skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually thinking of going the other way. I've been using Pulumi for several months now, and I'm thinking of moving to Terraform, because it has a so much larger third-party ecosystem, including more providers, and tools that can analyze HCL, like Infracost and security scanners. When will I learn to see the bigger picture and value popularity over quality?
Interesting. I had the opposite experience to this. Even though all I ever wanted to know about was what was happening to my friend's kids, my feed was taken over with political and social justice outrage. Outrage sells.
Germany has that too. Even on paper, since you could copy pages under copyright.
Yeah, these days I try to avoid writing any HCL and instead feed Terraform with JSON generated via jsonnet (which we were already using to generate k8s YAML). Much better templating and language features while still remaining declarative, and it helps on a team to have a single source language for such configs.
I guess it's perfectly cromulent in the sentence as well.
How does Google funneling billions of dollars in revenue through Bermuda help the families there who are living in poverty?

Google's only presence in Bermuda was a P.O. box.
> Twitter is perfectly fine if you unfollow and block toxic influencers.

Not my experience tbh. I quit Twitter after having tried to follow only accounts that interested me.

But once Twitter starts to be unable to create a sufficiently dense "infinite feed", its algorithm starts to artificially fill your feed and shows you the likes and answers (and not only tweets & RTs) of the people you follow or the hottest tweets of people followed by people you follow.

I was totally unable to protect myself from the "Twitter's today shitstorm". So I quit.
>if you want to create a new resource, you have to run it as its own lambda

Please don't, lol
Most CRDTs (last-write-wins being one of them) will result in a terrible user experience, and nobody would want to use it for collaboration. That's why most of these collab systems use OT, which is not trivial to implement.
I've never considered JIRA would be used by the FBI or intelligence agencies. The user stories would be fun to read.

I wonder why this blog was deleted by the author. Get a phone call from the FBI?
Problem with CloudFormation is that it doesn't work with Cloudflare, Azure, GCP, Big-IP, Palo Alto, NetBox etc..
From what I've seen, it doesn't matter if they have a technical background. Hubris operates the same way in people—it serves to blind them of all but their own ambitions as they lose a more complete picture of reality in favour of expressing their egos.

At least in cases that line up. I doubt it's so universal. I've seen something quite similar happen first hand. To the point that I'm pretty beside myself about it. Hard to understand if you don't just assign it to them steamrolling anything but their ego. It's the only way you could just let core functions in your core product falter and not have a plan for it.

That said, I don't think that applies to excluding Firefox in this particular case. It doesn't sound permanent, and it sounds like it just hinges on FF catching up their available APIs to suit.
Looks like a confirmed prediction from The Sovereign Individual.

Probably familiar to many of you, but I have my coke and mentos moment while I read it, in 2021. Here is a link to archived pdf, for others like me

https://web.archive.org/web/20210112042733/https://www.lopp....
Read also a much better essay by a vastly more skilled writer with quite a different view, Bertrand Russell, "In Praise of Idleness."

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

Russell would say that people of the age to be tech start-up fodder should instead DO NOTHING. It's better for them and for society.

> I hope that after reading the following pages the leaders of the YMCA will start a campaign to induce good young men to do nothing. If so, I shall not have lived in vain.

...and...

> I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by the belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
Apparently, Crows Love Luxurious Ant Baths. This Is What It Looks Like
How do you get informed on things happening on the other side of the world? (please don’t say Twitter!)
But are the assets liquidated? If ownership of assets just transfers to heirs, then they'll just pay the tax whenever they cash out.
If you learn to program with Node.js, one chapter of your tutorial will be to show that NPM is "THE repository for Node packages".

For me, it is part of what makes some of these technologies leaders of what they do. If Node.js has NPM; Rust has Crates.io; and Debian has their repos, why wouldn't Docker have DockerHub? From my POV of 100% user of these technologies, it just seems natural (or at least that's just what they have made us to expect).

Actually what doesn't seem natural is if NPM suddenly deleted old package versions just mere months after they didn't get any download. I know we're talking about containers, which take more disk space than a NPM package... but still, that policy change from Docker Hub felt odd. Now we have to worry about regularly refresh the containers we care about.

(regarding the mantra "you should rebuild them anyway", well, when you want to reproduce a bug, you don't need to rebuild old packages in other repositories, right?)
Thanks that’s interesting - I enabled enhanced strict tracking protection, which I thought was just related to tracking across sites. It is apparently good enough at ad blocking that I have not noticed.
Yes. The backstory... England was very hostile to France, especially because of Pitt, and France lost its navy at Traflager so Napoleon's only option was to get all of Europe to Embargo England [1]. Russia eventually decided to trade with England anyway which is what triggered the French invasion to enforce the embargo. The other factor is that after Napoleon divorced Josephine, he had the option of marrying the daughter of the Emperor of Austria or Russia, he choose Austria which cooled relations with Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_System
The Greenest Bag
Is human consciousness creating reality?
Are you suggesting that the top “earners” who manipulate their taxes are acting ethically?

