skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Andrew Tate is definitely guilty of TOS violations on more than one platform (and a whole lot more egregious offences like quasi-legal sex trafficking but I digress) so I'm not sure that a millionaire who does not require social media to peddle his brand of fascistic garbage is the best example of big tech censorship.
A marginal sales tax is not a tax based on the fraction of your income/wealth that you spend, it is simply based on the nominal amount of spend.

Obviously this whole idea is politically impossible as it would result in huge wealth redistribution, but it is funny that with all the technological innovations, a simple exponential function for determining taxes is considered to not be feasible.
> Why do you think this?

Anyone with a bayesian world-model thinks this. It's one of the most tired and obvious lies of all time, to the point that "think of the children" is a well-known trope.

> What evidence would convince you that they are sincerely trying to protect children?

Their behavior would have to actually reflect such a stance.
Found this while looking for a way to fully disable telemetry on vscode.

After reading, this seems impossible, short of going down to DNS or network blocks of some kind: the "disable telemetry" setting doesn't; extensions have their own telemetry; MS consider the data sufficiently anonymous to be exempt from GDPR, even the vscodium maintainers say they found it impossible to block vs code's eager telemetrizing.

I wonder what is the most effective way of actually completely stopping it phoning home, apart from yanking its ethernet cable?
Site appears to be down, there is an archive here from June 2020:

https://archive.ph/mJDAT

Newer archive on IA from March this year doesn't load anything:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220316200857/https://jpro.one/

However has source code including:

<jpro-app loader="none" href="/app/default" fxcontextmenu="false" fullscreen="true" nativescrolling="true" fxheight="true" snapshot="auto" userselect="true"></jpro-app>

So assuming there was a newer site that had some sort of embedded Java thing...

By the sounds of it, it was a demo where the website ran as java on the server, rendering and pushing to the browser in real time? Guessing it couldn't handle HN traffic...
There is a reason the 16th ammendment was passed in 1913 (along with questions about if it was even properly ratified!) which cancelled the previous apportionment requirement for income taxes in America.

The Federal Reserve Act was a key turning point in the entire US approach to monetary policy, and was also passed in 1913 under Woodrow Wilson, who later said "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country."

Down this path lies a rabbit-hole of epic proportions. I'll say this, the crash of 1907, spurring the commission sent to wine and dine and learn how to do things the European central banker way, was engineered, and the surface version taught is false.
Ted Faro is the guy to speak to. He is into preserving the knowledge of generations for the enrichment of humanity.
Are you sure it‘s written by a film geek? The first 3 paragraphs are so similar in what they are kust with different words…

I think it‘s an AI generated text: a lot of filler words, no clear message and restates again and again a basic concept.
This sounds quite familiar to what Yuval Noah Harari mentioned in his book "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" where he talks about how smart devices attached to our bodies and AI would be able to generate and play music based on what the sensors detect our feelings are.
I did not make myself clear. I reacted to your "The worst part is that anyone who wants WFH can have it, but I cannot have what I need."

Which implies you want "me" back in the office to satisfy your social desires and NOT because of improved productivity.

You can have what you need, just not with me / your colleagues. But you seem not to want an alternative solution.
You would think then that the same logic would apply to something like SWIFT, but alas
"SWIFT itself does not monitor or control the messages that users send through its system and recognises that all decisions on the legitimacy of financial transactions under applicable regulations rest with the financial institutions handling them, and with their competent international and national authorities."

There have to be some limits to how big of a burden the government can put on people in the name of stopping money laundering, the current AML model has huge costs, in financial terms but also in terms of the invasion of privacy - if you've ever had to pass a more stringent AML check, you know how invasive and dehumanizing that is.

And it's not even working, estimates put the effectiveness of the current AML regime at less than 1% of money laundering being detected.

Stopping crimes should be the job of the police.
Both parents are trial lawyers. That's a contributing cause to the lawsuit, at least.
Indeed, its possible to bike into Geneva from countryside France without showing papers, at least it was. I almost got smoked in a roundabout there, good times.
There was absolutely a design flaw in bikes where the design of the front wheel quick release in combination with disc brakes in some cases could cause the quick release lever to go into the disc brakes causing sudden stoppage. This was addressed through an enormous recall from top end manufacturers. I don’t know if this bike also had the design flaw which made the wheel come loose.

Having said that, the argument that without the motor the girls wouldn’t have been able to climb the hill and therefore the bike is bad is a terrible argument. After all, that’s why you buy e-bikes to take you where you normally can’t go. Don’t we buy a normal bikes to be able to travel at speeds you normally couldn’t on foot?

