skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have a white paper. I wrote about my particular interpretation of the Zanzibar paper[1].

As far as the differences due to cockroach vs spanner. There are only a few minor ones. Without TrueTime cockroachdb relies on their hybrid logical clocks[2] which at the very least require more storage. The Zanzibar paper talks about separating tuples into separate databases by namespace, and shards [3§3.1.1]. We haven't had to do that yet, but we are far from operating at Google's scale. Finally, cockroachdb's CHANGEFEED API[4] combined with our single tuple table have allowed us to skip storing a separate changelog table (for now).

[1]: https://authzed.com/blog/what-is-zanzibar/

[2]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/living-without-atomic-clo...

[3]: https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/

[4]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v20.2/changefeed-for.html
>Large grain of salt required.

What exactly do I need to "take" with a large grain of salt? Have you been in seclusion for the past 20 years? I'm pretty sure we're at the point where the burden of proof is on the billionaires to demonstrate they aren't funnelling away their money, not vice versa.
> The truck’s smaller more approachable size and its base price of $19,995

Ford's website shows $21,500 with destination. Ford just jacked up the destination charge to $1500 in order to hit that magic "less than $20,000" base price.

This is a great move, so I don't want to sound like I'm poo-pooing this. The target audience is largely fleets and small businesses who are in the market for a Transit Connect with a bed. So I'm sure it will sell quite well. I just don't appreciate the misleading headlines when it comes to vehicle pricing. I doubt dealers will stock too many XLs, so most non-fleet buyers will opt for the XLT, which is $4k more expensive before options.

Still, $25k for a hybrid pickup is a damn good deal. Specced as I would buy it is $28,300. I also appreciate that Ford went hybrid-by-default. That's a bold move, but probably well informed by their fleet sales.
The animation in that article is amazing!
Yep, I wonder what are the technical reasons not to support Firefox. Some missing codec as (maybe) for the lack of support in FaceTime web?
SSH-MitM Available as AppImage
The author of ssh-mitm ( https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm ) has provided an AppImage :-D

This allows using the tool without a compatible python version.

You can even use it in a network, where you have no internet access to download and install the necessary pip packages. ;-)

Just copy the SSH-MITM AppImage on the server, make it executable and start it.

$ wget https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm/releases/download/0.5.5/ssh-mitm-x86_64.AppImage
$ chmod +x ssh-mitm-x86_64.AppImage
$ ./ssh-mitm-x86_64.AppImage
when I lived on California i was amazed at how many pedestrian deaths there were in San Francisco, a city mired with no left turn rules. they allowed right on red, which I think contributed. I think most traffic engineers know about the green wave and improving traffic flow, but the political mission is to slow traffic to save lives and encourage mass transit. it's a shame
If all you need a truck for is every now and then going to Ikea it would be a lot cheaper just to pay Ikea to deliver.
I'm not sure I would call Apache or Nginx "FANG tools" (or FAANG tools)
Economically, you sort of live in a flat tax. (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/incom...)

I know that's not what you mean. But if you simply filed a 1040EZ, then paid a 20% penalty when the IRS sends you a letter saying pay the rest of what you owe, expect to pay... 28 percentage points effective instead of 26.

This is to say that tax complexity is a red herring. You can already live in an almost zero-complexity tax obligation personally, as a wage earner, above and beyond what is officially prescribed. It's not really what it's about. It's probably not about saving money either.
How the Ruby's find method works? Enumerable in detail
They also state:

"We have gone to considerable lengths to confirm that the information sent to us is accurate. We compared the tax data in our possession to other sources of the same information wherever we could find them, some of which were public (a tax return for a candidate for national office), others of which were private. In every instance we were able to check — involving tax filings by more than 50 separate people — the details provided to ProPublica matched the information from other sources."
From the article:

> Provenance is not essential; accuracy is. We have gone to considerable lengths to confirm that the information sent to us is accurate. We compared the tax data in our possession to other sources of the same information wherever we could find them, some of which were public (a tax return for a candidate for national office), others of which were private. In every instance we were able to check — involving tax filings by more than 50 separate people — the details provided to ProPublica matched the information from other sources.

They did assure themselves by verifying any detail that they could corroborate, it seems.
With the electric F-150, I'm surprised this doesn't come in an all-electric option.
When the mob can literally set you on fire, then you should be worried about the mob, but, crucially, the mob on social media can't actually hurt you; they can only convince other people to hurt you. It's those other people, the people who hold positions of responsibility and authority -- your boss, your dean, anybody with the power to hire or fire you -- who are really responsible here. The shame of cancel culture is entirely theirs.
"The thought experiment says there's an incredibly advanced virtual reality machine that you can hook yourself up to if you want. You can program it to give you the most rich, rewarding, satisfying virtual reality experiences for as long as you like. You don't have to know it's virtual, it can be subjectively
indistinguishable from an incredibly wonderful life in the real world. The question some people ask is psychological one of: would you plug in? But the question is actually the normative one: Should you plug in? Would it be a good decision for you to do that?

