skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the theory that reasoning is a mechanism for persuasion and social cohesion, not truth discovery.

The twitter mob isn't trying to anneal to some maximally accurate Goodreads rating of the book. It's "trying to do" (in the anthropogenic agency sense, like how evolution "wants") something else. Something more social and tribal in nature. But the system starts to go highly nonlinear once the crowd gets bigger than some size, and when the crowd is anonymous/pseudonymous handles, not members of your Dunbar's-number-sized-tribe, where reacting hyperbolically has real social consequences.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/arts/people-argue-just-to...
Our customers increasingly use Terraform modules to deploy our product. Thanks Hashicorp.
Indeed, https://github.com/mujx/dhall-terraform
Doesn't happen on psychedelics though

Its all replaced with a deconstructive process. Deconstructive of the mental model and fabric of reality.

Might result in insight into something you’re procrastinating on

Might just make your stomach hurt and question if this is a good or bad drug

Very different than just removing anxiety distractions
Individual stocks never go down?

Is this a serious comment?
It's rejected, partly because it's frankly offensive for a lot of people. You have no idea how much work, sweat and blood it took and how many sacrifices were made by my ancestors, a poor farmer family, so we can have this so-called privilege of being in the middle class. Taking it away and keeping everyone down is like a spit in their face. I guess it's not so bad if it's a progressive tax, but still.
Do you know if any of these frameworks support different users being permissioned to see different documents or different views of collections.
There was a lot of back and forth [0] over this back when Firefox added support for system libraries. The FOSS purists only wanted to support codecs they could include in Gecko (long before OpenH264) while the pragmatists wanted to make a useful web browser.

Support for system libraries first appeared on mobile platforms because it was essential. At the time (ca 2011/12) the likes of YouTube and Vimeo were only delivering MP4 to mobile clients.

The purists seemed to think that somehow if Firefox held the line on (likely but not guaranteed) unencumbered formats/codecs that every content producer would see the light and go with those objectively worse codecs with no hardware acceleration for video content.

This completely ignored the fact that Flash was common on desktops and supported encumbered codecs just fine. It was in fact the primary delivery vehicle for them. The NPAPI content hole let the purists be intransigent while actually using content on the web. They were also ignoring the design of the HTML5 video tag that encouraged inclusion of multiple source formats and some sort of fallback including object embeds.

As for Microsoft they were still pushing the various Windows Media codecs as the One True Way in the Windows XP and Vista eras. They had to support MP4 with Windows 7 because every smartphone and most stand alone cameras were capturing video in MPEG-4 codecs if not file formats.

[0] https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.platform/c/-xTei5rYT...
> Being in nature has little to do with the intense introspection from psychedelics.

Intense introspection has little to do with microdosing
People love to talk about this stuff because it's the same concept as "what if the red I see isn't the red you see?" but dressed up in more complicated language and with frankly depressing overtones of fixed intrinsic capabilities or genetic luck of the draw. Everything I know tells me that most people, because they seem capable of doing the same things everyone else can do, all have extremely similar minds and don't differ in major ways like this, at least not in terms of potential.

IMO, the only caveat here, and it may be a big one, is that of perception and imagination shaped by experience. I started learning music in my late 20s. Now, in my mid 30s, I can understand lyrics to songs when I couldn't before, identify chord progressions (a concept I had no knowledge of beforehand) and imagine entire arranged songs in my head. It's not that I didn't have a "mind's ear" before, it's just that I hadn't built a bunch of useful skills and conceptual frameworks to work with. Whether my music education developed new neural networks that might be detected or analyzed is another question.

This has to be the same way it works for visual artists. Obviously a skilled illustrator, painter or sculptor is going to be better at visualizing imagery than someone who doesn't do those things. If that's the case, just thinking about images a lot makes you better at visualizing images. Ultimately, that's not much of a shocker and isn't very interesting.
> give me a binary protocol to parse any time

I don't disagree in principle but I've come across a handful of very poorly documentated binary protocols in my years and that is an extremely painful thing to deal with compared to text-based protocols.
It is Mac and Windows only, it doesn’t have Linux or Android version.

Compare to Spotify, which is cross-platform: iOS, MacOS, Win, Linux, Android and probably others.
I'm not from the States and that's probably why I have this impression that the States talk a lot about respecting their veterans yet do very little to actually support them. I mean, stuff beyond thoughts and prayers.
In a sister reply apparently it's not hard to get mental health treatment in California, so I won't speak to that. Where I lived (and currently live) in NYC, it was hard for me to find cheap therapy, as it does not appear they require mental health plans in the insurance (though I'm not a lawyer, so maybe there's more recent legislation).

