skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, please don't be hung up on the garbage word - after all it's just a description what the laptop will be at some point in the future. An earlier future than necessary. My beef is not with you, but I am annoyed with Apple selling devices that are not upgradeable. If they would just be reasonable and let users upgrade their ram, the laptop would continue to be useful when (not if) more than the current minimum of acceptable system memory is needed.

Given how overpriced the bigger memory configurations are I understand why you took that risk.

The earlier parts of my comment just reflect my impression that you overestimate the performance of that laptop compared to available alternatives. 10x faster is just not accurate. Remember the context: A huge group of Apple fanboys that buy everything the company produces without being aware of the alternatives and drawbacks. That's why it feels important to point out misconceptions like that, whether they are really there or just the interpretation.
I don't think they should be routine, but given the highly unbalanced taxing environment of the past few decades which allowed for such massive wealth to accumulate (and rapidly grow during the pandemic) I see them as a reasonable corrective.

It also doesn't have to be ham-fisted. The concerns you bring up are legitimate and legislation is able to account for them.
> 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?

How is the government forcing you to sell your company? They're forcing you to pay 0.4% of the money you own over those 30M dollars in tax, but that's it. Do you truly believe that there are people who make less than 0.4% per year profit on their >30M assets?
This is part of the exoteric versus esoteric communication problem.
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The article ends with:

> As we tear down the boundaries between Partners and Merchants, we connect merchants with the entrepreneurs ready to solve their problems.

"Partners" are a key part here, I think. Merchants can run their own code or possibly install 3rd party partner plugins. This is similar to the way 3rd party Wordpress Plugins work except, unlike PHP, they are small, fast, and safe. They can also run in a multi-tenant Shopify environment that scales safely.

As far as I can tell, the use case is similar to database triggers or custom web request filters: enhance the standard request flow with custom actions.
He as a human is worth exactly the same as the workers, of course. But that changes nothing about his right to the wealth he created. The others could create their own wealth, Bezos wasn't in a privileged position when he started.

If his money gives him political power, the solution is to fix the political system, not steal his money.
> But when medical assistance in dying became [Canadian] law in 2016, excluded were “advance requests” that would have permitted people with dementia to set out terms for their death while they still had capacity to consent.

Tragic. In my country no form of assisted suicide is yet legal, but I've watched my grandmother languish and waste away like this and--should it come to that--I'm firm in my resolve not to subject my family to anything like that experience. People need to have the right to choose to end their own lives with dignity; is "death tourism" a thing?
In general and this applies to most of Europe to greater and lesser degrees, while there is much more of a usable passenger rail network than there is in the US (for various reasons), that doesn't mean you can travel pretty much anywhere by train. There are swaths of countries that have very limited train coverage so it depends on where you want to go. This is true elsewhere also. Japan has a great train network in general. But that doesn't mean, for example, you can necessarily get to more rural and mountainous areas by train.

In the case of the Czech Republic, I've never noticed an issue but then I've only needed to travel between Brno and Prague or Vienna.
The two maps I use are purple air and AirNow.gov.

https://www.purpleair.com/map
https://www.airnow.gov/
Where do you use the boring pieces in your stack? Mostly around CRUD management of metadata?
Interesting read. I guess you can view what Amazon has done in this light. Provide the best solution to taking possession of things. The complement being the supply chain that marketplace aims to commoditize.
The US Marines have been known to evacuate US citizens from foreign countries if war breaks out. Think of your taxes as an insurance premium for global personal safety.
Fauci said in a 60 minutes interview back in March: "Right now, in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks" and "When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is." [0]

However that was before the CDC issued in early april its recommendation to wear masks [1]

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preventing-coronavirus-facemask...
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
> You can’t change the email on existing accounts however you can definitely delete it.

I am an end user and cannot do anything other than email the shop support and hope. I am not a resident of EU or California, you might be surprised at the vast number of websites which tell you to go pound sand if you try and delete your account. As a user, you can do nothing but hope someone deletes something for you if they feel like it; not all shop owners bother to respond as well, adding another layer of consternation.

> But you seem to make it a bigger deal than it is.

You seem to lack empathy for how other people are sensitive to their PII (which in this case may and does include credit card purchase information, shipping addresses and other "I really don't want this floating around more than I need it to be" information about my life) being retained by Shopify based stores.

The GDPR you keep leaning on to support your reply means nothing to a vast majority of the world and many sites happily only perform the minimum required actions required by law for those to whom it does apply.
According to USG, I'm a Resident Alien.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/dete...
The reason people resist such a tax is because there is no transparency into where the money is going. If there was traceability into putting that money towards positive social programs, for example, there might be less opposition.

