skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is it complex or intrusive?

You'd have to have huge database of what every individual bought ever. How many beers, how many condoms per month they purchase. Or at least how many times they were making purchases in sex shop, liquor store, marihuana dispensary.

Currently your payments as a customer aren't bound to your TAX is if you don't specifically opt into it and you have no reason to do that if you don't have a company.

That's increase in a intrusiveness many would strongly oppose.

You can of course compromise and base your tax progression only on the sum of large purchases that are being registered already like houses and cars and investments.

But there's still issue of charging the correct tax if you don't connect consumer with their tax id on every purchase.

I think that companies that sell directly to consumers should collect purchase tax of consumer and pay it. And the rate should be the same for all consumers. To award consumers tax credits government just could give them cash directly that will come back to the government in the form of purchase tax that consumers pay (to sellers or through payment processors that transfer it to the government).

You can still punish the rich by reducing their tax credits progressively with how much assets such as cars, real estate and investments they own.
Are you able to share photos with others who don't have iCloud accounts, or do you only associate with fellow Apple users?
The chrome browser itself I would think
Exit polls aren't perfect, but some of the exit polls showed that people liked Kamala Harris a smidge better, but thought that Trump would be significantly better on the economy. This "Republicans are better on the economy" is a tale as old as time, and seemed to break through despite Musk saying things like their plan is to crash the economy.

If Trump had won in 2020 and the economy was in the state it is now, I think it's very likely the democrat would have won. So much of our politics is circumstance, and if "Americans thought Democrats were worse" why did Biden get 7 million more votes than Trump in 2020. The #MeToo movement, BLM and most peak woke stuff happened during Trump's presidency and yet the country still chose the Democrats. Like most analysis of data, most of the takes over the next few weeks and months will be wrong.

I think in a sense a lot of what's happening is more of a spiritual argument than a political one. Who do people perceive will be more "normal" and "stable". Given the voices at the top of the Republican party, the next four years is bound for some overreactions, and Democrats will be perceived as the normal ones again.

This is not to say I don't think the Democrats have soul searching to do. I do think there are some gender alignments happening in Gen-Z an Gen-Alpha that need to be looked at, and the culture is constantly changing. The election of 2028 will be so much different than the election of 2024. But I think catastrophizing like this is also more click bait than anything tangible about "who is worse"
I'm calling BS on this line of reasoning.

Evil is evil.

Calling your political opponents "enemies of the state" as Trump has done numerous times, and calling for their execution, which Trump has also done several times, is evil.

I really don't give a shit about your rationalizations for why you support and advocate for evil. America elected evil with their eyes wide open. Own it. Stop your gaslighting and pretending that's not what happened.

You need to figure out which side of Hanlon's razor you're on.
Except there are some platforms where you need to go through libc and the direct syscall interface is considered private, or subject to change. OpenBSD is like this, and I believe Mac is too.
But isn't the distinction between a "passive" and an "active" model ultimately a metaphysical (freedom of will vs. determinism) question, under the (possibly practically infeasible) assumption that the passive model gets to witness all possible actions an agent might take?

Practically, I could definitely imagine interesting outcomes from e.g. hooking up a model to a high-fidelity physics simulator during training.
manually distributing codebooks of pre-shared keys
That works out great until some capital pool decides to start acquiring smaller isps to roll them up into a larger corporate behemoth. As has happened in multiple other industries from groceries, animal vets, rentals, software niches, to hospitals and these days nursing homes

Then the "efficiency" becomes how much can be extracted from the business and customers
? What does "space-based broadband" offer that's so attractive?
Almost started discussing this with you. :D
Microsoft's neglect of Notepad paved the way for Notepad++.

Now they're uplifting Notepad.

Perhaps this will create room for a Notepad--.
It also depends a lot on the type of corruption and how it works.

I recall an econ class from ages ago that compared two middle-income countries. In one, there was a strong central government, so the corruption was relatively organized and predictable. The economy was harmed by the corruption, but still functioned, grew, and helped to reduce poverty.

