skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved from making AAA games to other parts of the software industry in 2005. It is not "just like any other industry". The working conditions were bad/abusive, very open sexism, lots of young inexperienced employees (like myself at the time) who don't realize what's going on is not the norm elsewhere. I got paid in a class action settlement against one of my employers. I don't get the impression anything has changed.

Leaving games got me: cooler/more interesting work, much better pay, dramatically better work conditions. I never again experienced anything at the level of the unpleasantness of working for a game studio.
I assume you're on Android. Is there a way to use uBO on iOS? Last I checked there wasn't.
>Windows 10 can install on a typical 2005 PC? I'd be surprised if that's the case.

I had it on a 2006 Sony VIAO laptop until last year. It ran better than Windows 8 with 2GB of RAM. Slow without an SSD, but tolerable as downloader/media server.

Some of the OEM drivers (bluetooth, fingerprint scanner etc.) had stopped working in Windows 8 (it was an XP laptop that I upgrade to 7 onward) because Sony stopped supporting them.

The hilarious thing was that in Windows 10 those started working again with builtin drivers from Windows.

I could probably have kept the laptop around longer, but I went on an ecycling binge last year and got rid of a lot of tech crap that was just lying around.
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/

Is full of people with long duration recovery periods.

Caveats are that only people with long duration symptoms would find that place and post there. Also, it could just be something else that the person is blaming on their Covid diagnosis.

Given the volume of posts on long term recoveries, it seems likely that there's more impact than a normal get-sick-for-3-days flu.
When I first bought an iPhone (iPhone 5, I was a slow learner), Android's track record with updates was terrible but Google/ Samsung/ etc said it was going to get better and promises were made. I was skeptical and bought the iPhone. Every year since then, it seems like more promises and efforts get made by the Android crowd but it's never gotten more than marginally better and only for the top end phones.

There are other reasons I don't use Android, but this was very distinctly the single reason I bought iOS initially and I've never regretted it.
I agree there is a problem with private corporations that control publishing platforms with such a large reach. Twitter and Facebook are really the only ones at the moment with that power (in the "anglosphere" at least).

However, for laws to be created that force them to publish posts that fall under "free speech" their algorithms must be fully open and auditable. Otherwise they still hold the power to sensor, or their algorithms could be covertly gamed by those in the know.

Otherwise your speech might not be the same, or as free as mine, but who would know?
I've just bought an iPhone 6S second hand with a new battery. I don't know how fast they used to be, but I've not noticed anything being slow. Animations are silky smooth, and app loading times seem fast too.
There's a strange cognitive dissonance in how Google is both the most prestigious company that can employ you, and a maker of crappy, second-rate software. It seems like they can't both be simultaneously true.
Because they spent their entire life sacrificing for their children's benefit. They poured blood, sweat, and tears into their business. The parents presumably followed the laws and paid all the taxes they were legally obligated to pay.
Indeed. People like me care when a new phone has 20% more performance because that might mean the difference between being able to emulate a particular game console or not. I can't see why anyone else would care.
I've dipped into Gemini to see if it was worth adding to my gopher client[1], but the defined spec is vague and barely complete. I subscribed to their mailing list, and it's really busy - the spec is clearly in flux and developing rapidly.

I'm going to keep an eye on it though.

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[1] http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...
lol, this thread almost entirely gray. I'd love to hear from the downvoters about what is so intolerable about this very mild, respectful, and on-topic conversation...
Clearly you didn't read the article, otherwise you'd know that even slight increases in this tax would fund important public services. You'd also know that the U.S. has among the lowest levels of class mobility among developed nations. People born rich stay rich; people born poor stay poor.
> 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.

So you know that a) you will pay zero taxes under current law even if you received fifty times as much money and b) you'd pay zero taxes under the proposal in the article and yet c) you still use yourself as an example of someone who would pay taxes. Do I have it right?
I Am a Hacker
> I suppose I am privileged enough to do OSM contributions in my spare time. I'm not sure how to feel about that...

You should feel proud and good imo. At least, I am proud of you that you choose to spend time contributing to something valuable.
I have the same problem, but I suspect the true cause is sharing a folder structure with other people, without defining/enforcing any conventions on organization.
I'll be honest. It's true that it makes Android look a bit bad, at least the ecosystem. But this only matter in the iOS world, where the the whole park always move to the latest version, and you're required to get the latest version. Because on android, you can still download apps from the PlayStore for an Android KitKat. On iOS, if you're 2 versions behind, your device is getting pointless.
S3 Object Lifecycle Optimization
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Are you willing to say that YC isn’t creating anything value?

Both Android and iOS were the results of acquisitions of unprofitable VC funded companies. How many people who participate on HN are employed by a VC funded, unprofitable company? How many startup founders right here or desperately trying to get VC funding?

