skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they'll make it unverifiable (like Keybase[1]), opportunistic (like WhatsApp[2]), requiring confirmation in every call so nobody practically uses it (like Telegram[3]), hide the key verification screen so 0.001% practically does it (like Signal[4]), uses long-lived keys that can decrypt all historical traffic (like PGP), have encrypted mode be some second-rate mode that removes most of the features you need (like Telegram's encrypted chats; I see that the announcement already mentions some unavailable features when you turn on encryption), or if they'll have a novel trick to break the encryption at will. At a minimum, I expect it'll be an obfuscated binary with auto-updates and no published independent code reviews.

Let's hope Microsoft surprises us all! (as I see most of the comments being skeptical)

[1] Try to verify which encryption keys your mobile keybase chat client is using or if the server injected its own keys. Bonus points if you spot the "this chat is end-to-end encrypted" banner while you're doing this. Details: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/222055/how-can-...

[2] You have to go into settings to enable even just seeing key changes, let alone that the client stops you from sending messages when a previously verified key changes.

[3] Telegram calls have encryption, but every time you have to verify the emojis again and again instead of it just storing the other party's key.

[4] Threema shows the verification status for every chat. My mother in law, from her own volition, wanted to verify keys with me. She later tried Signal to compare, since she needs to use something encrypted for her work (medical data), but didn't get that she had to verify keys on Signal, too. I find that even techies often don't know where to find that in Signal, or even realize that it's required for the security claims to apply.
Except of course if where we live is a compromise between minimizing distance to other places like our spouses place of work or our kids school.
Everybody needs to pay more tax, that's the genius of the spenders, they put it to good use always. Anybody can donate to their government. Who here does?
> This decision from the International Gymnastics Federation is similar to their past low score-valuing decisions for debut moves by Biles, something she has spoken out against at length.

Doesn't seem like she sees the under-scoring as fun.
Does Blind actually verify that they are managers?
Not behavior, but struct layouts. Since python (as well as most other such scripting toys) never thought about proper enhancement paths, their API works by exposing headers with the structs, and not many abstract types with functional interfaces, you cannot change much. With functions only it would have been easy
Pre-covid, I was in a similar situation. My wife and I chose our house because it was close to downtown, where both our offices were.

Just prior to Covid, they decide the rent's too high there and say they're moving to an area that's supposedly central for everyone, but is a lot worse for me. (And for everyone, honestly. Traffic there was horrendous.)

Then Covid came and they dropped the plans to move, and simply closed the office.

They haven't yet decided what's happening post-Covid, but I'm worried they'll pick an awful area.

I actually do somewhat prefer working from the office... I just don't want that nasty commute. (And for me, that's anything over 15 minutes or with any amount of uncertainty.)
Which is also the primal instinct that allows for tribalism, which is really important when the other tribe is competing for a scarce resource.

Humans are social creatures, but not social with the entire world.
Which societies operated like that? I am not aware of any, that could operate as a country of decent size today. Note that this supposed country would also need to be able to defend itself, if it has possession of anything valuable (such as water, arable land, weather, etc). And also be able to deal with immigration and outsiders coming in, and kicking out people who would mess up the system.
> There's a whole different side of this your comment isn't really addressing, which is how these laws apply to poor communities.

Poor communities? Really? People are oppressing others “right” to drink now? Where’s your evidence for any of this? In my “rich” neighborhood cops stop people all the time for drinks in the park or glass bottles on the beach.
Society should be grateful he/she is so productive as to deserve it.
>>Well this creates the incentive that corporations try to minimise their employees, or try to shift employment to low tax/low cost countries. Now that very well be desirable for corporations and people who derive income primarily from capital, but it is not desirable for society

You mean not desirable for society in high tax/high cost countries I presume? What about society in low tax/low cost countries? It seems to be working out pretty well for Ireland[1]. That's why they resist immense pressure form the EU and maintain a low corporate tax rate.

