skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree in principle, in practice you would have no guarantee that the money companies would save on taxes would directly go to increasing employees' wages, which would have to balance the increased individual taxes that you mention.

Market forces would compensate to an extent, but not for jobs with a low demand/supply ratio, I think.
I think this is a very worthwhile point to consider, and my thinking is moving in this direction as well, which is why I've been getting more involved with the Green New Deal in recent months.

1) In British Columbia, consumption of fuel has actually _gone_ up despite a tax on carbon (now at $35/ton). It had initially gone down when the tax was introduced...

2) The theory of change of the fee and dividend model was that it wouldn't enlarge the state, and therefore it would be attractive to Republicans. I've seen firsthand all the hemming and hawing of Republicans, and I've pretty nearly lost confidence in any of them coming forward--let alone with the conviction and speed we need. It's more likely to me that a liberal majority will strong-arm a green new deal type program in the next decade.

But that's just my take.
No matter what you're replying to, it's not OK to post like this here. Could you please review the guidelines? We need you to break them less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We use CQRS and event sourcing for most of our backend services at my current employer (https://m1finance.com); it's generally been a good experience, but we've learned a lot along the way.

My thoughts on the process are:

1. Being able to use a pure/functional event-driven model for the command model, and a standard relational model for queries, is the big payoff for us; we get the best of both worlds.

2. Our model does not encapsulate command-side and query-side updates in a single transaction, nor does it require
that they live in the same database; this gives us a lot of benefits for scalability, but it introduces eventual consistency, and not having "read-your-writes" consistency can make things harder for our front-end devs.

A simpler model that does transaction updates to both side might be a win for a lot of teams, and I still wonder if we should have gone that way.

3. We use Kafka for bulk dataflow and inter-service messaging, but not as the internal event store; that gives us some leeway for migrations and surgical edits to the event stream where necessary.

We've found that Kafka's immutability and retention properties do not make it a good fit for a primary source of truth; it's way too easy to "poison" a topic with a single bad message.

4. One thing that none of the books/frameworks do a good job talking about is external side effects with vendors/partners/legacy systems. That's definitely been the single hardest part of our implementation, and we're still evolving our patterns here.

Overall, though, it's been a great direction for us, and we're excited to keep pushing our architecture forward.
> Edit: Why don’t you ask the millions in the re-education camps how advanced China’s education system is?

Would asking the millions in US prisions help us understand how innovative the US is?

What I find interesting is Xi was sent to a re-education camp as a teen and now he is the most powerful person in China.
> I keep asking, what is the threat model for end-to-end encryption in JS?

Even if there were no specific attack vector guarded by client side encryption, others reasons for JS-/client-side encryption may exists.

I could imagine some legal reasoning like 'The data was already encrypted when the client stored it on our servers, we had not knowledge of the illicit content.'.

For a share-hoster that alone might be reason enough to feel the need for JS-/client-side encryption.

Is that too far fetched?
The efficiency of government is pretty high when it comes to IRS collection, to Medicare, to many systems. Defense spending I'd agree is extraordinarily inefficient.
Regarding your radiating tower idea, wouldn't the radiation need to be in the visible light spectrum in order to avoid the greenhouse effect? Probably better to just do carbon capture to reset the greenhouse gas thermostat. But that still doesn't refreeze the ice which will require centuries of snowfall to build up the ice sheets again.
I think the GP was trying to say: just as Windows isn’t OSS, neither is Android anymore because of all the proprietary blobs and the Play Store
To an extent, but the airline interior layout is constrained by the fuselage diameter. The A320 is somewhere between 6" and 12" wider in usable interior diameter. For a similar layout (3 and 3), you can have marginally wider seats in the Airbus, or slight more aisle space, or a bit of both. And, in theory, the larger fuselage also allows a bit more overhead space.

Newer planes also tend to have better environmental controls (air pressure, lighting, etc).
My estimate is about $1.5 a month, so definitely less than a full VPS, but it depends on the traffic and how much data you store.
You Can’t Change Opinions by Force
Well hopefully the smaller transistors will each take less power too.
It's pretty rudimentary, but you can save CSV files from a Dataframe with:

store(df, "some_file.csv")

I don't have modules yet, but you can load an Empirical code file from the REPL with a "magic command":

>>> \l my_functions.emp

The full list of magic commands is available with:

>>> \help
All the time for everything that is not very personal and sensitive. Youtube is more than fast enough.
I am saying that exactly same people who got violent after non-violent revolution were violent before it.

Not some other people in the same geographical area. The same people.
> You can if you're part of the core team and implement them as builtins. Go doesn't have userland generics, because users of Go are peons who can't be trusted with sharp implements.

