skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Estate taxes on the Federal level have never even come close to being applicable to middle-class estates.
Why not use ungoogled-chromium?

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Talking is easy, particularly at primary debates. Doing something is difficult and the Democratic party has been fairly ineffectual.
As a child, a friend's mother was a programmer for the Shuttle (mid-80s to early 90s). Her job sounded awful: a 'science person' (I was a child, remember!) designed a piece of math; an engineer (software?) would take that piece of math and reduce it to an algorithm; my friend's mother would program that algorithm in machine code, in parallel to an assembly listing. Each instruction (and all the data) would be reviewed line-by-line. She had to provide reasoning (roughly a proof) that each instruction correctly implemented the algorithm. My guess is the algorithm went through the same equivalence checking to the 'math'. I don't know how much code she wrote, but it was only a few programs (functions) per year.

That was my view of 'programming', and I wasn't disabused of that until very late 90s.
Common things are simply by category and subcategories starting from the media/file "type" (e.g. books, photos, etc).

Projects are created in a ~/playground directory and are eventually moved to a ~/projects one (but sometimes they just stay in a RAM-disk; i.e. experiments).

Within coding projects I usually have /src, /doc (by category and subcategories) and /utils (with utility scripts, Docker-related files, etc) sub-directories.

PDF et similia that don't fit within a specific project typically are generic enough to be placed somewhere under ~/books.

The main issue with this system is that there could be work-related things under distinct paths (e.g. ~/documents/work/<org> and ~/projects/<name>), but those may be archived together...
US citizens have never had a right to privacy when it comes to commiting crimes. That's why court-authorized wiretaps have existed for decades. Long before 9/11.

Do you think courts shouldn't be allowed to wiretap the phones of suspected criminals? Because Zoom is just a modern phone.
> Chaccour says both NEJM and The Lancet should have scrutinized the provenance of Surgisphere’s data more closely before publishing the studies. “Here we are in the middle of a pandemic with hundreds of thousands of deaths, and the two most prestigious medical journals have failed us,” he says.

Well maybe that's one positive thing here and people will be more skeptical about where this data is coming from

> “We use a great deal of artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate this process as much as possible, which is the only way a task like this is even possible.”

He meant it as a defense and to paint themselves as highly knowledgeable professionals using advanced technology, but I read it as "we used machine learning to generate this data".
Yeah, looks like a great place lately you're totally right
Most of us have read history.

Little known fact: as a young teenager I was a fan of the idea of communism. Then I realized that every attempt at communism, except possibly the kibbutz movement in Israel, has ended in horrible famines, genocides and general horror.

So today say with everyone else:

Let's not try that experiment again. Even my ex-colleague who is an actual communist admitted that he had mixed feelings about it: "enthusiastic believers like me are typically the first to get killed" he said.
And what keeps corporations from becoming governments unto themselves?
The insane idea is that US criminal law applies worldwide, not only on US soil.

Banks do no criminally charge people, but they can go after the civil damages to recuperate their incurred costs due to the fraud and have huge power to motivate prosecutors to press charges. In some foreign countries, bank can actually go after people criminally. If the foreign country in which the bank operates will not punish the fraudster then they can pull out of that country.
They need to get their priorities straight when spending tax money.
I'm super pumped. I just launched https://www.emitter.dev, which lets you connect your WebSockets to your cloud functions:

Lambdas, Serverless, Google cloud functions, Azure functions and more. I'd love feedback on the landing page, the service or anything else that you'd like to chat about =)
Philip Greenspun had some good articles on this. See below.

He also quotes the CDC website saying it is quite safe.

> “CDC has no limits on the use of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of malaria. When hydroxychloroquine is used at higher doses for many years, a rare eye condition called retinopathy has occurred. People who take hydroxychloroquine for more than five years should get regular eye exams.”

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2020/04/23/the-disappointi...

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2020/05/21/hydroxychloroqu...
US begins probe into digital service taxes imposed by India
As far as I understand it not every contact between a Covid19+ and an uninfected person means the uninfected persons gets infected.

For the sake of simplicity lets call each breath the Covid19+ person takes a contact, with a probability that they infect you at 0.5%

The it will make a huge difference if you passing them by or are sitting next to them for an extended period of time.
Yes, he made that point to contrast with the common sci-fi trope of using the ship's computers for all purposes.
And still exists today as ArcaOS!

https://www.arcanoae.com/
That's surprising, I was sure radiology would be the first medical field to get automated away. What are the main challenges you think?
Tesla uses Qt under LGPL in their own cars: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/20/1737213
No, not just for academia. Apparently, Amazon uses it to check their designs for correctness.

