skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice share, thanks.

This is Vox's explainer of the same topic.

Who pays the lowest taxes in the US?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXCGbAv8YPw

Just from skim reading, theintercept's article is based on a study from ITEP and Vox's data comes from taxjusticenow.org. I'd have to dig deeper to see if they're referencing the same data of if these are just complimentary studies.
I live in Florida without a car. Where there is a will there is a way.

The truth is the lack of proper urban planning due to over reliance on the automobile is why European cities always feel so much nicer than cities in the states you mention.

If we continue to embrace sprawl then we will continue to have long commutes, worse health, and be isolated in our homes without anything to walk to.
I use a custom hack on top of this chrome extension ... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mercury-reader/okn...

It works pretty neat.

I also came across this extension last week, https://github.com/Kenshin/simpread ... it's in chinese and perhaps a bit bloated for my use cases. But, it looks pretty good. I would auto translate the comments in the code to English before using.
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Maybe it should be something like search results are presented under two tabs, walled and free, and free is the default selected tab. And the tabs are at the bottom of the page, so you have to scroll all the way down.
Oil is overwhelmingly used by burning it and its products. Only 4% of it goes to plastic production.
In 2005?
This is from August.
There is nothing bleeding edge about GPS geo-fences and limiters.
Worth mentioning that "Imba" is the Swahili word for "Sing" :-), just curious what was the reason behind the naming?
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> I think it's more of a market position change rather than an attitude change.

I think the market position changed long before their attitude did. Microsoft's protective attitude towards Windows ultimately cost them mobile.

> The rise of cloud computing and mobile caused Microsoft's dominant position to slip. They lost the cloud to Linux. They lost mobile to Apple and Android.

They didn't lose the cloud to Linux -- that makes no sense. Cloud competitors are Google and Amazon. Microsoft's cloud market share is growing more than 50% every year. While it still much less than Amazon, Microsoft is in a solid position. Linux accounts for more than half the servers on Azure and I'm sure Microsoft is perfectly ok with that.

> They have to. If they don't embrace other platforms they would dwindle. If Microsoft software was only available for Windows, many consumers would rarely use their products.

A second ago, you were arguing that Microsoft is going to make Linux obsolete and you now seem to be arguing the opposite.

> However I believe that they were compelled to change due to a loss of dominance rather than a change of attitude.

I'm not sure how that is relevant or how either one of us could know the minds of the top executives at Microsoft. But either way, it means that Windows is definitely not Microsoft's primary focus as it was throughout the 90's and 2000's. WSL is part of that strategy and not some obsolete EEE scenario.
Humans are capable of self sacrifice for a cause. Duty, honor, love of one's homeland, spiritual convictions, etc.

These are psychological motives and forces and their factual impact on the subject person is observable.

I just recently saw Eien no Zero (aka The Eternal Zero). If that movie reflects the actual events, then the pilots were subject to serious psychological stress coming to terms with their duty to Japan.

If we can ever measure 'psychological stress' in ants, then we can observe if they experience a shift from a normal psychological state to a stressful one before "deciding" to sacrifice themselves on whatever heroic ant task awaits them.
>WSL has been great for me to also be able to do few-compromises coding work on it (previously had an arch linux partition but was tired of having to reboot to access it).

Cygwin[0] is a lot more mature and has a huge set of supported applications.

[0] https://cygwin.com
Microsoft wants to sell Cloud to developers. More than 50% of servers on Azure are Linux. It's that simple. Obviously developing for Linux in WSL does nothing to keep developers shipping apps for Windows.
Pikchr has more in common with svg i think.
Sure, there are lots of reasons it might be better to decentralize. I'm just saying that achieving specific content moderation standards isn't one of them, because there's no reason to expect new, smaller companies to favor Human Rights Watch's preferred policies.
It was intended as a random access memory compliment.
Zeno’s paradox is solved in a better framework for that problem.

Maths is about creating an abstract framework with the mind (which somehow exists without typical bounds of time and space like everything else we can touch). Then you use the framework to sometimes solve real problems.
Using your bitcoin to purchase something after it has appreciated is the same as selling it, and you owe tax on the difference in value.
> toxic about cars and car culture

what you don't realize is that it's not about the car.
So if Ebay did this totally incompetent, clownish wetwork -- How many companies have done similar things competently, that we haven't heard about or have dismissed as conspiracy theories?
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> We need competition in the US and China dominated spaces.

China dominates what in the global software industry? Desktop OS? Smartphone OS? Office Suite? Database? Web server?

But I agree that we do need more competition.
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>he day I can put things in cron in WSL and have them run without needing a window open is the day I stop running a Linux VM.

