skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the reasonable solution is for the city to tax the enriched citizens and distribute the taxes to the rest of the citizens so that they benefit as a whole.

But, what really happens, is the "city" or "city council" wants is to score political points, because a tax would also impact themselves and their friends and family. Everyone wants someone else to pay to benefit citizens as a whole, when obviously the fairest way is to pass a tax applicable to all "enriched" citizens.
Currently as an independent creator its only possible to make living wage money on YT or Twitch.
How many people will actually run chrome with a cli flag? It would be pretty impressive if every single person reading this thread did, but it probably won't even be that. Most people don't even touch their settings.

13 bits of entropy is far from a uuid (but to get it to that you need to disable some more settings, which again very few people do), but it's still plenty good enough to disambiguate individuals over time.
Or just about any sexp-based languages. Implementing a basic -> clojure threading macro is simple. Placeholder arguments are simple as well.
Maybe "radical candor" instead.of honesty?

Or maybe specifically giving honest feedback to others.
IKEA announces first big UK store closure
>Isn't that a fancy way of saying "eating meat should be a privilege for the wealthy"?

It absolutely should.

https://newrepublic.com/article/120915/american-west-drought...

- 90% of of Nevada's cropland is used for hay, 90% of Montana's, 60% of Utah's

- 50% of California's water usage goes to livestock feed

Etc etc. This is unsustainable, period. This is causing groundwater depletion (and has for decades) that will take centuries (or longer) of rainfall to replenish. You get water contamination, you get monoculture crop for vast swaths of land that negatively impact wild pollinators and soil health, etc etc.

I love meat, but it absolutely HAS to be a luxury. My fiance's parents and siblings mostly own livestock. For personal use for a few dozen of them they have a couple hundred acres which does not sustain their animals and requires considerable amounts of purchased feed for a dozenish cows, a couple dozen sheep/rams, a few dozen chickens etc in the heart of Missiouri.

Depending on where you are in the world you need 2-25 acres of arable land per cow during the warm seasons to feed themselves. The average grass fed cow will yield about 530lbs of meat at slaughter after 2 years of life.

That's 4-50 acres tied up for 2 years to produce 530lbs of meat, less than 3/4 of meat per day.

If you switch them to grain you need about 25 pounds per day of dry feed. In the corn belt you can get about 200 bushels per acre. A bushel is about 56 pounds. That gives you 1.13 years for a cow with optimal yield per acre of corn, outside of the corn belt you'll only get about 100 bushels per acre yielding you about 0.61 of a cow's annual requirement per acre.

Never mind that cow's digestive systems aren't really designed for corn.

There's something like 1.5 billion cows in the world... 20ish gallons of water a day, 25 pounds of dry feed a day...

Meat is a luxury man. A luxury.
I said before - it's more than just this. AMD's ecosystem just sucks... Intel may be doing things that are questionable, but, as a OEM on the much smaller size, Intel have a great partner program.

With Intel, I get advanced warranties, presales support, next day parts, details marketing and product information alongside access to privileged information and roadmaps.

With AMD, I was waiting the best part of 3 months for a call back, and their "partner" site which is open to the world is severely out of date and doesn't even have all products listed.

Intel is frictionless when it comes to doing business, AMD put up roadblocks.
I feel like I’m taking imagination-b-gone pills. The only potential uses off the top of my head that I’ve witnessed are credentials management and financial instruments arbitrage, and in both cases it was solved well by other measures.

I’m sure there are projects where it’s useful, but not “every company” useful like SQL or even a server supervisor framework. I would be happy to be proven wrong.
You should also donate to Mozilla because it’s an insanely good piece o software for the price!
>> For the most part, businesses don't do much if any basic research because there's no clear path to a payoff.

> Businesses (and individuals) often contribute to universities monies which are used for basic research. It becomes the university's endowment. A great deal of basic research is funded this way. Often in return the university will name the building after the donor.

Your link doesn't seem to support your conclusion very well, but rather echoes my points:

> ...She points out that the other likely [non-government] source of research funding—industry—prefers to direct its money to projects that affect the bottom line. “Industry is focused on applied research that will result in the development of products with immediate commercial application,” she says. “But fundamental or basic research is needed in order to create the knowledge base that leads to more applied research.

> ...

