skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, that's generally reasonable, but in the context of the current US political climate I think you're concerned about the wrong thing. While the national situation is frequently described as being rife with political intolerance, those attitudes belong mostly to the masses and to politicians. The megacorporations in question skew heavily techno-libertarian and display little propensity for censoring their platforms beyond removing illegal content and porn. In the case of social media in particular, it's the major platforms' lack of interest in curating political content that has allowed them and their "unbiased" algorithms to become the unwitting tools of those who would undermine our political institutions. If the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit would choose some principles to stand for rather than trying to be everything to everyone, they and we would be less susceptible to that sort of manipulation.
For writing first drafts, I've found it useful to take walks while dictating to an app called Otter.

For editing those drafts, I've found that the guidelines in the book Style: Towards Clarity and Grace are really actionable.
Having luved in the UK for 6 years and now in Germany, I agree with you.
Sounds like what is going to happen to me is some "opportunity zones" are going to increase in value, and its going to lead to a runaway feedback effect where all this opportunity zone investment is going to be plowed into a few rapidly price increasing zones for maximum return and nowhere else.

End result is going to be an entire neighborhood of 3 million dollar condos nobody lives in (but prices have skyrocketed due to the huge influx of money), a huge tax free payoff for millionaires, and next to zero real societal value created.
Yes. syspatch and pkg_add -u handle updates.
I would be curious to know more about how you are doing this. Maybe
Microsoft fixed this since I last used WSL, but if they didn't then you may be sitting on a ticking time bomb, see: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-n...
Yea, I’m not buying that you need to kick people out of their houses to improve the economy (whatever that means to you...). Employment and gentrification are linked and cause each other.

Please, stay away from the terrible cities! Would you go so far as to call them shitholes?
I also envisioned something along these lines but cant chase every idea that emerges! :). Good for you to make it happen.

There are many deeply challenging and rewarding projects ahead for you.
Well, I experience it on a daily basis, and I'm not the only one! It's officially an open issue: https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/7239
I use Vagrant (with parallels provider) to run headless environments but the actual code I write in IDEA ultimate on the macOS host.

I’m not sure I’d want to rely on a vm for my editor.
> Please educate yourself about the project

Oh, I am educated enough, don't worry. Which is why I was so surprised to see it finally adopt a solution for a problem that had been pointed out for 20 years, after spending those 20 years replying to everyone that it was just the wrong thing to do in principle.

> It's unfriendly

It's also unfriendly to gaslight away blatant problems, for whatever reason, until they get fixed -- at which point they are admitted as actual problems. Then again, OpenBSD is hardly a friendly project, culturally speaking.
Yeah... they put that all the way at the end though, after they said that the design had hardly changed.

It's also not clear to me that adding a module to every car, plus adding modules for the traffic controllers at every intersection is less expensive than installing modules and detectors at every intersection for existing methods.
Where do you get the 2.7 trillion figure?

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States, total household wealth is $54 trillion, or 180k$ per head.

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-average-income-in-usa-fam... gives $48k average income.

So if all wealth and income were redistributed, you'd end up with 180k$ wealth and $48k income, which is enough to buy an apartment and live well at least outside the most expensive cities.
Who else is going to do the investing then? The point of any investment is a return, and who would expect or choose a return from these areas compared to many other opportunities?
sure, but aren't you still out the original $1mm?

it looks like in your example you end up with $1mm, since you didn't have to pay tax on the profits of company B. but if you had just kept the original million and paid tax on B's profits, you would have ~1.8mm? or are you implying that you can buy company A for less than the market cap in the first place?
That is very odd and not what I want. It’s just google Adsense. You sure your computer doesn’t have spyware?
I don't understand what the problem with OOP is. My OOP code has always been clean and easy for myself and other people to read and modify.

When I read articles complaining about OOP, I just can't relate at all.

The idea of functional programming makes no sense to me except for writing very specific simple programs. For example, I like using some functional programming on the front end with VueJS but even there, I still allow mutations in certain parts of the code.

I like being able to store state in different instances and allow it to be mutated independently of each other.

I like it when related logic and state is kept close together in the code; it makes it easy to reason about different parts of the code independently.

On the other hand, with functional programming, it can be difficult to figure out where state comes from because there is very little abstraction to separate different parts of the code.
I run OpenBSD on a Dell Latitude as a daily driver. Works great.
One thing is clear: you have lots of experience in _burrowing_.
>I swear some of these people will never be satisfied with the way rich spend their money.