Every major feature of the iPhone is the result of an acquisition - multitouch, fingerprint sensors, Face ID, Siri, maps, chip design, Shortcuts, etc.
I didn't say he ought to; I said that if he were to self-disclose, there'd be little damage that could occur to his effectiveness as a clinician, contrary to what he claimed.

Further, to cite that as his first reason for wanting to remain pseudonymous is odd, because it's flimsy for the reasons I cited. His second reason (that he's gotten death threats) is much more compelling, and to me is all he needs to make a good argument here. Why sully it with things like this?
This seems like an attempt to side-track a discussion on individual wealth (and inherited wealth) with complete irrelevancies.

The Federal budget, nor how many people move into/out of a definition, have anything to do with this topic. Discussing it won't add anything, nor does its existence undercut the problem raised in any meaningful way.
Tax/regulation and liberty need to be balanced for a society to remain civilized. I think the attitude you're expressing is one of the most dire challenges to achieving that.
I was looking for something like this for so long, I started writing my own. This is an awesome program, thank you for releasing it publicly!
I had a 6S Plus until earlier this year when the port went on the fritz and car play started acting erratically. That was pretty much my sole reason for upgrading.

Performance wasn’t great for a while but after the whole battery kerfuffle last year I took it into the store to get the battery replaced for $30 and it felt like a brand new phone after that.
Wasn't Project Treble created a few years back to solve this problem? I'm wondering what the current state of it is, because I haven't seen the effects of it yet.
Right...which is consistent cause the "AI" doesn't have volition.
The engineers made some great improvements under the hood. But the product decisions are a disaster.

This would be a good reply anytime someone goes the generalist 'Microsoft does this and that and that and that and it's all bad' way. I've always found it somewhat strange how many people don't seem to realize there's x different divisions within Microsoft, and that's it's somewhat unfair to call all of it crap just because some lame in-your-face management-crap. Not that the latter is acceptable, but as you say: other divisions have been doing some neat things for the past decades..
You can jailbreak it and mess with it however you want.
Unofficially of course.
In our society censorship doesn't occur by blunt order, but rather follows some justifying narrative. Based on the reporting I've read, I'm guessing these "innocent people" are police officers who should already be subject to extreme transparency by virtue of their position. Any specific standard starts off being used to punch up to harassers and the like, but then gets internalized by the status quo and used to routinely punch down.

No way to tell without looking at the source material though, which is the entire problem. Guess it's time to track down the torrent.
Based on this comment I checked out their website... and holy crap is it awful. The "Description" is just a video, there's no explanation of the difference between the different pens, all the different kits are confusing, it just seems like a mess.

Please tell me the experience of using the pen(s?) is better than the site?
I think AV-98 has a setting or function for dumping the raw results of a gemsite.

But I think the main reason there's no example is because there's very little to show. Just make a text document and if you need to link to something you use the Gemini method of
=> URL title text

There's a few other things in the spec that are considered hints for clients (using # as headers, * for numbered lists) but those aren't even guaranteed to be rendered by the client as anything but plain text.
This is such a well written review!
Let's not forget that had gtalk, which could have dominated easily. Over ten year lead wasted on that one.
I'm actually surprised how many people on this board are given so much and are still so selfish. I suppose I answered my own question.
didn't slash/dot the zero???
> None of that money is yours anymore, because you no longer exist. We, as a society, are free to decide with what's left of you and your belongings.

This is absolutely absurd. Your belongings and wealth belong to your estate and as the owner of it you decide how it should be distributed.

All your doing is using your disdain of wealthy people to advocate theft.

> Once you're dead, why should they be any more important than any other person?

Because it's none of your business. Why on earth are you vilifying people for wanting to pass down their hard-earned money to their children?
$23M net worth puts you squarely in the top 1%. I'm not sure how anyone can claim that's middle class.

That there's a rarefied 0.01% doesn't make everyone else middle class; it just means we've got a small (numerically, at least) tier of ultra-wealthy.
The step-up in basis is super useful though, because you can't ask the decedant what their cost basis was, and it's not always easy to find that out (especially if their record keeping was poor).

The current exemption amounts are rediculous though. Something closer to $1M with inflation adjustment and a lein/payment plan option for illiquid assets such as the family business/farm would make a lot more sense.
Yeah, TBH I think that more file systems should be mounted as RO by default, and only moved to RW during an operation then restored to RO post system activity.

It would get rid of shitty Mac application documentation that rather than installing itself in correct locations, has troubleshooting steps like:

> Just chown your entire `/` to your current user and `chmod +w *`...

Until Atomic installations become the norm like SilverBlue its probably a good step.
We recently switched from Meet back to Zoom, because Zoom lets you use your speakers while Meet requires everyone to use a headset.

