skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted to suggest site:old.reddit.com since I use that version with automatic redirect, but this:

https://old.reddit.com/robots.txt

is very different from this:

https://reddit.com/robots.txt

I guess there is a market for search engine (maybe accessed through tor) which does not care about robots.txt, DMCAs, right to be forgotten etc. Bootstrapping it should not be that hard since it can also provide better results for some queries since nobody is fighting about the position until it's widely known.

I'm not sure how far are we from being able to do full text internet search. Or rather even quote search, preferably some fuzziness options. That would be cool, Google's quotation marks were really neat back when they were working.
I'd just say you can think of it in colloquial terms. China is a nation state, as is France, Germany, Russia, Venezuela, etc. Some are looser than others, some are stronger. Along these lines I think ethnicity and homogeneity play a part but not always.

There's some room for argument about who and what are nation states - does the Bahamas qualify as a nation state or just a convenient government? Are some countries stronger nation states? What's the difference between countries and nation states? Is there one? There are probably some items to explore there for me too.

Maybe there's something you have in mind you want to discuss with respect to the concept of the nation state?
Capital gains are eventually taxed if you ever sell, but some individuals will just hold and take out loans against their enormously large amount of collateral to avoid incurring capital gains tax.
> And the solution is essentially using force. Someone will guard the cookie jar and make sure you don't take more than one.

Sounds like private property to me.

The gatekeeper tries to defend the commons and, even assuming they succeed, they can themselves abuse the commons or collect bribes, etc.

> In practice it is very vulnerable to corruption and it doesn't incentivizes productive work.

Right.
Maybe a javascript blocker?
People need incentives, and being competitive in school-like activities provides them.

Universities have been moving away from evaluating candidates from raw academic or scholastic perspectives. For instance, removing standardized testing from the process. [1,2,3] This has raised concerns and considerable pushback from parents. It raises the uncertainty of admission, even if they raise a child to do everything right and mold them into the standard high achieving student.

Of course, not unwarranted concerns: how do we fairly evaluate a student's external achievements without picking favorites. There is no objective measure to solve that problem.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/us/SAT-scores-uc-universi...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-university-wont-require...

[3] https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/a-special-announcement...
It also means it's only one blocked IP away from a downgrade attack. This way you just need to convince user's Iphone that it was China for it to stop attempting to do relaying.
Methane and carbon being released from permafrost soil is an example of non-fossil sources, but yeah, the general sentiment of not releasing any more GHG into the environment is the objective for now. The more we can leave "captured" the better.
> Next time that your manager asks you if you can have that sweet feature, instead of saying "sure, we just need to drop support for Firefox", please consider trying to explain what are the consequences in the long term.

If the future of the web relies on developers groveling at the feet of a manager, then there's no fight or discussion to be had, because the web has already unequivocally lost. The only thing that's happening is a discussion about whether to parade on the corpse or not.
That would require a hard fork or the key to the sending utxo.
> Even if you have 1BN worth of shares it means nothing until you actually sell them/trade them?

Then give 1% of your holding to the government each year. Like… a tax.

No need to approximate the value. Hand over the shares.
Oh how ironic. Twitter errored out with

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fun, or an exercise in exhibitionist academic masturbation.
If it helps, I used to be motivated out of sheer wanting to get that thing that was in my head out, and see it working. That might be enough for a youtube video or a product demo with some executives at the company. Heck you can turn that 80% into a real career booster (I've done this), but it's not a production ready product. The last 20% of the work will take 80% of the time. It's really hard to be motivated for that last part. It's all the hard stuff that seems insignificant... and you've already got the cheese.

If you can accomplish it, the trick to staying motivating is to figure out the mental gymnatics to move where you put the cheese in the trap. If you can do that... you have a real chance at being motivated past the proof of concept.
If you want a system that taxes unrealized capital gains, it is possible to defer the actual collection until the time of sale, but backdate the tax as though you bought and sold the asset each year under interpolated appreciation causing a taxable event.

After each taxable event, the government would an increasing slice of the appreciating asset, which would itself compound.

This essentially removes the incentive to buy and hold for tax purposes. It also means there's never any tax owing for paper gains.
Are you thinking of C++ issues with constructors? I don’t see anything wrong with the use of static variables in this single file C program. This isn’t a library; it’s a standalone web server.
The most obvious and widespread use of the concept of block chains in my opinion is git.

