skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tax breaks and similar incentives exist to nudge the market in the direction the government would like. I may not approve, as a conservative person, as I always advocate for a simple flat tax on all entities. But I'm not the politicians who decide they want to incentivize various behaviors in the market.

The real point I want to make is in order to simplify the tax structure, you rob the politicians of their main economic design power. No more tax incentives for solar, high efficiency windows, developing in high crime areas, and the like. I'm willing to pay that price, but are you? (The royal you, i.e. us).

The final point, the real crux of the matter, is that politicians cannot predict all the consequences of the tax breaks they create. If tax breaks exist, people should try to get them, otherwise the whole incentive structure doesn't operate. Then some people who were not intended to get the break find edge cases in the legal language to exploit. If the politicians can't predict all the edge cases of the incentives they design (which they can't) then we end up with things that seem outrageous until you read the law and go "oh, that's the loophole. Shitty, but seems legal.". This is why the federal code is so complicated. People making the tax code more complicated over time to try to specifically target the incentives. Just like a legacy codebase, in fact. Except that it's subjective when you evaluate it.

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I disagree.

Autoscaling sounds great, but in practice it notices that there is a problem after you already have once, and by the time you've scaled up, there is no problem any more. Which is the worst of all worlds.

For example in this case you'd realize there is a problem at the top of the hour. And 2 minutes later you'd have a bunch of autoscaled instances up, all wondering what the fuss was about. So they scale down again, but then at the top of the next hour the same thing happens again with the same result.

The same thing happens with ad servers. An ad buy goes in for 30 seconds. When it hits, you have a firehose. That then shuts off.

In fact this problem is so common that I recommend against autoscaling unless you have specific reason to believe that it will work for you.
I hope this is the right description because it would make such intuitive sense.

But superconductivity is also a quantum phenomenon so it probably defies intuition.
And Waymo got a deal from Arizona that waived all sales tax and provided for unlimited free gas?! That's outrageous!!
She is the CTO. So, let's rephrase your statement: "If she were your boss, ...."
https://osher.ucsf.edu/patient-care/integrative-medicine-res...

"...it is theorized that cancer cells do not respond to the protective signals generated by fasting, thus leaving them vulnerable to both the immune system and cancer treatment. This process is known as differential stress resistance (DSR). Short-term starvation (STS), fasting for 48 hours, causes a rapid switch of cells to a protected mode, which is capable of protecting mammalian cells and mice from various toxins, including chemotherapy."

(et. al)

I read it as cleanup/housekeeping tasks that aren't high priority, relative to processing food inputs. When freed from those tasks, the body can concentrate on housekeeping.
How about the Presidio for riding? I am not a cyclist. I incurred a foot injury recently, and have been thinking of ways I can exercise without impacting my feet too much. I've thought riding a bicycle around the Presidio could be pretty nice.
I thought governments charged a fee with every filing, which should allow them to scale their processing resources with the volume of submissions?
Yes he did, and I am not a scholar either. I will just say that the path is not something to be debated, it is something to be experienced directly.
Years ago we had some 0.18 and 0.16 code coexisting, but last year we updated everything to 0.19!
> Information being PII or non PII isn't binary.

It is binary in Google's data structures (marked as annotations on protobufs), and in law. Things you listed aren't considered PII.
Yea looks like they've changed it to output HTML fallback now. Presumably for browsers which don't respect the redirect status code. This document must predate that change.
So you're happier that they were employed by the cruise line at all, but preferred they they be given more? I see. Giving them more than their market value is like charity. So perhaps my question should be "Would you give part of your salary to them?" Did you? It's easy to ask someone else to give charity but surely if you really mean it, you'd do it yourself first.

Though you did say "I was so abusing the lower deck people" which, given you didn't want to fire them, implies their normal life would have been even more abusive. So wasn't your company actually helping them already? Isn't that something to feel good about? You were making their lives better. Not as good as your own, but why is that the standard?
The course "Origins of Life" (https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/95-origins-of-lif...) covers this idea quite a bit. It's not a new idea, but so far of course, nobody has created new life this way. We're working on it.

The general premise is that cells began organizing when a lipid membrane was formed that was hydrophobic on the outside, and hydrophilic on the inside (like every drop of oil in water). Many current examples do demonstrate features that are reminiscent of life, and so the study is to improve on these materials, in the hopes that eventually we figure out what happened to make them "spark" to life.
Radical idea: Peloton's target market is the kind of person who is willing to spend $2000 on an indoor spin bike either as their primary mode of exercise or as one of many bikes they own. Especially people who want to spin during times of inclement or excessive warm weather.

