skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> bit rot

Hard disk drives go on sale regularly. I replace mine usually once a year or so. They're not expensive relative to the loss of the data. I just bought a 500G SSD drive on sale for $60.
I'm fine with medical science having this data -- assuming there is a way to ensure they're using it ethically -- but insurers? Hell no.
Glorious. False positives on the synonym match gone wild. This is the kind of thing that deep learning was supposed to solve. The fact that it is failing from specific (imagej) to general (fiji) is beyond the wildest dreams of anyone doing quality assurance. I'm guessing the neural nets have been slacking by trying to do pure substitution matches and the devs have been rewarding them at the worst possible time. Wow. This is like seeing a toddler who is screaming in public and the parents are actively giving them candy to try and get them to stop. Wow.

In case anyone doubts that this is real I'm seeing it too https://i.imgur.com/PXepl6C.png
From cassette tapes to rotary phones kids have no idea how to use them
I don't like the idea of foreign firms using American resources to grow export-only crops, but I can't make a compelling case against it without resorting to arbitrary rules that are both xenophobic and easily gotten around. It's not much different from American farmers growing food for export.

The root of the problem is that we've completely externalized (or socialized) the true cost of food. Farmers—including large corporate industrial ones—get large tax breaks, subsidies, tariff exemptions, grants, preferential access to funds. This is all well-intentioned, in order to keep food affordable, and guarantee domestic food security. But it means that food doesn't cost what it should, so we end up with a catastrophic corn sugar glut, a distracting obsession with ethanol fuel, and other countries' food needs subsidized by all Americans.

I'm left wondering if we wouldn't be better off seeing the true cost of production reflected in supermarket prices, and food aid being increased for those in need. At least then there would be incentives to manage the environmental impact, and disincentives for exporting.

Water is just one of the ways in which the true cost of farming is externalized. There are plenty of other negative environmental effects that aren't born by the farmers.

None of this is a dig at farmers. They're in a difficult, low-margin business. Most of them are small businesses playing fairly within a complex system. It's just that the current incentives are all wrong.
You can share a calendar as free/busy
This is solved by Instagram and Snapchat not being in the Amazon App Store.
It's absolutely crazy to me to see such a technical community not understand or care for finance, investing, and crypto. The sentiment in discussions about crypto border on fearmongering and complete misunderstanding, while I see little to no discussion about investing in general.
Oh man you're gonna give our boy an aneurysm
You think that the legislature exists in a vacuum? That it writes out all these loopholes for fun? That other nations are just broken with their simpler tax code? This is yet another "American exceptionalism" thing where _somehow_ America is the only developped nation in the world with this level of issue yet seems to think it's sort of... intrinsic to the world.

The most prescient thing I saw about the Panama Papers leaks was that the biggest reason so few americans were present in those is that America is basically already a tax haven for rich people.

A flat income tax rate is not progressive by the usual definition, even with a flat deduction (imagine trying to scale _that_ to inflation and the endless debates). And we already have a solution for what you propose: gradual increase in the tax rate based on income levels! It has the added advantage of actually handling inflation (since the dollar amounts will go up over time anyways), and don't require a single "big tax number".

If you believe what you say, just argue to remove various deductions and exceptions. We already have percentage-based tax system, there's no need to be that much cleverer.
I'm not sure how you can say this with a straight face when we have stuff like https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7 or https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21358-2 showing that the measures taken reduced the transmission rate of Covid to much lower levels than they otherwise would have been.
Missing from the list are the space telescopes that look inwards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
Why would I route orders through this exchange?
No, the point in this example is that the harasser-harassee relationship is not reversed. You're only, for some weird reason and without any logical support, claiming it is.

And I'm sorry to disagree even on this, but no, it is not "fine": What you are disagreeing with aren't any "sociological theories" I am trying to get "enshrined into law", but with logic and reality.
I think I can still get to that view by right clicking on the bottom right thing for wifi
I see this article and thread as a general exploration/discussion of these concepts. I’d have suggested we could probably peg ‘fair share’ anywhere between zero and average American tax rate for the sake of this argument, but let’s just go ahead and say 24%. Do you believe an individual should be able to earn billions, and should able to pay less in taxes than individuals making under 100k? If you agree I’ll bet you can find several billionaire (and many more on their payroll) that’d agree.
Look, I admit Ive made my share of contributions to the Bezos machine. Now I could vote for Bernie all the while, but ultimately my point in response above is/was that we vote with more than bumper stickers, social posts, and… well, votes. I might be hypocritical, but I’m not mad or delusional.

Also I don’t hate Bezos or Thiel for playing this game, and I’m not saying you should hate either, but heck I think it’s okay to say at some point, it’d be okay to look at the policy and say okay you made a billion tax free, nice one, but that’s enough we tap out.

