skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are fair points. Larger projects often get split into multiple sub-projects, especially in git-age languages like ruby, js or Rust. The same rules apply there: often such projects get created by their original authors and then work for the most part, so don't see any changes for years. So the effects translate into multi-repo projects as well.

To give an example, in Rust the mime crate has over 14 million downloads, but the last git commit was in January 2020. So it will fall out of Github's search index soon, even though it's used by everyone who uses the reqwest crate, which is a lot of people.

In fact, likely some people will run cargo vendor and then upload the results to github often enough that it'll show up in search results, but instead of the canonical location you'll have to look at vendored repos... not really nice.
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Sellers are catching on. I searched on reddit for range hoods comments. I found "reviews" that were written in a style I found suspicious (too elaborate, detailed and "business-like"). Clicking on these two users revealed other comments that made it clear this was actually astroturfing.
This (purported) benefit is bounded by the difference between compression ratios. You're responding to a claim that the difference was 0.8%. This is pretty marginal — that first 99.2% takes exactly the same with xz or zstd, and the remaining 0.8% is not large in comparison.

Take for example ~13.5 GB. This is a 6 hour download at your 5Mbps figure. An extra 0.8% is less than 3 minutes on that 6 hour download.
I tend to think it is this. Why would Navy not keep the patents secret if it was truly physics shattering invention. The fact that the patents are out in the open is very damning to the validity of the claims.

Was US military filing public patents for stealth planes or did they make them and keep them secret for as long as possible.
Amazon is sealing its own fate here. I don't want the AliExpress experience, which is what Amazon offers now. I know where to find cheap products and bad information and I don't need Amazon for that.

I find it odd that Amazon clings to bad vendors over long standing customers. They are no longer the most customer focused company, if they ever were. What does it say about your company when your company abandons its goals?
> The thing about a "brownout" is that service goes away, and then it comes back - for a while.

I don't want to beat a dead horse at this point, but that's basically a planned blackout. It'd be similar to a power company cutting off a residence's power for a couple hours to remind them to pay their overdue bill. I can't see that being correctly called a brownout.
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Porn is probably 50% of the internet, the other 40% is online streaming (netflix, amazon video, youtube etc) the last 10% is other traffic.

Pretty much all of the big telcos, all of the networking equipment makers etc - are made out of porn money at the end of it all.
More than what they are paying today. I'll also remind you that the tax burden on every marginal dollar is the same for everyone. That is, that CEO pays the same amount of tax on their first taxable dollar as I do irrespective of what our total income is.

With that said, there is no reason that the top marginal tax rate shouldn't be 90%, and that should apply to incomes in 10's of millions. And the marginal tax rate should progress up from the current 37%@$622+k income to 90% at say $25MM. The CEO in your example's marginal tax rate should be coming in probably in the 45-50% range. That's marginal, not effective.

Capital gains tax should be eliminated and cap gains should be counted as income.
Isn't the answer of this one known since the time of Keynes?

That's basically what pulled the rich countries out of the Great Depression.
No. I wasn't aware. Could you point to an example of a poll anywhere?

1) YES

2) NO

3) Irony is wasted on me
People who want a sustainable world for their grandchildren to grow up in.
Twitter is under pressure to remove just about any blue check account.
Do you have $100M to invest? The rules are completely different for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. Generally if you're looking at "the verbiage on their site" you are not the target market for such services, and the products available to you are completely different from the products available to them. My wife's job is all conducted over the phone; when I was working for a company that sold software to hedge funds, our website was blank (and just gave a phone number to call).
They did a third thing which was to make the tax system more regressive.

That was by deliberate design: there is a specific argument for it going back to Burke at least. I strongly disagree with it but I understand the argument.
chalan translates from french as "hot" apparently
"Trickle down" is an economic slur, it's not something economists believe. It's just what some people call a certain policy set.
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On iOS, " is automatically auto corrected to « for me.

Are people switching voluntarily or because it is the new default?
which problem?

education?
common sense?
critical thinking?
basic financial literacy?
I return 90% of the things I buy on Amazon.
I love to have them try and trick me into buying their garbage rebranded Chinese scam items. I do buy them. I use the fuck out of them - and then I return it so the seller can lick my asshole.
Amazon should pay you if you report offers of false reviews (at least 2x what you were being offered). This money should come out the seller's pocket.