Some people will never be satisfied with the fact that there are rich people in the first place.
Thanks. I’ll fix it.
The Plain English Campaign with their Crystal Mark accreditation deserves much credit here too. They've been successfully removing jargon and 200 word convoluted sentences from business and governments since the 70s.

gov.uk is a fine continuation of that tradition.
It's not just easier to read for Julia programmers. Any pythonista can mostly read Julia without significant issue. They're both high level and syntactically similar enough. I know Python is a lot more OO, but when you're just writing a short script it looks a lot like Julia if Julia didn't need you to specify types.
Gov.uk is a great example for any web developer to follow. You can see the thought they've put into ensuring clarity of information, casting aside complicated, whizzy graphics. Also it's very accessible for those with disabilities.

I can only assume that this was one project kept well away from the steer of our politicians!
Nothing but respect for Sesame Street and everyone involved. Thank you to Caroll Spinney for being part of an enriching but entertaining cultural institution. Similar to Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street is/was TV at a different pace with different goals.

Since Caroll Spinney played Oscar The Grouch, here are some fun Oscar facts: Oscar's favourite desserts are spinach sardine chocolate fudge sundaes and mashed bananas with ice cubes and cold beef gravy. Oscar is Canadian, born in New Brunswick.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7TDiqoH5LE
>I continue to be baffled why people are baffled that most people prefer not to travel in cramped, enclosed spaces with random strangers and without the option to carry more than what you can hold in your hands.

Transport is typically supply-led.

For roads, more roads encourage more drivers, and more drivers congest the system, leading to marginal overall improvement - there are only so many cars that can travel a stretch of road in any given period of time.

While with public transport there are also only so many buses/trains that can travel a stretch of road/rail at a time, we are typically well short of saturation - outside of some of the densest metros, there is often capacity for increasing the number of services. Investment in these forms of transport increases frequency and reliability, and simplifies connections. The 'downside' is that this increased efficiency tends to attract more users to the public transport system - which yes, means imperfect reduction of crowding, but still significantly improved throughput.

Also, the people on public transport are not 'random strangers', they are members of your community.

Re carrying, as a sibling comment says: backpack. Alternatively one of those granny trolleys. Plus, many buses/trains intended for longer transport (c.f. commuting) have luggage racks.
Walt Disney Concert Hall is more derided. Maybe that would be "architecture", which counts as "public art" for me, but perhaps not thee. Some would also name Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts, but I like that one.
Seems that nearly every other comment in that thread is talking about how it's a misleading title.
Agreed, it's smarmy.

It almost wants me to walk into a Tesla showroom and show them their press release and say "I'll take the $33,200 model. Here is my check."

The back pedaling and hand waving would be entertaining.
The first Government As a Service?
What I find most remarkable about the comments here is how quickly programmers try to jump to code (I'm not passing judgment, just making an observation). The goal of this post is to present a simple yet useful specification tool. Sure, a decision table implemented in Clojure would likely be more readable than one implemented in assembly, but figuring out what the decisions should be would be far, far more costly and significant (in all interesting cases) than implementing, or reading, either. Sometimes a specification is not even implemented in a single program, but in some distributed system, with no direct representation in code, and sometimes a specification specifies the environment the system interacts with, and is not even implemented by a computer at all. Coding is important, but specifying is usually much more so, as it is both more costly and has a higher impact. Developers should learn how to think about specification and use various aids -- like decision tables -- without thinking at the code level, which is often a distraction.
There are plenty of use cases where you need internal state. Think about UI in a desktop app for example. Not everything is a data pipeline with a clear in and out.
The government investing the money would be nice. Apparently they have a lot of money to invest, they just redistributed $2T to primarily rich people through the TCJA.

(I'm a socialist in part because of the market's inability to effect change, such as investment in OZs, which doesn't have a sufficient monetary reward but has significant societal reward. Some people call this a "market failure")
I also find the way they are listing the price annoying, but the destination fee is government mandated and has to be a separate line item per KBB.

[1] https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/articles/destination-charges/
> The example that always sticks in my head- maybe this isn't true, but I've heard there are strategies of buying failing companies for pennies, shuttering them, and then writing off their losses on your own taxes. You incurred no risk, you lost no money, and now you pay no taxes. Whether it's actually intended to happen that way, it doesn't seem right, and ordinary people can't do it.

That's the problem with most of these situations -- people don't understand what's really happening.

Suppose you have a company that started off with $25 million thinking it would turn it into fifty million, but really it turned it into five million. Then the company is still worth $5 million dollars, right? Except that it has a $20M tax loss, which is worth something. When other people have profits they're paying a 35% tax rate on, the tax loss has a market value of $7M, so the company is actually worth $12M.

Which means that's what richie rich who wants to use the tax loss has to pay for it, since the seller can shop the tax loss to the highest bidder and get close to the full value for it. The money isn't going to the rich guy, it's going to the guy with the tax loss.

