skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's bizarre to use an author who demands 5/5 star reviews and insults personally people who gave her 4/5 star reviews in a take about nuance criticizing the people who criticized her for doing that.

Blogs are also social media, this is just additional pile-in. I think this is supposed to be better because it uses too many words, tries to make the personality flaws that it ascribes to reviewers universal, and has a bunch of emotionally performative talk about moved to tears and having your heart broken mixed with talk about trauma.

edit: maybe the blog author should spend the time to listen to the life stories of the people who review books. If there were a more traumatic story from one or more of them, expressed well, would they win the sympathy contest?
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Another reason to not give a shit about facetime, or any other proprietary video app, if it is or it isn't encrypted, guess what, I can guarantee that Apple and Daddy Govt got a back door into it, and you'll never know cause you can see their code... If it ain't open source, they are probably spying on your, or at least have the ability to!!!
no they don't, but if yours does you can download a complete datadump of SO from them.
Private relay is only active when using Safari on iOS / macOS.

It's not a system wide VPN that can be used by spamming tools.
An interesting document is also what is actually covered by the 1.0.0 compatibility guarantee: https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/v1-compatibility-prom...
Did you read any of the stories what a tech company did to an employee who complained about safety issues at the plant? Tried to get him SWATted up by lying to the police. People are extremely petty, and just because people have well paid jobs doesn't mean they are reasonable in any way.
Interestingly, server side rendered pages worked well during the outage. Most of the issues were caused by sites that are relying too much on Javascript.
Unfortunately uBlock origin isn't available with web extensions

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/hdz0bo/will_u...
Ok, but why can't I use the same system for my income, and deduct my essentials like rent and power and water before I pay tax on the rest?
I don't think this is specific to Netflix, Swedish subtitles are routinely awful and badly translated across a variety of media.
The tax office where? In the United States? Maybe companies would just stop “going public” or would become publicly traded in another jurisdiction. Or maybe France doesn’t like that China says French companies have to issue 2% per year in new shares to operate in China. Or better yet, how do you do this in all countries? Is it 2%/year in all countries?

Etc. I think there are a lot of scenarios to think through.

-edit-

Didn’t downvote you BTW. Shame on those who are when you’re just having a discussion. We really need to get rid of that as a tool.
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Honestly this is probably the biggest announcement at wwdc 2021. They added so much stuffs you can do without.

Anybody here have experience with the new tabs design in macos monterey? How's usability?
I just cancel my card from time to time to kill the subscriptions and then re-sign up on those I miss. Monzo's virtual cards help a lot too.
Various levels of local governments provide many services and benefits for my physical property located in their jurisdictions, so I do not oppose a reasonable property tax. But the federal government provides no services or benefits to the securities in my vault, so a general federal wealth tax on them is altogether different, and I oppose it.
That's how I understood it as well, and it's a pattern I've seen in (bad) decision making: While a stakeholder might feel more "in control" by being able to look over the shoulder of an on-call engineer, asking somebody to reboot the database, etc., this very often does not translate into higher performance metrics.

Of course, the opposite would be outsourcing all responsibilities, so there obviously is an art to balancing these two extremes.
To add, we are just looking at one of a thousand aspects of tradecraft. They aren’t just dealing with this. They are dealing with moving goods, moving goods across borders, in person meetings, transferring money, recruiting new members, avoiding physical police bugs, avoiding police tails, securing good and money against other criminals, and on and on and on. Each one of those things has a learning curve and takes time, energy, and money.

Of course after a bust, you could go back and say “well obviously they should have done this differently and doubled their security here” but they can’t double their security everywhere and they can’t know every single possible way that every single aspect of everything could become compromised.
Try “site:old.Reddit.com”
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"Permissive" at least is an established term of art, meaning a license which does not impose many conditions on redistribution:

https://fossa.com/blog/all-about-permissive-licenses/

Even the GNU project uses it that way:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html

You're right that "restrictive" is an unusual term in this context. The antonym of "permissive" is usually "copyleft".
It's empathy towards people managing the incident, not towards the company. It's a sign of solidarity from SRE to SRE, not a sign of solidarity with a company.
please help me understand what you call "capital gains".
in india, when you are holding a share in a company for example, its value goes from $1 to $4 in a year. for that financial year, your accountant says "hey. you earned $3 as capital gains", and its appropriately taxed as short term capital gains or long term.

how do American financial statements show "wealth"? i read the article but i don't understand. if my personal balance sheet was $ 1 at the start of the year and by the closing, i say my capital balance is now $2, that means i got the balance through some earning so that is what is taxed. why the half assed approach to delay till final sale?
accrual is an accounting word. isn't it?
https://animebook.github.io/

never mind the 'anime' in the name, it's just a web video player that supports nearly every format and has good subtitle integration.

you'll need a hover/popup dictionary (for example, for Japanese Yomichan is popular) to go with it
Good article on the subject from last month
https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/18/report-apple-compromise...

