skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was changed because "partly to blame" is disingenuous and creates a bias right off the bat.

"Partly to blame" could be anything -- could be 5%, could be 50% responsible.

Sure, they're partly to blame, but greedy hedge funds could be 90% responsible and the Unions just sort of went along with them.
> Unlimited build minutes. No hidden costs. $7 per month per CI pipeline.

wow. how is this viable for them :
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Intel Hedges Its AI Bets with Habana Labs Buy
Wish I could upvote this twice. Roughly speaking, "building the product" is maybe 20-30% of the actual business. The other 70-80% is what makes or breaks an actual company - market research, customer discussion, sales, marketing, support, accounting/finance, etc.
Games, reading and doing various sports is what keeps me having a good life. I'd have loved to able to find meaningful work, but that never happened. Interestingly, this is freeing. If my work will never be important, I'm free to just enjoy life while it lasts. Maybe that perspective helps.
To paraphrase Mr. Burns, "A happy employee is a productive employee!"
Well, society also decided at various points that government should ban interracial marriage, same sex marriage and make consensual intercourse between two adults of the same sex illegal.

You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t think that we should celebrate giving the government more power over what consenting adults are allowed to do when it doesn’t invade another person’s rights.
Is anything like that in Canada?

My RRSP returns are not impressive despite shooting for low cost options, including popular Vanguard funds...
I dunno, this kind of thing seems like exactly the canonical argument for deletionism. Maybe there's no cost to a page sitting on Wikipedia describing, like, some guy's special attack from Naruto. There are reasonable arguments that allowing things like that would set a bad precedent and encourage behavior that doesn't help the project, but I admit it's pretty tenuous.

There are obvious and important costs if Wikipedia articles start being perceived as promotional material rather than encyclopedia entries.
You can take audio snapshots of unique sounds and compute location from that- when somebody nearby has similar audio and location active.
Another trap with this that I found myself in.

I had an XCode project sitting in folder on desktop. Small utility that I modify frequently.

After Catalina upgrade compilation of that project stopped working.

XCode started complaining "file is inaccessible" or something like that. Peculiarity is that you can open that file from IDE through Open containing folder / Finder.

And XCode provides absolutely no clue why it cannot access files of the project...

Road that is seeded by such good intentions goes where?
This is such a valuable skill. For our work we've found this ability to google or find answers without incredibly specific step by step instructions to be lacking from many younger workers. I've wondered if others have found this for many smart people under 30 as well?
The best you can do is educate people and let them make their own mistakes. Show them funny youtube videos of people being scammed, maybe they will remember those. Find some scam meme's perhaps. I recently saw a video of a police captain talking to a phone scammer, was great.
The SCOTUS decision in Gregory v. Helvering supports tax minimization.

There is zero obligation for any individual or company to pay any more tax than they owe.

These companies all pay the taxes they owe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_v._Helvering
I'll go out and say it. Most Indie SaaS developers don't really really want to start a business.

They might want it consciously and convince themselves of this fact, but sub consciously they are making the wrong choices, optimizing the wrong things, digging their own grave.

The moment things like customers, prices, marketing, money, taxes, lawyers, incorporation, accountants, employees — all SUPER normal things in any business — come around they freeze up. Safer to upgrade Bootstrap.
I'm of the opposite view: i'd rather have the money go to the government, which is accountable to me as a voter, rather than some board of directors which I will never have enough capital to impact in a meaningful way (either through my purchasing power or through share ownership)
The binder clip article has many of the same merits as the paper clip article. The bulldog clip article is more interesting: it's a "stub" article (its authors are explicit about the fact that it's not a complete article), and still it manages to track down some of its history and cite interesting uses from books – someone had to read those books and fish the bulldog clip cites out of them.

I think it's pretty clear to anyone why bulldog clips are in the encyclopedia, and it is only clear to subject matter experts with strong opinions why Arrow would be.

If your topic requires subject matter expertise in order to recognize its importance, the standards are unequal: you are going to need to do more work to establish its notability, because you cannot reasonably expect the layperson volunteers in the Wikipedia project to do that work for you.
That's because cars are primarily a conspicuous consumption status symbol, and only secondarily a useful tool.

It's also why a lot of people buy pickup trucks that they never haul or tow anything with, over SUVs - the latter aren't 'cool'.
Previous discussions on the Ray project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15481169

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16510610

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064241
> [0] Some Western languages also have big-endian name order. Hungarian, for instance; Paul Erdős is really Erdős Pál.

