skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is fundamental to the tax code. Say someone gets paid some amount of gold, holds on to it for 10 years then tries to barter it for something.

They'll get charged with tax fraud on the theory that their lump of rock is worth more now than it was when they bought it so they should be paying some amount in capital gains tax.

Now I'll accept an argument that we should have some sort of transaction tax, fair enough if you want to believe that.

But the theory that the gold is becoming worth more over time in real terms is blatantly silly. It doesn't change, the supply of gold is increasing faster than population and the arguments that its value is changing are frankly a bit forced. It isn't increasing in real value at a rapid rate like the official numbers suggest it is.

And the US dollar is, by policy, losing value - so the same basic argument will hold for any asset even ignoring the fact that the inflation numbers are wilfully ignoring asset price inflation.
> I would happily pay a few hundred less because of a lack of window.

Windows are emergency fire escapes, which is a big part of why they are required. How much are you willing to pay to live in a literal deathtrap? How many dear friends struggling to afford to live in the city they love should live in deathtraps with poor fire safety? Has the Bay not learned its lesson about fire codes yet?

> If SF applied Rent Control to Condos, we might see more apartments being built?

Can you help me understand why you think extending rent control would increase construction? Maybe step me through the math of it? I genuinely and sincerely do not follow your logic.

To my mind, condos get built in SF because it's possible to come out in the black. Building rent controlled apartments and coming out in the black would seem to be impossible given how high costs are in SF. How would rent controlling condos change this?
To resurrect the bootleggers!
> Google Docs are still files. It's just up to the author (or even the readers) to keep copies outside of Google's servers.

No they're not? You literally can't have a google doc as a file in a first-class way - you can export it to a file, but that's a lossy process.
Kudos to whichever kid discovered this. They're a damn industrious lot when it comes to avoiding school work.
"If I talked about drone striking Assange it would have been a joke"

She said this. This is as close to an admission that you could get. She would never use that wording if this story were fabricated. She'd just say "I never said anything like that".

The "nonlegal" fluff in the emails is bs, but this story itself isnt.

It was, of course, "just a joke" much in much the same way racist jokes are "just a joke", which is why he took it seriously. It's why making a joke about murdering the president will get you hauled in by the secret service.

Arguing it's unproven is FUD. Why snopes is saying this is beyond me.
Not really. "As of 1981, there is a country in Europe named Yugoslavia" is a fact that never stops being factual.

At least this is the view that many functional programmers like to use and I find it useful.

In that model, a statement that can vary in time isn't a fact.
This was a great read. I'm sympathetic! I've had a website (Wordpress) for almost 10 years, but have stopped adding stuff to it lately, because I'm sick of the formatting changing on pages! I look again at a page that used to look great, now the vertical spacing is wrong, or tables have gone out of shape, or the font has changed to something awful. Maybe it's wordpress, maybe it's my bad css/html skills, maybe something else, not sure. I picked up LaTeX skills about 5 years ago and have just been making lovely PDF books of everything I'm into. And they stay just the way I made them. Kind of a shame though, no-one else gets to see them. Yet.
I could use LXC; I looked into it about 5 years ago, and it looked reasonable. But I can only administer a limited number of technology bundles, and I went with Xen for virtual hosting. If I deployed Piped as LXC, I'd have to figure out how to do it (LXC is not The Docker Way, and the installation instructions are for Docker).

I don't mind admin work - I quite like it - but for me, it's pure overhead, since I run nothing else under LXC.
Why would you "summarize" by providing extreme speculation? That's dishonest.
Law enforcement access to data: Should there be backdoors to encryption?
The FUSE one (ntfs-3g) is fine - we use it for bulk editing Windows VMs when transferring them from VMware to KVM[1]. Unfortunately development has slowed to a standstill in the last few years. Which is a problem. At the moment it supports current Windows guests including relatively recent features like file compression, but we're only a MSFT new feature away from having to take over upstream development or look for an alternative. I doubt that an in-kernel driver will be noticably faster, but there's hope it might be more widely used and so better maintained.

[1] https://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html
It's in the Pledge of Allegiance [1].

The wars are authorised by God, to bring liberty and justice for all.

> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[1] https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate/pledge.pdf
Why is it that the politics of academics is found to be so distasteful, when we accept the politics of businessmen such as Peter Thiel and Rupert Murdoch as a matter of course? In a country that had always worshiped technological innovation, why are academics who provide the very seeds of this innovation, disrespected so easily?

Look where your governance-by-middle-finger got us. It got us an egomaniacal dotard, drunk on power, who shifted his politics when the opportunism suited him. His TV show got him just enough notoriety to move the needle among the masses. When he found that his toxic personality, based on name-calling and blustery bufoonery found a reception from Right-wing voters, there was nothing that could stop him from winning their side. But this was a man who could work with no one who wasn't willing to serve him without question, be they judges or legislators, and certainly a deal-breaker for our allies.

