skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web standards stopped mattering in 2004, these days the only browsers that need to be considered are Chrome and mobile Safari, everything else from other browsers to standards bodies is just an exercise in pretending those two browsers don't have control over the web.

Those two will never be unseated; the constant addition and change of new APIs means that trying to create a new browser is a herculean task beyond the resources of all but the largest corporations, and even if you did somehow manage to do it the standards will always be retroactively set to whatever Chrome does so you'll always be playing catch up.

Its not possible to compete anymore, though to be honest I'm not sure it was ever possible to.
Not sure we can make borrowing money illegal. For example, is it OK to have a second mortgage backed by the equity in your home?
Changes to Docker Hub Autobuilds
From the press release, the scare quotes could mean anything, but they likely had the rough equivalent part:

for which the FBI has the “private key,” or the rough equivalent of a password needed to access assets accessible from the specific Bitcoin address.
> It's a bit sad to think of all the high school kids turning their backs on building treehouses and sitting in class dutifully learning about Darwin or Newton to pass some exam, when the work that made Darwin and Newton famous was actually closer in spirit to building treehouses than studying for exams.

The current educational system seems to turn off high school kids (anecdotal evidence being my own) from pursuing anything remotely school like. If there is mention of a "project" it is perceived as interfering with their time away from school which is usually involving sports, friends, video games, and media consumption (netflix, youtube, etc.)

I want my kids to explore opportunities to find something that sparks their interest enough where they are excited about spending time on it, pursuing it on their own. I think this will help them identify areas of interest for college and their future.

Any ideas on how to do this without it seeming like its "school" work?
How could popular media do a better job at this?

Use more graphs?

Call out incomes (wages, dividends, rent, etc) and assets (property, investment) differently?
The lack of ability to squash PRs into single commits is a deal breaker for many, myself included.

No, having a commit "fix typo" in the main branch's history is not at all useful and won't ever be. It's noise.

In a work setting it's much better to reduce noise.
How does this make sense. It’s “tax deductible” because you are giving the income away instead of keeping it. Of course people would give less if they had to give the government a cut.

“I want to give a million pounds to charity.”

“That’s nice of you. You still need to pay tax first on that sum, though.”

“OK I want to give £600,000 to charity.”
Yes, but also no. Right in that AN0M wasn’t secure. Wrong in that it wasn’t insecure because it didn’t disable Google services, or use secure updates or whatever - it was insecure because it just deliberately sent everything to the Feds.
I think curation (of said pluralities) would be possible on social media (like it's possible for example on Wikipedia), but the interactions are effectively owned (controlled) by the media owner, and they don't necessarily want the participants to have that power.
Ethernet Alliance IEEE 802.3cu: 400Gb/s over single-mode fiber
Further details on the background/history of the operation here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/world/australia/operation...
> Remove the tax implications, and you will see who really cares about their cause.

Yes, and donors should be whipped proportionally to the size of their donation – then we'll see who really, really cares about their cause.

> People should be giving to charities out of the good of their heart [...]

It's not up to you to decide people's motivation for being charitable.
IMHO it's better if we convert it to the strongest form of the argument:

> The lesson for me here is to internalize that even though I'm just an unfrozen caveman lawyer, I still have a responsibility towards our community and supporters to be kind and model better behavior. I'm sorry I let you down and I promise to do better in the future.
Embarrassing but understandable. Computer security isn't about perfection, which is impossible. It's about vigilance, resilience, backups, and responding quickly. I'd say they nailed it, here.
Could be related: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/technology/massive-internet-...
This is the first ring of the MacOS death knell, it's a quiet ring but the next will be louder.
I think that's the point the other person was making: The Internet is still fine, regardless of whether or not the content gets delivered.

There are roads (or shall I say tubes?). There are cars and busses on the road. Over time, almost everyone has migrated to just a few bus companies. One of them suffers a complete collapse for a few hours. Yes, this means chaos when it comes to transporting people. But the roads are just fine.

This doesn't mean that the situation is fine and that people aren't affected. But it would be entirely different if the roads had been washed away or something.
> Do a post-mortem, work out root causes, work as a unit to ensure this doesn't happen again.
And if this happens again? They advertised they had failover and mitigations for this in the RAREST of cases:

> Notices will be posted here when we re-route traffic, upgrade hardware, or in the extremely rare case our network isn’t serving traffic. - status.fastly.com

The extremely rare case happened for an hour, which is a very long time in internet time.
> I have a problem with their quality being crap and making little effort with update and improvement

If they are in a monopolistic position, why would they bother with the expense?
As I noted elsewhere in this thread, this is the nature of what are called "collective action problems."