In French it depends on the context, informally you're "Jacques Dupont", formally "M. DUPONT Jacques".
Avoid adding tons of tiny JS deps that require maintenance= move faster

Avoid adding jQuery & write your own slideUp, slideDown etc. = move slower
Here’s a quickie (linear/log) line chart of the data in this table:

https://observablehq.com/@jashkenas/annual-returns-on-stocks...
Maybe it's not a debate so much as a tension--and it's a real one. Personally, I haven't contributed anything to Wikipedia in years. It's useful, I see its flaws, but I certainly don't care enough to push on it for the most part.
Seems like on every thread about regulation or taxes someone with a libertarian point of view has to chime in with this extremely orthogonal point to spread their views on government.

For one thing, you’re arguing simultaneously that the government is spending more money than it’s generating while also arguing that people should pay less taxes which seems extremely odd in back to back sentences.

For another you just toss in this implicit idea that government spending is wasted money.

That may be something you believe but it doesn’t appear to be the belief of most Americans or Europeans who enjoy things like public utilities, roads, education, defense, research, etc.

And finally, the point is, again, very orthogonal to the discussion at hand. It might be tangentially related but it’s an entirely different discussion.

This article is talking about how these mega corporations are using tax evasion strategies to avoid paying their fair share in the existing framework.

And your discussion is about reworking the entire framework, and feels slightly evangelical, and flippant.
==They thought slavery benefited the slaves.==

People are still making this argument today. Just a few examples:

[1] http://www.theamericancause.org/032108.htm

[2] https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/trent-franks-blacks-bet...

[3] https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/07/11/social-conservativ...

[4] http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/329286
Not sure that matters much; 80% of restaurants in NYC don't last more than 5 years anyway.

And I'm not sure the business model is unsustainable either -- food delivery existed profitably long before GrubHub.
I mean, I wouldn’t mind taking it closer to that extreme. Do we really need the hundreds of federal agencies and bureaucrats that are infesting our government right now? Or a defense budget orders of magnitude larger than other nations? Or billions of dollars in foreign aid?

Let’s not forget income tax was introduced originally as a temporary solution to raise funds for World War I. Long term, it’s only increased since then. At what point do we say enough is enough, no more tax increases?
Well said. Creating something new of course takes an enormous amount of time and energy. It makes sense that not everyone would be willing or afforded the ability to take on such a task. I agree that removing or lowering any barriers to allow for further, more distributed experimentation would benefit society as a whole.
Great anecdote, thanks for sharing. I myself have some stories about poor tech hiring all over the place.

As a counterpoint/to play devil's advocate - it doesn't actually seem like these companies are any worse off for this, are they? In other words, it doesn't seem like poor interviewing practices (Google is offender #1) are negatively affecting these companies.
Petro-Canada Marks Completion of Cross-Country “Electric Highway” in Victoria
I'm not so sure this accurate or argued in good faith considering the article you linked clearly states..
"Some states are fairly conservative about what they will try to take -- they have the right to recover costs from real estate, personal property, and other assets only if they are included within the deceased person's "probate estate." A probate estate includes only assets that were owned solely by the individual at the time of death, where there is no beneficiary or joint owner designated. Joint accounts, payable on death accounts, and contracts that have designated a beneficiary are not included in the probate estate."

This clearly sets aside assets that are dedicated to a beneficiary or if the assets are jointly owned. I'm not a lawyer, so if someone is please chime in, but this would exclude pretty much anyone has a will or is still married.

I think this not a valid reason to exclude Medicare for all as an alternative to our disjointed and dysfunctional system of medicine. Also what about this precludes us from changing this feature if it was rolled out for everyone?
Why do I "need" this? I don't understand what you are trying to tell me. Does this explain some alternative terminology?

I'm a little put off by the way you wrote that comment.
The last days of Homo erectus
Are you thinking of this one, by chance? https://youtu.be/Hsq0IYrOsrk
Correlation(s) in Python
Show HN: Unmark 2.0
So which recreational drug would you say is safer than marijuana then and why? I could see making a case for psilocybin and psilocin. Is that what you're arguing? That the psilocybin and psilocin contained in magic mushrooms are safer than the THC and other cannabinoids contained in marijuana? I would agree with that. If not that, then which drug would you say is safer?
(The U-2 flies high but quite slow. The A-12/SR-71 were the really fast ones.)
Cantor bad.
In fact most of these articles neglect to point out why the tax rates are what they are or offer specific policy prescriptions. I would at least respect them if they said something like "let's get rid of the R&D tax credit." SarbOx made stock grants an expense that is recognized so we could undo that which would greatly increase the net income that is taxable by many of these companies given their reliance on stock based compensation.

Without discussing which provisions (and they are actual laws, not loopholes, because many/most are intentionally there) we should be eliminating this is all just a lot of handwringing.
I agree, but some get this right.

My favorite local supermarket, for instance, makes their current inventory and prices available for download (in spreadsheet form, but still...) -- and they even tell you which aisle has which products.

