with a strong moral code to vet the situation and act to protect their constituents.
I wonder what will happen with regard to the extraditions. Apparently Sweden has issued an European Arrest Warrant to get him to Sweden after he has served his current British sentence (for skipping bail).

EAW's are (apparently) different to the normal extradition process, and is more streamlined and does not involve diplomatic channels. I've heard Swedish law commentators say that the EAW would be honoured before any non-EU extradition, if this was a normal case.

If he eventually get's to Sweden before the US, it will be very interesting to see if Sweden will turn him over. I would guess so, but perhaps that's just my teenage bitterness from the The Piratebay trial still lingering...
If you're a site operator, it could definitely make sense to have cert checks (e.g. can I assess this cert as trustworthy, will it still be valid 28 days from now) as part of your high level system dashboard. A site with a busted cert is as broken as one that gives 404 errors to all visitors or crashes and won't load at all.

Having somebody else do this for you makes some sense, but again it makes sense as part of a whole system dashboard, you care if your site gives 404s to everyone outside the VPN as well.

Bad guys _mostly_ don't start by getting illegitimate certs issued. For the DNS hijack stuff for example, even where a cert was issued we see it significantly _after_ the traces of the hijack are visible. The bad guys lie in DNS and _then_ they might get themselves certs so they can run an HTTPS site, you ideally want to detect the DNS hijack as otherwise you're already playing catchup before the first pager alert happens, and these attacks may last just hours or even minutes, so every second counts.

Without DNS hijack, they're mostly doing phishing, so you won't see new certs for your site, because you know you're legitimate.site.example and not legit-site.example or login-legit.badguys.example. Your customers, alas, not so much.
Only to the extent that the disutility to other people isn't too high. Imagine, say, the CEO of Foxconn pushing their staff to the extent that an unusually high number commit suicide, then dying and choosing to give it all to a cat charity. Are we really saying that's the best we can possibly achieve in terms of human social organisation?
Keeping up: The commenter has now acknowledged that the previous accusation was baseless
It's a pre-production camera. Typically reviewers don't get to see anything but JPEGs until it's released.
"Relatively recently" here means pre-WWII. Basic research has been heavily reliant on government funding for decades. Before that, basic research was on a much smaller scale.
For sturdy construction, probably not. For a flat sheet of braille text, maybe.
Like it, don't like it. We've got a basic conflict in play right now. Ordinary people vs a growing, greedy, authoritarian establishment.

Who observes what actually matters. They will get it wrong again.

We can have a healthy discussion about intent, and we should. No matter the intent, it's pretty damn important to understand who is lucid on all of this and who is not.

And for those who are not? Let's talk more, get them lucid. This isn't a personal thing. It's political, and while the norms surrounding politics seem more harsh than necessary, I refuse to subscribe to any of that.

Wrong, right? I personally do not care too much. We get things wrong, and we get them right. The conversation about all of that, the process?

That is what matters, and it's where the good stuff is.

The times are escalating conflict times. Not growing more stable.

Ignore all of that at our mutual peril.
Great jab to derail from how KOMO is literally a talking piece of Sinclair!

I live in Seattle and have watched that hackjob of a video, they've fenced the underside of many bridges that homeless used to camp under, most recently the West Seattle and Ballard bridges have been fenced.

Your obviously disgruntled, move somewhere else!
... the charges leaked in 2018. They had probably been filed in 2010.
His specific claim was that the Swedish rape charges were a cover so that Sweden could extradite him to the US. He still hasn't been extradited by Sweden. I wonder if he wouldn't have been better of going to Sweden.
Journalists do that all the time, it's literally part of the job. Though it is rare to see because there are repercussions.
IMO I think Asssange has had trouble with the truth in favor of cultivating his image for a long while now.

Granted, that's a very human thing to do. He's not alone... politicians all the time.

Back in the day when there was a wikileaks facebook page, if you followed up asking about "hey you said you'd release X" after they talked something up and did nothing ... they'd just delete your comment.
I don't contest that changes in the environment change purchasing behavior.

However, such wishful thinking has no place in my worldview. Either a sale happened or it did not and it never was. Again, you can't lose something you never had, and calling it a loss is just wordplay. Doubly so when it's only a loss if such and such had been so and so and yada yada. It never was. If you lost something, you go find it or call your bank and have them explain how the account now has less money than yesterday.

And yes, thanks to piracy, you might make fewer sales. I don't have a problem with that. I also don't have a problem with pepsi resulting in coca cola having fewer sales.
I also use a Pomodoro-style system to get myself to concentrate. Right now, I'm using the _Forest_ app on my Android to tell me to concentrate.

