skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oxfam described the summit as a ‘real litmus test for G20 governments’, urging them to implement an annual net wealth tax of at least eight per cent on the ultra-wealthy.

All the governments should agree and play along. As soon a few don't, the wealth will flow there. It's seems trivial, to just increase the tax from 7% to 8%, what's the big deal, just 1% more. But there is a country which for some reason thinks it can profit more from the wealthy moving their money there so they set their rate at 7.5%.

The critical part is that wealthy lobby (i.e. bribe) politicians and have enough resources to drum up support from the public via various interest groups and so on. In public they'll agree with the need for more taxes, and more environment protections, all the feel-good topics. But behind the scenes, they'll put the finger on the scale in their favor.
> English does have distinct words for the two connotations of free--"liberal" and "gratuitous".

Sorry but no it doesn’t. These words have the other meanings you mentioned, but they don’t include either of the meanings of “free”.

If you said you were giving away “gratuitous software”, native English speakers wouldn’t know what you were talking about. The only way to understand it would be to realize that those words are etymologically cognate to words in European languages that do have those meanings.
It's a shortcut to an argument to remove agency and substitute in a foreign hand, but it rarely captures the reality of a situation.

There's usually far too much squabbling inside a given volunteer group for any external pressure to be able to redirect their will.
No, the world doesn’t need to cater to you when you make up new words to show off your virtues. Everyone knows what homeless means.
Looks like HN uses `line-height: normal`, so it would be the same factor of 1.2 times font-size that's used on the Monospace page.
Real question is why are countries cooperating on tax rates? I’m glad the US is not cooperating. Each country is free to implement whatever rules they want as long as they are willing to deal with citizens leaving for other countries.

It’s a great way to prevent poor countries from enticing rich people to move there
Doesn’t google docs use crdt?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker

> A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means.
If you find Ants interesting you would probably like E.O. Wilson's works. That's all he did his entire life, study ants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Ants
I mean what I said. Sometimes people end up on the streets as a result of unstable living situations. They may still have homes while not being housed. And as far as I know, these not-quite-homeless people are the most likely of that category to have cell phones, so it is actually fairly relevant to my comment that I use that particular word.

It reflects poorly on you to choose the least relevant part of my comment to reply to, poorer still when doing so makes it clear you're missing the point.
"healthcare, education, housing, and food were secured for all."

Ah yes all of this provided to you by Big Government, who can at a whim withdraw these services if you are found to engage in WrongThink.

We already have seen Western governments like Canada financially banning grandmothers who donated to a trucker protest or the UK imprisoning people for tweets.

Do you really want a bunch of DC politicians to have the power of life and death, not to mention access to swaths of capital that they will inevitably use to engorge and enrich themselves?

Your 600k in taxes will go into the pockets of various interest groups that markup their goods and services because they know Uncle Sam will foot the bill.
No, that is always the case. Attention is only about one third the ops and qk is a fraction of that. Outside of truly massive sequence lengths it doesn’t matter a whole lot, even though it’s nominally quadratic. It’s trivial to run the numbers on this - you only need to do it for one layer.
Comments like this are usually not good, but in this case I believe it's better to give the link than to try to summarize the numerous points about the state of censorship in the United States and Europe that were made in that interview.
It's peer reviewers all the way down then ;)
New Mexico recently had one explode due to improper materials used for absorption of liquid waste. To be frank I don't think it's worse than the chemical spills that happen routinely like the train in Ohio, but it isn't a small deal either.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-mexico-nuclear-dump...
The first part of your comment was pretty spot on, but the rest I think is biased from living here in a different time, the populated areas around Montreal (Brossard, Laval especially) all have significant English-speaking-only populations. In downtown during lunch time it's pretty much 50/50 whether the fast food/cafe worker will speak French at all.
> You know what gets developers excited about building? Someone getting consistent 30% profit margins.

It's super subdued excitement.

> Now, government just has to get out of the way and let housing be built.

Homeowner voting blocs aren't commonly considered to be government.
Also now we don't have enough hookworm. Cause apparently that has caused a lot of auto immune disorders.
But coal most certainly does.

A nuclear plant that emitted like a coal plant would be shut down pronto.

