skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like a weird way of measuring success (person-hours rather than some goal/outcome-oriented metrics like uptime).
Surprise! Well actually not.
The web can be seen as being made from many chains.

https://imgur.com/a/aTDcbtu

Those connections exist on keyservers already, GPG just doesn't have a comfortable way of finding them. For instance if you want to verify M's key, you have:

A -> B -> G -> M

A -> C -> H -> M

A -> D -> H -> M

A -> E -> I -> M

Using multiple paths should allow building some confidence into M's key.

The issue is that in the current model, A has the keys for B, C, D and E, and also M's key since they're trying to check their signature. But the rest of the web that is present on keyservers isn't easily reachable to the user.
https://unix.superglobalmegacorp.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pgp/...

I still use PGP 1.0 as all of the scanners that check for stuff can't recognize any of it, and it slides through. It's more of payload thing
By not making a manipulative “apology” that tries to still put the blame on the victim and cast myself as the real victim.

Textbook abusive behavior.
This one makes me so mad, because it's always some ignoramus comparing taxes with revenue and ignoring the fact that if the company paid zero taxes then most or all of that revenue was ploughed back into the local economy. Jobs, construction, equipment, etc. all mean that cash lands on everyone, and then people swallow the spin and complain about it.

Now, if they were making billions in profit and paying zero taxes then that's different.
Since the 80s Raegan era cuts, inequality has grown massively owing to reduction of wealth, capital gains and inheritance taxes.

The end result is a much more unequal society with the attendant effects on politics, happiness and social stability.

The rise of the nativist right, the skewing of Dems to educated progressive elite and the abandonment of the bottom 50%.

If it is income, wealth tax, capital or some new form, the outcome has been clear. This article shows the process of rising inequality.

Income tax or not.
I would generally agree, but in this particular case I do not because:

1) I hit the function keys far less often than regular character keys and

2) I rarely press the function keys while typing text since, as I mentioned, I use them to switch workspaces. In particular, I often use them while my one hand is on my mouse (think drag & drop) and, as you say, same-hand chording is out of question.
If Big Ag offers to buy your family farm for $10M then you have two options:

1. Sell it to them for $10M

2. Pay land value tax on it as though it were worth $10M

What other meaning does "land value" have than what someone is willing to pay for it?

(Roughly. There has to be some hysteresis and other frictional factors inserted to make it workable. My comment was not supposed to be interpreted as a finished piece of legislation, just a rough idea of how to prevent gaming.)
My struggle is finding something that brings out the wit like a good tweet so I can put it to a more productive purpose. I've written novels worth of tweets because there's just enough good stuff to reply to that it's hard to leave without an alternative.
You're apologetic now only after this thing blew up on the internet. Mister hyper-inflated ego CEO wouldn't have thought twice about apologising if your ex-intern wouldn't have made the issue public. Get bent, mate and try selling your bullshit somewhere else.

Use that "lot of money" to get top PR instead of "top lawyers", and maybe some "getting head out of ass" classes, cause humility and decency is something clearly you won't be able to learn.
Depends on the cost of doubling up and the cost of the outage. If you're looking at half an hour once a decade versus triple the development complexity, you eat the outage.
> The real issue is that the super rich create these personal "foundations" that act as never-taxed income holes, and then use them as personal and political tools.

Opinions may differ, but one major point is that our tax system is a joke.

If we can put a movie about flying humans to the moon on Netflix, why can't we implement a tax system that isn't a Byzantine train wreck?
There are several electric ferries in use in Norway and Denmark.