His world-view was an American centric one entirely, at a time when China had earned and demanded a role he couldn't conceive of or negotiate. Behind the scenes, he ruled a chaotic White House that was fortunately tested little. Still, the stories that escaped from this White House show that he was not to be contained by any legal constraints, and that he fostered an atmosphere where staff worked at cross-purposes to one another. Their singular focus was on the media, yet they couldn't even manage this successfully, despite the allegiance and sycophancy from Fox.

Finally, COVID-19 was the test they would not pass. Although Trump was due to receive some sympathy from his two impeachments, once America saw the reckless way he managed this pandemic and the huge toll it bore on us, there was little chance he could win the 2020 election. What we saw after the election was an unheard of nothing-to-lose strategy of trying to steal the election by any falsehood necessary, whether within the courts or in the streets. The books are coming out on the market now, but they show that our wildest dreams of what could have been happening in that White House paled when compared to horrid reality of what did.

We likely have to thank a mere few individuals such as Gen. Mark Milley, Mike Pence and such for holding together our country in the moments when it was the most vulnerable to those whose only concern was for power.
How to leverage new technologies to bypass cookie apocalypse
Imagine a time, let's say the 80s, when a commercial was shown on TV or printed in the press. In the optimistic version, there was an increase in sales as a result, but it was impossible to determine what actually influenced this.

Today, we're spoiled by the capabilities and tools to analyze the entire sales funnel. From the first click on a Facebook ad to the final purchase on the website, all the numbers are available to us. Actually, we were spoiled because now the cookie apocalypse is upon us. Whether we like it or not, soon we can feel like marketers from the 80s again.

We decided to focus on this topic at Innovation Lab. We analyzed the current situation, trends, and solutions. On this basis and as a result of various experiments, we created our answer to the challenging times the cookie apocalypse will bring.
If a "key witness" is can be lost without sinking the case, then they are not "Indispensable, supremely important" and were not actually key. If an indispensable, or supremely important witness is lost, then your case has been lost. That's what indispensable means to me.

What does indispensable mean to you? Do you think something that is indispensable can be dispensed?
The speci-what?

We might be in different types of software development. There's seldom an actual "specification" to a level of detail that you could test to in the sense you're probably thinking of (but I'm having to guess here for lack of detail and context from your end).

In the field I work in for example, a detailed specification in the way I'm guessing you mean would be prohibitively expensive and just not cost effective at all vs. the benefit you can get from throwing something together from imperfect information and improving upon it iteratively.

There was a (WP?) article on HN recently about "Releaseing software the right way" (or similar title), which basically said to use whatever approach actually makes sense in your circumstances. The example IIRC was hardware development (detailed specs) vs. a SaaS company.
Thanks for sharing a source
Do cops not talk like cops in other countries?
Nice piece of shill, mate
Groundhog Day (1993).
it looks like that's included in the 17M based on the linked article:

>With all COIVD-era restrictions on office building occupancy rates having been eliminated last month, the effective office vacancy rate in San Francisco has ticked up to 20.1 percent, representing over 17 million square feet of vacant office space, with 7.76 million square feet of space which is technically leased but sitting vacant and actively being offered for sublet, which is down slightly from 7.99 million square feet of sublettable space in the first quarter of the year, and 9.33 million square feet of un-leased space, which is up from 7.97 million square feet in the first quarter, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

https://socketsite.com/archives/2021/07/over-17-million-squa...
> * "This will decentralize ownership of a currency." Nope, it will move from having government control to having oligarchic control.

In most places where oligarchs exist, they largely control their government. That is, they are one in the same, whether this is a formal or informal arrangement. Though they may be different subsets of oligarchs.
Basically anyone who didn’t see what was obvious from the start, that this was a vindictive, bad-faith persecution pushed by the US gov because a journalist was actually making them experience some accountability.
So all juices and smoothies? many of them have more sugar than Coke....
Even juices without any added sugar will have a ton of sugar in them if they come from sugar rich fruits.
PDF-fing everything on your website is one way to go about it...

I personally use the service at printfriendly [1] and Arc90's Readability to make un-crufted and readable PDF files of web content that is worth saving for the coming decades.
Added bonus: by saving these very small files on my system pressing the Command + Spacebar on my system I can easily search through my multiple decades of interesting files...

[1] https://www.printfriendly.com
[2] https://ejucovy.github.io/readability/
> Note that PDFs can contain JS too.

