skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine this will be circumvented in similar novel ways much like the UK's window tax [0] was centuries ago.

Multiple robots will be attached to one robot "brain" and argued that they are all the same robot.

Or perhaps they will go the Volkswagen route and lie to government regulators. Whenever the government bot taxers walk in the room, all of the bots stop moving and act like smart compacting garbage cans.

Or perhaps costs of robots will dwindle so much that they will become disposable. Come bot check day, the majority of the workforce will be unrepairable and destined for the bin.

Or perhaps they're making high end CPUs with high margins that sell for $500 apiece, but the government thinks you're making plastic bags with low margins that sell for $500/pallet.

This will never work imho... or rather, it will never be "fair".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
The upcoming 3.0 release has an r6rs mode that makes r6rs easier to use. The r6rs incompatibilities are, apart from (rnrs io ports) and the condition system rather small.

The incompatibilities can be found here: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/master/guile.html/R6...
That reminds me on sqlj https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLJ

I only heard about that in lectures but unfortunately could not really use it (sqlj was only compatible with Java pre-generics, so that was no option). Nice to see this idea revived.
General surgeon in the South here. What I've seen is that uninsured individuals will prolong going to the doctor for symptoms because of cost and that sometimes costs them their lives because of the advanced presentation of their disease. On the other hand, once you get diagnosed with cancer in South Carolina, you automatically qualify for Medicaid so that you receive some treatment.

This way, you die with treatment and our system does not seem cruel. Even advanced, expensive chemotherapy is paid for, sometimes exceeding hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Affordable Care Act provides subsidies for health insurance based on income, not assets. If you're diagnosed with cancer and lose your job (because chemo is tough), and have assets, pay the Cobra until next sign up period. Sell all assets and invest to make about $20-$30k a year. Your premiums will be low and you'll have access to quality care. Move near large academic institutions because they do medicaid / bad insurance care. This way you minimally touch assets.

Rich people hate the Affordable Care Act because they don't get subsidies on premiums, which are about $3500 / month for a family now, and they have to pay 4.8% Medicare tax on all income over $250k . So, in essence, someone that makes $1m a year pays $78k/year in health care costs.

Lastly, I take care of a Pizza Hut delivery person who gets his insurance through the Affordable Care Act and only pays $40 / month for it, because of the subsidies.
Since it is easy to edit a page's html with developer tools, screenshots of web pages prove nothing and are pointless.
I think the main differences are that blatta is:

- aimed more at bug reporting/user feedback, not chat/sales

- easier to set up (open page > click button > copy/paste link), no signup step required

- relatively lightweight (currently 23kb minified, but I'm considering hand-rolling the JS/CSS to reduce this even further)
Thanks!

That's the result of our somewhat shaky truncation feature which is supposed to stop overly long titles and descriptions to break the layout. We'll look into how a "click to expand" feature could work!
You really don’t want a couple million unemployed and unemployable citizens at your doorstep one day angry for why they suddenly can’t afford to live. You don’t want it as a government and you don’t want it as a company/corporation.
No. That is not true. California water situation is very complex and convoluted. There are a bunch of zones that have water rights grandfathered to them but have the legislation permitting them to lease it.

It’s really a mess. Google ‘Resnicks’ and water in California.

Ok: here is one..there are so many other articles https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewar...

Its something I have posted here on HN before.. it’s really complicated. Short answer: we are not out of water scarcity.
Yeah I agree. I mostly get a straw for ice tea, which comes in styrofoam... Styrofoam is unfortunate. It is super easy to recycle, but too inefficient to transport. I've been trying to come up with a solar powered Styrofoam recycler that stores up blocks of solid polystyrene for pickup. The hard part is knowing people will put other things in to mess it up. Otherwise a tank of gasoline to dissolve it with a closed evaporation loop is all you would need.
We need this. And computer tax. And car tax. And refrigerator tax.

But not just a one off tax. A recurring tax to capture all the efficiency and job loss the horse and buggy industry , secretaries, ice delivery industry, etc. have incurred.
this is misleading, as cost curves are usually exponential for these types of managed services
The thing I really want out of these services is the ability to set a payment cap. It’s probably never going to be an issue, but I have anxiety, and I can’t sleep easily knowing that if I fuck up, if someone sinister abuses my application or whatever I may be stuck with a giant bill.
Null – my billion-dollar mistake
It goes up of course. Nothing's for free. Don't expect DigitalOcean level of pricing, the premise of cloud is on efficiency and scale, not necessarily being the cheapest raw computing provider when compared to traditional hosting. In other words it increases the elasticity of computation, but the price per unit of computation goes up. (Of course there are cost-savings like ops, security, uptime etc. But if you are talking about one-off side projects or something ML-related then the raw compute/bandwidth costs far outweighs everything else.) For PaaS the free tier is subsidized by your enterprise and other paying customers.
I'm not sure that the argument about disincentive is any different from taxing income. We want to encourage both wealth and income, and taxing them does discourage them. But the fact that taxing income discourages people from getting income isn't a strong argument against income taxation altogether.