Example https://www.visitaeroe.com/ellen
Unfortunately, hardware VP9 decoding isn't really well-supported except in high-end phones (in context of multiple decoding, single decoding works fine) due to bugs in Mediatek's implementation. There's software decoding, but that's still taxing to a phone, and transcoding to H.264 server-side but that doesn't bode well to end-to-end encryption.
Space travel weakens our immune systems: Now scientists may know why
> why default to uppercase

probably to make sensible use of limited display abilities of early hardware, fitting characters in 8x8 boxes and making it readable on blurry fat beam glowing green screens quickly becomes a problem with lowercase (size, readability, ascenders, descenders, baseline), whereas uppercase is comparatively easy.
Richest from running a public company [holding stocks] not necessarily the richest overall.
I don't understand the objection. If it's only worth $1000 absent sentimental value then no one will offer to buy it from your for anything more than $1000, therefore you would only pay property taxes on $1000 of value.
Linux processes are actually surprisingly lightweight, thanks to using copy-on-write memoryu. I.e. fork is cheap, exec is expensive and changing things in already allocated memory is expensive. But this execution model does not do exec and mostly allocates new buffers for anything it needs to do. As an extra benefit, you get garbage collection as a gift from the kernel ;)
Take a look at Fossil too:
https://www.fossil-scm.org/

It's the distributed version control (and more) used by SQLite. Most people have no idea about how cool the SQLite ecosystem is, and how it's used even on avionics!
Just for clarification, there are two projects involved here. SnowFS is the underlying open-source VCS, and Snowtrack is the commercial UI build around it.

But for your statement about licenses, there is actually not much I can say to counter your arguments. I've followed the fight between Amazon and Elastic so you have very valid points. For the moment I don't think SnowFS will face the same issues given its current scope and target audience/market
Lots of countries have 330 km/h trains, and Japan is hoping to open the Chūō shinkansen within the decade, running at up to 500 km/h.
I was thinking about that same story when I saw the mention of “trusted insiders”
Please don't call it a lie. It means that they knowingly presented something they knew to be false as the truth. So far I have seen no evidence to support that.
The Guardian summarised this as well: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/08/massive-i...
PTK - JWT “None” Algorithm attack
The PTK has a new attack added - JWT none algorithm. Check it out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dBmVQfxEiw&t=1s
What about all the common folks that do the same? You don't have to be a millionnaire to benefit from this "trick". It's merely proper planning.
What happen when a patented GMO is engineered not to reproduce naturally and then spread and replace the naturally occurring one?
> This article does not conflates income and wealth, stop saying that.

The article repeatedly uses what it calls a "true tax rate", which is calculated from wealth. It does this knowing that people reason about tax rates as percentages of income.

With this in mind, I think it's fair to say that the article puts a fair amount of work into talking about wealth and income as different, but also willingly conflates the two in order to produce shocking numbers when it's convenient.
This works well for random exportation, or exportation of related topics, however it is basically useless for finding information on a new topic as you don't have anywhere to start.

The only way would be to keep finding links like Wiki Game and hoping to get closer to the intended target. Luckily there are huge robots who have done this for you and can tell you which links lead to your destination.
Was it effective if you think it was something related to Snowden? The phrase that it typed out was "Je suis Charlie". That was about a mass shooting at the HQ of a satire publication.
I did implement a webserver (that supports websocket-a binary protocol) and also implemented a `make_binary_string` function along the wah so as to not lose my bearings. Printf is 100% amazing and I generally leave my printf statements inside all my code because I can switch them on and off very easily for any individual function by using macros. Also clutch :)
Not only that, it's just odd logic. I'm going to prevent my employees from domain-specific value-add by forcing them to overwork on generic tooling? What?
> I am pretty sure police has no choice other than to act in such a situation.

if the crying wolf method worked, terrorists would have a much easier time executing their plots.
Australian University researchers light up pathway to another planetary system
Except the uber wealthy who can afford to lose money to pay taxes for the infrastructure that has enabled their explosive asset growth.

I agree that you and me, and even my paper-millionaire neighbors and friends cannot afford to be taxed on their assets, but a billionaire can, even a paper billionaire can drum up the cash or debt when needed to pay taxes. They do it every day for their large purchases.
> why can't we implement a tax system that isn't a Byzantine train wreck?

because of lacking political incentives?
I can understand how land value taxation could be interpreted as violating property rights but I can't see how the method I outlined for establishing property values is any greater a violation of property rights.

