skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps countries remain “lord of the flies” until there is an external threat that forces people to cut the crap and work together. COVID obviously was not fatal enough to be such a threat. Given the last two years, I would really prefer to avoid seeing a virus that provides such a threat.

I also think that future historians or sociologists will write about the ability of social media to act as an amplifier, as well as people’s susceptibility to it.
Wouldn't the estate have to sell shares to cover the loan upon death? Or transfer shares directly, but pay the capital gains as though it were a sell + transfer transaction?
Agreed that _Deepness in the Sky_ is better than _Fire Upon the Deep_.

However, in my opinion, _Fire Upon the Deep_ should be the better book and has, in many ways, deeper and more thought-provoking concepts at play.

The problem is, none of them get fully explained or resolved.

The book wraps up the character driven story arcs and the much deeper, conceptual story arcs involving non-human actors just peter out ...
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Without defense, the others cannot exist. Without defense, you cannot have a space within which you can securely do other work. So it cannot be a matter of competition but prioritization.

Of course, we can criticize the massive amount of funding that goes to military contractors and the like (Eisenhower did). That's where the devil is: the military-industrial complex.
Common law is based on precedent and common sense application of the law, so it is generally common law systems which are described as being open to interpretation.
If they don't release the raw data I suspect it will be mostly about left/right wing populism
let me butcher the concept for you :)

say though nummerology you reduce the character values of a name to a number 0-10. Lots of names will reduce to the same number. We take 11 bits and for "jim" we set the first bit. We have only one name in our data set so all other bits are 0. Now if someone types "joe" in the search box and it reduces to 2 we look at the second bit, see it is a zero and know 100% *for sure* that this name is not in the data set. If "jack" reduces to 1 and we look him up we see 1 is set so this name *might be* there.
It funds many sorts of research but much less development. Research ideas do not develop themselves and so the story of modern academia is zillions of abandoned ideas.
Yes, you could do it with deltas instead. The tradeoffs are that it won't be as fast and will cost you a LOT more in bandwidth. (and cost your users more bandwidth as well. They might be on a very slow/limited data plan) Maybe you don't care about bandwidth and would prefer to avoid the complexity and maintenance overhead of adding a bloom filter.

As with anything, there are tradeoffs and your requirements can change over time. Maybe the ad networks or malware creators start using new domains every 10 minutes to counter your blocking system so now you have to store more data and disseminate it more frequently.

As engineers, it's our job to weigh the tradeoffs between different solutions given the resources and constraints of the situation. For the situation I've outlined above, I'd at least strongly consider a bloom filter but it's certainly not the only way to do it.
It is literally a direct quote from the post I originally responded to.
I've wondered a lot about this with the Snowden and Wikileaks stuff, and I wonder about it with this topic too: the most salient part of this story, and about Panama Papers etc. before it, is how small a dent it seems to make in the discourse, and in the world as a result. At best, these stories get a good chunk of the airwaves for a couple of weeks, and then it's on to the next thing.

In history books, you get a sense sometimes that there were eras in which stuff like this sent people into the streets in rages. In which governments were voted out or overthrown, in which meaningful legislative responses were made. Or, you know, riots.

But I look around after reading those books and wonder what makes us so different. It's weird to live in this era. I read a Guardian article like this and look at the staggering sums, this entire "shadow financial system" devoted solely to one notion: I'm going to take as much as I can, in whatever way that I can, regardless of legality, and I'm going to give nothing back because I sincerely don't believe I owe anything back -- oh, and I'm going to keep it all a secret.

And I look around and not only don't see any riots; I sometimes get the feeling that people are actually envious, sometimes even respectful of the ingenuity it takes to manufacture these schemes. It's tough.

The only silver lining I can think of is what all the secrecy says: we're not just doing this in the open because we're still afraid we'll end up like the Romanovs if too many of you get angry. I think that while they're still afraid, there's still some hope.

EDIT: Reading some replies. It's weird to have to say this to such a smart crowd, but I'm not advocating riots as such; I'm advocating a substantive response. Of course riots are "bad" in some sense, but my observation is really about the odd contrast between the huge size of the "stimulus" (theft of wealth, much of it yours, on a staggering scale) and the tiny size of the "response" (newspaper articles and web forum discussions), especially when contrasted with other historical periods. So while I wouldn't "want a riot", seeing one would make me go "well, that makes sense".
I don't mind people being filthy rich, but I'd rather see that they invest in their country instead of moving them off-shore.

