skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quitting facebook, instagram, twitter and all kinds of social media has been the best decision so far. I will definitely not install social media apps like tiktok, snapchat or anything similar and the only one i keep is linkedin, which while is becoming a little bit like facebook it is still a bit relevant on job searching. Personally i have found myself all these weeks without them; i realized who my real friends are (the ones who can drop me a call to hang out, not the ones who will always message me in messenger or viber like i am a bot on the other side), i have more desire to start new hobbies, read, play board games and meet new actual people.

I am not the most social person ever, but it makes me sad how people and society have changed to the worst due to social media. I am seeing older people who found facebook in their 70s talking to and sharing gifs and silly emojis with their friends through messenger instead of calling or seeing each other. Same for all people of younger or similar age i have met; all the communication goes through social media even for the most complicated matters, like actual relationships, family discussions, serious talk etc. and even if you manage to convince them on an actual physical hangout, you have to go through the torture of multiple photos, posting, chatting, stories and whatever nonsense these social media platforms are promoting. Where is the actual fun of going out for a drink, to talk, to meet other people, to go to a concert or even travel anymore?
> I wonder what's fundamentally different than Europe

Nothing. There are neighborhoods in Limerick city in Ireland where the fire brigade only go with a police escort, because people were calling to report a fire and then attacking the fire engines. If you don’t think there are neighborhoods in Europe the police only go in large groups you’re wrong. There are many fewer but the US isn’t some alien planet.
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If the arithmetic for this tax scheme doesn't seem to remotely work out, ruminations on the nature of infinity aren't going to set me at ease with it.

Here in the finite world, most of the money moving around is in services, while most of the land is disconnected from that economy. How are you getting 1-2 trillion in tax revenue from land without making, say, farming economically unviable? Will it just be riddled through with exceptions and carveouts?
Great reply! Just out of curiosity (that is, because I want to know), what about "3. How do you manage your learning time" ?
And nowadays even websites that don't hijack the shortcut itself are non-"find in page"-able, due to the trick of disposing unused/out-of-view components (which is actually I suspect what Docs is doing, too, but they made their own find so people wouldn't get stuck)
Let me give an example. If you want to learn React, don't try to go through the whole docs or tutorial. Search for "react basics", learn what props and state are and start implementing a simple to-do or a counter right away. You should complete this in a day. This will keep you interested.

Now, think of something more complicated - say connecting to a API and displaying the results in a table, just look into axios, copy paste whatever you can and get it running. Don't be bogged down by styling (CSS) or performance or anything. Just get it running.

Now, go through the official docs some more. You will be able to breeze through the whole docs in a couple of days. Always do the read->implement->learn->read cycle.
Overall I agree, but I am pointing out how numbers are framed is really important. For example this puts Defense spending at 1T and heathcare at 1.7T, while leaving out several categories of both. https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2020USbn_...

I am not saying any specific number is correct, but that 1T figure excludes military pensions and heath care excludes related research spending. Neither includes any debt payments from past spending or projections of future obligations. In the end it is actually possible to construct a number for each where federal defense spending is greater than federal healthcare spending, but again I don’t agree with such categorizations.

PS: This gets back to the oldest trick in “cutting“ spending, define a portion as something else. Similarly, define a category of taxes as “income taxes“ so you can exclude payroll taxes when talking about them.
Still wishful thinking at this point.
You are speaking of a specific anecdotal experience and he is talking about the industry in aggregate. Neither of you are invalidating the other's point.

The actual facts are in support of the posters point: https://www.abpi.org.uk/facts-and-figures/science-and-innova...

But your example is a real occurrence of abuse under the US system.
Cool! How did you go about building an agreed upon design was there an offline blueprint you guys created first?
Anywhere between 13% to 19% of Manhattan has left NYC. In the affluent neighborhoods, the rate is more like 40%.¹

We came into this crisis off of the longest prosperity period in modern history. I suspect the more profound impact is still to hit.²

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1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/15/upshot/who-le...

2. Just one example from this week https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-to-slow-u-s-meat-pr...
I like your blog! It reminds me of https://littlebigdetails.com/ except it’s the opposite. Bookmarked!
COVID-19 death rates are very likely exaggerated:

Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota posted on his Facebook page on April 15, "Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."

...

PolitiFact reporter Tom Kertscher wrote, "The dollar amounts Jensen cited are roughly what we found in an analysis published April 7 by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a leading source of health information." [1]

1. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...
Scaling out cross-platform, lower cost of investment to support multiple OS/Devices.

