skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't necessarily have to pay back the loan until your death, then it is taken from the estate and the balance passed on to heirs. At that point the step up basis occurs and the process starts over again. No taxes were paid on the value of the loan. (Correct me if wrong on this)
> Cloudflare as state-of-the-art in terms of security and ease-of-use

Depends whose security. I value my security dearly and that's why i use the Tor Browser. Cloudflare has decided i cannot browse any of their websites if i care about my security (they filter out tor users and archiving bots agressively) so i'm not using any cloudflare-powered website. Is it good for security that we prevent people from using security-oriented tooling, and let a single multinational corporation decide who gets to enter a website or not? In my book creating a SPOF is already bad practice, but having them filter out entrances is even worse.

Also, are all of these CDNs and other cloud providers are solving the right problems?

If you want your service to be resilient against DDOS attacks, you don't need such huge infrastructure. I've seen WP site operators move to Cloudflare because they had no caching in place, let alone a static site.

If you want better connectivity in remote places where our optic fiber overlords haven't invested yet, P2P technology has much better guarantees than a CDN (content-addressing, no SPOF). IPFS/dat/Freenet/Bittorrent... even multicast can be used for spreading content far and wide.

Why do sysadmins want/use CDNs? Can't we find better solutions? Solutions that are more respectful to spiders and privacy-minding folks with NoScript and/or Tor Browser?
Link discussing new features in more detail: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/whats-new-i...
There are barely any useable Safari extensions even on desktop (Mac) Safari besides maybe content blockers and we already got those on iOS. The extensions I use are all on Firefox or Edge (Chromium).

Any examples of Safari Extensions you're looking for on iOS?
US seizes $2.3M Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware attackers
This is very cool and I have 0% idea how it works. My work's network actually blocks this as 'Unknown', but I'll check it when I get home.
These figures are meaningless without also stating what % of income the top x% earned. for example if the top 1% earned 99% of all income then paying 24% of all tax doesn't look so good.
Pretty terrible article.
Most mining takes place in China, so no, they can't do anything.
This site is full of resources to help navigate this turbulent time in higher education https://www.thecoddling.com/. It has helped me articulate what concerns me so much.
I’m all for people paying taxes they owe. I’m against vigilante style leaks when the target hasn’t committed a crime.

Just because the person is not a sympathetic figure doesn’t mean it gives people the right to leak this kind of info, be they Bezos, Clinton, Soros, Koch, Gates, etc. get them on actual evasion if they have.

Otherwise what’s the purpose, rich people use tools to minimize their taxes? Ok, publish what the tools are and promote change in the tax code.
Ory Identity Platform as a Service in Early Access
I am so grateful for KDE. We in the free software world are lucky to have such a powerful, complete, thoughtfully designed desktop. The consistency of the interface, and the reliability of "there's a switch for that", reminds me of Windows 95 of all things. And for all that, it's clean and lightweight. For the proverbial user demographic of "expert in a hurry", nothing else even comes close.
Forged 17th-century music books went undetected for a century
> America’s billionaires avail themselves of tax-avoidance strategies beyond the reach of ordinary people. Their wealth derives from the skyrocketing value of their assets, like stock and property. Those gains are not defined by U.S. laws as taxable income unless and until the billionaires sell.

So if we're going to tax them in years when their wealth increases, I presume we're also going to issue tax refunds when their wealth decreases?
Interesting points.
Can you provide a definition of your nation state?
Really??? Like the government needs more tanks and F-35s.
You both are right, but there is a caveat: the cells internal resistance.

Connecting cells in parallel is inherently safe if done when they're brought all at the same level; from that moment on they won't charge or discharge across each other because the current draw will always bring them at the same voltage, therefore having zero current from cell to cell.
The problem is however when one or more cells degrade with age, therefore we have more efficient cells in parallel with less efficient ones. That is not a problem safety wise as well, because as before they'll always be at the same potential, but should their degradation change their internal resistance to a point it's a lot higher than their normal one, then we would have the good cells with lower internal resistance sustaining the most current during charge or discharge, and that could be dangerous.
To avoid situations like that one, never implement charges faster than the one that could be sustained by a single cell. Let's say one 2Ah cell can be safely charged at 2C max, that is, 4 Amperes, if we build a pack of 3 of those cells in parallel we would be tempted to charge them at 6C, that is 12 Amperes, which would work in a new pack with all cells that equally balance the current. But if (when) one or two cells degrade their internal chemistry increasing their internal resistance, we'd be left with the remaining good cell(s) drawing the most current, which will largely exceed their individual rating, overheating them and potentially making them explode (that's also when individual cell protection make sense). There's actually a case in which a cell chemistry is so degraded that it can't only store the same amount of current, but also the same voltage, and this could be a problem in parallel packs, but the battery performance drop should have warned us a lot before this happens.

