skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did they do that? Presumably they're worried about pissing off the state/were leaned on but the linked article doesn't say.
That's how it was when I flew from Turkey to Germany.
Weird.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/if-yo...

"The FDA recently granted emergency use authorization to a new rapid antigen test for COVID-19. How is it different from other tests on the market?

"The FDA recently granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for a new diagnostic test for COVID-19. Results from this inexpensive test are available within 15 minutes.

"The BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card, as the test is known, detects antigen proteins on the surface of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Unlike other diagnostic tests for COVID-19, BinaxNOW does not require a laboratory or other equipment to process or analyze the test results. This makes it portable and fast.

"This test is approved for use in people who are suspected of having COVID-19, and must be done within seven days of when their symptoms began....

"Positive test results are highly specific, meaning that if you test positive you are very likely to be infected, particularly if you are tested during the first week of infection when you are experiencing symptoms. False negatives are a bigger concern. As with other antigen tests, BinaxNOW can miss infections, producing negative test results in people who are actually infected."

They also say, previously,

"Antibody tests can tell if someone has been infected with COVID-19. But the infected person doesn't begin producing antibodies immediately. It can take as long as three weeks for a blood antibody test to turn positive. That's why it is not useful as a diagnostic test for someone with new symptoms."

So if the test is positive, you probably are infected. If it is negative, you may be infected. Presumably the reports on BinaxNOW have the actual numbers.

Also,

"The time from exposure to symptom onset (known as the incubation period) is thought to be three to 14 days, though symptoms typically appear within four or five days after exposure.

"We know that a person with COVID-19 may be contagious 48 to 72 hours before starting to experience symptoms. Emerging research suggests that people may actually be most likely to spread the virus to others during the 48 hours before they start to experience symptoms....

"Most people with coronavirus who have symptoms will no longer be contagious by 10 days after symptoms resolve. People who test positive for the virus but never develop symptoms over the following 10 days after testing are probably no longer contagious, but again there are documented exceptions. So some experts are still recommending 14 days of isolation."
Also known as the crazy bastard strategy: when playing chicken, throw away the steering wheel.
Simple, it’s progressive, so if you are very wealthy and own 30% of the company you might need to sell 5% to pay off wealth taxes over a few years, and you sell them to people or institutions, with less wealth (and therefore less wealth taxes due). It wouldn’t end up with the government owning the shares, it would end up with people at a tax advantage relative to you owning the shares.

Whether or not that is a good idea, I don’t know.
When have taxes been "going up again" exactly.
we already have a wealth tax.

Have cash? Inflation (cheapens govt debt)
Own Property? Property Taxes.
Own Equity? capital gains on realization of profits
Get Dividends? Dividends are taxed.
Income? Taxed.

Virtual every form of wealth is taxed. The question should be how much should it be taxed, and enforcement. A wealth tax is a nice song and dance around the issue and cannot be reasonably implemented hence why it's in the zeitgeist.
There's a conflict there, but generally the intelligence agencies try to avoid doing illegal things. They do morally wrong things, for sure, but finding a legal argument is difficult, because they try to operate within the law.
Scaling up won't be a problem (new DNS names will just work). As for draining, it does slow down the draining some, but how many scenarios really need to retire endpoints at a quicker cadence than DNS can do, you can set the TTL to 10 minutes?
> center and unbiased

Those two things are not the same, nor even necessarily correlated.
If it's easy to sell the business off then there must be plenty of buyers. Which sounds to me like a good indicator that their response isn't a strong majority.
No one claimed wealthy people aren't cherry picking their data to serve their own pre-existing bias. Only that, like a tobacco study funded by the tobacco industry, their claims are subject to a very evident bias and so should not be given the same weight as claims by those not suffering that bias.
> Taxes low? Start up something new, get it going. Taxes go up again? Sell it off (if they haven't already) and go back to early retirement doing whatever.

Sure — if you're already wealthy enough to get by without any income, that might make sense. But for most business owners the alternative is "work for someone else", not "return to early retirement".
Deep Learning in the Era of Edge Computing
Creating your own Spinnaker custom stage with Armory (YC W17)
And...we're back.
Here is one, though it's a bit more expensive, I think maybe I used points to get the price lower:

https://m.banggood.com/RadioMaster-TX16S-Hall-Sensor-Gimbals...
That must be business specific. At first blush, selling when taxes go up sounds like a good way to maximize your losses. But I'm in the tech industry. So aquaponics must be significantly different.
Selective publishing runs into the problem of easy deniability and drawn out recognition if any due to its narrow scope. The weight of the body of the revealed secrets forced the hand of the US intelligence agencies to admit their veracity. Considering how whistle blowers in the US are routinely persecuted, the malfeasance in so many cases successfully survives whistle-blowing, and the leadership who directed authority over the malfeasance avoid responsibility for it, that "shotgun" strategy is likely a predictable emergent response.