> The AAAS has the data to support Waters’ concern about corporate research: 80 cents of every dollar that industry spends on R&D goes to development, and only 20 cents goes to basic and applied research, a ratio that is the polar opposite of that found in civilian science agencies.

> At BU, whose researchers study an enormous range of subjects, from the birth of frogs to the birth of planets, about 80 percent of the roughly $350 million for sponsored research received in FY 2014 (down from a 2010 peak of $407 million) came directly from the federal government, and another 10 percent originated in government grants and came to BU through other institutions, such as Harvard or MIT.

That's 90% federal funding. Why do you make such a big deal out of the remaining 10%?

> Matt Hourihan, director of the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, says the notion that corporate and foundation sponsors are waiting in the wings is a comforting one, but his association’s research has found no evidence that it’s true. So far, says Hourihan, the biggest increases have come from university coffers. “Industry contributions haven’t increased appreciably, and I’m not sure we have a clear enough picture on the philanthropic front yet.”

So the government funds the bulk of basic research. The funding is declining for political reasons, but there's no evidence that private groups are picking up the slack.

> The government didn't do much of anything in basic research before WW2, it was privately funded.

And afterwards (as described in your link), the story drastically changed. Which was when much of the relevant research and technology development related to the iPhone was done.

However, in the last 10-15 years, it seems like starve-the-state politicians may be starting to change that successful formula:

> One Washington insider, an expert on US research funding ... says that “research and development funding generally does pretty well in the government’s budget process,” because the government branches agree it’s important to stay competitive in science and technology. But looming over every budget decision, this expert says, is a broader debate about what the size of the government should be and how the government should spend its limited research budget.
Of course, processors that use one of the Atom/Celeron/Pentium microarchitectures are not the best choice if you desire maximum speed, but otherwise they are surprisingly interesting processors (IMHO much more interesting than what Intel delivers with the Core series).

At this time, Intel often experiments with or introduces features that are particularly interesting for embedded usages first on the Atom. For example the already mentioned SHA-NI. Another example are the MOVBE instructions (insanely useful if you handle big-endian data, for example in network packages (I am aware that on older x86 processors, there exists the BSWAP instruction)) - they were first introduced with Atom.
I checked the minimum required specs advertised for FS2020 and it made me sad. I have a pretty decent used dell M6800 workstation at home (gen 4 i7, K3100M graphics, 32GB RAM) and I don't know if I'll be able to run it.
I find the whole social scene like a weird challenge. Maybe I'm just out of muscle but it seems too many people are struggling and everybody is resorting to tips and tricks to live by. How come it's an easy process on average.
Keep a journal.

If you are in a technical role and you lead or design systems consider learning a model checker like TLA+ or Alloy; or a proof checker like Agda, Coq, or Lean. The extra clarity is worth it on its own and you might end up finding and fixing vulnerabilities or performance problems that save people a bunch of money and headaches.

Learn strategies for improving your emotional intelligence.
This comment is unreadable on mobile. https://i.imgur.com/jFusqw0.png

Could you please remove the four-space indent? You can wrap each paragraph in * ... * if you want to italic them.
> Would I like it if somebody came and started telling me how to spend my money? Hell no!

You and a bunch of others are going to think I am totally crazy for saying it, but I think you might be too possessive of "your" money.

Maybe you think you got it because you are totally that awesome and really deserve it more than somebody else. But surely you were supported throughout your lifetime to end up making that money. It's a collaborative effort.

Sometimes I get approached by homeless types on the sidewalk and I give them a $20 or something. Occasionally it's been larger than that, often it's been smaller. One might call that being generous. I am surely in a position of privilege being able to do that without it hurting much. But really all I am doing is giving them a piece of paper. Particles of the universe just like any other matter. I don't feel it's mine any more than it's theirs. So it moves from my wallet to their hand. No big deal.

I will admit that this attitude has its limits. You can go broke doing it too much. But there is room for it in our lives.
The only thing I have problems finding something that works is Google maps. As an Android user there are a few different options but Google did make a damn good maps app.
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Agreed, though interviews seem to focus on trendy framework of the month plus some random algorithm that I learned 20 years ago then forgot as I never needed it.
Sure, the general pattern of behaviour is familiar, but I didn't know about this specific manifestation, and now I do. What's the use of being so dismissive about specific information on which one can act?
Honestly, it's 2020, even if your technical understanding is so low that you have no idea what a "browser" is, you know that Google will do anything in it's impressive power to track down everything you do with legal or illegal means.
Thanks to Snowden, this is no longer a conspiracy theory. It's a fact.

