skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All rights have limits, including free speech and privacy. We can discuss where those lines should be, but by precedent it's established that public figures have reduced privacy rights because it serves the public interest.

It's clear at this point that extremely wealthy figures should expect reduced privacy rights when it come to their wealth because it serves the public interest.

You're basically arguing that the public shouldn't be aware whether a person owns a nuclear weapon because they bought it fair and square and "privacy".
What standards are they significantly behind on? I seem to recall Fx being a prime mover on standards most of the time, not a laggard.
> That should be reduced for equalizing opportunity for those children who are born without such a previledge.

So should I be able to pass my house to my children or should it be taken away from them simply because they have a "privilege"? Because there would be zero fairness in doing that.

> However, social policies are inherently by nature aimed at balancing the good of individuals with the good of the society overall.

I understand that. The problem is that I don't see how this particular social policy would be a positive to society. As GP pointed out, "you're effectively telling people to spend all their money on frivolous luxury items because they can't pass it on to their children anyway."

I guess as long as you don't take my stuff away I shouldn't have any reason to be against it, but as this policy fails miserably and you realize that it didn't solve all of our problems, you're going to come after me as well, so my final answer is no, I'm against it.
Nothing is really “wrong” with it. However the change reframes homelessness as a temporary state a person experiences rather than a persistent identity of the individual.
Glific is built on top of some amazing open source creations, a few of them are mentioned below

* Elixir and friends - Absinthe, Oban, Pow, Mnesia
* React
* Postgresql
Nothing did Sweden collapse?
> It seems like a win-win.

It's not a win-win, there's significant risk.

> fully collateralized

This is not true! The underlying asset fluctuates in value and is open to lowering significantly in value, leaving the bank holding the bag.
Thousands in China got infected by brucellosis in one single outbreak (2020)
My guess is the phrasing is meant to de-emphasize the permanency of homelessness - a lot of working class people drift in and out of homelessness. In order to better the situation you need to have it properly understood and analyzed.

I think the term "unhoused" had a similar goal but avoided the immediacy of "homeless" and was thus ineffective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill
> If you take the top 1% of earners, they make 20% of the income, but pay 38% of the taxes.

And that's normal.

If I make $1k per year, taxing me is almost criminal, since I can barely afford to feed myself.

If I make $100k per year, taxing me $20k year is kind of annoying, but manageable. I'll probably have to avoid some bigger expenses I would have made if I were not taxed at all.

If I make $100m+ per year, taxing me $40m per year doesn't even change my lifestyle. It just gives me topics to bitch about at dinner time, but it doesn't change my life in any material way.

The more I have, the more I can afford to give away without it impacting me or my family in any realistic way. Except for losing ego points.
They say [1] between ProtonMail users, so yeah.

[1] https://protonmail.com/security-details
Grades still matter for the vast majority of people who aren’t born into mega rich families. Most people don’t become Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and even those that do benefit greatly from the pedigrees that academic achievement opens up (going to top colleges, working at desirable employers, although grades matter little there unless you’re right out of college). For everyone else grades are still used for tracking into the traditionally high paid professions like law and medicine, and for tracking into the target colleges for high powered banking and consulting.
Spoiler: was a lab leak.

> Usually caused by contact with animals, the outbreak in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, was due to a leak at a vaccine plant, according to Lanzhou’s health commission. People are still being treated at hospitals even though the outbreak happened a year ago.
I think this comment is unnecessarily hostile. OP is not offering to build services; he's just asking. It's a valid question. Did you know ISIS had what amounts to an "HR department" ?

https://en.zamanalwsl.net/news/article/23994/
I was thinking something similar. If a person has the inclination to jump on the bandwagon for any given situation, they are probably actively getting something out of it.

