skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an extraordinarily bad take.

In the US we tax the marginal middle class dollar of income about 3x higher than we do a marginal dollar of investment income. Do we hate the middle class more than wall street? We tax canadian steel more than chinese PCBs. Do we hate the Canadians more than the Chinese?

More broadly, this would seek to interpret the lowest-tax anarchies as the most tolerant and loving societies and the highest-tax liberal democracies as most hate-filled, which seems equally suspect.

Your point applies to sin taxes. And... basically nothing else. In general tax policy works by starting reasonably fair and then loosening the screws on whichever demographic lobbies the best. So in fact corporate taxes are lower than personal taxes and VATs almost everywhere, etc...
> Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work.

Amusingly, we are reading this post in a gist, because G+, where this rant was posted, no longer exists. And I think Steve was absolutely on to something in his assessment: G+ never developed an even remotely useful API of any sort, never became anything more than a narrow little Google property. Facebook &c thrived, originally, because they hosted so many different applications and data graphs.

Those days are somewhat past, and Facebook too has gone from a platform to more of an application. But i still think anyone who wants to compete needs to do so by inviting others to remix & create atop the platform, which is something that seems so rare & un-done these days.

Different topic, but I cited Steve's other well known Magic Bus rant[1] about software being political two weeks ago, talking about Software is a Losers Game[2]. In many ways this rant feels like the Winners vs Losers game discussion: are you just trying to not lose with your product? To make a good application? Or are you trying to open the doors, build a culture of building many things? Do you want to keep finding new wins, or are you just going to build it then defend the castle? The link isn't clear but I think Google Platforms rant & Software is a Losers Game have more shared ground than would at first be apparent.

[1] https://gist.github.com/cornchz/3313150

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661164
NYT gets a pass, as does the Washington Post.
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32 year old tech dev here, been failing at enterprenouring for like 2 years now, still have money in the bank from crypto, but feeling a lot of depression lately, mostly from seeing my dev friends going the normal route and succeeding at life. I still have ideas in the pipeline, and i feel like im getting smarter all time, but I'm feeling that im loosing a sense of purpose, the world is expanding so fast, it's really hard to keep with just 1 industry, there is hardly anything missing. I did some number crunching and figured out that there are around 80m ppl in the world with an IQ north of 140, around 1-0.5m entrepreneurs in the tech space, the world has made sure that it will be just fine without me. And im not really sure that I'm needed. Wise words of advice?
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I sometimes (once every few months?) get a duplicated/conflicting file-pair appear. It's a bit annoying, but not very annoying. Can't remember it happening recently.
I want to assume this is tongue-in-cheek.. but I'm not actually sure?
Heck no! We are in a golden age of accessible science communication. You have to avoid the Gladwells and his ilk but there are people out there like Bill Bryson and Siddhartha Mukherjee that take really complex science, research it well and explain it in clear and practical language.
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The community is really awesome but at what price? :)
The 2 in U2F stands for second factor, these devices are useless on their own.
If you are in a car and are attack you have the same self defense rights as if you were at your house. Something similar happened at a BLM protest in texas with predictable results.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12239517/garrett-foster-black-...
ISDN still must be in heavy use in radio. Sirius XM has been using hardware IP codecs since the pandemic began, and once a three hour show you might hear garbled audio for a few seconds.
Public benefit, not hatred, is the primary motivation behind higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy. These taxes were at their highest in America around WWII and following - the money was used to fund the war.
These taxes are at historic lows in America thanks to waves of major tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy since the 80s. Social services have been defunded in parallel.
Taxes are raised for corporations and the wealthy because people who push for those raises want to live in a fairer society where everybody's right to a decent life is more important than a handful of people and corporations' right to hoard far more private property and power than they have any use for.
Extreme inequality destabilizes societies and progressive taxes are a lever for the government to use to try and prevent that. Europe was at its historically highest level of inequality just before the outbreak of WWI. Everyone who enjoys living in a relatively stable society should have an interest in preventing extreme inequality.
Starship being largely privately funded does not mean it's profitable.

One can exist without the other.

From NASA's perspective it's irrelevant whether the funding for Starship is coming from extra margin on Falcon 9 launches, or from outside investors putting money into SpaceX.