I couldn't find what the tax was supposed to go towards but I also didn't make it beyond the paywall.
> Well that's quite a jump! Well over 1000 miles between Moline, Illinois and the continental divide in Montana. Is it that boring?

Pretty much. If the trail goes through SD, you might see the badlands and the black hills. Otherwise, it’s mostly cornfields, soybeans, wheat, and pasture/range from IL to MT.
There are plenty of languages other than this AssemblyScript that compile to Webassembly whereas only Java code compiled to Java bytecode. It's no more another Java than another C or Lua or any other language that just happens compiles to a binary or bytecode.
In what sense are iOS updates ‘forced’? It’s a single binary slider in prefs - auto update/don’t.
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It's hard to explain just how good Google was back in the day, compared to those early search engines.

I distinctly remember someone suggesting it to me at our CS lab in college. A few of us had never heard of it, and we all started to do some searches to try it out. There was silence for about 5 minutes, and then someone said "this is really good."

Say what you want about what Google has turned into, but it was an incredibly important tool that came around at the right time.

Also, it makes me really happy that they've kept the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button around.
Talking about hash tables at a conference and a conference dedicated to hash tables wouldn't be the same thing.
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I never click on their ad links so it would be a pure bonus for them if I pay :) But yeah I don't know... sometimes the supply/demand curves never meet.

Still think the business opportunity for a really good paid-for search engine is there. Of course it's not trivial to make a search engine but as I feel Google's usability is in a falling trend, the bar is getting lower..
For Bandcamp? They take 15%, or 10% if you're doing well. For streaming services, they split their income proportionally amongst all played tracks. That's about 0.3 cents per play on Spotify recently.
I make roughly half a million a year. I'm very aware that my tax rate would increase if we started taxing the wealthy more.

Please tax the wealthy more. Send the tax man to my house and all my peers. We can afford it just fine.
I disagree but I still respect your choice, at very least you acknowledge that in the end lockdown or not lockdown is subjective preference.
Not sure what you mean? In what way is the update 'forced'? It's not being silently installed, it's not like existing apps will suddenly stop working if it isn't applied.

This is only "forced" when you look at it from Facebook's perspective, as it'll directly impact their app, they don't control the OS version of their users. But they specifically used the loaded phrase "Forced update" to trigger an emotional response from the reader. Paints Apple as a malicious antagonist.
Maybe a percentage will, but I think when people are trying to guess and assume what these people will do as "rational economic agents", they miss the human factors. No one is going to pick where they go to college based on the taxes on the ultra-rich unless they are obsessed with money. Once rich, are you going to uproot yourself entirely from any family, friends, and connections in the US? You have to consider that rational economic behavior still has to consider what the point of it all is, and money for the sake of money doesn't tend to be the answer even among the hyper-rich.

What these people will come to terms with is a pretty age-old lesson - there are things more important than just how rich you are, and most of those are human. So long as they can maintain their lifestyle, I think many will want to stay. Needing to find 20K in a couch cushion to pay for your 5M in assets each year that you make 300K on won't be the thing that makes you move.

Of course, the rich today also have many legal shields and layers that will protect them from real french revolution violence. But I think anyone can feel the shift right now. Go on Tiktok and see just how many young people are getting real into eating the rich :)
It is the general public.
I know. I only skimmed the article, but the title was too good to pass on.
It upsets me that institutions like Stanford are the talk of the town when decisions like this are made. I understand that no institution is perfect, but it's incredulous how such a capable, bright institution could be so obviously incorrect here.

There is no judicious interpretation of the actions here that could read in a "well, in this context, that decision seemed reasonable due to {X,Y,Z}" kind of way.
I see it the opposite way around. We should only have a wealth tax and no income taxes. Capitalism means capital that earns for you while you sleep. Those who benefit the most from the system should pay for it. With only a wealth tax more people would have the means to amass wealth and there would be a greater incentive to spend rather than sit on money which would be good for the health and dynamism of the economy.
Well, this statement may be valid in Cold War era, but anyone leaving US will probably go to a cheaper safer country where the possibility of this is close to 0
But that is exactly their reasoning - not some fantasy of balancing the budget by taxing the rich, but a rationally supported (in history and economic theory) belief that reducing the wealth gap increases economic productivity.

