skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% with you on this. I am set to inherit a large sum of money when my grandfather dies (150-200k). And yes, 'large sum' is what I said. I honestly thought about writing 'life-changing' sum, because that will allow me to eliminate all of my debt, and substantially change my lifestyle.

I'm exactly who this would bite in the ass. I have neither the know-how, nor the real money to spend on moving things around to hide it from taxation.

Edit: I know the first million, as illustrated in the scenario this article presents, is exempted. I'm using myself as an example. The point still stands - extreme wealth would be hidden, and the rest of us would have to pay.
> I've never understood why people think that just because, e.g., their parents created a business worth millions of dollars, they should get that for free.

None of your business?
I mostly agree with you, but having spent a good part of my career dealing with data integration patterns, I'm all too familiar with the problem of missed messages from the consumer (or failed-to-send messages from the producer) that results in something downstream being in an incoherent state. The simplest fix for that incoherent state is often to also poll periodically, or something similar.
Do they have it? Police haven't always been forthcoming in publishing their evidence.
A very similar productivity trick, to having a separate 'office space' when working at home. Triggers the mind to enter work mode, and minimizes distractions.
Google is writing the security updates, and random people online will port them to your device but somehow your OEM won't.
Sure. I installed the 32-bit version on a "tablet" Lenovo that came with Windows XP, a dual core Centrino, and 2GB RAM originally. Works fine, it's not quite as fast as XP was but no issues. All the pen features work perfectly. If I got the upgrade card to switch it to an SATA SSD and added more memory it would probably be a fully usable machine, thanks mostly to being dual core.
If you bought an iPhone 6S Plus 128GB at launch, it cost you $949. $189.80 per supported year so far.

If you bought a Pixel 1 128GB at launch, it cost you $749. $249.67 per supported year over 3 years.

(The iPhone 6S Plus has same 1080p resolution as the standard size Pixel phone, which is why I use them as the base, but for folks wondering...)

If you bought a Pixel 1 XL 128GB at launch with the higher resolution screen, it cost you $849. $283 per supported year over 3 years.
Brave is not good lifeboat if you're jumping ship.
Acorn Computers: The “British Apple”
Today’s podcast deals look like early era music label deals: not artist friendly
The Cherry mechanical switches are big plus on the Freewrite. AlphaSmart uses membrane switches, a deal killer for some.
Agreed, it's definitely more visible because it's consumer facing.
Obligatory reading for believers in inheritance tax:

https://iea.org.uk/blog/how-high-tax-sweden-abolished-its-di...
But how does ongoing development work? You have changes, now you need to merge them into every branch. How do you know which ones are going to break the build, how do you know which ones just aren't going to merge due to divergence?

I have a horror of this due to having experienced a strategy where the team took a new (subversion) branch every time they started a new project (i.e. were building a new device in the same family). You had multiple branches with divergent development but lots of common functionality. If you wanted to fix a bug common to all the systems you had to fix it 4 times.

I absolutely believe that there are better ways of implementing that approach than they used, but I also am convinced through experience that you should have one single line of development and everything else is just 'views' on that (e.g. point release branch is just a view master that is frozen, plus some filtered recent history).

To take your Linux kernel example - the various forks (I'm working with the Xilinx Petalinux Kernel now) don't really fit into the normal model. They're a combination of a release branch and a feature branch - they take the Linux Kernel at a certain time, then add some patches on top. Those patches then usually get submitted (indirectly) back to Linus so that they join the master path of development. That means that other people benefit from them, and refactor them when appropriate.
I was pointing out the hypocrisy and the double standard.

Twitter has been in the news cycle for censoring/manipulating tweets of Trump. On HN I see a lot of people defending this decision by noting they are a private company and you can switch social media services if you want.

It seems you cannot switch services, the mob will always find you and push their "ethics" and "facts" onto you.
Farms are very rarely next to landsfills, mismanaged or not.
even before the tax was cut by Bush only like 2% of estates were taxed. hardly the middle. your estate has to be millions ($23MM according to the article) for this to even begin mattering.
Because we live in a society.
Damage to society by denying the role - via inaction, if nothing else - the company he leads plays in coordinated campaigns of deceit and disinformation aimed not just to undermine public discourse but also the functioning of democractic government itself (via targeted political advertising and misinformation).

Which isn't to say that moderation at Facebook's scale is an easy problem - it's not. And balancing freedom of speech with some degree of accountability and acknowledging empirically verifiable truths is difficult.

But, buy the ticket, take the ride. He's a billionaire. FB makes oodles and oodles of money. They just don't want to do it because it would cost them money.

