skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am well aware of the historical tax rates in the United States and welcome any opportunity to point out that those very high marginal rates were put in place specifically to discourage and penalize war profiteering in WW2:

"The crisis of World War II led Congress to pass four excess profits statutes between 1940 and 1943. The 1940 rates ranged from 25 to 50 percent and the 1941 ones from 35 to 60 percent. In 1942 a flat rate of 90 percent was adopted, with a postwar refund of 10 percent; in 1943 the rate was increased to 95 percent, with a 10 percent refund."[1]

It's important to understand this historical - and exceptional - aspect to those marginal tax rates and not misconstrue them as a fantastically progressive tax policy.

Setting aside those exceptional, war-related circumstances, I am skeptical that income taxation above 50% is workable. One may indeed enact such a rate but even in the absence of (criminal) tax evasion, legitimate tax avoidance activities will keep us below that threshold - a threshold that I think many people associate with basic concepts of fairness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_profits_tax
If the Japanese language needs to change, it won't be because some Western developer found it too hard to develop some obscure unused highlighting feature for it. The HN crowd's fetishistic need to change everything for the sake developer convenience really reflects poorly on programmers as a profession.
>"Auroville was born on 28 February 1968. Its founder, the Mother, created the Auroville Charter consisting of four main ideas which underpinned her vision for Auroville. When Auroville came into being, All India Radio (AIR) broadcast the Charter, live, in 16 languages. Aurovilians apply the ideas of the Auroville Charter in their daily life, in policy-development, and decisions, big and small. The Charter thus forms an omnipresent referent that silently guides the people who choose to live and work for Auroville.

The Auroville Charter
Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But, to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.
Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity."

Well that sounds completely normal /s

I've seen Midsommar, no thanks
When Trump asked business leaders for feedback on re-opening the economy, this was one of the primary issues discussed.

"Major U.S. business lobbying groups are asking Congress to pass measures that would protect companies large and small from coronavirus-related lawsuits when states start to lift pandemic restrictions and businesses begin to reopen."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-li...
When I was there, I learnt that Auroville share a lot with Sri Aurobindo and the Holy Mother, but the ashram/compounds in Pondicherry doesn't have as much to do with Auroville itself these days as it did back in the 60s-70s.
How this affects hiring is another big factor. If you WFH 100% of the time but need to find a new job you are limited to other 100% WFH
I have been to Auroville twice in 2010 and 2017 and cannot recommend it enough to anyone at least slightly interested in spiritual development.
They do that too, it's just a hassle.

It's easier to do it when you can also vote at the same time at home.
Show HN: Gez.la – Open-Source Virtual Tour Database
Unless that redirect is something your users are likely to experience, in which case you shouldn't cheat and provide a URL that delivers a different loading delay than visitors will encounter.
BTH News 08May2020 – Between the Hacks
There are grade-flexible schools systems with mixed classrooms.

I wonder if Finland evaluated that.

I saw one school system where the students vote on everything. It wasn't Montessori but something else I can't remember the name of.
Physical based attacks were the majority of the risk, and that was, practically, pretty minimal. If you want to watch from inside a VM, great, but mass attacks against watchers? I'm not seeing it. (Been going since DEFCON 9)
I seem to be more efficient when I stay off HN :-)
+1 for notes. I make really detailed notes in issue threads when I'm working on things. I recently started keeping a TILs GitHub repo and it's already proved useful. https://github.com/simonw/til
Everybody has heard of this happening to their friend's cousin's ex's colleague. In practice you can't trade futures without a broker, and your broker won't let you take futures to delivery unless you convince them you have the facilities to deliver or take delivery. And if you do take delivery of copper futures on the main exchanges (CME or LME), you get "warehouse receipts" which entitle you to turn up at some industrial estate and collect your copper, and which can be resold.
Missing the "Ask HN"

https://phys.org/
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/
https://www.ambito.com/
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
https://www.youtube.com/
https://rarbg.to/
https://marginalrevolution.com/ (Tyler Cowen)
I think that 0xF is 50% longer than 15 while, of course, 15 is 33% shorter than 0xF.
Online Static application security testing
>i think it's really going to take a wholesale reconfiguration of cities around much more density and mixed-use where shared industrial kitchens and warehouses can make the synergies work out, but of course that's decades in the making.

It's actually closer than it seems if this bet plays out: https://www.cloudkitchens.com/
If wearing masks is so ineffective then how is it possible to explain the fact that health care workers who are wearing PPE are less likely to get the infection compared to the normal people without PPE?
Cannabis shows promise blocking coronavirus infection: Alberta researcher
Actual carbon, or climate change carbon AKA co2?

