skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay and do you think that there's an analogy with Rosa Parks who also intentionally broke the law to highlight how it was unfair?

There are a number of facets in common here:

1. What is legal is not necessarily what is right.

2. You can intentionally break a rule/law and then use the press to highlight your case.

Maybe you would disagree with Rosa Parks and the civil rights movement's methods as well, and that's fine, certainly many people did disagree at the time (more then than now though).

I'm just pointing out that there are parallels in history for this kind of intentional rule-breaking and subsequent PR campaign.
That is an absolute monster of a page, and while the JS is slow, that's not even where the problems begin. This thing is 1.5 MB of HTML, which takes 3-4 seconds just to download on my gigabit connection (it doesn't appear to support compression, which might help a lot).
There is a good argument for treating income earned over a period of greater than one year, even if realized in one moment, differently than income earned within a year in a system of progressive annual taxation, which is (inasmuch as there is one) the fairness argument for favorable treatment of long-term capital gains (it misses other kinds of extended payoff income and is not perfectly targeted in the case of LTCG, though.)

So, yes, you should treat capital income the same as other income, but you should also address the fairness issue.

The best way I see of doing that is replacing favorable treatment of long-term gains with (1) unlimited ability to recognize gains in advance of realization for tax purposes, and to apply any such unused advance-recognized gains against current income for tax purposes, and (2) generous, but limited, ability to defer recognition of “windfall” gains for tax purposes. This would also avoid giving the favorable treatment appropriately due to non repeatable income to those with large capital assets that they can structure to provide continuous stream of “long-term” gains if the system is going to give them a tax break to do it that way.

And, unlike throwing a wealth tax on top, this would be an overall simplification of the tax system compared to the status quo.
For me, the core is not that you can't "recognize" a face, it's that it is very very hard to form a memory of a face. It's not in the storage, it's in the retrieval.

For example, if I try to picture a person's face, even someone I know well, it's kind of fuzzy. It is hard to describe, but again, it's more like you can't quite remember a face, more than you can't recognize a face.

So, I put faces together into mini-shapes. Nose-shape, hair-shape, eye-shape, teeth shape (how I recognize Kathereine Heigl), etc. I can't put together a whole face into memory, but I can group these mini-shapes, features, etc. into a "faceprint" of sorts.

The main thing I use though is sound/voice. I can recognize voices to an extremely precise degree, all the time in shows/movies, I can recognize actors in costume, full masks, animated movies, etc. without problem. I am sometimes fooled, actually, by people with similar voices, and I'm always saying "these people sound so much alike they should be cast as twins" to which everyone of course thinks I am crazy.

(Orphan Black is an exception because the lead in that show changes her voice with the different characters so it keeps me guessing).
One symptom of overfishing is seeing a lot of fish below reproductive age.

If you see this, you are seeing fish that could not reproduce. This is not sustainable.

Once I bought canned fish and saw 3 small fish instead of one regular fish inside.
In all cases memory exists as compression. If the memory is completely absent then we're talking about something that doesn't exist, there's no point.
>> India and China are not going just stop using coal in the middle of their economic expansion

Why not ? Both these countries need foreign investments and free trade with the industrialize world. Could the OECD countries not coerce them into capping carbon emissions ? As long as Carbon emission caps are fair -- that means accounting for the fact that the bulk of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere came from the OECD countries.

However, Carbon taxes is a four letter word in North America. Sometime back , I saw a pickup modified to emit black soot -- here in Ontario Canada of all the places.
is trout really sustainable when you need to feed more fish than you can get out of the fish?
Only because Switzerland doesn't have the typical 'Foundation' structure as found in the US. For all intents, it's a nonprofit Foundation but since they're now domiciled in Switzerland they use the "Association" nomenclature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_association

From their registration:

> The purpose of the association is the promotion and development of free or open source hardware and software technologies and applications for use on computer systems with a focus on the development and implementation of a free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture (Instruction Set Architecture, ISA). The association pursues a non-profit and not a financial, self-serving or commercial purpose. For this purpose, the association can, among other things, promote and finance research and development initiatives and other activities and participate in other companies or cooperations that are geared towards the main purpose.

https://www.zefix.ch/en/search/entity/list/firm/1429598
Obvious question: how do you filter out bot traffic with server side logs? What percent of visitors are bots anyway?
Startup founder wealth comes from VCs. The reason people found startups in California is because that's where the VCs are. If you drive away the VCs, you will drive away the founders as well.
Also I presume most cable companies know the rules / try to follow them and etc. Maybe, maybe not, but at least you'd be somewhat insulted from that.
I doubt that's the reason. Like some FAANGs do with stocks, can't you always deduct a part of RSUs as tax liability and add the remaining into the employee's account?
What you're saying is that critical thinking is required to determine morality. That is indeed true.

