skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know its late but I'll add:

I'm afraid that the history of my country will be permanently revised and that my children will learn the revised version instead of the patriotic one. I fear I'll have to correct everything they learn about history and language.

I'm afraid that the public school system and the universities will convert my children from happy and productive citizens into angry activists.

I'm afraid that a portion of most products I buy will wind up supporting causes that are detrimental to my own interests, as the left has somehow gained control of the board rooms of major corporations.

I live in a dark blue state under lockdown and I fear we'll never truly be freed from it. I worry that the left will once again dispatch extremists to my neighborhood because of some unpredictable future event that sets them off.

I believe the left hates men, boys, white Americans, and Christians. I'm most of those things and you couldn't induce me to vote for a Democrat even if you paid me FIRE money right now.

I know that only answers your first question. I don't know who DeJoy is. I don't care about the post office. And I don't care about his response to the virus. In my opinion, the government has no role to play in virus handling.

I don't support the president because of his polices. I support him because he opposes the left. The only thing he could do to lose my support is to cave into them.
>> We need more efficient farming, which means GMOs and advanced farming method

Considering the fact that so much of the farmlands are devoted to producing animal feed -- how about we as a species start eating less meats ? Make meats more expensive all around the world by imposing ... dare I say it .. caps on Carbon emission.
Ummm... are you misreading my comment?

Bezos had to work to found a successful business. Which came with a ton of benefits.

Political power is a (un?)intended side effect of owning that successful business. That side effect is the problem.
I watched a YouTube video and this person explained a really neat concept.

Your life is like a game. In this game, you have different stats and you must increase each stat. For example, in a typical game you may have:

- Health
- Attack Level
- Money
- Magic Level

In games, you try to increase each of these stats to create the best and strongest character. Life is very similar, but the stats are:

- Work
- Social Life
- Money
- Fun
- Relationship
- Family
- Sleep
- Exercise
- Relaxation

If all you do is spent all your time on Work, all the other stats will be lacking and ultimately you will have a weak character. Your work may be at 99/100, but your Sleep may be 20/100, or your relationship/family may be 40/100. So, the way I switch off work is that at 1:00PM I take 1 hour off of work (no matter what.) and I do not feel bad about it because it is ultimately increasing my Relaxation/Fun stat. At 5:30PM, I stop work entirely to focus on everything else in life such as Fun, Relationships, Family, Exercise, Social Life.

I find it very strange how well this model works for me. I literally separate work entirely at 5:30PM because I know life is more than just about the Work stat, it's about all the stats combined and you must work on each one to beat the game or be a strong character at the game of life.
You can create an issue on Github and I'll try and answer, https://github.com/mikecao/umami/issues
Ed Chambers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnug6i5SkQQ
Politics isn't just about promotion. It's about what kind of work people get to do, whose opinion is respected, etc.

I don't care about getting promoted in my current role (at a small start-up where the eng org is flat), but I'm miserable because there's obviously a clique of people who are "trusted" and take over the technical direction of anything interesting. What's left is basically just implementing their ideas and then having them rewrite it on you or nitpick it in PRs until they practically wrote it.
I agree. Something like Rust Language Foundation has both the clarity and gravity that it deserves. We will always have crates and components for fun names.
Yeah, no.

The cause for wage growth stagnation isn't immigration. Immigration is a net positive for society. Emigration is the real harm. That much is settled in Economics.

The cause for wage growth is, perhaps, the offshoring of labor to cheaper economies. Better for Nike to pay minimum wage in China than in the US.

Meanwhile, capital gains remain domestic as business owners don't relocate
I remember paying $10 to buy a mini-app that added what should have been native functionality to my Sony camera. Then a few months later a firmware update made it incompatible.
"All your references belong to us"...

Can be the motto..
by taxing and providing more services we can provide " the spectacular combination of luck + 'wind behind their back' to accomplish more"
I put my computer to sleep in the early evening, and don't turn it back on. Is there much more to this?

Some other minor tips: 1. Don't configure the phone to read email. 2. Set screen time to kick in at 11pm to support sleep. Night shift important also. 3. A glass of wine can make work impractical.
It's amazing how much of woodworking is sanding.
Is this also why ketamine is shown such good results treating depression?
The “Tragedy of the Commons” is a straw man fallacy. The commons have historically always been collectively managed by the villagers grazing their animals on it. What you should be complaining about is the tragedy of an unmanaged (or in other words unregulated) commons.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/angus250808.html

That the oceans, a common resource, are not sufficiently regulated, suggests we need better global governance.
Physicists plucked and collided two ultracold molecules with laser tweezers
I haven't looked at dropbox in a while, but they at least used to have an option for keeping revisions. It did come with an extra cost.
> The pearl has just begun to be produced. Do you think that the kids of the current top billionaires will not be at least middling billionaires? ... The US has lower social mobility than most European countries. Considering the fact that Europe is part of the "Old World", that's a worrying fact in my opinion.

