skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. But housing is also tax-privileged in other ways. Most notable is the mortgage interest on federal income tax.

More subtle is the fact that the value of the imputed rent from owning your own home is not taxed. I.e. if you rent your home to someone else, you pay income tax on the rent you collect. But if you "rent to yourself" by owning your own home, you don't pay tax on this implicit form of income.
Why exactly is inequality a problem? Because people suffer from their envy?

People starving, having no health care, low life expectancy, that sort of thing, are problems. Their neighbor having more money in the bank is not really a problem.

There are also actually differences in skills, performance, diligence, and so on. It would be very unfair if some people weren't allowed to earn more money than others.

Whether it should be possible to be arbitrarily rich is another question.
Depending on what you mean by inception, maybe yes, maybe no. It was not initially written down exactly as we have it today, no. It was eventually canonized into its current form, yes, if that's what you mean, though exactly when and by whom is unclear.

[EDIT] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quran
Lotus pods are pretty fibrous.

An elephant could manage it, with or without butter, if you could find an elephant not afflicted with trypophobia.
This is already possible in Linux with mount namespaces, and used by (for example) systemd to block access to /home by services if so configured by the user.
I hear this claim repeated a lot, but has anybody got a good source for it?

All I can see are extreme news sources (Breitbart) and NBC reporting on https://chinatribunal.com, and while I know nothing about the chinatribunal, its name somewhat implies a clear stance at the outset.

Particularly in relation to the Uyghur muslims, I can't find any evidence that they're having their organs harvested
The best gin and tonic recipe is again Indian flavors .

Mango slices and pepper . They have a certain chemical that binds with the stuff inside gin and makes it better.
I once worked with someone in college who claimed he had a friend who ran both a darknet drug site along with multiple popular darkent drug review sites. He would use the latter to push the former as one of the most reliable trustworthy services, despite literally never shipping anything at all.

I'm honestly not even sure if doing so would be illegal either, since I can't imagine anyone pursuing a fraud case in an industry that's completely illegal to participate in in the first place
CF was chosen because they signed a contract with Mozilla to reduce the amount of data they collect to the bare minimum.
Selinux cannot show a popup asking whether you allow program X to do Y or whether you want to deceive it and provide fake data. So it is completely useless by itself.
>Sometimes if the Fed sets rates too low and there's not enough demand for the bonds the Fed buys the bonds thus keeping the interest rates artificially low.

Yes, it's how the Fed conducts monetary policy. Can you name the last time that US treasuries were under-subscribed? Greek bonds have lower rates to US treasuries; which would you rather own? On a relative basis, how can one claim that US interest rates are "too low"?
Pretty little trees: how to write a Bob Ross Markov chain in Python
That one could have used a more descriptive submission title. (I would prefer an HN policy, FWIW, of favoring submission titles being informative over them being faithful to the original article's title.)
I tried. But the adblocking wasn't as reliable as just using Bromite. In addition to that it was also breaking Google play and Motorola updates.

Blocking outside the browser isn't a big deal for me since I don't use any apps with ads (I just pay for an ad free version when it becomes useful enough)
Agree on the license, that alone is so stupid that it's (weak) evidence they're being dishonest about their motives.
Conflating the top 1% with the ultra-rich is another big problem.

If we assume that most people achieve peak earning years between 45-50 years old, then about 30% of people end up in the top 1% at some point in their lives.
We know that because he did it. He literally proved it by becoming a Billionaire.

Yes, lots of people were alive in the exact same time when he started Amazon.
William Binney

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-election...
I would add, SELinux policies distributed with each app, and iptables outbound rules using the owner module, as a partial mitigating control. One shortcoming of iptables / ipsets is the lack of DNS lookups that obey TTL, but that can be solved with some helper code. There may even be a xt module by now that does this, I have not checked.
Kiva.org

It isn't exactly a charity, but they give interest free loans (their partners charge interest though). I like their model, though some people have doubts about it.
I know, that is why I said that it is an injustice that return on capital isn't taxed the same as income from labor
At least the decades-long civil rights campaigns that MLK Jr., X and others were part of led to actual demonstrations, wide-scale public unrest and finally, major legislative changes.

Compared to that, the Wikileaks, Snowden leaks and Panama Papers revelations have resulted in tumbleweeds.
You’re really fond of the fatuous technicalities, aren’t you? Of course confiscating knives, scissors, screwdrivers, and pliers isn’t technically gun control because these tools aren’t technically guns. Well-observed.
Hey all, I lead developer advocacy for serverless at AWS and was part of this product launch since we started thinking about it(quite some time ago I should say). I'm running around re:Invent this week, but will try and pop in and answer any questions I can.