Until the US organizational culture and culture in general is orders of magnitude less hostile to whistle blowers, this asymmetric response will likely continue. The reflexivity of this situation likely means US organizations that don't tolerate whistle blowing become more compartmentalized to force whistle blowing into a more deniable narrow scope, which of course means the same organizations increase their inefficiency.

An altogether horrible development all around.
By giving asylum to near #1 target of US establishment they can prove to all kind of corrupt politicians, dictators (or just plain military criminals and terrorists) who serve Russia interests that they able to protect them from US too.
People may not die if I cheat on my exam, but casting doubt on the accuracy of the results by eroding trust in the examination process certainly affects all who took the exam when they end up not getting a job.
Exactly. Corporate taxes are an incentive for businesses investing in themselves but, as I understand it, an disincentive for investors to invest in businesses. I'm mostly just bothered by how simplistic the debate is and how most people don't even understand this detail.
Or a welcoming signal to any public figures in the States who may be facing multiple unwinnable lawsuits and additional negative exposures in the US in the coming months and years...
Alabama with its 1901 constitution is proof that the belief is false, no matter how dearly held.
Purist test: aren't vectors just Nx1 matrices?

Joking aside, matrices are linear maps in the context of multiplication. They can absolutely have meanings assigned outside the usual "when multiplied by a vector" type of calculations. For example the "adjacency matrix" representation of a graph is very often never multiplied by a vector even in academic algorithm descriptions. YMMV if you call it a (lookup) table in that context but the term "matrix" seems fairly well established there.
Using Config.net for .NET Application Configurations
Inequality is mortgaging the future for the comfort of the few.
You watch quadmovr [0] and google all the weird words in the video titles :D

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6wsa7StHaY
I'm not wealthy but I can tell you the same.
Ha, yes. I purchased an ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner[1] in 2010 and hooked it up to my custom built HTPC running Windows 8 PC Media Center edition so I can use it as my DVR. I watched TV like that for 8 years and enjoyed every minute of it. I even developed a Windows Media Center app in MCML[2] that allowed you to access streaming sporting events on ESPN[3].

[1] https://www.cnet.com/products/ati-tv-wonder-digital-cable-tu...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...

[3] https://www.amarkota.com/portfolio/espn3
This is not accurate. For the US, [0] shows the 90% percentile to be $1.2 million net worth.

This data is sourced from the federal reserve's survey [1].

[0]: https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-net-worth-percentiles/

[1]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm
I don't understand how you possible cannot realise there is a difference between hosting other people's content (UGC, in your example tik tok) and producing/sourcing/paying for content (in your example Quibi).

There is a difference between being a librarian who sells 1000 books and being a librarian AND author who sells AND writes 1000 books
of course wealth tax is a bad idea. only a mouth-breathing moron will say otherwise.
Same thing in The Big Lebowski.
Yes, there are some conflicting statements in the media. The Dutch reporters claim to have seen proof. Of course Twitter has nothing to lose from admitting that it did happen. Also, this guy has a reasonably good reputation here, and would stand to lose his career from making a claim that was found out to be false.

I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand just yet.
I wonder if Apple is pushing this because subscription models potentially provide more long term value? Apple apps tend to need regular updates to stay valid/relevant over long periods of time and early on Apple had a lot of "abandoned" apps in the app store - subscriptions 1) keep the app developer funded/engaged 2) keep the user hooked / showing explicit value or bailing.

Fwiw, I agree, I am getting tired of the pervasiveness of subscription models, but I assume they are making good sense business wise.
Seriously. I'm dumbfounded that we had to regress all the way to this point in order to discover why the social norm existed in the first place.

From the outside, the West Coast (I'm assuming... with great confidence) seems like a delusional bubble at (many) times.
As someone in their mid 30's who just got below 1 year's salary in debt, I envy your position!
As much as I liked Obama, his government would take any chance at spying on others.
That would be true if the owner of the business was doing most of the work. But in a large corporation the workers are doing the brunt of the work, so it makes no difference for the shareholders.
The top 1% of US taxpayers already cover 21% of the share of federal taxes collected with the top 10% covering 48% percent of taxes. The bottom 50% of income earners pay little to no taxes (11%).

https://taxfoundation.org/summary-of-the-latest-federal-inco...
C-x C-f is the default for find-file
They made the Simpsons electric car!
> If the purpose of the media is just to reflect the world-view you already have, then there is no point to the media

If the media says it's raining outside when it's sunny, then I should just abandon media?

