skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Businesses pay property tax on capital equipment, and the vast majority of small and medium businesses function just fine with the existing tax rates.

But when you look at cost of capital equipment per job created, there's a difference of several orders of magnitude between Acme widget manufacturing and a semiconductor fab. The semiconductor fab does not fit the model on which the tax rates are based. It's an outlier. Tax breaks to bring their costs back in line with the "typical" business are perfectly reasonable if you want them to bring the jobs.

Finally, in Intel's case, let's assume "hundreds" of employees means 500. That's 0.5% of their total worldwide workforce. Does that justify increasing their property tax costs by several orders of magnitude (canceling the tax breaks)?
The interesting thing about sickle cell anaemia is that you get it if both copies of the gene are abnormal, you get the disease, but if just one of them is abnormal you don't get the disease but still get the resistance to malaria.
the problem with study like airbnb is that while tooling would have caught X% of bugs of type A, it in no way means those wouldn't just be replaced by bugs of type B.

bugs are (in part) function of code and tooling complexity, making some bugs harder to introduce doesn't reduce that complexity. risk compensation principle is another factor, and so on.

i haven't yet seen strong evidence that static typing really reduces bug density.
Never Save Passwords on Chrome or Firefox
> These people can also be 10x as productive, but it's in a pretty specific way that should probably just be considered an outlier.

the 10x programmer is by definition an outlier
The Mounting Federal Investigations into Facebook
Nebra AnyBeam – world's smallest pocket cinema projectors
This IS the greener pasture.
All my notes and highlights, from all sources, are in Readwise. Includes metadata like tags, future notes, chapter, etc.
Well said. If he thinks arrow functions are too much to learn, then he is just unwilling to learn anything new. Arrow functions have been on js for 4 years.
Aren't most of Elon Musks projects examples of blind f faith? Who would have agreed that starting a new auto manufacturer based solely on electric vehicles was a good idea? A new rocket company? Going up against some of the biggest most established companies with probably the "old boy network" working to prevent entry of newcomers. Seems like blind faith to me.
> Erase all personal data on the "stateful partition" (i.e., user accounts and settings - no worries, though, since all data is in the cloud!).
Steve Jobs and Apple is a much better example. Any blue ocean idea is easy to shoot down
Unfortunately, no. Not at this time. Your node calibrates itself and interprets what it sees in each 2D video frame into the real 3D world by 'knowing' where its 'virtual self' is placed in the 3D map of the real world that you'll find in the GUI. When you set up your node, you have to do set this calibration once, manually using the GUI and its accuracy in space is down to half a centimetre on the earth's surface and its accuracy in time is down to a millisecond.

If it was on the top of the car, the node would have to be constantly updated automatically. But GPS is no where near that accurate. I guess you could use a combination involving LIDAR to constantly tell the node where it is so the car's position is updated in Grassland.

But it would make more computational/economic sense for the government and economically self-interested citizens (interested in mining Grassland's coin) to line the streets with ip cameras which grassland nodes can read from to analyze and broadcast car and pedestrian locations/speed etc. etc. millisecond by millisecond. Which self driving cars could pick up and 'know' everything going on around them even things they can't 'see' themselves.
Url changed from https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/204021/sony-scales-back-on-s..., which points to this.
> A budding minority within the tech community ... supplies an alternative:

A nice article (I am a fan of anything that supports reading!) but seriously, bootstrapping has been the default since literally forever (i.e. presumably since the beginning of commerce, before the invention of reading). Tons of successful businesses have been built that way, they may just not look that way to you.

Consider that many may be bootrapped businesses that later wanted money to grow more rapidly than organically. As companies like that will have already demonstrated market value and execution ability they can typically get better valuations than just a PPT or a PPT+MVP
I don't know either, however TI at the time also produced the "Silent 700" terminal series and it had the same font (all essentially upper case characters just some larger and some smaller.

Perhaps it was an early example of the DRY mantra being applied incorrectly.
Fun fact: Taiwan (ROC) also has an unusual year counting scheme, where they count from the founding of the Republic of China.

I once bought a Japanese product in Taiwan which had an expiration date using Japanese years, included a ROC year translation of said date and the receipt was printed with the gregorian year. Three different counting schemes in just one transaction, quite amusing.
Just because something is aspirational does not mean it is an exercise in blind faith. Plenty of aspirational things have happened in the past.
globalisation isn't a zero sum game. Rise of industry in developing nations didn't mean that some static output shifted around. Only a relatively small percentage (about 15% or so according to most research) of job loss is attributable to globalisation, and it isn't the jobs that were responsible for the 'good old times', but rather the very worst, environmentally damaging manufacturing.