Eventually laws will catch up, in one way or another, and the same way other media outlets are (imperfectly) regulated, new-media outlets such as FB, Google, etc, will be as well, IMHO.
I use Firefox with uBlockOrigin on my phone to avoid all the ads. It works great.
I've installed Windows 10 on HP EliteBook 2730p from 2008, and Toshiba Protege M400 from 2006. For the most part if the machine ran Windows Vista acceptably it will run Windows 10. Disk access is pretty slow. Windows 10 really needs an SSD.
Oops, sorry Fabrice, wherever you are.

@als0: Thanks for pointing that out.
outlined: https://outline.com/szyfzv
Relay by Puppet: IFTTT for DevOps
> youtube remains un-crossed, but it will be replaced by better offerings in core categories: vloggers, how-to / structured / lego, and music / covers

For streaming it already has tough competition by twitch. If twitch manages to improve their stream archive and then take their user base into YouTube's core domain YT might see plausible competition.
Those who suffer from the virus can also develop a host of other things. Look up how many people developed ME/CFS (Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) post SARS and how many are experiencing the same symptoms after "recovering" from COVID-19. Some are months into their recoveries with no signs of going back to their old normal.

I wish it was talked about more instead of people dismissing the fact that if a large percentage of those who get severe symptoms develop chronic illnesses, this is going to be a lot bigger than "just a flu". It far from just a flu. My significant other happens to be a SARS survivor who's been dealing with chronic illness since "recovering" from the infection in 2003. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

I hope diabetes isn't yet another condition that many will develop after this.
Google is failing me, but I believe someone wrote a JVM in Excel too. When all you have is a hammer... :)
What the government gives it must first take away
I released a large number of GPT-3 demos yesterday: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-3-experiments
I think https://i.reddit.com is "more text-only" even though it does have icons and some thumbnails.
I think this was done initially because it was being hijaaked by malware. Malicious applications were getting into systems then changing the default handlers to insert themselves into the system processes.
I have a really minimal/desirable gmail address and it's been only annoying. I constantly get emails from people by accident. I made my Hey address longer to avoid this.
That does not give you destructuring though, so to distinguish different variants of the same type you are left with a classic `if` inside the lambda.

Also this has "language support" in the sense that it is (again) implemented via template meta programming, i.e. the compile time is impacted quite heavily.

See "std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++": https://bitbashing.io/std-visit.html

This standards proposal would add proper match (named, of course, inspect) support: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p009...
I am starting to think everything is an ad for Hey on hacker news these days.
Meghna Jayanth, who worked on the phenomenal mobile game 80 Days, among other things, has been retweeting a lot of the stories of abuse as they are coming out:

https://twitter.com/betterthemask
People also increasingly care about privacy, which goes after Google’s core revenue stream. Google is also easier to switch away from than Facebook. None of their services have strong network effects. (Except chat...)

Most places I’ve worked switch cloud office suites every few years. Quip seems to be the new hotness at the current job. Its documents feature is fine, and the spreadsheet is good enough 99% of the time.
I find synbio terrifying. Think about what you know about the dysfunctions of our field, IT, but with hardware-that-is-software and can eat you or make you sick. A computer virus can infect the Internet, a virus can infect the real world.

We should study life for at least two to five hundred more years before attempting applications via these methods.

Genetic engineering applications (except for human health) should be banned, IMO, until we have enough information to do it responsibly.

We already have species and methods of creating new variations that answer our needs.

> Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank
>We can travel across the world in a day.

Damaging the fragile environment in so doing.

>We have medical treatments for diseases that would have killed millions a year 75 years ago.

Thus exacerbating global overpopulation and all the problems this causes

>We can communicate openly and freely with people all over the world.

Not for much longer. There's a push everywhere to centralize communications into silos owned by tech giants with zero accountability. How many times have I seen on HN that "email is deprecated" and the way of the future is to just buy into $proprietary_messenger that the user happens to work for?

>We can go to motherfucking space!

If you're a CEO, sure. The privileged overclass enjoys many perks as a consequence of its dominance.

>The world is more at peace right now than any other time in recorded history. The power of religion to control people has slowly degraded away.

Replaced by massive media and tech corporations controlling public discourse via social media, the new opiate of the masses, and fomenting identity politics to stave off the realization of class consciousness.

We live in a corporate dystopia.
for similar reasons, I swear by my Remarkable tablet.
As a consumer, I am completely in agreement insofar as the benefits or receiving content via email medium vs. going on the web, esp. considering bloomberg does have a paywall at some point, autoplay ads, noise, etc. Comparatively, the user experience w/ email is unanimously better via email!

And of course, in this hypothetical, that same content would need be equally accessible/free on the site as in the email otherwise moot point to begin with.

But the publishers POV, this author in question creates really compelling content, so much so that as a consumer of it, I actually would sacrifice hopping to/reading on bloomberg.com if it meant a more palatable intro/summary initially via email. (And again assuming it's just as free).

