skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went through this, as I tried the game first on my Windows 7 PC (it had stated support for Win7). Crashfest. After I upgraded to the latest Windows 10, latest Nvidia drivers etc. I've played 40 hours without a single crash or bug. Its an amazing game, so incredibly detailed. I guess they should have done a lot more testing on consoles though before releasing on them.
> but it’s not totally absurd to think you owe something to a country whose citizenship you continue to benefit from

Yes it is honestly. The US is the only G7 county (and one of the only countries worldwide) to engage in extraterritorial taxation.

It is absurd. If you are gaining from services in that country, you should pay taxes to that country. If you have moved abroad and aren't gaining from any services if that country, you should not. Because you are effectively not a member of that community anymore and should be contributing your taxes to another society. To even have to handle the double taxation accounting is ridiculous. It's that simple.

Does someone gain benefits of being an American even when not living in America? Potentially, but many of those benefits could be connected to more targeted taxes than simply worldwide income tax.

This is clearly not about justice and is instead about the long arm of the IRS seeking their pound of flesh anywhere they can get it.

I know Americans who left the US 40 years ago and have lived and become fully integrated citizens of other countries. Yet simply to retain the right to return the US at some point, they must pay taxes every year in the middle? And trying to give up their citizenship isn't that easy either.

If we want to prevent tax havens, I'm totally fine with that. Force sensible global tax regimes and prevent countries from being havens. But the solution isn't extraterritorial taxation.
Here's to wishing Cyberpunk 2077 a 'V' shaped recovery.
If you spend more than 60 days in the state, you spend that time while being accessible to state's law enforcement, e.g. for arrests. They could also seize properties held in California, or by Californian businesses. There aren't that many people who have more than 30m net worth. Enough for them to keep track on all of them. Thanks to Palantir et al this is easier than ever.
How I was amazed by the pace and energy of 'Betrothed', not one boring minute in all of its 700+ pages. The translation by Bruce Penman available from Penguin is an exhilarating read.
Even with just one ending, a game can do branching well for all the sub-story endings that most games have.

Hell, even The Witcher 3 did this incredibly well. Spoiler incoming for those who haven't played it yet.

"The Bloody Baron" quest not only has three endings, IIRC, but one of your choices can lead to entire village dying. And I'm pretty sure there's a few other variables that can end up having some effect at later points in the story.

Granted, it's probably the most-cited example of great Witcher 3 quests, second perhaps only to the romancing options (again, 3 possible outcomes), but I've already come across a few more main and sub-quests where reloading and trying a different option was meaningful.

As part of the journey, they might not affect the ending, but in an RPG style game with quests, it's just as much about the journey.
I loved Altavista. The thinking had to be done by the user, but uf you understood the process, it was a precise and accurate tool. Before it got sold around, of course.

I'd construct searches along the lines of:

(Word OR Word) AND (Word NEAR Word)

And get great results. Of course, the Web is way to big and Javascript-y for that now.
Damn. That "lib/system.cc" in Sigala's port is such a mess. You must have had a tough time tweaking it.

I was not aware of your project, thanks for sharing it.
And the Swiss ask for 0.13% and 1.01% depending on the Canton, pension funds are exempt.
There is a HUGE difference between the 2 if I understand them correctly

CA is imposing a tax on the TOTAL wealth of a person over the limits and excluding real property.

The Dutch impose a tax on the increased value of the wealth in the year, even if it was not "realized", which is more like our Capital Gains.

So an example, if you had Stocks worth 100 million, and they increased in value to 108 million in 2020

Dutch: 108-100: 8 million taxable, you owe $128,000

CA: 108 Million, you owe $432,000

Pretty large difference

and the Dutch Model is better in some ways when your assets DROP in value, which does happen,

so if we are in recession your stocks go from 100 million to 90 million, under the Dutch Model you would not owe taxes, under the CA model you still would
Planning to take the minimum action to prevent spread (keep R at or just below 1) is equal to doing the maximum amount to enable mutations and new strains.

Again: this wasn't considered by the UK's scientific modelling.
I don't think military power is the key here. I think having so much of international banking tied to the U.S. may be the relevant lever.
> Just because the word "chair" pops up in a few objects that does not mean they are supposed to be the same thing, and thus modeled as specialization of a common Chair class.

You agree with his point that class hierarchies shouldn't necessary model reality.

> For example, PhysicsChair makes sense as a specialization of a physics-related class, not a Chair-related class.

Right, that's his point.

> A failure to identify the models and their functional relationships doesn't mean that your domain has to include relationships that don't really exist nor make sense.