The kids were under the recommended minimum age for the bike set by the manufacturer.
About 10% of Americans don't have medical insurance. That number has been fairly stable for several years, so it's not great but also not a sign of collapse.

https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2021-11-17-cdc-reports-uni...
Yeah but how do you create engagement without addictive algos?
Not to mention NFTs, but it seems impossible to convince the HN crowd that there is a real art market in them, with real buyers and real artists using it. Any attempt to demonstrate this is met with wild leaps of logic - it's wash trading, it's not big enough, it's all a scam. I point to Beeple, Wes Cockx, DeeWay sales and all they tell me is it must all be a fraud. I show them markets with vibrant activity - Versum, FXhash, Foundation - and all I get is repetitions of memes around how NFTs are dead.
Co-founder of Supernotes, Tobias, here! I thought I'd try to tackle some of most common questions in one go.

To start Supernotes is very different from many other note-taking apps – we are focusing on the social aspect of sharing knowledge with your friends via markdown notecards [1], rather than local-first note-taking apps of which there are many to choose from if that is what you prefer. As a small team of two, trying to do both ease-of-sharing and end-to-end encryption (E2EE) right is a mammoth task, so we wanted to do one right, the social side of things.

E2EE has become a buzzword for marketing for the last few years, but what's most concerning is how misunderstood it is. That's one of the main reasons why we decided to publish this article as we regularly received support interactions from customers mis-understanding encryption, with some asking whether we have "end-to-end encryption in transit" and "two factor encryption".

This article is here to help the average (less tech savvy than HN) user better understand how encryption works so they can make a more informed choice whether Supernotes is right for them. We are not saying there are no reasons to use end-to-end encryption — there are a lot and other people have explained the obvious benefits quite well! The question is whether the increased effort and friction are worth it for your use case.

If you want to quickly jot down and share your recipes, restaurant recommendations and startup ideas with your friends then Supernotes is for you. If you'd like to write down passwords, trade secrets, or your deepest darkest desires then we suggest using an alternative.

[1] https://supernotes.app/features/friends
There are people that advocate that.

I wish there were some good write ups on money printing after the 2008 crash. Theoretically that should lead to higher inflation, which it didn't until now (and for different reasons).

So yes established theory used to be that spending should match revenues, with the difference being made up by inflation essentially. What the latest thinking is, and the implications of that I don't know.
I am willing to take a shot in the dark on this story, and say that this is the whole point. I don't see why this story would get shared and amplified so much otherwise.
> Note that 4/3 in binary is

This is consistent with the notion from Jarrosson, because that means that 4/3 can be represented as

1 + 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + 1/1024 ...

which is a sum of fractions with unitary numerator - the representation ancient Egyptians are said to absolutely prefer.

The approximated ratio of the circumference to its diameter can be represented by four iterations ( (4/3)^4 ) of infinite series of sums of fractions with unitary numerator.
Both my current and previous road bikes have quick release wheels both front and back, and they're newish models.
Looks great! Just wondering why it has a few scrapers built in - like puppeteer and cheerio. Is it because you might want headless only sometimes?
>Best public display/demo of the Internet:
The Shoemaker-Levy comet vs. the planet Jupiter

We were just getting internet access going at my engineering office, and in a "stop press" submission to our weekly "desktop published" newsletter I submitted some photos of the comet hitting Jupiter I downloaded that day before it made the evening TV news.
Rad Power is pretty dang clear that they are selling for riders 16 and older, and that operation by younger people is potentially a hazard. It's on their website. It's on the box, and on stickers and a tag that is physically attached to the bike when it ships, if I recall correctly. It's in the manual. I'm not sure what else Rad Power could reasonably be expected to do here to prevent bad parenting.
(Admittedly without putting any real thought into this,) it seems like it could be made less regressive by excluding necessities that make up the vast majority of a low income family’s budget, having a “medium” rate on some other categories like consumer electronics, and a “high” rate on luxury goods. Quotes because I have no idea what “medium” and “high” would need to look like for the numbers to work.

Some states with sales tax (Texas and Florida come to mind) already do something like this by excluding groceries from their sales tax program.
I may prefer muted colors because saturated ones I associate with advertising and thereby nuisance, noise and dishonesty.
That is why I wrote “can be”. For example, variable rate tolling. Free to drive on an empty road in the middle of the night, but very expensive during peak traffic times to reduce chances of gridlock and incentivize spreading out demand to non peak times, or disincentive using the road period.
Full disclosure, I have a Rad Power bike (mini 4), among many other bikes. It has a 750w motor and accelerates really fast if you give it the beans. It’s a dangerous vehicle if you don’t keep your wits about you. I never let my adult friends ride it without a stern safety briefing beforehand.