It’s quite literally a distributed, unforgeable crypto-ledger of changes to common codebases that can be edited by multiple untrusted parties (open source).
I feel for the Fastly workers, who managers are probably currently harassing to get things back online. I certainly don't feel any sympathy for Fastly administrators/managers who make business out of exploiting other people.
I quite liked Pollan's treatment in Botany of Desire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Botany_of_Desire

Any more, I regard GMO as just another form of rent seeking (corporatism). In this context, I haven't thought of a way the GMO trait would change the trend towards monocultures. Maybe accelerate it?
Don't get too excited, in France there's a tax on all storage devices (sd cards, usb sticks, hdds, laptops, phones etc) to help subsidise the record and film industry...
Sorting Algorithms Visualizer
Even Microsoft couldn’t do it, gave up, and just used Blink.

I assume management just saw how much of each release was spent being bug compatible with Chrome and decided it wasn’t worth it.
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> this worldwide outage caused by them just goes to show you that Fastly does not actually have a failover system in place.

I don’t know Fastly at all, but in my experience there’s no such thing as a foolproof failover system that covers all possible scenarios.
Definitely the significant difference. It's not just that the ultra wealthy can stash money in these sort of asset havens and avoid taxes, it's that they can somehow use them as liquid as cash.

Your average person may have access to some of the asset storage options, like wealth stored in their 401k or even purchasing stocks directly. What we can't do is use those assets as if they're money in a bank account and avoid tax. I can lower my income by stashing money in my 401k and defer taxes until I retire but when I retire, I will pay taxes and between now and then, those assets can't be touched for much beyond an emergency without incurring fees, taxes, etc.

Wealth is very different than income but if wealth can be utilized just like income (liquidated) yet not taxed, something is off in the tax system and this is what people get cranky about. If the assets weren't as liquid and usable in place of cash and had to be tucked away or otherwise taxed, less people would be cranky.

For all intents and purposes for the ultra wealthy, that wealth is readily accessible, well above the amount of money they could need or most could even want which people equate to their income. They might not quickly liquidate their entire estate but they can liquidate or borrow against large enough portions that they can do about anything they want.
True, but it would be far less common I reckon.
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Yep, that’s the one!
I think the biggest problem is that the state file is a JSON blob who's hierarchy directly maps the structure of your code in Terraform. This makes refactoring a nightmare as you're continually having to fudge the state file and/or declare that a resource defined in code relates to a resource defined in state (I forget the exact CLI flag you pass to do this off hand).
>Traditional publishing ... PRO: You have professional editors looking over your draft.

Honestly, this is probably overstated. My experience is that, yes, you have professional editors but it's mostly about pushing the book into a certain house style. I'm admittedly an experienced writer but there weren't really a lot substantive changes/restructuring in my case. To be clear, the edits were helpful and things were certainly caught but it's nothing you can't hire for on your own.

IMO, perhaps the biggest benefit is that going with a known tech publisher provides, fairly or not, a certain "gravitas" that a self-published book doesn't.
There wasn't a lot of point. Almost nobody needs this; but since everybody wants to do what the hyper-successful mega-scalers are doing...
Keep in mind, not even a couple dozen family farms have to pay any estate tax any given year, and that number is getting smaller: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-federal-estate...
Russia to U.S. -Lift sanctions on space sector or we'll exit space station
Try games that are intellectually challenging and like an interactive book helping you grow.

Game Ex. Opus Magnum (benefit ex. pcb layout)
I hate Terraform with a passion but it is probably the best tool out there for managing cloud infrastructure so I use it at work with no plans to replace it.

The biggest downsides are the awful half-baked language and the awkwardness of modules and passing values throughout your config. Also the staticness of providers are a serious pain, for example you can't create a kubernetes cluster then add a resource to it. The work around is to use two separate Terraform stacks which brings a lot of pain for passing values across the boundary. Furthermore you can no longer effectively plan any change that affects the boundary between the two stacks. "Luckily" Terraform's performance is so bad that you need to split the stacks anyways.

