skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of them will have a reasonable footprint on their environment for their lifetime. The actual issue is with all the people who consume as if there were 5 to 10 habitable planets within reach.

For some reasons, those who complain about population growth tend to consume the most.
Ask HN: Is your company altering its vacation policy because of Covid?
My company has a "use it or lose it" vacation policy with a maximum number of days we can carry over from year to year.

The intent is to force people to take vacations somewhat regularly.

I've had 2 vacations this year cancelled due to travel restrictions and figured many others would be in the same boat.

I asked if that policy was going to be altered to allow us to 'store' more vacation and the answer was No. The thinking is that folks can still drive, take staycations, etc... A second factor would be that many of us would want to take a vacation soon after a vaccine or whatever was available, and the company just can't support that many people wanting vacation time simultaneously.

I can see a few different angles here and was wondering if other companies are altering their vacation accrual polices. And I want to get input on how companies intend to handle (what I feel will be) a rash of vacation requests that are building up.
College student used GPT-3 to write fake blog post and ended up at the top of HN
> Why can't I find HGST drives for decent prices

Because they're discontinued, Western Digital rolled them into their server line, and people like me are snapping the remaining stock incase drives in our RAID die.
The neat trick is "Show HN: My computer switches to my work profile when I put on my lab coat"
His monetary wealth shouldn't give him power over anyone but his own company, nor should it allow him to exercise his right to speech that are denied others for reasons directly related to wealth.

It does in both instances. They're not orthogonal.
If a user wants Epic apps on his iPhone, and Epic wants said user to have those apps, Apple should not be asked for permission. That should not have control over the device after sale. It is no longer theirs.
I play a musical instrument to signal the end of the workday. Usually I'll come down from the office and start playing the guitar for my family before dinner and that's a great mental shift.
HARD force yourself to close your laptop. Seriously.
Then go for a walk just around your block, or go to the gym. Some activity that forces yourself to move
Literally: https://www.sciencebuzz.com/jellyfish-apocalypse-problems-ca...
I've heard this blocked-from-analytics traffic be called "shadow traffic".

https://blog.parse.ly/post/9616/shadow-traffic-why-your-traf...
Oracle in talks with TikTok that could hijack Microsoft bid
I've been wondering lately if cutting out a product is less ethical than buying the ethical version and supporting that market. Relatedly, people often don't eat meat because they oppose unethical treatment of animals. But I imagine farmers who treat animals well are disadvantaged by that strategy- people who care enough to buy their more expensive product opt out of the market entirely.
We don't have to remain human. I am pretty sure that at one point, consciousness will be transferred onto machines. The economy won't justify keeping entire human bodies alive.
We need to start to understand as humankind that we're a pest to other life on this planet, be it animals, plants, naval lifeforms or anything else, us included (maybe except tardigrades, extremophiles and deep-sea creatures).

We need to reduce our numbers, and sustain that. Or embrace Musk's ideas.
This is why we have to stop Trump and all his cronies from destroy this very earth. It's so mind boggling to see the level of greeds at play here. We're already burning up the Amazon and now for some oil and to save a few thousand jobs in Alaska.

Trump and the Republican party are so corrupted it's unbelievable.
The organic movement doesn't have to end with the whole world eating certified organic food to be successful. It can still serve as a standard bearer, leading a charge on a different way to do things- and industrial agriculture can take up some of its best ideas.
$188,700,000,000 - $300,000 = $188,699,700,000
I will give you the point about a lack of inflation indexing.

I stuck entirely with federal numbers when comparing capital-gains to income taxes to make it a more apples-to-apples comparison. It looks like you took that in order to compare california-specific state+federal capital gains tax, and compared it to federal-only income tax?

The other issue of high-cost states being more often included in high-rate brackets (due to federal tax brackets not being adjusted for cost-of-living) is a different, and also complex, issue.
I have no doubt New Zealand will get back to 0 cases since they reached 0 from a far higher rate earlier in the year. It's currently ~10 cases per day they are detecting.

They haven't identified the gap in the quarantine that allowed this current outbreak but it looks like an edge case regardless since they stayed at 0 cases for almost 6 months now.
Not sure why you are being voted down. The news media, for all their faults, can be sued for defamation and in fact have been sued. They also have editorial policies and a clear method of publishing articles which have inbuilt checks and balances.

Sure, it’s not perfect but unlike Facebook, Google and Twitter, they do have processes in place to handle misinformation and prevent the worst excesses, and if these break down it is very clear who you can sue. Ergo, they can be held accountable.
I've recently joined the WD shucking crowd so, unfortunately, there are no stats for the drives I'm running. The cost/GB has just gotten too ridiculously low on shucked drives and my array large enough that a failure or two isn't the end of the world, oh and 3-2-1 backup rule.

