skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Downvoted for clunky sentence construction.
It seems obvious to me that no matter what you personally think of e.g. a restaurant refusing to serve food to someone or even a group of people, the federal government issuing and implementing a decree (all within a matter of hours!) that bans all citizens/residents of the country from even entering said restaurant is a ridiculous overreaction and a gross abuse of state power.
I'd rather people are aware of solutions on a protocol level. Say for example if more people knew how to connect and use Tor.

At the moment many Nigerians have downloaded and installed (free) VPNs but I'm afraid of the massive scam that'd follow it. Many of the unknown VPN companies would just harvest people's financial information and all what not...
Veteran politician can do politics, who knew! /s

It's about time people started to elect leaders who can get shit done in the frameworks that exist to get shit done, instead of trying (and failing) to destroy such frameworks.
This is good news for countries where US companies are active, but use creative accounting to move their profits out of those countries.
Video: With AMC Stock Exploding, the Founder R/WallStreetBets Speaks Out
This is brought up again and again. You can make similar arguments for every tax. In fact let's look at income tax. The money people spend on income tax they could spend on.

1. Spent on goods or services

2. Spent on rent

3. Spent on capital purchases

4. Spent on debt repayment or other forms of financing

In fact income tax does not have the last two points that you admit are bad, so maybe we should eliminate income tax and use corporate tax only?

The thing is low corporate taxes create an inequality between labor and capital gains. It's already the case that wealth inequality is quite unrelated to income inequality, the highest wealth individuals often don't register in the high income brackets.
> Twitter also created a special emoji just for the protests

Ooft. Although I know nothing of Nigerian politics, that seemed like a dumb move.
Why ask Gates and not Tim Paterson in the first place?
When I visited the US, I went to Walmart just to see how bad it was. I visited the "sick and dead fish" aisle. Incomprehensible how that's even allowed, but ok.

This is more subjective, but in every country I go to, I visit a "cheap supermarket chain store" and look at the people working there. Do they look happy? Do they look healthy? Do they look tired? Switzerland was amazing on that front.
No, Australia already has massive rooftop solar adoption because it's the cheapest energy source there. A lot of that is soft costs of installation which Australia reduced by having easier regulations.
How is the altitude of a satellite defined, as the Earth is not spherical?
Wow this is amazing!
I remember a few years ago in my thesis I was trying to use something similar in ROS to detect hand gestures and make a robot drive toward you, it's incredible to see this in the browser!
> I'd love to learn this echolocation skill ...

You can quite literally teach yourself. It's not hard in any way.

As a _very basic_ start, sometime after dark go and stand a few inches from a wall (facing it).

Make a few (fairly loud) clicking sounds with your tongue. Notice what the sound returning from the wall is like.

Then step back a pace or two, and to it again. You'll get the hang of "something close in front of me" vs "something 1 meter or two away from me" pretty quickly.

Once you've got that, it's pretty easy to expand out the skill set. :)
9. Buying and controlling media for desired political outcomes.

10. Astroturfing

As different sectors of business have different structures
of material costs, labor costs, profit and investing. Maybe
having at least some kind of equal corporate tax can be seen
as being fair across different types of businesses.

Additionally many forms of business have externalities which
are negative for the rest of the humanity. Often it has been
the public sector which has to pick up the slack or clean up
the mess.

Also most people agree that there exist at least some forms
of infrastructure which are best managed publicly and are
difficult organize privately in a way that encourages
competition. Also corporations often directly benefit from
different forms of public infrastructure, so in this sense
it can be seen as fair to directly tax them.
Yep - this was also the theme of the movie Margin Call (a point rammed home by the final scene).

It's usually really hard to draw the line in finance, though - unless you're deep in the weeds.

This is partly why Graeber's attempt to look at this issue through the lens of people doing the jobs themselves was probably the best way to formulate the research.
What is criminal mode?
It's a pretty devastating evolutionary loss to have to abandon your offspring due to a disturbance. This is why mammals carry their "eggs". Birds couldn't evolve this way as they're very sensitive to weight due to flight.
As always with tax, the concepts that we want to discuss are not discreet enough to translate into tax law. Revenue, profit, location and such are arbitrary decisions that can be made by an accountant.

Does Apple makes its money in the US, where the company is headquartered and listed? Does it make it in China, where products are manufactured? Does it make it wherever people buy the stuff. Ireland, where the IP is "located."

Since corporate tax is an income tax, it's taxed on profit... the not of revenue and expenses. Revenues and expenses are accrued everywhere. The entity booking them is arbitrary.
The next article is a rant about how covid lockdowns are anti-freedom and everyone should stop listening to the experts and elites who rule us.
Brief: Umbilical Development for Small Targets
An interesting development from Microsoft robotics team.