So, all we need is to keep the charge current as low as the current sustainable by a single cell, and we're safe. Slow charging also benefits the overall cells life. Don't worry about connecting unprotected cells in parallel, as they balance themselves: all laptop batteries have balanced series of unbalanced parallels. For example, a 6 cell pack contains is arranged as 2p+2p+2p (2 cells in parallel in series with 2 cells in parallel in series with 2 cells in parallel) while 9 cell packs use 3 cells parallels; series cells are balanced through the BMS, but parallel cells will self balance. What is important is to keep series groups balanced and protect against excessive voltage and charge/discharge current.
Allows you to search for a specific phrase or word and you get video results from movies (with timestamp), where this phrase/word is being used. Has around 2M phrases and the first 5 results are free, afterwards you need to become a sponsor.
Scotland has an entirely distinct legal system with a single unified police agency (with it's own serious and organised crime division). There has never been a connection between the legal system in Scotland and that of England and Wales. Scots laws are primarily passed by the independent Scottish Parliament with only a small number of matters reserved for the UK Parliament in London which passes distinct statutory instruments for Scotland to create approximate equivalence between the 'English' and 'Scottish' laws. These result in anomalies like the violent imagery laws in Scotland are more strict than those of England, meaning a cartoon image in England can be legal to possess but have strict liability severe punishment in Scotland; Scotland retains a right to silence upon arrest but in England remaining silent can be considered by a court to be an admission of guilt (sorry US readers, there is no 5th amendment in England and Wales; you do not have the option of "never talk to the police").

The difference has long irritated 'the English Establishment' so much that an informal verse was sung at one point as an adjunct to what is now the UK National Anthem (but was not officially added contrary to some popular belief[1]).

It also gave rise to the deeply racist phrase "Scot Free" in relation to people being acquitted in trials - during 'show trials' to crush anti-establishment figures, Scots juries would regularly return 'not proven' verdicts as it was necessary for all parts of an indictment to be 'proved' and juries used the verdict to rebel against unjust trials of English opponents. The phrase was used to denigrate those thus freed by juries and persists throughout the English speaking world today and is in common usage despite it's origin as a racist epithet towards Scots and the Scottish legal system.

[1] http://www.sath.org.uk/edscot/www.educationscotland.gov.uk/s...
In your scenario, Big Ag just needs to offer an amount that causes the tax burden to be unbearable for the person who currently owns the farm. That’s not “the value of the land” but the cash flow of the owner at a moment in time.
If the lower bound on estate taxes are too low, certain kinds of capital intensive family businesses like farms take a big hit as they pass from generation to generation -- in a world where they generally have a net disadvantage to corporations already.
> The only thing that could happen is that the network forks and different parts of the network reach majority on different states.

That's the main thing that Bitcoin solved, how to resolve this exact situation. You can't just ignore this problem and claim to have a similarly resilient design.

> This problem is solved by raising the majority needed to 80% rather than >50% and on top of that is is further reduced by intentionally overlapping the nodes who are defined by each node.

The first part just makes it slightly more expensive to do a sybil attack. The second part relies on someone deciding what the overlapping nodes are, now you have to trust them.

> If you have 10 nodes all listen to the other 9 and require that form the other 9 80% agree then there is no way the network can ever fork.

And now you have a network that can't grow beyond 10 nodes, and if more than 10 show up you need to somehow choose the ones that are honest. Or someone needs to decide which nodes get to be the "special 10".

> Now these 10 nodes are publicly known

And chosen by whom? Can you trust the entity that chooses them? Can you trust them not to be hacked and share malicious nodes instead?
Add to that list:

4. Divorces are being initiated to show expenses and "reduce" wealth ;)
You have to have two separate cdns and use DNS to fail over. The problem is that means paying for a CDN that just sits dormant for the 99.999% of the time that your primary is down.

Alternatively you could use DNS to fail over to the content you host, instead of another CDN. But in many cases that would be the same as an outage since the CDN exists to reduce the impact of all those requests on your infra
Where is it deployed? In China or India?
Indeed. Another abomination.
Possibly oligarchs and middle eastern royals, those kind of people.
Yes, and that's the only sensible way to do it, IMHO.

The market value of an asset goes up and down all the time. There is only an actual gain or an actual loss when that asset is sold. That's the appropriate time to tax (and that's also when the person is sure to have the cash to pay any tax since they have just sold the asset!)
Oh, tell me more about it. It's a painful endeavour to gather information about upcoming TV show precisely because of the tactics you described.

BTW, news websites in question are not doing it only for opening times but for any popular search phrase they can come up. Would be such a shame if outlets like BBC, WSJ and others adopted that kind of SEO.
Declarative vs. Imperative Thinking in a JavaScript Context Explained Simply
Well technically everything is possible. But Javascript was precisely designed to encourage this kind of patterns.

