skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you looking to break your bubble, or other people's bubble? Your first paragraph is a complaint about the former and your second paragraph about the latter. I read this as goalpost shifting.

Fundamentally, the freedom-of-speech argument of "everyone must read what I have to say" is a tired one that cannot and will not ever happen: You can't force everyone else to read your post. Not on a blockchain, not on a federated system. Blockchain may mean they have to download your content, but their client filter will always be available to never have to see another person's content even if force-downloaded. Clockwork Orange type solution is the only way to be sure a human puts their eyeballs on specific content.

In general, most admins are not proactively blocking federated single instance users unless reports come in, in which case you probably did something to someone on that instance. Not everyone is there to burst their bubble, but craft it, and depending what they want, you or I might not make the cut. Oh well.

Finally, if an anti-censorship platform where everyone must download one's speech (under certain conditions) is truly what you want, go to FreeNet. Even there, no one is required to read another's content.
>at least one of the pilots who flew the scenario in a simulator found it difficult to respond

And I'm guessing their not using pilots of average skill here...
This whole situation is just really messed up. What’s happening with this company is great, but we should not be in a position as a society where a homeless person can’t get housing until living on the street has made them so sick that it’s profitable for an insurance company to buy them an apartment. This particular solution is definitely a positive thing, it’s just a small bandage over a massive wound.
Have you heard about Automatic Ripping Machine [1] ? It basically automates what you're doing with MakeMKV and Handbrake, plus it will copy the entire disc contents onto your hard drive and eject the disc, allowing you to queue up multiple.

[1] https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-rippi...
Are there any lessons that would be useful for others to know about?
There are people who support kayaking, that doesn't mean that Gmail should allow kayak fan spam in my inbox.
Boeing makes up 8.8% of the Dow right now, the largest component. There is a lot of pressure from the finance community and the government to get this recertified to keep the stock market from going down.
> Whether it goes out-of-pocket or from a tax-filled fund is IMHO not as important as the cost audit/dispute mechanisms.

IOW, more administration. Didn't this thread start with a complaint about administrative cost?

There are many examples of successful universal medical systems with different trade-offs that have been refined over the last 50 years. Canada, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, etc. Choose the set of trade-offs you prefer and copy it; reinventing the wheel is likely not going to end well.
A tax on assets would be absolutely impossible to implement and would lead primarily to increase fees to accountants and lawyers.
Firefox at 15: Its rise, fall, and privacy-first renaissance
I would hazard a guess that it's because other people find them more interesting than you, hence they get upvoted.
BBC draft editorial guidelines for UK 2019 election [pdf]
It would be nice if this worked:

template <class T = char> class string { ... };

string s = "a";
When I need to take a break, I try to do things that are different from my norm. Instead of coding all day and working with electronics, I might go for a nice hike and spend some time camping or in a cabin.

The goal maybe shouldn't be to have a day of isolation and no enjoyment, but instead taking time to find enjoyment in different ways.

(Though, this raises the question - is there some woodsman out there who might take a vacation from hiking and outdoors-ing by hiding inside with a laptop and some videogames?)
That statement is just silly: Nobody read Dickens’s novels in a continuous way when they were published weekly...

Those criteria are just pseudo-culturally ego-filled statements.

Like if you do not enjoy Bach then you do not really know classical music...
Only the government for privacy's sake?
Yes, the tax rate has been reduced, but since Reagan became President, the US has been on an unprecedented 40 year economic growth. The same can't be said for Europe, England, or any other country with giant top bracket marginal rates.
I've long had the dream of a bible app that functions like Google Photos. One scrollbar, top is Genesis, bottom is Revelation. I've given it some thought, but haven't written any code yet. @jonstaab is that something you'd be interested in collaborating on?

Edit: fix typo in name
New “Respects Your Freedom” Site
Am I the only one that's not offended by the NPR website? I found it rather clean with a reasonable (i.e. limited) amount of ads. So many websites overdo it with animated ads and attention grabs, this one actually feels clean and readable.
The reason wealthy don’t need to pay their fair share of taxes is due to all the tax loopholes. The solution to that is not adding more complexity in our taxes. The solution is to remove loopholes and make taxes as simple as possible. For a certain well known income, there should be a certain well known tax rate. And, after a certain minimum, there should be almost no ways to get deductions from that tax rate.
Jeff Kaufman comments on Uber self driving car crash
Does this scanning with sonar harm whales? I'm surprised they are not mentioned in the article.
I won't know what Mimecast is, so I clicked the link. No content. Just some guy stating what's in the HN title. No details. No screenshots. And all of the replies (at this time) are animated GIF memes.