Privately funded != Profitable
I just mean being quiet and off is always better than being vocal and odd. Looking arrogant > being disruptive.
>> The team of experts whose only job is to make my kids rebel against my wishes

It's sad that today a team like that includes companies with a billion dollar marketing budget. When I was a kid it was just punk rockers.
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So at what time is it reasonable to apply force against a visibly aggressive person who is approaching your car yelling slurs?
> Slightly unrelated but for people that don't know, the "Black Futures Lab" which is an organization directly tied to BLM, is being funded by the "Chinese Progressive Association." I don't know what this entails but it's nice to see that the Chinese are interested in progressivism here in America.

“the Chinese” at issue are people of Chinese ethnicity in (and, largely, citizens of) the US, so, aside from appeal to straight-up anti-Asian racism, why is this so interesting?

“Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.”

https://cpasf.org/about/mission-history/
Many stories get flagged on HN as well and I assume for different reasons. Here is one flagged from an hour ago:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-learning-they-s...

I assumed it was worthy of discussion given the whole censorship debate and concepts of censorship like AI moderation or misinformation or disinformation.
> Example: Can Fox News really get a long-form interview with President Biden? (I am not trolling.)

Obama sat with Bill O'Reily for long than that.
She might have been experiencing the effects of placebo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26324219
The suburbs and rural areas are going to boom (in relative terms) if remote working becomes normalized in even 30% of the tech workforce.
Our governments are empires that have had democracy patched into them. Yes taxes pay for security and infrastructure, but this isn't why taxes are collected, taxes are collected because government is a self sustaining system largely populated by self serving individuals drawn to power.
Unlike my anarchist and libertarian friends, I don't think there is a better strategy than iterating on what we have, so we really don't have a better alternative that continuing to fix what we have, but that doesn't require us to pretend that our current systems are the benevolent commonwealths we would like the to be. (let's see how mars works out)
Most revised cards are almost worthless. Dual lands and Wheel of Fortune are the exception.
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You can also apply this to each frame in a video for a rather interesting effect.

My brother has a YouTube channel full of content-aware scaling videos:

https://youtu.be/a8k3b-QNbhs
Somolia has taxes. If you don't want to pay (income) tax there is Monaco, UAE, Bermuda, Bahamas, etc. Somehow they manage to have roads and firemen.
> You seriously think that university research in the US is largely funded or driven by companies? This is utterly wrong.

Slow down there bud. Where did I say that?

Unless you’re talking about AI/ML, then yes, university labs receive more from companies, than government funding agencies.
curious why you think there are no benefits to QUIC?
Santa Cruz mountains aren’t like middle of nowhere though... They’re very desirable (outside of being on fire all the time). They’re no different than the rest of SV when it comes to the general market...
Chess streaming had gained critical mass before that, and as the sibling comment points out, there were a lot of conversations happening in relation to how chess was clearly gaining momentum, particularly on twitch, before the first actual pogchamps. I was more using Pogchamps as a placeholder term for referring to the overall boom of chess on twitch. That is definitely why Netflix funded it. I've been told this somewhat directly but can't elaborate further than that.
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I believe Taleb's investment advices are neither contrarian nor innovative, which I don't mean as a disqualification (I liked his books).

I also believe his rant is more likely just a rant. And he may or may not have long or short positions in Bitcoin. I also like to believe he is too sophisticated (well, to be fair, as a quant/professional trader he is very sophisticated) to think that he's influencing the market in his favor with his tweets (he knows he's not Elon Musk).
Where does it say that?

I see here - https://standardnotes.org/knowledge/2/what-is-end-to-end-enc... the claim is:
"Whenever we move your encrypted data over a network, in order to deliver services to you, it is sent over a strictly secure connection to only our private servers. Because this data is encrypted, we can't read it, and we can’t sell it."

(I use Standard Notes, and if there's some element of the security model that I'm misunderstanding, I'd like to know :) )
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So this might be an element of the problem, but having been in government for 17 years (and last 5 dealing with IT), I'm not even sure this is a top 3 problem.

Against all odds, the government manages to recruit and retain people who can do good work.

The larger problem is that government seems designed to make it impossible for IT talent to actually apply their talent. Now I understand why one of Grace Hopper's most famous quotes in the Navy was "it is better to beg forgiveness, than to ask permission".
No, nope, and no again.

Here's Reddit's definition:

"Doxxing is where a user publishes private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent." [1]

Twitter's:

"Sharing someone’s private information online without their permission, sometimes called doxxing, is a breach of their privacy and of the Twitter Rules." [2]

And Wikipedia's:

"Doxing or doxxing is the act of publicly revealing previously private personal information about an individual or organization, usually through the Internet" [3]

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/e6nl5o/doxxing/

2 - https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
This wasn't a sole source contract. This was the result of an extended bidding process that had many bids and multiple rounds of eliminations.

