skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Some vegetables are luxury food, and less efficient than cattle

[Citation needed]

I'll assume you're arguing in good faith, but this argument is a common straw man made by people who are against plant-based diets. In fact, the only case where you have a point is that the worst case for chocolate produces more emissions than the best case for beef [1]. Odds are that if you're eating beef in North America it comes from a factory farm [2], while people who advocate for plant-based diets are often for more sustainable farming practices too, and will try to buy chocolate/coffee/avocados/whatever in sustainable ways.

Finally, the most important point is that it's not an either/or proposition - you can be _both_ for eating less meat, and producing plant products in more sustainable ways.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714

[2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/its-time-to-end-factory-f_b_1...
Yes, I'm working on a real-time view at the moment.

The demo was down for a while due to too much traffic. It should be back up now.
You might like this chart:

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584
Like a lot of the Chinese solutions to Covid-19, this is interesting because it really shouldn't work. We know that these kinds of swab tests have a fairly substantial false negative rate - initially from Chinese research, and then I think confirmed pretty much everywhere else - especially when trying to detect pre-symptomatic carriers of the disease. (Also, based on other results elsewhere, I think we'd expect to see a few people out of a Wuhan-sized outbreak testing positive even if they'd long since recovered from the disease and were no longer infectious.)
Podcast – Rise of Educreators with John Danner
I think anyone invested in the future of education and learning should check this out. John shares multiple insights from his journey from advertising to education, to how he things education is changing in a post COVID world
The "pan-" in pandemic is more a sense of "all" but what "all" is over can be all of a country or all of the world.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pandemic

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pan-#English
Yep, I wouldn't buy farmed fish from Asia.
Yeah I'm really excited about that idea of building a digital garden based on the stuff you enjoy online AND your notes.
And we don't seem to be making very rapid progress towards having significantly higher levels of testing in most of the US.
The Beatles — Sgt. Pepper

David Bowie... a different one practically every album.
What a great addition to an already great product!
As a software developer, I remember basically nothing about Linear Algebra from my time at University :( Besides graphics, what are some applications for linear algebra in software?
Ask HN: How do you stay motivated when working remotely?
I have a lot of trouble finding motivation when working remotely. Some days require a lot of activation energy to get started.

Note: I like my job. Really, I do. I just find that I'm much less motivated to do as I much as I used to.

Has anyone felt a lack of motivation and/or job fulfillment when working remotely? What strategies have you used to combat these feelings?
> 500 million pacific islanders will be forced to flee to Southeast Asia

How the heck did you come up with this number? The entire population of Oceania excluding Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea is 3 million.
And if she were paid less, Mozilla Corporation could spend that money on its mission.
Perceived wealth inequality. The US has less wealth inequality because most of it is already wealthy. The shrinking middle class is shrinking because most of them are moving to the upper middle class.
If I eat seafood I rob from ocean species, illegal labor, the hungry poor, and the future. Sometimes, farmland represents the same problem, sometimes not. Seafood is an unsolved problem globally. It has no form of ethical consumption.
They should still be wearing masks and distancing until it has been removed everywhere. It is most certainly in China proper and could re-infect the city. I only play an epidemiologist on the internet, but this is highly improper dancing.
I'm American and want America to be more like Germany. Is that offensive?
Isn't this model naively assuming that you just put the money in the bank (or under your mattress) and don't do anything with it? I'm struggling to see how this model is a useful contribution to the discussion. Is there some unspoken assumption here such as "startup founder gets wealth-taxed before their stock is liquid"? The "over the next 60 years" part seems to suggest that's not what he's going for here, and you'd expect some special treatment like an 83(b) to cover this case in the illiquid window anyway.

Here's how I would model this: the S&P has returned 7% / year (inflation-adjusted) and if you have millions you can invest in higher-yield instruments like hedge funds and startups, so I'd expect a billionaire to be yielding north of that. This more than covers any realistic value of a wealth tax for even the biggest whales like Zuckerberg.

For context Warren's plan [1] was 2%/year for wealth above $50m but below $1b, and 6%/year on wealth above $1b, so perhaps worst-case this wealth tax would prevent billionaires from accumulating more wealth through unsophisticated passive income. Founders with "only" $100m would net 5%/year instead of 7%/year of passive income from investing in the S&P. Ok, say you put half in T-bills and dilute your return, even then you're still netting 2.5%/year.

Honestly I don't think that's a terrible impact; if billionaires have to beat the market and/or invest their wealth above $1b in more risky assets in order to net a return, that means they will be driving lots of startups and other economic activity. (And remember, you can still invest the sub-$1b portion of your portfolio more conservatively in treasury bonds and whatnot, it's just the wealth above $1b that is taxed aggressively.)

I'm fine with a social contract that says "if you happen to win the lottery and earn $1b, you don't get to re-invest that money to make more money and build a dynasty".

