skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My webserver is down in Australia. From 'CanYouSeeMe' the report is that every port on my machine is marked as 'closed', so even if the DNS is working nobody can reach it.

Very weird. The effect is the same as if my ISP is blocking all my inbound ports, but allowing my outbound ports still. The 'Great Wall of the West' perhaps?? :)

I'm going to have to contact my ISP 'support' it seems, after wasting hours trying to pin down exactly where my blockage occurs.
> Almost every day there's a "<company> did bad thing to me" article on the front page and people immediately pick up their pitchforks and join the mob

It's even worse than that: Frequently there's a "Cool technology blog by company," and people come chime in with their completely unrelated grievance with <company>.
No assumptions are needed. He created a public divestment plan and sold 20 million shares per quarter since. While it’s normal for insiders to declare trades well in advance doing so decades prior is a bit notable. He was pretty upfront about wanting to diversify after Ballmer took over.
The first space-based cellular broadband network for mobile phones
Git doesn't work well for binary files, in particular large binary files.

This is the reason so few VFX, graphics, and game devs use Git for anything that needs to version large binary files.

Git LFS can help, but it's not always the right solution.
If solar was the cheapest, then Bitcoin would be replacing other actually productive energy consumers and forcing them to fossil sources. So getting rid of Bitcoin would still be positive.
Usage patterns seem extremely important for building out a renewable power grid. Meanwhile, what is the privacy concern with the “shape” of your usage?
I am not sure how will it function for USB printers or multifunction devices. I mean, it's a really nice initiative, but removing printer drives does not look like a realistic plan.
Property taxes are viewed as among the least bad types of tax among right-libertarians. And since libertarians believe in some minimal level of taxation to fund the army etc, your comment is inaccurate.
My university sheltered me and gave me a physical address, during which time that address formed an essential part of identifying myself to my bank(s) and the US Government.

You'll note that I haven't said anywhere that Google (or anyone else!) is obligated to provide indefinite email service to anybody who happens to sign up. What I've observed is that, unlike my physical address, there are virtually no formal recourses proportional to the role that my email has in my official identity. I can request an address change with USPS, I am guaranteed delivery service, and federal law protects my mailbox from tampering and snooping; nothing requires Google to provide anything resembling these safeguards.
I don't think your argument supports the second conclusion in your penultimate sentence. Seems like a big leap. Power and water “just work” and the utility companies can’t abuse people. As an “end user” I don't get crappier power or worse water because my neighbor is spooked out by smart meters. I highly doubt the savings would be passed on to me anyway. I would 1000 times over rather live in a world where internet utility service providers were required to substantiate service terminations the details of which are governed by civil law not by an abusive EULA written to protect tue company not the user. If it means email costs $1/month so be it. I pay for email on principle anyway.
Publicly release your own tax return first then. Be the change you want to see.
Why the Shipping Industry Is Betting Big on Ammonia
Retail Banks are highly regulated though..?
They'd want to liquidate as soon as possible, but they might have to wait for a liquidity event like an IPO to do so.
Yes, it is trivial to add 10% (or 30% for waited restaurants) to a number. Even if people did not for small purchases, with so many people living paycheck to paycheck, surely they notice an extra $50 to $150 for a TV or $3,000 for a car.

One of Amazon and other online only retailers’ biggest advantages until 2018 was that it did not have to charge sales tax to people in states without a physical Amazon presence. That meant you saved 7% or more buying from Amazon instead of locally. Basically everyone I know used to buy online to skirt sales tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.

It was a very big deal and politicians had been complaining about waning sales tax revenues.
On it! Sorry about that.

[update] should be back
I wholeheartedly agree, and I'd be in favour of such a system here in the UK.

That said, I'm not sure it would work in the US, where individualism has been taken to such extreme lengths - I could imagine it being used as bragging rights, rather than a source of moral embarrassment as it would be in Europe and Scandinavia.
At a certain level of wealth, you are the game. Amazon’s famous HQ2 contest was literally about which city would bend its own tax laws to benefit them most.
But what is the solution? Most wealth of people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is tied to ownership shares in their companies. I don't think it's fair to force them to sell shares so they can cover higher taxes. I also fear efforts to extract more tax money from them will ultimately just raise the bill for the middle class. The ultra wealthy can afford to hire a team of accountants to find the loopholes while small businesses are stuck with higher corporate tax rates.
> If our global reaction to Covid is any guide

We invented new vaccine technologies to beat the pandemic. Yes, many people died but civilization did not collapse.
A more informed customer base makes more informed decisions. So over time it can be said that the market does actually choose things. Like how if more people want products sourced from ethical materials suppliers, the trend becomes more products being sourced from ethical materials suppliers.