Google should be fined for this but they probably won't be.
I've been doing something very similar for templating static HTML sites amongst other things - you can interpret any string as a JS template string:

function jstsEngine(string = '', environment = {}) {
return new Function(
...Object.keys(environment),
'output={}',
'return [`' + string + '`, output]'
)(...Object.values(environment))
}

Link with examples: https://github.com/tomhodgins/jsts-engine
I tried a single lesson of the trial version of Frantastique, and enjoyed it, however their monthly subscription is too expensive ($20-50 range). Can't say much else since I didn't finish the trial.

https://www.gymglish.com/en/frantastique
I would perhaps recommend Latin, because it has a huge and rich literature, and uses essentially the same script as English.
I, too, was a fan of Google Photos in the early days. But I've decided that privacy is more important than the convenience of its syncing feature. You never know how that data might come back and bite you in the future.

I have an iPhone but I don't use iCloud's backup or sync feature either, I just store my photos locally. I backup my iPhone to my iMac, and I backup my iMac to my Synology NAS in my closet. I try to keep my private data private.
Interpersonal skills. Those are usually in very short supply at tech companies.

This wide spectrum with many sweet spots. For example, if you can learn what a developer is doing without pissing them off or boring them out of their minds and translate from techno-babble to humanspeak and back you can quickly make yourself appreciated in many tech companies.

Time management skills. Learn to rest, really rest so that you feel good, curious and re-energized after it (probably means turning your phone off as a first step). My 2c.
More housing. Rental and real estate prices are so high compared to incomes already.
It is an abuse of Chrome's position in the marketplace. Google is using their powerful position to give themselves tracking capabilities that other online players can't access. It is a major competitive advantage for Google.
How is it childish behavior? If I'm paying top dollar for something (in this case, lobbying governments for tax breaks), then if I don't get top results, I'm wasting money, which is disappointing.
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I am in a similar position.
Yes, you can work with OPT but apart from the very top companies and a few consulting shops, it has become much harder to get employment on it.

And from H-1B to greencard, you again need company sponsorship.

Canada looks good now because with Express Entry, you can become a PR relatively fast and from there within 5 years, you get citizenship. From there, getting work in the US as a tech worker can be much easier through a TN visa.
Fun fact: the `pipe` function from `rxjs` can be imported on its own where it will work on any value of type T, not just `Observable<T>`.
It's not a backdoor! Calling random anti-consumer behavior a backdoor is the privacy-equivalent of Godwin's law.
> Understanding taxes, the importance of savings and baseline personal finance literacy.

Ok, what could be a good resource for this? The problem with finances is alike eating: You get so much talk from shaddy "experts" that is hard to see where the good info is.
Thank you!

Indeed, losing emails is really bad. We do our best to avoid this and try to be very reactive when things go south, but it's not possible to guarantee you that we will never lose any emails (no one can).

We acquired the service back in 2017. At the time, it was ranking already well for "free email redirection" so we focused on that. The core service is still free, but we added a lot of features (and continue to do so) in the paid "premium" parts.

I hope I have answered your questions :)
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IMO, the key to understanding statistics is learning how to quantify uncertainty over datasets. The key to cheating is to either downplay, (or overplay), the interpretation of this uncertainty as it pertains to the conclusions you can draw.
Just say your computer is getting ready for takeoff.
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What could be done to have made it successful ?
I haven't read this carefully enough to decide exactly how bad it is, but one thing seems clear to me:

From what I see many techies are now aware and upset, and hardly anyone seems to want to defend Google anymore.

I consider it more likely than not that Google will take some real beatings in the years to come. Kind of like Microsoft was fined by the US and EU, forced to advertise for competing browsers and ridiculed by Apple ads. On a case by case basis I think some of this will be well deserved, some less so, but few outside of employees and shareholders will cry.

