skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you raise a good point. Why have so many developed countries abandoned wealth taxes? According to wikipedia

> Some other European countries have discontinued this kind of tax in recent years: Austria, Denmark (1995), Germany (1997), Finland (2006), Luxembourg (2006) and Sweden (2007).

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax#Historical_examples

The WSJ has their take https://www.wsj.com/articles/where-wealth-taxes-failed-11572.... Criticisms within the same wiki article can probably shed extra light into why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax#Criticisms
> If it was neutral or positive to your health you would choose to wear it by choice.

This is not a logical conclusion. However, in Japanese culture, people wear masks by choice when they are ill. So it's not universal that people don't choose to wear masks.

> Are you able to prove that there are no deleterious effects?

That's not how it works - the side making a claim has to provide evidence.

> Its not proven that masks prevents particulate transmission. Can you provide reliable evidence for your claim?

CDC - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...

Mayo Clinic - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

UCSF - https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou...

> Its mixed messaging because there is no evidence

It's mixed messaging because this was a novel virus, and we didn't know how to deal with it at first. Also, with shortage supplies, the initial guidance was focused on ensuring sufficient PPE would be available to medical workers. Finally, it's a very complex situation - looking at something in isolation is reductionist and doesn't help with understanding.
Oops, didn’t see main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861623
Starvation might have been a factor in determining the course of the revolution, and might have helped it gain momentum, but I don't think it's right to say that the revolution happened "due to starvation". The triggering event was the declaration of bankruptcy of the French state, and apart from poverty and starvation, there were a lot of other factors that also helped move revolutionary ideas along.
Sorry about the v1 upgrade experience. Sadly, it's hard to predict how long it takes the App Store CDN to propagate. A few years ago we had a launch that took 11 hours(!) before people started seeing it. Luckily we did not hit that snag this time, so hopefully you'll see it in the next few hours.
Single case that is basically the major and only role that the agency has been playing is not a « single case ».
Do you think big corps convert their retained earnings to cash and stuff it under their mattress?
Looks great, thanks for sharing!

How does it compare to the February 2020 standard draft from IETF? [1] I was following the development of the Websocket protocol pretty closely when it happened and had to update my implementation[2] multiple times as the design kept changing. Did this also happen here, or was QUIC pretty much done and standardized straight from the Google design?

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-27

[2] https://github.com/nicolasff/webdis#websockets
Emery Berger: Performance Matters (Strange Loop 2019)
+1. Custom domains are (less than) table stakes in my book.
Wim Hof repeatedly, in every video of his I've seen, tells people to do the breathing in a safe place, not in a pool or in the car. He even has a safety first video that discusses these things linked in all of his other videos.
France's wealth tax has gone back and forth with the government changes over a period of 40 years.

As such, I wouldn't call it a failure. France remains one of the richest countries in the world.

It seems to be presented here in such a way solely to critique Elizabeth Warren's politics.

Multi-millionaires who are motivated to leave over such a small percentage of their wealth don't strike me as people who are [good for/investing in] the local economy, anyway.
The capture of cmd+f on that page is truly terrible. Why do people do this?
Do you have any such exercises I could do?
The point is that there's no incentive for hackers to target state entities.

Hackers can target state entities for other reasons, but no rational hacker would do it for the ransom, since there won't be any ransom paid.

The FBI can simply say "We'll never catch the hackers, but if you pay them you'll go to jail". It accomplishes the same goal of reducing the reward for hacking to zero.
If that's the evidence we have, that's the conviction they receive. It's pretty damning evidence. If an agency is willing to go that far, why give them the benefit of the doubt that was only thing that "got away from them"? Something like that only comes along when a systemic level of rules flaunting is prevalent.
Ok, after so many promises and delays, I had a hard time believing it would be real.
But they show a left turn and it waits for lights and oncoming traffic correctly. Some kind of a debug bird's eye view of the modeled 3D space on the screen. https://twitter.com/brandonee916/status/1319126180675481600?...

This might finally be it.
I guess any fast charge pack has this, cars in particular. Pushing large currents thru strings of high impedance empty batteries must be dangerous and energy inefficient, while switching them to parallel configuration would make a world of difference. I'd be surprised if there weren't power routing circuits already available from major IC manufacturers.
Key part is "ideally". In Minneapolis, council is already backtracking on defund the police movement as crime has spiked, mostly affecting the poor. Is there an example of a country where there is no police?
How do you get at how a person has formed their opinions without asking and it being taken as a slight? There was no dismissal or disagreement. Just an on-topic question.
If they take away the custom domain option, that's quite a canary. So useful in either case.
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It's also why you should be careful about directing people to "the first hit on Google". Whatever Google placed on top for me might be very different from what it places on top for you.
I think Italy has something like that for the "church tax". You can select whether you want that money to go to a church or a different non-profit, but you have to pick something and pay.
Because the criminals won't hack them if they know there's no ransom to be paid.
Preferred Networks’ ChainerRL Joins PyTorch Ecosystem as ‘PFRL’
The best practice for native apps is to use PKCE now, I believe.