And yeah I’d love to divorce business/financial decisions from politics/voting, but you know, Citizens United…
"Overall productivity increases don't increase profits. They reduce prices! Workers make more because everything costs less."

That only applies in an economy without credit and where sales are constrained by the spending of the wage share. In an economy with credit you can use financialisation to give people spending power their wages don't permit, which keeps prices higher than they would otherwise be and allows more to flow to the profit share.

The dynamics then drives the path of interest rates down over the years until you get a credit crunch - at which point the lack of spending from the profit share suddenly shows up in a Minsky Moment.
I don’t think good will or good publicity matters, and MS knows it. If the telemetry, spam reinstalling, changing user settings, user document deleting, work interrupting crap they pull with Win10 hasn’t caused a significant number of users to abandon ship, I am not sure what will.
My backup drive has a physical switch. I used to be meticulous in setting it to read-only except while making a backup. But now I just leave it in read/write mode because I lost my enthusiasm. It's not plugged in when not in use though, so it's a bit safer from this sort of thing.

How would you do automated backups with a physical switch? Are you proposing nobody does automated daily or more frequent backups?
The tax code is structured this way by design, by rich people. If rich people wanted a simplified tax code without loopholes, then they would actively lobby for this, and I guarantee congress would act to simplify the tax code.
Leetcode posts the answers. That could be accomplished by just scraping them. [1] Turing test would be give some vague, underspecified requirements for a system that does not yet exist, and implement a version the requirements writer will accept. Compilers and compiler generators have long been able to generate great code from well-written specifications and no one thinks of them as passing a Turing test.

[1] Of course, to some extent, that is what a GPT model is doing anyway. It's able to generate reasonable passing code given just a function prototype because it has scraped and looked at billions of examples of implemented functions with similar prototypes.
Not really helpful, given they all have many publicly available solutions that could have been easily memorized (I'd be surprised if such solutions weren't already part of their training data).

More interesting would be to give it open tickets on popular OSS software, have the maintainers point to the file(s) where the fix would happen, and let it craft a patch.
Clearly there are very few records. This was detailed in Hamilton's "Where Are The Children Buried", currently linked from the front page of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports page[0].

The report also notes that the death rate of children attending Indian residential schools was much higher than the Canadian average at the time, and that most children were not returned to their families for burial.

I think it's fair for people - especially people who haven't read the TRC report - to be upset by these numbers.

[0] https://nctr.ca/records/reports/
Yes, I could have phrased that differently.
I was with you through the rest of the thread until here, but this is too extreme. By your definition there does not exist such a thing as an in-site backup, does there?

Take it to the extreme and everything is connected somehow at some point, thereby making a True Backup by your definition physically impossible, even off-site. The point where the backup is made could have a zero-day propagate to the tape machine, killing it and the tape by spinning up the motors. A blueray drive could have the firmware pwned.

If not even incremental snapshots synced to a remote count as backups, you are probably the only one to harbor this interpretation of the word and it arguably loses its usefulness as a word.
> It's hard to condemn someone for failing to try to implement their idea when the attempt comes with such a high opportunity cost and risk.

Yeap.

> And who will take the blame when 999/1000 of them fail and are forced onto the street?

Nope.

Yours sounds like a very European attitude towards failure.

When your business fails, you go get a job.

Americans, traditional ones, do not condemn failure. We celebrate it, as long as you learned and grew. There's a reason why the phrase "get back on the horse" is part of American English.

I will hire a kid with hustle and self-awareness that has started three companies and failed, differently each time, over a Stanford graduate any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.

That's what failure gives you: real-world experience.

We want that. What we don't want is people sitting in their pods glued to Netflix.

A social safety net for society's contributors is good and necessary. It's the slack that enables people to adapt as economies change.

But if all you do is protest and tweet about your student loan debt from your degree in Oppression Studies: starve. We don't need you.

You want support, you pull your weight along with the rest of us. End.
Wouldn't this always have been true?
This would be the opposite of a Turing test though, since most people wouldn't be able to do this.
You sound like my dad watching car commercials. If you're a power user, the trailer isn't for you. You'll find what you care about; spec sheets, etc.
I think that justice should be blind. Just because you’re rich doesn’t mean you aren’t entitled to the same protections. We’ve gotten to a point in culture where some people “deserve it” so it’s ok if bad things happen to them. That feels like a dangerous exception to make.
It probably doesn’t mean what you think or are trying to imply.
I am certainly not saying it’s actually obscene or indecent! My point was that the scandalous bit was really quite prominent at the time of publication and not buried in an 800-page novel.
I don't even think they bothered to invent a crime on this occasion.
Oh no this is worrisome, I hadn't thought to take the box data as a "maybe correct"... given that I am often googling something I am unsure about.
> Umm, yeah, if you have access to top secret info, I would be very careful about mixing work and personal content.