User does not need to worry about dependencies and libraries - they just need to make sure they're running a somewhat up-to-date version of a modern browser.

Users are not tied to a single device either.
How do you know what to code if you are not clear about the code's expected behaviour?

This is one of the principles of TDD: be clear about what your code should do (i.e. it's behaviour) before you start coding.
Yep, one of the cool things about entropy is that it always increases. If you keep XORing more information into the seed pool, you only ever increase the total entropy.
Care to explain? I'm basing my judgment on anecdotal evidence so if you have a different perspective I'd like to hear it out.
NaCl/sodium uses Bernstein-crypto by default, Tink uses NIST (e.g. AES-GCM)?
As a business, it's not to your advantage to have to ask permission from app store owners. The web does not require permission from a third-party that may decide to compete with you.
*exclusive land possession rights
About 15.75% according to https://neuvoo.com/tax-calculator/?iam=&uet_calculate=calcul...
Because of the main advantages of SaaS: recurring payments and data lock-in.
I think a lot of people don't really realize how much free money is creamed off by property owners and resource extractors.

Not least because of their constant attempts to disguise what they do as productive.

It's not like people are in a coffee shop and seeing "% of this product that goes to rent" built into the prices. They tend to assume that the price of the cup is basically the ingredients (which is why people balk at paying for tap water in restaurants).
And Smalltalk-80 turns 40 this year.
"We are in the perfect position to evaluate what jobs are actually necessary"

Who's this "We" you're talking about? 'Cause if it's me then I think this is a great idea. If it's you than I think it's maybe not the best idea ever.

And if it's "experts" all I would say is that that it better be an expert of my choosing not yours.
The problem with this analogy: What you describe was an ordinary job maybe 15-20 years ago. If the analogy held, people would have spoken like this poem in daily life at some point.
> "maliciously" reproducing.

That's not what I said. Not even in the slightest.

> What's also pretty bad is assuming that the author did such a thing, or feeling that the author owed you an explanation.

Jeezus, talk about reading something looking to do the worst interpretation possible. You might as well have called me a eugenicist nazi. How about when you read a comment have an open mind that maybe, just maybe, it wasn't written by a nazi?

My comment was pretty general, and mostly talked about people I know, who did do such a thing.

> Where is the logic or humanity in questioning the value of having a child once the child already exists?

That's not what I did. I'm asking why someone with perhaps multiple heritable psychological and physical problems, both in their own body and in their family, would take this huge risk. Do they presume to love an adopted child less than a biological one?

I'm CLEARLY asking about the logic decision BEFORE. Because it's not actually a decision afterwards. Obviously.

And it's not about the "value of having a child". That completely misses the point.

> don't need to justify themselves to me

Wow, you sure are a better person than this straw man you're building. Good for you.

Should I apologize for wanting to understand the world, and people, better? Would you say the same thing about the entire fields of sociology, anthropology, and psychology?

No, nobody owes anybody an explanation. Of course not. But what kind of answer is that? If to you entire fields of knowledge have a taboo on the word "why", with the default answer "I DON'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN MYSELF TO YOU!!" (and neither must anyone else) then you sure are not anybody I'd like to talk to. Good day.
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I know they've added a Go port since that release.
I've dealt with refactoring UIs designed by Python junkies from Academia, and tend to believe that's where the tools in movies come from. They aren't consumer products in the movie, they're hacked together open source projects (Or VB UIs to trace hackers!). Heck, last time I served on a jury the prosecutor used VLC to demo videos instead of media player or other consumer level products.
No internet? No web-app.

I suppose I am increasingly frustrated with the inability to use my computer if it has no internet....
FOMO is powerful...
I'd rather take inconvenience instead of insane worldwide bandwidth waste. Whenever I used to see my own gifs stats on imgur I was quite sad.
What is your cousin's onlyfans account? You know.. for um.. research..
Adobe achieves that with desktop apps, if you can call it an achievement.
These sound like examples of how the worst is indeed behind us. It seems unlikely that another 40% of people will leave affluent Manhattan neighborhoods over the next few months, or that meat production will be slowed more than it has been over the past month.
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I love working copy!

And yes I’ve thought about that, but I don’t know how to share a file system...yet.

