skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Apparently nobody has looked at their maintenance schedule on their cars.

Pot, meet kettle. EVs and Plug-in Hybrids cost less to maintain than ICE vehicles. [1] Over 200k miles, ICE vehicles are about double the maintenance cost of EVs or Plug-in hybrids.

At 50k miles; EVs $600, Plug-in $1,050, ICE $1,400.

100k miles; EVs $2,000, Plug-ins $2,600, ICE $4,400.

200k miles; EVs $6,300, Plug-ins $5,900, ICE $12,300.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/10/owning-an-electric-car-...
I was worrying about some loophole Jeff Bezos was abusing but no, his hack is that he has no income. What a joke. Time to move on from this garbage article. They didn't expose anything except that Jeff Bezos has strong faith in Amazon stock.
How about removing income tax (hard to measure, easy to avoid by rich) and increasing vat by the same amount. Vat could be even added to stocks (buying $5000 of Tesla stocks? Pay 20% vat. This could probably end all short term speculations as well). Definitely to yacht and houses, vacations, butlers and gardeners, gold doorknobs, Ferraris, swimming pools, 200" LCDs, hotel stays, massages, anything that is consumption really)
One of the lobby tactics the ultra rich use is to try and push a tax hike/new tax to hit as many people as possible to stall its implementation.

Then they also go on an all out propaganda offensive to act like it'll hit even more than that.
There's a history of drugs that reduced amyloid plaques, perhaps with even better efficiency than aducanumab (I don't recall exact details) yet still failed to demonstrate any effect on patient outcomes.

The commentary that the trials haven't "conclusively demonstrated any effect" is an understatement. Recall that one of the trials outright failed the endpoint, and the attempt to reconcile that with the other trial smells strongly of statistical hogwash. The advisory committee rejected it wholesale, with not a single vote in favor and only one vote not in disfavor (i.e., abstention).
Coddle: treat in an indulgent or overprotective way. That is exactly the point the authors are making, that students are overprotecting each other and themselves, and in turn putting pressure on administrators and professors to participate in the coddling. They do not dismiss the very real traumas and pain students (or anyone) has experienced, but that this overprotection is not the answer.

From the website:

> Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. How did this happen?

> First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people. These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being and ancient wisdom from many cultures. Embracing these untruths—and the resulting culture of safetyism—interferes with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development. It makes it harder for them to become autonomous adults who are able to navigate the bumpy road of life.
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When was "experiencing homelessness" term established as the norm? what's wrong with just "homeless"?
From own experience, I'd say FDB can handle it all, we've got 20% read 80 write during peak hours, and reverse: 80 read 20 write other time.

Without doing your own tests, here's per core numbers, from which you can extrapolate (e.g. via CPU mips) towards your own hardware: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/performance.html#throug...

FDB is ACID as is shipped, you don't need to turn knobs to make it such. Toughest part is to figure out classes/roles of the system. Here are a couple of good starting points: https://nikita.melkozerov.dev/posts/2019/06/building-a-found...
https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/roles-classes-matrix/1340/...
1) You purchased $100 of SPY on June 15th, 2020

2) You're buying a house, and you need $100 today.

3) You sell $100 of SPY, and pay short-term capital gains (up to 37%)

OR...

1) You purchased $100 of SPY on June 15th, 2020

2) You're buying a house, and you need $100 today.

3) You take a loan for $100

4) You wait until June 15th, 2021 and then sell $100 of your SPY holdings, paying long-term capital gains (15-20%)

5) You repay the $100 loan

...it doesn't really avoid tax. It's just an alternative way of accessing capital by taking out a loan instead of liquidating assets.
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This is where trust comes in. Most people need a narrative and a story to follow the threads; they are not experts in determining what the data does or does not tell us, and someone has to attempt to do so.

I'd give ProPublica the benefit the doubt here. They have the resources to hire the right talent, and that talent is likely empowered to keep conjecture at bay or properly disclosed.

And, of course, you're unlikely to get all the data. Stories like this will nearly always, in some form or fashion, be based on a somewhat incomplete snapshot of data or documents. But taking that data and corroborating it with what we do know is often enough to add validity to the assumptions that are being reached by a publication such as ProPublica.
The salary of their CEO has absolutely no bearing on it being open source. None. Look at Tim Apple's salary, and yet Darwin, Webkit, CUPS, and other projects are open source.
I've been using Terragrunt to keep my Terraform DRYU in a similar manner. It's a bit of a rethink in how you structure things but I've been happy so far.

https://terragrunt.gruntwork.io/
"I ran a webmail service with 2m users that forked and exec'd a CGI for every request"

Yes, but that met expectations of that time period, and expectations for a webmail service. I'm curious if you also forked for every static asset...that's what this setup appears to do.