If I had such level of riches I'd invest in stocks, companies, research, properties etc.. I'm certain it would open more job opportunities.
> Reporting to investors ought to mirror reporting to the taxman.

This would be a nice simple GAAR: you pay either the current corporate rate or 20% of the GAAP profits you report in your stockmarket statement, whichever is the larger.
I'm French, and I've also grown up with a lot of bandes dessinées around me. I love Astérix, Lucky Luke, Gaston, … But I've had a hard time with Tintin since forever.

Lines in these other series are not as straight as in Tintin. They feel more hand drawn or something. I'm not really able to explain.
> Once you set up a way to make it look like you owe the 2nd company tons of money, now your 1st company no longer is "profitable" and actually in debt losing money, which means it doesn't need to pay taxes on the massive profit it's making.

It’s called “transfer pricing” and it’s been going on for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing

Short of a revenue (as opposed to income) corporate tax or VAT, it’s a very tricky problem to address. Maybe an excise tax on foreign remittances to match the highest corporate bracket.

Or you just scrap corporate tax entirely because it’s a terrible idea anyway.
Isn’t it just as simple as there is a supply of money that everyone is chasing that expands forever if governments let it. If it stops expanding governments cause recessions if it expands more people get richer but this leads to everyone getting really scared there is too much money (debt) and so people start doing things to repay the money supply causing a recession. It can’t possibly be this simple so governments need to pretend it’s much more complex than that and that their tough stewardship of the economy is going to save the day.
>IIRC meteorological forecasts are about 80% accurate a few days in, 50% accurate about two weeks into the future, and after that of not much use.

80% accurate about what ? If this is overall then I'm not impressed because in stable weather you'll get a high % of being right just by extrapolating. Similar with economics for that matter. What I usually care about and where weather forecast failed me just last month, is unstable time over a specific area. Just last weekend my wife and I were about to cancel our trip to my hometown because the forecast was high probability of rain for the entire weekend, this was the forecast on Friday. Went anyway and got a sunny Saturday and Sunday morning, got a bit cloudy by the end of Sunday when we were leaving. This happens so often that I don't know why I bother checking anymore.
This is so annoying.

These people got rich by living in a society that gives them language, concepts, ideas, a rich foundation of knowledge to draw from, social stability. All this requires a social contract whose benefits they are willing to reap but whose costs they are quick to discard.

I think the German constitution hat something the lines of "Eigentum verplichtet", roughly translated "property obliges".

It's really a shame that these gentlepeople that benefited so much from a stable society are willing to go to such lengths to keep society from their fair share. And that they don't even have any immediate need for the wealth their are hiding is all the more frustrating. This is all done for the sake of a bigger number on a virtual accounting sheet, not because it is required to create anything of value.

This money could instead to productive purposes; education, rehabilitation and reintegration of criminals, child care, rewilding of abandoned industrial wasteland, the list goes on an on and on.

Instead it's hidden in the most convoluted financial constructs, all the while benefiting people - lawyers and banker and yes, also software engineers, I know because I've earned my pound of flesh - that themselves have ambitions to 'become rich', as if that were of any use in itself.

It would be only half as enraging if ordinary people that are barely able to just scrape by on a full time job were in a position to make use of such shenanigans. I guess that would almost make it 'fair'. But as it is, "tool" like these allow for superwealthy people to have a lower tax range than your regular car mechanic or plumber or service employee.

And this just breaks it for me.
When a controller calls a couple of gateways and a database access layer, it is almost never holding resources. I would agree that testing error handling is more interesting when there are resources to clean up or fallback logic to implement. That's just very rarely the case. Mostly I just need to bail out of the request.
This, and the few lines that Stallman writes should be instructive to many users here. RMS and Free Software is actually very radical. Much much more radical than any popular open source coder or progressive corporation can be. But the key thing is that this difference has been hidden. It's not a Silicon Valley libertarian optimism either (which we've seen challenged and wither in recent years). It's deeper. Not many of us really notices, and hardly anyone else outside does too!

It's something we don't encounter much as we are used to consuming software, or just doing open source, but Free Software is *philosophical* first and foremost. It's a fundamental different way of looking at and understanding the world.

