skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Republican politicians fast-tracking a lucrative no-bid contract for a company they invested in?

Yup, sounds like garden-variety corruption.
https://archive.md/kp6Wg
Does Brazil even use its military actively? Or is it just a tool to repress the Amazon natives?

Guess that's tax wasted too.
Fiscal sponsorship: https://www.fsf.org/working-together/fiscal-sponsorship

F-Droid seems approved as a repo for Replicant, despite its "features you may not like" (but free software) apps.
One person’s protestor is another person’s vandal or looter.
Isn't more than half the population something like < 100 miles from the US border?

I've always wondered why no big international player tried to enter that market, it's ripe for disruption, and the local operators sound like they are far behind.
Almost no one in the US identifies themselves as rich. Most rich people think they are upper-middle-class at best.

My step mother told me that she "can't possibly be in the 1% because she doesn't even have a gardener."
I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API
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Clean or not, people need to be held accountable for their actions. I mean if they have nothing to hide then they have nothing to fear, right? These are supposed to be public servants (although that's obviously not the case).

So no, I still don't feel bad about it, even if that cop needs the job to feed his family. Maybe they should fight the system that doesn't support their citizens in need (people with health problems, people who don't have money for food, people who don't have homes) instead of being willing participants against those fighting for a better government that actually serves the needs of its people?
People want fits bad enough that they buy them lightly used at new prices.
To be fair, Android also doesn’t make third party camera apps accessible while locked.
Yeah, I can be grateful, it's like a big red warning color that the project members are gatekeepy and don't wish to keep up with the times.

Don't come crying when you can't find any contributors, it's your own undoing.
Yeah, just add an edit to the post.
Different pranayamas have different goals.
Check out Bhastrika pranayama for instance.
Most multithreaded software has concurrency bugs and many of those bugs have been covered up for years by the relatively friendlier x86 memory model vs weaker models like ARM.

It is not surprising at all that supported products are going to be slow to support other architecture.
> I’ve advertised for low frequency terms where the minimum bid is $1 even though there’s only 1 or zero current advertisers. So the “auction” is against a floor set by google, not the market.

Showing excessive ads wastes users' attention and teaches them not to pay attention to other higher value ads.
A price floor seems like a very reasonable way to handle this?

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
One time wealth taxes on things like expensive cars, art, and houses can be levied at the time of purchase. That's just sales tax and already is recorded. Annual wealth tax on land/property is easy, we already do it it's just not done in a progressive manner. Again that's already recorded. Annual wealth taxes on things like securities, stocks, bonds, can be accounted easily by any broker and reported. Again this is already recorded and goes to the IRS. So there's not really any new privacy concern.
It has test.ping
ah. i was thrown off by the typo. i thought you were complimenting their decency.
Wealth taxes are fundamentally ex post facto, which changes the nature of voting. Voting should be about changing the rules for the future rather than changing the rules for the past.

And it has real consequences for the spirit of democracy. It opens up the idea that people can literally vote to take other people's stuff and give it to themselves. That process will not have any good results for anyone.
While I agree that hard real time is desirable, it isn't necessary for responsive interfaces. Plenty of older, comprehensive operating systems managed to be responsive without it, BeOS and the Amiga being examples.
You don't defend your argument, you just state it.
The planes have forced air recirculation, with vents at every passenger. I think this is much different than opening a window.
Fourier & Friends are excellent analytical tools for the nature of patterns, regardless of where they occur! In EE-land we think too much about real and complex numbers, where Fourier analysis is more concrete. But spectral graph theory makes a lot of sense when you think of Fourier analysis as a way of decomposing patterns into their constituent parts, it just looks a bit funny when those patterns aren't numbers.
OK that makes sense, as long as the service can't see the original source IP/port there's no collision risk.
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> The top 1% of Americans pay 37% of the tax burden yet own over 60% of the wealth.

Your statement confuses wealth with income.
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> This is good for the economy.

Some people think it is good for the economy, its not objectively true. If a company invests in itself instead of giving out dividends it's making a choice upon the shareholder, which in turn could mean the company invests in something less efficient than the shareholder could find.

> n the other hand, lowering corporate taxes also generates a cascade of tax avoidance

Unless corporate taxes are 0, and you save all of this issues plus get to fire a lot of corporate layers.
I was referencing only federal income, which I clarified a bit. Thank you for doing the work of providing those break downs.
> regardless of the actual views they hold

Are you really suggesting that taxing someone based on their views is a good idea.
300MB boot partition for Windows! Oh how far we've come...
You can easily search for open issues, tag/label them, mange milestones, you know, project stuff. Plus you get a web interface that's a bit more user friendly than mailman's. You can see what's going on, how much open issues there are.