In effect, these are situations where coordinated collective action may be beneficial, but there is a disincentive to being the initiator of such an action.

The examples I gave above were fireproofing your building, buying health insurance before you are sick, and mandatory turn signals on cars, but these abound in public policy: think, mandatory face mask wearing during a global pandemic in which masks which block the transmission of a disease from an infected person are cheaper than masks which block the infection of someone else.

Regardless of where you come down on the ideological question—perhaps you think it's fundamentally immoral for governments to exist at all, which I can respect!—it's very simple economics that such problems (where the global optimal is only achieved if we ignore individual optimization) exist.
Is this even serious?
"what-about" them? It seems pretty obvious that they don't have as much wealth, so the issue is less relevant. Again, that's the point of the article.. Common folks didn't see their wealth skyrocketing
For ordinary people, sure. But the estate tax kicks in at anything above $11M, and is 40%.
Valuable News – 2021/06/07
I did not. That social aspect makes sense. It’s a pretty popular endeavor, from what I’ve gathered. I remember reading a book on how to do it (recipes, packing, prep). I recall that book saying that many hikers do it before starting their careers or right after retirement. I recently moved somewhat closer, so it’s starting to get back in my thoughts. Maybe do it in chunks. It sounds like you might have done it. Any thoughts?
That's usual in /new when many stories are duplicates. Can happen during Apple product annoucement, death of a famous person, Google being sued, big company acquired. With fastly most information comes from their status page, their twitter, maybe their blog while many news outlets just base their reporting on that. The post-mortem blog post will be the most interesting part I think.
Edit: So the truth is also getting flagged here. unbelievable.
We hope for more leaks about all these other people who are richer than Bezos.
It's not just social media.

Media in general has a heavy bias on negative reporting , that's because humans are wired to have huge spikes in attention when there is a hint of bad news or character assassination.

Back in the days it used to be monodirectional stream: from the Newspapers, Radios, TV towards the population. The internet and social media just amped up this phenomenon globally and the person which is the subject of the character assasination du jour has the immediate feedback of millions of people piling in and commenting aganist them.

There is no defense mechanism really. The only way is trying to make money having the least amount of interactions as possible and in a position which is not under the spotlight.

New York City, Wall Street and the financial sector will benefit from this, also sports betting comes to mind and every domain where the arena is already built and you enter it knowing that it's a zero sum game. Other winners will be a particular demographic which historically always needs to be on the lookout for social unrest and people ganging up against them. They have the most sensitive internal alarms and have timely retreated to finance
The Netherlands is an example of such a country which effectively taxes wealth, not income. Technically it does tax income, but it's an assumed fictitious income based on your net wealth that's taxed, regardless of actual investment income or the nature of your investments.

There's definite pros and cons to this. The obvious pros is that it's relatively easy to administer as you don't need to record investment income or losses. You only need to measure net assets periodically, which is not easy but definitely a lot easier.

It also means fewer loopholes are possible. On the other hand, those loopholes aren't set in stone, they're a human construct. Choosing to tax wealth instead of capital gains is a choice, just like the deductions and valuation rules and carryforwards and carrybacks are choices for capital gains taxes, which can be changed. But in general again here, taxing wealth is the simpler approach.

The obvious cons is that it goes against basic principles of taxation that many people agree with (but seem to let go, at large amounts). The basic principle is: only if you earn money, you're supposed to share some of it to taxation to fund public goods and the less fortunate. That's why we tax added value, or profit, but not turnover. Taxing wealth means those with losses or no-income, still get taxed and lose money.

In the Netherlands there've been many court cases against the state precisely because of this. People with $200k in savings, a zero-appetite for (risky) investments in stocks or bonds, are losing their own money (for which they've already paid either income tax or inheritance tax to gain) to taxes without any income.

But it's more than that, even those who have large investment returns would feel it. (although here I would say, that's okay and entirely the point. Still it can be surprising to what extent). Paul Graham has written about how a small seemingly innocuous wealth tax (e.g. 1% per year) can really bite you over-time here: http://www.paulgraham.com/wtax.html

This is true essentially regardless of your average level of return, whether it's 0% or 5%.

