skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I disagree with their approach. A tax on an unrealized gain is a farce. But I do agree with the sentiment. Alternative forms of taxation need to be introduced.
Check my Bio. I'm familiar with big bio-tech companies that breed corn, :)

VERY familiar, lol.
But do they sell that software/technology?
As far as I can tell they sell taxi rides, software "just" helps/supports their core business.
I'd imagine it is different for authors in different phases of the business, starting at very substantial while one does not have a lot of a personal platform and decreasing markedly when one does.

Someone, and I'm forgetting who it was, suggested that paid subscriptions is the natural monetization strategy for people who are a) public intellectuals and b) do a lot of their work on Twitter, and in that sense you're doing marketing with a sort of cycles which might not read as "intentionally doing marketing work." (I think as the community distributes the technology of running these businesses, like the technology of running e-book businesses has been distributed, this will get easier, too. One thing all newsletter authors should be doing ~constantly is hitting up podcasts in adjacent spaces, because it gets juices flowing for writing and because every time you talk to 10,000 people you'll sell N new subscriptions.)
>There is definitely a shortage of good quality Engineers in SF. That's the key reason why the engineering salary is so high.

Do we say there's a caviar shortage because it's expensive? Or say there's a CEO shortage because CEO compensation is high?
The Assessment Gap: Racial Inequalities in Property Taxation
If (s)he can't get/create resources, how can he do good? It seems you would just put a waster in power.

It's the difference between charity orgs with fading impact, and the ones that change people lives. Same applies to corporations, plenty changed the world for the better.
Well, he might have taken the most risk, but let's be real, it was everyone else who did the work.

The CEO is the one who makes the most important/difficult/risky decisions and the company's fortunes rise or fall depending on how good is his or her judgement. That's called leverage.

That's why CEOs and founders are so highly compensated, they can earn their entire paycheck with one good decision. Funnily enough they don't always personally lose if they make bad decisions at the helm.
Being a compile time option isn't what contributed to the unstable part there - MicroPython is modular. That's part of the benefit of the system.

That I couldn't find it enabled on any of the default builds is what made me conclude it might be unstable, especially as it is undocumented.
There's all kinds of things the intelligence agencies are doing that you and I have no clue about, and have no evidence of.
I've noticed that you've recently started using the US racial divide to peddle your reactionary thoughts. It's so cynically dishonest it pisses me off.

What you're saying here for example is that the US should not make higher education available for the working class (and some random rabble about basket weaving) because that will increase the black-white wealth inequality? What the actual fuck? You have an disproportional poor black population and your take is that to withhold equal opportunity to higher education is in their interest?

> It doesn’t make sense to talk about whether “$10 is a living wage” by including expenses that most people making that income don’t have.

How much do all those folks in the gig economy make in the US? How about the immigrants from latin america? They doesn't seem to fit your age demographics. Furthermore, assuming that your stats are true, how many more dollars do we need to add to start creeping into people-with-kids territory? 1, 2, 3 dollars? Will that suddenly make it livable?

> The ACA is a real game changer in this respect.

So to make it clear, since you avoided the question. Is healthcare for people making $10/h free in the same sense as in EU because if ACA?

> Out of 315 million Americans, 260 million live somewhere other than the metro areas of New York, DC, LA, or SF.

Well obviously? They can't afford to live in a metro in the US.
But this begets the question: How do we know that this system with Jeff Bezos is not already System A?

There are a lot of people who think they know what System A is and believe we are in System B but there's no lack of examples of people who get their chance to implement what they believe is System B and cause far more misery because they didn't know we were in System A (relatively speaking)

Personally, a system that generally rewards competency and is based on voluntary transactions to me is trending towards System A because people who amass power in such a system and maintain it generally do so because they are good at getting results through transactions that on the whole are generally voluntary and mutually beneficial.
They started a fire through mild negligence, denied the fire existed, and only put out the fire when the entire neighborhood started yelling.

It was a forgivable-but-negligent decision to write/approve that code in the first place. It was a sign of a bad process that a reported security vulnerability was not escalated to people security-conscious enough to immediately identify this as a major problem.

I don't agree with the outrage. Anyone who has followed DDG knows they're legit. They just need to do a bit better. They probably will.

Their main feature is privacy. They should be at least as sensitive to privacy vulnerabilities as their most aware users.

DDG should announce that they now pay out privacy-related vulnerabilities like this and send the reporter $5k. It would be good honest PR and well worth the expense.
He is a well-known researcher in Estonia, with his scope of work both known as well as appreciated (at least by the non-politicians). Of course some have the "too big to fail", thus "you don't talk about Vo..." attitude, but those want to turn technical argumentation into political "agreement" and it is hard to debate a 0 to become 1. You can't argue with computers, "lets agree this 0 is as good as 1, even better and greater!"
Regarding that specific case, everything relevant for us at the moment is behind the link you give and one internet search away:

It's dated "March 26, 2020" and it starts with "Italian researchers are looking at whether a higher than usual number of cases..."