And consider the Palo Verde nuclear plant. They had to get an NRC exemption on radioactivity of their discharge water. They had a little problem: their intake water didn't meet the discharge water requirements. They're using reclaimed sewage water--and getting the radioactivity that goes down the toilet from nuclear medicine patients.
You'd be distributing malware and will probably find yourself in legal trouble.
The poor keep voting against their own interests and installing Republican/Tory governments that work to actively increase inequality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4daYJzyls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwqQvrqunp8
Good, I use MVC and it sucks.
1985 MOVE Bombing
I believe it uses Operational Transforms
I don't think there's a real danger of a true monopoly. There are a number of other options:

1. Orion -- heavier than Dragon so you need a bigger rocket, but it should be able to dock with the space station, and it's already flown uncrewed

2. DreamChaser -- Currently being developed uncrewed, but it was originally supposed to fly with crew, and Sierra says they still want to do a crewed version. It's been moved to Cape Canaveral and is supposed to fly next year.

3. Blue Origin is rumored to be back working on some sort of orbital capsule.

Capitalism doesn't work if you don't let companies that aren't delivering fail. IMO what's probably happened at Boeing's space division is that they're not able to recruit and retain top people anymore given the explosion of new space companies.
Probably because CA politicians want to spend tax money on things like providing $150k of housing loans to undocumented migrants

Losing out on a house bid as an American citizen to an undocumented migrant thanks to this policy, truly the type of stuff only a CA politician could come up with.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-democrats...
NASA does amazing things.

The SLS just isn't one of them. It is a temporary Frankenstein resulting from the complications of adapting to a sudden uptick in private space transit, while necessarily maintaining congressional demand/funding continuity. A special dance well known for not being strictly reality based.

So my criticism of SLS isn't criticism of NASA leadership. I cannot imagine how difficult their job is. The nature of the beast is some waste is unavoidable.

In the meantime, lots of NASA projects are stellar.
I’ll bet you just didn’t notice. A huge fraction of the name brand items I’ve bought on there were usable, but fake or knockoffs. You’d have to already own or be experienced with the real one to know. For example, I bought an electric shaver replacement blade on there. After 3 months it was dull and the paint flaked off. The real ones are not painted so don’t flake and last 6 months but I had to already know these facts to tell.
Perhaps we could write some unit tests that detonate a few nukes to make sure it works
I mean, I've never gotten any knock off items from Amazon that I'm aware of either. But I'm certainly not buying something that goes into my actual body from there.
How did cursor help building this?
> More sources are better

I used Google News regularly for years, but I've had to abandon it. It has so many sources, and 9/10 of them are pure garbage. I mean absolute dreck.

More perspectives are better, except you have to rank the perspectives by descending popularity and then pick the top X, where there's a strongly diminishing return on every source after that.
How protected do you think you are from user space software you install?
I think everyone understands that facebook had to pay a linking tax whenever anyone including government officials posted a link to a news outlet on a list. They decided not to.

It was a crazy foolish law that hurt those news orgs that thought they were the reason Canadians used social media. It reminded everyone their are plenty of ways to get news outside of the mainstream Canadian news cartel. Canadians are not seeking out these news orgs shows what their value really is to the average person
He's also against the 1st and 2nd Amendments.

>Really, he just means "I'll fix the country so well, and there will be so much love, that people will be happy to keep voting us back in".

No, it means exactly as Trump said it would - he wants to be a dictator, and is willing to terminate the constitution to make it so. Even then, he won't fix jack shit, because that would actually require working, which is something he cannot and will not do. He had a supermajority in congress in his first term...and did nothing besides pass tax cuts for billionaires.

I'd never in my youth imagine that the country I grew up in would elect a guy who trashes the constitution who wears lifts and orange makeup, let alone potentially doing it twice. May you live in interesting times indeed.
Yes I see your point is a principle you have and that you aren’t interested in discussing any nuance or details. I have heard and acknowledged your opinion multiple times that they should not disable the auth server. I understand that and I’m not disagreeing with it, so there’s no need to keep repeating it over and over unless you have new evidence, reasons, points to discuss.

For MakeMusic, I don’t know, but whether it benefits the most Finale users may be the entire point from their perspective. And it might matter to the users too, even if it doesn’t matter to you. The dev’s principles might prioritize maximum benefit for the most users over the anger that shutting off the auth server could potentially lead to. They are offering a tradeoff for which there is no perfect solution for everyone. Leaving the auth server on but not offering a Dorico discount might be overall significantly less good than what they did, even if what they did isn’t perfect or agreeable by your standards. That possibility is interesting and worth considering to me, even if not to you.
Regexcrossword.com
I hope someone sets up isthirteenapi.xyz.
I wasn’t thinking of the speed of the neutrinos, but the increase in encounter frequency. From a passenger’s perspective, the number of interactions per second will be much higher, not just because the ship is covering large distances and hitting more particles (although I’m not sure about that - it might cancel out) but hitting them more frequently from the crew’s perspective because of time dilation.
I think housing should not be a commodity. Medicine and education shouldn't be run for profit. (Ideally, commodity food would be grown for the common good, too.)