How hard it is to open N separate issues and link them to the original one? It's exactly as much effort as sending new emails.

TC39 uses GitHub: https://github.com/tc39/

There's also the IETF datatracker, and various sites cobbled together to show the mail threads (eg. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/acme/ ) and states of various RFCs. And basically to manage work.

Email is great, and it's enough for IETF workgroups, but it's just a communication channel, it's far from an efficient tool to organize (track, show, share, plan) work.
In theory sure, but there are many many counter-examples. Corporate management rarely makes decisions that are against their interests.
A person is treated equally. If a person is poor, they get taxed little. If that same person becomes rich, they get taxed more.

Money isn't a protected class. Why do you act like it is?
Problem is that it's a subtle accusation of speaking in bad faith or an accusation of lacking agency. In order to have respect for the other person, you can't start from either of those positions.
Yes, we're all familiar with Fox News. But if you want to make a convincing argument about the entire media, you're going to need to make an argument that applies beyond just a single company.
I think LLVM and WebKit are moving to Git / Github as well.
Yeah citation needed, other then tariffs taxes have only gone down in the past 30 years...
For anyone unfamiliar with pipe wrench use, the genius of it is that the parts fit loosely and thus squeeze the pipe harder the more torque you apply to it. edit: you don't have to tighten the screw - that is just to get the jaws to about the right width.
The shape of this thing reminds me of one of those desktop calculator apps that have on-screen number keys. Physical calculators need number keys, or else there’s no way to enter numbers, but a device with a keyboard doesn’t need a bunch of number keys that no one is ever going to click on. They’re just decoration, and there’s no reason to add them aside from telling people “hey, this is a calculator”.

Likewise a vehicle like the electric Hummer (or the Rivian truck and SUV) doesn’t need that visibility- and pedestrian-killing codpiece that they have mounted over the electric drivetrain (which likely doesn’t extend beyond the envelope of the wheel wells). There’s no need for it except to tell people “hey, this is a truck”. Except in this case it’s a design element that is literally killing an increasing number of people every year[1], not just a bit of wasted screen real estate.

I really hope this design language eventually goes the way of way of the Landau[2], either by way of some forward-thinking EV designer who doesn’t keep copying the mistakes of ICE vehicles, or that people finally wake up to how utterly ridiculous these vehicles look[3], or by way of some kind of minimal standards around forward visibility[4] and pedestrian injury potential.

[1] https://www.codot.gov/safety/traffic-safety-pulse/2019/march...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau_(automobile)
[3] https://twitter.com/verge/status/1318208829675491329
[4] https://twitter.com/ItsMcMikeTime/status/1296801390862446597...
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> If you buy 100,000 shares of AMZN today, do you hope that IRS will come knocking on your door to take 1,000 or whatever number it is each year?

Yes, I would expect that if I had 100k shares of amzn (300 million dollars of net worth), and we implemented a wealth tax, the IRS would tell me "You have to pay us $300k or so" each year on that wealth. If that means I sell some stock, then sure. That means, btw, if I live 60 more years and gain zero more dollars of wealth, I still have 280 million dollars left of my original 300 mil. I still have plenty of shares left.

You clearly don't understand the point of a wealth tax or how the rate rises progressively with wealth it is if you don't understand why we'd be taxing ownership of wealth, and why this wouldn't negatively impact most people.

> If that is the case no one would ever buy any shares of any company...

I currently don't have over 50M of net worth. A wealth tax would not impact me, so I'd still buy stock just as I do now, with no difference. If my stocks did so well that I had millions of dollars, I'd now be able to pay a wealth tax, and have on problem with that.
I'd also keep buying stocks if they got me from a net worth of almost nothing to $50M, and all I had to do was pay a small percentage each year along the way.
very small drones for inside the house, they are super fun and you can fly them whenever you want

House yes, anywhere with a fire suppression system _NO_. The little glass bulbs used in most of them don't react well to having a drone bump into them. Buddy of mine had this happen where he worked not long ago, you really don't want to be that person...
> Confiscating others money

You can see it as a subscription fee for the service of upholding private property rights instead.
Sure, you could pass a new amendment. That requires 2/3 majority in both houses which I think would be tough. Most of my issues with it are in the implementation, its just not practical. Theres lots of other insightful comments here talking about that issue.
Why? Halides are used to make film. Both products are somewhat related to that.
If wealth flight is really going to be your justification for being against a wealth tax, at bare minimum name the country the wealthy are going to flee to in order to avoid it. The US has a significantly lower marginal tax rate compared to pretty much any nation in Europe.
The screencast site is $21/month or $210/year (listed at the bottom of the /start page).

I don't put it front and center since my first goal is to get people to check out the free content, which is most of it. Eventually learners will usually try clicking on a premium episode, which is where the paywall shows up. The reason I do it this way is so that people will know exactly what they're getting when they sign up.

