skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and disagree. I do think people would be incentivized to find a store of value that doesn't meet whatever definition of wealth the IRS uses. I think no matter what your definition is, there will be a way to game the system and the wealthy will do so aggressively.

I don't necessarily think it leads to purchasing status symbols. Depreciation already kind of incentivizes that, so I don't think there's anything fundamentally game-changing there.
Author of the comment I replied to identified himself as "business owner", probably not an owner of "large corporation".
"This is a narrative on how computational structures such as data structures, programming constructs, and algebraic structures undergirding Computer Science display deep parallels among them."

Very math, but interesting.
This is due to human nature, not what logical, future thinking beings should do.

I'm suggesting, that everyone can feel empowered, because assets or dollars invested today can be worth considerably more after inflation in the future. This should give EVERYONE hope.
Hummer EV 'supertruck' has a UI built on Unreal Engine and runs Android
If you want a second masters, go for it but it will have a neutral to negative impact on your career.
> I’m worried about the class divide turning violent
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it doesn't have to be if Marxists don't stir it all the time
Regarding using c6g’s instead of i3’s to power Elasticsearch machines, could you tell me more? (We’re in the same boat, considering a switch)

Specifically around hyper threading, my understanding is c6 don’t have “vCPUs”, and just have “CPUs“, so the effective number of cores doubles. Did you find similar throughput (in terms of Elasticsearch Search/Write TPS) between a virtual and real core?
I don’t doubt Trump is this much of an idiot. In fact he strikes me as an average Boomer American which is a demographic that has quite poor understanding of technology.

That said, I would imagine that if you were bold enough to “hack” the Presidents Twitter account, allegedly twice at that, you would take screenshots or have proof. I didn’t see anything other than their word that they had gained access in the article.
Still works fine. I have a large pending change which is risky and I want to do more testing before releasing, but got busy with other stuff and no update has been pushed out for a while.
It is, but more likely he’ll get fired by his current employer which according to his Twitter profile is Yelp.
Try turning it on its head. Does the police/state not do the same thing daily all over the world? Just look at any news channel and you'll see lots of names thrown around. Only not the police as they are "protected".
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How often does it happen that working containers suddenly fail like that though and it's critical to shave the minutes?

I appreciate proxying does give you slightly better reaction time but this has to be weighed against the costs and outages caused by the complexity in the proxying.

Re you app.example.com scenario: I was not thinking of serving the static assets and frontend code from the individual services, but rather having eg your SPA know about the different endpoints and serving the resources from their own service which would be stable.

Re the memcached angle - the static serving can have caching by whatever mechanism and the API endpoints can also use memcached all they want, with at least as good control granularity as in the proxy case. But if you were thinking about a caching reverse proxy, I think that would be more prone to poisoning the cache with error replies than having the endpoints do their caching individually.

Again, think of all the failure prone machinery you can elide in this scenario.
I generally agree with the opposition to wealth taxes (and no, I'm not wealthy), but I'll try to engage with this by providing what I believe is the strongest good-faith counterargument:

> a wealth tax creates a perverse incentive to not invest back in the company.

This is arguably a "good thing" because one could argue that it's "unfair" that large, high revenue / high income corporations allocate so much capital in our economy. It would arguably be better for them to pay the taxes and instead have that capital be allocated by a democratically accountable body: the government.
I suspect to have the right answer you will need to read the relevant standards/cert and understand how it interacts with your design.

But the general theory as I understand it generally is not that the plastic may not burn, only that they are self extinguishing. V-0 like that filament means it will extinguish itself within a maximum of 10 seconds after the ignition source is removed.

Regular filament acts more like an accelerant, put a flame near it and it burns quite vigorously, and for a long time. Meaning anything near it that can burn will likely catch fire too.
Well, in 1783-1784, Iceland saw the Laki eruptions which emitted dozens of megatons of material into the upper atmosphere over a period of 8 months. This impacted many parts of the world and caused extreme weather. The end result was a decade of extreme, deteriorated weather with failed crops and hunger across much of Europe and North America. It is theorized that the eruption was an indirect driver for the French Revolution.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2015/06/08/this-17...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2013/06/local-and-global-impacts-1793-...
The NetMD players were way too little and way too late. While a NetMD player could load music via USB onto a disc the software on the PC was terrible and the process wasn't much better than recording from the line-in.

If you were loading music from MP3 or WMA the software was transcoding those formats to ATRAC, NetMD players didn't natively support either format. So you went from one lossy compression to another. If your MP3s were already at the minimum threshold of quality because they came out of a shitty encoder they were just going to get worse in ATRAC.

