skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You would also likely need foreign cooperation. There's no reason to believe a corporation headquartered in the U.S. needs to be truthful about their foreign revenue

If I understand it right, you actually wouldn't need this much. Foreign revenue would be the other countries' responsibility. So the implementation would look something like a domestic VAT coupled with deductions for domestic expenses. It's true that the US doesn't have a VAT but that's been well-tested in many other places.

Agree with your conclusion though, they've got to prioritize how much time / political capital they invest into each issue and putting a huge amount of effort into this sort of thing (when it went nowhere recently and would likely go nowhere again) probably would be a mistake.
Is this satire? I read the whole thing and im very confused.
Boryana Straubel, former Tesla executive killed by car while biking
https://twitter.com/commieactivity/status/141109683969320960...
> I understand your comment perfectly and just tried to explain it's not a rational argument in this case.

I don't know how you can say you understand my comment perfectly when you then tell me my "argument" is not rational. I am not making any "argument" about different tax systems.

My original comment was a metacomment about the original comment being too strongly worded.

I agree with you that the current situation is broken, and a fresh look is required to solve it.
His niece is Vegemite.
The geology of Florida is terrifying. I’ve been reading about how a building like this could collapse, and I came across this interesting phrase, “sink hole alley” The area between Tampa and Orlando. The bed rock is so unstable that sinkholes have become ubiquitous.
...or Raspberry Pis...
Court records showed the Crestview Towers Condo Association had sued its insurance company for unspecified damages from Hurricane Irma in 2017. The damages had exceeded $30,000, but the association never got a payment to cover the damages, the lawsuit said.

The parties were ordered into mediation last May, according to a Miami-Dade court docket.

A parallel federal lawsuit between Crestview Towers and the insurer says damage from Hurricane Irma was $8.1 million.

Yes, let's evacuate a building that requires $8M of repairs.
Nothing in here supports the claim that the DNC kneecapped Bernie. All it shows is that Democrats heavily favored HRC, who also happened to receive many more votes than Bernie (who I voted for) in the primary.

This gives more insight into the nuance lacking from statements insinuating the only reason Bernie lost to HRC was because the DNC made it happen: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/11/0...

The biggest issue with wikileaks release is that the media failed to report on it properly.
Now with Vitamin R.
I've waffled between 2-bay and 4-bay for personal use. Currently on 2-bay, but semi-regretting - I feel like 4-bay would offer more notably more flexibility with drive expansion options. (Assuming single parity drive and SHR-1 in either case.)
Why not? The despite most most depictions, the Taliban (and insurgents in general) are capable of impressive feats of engineering and electronic hacking. Seems like this would be pretty basic.
Economists don't believe this. It's non-economists who do. Economists know that it's not possible to run out of jobs because demand is infinite.
If this system includes personal information that cannot be removed, corrected or controlled, it's probably a gross violation of all European and some American privacy laws.

Designing a system that you cannot control does not grant you legal immunity for whatever the system does. As Github operates inside the EU, personal information this system contains MUST be deleteable, correctable and retrievable, or it's simply illegal.
You might not know what you're going to wind up doing. Keep an open mind. You might be completely surprised! (Many in history have been.) There are many ways to live, many kinds of little-known occupations.
1: Threats (against me)

2: Threats (against cops)

3: False claims

4: False sense of authority (people reporting to me)

It was years ago, i've forgotten lots of the issues.
I think privacy is one area where legislation should come into play. Depending on consumers to make educated decisions in the face of massive network effects and legions of highly paid engineers working to increase engagement for profit isn't going anywhere. And depending on corps to police themselves is asking for trouble.
I should have added /s to highlight that I was being sarcastic. Sorry.
I always pick up great tips in these threads... 0p is the latest, thanks!
A link between Wikileaks and the Russian government has never been substantiated. The "didn't publish Russian leaks" smear is one of many.

The "Russian leaks" that Wikileaks declined were sent to them during the DNC/Podesta/Hillary email release when their resources were obviously stretched. The "leaks" were mostly public, were deemed unimportant and were declined. As we know that didn't stop whoever anonymously submitted these documents from immediately using this to orchestrate a smear campaign against Wikileaks with full compliance of the media (funny timing during the DNC email release, wonder who it could have been?)

A little later the "leaks" were fully published elsewhere and nobody cared (but let's not kid ourselves that anybody who claimed to care actually cared at all).
I've thought about that exact scenario - getting my parents a NAS/backup system - and I'd go for Synology if my parents were within driving distance, but they're across the country, and I don't feel like it's quite at the point where it would be free of maintenance to the degree I'd want.