It seems strange that someone would make a public claim that sounds this serious and provide zero context or details.
What does 1% of 40-50 people look like in comparison to 2%? Interesting numbers regardless.
Cal Newport wrote an entire book around this called Digital Minimalism. I encourage folks to take a look. Taking an occasional break is good. Making technology actually work for you is better.
tl;dr hipsters identify niche, become urban monks
Really not at all what he meant. The problem is not the instance of generalization itself, the problem is that this specific generalization (that technology made it overall worse) is obviously wrong.
Let's tax the people who pay all the taxes even more...

The worst problem with these tax proposals is that they won't even raise half as much revenue as they need for the programs they are supposed to fund.
>serious developers have to train in a Shaolin monastery

Heh. And don't forget that they have to have "passion," been playing with computers before they could walk, spend all their spare time doing side projects in GitHub, etc.

There are few fields where there's such a widespread sense of exceptionalism with a belief that studying a field in university and then simply working conscientiously at it in a day job is considered utterly inadequate by so many.
> An awful lot of low quality and off topic content from there seems to constantly make it to the front page here.

It makes it to the front page because people vote it up. This makes it de facto on-topic.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-019-0057-x
Looking at the pictures, this seems to be a "small" LWR.

LWRs have been dogged by construction difficulties, but even if the cost explosion could be contained, it's hard for the LWR to compete with gas turbine power plants because the power density of the steam turbine is so low. That's one reason why coal burning power plants are no longer economical: even with free heat, the turbine can't pay for itself against competition today.

A truly small reactor would have to operate at higher temperatures and use a gas such as helium, CO2 or nitrogen tetroxide as a working fluid. A reactor like that has a chance of being economically competitive with fossil fuel gas turbines, but tied to a steam turbine I can't see a nuclear reactor ever being competitive.
Yeah they're gonna have to fix the MCAS - duck-taping the engines on a bit further back isn't an option.
It's free with NoScript installed.
Doesn’t YNAB have its own sync?
If you are coming from the point of view that males are better at math then females, then the next thing to wonder is "why"? This study attempted to find some factual backing for the most popular explanation: that there is a biological difference between the brains of male and female people that causes males to be better at math.

This study didn't find any such difference, in the study both gender's brains worked in the same way. They studied children in an attempt to factor out some other influences (i.e. societal).
Well, it IS a 737, that is part of the problem.

The 737 has a feature almost no other new plane have: you can order it with a internal staircase so people can leave the plane without a specialized airport terminal.

This feature requires the plane to keep its current overall shape, otherwise the staircase thingy would not work.

So to keep this feature, while putting a bigger engine on the plane, they had to move the engine forward, and change its shape too, otherwise the engine wouldn't fit between the wing and the ground.

Then THAT caused the necessity of MCAS.

So long story short: wanting to keep backward compatiblity with the 737 staircase, led to the engine hack, that then to maintain backward compatiblity with the handling led to the MCAS hack...

So, it IS a 737, in the sense they kept the staircase and to do that ended needing the MCAS...

The other option would have been abandon the staircase entirely and make a taller plane, this would allow a bigger engine with no handling changes, but although this would remain a 737 from handling perspective, it would not be a 737 from the airports perspective: it would need to remodel the airports to install bridges or purchase of ladder trucks.
Boys and girls in a brain scanner use the same area of brain for mathematics... What could be wrong...
This was my question. I know Hacker News caters to techies, but there are a LOT of acronyms out there. I see MVP and I think "Most Valuable Player", which clearly doesn't fit in this context.
Mainstream support for OneNote 2016 continues
But that's metallurgical failure, not software, and it's something that's showing up in use almost decades later.

I'm saying this to highlight that what you're pointing out, while not desired, is kinda expected. That's the point of the routine inspection and maintenance - to catch these.

It's not the same as the conversation we're having under the OP: catastrophic failure due to bad assumptions in software (in this case, memory safety)
Would that be a bad outcome? Wouldn’t the market become more active because more shares of highly relevant companies would be available?
FreeCodeCamp subforums can become an alternative to subreddits
I like Discord a lot, but it's so funky. (Also, wish their support team would just send a link to allow users to file bugs.)

1) Weird issue where it reconnects you on across multiple devices. I was on my phone... then switched to computer. Phone was no longer active. About 5 minutes after I got done with the game, Discord on my phone kicked on all by itself. Phone was sitting in another room, and all of a sudden Discord chat was being broadcast. (Luckily PTT was enabled so they didn't hear me.) It shouldn't try and reconnect... once you hang up once, it should know to hang up across all devices.

2) Can't upload profile or server images more than twice before it triggers some sort of internal cooldown on uploading images. Just puts you on the same page and pops a warning, "You have unsaved changes!" but won't let you save. Quit, wait a few minutes, try again... works. Annoying when you crop something wrong and have to re-upload. It should always let you upload, or give some message, "Still sending out your last image to all users, try again in 5 minutes."