Wealth taxes (if they can be enforced, which is a significant problem) are especially powerful in this area, as they reduce the incentive for rent seeking behavior - it stops people from simply sitting on their accumulated wealth, at least when it's producing less than the taxed amount for them.
Make it voluntary reporting with high punitive fines for those that are caught not reporting.

Pretty sure there are enough people making low wages that would be happy to report these folks if they suspected their bosses were dodging a tax.
I think it’s a rather clever word play, and he’s indicating that people prefer competence over friendliness. Which in social situations often isn’t actually true. Most people don’t like being around insufferable people even if they’re brilliant (take Nassim Taleb as an example.

However people can’t just ignore someone like Taleb, even if they’d really like to, because he’s been so RIGHT about so many things, which exposes the flaws in their thinking.
Jeff Bezos is just one person. Do you really think the US can't afford to cancel everyone's student debt?
From the same era, I still remember Excite Extreme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw9x5us4ZM4

Not useful, except for the bling factor. 3D VR search in 1998!
I know you're playing along with the pun train here. But nutpicking is actually a very lovely word and concept

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nutpicking
Wait, the thing is flying towards us?!
"wealth he created"
Ask HN: Financial advice for stock-holding employees at co. that went/will IPO?
I’ve found it helpful to divide being shy and being an introvert into two different buckets though they share some similarities.

The introvert classification helps me know how I best recharge my batteries: alone time where I can process my thoughts.

Shyness seems to be more tied to fear of how other people will reach to something I do or say, making it feel like it is better to just not interact.

Shyness / fear feels like something I can work on; I was a waiter for a while and that really helped me in this regard. Introvert feels more like something to be in tune with regarding how to recharge when you feel depleted.
Anyone else find it ironic that the country that is responsible for democratizing access to scientific research (via support of SciHub), the country protecting a whistleblower against government overreach (Snowden), the country pointing out how fundamentally insecure closed source, proprietary software is (SolarWinds), is...Russia?

How did we get here?
>Though health officials have warned Americans to prepare for the spread of the novel coronavirus in the U.S., people shouldn’t wear face masks to prevent the spread of the infectious illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-don...

mentions that. Not very well sourced though.
>And yet the change to <center> is not "a few years old".

Changes happen every few years as browser support shifts. That's a fact, right?

I don't know why you're explaining to me the history of <center> as if I don't know it already or believe these changes are new. I mentioned "a 20 year old system" for a reason.

Heck, the fact that it's been deprecated for so long and none of the browsers care is more of an argument for the use of <center>.
Spoken like a true dev There are other ways of checking code in besides the official channel. Almost every company on the planet could fall victim to this type of attack. Once a team gets past a certain size and “its not my job” comes into play. All kinds of doors swing open.
> Because you are effectively not a member of that community anymore

People have the choice of giving up their U.S. citizenship.

> Yet simply to retain the right to return the US at some point, they must pay taxes every year in the middle?

Yes? Or do we allow everyone who isn't participating in our society as a citizen would to come and go as they please?
I'm sure others could add to the list but at the very least shouldn't all Americans be on the hook for the cost of the defense of the country?

I'll agree though that the reporting and other requirements are needlessly complex.
Exactly. The US has one of the most progressive tax systems in the world. It hasn’t magically solved the wealth gap. Many people just want to punish the ultra wealthy, but it also won’t help.

If it’s actually about raising revenue, you will need to actually look lower, to the top 10% and broader middle class. But this isn’t nearly as compelling as a populist message to fund the various proposed unicorns...
You are probably right. The problem is that it is all grey. Some people do work with large datasets that absolutely perform much better with larger RAM. Some people had bad experiences in the past with slow swap systems and now always believe they need more RAM. Some people look at monitor apps and see that programs allocated large virtual blocks (because they can) and assume they need more physical RAM. Some people had 16 GB systems in the past that they really didn't need and now run an M1 system with 8 GB and find that everything runs fine.

What we need are concrete A/B tests. Two identical (other than RAM size) x86 systems running large data set memory hungry tasks that performs significantly better on a 16 GB system than a 8 GB system. Then the same tasks (running native ARM code) on 8 and 16 GB M1 systems with the identical OS version. Ideally a sequence of tests with varying memory demands. Tests like that would at least get in the ballpark of revealing if the M1 systems are somehow more capable with less memory. The rest is just anecdotal.

I suspect that M1 systems might handle light swapping a bit more efficiently than the latest x86 systems, but tasks with truly large datasets will ultimately be limited by SSD access rates. Of course, that is just another useless opinion until reasonable test data is available.
So what about if your Stocks lost value in the year?