I couldn’t care less about good software engineers making more than “climate scientists” or “nuclear engineers” because those lines are more blurred than ever. If you’re in one of those roles and you can’t code, you’ll be obsolete within a matter of a few years.
a backdoor is a vulnerability. no need to call it out separately, I don't think.

I don't shop for groceries and canned corn, I shop for groceries.

I don't listen to music and <insert artist>, I listen to music.

in fact, the way you separate them seems to indicate that you believe that backdoors are not vulnerabilities, and they absolutely are vulnerabilities.

vulnerabilities are things that make you vulnerable. undocumented backdoors definitely make you vulnerable.
Not only the electric company, anyone with a hint of ambition. I can read my own meter, along with 60 of my closest neighbors if I so chose (I don't) because every meter emits unencrypted packets several times for each reporting interval (5 minutes in my case)
Zoom does very weird things in the browser. They essentially don‘t use WebRTC, but rather grab raw camera frames, H.264 encode them in software (using WASM!) and shove them down a Websocket (or WebRTC Data Connection. This lets them use their own encryption as well.

More details: https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/
To be fair, “English-speaking” is pretty relevant in the state/country being discussed.
Half a percent is a staggering, colossal amount of energy, especially considering that the percentage of humans who use Bitcoin is less by orders of magnitude, and that it is-- let's be honest here-- pretty much useless. I am utterly baffled by the suggestion that "half a percent of all electricity use" is not something worth being alarmed about.
The issue is when the ultra-wealthy take out loans against their investment assets (and thus, those unrealized capital gains).

By doing that, ultra-wealthy _are_ realizing the value of their investments without being taxed. That's how this wealth is being accessed, and that's a large component of what drives these ultra-low tax rates for the ultra-wealthy.
> I think the suggestion is breaking up alphabet, which is quite literally loads of companies.

Few, if any of those companies would be viable on their own. They require monopoly support. For example Google Cloud loses a billion a quarter (they spent $5B last quarter total in $4B).

As far as the cloud market goes there's really only one player, the profitable, pure play AWS. Everybody else is losing money, and mostly fudging the numbers (Google "cloud" includes Gmail, Google Workspace etc; MS's cloud includes running Windows for big customers, Office 360 etc etc).

Nest is marginally profitable.

Otherwise it's pretty thin gruel.
Indeed. Youtube is in short supply at our house, and not only as a result of the advertising, surveillance, and addiction factors.
You can't just get rid of people doing calculations on computers, it's not going to happen without some pretty authoritarian, dystopian hell.

The problem needs to be solved at the source, burning fossil fuels needs to be stopped, today!
> Everyone has paid attention, and the next drone attacks will be suitably defended against

How? They fly just few hundred meters above the ground, launch from field runways, and for the price of a single B-2, a country can buy 2000 of them.

Jamming? Even a country like Turkey was able to devise a passable inertial navigation, and and programming for autonomous operation way exceeding an easy to trick "attack anything that moves" mode.

To counter them, you will need a very sizeable air force fitted with best radars possible to track them down individually, and strafe with a cannon (since no missile currently can lock onto something so small, slow, cold, and low flying.)
wow, I always thought he had adopted his children. But he didn't, they were his own. It's written that he thought about adopting boys later in life but didn't. Still, I'm shocked that I remember this so wrong. Thanks for posting.
Who’s ungrateful? Ohio rocks!
I'm engineer, so here my solutions:

1. Use sustainable materials for construction (8% CO2).

2. Use thick layer of sustainable insulation and climate battery to reduce need for heating and cooling to 0 (10% CO2).

3. Use cheap suspended light rail system connected to every house to reduce commuting time, road kills, and CO2 emissions (12% CO2).

4. Generate energy and protect coastal line by massive wave electricity generator.

And so on.
How does tax treatment on loans taken out using unrealized capital gains as collateral work? In particular, has anybody here taken loans out on unvested RSUs?
There is no reason that "banning a drug" for everyone and "forcing medicare to pay for things" should be 1 thing.

Should this be banned? Absolutely not. Should medicare be forced to pay for it? Also no.

COVID vaccines were the same way. Should they have been banned early on? Absolutely not.
So what? Billionaires have accountants. Any reasonable human should have one as well. Tax mitigation != corruption.
People will probably calm down about it as the years go on and the new vaccines are proven to be safe and effective. I think it's just the novelty that scares people since there's brand-new tech involved. Compare to vaccines like MMR that have been around for fifty years where even the falsey autism claims couldn't scare most people off because the results speak for themselves.
> Maybe the solution should be to work on the big problem that is male-female resentment.

Male-female resentment is not the reason fertility rates around the globe have fallen precipitously over the past century. That's a bizarre idea.

When women have access to contraception and opportunities to participate in the workforce and pursue higher education, it turns out they are less interested in raising large families.