If they were looking then, during the following three months we would have heard that they have found something? I understand they still haven't.

However, other research was done since: during the last months no virus was sequenced more often than SARS-CoV-2. The genomic information in the virus slowly changes and it can be used to determine the point when the virus started infecting humans:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156713482...

"The origin of the regression between sampling dates and ‘root-to-tip’
distances (Fig. S3) provides a cursory point estimate for the time to the
MRCA (tMRCA) around late 2019. Using TreeDater (Volz and Frost,
2017), we observe an estimated tMRCA, which corresponds to the start
of the COVID-19 epidemic, of 6 October 2019–11 December 2019 (95%
CIs) (Fig. S4). These dates for the start of the epidemic are in broad
agreement with previous estimates performed on smaller subsets of the
COVID-19 genomic data using various computational methods
(Table 1), though they should still be taken with some caution."

That is one of the many reasons why "March 2019" doesn't fit. Another one is that COVID-19 hits every infected community very hard due to its fast spread, and such development just couldn't be ignored in any country, and even in the whole world -- look how much happened during last few months, and what happens when people try to ignore its existence.

It is very probable that the virus reached Europe before the start of 2020, even if it wasn't detected then. But not "March 2019."

I am aware of this confirmed case:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france...

"French hospital which has retested old samples from pneumonia patients discovered that it treated a man who had COVID-19 as early as Dec. 27"

And there is also a claim that in France there was a later reevaluated CT scan of the lungs that looked as a "typique Covid" that was initially dated "16 Nov 2019", but I haven't seen any independent confirmation of that claim:

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/sante-sciences/coronavirus-u...

I'm not aware of any proof for anything before Dec. 27 and it's possible there is or will be some. But I don't expect any other months than December or, at earliest and more unique, November.
That’s fair. You can always HMAC a second time to rotate the pepper, however.
My employer isn't public, but is a large insurance company. The issues with working for a large company is bureaucracy and corporate lethargy. Of course this depends on your team, the company, etc.

And while you might have job security, that can be tenuous as well. Really just depends on how savvy you are at promoting yourself and managing up.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-c... this is another crazy story about links between secure phone companies and organised crime including torture and murder
I've seen this site multiple times. Larry Walls quote is well-known, and this site is often referenced at the same time.
Ask HN: Top startups using functional languages?
Are there any companies, startups or top engineering companies using functional languages as their main stack?

Been meaning to apply for a job but can't find any companies that are using functional programming.

(Bonus if you're using racket, a variant of lisp or arc.)
Any real world application to demonstrate those skills instead of empty words?
The Science Behind the Mask
I agree.

In my experience with systemd-resolvd, things happen that make it _believe_ there is no DNS configured, and you end up with something incomprehensible (a "hidden default" or some such).

Please let it just fail so that one at least has a chance of understanding what's happening rather than some magic.

Typical systemd rationalization, imho: "should anything be perceived as wrong, perform hidden magic."
If someone is not working for McDonald’s but is a productive member of society, does it matter that they are incentivized to not work?

This idea that people who aren’t incentivized to work are lazy and don’t add any value to society highlights how you view people and humanity.

What would you do if you were paid to not work?
What's wrong with it?

I don't specialize in security, but I've seen peppers/global-salts in most of the "serious" password storage schemes I've seen. Looks like an easy layer of protection to limit brute forcing hashes from data dumps.
First: I think the tax situation with capital gains is not fair or warranted, and that we should tax long-term capital gains like regular income instead of having a separate 15% rate for it.

That said, your assertion is not true. 15% is higher than the effective tax rate of 10.5% paid by the average single teacher in the US:

Average salary: $60477 [0]

Standard Deduction for single filers: $12400.

10% bracket for $0 through $9,875 == $988 tax.
12% bracket for $9876 through $40125 == $3630 tax.
22% bracket for $40126 through ($60477 - $12400 - $40125) == $1749 tax.

This totals $6367, which is 10.5% of $60477. Less than 15%.

The numbers are different if the teacher is married, has children, interest, etc.

We can discuss whether it's fair. I said above, I think it's not; there's a "minimum overhead" to living in the US that takes up a much larger fraction of $60477 than $1B, regardless of lifestyle. But people act like Bezos et al are just not paying as much as regular people, and it's just not true. $150M is more in absolute terms, and in many cases relative terms as well.

