skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> he would have to gradually give up his ownership in SpaceX and Tesla.

That's sort of the point. Unless he's creating additional value as a CEO such that the board keeps awarding him stock or money so he can maintain his holdings, he's going to lose his ownership stake. Sounds like a tax like this would motivate him to work more not less.
Show HN: Fetch Apply (Ansible/Puppet/Aviary.sh Alternative)
Fetch Apply (https://github.com/P5vc/FetchApply) is a new system configuration and management tool, that follows the same principles as aviary.sh. Fetch Apply, however, has much better documentation, security practices, customizability, readability, production examples (https://github.com/P5vc/ServerConfigurations), and uses an inheritance model, allowing the bulk configuration of like servers, with minimal code.

Fetch Apply is written in Bash (no need to use tools in other languages which often time end up acting as bash wrappers and running half of the configuration in bash anyways), and is designed for use on secure systems: it is simple by design, and easily auditable by a single person. Fetch Apply also leaves an agent running on the target system (comprised of less than 500 lines of code in bash, and run by cron only during user-defined intervals, meaning it’s ridiculously efficient and has no noticeable system impact), and is based off of git, meaning that you can view a full configuration history, as well as push a new configuration upstream whenever you’d like, and the changes will be automatically applied on the designated server(s).
spoiler: they're all crap.
Summary - moved to join a nearby friendly native American tribe, already suggested by others.

There are endless different stories about the lost colony. This explanation sounds simple and compelling (they moved in with a friendly tribe, the Croatoans). Wikipedia [1] discusses this in more detail and points out that there was a smallpox infection that killed a lot of the Croatoans a few years later. I'd think there might be the possibility of genetic testing to connect any present day people with the group from England.

The speculation was the people from England moved to Hatteras Island and joined that tribe, but the original explorer didn't come back for three years and never went to that Island. Hatteras is about 50 miles away, not that far by sailing, especially if you crossed the ocean.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatan
There's only one Linux kernel that is primarily driven by volunteers, headed up by a non-profit, and does not define and interpret a shared resource (HTML/Javascript)

A monoculture of browser engines gives a lot of control to the parent organizations of those engines. Google gets to define the future of HTML and Javascript because theirs is the #1 engine by a wide margin, which in my opinion, they got to in part due to anticompetitive practices.

Licensing doesn't mean anything in terms of the monoculture because, let's be honest, there's only 1 Blink. You can fork, but you're still forking Google's spec of HTML.
So glad I never bought an oculus. Is anyone really suprised?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24193146
You cannot reliably measure that on the client-side, either. But if you assume a "normal" use case anyways, you could easily track the percentage of the video stream requested by a client. That should approximate percentage watched. Of course you need to have certain control over your infrastructure for the matter. If you outsourced everything to a CDN and thus have no clue what happens to your videos, well, you probably weren't that interested in the data in the first place, weren't you?
Over the past 30 years buy-to-let has fundamentally changed the housing market to the point where I honestly don't believe there'll ever be a housing market crash again. Rich people will buy up all the available housing stock to rent out (or to AirBnB) if there's a small price drop. That will stop there ever being a big price drop.

Barring a sea change in housing policy that enables massive amounts of new houses to be built, I would make a significant wager that in 50 years time about 75% of people will rent their home all their life.
No, your argument would be like saying "if you can borrow against shares to buy a big house, mega-yacht every single year, you can do so to pay your taxes".

PG's essay shows that the wealth tax compounds every year. That just doesn't happen with consumption. Bezos doesn't have 20 homes and 20 yachts.
What's the difference between a viola player and Dr. Scholl's Footpads?

Dr. Scholl's bucks up the feet.

Apparently viola jokes as a genre are 300 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_jokes
Does anyone know of a "shame wall" for people/companies responsible for PII leaks?

I think if there are at least social consequences some managers will start taking these stuff more seriously.

