skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What infuriates me the most about this ruling is that long term effects of it. Locast did what they did and inserted ads every 15 minutes because they knew nobody would not contribute to hosting costs without some reason. Had they made it so it was interruption at the start only, _maybe_ it could have held up better in court. And I agree on that front. Remove the donate video from showing every 15 minutes, and only show it at the start. Encourage funding through better on screen messages and make it more clear that it's voluntary.

But the big part of the ruling was that it wasn't just how they requested funding, but the why. The ruling argued that collecting funds to expand more throughout the US was not valid for their non-profit status for some reason that made no sense. And as a result, it appears that a replacement will never exist, because the cost of pulling all of these channels with careful and specific antenna placement in a city, the hardware to pull all of those channels in real time, re-encoding the feed from MPEG2 to HLS/MP4 for the web, potentially making different qualities to account for network conditions (can't remember if the M3U8 playlists from Locast did that or not), and the networking costs of transmitting video are expensive.

And the lawsuit was stupid too. US TV channels are crammed to the max with advertisements, so much so that it feels more like an ad delivery mechanism than an entertainment delivery system. Locast could have been advantageous as they would have actual data of who is watching what when and where. Ad companies love that data, and with traditional OTA feeds, they don't have that. Instead, all of these OTA companies actively refuse offering the ability to watch their streams online for free. Other than local news content, everything else is locked behind a paywall of having an active cable subscription. Why should I, as a consumer, pay $100 a month to watch this same OTA content, just so I can watch it online, especially for a medium so jam packed with ads?

I live in the edge of Columbus, Ohio in an apartment. I'm still within 10 miles of the transmitters for the big 6 stations (the local affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CW, and PBS collectively only use 4 transmitters.). My apartment is luckily facing sort of line of site to most of those transmitters. But even then, I still have bad signal issues with those channels, and in some cases leading to an unwatchable recording. The signal was bad enough that my recording of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Opening Ceremonies was bared by loss of 2 to 5 seconds of video and audio every 2 minutes. My only alternative was to play $65 to $100 a month to cable or cordcutting subscription to watch that broadcast online. And out of spite for continuing to shutdown any free way to watch their OTA content online, I will _never_ pay. Our laws regarding OTA broadcasts and how people can use and view them need to change ASAP, otherwise what is the point of having them if is not accessible to all.
It very well might depending on the audience and the percentile you target. 90th percentile times show that those larger speeds are not consistent, often showing a bifurcated distribution where the tail is experiencing loss / latency that compounds the more request and the larger they are.

Of course if the development benefits for your team outweigh it, it makes sense to do it. Just mean to say advertised cellphone connection speeds are not a reliable benchmark to hit.
If you're referring to the 100 year winter freeze, yes maybe it should have been winterized, and they are now, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Maybe all California homes should have A/C for these heat waves. Sometimes it doesn't make sense economically.

I'm talking about having a transmission provider and having ISPs compete on the same lines.

It keeps prices down (unless you tricked into buying variable wholesale via startups like Griddy) and it keeps lines in good shape.
Is it not so anymore? Just started learning the framework last week and have been enjoying it so far
This is exactly the example I was trying to remember. I love things like this because it helps take the past off a pedestal. We've been the same raunchy species from the beginning.
> Actually, if those organizations had to run the NY Post story, the US would be closer to a sham than it is.

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.

I'd rather have this power in the hands of publicly-sanctioned, rules-based agents than arbitrary private actors who can interfere with me at any time for whatever reason they want. Philip Pettit has written quite well on this issue.
Another problem is that overly focusing on metrics means that people with good instincts are brought down to the same level as those with poor instincts.

As long as metrics are increasing someone can write shit code and design a bloated product.
Ah bummer! But I hope Starlink works out really well for you.
Good point. I glazed over that. But still...
Or maybe previous dating was not correct.
Many iPhone owners use financing from their carrier, their credit line, or Apple's payment plans to purchase their Apple devices. iPhone owners are not universally well off enough to be able to toss a phone when it is broken instead of repairing it. Even among the iPhone owners who are able to do this, some of them would prefer to repair their devices because it is the more environmentally sustainable option, or because they prefer not to spend more than they need to.
I will just change distros if Ubuntu doesn't start making snap an opt-in.
Can you point me in the right direction for more info on this? I'm curious about what some of the problems were, and why they needed to be repealed.

I'm also curious what you think a sound tax policy would look like as an alternative to what Warren is proposing.
It is interesting that everyone says that the wealth tax is hard to implement, yet it seems to be working well in Switzerland?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/swiss-wea...
I was wondering if that's a problem isolated to my first language, but apparently it got worse in English as well. Although, it surely can't be as bad in a language that doesn't have agglutination.