I find it fascinating, and posts like this really enhance this difference between the worlds we are living in.
This is non-responsive. What exactly are you faulting the military for? Because there's pretty much nothing any military service messed up about the withdrawal.
Reminder: this is Show HN, so please try to be constructive.

However, there's at least a couple of things that matter here that aren't covered by "just use a preemptible node pool":

* SpotML configures checkpoints (yes this is easy, but next point)

* SpotML sends those checkpoints to a persistent volume (by default in GKE, you would not use a cluster-wide persistent volume claim, and instead only have a local ephemeral one, losing your checkpoint)

* SpotML seems to have logic around "retry on preemptible, and then switch to on-demand if needed" (you could do this on GKE by just having two pools, but it won't be as "directed")
https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916

Considered harmful?
As others on this thread have pointed out, tax laws generally outlaw sham loans, licensing arrangements, etc. When that kind of cleverness works, it usually needs a boost from corruption since the tax laws already exclude it.
They were not a major portion of Nuclear Weapons R&D and manufacturing were done in Ukraine including design and manufacture of majority of electronics including guidance systems, comms etc. as well as most top tear weapons were designed by Yuzhnoye Design Office (Dnepr Ukraine) and manufactured by Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant (Dnepr Ukraine)
> regenerate them when the interface changes

You don't need to do this in Go either. Embed the interface type in your mock type. You only need to implement functions that will be called in the function under test.
I do agree that people obsess over it to the point where the conversation becomes an annoyance to some. But I also think it’s important to understand the things like this that divide “tribes” when society seems to be getting more tribalistic.
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> nope, you can withdraw it. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2021/01/29/margin-loan-ibkr-...

Is that intentional from IKBR? I guess if they knew they'd raise their interest rate. If people start using this method more and more then it will disappear. Seen this pattern over and over again in many fields.

> having 500k in stocks, selling half of that to get $250k, withdrawing $250k, then rebuying $250k worth of the stocks using margin

Risking money in the financial markets vs. risking them (or again using them) in the real markets are 2 very different things.

There is no equivalent for the SP500 in real life, also real life is very illiquid compared to financial markets.

Plus unless you are very wealthy financial institutions tend to look down on people who want to spend money or have the arrogance to think they can start a business, they always punish such behaviors with higher interest rates.

Also once the money is out of the trading platform and into your checking account you could buy real bitcoin on Coinbase, withdraw to private wallet, flee to South America and never be heard from ever again
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Even today people collect nice looking rocks, or minerals even. And I know that poor people would leave pebbles at altars when doing pilgrimage. So is it really so far fetched to say that these rocks were tactile enough for someone to keep them?
Why not use robots.txt instead of littering your html with googlebot instructions?
Go look at how much of the raised money is simply cash reserve. There is a difference between raising money because you need to and wanting to raise to build up a cash reserves because you think the stock price is favorable.
I give my money to whatever company who provides devices I'm in control of. As it stands that is Google, like it or not.

I take care of my own privacy, no for profit company cares about your privacy, you're kidding yourself if you think they are.
You can't invest money in stocks. Every time you transact with stocks, the person who is giving you stocks is getting your money, and so that money is not in stocks.

The only time you "invest" in stocks is during a public offering. And when a company does a buyback, that's a de-vestment. Over the last 20 years there has been more buybacks than stock issuances. The market is running dry.

Deflationary assets are exactly what r > g predict.
Stallman: "cultural appropriation" as a form of racist censorship

Appaih: the very idea of ownership is the wrong model

Stallman: he [Appaih] shares this view

my take: Stallman is doing some motivated reasoning. Appiah doesn't say what Stallman thinks he does.
>Go on, try to find a more graceful down-and-distance ampersand. You can’t. That ampersand is a little butler, gently pouring you a teacup of chamomile football.

This guy has opinions about ampersands that I didn't know someone could have. It was delightful and makes me glad I'm on HN.
I cannot tell if you are trolling but central park is an oasis in a hellscape that is NYC.
Possibly brave opinion. Being rich and obeying the law is not morally wrong. Deliberately absconding from your responsibilities is.

People do not deserve to be doxxed for simply being rich.
All of the high school socialists need to focus more on honesty and consistency if you wish to criticise others for it. If the system needs more transparency then that is what you need to put your energy into, not vigilante justice.