And it’s real. I have a general solution for tricking SwiftUI to render different views at runtime. Some things are fake (such as photos) because I wanted it to work for a demo but I didn’t have things like a file system setup.
If you make 31k, you likely don't have the good health insurance of the OP, and your final bill would be hundreds of thousands (i.e. it couldn't be afforded)
I‘ve always been on the fence about this. I can see both sides, and don’t have a strong opinion either way. But answering is there still a place for native? I think yes for sure! I guess it comes down to if it is really important to your philosophy as a developer, or your type of app could really benefit from native capabilities.

A good example of a recent app that chose to leverage native platforms is Table Plus. They are developing native apps on Mac, Windows, and Linux. I respect the effort/skill and dedication required to pull this off! https://tableplus.com/
> This is misleading if all you're saying is that both Jane and Jill get paid less than 90k.

But nobody is saying that. That is a totally normal statement to make. E.g. 90k > (20k + 30k)

It works just as well for the murder rate per 100k residents:

39.80 > (23.14 + 7.01 + 3.39)

Detroit > (Chicago + LA + NYC)
I blog. Have for a long time. The key is to own your own domain. Then your works cannot be taken away, and they are visible to all instead of risking becoming trapped in a walled garden. It doesn't cost much and it is not that hard. See http://dwheeler.com
S pen on Galaxy note phones has had the eraser button and the pen never had bluetooth until the latest version. Wonder how they do it?
Every single app that I use, I try and make sure it is native. I shun electron apps at all cost. It's because people who put in effort to use the native APIs put in a lot more effort in the app in general based on my anecdotal evidence. It is also more performant and smaller in size, things that I cherish. It also pays homage to limits and striving to come up with new ways of overcoming them, which hackers would have to do in the past. I don't think not worrying about memory, CPU, etc are not healthy in the long run. Slack desktop app is almost 1 gig in size. That is crazy to me, no matter the "memory is cheap" mantra.
Wasn't there was a film where a sentient missile refuses to explode as it wants to live?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...

It does not seem at all clear to me that most economic activity is in services and not in resources/monopoly ownership.

> farming economically unviable

Farming is already unviable, that's why we subsidize it so heavily.
So then the land owner goes bankrupt and has to sell the land and Tillable buys it.
> What do you care about ability-to-pay?

Because it helps align incentives. You can have a 7% tax on sales, or a 5% tax on sales plus a 2% tax based on a noisy correlate. The latter will raise more revenue at a lower excess cost.

> You can't shield from that tax. All entities pay, for every sale, no refunds.

That would make it a tax on revenue, which is quite distortionary indeed and generally considered a last-resort. (Or you could have a VAT, where all entities pay but tax paid on non-final sales is refunded. VATs are quite good but not totally free of this kind of gaming.)
Django.

It's not the answer you thought you were looking for, but it's a bloody good framework for modelling data, reporting, and also scripting things around it.
with a record number of investors in the stock market and tools like this, i’m happy to be in all cash.
Link for the lazy:
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Sadly I am not Adobe
Hey cool, thanks :)
Yeah! Thank you too. The excellent web pages and docs would not be there without your efforts.
I prefer well-designed desktop applications to web applications for most things that don't naturally involve the web:

* Email clients (I use Thunderbird)

* Office suites

* Music and media players

* Maps

* Information managers (e.g., password managers)

* Development tools

* Personal productivity tools (e.g., to-do lists)

* Games

As Windows starts on-boarding their unified Electron model (I can't recall what they have named this), I suspect we'll see more lightweight Electron desktop apps. But for the record, I like purpose built, old-fashioned desktop applications. I prefer traditional desktop applications because:

* Traditional applications economize on display real-estate in ways that modern web apps rarely do. The traditional desktop application uses compact controls, very modest spacing, and high information density. While I have multiple monitors, I don't like the idea of wasting an entire monitor for one application at a time.

* Standard user interface elements. Although sadly falling out of favor, many desktop applications retain traditional proven high-productivity user interface elements such as drop-down menus, context menus, hotkeys, and other shortcuts.

* Depth of configuration. Traditional desktop apps tended to avoid the whittling of functionality and customization found in mobile and web apps. Many can be customized extensively to adapt to the tastes and needs of the user.

Bottom-line: Yes, for some users and use-cases, it still makes sense to make desktop apps. It may be a "long-tail" target at this point, but there's still a market.
Lmao.. Literally the only time I've gotten a flood of emails was from when I described my experience applying to a FAANG company. Quite sad actually, as I'd been shouting into the void about far more interesting things for years.
This needn’t be true. You can use a service worker to make the code load when offline, and IndexedDB to store data.

