skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don't pay taxes until they sell their shares, so they just make their interests into business divisions. Interested in space exploration? Make a rocket division of the company! Hire people around the world without ever paying into their education systems or infrastructure!

It’s worth noting that this is intentional, at least in the U.S. The corporate tax system is specifically designed so that companies have a financial incentive to create jobs and hire people. That’s why companies pay taxes on income and not revenue.

The idea is that it is better for society to run corporate revenue through employee income and then into tax revenue, than directly into tax revenue from the corporate coffers. When people have jobs and income, they are invested in a stable society. When they pay taxes, they are invested in participatory democracy.

A society in which companies directly pay most tax revenue is a world in which it is even easier (than it is now) for a few corporate and political leaders to team up in paternalistic abuse of the populace. And when people own little, they have little to lose, and have no reason to prefer a stable society. History is clear on this matter.

The fundamental issue today is share of income. Raising taxes does not fix that because increased taxes do not become increased income for employees. Other policy solutions need to be found that change the balance of income between owners and employees.

The article cites the high income of athletes like Lebron James and Clayton Kershaw. The reason individual professional athletes make so much income is that they are part of collective bargaining agreements that reserve a certain percentage of business revenue for their salary. We’re taught to think of lazy Teamsters when we hear the word “union,” not Lebron James and Clayton Kershaw.

It’s one possible solution; there may be others, like pay ratio limits, mandatory salary disclosure, or greater incentives for employee training programs.
> Recently I've started getting really annoyed by them

In the end, the services that are using captchas are the services that become the least liked, and users will start migrating to other services that don't use captchas, so there's a business penalty for using them.

On the other hand, if you want to filter out bad actors, then captchas are the way to go. The reason I recommended hCaptcha is because they're easier to solve, and sometimes Google's reCaptcha offering is so complex and hard-to-solve that it starts inducing carpal tunnel / RSI symptoms (at least for me). I don't get so easily fatigued & inflamed with hCaptcha though.
Not only that, but Kafka's instructions to destroy all of his writings unread were carefully phrased so as to apply to the instructions themselves...
I’m also seeing it every time
'TAForObvReasons mentioned Uber - I think it is an example, though they're surprisingly resilient. I believed (and frankly, hoped) they'll run out of money and then crash and burn for years now, but they still seem to be going strong.

A stronger example that I had in mind are the various food delivery middlemen startups that popped up in recent years. GrubHub, Deliveroo, and many other similar companies. There have been countless discussions outlining their shenanigans in detail, but they ultimately boil down to exploiting the restaurants, already an extremely risky class of businesses, and hastening their demise. These startups care about building up their valuation and eventually getting sold - they don't give a damn about leaving a broken food delivery market behind.

This is the common thread I see, a socially destructive form of disruption: VC-backed startups entering established markets (particularly highly geographically localized ones, like taxis or restaurants), using their infinite funds to offer services below the market price, destroying their competition, and then eventually disappearing, leaving a broken market behind. I see these startups as legal pump-and-dump scams: they don't give a damn about the services they offer, their employees, or customers; their goal is to do anything to pump up the valuation, let the investors make their money back, and then they die, or get dumped onto the stock market, with the public being the patsy left holding the bag.
It's quite true that a single rich person is less efficient at spending a given amount of money than a few thousand middle class people would be at spending the same money. But the rich person is still more efficient at it than the government.

Also, since you admit that it all eventually ends up in the hands of the rich again, the alternative of "give the money to the non-rich" doesn't solve the problem anyway.
Yeah I can't remember the last time I got a captcha of any kind, so it has definitely been rare for me.
Google's vetting seems strict from the outside. However, now that GP has gone through the process, GP no longer believes it is strict.
next article is up: http://feertech.com/legion/software/game/2021/05/28/game-fro...
Meanwhile we create tremendous concentration risk and the world pays rent to Amazon, Google and Microsoft? I wouldn't call that 'good'.
Companies (and therefore politicians) have a huge incentive to push both men and women to work as much as they can, and for smart white men they already spent lots of effort to optimize the hiring pipeline from childhood, so it makes sense to shift the focus on harder to reach demographics.
Five years ago I had a whole bunch of extensions, but that ended whenever it was that I first learned that there were bad actors buying legitimate extensions from their developers and filling them with malware. After that I dramatically reduced the number I had installed, down to basically a password manager and ublock origin. The brief install-time vetting I used to do would would do nothing to prevent an auto update from installing something malicious in the future. Nowadays malicious browser extensions are the most common thing I find on family and friends' computers when I'm helping them with an issue.
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Saving the physical versions is preservation of cultural history. The information content should definitely be digitized.
[Edit: I realize you may have been talking about 2020. Or maybe just talking about photography in general. Since both incidents are being talked about in the larger thread, and the idea of photography applies to both of them I wrote something riffing off photography that addresses the previous (2014, tic tac) incident… hope that doesn't bug you too much ;-)].