Which means it's a rule that helps the little guy. If you take a risk and fail, it allows you to at least recover as much of your investment as the big guy with diversified investments would have had as a tax deduction -- i.e. it prevents creating a disadvantage when the little guy takes a risk vs. the big guy. And if you have creditors, the buyer has to make them whole in order to take the tax loss, which makes them more likely to lend to you to begin with.

But people see the result that rich people are getting a tax deduction and clamor to get rid of the rule.
Salt itself is inorganic.
Poetry seems promising
> The closures will become part of the function type.

Can you elaborate? Do you mean something like closures and function pointers will be distinguished, with closures essentially being something like an existential package paired with a function pointer? ie. ∃'x.'x * 'a -> 'b
This sentiment is as old as civilization
They definitely don't pay 0. They actually pay a significant portion of all taxes collected. You won't pay as much in your entire lifetime as the annual bills for some of these people.

I find it strange to see such animosity against "the rich" on an forum dedicated to startups from a company that has helped created billions in market cap and mint several new billionaires in the process.
For the very same reason I wonder whether there might be a difference in taste between a metric recipe and an imperial one.
The PDF I linked describes O-Funds with 7% annual appreciation.

They won't all hit that, but the goal will be to get the O-Funds to match similar low-risk long-term investment vehicles and then get out tax-free, and the businesses managing the funds will be under enormous pressure from the investors to make that happen.
The original post was about the perils of hosting your mails at home. I'm not clear what your answer is about.

For example, in a power outage, Helm won't work. You say it's not a problem with a charged battery and LTE. I think you're talking about a cell phone and I don't understand how that's related. Sure, one could run Helm on a UPS with LTE backup. But then that's extra infrastructure against the promised simplicity.

Also I don't see how encryption prevents the device from being physically destroyed.
OK, I've dealt with that on a bicycle. And even a few times in a car when the sensor was flaky.

This system uses a transceiver in the vehicle that broadcasts its location. So in the case where a motorcycle has the transceiver, it is superior because you no longer are dealing with a sensor that performs poorly on your vehicle type.

In the case where a motorcycle doesn't have the transceiver, you'd still see a red light just like they do now. And you'd still have to visually check that nobody is coming before proceeding, so that seems identical.
That reference does not contain any information to back up your claim.

The Ceph team considers configurations with multiple active metadata servers to be stable and supported; where is your evidence that this is false?
Implement the previous challengers as regression tests!
What's not working right is people in office doing things to prevent iterative change.
Very interesting. Despite thinking I knew how much time I spent in meetings, I was still surprised by the stats.

I like what was said by rob-d about flow state. There's a lot of ancillary "stuff" attached to meetings - anticipation, preparation, transportation, decompression, etc. Add the actual time in-meeting, and you have a proper interruption.

Creating some variety of "meeting gravity," which would pull in, combine, or group other meetings contiguously would be welcome, particularly amongst those who are sensitive to interruptions in flow.
Designer on Jira, thanks for the feedback! I've shared this with the team, and this is something that we are considering. Keep the feedback coming!
Yes, that's the only other option isn't it?

But why is that better? Why have a massive inefficient government spend a vast sum of money when instead it can just defer some tax collection, letting these investors take the risk and optimize for success?
> What exactly is bad about it?

The fact that that the original residents are displaced to a place without those benefits and bear the cost of relocation, while the people that enjoy he benefits are people who could have afforded to get as good, or nearly so, conditions in existing places with them, anyway.

Gentrification is a magnifying downward redistribution of misery, where the new residents get a small gain in exchange for the old residents (particularly renters) getting a big loss.
Do you charge your kids' allowance for food? Rent? If you all go out to eat?

It's odd to me that anyone would ever think of charging their child for a book.
Is there a way to quantify the positive benefits of reading?
I would like to track it just like any other variable (body fat, resting heart rate, etc.)
Yes it is. And they do that by imposing responsibilities on the same individuals they are protecting. Also there are more rights to be protected than what is trivially obvious from an individual point of view - like the right of our children to breathe air without gas masks (exaggeration intended for emphasis)
I find Fortran pretty pleasant for scientific work (what it was designed for) and take pleasure in knowing it hasn't changed a whole lot over the years F70, F90...etc.
What if some blue collar worker has his 401k or pension plan invested in a company that is taking advantage of the tax break?
The same happens with all sorts of collectiony words. You could have a set of things, or a group of them, or a variety or a category or a kind or a sort or a class or type. We're running out of collection words without formal definitions!
Tukey–Duckworth test
Also, the top earner, besides being self-taught only claims 5 years experience. I wonder what the story is.
An abstract class with only abstract methods is essentially the same.
That's because it was a gift of a fixed value that gym declared. If gym ran it as a promotional sale for $1.00 then you would have needed to pay taxes on a $1.00.

