skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. I've noticed you can distill most news, religion, and investments down to a simple check, "how does it make me look better then everyone else."

Why yes, I'm an American, why do you ask?
;)
> justification for their continued existence is rising the standards of living

It is a "justification" but since failing to do it does not come with any penalties there is no actual accountability. Mao starved 50 million of his comrades by mismanaging society and outright killed a few million more being paranoid -- and they didn't kick him and his cronies to the curb, instead they venerate him like a god and give his friends' grandchildren sinecures.

The fact that China lagging decades behind South Korea or Taiwan for 50 years didn't get the CCP ousted tells you how thin the veneer of "accountability for rising living standards" is, and how much the party actually rules with an iron fist.
I'm not surprised by it, why would you? A few people in a generation have the spectacular combination of luck + 'wind behind their back' to accomplish more than millions of people I would suggest. How many people go through life accomplishing relatively little - holding themselves to subpar standards?

A thought example is Einstein, Feynman, Bohr compared to 'common folks' - same thing, different domain.
Thanks for the question!

For now text data will be marked as `categorical` or `text`. When you have sensitive data you want to use `text` which will provide a lorem-ipsum type generator.

If the model has classified that column with the semantic type `text`, no information from the column should be leaked :)
When we used Iron Mountain at my last job, there were two interesting additional concerns:

1) That nobody in our company actually knew where they were physically stored (insider risk?), but

2) That we had assurance that the physical storage was far enough away that a physical disaster in our area wouldn't also touch where the offline storage was located.

There's a concomitant jump in RTO if that's what you do this, but hopefully that's well understood among the stakeholders.
does J have support for using GPUs? or can you share a bit about how you use J? I guess there are also some ways where GPU support is not as important (different architectures or leaning more on transfer learning?).

can you share a bit about how you came to use J?
Indeed, if this product is dependent on Google Analytics it is probably a little late: It's a matter of time before browsers are all blocking GA by default.
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Doing something time consuming and fraught with problem solving is a great way to switch off.

Slow fermentation bread making is very popular.

Woodworking is my go to. Wood is dynamic. In the grand scheme of things, even hardwood is a soft material. It moves by non trivial amounts with the seasons. Timber/lumber has jargon and standards over which one can geek out, and that’s before you get into any of the tools. Knots and shakes make you stop and think. Grain patterns have to be taken into account when visualizing the finished piece. There’s a lot to think about.

Then, when you’re set up, there’s just as much leg work as there is problem solving work. I’ve spent 10 hours over the past few days just sanding up some barn dried oak getting ready for constructing a rustic garden table. Outdoor furniture should ideally avoid any of the finer arts of joinery, as the wood movement wouldn’t allow it. This is great news — I’m as much a joinery fine artist as I am a leet coder, so it suits me.

Hand and power tools, packed carefully into stacking boxes with a set of castors on the base, allow you to move tools out of the way when not in use. Hand working with pull saws and a miter jig is a great way to get started, especially indoors. Power tools in 2020 have excellent dust extraction. It’s tractable to use them indoors for hours and only have a single pan of dust to tidy up, as any of the Festool hipsters will gladly tell you. If you have outdoor space, you can just wheel your entire workshop in and out of the French doors in between rain showers.

And when it’s pissing it down for days on end, that’s when you go play on Sketchup to create next week’s grand design, taking regular breaks every hour or so to lift and fold your sourdough.
I'd be happy to eat Soylent if I wasn't allergic to it. Unfortunately my mom fed me soymilk as a baby and triggered a life-long reaction to soy protein. Too bad... I love tofu, but it does not love me.

One-size fits all meal approaches need to keep in mind that individuals have different needs and restrictions.
> AOC has to actually work for her political power.

Meanwhile, Amazon was gifted to Bezos by God himself at the age of 15.
This is so true, and incredibly frustrating.
I joined a start up as the first employee, and the amount of equity they gave me was ridiculous. I got blinded by the notion of them raising a large amount of money and hiring at a rapid pace; the reality was they failed to raise an A round, then diluted employees despite giving a better valuation for their seed "friends and family" round.

When confronted just talked about how that was the business. Was super frustrating. Once I realized how the CEO operated, I left. I waited for my 1 year cliff though.
What are some decent ergonomic keyboards? I've been using "60%" keyboards with mechanical switches, can't go back to the cheap rubber switches but I need a new kb and I'd like something more ergonomic.
> But, to be nuanced we also need to address the core question: "are billionaires bad for the rest of us?" That is the premise of a wealth tax, at least the currently popular one.

