skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then again, no real computer is Turing complete because they all have finite memory so they're strictly speaking only big finite state machines

Interestingly, cloud computing made this limitation less obvious: one can imagine a program running on the cloud that bill the cloud provider when it runs out of disk space. And the cloud provider will buy more hard drives for its servers when needed. There is still obviously a limit somewhere, but its much farther ahead, because its more limited by factors such as how much hard drives we can build.
Unfortunately, it looks like the emulation community also has a lot of people who are just like this guy. I've read about emulation code for obscure systems being removed from MAME because it offended some collector and he threatened to never release anything again. There's a huge amount of counterproductive drama and politics in the community.
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I thought a highly functional version was Magic Earth.
I agree that adding docker to a Go dev setup is not worth it, but I think commenter was asking for a docker image for running it. In that case, I’d say that docker could be worth it for the end user.
Property tax is interesting but probably in a different category as you are sharing space/property with a local government. I hope we have a historian here that knows the background and rationale on property tax. It is interesting that it is tied to the value of the property and not simply based on the size of the lot.
As far as I can see, it's his job and not a side project anymore. His LinkedIn lists him as full time developer on HomeAssistant, and elsewhere I've heard Nabu Casa is sponsoring him.

His day job must suck, yeah.
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This is a reminder of why you should keep a container of potable water stored at home.
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I dockerize Go apps to run in AWS ECS Fargate, but otherwise I agree. Go apps don't need docker.
I know my accounting degree is getting a little dusty but in what version of the world do you think you can "raise wages" while "costs of good sold" doesn't go up?
> The first generation works hard and busts their ass to get their kids a good education and into professions and business.

That's how it used to be back in the day, but it doesn't seem to be how it works nowadays in countries to which migrant-smugglers explicitly recruit customers based on those countries' unconditional social benefit payments.

> The second and then third generation adopt their local society's attitude.

See the above; and thus...

> This leads to inter-generational clashes.

...thus, inter-cultural clashes, rather than inter-generational.
> I'm not looking to hurt specific individuals, but rather society as a whole

I phrased it that way because I worry that in seeking to spite society as a whole you're missing the fact that you'll likely hurt specific individuals. Most of whom have nothing to do with the reasons you want to spite society.

> in both cases my actions spite those who would pressure me

They really don't. The people your actions (and public support of them) will most likely contribute towards hurting (and possibly killing) are those who are sick in other ways, or those who hold similar views to yourself.

If you live in a democracy, there are much better, well tested ways for you to promote bodily autonomy without deliberately taking actions most likely to harm people you agree with or the sick and weak. I'd love to see the cause of bodily autonomy promoted in ways I could respect, but this action won't help with that.

> people who feel it's acceptable to bully me out of my autonomy should take personal responsibility for the choice they are making, so dismissing that argument is effortless on my part.

Well, I think it's a poor dismissal. If people are bullying you, then they need to be responsible for their bullying, not for what you do in reaction to it. If you're really insisting on people being responsible for other peoples reactions, then don't you worry what you'll be responsible for when people react to your behavior?

It's my opinion that allowing yourself to be so affected by other people's views (whether it's towards spite or compliance) is fundamentally a less good way to live than deciding what you think is right and living according to that.

I do understand the extreme self-hurting aversive reaction to behavior you don't like (and there are places for it), but the internet has made that kind of attitude dangerous - you'll find bullies on every side of every topic, and to let which bullies your filter bubble rubbed you against dictate your behavior in serious ways is to cede way too much of your precious autonomy.
Google Image search even does this! Incredibly annoying - only to go to the source image itself and find it to be JPEG or PNG.

Very confused as to why this is done - anyone?
That sounds right.

A zero-knowledge password proof is a way for one party to prove to another the knowledge of a password, without revealing anything else about the password.

Such a protocol prevents an attacker (eavesdropper or man in the middle) from brute-forcing the password offline even if they capture the whole exchange, so insecure passwords become much less of a risk as long as the verifier rate-limits login attempts on its end.

Some of these also have the property that a malicious verifier can't fake a success unless it already knows the password, thus making password phishing pretty much pointless: the only thing a phisher can verify is whether the user uses some predetermined password, and if not, the user is immediately made aware that the site expected another password.

IIRC, the most recently developed ZKPP is OPAQUE: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-tal...
> that obviously takes less space

Not necessarily =)
I’ve been wondering if water is stored in fat cells? Does the body burn fat for the water content when you get thirsty?
That's strange. I don't use their app myself, but their Outdoor map style on their website is probably my favorite OSM map style. They even render hiking trails with the correct color from OSM data, which is unusual.