These people deserve (and can afford) every ounce of scrutiny they receive.
"highest in a decade". Was it out of control 10 years ago too? When prices were presumably higher than now.
Just to note, Apple made no mention of Safari because then you are on an Apple platform, where you always have available the actual FaceTime app
Is there a way to promote change in the tax code without demonstrating how it is abused?
Ubiquity of iOS devices? They are only about 15% of smartphones.
Very edgy. But you’re not making any sense.

The article has a clear message about mob mentality which you’re simply choosing to ignore. It’s an opinion piece, it doesn’t need “truths”. You can disagree if you want, but not discredit it.
I would also think that this makes neighborhoods less financially diverse. I can’t see someone with a higher than average income moving into a neighborhood knowing that their neighbors might make 1/4th as much. It puts a target on them.
I don’t think the author needed leaked data to present their objections to tax minimization.
Have you worked in these industries? Irrevocable timestamps and ordering for cryptographic signatures provide a level of audibility and traceability that wasn't there before.

History can be rewritten opaquely in non-blockchain ledger systems.

If all stakeholders can fully trust everyone involved (and their security), your point may hold, but that is not always the case.
It's not hypothetical. Although you are correct it's not standard, there are multiple projects doing exactly this at various stages of development, some of which have been around for years.

Handshake [1] is still very much beta but aims to replace DNS with decentralised nodes.

There are also projects like Unstoppable Domains [2] and Ethereum Name Service [3] which work right now if the browser supports them. They both use the Ethereum blockchain to sell domains as NFTs. In fact the ENS was around long before the NFT hype of today.

[1] https://handshake.org

[2] https://unstoppabledomains.com

[3] https://ens.domains
> Hasn't been a problem for me (my browser (Firefox on Linux) matches ASCII dashes against en dashes and em dashes too)

Huh, you're right. I could've sworn that didn't work. I wouldn't have even noticed the character change otherwise. Maybe it started working again when Firefox added the ability to ignore diacritics. I guess that goes further than diacritics and works by general transliteration to ASCII.
Social media is great for finding people with similar interests. I like to cook a certain type of food, and there is a community there of people who share ideas and the dishes they have made. I like it. It's great.

If 'hate' is your 'interest', then you can find lots of people with similar hate online.
> parents sign up kids to every possible extracurricular they can afford

Yeah, that's what causes the tradeoff. Kids can't do school, work on projects, and have parents that fill their schedule with loads of other stuff. It would have been perfectly reasonable for PG to launch his attacks on overscheduling rather than school.

> pg did not talk about riches in this essay

He talked about "work they do as adults" and "more predictive value" and "When I was picking startups for Y Combinator".
There's a reason these countries leaving their sphere of influence aren't a fan of Russia.

Russia did invade Ukraine.
Better Crowdfunding
Most likely not worth it. The product that is being impacted is free to begin with, so the more a company invests into it to building custom filters, the more net negative they are spending, and they are not helping customers (free or paying) either. (ie the cryptocurrency miners will never become paying customer, because they are exploiting the platform specifically because it's free, so building filters means spending money to filter out people who will never be customers anyway.)

I'd rather docker spend engineering time on improving their paid service to legitimate customers.
> capital gains are eventually taxed

Not if you never sell. At death the "basis" is reset to the current market price. All those capital gains accumulated during a lifetime are never subject to capital-gains tax.

There is currently a proposal to eliminate this loophole which was originally intended to deal with the difficulty of determining the history of a dead person's assets. Obviously this doesn't apply to the extremely rich with accountants, lawyers and financial advisors.
Not a blocker, but certainly a consideration. Chrome and Edge both share a common ancestor: WebKit (Safari).
On point 1, it’s also important to realize there is a step up in basis when inheriting or donating appreciated stock
a more useful measure might be the trend of how much over the cost of materials does a li-ion cost. that excess cost, could be broken into the lack of automation, manufacturing inefficiencies (waste biproducts) and capital overhead. from Tesla "battery day" it is clear that reducing capital overhead was an important goal to reducing costs.
See Jef’s original thttpd

https://acme.com/software/thttpd/
Oh man, I split my time between Safari and Firefox. I must be some kind of sicko.
Let's see, so they didn't nab any of the big players in the operation. So effectively they helped the biggest players by making it harder for the small to mid-tier drug cartels do conduct business. Sure, way to put the squeeze on the cartels there...