So, my comment here is about 2014 and the tic tac incident, not the swarm-of-drones incident from last year.

If they really did have reports for the two days leading up to the tic tac incident I have to think they would have tasked an aircraft with top notch (beyond any handheld camera) photographic capabilities to investigating such an alarming intrusion.

Or, they are really stupid.

Or, the radar hits in the preceding two days were just phantom hits and possibly assessed as such at the time, with jets sent up to look just as a "why not" kind of thing since they were already in the area for training.

My bet is with the last possibility, because I find it hard to think so badly of the Navy people. And the hits were just phantom / ghost hits in a new system. Which means: not alien / Russian / etc. craft.

And the actual object actually seen by the pilots was some chunks of ice falling from outer space, some of which made whitecaps and another of which was seen flitting erratically and thus moving in ways that no known aircraft is capable of. It "came up to meet" Dave Fraver AS HE WAS GOING DOWN yeah no surprise there, and, as the sonic boom from his jet slammed into the snowy ice, it, again no surprise, disintegrated and disappeared, because sonic boom, which disintegration he interpreted as out-of-this-world acceleration. OK, maybe the other Navy people are with it, but Dave may have been experiencing some effects of the G forces or something. He seems like a nice guy.

The other pilot who spoke about this described the movement of the object in a way that exactly matches what I said, a falling slab of snowy ice. Her words: "Like when you drop your cell phone in the kitchen and it bounces around."

Again this entire comment is talking about the tic tac incident, from 2014, not the summer of 2020 incident.
But did you learn it at Oxford? Are you an ex-FAANG tech lead that learned a SECRET that RICH PEOPLE DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW!? Are you posting this from a rented mansion next to a rented super car? Are you making millions while sleeping at home and we could too, if we just use this one trick?

In other words - thanks for saving a click as others said.
Are you using Tor or a VPN? That could be why. Not that that makes it any less annoying.
I recently stopped using my work phone as my personal phone and that’s made a huge difference. Now my work phone stays at my desk unless I’m on-call so I can’t read email, chat, or even look at my calendar unless I’m actively working.

Of course it meant I had to buy a phone and pay for service, but it’s totally worth it.

I’ve been WFH for 7 years now and this is the first time I have good separation of my life.
I’m suggesting that based on my experience google has better organizational defenses against individuals or even groups intentionally or accidentally setting a privacy-invasive agenda than other organizations with which I have first-hand experience.
> The mechanism / organization of taxing and distributing _can_ be very simple.

In theory, sure. But as the saying goes, in theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they aren't. No such "simple" system of taxing and redistributing has ever actually existed. The incentives to complicate and manipulate it are too strong.
The best practice is to set them to:

00000000

Just in case you need to use them, you know.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120511191600/http://www.cdi.or...
Pre-covid I always hated PowerPoint because I thought of it as an especially inefficient way to store and transmit information. But I have learned to appreciate it now that remote-interaction is all via a screen anyway. It feels like a very natural collaboration format - one screenful of information at a time.
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hcaptcha is not much better than recaptcha, in that its only ‘improvement’ is shifting data extraction from google to cloudflare.

also, captcha in general shifts burden onto and penalizes legitimate users, especially privacy-conscious ones, in addition to malicious ones. that is, false positive rates are too high to achieve acceptable false negative rates.

it would be better not to use a centralized captcha service, if one must be used at all.
It’s because the web is unusable without them. Need the ad blocker and the vertical tree of tabs plus extensions to make Reddit usable, etc…
Presumably it's really Bitcoin to dollars to trade, which seems pointless because if you are doing that, why not just keep some dollars?
Life is finite but work is infinite. When you hit your 40s you'll start wondering why you wasted all your time for no benefit to you. When you work in your 20s you don't think it'll ever end but once you hit 40 you realize you're mortal and Friday's problem can become Monday's problem as it doesn't really matter.

Take a notebook and write down the issues that come into your head at the weekend then hopefully that will help you disconnect.

Don't check or respond to email at the weekend is my preference. My big boss once said that the great thing about working remote is that we don't need to book-end our jobs as being 9 to 5. Yeah, no.
Another writing tip, which is the antithesis of today's recipe blogging culture to which this post belongs.

- If I can't find the most important part of your writing in 3 seconds, I've already moved on.

Take the linked article - I clicked on it for a writing tip. In the first paragraph they suddenly tell me it's not about a writing tip, it's 'weaving together three things'.