Again, that's the point he's making. In terms of modelling the world, they're all just different kinds of chair, but that's doesn't mean you should model it that way in code, with object-oriented types.
Under the assumption that the policies they pursue are damaging, as implied above, would that make Californians essentially a virus?
I think your premise that they will experience French Revolution like consequences is overlooking the fact that unlike the 1700s. Up and taking your money to another country that still likes you is the click of a mouse and a private jet flight out. So no they won’t capitulate to higher taxes of earlier times. They will just leave. Like they already are at the threat of it.
> Further west, the trail crosses the Mississippi River that famously inspired Mark Twain and has long shaped the US’ history and culture at Moline, Illinois, before spanning the Continental Divide in Montana.

Well that's quite a jump! Well over 1000 miles between Moline, Illinois and the continental divide in Montana. Is it that boring?
The Storytelling Animal (2012)
I don't know that "[Apple] benefit from government regulation around privacy." Considering they are leading the charge on commercial devices and privacy, at least among the big tech companies. It benefits them more to be the only one demonstrating this focus, some proof to support this claim, and no financial benefit to collecting/leaking customer privacy data. None of the other tech companies can claim any 2 of those 3 points.
You personally don’t... but look around... A lot of people are playing with fire
Personally I disagree with the whole idea of wealth taxes, you should be taxed when you do things, not taxed just because you own something worth money. I should be able to go live in the woods alone and not have the government take some percent of my net worth just because I exist.

I mean I don't have a tonne of sympathy for people with tens of millions of net worth, but it just seems wrong in principle. If I start a company and it gets valued at 30 million dollars, why should the government be allowed to force me to sell my company to pay their wealth tax? Seems wrong to me, if you own something you should be allowed to keep it indefinitely. Property taxes are a bit of a grey area, but they make more sense because of all the infrastructure required for a house to be accessible.

Or another example, I own a piece of art or a car passed down through my family that is worth 30 million dollars (maybe it's a mclaren f1 or something). Now the government is going to force me to sell my car? I disagree with that, obviously that's an extreme case, but laws should still handle cases like that.
Will Silicon Valley’s Tech Fortunes Dissolve Like the Rockefeller Fortunes? No
The most important point of taxing the top ~1% is to simply bring their wealth more in line with their contributions, and to reduce their outsized power on the political system. Jeff Bezos isn't "worth" a million times more than his warehouse workers, and he shouldn't have that kind of money either as a matter of principle, or as a matter of democratic power. It's not a matter of punishment, but a matter of ensuring a more just/meritocratic and free society.

The fact that the state can also use some of this money to help with the funding of social programs is a secondary benefit.
One more angle - competition & nationalism.

The 737 Max and A320neo are direct competitors. The A320neo was announced 6 months before the 737 Max in 2011, and both were certified for flight in March 2017. (Give or take - the A320neo has a few variants.)

Back when the 737 was first grounded, initial investigation found that Boeing and the FAA cooperated to rush the 737 into service to beat the A320neo [1,2].

The FAA has every incentive to make sure that American companies, especially large ones like Boeing, are treated favorably. Even outside of donations or smells of corruption, Boeing is a major employer and S&P500 member. If Boeing does well, our economic metrics (employment/stocks) do well, and the lawmakers who regulate the FAA are happy.

Those same incentives appeared in the FAA's refusal to ground the Max for days after the second crash. (First crash was 8/29/18; second was 3/10/19; grounded 3/13/19)[3]

I suspect we're seeing a replay of the original certification. As soon as the 737 Max is recertified, all those grounded planes can get back to making a profit, and Boeing can go back to making them.

Not how it should work, but the recertification effort seems consistent with how Boeing and the FAA acted in the initial certification. It's not right, but the same incentives still exist.

Just my $0.02.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...

[2] https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/21/congress-faa-boein...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2019/03/13/702936894/ethiopian-pilot-had...
I flew on Spirit recently and noticed before takeoff in the little speech the flight attendants make they mention their “all Airbus fleet”, which honestly made me feel better. I don’t want to fly on a Boeing at this point, as I fly so seldom anyway and this has just devastated my opinion of them.
Social media: the scales have tipped
Detecting Sunburst with Panther
I have tweaked my Minecraft client to be 'just right'
something has to give, but considering this as people getting screwed feels like a NIMBY attitude.

as an active biker, i'd rather bike trails are converted to rails than no rails at all.

besides, especially for those rails in remote areas, tracks require maintenance roads and there is no reason those couldn't double as bike paths as well.

i forsee a future where railtracks and bike paths live side by side, away from car traffic.

bike paths don't need much space. for a long distance trail, a 1m wide path is enough. should not be to hard to find space for that.
Not long until TX is flipped to the Democrats. It's coming.
> "Simplicity" - nothing is more 'simple' than JS, which is why it's used the world over.

Not in terms of implementing the language.
Nope, they sent a rocket or satellite. The positive doppler shift means it's heading towards us, fast.

