skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At a gathering of Facebook’s leadership in and around Menlo Park early this month, some officials discussed whether Facebook has gotten too big, with too much data flowing to manage all of its content, said people familiar with the gathering. The tone from some participants was, “We created the machine and we can’t control the machine,” one of the people said.

That person might be the smartest person at Facebook.
About 3. One of the coolest attitudes I saw was from someone (autistic, but that doesn't matter) who approached every problem as something to love, to cherish, to appreciate. Now I'm reading a book about the early days in Bell labs. I feel through the pages how much fun they had with finding issues, finding things to improve, finding out the future. I think there's so much to gain if you can find a positive approach to problems. Also in real life!
Thus solving the problem once and for all!

but...

ONCEANDFORALL!
> 1. Nobody can promise to never sell.

It could be enforced by the contract.

You could also write a contract that says that in the event of a sale, every previous employee is given equity retrospectively in proportion to how many years they were employed.

Lots of ways.
> A wealth tax on land (an LVT) is literally impossible to avoid however since you can't move the land.

Yeah, those are called property taxes and already exist.
This seems once again to have returned to talking about async, for whatever reason, rather than the topic "How to Update APIs for Generics".

> as library writer one can't still be sure the library will properly work across all async runtimes.

If you have assumptions that the runtime can't deliver, your library won't be useful with that runtime. True. Most obviously if you require async to mean "It just magically happens on another thread", and that's not what this runtime offers, too bad, that's not what you get.

It is conceivable that Rust will settle on Async always meaning Threads, and then this problem goes away, but I suspect it's far more likely (since Rust is adopted in embedded systems where nobody has any intention of "just" dropping in a complete threading system) that this persists, if you needed Threads then you'd better make sure you've actually got Threads, because duh, if there's only a single thread of execution then whenever you're not waiting for the async task to happen it isn't being worked on.

Latency has a similar issue, if you need latency guarantees you need a runtime with actual latency guarantees, Rust's async does not do that work for you.

But again, if down the road this is magically resolved (which I doubt) Rust can just ship a new edition with the new behaviour, which is the point you entirely ignored.

The problem is how to move forward, and I believe Editions are a significant improvement over the status quo for most languages in that regard. You can't expect to get everything correct in 1.0, and so you should already be planning for how to improve.
I have noticed that politicians always use extremes (many standard deviations away from the average) to illustrate a population.For example, Warren Buffet wealth is in the top 10. Yet, Warren's policies target the top 1% (top 10 is the top 0.00033% of the top 1%). He is not representative of the top 1% in any way!! Show me the median and let's talk.

I am surprised people bite at this manipulative narrative. It seems to me that it discredits their arguments right away. In that sense, voter education would go a long way.
They still looked unprepared.

The inquirer asked basic questions like "who controls App Store" or "what is the relationship between local subsidiary and Apple Inc."

They stumbled and mumbled looking lost. They looked like they didn't have clear defense line or strategy although the attack on Apple was absolutely on cards for years.

I hope I'm wrong judging by a short video but it's a bad look for Apple.

It's possible Apple is just giving in to Kremlin (or have an agreement already even) so they don't even bother or care to defend themselves.
There’s a simpler way to fix this.

Crypto.

Sorry I couldn’t help myself.
The Mysterious Fate of Pan Am Flight 7
This reminds me how film/music industry tried to DMCA youtube-dl project.
>Plus, a lot of that wealth is likely 'in' his company, which is really just fake money.

Then maybe we should give the poor some of this "fake money" since it's fake and doesn't matter anyway.

>EDIT: Repeat after me: net worth increases are not income. Net worth increases are not income. I mean, I "made" $250k last year in home appreciation, but that's just fake money. If they taxed me on it, it would come out of my much smaller take home pay.

>This is the big lie. Most of these asset prices are increased due to inflation anyway. In real terms, both the stock market and real estate have been stagnant for decades, but by inflating the currency, they can make people out to have 'increasing net worth' and then tax them.

This is an actual big lie, since you can borrow against assets like this with secured loans. And you can turn it into cash without moving out immediately with reverse mortgages. How are you able to get "free real money" from "fake money"? Maybe it's not as fake as you think.
I cannot comment on the domain but having lived and worked in New Mexico I'd posit that there is a talent shortage in the state. I believe defense contractors and the National Labs attract and retain all the talent. My anecdotal data is I once interviewed, got a rejection, then 6 months later they called back telling me "no one else in NM was able to do as well as you did on the technical interview." During that position I saw a few LANL people hire on only to go back 8-18 months later. So, I'm not saying hire them but that applicant who met the minimum qualifications just might be the best in the state who is available.
Median American net worth is $121k. Median home price is $380k. Typical real property taxes are .5% - 2%. Call it 1% and that makes the typical wealth tax on middle-class people roughly 3% per year.
This article was a breeze to read. (As opposed to the complicated scientific abstracts I usually give up on after a few paragraphs.)