Just asking, probably it is not even possible with all the blanket "right to be forgotten" laws.
I think you've missed the point here. Neither Apple nor Epic have enough market share in their primary market (smartphones/games) to be considered monopolists.

So instead, people move the goalposts to an aftermarket of the product (iOS apps) and claim that Apple has a monopoly over that market instead. But every company has a natural monopoly over their own products, and by the very same logic you could claim Epic has a monopoly over the aftermarket of their product (Fortnite skins).
Language-Agnostic Bert Sentence Embedding
Old Edge was the best Epub reader in Windows, by far.

That's the feature I want back.
Might just be an issue with my install. I'll do an upgrade and report an issue if I still can't get it working.
Having your IP address is identifiable enough (combined with all the other joys of big data) to Facebook and its marketing wing, so don't feel too confident, but if you don't care, then that's kind of the point.
Are you on LinkedIn? Using Github? Using Office 365? Outlook?

If 'no' to all of the above then you probably don't need to worry about Microsoft, but beware, they are in more places than you might think because they - very cleverly - keep these properties at arms length from a branding perspective. But that doesn't mean that there is a Chinese wall there through which no data could move.
The definitely assume it's the same person. I get advertising clearly targeted at other people on my internet connection (eg. ads for property in a certain suburb, when I don't even actively look at property while another family member does).
Meta-build systems need a clean separation between variables computed by the program (or cached), and parameters set by the user. Placing both in a single CMakeCache blob causes confusion and nasty semantics when local set() variables, option() variables, and command-line -DKEY=VALUE collide.
While I greatly appreciate that it saves it locally, which I consider essential, but saving it to wayback machine serves a different purpose: In case of a dispute with another party, you can resolve the claim about the state of a particular webpage using the wayback machine.
I guess I'm having trouble separating "passions" from "interests" but it seems that there are earlier definitions of these words with somewhat different meanings than they way they're commonly used in the modern context.

Interesting article. We do need to explore what comes after neo-liberalism as we're going to need something to replace it soon. You refer to an article on mutualism - it sounds like it has some similarity to distributism.
Covid-19, Remote Work, and B2B SaaS Strategic Messaging Changes
I don't know Palmer and until 5 minutes didn't know his name. I don't dislike him, I'm sure he's a nice guy and great person, and I think the product and achievement is impressive. But:

I respect him for eating humble pie now.

I absolutely do not respect yet alone absolve him of not doing so originally. Why would one? There's nothing NEW that came to the table: Facebook can do what they want now, and crucially that was the case at the time of those promises.

Founders literally sign away their right to make these promises. Whether they're made out of ego, faith, hope, naivette, inocence, or just riding that payday high and feeling king of the world - acquired founders need to stop making them and we need to stop believing them; and holding accountable / not absolving is a step in that direction. They're not evil people, they don't need to be doxxed or torched... but it's a certain level of wrong to make promises you absolutely positively cannot deliver upon, and good will does not make such ignorance OK :-/

Sorry if that came harsh; I feel bad for Palmer... but hey, should we not feel worse for those who believed him and acted upon that belief??
Affordable RAID controllers end up being more failure prone than the drives attached to them.
I don't stress out over my taxes anymore, but just about everyone else I know does. Of say the 100 closes people you know, how many of them file on the last day, how many people ask for extensions, how many people give up and hire someone to do it for them? That alone should speak volumes.
Mostly, though they added tracking prevention, which is industry standard on every browser not made by the same company as DoubleClick.
Building Urgently Needed Products in Tight Time Frames
> You're essentially talking about adding a countering incentive away from investing in R&D, and toward paying shareholder dividends, which...why?

So shareholders can choose where to allocate those dollars? What's bad about that?
I assumed Facebook had already done this. Users are so naive for assuming it would never happen.
Sure there are, for Facebook shareholders.
Any time I see anything that suggests it's a good thing to keep wealth in a group comprising a tiny sliver of individuals at the top of the tree I die a little inside. As if anyone on this planet, at all, ever, needs more than, what, a million dollars? Five million?