So, first, why were an 11 and 12 year old allowed to use a powerful ebike unsupervised? On a big hill, no less. Rad says their bikes are for people 18 and up, yet the parents say the bike belonged to one of the kid’s 13 year old sister.

Second, there is a tiny bit of skill involved in properly tightening a quick release; just because it came loose doesn’t rule out human error. Third, disc brakes and a quick release on the front wheel is a known safety hazard? A staggering number of bikes have that setup. If it’s truly as dangerous as the plaintiffs say, literally hundreds of thousands of bikes will need to be taken off the road.

This is a tragic loss for that family, but I’m failing to see how Rad is to blame to the extent they allege.
The hosting company could deplatform him as well. If only self hosting would be easier...
But a 40% subsidy on a $400 bike is only worth $160, not the €4k headline figure.
I know I'm biased because I'm working on an E2EE todo/planning app[1], but over the years I've become convinced that E2EE apps are the future.

All the syncing code you have to write anyway if you want your app to work offline. Despite all the buzz about big data, most individuals and most companies generate only a modest amount of data. Even when you have a long tail of archived data (e.g. emails that go back 10 years) the key benefit is in having all recent data with you, available offline, and end-to-end encrypted.

Self-hosting is a lot more difficult in practice than in theory. Somebody has to make backups, maintain a server architecture with redundancy, apply security patches, etc. For hobby purposes you can get away with just not doing any of that, but for businesses and people who don't want to tinker with their own servers outsourcing all this makes a ton of sense.

I don't agree with your claims that traffic is expensive. In any case, downloading data once and syncing subsequent deltas is still a lot more data efficient than roundtripping JSON for every user action.

[1] https://thymer.com
Except on certain items. Gas and electricity are 5% I believe.
I don’t think your article applies here - it seems Andrew Tate has created misogynistic content on each platform that banned him. The timing might be suspicious, but ultimately, TikTok banned Tate because of the TikTok content he made, Google banned him because of the YouTube content and Twitter banned him based on his tweets.

I am also confused about why do you refer to people like Tate as ‘villains’ in quotes. The dude is a star of incels and like-minded women-haters. The world is better off without his content.
You misunderstand Christianity in the way most people do.

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." - Ephesians 2:9

"know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified." - Galatians 2:16

So Christianity is simply placing your faith in Jesus Christ. If you believe that God forgave your sins at the behest of Christ, and that you will enter an eternal kingdom also as a son of God, wouldn't you eventually be more liable to forgive and love others?

So being good is a side-effect, not the point, of Christianity. God will not let me enter heaven because of how good I am, and if that was the measure none of us would make it. The point of Christianity is to know God and have faith that through Christ's death on the cross, burial, and resurrection, he can impart the mercy of God onto you. That he quite literally died for every sin everyone had ever committed.

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” - 2 Corinthians 5:21
If they’re referring to what I think they’re referring to then yes there was an enormous recall due to a design flaw between disc brakes and quick release levers which caused the quick release lever to go into the brake discs.

http://www.bikeroar.com/articles/bicycle-industry-issues-its...

Not saying I agree, but I think this is was is being alleged as an argument
I have been using a bike for commute for at least 15 years.
My current bike cost 500 EUR. (that includes 25% VAT)
In any existing suburb, you won't get widespread purchase and demolition of existing buildings, rebuilding in a new footprint, and occupancy by businesses in a 10-year timeframe.
Host stuff people want but can't get anywhere else.
They should have built it with jpro.
Example 1 with the `posts/` prefix for canonical url.

Even with that canonical url, you can still provide your own url shortening service a la example 3. Given the choice, I'd slightly prefer using a first party shortener that maps a single shortened link per piece of content versus third party one creating a shortened link per share.

year/month prefix is useful to readers if the content becomes stale quickly.
The way I read your message was like the wheel disintegrated, perhaps due to poorly tightened or weakened spokes.

> The suit goes on to argue that the quick release came loose as Steinsapir’s friend was applying the front brake, which allegedly caused the wheel to wobble and ultimately caused the crash.

But what this reads like to me is the quick release was not tightened adequately or perhaps the quick release was not tightened or checked recently. This seems even more likely if it was the 100th ride. And that easily could've been a parent's mistake for not tightening the quick release adequately.