Anyone have recommendations for approachable coverage of science journals and news?
Have you ever thought you might be wrong? Go and talk to the nearest non-technical person you can find and ask them whether they’d consider it censorship. It seems you’re in for a surprise.
>By the way, an interesting question is how complex boolean numbers could be defined (naturally).

Booleans act as a weird sort of field where there's no addition¹ and both ∧ and ∨ act as multiplication operators with F≡0 for ∧ and T≡0 for ∨. From this, you can build up the 3×3 tables for each relation to derive that if we add a third value to the boolean arithmetic, say, i, that

T ∨ i = T

F ∨ i = i

i ∨ i = F

and

F ∧ i = F

T ∧ i = i

i ∧ i = T

No other values are possible without destroying the group operations on ∧ and ∨ since we can't have a multiplication operation between two non-zero values give zero and within the non-zero members of the group, we cannot have repeated elements in any row or column.

———

1. This isn't strictly true since we can actually define two possible addition operators, each associated with ∧ and ∨. The associated addition for ∧ would be exclusive or (A + B = T iff A ≠ B) and the associated addition for ∨ would be if and only if (A + B = T iff A = B). The extension of these groups to include i is left as an exercise for the reader, but yes, there is only one possible solution.
> Where does the US MSM and social media refusing to cover anything about Hunter Biden put us?

I'm not a huge fan of Joe Biden (as you can probably infer from my comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550896), but the Hunter Biden stuff was a shameless distraction with no real substance.

So to answer your question: if the US MSM and social media was required to run smears of a sitting president against his opponent, the US would be far closer to being a sham democracy.
Property taxes tax buildings as well, a Land Value Tax is purely a tax on the land and doesn't change whether you have a building on it or not.
I can't talk about other countries, but in my country (France) it didn't get repealed because it “didn't work”, it got repealed because it worked too well and it pissed off the billionaires who lobbied all they could to get it repealed (and even with such intensive lobby it lasted more than 30 years and survived several conservative majorities).
Any clues on why he might like 3 over the first two movies?
The thing that worked for me was getting a personal trainer. I started training with him two times a week, I do one day by myself, and go hiking on weekends if the weather is nice.
Named parameters are great but RequestTypes are better. It lets you roll validation into the request type itself which helps clean up methods a ton
can you explain why you dislike snap?
> In real terms, both the stock market and real estate have been stagnant for decades

What do you mean by this? Inflation over the past couple decades has come in around 2-3%. The stock market has appreciated by much more.
In our case the sham is that the MSM is independent from the political powers. It’s quite elegant really. And regardless of how transparent it is, roughly half the population will reliably believe the MSM is somehow impartial, because it tells them so.

Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
Good catch! That's definitely quite concerning...
> The savings were supposed to somehow trickle down to the "lower decks", but this has proven not to happen.

Do you have more info on this? The middle class literally paid less in taxes due to Trump's cuts[1]. The rates were lowered across the board and the standard deduction (negligible to the 1%, a huge chunk of change to the middle class) was increased.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/the-trump...
"If you mean things like actual violence or conspiracies to traffic firearms, these are prosecuted vigorously and the 3% figure is bullshit in that context."

I'd love to see your data then. My data shows a different picture.

The majority of prosecutions within that 3% are possession by a felon. The next most common are ones involving a violent crime or drug offense, and possession by a person in the United states illegally. The reason prosecution is so low and doesn't include more violent offenders is because the federal government is lackadaisical and decides not to prosecute them. They instead allow the states to prosecute under state law. Even if the states prosecute under their own laws, the feds still can prosecute under the federal law if they wanted to.

Around 10k federal prosecution out of over 400k occurrence of violent crime involving a firearm. That's a terrible percentage in my mind. Links at bottom

"there are a large number of guns owned by people of color who didn’t buy them legally, not because they couldn’t, but because they either didn’t know they needed to, or they didn’t trust the legal route."

You seem to imply that they are not prohibited since they could buy them "legally". What exactly do you mean by buying them "illegally"? Do you have any data on this "large number" of minorities that bought guns illegally and how that compares to other groups?

I'd also like to hear how you believe the federal laws are racist and which ones in particular. I know there are some state laws that have racist roots. I can even agree that the structure around loss of rights should be reexamined, but isnt wholly racist (non-violent felonies should be excluded, and some recent case law is starting to move this).

https://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/492/

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/gun-violence-america
Actually, all kinds of data pertaining to the decision making process is recorded (at least for some of Tesla's competitors, not sure about Tesla), and in great detail. The data is specifically designed to make the AI driver "debuggable", i.e. it includes all kinds of details, intermediate representations, etc that an engineer would need to improve a poor decision, and thus certainly to understand a poor decision.