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/formal-methods-amazon....
Index funds do not monotonically increase, either.
A failure would indicate some sort of malicious actor, so the connection is logged and rejected.
You just need to keep it secret enough to hold out until the declassification of the documents a decade to 5 decades later.
You already see that happening but not Georgia as much as far as I can tell. Also there is labor movement. If the labor can get better salaries elsewhere why should they move to your smaller, less wealthy location? Salaries there would need to rise.

The bigger the cluster the bigger the network effect in the cluster.

My opinion is that there are probably less than 10 viable clusters in North America. If it is too small or the culture is against it, then it fails. There have been such attempts, a few succeeded, most failed.

It shall be interesting which (new) clusters grow. My bet is on Toronto. AI talent. Large cosmopolitan city. Good universities.
What is OSA? Google fails me.
Autovectorization for AVX and AVX2 in Rust
The government is the tool used to suppress competition.

This is why the solution of making the government ever more powerful isn't going to work.
Winning the popular vote means that a lot of people voted for that candidate. To me it indicates that it was a very close election.
WordPress won't remove the need to write high quality content, but the markup is very easy for Google to parse and with the Yoast plugin all of the structured data is automatically handled. WP also automatically adds alt tags to images and all the other bits of metadata Google likes.
To toss in a second-hand anecdote: I once asked someone who worked at/with companies screening Africans for diamonds in the rough, smart guys who could do programming but were being paid peanuts, like $10k/year, and paying them a multiple of that for outsourcing, why it wasn't such a great idea, when Africa seems to have so many under-utilized people. He said that despite expectations, they were not much cheaper to hire than alternatives like American programmers on net. While you would think that it would be impossible to not make a profit paying these smart guys $20k or $30k a year when alternatives are like $200k/year, the economics barely worked because they just wouldn't do the work reliably. They would just not show up some days, leave early, do no work, blow off jobs, half-ass the actual work, and so on. By the time you hired enough non-African managers to oversee them and handhold them, you'd blown through your cost advantage, because good managers aren't cheap either. Most customers found it a lot easier to deal with a reliable non-African contractor who would get the job done when they said they would get it done mostly right the first time and would answer emails.

It reminded me of Gregory Clark's 1987 paper "Why Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills" https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6152/0798b9dd2c691872d58db3... where he points out that despite Indian labor being incredibly cheap, Indian cotton mills were still uncompetitive with British (and later, Japanese) cotton mills for basically the same reasons. As the saying goes, "you get what you pay for"... The more something is an o-ring process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-ring_theory_of_economic_deve... , the more skimping on labor is penny-wise pound-foolish.
This is my go to as well.
That was a bad idea by Microsoft ,they cannot move office to every city threatening to do this now .

Hamburg will either get open source or a large ms office there if this goes the same way. Sooner or later MS will have to stop moving offices .
Blender 2.83 is here with first-ever LTS release
How did you make Lenovo X1 Carbon fingerprint sensor work on Ubuntu?
We still face a related class of problem today. The x86 PAUSE has wildly varying throughput. On most Intel parts it is 1/8 or so, but on Skylake Xeon it's 1/141. On Ryzen its 1/3. I've seen code that makes assumptions about how much real time must have passed based on PAUSE loops.
It might be considered fraud but it would probably depend on your state / country.
In my opinion that's one view, coming from an extreme form of rulership that was established (especially in Poland) after what happened during WW2: nazi occupation, mass deportations, concentration camps etc. etc.

I come from the country with the largest communist party in the West and I believe it helped the people here to get more freedom and social justice that they would have achieved otherwise
Suppose that we know, axiomatically, that 99% of people who search "mattresses" want to buy a mattress.

Search engine A, when someone queries "mattress", shows a page of options to buy a mattress.

Search engine B, when someone queries "mattress", shows a light touch on a number of different aspects of mattresses, including a history, the wikipedia page, and so on.

Which one is doing a better job of showing relevant results to the user? I would suggest A.
I'd be willing to be a lot of HN readers have broken the rules governing code quality because they felt it was justified by the outcome, ignoring the reasons those rules were put into place

Which rules are they again?
This works well, when it works, but it seemed like at least with my setup it seriously exacerbated performance problems. Using the older OBS -> Zoom Windows solution of swapping out a video api DLL ("virtual camera") never caused performance problems but stopped working when Zoom started integrity checking/whitelisting all libraries[1]. I switched to the NDI solution which seems to be more "official" but gave up on using it as it would consistently work fine for a while, and then framerate would drop to <2 per second. This was on a reasonably new/high end machine (X1 Carbon 6th gen) with hardware video encoding in OBS so it almost seems less like an absolute performance problem and more like some kind of lock competition, but I didn't really dig into it very deep at all - it's possible that the NDI stack was doing some software encoding I wasn't aware of and that was just too much.

