skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the description does not follow basic English grammar (it’s a run in sentence with no caps or punctuation), that’s a red flag for me. Also, the image looks really doctored and not something that seems legit. It doesn’t look sharp if that makes sense.

Here’s the description for context:

“ omega 3 fish oil supplements fatty EPA DHA omega3 burpless capsules supplement pills soft gels men best vitamins omega-3 wild-caught natural women pure humans no burp small extra strength mercury-free fish oil”

If you buy this without reading everything in the product description, I’m sorry.
So if "100%" efficiency is defined as one photon generating one electron...

...then what would total energy conversion be according to this metric? Where the energy of the electric current equals the energy of the photons? No energy lost? If this is above 130%, what's the ceiling? (Even if no materials exist that could ever achieve it.)
> and where researchers are expected to write production-quality code.

For someone like myself who has no idea what research labs do beyond "build cool stuff" why is this a problem?

Is it just outside your core competency? Eliminates a lot of good researchers?
yeap, there goes my changes of having an Oculus (never had a facebook account and won't)... Guess one less option then...
Why did he make a promise knowing full well it would not be kept? But but but FB... No. Both are in the wrong. Palmer AND FB.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

Sweden: 4th

Usa: 27th
I guess now is the time to look into how to root the console and install a custom ROM in a similar fashion to de-Googling your android phone. There is already enough support in the community for side-loading APKs and the like. Does anyone know of any ways to achieve this?
Since this is about cookies and IP addresses, GDPR is not the most relevant EU law. Instead, we have to look at the old ePrivacy Directive.

For cookies or any other access to information stored on the user's device, that access must either be strictly necessary for performing the service explicitly requested by the user, or consent is required (ePD Art 5.3). This is where those annoying cookie banners come from. LocalStorage isn't any different and would require the same consent as cookies.

For traffic data such as IP addresses, processing is allowed if it's technically necessary for the “transmission”, if the data has been anonymized, if it's required for billing purposes, or if the user has consented (ePD Art 6). There is an argument that security logs might be necessary, other uses like analytics are more dubious. The good news is that Umami seems to properly anonymize the IP address, so this part seems fine.

In cases where ePD mandates using consent, we cannot fall back to another GDPR legal basis such as legitimate interest. Of course this discrepancy between ePD and GDPR is a huge problem, and the promised ePD update has yet to materialize.
I will switch it over at some point. I've been running it on my own sites for a month so I just wanted to provide an example with more data to play with.
This is a very valid point. As someone with an Italian step-dad who's dealt with property in Italy, I can say that dealing with permits etc in Italy is really not easy. Things really do work their own, Italian, way. It's not the same as real estate in the US, even if you are comparing historic regulations here to there.

Guess I don't really have a point to this comment, other than to say this parent comment might sound like an extreme exaggeration but AFAIK it isn't.

edit: looks like jacquesm has made a similar point
Quelle surprise, a big tech company making a big tech company move to drive users into their embattled flagship.

I take this as a negative indicator of how things are going for Facebook. I don’t see any synergy with oculus other than that both products have users. Maybe that is enough from a business standpoint, but I feel forcing login to Facebook is going to kill oculus adoption, it isn’t like 6 years ago, there are viable alternatives if you want a VR rig. It just looks and feels desperate to me.
Not sure what Twitter has to do with any of this. ?? Anyway..

Am I an outlier? Then I only know outliers in real life, I guess, since I only know people who share this opinion? I get that I'm in my bubble, but it seems like a really really widely shared bubble.

> Wealth tax is not the same as increasing taxes on the wealthy.

A wealth tax is a form of increasing the taxation against people who are wealthy. Are you saying this is false? What do you mean by that?

> see that the wealth tax is a terrible way to do it.

Why though? You haven't backed any of this up. I think a wealth tax is a great idea. Why are you so certain that it isn't?

> Because it's a bad tax. It doesn't work.

What do you mean by bad tax? You don't explain this and my googles turned up nothing. What about this tax makes it "bad"? Why does it "not work"?

> It doesn't bring revenue you think it does.

I don't think it brings in any particular revenue specifically. What do you have in mind by this statement?

> It's expensive to administer and enforce.

So are most good things that we have in this world. Something being expensive doesn't make it bad.

> And it has many bad unintended consequences.

What are these, though? Can you list any?
My thoughts are twofold here.

1) I agree with you, taxing asset holdings is strange logistically.

I think it be best to tax income. The only change I'd make is currently, income is taxed at a percentage based on your total income in the year. What could change is to tax income at a percentage that is a function of the current estimated value of your wealth instead. So if you cashed out 1 million and that's all you have, you'd pay less tax on it than if someone cashed out 1 million but still had another 10 million worth.