I just don't see the benefit of mysql choosing to use this today. It works, but there are other minimal http servers that would be just as simple, but would be faster and use fewer resources. I suppose they don't need to change it, but it's not really a great example of anything other than "fork is cheap on linux" to me.
> They cannot provide end-to-end encrypted mail because limitations in existing email protocols prevent it. All they can do is quickly wrap the contents of your mail in encryption once it has arrived.

Based on my understanding, that claim is for people who use ProtonMail to email other ProtonMail users. In that situation, emails are indeed end-to-end encrypted, without you having to encrypt the email content yourself, first.
The second sentence in the article:

“But even if you use the most conventional yardstick — income — the wealthiest still pay low rates.”
Is this Chromebook about to die? Why Google's expiration dates matter
That’s why I quit Twitter. I use to have four topic-specific accounts. However, it eventually ended up that I was seeing the same outrage du jour on all four and that’s when it was time for me to leave.
The article explains this, they use those unrealized gains as collateral for loans—bypassing the need to pay capital gains by actually selling the shares.
Stop inserting history events to break the back button for one thing
I have gone on long runs but have never been able to hit the runner's high (that I have read about). I used to have some music on during runs (wasn't really listening to the songs actually) but I have stopped that as well recently. Maybe expecting the "high" is the wrong thing to do and that's preventing me from achieving it :). Hopefully I will achieve it one of these days...
I don't think it will hold up in court if the only evidence is chat logs. After all, it's basically impossible to prove who was holding the phone when a message was sent. But this should be enough information to make arrests and collect additional evidence, e.g. a stash of illegal firearms.
Anything is better than microdosing. In general not microdosing or taking any drugs at all is better than microdosing.

Microdosing is a lie perpetrated by drug dealers to sell drugs to sectors of the population that would be otherwise too cautious to take them. The entire concept is based on a logical fallacy. The fallacy is that if you do not get the positive effect (i.e., getting high), you won't get the negative effect (i.e., addiction, tolerance, and the slew of other health damaging effects for each particular drug).

But there is no data to support this and it is unlikely to be true. In fact from what is known about the nervous system, taking small dozes of an addictive drug often and at regular intervals is a great way to increase tolerance. This will cause any positive effects of the drug to quickly diminish, which will cause the user to take larger doses, which will cause more tolerance and larger doses until the health effects associated with the drug start showing up.

So yes do take those walks in the park. One can actually be addicted to exercise too, but that is an addiction that almost always has nothing but positive side effects. It is in very rare cases that people exercise so much that it causes negative effects.
This wasn’t “shady,” this was essentially a sting operation where they eventually seized 90 million dollars in cash and arrested over 100 people. Not bad. The bigger result was that it poisoned trust of banks by there kinds of criminals.
i don’t see the issue with the charity thing as long as the money is actually used for charity

i would trust the gates foundation to use money 1 million more wisely than the government just wasting it
> This is, by and large, a good thing.

I don't agree that social media (qua social networks) has moved us in the right direction.

Web forums and blogs were better.

I don't think we need to find the missing piece. I think we need to remove the unnecessary, super profitable poison.

Something like private, self hosted forums with universal log in, but no cross-contamination of "likes" and comments, and no algorithmic attention management.

I think I need to write my senators.
C was not initially intended for such a thing, although later people tried to restrict it. Also, "secure C code" is too vague. It depends on the scope. Grep is quite secure in what it does. Linux, less so.
I think you mischaracterize Russell’s view; his “doing nothing” looks an awful lot like Graham’s “project of your own:”

> In a world where no one is compelled to work more than four hours a day every person possessed of scientific curiosity will be able to indulge it, and every painter will be able to paint without starving, however excellent his pictures may be. Young writers will not be obliged to draw attention to themselves by sensational pot-boilers, with a view to acquiring the economic independence needed for monumental works, for which, when the time at last comes, they will have lost the taste and the capacity. Men who in their professional work have become interested in some phase of economics or government will be able to develop their ideas without the academic detachment that makes the work of university economists lacking in reality. Medical men will have time to learn about the progress of medicine. Teachers will not be exasperatedly struggling to teach by routine things which they learned in their youth, which may, in the interval, have been proved to be untrue.

He’s not talking about literally sitting still, but about having the freedom to do whatever you want, without needing to justify your actions to anyone. For some people, that’s watching TV all day. For others, that’s actively pursuing a vision.
I don't think it does, but you can use scrivener in markdown mode and it's built so that it's smart about how it saves so you can pop back and forth between Scrivener and Vim (or whatever) pretty smoothly, synching files and using git. As far as polished pretty end user apps go, they've put a lot of thought into making it play well with others.
I'm pretty familiar with a lot of Zed's doings but I had missed this one. I doubt it impacted the adoption much, losing one advocate like that isn't going to doom your project.