For example "olamayacakmış" ("ol-a-me-cek-miş", meaning something like "we found out that it isn't possible to make that happen in the future") was an easy hit before and I could write "olamyckms" and used to get predicted. For some reason not anymore.

Just wanted to share the bug (?) that reduced my mobile typing speed by 30% in a single hit.
And they actually recommend using atlas in their youtube video.
Faster isn't always the primary concern, sometimes memory matters a lot, and keeping memory usage down important (for example embedded, or even if the system just isn't dedicated to this one application so so the "memory quota" is not clearly defined at all times). That a GC might let you control this to a degree and choose the right approach for the current job is good though.
Is inflation kind of wealth tax?
Understood.

I totally forgot how Europe was not really one thing but totally different countries back then. Not to mention the eastern countries.

I remember when the guys that kidnapped Heineken fled to Paris and they couldn't be extradited back because there was no extradition agreement yet between France and the Netherlands.... :X Such different times.
Okay I read this.

It gives no details on what loopholes would be closed, and then conflated that with tax cheats and that a well funded IRS will solve both.

A well funded IRS will just be rubber stamping the compliant tax reducing methods faster. Although most constituent's experience with the IRS is retroactive and adversarial, wealthier people's experience with the IRS is pre-emptive and collaborative. It is a totally different experience.

I don't get the impression that the people and organizations identified here would ever be subject to these taxes, even if the law was passed without any debate.
If Buffet earned an average 1% return across his net assets, then he paid 0.6% tax on his returns.
I guess they only work if everyone uses them, otherwise the danger is that a billionaire takes their business elsewhere.
What is the rhetoric from the different political parties?
Will the election on the 26th be a referendum on covid policies?
For example, that well known bastion of fascist right-wing policies, France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_tax_on_wealth
> One way to make DNS surveillance more difficult is to use a public open DNS server, such as Google's 8.8.8.8

I assumed Google ran 8.8.8.8 to collect data for targeted advertising, as one of the major players in surveillance capitalism. Am I mistaken?
San Francisco Marathon runners will need to wear masks
Step through the video frame by frame; you can see the car begin turning back to the left before the driver takes over. He actually stopped the left turn; the car would have recovered quicker without his actions.

Not that the driver was wrong to do what he did; we have the advantage of frame-by-frame replay. But the frame-by-frame does show that this is not what it appears at first glance.
that’s one of those little niggles i’ve had about rails that gets solved so neatly eventually. i started with rails 3 (#merge is a rails 4 addition) so i didn’t know about #merge for a while (#or was another nice addition), and was doing a lot of that ugly chaining in the beginning. same with js - with the move to frontend without webpacker and node, i’m eager to try out rails 7 alpha to see what the dev ergonomics are like now.
The rich already pay almost all of the taxes anyway. The government just needs to do less to balance the budget.
Except Switzerland?
For me, keeping it simple - I just maintain a routine. My lunch time is for exercise and I don't compromise on that. I figure out where 1 mile is and do my best. When I was 25, it was 7 minutes at 40 I'm happy to crack 10 and then there's another mile back. That's 2/3 of a 5K. If I'm tired, sick, hungover - then I still go. I'm not reachable at lunch and my coworkers get that. I try to do some weights too, but it's the routine that matters, imho.
Surely you're not comparing the critical initial development of a human child to... having a pet, right? I sincerely hope I'm misunderstanding your position.
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/01/699261950/why-a-wealth-tax-di...

> ROSALSKY: In 1990, there were 12 countries in Europe that had a wealth tax. Today there are only three. Perret says they didn't work for a lot of reasons. Among other things, it costs a lot to enforce. It pushed rich people out of the country, and the wealth taxes didn't raise a lot of revenue.

But

> ROSALSKY: But Warren says that her proposal, which has no exemptions, will play out differently in the United States. Greg Rosalsky, NPR News.

Unfortunately, nothing in her proposal justifies that. Why can't companies and people just move out of the US to avoid this? Singapore or other countries will readily welcome them.
It should have said: the effective tax rate on the revenue he derived from his mountain of wealth.
No, so people hauling heavy loads have to pay, and not everyone else.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this isn't fixable at the DNS level.

I can't remember when it was first researched, but sometime after the birth of Tor, there was increased interest by DoD and others to track connections over an obscured network. The end result was a paper that showed you could identify the sources and destinations of traffic solely by monitoring aggregate traffic over major routes in the network. In essence, for completely encrypted tunnels, you could know exactly what user was using what Tor exit node, assuming you had enough network sensors spread out and enough sample data. There was also the possibility of discovering Tor hidden nodes and what users were using them.

Therefore, regardless of traffic (ex. DNS), if you have the motive to find out who is doing what on the internet, and the capital and access for the network sensors, you can find out who's going where (and even doing what to a certain extent).