There are free clinics for it, and of course those are good things and the doctors there are doing the lord's work, but they're extremely backed up. I looked to make an appointment at the time, and the soonest one was four months away. Compare this to the two-day wait I had when I finally did manage to get better insurance.
People joined HN because of the merits of his ideas.
Maybe for new TLDs, but country code TLDs don't have to follow most of the ICANN rules.
Negative Option Billing
Or Kansans, as we call them in the business
Most technology follows an S curve. It starts out slow with initial experimentation until most of the dead ends and pitfalls are eliminated, then there is a period of rapid growth as the tech matures and gains mass market acceptance, then it levels off with all of the easy gains mined out and you see only incremental improvements moving forward.

The middle part of the S curve is when you see the dumbest articles about the technology, with people extrapolating the growth linearly and talking about how it will rule the world in a few years.
And blocking your tracking data (that FF does out of the box)?

Well, maybe. I don't know the usage patterns of your site. And from that interaction, I'm not sure you know either.
Humor me, why would this be interesting in any way shape or form? I can see this only being interested to people with fetishes for old LCD-based semi-disposable toys.
Seasteading Creates RPG
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433040
Turns out script kiddies can cause great devastation.
I guess I am not really versed in this world, but I can't help but think that these people should read more Marx! At least for some precedent in this kind of thinking.

Like whatever you think about capitalism/communism and all that, Marx first and foremost gave the idea of a science to human history itself, divorced from any given political ideology, and truly extending across the lines of individuals, institutions, and nations.

Maybe I am missing the point, but its not like Marx runs counter to any of this necessarily. It's just when I read something like "maybe we should consider history itself as science, with forecasts and underlying assumptions," I just think about the century-worth of literature in Marxist thought that is doing just that!
There's a working theory that you could do this with anything. A cool story to read is the Polgar family. His daughters became some of the best chess players of their time.

>Polgár and his wife considered various possible subjects in which to drill their children, "including mathematics and foreign languages," but they settled on chess. "We could do the same thing with any subject, if you start early, spend lots of time and give great love to that one subject," Klara later explained. "But we chose chess. Chess is very objective and easy to measure."[3] His eldest daughter Susan described chess as having been her own choice: "Yes, he could have put us in any field, but it was I who chose chess as a four-year-old... I liked the chessmen; they were toys for me." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
We have a choice to make about the work we want to contribute to. Our hands, our minds. What world do you want to live in? Is your work contributing to that in a meaningful way, such that when you're gone those that come after can continue the work because it's worth doing? We only have so much time on this earth.
And the Decima (10%) to the Church, and another to the Landlord for the rent of their lands.

So please let’s not hot-take it to the extreme
Came here to point videogrep out. It is a great tool!

I don't remember if this is out of the box for videogrep, but it is possible to generate "fine-grained" subtitle information using speech to text and some massaging. In other words, subtitles that match a specific word.

I worked on something similar to this using videogrep and "fine-grained" subtitle information using Seinfeld clips. My short experiment took as input a string and looked for the longest matching subtitle and created a clip out of longest matching subtitles of characters saying the contents of the input string. I couldn't figure out how to get diarization to work reliably back then, if anyone knows, please let me know!
Synthetic Minds (YC S18) is hiring a compiler engineer for program synthesis
I’m not so sure. Running a business exposes you to tremendous personal risk, especially in a litigious country like the US. It’s also incredibly hard, most often fails, and typically confers less prestige than other much more reliable and substantially less risky high paying career paths (finance, law, medicine, consulting, etc).
Yeah. They do have an SDK coming out soon looks like so I would be shocked if someone DIDN'T put a GB emulator on the thing.

There is also lots and lots of cheap emulator devices these days with more buttons and color screens like the Retroid Pocket 2 and Anbernic RG350 that also cost a fraction of the price.

Price is a bit much for me personally.
This is an absurd fantasy.

If you take psychedelics and go outside, no one is going to arrest you. Consumption of drugs, in most western nations, isn't a crime. Stop spreading this sort of asinine fear.
If you have full faith in the medical and legal system then yes, this absolutely true. The fact that we have an epidemic of legally prescribed opioids while effective treatments of PTSD (in clinical settings) such as MDMA remain broadly illegal is all the evidence you need to know that you shouldn't put your full faith in our system.
A drone with the same range as a missile would be indistinguishable from a missile. A drone without the same range as a missile would likely have its carrier detected and destroyed before it can get in range to release it's drones. Drones are great for irregular forces that can hide among civilian populations or in dense terrain to have short ranged air strike capabilities cheaply, but they are not substitute for long range naval strikes.
> I think he's making the point that the attributions of "This came from <insert geopolitical enemy here>" are without any evidence.

