skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And why, exactly, is it apparently reasonable to have sales taxes that don't exceed 12% (disclaimer - in the states, as far as I know); capital gains at 15%; but my income at 25%, 35%, 45%?

Sales taxes tend to be regressive.

Someone making $50K a year pays the same sales tax as someone making $500K.

You're throwing out percentages for income tax, but those are progressive: the 40,000th dollar earned is taxed differently than the 140,000th dollar.

A wealth tax, especially in the US, would go a long was. Something like 2% on net wealth above (e.g.) $500M or $1B would slow inequality; below $10M it'd be 0%, from $10M to $100M it'd be 0.5%, then 1%, then the top rate. See Piketty's book:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
The business model of the bottled water industry is to take public water from limited local supplies and then distribute it globally, obviously at a significant profit to themselves, regardless of the actual need for that water.
There are services that convert to fiat currency on the fly, no risk to the business. With the caveat that I have no idea if they are available in El Salvador..
The company I am working at develops a kind of overlay with helps that can be displayed on a given website.
When we are lucky, our clients can add a script tag to their applications (and tweak their CSPs if they have), when we are not we have to rely on a web extension (think a kind of Tampermonkey but more specialized and with our branding and without a new tab every other day to tell it has been updated).

What do we use ?

- Blocking webRequest to change CSP to authorize our overlay script to execute

- executeScript: in most case, the script we execute is just inserting a script tag so it would still work in Manifest v3, but with webapps using Service Worker we have to resolve to download the scripts and execute then directly via executeScript, which will not be possible in v3.

Guess we'll have to bundle the overlay engine in the extension, which is much less flexible than what we had until now, but at least it's a possibility.
> But a nepalese website doesn't have to care about GDPR as long as they don't have a presence in the EU.

Not really 'presence' but customers in the EU, or simply targeting people in the EU.
To me it's more disappointing that they actually considered meeting the demands of the regulatory body. I'd have simply blocked Russia after the loss in court.

Also, why should Fastmail expose itself any further, in any way as a target of Russia's corrupt dictatorship? It does suck for those Russians impacted. They should turn their ire toward the real problem though: their government.
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Also, I think it's quite common outside of the USA for property taxes not to be based on the current market price of the property and also not to be charged at a fixed percentage of the value, both of which make them rather different from any proposed wealth tax.
Are droughts unprecedented?
Perhaps we shouldn't put major cities in arid regions, or we get off our behinds and get desalination going at the levels needed to sustain such cities.
For those wondering why this game about factory management keeps showing up on the front page of HN, it’s because the gameplay reminds its fans of software engineering in subtle ways. People who are good at one are likely to be good at the other. More about this here - https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-enginee...
According to the blog post, ProtonMail and others are in this boat, too.
I don't know how well all the features match up but you can use as many domains as you want on Migadu for $19/year.
Other governments are already accumulating BTC silently. Way too many eyes on the topic lately. There will be some FUD along the way (maybe even El Salvador banning/unbanning BTC up to few times - the classic) but I believe at some time news will start popping left and right that other countries hold BTC on balance sheets. Will eventually start with ETH too if it hasn't already.

Re people below:
I don't have any sources to back up my claim, sorry. I should have put more emphasis that what I wrote is mostly based on my beliefs and observation over years. You will only hear the news after a government has acquired amount of BTC they're satisfied with.
If I wanted to acquire large amounts of BTC for the best price, I would do so quietly, while enjoying prices lowered by the Korea/electricity/whatever FUD (not saying these arguments against BTC are invalid but they would serve my goal). Feel free to dispute or downvote, whatever suits you.
Still can't be used as an ingress controller in kubernetes.
> Some form of trust that can be bootstrapped again from scratch.

This is not using it as a second factor. It is using it as the only factor.
Having SMS as the only factor is not purely additive. As such it can (and obviously does) reduce security.

