skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To sum up both of your statements, the top 10% of income earners pay 70% of all income taxes, but an increasing percentage of the taxed income is derived from rents (which originate from the labor of the renter class).
And another is assuming “she”
If you do it all in one swoop it's not too bad. The difficult part is managing everyone's "perfect structure".
Amazon Sued for Saying You've 'Bought' Movies That It Can Take Away from You
I’m most comfortable in .net core but I recently learned Django because I kept hearing how productive it was from HN and all the startups around me use it, but Im starting to feel like I chose to move the wrong way. I will say I like how Postgres is the default for python and the library situation is much better over there as well.
Every app that does not have E2EE spies on the content that all users send each other, including Americans.
Yes, there were commercial, online information services in the 1980s, and some of these included access to an encyclopedia, such as the one published by Grolier. Here’s a directory, from the November 1986 issue of InfoWorld magazine:

https://books.google.com/books?id=jzwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA39&ots=...

These services were relatively expensive, and I’m not sure how many users would have paid the per-minute or per-record charges just for access to text from a general-interest encyclopedia, which at that time, would have been available in print in nearly all libraries and in some classrooms and homes.

Dialog (https://dialog.com/) still exists, and public and academic libraries continue to offer their patrons access to a wide range of subscription-only reference databases.
For the discussions under each article. It helps me see a lot of interesting perspectives.
So generally, you feel that when the executive branch exceeds it's power or circumvents checks and balances, that those responsible are prosecuted?
We will give our freedoms away in name of preventing toxicity and hate speech. Won't you feel good you are helping squash bigots by giving your PII away
Do you feel the same way about, say, Russian surveillance? Would you rather be surveilled by Russia than the US, by the same logic?
> We can't expect all of the internet to operate like Wikileaks and The Pirate Bay.

Why not? That's just what it takes.

> If the justice system is broken, then the people aren't safe.

It is, and they are. After 50 years under the heel of the war on drugs, how is it not 100% obvious?
In what keyboard layout is home far from the arrows? I never noticed a problem with a 101/104 key layout
For context, on 8th March (the date of the Newtown festival) there had been a cumulative 224 tests undertaken and only 5 positive results, all of which were linked to recent overseas travel. [1]

Through what seems to be sheer luck, NZ managed to avoid importing any cases from China during the "first wave", and it wasn't until the outbreaks took hold in Iran, Italy, and New York that we began to see our first imported cases -- starting with our first case on February 28th, where the source of infection was Iran. (It's important to note that by the time the first case was detected, nearly 200 tests had already been performed -- all were negative.)

However the number of cases arriving from overseas began to ramp up incredibly fast in the following two weeks, during which time a series of increasingly severe border restrictions were introduced starting on the 16th of March, and finally culminating in the full Level 4 lockdown starting on the 26th. At the announcement of the lockdown (on the 23th) New Zealand had a total of just 102 cases [2].

[1] https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/media-releases/covid-1...
[2] https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/media-releases/36-new-...
The shit that we're complaining about happened like three weeks ago!
> Edit: I should also add that Elisp is an absolutely terrible programming language when compared to more modern alternatives.

I think it's arguably the second-best language out there, losing out only to Common Lisp. Maybe third, after TCL. I certainly wouldn't want to use JavaScript, Go or Rust to extend my editor …
I would argue you can say the same about foundations of rdbms systems as well. People build similar elaborate caches around those, for example rails has a “russian doll” cache layer built in, not realizing how much time has gone into developing well tuned caches within the database system itself, which simply needs
to be allocated sufficiently large ram.
At what point does this get in the way of your programming? If there's always more to learn about the tool, I think that would bother me.
I would like to like emacs, but the couple times I tried it it gets in the way because I don't know it well enough. Vim seems more appealing because there is less to know up-front, but it is still extensible
Making Sense of PUFs
The Truth Behind Those Videos of Monkeys Riding Tiny Motorcycles
Doesn‘t seem true for Facebook.
I think it's referring to simd instructions [0].

I'm still kind of a newb myself but from what I understand these are special CPU instructions that allow you execute the same instruction in parallel against multiple data points. This allows you to eke out a lot more performance. It's how simdjson[1] is able to outperform all other C++ json parsers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD

[1] https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
A bunch of rants about the cloud
And so the question remains:

>But what data is actually being reported and how could it be misused?

All advertisers already know who I live with, and if I'm obeying social distancing I will only be coming into contact with strangers. Is this data really more sensitive than the stuff we firehouse out every day?
Did he say that he doesn't give his wealth to the poor?
Because we don't trust either amazon or google.
SARS v1 burned out by itself after a short time [1]. I think the companies previously racing to make a SARS v1 vaccine lost a lot of money.

Vitamin D3 is cheaper, and addresses one of the SARS v2 patients’ actual problems. It would probably even protect against SARS v3.

