skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For regular people in China, does the addition of Google with some censorship make their life better? ... I think the answer is obvious.

I think the answer is obvious, but in the opposite sense you imply. Google acts as a window into the universe. Not the only one, of course. But if you have a window into the universe that lies to you about the universe (and of course, assuring you that I will tell you everything that is important, and then omitting certain important things, is lying), it is best for you to be without it, and rely on whatever windows you have left.
I know a functional alcoholic that drins a very large amount of alcohol but doesn't get drunk from it. He wants to stop but refuses to go through long PAWs. How long was it until you felt your normal self ?
It helps I suppose because we are complex beings that function based on juxtapositions. Anytime a new convenience is added, it eventually stops being a convenience and starts to become a necessity. Free lunches now are just another thing to miss when/if he does launch his own company.
The point of insisting what "open source" means is that we want to ensure the freedoms that open source guarantees. If we don't insist on this definition people will start pushing licenses that forbid commercial use and other things, as this license forbids, and we'll embrace it because we think "ah, open source!"

And yes, when you coin a term, you also get to say what that term means. That's the whole point of coining it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012429
Just tax capital gains as income if you want to hit the rich.

Wealth taxes are both harder to implement and enforce than income taxes (e.g. how do you appraise an illiquid asset) while conferring no meaningful advantages.
>>I don't think most Americans want a tax on their bank balance.

This doesn't apply to _most_ Americans, this applies only to the very rich.
The selling point of the Miata is the handling. If they can re-create the agility (cornering) of the internal combustion Miata, the weight is secondary.
You put it really well. All the concerns about the accuracy mentioned in other comments are valid but what is interesting to me is now having the ability to continuously monitor my BP (I have hypertension) and study affect of Work stress, exercise, diet and medicine.

I will be really curious to see the accuracy difference b/w these watch based measurements and the traditional one at my Doc. As long as they have a consistent error it is actually ok even if the readings are off a bit. Having a trend of measurements is more useful.
It's also crazy to me to see people rail on the point of "marijuana is not completely safe!" when we sell this literal poison everywhere. And it's so much more destructive than whatever people think is so scary about marijuana.
Letting people keep the money that they earned.
Must be nice.
You can get most to work by whitelisting one domain while keeping the cesspool of trackers off your computer. If it still doesn't work there are better things in life to spend time on than somebody's poorly constructed website.
How about they just provide the option to switch between "sport" and "normal" modes...
Forgive my ignorance in this area -- these dental appliances, do they permanently reshape the jaw over time?
Every time the government is involved they fuck it up. They are incompetent and make a career out of being maliciously incompetent. They will spend the money on stupid programs and unnecessary foreign wars. We already cannot trust the government with our tax revenue. These sickos are salivating over additional income to do extremely immoral things with.
Except it doesn't. Every war the US has engaged in since WWII has had rather poor outcomes and cost a fortune. I would have risked failed corruption instead.

Anyway you don't have to dump a trillion in Iraq in one go. You would have bribed people with individual amounts over longer time and measured progress and outcomes.
Why would the ultra wealthy not just store their assets in another country? Businesses and individuals routinely move to different states to avoid higher taxes.
> It seems like the pendulum swung too far in the opposite direction from how we treated mental illness in the previous century (aggressively locking people up in institutions).

I'd argue it's more of the same: finding a way to pretend they don't exist.
the majority of billionaires are billionaires due to stock holdings, usually in their own company.

stock ownership of the largest shareholders in public companies are public and reported several times a year.

absolutely no one should think that their stock trading activity is private - it's constantly being reported to the IRS, SEC, FINRA, whatever.
Have you seen this statement straight from the owner of sci-hub:
https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2017/07/02/some-facts-on-s...
It currently is having success in enterprise, albeit probably in environments where everyone signed a waiver or Google said they weren't beaming data from the glasses anywhere the company didn't want it to go.
Reminds me of this xkcd comic:

https://xkcd.com/610/
So then the greater holy war is to make control easier and more friendly so that more people desire it.
> Does it matter?

Yes

> Wouldn't the containerization protect you from the vulnerability?

Running javascript even in a browser is plenty enough to extract information via Spectre and Meltdown. Javascript which can escape the browser sandbox can escape a container too.
0-60 in 9 seconds is not only terrible, it is dangerous. Despite what state rules are regarding merging onto freeways/highways/tollways/etc., a car really should be doing the speed of the other cars on the road at the merge point, otherwise all kinds of bad things can and do happen. I drive a lot, and the pokey cars merging are terrible for everyone involved at the point of merging.
> I pay property taxes every quarter and I have just as much property as I started with.

But you don't have as many assets as you started with.

Your total assets are relatively liquid, divisible assets, like cash, combined with relatively illiquid, indivisible assets, like your house.