3) Can't resize Window via window manager (Magnet on MacOS). I think this is the only program I have seen that won't let me drag and snap it. Annoying.
"Working" in the political arena has a flexible meaning. They "work" in terms of, yes, they collect money.

However, they always collect way less money than the people who made the initial promises said, because the people who were making the promises always assume that if they tax wealth at 75%, their income will be 75% of the current tax base, at the time the wealth tax is proposed and/or passed. The problem is, if you make staying within your tax zone suddenly cost, say, literally 3 billion dollars (and that's the sort of thing we're talking about here), then you just gave the wealth a 3 billion dollar incentive to leave before your tax can come into effect, and the end result is the tax base is much smaller than was anticipated.

So they don't "work" in the sense that they will not collect anything near what the advocates promise they will, and they also chase the wealth away, which, for all the rhetoric about inequality and such, isn't necessarily a good thing for a polity. Generally when people want "equality", they want their wealth level to be raised, not to attain "equality" by lowering the average wealth level. Chasing, say, Jeff Bezos out of the country, along with whatever bits of Amazon he decides to take with him, is not going to be a net gain for the US, just as one example.

They also "work" in the sense that the Gini coefficient probably will indeed go down, so advocates can claim success. But it may not be what you were looking for.

(Also, for the record, I am neither particularly celebrating nor particularly condemning anything or anyone here. This is just how the incentives line up. You can't wish incentive structures away. Effective law takes incentives into account and harnesses them for the desired result. Generally, solving the Big Problems requires something other than the most obvious, direct approach, because there's a selection effect; if the most obvious, direct approach solved the problem, we wouldn't have it.)
Most of these billionaires' net worth are not liquid cash, they're in shares of the companies they founded/own. Jeff Bezos' $111B net worth, for eg, is mostly in $AMZN stock. The way a 6% wealth tax accrues, if he does nothing productive with his money, he would have to pay $6.67B the first year...and then a similar amount every year after that. After 20 years, $111B would turn into $32B — a ~71% tax rate over that time period.

And because most of his wealth is tied up in his stock, he would have to liquidate large portions of $AMZN to pay the yearly wealth tax bill. That kind of sustained mass influx of supply of $AMZN shares on the stock market would wreak havoc on its stock price, which would reverberate through retirement/pension funds. Few would gain from it.

If you took all of Bill Gates' wealth, you could fund the US Federal government for about 8 days. Not 8 days every year, 8 days total, one time. If you took all of the Forbes 400 wealth, you could fund the federal government for about 8 months. The upside is 8 months of runway, and the downside is that you would destroy decades of created wealth (wealth is not zero-sum), a tide which has lifted a lot of other boats, particularly those of the upper-middle class.
A clever twist for the billionaire would be just to offshore their assets so the US government can't seize them
>It seems strange that someone would make a public claim that sounds this serious and provide zero context or details.

Why?
Are the simulators run by Boeing or the FAA? Are the test pilots employed by Boeing?

What changes have been made to the regulatory framework to prevent Boeing from signing off on their own safety tests? What changes has the FAA made to bring more public transparency to the flight certification process?

When is the sentencing date for Boeing executives? They are not getting a plea deal I hope?

I'm not worried about the overly complicated flight control software or MCAS, I'm worried about the next system that will fail because nobody at this company seems to care about engineering any more.
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Here are examples she presents in her plan.

Examples

Married couple with household net worth of $100,000—the median level in the United States

Pays zero tax because they are below the $50 million threshold

Married couple with a primary and vacation residence and substantial retirement savings for a household net worth of $20 million

Pays zero tax because they are below the $50 million threshold

Extremely successful small business owner of a $30 million business as well as additional assets for a household net worth of $40 million

Pays zero tax because they are below the $50 million threshold

Hedge fund manager with a net worth of $500 million

Pays a 2% tax on the $450 million in net worth above the $50 million threshold, producing a total annual liability of $9 million

Heir with a net worth of $20 billion

Pays a 2% tax on the $950 million between $50 million and $1 billion, and a 3% tax on the remaining $19 billion, for a total annual liability of $589 million.

https://elizabethwarren.com/ultra-millionaire-tax/
Define income.
The flip side to allowing this is the probability of incentivization/intimidation by gov't to cover up past prosecutorial wrong-doings. There's no good solutions it seems.
> learning to program takes a lot of time and dedication. Basically, at least two/three years of 10 hours+ a day (university classes and homework, plus personal reading and projects)

That's absurd. I didn't devote anywhere near that amount of time to learning to program. I did it, in three languages (four, if Verilog counts), over the course of 8 classes in an EE undergrad program. Sure, it took longer to get good at it. Getting good just required actually building things, but not for anywhere near 10 hours a day.
The increasing lack of a mass market consumer base for capitalist goods & services also threatens economic growth. In other words it does society more economic good for everybody to be able to afford a dishwasher than for a few people to be able to afford luxury goods. We've had decades of rather low tax rates and decades of rather low growth and no solutions given other than to double down on the low-tax investment-first strategy.