To oppose a wealth tax on majoritarian grounds you need to demonstrate that the wealthy are oppressed in some way. Simply saying "but majoritarianism" is not sufficient, and appealing to Jewish oppression is plain whataboutism.

I'm not advocating for guillotines or whatever. Simply that a small percentage of individual wealth over a certain amount (say $10MM) be redistributed to the rest of society. The end result of this is that individuals are still going to be able to hold $10MM even if the wealth tax redistributed 100% of the rest of their wealth. They will still be incredibly rich and not have any meaningful financial constraints on their lives.

Calling this oppression is absurd.
What's struck me is how much of the current browser functionality was established by this time: graphics, tables, scripting, bookmarks, and stylesheets. But also the missing elements: the notion that browsed content would be persistently available, for example, was and remains absent. Understandable posibly in an age of 100 MB main storage, less so with terabyte-sized disk common.

Management of the browsed corpus is also apparently out of scope.
Yah. I too like the concept of 3-D space. But...

Thinking about what I've seen so far I doubt it.
What is the meaning of "public access" here? Gated, guarded and "operated" spaces, where you need to be paying customer for some venue, or buying a ticket?

The places themselves fenced/glass walled in to discourage suicides, stupid people throwing things down from high up, even if "only" a coin?

I mean, look at anything which comes to your mind right now, where people can go high above anything else where other people are below them. It varies, but often it is heavily fenced/walled to protect the people below.

And lastly, think of "reckless youth", and how groups/gangs of them tend to ... err ... impose dominance over places they consider "theirs".

Would you want to be there?
> Tenants have substantial legal protections

This is not universally true, and varies state by state (and even city by city).
> It does not have a meaningful source of funds that is at the sole discretion of the EU parliament - imagine the US federal government with a budget that is decided by the 50 individual states.

We don't need to imagine that - it's exactly how the USA worked under the Articles of Confederation.

But the only solution to that involves significant transfer of sovereignty from member states to the federal structures. And it doesn't feel like most EU member states are willing to go there.
Apple of 13 years ago had just released the iPhone (or was about to release it), so it was a pretty different company.
You forget how instrumental his lawyer father was in creating the first software license agreements and how his family financed the mainframe computing time he was given before any teenager had ever had access to these machines.

His biography is quite clear on how lucky he was and how much his parents contributed to his success. Denying it is perpetuating a myth of a self made billionaire that simply isn't true.
Drop a concrete block with a blade - and the bottom trawling is over..
> Oh and we need you to sign off on it

Then you say "no". Business "needs" are important for replaceable serfs with no power to say otherwise; when the business needs engineering sign-off, you tell them what they needs to do.
A 2% wealth tax taking 70% of your income pretty modest compared to how, in an era of economic prosperity, the US had a 70% marginal income tax.
What makes you think those non-voters would vote in favor of policies to solve climate change? I bet each one of them would be just as likely to be a climate change skeptic as the Americans who currently vote.
> can't you just avoid Apple and buy phones that are easier to repair? That's how market works.

It is absolutely not a market if Apple is suing people for engaging in voluntary trade.

You can feel free to not support markets, if you don't like. It sounds to me like you do not support free markets.

But please do not pretend that it is a free market, when Apple is literally suing people, for engaging in voluntary trade regarding devices that they own.
> We can just open up right now, if the government and especially media communicated the severity of covid realistically and appropriately.

I’m curious, do you mind being more specific about what “realistically and appropriately” means in this context? Exactly how did the media miscommunicate the severity of COVID?

> Flu kills thousand of people as well, flu causes long term damage as well but yet doesn't cause this kind of panic.

Influenza killed just over 34,000 Americans last year. We are currently sitting at 170,000 deaths, and could see 300-400k dead by the end of this year. That’s roughly 10x what we see in a typical flu season. It’s unarguably the worst public health crisis in 100 years. What about this shouldn’t have people concerned?
>I sure wish a tech billionaire would do something about this.

The only way a tech billionaire can stop it is to facilitate the development of low carbon energy sources and industrials.

This is literally part of Tesla's mission. There are huge numbers of investors pushing hard on CCS, battery, solar, wind, grid etc.

Biotech and ag-tech are pushing hard on technology to lower the carbon footprint of faming.

And industrials are looking hard are low carbon steel, aluminum and cement manufacturing (huge co2 footprint here).

The climate change freight train is in motion. Technology is the ONLY WAY OUT.
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Why do you think AOC has any actual power at all?
This is a remarkable statement.

If everyone would just cut down on meat, even avoid it a few days of the week, it would make an enormous positive impact. Same goes for seafood.

From the perspective of someone who eats meat twice a week or so, it's absurd to hear people say they couldn't do it. Yeah, they could.