Suppose we impose such a tax. How will that affect wealth formation and accumulation by not-yet-billionaires, and how will it affect existing billionaires? As you say, Bezos and Buffet would continue being billionaires, but if new billionaires became an impossibility, then such a tax will essentially be creating barriers to competition with existing billionaires! That would be a billionaire protectionist measure disguised as a populist measure!!

If we see existing billionaires support such a measure, then we'll know they likely don't see it hurting them. Kinda like when Buffet advocated for higher income taxes knowing full well he has no taxable income (all his "income" as most people imagine it is just unrealized -and therefore untaxed- capital gains).

Also, the biggest problem with any new tax is that without a hard cap on rates it's difficult to predict what it will be in the future. When the income tax was proposed in the U.S. it was said it would never rise above 5%, but marginal income tax rates in the U.S. have been north of 90% (yet, of course, these never reach the super rich as explained earlier). A wealth tax might come with "it will never be higher than 0.2%!" claims, then rise to 5% anyways. If it comes with such a claim, that limit needs to be baked into the Constitution.

Besides the intended political and economic effects of a tax, its unintended economic impact, there's the question of how much revenue it will raise and what that shall be used for. Leviathan never shrinks, so a decision to enlarge it should not be made lightly.
There's a library in J for doing exactly that. Few people use it.
Huel is also cheaper
Organic and sustainable methods are more efficient, even without GMOs [1]. It is a myth that GMOs or high-tech is the answer to food production/land scarcity concerns, as simply managing a farm properly can lead to yield increases multiple times over conventional, unsustainable methods (annual tillage, broad spectrum pesticides, etc). This is in part because GMOs that are in wide use are little more than ways to deal with pests or herbicides, which high efficiency sustainable farms deal with much more cost-effectively anyway.

[1] https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-mini-farms-can-yield-fo...
My Bar Failed Because of Covid. Here’s Why I’m Happy About It
$10 for a daily subscription to Ensure 2.0? You can eat eggs, slow cooker cuts of meat, seasonal fruit vegetables, rice, beans, flour, salt, yeast.. etc for $10 a day easy. As long as one is not too allergic to washing a few dishes, that is.

Soylent is too expensive. It's a very attractive solution for me but the price point is higher than real food. Soylent needs to be like $1 a meal, with super duper high protein, if it wants to compete with home cooking.

I can make a fine French dining quality 4-6 egg omelette, with a reheated beans and vegetables on the side, for like $2 a plate. A big plate, too.
No, I'd never heard of it but it looks like _exactly_ what I want. Thank you!
In the last 5-10 years, I've definitely retired more drives because they became too small for what I was using them for than because they failed.
Google talks a bit about their general backup strategy in the SRE book:

https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/data-integr...

The short version is that the backups are a mix of short-term local backups + backups across the network on distributed filesystems + offline tape backup.

I can't speak to Drive, but the tape backup is certainly used for GMail. (There's a case study about Gmail having to restore from backup in the above link.)
AOC's power will vanish the moment she breaks with the interests of her constituency. Bezos' wealth does not represent a continuing endorsement of his actions.
Yes, they compound negatively, meaning that as you are taxed, all else equal in the future you will be taxed less.

And it's possible to avoid a wealth tax in easy ways.
Decrypted messages should never be stored on the IMAP server. That is pretty much the whole thing here. It overtly defeats the PGP encrypt once scheme.

In the same way, a user intending to send an encrypted email should be able to be confident that the email client will not automatically save an unencrypted message to some sort of Drafts folder on the IMAP server.
Tangential question: What NAS device and set up do you use? I'm thinking of buying one and would like to learn from a fellow (technically better acquainted) HN user. Thanks in advance!
I think they do all sorts of backup stuff - and as a consumer of S3 you need to evaluate how resilient their backing up is. S3 is pretty murky about permanence guarantees so I'd always look at making sure there is a separately maintained replication script to some medium I have control over if that data is irreplaceable and the costs of losing it are significant to the business.

Judging those costs and making that call is a complex matter of course.
Lifespan Age Transformation Synthesis GAN: aging process from a single image
More information from the Senate Intelligence Committee [1] [2]:

"Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort worked closely with a Russian intelligence officer who may have been involved in the hack and release of Democratic emails during the election, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a bipartisan report released Tuesday."

"In particular, the committee’s investigation found that Manafort “represented a grave counterintelligence threat” due to his relationship with Kilimnik and other Russians connected to the country’s intelligence services — a bombshell conclusion that underscores how Russia developed a pipeline directly to the upper echelons of a U.S. presidential campaign."

Politico Article [1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/18/manafort-worked-wit...

Actual Report [2] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
Gates delayed the progress of the internet by about 5 years, intentionally. I know he's doing a lot of good lately, but let's also not forget the bad.

