skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You can impose tax on leaving bigger than 3 billion dollars effectively removing leaving incentive."

In the US, the country in question, you'd have some constitutional problems with that plan. That's a bad thing; you need this wealth confiscation to be clearly legal, because you have incentivized billions of dollars worth of legal expenditure to prevent it from happening. (There's those nasty incentives again.)

Also, it turns out that demonstrating to the entire world that you'll just take whatever you want, whenever you want, and punish anyone who tries to protect themselves from that, doesn't exactly incentivize a healthy business environment or encourage the kind of investment you need to create the wealth that you need to bring inequality down by bringing most people up. People need predictability to make plans for the future; this sort of thing extremely strongly incentivizes even shorter term planning than we sometimes get, because nobody knows whether you're going to come along and take most of their stuff tomorrow, or even retroactively. It's not a good plan to create a wealth-producing society.

It's really, really easy to "solve" the wealth inequality problem by simply destroying all (or almost all) wealth, everywhere. It's been done in several countries in the past century. It's not usually the solution people want when they're talking about wealth inequality... oh, they might take a small hit in spite if they knew it was really going to stick it to those "wealthy fat cats", but for the most part, people expect the end of "wealth inequality" to increase their own wealth, not destroy it.

"Also you are assuming they are fluid and actually can leave and stay wealthy somewhere else, which is likely not the case for most of the wealth on the planet."

It is the case for the sort of wealth we are talking about, though. Yes, you can indeed tax the lower and lower-middle classes very hard, because they tend to be unable to move. Not exactly a "wealth" tax anymore, though, is it? Billionaires can move wealth. After all, if we're talking a 75% confiscation rate, it's worth it to move overseas even if they take a 50% bath. Billions of dollars worth of incentives cover a lot of things.
Hook Firefox using ChickenHook (Linux)
What the AirPods Pro Hint about Apple’s Wearable AR Philosophy
They may pressure FAA and maybe EASA into a certification but with other agencies (the Chinese) I think it would be more difficult.

Not to mention what happens if one of re-certified planes falls out of the air. People will refuse to board these planes.
As someone who has to use Elasticsearch as an only data store, yes.
> Solar and wind already are cheaper than anything else out there, and they are still regularly falling in cost.

But they can't provide stable baseline power without storage. Storage is not yet cheap enough to be cost competitive with fossil fuel solutions hence why we are still running old coal plants and building new natural gas plants. This is why people are still talking about nuclear. It can provide baseline power but without crapping carbon into the atmosphere. Yes we will have less use for power that cannot be throttled in the future as more of the grid is wind/solar but newer reactor designs can be throttled.

Edit: Yes I know that natural gas is traditionally for peak load but that is changing. See my reply to bryanlarsen's comment.
And, ironically, Illinois, which gets a full 54 percent of its energy from nuclear.
The Dow is also extremely outdated
This is a great analogy on why it's so difficult to estimate: https://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-softwar...

Estimating should be fun, plus there are various ways, such as estimating as a team (majority wins), t-shirt sizes, etc
Salt Lake City had that policy for a while, but funding is running out.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-homelessness-housing/...
> Sharing my Netflix password with my wife and/or child is not stealing, I paid in full for that account, and have now for many many years.

I am inclined to agree with HBO, Netflix, et al. that this is stealing. You are using their computing resources against the terms you agreed to.

However torrenting is good and not stealing. You are using your own bandwidth.
That would require emulating all syscalls (side-effects) to get a mock of the Real World inside the compile time environment.
the original link has paywall, putting archive.is to unblock and submitting into public domain ... is it legal ? just asking.
Never really thought about the fact that third party trackers would have permission to scrape a form for information. In theory, entirely possible but not something I have ever looked for (surfing without js is an inbuilt habit). Has anyone come across an example and how prevalent is it? Quote from the article to clarify "... said if a consumer has ever added their phone number into a form and there was a tracker on that web page looking for that information, that phone number can be added to a person's "profile" for those companies collecting that information".
> I don't understand why the mods there allow it.

Precisely because it can result in excellent comments like the current top comments on the article.

Providing an opportunity for experts to exercise critical analysis is a good thing and an excellent teaching/learning opportunity.
And gamers with dozens of unplayed games.
Steve who? No PII has been compromised here.

One would hope that "Steve" is a pseudonym but I wouldn't count on Bloomberg to do the responsible thing in this case.
Nuclear energy has the lowest death rate (deaths per TWh of any type of energy generation technique/source [1][2][3]. It is the obvious answer to the climate crisis but unfortunately the cultural and public effects are blocking the way for this solution. Unfortunately, facts do not change our minds.

