skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this can also be achieved with a Puppy Linux USB stick, a lightweight laptop, a charger, and a power source. If I'm around and able to make it, one of my laptops will probably be working too. That's just in a "lets be real" sense in my mind though. What do I know? I'd probably be dead pretty quickly

Fun sounding project though! I'll definitely try to install it on something at some point!
If Amazon is paying people minimum wage, then it could be argued that the extra 30 minutes would push them over the edge of minimum wage laws.

However, from what I recall of Amazon's announcement this year, they pay all warehouse workers at least $15/hr. This means they are significantly above the minimum wage requirement, even if you factor in the 30 minutes spent in security screenings.

In an ideal world, Amazon would factor in the time spent in security screenings, when advertising the job's hourly rate. Ie, workers are spending 5% of their time in security screenings, so the advertised hourly rate should be 5% lower than $15/hr. I would also like for all food-prices in restaurants to factor in taxes for the same reason, but I've thrown the towel on that fight. Ultimately, this seems like a purely cosmetic change with little substance behind it.
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There's a very simple solution to making the government less susceptible to regulatory capture - make it as small as possible.
Highcharts would be my goto for live data charts that updated continuously. The framework is free to use for non-commercial or personal projects via a CC license: https://www.highcharts.com/docs/working-with-data/live-data

It's a popular framework, so a lot of my questions were answered on Stack Overflow.
Any indication as to whether this was career or family money?
Generally, complete stupidity plus being told falsehoods by people who stand to benefit. It's the exact same with anti-vaxxers.
Meantime the number 3 article on the home page is a NYT Op Ed using charts with non linear axes to make charts look scary to push their predetermined left leaning narrative.
Sure, but at least for me, the reason they become a favourite song is that they become associated with good memories.
when really working together, standups are superfluous.
This is a fun idea.

I often think about hoarding a collection of software and media for an end of the world scenario. Then another year goes by and the world is still here.
Wow... It's very rare that a HN post intersects so closely with my current work... I say, as I look out the window into downtown Iqaluit. Interestingly enough newer versions of Windows allows users to easily add support for both Inuktitut Syllabic and Latin languages, I have yet to see a physical keyboard.

What irks me the most, is the lack of server-side language support for cloud offerings, on-premise Enterprise products, etc. If Microsoft can support Klingon for translation purposes, then just maybe they could support Inuktitut a little better.
No, they don't The rich pay disproportionately more taxes. See https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...

> In 2016, the top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid roughly $538 billion, or 37.3 percent of all income taxes, while the bottom 90 percent paid about $440 billion, or 30.5 percent of all income taxes.
Humble suggestion: Hong Kong iOS users should file a radar/feedback.
No really an issue at all. You can just use the Tesla parts catalog and call up Tesla to order a part. No middle man like AutoZone that get's a cut of the profit.

https://epc.teslamotors.com/#/catalogs
Earned-income (labor) shouldn't be taxed at all. It seems very unjust to tax something that is not a profit, such as a job. We aren't taxed when we trade two pineapples for four pears, so why is trading our time/effort for money any different? It's a scam. Though property taxes are likely a bigger scam. With that we're already in a post-ownership society. You never escape rent, never own anything, which is truly unfair on most of us that have to work to survive and our home is our only real asset. Capital gains should be carrying all of the burden, along with other taxes.

I could be persuaded to agree to a tax system that doesn't distinguish between any forms of income, as long as the first 50K was tax-free for everyone and steep progressive taxation after that, whether it's earned or unearned income. A bar set such as my 50K example to acknowledge that basic food/shelter only requires so much if you're willing to migrate, and everyone is treated the same- including the wealthy. They don't need more than 50K a year either, they're human too.

No matter how it's done (I won't argue details with anyone because that's not my point here)- the tax burden shouldn't be on the working class. It should be on the investment class.

Ultimately we'll likely need more worldwide government to track and tax these individuals fairly to eliminate tax scams like the Caymans. Without that I doubt any policy matters. Step one to that is publicly funding elections so those same people don't control our governments.

The default and only tax-avoidance policy needs to be the same one that applies to the working class. If you don't like taxes, stop making money.
xapata's interpretation of solotronics's post is that "Pentagon's impenetrable, unauditable accounting" + "Reports of trillions of dollars missing" + "General with a multi-million-dollar sports car collection" = The sports cars were paid for by embezzlement.

Of course, it's also possible the general saved up, or made lucky investments, or married into money, or there was an exaggeration or misunderstanding.
'One country two systems' as agreed to by the CCP under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, prior to the handover of Hong Kong, means that the PRC is only responsible for military defence of HK.

