skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A land tax accomplishes that, with the activity "under the protection of the state" creating value that is captured by a tax on use of land under the jurisdiction of the state.

Income from overseas investments wouldn't be under the protection of the state where they reside, and appropriately, wouldn't be taxed by the state in which they reside.

On the subject of taxation, almost all of his admonishments were to tax less and less intrusively:

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

and

“[Governments are] ...without exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society.”

and

“The agents of [government] regard the wealth of their master as inexhaustible; are careless at what price they buy … at what price they sell.”

and

“Those unproductive hands [in the government] … may consume so great a share … that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate … this violent and forced encroachment [of taxation].”

and

Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

and

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

and

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

and

“The profusion of government … [has] retarded the natural progress.”

and

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

His preference for ground rents:

Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own. The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real wealth and revenue of the great body of the people, might be the same after such a tax as before. Ground-rents, and the ordinary rent of land are, therefore, perhaps the species of revenue which can best bear to have a peculiar tax imposed upon them.
Archive Version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210912041701/https://www.econo...
Does your research data include moderator actions? I imagine such data may be difficult to gather. On reddit it's easy since most groups are public and someone's already collected components for extracting such data [1].

I show some aggregated moderation history on reveddit.com e.g. r/worldnews [2]. Since moderators can remove things without users knowing [3], there is little oversight and bias naturally grows. I think there is less bias when users can more easily review the moderation. And, there is research that suggests if moderators provide removal explanations, it reduces the likelihood of that user having a post removed in the future [4]. Such research may have encouraged reddit to display post removal details [5] with some exceptions [6]. As far as I know, such research has not yet been published on comment removals.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/

[2] https://www.reveddit.com/v/worldnews/history/

[3] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#need

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/duwdco/should_mode...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/e66fql/post_remo...

[6] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#reddit-does-not-say-post...
In America we have people like Snowden, and other political prisoners like Ross Ulbricht. However reasonable people can debate about what they did. I would say both deserve to be free.

In China the rule is Snowden. Everyone becomes Snowden if you speak any truth whatsoever to power.
- Primer: mainly about simulations and genetic algorithms - https://www.youtube.com/c/PrimerLearning
- Reducible: about computer science and algorithms in general - https://www.youtube.com/c/Reducible
- The Chermo: about game dev in C++ - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChernoProject
- Sebastian Lague: about game dev/simulations with Unity - https://www.youtube.com/user/Cercopithecan

That's about it for me. Most of them don't publish often though.
I also want to add the book is currently has 20 ratings on Amazon and 4.9 stars - I'm curious if a large flood of of negative reviews quickly get posted haha, since it is now on both the Economist and Hackernews, which I think China closely monitors.
> The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
I recently took a job with a charity which is run by the federal government. I had to be ink-fingerprinted to take the job. Ink fingerprinting is rare these days. I had to go the San Jose main jail to have it done -- no appointment needed, they have 24x7x365 service. The woman who took my prints seemed thrilled to be working with a cooperative person.

I was previously fingerprinted because of securities industry requirements.

There's no way this case is going to finish well for the plaintiff -- securities laws go back a long way.
In other news, Adam Smith taught the Water-Diamond "paradox" was real.

However, this is a twisted statement: There is no trade-off in the sense that "OMG, let's create more inequality so we get richer!"

Instead, given that people are not the same, and luck as well as effort both play a role in outcomes, there will always be some inequality in outcomes. However, in any system designed to ensure that everyone has the same rewards (by taking from those with good outcomes and giving to those with bad), effort and investment will be disincentivized. Do it starkly enough and both the pie will shrink faster than armchair socialists can ever imagine and some people will still be more equal than others.
Yes I was thinking Assange might disagree. He's probably a better example since he was only a publisher of US war crimes.
We already had ammonia as a working fluid, and it's great at the job. Also a very toxic substance you do not want any significant quantity of in your home. The great strength of CFCs is how non-toxic/non-flammable they are compared to the alternatives.
The one who experienced the force of acceleration is the one who shifted their inertial frame w/re to the reference.
it's approximately 50/50. You're almost just as good with a coinflip.
>an absolute failure to understand Bayes theorem.
Provide some evidence that the textbook makers mischaracterise his theories.

