skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of weird incongruities in what you're saying here. First, how is an income tax more fair than a wealth tax? There is no guarantee at all that "people whose wealth is going up pay more than people whose wealth is going down.", let alone that the relative amounts of those items are fair. Additionally, wealth often accumulates via tax-advantaged vehicles that lower income individuals simply don't have access to.

Next, are you really implying that people will magically move to another country entirely because they can work remotely? The portion of workers who are even able to do such a thing, let alone likely to, is vanishingly small for many reasons (including, interestingly, income taxes).

And to your third point... again, you seem to not be aware of how estate planning works specifically to avoid paying taxes via things like trusts and inheriting shares in companies. Fixing inheritance taxation wouldn't come even close to being as effective as a wealth tax in preventing long-term accumulation of wealth with little economic input.

Here's where we're at: we have been trying income tax and the rich keep getting richer. Demonstrably and repeatedly. It isn't working, unless your definition of "working" is robber-baron era levels of economic disparity in America. If your proposed solution is variants of income taxes, well then you know the saying "define insanity". Wealth taxation is the only plan I've seen that logically prevents workarounds and actually serves to balance economic outcomes for Americans in the long term.
What impact have your decisions had on unsustainable farming practices? I'll wait
Researchers at Facebook AI, NYU Langone Push Speed Limits of MRI
> live in San Mateo and cut your rent in half

I think that's stretching... It's still very expensive in the burbs due to their proximity to big tech companies. I am not seeing rent be half in the peninsula compared to SF.
I hear that some smart TVs will seek out open Wifi networks and connect to them to get updates. So now your neighbours can (probably unknowingly) connect your smart TV to the internet for you.
There's always an analogue to hide the cash though. Rare metals are a good example of an investment that's useless to society.
I have infinite patience.

It doesn't matter if the tools are broken, the docs are missing/incomplete/incorrect, the API is non-sensical, the library is buggy, the service is unreliable, the support team is incapable, or the space around me is filled with hordes of ignorant and disrespectful people. These difficulties are temporary. Like smoke in the wind, they may block my view, sting my eyes, congest my nose, and make me cough, but will be gone soon. I keep moving on, away from the source of the smoke.

I move steadily toward my goal. My soul is enveloped in a shimmering cloud of dispassionate focused equanimity.
It’s a remnant of Gunpei Yokoi’s philosophy: lateral thinking with withered technology. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi

I find it refreshing that Nintendo has such strong opinions about these types of things, even when it’s to their detriment.

This philosophy is a part of why their products always feel like “toys” and inspire all the feelings that come along with that.
Really not sure what your point is here. Name cities in North America that have 10+ legitimate Burmese restaurants. If you want to try good Burmese food, it really helps to have local Burmese restaurants. The last time I was at a Burmese restaurant in San Francisco, the waitress told me a lot of the staff was in Burma for the month finding new flavors and ideas for recipes. In most cities there is no chance that the wait staff at your local ethnic restaurant is actively going back to Burma every year to get new recipes and ingredients.

Since you mentioned Vancouver, I searched for Burmese food on Yelp. Only 7 restaurants total come back total.

2 are "Burmese / Thai / Malaysian" Asian fusion places Three of 3 are a generic Asian chain called Noodlebox that has one item called "Burmese naan"
1 is a Thai restaurant with one "Burmese curry" dish
1 is a Vietnamese restaurant that mentions its near one of the Burmese / Thai / Malaysian fusion restaurants

So Yelp has 7 total Burmese restaurants in Vancouver, not one of them is actually Burmese, and almost all of them don't even have Burmese dishes (where is the tea leaf salad? Burmese naan doesn't count)

So you can act like San Francisco is just known for having a food scene, but when you don't even have access to many of the same world cuisines in other cities it is hard for me to take you seriously when you say its not a place for people who like "good food."