I finally gave Fossil a serious try last year for a few months, just on my own but I don't think my opinions would change if I tried in a team setting. I still love the idea, but the execution is... ghetto. Serviceable, certainly, but ghetto is the best overarching description I have for it. You have to be willing to look past a lot of things, sure many of them are petty, in order to take it over dedicated polished services for the things it combines. And git+[choice of issue tracker]+[choice of forum]+[choice of wiki]+[choice of project website]+etc. is the real competition against Fossil, not git+nothing, so even if it was better on the pure version control bits it would still be a tough battle. (Not to mention the elephant git+github is a pretty good kitchen sink on its own if you don't want to think about choices and have something serviceable that's also a lot less ghetto.)

I also realized how much I love git's staging area concept once it was gone -- even when I had to use Perforce a lot, at least Perforce has the concept of pending changelists so you have something similar. I've never been a big fan of git's rebase, but it's also brought up a lot as a feature people are unwilling to give up, and I see the appeal. In summary, I think the adoption issue is just that people who do eventually give it a shot find usability issues/missing functionality they aren't willing to put up with.
So are you stating that 3% of the daily deaths from COVID-19 are of fully vaccinated people? I cannot find anything backing this up online, and even that seems like it would be a near zero number if you're measuring against recoveries.
>>A household that makes $500k on a good year is actually in the 1% statistically. They have left the working class long ago. They could work for about 7-10 years in their career and retire with an above-median salary (withdrawing following the 4% rule) in perpetuity. That is by definition not the working class: that family barely has to work in order to secure a lifetime of comfortable living.<<

The "in a good year" qualifier in both your comment and the parent comment means that your conclusion that this person has left the "working class" is untrue. It's not uncommon to get a windfall (stock option vesting cliff, inheritance, capital gains, etc.) that boosts income in a single year to many multiples of one's typical income. Such an occurrence does not boost the recipient out of the working class. Managed carefully, it can change their life (buy a house, turbo-charge retirement savings, etc.) but no one's buying a private island with a single year of $500k income.
"Something went wrong. Try reloading"

Yup, that's a timeless message :-)
The people who will be most upset about this probably aren't the wealthy people themselves, but their lawyers and accountants.

I have a lawyer friend who does estates for ultra-wealthy people. Each week, her whole firm gets together to review all new laws that have been passed that might change estates, and one of them does a "book report" on how to take advantage of old laws. They consider this their competitive advantage and how they win clients over other firms -- by being better at taking advantages of loopholes.

I'm sure they'll be looking at this article to both gain ideas and check if any of their own clients are there and if any of their secrets are revealed.
The GitHub repo is at: https://github.com/glific/

Docs are at: https://docs.glific.org/
Why is it built in coffee :O ?
> The gambling industry's regulations do not do very much to reduce the volume of lives ruined by the gambling industry.

No, but if I walk into a casino, there's at least some chance I can come out with more money than I went in with.

Consider a slot machine app. Not only do you have no idea what the payout is, you're guaranteed to lose money if you pay for any coins in that game, which I assure you, people do. For reasons I don't understand, but I've seen it happen.
If he is living in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is actually a different country than Turkey and not recognized by other countries, it would be nearly impossible to extradite him without Turkey's cooperation.

I doubt that Turkey would extradite her own citizen as well.
The IRS can grant tax exemption to any entity, even unincorporated ones that are a fiction of your imagination, for nearly free

Convincing them to is what costs money, because unincorporated sole proprietorships and unincorporated general partnerships aren’t convincing

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They've actually done a masterful job of finding this balance. I've been on reddit for 15 years and would have quit if they didn't leave the old interface available.
In the years before Grafana the situation was not much better either. Graphite's render endpoint was decent and functional, but Grafana was the first that would let you easily make nice looking graphs and dashboard. I remember there was Giraffe[0] which came close and some other alternatives[1], most of them are dead now. I'm really looking forward to using the Library panels, a feature I always found lacking.

I always found it a nice gesture by Raintank that they took in the Graphite project and are maintaining it to this day.

[0] https://github.com/kenhub/giraffe
[1] https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools.html#visuali...
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I should clarify this. The 100 MB window in SnowFS is currently unrelated to compression as it is only used to compare if a block changed. Each block gets a hash. This is a fallback used for some file formats where the mtime timestamp cannot be trusted. Some files have a change in the first block e.g. 100 MB and that is faster to compare than an entire 8GB file. But this window size is dynamic and can be changed and used for compression in the future
> infamous hacking/ransom.