Gains in productivity and corresponding automation account for the lion's share of job loss.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/upshot/the-long-term-jobs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_v._Garner
They are. Well spotted.

The important thing for Lefty's, who are interested in resolving this problem, is to realize they need to support those voices. And we need to do it rather directly, because of the big systems, and the large money, really won't do it.
It's amazing how these tone policing responses are coupled with patronizing endorsements of Google's security model...

We get it. Google's (and Apple's, Intel's, etc) contemporary security model is to work to retain control over the device for themselves, taking end users under their wing to provide them security. For a non-technical person with no technical family, obtaining a device with this security model from Best Buy is likely the pinnacle of what can be done.

But this is not the only device security model. And the idea of a manufacturer working against the owner of a device is abhorrent to the perspective of Freedom. Weighing Google's specific design decisions within their model is not terribly important if one is repudiating the entire model. I personally think a better synthesis could be found between the two models, but that was obviously not the point of the original post!

I'm not personally a huge fan of blog posts / youtube / etc that just reiterate and editorialize information that is easily found elsewhere. But I do recognize that this is how many people learn - both the viewers and the authors. By picking on this post for not having the details fleshed out and stated in an impartial manner, all you're really doing is putting a veil of faux impartiality over shouting down the culture of Freeing computing devices.
Thank you. Much appreciated :)
> number is never supposed to change (sign or magnitude) when you add 0 to it

In the “real numbers”, zero doesn’t have a sign at all, and -0 and 0 mean precisely the same thing. Floating point is an approximation which needs to make some choices about edge cases, for the sake of practical uses (for instance it is useful to distinguish negative underflow from positive underflow, so there is an extra -0 value included).

The behavior that 0 - 0 or -0 + 0 produces 0 as output is not an unreasonable choice (it is what I would expect, as someone with a decent amount of mathematical experience). I would not expect very many people to have the “intuition” that -0 + 0 or 0 - 0 should produce -0 as a result, assuming they had any intuition at all about what should happen in this edge case.
The data isn't very strong to support the idea that leaving advanced kids in the room with those that need more attention is of any help, and there is now growing evidence of achievement gaps widening, possible because it can be demoralizing for the slower kids, possible because the more advanced kids are now more likely to get outside supplementation which boosts them even further ahead.
I'm the one who still likes RSS.
it is a failure by definition. i don’t see the point of letting your love of a company aid in changing the definitions of words and meaning of concepts.

and i personally feel this failure is an indication that their product line isn’t as streamlined and consistent as they market it or they’d like it to be. because this is a wireless charger, which has already existed on the market for many years. so why did the airpower fail or why is it so different from the others? well, for one, it was trying to charge three different types of devices, which probably complicated their solution.

and their response is typical apple. it seems they actually couldn’t make it work at all or pass standards, not this idea that they have every going good but it doesn’t meet their “high quality standards”.
Well then all complaints about the MATLAB language also apply to Octave.
is anybody doing a solution for this?

like some software that floods all the RAM and memory caches with erroneous data, and then the hardware solution of the epoxy trip wires.
Sometimes

financial capital + social capital = const
Before the digital economy, there was no concept of zero marginal cost. To produce more of something, you needed more people. A few people with an idea, a credit card, and an AWS account can scale a business that can serve millions. Before the Internet, how could 10 people create a business that was worth a billion dollars like Instagram?

Microsoft sells Windows licenses with zero marginal costs.
I did read that. Right after the bit I quoted:

> Calicivirus, 1080 poison, agricultural chemicals, and habitat fragmentation combined with a retrovirus were other proposed causes. Environmental toxins had also been suspected.

But the source for that is also kinda useless... someone with the last name Owen wrote a book in 2005, great. I'm used to footnotes containing quotes from the material they reference, and even when it links to a source, since link rot is out of their scope, that doesn't really help.

> suggests that the cancer is spreads though allograft (i.e. a form of direct transfer of the cancer from one individual to another)

Yes, but why is that a recent disease? 1996 is super recent.

> It also reports that "The devils have, in a way, fought back the extinction by developing the gene that is immune to face tumors" - a positive development in the long run.

The long run is the last 100k years, IMO. When I think about cancer historically, I am interested in that timeframe, not starting with 1996.