[1] which is a high cost/low corporate tax country
> As for asymmetric titles like Mario Galaxy where the second player is not essential, it's pretty hard to make the gameplay satisfying for the secondary player while not impeding the first player or making it feel essential to the gameplay. The "little brother" mode costs a lot with little perceived benefit for the developers.

I'm not sure how frequent this is, but when I was little we (me and my brothers) had limited time to play, so we would play our time and watch each others, sometimes completing long missions in Ground Control by playing one after the other. When you look at it this way, having something to do instead of just looking at the screen (which was already plenty of fun) is huge.
Makes sense all around. Gatekeeping requires walled gardens. Walled gardens require participation.

When he's censored again, Trumpists can claim moral indignation. Until then, FB can pay lip service to tech censorship concerns.

The circus continues. All players benefit and nothing changes.
Western IP law is a tool to protect the livelihoods of R&D departments, which would immediately shutter if competitors were legally allowed to bypass 10 year dev cycles.
Training 3x larger model on the same GPU cards
Depends on the mode. AES-CTR encrypts an increasing counter to make a keystream, then xors that with the plaintext to make the ciphertext, or with the ciphertext to make the plaintext. Any consistent error in encryption will lead to a consistently wrong keystream, which will round-trip successfully.

It's possible other modes have this property because of the structure of the cipher itself, but that's way out of my league.
I don't know...websites refusing to play video in Firefox because I have DRM disabled is accomplishing something I want right now.
From the article: "...without having to undergo the regulatory scrutiny that usually precedes an I.P.O."
I suspect this could be where a scam is hiding. What is the purpose of the "regulatory scrutiny" that these SPAC's are bypassing? Why do they want to bypass it? Seems like it is more than a hatred of paperwork and wanting to reduce costs and more likely the scrutiny being bypassed is meant as a check on illegal behavior. Anyone know more about what that regulatory scrutiny involves?
Which country are you in that your own payroll isn’t at least corporate tax deductible?

edit: ah, it looks like you are paying yourself via dividends.
For languages you can satisfy everyone if you're willing to keep some bloat around. Rust introduced epochs where you can say "yeah, this may be a new compiler, but I wrote this code for 2015 and I like it like that". And it will compile with the language support from 2015. Batching enough changes in an epoch allows iteration in new versions (as long as you don't break compatibility between those epochs interacting with each other).
TIL. I thought absurdly high tax rates were a nordic specialty. NL seems very wealthy whenever I visit. Are median incomes substantially higher than surrounding countries?
> I don't care about constantly climbing a ladder.

I empathize with this but many organizations are, essentially "up or out". You are either seen as growing and rising through the ranks or as awaiting some sort of release.

I hope you are so good at what you do that you could easily find another job, but that is not a given for most people. So they feel compelled to play the games you are dismissing.
Xiaomi is not Huawei.
That's the real limiting factor right now. The important thing in the healthcare industry is accountability. You must be able to prove that your product works the way it should. This requires you to document your design, your failure modes, your tests, etc. You can't mess up but even if you do, you should know why. With AI, its impossible. There is no way to prove that your software actually works all the time. It might mess up for unknown reasons and the only recourse would be to retrain again and cross your fingers.
We tend to record the raping and pillaging because those are the times of disruption. I'm not a historian, but I can imagine that there are long stretches of history that are relatively conflict-free for most of the world, but such times are not really that interesting so no one tells stories about them.
> Public consciousness seems to lack the ability to prioritize issues.

Things that everybody is going to notice first-hand have an outsized impact on public consciousness. When combined with democracy, this has nasty consequences.

For politicians banning plastic straws is a no-brainer: easy to ban, no real impact on anything, and everyone is going to notice it and feel like something is happening. Same for plastic grocery bags and cutlery. Do it and maybe you'll grab some of those Green votes, same play as the Energiewende.