That was DDoS extortion, wasn't it? Probably cheaper and much faster than buying mitigation, I'd suspect they've improved in that aspect by now.

> Also, AIUI, the fact that their accounts are free makes the service attractive for spammers, so email sent via their mail servers tend to get marked as spam.

Not by any normal service provider.
> Every time someone tries to make a tax targeting the ultra rich, it ends up hurting the moderately wealthy instead. Every. Single. Time.

Could you please share some of the situations you're thinking about here? I'm not familiar.
I understand that clashing semantics could lead to this, but also think maybe you need a different data structure/patter on Rust? Anyway if you also will leverage more stuff from the Erlang ecosystem is certainly the way to go.
The malicious actor insists they shipped 1 ton of bricks, and that the port authority is lying or stole the remaining ones. The blockchain says they shipped 1 ton of bricks, after all.
We had a poor man's version of this in 2006 at Backcountry.com. We ran OpenBSD firewalls on the edge and used pfflowd to translate the pfsync messages (the protocol used to synchronize two PF firewalls in a HA configuration) into Netflow datagrams, which we could then monitor in real time with top(1)-like tools. It was awesome. I miss having that kind of visibility.
This [1] seems pretty clear to me in how they provide e2ee email.

[1] https://protonmail.com/security-details
The GP was saying Russel is "just an academic", while PG is painted as a "creator".
Hm, but income from rental is also taxed, isn't it?
If so, how does it help?
In nice weather homelessness is bearable. But californian cities must provide basic sanitation facilities. And maybe some UBI for food, $1000/month should do.
I agree with you, but think that there are different definitions of freedom. I love open source software but I don't think it's a right or that all software should be OSS. I like the freedom to keep the source of my apps closed if I wish. If I choose to use a closed source browser, I'm not giving up any freedom in my mind, I'm making a choice and a deal.
E-Space Innovation|Why do we want to build combat nano-satellites?
there's a Firefox extension that will autoredirect you to i.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/android/addon/compact-reddi...

(bit of a faff to get loaded on mobile but works fine once you've done that)
I found a walk in Nature on the day after a changa(DMT+Harmala) was greatly enhanced. Somehow i would notise the leaves more like having better vision. Perhaps being more in the moment have to do with it.
This is very confusing to me: the shortcut keys are listed in the menu bar for every application. Is that somehow disabled on your system? (I'm not even sure that's possible off-hand — it's been the default going back to the 80s)

Similarly, consistency is the opposite of what I see. Every app I use uses the standard Command shortcuts. Control/Option/Shift are modifiers in some cases (e.g. Command-V pastes, Shift-Option-Command V pastes preserving style, etc.) but the only time I've seen other keys in use has been a few stragglers with deeply-engrained conventions like Emacs.
Why does this matter? The real problem is that the capital gains tax rate is below the income tax you would have to pay for the same income. Either you adjust the capital gains tax upwards to match income taxes or you replace it completely with income taxes. You don't need a complicated loan tax.
You might need more than 1 week to adapt. Most of these issues other than WinCSP are really superficial and it’s just like trying to learn a new program.

For WinSCP did you try cyberduck?

You can also run windows on your Mac in parallels, which might give you the benefit of speed of the m1 with the familiarity of windows, but you’ll still have to get used to the keyboard or use an external one.
> end-to-end encrypted mail just works from a proton to a proton address.

This is no longer email, it's a proprietary messaging platform. They offer email to other email providers, and encrypted messaging to other protonmail users, and they bundle both message types into your email inbox.

Signal could bolt on an email transport to allow you to send and receive emails from Signal and that would be the same: communications within Signal would be encrypted, communications to external email servers would not be (any more "encrypted" than, say, gmail is).
>a massively valued asset that you can't sell

In this case, the value is not well defined. If you don't have a market, you cannot determine the value. You may think it's extremely valuable, but if you have no one else willing to recognize that value, then it doesn't really exist.
Psychedelics are the new AI and willl probably end up just as disappointing.
The income from the rental is taxed, but slowly over decades. You don't have to take that entire tax hit in one year.
Just goes to show how the fundamental design decisions guide how the system as a whole will behave. Short messages and no coherent threading makes for a perfect breeding ground for snark and hot takes. It's hard to say something thoughtful in 280 characters, but it's easy to say something nasty.

You can spend tons of money on trust & safety, tweaks to the UI, whatever. But a bad system design is still a bad system design.

It's kind of like trying to make an old C codebase secure by throwing in lots of calls to strlen() and changing some sprintf()'s to snprintf(). It may help a little, but it's not enough to turn the ship.