Of course, with governments subsidizing the hell out of the meat industry those $0.99 McDonalds specials will keep encouraging everyone to eat it 3x/day...
PG is assuming the stock doesn't grow at all in this article (in 60 years!). Let's say it grows at 8% a year, which is pretty conservative. If you started at $1 million, with a 1% wealth tax, at the end of 60 years you would have $55 million.

Warren's plan was a 2% wealth tax over $50 million. Let's say you start at $50 million, and that grows 8% a year, and you get taxed 2%. At the end of 60 years, that's grown to 1.5 BILLION.
Yes, and indeed it works:

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/10/menace.html
Out of curiosity where did you move to?
The idea is that it's a technology to unlock the free space on the hard drives you and I own, which we're currently not monetizing at all. I'm not sure that even that ends up working, but it's not meant to scale indefinitely.
For personal projects I tend to write all the CSS and components myself. I just like being able to control everything down to the pixel without reading some documentation. But that's just my workflow. I say just use whatever gets the job done. The only thing I used was Bootstrap grid for responsive layouts. Tailwind CSS is pretty popular.
This, like reproducibility in machine learning workflows, is one of those things that needs to be baked in at the start or will become a complete nightmare.
Wiimmfi is closed source software, however. If you actually want to look at how the internals worked, the independent altwfc project[1] may be much more interesting.

[1] https://github.com/barronwaffles/dwc_network_server_emulator...
Is AOC either politically or culturally elite?
Apple at least has a good track record of making newer iOS wirk on hold devices... I think they go back ~5 years? Same cannot be said for most Android devices.
The price of a stock tomorrow? Just ask
But that doesn't answer the complaint. The original idea of income tax was also that only the wealthy would pay, not the middle class. Yet here we are.

Tax rates for the wealthy were cut? That's great, for them. Were tax rates cut for the middle class? Did any of the lower class no longer have to pay income tax? That's what would be a response to nemo44x. (What would be a response to me would be for there to be no income tax for anyone in the lower 90% of income. That would be back to the original intent, and would reverse all the years of scope creep.)
I just love the domain name. :)
Nobody cares what you have to say: self doubt and me
Citizens United was not about buying politicians: it was about a group of citizens wishing to show a movie critical of a politician. How is that not legitimately-protected speech?
> All due to runaway global warming acidifying the ocean with CO2

Err, what? My understanding is ocean acidification is a contributing factor, but that the primary cause of coral bleaching is the warming directly, not acidification [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coral_Bleaching.jpg
This comment made me realize the original Portlandia episode with Colin the Chicken is a decade old already.

Surprising to me that year-round veggies is so hard even with modern methods/greenhouses.
> Art receptions are generally a breeze. Tech conferences are the worst.

I and some friends had the funny realization awhile back that the sort of scene where people have colorful hair, tattoos, unusual piercings, etc etc, seems to attract more than its fair share of slightly-face-blind people. Which, on reflection, makes a lot of sense.
Just because the storage network is decentralized (i.e. I don't get to choose where the files are hosted) doesn't mean that the nodes operating on that network can't be designed to honor a deletion request. For example, Tardigrade (https://tardigrade.io) is an decentralized network that provides an S3-compatible storage layer and also provides a removal command for the client. (https://documentation.tardigrade.io/api-reference/uplink-cli...)
You can do this at a public company because the RSUs are liquid. They can be sold at market rate on the stock market, for cash, which is what's given to the government. The government doesn't want your illiquid startup shares.
Montana and Wyoming dry? Are you sure?
We gotta remain skeptical of all the tech monopolies that are currently in power. As a tech community, I feel we have a responsibility to push for open source and free software (and ideally, hardware as well).
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> The J is inscrutable!

J is an abomination. I have written about this before on HN and won't repeat myself too much here.

J came out of Iverson's failure to understand that the hardware limitations imposed by personal computers of the time would go away as platforms evolved. While he understood the value of notation (hence the famous paper and presentation I got to see live), he succumbed to wanting to come up with a way to make APL accessible to all those IBM PC users without having to resort to hardware tricks nobody would believe today (install a custom character ROM on your graphics card with a toggle switch on the case to switch between APL and standard character sets, etc.). The result was J, a transliteration of APL symbols into combinations of standard ASCII characters found on any keyboard of the time. The result was a complete loss of one of the most valuable aspects of APL, and, as I said above, an abomination.
It's not specific to reefs, although they may be hit hardest. Acidification and warming temperatures have much broader impacts on biodiverity. The point people miss is that fighting climate change is actually a fight to extend the amount of time before we have even more significant losses to biodiversity.

There are significant conflicts over water (https://reliefweb.int/report/world/editor-s-pick-10-violent-...). I'd expect those to extend to food too, and be acute in some regions.