> “After Chinese employees complained, it even dropped the ‘Designed by Apple in California’ slogan from the backs of iPhones,” the Times report says, noting the regime’s unwillingness to let Apple’s branding remain “American.”

>Cook has repeatedly tried to quiet criticism of Apple’s relationship with China by noting how efficient it makes the company. Not only does Apple’s partnership with the regime allow for access to, housing for, and factories for Chinese workers who “assemble nearly every iPhone, iPad, and Mac” to rake in at least “$55 billion a year from the region, far more than any other American company makes in China,” but it also gives the company an easy global reach
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Maybe it is not normal, but when I read about these gangsterphones I think, hmm I want to make my own (legit) secure phone :-)

It seems they use off-the-shelf phones and put a custom ROM on them. Can anybody recommend a state of the art phone that has good custom ROM support (close to mainline Linux if possible; custom images have full hardware support)?

I imagine to use it for "citizen journalism", i.e. safely taking pictures and posting them anonymously to social media. For that reason the PinePhone would be out - it doesn't have a very good camera and doesn't run social media apps.
> you are helping push the web become an increasingly centralized place

Does it? Open source standardization is a good thing. Still not sure why html/css/js engine should be the exception. No one is calling for competition for QR code, torrent protocol, or the other billion of very dominant open source projects.
Don't these exact same arguments apply to property taxes?

Yet property taxes are very common throughout the US. Would you make the same arguments to eliminate property taxes? If not, why are capital gains any different?
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I cannot disagree though I would point out that nothing in the market really comes close to matching the value for money that the Quest 2 provides.

However, by bypassing the Facebook requirement, I like to believe that I'm screwing them over by depriving them of the personal data that they likely wanted to use to subsidise the low price of the headset.
How you actually write data to the files is mostly irrelevant. You could write each column of each table into a separate file or a file per table. I would probably further partition each file by date with some relatively large range (day or week or month). I don’t see why you’d ever want to write multiple tables into one file. Not sure why you’d think of this as chunks of 10 seconds, that’s just the size of the input buffer. The records aren’t related to each other beyond that or grouped in any way.

As far as compaction, I suspect for the kinds of workloads you are using this kind of storage for you won’t get much in terms of deduplication. IoT devices sending sensor readings are unlikely to produce loads of stable readings and the time stamps will be ever increasing.
You can't take it with you, but your estate can? WTF.
Which is why Slack style :tofu_on_fire: emoji notation is genius
Yes. I am a software developer with 20 years experience.
I stopped looking for work as interviewing these days just sickens my feckin happiness. It was so so so so much more straight forward in the 1980's. The last interview I had, they gave me a take home project that I wrote in Golang. It was supposed to be the topic of discussion at the interview. That's how they sold it. Took me a day of my life to write ( time I won't get back) They never even mentioned it once in the interview. The guy just sat there unprepared asking me "random assed questions" that popped into his head about god knows what. Dumb as a box of rocks questions at that.

I told them they are wasting my time and walked out. This may look small in of it's self but I have hundreds of "doing stupid interview stories". They can shove their j.o.b arseways.

And don't get me started on Indian recruiters calling me all the day long and I get into the.... say What?, What? What? What? What? wishyywagywokkiewakie what? click.
I have come to realize something profoundly fundamental for myself in the last weeks - after seeing this famous marketing video by Steve Jobs and reading a biography of Nike's founder:

My passion for my own project/business is highest whenever my passion is aligned with the passion of my target audience.

In that case, I also believe your chances of success have improved.

Take Nike, for example. Phil Knight was a passionate athlete. He loved sports. However, he was never so good that he could do it for a living. Part of the reason he founded a shoe company back then was to stay in the athlete's business without being an athlete himself. Watch any Nike advertisement and you will not see many words on products, but it's always about how great athletes are.
From what I read you could only buy/activate this phone(or app?) if you knew someone using one and they were only sold on the black market by people who knew the criminal organisations
Payroll tax is paid by employers on behalf of their employees. That is, it is the employees money that pays the tax - not the employers. VAT works similarly.
> "tax the income" is flawed because it allows to borrow as much as your wealth allows, and live your life exactly as if you had that in income, without ever paying the income tax.

