skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qt _needs_ a non-X11 backend, seeing that it runs on platforms where X11 is not prevalent. Network transparency is another story and not related whatsoever to this since even if you push bitmaps X11 is still technically network 'transparent' (the quotes are due to the increased bandwidth usage).
I don't know, I just use perl to extract the data and feed it into influx. Then I pull data sets from influx into numpy and process it how ever I want.
Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain (2014)
> then completely alters the rules by which the device operates at an arbitrary point in time after the sell

You usually agree to a EULA that allows them to do that. If you cannot agree to the EULA then you return the product.

Now, I will give full credit that no one reads those, but Legality doesn't care if you fail to do due diligence.
Yes, that does plausible, which would be unfortunate.
I know a (non-PhD) researcher who moved on after one of those labs closed and sadly he finds it impossible to get a research job again. Academia is his only option but he'll have to earn a PhD before getting such a job...
Oracle joins race for TikTok, reportedly in talks to acquire U.S. operations
It reminds me of some old-school typewriter and printer fonts, and indeed it's a lot like Consolas.

I like it, though some of the spacing is odd (might be able to fix it even if it is a monospaced font.)
I don't think it's normal, and the bits were right, it is a direct threat to liberty.
The wealth taxes being talked about, broadly, would impact people with wealth of tens of millions of dollars and above. But PG talks about what they would "mean in practice for a startup founder." Already he's made a clever rhetorical move and conflated startup founders (a large group) with very successful startup founder (a much much smaller group), in attempting to broaden the people who look like they're impacted directly by his argument.

Over the medium-long term, I think any countries that don't implement a wealth tax (or some other way of addressing wealth inequality) will not remain developed countries.

PG uses 'stock' throughout the essay as opposed to 'wealth', and I believe he did so on purpose; he's appealing to emotion. Startup founders care a great deal about control and ownership, more so than wealth in the abstract. Look later as well - "And at 5% this threshold is getting asymptotically close to being an upper bound on how much of the company you get to keep." - he's directly talking about ownership/control rather than simple wealth.

Yes, this is obviously true. But again, PG's phrasing here is key; he's making it seem like you'll have only 55% of what you start with, which isn't remotely true. It just means your wealth compounds at a lower rate. Much less impactful, clearly.

Maybe. A wealth tax on its own doesn't solve this, you also need to sort out tax havens. And again, you need to look at the real cost of these people leaving - if a billionaire moves away (instead of paying a wealth tax) what does that cost us?
OT: Noclip is amazing, thank you. It's sorely needed in an industry that's (mostly unintentionally) very good at erasing its history.
Betelgeuse Is Dimming Again
With advice that this is so technically complex, don't even look there.

These guys can write java script that animates a web page so that it looks like a turning page and its "too technical" to pull data out of a server log?
I program in Agda pretty often and community usually uses Unicode characters for most things, so I do too.

The impl of AVL trees in stdlib: https://github.com/agda/agda-stdlib/blob/master/src/Data/Tre...

Some basic properties of natural numbers: https://github.com/agda/agda-stdlib/blob/master/src/Data/Nat...

It makes the code look absolutely gorgeous, readable and it's very easy to type too. I use Emacs agda-mode so it just automatically replaces e.g. \r with → or \== with ≡ etc...

I don't use Agda for theorem proving, I make real life programs in Agda, I compile them to Haskell and compile with GHC to executables.
> Which means their alter-ego is probably the IRL one

Another possibility is that they can make claims they don't really stand behind, because there's no personal responsibility for their statements. Trolling, essentially.

The problem is, it's often hard to tell which is which. A bit of Poe's law.
Tbh, it's borderline plutocracy.
It's a good question, but Sam Altman has written about the need to compensate startup employees more fairly (see the link at the bottom of the article). Also, these types of "startup equity is worthless" articles tend to pop up frequently on HN, where they often linger on the front page for hours and generate the same discussions in the comments.

If this article is being penalized at all, that's probably the reason. HN generally penalizes articles about recurring topics. I suspect YC realizes it's in their best interest for their portfolio companies to be fair and transparent in their equity offers.
You could also not waste too many kW of electricity, which are partly generated by carbon sources. E.g. you could stop using your laptop too frequently, less social media, e.g.
What? No.

People seem to get confused on what actually goes into bringing a new drug to market. Yes, a significant amount of basic research is done through government funding. But discovering a new drug target is about 20% of the way to a new drug.

You still need someone to develop new candidates, screen them, identify promising compounds, bring it through years of clinical trials, develop a manufacturing process, get FDA approval and then sell it.