(Especially considering the covid situation, where I haven't been able to see my parents in a couple years now due to quarantine requirements.)
Does this website also come in functional flavour? Reset scrolling to top of page every couple sec for me
Have you tried the SponsorBlock browser add-on?
This is incredible.

What happens if a country invaded another one and both has users on this game? Could future invasions be for digital assets rather than physical ones?
Nice! 3630QM here.
>It kind of does invalidate the argument in the sense of "it's irrelevant because it's not what we're discussing". Arguments are context sensitive, you have to actually make an argument about the thing being discussed, you cannot just react to some keyword in the text and go on a tangent.

I interpreted the discussion to be about the merits of dairy consumption. Animal welfare is definitely a reason to avoid it, just as cheese being one of the pleasures of life is a reason to eat it.

>I take it you also don't enjoy a good cut of cheese with a fine wine? A shame.

Mate, I'm a wog. Of course I drink wine. I ate a cheese sandwich 5 minutes ago and can still taste it. I just felt that your invalidation of his argument was weak.
It seems I can’t view that link on a phone unless I download the app. I didn’t realize Imgur has started blocking content from web browser users. For others here, requesting a desktop version of the website lets you view the user’s gallery that the parent linked to.
"Digital rodents and abandoned Pokemon presided over the streets of Bagram Airfield..."

Is this a joke? Satire? Why? I suppose trillions of dollars later this is what we deserve. Mission Accomplished.
Very cool, but I don’t want to sign in with Google, Apple or Facebook. How about a stand alone login? For some reason I trust you more than big tech.
Are we sure this isn't just a trailer for the next Hollywood "portal to hell" movie?
Very cool! How do you deal with occlusion? What kind of NN are you using? Would an off-the-shelf model like Yolo/SSD/FasterRCNN work for this or did you have to devise some new tricks?
When you put it like that, that does sound like a risk I wouldn't be willing to take.
On Computation and Analysis of Entropy Measures for Crystal Structures
Wait, the building manager was sitting on a re-certification report (that was required by the county/city) since Jan that said the building was unsafe? Wtf?
So then everything this scientist [1] says about the lab is a total lie?

`There were strict protocols and requirements aimed at containing the pathogens being studied, Anderson said, and researchers underwent 45 hours of training to be certified to work independently in the lab.`

Your Wendy's burger example is extremely naive as it compares two very different work environments. I highly doubt you could simply walk in and get a job at the lab as you can at a fast food outlet.

Fact is none of us were in the lab and China haven't done a very good job being open and honest about their research there. But I really don't think propagating this simplistic idea that it was a lab leak is fair on anyone.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid...
It kinda goes the other way too though, no? A business generating $1 billion in revenue might have 10k employees. A smaller company doing $10 million in revenue might have 100. The commensurate value of a given employee is not that different.

And the number of employees also affects the types of efficiencies you can introduce; the likelihood of finding something that will increase revenue at a higher percentage for a large company is drastically lower than the likelihood of finding something that will increase revenue at a higher percentage for a small company. And that's if it's percentage based in the first place, rather than fixed savings.

Anyway, relatedly, it has more to do with the fact that a lot of the leading tech companies have a high amount of revenue -per employee-. That is, revenue/employee = big number. There's a few different reasons for that, but that's the main thing. Per the example above, it's really more like a company doing $1 billion in revenue has 10k employees, and another doing $100 million has 5k employees. Obviously the former has more to spend on employees, as they're generating more with fewer.
I don’t think it is.

As the US withdraws it’s troops after an incredible amount of time, the next few months will likely see many such stories about “life in Afghanistan” and what is being left behind.
I took a look at Bret Weinstein, and it wasn’t good. Not good at all. He seemed to be making every effort he could to blame the mRNA vaccines for problems that —if true— could have any number of mundane explanations. But hey, maybe he’s right about the lab leak theory.
It was "An octopus walking down a street"
Maybe you should consider reading the article past the first sentence.
US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
This article from May talks a bit more about the causes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/us/san-francisco-shoplift...

Many people point to Prop 47 which “reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors if the stolen goods are worth less than $950”

Some also point the finger at DA Chesa Boudin for his low “charging rates”: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chesa-Boudin-San-Fra...

Basically if you shoplift in SF the benefits outweigh the costs.
Not even then, until you've hired them. Interviewing is a joke.
Vendors who make customers choose between features and security aren't helping. Removing stuff from the product and saying it's still "supported" is a little sketchy.
Proving the zoonotic chain of transmission is not a quick or easy thing to do even in a cooperative geopolitical environment. This is not a field that lends itself to snappy "smoking guns". It took years to build the evidence for civet-cats and SARS-1 and we still don't know for certain what the wild ebola reservoir is.
It really is though.

The appearance of impropriety is still important to some folks though, so when private emails (that didn't lead to rigging an election, something the DNC has no power to do anyway) that show that folks in the DNC favored one candidate over the other, they resigned.

