skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> percentage of wealth and not just of income

It's hard to list all the problems with this, but here are some obvious ones.

Wealth includes assets. Assets can be depreciating, like cars or stocks that have done badly. By taxing these assets, you are forcing the owner to realize a loss on the asset. That would make billionaires much more afraid to take risks with their money, which could easily harm society.

This scheme also means there's essentially a tax on all billionaires' assets in the US. The effect of this would just be that billionaires spend more time and money working around the laws or moving their money offshore. It is unlikely to result in the US substantially increasing its tax revenue.

It would be a lot better to do what some other developed nations do: reduce taxes on people's paychecks (and even corporate profits) to nearly 0% and increase capital gains taxes substantially.

This means that people and corporations that actually do something to make their income are taxed a lot less, encouraging that behavior. People who just make money by having money (and not actually producing anything) are taxed a lot more.

This would dramatically reduce the pool of venture capital in the US, but that is perhaps a good thing. It would ideally kill companies like WeWork without harming companies like Moderna.
I like to think the Canadian/Toronto version of this phrase is "Temporarily Embarrassed Homeowners"
The trucking industry was massively deregulated in 1980, opening up pricing competition and making entry into the industry easier. While this was likely as net positive for society (lower prices), trucking wages have been on the decline ever since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Carrier_Act_of_1980
Escaping the bitter long path dependency we're on- not just trying to rectify some wrongs, but to really make better goes, make some changes to really try over, try better- it's so hard.

I really want to see a more progressive activitism take off, see some shared hope for much wider, much better. Rather than just tangling with iniquities, trying to vault to a higher level.
The takings clause of the fifth amendment prohibits a wealth tax. The federal government can only do income taxes.
Yes to both. If I cannot walk down my street in the evening, I am not free. We are lacking in prisons.
> GPUs need to be first-class players in the OS

I've been starting to wonder, taking a crazy-stupid extreme, whether a GPU unit should be in charge of booting. Perhaps you boot into a graphical interpeter (like a boot into BASIC of old) which can then implement a menu (or have "autoexec.bas") to select a heavyweight OS to boot into.
An also-effective approach is just to take the improv classes without ever performing on stage. That's all I did, but the lessons have stuck with me.

These days there seem to be more improv classes that are friendly to that, just people who like playing with one another. So if people are scared even by the classes, I'd suggest asking the instructor for something that's very beginner-friendly and not totally oriented on performance.
It’s fun as a snapshot of Usenet culture from way back.
How do you think that will prevent horrible deaths? Will the animals that need to hunt and eat prey suddenly not be hungry?
There doesn't seem to be a place to ask a question like this that would get a large readership on Hackaday.io ..
That’s like asking why someone would choose a bigger FPGA when a smaller one does the same thing for less cost. The answer is: the bigger one has a different feature set. In this case, it’s access to all 30 of the GPIO.
Social anxiety is a real burden to live with. I'm in the same boat that you are, even when people are being very friendly with me and are obviously interested in getting to know me I can seem so uncomfortable that it is off-putting to them. I've been accused of being stuck up before when honestly I'm just very shy. If I could suggest anything that is fairly easy to start thinking about, I would suggest garnering a sense of style. Buy clothes that make you feel comfortable and make you look good- even if your look is unconventional the ability to express one's identity through fashion builds confidence.
I'm not going to die on this hill, but that seems like a lot of complexity for a company with in-house skills, maybe even the worst of both (in-house vs cloud/managed) worlds.
You don't seem to understand what I wrote so I'll explain it:

- imagine a slow-but-secure browser, 10 to 100 times as slow and using 10 times as much memory as stated by the parent poster

- imagine your bank and payment processor using a minimal amount of Javascript on their sites to make it possible to use that secure-but-slow browser without incurring too big a performance penalty

Do you now see what I mean? It is not that your financial institutions would zero-day you, it is that you'd use the secure-but-slow browser (or browser mode) to access those sites. Secure, because you're dealing with financial data. Slow because that is what the parent poster stated as the price he'd be willing to pay for a secure browser.

