skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who cares? It is unreasonable to list every possible example and case to make a point because that would be "wokeness" "andwaddaboutthis" bullshit. The point of the article is that somehow the elimination of elite (read: rich) university students leads to a "better" worker pool. And just maybe the universities find it's easier to tolerate "woke" if mommy and daddy bought their way in with a new library, rather than putting their foot down and telling students to knock-off their petty, distracting dramas still wanting for an actual "victim" of microaggressions.

It should be apparent that students who buy their homework and their tests will be unsuitable for doing hard, real work. The overachievers are usually the ones selling the homework. There are coursework dealers at all universities, guaranteed. Hire those, not the clueless buffoons trying to get their upper-crust entry-tickets stamped so they can try on clothes for their Instagram influencing "business."
What could be changed about twitter to make this better? The entire design feeds right into this. I've heard it said that it was intended to be a place for good discussion, but I really don't believe that. Good discussion isn't had 140 characters at a time. The whole point of the site is to give everyone a megaphone.
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Just my thanks for keeping HN so absolutely clean, in comparison to other online forums.
I find it incredibly difficult to feel bad for venture capitalists trying to artificially pump the market by generating volume.

I find it just as difficult to feel bad for people who now have to park their own car or do their own laundry.

Seriously, I feel like I make a good living but I would never think about doing these things. Absolutely lavish.
Thank you very much! I do watch things on česká televize, but I will definitely check out that kids show!

And no not based there, but I do have a VPN so it's all good. Thanks again!
I really don't. I expect there are some people doing it, but I also expect they're not busy posting their stuff to YouTube. I learned what I learned with a lot of time spent in datasheets, PhD theses on lithium, and a background in electrical engineering that helped me make sense of the weird gaps. I'm no longer doing much with lithium beyond the occasional personal pack (which I still build to the same standards I built other packs to).

The best advice I have is to learn all you can from reading things, not watching things. The bits and pieces of solar/battery/energy work I've seen on YouTube as people link them tend heavily sensational and "WOW I NEARLY BLEW MYSELF UP!!!! big O YouTube emotion face" and I've no interest in any of that.

Also, you shouldn't assemble a pack with the batteries above about... oh, 3.5-3.6V/cell. Down there, there's typically not enough energy for the pack to get exciting if something does short. It'll get hot, it may vent a cell (again, do not breathe), but it probably won't have enough energy to enter a thermal runaway, which is something you want to avoid at all costs.
And to think that the FDA still hasn’t given full approval to COVID-19 vaccines based on “an abundance of caution”. Where was that caution now?
> I've honestly never been at a job interview where people gave a crap about my open source contributions.

They gave a crap about mine, I believe for two reasons: first, I put it in the middle of my CV, at the same level as my regular job. This basically forces everyone to talk about it. Second, Monocypher is a crypto library, and cryptography tends impress people.
> Ok, publish what the tools are and promote change in the tax code.

Publishing an actual example of how these tools are used is a perfect way to explain what they are and how they're exploited. Bezos is rich enough to be untouchable, so what's really the concern here?
The twitter mob can come for you too.

If you're mis-identified and doxxed then your life can be in danger.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/what-its-like-to-get...

And the consequences for the accuser are nothing.
It’s your option that these people did nothing wrong. However, many legal things like adultery are still objectionable and people object to this.
> Didn’t know there was a market for coding session watchers.

I think this is an actual niche on Twitch.
Some comments here about delta compression on image assets and compressed formats - this page from the Fossil SCM has a really interesting discussion of the issues involved: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/image-format-vs-re...
“ the mere expression "work/life" embodies a mistake: it assumes work and life are distinct”

Going to have to meditate on that one for awhile. It seems “privileged.” For many work amounts to a set of indignities required for survival. A 2 hour daily commute to pay Bay Area rent prices doesn’t feel like “life” at all. Sort of Marie Antoinette vibes to the featured essay. I’m actually ok with that. Not everyone needs to be a slave, and the more people who can forego work and just tinker the better. But acknowledge it. Paul’s not talking to the proles here, but to other gentlemen of leisure who had mathematician dads, or those who had Paul graham type rich celebrity dads. Most people are in essence slaves to debt. Retirement is when work stops and life starts, for most of us in the second class.
The problem being, if the device is so dead, that you cannot factory reset, or otherwise, wipe it, what do you do?

My daughter's MacBook Pro, with lovely soldered down solid state memory died, and had to go in for repair. There was simply no way to wipe it, and no physical drive to pull.

Same thing with most phones. Soldered storage, glued shut case. If it dies under warranty, what do you do? You have to trust the repair chain, or just chuck it in the garbage.
early hardware didn't have pixels or, except for debugging, screens; it had typebars which slammed bits of type into an inked ribbon and the paper. we're talking about 01930s to 01970s here. the baudot code didn't have separate codepoints for upper and lower case. in point of fact, it didn't have separate codepoints for numbers ('figures') and letters either; it had shift characters called 'figures' and 'letters'.

but why uppercase rather than lowercase, you might ask? well, http://wiki.c2.com/?CapitalizingGod has the following story, but i don't know if it is correct.

