skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think that if you wanted a SPA-like experience, you wouldn't be choosing a static site generator, no?
I guess VCs wouldn't be considered "bosses"?
You may never have future gains to match the loss.

Why would we want a system that taxes people on an unrealized gain and then (maybe) gives it back to them over coming years?
> The gains are realized, but due to various loopholes untaxed diaposable cash is created.
How does this happen and why is it legal?

I'm sure there are loopholes, but at some level it also demonstrates how stupendously wealthy the super rich are that financing their lifestyles (i.e. houses) often requires a tiny fraction of their overall wealth.
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"There is absolutely no reason not to hire from any good university if the individual got there through merit alone, without the benefit of legacy."

Why did you mention legacy as the only type of non-merit admissions? I think the Harvard admissions case found that racial preferences were larger boosts.
Have you ever built a treehouse? It is both architecture and engineering.
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Critical UI and UX Failures in Facebook Events
Recently I tried to search for an in-person event in my city using Facebook Events, and quickly realized that there was no way to actually achieve that.

I further discovered Facebook Events UI and UX don't give Users the options to perform a wide variety of searches that would be considered simple / standard in any other events-based application.

For example:

* Online Events: FB Events does not let you filter out Online Events, so your search results will be polluted with unwanted results if you're seeking an in-person event, making the results essentially meaningless and unusable.

* Browse Events: There is no way to browse upcoming events in your geographical area. Instead, you must specify a search term and run the search. i.e. There is no way to simply see what's going on in town and randomly pick a local event to go to.

* Time-Based Search Criteria: Users are unable to for an event that occurs at a specific time. E.g. "Show me events that start at 6pm and end by 10pm."

* Nearby Cities: Results will often display events in nearby cities, despite the User specifying that they only want to see "nearby events". This makes the search results essentially unusable, since much of what is displayed is not appropriate to you.

...and yet, FB events are often the only game in town.

Honestly, I am quite suspicious of Facebook's reasons for making these UI and UX decisions, since no self-respecting UI/UX designer would come up with this interface or this experience. Maybe Facebook believes that if you're attending in-person events, then you aren't using Facebook?

I would truly love to see FB improve the UI and UX of the Events API so that Users could find more appropriate results for their searches.
You could start by watching the Fluid Framework github.com/microsoft/fluidframework (I'm a dev on the team).

We solve a lot of these problems. This whole article speaks to the longer term vision. Even the article's Title is effectively our internal pitch: a web first database... that enables very low latency collab
In your house example. this is only if the homeowner takes out a loan against the new increased value of the house, and then pays tax on a portion of that loan. If your house appreciates and you don't play financial games with it, the only increase in costs would come from a local tax reassessment.
Does this only work at the project snapshot level? My artists prefer P4 over git with the major reason being the ability to work on single files at a time (ie sparse check out).

Auto-commit is neat.
Indirectly, they're also pushing for "fixing" of Firefox with Rust (only 84%[?] to go!)
Why not? I do not see any reason to have a history at all for anything except to be able to go back to a specific version to track down a problem. Inaccurate history makes that less useful.
We already have special treatment for capital gains in the form of a primary residence. No reason that couldn't continue.
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 PGs essay is.

Peculiarly, I think your opinion and the difference between the two essays gives credibility to PGs points. One essay by an academic, and the other by a creator and people err on the relative value of the academic’s because that’s what they’re taught to do.
Peer reviewers and editor wanted to publish my paper. The legal team rejected it
some countries have a social "fabric" .. the USA is a geographic location with English-style law, and a lot of people who are very divided and increasingly antagonistic.. Try to build the Roman Empire, and you get Roman Empire problems in your population..
> Firefox users constitute <1% of my traffic.

I configure FF to use a different user agent, as a security measure. It's a short hop from browsing the Internet with FF to disabiling browser identification.
A pencil would be pretty ridiculous for the iPad, after all artists are not Apple's target group. Oh wait, we have have one, and suddenly the iPad is one of the best devices for artists. For developers it's even easier, because the hardware is already there. Why shouldn't I be able to run Kubernetes? Isn't the iPad Pro the "fastest iPad ever made"? I have the device, now let me use it. Fun fact: other iPad users will not be affected by my ability to run Kubernetes or Docker or whatever.
The problem with that (and all other forms of eminent domain) is that the value of a piece of property to the owner is often far higher than its value on the open market. Even if this is purely a business decision and not, say, related to an irreplaceable family heirloom, the risk of a forced sale at an inconvenient time would be far too disruptive.