You can you your insecure-but-speedy browser to watch cat videos where the H4CkZ0Rz can try to zero-day you to their hearts content because that browser does not have access to sensitive data. You could try to watch those cat videos with the secure-but-slow browser but that'd transport you back to the late 90's with single-digit frame rates (cat slide shows?).
I think it would be cool if browsers shipped with WASM-compiled interpreters and runtimes for other languages, like they do with JavaScript.

That way you'd be able to use other languages in the browser without needing users to download 20MB of a WASM-compiled interpreter just to run 1KB of code.
> While it would be fun to punt a billion dollar spacecraft into the sun just to see the weird spikes on the telemetry data, you can't actually get any realtime data from the probe during close solar approach.

Such a glaring blind spot could potentially hinder law enforcement to the point that visibility into future investigations goes completely dark.

What would it take to blow up the sun?
> That has to tell you something

I wasn't completely serious with that comparison (that they bought all the toilet paper). But saving energy, turning down the heating, isn't that mentally advanced? And people do plan a bit ahead, otherwise people couldn't have survived in the cold parts of Europe (if they didn't plan for the winter).

> When it means not being able to sleep because of cold

Seems to me that the state and municipalities should be able to save some gas and oil, for the coldest days.

But I'd say it's not that cold. Where I live (in northern Europe), I frequently wear extra jumpers, instead of using the heaters at all -- works also with snow outdoors and the lake frozen to ice (did you try? Put on a jacket and a winter cap, if it doesn't seem to work, and double trousers and 3 x socks).

> So the solution is to subsidise people on the countryside, subsidise people needing vans or trucks [...] subsidise [...] subsidise [...] subsidise ... the list goes on [...]

Sounds like too much subsidies.

Instead, look at society's covid response: Public transport drivers, and health care workers, and teachers -- all of them got to continue working, in spite of the virus. Such job roles could be prioritized, now as well.

> Benelux is the poster child for a society built for bicycles, in practice it only works for 5~10% of the population

That's interesting. What about buses and subways? Where I live, few people go by bike. Instead, buses and subways.

Couldn't the state hire more bus drivers, in Benelux, so fewer people needed cars. And people could do ride sharing, so there wasn't just 1 person per car. There could be ride sharing websites, and the state could ask everyone to use them.

Look at this:

Occupancy rate (passengers per vehicle), Commuting to/from work: 1.1 - 1.2

https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/ENVISSUENo12/page029....

But one can fit 5 people in a car. This indicates that by coordinating traveling to / from work, the gas needed for commuting, could be reduced (theoretically almost 80% but I suppose 50% would be more realistic).

> Trigger points are : getting a child, changing jobs to something further away [...]

Interesting.

> We are very far away from a carless world

Hmm, what you describe sounds like a careless world to me? I mean, people prioritizing their cars and gas, and being okay with others then more likely getting bombed, elsewhere. (Don't know if you meant to write something else)

> puts the biggest amount of the weight on the poor. I don't find that acceptable

Do you find it acceptable, though, to give money to Putin so he can continue bombing? That sounds like a greater evil to me.

It's about choosing the least bad thing, I think.

There's also rationing -- controlled distribution of gas and oil, so everyone got the same amount. Or, prices could be low, until one's household had consumed X amount of gas -- then, the prices would rise, sharply, for that household. A bit like progressive taxes, but for gas and oil.
I just ignore stuff I don’t like, it’s a lot easier.
... wow.

I'm not usually one to judge what others spend their time/energy/motivation on, but you may want to re-evaluate your priorities.

Is having a game with that level of "unhackability" - because lets be honest, there's no such thing as unhackability - really worth everything that would have to be given up, from right to repair, right to own your hardware, the ability to not arbitrarily be locked out of something you put money into because <you were injured and lost an eye|your hardware broke and misread something|You develop a lazy eye| n number of anything else>?