A good rule of thumb is that the cost of R&D is typically 1/3 research and 2/3 development. Development is almost always entirely private. And a significant amount of research is too.
ah, ok, I think it was mean to be this URL, published today https://web.dev/aria-poison-or-antidote/
Photocatalytic Nanowires‐Based Air Filter: Towards Reusable Protective Masks
A reminder of the rather more ancient civilisations imagined in the Silurian Hypothesis thought experiment of a couple of years ago:

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
Nice, I've been looking for a way to visualize the evolution of a volatility surface over the course of a month, the trick of just outputting the files and greating a gif with ImageMagick seems like a nice, quick way to show it. Any idea how you could make something like this but interactive, say within a Jupyter notebook with a slider?

Really great work here, I need to renew my expired LWN subscription clearly. Thanks for posting!
If you're worried about remotely letting a housekeeper into your place, this article isn't about you.
> You need internet to download games to your oculus quest, so it makes sense to have an account to keep track of what games you own no?

Not really. If they're downloaded, why would you need to look up remotely what you have locally.
It can be pretty awesome.

For a while.

For a lifetime? I think not.

ps. I've done 9 months/6 months/3 months in my van with my wife. We love it, but it's not a home, it's a journey.
It's easier to hire people for a (claimed) mission driven company than for business evil corp that builds killer machines for the us military.
He specifically left facebook so he could "shitpost for Donal Trump: https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13025422/palmer-luckey-oc...
i used to be a very argumentative person, and one thing i noticed was a big difference between "supressing" vs "releasing" the emotion or need to argue

supressing, for me anyways, always lead to more stress and then a huge random argument about totally irrellevant things... conversely, mentally imagining that im "letting go" of that need/feeling to make my point, was alot more effective
Something I haven’t quite wrapped my head around. Many reasonable critiques here say “wealth appreciates about 6% per year, so nobody will lose money with a 1% tax. You gain 5% per year”

But Graham’s post talks bout stock. See this:

> And at 5% this threshold is getting asymptotically close to being an upper bound on how much of the company you get to keep.

We actually have a real life example of such a founder. Warren Buffett owns about 18% of of Berkshire Hatheway. He took control of Bwrkahire Hatheway 58 years ago. So had there been a 1% wealth tax, Buffett would only have about 9% of Berkshire.

You get a larger effect the larger the tax. The result is gradual loss of control of the company shares.

People have been focussing on the performance of a mixed stock portfolio. But from the perspective of a startup founder who wants to maintain active control over a company for a long period, Graham seems to have raised a central point. Other than massive debt, there would be no way to keep the same stock share if a wealth tax took part of it year on year.

Or am I missing something?
So they are supporting three generations of android version,
so if a phone comes out on 8, that means it will receive major upgrades to 10, so that's 3 years there and then Google seem to support 3 more years of security of 10 after it comes out.

I'm aware android 8 is old now, just using it as an example.
> Second, taxes don't disappear into nothingness - they pay for civilization

You've never worked in government it sounds like. It's a bonfire of money.
As a rule of thumb I would say that building something "production-quality" takes at least ten times longer than building something I and close collaborators can use. By having researchers build production-quality code the spend a lot more time with software engineering and a lot less time researching. (And of course many great researchers are actually not that great at programming, so you probably lose many of them as well)
I wonder when it will become taboo to know one's birth name.
The question is if this is caused by having an alter ego, or (for example) by the fact that these people experience more control over what they look like.

Anyway, whatever the reason, perhaps it is also why lots of people like to get tattoos.
iTed Hodges, sorry that happened. But you seem to be a little passive aggressive. That is only one symptom of a notorious psychological disorder, so it is a shot in the dark here: were there any other social conflicts at work previously? Another symptom is an inability or unwillingness to recognize a problem. Consider a psych eval, it may lead to changing your life for the better.

I do not know for certain, but most companies have some sort of review process where you can mount a defense of some kind. Forgive me for this opinion, but it seems like there must have been something else going on, and this did not occur in a vacuum out of the blue.

Don't burn your bridges, man. References are important. But it sounds like a sh*t job. You can do better. Keep cool. You will get far more sympathy saying nothing rather than going to war. Who wants someone like that working for them.
This "model" is so stilted and devoid of common sense that I wonder if this guy wrote it late at night on his phone after a few.
Do you know if there is a way to treat the remarkable as almost a paper screen connected to my computer? I'd like to be able to seamlessly "print" a PDF to it.
Exit taxes decrease competition among state entities themselves, who have the largest monopolies of anyone.
In terms of an incentive, I would say that the node owner would honor the deletion request if the network pays them to do that. If I'm a node operator I don't so much care about the particular data I'm hosting, just what the network is paying for me to do.