Don't think you don't have that. Do you work with any personal or internal company data? Do you have access to systems that contain them? I.e. Databases, Backup Servers, internal portals with company-only announcements ...

Sure, you probably don't work with data classified as top secret, but being implicated in the release of personal data or internal data, especially if it helps the competition or influences the stock price, will get you very quickly in really hot water.

> I may be somewhat unusual for the HN crowd but not for the population at large but virtually all the data I care about lives on a few cloud services

... as well as your local files (Dropbox & Co.), your browser cache and your OS cache. Maybe your password store. Just because the data is not mainly stored on your device does not mean that nobody will access it. Also, people do run data recoveries on these, especially when you did not have time to prepare for this ("This laptop is under investigation, we take it right now, please report to HR").
What happened to "Windows 10 is the last version of Windows?" (eg. https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...)

Will the upgrade be in-place as per Windows 10 updates?
> and the work literally saves and prolongs lives

I have literally yet to see a medical-adjacent company not default to assuming they’re on the moral high ground.

When I see companies say “we save lives” my initial reaction is no different from companies that say “we hire the best” or laws that “are for the children”.
JWT Tokens are NOT safe
> Not to get into a pedantic argument about grammar and such, but ..

Everything before the word "but" is typically disingenuous.

> I would pronounce both of those the same out loud, I read both of those the same in my mind.

This is a bald-faced lie. :) Hyphenated words and idioms are often pronounced faster.

> Hyphens in places like that are a piece of punctuation that provide no real extra information or purpose, but clutter the sentence with symbols.

They're not symbols, they're punctuation. They indicate rate-of-speech and semantic boundaries.

if i write text like this it is very annoying also you cannot tell where one thought ends and another begins do you really want to live in such a shitty world

ifiwritetextlikethisitisveryannoyingalsoyoucannottekkwhereonethiughtendsandanitherbeginsdoyourreallywantoliveinsuchashittyworld

Hyphens also serve as affordances to cue the reader to the presence of familiar idioms rather than impose additional cognitive load onto them after the fact.

They also serve as affordances to cue the reader to the presence of familiar idioms rather than impose additional cognitive load onto them after-the-fact.

They also serve as affordances to cue the reader to the presence of familiar idioms rather than impose additional cognitive load onto them after. the. fact.

Perhaps users of a language should learn the rules and conventions before throwing them away simply because they don't understand them?
This is a bullshit statement from a company that wanted to create their own version of iOS with Windows RT.
What makes you think that? I would resign despite the need for the income if I felt like my companies ethics contradicted mine in alarming ways.
This is really insightful. Is the product strategy problem typically a take home? In my experience, “product whiteboard” exercises have always felt like a bit of a party trick when I’ve encountered them. The discovery phase gets so truncated in order to get to cover design/implementation etc. Basically a Fermi problem but “show me your framework.”
TLDR: Roth IRA is an account where when you put money into it, it can grow untaxed. It's not a loophole or anything, it's the sole reason this type of an account exists. It's like a regular bank account, but exempted from capital gains tax - in order to stimulate retirement savings.

Thiel - among others, I presume - used some of the money in this account to make some very successful investment. He didn't use any "loopholes" or tricks, except for the trick of knowing what to invest in and taking the risk. Now he has a lot of money in this account, due to his investments being successful.

That's it.
Initially all ios apps were automatically included. But the latest version of xcode requires building with macOS as a destination which in my experience just doesn't compile. And I don't have the time to find out why (neither does my dev community). So for example, my app was available on m1 for a while, and as soon as I updated from new xcode, got opted out
Maybe but he’s talking about having to deal with the requests. Since Steam only supports Ubuntu LTS you can push the blame on them and say something like, “Sorry we develop for Linux via Steam and they only support Ubuntu x.04, feel free to open a ticket with them if you have further trouble.
The Secrets of ‘Cognitive Super-Agers’
Is there an API for creating, or at least registering, APIs?

(Maybe save that for 2022-04-01.)
Awesome! Thanks for the find. Did you get a chance to try it out?
A skilled jackman can lift a car in mere seconds. Just watch some NASCAR
FWIW I also sell a GPS clock. It's accurate to within 200 microseconds and has a 100 ms display granularity (that is, it has a 10th of a second digit).
Ironic that the fact that your comment is on a startup news discussion site, points out a glaring need in the public sphere, one which could be fulfilled by a startup, and it gets downvoted to the point of being grayed out.
The backdoor Roth didn't exist until 2010; Thiel's initial contributions were in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Increase_Prevention_and_Re...
> backup drives must have a physical write enable switch on them. To all the people who argue against this - just you wait till it happens to you!