I'm not American, so the unconstitutional argument doesn't mean much to me. But doesn't the USA have property taxation for land? Wouldn't your arguments apply to the property tax in most states? It's nothing more than the government saying you owe money because you own wealth (in the form of land). Are property taxes theft? Unconstitutional?
To add to this, only those who are actively seeking work and are not employed, are considered unemployed. A retired person (or a person who has given up looking for work) is not counted as unemployed, but will be counted once employed.
$1000/mo buys (some) food, $0 does not
That's a great list of favorite episodes you have there!

We'll add the Joe Rogan Experience interview with John Carmack to our list as well - one of the all time classics!
I also recommend W10 Privacy and Blackbird. Definitely turn off windows defender and all spectre/meltdown mitigations (inSpectre). They don't do anything either way.
I think they meant if lots of them were doing it, not just one, in which case the denominator would go up, well, a lot. I think this was also an example of a hypothesis:

Why have people doing crap jobs that are better automated just because they can’t afford to live otherwise? The system is broken, in that we need to better support the folks on the fringes so we can just automate away a lot of mindless, repetitive boring work. The remaining jobs can pay well, and we can stop benchmarking the economy of how many people we put to work regardless of the meaningfulness of what they’re doing.

Why waste a human life flipping burgers or banging away in the mines? Make robots do that, and let’s provide a solution to the displaced, like for instance basic income but totally open to alternatives.
Right. I don't think that proponents of universal income really 'get' this. They seem to have the idea that people will just accept their lot, forever.

Personally I'd find that utterly soul destroying. Almost no-one is on top, and a good percentage of people are in tiny flats.

The fact that we have stuff like historical conquests and aristocracies kicking about is manageable precisely because some mobility still exists. Just hitting the 'freeze' button on it would be bloody awful.

Someone who is unemployed and has little savings in California might well just end up being shipped to a project or something.
> Walmart has a drug rehab program today they run at many of their stores; they drug test 100 applicants, 99 fail the drug test. They have no other way of finding people to staff basic positions.

Sorry for being the "cite please" guy, but where on Earth did you find this? It's not in your link.
Anonymous shell companies buying American real estate
And another factor should be put into consideration is that wasted plastics in developed country actually can be recycled. But low quality plastic produced in developing country using those recycled plastics are very unlikely to be recycled again due to high cost.

Anyway exporting, burning and landfills are not real solutions. The highly developed countries published some so called models for the purpose of blaming poor countries for those messes.

The pointing fingers kind of behaves like those are not good strategies to let everyone work together and fix things. But only to make someone feels better about himself and do nothing.
>A tech company can deplatform you with impunity, but they’re not inflicting any real violence in the process. Corporations are still agents of real people, and those people are still subject to the laws of nations.

The influence of Twitter on say, the Arab Spring, says differently. Or the many other cases of social media platforms and algorithms being used to incite mobs, riots, and revolutions.

Hatred is a prime input/output for algorithms optimized for engagement. We all know what impulsive mass hatred can lead to.
1. Can `Box<dyn RowAccessor>` even work like that, considering it's not object safe? My understanding is that adding the `Self:Sized` bound to `get` makes it compile, but also means that this method won't be available in a dynamic context, so the accessor you get from the rowset is completely useless.

2. Why do the accessors return results? IO errors should already happen when loading into the rowset. So at that point the only error the column accessor could run into is an out of bounds index, which is a panic worthy programming error.

3. Why do the accessors return options? Shouldn't that be absorbed into the generic `T` and only be used for nullable columns?

4. Why return owned accessors (boxes) instead of references?

5. Columnar datastorage without any low level access to the in-memory representation seems rather pointless, for a performance point of view. You can't access it with SIMD instructions and incur an indirect call overhead for each accessed element. Do you expect people to downcast the column accessor to a specific type for high performance access?

IMO abstracting over storage formats via dynamic dispatch is the wrong approach. The proper way is making all types take a generic a parameter for the format.
The booming stock market shows America is diseased
Except for those that become "Too big to fail". Banks don't seem to dissolve naturally all that often.
I can send you a selection of others if you want, email in my profile. It's the one thing I miss about NL when I'm abroad.
There just aren’t enough bees locally to pollinate the hundreds of thousands of acres of almonds that all flower at the same time. And you have to pollinate every flower to get a nut.

It’s remarkable what California almond industry has achieved. It’s also unsustainable and harmful to bees.
> Rust does not have shared libraries

Nonsense. Rust has shared libraries just as much as C and C++ do. Distributions can and do build individual Rust crates as shared libraries, and crate authors can go further and offer a shared library with a C ABI that remains stable across rustc versions. (The latter is what cbindgen is for.)