> As usual, solve people problems via people, not tech.

So true..
There's a difference in mentality to say its cheaper or saying its better.
I think it would be perfectly reasonable to reset the basis on any asset which had 40% estate taxes paid on it, but that’s now how the law is written. Not only is there an $11 million lifetime exemption there’s also an annual gift tax exclusion that combined with some clever trust setups allow the wealthy to pass on much more than that without paying the 40%.

In practice huge amounts of capital gains are not taxed by either the capital gains tax or the estate tax.
1) information - which might be scary.
2) government control of some kind -
I am hoping this improves certain business tooling on mobile where their existing apps are subpar. For me specifically, I am thinking about HubSpot w/ Gmail.
I once worked for a small software company that produced custom-written ERP systems for small to mid-sized manufacturers. It was a real thrill to be presented a problem and write code that solves it nicely, removing hindrances to productive work by the end users. I loved being able to visit in person, see the issue first-hand, work with them to devise a solution, and then later watch how much easier their job had become because of it.

I miss that kind of job satisfaction. Indeed, it satisfied a deep, personal need to create. I was just fortunate that I could make a living doing so.
Extremely useful for when a link dies and there is no useful archive.
The AFP has just revealed the 'most significant operation in policing history'
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing
> why can't we implement a tax system that isn't a Byzantine train wreck?

The Hong Kong tax code is about 250 pages.
DNS didn't fail, and there's nothing you can do in HTML/CS/JS if your CDN fails to serve those things
But you have to pay the loan back.

That’s no different than a homeowner taking out a HELOC and never selling their house.

Taking a loan is not a benefit.
I think it's a very meaningful step, as it signals maturity - the platform changed significantly over the last couple of years, and it's (unfortunately but necessary) a pain to perform some upgrades, or at least, to redesign according to the new features.

For example, we can't make full use of the modules flexibility which I think was added to 0.15 (module.kount anybody? :)), because it's a very painful process. Had we started using TF now, we wouldn't have had this problem. But of course, nobody's at fault here.
Empowering, alluring, degenerate? The evolution of red lipstick (2020)
How the f did they get the documents? That seems to be part of the story that is missing. Seems pretty sketch to me to get tax documents for all of these people.
The iBackpack has it all: Kevlar, batteries, and a federal investigation (2020)
Pragmatically I think you're right that developers should put that but it feels like such a hostile comment to make that I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable publishing it.

There's probably a better way of phrasing it than I had though -- a way that is less standoffish.
> CAD is bad because there are too few users.

CAD is bad because it is made by SW developers who implement requirements and have no idea how the SW is used. I do not need all the toolbars at once. If the buttons are too small they are difficult to press, if they are too big they eat valuable space.

> If you have 1,000 features, you have 100 users per feature.

:) Most of the features are used sporadically.

> In reality, those features follow a power law. Everybody uses the same basic features, but if you use a slightly off-path feature, you may be the only user.

No. There is a workflow. During this workflow you may, or may not need special features depending of the object being designed.

> Open source is the only path forward in this space because code can accumulate over time and users can consolidate over time.

There are some very good open source tools (like Magic layout system) but they are good because the developers also use those tools.

> The problem is that CAD coders are even rarer than CAD users, and they can get get paid quite a lot in their day job--why should they do this for free?

AFAIK there are no "CAD coders". There are SW developers who got the job to write the code. Finding people qualified in multiple domains is hard.
Really simple, I implemented a couple. Remember that the letters after the status code are aesthetic, so make sure to put your style in there:

200 FINE
200 KTHX
404 MISS
403 NO
500 FUCK

Another similar server in one file is busybox httpd command if you are interested https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/httpd.c
Yeah right? I'm salivating that even its screen could be detached by a simple pop out and no glue ever used to assemble the phone (maybe the modules are, I don't know).

My previous phone was Xiaomi Mi A1, it died and I couldn't turn it back on, and disassembling the phone is very hard. Then the phone gone somewhere else I don't know. Yet another e-waste. I don't have any smartphone right now.
Like a payday loan against my paycheck? Or a HELOC against my house?

Would you argue that someone is “gaming the system” by not paying taxes on say a rental property but borrowing against it?
Unless the tax brackets go down, net taxes (spouses combined) should come to roughly the same thing.
On Android I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda... with https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.laurencedawson.redd... which IMO is the best mobile reddit experience that I've ever had.
Fair point. Maybe Fastly is more akin to Akamai given it seems to be more enterprise-y. By market cap, Cloudflare is 26 billion, Akamai is 18, and Fastly is 6.