Provisioned Concurrency (PC) is an interesting feature for us as we've gotten so much feedback over the years about the pain point of the service over head leading to your code execution (the cold start). With PC we basically end up removing most of that service overhead by pre-spinning up execution environments.

This feature is really for folks with interactive, super latency sensitive workloads. This will bring any overhead from our side down to sub 100ms. Realistically not every workload needs this, so don't feel like you need this to have well performing functions. There are still a lot of thing you need to do in your code as well as knobs like memory which impact function perf.

- Chris Munns - https://twitter.com/chrismunns
Aerospace has the same level of politics when it comes to jobs in the USA.
Biomedical Image Segmentation: UNet++
I've been seriously impressed by John Sundell of late.
This is some serious API design chops... I will tip my fedora to this one. LOVE IT
> We kill suspects whose names we know, and whose names we don’t; we kill the guilty and the not guilty; we kill men, but also women and children; we kill by day and by night; we fire missiles at confirmed visual targets, but also at cellphone numbers we hope belong to targets.

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...
Indeed. This joke doesn't really work written down- it's absolutely possible to say "yeah, right" in an entirely positive way. It's the sarcastic tone when spoken that makes it negative.
People Trashed That Peloton Ad So Much That Its Stock Fell Almost 10%
>Not so in most parts of the rest of the civilized world.

We must live in totally different places if you'd prefer monetary policy be established by politicians. I'll take the academics, for better or worse.
> I'm leading with this because 5 percent on top of CC payment processors' 30 cents + 2.whatever% is completely unethical from where I'm standing. You can integrate Fosspay [1] with fewer bells and whistles but totally free except for CC processors' cut (exorbitant as that in itself may be).

In what way does the existence of BuyMeACoffee stop anyone from using your solution? There's a reason someone does choose BuyMeACoffee instead of Fosspay. What you suggest is removing options for the creator, in what way is that good for them?

> You will need a number of things set up before you start:

> 1. An approved Stripe account

> 2. A mail server

> 3. A domain name and an SSL certificate

> 4. A web server to host fosspay on

Are you going to give theses creators the mail server, the domain name and the web server for free? Are you going to offer the maintenance of theses servers for free too? Let say they find a managed server for 10$ per month (which would be amazing), they would need to make more than 200$ a month in donation for it to be equivalent to 5%.

> It isn't worth whatever valuation we're fetching and it doesn't justify making us rich while creators gratefully accept their pittance.

Then they shouldn't take the offer... BuyMeACoffee doesn't own the market, they doesn't seems to have any monopoly tendencies, Fosspay will keep existing while BuyMyACoffee is there.

Why don't you start offering a platform for free to artist? Maybe do it for 2.5% instead, there not that many artist that can make 400$ of donation a month! If you believe that the valuation of 5% is that outrageous, it's because you believe the same can be done for much cheaper, than do it for much cheaper and offer it!
That's in the pipeline, but Airbus (and probably Boeing at this rate) are waiting for the next step up in engine technology before they make that investment so as to get the maximum step-up in fuel efficiency, and that is due in the 2025-2030 timeframe.
> “It is expected behavior that the Location Services icon appears in the status bar when Location Services is enabled. The icon appears for system services that do not have a switch in Settings.”

My question then is WHY? If they allow granular control over some location collection settings, but not others, and the only way to disable background collection is to turn location off entirely, then doesn't this defeat the purpose of offering granular control at all? What possible reason could there be for having it set up this way?

In my ideal scenario, Maps would have location access when open or navigating but nothing else.
What can it do better compared to solutions like https://www.sonarqube.org/?
Yes, you really showed them who's in charge.
What's New for Node.js in 2020
female law school graduates have outnumbered male law school graduates for a couple of years now. The future is here already, they're just in junior positions.
Click the application links, it's BC.
Breaking up Airbus seems diplomatically implausible. The US doesn't really have the authority to, and the EU doesn't have any reason to want to.
Housing is rising in value because of regulatory capture. It's illegal to build competing housing in most major cities.

Money is power, and the powerful make the regulations.

