skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m open to just about any kind of tax system as long as it’s fair (not necessarily equitable)
and most importantly it’s simple. Complicated tax systems benefit only the very wealthy. Simple tax systems are much harder to game.
The CEO of Crossfit as a recent example.
> You don't fix this by penalizing people that are successful.

Let's start at people who's net worth are > 1 billion then. That's 607 people in the USA. IMO worth it, considering their outsized political power.
This is not a use case anyone serious cares about.

Data retention for ciphertext where the keys, stored and distributed elsewhere, have been deleted/zeroized, is a complete non-issue.
> the tax would never be more than the annual net return of the farming activities.

Doesn't that end up being nothing more than an income tax? Presumably the intent of a wealth tax is to capture from the benefits people have from holding things that do not normally return an income, such as housing. In fact, housing property is already taxed in many jurisdictions for that reason, so maybe not the best example of where a new wealth tax would benefit, but you get the idea.
You should ask your doctor about Trump Derangement Syndrome - you might suffer from it.

You're no different from those who called Obama a Kenyan Muslim who wanted to install a dictatorship in the US using FEMA death squads confiscating guns in the wake of Operation Jade Helm[1].

To use a popular slogan from Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016:

"The election isn't rigged, you're just losing."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theori...
GOG's weird position on Linux users quacks like a duck in my opinion.

The quotes have a real Tim Sweeney vibe to them.
I think the same thing happens with the "Random" button. Results are always at https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/out3.png
$100 doesn't sound worth not having to use a facebook account to me. you can just make a bogus one with no info on it.
As someone noted above -- that 2 years is the statutory warranty period for the EU.

They are setting that time limit so existing users can't call to return Oculus saying "I don't agree to these terms" because _they aren't terms yet_ for that user. But by the time they finally require you to log in with the account, it will be impossible to refund because you are outside the legal warranty period for both US and EU.

It's planned exactly to trap people who already bought so that some percentage will "give in" and just log into Facebook so that they don't suddenly have a VR device (and VR library) that's not worth anything to them anymore.

There are far more people who will do this than those that won't, and that's a portion that COULD have returned it if Facebook was allowing them to.
Some additional options: staying with your parents; inheriting the property; marrying someone who owns a property.
Personally I use NextCLoud for things like Notes[1], while it is a web app it is self hosted. Obviously this means you then need to run NextCloud yourself which is an entirely different problem.
Are Giant Pandas Herbivores or Carnivores?
> We will take steps to allow you to keep using content you have purchased, though we expect some games and apps may no longer work.

Complain as much as you want about Steam, at least they are a games store and store only.

I don't know why anyone would buy games from the Oculus store.
You've actually got it backwards.

Releasing model weights has been common for a long time, it was OpenAI that regressed and refused to release its GPT models until it released GPT-3 hidden behind a semi-public API. The google BERT models are released pre-trained in full (as mentioned in the article), you can easily play around with them on your own.

BERT isn't a forward LM like GPT, so it's a little less easy to play with for the uninitiated - although there are papers showing text generation with BERT.
In 2004, yes. 16 years ago. I'd hate to be judged for immature statements I made nearly two decades ago.
Wow, that's exactly what I was asking for :) Thanks!
You can share so less people rent or going back to your parents place (common in Spain for example, in where families use to live in the same city)
Those positives turn to negatives if you care about privacy - they help Oculus muscle privacy-respecting alternatives out of the market.
Inflation will take care of it
I assume this is the monorail that's still in operation in Wuppertal?[1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTxTqWr-xiA
I separated the cost issue so it wasn't lost in the other wall of text.

I use a DCFSA (https://www.fsafeds.com/explore/dcfsa) to pay for it. Au pair expenses are a valid expense for this. Our marginal income tax rate is around 35%, so this helps a lot.

Without DCFSA:
Pre-tax Cost: ~$32,300
Post-tax Cost: $21,000

With DCFSA:
Pre-tax Cost: $21,000
Post-tax Cost: ~$13,650

This is all an estimate of course (like increased insurance or rent on a larger place can't be paid for using a DCFSA), but it makes the point. So I think of the cost as around $13,650 for 45 hours / week, 50 weeks / year, 2250 hours in total. No matter how many kids you have.

If that big chunk is hard to swallow, the agency fees are ~$8000, and most agencies will let you break that up into a payment plan. The au pair is paid $200 each week, so that ~$10,000 is naturally spread out. The remainder is what we estimated our additional costs to be, like food, insurance, etc. and that gets spread out as well.
I'm failing to see the reason for outrage here. Apple won't allow removing Safari from macOS without turning off system protection and then it will get reinstalled next OS upgrade. Heck you can't even remove the chess game on macOS without turning off system protection.
> Covid has created an atmosphere where certain questions are not allowed to be asked

I find that unacceptable so let's talk.