Good luck!
I agree, but it's a bit more complex than that. Obama and Trump are officially political enemies and stand for different visions for the US.

In contrast, Lenin Moreno (current president of Ecuador) was the political succesor of Rafael Correa (previous president) and was in line with Correa's policies... until after being elected. He then turned around many of Correa's policies and is seen as a traitor by the latter.

This is more as if Hillary had won (ok, I know, not a perfect analogy!) and afterwards tore down everything Obama stood for.
> I still don't really understand how a journalist, non-U.S. citizen, operating entirely outside the U.S. is being indicted for anything.

> I understand he obtained U.S. documents and published them.

> However, if I obtain on-the-ground images of the Tiananmen Square protests and share them on Facebook with my friend group, should I be subject to Chinese laws?

> I don't live in China, I don't have Chinese citizenship, I've never been to China. Should I be subject to Chinese law?

No but I wouldn't travel to China in that case.
I think some would have reacted exactly with other await syntax proposals. The amount of feedback they got is overwhelming. I believe all of the unique ideas are all looked into by the team. The Lang team is doing a great job. all I wish now is to slow down and not grow the language to C++ levels.
Like tramp on emacs? (exists for at least 20 years)
Or sshfs? (8 years)
China actually hasn't overstated its jurisdiction anywhere near as egregiously as the US has.
Totally agree with your point.

We're seeing the US flex its international power to get revenge rather than justice, and it's disconcerting to see how many "free" nations are allowing it to happen.
You do you.

The reality was that _every_ time some discussion about the async syntax came up _every_ proposal and concern was uttered again. It's not that any direction was particularly more popular in the community than any other one, so it's not that the lang team decided against what the community wanted. The only thing that seemed certain in the end that all options have some downsides.

I'm very happy with the Rust lang team. They brought us this far, and I'm very happy with the vast majority of their decision. And apart from the async drama, they are delivering a lot of other nice goodies.
To be clear, the evidence was not behind a password (at least, it was already accessible to Manning). The purpose of cracking the password was to allow Manning to download the information from a different account, in order to obfuscate the source of the leak.
This is pretty unsurprising, right? If you want to associate carbon produced to people then you just say that when a company produces carbon it is the owners who are proportionally responsible for it (rather than eg the worker who shovels the coal into the fire). So this is basically just saying that the richest 10% of the world population own companies which are collectively responsible for producing half of the worlds carbon. But I think it would be true that the richest 10% of the world population (700 million people or so, twice the population of the US) own the companies responsible for doing at least half of just about everything.

For example they produce more than 50% of the research about climate change, or the efforts to frustrate climate change.
15 countries failing doesn't actually seem to be 100% of the evidence so far. What about Argentina, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Italy (and BC in Canada) listed here as currently having wealth taxes?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax#Current_examples
I personally am not a big music listener, but when I want music, I start YouTube and do it there, for free, with uBlok installed, which is the same thing. And that seems to work for artists and YouTube too.

When I was a teenager (20 years ago), this wasn't possible and we torrented whole albums like hell. Some people got in jail back then, or had to pay huge fines for "unrealized profits", which was absurd.
And yet the pirate chose to pirate, so it did not have enough monetary value for them.
Yes, this is the entire premise of extradition treaties. If you conspire to commit a crime in a different country, you are potentially able to be sent there to be put on trial. As to whether or not those laws are just is a separate issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition
https://streamable.com/ued04

made this in bed at 3am last night. sampled the vox straight from my phones headphone output into the line in on the op-1. its a beautiful piece of hardware that i take with me wherever i go.
From page 8, only 1 in 5 is retired. Even so, claiming that retirement savings do not count as wealth seems rather odd.

You can choose to read the book and determine how it is done, and what you can choose to do to become a millionaire yourself, or you can choose to remain a victim of fate. Your choice.
It's quite probable that he will only be convicted on the circumvention charges, helping to crack the password/cover her tracks.
How are they different, for ignorant people like me?
Here's how Lyft used "Masterless SaltStack at Scale" https://youtu.be/7ffHKH9H5_Q and the getting started documentation https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/tutorials/quicks...
Yup, budgeting really is step one in building up enough of a cushion to break that cycle. And budgeting is a change of mindset that is hard for people to adopt. Going from looking at "how much is in my account" to "how much do I have left in my grocery budget" takes time but, when fully bought into, is a powerful way to take charge of your finances and drive the changes needed to build an emergency fund, get out of debt, save for retirement, etc.