I believe the best approach is to show people gradually that newer generation reactors are much safer and better than older generations. Just to give an example, the technology of reactors at Chernobyl is from 1953.

Newer reactor technologies are much safer and there are some types of reactors that they even use spent fuel rather than enriched fuel that all other types of reactors use. I believe Bill Gates also has invested some resources in this 'traveling wave reactors'[4].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
[2] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/climate-ch...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower
I think there comes a point where you have so little to lose and prison is so normalized in your social environment that the dignity reclaimed by defying the police state and possessing whatever you please outweighs the chance of getting caught. It's not so much a logical defect as it is a different set of premises: if prison looks like a constant threat, it stops being a deterrent and at that point you may as well have some semi-internal locus of control.
https://www.reuters.com/article/france-nuclearpower/building...
Unfortunately the 30-year vision will take longer than the projected 30 years due to a slight miscalculation: the number of human brain cells is not 30B as it should for a 30year plan but is actually a bit larger. Number of neurons alone is 80+B therefore using the softbank-linear-interpolation-method, the targeted cloud-downloadable-happiness-rate of 30 EH (exa-happinesses) will not be realized in 30 years and takes least 80.
Edit: Why would taxing "power" solve anything? We tax responsibilities and assets.

Sure there are massive inequalities in the US - but it is not because of "wealthy people". I could suggest it is because of the mainly failings of humans as a barely evolved species to create scaleable entities (businesses) as it requires a huge human effort, skill, luck, and capaiblity to do. Most humans give up on the really hard stuff required to build strategic levers that multiply their monetary outcomes. And instead focus on small ROI skills (monetarily speaking).

I disagree - I believe this is mostly projection. Most wealthy people aren't exorbitantly wealthy. There are 607 billionaires in the US (thats not many). They're not all hiring lobbyists, and trying to corrupt the US. Neither are the deca-millionaires, they're just either building things (businesses to employ others) or getting better at their craft.
I had to comment, nobody in finance pays attention to the Dow. It's a meaningless index. Look into how it is constructed if you're curious as to why.

But to your point, it makes up 0.78% of the S&P500 which is not insignificant for sure.
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Why Indonesia Is Missing Out as Companies Move Out of China
For loops and if statements
The Internet’s First Hit File Format Wasn’t the MP3. It Was MIDI
> I think the issue here is that culture should on some level be free. This is why libraries are free.

Should software be free as well then? It seems to me it should fit the definition of culture, and the economics of e.g. a game seem similar to the economics of making a movie.
A cable bill is a bit like insurance. They dont expect 100% of customers to watch ESPN, 100% of customers pay Disney for access to ESPN, but they pay less than the full cost each. People not watching cover the costs of people watching.

Theres two models of TV. Live and On Demand. In the On Demand world its much more "am I licensed to start this stream" vs "can I tune into this broadcast in progress." Especially if the broadcast is adding any value, like tv hosts interjecting fun making of movie facts at commercial breaks.
Drupal Ladder[1] teaches people how to install git, install Drupal, review and revise patches, write tests, work on core issues, etc.

[1] http://drupalladder.org/
“It's OK to Be White” Flyers Lead to Promise of “Severest Disciplinary Action”
Not sure why you're been downvoted. But agreed.
Most people want the plugin system that's associated with apps like wordpress. You can get a site up and running and get most of the functionality you need through plugins and themes.
Probably the same way you approach people who don't trust every claim of "soft" sciences, like human psychology. You do the best you can with what you have, and continually work to improve the science.
That Line 9 is pretty radical. If it works, it'll be cool. Might be best to wait a bit and see if it works.
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Yup. Even disregarding the problems mentioned in the linked post, it isn't going to work well for real-world applications.

Fresh or saltwater, any vessel is subject to corrosion and the accumulation of grime (or worse, like barnacles). In the demo video, note that the demonstrator is using gloves and isn't even touching the "coin" directly, but using tweezers.
Why would they call it PredPol? Don't they get that this could be just as easily interpreted as "Predatory Policing," which is quite likely more accurate?
DCU is ATT WarnerMedia.

CBSViacom owns Philo and Pluto. Strategically, as CBS and Viacom merge, I see CBS All Access, Philo, Pluto, Paramount, Nickelodeon merging into a family of more related apps, similar to Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+. But itll be a bit for that ship to right its course, Viacom Consumer Products and CBS Interactive wont merge efforts overnight.
>That's a completely unsurprising result.

Anyone could have guessed this, because it's common sense. But the purpose of science is to produce knowledge based on empirical evidence. Common sense has its place, but science wants to test everything. According to a scientist it's not a fact just because it's common sense. Now this fact is part of the body of scientific evidence, and that is a powerful thing.