A tangent to this is the way we conduct drug enforcement in the US. It's much better for police departments to wait until after the dealers make money to catch them so they can seize the cash as part of the crime. This dis-incentivises the actual prevention of the spread of illegal drugs. The entire system is corrupt and there's little to no incentive for the authority to behave in the spirit of the laws they enforce - to raise public health by eliminating the personal health and social problems that drug addition creates.
"The west" is getting exploited by those companies aswell.

They don't really pay many taxes and abuse every loop hole they can.

Humans just can't ever play fair and be content with anything, they just always need to push for more.
Derek Sivers had a related comment I always think of. Very roughly, the idea is: instead of trying to love what makes you money (or make money from what you love), pick a tolerable career that makes you decent money, and then don't force your passion to be profitable.

Of course, it's hard to get excited about that when you throw 40 of your most energised hours of the week at a grind.
Can definitely see the usefulness of this for artists, especially if there is integration into the various art programs.

Unless I am mis-understanding this is only a solution for organizing local files? Ideally there would be a distributed version control component or integration with an existing version control system. I can see this lulling users into a false sense of security that their local data is backed-up and safe.
The bank activities were illegal and non compliant. The OCC was about to cut them out of the entire banking network for poor reporting, meaning no OCC-licensed banks could take or send wires to them or hold accounts in their name. It would have shut off all trade for this bank without knowing what they’re doing or alleging any crime, yet.

This is how the US enforces its will worldwide.

The Treasury has a similar way to do that, without the OFAC list. They did it in 2018

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/francescop...

Back to the OCC, the outcome of the audit would have solidified criminal charges against the bank directors, but then they backed off with the “this is a government operation” excuse. Other reasons they would back off being any other kind of leverage, which small banks do not have.
Yes, by simple means of IP filtering *apple.com from a network you VPN to if you don't trust the device to honor the settings. The device will still work.

You'll be hardpressed to find a more secure hardware platform on android.

https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
I just stopped using Reddit. The new design, the hostile behaviour, it's just not worth the trouble. Occasionally I will end up on reddit when I Research something on Desktop, and then I have a browserextension which automatically redirects to old.reddit.com. That's as much work I'm willing to invest for this site now.
That heavily varies by market.
The most powerful propaganda are the ideas that the people believe are their own.
I think I'll have to take my own advice and say that, within the limits of my experience hanging out with lots of other marginalized people, this isn't something I see. It mostly seems to come from Well-Intentioned Allies™ outside the worlds I inhabit, and the people who aggro at folks who don't make the gesture are a subset of that.

What I do for gestures aimed at marginalizations I don't share is listen to the people they're aimed at, but that can be hard if you aren't in a community where they exist in sufficient numbers and are comfortable sharing for a broad cross-section of opinions. I didn't even know any other out and vocal queer people until I started hanging out with furries, and even they have trouble making space for people of color to be out and vocal.

I don't have a good solution to finding that cross-section, so I can see how getting off social media entirely is the safest path.
> Because a publicly available hash on a publicly available blockchain is different from a QR code and cannot be spoofed... how?

It can not be spoofed due to having been signed by a verified key (a signature could of course be encoded in a QR code as well!)

It can not be redacted, or retroactively inserted at a later point in time. The link/hash can of course also be encoded in a QR code.
When PGP was invented, a bunch of things we are now quite sure how to do either were experimental or hadn't been discovered. In some of those cases you can retro-fit to PGP, so e.g. you can use a nice elliptic curve signing primitive instead of RSA, you can do AES instead of IDEA. So far not too bad.

But then in some cases what we became quite sure about is that PGP's principles/ assumptions are themselves wrong. For example, PGP is pretty sure a message ought to have a digital signature from the sender so you know who it's from. But that's wrong, now you're helping the recipient prove to everybody else what you sent them. That doesn't sound like "pretty good privacy" at all. If instead we do message integrity correctly we can assure the recipient that you wrote it, but since they could have forged that assurance they don't have proof you wrote it which they could show to anybody else. They could tell others what it says, but they could just as well make up any rumours they want.

The worst of these problems is the Web of Trust. The Web of Trust can't work. It might work if everybody you know is a cryptographer and everybody they know is a cryptographer and so on. But it can't work in real life, and often in describing it people make revealing mistakes.

Let me quote somebody else making such a mistake (not on HN) and then I'll reproduce part of my response to their mistake in answer:

"How much do you trust guy #53 of 120 you met at FOSDEM? Do you remember how well you checked his ID?"