I have a theory that it could have something to do with the haves and the have nots. Whenever some relatively public figure (by default, without critical thinking, is usually labeled as a "have"), slips up in some way, no matter how small, the have nots jump on the opportunity to join a crusade of righteousness where they strike down the goliath for abusing their unfairly acquired power.
Exactly. The overcomplicated way people think about things like this reminds me of the counterpoint Michael Pollan quote about what you should eat: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." If people made sure they slept properly, didn't drink too much (caffeine or alcohol) and got regular exercise, they'd feel transformed. It took me until my 40s to realise that!
I find it unlikely that even a state actor would have access to literally all the same private data that ProPublica has acquired over the years, and that they'd know what data ProPublica has and what can be safely manipulated.
How do you even implement in on "only billionaires?" Wouldn't everybody need to doc their wealth to prove that they are not a billionaire?
oh no... I've been holding off on the beta for precisely this reason. I'm a paid Protonmail user and I accept a lot of the tradeoffs of using it (no pop/imap, kind of a clunky client etc.), but this will definitely be the last straw. If I can't use another client & they break theirs, that will make me sad.
It depends from the nature of the payload. If I have to send text, I'll use a text based protocol because I can debug it more easily, but if I have to send binary information, I'd rather send it using well defined structures after taking into account word sizes, alignment, endianess etc. on the involved hardware. Back in the day I had to do that with small agents on different achitectures (IBM Power and x86) with different languages (C and Object Pascal), and the correct textbook way to do that was to use xml, but that way everything had to be converted to text, interpreted and then translated back for replies. No way, hardware was slow and we aimed at speed, so we used plain C/Pascal structures and no other manipulation except for adjusting type sizes and endianess if the hardware or language required so to make all modules compatible no matter what they were written in and where they would run. I also built my own tools for testing and debugging which were nothing more than agents that sent predefined packets and echoed at screen the return values, so that any error in the data would be quickly spotted, while a xml translation of a corrupt buffer could have missed any error not comprised in the marked text, hence hiding there was a problem somewhere.
A solution like that is highly debatable for sure, but I'm among the ones who want their software to crash loudly at the first problem, not try hiding it until it creates a bigger damage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27424195
You can also sell it and take the gains tax free in many cases.
Former diplomat Craig Murray seeking UK Supreme Court appeal over jail sentence
I was once homeless in California, strung out on drugs and alcohol, unable to quit or even think about getting treatment for that and my bipolar disorder. It is my opinion that we need to go back to locking people up and forcing them into treatment for their own good. It is inhumane to leave helpless people out on the street because of some abstract concept of personal rights. I understand the motivation of mental health advocates who argue that the government has no right to force people into treatment, but it really is counter-productive. I wish I had been locked up for my own good. I was rescued by the good people at the veterans administration.
I think you're being downvoted our of tone, rather than content. So let me respond in reverse order, as the first point seems to be the most emotional for you

>Nope, you automatically lept entirely in the wrong direction: it's not the justice who can be bought that is the problem, but the rich knowing how to calculate exactly how to exploit and buy-off the poor. Think Indecent Proposal or Bhopal rather than some Western movie about a crooked town sheriff.

I absolutely think that the core issue is that the legal system can 'be bought', i.e., it can bankrupt people even if they are right. Reforming that shouldn't be completely impossible and would by definition solve the niche problem you are describing. Btw, as a rule _any_ corporation can sue _any_ non-famously rich person and be sure that they threat of litigation costs will weight in their favor. Disclosed tax info worsens nothing from the current status quo.

> That's your opinion that you're deciding for other people.

It is opinion, yes. But all laws are someone's opinion 'deciding for other people'. And I mean absolutely all laws, even the most basic ones like the right to live or to have private property. It's all social constructs, and we decide which ones stand

> Who are you to have the gall to claim conclusive knowledge of an unknowable without a shred of evidence? How do you think gold-diggers and con-artists work, hang-around at airports, golf-courses, and investment brokerages waiting for rappers with the most gold chains?

I must say I'm surprised this issue seems important to you (and again - completely irrelevant to me). I absolutely don't care about something that I've only ever heard about in soap operas and have never, ever, heard of an example that bothered me in real life. I'm curious what makes this a relevant issue in your view, but I understand if its personal and you don't want to explain. But if you don't have any personal biases, let me argue that the problem of gold diggers is primarily a problem for the gold-dug (?). If a rich person doesn't want to marry/have a relationship with a person that only likes them for their money... then don't. I don't care, and I think nobody should
It does not support template variables because alerts have been moved out of Dashboards so that would not really fit.

However, it does now support queries like `host=*` with multiple alerts instances per host from one rule/query. E.g. https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7832#issuecomment-...
I’m exploring the ideas (an easy to use framework to build local-first [1] apps) in my library Reactive-CRDT (https://github.com/yousefed/reactive-crdt). Feedback welcome!

All credit for the underlying tech to YJS, which has been amazing as mentioned by others in this thread.

[1]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html
Only a few short years ago, the eminently sensible idea of offering end of life planning (making a will, recording end of life medical desires) was demonized/weaponized as “death panels”.

What you’re saying seems sensible, but my cynicism…
Why isn't there an option to take out a loan where a repayment option is to transfer the capital asset (at whatever the value happens to be at the time of repayment)?