For example, let's say you own a car with an appraised value of $25,000—meaning that you could buy one similar to your for that price (more or less). So you declare the taxable value to be $25,000 and pay the corresponding tax, and then right before you leave for an extended road trip someone decides that they would rather have your vehicle than one from a dealer and makes you an offer for $25,000 which you cannot legally refuse. Now you're without a car and scrambling to buy a replacement and get it registered, insured, packed, and ready to leave on short notice. Your plans are disrupted and the new vehicle, while "equivalent" to the one you had before in terms of factory specs and general condition, just isn't the same as the one you had carefully maintained and customized to your liking.

In practice people would need to over-declare the value of any property they didn't want to sell, which effectively makes this a tax on how attached people are to specific items and not a tax on their "fair" market value. The situation becomes even worse if the owner has enemies willing to over-pay for the item purely out of spite.

One of the fundamental rights of ownership is the right to choose not to sell, no matter how much someone offers.
FYI: it's spelt segue. Segway is the brand-name of a self-balancing wheeled contraption that was supposed to revolutionize urban transportation 2 decades ago, but only saw success in the mall-cop niche.
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So people should stop hanging guillotines outside of Jeff Bezos's house? He's just following game theoretic strategy after all.
Communicable disease prevention. HIV infections are typically reported to the government, for example, and does not require patient consent (nor does such data sharing incur a HIPPA violation).

> All 50 states require both physicians and laboratories to report to local or state health departments the names of persons newly diagnosed with Centers for Disease Control-defined AIDS [1]. However, because AIDS cases represent onset of the disease caused by HIV, HIV data is necessary to monitor the epidemic.

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/hiv-and-health-...
You have $100M of stock in Berkshire Hathaway. You use use that as collateral to borrow $11M. You use $1M of the loan to pay expenses (including the interest on the loan). You invest the other $10M in Amazon.

A year later you have $11M in Amazon stock and $110M in Berkshire Hathaway. You borrow against the Amazon stock and use that to pay off the first loan. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The bankers are always happy. Why would they ever foreclose on you?
Oh wow - this is awesome!
> It would have been perfectly reasonable for PG to launch his attacks on overscheduling rather than school.

I agree, it would have been. But I wouldn't let schools off the hook, because they are the other edge of the feedback loop: in big part, extracurriculars exist as a way to game admission system. Together, they form a system that tries to consume all the free time a kid has.

> He talked about "work they do as adults" and "more predictive value" and "When I was picking startups for Y Combinator".

At least in his writing, pg does play with the idea that work is valuable beyond the money it earns you, so I interpreted this essay in that light.
I keep it on as well - just hope that they can see that after 89.0 was releases there was an increase (not big, but still) in changes to default look'n'feel and make some conclusions :)
android users can get extensions/ad blocking via firefox already anyway
That’s how it is in the US, and it’s terrible.

In other places, e.g. Mexico, India, the radiologist can very much be talking to the patient, and can have information from earlier scans.
Note that assets in a foundations and donor advised funds are not reported in anyone’s net worth online calculators.

There is no way to predict somebody’s net worth and all the lists are wrong. There are only a few public things and they are all snapshots in time that assume it’s still true forever. An actor on a big movie? The list will say “we estimate they made 20 million, lets list them as a net worth of 20 million forever”, a non obfuscated real estate property record either in someones name or linked to them? Okay we are counting that. Aside from that they are just counting shares of public companies that large % holders are required to disclose. Outside of those slivers you’ll still never know if they were a savvy and passive investor in other public equities just like you are trying to be. You’ll never know if they made 1,000% more on tech stocks. You’ll never know if they assigned shares and cash to a charitable organization they control. You’ll definitely never know what subsequent trades the charitable organization made.

But even without pointing at charities: Hedge Funds, VC and Private Equity firms are not reported nor are any business interest. These things can pay out arbitrarily and also have large amounts of funds in any limited partners name.
what is wrong with you. when did i talk about a "poor" person. i specifically wrote when you record an amount in your financial statements as your "gain", after close of financial year, there is no uncertanity of what was earned. the actual has happened.
why would a regular home owner create his financial statement?
Go ahead and lobby Congress to pass that. See how easily you can get that done against the lobbying from the holders of that wealth.

Now how do we change the system? Put it in front of the entire public how much higher a percentage of their wealth they give up compared to these few, and get the entire public to fight for equity.
Yes that's what we're discussing ITT.