In the other country, the central and regional governments were weak, so nearly every interaction with government officials (police, judges, customs, etc.) resulted in some kind of bribe with highly variable costs. This dramatically slowed down and reduced economic activity and increased poverty.
This approach can also be useful for researching routines or habits after a trip.
They already went too far with the UWP transition. Now the app takes forever to launch, compared to the old version.
> therefore making it a more valuable language to acquire for business, diplomacy and travel

Learning a Chinese language for the business, diplomacy or travel opportunities is a stupid, stupid idea. In the English-speaking West, bwtween 1.6% and 5.0% of the population are native speakers of both some Chinese language and English. The business and diplomacy opportunities that require a Chinese-speaker all go to these people*.

Nobody's going to hire some rando to speak Mandarin when it's equally easy to hire a person who's as good as the natives, and got to spend the 3 years of effort one needs to learn Mandarin on picking up some other useful business skill.

Travel opportunities are not great, either: normally, you can visit the PRC for 15 days, you're railroaded throughout your whole trip, and you're required by law to stay in a select few hotels where the staff speak English anyway. If you're looking to learn a language for the tourism opportunities, you're much better served by learning Spanish, Russian, or for that matter Japanese, which allow you to visit a lot more otherwise hard-to-access destinations.

* You have a slight edge if you also speak some obscure language in a country with few English-speakers who nonetheless want to trade with China. There are very few such countries. All of Africa is out (English and French have very high penetration), as is South East Asia (Chinese itself has a high penetration), as is the Arab world: a few Eastern European countries such as Hungary might qualify, but guess what, Hungary also has a sufficient number of native Chinese speakers to saturate the demand in that niche market.*
A cheeken laid the egg with the first chicken in it.
I have heard this theory before, and it seems too simplistic. I have a lawn, and I don’t care a bit about looking wealthy, and don’t think I lack personality. The lawn is an important part of my lovingly crafted landscape, along with trees, rock gardens, pathways, patios and furniture, harmoniously blended in a lush beautiful liveable outdoor space.

Lawn is like a carpet in a landscape. You can walk on it, lie on it, play on it, or just enjoy the esthetic of a lush uniform finish.

I suspect that disdain for lawns is correlated to disdain for ornate architecture or tasteful interior design. Some people just aren’t sensitive to the deep psychological effects of the spaces we live in.
To disperse some of the hype here around using this for "uncrackable" key exchange: QKD has been a product of choice for cybersecurity conmen for decades.

https://www.nsa.gov/Cybersecurity/Quantum-Key-Distribution-Q...

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/whitepaper/quantum-security-technolo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil_(cryptography)

Stick with TLS. If you really think quantum computers are a threat to anything, use a hybrid-PQC key exchange.

My honest professional opinion is a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer will never exist, making classic cryptography superior in every case.
https://archive.is/RamqY
There were eggs long before there were anything like a bird or a chicken.

But if you're on the strict interpretation, the change was so gradual over so many generations it's hard if not impossible to detect. Even when it speciates (becomes unable to produce viable offspring after mating) is hard to tell. There was like likely a long stretch of many generations where sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

TL:DR; How long is a piece of string?

edit: Variation of the same question: Were there radio waves before there radios? Jupiter and thunderstorms produce them, but we had no way of knowing so to us they did not exist.
There's a corollary to the Gell-man Effect which I will dub the Crichton Effect. If somebody is a compelling enough prose stylist then it is easy to be duped into believing that they know more about the topic of their fictional works than they really do. Crichton was a crank, but he knew how to craft a narrative.
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And in 20 or so years people will lament the loss of dancing to an invisible but captivated audience, I'm sure, just like they currently lament the loss of Vine and Myspace.
I wouldn’t.

If you were really going to approach it, you would launch a privacy focused messaging app, which could add filters and other simple Photo and video editing tools because most people are now sharing in small message groups and not publicly for everyone to see.
It might be worth using standard vocabulary. For example:

> Reciprocal relations are their own inverse.

The usual word for this is "symmetric".

> Recursive relations can be chained to themselves infinitely. For example, "my ancestor's ancestor is also my ancestor."

The usual word for this is "transitive".

A reflexive, symmetric, transitive relation is called an "equivalence relation", and it can be used much like equality. It'd be nice if your language had support for this, though I don't immediately see how to add it.
Most people don't care about privacy, and those who care – like a lot of users of this website – care too much to trust you.
youre ignoring my point to such a degree that it seems intentional. ill have to assume that you either work for a nation state, or you have a third grade education level.
that can be made very hard to outright impossible (or prohibitively expensive) to do, if the foundational documents of the company are set up correctly. Say, a non-profit, or a cooperative-ownership model...

