skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would session key mean? How does the session end? Where do you store the session key?
News outlets using shock value for clicks is surprising to you?
If you have a smartphone, you can just take a picture of the key.
I think the saying "locks keep honest people out" means that locks are there to keep out the overzealous girlscout selling cookies, that annoying friend who comes over when you dont text him back, and your neighbor that heard a noise and wants to make sure everything is ok.
You tax what you want less of, you subsidize what you want more of.
I am going to sell my Rift and buy a Vive, HTC from here out!
Yes, it's a false equivalence. That does not imply that the two things should be equivalent. Nowhere did I state that they should be equivalent. I'm just saying they're not. So your argument that "a wealth tax is good because it's the same thing as a management fee" is not valid, because the premise is false. A wealth tax is not the same thing as management fee. That doesn't mean that they should be the same thing. It means you cannot draw conclusions based on them being the same thing, because they are not.

> Things like healthcare, education, and a social safety net. These services naturally rise in cost in accordance with GDP because standard of living is supposed to rise with GDP per capita as well.

They don't have to. A more efficient and advanced economy should produce basic necessities with less effort and therefore less cost than less productive economies. The costs of things like healthcare and education in the US are vastly distorted for a number of reasons.

I don't think siphoning off wealth from productive areas of the economy and pushing into areas that are already overpriced is going to help. Education, for example, already receives massive Federal subsidies via guaranteed loans. That hasn't made it less expensive. It's made it more expensive as college raise prices to match the amount of capital available to pay them.
In a general debt-vs-immediate-payment question that could work, I guess, because you can e.g. pay the debt off over such a long period that the total income you need divided by the number of years you take falls into a lower tax bracket than otherwise.

I have trouble seeing how it would work in the example under discussion, where we know that the person is extremely wealthy -- and thus should hit the maximum income tax bracket no matter what -- and that capital gains taxes are likely to be the least heavily taxed income source available, so that it would be difficult to beat selling stock.
This is about creating a standard for array computing in Python which has been around for more than 20 years. NumPy (which has been a de facto standard) has been around for 14 years and was based on Numeric which was around for 10 years before that. Pandas has been around almost 10 years now. The parts of the standard that are clear and will emerge are the parts that have been around and used by sufficient numbers for at least a decade.
I use an AppleTV connected to a 43-inch 4k monitor [1].
No crappy TV-software and it's a proper screen, with proper response-time to use for the laptop as well.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Monitor-Bdm4350uc-42-5in-3840...
Post processing of images i desired at all times. Filtering out moving dots isnt that hard. not even if the sky gets 1000 times more populated.
I know this is not a populair view, but sky pollution by satelites is way too overestimated. City light pollution is much more affecting the nightly life of people
Preview PineTime Watch Faces in Your Web Browser with WebAssembly
Doubtful most cheap padlocks can be opened with a shim made of a soda can.
> Palmer is correct here and shouldn't be getting the blowback that he is.

This sentence seems self-contradictory. Once again, here's what Palmer said:

> I really believed it would continue to be the case for a variety of reasons. In hindsight, the downvotes from people with more real-world experience than me were definitely justified.

It sounds like he's agreeing that he should be getting the blowback, right? He made a promise he couldn't keep, people told him he wouldn't be able to keep it, he ignored them. He should have known better.
I think that a good step would be to require a sizeable disclaimer on the box/marketing material stating that it is ad-supported/tracking-supported. That way it is much easier for consumers to know why the price is as cheap as it is.
It stole it? The market share was the legal property of those retailers? How? Where can I purchase some market share?

A company like Sears was well positioned to compete with and crush a fledgling Amazon if they had had the foresight and wherewithal to do it. They didn't, so they lumbered on doing the same thing they always did as the world changed around them and they eventually became irrelevant.

Other companies like Wal-Mart and Best Buy adapted and have remained competitive. It has nothing to do with sneaky Amazon burgling market share that is somehow the rightful property of someone else. That's not how that works. Amazon won the market share by doing a better job of serving the market.
And then there's always a Ramset.
It’s different because it allows reidentification. It prevents you from coming up with an IP or what have you out of thin air, but you or another party you give it to can effectively use it as a perfect proxy of whatever you hashed.
AOC nominates Bernie Sanders for president at DNC
A relevant factor is that the US has both a much higher income and a vastly lower savings rate than in Europe. Also, much of the wealth in Europe comes from hereditary property, which is not really a thing in the US. As a baseline, median Americans have much higher discretionary income than in Europe, so it is only savings habits that prevent many of them from accumulating wealth.

