skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tax the wealthy.

Please don't tax the wealthy. I have a couple friends who are in top 0.1%. They have enough money for the rest of their lives. If you start taking money from them, they will simply stop working and start spending more time with friends and family.

The correct goal is not to take money from the rich (which can be achieved by taxing them; this is what Bolsheviks did and it resulted in millions of deaths from starvation), but to get rid of poverty.

Taxing the rich won't help with poverty. Because if even if top 1% will be paying 100% taxes and still continue to work, total government tax income will be increased by 20% or so (that's from richest 1% get 30% of income). That's not a lot, and these money will be spent inefficiently by the government (as government always does).

The government already has more than enough money, but it spends it inefficiently, and this issue need to be addressed (by fixing the system), for example:

* fix gerrymandering

* replace FPTP voting with some variant of ranked choice voting

* increase the limits of the candidate money collection (currently they are very limited for the candidates, but unlimited for parties)

So when more independent or less dependent on parties candidates are elected, more issues can be fixed, for example:

* fix many regulations which drives hospital prices up

* fix regulations which makes lives of ISP monopolies too easy

and so on.
Firecracker and katacontainers (and other KVM based "containers") are valuable for multiple tenants that don't trust each other. They are less helpful if you trust what you're running.

In fact, a Fly Firecracker VM is not all that different from a DO droplet. We expose them as containers, but you could run Dokku within a Fly app and have a similar set of stuff under the covers.
Hold on!

If I wanted to sell some furniture and somebody wanted to use a mover service, that somebody would be paying for it, right?

Why did OP ever proceed with a form that wanted HIS payment details?
I tried to register for this, partly to check it out and partly to reserve a minimum length (5) name just in case. Sadly, my confirmation email never came through after about an hour of waiting and multiple retries.
Calm down people. A while back the headline was music weaponized to prevent broadcast.

It’s not a weapon. The officer is using music to prevent videos from being put online. I really don’t see the problem in this.
This is the same Equifax that could not keep hackers from accessing your data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Equifax_data_breach
No, I am sure it is intentional. I have call recording working on my phone, but I know for a fact the pending software update I have disables that functionality.

The success rate varies, because of the cat and mouse game with manufacturers.
I have an XPS 13 for work and I mostly like it, but I don't think that after having used it for a while, I'd buy one as a personal laptop.

Like the new MacBooks, it's a donglebook and it has basically no ventilation. I'd much rather get a T-series or a non-X1 X-series at this point. I don't think Dell currently offers any Linux laptops with that form factor, but I"d be willing to try them
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Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27695692 - July 2021 (57 comments)
The use of the word "bias" as an adjective there is technically incorrect. I've only seen it just now in the phrase "non-bias social network" - but I hope it does not catch on.

> Bias vs. Biased

> In recent years, we have seen more evidence of the adjectival bias in constructions like “a bias news program” instead of the more usual “a biased news program.”

> The reason is likely because of aural confusion: the -ed of biased may be filtered out by hearers, which means that bias and biased can sound similar in the context of normal speech.

> They are not interchangeable, however. The adjective that means “exhibited or characterized by an unreasoned judgment” is biased (“a biased news story”). There is an adjective bias, but it means “diagonal” and is used only of fabrics (“a bias cut across the fabric”).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bias#note-1-ancho...
Gladly!

> So is "T" and "N" conventionally used in numerical optimization as the transform "variables" (like X and Y are in calculus)?

Not really, numerical optimization offers a general toolbox for various problems, which are usually defined based on domain-specific notation and concepts. So the concept of a transformation like the one described in the article is not general to numerical optimization, but specific to the optimization being done here. That being said, when talking about techniques, theorems and algorithms in numeric optimization there are conventions. So you usually move between the more theory-oriented notation to a domain-specific notation (in the article I mostly used the domain-specific, lazy notation I chose).

Bear in mind that my perspective is not very academic so I might feel less strongly about (and be less aware of) rigorous mathematical conventions.
Western govts are making peace with the Taliban. And deals with lunatic Ayatollahs. No idea what cred Westerns govts have anymore and more importantly cant see what they can even do to restore some cred.
Notably absent from the list: Ireland.
That's the great thing about it. It's a big black piece of CNC'd aluminum. The only lights are on the keyboard and they can be turned off. I don't find it to be flashy at all, apart from the logo being a little overwrought. It's subtle; unless you knew what you were looking for or knew the logo, it looks much like any other highish-budget laptop.

