skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why this ranked here. This is an overly-simolistic cynical take on SEO and search engines. Get into detail, state examples supporting your assertions. Sure search engines make money on junk SEO, but it's not their primary motivator and at least Google works to diminish junk SEO. Their product just does better and makes more money on quality content; Google knows this and it's why they're still the top player in the game.
Full price, really, is what's left over after tax avoidance.

Paying more than you're legally required to is simply paying extra.
This strikes me as a political PR move by the less generous cohort more than anything else. I am familiar with the Pritzker family mentioned in the article and they are, in my opinion, much more committed to dynastic family wealth than to philanthropy. They are probably much more afraid of the Giving Pledge than any small wealth tax.
There’s a YC company called Ysplit which solves this exact problem. I highly recommend it. ysplit.com
From the article:

The letter came together in the last two weeks. Eighteen individuals, spread among 11 families, added their names. All are active in progressive research and political organizations, some of which are pointedly focused on the swelling gap between the richest Americans and everyone else.

That does sound quite like what you're suggesting, doesn't it?
Equivalent safety exception.

It's the blanket exception that makes most fly-by-wire controlled aircraft airworthy. The problem here of course, is that you never had enough scrutiny paid to the fly-by-wire implementation to make sure that under no circumstances can the system fail non-operational.

This was the subject of much controversy back in the 60's when th 727 was being certified. It required additional workarounds (implementation of a stick pusher) to be certified airworthy in U.K. airspace.

That certification went through despite the protest of Test pilots at the time that certifying an airframe with a widget to "plaster over" non-compliant behavior would simply start a slippery slope of normalization of deviance whereby engineers would over time be able to certify less "passively" airworthy frames. Those pilots were absolutely correct; as by definition that is exactly what most fly-by-wire aircraft are. Airframes that are only rendered airworthy with the addition of computer logic.

See the Royal Aeronautics Society D.P. Davies Interview.

Should be in this one. The 727 section starts at 51:00

Equivalent level of Safety discussion starts at 1:01:00

[1] https://www.aerosociety.com/news/audio-the-d-p-davies-interv...

Highly recommend to listening to all four episodes just because. It's informative, and for me was rather illuminative in terms of the constant conflict between aerodynamicists to leverage every trick possible to deliver more efficient designs, and pilots to ensure that planes don't become so complex to fly that they can't be reasonably saved even when things go wrong.

While history forces us to accept the validity of the approach (no one reasonably wants to kill Airbus); it is obvious there are ways that poorly implemented/communicated fly-by-wire piloting aids render an aircraft less safe. The MAX has illustrated one of these corner cases.

Furthermore, just read the article. They lay it out plain as day. The test pilots knew that the MAX's compliance and certifiability couldn't go forward in it's current configuration without being brought back into compliance with MCAS.

Despite that, testing to ensure this lynchpin system would not hit any edge case behavior with catastrophic results wasn't done; despite the fact that any reasonable engineer should have realized it was necessary. Give me a bit to drill through and I'll try to find the exact line this "equivalent safety exception" maps to. I'm not sure I'll find it because from the way Davies talks about it it strikes me as one of those possibly "unwritten" corollaries that tends to live beside anything codified. My main point though, is that this cavalier behavior with regard to airworthyness isn't unprecedented, and has been called out before. I fully accept it was different people working there then, but time and again I find echoes of an organization's risk management culture tends to survive the changing of the guard without active attempts to remedy it.
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People who reason like that sound to me as though they have built all these mind structures, thought patterns and beliefs, just in order to "deal with" and get around the (certainly horrendous) fact that they have little time, that they will die really soon, that people they love will die, and they can do nothing about it.

This is a reasonable thing to do. When there was no practical way to actually extend life (not by 2 years by excercising all the time) - yes, people had to deal with that. These facts were hard to process emotionally, and people needed these reasons and made up stories about the obviously preposterous presupposition that "we don't really want to live longer, that's not what life is about".

Basically those people gave up all hope and made their internal emotional world support that, support them in this hard position.

It was needed.

But I think it is time to let go of that. The times are changing and it looks like we can actually extend the lifespan. Maybe not this year, maybe not even this decade - sure. But soon. Don't let old beliefs stand in the way of progress. It has never worked and only creates unnecessary strain on the people holding those beliefs. The world is moving in that direction and there is little you can do to stop it. And for a good reason. Saying "we don't need/want to live longer" is neither rational nor truthful.
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Walmart adds AI-powered cameras to more than 1k stores to reduce checkout theft
That's exactly right, but just because we treated these people like dirt in the past doesn't mean we should continue to do so in the future.
It's not even that hard--all they have to do is pay whatever they consider their "fair share" to be voluntarily. They won't, and they aren't asking to be taxed more, they're just looking for cover in an increasingly transparent world where massive wealth is more and more difficult to hide (and how ill-gotten it was achieved). This is why people like the Clintons have foundations they run. They don't suffer the tax consequences nearly as badly and yet they control massive amounts of capital to manipulate, bribe, and otherwise influence politics.
Interesting. I am getting back to the computer after a long gap(20+ years). Testing the waters with Python and I find it refreshingly simple and easy. It seems to be a different flavor somehow..