More likely you're conflating the issue with writers, ideologues, politicians, journalists, editorialists.
It is truly galling for the health system to say they have no choice but to shut down services when they have the obvious choice of rescinding the vaccine mandate.
Patching up C so it can safely play where the big kids do is both pointless and doomed to failure. It is way, way less work to switch to using a better language, instead.

Any C program can be converted to build with a C++ compiler with no more than a day's work. Then, you can start in modernizing the active parts, deleting local, generally poorly-tested, cobbled-together utilities as you go.
> Almost all discussion of "Adam Smith's Invisible Hand" is absolutely, completely, utterly false, and a modern 20th century fabrication

From memory, the words "Invisible Hand" was only ever mentioned once throughout Wealth of Nations. It was used in his other writings.
I don't think you can argue with this subset of americans on this. I tried when this came up on hacker news last week, and they were adamant this was worse that going into a hotel, and that australians citizens were sleep walking into a totalitarian state for allowing this to happen. (And also that they only had second amendment rights like the USA this would never be allowed to happen).

It was a bit of a wake up call actually - the level of conversation was starting to feel more like reddit than what I'd always (until now i guess) expected from hacker news.
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And thankfully we can! Is this to imply that an Edward Snowden, similar in all the relevant aspects but for being a Chinese national, would fare better under their sinofascist regime?

I'd much rather get the opinion of the Hong Kong journalists that were detained by the CCP, or any of the millions in detainment camps- whose "crime" was religious or ethnic affiliation!
You could have a look into Visual Effects or some other career which blends technology and art.
I like Woz but am tried of billionaires, be they politicians, idle rich, or activists, playing the "I'm on the side of the little guy" card. Woz and friends might have something great going but I doubt the little guy is truly what motivates them. Drop the proletariat washing and let the science and engineering speak for itself.
What heat was there which affected building 7?
Disambiguation of mental rotation by spatial frames of reference
Well, at least you wouldn't get shot for saying Snowden.
That's unfortunate. I did not know about pixi.js when we picked the name. It feels like all of the cool names are taken! When we were thinking of a name we just looked around the Nim community for name collisions.
I’ve wondered if Trump drove the party there or merely exposed and harnessed what was already going on. Either way, as a conservative, I find there is nobody representing me any more.
Fair enough. Are there any notable improvements over Eigen? I couldn't see whether Blaze supports dynamic rank tensor operations (Eigen doesn't). Thanks.
Cool. But people need to eat and our society (at least in the US) is completely run via cash - you can appeal to higher ideals all you want, but if you're starving out teachers you're going to lose a lot of the good ones that can go into other fields of education and communication.

I think a lot of teachers do value the experience of teaching enough that they'll stick with it through thick and thin - but a lot of folks never even consider teaching due to just how poor the wages are.
So I am still curious about what is going to happen to countries who have employed so far the "zero-covid" strategy once they finally open up.

Granted, I assume most of their population will be vaccinated, but there seems to be growing evidence that natural immunity gives you at least equal, or in some cases better protection than an mRNA jab(specially against new variants).

It also seems to be an established fact that older folks, who happen to be the most vulnerable group, do not respond as well to vaccines as one would've hoped.

I suspect that countries like Australia, NZ and China will still have to endure reasonably big COVID waves - surely they will be attenuated by the high vax rate, but will still be deadly enough to stress their healthcare system.

I do believe that they had the winning strategy against covid, but there are still unkwnown unknowns.
Also wanted to point out that if you have a brand name gas station franchise, that brand name has a lot of say in what you do. You will be taking their credit cards, and pretty much any other card, etc.

The brand name wanted the station to close the service bays and turn that space into a junk food store. The station owner believed in the service bays but really couldn't pull in the business. Had it become a junk food store it would probably still be there.
Tenured positions, strong unions, pensions, benefits the average blue collared worker can dream of, and no accountability or pressures to ensure students make their marks. I can support raises once merit pay is instituted and they start doing something about the bad teachers, of which young me would say is the majority.
> Imagine being told in 2018 this would happen

Every possible scenario would have been alarming. 50000 deaths and a collapsing hospital system would have been unthinkable too. Australia has chosen to avoid that nightmare, and has chosen a different, also highly undesirable but marginally preferable path.