[1]: https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/ultra-millionaire-tax
well it's not going to be used to store cat pics

point is there will be illicit content being shared, and why would I want to spin up a node and be roped into some FBI investigation because my computer has bits and pieces of the illicit content they are looking for?

whatever tiny reward they offer isn't worth it
note that I am replying to a comment asking whether I would accept an unconditional 100% inheritance tax in exchange for paying no other taxes while I'm alive.

regarding the wealth tax in general, I see no reason to prefer it over a capital gains tax. if it's not possible to eliminate the loopholes that allow very rich people to avoid paying capital gains, I don't see why the same wouldn't be true for a wealth tax. with the possible exception of LVT, I would greatly prefer to see the existing tax structures get fixed than to add an entirely new tax into the mix.
You supply a lot of assertions in your reply. I'm not sure why you think having more people to fill a role wouldn't drive the price down.

Supply and demand applies to jobs and workers as much as any other part of economics.
I think it would be a challenge without dependent types.
Belgium is a notorious tax haven for the wealthy, because of all the tax loopholes that they can use.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/magazine/47926/belgium-ta...
Cuba has already shown the World the way forward with their Green Revolution.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-good-l...
No, it is not. People just choose not to see the facts. People do not want to know where their food comes from as they suspect it would be not good to know as changing habits is hard and they have lots of other stuff going on to take care of.

But once they have seen movies like "we feed the world" they do care at least a bit.
He also seems to be assuming that business owners earn 100% of their wealth at the beginning of their careers and that the government will be chiseling away at their lump sum earnings for their entire working life...

I think it's safe to call this propaganda.
No, the answer you'll get has an 85% chance of being, to the word, "Oh, I don't think I could ever give up bacon." I know that answer might seem a little far-fetched, but it will happen time and time again.

Facts don't really change anything when they're easy to ignore.
I always felt it would be better to have an additional income tax based on wealth. That is, set the rate on income tax by the weighted average of wealth at the start and end of the year. The fundamental problem we're trying to solve is the rich getting richer by economic rent, when really that surplus should be captured by society as a whole.
> Like a lot of the Chinese solutions to Covid-19, this is interesting because it really shouldn't work.

Are you suggesting China is putting out propaganda?
Ah I see, thanks for explaining
I can't relate to this problem either. At 5pm the work computer is turned off. No work apps on my phone. I think people just lack hobbies outside of work so they have nothing better to do than work.
Is there any way to independently confirm Florida or Texas' claims?
Julia has an excellent interop story with many languages. Probably C, Fortran and Python are the most polished.

Check out https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl
They would leave, though. There’s evidence of capital flight in high tax regions of Europe.
Before downvoting this comment further, take a look at their stated goals for the language.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-need...

>The next thing is also fairly straightforward: we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA.
The CA wealth tax (that is only .4% a year) addresses liquidity. The taxes can be delayed until there is a sale for illiquid assets.
The case against C (The ModulaTor, 1993)
I really hope that a neutral jurisdiction will be chosen. RISC-V is a good example to follow, here is a quote from their website:

Incorporation in Switzerland has the effect of calming concerns of political disruption to the open collaboration model. RISC-V International does not maintain any commercial interest in products or services as a non-profit, membership organization. There have not been any export restrictions on RISC-V in the US and we have complied with all US laws. The move does not circumvent any existing restrictions, but rather alleviates uncertainty going forward.

https://riscv.org/about/history/
And these fans have gladly taken to the stands haven’t they?

You cannot have a nanny state and a free country at the same time. This is the sort of thing you have to accept and live with.

At this point anyone still complaining about “covidiots” is severely misguided at the general level of proaction/intelligence/mentality of people, and how it translates into having a stable, productive society. Learning to live with it should be groundwork for anyone who actually wants to do bigger things in life than just a 9-5.

As much as I love the panic and the incessant doom posting from every which way, the stark reality is that everyone’s time is running out anyway. The panic, when not driven to sell clicks, is driven by people who haven’t had an awakening with what it means to be mortal.

Upside: I do hope more people pick up general life philosophy and stop shopping and drinking as a means of ignoring their purpose in life, but I doubt that will happen.
Graham does the classic magician's trick of showing you something shiny so you don't see what he's doing with his other hand.

In this case, the shiny is the scary 45% figure. What he draws your attention away from is the bizarre hypothetical:

> Suppose you start a successful startup in your twenties, and then live for another 60 years. How much of your stock will a wealth tax consume?

Who is this hypothetical 20 year old that becomes indepedently wealthy, and then doesn't work for the rest of her life? And despite being so wealthy, she opts to pay 100% of her taxes by liquidating her stock rather than out of her salary or investment dividends?