I wrote this reply 21 minutes after your comment, but apparently I was throttled so I had to keep the tab open to post it much later. I'm done here, good luck and bye everybody.
Arguably that still looks like Lisp (i.e. it's a valid S-expression). But then you also have reader macros...
Except that is false.

A person living in a big city uses drastically less resources and energy than a rural person does.

Less/no driving, smaller more energy efficient dwellings (apartment blocks = way more efficient heating/cooling), vastly less infrastructure per capita, etc.
> There definitely needs to be a retraction of sorts in terms of technology and content delivery.

Indeed. The easiest (low-friction) way to implement this would be as browser options/addons. We need to get back control over how content is displayed on our screens, but browser makers' priority is to turn the browser into a TV set.
They backtested this only against a recent period with no major economic downturns. Buyer beware.
The link says it was three people, during confrontations at/near a political tally. I don't know if you're speaking from further knowledge and the link is a preliminary report or something like that.
This honestly doesn't seem like a problem with organisational silos. The level of efficiency the author is suggesting is completely unnecessary. If the police had done some very basic police work, followed up the unauthorized transactions at each location for CCTV they would have gotten a very clear idea of who this person was. In fact hell, find out which phones pinged the phone tower near each of the locations at each of the relevant times and you almost certainly have exactly one suspect who'll match the CCTV and would be banged to rights.

With small crimes it's not that they can't be solved, it's that the UK has decided it would rather have some petty crime than to pay the taxes necessary to catch petty criminals (assuming that catching the criminal would even solve the crime problem). The current state of policing in the UK is that small thefts won't be investigated - so it doesn't matter how easy they are to solve.
A somewhat popular place in Vancouver for restaurants/night life is yaletown. It's somewhat scuzzy and expensive, but it has brick buildings I guess?

Plenty of fantastic places in Vancouver with character, but I don't understand that one. (And I work there.)

But I know the kind of blandness you're talking about. Richmond somehow is a metropolis that feels like a desert.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/47040763 is related, via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19530092.

Also, from 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14026697

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14873639
Sounds like a great idea though I must admit I thought we were past the Uber for X phase of startup ideas.
General opinion seems to be that this is a bad thing but I disagree.

Modern life offers us much more than we'd get by being farmers. We also need fewer farmers because of automation and large-scale farming.

People want to move to urban areas. Let them, and don't judge.
How one can type that ℕ and ℤ on the regular keyboard?..
Burnout for me wasn’t about too many hours. It was more that, especially in the SF tech scene, as an employee you’re expected to drink the Koolaid and not only do your job but be 100% emotionally invested in your company too. The expectation of emotional attachment is, at least for me, what makes working in that kind of environment overwhelming, and recently decided for myself that it isn’t sustainable after 4-5 years in it.
> an eSurv employee explained in a resume publicly available through his LinkedIn page that as part of his job at the company, he developed “an ‘agent’ application to gather data from Android devices and send it to a C&C server”

Yikes. Not something I’d want on my resume…
I think this premise is reinforced by pg in several of his essays, so it's weird to see such push-back here on HN. Blind faith seems to be, by and large, necessary, especially when fighting against colossal odds (as is often the case in startups).

This kind of "insanity" is the precursor to the relentless determination one needs when leading a scrappy team of underdogs. Pragmatism and level-headedness sound good on paper, but borderline irresponsible risk-taking is what, at the end of the day, gets rewarded. There's no way to convince anyone -- potential employees, co-founders, investors -- without a cult-like aura. If you'll allow me some hyperbolic flair, startup founders are prophets.
Google prohibits spyware ads but now shows ads for firm tied to spyware abuses
I could certainly see this catching on. We've got mobile dentistry, mobile car detailing, mobile restaurants, this is just one more thing.

It cuts down on facility overhead, it opens up a wider base of people you can serve, and I can see no reason people wouldn't like to have their stylist come to them rather than go to them.
>I don't understand this comment. Source code is source code. The IDE doesn't write my code. What is an "IDE lens"?

I have seen many people who have absolutely no idea how the Java compilation process works because they've never had to do it from the command line, but have interacted with it mostly through IDE tools that have abstracted almost everything away.

And when something actually breaks or is idiosyncratic enough for the IDE to not handle it, they end up very lost.
This makes no sense mathematically - changing the unit of measurement (and perhaps rounding) cannot make a real difference unless substantially all of your results are between 0.5 and 1.5 unit.

If you said “charge by project/milestone”, your reasoning makes sense.

The people who charge a lot by hour (lawyers, tax specialists etc) will often charge in 15 minute increments. Even if you charge by day, tou’ll find you have to charge in 0.25 day increments or so.
Not the best of analogies.

