skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have an overly simplistic view of how government works.
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People should be able to freely choose a walled garden. There are benefits that might be important for the person choosing it, and other people can simply choose another platform. I don't see any reason why a single platform should be forced to cater to any and all.
The blue green bubble is no more pretentious than letting people know if your messages are encrypted.

It’d would’ve been inflammatory but accurate and informative to put an insecure padlock for unencrypted messages which may be read by your carrier.
Sure, "running in Javascript", because electron is just a browser, so there's nothing to prevent this from running in any other browser with modern JS support?
A repeated mistake I've seen related to that is the belief that communities create its members, despite the fact that members create communities. A lot of people think you can walk up to a community and use it like a tool to move people's opinions, beliefs, or values around, instead of the community being a reflection of shared opinions/beliefs/values.
GP is proposing that they give their customers the option — just that the default state should be "off".
Hi all,

We recently built Moored after struggling to find simple tools for collaborative remote meetings. Skeuomorphic post-it tools weren't a good fit for our thought processes, and any webapp we found required an account and email verification to even see how it worked.

Ultimately, we wanted a dead simple tool to collect input from others and organize them by category.

We have a few other ideas to build out for different remote meeting needs, but wanted to start with something basic to see if our preferences resonated with those of other people.

Would appreciate any feedback from the HN community.

Thanks!
Arguably not even a single cell.
I will try this out!

Currently the gold standard for this kind of FI simulation is OnTrajectory. There’s a learning curve but it’s so much more comprehensive than any spreadsheet you could build. I consult it every time I make a big decision.

Get in touch with your email and I can provide a referral link.
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Restricting internet searches causes stock market instability: study
Yea, just people being silly. They can do what they want with their money. And it doesn't look like anyone actually invested $70M worth of human effort there; it's just illusions of the market cap metric.
There is broad precedent that some GDPR protections also apply to businesses that consist of a single person.
Spinning consumes a lot of power, so I'd guess one would only want to do that when very low latency is truly required. At least I'd certainly wouldn't want it to be the default for the generic case.

Of course a low latency option should also exist for those cases that require it and currently that pretty much means spinning.
Yes, this is essentially how "P2P bootstrapping" works today. BitTorrent does it via "trackers", IPFS does it via their "bootstrapping" list (known IPFS nodes with static IP/DNS) and Bitcoin used to do it via IRC.

Probably is that all of those techniques, are still centralized.
I recently tried using Next instead of Nuxt, but I seem to recall I couldn't export optimised images when doing a statically generated site.

Has this changed, or are there any plans to change it?
It doesn't seem to be defined in the standard, but it's partially documented in Chromium's docs how they determine what is an ad resource:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...

This seems to indicate the authoritative source of truth is EasyList. On my current machine, the list seems to be stored in "~/.config/google-chrome/Subresource Filter/Unindexed\ Rules/9.22.0" and should be easily inspectable.

I don't know if I've missed some documentation pointers related to this.
It's because everything in the US is based around car infrastructure. Kids can't drive or cross 6 lane roads to get to school.
I think the parent is maybe referring to something else, that I also heard in a documentary: that all writing systems with a "reduced" alphabet descend from the same source.
I guess the japanese case is a counterexample to this, but the idea was, iirc, that writing systems appeared at different places, and followed this pattern:

* At first, people just draw representations of whatever they want to refer to.

* These evolve to symbols.

* Then, using the "rébus principle", you use the _sounds_ of each symbol to be able to represent things for which you had no symbols.
This is the step where, say, the chinese and mayan systems are.

* Then, and this is the "reduced" part I'm referring to: you simply forget the original meaning of your symbol, and only take it for a basic sound.
If I understand correctly, this happened when some people wanted to adapt hieroglyphs to their (spoken) language: they dropped the hieroglyph as symbolic representations, and only used them for their sound.
The documentary I watched seemed to imply that all alphabets with this property (symbols have no meaning) descend from this moment.

It does sound a bit much.
I may be totally misunderstanding it all, so any correction is more than welcome!
Not having a recovery plan is bad. You should have backups but with lifecycle rules that remove them after x days.
Microsoft is pushing for their own version of FLoC AFAIK
Because they let AWS offload the hard part to you, which is what AWS does best :)
This seems crazy to me. I have to dehumidify my home to keep it at 35%. Humidity is a constant battle. I couldn’t imagine paying to dump water in my air and promote mold.
think of it as like select and pthread_cond_wait rolled into one generic api for waiting on one or more things from the kernel.

it's actually pretty nice how generic they made it.
It's safer for everyone if government controls the currency we use.
>Actually purchasing items with your credit card is not required.

