skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but the US has plenty of advantages over EU and EU is quite bad in some regards as well (especially with regards to equality across the EU - US is usually grouped together but people seem to be talking west Europe and Scandinavian countries when discussing EU, meanwhile I just saw a report how in eastern Europe women are doing surrogate pregnancies as a paid gig because of their living conditions ... if you travel through parts of EU like Bulgaria you'll quickly encounter some medieval living conditions)
Look into Andrew Yang's policy proposals - Ranked Choice Voting and Democracy Dollars in particular.
So for huge numbers of people in California who really don't have significant net worth, 0.4% of very little is still...very little.

Income tax seems like an overall success to me. It's not a uniform rate; it's a progressive system. So if the net worth tax ends up being applied more universally and progressively, it seem like that vast majority of people not holding on to huge fortunes really have very little to worry about.

Here's the thing about California -- people living there have gotten net-worth-wealthy from real estate, and they have been able to capture huge increases without paying appropriate property taxes (because it's such a bear to attempt to increase property taxes). This has shifted paying for state services to use-based taxes, which are as far from progressive as you get (well, not as far as social security contributions, but not far off either).

What should probably happen: Figure out a revenue neutral approach that blends a net worth tax with a reduction in sales taxes. That puts money back in the pockets of people who most need it.

Interesting experiment: What would the social security tax rate be if you didn't cap the maximum income it applies to? It's currently around 15% (individual and employer contributions combined). I have a vague memory of calculating that it would be around 4%, if you eliminated the cap (maybe that is individual-only, can't remember).

In any case, social security is a poll tax, and the money flows straight into the general fund.
As if US based companies dont snoop on data at all, dude big G and F has more data about anyone than any other company in the world.
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Isn't that "abuse" fundamentally how the whole job selection labor market works? You must attempt to ferret out vocational demands to fuffill to get paid and junp through all "selling" hoops. I can see only a few otber broad alternatives.

1. Gatekeeping "Do you have the credential for X from the system? If so first come first served for defined pay bracket.". While lower friction once done it is an informational organizing nightmare even before dealing with perverse incentives in who can work as what. Choice of credentials vs demand would still be an issue.
2. Defacto Corveé system of "You work at X and live at Y or else." Obvious issues with lack of freedom and inefficient use of human potential.
3. Agent Dynastic: Less formalized gatekeeping where the sales must be handled by an intermediary to seperate non-job relevant skills. If you can sell your own labor then it is just labor market capitalism essentially as the non-relevant skills are tautologically now job related.

I get how it sucks but I am not sure how to improve upon it without leading to the problems of the other approaches.
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The harm caused by this kind of deception is not only to the investors (or to the deceivers, when they are found out). It also increases the general background level of distrust, which harms the honest.
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That is an overkill. Measuring time between geiger detector events with 555-like counter is okay with me, it's still simple enough to be fully auditable and the bias is not so tragic.
PHP had Facebook... sorta.
I would argue that the entire corporate structure is designed like this. I've seen it in every industry I have worked in, it's a quarter by quarter slog to see some decrease in cost and increase in profit.

It's part of reason that I feel like everyone is looking for that fabled "exit" and building a sustainable business just doesn't really exist..
> I guess call me skeptical. ARM+Nvidia GPU (Tegra) already runs absolute circles around everything besides Apple.

What? No they do not. All Tegra CPUs are pretty damn lousy compared to contemporary alternatives when fit inside cellphone power envelope.
Those regions contain an unknown substance that absorb UV light. There is currently no connection to this announcement. Though one of the possible causes of those regions is that they are caused by life in Venus’ atmosphere.
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2 minute explanation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZWUCaQ_nUo

application: http://54.175.218.217/
That's because there is not much stuff in the universe, and whatever there is, tends to cluster together under gravity. But within such a cluster, if you create empty space, something will want to rush to fill it in.
If one of the purposes of relational databases is data modeling, I've always wondered why there aren't good semantics for sum types. The real world is full of them, but databases can't express them. When I bring this up, some people respond that this is the purpose of ORMs; however, this implies that we have an arbitrary bifurcation in which some of the processing happens efficiently in SQL and anything that depends on sum types has to get hoisted up and over a network to application code. Further, it allows for different clients to behave differently, possibly having different notions of what any given sum type's variants are (which leads invariably to data corruption). I really wish databases did better here, but maybe I'm missing something.
Interesting question arises - does advertising to Republicans or Democrats cost more or less than the other? Either way the mechanism would be good to level the playing field further.
Could add "... to the surprise of absolutely no one." to that headline :-).