Even if we go with Graham's strange hypothetical, oh booh-hooh, this lucky individual can retire in their 20's and dies richer than 99% of the rest of us. But in reality the hypothetical looks more like this:

1. Very lucky 20-something makes it big and now owns $50M of stock in her company

2. She gets $1M per year in dividends, $1M per year in salary, and her stock increases in value by $5M per year (5% annual growth)

3. The first year she pays $1M on a 1% wealth tax, and her net worth increases by $6M. Similar math in following years.

4. She retires sipping martinis on a private island in Florida
The Quipu (Quipus) Pre Incan Data Structure
> I sure wish a tech billionaire would do something about this.

I've noticed in tech that a common hope that people in tech hold is that "the billionaires", in their infinite wisdom and generosity, will pull magical solutions out of their hats and save us all. Like you mention later, yeah, right.

> one of the thousand reasons I got out of tech

Not an option I've considered much, but it's almost tempting.
Taiwan also quickly put a very extensive location tracking system into place for quarantined invdividuals and they also seem to have very impressive results.

"The monitoring system in Taiwan is described as a “digital fence,” whereby anyone required to undergo home quarantine has their location monitored via cellular signals from their phones. Venturing too far from homes triggers the alert system, and calls and messages are sent to the confinee to ascertain their whereabouts. Anyone caught breaching their quarantine can be fined up to NT$1 million ($33,000). As the National Communications Commission, which was involved in setting up the tracking system, put it: “They’ll find you and fine you.”

https://qz.com/1825997/taiwan-phone-tracking-system-monitors...
I don't have the expectation that it will be used only for sharing cat pics. Do you only think in extremes? Of course that any permission-less technology will be used for nefarious purposes, among other, but trumpeting the child porn argument immediately shuts down any nuanced discussion.
No wealth tax proposal is flat like this. It's well known that flat taxes are regressive and disproportionately hurt lower-income (or in this case, lower-wealth) people. It is suspiciously disingenuous to strawman wealth taxes like this, while couching the revenue in terms of "your stock". Honestly expected better from pg.
ZX-calculus is a rigorous graphical language that has applications in quantum circuits.
I saw this posted a while ago and I would like to provide some feedback.

1. The new layout is an improvement over the previous. It looks more modern. However, the navbar and footer are not responsive so if you are using a small browser window or mobile device half of the nav and footer are hidden.

2. The login links are confusing. "I'm the wiz" is a login page, the login link is a login page. There are two additional login links for employers and employees at the bottom. I think it will be helpful to simplify this.

3. If your target market is in the United States you may want to consider somewhat different branding. I understand that the term "wiz" in this context is intended to refer to wizard or expert. However, in the part of the United States I am from, and perhaps all parts, the term "wiz" is also a slang term for urination. For example:

- "I need to take a wiz" = I need to use the restroom.

- "My job is making me take a wiz quiz" = My employer is making me take a urinalysis drug test.

For me, "wiz at home" has similar connotations and it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the name.
What Happens When Ex-Navy SEALS Go Full QAnon?
Can someone decode/ELI5 please? (or did i just miss the joke...)
> [Politician]'s power will vanish the moment s/he breaks with the interests of his/her/their constituency

This is almost never the case. Power corrupts.
Maybe ask a friend who lives in China or a friend who has friends that live in China? They're also subject to fake news, but at least they can give you their experience of what daily life is like where they live. It's not like China is so locked down that it's impossible to communicate with their citizens.
Over the past 3 years much of that growth has gone to “normal” people.
Awesome. How are you solving for annotations and human-provided context to augment this data? This is a problem space I've thought a lot about, feel free to reach out if you want to chat.
If the US had taken the same approach as China, it would have been both 1) effective and 2) unconstitutional.
Advice on mixing Jira with other project management software
I just started working at a software company and, despite never using jira before, helped them transition from a mixture of sharepoint, excel, MS office, and freshdesk products to jira for service desk and generic task tracking. The dev team was already working with kanban in jira, and they have some documentation in confluence. I'm still trying to convince QA to give up spirateam, or at least integrate it with service desk so bug reports can be in a single place.

I'm the only one on our team, despite us all having licenses, that uses confluence and epics for project management. I love how I can manage the software process from cradle to grave. From initial meetings with customers and laying out expectations, to dev tasks and eventually bug reports and change requests once the software is delivered. It's not perfect (document exporting is awful) but it genuinely saves me a lot of time with templates and the automatic updates between linked tickets/tasks/epics and higher level confluence documents.

But now we're apparently looking at moving to something like clickup, trello, monday.com, whatever for managing projects. I don't have anything against them, they seem ok and some of them look easier to use and better than their equivalent atlassian product.