Long story short I think that the economy will pick up again once this all blows over and that whatever negative consequences there are from a lockdown are still better than hundreds of thousands of people dying.

One person dying is objectively worse than one person going bankrupt, this is ethics 101.

I realise now that I'm doing exactly what you were criticizing (lamenting deaths) but I'd really like to hear your counter argument.
That’s a great question. I think of them as teams that a) help proactively onboard customers (ie ensure they get what they paid for) and b) monitor accounts to determine how to help them get the most from your product + upsell new features.

So it’s not quite customer support and it’s not quite cold sales. There’s healthy debate about the scope of the team though!
Of course it is easier. But putting nature first would create the difference between how nature works and the way people think. I was wandering if we would be better off if we remove the difference by removing nature itself.
I’m going to make a crazy assertion. Since the wii was just a souped up GC the GC platform was the best selling platform over two generations of consoles.
Also, some Swiss cantons have made special tax deals to get billionaires to reside there. Or at least that happened at least once.
The team that aims to make sure that people who are currently giving you money, keep giving you money.
I don't get that at all.

Mpow makes cheap waterproof wireless earphones. I've bought 2 pairs, the first gave up after a few years of brutal workouts.

They sound horrible, but they are waterproof and cheap. They have the $20 workout bluetooth headset market on lockdown.

Why would they even bother to pay for reviews?
AOC effectively prevented Amazon from establishing a second headquarters in NY.

> the Dem Establishment seem to consider her a dangerous extremist

They invited her to speak at the Dem convention. That makes her mainstream.
They probably want to cut down on people reselling their accounts with the games in them. That's what I did when I sold my oculus during the quarantine. Why shouldn't I be able to resell my games just because they're digital now?
4 - Spain, Norway, Switzerland, and Belgium. I don't think it has stopped very wealthy people living in Switzerland or Norway in particular - but also I'm not sure how significant revenue it raises for the state.

I think it's becoming quite clear though that we need some more taxation on capital, particularly the rent-seeking kind, and more levelling of the playing field particularly in the field of education, which is primarily funded through taxes.
Agreed.

Luckily my favorite purchases are on steam and 2 years gives me plenty of time to move on from my rift. I'm not going to be forced to use facebook.

Last thing I need is a remote exploit on my tracking cameras and facebook telling them exactly who and where I am.
This is super interesting, because the land registry in Barcelona reflects something like 25% of market value today for cadastral value, and was even less before their recent adjustment (+50% in my case) a couple years ago.
How's that old saying goes? If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is
Keyboards are awfully similar to how they were in the 90s, is I think the salient point. Representing the symbols in the source isn't now an issue really, but typing them still would be.
It's not just a decentralized network, it's an open membership decentralized network, i.e. anyone can be a node, and any compatible software can be used to run a node.

What the parent posters are saying is that there's no way to trust that your (encrypted) data won't end up landing on the hard drive of someone who chooses to capture everything that passes through said hard drive.

Whether the node itself keeps the data is kind of immaterial, if there's no technical limitation preventing the owner of the node from keeping your data.

But also, as an open-membership decentralized network, there's also no real way to incentivize node implementations to obey deletion requests.

It's helpful to think about peer-to-peer networks as if every node was programmed from scratch by the person or organization running it, to do exactly and only what that person/organization wants it to do. (Not true, obviously, but the incentives behind there being a free market of p2p node software work out similarly to if it was.)

In such an environment, why would a given node owner want to add a "read a deletion-request log, and actually-delete everything mentioned in it" feature to their node in particular? Especially if they weren't a party with their own private data stored that they were interested in ever deleting, but instead were only on the network to make money hosting other people's stuff; or because they wanted to insert public data sets onto the network?
Auth0 is also awesome
Haven’te we heard less of friends and family rounds because there has been an exponential increase in seed funds?

People got wealthy invested into funds or started funds and are now committing capital back.

Having a hard time raising money is an issue but that’s because 90% of companies fail. As such that is too risky for a bank to lend into so you need to go to other segments.
It's really ironic that they are regressing and keeping their research behind a curtain when the entire pretense for their existence (and their name) is to open things up.
What is Wasabi doing different where they're able to outprice B2, and get better throughput?
Not to mention his demonstrated history of putting his foot in his mouth. This is hardly the first time he was later proven wrong on something he originally promised.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4gfpjk/palmer_lucke...
This is something that still completely baffles me about the "IoT"/"smart devices"/"connected devices"/"whatever you want to call it" space.

If someone advertised a device as capable of doing X without it in fact being able to do X, they'd be liable for false advertising.

If someone sold you a device, then took it back or destroyed it, they'd be liable for theft or destruction of property.

Nevertheless, if someone sells you a connected device and then completely alters the rules by which the device operates at an arbitrary point in time after the sell, that's perfectly fine.