There are tools we could be using to encourage people to have more children, such as universal childcare and pre-K, generous financial support for low-income families, and high quality public schools. Unfortunately, opponents to immigration typically also oppose these policies, too.
If there's a way to reinvest capital gains without realizing them I'd love to know how to do that (without dying of course.)
> I had just seen with a common assumption that flies are nothing more than robotic automatons, with no experience, no awareness.

Think very long and hard and you might agree you fall into that (minus the "no awareness"). Cannabis is a trigger for me to think about this stuff as I can just relax and get stuck in my head and deeply think about things. At least for me through extra free time during Covid lockdowns I've come to believe I have no free will. Through daily interaction with my family I've come to believe we are automatons too. People you know very well are very predictable because their "code" doesn't change very fast, especially with the lack of new experiences. Which made me remember that's how I used to view all other animals and creatures. It's given me a new appreciation for other animals/life.

Seriously how often do you wonder why you just remembered, said or did something? You aren't going to choose to think of that time in 4th grade you did something stupid unless something prompts you to think of it. Cause and effect. We are trained by all of our experiences to behave and respond in certain ways when certain events happen. When someone says "hello" you might say "hello" back because you've been trained to do it. This goes all the way down to everything we do. It's the reason learning involves so much repetition. Everything is conditioning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight are fascinating reads about people not being aware of something they obviously should be aware of.

What is awareness but simply processing of our inputs/senses?

What even is consciousnesses then?

And yeah our brains are far more intelligent than other life forms giving us far more abilities and abstract thought, etc. As another comment mentioned though that's not a consciousness thing. We give ourselves far too much credit.
I meant both V-lang making false claims about itself and making false claims about Nim.
Yeah, I think it has something to do with a brain that has enough complexity that it can begin to model itself and others' brains, allowing self reflection.

A dog can think, I think, but I don't think it can think about its own thoughts. But this may be unknowable.
This is neat. The last site I built in Next.js we turned off the SPA, but needed to then write all the client side js in a separate workflow. Seems like this could be progress.
Agreed, but that's a technicality. What matters is, if you want to make a living, you have to host on YouTube. (You can host elsewhere, but over 99% of your revenue will come from your notoriety at YouTube, if not YouTube directly.)

And if you want videos, they're all on YouTube. You can search for them elsewhere but most of the content is on YouTube, and you won't avoid it even if your search started from a general purpose search engine like DuckDuckGo.

One notable exception of course is porn. But that's such a separated segment that it's pretty obvious I meant "non-porn videos" all along in this thread.
How do you know? Humans are probably the most adaptable species on the planet. Not many tropical animals are able to survive in Antartica for example. Maybe we'll get fusion and AI rolling, and we have more energy then we possibly dream of, can de-carbonate the atmosphere and so on.

The way I see it it's gonna be all about energy. There are absolutely insane amounts of it everywhere, and all our power generation is like nothing compared to what's going on at planetary, cosmic scales. The question is are gonna be able to tap into it, and make use of it? If so, all our problems will seem silly, but for that to happen we need to keep up the innovation, keep up improving technology, keep the economy running and don't fall into the trap of regressing into a dark age.

If we just shut down everything and go back into the woods, we're definitely gonna be at the whim of whatever is going to happen and there will be nothing we can do about it.
Dismissive? It's factual. As in, "the prosecution alleges..."
"Why don't you do something that works for over 40 million people all over the US" is a very far cry from "why don't you build your own power plant, datacenter, and networking infrastructure." It's a far better argument than DDG which - if my usage is anything to go by - is just a frontend for Google with convenient shortcuts to specialized searches like Github.

If you live in an apartment, you live in a multi-family building built by a developer with a lot more money than a single family can spend. They're exactly the ones who can afford alternatives, like paying the city to tear up roads and lay down a pipe to municipal water.

The point is that a well supports a tiny number of people compared to a municipal water system, but it's a real alternative. In the search engine space, DDG is just token opposition and there is no one analogous to a property developer that can afford a competitor to municipal water so it's Google or nothing.
I cannot work after 900-1000 ppm CO2.
They're technically not pure, but they're as close as we can get to functional-style state handling: declare dependencies upfront so the caller knows exactly what they'll get when they execute your function. Fully state-less code achieves basically nothing; you need to "escape the hatch" eventually to work with the rest of the architecture. Hooks are very beautiful escape hatches that let you deal with persistence without having to sacrifice the rest of your function's body to it.
Not sure why the downvotes. A consequence of our two-party system is that both parties end up being uneasy coalitions of many different "parties."

The Republicans have long been an uneasy coalition of the religious right, paleoconservatives, fascists, economic libertarians, right leaning neocons and neoliberals, and mid-century centrist "Eisenhower conservatives." Major fault lines have been between the libertarians and the religious right and between the neocons and the paleocons and nativists.