Indeed the open rate claim is unsubstantiated, and we do not know what the metrics look like in any dimension. And maybe they even tested this out early on / upfront and evolved into what it is now? There has to be some data/science to it, because right now, the email appears to be hardly commercialized, so Bloomberg is not only missing out on the site traffic benefits, but also not optimizing email monetization? (A quick glance with adblock off shows now ads?)

Anecdotally (and maybe I am completely alone here) I am more inclined to click on a content link or open an email if I believe that there is a high probably of thoroughly reading what's inside. Take for FWIW, my own process of unsubscribing: I went from opening all/90%+ to opening less and less over the coming weeks because I knew I couldn't consume/get through enough/all and that felt defeating, futile, and proving impossible. So eventually, I stopped opening all together, stayed subbed for a few more weeks, but eventually unsubbed altogether when it came time for a monthly inbox pruning. No we both lost in this scenario, I can admit.

I am biased too, because in a previous life I built an email list with ~50% open rate and ~25% CTR (high for my field/industry) built upon this outbound link strategy, as I know others have to. Apparently there are multiple ways to go about it :)

(All that said I am surprised at all the downvoting...either Levine has a mob on here intolerant of any harmless critique or generally my parent comment wasn't relevant enough to the broader topic at hand? It would be helpful to hear feedback on why)
Being an effective technical manager in 2020
This is a poor argument - it contains no distinction from any taxed transaction. All money changing hands has "already been taxed" in the way you are using the phrase. Unless you are saying that all tax is wrong, in which case you should definitely make that argument rather than this much more specific one.
Apple wants to meet environmental aims and paint themselves green - something I fully support for that matter - and they have at least for consumers the expectation of quality and craftsmanship, not "crap that's obsolete in two years".

Windows has a different reason why they're so focused on desktop BC: lock-in. Had Windows not taken care of BC over decades and a provable track record of that from the beginning of the DOS era, enterprises with tens of thousands of licenses would have fled the ship (and funded WINE with ludicrous amounts of money, probably). On mobile they didn't give a flying finger about BC, and the contrast was noticeable.
> Note to web developers who are unfamiliar with keyboards: Make sure your fixed/sticky header/footer banners don't hide content when using "Page Up" and "Page Down".

Firefox has specific code to detect banners and reduce the Page Down distance. This code fails on new Twitter.
GWAS have been shown to be practically meaningless. How should this paragraph be interpreted, that transformers can make sense of DNA patterns?
What precisely did I say that makes you think I'm trying to excuse, rather than explain? Is it merely the fact that I am not completely overwhelmed with rage against everyone who has the same job as the people who killed George Floyd and others?

Often times in intense situations, maintaining objective emotional detachment rather than being overwhelmed by emotional knee jerk reactions can mean the difference between life and death, or a positive outcome and a negative one.
600k/yr seems a bit far fetched for six years of experience. levels.fyi is one source that I think would contradict the easiness of that goal.

Facebook pays in line with what other top big public tech companies pay. You could go to Google or Netflix and expect similar comp.
> ... make your code more amenable to change.

This is where "make it easy to test" comes in.

And, sure, there are some things that are easy to anticipate. If you're processing CSV, you may get asked to process arbitrary delimited files next. But the point is 3 - 5 years out, you'll get asked for something the current architecture cannot support and a major effort will be required. You cannot anticipate those and thus should never try to.
The thing that holds most android manufacturers back is that their chipset vendors don't update their drivers for newer kernels.

So the next version of android comes along and requires a newer kernel, and the phones built around these chipsets can't be updated.

The chipset folks see no new revenue for forward-porting their hacked up kernels and drivers, and therefore aren't interested in updating.

That is the problem the Android ecosystem needs to solve.

Because Apple controls the full stack, they have no problem forward porting any custom changes that they need. It's all the same codebase.
No, but it could install on flagship hardware for a 2005 PC

which is what we are comparing here.
Amazon establishes new Counterfeit Crimes Unit
I'd say the video game industry is quite distinct from other industries in that the consumers have great say in how the industry should operate. The selfishness and narcissism of our consumerist culture are quite prominent here and it shows in how exploitative the industry is. I mean 60-70 hr work week is the norm here. Which other 'boring' industry has that?
> Because we live in a society.

Why don't I have a downvote button for this?
Perl 7 Announced
Now I’m confused, are you describing the police or BLM?
and don't forget launching an abysmal cloud gaming service that was DoA!
There is no point in building wealth or a family business other than to ensure your family will benefit from it when you're gone. Sure, childless young people with no perspective don't understand this mindset of intergenerational family businesses.
Is this similar to CouchDB?
As a Brazilian, I am not pleased. This will become just another tool for the government to create artificial difficulties and sell solutions to its closest "friends". Standards have been created without any government's help since forever.
> They have some things they keep on improving. I think youtube is there (after the dumped plus thank goodness). Chrome seems to be moving along nicely.