As far as I can tell this was a fairly transparent, competitive bidding process, where the selected vendor was the one offering one of the lowest bids.

It's also a firm fixed price contract, so while there may be concern about a failure to deliver we know that there won't be significant cost for overruns
It's all about framing though isn't it? If Uber were '1 (miserably below expectations) .. 3 (met expectations) .. 5 (above and beyond)', you wouldn't see that.

It doesn't really matter as long as everyone's on the same page I suppose. Sure, you clip stuff off the end.. but doesn't everyone just want a taxi that gets them A-B without problem? Who's actively seeking 'above and beyond'? Maybe 'would've scored >5 if I had them' is not a problem, because nobody cares?

(I should maybe say I've never actually used Uber!)
With the caveat that it should be one-way communication only (or we know for sure it will include tracking in 3...2...1...) this could be a good idea if it were integrated into the car. It takes seconds to swap this out with the metal plate for the car next to it.
Fun to imagine some application layer firewall somewhere go: "that /static/css/style.css sure is large and requiring a lot of two way communication".
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Maybe it's an American thing I don't get or just the way I was raised but even though I do believe in SpaceX as a company they are still just that to me i.e. the fact that some people treat them like a sports team is a little jarring to me.

Why would you believe that it's just a business? Rocketry is a really shitty business to get in the first place. Nobody does it unless they're crazy.

Wanting to buy stock is completely understandable, but why do SpaceX fans on Reddit collect lists of evidence that musk is really in charge of engineering for example?

Because critics said he's not an engineer?

Mr "pedo guy" they're talking about so the personality cult is odd.

There may be a personalty cult, which is surely unwarranted even for the most saintly of individual, but why the focus on that instead of what SpaceX is doing and their goals?
If my salaried job used to make me commute, then work 8 hours, then commute home, I think it's a mistake to think that they were only paying me for the middle part.

When I negotiated the position and considered my options, you bet I considered the commute as part of the deal.
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Why are people implying this money must have come from BLM donations? She wrote a book that was on the NYT bestseller list, and presumably has other income streams beyond her work for BLM. I have no idea whether BLM is allocating their money properly or not, but it seems quite plausible that she has earned all the money in question through legitimate means.
Is the PlayStation store also evil?
I want to agree, but I have to confess, I don't think currency necessarily has to be cheap nor fast to use.

For example, there are Rai Stones[1] or Yapese stone money , which can require more than one person to move in some cases. They're not really currency per se, so it only sort of counts. But I feel like I have to allow currency with different behaviors & characteristics than the cash we all know.

I do think there is a very weird thing going on with cryptocurrencies & ever rising valuations, and it feels fake and absurd & built on madness & insanity. Social belief attributing value where there is none. But I also feel similarly about the stock market on many days, and it's non stop rise. It feels like anything we convince ourselves is worthy to be an investment target will continue to accrue worth, that there are scant balancing forces for any markets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
Well, they’ve got their two oil rigs, Phobos and Deimos, which I believe are to be the launch/catch facilities, so that’s two for starters. I don’t know if they’ll be doing it on land at all, or if the intent is to launch from one and catch with the other, allowing more downrange capability. We’ll see - it’s a blast (boom boom (boom boom!)) watching their development process.
Renting a furnished apartment can sometimes be almost as much as a renting a furnished house depending upon the area.
It would be awesome if sharp (https://github.com/lovell/sharp) would implement this algorithm
What I want is an inflationary cryptocurrency, not a deflationary one. Make an actual currency, not something to speculate on.
Check out https://forestry.io or something on https://jamstack.org/headless-cms
What kind of input did it take?
The spike here seems to confirm it: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
Looks like it is. For anything else, I would have went to Twitter to find out if anyone else was experiencing the same.
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I can't get it to load, just getting a backend error. I generally check if sites are down on Twitter and, well, now I guess I'll ask here!
The OP that you’re replying under gives one...
> Nobody disagree with the message: of course, all lives matter

You may be surprised, but quite a few people do disagree with what you've just said: https://www.vox.com/2016/7/11/12136140/black-all-lives-matte...
> Hopefully this caused you to do more research on the message.

Well, they've gone underground with many of their goals due to public outcry. You'll have to use archive.org to see their true goals for our society. They've pulled most of them off their website.
Are they really? I was under the impression that automotive grade components were at least certified to a wider temperature range than typical other components. JEDEC 94A annex A mentions that the operational temperature range is between -40C to 150C for automotive grade components.
That's true in general, but probably untenable for SBA jobs specifically (just from the optics of it).
Yep.

"upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure"
> WFH doesn't mean you're stuck at home.

It does if you're addicted to dual-monitors and other non-mobile setups. Maybe that, more than kids, is the discriminator between people who love WFH and those who cannot stand it.

> Beyond using a vertical mouse

I just bought a new mouse near the beginning of the pandemic. I looked at vertical mice, but ended up getting a more standard one with a nicely molded in-hand shape. I suppose if I had been in a store I would have tried it. Thanks for reminding me I wanted to check one out in person.
> The new owner built on what was technically someone else's land, but later the "true" owner lost in court, and the owner who built on it was given ownership rights, and I don't believe was required to compensate the "true" owner.

Sounds like a case of adverse possession, which is a special feature of real property law not shared with personal property.

So, while that story is plausible, its not something you should generalize to non-real-estate law.
This just adds more complexity to a universally used user space library. And also breaks when some programs don't use the same resolver. Just implement your own dns server that does it for you (or reuse dnsmasq).
I am not sure if an interpreter could be a true competitor to a compiler.
I guess all the data that is hidden doesn't matter. Just downvote me to hide it further.
Literally tried to post the same thing. Definitely down for me and their status page is all lies.
The KEXP stuff also sounds as good if not better than album recordings most of the time. Quite impressive stuff both of them. Of course there's something magical about live sets that often get lost on studio recordings.

Great thing we have sources like NPR Tiny Desk and KEXP so we can discover and enjoy awesome music.

Just throwing in some semi-random sets I enjoy

KEXP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhicDUgXyNg Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub-naDJbKFY Billy Strings & Don Julin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IIuHL_8Olg amiina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev5UXJpUTpY Mokoomba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpnQlnra_to Kikagaku Moyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo1zyMk1n5I José González

NPR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGAzPtwUJJU Andrew Bird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwYAeUpH1NM Trombone Shorty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsNKSbTNd5I DakhaBrakha
The big question for me: what's the advantage of doing this in Go? Is it just for people who like the language, or is it faster/a smaller build/something else?

I only ask because WASM comes with some extra limitations and build complexity, especially when you're shipping a garbage collector
On a side note, thanks for posting this. I didn't sharp existed and had been doing things the hard way (process calls to image magick).
Well, an entirely non-profit -- at this point, in fact, unincorporated, with no assets to speak of at all -- writing group that I'm part of migrated their forum in 2019 from a PHP forum package (I think SMF, although I wouldn't swear to that) to Discourse, and it runs just fine on what I'm fairly sure is a $10/month Digital Ocean droplet.

I don't doubt that Discourse requires more resources than most PHP forum packages do, but it doesn't need that much more.
What do those numbers mean?
Needless to say, I don't use these devices on my home depot account. I use them for Google, Github, Dropbox, I don't actually remember anything else. My DNS registrar doesn't support it :P

I also don't use my personal key for work stuff and recovering my work key is my sysadmins problem :)

That said, when I had admin accounts at work, we used TOTP with a similar scheme: when we registered important (admin) accounts we shared the second factor (the QR code) between 2 people and sometimes I printed the QR code itself. This works for AWS, gsuite, github, etc. I still receive calls from old colleges for TOTP codes occasionally :)
Nice try Ben Shapiro.
The website you linked to is very intrusive.
In exactly what way is information available in public government databases considered private. Please be specific.

Regardless of your definition of public, the word doxxing has never covered it. We have plenty of other language to refer to the sharing of publicly available information. The word doxxing was coined to give a name to a type of invasion of privacy that came to prominence with the rise of the Internet. If you want doxxing to just mean gossip, then your word no longer has a useful and distinct meaning.
These are things that everyone want, they don't really distinguish those who complain about taxes from those who don't.

I'd propose, simplistically, that people who demand tax cuts have in common the following characteristics:

- they may be confused about the role(s) of taxation

- they may not have sat down with pen and paper to try and figure out how to work a government's finances

- they may not be aware that a lot of the information they're demanding is public, or may not know where to find it

- they may not have a clear idea of which services to cut, or might not fully appreciate the importance of the services they'd like to cut

Conversely, it is highly probable that the people who support tax hikes:

- have a clear understanding of at least some of the roles of taxation

- have a specific idea what budget item they would like to see it spent on
Not all employees live in big houses where they can have a separate own room only for work. Different level of distraction will have an effect on productivity - there is a massive difference between working home alone and from a busy cafe.
Have you used uniswap? What do you think of it?
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