(The Razer Synapse program you use to control the keyboard RGB is annoying, it'd be a good weekend project to replicate its functionality in a free app, but it works for that purpose.)
Sadly, the HN can't handle valid concerns.
The main impact should be quite obvious, as CO2 is the one that accumulates.

But even if you decide to ignore it, it's not clear if natural gas extraction leaks more or less methane than coal, but whatever way the scales goes, the difference isn't very large.
Climate change isn't the direct cause here but a contributing factor. Temperatures like seen there in the last couple of days will dry things out to the point that and extremely sensitive environment develops, a single cigarette tossed un-carefully has the potential to cause something like this.

Now obviously those things will also happen during 'normal' times (for whatever that means), but as these things happen more often there will be more opportunities for consequences such as these to materialize.

Let's hope it does not spread by wind because that whole region is a tinderbox right now. Friends in BC say they are doing well all things considered but would love for normality to be restored and were acutely aware of the fire risks involved. That under those circumstances a fire did in fact happen should give everybody pause, Canadians are not exactly stupid when it comes to fire prevention.
Imagine how bad it would be, if he is as good as Hitler...
I didn't read his comment that way, rather than our focus on where change is needed should be elsewhere.

Environmentalists far too often celebrate symbolic and useless wins, like the plastic straw ban, that doesn't actually do anything.

That sounds bad ... I don't mean this win is useless - this win is awesome, but no one should rest on their laurels.
It's interesting to see how "头破血流" was translated in news. "头破血流" literally means "head broken, blood shed". Nowadays, it's both used in a literal and figurative way.

1. "男子网吧摔伤头破血流坚持打游戏直到晕厥" - A man fell in a Internet cafe, 头破血流(literal meaning), kept playing games until he fainted.

2. "为音乐版权打得头破血流值不值" - Is it worth (for music industry) to fight over copyrights that all parties 头破血流 ? It is used in a figurative way, meaning "to lose very badly".
I am following what you're saying, I just think you're wrong. They are not "explicitly coercing companies". There is no law forcing the companies to do it, no stated punishment for not doing it, no evidence that the companies would actually receive punishment if they did not do it. I understand you think that is the same as doing it themselves- from a moral standpoint you may be correct, but in my opinion, legally you are completely incorrect, and I am defending the laws.

Although, if you change your statement to "implicitly coercing companies", you may be actually fairly accurate, I just don't think that is a bad thing, it happens all the time.
Uber shrinks plans for Deep Ellum, pulls out of all state and local incentives
A 'user' can do all of the things you mentioned, e.g. "insert random HTTP headers", given that they have access to all of the stuff your code does too, so any code, of yours, that runs outside of _your_ systems, _is_ in "enemy territory", as none of the code _inside_ your systems can trust anything from 'outside', even if it possibly came from your code.
Competition in economics is the incentive that has brought the majority of westerners from <$1/day to what we are today - with washing machines, cars, and water toilets no king could previously dream of.

Companies compete for shareholders by satisfying as many customers as possible. If states can compete for the best deal for international business, companies can better serve people, and those states can house centres of international trade.

It’s not just abstract talk, but incentives that drive us to live different everyday lives than people in guild-economy medieval times, or past slave economies, or how people lived in the GDR or other eastern bloc countries.
There are bluetooth enabled pacemakers and electrocardiologist can already wirelessly connect to pacemakers. I'm sure the industry can come up with something.
65% is not enough to justify a loss of sovereignty. Once many countries agree to a treaty like this one, some country wont and becomes a tax haven and suddenly the target of sanctions and political pressure.

This is the case with the OCDE literally calling countries with favorable taxation "tax paradises".
Xero is massive in Australia. Almost every small business uses it and every accountant supports it.

It has a highly populated plugin marketplace to, which is where I think you need to go for the receipt evening part.
No, you're mixing up necessary and sufficient. This being a definitive demonstration doesn't make it the only definitive reason to accept climate change - there was already plenty of good-enough evidence.
Apparently it's also possible to address the issue of shifting corporate profits to tax-havens even without a large scale international agreement.

Basically, corporations have one place money comes in and two places it comes out, like so:

sales = expenses + profits

If you tax the sales, then deduct the expenses, that leaves the incidence of the tax on the profits. But importantly, unlike profits, it's usually clear to which country a sale belongs to.