This isn't the same thing as admitting the impossible (that the DNC somehow got HRC ~4 million more votes)
i’m not sure where i stole this from.

my best guess is a combo of the following books / leaders.

1. High output management (andy grove of intel fame)

2. Charlie Munger’s Psychology of Human Misjudgment

3. Ben Franklin autobiography
What’s MOC?
This would be more about making RSS visible for browser users than making Firefox a feedreader. There are many great readers. But the one thing where RSS really is worse off now than it was a decade ago is discoverability. That hurts the open web. Making a change in a browser could improve the situation a lot, and the one browser that would fit to that is Firefox.

And it would be a huge marketing win for Mozilla in tech circles.
I know it's bad thinking on my part, but strong "Cui Bono?" vibes from this article's publication, central claim, and timing.

(ie shortly after the scientific community suddenly revoked it's embargo on the idea that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was studying bat coronaviruses, might have had something to do with the sudden appearance of a bat coronavirus in Wuhan that still has no evidence of a natural origin).
I was young, smart, talented. People cheered for me, called me brilliant, said I was going to go places, gave me tons of opportunities. People help lifting the young and purportedly gifted.

And I believed them, took those opportunities and and kept waiting for the next thing to happen. And they stopped coming. I got older and stopped being that young "prodigy" and people didn't really give a shit.

Don't get me wrong, I did go places and I developed rich relationships. Realizing that I wasn't nearly as intelligent as I thought and accepting myself as-is was a GIFT.

But being that young rockstar/ninja will end some day and you'll have to survive on raw effort and tenacity.
RSS is great. But it’s just a delivery mechanism. A great reading experience for me is a chronological news feed, and a list of each source’s latest post. I don’t check my newsfeed daily so a list of each source’s latest post and when they last updated is critical for me to not miss out.

I use https://sumi.news which has both of these views, and can follow RSS, Twitter, and newsletters. Another reader with the per-feed view is https://fraidyc.at, but it’s a browser extension with no newsfeed view.
The extension really covers the functionality. That with a slightly nicer design and on by default, that is what is needed.
The Mueller Report (https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download) details Russian interference in the 2016 election and led to 12 Russians being indicted as part of that. Is the report wrong?
This is completely unusable to me. The title says reversals yet the body doesn’t seem to contain reversals…

“No strong evidence of X” is a lot different than “Strong evidence against X.” Any study of anything (true or not) will conclude “insufficient evidence” if the sample size is too small, or there is no control group.

I think it’s the general consensus that anything in research, especially psychology is undecided until what’s called a “meta-study” is released.

Also, Perhaps universities should have unaffiliated professors do each other’s experiments and analyze their data (all videotaped) to avoid the inherent conflict of interest in research.
I like to:

* Have only one task in progress

* Close unnecessary tabs and applications

* Reread every word of the spec

* Only have the relevant terminals and IDEs open

* Close communication apps and email

Get started!
I am interested in hearing more about about how "Bernie was a carpetbagger" if you don't mind.
I really liked him, but I do also see how he was a thread to the Democrats winning in both 2016, and 2020. So I have mixed feeling about what the DNC did.

I have no idea what you mean you when you say carpetbagger and am legitimately curious to hear your perspective.
The case you are remembering is Texas vs Pennsylvania[0] which did not contain allegations or evidence of election fraud. The PDF[1] is available on the court's website. It did not pass muster in some circuit process, working its way up to the Supreme Court. It was instead filed directly with the court due to the fact that Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over inter-state disputes such as this.

The law suit alleges that the states changing their election procedures due to the spreading of Sars-CoV-2 is unconstitutional.

The court dismissed the case for lack of standing, stating that states do not have this sort of interest in how another state conducts their elections.

[0] - https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/texas-v-pennsylv...

[1] - https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163215/2020...
Most Vim plugins work unmodified on Neovim.
Is it a one person show, or are there people, team, cofounders, and a company behind it?
No, it's not. Neither is minor speeding, for example. It's a lack of care and awareness about the consequences of one's actions - hardly a desire for those consequences. You say "active" and the whole point is that it isn't.
Oh I see. I didn't follow your links, rather I thought your second para was the quote.

"I think it's possible to split out the question of bioresearch risks from Covid origins. If it was a lab leak, obviously we should regulate those risks better, but we should also do more to mitigate zoonotic spillover, because we have tons of evidence that happens and causes damage. If it wasn't lab leak, we should do more to mitigate spillover, but it would also be a good idea to be more careful about biosafety."
Haha, fair enough. (I had to google "wog", to be honest!)
Yeah sadly he's gone off the deep end on "spike protein", but he has been a good fount on the origins of covid.
I have been waiting for 0.5 for ages. While most of us are trying to justify one text editor over the other, I am using combination of them depending upon the usecases. I use Neovim most of the time and use Vscode for special cases like getting previews on Markdown, PlantUML, and stuff.

