skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because people have money now doesn't mean they're unethical for wanting some security. When the stimulus goes away the unemployment will still be there.

Owning things isn't a contribution to society. When the thing owned a limited resource like housing, owning more than you need creates artificial scarcity--this is a blight, not a contribution. As a society we're going to have to address this issue.
> I wonder if this is intentional. FP constructs are increasingly discouraged in Python, taking reduce [1] as an example.

That single comment from Guido 15 years ago, which was largely backtracked on—map and filter remain in the core library and reduce moved to a library in stdlib, lambda remains—is not really an example of something accurately described as “increasingly” now. In fact, given the backtracking, it's arguably decreasingly true from the high point of that post.
Agreed, I tweaked the wording in my post.
I think America could start by simplifying the tax code so the richest Americans/American corporations still pay taxes.

Then America could stop spending so much on subsidies and global policing.

Once America has done this (this == approach a budget more similar to the rest of the developed world), if it still needs to, then I think a simple wealth tax makes sense.

I don’t see the argument for taxing inheritance which is already fraught with loopholes and complicated edge cases.
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I doubt any of us on this forum have all the information, expertise, etc to create a fully fledged tax overhaul bill. There will always be a loophole if the people writing the bills (or influencing those writing the bills) stand to benefit. We also need to address lobbying and dark money in politics. Like everything, these issues are way more complex beneath the surface than are generally understood.
> It seems clear that they conflated "idiomatic" code with "real code" into a subjective dismissal.

No, they're dismissing it as useful for answering the questions we tend to care about when evaluating the performance of various programming languages. One such question is "If I choose a given language, how far will I be able to go with just idiomatic code before I need to invest in expensive optimizations (most of the expense here is that we're spending time optimizing instead of iterating on features)?". "Real code" is a function of this concern, so measuring it doesn't help us answer this question (i.e., if a language performs poorly on this question, "real code" will be more optimized and less idiomatic). Further, microbenchmarks don't measure "real code" either they maximally optimized code, which is what the OP was complaining about.
Alpine doesn't use a 2.4 kernel.

(In all seriousness, I am curious as well.)
There are other purposes for taxes, the most famous one being Pigovian taxes, which attempt to price negative externalities into a market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax.

The inheritance tax is not a Pigovian tax, but its purpose can also be primarily non-budgetary.
tl;dr - Perl 7.0 is going to be v5.32 but with different, saner, more modern defaults.

Perl was great 20 years ago for basic scripts. Where is it still used today who hasn't transitioned to Python/etc?
Nice! It'd be cool to support everything from PostgREST, that way people can build API-based tools on top of it and directly take advantage of the performance increases: postgrest.org/

I'm working on a...spreadsheet thing or something that requires PostgREST and it'd be really nice to simply direct the PSQL_URI configuration underneath the hood to whatever database has my data. Then there's no need for ETLing back and forth.
Not many people are getting antibody tests and they are VERY unreliable when using for extrapolation due to yup, parent commenters well put point about the hot spottiness of this virus.

So far the pandemic, in my life, has been a neurotic people power play. I can't go 10 minutes in my day without someone commenting on seeing someone without a mask or walking too close to them. I am wearing my mask as advised, but that people thing its ok to chastise others for not, is wild to me. R is below 1 in my county, and yesterday our governor decided to make not wearing a mask a misdemeanor offense with jail time. That is insane especially in this justice system environment.
While agree with you that google has been dropping the ball, you've got to use the online version of Office 365, it is awful. Like shockingly terrible. Gsuite is 10x better, no exaggeration. Apple's online office stuff is equally a joke. Google blew a 10 year lead but lucky for them, the other possible large competitors are doing even worse.
> This is absolutely absurd

This adds nothing to the discussion.

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

Well, that's literally the question at hand. You don't get to just say that it is so. A dead person's wealth belonged to them, but they are dead. They can't vote, they can't apply for loans, and, the parent is arguing, they can't arbitrarily pass their money to whoever they choose. They could have, while alive, but now they are dead.

> 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?

This is just some weird non-sequitur. No one's doing any vilifying, and Parent is arguing that it is societies business (and incidentally, given that an estate tax exists, society currently agrees with the parent poster)
Pretty much all economists agree that a wealth tax is conceptually better than an income tax for all the reasons you described, but a tax has to be practical to implement. Wealth taxes would be an endless source of problems: how much is this yacht worth, how much is this painting [which sold on the open market only once, 50 years ago] worth, how much is this opaque financial instrument worth, etc. Wealthy people would be dragging the government into court endlessly to fight tooth and nail over every last valuation. Income taxes are an imperfect proxy for wealth taxes but much easier to implement, so that's what we do.
I'm not a criminal (for the most part[0]). Nor am I a police officer. Why should I have a gun?

