skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this is a straw man arguement - There is a presupposition that the only purpose of tax-cuts here is trickle down effects. There is also a concern of increasing inequality.

Modern Inequality is _not_ driven by tax rate. The tax system in the USA is a income tax (the only thing authorized in the constitution). What folks here have created is wealth that is relatively il-liquid. What has changed is that interest rates are low enough that the wealthy have used loans against their stock to generate revenue. This is also because of the government working to keep interest rates artificially low.

On the flip side, the poor in America pay virtually no federal income tax, and rarely state income once tax credits and rates are worked in.

So who would increasing the tax rate hurt? The middle class - upper middle class in particular. They don't have the capacity to do investment backed loans to circumvent income tax, nor do they qualify for reduced tax rates (often zero at a federal tax level) for poorer Americans.

I suspect the point where tax rates for the rich matters sailed a long time ago. It was effective in some places, ineffectual in some other places. It certainly was part of the financial breakthrough in the 1980s, but had other problems.

So instead, a more basic question - what is a fair level of taxation given equal protection clauses in the USA? and also given that we don't want to disincentivize people working to better their own financial situation.
We could be doing that since the 90’s…
>And yet they are "terrorists"

Says who?

> but thugs who use firearms against police, and raid armory's are simply "protestors".

Says who? Those who defend against Kazakh police following a shoot to kill order, I'd call them a hero.
It's unclear to me the answers to these questions tell us anything useful.
His argument here is that web3, as it exists today, isn't actually decentralized. Also:

> These technologies immediately tended towards centralization through platforms in order for them to be realized, that this has ~zero negatively felt effect on the velocity of the ecosystem, and that most participants don’t even know or care it’s happening. This might suggest that decentralization itself is not actually of immediate practical or pressing importance to the majority of people downstream, that the only amount of decentralization people want is the minimum amount required for something to exist, and that if not very consciously accounted for, these forces will push us further from rather than closer to the ideal outcome as the days become less early.

Per the post, he's in favor of decentralization that "uses cryptography (rather than infrastructure) to distribute trust," he's just skeptical that web3 will head in this direction.
Nit: Isn't this number taking into account stock that vested this year from a multi-year cliff, and stock appreciation that happened during that time? If so, seems misleading to not amortize it over the period of the grant.
a computer "hemming and hawing" as that one accident where it couldn't decide if it was a bicycle or a person has nothing to do with the training. It's what the developers decided to do with input that had a low confidence score. There will ALWAYS be low-confidence ratings on real world data regardless of how good your training is.

Instead of saying "oh crap there's SOMETHING there we should stop" they said "huh, no let's loop on testing it until we figure it out or run it over....whichever comes first."
> We’d all have our own web server with our own web site, our own mail server for our own email, our own finger sever for our own status messages, our own chargen server for our own character generation. However – and I don’t think this can be emphasized enough – that is not what people want. People do not want to run their own servers.

I must be stuck in the past.

It's true. No one wants to run an arcane, buggy, insecure, wonky POS that needs constant patching. This is really a failure of software and shoving all that up a level into the cloud is not fixing anything. At least with your own hardware you can nuke it and start over from scratch. With your own hardware (and disks), you at least know where your data resides.

We live in a time where you can get a 4 TB NAS for essentially nothing. You can drop a 8 core, 32GB RAM server on top of that for less than $1k. I don't know what other people's scaling needs are--who knows, maybe they need to serve 100 PB?--but it's a mind blowing amount of computation. Most people can probably serve their silly websites off that. If you can't handle your own email load on a server like that, I honestly have no idea what you're up to.

I kind of do want to run my own ones of those things...but I know (with today's software) I'd hate it. Because even after all these years, it kind of terrifies me, the metric shitton of stuff I have had no clue how to do, and I know is way over complicated...because everything is way overcomplicated.
For the curious, here's a map of major watersheds in North America. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/watershed-map-north-americ...
No, like most states, nonresidents owe California tax on income earned from work in the state, regardless of the source, not based on the source of the income.
According to a quick google, 729 sq ft is the average property size here in the UK.

https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/lifestyle/property/a354052...
Lol - I can see how that could be construed that way. No, I'm definitely no NIMBYist. But I think character of neighbourhood is really important, and I think it is definitely possible to do these kinds of developments in harmony with the existing landscape environment.

Probably well exemplified by Frank Lloyd Wright in the mis-century who created what he called 'usonian' homes. These were small block specific homes intended for workers that were completely in keeping with the surrounds.
> Secondly, for every successful CEO package, there are hundreds of others that you don't hear about because they failed to meet goals laid out in their compensation package

Are there any notable examples of a CEO missing a target and getting paid less than they could have?
Yes, and it's worth noting that the FDA, CDC, NIH, as well as their international counterparts, ALL missed the quite significant myocarditis side effects, especially in younger, fitter, men. It wasn't until the DoD had crippled thousands of its own warfighters (possibly for life) that that particular nasty side effect came to light.