[0] http://www.nea.org/home/74876.htm
They are making money though. The government doesn't make money for the government. It's not like a corporation. The government makes money for the country. Saving existing institutions from collapse during a disaster tends to be a very good investment for that.
I worry this question will sound snarky and it's not my intent but have you ever actually experienced what real poverty is like?
You seem to put great value on forgiveness. What is your forgiveness worth? What emotional chasm do you struggle with that you demand others to beg for your forgiveness?

Why on Earth should anyone care if you forgive them. This is your emotional hangup - not a problem with DuckDuckGo.
Good question. It's very different.

For example, if you want to install/learn Haskell, Lisp...on your machine, you don't want to follow Wikipedia. Instead, you go community-generated docs or personal blogs for the updated docs.
It's all tied together. You can't compare the literal banana republics of Central America (one of which I was birthed in, not that that matters) to the money printing machine that is the US. The point is, that developed contries are failing just as miserably to tackle the root problems at hand. Yes stopping crime is always great, but is playing cops and robbers really the best approach?

For anyone interested, a show recommendation: The Wire by David Simon
I think the problem with definition of who is an architect is the fact everybody wants to have a job description.

My understanding is that architect is somebody who decides which details are interesting and important to him and which are not. A lot will depend on the project and its environment.

In my current project the team may need a little bit help so I do stuff like define more important internal APIs or migration paths. I also typically do it in form of pair programming to get to know people and have occasion for discussion, to up their level a little bit if possible. In another project the team would get much more freedom and I would be having more teams with shallower view.

One thing that an architect should be doing is being responsible for overall health of the application and development process. Right architecture and approach to problems can solve a lot of problems and an architect that just blames other for problems and spends time preaching new fantastic shiny frameworks is no architect at all.
Pretty much every member of congress has the ability to impact the spending of Jeff Bezos level wealth every single year.
This shows the issues in process and attitude. Even in the case of ROCA, you do not really break the crypto part itself, you wiggle around the implementation and procedure issues to bypass it.
AOLserver was a joy. I was able to speak about it at the O'Reilly OSCON in 2000 or so.
Zuckerberg: Advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'
None, Apple obviously only signs their software. I am assuming that they really meant “signed with a valid developer ID”.
TigerGraph 3.0
The Post Office returned a nice profit to the treasury prior to Congress hobbling it during the Bush Administration.

There is nothing wrong with the otherwise exemplary Post Office, other than too many in both government and private industry don't like it and want it privatized.

They want that as an opportunity, not any meaningful benefit to the American people.
He could simply start by investing money in improving the terrible working conditions and wages of his warehouse employees, who contributed to his wealth.
Someone who succeeded in remaining in the EU after a one year delay to look after a parent with Alzheimer’s, not explicitly because of the vote itself but because several prominent Brexit campaigners wanted to take away the one stick I could use to fight off the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

And no, not everything, and definitely not automatically — that’s one mind-trap I am keen to avoid. It’s just that competent “no-EEA Brexit” planning would take the UK about 10 of the last 4 years even if it hadn’t done anything else. Heck, if Cameron has said “Oh well, EEA it will be then like the Leave campaigners asked for :(” I would probably still be in the UK, because EEA membership requires the government to allow me to use the metaphorical stick I want to keep the IP Act at bay.
First of all, many (most) of the people who work at Amazon are not engineers or managers in a position to "negotiate", and don't have "somewhere else" to go to work and get the money they need to eat. They cannot "renegotiate after signing", which in these situations is something traditionally done via worker unions, which Bezos has worked very, very hard to disable.

Second, without the workers who, according to you, don't deserve any credit, Amazon (the entire thing) wouldn't exist. These "right people" Bezos hired were workers, and hiring them is not what built the company. "Starting a company" is not exactly hard work. And he didn't personally provide the compensation and benefits out of his own pocket (besides the first 300K "from Jeff Bezos and his family" according to Quora), it was always investors' money, or the money generated by Amazon itself (who was running thanks to these people being compensated). None of these things are usually talked about, it's just Bezos and Amazon on the news. Do you really think that "the workers" are getting too much credit, when they never get none?
Languages I would prefer to work in than Go:

Clojure
C#
F#
Rust
Scala
Ruby
Kotlin
Is 'logged in' a useful metric? You authenticated months or years ago and now every facebook widget on the internet counts as a 'logged in' event just because a cookie still exists?
China’s AI innovation deserves the world’s full attention
You could borrow against it.
> generic collections (coming soon!)