Pretty sure you need to make at least a $0.01 purchase for the purpose of having a payment, otherwise you won't have a payment history.
So I have a Google Sheet that basically does this and I tested this out and got some similar numbers as my sheet, so some things seem to be working well! This is also a great UI!

I was pretty impressed with the depth of detail as well, and one thing this seems to have better tooling for than my manual sheet is for tax treatment and long term tracking there

Two bugs/issues I found:

1. I couldn't tell if inflation was applied in future years at all. Despite selecting an increase in income and inflation matched expenses, neither seemed to be reflected when I selected the future year.

2. Setting 401K by percentage caused lots of issues as it allowed me to go over the IRS limit. I just wanted to set it by amount and be done with it! Would be good to have options to allocate savings like that as well as by percentage.

Honestly, this is really intriguing for me as I've covered a lot of these cases and as a developer I've thought about the UI/UX for this but basically have always thought that the edge cases were so vast that it would be hard to get users while also making sa reasonable UX. Truly, using this changed my mind and this seems like something that could be possible. I'm not sure what your team size is and I have limited time, but I'd be interested in talking and seeing if there's any way to contribute / help here! Feel free to contact me @gmail or via my bio's website contact form if you're at all interested in that!
Hey, there’s enough PowerPoint work for many different consultancy conpanies!
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Relevant: https://time.com/4060575/alphabet-google-dont-be-evil/
> Maybe, but I suspect they would have more likely ended up using separate, more-closed, operating systems.

Like, for example, one written by Apple?
I served on a grand jury and remember one case that I thought was very shaky. We only passed that by around 85% rather than our usual 100%.
This is a philosophical piece, the fact that it's really basic stuff is exactly why an entire blog post (better yet, a journal article or book) should be written to bicker over those semantics. Those financial terms are loaded with meaning and the author believes that meaning to be invalid; the semantics are the entire point.

What does it mean to 'create value'? As a passive shareholder who does nothing but own shares that increase in value, have you actually created anything? How can you have created value without creating anything? If Alice values potatoes at 1.01 apples and Bob values apples at 1.01 potatoes, and they trade, maybe they've created 0.01 apples worth of value but they certainly have not created two, they started with two and ended with approximately two. If they change their mind and trade back, they've not created 0.02 apples worth of value, they've revealed that the whole thing was a waste of time. If the value of your time is $14.95 an hour, and you get an Amazon job making $15 an hour, Amazon's addition to the economy is $0.05 per hour not $15.

No, it's the farmer who starts with dirt, water, sunshine and diesel and grows the apples and potatoes who is creating value. "Efficiency of resource allocation" are a lot of big words that do little more than justify the speaker diverting a little of the revenue stream to themselves.

Money is only very loosely connected to value creation, because there are two separate factors that tie them together: The amount of value your work adds to society, and your ability to extract money from society.

The whole point is that no human, not even Jeff Bezos, can generate 200 billion dollars worth of value by working. Not by carrying a lot of boxes really fast, nor by thinking really hard, nor by working long hours; not even if he pushes even more boxes while thinking really bright ideas while saving time by peeing in a bottle instead of going to the bathroom, he's simply not that many orders of magnitude smarter or stronger or more dedicated than other humans. And yet his net worth is close enough to $200B that it makes sense to round up about $1.7 billion dollars worth of value, while other people are carrying boxes for $15 an hour and are orders of magnitude away from rounding up to a net worth of $0.1 billion dollars.

The disparity between value generated and money extracted is the core injustice that the open letter glosses over with casual semantics and that the article seeks to understand and expose by being unconventionally precise.
It is false, but so is Bezos' claim - if you would take $100K in salary, but wouldn't take $90K, that means your time is worth X where $90K <= x < $100K. Let's assume x = $95K.

If your work is worth to me $120K, and you accept $100K, you have created $20K for me.

Therefore our employment agreement created $25K in value each year.
I like the analogy and agree with you but the potential for abuse of cough syrup is for the user, not the manufacturer.

Maybe another analogy would be like if you had to give your full banking information to every restaurant your family dines at?
>The most egregious misrepresentation of value creation in the letter is the $91 billion figure that Amazon has paid out in compensation to employees. This is patently ridiculous. Every single dollar of compensation paid out is done transactionally: it is used to purchase labor. In a typical transaction, no value is created.

This is just wrong. The employer gets value because they make more (in expectation) from the worker than they pay; the worker gets value because they get paid more than the the minimum they'd be willing to work for. There's surplus on both sides in most transactions.

