skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the beginning of written history there have been taxes and there has been corruption. And people respond very strongly to financial incentives - notice how people drive out of their way to save a few pennies on gas.

Now imagine you have millions or billions of dollars. You do not want to hand over 50% of your income to tax authorities, especially if a legal way exists not to. And if you make the current legal ways illegal, the money will just keep flowing to invented ways. There will never be a way to avoid this, unless you have a centralized AI super computer that cannot be manipulated by fallible humans watching everyone’s cash globally and enforcing strict rules. And that will never happen.

Most of the Panama Papers revelations were not illegal behavior. This article says most of this is perfectly legal. I’m not sure what the scandal here is other than humans don’t want to give half their money away to the government.
> Differentiating DLL and SO hell is getting a bit beyond pedantic (...)

It really isn't. Unlike linking problems, where the problem is focused on how you need to fight your dependencies to be able to resolve symbols, DLL Hell has been for over a decade a dependency resolution problem that is solved at the packaging level.

More importantly, on Windows, where sharing DLLs is not a thing, you can simply drop a DLL in the app dir and be done with it. In fact, it's customary for windows apps to just bundle all their dependencies.
Neat project. Disabling JS globally in something like uBlock Origin has been my goto solution for a while now. Now and then I have to whitelist a page and run some JS and oftentimes the page is just a blank white screen that doesn't tell the user they need JS to view the content.

I take a risk doing that because you don't know if the page is laced with malware or a fingerprinting script, so this tool looks promising if it makes JS safer to use by messing with various JS APIs.
EFabless/SkyWater first MPW uncommunicative due to Management wrapper
The beauty of oppression is that everyone is oppressed by the ruling class.

They only need to oppress some groups more to give the rest an illusion of superiority that makes them support the regime.

Our comments are not in disagreement.
Hacker News is actually pretty small in terms of how many people post.

Other communities like it can be found in some small subreddits, discord servers, slack channels, irc, and some of the few online forums that didn't move to Reddit (like the Two Plus Two Poker forums).

I think part of why HN stays good is they don't have a built in growth incentive (at least I don't think they do).

You can imagine if you're running a site like Reddit you might really want to keep the site as high quality as possible, but for various real reasons you have stronger incentives to grow the user base, even at the expense of overall quality of community.
Neat. Congratulations on the launch, Vishnu!

Apart from the fact that it could deploy to both GCP and AWS, what does it do differently than AWS Batch [0]?

When we had a similar problem, we ran jobs on spots with AWS Batch and it worked nicely enough.

Some suggestions (for a later date):

1a. Add built-in support for Ray [1] (you'd essentially be then competing with Anyscale, which is a VC funded startup, just to contrast it with another comment on this thread) and dbt [2].

1b. Or: Support deploying coin miners (might help widen the product's reach; and stand it up against the likes of consensys).

3. Get in front of the very many cost optimisation consultants out there, like the Duckbill Group.

If I may, where are you building this product from? And how many are on the team? Thanks.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/batch/use-cases/

[1] https://ray.io/

[2] https://getdbt.com/
This. In another comment I tried to equate it with a painting on a wall. A painting never fills the wall. The painting is whatever size and shape it is, and that's that.

Maybe the problem is a tv looks like a frame, and frames are made custom to fit the painting, and so any discrepency looks bad.

But now that tv's are both huge, and are featureless panels with little to no interesting frame let alone actual furniture quality cabinetry, maybe only now they can start to be seen as mini walls where it would actually be kind of pathological to require that every pixel always be lit just because they exist.
Uh, bra-on scenes - I hate them, not because I need to see the boobies so much, but because of the intense feeling of fakeness that takes me out of the movie to seeing just two actors pretending something. I hate the bra-on scenes almost as much as I hate the cliché scene where the two in bed are breathing so heavily (to show you they just finished having sex you did not see in the movie) as if they had just finished olympic 400m final.
I believe that while there is some inner truth in the article, that you could push harder and go farther than you could ever believe, there must be a big warning sign too.

If you push yourself hard, then you should also rest hard. You can burn yourself, you can destroy your immune system with stress and die from cancer in your 30s.

I know because I have worked the hardest a person can and gotten nowhere while watching other people succeed with little effort and have learn a lot from those guys.

Then I became much more successful doing much less effort.

I have seen people literarily kill themselves through work and getting miserable. Don't do that.

You must enjoy your wealth while you create it. Enjoy your journey, enjoy the process and things become easier.

Learn basic physics, learn productivity. The more output with the smaller effort, the bigger the efficiency. Master efficiency. Learn Pareto' principle. Learn habit formation so things become automatic and easy. Learn psychology so you understand people.