Have we really given up basic consumer rights that easily?
Same. Two people in the house each with only one desk for work and personal use.

I work 9-5. I close my work laptop at 5pm, and ignore all notifications outside that time.

There are a few things that help, I guess:

1. I have no real motivation to work into the evening. It's not like making yet another CRUD app is that interesting. But, there's also no pressure from my job to work long hours.

2. There's tons of stuff I want to get to outside of work, whether it's exercise, video games, TV, reading, cooking/baking, napping, personal projects, or whatever

3. My GF and I always eat dinner at the table together, which helps keep us accountable.
Noticing Stuckness Is a Superpower
Close the laptop at exactly 5PM every day no matter what you're doing, and don't open it again until 9AM the next day. Zero exceptions. It can wait.
I liked the image on the home page, how can I create such an image to show case my product? only way is PS?
> loan

People borrow $300,000 all the time to buy a house.
Yeah I know about those. Robert Shiller was behind this project, in his mind many mortgages should be bundled with a put option on such an index. I agree. Needles to say his idea didn't catch on.

Here I was thinking about shorting specific homes, those for which one of the parent comments implied that their value is substantially lower than the current asking prices. It's a very futuristic idea, though not entirely impossible. If you're long on something then lending that thing out to a short seller is profitable because he has to pay you the lending fees (usually up to a few % per year).
makes it easier to browse all the hilarious signs people are making - they should implement a gallery. I'm having more fun with this than I should be.
Both the US and Soviet Union basically stole rocket tech and rocket scientists from Germany after WW2. The only reason the US and soviet governments supported and funded those rocketry efforts was due to the military and intelligence benefits.
I made a burner account to be able to login into certain sites that requires fb login. After 2 months without a phone number they disabled it, and since my email was also a burner they removed it. I had then to create an actual email account, and give them my phone number (I don't have a burner number) to be able to activate the account again. Besides my phone number, nothing else is real in there, even my profile image is from one of those "this person does not exist" sites.
Scrum Is Not for Humans
As a VR developer I'm really sad to hear this news. I've always been against the walled garden approach. I feel like it's only a matter of time before they block SideQuest.

However - supposedly your oculus account will be valid until the end of 2022 [0]. At that point you could change to a newer hardware platform from another manufacturer.

[0] https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-facebook-account-required-ne...
Apple has closer to $93b[1] on hand vs. $1t quoted.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/balance-sheet/
Just want to say I appreciate how civil you've been and thorough in replying to the comments. You've added so much knowledge and wisdom to this whole discussion I wish I could save all your comments.
Technology is made out of nature. Sooner or later, thermodynamics will have its way.
Cities After Covid: More Tech, Health and Open Spaces
That probably creates another loophole. Even if they (big cash rich companies) hoard cash, it isn't really sitting as cash. I could claim everything except my bank's liquid cash of reserve of 10% is "invested" somewhere
How to Start Reviewing Code
And worse, they all achieve the same goal in different ways...
Wicked cool comment. I hope others see it.
That’s today without atmosphere, liquid water and with a solidified core I’m not sure were close to estimating when the core has solidified as far as I know we also have no method for dating anything on mars.

When mars was wet, geologically a GI d and still had an atmosphere the temperatures would’ve been much closer to earth today.
The canonical example is probably the Maginot Line--to such an extent that it became a general metaphor for that sort of thing.
Did they really need Facebook's capital? The market was absolutely flooded with VC money, Magic Leap raised almost $3B since then.
It's true that a lot of wild catch still goes towards fishmeal; my point was simply that things are improving a lot there, at least for salmon (I presume it's the case for other species too, but I don't know that).
Hey Andy, I've got a question: I went to analyze your raw data dumps and saw a couple of things that I wanted to understand:

* A hard drive may go missing in the data from one day to the next without appearing as "failed" -- does this mean you've taken these hard drives offline for some reason?

* A hard drive may appear as failed one day, and then appear the next day with a failed=0 flag. Does this mean that these drives have been serviced and returned to the front lines?
That much cash-on-hand is typically stored in a bank. Banks needs cash reserves for lending. The money isn't sitting idle.
Is here a reason they don't just supply you with 5he encrypted data and give access to a tool to decrypt it?

This is the only thing putting me off backblaze
Path Dependence: the set of decisions we make is limited by our past experience
>The government's job is to protect the health and safety of the community, right?

Yes but we can't ignore the damage caused by lockdown.

Lockdown is not without downside, it incur immense cost and long term damage.

Lockdown is maybe justifiable if the threat is proportional to the severity.

>and force our healthcare professionals to have to make these kinds of decisions

That is normal part of being healthcare professionals.

>Should we not care about that?

Yes we should care about them, at the same time we shouldn't make the rest suffer.