See section 4.1.1 of the OAuth 2.1.1 spec ( https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-1-00 ) which was, I believe also included in the security best practices.
Quick explanation: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bornholt/post/memory-models.html

Basically, although I'm sure someone will shout me down for this, x86 provides something close to sequential consistency among loads and stores even for concurrent programs, whereas ARM and POWER provide almost no kind of order for loads and stores without barriers. High-level languages like C++ do not really hide this problem. It is very easy to write a concurrent C++ program on x86 that appears to work in practice but never works on ARM.
Apple’s issue with Hey was that you couldn’t pay for it via IAP.
Ask HN: Any recent small optimizations which saved you or your company money?
My company was using a service to optimize/compress our imagery using their WordPress Plugin for ~$40/mo.

We were looking into switching to Cloudinary which seemed to have better compression results without losing additional quality, but using their offering (transformations + CDN + storage) would have increased our costs to ~$250/mo.

After giving it some thought, I ended up forking the WordPress plugin we were using and replacing the service it used with Cloudinary to compress and replace our existing assets on our server (cutting out the CDN + storage portion).

In the end, the new system gives us better results and we should fall within Cloudinary's free tier and now spend less each month than before.

Does anyone else have some optimizations they've made in the interest of cost savings?
So, like Apple and in app payments then...
I would say that you can deploy containers with above just fine, of course that you probably mean kubernetes which I am also struggling with the thinking of migrating to or not. We have a very well oiled machine atm and k8s has to give us more to be worth it.
To c-c nitpick :). The issue is not being able to handle the 5x volume spike, but handling the spikes the system handled just fine before (but not necessarily at the same day of the week/month/year).

For example, if my employer promises not to reduce cafeteria service and a month later says "no cafeteria for employees today due to a conference; we cannot feed that many people; go away" a hungry employee should check if we had such spikes before and if so how well we did. If indeed it was a unique surge, OK. But if every year we have similar spikes and they never turned employees away, "we did reduce service" is a better explanation than "we cannot serve such volumes" :).
It definitely is malicious if he actually places orders. Jail seems like a possibility if every restaurant actually is affected.
Thanks for giving it a read -- I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Java is Still Free 2.0.3 (2019)
I think we're talking past each other here. I don't disagree with you at all on a theoretical level. Yes you need more money chasing the same goods.

I'm talking more about on a practical level in terms of the prices that most people will see/experience when they are going about there daily life. I even cited very real examples of both demand pull and cost push inflation that have nothing to do with the money supply. These as far as I know are all examples acknowledged by economists as causes of inflation.

If for example tomorrow there were a super volcano explosion and a catastrophic decline in the world's food supply, we would see a massive spike in food costs. Everyone needs to eat and the food supply would be limited, so prices will go up. Since food costs are an input cost for the well being of all workers around the world, we should expect that there will be upwards price pressure on many goods and services used to measure inflation most people actually feel and experience.
US Department of Justice Lawsuit Against Google Could Kill Firefox
A giant waxed cheese wheel is the apocalypse prep you didn’t know you needed
Hi HN! I’m Ido, I’ve been working on this thing for quite a while now.

HackerList turns your public work (GitHub and StackOverflow, for now) into a profile page with skills ranking, like these ones -

https://hackerli.st/@robindaugherty
https://hackerli.st/@thamaraiselvam
https://hackerli.st/@potherca
https://hackerli.st/@aisrael

It’s free, fully automate, and takes literally two clicks to join.

Ranking (in essence):

1. Each repo gets a score based on various factors.
2. The score is factored by the amount of work contributed.
3. Each language that is used in that repo is weighted by its relative share.
4. Points gained in each language are summed over all repos and ranked by their percentile across all members.
5. StackOverflow tag points are factored-in similarly to form final ranks.

I have two goals here:

1. Provide hackers with a measurable way to grow, improve and collaborate (WIP)
2. Make hiring easier and more predictable for both ends. Ideally, by eliminating the whiteboard/do-a-mini-project-
at-home-without-payment part of the process altogether.

