skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems to be mostly about hurting people with expensive cars, so they cannot have fun with them anymore.

Absolutely not. Every car can go well above the speed limits of every European country except Germany's unlimited stretches for obvious reasons. I can perfectly well drive 160km/h to work in a median/average car, it's just not efficient. And enjoying your sports car is something you should really do on a race track. It can be safe to drive fast when it's totally empty, but you don't need a sports car to drive the kinds of speed where you want it to be empty.

This affects everyone roughly equally. Heck, it might even hit the average person worse because they wouldn't take random time off work to drive to and pay entrance and insurance for a race track.

At least for me it's not about spite; I'm a rich person myself. If someone wants to do sports on a public road when it's safe, go ahead, but also clean your fumes back out of the air when you're done please. It just turns out that we can't do attribution to atmospheric gasses, and historically we just conveniently ignored exhausts, so it feels weird to suddenly start requiring that you clean up after yourself.
As someone who's done a ton of academic research in emotions, I just want to point out:

Lisa Feldman Barrett's theory of emotions (which this article uses) is widely considered implausible by emotions researchers, but she's gotten a surprising amount of media coverage that presents her theories as consensus or fact.

In a nutshell: traditional "appraisal theory" says for example, we appraise something as dangerous (a bear), and have an emotion that consists of bodily and mental feelings (fear), and that emotions are inbuilt much like colors are. (You can't choose to see red as blue).

What Barrett argues is that seeing a bear produces adrenaline -- a feeling which precedes emotion -- and then we can interpret that adrenaline feeling however we like, that emotions are essentially cultural constructions or labels we've invented that we're free to uninvent.

However, this view, besides defying common sense, simply isn't consistent with data. Emotions follow regular patterns in what generates them (e.g. a dangerous situation creates fear) and what relieves them (e.g. escaping a dangerous situation allows fear to subside). There's zero evidence we can reinterpret or redefine our emotions by will, as she suggests. (Nor can she account for why infants all share the same emotional patterns, before they could have learned them culturally.)

If you really want to get into current academic theories of emotion (and Ctrl+F for "Barrett" to see where she sits), you can basically start here:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion/
It applies to any flour based dough. Not just corn. "masa de maiz" literally means "corn dough".

I'm a native spanish speaker BTW. I get all the nuances.
Interesting, is that allowed in the US? In Germany, you can't buy Lang&Schwarz shares via the Lang&Schwarz trading platform (akin to an exchange) - doesn't matter what broker you are using. You always have to use Xetra or some other exchange.
More like a tax on the latecomers.
Gratitude and awe were just the two examples they used to demonstrate the underlying point, which was (paraphrasing) "if you practice being happy on a regular basis [by doing things that elicit positive feelings], even if just for a short period of time everyday, your brain will be more accustomed to associating 'happy' as a feeling that's 'in the rotation', so to speak, making it easier to feel happy in other situations and in general." Probably the most accessible metaphor in the article was that of learning a piano chord: do it a little every day and eventually it becomes second-nature.

So, in other words, if you want to be happier, try being happy more often.
We’re still using QWERTY keyboards, some things are just a product of history.
Religion of Workplace Culture Is Eating Capitalism and Institutionalizing Abuse
> How much cash a corporation holds should be a matter for the corporation's CEO, board, and shareholders to decide.

Or whatever the law says.... I don't particular care that Apples investors have no issues with them building cash reserves.

The TSMC example is actually a very good point that allowing corporations to build huge cash reserves allows incumbents too much power in the market.
I don't think the choice of base is really dependent on finger encoding efficiency. Going 0-5 on a hand has the advantage that we only really care about the "last" finger.

Anyway, if we really want to go crazy, the knuckle and first joint on (my, at least) fingers can be controlled somewhat independently, so I think we can fit in 4 states per finger:

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> People rich enough to be included in "tax the rich" mostly get their money from capital gains

OK, so we are talking now not about income tax, but about capital gains tax? That's quite a different topic.

But, also, no, capital gains tax should not be increased.

Because you cannot become rich by investing into index.