Account recovery is hard, SMS is quite usable there, but way to insecure to be the only basis for bootstrapping account recovery.
And waiting 10 minutes for confirmation

Edit: Lightning networks are bandaids on a prototype cryptocurrency.
Given our history, we'll do it until it's no longer profitable.
Seems acceptable since names are now part if your interface, and you could object that now you can relax ordering. Whats more interesting is that python has position only and name only arguments, meaning that there are uses for both.
California is likely the most regulated state and has the most “”socialist”” policies/laws. Not sure why they would be complaining as they are the least “capitalist” state in the US.

The laws and regulations they pass are directly contributing to homelessness and lack of housing.
All merchants are mandated to accept it.
That's not accurate. It has several benefits (like interest payments being deductible expenses) and wealthy people can continuously borrow to pay off other debts as their other assets appreciate. You just need the rate of appreciation of your assets to be higher than the interest rate. For very big loans, it's quite possible.

Finally, it's also possible to roll the gains into a trust and the cost basis is adjusted to zero on death. [0] So yes, it's tax avoidance.

[0]: E.g. this is how it's possible to do that: https://wellergroupllc.com/taxes-resources/tax140-guide-dete...
it's more of an issue when economic actors around you don't operate in the same currency

I fully expect people to keep USD on the side, it's already part of the culture all over Central America
No, the inherent problem of SMS is that it can be stolen/redirected. Given that, and given that companies are too eager to use it as 1FA, you shouldn't use it.

If I'm giving advice to companies, I say "don't use SMS 2FA as 1FA" (well, I actually say "don't use SMS 2FA at all, it's too tempting for a support person to use it as 1FA"), but this thread is about the user, and as a user, you shouldn't use SMS 2FA.
I bristle at paying for YouTube Premium seeing as how I'm already paying for YouTube TV. If Google offered it as an add-on option at 50% of the cost I'd add it in a heartbeat, though of course I'd prefer to see it just added as part of the service.
Fastmail +1 . I have had an active Fastmail account for at least 20 years. It provides the perfect amount of features for me, without the creepiness.
Oh oops, missed that, you're right.
Breaking down America into politically/culturally distinct narratives is nothing new. Nor even are the specific left/right and populist/globalist axes this article (roughly) works along.

That said, I really enjoyed this article and think it's quite insightful. Primarily because it manages to finely walk the line of acknowledging and giving genuine credence to the values/grievances of each "America" while still bluntly and convincingly calling out the failings of each.

Worth the long read.
Also by Ian Lance Taylor:

A New ELF Linker

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...

Gold

https://www.airs.com/ian/gold-slides.pdf
Don’t we always go for the lowest hanging fruit first? Why would that be a surprise when it comes to water?
Does coinbase really allow account recovery with just an SMS? It seems to me like the attacker must have had more than just control over your SMS number.
the majority of these are "an attacker can craft a model that causes problems."

Are people actually using tensorflow to run untrusted models?
When noting else is available: Western Union.

When the counter party agrees however, bitcoin is my go to choice.
> I'm not saying we shouldn't be vigilant if they start abusing their position

I think that's exactly what's going on though.

> and dominating too many markets

How many is too many? I could make the same argument for Walmart, Amazon, ...

> but let's take that case by case.

No. Let's not drown people in having too many lawsuits. It's time for a sea of change.
They guarantee spot rate to dollar for every transaction - so businesses never need to take that risk if they don't want to.

They are mandating that merchants must accept it as a means of transaction though.
This seems to be the new news that congress approved it?
Regardless of your opinion of BTC or of crypto in general, 10 minutes to confirm significant monetary transactions that all parties can agree on, without the need for a central trusted authority, anywhere in the world, at any time of day, is a pretty significant achievement.
From what I understand, it's the opposite. I cannot get the same bottled water in the southeast as in the northeast, because it's bottled locally.
> Automation will go into health and safety mode and stop that train in the middle of nowhere needing human attention. So delays become longer.