Take this area for example, it's full of what looks like hiking and biking trails, is it not? If there are trails missing, are they tagged correctly in OSM?

https://en.mapy.cz/turisticka?x=20.4205418&y=48.9352520&z=14...
The recently proposed wealth taxes (e.g., Elizabeth Warren’s proposal) that work the way you’ve described would only start on wealth above $50 million.

So your framing of such a tax as a way to steal from your working-class retirement funds is incredibly disingenuous. Unless, of course, you have 8+ figures of wealth. In which case I hope one day you’re made to pay your fair share to society.
It looks like there could be a twofold problem:

Some academics are interested in pushing a particular take (agenda). This is contrary to science but often serving some social or political sentiment.

Amateur scientists might lack the rigor to give their claims validity and may reach undeserved conclusions leading to misunderstanding from a part of the public who want some validation for their own beliefs.
> weakening the bargaining power of the entrenched elites though inflation funded welfare

Why would this happen?

The rich and powerful do not have tons of cash. They have tons of assets, like houses, land, buildings, companies, boats, cars, etc. Inflation simply makes all of those things more valuable, so their wealth is not affected. Meanwhile all the extra free money that everybody else has is still not enough to buy those actual assets. Aren’t you pretending that supply and demand doesn’t exist?
Which begs the question, how happy are we with what is happening economically right now?
Not a historian but I suspect that property taxes were originally meant to pay for things like infrastructure, garbage, police, firefighters, schools, etc. Pretty much community costs incurred by the development of the area including and around your property.

Of course, without actual transparence and accountability and considering the state of said infrastructure, schools, etc, it is hard to know where these taxes actually go nowadays.
I have wondered why humans don't really have much of a water buffering capacity, mostly prompted by a line in Dune about "water-fat" Atreides. Would be great to be able to chug like two liters of water and go about your day reasonably hydrated.
That's the idea. In practice you need to be careful as a failure mode of introducing UBI is it being used as an excuse to cut benefits without an adequate replacement.

For example, a reasonable stepping stone would be for people to get their food stamps by default, but then be able to "pay" some of the taxes on any income they earn using those food stamps. This means food stamps are being reduced gradually and at the marginal tax rate, so it's fairer than just falling off a cliff when you hit a threshold.
I've toyed with live electronic music streaming setups using OBS Studio (as a kind of video compositor and audio router) paired with VCV rack for visual effects. I'd recommend both as solid tools with many useful surface level features and a ton of useful but optional power user configurability for when you want to go deep on something.
Yeah, I assumed by the title, SciTE added a feature to help with citations.
Corrupt police men in Indian sprawls know this for a long time. You cannot extract lots from a few rich drivers (in addition, you may face personal consequences as well).

The best spots are where you have a many middle class to lower class drivers, who need to be somewhere quickly, and will pay up. Smaller amounts, but continuously.
How much tax did you pay on your total wealth last year?
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Need performance comparison chart.

Yggdrasil network throughput vs plain.
Yggdrasil processor load and memory overhead vs plain.
Yggdrasil latency vs plain.

No matter how bad that numbers look. One can at least know beforehand what to expect.
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“Sewer Heat” Could Help Fight Climate Change
Yes, I've also run with 6 threads and get an additional minor improvement on the loopvectorized code (3.9 vs 4.5ms).

I have to say LoopVectorization.jl is quite an impressive piece of work. I have to try out some more julia at some point, unfortunately pretty much everything I do is using complex values.
India has the same problem too although that is because people voluntarily kill baby girls because they prefer boys.
It's also about the systems it's replacing, which all the careful studies I've seen have rated as even less efficient. It also doesn't take into account future improvements in energy efficiency, which in the case of Ethereum are near and profound.
UBI really stands for "Unemployment Benefit Increase" - since that is effectively what it ends up being once you look past the monetary obfuscation and net everything off. It has to be sufficient to allow people to live on permanently, or it isn't an actual income. Any less and it becomes a wage subsidy to private employers, and we already know that doesn't work thanks to many years experience with 'tax credits' or 'Earned Income Tax Credits' (depending on your jurisdiction).

Ultimately if there are fewer jobs than there are people that want them, then wages get competed down - particularly in the secondary job market where individuals are near interchangeable. Give people money and the wages get competed down further. Which is what we see with the few retired people who continue to work. Very often they will volunteer just for something to do.

Offer a competing public job and you get a different effect. People move to that job and earn a wage. There is no argument about 'living incomes' then - if you are giving up your 8 hours you deserve a living wage. Private employers have to compete to get labour, rather than having it subsidised. Private wages are held up - particularly in the secondary job market which is changed overnight from a 'gig' economy into a 'talent' economy.

