skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An SFU lets your video/audio streams scale. If there were only ever two people, sure, you could use a TURN server if P2P failed, but if you invite 4 people on the call, an SFU will allow each person to upload their stream to the SFU which will then distribute it at various bitrates to the other people on the call.
> but nobody with any experience in the problem space would treat it as anything more than marketing fluff.

You mean “nothing more” right?
I think the idea is that everyone has to live somewhere and the increased cost to land owners would trickle down as increased costs to land users.
Oldest livestock genome reveals origin of today’s goats
> A very significant amount of people won't go back

So they didn't need what they were about to purchase and saved their money. Doesn't sound like a net loss to me.
> Forcing people to mark-to-market?

The Netherlands manages to do exactly that.

> There's no way to (fairly) tax capital gains

The fair part is that it's taxed - otherwise, it's unfair on people who are unable to exploit this tax avoidance.

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.

It makes more sense to pay the expected amount, at least until you have the receipts.

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.
Sounds pretty authoritarian.

> Except the uber wealthy who can afford to lose money to pay taxes for the infrastructure that has enabled their explosive asset growth.

Federal income tax almost never gets used for infrastructure. Infrastructure is mostly built by state and local governments, which receive most of their income from sales tax and property tax, and other taxes, which are already almost entirely paid by businesses. So, they are already paying for the infrastructure that enabled their growth.
Hi i just began my long journey into learning Linux and writing code 6 months ago and I've been doing it all on my own. To be honest I'm sorta lost. I can't even express how much having a mentor would help me. I'd love to start learning form someone who wouldn't mind teaching someone with limited computer skills.
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Another way to frame this: if I'm a millionaire and want all millionaires to pay more tax (including me), paying more tax without trying to get others to do so could allow other millionaires to spend their tax savings to lobby against higher taxes. I may not want to sacrifice myself nor do I want to pay more tax for myself, but simply want a fairer system. A society is more than the sum of individuals, obviously.
I thought duo was canceled. Haven’t heard of it once in all of the pandemic.
Is there any reason to believe that CIPHR is not just yet another police honeypot? This could just be two police agencies shitting on each other's honeypots.
I agree, and I think I picked on your comment a bit because it was the top one.
Am I right that this is like a distributed form of something like LevelDB or RocksDB, which would be the underlying storage engine for a full database product?

And/or would it be comparable to DynamoDB?
Is Stackoverflow Down or What
Stackoverflow is taking ages to load... what's happening? Are you guys down?
Riju is a fast online playground for every programming language
> It's a trade-off for hand-movement distance vs having to use modifiers.

Yes, but in case of the function keys (which, as I said, I use to switch workspaces) I never press them while I'm writing text but rather before/after, so the distance my hands travel doesn't play much of a role.

Also, one-handed usage of these keys along with a mouse (think drag and drop) is important to me, which is another reason against resorting to a key chord.
These guys are doing some great things here in Seattle: http://purewatercraft.com
“No one would invest” is too strong IMO. People will surely invest rather than hold currency.

The other thing is small time investors and pensions could be spared this tax.
Yes, but assuming your shares continue to appreciate at a faster rate than the interest you can defer any tax payments so far into the future that the amount becomes more and more insignificant due to economic inflation and capital appreciation.

You're right that you still have to pay the tax, but you pay it on far more favourable terms than the average person. Of course the flip side of this is that the price of your shares collapse, but typically these secured loans are a fraction of an individuals net-worth and the risk is very low.

Edit: I should add you can also time when you're taxed. So for example if taxes in the present are high you can wait then realise any profits when they're lower.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't, see my comment here -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433855
I have what I hope is a genuine question here:

> we need to ... severely limit tax exemptions for charitable donations

Why do we need to do this? Wouldn’t the natural incentive-based result of this be a huge reduction in charitable donations? It’s essentially an asset transfer from charitable causes to the government. I’m not sure I understand why that’s default good.
Who TF cares? Why TF is this news?
Real property is subject to tax every year. Every county in USA has an elaborate hierarchy of assessors and collectors devoted to this. There's no conceptual reason that securities couldn't also be subject to tax on a regular basis, and it could be made much simpler by only levying the tax on e.g. the top 1% of owners of securities.
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Not often, but we're not going to buy 2 separate cars, 1 for regular trips and one for road trips.

Range anxiety is a thing, especially since the "failure mode" is really bad. Super chargers are really rare compared to gas stations and if you run out of battery, with regular charging it takes 10 hours to charge.

