skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> The chance of "filecoin" or whatever else existing 12 months into the future is astonishingly low.

I actually think the chance of Filecoin existing in a year is close to 1. It's not due to a prediction of a wildly successful corporate structure. It's mainly about the tech.
We no longer rely on our governments not because governments are inherently distrustful but due to a toxic hyper-libertarian philosophy that's been systematically trying to disable our governments and moving power toward the billionaires. The solution isn't to pray "Save us of wise and powerful billionaires" - the solution is to fix the governments.
> Like what are the specific APIs that are missing

Push notifications and background sync for instance.
if amazon's stock price plunged 95% (basically unthinkable) bezos would still be a billionare.
There's a good argument to be made that the money made it slower. They hired a TON of engineers at once and after looking at their code, you can tell it's a too-many-cooks situation.

Raising huge amounts of money certainly was the goal but that doesn't mean it couldn't have detrimental effects past their bank accounts.
Instead of a wealth tax, maybe just increase the capital gains tax rate for the ultra-wealthy? Seems a lot more straightforward.
I'd be interested in seeing this data. Do you have a source?

IIRC, this common refrain is based on a study that required wealthy participants to self-report whether they made their money or inherited it.

Every "millionaire" seems to think they're self made, after all.
I still feel like the micro-tax[0] to replace every single form of tax would be better and simpler. Just 0.1% any and every single transaction is pretty simple to understand. Thus, the more money moves around, the more it will be taxed.

The example on the website was for Switzerland which does a lot of transfers due to their reliance thereon, but it wouldn't surprise me if it worked for America too. Wealthy Americans do invest in stock and move their money around way more than the average American.

Or, if wealthy Americans are such upstanding patriots, they'd be for a return to income taxes as in the 40s to 60s (80-95% for the highest tax bracket). [1][2] Then all of this "wealth tax" talk would be over.

And if people really wanted to have a more level playing field, they'd vote to get rid of inheritance altogether aka raise the inheritance tax to 100%. With the tax income from that, working out a scheme to create equal learning and living environments for kids nationwide could be discussed. Longer maternal and paternal leaves and monthly payments from the government for supporting children from birth until graduation wouldn't be farfetched.

0: https://mikrosteuer.ch/en/the-initiative/concept/

1: https://talkmarkets.com/content/us-markets/tuesday-turmoil--...

2: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-historical-tabl...
Lol I posted the same link 2 mins after u
Well a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would cool the Earth temporarily, but it wouldn't help long term: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191002144251.h...

I would expect ocean acidification would actually get worse, since the effects would mimic the 'Year without a Summer' so people would be releasing more carbon to heat their homes.
I think that the commenter you are responding to is not talking about antibody tests but rather rt-pcr test (swab tests) as have been used in China.
It is unsurprising given that the raison d'etre for Filecoin was never the demand for decentralized storage, or backup, or anything else. It was started with the sole purpose of raising money, because of the overwhelming demand for hype-driven investment opportunities that tick the typical checkboxes. And that was delivered perfectly.

I don't understand the basis for this accusation. I thought the reason for Filecoin was essentially to provide an incentive layer to run IPFS nodes. The problem with IPFS was that it largely drew from volunteer efforts and therefore if you want to actually want IPFS to be a high-performing and low cost service you need to provide a market incentive structure to run a node.
> Cant get anything done on a large scale without lots of moolah

You can, but it requires collective action. But in order to have collective action, you need to win the propaganda war. I'm not sure that lots of moolah at this point can win the propaganda war against climate denialism.
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Forms of power are fungible in nearly all societies.
It does use flat files for storage, so there's not much lockin there.
"...if you're ok being obedient, you also don't need to bear the stress of accountability."

I agree with most of what you're say, but I think this can be wrong. Management seems to push stress and blame down to the individuals, even if they are obedient. I see a lot of stress in my job and I'm only an intermediate developer.
This is super cool.

Excited to see the way this breakthrough will be absorbed into different industries.

Can anyone comment on the impact of this with regards to LIDAR tech?
I think the more pertinent question is how much of Indonesia's diet depends on the reefs. It seems like the answer is "a lot", though it's hard to get a sense of it as a proportion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_cuisine#Fish
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in the Wolfram Language
Actually that title belongs to the CCP.
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The most relevant single sentence from the paper seems to be:

> Special emphasis is put on the UV range (λ=200-350nm) where we show that extremely high response, more than 130%, can be achieved at zero bias.