But no, to suggest otherwise, shock horror, it's THE SOCIALISTS COMING.

Ah, America.
I also used Cello during my first online days during the summer of 1993. I worked as a summer intern at a company that had a connection to the internet. I was not really cleared for access to the connection, but I got hold of a shareware TCP/IP package for Windows (Trumpet Winsock) and an ftp client, which I used to connect to ftp.sunet.se, where I got hold of copies of both Cello and NCSA Mosaic. I remember that I preferred Cello over Mosaic for the first period. It was a bit cleaner and simpler.
> Where can you live that life without being an outcast?

Germany, for example. Yeah, sure, on paper you have to be "looking for work", but it's really on paper only.

> In an UBI society, those people could do something else and reduce the work load for everybody else.

They won't though. I live in a mixed income apartment complex, including lots of people on perpetual welfare with no desire to change their situation.

I keep reading about UBI from well-meaning people who explain how it will totally work and I believe that they actually believe that. I also believe that they have no experience with the people that live off of government transfers not because of necessity but because of laziness. It's enough for a nice apartment (50+ square meters for one person), a flat screen TV, an X-Box, a smart phone, internet, food, cigarettes and the occasional alcoholic beverage, healthcare etc included obviously. And that's enough for quite a significant amount of people. They won't "make the world better" if you give them more money, they'll just buy a bigger TV and throw more parties.

> At one point, you will be able feed the entire world from the work of a few persons.

Possibly. Let's talk about UBI when we're there. We're not, we're not close, and we won't be for decades, unless you're talking about 4 square meters per person and 2500 calories of nutrious slime with no extras. And nobody is talking about that.

Drop UBI and replace it with a job guarantee and you'll have my attention. That gets you essentially the same: everybody has enough, but it doesn't come with the moral hazards. On the other hand, it also doesn't reward the lazy.
Thanks for this. The tasks are a nice touch!
A great idea! BTW Amazon video do something similar through their X-Ray feature with cast details depending on who is on screen.
Try analyzing a TB of logs per day when all you really want is aggregated statistics. Or really any non-trivial amount of data, even 1GB is a problem.

If you want to know click paths you'll need additional data in your logs.

If you want to know how much time the average user spent reading an article on your blog, you are probably out of luck using logs.
I'm not necessarily skeptical of the overall trend, but I'd be very interested in a citation on this.
If only...

There were a number of browsers with "applets" in different languages later in the '90s, at least: Hotjava (however it was CapitalIzed) with Java, Grail with Python, MMM with Caml (light?), and something for Tcl (I think). You can find mention of them in the Emacs 21(?) browse-url code; well, maybe not the (why-you-should-not-use-) Tcl one. As far as I remember, nothing came of the proposed Guile version. There ought to have been one for NeWS, but I don't remember. Probably just as well Emacs/W3 didn't join in.

There were also languages with "distributed scope", as opposed to "mobile code", particularly Obliq, and maybe Kali Scheme. I'm not sure why the concept seems to have died.
https://pastebin.com/LFZBSdZi
the only dumb part is that they don't explain this in the linked help page. clearly users are looking for an answer of why they can't uninstall edge.

instead of the answer being you can't install edge because it's too awesome to be uninstalled, why not just tell people that you can't uninstall it because other apps would break.
Show HN: JSON Hierarchy Viewer – now get JSON hierarchy just on hover
mkws(1), POSIX compliant sh(1), fast, extensible, simple static site generator
ouch!

And, of course, even if TOU was cheaper when I switched, that doesn't mean it doesn't become unfavorable next time rates change.

We're grandfathered into a plan that gives us peak hours of 1-7pm where the new plans are 4-9pm peak. This works great for us with solar, because we make huge generation credits in that 1-4pm range when nobody's home to use power. (or, nobody WAS home before COVID). And we start our evening energy usage after 7pm as we return home from work + outdoor 'after work' activities. The 9pm end for peak hours would definitely hurt us.