You know the majority of American produce is grown in California? Do the vegetables get better when they're shipped for a few days to the east coast?
I think the poster meant it as a colloquialism which itself was popularized (?) by Shakespeare; i.e. as a turn of phrase that inspired the title of Huxley's work.
Chinese cities find coronavirus in frozen food imports
I’d start from allowing multiple mutable references. Second would probably be something about relaxing lifetimes but I can’t properly articulate it right now.
Higher orbits are much more expensive to launch a satellite into. I think partially because of this, commercial imaging satellites will be in the range of 600-800km altitude unless there's a really good reason otherwise. So I don't think that distance would account for a very large factor.
Kid who didn't know better changes mind when new information is realised.

Not worth vilifying.
Not worth accolades for basic rational thought.

Palmer is meh. As other comments have pointed out, don't waste energy on the scapegoat.

Complain about the people in control - Facebook.
So can operational satellites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_maneuver

Moving to avoid potential collisions is relatively common.
>partially designed to scrape recipes from the web

How is this different from the issue that was discussed recently where Google were scraping CelebrityNetWorth data?
Comes with a great performance penalty, my (unverified) impression is that it's even slower than Qubes.
> IANAL but I don't think that's the test. If a person commits to not doing something as part of a valid contract that's all that matters.

A contract is a matter for civil law. Breaking a term of a contract doesn't automatically mean that a court will consider a remedy.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_(law)#Standing_requir...: in the US, "the plaintiff must have suffered or imminently will suffer injury".
I didn't know that. Unfortunately I can see the rationale in that...which saddens me. <sigh>

I appreciate your teaching me something I didn't know. But now I feel worse for us "little blogs". (Not your fault of course.)
A 65-inch computer monitor is expensive.
I do that too, but my brain isn't good at rotating large objects in 3D space (small ones are fine). So if I go through a familiar intersection in a different direction, I won't recognize it. Landmarks coming from another direction look different to me. :-/
Problem is that there is at least one smart TV that gets stuck in a boot loop when it goes to update it's ads and can't. Support in that case tells them to connect to the internet and it'll work (which ofcourse will grab the new batch of ads). There are plenty of other cases with smart TVs losing actual functionality when the server that serves ads is blocked and because it's an updateable service you can't really tell which smart TV will sting you.
Note that a doubling of inventory in SF still leaves SF with only half the per-capita inventory of New York. Even right now the market is ridiculously tight.

Note also that current inventory levels fall between 2009-2010 levels. Those were not years during which SF lost population.
I think your model holds but a key point that needs to be pointed out is that in a game, the game tells you how to win -kill a monster, find a item, etc. In life, there is no higher power to assign you an ultimate objective (unless you are religious).

Without this directive, your model holds, but there aren't principles for how one should distribute his/her stats. Why is it that one should strive to be ~uniformly distributed? As others have pointed out, in video games, often beating the game involves a min/max strategy. Even in real life, we see some people who do very well by going all in on 1 category (maybe work, or social) while forgoing others.
Piperade is a destination for Basque food
> with a blockchain, you're choosing to trust code and cryptography instead of a person. And when immutable code does the wrong thing, you can't trust them to fix it like you could a person.

There are soft and hard forks that do change the behavior of blockchains so I'm not sure I entirely agree with the premise of this argument. Help me out, what am I missing?
Well yes and no. California where I am is at will, which means the company can say hey, sorry do not need you and not give a reason. All good. However if they do give a reason then they are required to be able prove the reason is valid. Having managed a great deal of people I have been in situations where I would document any issues in detail, however at the end the company just did an “At Will” see yah termination as it is safer.

This is my understanding. IANAL or an HR person.
California’s first plague case in 5 years is confirmed in South Lake Tahoe
> You can be naive, but naive doesn't mean you go online and argue that people who know better are wrong, which is what he did.

Isn't this exactly what being naive means?
> Inequality in your country has risen dramatically the past 30 years.