Yes, non-profits can be fucked up too (as we saw with "Open"AI recently) and cooperative-ownerships can be bought out if one is willing to spend enough money, but it at least raises the bar a significant amount.
Doesn't the eye have distinct perceptors for green and blue, or am I missing something?
Here is a (professional) philosophical perspective on the problem, with an interesting discussion in the comments http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2012/02/egg-came-first....
The Supreme Court can't repeal amendments. Amendments can only be repealed through the amendment process, which requires the approval of 2/3 of House and Senate + 3/4 of State legislatures.

It is true that the Supreme Court has wide latitude in interpreting the Constitution. But I don't see the Court interpreting "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice" in any other way than what the plain text says.
This is especially untrue today, when reaching a wide, relevant audience requires significant resources, including financial -- either outright paying for sponsored places at the top of people's timelines, or paying for the expertise that delivers the right content to the right people in the right formulation.

There's obviously still room for exceptions (especially in small niches, where individual content creators can still make a dent) but this isn't 2006 anymore. The vast majority of the content that covers social, political or economic issues on social media platforms is paid for and pushed by directly interested parties (political parties, companies etc.) with ample funding and is often part of campaigns that span both social media and traditional media. The "indie" outlook is part of the packaging.

The terms of the "paid by" disclaimers are sufficiently generous that they're all but useless once you get past things like goodie bags for influencers or regulated campaign ads.
> We try to hide some of the differences between arches when reasonably feasible. e.g. Newer architectures no longer provide an open syscall, but do provide openat. We will still expose a sys_open helper by default that calls into openat instead.

Sometimes you actually want to make sure that the exact syscall is called; e.g. you're writing a little program protected by strict seccomp rules. If the layer can magically call some other syscall under the hood this won't work anymore.
I have provided links for every single claim I made, including the numbers of dead in Ukraine and the articles of the Geneva convention that I quoted verbatim and in its entirety.

I didn't say that refusing work permits constitutes collective punishment. The mass destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza, including, again, all hospitals, high schools, university, most schools, kindergarten etc. constitute collective punishment in a form that is a clear crime under the Geneva conventions. See the ICJ finding of plausible genocide if you want to see this from actual international law judges, not some rando on HN.

Thanks for the lesson in anti-Arab racism among common Israelis though. And for confirming that Gaza was already a miserable ghetto that no one would want to live in under the "benevolent" Israeli occupation.
It really depends on your goals and how far along you are. I can't imagine one hour per week being productive enough, especially for building muscle (where?). Is your routine like 3 exercises? If you just started, then sure.
nice, reminds me using rss decades ago
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So we will be able to increase the number of receptors for dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, 'adrenalin'? And hook them up to different metabolisms by implanting them at different sites in body and brain? That's crazy! Those experiments will be wild.

And in order to take designer drugs you'll need designer receptors, first. Classic.

Madness. But also comforting since other planets might require exactly and no more than that.
>I already told you to google it

You didn't, but you did take the weak position of saying your definition is "whatever" is defined elsewhere. I tried to be generous and expand it to a larger group than you suggested because I don't think the size of the "petite bourgeoisie" is large enough to define an election. You seemed to balk at that definition, so we're left back with an unsubstantiated argument that sole proprietors and artisans select the candidates but you didn't explain why such a small group would be able to wield that amount of power.

>They don’t wield all the power.

Nobody is claiming they wield all the power. I do think they have more influence than the "petite bourgeoisie", but also that it's more complicated than whomever gets the most money wins. You also seem to think influence only means votes.

My refutation statement was related to the OP that said the donor class determines the candidates, which is the original point. You seemed determined to shoehorn Marxism into the discussion. Unfortunately, your claim doesn't seem to hold water, unless you redefine the terminology you’re using.
I sort of agree with you, I assume they ran on Trump is a threat to democracy because it polled well, and the data does show that they did much better in the states they campaigned in than states they didn't (on average 1.5 points better in the swing states they campaigned in). But it obviously wasn't persuasive enough, with the people they needed to persuade.