The material they constructed turns out to react well to UV light, so well that it proves their technique is worth further investment.
Storj, Sia, and a few others minor players are in production. Each have their tradeoffs.
So don't bring your phone during your excursions?
When I consider the implications for the children of this world, these thoughts make me deeply sad.

Not in a way I feel I can directly action. Not in a way that many children don't have bigger problems than saving the whales. Just sad.

I hope people share this feeling.
I don't understand the concern over lack of browser engines.

There's only one Linux kernel and that seems to be working out just fine for all the distros using it and all the cloud operations running those distros. You could say that their are more Unixes than just Linux too, but among browser engines there are also Gecko, Servo and others [0].

WebKit and Blink are both open source too and with less restrictions than the Linux kernel since they're LGPL and not GPL.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines#...
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I think increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere more than offsets the decreased solubility of CO2 in the ocean due to temperature rises. We are talking about a couple of degrees increase in surface sea temperatures, versus a much more significant increase in CO2 concentration. Also, we have to worry about increased temperatures releasing reservoirs of CO2. So while the direct action of warming might reduce ocean acidity, the causes of that warming, and the side effects, both increase acidity more than the warming reduces it.
If you're aware of this, is it going to change your shopping behavior?
If you're picky about the fish you eat, there are some very sustainable choices.

In a happy coincidence, some of the healthiest fish are also some of the most sustainable fish.
There aren't any articles I can point you to, but I live in Portland, Ore., and between here and Vancouver and Camas, WA, there are a number of collectives that are doing exactly this. They don't publicize, it is word of mouth. They primarily focus on raising chickens and pigs, and butchering them for the members. All members participate somehow. Some members host the animals, others who cannot, contribute for feed and vet bills or participate in the slaughter days since it is a lot of work a few times a year.

They are successful but are not capable of replacing 100% of the grocery needs. And vegetables only appear in the summer and can be subject to infestations or random die offs... although there is significant canning that takes place throughout the summer for the winter months. Growing a diverse amount vegetables to support 25-50 people is surprisingly more complex than raising livestock (unless you just want to eat lots of zucchini and squash ;-).

However, there are many well documented small co-ops in Portland that I can refer you to if you want to ask them questions. These are very small farms, and in many cases people buy their shares of well in advance, and some have even become store-fronts rather than pickups.

Here are examples of places within a 15 minute drive of where I live:

When I used to eat meat I would buy half a cow with some friends friends. You could go visit the cow throughout the year:

https://www.foodbevg.com/US/Scappoose/393417489771/All-Natur...

This place exploded in popularity in the past 7 years. It used to be two guys and you would order chickens months in advance and pick them up a day after the slaughter, now I can just walk into their store and they have a growing staff:

https://www.marionacres.com/order

Similarly:

https://www.kookoolanfarms.com/

This dairy was a kickstarter, and I get milk, cream, and eggs from them year round, its fantastic.

http://schochfamilyfarm.com/

Lastly, Sauvie Island just outside portland has an enormous farm community where half of the year one can purchase all manner of fruits vegetables through multiple farmers market stands.

Again though: it is only for part of the year, year round veggies are damn hard without large industrial apparatus. Unless you like pickled things.

It can be done, but it takes a village. Seriously.
fast languages steal, safe language borrow ?
It sounds like he's saying the client would fetch the messages, decrypt them, and attach the plaintext.
While Mozilla would likely not go head on against Apple, Mozilla still have some aura especially in the Silicon Valley. Who knows, they might have cut a deal with Apple...
> do Larry Ellison's yachts "benefit others"? (And i mean beyond the immediate effect of "spending money".

I don't think that's a useful question, though the answer is generally no. Yachts, or more generally pleasure craft, are a form of entertainment. The owner spends large and ever-growing amounts of money, funding other people's lives, in exchange for some kind of fun for themselves and their immediate circle.

Larry Ellison could certainly make them benefit others by, say, using them to provide housing for the homeless, but that's not a part of the primary equation.

> We should always keep in mind that opportunity cost is a thing, and that investment involves plenty of "spending" and economic activity of its own.)