It is similar to person A borrows from a person B $10,000. B pays back $100. Person B decides that A is a deadbeat and declares $9,900 a loss. Since B no longer needs to repay $9,900 the $9,900 becomes income to A. B sticks A with a 1099 for $9,900. Now A needs to pay taxes to the IRS on $9,900 that he got from B.
They most certainly don't pay zero. The top 1% (income over 1.827M) pay an average rate of 34%.[1]

[1]https://itep.org/wp-content/uploads/taxday2017.pdf
Well, it worked for me. I was using Moodle in class and the teacher opened a chat so we can all discuss some project; I realized the chat accepts html and wrote this script. I hosted it on my website and it worked.
You sound far more motivated by bias than the author. At least he makes it pretty clear that his is an opinion.
Not if you ask Tesla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR4CFiuR3tQ
Shocker!
ProtoNN is another classifier especially for low-resource systems.
http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/gupta17a.html
The article is about a tax break for people, not companies, so this should not affect any investment decision that companies make.

And, of course, the 401k/pension plan, or company that the 401k/plan owns, could easily invest in the OZ if they so desired, if it made financial sense separately from the individual tax break.
You’re right that employers must make up the difference by law, and I’m sure that many workers with tipped wages may take home more than their minimum wage equivalent, however that is not the norm, and the tipping wage has significantly worse outcomes than the standard minimum wage. Regardless, my point was that tipping cannot simply be boiled down to “I am being guilted into paying for a performance” and is significantly more nuanced for all involved.

Summary of relevant research: https://www.epi.org/blog/seven-facts-about-tipped-workers-an...

In particular, point 5 from the linked summary makes a strong case that a significant portion of workers making the tipped minimum wage do not receive the difference from their employers.
I can't think of any oop abstractions that I prefer to functional abstractions. If you really need has-a is-a relationships or mutability you can get them a la carte with a language like Clojure, but they're not deeply baked in to the language nor the encouraged pattern for extending code.
I knew the experience of European serfs varied a lot in terms of freedoms and obligations to their lord but everything I’d read until now about life in feudal Europe lead me to understand there was very little mobility – and particularly so for the lower classes. That Wikipedia article provides an interesting counterpoint so thanks for that.

I’d also only come across “a year and a day” as the pre-marriage trial period that a couple would spend together in the tradition of hand-fasting – and the old common law standard regarding attribution of cause of death. I was not aware that it also served as the length of time that escaped serfs would be legally freed if they managed to survive that long.
You need to read up the history of the 401k.[1]

It was an obscure part of the tax code that was never intended to be a tax-deferred saving vehicle until some guy named Ted Benna figured it out. He even suggested it to other clients and they said "no, the IRS will never buy it".

So is your argument that anyone using a 401k is a "greedy tax cheat"?

[1]https://learnvest.com/article/your-401k-when-it-was-invented...
I'll be the devil's advocate. There's this idea out there that you should get your kids reading, no matter what they read. I see the idea expressed here, and I see it expressed in my kids' school.

I wonder what that idea is based on. Any actual experimental studies that imply a causal link between any kind of reading and intelligence or success or some such metric? Anything to show how a heavy-reading childhood compares to a heavy-videogames childhood?

The answer is of course no. You can't run such a study and have it be experimental. So I'm extremely skeptical of this idea.

Not that I keep books from my children. Reading is one of life's great joys, and that's enough of a reason to encourage it, in my opinion.
If you're looking for a "better" term you could try using "undocumented immigrants" as that's the term normally used in more liberal media.
Thank you, you bring up some excellent points.
I think that you left out from your otherwise awesome summary products such as the new Mac book pro, or the new Mac book pro with “improved keyboard and perfect dust resistance”.
From my narrow point of view I will try to repair my 2015 MacBook Pro as much as possible when it will start breaking down.
I would never, ever, buy an apple laptop now, after about 10 years in which I was a very happy and vocal apple user.
Honestly I have no idea how or why, but they managed to destroy their top product quality in a handful of years.
Apparently they don’t even care anymore to restore it for the angry users given the ever growing list of the disgruntled owners of the new MacBook Pro that was supposed to fix every keyboard problem.
Interesting. I have a product (unreleased, still in private beta) that's in the privacy space. I want people to know I care about their privacy, and that absolutely no information is given to third-parties.

What's the best way I can get GDPR compliant? I know that GDPR isn't designed to crack down on products like mine, but I'm still legally required to comply. A simple notice saying user data isn't given to any third parties? I have a privacy policy, of course.
Got anything to back up your wild... dare I say fictitious... claims?
Vim should learn from psql, not even ctrl+d works there.