I.e. I don't get why the risky part of this loan can't be mitigated by the bank taking on the risk and managing it separately. Surely, there would be investors willing to back these types of collateralized loans?
ANSI Escape Code
I was/am using a `Vec<Rep>` where `Rep` is an enum containing the different primitive types of Mlatu, which worked fine semantically but was just very slow for the amount of pushing and popping off I had to do. Thanks for your response, I do think I want to leverage more stuff from the Erlang.
The correct expression to use to refer to such money is “loan”, not “tax evasion”.
How does one design a system that has a redundancy for when the CDN goes down? Paying for more than one CDN is probably too expensive isn't it?
There's also this:

}else if( strcasecmp(zFieldName,"Referer:")==0 ){
zReferer = StrDup(zVal);
if( strstr(zVal, "devids.net/")!=0 ){ zReferer = "devids.net.smut";
Forbidden(230); /* LOG: Referrer is devids.net */
}

Which I can appreciate why it's there, it's still odd.
> end-to-end encrypted mail because limitations in existing email protocols prevent it

You can E2E encrypt the body of the message with GPG, I don't think the protocol prevents it.
Do Fastmail have the ability to read your email?
The average citizen can't borrow to pay off debts indefinitely.

At ~2% interest the billionaire can borrow against their assets and keep borrowing to pay off interest. The assets gain in value at 4-6% per year so they are actually coming out ahead and paying 0% tax.

Even a middle class retiree typically needs to draw down their savings to pay expenses. Giving up 2% to avoid taxes wouldn't be viable. The bank would also observe that there is a higher risk that the retiree goes bust than a billionaire and not lend enough money for the scheme to be worthwhile.
I think there is something to what you say, but the "halo" isn't his problem. He should write as he pleases.

He doesn't have to be an expert in what he writes. I mean from his own perspective (I assume, never met him, don't know him) he is just a regular person writing a regular article about something he found interesting.

It is entirely the reader's problem if they put this extra pressure on his "implied wisdom and halo".
Only 55% of Americans own stock: https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-own...
Because the lack of housing should not be an identity that we assign to the women, men and children who happen to be going through a rough time in life. They are—first and foremost—human beings. Losing sight of that can lead to dehumanization which can then exacerbate the issue.
And we have piles of loopholes that make it effectively only a tax on the stupid rich.
> Evidence isn't necessary for one who is already convinced.

I suppose that cuts both ways then: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/13/tax-day-taxes-statistics...
Yes, formal methods can be useful, they help uncover bugs. It's a debugging tool, albeit a very demanding one. For some software, it makes sense to use it.

Real deployment of VMs has larger problems with security than not formally verified hypervisor so I think the answer for most hosting companies is "the juice is not worth the squeeze" here, the squeeze being the restriction to academic verified design.

Hosting VMs is mostly about features and reliability. Those who need also real security, will host on their own HW and won't allow foreign VMs, so formally verified hypervisor is less of a requirement there too. It's a "nice to have".
Actually it is even worse --
1. What happens if the MtM is negative (your have unrealized losses) -- does the government now owe you a refund?

2. Isnt this unfairly in favor knowledge businesses where there is tremendous value but no real MtM? So a private accounting firm with lots of clients gets no real MtM while a farm with physical assets gets a high MtM that is taxed.
Elon Musk is “the biggest architect of our time,” says Jan Boelen
> Is there a secure mail server that I can self-host without reading a lot about how email works?

E-mail is generally very shitty to set-up, quite often because the software is just incredibly shit. It's easy to footgun in subtle ways.

Spam filters and spam filtering add an another layer of complexity that requires a reasonable amount of effort, building up reputation, flawless sending. Good luck if you ever end up on a blacklist.

I'm not saying it's impossible, some all-in-one product _might_ work and _might_ not be high-maintenance. Things like maddy sound very promising. But I'd be wary, especially when you don't know much about e-mail it's difficult to detect potential issues as well.
Show HN: A simple and efficient web framework for back end developers
Maybe I'm missing something, but how are these alternatives to Gridsome? These all appear to be headless CMSes, where Gridsome would be the front end accessing the CMS.
> roll it back in case of failure

Until it doesn't. How many times I've seen stack being in error because could not rollback.

CF can't do trivial things like creating a resources in account A that is needed for account B.
Are NFTs not successful then?

Note I'm not trying to argue one way or another about intrinsic value or any type of moral value or any of the other unrelated tangents I often see discussions about NFTs turn into.

But objectively, as a product that exists solely on top of blockchains, NFTs are very very successful. Something that has allowed multiple individuals to auction off artworks for upwards of $60m cannot be called a failed use case.
The mining algorithm can just be changed with a hard fork.

The only think that would irrevocably kill Bitcoin is breaking private keys (ie discovering others private keys, or signing transactions without private keys). A fork could not solve it as there'd be no way to prove which coins you actually owned before the fork.
Most of the patients this could be prescribed to are on Medicare. At $56k per patient and 5.5 million patients that's $308Billion. Oh and the drug causes edema in the brain in 40% of patients who are APOE e4 carriers which will be overrepresented in the patient population. That edema lead to confusion and patient falls. The scientific advisory board voted 10:0 with one abstention against approval. I'd just as soon not pay for something that doesn't work and in some cases causes harm.
> impassioned family members

Imagine how hopeful these families feel right now. I really hope Derek turns out wrong, but I know it's unlikely that he will.
and the award for the most California post ever goes to...
But worse than macrodosing.
And what we have now is a perverse setup where you get locked up after you commit some crime, but get locked up in a prison where little help is provided.
> why don't brokers more aggressively push this program onto clients

They do.

