skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Per the grandparent, yes "marijuana and crack prosecution" have explicitly racist elements.

Specifically, the 1930s anti-cannabis is specifically anti-Hispanic, and the question of why there are massively different sentencing laws around crack and powder cocaine seems to me and most of the people I know to have many obvious racial elements.
To people interested in software process. There is a consensus that formal verification and automatic checks in software (even hardware) are a debugging tool, not a comprehensive success/security policy like the linked article would suggest.
I worked at a place that had explicit “20% time” to work on “whatever” and it (incredibly) turned into more micromanaged bullshit. Now I had to set separate goals and milestones for that project too, and report it in one-on-ones with my manager. I just dropped the whole thing because it was literally more work than doing my regular job!
Apparently there’s criminals that only trust other criminals (also apparently, those same criminals are highly likely to betray each other) and those trusted criminals are saying “use this phone, it’s secure”.

Plus, managing DIY security is more complicated than just running Signal on an encrypted phone. Same concerns regarding supply chain interdiction, remote code execution, and other security vulnerabilities on the operating system running Signal.
> If the purpose of writing is to be read and to provoke thought and action

There's a LOT more to good writing than that, and in any event it's not that big of an insult to say someone isn't as good a writer as Bertrand Russell.
I got a ProtonMail account just weeks before the infamous hacking/ransom. The fact that they _paid the ransom_ made them a no-go for me, and I never started using the account.

Also, AIUI, the fact that their accounts are free makes the service attractive for spammers, so email sent via their mail servers tend to get marked as spam.

I have since moved from Gmail to Fastmail and like it quite a lot. Any reasons for why I should reevaluate?

Fastmail costs money, yes, but there are other free alternatives now like Tutanota, which I surmise has the same issue in regards to spam.
How does this effect social mobility? I agree the tax system is unfair towards those in the 1% but not 0.001%, but I don't see how it is so punitive that those earning 500k or owning appreciating assets are taxed back down to a lower social class. And no one reaches those upper echelons by saving their 500k/year or holding their house for a really long time.
The underworld thought its phones were safe. They fell for an encrypted app trap
I'm still rooting for them, specifically for Swarm which is a breath of fresh air for small and personal deployments. Though tooling around Kubernetes has improved in the last couple of years and it's much easier to get started now, the system still has a steep learning curve compared to Swarm.
I wouldn't be surprised if Elon says he can invent quantum computer by the next year.
His point is that foreign states could blackmail you or exert pressure in other ways, even if they aren't gonna extradite and throw you in jail following due process. Thus, Russia/China would have "coercible locals" in western countries.
This is called a Harberger tax and there has been extensive research on it: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
I've asked this before but never got a proper answer. What difference would it make if the rich paid more tax?

If the top 10% of richest people had to pay twice as much tax, they'd still be the top 10% richest people, they'd just have fewer zeros in their bank accounts. But there would still be the same number of yachts and Rolls Royces to go around, so the price of those would just come down. But still only the top 10% could afford them.

Similarly, if the bottom 10% of people now have more zeros because they pay less tax, there would still be the same amount of food and low-end luxury goods to go around, so the price of those would go up.
Date, Time, and Time Zone Enhancements in .NET 6
If you are borrowing money, you have the opportunity to set that money aside to pay taxes. It's really no different.
For readers like me who do not know every single term in data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
"I don't want to live in a world where we're unable to escape working by constant taxes."

I am against a system in which some escape work while others do not.
We already have this in Visual Javascript. When you build an application and export it as HTML it has a full SQL database that runs just in the browser: https://github.com/yazz/visualjavascript
Three short paragraphs? Do we have to install the app or something?
How California Homelessness Became a Crisis
Surely people recognize that the related article purposely misleads readers by calculating false tax rates based not on income but paper wealth that is not real or recognized. ProPublica has a hard progressive bias, this article being one among many examples.
I appreciate the different approaches and I'm grateful for the info (and the opinionated take) right from the source. Thank you.

In terms of Git and the usual commercial SCM practices, I'm speaking empirically. Everywhere I worked in a team, leaders and managers wanted main branch's history to be a bird's-eye view, to have every commit fully build in CI/CD, and be able to find who introduced a problem (admittedly this requires a little more digging compared to Fossil, though). Squashed commits help when auditing for production breakages, and apparently also helps managers do release management (as well as billing customers sometimes).

Do I have all sorts of minor commits in my own projects? Sure! I actually pondered using fossil for them but alas, learning new tools just never gets enough priority due to busy life. I'd love to learn and use it one day. I'm sick of Git.