After a certain thresh-hold the seller should lose increasing amounts of money until it's no longer profitable.
It seems like this is a pretty normal reaction. I listened to an interview with a shot-putter who originally won silver in the Olympics, but then years later was given the gold medal when the original winner was discovered to have used steroids. He met the official in a food court at the mall and handed them his silver, and they gave him his new gold, and then he left. And after years of single-minded work, suddenly he had reached his goal, and there was no happily ever after waiting for him.
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>put self through college working

>Works 60 hour weeks, most Saturdays, some Sundays
...

I don't give a damn about the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps and work hard' virtue signaling.

Half. He should pay half. So should everyone else above 400k / yr. The rich are able to succeed by virtue of the fact that we have schools, roads, other infrastructure. If you're in the top 1% of income, you should pay in the top 1% of taxes to help pay for all that.

Mad about that? Maybe we should stop spending ~ 700B / yr on defense. We're surrounded by two friendly nations and large oceans. There's zero chance of conventional total war against Russia or China, and we can't defend against a nuclear exchange. Our military is a giant welfare program.
is this production ready?
also, what consists of three meals?
the way I learned to cook (and most people I know) is you get a couple of ingredients for a dinner, and use the leftovers for lunch/dinner the next day. breakfast usually consists of something simple like bread + cheese or a kind of meat. (some people don't even eat breakfast and just start the day with a coffee or a glass of water).
Ok, thanks anyways for the response!
More space junk into orbit. Good use indeed!
Of all websites using cookie banners, how many require Javascript to be enabled for the cookie banner to display. How many require CSS for the cookie banner to display.
A. Putting two [larger] filters in a 'V' with cardboard to fill the top and bottom pulls the same amount of air through a larger area of filters

B. pulling the same volume of air through greater surface area results in greater pressure between the filter and fan than one filter directly affixed to the fan

C. The lower air pressure / "suction" due to an obstructed intake causes an electric fan motor to fail more quickly.

D. Increasing the air pressure that the motor is in reduces the failure rate?
It only seems fair if you don't understand the marginal utility of dollars (some dollars are in fact far more valuable than others) and marginal propensity to spend.
For the corpus of things I've dealt with recently, the difference is a lot more than 0.8% in size. As much as the difference between an entire compressed virtual machine (copy of a set of LVM logical volumes that have been copied with dd and compressed) being 4.2GB vs 5.15GB in size.

If it might take ten hours to transfer 900MB in some unusual environments, that's a big savings.

Also there is a degree of asymmetry, in that it's not so difficult for the system creating the xzip archive to have a lot of CPU (four CPU cores out of 12 or 16 on a dual socket current generation xeon system, or a threadripper). Since xzip is much more time consuming to create than to extract.

Or for any other environment where WAN connectivity is extremely limited in throughput.
It doesn't follow that if they can pay you $20, they can pay everyone $20. They have an expected uptake, and they have a model for how the reviews translate to more sales. I agree that it's likely that at least some of this marketing is priced into the price and there's some inflation, but I suspect the overall uptake of stuff like this is <20% and it generates non-zero additional sales, so I would guess the margin is more like $2-4 or so.
The post is about a person named Mae West. The wikipedia article linked is about a infrastructure exchange point with the same name
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> the reality is that front running is not a technical term, neither in law nor in any academic or formal financial treatment.

There is literally a FINRA rule with with front running in the name (5270). It doesn't have to be a technical term for it to still have meaning (outside of Michael Lewis's intent to change its meaning). It specifically refers to a broker trading based on the knowledge of their client's intent to trade. The examples you give actually are instances of the true definition. It doesn't really happen in equities because of how automated and smooth that market is, but it certainly happens in other areas of finance.

The principal agent problem is much more general.
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Would a high enough energy photon also turn into a black hole?
"armies of accountants and lawyers" fed their families and bought houses and cars and...
Radial fans (also known as squirrel cage blower, or visualize a water wheel from an old fashioned water driven flour mill) will move air more quietly than an axial fan in a box fan. Levoit on Amazon are some great, relatively inexpensive units and when the HEPA filter it comes with needs replacing I use use furnace filters cut down to size. If you want it to last a bit longer, you can use quilt batting as a pre-filter before the furnace filter to catch the big stuff and extend the life of the furnace filter.
Would you say the same for today's lawsuit from 38 other states and territories as well?

https://coag.gov/app/uploads/2020/12/Colorado-et-al.-v.-Goog...
Other common staples like corn and rice had hundreds of varieties in the past, many of which are extinct or only exist in a seed vault. The same is true for fruits. If you travel to particular developing countries or even just to Hawaii (where native varieties are protected), you'll see how different their fruits and vegetables are - both in variety but also smell and taste. I'm sure that has nutritional implications that simplistic reductionist nutrition approaches can't capture.
Doing "tracking in-house" does not exempt you from GDPR requirements. The requirement is exactly the same: explicit and freely given consent is required to collect extra private information not specifically necessary to provide the service requested.
I think we are seeing the slow disintegration of the system as we speak with the pandemic. Or rather, we are seeing an acceleration in the slow disintegration that was already happening. The rise of the populist right all over the world is a troubling sign of things to come.