Whether that kind of logging is always on or was specifically on here, I don't know, but I'd expect Tesla can analyze why this happened: the car does have the ability to explain itself; it's just that owners and drivers do not have access to that explanation.
Reminds me of the norm Macdonald joke about joe camel.
On the one hand I applaud Tesla for being so open about what their system is thinking with their visualisations. That could be interpreted to show a deep belief in their system's capabilities.

On the other hand, it's always terrified me how jittery any version of AutoPilot's perception of the world is. Would you let your car be driven by someone with zero object permanence, 10/20 vision and only a vague idea of the existence or properties of any object other than lane markings and number plates?
I'll put it on the list once my Office 365 about expired. Because that Eco system, open source alternatives to MS, Google and so on, are more needed then ever. Or I just started to recognize how important they are.
They were very much like they are now, not different physiology in any recognizable way. But they're very adaptable creatures. They're not truly native to that region, they are actually from North America, specifically the northern latitudes. That should give you an idea of how adaptable they are.
Because our society and govt think the only way to get innovation is to incentivize the rich. That and war.
>This isn't after 8.

Reasonably certain its not before 8 :)

I do remember those times tho. When bugs like the jvm exploding doing basic things like adding and removing items from an arraylist for a prolonged period of time would be fixed in the next point release before anyone really realised - rather than left to people who are too busy fixing their own bugs to notice and replicate, resulting in such bugs hanging round for 2 lts releases and a decade later.

>We focus on stability today much more than we did in the 8 timeframe.

Couple of thoughts on this.
Are those tests really capturing the "jvm explodes after 100 hours" issues, like in that bug report. Or are they just "no new segfaults in this short lived jvm run in a VM that just completely changed the gc again and rewrote a big chunk of the thread handling code", I dont have faith they do simply from burning so much dev time previously to find they werent.

But also; it is really nice to see jdk development process stabilise after the terrifying licence changes we got on 8 - Im sailing right now, back in the office soon, however I dont see any adoptium builds for 17, any idea when I can actually check all this myself?
> Hm, guess I'd like to live in a sham democracy then, as blocking me from sending certain political thoughts in my chat messages is unacceptable to me.

No one's blocking you. Go put a sign up in your front yard, just don't complain your rights are being trampled when I don't let you put up a sign in my yard.

Other people have rights too, and that includes the right not to cooperate with you.
Maybe you don't have the money for a lawyer to go over the contract looking for loopholes.
Sorry, I couldn't find the camels despite my best imagination.
I just watched this video but didn't find anything about threatening jail time. It was a bunch of bickering about Apple Inc. and Apple Distribution International Limited.
> Since congress included [the non-profit] exemption, presumably there is some way to qualify for it, otherwise it wouldn't exist.

Puffer is probably that: https://puffer.stanford.edu/
One answer would be a federal sales tax, combined with a Universal Basic Income.

The UBI would be equal to the amount of the tax on up to some minimum income level (say, 50k / year). In other words, everyone gets a monthly check that is essentially a rebate on their sales tax up to the income threshold.

That's simple, loophole-free, and avoids the privacy invasion that accurate income tax collections require.
This article really vibes with me in general and is just a great piece of content.

I was a little disappointed in the examples though, running a course is an MVP and delivering a meal is an MVP. MVPs don't need to be software, in these cases, the software is actually definitively not a minimal approach, proven with a non software example of the MVP.

So is a test viable? I have asked people to pay for things I hadn't built yet and didn't intend to build if they wouldn't prepay, is that an MVT and not an MVP? Are waitlists and crowdfunding campaigns MVTs?
So you don't think the German authorities asked?
USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Portable SSDs Go Native: Silicon Motion SM2320 UFD Controller
This is a point worth emphasizing, a tax being repealed does not necessarily imply a lack of efficacy, due to the aforementioned reasons of political influence/corruption etc. Switzerland has done very well with a global wealth tax, arguably being the highest standard of living in Europe.
I was an IB/PE financial analyst in another life and tax optimization by moving cash flows around is not only a thing, it’s the norm.

Plus if your argument were fair, we wouldn’t be seeing the kind of wealth concentration in the system.

It’s essentially a sign that financial engineering is an un-checked force multiplier which regulation has not kept up with.

Finally - asset appreciation is real, yes interest rates have been low and would typically be inflationary - however we’ve also had multiple massive disasters in a short span of time which have crushed demand and economic activity.
Do you know if the terms of those arrangements give Tesla copyright ownership of the videos? Just wondering whether the driver or Tesla issued the DMCA.
Yeah, peace doesn't work too, every single European country that's tried it has reneged on it at least once in the past century, except maybe Switzerland and the Vatican.