But I don't think your analogy with a photoshopped / retouched picture is fair. Squashing PRs into a single commit is not done for aesthetic reasons or for deliberately disappearing information -- a link to the original PR with its branch and all commits in it remain and can be fully audited after all. No information actually disappeared.

I believe a better analogy would be with someone who prefers to have one big photo album that contains smaller albums which in turn contain actual photos of separate life events that are mostly (but not exactly) in chronological order -- as opposed to Fossil's approach which can be likened to a classic big photo album with all semantically unrelated photos put in strict chronological order.

I'll reiterate that my observations and opinions are mostly empirical. And let me say that I don't like Git at all. But the practice I described does help in a classic team of programmers and managers.

I concede that Git and its quirks represent a local maxima that absolutely can be improved upon, but at least to me the jury is still out on what's the better approach -- and I'm not sure a flat history is it.
Honestly, that Azure Ledger SQL idea makes more sense for today's enterprise systems than a decentralised blockchain. Not because "blockchains are bad" which unfortunately is what most of the comments have turned into, but rather because it makes a lot more sense in a business context.

Azure's main competition is obviously AWS. And AWS already offer a cloud-based blockchain service used by many big names.[1] Seems to me that Microsoft is just following in their footsteps with that new approach of centralising the ledger. Basically the same thing Amazon's main offering does.

Most large enterprises right now are turning to centralised cloud solutions, that's just the way the market is right now, companies just want to stick their entire businesses on hyperscalers. It's simply easier and cheaper to move an on-prem database to a cloud service than it is to create and maintain a decentralised network.

Taking the blockchain's data integrity features and adding them to existing cloud services therefore makes a lot more sense for actual enterprise use today when you want to compete with AWS and sell cloud subscriptions which Azure does.

I do believe decentralisation in general will mature over time, and certainly many arguments can be made in its favour including for enterprise. I do find it concerning that virtually every big company and even government organisations run everything on AWS, GCP, Azure. And once you have everything running in one of those bubbles there's lock-in.

I'm sure most of us would agree that's hardly ideal. But at the end of the day if you're catering to enterprise and enterprise is saying "we want to throw everything on your servers and have you manage it for us" you have to listen to the market.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/
Actually, the "m" in the middle of "Zimmermann" is also doubled! :)
Worse, if you build an improvement which makes the location more valuable (for example, a tech company building their headquarters and creating demand for nearby residential space) then you pay LVT on the value you created. LVT proponents like to pretend that they only want to tax the "intrinsic value" of the land, as if the entire concept of intrinsic value were not thoroughly discredited long ago, but in practice only the physical structure would be exempt from the tax as an "improvement"—anything else would be too subjective. Perhaps if LVT were only assessed on the value of similar unoccupied land far away from all improvements it might be more reasonable… but that would not fulfill the LVT supporters' objectives.
>Storing every single version of the file which ever hit disk locally on my machine in the history would be the most accurate, yet no one seems to advocate for that.

You'd be surprised. It's only because we understand (and are used to) tool limitations (regarding storage, load, etc) that we don't advocate for that, not because some other way is philosophically better.

I'd absolutely like to have "every single version of the file which ever hit disk locally on my machine in the history".
Won’t that just increase prices of the things you’ve mentioned?

I feel we should somehow work to become more distributed instead of forcing people to come to large cities because all the opportunity is there
Technically, ANOM did start as a “legitimate” criminal application, but was handed over to the FBI early in development as part of a plea deal.
Why doesn't Facebook auto block scam accounts masquerading as real pages?
Virtually every post I see from an established Facebook page, ie Binance, Yield.app, celebrities, has a comment from a scam account with the same page name and logo, passing off as the original account, saying there's a Bitcoin giveaway.

Pretending to be the original page, they say if you send them Bitcoin, they'll send back three times as much. It's always followed by comments to back it up saying "wow, it really worked".

I'd go as far as to say this is an epidemic on Facebook and there are even people in the news being scammed by these exact setups.

Surely Facebook can automate a fix for this? It's straight up fraud and grinds my gears every single day.
It seems like this is missing the obvious focal point: loans taken out by individuals against assets like stock options and equities should be taxed as income. It's trivial to evade income tax when you have accumulated wealth in equities by taking out a loan against the equities and then progressively liquidating them at capital gains tax rates to fulfil the loan payments. If every loan taken out by Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos against their corporate assets were treated as income, I suspect we'd see a much larger share of tax paid by them.

edit: How do I make the same point as u/fairity 5 minutes prior but accumulate down votes? lol
You're technically speaking wrong, but I'm sure the author doesn't want to reimplement block storage devices... So the spirit of the message is probably correct
One of the European G7 and G20 countries.
There's a time and place for everything. Sometimes that level of precision is required, sometimes it's not.
One afternoon with Terraform and you'll want to give up cloud and get your own datacenter again.
Hermit: Open-source toolchain management by Cash App
I wonder if this is more a subtle criticism of psychology research. Perhaps a walk in the park should be more of a baseline
No hard and fast rules. Like obscenity, a reasonable person believes the situation warrants it when they see it.
Discovering Africa’s Oldest Burial
I think it’s bold to assume the government even wants to nab the big guys.