If you were loading WAVs into SonicStage your quality would be way better but you first had to rip your CD to disk and then load it in to SonicStage. So you had no time savings over ripping to MP3. ATRAC also had a bunch of DRM so it limited how many discs your could load a track on. Not an automatic problem but putting a song on more than a couple discs wouldn't work.

Keep in mind that by the time NetMD players were out CD-R drive's were cheap and pretty common. A lot of CD players had also started supporting native MP3 playback and dedicated MP3 players were readily available.

The extremely inconvenient NetMD experience was up against cheap CD-Rs, much more convenient MP3 players (including the iPod), and in general a better MP3 experience. The whole MiniDisc ecosystem was just inconvenient unless you had spent a lot of money to live in some sort of end-to-end MiniDisc world.
> So the people making 2.8% of the national income are really taking home more than that since they (collectively, not every individual receives all of these) are receiving snap, section 8, tanf, social security/SSI, Medicaid, etc.

It makes sense to look at these payments to the extreme low income brackets as insurance against revolution. People will put up with a lot of misery, but there comes a point where they start getting angry about it, and as a bonus they're well armed in the US.
I sincerely wish we could have good faith discussions without false dichotomies.
Which sounds better to a general at HQ than to a private in a foxhole.
Of course not. I'm merely saying that many people that support the wealth tax are looking at it from the perspective of getting back at the boomers. They are onto something, insofar as that generation did support policies that really did effect a huge wealth transfer that benefitted the boomers, at the expense of basically everyone else.

The thing I'm trying to call out is that they might not want to wipe out GenX-ers like me, who invested their personal savings into TSLA, and are working to use the wealth to actually help people rather than to buy fancy clothes, condos and yachts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIAZJNe7YtE

(Something to understand here is Weinstein's argument about WWII, embedded growth obligations and institutional decline...)
I'd rather have a UI built on physical gauges, honestly
Your first proposal is just a standard luxury sales tax, which functions entirely differently from the recurring wealth taxes that are being discussed.
It will not, in fact, just work bc many clients cache old entries for a long time so you won’t be able to solve your load spreading problem quickly at least in general case
That's the double-edged sword however. Many "random strangers" will be homeless people who notice that you are smoking and will ask you if you have a ciggarette to spare. My ex girlfriend used to carry an empty ciggarette box for that very reason: she will show it and tell "sorry, that was the last one I had" :)
Oh boy, such fun. The chrome inspector is probably the most awesome thing about browsers.

For mobile apps, it takes a lot more gymnastics, and you have to use something like Charles proxy.

But once you get the API, it's very exciting and can potentially save you a lot of money in API subscriptions!
Not 1870, but my great grandfather came to the US in 1905 or so with little more than the shirt on his back and worked a series of ‘regular person’ jobs until he died. The money he saved allowed several of his sons to start a small business, which did fine for several decades but went under around 2000. However that modest income split between the three brothers (one of whom was my grandfather) allowed them to save enough money to each become homeowners in the 50s and live a reasonable lifestyle in the suburbs. My grandpas frugality meant that even after he died young my dad could go to college without debt, and my dad has been somewhat frugal his whole life.

So by 2020, based on the savings from a series of people working ‘regular person’ jobs, most of my great grandpas descendants who are in my dad’s generation are very well off, several are millionaires (I’m excluding my dad because he was the smart one in the family and went to medical school, his job pays far more than a ‘regular person’ job). And this story is not at all uncommon across the US. The reason you don’t hear it is because there’s a big (especially in the Midwest) cultural aversion to discussing wealth or showing it off.
Interestingly, this is pretty much the split we've seen regarding terrorist hostage-taking in North Africa. While European governments have generally paid ransoms for the return of their citizens, the US Government steadfastly refuses to pay.

In early years, this generally led to better outcomes for European citizens, but as time wore on, it's come to a point where the terrorists actively avoid kidnapping Americans and prefer Europeans. Assuming the these types of hacks are explicitly targeted, I imagine we'd see a similar dynamic play out.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/world/africa/ransoming-ci...
"Inside LGBTQ Vloggers’ Class-Action ‘Censorship’ Suit Against YouTube"[1]:

> YouTubers claim the internet platform is targeting videos not because of their content, but because of the sexual identity of their creators

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/lgbtq-...
> I don't see this holding true. Can you explain how?

Suppose you have $40,000. You can buy some stock in a domestic corporation, or buy some stock in a foreign corporation, or put a down payment on a house, or buy a new car, or invest in government bonds, or ten other things.

If you raise the domestic corporate tax rate, option one becomes less attractive compared to all the other ones.
I don't think thats anything new. Misinformation, propaganda, bias, and persuasion have been a part of democracy since forever. They are really parts of it. Theres nothing to say misinformed votes shouldnt count.