It looks like you are in golang core team's minds. You appear to be able to judge intent. Impressive quality you have here.
Automated Usability Evaluation of Virtual Reality Applications
I think that behaviour should be handled with index documents in S3, without the need for lambda: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/IndexDocumen...
Militaries solve this problem by having recruits repeatedly challenge themselves, doing tasks they think are beyond their capabilities, like repelling off a very high platform or surviving in a jungle for a week. You won't be doing this of course but the more stuff you try outside your comfort level the more confidence builds in your abilities. I would imagine same goes for programming, try to continually challenge yourself in your spare time with things that seem too difficult at your current level of understanding like going through open MIT courses, or join a jiu-jitsu class, hiking club, learn cooking, anything that is a challenge.
Especially since this isn’t the first time Boeing’s malfeasance killed people.

But the majority will merely sit and complain, making no real effort to act upon their anxieties.
TV is also good because it creates a simulation of human company that reduces social isolation anxiety and makes you feel better about being where you are.
I'm usually paranoid about vendor lock in, but I can't join you on this one.

Netlify assumes a version control repository that you can pull from, run a build step, and then host static files from. The build tools are open source, the output is static and trivial to download and rehost, and the repository is git meaning one clone is all you need to port to any other service.

Where exactly is the vendor lock in?
Afro Samurai is inspired by Yasuke about as much as The Vampire Diaries is inspired by Vlad II Dracul.
I wrote a tutorial for how to do all this setup manually, if you prefer: https://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/host-static-site-aws...

Sometimes it’s nice to understand how all the pieces fit together, instead of using an automated system!
It could be useful in a scenario where you trust the service provider to provide a legitimate encryption implementation.

If I trust Eve to provide an E2E service, in the same way I trust Whatsapp (not a given by any means), then an open source implementation of those tools lowers barriers to entry. That's a mixed bag in that it potentially enables bad security models, but overall I think access to tools is a good thing
Entrepreneurship has gone down because fewer people as a whole make enough money from their wages to fund new ventures.
This could be used in React Native or electronjs.
I keep waiting for someone to port Beaker Browser[1] or Dat to mobile.

1. https://beakerbrowser.com/
I guess the answer must be yes, but, do people actually do this? Click on an ad and make a purchase right away?
Only several?
Yeah, I try to align tech debt cleanup with 'touch points', since that's generally an indicator that the code needs work done on it anyway.

It's sometimes controversial to say "We should not prioritize tech debt" but I feel pretty strongly that it's true. We aren't paid to write beautiful code, we're paid to write code that gets the job done. If code is getting the job done, even if it's fragile, our job is done. Only if that code is impeding new work should we prioritize it.
> if their modem is superior, then why shouldn't they get superior share of the market

Royalty rates aren't about their physical modems/chips. It's about their standards essential patent licensing. In this regard, it would make sense that how much they charge for these patent licenses should be more in-line with the rest of the industry.
VSCode doesn't hold a candle to Visual Studio. I know that's going to be an unpopular opinion around here. Sure there's Rider (which I own/support/like), but if MS can't be bothered to provide first-rate support for F#, why should I bother investing time into learning F# when there are more popular alternatives?
Strain enables new applications of 2-D materials
My understanding is that the NHS is also suffering due to being massively gutted by conservative(?) politicians
What's the most powerful foss microcontroller/soc? I guess there are very little incentives to build powerful foss chips, or maybe it's too expensive?

I guess that's due to the tooling used around building the physical chip?

I don't know how much r&d money was spent on the rpi since the chip is proprietary, and if it's doable to spend money to develop a foss soc.
Seems to have been Guido.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life

> The phrase originated in 1995 with reference to Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language.
It’s not OK, but it shows this is natural. Like Japan stealing IP in the 80s and South Korea in the 90s.
The idea "If I work hard enough I can get what I want" is appealing because it means your end goals are possible.
That's big news to major American companies like Amazon and Walmart that have completely embraced central planning.
A self-assembled plasmonic optical fiber nanoprobe for label-free biosensing
What about remote work?
I'm in SoCal. Kaiser wait time was for Ortho in Denver CO.

We've moved to SoCal. Under HMO, specialist wait time is about a month now.
That talking of gunning a stranger down in front of your house is something that even COULD enhance your public image.
> wait until they haven't exhausted every penny of profits before moving to renewable energy?

XCel is a regulated energy company. Their profits are defined by their state regulators and they are granted a right to a specific rate of return through the regulation process.
Great comment - I like you!! :)
Or Firebase hosting?
Natural gas might not be much of an improvement. A leak rate of greater than 3% could potentially be more destructive to the green house effect than burning coal.

http://theconversation.com/the-us-natural-gas-industry-is-le...
There are two big things lacking in current languages: dynamic scope and macros.

Dynamic scope gives callers the ability to provide values to their callee's callees, without polluting the argument list. It's a tremendously valuable option, which is ignored by just about every language these days. Fortunately you can fake it, e.g. with Go's context.Context.