The people are not content. Look at the BLM protests in the US, they were the largest uprising in American history. They were bigger than the MLK riots. Content people do not riot. Needs are not being met, or at least perceived needs are not being met.
And then the Russians (with money in Cyprus) called Putin and Cyprus changed course.
I know it's satire, but the writing style of every New Yorker magazine makes me toss the magazine away immediately. It's a shame because there are good topics in the magazine, yet the unnecessarily bloated writing style makes it painful to read.
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The major reason why Linux thrives and other projects do not is not the governance model, but the fact that Linux solves a real, difficult problem for a large number of companies. The major contributors to Linux are companies, not anyone individual people.

Would a Linux Steering Committee have worked for early Linux? Probably not. Would it work now? Absolutely.
Many of the words used are rarely seen without a prefix.

Disgruntled, for example is a common word; gruntled is not.
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"have no idea when they've eaten enough food and often don't stop eating until they're in pain"

Our hunger / satiety feelings are driven hormonally by hormones called ghrelin and leptin. Ideally, those two take care of a perfect equilibrium.

If something messes this self-balancing mechanism up, feelings of hunger and satiety may no longer respond to actual caloric intake - a recipe for a slow-motion disaster.
> What is more frustrating is the search stinks.

German electronics retailer Conrad is so guilty on this one. I'm searching for a 1/8 inch outer diameter seal, 180 °C temp resistance with a specific interior diameter and 2.5mm thickness - but even going on the product category for seals, it's impossible to filter.

To make it worse: unlike in ye olde times, employees in the physical store also only have access to the website - they can't help you either.

And forget about Amazon, their listings are full of crap.
Yes! Bitcoin (the BTC chain) got it's GitHub repo hijacked years ago by corporate interests and the company Blockstream. The whole concept is a dead end and they are actively trying to push people into using their "second layer" solutions to the congestion and problems they have introduced.

People like Greg Maxwell and Adam Back were able to kick out the original maintainers and are hell bent on making Bitcoin not work.

Bitcoin Cash is the closest thing to "Bitcoin" now but Blockstream employees an army of Twitter and Reddit trolls to block any real discussion. Greg is basically a one-man-army himself at this point.
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You are right, Federal receipts have been hovering between ~15-17% of GDP since WWII, regardless of whether the top tax rate was 90% or 28%. There is more variation due to changes in growth than changes in rates.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
> Source: worked in porn.

Should I assume in an IT-related role? If so, anything you can share (without naming names) about what's different or special, from a technical standpoint, compared to a "normal" company?
I suspect interest in FreeBSD will rise with the demise of CentOS. What are the DevOps best practices for working with and deploying to jails instead of Docker?
Flat taxes are often criticized for failing to be progressive and that argument has some merit. As an example, 1 dollar in tax means more to someone making 10k than it does to someone making 100k.
I've been trying unsuccessfully to sell this idea to my cohorts with regards to the stimulus check. My argument is, giving poor people money is a guarantee win for the community, because poor people live paycheck to paycheck and that money will be spent immediately.

No one buys my idea because it's always something like, "I don't trust them", or "why does that lazy guy deserve any money"....

I am not sure how to win that argument.
I'm a little surprised they seem to be going with GitHub, I figured the FreeBSD folks would rather host it themselves.

edit Or perhaps not? This exists: https://git.freebsd.org/
There's nothing intrinsically superior about storing commits as diffs - subversion stores its commits as diffs (or at least, it did a decade or so ago,) and I haven't heard anyone enthusing about svn in a long time.
> This feels twee and goofy, at best. Not sure why it's on the front page.

Because it's twee and goofy.
> alienating anyone not already in the know.

I'm not sure what do you mean here. I was a totally average computer user when I found Stallman's writings (especially, "The Right to Read", and the story of the printer drivers) extremely seductive and compelling. A big part of me being genuinely interested in computers is thanks to him (and also to my father, who tried in vain to teach me to draw the mandelbrot set in gwbasic).