Zinc is more useful for addressing zinc deficiency. I recently learned that ACE2, the entry point on cells for the super virus, is a zinc enzyme [2]. Read somewhere that children are mostly immune to SARS-CoV2 because their cells are covered with ACE2, and they don’t miss the handful of ACE2 sites taken out by the super virus.

If the super virus disappears in the northern hemisphere during the summer, the media will have to explain why they sold us out to make a bunch of stories to cover.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23027183

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme_... - “Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a zinc containing metalloenzyme located on the surface of endothelial and other cells.”
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Is it possible to play Zork for the first time without a guide or manual of some kind? Could I fire up a copy today and dive straight in or do I need some external information?

Edit: and a follow-up question, is there a good Z-Machine interpreter for the macOS terminal?
Azure DevOps does not require a YAML file in the root of the repository either - it's quite common to have them in a 'ci' folder.

While I prefer GitHub Actions in most respects, duplicated setup work and jobs are handled much better by the Azure version currently IMO.
Absolutely no doubt a GPU upgrade would be the way to go in your situation. A 2015 i7 can still keep up with a monster GPU such as the RX5600XT or RX5700XT.
Pocket (getpocket.com) gets around many paywalls.
Learning curve close to none?
I like that many times there's "the way" of doing things, but when I have to do something slightly outside the recommended way, I feel that the effort required outweights all the benefits.
https://outline.com/GhnRqx

That article doesn't open in my browser. I have a slightly aggressive adblocking & cookie blocking setup. hence sharing the Outline link for similar folks
Between me and my girlfriend we use Signal. But for talking to anyone else I have no choice but use WeChat. I just either don't have the power to persuade others to use a more secure app, or they just don't care, or the cost of switching to another app is too high. It's (relatively) easy to develop an alternative with no censorship and pretty secure. The hard part is to make it popular and avoid getting blocked in China.
From PhD to Machine Learning Engineer
Ah, sorry, I erroneously read "censorship" as "surveillance".

I suppose there is not really the same kind of overt deployed censorship in the US like there is in China. I do personally think that the NSA somehow gets most messages sent in the US, but I have no idea what they would do with it or if that hypothesis is reasonable.
It's kinda why I like the Mozilla license (MPL). Anyone can freely use (leech even) on the project, but if they make improvements or changes to the project they have to share. It also doesn't try to control how the consumer of the project is allowed to deploy such software either.
There are many problems with health care, and single payer is just sweeping them all under the rug.

Single payer won't magically make the number of doctors or hospitals or surgeries increase. It is not a panacea by any stretch, and we shouldn't pretend it is one.
The problem is it's not black and white. What if you merge two singers style/voices.
In the U.S., we send them to private prisons instead and make them do free labor.
You misread your parent post. Bgorrman didn't say that WeChat being insecure means that iMessage and Whatsapp are insecure. Bgorrman questioned if we have reason to believe that iMessge and Whatsapp are more secure than WeChat.

A implies B & C is not the same as asking whether B & C share the same qualities as A.

You actually created a strawman in order to say that your parent had a false equivalence.
If you liked those small towns, I recommend walking/biking in Ojai. There's something special about it, which is hard to describe. It's one of my favorite places on Earth (yes, it could be the time and place thing).
Two, cascadian subduction zone or California.
If you want a lightweight cache, check out react-query[0]. It's a nice abstraction around fetching data, and it handles caching out of the box, as well as refetching data when the browser regains focus and a lot of other nice things.

0: https://github.com/tannerlinsley/react-query
Foreign correspondent on ABC (Australian TV channel) had a great show on this issue last week.

Possibly geo-restricted, interested to know if it can be accessed international.

https://www.abc.net.au/foreign/revolution-in-the-time-of-cor...

ABC is similar to the BBC, publicly funded broadcaster.
It would be cool if more papers had a glossary for the symbols they use, though. If you're going to use a bunch of single character symbols, at least put somewhere what they are.
Also, French is much more the lingua Franca of cooking than it is software engineering.
Cloud falls over if you have a lot of data egress. I don't work on those types of workloads (mainly in PCI and a little bit of HIPAA) so I stick to cloud for the sheer convenience factor (it's easier to fix a security group than having to drive to the office and plug in somewhere like I had to earlier today). Dealing with hardware has become a very specific skill set. I have it, but I don't enjoy it, so I don't look for it.

I still have to build physical networks occasionally (ex: we are building a small manufacturing facility in a very specific niche that's required to be onsite for compliance reasons) but the scale is so small that I can get away with a lot of open source components (pfsense netgates are great) and not have to use things that are obnoxious to deal with (if I never have to deploy cisco anything ever again I won't be upset).
Not all replies have to be counter to the parent post. I was just riffing off your parent post, much like you were. The topic of the thread being that the poor have unequal access to education, but that exceptional talent may exist within that cohort. I just wanted to emphasise the economic incentives of universal access to educational opportunities.
* CBS has recently been caught fabricating lines at a drive through testing facility in Michigan

* Nicholas Sandmann

* “Experts generally agree that N95 masks have little value in the community.”