Where this gets complicated is international borders, the solution there is to only deduct domestic expenses. At first this seems protectionist, but according to economists changes to the currency exchange rates eventually balance out the effect and it ends up trade neutral.

This idea was actually seriously proposed as part of US tax reform a few years ago (and I saw some praise from both left/right leaning economists), but it got killed because some big companies were against it. It's called a border adjustment tax. [1]

Even though the above is an interesting idea this recent attempt to come to an international agreement is probably also reasonable, since it should accomplish some of the same things and getting countries to agree to a headline number is probably more realistically achievable than in-depth reform (so it's likely solutions like this or nothing at least in the medium term).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border-adjustment_tax
This poster’s history is exclusively dozens of submissions and comment defending CCP and spreading misinformation (including debunked antivax myths).
I'm actually looking for an out right now to respin my luck somewhere else. Right now I engineer by proxy, i.e. I do a design, document, or ECO and my boss stamps it (which frankly isn't too different than the other engineers, he ultimately stamps their stuff too).

I have prodded my boss about it and he more or less said that after our recent acquisition by parent company and parent parent company, things are very corporate by the book. It seems right now we're in a state where they are getting full engineering work at a 50-60% discount and I am getting to do engineering work despite being hired as a clock punching lab grunt.
Many people don't understand how quickly fire spreads when it is so dry out. A single ember or piece of hot ash in the wind can create a huge fire in less than a minute. We are in drought conditions already this year, and we had to move our fire pit because the usual location is so unsafe.
There is not enough dry brush and debris that would sustain a wildfire within urban environments. Roads and concrete are pretty much firebreaks. All these places you see burning like this town, Paradise CA last year, etc, are places that are absolutely surrounded by kindling that has accumulated over the course of decades and was never cleared out or allowed to burn in a controlled manner. Plus, once you get close to the population centers you pretty much have a local airforce putting out fires and hundreds of firefighters.
> because they have not sued anyone ever for merely playing music on their phone while standing in public.

But that's not (just) what the officer was doing - he was playing music as background to his business operation, which RIAA have definitely sued establishments over[0]. If you're playing music as a soundtrack for your business (in this case, the business of law enforcement), you need a license. Even in a non-business context, if they had a chance to sue you for playing music in public, they would. There just haven't been any prominent/worthwhile cases for them to do so. Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean that isn't what the law allows.

[0]: https://www.frantzward.com/news-blog/june-2017/let-the-music...
Appreciate the section what you should consider _excluding_ from your notification MVP before you get to what you _shouldn’t skip_ in an MVP system.
Kata containers are QEMU based, so they use similar KVM virtualization as firecracker. QEMU is larger in scope than Firecracker, though, so you can (among other things) expose GPUs and other devices to the QEMU based containers.

We picked Firecracker because the smaller scope makes it easier to understand and, thus, trust for our particular workloads.
It's sadly an impossibility. Simply choosing which facts to present in which order will always be an ideological decision.

The best that can be done is a clear and well defined ideological and interest bias and good knowledge of these ideologies combined with variety of sources.
Yup. The only defense against firebrands is to build such that your house won't catch fire in a rain of firebrands.

Locally, a combination of stucco and concrete tile roofs can make a house basically immune to fire rain--but concrete tile roofs are not an option in most places.
hmmm ... what if it's a closure, and it depends on a huge lexical environment?
> it will also gather up iron particles in the environment that will scratch up the back of your phone.

Interesting theory, but I haven’t seen any evidence of this actually happening in the wild.

Side note - qi charging is only one of the useful aspects of MagSafe phones. It makes a great car mount, and my PopSocket wallet holds on tight until I want to take it off.
Some stopped in the last few years, or at least for certain job categories. It was a wonderful thing when it was around because you could take a vacation with absolutely no remote access.
Counter anecdote: the last tornado event in mountainous Salt Lake City, Utah was in 1999.
You may be surprised to learn that places that have had a fire can get them again, only a few years later. It doesn't take a lot of fuel to create a fast moving fire. Grasses and weeds can grow quickly after a forest fire.

Certainly managed control burns are a good thing, but having lots of control burns doesn't solve the problem on its own.
Robinhood Reveals Rising Revenue and a $1.4B Loss
FCC reaffirms $3M fine for marketing unauthorized drone transmitters
> Because it doesn't matter what the person's religion is

> But that's the fundamental differences. How do you get to know the reality through religions?