Meanwhile if you make industry even just .1% more efficient the impact is larger by orders of magnitude but nobody is going to notice, first-hand, right now. So it's pointless when you only care about votes. Which is sadly a main feature of democracy.
Interesting points here. But, in round 2 of these dynamics, and if the article is true, it means ~every team contains a sacrificial lamb. So, rolling with the hypothetical 'team of 10' approx 10% of your payroll could be spent on ablative armor. Furthermore there's no guarantee the unofficial core teams aren't subject to the same dynamics as before, they're just operating, nominally, above the threshold set relative to the lambs.
Call me old fashioned, but I believe it is the role of the person being paid to justify the expense. If you get hand wavy and tell me its too complicated I'm just going to presume you are stealing from me.
Pinephone, Librem 5, Fairphone. The first two aim at being secure and trustworthy, at the price of losing Android, which is not a big issue for many users. The latter aims at sustainability, has removable battery and is modular, expandable and repairable, but runs Android with all its drawbacks. There are options however to purchase it (along with other "normal" models) with /e/OS preinstalled which is a De-Googled Open Source version of Android.

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

https://www.fairphone.com/en/

https://esolutions.shop/

edit: Both PinePhone and Librem 5 also have a replaceable battery and can be repaired to some extent. There are also spare PinePhone mainboards and other spare parts for sale at Pine64 site.

https://pine64.com/product-category/smartphone-spare-parts/?...
> Android is basically a Google anti-privacy play.

Nope. Android is a mobile OS and is pretty well done versus the many other oses it replaced.

> Western IP law is arguably just a tool to delay Chinese progress (speaking from an international perspective)

I'm pretty sure IP law wasn't created to "slow down Chinese progress". It is there to provide an incentive for invention and creativity. The whole point is to grant a limited time where an inventor can profit with minimal competition so it slows everyone's progress. But to say IP law targets China is at best mistaken.
However, I don’t think Trump’s ban has much to do with that. He simply broke the rules.

Facebook's oversight board disagrees. They ruled that Trump's ban was "indeterminate and standardless", and that the correct response should be "consistent with the rules that are applied to other users of its platform".

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56985583

It's quite obvious he broke no actual rules, but it's interesting that Facebook's oversight board is actually willing to say so. Of course, they nonetheless 'allowed' Facebook to continue the ban.
> because Americans (generally) respect the freedoms of others much more than Australians do.

Oh that’s rich. A certain political party’s primary goal seems to control and reduce freedoms.

Also what evidence do you have that “brown” people are targeted more than others?
Sure, but in some countries capital gains are tax free.
In case you are unaware, tax is needed to pay for schools, universities, research, health care, social care, police, civil infrastructure, environmental agencies, regulators, defence, bank bailouts, pandemic bailouts, etc.

The Big tech firms benefit from all of the above, but are not contributing anything back. The system is broken and needs to be fixed, so let's not pretend there is no problem.
MegEngine (A Deep Learning Framework) implements DTR. Now you can train 3x larger model by tradeoff a little bit speed for lots of GPU memory.
Interestingly enough, in the white noise vs blue noise dithering, I appreciate the white noise one (left) much more because the blue-noise one (right) looks blurry.

I guess it depends a lot on the input though, a bit like how nearest-neighbor is a much better algorithm than bi-cubic to scale up pixel art while the result is horrible if you use it on a real-world picture.
>If you're opening a location in another country, and that location takes X in revenue, the tax should be paid in that country.

It all hinges on how "location takes x in revenue" is defined.