Badly, I guess, because no one has mentioned evidence or a lack of evidence anywhere in the thread.

> How exactly do you determine that a hack originated in Russia when Russian ips will not hand over their traffic to US authorities?

There are a lot of different ways. GEOIP is just one method. Examining the artifacts for code-reuse from other malware is another big one. Looking at the types of attacks is another ie: "this malware uses these techniques, and these are favored by groups 1,2,3".

There's a lot more to it than that, and not all of it is public. I've seen attribution done through backdoor channels that were not strictly legal.

> In reality, our cyber security agencies have no idea where these guys are coming from

No, more often than not we definitely do.
Forget higher rate, I may have paid more federal income taxes than billionaires in several years as according to this article some manage to pay zero dollars:

IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax - https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
You're definitely right. If you don't personally know and somewhat trust other people in your community, chances are it's not really a community at all.
Will grafana displace industrial historian and HMI software?
historians just store time series data and allow you to plot it and cost $30k for a license?
The HMI software suites usually have worse time series plotting and trending analysis than a historian but they allow you to put buttons on the screen to control your process, and come with some type of alarm display system.
A flat tax simplifies one little bit of math, and doesn't really address loopholes and deductions. If you have an income tax you have to calculate "income". If I have a little store and buy gum for $1.00 and sell it for $1.10, it will not work well if that's counted as $1.10 of income. That $1.00 is a deduction. We can't eliminate them. It's a "loophole" when we think the deduction is not in the spirit of calculating income, but that's not an objective criteria.

A flat tax removes the benefit of shifting income to different entities to pursue lower marginal taxes, but I don't think that's the kind of abuse we're looking at here, nor is that abuse particularly scalable.
KaiOS feature phones to get WhatsApp VoIP
> What's stopping the average citizen from exploiting this tax avoidance strategy?

If your stocks go down, you still owe the full amount of the loan. If your stocks go to zero, you still owe the full amount of the loan.
I don't think you're describing an obstacle to change, you're describing the mechanism of change avoidance. Compare: "Gosh, every time we try to tax the wolves, it ends up hurting the sheep as well. Why can't our 100% wolf, 0% sheep Congress get this right? I guess it's just a hard problem!"

The solution is not to give up, the solution is to actually tax the rich more. Also, your examples are awful: paying taxes on the sale of your house is extremely rare, and the reason your hypothetical person who makes $500k in a good year pays such a high tax burden is because we tax income more heavily than capital gains, i.e. the exact opposite of a "tax targeting the ultra rich".
iTunes was never the walled garden

Don't let the truth get in the way of collective axe grinding.

It seems like many people on HN are like bots that see "Apple" in a headline and auto-post responses with the keywords "walled garden," "right to repair," "monopoly," "30% cut," and "Apple tax" no matter what the discussion is actually about.

Some day I hope to post an article about new innovation in the field harvesting of Macintosh apples and see all the complaints that have nothing at all to do with farming.

Thinking is optional. What's important is to keep throwing out those talking point cliches like a politician at a debate gone wrong.
Ah yes, the loss of a free source of educational material is clearly a victory for everyone.
That's amazing. Matt Levine covered it in his column today as well--haven't had time to read it yet, but it's probably good as usual https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-08/moviep...
I thought it was really interesting that Apple is moving towards making the chrome even smaller on Safari while Firefox is increasing their chrome.
The $250/$500k is a one-time benefit and you will absolutely take advantage of it when you sell your home.

The idea of taxing this "profit" for the home owner would be insane. The investment and re-investment in real-estate drives a big majority of the economy.

I'm for modifying 1031 for investors who rent their properties. \
As you probably know, other browsers are just shells around Safari - so there has never even been a pretense of competition in iOS browsers.
We don't spend more per capita on education and healthcare _from federal tax money_. These costs are mostly born by wage workers paying either property taxes (again, taxing their primary means of wealth generation) or paying through their employer for health care.
> - Avoid speaking. This has shown to actually hinder the process of acquiring a language. Speaking is the natural result of having learned a language. You'll notice when you're ready to start speaking a little because you'll occasionally have thoughts in your target language. Until then, speaking practice is virtually useless.

This has to be the most counterproductive advice I've ever heard. You need to start speaking as soon as possible. There's no other trick to learning a language than forcing yourself to speak.

For some it's easier because they're less socially anxious. For others it will be more difficult. I was in the latter camp learning Danish. You have to make friends with your fear or you will forever be stuck in what many language learners refer to as a "quiet period". I was for a decade (!!!) If you don't start speaking you will forever have only an intellectual understanding of the language.