So maybe regulation is really the positive feedback circuit?
That sounds like a great course. Plugs are welcome when they benefit the readers -- they're only bad when they only benefit the authors.
How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?
I love Gibsons - I went through a phase about two years ago of ordering them at every bar I went to. It worked out, since I was doing a tour of cocktails bars in Manhattan.
But that's an oversimplification. The system has its own brakes in the form of corporate bankruptcies and liquidations. The market landscapes are constantly changing and companies get destroyed regularly.

... and this returns that stored capital back into the liquidity system.

There's little evidence of a persistent imbalance.
Ask HN: How should I charge for a side project?
I've had full-time salary jobs for the past 15+ years. Yesterday, one of my colleagues connected me with another gentleman who was looking for some development work and asked if I'd be interested in a side project.

I've agreed to meet with them and learn more about the project, but that's it so far. What I'm not too familiar with is, what's the proper rate for this sort of thing?
"These days, I’m not so sure: I tend to think “natural talent” has much less to do with ability than things like practice and motivation."

Why are people so unrealistic as to pretend that talent is a "myth". I became an International Master in chess because of "practice and motivation", but I was motivated because I was winning most games almost from the beginning. Studying was enjoyable because I remembered what I studied. I show my kids chess openings, and they walk into the same trap the next week. Fine -- their talents are elsewhere. By contrast, I simply did not have the eye-hand coordination ("talent") to be good at baseball, and a lot of practice would only have raised me to mediocrity. Instead of pretending that talent is unimportant, let people, especially children, be exposed to lots of things, so that they can figure out where their talents lie.
$10M ARR SaaS Business Founder
I'm an engineer (CS) and love writing software. My ultimate goal is to build a SaaS company with a turnover of $1-10 Million ARR. Now I don't know anything about accounting and business management. I see a lot of computer scientists in Silicon Valley building much larger companies. My question is for those who have already achieved my goal:

Would you recommend an MBA?

Are there any shorter courses in Silicon Valley than the MBA, which have proven their worth among many founders?

If not, can someone recommend some business books (like accounting, financial management...) that have helped him to set up and manage a company with a turnover of $1-10 Million ARR?

Thank you very much :-)
If I were installing a custom kernel would adding selinux limit risk, or would a compromised kernel simply laugh at it?
so happy to learn about it. i have used airflow in the past and it seems they have addressed various pain points with this new library.
What was the process of debugging these programs? Did you get any sort of error code or card number that gave you clues as to what had gone wrong?
> just got a light touch program review, while SpaceX got put through the ringer.

Is this a reference to the Organizational Safety Assessments NASA announced in response to Elon Musk smoking pot on a livestream online?

I don't think that's a program review - more of a "are spacex employees smoking pot at work review."

If not, could you link to some info on the reviews you are referencing?
> They get the most hate for their best reporting, not their worst.

If the Mail's celebrity gossip and baseless muck slinging constitutes their "best reporting" I'm even more glad that I proactively avoid them.
> Oh it's "SEALED v. SEALED; Case is not available to the public."

House members subpoena the call records of the president’s attorney, adversarial journalists, and other members of Congress. Secret FISA court warrants from known garbage “research”, and being involved in a lawsuits where you can’t even have proper legal representation because it’s all sealed.

What a garbage time for justice today.
This feature requires at least 2 iCloud devices to work per this [0] article. In developing countries people only (mosty) got iPhone as their iCloud ecosystem.

[0]https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...
Delta Air Lines, Spirit, JetBlue, Allegiant... you’re not stuck to just rail.
Ask HN: What did you learn now, that made you feel bad for not doing it earlier?
It can be a decision, a skill, a habit, etc.

Can be because the improvement was very valuable, obvious in insight, a moral imperative, or any other reason.
They weren't a US citizen they where Australian so the judge didn't need probable cause.

Why do so many people think that human rights flow from US citizenship? That's not how the Constitution works. The 4th Amendment to the Constitution doesn't say anything about citizenship:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Bill of Rights is a set of limitations on the government, saying that the government is not allowed to do these things. It doesn't say anything about who they might hypothetically be doing them to, just that they cannot do it.

So regardless of your citizenship, the government can't prevent you from practicing your religion, can't throw you in jail without a trial, and they can't search you without a warrant. This applies to any actions the US government takes, regardless of who they're directed against and where.
> I challenge you to find it.

