skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the fair tax by Neil Bortz.

High sales tax on all “new” products. None on used. A check to everyone each month so that poor don’t suffer from it.

Basically eliminates the IRS, and much of the Tax compliance / avoidance industry.
Stops a lot of the tax nonsense that corporations and congress loves.
No, we have tone and punctuation to disambiguate the two interpretations here. Parent commenter interpreted correctly. If the grandparent’s intention was otherwise, they should have used a comma.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26671281
There needs to be some kind of analysis to determine whether they have causality flipped- do they have these long term health problems because of severe COVID or did they get severe COVID due to these long term health problems?
"White is the default" is still racism, and its existence doesn't make "Asian == porn" any less racist.
Experts can also be corrupted.
Only time I'm starting daemon by hand is to debug it. So having it stay in foreground and log to console is good in that case.
Another thing which is often forgotten, we have evolutionarily adapted biases built into our learning machinery. That helps us to learn some things that tended to be essential for survival (much) more quickly, but it can also hinder us in learning some other things that we are not adapted for.
This is so familiar, what's it from? Seafall?
> Even a worker-owned collective is capable of the same abuses that a capitalist-owned corporation is capable of.

A worker-owned collective is not able to abuse its workers for the benefits of its owners.

> Humans are fundamentally selfish and vile, and they will always oppress each other if given the opportunity and incentive.

Speak for yourself.
This seems to be a much more reasonable stance, though just because you can conceive of something doesn't mean it should be taken seriously.

Your previous comment included questionable phrases such as "any degree of certainty", "absurd", "just a theory".
According to Pornhub[1] their top searches world-wide were:

Lesbian

Teen (18+)

Ebony

MILF

Anal

BigDick

Hentai

Arab
...

[1]https://www.inverse.com/article/26011-pornhub-post-popular-p...

Asian was way at the bottom (and was the most pop term in Hawai'i, I guess that's expected). It looks like fetishization is an exaggeration, never the less, even if it were, who cares? People can prefer what they want, so long as it's legal.
An education in finance is expensive, no matter where you get it from... school or hard knocks.
Seer (YC W21) Is Hiring a Founding Team Engineer
if you get a new role that requires these things, then you will be forced to do them.

else you will be fired.

or at least made very unconfortable.

not sure you ever have to get motivated or interested in these things.

it's like the whole idea of work that has to be something fulfilling? eh - i don't think it makes much sense.

i think in an ideal world, we would have a different economy and do generally meaningful work, etc. etc., but day to day, you still gotta do the dishes, take out the trash, etc.
April fools pranks should leave the recipient laughing at themselves for their own foolishness, otherwise it is just a mean spirited prank at the expense of someone else. Pranking a major organisation is just too hard: there are too many different people with different personalities involved.
Trump incites hate/violence and I assume the Chinese are the trying to correct the record from your description. I don't see the problem.

Side note: I don't trust the WSJ. Ever since Rupert bought it the fake outrage/news knob has been cranked to the maximum.
It's because it was not released on April fools.
This is intellectual misdirection. Not knowing the precise moment an X becomes a Y does not prove the non-existence of Xs or Ys. For example, when does a small pile of rocks become a big pile of rocks? Regardless of the answer, there are both small rock piles and big rock piles.
I have chrohn's and the treatment for that is high dose steroids or chopping sections out.

Fortunately I'm on the mild end of the spectrum and flairs are infrequent but it'd be nice if we had something better to treat auto-immune disorders.

To control my chrohns I changed my diet by removing foods, keeping track of general well being for a few weeks then gradually introducing them to see what happened til I found a routine that worked, it's bland most of the time but I'll take the win - basically a Mediterranean diet which is fine.

There is however a bunch of things in the pipeline including things like targetted biologics to selectively target the immune system that are exciting.
Some northern lands are known for their rich, dark soil. The northern states and southern Canada, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem
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There Is No Settled Mathematics
Cute Me Up
I appreciate the data, especially the real $ pulled forward from 2009.

My impression was the drop-off from 2009-2013 was all about reducing investment in Iraq and Afghanistan rather than cancelling super promising projects. Do you have an example of a great project that was cancelled? I know we reduced our order of F-22s but that was concurrent with a way bigger, splashier investment in F-35s so I'd call that 'bad priorities' rather than 'lack of resources'.

I'd say that the PLA's big advantage was not invading Iraq. I almost added something about a lot of our defense spending being glorified jobs programs but I'm pretty sure that's also true over there too, just with a differently-shaped politics driving it.
CoinBase makes money through purchase and transfer fees even if the underlying crypto doesn't go up in value or even goes down.

Mature coins no longer go up in value in double digits multipliers but their trade volume is bigger than ever because of the increased interest and online markets, be it the ones on (dark.fail) or Tesla.