I've always really enjoyed reading Backblaze's reports though and have made past buying decisions based on their information.

I wonder if it might be possible for a community sourced version of these reports? A small app that checks SMART data and sends it to a central repository for displaying stats? Many from the self-hosted/homelab crowd are running these shucked drives so there has to be a large pool of stats out there if it can be gathered?
What I don't understand about Filecoin is that they advertise it is for "Private data" too, but there are no access control mechanisms and no ability to delete data from the network. (You can "unpin" it, but there's no mechanism in the clients to compel nodes to actively remove content afaik) If I put private data on the Filecoin network, I would like to be able to largely prevent most people from even pulling down the encrypted files. What happens when the encryption guarding those files is found to contain a flaw and gets compromised? If someone has an old copy of the encrypted files, then that data can now be unencrypted. These issues seem to go largely ignored by Filecoin as best as I can tell.
Google China censored search engine
Google has been forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China after members of the company’s privacy team raised internal complaints that it had been kept secret from them, The Intercept has learned.
Totally agreed. The closer interaction with others helped me stay focused too (though there's a balance there.)

Don't know if it's because working remotely lacks that, or if there's something inherently just different about video calls for collaboration.
Taxation is theft and slavery. That is the discussion we should be having.
Parties want to increase enfranchisement when they are in a position to gain from it. Once they've gained power they usually no longer need the help that increased enfranchisement would provide (survivorship bias). This is the same problem that prevents fixing many problems in government, like underrepresentation due to the 2-party system. Those in power want to maintain the status quo.
I'm a year into a daily vegan diet and haven't noticed this. When will my GI tract collapse?
It is probably not very useful for lidar, because the effect only works for UV wavelengths. At the normal eye-safe infrared wavelengths used for lidar the quantum efficiency of this type of detector is basically 0.

It does work well for general low light imaging and nightvision applications, you can get a black silicon sensor quite high QE (~80%-ish depending on what wavelength ranges you are interested in) commercially from https://www.sionyx.com/
Yes and no. It's more like they're "recertified". It's pretty easy and non-invasive to replace the logic board, which can fix many problems that might warrant an RMA. I've also gotten refurbs back from Seagate and WDC RMA's that have new top covers on the drive (evidenced by a new, non-retail sticker, no old sticker underneath it). Presumably they're doing some inspection of the platters and heads before sending them out. These drives came with a 30day warranty and cleared SMART data. But I would argue that its fair to reset the SMART data after this kind of refurbishment/re-certification.

That being said, there are definitely some sketchy drive resellers on marketplaces like Amazon who just clear the smart data on old drives and sell them as refurbished, or even new.
How does AWS deal with encrypted child porn that sits on their servers? They don't because they have no clue about it. How does Comcast deal with in-transit child porn that passes through their routers? They don't because they don't have a clue about it. The same thing applies to filecoin/ipfs. If you host some encrypted cp files and nobody knows about them, then thats that. If the FBI and subsequently you find out that you have these files, you will remove them and then thats that. Obviously we have to do our best to get rid of cp in our societies but that doesn't mean that we can always solve it technically. Do you also support encryption backdoors? If you do, then I disagree with you but I respect your principled stance.
They'd need to probably do it all independently of the corporation's development efforts which would be rather inefficient. Might still make some IRS agents twitch since it could look like trying to get around tax laws by the corporation.

Realistically, the corporation makes so much more money from Firefox search deals versus foundation donations that this shouldn't be necessary. But as long as the Mozilla leadership wants to screw Firefox they will find a way. For example, by removing an equal number of engineers from Firefox development on the corporation side as the foundation hires.
So that means a below 1% still brings a lot of money and could be fair. Deal!
Western Digital bought HGST and those drives have some different branding now, I forget exact which.
Simply stacking multiple images helps, by averaging out errors (in more or less the same manner as doing a long exposure with perfect tracking). But what you're referring to is a technique for doing even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_imaging
I recommend you to look here: https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp and https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16

Using that DJGPP toolchain, I've have developed some DOS games in the last couple of years (one of those, using C++14 and EASTL, no less!).
Some boutique farms for farmers markets can do that, the organic shit you get at Safeway is just organic pesticides
It’s practically Darwinism—ignore reviews, or suffer.
Bezos can't just "buy" the world a new coral reef - it will require government authority, coordination between specialists, and a lot of collective buy-in by private individuals.

Unfortunately, the US has endured a multi-decade war against the bureaucracies that sparked the Interstate Highway system, the Internet, and countless other achievements.
Several backup tools have encryption in place so that your data can be encrypted before it leaves your device. Rclone for example has encryption and Backblaze B2 capability.
Just a minor point; wealth redistribution is not socialism.
One of the claims of Umami is that it's GDPR compliant:

> Umami does not collect any personally identifiable information so it is GDPR and CCPA compliant. No cookie notices are needed because Umami does not use cookies.