Blekko was acquired by IBM, and as a result I worked there for 18 months as we transitioned from company to being part of IBM. That they were trying to aggressively move the "old guard" out was not much of a secret.

In their particular case I actually felt some sympathy for them because, as a 100+ year old company, a lot of long time veterans had a comfort zone around what used to work but no longer worked. I had a long, largely one-sided, conversation with a senior leader in their "Cloud" organization to try to explain how companies like Google and Facebook use and deploy data centers as essentially very large computers. But this person was so comfortable and confident in the 'enterprise data center' concepts that died with Digital Equipment and Sun Microsystems they just couldn't wrap their heads around it.

I get that, I struggle with it as well, when the world changes as fast as it does, your have to actively re-evaluate what is "canon" and what isn't. If you cannot do that, then it doesn't help you to stay in a leadership position because you will drive right into the iceberg confident in all your decisions.
I left IBM by choice to become an IBM sub-contractor. I was paid better and had better benefits. I don't really see how IBM is saving money here.
But there's no legal path for them; theoretically they're supposed to claim asylum at the border, but in practice that's not going to work for them.

Insisting on "legal route only" when the legal route is closed is just a conscience saving lie.
I’m pretty sure that this is in its core not about people being older but people being more expensive.
Wealthy car enthusiasts with a barn for their cars.
In other words "I'm not touching you..." but the adult version.
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> so I can only assume it was a real Facebook oauth flow,

another reason why we should be training users to only do oAuth in a browser with a password manager.

It's one last solid line of defence.

OAuth in a native app is a security risk.
To judge someone without context is the height of stupidity.

Imagine if we applied this proactively to ourselves:

I am certain that every single one of us are committing something that will feel atrocious to future generations. Should we have no heroes then?
What's wrong with TEXT type for postgres, mysql, etc?
In Postgres you don't need to declare a length for varchar either.
Hi bzg, I'm an ex-org-mode contributor (we've worked together in the past!) and I do strongly agree that hosting development on GitHub or GitLab encourages people and reduces friction and is what all (yes) open source projects should do. I still write emacs-lisp packages for MELPA, but I absolutely hate the way that development of packages that have been folded into emacs is hidden behind opaque mailing-list based procedures, and apparently with little code review.

Another concrete example is eglot: it is developed in the open on GitHub, which is great. But it is closely related to two other emacs packages: flymake and eldoc, which are developed via emacs-devel, or something, I've never really understood. So when changes need to be made in those packages it suddenly becomes very opaque, and I am not at all sure how much code review goes on. (This is not at all a criticism of João Távora who maintains all three I think! It is more structural and related to Emacs development in general.)

It dissuades me from contributing to emacs in general. There is nothing advantageous about reviewing code by mailing list when we have GitHub and GitLab. For those of us who use GitHub and GitLab in our day jobs for code review and collaboration, it is really baffling and frustrating. Furthermore, although the org-mode mailing list is, I am sure, just as pleasant as it always way, lists like emacs-devel are incredibly toxic and depressing to read; a bunch of men arguing just like they did over IRC in the 80s and 90s. And good god, don't ever go near the #emacs IRC channel if you're not someone of that gender from that generation!

