skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit familiar with the sorts of commerce that the parent mentioned.

Back when broadband was uncommon there were shops where you could just order anything that could be found on the Internet and they would burn a CD-R for you. They would keep the most popular files cached locally, and for the really popular stuff they would have pre-burned CDs in small kits with a xeroxed manual and maybe a colored cover and the like. Support was a big thing too, and community: it was a place where people would hang out a bit and talk to other people, share recommendations, meet people who could fix equipment, etc.

So if you ordered a Linux distro they would prepare it for you just like any software, VCD, disk full of MP3s, etc. I know of people who were introduced to Linux via these shops.

There used to be an earlier version of this sort of shop where you could bring floppy disks and they would copy them for you. As far as I know all of this has just about disappeared. Piracy exists but it is nowhere near as popular as it used to be.

What those shops basically sold was bandwidth: it was a physical version of pirate BBSs and w4r3z websites, from a time when phone and Internet access was harder to have.
Building Solutions vs. Products
Oh, I didn't see it, maybe it was flagged.
> put the software defined networking, software defined storage, kubernetes, docker, KVM, libvirt, Windows AD, FreeIPA, thousands of Python conda environments, annoying users, boss users, NFS shares, NFS servers which can't do v4.1, CIFS, iSCSI LUNs, ancient iDRAC, circuit breaker replacements for air conditioners, data migrations due to lack of quotas, quoats and ACLs over NFS on mixed domains, DNS A records, shot motherboard in high-density nodes, ........... & magically there is time in the day

fixed that for you
Agree. Also, if you click through to the underlying article where the quote comes from you find that Mazda engineers were being very conscious of the total environmental impact when designing their EV. (Let's set aside their claim about the EV vs. diesels for now). Keeping people from spending an enormous number of electrons to accelerate a bit quicker falls within this design philosophy. Even that that isn't the reason quoted in the article, I bet it was a factor.
Did you miss the part where I describe how to make it easier? Did you miss the part where I criticize diet culture from preaching starvation as some sort of virtue.

> If you tell someone they need to eat less to lose weight (which is what almost every diet does) then, yes, it will be hard to maintain.
It's worth noting that the income tax use to be more than 90% on the very rich...
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These aren't the same situation. One is restoring a piece of infrastructure to it's original working condition, the other is making a substantial change in infrastructure that requires due diligence. The latter can certainly be more efficient, but it will never be (and shouldn't be) done in a month.
1. Held wealth past a certain threshold (500k? 1 million?) will be taxed at X% yearly.

2. US budgets get a huge new source of Y revenue, to balance current deficits, pay off debts, or fund progressive programs that help the needy.

How is that not helpful? It wouldn't help most HN users, it would help children, the elderly, sick, disabled, etc. It depends on the legislation, you can funnel the funds or you can keep them general purpose.
Consider how Joe, a poor person, will prove to the IRS that he has no assets to tax. Proving a negative is impossible, unless you're working with a closed system. You can make the financial system closed by requiring all income and all assets to be reported to the IRS.

The only way this works is if we all file asset statements, rich and poor. And that means an end to one of the last remaining forms of financial privacy - for everyone, not just the rich.
Last I checked the lower middle class wages and wealth have been stagnant for years, healthcare not improved either. I see no strong indicator of this flow you mention (not saying it doesn't exist).

There is ample evidence of defense contractor stock values appreciating, including a network of contractors that are hard to fully track, so not always assured they are US based, and same for the investors in those companies.

Ex. Mercenaries from other countries, airplane wiring from India, etc.
Well, Helm did templating.

Tanka does generating, because it seems to be more robust, as the tool understands the output (instead of string substituting a fragile syntax)

See the docs on more details about generating: https://tanka.dev/tutorial/k-lib
Seeing so much spam from it, I'm not surprised. I'm thinking to start doing the same.

I am wondering why spammers decided to use it, I'm suspecting it's very trivial to get a domain there.
Sorry, by “you” I meant the people way up thread.
I feel like it is much too soon to disregard deep fakes as mostly harmless
No, the majority of Americans believe that everyone should live a decent life rather than a few random people living stupid wealthy lives while others suffer in poverty.

I do agree that the sentiment is pretty deeply ingrained in American culture though, for a long time people have voted and advocated against their own interests because one day they might win the lottery and somehow make it through the insane taxes that come with that to qualify for a tax liability on their estate when they end up passing.
Saying it’s just a screen on your face is an oversimplification. While that may be a somewhat accurate physical description, it doesn’t capture the actual experience, anymore than saying a smart phone is just a phone in your pocket.

