skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is very interesting the number of cases of artists and museums entering in panic and craving for attention in this time. Is like a mortal combat for historians.

As all the other fruits in the basket are from Mediterranean, and it seems to have leaves at one end, my candidate would be an african root vegetable that for some reason would be forgotten later in Occident. My main candidate would be Colocasia esculenta that is from China, but was cultured in the Mediterranean since the Roman empire at least. Size, color and leaves fit. Can't be consumed without a special processing that is well known in Africa but is not part of the culture in Europe.

Lotus root was a common crop in Egypt and could fit also if we assume that the pineapple pattern could be wrong.

Pineapple has a very different arrangement of leaves much more spread, stout and spiny, and this fruit has the wrong size and wrong shape also.
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This looks like the best course of action in the current situation.

Now the different accounts would still be linked to the same entity, and as stories like this make the news, more people would split their services on multiple account. As a response, it doesn't look like a stretch to me if next time Google would go after all account owned by the entity the deem responsible.

I mean, they already crossed the line of banning all services associated with an account. Wouldn't be surprising if they cross a few more lines as long as there is no critical impact for them.
Given that the subpoena itself contains language such as "YOU ARE COMMANDED" (sic), probably not, but I imagine Moxie asked the ACLU lawyers before making it public.
Anyone whose health can be reasonably influenced by how you put out a candle has not been born yet. Everyone else has to deal with jobs and living circumstances that requires one to be inside all day, work strange hours, be outside in the sun all day, inhale fine dust from any kind of road nearby. There is a near endless list of similar/worse risk factors at play in one's life. Even though these risks might be provable in their damage to your functioning and there might be reasonable solutions to them, implementing them will still be insignificant. Just like how you should avoid apples because at least apples have killed people.
Even if it's decentralized there's only one client and they can always push updates to male it send keys/messages back for targeted users.

Smartphones in their current form cannot have secure messaging.
Exactly. There may be smart and even genius criminals. But they're still criminals who don't care about morals, which can't be tolerated in my opinion.
What a warped worldview. I´m on board with criticizing universities and foundations that have so much money around and the elitism that promotes.

But this reads like someone desparately trying to point fingers.

Take this:

> That means America’s charitable foundations and billionaire universities hold at least $1.5 trillion in assets. That’s far more wealth than that of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the founders of Google and Oracle combined.

That is just cherry picking. Filtering the Forbes 500 by USA and then adding peoples´ net worth, I need to go down to like #17 (USA based) and sum up as I go along to reach >1.5 Trillion. #17 is still an individual who owns 47 Billion USD.

Not even taking into account that these are (with one exception) individuals, whereas "The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation" as the richtest of the bunch is valued around 47 Billion USD and Harvard sits at "only" 37.

Based in this argument alone, it makes more sense to tax "Individuals who own more than a Billion USD" instead of "Charitable organizations and Universities who own more than one Billion USD" if one were to be forced to chose between the two.
Not even then, unless you are using a browser from 2015.

Newer one are very good at puttning background tabs to sleep
Oh hey it's the "you should leave him" guy. As with abusive spouses, there are usually circumstances trapping people there. Not least the unequal power relationship.

This is a circumstance where society, in the form of government, needs to weigh in to force tech giants to behave more sanely, because only society as a whole is a bigger fish than Google, Facebook, etc.
They advertise some boxes with 5.5GB/s.
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I downvoted you (I've reversed that now). I'm having trouble taking your questions seriously as good faith engagement. It sounds rather like you are asking "How much can I get away with?"

If you really want to know how to reach meaningful consent with a sexual partner, investigating the details of "exactly where does the law draw that line" isn't especially useful and it's hard to try to reply to such a question in a constructive fashion that doesn't implicitly suggest ugly things about the motive of the asker, so trying to reply seemed like an unwise choice.
Their charitable status helps them accumulate a big stash of assets, but an effective tax evasion scheme will have a way to get at your funds when you need them, and that is hard to do without obviously breaking the law.
Except there are no negative rights being infringed upon here. You can hardly appeal to natural law for the right to publish what you want on someone else's platform. Liberty is defined as being 'free from', not 'free to'.

> We've seen examples in China of Apple blocking apps that literally lead to people failing to escape authoritarian governments and them disappearing, quite possibly to their death.

This seems very flimsy but I would be genuinely interested in reading up on this, if you could provide a source/reference. Either way, this is a great reason not to use and publish on the iOS platform. But the irony of suggesting government overreach as a cure for the ails of extreme government overreach in another country is not lost on me.
I think that property and land taxes + VAT should be sufficient. Also some easier way to short stocks would be good for economy.

The only problem is how to avoid capital outflow from country if you really decide to tax the rich?