If it's that important to you, play a game where cheaters are dealt with the old fashioned way. I'm ready for a break from corp hosted game servers, give me a server I can run myself.
Schwarzenegger had a Problem with James Cameron's Terminator 2 Script
I still don't see why this would be a problem. Substitute light with sound and sight with hearing. We can exceed the speed of sound and produce noises that some observer would perceive in the incorrect order (in fact, happens all the time with supersonic jets). And the world doesn't seem to break because of that, no?
I'm not sure I buy the premise of the question.

Professional web developers don't have time to create elaborate abstractions for the sake of making their code "semantic" and easily understood by visitors reading their website's source.

Websites are ultimately for the user agent. "Semantic" HTML and CSS were never really so. They were guidelines to create code that was way more abstract than necessary and smuggled in a lot of terminology and concepts from print media, all of which were somewhat important before there were things like Firebug and proper dev tools.
Traffic doesn't make me anxious, even when I'm driving a large vehicle, and not every truck driver is a long haul trucker.
The author of that book did a Google Talk about the book some time ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABw26imw4m4
As he says, Squeak already runs on bare metal, so why have a version with Oberon below? He himself admits in the talk that a system as he proposes would have two languages rather than one (i.e., go against the spirit of SmallTalk systems and LISP machines that he praises earlier in his task).

There are Smalltalk ports on top of LuaJIT and Oberon ports on top of LuaJUT, so there is at least one reality where the two languages sit side-by-side (rather than on top of each other as the talk proposes); see Michael Engel's talk on Vimeo for more details.
Do the best work you can, have a good attitude, and that’s about the best you can do. Be kind to others, but don’t let others take advantage of you. If you still get fired, you’re better off not being with that employer, and look at it as a net positive as opposed to a negative.

The reality is that at least in the US right now, it’s much more of an employee’s market than an employer’s market.

In 10 or 15 years from now, do you feel you’ll look back and think that all the worrying was a good use of your time and energy?
Not noticing doesn't mean the world doesn't care. There are a lot of reasons people vanish and it's harder to notice the absence of something than its existence, and people usually vanish for positive reasons, so I think nothing of it. I cried after discovering some people I hadn't known personally but were adjacent to me have died. I didn't notice their absence but I can empathize with the suffering they felt before their death, or the feelings of their family coming to grip with their absence.

While I have a strong emotional reaction to it, I don't think it's a bad thing, it is a part of life and a reminder for me to savor life.
man ulimit

Not sure what constitutes a regular Linux system but apart from the shell command the underlying ulimit syscall getrlimit(2) is in the kernel itself. One can set hard and soft limits on a per process granularity.

Normally each service has a dedicated uid and limits as well as nice levels are set in /etc/security/limits.conf which is read on login sessions by pam_limits.

This is in every bsd- and posix-like system and some of the soft limits have standardised signals assigned to them. The man page has all the details and is easy enough to understand.
Not to mention that a lot of downstream projects using the OSM data set only update once every few weeks / months so by the time the data hits, its already old.
Men can get a vasectomy, if they are 100% sure they don't want kids, ever.

Women can get a copper IUD with no hormonal side effects inserted in a few minutes and will be protected against pregnancy for up to 10 years (or can opt to have it removed at any time).

If pregnancy occurs, women can just order pills online [0] that will stop it (as long as they detect it in the early stages). Men have no control in the matter. If a woman decides to go forth with a pregnancy against the man's will, he can either abandon his child and have his wages garnished for 18 years, or accept his new situation and become a father.

To be clear, I think the idea that a woman's partner should have any control over whether she gets an abortion is absurd. But women clearly have the advantage when it comes to reproductive choices right now. I hope male birth control pills can help change that.