Americans with savings rates that are comparable to Europeans end up accumulating tremendous wealth over their careers, even in the middle class. This is offset by the majority that spend every penny. That Americans don’t save their prodigious income is an unfortunate artifact of having multiple generations of nearly unbroken prosperity.
At least in France, dimple locks (keys have holes instead of teeth) are more common and feel more secure, even though they can still be lockpicked.
I think they wanted to pick relatable scientists, not just inspirational ones. Ironically, this itself has inspirational effects. I know that I myself was more inspired by stories from average physicists than by Einstein or Feynman. It says that you don't have to be a super-genius or super-lucky to follow your science dreams.
Private/Commercial JSTARS?
Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Iceland all have more billionaires per capita than the US.
I second ally. I have an account since 2016. They used to refund all the atm fees charged, not sure they still do it.
Writing things down is a known method of studying.
I don't envy your son, he should still write to effectively study
US Wants to Build a Wall Around the Internet
>>>There's a negative correlation between government spending levels as a percentage of GDP, and economic growth rates. Your implication, that society is better off with high levels of taxation, is not supported by the science on the matter.

I don't think your correlation suggests what you think it does - look closer at which countries have the highest GDP growth rates. Economic growth rates are not a good indication of countries where people would generally choose to live. I'd generally use HDI, happiness, life satisfaction, or similar, all of which correlate to higher government spending.

>>>Wrong. The losses also have to be compounded. That 1%, had it remained invested, would have grown at a compounding rate as well. So you lose the 1% and all compounded gains on it.

Yes, of course. So your wealth (above the threshold) grows at an effective 3% instead of 4% (or whatever). PG's essay makes it seem like your fortune will dwindle away to nothing, which isn't true. It'll just grow more slowly than it could.

>>>Firms in low tax tax jurisdictions will outcompete firms in high tax ones, ceteris paribus

But this misses the point - other things aren't equal! California already has a higher tax burden than many other states, the US already has higher taxes than many other nations, and still they are among the richest places on earth. Higher taxes can create a society much more beneficial to all of its members, including the rich ones.

>>>How much more do you think government spending should increase? What share of private economic output should be non-consensually redistributed for social welfare programs in your mind?

Enough to make sure every person has enough to eat, somewhere to live, universal healthcare, access to education, and the opportunity to succeed.

>>>Will there ever reach a stage where you think the negative effects on capital formation, from further tax hikes, will outweigh the positive effects of a greater share of economic output being available to the poor in the form of cash payments and social services?

Unlikely. If there is such a stage, I suggest to you it's well below ~5% on all wealth above ~$10 million (which is at the top range of what is discussed in these kind of wealth tax proposals).
Yeah, same for me. But the banner ad doesn't show up. Any idea how to fix it?
I have a general policy of not keeping hardware from known user-hostile companies in my house. They have way more time to worm things I don't want into their hardware than I have time to keep tabs on it, so I just don't.
To add to your argument: Xerox PARC's progress was based in Engelbart's research in HDI on mainframes that afaik. also was state funded.
Without commenting on this situation, if you're worried about selling something to a large entity who might later change their mind about how they use your thing, you don't usually start selling to militaries.
How does an estate tax place undue complications on widows but a wealth tax doesn’t place undue complications on individuals?
A $50M company that gives $1M in dividends is worth $49M. It would need ~12% growth to be worth $55M. A company deciding to issue dividends does not change the net worth of any shareholder (it can actually have a negative effect due to tax inefficiency).

So to your example: A $50M company grows 5% a year. Lucky 20-something holds a stock+dividend value of $52.5M before tax at year's end. Of her $1M salary, ~$330k goes to federal income taxes, another $30k to FICA. Too bad she's in California, that's another $100k in state income taxes.

Still, she has ~$540K left over in liquid income. Perhaps she can use this to pay off her $500K wealth tax liability and keep full company ownership if she lives modestly.

Next year presents a bigger challenge. Lucky 20-something's company has grown in value by 5%, and so too has her wealth tax burden. However, her salary needs to grow by ~7% to account for income taxes (and a higher growth rate would have made this worse). This is clearly unsustainable and she will need to sell some company shares before her exponentially growing salary eclipses the value of the whole company!

She'll still be rich enough to retire whenever and sip martinis in Florida of course, she just won't hold the majority of the shares of the company she founded.

Edit: I realize that I sort of neglected dividends after the initial bit. A company could pay off 1.2% (to account for capital gains tax) of it's total value as dividends assuming it had sufficient liquid holdings (and it can't sell stock to come up with them, as that would defeat the purpose). In this case, it would cut company growth potential by about 25% but could allow lucky 20-something to retain control, provided the company can always come up with the liquid assets, even in down years. But that's probably the most realistic scenario of this working.
I don’t think sellers will be able to dictate the terms. I don’t think you understand what the collapse of this nation looks like: it will be a gradual process; a gradual drift from the reserve currency into more appeasing debt, from some unemployment in certain regions, to the clustering of wealth elsewhere, private islands in Nicaragua, Singapore, Vietnam, New Zealand, Canada, I can definitely see places like the Basque Country essential locations with a good combination of European standards and the outdoors.