The more traffic is encrypted, and the more we push for more privacy and more difficult we make it to monetize our network access, the more reason they have to increase their surveillance, so they can continue to fund all these products and technologies we take for granted.

The cause of an arms race isn't arms. It's the inability to come to terms on an issue. We should be addressing the issue, not ramping up our weapons research. I know this isn't a "sexy solution", but it would definitely free up our time to worry about more important or interesting things.
Good question. I don't think there's a way to set mail headers on gmail or protonmail web interfaces. I'm under the impression some headers are required. Message IDs, I think.
And people have been protesting about thoses wars on the streets, in the media, films, tv,mc, newspapers, books and everywhere else you can think of for the last 20 years. I havent seen any protests against the opression of the Uighars in China at all. Unless you can point me to it?

Vietnam? What a wonderfully free and democratic nation you come from!
> This is an opinion piece, not news or journalism.

It matters that the Times finds it acceptable to provide this stupid woman with a platform to defend a woman whose actions put patient health at risk.
I would even go so far as to say the typical middle-class family has real property in an amount that exceeds their net-worth.
Most of the “ultra-wealthy” have their wealth in the form of stock in public companies. This is certainly true for the examples she lists. If they’re all going to have to sell 2% of their holdings each year to pay for this wealth tax, who are they going to sell to and where is the money going to come from?

It seems like this is a recipe to generate some temporary funding for the US government by selling off our national assets (e.g. ownership of major US companies) to foreign investors.
Actually I don't know any more about it than you do :) - other than I vaguely remember a couple cases where founders tried to negotiate the 7% and just ended up coming across as irritating. But probably they didn't have the goods to justify it...if it's big enough, why not? but in that case maybe it wouldn't make sense to apply to YC in the first place.
Since most middle-class families have the bulk of their wealth in their primary residence, the effective tax rate is however much they are paying in property taxes divided by the equity in the home. In many cases this can amount to a sizable percentage of net worth.
It's whack-a-mole where game is skewed wildly towards the moles.

Basically there are tons of VOIP companies, with varying levels of give-a-shit and spam detection capabilities.

Generally they are incentivized to let people self-serve on their platform - spin up quickly and start running traffic, or blasting spam, whatever. Especially if you're a small company, you're probably more likely to look the other way for a bit if someone is spending money on your platform, until regulators call, and you can be like "ok we looked into it and shut them down".
Also you don't want to be overly aggressive, because what if a great customer comes onto your platform, loves the ease of setup, and starts running legitimate traffic, then you shut them down because they were triggered by whatever crappy spam heuristics your small company came up with, and the customer is gone to another platform where they don't have to deal with that.

Then the company/group running the traffic moves onto other VOIP providers until they get a bad enough name or push the envelope so much that no one will take them.

Then they just create a new "company" that no one recognizes the name of, and start again.

Honestly I think an open sourcing of spam detection heuristics and algorithms would be a massive help, but companies that are good at this obviously see it as a competitive advantage, just like the email space - for example if Twilio is great at keeping spam off their platform (no idea if they are, but they would have the most resources to do so), then all numbers registered with Twilio are less likely to get flagged/blocked downstream - all Twilio customers benefit.
Twilio can say "any number you buy with us will be considered clean by downstream parties, no need to worry about getting flagged/blocked, then having to change the numbers you use for your business to communicate with customers, which could be saved in their phone already, etc."

The patterns spam takes vary wildly, often being specific to telecom laws and practices in specific jurisdictions, so it really is a tough problem. If an algorithm flags spam, you often want to then reach out to the customer and try to understand if there's a legitimate reason for the traffic patterns, etc. So there's a layer of customer relations beyond the algorithms that's also tough to scale.
Not to pile on Tesla, but a yoke driving wheel will make taking over the FSD mode much harder.
Hong Kong Forces Tiananmen Vigil Group to Delete Online Presence
Record-breaking numbers because:

- record-breaking numbers are upgrading from multiple previous models

- smartphone market is still growing

- there's a non-negligible number of people going for the "shiny new thing"

They were selling record-breaking numbers when they only had a "pro" and a "non-pro" model, too
I was thinking whether this problem could be alleviated by building in extra capacitors as a reserve for transient high current consumption.
You must yield to pedestrian in crosswalk, how far away the pedestrian is does not matter.
Shannara (Or, Bookware Mark 2)
But search engines aren't voting to maximize the chances that their preferred candidate shows up on top. The mixed ranker has no requirement to satisfy Arrows integrity constraints. It has to satisfy the end user, which is quite possible in theory.