The article makes some correct points. But it's frustrating to see it combining those with nonsense.
All it asks is to hand over all your private contacts. For me that is a ridiculously high price.
But million dollar NFTs definitely aren't money laundering.

Definitely. Should end well.
Many US states use judges instead of grand juries. Many countries use panels of two "citizen judges" (lay persons who serve for a single term) and one career judge.
ufincs looks very cool! During my December holiday, I was thinking of making a web-based platform that had a more modern UI than GNUcash, and it looks like you built it already!

Just curious, what's your tech stack, how long have you been working on it, and how many users do you have?
I agree with you, but you have not offered anything solid to back this position.
> That hasn't happened, and if anything, the practice of just putting it on the web has become the default, which is a little scary.

The problem is that everyone making something like this wants to have at least seven zeros in their bank account when they cash out after 5-10 years - selling licenses to a desktop app doesn't get you that.
Thanks for the link, it made the change being talked about clearer. However, I still don't understand how it was achieved. The explanation in the link appears truncated - lots of talk about the problem, then something about a cache and that's it. Is there an alternate link that talks about the mechanics of the change?
Google, and it's method for advertising, basicaly destroyed the news industry. If you don't think your work is harmful it simply means you haven't looked into the repercussions enough.
From my armchair-research, there are scale challenges with plants.

Algae is commonly the go-to for CO2 scrubbing for it's relative efficiencies. Algae might scrub 1-3 grams of CO2 per liter per day (https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1485133).

Humans exhale approximately 1kg CO2 per day.

I consider 300-1000 L of algae scrubber tanks per person a lot of volume.
> Conversely, the specter of governments operating broadband networks in competition with the private sector, or of state or local governments serving as both regulators and owners of competing broadband networks, could stifle investment or reduce private-sector access to capital.

> Larry Irving, 2014

Oh, no! Reduce private-sector access to capital? How will society continue?

Seriously though, there is plenty of money to be made in private sector manufacturing and installation of networking equipment. The point of public internet is to place the infrastructure planning and the mediation of access under control of a body that is interested in long-term societal benefit instead of short-term profit.
Yeah, yesterday as well
This shouldn't be getting down-votes.

Consider the slogan "composition not configuration", Linux is squarely the latter. All the hardware, all the different use-cases, that are just added to what's mostly a monolith. You can disable them, but not really pull things a part.

Now, Linux also has some of the most stringent code review in the industry, and they are well aware of issues of maintainability, but fundamentally C is not a sufficiently expressive language for them to architect the code base in a compositional manner.

What really worries me is that as the totality of the userland users an increasingly large interface to the kernel, it will very hard to ever replace linux withsomething else when we do have something more compositional. I am therefore interested, and somewhat working on, stuff that hopefully would end up with a multi-kernel NixOS (Think Debian GNU/kFreeBSD) to try to get some kernel competition going again, and incentivize some userland portability.

Note that I don't think portability <===> just use old system calls. I am no Unix purist. I would really like a kernel that does add new interfaces but also dispenses with the old cruft; think Rust vs C++.
There's some research that wind farms at scale have a small but non-negligible warming effect:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...!
Hey Lee, thank you for all your work! Big company here in Portland, and we just went all in on Next.js – so far our development speed has increased, and junior devs are easily onboarded.

One request would be an official state management extension – coming from Vue and Vuex, this is something I miss. We're currently using Redux Toolkit, but would be great to have something official for Next along the lines of Vuex, Reframe, or Elm.

* update (writing this between lots of meetings :| )

One huge value we get from Next is the opinions and conventions. Large dev teams benefit from this – which is why we've been using Ember and Ember Data for years, and Rails before that.

Having an opinionated state management that plays nicely with Next on the client AND the server is what I'd like to see. We're doing quite a few workarounds currently with Redux to support managing state from within the components and during `getServerSideProps`. If all my dreams came true, it would be nice to persist state conditionally in Redis or Mongo.

Sorry for the rambling thoughts – just loving Next, and incredibly busy building our new core IP with it.
Can you require your employees to have a Covid-19 vaccine? Yes
This is how we got the term Lysenkoism, which is

>any deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically, religiously or socially desirable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
I think a reasonable value for "rich" is having a good roof over your head, enough money to comfortably support you and your family for the foreseeable future, and to be doing something you really enjoy.
I don't need it to remove air from water, I need it to stop mixing air that was in the empty spaces around filters when they were installed into said water. Tap water doesn't have much air in it I don't think, it will sort itself out eventually. Right now I have very small air bubbles that are still visible when filling up a glass, they are created when air and water pass through RO membrane. After you let it sit for a while PPM number drops.
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Yes. And these tools will always provide significantly inacurate forecasts, I think, because 1/ it is hard for humans to predict their spending habits, since spending often increase proportionally to income, and not just inflation. 2/ most people have a very different path ahead of them, along with so many unknowns in the equation.