The private firms at that level will struggle pass the cost on, because if they do then those on the public job scheme will be permitted to replace them. You can't do that with an unemployed buffer stock. You can with an employed one that you can direct.

The resolution process in the 'battle of the markups' is moved from wage earners to low capital depth operations that frankly add very little value and ought to be competed out of existence by their higher capital depth competitors.
"If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" - Carl Sagan
Except I think the matrix project is going with pinecone instead. https://github.com/matrix-org/pinecone
I feel like what people really want is a wealth weighted income tax, so your tax rate on income is based on how wealthy you are, not how much you made in a single year.
Don't quote me but what I remember is that water is roughly stored with "sugar" in short term storage (liver, muscles) at a 3:1 ratio and in long term storage (fat cells) at a 1:1 ratio.
Or the reason everything in Japan is so clean and actually efficient and reliable. You won't see the casual litter and degraded infrastructure that is commonplace in US and Western Europe - everything is kept in tip-top shape, because why not? When you have the wealth and workforce to spare, in practical terms it's just better to allocate capacity for this sort of tasks in quantities that might look sub-optimal on a spreadsheet.
I write off anyone who video conferences with a bookshelf behind them as a fool trying to pass off as more intelligent than they actually are. It’s so cringey because of how blatantly manipulative it is.
Alternative non-communist view :

You change minimum wage.

There's a 3-10y. period for prices signals, supply chains, and the structure of various credit markets to adjust across the economy. You begin to notice, as time goes, that nobody is living in abject poverty on sub-13$ wages anymore (7$ an hour cashiers/waiters, for example).

Most of the former poor and working poor have become consumers. They are much less subject to all of the worse ills of society (sickness, crime, broken families), which are an aggregate pure loss for society. There is less need for taxes to go to the social security net.

But best of all, aggregate economic activity, wealth and well-being have increased. You now live in a slightly better society.

You're still a free capitalist society. You didn't even have to expropriate anybody of things earned in the past.
The difference, is that this society, at one point in time, agreed to divert some future profits for a time to level the playing field.

Note: of course all of this doesn't work without changing the structure of current monetary policies in parallel.
Your assumption that a company’s priority is to not share is a possibility, but it is a worst case one, and one that is IMO less of a concern for a programming language: keeping bug fixes or even new language features to themselves may very well be a net negative. A buggy reference language implementation for external users will turn them off from using it, and make it harder to hire experienced users or benefit from improvements by others.

For such a case, the fear of using AGPL is much more likely one of accidental contamination, such as an employee copying a piece of AGPL licensed code into a completely different, unrelated project.
I'm 4th generation Japanese-American, and in no way whatsoever qualified to answer your question, but I'll gladly do it nonetheless: they prioritize the collective over the individual.
I've bought from both of them and there is a stark difference. Lance is a gentleman and a pleasure to do business with. I've bought thousands of dollars of Atari stuff from him. I always enjoyed our conversations. Lance is great. Bradley is a dick and an asshole. I made one purchase and that was it -- I never went back.
Without getting into how official a product OSMAnd can be considered, I think it’s worth pointing out that Carto has limitations that OSMAnd improves on. Due to OSMAnd’s configurable vector drawing, it is possible to make the map show road surfaces or whether roads are lit. These are features missing from official OSM.org, which of course serves as little more than a tech demo.
I suspect you get this with concentrated interests.

When someone stands to benefit disproportionately from a particular social outcome, they acquire a significant economic interest in specializing in social manipulation toward that end, and specialization has returns to scale, allowing a small number of specialists to outmanouver large collections of less-interested individuals in shaping public opinion.

Some examples of areas where we may see concentrated interests:

* cryptocurrency - large holders have a financial interest in popularizing cryptocurrency as a technology and investment

* corporations - large shareholders have a financial interest in promoting companies and their interests

* labor unions - unionized employees have a financial interest in promoting left-wing narratives that rationalize laws that privilege unions. This includes journalists and government employees, who are almost all unionized

* government employees - have an interest in promoting government spending and discrediting free market capitalists

* private government contractors/consultants - this includes AML consultants and black hat technology companies that work with law enforcement agencies and governments. The same dynamic that's seen with government employees, but magnified
I agree with you in general, but the index fund thing is a problem. Index funds/etf pay no CG taxes even when the stocks in the index change, where traditionally a mutual fund would pay taxes as they sell the old stocks and replace with new constituents.
Be aware that this project appears to be the work of primarily a single developer (https://betterprogramming.pub/woke-437880c3de64), taking input primarily from Twitter's stated internal policies on inclusive language.