From auditing the source code, this doesn't seem to be the case. First, it claims it doesn't use cookies, but it clearly uses localStorage to store a "sessionKey"[0].

The other claim, that Umami is GDPR and CCPA compliant because it does not collect any personally identifiable information is only half true. While the data collected isn't PII (because you can't use it on it's own to identify a user), it's still "personal data". This is because the "sessionKey" stored alongside all events is actually a pseudonymous user identifier. It's really just a hash of the user's IP along with a few other properties[1]. Because the data Umami collects, when combined with some other data, can be attributed back to the user, the data is still considered "personal data". That means you're still subject to most of GDPR such as GDPR deletion requests[2].

[0] https://github.com/mikecao/umami/blob/f4ca353b5c68750bf391e5...

[1] https://github.com/mikecao/umami/blob/master/lib/session.js#...

[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
https://classichiphopmagazine.com/answers/2018/3/29/what-are...
It’s Time to Open Your Eyes, Bitcoin Is a Monetary Revolution
"China's Economic Success Proves the Power of Capitalism"[0] My point still stands.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzitelmann/2019/07/08/chin...
seafoodwatch.org also has a list to other resources if you live in a country other than the USA: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/resources
First thing you need to decide is buy off the shelf NAS or make your own based on some hardware you may have lying around.

I have an old TS140 with an i3 that can take 4 HD, has ECC RAM with 4 slots. I'm currently exploring setting it up with Freenas (or Truenas after the merge) based on ZFS. So far it looks pretty good and performant.

For off the shelf NAS, Synology options look good..
Thanks for the link. Reading the article it seems that Dirac was a jerk, his only “luck” was that back in the day physicists were treated like rockstars were treated in the ‘70s and the ‘80s, otherwise I cannot explain why Margit Wigner accepted all those dick letter responses coming from him.
When I lack motivation, I set a timer for 30 minutes and commit to begin work on one task. Then I reward myself with a 5 minutes break (yes, I set a timer for that too). Usually, I get so into my project and keep working past the 30 minutes.
This isn't about dissociation. This is about using the tool of a constructed or adopted persona to engage differently with the situation at hand. Dissociation is about finding a way to disengage from the situation at hand. I have experience with both - the former after a fashion although I don't think of it that way, the latter in such extensive detail that it took me the better part of a couple of decades to learn how not to do it - and I can tell you, they're not even a little bit similar.

Also, again based on experience, I do not think that parents who teach their children to dissociate - or, more accurately put, make it necessary for their children to learn to do so - are particularly skillful at identifying what is and isn't good for those kids. They seem very often to be very sure that they are, but I wouldn't recommend taking their word for it.
Dude, gotta say thanks for the screensaver, toO!
Would you use a Shared REPL for DevOps?
You are free to run our hypotheticlly AGPLed nginx for whatever purpose you want. You can serve a military website or an online shop from our hypothetically AGPLed nginx. There are no limitations on usage. You are the user as long as you are operating and using nginx.

Once you serve to other users, though, they also become users of nginx. In this regard, you have an upstream/downstream relationship between you and the other users of nginx that you've made users by giving them access over the network.

You are still free to use nginx for your military website or your online shop or whatever. Your usage of nginx has not been restricted for any purpose.

By granting network accesss to our hypothetically AGPLed nginx, though, you now have an AGPL obligation to provide a link to the source code of nginx, in case you modified that source yourself. This isn't taking any rights away from you -- indeed, the AGPL is only granting you rights. You wouldn't have the right to even serve nginx to other users or to modify its source code if it weren't for the AGPL.

None of this is substantially different from the GPL except for the method of interaction with the software.
Polls suggest that about a third of Americans don't want to get a coronavirus vaccine. (https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-08-14/...)

Note that this probably isn't measuring something else like "I think the virus isn't real", because similar polls show significantly higher support for things like masks and social distancing.
> ... now I stand I make low 7 figures from the equity on this last company (publicly traded now).

Isn't that a "never need to work again" situation though?

eg, you've effectively freed up your future to put time into whatever you want?
Yet somehow people keep working and the entire world of "labour investment" dosen't collapse
Because there are alternatives to population control, like increasing the sustainability of food and energy sources. After all, the planet now supports twice as many people as it did a few decades ago, and that's basically down to agricultural yield improvements.

Making less humans seems to be morally taboo, no one wants to go there.
> I really hope that a neutral jurisdiction will be chosen.