I wonder how this proposed 40% investment income tax above $1M will impact US (if it passes)

EDIT: The best way to tax the rich is rising minimum wage actually (but also tricky due to global economy)
It’s a recipe for getting thrown out of office. Ignore the guy who says it’s unconstitutional, because it’s not.
That's a very different thing, because they were worried about breach of US law. Not saying that makes it fair or non-destructive to the business, but it's not in the same league as Google being over-aggressive in protecting their ad money.

(And if there were regulations around this, Github would probably still have done the same thing, because "national security" regulations punch through "consumer protection" regulations every time.)
I had a lot of issues with an allergic-like reaction to my old bedroom when temporarily moving back to my parent's house while switching apartments. It was a bit dusty there, but visibly it didn't look too bad.

I had noticed this before while crashing there every now and then, but hadn't thought much of it. But since I had to stay there for a while I had to do something.

So I bought an air purifier with HEPA filter and let it work at full blast while I was at work. The first few days had a very noticeable improvement, and after five days I had no issues at all anymore.
They are low cost items, but poor people also have less money to spend so that cancels out.

Here's an example: Sales tax of 10%, poor person has an income of $1000 per month and spends it all. 10%/$100 of income goes to tax.

Rich person has an income of $10000 per month. They spends $5000 and save $5000. 5%/$500 of income goes to tax. That's like a reverse progressive income, arguably very disadvantageous for the poor.
> congress (the source of laws) does not have the authority to make any laws that apply to religious establishments

It's not obvious that this is what was meant by 1st amendment. Other interpretation is that congress simply can't make laws that apply exclusively to religious establishments.

EDIT: I must add that the interpretation you mentioned is undoubtedly the "canonical" one in public's mind, so the situation is unlikely to change soon.
IMO the audience for Mighty ($30/month + BYO crappy computer) over something like an M1 MacBook Pro ($1200) is very small. Yes your Chrome will be faster when you have a fast internet but at all other times (other apps, slow internet) your computer will suck or be unavailable.

Also based on my experience with Stadia it will be magic 90% of the time and so frustrating the other 10% of the time that you throw the whole thing out the window.
They did have some interesting blog posts a few years back about how the freight industry works, IIRC.
The problem is Java packages are converged around the Maven central repository which is not compatible with the RPM way of doing things. (it's a packaging mess somewhat halfway between RPM and NodeJS...)

Since most Java developers use something other than an RPM based packaging system (hey, it runs anywhere ;) they simply don't care about it which pushes the impossible job of creating native packages for 2,5 million Maven central packages to a maintainer. You don't need a maintainer to fix that mess, you need an army or accept sometimes it's more opportunistic to use soms non-native technology.
I agree with you. But legally speaking, Google is not monopolizing until they actually lose an antitrust case. So before that happens, if anyone wants to play the game legally, they have to abide to Google's ToS, no matter how absurd it is, no?
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> I really wish someone would come up with some kind of "accept remote config" policy or some such thing.

But there is a workaround: centralising the .gitconfig in a repo, then symbolically linking it to your home directory, so it gets updated on every pull. I haven't done the experiment, but you might be able to do the same with your .git/hooks.

If need be, you could even cron a git pull in that repo, or add it to your .bashrc, $profile for PowerShell or schedule a task.

I agree, it is a bit of a pain.
There are many variants. One is to put the ringbuffer in a shared memory segment or mmapped file, and use another process to read and print the content.
I think so.

https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/progressive-wealth-t...
> just tax wealth directly

Wealth comes in many forms. Your comment is void of any such specifics that transform this from fantasy into something that can be taxed. The best case for taxing wealth is an estate tax.
I was thinking the same thing. All this time I had been living near a busy thoroughfare because I assumed it was good for me. I'll have my realtor on the phone this afternoon. How bad could the Texas market be?
There is no resolution to that contradiction. The concept of a “free will” is absurd, and arose because of the psychological illusion of choice. It is a rationalization of how we feel as we exist in the world.

This realization can be difficult to process. The illusion of free will is intensely persistent, even after we’ve accepted that fact. Personally, I try to focus on the higher-order positives that come with this understanding: increased humility, greater compassion for others and oneself and equanimity via acceptance.

I had once strived to grok Zen Buddhism. I think shedding my belief in free will brought me much closer than drugs, meditation or reading religious texts ever did.
On Linux, namespaces and seccomp have minimal overhead. seccomp can filter syscalls directly, so if you just need to convert formats, you could load the library in a helper process and drop privileges. Sure the helper process would require more resources, but it shouldn't take much. For more sophisticated isolation, Linux namespaces can be used.

Out of boredom, I started 400 containers with podman running only bash in Ubuntu. It used less than 1 GB of RAM in total. podman is likely overkill if you just want sandboxing, however.