Because if they mean actual carbon, I don't understand why they think it would not survive high heat - carbon is quite refractory.
Voter fraud is pretty rare. Voter disenfranchisement is not. Accepting a small increase in fraud (which isn't proven, by the way) would be worth allowing more of the population to vote.
Now that we're past the "gee-whiz" part of touchscreens, it's becoming more apparently that they're an awful solution for almost every application. Physical controls are simply better.

A couple of small examples: I frequently accidentally turn off my monitor, as it has a "touch" (or even "touchless") sensor that acts if I brush my hand by it. I'm not even sure exactly where it is, as it's not really marked.

ATMs now often have touch screens, but the angles often make it difficult to figure out exactly where to touch the screen to activate the "button".

The thought of something like this appearing in safety-critical applications is frightening.
Check out our interview on Machine Learning Street Talk with Jonathan Frankle explaining Rewinding and why you can only reset the Learning Rate rather than the weights!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfjJoevBbjU&t=1177s
Mı~Le~Nıε~L: An English Phonetic Alphabet
yawn

Yes, CA has a database of signatures. In order to register to vote, you need to have a signature. For most people the signature is already on file with the DMV. If you were a resident of CA you can verify this easily, just look at your picture ID... it has your signature on it.

I don't know how other states do it, this post is about California.
But what should legitimate participation look like for a group who feels that the political process itself has failed them?
It's not a secret, but it's not obvious and there are a lot of things on the ballot every time.

It's a lot easier when you have the ballot in front of you as a reference.
About half on my immediate team, though some lucky enough to have private space if needed.
Memory bandwidth is a big limitation with the older i5/i7s, at least when trying to pair them with anything beyond say a gtx 970.
> There absolutely is an analogy: in both cases, the risk you do as an individual in a vacuum is nearly 0.

This is absolutely untrue.

> In order to achieve herd immunity, scientists say that a community would need to have at least 60% of its population infected. That’s the lowest estimate I’ve been told. Other scientists have told me 80% to 90%. The reason this percentage isn’t precisely known is because it depends on things like exactly how contagious the virus is and also whether people who have been infected are immune forever, or if they lose immunity after a while, which researchers also are furiously working to figure out. [0]

With an infection fatality rate of 0.5% (which is on the conservative side), resuming normal activity means between 1.5 and 4.5% of the population will likely die. This is not an insignificant risk at all. In contrast, 35,000 dead from traffic accidents is .01% of the US population. This is precisely why your so called "analogy" is invalid. Why do you not realize this?

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[0]: https://www.propublica.org/article/what-antibody-studies-can...
Ok, let's take the title from the video instead. Thanks for pointing this out! Sometimes the best work hides behind dry or modest language.

It's easy enough, albeit annoying, to brush away the inflated mediocre. It's so much harder to locate the unseen gems.

Edit: ah, I see - the video is from 2017, and there was a thread back then too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471931. I guess we'll make an ugly hybrid of the titles.
https://github.com/google/incremental-dom#usage

Technically correct. The point is, it's not native.
I went there, it’s pretty weird if I’m honest. I felt as if I was living in an Indian Hitchcock film. It felt as though there were people who were tourists and people who lived there and they were very separate. I have this feeling the whole place is a riddle, I’d like to go back and try to understand it again...
Sorry, but the very last point is nonsense on balance. Far, far more voters will be intimidated by threat of domestic violence or family pressure to vote the "right way", because the spouse or family member can literally watch them fill out the ballot and mail it in. Voting booths provide privacy in the act of voting, mailed ballots do not.

It's perfectly fine to believe that this is a reasonable tradeoff for increased turnout and general enfranchisement, but it's not going to reduce voter intimidation.
It takes the name of a state in the United States and returns its two letter abbreviation.

EDIT: I swear I didn't look at the CodeGolf link. :(
> 500 lines of code IRC server

Without comment lines there are 488 lines of code ;)
When were you there, if you don't mind me asking?
I've already got land on the Donner Summit to build a house. Starting this summer. It's a lot less crowded than Oakland.
It might, actually: https://www.w3.org/TR/webmidi/

Chromium-based browsers only at the moment.
The REST Client VSCode extension[0] let's you send HTTP request from any file open in the editor. I use it to call the Cloudflare API to purge the cache of my site after I make changes. It's also really useful to test new APIs or quickly create a bunch of file/requests for the current project.

I use PHP on my landing page[1] so I can make changes and publish them immediately without any build step. This way, whenever I see something wrong with my site or have a new idea, I just open the editor, change the file, save and push all changed files through FTP to the server using the VSCode SFTP extension[2]. This means that I can instantly publish changes from VSCode without running any command, just by using shortcuts. This way I can make the changes immediately instead of having to create reminder tickets.