Same scenario, 100million in stocks but due to a bad economy you they are now worth 95 million

Do you believe CA should collect $380,000 from someone that already lost 5 million that year?

There is always risks in investments, it is not always gains. CA does not properly account for that IMO

Further you will not get me support income based taxation either, I find income based taxation to be more immoral and unethical than wealth based taxation. It is literally stealing a persons labor

I am a proponent of Henry George's Single-Tax System
the expression confused me when I first heard it to. I think it should change to “free as in peanuts” or “free as in stickers” or something. It’s rare that you’ll find free beer
Checking if a code is secure by counting the usage of memcpy is pretty stupid, but very easy, so it is done by checklist experts to check for security.
memcpy_s is not supported by glibc and most other libc implementations for Linux, I do not expect this to change in the future. Here is a good analyses of this optional extension to the C standard from a glibc developer:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1969.htm
All standard Linux tools use the "unsafe" functions from the libc.
You should not use gets(), there are better alternatives in your libc. ;-)

You can link one of these libraries against your code on Linux to get the Safe C functions:
https://github.com/rurban/safeclib
https://sourceforge.net/p/safeclib/code/ci/master/tree/

Changing an existing code base from the normal glibc C functions like memcpy to memcpy_s is not easy, you do it wrong in 10% or more if you are not the original author of this code or do not have very long experience with it. Even when you are an expert a lot of problems are getting introduced, this is from my own experience. This is not a search and replace task for a junior!

Having one team developing something and then an other team making it secure is not working from my point of view. You should teach all your developers what they have to look for and why. I think it is important to not only says, X, Y, Z, is banned, but also why exactly and how to solve the use case X, Y, Z were used for.

A lot of the security work is not to improve the security, but for compliance to some guidelines internally or externally. The compliance is checked with some tools, like checking if "grep memcpy(" finds a result. Then the engineer or his manager will use the cheapest solution to solve this like Huawei did here.

To improve the real security you need some experts looking with the original developer into the real code. These experts do need more experience than just good PPT and Excel skills, but they need some knowledge in such software, probably different people for an embedded controller than a node.js application.
From the Wiki article

> Richard Stallman summarised the difference in a slogan: "Think free as in free speech, not free beer."

Free as in lunch would also work, but I'd hazard to guess that "free beer" is more relatable for the target audience Stallman was addressing. That being - computer enthusiasts ("nerds") who skew(ed) largely male, 16 - 35 (roughly).
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This is startup land, where billion dollar companies lose money... So yes.
The Dutch tax from cursory reading is not comparable - apparently, if you pay wealth tax, you are exempt from capital gains tax; also, if your wealth is real estate outside of the Netherlands, it is not taxed.

It may be more comparable to Norway’s wealth tax, which is 0.85% of everything above 200K€ (With some provisions for primary residence and illiquid shares IIUC, discounting these somewhat)

A Norwegian tax professional I had a chance to talk to a few months ago claimed that wealthy people were leaving Norway because of the wealth tax. Are there any Norwegians in the forum that can say more about this?
Ironically there's something pretty cyberpunk about all this, from the angry reactions to the development hiccups to the description of the bugs themselves
I guess it would depend on how you sample the music (i.e. from the top 50 hits playlists, randomly, by streaming number, by sold copies, etc.) and where you establish the baseline, and again how you compute forumlaic.

So if you are comparing top hits today with experimental rock of the 70s, and measure it in variance of chords, timbre and vocabulary. Yes it would be easy to show how music is becoming less varied. However if you establish the baseline during the late classical era (and limit your self to western music; as is often done) I’m sure you will find music today to be more varied.

If you sample randomly and make sure to include all of the experimental genres I’m sure you will find music today more varied then ever, and even if you go by top sales (and make sure you include music from around the word) I sure you might find that music is just as varied as it was back in the 70s.

Then there the question of how you measure musical variance. It is easy enough to do it by measuring (among other) the chord progression, or timbre, or proportion of the chorus, etc. but when people do this they often undermine many genres of music (e.g. minimalist music of the 80s and 90s) or hip hop, etc.
I mean exactly what you just laid out there. That's how money is created. By loaning it out to others in exchange for hard assets... Or at least that's how it was created prior to the reserve requirement being eliminated.
Great dev story about using AssemblyScript in production:
https://engineering.q42.nl/webassembly
It’s common at western weddings and other lavish parties for beer and other drinks to be served to the guests for free. Hence, “free beer.” When people say to one another “hey, come to the party, they’ve got free beer!” It’s instantly understood that the beer is gratis, not libre.