The economic activity of moving around vast sums of money benefits very few people, and those are generally not the people working multiple jobs just to make ends meet. That's the reason people want a wealth tax: concentrating wealth to such an extent benefits almost nobody.
I've come to realize over the course of 20 years pursuing a career in tech, that work itself is the primary impediment standing in the way of ever working on my dreams. Sure, someone can moonlight and try to change the world. But 99 people of out 100 will never even come close. There's nothing more pathetic than a visionary with no access to resources.

Right now I am working with a guy in the solar industry, doing handyman work around his house until we come out of quarantine. It's hard work physically, but I find my mental health has recovered and my motivation and work capacity have never been higher.

I'm basically living the ending of the movie Office Space and searching for spiritual meaning. I donate plasma to make rent, and am looking into apps like Bacon (Uber for hourly jobs) as a way to transition out of obligation-based employment. Work should be a straight-up time-for-money exchange. Taking advantage of our work ethic and patriotism, saddling us to someone else's vision of meaningful work, is one of the great travesties undermining the American Dream. I learned this the hard way moving furniture for 3 years in my early 20s to support my web business because "someone has to do it". No, someone doesn't have to do it. Stand up for yourself and leave if your job stinks. Let the free market adjust wages to what they should be, double or quadruple what they are now. Don't get suckered into indentured servitude.
Then hold our governments responsible. I don’t know why anyone would expect a private citizen, regardless of whether or not he happens to have more than $1 billion, to help with environmental catastrophes. In fact I’d expect them to help the least out of anyone, since they have the resources to simply escape if they face danger or scarcity.
Heh, interesting. Even on the Pinephone? I know Ubuntu Touch supports MMS but does not on the Pinephone. Same with Glodroid (the Android Port to Pinephone).

I have been doing some work with MMS on it recently:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager...

I don't think it's a far off as a lot of folks thought.
Why did you link to a story from 2012? I eat farmed tilapia from Asia all the time with no ill effects.
> Your example for the application of the "functor" concept is trivial enough that it doesn't need category theory.

That's kind of the point.

> "Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial is trivially trivial." That is, category theory aids in making the softer bits of mathematics look utterly natural and obvious, so that one can more easily isolate the harder nuggets and attack them with abandon ... This is a tremendous service that category theory provides"

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/28788/nontrivial-theorems...

In isolation applications of category theory to programming are going to be trivial, typically. Category theory gives a language and framework for extracting trivialities so one can "attack the harder nuggets" without distraction.
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some people enjoy pedophilia, but we don't accommodate them because we've decided that it's too damaging for society.
>I sure wish a tech billionaire would do something about this.

I sure wish VOTERS would "do something" about this, where "something" = vote for the party/parties that actually champion or at least acknowledge the importance of dealing with AGW/CO2 increasing vs actively denying and supporting continuing the current anti-free market policies destroying so much future beauty and potential. This should have been so straightforward, we want net neutral CO2 ASAP and then net negative as soon as feasible, so all that's needed is to legislate that emitting a ton of CO2 (or equivalent) is priced at the cost of rapid industrial removal of a ton of CO2+margin. We could just make all our energy usage net neutral in a matter of months/years by finally establishing a Free Market there and then let humanity sort out the best way to reduce the cost of that. But instead it's a mixture of full denial or, even more frustrating, so-called "greens" bitching about other people's luxury energy usage and engaging in worthless moralizing bullshit about $Cause_Of_The_Day (like Ebil Big Tech) rather then just working to deal with the problem as efficiently as possible and focusing moral arguments purely on the harm of AGW.

>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.

I'd say the inaction on countless fronts of people like you who just shove all responsibility off onto nameless godkings rather then actually internalize that democracy means we're responsible as well has been a far bigger threat. Tech has been relatively green, and far more active at green efforts then most industries. It's ludicrous to see you pinning so much on "tech billionaires" vs, say, oil/coal billionaires.
Why do you put shoes on when working at home? Do you wear shoes in the house while you work?
>then we're far beyond UBI already. In most of Europe, you'll receive an apartment, food, clothes, utilities,

Where can you live that life without being an outcast? People in need get Basic Income, but it is not Universal. You have to trick the system if you want to get it indefinitely.

>As far as I understand, the point of UBI is to go beyond that because these basics are seen as limiting.

Of course they are limiting. That's why UBI works. As you have analysed correctly, you would have to enslave other people if you want more.

Thus, people don't stop working, because there is always something that isn't covered by UBI.

>Primarily, they stop working. We already have too many who are quite alright with the welfare they receive and prefer not to work. I really don't want to expand the number, because it just increases the work load for the rest.