Honestly, has anyone ever been "alienated" by RMS? He's a very good communicator and makes funny talks with a deep message. In all venues that I have seen in person, he attracted a huge crowd that did not fit in whatever auditorium was reserved for the talk.
Very interesting analysis. Now I understand why the current hardware struggles so much to compute graphics that looks similar to what could be done using Unreal Engine 3 years ago on smaller worlds: no light maps and probably no pre-baking at all.
> there is no reason that the top marginal tax rate shouldn't be 90%

But why should the government get to essentially steal 90% of wealth generated by a person above an arbitrary threshold? Because "there's no reason someone needs that much money"?

I would argue that if you do this, you'll get less things like SpaceX and Tesla, which required a person with much more than 25MM to decide to create them.
I can see a need for cookies to mitigate against things like DDoS attacks, session management for paywalled content or just to leave comments on articles, favoriting certain sections. There are several reasons why as a reader you would want the site to be stateful.
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I think you mean "you don't need cookie banners if you have your own identifier" which they certainly do and affords them the luxury of this blog post.
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Getting Django would be amazing, speaking as a user for whom Keycloak was interesting except not trusting IBM/RedHat as safe & responsible stewards. And we're exactly in that market of 'we want the OSS + on-prem friendly variant for our on-prem users, but a managed service provider for our managed tier.' Auth0 and friends show how big this market is, and the general push to SaaS-only by them and their competitors has been a non-starter. Smart!

Unfortunately the focus on nodejs / non-django backends means we won't be evaluating for now -- despite being actively looking at this space. But if you or others become active here, am interested. See replicated.com -- implementing API tokens, RBAC, etc. is necessary for teams like ours yet largely generic, so a good OSS-native partner to pick up where frameworks like Django fall down would be awesome. Good luck!
I wrote a negative review for glass that broke by itself in the fridge 5 times (out of 6 pieces). Amazon removed it. I asked why and was sent a link by a bot-like sender.

Some months back I gave a so so review on AirBNB and had it removed. I asked why, I was sent a link and cut and pasted guidelines. Responding using Reason led to being completely ignored.

Then I discovered a reddit subgroup where hosts tell each other tips to easily get reviews removed.

The whole review system has become corrupted. The complaint is that only motivated people put positive or negative reviews, which is only partially true. It's actually gaslighting by marketing people.

Not surprised by Amazon. Fakespot helps somewhat it seems... as does not ordering from Amazon where possible. I just ordered a jacket with a 20 pct coupon from a sporting goods store that sells the same item on Amazon.. without the 20 pct discount.

The trick is to remove negative reviews that violate guidelines, but for positive reviews that violate common sense and ethics, nyet.
Your base point is valid, your example is at best incomplete. Stock compensation is taxed as regular income. The appreciation of the stock afterwards would be taxes as cap gains.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Apple one of the top users of chips and had their new M1 laptops and iPhone 12 shipped without a hiccup this year?
Absent a good equivalent of Dockerfile, and compose features, I think this is doomed. (Longterm freebsd user btw)
The sentence immediately prior to the Reagan reference:

> The new paper ... examines 18 developed countries — from Australia to the United States — over a 50-year period from 1965 to 2015.

And from the original paper[0]:

> Many empirical studies look at single tax policy indicators to identify tax cuts for the rich. However, there is some disagreement on measuring taxes on the rich in the literature. First, there is no consensus on which taxes to look at. Whilst some authors look at taxes on personal income (Egger et al., 2019; Rubolino and Waldenström, 2020), others focus on corporate taxation (Devereux et al., 2002) or inheritance taxation (Piketty and Saez, 2013b). Second, economists have used different tax policy indicators. Some look at top marginal income tax rates (Piketty et al., 2014), while others look at effective tax rates (Egger et al., 2019) or revenue generation (Baunsgaard and Keen, 2010). We propose an encompassing approach that utilises Bayesian latent variable analysis on a range of different taxes and indicators to overcome these problems. This allows us to detect shared variance across 7 indicators that are commonly used proxies for taxes on the rich (see Table A1 in the Appendix). In total, the data cover 18 OECD democracies over 5 decades (1965-2015). We estimate the latent variable using a Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach with diffuse normal priors, three MCMC chains and 1000 burnin iterations (for more information on the estimation of the latent variable, see Hope and Limberg, 2020).

It's likely that professionals have a better grasp of the nuances of empirical tax research than you or I.

[0] http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/1/Hope_economic_consequences...