What the wealth tax does do is push you into riskier investments. If you pay 1% and have say a 1% savings account, your effective investment income tax is 100% and you slowly lose purchasing power to inflation. It almost forces you to invest in higher return, but riskier assets, like stocks. At the same time, people like me who average 20% returns per year so far, are very much undertaxed by a tiny 1% wealth tax (as there's no other capital gains tax in the Netherlands). It also very much favours leveraged investments, as it's a tax on net wealth, favouring heavy use of debt (particularly popular in Dutch real estate markets). Suppose you somehow borrow 99%, invest 1%, and average only a 1% net return on your total investments, you're still earning a 100% return which is then taxed at just 1%. It's a strange system indeed, not sure what system would be best, but wealth tax systems have some obvious flaws as well.
How do you define a diff or merge for such files? Having a history available and branches (e.g. alternative versions of the same image) that can't be merged back seems to me to be still a version-control system.
The Vice and the NYT articles are better, and of course there's a Wikipedia article about it. This article is too focused on the Australian part of the operation with too little detail about how it actually worked.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgkwj/operation-trojan-shie...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/world/australia/operation...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM_sting_operation
When CNN is reporting on the bug you deployed it might have some psychological impact
Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
It's poor deal, it's not worth.

Just because I may learn some small things that probably does not affect me directly and additionally receive some news that make my mood worse due to hearing some yet another negative news about bad stuff / politics / yada yada, what's the point?

80% of the news I read is HN and some programming related websites and whenever I jump into "mainstream" media, then I feel like I'm reading some shit - click baits, tragedies, controversial stuff, drama seeking, celebrities

it's irrelevant for me
Yeah it's crazy how bad user-hostile reddit.com has become. Fortunately old.reddit.com is still available, but for how long? If only Javascript did not exist, it would be impossible for UX people to come up with something that bad.
It's not a tutorial in the classic sense, but as the CLI is rather simple, and as there are examples, I'd point you at the official docs (man page like):

https://docs.sequoia-pgp.org/sq/index.html

The sub commands feel like they are pretty much self-explanatory to me, e.g., encrypt, decrypt, verify are pretty clear in what they will do, and the options for those sub-commands seem not to cryptic either to me, but that's naturally a bit opinionated.

Besides that the initial release news article of the sq tool has some quick demo:
https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/01/26/202101-sq-release/

What would be your use cases for sq?
Globally routable addresses are bad for privacy.
wish people would say the same thing about mobile platforms
It's handy but I've found no way to change the teal/cyan accent of the browser (or at least the color of links in the address bar)
That's certainly a concern, but the IRS works for us so if we choose for them to investigate tax evasion by the wealthy they should do that.
And? What's wrong with that? There's no free lunch there - they still have to pay back the loan. It's not like it's free money.
30x gets you in the ballpark. there are always regions that can't be sequenced well and types of mutations that cant be reconstructed from the data. But from a clinical utility point of view a good 30x genome gets you up into the 95% range for finding the subset of variation that is clinically interpretable at the moment.
Well, while engineers are getting paid $100K/yr to post #HugOps, I know someone in HFT and their dashboard uses the Fastly service, so this has had a huge impact on them for sure.

Flag and downvote all you want, you know this is true.
See also Canada : USA
> Investments inherently contain risk which would dissuade potential investors if they have a stable source of growth.

Stable sources of growth have existed for decades but somehow most investors aren't just going all in on those. That's because investors care more about good risk-adjusted returns than lame guaranteed returns.

>Investments would have to have very high upside to be worth a stable but lower rate of deflation.

Investments with risk-adjusted nominal returns above 0% are worth it if the currency is deflationary: even if the investment only has a nominal 1%/year return and the currency deflates at 2%/year, that's a 3%/year real return. So it's still better than just holding the currency, even though the nominal return is lower than the deflation rate.

> Secondly, I'm not sure how you can be certain that investment returns, without regard for risks, could be higher than the deflation rate.

Returns on most investments aren't certain in an inflationary environment either, so I'm not sure what's your point.
Reddit's attempts at dark patterns are embarrassing from all perspectives. If you use dark patterns it's a laughably abysmal implementation. If you abhor dark patterns, it's a frustration.
So is the conversation now split into a preunretweeted half and a postunretweeted half, or is it a retrounretweeting where we act like it never happened?
Have you ever worked with git?
It is obvious the intern has the codebase and the commit history and that is why when he published the new project part of the commit history of replit was on the new project, it is 100% obvious he has copied part of it yes.
That’s not quite right. The step up basis applies to everyone.

It is true that if estate taxes are paid on the gains then the step up loophole hasn’t completely eliminated taxes on capital gains. However, the estate tax is even more full of loopholes than the capital gains tax. See for example the Grantor Retained Annuity Trust.

Finally, the Biden administration is not proposing to eliminate the step up basis entirely, unfortunately, but merely rein it in some.
By that logic any Chrome extension that modifies the contents of a copyrighted web page is illegal. Holding up an automatic translation device to translate what is being said on the TV would be illegal etc. There are nuances of course, but I don't think it's a problem here.

> That's why I'm also wondering how the law deals with using things you have a license for in different ways, for different purposes than originally intended.