In both cases if you keep your property if and only if you pay your land value tax! Of course, this method needs some work to be palatable, but that's negligible compare to making land value tax itself palatable.
Ask HN: Fastly related to cyber polygon related to JBS related to Colonial?
Obviously I have no hard evidence and all I can do is spitball. I use the term NWO as an abstract concept that broadly covers the verifiablely stated agenda of multiple international conglomerates, not any specific group.

A few weird things I've noticed:

- JBS and Colonial both industries being targeted by NWO

- Colonial hackers sophisticated enough to do the hack but dumb enough to leave their haul in exchange wallets.

- Increased frequency of high profile cyber attacks seemingly right on queue with NWO agenda.

-Excellent excuse for "internet quarantines", "internet lockdowns", "cyber covid" for your protection.

- Fastly happened day after start of cyber polygon.
I think the tricky part is keeping that sense of "awake and alive" as you get to the forefront of a problem, which might involve a different set of tasks than those that originally attracted you. For example, playing chess is fun for me at the tactical level, but learning openings isn't fun, so maybe I'll never get good. PG might have the same problem: making programming languages is fun, but studying the current state of programming language design is less fun, so the results (Arc, Bel) don't go very far.
Nginx’s first public release was Oct 2004, so fits with your theory.
Deploying My First Ethereum Smart Contract for Fun and Profit
'100 Continue' would probably be better example of breaking request/reply flow, as it provides useful functionality and requires non-trivial implementation and compatibility measures.

While '408 Request Timeout' is somewhat dubious fig leaf over TCP RST
I kept waiting for the virgina woolf reference, but it never came…
True, in monopoly those with nothing aren’t allowed to take back the means of production by force when all changes create further and further wealth inequality.
Yes, but this is likely to be removed in a future update the same way most of their UI flags are. Meanwhile, the userChrome changes here are likely to still be viable in some form.
Amazon (e-com) does not use their own CDN, rather Fastly?
Why would Amazon not use their own internal product?

https://i.imgur.com/plJCKr8.png
KDE Plasma 5.22
This reminds me of how all the city e-scooters are treated. Those rented by people with apps are treated terribly and thrown around like trash by their operators. Those actually owned by people are treated very well. At it's core it's basically a strong argument in support of private property (at least in this instance).

I would love it if you could solve this sort of social issue, but I wouldn't underestimate the difficulty of doing so. Successfully making people feel responsible for shared tools is almost equivalent to "building a better society". It's a worthy goal, but people have been trying to do so for basically all of human history.
Web outage takes Reddit, Twitch, and other big sites offline for an hour
6 Reasons You Should Stop Using PDF for Business Content
Btrfs ate my data once at a time when ext4 would recover just fine. I'm not giving it another try.
I don't think that's what was intended. It reads to me there's more perception of control (employees directed to work) to achieve the goal (restoring service) during an outage. Outages happen regardless of uptime guarantees--it's just a matter of how often and how long they last.
swarm by foursquare seems down, too
let me know how it works out for you
America Fractured into 4 Parts
Thank you! I've already prepared the foundation for a Linux build, and it's planned in the near future but I don't have a build available yet
Elite Chess Players Can Burn More Than 6k Calories Sitting Down (2019)
> and avoiding the obvious argument that capital gains are eventually taxed - the rich are not escaping that.

Not so, because of the step up basis at death. That provision allows the capital gains tax to be not just postponed, but eliminated.
JoJo Rabbit?
Apple in talks with CATL, BYD over battery supplies for its electric car
You said ML will have “no effect on those procedures unless it's 100% accurate.” I disagree with that, and think it’s a bit absurd—the 100% figure is not possible anyways, so you might as well stick some other impossible predicate in there and the statement is equally insightful.