Zoom does some kind of active noise-cancelling where it will avoid picking up whatever the person on the other end just said, preventing the echo effect. Meet doesn't, it picks up everything. So if you use a speaker, everything the other person says gets repeated back at them.

When Meet recently announced noise-cancelling, we got really excited, only to be disappointed when they were referring to cancelling of background noises and not of participants.
Mine does. I agree wholeheartedly with the parent commenter.

My personal G Drive looks similar to yours. It looks like your Drive is mostly used by you, and not many (if any) other collaborators. The problem is that my work G Drive is an utter clusterfuck because of the numerous different ways that documents can be shared between people/teams. There are shared folders, shared drives, individually shared documents, and probably more. And each one of them shows up in a completely different place than the others.

If you're working with one specific team, you can likely get that entire team to conform to one way of doing things (everyone puts documents in this shared folder). But once you start involving 10s/100s of teams, thousands of individuals, etc... some teams use "Shared drives" (which show up on the left panel under "Shared drives"), some teams use shared folders (which show up in your folders list), some teams use individually shared documents (which show up in any number of random places, with the only reliable way of getting back to it is to find the email where they shared it with you). Some teams use shared drives internally within their team, but because they don't want to share the entire drive with an outside collaborator, they will share only a specific folder/file. The entire sharing mechanism becomes a mess and impossible to track and keep organized.

G drive is nice in many aspects, but the sharing is one in which IMO it allows far too much flexibility. The nice thing about file systems of yesteryear like Sharepoint (ugh, ew) is that they at least said "this is the folder tree. use it, because you don't have any choice" which at least encouraged some modicum of structure. G Drive instead says "here's a sandbox, do what you want" which sounds nice in theory, but in practical use is a mess when you have 1000+ people building their own personal sandcastle.
For assets not taking advantage of the step up basis in New York (e.g. small business profits) the tax rate would be ~50% federal and state in the year earned, plus 56% federal and state when you pass. That's an overall rate of 78%... I'm not sure "reduced" is the right word here.
Also a bit of a false dichotomy with a strict mapping of programming languages and paradigms. OOP can happen in C, though the language's affordances aren't great for it. Same with functional programming in Java... Some languages have OK affordances for all of the above, but not great for any one.
Indeed! In this case it's the integrity and friction of the soil (of the hill) that's keeping the potential energy contained, and this hill soil is "free".
> Those are not 2005 specs, those were easily around in 2000.

It's harder to look up RAM numbers, but AMD launched a 1600MHz CPU (and a few others above 1GHz) in 2001.
Unless it’s stock in e.g. a 401k or IRA.
I hope that we could carve out exemptions for first-generation wealth. Reparations may never happen in the US, but if a family went from slavery to wealth in a few generations, perhaps the least we could do is exempt them from the inheritance tax. Maybe this is a controversial take, I don’t know, but it seems like it might make a small step towards lessening inequality.
They money I used to buy a candy bar is post-tax dollars dollars, but I still pay sales tax on it. They money I use to pay for a taxi ride are post-tax dollars, but the taxi driver still pays income tax on it. When I sell that stock I bought with post-tax dollars, I still pay capital gain taxes on the profits.

Post-tax dollars aren't magical things that mean you never pay taxes again. They're just an accounting tool that makes dealing with some tax-exempt activities easier.
Marry someone young before you die, give them the wealth tax-free.

That is a loophole which is extremely hard to close.
Of all the things that matter in poker knowing the exact probabilities is not all that important.
People have already started appearing in various chronic illness forums around the world with what sounds very much like ME/CFS after having caught Sars2. The official diagnosis takes at least 6 months of having the symptoms and its notoriously badly diagnosed throughout the world due to the incredibly flawed PACE study that painted it as a physchological disease.

Doctors need to be quickly educated on the known blood bio marker combination (igG, lymocytes 2% and antibody complexes all abnormal) until the Stanford nano needle salt stress test is developed and released. They need to ensure patients are put onto a pacing regime which will slow the rate at which they get worse.

Many epidemics have caused ME/CFS "outbreaks" and it has no treatment and almost no research has even been done. 5% of people recover but some also die, most are broken for life. Doctors often think its diabetes as it presents with similar systemic issues but the insulin tests usually come up fine. Its critical they do immune system and full thyroid tests and get the diagnosis and the treatment correct early as each over exertion will permenantly degrade their patients energy levels.
You are not just better at noticing it. It really is more slanted.

Journalism 20-30 years ago was mostly funded on a subscription model. In this model they work hard to maintain their reputation, so that people will trust them as an accurate source of news.

Journalism today is mostly funded per click. Which means that the most important thing is a headline that grabs people's attention and causes them to click. The incentive is for the most outrageous and attention grabbing headline possible. With no incentive for being accurate - by the time you realize that the article is junk they've been paid and are looking for another sucker.