They appear to have pulled together a lot of ideas together that have been in use in commercial Forth systems for 25 years and added some cutting edge Forth ideas.

- implicit call bit. Important to manage code size in Forth where calls are used a great deal. (1st seen in Chuck Moore's silicon designs)

- sub-routine threading: faster than in-direct or direct threaded code

- tail call optimization, not often seen in Forth compilers

- umbilical architecture: compiler on host/code on target

- consistent RPN syntax

- quotations. Not standardized in Forth but implemented in multiple ways in various systems.
I've always parsed mathematics more as a language than a science, because it's not necessarily empirical.
1, 2, 3, 5, 8 also apply to normal people so why not get rid of income tax? The point of tax is for the government to gain money to spend on public services and what not, what you’re suggesting keeps money private.
You’re ignoring that the companies can just keep lots of cash without distributing it to individuals in order to avoid taxation under your system. So for example the company can rent houses, cars, and airplanes for every employee to ensure there is not much money left to be taxed as income. On paper they look like corporate expenses but it’s really just a way to distribute money without it being taxable.
Priority is the ads display performance; search or news are just an addition to the actual business.
They didn't say they weren't afraid of loss at the top, but that they were also afraid of loss at the bottom.
As someone who has recorded 500+ tech video screencasts while occasionally dealing with sensitive information, here's what I've come up with:

1. Do whatever you can to minimize sensitive info exposure before you even start streaming or recording. For example I created a shell script which backs up and clears my shell history and does other things[0]. Make a note to use a browser where your history is cleared too.

2. Sometimes it's easier to say screw it and show the sensitive information with full intent that you're going to change your API keys, password or whatever sensitive data is shown. This ends up being much better because now you don't need to worry about blurring anything because you know you'll re-roll your keys. This is really good for pre-recorded videos vs live streams.

3. If you need to hide secrets, put all secrets into an .env file and have a .env.example file handy to show how to set them up without showing your real secrets. This is another way to eliminate ever having to blur anything and have a 0% chance of ever exposing a secret.

4. If you need to hide something, put a solid color over it instead of blurring it so it can't be reversed.

5. One of the pain points with hiding something in a video is the sensitive info might be on a page where you're scrolling up and down on the page which means you need to move your solid color rectangle or expand it based on which frame is showing. But overall this isn't too bad with most video editors since you can click and drag a rectangle onto a specific point in your timeline. If you adhere to the first 3 steps, you'll often only need minor hiding in all of your streams and videos.

6. Often times you're hiding unexpected things, like maybe you're logged into GitHub to make a video about an open source project but you view your GitHub feed which shows a list of private organizations you do freelance work for. This is the type of stuff to watch out for, which IMO also makes certain editor plugins that try to hide secrets not that useful since you can hide them in other ways, and it sets you up with a false sense of security because there's many other sensitive things outside of your editor to think about.

I'm not trying to deter you from building your tool, but I suppose I'm having trouble seeing how I would use it in practice. I'd be curious to hear how other folks handle this.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/bash-aliases-to-prepare-recor...
This a typical economist analysis, and I think it's mostly right. But I don't think those making these decisions think in such terms at all.

People love to tax companies, because they think it's "someone else" paying those taxes.

Maybe there is also some anthropomorphising going on where you think of the company as another person who is much wealthier than you.
Scrolled down and saw "Crowd saluting Hitler and one person defying dictatorship standards and risking imprisonment — are you wearing a mask still?"

From his other posts, you'll find "Call me crazy, although I’d rather risk a very strong cold than a blood clot."

Oy.
> And if the country is smaller, like Nigeria, China will be happy to offer their help for a bit of political influence.

And why not to let them? Half the kingdom for a privilege to kill somebody's Facebook page? A very good trade.

Dictators are even more well aware than democracies what opening the door to Beijing means. They will rather not to.
The main reason Amazon is paying a $15 minimum wage is because of substantial pressure from progressives - there's an extensive record of this. The media reporting has largely been coverage of Bernie Sanders and the like, so it's pretty clear that there are non-media folks who have been driving it.
Why does it seem like a dumb move?
I started going through rust's wgpu tutorial last week.

Despite feeling overwhelmed with boilerplate, it really is incredible what you can do; Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX compatibility, and you only need to write it once.
I once read a piece on the country musician Doc Watson, who was blind. He said that he used "echolocation" a fair bit, and that when a stand of trees opposite his house was cut it disoriented him for a while.
Great project. One of its user git-tui looks well comparing to another git-cli (tig).