I'm sure there are still tradeoffs to containerization but at least the overhead is minimal.
I may be overly cautious given where I live has an 11+/Extreme UV rating all year round.

Though I do want to point out that clothing doesn't protect against UV as much as you might think, and a sunburn or lack thereof doesn't tell you all that much about your UV exposure for the day. You could have exceeded your healthy exposure for the day without getting a sunburn.
Let´s say I had a religion that had a "Thou shalt sacrifice a non-believer being every Wednesday to appease Xantako the Moon God" clause.

Are you arguing that my congregation should be immune from any restrictions being placed on us for worshipping our god by slowly killing everyone around us who does not share our view , because we operate outside of the law ?
> but land value tax would probably be great. Unfortunately, people tend to vote against it.

Which is a shame, since it's about as ideal of a tax as you can get:

- You can't move land to an offshore account

- LVT penalizes land speculation, which is one of the main drivers of suburban sprawl and rising housing costs

- It targets the rich, and marginally (if at all) impacts the lower and middle classes (replacing all taxes with LVT would almost certainly reduce middle class tax burdens and entirely eliminate lower class tax burdens)

- All economic activities ultimately depend on land in some way, so instead of taxing (and thus suppressing) those economic activities, it's ultimately more economically efficient to tax land itself

- The aforementioned economic activities can't readily price LVT into their own prices for goods and services, specifically because land value itself is a function of the goods and services that land enables, and because if those goods and services could actually fetch a higher price without reducing profitability (per supply v. demand), then they would almost certainly already be priced accordingly, regardless of LVT

And this is just from physical land in the commonly-understood sense (i.e. some chunk of the surface area of the oblate spheroid we call Earth). There are myriad other sorts of things with the same characteristics as land; everything from geostationary orbits to intellectual property to radio spectra to IP addresses (and just about anything else with an inelastic supply) represents economic rent waiting to be collected.
What do they do with the balance in the account when that happens?
Reward Work, Not Wealth (2018)
My Grandmother had a subscription to the mag going back to the mid 1960s, I read all of them, and it enriched my childhood. The online experience has always sucked, but in different ways over the years.
It sucks having to manually download it and process it. I'd like to automate it.
I once wrote an article about that specific idea. For me, it's a question of scale and definition. If someone doesn't agree on the existence of a "self" they won't agree on free will either.

https://venam.nixers.net/blog/psychology/2018/02/15/scale.ht...
I mean no offense, but you guys paid someone 11 months before getting any code? No source control, she works on her own computer, wtf?

Threaten legal action will cost you and at best you'll get code that may or may not work. And at worse, you'll be counter-sued for harassment...

You should fire her, sit on the money that's already paid, and start afresh...

That's a costly lesson...
Post Scriptum:

In my observation, its usually people with a bad consciousness from their work for a cooperation, who join a compensation cult. Which is a immature reaction. Cause these cults do not really act, they merely display action, which then promptly falls apart longterm. Displayed action is NOT real longterm action and change. Its smoke and mirrors, hollywood, not real. A Potemkin village and a bad framework to create real change.

If you want to change the world, the state,politics and the law is the only way to act properly and persistent. For within the framework of law, people can acquire proper compensation for law caused property devaluation and then live and let life.
Not that surprising considering this overlaps with areas where lawyers may use every trick in the book to cooperate just enough as is necessary. Like when Lavabit was asked to provide an encryption key and they sent the 4096bit key printed out on multiple pages in a tiny font size.
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This reminds me of "Divine Divinity", which also had many books lying around: https://divinity.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Divine_Divinity_bo...
> anyone who works in the subway should be dying, what, 10 years earlier?

From my ad-hoc survey of subway driver friends, this seems about true... Most die in their late 60's in a country where most people make it to 70/80.

Obviously the fact their job involves sitting in a chair all day doesn't help things...
I already mentioned I have once been poor myself and know how this works. Your simplified arithmetic is not a comprehensive financial scenario.

When I was poor we were dependent upon hand-me downs and school assistance programs to cover many of the essentials.
I've run into this problem with my iPhone 8 but almost never with my iPhone SE 1st gen - talking about constant regression.
That is quite a bit of effort to protect from accidental temporary bans. It's definitely important (and easy) not to mix personal and business accounts, even for for single-person companies. But keeping different accounts for different parts of the same company without committing fraud is not that easy.

If the ban is permanent and results from a change in policy, this won't help significantly anyway: if Google actually wants to ban your business, they will find all related accounts, and ban them.
How is it misogynistic?

I base it on the prevalence of stories like this, where a woman ostensibly consents to sexual advances and later regrets it and feels she had be abused.