Trivial - it's in the bottom right corner. It's easy to find if you're looking for it. The text is very small and has a bit less contrast than the one on Google Maps.
0days are precious and expensive. The odds of being targeted by one are incredibly low compared to those of being targeted by an exploit for which there is a patch.
Yes, Piketty and co are the challengers. Therefore the burden of proof is on them to convince people their ideas are true, and presenting their ideas without pointing out how the rest of the field thinks of them would be the analogue of your climate deniers in your comment above.
> The 7090 ran at 458.7 kHz
-- https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1201977408175235072

That's actually really fast for 1962.

By 1980 the workstation market was thinking about 3M: A megabyte of memory (RAM), a megapixel display and a million instructions per second (all for less than a "megapenny").
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_computer

OK, the machines of 1980 we're desktop sized rather than room sized, but, as Foone points out, the 7090 was also really a single-user (at a time) machine.

These days you can get a similar spec (within approximately an order of magnitude) in an Arduino: 8,000 or 16,000 kHz with 32kB (rather than the 7090's 144kB) of RAM.

Moore's law is strong but the applications are varied and sometimes the form factor is what changes the game rather than the raw specs.
Flow raises $37M to simplify international e-commerce
I agree with your first sentence, but I'm having a hard time with the implied reasoning in the second. Could you expand your logic a bit further?
> Malware can be loosely defined as any software which tries to modify the system to inject capabilities not previously present.

Very loosely.
We automate the creation of websites at scale
We are looking for developers with a strong level on LISP. (yeah, I know)

DM : bayesianrhapsody@gmail.com
Tax cuts are the best way to put $$ in the hands of the poor.

Raising taxes on the poor, to "give them" more money as proposed by UBI is a terrible policy no matter what this or any other study says.
That is resumption. So you still have the overhead for the first connection. Assuming that you don't DNS query every few seconds you are gonna suffer.

On a side note, last I checked Quad9 and Cloudflare (need to recheck that) almost immediateley close the connection once you finished your query. Tested with DoT but the same TLS handshake is required for that.
This is going to create a lot of noise (firewall drops) in networks where Linux is expected to be isolated. Many companies do this and many of those companies will start seeing alerts in their security operations centers. I am curious how most of them will respond.
Windows Defender doesn't seem to do very well in AV tests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-xdb9hTqY

Avast! did much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4aKjA2T_c
Lots of people don't apply because they incorrectly believe they are not qualified.
Looking at the bigger picture - I wonder if we are at 'peak' air travel - because:

1. Improved video conferencing quality and availability

2. potential future green initiatives - like adding tax to air fuel or frequent flyer taxes.

Sure people will still want to travel, but might do less.
Because TVs are commodity hardware that makes exactly $0 the second after it's sold. We now live in a business hellscape where "recurring revenue" is everything. Since TVs still last for 5 years or more, they might as well start selling off your viewing data to make the quarterly numbers look better.
There is a weight trade off. Liquids like fuel are dense. If they filled the entire trunk with fuel it would have added another 500+ lbs to the car, possibly requiring additional suspension changes.
What's VR's Revenue Outlook?
Why the outrage? Of course one reason people exercise is to increase their attractiveness to the opposite sex.
This is what leads me to believe the information is shaky at best. The press has no issues reporting “bad and scary” news about China since it sells, and they report on the re-education camps all the time. However, if they are shying away from the “organ harvesting” story, then it’s probably suspect.
the a400m plane has been a brand failure, it's military and on a different league than civilian planes however.
> People starving, having no health care, low life expectancy, that sort of thing, are problems. Their neighbor having more money in the bank is not really a problem.

Most people, when they critique wealth inequality, aren't critiquing their neighbors because most people in the same zip code are going to be at similar levels. When people critique wealth inequality, they're talking about the Koch brothers, or other parties who leverage capital to gain unfair advantage and political powers and then work against the first half of your statement.

> Whether it should be possible to be arbitrarily rich is another question.

I, too, am in favor of a 100% wealth tax upon death. No more freeloading failsons.
I'm curious to learn more about those monopoly strategies and rules against them.

I think there are times for both kind of play. It's annoying when people only play one kind of way. It's like beating you is all that matters to them.
While I disagree with Mozilla's decision to switch users to centralised DoH, I believe they are right in their assesment that the current DNS infrastructure is not very private.

And something like DoH sounds pretty cool.

Without encryption there are a few nefarious things ISPs can do quite easily:

- transparent DNS proxies

- DNS query tracking

These things are pretty bad if you're affected, but I believe this shouldn't be addressed by centralisation of DNS.
In science this is pretty important so we can control versions and reproduce a result again as well.