You become rich by founding a company while working 16 hours a day and getting a large share of it. And after many years of that work with lots of failures and a lot of personal losses, you become rich.

Some people try this path, many fail. If you tell them you can continue doing that, but in the end you will get slightly more than a regular dude working 8/5, they will think, why bother.

Alternatively, you can become more rich by investing your personal money into something risky (like buy a share of your friend garage startup). Again, if cap gains tax will eat your gains, you won't do it next time. Why bother, better buy a condo and wait for it to grow.

Increase cap gains tax, and you won't have new trillion cap companies in the US.
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More of a marketing comparison than a technical one, but here you go: https://plausible.io/vs-matomo

My main takeaways and why I personally use Plausible are their script is lightweight, it uses no cookies and therefore is by default GDPR compliant and it respects my visitor’s privacy by default. Also a big point, Matomo is way more complex than Plausible and personally overkill for all of my use cases.
I can't believe I didn't know puddletag yet, thank you!
Well, that's a joke referring to the typical Computer Science jargon of calling them both Algol-like languages.

I don't recall him saying that while I used to read that group, but I would have chuckled.
Glad to see this! Best of luck with dealing with this problem -- it's not an easy one, even when the system is centralized.
With Windows 11, Microsoft is firing back at Apple
All too often I wonder if the fairly high Corruption Perception Index scores of the United States mean that actual corruption is low in the US, or if it simply means that corruption has a rather peculiar regional definition in the US.
Their data can also be seriously flawed. When I went to apply for a mortgage a few years ago I was nearly rejected because "The Work Number" told my lender that I worked at Arby's and made $11.75 / hour. I've never worked for Arby's and my name is pretty unique (so I don't think it was a duplicate name issue). In any case I searched all 4 other people in the U.S. who share my name, and none of them had worked at Arby's either to the best of my knowledge.

I had to call Equifax, spent 1.5 hours on the phone with multiple confused reps until I found someone who could change my record. I thought there would be some kind of validation process, but nope they just asked me where I worked and how much I made.

It is such a broken system. I'm dumbfounded that Equifax hasn't been sued out of existence.
It classes with Spanish on naming quantities, it feels wrong.

Name it "unitas", far better.
Yes we went through a lot of testing in terms of design and UX to best optimize VR experiences for people with pain. In our designs we also have to be very cognizant of different triggers because we have a population of members who do have PTSD. Flowly can be helpful to quite a large spectrum of people but of course, as you say, it is a spectrum so effectiveness will vary for each individual.
Thanks @dang. It's gone now. I 100% stand behind the remaining text. If y'all dig around in my HN handle (which might have been helpful before taking a swipe at me), you might be able to figure out which company I worked for, and why this actually gives my "thesis" some level of veracity.

Have a great summer!
I assume you are referring to Matomo the open source alternative to google analytics

https://matomo.org/
> I'm not sure things are getting bad. Poorest people now are more rich than poorest people 30 years ago.

> Like in the US now average electrician makes 70K a year. That's a lot of money. And anyone can be electrician.

I would not consider electricians as an example of poor people. And no, not anyone can be an electrician. It takes training and licensing, and many people can't jump those hurdles. (Not to mention the fact that if everyone became an electrician, very few of them would get any work.)
Fake because it’s from the cdc
Please don't make generalized dismissals, I can't be sure if I if misinterpreted, if you misinterpreted, or if we just disagree on a point - all I know is you feel misunderstood in some way.

What particularly is it you find yourself disagreeing with in my response?
You can find the answers to these types of technology related questions on websites such as https://www.techbusinessnews.com.au
Funny that you are being played most, when you think you are in control.
Do you have any idea how few people have $150k in the bank?
I migrated all of my domains away from Namecheap after their support told me that my (non-Namecheap) VPN needed to be disabled before I could log in. Namecheap now sells their own VPN service, so there is some conflict of interest in the VPN restriction.

