skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s what they said about the federal income tax too, back in 1913. Now it’s by far the largest tax that regular people pay on an annual basis.
Sure, the NSA could backdoor an opt-in system around a political third rail that is hardly if at all used in the United States.

Or, it could attack the radio processor that runs a parallel operating system on our phones that we can't inspect.

Or hell, if the goal is "tracking people", they could attack the legal infrastructure that is used to legally track people via cellphones today.
They don't Facebook their friends either, and email is now integrated into schools. Every kid I know has Gmail and none of them have Facebook (although, many do use Instagram).
Problem is big companies dodge taxes and that needs a fix.
Example -- you buy a smart phone you pay sales tax (consumer or normal people), what they should do is put something like 0.5% or some small Federal tax which companies have to pay on sale. Because most of the time companies park their profit offshore and pay nothing in tax.
Just to be clear, this would be a tax on "people who earn more than $100 million per year or who have more than $1 billion in assets for three straight years."

If you qualify and feel it's unjust, you could simply go and buy your own country.
Well, maybe. People do vote. You can look at the strong opposition local and state level politicians see with any property tax or state income tax increase. There's a built-in regulating mechanism. Taxes are usually one of the top issues that swings elections from one party to another, so the democratic regulating mechanism works somewhat well, I believe. It's not an obscure topic that can escape democratic oversight, like subsidies for lumber harvesting in a few counties in Montana, for example.
lol - we are developers, we don't really have an eye for design ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This sense about a measure of authoritarianism or failure of democracy, feels like a moral high ground, to pick and pry on India , in almost every Indian journal. Yet they write article upon article, in India , of suppression of freedom , which seem not related at all!Why is that? Are these colonial standards essential for all of common-wealth ?
Microsoft has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM
+1. It might have been annoying at the start, but I haven't had a problem with just USB-C in years. If anything, the new MacBooks seem backwards with SD slot and HDMI. If I get one, I imagine I'll use USB-C exclusively - I'll only carry an USB-C charger, as it charges my phone, kids' Nintendo Switch and iPad.
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> but you don't pay taxes like European bookstores

If true, this isn't Amazon's fault, and it's not an externality either. If there's a loophole in the tax law, the onus is on the EU or France to fix it, the onus isn't on Amazon to voluntarily give extra money above and beyond what's required. No business ever does this. Moreover, price fixing books doesn't fix the tax loophole.

> large CO2 footprint.

That's why I said "They may have some externalities", similar in extent to many other businesses that operate in the physical world. Per-shipped item, Amazon probably has the least amount of externalities compared to other bookstores thanks to operational efficiency, so on the carbon externality point they should be celebrated (on a relative basis). Also, this is an argument for a carbon price, not an argument for price fixing of books.

> externalize the wage // externalize their healthcare

These aren't externalities. Amazon pays enough money for them to live. If the public votes to give them extra handouts then that isn't Amazon's fault. You would also need to make the argument that low-skilled labor on aggregate would be earning more money if Amazon wasn't around, which is a claim I strongly dispute. Part of the improvement in operational efficiency is passed on as superior wages relative to other low-skilled labor.

> It's just low wages, predatory pricing, tax avoidance and disregard for the environment.

Strong disagree. It is high wages (relative to market rates for that skill tier), competitive pricing, tax compliance, less pollution on a per-item basis, PLUS extreme operational efficiency and economies of scale/physical network effects (the latter in this list being the most dominant explanatory variable).
For all its faults, Lynch's Dune turned out to be an overall better movie! Who could have thought?
We need https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax to avoid squatting, instead of property tax which considers the value of land + building.
> it's become so fragmented with all the protocols, data rates, and variations in cable capabilities

I thought this was overblown until recently. I purchased a new car with Android Auto. I have a bunch of USB-A to USB-C cables at home and it took me 9 tries to find one that allowed my phone to connect. Seems the others were only good for charging. Was really surprised by that.
how can you be pissed about something that has zero impact on your life?
I don't think they're asserting that anyone/everyone who doesn't want to have children has a mental health problem, but as the article conveys, widespread trauma and despair seems to be a significant factor behind this macro-trend. Maybe it's rational reaction rather than a mental illness. I'm not arguing the toss on that.
Especially since as many people pointed out, Nevada has huge deposits of lithium in areas that are uninhabitable and bare desert
One of the most confusing charts I have ever seen
In 1996 I had got my first PC, I wanted a 3D card but didn't have the technical knowledge to understand the difference between cards. I got a Matrox Mystique. It ran a couple of games well that it came with. It was completely incapable of playing GLQuake or any other titles I was interested in.

Sad thing is a salesmen had tried to convince me to get a 3dfx Monster3D, but I thought the passthrough dongle thing was trashy and cheap looking. Learned my lesson hard. To this day I research the crap out of anything I buy in the PC space before buying it.
'A lot' is painfully subjective in this case.