If you are trying to figure out why men are so inclined to math/CS, I think it makes a lot of sense to start at the very bottom of the problem; what do their brains look like when they are literally doing the thing? We can officially rule that out, so now we can fairly move up the chain and introduce more complex questions.
Tl;Dr: fuck Uber.
Idiotic. A few years ago you could say that on demand streaming over the internet was also “never been how media is served up”... engravings on wax cylinders was “never been how media is served up” was also true.

Obviously things are different in this era then they were 30 years ago during peak cable.

What’s your point that meaningfully responds to the gp?
Headline is trivial/weasely.

Some metrics would be interesting.
Alright here's a relevant question I've been having in terms of this. Let's say I have the code to gather / scrape / load some stats into postgres, but then want to run projections on them.

For example, if I'm trying to predict the next day's stats by using stats in the past by simply taking the average, how many days in the past should I look at results and take the average of? Is the last 3 day average the best? 5 days? 8? 10?

There are clearly a couple ways to do it. One is by getting a data frame of all the stats for all the objects, write the python logic to loop through the days, get back the stats from the past X days not including the current day, taking the average and then storing that back to postgres in a projections table. A function like set_projections(5) where 5 is the number of days in the past I'm taking the average of.

Second way to do this is write that function as a plpgsql function where uses subqueries to find the past X day stats for the players and then creates or updates the projections table all in sql so we can run `select set_projections(5)` and that'll do it itself.

So the question becomes, which ones is "best"? I have to imagine it's mostly a case by case basis. Since it's only me here, I've been doing it in postgres alone since it can be done in one query (with multiple sub queries, yes), but that's it. With python, it'd involve many more steps. On the other hand, the sql looks huge and then I've been running into the issue of do I split some of the sub queries into sub functions since that's what I'd be doing in python? If there were more people involved, would it be bad to have larger cases like that in postgres since we wouldn't know the skill of the others, where mostly they'd be coders and could write the projections in languages they'd want?

Another example of this tradeoff is how should I interact with the database? I have a rails background, and ActiveRecord is an incredibly good ORM, whereas SqlAlchemy hasn't done it for me. In either case, there's a ton of overhead to getting the connections running with the correct class variables. So instead, I kind of created my own ORM / interface where I can quickly write queries on my own and use those in the code. This is especially easy since most the queries can be written in postgres functions so the strings of those queries is incredibly tiny!

What I've learned from this project I'm doing is that sql is very, very powerful in what it does. I've shifted more to using it for actions than I would have in the past, and pretty much all thinking I do is making as little code as possible.

Anyone make it through reading this and have comments about what I'm doing and what they like to do?
What they’re doing isn’t just a “wrong” it’s horrible. These are the people lobbying Congress to ruin the country for their personal gain. Their business model has always been “you have no choice” because it’s either choose them or AT&T which is equally bad so Americans can’t vote with their wallets to get rid of them. They are the ones paying Ajit Pai to ruin net neutrality. They are not just wrong they are pure evil.
Nobody downloads anything anymore, this isn’t 2006. They stream it for free using someone else’s pw, or some sketchy site. OR, bob pays for Netflix, Alice pays for Hulu, and they share with eachother. THAT is the actual use case these companies are complaining about, as if Bob and Alice would buy both accounts themselves. Likey not gonna happen, but some executive calculation says they are losing money in this deal.
Has anyone done a comparison of capital costs of nuclear vs. renewables with pumped hydro storage? The comparisons I see are usually with li-ion battery storage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide_gauge
Co-Creator of League of Legends Lost $5M in Fraud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_K...
I have always wondered what the minimum amount of makeup needed to be "invisible" to facial recognition would be. In some cyberpunk future I could see people breaking up their features with thin black lines or something to fool cameras.
Some of the most important advances came from making previously expensive things cheaper. Your argument could have applied to the space industry, for example. Then SpaceX happened.
Stuff like this. Although there's an argument you don't have to, you just have to convince a relatively small number of politicians.

I think sites like this help. Quite a poor job has been done of pushing the data to the front and keeping publishing it without changing the metrics or methodology and I'd imagine most people will respect that eventually. You can't win everyone.

That said, I'd have been crucified in school for starting a graph from a number other than zero (CO2 PPM) because of the impression it creates, I'd probably have got away with the route round that the difference graphs employ though.
So have I. And if anyone would write a plugin for it so that I could play Youtube Music through it (not sure if the API even allows that), I'd pay for that.
This is brilliant. If you ask me this is exactly the type of approach that has been missing from the climate discussion. As a natural born skeptic, the current approach of simplistic, repetitive, and often technically incorrect news articles and half-informed scolding by politicians, celebrities, and internet armchair climatologists smells way too much like propaganda or a cult.