The biggest feature I would like to see is the ability to dump a pure representation of your evaluated configuration. This would allow reasonable diffs in CI. There are of course complications, especially if you use `data` resources but technically it is possible to do a very good job here which would make it so much easier to make changes.
"Dictate. Where is the toilet, question mark. Where is the toilet, question mark. Let try that again. Where is the toilet, question mark"

It's amazing that the webpad was due to launch the same year that The Matrix was in theatres.
I have iOS 15, and I can confirm that right now, I can install any Extension that is on the Safari Extensions Store for Mac. That doesn't mean they'll function great, or that the Safari Extension Store is the most complete place for extensions, but it will let me do it.
> I guess there is a market for search engine (maybe accessed through tor) which does not care about robots.txt, DMCAs, right to be forgotten etc. Bootstrapping it should not be that hard since it can also provide better results for some queries since nobody is fighting about the position until it's widely known.

That’s not going to happen before Cloudflare is dethroned. See this recent thread for some perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153603

And even if there’s no Cloudflare, large sites that people want to search will always find ways to block bad bots.

The only thing I can think of that might work is using crowd-sourced data, with all the problems that come with crowdsourcing.
He said delay, but that's just because the stock hasn't sold yet. Until you do, the gains are unrealized, i.e. the stock could drop precipitously suddenly due to some black swan event (i.e. a pandemic), and then they suddenly that wealth may as well never have existed.

Like let's say I'm some regular guy, but I put my only $1000 in some asset that appreciated 100x, and it's now "worth" $100,000. These people that want to tax unrealized gains swoop in and go "hey, you're 'worth' $100k on Dec 31, you should pay us $30k in taxes this year". And so I don't have that money and have to sell my stock to pay it, but two days before I do the stock market tanks before I get a chance to sell and it's dropped 70% in price, so now I'm 'worth' 30k. And now I've sold it all just to pay the unrealized gains tax.

Now this is an extreme example and unlikely to happen exactly in the stock world, although not terribly extreme if this weren't stocks we're talking about, but some cryptocurrency.

This is why taxing unrealized gains never made much sense to me. The gains aren't actually real until you've converted them into something else or you purchase goods or services with. Until then it's just some number on a scoreboard.
>> In my opinion, do away with income and capital gains tax and have a pure consumption tax instead. Want a lavish lifestyle? Then you will pay higher taxes.

I hold a similar view. Why should someone pay more taxes just because they earn more.

Taxes should include a 'constant' term for benefit that everyone in the society is reaping (e.g., security, public infrastructure and facilities, etc.). There can also be terms proportional to the spendings/lifestyle (i.e., sales tax) and even income, when again the government is introducing some benefit per sale or money earned.

The prime purpose for governments, and thereby enforced taxes should be to pay for things needed that no one individually will otherwise pay for but which the society as a whole needs. An an example, pollution hurts everyone, yet, no particular entity would spend on curbing pollution unless done by enforcing at a social level.

Note: If there is no tax whatsoever in earnings, there would also be a need for some additional tax like inheritance tax, which I support, so that people do not just keep on hoarding the earnings without ever spending.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - In 1969, Representative Wright Patman "complained that the Hughes foundation was a tax‐evasion device," noting that the institute spent only $5.7 million for its operations between 1954 and 1961, a period during which Hughes Aircraft accumulated $76.9 million in profits. By 1975, it had also avoided certain stipulations of the 1969 reform act for charitable institutions due to legal filings by Hughes to change its operational status, with his objections going directly to the White House.

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

It seem like a good loophole for the rich to have control on where their charitable money goes to and do what. you can argue the Gates foundation is the same but Bill Gates actually doing some goods with his charitable organization like someone else said, if the charity is being use like a little piggy bank for the rich then its a crime.
I love it, congrats!
I wouldn't assume this has anything to do with GitHub, It's just another free CI service that was being abused by crypto miners.
Sad. I was hoping for multi-arch support (for Free tier, I don't make money out of my opensource image), and got this instead.

I wish the company could eventually found a way to make more money. Kubernetes too heavy to run, while Docker Swarm is rather reasonable. I guess there is a market gap?(???)
Most people find it ethically wrong to abuse power and a giant company copying an idea is seen as that. So is threatening a kid because you got $20 million in the bank. Ideas are copied all the time and especially by startups.
Apollo on iOS.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575
Integrated Apple and App Store Risk
> No you couldn't. You can't be forced to sell at all unless you are unwilling to pay land value tax on the offered value.

So, under your proposal, you would have to value your property at the sentimental value it has for you, which for some things is infinite.