Who knows how many other good things he's delayed indirectly because he delayed the internet so much?
Show HN: 100k+ labeled news dataset
+1 to putting tools away at the end of the day
Genetic Engineering Attribution Challenge
I just checked your tracking code. It looks like you're using the locale storage to set a session id to track uniqueness. According to this [0] Stackexchange answer you will still have to display a cookie banner.

[0] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2905...
> if presented with facts, would be willing to...

Now that is SF
That does not make citizen-x documentary. These movies were made from imagination.
You have x shares of stock, each worth $a. Your net worth is $ax.

The government wants p% of your wealth, so it takes p * (ax) dollars from you. I hope we can agree that this is the same as a * (px). In other words, they've taken p% of your shares.

Why does any of this depend on mumbo jumbo about FMV and 409A valuations?
If you're working for a firm that isn't actively tanking, then the primary beneficiaries of your excess productivity are always your employers. As many other people here have said the floor of any wealth tax is far higher than anything you could ever accumulate on a salary income.
Why did they stop buying WDC drives? Is there a known issue with them?

Also, why can't I find HGST drives for decent prices? On Amazon they are either refurbished drives or crazy expensive prices for new ones?
Perhaps calling them sea food is part of the problem?
I just use one of many article parsers and save things in Markdown files, providing me with a local snapshot.
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Considering it's the ones who hold the largest pools of assets affected who can buy the changes to the tax code to build loopholes to get themselves exempted, that seems about impossible.
A recursive, self-updating universal human ethic
>The talk of guillotines is completely out of place by the way: the French revolution was not a bunch of peasants guillotining the rich out of envy; they were guillotining the royal family, for taxing them too much!

That is rather reductionist. At the time, the landed gentry, nobility and the church were the rich people in France. The middle class guillotined the rich because they were the ones paying all the taxes while the actual wealthy were not paying any taxes at all. I'm sure you can see the overlap with the present day sentiment.
As travel is off the cards – I'm exploring the vast terrain of video game worlds
The DeathStar name was never used when Hitachi made the drives. Deathstar was used omwhen IBM used to make the drives
“I'd think that there are at least a few thousand geeks out there like myself who'd want to have one or two.”

So, do you have one or two? If not, why not?

Looking at https://catechgory.com/, my guess would be because they’re in obscure top level domains.

What good does it do to own, for example, “ae.je”, if many users will go to “ae.com” when they try to visit your web site?
>For a start it implies that becoming a multi-planet species would be impossible without Musk or Bezos holding vast personal wealth. There is no reason to believe that

There is 50+ years of evidence that we will not become multi-planetary without private funding. The only reason NASA was funded enough to get to the moon in the first place was because of the cold war. Very unlikely it would have happened otherwise.
I had to cut the title down a bit to fit in the 80char limit.
Or at least not funnel millions of donation dollars to Mitchell Baker.
Do you have an algorithm of sorts that takes into account price and historical failure rate by drive model and gives you an easy "yea or nay" for purchase decisions? Seems like you might be able to automate drive purchases with such a system (similar to limit orders on financial securities).
> I mean, certainly, the neurons themselves are not the same. Your neurons don't fire when I see red, or vice versa. But that's not enough to settle anything.

Correct, other than it makes an identity theory of mind problematic.

> Why should that mean that our experiences are different?

That's not my objection. You stated in the previous post:

> There is no "experience" of seeing red beyond the simple fact of perceiving 700nm-wavelength light.

I'm objecting to attempts to reduce experience to its physical substrate and then say there's nothing more to the matter. But there is if the reduction doesn't work. And it doesn't in this case, because there are red visual experiences which are not perceptual. Dreams, memories, visualizations and hallucinations can all contain red visual experiences in the absence of 700nm photons. So can directly stimulating the right neurons with a magnet or electrodes in the brain via surgery.

This leaves the hard problem intact.
I see a bunch of explanations, but I don't think any of them really drove home the reason for why you usually need both.

Imagine if you had a document that stored useful information.
You had this document automatically replicated to another system in a different time zone every time there was a change.

You think you're doing great, if there is an outage in the one system you just get your important document from the other system.

Then one day someone accidentally copies and pastes the wrong data into the file.
Now what do you do? If you goto your replicated copy it also has the bad data.

The answer is you should have had backups too. so you could go back an hour,a day or a week or even much longer. Depending on how much data you have, how often it changes, how important it is, and how quickly someone would notice bad data.
> what you can realistically change without overturning Supreme Court precedent or ignoring the Constitution entirely.

Not addressing the actual question that's being discussed here, but you can always amend the law
How can someone as smart and interesting as PG publish such a short, one-sided, dumbified, unsourced, narrow-minded blog post ?
>"In the following tutorial, I’ll describe how I connected my Atari ST to the Internet via using a cheap ESP8266 microcontroller as a WiFi-to-serial router – running at 19.2 kbit/s."