So instead of chopping off 1% of your house every year and giving it to the government, you give them the value of 1% of your house in cash.
What does it mean to do salting by default?
From TFA: "Some of the greatest increases were found among women ..."
> What would a modern BeOS look like?

There's a bit of BeOS in Android. Binder IPC is much like BMessage. And nowadays everyone puts stuff like graphics and media in a separate user space daemons, which was unusual for the time. Pervasive multithreading basically happened in the form of pervasive multiprocessing.
> BLAKE3 appears to have 128 bits of security against all attacks.

That's not accurate. The best pseudo-preimage attack on BLAKE2s has complexity 2^{253.8} against 6.75 rounds (section 3.2 of https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1492.pdf ). The best full-preimage attack on BLAKE2s is against 2.75 rounds. BLAKE3's round function is identical to BLAKE2s (although used in a different mode). Currently there isn't any known classical preimage attack on BLAKE3 better than these ones against reduced BLAKE2s. This should be interpreted with caution since the design has only just been published.

[Disclosure of interest: I know Zooko and work for Electric Coin Company. This is only based on a cursory review of the paper, though; I had not seen it prior to publication.]

-- Daira Hopwood
Erm, no. Fault doesn't come into it.
Sure. But it's hardly suprising nor is it a useful comparison to say airpods make more revenue than Twitter.
You don’t have to prove to the IRS you have no assets, just like
how it’s not on you to prove to the IRS that you have no income. You just declare what you have and if you’re found to be lying later you go to jail.
It’s also why I strongly discourage 1 on 1 interviews. If I’m in a room with a coworker I know how they treated the candidate and they know how I did. There’s feedback to be given, adjustments to be made. Without that you can’t tell if one interviewer has low success rates due to beig really picky or being a dick.

The second guy I talked to at Google was such an asshole that I doubted my read on the other three people. It shakes you, and me in particular. I have a problem with saying no to all offers on the table, which shows up as self-sabotage in interviews. I don’t want to work with you, so I’m not going to try to convince you to want to work with me. It would be better for me to stick with it and get comfortable just saying no to all bad offers even if that’s all the offers I have. Least objectionable has won out a time or two and I’ve always paid for it in the end.
They focus on misinformation, but I would argue that a deluge of "noise" is also pollution: the vast amounts of irrelevant, distracting content, and the popular platforms that do little to help us reduce that noise.
SEO is only half the issue. Even a great SEO won't be able to get your site to rank if it only has 10 pages and new content is rarely added (think of a small company's marketing website).

Search engines think volume of content and frequency of updates are positive signals, so in the past decade we have seen a deluge of "content marketing", with corporate blogs and media sites chock-full of absolute garbage clickbait and listicles, written by freelance copywriters for pennies per word. All to obtain a higher domain ranking, or domain authority.

While users are looking for the needle in the haystack, websites are just making the haystack bigger to capture users who were looking in a different haystack.
So WWII as being necessary to stop Hitler, I can see withstanding the test of time.

The things that caused WWII, Hitler's rise to power, and the systems that enabled and, frankly, bent him and the Nazis towards the evils they committed, I think we were culpable for, for how Germany was positioned on the world stage post WWI. Germany was ripe for a demagogue, and people needed the sense of security mindlessly following one provides.
What are the main benefits? Have you tried using it for WPF? Unfortunately I let my test license expire before I could test much, but remember that it felt a lot less awful than Visual Studio.
"Slower" in this case is 0-60 in 9 seconds which is under-powered mini-van sluggish. That is not "nice to drive". I get that we don't need 0-60 in 4 seconds like Tesla wants to push, but limiting it to 9 second seems daft.
Here's a good example: Warren Buffet has a lower tax rate than his secretary (at least it was true 7 years ago).

https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secret...
A battery is a range-weight tradeoff, so it is possible to get a light EV car; it'll just have shit range is all. While not ideal for the Miata as it still has to vaguely work like a commuter car, it's still a viable idea for a RX-derivative that leans more heavily into enthusiast territory like the Lotus Elise
what's amazing about alcohol is that it's been around a long time and people have been self medicating with it for just as long.

http://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-how-much-did-our-an...
Bil Gates doesn't need any new taxes to help him transfer his money to the US government, he can do it right now with "Gifts to the United States."

https://fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.html
An Open Letter to Google
I just completed that on switch the other day, took me about 100 deaths. In fairness it's not the first time I played the game, but it's been nearly a decade since the last time.
Heck the guy that made AA was influenced by lsd
Sometimes I find it hard to justify all the time I spend on HN. But discovering FastAPI is probably going to compensate for plenty of this time.

This is a really awesome library, thanks!
Yeah I agree, like isn't that the way it should be? An independent adult doing what they want and what's legal shouldn't have to go to court over it.
At the 2019/2020 year's NHK New Year's event we saw a first truly deepfake artist: Hibari Misora, who died 30 years ago, sang a new song, the singer was 'regular' CGI hologram, the song was a new deepfake-generated song using her old records as training data. I haven't seen that before!