Depending on the school of thought there is just the one book (Dune); the six books by Frank Herbert; or those, plus all the output of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson.

The implication being that not all books may appeal to everyone who enjoyed Dune (the book).
France wont give a shit, and that's good. Here in Europe we do policies based on your income/outcome and not about the levels of melathonin in your skin.

Also, to which ethnics do I belong? Because I am Basque, and after crossing the Bidasoa river I'm getting into the French Basque Country and magically I am not Hispanic even if the differences between "they" and us are nil, the same with Catalonians with most Southern French people. Or the Aragonese.

And most people from Galicia and Asturias would pass as Irish or half-Brit in a breeze.

Oh, and btw, here people is tightly bound to the culture you did grow up with, so you can be a Senegalese speaking better Basque with no "Subsaharian" accent at all, better even than some random Castillian guy who decided to live near a Basque town.
Its been having an effect on the share price for a while now. Its been underperforming the S&P. For the type of growth they have shown in revenue and active users thats not good. They have been busy buying back shares so its probably worse than it looks.
My wife, after the movie:

"SooOooo I wasn't excited to see this movie. I think I might have seen the old one, but I don't remember liking it. This movie though was amazing and now I'm just mad I have to wait two years to see the sequel!"
> this is super specific to php and tbh I’m surprised anyone is still using it in industry

LOL!

Facebook and Wayfair are using it among https://trio.dev/blog/companies-using-php
Yes, I agree and know it isn't as good but my halfway house is to just pocket-to-kindle and read articles like this on that.
Same shit was claimed about the Federal Income Tax. How'd that turn out?
Why wouldn't people be using PHP in industry? It shouldn't be a surprise that we're still using PHP, given that we're still using MUMPS (or M).
> The _overall_ point here is that connecting to any public utilities should not be made prohibitively expensive just because you live in rural areas.

In this case, the argument is not that it was "made" prohibitively expensive. It's that it is prohibitively expensive, and the debate is whether or not it should be made less expensive through subsidy by government actors.

This same debate will be occurring with providing other services to remote locations as carbon costs get incorporated into the prices of distribution of services. It's not going to get better.
> But despite all the hype, it doesn’t seem to be the starving artists making money on NFTs. It’s all established crypto speculators and crypto businesses selling shovels in this gold rush. The starving artists are just a clever narrative to distract from who’s actually profiting.

That's the weird thing about NFTs. I hear its supposed to help artists, but a lot of the popular NFTs have literally no names or public people associated with them. Maybe I'm just looking at the wrong ones, but for instance look at Bored Ape yacht club. You can't find the name of a single person associated with it. The art is cool sure, but you don't know what you're supporting. For all we know it could be a spin-off of a Russian bot farms with art lifted from other places.

It was all trademarked last month. It's still pending!

[0] https://boredapeyachtclub.com/#/
> How are these materials simultaneously of such importance, and also so economically minor. What am I missing here?

My guess is the amount of skill required to get these materials. Miners can be paid pennies and they'll still do the work. Something similar to how garbage takeaway is of very high importance, but economically pretty minor.
I think Schengen Area is there for that and it worked much better and easier.
The status quo was as much political as was the "woke" activism
Absolutely agree that it is disturbing that this isn't a priority.

Necessary, but still not sufficient - I suspect the attack model will just move to buying/stealing keys.
The issue is that the further away from the mine you do your refining, the higher your transport costs are. All else being equal you’d rather transport a refined product a long way, rather than a product that’s 90% useless other rock.
There are approaches that can alleviate the impact on the less wealthy (think progressive taxation; taxing progressively only amounts above predefined limits, such that you don't end up getting less money in hand after a promotion etc).

But, I'd be curious to hear what do you (and people in general) consider wealthy-but-less-so, if that makes sense. Can we try to assign very rough dollar ranges on these categories?
> Just use just use quictls and be done with it.

You have to read the comments on the pull request. They want a fully API compatible drop in replacement for BoringSSL and they want it yesterday if possible as part of a security backport so it will run out of the box on their current LTS version of Ubuntu. quictls is probably not what they are looking for. Props to the OpenSSL people for not succumbing to the insanity in that PR.
There's no way a radical bill like this would ever get even close to being passed. Do legislatures in other nations waste this much time virtue signaling? Given her background, I have a hard time believing that Warren genuinely thinks that it's a good idea. I'm sure it will make her more popular though.
> If the vaccines work, then why be asked to wear a mask again if nearly everyone's vaccinated?

Very few nations (including the US) have vaccination rates that are high enough to generate herd immunity.

Vaccines do prevent a vaccinated person from becoming seriously ill if they become infected. Vaccines don't do much to prevent a vaccinated person from becoming infected and, once infected, infecting others.