[0] https://www.plancpills.org/
Does his drug dealer bear some responsibility? Courts would charge him with committing crimes causing harm to the people they sell to.
>Firefox zero-day that was being used to read people's private SSH keys

Backup there. I somehow have not heard about this. What was the vector? What was the exposure? E.g. have I leaked the contents of ~/.ssh to some (hopefully small, at least) subset of sites I've visited? Where can I learn more?
The API documentation need is actually better served by something like Zeal: https://zealdocs.org/
Anyone know if qutebrowser is affected?
Just to add to the reply, the AdS/CFT correspondence (aka Maldacena duality) was proposed by Juan Maldacena, one of the authors of this paper (Humanly traversable wormholes).
>That's not a desktop.

Yes, it's a laptop, a slimmer portable desktop with a built in battery, keyboard, mouse and display, so even better value for money making an even stronger argument against your outdated and overpriced example.

>That was on sale at Christmas

No it wasn't on sale. Why are you twisting my words? I literally said I bought it last Christmas. Not everything you buy around Christmas is on sale. Look at the price now, it hasn't changed.

>That's the same price and performance as an M1 MacBook Air

It's not the same price, not even close. A base M1 CPU MacBook air specced up on their website to the same 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD is 1819 Euros, nearly 2.5x the price of the ~780 Euro Ryzen PC laptop I gave as an example.

>It is currently not on sale for that price and is above 800 Euros

What are you talking about? It literally is on sale and in stock at 3900 RON (~780 Euros) at the link I shared above.

>You gave a sale item in another country

I gave you a link from another EU country (EU tech pricing is similar within the block), since you claimed we don't have good options for PCs in Europe under 800 USD, you didn't specifically ask about Portugal. Read your own comment again please.

> with a spec you prefer that has no bearing on the average consumer.

No, I picked a spec that's closest to a base MacBook air in price, performance and form factor, but with double the RAM and four times the storage since some people need the extra memory and storage.

As this conversation is degrading and going nowhere productive, I will have to end my side of the conversation with you here and never reply to you again. Have a nice evening sir.
Interesting that the North-Koreans are trying to beat the Westerners at their own meme-based propaganda game.

I've started noticing a similar trend in regards to the war in Ukraine. When you've got all the establishment (political&intellectual&cultural) and the press on one side and one side only (Ukraine's and Zelensky's) then the other side (in this case Putin and the Russians) becomes the "counter-cultural" force, the"bad guys" that the "under-current" present on the "good guys"'s side might try to emulate out of spite at some point.

Again, interesting stuff, because I have the feeling that the West is kind of "losing" this aspect of the propaganda war, I mean, they're losing the fight when all they present to the world is a united front of "goodness". They're leaving the "counter-cultural" side of the "war" to their enemies (in this case the Russians), not a good sign.

I'd say the US was much more careful about this sort of stuff back in the '60s going all the way to the '80s, I'd say in this day and age movies like "Apocalypse Now" or "Rambo I" (a Vietnam veteran "combating" against the US Army on US soil!) would never get made because they would "break" that unified front of "goodness". It was also through movies like "Apocalypse Now" and "Rambo" that the US won the Cold War (I grew up as a kid on the East side of the Wall, if it matters).
IMHO something was lost when hard drives no longer had their own write-protect switch (remembering back to DEC rack-mount spinning drives).
Another suggestion:

Computer Organization

By V. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Vranesic and Safwat G. Zaky

Published by McGraw-Hill

I typed that in from the cover of the Second Edition, but that edition has a copyright date of 1984, so there are probably newer editions available given that this copy is now 38 years old.

Also:

Digital Logic and Computer Design

By M. Morris Mano

Unfortunately I don't have my copy of this one handy to find the publisher
>The American dream doesn’t exist and it never did.