As a trivial example, https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ (which has no data storage requirements) works just fine offline.

Offline support is a banner feature of the PWA (progressive web apps) movement.
We Need Cooperatives for the Digital Economy
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whats your objective in learning all those things?

> I'm afraid to fall behind the industry.

Do you mean you are worried about not being able to pickup another job if you lose your current one?
An extremely heavy tax on holding patents.

Patents are essentially the "land" of the tech industry. With weaker patents there probably wouldn't be any such thing as "big tech" as it would be constantly disrupted from below.

The exception is google's search index, which is, given its capital intensity and power requirements, practically a form of of heavy industry on a par with aerospace or automotive.
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> And again, why do you care about the taxation of the super wealthy so much?

This is always the retreat: "OK, taxation is unfair, but you can't prove there's a problem so it doesn't really matter, does it?"

I say: taxation is unfair, and we should make it fair instead of constantly trying to justify the fact that the very wealthy (who are, relative to US society, wealthier than they have ever been and getting steadily wealthier) are paying less tax than you or I do. Let's start there.

To wit: why are you so invested in the regressiveness of current taxation policies? Shouldn't you at least accept that we should make it fair?

If it was fair, maybe you'd have an easier time convincing the hippies not to try to pay for your health care or whatever.
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Whoa, apparently they are rather important for carbon sequestration!

See the section on the impact of whaling:

> However, it is suggested that the removal of large whales might have reduced the total biomass of the deep sea by more than 30%.[24] Whales stored massive amounts of carbon that were exported to the deep sea during whale fall events. Whaling has thus also reduced the ability of the deep sea to sequester carbon.[24]
Very cool. Given the coming monopoly suits, failing businesses and the political economic discussions, I can see "whale fall" becoming a common analogy.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=w...

What happened in October 2019?
> Edit: funny, I am getting downvoted also, for agreeing with you

If the parent was being downvoted for a certain view, why is this at all surprising?
I haven't figured that part out either ;-)
Together with the italicized remark I read that as “there is this unnamed platform that does not use RNG but just hashes bunch of arbitrary system parameters and state and calls the result random-enough”. In fact the unnamed OS does not do that and reality is significantly more complex and involves PRNG, but the official documantation for well-known and officially undocumented and unsupported internal get_random()-like API is worded in a way that implies that what it returns is simply MD5 of giant struct containing around hundred of assorted timers, counters and other system state.
I worked in the EDA space for a while and even built an online circuit simulation tool [0] while there. I'm aware of couple of startups such as [1] that tried to move these tools to the browser. There are a number of challenges that make web apps difficult in this space such as"

1. Pricing model: For the simulation side of EDA, you need a lot of computing power. With desktop apps, the user already has a powerful machine available that you don't have to pay to use. With the cloud, you need to pay for all the machines so finding a pricing model that works is a challenge.

2. User expectations: The users who are willing to pay > $100k/seat/year expect very advanced features that would probably take 10s or 100s of engineering years to get working. These users also don't care as much about the UI/UX problems that a modern app would solve.

References

0. https://www.multisim.com/

1. https://upverter.com/
Mathematics is about theories, philosophy is about describing reality. Theories that have little to do with reality are philosophically irrelevant, confusing and to be avoided despite being mathematically interesting.
Remember that these pornstars rarely can have a normal life and can not really easily get a "normal job" when they decide to move on.

Also, your video being out there online forever means even if you try to start a new life it will be increasingly difficult to do so.

That's a huge price to pay IMO. Most people never experience this type of situation in their lives so don't understand how much sacrifice this is, but it is.
The new Autocad web app is pretty impressive. Feels native even with large CAD files: https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad-web-app/overview
We are back at the assumption that farming cannot be substituted.

For a society, it is true that farming can hardly be substituted. But for an individual, it's more than possible to have another profession.
how can I use that ?
Cutesy reminder that regular fizzbuzz still filters out almost half of the candidates I receive for junior dev positions.

Some because they don't understand the requirements, some because they don't know how to use loops, some people they don't know how to use conditions, and yes some because they make overly complicated mess for no reason, or to try to be "super smart".
Lots of states are aware of active/passive plate obsfucation systems and make covering the plate with any material an illegal act.

The only thing that seems legal is letting your plate 'degrade' with corrosion to the point where the automated readers can't make out the characters.
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What is your maps desktop application?
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That was painful to read. :(