Anyone who disagrees that 'one country two systems' applies in Hong Kong is accusing the CCP of lying. Which we know the CCP would never do.

Edit: anyone who has spent time on HN in the last few years and commented on the actions of the CCP should be familiar with the usual brigading by pro-CCP people - anyone with half a sense of decency would welcome the downmods. But to those who downmod, you just accused the CCP of lying. Enjoy being disciplined by your masters.
The sedan market is small and shrinking: there is a reason Ford has abandoned it. Tesla should be viewed in relation to the entire passenger vehicle market. According to http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/us-vehicle-sales-figures-by-mod...

... The Model 3 ranks 50th or so.
An article (more comprehensive) for those preferring to avoid linked video lecture:

https://everwideningcircles.com/2018/10/28/sperm-whales-clic...

I would have posted the article as the main link, but chose the video lecture for its title, seemingly more fit for HN.
Human beings are tribal creatures, not individualists.

As such, we have leaders and followers.

By definition of leaders and followers, most people will be followers, whether for genetic or environmental reasons.

Followers will always support those who are leaders. In our current society, that would mean the powerful.

If you don't believe me, look at behavioral sciences. Most people will shock someone to death just because an authority said so (yes the Millgram experiments were biased, but the results aren't completely invalidated by that)
Care to share where you saw the model 3 not being profitable? I'm not being combative. I'm genuinely curious as I own one. I know they were pretty break even early on but has that not changed at all?!
The most elegant fractal code ever
I have this on an old iPod Video - easily the best media player I've ever had. I think this was my first exposure to the idea of running non-Apple firmware on Apple devices (loathe to call it a jailbreak, but it feels sorta like one).
It isn't a bug, the decision is intentional. I'm sure Apple is aware of how ridiculous this is and how their users hate it.
And pay substantially more for the same product. The individual insurance marketplace isn't competitive, plus you're also giving the federal government a free loan (since employer insurance is pre-tax dollars, individual plans get a refund after the tax return).
Can the IRS be sued for violating equal protection under the law? They have admitted that they don't have the budget to go after high net worth individuals who can pay tax attorneys to hide their income in tax loopholes, so isn't that a tacit admittance that the rich can cheat on their taxes with impunity? If that's the case then not all citizens are held equally accountable to the same laws.

That would seem to be a violation of the fourteenth amendment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause) The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides "nor shall any State [...] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws".
Sometimes I wonder if the reason for that isn't because there wasn't an option like what Tesla provides now.

Anyways, Tesla is also heading that direction with the Model Y (2020) and the truck they are expected to announce in November.
Neat, hadn't heard about this. I'll check it out!
I've wondered if reversible computing research has had any real world impact. The theory is it would reduce heat since you're not increasing entropy, but I wonder in practice if that has ever been useful.
In the early 2000s, Community Leaders (unpaid volunteers who 'worked' as moderators on AOL) sued AOL for compensation for their work under the Fair Labor Standards Act. They won $15 million.

All volunteers should do the same. StackExchange mods, Reddit moderators, etc. Stop working for free to advance the financial interests of these for-profit companies looking to exploit your labor.
Changing this is up to the legislature rather than the courts. In other news, about 18% of Americans approve of congress job while about 81% disapprove of it [1].

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional...!
He's wrong. I have nine Twitter accounts saved on my Bitwarden. I don't use more than 2 currently, but I've played with different ways to differentiate my interests/follows over the years, and have never had any issues with multiple logins. In fact, Bitwarden moves your most recently used login to the top of the list so you don't have to hunt for it.
I think it is petty.

At the same time it's a good gauge for them to figure out what else they can do.

Start with "hey man don't show that one pic" and the company figures "it's one pic, whatever we're not really compromising our values".

A few more steps and then it seems less dramatic when it comes to "give us that information on that one user"... and so on.

Personally I would expect an external social credit score coming soon too. It doesn't have to be all encompassing like the social credit score, but good luck getting a job with a company who wants to work with China if you're on the list...
An Introduction to Real-Time Subsurface Scattering
I hate the M3 moniker too. It's a model 3 or TM3 like you said.
Do you know anything about the legality of TikTok paying "influencers" to upload copies of user-created content, without TikTok or the influencers paying the users anything (as in the YouTube compilation example)? I would have figured users own the copyright to their content, other than the music in it, and that something like that could be considered copyright infringement if their entire clip is being uploaded and monetized by someone else without any consent or compensation. (TikTok videos are short, so compilations are composed of a large number of full videos, rather than snippets of videos.)

I also believe those YouTubers are often making additional money from the compilation videos with sponsorships and affiliate links, in addition to what TikTok pays them.