[1] this happened in the middle of all the zoom bombing and I've seen an allegation that Zoom did this to intentionally nerf that OBS -> Zoom pathway as it was found to have been used by many zoom bombers, but I have no idea if this is true so don't get out pitchforks about it.
I asked you to back this up with actual figures. Please do so. Now...

> Do you see dedicated single-purpose barebones MP3 players having a high demand?

I can't buy them. When I looked for a new one, there was none available I could find. I did ring the companies too. There's no choice so actual demand is difficult to ascertain.

Smartphones... OK, that's a good point.

> what answer do you expect to hear?

Irrelevant - give me figures, not asking what I expect to get. Facts please. And if you read the comments here, there's quite a few expressing preference for physical controls.

> But they [non-smartphone users] are in a tiny minority.

A minority or a tiny minority? Give me figures please. Don't just talk at me, throwing words around. Facts please. And BTW I'm one of these minorities. FYI.

> it looks like the market has clearly expressed what consumers want

What's your job?
There was this cartoon about a guy graduating top of his class in a CS program and the hoopla of him being hired at a "Big Tech" firm. Then he discover that his role was basically to keep someone on a web page for a half second longer...
> Btw if you consider that, there are wars over which JavaScript framework.

None. Simple as that. At least for something like the Crew Dragon control panels, any kind of JS framework would add unnecessary bloat for very little use, because they were all designed with a very different goal, definitely not to write the UI portion of a C++ application that controls a spaceship.

Just stick to vanilla JS, simple HTML and well-written CSS and circumvent the framework wars altogether.
"Legally" is an empty word when we are talking about US foreign policy, unfortunately.
That's not true and you are not being fair to McCain.

She said she didn't trust him and he's an Arab. He took the mic from her and said no mam, he's a good man. He didn't even address the Arab comment because he had already addressed it previously.

I see nothing negative either intentional or unintentional about his responses.

We have enough bad in this world. We need to give credit where credit is due and not invent thinks.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrnRU3ocIH4
The difficulty in coming up with a good map of mathematics is summarized by this quote by Banach:

"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies."
This brings me back to the oracle ads that would just say vague things like "social." These ads aren't really targeted at developers anyway though.
Are Firms Too Risk-Averse?
> Why won't democratic constituencies hold their own politicians accountable?

> Why is the blame directed toward those who have little if any influence in the governance of local police in urban cores?

This is an election year, and instead of voting out crooked politicians people are rioting. Either these people are too stupid or incompetent to figure out how to vote, or this theoretical model of government accountability to The People through voting does not hold in practice.
> You have always had the need to look at the buttons, like reaching out to the radio.

I never look at those buttons, and I switch stations all the time. In fact, the radio is my standard example of where touch screens fail and are hazardous.

Just like with a phone that has physical buttons - I would dial numbers without looking at the phone.

In the car I have that doesn't have a touch screen, I don't think I ever look for any button - be it climate control, emergency lights, etc.
It's a longstanding American tradition that many of our politicians are successful businessmen who made a fortune and then used their wealth to finance their political campaign(s). This is more or less how our current president got into power.

I think Trump is the only American president who never held a political office before becoming president. He was wealthy and famous for decades as a very successful businessman and he apparently spent many years contemplating running for president.

I once wrote a blog post titled something like "The 70 Year Old Political Virgin." I suspect a lot of the drama we see with this presidency is rooted in the fact that he has no prior political experience.

He has prior experience with people talking about him because he was rich and wealth is a kind of power, but it's not the same as having real political power where you can command armies and what not. I think this is why he engages in so much inflammatory rhetoric, which isn't appropriate for the President of the US, and I think it's why he seems so thin-skinned about people saying things about him.

When he was merely famous for his wealth, people talked about him as gossip, basically. Now, people talk about him because what he says and does impacts their lives in significant ways and he doesn't seem to know how to deal with the fact that this is just part and parcel of holding a powerful office. It's not actually personal.

For much of the history of the US, the path to the presidency was rooted in "well, first you need to be a General in the military." From what I gather, that's not been true in recent decades.

My father and ex husband were both career military. The military has a culture steeped in ethics surrounding making hard decisions about who lives, who dies, who dies so that others will live, etc. I think it is good experience for taking the reins of power, in part because being the President of the US also makes you the Commander in Chief.