The problem here is that the maintainers don't want to keep multiple versions of a crate around, so when any single application uses a newer version it forces an update on all the rest. Which is exactly what Rust's tendency toward static linking avoids.
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Yeah, I don't use Spotify (I use a competitor that I think is a lot better) and am always annoyed when people use it to link songs.

Services like YouTube let everyone view everything, even if you don't log in. That might be your best bet for creating playlists of any kind of audio or video, though of course there are a lot of copyright infringement concerns if you're uploading podcast episodes yourself.
I take care of a lot of people who work for Fortune 500 companies that have Medicaid. My taxes, therefore, subsidize these companies' profits. Moreover, when I was in private practice, I accepted sub market fees for my services when I took care of them. This is the reason why I am a hospital employee. I get paid regardless of whether the hospital gets paid.
That's interesting, I can't find any benchmarks showing windows browsers being faster.
He makes 300k pollinating the almonds and spends 100k in the upkeep of the bees. Plus makes some side money selling honey... So he is doing ok.
Not exactly. The ACA included an expansion of the Medicaid program, almost entirely funded by the federal government, that provides coverage to anyone making below the amounts other posted quoted. However, the Supreme Court ruled that states could opt out of this "expansion" if they want, and several states did. In those states they still provide pre-ACA Medicaid services - children, pregnant women, and a couple other groups are covered - but don't have general coverage for low-income people.
Can we standardize this standard comment? Say a URL that points to the problems we always see complaints about for using a Google service? Then someone posts that link at every Google HN post and we can all get on with our lives?

They're boilerplate and don't add to the discussion.
The point is there are a lot of people in this position. I personally know many people 65-75 working/trying to find work because of financial instability.

Edited to add that there's a further problem: it's hard to find work when you're 70, and it's even harder to find 'knowledge work' for most 70-yr-olds. So the 70-yr-olds I know looking for work are working freelance or contingent sorts of things, or working retail/post office/food service -- and some of those jobs are physically difficult. One guy I know was doing a 6-week temporary USPS gig, working 4 am-noon shifts loading things from here to there. He mentioned he'd never been as sore in his life as he was the first few weeks. Many people would not be able to physically do this work at that age, frankly.
If the market were able to solve the problem better, private schools could just provide better service at lower costs (compared to public school cost + state subsidy) and few would still go to public schools right? State subsidies for public schools are not that large anymore (34% of budget for UC Berkeley comes from tuition+fees while 13% comes from state of California).

These are actually IMO all examples of Baumol's Cost Disease as healthcare, child care, and education simply do not scale or require less workers with improved technology (at least so far). The fact that BCD hits so hard is evidence of most of the efficiency gains over the last decade(s) not being shared with the majority of people.
Stocks soared this year. Half of millennials missed out
Already got the next assignment for this kid once he's done with this project - get rid of space junk. =)
My blog is hosted statically on Netlify rather than a Cloud Run deployment. Use the best tool for the job!
This line of thinking ("we can tax you however we like") is backdrop of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. In the book, the creatives/creators go on strike rather than suffer the taxes. Whatever you believe about the reality of that story, successful tax collection is a negotiation, not a diktat. It's probably best to have everyone believe in taxes, so it's important to have a discussion around it.
Babies are recognizing the act of swearing at someone rather than the particular word being spoken.

The baby wouldn't experience the father's name as a swear word unless the conversation was for example about the dicks new girlfriend and his wife's assessment of the matter.

Dick vs DIIIIIIICK
Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (2012) [pdf]
I think people are picturing Velveeta slices: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Velveeta+slices&t=ffcm&atb=v60-1&i...
> Regardless, for some people, no amount of therapy is going to make them forget that they have suffered the collective judgement of society and weigh in at the bottom of the attractiveness scale, with little realistic hope of improving their rating without wholly changing appearance, personality, and or interests.

Therapy won't actually solve the problem, in any case. Therapy doesn't magically procure a wife. Typically, this problem has been solved by sending lots of young men to go die in a war. Other times, a plague has helped, though that tends to kill more evenly.
Are Pistachios the Nut of the Future?
Agreed. "Job quality" / Wages versus cost of living should also be taken into account.
Tell HN: Internet is making you, below the average
I wonder if the goal is instead, simply to gather taxes from a broad base of society, from those people and companies most able to afford them, so that all pay towards the cost of society.

As these companies are still relying on governments and the society around them, but aren't paying the taxes associated with employees, we need other ways of getting money from them (and taxing profits is an increasingly bad way of getting money from companies, as they just arrange to have no profits).
A helpful guide by Neil Davidson on how to develop a revenue model for your software business.
Here's a story about why you are right to be anxious: https://hackernoon.com/how-we-spent-30k-usd-in-firebase-in-l...
> When will everyone understand that google cloud (money earning product) is different to all the other free products

When Google demonstrates it. They've already discontinued various parts of their cloud product.