Masks do help to prevent an infected wearer from infecting others. Surgical masks have low effectiveness at preventing the wearer from becoming infected. That's why its important that enough people wear masks: we each protect each-other.

Individualistic societies seem to be having a particular problem with these concepts.
Those are known as ligatures. Ligaturizer[0], which copies Fira Code’s ligatures into any font, may be of interest.

[0]: https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer
I've developed multiple microservices in Rust (using axum[0]) and cargo-watch[1] has really come in handy. I usually only have to wait ~5 seconds for my changes to re-compile and the server to spin up.

I can't really speak for massive projects, but in my experience after the first build the compile times aren't too bad. Only the changed code re-compiles.

Another commenter mentioned they can code for hours without needing to re-compile and I've found that to be true also. I use rust-analyzer[2] in VSCode and I can usually get a lot done without needing to manually test every change. I guess it depends on if I'm writing logic heavy code or writing code-architecture (custom traits, implementations, and whatnot)

[0] - https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum
[1] - https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch
[2] - https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer
I don't get why everyone is so hyped about this. The MBP still doesn't have VHS support so they're literally gate keeping an entire medium behind a dongle. They have some serious nerve >:(
To me it feels more as if they are losing their vision. The design of the new MacBooks looks a bit dated, too. The SoC seems to be fantastic, though.

As for ports, who still uses SD cards? Most people only take photographs with their phones and sync to the cloud directly.
I was looking for a big and novel dataset to work on as a personal project

As an aside, one interesting data-set that is out there, legally and freely available, which is decent sized (not as big as this, of course) is the United States Fire Administration's NFIRS[1] data.

Roughly speaking, NFIRS is a record of all fire calls run in the USA, including details like date, time, location, responding department, incident type, dollar value of damages, number of deaths, number of injuries, etc.

I say "roughly speaking" because strictly speaking participation in NFIRS is voluntary and not every department in the USA participates. If memory serves correctly, for example, I think FDNY does not. But as far as I know, a significant majority of the fire departments in the US do send their data to NFIRS and so it becomes a pretty interesting snapshot of fire activity across the entire country.

Edit: from the NFIRS page:

The NFIRS database comprises about 75% of all reported fires that occur annually.

[1]: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/nfirs/
There is a discussion here (assuming there's not another tax change proposed):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29013201

I think the implementation of the plan is stupid and inefficient. It won't affect me (nor most people) directly.
>the OS doesn't seem to be prepared not to render stuff behind the notch

Really? UIKit has been successfully dealing with the notch for a long time, I assumed they would have updated AppKit with the same logic ("safe areas") way ahead of introducing notches to macOS. Have you seen examples where it's not working?
> “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

> “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

I'm curious which filter bubble you're referring to. The HN filter bubble (a lot of people don't seem to like Facebook)? The gamer filter bubble (many in that community were upset when Facebook accounts became required for Oculus)? The media filter bubble (as evidenced by this reporting)?

There seem to be a lot of different filter bubbles that think Facebook is a shit company. Maybe these don't add up to much, or maybe they do. Time will tell.
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Yikes. It even looks like the killer robot dogs from black mirror.
I think they might be checking against the online database, can you try to see if you replicate it offline? (if that's even possible)
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Barq’s used to sell a different product in Louisiana due to preexisting bottling/distribution relationships
I'm not sure why everyone thinks Apple was caught off guard by this, it was a decade/generation in the making. Apple dumped dollars into iOS/iPadOS because that's what had inertia and they wanted to keep it rolling.

At the same time they required you to own or have access to a MacBook if you wanted to write Apps for those platforms, ensuring there would at least be some demand for the platform. They also transitioned from a proprietary and dated Power CPU to the commodity Intel x64 CPUs reducing their development costs.

MacBooks got adopted at places like MIT as cheap powerful Unix machines and as the LAMP stack took over the internet they became the preferred developer's box. These were the seeds planted.

Now days they're a lifestyle/prestige item for college kids, soccer moms, and corporate executives. They're focusing on it because the platform is approaching critical mass.
They've been right about so many things, but if you make the kind of big moves they do you're going to be wrong from time to time.
> You then go on to characterize components grafted in from another OS as "unique". That is a laughably low bar, making every potential permutation of existing operating system components distinct offerings in competition for mindshare.

That's literally no different to how Unix evolved. You talk about diversity in the 90s when most of the platforms were being trolled by SCO for containing the same code base. Don't you see the hypocrisy of your argument there?

> Honest answer: you are running code I've written. I've been using ZFS in production for as long as one possibly can. My home file server has been SmartOS for many years, before that it was FreeBSD.

Then it seems very strange that you don't acknowledge the differences in current platforms while proclaiming that Unix was more diversified in the 90s (if it was that clear cut SCO wouldn't have been trolling everyone).