I'm not sure that this is actually true, wrt. "old" wealth. Mostly, because Europe's high income taxes and broadly business-hostile environment makes it very hard for new wealth to compete with old wealth, and especially unattractive for "old" wealth to get involved in riskier, more innovative ventures of their own as opposed to just kicking the can down the generational road.
All of which is clearly explained in under a page in Dotcom ID program I linked to. If you sign up for that program (which provides a third-party callsign assignment) and sign up for PIA and change the flight ID in your transponder, then you don't get tracking by N-number.

If you don't do all three of those things and keep transmitting your N-number via ADS-B, then you are trackable by N-number. That DCM2790 is using the same flight number for multiple legs and transmitting their N-number is evidence that they aren't maximizing privacy, not that privacy isn't possible.
So we lack the regulations to do it properly. We should fix that too
You have a point here, yup. Some vegetables are luxury food, and less efficient than cattle. Replacing nature with monocultures is a problem. If we stop eating cattle for that, there is not moral room to keep eating chocolate, for example. Or coffee
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I'm all for wealth taxes. Its better at redistributing and over time ending inequities. In particular it'll organically redistribute generational wealth ('old money').

PG's analysis seems a bit pessimistic since it presumes the wealth wouldn't grow otherwise (with the stock market, real estate, or other investments).

There are practical problems though: how do you determine the value of privately held assets, and how would you deal with paying cash when taxing illiquid assets that may not be producing a cash profit?
This is true. Execs at the non-profit foundation have been pocketing millions of dollars. And I cannot really point out what they do. I guess this is common in many non-profits, where people donate, and people at the top siphon it off. There's some corruption at play at the top.
Maybe if they had to pay for the externalities.
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"Made in China" stickers themselves are only there due to state intervention.
Oh Impossible Fish[1], where art thou?

https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/foodservice-retail/whats-...
> If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America (edit: renounce citizenship) and ambitious people will never come here to begin with.

I might be guessing wrong here, but I'm going out on a limb and asserting that you've never owned an international business for more than 7 years.

The decision matrix on where to establish domicile if you have the means to pick anywhere in the world is a lot larger than the unitary "how much taxes" value. The US has a lot of problems with it. No question. The US also has a relatively unique business environment that happens to intersect well with many businesses' requirements, especially those owned by individuals who want to transact business internationally.

It is unique enough that many with means to offshore their wealth voluntarily choose to domicile in the US. Yes there are many who run offshore accounts, but generally speaking, you "only" need around a consistent $1M USD in annual income before some pretty sophisticated offshore tax management structures start to become attractive. There are a heck of a lot of people like that in the US, and they aren't stampeding for many of these structures, despite the best efforts of those selling them. Roughly speaking, if you value your time, it doesn't become worth it until you can afford your own private wealth management office (say around $2-5M+ expense per year depending upon your overall directives to them).

Generally speaking, the juice isn't worth the squeeze. People in that income bracket and above carefully spend their time, and even with a modest say 0.01-0.1% wealth tax per year, that's not enough to spend a huge amount of hassle over. We're not talking about the finance nexus moving from NYC/Chicago to Dubai, for example. They'll make it sound like it means just that because money is money. There are people who do move out, or renounce citizenship, but using the demand for residency visas as a proxy, we're "pricing" the benefits of staying in the US too low and there is room for a wealth tax.

I don't unequivocally support a wealth tax, by the way. I'm pointing out that "the sky will fall, rich and innovative people will leave/never enter" line of argument against a wealth tax is not going to win with policy makers who have the facts at their staffs' beck and call. A more likely argument that will win with these policy makers however, is along the lines of "your $10K/plate donor base will evaporate if you vote for this, and you'll never offset the loss from the increase in people-who-work-for-a-living donations".

Engage the wheels of constant price deflation with increasing quality for real-estate-dirt, healthcare, insurance, finance, and education, and that will go a long ways towards addressing the ailments a wealth tax purportedly does.
I'm pretty sure MoCo owns the Google deal. From that same Wikipedia article in the section about MoCo:

> It also handles relationships with businesses, many of which generate income. Unlike the Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation is a tax-paying entity, which gives it much greater freedom in the revenue and business activities it can pursue. From 2004 to 2014, the majority of revenue came from a deal with Google, which was the default search engine in the Firefox web browser.
> I believe mass testing is an effective way to reign in the coronavirus.