Macros help clean up the verbose mess of catch/throw or try/except or panic/defer/recover blocks and make the logic explicit rather than implicit. Without macros, you have to spell out all the boilerplate all the time. You can get part of the way there with anonymous functions, but they are also imperfect and verbose.

I think there's a lot of argument right now between folks who recognise the absolute necessity for macros and folks who don't understand it yet; so far as I can tell there's very little understanding of or apreciation for dynamic scope. This strikes me as unfortunate: while I definitely don't want it by default, it's wonderful in a lot of situations.
Farting on social media isn't easy at all! The security guards at Facebook won't let me in after the last time.
If the key to business success is focus, why does Amazon work?
It is an oversemplification, but it is acceptable in most cases IMHO.

While there are individual differences, European countries' welfare/tax systems tend to have a lot more in common between themselves than with the US.
Researchers create washable sensor that can be woven into materials
Well shipping was like 30 days late so they tried to say it wasn't eligible for return.

I just got it back and as much as I want to use it I'm trying to return it still...
> Python has deterministic destruction

Not quite.

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...

> It is not guaranteed that __del__() methods are called for objects that still exist when the interpreter exits.
Off topic, but what did you use to draw the flow diagram?
A lot of open source American tech has roots in NSA and other agencies. Signal and Tor are good examples, yet people seem to trust them.
Yes yes yes. The treatment for this is to split your work into smaller tasks so you feel you can hit a milestone before the interruption.
Strange then that Huawei wanted to sell itself to Motorola.
From the article:

Soviet ships’ officers would have been familiar with the story of Aleksandr Dudnik, the captain of the Aleut, the only factory ship the Soviets owned before World War II. Dudnik was a celebrated pioneer in the Soviet whaling industry, and had received the Order of Lenin—the Communist Party’s highest honor—in 1936. The following year, however, his fleet failed to meet its production targets. When the Aleut fleet docked in Vladivostok in 1938, Dudnik was arrested by the secret police and thrown in jail, where he was interrogated on charges of being a Japanese agent. If his downfall was of a piece with the unique paranoia of the Stalin years, it was also an indelible reminder to captains in the decades that followed.
But they still have IP correlatable with server logs with timestamps and everything, plus you get a new client side DB what will be perked into by every adware in existence.

The stated goal of untrackability by timestamp matching is simply not achieved with just 12 to 24 temporal dithering for anything, but biggest websites on the planet.

They say it is privacy preserving, then, 5m minute into the text it comes out that it is nothing like that at all.

It is the next "do not track" header.

But to me it feels to be Apple's first "carrot and stick" step to chip away at Google walled garden.

See: few month ago they launched both a ad cookie killer, and a 3rd party cookie firewall by default. Clearly, there was a huge net loss of ad money nearly momentarily, they clearly wanted it to be a surprise, to push ad businesses into panic. Now they come with a stick: play our walled garden, and you get your ad cookie back.

In other news, people were noticing that Apple was hiring senior Ad tech people for quite some time now.
That's categorically not true.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-...

737 Max experiences dynamic instability, where a high angle of attack is prone to increase the angle of attack at an increasing rate.
The Ecological Limits of Work [pdf]
Algorithm Design by Tardos/Kleinberg is a much better book for this imho, going through 200+ problems and designing algorithms to solve them. Less reference style than CLRS and more like TAOCP.
There have also been great gains made in energy storage lately, which is what's needed to make renewables a true replacement.
New Josephson junction study links quantum theory to experiment
That's interesting. What would be the advantages of that over an ordinary sailboat?
There's not even case here for Greenpeace style bootstomping. a Green New Deal legislation could redirect funds from carbon taxes back into renewable energy reinvestment, turning an externality into a mechanism to fund the cleaning of that externality. Hell, the very companies that would be paying that tax could turn around and open their own renewable energy arms and take that money right back as reinvestment. I don't know why this wouldn't get bipartisan support.
Just use Netlify.
> Renewables are used differently, in that there's a lot less ability to rely on them to generate power.

I am confused on your reasoning here.

Solar energy covers the daylight hours. Wind power covers the evening / night time hours.

Storage technologies smooth out the bumps.

Nuclear plants tend to experience long down times for maintenance - which hardly makes them 'reliable'.

Xcel is based in a part of the country with easy access to wind energy. I suspect that that calculation is playing a much larger role than you are considering. Specifically, if Xcel can site wind farms close to the customer, there can be a significant savings in power loss due to transmission.