There are any number of principled reasons to oppose paying taxes to USA government, but "I'm rich and I can afford the lobbyists and tax attorneys to make the system work for me" is not among those.
Spot on. Browser competition nowadays is all about each vendor's ability to implement new standards – and in this case Firefox is clearly lagging.
I think he's making the point that the attributions of "This came from <insert geopolitical enemy here>" are without any evidence. How exactly do you determine that a hack originated in Russia when Russian ips will not hand over their traffic to US authorities? Just because a lot of illicit web traffic originates from Israeli servers, for example, does not mean that it originated in Israel. In reality, our cyber security agencies have no idea where these guys are coming from: it COULD very well be from Russia, sure, but it could also be from your neighbor next door who vpn'd in through a chain of servers starting in france and ending in mali.
Of course, but these patterns are true of most businesses (and indeed much human behavior). Companies have policies planned exceeding implementation because the cost isn't justified (until it is).

... and "enforcing the law incentivizes criminals to spend more on not getting caught" isn't really an argument for not enforcing the law. Indeed, from the point of view of law enforcement, it's short-term win-win... Every resource spent on being harder to catch is a resource not spent on the actual harmful criminal activity.
It's interesting to watch Biden get no flack while capitulating to Russia on their pipeline, kill the Keystone pipeline, and the media still says it was Trump that was in Putin's pocket.

Edit s/capitulating/ capitulation
Heroin is like this, too.
the missing context is that anom has been revealed to be an FBI sting operation. no dealer in their right might should have trusted it, but many did.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-57394831
> A percentage of phone sales always goes to factory workers in the form of wages...

Preposterous, factory workers are usually paid the same wage whether their production sells 1000 units or 1 million units. Their wage isn't based on how many phones are sold or even if phones are sold since the factory is usually paid upfront in production, not when the phones are actually sold.

Phone factory worker wages are completely unrelated to phone sales.

You comment illustrates a complete misunderstanding of the supply chain business.
I don't think he's ever talking to future/lifelong employees. His passion is clearly startup founders and his writing is always directed at those people.
> Who's to stop anyone from producing a "Rolex" watch pointing to the exact same entry on the blockchain?

No one. But only one is signed by Rolex's keys, and therefore considered legitimate.

> Indeed. So how exactly does blockchain protect against counterfeit goods?

It depends on who you are if it does or not. It can 1) prevent inconsistencies in different databases in different orgs, 2) prevent companies trying to hide their tracks or muddy the waters, 3) provide near-instantaneous settlement and coordination

Let me ask you this; if you buy a Rolex watch on eBay that includes a QR code as proof of authenticity, how can you be confident that the same QR code has not been included with 100 other duplicate watches otherwise?

(I had this happen with fake Bose headphones, BTW. A correct blockchain implementation would have allowed me to spot that within minutes of receiving the package as well as irrefutable proof to present to eBay/law enforcement, as opposed to months later when they failed and vague evidence)
> I think using a Turing-complete language like typescript with mature tooling to define cloud infrastructure feels very natural and makes things much more manageable than using HCL.

Fully agree. Not sure if any of the CDKs (or Pulumi) get the ergonomics right though. The ergonomics should feel like we're just generating YAML/JSON/etc, but the CDKs I've seen require inheritance, mutable state, etc.

> One thing I absolutely can't do without is the state management api terraform provides with its CLI. This is absent from terraform-cdk and aws's CDK, although many of the same APIs seem to exist for pulumi.

AWS's CDK is built on CloudFormation, so I don't think it has analogs for Terraform's state APIs. As for TF CDK, I would think you would just use Terraform's CLI state management directly? Maybe I'm confused about what you're trying to do?
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Flat tax is too regressive. What seems justified is a basic S-curve indexed by income, and where the left hand side dips below zero so those below a certain line effectively get a negative income tax to maintain a certain standard of living.
I've been holding this idea of searching movie subtitles for a long time, but haven't got the energy to actually code it out. So glad to see someone else made it come true!
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True. If it were me who really cared about phoning home, I would buy a fresh iPhone, put it on its own WLAN from first boot, then record all packets from it for a month (plus some prodding of opening apps and changing settings). That should build a relatively comprehensive list of addresses to consider filtering.

Short of living in a shack in the woods, we will all have to trust someone at some point. I'm content to trust Apple to not lie on their documents, so the more important security and privacy checkboxes are ticked.
Seems like laws already exist around legitimate charitable institutions. If those aren’t being enforced now, what makes you think new laws will be?
When ideals contradict the business model.
At this point these "employers" are not much more than glorified middlemen who take a cut and make the work landscape just a little more cutthroat
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As a former news junkie, I can confidently state that getting a view of the (rest of the) world by watching the news will give you an extremely skewed view of the world. Just look at how much coverage they give to one event (e.g. the recent Israel-Gaza conflict) vs others with an order of magnitude more casualties to get an idea of the skewness.