The issue is not consent. The issue is vulnerability. Women are generally more vulnerable to advances from men and more likely to consent to an interaction when it's not in their best interest, than men would be, due to well documented physiological and psychological differences between the sexes.
When I was a kid the magazine was all about the photos. Online NatGeo doesn't get it. They're not getting my email address either.
git add --interactive <file>, then mark the file as staged and select the patch option if memory serves. It's not complex once you get the hang of it. The only problem I run into is not being able to split chunks further.

I do agree a GUI lowers the barrier to entry.
I didn't even consider reader mode to be honest. I've been using the disable-javascript thing for so long it's become the automatic go-to when I get such popups.
I'm in Poland :)

I meant cumulatively. If you own 200 things worth 10 000 usd each you should still pay 5% for 100 of them.

> Home ownership is living.

If you really need to live in a million dollar house you should be able to pay for it. It's not living it's luxury.
I am not sure how sales taxes are less efficient than manually audited income taxes with itemized deductions. Sales taxes are largely automated.
Yeah. Have a look at this for a good summary of the ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhYGXYeMq_E
Probably airport fiction right?
I am in the opposite situation.

AdSense works fine for me, but I have been banned from AdWords for over a decade.

Also banned my partner’s account from AdWords, as well (because we used the same internet connection).
There has been many favorable descriptions of Stripe as being a “tax on the internet”. Now it has come full circle after they bought an internet tax company called TaxJar.

The “tax” of the internet:

https://www.inc.com/james-ledbetter/why-stripe-is-invisible-...
Got it! Thanks
Thanks.

> Also, because CDNs try to be nearly-stateless, they don’t tend to be built with an architecture capable of fetching one “primary” copy of your canonical-store data and then mirroring it from there.

True, though some CDNs let you replicate data up to 25MB in size globally; others support bigger sizes depending on your spends with them.

> And yet you don’t need to write a single scrap of rate-limiting code in the backend itself to protect that endpoint from being used to DDoS your system. It’s inherently protected by the caching.

Systems in steady state aren't what cause extended outages. The recovery phase can also DDoS your systems. For example, when a cache goes cold, it may over-power an underscaled datastore [0].

> You get essentially the same semantics as if the backend itself was a worker running a scheduler that triggered the expensive computation and then pushed the result into an object store, which is then fronted by a CDN.

Agree, but running one's own high-availability infrastructure is hard for a small team. In some applications, even if scale isn't important, availability always mostly is.

> It can be a Lambda, or a single non-framework PHP file, or whatever-you-like.

Agree, a serverless function a CDN runs (Lambda@Edge, Workers, StackPath EdgeEngine etc) would accomplish a similar feat; and that's what we do for our data workloads that front S3 through Cloudflare Workers.

[0] https://sre.google/sre-book/addressing-cascading-failures/
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> Think of 66% VAT applied to all products.

That's 66% more on a massive chunk of lower and middle class spending. I can think of few things more hostile to the working class than some regressive tax like VAT.
BMI is known as a very bad measure
Yup. PCs will mostly move into 1970s hobbyist territory but nowadays you can't build 5nm chips in your garage.

Well, not all of them, since a ton of professionals use them, but some niches like PC gaming will feel a bit like that very soon, compared to mobile gaming.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/292751/mobile-gaming-rev...

(and the trend is for mobile games to become much bigger much faster than desktop games)
Just wanted to point out that I don't think she's a non-technical author https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Mitchell
> unfortunately it's unlikely to come from the source or from a general public appeal, but from government intervention

Not unfortunately. Hopefully. Government doesn't work very well, but still much better than all those huge private companies. There are appeals, for one.
What exactly is a wealth tax, as in what asset is taxed? Is that an estate tax?
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OK GO did a similar thing in a car for one of their music videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MejbOFk7H6c
When it comes to ultrasonic humidifiers, they do generate a lot of PM 2.5, see:

https://blog.getawair.com/awair-investigates-how-your-humidi...

It is NOT certain that these particles are as bad as ones from dust or combustion. All in all, when small droplets evaporate, what remains is water-soluble salts, rather than anything more reactive or harder to remove, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922954/ as mentioned in https://learn.kaiterra.com/en/air-academy/humidifiers-cause-...:

"In a study on mice, researchers discovered that inhaling the dust from ultrasonic purifiers produces a cellular response, but this response lacks the inflammation and damage associated with other forms of particulate matter."

Myself, I got shocked when my air purifier suddenly started showing a huge amount of pollution (and yes, my eyes turned red). Only afterwards, I checked it was exactly because of my freshly-bought ultrasonic air purifier. Now I have an evaporative one - not as fast, not as spectacular, but better.
Thanks a lot for these details, it is very helpful. I'll deploy a fix later today to address this problem (cors errors for large images)