One example is fentanyl is killing us by the thousands every year. We know who the guy is who owns the factor that’s providing most of the fentanyl and precursors to the cartels. He lives in China and runs an also legit chemical factory. He commits the crime right in the main factory in the open. We politely asked China to arrest him, but they said no. No real political pressure to do anything, no assassinations, nothing. Thousands dead every year.
Google Search Engine Gets New Dark Mode Theme for Desktop
> So, how does blockchain help?

Easy: the malicious actor has zero chance of arguing that port authority XY messed up the paperwork or that the documentation said it was 1 brick all along.

Sure, there is the oracle problem, but that's not what the blockchain (not a public BC by the way, it uses a fixed number of trusted nodes) tries to solve.

The issue is often patchy documentation and lack of traceability. BC is only one tool of many here and the major improvement is digitalisation of the entire supply chain.

I worked on a project in wholesale logistics several years ago and you wouldn't believe how many parts of the delivery system are still handled using literal paperwork. Coffee stains and manual "corrections" are daily occurrences and because of that, resolving irregularities way too often comes down to his/her words against theirs.

A fully digital supply chain with every step and update permanently recorded in a cryptographically secured manner, helps immensely with these kinds of issues.

BC is just one part of it and doesn't aim to solve everything, but it's a huge improvement. The distributed nature of the ledger provides an incentive for all participants to take part in it, because it reduces trust issues that might arise if all trust is to be put into a single party.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to tell whether a more conventional distributed database system would've sufficed, and what the pros and cons of either approach are in detail, but BC is a viable solution.
Nah. Its better to have a wider variety of vehicle types to satisfy the needs of different people.

I personally would rather buy Hybrid or PHEV over full electric. Besides, Ford already has the MachE and F150 Lightning for those who want full electric.
Feature or bug? Cui bono?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono
Switching from Windows PC to Mac and why I switched back
Or after work, I'm currently doing 2-mile daily runs (trying to get into my old 5km running habit) and it's incredibly restorative after a day of thinking about other people's problems.
We Are Sorry to Inform You (2005) [pdf]
anecdotally, from what i've seen at a passing glance and from past API use, in person events are like <0.00001% of FB events. no one actually goes to in person events, and if they do they are very large ones like concerts. ones that are not large ones like concerts are private events like small parties, and unlisted.

you seem like you're looking more for eventbrite.com or similar type of service
A good night's sleep is better than antibiotics.
Tampermonkey and Dark Reader are a couple.
I am a long time customer, but there are things that keep me from much using ProtonMail. My major pain point is lack of semantic understanding of e-mail content / calendar integration. When I get an email with a hotel or airline reservation, in my world, I want an automatically generated calendar entry. I try to limit my use of tech and devices to about four hours a day, but I want that time to be hyper productive.

I like ProtonVPN, no complaints about that.

I like their web interface in general, but having a combined email and calendar app for both iOS and iPadOS, with email/calendar auto calendar entries would be fantastic.
What is the point of this post exactly? That the same logic can be used to argue the opposite if you invert the basic assumptions? Do you think that's such a groundbreaking observation that it justfies such a snarky post? If you actually wanted to contribute something, how about attacking those basic assumptions?
And US has become global powerhouse with world technology companies on its soil due to incentives provided by government to setup new businesses.

Would you prefer a world more of these tech giants were in China
London has lots of nice parks. There was much more greenery around me in London than there is in the ‘leafy’ suburb, elsewhere in the country, that I currently live in.
> Is it really only the job of government to make ethical decisions?

one of the theoretical principals of capitalism is that free markets allow people to use their money as a proxy for ethical support and ethical decision making.

this principal is theoretical because of straight up apathy - people just cant be fucked. there are other minor contributing factors like information asymmetry, but the real issue with capitalism, like any politcal/economic system, is the people. PEBKAC.

if people cared and the market was free enough, ethical companies would simply put others out of business.
Majority of $4.4M cryptocurrency ransom payment in CP hack recovered
Good essay overall, but this footnote in particular stood out to me:

> [2] Tiger parents, as parents so often do, are fighting the last war. Grades mattered more in the old days when the route to success was to acquire credentials while ascending some predefined ladder. But it's just as well that their tactics are focused on grades. How awful it would be if they invaded the territory of projects, and thereby gave their kids a distaste for this kind of work by forcing them to do it. Grades are already a grim, fake world, and aren't harmed much by parental interference, but working on one's own projects is a more delicate, private thing that could be damaged very easily.