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2020/01/10/films/nhk-ra...
I found bcrypt was easier to set up than argon2. Apparently argon2 can be misconfigured if you are not familiar enough with it
or the competitions are not that hard?
That's like gold to me. Really useful tips right there. At the end things went crazy haha. I'm satisfied with 1MB size hahah.
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Alcohol kind of creeps up on you over time.

I was in Greek Life in college. I don't regret a second of it, but the drinking culture was omnipresent (we did have dry brothers but if you drank you drank).

After college I moved back home. I had a few concerning episodes that one could "pass" as a mildly embarassing thing (vomiting after a comedy show once I was home, passing out during a family party). The first time my drinking came to a head was when my then-SO called me at a work retreat and I realized I had consumed about 30 drinks in the past 4 days- I was violently hungover and unable to consume food.

Several months later, we broke up, a relative died, and I came into enough money to pay off a significant enough chunk of my loans so that I could move out. During this time my therapist suggested I curb my drinking but I didn't really take him all that seriously. Dumb things kept happening- the most prominent event during this period was that I vomited while drunk gaming online with friends. Sometime after this I took my therapist's advice to quit drinking for a week. My mind cleared up a lot but I resumed after.

Things came to a head when I woke up one day after a day-long bout of drinking (I went to a tailgate and ended up going out to bars later that night). I felt like my liver was going to explode. The worst part was that I had errands to do that day and the entire time I felt like I was going to die.

I decided to indefinitely quit drinking. This was over this past November and December, and I had a few holiday parties to go to- I mostly teetotaled at them, but one conversation stuck out to me. A college friend who was older than me told me she had to re-calibrate her drinking life post-grad to function normally. I kind of realized that I hadn't done that.

I've started drinking again but I've kept it much more muted. I don't go to my local bar after work anymore. I don't really club. I never really drank alone much (the online gaming this was an outlier), so stopping that wasn't hard.

I do think there's a way to curb bad drinking habits, and I think I'm making headway in doing that, but the key is to recognize that your habits are problematic. Right now my mantra is

1) Have a predefined limit
2) Nurse the drink (I drink everything fast, so this is hardest)
3) Don't let people pressure you. Don't feel the need to drink at someone else's pace. Don't feel the need to take shots because someone bought them from the group.

I know this isn't perfect, and I'm not truly abstaining for good, but I'm in a way better place than I was before.

Don't make excuses for yourself. If you feel like alcohol is impacting you, do something about it.
Why not both? I believe Bernie's plan, for example, is to do both.
you two are both rad and this is the best interaction I've seen on the orange site in a while
In this case they may not have known as it happened during the same night. It did not happen in the vicinity of the Iranian strikes in Iraq, either: Tehran is about 900km from Baghdad.

What I'm saying is that if the Iranian authorities were on such high alert for an air strike on Tehran it might have been wise to close the airspace to civilian flights instead of letting them continue to fly right in the path of ground-to-air missile batteries...
Get their permission, preferably in writing. If they love your product, you might also ask for a testimonial.

The last company for which I worked usually added a clause stipulating that they could not be identified as a customer without explicit permission.
For the latter, the option would be to allow the person to sell at that amount. Thus if the government over estimated the worth you are capable of selling. This works far better with large businesses than homes due to the impact of emotional value.
Is this historically different from previous instances? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia

Just skimming wikipedia and there are a bunch of bushfires that were bigger than this instance, and bushfires seem pretty common there
Australia's Wildfires Spark Disinformation Battle as They Take a Tragic Toll
This coding legend knows the secret to fixing Big Tech’s most pervasive problem
> The net population growth in the US is still positive.

By something like half a percent. Simultaneously birth rates are decreasing to near historic lows, immigration is being constricted, millennial life expectancy is on the decline, and suicides have spiked across all age groups.

Yes, I’ll concede that we’re not at the level of Russia or Japan yet, but something has definitely gone off the rails and not trending in a great direction.
Its great to hear people inside also seen where Google is going.
Perhaps it’s time for a federal privacy law if even local governments want in on the analytics action.
I read a lot of comics, but I also read a lot of regular books. For now, I read using a 10" Chuwi tablet because it gives me a decent, color screen, at a decent size and weight, at a reasonable price.

I would LOVE to have an eink reader that could fulfill this role. I have been watching and waiting for years.
The freedoms are guaranteed by the language of the license itself. That's what licenses are for.
I think this is likely even if the survey authors we're careful with the wording, which I believe they were.

Several responses are blasting me for thinking that people are stupid. I wasn't trying to claim that everyone made this mistake, only that it looks like it would have been an easy mistake to make, given most people's experiences.