>In a competition between a powerful emotional argument and logical counters to it

Our current situation seems like two powerful emotional arguments pitted against each other, with no logical counters or nuanced precision. They are both yelling the same things too, just in different forms. Most posturing right now boils down to different forms of economic safety and physical safety. Are you safe from the police? Are you safe from crime? Are you safe from unemployment? Are you safe from health care costs? Are you safe from government inefficiency and overspending? Are you safe from having to fund your neighbor?
Do you have the freedom to be who you want to be (whether that means not being Christian, or not serving non-Christians?) They are all selling themselves, utilizing the same base fears. The main difference between the parties appears to be one being good at bending the rules to win, and one priding itself in losing with integrity. Utilitarian vs Principled. Neither seems super concerned with facts. If they were, they would more loudly make arguments against their own cases, to demonstrate strength.
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I have seen video of similar (arguably worse) behavior from police in the US.

I’ve also personally witnessed a policeman on horseback in the UK striking a peaceful and stationary protester in the head with a baton resulting in profuse bleeding.

If it’s true in Belarus, then it’s also true in the UK, and US.

But, what isn’t clear is that a Telegram group doxxing officers is a clean way to deal with it.

How do we know which officers were doxxed and for what reason? How do we know what will happen to them? Would you feel comfortable if the officer in your video was killed?

Doesn’t seem clean to me.
Original comment was pretty threadbare, just “wealth taxes wouldn’t affect me but I don’t want them”. It’s worth knowing why they think that, especially if it’s getting upvoted so much.

We have to be able to ask these questions and assume they’re not attacks to have productive dialogues.
But when the coal plants get shut down and replaced with less polluting options, all electric cars in the state will instantly become less polluting.

You do know that the car industry only uses a fraction of a fraction of all electric motors created, right? And the stuff dug out of the ground doesn't mystically disappear, it can still be recycled.

Coal and oil will actually just go poof when it's used. It can never be used again.
I'm also not convinced that wealth taxes in the US are constitutional, since wealth isn't income (unlike salaries, dividends, and capital gains), and the Federal government is explicitly prohibited from direct taxation with the explicit exception of income.

Same reason we don't have a Federal property tax.
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Harvard University posted a $10M operating loss in fiscal 2020
Why are people still doing these book reviews, aren‘t there already enough of these?
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That's right. We had a wealth tax in France from 1989 until 2018. Most people by far never had to declare or justify anything related to this, because they were so obviously below the threshold. It didn't have any impact for the vast majority of taxpayers.

By the way it was replaced 2 years ago on a tax on real estate wealth only.
If we're being pedantic, it stands for "Protection contact"
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Bitcoin hit yearly highs yesterday. Here's why it's a good store of value
Source? I've never heard of this. What I have heard of is Linus ranting and insulting the intelligence of BSD kernel developers doing these kinds of virtual memory tricks.

I'm pretty sure Linux just does a memory copy.
The hybrid F-150 is coming out in 2021, and more news about the electric F-150 is coming out in 2021 as well for a 2022 release. Ford definitely wants to move on this, but traditional pickup owners are slightly resistent to change (see the hubbub over Ford's own transition to twin turbo V6 engines from V8s, and a switch from steel to aluminum for body construction).
So, I would say that there is a canonical isomorphism between them but that they are not quite the same.

So, to take a step back, I'd say that a covector is a linear function from a vector input to a scalar output (those terms themselves being somewhat fungible, the space of "vectors" needs to probably form a module over the "scalars" which must themselves be a ring—the issue is that I would as a physicist include scalar fields but you can have two nonzero fields multiply to give a zero field, so they do not obey the field axioms).

Then I would say that an [m n]-tensor is technically a multilinear function from m covectors and n vectors to a scalar. This means that a [0 1]-tensor is really exactly a covector, but a [1 0]-tensor is not really exactly a vector. One can manifestly be constructed from any vector v (take any covector c and produce the scalar c(v)) and we generally have some criteria that I forget which ensures that this is not just an injection but also a bijection implying some inverse, so that these [1 0] "co-covectors" are indeed isomorphic to the vectors. And then of course this becomes much easier in a metric space where we identify a canonical bijection between vectors and covectors called the "metric", this gives a much more direct way by which co-covectors are isomorphic to vectors.

Hopefully that all makes sense. The situations in which this is not true are non-metric spaces where linear maps from (linear maps from vectors to scalars) to scalars are just a subset of the "apply to this vector" instances, but other linear maps are maybe also included.