You could have already been doing that for years[0].

[0] https://cygwin.com
I might be misunderstanding the cost there but isn't it more the amount of people who were going through that system that matters, and not the city size?

By that I mean that we could also look at what 2.7 million dollars (or even that flat cost + operating costs evened out over the period of time of the study) would do, were it put towards every one of those defendants in dire conditions. To ensure for example that they have at least a temporary place to stay, social programs in place, someone to follow their case and offer a reinforced legal counsel (which is available to everyone for free for sure, but I hope nobody kids themselves about how overworked those people are - I could bet everything I have that anyone with a good income would always pick a private lawyer over duty counsel).

As for your last point: it certainly doesn't seem to be the case right now but I can very well see that entering the realm of possibilities. You can't imagine that a system that performs on paper really well and is thrown into a field where people are incredibly over-worked would end up being relied on a little bit too much?

I mean, we see that sort of thing in place for way less reliable things with people who actually know better (i.e. how many scripts and old bits of code hold together much of the world). And in the medical field the development and usage of AI is on a steady rise ("chatbots" in psychology, predictive modeling for decision making and disease diagnosis, "telehealth" assessments using data from IoT devices). If AI gave people more work rather than less, it would be of no use after all.
It would seem to me that this is the perfect time to pull in someone with more production experience. Perhaps they can use the existing tools to pull logs, or analyse it in some way. Maybe they've seen it before and already know the fix.

Giving everyone production SSH experience is, in my experience, a way to run into all sorts of weirdness, not to mention endless frustration.

In a modern automated infrastructure, that box is likely a container running on a virtual machine that's ephemeral and can (and probably will) go away at any moment based on any number reasons - maybe CD kicked off a new deployment, or maybe the load changed and the instance was selected for scale-down, or maybe our spot bid for that AZ isn't sufficient for keeping the instance around, maybe you being SSHed in and poking around impacted the health-check, and so it's being killed for not performing right.

Theres many other problems, too - lots of applications are built in some way that there's simply no other way than secrets (passwords, api tokens, keys) to reach other systems, particularly third party systems.
So production boxes have production secrets, which you probably don't want to share with everyone.

Giving everyone SSH access so they can, in theory, take nginx/kernel dumps as needed tends to imply giving superuser rights, which means they can do whatever they like.

So, yes, pull in someone else - find some way to try and reproduce the problem NOT on production, if that fails, perhaps there's a way to grab enough detail or pull additional logs or network captures to identify the issue. If that fails, well okay, lets SSH in - but we need to coordinate that to ensure that instance does't go away, and doesn't impact production while you do it.
Maybe, but if so, it will be because we have really substantially depleted primary mines.

A precursor civilization which needed to mine its landfills would therefore undoubtedly have left a visible scar in the fossil record. If they suffered some calamity before getting to that point, then we get landfillite. Either way, I think we'd see evidence of any civilization which sustained the equivalent of a 19th and 20th century.
Yes, definitely. I already watched this play out with two people I know. It does not end well.
I don't understand this idea that "citizens" can hold the reins of censorship. If an item's removal is up for public debate, it was never really removed. E.g. it does not really solve the problem of Holocaust denial content if you still have people complaining that Holocaust denial content should be allowed. And it is not a democratic law anymore if you don't get to criticize it.

Censors operated in secret and beyond accountability not because of some accident of history, but because it was essential to the nature of their work.
That line of thinking sounds incredibly beneficial to the tiny percentage of population that lives in urban areas not dependent upon freeways or long commutes.

At any rate the US has already tried this with a national maximum speed limit of 55 and it was incredibly unpopular like prohibition.
I don't get it, nothing in the parent comment means getting rid of cars. You made that up entirely.

The point is simply that if a fucking 60 kW transporter can scale the alps, people can do their so necessary drives with something a whole lot less powerful, a lot less hefty than they likely are doing.
Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

Maybe.

My question is: if we designed the internet and web from scratch, how would we deal with paywalled pages?

It might be valuable, for example, to create a separate protocol for paywalled content (eg: ""cc:"" instead of "http://") and add road-blocks to discourage paywalled sites from using the wrong protocol. That would allow search-engines to filter search results according to the user's preference.
> I think an electric car the size of a Toyota Yaris / Honda Jazz would be a big hit in Australia, since that category has been popular for decades.

I agree, but clearly it needs to come from the right brand. Renault currently sells the Zoe in Australia but it doesn't look like they're selling a lot - Renault's aren't popular in Australia and only have a few dealerships.
First a qualification: Category Theory doesn't teach you how to write glue code, but it can be seen as a theory to organizing some of our understanding of glue code.