I also guess a lot of people, including certain owners and many in management hasn't deciphered the writing on the wall yet, and in that case it whatever comes next will be surprising.
In a similar vain, I recommend getting a sous vide circulator. You'll make perfect steaks and pork chops every time, and it's extremely clean and convenient. You can cook all sorts of other things sous vide style as well.

I recently got one, and I've been cooking at home a lot more often as a result. I think more people would cook their own food if they knew how to make it taste really good.
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In fact, in the pre-modern world there were large spans of space and time where growth was so slow as to be invisible within a person's lifetime and people did think of wealth as being zero-sum. To a feudal lord, land = wealth and being wealthier was about having more land. Someone already had all the land, so the only way of getting more was taking someone else's.
I wrote a bad Python script that I use to encode WAV files, upload to B2, and generate an RSS feed. I host my MP3 files on Backblaze B2 and the RSS feed on GitHub pages. With my usage, I stay in B2's free tier.
This is interesting but I think the word 'communicate' is bit of a stretch. Why do people always try to anthropomorphize things?
Apart from the cardio, is there added strength value to doing burpees specifically instead of squats and push ups separately?
Mozilla Corporation which makes the browser doesn't accept donations.
I have had this issue as well with take home projects. Most companies are looking for someone who will follow KISS, so demonstrating ability to do complex things like your render queue is not at all appreciated. They want to see that you can match a spec and write well-factored code.

Adding complexity for performance will be a pure negative unless you can factor that out so the next person can use it on their component.

I would read this code and think I was dealing with a very talented programmer that needs seasoning. Such a programmer can be very dangerous to the wrong company, as the seasoning will have to be added on the company’s dime.
How can you confirm that something is false without any evidence for it being true in the first place?
Wow...the article seems pretty keen on diversity being the problem with agile.
I am wathcing davinci resolve youtube tutorial series to start with.
- First-principles based reading. I fell into the easy trap of just reading business books that cover tactics. Read biographies of people who've accomplished a lot. Read how computers and electronics work at a more fundamental level, not just how to code. Basically, just apply some conscious thought to the kinds of books you read, and don't think of books as an instruction manual for right now. They're part of your general education.

- If you're a developer, become friends with the sales team at your work. Seeing things through a less technical lens will make you much more effective.

- Learn the mental skill of endurance. If you can walk 2 miles, try 20. Once you can cycle 20, you can do 100. The difference is mental more than physical.
I have pretty much stopped using Chrome on Windows, and I was a die hard Chrome user. The transition to "Edgium" has been seamless for me.

A feature I really like - being able to turn a site into a PWA (just don't do it with Youtube, for some reason it caused playback to start stuttering whether in "Edge proper" or the PWA itself).
You can price something based on cost, or price it closer to value.

A stapler's price is much lower than its value, but because lots of people make staplers, the price is closer to its cost. Same with restaurants etc.

But an iPhone and MacBook has less competitors so it's priced closer to value.

Engineers are a middle ground. In SF, you can get a top notch engineer easily. The price becomes more cost-based - how much does it cost for someone to live there, or what is the competition offering.

In something like Kuala Lumpur, the number of engineers who know Big O are rare. So it's more value based - how much money does the engineer bring to the company.

But even so, the cost based pricing in places like SF is a lot higher than value based pricing elsewhere. After all, the reason prices are so inflated there is because all the money sloshing through tech giants and VCs.
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You can see all the domains they add the header to here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/comp...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21034849
Practice makes perfect. Have you tried going to things on meetup? It's sort of expected to meet strangers on there so it's a great environment to meet new people.
This is great, just signed up for a free account and moved over from mailgun! It would be nice if you had a "lite" or "hobby" plan, something in-between free and ~$110/year. The free plan works for me but would like to support the projects I use.
> Now, go to https://ad.doubleclick.net/abc - and

It's funny that the doubleclick URL was removed by my adblocker and I didn't get what the original message was about. Now I can see it, thanks :)
Err yeah, because it adds loads of data that can be used to track you.
This. With training you can dream without sleeping. Once you're sufficiently skilled at meditation and visualization you just close your eyes, concentrate and the images start appearing. I can do it to an extend and it's amazing;
My current system was water cooled and the pump failed. My mobo kept shutting the system down before I figured out what was happening. It took more than few bios reboots to figure out it failed. The CPU is fine and has been on a cheap fan cooler for over a year.
How thoughtful of them!