skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
google could take over almost any business like this.

That didn't happen to travel companies. Google added flights, but Booking Holdings (aka Priceline) continued to grow each year to 15B in revenue for 2019. (Huge drop for 2020 obviously.)

If I type "<city> weather" google will show me the weather, but which weather company has shutdown because of that?

Google news is in the search results, but there are a lot of news companies. Those info panels often come from wikipedia, but wikipedia is doing great.

This is something that sounds true, but I'm having trouble thinking of an example where it has actually happened. Examples appreciated.
To test it out: https://6b.eleuther.ai/
Sane-airscan – driverless scanning with eSCL (Apple AirScan) and WSD
> Potentially. But there’s also an inheritance loophole that allows them to avoid that: https://www.thebalance.com/how-the-stepped-up-basis-loophole...

but you still pay the estate tax? Otherwise you get hit by the capital gains tax AND the estate tax.
Svelte by its nature only generates JS for the dynamic pieces of the page, if you’re using SSR it’s already “partially hydrated”.

Vue3 can also ignore static parts which gives similar benefits.
>> ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years

This statement alone is IRS-gate. Privacy breach at it's finest.
Agreed. Sell a real product or go out of business. I'm fine with either.
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> Sometimes I just think mainstream media is such an unreliable source of information I am wondering if there are any point reading them at all

Bingo. I forget the name for this law/effect, but at some point everyone runs across a story in the mainstream news about which you happen to be more knowledgeable than the author/reporter/"expert guest" and the veil is lifted for a moment and you think "wow they really don't have any idea what they're talking about!" But then they go on to trust the opinion of these same outlets on economics or foreign policy, etc.

> other than to gather the flow of current society sentiment.

Even this I wouldn't trust. Perhaps if you treat it loosely as "the zeitgeist of manufactured consent" or "what They want you to think is the current society sentiment"
Thank you! I will have a play with it :D
And I guess that is what makes the "quadcopter" drone so scary to most civilians rather than the military.

The application for "shooter event" amplification and without the easy to spot bad guy.
Our Bosch dishwasher is absolutely incredible. Hands down best appliance I've ever owned.
Sure, which is why they probably wouldn’t serve up a 100kb base64 encoded image every time an error is thrown.

It’s more than possible to embed a small vector image to add some humanity to an error page without breaking the bank, bandwidth-wise
I'm surprised many people still need to print things in 2021, since screens are ubiquitous.
I feel like this response kind of misses the point of the bigger issue, and subserviently plays into the elitist constructs of society built up over the past few decades.

Like obviously the super rich legally avoid paying taxes using intricate loopholes, but that doesn't mean people shouldn't bring up the fact that the entire system is screwed up. The article's primary criticism of ProPublica is premised around the fact that these loopholes exist, and that they're legal....but doesn't give consideration to how absurd they are. (not talking about taxing unrealized gains, that's just idiotic) I don't have an issue with how they framed this.

If the author is going to call out bad journalism, he should focus on the media conglomerates being taken over by de-facto communists...pushing leftist propaganda from the top down (CNN, NBC, ABC, NYT, etc). And the sad thing is, people on the left can't see it because what the MSM selectively reports plays into their worldview. What a fucking travesty.
To be clear, you program using ed and the command line instead of ever using an IDE? The said programming environment, you said 'line editors are nice'.

This is the same nonsense game people play where someone says "that's like taking a ship to cross the ocean instead of a plane" and someone else says "I like taking ships, I want to get fresh air for three weeks of solitude instead arriving the next morning"
No, I think I have a low opinion about my abilities - I need a complete picture and all the help I can get to understand anything at all.

But yes, I agree that it's not as simple as my original comment made it out to be - I definitely failed to fully acknowledge that most/some of the critical parts are open source and secured, but I think the incompleteness in any outside understanding (such as my own) is a major factor in the options Google could present about security.
An operation cost of $1,452/hour seems surprisingly cheap to super cool, power and operate a magnet of this size. I wonder if this price is considered a significant accomplishment among the scientists.
> I really appreciate your opting in to annihilating the advantage of youth.