2) Maybe it's a bad idea to allow anyone to own too much of anything of great value to society.

In that regard, it could make sense to force wealthy people to sell some of it, to whatever treshold we believe is too much for one person to own.

That's where I think a wealth tax could come in as a vehicle to force people who own too much to sell some of it. So that we have a more evenly distributed wealth ownership accross the board.

The only thing here is I'm not sure if a wealth tax is the best scheme for this. I think the income tax that I described in #1 would be good when it comes to taxes (money that goes to the government). For wealth, I'd be more inclined with something like where people have to sell a percentage, but taxes don't necessarily need to be involved (beyond the income tax as described from the sell). The idea here is just that no one should own too much, so at some point, you need to sell so that ownership is better distributed. Not necessarily that this should go towards taxes.
This 1000%. In the 40s, you invested a bunch of money into a research lab and you got the transistor. If only that kind of payoff could still happen today.
This is a great illustration that the wealth tax is not about rational policy. It's based on nothing but emotion and ideology.

We're not debating here the need for taxes, or labor protections. You don't get to justify bad policies by pointing that there are places where government regulation is called for.

Wealth tax is bad policy. Justify it on its own merits.
Pablo Escobar, like modern day cartels in Mexico, gave away lots of money to local communities. He built hundreds of houses for the poor. It’s mostly ego, and buying good will, but there’s definitely a component wherein the government has failed these communities and the Narcos step up.
The original APL385 font is one of my favorites for coding.
It's almost as though Facebook understands how important it is to verify you are who you say you are. A simple verification to certify that those in their system are authentic.
Mr Graham may have good reasons to be against this tax but he hasn’t argued them here. The analysis is so far below his usual clear and insightful reasoning that I wonder if it’s even his.

As an occasional entrepeneur I do not at all mind being subject to this tax. I’ll worry about the wealthy when I join them, not before. They don’t really worry about me.

I think most of the reasoned objection to various taxes was summed up by Bill Clinton in his first campaign: what people mind is not getting what they’ve paid for by their taxes.
I've given up on these sorts of build systems. If I ever had to screw with a C/C++ codebase again, I would just write my entire toolchain in C#. I know for a fact that modern C# 8.0+ will not bite me in the ass with inconsistent ideologies. I also have extreme confidence that I could add in complex build concerns such as communication with other systems for obtaining dependencies or logging important information.
> I'm saying that a limit could be established on how much is too much

That amount is different for every kind of business.

Furthermore, putting cash into the market by force is basically just inflation isn't it?
Inside the Archive of an LSD Researcher with Ties to the CIA's MKULTRA (2019)
One Twitter Account’s Quest to Proofread The New York Times
Yes, but aren't there notorious liars that are doing pretty well in life?
> Have we really given up basic consumer rights that easily?

Is there anything I can do as a mere consumer to lobby for my rights?
> Twitter is not 'the mood of the nation'.

Are you saying that, presented with the facts, most Americans would express satisfaction with the current distribution of wealth and its trajectory?
Mathematica does this, and they solve the keyboard problem with floating palettes of symbols.
Thunderbird email client survives Mozilla layoffs
Facebook has banned multiple burner account of mine, so I suppose it is confirmed.
Andrew Reisse is rolling in his grave right now. This is disgusting and not what he wanted and disrespectful to everything he worked toward. I am ashamed of Oculus.
>Twitter is not 'the mood of the nation'. You are not representative of 'the mood of the nation'. In fact, you're an outlier.

According to a Reuters poll from this beginning of this year a large majority of Democrats and a slim majority of Republicans support the idea of a wealth tax. While there isn't a large amount of polling on the subject (that I can see), that somewhat undercuts the Twitterspace argument.

The specific question people responded to in that poll was "the very rich should contribute an extra share of their total wealth each year to support public programs" so you can dissect it at your will.
ReviewMeta for that product: https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B08431MPXD

IMHO, they're too positive. If you scroll down, there's a lot of negative factors, but the above the fold summary is quite cheerful.

The FakeSpot page is much clearer.

https://www.fakespot.com/product/premium-omega-3-fish-oil-su...
What would Rust without a borrow checker look like to you? Syntactic sugar or automatic wrapping of types in Box and Arc as appropriate? auto-cloning of !Copy types?
One could theoretically put it in a contract, but I doubt anyone would risk the sale over this kind of detail.
Is it also a fun, whimsical look inspired by Comic Sans?
Unfortunately the US is not exactly leading on animal welfare, and indeed resists urges to improve. As much as I dislike Trump, this has been the case since long before him.