An exercise I came up with years ago: On a piece of paper write down the most important issues in the world. If they match the exposure that the typical news media provides, then you've lost the ability to have an independent perspective.
Thanks for the kind words. Our goal is to asymptotically approach doing everything perfectly, and we really value feedback. So please let us know where we can improve and what you'd like us to add. Relatedly, sometimes we have sample code for features that aren't nicely abstracted into APIs, or which we haven't documented yet/well. So don't hesitate to ping us.
You might be OK with being taxed in the form of some of your stocks, but would you want to be taxed partial ownership of your real estate based on increase in its market value? What about private high-risk equity in a venture you started by risking all of your own money? It could go to zero (or millions) in a decade, but for now the government becomes an increasing shareholder because of its current YoY volatility...

Taxing non-income wealth increases by any means incentivizes the government to manipulate the prices of those assets -- and more than any other entity, the government possesses the power to do so through regulation and legislation.

It also makes the government the eventual largest capital owner, which could create all sorts of unintended consequences. It could sit on those assets indefinitely (like it does its liabilities) instead of selling and using the money to fund itself. There's a special kind of poverty that exists when the government owns almost everything.

Also, there's a big difference between legal worth at a given time and fungible value at that time. The difference (or lack thereof) between the two could itself create all sorts of opportunities for gaming the system when fungible value becomes a basis for being taxed.
Currently, the inheritance tax exempts the first $11.5 million of an estate from the estate tax. Do you think your heirs will need more than that? This threshold goes up every year, by the way.

I think it’s generally accepted that there should be a minimum threshold for the estate tax. You can consider it to be implied unless specifically stated otherwise.
I’ve had many similar frustrations about terraform, and the overall lack of visibility into what’s happening drives me mad at times.

A proper repl, with the ability to actually manage a config would be a huge step forward - I spend more time trying to figure out what vars get populated and how I can get a value into another resource than anything else. It’s like I’m constantly fighting with the HCL syntax to get what I want to happen.
To me it always come down to permissions. I've tried firebase, I've tried graphql. I just can't use them for anything other than admin endpoints or things with very simple permissions. I'm glad the author mentioned permissions, but I would need to see some seriously compelling evidence that I could trust a declarative, resource-based permissions system to accomplish what I need.
Ok, thanks bye. Have a good time.

The US needs to move beyond ISS, embrace the new technology that SpaceX is offering and build a station that is 4x the size while being cheaper to maintain and supply.

Drop the ISS by 2024 and reallocate the funding for the new private stations.

And Russia can continue to do what they do best, release press statements about the amazing new projects they are planning.

All that said, I am against these sanctions.
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I'm curious how this works constitutionally, in the US. Presumably the FBI did not have warrants for all the conversations they were listening in on, so it at least superficially seems like a fourth amendment violation.
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Whenever the key is checked, the software that checks the key creates an entry in the blockchain.

Using your example of a Rolex, the code can be scanned by the authorised dealer and buyer. Those events are then stored in the blockchain next to the cryptographic hashes of both entities.

Any authorised dealer who buys one for resale would scan the QR code so ownership can be transferred in the same way on a public ledger.

If there's a public record that this Rolex has been purchased already and you scan it, this record would show up. It could even show exactly where and when it was purchased.

Clearly, for someone to put a real cryptographic key on a fake Rolex, they need to have taken it from a real one.

So if someone tries to sell you a "Rolex" and you scan it, you'll have the history of the watch right there. If they try to claim it's new, you'll know that's a lie. If they try to sell it to an authorised dealer, they'll get caught.

This could still leave space for fake Rolexes to be sold as used on eBay or something of course, but then if you buy a "Rolex" on eBay from a random seller (not an AD) you kind of know what you're getting already don't you?

(Although even in those situations, knowing exactly when and where the real watch was last purchased makes it easy to just make a phone call and get a better idea of legitimacy. Currently, even ADs send the watches to Rolex for verification because the fakes are so good.)
Exactly, people do not understand how trivially easy it is to completely halt US investigations into internet traffic origins just by pivoting off of a box in a country which doesn't hand over its ip logs to the United States. I would imagine that, should you choose to hack a russian target, you would pivot off of an american box (or would the US hand those logs over? I actually think they might even if Russia wouldn't reciprocate).
Ultimately, these services compete with taxies, public transit, driving a car, getting a hotel and picking up your own pizza. If they are not competitive with alternatives, they won't be trillion dollar companies and won't justify their stock prices. There is an optimum price if the sharing economy companies want to be everyday conveniences instead of occasional luxuries.