I don't understand your definition of religion. As I understand it, religion is a set of beliefs that allow explains reality and allows you to reason about it. The idea that it inherently includes an omnipotent being is a particular definition that made it into some dictionaries and is now taken (ironically) as gospel. See the wikipedia entry for Religion (disambiguation). Religion is not solely about explaining the source of reality, but can be part of it.
> It requires constant effort in care and feeding.

Just like all of our 'natural intelligences' (each other)!
We have heard words like that before:

"That I love peace appears perhaps most clearly from my work: in that lies the difference between me and these war-mongers....And how many of these works will need ten or twenty years before they are completed! I have then good reason enough to wish for peace. But these agitators have no use for peace; since they create nothing for peace, they are not working for peace." - Adolf Hitler May 1, 1939
This is a good resource, thanks!
No, even in Vietnam, Deng Xiaoping stroke and then retreated immediately, followed by 2 years of border clash intentionally to be low degree.

It's a punishment on Vietnam's foreign invasion into Cambodia and Thailand.

You can call it a bully. But usually such behavior is more neutrally assessed.
One of the even bigger issues with this bill is the lack of accountability in government spending. This does nothing to tackle military spending or riders tacked on to bills that have nothing to do with the proposed spending bill.

If politicians really wanted to make people happy and get things under control, it would be transparency in spending and no riders on spending bills. This is just another way to wring more money out of a populace with a better sales pitch by saying, "Make the corporations pay their share!", knowing full well that people don't consider the down stream effects on middle and lower class economic systems.
An expense for businesses and households that can afford it (and they'll surely write it off their taxes), is not equivalent to the impact on poor people who will be put on the street if they aren't already homeless. It's delusional to think that we'll make any impact on climate change by asking the poor and young to sacrifice what little quality of life they have left. In the end, people are going to vote for their best interests. Rich people that benefit from polluting and exploiting the environment and the poor/young have aligned incentives. Any climate change solution that doesn't include lifting up the poor and helping the young and disenfranchised is a waste of time.
Is that so? I can make phone calls with my iPhone on wireless Bluetooth headphones. Does the radio hardware directly stream to whatever headphones my iPhone is paired with? I suppose it’s possible, but it strikes me as unlikely.
privacytools.io is also a good source
> On Android I can still run whatever software I want

You can sideload apps, which is better than iOS, but for root access most devices need some sort of hackery.

Heck, why do we even accept that 'sideload' is a word. It should simply be 'load'.
State leaders have no incentive to create value, but rather to keep power.

Companies must create valuable things people want, or be out of business in a very short time.
> They're only unable to change the boot order

According to the review, they are also unable to turn off Secure Boot and UEFI.
Who said I was mad? I just wanted to make sure you weren't implying a double standard. Is that upsetting you for some reason?

Just to get a better understanding.... homosexuals, trans, black, muslim, asian etc. All free to ban too right?
See "Epic v. Apple"
I completely disagree. Police are people too and as much as you are allowed to film them I can't imagine another country where people are shoving their phones into the faces of the officers. Just take couple steps back and there is no problem.

I won't argue about the police actions in US. I've said my piece on the matter.
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Or the Medieval Warm Period? [0] Or the Little Ice Age? [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Well, good! Heller cherry-picks inappropriately processed data and thrives on fanning the flames of anti-science contrarianism. His output intentionally misrepresents data to maximize emotional response. Since you value data, I can only assume you'll review his methods more closely and conclude he's full of shit.
I did not read full list of comments, but before celebrating victory of “they gonna pay”. Let me guess, many countries will change tax code that corporate tax being paid only on witholding.
You are mistaken. It's not that complicated and does not work that way.

1) No foreign country is required to collect minimum tax.

2) If some country is not collecting minimum tax, home country tops up the tax until minimum tax requirement is fulfilled.

3) It's up to the company to show evidence that it paid minimum tax in other countries so that it's not double taxed in country where it's hq is.

4) They need to report taxes in other countries only to their home countries.
and big floods in southern Germany and a record heat wave in Sweden at the same time.
It's pretty easy, just drop any hangups you have about blatantly lying to people and go for it.
>There is an adjective bias, but it means “diagonal” and is used only of fabrics (“a bias cut across the fabric”).

Ah, interesting; didn't know about that particular definition.