Why should I or anyone care?
I know these comments are semi-discouraged, but I honestly found your response to be so insightful that I wanted to thank you for sharing your perspective. At least, it fits with what I've seen (GF in PhD program, stepdad has an extremely successful lab at a non-profit institute doing basic science research in immunology), but not seen stated explicitly.
Because society helps you grow your wealth faster. Better trained workers, happy and healthy workers, a functional medical system.

These are things that help your business create more wealth. As the grandfather comment said, it's wanting the 30c bonus without paying the 20c fee.
Doubling it won't even make it close to other markets. https://www.zillow.com/research/data/

Looking at it doesn't even make sense to me. I'm looking at "For-Sale Inventory (Raw, All Homes, Monthly/Weekly)" and getting the same numbers for the previous year in June. (Around 5,000-6,000) Where's this huge 96% increase...?
> Let's be realistic here. Iphone users don't have a choice of app stores, and the useful android options have a high technical barrier to entry. That's not a market, that's an oligopoly.

Let's be realistic here. FreeBSD users don't have a choice of package managers. It's pretty much PKG or nothing.

So what? Choice does not define an economic market. Competition does. Can't use Apple's AppStore on Android! Google is a monopoly!

These details do not matter. You have a choice. You want iPhone, you're stuck with AppStore. You want Android? You're stuck with PlayStore. You want FreeBSD? You're stuck with PKG. It has always been this way. Linux proper gives a few choices, probably dozens. macOS has the Mac AppStore, but also can use MacPorts, Brew, you can even use pkgsrc if you want. iOS is maintained as a walled garden for security. And, you can still jailbreak it and use Cydia.

Apple is doing nothing wrong, protecting their IP and their walled garden. Don't like it? Go elsewhere. Epic is acting like an infant, and chewing off their own foot while they do it. It is all absolutely absurd. What a waste of resources. At least the lawyers are happy.
As someone working remote for the last 10 years: Home office is all about routine (to start and to finish). Can be anything: you can cook, play an instrument, play a game, take a walk, exercise, read a book or even call someone. Doesn't matter as long as you have something to do.

The important thing is to find something to do and do not do nothing, otherwise your brain will trick yourself to stay working longer: it's always just one more email, just one more commit...

That said: each person is different and what works for me might not be a perfect fit for you.
> any data privacy practices whatsoever

Nitpick: Rather, it's a condemnation of any data privacy claims; a data privacy practice is a technical measure that (by design if not in reality) makes it literally impossible for the attacker to collect private information in the first place. Nothing else actually provides security in practice.
The numbers cited in there don't make sense. Something has to have been garbled from the original research report. The article says:

The farms are inefficient, producing just one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of shrimp for 13.4 square kilometers (five square miles) of mangrove

But Asian shrimp farms produce over a million tons of shrimp per year:

http://www.shrimpnews.com/FreeReportsFolder/NewsReportsFolde...

If it takes 13.4 square kilometers of mangrove per kilogram of shrimp, Asian shrimp farms would occupy more than

13.4 * 1000 * 1000000 = 13,400,000,000

(13.4 billion) square kilometers of mangrove. That's about 26 times the surface area of Earth.
I get it (and don’t know why i went down this road on a whim). My (original) point was that at something like 8% avg return you’re up 5900% over 60 years instead of being 10900% up.
Non-statistical methods of imitating handwriting are always fairly easy to identify as synthetic due to the uniformity of strokes and unnatural kerning (among other things). Even methods which incorporate random variations don't hide these artifacts sufficiently well. In my opinion, the only way to generate synthetic handwriting which is convincingly real is to use statistical methods (i.e. machine learning) to model all variation which is present in real handwriting. I've implemented a neural network in javascript which does exactly this - https://seanvasquez.com/handwriting-generation/. You can play around with it and find a few weaknesses, but in general I find that it can produce handwriting which is indistinguishable from real handwriting.
Thermodynamics is an interesting one, because the theory was created to explain the reality of steam engines, a commercial invention. At the time of the first steam engines (Newcomen's is a good starting point), the most popular theories (Aristotle's) declared that there could not be a vacuum.