Heinlein wrote fiction about a future America where you had to have military service to run for political office. I am not comfortable with suggesting this should be a standard, but I do wonder if we should add a new proviso to the bid for presidency that you either need prior military experience or you need to have held some other political office first.
Building a new instrument for the post-pandemic music industry
This is actually a bit of an incomplete comparison :)

It'd be more like imperial Russia owning profits to French mines it colonized. The French revolution happens and elects a national leader who keeps the country's natural resources for its own citizen. China comes in and overthrows the French government, then installs a Chinese puppet. China helps the puppet government build 23 nuclear reactors to solidify its rule but the puppet gets overthrown anyway because the secret police tortured and executed too many people. China then gets its other puppet Germany to attack the new French republic. Attack fails and German puppet gets bombed after going rogue for starting to sell oil in Rubles but I digress...

China then tries to economically choke the new French republic under the pretext that France has 'nuclear ambitions'. Tim Cook from America fails to follow China's sanctions then gets his daughter arrested in Thailand for having business transactions with France (despite most China friendly banks not having personal consequences for transacting with France https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-war-on-hu...).
maybe he just wants to choose his words carefully because the words will have an effect? unlike some other leader who says whatever thoughts pop in to his head
No, and it is not like maoist China or Kmehr Rouge Cambodia.

But there is still a pattern here: despite all good intentions communism always end in horror as far as I know.
> Most of us have read history.

That's not the best argument, given that the Marxist school of history (as exemplified by Eric Hobsbawm, who was respected by historians on all sides) is quite popular among professional historians.
Well, I recommend doing a concrete, nontrivial derivation from start to finish just to see how this approach scales. As a basic example that is typically covered in about half a page in books, try doing a full derivation of the wave equation for a wave on a string. I would bet that once you set up the 1000 nodes required to do this, you'll be completely exhausted, and moreover will have gotten no new insight! If you're not tired yet, try deriving the equation describing waves on a stiff rod -- it'll take at least 1500 nodes, most of which will be exactly the same as the ones for the wave equation.

Furthermore, this excessive mathematical structure hides the physical assumptions that really drive the validity of these equations. A real string doesn't actually obey the wave equation perfectly. The reason has to do with physical aspects of the string itself, not minutiae in the mathematical derivation of the wave equation. I can't think of an example where progress in physics was stalled because somebody tried to divide both sides of an equation by T and failed...
Zinc has been pushed as a cure/treatment for common cold for decades.

The actual track record of whether the OTC zinc tablets you can buy in a store work is quite uncertain though. Lots of studies coming down one way or another, and uncertain levels of statistical rigor. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-cold/e...

It is easy enough to make a video with what seems convincing but many of these neat explanations don’t actually work once you get into the human body.
Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. It leads nowhere good, as manifested below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23407848 also, because that was an even worse step.
I noticed during the stream one of the astronauts selecting some input on his screen, pausing for a moment, and then pressing the physical button below the screen to confirm the input. So that's probably their defense against misclicks: any action other than just changing the display mode or opening a checklist has to be confirmed through the physical "Execute" button (there seems to be two of them, one for each astronaut).
The last time I benchmarked it, which was at the beginning of the i7 era, LOOP was just as fast (within the margin of error) as dec/jnz - Intel probably doesn't want to be seen as slower than AMD and didn't care about that timing loop anymore.
It’s you vs the other guys. If they all have degrees... then yes. It’s tougher without one.

Unless you’re gifted.
> Part of the reason for this is the racism inherent in the US justice system

What's the root cause of that? A long time ago it was an economic incentive, but that incentive doesn't exist anymore. Today, I think, it's bias.

> instead must be lumped into the same group and called to account for the actions of someone that happens to have the same skin color

Because that's how the human brain works. It classifies things based on previous experiences. It is biased by design. You need to change the input to change the outcome.

Luckily, today, media is a huge part of the input and thus it is relatively easy to change.

> People choose to be tattooed.

Yes. But you are arguing on a different level. You are arguing in terms of fairness and guilt. I would agree with you on that level if that would be all there is to it. If there was a way that the majority could overcome racism by just wanting it enough, I would also agree with you. But in the real world you can not change the perception of other people without at least some cooperation to create an impression that creates a positive experience.

Some people chose to be part of a visually distinctive group. Others are just born into it. But independent of how you got into the group, the consequences are the same. Not because it is fair (it isn't), but just because that's the way humans work.

> "Be more visibly obedient to the cultural norms of racists"

You can change the cultural norms to avoid elements of racism, and you can change the norms to find a middle ground, but I don't think you can live in a world without bias without also having common cultural norms. People are always biased against those who live outside their cultural norms.