Yep - and then wait for the rest of the world to catch up =(
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Stop calling everything a “flywheel.” You're making a fool of yourself
> Switzerland has a wealth tax (of up to 0.3%)

Though the parts of Switzerland where the billionaire class settles have lower wealth taxes - they don't have their main residence in Geneva or Basel, but in canton Zug, ore even Obwalden/Nidwalden where the maximum wealth tax rate is 0.13% (and capital gains taxes are laughably low too).
> the point of a government is to provide for it's citizens (with taxes)

Isn't this a sort of oxymoron? The taxes come from other citizens. The ones who are paying a majority of the taxes are not provided for by the government. Government should seek to provide everyone equal protection of their rights.
I understood. Was trying to be funny, not trite.

I think the joke/soundbite example demonstrates a point: The Jersey Rule would be ok constitutionally. Even with that ruling standing, there is plenty of room for legislators to fix "money in politics" practically, without contradicting the SC. Laurence Lessig has some of the best known proposals.

The problem, as I see it, is status quo bias within any congress/parliament. Actually removing money from politics crashes their industry, puts all their friends out of work, and challenges their power. Every unsuccessful candidate, campaign manager, staffer, and such makes their living this way. Every successful candidate was successful at this way of doing politics.

It's a similar problem to legislation (or even customs) that would enable 3rd parties to succeed. It's against the interests of the Republican and Democratic parties, so it won't happen.
Majoritarianism usually justifies itself via populist arguments that some particular minority is too powerful and needs to be cut down. This is the basis of nearly every conspiracy theory about the Jews, for instance.
Thank you! Will look into it.
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I think the intent was probably for the parameter to be used by desktop applications so that they could generate or find a file and then open an email with the file already attached.
This project has always felt DOA to me - I can't think of any other possibility than the first adopters for this product being distributers of child porn over just about anything else.
> the human population is expanding and the rising income of 3rd world nations

Fortunately, these two tend to cancel out. As a country gets wealthier, its birthrate tends to decline. Some of the most developed countries have shrinking populations.
First time I knew about Prosopagnosia was from playing 999 on the DS. From that point on I haven't bumped into any articles about it until today (I never looked too hard into it).

Here's the sentence I liked most in the article though: "Prosopagnosia can't be treated - if neural connections are not established, they can't be created afterwards." That's pretty disheartening.
I would think you'd also want to be hedging your bets a bit against some kind of catastrophic bug. Flexibility in your supply lines has also got to be a big plus (and help smooth sailing with various disasters)
Looking at Nougat has no more security fixes (3yo), is Google the bottleneck here?

Edit: Previous versions tend to live up to 3 years only. If Google doesn't have initiative to update the service, I guess it has downstream impact to manufacturer to be less motivated to do so.
Somewhat relatedly, it would be nice to have a language with custom operators that also requires you to annotate them with an actual word for a name. I'm guessing it would be a boon to anyone who uses a screen reader to read code, but would also really help others to just be able to talk about code more easily, using more standardized language.
I implemented a similar system a while ago, including differential privacy. The data at my firm was so messy the models failed miserably. You really need an analysis phase that can tell a customer whether their data will work or not. I.e. weird distributions, crazy foreign keys, difficult data types.
Oxidize is taken by a Rust conference :). oxidizeconf.com
Maybe I’m in a minority, but it’s really a pretty good browser. I wish it supported a few more features with the PDF reader (such as text box annotations). However, it still has way more features in that space than most competitors.
I thought it was Doctors who pumped the United States full of opiates.

I also thought the demand was a result of political policies that didn’t provide support for communities who were impoverished by the globalization of manufacturing and other industries.

Yes, the Sackler’s profited, and were irredeemably bad actors in this, but they are just one part of the story.
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Pollution is also a big problem. For example, people won't eat Great Lakes fish because they are too polluted.
I'm not sold on the idea, merely answering the parent comment that paying the tax would require selling shares. That's not necessarily true.

There's a lot to be said for property taxes. Taxes on income and wealth are disincentives for things you wnt more of. Property tax is one of the least destructive of taxes.

I'm also of a mind that carbon and pollution taxes would be good as well, since the disincentive would be a plus in that case.
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I don't know, I wasn't necessarily making a point, just giving a counter-example. And this simple app is hardly inferior - I use it because I like it.
We're working on an on-prem / self-hosted version Dropbase that will better address use cases where sensitive data needs to stay within the company.