I was wondering if it felt this way to me because decades ago, I learnt how to code when I was in school in a non English speaking country and even though my primary medium of education wasn’t the vernacular, English was still a foreign language(I ‘thought’ in my own lanaguge inside my head even though I spoke and studied and wrote in English)

Fast forward 20-25 years, English is now my default language/mode of thinking and I was wondering how easy programming and coding would be to a non English speaking school child in Vietnam or Russia or elsewhere in the world with languages employing a non roman script. I can’t relate.
What matters is mostly the global price.
They will not. The usual threat is this: A russian sub with a few Granit warheads shoots some from outside of Washington DC or LA or NY. They are too fast to be interceptable, too heavy and the reaction time is too low to react in any meaningful way. That's how the cold war and the space shield stopped being a threat.

And as it happened someone already did shoot the Pentagon for a little warning message. That's the most likely explanation. But most likely not Russia, just one of their hypersonic nuclear missiles probably from the Kursk, without the warhead.
Original study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971...

Abstract:

> Plastic debris is one of the most extensive pollution problems our planet is facing today and a particular concern for marine environment conservation. The dimension of the problem is so large that it is possible our current era will generate an anthropogenic marker horizon of plastic in earth's sedimentary record. Here we present a new type of plastic pollution, the ‘plasticrusts’, plastic debris encrusting the rocky surface, recently discovered in the intertidal rocky shores of a volcanic Atlantic island. The potential impact that these new ‘plasticrusts’ may have needs to be further explored, as e.g. potential ingestion by intertidal organisms could suppose a new pathway for entrance of plastics into marine food webs. Consequently, its inclusion as a potential new marine debris category in management and monitoring actions should be pondered.
And if all of that feels like too much hassle they can simply send what they think their fair share is to the United States Treasury.
You say the world is flat. I say the world is round. Round and round we go until everyone but corporate-approved opinion is banned.
I have not, I wasn't aware of it. I will look into it, thanks!
I will update the post with any updates, if any.
Digital signage.
> Gigabit Ethernet!

Does it have PoE? Having to deal with one less cable would be nice.

Especially given that the latest spec, IEEE 802.3bt from September 2018, now allows for up to 100W per port:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet
Im excited to look at the wifi on the RP4! Any word on the chipset used for that?

On a more personal note - thank you for your service.

You got any advice for pulling the aircrack_ng/rtl8812au driver from github and making it into a patch for building in-kernel? I really like having signed-module verification, but I also really want this driver.
the real irony is that RDBMS are all built on fast k:v stores :)
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi16/osdi16...
If you want to spend money, just do it yourself. People directly trying to help with education or whatever they believe the government spends on could so more effectivly then threw the government.

Not to mention that all the companies these guys own lobby against more taxes.

This is PR.
Until they put their money up for long term change, it's all for show. It wouldn't even cost that much. We've seen how much big ISPs give to bum senators, it ends up being a few thousand each year, maybe 10-20k for guys like Mitch. Pennies to a billionaire.
>undisclosed purposes

When your business card reads "wikileaks" I think the parties involved have a decent idea of what they where doing.

I can see how the attempt might be viewed as a hostile act towards the Americans as a "military entity" but i also strongly belive that Wikileaks has done amazing work with their dumps.

If he wants to try and brute a few encryptions to support wikileaks i dont really mind quite frankly. The amount of shit we (europeans++) take from the American tech/some enterprises on behalf of the us goverment i legitimatly feel that the citisens that have been illegal spied on by a foreign goverment that could not possibly care less about protecting their fundemental privacy rights, lose their privilige to complain when citizens of said foreign nations with "nobel" causes tries to fuck them back.

Im sorry but with the revelations of the past decade my strong support of the status quo in regards to American dominance has withered some. There is a point where i just want to tell the American military machine to "ta deg en bolle" (Norwegian for its time to shut the fuck up and deal with it)

/end of anti-America rant
Indeed..but there are many languages don’t use the Roman script..are they at a disadvantage?
> How does a perspective like this gel with any of the numerous hyperinflation states that have tried this?