> The front page shows the main indicators. Beneath each one there is additional detail, drilling down into why the indicator is important, how it has changed and how it was calculated. The pages also link through to the data so that you can explore it for yourself.

Just the facts (well, it's a start anyways) presented visually (presumably honestly) so the the meaning is obvious, with the ability to drill down to learn why the numbers are important, where the data comes from and how to get to it yourself, as well as links to where to learn more. Beautiful.

Under democratic governments, people need to largely align their opinions before we can finally start doing something about this problem, and I believe this is a crucial part of the type of persuasion it is going to take. I think there is still room for improvement, but I haven't seen this approach taken before and hope it becomes more popular. In fact, I believe the "pro" side should team up and produce one single authoritative website, and advertise the hell out of it - the fact that such a resource doesn't exist has always added to my skepticism.
Free will does exist, but it's quite overrated at the moment, IMO. It is a limited resource that runs out, and most of our lives are lived by habit, which you can change a little bit at a time.
I was "pro-nuclear" from like the 90's until 2017. Every year since then it has made less and less sense. The cost of wind, solar, and batteries has plummeted, and the curves continue to bend in the right direction. The cost of nuclear has "increased" in that the last several projects have been total failures and the companies that build them have gone bankrupt. The curve points in the wrong direction.

The kind of massive overhaul/re-de-regulation it would take to bring back a nuclear manufacturing capability and functioning market in america today would be much much harder than simply running HVDC between the grids and building twice as much wind.

It just doesn't pencil out anymore. It used to. But even optimistically going forward I don't see it. The curves have crossed.

edit: here's a source for all the downvoters
https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

Nuclear: $118 - $192
Solar + 4hr: $102 - $139
Wind: $28 - $54

You can literally build 3x as much wind and have it cost about the same as nuclear.
So is this only available in the US?
Even then, imagine not being able to buy any given book at a few different stores. I can get just about any of them on Amazon, B&N and others. Imagine having to go to 6 different stores, with a membership club fee, to check out 6 different books. Vs a single store or library.
Gen IV and V, as well as SMRs[0], are really the only way to replace the baseload power generation we currently get from oil, coal, and natural gas.

Solar and wind will be integral to the overall mix, but unless there's a wild breakthrough in battery technology we need to be building nuclear to replace fossil fuel power generation.

If people are uncomfortable with the word "nuclear", let's go with isotopic batteries.

[0]: https://smrroadmap.ca
I don't know what makes you think society wants felons to integrate back. Of course, that's what everybody says out loud, but for many people, that's not the truth.
I'm not sure how you can rule out reading burning calories. Our brains burn more calories than the rest of our bodies, and taxing a brain more oughta burn more.
> I love the idea of nuclear, but it just hasn’t worked out. Solar and wind already are cheaper than anything else out there, and they are still regularly falling in cost. We can invest our money better elsewhere.

You should not compare raw prices but what's required to use it for an actual load, those figures look pretty different.
It’s sadly ironic that the greens historically opposed nuclear and thus share partial responsibility for where we are with respect to our energy production mix.

But I don’t see them flagellating themselves over this flagrant mis-step they share responsibility for.

It’s unfortunate that people who become activists are often (but not always) more dogmatic than scientific in their approach to dealing with issues. I think, looking retroactively, that there was an opportunity to coöperate with industry to address issues and work towards a working solution. I mean Yucca mountain. Where would France be if they had capitulated to this thinking.
The combination of homelessness, first name, age, insurer, rough location, and a laundry list of major diseases is absolutely PII.

https://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.p...

> It was found that 87% (216 million of 248 million) of the population in the United States had reported characteristics that likely made them unique based only on {5-digit ZIP, gender, date of birth}. About half of the U.S. population (132 million of 248 million or 53%) are likely to be uniquely identified by only {place, gender, date of birth}, where place is basically the city, town, or municipality in which the person resides. And even at the county level, {county, gender, date of birth} are likely to uniquely identify 18% of the U.S. population. In general, few characteristics are needed to uniquely identify a person.
If you embrace both structure and a defined path to change that structure, you get the best of all worlds. Database migrations and scheme changes should be the norm, not a feared last resort.

Otherwise you end up with equivalent logic littered throughout multiple application codebases sharing the same database.
Yes, there were various approaches to non-relational data stores but they were not so flexible in terms of "schema", which I believe is the main strength of NoSQL.

A possible exception could be MUMPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS but I have no direct experience with this (while I used something akin to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_database_model at the start of my career).