One simple example would just be a discussion around the different use cases of Functor, Applicative Functor, Arrows and Monads. And how they relate to common programming constructs like functions, tuples, arrays, Maybes, futures, whatever's happening in react, etc.

Category theory won't help you learn those concepts, but once you know those concepts, even a superficial understanding of some category theory, can help you organize your thoughts.

As a genuine application of category theory, whenever you find a useful abstraction (like eg functors or monads again), you can have a look at its dual, and see whether that's another interesting structure you haven't seen yet.

Just like tuples and Either are duals of each other.

(As an analogy, dualizing is also a concept in linear programming.

Linear programming can help solve many interesting algorithmic problems, like sorting or matching or assignment or median selection, basically almost anything that's in P, and if you allow integer linear programming than you can solve what's in NP.

However, I wouldn't recommend anyone who wants to learn about algorithms and data structures to start with linear programming.

But once you know a bunch of algorithms, you can re-express the problems they are solving in terms of linear programming, and see whether you get anything interesting out of looking at their duals.)
Your line of thinking is flawed in multiple ways:

1) The federal government is not a business, it's a federal government. It shouldn't be looking at taxes as a "cost-effective activity with a positive return on investment".

2) The entire concept of increasing the IRS's budget so they can collect more money is circular reasoning that leads us down a race-to-the-bottom scenario, but the "bottom" in this case is maximizing tax revenue to the point where everyone is squeezed dry....because the government apparently knows how to spend their money better. I.E. Increase the IRS budget so we can collect more taxes, so we can increase the IRS budget so we can collect more taxes, so we can...

3) For your final selfish argument, it's debatable to say it's better for you that others spend their money on taxes rather than less on taxes and spending it however they please. Any standard macroeconomics course will show you that people spend most of the money they have access to. In other words, they're injecting that money directly back into the economy, which typically adds ~10x in value to the economy as a whole, as it trickles through the supply chain. e.g. they buy a new couch: delivery guys get paid to deliver it, delivery company profits off the delivery, furniture store salesperson makes a commission, furniture store makes a profit, couch manufacturer makes a profit, company who produces couch cushions gets another order to replace the sold couch, couch cushion company orders more fabric and couch cushion stuffing.....
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But I assume housing is more affordable than the $2 million houses in Silicon Valley.
No, they made a profit of their work which he used via indirect license. He then also used other works (tabs) which he did not pay for. He in turn made money from Youtube monetization and patreon.
I get it that you don't get outside of big cities often nor did you ever drive in snow. Laughs in Canadian.
And Brave is a little less than Mozilla. Regardless, you aren't in a position to tell someone else whether or not they were harmed by being fired. For one, getting fired is a pretty obvious harm. Second, the person involved is saying he considers it a harm.
I believe in the right tool for the job. Getting people and goods from A to B is a job that's done incredibly inefficiently and unsafely. Our society would be cleaner, quieter, and safer if we right-sized our vehicles.
I also read an article on this a while ago that said that at least informally, the metrics changed in the IRS - the practice went from evaluating auditors based on the dollar value they recovered to evaluating auditors based on the number of files they opened and closed. So of course now the auditors focus on the small cases because they're quick and easy, and they don't want to have to explain to a performance management system why they closed fewer cases than their coworkers.
Forget skyscrapers, instead consider this: footprints. You likely made millions of them in your life. How many of them still exist? Approximately zero. It's hard to think of something more ephemeral.

Yet dinosaur footprints have been fossilized. They're found all around the earth.

I'm sure our civilization has already created a gazillion things more permanent than them.
I mean, sure. The inverse (black text bleeding into a white background) is also true. Astigmatism makes it harder to pick out the edges of things which tends to make things seem more blurry.

There are other sentences in that article that are more compelling, mainly that "Halation is more common and more severe when using dark mode." I'd be interested in hearing actual statistics on this. I haven't personally noticed dark mode being any different than light mode.

The article goes on to explain having an updated prescription is the best thing to not have to worry about that.
Logging systems are annoyingly complicated and there are a lot of moving pieces that can fail. Way more than reading a file over SSH.

This kind of access shouldn’t be your go-to but it’s important to have a battleshort.
A really good take on cars I saw years ago is that they have two modes.

One is high speed death machine which needs to be isolated from humans - e.g. the average highway.

The other is a mechanical horse that you can out run if you try - e.g. how a forklift is normally used.

The problem is where those two modes meet, e.g. anywhere where people and cars share the road and cars move faster than 30km/h, which is unfortunately every city in the last 80 years.
I can imagine overhearing a conversation where someone says they moved here to escape the west coast wildfires in some brewery tap room in Colorado...
I don't know what's less defeatist than figuring out how to survive outside of the system.
VC capital goes to noteworthy individuals that are able to give a memorably pitch. Hardworking, sensible individuals build their careers in a different way.
If you take Elon Musk as an example, he was already wealthy. That adds to a sense of entitlement and "be born for success".