OTOH, we have an EV now, so even charging off-peak at, say, 18c is relatively expensive vs the really cheap EV plans that give you good overnight rates. We've got an 11.5kW charger so I'd really love a stupid-cheap rate between, say, 2-4am. But if we switch to an EV plan, the costs go up the rest of the day.

Another perverse thing I've found; your net metering credits under NEM2.0 are on a per-month basis. This is AWESOME in the summer when we generate solar credit at more than 2x the 'value' as we burn them charging the car at off-peak.. but in the winter, when we don't generate much, we get into tier 2 pretty damn quickly.
Thanks. I'd assumed idris2 would replace idris so I didn't try searching for anything else. I've just grabbed it, thanks very much for the tip.
Sounds to me he violated the rules by offering free services to the guy WHILE he was in the Apple Store. Otherwise how would anyone else know about it and report it to his boss?
Facebook and everything associated with it is doing everything they can to be and remain GDPR compliant.

Facebook has already been fined under the GDPR so it looks like that enforcement is working.
Node.js community finally prodded to patch Chromium XHR bug
Radio stations used to sell cheep AM radios that were only tuned to their station and the government outlawed them.
Is Google really in this dire a position? I find it hard to believe.
Billionaires would still be doing just fine if they were cut in half over 60 years. The point is that right now they are freezing the economy by hiding most of it's energy in their private storehouses. Imagine what we could accomplish if those glaciers of personal wealth were melted down and distributed throughout the rest of the economy.
> But I suppose that's better than 3+ years of famine during the Great Leap Forward

Maybe there's something in between communism at one extreme and survival-of-the-fittest-style capitalism on the other?
Yeah. :( I used to have a lot more respect for pg, but he seems to have finally jumped the shark with this one.
You're just paying the markup for a domestic retailer to sell you the same thing you can buy on Aliexpress.

I've done returns on Aliexpress before. I didn't have to send anything back and I got a 100% refund.
Second this. If you have nuanced usage of AWS, then minting credentials (hopefully through grant-only roles with expiry) on the reg is the way to go, but for so many cases, people don't need AWS access. They need to do <some thing> where it would be trivial to wrap the thing in a safe and sane, auditable manner.
Recertified/Refurbished drives are never worth it IMHO.
sure. instead of selling the stock and realizing capital gains, this seems like a much saner option.
Uber’s $25-a-month subscription service is now available across the US
>See also https://twitter.com/halvarflake/status/1295283922117566464?s.... - I tried to ask @rabois for the source of a claim, and got crickets in return.

Maybe you missed it but he replied to you with this NPR article on Europe's wealth taxes, from which he sourced his comment:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/26/698057356/if-a...
I would be very much in support of a regulation that requires every single product to display the carbon footprint required to produce it and, where applicable, the carbon footprint of using the thing per year.

Doesn't necessarily solve our problem here, but it might help the larger situation and with potentially bipartisan support (economic right positions rely on the consumer being able to make educated choices).

I absolutely agree with a carbon tax and a land tax to push the prices in the right direction. From what I recall, American meat is subsidized by the government, making it cheaper than anywhere else. I expect removing those subsidies would also have the support of anyone not bribed by the meat industry.

All too often, controversial opinions dominate the conversation because they get people talking. I think there's a lot we can do to improve things by working together across political lines.
Even if it is in the contract the court would not necessarily side with you unless you can show that you were somehow wronged because of this. "They made me look bad" may not be sufficient.
Isn’t it DMCA for “Digital Millenium Copyright Act” (not DCMA)?
Cello didn't have Viola's salient features, did it?
Shifts to passive voice make me immediately wonder what the speaker is trying to hide. I notice it immediately and it grates.
itch.io is a great place to get drm free (indie) games.
> (and probably does a lot of data mining)

Not just data, either. A year ago or so, Razer was pushing a cryptocurrency miner along with their driver package:

https://www.razer.com/eu-en/softminer
If I'm reading most of these comments correctly it's that it doesn't matter if he was lied to, he should have known that this is how the world works.