I would also suggest that computing began no later than Babbage; Turing definitely contributed to the field, but Babbage and Clement kicked it off (largely with government funding).
Clearly the author has not eaten boxes of those newly legalized brownies and binge watched seasons 1 through 15 of "Ancient Aliens." If he had, he would know that "ancient astronaut theorists, would say yes."

It's entertaining, but what subtle improvement has he made on the work of eminent theorist Giorgio A. Tsoukalos?
Former Apple engineer says US govt turned an iPod into secret geiger counter
I'd love to hear some more details of the untapped engineering potential!

I have to admit some skepticism. What follows is my opinionated thoughts as a naif: new languages have helped a lot in creating new models of social organization. To be concrete, the significant 90s languages were forgiving enough, powerful enough, and easy enough to learn that they allowed for a kind of triumph of the programmer proletariat over the artisans. That allowed for the explosion of information technology that we've been observing for the past 3 decades, which enables new business models and makes old ones substantially more efficient.

But I don't think a contemporary PL person would think of Java as a prime exemplar of the value that the research community brings to the world. And when I think of more recent language innovation (Go, Rust), they've only been incremental improvements that were anticipated decades ago. And although I love them both, neither has shown any signs of enabling new social modes like earlier languages did: my like of them is purely aesthetic. All the real, productive low hanging PL fruit has already been taken.

Opinionated, like I said =)
No, by law ISOs just convert to NSOs at 90 days. Startups themselves decided to expire them, there is nothing preventing them simply allowing them to change. You get worse tax treatment, of course, but at least you get to retain the ability to participate in the upside.
I think it's great; I said that elsewhere in the thread. I'm just acknowledging that should this become a more widespread trend, it would be nice to figure out a full lifecycle for these prints upfront rather than after thousands of them have been sent to landfill.
This is good advice. In economic terms, you always have an edge for your own personal purchases since you have superior access to information about your own preferences.
When you do it part time, it takes much more than 4 years. Interest accumulates over time too. I knew a guy with a CS degree that couldn't get a job 5 years after too. Even if you do get work with only CS it won't pay as much as even junior jobs at tech/finance/oil firms (which are picky and cheap) on top of that people in their 40s usually support a family so loan payments will usually be minimal. A decade at least even for the dilligent
That must be the device equivalent of finding a house with an unlocked door and going inside to rummage around their fridge and eat their food.

Am I now legally liable for my TV stealing the neighbour's internet?
Startups can easily opt to convert ISOs to NSOs after the 90 days -- but of course, they typically do not.
Real estate market's liquidity is far less than the stock market.
Cloudflare also provides a gateway to IPFS [1].

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/
Those figures make sense as a rough ballpark -- max FLOPS estimates including impacts from FMA and whatnot roughly correspond to the throughput we would expect for a compute-bound linear algebra problem, and current top of the line consumer grade GPUs are 15-30x better in that metric than equivalent CPUs.
Just tried it, font looks great on paper. I don’t have too many uses for this, but I bet it’ll be pretty handy for people who are still addicted to reading notes from printed sheets. Great job.
> How about we just enforce inheritance taxes and call it done?

How about we just enforce an inheritance tax in your family alone, and donate everything you have to a local charity and see if it makes a difference in your community? Your goal is to give away your wealth, as far as your comment goes, so it sounds like a legit plan of action. Just don't impose the same goal on everyone else.
Can you be more concrete?
Surface Duo internals show Microsoft’s fanatical commitment to thinness
> Fifth, the idea that people "will just move to another country" is very silly.

Definitely. After a certain point, increasing wealth isn't about wealth, it's about power. I would wager that most of the uber-wealthy would rather have slightly less power in a place that they want to have power in, rather than have marginally more power in a place that's not their home.
It was true until it wasn't.
Can you explain the leap from someone starting a defense contractor to them not being naive a few years earlier in their life about corporate acquisitions?
It’s giving blank output on iOS or is it because the model takes time to load?