If we would fly there, we would need about 80 years with our current rocket tech. It's the nearest earth-like planet afterall. They could be more advanced and be here earlier. We'll see.
Yes the security guard that comes out of the elevator with the card you have to loot, can fall down the elevator shaft (800m down actually!). Classic! :)

This is one of the (relatively few) documented bugs that I'm sure they've already fixed. Doing continuous level-saves is needless to say a necessity in any game you invest dozens of playhours in..

Still, to manage to have as few bugs like that in comparision to the sheer size of the game is amazing. Once you play a bit longer than this, you'll see the game opening up in so many ways and with so detailed side-jobs and side-plots that it's just jawdropping. That they actually pulled this off at all is a benchmark effort for future mega-games I'm sure.
Sure there is. What do I do when a piece of information I need to fill the shopping cart is removed or renamed in the search service?
Like, dothraki carry literally nothing. And apparently, no one in Westeros invented hats yet.
It's not hard to envision code reviews that don't review every single line. Been on both sides of it. Code review isn't a security barrier, it's a (noisy) safety check. It can't even catch every silly bug, let alone deliberate covert sabotage.
At least in Europe you could very well think so with the GDPR.
What you should be working on
Your social security benefits are derived, in part, from how much you paid in on your top earning years. Thus, if you didn't pay in you would have very very very little social security (which is already too small of a benefit to live off of). Thus, I don't think there is a moral hazard of social security that would cause people to return to the US for those benefits. They could amend the law (not sure if it's specifics) that you have to pay in a minimum amount if you want to be paid out while living in another country. Simple fix to remove any poorly aligned incentive.

Medicare is much trickier as every American over 65 is entitled to it, but I'm not sure how that coverage works if you live outside the US.
> Families of people with dementia land in different places on this issue, but to her, it’s beyond question that Jo is not here anymore; most everything that made him Jo has been stolen.

This was very sad, but it's a good articulation of the circumstances where I would rather die than continue living. Has anyone seen a good framework to help think through scenarios like these as part of a will or end-of-life directive? I've expressed a version of the above to my loved ones, but I'd like to be much more prescriptive about my wishes to take the decision-making burden off my family should it come to that.
With apologies for being off topic: "DevSecOps" is so transparently marketing FUD generated by consultants trying to sell hours to enterprises that I wince every time I read the phrase. Why is this industry so packed with vapid buzzwords like this?
I flew on Spirit (which has a bad reputation but whatever, I love it for cheap flights), and they make a point before takeoff of saying their fleet is 100% Airbus planes.
The adjective is Democratic.
Pro tip: Most librarians have master's degrees and their field is all about information storage/organization/retrieval. It takes very little time to teach a kid how to put books on a shelf. The reason librarians are at libraries is to manage the collection of knowledge and to help people find information. So I'd give a lot of weight to a librarian's opinion on a search engine. The hardest part is finding out whether or not someone working at a library is a "real" librarian without being insulting.
I took on contract jobs once a while, so far I rejected all the chances from CA, partially due to the 13.5%(?) income tax, that made its price non-competitive, plus, I hate to file a CA state tax, I'm used to no state income tax for decades.

I never live in CA, does not use its transportation/police/schools, why do I need pay for this state income tax shit just for remote work?
AssemblyScript is a great idea, and has some excellent people working on it. I posted about this earlier, and Aaron Turner replied. His "wasmboy" Gameboy emulator is a perfect example of just what AssemblyScript is good for, and he gave an interesting talk about it too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079367

DonHopkins on June 3, 2019 | parent | favorite | on: Compiling C to WebAssembly Without Emscripten

Anybody used or have opinions about AssemblyScript?
https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript

>AssemblyScript compiles strictly typed TypeScript (basically JavaScript with types) to WebAssembly using Binaryen. It generates lean and mean WebAssembly modules while being just an npm install away.

https://dev.to/jtenner/an-assemblyscript-primer-for-typescri...

Here's a great example of a project that uses it:

https://github.com/torch2424/wasmboy

>Gameboy Emulator Library written in Web Assembly using AssemblyScript, Debugger/Shell in Preact

Here's an excellent talk about wasmboy by the author, Aaron Turner -- he's done some really outstanding work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlL1nduatZQ

Since you can compile AssemblyScript into JavaScript with the TypeScript compiler as well as into WebAssembly, you can compare the speed of JavaScript -vs- WebAssembly on the same source code. Aaron did some interesting benchmarks using wasmboy, in the great tradition of using GameBoy emulators to benchmark JavaScript engines:

https://medium.com/@torch2424/webassembly-is-fast-a-real-wor...