Wish we have some nice cross-platform GUI with modern c++ works across linux/windows/macos too, the only choice used to be Qt. Nowadays imgui seems a good alternative.
When I visit other countries, I always visit the Cheapest supermarkets, just to see the people working there. Zwitserland was amazing: happy, healthy people who clearly loved their job. The US much less so.
> And so it should be. There's hardly anything worse than having things shift around after you start reading, scrolling or clicking on something.

Oh my god, this is one of my largest complaints. I'm an impatient person so i often go to click something before the page is done - bad me - and so often JS loads and swaps buttons.

Honestly though i've had that complaint about my OS', too. The number of times i'm typing and something pops up and steals focus or i go to click something and moments before it shifts causing me to click something else.. ugh.
That’s usually the case of any kind of operation, no? If you use the infrastructure and services of a particular country its seems reasonable to pay taxes on your profits there.
Pillar two already takes care of the small companies.

There are two good mechanisms that apply for both cases.
Smart. Honestly, every country should ban Twitter and Facebook. They are a net negative; this century's version of tobacco companies. Arguably worse, as they are a cancer on the entire discourse and well being of society writ large.
That is literally the definition of someone calling for companies to act as gangsters and engage in racketeering.
This looks exciting, I hope it goes somewhere. I am a little concerned that it doesn't support text though. Tooling could probably render text as curves, which would be more consistent across platforms, but would take more space, and the text would no longer be selectable or extractable.
Beside the task there are other elements. You can almost turn any act into a pain or the opposite.

Clarity of intent. (Quality of training)

Adequate load sharing.

Interest of the approach (some petty tasks can made fun and challenging).

Then there's the systemic / social side of it. If your work flows with others. There a parallel with kinetic energy and inertia. A job where things flow is probably gonna be appreciated even if it has low value.
Actually, I have evidence that Joe Biden is a pod person!

The statement "Joe Biden is a pod person" is logically equivalent to the statement "All things that are not pod persons are not Joe Biden".

I've examined tens of thousands of things that were not pod persons and none of them were Joe Biden, thus providing evidence for the second statement, and hence for the first statement.

(For those curious about this kind of evidence, it is called the Raven paradox [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox
What is the DreamWorld scandal?
I thought flutter web uses wasm/canvas and not html am I wrong ?
It’s not that simple. Twitter has business, operations, and employees in India. Twitter can choose to stop doing business in India. This decision will hurt both Twitter and Indian economy. It’s not in the interest of both parties to keep escalating.
Like most discussions about taxes, it is less about the effectiveness in revenue collection and more about "fairness."
There are a lot of reasons that elected politicians don’t support the positions of most voters, one being that turnout of the voting-age population in the US tends to be just over 50% (with 2020 being an outlier). But I think we’re getting too deep into the analogy here. The point is that a democratically elected government is absolutely capable of making decisions opposed by a majority of its citizens.
I was assuming that outside of niche animals, upward/downward migration by animals would buy us time in dealing with climate change.

Apparently not.
I'm happy that bunnyhopping has died and doesn't show up in games anymore. You can bunnyhop in Dusk, but it's a single-player game and it's perfectly playable without it.
This has already been settled in the EU - from a tax perspective, the sale is happening where the customer placing the order lives, which typically coincides with an address in the same country.

Now something like this is bound to come, from the new treaty, to all G7 countries, which hopefully means it will trickle down to the G20 at the least.

The main issue is not rules on sales though - it's cracking down on profit-shifting masqueraded as IP transfers and licensing. Hopefully that too is being cracked down on.
Of course. The solution is to have governments back currencies like USDT, BUSD, USDC, Dai, etc. If they're gonna bail out financial institutions when they screw up, Tether should be no exception.
Better learn to walk before attempting to run. Too many HF’s are stated based on half-baked ideas/models. Better to partner with an existing HF and get the data insight, but maintain your independence an chart your own course.
> I feel like this is a weird dichotomy

> I don't want actual politics at work. I don't want to be debating politically contentious events at work.

Frank and Kate is sitting at the lunch table. They are discussing "Israel's ongoing massacre in Gaza" and how awful it is. Your opinion is contrary to theirs. Do you feel that you have the right to make them not talk about this topic because you don't want "actual politics" at work? I'm curious to know where you think the line should be drawn. Suppose you are an atheist and you just got a warning from your manager because a Christian employee overheard you saying to a colleague that "all religions are such bunk." Should you not have been allowed to express that "controversial" opinion?
so you're enjoying typing in commands on the terminal repetitively can you still can't see what you're doing?
Does this make a meaningful change?