Also, is there any chance we can fine tune the model for each user by taking their handwriting in a predetermined template file?
If "Q" does not roll this out in the next Bond film I'm going to be _really_ disappointed.
Am I reading that right that you consider 7.5 hrs or 8.5hrs a day to be not very many hours? (Not counting suggests that they might otherwise expect you to do more than that).
Freedom to create corporate spinoffs (which, contrary to GP, is itself government regulation —- one freedom that would be surrendered upon moving to Texas) is one aspect of SV’s success, but it’s far from the only factor and by no means essential. How do you think Massachusetts (and Texas) grew to be tech hubs in the first place? (A: university spinoffs and government funding and luck, just like SV.)
Perhaps it was not to get a girlfriend, but to keep one and nurture a meaningful relationship?
Beyond Meat and the conundrum of scaling ethical consumerism – a thread
The thing that is really strongly associated with covid cases is housing overcrowding, that is the number of people in each dwelling, and not with density. This paper concludes that "Our most important finding is that density is unrelated to confirmed virus infection rates and inversely related to confirmed virus death rates, after controlling for other variables."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2020.1...
Thanks, I edited it. Really sad to see his addiction has really put him through the wringer. I haven't heard him speak since he came out of treatment, in due time I suppose.
This.

The author is playing the typical Rich man's game. Oh woe is me, look at these poor people who this tax will destroy!

The fact that so many people here are defending them, is maddening and disheartening. Arguing that anyone with a value of over 50mm can't pay a higher tax rate on those funds is disengenous at best.
First, take everything Zillow says with a grain of salt. Sure, they have the data, but they are not objective. Not saying they are lying, but they might not show the full picture. (edit: I must say the post seems very detailed and looks like they put a lot of effort into it. Maybe I should read it first...)

The trend seems to be rent prices are dropping in all major cities but home sale prices are not. In fact they are even going up. In my opinion it's too early to tell. Remote work would have a big impact on where tech workers live. But it would take some time until it starts to negatively impact home sales. People who move to new cities usually don't buy houses right away. Many of those people who were supposed to move to SF/NYC/Boston in the next year and potentially compete for houses in the next 5 years might now go elsewhere.
Find a cooperative neighbour and sue the manufacturer?
When 99% of the mobile space is locked-down that is a spurious argument. Locked-down platforms will never be a rarity.
For what it's worth, I was the ED of the Center for Applied Rationality for a couple years, and I have basically the same criticism of the culture. You could fairly summarize a lot of conversations I've had as "Your study sucks, and anyway it doesn't say what you think it says." I do think there are a lot of smart people who "rationalist-affiliated" who get this more right than wrong though.
> Is [...] Comic Sans Serif something someone wanted?

Maybe. What comes to mind is OpenBSD. In the OpenBSD community, developers use Comic Sans exclusively in all official slideshows. One purpose is making an in-joke, another purpose is trolling everyone else not genuinely interested in system development ("Weaponized Comic Sans. This page scientifically designed to troll web hipsters.") [0]

[0] https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.ht...
Some images require hours of painstaking editing. There are some photographers who will spend days or more editing an image. The edited image is as much an instantaneous snapshot of the photographer as it is the scene in front of the lens. Looking at my Darktable catalog, it is easy to estimate that I spend at least 250 hr/yr editing images.

Raw files, and sidecars, retain their value because sometimes one wishes to revisit an image/edit. If I had to pick one or the other, I might prefer to lose the edited images. That is because I believe I have more/better days of my editing life ahead of me and because I underestimate how much editing I have done. Moreover, there are plenty of RAW images awaiting the day they come to life.

In commercial work, like weddings, the final product is the edit. If there is one thing that must be retained, that is it.