"Nozick thinks, and a lot of other people have agreed that, no, you shouldn't. Or, at least, that if you did, you would be sacrificing something important--knowledge of
reality."

But it's an open question whether in the ordinary state of consciousness itself one knows reality.

There are plenty of philosophies and religions, such as the various forms Buddhism, Hinduism, and Gnosticism, which deny the reality of the ordinary world, and posit a transcendent reality.

There have also been more "scientific" theories about the world being a virtual reality construct, and of philosophical thought experiments which considered the possibility of us being "brains in vats" or of other people being "philosophical zombies", and so on.

Reality is very slippery, and even if Letheby is right that most philosophers are naturalists, that doesn't give them a monopoly on truth.
I got the weird sense of deja vu reading this, searched around and realized the first half is copied and pasted from another year-old blog post. Last year they were "at Hyper Scale" and this year their flow logs are only "at scale" so I guess they're shrinking.

https://netflixtechblog.com/hyper-scale-vpc-flow-logs-enrich...
It's the question of who are you competing with, and how hard. That's why I mentioned PvE and PvP games. I find a fair competition against a (widely understood) environment fine. I dislike competing against my fellow players.

As an example: our class at the university was somewhat unique in that, unlike most other departments/subjects, our scholarships were thresholded only by grade average. So, where students in other classes were competing against each other to reach the few top spots that paid money, in our class, we all helped each other out. Helping another student didn't jeopardize your chances at the scholarship, and it felt nice when the person you helped got the scholarship too. We were playing a PvE game - competing against the grading system. Even though ultimate rewards were given based on individual performance, there was no downside to cooperation.
Well, all tax schemes are about balancing potential perverse incentives or other warping effects against the social interest of, you know, collecting tax revenue.

I am a little bit skeptical of the assumption that a wealth tax encourages riskier investment strategies, though. After all, the effect of a fixed rate wealth tax is the same irrespective of your investment strategy; riskier strategies still yield both greater potential returns and losses.
> Also, I do not see how high earners being subjected to higher taxes is fair (to them).

The fundamental model behind progressive taxation is that the pain of paying taxes should be roughly the same regardless of income level. The notion of "pain" in this context is closely tied into the concept of marginal utility of income: how much value does a given person get from receiving an extra $X in income (or conversely, how much do they lose by not having $X in income). Give an extra $1000 to person who only earns $12k/yr, and it's a pretty big impact. Given an extra $1000 to a person who earn $12M/yr and its just noise. Taxes follow the same principle, but in reverse. When we tax those with very high incomes, we want them to feel the same "pain" of taxes as those with lower incomes. Because of marginal utility, that requires different marginal tax rates.

> the very premise of taxes being proportional to income has flaws.

Taxes are not proportional to income. We have marginal tax rates, not all-income tax rates. Someone who earns $40k/yr pays the same taxes on the first (and only) $40k (likely close to zero) as someone who earns $4M/yr. Someone who earns $200k/yr pays the same taxes on that $200k as the person who earns $200M/yr.
It’s pretty wild that the object identity via name thing is still a problem. Can they not add a transitional name feature where an object is known by multiple aliases for a while and then when you have finished putting though a change, you can delete the original name? Is this not very basic SQL migration practice? Like column aliases until no longer needed.
>Failing to decrypt on a single bit error is the literal job definition of authenticated encryption.

Yes, this is an excellent example of where this behaviour is suboptimal. We should not cargo cult authenticated encryption. It has its place but this isn't it.

> Any error you accept is malleability conceded to an attacker.

Sure, but malleability that has a close to zero chance of being a problem. We are talking about static encryption here. You only get one chance at malleability and the user immediately knows something has gone wrong:

gpg: WARNING: encrypted message has been manipulated!

>Are you complaining that age isn't malleable enough?

Merely pointing out that for the most common use case age is objectively worse than GPG.
Use the camera for keyboard input in your app
Side-note: although not part of the 0.001%, it's mind blowing that it's June 2021, and we still haven't seen Trump's promised tax return.
The Next Generation of Startups Is Remote
cool. although I think with 4mb window it would be more efficient. 100mb seems excessive, then I assume you wouldn't need a sliding window. (if it works well enough for 100mb)
I prefer tech that I can use both at work and on hobby projects at home.