If the news source doesn't cohere with your view of the world it's very difficult to distinguish truth from non-truth and outright propaganda. This is very basic Coherence Theory of Truth. If you have an alternative theory of truth, please elucidate!
This seems to be a classic problem in American political discourse, people immediately discount solutions for very serious problems that exist right now, due to (often extremely shaky) hypotheticals that might some day come to pass (usually with a massive heaping helping of slippery slope fallacy).
One reason to avoid bare metal is drivers. There is a lot of hardware around. New hardware is released every day. And you need to write and maintain drivers for that hardware. That's a tremendous effort and hardware manufacturers usually write drivers for a very few operating systems and Go unikernel certainly won't be one of them.

Using virtualization provides a simple common layer, so host operating system can deal with drivers and guest operating system can deal with more interesting things.
I don't understand the logic. If corporate taxes are high but capital gains are low, that may make sense. In a general sense, you spend money to avoid showing profit.
I answered the survey, but I've begun the process of moving away from Emacs, and adopting what is considered the standard toolkit for a programmer in my position. And for enterprise JavaScript development, the standard editor is Visual Studio Code.

The reason why is because using anything else creates unnecessary friction between me and the rest of the team. This applies to other tools as well; for example, the default way to bench-test a running web service is to "use Postman". I could use curl, and that would be easier for me, especially from a scripting standpoint, but everybody else's vocabulary is in terms of Postman, so I'm forcing myself to use that.
> developers could use open-source crates that provide the graphical effects needed to create beautiful experiences

That HLSL/GLSL code is tightly coupled to format and bindings of the input and output data (textures, samplers, constant/uniform buffers, render targets, etc.) These are defined by the combination of non-shader assets, and the CPU-running code which implements the rest of the graphics engine.

I’m not sure how different shader language is going to help?
So what?

I hope to be wealthy and not pull up the ladder behind me.
At our office, we started doing "stair climbs" mid morning and mid afternoon. We got a small bell and whoever got to the bell first would ring the bell and then head to the front door. Anyone who was free and wanted to join would join at the sound of the bell. It was simple, no pressure to join, most people can't join everytime anyway so that was totally acceptable. Some days it wouldn't happen at all, but it was always good to try to break free and make it happen.

Most of the time it was a group of 2-5 people. When the group was only 2 or 3 people it often became similar to a smoke break where you could have a good discussion as you climbed up/down the full set of stairs.

The beauty of it was that almost everybody felt comfortable participating in it. If you have non-ambulatory coworkers who want to participate, perhaps a walk would be better. Management also liked it better than smoke breaks because they were always trying to lower health insurance costs so it was beneficial to encourage people to be more healthy.

Our building is 12 stories, so 1 complete up/down was pretty good and even the less healthy people could do it well after a few tries. If you're on a middle floor, go up/down/up (or the reverse) until you get back to your floor. If your building is taller/shorter then you may want to adjust the number of cycles. People who get tired can always exit at any floor and take the elevator back, but peer pressure usually pushes most people to exceed their comfort limit a little bit.

It was also a great team bonding experience because everyone wanted the whole team to make it and it was exciting when someone new joined or when you saw someone's physical ability improve. It's still not a smoke break, but it's the next best thing I've found... other than maybe grabbing a coffee/tea with someone.
None that would warrant paying a subscription for in my mind. Especially considering I've bought Halide 1, which was a one-time purchase.
The United States. Corporate tax rate dropped from 35 to 21 in 2016. There is talk of reraising them and so I'm mostly projecting my behavior if they do get raised.
Define popular.

There is a huge field between 'sustainable' and 'populist' and if we want choice and quality in the world we need to vote with our feet and dollars and ballots for alternative solutions that are big enough for people to not giggle at, but small enough that they can maintain some conceptual coherence.

We need an 'Apple' (a 10% competitor that has enough quality and mindshare to go on for years or decades) in lots of verticals if we want to keep a market place for new ideas. Better still if we had a 5% and a 10% alternative.

The 10% guy you have to watch and emulate. The 5% guy you can audit occasionally looking for ideas to cherry pick. The 85% still benefit from what the 15% are doing.
It was too short for `ESC x find-file`. :(
I heard an idea: "you must declare all your assets, if an asset is found that you're not claiming, it becomes government property".

So if you try to game the system by not claiming a vacation home, it just becomes public property.

Thoughts?
so could 1 billion per year.
A Hummer H2 got less range with an 32 gallon tank. At standard LA prices of $3.50 (right now), that was $112 every time the tank was refilled. A normal sedan like a 2020 Camry has a 14 gallon tank, which would cost approximately $49 to refill.

How much you pay for electricity depends on where you live, so it's very possible that a Hummer EV would cost less than an ICE sedan on a refueling cost basis.
Wealth taxes are a bad idea because they target everyone with wealth, regardless of the actual views they hold, regardless of the degree to which they have personally contributed to the collapse we are facing.