Automate the tasks you do often. For example, I had to download invoices from Envato every quarter, which was annoying because they don't have a button to export the PDFs of all invoices. I created a puppeteer script (headless Chrome) to download the CSV with the list of invoices, go to the URL of each of those invoices, print the file as PDF and save it into the correct folder. The automation part can also be just creating a faster build process, unit tests or even subscribing to notifications/alerts for a social site for the content you are interested instead of checking everytime if there's anything you might like.

[0]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
[1]https://usertrack.net/
[2]https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=liximomo...
3 minutes later, I started at 483… definitely Hacker News bump!
This is an interesting idea, but you need a lot more info on the site. The "how it works" section doesn't tell me anything. I'm assuming you're still expected to pay hourly? How does equity vesting work? Is this all decided between myself and the hire or do you facilitate this?
In Washington state where I live, voter registration includes soliciting a signature, which can also often be checked with drivers license signature on file.

You have to be ignorant or deliberately acting in bad faith to say that signatures are an issue, because about 10 minutes of research will show you that states which do vote by mail get around these issues pretty easily.
Yeah I heard about concepts like BeyondCorp before, I think it's a really interesting methodology but it requires a certain consistency in application and a real forward thinking.

You can't just put SMB shares on the internet, for instance. And most of our authentication mechanisms that currently exist are woefully insecure, but they're "bolstered" by being only accessible from certain VLANs in the network.
Biggest threat to Brazil's Covid-19 response is its president,Jair Bolsonaro
https://auroville.com works if .org is down. I've come across it in the past because they build and sell pretty nice (just intonation) musical instruments. The instruments are cool but the place comes across a bit cultish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG9QfEMd_GU
> Spain has a “hard lockdown” too. Their excess mortality has returned to a normal level according to momo

That's probably inaccurate. I've been following MOMO's graphs, and the yellow-band portions (most recent weeks) grossly underreport and are subject to upward correction. Data points get larger and larger as they age. For example, "Spain Week 11" was pretty small when first reported (in week 12?), was larger the next week, and larger still a week later.
Just yesterday a plan for a mail-in election was scrapped in Poland. It was an extremely rushed thing (the voting was to happen this Sunday), but from what I understand, the plan was to at least have designated mailboxes. This would allow to somewhat track what happens with the ballots. A giant post service's delivery operation was stopped at the last moment. I haven't seen the concerns about secrecy of voting, and voting for other people in your house, properly addressed. Now the ruling party promises work on "better regulations" before the actual presidential election.

I'm really curious how Americans will handle all this.

Generally, I'm very skeptical about all cute ideas that complicate voting and may introduce doubts about its legitimacy. The whole point of a vote is that the elected people have a strong title to whatever prerogatives they have.
Yeah - voter fraud is a common know-nothing talking point not substantiated by evidence.

I flagged this article anyway, this isn't really a topic for HN (and the quality of comments shows why).
Not quite. The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis paper showed that models could shrink to around 10% of their original size without a loss of accuracy [0]. So around a million neurons instead of 10 million.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01611v1
And? How does that relate to my comment?
You are looking at this issue from a moral/ethical lens, while I am looking at it from a game theory perspective.

I am not making a judgement as to who is at fault for the situation. I am only stating that the decisive move was the grandparent's e-mail, which left the employer only one rational option (that I know of).
With voter ID, how do poll workers verify the person on the ID is you?

The answer is the same. They look at it. This isn't rocket science.
Health care workers are (hopefully) wearing at least professionally made surgical masks, if not proper N95 respirators, and actually know how to use them.

(I think wearing masks makes sense as long as there's a chance they'll help—but I don't think there's evidence that they necessarily do help either.)
Edit: I was wrong. But also check out https://webpagetest.org/ as an alternative (that you can host internally as well)
They do however have to be seeking employment... many of whom are not at the moment. Figuring it better to wait, collect welfare, then apply when job postings pick up. I know several family members doing this
>To me, the original quote, "There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things" is intended to be striking by putting naming things at the same level of difficulty as cache invalidation, while naming things might seem an easy problem…

Ah, that makes sense to me, thanks. I just figured the difficulty levels the other way around, so the “punchline” couldn’t work. Guess I’m glad the most complicated caches I work with are mostly “if it’s at least this old, refresh it” ;)
Mine's GNU Emacs 27.0.91 (build 1).

Thinking of switching to gccemacs for the native elisp goodness. But way too much yak shaving has been done already. I just disabled lsp-ui and lsp-company and all good.
California has had mail in voting for years.

This is just extending it to everyone by default.
That’s been a constant DEF CON theme at least since the Rivera days but had (IMO) improved incrementally with the move to multiple larger venues and was expected to be all but resolved with the move to the new Caesars Forum

(New venue is/will be (?) absolutely enormous; featuring the largest “pillar-less” ballrooms in the world it promised the ability to accommodate not only all talks and villages in a single venue again but everyone in a single keynote talk. Looking forward to witnessing that next year.)

edit: It's occurred to me that it could conceivably be more difficult to get into talks at this year's virtual event than it would have been in-person. Perhaps they'll implement a virtual waiting room so we can get our LINECON fix.
Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19
Lol. Thanks.