The Democrats have long been an uneasy coalition of left leaning neocons and neoliberals, social libertarians, anti-war activists, minorities who feel threatened by Republican tolerance of racism and nativism in their "big tent," atheists and minority religions who feel threatened by the religious right, and socialists. Major fault lines have been between the socialists and the various economic centrist or libertarian factions, between socially conservative minorities and the social liberals, and between the neocons / neoliberals and the anti-war / anti-empire factions.

Each party contains at least three or four other parties within.

A shuffle seems to be happening right now where the nativist, paleocon, and fascist parts of the Republican Party have gained power at the expense of the neocons and neoliberals after the latter discredited themselves with the Iraq war disaster and the 2008 financial bailout shitshow (which can technically be blamed on both parties since Obama presided over some of it).

Another shuffle occurring is that libertarianism has really taken a hit as a result of anxiety over wealth distribution and issues with globalism and neoliberalism. Many libertarians on the right have been converted to the alt-right/fascist side, and on the left quite a few have gone further left economically and joined the AOC wing of the party.
That can‘t be why – one benefit of their weird way of using WebRTC is that it would actually allow them to provide end to end encryption in all browsers, regardless of support for WebRTC insertable streams.
Then HELOC would be taxed which many middle class people rely on. Also its a loan so it need to be paid back. Will payments on private loans be deducted from income then?
Complex manipulation can easily be done with a preprocessor. You can work around the other issues you mention by just, well, learning css instead of fighting against it.
Seems the solution to that (if u think it’s a problem) is eliminating step up basis.

The reason that works is that basis is reset at death.
CO2 ppm should reduce with altitude though right?

E.g. if we saw 250ppm at sea level, we’d expect to see around 3% reduction in ppm counts per 1000 ft altitude. This observatory is at 11,000ft so we’d expect 250ppm sea level to give us 82ppm not >400
Once you have a certain amount of assets, there's no need to realize any personal income. It becomes completely voluntary. If you have a billion in stock, you could leverage that to pay personal expenses. You could use an unrealized loss over there to balance out the cash you're taking in from a gain over there. You can use companies and foundations to execute any vision you have outside of your household. If you play that game long enough, your descendants will get a cost basis step up. Tax is essentially voluntary when you are that wealthy, where as it is completely mandatory for me. I see absolutely nothing disingenuous about questioning the biggest loophole of them all.
Why would a seasteading nation be inherently more vulnerable than a preexisting tiny nation?

Couldn't the same bilateral relationships with large states be developed by the former that afford the same level of protection that's currently enjoyed by the latter? And if you think not, how is that not merely a failure of imagination?

These will not be anarchist communes, that's not what right-libertarians want. There will be a minimal government, funds for self defense, and so on.
Yes, but one can be piloted, the other won't.
Also Nerf has multiple options for lawn darts on sale that don't have spikes. And no one ever banned horseshoes or bocci which are also the exact same game/sport.

They just stopped selling the one particular variant, and not really because they were "banned", but because of the market realities of the low margins for selling only a somewhat fun toy versus the litigation costs and settlement costs from its injuries. If they thought there was big enough demand they'd slap a ton of warnings on it, include an arbitration clause in a jurisdiction friendly to them, and put it back in stores in a heartbeat.
ProPublica's tax story
> You cannot access this site because the owner has reached their plan limits. Check back later once traffic has gone down.

First time I've seen this Cloudflare error. Doesn't their free plan have almost ~1TB buffer before they take notice and ask you to upgrade?
I do not think it's that bad now.

A few days ago I have bought a new non original toner cartridge for my HP printer for about $7. Is it expensive tho? I expect it to print at least 2000 pages, so $0.0035 per page.

For ink jet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_ink_system
I do not know, though I do know that just disabling logging wasn't sufficient.
I completely disagree with you, bootstrapping your own internet company doesn't cost a lot. Except effort and time.

You can fund it yourself with basically any income. Of course you will never get anywhere with an attitude like the one you currently have.

It's not the skill or resources that is the problem, it's the mindset.
It might be out off topic, but this reminded me of one of the songs that gets recorded and released with every new version of OpenBSD[1], when we're talking about water. It's fun.

[1]https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#36
What's secret? Income and capital gains brackets are public knowledge. Is who has the money really that important? If you think income over 100,000 should be taxed higher, you can already use the current brackets as reference(and compare to what other countries use, for example).
There was an SQL layer but performance was sub-par IIRC. There was also a blog post somewhere explaining why it's probably not a good idea to build an SQL layer on top of a KV store, devil in details, etc.

Edit: found it https://www.voltdb.com/blog/2015/04/foundationdbs-lesson-fas...

Not sure what to think of it, I'm not a DB expert by any means but the post sounds plausible enough and the SQL layer is discontinued AFAIK. I guess with each new abstraction layer you leave some perf on the table.