To that end I've only used cloudflare and netlify. The others have too much friction to try out. I expect I would get experience on the job if necessary.
AN0M app designed by FBI ensnares alleged criminals
I claim that a lot of people own trucks because their friends own trucks and owning a truck is part of their identity. Drive through any suburb in the midwest or south and you will see these - mostly men - who don't want to be seen in sedan. Is this truckly enough to check the box for that group? If not, then I wonder what the target market is for this.
"with cheese" seems to be exclusively in Pulp Fiction :D
Loans still have to be paid back with cash plus interest. It can give wealthy people some leverage to make their tax payments more efficient in that they can spread their payments over time or wait for a down year, to liquidate a chunk of assets to pay down debt so they never have a bulge in realized income. But there is still a cost in terms of debt service that make this have limited value. It's not like loans are free money.
> Not my problem. Fastly should work as intended.

What's your SLA with them?

Just assuming things will always work because the marketing copy said so is recipe for disaster. It's hoping that things never go wrong, and when they inevitably do, being caught pants down.

Everything fails sometimes. You must know how much your SaaS provider contractually promises, ensure that any SLA breach is something financially acceptable for you, and ensure that you can handle failure time within SLA.
What exactly is an OpenPGP recovery property? Can you point it out in the RFC?
I'm also guessing, but I think it's something like their plan for how much capacity (i.e. network bandwidth) to have available at particular times and places, and their strategy for updating the plan.
Have you looked at XDR?
I read it and I don’t think it’s a “much better essay by a vastly more skilled writer”. It’s not practical, but BRs essay is.

Peculiarly, I think your opinion and the difference between the two essays gives credibility to BRs points. One essay by a egocentric multimillionaire, and the other by a man of knowledge and people err on the relative value of the people who make money because that’s what they’re taught to do.
With all the great encryption utilities like age[0], Signal, or Veracrypt, can anyone please tell me what the point is in using pgp anymore? It's old, it's clunky, it requires careful use to be safe.

Why not use something more modern?

0. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
A collaborative art project that lets you breed fractal flames
Assuming anyone can get the AG to actually investigate, file charges, and get a conviction.

Notoriously more difficult as the amount of financial leverage increases.
> But....shares are useless until sold. Even if you have 1BN worth of shares it means nothing until you actually sell them/trade them? In fact, they could be worth nothing next week, how can you be taxing someone on a hypothetical sale value?

Germany does something similar: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wegzugsbesteuerung (unfortunately only in German).

Basically your tax advisor agrees with the government on a "fair" valuation and you are taxed on a 'fictions sale' when you cease to be a German tax resident and hold more than 1% shares in a company.
In our adversarial judicial system, you really don't have to disclose that until discovery. A lawyer may want to keep some of those similarities "close to the chest" to see how the other side responds first to some discovery requests. (this system is far from perfect).
This seems like a cross between a standard battery and a flow battery. A standard battery has an anode, separator, and cathode connected to each other, and counter-ions (eg Li+) flow from the anode to the cathode, allowing a wire connecting the anode and cathode to generate a potential, since the counter-ions "want" to be in the cathode more than in the anode. Many standard batteries can be recharged by reversing the voltage and making the electrons flow in the opposite direction.

A flow battery uses a solvent for the anode and the cathode, which are then flowed through a tube containing a separator, across which the same voltage can be extracted. Flow batteries are recharged by taking the spent fuel out of the battery and re-oxidizing/reducing it, after which it can be reused in the flow battery.

The way I'm reading this is that its the anode (CNTs) and separator (teflon) of a flow battery, with a reducible organic solvent molecule (CH3CN) serving the purpose of the cathode. I don't see anything playing the analogous role of the counterions, but perhaps this configuration doesn't need it because the distance traveled by the electrons is atomic-scale.

So, the electrons come from the pi-shell of the CNTs, and flow into the pi-system of the CN group, where they can do some chemistry. The electrons don't flow back, since the band they flow into is lower than the band they come from (Fig 1b of the Nat Com paper). My reading of the paper is that the particles would be recharged by taking them out of the solvent and exposing them to a current.

The advantage of this system over a traditional battery is that you can provide electrons at a higher potential to nanomachines that could then use that energy to do some work, without needing to be wired up to something. I'm thinking here of a molecule that "walks" along a fiber or something, and the higher enegy electron could cause a conformational change in the molecule to move it down the fiber.

There's a nice analogy here to the way that biological systems use chemical species like NADH to fuel chemistry via redox reactions.

Just the best guess I can make at this point, please reply if I've missed something.
That's not a block chain, though. A distributed ledger is one thing. A block chain is a specific technology to implement a distributed ledger. A block chain is specifically a linked-list-esque data structure with immutability through some irreproducible "cost," e.g. proof of work, proof of stake, etc, which in turn serves as the mechanism for arriving at a distributed consensus. Git histories are fully mutable, and adding to the ledger is still controlled by gatekeepers. I guess you could argue that forks allow it to bypass gatekeepers, but it really just moves gatekeepers from one place to another.
Nightingale Data Viz Is Now a Standalone Site
Social media apps are very hard to monetize, since consumer only want free, and hence you would need traffic, which is very hard to get.