Aaron Turner posted this useful link to a good AssemblyScript example a while ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=torch2424

torch2424 7 months ago | unvote | parent [-] | on: Walt: JavaScript-like syntax for WebAssembly

I help out every once and a while on the AssemblyScript team with like issues, docs, and things. And made wasmboy, which uses AssemblyScript:

https://github.com/torch2424/wasmBoy

But that being said, usually when people are interested in the language, we usually direct them to the "n-body" example: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/master... . Which kind of looks more typescript-y :)

Also, just to stay on topic, I think walt is awesome. Stoked to see so many projects coming up with a "Wasm for JS devs" approach/story.

torch2424 on June 3, 2019 [–]

Hello!

Aaron Turner here, thank you for all the kind words! :) Yes I did all those things, and stoked to see people excited about it!

Definitely feel free to reach out anytime about AssemblyScript or WasmBoy. Would love to chat with you / anyone interested.

We also have a slack channel you can reach out and get invited to (see the wiki sidebar): https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/wiki

Thanks again!
Fractals are sets - maps of the results of a recursive calculation using a seed formula. They happen to have deep structure, but it's implicit in the process and not obvious.

L-systems are explicit structural grammars with some simple recursion, and are much shallower. You can more or less predict the shape of a simple L-system just by looking at it. The recursion - usually not many levels - looks nice because we like modulated repetition. And some natural systems seem to have evolved similar macro-level structures. But they're pretty trivial conceptually.

Cellular automata are part way between the two.

None of the above really evolve, because they don't support natural selection or recombination.

There's a class of solution-explorers called genetic algorithms which were a thing before ML (kind of...) took over a similar space. GAs do evolve, but they're not particularly efficient and they suffer from the usual problem of getting stuck in local maxima.

It turns out that for interesting and open-ended evolution you need a much bigger parameter space than any of these toy algos - like the one nature has - and current computing can't handle that (yet).
My Friends the Complot Theory Believers · Jacques Mattheij
While I agree with you that the idea there is fundamentally flawed, it does seem like the greatest increases in GDP and growth have occurred when the pareto distribution of wealth was the least skewed in favor of the wealthy. To an extent, this makes sense to me from a free market perspective... The less concentrated the wealth and power is, the more we can expect competition and innovation. So even though their reasoning may be flawed, its possible the result would make sense anyway.
> To have some minimal form of obfuscation from prying eyes, the strings in the backdoor are compressed and encoded in Base64, or their hashes are used instead.

ah so base64 is valid encryption after all.
I have heard good things about PurpleAir air quality sensors. https://www2.purpleair.com/collections/air-quality-sensors
They should have made a better deal with PS5 and the new Xbox, as many gamers want to buy the new consoles just to be able to play Cyberpunk (I'm getting a PS5 for my friend for Christmas to play it, though it will take more time to get it of course)
Slightly off topic - it would be refreshing if financial and other institutions provided similar public post mortems on incidents that affect large numbers of their clients. Recent ones that come to mind are Interactive Brokers and Robinhood.
I don't think you get security. It's about threat mitigation. There is nothing secure, including seccomp jails.

You want defence in depth - that is using multiple layers of defence to reduce the risk. You can never get it to 0, but if you combine two mechanisms that are each 99% effective, then your risk is now 0.01% instead of 1%. That's obviously an improvement.

You don't run your database without a password (hopefully) just because its behind a firewall. You want to have the password as well in case an attacker finds a way around your firewall (compromises a system on the inside) or you misconfigure your firewall.

Security in the physical world works the same way. You don't turn off the alarm and leave the bank doors open at the end of the day just because your vault is quite secure.
I’ve been wanting to do this but I don’t know the route. Should I just check the rail trail site or do you know of a better resource?
I'm completely on Apple's side on this one, or rather on the side of user choice.

I just wish Apple would also give users a choice where it doesn't so clearly benefit Apple's own business interests, such as choosing which apps to install, where to buy them or how to pay for them.
The customer is the ultimate casting vote. If it became unsafe altogether to fly on new boeings, airlines would be forced to switch to airbus.

Defense will remain a segment, but instead of 25% of revenue of the company it’ll be 50-70%, with the the commercial segment nosediving
Give Zuck personal exemption for cooperation.
Free as in lunch also exists in anglo culture, with the notable example of There ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL). The concept of free beer sounds natural because there are multiple contexts where you could potentially expect beer to suddenly become free for whatever reason (someone pays for a round, festivals, college dorms etc.) Free pizza would be a good substitute as well. Some consumables just have associations that aren't completely easy to explain to someone not familiar with them.
So your money just made you 8 million USD and you had to pay 432k in taxes. Compare that to someone who makes 8 million USD cash through labour. They have to pay way more in taxes, around 1 million according to this calculator: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator

Edit: just found out that in California capital gains are regarded as normal income. So you'd have to pay that 1 million already, but now you'd have to pay another additional 432k... so tax increase of 50%.