I'm finding more and more local businesses have similar data on their websites. I expect this trend to continue.
Then what benefits would you offer in place to attract talent, especially at the lower end(where economies of scale help more)?
I don't seek an answer, because I believe the question is answered that 23andme is not tyrannical and doesn't disdain privacy. Neither does Google, for that matter, and I think many people agree with such an assessment (Gmail has nearly half a billion active users).

"Begs the question" means your argument presupposed the truth of this part of the statement instead of supporting it.
Even without considering the higher cost to manufacture a Mercedes/BMW vs Smart/Mini, those "lesser" brands were often more convenient since they made it easier to find parking.
>The point, more broadly, is that these are loans with a quick expiry baked in.

Not when they keep rolling them over, they aren't.
Also, what some people call loopholes, others call incentives. The market is doing pretty well since the tax cuts, in terms of equity prices, wages and labor. It makes you wonder if the incentives (“loopholes”) are such a bad thing, or if they’re working as designed, and actually stimulating the economy.
"At the start of the effort, I asked my wife questions about what she needed and what would help her and other educational consultants like her. She told me the things that she was looking for directly. But it took forever to have something tangible to show her."

It's more efficient to get feedback on a few UI mockups than building a fully functioning application. And if you get a positive response, it stokes enthusiasm and momentum.
Pretty sure we've already decided as a state that the minimum livable wage is $15/hr, so $9.50 doesn't cut it.

Are there stats on how many Uber drivers have a second job vs. for how many it's their primary source of income.

Regardless, I reject the notion that someone should be required to hold down more than one job in order to make ends meet. If they like to have more than one job, and the total hours work out to something reasonable, sure, but my impression of this is that we see people working multiple jobs out of necessity, at significantly north of 40 hours per week, and are still living paycheck-to-paycheck.
Just did a little bit of a napkin calculation, how much energy would it cost to pump the entire flow of the Rhine 2m higher?

2m head difference, 20_000m3/s flow
Due to head difference:
1000kg/m3 * 20_000m3/s * 9.8kgm/s2 * 2m = 392MW

Accelerating to 5m/s:
0.5 * 1000kg/m3 * 20_000m3/s * (5m/s)^2 = 250MW

That is at 100% efficiency. But knowing a modern container vessel has 60MW installed power, and a large coal powerplant (we should be closing those by the way) is about 1GW, this is in the order of magnitude of achievable. Biggest pumps I know of are 5MW (and for higher pressure/velocity, not low pressure/high flow) but if we really wanted to this could be solved
It should, but it isn't. At best, it gets hush-hushed with quiet after-the-fact no-admission-of-guilt settlements protected by NDAs.

At worst, you lose your retaliation lawsuit, and have blackballed yourself from the industry. There's a reason employers do background checks on new hires.

The Samsung stuff here, though, is truly beyond the pale, because it extends outside the workplace, and is well-documented. (As opposed to he-said-she-said subjective things like performance reviews...)
My personal approach is simple, but blunt. I don't answer the phone unless A. I recognize the number, and B. it's somebody with a real good reason to be calling, like my mom, or my sister.

Otherwise I either let it go to voice mail (which is nearly always full, so good luck leaving me a message, which I might or might not check within a month or two), or use the Google call screening service.
It's been interesting to watch "center your social life on work" come home to roost for Google. (And to a lesser degree other large tech companies.)

Unionization is the most direct concern for a company, but it's not the first time this has burned them. Actions from the walkouts to the government contract protests have been encouraged by Google's promotion of non-work connections, and enabled their inability to crack down without destroying the entire "work at Google!" narrative.

It didn't get much news focus, but even the Gender Memo story tied into this - totally aside from its content, it was first posted to an internal "Skeptics" mailing list. How could it possibly have sounded like a good idea for a company to have an internal mailing list devoted to discussing controversial ideas and rejecting conventional wisdom? By odds alone, Google was eventually going to run into some outrage-sparking mess like that just by encouraging people to bring their entire lives to the office.
==Future generations will look back at this borderless craze.. as truly insane.==

Why will future generations be interested in things that never existed?
I buy zwave smart switches instead of WiFi ones because I know those devices won't be able to snoop my LAN. Home automation over IP is a step backwards IMO.
"I just lost my ability to earn a living because of California Assembly Bill No. 5. My freelance brokerage company says they have to let California authors go. Almost a decade of hard work gone in an instant. I can't stop crying.

Right before Xmas."

https://twitter.com/ms_andiloveall/status/120670581104242278...
XXE is a feature that never should have happened. Whoever decided that not only should it be a thing, but that it should be enabled by default, needs to have their keyboard taken away.
Weed can trigger latent schizophrenia if used at a younger age. It is not a good idea to use before the brain is developed, especially if one is predisposed to mental illnesses like schizophrenia. It also alters testosterone synthesis, so there’s that too.
Nobody's as smart as they think they are. Even if this guy was an EXPERT, as a one-man shop, he can't be an expert in everything, and "hired gun" coders can still out-code him across all disciplines in aggregate, even if he's better than any one of them in a specific discipline/component.
Hi! We've _just_ published Unmark 2.0 that adds tag autocompletion, easier bookmark editing, and more. Completely free to try and totally open source (2.0 is in a PR at the moment, but feel free to nab it). Paid accounts are available, they support future updates (we've made 7 significant updates this year) and you unlock search and import/export, etc.