My theoretical dad's VW would have to be "valued" at $1500, and if I think someone with a grudge against me is willing to pay that, I'd have to progressively increase the tax I pay on it just to keep it?

This is a very bad idea; in fact, I cannot think of a single state that ever experimented with such an idea. If no state, even failed states, thinks it's a good idea I don't see what refinement you could make that turns it from a bad idea into a good idea.
Anecdotally, but the thing that got me into FAANG companies was my resume, not my grades. I had started a company in college, and that ambitious project opened a whole lot of doors.

I've been in charge of hiring many times, and not once have I looked at grades. I don't even bother looking at the "education" portion of resumes (except when looking at the rare candidate who has no work experience).
Great!

Perhaps coincidentally, on PGP 30th birthday!
A great many state projects are 50-90% funded by federal grants. Interstate highway projects and airport projects in particular are often 90% federal (and are self-evidently infrastructure).
> common sentiment reminds me of reading history about lynchings in Jim Crow era and sun down towns

I'm about as far from woke or PC as you could imagine, but that's an incredibly inaccurate comparison.

Reading some developer scorn or arrogance, no matter how unfortunate or annoying, shares no common features with an actual lynching.
It's hard to make more money if all people expect is more free service.
ZFS is nice, but it won't overlay and upgrade ext4.

Fedora decided that improvements since 2-3 years ago are sufficient, and made it the default filesystem (and the world hasn't ended).

It's nice to see btrfs mature.
I'm not American, I think the only "purely American" news that I see is probably something about $BIG politics like election outcome, war, blabla.
> FBI broke sha-256

A very odd conclusion because that's not the crypto you need to break to steal some coins.
> These figures are meaningless without also stating what % of income the top x% earned.

No they are not. But those numbers are also in the link, and it is more or less the same, top 1% earned 20.9% of all income.
The reason HTTP is ASCII based isn't because it's easier to debug. It's because back then the other end was as likely to be a human as a piece of software. Because HTTP in it's early days barely had headers or even formatting, so people typed "GET /" at the server directly or used the same method to send mail directly.

Nobody does that anymore and debugging is easily solved by converting your binary protocol to a textual form.
And the counterargument to that would be:

Directing money to a charity, to avoid the money going to the government, is explicitly a way of directing your money away from the common good of the public (which is after all theoretically what the government would spend it on) and towards the specific spending goals which the donor supports. The idea that a wealthy person has a 'better' idea of how to spend their money than the collective will of the people expressed through government is fundamentally antidemocratic.

A billionaire spending money through a charity that promotes a particular kind of schooling, rather than paying the money as taxes into the general fund where it would be used to fund education as directed by a democratically elected government, is basically a way of using their wealth to obtain a bigger-than-one-vote say in how education spending works, and to bypass democratic decisionmaking about how to spend money for the common good.

Of course, democracies are imperfect decisionmakers and they may not always reflect the spending priorities that will maximise collective good - but at least as institutions they are intended to balance interests, and provide a measure of fairness and equality in how decisions are made. And why would we believe that individual wealthy charity donors will make better decisions on how to direct spending?

An individual billionaire deciding that all schools should work the way they would prefer might be a positive way to end-run around institutional inertia and advance the state of schooling for everyone; or they might just pay to have every school library stocked with books about how humans coexisted with dinosaurs. They're one person, unconstrained by how the rest of society would like to improve schools.
If you review Mozilla's business practices, constant spending on NGOs and Politics, ludicrous executive compensation, and recent layoffs of the engineering team, constant buying and starting of new projects (Pocket, Firefox OS) only to abandon them, and so on, it is clear that at least part of the story is that Firefox has been through incredible mismanagement even as they should have been in the fight for their lives.
I want to be able to tell why a given line of code was introduced. Seeing "Fix indentation" in the output of `git blame` won't help me with that.
I have seen the argument made that one of the reasons for high vaccine confidence in the UK is as a result of Andrew Wakefield's MMR fraud, which was perhaps debunked more effectively in the UK than the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BIcAZxFfrc
>The more that Google allows quality to decline, the faster they approach a non-recoverable tipping point. Just ask Yahoo how quickly that can happen.

Do you think we're in the same situation now as we were fully 20 years ago? I don't. Facebook killed MySpace, but Facebook is now too big to be disrupted, same with Google. The word "google" is a verb now. This is why the quality of their search results doesn't matter, people are too entrenched to switch now, which was not true in 2001.