None of them were issuing US debt. Have you ever recommended a home purchase as an investment? US bonds are cheaper than mortgage interest.
This advice is basically "be stupid with your money". If other rich people aren't going to pay in as well, you can almost certainly do more good by donating to effective charities.
I think these billionaires are willing to pay more taxes with the important caveat that all other billionaires also pay more taxes. I understand that reasoning. Maybe Buffet or someone can actually start lobbying in the direction of closing loopholes.
You might just be my new hero. I find it both sad (but also interesting) how little the current IT interview process actually has to do with what job candidates will do once they get the job, and predicting their performance.
Of course that is what they will say to your face. What are they going to do? Say "haha, screw all of you!"? Doesn't change the fact that what they are lobbying for is an entirely different thing.

Edit: Does HN deny that people lie for their own benefit? Or do you merely disagree with my tone?
If I had the guess, the leak was probably for a huge range, maybe a /4 or something. Verizon is also notoriously bad about dealing with BGP stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if they have particularly bad filtering.
Oh, sorry, I was imprecise: I meant "distributed database as a library". As in, you compile/bundle your application logic together with the persistence/replication/transaction logic and that is what you're running in a cluster.
I never understood the logistics of a wealth tax. Wouldn't that require every single person to document all of their wealth to prove that they are not in the top bracket and this don't owe anything? If it doesn't what is to stop somebody who is near the borderline from just refusing to document? Won't there also be tons of loopholes to diversify your holdings to keep yourself just below the cutoff?
Despite my curiosity I won't bite, this is the very definition of clickbait.
I wish they'd integrate PoE (without the hat). That chip they're using appears to support it. http://www.trxcom.com/Product/product/id/353.html
EPO censors Spanish contributions to its 2023 public consultation
Depends on if you want "bloody" to act as an adverb modifying "logistical" (no comma) or adjective modifying "nightmare" (comma).
Original study: https://academic.oup.com/jme/advance-article-abstract/doi/10...

Abstract:

> Insects are efficient vectors of bacteria and in the hospital environment may have a role in spreading nosocomial infections. This study sampled the flying insect populations of seven hospitals in the United Kingdom and characterized the associated culturome of Diptera, including the antibiotic resistance profile of bacterial isolates. Flying insects were collected in seven U.K. hospitals between the period March 2010 to August 2011. The bacteria carried by Diptera were isolated using culture-based techniques, identified and characterized by antimicrobial susceptibility testing. A total of 19,937 individual insects were collected with Diptera being the most abundant (73.6% of the total), followed by Hemiptera (13.9%), Hymenoptera (4.7%), Lepidoptera (2.9%), and Coleoptera (2%). From Diptera, 82 bacterial strains were identified. The majority of bacteria belonged to the Enterobacteriaceae (42%), followed by Bacillus spp. (24%) and Staphylococcus spp. (19%). Less abundant were bacteria of the genus Clostridium (6%), Streptococcus (5%), and Micrococcus (2%). A total of 68 bacterial strains were characterized for their antibiotic resistance profile; 52.9% demonstrated a resistant phenotype to at least one class of antibiotic. Staphylococcus spp. represented the highest proportion of resistant strains (83.3%), followed by Bacillus spp. (60%) and Enterobacteriaceae (31.3%). Diptera were the predominant flying insects present in the U.K. hospital environments sampled and found to harbor a variety of opportunistic human pathogens with associated antimicrobial resistance profiles. Given the ability of flies to act as mechanical vectors of bacteria, they present a potential to contribute to persistence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant pathogenic bacteria in the hospital environment.
I think the correct solution here has got to be a combination of shifting to reuse of materials, not recycling (think standard size containers) and engineering of bacteria/organisms that can break down existing plastics, even in the deep ocean, perhaps in the stomachs of krill, minnows or other tiny foragers. Nothing else will get it all, the scale of the problem is just too diffuse.
> For a long term user, you seem to have made a lot of assumptions and mistakes.

What were they?

> I can't tell if you froze ALL of your cards, either immediately upon discovering the fraudulent event or before raising/disabling limits and then 'deal' with the rogue virtual card afterwards.

I froze the card the charge was made on immediately after I discovered the fraudulent transaction, yes. I didn't freeze anything before removing the limit because I didn't think it was fraud until quite a bit after I saw the large transaction go through.

Initially I thought my work had used my card to book a trip for me or something similar. I didn't even imagine someone could have gotten my card details somehow.
I chuckled at the donating to academics in economics to push an agenda.

Just goes to show how much of a pseudo-science economics is, which more often than not is co-opted by all kinds of different ideologies to push their agenda (more so macro Econ than micro)
AWS experiencing connectivity issues
These SBCs are for development. Failing to publish the schematics makes evaluation harder.
Scientists Want to Make Fuel and Plastic Out of Bacteria
I have noticed that in most use cases of redis/memcached/etc, one will abstract it into some domain specific data-structure. At scale that abstraction becomes a service of it's own (job servers, caches, pub sub, etc.) at which point it doesn't make sense to keep the data separated from the service, because all it does is it adds an extra layer of indirection. I presume at google it's really not that big of a deal to write a fast priority queue service that keeps things in it's own memory and talks protobuf directly.