It's looking increasingly likely that there are a great many other side effects that may only become obvious on a long term basis - by definition we still can have NO IDEA what the long term risks of these never-before-tried "vaccines" may be.

Bill Joy was absolutely right - biotech and genetic engineering is BY FAR the most dangerous technology on the planet, and we're seeing that play out to our horror right now - there is no way to stuff this gene-ie back in the bottle!
What if they replaced him with someone currently making the average compensation at Apple?
This would seem to line up well with this bls data from March of 2020 [1], which shows an average split of ~20-25% employee to 75-80% employer.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/factsheet/medical-care-premiums-...
>As a consumer I love it, but it's a risky strategy from a stickiness standpoint.

And why we should support Sketch and similar companies with buy-once licensing and shun those that force you into the subscription hell model.
> at the cost of two broken ribs

Sorry about the ribs, but I'm glad they were trained well. Proper CPR breaks ribs.

I helped rescue a drowning man once. I pulled him from the water (he had been under a few minutes), and long story short, other folks did the CPR, and later a defib. The man died, but I had the impression his ribs survived.

Very glad to hear your outcome was different.
Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Fall_of_Night or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_and_the_Stars ? Also sounds similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run but doesn't quite match.
This just goes to show the immense cultural power of defaults
Can anybody who used "new" loops interface in Logic say how it compares? I like not reinventing my workflows.
Are you really suggesting an assembly line worker could do the job of Apple's CEO?
Reporters and editors still equating average and median.
> I would like to share that far from sticking it to big companies, piracy hurt independent creators way more than big corporate interests.

Does someone remember the Bill Gates line about Windows piracy in China from the 1990s? Someone said something like "There are 300 million pirated copies of Windows in China" and Bill Gates responded "I'd rather they pirate Windows than use something else."
Whether it's fair or not, money is money and I'd accept it. Rejecting it harms no one but yourself.
Let me save you a click:

> fueled by stock awards that helped him earn a total of nearly $100 million.

It was overwhelmingly stock, not direct pay.
I don't like that when an actually good successor to web2 comes along it won't be called web3 because of this bullshit that they call web3.
Did Tim Cook ever design, build, or package any product that apple makes or just tell people what to do?
This smells like the classic "you can build your own Dropbox easily" comment. Just because it's technologically feasible doesn't mean people want to do so.
Why 666?
We should just enshrine into law that we won’t bail them out this time
1400 is absurd.

1400 suggest these corporations are far too large.

It means that there a tiny elite which have the power to buy out everything away from the worker class, be that essentials like housing or luxuries like concert or sports tickets. If concert tickets were priced by the "free market" alone then typical workers simply would never be able to afford them as evidenced by the amount of scalping that happens.

When you have a small powerful elite which can price out the average person from whole markets entirely you have a really broken system.
The "trailing comma creates a tuple" bug actually comes from a disconnect between what people think defines a tuple (parenthesis) and what really does (comma). I always put parenthesis around a tuple for clarity.
The R&D is funded by the tax payers money so why the data is not public in the first place? Or at least mandatory to hand it over to the FDA / peer review process.
We are not talking about a request for POTUS tax returns.

The process is defined by the Freedom of Information Act itself and not the Department of Health and Human Services. Here is the act https://www.justice.gov/oip/freedom-information-act-5-usc-55...
and by law there only 9 exemption categories that allow a US agency to withhold information. They are:
1. classified information for national defense or foreign policy
2. internal personnel rules and practices
3. information that is exempt under other laws
4. trade secrets and confidential business information
5. inter-agency or intra-agency memoranda or letters that are protected by legal privileges
6. personnel and medical files
7. law enforcement records or information
8. information concerning bank supervision
9. geological and geophysical information
It's notable if they meet the targets, not if they miss the targets. So, no, we wouldn't hear about the reverse in the news.
> So you could pay in coins, in sheep, in yarn, with your time or in whatever. That is not important, it is still an exchange and equivalent to trading.

But how do coins, sheep, yarn, or whatever, originally come to be? If nothing is free, there must be an infinite chain of trade, leading back to an infinite past. But cosmology and evolution suggest otherwise.
And this concludes our demo of "guilt by association" concept.
Apple is worth 3 trillion dollars; The stock has surged over 1,000% since Cook took charge. Is it really surprising that he took home 100 million? It pales in comparison to Musk's $250B. If he can increase the stock value just 0.01% it pays for his entire compensation package 3x over.
> I'm sure they will figure it out before it is too late.