We may remember that ancient teletypes, printers, and terminals would bang out their output in all upper case. When this technology was first being standardized, the researchers did usability studies and found that people read lowercase text more easily than uppercase. But management decided to use uppercase instead. The reason? If only lowercase was shown, then there would be no means for CapitalizingGod.

anyway, by the time people started putting screens and pixels on computers in the 01960s to 01980s, the uppercase-only tradition was very well established.
Even when they said this was a rare [0] case, they knew this case should be handled, but didn't handle it.

> or in the extremely rare case our network isn’t serving traffic.

reports also came in that this was a service configuration[1] issue, so not only there is no failover system, not even any validation automation was in place that could have prevented this.

[0] https://status.fastly.com
[1] https://twitter.com/fastly/status/1402221348659814411
How are you able to store all the videos?
>writing is the easy part and editing is the hard part, and I completely agree.

I don't necessarily disagree but a lot of writing (and often graphics/figures) is needed to fill a typical book. You're looking at say 60 to 70 thousand words for a 250 page book. I write a lot and people think of me as being pretty fast--though I certainly know journalists who are faster--but my typical daily output is about 1,000 words assuming I'm spending most of a day on it. Do the math (especially if it's a part-time thing).
Did Trump make that promise? Are you REALLY surprised he didn't fill that promise?
I think you’re missing the point of the article. Everyone here understands that unrealized capital gains aren’t taxed. That’s what the article is about. It’s saying, “look, this is the result of the tax policy” - staggering gains in wealth with essentially negligible tax burden. It seems unfair, because it is unfair.

So, we all understand it, but maybe some of us think that because it is, it must be. I’ve never understood that point of view.
>feudal-like state of society

Do you have a source for this? People keep repeating this over and over, but I have never seen a shred of evidence for it. It seems some people have just decided that they hate inheritance and thats just it, no evidence required.

I would encourage you to look at the most unequal countries in the world by wealth. You may find it surprising that none of them are "feudal".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_in...

Edit: I don't mean to be snarky, apologies if it comes off that way. Unfounded ideas just bother me, and I would love to gain new perspective forming info.
Brands should leverage telco-driven mobile advertising
Someone should make a Clojure demo of those Java bindings, or even cljs. I hope Clojure has good type based completions these days, because it would be a fantastic language for this.
I don’t know that flat tax is necessary - progressive taxation is a sane policy, as the marginal utility of money goes down the more of it you have, and therefore a larger tax burden is more easily borne - however addressing the gap between how asset and employment income are taxed is critical to combatting gross wealth asymmetry.

I write this as a member of the asset-owning class. I wasn’t always - I worked in the U.K., with my income automatically taxed via PAYE (Pay As You Earn), and paid between 20 and 45% effective tax rates on my earnings.

Now, my income is rentals and investments, and my effective tax rate is nearer 5%, on a much larger income than I ever had from employment. I’ve not done anything special or weird, I’ve just paid capital gains and written down the allowable expenses. It would not be hard to pay no tax, just by restructuring my finances a little, but it doesn’t sit well with me as it is.

Honestly, it’s nonsensical. At the very least asset income should be taxed at the same rates as labour income - but it should probably be taxed at a higher rate, as penalising productive labour and rewarding rent-seeking is ultimately contrary to the interests of everyone.
> The more money you have, the less right to privacy you have.

I'd change this to: The more power you have, the less right to privacy you have.

Money is just one form of power. If there was a way to give up the "power" that money provides (without giving up their money) then I'd say they can regain their right to privacy. Transparency is needed for the people to keep those with power accountable (in a free society and/or without violence).
I think starting with that assumption is the primary disservice you are doing yourself.

Its important to actually understand taxes so that you don't eventually assume that the tax collector / revenue service is an adversary. They are exuberant collaborators.

Reading comprehension is key because even just imagining that rich people have an army of lawyers and accountants to figure it out is wrong. That takes way too much trust and those lawyers and accountants arent incentivized properly to figure things out. They have to be steered by the person that knows what they want and what ongoing compliance burdens they are willing to have, which requires already knowing or being part of a network of people that already have compliant systems set up and will tell. There are many more people that make wrong assumptions, to their detriment.

Listing “the techniques” aren't useful, reading the tax code is. Read IRS codes from the 400s section (tax deferral accounts) and the 500s section (tax-exempt entities) as a start. That will boost your own search queries by using more useful terms to search.