(If you’re hiring and want to participate in the pilot, hit me up at hire@hackerli.st or DM https://twitter.com/hacker_list)

I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Are there any active efforts to standardize a structured data format for these transactions so that in the future you might not have to do any ‘guesswork’, at least when dealing with more forward thinking banks?
That is genuinely a really fun way to look at it, thank you for linking this! Especially this fits nicely with Markov matrices where you have N input nodes and N output nodes and the sum of all of the probabilities coming out of one of the nodes needs to equal 1.

What I might find a little more difficult to teach to people through this lens is the phenomenon of eigenvectors, but I suppose that's to be expected—nothing will work well for all purposes.
If you have ever visited a polling place, many of the volunteers are elderly.

The article goes on to say the drop is 20% from 2016. I wonder if concerns over Covid-19 are what is causing this drop?
Thank you for the knowledge. I'm an M3 who hasn't had surgery, EM, or anesthesia rotations yet. Probably should have thought about the airway though...
So if you increase the domestic corporate tax rate, investment moves from domestic companies to things like real estate speculation and foreign companies, which may not be desirable.

The reverse is actually true. Historically, the lower the tax rate, the more investment you get in real estate speculation and other passive income streams because it's now more efficient to simply not invest in productive activities when you can just get effectively free money without doing any work.

The higher the tax rate, the more businesses invest in actual business activities, because they get more expenses they can use to offset income they may earn, and because passive activities generally don't generate enough of a return to be worth the investment compared to (re)investing in an actual business.
For a sitting height desk, my favorite is the Human Scale Freedom chair with headrest. Instead of a zillion knobs for adjustments, it lets gravity do the work. The chair adjusts with you. Lean back and the head rest comes forward to meet your head, the arm rests tilt up to keep your arms at a comfortable angle, but the seat remains level to the floor to prevent the seat from cutting off your blood flow to the legs. It’s an amazing design. Word of caution, it has almost no padding. If a mushy chair is your thing, this one isn’t for you.

For a sit/stand desk, the best chair is the original HÅG Capisco with the tall lift column. It adjusts from sitting height to standing height, so you don’t have to lower your desk if you just need to rest for a moment. The other unique feature I love is that you can turn it around and lean against the “back” with your stomach. It’s a very different chair that may take some getting used to, but it really helps your back and posture.

I enjoy both of these chairs depending on mood. I think the key to keeping your back happy is to move around, and not sit for too long in any one position. Both of these chairs are pricey, but I’ve had them forever and they are one of the best investments I’ve made. If you are sitting on what office stores call ergonomic chairs, then you don’t know what you are missing. :-)
You’re essentially asking what the chance that the author kills themselves in the near future. It would be poor taste to speculate on that.
Eclipse Vert.x 3.9.4 Released
Insider trading is not illegal for members of Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#By_members_of_...
My daughter, who got her Masters in biology relatively recently, suggested that this appears to be the "expected" way that mammals purge stress. I was told during my meditation classes that, during slow breathing, the amplitude of various waves on an EEG change. Waves that are associated with sleeping/resting gaining amplitude, while those associated with stress decrease in amplitude.

I know from my own experience that it works for me to calm down stage fright prior to public speaking or important presentations :-).
I am very surprised that Apple allowed this on the actual App Store (and not just TestFlight), but I'm also pleased! Hopefully it will be accessible to more people now.
When the twitter bitcoin attack happened; the attackers deliberately avoided going after the president.

Most people know better than to try and kick that beehive.
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More drones, more likely than not.
Even narrowly looking at congestion, the cost you rightly identify should be set against benefits.

For example, what % of kids who are currently driven to school in gargantuan SUVs could drive themselves in an Ami? I would certainly rather they cycled, but i'll take fewer SUVs on the roads as a second best.

As a cyclist, I'd also be happier contending with an Ami than a Range Rover, and with a bit of luck the Amis will also slow the Range Rovers down.
Investigation of a micro-fighter airborne aircraft carrier concept [pdf]
That only makes sense if your voodoo doll didn’t actually kill the president. Facebook does spread misinformation.

As to intent - at some point in the distant past before it became clear what it’s effects were, you could argue that Facebook wasn’t designed to spread misinformation.

Once you know what a thing does and how it works, if you keep operating it, it is by design.
Your example would be a _very_ far stretch for FCPA.

The law is about bribes for "obtaining or retaining business". It's one thing if you were paying a bribe to say, a local minister to get exclusive access to some sort of scene...

But low-level crooks pretty much sticking you up and you try to buy your stuff back from them under the guise of "government business" is not the kind of thing FCPA is about. It's for concerted attempts to pay off foreign officials to strengthen your business.