> Well, I suppose that if you are including abandonware and dead product offerings in the list of competing operating systems...

You're overstating things once again. :)

> It seems like you are trying really hard to avoid using the more appropriate word for what has happened: "consolidating".

No. Consolidating means the removal of options. Those options still exist they're just not as commonly used. Thus term I used of "standardisation" is more apt.

Look, I do understand the rose tinted glasses you're wearing. There are aspects of 90s era systems administration and development that I miss too. But I still feel you're way off the mark with your opinions here. In some places you are exaggerating a nuanced point to such an extent that as much as I'd love to cheer on for the "good old days of computing", your comments simply don't represent my experiences then nor now.
Foundation so far looks like two different shows: a very cool Empire story with three cloned Cleon guys, and a pathetic cliched YA action series about Terminus. (I'm rooting for the Cleons)
What do you think the odds of someone driving all of US2 in Maine without living there for many years are? It's not like it provides a very direct route between high traffic or popular portions of the state.
Yeah obviously there are tradeoffs. I'd need to see a more thorough analysis of this before I fully support it. It may be the case that there are too many downsides to the proposal. It also may be the case that a few other proposals in concert with this one can achieve the goals in a more comprehensive and productive manner.
Because any explanation of what an NFT is makes clear that it’s completely worthless in virtually every context. People are promoting NFTs by buying and selling them for high amounts to associates to create the fake appearance of value.

There’s no value to any of them. It’s literally just an attempt to sell bits that aren’t unique or are easily reproduced.

Imagine if Taylor Swift sold a limited number of mp3 NFTs of a new song of hers. The song would immediately be copied leaving the purchased NFT’s as completely useless.

There’s no legal binding with them for any physical assets, so the entire thing is essentially a Ponzi scheme.
The pro is for professionals which include photographers.
Facebook uses Hack. Hack is to PHP what C++ is to C, sort of. You can take PHP code and run it as Hack code, sometimes, but there are lots of reasons why PHP code might not be valid Hack code these days (Hack has diverged from upstream).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)
Oh my! That's also unlucky though. When I updated my 2015 Mazda to work with Android Auto, I ran to Best Buy and bought their store brand (Insignia) USB-C to USB-A cable, and it worked fine.

What were the sources of these cables that didn't include that capability? Included with other devices? It's a shame they went so cheap on those, though not surprising!
Thank you for the TL;DR
Oh snap! good to hear. I've only started looking forward to Dune 2021 since I really hadn't paid attention... I love the audio books - book books were just too dense when I tried to read them originally. The audio books are among my favorite (Dune, LotR, WoT, Potter, Enderverse, couple others).

I've seen some good reviews and look forward to it more now knowing it's not just 2.5 hours lol
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The notch is an abomination

Hundreds of millions of iPhone owners seem OK with it.
I know you don't mean to imply this ... but this is a bit condescending.

Walmart probably more than anything else has uplifted the lives of the bottom 1/3 and given them to live at the material standard of living rivalling the middle class.

The truth is - most things we use, we don't need very high quality.

Your plates, knives, glasses? They'll outlast you.

Your clothes will as well, unless you're using them for labour, in which case people know quality matters.

The basketball you buy is not going to get worn out any time soon.

But the ability to be cookery, deck chairs, plastic anything, video games, music, sporting good, bedding etc. is basically transformational.

I do think there are quality issues (and cultural) here and there but for most part it's a pretty big win.
I think you are missing the big picture in the details.

For the long-term growth is constrained by the sum of all campaign budgets, and those budgets are set by advertisers themselves.

What the company needs to do is to keep advertisers happy enough to have them increase the budgets, and also prevent the software engineers from breaking the system with bugs enough that the advertisers would walk away.
I agree, and it feels like a notch on such an expensive device is the perfect troll.

I am happy though that real keyboards are back.. I hope the notch doesn't make it to other devices...

It's my hopes that M1 and ARM in general can make massive inroads simply because of power efficiency, but I hope for it to be done outside a walled garden and I hope it can adapt to the X86 "builder" space... Otherwise its just a matter of time before Intel/AMD catch up (and bechmarks of new Intel leaks appear to be doing well - and i'll be honest, i have no complaints on my current gen intel or amd either)
Do you expect the average WordPress user to edit HTML directly and upload it to a webserver? The examples seem to mostly show this as a GUI for compiling (not editing) Jinja templates, while WordPress does a lot more. The quickstart shows directly editing HTML files with the only example of non-html being an `include` statement and a link to the Jinja docs.

Is this not more comparable to using php's built in templating options than it is to a full CMS?
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Whatever his responsibility for some of the mistakes over the last few years, that doesn't wipe away his incredible contributions over several decades.