Countries by definition are not neutral. Switzerland is an odd special case, but even they're not truly neutral. European perspective may be different by I've always considered the US to be relatively neutral in legal senses. There's a strong backdrop of rule by law in the US.
You can't get money out of politics. Money is power intrinsically it's like getting the stripes out of the zebra. The fix is redistribution of wealth to reduce inequality to a tolerable level.
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My own personal rule is now:

> I don't buy anything I'll put in/on/around my body on Amazon (e.g. Vitamin supplements, Lotion/face sunscreen, Protein powder)

Even if the brand is legit, I'm still not 100% confident that Amazon's co-mingling stock and switcheroos that can happen in the long supply chain will result in a "real" thing arriving at my door
While I think tru anti vaxxers are a loud minority, I think they have help create vaccine skeptics or at least a slight distrust in vaccines. My cousin who believes in vaccines said he spread out his kids vaccines instead of getting them all at once in order to "reduce risk". This wasn't something the doctor recommended or is recommended on a medical level, as far as I know. But the distrust is there and present in what I believe is a growing portion of Americans.
I think you hit the nail on the head, it's frustrating because there's no clear answers, very little resources on the topic.

I'm actually in Canada, so I'm not sure on the ISO -> NSO distinction.

I do think your advice about coworkers is good though, I know of a couple other early employees in my position (similar grant sizes, also unable to afford to fully exercise). I've often considered what would happen if all of us decided to push for an extended window (and convert to NSO's)

As for the secondary, I don't actually want to sell. I want the ability to wait until there's liquidity to sell, and do it on my terms. Selling now significantly reduces future upside. What I'm really trying to avoid is getting stuck at one company because I can't afford to leave in the future.

I do appreciate your advice though, always good to chat with someone who's been in a similar situation!
Some politicians are proposing not to have wealth taxes, but only income taxes. Let's try modeling the effects of zero wealth tax to see what they would mean in practice for a wealthy individual and for a startup founder.

Suppose you inherit a large amount of money or found a startup in your twenties and then live for another 60 years. What will be the impact of a small or zero wealth tax on your holdings?

Suppose the wealth tax is 1%, the long-term capital gains tax rate for large incomes is 20%, and the annual growth of stock value is 8.25%[1]. That means that each year the wealthy individual experiences an 8.25% growth split into 1.65% growth paid in taxes and 6.6% gain, of which 1% goes to pay wealth taxes, for an annual gain of 5.6%. Which means after 60 years the net worth of the wealthy individual will have grown by 1.056^60 or over 26x growth. By comparison, a 0% tax rate would result in a net worth growth of 46x.

It may at first seem surprising that lowering wealth taxes to 1% or even 0% would produce such dramatic effects. The reason lack of wealth taxes have such dramatic effects is that the growth is applied over and over to the same money. Income tax happens every year, but only to that year's income -- having a higher after-tax income can make someone rich, but more in proportion to their income. Whereas if you live for 60 years after acquiring some asset, the growth in value of that asset will compound 60 times. Ownership of assets compounds.

It is also worth considering that the startup founder who never diversified their holdings, never accepted funding or joined y-combinator, and also never spent their salary buying additional stock, but simply retained ownership of the company other than paying wealth taxes, the percent ownership of the company would drop from 100% to 0.55% at a 1% wealth tax or remain flat at 100% with a 0% wealth tax.

Of course, with modern financial tools no startup founder need experience this: they can simply create different classes of stock, including some founders stock that has enormously overweighed voting power and then sell off only their regular shares to pay for the wealth tax. We already see this with major world companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook that remain entirely under the control of their founders.

Surely a tax rate as low as 1% (or even, shockingly, 0%) would lead to rampant wealth inequality and an out-of-control Gini coefficient.

[1] The assumption of a return that is consistent across different stocks or even consistent from year to year is highly inaccurate. But if we remove this assumption then all calculations become irrelevant and the only conclusion we can draw is "some people get lucky, others don't". That isn't useful, so we'll assume it is consistent. For the source of the 8.25% figure, see https://advisor.visualcapitalist.com/historical-stock-market...
It might well be true that Wuhan currently has no known community transmissions but this is also pretty obviously a propaganda/public relations move. Weird that the BBC covers it so uncritically.
Turning your argument upside down: What stops the govt from printing money to bring inflation to 2%, hence financing the budget by indirectly taking from everyone's savings?
> If I put private data on the Filecoin network, I would like to be able to largely prevent most people from even pulling down the encrypted files.

Isn't that fundamentally impossible? There's nothing preventing someone from setting up an archive site dedicated to storing/serving deleted content.
That might just be what you get with a WEIRD control group though.
I too eat canned sardines regularly and have for many years, have not noticed any such thing.

There is a seasonality to them though, just like with most natural wild foods.

As far as wild-caught seafood goes Sardines are of least concern.
What would such a service then do as an end-user beyond what `aws s3 sync s3://my/bucket /mnt/my/backup/drive/` does?

(Honest question, not provocation. To me either you trust AWS or any party to never lose your data [unwise], or you basically ask them to offer a way to rsync, which AWS does)