E.g., “it will have no effect on outcomes until pigs fly.”

There will always be uncertainty, and uncertainty isn’t the only relevant parameter.
It s not that they were so effective that police forces got scared of them, it's that the ratio criminals vs normal users is so high that it's a no brainer to spend a few millions on hacking/infiltrating them to collect a huge reward.

Whatsapp or Telegram which your grandma uses would be very low reward compared to amount of conversations to parse.
But you can probably get away with using one regular commercial oven instead of getting a baking tunnel oven :)
Value for money is not my argument.

I’m just saying loads of people for whom it would provide benefit don’t have $2k spare money to invest.

To put a different spin on it: the price point for the cheapest consumer unit should be way lower than that… unless you force landlords to install it at their own cost (as a landlord myself: a $2k legally mandated expense would not be happy fun times, but I could and would suck it up).

And even then, you’re still thinking in terms of the richest economies, and first quartile incomes in developing nations would struggle with $25 backup batteries let alone $2000.

One belief of mine which is shifting from all the replies I’ve been getting, is that I’m increasingly surprised how bad everyone’s telling me that America’s fundamental infrastructure is.
BioHub Network Aims to Advance Sharing of Pathogens for Research
I don't care about society at large, I only care about my own.
No one type of tax is the best. 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. So if you avoid one kind of tax, then you'll have to pay more of a different kind of tax. So a progressive consumption tax is perhaps a great addition to income tax, not a substitute.
lol they shouldn’t
Diving into Toolchains
> Last week, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said that its global food price index hit its highest point in nearly a decade.

Can anyone find this?

Their latest bulletin[1] doesn't seem to say this as far as I can see.

There is "East Africa: Prices of coarse grains followed mixed trends in April; exceptionally high levels persist in the Sudan and South Sudan" but that seems to be offset by "Domestic prices of rice generally stable in April with exception of some main exporters where they decreased; those of wheat followed mixed trends"

Their price trend release[2] is also mixed news.

[1] http://www.fao.org/3/cb4720en/cb4720en.pdf

[2] http://www.fao.org/giews/food-prices/international-prices/de...
Excellent, Is there something similar which pops up a dictionary on screen when a word from the subtitle is clicked?

A user on my problem validation platform was asking for such a solution[1].

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/201-show-meaning-of-words-in-a-...
> ... why can't we implement a tax system that isn't a Byzantine train wreck?

Because the people with power (money) like it this way. They aren't interested in what is fair for everyone, they are only interested in what they can get away with.

The rich can afford to hire a team of lawyers and accountants to navigate the tax system, and pay almost nothing. But they have to keep the fiction up that they are paying tax by having their "on the books" tax rate be non-zero.
English Grammar Error Correction Machine Learning System
> People need to be blamed, and responsibility for actions taken (without covering asses)

This. When people talk about "HugOps", "empathy" and all that when a worldwide incident affecting a huge amount of time critical customers (e.g. trading, hft, cargo, food delivery, etc.) is happening for an hour, it has catastrophic consequences.

I hope the engineers also understand the other side and why we are paying huge sums of cash for their service.
Pipeline exec to face Congress as US recovers most of ransom
Anyone has a good tutorial on how to use sq, their command line utility?
How would both of these be simultaneously possible? Surely, if it spreads to replace the naturally occurring one, it must reproduce naturally (or otherwise it can't "accidentally" spread/ without active involvement of the patent-holder).
How often do you drive 880km in one go?

You've got to remember that with an EV, you start every day with a full 'tank'*

(* as long as you've got somewhere to plug it in overnight, which is a problem in some places, granted)
Thank you! The project consists out of two projects. SnowFS is the underlying core and is available as an open-source project (MIT). Snowtrack is the UI and the commercial product build around it and will be available as a Freemium product
Websites begin to work again after major breakage
If it's not reproducing naturally then how is it spreading and replacing other crops?
I'm happy for them, at least somebody manages to avoid taxes.