The real inequality we have today is being perpetuated by outdated regulations, primarily from the 1930s. It's also being perpetuated by people that invest in Warren Buffet-style "value" stocks, which extract actual rents from people, while delivering no technological improvements. Housing is 80% of the inequality problem, and if we are going to fix that, we have to stop making it illegal to build enough homes for people that need them. And to do it cheaply enough, we have to turn to automated custom home manufacturing, which means overcoming the objections of labor unions.

For example, I just saw this in the LA Times - "Labor unions, environmentalists are biggest opponents of Gov. Brown’s affordable housing plan":

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-labor-enviro-hou...

NB: I think we need new, distributed structures to replace labor unions, because the goal they serve is an important one. The existing ones concentrate power at the top, and have become just another corrupt institution.
hahahahaha

no

only if an officer looks at the data a warrant is required, as long as only automatons process it, the rules do not apply
Thanks for the suggestion. Last time I had to use YAML I used StrictYAML instead which gave me more peace of mind. I knew that there were schema tools around, however I just put more checks in the validator to avoid adding extra dependencies. Next time I will definitely look into those.
Many commits with "Update temporary list of tainted domains" :(

https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/commits/master
“We do not negotiate with terrorists” sounds like a great line but isn’t always practical in reality. If many people’s lives were on the line because of this hack, it would be difficult to justify not paying the fairly small ransom.
I will say that this article points out a CNBC article on "$400k in a big city...". And FAIR seems to be missing that both earnings _and expenses growth_ have been growing very fast for those in cities.

Progressive taxation of someone earning $100k per year in San Francisco or NYC is hardly fair. At least prior to covid19 causing a crash in the rental market one could expect to pay ~$2500 a month to share a 2bedroom place. That's spending 42% of take home pay to have roommates! Not to mention everything else costs more, a meal out, riding the bus, getting your bicycle repaired, clothing etc.

$400k per year is about what it takes to run a middle class family w/ 2 kids in such a city. -- They're already paying $162,121 in taxes annually.

When we progressively tax those who actually have less than the median after CoL, we're being unfair (IMO)
Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)
Pardon me, but I think you are mistaken. The correct phrase is "Pardon me, but I think you are mistaken.", not "Did you have a stroke just now?"
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) comprehensively prohibits even using the most obscure arrangements to pay bribes

You can have all the laws you want in words on paper, but if they're not enforced, for all practical purposes, they don't exist.

The people who enforce the FCPA must be understaffed or undermotivated or underfunded because I've worked for several companies that regularly paid bribes as part of doing business.

One example: I worked for a large media company that would send TV crews to cover stories in Mexico on a fairly regular basis. Almost every time the crews tried to return to the United States, the Mexican border personnel would seize their very expensive gear. The only way to get it back was to pay a bribe.

This was so common that everyone was told to just mark it down on their expense reports as "Airport tax." I only found out about it when I started asking why I kept seeing "Airport tax" on expense reports for trips I knew were done in cars.
> A great example of this is "single family home neighborhoods" in urban areas. They have no societal benefit, they are essentially subsidized land use patterns for the well off, and it makes it harder for less well of folks to move to areas where they can get a better job/improve their lot in life and grow the economy.

I've seen this talking point twice now this week. What's the alternative? We all live in crowded multi-family buildings? We all live in squalor for the sake of a few saved acres in a country with vast amounts of land?
Whose Computer Is It?
There are other reasons to oppose them like they historically bring in very little money, they're a pain in the ass to administer, capital flight. Some evidence for this are parts of Europe is abandoning their wealth taxes.

If you want to raise money or reduce inequality there are better ways to do it. Income tax, capital gains, inheritance, etc...
I think this is an interesting direction, but I wonder is there a successful precedent for something like this? Perhaps some government somewhere in the world has already tried this? And if not for hacking, data theft/encryption, maybe there are analogues like (and this is a stretch) large organizations that have managed to continue operating in regions where kidnapping for ransom is common?
It's hard to entirely defend against regulatory capture, but it's still often a useful hedge that in the time before regulatory capture happens the regulator might do at least enough good and set some lasting changes/precedents that will survive even its own bloated, captured "self" successor.
That was confusing. When I saw the app and that it offers in-app purchases, I thought something minimal would be possible without a purchase. But after downloading and launching it, I see the prompt to buy the subscription or the one time purchase, and nothing more. The app description on the store doesn’t make this — that a purchase must be made to use it — clear either.

Edit: An observation I’ve had is that third party camera apps on iOS have a niche audience because they cannot be the default app. If you swipe left on the Lock Screen or tap on the camera icon on the Lock Screen, only Apple’s stock camera will open. I hope Apple adds more app types to have defaults set to third party apps. I know Apple cares about camera launch time and how quickly photos can be taken. There could be a minimum performance threshold set for that. It’s high time!