Also, even getting people learning from the 100+ free screencasts is a plus for me.

The other product is in alpha and the pricing is going up as I hit various milestones. It will probably max out around $250.
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> But when taxes are high, I see that as an incentive to hide the profits by investing in the future.

That isn't really the societal win you're making it out to be though. If you "pocket" profits, i.e. pay them to investors, the investors just go out and invest them again in something else. Which is actually better, because it reduces concentration of wealth inside of corporations. Instead of one corporation growing ever larger because they have to invest internally or be subject to punitive taxes, you get many new independent companies being formed as investors seek out new opportunities for the money they receive as dividends.

The other problem is that there are many forms of investment that are taxed differently. Government bond interest typically isn't taxed. Real estate appreciation typically isn't taxed until sale, which means they can be deferred indefinitely. Investing in foreign corporations will be subject to the tax rates in those other countries. 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.

Moreover, multinational corporations arrange for profits to be declared in whichever jurisdiction has the lowest taxes, so increasing the tax rate on domestic corporations disadvantages them against multinationals that won't be paying those taxes.
Please make a list of all foreign investors in the NSA. Then make a list of foreign investors in American big tech companies. Consider the possibility that the traitor Snowden went rogue in Switzerland, and planned a ruse to wind up in Russia from, at least, 2012. A trained spy has the ability to fabricate a detailed, plausible cover story, and this typically comprises the majority of preparation for such an operation.

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around how Snowden could fancy himself as a patriot when he leaked the blueprints to our global surveillance operations. This is pure gaslighting, since nobody wants unnecessary mouth breathers. It's the ultimate leveraging of civil liberties to support internal strife and division between our institutions and the civilians served by those institutions.

Russia keeps Edward Snowden around primarily to support Active Measures. There'a a cognitive dissonance going on, one that particularly appeals to tech idealists, an idealism that most of us geeky civilians possess to some degree. What would Russia do if the roles were reversed, in terms of controlled propaganda, and retribution?
> aren't vectors just Nx1 matrices?

It's been a while since I formally studied maths, but - can you describe a situation in which this is _not_ true? (modulo transposition)
If so, they are confused because they are thinking of expenses as paying for themselves with the taxes saved. A business with a lower tax rate would make the same investments and have more money left over, or make more investments with the same money.
To make the output smaller for those not interested in targeting older browsers.
>b-b-but it's encrypted!

Facebook actually updated their LIMITATIONS OF KEY METRICS AND OTHER DATA section at the top of their annual and quarterly reports[1] this year to say that "as a result of limited visibility into encrypted products, we have fewer data signals from WhatsApp user accounts and primarily rely on phone numbers and device information to match WhatsApp user accounts with accounts on our other products". Prior to 2020, did they not disclose this in their reports.

[1] https://last10k.com/sec-filings/fb

disclosure: I work on Last10K.com
Foxconn is Taiwanese and not mainland Chinese but the point still stands that it was political hedging during the trade tensions.
"If you bought medical insurance policies on your own for yourself or your family, you might qualify for a self-employment tax deduction on the premiums." [1]

"If you are enrolled in an employer-sponsored health insurance plan, your premiums may already be tax-free. If your premiums are made through a payroll deduction plan, they are likely made with pre-tax dollars, so you would not be allowed to claim a year-end tax deduction." [2]

[1]: https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/self-employment-tax...
[2]: https://www.investopedia.com/are-health-insurance-premiums-t...
If not this the only other thing that can happen is Nokia maximizing the damage.
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Well I for one (born in Venezuela and moved to Italy) used to be mildly annoyed when italians used the term "americano" to refer people from USA, and used to tell them "I'm also american". In Venezuela I used "estadounidense" [1] and in italian it would be "statunintense" the proper form, but almost nobody uses it.

Now I'm used to it and don't mind it anymore and this is the first time I've heard of the term USAian and find it quite amousing but I don't think it will catch on.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/estadounidense
First amendment begs to differ
Josh Waitzkin, chess prodigy, learning guru, almost killed himself by accident through breath holding work[0]:

"Josh Waitzkin: The 30-second version is that I was doing some Wim Hof-inspired breath hold work. I made the mistake of doing it during lots of reps of underwater swims, 50-meter swims, at a pool in New York City. And on my eighth or 10th rep, I blacked out in a bliss state and I spent four minutes in the bottom of the pool after blacking out from oxygen deprivation. This old guy pulled me out and, which I’m eternally grateful for, and I basically drowned. All the doctors said after 45 to 60 seconds I should have been brain dead or dead, but it was four minutes on the bottom of the pool and that my training saved me. Also, you could say, put me there—but that’s a whole other conversation!"