It's already too late.
Companies are larger? If the CEO used to earn 1% of cumulative salary of all workers, and now they earn 0.5% but there's 4x as many workers, that's still a 2x increase. Why would you expect entry level workers wages to increase in proportion to company size?
Chasing after CEOs is a red herring. There should be more outrage directed at the financial institutions that really pull the strings.
Do the product designers mine metal ore?
Then how do we know this phenomenon exists?
Since my current health insurance (blue shield) costs ~$30K/year, that would be a huge win.
Photo of Venus backlit by the sun. You can see it has an atmosphere from Earth
I agree that communicating these concepts is hard, but that characterization of "very rare" and "impossible" only makes it harder.

Pandemics are very rare. Flying unicorns shooting Ebola out of their horns are impossible.
I'm saying they could do it better than their pay ratio currently suggests. Being a CEO is not that hard.
Sounds like an extreme amount of red tape, the same type of red tape that cost us hundreds of thousands of lives early in the pandemic.
And his arguments in favour of centralization are flawed. Sure, regular people do not want to run their own (email, chat, etc) servers. But they DO want to be able to chose from a handful of available servers the one they like best (or the one they trust most), without losing connectivity with their contacts. Tired of Google's shenanigans, move from Gmail to Protonmail, tell your contacts your new email, set up an autoresponder, all is fine. When you move away from a centralized silo like Signal, you'll have to move all your chat buddies with you to a new platform.
I do - and I sympathize, because I was living 600 miles away from my girlfriend before the pandemic, and it was everything going remote that let me move to be near her.
Possibly more relevant: if you took someone off the assembly line and put them in charge ten years ago, would the company perform worse by at least the value of Tim Cook's compensation over that period?

Impossible to know for sure (can't A/B test history), but my guess would be "probably".
> Reporters and editors still equating average and median.

Median is an average and usually the most relevant average, in the cases where you don't have a distribution where the main averages (median, arithmetic mean, and mode) are all the same.
We're saying literally anyone could do the job of Apple's CEO.
You gotta realize that these gov agencies give bad faith arguments to say that they can't release records routinely. These government agencies know full fucking well that these records will be responsive to FOIA and yet they still don't make efforts to make it accessible and releasable to the public. Same goes to Pfizer. It's our responsibility as a public to make sure important information like this isn't being hidden.

Their litigation is aggressive, there's no doubt there. But does that mean the information isn't any less important? Back when the pandemic started, a lot of FOIA nerds were hesitant to submit FOIAs because of the issues around quarantine, WFH etc. At the end though, transparency is such a fundamentally important part of our understanding of our own governance that it's important that we don't hold back on important issues like this.

It doesn't even really matter too much if the organization won't use the docs themselves. Their litigation is making it available to the public. If they're not going to look through them, someone will.
That's very interesting. We just hear 'tax cuts for the rich' and just get angry about the privileged not paying their fair share.

'Tax cuts for the Rich' has become kind of a buzzword phrase, like defund the police or climate change.

it sounds totally obvious on an emotional level but the devil is in the details.
Normal sleep for me was, thinking about tomorrow til all of a sudden I open my eyes and now it's tomorrow.

It's been a long time since those days, I guess age is bad that way. For some reason in my early 30s I started having very realistic and very, very bad dreams every...single...night. I'd spend time startled, then relieved, then basically afraid to fall back asleep every night.

By accident I found something that helped...I had an old DVD player that would keep looping the intro if you didn't do anything. I'd put in a movie called 'Winged Migration' and fell right to sleep. I don't know if it's because I recognized the sounds and it grounded me, or because it's an awesome peaceful soundtrack, but it completely helped my dream problem! I'm not one that listens to music to relax, or work, or anything. But to this day I'll play that soundtrack before bed if my brain is acting up again.

I guess I now see the value in all those natural sound CDs that were all the rage.
The reCaptcha check boxes straight up fail for me now in FF on Linux, have done for a few months.
How about just goto?
If you imagine that the new house might have more bedrooms and bathrooms than the old house, and more modern design. I can see why the new one would be valued higher.
Understanding Apple ProRAW (2020)
Congrats Tim, I'm going to buy a $19 Apple Polishing Cloth in celebration.
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/lbs

Lumber peaked at $1400, fell to $500, but now is approaching $1200 again.
Are we asking how do we know when companies fail, or how do we know whether committees set executive compensation based on targets?

Executive compensation for public companies is actually public -- shareholders vote on it every year in the proxy filings. This is sometimes called "Say on Pay"
ComposeJS – a whole backend inside react
Question: are there any barriers to workers forming a collective and hiring Tim Cook to manage them at, say, 1399 instead of 1400?
I developed a speech recognition service for journalists couple years ago, now migrating it to voxpop.live (it was speech.media). Unfortunately, ASR I used (Amazon) wasn't good enough in Russian (my main target was Russian journalists).
Now, I am thinking what to do next with it, lets get in touch and exchange ideas?