"should have known" is what most of these comments are talking about. As a thought experiment assume he was lied to, most of these comments are talking about the ignorance and whether it was sincere. Was he this naive or is it easy to be this naive (i.e. self imposed ignorance) when there's a deal to be made.
Google (Alphabet) has two different stocks you can buy, one of which doesn’t have voting rights.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052615/whats-differ...
Startups are hard, even in good times. Take a year off.
It just seems wrong in that case to to say that X is network transparent. The real concern is that OpenGL 1.0 was capable of running over the network, and in order to use it effectively application developers had to take network operation into consideration, and the server had to support the non-standard extension required to use it correctly. In some circumstances using display lists locally could actually reduce performance, so the application may not have wanted to take that path in all cases: https://www.opengl.org/archives/resources/faq/technical/disp...

Generally if your application has any code that does this:

if (client is remote)
...
else if (client is local)
...

Then I wouldn't say the protocol you're using is network transparent.
> % of a video watched

I would consider that to be private information regardless of the reason. Why should eg Youtube know where I stopped in the video?

> would be broken on the server side due to player buffering.

Would it, really?

You don't think that you can tie together "this much of video was buffered and _possibly_ displayed" is useful information?

You don't think that "60 seconds of a 10 minute video was buffered and _possibly displayed_, and another 30 seconds of buffer was requested every 30 seconds for 5 minutes" is useful information?

You don't think that you can determine that the user stopped watching the video after between four-and-a-half to five-and-a-half minutes of the video had played?
http://web.archive.org/web/20200818195415/https://pastebin.c...
What you are referring to are embedded assets. Embedded assets are different than trained spies in intel or counter intel. A trained spy may be a handler of assets but they generally do intel work themselves and usually have some form of cover. A trained agency spy will undoubtedly be able to beat a poly and are trained to do so, on a regular basis. While the accuracy of a poly is too low to be usable for the discerning of truth, they do work to some degree. They are better at telling what you said was true than they are at telling what you said was a lie. So generally if a question is asked and you don't pop then it is fairly safe to assume that you told the truth. Where their completely fail, is sometimes they will pop when you are telling the truth and you can train yourself to not set off the machine when you lie. The problem is it works on the right kind of person in a clean room setting, but that is never the real world, there are just too many variables that are not handled for it to be anything other than a psychops tool, where it just becomes a loose guide on where to dig deeper.

Fun fact, lie detectors are completely ineffective on compulsive liars.
> You might argue that this is realm of the "Estate Tax", but that is a different topic.

What? Why? This is pretty squarely in the realm of how to taxa transfer of wealth. The wealth tax is a really ham-fisted way to solve this problem.

> It is not difficult to take extremely large "loans" (loans are not taxed) against assets that you own, in order to avoid actually selling the asset.

Even if one were to take a collateralized loan, it would need to eventually be repaid, and for this to happen, some gain would have to be realized somewhere. That money isn't free. No matter what, that wealth is eventually taxed.
This isn’t a 3-5 year old phenomenon.

I don’t think there are many people that are cognizant in how to break their social graph.

I’ve seen a few other hackernews comments corroborating it over the past year. But it isn't a common case so Facebook gets away with it.
thanks for those thoughts!

- I'm with you on point #1. Obviously could be a source of good research, but also, it probably depends on policy. How many undos do you want to preserve? Even a one-headed VSCode instance only saves so many undos. You could probably hybrid CRDT with a consensus algorithm like raft to perform compactions.
If you have a system that can efficiently deal with a drive dying without losing data then it makes sense to weight availability and cost higher over reliability.

For home users a dead or dying drive is such a headache that it's usually worth spending the extra bucks on something that is less likely to fail on you.
"Semicolons are optional as a statement terminator"

Deal breaker