I sometimes find entire industries I was unaware of simply by being surprised by what the law says. The IRS has many parallel tax regimes that are different than the default one. You have to know to look behind door number 2 and door number 3, there are IRS agents sitting behind them bored and excitedly waiting to help you after you find them.
If we made agriculture as efficient as the automotive production pipelines, hiccups like the chip shortage would literally end civilization. So, bonus.

Unfortunately, when you stomp efficiency in one place, it'll tend to pop up somewhere else. Usually in the places without money, because they can't afford the luxury of inefficiency. That that makes them really, really susceptible to your point (1): they're vulnerable to anybody in power with their finger on the artery.

It's aggravating, because we've got so much technology that we managed to get out ahead of the arithmetic/exponential conflicts that were reasonably predicted to cause serious hardship. We can feed 8 billion people. It's hateful that a relatively small number of people in just the right places can starve billions at once.
I think you are doing a fine job of advocating the position that PGP is the cryptosystem of choice for people who believe authenticated encryption is a cargo cult.

The logic you're applying here about how GPG can warn you if it has employed "recovery properties" to correct "single bit errors" was embraced enthusiastically by the Ruhr team to perform data recovery on other people's PGP-encrypted email messages.
> in india, when you are holding a share in a company for example, its value goes from $1 to $4 in a year. for that financial year, your accountant says "hey. you earned $3 as capital gains", and its appropriately taxed as short term capital gains or long term.

Capital gains taxes in India appear to work the same way as capital gains taxes in the United States[0]:

> Simply put, any profit or gain that arises from the sale of a ‘capital asset’ is a capital gain.

The tax is only incurred at the time of sale. If you don't sell anything then your accountant will report $0 in capital gains, even if the value of your assets (on paper) has increased.

If you are invested in a mutual fund then (at least by US rules) you may have reportable short-term or long-term gains despite not actually selling any shares due to trading activity in the fund; the taxes are passed through to the fund's investors. However, this is unrelated to any change in the value of the fund's shares.

[0] https://cleartax.in/s/capital-gains-income
This sort of wealth tax probably would be targeted at amounts over a $5-50M threshold so it would never hit the primary residence of anyone except billionaires, who could surely pay cash.
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OK. You seem to be agreeing that this would be a fine system with those caveats.

So:
Exemptions specifically covering residency already exist in finance law. If you go bankrupt, you can still live in your house (only if you owned it, mind).

The government, as soon as practical, can auction the stock it receives. Thus identifying its value and releasing the funds.
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I'd agree with your translation...

Estimating bandwidth requirements is hard. Many use educated guess + over provision.
A walk in nature is better than microdosing
Let alone, impossible to do if the device will not even boot.
You nailed it. You have to let the fruit ripen before you pick it. Also if you don’t go after the suppliers, you will have more distributors to harvest later. It’s literally a cash crop for the DEA/police
I also liked “Anča a Pepik” - a show about two mice who solve mysteries :-D Hodně štěstí!
Ask HN: What do you do during your free time?
OTOH, ProPublica reached out to Bezos, Musk, etc with this info and they essentially had no comment.
It's amazing what they offer for free. But it is just a bit too amazing what it will cost to move my wife and 2 kids and our domains over. It's a shame, I do really want to pay them but I find it difficult to justify.

Or wait, now that I check again, it changed... I see that now I can have "1 - 5000 users *" for 6.25 eur/month? Is that real? A real inbox per user? Why is it only 6 users when I go to 24 eur/month? Do they mean aliases? I think they used to mean aliases... I'm confused now.

* Customizable features (:S)
Is your question along the lines of what anyone would do with netflow data at all? Check out COTS netflow products like Kentik to see what they do.

https://www.kentik.com/product/core/
Ask HN: How to reach out in people in different teams?
I started work at a big bank and there are teams scattered all around the world.

My manager is always encouraging me to reach out to different people and see what they're working on but I am finding it strange to just send people emails when they might be busy working.

So I was just curious, people who work with different teams across the world, what's your take on this?
"Just stick it on a spreadsheet bro."
You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire
Analyse your Apple Music streaming patterns
One thing I’ve heard in the past but I am not educated enough on the subject to understand, is that proton mail‘s privacy features only work if both sides of an email are encrypted, and since most people are not using proton mail, there isn’t a lot of value in it most of the time.

Is this true? Is this a service mainly for people who are emailing other people on similar services?
Depends where they are prosecuted. In the US, we'll use the EU's copy of the data, vice versa (wish this was \s)
I was going to comment that signaling identity in a group by possessing expensive objects sounds so exhausting. Then I reminded myself how much time and money I've sunk into terminal and code editor color schemes, and mechanical keyboards that are less practical and harder to use than my laptop's built-in one.
Ask HN: What things have you done on your phone with only 1 percent battery?
It's amazing how many things you can do with only one percent of battery on your phone, for example my story, I had to walk 20km to my house, half way there I turned on my phone, connected to the internet and turned on Google Maps to see if I was going the right way, no problem I could check maps with only 1 percent of battery on my phone.