Federal-level animal welfare standards are lacking. Welfare in the US standards are well below that of Europe. Pigs, for example, still often live their short life in stalls so small they can't even turn around - by comparison, the practice of using these "sow stalls" was banned in the UK before the turn of the century. Additionally, the use of antibiotics and hormones is very high.
And Grundsteuer is quite cheap compared to property taxes in North America.
Really? People are trying to raise awareness of underrepresented people and your concern is about the plastic they used for a few statues? So we should use cardboard for statues of black people while all the white dudes get stone and metal?
Please explain how advanced technology will make life simpler. And if no one has a job, will that technology appear by magic?
> maybe I should start grinding LeetCode anyway

You should start grinding LeetCode if you plan on interviewing for industry jobs, because it might help you survive those awful white board/algorithm puzzle interviews.
What is Bitcoin? (Make it simple for me)
> learn what the real world can teach you on the nature of reality.

People focused on the "real world" tend to only see the world as it is now. That is the exact opposite of what research is generally about.
Worth noting co-author Avi Loeb produced the headline-making Alien-origin hypothesis paper of a couple of years ago.

i.e. context: the paper summarised in the OP is his counter to a "hydrogen iceberg" challenge/alternative to his original "alien" paper.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb#%CA%BBOumuamua
TLDR;

Facebook to Oculus Users: Go f* yourself.
> The analysis is so far below his usual clear and insightful reasoning that I wonder if it’s even his.

OT but sadly this has been my reaction to most of his recent (last few years?) posts. :( He's definitely lost the well-reasoned, useful insight and interesting thoughts he had previously in his essays.

I also agree with your other points FWIW.
It does go full screen, lock focus, and pin itself to the taskbar on first launch. Some have reported that i copied in their settings/bookmarks from Chrome without user prompt too but it did not for me.
Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully completed a CCPA deletion request?
So far every company I've dealt with has argued tooth and nail that there is some special reason the law doesn't apply to them, and I'm reasonably certain nobody will comply if I don't apply legal force. Has anyone had a better experience?

As a fun recent anecdote, Atlassian's official position so far (with respect to the Trello takeover -- my fault for not deleting the account ages ago) is:

(1) They've given away my account.

(1a) They haven't actually given away my account. They've assigned management of it to another entity.

(2) Because I technically have an account, they're allowed to require me to log in to prove that I am who I say I am.

(2a) Since they've unilaterally decided that my account is "being managed" by another entity, providing my valid login credentials doesn't suffice to prove my identity -- I need the other entity to authorize me for the login.

(3) Even if I successfully log in I won't be able to delete my account or all of the PII from it because the account is being managed for me by the aforementioned external entity.
Normally class mobility is not thought of as equivalent to accumulating wealth. In some ways they're almost opposites.

Sweden typically ranks much higher on class mobility measures than the USA.
Can you? Don't you need a credit card attached?

Still possible but most people will not that far to hide information from facebook.
A TikTok Ban Is Overdue
The encryption algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIA_(cipher) or web accessibility framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAI-ARIA ?
It's not about being inflammatory, but about illustrating a key risk - child porn is pretty much unique compared to other illicit content in that possession alone immediately makes you into a felon; it's not a civil issue like pirated movies but a crime, and malicious intent or even knowing about the content is not necessary to make you guilty, unlike pretty much everything else. On the other hand, attempts to distribute child abuse imagery are sufficiently common so as to consider it a real risk, not some unlikely hypothetical issue that's not going to materialize.

So for any service that's going to put random files on an end user device it's very relevant to ask the particular question "how are you going to ensure that child porn does not get put there?", with the explicit focus on child porn - it's acceptable if the service has no solution for pirated movies, because if pirated movies get put on someone's PC without their knowledge, that's not going to them in jail, but for child porn at least some answer is mandatory. For example, at the very minimum, censorship of known bad file hashes, such databases exist - of course, that's circumventable by e.g. encryption, but it would help from the legal perspective.
Sure, but the root cause of that is pretty well known to be the proliferation of credit default swaps that led to a housing bubble that burst in 2008, and not the mere existence of billionaires writ large.

Also, here's a more recent source (August 2020) that's actually an academic paper -> https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Squeezi...

> The analyses presented here confirm the broadly accepted picture of rising income inequality and slowing income growth for middle-class Americans. But a few additional points are worth drawing out. First, while the benefits of economic growth have not accrued equally, they have not gone solely to the top 1%. The upper middle class has grown. Second, the main reason for the shrinking of the middle class (defined in absolute terms) is the increase in the number of people with higher incomes.
Both can be true.

It can be true that Facebook heavily invested into the Quest and it can be true that their user-hostile moves over the past 6 years were all utterly predictable, even though company heads ran around telling their critics that they were being unreasonable and paranoid.

This is true for many tech products and industries.