The threat model I'm thinking about is a malicious actor requests an IPFS object that he/she knows holds data that is valuable, but that they can not decrypt. They then hold this object for a period of time till at some point they are able to break into it using improved computing power or exploiting some flaw in the implementation.

Now, you raise a good point about Filecoin being an open membership network. In my particular example, the malicious actor could just decide to run an IPFS node and start holding any data that comes to it for future malicious purposes and maybe they start pulling down specific files that they want to target directly. I don't have a solution to this other than to think that having some reputation built into the IPFS node network could help mitigate that risk. You might imagine that nodes with high reputation are trusted and it is harder(requires a lot of time/money) as a node operator to become part of that group. People might decide to only trust the highly reputable nodes with their private data and utilize all nodes for public data.
If people are curious they can find more info on cs.rin.ru steam forums. Great resource.
>generated sources, multi-language projects, and building third-party dependencies from source

What is special about how Bazel does these? I have never had a problem doing any of this in CMake, or Meson.

In my experience the only reason to pick any over the other is because they tend to vary wildly in supporting certain compiler toolchains for non C/C++ projects.
> Exhibit n + 1 on why when you're acquired you're not in a position to promise anything to anyone despite any assurances from the acquirer.

You are in a position to promise something where you have contractually retained control, or at least contractually secured an enforceable promise from the purchaser.

Otherwise, you are in the same position as Joe on the street.
You're restating a point I already made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203338

You should still stop smoking (for your own good)
sure, chemistry has a somewhat limited palette to work with, but life happens in the gap between potential and kinetic, between hot and cold, between proton and electron. that's a tiny space but a huge gap.

dna is mostly a 4-note tune, and computers, the potential precursor to artificial life, 2. i'm sure something as vast as the universe can come up with a little more variation than skin type in those tiny little gaps.
I can't be the only person uncomfortable interacting with someone who is obviously performing some role.
Suppose I do. That's good money for me, but it doesn't amount to a controlling share in the company.
Here's my own-merits justification:

Holding on to wealth is an inherently risky prospect. Let's say you are very wealthy but live in an unstable country. You're like a dragon sleeping on its pile of gold. Your wealth is a target. You need to hire considerable amounts of security, stockpile weapons, etc. in order to preserve that wealth.

In a stable country, your wealth is not under that risk and you do not need to pay for that risk mitigation. You accrue the benefits of the wealth without taking on the risk.

In other words, the act of amassing wealth and keeping it is a direct function of the stability and prosperity of the country in which you live.

Because larger amounts of wealth incur larger amounts of risk, it makes sense that a portion of that wealth should be distributed to the country at large: for example, to pay for the less wealthy people who join the military to protect your wealth.

Now: what separates that from the existing notion of income tax, capital gains tax, etc? The idea that your wealth, as it is sitting there (not its growth, not what you are earning), is incurring a cost to society, and that society is taking on risk in order to keep your wealth safe. Risk you are not directly paying for.

Furthermore, in a stable and modern country holding onto wealth is so safe and protected that you can safely invest your wealth in markets and accrue compound interest. That is the polar opposite of what you would do in an unstable country, where you would keep your wealth hidden away underground, in mattresses, etc. So you are gaining a tremendous wealth-growth benefit by being in a stable country. (This doesn't seem to be addressed in pg's post, which I found confusing, because at 1% taxation you'd be below average market gains and would still gain).

I'm not sold on the above argument being a truly compelling and overriding one for wealth tax, it's just some foundational thinking. I do think it explains, in part, why a wealthy person might choose to live in a country with a wealth tax over a country without one, assuming wealth tax became fashionable across most stable countries.
This is foolish on its face: Does PG think a wealth tax means giving up ownership in a company? What documentation or policy proposal is he reading where he would not sell some amount of stock on the market to pay for that tax? Or, that he doesn't have cash on hand to pay for his wealth tax?

This is incomprehensible.
ipyvolume and plotly can do some similar things.
> The only way to get the 45% number is to say your assets didnt grow in 60 years, which is not realistic.