It's so true. I got obsessed with programming around 11, started off with my shitty vb6 programs and moved on to reverse engineering video games and writing hacks. I never told any adults what I was doing until I was nearly an adult myself, out of fear they'd ruin my hobby like they did everything else. I remember thinking to myself how much school sucked and being determined not to let that poison the one thing I liked worked on. My parents thought I was a degenerate who did nothing but play computer games all day. Blew them away when I got my first programming job and eventually skipped college to start working right out of high school.

I have a bunch of friends who say the same thing. They'd find some new cool thing, show even the slightest interest in it and their mom would immediately start making them drill it three hours a day until they hated it and weren't interested in it anymore. It's a sad story.
Actually I read it before you deleted it haha.

Curious if you think some sort of independent contractor style would work in your situation? I'm not experienced in that type of workstyle, but it seems like companies with less long term investment in training, benefits etc would care less about age, as long as you deliver.
Firefox is an open source project, but pushing large changes upstream is difficult (and this is true of pretty much any project). Even if Apple had the patches, Mozilla might not take them.
I didn't even know what microdosing was until I clicked. Do THAT many people know what Microdosing is that they can just omit LSD from the title?
I was not using anything special, I had implemented my own client for IPA. Te equivalent functionality in Python (ended up using Ansible to do my thing) uses just a few kB ...
I'm curious, do you know of any research (or even just anecdotes) showing that speaking practice is bad? I've heard the claim before but never seen any evidence for it.

In my own experience, it feels like speaking helps improve my speaking a lot. Sure it doesn't help me pick up new phrases or grammar at all, but the first time I say something always comes out horrible, before getting progressively better as I say it more. And there's the skill of utilizing a limited vocabulary to communicate complex ideas. That's another thing that I feel has gotten better as I exercise it through speech.
Cloud Security from First Principles – Revisited
Sadly true, though he did get get sued by the NYAG and in settlement agreed to a raft of restrictions on his charitable service, as well as the closure of the foundation and return of $2m in misused funds[0]

[0]:https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/donald-j-trump-pays-cou...
Looks like the 1040-EZ is no longer used, could you elaborate on this “hack” you’re suggesting is a flat tax solution?
You’re not actually talking about the “moderately wealthy.” Just because billionaires are insanely wealthy doesn’t change the fact that a household making $500,000 is still incredibly wealthy.

There’s already an exemption for capital gains tax on the sale of primary homes. $500,000 for married couples, and you can remove the cost basis and cost of improvements from the equation.

In other words, almost nobody is taxed on the sale of their primary home.

A household that makes $500k on a good year is actually in the 1% statistically. They have left the working class long ago. They could work for about 7-10 years in their career and retire with an above-median salary (withdrawing following the 4% rule) in perpetuity. That is by definition not the working class: that family barely has to work in order to secure a lifetime of comfortable living if they don’t inflate their lifestyle.

In my view, your comment acts as an implication of support for regressive tax policy that hurts the actual working class. No, moderately wealthy people do not need help. No, we are not temporarily embarrassed millionaires held back from generational wealthy only by government tax policy – that’s a farce sold to us by the very billionaires that want to avoid being taxed. They want us to think that taxes hurt us more than they hurt them, which is mathematically not true.

They want us to think that “if only our taxes were cut, we could go back to affording a middle class lifestyle.” It’s not true.
If you take loans secured by unrealized gains, don't you need to eventually sell some of those gains to repay the loan? You can only take out so many loans until the interest starts stacking up.
Tampermonkey itself works with desktop Safari now. It’s amazing.
Friendly reminder that if you still can't afford (as in, it's not your call to make) to migrate away from Teams, at least you can ease the pain a little bit, or contribute to ease it:

https://github.com/fossteams/teams-cli
I have a friend who is a member of the ultra rich, and this is exactly how his family uses their portfolio. They currently can borrow with .03% interest through their brokerage.
"The transfers represented payments made by Colonial that had been transferred to an "address" whose password or "private key" was known to the FBI". Does anyone else feel that this shows a deficiency in the security of cryptocurrency?
> The extremely wealthy will move their wealth into complex multinational financial vehicles

In Elizabeth Warren's proposal, they would be subject to a 40% exit tax on the wealth that they moved. If they didn't pay the exit tax, that would be fraud.