Why do you presume I'm young?
This is my place to plug once again that Slack still doesn't support calls on Firefox, over four years since they were launched.
>since wealth has diminishing marginal utility, wealth transfer programs are inherently positive-sum -- and thus, accumulation of wealth so far beyond human need is negative-sum.

Retort from first year philosophy: "if this is the case, why aren't you donating most of your disposable to starving kids in africa? Surely that would have higher utility than buying yourself an iphone or macbook?"
I live in Detroit and was just in La and the difference was insane despite Detroit being roughly 30% percent vaccinated, almost no one wears a mask whereas in LA everyone was everywhere I went
Yeah I've used varnish before. I like it a lot, but I do think coloring inside the lines as much as possible is probably the safest thing. Some of the VMOD's and more exciting things you can do with varnish become really trick to manage.
They already disallowed remote code loading in extensions with a Chrome Web Store policy update nearly two years ago. They didn't have to invent a new API full of breaking changes to do it.

Just one example of the many disingenuous arguments in this post.

They didn't need to start from scratch to achieve the stated goals of security and performance. For Manifest V3 to be a rational conclusion, there must be additional unstated goals. Such as destruction of ad blockers, a desire to no longer maintain extension support or Chrome Web Store, or the need to run CWS with a skeleton crew.

None of these unstated goals benefit users or developers which is why we have to endure a gaslighting campaign about how smart and great Manifest V3 is.

I think extension developers have been crystal clear from day one about how regressive this change is.
I wonder when we will be able to get sheets of e-ink that we can "print" to. Or books of e-ink sheets.
It was Iraqi money, but the people spending it were Americans or American controlled. At the point Iraq was under direct occupation control. The fact we saw it as play money because we seized it from the Iraqi government "on behalf of the Iraqi people" and then splashed it around for fun is disgusting.
You can make that decision in rural areas. It costs a lot of money to get wires run to a new house. You might use solar instead with a generator as backup.

In many urban areas you may not even be allowed to opt out of utilities meanwhile. I once delayed paying for the water bill in a new house for a month till I moved in and needed, got a big late bill finally because the fees are mandatory for the house.
The entire world of space science fiction is based on Seasteading like communities. Along with a lot of other fiction.

Are we that afraid of leaving the basement that we have to put down even a RPG based on the idea?

A real seasteading community or two around the place is enough to create a wealth of new fiction. You don't have to leave home to benefit.

We've had real sea communities 'outside' the law already. Some were blown up (Rose Island - Netflix), some not. But they contributed a real thing to this world, they were interesting.
BL602 Bootloader
What is cost-per-action(CPA) or cost per lead (CPL)
Crimea had been run by Russia in one form or another since the 1700s, and it's ridiculously important to them as a port.

Their reaction to losing it was arguably a defensive reaction rather than an offensive reaction, if you're taking the perspective that Crimea is part of the Russian empire.
Transcript of Reboot 11 speech by Bruce Sterling (2009)
What do the plants in the Southern Hemisphere do?
That makes me feel better about not knowing my address. I know how to get home and that's good enough.

Anyway, I use a PO Box ... that I also can't remember.
Oops, you're right. I was more confident I knew the exchange rate than I should've been.
They are annoying to wear. They make my beard itch. They make my glasses fog up. They make me feel overheated if it's warm out. My airflow feels noticeably restricted if I am exercising, even with ordinary non-N95 masks. They are easy to lose track of, which is highly annoying when I am otherwise ready to leave my apartment.