Windfarms can be built in smaller units of generation power and built in the airspace over farms. (This is why conservative Kansas really like renewables - farmers see them as a backup source of revenue.)
Hacker Laws: The Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)
Disrupting Uber/Lyft?
Recently the number of Lyft drivers on the road at ~5AM has gone down in my area substantially. Recently I met a driver that starts taken people "off the books" at 3AM and then drives on the app until 6 or 7AM. He suggested someone replicate the app, invite all 5 start Lyft / Uber drivers to join and offer riders the first ride free. Run the entire thing with a low overhead with profits going to the driver. Seems like an interesting way to improve the community.
What is statistically more dangerous...
1. Flying a 737 Max on a major carrier
2. Flying a commuter plane with a regional carrier
3. Flying an Airbus with a 2nd tier international carrier

I have no idea, but I suspect they're all still orders of magnitude safer than driving.
With better education. Better reasoning skills prevent stupid applications of instincts.
It falls put of the atmosphere a lot faster than CO2 though right?
Were the girl's guides about the same things as boy's guides? By cute, you probably meant harmless. You probably didn't mean to say that gender roles are cute. I guess its harmlessness is up for debate. My position on the matter is that there's no place for socially constructed gender roles in this society, and it's not cute.
Come to think of it, I believe I might have found a couple of "back doors" in Win 10. Shall I call my EU parliament representative now about trade sanctions against MS, or shall I wait till Monday? Decisions, decisions..
Absolutely. This has to be viewed holistically, as a combination of greener generation, better efficiency, storage, lifestyle changes.... The problem's too big to solve otherwise.
Not PR, but actually money and lobbying. Maybe promise a factory in some key cities and states.
> One reason to doubt this is that above a low threshold (80 IIRC), IQ has no correlation with salary.

Do you have a source for this? Everything I have read suggests IQ is highly correlated with income (without considering a threshold).
>Well because it confuses causation and correlation in addition to being a fertile ground for confirmation bias

How do you already know this a priori? We know intelligence is strongly heritable, there's no reason to prematurely conclude that there are no variations among ethnicity tied to genes.

>Even if group X is lower it telks you nothing about Y and allows the jump to justification for travesties like eugenics

Nonsense. Slippery slope fallacy. Acknowledging that people have different levels of intelligence does not imply that we should deny them rights to life. But it would, for example, potentially explain certain discrepancies in socioeconomic outcome, which is critical when considering efficient allocation of resources to combat inequities.

>Except oops - it was comparing subsistence farmers in a disease ridden area to vaccinated and well fed and educated upper middle class

You seem to imply that all IQ studies are and will be poorly constructed. This does not have to be the case.

There is an unfounded presumptive bias in society currently that all people are born with identical potential IQ and that all discrepancies arise from socioeconomics. Moreover, we've been strongly conditioned not to question this assumption, lest we be shamed with accusations of racism. But this is a fundamentally unproven assumption and denying evidence to the contrary will likely lead to worse outcomes for society.
i've read that for pilots, the 737 is better and more manual (if the need arises to fix things or do overrides) compared to the airbus a320 which is a bit newer and has more electronics and sort of does a lot of things for you, but also obv more likely where things can go wrong
The Gulag Archipelago paints a very different picture, torture was common according to that text.

Serves them right for not giving up every single ounce of grain they produced to the government.
Tesla - 2 years from full driving. Since 2015.
Not a bad idea. It might help someone who is accused of something bad prove their innocence or a victim's story.

The counter issue is that legal might have a problem with this since there might now be video records of all meetings. I'm sure they would be ok in the scenario you mention above, but many meetings might come back to harm the company if brought up in discovery.

I think legal would say the cons outweigh the pros.
Innovator - To help me ride my bike on dangerous mountain trails, I made a sturdy frame and fat, knobby tires.

HN - The bike is the wrong tool for transportation in mountains. For absolute safety you must only use a cable car or funicular.

Innovator - But cable cars and funiculars are impractical for the mountain trails I want to ride, and my current road race bike with weak frame and skinny tires is dangerous off-road.

HN - A sturdy frame and fat, knobby tires only provide the illusion of safety, which is worse than no safety at all. Never go to the mountains unless you're in a cable car or funicular.
Other than the notion that all traffic should be served over HTTPs, if you have purely static site, why the big fuss?
It even gives you a CDN. GitHub Pages is fronted by Fastly.
What happens to me the most often is that I buy something, and then a couple of days later I'll start seeing ads for it, and they chase me around for a few weeks or until I buy something else.
Map, Filter, Reduce in Fortran 2018
To all the people thinking geopolitics, please just remember that ARM is owned by Softbank now. For this kind of decisions, this is a Japanese company.
Perhaps if Germany stopped giving weapons of war to Israel for free the “Israel-hostile” attacks would diminish.
California’s Wild Flower Hotline Provides the Latest Scoop on Superblooms
Reading between the lines: What Slack didn’t disclose in its IPO filing
That's literally what happens to the 737 max airframe. Specifically, the angle of attack is prone to increasing at high angle of attacks.
Flex PCB Fabrication