I’ve had vr sets since the oculus dk2, and admit that I probably haven’t used it in over a year, because it’s a bit cumbersome, locks you into a single experience, removes you from your environment, and the relatively lower quality of applications that are available.

There are some really great immersive applications though such as subnautica, google earth, and elite dangerous.
It's kind of strange that he takes pride in avoiding free company meals calling them lotus eating. If you were really a practical person wouldn't you just eat the free meal and go back to work? Instead he avoids the free meal and would have to do some other option like making and packing lunch in the morning which takes time, going hungry until he gets home and possibly being hangry toward a coworker, or going outside the building to eat which takes longer and costs more. Instead he turns up his nose to free food so he can brag? How is that helping anyone...
I never understand these pieces. To me they read like “I sold my soul to work for xxxxx, made my ‘f__k you’ money, and now I want my soul back.”
Yes, they have heard about cross origin restrictions. Postwoman gets around them by having an (optional) proxy that actually makes the request on the users behalf.

Whether or not you think this is a good idea is another matter, but it works.
The 2% wealth tax idea floated by Warren is an insanely high number. It sounds small because people don't understand finance.

A 4% withdrawal rate is about the most you can expect to indefinitely draw on a balanced portfolio without it disappearing in a relatively small number of years. A 2% wealth tax takes half of this.
This smells like projecting values on others. Just because the author's Ithaca includes building an independent company doesn't mean that others are lotus eaters. If the author's co-workers had explicit goals of contributing to a large company, having a happy, stable family and good work-life balance, etc. then perhaps they already found their Ithaca.
Two big threads from 2016, for the curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13068641

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11236553

A bit from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897856
Alphabet’s Controversial Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, Leaves Company
Better: If a 64GB SSD is $20, use a 20GB OS.
I've got one from an old S-100 system.
Corruption is not dependable. There's always the option to simply just take your money, and not hold up to your end of the bargain. War ensures the outcome you desire.

(Read my comment in the context of the article. War ensures the cycle perpetuates, and our modern version of this article is maintaining the current status quo with the military industrial complex, ala the desired outcome of more wars.)
I know of (and have done) development windows before. Especially with WSL and docker, things like a django application aren't _too_ problematic once you get around some of the quirks.

It's not perfect but it does work for a lot of web app development. You still have VSCode/Intellij, etc. Not to mention all those who develop windows applications.
Thanks for the kind words! would love to use AWS or similar but we're runnign a clinical trial with human data so it's all on-premise stuff :)

I will keep an eye out for opportunities though..
I'm skeptical that most respondents understood the questions correctly.

Most people are familiar with income tax, because they know that money is removed from their paycheck every month. Many also file tax returns.

A wealth tax, where a fraction of your bank balance is removed every month, is a totally alien concept to most people. If you haven't thought about it before, it can take a minute or two to wrap your head around what it would actually mean.

In a survey context, all of these questions can be answered on autopilot by mistaking "wealth tax for rich people" with "higher taxes for rich people," which are definitely not the same thing.

Whether or not you think a wealth tax is a good idea, I don't think we should let politicians sneak this through unless we're confident that the public actually understands what is being proposed. As other comments mentioned, income taxes started out as "wealthy only" and have since trickled down to the working poor.

I don't think most Americans want a tax on their bank balance.

Edit: No, I'm not arguing that people are dumb, just that they tend to rush through surveys. When rushing, I think this would be an easy mistake to make.
"Customers hate it, but" <-- remember that for the company post mortem.
It can be a useful way to extract some value from your car without selling it. Say you are between jobs and have a car you bought new. You would like to keep the car, as you know its history, so you drive Uber to "sell" a part of the car until you get a new job.
Exactly! A huge portion of the middle class's wealth is tied up in property equity that is taxed every year. The ultra wealthy's wealth is primarily in business ownership or equity which is only taxed on gains when it's sold.
And that one was quickly hidden on page 4 or 5 despite older articles with far fewer votes being placed before it. Why?

It was the #1 story on page one, mentioned it to a colleague a few minutes later and he couldn’t even find it.
All articles need to be read in their historical context.

In 1933, the "next war" to come was WWII, roughly 1939 through 1945. Was WWII a "racket" ?
The Miata is one of the most fun cars to drive, and it's intentionally underpowered. Only about 150hp.
Microsoft never had a good rep to begin with. They were always seen as an evil corp. I remember when most of the mentions of Microsoft on the forums used to be spelled as "Micro$hit", "Micro$haft", or something similar. Google didn't have this image problem until later in the game.
This guy has actually been a senior member of the organization that he's complaining has done bad things. He didn't prevent those things nor does he have a compelling narrative of working within the organization to change its path.

Mostly he just collected his cash, and is now writing a transparently self serving piece as he begins his run for elected office.