Learn your limits, pick the battles you could win and win big. Do NOT do work that brings you little while requiring significant effort.

If you work too much in the wrong things you will be miserable anyway.
I was ok on the main page. I got 502 when I went to the Secrecy Brokers section. Appropriate I guess.
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Ah, yes, eugenics.

Considering that intelligence seems to be correlated with autism spectral disorders, and individuals with severe autism are in need of individual care for their entire lives, are you sure that's it's smart to optimize for raw intelligence?
This is interesting, from what I've read AWS no longer recommends setting spot instance prices so that they manage it themselves.
I wonder, if there's an actual advantage of avoiding spot interruptions by setting the spot price even higher than onDemand.
Of course there is value in revisiting a problem. But you should know that you're doing it, and be able to say how your work relates to the earlier work.

(Not denying that reimplementing things can be fun ...)
Come on, nobody knows how the first governments were developed. No written records exist.
Be careful. Not all of them are accounted for.
> Ownership is to be decided by the parties involved in the exchange.

No, ownership is to be decided by governments who use force to protect property rights. They may take advice from the parties involved in the exchange, they may decide that neither party involved in an exchange was the owner.
What I see here is tax evasion. But done in a roundabout legal loopholish kind of way.

1. Establish profitable company in your home country.

2. Establish 2nd company in a tax haven country.

3. Give 2nd company some kind of ownership, and then pay rental fees, licensing fees, or simply set up a high interest loan that the 2nd company loaned the first.

4. 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.

While I believe it's legal it hinges on bad ethical practice. But many large companies do this, such as cruise ships and I think Apple.
> America is preventing Russia from antagonizing Europe?

Er, Ukraine is in Europe. Out of 10, how would you rate the USA's efforts at stopping Russia there so far?
...Papers

Some alliteration fetish.
Kozliks' Triple Crunch is superb to make salad dressings as it adds a lot of texture and flavour. Their maple mustard is also very good for this purpose.
So where do we find the list of names by country?
What caused the oil spill off Huntington Beach? Here is what we know
Imagine the hubris necessary to think everyone has to store all their wealth in the country they were born in.

These discussions assume people didn't pay taxes before purchasing assets elsewhere.

Cute.
I want free software, and I'm aghast at what some people run, but this is not the real world. How many examples do you want? If you talk security, what's the threat model? What I run on a decently managed (with the aid of dynamically linked libraries) compute cluster should only put my data at risk.

As I understood it, there actually has been a push for free software solutions on CORAL systems, but I don't remember where that came from.
The order is one thing, but for me, it's the addition of a colon to separate the two properly that's important. That's probably also highly subjective as some people find syntax highlighting useless and I think it's great, but in general I like having a bit more tokens to know where I am.
The cat is out of the bag, Ukraine gave up 3d largest Nuclear arsenal on the promise that other nuclear powers mainly US would provide security. Everyone saw how that played out so a country would need to be suicidal not to start a nuclear program.
I was not! Thanks for the tip.
With your method, you will be able to compress most sensible files but not all files. The main point of this article is that with any method, you can not compress all files.

In the case of the ship, they will be able to store a very compressed version of Wikipedia, but they will not be able to store a file with the same size that records the last bit of the central pixel of a CCD carera that is pointed to the sun filtered with the von Neumann trick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin#Fair_results_from_a_...
It seems like bar code scanning is a 1980s technology. The auto checkout kiosk could have product recognition, pricing & checkout built in ;)

State of the art in CV is remains video prediction: given N frames of patch input, generate the next frame.

If you are into space exploration, there are a lot of cool datasets like the "Spot the GEO" challenge

https://aiforspace.github.io/2021/

And if you get access to NVidia GPUs in the cluster, there's plenty of envelope pushing stuff you can do with Omniverse: AI for rendering, light transport, physics simulations, etc

http://cs348i.stanford.edu/
History shows that conflict has actually been rather useful for our development
Hospital setting, four-patient ward, unrecognized covid case infects 16 people before it’s identified and traced.

> The calculated attack rate among all exposed patients and staff was 10.6% (16/151) for staff and 23.7% (23/97) for patients, in a population with 96.2% vaccination rate (238 vaccinated/248 exposed individuals).