In Germany, trains have a system called "Notbremsüberbrückung" / NBÜ. This system overrides the passenger emergency brake in tunnels... basically (i'm shortening it a bit here), as soon as the last carriage leaves the platform (in an underground) or the train can't fully stop before entering a tunnel, the e-brake is disabled, and only re-enabled when the train enters a platform / exits the tunnel.

There's nothing preventing automated trains from using the same principle. Additionally, tunnels can be retrofit with cameras or motion detectors, to further prevent something larger than a rat from getting in a dangerous position.
y'all most not have heard of https://strike.me/ which operates on the lightning network to send whatever local currencies through btc instantly for little / no fee
Nice to hear about the support. I haven't had to use it.

I'm a 2 or 3 year customer, bringing my own domain.
Love being able to send and receive from *@mydomain.com for the entry level price ($50/year, I believe). App works great on both Android and iOS and doesn't drain my battery.
> I don't believe this is true. If I have your SMS I am considerably more likely to be able to phish a recovery, even if recovery also involves something else.

So it's better to not consider that information at all?

What is better? (1) Requiring a password to login or (2) Requiring a password and a code sent via SMS?

The problem you're describing is that services accept SMS in leu of other forms of verification, such as an actual password. Personally, I would very much like it if I could turn off any and all forms of "I forgot my password" flows. There should at minimum be a one-week waiting period or similar.
Australia Just Had a Train Accident That's Being Blamed on Millipedes (2013)
Also using a key value store or some other no-sql non-graph storage can sometimes be put between two structured migration endpoints. The advantage is that you have a clear way to first pull things apart before you put them together again and an intermediate step that is durable and easy to analyze.

But I think the article doesn't talk about full data migrations or integrations of two very distinct models, but rather about incremental, on the fly migrations on production databases, so the above doesn't apply well I think.
These deals are based on market share, user activity and usage, and so on. No search engine is paying Vivaldi as much money as Yahoo or Google did to Firefox. It would be laughable to expect that kind of sponsor money for a niche browser that also reduces ad tracking. That’s how these things work.
There's a debate? I thought it was still pretty obvious they're a long way from getting even close. They may be at the point where they have tactical superiority over Taiwan, but that's about it.
> The El Salvador President has previously said the move will open up financial services to the 70% of Salvadoreans who do not have bank accounts.

Right. People who can't even afford a bank account would now all be using financial services by paying 10 dollars per transaction.
I wonder to what degree this is related to the prevalence of organized crime (Bitcoin being a 'currency' of the black market).
You're clearly not a spammer so I want to go easy on you, but nobody on HN is looking for a SAP sales pitch. I can promise you that.
Congratulations to Bitcoin. All it took was a fascist takeover.
Thank you - nice list!
Note for those interested:

* Ulysses is plain text markdown.

* Scrivener uses RTF. (There is markdown support but iirc it's on top of rich text, not in place of it.)

:)
Well, I would expect them to address this issue specifically as that is one of the selling points of fastmail. You can get banned on Google for nothing and not being able to reach a person with your data held hostage. Now, this is a comparable situation where data is held hostage unless the customers in Russia have a way to access and retrieve whatever is stored on their accounts.

On top of that there is a question of billing and refunds in the case of long-term plans being paid up front (eg. one year subscription).
> why should Fastmail expose itself any further

Expose to what exactly? Sanctions, neural-gas attacks or nuclear weapons? Does Russia have any legal or technical levers which could potentially harm Fastmail business?
Have you heard of the lightning network? Fees are effectively 0.
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I don't see how this is going to benefit Salvadorans. As much as I try, I can't find a use case beyond money laundering, ransomware and extortion.
There are languages invented for this purpose, such as Ada. I'd look at that instead of C when you're doing real time systems. Although there are many different kinds of real time systems so it depends on the goal. Soft real time systems aren't as time critical as hard real time systems so the way you program and reason about them is a bit different.
In the major cities' defense, they were put there before this was a major issue, complaints from the Owens River Valley aside.