I don't see how that can be true, you eventually have to repay the loan, to do that you need income which will be taxed. For example if you borrow 100000 dollars for one year with 3% interest you will have to pay to the bank 103000 dollars, as far as I understand you can only write off the 3000 dollars on your taxes. The reason rich people borrow against their equity is because they don't want to sell it and their equity makes them more money than the interest rate on their loans.

Furthermore while the article does distinguish wealth from income, it fails to distinguish realized from unrealized gains. Taxing unrealized gains comes with two very significant downsides.

Firstly to make the system fair it should provide tax credits for unrealized losses which means when the market goes down all of these people will use that tax credit to cancel out the huge salaries they will be paying themselves on that year.

Secondly while a tax on unrealized gains will be annoying to rich people it will be devastating to small time investors, because it will force them to liquidate their minor positions in order to pay their taxes.

To give a concrete example lets assume a college grad has a single share of amazon he bought last year for around 2000 usd, today that same share is worth around 3000 usd that's 1000 dollars of gains if our hypothetical student has to pay income tax on that 1000 dollars let's say 20% because he also has income. He will have to pay with his income (which has already been taxed) or he will have to sell that stock essentially robbing him of the future gains he could have if he held that stock.
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The step up basis only applies to estate taxes below the federal limits, so it doesn't apply to super-rich. ...another point (deliberately?) omitted from OP's article.

Step up basis might get eliminated in any case, as the Biden Administration is proposing to remove it.
That's a very welcome addition, but I'm guessing these won't be available for third-party "browsers", just like content blocking extensions?

That decision makes absolute sense for most in-app browsers (that depend on WKWebView for functionality that isn't generic web browsing), but for actual browser apps, content blockers are sorely missing.
>>We are talking about people with meaningful wealth. They can afford to be taxed without waiting for it to be perfectly 'fair'. Letting them pay $0 until its fair doesn't make sense

But....shares are useless until sold. Even if you have 1BN worth of shares it means nothing until you actually sell them/trade them? In fact, they could be worth nothing next week, how can you be taxing someone on a hypothetical sale value?

>>Indeed, that's how my own labour income is already taxed. I first pay income tax for 2021 based on my income in 2020 - whenever it turns out to be too much, I can declare it later and will get a refund. But, I can't pay $0.

That's literally insane. So you're basically giving your government a loan a year in advance? Why? Why not pay your income tax when you know - you get your income, like the rest of Europe does?
I think most people forget about this. You can have capital gains, not pay taxes, and borrow against them, and spend the money.

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.
Why use a browser that actively fights against the user by introducing pointless and unwanted changes?
> It was a very, very hard negotiation to go to 4 week of PTO while reducing my yearly salary by the equivalent of 40H*MyRate.

Simple, because the value you're providing is much higher than your salary, so reducing your output costs more than the savings in salary paid.

Now if your output is actually linear with hours work, that's another story.
Living free in Turkey doesn't necessarily mean he isn't in hiding, and/or hasn't paid off enough locals to be protected from extradition or capture.
I once wrote that "My dream is to, one day, work for free."

I am now living that dream. When I left my last company, in 2017, I looked at working for someone else, but was almost immediately told that no one wants old men. It was pretty crushing.

But I went and set up a corporation that allows me to get equipment and testing kit, and started to write my own stuff. I explored surveillance cameras and ONVIF, as well as Bluetooth (I'm pretty good with devices -I've been working on them all my life. I started as an EE, and actually played with Heathkits when I was a kid).

I'm now working on a very ambitious social media app. It's probably months down the road, but it will happen. I always ship. I've been doing it all my adult life. This project is the kind and scope that is usually done by a team of 10-20 engineers (I also wrote the backend from scratch, three years ago), but I've been doing it alone. I just started working with another guy that will be adding a dashboard to the server.

If you look at the projects in my portfolio, you will see heavy-duty, industrial-strength code; not sloppy "hobby" code. The code Quality is out of this world, they all have a lot more testing code than implementation code, and the documentation is over-the-top complete.

I learned, long ago, to make my "hobbies" "ship" projects. That way, everything I do is useful.

And that is what makes me happy. I like to finish stuff; and having people use my stuff is the best way to validate its completeness.

That said; despite the completeness of my work, it isn't particularly popular, which is just fine by me. I tend to "eat my own dog food," and use a lot of my libraries in my own work. The less that people other than myself depend on my work, the more freedom I have to form it to my own needs. I take Stewardship of my work seriously.
Where is Akamai in this comparison?
oh right nice, and this somehow makes this all ok then? have a post mortem and all sunshine and rainbows. #noblameculture

fucking hell, you guys have no idea of how this impacted other industries.
And... you're a piece of shit, thanks for sharing!
> Which isn’t such a great design either.