No thanks.
It’s a hard realization for many that software will become like any other industry and that software jobs are just as at risk as others to automation and late stage capitalism.

You always think of yourself as the exception, until it comes for you.
The thing about alcohol is that it is so easily available and useful for many reasons unrelated to getting drunk that many culture has some relationship to it.

There is also no easy way to prevent access to it. Anything with sugar can become alcohol, including staple foods.

For other drugs, you need to have access to some specific plants, or grow them specifically for that reason. Chemicals are even harder to get by, you need both precursors and technical skills.

If alcohol was some exotic substance, it would definitely be banned.
The person you're replying to has successfully lost a lot of weight and apparently kept it off. Whatever they do works for them.
> Ha, oh... oh my, that's rich.

Please don't post this kind of low quality snark here. This isn't reddit.
They have confirmed the free version is sticking around the same as today. They are just telling people who are considering upgrading to the paid version that if you do it right away you can lock in the old rates for 1 year.
It's not robust, B Corp is mildly a defense against activist minority shareholders, and largely PR sham.
Making the rich poorer, but not actually doing anything to make the poor richer seems like a shitty way to fix inequality.
2000 years ago, they didn't have spaces or punctuation in writing. We could try dropping them again, and people would adjust after a few hours, but that doesn't mean that the spaces and punctuation don't provide value.
Almost every country that has enacted a wealth tax has repealed it. And the version that Elizabeth Warren is proposing is fairly extreme - her 3% wealth tax rate would be double the 1.5% rate that France ended up repealing (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-14/france...). Personally I can’t get behind this idea because it just feels like it is taking away something you’ve already earned and own outright for whatever purpose you want. It waters down the concept of private ownership, which is a gateway for other erosions of individual rights.

I also just can’t see the government putting a large general fund to good use. This image shows what various billionaires would have been left with if a wealth tax were in place since 1982 (https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5d7a63377d7e360008bd5fbe/...). Bill Gates would have only $36b left - and he’s donated around that much to his foundation. Clearly if he felt the government was good at allocating and efficiently spending large funds, he would have given the government a bigger payment (https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html) rather than starting his own foundation. This is why I don’t buy his recently claimed support for a wealth tax.
The tyranny of the majority is a weakness inherent to majority rule in which the majority of an electorate pursues exclusively its own interests at the expense of those in the minority. This results in oppression of minority groups comparable to that of a tyrant or despot.
The publishers want to have some financial income from your papers. So if you want a paper to be openly accessible, so preventing them from a future income from that paper, as an author you will have to pay their potential incomes, and this can cost up to 3000$ per publication.

That is a substantial sum even for professors from wealthy countries.
I have exactly the same feelings you do here, but I struggle with one thing in particular. What is the real alternative to American hegemony? I believe it's likely Chinese hegemony. China, on the one hand, is an ethno-state which is rounding up the Muslim (Uyghurs) men, tossing them in concentration camps, and assigning rapists to live with their families to re-educate them into being good Communists. On the other hand, the Chinese are also committing mass murder to fulfill orders for human organs. That's just what they're willing to do to their own people. I wonder if it's possible to thread the needle such that we temper the US while not letting China take over. I think that will be difficult, and China is likely to win in the long run anyways. What are your thoughts on the real alternatives to American hegemony?
My feeling is rich are "stealing" from others, and feel that we are in an oligopoly... :)
My job did Weight watchers and I lost 25 lbs and am now not overweight. I am now a WW lifetime member. There really isn't a gimmick to what they do. They provide accountability, emotional support, and decent diet advice by emphasizing healthier choices. Most of the people in our program still failed though. I still go weigh in once a month for free as a lifetime member not to give up my commitment to healthy weight. I feel great, and everyone should give losing weight a try at least.

I think most people fail because they expect immediate results and can't stay consistent because they go too hard for immediate results. On WW when presented with an unhealthy meal option I would consider if it was really worth it giving how well I was doing, and I wanted to crush it on the scale every week. I think for me that was the most important driving force to not making bad decisions like eating a pile of cookies. People think they have to sit there depriving themselves with a pile of lettuce but that is exactly what WW discourages. You can eat whatever but it has a cost. For me I was happy eating lean good food like a small sirloin steak with some broccoli.
There are no convenience stores or grocery stores. It’s also open to the elements, IIRC?
Or more accurately 'I quit working in a job for someone else, and switched to working in a job for myself writing a web app that has paying customers.'

When I see 'I quit my job' I tend to think that the person no longer works for a living, which is not what this article is about.
I enjoy testing HTTP endpoints by bit-banging an ethernet cable so that I don't have to buy a computer.