More seriously though, issues like wealth taxation, capital gains taxation, inheritance taxes etc. are I would say more of a reflection of the relative strength of large property owners (a.k.a. "Capitalists" or "The 1%" to use other colloquial terms) versus the rest of the populace, to set economic-cultural norms and influence legislation.

Certainly, if such a tax is put in effect, many of the wealthy would make an effort to hide their assets away, possibly even abroad. But if the (federal) state wanted to cope with or overcome this potential tendency - which it really does not in the ultra-bought-off US political system, including Ms. Warren - there are many ways it could do so, both on the national and international levels. Not to mention how US corporations already employ asset and activity off-shoring to evade taxation.
Around 1%, in the form of property taxes. That's a tough number, though, because property taxes apply even when people are under water on their mortgages or rent.

The only wealth taxes the US has are property taxes. We all just think of wealth as the stuff that doesn't get taxed. The richer you get, the less of your wealth is taxable. The poorer you get, the more you pay wealth taxes.

In theory, we tax rich people when they convert their wealth to income. In practice, they all convert their wealth to income by borrowing against it, then dying, then having their estate pay their debts tax free.
While it's admittedly rare, this workflow continues to exist to date. The Linux kernel development comes to mind as an obvious example.
We only have a limited bandwidth for action. While I don't think that everyone should be hyper-utilitarian and focus all of our effort on distributing antimalarial medication like Bill Gates is doing, you need to have some threshold of ROI if you want a proposal to be taken seriously. For example, the US government values a human life at $10 million dollars.
Let’s not forget the contradiction of lifting more than you can to gain more, hurting yourself, and having to take time off and lose progress.
I didn't miss any points at all; let alone "badly." Be nice.

In my experience, there was never any "go to the internet, research and get good at a technical skill." during the interview. That would have been nice. It was "Sink or swim, right now, while we laugh at you," So I guess that you mean I should dedicate an hour or two per day to LeetCode, like a lot of folks do.

Why the living heck should I "go to the internet, research and get good at a technical skill" that has no applicability to the work I do, every single day? I learn what I need, when I need it. You don't want what I have? Fine. You won't get it. I worked long and hard to be in the position I'm in now. I don't need to "play the game," as I have real work to do. I don't really care whether or not I make money at it, or impress anyone. I don't need anyone's approval or validation for the work I do. The people that matter, are quite aware of my capabilities. They see what I do, and use my work, every day. I have done two TestFlight releases already, this morning.

I don't know how to do just about every project I take on[0]. That's S.O.P. for engineering. I've been working that way for more than thirty years. I've learned a lot. Sorry if it isn't what some people think is important, but I have been delivering and shipping software, since 1987. I've worked for some pretty intense organizations, and they seemed to be happy with my work. I've written stuff that is in use -every day- by thousands of people, in multiple languages. There's a small chance that I might actually have a clue.

I write code -lots of code- Every. Single. Day. Don't believe me? Look at my GH ID[1]. That's not "gamed." If anything, my tagline should be "Don't believe me? Look for yourself." I can back up every word I say. If I'm wrong, I freely and promptly admit it.

For example, today's task is learning the proper way to set up an edit session for a particular type of user interface. I haven't done it before, and I'll be "go[ing] to the internet, research and get good at a technical skill," in order to get the job done. It will probably take me a day or two to get good at it, and apply it. I do this multiple times per week.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/thats-not-what-ships...

[1] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY#github-stuff
I mean it depends, maybe you are bad at getting equity and don’t have a feel for what a good deal is. Also I would think having the catharsis of people who have suffered through exponential growth and your company nearly dying many times would be very helpful. If there’s a choice between doing YC and having great examples who have done it all before I’d personally be happy with the 7% just knowing I had people to reach out to with the same war stories.
Corporations benefit hugely form prop13 for commercial property [1]. The current dominant left-wing pragmatic approach is to remove prop13 for corps, and leave it in place for residential properties.

[1] Corporate approach to keeping 1970s tax rate on large land lots: a) the property should be owned by a specific corp. b) corp has board of directors controlled by original owner c) deal made to sell the land d) new owner slowly replaces the BoDs as to not trigger a "corporate change". e) new BoD is fully controlled by new owner and corp now sold (with land assets). Due to prop13, that land is still taxed at original ownership rates.
Are the scientists not sure?
You can create a political party in US. In Russia even attempting it will get you jailed or murdered.

It's still weird how on the West it's customary to compare the uncomparable. In Chechnya (or Iran) all gay people are lynched without exception and women are treated as slaves. The West has its share of homophobia and misoginy but it's not even close, not by a thousand miles.