People are getting whipped up into a frenzy about all this, based on mental models of government and population relations that may apply elsewhere but don’t apply in Australia.

In truth:

- there is heavy pushback on government by the media and population, acceptance of lockdowns is in rapid decline, and governments are being forced to change their polices week by week.

- We don’t have a heavily militarized and hostile relationship between police, military and the population, it has always been egalitarian and cohesive, like pretty much everything else in the country.

- Australia has been ranked in/near the top 10 freest countries in the world for a long time, and little of what has happened during the pandemic would warrant that changing.
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You will never have a Chinese Snowden. The loyalty to the regime is too high.
You may want to investigate how GPS works. They have to incorporate the effects of time dilation to get accurate positioning data. I don't know if this is the correct direction to get the answer for which you are searching but it is a concrete example with the maths worked out.
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps....
Depending on where you live, you might not have that luxury.
I live in rural Washington and there's a ton of trash on the side of the road. There are also a ton of huge polluting trucks, many of which are intentionally modified to blow extra thick smoke ("roll coal").
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Partly that, but I think there are also other explanations.

1: I think Scott Aaronson is a better communicator than Robin Hanson, at least in the posts in question. Having read some of the blog posts that went into the pre-read, and then Scott Aaronson’s summary of it, Aaronson does a better job at summarizing the research, connecting it with our day-to-day lives, and making it more fun to read. It has less detail, but that’s arguably a good thing: I don’t need a huge amount of detail on theoretical models for extraterrestrial civilizations, I don’t have the time or energy for that. It’s interesting, but I don’t want to spend hours today reading multiple different blog posts and an academic paper trying to grok the particulars.

(I personally have a pet peeve in that I feel like the typical “style” of academic papers is very bad for communication in general.)

2: WRT Hacker News and /r/SlateStarCodex, people comment there because they want to discuss it among their “tribe”. Wandering onto a stranger’s blog and putting something in the comments can be an anxiety-inducing affair: you don’t know what the people there are like, you don’t what their rules or (sub-)culture is like. You might not fit in, or you might even piss off the author. Meanwhile, I could probably guess pretty accurately what kind of comments are going to show up in any given popular HN story, and how to discuss things in such a way that it would go over well here.
> It all sounds very serious and yet they mention someone he accused was found to have not plagiarized

Johannes Hahn was indeed "cleared of plagiarism" for his 1987 dissertation by the university which bestowed him with his PhD, but consider that this fact doesn't really mean much. University leaders may have other motivations than upholding academic integrity, and in this case the university was actually open with the fact that Hahn's dissertation would be considered plagiarism were it written today, but not in 1987, as the standards were supposedly lower back then. This explanation is indeed something I've already noticed in other cases where politicians were "cleared of plagiarism". Note that Weber's group found that 17.2% of Hahn's dissertation was plagiarized. Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hahn#Doctoral_thesis

> It's not clear to me how many of these situations include intentional plagiarism or how serious it is.

Again, it's up to the university to revoke a PhD, and it shouldn't be surprising that plagiarists don't lose jobs or social standing, that's the society we live in, sadly. I'm glad that Weber is trying to change that.

EDIT: I looked into the most recent plagiarism find now, against the Green politician, and in this case Weber is acting a bit absurdly (something he's getting paid for, though). He's literally applying the same standards that would be applied to an academic paper to some political statement books, which is ridiculous. Now, I'd like it if ghostwriters were always credited (even in books by politicians and celebrities), but Weber's analyis is simply dumb.
I won’t be surprised at all to see a number of suspicious negative reviews.
Jail video shows deputy watched as inmate blinded herself
I have my own license for all JetBrains products so I have RubyMine (and the ruby plugin in intellij which is the same thing). The code base is still in 2.5 or 2.6. But I hope to bring it to 3.0 slowly the get typing. I'm used to typed languages and I would really miss that.

Why would I have different debuggers available? Can't I just choose the one I want locally?
Seconds to Midnight
I have found quite a few good creators on youtube.