If you're interested in a book length exposition of how this change in dynamics has changed the news landscape, I recommend https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Me-Lying-Confessions-Manipulato.... The trends that it discusses have played out for another decade since it was written, but played out along the direction that it described.
Yes, on my main work machine. MBP13, 2018.

Once you don't use browsers for everything, the machine is cooler and more responsive.

Seriously feels as if I bought new hardware.

I close Safari when not using it, same for all other browsers (have Brave, Chrome, ...).
What was the justification behind this law? Was it meant as some kind of consumer protection?
> To treat them as independent variables is to ignore the whole history of race in the US.

Presumably the coupling of the variables is not binary (dependent or independent) but variable (degrees of coupling). Presumably these variables were more tightly coupled in the past than in the present. Presumably it's useful to understand precisely how coupled these variables are today because it would drive our approach to addressing these disparities. E.g., if the variables are loosely coupled then bias-reducing programs would have a marginal impact on the disparities and the better investment would be social welfare programs (and the inverse is true if the variables are tightly coupled).
> I don't know how fast they used to be.

That's the problem. :)

I'm also on a 6S and Apple has kept it quite speedy! But, I was playing with a 2016 iPhone SE on iOS 9 about a year ago, and I could instantly tell it was snappier than my 6S on iOS 12.
It might pay for some federal arts programs though
Intel quietly launches 15TB Ruler SSDs
I can attest to the difference. I've worked in consulting and directly for companies, both more and less evil.

There is a palpable difference from company culture to culture.

If you work at a place where (a) you disagree with your company's ethical and moral standards and/or (b) you feel purported standards rarely influence actual decisions, then there are absolutely companies not like that.

Sure, you still have to deal with HR stuff, anti-union posturing, and sharp business practices. But fundamentally, it feels different.

I'd say most companies can be binary classified into "value their values" or "ignore their values".
On April 20, 2019, discussing the Wall Street Journal's coverage of Executive 1, Executive 1 texted to Executive 2, "F[xxx] them. The journal is next on the list after [Victim 1]."

Uhh...
https://3pic.github.io/money

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
Writing, Reading, Writing
Chaps my hide with broke journalist mentality:
"This means that 40 percent of why some Americans are extraordinarily well off has nothing to do with smarts, hard work, frugality, lucky gambles or entrepreneurial ingenuity. It is simply because they were born to rich parents."

In the US at least, it isn't hard if in lower middle class or above to invest small sums over long periods to get large amounts. It is simply that they are not doing it, or do not know why one should. To blame that one's own parents or grandparents did not do it, yet anothers did is victim blaming another's actions when they should look at their own descendants action.
I think it's more the fact that gaming is a "cool" industry like fashion, music, acting, comedy (but on a smaller scale, obviously) where the demand for roles outstrips supply and so it's easier for people to abuse their position to demand "favours" to help people get ahead.

I'd imagine there is less of this for people competing to be java developer #128 at EnterpiseSoftware Co LTD.
The App Store still supports older iOS builds.
This sounds cool but one bit of feedback in terms of prioritization

> DetAI (pretty soon) – No-code neural nets to auto-fix bugs before they happen.

I (and I suspect others as well) don't really need no-code auto-fixes for code. What I want is simple workflows for training WYSIWYG AI models. I'm not interested in writing python to express the model's computation graph. All I want are some blocks that I can glue together into a tensor graph and then deploy it for training and inference.
I don't really think it is that cut and dry.

Case in point, a similar bill (as I understand it) - The EARN IT Act was spearheaded by the same people as this bill, plus Dianne Feinstein (Democraft of CA):

"The EARN IT Act was introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (Republican of South Carolina) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Democrat of Connecticut), along with Sen. Josh Hawley (Republican of Missouri) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Democrat of California) on March 5."

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/3/12/21174815/earn-i...

Also:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/17/earn-m17.html
Would be interesting to see what would happen if the tax were increased. Would there be a mass transfer before it went into affect? I wonder how the current age categories of wealth accumulation compare with previous generations.
How the US military has failed to address white supremacy in its ranks
Why do I need to show you that?
Absolutely, and it should be taxed as unearned income for the recipient above some reasonable level - perhaps the median per household annual income.
GRR Martin still writes in DOS with WordStar:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502
I don’t currently understand the additional security from bastion hosts. Yes you can have them short lived. But if someone cracks the bastion it’s not very good for security.

I think it’s better with VPN plus SSM.
I don't think this article is about the 1%. It's about the 0.01%. In many cases, that wealth is inherited, hence not correlated with age.
Wealth is already taxed, which paid off the debt to society. Grabbing what is left after someone dies is just theft.