The best on the market AST in my opinion is Speechmatics, but to use it commercially you need to deposit $10k. Btw there are services that let you train your own model, i.e. https://www.defined.ai

Also as an idea, to use GPT-3 and correct any model response (punctuation, summary) but its gonna be expensive!
Since many people are working remotely, and since there is no exemption for natural immunity (having already had covid), I think this is heavy-handed. In general I don't want companies making the health decisions of their workers.
Apple Music is terrible with no help from Siri.
Say, I listen to Dva, the czech duo.
Apparently it is the same artist as some rapper Dva.
I wonder who gets the money.
Don’t get me started on “various artists”.
Or search.
Of course the guy who wants to find his own path and share his ideas is literally Hitler. If you ask "how ridiculous ideological bubbles can be", the answer is - this ridiculous.
> I think Sneakers was a lot more realistic and well-researched than people give it credit.

Given that the screenwriter worked on it for nine years (something I just learned via this article) it sounds very plausible that he thorougly did his homework
I found it in the AppStore searching for sync thing.

Location: Norway.
If you start a green field C++ project, would you choose Folly, Boost only, or Abseil?
As ever, it depends, probably on whether your code is dominated by matrix-matrix linear algebra. BLIS DGEMM on my SKX workstation runs at ~88GF, or ~48 if I restrict it to using the haswell configuration (somewhat different on a typical compute node).

But yes, I'd rather have twice the cores and memory bandwidth with AVX2. For those that don't know: non-benchmark code usually doesn't get close to peak floating point performance, constrained by memory bandwidth and/or inter-node communication. Everyone is trying to get the compute performance from GPUs anyway.
As much as I hate cryptocurrency as-it-exists, I'm very much into its potential. Untraceable (eg Monero) digital cash that settles instantly? That has the potential to disrupt societies.

The problem is that most societies don't have a particular need of being disrupted, so people are perfectly content paying with their credit cards, and why shouldn't they be? The UX is better and the banks are fine as long as they don't piss off a too-large portion of the population.

Still, I would love it if I could use, say, Nano (as it has very limited PoW) to pay for things instantly and securely. I'm hoping a miracle happens, but I don't think it will, or it would already have happened.
Source of human heart muscle cells allows strong reduction of animal testing
Moderna use has been suspended for individuals <30y in several Scandinavian countries due to its side effects.

The point discussed is not whether it works or not, but what are the actual safety parameters.
I know a a pair of people in Colorado with Teslas. They both readily admit their battery life is significantly shortened in very cold weather and that charging takes longer. There's also the significant issue that where ICE's power accessories such as fans and generate hot coolant for heating a BEV has to power fans and heat air as well as propel itself down the road.
Shorter winter range and significantly bad handling in the winter due to the weight of the Teslas so they tend to drive SUVs in winter especially in hilly terrain where BEVs can suddenly expire
I can't see the point in paying anyone this much, no matter what they do.
The value of oxygen is incredibly high, but the supply makes it priced low.
Almost by definition, the higher the value of an executive, the lower the supply.

As companies get bigger, the executives are able to add more value. If you have an executive leading the largest company,(i.e. Apple valuation wise), they have the largest ability to add value. And what is the supply for that? So far only one person, the current CEO, has experience. This creates a very limited supply where the pay matches the value created closer than in the vast majority of professions.
Nvidia tool generates full 3D models from a single still image
As an engineer, I feel like this single post helped me better understand Web3 and how it worked under the hood better than any of the heavily hyped Discord and Twitter announcements of new projects over the past year.

It's interesting how tightly coupled Metamask is to all of the other big crypto / NFT marketplaces. Feels like the "distributed web" portion of it has just been an over-exaggeration all along.
C lets me do this, and doesn't say much about it.

char ch_arr[3][10] = {
"uno",
"dos"
"tres"
};
Did you know TWN charge ridiculous $$ to their clients for this data which they don’t even ask users the permission to share?

Oh just sharing my PII data such as SSN, DOB, how much I make, earnings, deductions, 401K, my previous sal, where I worked everything without my consent? I mean the f&$k!

Why are employers/ payroll providers sharing this data without users consent? It’s not theirs to share?
every time you recompress a file you lose quality
Is there a waiting period before you can transfer to another org or RIR?
Remember Gabe Newell: "Piracy is almost always a service problem, not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

Show me the online service that lets me purchase any TV show or movie ever produced, in the highest resolution the media was mastered in, and allow me to play it on whatever device I choose--and I will be a paying customer for life. The service simply doesn't exist outside of piracy.
You might be interested in the refutation of some of those arguments by Daniel Gultsch: https://gultsch.de/objection.html