Apple and Google have both invested huge amounts of money and resources into building voice assistants into general consumer services. They deserve credit for that. They also deserve criticism for stifling the markets around voice assistants, building walled gardens that hamper innovation in the space, and for general privacy violations along the way. And it is, once again, completely predictable what the end goals are for companies like Google in regards to voice assistants and augmented reality -- regardless of what their company spokespeople might be saying today.

It can be true that Chrome unambiguously moved the web forward as a platform, and that without Google's involvement the modern web would not have the potential that it has today. And it can simultaneously be true that Google's long-term corporate vision for the web is toxic, and that there are serious concerns to be had about Chrome continuing to maintain a dominant browser position.

The point is, I don't think acknowledging Facebook's investment in the Oculus means that it's good to ignore the obvious downsides of their involvement. I think it's good to look at what people were worried would happen, and to see that it did happen. That doesn't mean you need to disregard Facebook's investment, and it doesn't mean that Oculus shouldn't exist -- it's just giving you a broader perspective that sometimes these positive investments also come with serious tradeoffs that aren't always acknowledged up-front.
> tax the outcome

That is exactly what a wealth tax proposes to do since there is no other realistic way to impose a tax on a successful companies. Corporate taxes haven't worked very effectively. When someone sits on $1B+ in stock, there is no way other than a wealth tax to redistribute that wealth.

First of all, this has literally zero impact on the vast majority of entrepreneurs and small business owners who will most likely never hit $30M+ in net worth. And those are the real job and wealth creators.

Secondly, global corporations have the effect of taking wealth from the many and centralizing it into the hands of the few. And this will continue to get worse as AI advances. These corporations are not good for the long-term health of America and I don't think many Americans will care if it becomes a little bit hard to make $100M.
Undue† wealth inequality is tied to the sort of rent-seeking that this tax will enable. Given the inordinate ways to classify and exempt movable property from a wealth tax (even greater than the existing insanity in income taxes), it is essentially inevitable that this will invite more lobbying and corruption, net more rent-seeking, and compound existing inequality.

† vs. inevitable/natural wealth inequality, associated with real disparities in productivity and the nature of sampling individuals on a widening curve
Maybe starlink?
The Z ("zed") notation -- but that is a non-executable specification language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation
Abstracting away from the corporation-specific concerns, there is an incentive problem. Vested interests can seek to lower the usefulness of the market's "price as a signal" by placing large diversionary bets. Granted, this is relatively less likely to be a problem in the archaeology space. What definitely may be an issue is lower liquidity.

Every time I see a post like this I think "where are all the prediction markets?" Regulations are one reason, but that's far from the only reason. If information/prediction markets are enhanced using new technology, regulators will begin to respect them more and allow for widespread use in non-academic contexts.
Watching the bot traffic is an interesting exercise in itself. The trick is not to filter it out; it's to identify it (to the greatest degree possible.)
Hey, here in the author's home state lawmakers have just proposed a 0.4% wealth tax, just beneath the author's capital-flight-threat threshold!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2020/08/17/californi...
no need to tax them more to solve THAT one, just make them pay a living wage. Nobody working full time should be below the poverty line, nobody working half-time should require food stamps - otherwise it is exploitation not employment.
I suspect it works on many different levels and that the general stress everyone feels from it is one of those levels.

But in terms of the base "object level" of the actual graphing of multiple biometrics, the theoretical idea is to construct a baseline within the confines of the test, not between you inside and outside of the test. They let you settle in, ask you questions they know the answer to, and compare measurements during known truthful responses to measurements during or near other responses. So they're (theoretically) accounting for the added stress in the baseline.

Obviously this object-level portion of detecting honesty vs. deceit via comparison with a baseline of physiological characteristics is pseudoscientific and extremely unreliable, but it's part of the overall mind game. And even though it's pseudoscientific, it's also not like it's palm reading or something. This sounds a bit ridiculous to say, but pseudoscience is a spectrum. (For example, astrology is more pseudoscientific than MBTI.) If someone has totally normal responses to every question but a bizarrely elevated response to one single seemingly harmless question which no one else has an unusual response to, then that's something to look into and prod. So the object level of it can offer some utility.
Great project. I'm going to follow its development and consider using it in the near future.
You're technically correct, and what I should have said was 'zero-carbon emitting sources' as was in the source.

But for practical purposes there is so much Uranium on this planet that we'll most likely never even use 1% of it. Especially when you factor in newer or experimental reactor designs such as fast breeder reactors [1] that can generate even more power and use waste materials from current systems.

So yes, it is technically not a renewable source of energy, but there is such abundance of fuel that it's not 'non-renewable' the way Coal or Gas is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Fast_breeder_r...
If you replace “renewable” with “not based on burning hydrocarbons”, you’ve still got a dramatically better source of electricity than what most of the world uses.