The simplified version of how all these transfer pricing tax avoidance schemes work is this: The good is produced in Country X (e.g., US) then sold to a subsidiary in the tax haven Country Y (e.g., Ireland or some Caribbean Island) for just a tiny amount of profit over cost, and so they owe taxes to Country X on that de minimis profit. The subsidiary in Country Y then sells the good to Country Z (e.g., the rest of the world) for the retail price, and so they earn almost all their profit in Country Y and so pay taxes there, but it's a tax haven so the actual tax rate is minimal. Logic would dictate that the profit should be recognized in the jurisdiction where the good was produced or the one where it was sold to the end customer or some combination of both, but logic does not prevail when it comes to tax law.
The whole point is to generate an exciting event that an audience will watch. Multiple competitors having a chance of winning makes an event exciting. So does one superstar doing incredible moves, of course, but these two need to be balanced.
What about Google itself?
I pay an effective income tax of 45% (14.1% "arbeidsgiveravgift"[1] and 36% income tax after deductions).

And when I buy stuff I then have to pay 25% VAT (12% on groceries). So the effective tax is 59% except for groceries.

[1]: https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/rates/employers-national-insu...
I need to get a new job before all the apple refugees flood the market.
Cryptocurrency will still have payment processors for sending money.
> Because we'll kick them out. I'm always up for doing things i don't particularly enjoy because there's value in them, but I certainly don't want to live with someone who treats me like a slave.

It’s hard enough to get many married couples to live like this, and even harder for small extended families. I would assign something very close to 0% as the probability for viability of this on a country or global level.
depends on the specific beach, in my area you’ll be stopped within 30 mins or so of cracking a beer. Maybe not some, but beer, regardless of container, is heavily patrolled for.
Thanks for building it! I use it on my personal website and it’s been really good.
PSA: You can use the MAGIC-NS to connect multiple controllers at the same time while they appear to the Switch as one controller. This basically is co-pilot mode.
Which societies today function like this, that could be scaled up to country level tasks and responsibilities? Regardless of size would make it a meaningless claim, as the parameters are greatly different between a tribe of 100 vs 10,000 vs 1,000,000,000.
Didn’t mean to be but it feels like a “laughing at me” funny
If someone eats all their meals out, that's not unreasonable. That's about what I'll spend daily when traveling in cities. Of course, that doesn't describe what I do day-to-day at home at all. I'll occasionally grab a pizza but that's about the only takeout/eat out I routinely do when I'm at home.
nope this tax scheme would only apply to certain corporations

e.g.

Revenue 0-20mln EUR, you keep the existing tax scheme

Revenue 20-100mln - you can choose the tax scheme

Revenue 100mln+ - you have to tax revenue

Thresholds are up for debate.

Also, companies already pay around 0-5% of their revenue in income tax. Gigantic companies pay close to 0.
25% is what I would expect. You're getting some of the other expenses back eventually (hopefully) in form of pensions, unemployment (if you ever need it) etc. Health itself is a service you are buying. I wouldn't call it a tax despite it being mandatory. I think taxes are too high and the system needs to be redesigned but I just think we need to be exact on our figures when we discuss this stuff.
More generally, it is very hard to turn a useful, indirect metric into a useful target, because of perverse, unforeseen incentives.

It is the correlation/causation problem, often times the metric is not causal to your success.
I feel like a large reason for that is that D is a properly boring language and I mean that in the best way possible. I have yet to be unpleasantly surprised by D in the way other languages seem to be specifically designed towards.

While this makes D a deeply pleasant language to use, it also makes it tough to sell. It doesn't have any whizz bang features you can get across in an elevator pitch.
I don’t follow gymnastics so I am only gathering context here, but this move seems very complex. She starts with a cartwheel, ends up facing backwards, jumps in a backwards arc onto the raised platform into an upside down position, then carries her momentum through into a rotation and a half to end up upright again.
Fuck, Lenna [1]? Could we stop alienating women in tech [2]? Don't take my word for it, the AV1 folks are pleading with the field to stop using Lenna too [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#Criticism

[2]: https://xkcd.com/322/

[3]: https://youtu.be/8SA2t75zgZs?t=2434
> Nuclear power plants also occupy much less land than solar and wind farms, which people in Wyoming complain can be an eyesore.

lol
The Netherlands is a tax haven for corporations. Individuals bear the brunt of ensuring a high QoL. Median income in 2021 is €36.500, so quite low tbh.