* Local “news” stories that are effectively infomercials

* https://youtu.be/ksb3KD6DfSI

* allegedly CNN removing the Larry King episode from Google Play with a call from Tara Reade’s mother

* implicitly or explicitly suggesting unrelated archive footage represents the story being reported (Italian hospital footage in a story about New York hospitals, firing range footage presented as foreign conflict)

* the my pillow guy, who retooled to support health workers being railroaded simply for standing next to Trump

* the sudden and nearly universal admiration for GWB

* NYT editing an article, without notice that originally claimed HRC implied the Russians were grooming Tulsi Gabbard.

I have a terrible memory for specific details, so those just the ones I can think of recently. I primarily listen to NPR in the car. Their bias is staggering. They present opinion as fact frequently, often misrepresenting parties in opposition.
One of the problems with Alice is that it provides very little useful guidance to anyone. The EFF argues that Alice invalidates all software patents. Others argue that it doesn't. In fact, the only sure thing the SCOTUS said in Alice was that they are not invalidating all software patents just the bad ones, while providing no workable standard for distinguishing the bad from the good.

While the majority of Justices agreed that the Alice patent was invalid, a majority did not sign on to one opinion. There were multiple concurring opinions that agreed on the result but not the reasoning. The decision provides at best an "I'll know it when I see it" standard.

To say, lawyers are deliberately or intentionally acting contrary to the decision is not accurate. Lawyers will work to draft patents that comply with Alice, and they will argue that the applications they draft comply with Alice.

Unfortunately, very little in the Alice decision can be used to reason for or against any particular patent because it is so incoherent.
I dunno... I think newer editors are often easier to extend than emacs. Think atom or vscode or even sublime.

They're all extensible enough such that emacs has no real major advantage IMHO. They can be extended with mainstream languages that many programmers already know, instead of an idiosyncratic lisp with no practical application outside of emacs itself.

Emacs still has some great modes (like tramp) - but overall, I don't think its customization is really a special killer emacs feature anymore.
The copyright release process where I work is pretty liberal, but the amount of people I have to get involved is fairly prohibitive. If your boss doesn't like doing paperwork, you're not going to get a release...
I agree that a leaner core seems intuitively right. However, the discussion on emacs-devel has been in the other direction as of late https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-04/msg01....
Proof to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
Grocery shopping and farming are very competitive and mostly free, yet we still have food stamps don't let people starve to death.

Why not have a system closer to food stamps but for healthcare? i.e. the government will cover costs for the poor up to some amount.
No, just that there is such a concept as "exceeds its power" to the point that when they do, their decisions are not legally valid.

A governor/President cannot go and throw a bunch of journalists in jail. Even if he did, the courts would let them out again.

In a communist dictatorship, there is no power outside the executive.
And while you’re at it, please correct “group” to “Group” so we know it’s not about a group of NSOs (are those like NGOs or something?) but rather a company called “NSO Group”.
That code is standards-compliant, because the standard has no knowledge of the stack. I actually had those flags enabled when I was messing around with it and they did nothing useful so I chose to leave them out. (Yes, the compiler will probe the stack–but only if you alloca, it seems. Nobody seems to have extended this protection to stack frames bloated by automatic variables.)
I'm not endorsing, nor turning a blind eye to China's government. I was responding to a comment which was only critising China, while arguing that the US has all of these protections and thus was effectively endorsing the US government (to the point of saying that they prefer US government surveillance). I on the other hand, do not endorse the vast majority of the US government's actions, hence the criticism.

It's a bit silly to require every comment which critises the US to also have to include a disclaimer that "yes, I also think China/Russia/other-enemy-of-the-US is bad".

> They seem to already be comfortable [...] and influencing various levels of your government.

I'm really not sure what you're referring to. If you're talking about the Australian government, I'm not aware of any substantial evidence that the CCP has actually influenced our government. Our government is friendly with China and does many things against the interests of the public as a result, but there is far more evidence of just ordinary domestic corruption.

I will also point out that there is strong evidence that the US (in particular, the CIA) effectively helped facilitate a soft-coup in Australia in 1975 (in response to Menzies' threat to close Pine Gap because the US lied about what it was used for). Oh, and the CIA offered $24m of laundered money to the Opposition for that election in order to help them win -- if only there was a word to describe that...

So if we're going to point-score about foreign influence in the Australian government -- the US literally replaced our prime minister in a (to quote Victor Marchetti, a former CIA officer) "kind of Chile coup". But I'd love it if nobody interfered with other countries' democratically-elected governments.
Compare this to the Enterprise platform I am dealing with on a current project, which has 4 x ec2 nodes with 8 CPUs and 32 Gb RAM.