Which surely still happen, but not in the manner you're describing. FCPA violations wouldn't be the sort of thing that "everyone" is told about.
Isn’t this literally one of the reasons WORM storage solutions exist?
Oh, great, now let Antifa loose on individual police officers, harass their family, burn their homes for daring to arrest a "peaceful" protester.

'cancel culture' is probably the most fascist thing since those infamous nazi brown shirts. It really is domestic terrorism.
"I live in NYC and yes, during March and April you constantly heard ambulances, but I think describing it as "bodies piling up" is hyperbole. The vast majority of us survived."

Let's see here... According to https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e5.htm, there were 32,107 deaths in NYC in March-May, an excess of 24,172. There are about 8.4 million people in NYC, according to the Goog.

That would mean that, normally, there would be about 9 deaths/10,000 residents. In those two months, though, there were about 38 deaths/10k. The other 99.62% survive. Yay, you!

"Nobody said they don't. There's a difference between something being serious and worthy of attention, and it being the sort of existential threat that would justify disrupting civilization to the extent we have."

"existential threat"? "disrupting civilization"?
Securing a Golang App with OAuth
You've made the implicit assumption that it is acceptable and desirable for the government to sacrifice some companies to save some others. I'm not so sure that's the government's business, and it sounds a lot like a taking to me. Perhaps it is acceptable in the era of Kelo.
Your website is blocked by my corporate VPN with the following message

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Web Page Blocked

Access to the web page you were trying to visit has been blocked in accordance with company policy. Please contact your system administrator if you believe this is in error.

URL: justsavee.com/
Category: malware
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24738562
The goal is to make it easier for users to perform a site-wide "find".
You can easily disable it by using the checkbox on the bottom right of the overlay that appears; then cmd+f will behave similar to your browser's setup.
No, I think they're referring to the part where Aaron was "made an example of" by an overzealous prosecutor.
They are signalling that they are willing to protect future leakers of embarrassing information.
Why Laugh at Quibi's Failure?
> I'm really not sure how to get the word out there that PLA is outdated and should be deprecated for just about every 3D print use case.

It works fine for 90% of use cases and is easy to use. Aside from that, you can buy virgin PLA filament which is pretty darn nontoxic. Most other plastics have a variety of negative effects on humans, from physical interaction with the finished product but also from the printing process.
This article (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/16/21293419/hey-apple-reject...) suggests that Hey was rejected because it didn't use Apple's in-app purchases?
> the police “are not going to appreciate it to begin with.”

Maybe it's time to reuse the old argument but now in the opposite direction:

"If the police is not doing anything wrong, they have nothing to fear."
The map in the Twitter thread doesn’t seem to support this, but from the cities listed on the page it seems like the colder cities have more broken ice cream machines.
This is a pet-peeve of mine. There's a part of taxes that has to grow with the economy size because the service is provided by people and they need to be compensated at market rate. Say the army, education, etc. But of course there is a bunch of things the government does that should be getting cheaper, like administration of services, etc.

Its the problem with income-taxes, naturally government increases expenditures without need for legislation. It's a bad rule. This is why I think government should be financed by flat-expenditures: sum of costs / people and send a bill. This framing would make government very sensitive to increase of expenditures.
>Actually, history bears out that higher tax rates result in corporations re-investing more of their profits in the company and less in tax-avoidance accounting.

I'm just imagining the 1950s cottage industry in compensating executives with a company car, personal assistant outside of work, etc before the IRS caught up?

And all the present day shenanigans with Amazon/Apple etc hiding profits in Ireland?
Not sure where this data is coming from but for months now I've been ordering ice cream through the McDonalds app only to find out when I get there that the machine is broken and that they can't cancel or refund the order, which ultimately results in a stressful cash refund. It's happened multiple times at various locations around Manhattan. Eventually I'll just use this method to get 30-day cash loans on my credit card.
> I don't think anyone on HN that regularly uses CUDA would call graphics compute ergonomic

I use CUDA, but DirectCompute is OK too.

> I often see complaints about it

People complain about all technologies they use. The more popular the technology is, the more complaints on the internets you gonna see.

My largest complaint about graphics compute is inability to spawn threads in runtime. DispatchIndirect and append buffers often help to workaround, but still limited, not really an equivalent to CUDA’s dynamic parallelism.

> rather than anything better or worse about either model

Not sure what do you mean by that?

CUDA exposes more stuff (dynamic parallelism mentioned above, intrinsics to shuffle data across threads, and a few others) but still, the model is pretty much the same. These CUDA’s triple angle brackets directly map to Dispatch arguments, and [numthreads] values in HLSL.