[0] https://tim.blog/2020/03/14/josh-waitzkin-transcript-412/
Thanks for this article, remill and libFuzzer were new things to me. Both look very useful.
Eh, true wealthy people are against a tax that hurts them, but that doesn't mean that their argument is without merit.

Think about what a wealth tax means. Say I found a company like WeWork (bear with me and try to forget the shenanigans pulled by their CEO). Things are going pretty well and before you know it, we raise money at a $200 million valuation and my stake is 50%. On paper I'm now worth $100 million dollars, but that money isn't in my bank account... it's an imaginary number that my investors decided to invest at. Based on E. Warren's wealth tax plan, I now owe 2% of my wealth above $50M. So where do I get that $1 million from? I don't have cash or liquid assets, so likely I have to dilute my shares to get some personal money. No problem... investors will understand.

So I go on for a few years paying some taxes on my new wealth, 3-5% of my equity a year. Now, the company has grown and we raise a big amount of money. Say Softbank gives us $5 billion at a $20 billion valuation, and i've been diluted to 25% at this point, but now I'm worth $5 billion on paper. Under EW's plan, I owe 3% of my wealth above $1 billion, plus 2% of wealth between 50M and 1B. My tax bill is gonna be $139,000,000. Again, my wealth doesn't exist in the bank... it's in my private shares. But okay, I raise money from investors to dilute my shares and pay taxes... at this point they expect it.

OK... now I make plans to take my company public. Finally I'll have some real liquid money and paying these taxes will be easier, because I can just sell shares on the open market. But wait, I put some feelers out and the market thinks my company isn't worth $20 billion... it thinks it's worth $10 billion. Do I get a refund for past tax payments?

The point is that the government will have a very hard time determining what things are worth. It's easy to tax income or sales, because those are known values. The price of WeWork, or a Picasso for that matter are not. So what's gonna happen? I can guarantee that billionaires are gonna come up with a 1000 ways to claim that they are worth much less than they are. They'll start taking companies private. They'll put money into hard-to-value and illiquid assets. Some will revoke their citizenship and move elsewhere. On the whole, it may not gonna be great for the economy, even though in a sense there's a moral justness to it.

There are better ways to tax the wealthy. Higher capital gains taxes and estate taxes to name a few (estate taxes run into the same issues as wealth taxes, but at least it doesn't burden people to value their property every year).
I mean, we have no idea what intelligence agencies "generally" do. What we do know is that the few things that have come out about their actions have been full of illegal things. So saying they generally don't do that isn't worth very much
Good stuff to see how you can just take those packs apart and recombine them, but aren't you supposed to take care to match cells and make sure your BMS can balance the charging or risk letting the explosive magic smoke out? Seems like he just took any random cells and put them all together.

He didn't really talk about any of that, so this approach feels like quite the fire hazard.
If you can be sure that the protestors are all trying to make a better government for everyone, then I’d agree.

But that’s never the case. There is always a mixture of people with good motivations, people who just want to get into a fight. This is just as true for the protestors as it is for the police.

If it was so clear what was right, then it would be simple to overthrow the government since the vast majority of people would be in agreement.
Is that what police are doing all day? Walking around and hitting people with batons and shooting minorities and drinking blood?
It has to do with widespread deployment and a central trust authority - that the specific citizen holding the specific citizen's cert. Service providers don't have to deal with the massive pain that is identity verification, there's no cumbersome stuff like faxing someone a gas bill to prove their identity.
The top 10% of Americans have much more than 69% of the disposable income. The majority of Americans aren't able to afford a surprise $250 expense.
That sounds like a good efficiency measure to use in addition to adding new zero/low carbon energy sources. If you only capture waste heat, the net total is still all coming from carbon-based sources. Maybe it's the low hanging fruit for now, but it's not enough. We need to tap every feasible alternative energy source.
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It's rarely that clean, but it is clean for the case of Belarus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fYwA4xinyA (Warning: Contains video some may find distressing)
My fingers are firmly crossed that DUs make their way into C# 10... https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/blob/master/proposals/d...
Interesting! My guess is FB has built a microservice ecosystem for Whatsapp to call home with all this data.
You're right. That they were making an electric f150 has been known for long ago I assumed there was more information out by now. :/
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What you call "selfish" is also known by some as "rational". Maybe that will help.
You stopped reading...and missed the whole point. The idea was, to say if a tax doesn't apply to someone you still need to do a deep valuation of their assets. Someone could hide 10M in a painting and live in a regular house, have regular "income".
Wow thanks for that example. I don't think I've seen that trick before; now I want do do more with graphs again.
> I mean if they have nothing to hide then they have nothing to fear, right?

You can't use that line on groups of people you don't like while also wanting privacy for groups of people you do like.