That's why he says to use PDF/A, which can't contain JS.
Imagine you had 5,000 online bookstores in 1997, and 99.9% of them had some self described great new tech but none of that tech was being used by any publisher, distributor, printer, author, etc.
I did a lot of research on the top 50 cryptocurrencies and distributed ledgers, for quite some time now, and it's appalling how only a handful (really, like 4) have real world use cases at a large scale and might have a future. Of course, what's more appalling is how people will put their money on all the other 4996 crypto and think that because the price was speculated up, it must mean that the tech is good and will be used in the future.

edit: added the might
Well, we always could simply open them up and remove the WiFi antenna. Unless it’s deeply integrated in some chip or another.
>once I've finally unpacked what it is they're trying to convey - I find their reasoning is also of a comparable, very low quality.

One of the most brilliant inventors I know has terrible written grammar due to dyslexia. I'd be careful with such blanket statements.
I appreciate how thoughtful this comment is.

Question, in the gold scenario is your issue with the idea of capital gains, or an issue with how it's accounted (given that you think the gold *hasn't* appreciated)?
Don’t people who play video games screw over anyone who wants a graphics card to render 3D graphics for movies by your logic?

Have you looked into how strike.me is using Bitcoin? It’s essentially a Venmo/cash app competitor that is transacting over the bitcoin lightning network. So you keep your balance in usd but because lightning provides instant transactions when you want to spend to another lightning user from strike they will buy bitcoin at the current price and send the transaction on your behalf or vice versa. What’s cool about this is that you don’t know anything about the other end of the transaction. I believe this is the direction Dorsey wants cash app to go in.
It would be better if they just used that subset and just published it directly instead of needlessly repackaging it, but if that's what was meant then sure. Maybe we need a better name for simple, semantic HTML and basic CSS.
That's a very uncomfortable thing for his defenders to focus on. Much more convenient for them is to present him as a journalist and frame the discussion around freedom of speech/the press.
Good point, I missed a few from my list.

* "Proof of stake will save us." Proof of stake embeds the rich getting richer into the very fabric of a currency. It provides a guaranteed net positive return for transaction validation, in the same way that proof of work provides a guaranteed net positive return for electricity usage. In both cases, if the return were not net positive, then transaction validation would not occur, and the "currency" couldn't be spent.

* "Proof of stake is at least better." I'll agree with that one, since it has fewer externalities. But that's like saying that a dumpster fire is better than a car fire. Neither are good, but one of them is less bad. There's also nothing stopping the proof-of-work transaction validators from switching to the next proof-of-work coin, so I don't think the existence of a marginally better alternative will remove the environmental impact of cryptocurrencies.
Just add sequins and something loud and gaudy like that ugly as sin Ed Hardy fashion from a few years ago. You'll be noticed, and immediately ignored as a fashion victim.
I just really don't understand how you can have grown up over the past 30 years and think the government will save you.

You've been forever priced out of owning a house, you probably would have been able to afford one 10 years ago if you hadn't been taxed so high but you're only now at the level where you have the deposit because of that but now the prices are so high your salary isn't enough anyway.

Maybe I'm just one of those people who's brain has been broken by Bitcoin, but I look at how hard the government fights to prevent me building savings, I look at how taxes are so aggressive they prevent working class from building wealth and becoming middle class, they prevent middle class from gaining any form of independence and the narrative from many people like this Twitter account is that the billionaires are to blame. I can't be the only one who thinks, even if you could make them pay which I think is naive, that money would just still be sucked up into the government because they have zero accountability for spending and my taxes wouldn't go down at all.

But finally we do have an escape hatch.
Of course propaganda works. So use it to convince people of the truth instead of just muzzling them.
Well, I don't expect SPF to pass, because it's forwarded from another address and SPF is stupid and breaks forwarding. In this case, though, the SPF says neutral and even hard fail doesn't cause persistent problems with other messages.

More interestingly, DKIM is "neutral" too. The message body doesn't seem to be modified by the forwarding mail server as far as I can tell... guess this might be canonical's fault after all? It's been going on for months, how am I the only one that's noticed it?

ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com;
dkim=neutral (body hash did not verify) header.i=@canonical.com header.s=20210705 header.b=im31FPsM;
spf=neutral (google.com: XXX is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of ubuntu-security-announce-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com) smtp.mailfrom=ubuntu-security-announce-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com;
dmarc=fail (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=canonical.com

(edited to fix formatting)
>A better analogy would be, if you were a company selling doors - after a string of break-ins involving some group casually walking through your products like they weren't there, somebody would eventually start asking about your responsibility.

Actually most locks are susceptible to being picked (ie. a known exploit), so what you're describing is already the case, minus the lawsuits.
Ubisoft sued in France over alleged 'institutional harassment'
Data could save Earth from climate change
Imagine the first one being written today:

*We came to Europe twice in twenty-fee years to save the French*

We didn't come to Europe to save the French, either in 1917 or in 1944. We didn't come to Europe to do anyone any favors. (...) In this war, France fell in June of 1940, We didn't invade Europe until June of 1944. We didn't even think of "saving the French" through military action until after Pearl Harbor -- after the Germans declared war on us.