Namely, the things that directly contribute to the ads business.
original link: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-06-23/brazi...
gcore is on more platforms, at least also on Solaris.

This tool, though, seems to be able to do a lot more like wait until some basic kinds of conditions are met before dumping core.

Given that gcore on Linux is really using gdb, this is probably also pretty easy to do in gdb -- but it's not done, so this tool adds value to the ecosystem. Just not as much value is added to the Linux ecosystem by this tool as is added to the Windows ecosystem by its Windows port.
> I didn't have to look very far; Facebook did the study itself, internally, and executives directly chose to ignore it: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270659/facebook-divisio....

While this is indeed a compelling data point, I want to point out 2 things:

1. We have no way to verify the validity of the methodology, since the study is opaque to us.

2. We have no way to verify the veracity of the results, since the study is not peer reviewed.

And while you didn't have to look very far, perhaps if you look even a little farther, you'll find that there are conflicting studies (in published peer reviewed research):

"We combine nine previously proposed measures to construct an index of political polarization among US adults. We find that the growth in polarization in recent years is largest for the demographic groups least likely to use the internet and social media. For example, our overall index and eight of the nine individual measures show greater increases for those older than 75 than for those aged 18–39. These facts argue against the hypothesis that the internet is a primary driver of rising political polarization." [1]

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, my analysis provides evidence that social media
usage reduces mass political polarization."[2]

"After conducting a detailed analysis of recommendations received by each channel type, we refute the popular radicalization claims. To the contrary, these data suggest that YouTube's recommendation algorithm actively discourages viewers from visiting radicalizing or extremist content."[3]

So this is by no means conclusive, and very much debatable. To repeat: the most charitable argument for "being proud" to work at FB is if you believe in classical liberal principles of free speech, and don't believe that social media itself creates polarization/division, it simply reveals it.

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w23258

[2] http://rubenson.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/barbera-tpbw....

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11211
And for the future it will be tough to change without losing ability to create new things. If they switch their internal incentive structure to maintenance they lose the new ideas.
Which only works if haven’t hit any in-page anchor links ;) otherwise, you’d snap right back to a particular section after a refresh.
I'd sure appreciate it if Android phones got five years of support. Right now my GS8+ is relegated to quarterly security updates only, and even that is a pretty big achievement in the Android world.

It's probably time that I upgraded it, but nothing new even appeals to me anymore due to nearly all phones ditching the headphone jack, even the phablets. The "newest" phone I can find that ticks all the boxes I want (wireless charging, headphone jack, expandable memory slot) would have to be a regular S10, which is over a year old at this point.
Moving sentient malevolent trees (from Phantastes) are, AFAIK, MacDonald’s own invention. Also the depiction of the goblin kingdom under the mountain is deeply original, even though the idea itself is older. Tolkien copied both. There are other examples.
I have a hunch that the current trend of applying the actor model to everything is going to be seen as an anti-pattern in a few years. Basically the same way that microservices seemed like the cool thing a few years ago and people now are realizing there's overhead and different classes of bugs/mistakes that aren't always worth the trade-off.
This is google in a nutshell.

I lived near google for many years and knew many employees and this drives them crazy. In order to have innovation and support for a particular product, google allows engineers to do what they want until nobody wants to touch the bloated pos and everyone walks away.

Gmail has thousands of hidden functions. To get gmail built they allowed each engineer to add what they wanted...and most of it was for them personally. Remember the gmail2 thteat from a number of years ago? They couldn't figure out how to force every user into a new platform.
I would say it's not a smart switch statement, since you can bind variables.

match shape:
case Point(x, y):
...
case Rectangle(x, y, _, _):
...
print(x, y) # This works
No, it’s cloudy with an 80% chance of pain.
I actually wouldn’t be at all opposed to Apple charging, say, $30 for an iOS14 upgrade on an iPhone 6S. Seems like a fair trade off to me.
> E.g. a flat dividend isn't progressive enough for portions of the left

Huh, that's news to me. Can you point to any prominent left politicians/pundits opining that? Is it just that they prefer Green New Deal? Do they object to the "strange bedfellows" of Frank Luntz & co. (if any Republicans like it, it must be a corporate/neo-fascist plot)?

> Carbon Engineering is my moonshot hope.

Yeah, I think we'll need something like this anyway. But with our current tech, it's still orders of magnitude more efficient to not pull the carbon out of the ground in the first place. (One of my crazier/handwavium ideas: massive fail-safe thorium reactor, hundreds of miles away from any human habitation to avoid NIMBY problems, whose only job is to pull carbon out of the air.)