In all seriousness - Regardless of the solution Postman/Postwomen/Insomnia/Paw/etc - People use these tools so they can easily manipulate any part of their query, without needing to lookup curl flags and nuances.

Serious question: How do you construct complex curl requests? Do you do it all on the command line? Or you do it in a text editor? If you want to change the field of a form for your post request, how quickly can you change it? Curl is a great tool, but for sandbox-like usage it's just too clunky of a UX IMO.
You're describing, in essence, a predatory payday loan.
> similar in concept to property taxes

All other merits aside, is it really similar to a property tax? I pay property taxes every quarter and I have just as much property as I started with. The value of the property also doesn't go down every tax cycle as a result. With a wealth tax, the person's wealth would decrease to a minimum at some point.
I agree but then the only solutions are to either have a massive shift over to government services to help people, or let people die in the street if they don't have the resources and get sick. The two major political parties in the United States seem like they would rather destroy the system than accept one of those two positions, Republicans against growth in government and Democrats against letting people go without help
Yeah, I hear this and other fad internet diet stuff all the time. You think in 10 years I never tried this stuff? It did not make a significant difference.
The same logic would also dictate that every ICE vehicle produced today is artificially slower because of its electronic traction controls and detuned engine computers; when actually having that unrestrained power would lead to pretty dangerous scenarios requiring a high level of driving skill that the 90% of us do not have. Turn off all stability controls on a vehicle nearing 300 HP and go wide-open-throttle, and you'll find yourself sideways in no time.

This type of power curve would also lead to increased wear on a some pretty expensive drivetrain components, so either the manufacturer has to greatly increase vehicle cost to cover for more resilient parts, or sell something that will tank the public's perception of the reliability of their brand.

Aftermarket pure software tunes can unlock some ridiculous amounts of horsepower and torque on modern cars, but expect your axles, brakes, suspension, or transmission components to need replacement much more frequently.
You are not a billionaire and will never be one. Calm down.
I'm referring to the comment above that prices are going to go up. I don't know whether this particular change will actually lead to price increases.
I thought Netflix was about super annoying auto-play video ads, and funneling users into cheaper IP regardless of their expressed desires.
There is an easy solution: make roads pay-per-use with price based on the utilization. This will quickly reshape cities and change public transit since the price will be transparent to everyone. More businesses would move out creating better, more evenly developed territories.
I immediately wondered the same, and I think not. The upper wings are not at a 90 degree angle to the body, so alive and well. Apart from being a black and white drawing of course.
giving more money to the wealthy, which is the normal way that the world works
Agreed. I pinged Oculus on Twitter a few months ago saying that if they wanted to win Christmas they should make a "his and hers" headset pack.
Tax rules and deductions have changed over the years. Almost nobody paid the top rate and effective tax burdens for the rich have been more or less flat for decades:

https://i.imgur.com/uWl8vsp.png
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Exactly. “Tax the rich” is all fun and games until enough voters decide the threshold for “rich” starts at approximately $120k per year and owning a house.

Honestly I would not be surprised if by the time I’m ready to retire that all or part of my 401k is seized to help “solve” the (surprisingly still-present!) problem of wealth inequality.
The managers paying themselves salary have an incentive. This is how most "charities" work. But that is naturally a lower ceiling than a for-profit corp.
I read a thread on /r/FatFIRE about a possible wealth tax. To my surprise, many supported it because they concluded it was impossible to accrue $50 million (specifically the Warren plan) just by saving aggressively and index-fund investing. Due to the exponential nature of wealth distribution I'd imagine there are far, far more millionaires with $5 million than there are with $50 million.
I spend about 10 hours a week in VR, and my experience is that I mostly play quick games in it: a round of Beat Saber, a level of Pistol Whip, a couple of tracks in Synth Rider, a level of Super Hot. 5-10 minutes in most cases. I do have days where I'll do a more intense workout in Beat Saber or Thrill of the Fight and that can be 45 minutes, but that's not the most common case for me.
microdosing LSD has apparently been shown to extremely effective in curbing alcoholism
If left-handed people were way more dexterous or something and they had a huge material advantage in life over right-handed people, that might make sense.

There is no desire to take something away from a minority that the rest of us have. Just a desire to make them have a slightly lower exponential difference of money and power.
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And Adobe let it rot.
If you're a member of the group (or can join it now) it's only a few clicks to make a request for the data. Doesn't get absolutely everything but all the emails/posts should be included.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/4/20917500/yahoo-group-data...
> The house I'm in now has foundation issues (it's a lease), so in spots it won't get under the cabinets, but a couple of feet down it gets wedged in as the height varies by a few millimeters.

You might want to take a look at these. I've found them very useful for situations like that:

https://wobblewedges.com/
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