Cloudflare does not require me to turn off my third-party VPN before logging in, and sells domains at cost (at lower rates than Namecheap). For example, Cloudflare charges $8.03/year for a .com domain ($7.85 Verisign rate + $0.18 ICANN fee), which will go up to $8.39 + whatever the new ICANN fee is after the Verisign/ICANN price hike. Namecheap currently charges $8.88 for the registration year and $12.98 every year after that, with the rates also going up after the price hike. Porkbun also charges less for renewals than Namecheap, and covers TLDs that Cloudflare doesn't.

Cloudflare pricing for .com: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

Namecheap pricing for .com: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/
Can I just say: unfathomable. This should not be even 1/10th this hard.
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Thank you for summarizing this so clearly and explaining why most wearables don't provide the data we need to do biofeedback training. Appreciate your insight here.
Why doesn't Windows (Microsoft) build open source code themselves and sign the source seen, easier to inspect for bad things version?
I'm a long term IBM/Lenovo T/X series user with a side of yoga. Lots to like but plenty of problems too. Overall better than a cheaper brand like Acer from what I could see from my friends devices.

But there have been some low points. Dodgey motherboards on multiple generations of T series laptops, Superfish and whitelisted wifi cards on the yoga, and generally poor quality screens for a variety of reasons gives one pause before buying the next one.

For the first time in a couple of decades I've taken the risk and branched out to the Acer Spin 5. I am pleasantly surprised. Not perfect either but not nearly as cheap as I had feard. A Bios update was essential for it to be functional. But that was true of some models in the T series in the past.
Can confirm I finally launched one side project off the ground thanks to Fly
Are the new traders introducing more information to the market? Or are they introducing noise?
"Dislike associating with" is very different from the situation you desire, which would be "forced to associate with people who have advocated for people like me to be killed". And that WILL happen. You are saying that a Jewish bar owner should be forced to serve a guy with a swastika hat on. You can rant about Godwin and edge cases all you want, but if we make political belief and opinion a protected class, you're forcing that bartender to serve a person who wants them dead.

With regards to other protected classes- gender, race, religion, country of origin- the people belonging to those classes are so broad that you cannot make generalizations about them like that. When I see a dude wearing a swastika, I can, in my opinion, make some pretty accurate generalizations about them. Again, complain about the case I picked if you want, but all other political beliefs are just a watered down version of this example. Pick a guy wearing a "kill all the white people" shirt if you want, I refuse to advocate for any law or proposal that would force a white guy to serve him a beer.
In both absolute and relative terms. Basically every new computing device that's not a desktop or laptop is locked down in some way, and even some laptops are locked down too (e.g., Windows RT on ARM laptops).
But enough about the United States, we're supposed to be discussing Northern Ireland.
> The employee who's privacy is being grossly violated gets nothing and cannot even opt-out of sharing the data?

Government employees’ pay information is public information, and they seem to function fine in the world. I like Norway’s public tax record system, price transparency would certainly help the vast majority of participants in the labor market.

Only Equifax having access and selling info to other large organizations is the worst of all worlds, though.
Hm. No. The weirdest one is that the WTC was torn down by tactical nuke, buried under its basement, in context of Silverstein Properties having insured it at much higher value before, essentially pulling off a gigantic insurance fraud.
Interesting. I do consider accounts managed by paid astroturfers who manually write replies from multiple accounts with different identities "bots" but maybe that is a misnomer. "Sock-puppet-masters"?

Copy-paste reply bots are clearly "bots" IMO - but these seem to be falling out of favor because pointing out many identical replies tends to be a very effective "dunk" on the idea they are promoting.

Someone found screenshots Sally Albright's tooling in a support request: she had ~50-100 different accounts with unique identities. She could post replies to a given tweet from multiple different accounts from a single page. However, liking and retweeting each others replies could be fully automated (with some randomization of timing and which accounts are used).

Albright has claimed that the accounts she managed were originally owned by people who gave her control of them. I am incredulous, particularly because some accounts were identified as using a dead person's image with a different name. But there is the possibility that she was given the impression by whoever provided these accounts to her that these were 'real' accounts where the owners consented to have them used in this manner.