Now I scan the article quickly looking for the writing tip, because I don't care about the history of the writing tip before I've evaluated if it's any good.

3 seconds are up, and my patience is gone, and while the author is very interested in their history of writing tutorials at oxford, literally nobody else is.

I'll only care about it if I think the writing tip is interesting, but I can't find the writing tip because it's organized like a recipe blog - you click for a recipe, and they hide the recipe somewhere on the page. At least with recipes you can recognize the format of the recipe down the page somewhere, making scanning easier. With this I can't even do that.

So here's the writing tip for the author - don't hook someone in promising a writing tip, and then hide that writing tip. If it's enough of a tip to get me interested in your story, I'll read it. If it's not, then you just clickbaited me and nothing you write matters.

I classify this as some sort of weird ultra snobbery ('I learned this at oxford') clickbait ('here's a writing tip I'm going to hide in a diary entry'). Promise me a writing tip, give me the writing tip, or lose my interest forever (because now I classify you as recipe blog I won't click on it again).
If you are using Tor or VPN, this might be the case. Another possibility is that you (or somebody on your network, or ISP in the case of NAT/shared mobile IP), have installed an app that is using an SDK like Luminati [1] or similar, which is causing the IP to be abused in the brute force attempts our anti-abuse systems are trying to prevent.

[1] https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hk-en/security/news/cybercr...
That depends on their mood, really. It's why one of the commonly given advice for people planning a mortgage is to stop with stupid transfer titles. Also, the bank has plenty of options to make you miserable, other than outright denying you a loan. They can make it take longer, or give you worse options than you'd get otherwise.
Loud pipes argument is bullshit in my book, I've been riding for 5 years now and never had a traffic accident, defensive riding is the only way to be "safe" (you're never really safe on a bike, even a little gravel on the road can mean you end up in a coma), relying on other drivers having to notice you is a pointless gamble, just assume they aren't going to and drive accordingly. Also I notice people get startled by a loud bike approaching - and the last thing you want is to startle an insecure driver.
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I think the search doesn’t include the message of the email is because it’s encrypted and it would have to decrypt every single email to do it.

// Or something like that, I’m dumb for cryptography :)
aren't all messages encrypted on the server? that would make search difficult because no server process could read them. all your emails would have to be pulled into the client for decryption first.
I don't understand the love for hCaptcha. The only thing it has going for it is being outside of the Google brand and that it is cheaper. Outside that, we don't know that they don't do the same shady shit Google does, they're equally as bad as reCaptcha, and they're equally inaccessible.
Neither. Firefox on non-VPN broadband.
In what concerns Zig, I would rather have the use-after-free scenario be taken care of before the whole RIZ starts.

Regarding Java, it had a major killer feature that triggered adoption even before the whole marketing wave started.

It was actually portable, not like trying to write C or C++ code in the middle of ongoing standards, compilers still stuck in the old ways, POSIX on paper and on actual UNIX clones not being 100% the same thing.

It was like a fresh air of portability even with an interpreted runtime, JIT only came in by 1.2 days.
Elliptic curves is a vast field of study and ECC is a subfield of it. The name kind of suggests this relationship.

It’s like hearing that someone works at Microsoft and then asking them about features in MS Word.
Well said. Internet discussion tend to glorify an idea of isolated, asynchronous work where each developer is an island. Pull ticket from Jira, work on it in isolation, then toss it to your manager and log off for the day.

Maybe this is true in some feature factory somewhere, but every tech company I've worked with has required synchronous collaboration to get things done.

> The benefit is no one cares if I spend sometime during the day running errands, getting lunch, or exercising - as long as I can respond to them in a reasonable amount of time.

Exactly. I don't care if someone steps out to run an errand or pick the kids up from school or to hit the gym, but they need to be available with some regularity during core working hours for any collaborative work to proceed.

When one person starts taking excessive liberties with schedule flexibility, everyone else is forced to adapt their schedules to that one person. It's not good for everyone else on the team.
A philosophy is a set of beliefs. In the case of liberalism, though specific liberals may be all over the map in terms of what they consider the most important of these, they all share a common belief in liberty, consent of the governed, and equality under the law. Liberals, by and large, are happy with slow progress towards a better world. They get very suspicious when people start advocating plans of action that don't fit with the platform.

Leftists are interested in an ideal society, according to leftist political thought that's generally thought to have originated with Marx. Though individuals may have different ideals, they're all organized around certain lines. The ideal communist society and the ideal anarchist society both lie in a direction we call 'left', and the same sets of political tactics move in that direction. Leftists are more interested in the direction than in the philosophy.