This would not even pass the lowest paid PR lackey at the DoD in 2021.
Intel Core I9-12900K Alder Lake-S 16-Core, 24-Thread CPU Allegedly Hits 5.3GHz
The latest release of OpenBSD also has preliminary support for the M1 macs.

https://www.openbsd.org/69.html
The comment does not contribute anything to the discussion. It's a just an ad hominem. Please don't do that.
> I'm also not sold on the whole "HTML-style error-recovery"

Having used and written a parser for a similar recoverable localization language (https://projectfluent.org/) I'm sold on it.

It makes a lot of things easier. It's kinda like adding trailing comma to lists. It's both boon when writing lists by hand and generating it via code.

> I think DTDs are one of the ugliest things in XML (and also a well-known source of security vulnerabilities), and it is great that XML-SW (unlike XML5) mostly kills them.

Hm, that's strange. I'm pretty sure XML5 killed DTD outright, other than having a doctype definition. Perhaps the spec was outdated a bit.

XML5 had a few big ideas:

- Ending DTD

- Unquoted XML attribs

<elem atr1=value>

- Error recovery / arbitrary nesting which is similar to HTML

<a><b></a></b> // Became <a><b></a> <b/>
This piqued my interest. Would be interesting to have some background information, your motivations etc.

I wonder how much the input ui and presentation affects the outcome. It seems a blank input field would be more neutral?

Thanks for sharing!
Heartwarming story of two jews meeting on a train. Brings back memories of the good ole days.
What's wrong with diet soda?
Yeah, it's kinda embarrassing that the one quote that gets pulled out in the HN commentary is the one that contains a typo. It's OK: Issue 1[0] contains a patch to fix the issue.

[0] https://www.lab6.com/1
This isn't reddit. Please refrain from making unsubstantiated politically charged comments.
I think that is disingenuous; I don't think you would demand that people abstain from using synonyms in a less political context.
Show HN: Client side encrypted text sharing
I’ve had the last 6 months off and will be taking at least another few more off. I’ve been investing in myself in going through lots of therapy to get over emotional trauma of my past, and now am just turning to looking forward. I haven’t coded in a while - and I’m finding that’s okay, it’s still a thing I can do if I want. Toys aren’t gonna do it. A house that I have to spend tons of time keeping up also isn’t gonna do it. It’s not even about legacy or anything death related for me, its more about how to feel a bit more content with myself and maintain or generate a playful disposition to the universe.
AI had nothing to do with the mistake. The error was in database with poor data quality.

The same would have happened if a human recognized the kid and matched him to the (stolen) id card on file.
Maps with Django (Part 2): GeoDjango, PostGIS and Leaflet
Useless rant. His choice won't change the rest of the internet and for his site he could easily write lean html without all the stuff he complains about.
Romero. 1989. The story of Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero, who organized peaceful protests against the violent military regime, eventually at the cost of his own life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romero_(film)
Technically speaking, I agree, but if you think of Uber for example, let's say you make the exact same app, how do you market it then?
> move from having government control to having oligarchic control.

Government control is oligarchic control. With the bank bailouts in 2007, it became clear the government wants to keep the oligopoly of banks in charge, instead of freeing the resources to companies worthy of them.

Bitcoin makes no change from this perspective. Taleb says "that the distribution of holdings of bitcoin follows a power law with tail index ≈ 5/4, no different from the distribution of wealth in the U.S." [1]

> If the supply of currency doesn't keep up with demand, the price skyrockets. This discourages investment, since you get more value just by holding onto it.

Indeed, the demand is affected by speculative bubbles. I hope that demand stabilizes, and that people realize the potential gain from trading against short-term sentiment.

But the supply might be a good predictor of price. [2]

> A proof-of-work cryptocurrency must at all times expend energy proportional to the value represented by the cryptocurrency, or else be vulnerable to attack.

I agree. PoW expends a ridiculous amount of energy per transaction, and gains security by essentially outspending any attacker.
But to some extent, Bitcoin developers are at fault here for refusing to increase the block size (thereby limiting the blockchain space and increasing the reward for miners).

[1] - https://nassimtaleb.org/2021/06/bitcoin-currencies-bubbles/

[2] - https:///@100trillionUSD/modeling-bitcoins-value-with-scarci...
As everyone seems to be fixated on pendrives and FAT, consider also that virtually every Linux-based consumer-grade NAS needs to support R/W NTFS. Typically it was through FUSE with considerable loss of performance/efficiency.
> NTFS is the de facto filesystem for portable data storage

No, that would be exFAT and FAT32. Some form of FAT is basically supported by everything, which is why if anything is the "de facto" for portability, it's FAT. FAT is the netBSD of FS.