So yeah, too many question marks for me to pass judgment here. I'll leave it to the professionals and hope that Rad doesn't get put out of business unjustly.
They bombed down a hill and crashed. It was the gravitational potential energy that killed them, not anything to do with the fact that the bike was motorized.
Hm, so if I get you, you're saying it's basically useless to others thus without value for them. What do you think e.g. Google would be willing to pay considering that they make about 6$ revenue[0] (there is a Forbes article [1] with even higher numbers form 2013) per monthly active users, and they do so by analyzing data to serve ads.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/306570/google-annualized...
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/31/how-muc...
I've been biking in Austin TX for 11 years now, and the only time my bike was stolen was when I left it unlocked at my house for several months.

I'll grant that I've been fortunate and bikes do get stolen far too often (especially, I suspect, e-bikes), but I don't think we have anywhere near a 100% annual theft rate. I'd estimate under 30%. Could be that France is especially bad, though. My intuition is build almost entirely on the experiences of my friends and I here in Austin.
> This is one of these grey areas where the clause is in the contract mostly to deter the employee from working in the same industry on the side, poaching clients, or using your position in the company to build a competing business on the side.

That's better covered by an actual noncompete agreement than a general "we own anything you do no matter what" clause.
The fact that you are on this forum communicating over the internet means that you have benefited from a public good, and therefore derived some benefit from taxes. We can argue about the value of things and what taxes should be, but a blanket statement like that strikes me as completely unreasonable in the modern connected world.
For all intents and purposes, progress stopped with carriers after MMS came around. Hey, you can send pics and videos now! And group messages! It's good!

RCS requires carriers to implement it. We don't need RCS, we need something better. I'm not opposed to stopgaps, but the complexity involved with RCS makes it much more than just a stopgap. Which is why it needs to die.
> smartest feature it has is a clock you have to set yourself

And, we've come back around to the 80s. <blink>12:00</blink>
Here's a reddit comment that I found insightful around the claimed issue with disk breaks in combination with quick release: https://old.reddit.com/r/ebikes/comments/we4fgv/radpower_bei...

It links to this useful diagram: https://ibb.co/HP0HxVV

I'm not a bike expert, but I do notice that in comparison to my bike (which also has QR and disk breaks), the RadRunner 2's dropouts are more downward-facing.

The lawsuit is dubious for a lot of reasons, but the point about quick release is more interesting than I expected.
If it's not in the contract, it doesn't exist.
I can't wait to see how long it takes google to scrap it like they did with google reader
There are a lot of different levels of rigor you can aim for when writing a spec. But at its most simple, a spec simply captures what you want the product to do in enough detail that you can later focus on implementing. The "big decisions" are already made. It can be as simple as the classic napkin sketch, a few notes on a whiteboard, or hundreds of pages of extensively-reviewed "shall" statements in binders.

But start with Joel Spolsky's classic "Painless Functional Specifications" (read the whole series) and you'll be starting in a good place.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/02/painless-functiona...
It greatest success was that he was elevated to a significant threat. Before he was just a guy that sold some man-pills, but now he has the world in his grasp only by uttering some words, destroying civil society with misinformation. That is nothing else than a huge promotion.

Meanwhile onlookers are loosing faith in his "opposition". Naturally...
> Some U.S. states have a sales tax. Some also have an annual tax on the current assessed value of personal property, like real estate, cars, boats, etc.

My current state has sales taxes (on non-essentials), property taxes that go to the state and the local school district (separate assessments), and an income tax to the state and my local district. The state counts income as earned income and passive income. Federal deductions reduce my tax burden there, but no such deductions obtain at the state or local level.

While it's popular to talk about the tax differential between the EU and US—and there is one—it's probably not quite as big as advertised (at least not in all states).
If it's a traditional design made in the last couple of decades, you'll probably find that they have 'lawyer lips', which are a common preventative measure to help keep the forks from ejecting the hubs by accident (provided that the quick release skewer is installed tensioned correctly).

On higher end bikes, 'thru axle' designs that eliminate this potential failure mode are increasingly popular.
What's stopping you from having group chats with your Android-using friends? I have plenty of them on my iPhone.
> And in the meantime, I—an iPhone owner—should not be able to have group chats with my Android-using friends?

There are how many different cross-platform messaging apps?
Yes, but a marginal sales tax is impossible to enforce. Countries that do have sales taxes usually have a "normal" rate and several tiers of reduced rates for food and essential goods. E.g. in Italy the VAT rate is 22%, but some listed goods and services are instead taxed 10%, 4% or 0%.