Sure we can do same with Neovim, it's just I don't like memorizing every possible commands. It would be great to have a command that lists all the available commands in Neovim along with some description and fuzzy finding just like in VSCode and Sublime.
Cool idea. We should have something to scan our code base & build something without writing single line of code.. but just pulling code from existing repository.
He might have had those reasons at the beginning, but by the time the 2016 elections came around, he was, wittingly or not, a stooge with a grudge. He exposed himself as the corrupt, incompetent political hack when he went spouting conspiracy theories abuot Seth Rich.
Sharknado from Hell 2
Because the local elected government officials stopped prosecuting incident of theft under 1000 dollars. You can steal 350k worth of goods a year and not worry about going to jail. Guess which political party implemented that policy, guess which party those shoplifters will vote for?
Maybe this example is helpful.

I had a rock hit my car’s bumper on the highway. I could have allowed myself to feel pity or sadness. Instead i skipped the emotion of the event and said what can i do now?

Accept that my car does not look the way I want it to.

Find solution, which in this case was filling an insurance claim. As problems develop i hope to accept them as fact and not dwell on what I hope the world would be. ie., never getting hit in the first place or having my claim denied, having poor repair etc., whatever comes i want to accept as the true state without emotion and move onto productive measures that are within my means.
It worked for me if you x out the overlay on the top left.
>Gig workers can find themselves at the whims of an app’s black-box algorithm that lets workers flood the app to compete with each other at a frantic pace for pay so low that how lucrative any given trip or job is can depend on the tip, leaving workers reliant on the generosity of an anonymous stranger.

Can we not do sentences like this ever again, please?
>here's a very well-reasoned argument to be made by people who are experts in this area

Honestly, this is an amazing essay thanks for sharing. From an anthropological perspective this is exactly what I'm talking about, people wanting to feel like they're at some apex of history. Her arguments amount to "this was a coup attempt because I've redefined what a coup attempt means to fit this specific instance". The entire piece is an exercise in redefining what have long been well understood to be the hallmarks of a Coup actually are. Exaggerated language is throughout the essay, but there's a couple sentences that stand out to me:

>>During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, Trump drew Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper out of a White House meeting to follow him for a provocative photo-op in front of a historic church. Paramilitary forces under the president’s command cleared a passage for his group across Lafayette Square.

Summarily debunked[1], but it's one of those enduring memes from this that strikes onlookers as so foul that that any attempt to correct the record is met with discordance and invective. "Paramilitary" forces? The Park Police are now a ... paramilitary force? Let me get my cousin in Montana on the phone, I'm sure he'd love to know this.

>>As in the case of other coup attempts, the president’s actions have put us on the brink of civil war.

Yes, a very "expert" opinion here. "On the brink of civil war", we are.

We're in a situation where we're watching the same film, and seeing two different movies. I don't have anything to blame here but the technology we all help build which allows the narrative to be manipulated like this in real time, with no meaningful way to update.

[1]https://greenwald.substack.com/p/yet-another-media-tale-trum...
I talk a lot to my programs but I don't expect anything, it's just a thing I do for myself. Probably a consequence of the pandemic and having spent a lot of time alone with my computer.
I'm kinda in your camp. My typical zpool is the ZFS equivalent of a RAID10. ZFS has plenty of great valuable features, even without zraid/2/3.
This uptick in crime seems to be happening in cities like SF and Seattle that practice “restorative justice”. As far as I can tell it simply amounts to being soft on crime by not having city attorneys actually charge and sentence criminals, and by changing the priorities of the police department. The net result of removing consequences is that there’s no deterrent and so criminals will repeat crimes and other criminals are encouraged. It’s all so obvious and predictable but “social justice” advocates have nevertheless been able to weaken the criminal justice system in this way at the expense of the law abiding portion of society. In the last couple months shoplifting incidents in the Bay Area have become a lot more brazen - like the theft of tens of hundreds of thousands in goods from luxury stores in broad daylight. The only way to change this is to recall crime-permissive people like SF DA Chesa Boudin and other politicians supporting these policies, and replacing them with a more-conservative hard on crime set of leaders.
Using the Linode CLI
There's not many licenses that let you reuse code without including the same headers / licensing blurb. You're in public domain, non-copyleft territory. WTFPL etc.
That's actually an attack vector: mirror SO using their open-sourced DB and inject malware into the suggestions, or change the text before it enters the clipboard. People blindly copy/pasting aren't going to notice.
how fast they bang their keyboard