If you really believe privacy is a universal right then dox people that have more money than you, you are as broken as thing you purportedly attack.
"oh no, our publicly very profitable company actually doesn't make any money because of all the.. license fees we pay, that we are clearly in a position to bargain for better, yet mysteriously do not! oh its such a coincidence that everyone in the C-Suite still makes money off the the shell company."

You can obfuscate fraud. But don't try that post-modern horseshit "what is being, man" on us.
That's circular — it's important precisely because nothing else created the political will for that much state-run development.

We should at least try to do non-military development, even if military dev will continue to have an edge.
What's the equalizer? Revolution?
Right casuse Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant and Yuzhnoye Design Office are not in Dnepr Ukraine.
nissan leaf does
Read through this whole thing thinking it was filling the "Block & Tackle"-sized hole in my heart, only to realize by the end that this was also authored by John Teti! I'm glad he's still doing it, cause B&T was weekly reading for me back in the day :)
Yup, nothing to see here, taxes are for losers
I know, right? I hope one day he stumbles on the website for my work and does a writeup.
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This is absolute nonsense. It’s accepted in science we select for biological traits like scent, and social standing; intelligence being a key component of a persons social standing.

Even when people find someone attractive it doesn’t mean they just get together. This is some high school level perspective way off base from a contemporary relationship.

Just because the words create a believable scenario does not mean you’re anywhere close to a probable one.
I want to point my phone at a stack of poker chips and get a total of each chip color, e.g. 132 blue chips, 54 red chips, etc. Bonus points if I can then tell the app the value of each color and get the total.

I play cash games every week and it takes the host forever to count people's chips when they want to cash out.
In his linked writings, it becomes clear that he’s not necessarily rejecting copyright, patents, and trademarks, but instead pointing out that generalizing these three things under the term “IP” distorts their legal meanings and histories. (He might reject aspects of these three things elsewhere, but that’s a different issue.)
Yes, my Model Y has a "traditional" 12v lead acid battery. Granted its a small battery as it doesn't have to run any heavy loads (starter motor). Furthermore, it's my understanding that newer Tesla vehicles are being delivered with 12v gel batteries instead of the the lead acid design.
it's a measure of either, the semantics are irrelevant. Trait Industrious (sub-trait of Conscientiousness, OCEAN/Big 5 model)
First of all, they just did a 'face lift' on the Model S. And its not the first one either.

Other OEM might have new platforms, but those platform are built with supplier and OEM themselves often do not make the detailed choices.
I have heard of taviso. That doesn't mean I can't disagree with him.
The key, I thought, is to correlate the load on the health system NOT the sheer case load. If everybody gets a COVID-cold that puts them in bed for a day or two vs. today’s situation the world will celebrate. In Canada, unvaxed are flooding hospitals, threatening the need for triaging cases. Hasn’t triage started in a few us areas?
Yes, pretty sure this is the way to go.

You can even tell which bots are allowed to index and not.
robotic as in "resembling or characteristic of a robot, especially in being stiff or unemotional."

Basically, it makes it clear that RPA is just macro recording, without any 'subtlety' or margin of errors (one pixel shift will break RPA)
"Europe" is probably the wrong term here. The USA's efforts to stop Russia from antagonizing NATO members probably rates 8/10.

Part of Russia is also in Europe.
I'd like to point out that this seems extremely similar to Nimbo (https://nimbo.sh), to the extent that even some of the terminal messages are exactly the same, and even parts of the docs are copy pasted. E.g:

Nimbo docs: "In order to run this job on Nimbo, all you need is one tiny config file and a Conda environment file (to set the remote environment), and Nimbo does the following for you:"

SpotML docs: "In order to run this job on SpotML, all you need is one tiny config file and a Docker file (to set the remote environment), and SpotML does the following for you:"

Make of that what you will :).
^^^This, but add in a bag of weasels and I'm pretty sure we got it figured out.
Just ban them from using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and we should be fine.
What I never understood is, (how) does the money get transferred to the home country eventually? Doesn't it need to do that to have some utility? Otherwise, what's the point of just accumulating money offshore that you can't eventually use where you actually are?
That's a bit silly. What's it used for? Couldn't they just use a step down switching power supply that draws current from the main battery?
If you go to a heavily left-wing indoctrinated area that happens to have minorities, you will find the ones that care there.