The only kind of income you can avoid taxes on is capital gains - i.e. investing in stocks or real estate. Obviously this is not feasible for the general population, and as such, most people spend their entire monthly income on rent/mortgage, kids, and living expenses. There is no concept of saving, because the assumption is that you can accumulate enough pension to live off of.
Barring a mistake or injury, she's gonna win regardless, as she's done consistently since 2013. Might as well fairly recognize by how much she's doing it at this point.
Hey, looks like Mailgun is having an outage - any chance you have a gmail account you can try it with?
>>So by your argument, we definitely can not trust nearly any other news organisation, because they have shareholders and are operating for profit?

Being in a union, and your employer not being able to replace you with people outside of the union as a result of left-wing laws that are predicated on an extremely left-wing ideological conception of the world, creates a far more extreme conflict of interest in my opinion.

We don't need to take a centrist position between shareholders operating in a free market to earn a profit, by providing consumers with goods/services they want at competitive prices, and unions extracting economic rent through restrictive anti-free market laws that limit other people's right to free association. One position is inherently fairer and less likely to lead to corrupting conflicting interests.
United Airlines agrees to purchase 15 Boom supersonic airliners
> The same is true if N people use the currency without any new money coming in they can’t cash out.
True, definitely agree that reducing friction would have helped a lot but I think there wasn’t much organic interest either. There’s a lot of (mocking) hot takes from Parlor and Gab on Twitter for example. Whereas I didn’t see any pickup from Trumps blogging.

I think it’s was also a content thing in the case of the blog. Twitter Trump was more interesting than blog Trump even if you don’t like him.
A political challenge to taxing larger entities is that those entities have increased incentive to avoid tax. This has distortionary effects elsewhere in that it is logical for such an entity to pay fractional X toward a politician’s personal interest instead of the full X to the government.
Anyone interested in working on a library libportfs that allowed userland apps (in a cross platform manner) to create fs like /mnt/apache/connections and /mnt/apache/enabled
Yes, that's what I hoped i was saying :-)

- what surprised me is that if someone pays 100M for a painting of sunflowers they are just getting pasteboard and oils - if they want to publish a picture of their purchase they get to pay again !

Just did not expect that
One of the unfortunate realities of the way that we constructed our Constitution and its amenmdment process is that if a significant enough group of Americans decide that this country should be an unpleasant place to live, then it will. And it should. That flaw is also from where it derives all of its power.

While you would likely make the argument that hateful bigotry will tear this country apart, I might make the counter argument that going after the First Amendment would do the same. In reality, I hope that neither of us have to be proven right.
No, it’s the builtin hashmap. It had a random seed for the hash to avoid collision predictability but it also, separately has a shuffled iteration order for maps.
As a spectator, It'd be awesome if you took on accounting after conquering tech.
Also depends on the cuisine. Quite a few cuisines take extraordinarily long to cook, and at that point, you're better off just eating out to save time (if you have the money) than deal with those meal-kits that are either not sustainable, or healthy, or often-times, both.

In The Netherlands, the cuisine tends to be really simple, and salad-kits and meal-kits are extremely popular. The fanciest food that people 'cook' is often a soup or pasta, and I'd say it's extremely rare for anyone to make pasta or sauces from scratch.
Yes but it’s not a library. It’s an entire website. It even uses Firebase.
Technically, this is correct.

In practice, it will eventually bite you. Someday some package that you depend on will have a security issue that causes a necessary config change that has a default you don't like.

Also, note that you have just changed to a non-reproducible container, where running it on Monday is not guaranteed to be the same as running it next Friday.
Like an American person can be a tax resident of France? Oh, wait, companies do not travel or move… or do they?

/justkidding
1099 income works roughly the same way in the states.
Sadly "ASCII delimited" text, using ASCI 28 to 31, doesn't seem to be a thing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter#ASCII_delimited_text

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_separator