Don't forget that you need people to decide who is eligible for welfare and who isn't. In an UBI society, those people could do something else and reduce the work load for everybody else. Basic resources are cheap and get cheaper with more automation. At one point, you will be able feed the entire world from the work of a few persons.
> Based on some rough napkin calculations, the caloric efficiency by land of broccoli is about the same as industrial meat.

Not even close. Did you forget to consider the inputs into meat?

If you want to check against someone else's math, here's a paper that claims we can increase global calorie availability by 70% by shifting crops grown for animal feed (40% of crops in USA btw) to crops grown for human consumption: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034...
Wow! Back then, I was not quite sure if they had really implemented it or if they just claimed they had to encourage people to pay.

I would never have imagined that I'd get an answer to that question a quarter of a century later. Thanks for the comment!
That's strictly not true. People vote for Amazon the product (over Walmart's web experience), they don't vote for Amazon the Jeff Bezos Political Agenda. Those are two totally different things. For instance, there's plenty of right-wing folks who shop on Amazon while simultaneously hating the Washington Post.

As mentioned upthread, this is the difference between democracy and rule by wealth.
They say more electrons, not more energy.
I got to see Alton Brown talk about sustainable seafood there! His message was pretty much "Eat calamari, eat it a lot."
firejail does in fact run Firefox in a separate X server. Namely, your choice of Xpra or Xephyr.
The last time I got hired into a startup with options, they didn't tell me what percentage of equity the options represented, they just said, "You get 50K." I didn't even ask for any more details because their choice to give numbers instead of a meaningful metric made me think to myself, "OK, so I'm deciding whether to take this based solely on salary, and anything else is just a future bonus, not a deciding factor." I did take the job, but never banked on the options.

To me, failing to give you all the information isn't a deal-killer on a potential job. But it should flavor your approach to the job, and help you decide exactly how committed you are to the work.
I joined very early (~15 people total at the company) and have been unsuccessful negotiating an increase. I guess the lawyers have to get involved, board has to sign off, and that's tough. Or at least, that's what I've been told.
This is a really cool project. I’m happy to see that you are using Prisma for data access. If you are interested we can set up a shared slack channel so you can provide feedback and we can make sure we support everything you need for this project :-)
It's funny how management tells us to think outside the box and then admonishes us when we do and they don't like it.
This seems like a fairly dishonest presentation.

It only considers the fraction of shares, not the value. If you make the (reasonable) assumption that the value is going up (and going up more per year then the tax) your net worth still grows quite well, and you will be very wealthy.
The problem is that evaluating whether or not this is the "best" offer depends in great measure on how one values the options one is getting. And many founders are all sunshine and roses about that--just as the article portrays.

Nothing wrong with taking your best offer. Everything wrong with misleading potential employees about what the offer means.
Do you mean GDPR? You don’t have to delete data immediately under the right to be forgotten.
Huh... that's super interesting you said that. As a conservative, the entire "magazine" feels more leftist, snowflake to me. Avoiding painful, tough self-responsibility and action in life is what stuck out to me in this.

Serious question, other than the capitalism part and climate change stuff, what else makes you think they're alt-right? Maybe also, define what you believe alt-right means. Mostly because everyone has a weird spectrum grade as what they declare is "alt-right"... which to me is just a way of calling someone a nazi without saying "nazi".
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As Android engineer since 2013, I'll say this is patently untrue. It is really difficult to get Android to work on non Linux OS's without virtualization.
So you get free stuff, and you poison the environment of reviews for the rest of us.

I wish we could figure out some incentive for people -- both individually and corporately -- to behave less selfishly, but it seems to be a hard problem.
> Administration of the coronavirus vaccine will be a big hurdle since so many Americans are afraid of vaccines.

Source? Afaik anti-vaxxers are a loud minority and in no way representative of the majority of Americans.
Why closing Fortnite developer account is acceptable? If they have one app that was banned for 'violating guidelines', and another one that doesn't violate anything, why should the second app be removed, too? Because the unruly developer must be punished?
Why a tech billionaire? We as humans just need to eat less animal food, and reduce our emissions as low as possible.
Property taxes allow people to see the direct benefit immediately. As an individual you get control over taxes to an extent through purchases. And because the federal government misspends half of the taxes it collects so instead of giving them more give them less but pay more in taxes directly to the states.