Then there is a more dramatic statement which I think requires the space to be Hausdorff-paracompact or something, which is the idea that of course we have the outer product which naturally combines an [a b]-tensor and a [c d] tensor into an [a+c, b+d]-tensor ("take these vectors and covectors, give them to the first tensor, take those vectors and covectors, give them to the second tensor, then take the two scalar outputs and multiply them together), and we claim that actually an [m n]-tensor can always be realized as a finite sum of outer products of m [1 0]-tensors with n [0 1]-tensors, which allows you to do arbitrary index contractions in a geometric way.
And what about backups ? Is it cheaper to pay ransom then reinstall and copy data ? And then cut off f* internet until some security is in place ??

If that ransomware uses something like flash for persistence why not ask some jury to enforce hardware manufacturers to stop enabling worse and worse viruses ? Floppies, cd autoplay, usb, firewire, thunderbolt, 5G networking - everything exploitable right from the factory.
In a perfect world, that’s something which only bad cops have anything to worry about.

We’re not in a perfect world, and — as all humans are imperfect — evidence of badness will accumulate in even the best of us. I wish I knew how to fix that, because it also applies to literally all online activity, and isn’t just a cops thing.
Atomic-resolution protein structure determination by cryo-EM
What's the chance this guy becomes the next Aaron Schwartz. (RIP.. but big corps don't play)
Fake news already refuted by Twitter itself. If you think the account of the POTUS is protected solely by a password, I would like to offer some Florida swamp land for sale.
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words.

About two dozen people have bought it so far and will get the updates as I build it out. I also gave access for free (at least up through the beta version) to all the people who bought annual Alchemist Camp memberships at the end of last year.

That said, if you've watched all my tutorials there will be nothing new in it except the front-end components that still aren't done.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10086427/what-is-the-exa....
> pardon me.

Not until you go trial
> Anki has some poor defaults for some parameters, which will cause you to be needlessly inundated with reviews.

The problem is that people incorrectly assume that they must "do something" about missed reviews. That's just not how it works; in fact, Anki will give you extra credit for recalling a card beyond the expected forgetting time, so working with a backlog of cards to review is a lot easier than it sounds.

The whole idea is that once the expected forgetting time for those "review" cards has been pushed far in the future, that's the best time to learn new, more challenging content. It works very well in my experience.

Where reducing the amount of reviews may well be justified is for cards that are "nice to have", but that you don't actually care about remembering. That's also the only sorts of cards for which "leech" protection makes sense, and that's a lot closer to a poor default in my view.
Fairly light evidence of a similar problem with Google. Even if so, at least I have photos in two clouds and I would guess there's little chance of losing both accounts concurrently. And Amazon customer support can be reached.
> This is arguably a "good thing" because one could argue that it's "unfair" that large, high revenue / high income corporations allocate so much capital in our economy. It would arguably be better for them to pay the taxes and instead have that capital be allocated by a democratically accountable body: the government.

This is certainly "arguable." One of the very few things economists agree on is the market's are better at allocating capital than governments. That's one of the core functions of markets.
I wouldn't call that white hat. ...like at all.

Greyhat is even a bit of a stretch. It's like Dr. Doom. He has good motives but he's still the bad guy.
Buybacks are taxed as capital gains rates (0%, 15%, or 20%), while dividends are subject to special dividend rates (0%, 10%, or 20%).

Dividends are thus actually preferred by most investors, and buybacks generally only advantage the biggest investors.

Additionally, corporations don't get special capital gains rates but do get dividends received exemptions for dividends from related company, so in many cases corporate shareholders would prefer dividends over share buybacks.

Buybacks are big not for tax reasons (because in most cases, companies make buybacks out of borrowed funds, not profits), but because they artificially inflate the stock price, which increases the value of the executive compensation packages of the executives that authorized the buyback.
Does macos becomes windows 10?
I went the other way around instead, from salt(-ssh) to Ansible. I could not bear the slow speed though, so I suggest everyone who hasn't tried yet to use it with Mitogen. I don't think I will ever go back and in fact I expect upstream to eventually adopt it.

Major issues with Salt: lots and lots of bugs and quirks. I have had my fair share of those in Ansible over the years as well, but Salt is just not good enough for my taste. A strong NIH is perceived all over its design.
Creative Director of Stadia suggests streamers should pay license fees for games
You presume the attacker does not know the location of these backups.

Smart attackers do extensive research on their targets before performing the attack.
Not completely passive and not really a side project, but my wife's business is teaching Latin (the language; I mean not the programming language, the language people actually speak; well, some people speak) on the Internet. She has an evergreen funnel which actually converts a few sells per month. I do the programming, hosting and server maintenance for that thing. She creates the actual content.

Of course this is not completely passive: she periodically publishes free material to keep attracting people to the funnel. But it's quite rewarding every now and then to have an email saying that some random guy bought the videocourse.

The name is Satura Lanx: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJCYCaXUERhY93xEWC8Cojw
Why is investing in mostly flat or negative return projects assumed to be a net-good?