Masks fucking suck.
I forgot how great Gmail was before they started doing major redesigns to it, although I do hate to say it... but it could benefit from a little JS to dynamically update with new e-mails...
SNUSP, a 2D programming language (2003)
Interesting. Are you conspiracy theorizing or is there a reputable basis for this?
> The average user will not read security warnings

The basic point of my comment is that deprecating the capabilities or the current API just because there can be a security risk in some cases for the average user is harmful to the more advanced users.

You focus on one possible solution mentioned about warning dialogs. However, there are lots of different solutions available which would allow it to run only with knowing 100% that the user knows what they're doing aside from warnings.

There can be a command line flag --developer etc. just like there is for unsafe certs.

'Use a browser that supports it' is not a solution since - as you said - Chrome has the largest user base why would a developer put in the effort to develop a solution for a minorly used browser.

Since the major browser is closing this API there will be no possible use of this type of functionality for anyone - even the users who know what they're doing.
The math doesn’t work out here. If you lose $100 on an investment, and your tax rate is 15%, the write-off only saves you $15 in taxes. You are still out $85 compared to not having made that investment.
Because it has what makers crave
Probably The Silver Surfer. The CLI is `ag`. Often used as a replacement for `grep`.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/
Some sample output I got (yes, this is real):

> You can travel through the universe to the furthest reaches of the unknown, where the background radiation of the early universe grows in intensity as you go further and further away from where you started. Somewhere beyond that radiation lie the last remnants of the beginning of the universe. Here there is an ‘ultimate singularity’, an instant of time that doesn’t have a name. At that point the laws of physics as we know them all break down. There is no matter, energy, or anything else; there is just an unbound, unmeasurable amount of energy.

> The laws of physics are fundamental constants that set the parameters of our world. But they seem arbitrary, without foundation. What if the laws that shape the universe are themselves arbitrary, like the laws of grammar and vocabulary, and just the result of our limited human brains? What if there is no underlying logic that holds it all together?
Turning off JS is not the single most effective way.

Turning off the internet. Or your PC entirely is.

Just not visiting most of the Internet is a solid move too, JS or not.
With a small group of Corporate Memphis people frowning or looking bewildered.

Give me “Unspecified error” any day over that.
> By adding a backdoor to E2E encryption? That is pretty much what they have been asking for :)

Not really. At least in Australia's case they asked for the ability to access data on the end point while it is unencrypted, which it must be when a human consumes it. They didn't want to backdoor encryption, just bypass it. And they didn't just ask for it - they got it.

Specifically, the Assistance and Access bill (2018) [0]. The "Assistance" in the title allows them to demand assistance from a software company (eg, Google / Microsoft / Apple) in developing an app (or a modified version of an existing app) that that won't trigger the OS's warnings while it provides access to data while it is unencrypted. The "Access" in the bills title refers to the fact they can they demand the software developer force the app to be "upgraded" to the "spy" version on targeted devices via their normal security patch mechanisms.

As you can probably gather from the date of the bill, this law has been in place or about 2 years now. But it probably wasn't in place when this started, as the law was passed New Years Eve, 2018, which explains all this social engineering cloak and dagger stuff.

When I first saw the story I thought it was odd they publicising a hack that only works when nobody knows about it. But now I think about it, my guess is they publicised it because they won't need to use it again. They've legislated far easier ways to spy on a phone.

[0] https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/natio...
This bill does not claim to fund infrastructure, though given the things the "infrastructure" bill refers to as "infrastructure" and funds, perhaps we should take what we can get. I would stay it's at least as much "infrastructure" as elder care, and probably more.

That said, while the returns on some government funded investments have been good, the return on others is nil, and the accounting is often puffed up by those who will benefit. It is quite reasonable to question whether this funding will be directed effectively, or whether it will be free money to inefficient dinosaurs like, say, IBM, which has lauded the bill. Others in these pages have noted a Blue Origin bail-out, more or less, which does more to reward the company for being politically connected than it does reward it for successful innovation.