I think this guy just hates America and hates that people successfully buy into the concept of the American Dream. This is like saying, “Allah doesn’t exist and you’re a stupid moron for building your country around him.”. You can kvetch all you want but clearly a lot of people have successfully built their countries around Islam and clearly a lot of people have actualized the American Dream.
Truthfully, I think systemd-nspawn and Firejail are better solutions than Docker for GUI apps and desktop use.
I prefer the best of both worlds. I've been making a YAML like widget syntax in code using an immediate mode GUI written in Nim. It let's me write things like:

Horizontal:
box 10.WPerc, 100, 8.Em, 2.Em

Button:
text: fmt"Clicked4: {self.count:4d}"
setup: size 8.Em, 2.Em
onClick: self.count.inc()

https://github.com/elcritch/fidget/blob/devel/tests/basicwid...
I would encourage you to spend time in those spaces with no intention to interact. Just go and spend time observing your thoughts and feelings. If you feel like you don't have much vocabulary for your emotions, two book I really recommend are Brene Brown's "Atlas of the Heart" [1], where a researcher names, describes, and compares the various emotions, and "The Emotion Thesaurus" [2], a writer's guide that includes a lot of description that can help with pattern-matching.

Once you have a handle on the feelings and what triggers them, I think you'll get some insight into the currently unknown reasons. I'd be you'll also have theories on how to work around it, but if not, a good therapist can help.

[1] https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Emotion-Thesaurus-Writers-Character-E...
Python won because people who knew math/science domains only knew Python (or it was the best they knew). And so they made libraries for Python. And it propogated like many other bad ideas based on ignorance.

Python is a miserably bad language for modern times. If you know any of half a dozen other languages, then you understand.

There was a good essay, from Paul Graham?, about the ladder of awareness of programming languages. Unfortunately I can't find it now.

The point is, Python has won and is frankly terrible. It has inconsistent features, but it has an awkward OOP approach (in a time when OOP is finally being recognized as bad itself), as well as seriously lacking basic language features which are only appearing as of 3.9 and 3.10.

Frameworks like Django and Django Rest Framework expand on these bad ideas, creating monstrosities which make the PHP code of yore look arguably decent.

Sadly, I don't think there's any way to kill this. The only option is to vastly outperform the Python people and produce reliable, readable, performant solutions in half the time and beat them to market. Perhaps someday they will die off.
What kind of agenda is being pushed for this SIX year old low quality stub news article about milk to be pushed to the front page? Drink raw milk, or don't.
It seems more likely to me that I'll accidentally let my domain expire than that google kills my gmail account
So according to a Snap developer, Snap is more popular on Ubuntu, the only distribution that comes with it preloaded. That does not say anything about Snap’s popularity.

Vendor interest they have, community interest they lack. And if it continues, lack of community interest will result in a lack of vendor interest.
Core functionality for all these devices will work perfectly well without an app.

For functionality that does need additional configuration (like extra buttons, RGB colors), you will have to install a companion app and use it once.

There's no case where a peripheral will be non-functional unless a heavy electron app is permanently running alongside it, as the parent comment alleged. If there is, it is absolutely not the standard.
That is only for platform styles. It's a small part of a GUI toolkit.
Mate, the website is just a collection of links to the actual research. I’m being asked for sources, I give tons of very credible sources, and your retort is to just claim that now they are cherry picked?

Sure, we can ALWAYS find a source that supports whatever claim we want to make. But let’s look at the general scientific consensus.

The overwhelming majority of research indicates that veganism is perfectly healthy. That’s what I linked! Your single journalistic summary of summary about non-causal associations between meat eating and depression don’t undo the general scientific consensus.
Microsoft is not focused on security. The amount of trivially exploitable extremely serious security bugs in Azure scream "nobody even pretends to think about security here".
I'd love that too, if I was a better programer I'd likely fork Chromium and build in Python support.
Using allah as a strawman? That's a paddlin'
"This is war" is a platitude/power/martyrdom fantasy that is far more likely to get you into legal, reputational and other workplace trouble than "build something people want".
I did the same. But the web is basically unusable for me now and devs seem unsympathetic.