Shame on Pro Publica for conducting and publicizing anti-public research, by the way. Involuntary taxation is a crime against the people.
Cool, so instead of actually serving text, they could also just serve up little SVGs for each letter. Because god forbid the recipient chooses a different font than Gmail!
Thank you for your comment! I couldn't agree with you more!
FAO Food Price Index: http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/

"It also marked the twelfth consecutive monthly rise in the value of the FFPI to its highest value since September 2011"

Chart: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/worldfood/images/home...

Historical chart: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/worldfood/images/home...
In the article I can't find support for the thesis that food inflation has happened, or is happening.
Isn't that the same philosophy behind varnish?
Internet outage hits websites including Amazon, Gov.uk and Guardian
We all know why.

The governments and central banks are paying people to speculate and consume, and not produce.
> I don't understand the objection. If it's only worth $1000 absent sentimental value then no one will offer to buy it from your for anything more than $1000.

No, but you could be forced to sell at exactly $1000.

And, of course, some people are just mean.

A person who wanted to punish their ex could, by force, buy a beloved item for more than what it is valued for, simply as retaliation against their ex.

Your wedding gifts are typically as close to worthless as possible as far as money goes, and yet someone with a grudge against you could simply take it off you for a small cost to themselves.

So, no, confiscating things from people with "fair reparations" to give them to other people is simply a no-go.

If you cannot understand the objection at this point, then you never will.
Why would you need others to do something you think you should do? Actually, how would anybody ever start doing that thing if everybody is waiting for someone else to do it first and that person too is waiting for others to do it first?

“Tax me more” is just a publicity stunt and unfortunately it confuses people.
You found the May report, the June one is out.

Summary page is here: http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/

The specific graph that captures that point would be here:

http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/worldfood/images/home...

Note that the 'real' line (yellow) hit its last peak in 2011.
Probably true in general, but if people are already monetizing assets through borrowing then likely: they have liquidity and b) the asset has a fairly concrete value.

I’m not sure how you’d write a matching tax provision but there should be something. Maybe the answer is to rely more heavily on VATs as Europe does.
You omit the fact that billionaires supposedly never realize their gains, yet they somehow are able to afford mansions and planes (not company owned).
The gains are realized, but due to various loopholes untaxed diaposable cash is created.

How does this happen and why is it legal?

Obviously there are ways (e.g. borrowing money against stock) - but maybe this should be closed?

If you are a regular person your wages are taxed and then you build a house using taxed materials.
If you are rich you borrow money against shares to a trust in a tax haven and then that trust builds a home for you as a company (so not even tax on materials) and you get an untaxed home where you can live.
But yours assumes that Russia doesn't do counter-intel and wouldn't be looking for exactly these kinds of infiltrations. If it is obvious to us that these things would be targets, I'm pretty sure it is obvious to Russian intelligence services.
Ah yes harken back to the days of endless `pr0n` and `pr0n5` or `pr0ns` folders on a LAN DC Hub (DC++).
Great post. Well documented, by an articulate author. There aren't many posts that can lock me in to reading to the bottom of the page.

I must ask, is it unethical to publicly share screenshots of a conversation. I suppose in this case it almost went to court and thus would be public record if it would have. I only ask out of curiosity due to my slight feeling of guilt reading these private messages with only one-party's consent. I don't mean legally, only ethically.
> Now, if they were making billions in profit and paying zero taxes then that's different.

Some companies are, and are very clever in hiding that (offshoring profits, etc.).

Other companies (and their boards apparently) are content with "merely" overcompensating their executives, who then have their own teams of accountants and lawyers to avoid paying taxes. The companies themselves aren't running much profit, on the promise of a better stock price and future growth. In some cases this is legitimate because they are indeed investing in their own infrastructure or intellectual property.
Dial down on the drugs, please