Would you mind describing the kind of data you work with and which constraints you're subject to?
I'm shocked that the article didn't mention this, but the mass die-offs we're seeing are because the world's coral reefs will be dead by 2050:

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/environment-90-per...

https://www.businessinsider.com/great-barrier-reef-could-dis...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2020/02/24/70-90-per...

The effect of this is that 500 million pacific islanders will be forced to flee to Southeast Asia as their primary food source dies, which will lead to widespread political instability and possibly war. Not to mention that since 25% of sea life depends on reefs, their death will have catastrophic ripple effects throughout the ocean.

All due to runaway global warming acidifying the ocean with CO2. This was well-understood and warned about decades ago (I learned about it as a kid in the 1980s).

I sure wish a tech billionaire would do something about this. Their inaction on countless fronts, in fact their complacency in undermining progress on environmental causes in global politics, is one of the thousand reasons I got out of tech.
And not all of those enhancements are unique to OpenJDK. ART can already emit direct FFI calls from Java, for example ( https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/86c8752f6462... )

ART has also long had hooks for native allocations to influence GC pressure ( https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/987ccff )
, which have improved to become automatic via malloc hooks & use phantom references for cleanup ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_caITSjk1k )

Similarly Loom isn't necessarily useful for client-side apps, as coroutines already fit that role and full green threads isn't useful. Most likely Loom would be a regression for mobile apps, as keeping key threads responsive is more important than maximizing throughput. And it definitely isn't going to be as tuned for things like big.LITTLE out of the gate as the existing Linux scheduler is.

The only ~significant area of issue here is those trying to build commonly portable Java libraries. But there's not much in common in practice here, and that shouldn't be the singular deciding factor.

But the meta-point here is how much of the "use openjdk instead!" crowd is simply overly familiar or buying in to OpenJDK hype & general JEP awareness, and simply isn't following along with what's going on with ART on the other side of things? ART isn't a bad runtime, after all, it's actually quite good. And it's had a lot of useful things that OpenJDK doesn't or only just recently got (like specifying what was null when an NPE is thrown - ART's been doing that for years)
One of the biggest issues with the fundamental concept of fish farming is that many of the fish we like to eat are carnivores. So to truly sustainably farm salmon, you would have to farm a bunch of bait fish to use to feed the salmon (in practice I believe the bait fish are usually wild caught). And indirectly you would need to be farming a bunch of algae or seaweed or something to feed the bait fish. Compare that to farming cows or chickens, where you just need to farm a bunch corn to feed them (or if you have enough land available you can make them free range). That extra level of indirection makes farming much more inefficient, which is why essentially all of our domestic animals we use for food are herbivores.

Of course this isn't true of all fish, tilapia being the prime example of a commonly eaten herbivorous fish. And shellfish, being filter feeders, are very easy to farm and actually tend to be beneficial for the surrounding ecosystem.

EDIT: interestingly, according to https://ourworldindata.org/seafood-production in terms of tonnage the amount of wild-caught fish has remained relatively steady since 1990 while the amount of farmed fish has steadily increased and is now more than 50% of our source of fish. There's actually some very interesting data in that link
You don't fix this by penalizing people that are successful. You fix this by preventing companies from buying all their competitors, or unfairly running them out of business. If we actually enforced existing anti-trust laws, with an eye toward NEVER allowing any company grow to be too big to fail via acquisition, we wouldn't be in this mess. (Note that companies that actually grow organically (Amazon/AWS is a good example) aren't hindered by this. Their success attracts other competitors (Azure, GCP, even IBM and Oracle), and competition is what should be encouraged for the good of society.)
>And so far there is nothing except X11 that can really do that.

In terms of Wayland there is Waypipe. And I believe Citrix has been doing this forever on Windows, although I've never used their products.

In my opinion Xorg by itself can't really do it correctly, I find running remote clients to be basically unusable without Xpra. And in order to really use that effectively, you have to be running all your clients within Xpra from the start.
The fact that the government taxes normal people at a rate much higher than they deserve seems to be an argument for a wealth tax and not against it
It seems that the complaint is "I don't understand this thing, so I hate it."

That's a very immature way of thinking.
Drugs should be legal and people should be allowed to buy and sell them.

I would rather have the sackler family than the drug cartels.

You believe the point of govt is to provide for its citizens, that doesnt make it a fact.

Others believe the point of government is to protect us from each other while letting us make personal choices for good or ill.
https://seafood.ocean.org/ is a good international alternative; for example, Ocean Wise logos can be found on many menus in Vancouver and other Canadian cities.
While this is much appreciated, keep in mind this does not work for Safari users.
Recent history has shown us that financing equity positions with debt (i.e. leverage) can be... risky. In any event, I consider leverage to be outside the scope of the parent comment's observation.