You and I must experience time differently. I read a couple days ago that the end of 2022 would be the earliest they might appear but probably further out than that.
I feel they missed the chance to tie in the Nazi Bronies and GamerGate.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make. That's just how much disk space those tools and their dependencies take. You might as well ask why iron is as dense as it is.
"collecting your browser history just to display a stupid favicon is the most ridiculous excuse I've heard in a long while"

Though I agree the the implementation could be better, they should just check the head and the root for the icon and if not found that's that.
But the possibility of something be used for malicious ends does not entail confirmation of it being used that way.
Just because we have knifes in our kitchen does not make us automatically guilty of stabbing people.
I find it easier to believe that this was actually, if misguided, an attempt to solve a problem rather than a nefarious plots to track users across the web.
The government is not chartered to make money, but that's frequently a side effect of lending and equity. You can see the numbers here from the last bailout:

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

The government handed out $634B.

The government recouped $390B + $364B = $754B.

So, $120B profit. Again, I'm not saying we should bailout corporations and ignore the little guy. The stimulus checks are critical. But you can't compare them dollar for dollar.
How to Make a Career Pandemic-Proof
That's why I like it.
Show HN: A curated directory of tips and resources to help you lose weight
dang: "It's more like 150M visits a month. Edit: 147M in September. Edit 2: I'm talking about page views, plus ajax requests like collapsing subthreads." (2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21201120
Obviously. That doesn't mean you can just make up any theory you want and expect the rest of us to accept it as fact.

It's still just a random made-up theory until there's direct evidence.

That's how logical thinking works.
That reduces the purchasing power of dollar holders, who are mostly Americans. It’s another kind of tax that doesn’t offend the proles as much.
hmm

"My current gut feeling about all of this is that someone basically was designing a piece of Mac malware that would give them the ability to completely remotely control an infected system. And then they also added some ransomware capability as a way to make extra money."

Honestly I kind of feel like the opposite is probably true. The ransomware is the primary money maker and the backdoor stuff is there just in case there is something interesting to extract if the main money play doesn't net you anything.
"There is no theoretical reason that anything
is hard to change about software.
If you pick any one aspect of software
then you can make it easy to change,
but we don’t know how to make everything
easy to change. Making something
easy to change makes the overall system
a little more complex, and making
everything easy to change makes the entire
system very complex. Complexity is
what makes software hard to change.
That, and duplication."

This is generally how things get over-engineered. The excuse is usually "flexibility", often for some future unknown requirement. (and as an aside - one of the weakest reasons for complexity-causing flexibility is to support mocks/TDD)
At some point stock is as intrinsically valuable as gold, when it has legal support and billions of people buying and selling it. I have no interest in gold and I never will afaict.
>This money ends in July (or has to be renegotiated), so the moral hazard maybe could apply to a few weeks during re-opening (a rounding error).

It applies to the entire time someone could be doing other SIP-compatible work.
A single leak can be bad, multiple leaks piled into a single actor can be life changing.
Prices on the street don't change. Ever. As a result of some hike in price somewhere along the supply chain. What you will see on the street is varying quality but never prices at least in the way we think of price compitition driving prices down.

A good book on this is 'Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel' by Tom Wainwright
> How many people in the US today, would be eager for quality care from an "unethical" side-show clinic, rather than delaying their own care, or being bankrupted by it?

It's deeply revolting someone would need to face such a choice.
Wealth taxes are horrible because they'd require doing a balance sheet to determine all your assets. Things like pricing all your collectibles accurately or determining the present market value of art pieces is a huge pain in the ass. It's also really nasty having fines if the government disagrees on your assessment of values. You'd have issues like the government suing people over mispricing the pokemon cards shut away in their basement where 1st edition charizards are now worth $55,000. Doing a balance sheet every year for taxes really sucks. Income is much simpler to calculate and adjust. It might make sense for wealth above a huge magnitude but at that point it becomes a very small % of government revenue and not something that replaces income tax or truly affects the balance between capital and labour.

There are also nasty effects with start-ups stocks or options that may be worth quite a lot of money but you may not be permitted or be heavily restricted in selling the stock even if you execute the options. There may still be a possibility of the stock going to zero leaving you with a large tax bill and no value in assets.
Doesn't this seems more like an advertisement for Apple's approach to security and loading apps?

If a user stays in the Mac App Store, or just doesn't bypass various warnings and macOS security mechanisms, they won't be susceptible to this malware.

Not that mac security mechanisms are perfect, but this is among the ones they protect you from.
A Gentleman's Primer on Shorting Insolvent ShitCos
If people weren’t living paycheck to paycheck I guarantee you there would be a shortage of work.

People work the essential jobs out of necessity. So ask, how is it that people end up living paycheck to paycheck?

What system is in place that makes it such that you can’t dig yourself out of a hole?

What system basically requires you to win the genetic lottery, and the family lottery, to be able to get out from the bottom?