That's not enough to judge how "sanity" is viewed by all sides of the woke movement as it's too small of a sample.
I mean what you’re basically saying is you want to work at inefficient companies that pay more than they actually need to.

If you’re not working, you shouldn’t be paid. Fair is fair.

Perhaps instead of paying per hour a company should offer pay per week, and it’s up to the developer to decide how many hours they will end up actually working that week and if the offered pay is worth it.
...and when you report them, the canned answer is "it doesn't go against our community standards". I wonder, do they have different community standards for non-English, or censor English only punctually because they were pressured to intervene?
I simultaneously believe everything the author said, and also feel like it comes off as bitter and personal.

Tim Ferris embodies an approach to the world that I feel like I’ve seen taken over and over again. It’s a cynical approach to work and the world that relies on achievement through shortcuts and technicalities rather than actually doing the work, and in some cases, rather than producing anything of value.
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Previous discussion of this ProPublica story rightly pointed out that there was too much focus on billionaires (legally) not paying taxes while their assets are appreciating (but not yet sold), and not enough focus on the fact that often taxes aren't even eventually paid (a grey area mix of legal/illegal).

From the original ProPublica article [0]:

>It’s clear, though, from aggregate IRS data, tax research and what little trickles into the public arena about estate planning of the wealthy that they can readily escape turning over almost half of the value of their estates. Many of the richest create foundations for philanthropic giving, which provide large charitable tax deductions during their lifetimes and bypass the estate tax when they die.

>Wealth managers offer clients a range of opaque and complicated trusts that allow the wealthiest Americans to give large sums to their heirs without paying estate taxes. The IRS data obtained by ProPublica gives some insight into the ultrawealthy’s estate planning, showing hundreds of these trusts.

Other folks pointed out other examples of charitable self-dealing, where a wealthy person may give their money to a foundation, and then travel the world on behalf of the foundation, or have the foundation pay for family-owned businesses to do work under contract, etc. Some pointed out that there are laws against this sort of thing, other folks pointed out that enforcement of those laws is rare and difficult.

So, should we step up efforts to try to enforce today's rules that haven't seemed workable in the past? Or do you want to do the easy thing and have a wealth tax on things like securities?

0: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
Well said - but unfortunately that’s not what what anyone is talking about.
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Can confirm. Also learned it in school in Germany, although I forgot most of it, because I almost never use it. For most things, forvo [0] works good enough.

[0] https://forvo.com/search/Yggdrasil/
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Huh. So that explains why WEBP worked in Safari 14 for Big Sur but not Catalina or Mojave.
Delta.chat looks similar to mail.app. Basically a WhatsApp UI for email. Open Source and E2EE.
Did the speaker on wendover change like 1~2 years ago? I feel like the voice used to be more, uh, geeky sounding.
My guess is that while it may sound good in theory it would in fact be counterproductive, especially considering that we evolved as a tropical animal: need more water -> burn more fat –> generate more heat -> need to cool down -> sweat more -> need more water...
> Would be great to be able to chug like two liters of water and go about your day reasonably hydrated.

During Ramadan (not Eid as someone pointed out!), most Muslims refrain from eating or drinking during the day, and Muslims are highly overrepresented in warmer countries, so it's definitely possible, though maybe not comfortable.
This is something I made and can be played with :)
There seems to be a real under-appreciation by the Hacker News crowd of how profound the use case of cryptocurrencies as simple money is.

Perhaps because we have a sample bias towards people who are served adequately by traditional financial infrastructure, and people who are disproportionately preoccupied with blockchain as a potential component of software systems.

As an example, most kids in starting school today will probably have years of experience being their own banker, using apps on their phones, before they ever step foot in place which employs bankers. At that point they may not bother, since the cryptocurrency ecosystem will already provide all the same facilities. This is profoundly disruptive.
Are you suggesting that governments are colluding with journalists to deliver a particular narrative?

Or are you saying that journalists and their editors believe there's a need for wealth taxes and so they're pushing that line?
Inflation won’t cancel out UBI because there are many people on this earth who spend more than UBI today.

In other words, the money spent every month in the US economy is much more than the money UBI would add.

It’s true that there would be inflation but it would not cancel the full effect.
On the other hand: with UBI even the landlords in the middle of nowhere can demand higher rent, since everyone now has a spare $1000 per month

Laws of economy are like laws of physics: you cannot cheat them. All the UBI will do is it will raise the nominal prices of everything, but no poor person will be better off because of it.

Small scale experiments on UBI are successful only because they are small scale, so they cannot affect economy at large. Once you make UBI truly universal the reality kicks in, and inflation eats it all.
So not a kind of VPN, but a kind of VPN? :)