Fastly's free offering gives you "$50 worth of traffic" whereas Cloudflare has a perpetually free option. And for Akamai you have to apply for a free trial.
Are you concerned someone is MITMing Paul Graham's blog and inserting bad advice?
Most developers believe blockchain technology is a game changer
3D Bouncing Cube Animation
I created a 3D Bouncing Cube animation with mostly HTML, CSS and a little JS.

https://codepen.io/TheBigTee/pen/MWpXEaN

Inspired by Amit Sheen and Kevin Powell

Enjoy!
BGP (the protocol underpinning the internet) is built entirely for avoiding outages of any size.

Even email has a method baked into to the protocol for handling failure.

Fallbacks are good, baking in resiliency is better.
People whose wealth cannot be calculated as known equity valuation * disclosed equity held. That doesn't necessarily mean anyone is richer, but they very well could be.
The government very clearly provides for support for the equities in many ways (which I’m sure you’re aware of) How do the following not count as benefits to the equities in your vault?:

1. Maintaining a navy that reduces piracy enough to have global JIT delivery networks that reduce costs for corps

2. Protects corp interests abroad allowing a larger market and higher profits

3. Enforces regulations that attract a larger than otherwise likely share of people to put their money in the stock market, increasing the value of your equities.
Goodbye Scirra.com
Or if that’s too abstract for you, think about how the securities in your vault would fair in the absence of government maintaining basic law and order; honouring and enforcing otherwise fictional property such as copyright, trademarks and patents; some degree of redress in a court system; and some degree of stability of regulation of markets.

So much of the wealth on this planet relies on Governments for it to exist and to persist.
Evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child (2020)
> The point is to let you know a bit about the reality you share with others.

Best case scenario is that you are shown a select few fragments of reality, strategically arranged. Worst case scenario is the fragments themselves are questionable.

I don't feel like someone is trying to inform me when I watch the news. I feel like someone is trying to manipulate me.
iCloud+ to Let Users Personalize Their Email Domain Name
I never understood the point of squashing if you just want the short version, only read the merge commits; if you want the full details to figure out some bug or whatever, then yes, I want those fix typo commits most definitely, because as often as not, those are at fault.

Squashing buys you next to nothing, and costs you the ability to dive into the history in greater detail.

I suppose if your project is truly huge, it becomes worth it to reduce load on your VCS, but beyond that...
Geekmomprojects/TriangleLightPanel
No tax perhaps, but interest has to be paid.

Of course, in a ZIRP fantasyland the interest is negligible.
OpenBSD Errata: June 8, 2021 (cpuswitch inteldrm)
> In this sense the rich are allowed to choose how much tax they wish to pay, based on their individual conscience or morals.

Not so. There's the law that dictates a minimum amount of tax payable and everyone is entitled to pay only what is strictly owed under the law and not more.

Conscience and morals have nothing to do with it and in my view playing that card in an attempt to make people pay more than legally owed is a form of bullying.

Now, of course we can discuss if the law makes sense and is just, but that's another issue.
You must also account for the engine / motor / transmission / drivetrain / fuel tank weight difference you can't just look at fuel weight alone.

In ground vehicles the weight of the engine and transmission and running gear is more than an electric motor and controller with much simpler usually single speed transmission and drivetrain especially diesel. Then there is structural batteries where the structure of battery helps replace some of the vehicle structure reducing wieght. This is why electric cars are starting to be competitive.

Planes are somewhat different modern turbine engines are relatively light for their power output and there is not much of a transmission on planes, usually variable props instead and fuel tanks are sort of structural. Although having many multiple props driven by small electric motors can have advantages which would be complicated and heavy to do with a drivetrain in a plane. Still electric planes are far from practical IMO.
heavy police presence provokes firing rockets at civilians? not sure I can agree with that.
>Some radiologists think that AI will be really good for filtering out normal images, so that they only have to review anomalies. But I don't think that a model that detects diseases will be too successful, even if they manage to make it really work.

Radiologists say this until they get malpractice lawsuits.
Seriously, I once injured my wrist and the first radiologist said it was just a sprain, but no surprise the hospital was using a outsourced...overseas provider for that quick analysis. The hospital had a inhouse radiologist review it as a course of business later on in a few days and the hospital panicked with phone calls to get me back in because there were numerous wrist bone fractures and they took the first step towards liability issues

Could an AI do it? Sure. But you sure as hell need a second opinion
I also love how the family farm remains a universal justification even as it’s almost entirely disappeared from American life. It’s similar to how every American child knows what a pig and cow sound like despite almost none of them having seen one. Our culture is funny.

That aside, I’m not arguing for a lower estate tax threshold. I’m arguing for an elimination of the state up basis at death, at least for assets which the estate tax has not been paid.

If Joe Farmer’s kids keep his $10 million farm, they won’t pay any taxes. But if they sell it, they ought to have the same basis as Joe would were he still alive.
How the government set up a fake bank to launder drug money (2012)
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To be fair, I think it would be ideal if every service would run their own 100 concurrent connections, instead of everyone using a service that handles 1 trillion.