With regards to the question in the grandparent: Yes. Yes, we are desensitized. Do not expect this to change soon. If you fear we shall face ruin, take comfort in the words of Adam Smith: there is quite a lot of ruin in a nation.
It seems like you're saying we shouldn't "punish those responsible" which is odd.

Obviously, if we have evidence that we need better safety protocols in labs then we should expect India, as well as every other country on Earth, to follow them. What coronavirus may mean though is that China is demonstrably dangerously lacking and cannot be trusted to implement sufficient safety protocols. We have no such evidence about India or other countries.

Why shouldn't hold accountable the people responsible for killing millions with dangerous research and substandard safety protocols? (Assuming the truth of the lab leak hypothesis)
The problem with closing the API is that for even the most advanced users, it will now be impossible to get the (very useful) functionality these extensions provide.
>Like obviously the super rich legally avoid paying taxes using intricate loopholes

Not paying taxes on unrealized gains is an intricate loophole? You can take advantage of it right now by buying stocks and... holding on to them.

>bring up the fact that the entire system is screwed up

We think the system is screwed up, so let's use any sort of misrepresentation we can to help our narrative. After all, the ends justifies the means right?
Out of this world… on to Mars [video]
The thing that really needs to be measured here is the real rate of return on these individuals' capital (i.e. post-tax returns) vs economic growth (i.e. growth in wages for ordinary people). The point isn't really about when taxation occurs (I agree this is lazy in the article), it's more that once you factor in taxes (and most serious economists of inequality do this), you end up with more money via returns on wealth than via earning an income. So there's these two concepts, and they are sort of related because they show how the tax regime favors the wealthiest of the wealthy. But the article does a poor job of this.
Propublica and OP talk about taxing gains (as though the gains were income), while this wiki link refers to taxes on wealth. Those aren’t the same thing. The wealth tax would be a low rate that applies to your entire wealth each year, while the tax on gains would be higher but only apply when the gains occur.
Ohhhh snapppppp! Excitement level just shot way up. Thank you.

God, it’ll be nice having a gpu for tensorflow. I’ve dreamed about this for like… a long time.
I would love to hear more from other devs regarding where we're at with M1 for development.

How is Node/React development, for example. Last I heard, Postgres was good to go on native M1. I know Node 14 is good natively. Are there commonly encountered problems? I hate my 2017 MBP and am desperate to upgrade.
Don't forget the fact that any scripts you download are by definition open-source (you download the actual script).
Price transparency makes sense when goods are fungible. Employees are often not fungible.
> I don’t think anyone involved at ProPublica knows what tax avoidance means

Just because something is not legally tax avoidance does not mean that it should not be.

> I don’t think anyone involved at ProPublica grasps why virtually all developed countries don’t tax unrealized capital gains

Again... whether we do or don't is not related to whether we should or shouldn't.

> I don’t think anyone involved at ProPublica tried very hard (at all?) to learn about what they didn’t know before publishing this piece

Sure.

> I don’t think anyone involved at ProPublica gave nearly enough thought to the implications of violating privacy laws (or at least norms) to publish a non-story

Or perhaps this is truly a societal issue, as evidenced by the wide difference between the current amount of taxes which the wealthy pay, and the historical amount; and as evidenced by the wide difference between different countries. The fact that it has long been a part of the public discourse suggests so.

And none of that explains how it is "misleading".

Edit/PS: https://www.propublica.org/article/why-we-are-publishing-the... but sure, tell me how they didn't give "nearly enough thought to the implications of violating privacy norms"
You criticize PP for shallow analysis but your analysis of GRATs, GRUTs, and similar estate tax avoidance strategies is even more superficial and conclusory.
I'm not speaking from naivete here. The main point is that it's temporary. And 'hell experience' can be a useful one, especially with guidance. The sensible thing to do, for a first-timer, is to have a trip-sitter.

A more qualified person on this topic is James Fadiman, who recently sat down with Sam Harris to talk specifically about his clinical studies of dosing with psychedelics.

https://samharris.org/podcasts/242-psychedelics-self/

> There are highly potent synthetics which are passed off as LSD, where unlike LSD, taking a small multiple of a single dose can be physically dangerous.