The Peloton may not make much sense to people living in pleasant cycling meccas on the West Coast, but east of the Rockies the weather is a lot worse and being able to spin indoors is huge.
The Linux kernel, as well as the FreeBSD kernel, supports the loading and unloading of kernel modules, which are compiled binaries that can be linked to the kernel while it is running. These modules are still in the address space of the kernel; the term "monolithic" refers to the fact that all portions of the kernel, even kernel modules, are running in the same address space. This is different from a microkernel like Mach where various operating system subsystems such as networking and the file system are running as separate user-level processes (thus having their own address spaces).
R Tutorial for Data Science Part 1
And for motorcycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oV-GW4O4bI&feature=youtu.be...
I just want to break in here because that's a large range in prices. To explain those, they are because the different amounts of storage capacity. These very drastically in location. So somewhere like SoCal needs less than in the Bay area because SoCal is almost always sunny and windy. The Bay has plenty of shady days (go talk to the people at LLNL, there's plenty of people there working on this problem). Alternatively, places like Seattle have long periods of low sun and wind so need extremely high amounts of storage.

This is the argument for a nuclear substitute, specifically in places where renewables are difficult. You don't replace renewables in SoCal with nuclear, you replace coal in Seattle with nuclear (and continue the expansion of renewables and storage).

The underlying reason the IPCC promotes nuclear is that it is the only existing technology that can fill in the gap for renewables. It can handle load balancing, reduce storage costs/vulnerability, and helps with the duck curve (which has to this date not been solved by batteries). This isn't a "fund nuclear vs fund battery research" argument (seriously guys, stop with this!). This is a "well this works and we can start building it right now. Let's do that while we keep inventing new solutions because things are too bad to not have a backup plan. We also need to increase the total funding and use every feasible option on the table" kind of argument. I'm not sure why this is so difficult to see. No pro nuclear person is anti renewable. If they are I'll call them anti-scientific too.

No pro nuclear person is anti-renewable. Come on. Let's stop having this debate. It's not a VS game, we have to use every available option.

Edit: I want to reiterate what I said in my original comment. Not following the expert advice of those working in climate is anti-scientific. You may be as smart as them but you sure aren't as close to the data and have access to tons of other people working on the same problem. Trust the scientists. If you don't give a good reason, but you're going to have to go into as much detail as they do. You don't argue with scientist about dark matter, which we know less about than climate. It's just shocking to me that people here get all up in arms and ignore the expert advice.
US taxpayers are not subsidizing shipping costs. Domestic shippers probably are.

"Zero tax dollars used. The Postal Service receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations."

https://facts.usps.com/top-facts/
Alleged 'Snake Oil' Crypto Firm Sues over Boos at Black Hat
Have a look at this page [1]. Mathematica is exceptionally powerful and has a very rich vocabulary. In so far as expressing ideas across the computational paradigms - you will struggle to find a match.

It's just a pity that its grammar/syntax is unintuitive to people who come from conventional programming languages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_p...
> then build and install a native app or leverage existing native apps' functionalities.

Personally, I trust my browser a lot more than any native app. I cringe every time I'm forced to use a native app when the browser would do.
This seems great and very usable. I'd add that I'd make VERB optional, and default to GET so we could finally return the old:

wget http://something.com
I'm glad someone made this website. I've been collecting some of these graphs myself and felt it was pretty clear a conversation needed to be had.
This is a common business model. Eg Terminal.io gets R&D credits for the employees it hires on behalf of other startups.
Skip to 20:06 to see the first public images of the actual PCBs that are going to be going into phones!

I'll still be flabbergasted if they actually manage to ship phones within the next 34 days, but they haven't yet admitted that the shipping date will have to change.

EDIT: At the end, the speaker briefly tries to demo the devkit, only to find that it has inexplicably turned off, and she states "it's pretty hot -- power management is still an area we have to work on". I can't wait to receive my Librem 5, but there is no way this is shipping Q3 this year.
> The fundamental point is that information is conserved, so if artificial life sims produce information, it must have been inserted into the code at some point, and it is possible to track down these particular insertion points, which the authors do.

Fair enough. Let's apply this to the video I linked. The authors certainly didn't add "information" about what walking or hopping looks like into the code explicitly. It just emerged. Following your logic, the hopping behavior can't be new information, it must've been contained in the rules of the simulation.