But also, I'm posting here in recognition that my politics aren't exactly common here. And that's ok!
How does it know which tooth you’re cleaning?

How does it even have a census of your teeth?

Some people have wisdom teeth, while other people don't.

Some people have been on the losing end of a bar fight with carneys, and some people haven't.
Everyone would be employed by a Uniparty government.

A fantastic system, just ask the Soviet Union.
Flawed is probably technically correct. But you're basically optimizing for a good blend of student body and I think admission committees don't get things "right" but who knows what that even means? They probably mostly do well enough given there are lots of opinions on what the targets should be.

It's pretty clear to me that you don't want to just admit the highest SAT scores, the best athletes, or the best musicians (unless maybe you're Juilliard).
CRDT literally means Conflict-free Replicated Data Type. Expecting CRDTs to be conflict-free isn't purism, it's simple validation. Git is, inarguably, not a CRDT.
Deborah Gordon (ant biologist) makes this argument in her book Ant Encounters. Because the ants in a colony are all sisters, the unit of reproduction is actually the colony rather than the individual ant. Great book!
Why try to improve anything when you could just keep the original implementation around for forever?
I ordered a Daylight tablet. I’m still waiting for it to ship. I’m hoping for a good reading and writing experience, with the benefit of rich options for apps vs just what comes from the OEM, like with Remarkable.
No racial violence? Tell me... Does anyone even begin to acknowledge the atrocities done to the indigenous population over there?
"Our three greatest skills are ignoring the beauty that surrounds us, self-deception, and an almost fanatical dedication to the pope."
In the proposal, people whose assets are mostly illiquid are excluded from this tax.
Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS
It's really pathetic to go out of your way to report someone's accounts like that. Go lick some more boots.
I did a similar deep dive to find all the specifically Music-related APIs that are available a few years ago. I've since moved on to other projects but maybe someone will find it useful / maybe OP can add the entries in my list to FreePublicAPIs.com!

https://docs.sweeting.me/s/music-apis
Wow, the English translation sucks much more than I noticed. :(

The whole "stepping" thing is a reference to how they (in the web page author's country) teach basic addition and subtraction at first grade. There is a carpet with numbers on the floor, you start at number zero, and do addition like "2+3" means "two steps forward, pause, three steps forward, now look at the number you are standing on". The carpet is situated so that from the sitting kids' position the zero is on the left, and the numbers increase to the right.

The idea is to turn integers into something "tangible", in a way that can later be extended to negative numbers.

So the instructions should be like: "You start at given number. Right arrow means a step forward to a greater number. Left arrow means a step backward to a smaller number. What number you end at?"

Sorry, I already know all these things by heart, so I didn't notice how the English instructions don't make sense. Guess I should contact the author about it.
Humans deserve housing. My undocumented neighbors are still my neighbors.

We shouldn't have to decide between which of two humans gets housing. House all my neighbors.
After seeing what they are doing with their commercial planes and now Starliner I can't even imagine how screwed up the defense projects are. The NASA stuff is in the public so there is some accountability. Defense on the other hand is done in secret and everybody from Pentagon procurement people down to the defense contractor have every incentive and the ability to cover up problems.
> Nowadays it sounds like .NET Core + third-party GUI libraries is the way to go.

For reference for those unfamiliar with the terms:

.NET Core was the name given to the cross-platform fork of the .NET runtime.

It was forked out of .NET 4.x and dropped support for a lot of things in the first versions.

It ran on various distributions of Linux and MacOS.

At the same time there were forks of other libraries/frameworks in the .NET ecosystem to have 'Core' variants. Often these were dropping support for legacy parts of their code so that they could run on Core.

Later versions of .NET Core brought over support for a many of the things that had been dropped.

.NET Core and .NET had stand-alone versions until .NET Core was renamed to . NET and became .NET 5.

So, if you want to do the most modern cross-platform C# you would use .NET 9.
They just released a new detector so I don't think it is necessarily true that the detector system project is dead. I'm not sure how you get one of those boxes though: https://www.blitzortung.org/en/whats_new.php
They've been working on it for about twenty years.
Dropping the "Core" suffix introduced more naming confusion. Before that, ".NET" was often used as a shorthand for the (now legacy) .NET Framework. Which makes googling for Core-specific things much harder than it needs to be.
Thomas Piketty's book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", has a bit to say on this. It argues that historically, and increasingly so today, the return on capital exceeds the return on labour. This means wealth is a positive feedback cycle: wealth earns more wealth, at the expense of those who only have their labour. Once someone hits a net worth threshold it snowballs from there. Agree with it or not, the book is quite readable.
I only buy books because local stores don’t sell the books I need or want
Probably something to do with sellers doing it through the platform, and I imagine AMAZON responds to the right amount of complaints legally required, though these are guesses.