WebExtensions were already practically required to be a superset of Chrome's APIs, so the incentive is already there to just use what Chrome offers for maximum compatibility. Mozilla can and does offer additional APIs beyond what Chrome does, and in some cases (like adblocking in a manifest v3 world), this will soon be more relevant as Chrome's adblocking capabilities will take a hit upon killing manifest v2, but it's already the case that Firefox is a better platform for adblockers, as detailed by uBlock origin devs: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

I don't see this group constraining vendors to implement _only_ the blessed APIs, much like web standards hasn't stopped Chrome inventing new APIs for Google needs.
It does seem like a reasonable principle, which makes abolishing the corporate tax unpersuasive. If there were only a single jurisdiction the argument would be more compelling.
Corporations pass the tax expenses on to consumers as higher prices of produced goods, lower wages to employees, and lower returns to owners that supply capital. These taxes are all paid by us but they are largely invisible and justified to the voters as making corporations “pay their fair share”.
It's neither here nor there, for that.

If you are a simple, single entity, your income tax is calculated there. It's hard to say what if anything will actually come of this. Tax legislation has a tendency to hide the main point. But currently, small businesses disadvantaged by the things this legislation ostensibly wants to curb. Multinationals have the resources and complexity to avoid tax entirely. It's usually just sole traders that pay full income tax.
Meanwhile Peter Wadhams has been saying for years that the IPCC was dramatically underestimating the thinning of ice, on the grounds that he'd been spending decades roaming under the ice in submarines, and what the IPCC estimated for years in the future he'd already seen with his own eyes.

His book A Farewell to Ice is a pretty compelling read.
Htop is an example of a good TUI but it doesn’t really look like a traditional “drawn” GUI.

I think that is the distinction that parent is making.

In a TUI environment (ignoring mouse support) traditional GUI elements and layouts often don’t make sense. Like one of the examples with all the radio buttons in small boxes.

The good TUI apps like htop, newsboat, mutt, vim/emacs, tmux all have mostly line-and-column oriented simple layout primitives.
Facebook’s Responses in Trump Case Better Than a Kick in the Teeth, but Not Much
> your costs are limited by the out of pocket maximum.

“Limited”, ha, ha, ha, to $8k for an individual/$16k for a family. (Very generous of them to assume a family has two wage earners making equally as much.)

Better hope your cancer treatment doesn’t span two calendar years.
Someone on the internet says Apple iOS does support it:
https://davidwalsh.name/how-to-use-jpeg-2000-jp2-for-a-faste...
First of all i never mentioned merit or who deserves what. I merely stated my opinion as to the organizing principle that would lead to the happiness quotient over the population to be maximal. Ultimately i believe power should lie with the people and not with the elite. If i could make a recommendation to the people, i would tell them that there will always be an elite and that it's better to have intelligent, hardworking elite (who have a responsibility to the people) rather than an elite based on hereditary or based on power.
Captfencoder – Extensible cross platform network security tool suite
> Yes, because there's plenty of research that's been done that says racism

Woah, so disagreeing with particular research is racist now? I've heard it all.
Thinking by yourself is not enough. We have plenty of builtin bias, we carry a lot of (old and present) cultural baggage that condition what meaning we give to what we see

Critical and system thinking (there are plenty of great books on both) are useful tools there.
Everything I’ve Learned About Design Tokens in 1 Thread
Using HTML Lists tag like a Pro
I agree about that. Basically at this moment there are two ways to interpret these releases: US government / military is trolling everybody for whatever reason (cover-up, FUD), OR you trust them and there is something very interesting out there, whether it's earthly or not. In any case though, this goes beyond just some optical illusion or camera artifact.
Review of Ubuntu after 4 months of daily usage
This is ActiveX all over again.

Browser extensions should not be made an official thing. Some extensions are malicious and even legit ones have too much access to your data.

If plug-ins are made official then companies may choose to provide functionality via plug-ins instead of through regular web-based applications and that's a terrible idea.
Business Insider really is a digital tabloid that would rely on any headline for clicks. Wouldn't trust this source.
For a bit more context, the protests that Jack Dorsey donated to were against a police unit that regularly terrorised, extorted (ahem, robbed) and sometimes murdered young people based almost entirely on profiling such as "having locs" and "using an iPhone"[0].

0. For example this is as recently as two days ago: https://twitter.com/codebeast/status/1400423232189120521
>Can you understand how a lack of the ability to have private conversations, relationships, etc. could cause serious problems for some people?

Yes it could cause serious problem but not the privacy itself that the problem, its other people using it to harm other people is the problem.

My conversation being public by itself is not a problem, the problem is when people use it to harm me.

>but now you are seem to be implying that privacy actually does have value to some people, correct?

In any case its not the privacy itself that has value.