I hope that investors stop throwing money to flashy individuals and care more for good sound managers. But, as far as these individuals attract lots of money, independently if their companies make any profits in the long run, it is a better bet for VC money to go this path.

VC money bets on individuals that can attract a good buyout. The quality of the products sold, profits, or any other eventuality is not in the map. Long-term investors should be smarter and be less confident on the VC bets on individuals and focus in the long term viability of their companies.
I think the biggest thing honestly is just having a good manager. If you don't have a good manager, and they don't support making you visible, it's quite the fight to become visible.
and for audit. Audit/Compliance is one of the worst yet valid reasons to introduce complexity, redundancy and all sorts of costs into projects. It's also why some people earn a living out of it purely.
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I do it as well. I've done it in other states down here as well. Like you said its possible, but theres definitely a hit on my QoL.
Little bit of both. It's a fixed rate, but a lot of employers use a "tier" system where the rate depends on your income.
I'm gonna ask for references: Where in the world did you find a new $20K Chevy Bolt?
You still don't understand. It's not a StackOverflow-like question to resolve an issue. It's a discussion.
So you were happy for everyone to have their say about stallman and the consequences that be-felled him?
>Can't you install emacs natively in Windows?

Yes. https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
Get a KLR650 or a Goldwing :)
It’s not far off. My driving test in San Francisco was a couple of manoeuvres in the parking lot and a drive around the block.
Depends on the orbit. Elon's roadster on its heliocentric orbit has a predicted half-life of 15 million years (1)

The moon has been on orbit around the earth for billions of year and will probably remain on orbit forever (whatever "forever" means).

(1) https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/5/2/57
Related, I highly recommend the videogame Outer Wilds, which notably includes a 22 min timeloop, and, related to this I'll add a tiny spoiler; an extinct civilization that was responsible enough to not wreck the ecology of a world that could have intelligent life in their future.
Yeah ok, we agree. I don't think smaller companies would moderate better, just that it would be less of a concern when they do it badly. I mean there are small social medias companies right now that don't moderate at all, but it's not a pressing issue because they don't have much impact.
This seems to have become a lot more difficult in the post-app world. Nobody has their head up anymore. Also, I think only low match count people actually meet anybody on these apps. Something to think about if you’re frustrated.
Lets go back to the original core assertion for the thread -

> > Every developer needs access to some servers for example to check the application logs.

> I fundamentally disagree with this.

So,

Developers shouldn't be reaching for SSH access to check logs.

If you're encountering problems that you can't diagnose through the existing logs, then you should probably be involving at least one other person - someone who has that production experience, who might have some additional knowledge about the problem.

If, and only if you've exhausted other avenues - then reach out for SSH access. But it should be a last resort, not the first resort. Plus, anyone SSHing into production boxes should really be very familiar with how production is configured. You can do more harm than good by poking around on a production box being completely unaware that you're causing alarms and outages elsewhere because you taking a memory dump of nginx caused in-flight requests to get timeouts and so-forth. The people with that experience are generally the DevOps/Infrastructrue folks since they're the ones who deal with production all day, and are going to get the pages if something goes wrong with that.
Philosophy is definitely rediscovered by every generation. Nothing can be proven, but you can look for evidence of whether any improve people’s lives.
It's a straw man to argue that math has brought new philosophical challenges, no one has posited against that. I've only stated that math is readily understood by transcendental idealism, disproving the false dilemma presented by the author of the article.

A more mature comment would be to point out an instance where there is some philosophical challenge to transcendental idealism that came from 'new mathematics'. Though I find the possibility of this to be impossible. I would expect at least the German-Idealist Godel to write about it.

If you're talking about Gauss's non-Euclidean geometry, that's completely compatible with transcendental idealism, in fact Gauss took his non-euclidean geometry from the second chapter of The Critique of Pure Reason. He read Kant's passage on the triangle and the line in respect to the sum of angles obsessively.
So, I wonder how much social media use is a real choice. A lot of it feels more analogous the sort of false choice people make when they smoke or self-medicate with over-consumption alcohol.
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Hello CEO of Brave, I didn't say that blocking ads is the same as circumventing paywalls. I said argued (in essence) that blocking users who block ads is a form of access control. I affirmed that people have the right to block ads, but I also asserted my argument that the owner of a server should have the right to block their access if a user tries to access their content without respecting the terms of access.

Signed, an average developer.