This is a great idea!

I don't own an Atari ST, but in theory this should work for any computer with an RS-232 interface, of course, non Atari ST computers would need their own SLIP-compatible software stack on the software side, but this article covers all that's needed on the hardware side for any computer with an RS-232 interface...

Anyway, brilliant and tremendously useful idea!
Back when the drives were manufactured by IBM?
Semantics, I believe. The meta-point to be derived is that the top 10% pay a majority of all taxes in actual dollar value.
One should exercise at the earliest possible convenience. If I'd exercised on day 1 when I joined a startup, I wouldn't have owed tax because I wasn't getting a discount, but a locked-in price. So when I exercised after the value increased, I then owed tax.

I've seen it suggested that one should exercise on day 1. But that doesn't have to mean you pay for them immediately (after all, you don't get to keep them immediately - you have to wait for vesting...), so you work out a payment plan with deductions every paycheck so that you've pay fully for whatever is vested at the time it vests.
Deborah Jin engineered new quantum states of matter – twice
The point is that it creates direct and indirect obstacles to starting/investing/running/owning a company. Which is one of the big job/wealth creators of our society.

IMO you should do the opposite - remove all obstacles to start/invest/run a company and tax the outcome - or, even better, consumption. If you feel those taxes are too low, then raise them.
I think there are confused definitions for "sustainable."

There's "sustains the land," which is food that can be grown this way indefinitely, which is what most people mean when they say "sustainable agriculture." To be more specific, "meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs."

You're saying sustainable as in "can sustain the future diets of 10 billion people."

They don't map 1:1.

TBH I think you're right. "Sustainable agriculture" isn't scalable to 2050 populations.
Teamwork now integrates with GitHub and Jira
Time to start eating Jellyfish!
How can someone as smart and interesting as PG publish such a short, one-sided, dumbified, unsourced and narrow-minded blog post ?
Human induced evolution is happening with wild salmon.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352430/
Rare ‘derecho’ thunderstorms wreak havoc across the US
Thanks for the kind words!

To be honest, I did work a lot on it, 6-7 years as a side-project and one year full-time. I think feature-wise userTrack is pretty comparable to Matomo (including some of their premium features that cost 400eur+/year). I also recently recreated the entire front-end from spaghetti jQuery to TypeScript+React+MaterialUI and implemented an auto-updater system. This means that I can now implement new features, fix bugs and distribute the updates to users very fast.

I am really glad that you like the landing page! I probably changed it like 200 times in the last 2 months (last change was 2 minutes ago). I still want to improve it (eg. some hero video actually showcasing the product, so you don't have to spend time understanding the demo).

PS: I hope that the BTC transfer was successful and thanks again for the comment! (jk)
And yet, it is the very potential of radical economic inequality that drive the creation of new inventions and innovations that make the modern world possible. Killing that potential is killing the goose that lays all the golden eggs - that's Graham's point: even small confiscatory wealth taxes will act as a significant deterrent to people who would otherwise start great companies that improve some aspect of the world, including by providing a livelihood to their employees.

I've been CTO for a dozen startups, and this sort of thing would almost certainly deter me from exerting the effort required to go through the always-grueling startup process. It's hard enough not getting screwed over as a founder without wealth taxes!
A data science approach to 138 years of congressional speeches
Good video!
If the presence of wealth in a nation was the sole factor in growing entrepreneurship then the gulf kingdoms would have dethroned silicon valley decades ago.

There's obviously a whole lot more involved in the decision making of wealthy people looking to start their next venture.
what the landscape will look like once these moats are built

You see this now with the cloud vendor lock-in bullshit. Too much productivity wasted through too much unnecessary friction.
In fact, the vast majority of US wealth is tied up in private companies (and, of those, in a few extremely large companies). A wealth tax would not be ruinous for the entities paying it.
it's stressful to be strapped into that chair, and even knowing the technician is probably lying when they say they're detecting deception on a particular question, it's stressful when they accuse you of lying

This is a bug not a feature, if everyone strapped to it are stressed out there's nothing for even a trained interrogator to read. Everyone is going to look like they're lying.
I believe this website if for lawyers to find support, not for clients to find legal services. That should be clearer.
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And our ability to manage wild animals is worse than our ability to farm. It's hugely politically negative to reduce the number's allowed, and there is always pressure for more even when counter to the evidence that it is detrimental.

How many species of fish will go extinct before we figure this out. Fish used to be very common(look at the stories of the colonists coming to North America). Also, people are still eating bluefin tuna, it's endangered.