It gives the capability for a single person to seem like they are a crowd of like minded people all in agreement on social media. I believe this model of automated likes/retweets but manual replies is the most common (and pernicious) method used today - practically impossible to prove without data outside the platform it is occurring.
IMO if there ever existed an "American Dream" it was: the ability for an individual to work hard, assume a high amount of risk, get lucky, and reap the rewards. There was a time when that was possible in the US, but it hasn't been that way for a long time.

It seems that in the 1900s the American Dream shifted to mean: get a job, buy a house, have kids, don't take risks, trust in the system and the system will support you.

Now in 2021, it's more like: get a job to ensure you don't go bankrupt from stupid high healthcare expenses, your employer will keep all the profits and shift all the risks onto you, and if you're moderately lucky and live in the right place, you won't be homeless.

I don't know how I feel about publicly traded stocks or the stock market, but I can't help but feel like "index funds democratized investing" is like saying "the 9 to 5 job democratized the American Dream".
that's also really interesting, thanks!
And of course my comment got deleted… it’s simply ridiculous, you have got more freedom of speech in Soviet Union. Good job , Marxists.
Why do you need ads for this? I don't remember the last time I bought something because of an ad. You don't need to pay for professional opinions on everything. I wanted to buy a pair of headphones recently, and so I just scouted the various headphone discussion forums on the internet (head-fi, r/headphones etc) and there was a lot of high quality information and opinions and I was able to make an informed purchase while paying nothing extra. It is very rare that I'm looking for a product and I can't find recommendations this way, and even if that happens I can ask my friends. The best part is that they probably don't gain anything from you buying some product, and that increases my level of confidence on the veracity of their reviews and recommendations.

At this point I've pretty much trained myself to zone out when I see an ad because it is probably peddling some mediocre crap.
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How about not paying taxes 10 out of 15 years[1]?

Honestly I get it, and I can argue both sides of this debate. However, for the regular working person who pays taxes year in and year out to hear that people who live in stratospheric luxury aren't paying taxes: it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and by duck I mean rigged system.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/27/politics/trump-income-taxes-n...
A welcome addition to my desktop, but sadly it is currently unavailable for Firefox on Android, from what I can tell.
Also an Extra. I actually delayed renewal this year, but then re-upped when I remembered that I'd been using the callsign@arrl.org email forwarded for a bunch of stuff and shelling out for one more year was easier than hunting down all the places I'd used it. I'll probably address that soon and let it go for good after this year.
You can automate code signing using Microsoft azure key vault. I did it last month, no need for a dongle nor a pin number
Sounds like the hardware key requires a pin, but not physical presence (i.e. not a button touch), so it can be automated https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17927895/automate-extend...
> In 2004, a report to the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) stated that response to the proposal of the uno "had been almost entirely negative", and the principal proponent "recommended dropping the idea".[15] To date, the uno has not been adopted by any standards organization, and it appears unlikely that it will ever become an officially sanctioned way to express low-value (high-ratio) dimensionless quantities.

That sounds... about right, ha!
The dilemma at the center of crypto and climate
The foundational ideologies of crypto aren't a great match for what's required to stop climate change. Something has to give.
I'd have voted for burflydick or mumbledypeg or doohickey

A better reasoning for why SI needed a formalism of a unit for dimensionless value would possibly have helped. Almost universal negative dislike speaks to a committee on a mission without a good sense of "do we need a reality check here"

c/f "brontosaur" and "pluto"
Not sure this works. Just grabbed a build of WhyNotWin11[1] released 20 hours ago, and I get "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognised app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk."

[1] https://github.com/rcmaehl/WhyNotWin11 (used for test as I thought I remembered seeing this with a build from earlier this week)
Or just generalize it. Why bother with labels? Manufacturers will make technically-not-an-SUV to get around it. Make sure the emissions of a particular model are known to the owner and set permissions based on emission levels, since emissions is what we're actually trying to optimize.
As an aside, I really wish there was a public repository of corporate customer service hacks. Maybe it already exists?
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>but having them directly correlate to reserved frequencies is beyond the pale.

The whole point of this cheapo hardware is that it can be used for whatever just by setting switches and therefore achieves massive economies of scale. They sell the same hardware to the drone makers and the radio makers and so on.

IIRC these switches were not user accessible. The manufacturer set them in the right position.