Maybe 880km is too much, but for sure I'd want 60% (so 660km) + something extra, maybe 50-80km, to not feel anxious when driving long distance.

Plus overnight charging is unfortunately still a problem.

I personally think that for me (and I guess many others), the next generation of EVs or maybe the facelift for the current generation should be really close to what I want. By next generation I mean that many EVs are/will be launched soon (so 2020/2021/2022), in the car world a generation is usually around 7-9 years (so 2027-2031), and a facelift is done usually mid-cycle (so probably 2025-2026).
Apple is a corporation not bound to normal individual timescales. Right now they are conditioning everyone to accept the app store model universally. If you are under a certain age, you don’t even know another concept exists unless your are tech savvy or in a tech field.

These are dividends to be reaped at a later date. And the inability to secure software and hardware systems will be the ultimate justification.

The great irony in all of our endeavors is that if you make all of your decisions in an effort to avoid becoming something, you just wind up taking the long way around and backing into being the thing you didn’t want to become in the first place.

See Google:Evil,
Apple:1984,
Microsoft:The Borg,
Larry Ellison:A Lawnmower

And the list of individuals who became what they most despised is quite long as well.
Sadly not available in my country :( I wanted to buy it, or its German competitor I forgot name, but both are not allowed in Brazil. (I mean, you CAN risk it... but legally the government can ban you from the network if you try)
Well, with SO, at least you can search on Google and view the version cached by Google just fine.

With Reddit however, these days almost all comments are locked behind “view entire discussion” or “continue this thread”. In fact, just now I searched for something for which the most relevant discussion was on Reddit; Reddit was down so I opened the cached version, and was literally greeted by five “continue this thread”s and nothing else. What a joke.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Great chat though.
The problem really isn't people not paying tax. Americans have similar expenditures to Europeans on a per capita basis ($20,674 US vs $17,202 UK or $20,960 in France the highest taxed nation in terms of % of GDP) they just get considerably less for their money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governm...
It's not the best written article because while it opens with talking about slow moving systemic things (see the other comments/discussion in the thread linking to the actual UN FAO reports showing that their global food price index is infact up quite a lot over the last couple years), but the real HEART of the article is this one-two punch:

1) Famines (not the same thing as food inflation) are typically man-made, or CERTAINLY man amplified

2) While the biggest 20th century famine events can easily be laid at the feet of authoritarian governments, our current global system has capitalism playing a similar threat. I feel like the heart of this article is wrapped up in this paragraph:

> The cartel of western farmers want to export their product as cheaply as possible, which opens them up to all sorts of Black Swan risks. When the music inevitably stops, the countries that were net-importers of these commodities take the hit while these massive cartels, many of whom are subsidized by their governments, can afford to do so and live another day.

Now, of course the hilarious reason why western farmers (partly) have so much to export is because of food security incentives that their domestic governments have in place to ensure enough capacity in production to absorb various shocks. Which I felt that the author should have brought up.
More details here.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90643627/apple-privacy-wwdc-priv...

>This is where iCloud Private Relay comes in—and puts VPNs to shame. iCloud Private Relay uses a dual-hop architecture. When you navigate to a website through Safari, iCloud Private Relay takes your IP address, which it needs to connect you to the website you want to go to, and the URL of that site. But it encrypts the URL so not even Apple can see what website you are visiting. Your IP and encrypted destination URL then travels to an intermediary relay station run by a third-party trusted partner. Apple would not name these trusted partners, but says the company is working with some of the largest content providers out there. Before getting to this relay station, however, your IP address is anonymized and randomized, so the relay partner can’t identify you or your device. Then at the relay station, the destination URL is unencrypted, so the third-party provider can send you on to the website you want to go to.

>Because of this dual-hop architecture, neither Apple nor the relay station knows both who you are and where you are going. Apple knows who you are (because you are using iCloud Private Relay), but it doesn’t know where you’re browsing. Its third-party partner knows where you are browsing–but not who you are.
I agree that forcing people to sell has its issues, but perhaps you could have a tax on loans of a certain size and/or not being able to deduct as much for the interest paid. Then nobody would be forced to sell, unless they wanted very large amounts of cash. I'm sure someone could find loopholes for those ideas as well.
You could look at Tesla different ways. Tesla claimed Edison withheld a promised bonus and then Tesla left to directly work on his own projects for the rest of his life.
What about the following proposition - any publicly traded company must issue, every calendar year, new shares worth of 2% of the total shares outstanding, and transfer them to the tax office.