Yep, I once reformatted the wrong drive. I plugged in a firewire drive into a friend's Mac and didn't realize he had an internal drive that apparently also showed up with a firewire icon. Whoops!
> We have retained counsel, and we are in the process of filing an objection to the injunction, though we are required to comply with it.

Sir, I interpret your words as what I stated above - you will comply as required by law and fight the injunction as invalid. If you have another meaning, please clarify.
Hey Alison, I just wanted to thank you so much for this comment, you both taught me something, and I very very much appreciate that this is clearly not just a footnote for you. Thank you. :)
Why not have an API that publishes your API to all of them?
A) You weren't making a comment about Stonewall, but about some link that you'd found on Stonewall.

B) I, OTOH, was commenting about Stonewall, pointing out that it seemed a crappy source. As such, quoting a known reputable source's judgement of them seems far more prudent than the primary source itself. They're not likely to say "We're a crappy source", are they?

(Heeey, I think I may finally have figured out Wikipedia's obsession with explicitly secondary sources.)
Because we tax income, rather than wealth? This is true for most of the OECD. None of this has changed, and it's true for any ultra-wealthy person who wishes to actually consume against their wealth.

By definition, the ultra-wealthy defer their consumption for the sake of investment. If they never ever choose to liquidate their wealth, then it's little more than a life high score.

One can certainly consume right now by taking on a collateralized loan against their wealth, but even if one were to do that, the loan would need to eventually be repaid. For this to happen, some gain would have to be realized somewhere. That money isn't free. No matter what, that wealth is eventually taxed.

A relevant response to an earlier ProPublica piece: https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/propublicas-bombshel...

As for the Roth IRA, the whole point was to extend the power of deferred consumption to the ordinary person (response to this specific ProPublica piece: https://twitter.com/cundillcapital/status/140809068240169370...)

And just a side note: generally assume that I'm being serious. I try to be as earnest as possible on this forum. Going in with this assumption for anyone on here is best for its general health.
> as long as you don't have more than a few hours in the game.

Last I checked the limit was the minimum of "2 hours playtime" and "2 weeks after purchase"

> Steam is quite generous about refunding games, either because you purchased them accidentally or they didn't run correctly or any other reason,

Again, last I read, Steam is quite generous but will probably flag your account if certain patterns emerge (probably through some ML-alchemy).
Do people buy SSDs for backup purposes? Sure it's fast, but isn't it better to get 6x the storage for the same price?
> are two things we've really forgotten in the USA

You should one more point to that list, "Rich people should pay their fair share of the taxes" has been forgotten as well.
1. Don't worry, IRS has tons of data on you, but it's all secure, nobody gets access to it.

2. Oh, some journos hate you? Then it's totally OK to publish you data, that's a well known exception from privacy.

3. What? Punishing people that revealed private data? Are you crazy? It's the government, they don't get punished ever. But be sure all your private data is protected. Unless, of course, some journo dislikes you, then it's your own fault.
>The positive effect is that some workers will earn higher wages.

Right. And other workers are hurt by it. Leading to net negative outcome, or a wash.
Apparently you can’t read because it isn’t just because it is a misdemeanor but because of the refusal of Chesa Boudin to prosecute.

Look who is picking and choosing which facts to ignore and choosing to spin a narrative. Go watch all the news even of left sided news. There are a lot of complaints about how businesses and communities are hurt. There are increasing calls to fund the police and some communities are starting to do that. Even Chesa Boudin is now saying that businesses need to protected. Even London Breed is saying the same.

They just arrested a person who was on a serial shoplifting spree. Police were complaining that they would arrest people and the DA would just let them free.

https://youtu.be/2jrnhaLzCqA

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/suspected-shoplifter-fr...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/san-francisco-confronts...

Here is the shoplifter that they finally arrested after letting shoplifting go on for the past year.
Apparently your goal is to stifle dissent without consideration for the merits of that dissent?
That's what they want.

If they sued the kids downloading this shit they'd be demolished by society.

This way they get what they want and we pay the cost because nobody cares enough.
The intention was not to create tax shelters for the ultra-wealthy. Hence the income limits.

Thiel used a loophole to grow his wealth using the Roth as the vehicle.
is the source code for this on the web?
It's more compact than saying:

- "middle- and upper-classes taken together"

- "people earning over $80k unless they're filing jointly or have 3+ kids"

- "let all the shallow people against the poor reveal their true colors if they really want to jump to conclusions"
My Android recently is full of bugs (OnePlus 6).

I don't know if it's just 1+ though. My wife's completely unrelated Android phone is even more buggy and sluggish than mine.

I'm seriously contemplating going back to iPhone for my next upgrade.
Because they pushed the people to other EU countries without them - which wouldn't be true of a global minimum wealth tax.
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