In summary, get vaccinated, wear PPE, and don’t hang around infected people for very long.
Human progress can be itself a trap too, but often we can only tell how history rolls out in retrospect.
The problem is that the money Microsoft makes from telemetry and shunting ads in the star menu FAR outweighs any financial pressure on them to make a decent OS. If that source of income was somehow shunted then they would actually go back to making something functional.
The J58 powering the SR-71 is still one of the most complex engines ever built. The space shuttle is a simple rocket by comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_J58
if people respond to financial incentives they likely will respond to other incentives as well. As a hypothetical, making tax evasion punishable by death, like in antiquity, would probably be a good incentive to comply. The consequences for tax evasion are quite mild, in the US and elsewhere. You get letters, more letters, maybe a visit, and finally, if you're really unlucky or obstinate, a little jail time.
Not loading for me. DOS? Or blocked by our friends above?
To each his own. I spent 1.5 years without job (I had enough reserves). It was awesome. I could play games, I could code some random stuff just for fun, I could read books for hours, I could jump in the car and spend few weeks in some village, enjoying fresh air and woods. It's not sustainable for me, so I got back to day work, but I absolutely loved this feeling when I have zero obligations, zero stress, I could do anything (or not doing anything) without any repercussions.

But I completely agree, that having money to be able to live few years without additional income is absolutely important for living stress-less life.

Now my goal is to earn enough money to be free from work obligations for the rest of my life. That's how life should be. And it's a pity that one should spend half of his life just to get to that point. And for most people that's not even possible.
Yeah my issues were due to failing cables e.g. fraying insulation and exposed wires. I would use them heavily on daily commutes. Now since I primarily work from home it might be less of an issue.
I guess it depends on what you mean by 'considerably more'. I use Fish because you can quickly change options and view info in the config GUI, and I like its completions. I still script in Bash though.
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Research started more than twenty years ago but actual applications in programming languages you might use are relatively recent. If you find monads exciting but effect systems boring there is little I can do for you.
It seems a pain point of static linking is that if a library changes you need to rebuild everyone

Maybe a stupid idea but has there ever been thought of distributing applications with source code included?

That way you could have a system that automatically rebuilds the application if a static library changes.

Meaning when a user sees “updating” it’s actually rebuilding the app underneath.
> So long as wages for top politicians remain not top CEO-level

Remember, of course, that there are two ways to fix this.
"Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it..."
Normally they don't pay taxes on offshore havens - so what they are trying to say is that these leaders and billionaires don't pay taxes like us normal ppl.
If I were a VC, Boom wold be the easiest investment decision ever.

Here's the 3 questions I'd ask myself: 1. can they make it? 2. can they sell it? 3. if they make it and they sell it, could others copycat them, then out-execute and take the prize away from them?

The easiest to answer is 3. Out of all the unicorn startups of the last 2 decades, this one is the by far the one with the highest barriers of entry for the competition. The only ones coming close are SpaceX and Tesla. Why? Let's say Boom makes the first sale in 2025. If anyone wants to enter the market, they won't have a product for at least 10 years, and Boom can already be at jet 2.0 by that time, well into the R&D cycle for 3.0.

The first question: can they make it? Concorde was introduced in "prod" 45 years ago, but had the first flight 7 years prior. Technology has made huge advances in half a century. Obviously computers in general, and computational fluid dynamics in particular are many, many orders of magnitude above what was available in the mid-60's. But other things experienced impressive progress as well: theoretical CFD, materials, manufacturing to name just a few. Jet engines are also much more efficient, and what's super-important: Boom need to just buy them form some suppliers, they don't need to invent them as was the case with Concorde. There are basically only 3 suppliers out there (General Electric, Pratt&Whitney and Rolls Royce), but their competition is fierce, which means the engines are both extreme quality and reasonable price.

Finally, if they make it, will they sell it? Yes, the market for business jets can't wait for a supersonic jet, no matter what price level. A Gulfstream G700 comes at $75MM, and it goes without saying that it is subsonic. Think of all those billionaires who spend hundreds of millions on luxury yachts. A supersonic private jet would be the most exalted form of conspicuous consumption. Do you gather Abramovich will sign up for one?

Concorde could not target this market segment, since it was made with government money. But a VC-backed startup most surely can.
> We invented corporations to help improve society

I think it's easy to say this, but I'm not sure the history of corporations bears this out. Technically, the first corporations were colonial expeditionary forces (like the Dutch VOC) that were sent to Africa and the Caribbean to control various types of precious resources and we all know what happened there.

I guess it all depends on who "society" is in your statement, because someone has always has to lose in a corporate structure.
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The only modern browser that I know really doesn't work is Safari, which unfortunately doesn't play well with Pyodide, see e.g. https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/441

It should work to an extent on a mobile device, but I can't imagine how to make it a good user experience while actually coding. A tablet should be okayish, it's just not optimised for that. Typing code on a phone sounds awful.