True, they are unlikely to shut down gmail, search, or Android.

On the other hand google's cloud is a money loser that has slipped to a distant #4 in the cloud rankings.

But like many of Google's revenue-generating products it exists to show Wall Street that they have an increasingly diversified revenue stream (I think advertising is "down" to around 87%). They have lots of bets to try an improve this but little to show for it.

They did recently commit $2B to making GCP a player but I suspect that if that doesn't show results by the end of 2020, investment in this sector will fall precipitously.
On that, we disagree.
Excuse my ignorance. if a container hasn't been hit in a long time, how long does it take to serve the first request back? Is it spun up or sort of hot paused?
for me, all of heavyweight season 4
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/heavyweight/episodes
That's not a bug... that's a 'feature'.

Interestingly, AWS will not cut you off for non-payment (we had an issue with finance and were 250k in the red by the time we got the first 'Is there any issues over there?' email)
Show HN: Translate Twitter threads using translatethread
I'm thinking mostly poor instruction/irrelevant majors.
> At that time, many people in Britain opposed income tax, on principle, because the disclosure of personal income represented an unacceptable governmental intrusion into private matters, and a potential threat to personal liberty.[3] In fact the first permanent British income tax was not introduced until 1842, and the issue remained intensely controversial well into the 20th century.[4]

Oh, how times has changed...
Definitely something I look out for, but the advantage over something like Cloud Functions, which would be an alternative, is that a Cloud Run service handles multiple requests per instance so it isn't 1:1 with request rate.
Can anyone shed light on how this compares with Netlify? (Pricing and tech wise).

Netlify has basic DB/Identity/Lambda support so I’m guessing it could replace this entirely.

I’m using it only to host static websites at the moment.
AWS's firecracker can start a VM for your code in under 15ms, but if you need database access and other stuff, you can 'pre-warm' it.
Why enterprise software is switching to subscription-based pricing (2018)
Unfortunately, I increasingly fear we are doomed to a life where robots do the work and 99% people people die under a bridge.
God. I had so many ideas for things to build for del.icio.us that never happened - Yahoo managed to kill every bit of forward momentum we had, and then some.
it sort of is doxxing because these are private people running very public accounts with their own facebook accounts. This could easily lead to the exposing of someone's home address
Ancedata: the lady who works at the cafe near my mom's house sliced her finger clean off making a sandwich. They managed to reattach it and (I've heard) it's healing nicely.
Interesting. I had been using postguard in Node.js which also statically checks queries. But I wonder, how does this linter handle conditionally concatenated SQL strings in Go?
Do-able today with GCP Billing
> Tests have fewer bugs ... if they don't have mocks

100x this. I've repeatedly fail to convince my team members that mocks are unnecessary in most cases. I've reviewed code with mocks for classes like BigDecimals and built-in arrays. This is especially prevalent in Java teams/codebases.

Drives me insane.
This is an interesting point.

In fact the few medical IT systems I've seen that were actually built by doctors - that meaning doctors who code actually coded these systems themselves - are among the nicest (and most easy to use in a non-insane, secure, reasonable way) systems I've seen.

I think the important difference here is that it's very hard to "design" software if you are a doctor who knows a lot about medicine, and your existing paper processes, but know very little about software. It is important to understand the medium (software) as well as the domain (medicine) to build the right product.
> Saying "women code less than men" does not have an implied "therefore you can just ignore any individual woman that codes" after it.

When uttered by a teacher, it can easily be taken to have an implied "therefore I'll make less of an effort teaching them, or to encourage their career".

If somebody had said 40 years ago that "men play more soccer than women", this would have been correct as an empirical statement. However, it was also invariably taken as a normative statement, and subsequently less resources and encouragement were expended on women. And when the genders were later put on more equitable footing, the empirical fact turned out to be quite malleable.

> Do you think it would be impossible for the perfect uber-individualist to ever make the statement "men play more basketball than women"?

As an individualist, one should always examine whether one extends the benefits of individualism to everyone, or whether one sees just one's own peers as individuals, while judging others as groups.
Maybe fund guaranteed minimum income with taxes on automation.
This is a good starting point but it ends just when things get interesting. If you are going to process audio for ML make sure you experiment with normalizing the input volume, this can make a huge difference and try if your inputs are in stereo to process both mono, single channel and stereo inputs to see which one performs better.

Finally, if you pre-process the audio using an FFT try different FFT sizes.
Warnings of ‘Volcanic Tsunami’ After Eruption in the Philippines
Don't have an exact time, but the bulk of the time is app startup vs container scheduling