[0] WTF is a "criminal" anyways? I use illegal substances sometimes. I drive above the speed limit (like everyone else does) most of the time. Back when I played poker on US sites I didn't pay taxes on my winnings even though I should have. I can think of a ton of examples where I simply do not follow the law and so according to the definition of the word I am a criminal.
And yet the stock is at $1400+ this morning. I wonder if you did a survey and described Google without using the name Google, IE: single line of business responsible for 90%+ of revenue, limited switching costs for consumers, regularly kills products consumers like, would anyone think this is a stock worth holding? What weird times we live in.
The pricing page is hilarious:

Explorer: $0

Adventurer: $5

Enterprise: MONEY
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With most technologies, there's a saturation point after which improvements are mostly incremental. For iPhones the saturation point was the 6S. For iPads it was the iPad Air 2.

The 6S is the lowest model that contact tracing apps will run on, and of course the oldest phone the latest iOS will support.

I switched from the 6S to 11 last Christmas, and most of the improvements I noticed were largely incremental -- apart from a handful of things like FaceID and the camera which were significantly better. Ok, the battery is a lot better too. But the 6S didn't feel obsolete at all -- it felt like a current generation phone -- because it was running current generation software.

My iPad Air 2 runs the latest iPadOS and still works great -- not sure when I'll make the jump to a newer iPad.

p.s. the only thing the iPad Air 2 lacks support for is Apple Pencil. But now that I'm into fountain pens and high quality notepads, I don't really miss it. Also if I need to create Martin Kleppmann-esque hand-drawn architecture diagrams -- which I do occasionally -- I just use any number of rubber-tipped styluses (many inexpensive options on Amazon) with the Sketches app. Gets the job done.

Kleppmann himself uses Fifty Three and Maglus styluses I believe. I'm way cheaper -- I just use the styluses that I get as swag from tech conferences.
See

https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

and

https://ontology2.com/essays/ClassifyingHackerNewsArticles/

Later on I built a workflow system for handling a job application workflow based on the same principles. The first article was a big hit on HN (e.g. a good use of the "No True Scotsman" trope) but the second has never really appealed to people for some reason.
May 20 his reality hits home, experiment ended. HN is the best and only decent forum for tech on the internet that isn't overrun with garbage posts and comments being jammed down my eye holes by an "ai" "ad" negative feedback loop machine.

Thanks for being great HN!

Maybe the key points are

- single shared feed

- all post start out equal*

- no following or social features other than comments

* HN companies have some special privileges
The comment was not edited. Perhaps you realized how silly your first attempt at shutting down discussion was, and then tried another baseless and ineffectual dismissal.
It's greenwashing because it's not obvious, and the wording is deliberately deceptive. An accurate description would give readers the relevant facts, not assume they can figure out the hidden catch.
My family trees actions included such egregious sins as being immigrants (fight a generation to survive), and then the next generation fighting to send their kids to college, that generation fighting to learn what tf this world even is, and then me and my brothers learning from mistakes / growing up in the environment where you’d have exposure to know. So you basically have a system that takes 4 generations to get into “just do the right thing” and I think that’s not altogether uncommon.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is born to great inherited wealth and manages to, on basis, generate terrible returns on it, and is still labeled “a success” and is still wealthy. In fact we installed extra safety nets to make sure that someone that rich couldn’t hit the pavement, and even built in a back-up job as president for them. That same person ends a family tree in generation 2 or 3.
Terrorism isn't an infectious disease.
ciarannolan says "Doctors at the NIH, scientists at the Department of Energy, biologists at USAMRIID, etc etc etc. All bad at their jobs?"

Yes. See the book "Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us" by David H. Freedman. Meanwhile...

"No lesson seems to be so deeply inoculated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts."

- Lord Salisbury
I agree this would be a challenge, but you can limit the percentage of a person's wealth that can be transferred out of the country. It won't be easy, but I still think taxing wealth (or a wealth tax combined with lighter income taxation) would be much more equitable than our current system.
Craven appeasement.
Absolutely, their website is simply garbage. Their niche in my world is use with disability services and accommodations in colleges. Notetakers will use their pens to take notes for folks who need that service, and then send the transcription to the student in question. They're nice because you can record the lecture to accompany notes for classes where the context of the notes is important (higher level math and english especially). You can then play-back the notes as they're written down along with the audio. Super handy for that.

I started using one just to test it for our students. They're not getting mine back.