With stars, you measure angle above the horizon and compass heading of the star. With GPS you are measuring time-delay of a signal. Those are two very different ways of navigating.
thanks, i appreciate that y’all do this.
If we assume they understood the relationship between JavaScript and TypeScript then maybe it should have been noticed.

However, the original research has been posted multiple times to proggit and HN since 2017; and I don't recall whether or not anyone noticed this problem until now --

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15249289

https://www.google.com/search?q=energy+efficiency+programmin...
But is the storage hdd/ssd epoxied too? The ssh keys to do MITM are in cleartext on boot partition... FBI can put their box on your server's IP, and you'll happily connect, same fingerprint, and type unlock and passphrase.
Ray Tracing in Minecraft
Recent book came out arguing fairly persuasively that we're basically there and you're going to see unprecedented depopulation in many areas by the end of the century. Title is Empty Planet - the shock of global population decline.

Places like China are potentially going to shrink by hundreds of millions of people this century.
I've noticed a curious pattern: some brand new languages have communities expressing similar sentiment initially, but then if/when the language becomes popular and IDEs for it appear, you see quite a few people being excited about simple things that those IDEs can do (and could do for other languages decades ago), like debugging or code completion.
What part of the Open Source Definition does selling a license violate?
Theater or Reality: Emerging Economic Power in Machine Learning Startups
Sony, once the king of electronics, is ceding ground to its competitors in all markets.

If Sony withdraws from the game-console market, what will be left for it to do?
Here you go:

https://github.com/gnss-sdr/gnss-sdr/blob/31c6b6bc1da77c9589...
I might be off here, but it seems like resolution would be a real issue.

The variation you are looking for has a period of 1 year. To get hour accuracy out of that you'd need to be able to distinguish 356*24 different relative positions of these stars. It seems to me like camera's aren't going to be supplying that kind of data.
"const a = {}" disallows reassignment to "a" but still allows you to mutate the object e.g. "a.b = 1". The const context does not allow you to mutate the object.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) uses what is basically the same scheme, and calls it the Juche calendar. That it counts from the same year is coincidental.
Well, gee. You got me. I guess all those rich people would just move to Somalia and pay no taxes, but they can't do it because they have no power. Poor them. Having to pay taxes to participate in a society that secures their massive accumulated wealth. What could possibly be the value in that, I wonder.
Are you suggesting that people with management training generally have happier workers?

I would be interested to know if that is actually the case.
How Decision Trees Are Trained
I know a few people who have bought condos here recently; they just want to live here.

While I'm sure most of the market is investment based, there is also a decent chunk of people who just want to live here, even if a lot of them are priced out of the market at the moment.

I'm curious what the %s are.
That sort of did happen. In WW2 they used soot to cover lakes which apparently were useful for night navigation because they reflect moonlight.
"Stoic philosophy. Accept that you have control over nothing (only the chance to influence)"

You have control over your reaction to things. And I think this is a key component of Stoicism, especially in the modern working world.

If you are acting (and reacting) true to yourself, then it is other's reactions to your actions that are failing. This goes a long way to reducing the amount of stress felt.

Thanks for the insights.
There is massive difference between racial exclusion (where blacks cant perform work) and slavery (where they are forced to perform the work for zero compensation and thus are cheaper).

I wanted to disagree with that one specific point.
Well, s-expressions are not Lisp. Not every s-expression is a valid Lisp program.

(1 * 2 ^ 3 + 1) is a valid s-expression, but not a valid Lisp program. With an INFIX macro it could be:

(infix 1 * 2 ^ 3 + 1) could be a valid Lisp program, with a corresponding infix macro.

But the Lisp syntax still is on top of the s-expression syntax...
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is also homozygous recessive.

Presumably, both disorders developed for the same reason: One copy of the gene is protective, but not crippling. Two copies are crippling.

So those with one copy had higher survival rates when epidemics of certain diseases hit. This meant that more of their children survived, even though some of their children were born with terrible impairment and worse survival rates.

People with CF tend to not reproduce. In fact, 97 percent of males with CF lack a vas deferens, making them effectively sterile. It's mostly the carriers who create new people with CF. Some of them had no idea they were carriers until they had a child with CF.
It's a huge annoyance for OS vendors as they have to rush to add the new character (yes, it has its own codepoint) to Unicode and make software start using it, and don't know what it will be in advance.
Have you considered changing careers to something more fulfilling, something you're excited about and actually want to do?