Low taxes sure bolster economic growth in the short term and bolster investment but they also lead to forms of societal decay like income inequality which leads to crime which leads the more demand for order which leads to cementing the accumulation of power. Left unchecked the powerful will accumulate resources out of line with their actual merit to society through the leverage of their existing capital. We're in a situation now where it's increasingly obvious how the rich are overcompensated relative to their productive output but countries race to the bottom to compete for their capital. If this race to the bottom were not happening every country would be better off taxing the wealthy more fairly but we're in a tragedy of the commons situation.
A hand wavey subjective dismissal at the quality of writing is hardly a substantive critique.

How are they all to be seen as not well written? Too many comma splices?

Are they factually accurate and you don’t agree with the tone?

Are they factually incorrect and you like the tone?

“Knee jerk hot take” is pretty unnecessary.
A person is a person and all of us must be equal - until it comes to paying things. Then it's ok to burden the rich for paying for dramatically more than their fair share.

When one runs out of other ideas, and can't extract money from the bottom 50% of US citizens who do not pay taxes, yet want to continue spending instead of cutting entitlements - treating rich people as another revenue source will continue.
Can you give any examples of "low IQ countries"?
Essentially if they both have the same underlying operation there is no apparent constraint or differentiation.
It may or may not immediately prove anything but it suggests there isn't any reason to believe in inherent differences - check elsewhere for proof.

A clear disproof or proof would involve observing a hard constraint of some sort.

For a blatantly counterfactual analogy imagine that they found neural patterns for math were literally the same as computer processors done in brain cells like bored engineers implementating computers in Dwarf Fortress or Minecraft. They could decode patterns and found human calculations involve bit registers in their head - men fit between 3 to 6 base five "bits" directly and women have 2 to 5 base six "bits" as size constraints prevent fitting more in. They found larger numbers were done via piecemeal operations over a memory map slowing things down and increased clockspeed was possible but would literally cook their brain. The upper bound for men in this bizzare hypothetical world would be higher.
I think Argentina has a an asset tax on anything above USD $300,000 at 0.75% but they also have basis adjustments for inflation which I think is fair. The basis of all your assets increases as a result of inflation.
Had that not been the case, we'd be a dead branch of evolution probably long gone by now.
Another reason the Russians desperately need Starlink overhead and a funding operation to pay for use. Will the Russian Gov't install thousands of ground based jamming sites pointed upwards ?
Maybe natural interest for whatever reason rather than necessarily aptitude. I find it pretty unsurprising that if kids make up their mind that they don't like something, maybe they can be brought around but more likely they'll suffer through and make no effort to learn.
Bezos sells some Amazon stock to fund his space company. He sold nearly $2b in July.
I live in relatively small city with a pretty extensive "pre-metro" network. Our trams ride part underground, part on seperate lines above ground and part on tracks embedded in the road. Visiting cities like Barcelona, Paris or London always annoys me because of how awesome the Metro system is. Trains are usually on time, frequent and very fast.
Piracy will come for Netflix, HBO and Cable Giants
0-conf transactions have timestamps and the receiving wallet/node checks for the tree of transactions to even allow the spending of unconfirmed transactions up to a limit of 25 for now, there is on-going research and testing to up this limit to 500 that was sponsored by SatoshiDice https://twitter.com/PeterRizun/status/1181980303033692162

For a list of transactions trying to double spend BCH and failing at it, see this https://doublespend.cash/
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Yeah, I'd have been way more interested in how math "looks" in the brains of math professors or something.
I don't disagree that this is an important thing to test for. I question why this is the reported explanation for why Boeing now decided that the computer systems needed an extensive overhaul. Ostensibly, "gamma rays from space" affecting flight control computers would be an issue that affected Boeing's planes long before MCAS.

But it's not the gamma rays that are the reason for the systems redesign, it's the fact that "at least one of the pilots who flew the scenario in a simulator found it difficult to respond in time to maintain control of the plane".

Boeing's assumption that pilots could respond quickly enough to a loss of control in the cockpit was an underlying motivation for designing MCAS with inadequate safety measures.
They are specifically talking about 'over-policing', which is disproportionate focus of police activity on some sectors of the community.
And of course this kind of claims are never accompanied by a single concrete exemple

How about a 10 percentage point difference in the share of women among STEM graduates between the Netherlands and Denmark?

Unless you're suggesting there's some sort of biological factor involved that makes Danish women more suited to go into STEM, society's the remaining culprit, even if the exact mechanisms have yet to be identified...