I really don't know much about law, just trying to apply my common sense here. I think the difference in this case is that there is a single customer that _uses_ the extension to modify their experience, not a large corporation using a product (game engine and content) for unlicensed purposes. I could see why Rockstar would potentially want to keep the right to license the engine for these simulation purposes in the future, in which case they'd have to block this kind of use of the game directly.
Thank you for your feedback. You brought up very good points.
Snowtrack is available as a public beta since today and will evolve from here through user-requests and feedback. Snowtrack supports a simple before/after compare but this feature will be heavily extended with the next versions.

About merge operations: The majority of solo artists and designers don't work in many branches. Most projects just go forward and branches are only useful if a rollback is needed. That being said, Snowtrack does offer a simplified "cherry-pick". But merge operations as you might know them from Git/Perforce are not implemented yet as it takes time to see how users adapt the software.

Keep in mind, most artists and designers are new to VCS or have never heard of it before and therefore it is crucial to find the right balance between too little and too many features. Any second that keeps the artist away from creating their artwork is wasted and therefore and the goal is to not interfere with their workflow or to add additional "management tasks"
Oh that's even more delicious - it's like a modern version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
story or the drug dealers new phone in this instance - That the dealer was sold on the aspect that it would be invisible to the law. It just get's better and better.
> We are talking about people with meaningful wealth. They can afford to be taxed without waiting for it to be perfectly 'fair’

I don’t see that holding up in court.
The federal government has spent several trillion dollars fighting several disastrously stupid wars over the last several decades. Please don't try to pretend all that death and destruction wasn't good for the securities in your vault.
If I buy a share of a company for $1 January 1 2019 and it is worth $2 January 1 2020 I've got $1 of 'unrealized gains'. I pay zero taxes.

If I sold it before 1 year of holding, I'd pay $1 in taxes (the gain) at my top tax rate based on my other income. If I sell it after 1 year I pay tax at a reduced rate on the total gain.
> That's literally insane. So you're basically giving your government a loan a year in advance? Why? Why not pay your income tax when you know - you get your income, like the rest of Europe does?

I think you're misunderstanding. The tax rate they are paying is estimated based on the previous year income (we'll actually it's a combination of present income and previous years) because the tax office can't know your exact income (and deductions) until the end of the year. So when you do your tax return at the end of the year you either get a refund or need to pay some more. I'm pretty sure that's how it works in most of Europe (at least in most of the countries I'm aware of).
So there is no loan to the government, they still pay the tax as a rate on when the income comes in.
> Now, if they were making billions in profit and paying zero taxes then that's different.

Why is that different? Profits will be used to innovate or be invested in future infrastructure, at which time they will be taxed.
> Which is exactly the reaction those kinds of headlines are fishing for.

Not sure I get your point. Do you want to imply that 100B in capital gains would be preferable over a 100B paycheck?
Which browser is that? Chrome or Firefox?
The estate tax in America has been called the voluntary tax for a reason - it's almost never paid on at the rate you quote by anyone who can do the leg work to set up legal entities which can make the effective tax rate 0% - which ends up being trivial for billionaires: https://archives.cjr.org/the_audit/bloomberg_waltons_how_bil...

Even a quick Google search yields articles describing a (very incomplete) list of loopholes one can use to make the estate tax not something one has to "worry about": https://smartasset.com/taxes/5-ways-the-rich-can-avoid-the-e...
So do you make a living from your current company, or are you living off past income/superannuation etc.?
Oh hey it's that fluentcards video HTML! Bit of a blast from the past. Kudos again!
I believe that Google search quality has degraded a ton. Not surprised here.

By the way, I develop proprietary software. Hope that someone reads at Google and stop indexing all those pirate websites where people steal from others. Not torrents, talking about those websites where they even sell you paid access to stolen stuff.

Serously Google? You can't filter "nulled"?
I know they plan to relicense from GPL to MPL eventually, but I wish they would do it sooner rather than later.

I don't even mind the GPL, in fact most of the code I've ever written is GPL. But there are plenty of projects for which I would prefer a different license.
SeKVM verified hypervisor based on KVM
I didn’t see any error whatsoever on their homepage, while now I see “Global CDN Disruption” on their status page.
20 years... so, the patents on the previous generation are running out, are they?

(I seriously hope this is excessive cynicism on my part, but I vaguely remember reading articles like https://www.mondaq.com/india/patent/768712/pharma-companies-... [have not read this particular one, just the first thing I found googling...])
You can use kiwix (https://www.kiwix.org/en/).

It is an open-source software that allows you to keep and read offline static versions of websites in a specialized archive format (zim-files)

It was originally designed to allow you to read wikipedia offline, but there are also dumps of stackoverflow available on the relevant page : https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
Replace “the science” with “my politics” and all becomes clear.