I couldn't reply to the other poster (nogabebop23) that was making the point that they don't depend on reefs, but their point is moot because this is a global issue with different impacts at each latitude.
That's not actually true. Why didn't Bloomberg win the primary this year, for all his money?
Anti-competitiveness becomes worse, and illegal, if a market is larger.

Many practices which would be perfectly legally normally, become illegal if your company is large enough.

The market for iPhone apps is much much larger than the market for fortnite skins.

If the market for specifically fortnite skins was 50 billion dollars a year, then maybe you would have a point, but it is not.
Sure, but that seemingly-extra "revenue" or "growth" is not free - it comes with offsetting risks. Should people be taxed merely because they made a risky bet that happened to pay off for them?
(alert: has spoilers) It was sad to see that he supported and evangelized Apple for 24 years (FTA) and yet they dumped him with nary a thought for helping an elderly neighbor with a data transfer.
If there's one billionaire on the world I'd have no second thoughts about it's Elon Musk. I know I'll probably regret having said that in 20-30 years :)

Honestly, if there's one person on this planet which is furthering human future it's Elon Musk and his vision to have human habitats on other planets.

Facing climate change, wars, overpopulation etc.pp, if we had at least one other place other than earth - as hostile as it may be - and we start to sustain life there, all life on earth would suddenly be only one bet out of two (or more).
Mexico’s Giant Crystal Cave Comes to Light (2007)
To curtail and equalize the political power of the rich with the rest of world, their wealth have to be reduced to such an extent that they also don't have the leisure to engage in deep politics. Let's say, if 75% of the voting population has < $x and if even 1% has 3x of that, then they basically have 2x leisure buffer over everyone else to be more politically engaged and influence the small number representative politicians, to manipulate the narrative for the rest of the 75% etc.
Ask HN: IRL problems in computer networks?
For my final year project, I have a pretty broad topic: "Develop a software that attempts to solve a real problem in computer networks domain".

That being said, being an undergrad student, I have no clue what people's current pain points are with networking. So, can I get some suggestions for things I can look into for inspiration. Ideally issues where a one man party can attempt to make a dent over the course of next year or so.

(Over last few months I've been exploring WebSockets and WebRTC, while it's just been testing out features and checking out some projects, I enjoyed reading about communication beyond the regular HTTP model. If I were to choose, I'd try out something in this field. Then again, it's just because I've explored a bit of this field, and my opinion would probably differ were I to look into another sub-domain of internet technologies)
The other side of the coin are the inflated traffic statistics that include all kind of bots & crawlers with spoofed user-agent, and for low traffic sites like niche personal blogs with a custom domain it can be 90+% of the server-side logged visits.

How proud was the 15-year old me with my first .com domain, having over 100 visitors per day. Little did I know that the actual number of visitors was much, much less than that.
It's a bit micro-managey, but since my performance did drop substantially with WFH, I've been sending updates to my boss more frequently. It helps to keep me going on days when I'm struggling with motivation. At the end of the day, I don't want to send in a report that says: I did nothing.

My anxiety has also been a bit worse (understatement) through all of this (I don't do well in social isolation). I've also had to force myself to do what should be habit, but breaks down when stressed. When I'm stressed I have a hard time viewing an activity as a set of smaller activities, it becomes a monolith. This stresses me out even more, even for stupidly small tasks. So I'm explicitly writing down the steps I intend to follow, where in normal times I wouldn't have to. This gives me smaller, more tangible things to accomplish. I've also increased my accountability. Not just with the boss, but with colleagues. I'm writing a paper and I'm sending out short snippets to everyone periodically to review what I've done (as I'm still relatively new, their feedback is important anyways to ensure accuracy). So every couple of days I want a section completed (draft) to send out, and I take their feedback and update the previous sections. Repeat until done. Even if I only get a couple people sending me feedback it's something that helps.

Anxiety makes me hypercritical of my work. Getting positive feedback on my work gives me a bit of confidence back (it shouldn't be lacking, I'm a competent technical writer, but anxiety wrecks me). Seek out those small victories, and break things into smaller tasks to make them a bit more frequent. Waiting a month for feedback is not going to keep me motivated, but days or a week is perfect.

Another issue for me is just starting work. Once I'm moving I'm moving. The office gave me a delightfully crappy laptop for teleworking that struggles with even a handful of open applications, but I suffer the sluggishness and keep working copies open in the appropriate editor. Even small amounts of friction can have a major impact so removing it (by keeping the documents or source code or whatever) open and just an alt-tab away makes a big difference for me. I minimize reboots to once or twice a week (which really makes it struggle after a few days) for the same reason. Getting back into a good working state is friction, so always have the system in the proper state.
I don't get it either. Does Apple actually have a policy against doing something that the Store offers?
Something like 3lbs of wild caught fish as feed to produce 1lb of farmed salmon.
> getting out of the planet instead of fixing it

https://www.tesla.com/megapack