So speak. Please speak. Early and often. Babies sound things out early because they're trying to get a hold of it, the vocal contortions required.
I think GitHub will do this for you now: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-securi...
180 dollars (plus shipping) is more than it'd cost for a modified gameboy plus a flashcart, and is near the price of an Analogue. The Analogue can play any gameboy (and advance) game every made, and is also a musical instrument.

If this was around 80$ I would be all over it.
I don't see why we care that they're using an asset as collateral for a loan. They still need to pay back that loan with post-tax money.

Maybe they're kicking the can down the road, but that's their choice.

The real issue here is that super rich are, at the end of that road, donating shares to their non-profits, tax free. ...and that their children then have access to that non-profit and all of its assets, again without income or estate tax.

The big hole here isn't the unrealized gains - it's the "charitable Foundations" that are a complete scam.
So, there'll be a subscription to new games, right? What's the price for that?
This is fine if its how your team develops but not for everyone. We don't care about full history in branches; maybe it has more detail than main/master but it should still be contextually meaningful. I'd never approve a commit into main with the message "merging PR #xxx" either; it's redundant (merging), has no summary about what it actually does and relies on an external system (your PR/MR process) for details. I do agree that keeping noise out of your main is key, but would go even further than you to keep it clean AND self-contained.
It is maddeningly difficult to simply encrypt a file with interoperable tools. I'm optimistic about age, but it's early days. I understand why people want to use 7z for this. The problem is, if anyone else tries to send you an encrypted zip, and they use something other than 7z, they will likely end up using something even worse than Bass-O-Matic; the zip encryption ecosystem is unbelievably horrible, and it's intractably difficult for ordinary people to know what they're getting. So: long story short, I would tell a client "never, ever use encrypted zips".
Hmm.. I wonder why we have problems. Well, maybe it's because we're taking half the money and giving it to the billionaire class. And no, your new tax idea won't work.

If you plan to take anything from anybody, you're going to have to use force or threats of violence. This only works against the powerless, not the powerful. That's tautological. I don't care what your 'solution' is.

However, there are plenty of organizations that easily raise money without coercion. They are called businesses. They do this by selling stock and borrowing cash. The government also does this. They print dollars and sell bonds. No difference![1]

This is not theoretical anymore. T-bill issuance has been sailing along at nearly $2T per month for the last year.[2] That's 100% of tax revenue in two months. And yet, CPI is hardly affected. No, it can't go on forever, spending must be controlled, but tax revenue is actually irrelevant. Inflation occurs when supply exceeds demand. Demand for dollars comes from economic growth and investment. Eliminate the tax burden and dollar demand will soar. The only difference is that we will no longer be subsidizing the untaxed foreign and domestic users of the dollar economy.

So just stop collecting it. It's obsolete. Stop forcing productive people to fund the ultra-rich, and let the wealth naturally accumulate to those doing the work. No 'trickle-down' economic theory needed if you don't force everybody to carry it to the top in the first place.

[1] for a tighter analogy, consider Eth as legal tender for smart contracts

[2] https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-treasury-securit...
Then the author should have written an article focusing on the stupidity of allowing loan interest deductions, not charts of unrealized capital gains trying to conflate it with income.

Doesn't matter if you take out loans against those gains, they will be taxed eventually when sold.
In 2018, an unidentified nonstate actor used two explosive-bearing commercial drones in the attempted assassination of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

It's funny to see the phrase "nonstate actor" here, when we're assured that ransomware script kiddies who use Coinbase are all "state actors". Maduro knows who sent the drones. [0] Why is even IEEE Spectrum in ideological thrall to the military-industrial complex?

[0] https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/06/interview-venezuelan-pres...
The government knows the executives at MoviePass committed theft, but we will not see any criminal charges filed.
Subtract the word "only" and you've got it.

I suspect the market is there to enable modest success, for the same reason cassette labels flourished.
People need to stop assuming that memory safety == functional safety. They are two very different things. Rust ensures memory safety, but it won't stop you from making logical mistakes. You can't be "sure about correctness" unless proven mathematically.
the beauty and power of simplicity
The worst I've heard of someone on acid is a terrifying 8 hours, but nothing beyond temporary distress, and nothing life threatening. AFAIA its so cheap to make that there's no profit incentive to cut it with anything else
> your estate pays off the balance.

This is what I guessed, but maddeningly the article doesn't actually say it out loud, instead talking about estate taxes and trusts (which surely also play a role). Do you know another source for this?
This is a late reply, and I think I misunderstood your meaning.

I don’t have good answers on how to drop layers from the stack, they all seem pretty necessary. Storage is obvious, backend is needed for authentication if nothing else and powers the API layer. Front end could be replaced by APIs, and often is in products, but someone ultimately has to write a view for humans if humans will use the system.