But to me, none of them seem to have an integrated suite of the different tools we need (support desk & incident management, project management, developer work tracking, software documentation), and none of them seem so superior to the competing atlassian product to justify a switch. And if our team isn't using the tools already available to them, what would make them use a new tool more effectively? Am I missing something and is there something out there that's way better for project management but still has API integrations back into jira for documentation and development work updates?

Any advice on how to convince them to change their minds?
The biggest complaint I've heard from US listeners about Beats1 is that there's too much hip-hop/rap. So now they have stations for people who don't like hip-hop/rap.

Presumably some of the various celebrity shows are going to move to the two new stations, while others will stay.
I agree we have people here making 200+k a year eating chipotle burritos and soylent as meals. These people are truly missing out.
Lots of people named John choose to use another name.
'John' is common enough that having to negotiation which John on a team or group of friends uses the name is a common problem. I prefer to either use 'Jack' (a common alternate form of John, similar to Richard/Dick), or simply my last name by itself. I've also seen many Johns use their middle name, or 'John [LastName]' pronounced almost as a single word. Back home my family calls me by my middle name, since my father, grandfather and cousin are also named John.
Paul is modeling the wrong thing.

No one with significant wealth will ever pay a wealth tax. As soon as you define the "wealth" that is taxed, the weslthy will find a way to get around it.

Plus, we already have a wealth tax that works perfectly and is inescapable, inflation.
Oberon-2, a hi-performance alternative to C++ (1997)
It absolutely does. Do not bet against agriculture innovation. We have a comfortable head start and plenty in the pipe. The problem isn't exactly a secret. Multiple decade research projects focus on this and only this problem. We'll be okay (and sustainable too boot).
Which in the context of how Mozilla deals with donations is a separate and unrelated discussion.

edit: More broadly, pointing out someone as making a false statement does not mean you agree with the opposite view, simply that you don't like people spreading false statements.
Anxiety-management tricks that I personally employ is to either refer to a group/class I find myself in as "we" or to use passive rather than active voice.

The former I borrowed as a kid watching Spider Man 1994, where Brock/Venom symbiont calls themselves "we"; the latter is an inspiration from David Bohm's rheomode.

Both shift the perspective from your ego to the environment that it is embedded into and is a part of: e.g. a company, a crowd, a body ("we" as a human microbiome), humanity, or nature itself; not as an object, but as an ongoing process, from being to becoming. A giving up of ontological primacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_without_organs
They apparently did some cover up attempts but was there virus denialism like in the west? I hear that among the older people there’s denial of germ theory and general distrust to western medicine but they seem to be able to tackle down the Sars-Cov-2 spread very well.

The west, especially USA denied the Covid-19 at highest level until there were too many victims to deny, which is very disappointing. The west was supposed to be the one acting on reason.
I'd bet a typical westerner has never eaten wild mammal meat.

I expect the statement in born from the misconception that "game" meat as found in restaurants and for sale is from wild animals, when it is actually farmed.
done.

https://youtu.be/dFHeDd7wAus

you can now drag&drop in desktop and mobile envs. in case you use chrome to toggle the modes, please make sure to reload the page.

same url.
Mentor s/b who has completed CS50, wants to be a SWE, and learn Clojure
Anyone that trusts or believes what China says is gullible beyond belief.
In ancient Judaism there was the concept of "jubilee" in which all debts were forgiven. Zakat seems like a better version, as jubilee seems like it could be easily gamed and would dis-incentivize borrowing around the time of its action. I find it troublesome that modern nations can't see what much smaller nations or tribes found self-evident long ago: regular corrective actions keep the interests of a peoples aligned, as empathy is a weaker force than self-interest; downturns, poor future betting and wealth loss among the oligarch class, and natural disaster will Balkanize and disunite peoples unless losses are shared and create civilization-destroying or civilization-uniting opportunities for change. In a market guided by self-interest, eventually someone or some group will win the game, and when that happens people lose the incentive to cooperate and trade and a type of rot will take hold, the taxes of the State will pale in comparison to the hidden oligarch tithe enacted on all who made the grievous mistake of relying upon the beast to survive.
> a) it does better

that's not very interesting because when I find an interesting read I rarely bookmark it. For me bookmarks are links that I visit often.

> b)

that is a fair point, however I think the wayback way is still not too shabby an idea. It ensures there's a copy snapshotted just in case, and yes it might not last forever but it's done a fantastic job so far so not trusting it now just because it'll not survive sounds a minor risk imho.
Scott,

Thanks for your kind words "The author of this, who I know a little, maintains what I think is one of the most important pieces of code nobody ever talks about; JOD[0]."

If I was selling JOD, I would seek to use your quote in promotional material. However, I am not selling JOD; it's open source for all to use - see:

https://github.com/bakerjd99/jod

It's even going on ice in the Arctic Code Vault.

https://analyzethedatanotthedrivel.org/2020/08/17/jod-goes-i...

Thanks again.