Doesn't mean there is nothing that should be done, vaccine research still have to be done, finding treatment still have to be done, improving health care capacity still have to be done.
This has been a time to rethink how we understand the markets. Macro economic conditions are in no way back to normal. How can we be approaching all time highs? I would predict a market correction but what do I know? I am simply in shock with the state of the market. Maybe I underestimate the growth of retail investing?
They're all Arabs only in the sense that they speak Arabic. Syrians and Lebanese people are Levantine (with varying degrees of mixture with Arabs depending on subregion and religion - but the vast majority have primarily Levantine DNA). Nonetheless, modern DNA analysis can guess who is Lebanese and who is Syrian more often than not. The same goes for distinguishing a Nord from a Swede.
Shamir's Secret Sharing Step by Step
Doctoral students are absurdly good value for money, especially in nations that have a high density of high prestige universities, and they both train the workforce, and are trained. So I think it's an obvious move for states (especially ones with a ton of grand old universities) to milk that for all its worth. It's a way of transforming historical prestige, and a smattering of cash, into a competitive economic advantage.

I guess the flipside of this is that, for a business, it makes way more sense to give money to a university than it does to start your own lab. You'd be paying real (and probably decent) wages to people who wouldn't be nearly as motivated as the phds who do the same work for less than minimum wage.
Leaving aside George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford, and a few other aristocrats, the latest-born of the descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt is James Vanderbilt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Vanderbilt), currently worth by somebody's estimate $20M. The family also includes Anderson Cooper, a fair stock of earls and such, and a number of artists.
"Giant bull market in the 1980s" more generally speaking
I generally don't have this problem (I've been working mostly from home for 3 or 4 years now), but here are some things that can be helpful. You'll probably note a theme of "boundaries". This isn't all that different conceptually from setting healthy boundaries in order to maintain a work/life balance in normal office-going times, but some of the specifics can change when you're working and living in the same space.

* Have a separate computer for work and personal stuff. Don't have your work email/Slack/whatever signed in and loaded on your personal computer.

* Delete work apps/accounts (Slack, work email) from your phone. Especially now since you're home nearly all the time, you don't need them on your phone anyway. If you're signed into any web apps on your phone, sign out of them.

* Set yourself time limits. You work between X:00 and Y:00 every day. When Y:00 comes, you shut down the work computer and do something else. If this is too inflexible, set yourself a 30-60 minute range, and when you hit the beginning of that range -- set an alarm if you need it -- be mindful of what you're working on and make sure you can wind it down by the end of the time period. You can also try to schedule phone/video calls or other socially-distant activities for right around your stop time to force you to stop and get into another mindset.

* When work is done, put everything work-related away. If you tend to keep paper notes or use a whiteboard, find a place to put them so you can't see them.

* When you stop working, go outside and go for a walk. It doesn't have to be long; just 30 or even 15 minutes is fine. Don't be on your phone while you walk. Just walk around outside and take in the atmosphere. (Obviously if you are in a COVID-vulnerable group, be careful, and don't go out if you don't feel comfortable with it.)

* Wear different clothes when you're working vs. not.

* I get that you have a relatively small space overall, but if you can keep a consistent work area (that you don't generally use for other non-work things all that much), try to keep to your workspace while working, and keep out of it while not working.

* In your free time, adopt activities that occupy your mind. Whether that's reading a book, learning a language, or whatever, it's up to you. Mindless web browsing will make it easy for your brain to drift back to work, but if you're doing something mentally engaging, it's more likely work thoughts won't intrude.
I just close the work's laptop and put in on the desk's drawer. Work's over until next day.
For people wondering: 68mm is about the same size as imax

https://youtu.be/BBNwiPgknn8?t=208
Cutting research is an overstatement: US federal R&D funding has been increasing, just at a significantly lower rate than GDP. Since it's ideas being created and not widgets, you'd expect the same number of researchers to create at least as much positive impact for society through idea generation.

It seems obvious that they haven't.

I don't think it's anything nefarious about government funding (or lack thereof) that did it; it's just we've already picked all the low hanging fruit. Plucking all the undiscovered ideas at the frontier of knowledge will be increasingly expensive, because if they were cheap to discover, we already would have.

Though I always wonder if there's some trove of cheap ideas hanging out somewhere...
This is why I love the Switch compared to all the other modern consoles. When I try to use a PS4 or an Xbox it feels like I'm fighting to be able to play - 10's of GB's of updates that take hours to "copy" after download, slow system updates, games that need to install for an hour after you put in the disc, etc. etc.

The Switch is the first console I've used in years where it seems like the maker of the console actually wants me to play games.
Wait, wait, wait a minute. In the same comment, you are claiming that Facebook is GDPR compliant, and that Facebook was fined for violating the GDPR. It sure seems like there is a major contradiction between those two.