For anyone who really wants that I recommend https://grasshopper.app/ to learn on the go while dragging and dropping, but this comes with serious limitations.

Ultimately I don't know what the long term plan is for someone without a desktop device. Do people write full programs on mobile devices? Is it easy enough to install external dependencies? To build and package software for release?
Anyone can get a loan against securities. That isnt special.

Collateralized lending is very common such that its not newsworthy.
I sometimes look up peoples history before replying.

It tells me if I should reply carefully and nicely because someone is just having a bad day or don't know the language - or if I should just drop the reply and flag instead.
>The loans are rolled forward continually and only paid off once they die. This avoids capital gains, which is higher than the loan interest.

1. Does this actually work? AFAIK you avoid capital gains, but at the same time you need to pay estate taxes.

2. According to wikipedia bezos is 57 years old. Using the figures from SSA[1], he still has 26 years to live. The 20 year treasury rate (ie. risk free rate) is 1.99% (annualized). Applying that rate over 26 years gets you 66.9%. That doesn't seem like much of a savings over the long term capital gains rate of 20%. The numbers make more sense if you use 3 or 5 year treasuries, but that also exposes you to interest rate risk in the future.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

>This technique is legal for anyone, but good luck convincing Goldman Sachs to loan you money based on 0.001% of Facebook’s outstanding shares.

They'll happily loan you money based on the equity in your home though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mortgage
Loading fine for me so probably some routing issues
Try some bling dot js: https://gist.github.com/paulirish/12fb951a8b893a454b32
There's a meme phrase that applies quite literally to Focus, and has similar implications in the real world to those in the novel. That phrase is "weaponized autism".
1) In a 2004 article for ACM Queue magazine, I couldn't resist excerpting the software archaeology bit as a an introductory section:https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039532 and of course, as an ancient Unix person, recognized the date.'

2) In 2007, I was Program Co-Chair for the Hot Chips conference, and got Vernor to give a keynote first day. We used keynotes for fun topics.
(I had a connection via UC Berkeley Prof Kris Pister (smart dust), whose Dust Networks company I advised.) Second day, I took Vernor around the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for the morning to tour.

He said he was doing a sequel to Deepness in the Sky, about Pham & Anne's battle with the Emergents (obviously winning, given Fire Upon the Deep). Years later, I asked him what happened, as the sequel never appeared. He said it was too depressing(i.e., for those who thought Deepness dark, imagine the portrayal of the Emergents worlds.)
Given how terrible bureaucracies are the world over, and how many people are jailed innocently, it will be quite sad when people are literally murdered by the state for not paying their tax bill. And most likely the most popular and famous people!
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I really like IBMs marketing of Watson as cognitive computing / cognitive enhancement / cognitive assistance.
Many great things are built off the experience of earlier efforts. But I think a point from the discussion is that C# was a huge leap forward and has progressed further and faster than Java. The two languages have been an interesting case-study in two very different ways to design and support a language.
” That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. He crashed around America selling “consciousness expansion” without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously… All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create… a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody… or at least some force – is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is one of my all time favorite movies. It’s a disorienting and psychedelic plot filled with subtle yet striking insights into human nature. I highly recommend giving it a watch if you’re looking for a taste of Hunter S Thompson’s legacy.
I've been there. I received a peace lily seven years ago when my brother passed away and I had a hard time keeping it healthy. I tried keeping it inside and all it was doing was dropping leaves. I tried putting it near a window to no avail. Its death seemed inevitable.

Then I tried putting it outside. What I've learned is that while they do not do well in direct sun, they do like light. Lots of it.

I've read that a southern window is the best window for a spath. The reasoning is simple: for folks that live in the northern hemisphere, the most amount of indirect light will enter from the south. And wouldn't you know it -- our south wall has no windows!

I live in Tennessee and I now keep mine outdoors during the growing season. It sits in a pot on the deck underneath the canopy of a large river birch. Even during the 90+°F days, it does well. The back of our home faces west, so it can catch a few direct rays late in the day as the sun sets over the horizon, but it is strategically located so that the deck railing and a nearby crape myrtle filters enough of that scorching late afternoon sun to make it happy.

I bring it indoors once the overnight lows start to dip to around 40°F. Over the winter, it drops about a third to a half of its leaves. I put it back out for a few days at a time in the early spring as weather allows. Once the frost danger has past, it stays outdoors. The leaves rapidly multiply and it puts out about 5-6 blooms around July.

If you can, try putting it outside. I am sure that the boost in photosynthesis will help it more than anything.
I question the relevance of newer Java versions. Established codebases don't like to upgrade and new codebases are likely to use trendier languages.