Your other choice to benefit from the increase in the trade volume is to setup your own rig and join a mining pool, but that's more involved than what most people are willing to do.
For those who didn't read the article, this is a consideration from the Australian Federal Government, not the US Federal Government.
Kids Whiteboard Drawing App
” There is a cost to next-day shipping, and it looks like a water bottle full of piss”

Brings back horrible memories of being stuck in a 4 hour stopped traffic jam on the way to Disney.

It’s crazy how intense this workplace sounds.
Google's index isn't as vast as they claim. Their "About 5,780,000,000 results" is a gross exaggeration. You can't actually view all those results even if you tried.
Bpftrace v0.12 Released
Had to remove the /1, but good find. That does seem to put the right timeframe -- and with confirmation they're real presenters too. It's not a matter of finding a c. 25 year old clip from the news to base a fake on, it would be finding one from about March-May 1996 (which itself would be amazing to have for no reason), and then replace it.

I'm leaning more to "this is real", but it's astounding there's no reference to it before yesterday.
Sidestepping the obviously controversial bit, a big problem with doing this is that UBI is relatively new and not well-understood, so so a program that targets a specific group is bad for both itself and the concept of UBI because it only collects very specific data that are easily dismissed because of selection bias.
Pakistan Balance Checker
> If they treated the climate emergency as the crisis it is

They treat it as politicians that need to get re-elected, since that's linked to direct and indirect financial rewards. However, climate is something which is going to dramatically change in 50-100 years. The sea levels might not rise by 1 meter in the next 10-20 years. That means climate change isn't this government's problem. So no, there isn't a government on this planet that is going to treat climate change as an emergency.
Feature request: let me see the song details of the song playing so I can find it on Spotify, e.g. Brazilian Tech House is cool.

Request #2: change the address bar when I click on a genre so I can share the link of a particular style.
Wouldn't you prefer an advisor then? Same exact benefit but with better alignment. Usually advisors are actually currently in the industry and can give meaningful introductions outside their portfolio.

I also don't think it's fair to call all ICOs scams. It's certainly in its wild west phase but provides an alternative funding mechanism.
It's going to be interesting to see the inevitable backlash when some fascist populist leader rises to power and uses the normalized vocabulary of "spreading misinformation" to abuse people.
Age isn't the only factor, you need to control for underlying health conditions, which apparently they chose not to. Suppose you have COPD at age 50, for one you are less likely to live to 70, but also you are at a far greater risk with COVID. It would not be unexpected if such a person were readmitted to the hospital or die months later.
I think the real solution is force companies to split when they can no longer be effectively traded by small investors.

Companies used to do that on a regular basis...
I’m surprised it isn’t marked NSFW and catering to a very niche form of expression
Or summarize all human history including the concentration camps of today?
> We most certainly can

That is a very, very strong statement that requires some proof to go with such a strong statement of certainty.

While we can learn that the ball's change of movement just fine without swinging the bat, we can only do that because we are generalizing from a large body of knowledge that we devoloped by experimenting on the world using our body.

I am not aware of a single piece of evidence that an agent can use purely observational learning to ever aquire the causal knowledge of the real world to sufficient level to make those sorts of inferences with any sort of reasonable accuracy.
Da Microsof
I get it now. That's interesting - generating missing letterforms!
I don't think you'd like my theology, but just in case you do, have you read Left Beyond?

https://www.deviantart.com/spiritplumber/art/Left-Beyond-Add...
I've enjoyed using Dokku https://dokku.com/
It's very similar to heroku, but self-hosted. The pre-setup digitalocean option seems like a good way to try it out.

Here's a short video series that helped me get started:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsClh15QqVh5lQ-_iiFYO...
A simple proposal and vote by software upgrade would allow the coordination of this.

It’s happened many times already in the blockchain space.
Much like your credit report, you're entitled to a free copy of your LexisNexis report. For most people it's at least an order of magnitude larger than your credit report. The hard copy that comes in the mail is a surprisingly large stack of paper. The number of errors in my report was almost comical. I was surprised to find out I own a 300,000 mixed use building in a trendy part of town with Class A office space. It also showed that I filed an insurance claim for hail damage on a house I was renting. Obviously it was the landlord who had the policy and handled the repairs.
Awake cortical mapping has much better resolution than fMRI, and it avoids image registration issues, but it requires a great deal of planning and patient motivation. If it turns out that the language center is on the opposite side from the area of the surgery, then awake mapping might not even be necessary. This is why fMRI is often used as a planning step before awake cortical mapping during the actual surgery.
microsol
This also covered very nicely by Daniel Dennet in his robot/bomb paper. It's a great read (warning, pdf)

https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/gamback/teaching/TDT4138/dennett84....
>Crystals found across the planet and from several time periods have previously been linked to humans' spiritual belief and ritual. This includes in southern Africa.