This is the misunderstanding I'm pointing out. You will end up being 45% less wealthy regardless of whether your assets grow or not. If your assets grow YoY, you will still end up being 45% less wealthy bc your YoY gains are also taxed by the 1% wealth tax.
I'm interested in paying 5 cent/kWatt hour that nuclear and water/dams offer. Less interested in 75 cents for locked in solar contracts.
Arguably, the local election is probably harder to influence successfully than at the national scale. Federal-level lobbying and donations are hidden from sight, local elections tend to have much more scrutiny and direct community involvement.
A few days. But the sun still rises confusing people in Berlin that are from Northern Europe.
Government already owns 40% of what everyone earns in the US (see government spend as % of GDP is about 40% now). If that's not enough to pay for stuff, nothing ever will be. And it's much much higher if you're living in a blue state where salaries and COL are much higher, not to mention their state taxes are higher.

Taxing the wealthy is not an effective means of helping people. If you taxed every last billionaire in the US, 100% of all the wealth they earned over the last 50 years and gave it to every member of the US, split evenly, and divided by 50 years, you'd get a pitiful small number of about 200$ per person per head. (2.7 trillion total billionaire net worth in US / 300 million / 50 )
I get that, but it seems quite cumbersome and complicated to me. There's got to be a simpler solution that won't involve borrowing. That's where a simple change on income tax like I described I feel might be nicer.

The end result is the wealthier do get taxed more, but the taxing still only happens at liquidation.

Whereas currently this isn't the case. Since a wealthy person can cash out 10 million a year, be taxed on that to the same extent as someone else who made 10 million, yet the next year the wealthy person total wealth could have gone up, making it they can cash out 10 million year over year forever and still grow richer, all because they always get taxed the same as someone who is less wealthy but of a similar income.
I sorta dig it, looks fun and artistic. I don't know what's wrong with "W" though. Not sure if my browser is rendering is bad or there is a bug, because it doesn't look like rest of the ligatures, it looks nothing like "M".

EDIT: In case people are wondering this is what I see: https://imgur.com/a/P3npCYW

As you see W looks "bolder" (?) than others.
I have worked in plenty of places where there is little drama. These are usually run by well respected, competent managers who are also transparent. If you always run into office politics, the problem could possibly be you.
That's an awfully long-winded and confusing way to say you think "Boolean blindness" is too nitpicky. Personally, it seems like a pretty valid idea to keep in mind, especially as developers transition from a conventional imperative language to Haskell. Making frequent boolean checks is pretty normal in that space, and pattern matching is less common, which might lead new Haskell programmers to write unidiomatic code.
Historically a wealth tax has been an increase in taxes that ironically led to increased regressive taxes as the projected gains failed to materialize due to business restructuring.
that's predicated on the same conditions as life on earth. a universe can surely come up with some more variety.
True, but there are a lot of cheap pulse->tone adapters for just this purpose.

Does it matter whether the line card, or you, handles the pulse?

Bring back the joy, revel in your antiquties, buy one!
You absolutely could do this. Here is another article I wrote for LWN with an interactive graph:

https://lwn.net/Articles/746386/

It uses matplotlib, but there is also a gnuplot kernel for jupyter. It would take some work to hook everything together, but I'm sure it's possible.
Walk at least 15 mins everyday before your work day and do it for a week without any execuse and just dream new things. Dreaming limitlessly imo is the key for motivation. In other words your achievement bycle reached your dreaming bycle.As you can not take your achievements back only way is to move your dreaming bycle further. If you move your dreaming bycle to far a way it may cause you become hopeless or over-ambitious.
Total energy efficiency would entail extracting electron-volt from the photon. There isn’t any real cap here except how much energy you can stuff into a vaguely stable photon and how much energy your PV cell can withstand.

PV cells usually excite at one one energy level; any photon with more energy just gives the electron extra speed, which is wasted. This paper is claiming to be able to extract the excess kinetic energy from the electron through collision by colliding with another electron and knocking it loose.
You don't have any contact info in your profile, but if you're serious, I already have a Facebook account that I use daily so I don't care much.

I'll buy one of them from you for $300 or the pair for $500. That seems like the going price? Contact is in my profile, let me know.
I just got an email offering a free trial of Google One, which includes support from an actual human if you have problems with Google's offerings. Given the number of people that I've read about having problems and having to resort to either knowing an employee or posting on Twitter, maybe this will be news to others.
> Your second point isn't really relevant for a founder who can choose between one developed country with a wealth tax and another one without.

This is an incredibly simplistic take.

When choosing a USA with a hypothetical wealth tax versus other existing countries, the contrasts are far larger than just a wealth tax. The USA has increasingly bad health/medical costs, university tuition costs, cost of living in affluent areas, deteriorating infrastructure, political strife, etc. It's important to talk about this hypothetical wealth tax as a weighted component of all of the likely decision points.