Of course a budget doesn't always work. Sometimes one can only reduce their spending so much but still not reach a balanced budget let alone save a few dollars. In those cases the income side of the equation needs to be focused on. I suspect, but don't have data to back this up, that the job market isn't as strong as the official numbers would lead us to believe so there might not be a higher paying opportunity waiting down the street. Certainly wage growth is lagging. There is definitely a disconnect between the macro economy and Main St. in a lot of towns.

This is a huge problem that is only getting bigger as health care costs continue to rise, particularly for people stuck in the Medigap in retirement. But there are no easy answers or short cuts. I think we continue to do what we can to chip away at the problem and, like with budgeting, small improvements can have outsized results over the long term.
I am not sure that would have worked. The stuff he and Wikileaks published ended up taking a lot of the narrative control away from very powerful interests.

That is a straight up attack on legitimacy. And legitimacy is one of a few basic political powers. That makes it a big deal. (Others are having an army, ownership of the means of production, etc...)
Police are useful for suppressing labor and equality movements. Also, there are areas of concentrated poverty in the United States with high crime. There, a lot of people make their money by selling drugs, and police are expected to use violence to stop this. If the police forces main goal in these areas is NOT to persecute and sabotage these POC communities, that is what they effectively do . [O]

That is why the handful of people that control the media push a pro-police message so hard. They do not want the public to turn against their keepers.

They have a rich and powerful police union that lobbies to make sure the laws favor the police. They have the backing of the ultra-wealthy class to keep people in line. If you try to peacefully protest, they will just mace you and the media will say it is your fault.

The police themselves tend to be good chaps but they do not get nearly enough training, and any training they do get pushes then towards considering the line of duty a combat zone, even though police officer is not even in the top 10 moat dangerous jobs. Also they tend to be not brilliant. They want obedience not critical thinkers. You can fail a police IQ test if you score too high. [1]

Finally, while most cops are good people, if you are a sadist becoming a police officer is a good career because it lets you sate your lust for power and there is very little chance you will be punished for it.

- 0: check out "the new jim crow"

- 1: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-in-the-U-S-people-can-...
Sometimes these streams aren't available due to contract changes
Sweden has allowed the US government to just black bag people in the past.

The UK doesn't from their soil. There's good reason to think they don't have a issue with extraordinary rendition in the global sense; I think they just don't like the idea of a former colony subverting their legal system. But all of that means that it's more likely for Assange to stay in the legal system in the UK rather than being black bagged.
> To extrapolate— if everyone only used pirate copies, who would finance movie production or music production or book publishing?

If everyone only pirated, it would mean nobody valued that stuff enough to sustain it. If people doesn't value it, let it die. Can you imagine a world where nobody values movies or music or books? I can't. And therefore I can't see them dying, no matter what. So this concern is irrelevant to me.
> Even totally plain-looking device could be full of innovative research: a network router which uses completely new kernel.

True. Although all those kinds of devices tend to prefer "free" over "innovative", and to keep the OS layer as thin as possible.

> A new network protocol or a compression algorithm. New programming language. Automatic verification and/or fuzzing tools.

To me those aren't really systems software, but that may be a matter of opinion?
When we say “Everest is crowded,” this is what we mean
The headline is not quite accurate, the report refers to the richest 10% consuming 49% of the lifestyle global carbon emissions (i.e. household emissions), which themselves are around 64% of the total global emissions.
I think you're naive. The US lost the Pentagon Papers case.

The independent judiciary is a real thing, and it really matters.
Radical Dimensions
I don’t think you have to make the distinction. Espionage is espionage regardless of what you’re looking for or what you find. Having pure motives doesn’t matter.

It is true those things could influence whether charges are filed, or pardons granted. IIRC, it’s the legal difference between an affirmative defense and simply being innocent.
IIRC, SATA over USB3 can offer competitive performance for sequential I/O, but PCIe will give better random I/O performance and lower CPU usage.

tkaiser of the armbian project has a lot to say about this stuff. I find his posts in the cnx-software.com comments and armbian forums very helpful.

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/8097-nanopi-m4-performance-a...

https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/Knowledge
Good tools are my brain (to focus and concentrate), and my mouth (to keep people away). But there also exist doors or earplugs.
Personally I'm a fan of the Phalcon framework. It's also structured similarly to Laravel/Cake/Rails but is compiled into a PHP module and thus runs super fast by comparison. PHP has certainly improved with the 7.x line so I'm happy to continue using it.