Devops: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdngmbVKX1Tgre699-XLlUA
Infosec: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiveOverflow

IDK, I think this might be better listed as an "awesome-x" list
there's a vertical asymptote in e=mc2, with near infinite energy required to accelerate something to near c. however, does it prevent something from existing thats already (or always has been) traveling faster than c?
Adam Smith literally hired James Watt, inventor of the eponymous Watt Steam Engine, and created a position for him, at the University of Glasgow. Literally bankrolled the guy who launched the Industrial Revolution.

And ... managed to scarcely mention his invention at all in Wealth of Nations. For a book that's considered to be the foundation of modern economics, he utterly misses the major factor driving growth through the 19th and much of the 20th century: coal-fired steam power. Even today, coal-fired steam (through turbines rather than pistons) drives much electrical generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt
If they were entirely not motivated by money, we could just have them do it for free. I think clearly teachers expect at least a little money, and perhaps many potential teachers would expect even more.
Reminds me of my favorite fiction conspiracy theory: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar...
Ask HN: Did the Font Just Change?
SVG support has been really helpful for me to see a diverse and "real world" set of rendering results when working on Pixie. And for testing it's great to be able to grab huge sets of open source SVG files and check our results.

For example, I have a few "megatests" where I render entire icon sets or emoji sets such as
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/treeform/pixie/master/test... and
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/treeform/pixie/master/test...

Running these tests helps me feel more confident that changes I'm making are not breaking things.
It's a fantasy as long as you are still living under the tyranny of the rocket equation.
Etree: A community for sharing live concert recordings of trade friendly artists
btw, IMO, I don't think parents should be in a position to make any irrevocable physical modifications to their children for religious or aesthetic purposes.

Once you turn 18, by all means, feel free to take a little off the top.
> What should a Foundation for AI look like? The report largely passed on that question, but we feel it is the heart of the matter. Here are seven elements that we think are indispensable.

> First, a general intelligence needs to...

A model that can serve as a solid foundation for a bunch of disparate tasks doesn't need to be a "general intelligence". This post set up that straw man and then spent most of the rest of the article knocking it down.

I think CLIP is a foundation model for computer vision and I wrote about why here (tl;dr - it's extremely versatile): https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-clip/
Faking is probably the wrong word. Just bragging about doing things they don't actually do.
Thank goodness for it too. We don't want them here.
> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

-- Adam Smith
Of course, if you're crazy enough you can shape almost any language for any purpose. I only mention this because I consider Elixir / Erlang one of the best examples of this, because Wings3D is written in Erlang. Who would use a language designed for concurrency and network reliability to write a GUI intensive 3D modelling program for desktops? It was what the author knew and he made it work!
I'm looking forward to looking at what he thought were my good posts!
https://archive.is/Ezm2a
Austin is a "powerhouse"?
The archived version doesn't seem to have the paywall removed either. Anyone have another link?

Edit- see one above
I was doing a project that simulate a projectile motion with drag and Magnus force. This has no analytical solutions and I currently solve it with a numeric solver.

Does anyone know if I could approximate a closed form solution with a simple MLP network?
I pointed out a radio astronomy mistake in one of Henry's postings, and no surprise, he wanted to quibble about it. He's not a radio astronomer.
Oh, nice! I stand corrected.
My employer imposed their own mandate before the Biden announcement
I am not sure the comparison to Confessions of an Economic Hitman are positive. To me, that book was such unsubstantiated garbage that I left it in the airport where I bought it. It didn’t even make it to the plane.
In theory, that sounds like it means it wasn’t the limiting agent (for severity), but can be made a limiting factor (for infection rate). Different measures going in different directions is quite feasible for an optimization-type problem, and perhaps likely, without any actual knowledge of this domain.
I think it's cool that your homepage uses Julia code as an example for cell content:

"Derivative of sigmoid function"
function dsigmoid(z::Number)
return ??
end

Wish you best of luck in your endeavors, seems like it has value and was born out of practical purposes
I wouldn’t dare to hazard a guess here, but I do think it’s worth remembering that matter is always in motion.