Is it just a matter of TikTok hoping most small-time creators will see it as free publicity and/or figuring they probably don't have any legal knowledge or resources, or even awareness their content is being monetized by others? Or have the users signed away all revenue-earning potential due to the music licensing, or something?

If the latter's the case, it seems unfair that random YouTubers can monetize the content a TikTok user created while the user gets nothing from it, and while the user can't even monetize their own content themselves.
You have to think about complexity rather than just construction impact. Taking this argument leads one down a problematic 'Tragedy of the commons' path. As someone else said, not building may just create more sprawl somewhere else and increase vehicle miles travelled. You're also ignoring some historical covenants that might have excluded race from certain neighborhoods.

References: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1102604887223750657 on 'tragedy of the commons'

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1141456562512207872 work done on historical racial restrictive covenants.
People will still die, due to accidents etc., just not as quickly. History has shown that younger generations aren't always better than older ones. The rise of Naziism in the 30s wasn't because of a bunch of elderly people.
I met a Punjabi gentleman in his 50s watching Tik Tok. Turns out there's a vibrant comedy scene in the Punjabi language on Tik Tok. It is huge in the South Asian community and is attracts a large variety of eyeballs.
Can Amazon third-party sellers survive under the latest algorithm updates?
> Maybe paying these wages means there's no money for more robots, so packaging things will take longer?

Packing an individual box takes minutes. So it's a question of capacity, and it's pretty binary. If they have enough capacity then a large majority of items can ship within a couple hours. If they don't have enough capacity then the 90th percentile shipping time becomes indefinite/never. A situation where packaging takes an extra day, end of story, is unlikely and unstable.

And I'd say that some robots are R&D, so not having money for them has no effect on shipping times, and the rest are a cost-saving measure, so they'll always have the money.
The code examples have me confused because they return a single sample at a time, but if noise is to have the kind of different characteristics discussed at different scales, individual sample values cannot be independent of previous sample values.

I guess the provided code examples must return values which are ordered somehow by properties of the `noise` function, which must involve some memory of previously given values. But this function is described as:

>some noise function of our choice... the choice doesn't matter much

The nature of that function is really essential, if it has any independent random distribution, the examples will just return values with an independent random distribution that is bell or triangular or spike shaped.

The basic method of creating a sequence which has different variability at difference scales is to create separate random walks, scale (resample) them and then sum them together. This can be optimized by generating the component walks (with different scales) on the fly, but there is no way to create such a sequence on the fly from a function which returns values which are independent of the sequences previous values.
Yup, me to. The CGI example is amusing. Are there people still using CGI.pm?
Previously, in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13952016
Fair enough, but it's been mine. There are loud voices telling people they don't have to worry about the impact of their choices. That's seductive, and the truth is painful - many people instinctively prefer comforting lies.
It may take a while but you could go Altair-style, by making a computer that is programmed through physical switches and then go and input every byte one-by-one. Though some automation would help here (AFAIK some people used a dotted paper tape reader and only entered the tape loader code by hand and the rest of their programs were loaded via the tape).
I have an external hard drive with some games and stuff to watch on it along with important contact and personal info. I also keep a copy of personal info on a USB drive, just in case. Less for the end of the world, more for if I get stuck and need to prove who I am or the wifi goes out during a storm. It's come in handy before
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I think "Guaranteed" was a bad choice, but I'm sure it's still better on average than the majority of free/OSS projects.

Unfortunately there will always be a small number of companies using scummy tactics like that, but not most of them.
Gene editing could help save the planet – if scientists can avoid the typos
My first thought was how such a large chunk of your web development resources now need to satisfy such a small population of pizza eaters. But I quickly realised, beyond the morals and ethics, this is just practically a good idea.

An interface that works for a blind person could be the same interface fundamentals that allow me to order a pizza while driving.

That also got me wondering: what if the Domino's site just led blind people to finding the right phone number to call? (I thought about this because naturally, if I was driving, I'd just say, "Hey Stupid Phone, call Domino's Pizza")
> Per their own sentence, the poor and rich are audited at the same rate yet they go on to label this "disproportionate". That makes no sense.

They point out that while the rates may be similar, the impact is disproportionate. The rich have the means to hire a tax attorney, probably have a CPA who kept detailed records, etc. EITC recipients don't even know where to start in responding, and as the article indicates, many don't as a result.
I think the fact that they have so much power that they can micromanage incredibly petty things is indicative that CCP has way too much power.
I always puzzle over headlines like this. So they're reining in the quashing, OK I think that adds up to being pro-development.

It's worse when the appellate court reverses the lower court's denial of the motion to suppress the debunking of the rebuttal.
Google for "naked mole rat".
Related: Fable of the Dragon Tyrant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY

Ways to improve life expectancy:

A. keep children alive till adulthood (mostly done)
B. keep adults disease-free/healthy (somewhat done)
C. keep old people alive till natural death (little done)
D. stop natural death (possible?)
E. reverse aging (possible?)