Relatedly I also noticed that teams that overuse memstores predominantly use application languages that have a terrible concurrency story (e.g. python), fall back to multiprocessing where creating anything stateful is not as obvious as keeping it in memory, so they offload that state to redis.
>Revolut is a pre-paid card. You can't expect expect the same level of protection or consumer rights, which are provided by a Credit Card or a bank registered in your jurisdiction.

Er, are you sure?

In the UK marketing: https://www.revolut.com/a-radically-better-account

it is described as "Free UK current account". That's the name of a full, normal, bank account. I would expect it to have the full consumer protection, FSCS, etc.

If it doesn't, they're committing some pretty massive advertising fraud...
There's some complex but pretty nice bash script template language in this article. The template he includes might be useful to some folks: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/06/23/typesetting-markdow...
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Google <your state> financial regulator. In New York, we have the DFS [1], for example.

Note that the rules are less strict for returns than for fraud. You’ll want to include proof of shipping the return, but the merchant and network have some discretion. (VISA is more consumer-friendly than MasterCard with return chargebacks; AmEx is the best.)

[1] https://www.dfs.ny.gov/
Why do we test software?
Just send the irs a check
Inheritance is usually bad since extending from a base class puts you at risk for shared and a centralized dependency for your subclass implementations. I would even argue a protocol witness approach here makes more sense than protocol oriented.
Someone said it best in another HN thread:

Google has essentially become a big classifieds platform where every search result is trying to sell you something.
Has Power over Ethernet for lighting finally arrived? (2018)
Taiwan is formally the Republic of China. Its government used to be the government of China as a whole until forced to retreat to Taiwan by the communists, during the civil war.

In fact, formally they still claim the whole of China since that's the constitution of the Republic of China, founded in 1912.

You'll note the portrait of Sun Yat-sen, first President in 1912 in the Taiwanese Parliament. And obviously the flag.

Based on this I believe that 'independence' means writing this off and declaring that Taiwan is not China but an independent "Republic of Taiwan" only.
They advocate a change in the rules applying to everyone in their situation, not just to themselves.
I'd be very surprised if microsoft doesnt acquire slack in the next 2 years
And I will pay much more attention to them if they put money behind their words and, say, donate a billion each to the Treasury right now.

Otherwise, I'm going to assume they're publicly saying this and privately continuing to avoid taxation, because this is a cheap way to look virtuous and look like the good guys while in fact being quite confident nothing is going to happen to them.
So after skimming the paper, this seems like a formalization of something like Protobuf/CaptnProto with native language support.

Interesting, but not necessarily very practical.
A Group of Microsoft Employees Is Fighting the Company Pac
Now I'll have another single board computer to try and figure out what to do with it!
The title is click bait in my opinion as the article (as others noted) is a proposal for:

"... LInKstore is a high level abstraction over an auto-sharder that provides a distributed, in-memory, key-value map withrich application objects as values, rather than strings or sim-ple data structures".

This comes from Section 4 of the .pdf which has the hard core content. The issue is interesting.
A protocol that allows "human error" or "malicious intent" to take down entire swathes of the internet due to being entirely unauthenticated, is not "fine".

What you are describing is a protocol problem.
I’m curious what you mean by “making it harder for the competition or newcomers”. How exactly would they achieve that by lobbying for more effective taxation of the super-rich?
Founded in 1759, i.e. mid 18th century, not 16th.
Eliminating tax deductions and the perverse incentives they entail would be a bigger boon than further taxing the successful and fortunate.

The problem isn't a lack in revenue the problem is that we are spending it on the wrong stuff.
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Article was updated on May 5th, 2019.
Super difficult situation with many second and third order effects to sort out, one particularly relevant to HN ..

Vested equity that isn't liquid. It is technically an asset with a clear value (based off of a 409a, last round valuation, or from limited trading on private secondary markets). So founders must sell 2% each year to cover their tax bill, except that sale triggers other taxes so likely more in the 4-6% per year...

Does a VC fund have to send a statement through to LPs each year so they pay a tax bill on indirect holdings?

I could go on and on...
Let me check I understand this correctly: You could be a seller of genuine articles, but could be fined if Amazon substitutes a fake supplied by someone else?

It reminds me of the case where someone got in trouble with customs because Amazon substituted a counterfeit for the genuine article he ordered and paid for.
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Only skimmed the paper, but to me this sounds like an incoherent description of Reliable Actors on Azure.

I don't think it benefits the paper to position this model directly against something like Redis.
It requires you to have complete and unwavering backing from top management even when some of the guys whose toes you're stepping on haven been golf buddies with said top management for 20 years.

Sounds like an unrealistic expectation.