Couldn't they just have been collected because they looked nice? When I was a kid I had a stash of more or less interesting rocks I found here and there.

It seems weird to me to go straight for the spiritual and ritual explanation.

>Many who visit Ga-Mohana Hill today for ritual practice see it as part of a network of places linked to the Great Water Snake (Nnoga ya metsi), a capricious and shape-shifting being. Many of these spiritual places are also associated with water.

>Places such as Ga-Mohana Hill and their associated stories remain some of the most enduring intangible cultural artefacts from the past, linking modern indigenous South Africans to earlier communities.

Is the article positing that (relatively) modern practices and beliefs could have a link to these 100+ millennia old crystals?

If true it would be fascinating, but it seems like a pretty wild conjecture to me. The culture, language and customs of people 100k years ago was probably very different from ours. It seems to me that you'd have to have pretty convincing evidence to be able to extrapolate that far into the past.
For the record, I've been what could accurately be called a climate change alarmist for over three decades now. More concretely, I've felt that there was a least a fair chance that climate change would, by the year 2070, cause enormous harm to human civilization, where 'harm' could be seen, in part, as over a billion premature deaths. Over the decades, my internal estimate of the odds has changed from "a small but statistically significant chance" to "more than 50%" today.

I've also been of the mind that, most likely, there's little chance that humanity will be able to substantially change these probabilities.

Yes, that's pretty doomy gloomy, on the surface at least.

"But the progress ... etc., is really remarkable. It ain't over 'til it's over."

This! We CAN NOT know what the future holds. A primary 'doomer movement' in the 1970s when I was growing up was population. Even among the most forward thinking, optimistic people of the time, few if any could imagine our planet being able to feed 8 billion people. None could imagine the possibility that the world population could naturally (without either huge die offs and/or draconian controls) stabilize at 10 billion people, which many solid models are now indicating. (And I get that there are valid arguments against the sustainability of our current and near future food production methods.)

The point is that we can not know what miracles technology and sociological progress can bring, and we're expanding in both areas exponentially. (I'm not using that word, exponentially, lightly or incorrectly.)

Is all of this 'hopium'? Perhaps. I agree with those that argue acceptance is important and healthy. Yes, accept that, from what we can see right now, things look very bad. Yes, accept that there's a strong probability that human civilization will collapse in the lifetime of Millennials. At the very minimum, all of the steps/hours/days between now and then will be interesting, and there's an unlimited amount of joy to be found and created.
AWS IAM Policy Basics (how to audit issues like broadly-scoped roles and fix it)
Were they resolving a circuit split? That's usually the way "silly" cases get up there.
:s in this context does that make any sense? Specificity of porn query/popularity of query/result?
The most surprising thing about this story is the apparently massive number of people who didn't have cars, relied entirely on public transport and then decided to buy cars? How certain are you of that analysis? Surely that is a rather rare case, as the typical public-transit-only person tends to live in a city where parking space is at a premium. Whole tower blocks cannot easily switch from transit to cars overnight just because they prefer it.

Or is this the mass exodus from American cities I keep reading about? They're buying cars because they're moving from NY to Florida, that sort of thing?
microsot
> Stupid people seem incapable of understanding how color-blind solutions are able to still address racial disparities.

This is a targeted demonstration program specifically for the purpose of providing concrete support for the argument that guaranteed income, a color-blind policy that the sponsoring organizations are dedicated to promoting, is effective in mitigating systemic problems facing communities of color.

That is, while your complaint is (if somewhat inflammatorily phrased, given the strong historical basis on which notionally color-blind solutions are deeply distrusted) not entirely unreasonable in the abstract, it is profoundly ignorant to direct it at this project considering that the project’s premise is exactly in line with it, and the distrust for such approaches that you paint as stupid is exactly what the project aims, with regard to a particular policy, to overcome.
It's not quite like that.

Firstly, Java's generics did extend the class file format, quite significantly. Lots of metadata about generics and type variables makes it into the class files which is why you can reflect over them. It requires a gross trick involving creating anonymous objects that subclass a TypeHolder or TypeToken style class but you can do it because the data is there.

What they didn't want to do was break existing code and tie the JVM too deeply to their specific choice of generics. The downside is sometimes you can't do stuff you want to do, like overload a method in ways that only differ by a type variable. The upside is that there are still tons of libraries out there that are useful which at least internally have pre-generics code: backwards compatibility has real value. Also, other languages like Scala and Kotlin were able to try out different approaches to generics. Kotlin in particular improves on Java's existing generics and that's possible partly due to erasure.