I am 100% certain my mother is my mother, but I wouldn't trust her as far as I can throw her. And this is where the WoT breaks down. Your trust metric must reflect your confidence that these people will do their part correctly in the WoT, but even conscientious users often don't understand how to do their part correctly, so realistically almost everybody's "trust" indication for almost everybody should be zero. At which point it's not a "web" it's just a bunch of unconnected points.
Because the Zoom web client doesn't support end-to-end encrypted calls. Only their apps do.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360048660871-End-t...
> Not heard it blamed for using up hard drives before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_(cryptocurrency)
One would think that organized crime gangs have enough money to hire actual software developers and develop their own private and secure communications applications.

This is what happens when "brawn over brains" wins.

The truly smart organized crime gangs don't peddle violence, drugs and weapons. They run stock markets.
Corporate media is also pretty much an extension of corporate public relation firms a lot of the time. For instance I turned on broadcast TV for one minute this morning only to find a Amazon sponsored segment parading as a news piece promoting a feel good story about how Amazon was good for small businesses. People don't trust corporate media for good reason but many viewers probably lack training in media literacy that would be helpful for both consumers of social media and traditional media outlets. Vetting the veracity of independent news outlets is even more challenging at times and a failure to do so can result in suppression of good information and the propogation of disinformation.
> "Machine checked formally verified" is a long-known buzzword that screams bullshit marketing.

Long-known to who, exactly? How is "formal verification" even remotely a marketing buzzword?
What if the government purposely targeted relatively high inflation by printing money (and distributing it to all as a UBI).

Inflation seems like a pretty efficient wealth tax… and if the money is distributed fairly as a UBI that would cancel out the benefits that the wealthy have vs regular people to protect against inflation.
> Capital Gain taxes are delayed until you actually sell the stock.
> Squabbling over a wealth tax is not useful.

I agree that a wealth tax is not the way to go. But there are other ways to skin this cat. The big takeaway I got from the article missing in your summary is that the wealthy take loans secured by unrealized gains in order to finance their lifestyle.

So what if we found a way to make a rule that using unrealized gains as collateral for a loan was, for tax purposes, the same as realizing the gains? (You might need to tweak the rule for fairness but the basic point remains.)

I think aggressively closing loopholes in the current code could go a long way (you mentioned a couple, like charitable donations and tax havens).
So let me understand that ProPublica is calling a "true tax rate" as the rate they paid income taxes divided by the value of wealth?

For instance I'm having a hard time reconciling this paragraph.

"In that year, Bezos, who filed his taxes jointly with his then-wife, MacKenzie Scott, reported a paltry (for him) $46 million in income, ..."

That year reported $46MM in taxes yet the article keeps claiming the Bezos earned billions a year. I believe the article is conflating reported taxable income and wealth. The US tax system is based on taxable income and wealth is a totally different asset.

I suppose the article writer is proving the difference in rate of taxable income vs wealth but that same comparison needs to be done in all other income brackets as well. Perhaps I'm missing it but I'm not seeing the "true tax rate" across different household income profiles.
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I think PG's argument is that having your own projects is joyful and is more akin to play than work.

Not everyone wants to do this and being idle in that case is great as well.

I get extremely bored If I'm idle for too long.
Radiologists aren't talking to the patient either and don't have earlier scans available, they "just" comment on the image; so the doctor who does have the patient, their history and the radiology report(s) might as well receive the report from a ML system instead of a human radiologist.
From my experience EdgeHTML has been "better" than Safari in terms of standard support ever since it was released. Also note that some of the holdbacks were Microsoft and Mozilla telling Google that their APIs had privacy issues. Now with Microsoft effectively blindly pulling from Chromium they basically have no means to object to these standards that Google is pushing.

So while a Chomium-only web would move faster, I didn't see as EdgeHTML a major drag and the cost of Google controlling the web is far too high in my opinion.
It's not a property of text-based protocols, rather it's a property of simple protocols. HTTP/1 is not merely text based, it's ASCII based (technically ISO-8859-1, which includes ASCII). One char, one byte, one encoding. HTTP itself is mostly very simple, text "name: value" pairs separated by newlines, followed by arbitrary content as the body.

I think the solution is to start with a simple protocol and upgrade to more complex protocols after that. While technically you don't need to support HTTP/1 to support 2 and 3, the upgrade over TCP happens mostly in that way.
I would really just like a flat tax. No loopholes or deductions. Very simple. It should not take a masters degree to understand the tax code.

I recognize this is one of the main ways Policy is implemented (incentives can drive certain behavior), but we’ve got hundreds of years of complexity going on and I wouldn’t mind simplifying this.

I don’t know where to start though.