That's essentially a 2% wealth tax on the stock market, borne equally by all shareholders, regardless of their residence. Maybe I'm just naive, but I don't see any accounting magic to avoid such a tax.

But then again - there's one agenda that unites left and right across the developed world - no wealth taxes.
So you're not opposed to property tax? That's just what we're considering here, for securities rather than real property.
This looks really interesting. I read through the docs on the site though, and it doesn't say anything about diffs and merges. Those are fundamental VCS operations so I hope it supports them. I recognize merging is complex for 2d/3d files but if it claims to be a VCS then I'd think it would have to support it, otherwise what use are branches?
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I'm on linked-in for obvious reasons but i largely ignore the posts. I don't get how so many people are political on a site largely concerning itself with employment.

Other than that, reddit was the last piece of social media that i quit last year. I consider it more of a social media service than an a forum for discussion.
$4bn in earnings and $400bn in wealth, it’s more a case of what is this benefit you need with billions in cash?

Is there an apartment in New York whose rent you can’t afford?

What is for sale as a private person that’s worth cashing in the billions and paying tax to buy? You already have a business you can use to turn that into more money anyway which is probably the most satisfying game.
Why All the Fury at Apple
I suspect it was likely a multi-step process to actually get authorization to track a new phone and decrypt messages. For example:

>Step 1: Confirm known bad guy has phone through some other means.

>Step 2: Decrypt phone messages of known bad guy. Confirm they are criminal activities.

>Step 3: Note all previously unknown phones that exchanged criminal messages with known criminal.

>Step 4: Those phones are now considered belonging to known criminals. Return to Step 2.

Now, its totally possible they were just saying “someone bought a phone through TOR, they are probably bad so we can decrypt their messages” but that doesn’t have to be true for them to have worked their way through this criminal network.
Biggest problem with iOS in CI is limited build primitives, some providers have macOS options, macstadium is a thing, Anka helps but it’s all so hard! Waaay harder than building stuff on Linux. Apple can wave it away but making it harder means iOS CI is going to be behind forever.

They had a chance to try and help close that gap and even charge for it, I’d rather not have to setup macstadium, configure Anka controller and pull 20gb+ images.. just solve my problem for me..
If you train your teammates to do their jobs you won’t have anything to be afraid of.
Use two CDNs and DNS providers for redundancy. Gets expensive, but at scale, probably doesn't make a huge difference. More complexity for the site operators to manage, however.
Someone (I can't unfortunately due to IP block) needs to change that. The part about the spelling is false, apparently [1] it's an intentional change by Fastly so that they can tell if it's their own Varnish or a customer's Varnish that is throwing an error.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433139
No https://?
Vaccines: Trust the science.

GMO: Don't trust the science.

Choose one or the other. Hypocrisy isn't a good look.
I know right!!! Let’s just say “legit” and “contraband” glasses all come from the same handful of factories in Chinese cities such as Danyang and Shenzhen.

From a clinical standpoint, as long as a person has had the same prescription for years and is happy with their vision, things really ought to be that easy.
Can you provide an example of terrible reference in W3Schools?
Kings didn't have smartphones 1000 years ago, but they did have multiple large castles and entire armies ready to do their bidding. And they didn't have to work a single day in their entire life to get it, they were born into the role.

How is that even remotely similar to a modern modest living? Can we stop with this bullshit narrative?
I don't know. I suspect the true answer is "there is no fair way to tax people equally across multiple orders of magnitude of resource ownership and multiple wildly different types of resource," especially when dealing with individuals who are approaching the same economic ballpark as the governments that are attempting to tax them. I'm just pointing out that capital gains being taxed "eventually" isn't watertight.

And it's not as if the current system is fair. You regularly see cases like that kid who won a trip to the ISS and had to give it up because it was valued at $X million dollars and to accept it he'd have to somehow pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. There's also the issues with stock options that come up here from time to time, where someone is owed millions in options that they can't actually use because they'd have to first pay a percentage of the value in taxes.
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> No, but you could be forced to sell at exactly $1000.

No you couldn't. You can't be forced to sell at all unless you are unwilling to pay land value tax on the offered value.