That's probably why people serious about their money consult a professional, who has hopefully historical data at hand and in his head, who produces a forecast, each year, that is very tailored to the person, the person's personality, habits, job industry and many other important factors that a financial planer coded with if and else, avg and linear projection etc can't match. Maybe machine learning can get decent results of training properly on very good data sets.

And about most planners showing we will be millionaire in a few years, I'm tempted to say it's for the exact same reason demo data and screenshots for a CRM or analytics system always tend to display over optimist income/sales.
To be like crypto, it would have to be a no dividend, no asset, no income, no identifiable market company.

In fact, it wouldn't be a "realworld" company at all.

It would just be electrons floating on the internet ether. It's only real purpose would be to entertain those who speculate that others can be convinced to make the same mistake they have made.

But to finally answer your question, the real difference between this sort of company and crypto is that sane investors would never buy stock in it.
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Does he have to pay taxes on that, or only after it's converted to dollars?
Most of the early stuff probably would have been wound down during 1998 when the Asian Financial Crisis brought down Daewoo and the IMF had to stabilize the government’s spending.
Is “Human” a new UX standard?
No matter how bad an article is, "I read this and feel like I'd prefer to have my time back" is sort of just a mean thing to say and doesn't contribute to the conversation.
You're right that a lot of it isn't conscious. You're wrong that it isn't calculated.
I was also surprised by this assumption and the lack of discussion or validation: "in a typical transaction, no value is created"

From my econ 101 high school days I remember a super simple example of 2 islands, 1 with only oranges and 1 with only pineapples. Simply by trading 1 orange for 1 pineapple (and vice versa) value is created since both parties get to experience different resources which offer them economic utility.
> Free choice and the ability to make mistakes...

It sounds like the parent poster's relations have freely chosen to delegate their technology management to him or her, and in turn the poster is comfortable delegating that to Apple and their walled garden. If Apple is selling safety, security, and control, and people are buying it, what's the issue?

Potentially the issue is a lack of competition in the market when there are too few options; but it sounds like you're saying that no one should prefer a walled garden option at all.
So the entire use of BMI starts with the assumption that its increase can only mean more fat. I practically can see the headlines: ‘BMI on the rise for the past decade, obesity epidemic in Jocktown! We need even more gyms!’
Oh, of course, management.

For the sorry saps caught in the cubicle-based nightmare, it's a likely hell. But to be one of the suited-and-booted dream sellers, I bet that's a bundle of fun.
"In a typical transaction, no value is created. If I give you an apple and you give me an orange, the total amount of fruit in the economy remains constant. We can’t create fruit by bartering with it. We can only do so by foraging or cultivating an orchard."

That seems wrong. If I trade, that means I value whatever I get more than what I gave up; and likewise for the counterparty. Isn't that a net positive even though nothing was physically created?
This is one of those posts that sounds truthy because it makes a bunch of broad assertions. ;)

Legal systems are peopled by people. Just like other systems. Unlike many other systems, the American legal system is in fact highly distributed—so it's hard to say things like "The System is out to destroy you"; individual agents of that "system" might have different, misaligned, or antagonistic goals.

Much of this is by design.

Of course, even when not by design, the local, state, and federal agencies, elected officials, and judiciaries which make up "the government" comprise a massive, federated, distributed organization, far more complex, and far less centrally administered, than the most chaotic FAANG company.

So if you think Microsoft can't turn their product strategy on a dime, well, the US government isn't capable of reacting to the Cellebrite blog post this quickly (even if this subpoena didn't precede that post, as someone else pointed out).

(As an aside, while I'm not a lawyer, the question on "interstate wiring" seems rather obviously to suggest that the investigators are pursuing a theory of federal criminal charges that require the messaging to cross state lines. Getting Signal to say "yes, this is interstate" might just be something they need to convince a grand jury the theory applies.)
> Both have several escape-hatches for arbitrary driver-userspace communication, which makes the number of syscalls pretty irrelevant. (E.g. Linux has ioctl, netlink, procfs, sysfs, ...)

Yes, we need a better metric for accounting for those things, which will paint a much more sobering picture of the complexity and growth of complexity of the userland <-> kernel interface.
Yes if you're poor, that would stick out on your tax returns. If you're rich and other parts of the tax returns are even more complex, I think this would fly without any problem.
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