Conditions the mixed ranker doesn't have to satisfy
"ranking while also meeting a specified set of criteria: unrestricted domain, non-dictatorship, Pareto efficiency, and independence of irrelevant alternatives"
I don't know anyone who has locally installed office software anymore. It's all GSuite or Office 365.
> Name: Elon Musk, Net Worth: $19.9 billion, Federal Income Tax Paid: $8,410

How is this possible? Why does Elon Musk pay less taxes than an average person who works in Tech?
In the UK (and I'm sure elsewhere), inheritance tax is the main vehicle to try and avoid dynasties being created once one person has accumulated massive wealth.

As others have said, it is income that is taxed, there will be plenty of people who own capital (e.g. inherited a large country house) and who don't have the cash to pay a tax on it and presumably it would seem unfair to force them to sell it (and hope they get decent money for it) in order to pay a tax on it.
ESNI is superseded by a better design and implementation called ECH. It’s still not widely available, but has been available in Firefox. Cloudflare, of course, supports it (Fastly is the third co-author of this).

Links (dated January 2021):

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/07/encrypted-clien...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/
> Linux fans as, well, bizarre sometimes arrogant pseudo programmers.

To be fair, some of us were smug as hell.

I once picked an argument with a guy simply because he was wearing a Microsoft t-shirt.
Studies have found genetic variants that correlate with going further in school
Seconded on sampling bias. It's a bit difficult to get a directly comparable figure from the FCC's Measuring Broadband America report, which tries to be representative. https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broad...

I guess the closest would be "In September-October 2019, the weighted average advertised download speed was 146.1 Mbps among the measured ISPs, which represents a 100% increase from 2017 and a 8% increase compared to the average in September-October 2018 which was 135.7 Mbps."
They have no capital gains tax. Overall the wealth tax is a lower cost to individuals than the style of wealth taxes en-vogue in a lot of places now. Wealth taxes require liquidation of assets to pay, given the nature of wealth. When you liquidate assets, you pay cap gains tax and then have to pay the wealth tax. In Switzerland, you just pay the wealth tax. Basically, you have to be taxed to pay the tax in most places, where in Switzerland you just pay the tax without being 'double taxed'.

Liquidating assets to cover that tax works out to a lower overall tax burden on the individual than capital gains tax. Most nations that are mulling wealth taxes are considering them as an added tax layer, as opposed to the Swiss who use it as an indirect means to tax investments, rather than asking for a per-transaction gain payment. Nations that have done the approach that's opposite to Switzerland tend to reverse their wealth taxes, or see little benefit (France, for instance).
I've been using OpenDNS for years on the same basis... am I just being naive to assume they're not as bad?
Actually that's a reasonable point, sure. My counter is that it should be proportionate. North Korea? Absolutely, they're the absolute bottom of the barrel. Full economic sanctions are reasonable, I think we both agree.

China and Russia are not like North Korea though. Citizens generally enjoy a considerable degree of freedom of movement, economic freedoms and even rights to travel abroad. To the extent that these rights are curtailed or refused we should apply increasing degrees of pressure. In fact I think we don't apply enough pressure, particularly to China. There's a lot more we could do. What we should do is emphasise that crimes such as the oppression of the Uighurs should have consequences, and we're not doing that enough right now.

I'm particularly concerned about China's application to join the Asia-Pacific trade pact, the CPTPP. The association was founded by the US in order to form a united front against China, but the US pulled out in 2017. So we now face a real possibility a trade pact intended to contain China will end up helping China contain US economic influence in the region. Nice one.

Absolute bans and boycotts are simply not appropriate though, they would disproportionately hurt ordinary Chinese, including those under the worst oppression and would help China promote a nationalistic us versus them attitude. It would also remove any ability to apply increasing pressure to any further oppressive moves because we'd have no pressure left to apply. So I fully agree with the principle, you're quit right these regimes are our enemy, but not the all-or-nothing implementation.
> a company is worth zero until you sell it, like most assets.

I don’t think that’s quite true - I would say a better definition would be that a company is worth what someone will pay for it, regardless of if you actually sell it or not.

Stocks, piles of gold and cash are just different types of asset all of which have value.

And you have to really tax all of that, otherwise the wealthy will just avoid taxes by being paid in untaxable gold bricks and trade those for purchases rather than dollars.
It's not so different to the same kind of elitism that gives, say, PHP or JS a bad rap.

They just happen to be successful, and popular.

I don't think the trope of Ruby being old and boring is such a bad thing either, it just means it's stabilised and has a strong ecosystem that requires little to no effort to get set up. And it still gets a lot of love with every Christmas release adding something desirable and new.

I also think it will require some immense innovation or paradigm shift to unseat Ruby/Rails as a de-facto framework for rapid web prototyping. I would still kick off a project with Rails in favour of trying to early-adopt some new approach to development.