Would love your feedback HN. Unmark has been a labor of love for a few years. It doesn't make much at all but I use it every single day and want to continue to do so.
Please don't make me click a link to find out what your homepage is about.
After sleeping on this, I realized that even though liquid hydrogen could be the working fluid for the (water) hammer, there would be no way to limit the reaction, so we'd just end up with a hydrogen bomb. I also forgot to include one other link:

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

The liquid metal is sort of like the moderator in fission, except in this case it just limits how much hydrogen can fuse by taking the place of the hydrogen in the center.

Also the Carnot efficiency of a liquid hydrogen heat engine would be terrible because it's so cold. It would also be difficult to contain it if it got too hot and turned to gas.

It looks like the compressibility of water is about 46.4 parts per million for every unit increase in pressure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid#Volume

And compressibility is roughly inversely proportional to density:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressibility#cite_note-4

Water is 4.6e-10 Pa^-1 and mercury is 3.7×10–11 Pa^-1 so I would guess that the compressibility of liquid lead is comparable to that of mercury.

If we temporarily ignore the compressibility of hydrogen in the center of the bubble, then to find the maximum pressure we'd need to integrate the compression from outside in, based on the kinetic energy of incoming atoms starting from a certain velocity and exerting pressure on the atoms beneath as they come to rest.

Something similar happens in a type II supernova when a large star runs out of fuel and no longer has the heat energy to hold itself up (think of the hot atoms in the core like the gas in a bubble). When the outer layers collapse inward, they form a fluid hammer where the pressure and temperature are so extreme that a large portion of the center of the star fuses all at once.

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

I'm having trouble finding a simple formula for the maximum pressure of a collapsing fluid, but this simulation could probably tell us if the General Fusion reactor would actually work:

https://cs.lbl.gov/assets/CSSSP-Slides/20160623-Nonaka.pdf
You're not wrong about the size of the dev team and turnover.

At the same time, I'm not sure if taking 2 months to get productive is a win? Wasn't one of the angular "upgrades" a total rewrite? What is the overhead of maintaining a second tightly coupled front-end app. I found doubling the surface area seemed to square the effort, not double it. How much of that productivity is illusory and could be done with fewer people?

Some folks are upvoting the heck out of my comment. I presume some portion of those are devs who might like working in a place without JS dependency package/upgrade/language/promise hell?
Apparently not by default on uBlock Origin.
Maybe I'm missing something super obvious, or I'm preaching to the choir; but why wouldn't it make sense to eliminate all corporate taxes; but also eliminate capital-gains-tax-rates?

I'm not sure you'd have a 100% wash, but it feels like it would be close enough that you could re-jigger rates to capture any short-falls (or drop them if you bring in too much).

It seems like it would:

- Eliminate the need for corporate tax firms / accountants
- Reduce the incentives for industrial lobbying
- Encourage hiring
- Enable Businesses to save for "rainy days"
Try running xattr on the file in the terminal. It might include why it can’t open it
I think that there are significant incentives for financial institutions to create financial products (derivatives, etc.) that contain (and magnify) the systemic risk that is part of their inputs.

Systemic risk is very costly to hedge against, and to do so requires keeping capital idle that could otherwise be productive.

Also, esoteric financial instruments are always going to be less liquid than simple securities, yet the incentive of financial firms is to create them and find markets for them. This is analogous to any industrial input (raw materials) and output (finished product).

Complex financial products are desirable for use as underwriting capital because they can have specific characteristics that make them preferable to cash. But in fact the actual desirable characteristic is that their usefulness as a hedge against systemic risk has been sold off, leaving something that is legal as risk capital but ineffective against systemic risk.

Hence, the financial system has an incentive to create complex, entangled, webs of risk capital, none of which is cash, and all of which looks fantastic if you just look at its core (non systemic) risk characteristics.

When there has not been a systemic risk event in a while, such systems appear to be ingenious and clever. Regulators "understand" them well enough to deem them suitable as risk capital in good times (due to their non-systemic risk characteristics) and in bad (due to their lower cost).

The issue in 2008 was that the derivatives had baked in resilience to some systemic risk. If you design it with resilience to any systemic risk, it ceases to be useful.

So the game is simply baking in enough resilience to comply with regulations, collect quarterly bonuses, and repeat.

When you think about it there is really no regulatory framework for minimizing systemic risk exposure except for a handful of limits on firm size and some nuances of underwriting capital, created after the great depression.