If Trump gets relected Kiss the cities goodbye. If Trump gets relected we’ll devolve to some banana republic with fancy gated communities for the few and massive homelessness. To quote
Huckaby, a vote for Republican Maverick unfettered capitalism would be a vote for Trump.
Sorry, who's GP?
The Monumental and Human Poetry of Paul Valéry
So far as changing the topology of spacetime, NASA is (or was) investigating it as part of Alcubierre/Warp drive research[1]. That being said, a warp bubble is a far simpler goal than a wormhole.

> According to White, these results showed a vanishing but non-zero difference between charged and uncharged states after signal processing, but this difference remains inconclusive due to external interference and limits in the computational processing.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%E2%80%93Juday_warp-field...
My understanding is that it counts as an “online identifier”. It’s not all that different from a user ID, except the user didn’t ask you to create it (which certainly doesn’t help under GDPR).
So does the .msi contain a file length that gets blindly trusted? Or maybe that's part of the signature itself?

That's crazy the signature check wouldn't verify the file length.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24170366
I agree that the incentives are perfect to be as deceptive as possible.
It's also why we have immutable smart contracts on the blockchain. Can't be evil > don't be evil
I thought this was simple. You can't go faster than light.

If you go through a wormhole (Or just send information) you go faster than light (Ignoring Hollywood's incorrect movie Event Horizon where you just bend paper), so you go back in time.

So it's not possible.

Because you can kill you father (or something mathematical with information) which is a paradox.

End of story.
How is mathematical exploration and discovery related to asking a fellow student, whom you don't know, through e-mail, on a date?

If I were in your shoes I wouldn't have sent any more e-mails after not receiving a response from them. It confuses me how you thought what happens afterwards was appropriate. In fact, I wouldn't even have made the first e-mail about a date at all.

Your blog post and your reaction to the whole situation shows how immature you are/were.

So, IOWs, here's something you ought had learnt:

a) A lack of reply in this context should be interpreted as a "no" or "I'm not interested.";

b) If you cross paths AFK and there's eye contact but no engagement: you do NOT e-mail the person especially after the previous point - that may be considered harrassment to some people and that's probably why you were labeled as problematic;

c) If you are angry about the whole thing instead of furthering the damage refocus it on something productive and move on with your life;

d) Comply with the faculty's sanctions next time - don't be a smart ass;

e) Don't make these "let's discuss research" about dates, like, at all!

Your naiveté came at a great cost for your career. Think with your upper head next time.
"Founders" that the author wrings his hands about so much, owe 99% of their ability to generate wealth to the government. If you're from the US, you own most of it to global American imperialism and hegemony. You should be giving it up so that others can have the same opportunity as you did.
It’s great for consumers and developers, the security and ease of use of the walked garden is primary reason customers spend 50% more on iOS than than Android, despite Androids six times larger market size.
I've been treating the covid death count like GDP out of China. It's probably padded (e.g. you can count a death as "pneumonia" instead of covid), but it's probably not an order of magnitude off.

The reality is that surveillance states and collectivist societies like South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, etc will have an advantage when it comes to coordination. China is very much one of these types of societies.
> You need to redo your math. If your net worth is $10+ million and isn't increasing by at least ~4% a year you're doing something very wrong. So ~1% of your wealth going to taxes is eminently affordable. No need to lose control.

So now if I make $10mil, which is plenty to live off of today and likely in the near future, and want to call it quits and retire, I now have to continue to make 4% (why 4% also, seems arbitrary) so I can support a wealth tax? Do you not see you’re taking an option away by forcing someone to cover this tax with further gains?
Do you think the technology was ready? AFAIK mechanical computers were (and still are) prohibitively expensive.
From my reading + limited experience, it’s “manifesting” the deity, melting into / with it.

So not about an egotistical desire to become something great but more like becoming / embodying the manifestation.
This sounds like steampunk fantasy,and very impractical.

We have thousands of kilometers of high-voltage transmission lines, imagine that's now carrying compressed air. Firstly, these lines can carry multiple Gigawatts of power, i do not think it's even possible to have a pipe of compressed air that could transport that amount of power. The most powerful air compressor in the world appears to be 28 mW in power consumption! - not output.

Secondly, how are you going to look for leaks in that thing?

Also any rupture in the line will release the equivalent energy of many kilograms of TNT.

How do I power my TV with compressed air, do I have to have a generator in my house? If so, you've just lost a ton of efficiency.
How much are you willing to wager that filtering out moving dots with intensity comparable to or somewhat below the statistical noise in an instrument is easy?