I can DoS it with a single java client running 50 threads. If I use 100 the p95 shoots up to 30 - 40 seconds.

But the kicker is that no one (other than me) really cares. 50 concurrent threads is probably around the peak load it will get in prod, and various people involved think why bother trying to fix it?

It's driving me nuts.

Thanks for listening
I've been fortunate to be able to use Emacs for the last 35 years or so. If memory serves (and more and more, it doesn't) I started with Gosmacs and moved to GNU Emacs sometime around 1986 or so.

At 60 years old, I don't have the enthusiasm or the time to learn a new editor. And I'm having too much fun programming in Lisp.
1) .NET APIs change very frequently.

2) C# is a very verbose language, that requires a lot of typing.

3) F#, the best language in .NET, is largely ignored by the .NET community.
That's all Robert Moses' doing. He was the great champion of bulldozing neighborhoods and downtowns to replace them with highways, and eliminating trains, busses, streetcars, and bike lanes to fill the sides of every road with free street parking. He had governments of all parties convinced of his utopian vision of soaring highways and personal rapid transit as depicted on automobile ads and sci fi comics.
That's what I've been using it for lately, it was becoming my main Git platform. I'm sad that this looks like the end of that.
Isn't tox the one from 4chan /g/?

Not to deride them just for coming from 4chan, but I really seriously doubt there's been thorough 3rd party auditing of the protocol and code.

IIRC signal has been audited?
It doesn't get in the way at all. Once you understand what's going on, it is a huge productivity boost.
Another option for showing the trsnsition would be a very brief change in contrast in the table (bg a little darker or text a little lighter). Your eyes can still focus a spot, but you get the visual feedback of a change.

In my mind the bigger issue is being able to cancel or merge transitions if scrolling quickly. Otherwise you end up like excel's animated cursor which literally is slower now than before it was animated. Nobody likes scrolling through molasses
Thanks, I might give that a shot. I just installed vim-orgmode to see if I could get a little emacs goodness in vimland. I usually use a custom markup language and vim syntax definitions to keep track of my notes, so this may get me to convert my notes to org mode.

The thing I'm most excited about is shell-mode. For years I've wanted to be able to drop to a shell in vim and visually cut/paste the window. From what I hear, emacs can handle that.
>For example, it’s impossible to send a message containing the link “joebiden.info”

This is the first I've heard about this. Had a look at the site and the content loaded doesn't seem to be malicious (technically), just content on some questionable areas about Biden.

What's going on here?
Ah yes, the Fail Whale era.
> I don't understand what you mean. If I make a prediction in curved spacetime...

Perhaps "make a risky prediction that could be falsified if spacetime was in fact not curved" is a better phrasing. Spacetime is spacetime. It's curved.

> Perturbation theory is applicable to any QFT problem; its first major successes were predicting the Lamb shift and the shift in the magnetic moment of the electron due to quantum field effects.

Oof, looks like I badly underestimated the extremes of scale that are involved here. It turns out you need to use perturbation theory to approximate the solution for something as complex as a single atom of hydrogen. I guess "macro" was an awful choice of word, but that means non-perturbative QFT is even less feasible than I thought for stuff at macro (to say nothing of relativistic) scales.
I guess I will say it again in a different way: they promised big, they promised they knew how to do it in spite of the challenges (which they laid out beforehand), they made a lot of noise, and then they just ... wandered off when it wasn't an instant success.

Another rephrasing: it's the big shot in the bar running his mouth, someone says "What about X, Y, Z?" and he goes "Yeah yeah, got it covered." Waves his wallet around. Makes some boasts and some promises. Then it turns out that X, Y, and Z were not so easy as boasted.

And it's a pattern with them.
If you only consider the direct, personal impact on you as an individual with no current or future ties to China, then sure, the risk is probably lower. However, it is important to note that CCP surveillance is much more intrusive in general.

The point I'm trying to make is that you're not taking into account the fact that your use of CCP-backed services implicitly contributes to human rights and surveillance abuses within China. Once you consider this, I think minimizing the use of these products and services is worth incurring the added "risk" of being surveilled by the Five Eyes.
I keep on typing :wd or :wqa on finishing whatever prompt I'm typing into.
Ya, Japanese internment is _exactly_ why other countries are sceptical of this supposed American commitment to liberty.

The important thing to note is that America interned _American Citizens_ merely because they had Japanese ancestry. Just like America's habit of executing its own citizens (including juveniles) and torturing its own citizens, we can't have any faith in your country treating our own people well when it sees fit to teat its own people worse than dirt.

Britain interned German citizens in WW2 (but only a relatively small proportion of them). But Britain never even considered interning its own citizens for having German ancestors. What sort of message would that send?