I grew up in the Central Valley decades ago... It's sad, amazing, and terrifying to see this change happen effectively before my eyes.
"Water for humans to drink" comes from the faucet. The bottled water industry shouldn't exist at all, other than as a niche product for areas hit by natural disasters, remote construction or work sites, and so on.
I don't understand why you can't have PEDs for multiple kinds of rolling stock. That is stated but never qualified. It seems like a tractable design problem considering there are a limited set of types of train you are serving.
Yes, and:

> Debates over which form of taxation is best are better framed...

Discuss whole systems. Piecemeal is how these messes are created.

I no longer care what any one opposes. Yes, yes, yes, everything sucks. We know. WE KNOW.

I want to hear solutions, not complaints.
And before people ask, it uses the lightning network so it's non-custodial.
tnftp instead of curl

ftp -4o'|zcat' $(printf "%s\40" $(cat<<eof
https://api.msrc.microsoft.com/sug/v2.0/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-33742
https://api.msrc.microsoft.com/sug/v2.0/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31955
https://api.msrc.microsoft.com/sug/v2.0/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31956
https://api.msrc.microsoft.com/sug/v2.0/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-33739
https://api.msrc.microsoft.com/sug/v2.0/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31201
https://api.msrc.microsoft.com/sug/v2.0/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31199
https://api.msrc.microsoft.com/sug/v2.0/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31959
https://api.msrc.microsoft.com/sug/v2.0/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2021-31963
eof
))|sed 's/",/\"<br>/g;s/\\n//g' > 1.htm;
firefox ./1.htm
Nope, you’re just missing my point.
Maybe they didn't know they needed a phone number to maintain access to the account?

Let's not blame the victim here.
Nothing is secure against a determined targeted attack. That's why we have layers of security. SMS 2FA adds a layer of protection against random attacks, and for that it works great. It should never be solely relied upon for high value accounts.
The unstated point here is that SMS as a second factor very often leads to companies using SMS as an alternative factor. This is what makes giving companies your mobile number for SMS 2FA a risky proposition.
The president said last night, in a Twitter spaces group, that they, the government, are offering a free wallet that will instantaneously transfer bitcoin to USD to any merchant that doesn’t want bitcoin exposure. He clarified that there will be no obligation for merchants to use this government funded wallet.
I think it's amazing people read novels. Even if I had infinite time I'm not sure I would.

Not that I'm against them! A great novel is a beautiful thing, and I'm glad someone is out there to enjoy them.
HN bitcoin haters in shambles
Sony allows TOTP.
Oh, they just mad cuz the companies get a concession for cheap. That is it.
Schema-less data does not make it unstructured data, it's just that it's now unknown/hidden and that you're perpetually in the middle of a migration with no obvious way to know you've finished migrating.
How about instant BTC transaction using the https://lightning.network/
It can be both. Consider "brand name" waters such as Voss or Perrier or S Pellegrino.
Are you aware that desalination plants are a huge threat to marine life?

Thias can't be the solution.
There's a list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_London_Underground_acc...
Fuzzing with Zig
My 2 cents about it.

https://twitter.com/neiman30/status/1401592760084336648

Editing: sorry for sharing the tweet instead of rewriting the content here, it was a lazy move on my side.
We Got Accepted into YC
Moving sections around is doable in Microsoft Word too using Navigation Pane.
El Salvador Becomes First Country to Approve Bitcoin as Legal Tender
No, Japan recognized bitcoin as legal tender some years ago.

But smart move. Even the poorest of the poor have smartphones with a (limited) internet subscription.

So a web based wallet like www.coins.io will work wonderfully for them.

But the reason El Salvador is working together with Strike.me is because they have a service where someone pays you in bitcoin but you can choose to receive all or part of the payment in dollars or another currency.
Is that not a valid thing to be angry about?
RescueTime: Automatic Time-Tracking Software
I am not saying they should be restricted from existing, but I do not see a business case for it, at least certainly not as big of a company as it used to be.
The President of El Salvador doesn't want to get couped. He figures his best bet is to establish a public persona, in English, and appeal to Americans (tech bros) directly.