It's nice because you can change the weight and color of the ink electronically, highlight, and record audio to go along with it. It uses bluetooth to your phone, where you can transcribe, add tags to filter and search, and generally organize your notes in a very short amount of time. You can edit your writing on the computer or on your phone, so you can remove sensitive notes for individual people and share the page with very little work. It automatically recognizes separate notebooks and organizes them appropriately. It can integrate to my calendar; that way calendar events are added automatically if I write them on the notebook paper. The same for contacts via e-mail or phone - it can automatically add them to your contacts if you write them down. You can e-mail several file types straight from the pen using an e-mail link on the physical paper (small picture of an envelope). It can automatically backup to several cloud providers as well. There are picture editing and video illustration options as well, but I am not familiar with them.

They're pretty intuitive. My handwriting is garbage and it does a good job of learning what I'm writing based on the first few pages of transcription changes that I've made.

I use mine for all meetings and notes in my day-to-day. It is invaluable for those of us with garbage memories. I assign my team tasks in different colors and send the .pdf page out when necessary.

100% their website is crap.
> You may be saving substantial amounts of capital and yet still live paycheck to paycheck.

I agree.

> That says nothing

I disagree.

It says a ton. We can look at stagnant wages, we can look at rising rent costs, we can look at increasing student debt, we can look at increasing consumer debt, we can look at low money velocity, we can look at rising healthcare costs, and we can look at a 20% unemployment rate.

All those things plus the 3/4 number I gave paints a grim picture.
1970's. The limit on what you could leave to a spouse was low enough that during a period of rapid inflation it got badly out of whack with farm land values. It caught main-street businesses, too.
I don't. I've never actually tried VR. :)
Although they haven't evolved much in recent years, I still find most Gsuite apps to actually be quite good. What is terrible is Drive itself. File management is just a joke with Drive.
> The issue of face recognition algorithms performing worse on dark faces is a major problem.

This needs to be coupled with the truth that people (police) without diverse racial exposure are terrible at identifying people outside of their ethnicity. In the photo/text article they show the top of the "Investigative Lead Report" as an image. You mean to say that every cop who saw the two images side by side did not stop and say "hey, these are not the same person!" They did not, and that's because their own brains' could not see the difference.

This is a major reason police forces need to be ethnically diverse. Just that enables those members of the force who never grew up or spent time outside their ethnicity can learn to tell a diverse range of similar but different people outside their ethnicity apart.
And yet the (probably apocryphal) Henry Ford quote "If I had asked what my customers what they wanted they would have said faster horses" stands in counterpoint.

Talk to your customers, but leave room for your vision. If the customers knew the answer it wouldn't be a problem.
> They have some things they keep on improving. I think youtube is there...

I mostly use YouTube to watch series - PBS Space Time, World War Two, Crash Course etc. YouTube is absolutely horrible at navigating through these series - it is difficult to find where you left, it is difficult to find the next episode, there is absolutely no user comfort.
> Like I said, people with $23MM net worth aren't influencing national elections with their wealth, though.

That's not the definition of "upper class".
The DNS already supports NOTIFY, which is a push notification for updates to a zone (this is something set up by the operators of the auth servers, typically for mirrors/secondaries so that they know when to request a zone transfer); the alternative, polling, requests the SOA RR for a zone and compares serial numbers.

Didn't give it a detailed read, but this looks like a more granular proposal, an example given being printer discovery.
I highly doubt this. It might be, might be, a majority. But there are lots of academic, personal, and even business cases that are digital only or digital mostly.
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Wow. Apple seems to have gone out of their way over the years to not provide their own actual MDM service, or even a server for people to host themselves.

"We look forward to continuing to deliver Fleetsmith to existing and new customers." sure sounds like the service will stay open, AKA this is not Apple's usual acqui-hire and shut down the company.
Are you running your own hardware or on top of a bigger cloud?

If it's your own hardware, where is the datacenter and how many do you have?
Yep, Hacker News might be the only online forum that has customer service!
I'd definitely remove it, it does not come off as a joke.
I think it was really Perl 6 that killed it. Perl had a significant lead over Python, and the Perl 6 announcement just sucked the life out of it.
Does Google's project manager interview panel have a reputation for rigor, or is this just the engineering panel reputation rubbing off?
It's a rule of thumb. No, not every costless product is monetizing your use of it. FOSS is especially counter to this rule.

In the case of web-based tools that are owned and operated by big advertising companies, I think it's a fairly safe bet. As always, think critically about each instance and consider the implications of the software and products you use.
I used to work for a company that used Perl as their primary language.

The codebase was millions of lines long, modules (pm files) with like 1000 methods and 10,000 lines, a total mess and it had 0 unit tests too. Almost beyond salvageable. Left a bit of a sour taste.