The simulation itself is made up mostly of an off-the-shelf physics library, a couple of muscle-skeleton arrangements (authored by hand), and a fitness function measuring the distance traveled by activating those muscles through weights (the learning variables). Given this environment, walking, hopping and running behaviors invariably emerge. Fascinating!

Adapting this to our world, the laws of physics and the initial arrangement of matter contain all the "information" required for life to eventually emerge in the universe. This leaves you with a "god of the gaps" opportunity: An intelligent designer must've designed those laws and made that arrangement of matter so that it all works out. This is however entirely compatible with Darwinian models.

I don't have an issue with that kind of hypothesis, except that it is unclear what the existence of such a god/designer would imply for our particular lives here on earth.
> RSS traffic trickled down to almost nothing.

Could you elaborate how you measured that?

While Google trends depicts decline in search frequency so it may correlate with actual usage, it could as well mean that the "RSS market" is stable and saturated ("everybody know about it, so no need to search for it").

If you came to this conclusion while looking at your access logs, keep in mind that single request from some web-based reader could "feed" hordes of subscribers. In scenario desktop RSS readers were completely abandoned and everybody used web-based RSS reading services, there would be just ~ services count × their check frequency requests, from which it would be really hard to abstract subscriber count, I guess.

Maybe there is exact way to determine this usage I'm not aware of? Are those services telling back subscribers count in their requests? Or do they publish this information in some standardized way? I really would like to know…
I think the way this happened certainly looked like (petty)"Politics" and "not-rocking-the-boat (generally)".

I'm sure most would expect "Globalization" as an idea that was generally in the air would have influenced those who took the actions here as well as the people allowed those actions to happen (which had to include quite a number of US officials).

The thing is that definitely involved a huge amount of money flowing in various directions and so I tend to believe a portion of people making this and allowing this to happen were considering the interests involved also. Especially, some people (small US operations) were screaming about this from the start, why it was hard for them to be heard is worth considering.
When we move to full OLED, ubiquitous night mode will drive down their device's power usage.
As someone who has also been "diagnosed" I was helped a great deal by therapy and mental health practitioners.
Enhancing Webauthn.me with the Online Debugger Tool
A figure in the "Opportunity" section has two large inverted cones showing total addressable market.

The lie factor[0] of the "Peloton's Current Markets" chart is 4.2. The lie factor of the "U.S. Only" chart is 5.8.

[0]: https://infovis-wiki.net/wiki/Lie_Factor
Practical upshot?
I thought this was going to be about the Python SSH library - a bit confusing.
I know at least one personally. He was in W2019 batch. He has 2 young kids.
I’m sorry I don’t see anything public about his startup yet on google, I prefer to keep it private. But he’s doing a great job while being a great dad.
Well, those are charts.

OK, I think the author is making some vague point about the collapse of the Bretton Woods system leading to the surge in inequality.

On a superficial level that looks to be what happened. And indeed something big happened that created an economic regime very different than the post-War regime of rising GDP and rising wages.

What happened in the early 1970s?

I think that's the wrong question because it pinpoints the last 40 years as in some way exceptional. I don't think they are. It's more interesting to ask what happened in the immediate post war era to allow increasing shared prosperity.

Well, the US won a major near apocalyptic war with its home territory completely unscathed permitting the US to utterly dominate the capitalist world order.

Maintaining that dominance required appeasing American workers who agitated heavily before the war and could credibly threaten to shut down strategic parts of the economy in the midst of a Cold War that could turn hot at any moment. Furthermore, that same Cold War created a polarity between capital and labor and forced the hands of the American elite to give way more concessions to labor than they would otherwise.

So in the years following WWII, there was about two decades of relatively pro-labor policies (or at least tolerance of labor). This allowed American workers to share in the gains from productivity.

What happened in the late 1960s?

American power started to diminish as the rest of the capitalist world became more competitive. The US could no longer just print dollars to fund its war machine and a new social welfare state (Great Society).

International capital became more aggressive in pursuit of profits. Why invest in American businesses when they could invest in lower wage, more efficient, up and coming economies. That put more pressure on American wages and American labor power.

With high levels of war spending and social spending without commensurate increases in taxes inflation was an ever present threat. Another reason capitalist became less interested in holding dollars.

The inflation threat was finally stomped out by the Volker Federal Reserve policies that generated a crushing recession. This recession and the Reagan administration's anti-labor policies crushed any hope that American labor would have of regaining its share of productivity increases.

The massive Reagan tax cuts further precluded building a social welfare safety net that could have helped workers weather economic calamities. Desperate workers work for cheap and are more willing to give up gains from productivity.