The big political divide in the 17-1800s was monarchy over republic. Republics won that fight, now we're in the tail end of the fight between conservatism and progressivism. Now the left has to decide just what sort of course to chart to get to a better world.
One little yet effective way that works for me to keep work and play separate: during weekends or on holiday I switch to a different Apple Watch face.

The brightly colored and minimal face reminds me it’s fun time every time I check my wrist.
Every spend of Bitcoin results in capital gains.
LIDAR is used in addition to 2D camera images. LIDAR is used to build a depth map and do image segmentation and works in low light and low contrast environments.

Single cameras (even stereo cameras) require a lot more assumptions about contrast and environment lighting to do image segmentation and depth maps. They're rarely as accurate as LIDAR and often far worse.

Depth maps and image segmentation are the building blocks of object identification. You can try to AI your way into those with a single camera but it'll be less accurate and more error prone.
It’s perfectly fine to enjoy what you do. Keep in mind you have people who are envious on what you have. Being able to nerd out on a specific thing.

That said striking a balance is important. Go work out, go for a hike, go for a drinks or dinner with friends.
It’s funny you say that. In heavy rain my car barfs at me that radar doesn’t work anymore.
LinkedIn is now just Facebook which opens at Work and China.

It's sad because I did find some quality talent from LinkedIn during my recruitment drives for previous startup couple of years back, Also since someone looking for a job is de-facto expected to have a LinkedIn profile helped that.

But now when I recently logged in, I saw something akin to sharing video status like in other social-media chat apps and my profile page is asking me to upload a '30 second video intro'; I feel this is going increase inequality as someone who was able to project their qualifications and experience first without distractions is now made to compete with someone who's good with TikToking.
I’d suggest reading from the foreword and working through chapters 1-3. You’ll know if you want to finish by then.

It’s a really fun read; it’s an exercise in thinking differently. If you’re looking for a new/different perspective on programming this is it.

People either love or hate this book, but it’s popular for a reason. It’s not uncommon to struggle a bit through the exercises. Some people dislike it for this reason.

The intro CS course I took waded based on this book and I never even saw this book. It wasn’t until after the course was over that I found, read, and worked through (most) of it. I took my time with it—a little each day.

It’ll definitely grant you some “aha!” moments.
Kelly betting straightforwardly has you reduce your position size as your edge goes down, which happens when the price moves in your favor more than the fundamentals have changed. It's exactly correct.
Is there anything like --multiline in GNU grep?
The very fact that the first thing you found paints Cena’s action as sinister confirms my point that the mainstream is very eager to spin any challenge to US hegemony as evil. Should that not make one question the narrative being pushed?

At least go read their stated sources, like Zenz’ report. It’s full of unsupported facts and egregious (and convenient) translation mistakes. Then read up on the man himself and his motivations.
Apple’s lead seems to be more in tangential things that are very hard to replicate: Apple Pay, supporting the highly popular iMessage, etc. These can never work with any other device.

There are definite flaws in the device. I find buttons unnecessarily hard to tap for instance (they should offer more vertical space), and the face is so sensitive that it routinely triggers unwanted actions. It is really annoying to start something I want (like a timer) and notice some time later that I somehow accidentally stopped the timer by hitting my watch on something.

As far as 3rd parties, I have seen a general trend of apps gradually withdrawing their support for watchOS. There just aren’t that many useful things to do on a small surface. For apps suited to this (timers, reminders, etc.) it is fine.
This is how my github is a mix of almost 30 years old university assignments and unfinished weekend projects.

To tick the checkbox of some HR people that insist that I provide something.

Total amount of times anyone asked me anything about them on a job interview, zero.
I should have said potentially intrusive. Giving any extension permission to "Access your data for all websites" would give me pause.
Hmm, I use it for everything, but I’m using the bridge with apple mail.app, maybe that’s a bit of the happy path for searching..

No real complaints besides the bridge sometimes pegging a cpu until I HUP it..
https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/05/28/5-reasons-i-regret...
Somewhat unrelated, under the Bank of Norway head office in Oslo, there is a piece of tunnel that was never used. There were two alternative routes being considered for a tunnel under Oslo, and when they built a new bank over one of the routes, they built the tunnel just in case.

In the end, the other route was selected. The tunnel was initially used as a firing range for the national bank guards, and later transformed to a parking garage.
That probably means you have tracking enabled. I'm not a protonmail user (I host my own email) but from my general experience with recaptcha, try opening it in a private navigation window. If recaptcha doesn't ask you to solve anything, they've already been tracking you to make up its mind. Of course, whether this is fine by you is up to you, but it sounds like you might be unaware of this.
Start with The Little Schemer [1] as a prequel to SICP. If you're going to read SICP, look at the beautiful (and unofficial) typeset version [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0...

[2] http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/
I think they are already limited, for example to 240 km/h.