If natural death is just rolling constitution checks long enough to get a critical miss, then perhaps it's enough to complete C.

If natural death is some sort of cellular countdown, it may suffice to stop the time, as in D.

I think for most people, what they really want is not eternal life in a 90+ year-old body, but to be able to live in a young body, which necessitates E.

It's interesting to consider scenarios where we accomplish some but not all of these, especially where C and/or D are possible but E is not.
They do it because it works. Combine censorship with a populace that is largely taught not to exercise critical thinking and you get China. Many of my Chinese colleagues who did not know about Nazi concentration camps, let alone the concentration camps that are currently running in their own country today.
> easily and trivially

Really? I think the current ecosystem of lobbyists and tax evasion (remember the Paradise Papers?) puts the lie to that idea. I don't think you have any basis on which to make that claim.
Is this news? There’s already a Spotify client for Emacs.
Covers:

- Solidity smart contract with Remix

- Tests with Truffle

- Frontend with Vanilla Js + Webpack

- Deployment to public testnet (Ropsten) and Mainnet

- BONUS: some dad jokes at the beginning!

Created by EatTheBlocks (https://eattheblocks.com)
I'm less worried about China than the precedent they're setting. I think, perhaps, if they'd done something like this a while ago, it might have taken China that much longer to care.

There are (generally) very few "solutions" in these things, so it's best to focus on small gains, cracks that things slip through, and temporary safe spaces.
> The top 1% are indeed audited at about the same rate as the working poor, but they also pay higher taxes than everyone else.

But they don't. That's the point. Your conventional wisdom is wrong.

The USA has a large number of regressive taxes, which tax the poor more heavily than the rich. These have been steadily expanded. And it has one, only one, progressive tax - the federal (not state) income tax - which has been steadily made less progressive in recent years to the point where overall taxation is at best flat and more likely slightly regressive.
200K miles is nothing. There are a few Tesla Model X/S's used by the Taxi service Tesloop that are 450K+ miles.

Tesloop's "eHawk", the 2015 Tesla Model S over 450,000 miles (724,000 km), which is one of the highest mileages globally. A Model 3 can easily surpass that since hey are not as complex as the S/X.

https://www.tesloop.com/blog/2018/7/16/tesloops-tesla-model-...
Works well on Sansa Fuze+. Unlike the stock firmware, it can play Opus audio, which I always encode my portable collection to.
Stop sucking up to dictatorships. If they don't want to do business with you because your map or flags or search engine shows something they don't like - leave. Don't censor your search engine or modify your maps to fit their worldview.
How do you extract/calculate The random seed?

This is what all (non-vulnerable) programming languages do btw.

PS: saw your other post, interesting take.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12401920

I’ll venture a guess: a lot of practical attacks in the lab becomes completely impractical on a network.
Interesting. Thanks for the reply
> Capital gains are not inflation-indexed, which is one reason to have a lower rate.

No, it's a good reason to inflation adjust them; not inflation adjusting them and charging a lower rate means that people who can regularly turn over capital so that there is often very little inflation effect (more common with the really rich) pay low real taxes on income, while people who have a few capital assets that are held a long time for use value and then sell them with little real (but much inflationary) appreciation pay taxes at low rate on the nominal income, but often at a high rate on any real income (or, worse, pay positive taxes with no or negative real income). The two features compound the pro-wealth bias in capital gains policy rather than offsetting to approximate fairness with taxation of other income.

Taxes on income should be blind as to whether it is labor or capital income (including those characterized as “payroll” rather than “income” taxes), and, to smooth irregular income streams (which otherwise have undesirable consequences in a progressive tax system) generous allowances for deferment or unusually high income and advance recognition of income should be made, and basis values, and deferred and advance-recognized income amounts all should be inflation adjusted.
Considering the rich have far higher tax liabilities and custom complex accounting (vs the poor whose income is usually reported by employers as an automatic check against self reports), "proportionate" auditing should be closer to per-dollar than per-person.
1. US population: 329,663,350

2. 0.01% is 32,966 people, not 100

3. There are 585 billionaires in the US [0]

4. Billionaires make up 0.00017% of the population

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_numbe...
I read a good post on this subject: https://medium.com/@soatok/friendship-and-the-furry-fandom-4...

People who are well-known are people a lot of people want to get to know, but they remain human with human limitations and human priorities.

I've found the best way to get in touch with well-known people is to have a genuine interest in talking to them about mutual interests.
Ask HN: How have you spent time outside work for the past couple of weeks?