Why not do B2B. The market is much more fragmented and thus you can always find a niche.
Perennial Grain
I can certainly vouch for you and your team's commitment to that level of perfection and use of feedback even during what I can only imagine was a truly unprecedented year of usage. The majority of our (relatively few) issues were small UI issues that confused students and instructors, but with the new beta of the pre-built UI I believe those have been addressed! Some of those less well documented patches have also been really useful in tuning performance for certain use cases!
The CEO Amjad Masad has been doubling down on his story both here on HN and on Twitter. Also, this is a story told with receipts, and receipts carry a weight of their own. Namely, private emails made public. You can see for yourself whether you'll ever see the other side speak through the language of receipts.

It's also notable that Amjad used to work at CodeAcademy on up-and-going interactive coding experiences. Now he has his own company building up-and-going interactive coding experiences. What did Amjad learn while he was at CodeAcademy, being privy to internal business operations?
Making the hybrid FWD-only seems like a missed opportunity

Wonder if they'll do a single cab with a longer bed
DDG's refusal to honor booleans is putting a gun to it's own head.

The best is minus operands acting more like plus or quotes.
It's not that hard to find a price for a rare art piece, or almost any other asset.

Make the owner declare its value, tax it at the value. But anyone can buy it at that price. If they want to keep it, they'll need to value it correctly, and thus it will get taxed correctly.
Funnily, in Europe Ford is known mainly for economical sub-compact hatchbacks that your grandmother would drive to the supermarket once a week, and cheap generic fleet sedans for salesmen driving up and down the motorway.
Did you write this?
Because only retard can believe in unlimited exponential growth under limited resources?
You may be interested in Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/

Basically it's Terraform but instead of declaring your resources in HCL, you declare them in a real programming language. You're still producing a declarative config that the engine then diffs, applies etc. In fact, it's compatible with existing terraform providers, so it has a surprisingly large selection of things you can use it for.

Note their docs will try to guide you towards using their hosted service which basically does nothing except host the state file, but you can use an S3 or GCS bucket instead and it works fine.

It's definitely not without its own problems, but I'd say it's overall an improvement.
I disagree almost completely. I understand your concerns - but they are based on weighing personal freedom above all else, and I just don't. I think there's a tradeoff there and it is favorable in favor of disclosing tax information.

To your points:

> gold-diggers

I'm not sure if this is an idiomatic term and out of my grasp, but if you mean that people will get romantically involved with others because of their money... this is a non-issue. Happy to debate it further, but it seems so silly and self-apparent that we shouldn't care at all about it

> Invasion of privacy

Arguably, but as long as only a minimum amount of whats is public, with only the lump-sums published, I think its fine in context.

> It's almost as bad as having medical conditions and STIs test results listed publicly.

I think these are very different things, the difference is not just of severity. They are different classes of things. Financial information relates to money, which only makes sense in a society (money is for trade). A disease's effects are personal. When they aren't, you are obligated to disclose them and/or to comply to other rules (for example, to quarantine).

> Facilitating public exposure of counting other people's money doesn't help anyone except the rich to know if you can fight them in court or how much to bribe them.

I think the experience where this has been applied is precisely the opposite - the rich are the ones affected the most.
And - if your justice can be bought, the problem has less to do with the knowledge that the other can't find back and more to do with the legal system in the first place.

> Fight wealth inequality with income-&-holdings-proportional fines; simple, government-calculated graduated taxes without complicated exemptions; elimination of corporate/wealth welfare; and expand economic-advancement-oriented welfare to those who aren't super-rich who can use it.

Can't argue with that, even if I wanted to, in fewer than 15 pages. Complex stuff!
The entire middle class already does pay a regular tax on their assets. We call it "property taxes". The groups who AREN'T taxed on the bulk of their assets are the poor (who have no assets) and the wealthy (whose assets aren't taxed).
Could the OS lock down the app's permissions to prevent that?

Like, this app can ONLY send/recv e2e encrypted messages, and not log anything or talk to other apps.
>> Just for clarification, there are two projects involved here. SnowFS is the underlying open-source VCS, and Snowtrack is the commercial UI build around it.

This discussion sounds like they were afraid to build Snowtrack on top of git.

I'm not a fan of the names of git commands and some of the other details about it, but functionally it works well and is the industry standard. To avoid it because of the GPL doesn't seem right. There are many commercial tools built of git.
You don't think high school kids know who's rich and who's poor?
Evidence isn't necessary for one who is already convinced.

However, there is a lot that says that the 1% actually pay the vast majority of taxes collected:

https://www.publishedreporter.com/2021/04/05/op-ed-top-1-inc...

https://howmuch.net/articles/high-income-americans-pay-major...

https://taxfoundation.org/top-1-percent-pays-more-taxes-bott...
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