Another situation that happened a little while, in 2018 I called the police with only 1 percent battery to report a car accident.

Amazing that 1 percent on a phone can perform so many important actions.
Everyone wonders about that. Googling most phone numbers return nothing but pages of spam links.

A decade from now, Google will have made no improvement.
You can get similar returns buying index funds and you don't need a down payment or good credit. The sunk cost or rent is usually higher than the sunk cost of mortgage interest and home maintenance, but gives the added benefit of increased liquidity and ability to diversify. And personal mobility.
This is actively being discussed in #crux on Clojurians Slack [1].

It ought to show up within the archive [2] in a couple of days. Should already be in the Clojurians Zulip mirror as well.

[1]: https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/CG3AM2F7V/p16231025131...

[2]: https://clojurians-log.clojureverse.org/crux
Those numbers are ridiculous if you think about them for a second. The bottom earners probably have zero excess earnings but somehow pay similar tax per dollar earned as the top 1% earners who have pretty much only excess earnings, even when not accounting for inflated lifestyle inefficiencies. That is just insane.

Here is another view on the mess of income inequality in the US (with Europe for comparison): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjRkWPeU8AIeWtG?format=jpg&name=...

Indefensible really. Digging your own grave.
Interview with Shazam and Apple Scientist Avery Wang
That is amazing. And it looks like she may embed SQLite in as well.
They're way, way more of:

1) Smartphone use, both in general and for web browsing, and

2) Spending on smartphones

These have been true long enough and to a large enough degree that they're usually taken as assumed, baseline facts by anyone involved in mobile software products.

The two of which are why companies not only care about them, but, in fact, iOS' numbers are so good on both of those that it can be tempting to go iOS first for many products, if you have to choose only one platform, even if your demographics don't skew iOS.

iOS devices are used more than Android devices, and their owners spend a lot more on average. There are probably several reasons for this and its unclear which is dominant, but in the end, it doesn't really matter why, if you're just chasing the market.
Does anyone use terraform for onpremise clusters? If so, what is your setup, what hypervisor do you use it with? Are you happy with it? Or maybe you would rather replace it with a set of ansible roles?
Given that the federal government collects its revenue through income taxes, and that 53% of Americans are children, the elderly, students, retired, disabled, or simply unemployed, how many of those people, in your opinion, should have a federal tax liability?

Also, another 13% of Americans make less than $12/hour, with many of them working under 30 hours a week. Roughly how many of those people, in your opinion, should have a federal tax liability?
The solution to this is to eliminate wealth disparity.
Running social media apps is the furthest from secure I would imagine. You could just use a web browser if you really wanted to.
For those interested in playing around with something similar: it looks like a sort of large scale implementation of Sam Lavigne's Videogrep[1].

[1]: http://antiboredom.github.io/videogrep/
Ok HN! We are intelligent, rational, and well intentioned- but we are also diverse! And it is great.

Can someone please help me with the following! Why do we still compare WEALTH with INCOME tax?

Of COURSE wealth is skewed: you go negative pretty fast (college and mortgage), and then you accumulate over time. It is a pretty rational progress. Income can vary over time - and the tax should vary, too.

Why do we smash these two together? Are we DELIBERATLY pushing for a wealth tax? We we doing it underhandedly? Is it ACTUALLY a good idea?
NPR is a fraud
I work in a very large shop with lots of TF and we do not use any of the "ecosystem" other than Terragrunt. Almost all of it is experimental junk.

We use almost entirely one provider, with things like a "template" or "random" provider as well, which are really just core features they decided to split off into plugins. Even when we use SaaS that there is a provider for, we don't use the provider, because we aren't constantly changing it, or managing it doesn't require lots of people across multiple teams with multiple iterations and modules.
from the linked thread:

> I just cloned your repo. Everything is working fine. Breath, Zed.

seems like he panicked and made it worse, then rage-quit
the problem happens with any fixed window spacing regardless of the block size.

If you create a block every Xmb... inserting a single byte at the beginning of the file will change every subsequent block.
> I'm sure there's some rich people / families living in otherwise underwhelming houses, but they're generally a minority.

There are more than you think. Pretty much every city has a nice neighborhood where the wealthy residents live. The difference between someone worth $10mm vs someone worth $100mm is not visible from the street.
CockroachDB is exactly this - a SQL engine on top of a distributed key value store. It is not an extension of Postgres itself, it just speaks the protocol and implements many of the features.
Wealth hoarding is a source of lost productivity. I don't care how you slice it.

And this is not inherently a bad thing. People are entitled to save.

That is until the amount that's being hoarded is disproportionately large.

It's difficult to come up with an agreeably fair solution. But with decades of inaction, the problem is only growing. It's to the point where an objectively bad solution might be better than the continued inaction.