I also imagine its a complex and fun problem to try and solve. Ive noticed they have started in some ways, for example some brands are now labeled as "premium brand sourced" which means less likely to be fake.
Classified? We see their products every day... with a few exceptions, darn near every aircraft the US military flies today was designed, maintained, built or led by Boeing and/or it's affiliates. Their coverage spans drones, aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets and more.

The civilian side of Boeing almost doesn't even need to exist.

So we're going to lambast the entire company because one arm has stumbled with two projects recently... ?

Perhaps we should nationalize and shut down Google because Gemini hasn't turned out to be that great.
Ooh, this is the thread to ask my question in. A few years ago I ran across a ... I think a video game walkthrough? maybe? which was written to be read in monospace font, and it was full justified perfectly all the way through (thousands of lines!) SOLELY through word choice.

Anyone know what I'm talking about and have a link?
That's not what I said. I've implied that it's hard to trust the output of some unknown compiler (eg, the "zig1.wasm" blob) and that it's easier to trust source code.

The Dozer article explains, under "The Descent Principle", how rustc will eventually be buildable using only source code [0] (other than a "512-byte binary seed" which implements a trivial hex interpreter). You still need to trust a computer to run everything on, though in theory it should be possible to gain trust by running it on multiple computers and checking that the result is the same (this is why any useful system bootstrapping project should also be reproducible [1]).

[0] https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

[1] https://bootstrappable.org/best-practices.html
The 'claim' is information freely given. From my point of view, if you choose to believe something I don't think is true, that's a problem for you not for me. If you want me to convince you of something, you have to pay. If I asked someone something and they responded with a rate, I'd pay if the facts were worth it and I wouldn't if they weren't.
Self deception is our #1 skill. That's why we couldn't progress before science. It's also what makes us see beauty when there's none.
> Im tempted to get something like todoist to organise reminders a little better but I’m cautious that it’s the road to procrastinating.

Don’t do it. I’ve been down that road. Giving up and simply using Apple Note/Reminders is so much easier. I envy people who just use the first thing that falls in their lap and go with it. It’s all good enough. Nothing is that much better to make it worth the hunt.
Of course, but it's a much easier thing to observe than the build up of pressure and tolerances of a tectonic plate.
People with food and other allergies have a new way to treat reactions
Blue Origin was started before SpaceX and they still haven't delivered much. What are they doing?
The fact that he wrote the letter at all.
ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor
The larger problem in my mind is that a lot of asset purchases bestow a lot of tax deferment privileges because of how the tax code is presently written.

Consider someone who holds a lot of capital with unrealized gains but nonetheless needs cash flow. A common practice is to borrow against those unrealized gains, which itself doesn't count as income even though it nevertheless tends to result in a greater accession of wealth.

The play, hence, seems to be that we consider the borrowing against unrealized gains to be the taxable event, not a wholesale tax on all held assets.
Fentanyl is an issue because they are preventable deaths.

(Never mind that cracking down actually increases the death rate. And the fentanyl problem came about because of cracking down on heroin. Fentanyl is far cheaper to make and far easier to smuggle due to being much smaller. But it has a tendency to clump and thus when handled by street dealers they can't produce a uniform product.)
Government has proven over and over they are not equipped to spend the money in an effective manner.

Why take money from people who employ others and build businesses to waste on nothing?

$7.5 billion to build 8 ev charging stations? (Edit: I accidentally said 8 billion charging stations originally)

Billions to build a few miles of rail in California.

How many billions on wars?

And every year government spending just goes up with almost nothing to show for the average citizen
Sadly it probably won't ever happen because of the numerous packet forwarding layers that have baked-in security expectations that "HTTP = 80" and "HTTPS = 443", etc. It'd still be nice to reach that promised land, but I think the damage has already been done.
I just use an OpenAI API key with a wrapper (MacGPT). It’s much cheaper.

I’m hearing good things about the Cursor IDE plus Claude sonnet 3.5 though. $20 a month is nothing if it improves your productivity.
> cross-device-sync

This looks like an attempt at that?

https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskserver
I’m sorry, I don’t follow. Can you elaborate? Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but I think sub-contacting is heavily related to political risk mitigation, as it’s a method of spreading project money across many political districts.

IMO NASA has done the same with their selection of major center locations. It doesn’t make a lot of logistics sense to have your biggest centers in CA, OH, VA, and TX but it makes a lot of political sense if your goal is to avoid large programs being mothballed.
I dream of an executive branch without a president. I don't see why we need one.