Furthermore, for transit-hunting experiments, a slight dip in a star's brightness once per year or once per decade is the entire signal. Even if the satellite doesn't produce a moving dot, surely it cannot be transparent and non-refractive.
It's also why all of the smart cookies have already left; anyone still there is waiting for a payday or waiting for a VP title. IBM don't pay quality. They pay market share.

It took 2.5 years for IBM to begin the process of gutting the consultancy they bought, for RedHat I think it'll probably take twice as long.
One of my hobbies is reading (and writing, one day) short romance stories, another one is reading factoids about distinguished people, specially scientists. I was grinning like a fool through most of this article.

I like this because it generally asserts that anyone, even someone as apparently closed off as Dirac, can find love and/or happiness.
It's entirely possible to relocate to a different country with a cheaper cost of living, universal health care, etc too. So, the limits of the US system should be taken as a given.
Estate taxes almost always apply to estates valued at > $5m. Why anyone who isn't super rich would give two squirts boggles my mind, and it a symptom of the American "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mindset. Sadly, the professional/managerial class seems to be wholly preoccupied with these fantasies.
Perhaps a flat sales tax? Or something fair? Why is there an attempt to punish the rich here? We need some taxes, but this shouldn’t be a blank check. At what point do you think the government should stop taking taxes? By your logic should we not just give 100% of our pay to the gov and start issuing cars, houses and other needs? Also why is anything good simply because it’s progressive? Is there no other factor?
I think this problem is still unresolved.

If you do something like Plausible.io with daily changing salts, you know only about daily visitors. This might be GDPR compliant.

If you do something like Fathom with chaining requests, you can see daily uniques, bounce rates and click speed. Not sure this is GDPR compliant though. Would feel better if they run this through an European GDPR watchdog which AFAIK they haven't.

If you do something like SimpleAnalytics with using the referrer to find uniques, you can see daily unique visits but with some statistical errors. Should be GDPR an ePrivacy compliant without your customers needing to declare your usage or have a data processing agreement with you. But gets you the least analytical data (We use SimpleAnalytics).

None of these can do cohorts, the holy grail of VC analytics.

For cohorts I would think you could make something GDPR compliant with Bloom (Cuckoo) filters.
The most interesting part of this to me is the staggering amount of SRAM on the processor.

I wouldnt have thought this amount of sram to be practical from a size and cost standpoint compared to DRAM.
Modelling a Wealth Tax: A Response to Paul Graham
So does this beat 8 V100s in a DGX? And if yes what TPU v3-n is it comparable to?
Trilobite's are said to have the most incredible optical system of any organism, living or dead.

https://answersingenesis.org/extinct-animals/trilobite-eyes-...
You're going from one extreme to another. Starting your own business is not the only alternative to working for big business. There is a remarkable difference between working at Lockheed Martin and working at SpaceX, for example. One is arguably a lot more innovative than the other. And you do know that politicians are responsible for globalism right? It can be curtailed as easily as it was expanded.
I am Roberto Sebastian.

Instead of coding for long hours, I invent elegant solutions solving complex problems simply and fast.

Also sometimes Ben M. Faulkner, a charming gentleman who effortlessly guides multiple people into his grand vision.
That's a totally acceptable "helloooooooo world"!
I don't know the history, but some observations:

1) Some lawyers do sometimes charge flat fees for simple services. Indeed, even when lawyers charge by the hour, most services will be quoted as typically requiring X number of hours. In litigation it's common for lawyers to charge a fixed percentage of the recovered assets, and for it to be contingent on winning.

2) Lawyers can't guarantee outcomes. Sometimes the lawyer discovers some defect or problem that would require additional attention. Sometimes, especially in litigation or negotiation, the likelihood of achieving a particular result is a function of hours input, and even then it's continuously variable.

3) If a lawyer is losing money on a case he can't necessarily quit like the vendor of a normal service or good can and take a fixed loss. A lawyer has an ethical obligation and fiduciary duty to a client that can go far beyond that required by contract law.
Only things surprising to you are worth ourtage/protesting/changing?
Irata.online a modern implementation of the PLATO computing system
I asked an American friend over Signal about it, he confirmed that the lockdown was less severe in Beijing months ago while US cities were in peak shelter in place. But he also said that every single day somebody would call to check in. That level of surveillance wouldn't fly here (our contact tracers are far less effective than say South Korea's).

China isn't North Korea. You can use VPN to access the broader internet. And if you have an American SIM card, all your traffic gets routed through the US so you can access the full internet (it's just painfully slow).
The US GDP contribution of manufacturing is about $2 trillion per year, and employs about 9% of our workforce. That is a far cry from having all of our manufacturing jobs shipped overseas.
Ask HN: Finding a CTO after your MVP?
Once you've released your MVP and validated user interest, what are the best approaches to finding a CTO/technical cofounder to lead development beyond the MVP?
It may be taken up by other states, but the US as a whole seems a bit of a stretch. The typical liberal states, sure.