Anyway, I'm proposing a simple game theoretic construct that can address the problem of under- and overvaluation of property with regard to property taxes. I am not a president about to sign a bill into legislation. I acknowledge that this idea requires refinement before it would work in practice. I just thought people would find it interesting.
Google Duo is simpler than them all... It's been a fucking decade, if these people hadn't found an alternative to and learned a video/conference app other than facetime, it's too fucking late!!!
This so much. uBlock origin is fiercely missed for my mobile browsing experience.
Russia. 13% tax rate with no social contributions if you're on a "highly-qualified specialist" visa.
That's interesting. Do you have nay more details or link to resources on Romania?
A 'Bubble Barrier' is trapping plastic waste before it can get into the sea
Unless we're talking about money that is quite literally not from any phone sales (do you count accessories and tied-in services?) e.g. laptops only, then that statement is not strictly true. I've never seen such a differentiation except for on a balance sheet. Apple (as other companies often do) sell many products of which the revenue from those sales pay for the wages of their employees. I don't think financial accounting here plays into the morals of underpaying people.

Using "the money to pay these people doesn't come from this line on a balance sheet it comes from that line" is not a justification for the, while unfortunately legal, unethetical employment conditions of others.
Article does not cite any sources for claims
It’s in the jume report. Definitely seeing it in this developing nation, food prices across the board are un 10 to 50 percent ( I provisión a farm for 10 workers, and 8 families members so I have a consistent monthly purchasing pattern)
Is there a public example certificate with an expiry date above 2050 which I could fetch in order to test a script?

I would use

conn = ssl.create_default_context().wrap_socket(socket.socket(socket.AF_INET), server_hostname=hostname)
conn.connect((hostname, 443))
cert = conn.getpeercert()
print(cert['notAfter'])

to test it.
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People should be giving to charities out of the good of their heart, not to get a tax deduction. The tax deductibility of charitable donations makes them no cost options for the donor. Remove the tax implications, and you will see who really cares about their cause.
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Wouldn't they figure out a way to split their holdings into smaller delegate trusts, something like that, to come under the threshold?
> They got the target to install and trust some 3rd party app

I just heard on the radio (I’m an Aussie) that it’s not a phone app, it’s some kind if dedicated device that doesn’t do sms, mail or voice, only encrypted messages (that the law enforcement had the keys to).
The google security team is working on fixing this with rust.
Haha! That explains why the internet was down for a while!
You also need to be proactive about other possible failure modes. Avoiding a culture of blame may or may not help. There needs to be a strong incentive for the organization to expend the resources to do so, and a mere "oops my bad" doesn't provide that without SLAs with teeth.
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The point is to let you know a bit about the reality you share with others. The stuff on the news is often things that are affecting others directly (do you want to avoid the area of town with unmasked protesters?) and indirectly (Is your neighbor going to increase racism towards Asian Americans in part because of folks linking a virus to a country?).

News doesn't always have the most important things to you, but it clues you in on the world.
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Ahh the old death loophole...
Good reading! I did learn a lot regarding tools I didn't knew and I will definitely check Reedsy and Scrivener, I did use leanpub which was really good, doing almost everything for me.

The hardest part is about marketing for me, and I am happy that I first wrote the book for me and see the completion as an achievement, I talked with a lot of people who thought it was kind of easy to get rich just writing books, I don't think so, not easily.

Also, it's really tough to promote a book without feeling like you're over-trying to do it, and regarding an IT book, except for a reddit community, or twitter I wouldn't know where to start.

I have even been invited to online conferences, people seemed to be interested (don't think they were faking it), but it generated zero sales :)
'Resist' the urge to buy AMC, GameStop and Blackberry. Don't be a lemming
BitTorrent was half of all Internet traffic for a while, though it has decreased with the rise of legal and convenient streaming services.
Imagine having employer, who has no qualms about killing people and for whom you are a loose end.

You need to be either professional criminal (skill set completely orthogonal to IT, so chance of somebody possessing both at professional level is miniscule), or a moron.
I guess it’s related to https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/800-criminals-ar...
Just as important is to not let the mainstream media do your thinking for you either.
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A big chunk of the ipv6 adoption is from wireless and VPS providers. Amazon, Verizon, T-Mobile, etc... Consumer ISP adoption is still rather low. I don't have the link handy, though it came up in a past discussion here.
> The key to effective taxation is to have many different kinds of tax so that there's no way for the rich to avoid paying any taxes at all by reorganizing their financial affairs.

Or just tax less to increase the wealth floor where avoiding it becomes useful thereby decreasing the number of people who do it thereby reducing the losses. You're basically reducing amplitude of the tax curve in order to capture a wider range. The billionaires may be stupid rich but there's so few of them they make up a negligible percent of public coffers.

Nobody bothers registering their car out of state to save a $50 fee. Nobody bothers putting their house in a trust to save a couple thousand in taxes. Not hard to extrapolate from there.
Mastodon deplatformed me, but they don't want me using Gab either