I released some solo albums a long time ago and learned the hard way that sometimes it's better to just keep your passion projects to yourself.
And yet not all health care workers are infected by SARS-CoV-2 while there are enough stories where a single person has infected large group of partying people without PPE.

Besides, it is not important to protect everyone. It is just enough to reduce R0 below 1.
Bivectors are an elegant choice for dealing with rotations be cause they are isomorphic to skew-symmetric matrices, which are the Lie algebra of the special orthogonal group SO(n). The Lie group SO(n) is also known as n-dimensional rotation matrices.

In general, using Lie groups for this sort of thing is great. Things like time-derivatives become very natural in any dimension.
In general, I like Adrian's site but over the years he has been locking more and more content (even blog posts that used to be available in the site) behind his courses. Not that there's anything wrong with charging for knowledge (you know, teaching and getting paid for it), but it's a shame that things that used to be available, and of great quality, have been "pay-walled" somehow.

Another good resource is https://learnopencv.com/ . Again, good quality stuff, if you know your ways it tends to be enough[0] but it's also a big funnel to get you to but one of their courses.

[0] though Satya Mallick does hide a lot of complexity from the readers, and that bites you if you try to implement things on your own
Ah, that's unfortunate. At least with React (and Mithril) you can use it from pure JavaScript, which lets you replace JSX with Kotlin's DSL[1] for HTML.

[1] https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.html/blob/master/README.md
A related thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471931
Cuomo calls in the Billionaires to Build A High-Tech Dystopia
Hi all. We're really flattered to be on the home page of hacker news. Thanks!!

You caught us by surprise. As you can see we've built in the ability to gracefully handle a lot of traffic but it's not ideal because you need to wait in a queue until we have enough capacity. So I wanted to jump on here and give you an update of a release we're putting out next week.

FastOrSlow does actual browser simulations from around 12 locations around the world. When we first architected it, we wanted to provide as many locations as possible including places like South Africa. That meant in some cases we needed actual bare-metal servers. So we built it on bare metal in data centers around the world.

We experienced some moderate popularity about a month ago and realized we needed to do a better job of scaling on demand. So we re-evaluated moving on to AWS. Around the same time AWS launched in Cape Town and a few other locations, and so we were able to get the kind of coverage we wanted globally.

So we kicked off an AWS migration. We're days away from moving into AWS and using spot instances to ramp up and down fast based on demand. But as I said, you caught us by surprise.

So please give FastOrSlow a try today, but know that by around late next week we'll be doing a much better job of handling your requests FAST without having to wait in line.

Thanks for your interest and patience. Myself and the lead architect, Ryan, will be here to answer any questions and of course listen to your suggestions.

Regards,

Mark.
> DEFCON: The waffle house of security conferences

I'm afraid I haven't been to enough waffle houses to understand if this is a good thing or bad thing?
I wasn't expecting to be philosophically blindsided by this thread
It's a bit late to be concerned: CA has already had opt-in mail-in voting for a while!

Ballots are mailed to the address on file, you can't just ask for a friend's. Voting fraud just doesn't scale either: A couple fraudulent votes per fraudster? No, election fraud is way more dangerous.

Anti-fraud efforts are proportional to fraud prevalence, which is very low. For voter verification, the rate of false negatives (you're not registered to vote, when you are) wildly dwarfs the false positive (fraud) rate.

I'm happy to be concerned if presented evidence of a problem, but absent evidence to counter real, concrete evidence of "voting security"->false-negatives, they don't seem worth spending time, money, and effort on. (After all, government bureaucracy and waste are famously unpopular)
I am a bit conflicted about the note-taking part. If you keep writing notes, at some point you will have to search through all of them to find what you need. So you not only spend the time to write the note, you still have search for the solution and there's the risk of the solution becoming outdated (eg. maybe the problem now has a better solution due to new versions of software)
Friend of mine is a trauma nurse at Stanford and she said their most common trauma patient is from bicycle accidents. Just an anecdote, but an interesting one.
Even tech companies such as Microsoft (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2004/04/08/me-t... or https://www.businessinsider.nl/microsoft-employee-github-rep...) aren’t immune to that.
The generic term for this kind of thing is “email storm” or “reply apocalypse” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm)
It also prevents the dictionary lookup gesture of macOS from working in Firefox, since it selects the whole sentence and looks that up (which fails).
My rule for pointing out small inconsistencies is: "does it change the point of the argument?" My point was it's the only tool to communicate with a large part of the world, 1/5 or 1/6 is immaterial.