So, I don't think anything magical happened in 1971. Rather it was a collection of events that spanned into the 1980s culminating in the early 1980s recessions that both ended inflation and severely weakened American labor. On top of that right-wing policies further weakened the power of workers, making it less likely that they could share in gains from productivity increases.
I think it’s a lot more complicated than that. You must divide by the population if wealth/development/whatever metric were uniformly distributed. But it’s a massive country with enormous diversity in statistics on all fronts. There are pockets far more developed than the average American town and even the most developed cities in other countries, and villages hundred of years “behind.” Debating whether or not to call it “developed” means missing out on a whole lot of nuance.

You can’t even compare cities to cities, since even an entity like Beijing is structured and defined so differently from how we define a city like NYC or Chicago.

This is why I stressed the ethnocentrism of it all. It’s a country that has developed tremendously but not at all in the same way that we have traditionally defined development in the western sense, and a lot of that comes from its size, its historic dynastic cultures and their political structures, and its population (count and local densities).
On the other hand, if you already have a decent bike a trainer or a set of rollers is a lot less than $2k...
Perhaps this can be done with multi frequency audio pulses.
That would be easier to build than a NLOS camera
Edge cases can always be handled more extensively. My post was aimed at the 99% open/approve/shut cases that make up the bulk of stuff.

Basically, free humans from pointless stuff that can readily be automated and use their valuable time to do stuff where human knowledge is required.
What? He listed 4 things in addition to software. Just do anything besides those 5 activities. This is a joke?
> No pro nuclear person is anti-renewable.

I've seen plenty of anti-renewable and pro-nuclear (and often pro-fossil fuel, from the same source) advocacy from people in the US Right. It is simply false to say “no pro-nuclear person is anti-renewable.”

It is accurate to say that some pro-nuclear people are also pro-renewable.

> It's not a VS game

When it comes to resource allocation, it absolutely is. There aren't infinite resources to allocate.
Re: The Cyber-Insecurity of WeWork – Shared Offices and Cracking WiFi with Weak WPA2 Passwords

Sorry, but the password complaint is just ridiculous. What's exactly the point of a strong password if it's still shared with a million (or whatever) WeWork members across the globe, and could easily be figured out by simply asking just about anyone (of course, noone actually remembers it, as you only enter it once), or by taking advantage of one of the many ways to get a sample of the offering?

They list https://www.xkcd.com/936/, which is indeed a great one, but what WeWork should reply to them is this, https://xkcd.com/538/, which is the truth.
You're right, of course, because it turned out SCO wasn't the owner of the relevant copyright.
> 3 weeks container shipping on a super container ship vs. even cheapest truck shipping ?

Container shipping is ridiculously cheap. See e.g. https://www.joc.com/maritime-news/capacity-cuts-keeping-asia.... Seems around 640 USD from Shanghai to North Europe as per above article/source. This for a 20 foot container. A lot of containers are 40 foot. US has loads of 45 foot containers.

If you'd go very far inland you wouldn't use a truck though; either a barge (inland vessel) or a train.
There was also a fair bit of speculation that it was some folks in Redmond using SCO as a tool to spread FUD [0].

[0] https://www.cnet.com/news/sco-leaked-e-mail-a-misunderstandi...
I have it and I like how the whole package works together -- in particular, how certain teachers are very careful to show how to keep good form for your back etc.

When I see a guy on the same exact machine as me, showing bad form like a slightly curved back or whatever with the heels, and then correcting to the proper form, referencing the same bike, on a giant Android tablet in front of me, that is very helpful.

And this whole thing is sitting right there in my room as a ready to go thing whenever -- taking mini-obstacles out of the way like going to the gym, studying proper form without someone having to ape it for me, etc. are admittedly pretty trivial things -- for a lazy sack like me, having all these done and together has made a difference.

"It just works."

(Edited for grammar.)
Why doctors still offer treatments that may not help
A priori, one wouldn't expect those things to have such a dramatic and sudden effect. If you start from the mysterious graphs of many different financial metrics all going berserk at virtually the same instant - like someone snapping their fingers - you start to ask yourself "what seismic shift happened in the financial world at this point? What fundamental change was made here?"

And if you ask this question in good faith, the answer bubbles right up.
SW has a tendency to describe features of a person which I find utterly fascinating (for eg: 'Turing used to giggle a lot', now compare that with the somber depiction of Turing in 'The Imitation Game'). In the write up on Ramanujam, SW mentions that he was stocky, apart from many personal tidbits.
Not to mention the shady business practices of many gyms. Search "Planet Fitness requiring direct withdrawals" on reddit.