They're trying to migrate to AWS but AWS don't even natively support Perl in their libraries. There's a few third party libraries in CPAN but nothing as comprehensive as what's available with official libraries for other languages.

Nothing against the language but I don't know why you wouldn't use literally anything else nowadays. Python or PHP, JavaScript or even Ruby if you're looking for a dynamically typed language. AWS don't even support Perl.
It's really beautiful, and such a wonderful project. I must say though that I always have a hard time not hearing the differences (mostly in timing) to the Gould recordings (55 being my go-to). Thank you for sharing!
Interesting point, I think I could get behind this way of thinking. Normally, I'd prefer to be taxed mostly on consumption (sales tax, VAT, etc), so my views were that inheritance tax should be lowered - the heirs will be taxed when they spend what they got anyway (or they can sit on the unused pile of cash, fine)1. Unfortunately, society seems to equate rich with smart, hard working, or deserving in some other way, and that is not really the case with people that got their money from their parents.

1) This assumes there are no tricks around inheriting assets that have unrealized gains, I don't know how this works in the US.

EDIT: fixed (?) asterisk.
EDIT2: replaced asterisk with 1, cannot figure out how to escape it.
Earn a living is taxed. Groceries and clothing are taxed (in my state at least). Homes are taxed. Investing your hard earned savings back into our economy is taxed.

Getting a large sum of money from your extremely wealthy parents is also taxed.

Why is the last of these things less deserving of being taxed than the ones before it? If anything, it should be the other way around.
Congrats on a successful SV pump and dump! The feeling of joy from cashing out on retail investors is hard to beat.
I think only a very small percentage of the population would retire if estate taxes were increased even substantially.
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Nodejs is very fast, because it uses an an engine that has had multiple millions of dollars thrown at it to make it fast. Most interpreted languages don't fare well against it.

Perl fares somewhat favorably against Python, Ruby and PHP though. Those are what I would consider equivalent languages to compare against to get a general idea of its speed.
I've been thinking of migrating my blog back to text only. When I was a student I kept a "blog" as a list of HTML files that I manually updated. I've been using Wordpress for the past ~15 years and am growing weary of having to keep up with plugin, theme or CMS updates. My blog is not worth this much effort to maintain, I just want a place to share essays and occasional photos. I need time to make the switch, but the simplicity of text only format is attractive.
I immediately checked it, it has good translation for some languages (specificaly German), but definitely does not blow GT out of water, it is on par at best for a few languages for translation quality. Besides,

- It has only a handful of languages

- No OCR / photo support

- No speech / conversation support.

IMO, as is, it is way inferior to GT. But it is good to have competition in this area as there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Feinstein is widely despised by progressives for, among other things, being a hawk. That she would also be anti-freedom here is not a huge surprise.
This is extremely impressive, but 1. It's a cherry picked demo (no paper has come out yet), and 2. This isn't really what I mean by "novel programming task".

I'm thinking more in line the type of questions you might get in competitive programming.
I think the gp was making the same point via sarcasm.
I'd also assume that for the families who don't squander their resources in three generations indicates they are actually good with money. And as a family probably make wise investments that support the economy in a healthy way.

So we don't need estate tax because 1) most families will spend it all frivously anyway 2) the ones who don't are likely the best custodians of wealth in a nation
Probably because those are not really monopolies.

People like to conflate being popular (having large marketshare) with being a monopoly (exclusive control of supply). Being popular in those markets is likely because they do not monetize it directly.
> Zoom lets you use your speakers while Meet requires everyone to use a headset

Really? Is that restriction on desktop or mobile? I've been using speaker mode on meet(mobile) for a while now. Or is it implicitly imposed by you due to lack of noise cancelling features?
yes, but saying otherwise would hurt the narrative that only tech can critique tech.
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If I get it right, the title could as well be "new edge automatically imports user data from Firefox"
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I think the problem with those devices is more that security updates for the OS itself aren't released anymore, not that new apps don't work.

My mom doesn't have a lot of apps installed on her phone, just something like maps, the local transit provider app and whatsapp. She sometimes browses the web.

I actually installed LineageOS on her phone a while ago, but I think even that isn't updated anymore (for her particular model).
This seems similar to self-driving cars where people hold the computer to much higher standards than humans. I don't have solid proof, but I suspect that using facial recognition with a reasonable confidence threshold and reasonable source images is more accurate than eyewitness ID. If for no other reason than the threshold for a positive eyewitness ID is laughably bad.

The current best practice is to have a witness pick out the suspect from 6 photos. It should be immediately obvious that right off the bat there's a 17% chance of the witness randomly picking the "right" person. It's a terrible way to do things and it's no surprise that people are wrongly convicted again and again on eyewitness testimony.