Also, truly reified generics is really hard. Look at Valhalla and the "parametric JVM" documents. Doing it well involves a lot of complex design choices and support infrastructure. Most languages struggle with this. For instance it's a big part of why C++ libraries find it hard to export stable ABIs.
I 100% agree policy like this are likely to make the poor white people see the poor black people as privileged by the system.

While the poor people of color will still feel that they are not privileged because 76% of millionaires are white.
The zombie economy and digital arm-breakers
Rubocop actually enforces this as a default style rule.

But note the idea only works in statement-oriented languages. When if ... else ... constructs are an expression, both arms need to be evaluated for type checking purposes, which means both arms need to exist. Then you have language like R where you're free to use if ... else ... as keywords and statement if you like, but it's generally advised to use the ifelse function instead because it auto-vectorizes over multi-dimensional arguments.
I'm trying to decide whether to keep being there, or whether to go away (IDK, sell my house buy a sailboat and just stay away from land from there on out)
https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2020/penny-stock...

http://www.investingadvicewatchdog.com/penny-stocks.html

http://ilj.law.indiana.edu/articles/75/75_1_Bartels.pdf
I'm curious if the Deccan Traps, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps) formed at about the same time on the opposite side of the planet were also caused by the asteroid. Not a standard theory but it makes sense to me that an asteroid hitting one side of the globe could cause shockwaves that crack the crust on the other.
There’s also a phenomenon that hotter conditions cause water to evaporate faster.

The term here is vapor pressure deficit (VPD).

VPD is the relationship between the amount of water in the atmosphere, temperature, and the rate of evaporation.

As temperature increases, rate of evaporation increases not linearly but exponentially.

VPD has been established as a major control on plant growth.

And there’s research showing that increasing VPD has already offset the gains we’ve seen from CO2 fertilization on plant growth:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/8/eaax1396
>Were he such a fantastic healer, driven by the power of God, why is he not sweeping the nation, curing all the otherwise-incurably sick?

A) He's dead[1]
B) Jesus did this, and, as you can imagine, people weren't willing to see this as "attributable solely to his god". Even I can think of other explanations (e.g., fraud) if a person were going around the country loudly proclaiming themselves to be using God's power to heal anyone and everyone.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/business/clayton-christen...
And would racism not imply that people would dislike and therefore not search for this term/produce this content?
"Humans are selfish and vile" != "There are humans that are selfish and vile".
If you're positing that white westerners are responsible for fetishizing Asian women, then you haven't spent any time in a Japanese convenience store in the last 50 years.
It's a good example of how ambiguity can arise when humans use (or don't use) punctuation and other features of a language that's been evolving for centuries, to communicate across an instantaneous worldwide medium with little effort
yes, what we're seeing is the frenzy around covid latching onto any and all related phenomena and pulling them into it's orbit. it's reasonable to study those phenomena for their relationship to a particular infection, but not to conclude that relationship based on merely studying it, as is happening here.

post-infection complications are not uncommon, although specifics certainly vary. i'd also had a long tail of recovery from a flu->bronchitis->pneumonia cascade a few years ago (on the order of many months, not years).
That's not the issue.

The bigger issue is avoiding jobs where the management chose an "impossible" stack. IE, a stack where the technology choices actively impede productivity.

Unless the job basically involves modernizing something that's been around for a few decades, why would anyone do new development in an outdated language?
Consider the end game where Bitcoin achieves its stable store of value. It doesn't go up, but when people buy houses they sell their Bitcoin savings and when people sell their vacation home they park the money in Bitcoin. The more that happens, assuming Coinbase is the intermediary, the more Coinbase revenue goes up with flat coins.
Public.Resource.Org has been leading a (mostly?) one-man crusade that holds that any standard that is referenced by a U.S. law can no longer be copyrighted. They have had mixed success in court.

Here's an example (with signature cover sheet): https://law.resource.org/pub/us/cfr/ibr/004/iso.6406.2005.pd...
Genuinely curious: In what way?

Also: How is tmux about serial ports/USB->serial adapters?
Okay, so if I understand correctly, the data in those Apple products is not secured, but turning on iCloud on a device does not ruin encryption for other apps that take it seriously. So if I have an app that uses Keychain (end-to-end encrypted) and encrypts it's data properly, it is still secure.

Unless Apple is really bad and somehow collects my keys from keychain, or collects keys passed to CryptoKit, etc., straight out of RAM, and sends them to 3-letter agencies ... if I think that's happening, then I will look for new devices.
The real question should be, who is the news anchor woman that he gave it to at the end? Did she end up taking it home?
Unless rising vapor pressure deficit undoes your gains from CO2 fertilization:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/8/eaax1396
Peeling off the edges of the pages printed on a dot matrix printer was either super relaxing or super stressful depending on what you had just printed.
Tech in Mexico: A Confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia
I find GitHub Pages even easier for that scenario.