The only cheaper thing I've seen floating around the darkweb is NBOMe. Can you be explicit about what you're alluding to here?
> “Pacific Highway”, for the purposes of this site, means the contiguous road route along the east coast of Australia, from the centre of Sydney to the centre of Brisbane.

(I first thought of California State Route 1, although that's really "Pacific Coast Highway" rather than "Pacific Highway".)
Eric Schmidt is not Google.

Also, a half-redacted document written by an anonymous person that was accidentally released almost a decade ago does not change the definition of a monopoly.

Yes, you can assume that it's written by someone who knows what they're talking about, just as much as you can also presume they were wrong because it was squashed. That's a moot argument.

None of that changes the fact that being popular does not make something a monopoly.
I dare you find an incandescent on any car designed in the last five years. It’s insanely inefficient.
Zolgensma is one on the list that was approved earlier in the US than in Europe, requiring parents to fundraise during the gap period. Regarding absolute numbers, there are more SMA cases in the US than the UK. This is due to the overall population difference as well as a larger number of disproportionately affected populations which contributes to a higher rate of incidence. Zolgensma is authorized for treatment and payment using a similar review process and set of criteria in both countries. This is the case for both private/employer insurance coverage and pediatric public health programs. So I would take that bet.

Generally speaking, the US insurance system handles catastrophically expensive cases well. It’s the smallish cases (broken legs, etc) that are burdensome as copays leave families on the hook for several hundred to a few thousand dollars after insurance pays its contribution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/technology/apple-tax-bill...

Not for individuals, but when you are a high net worth individual, it's all the same.
It still amazes me. I ask it to write something, and when it does, I just want to ask it "dude, wtf?" Seriously, it's better than what shitposters on 4chan write. It's pure genius:

I was watching a climbing competition. I had never seen this before, and I am the world's worst fan of anything outdoors. The crowd was absolutely silent. Like, what, were they dead? It was eerie.

Cameo was a perfect example of the sport we love, because of the heavy concentration and the freedom it allowed the athletes, compared to what we do in our real lives. A top-ten contender got drilled off the wall by two burly volunteers, then grabbed an arm in an attempt to pull himself back onto the wall. The brawn of the competitors kicked in, and they were yelling and screaming, being half-carried away from the wall. In short order, everyone was pulled off the wall, the fight was finished, the duo were later ejected and the winner was declared.

Was that weird? No, of course not, that's what we all love. It's the circus, isn't it?
Firefox's app (at least on Android, not sure about iOS) lets you install some extensions, notably uBlock origin.
Would you pay $20 bucks now to offset paying tax on a future $20 bucks? There's no way to come out ahead just by failing, that scheme only minimizes risk.
OP here. I sort of agree with you, but it's a bit complicated and it wasn't obvious what the right way to word that was.

To get granular:

Wealth taxes are a bit distinct from taxing unrealized gains directly (even though they often have that effect, and there is some obvious overlap). If we look at, say, the Netherlands, they're assessing a ~1.7% wealth tax on assets over €1m independent of the performance of the assets over the year in question, which then exempts the payer from capital gains taxes upon sale. So we can call this taxing unrealized gains, but it's a bit imprecise in that they aren't taxing the gains themselves (which are unknown, and could be losses), but rather wealth at a prior point in time based on a fixed formula. If the asset in question went up 20%, the Dutch gov isn't going to tax the excess or force realization on any specific timeline. They'll just keep taking their 1.7% every year on whatever is there on Jan 1st.

There also aren't a lot of countries doing anything like this as touching upon non-real estate investments, and most European countries that have experimented with them are in the process of reversion (e.g., Norway, France) as it basically hasn't proved workable in most instances.

So maybe I should have left something like this as a footnote to clarify.