I think that Democrats are playing defense. People talk about a political realignment and I think the Democrats have become the small-c conservative party. They're afraid of losing the progress they've made so they're on the defensive while the Republicans are on the offensive / party of change. Democrats may win in 2026 and 2028 with this strategy, but it will be slim margins, if they want a real mandate, they're going to have to completely change their strategy.
I think the "complex dance moves" comment was sarcasm. It often doesn't come across clearly in written forum posts.
> because it's the shiny new thing

I wish it were that simple, but I feel for this to be true then consumers would need to want it.

In reality it gives them plausible deniability for increased surveillance, control, and extracting more value from customers without their consent.
What about when the number of chromosomes changes?
And parker is about to break its own record soon! Its currently about to (or has just) pass venus one last time before swinging by the sun once more, so close that it will be able to fly through the plasma loops.
Running an LEO satellite constellation is very expensive. But installing and maintaining a wire to everyone's house is also very expensive.

IMHO, it's a question of capacity and acceptable service levels.

Starlink monthly pricing is higher than my DSL and nearby cable as well as my local muni fiber. But it's not so much higher as to rule it out. And the install fee is a lot lower than muni fiber. It's going to take a long time to get ROI on my installation cost for the muni fiber if I compare monthly cost to Starlink. Muni fiber service level should be much better, but Starlink service would probably have been good enough.
> > OpenBSD allows making syscalls from static binaries as well.

> Do you have a source for this?

One article from 2019 about this can be found at https://lwn.net/Articles/806776/ (later updates https://lwn.net/Articles/949078/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/959562/). Yes, it does not have a stable system call ABI, but as long as your program was statically compiled with the libc from the same OpenBSD release, AFAIK it should work.
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This year set to be first to breach 1.5C global warming limit
I fully support this. In fact, make it 18. I see it like a new type of drug. Future generations will be horrified that we permitted children to connect their brains to attention-optimization algorithms running on supercomputers.

Children can not consent. They can't sign contracts. They don't understand the ramifications of what algorithmically delivered content does to you.
They’re fruit rats that like to live in trees so it’s pretty rare for them to make it inside the house - I’ve only had one rat make it into the walls in 20 years of living in a 100 year old house despite a dozen fruit trees surrounding the property. I’m in LA though so maybe the Bay Area winters drive them inside more often.

They absolutely ruin the harvest though. We manage to pick maybe a tenth of the pomelos and pomegranates that ripen before the rats get to them. I made a deal with one of my neighbors to tear down the fence and hedges separating our properties to prevent them from easily moving between trees on that side so at least the avocados are safe.

We’ve got rats in California but they’re a minor suburban nuisance, not a giant public health problem like in New York.
Disable flag?

No no, the choices are "Enable" and "Maybe later"
>I asked ChatGPT to eviscerate every one of their arguments, defending us both and speaking as itself, which it did, with aplomb, and was amazing.

I honestly find that beautiful because Big Tech, and I mean all of it, was backing Trump and Republicans whether openly or secretly.
I'm quite sure that the majority of USA voters believes that Trump fights for freedom, equality and civili rights, and that charges against Trump are as unjust as were charges against MLK.
Modern apartment blocks have excellent noise isolation — the foot of solid concrete between me and my neighbour prevents nearly any noise from getting through. If I hear a sound, it’s from the traffic six stories below.
I do think not being able to use 32 cores easily is a gap in the current language. In 2017 I rewrote a fairly high performance python dialog to Kafka daemon in Go. The python version require a lot of specialized knowledge to write, using gevent, PyPy, hand optimizing our framework for the hot paths etc, and still was only using a few cores to do work.

The Go was a dead simple my first Go project sort of implementation and used 32 cores and therefore worked much better right out of the gate. (I mean I did have go routine worker pools for each step of the processing, but the division of work into the stages was already in the Python code).

So yeah Python is easy to make less of a mess of for lots of people, until you want to use all your cores (which again means rerunning your things goes from four minutes to 15 seconds on that fancy laptop).
In the US, garden is the area of the yard that grows plants. It is typically a small portion of the yard. The yard is pretty much any open space of the owner's parcel of land not containing the house or other structures. Also commonly used terms are "flower beds" or "plant beds". These are typically for ornamental plants vs food. Most people would consider a garden to primarily be for food plants.

For example, the Great British Bake-off has the tent in the garden. But no red blooded 'murican would consider that expanse of manicured grass as a garden.