Also many people pay rent, and are unfamiliar with property taxes.
"The Simple Path to Wealth" by JL Collins. Gave me a clear path to what to do with my money and investments.
More importantly, capitalism itself tends to concentrate wealth at the top. People can use money to make more money without having to personally produce goods or offer services. This leads to a positive feedback loop where the available wealth concentrates in the hands of people who have lots of wealth. Left unchecked it leads to feudalism and eventually collapses on itself. This is one of the major jobs of a government in a capitalist system: to keep injecting wealth at the bottom of the pyramid to prevent the collapse.

It's arguable that the government has been shirking its duty in this regard since the 80s, and our increasing wealth gap is a symptom of a systematic failure. The longer we let this continue the more painful the solution will have to be in the end. And it's already pretty bad--we have multiple billionaires in the US. A billionaire has the same problem that plagued Communist countries, a person with that much personal wealth can't spend it quickly enough without basically becoming their own company, so the money becomes trapped and slows the economy bit by bit. We are in the situation now where people can start their own personal orbital rocket companies and still not spend their money fast enough to keep it in the economy.
It's a problem that's solved by buying a dedicated recipe cookbook. I don't mean to be blunt but at this point, we all know the game these recipe blogs are playing. There is simply no way to monetize users of such basic text content without plastering those pages with autoplaying videos, email signup modals and a million HTTP requests to ad and analytics servers.
It's not a mystery at all. But that does not address the wealth inequality. It just provides bare necessities to the poor (which is a great thing, it's just not what I was talking about).
Why Do People Believe in Hell?
I really don't think that it becomes stealing until the wealthy are pulled down below the poor - and that isn't anywhere near being on the table, most of the wealth tax options would just shrink the band between the super rich and the rich. It's not clear if this survey laid out a starting point but Warren's proposal is to only tax excess wealth above 50mil and such a tax would almost certainly be graduated (so a 51M person would pay tax on 1M and a 52M would pay tax on 2M (probably double?)) either way the worst that happens is that unearning trustfunders are slowly reduced to 50M in assets over time which is more than enough money for anyone... and I'd hope that as inflation/cost of living rose that level would be adjusted - being a millionaire today is hardly rare with most people who own a house in a metro area easily falling in that range.
But the opposite is true, too: They can't, because their vehicle is not capable of it. You don't need to be doing 60 MPH in 3 seconds, but being able to it in 5-6 is much better (for everyone) when merging onto highways.
I have an 8" floppy disk framed on the wall of my office.

When I retire and I have more time, I'm going to fill my house with Cromemco-era gear and do all the things I always wanted to do back then.

But first, I have to convince my wife that S-100 bus machines are mid-century modern, so she'll allow them in the door.
This isn't a popular sentiment, and is getting downvoted, but none of these statements appears to be false.

The state of things does seem rather demoralizing, and it does weigh on me. (I think women suffer equally and will eventually catch up on this problem.)

Some of this has affected me very personally. Subjectively, it feels like I drink a lot to ameliorate these affects. I'm aware that statistically it will shorten my life, but living a shorter, less painful life is a hard alternative to give up.

I have no answers, and I don't think there are any.

[Study link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/acer.14239 Beware the awful log-scaling of plots.]
9 seconds is plenty. The issue is that most drivers in those cars don't floor it to get onto onramps. So, 0-60 goes from 9 seconds to 20-30 seconds because they just refuse to push the pedal down further.
Modern day engines are capable of snappy acceleration too.
Would love if the homepage showed actual screenshots of this product. It sounds interesting, but i'd like a sample of what is to come before signing up.
a couple of weeks, for alcoholics w/significant PAWs they should work with a doctor or inpatient in addition to AA or similar early 2 week program, of which there are many i can reccomend depending on location

other interesting timing stuff for me

30 days until believing i could actually do it "one day at a time"

90 days until the cravings subsided reguarly

1 year until cravings for the most part behind

2 years until no more alcohol dreams !
The United States should not have embargoed Japan. The United stars should not have been involved in any of the world wars. Sweden has been neutral in all conflicts since 1814 and that has worked out quite well for them.
There is an important distinction between Chinese culture and the policies of its unelected government. Since they are unelected, the policies of the CCP don't always represent the will of the people or Chinese culture.

When a government is unelected, it needs to show its legitimacy through strength. This means censoring anything that would make it look weak. Censorship is simply a political tool by the CCP, not a cultural practice that deserves respect.

In fact, you could argue that political censorship is the actual enemy of Chinese culture. Historically, China has had a rich history of political theory and thought, but now any views that go against the party line are repressed.
I can't agree more. I don't understand why other software developers think (or don't care) that it's okay to have tedious installation instructions and or controls. I'm a developer and I want to get my new tool and start playing with it, not spend hours with configuration and setup.