I'll guess that you didn't knew that DOS 1.x don't have any concept of directories. It's essentially a novo terra for DOS applications, and makes sense considering that Unix also standardised at /dev.
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Damn, I thought I cloud blame myself or the provider..
Your repo has a section "Why not Git/Git-LFS, libgit2, or SVN?". Can i suggest you add a comparison to Mercurial's largefiles extension:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/LargefilesExtension

Since, last time i looked into it, which was a while ago, that was the best option for this.
It's insufferable, most video editing workstations these days are PC just because Apple ignored the pro line for so long and it's just cheaper for far more powerful hardware.

But the amount of times I've spent up to an hour just trying to get videos off iPhones and into the editing software is crazy.

Apple's ecosystem "Just working" within itself is a huge benefit until they let one part of the entire computing spectrum slip then it becomes a nightmare.

Once you can't use AirDrop in part of the chain the walled garden becomes extremely apparent on your devices and you'll be screaming at your phone trying to figure out how to get this 2GB video file off it and onto a real machine to work on.
I don't understand these posts.

Why must the world at large censor themselves so an author can demand everyone see her work as perfection without hearing any other opinion? Why are the various, discordant voices considered "social media thinking for you", but the demand of absolute acquiescence is not?
Not far off it. I run fedora silverblue with is flatpak and podman
Damn, I thought I cloud blame myself or the internet provider...
This framing seems like a classic case of "yesterday's compromise is today's loophole".

The rules and their various exceptions and special cases were put in to be used. Would you complain that someone takes a right turn on red where allowed or complain that someone builds a structure to the maximum specifications they can before incurring additional permitting or construction compliance requirements?
For the sake of argument, assume a flat 20% tax rate for a minute.

Scenario A: Your taxable income is $1,000,000. Your tax liability is $200,000. You pay your taxes, you net $800,000.

Scenario B: Your taxable income is $1,000,000. Your tax liability is $200,000. You donate $200,00 to charity. Now your taxable income is $800,000 and your tax liability is $160,000. Your net income is $640,000.

The only scenario where a charitable contribution doesn’t lower your overall income is

Scenario C: you commit fraud.
This feature also won't be available for several months, so it's possible they're planning for Firefox support but hedging their bets in case they can't get it done in time.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. It's valuable.

Do you know any best practices about who does this right, and how it can be done both safely and economically? If necessary with automation and large scale.
That link is about iMessage, not FaceTime.
> A lot of devices are just too weak to encode anything other than H.264

Not that your point is wrong, but a lot of devices are too weak to encode/decode H264 as well. It's very recent for me to have access to second-hand hardware with H264 support and still i'm in western Europe where it's easier to come by.

Though as the other commenter pointed out, if you can afford to use hardware en/decoders then it's always the better option.
Does anyone know of the"sqlite connector" mentioned in this post ?

https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2013/05/06/does-found...

It would be really cool to find it, if it's still out there.
Usually Google Pixel phones have the best OS support and the most hardware security features. Most security focused Android distros are only available for them:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support
If donations were going to 3rd party charitable organizations, maybe (though they are notoriously inefficient/corrupt themselves), but if you are simply transferring the money to an organization under your full control anyway, then it's not really a charitable organization.

This distinction is so hard to make, that I think it simply makes more sense to limit donations to a much smaller percent of AGI.

The current limit of 60% is so high, that most donations at that level are providing some sort of unspoken utility to the benefactor.
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That doesn't work out in practice. "The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence" https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14... The headline tells you what you need to know. The disruption thing is just a chimera to fool gullible people into thinking that rich people actually earned what they got and that the system is fair. It absolutely is not.
Maybe I'm getting old but these days I'm having a hard time telling if comments like these are serious or sarcastic.
This sort of culture worked at Netflix. Did they go down today?
I assume you mean "common" as "not royal," not "common" as "not wealthy enough to live off their investments."
How about significantly reducing taxes for everyone? Say, no more than 5% of anyone's income?
this was before amasad created replit as an open source project
(Legitimate) tax deductible donations aren't no-cost. You can only use it to reduce your tax at the marginal rate you pay.

If, for example, you were in the 30% tax bracket and gave a $100 deductible donation, you'd only reduce your tax liability by $30 (ignoring edge cases) - ie you're still $70 out of pocket.