Its the same in Europe. Russian Oligarchs bought British Soccer Clubs so that they could become public personalities and avoid being assassinated by the Russian Government or other oligarchs.

The political class in South America exists in a different sphere. They are ancestrally directly European, whereas the working classes of the country are ancestrally native American or mestizo. The concern for the every day worker is minimal as is the overlap between the worlds of these groups.
> The right wing government

I'd love to know by what scale you consider the British government "right-wing"?
Me too, it’s so nice and simple.
Ask HN: Why No Functional Components in Flutter?
Flutter with it's pseudo-declarative approach is inspired by React (https://flutter.dev/docs/resources/architectural-overview#reactive-user-interfaces)

Why then it's still few years behind React with its verbose class based approach?

Functions are first class citizens in Dart, so what's stopping Flutter team to improve in this direction?

Would like to hear some technical aspects and implications of this matter.
I'm not sure it's true that Google insists on using it. Sure, they'll use it as a second-factor by default - but you're not obligated to use it, can use app-based authentication, and can use MFA with a hardware key too.
I don't think it's up to Fastmail to fix the nonsense coming out of the Kremlin. The Russian government wants them to basically compromise their service to comply with their spying needs, Fastmail simply opted out. I think they chose a reasonable option.
Shortsighted.

If you make one legal tender, suddenly they all are more useful there.

Doge transactions outside of their system for small things, their corpo BTC chain for larger things? Maybe.
Hear hear. I don’t begrudge clever hardworking people having the opportunity to make money as an incentive, in the implementation of some sort of Adam
Smith-like idea of a genuinely free and sensibly regulated market …especially when it comes to non-essential goods and services… (proportionate to their wealth/jobs creation perhaps, as they never tire of reminding us…) …even better if this was awarded somehow based on their capacity to genuinely innovate and bring to market (as opposed to rip off and monopolise I suppose), but when you live in a country/world where people, kids even, are not eating properly, people are dying prematurely because the infrastructure/services are crumbling etc etc …as a priority before we even start to think about other ways to alleviate inequality of opportunity… and yet a tiny proportion are spending what to others would be a lifetime’s fortune every year on wealth fiddlers/obfuscation services to enable ‘tax avoidance’, even spending vast sums to finance lobbyists and entire media organisations because it is cheaper than actually paying another 1% of tax/whatever… (if I ‘evade’ something thrown at me is it really all that different from ‘avoiding’ it? …and yes, I understand that in financial terms one word denotes a crime and the other is supposed to merely be admired as ‘creative’ accountancy…). Warren Buffett himself suggests he should be taxed higher (…his famous anecdote about his secetary…). Idiosyncratic philanthropy is a poor substitute, no matter the inefficiencies of the state (…Anand Giridharadas writes well about this:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take...
…Even the 0.1%/whatever might find the world a brighter place to live in with the improvement of public services and a reasonably educated, healthy populace flourishing on a non-dying planet, at least before the robot overlord takeover/orbital/interplanetary escape plan is completed ! :) For me it comes down to a question of what we value as a society. Is a nurse/carer for example, who literally preserves someone’s life, day in day out, worth less or working less hard than a hedge fund CEO/tech. entrepreneur?
Both are doubtless very important and valuable to society, but is one a thousand/whatever times more valuable as a human being or possessing of a thousandfold
more rarefied qualities of thought/action?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/24/the-trouble-wit...
Who cares about headlines?

Headlines are written by editors, not reporters, to maximize CTR and minimize length.

You can't fit detail and nuance in a headline. The point is to get people to read the article, not inform.

If people are drawing conclusions from reading just the headline, not the article, then you can safely ignore them. There's no point in getting mad about it.
Going to help the kidnappers get paid. A fair bit of those in El Salvador:
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/el-sa...
I guess free is cheap...