Wealthfront (as just one example) features and advertises this prominently in their app.

It's also very easy to do with Robinhood, simply withdraw cash using your margin. Interest rates are quite low. 2.5% with Robinhood, 3.65% with Wealthfront.

There's a big "Borrow cash" button right when you open the Wealthfront app.
The hubris on hackernews is appalling. Being an "engineer" doesn't make you immune to what affects all human beings.
Very excited to hear this!
No, California needs to treat it like the medical health crisis it is. If a 8 year old kid is on the streets, we don't focus on how to make it nicer to live on the street for them, we put them in long term care (foster care). It's immoral what California is doing for many of these people who either have debilitating mental illness or have fallen deep into drug use. It's time to reopen the asylums, run them properly, maybe rename them to something more politically correct.

That being said there are also people who are just down on their luck, but the solutions to their problems are very different then the long term homeless. Job programs, transition housing, actually building enough housing to meet demand, and UBI will help them.
Most of trends have less than 10k comments/likes/.... Etc. That means only 0.00014 percent people of the planet. Rest don't know or don't care. That realisation made me not to bother about latest outrage.

Whole Twitter experience become so much better when you only keep to people you like. Don't think twice to unfollow someone.
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Russia Puts the Squeeze on Social Media to Police Its Critics
Agreed. This has been my experience as well. Whenever I get to a dark place, I eventually pick up the weights again and w/in a few weeks I'm feeling much better. Fixing mental health issues with working out is a meme in the fitness world too.

Probably not a popular opinion among the HN crowd, but I think there are way too many anxiety/depression cases caused by lifestyle. It's like, you sit in front of a computer screen for 12 hours a day chugging sugary lattes, no shit you have anxiety. Go do some hill sprints until you're exhausted.
You have a point there :-D
Would be curious to see twitter blocking this story on the basis that this is the distribution of stolen data as they did last year...
While there are certainly some areas in which ProtonMail can improve, how is E2E encryption via GPG 'incorrect'? Sure there is plain text metadata but other E2E encryption protocols have the same issue.
> 1. Capital Gain taxes are delayed until you actually sell the stock.

By far, the greatest increase in wealth (and inequality) is due to capital gains.

> [...] capital gains are eventually taxed

Normally, one might sell assets before a decline, and at that point gains (and therefore taxes) may be realised.

This is avoided by HODL stock in holding companies (such as Berkshire Hathaway) which can rotate assets without ever incurring capital gains (or indeed income).
Wow, such delusion here. I guess broken doors and windows means peaceful now? Police officers getting stomped on? Pepper sprayed? Breaking glass and destroying offices?

Do your research kid. I can only hope you are joking.
That would be the dream but man, they are a hell of a long way off.
My first step into the container world in 2021
Short answer: CA has been underbuilding housing for close to 50 years (https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/) and now has a severe housing shortage, to the point where a parodic response, like "California will try absolutely anything to reduce homelessness, except build more housing" (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en...) is the only reasonable one.

I've worked on Prop HHH and other proposals designed to reduce homelessness in California: https://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-..., but none of them work, or can work, without making housing easier to build.

Edit to add: before someone mentions "mental illness" and "drugs" and other contributors to homelessness, yes those are real factors: that said, the lower the cost of housing, the easier it is for someone on the margin of being housed or being homeless to stay housed. The lower the cost, the easier it is for family, SSDI, Section 8, and other income supports to keep a person housed. As the cost of housing goes up, the number of people who fall from the margins of "housed" to "homeless" goes up with it. So yes, mental illness and drug abuse are factors, but they're factors exacerbated by housing costs. They're really red herrings relative to overall housing costs.
Brought a smile to read this comment. Will look deeper on fluid framework — rooting for ya’ll!
> And when they do, like the few examples that exist, the proof only guarrantees what design could foresee, and only if assumptions are satisfied which is not trivial in real deployments.

In other words, formal verification can:

1. provide guarantees that the implementation matches the spec,

2. that the spec fulfills certain properties, including but not limited to security, safety, reliability properties

These are typically more guarantees that non-verified software, so I still fail to see how this is bullshit marketing.

In this case, they proved that there are no overt information flow vulnerabilities in the design or implementation, so you're left only with the covert channels. That's clearly a valuable property to know.

If Intel, AMD or RISC-V releases a covert-channel free CPU, then you can even close those and it's secure from top to bottom.