I am sorry to say it but the emacs community has an atmosphere problem: it is common for people to be unpleasant in public. For example, the magit maintainer responded rudely, aggressively, and discouragingly to recent PRs against magit. Stallman's absurd one- or two- sentence replies. This is of course not Org-mode's fault; but I believe the future of Emacs development is to embrace GitHub / GitLab like other open source projects and leave the crusty 90s-era practices behind.
Do your friends on the similar level save more per month after all bills and taxes than you? Genuine question

PS will they be saving more in the situation where both of you had promotions?
For about the price of a 2012 DB9 or Vantage.
I doubt you could write unmaintainable insecure php code. I'm positive you could write error prone garbage in any language.
The one problem might be education on your resume. People can infer age from that generally. If you leave dates off it might also be seen that you are hiding the dates because of your age.
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>> But tons of car ads are totally CGI.

As silly as this sounds, it very well may be a cost factor - I am desperately seeking the article but I have read that car commercials actually use a highly advanced form of CGI that is incredibly, jaw-droppingly expensive.

I mean, we could assume they just wanted to be honest and show the real thing; but we obviously know they had no interest in being honest whatsoever and it was obviously designed to mislead.
The original intent of the glass bottle deposit system was not from the government at all. It was for the manufacturers to wash and reuse glass bottles.

If the issue is litter, why are glass bottles 8 cents, reusable plastic bottles 15 cents, and single use plastic 25 cents? There is no difference from an environmental standpoint whether you take your single use bottle back to the store or throw it in your recycling bin.

When the 25 cent pfand for single use was instituted, it was very clear that this was because the government wanted consumers to have to undergo the same hassle of returning plastic bottles as they did for glass bottles, otherwise, they would prefer to buy things in plastic bottles where they didn't have to haul the bottles back to the store.

The hassle is your penance for buying the single use product. Alternatively, you can throw them in the recycling bin and pay the 25 cents, but then you run into the other German religion of thriftiness. Throwing away 25 cents creates guilt, so even relatively well off Germans haul their plastic bottles back to the store.
Honda and Aston Martin both make automobiles and despite the price gap for a comparable Transportation machine, they both have customers
Yes, MSFT acquiring GitHub was like if the Pope, supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church has announced that they are taking control over CERN and promised it would remain an independent research organization.

What choice would all the scientists have in that case? They can't just say: "I'm leaving physics until someone else builds another LHC".

Until we have a better, more superior, free, open-source, public service that can do things better than GitHub, I'm afraid we'd have to play along.

But the point is not about GitHub vs. something else. It is about that Pull-Requests are preferred over mailing lists for open-source projects.
Cambridge is small enough, and cycle-friendly enough that nothing is more than 15 minutes away. Bumper-to-bumper is a choice (assuming you live reasonably near the centre)
What is your monetization strategy? How are you going to turn Gruparoo into a profitable business?
This sounds a whole lot like the "global warming couldn't possibly be our fault (because: volcanoes) so let's not change anything" line of thinking, just applied to oceans instead of the atmosphere.

In which case, we'll just end up talking past each other, so I'll wish you a good day.
There's always a limit. You either define and manage it yourself or it'll be done for you when some part of your system breaks. In the end if you actually need performance and reliability everything will have a bound (if not fixed) size and larger data will be processed as a stream, anyway.
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Fyi, fraud is notoriously hard to convict on and even when large frauds are successfully prosecuted, the penalties are quite small. The SEC also can't be seen to be "hammering entrepreneurs" or let its conviction rates drop. So why get involved?
I think it depends on the nature of the work, in biotech, contractors are generally seen as extendible, cheap, and easy to find. "consultants" are usually more expensive and they come on with more experience and more options, so they are more expensive. I think for both roles the flexibility works in different ways.
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Probably not.
They just use friction.
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It's not about specific platform. It's about accepting PRs instead of patches.
This could be neat for visualizing long term goal setting.
I'd have upgraded the recessed UPS outlets (inlets?) to be twist-lock style, something like this[1] for a more semi-permanent connection:

[1] https://www.leviton.com/en/products/3325-c

Then you don't have to worry about a "tight fit" or something dislodging (or half-dislodging) the plug.
Probably when they were on the verge of bankruptcy in 1996/97.

edit: link: https://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/the-forgotten-mic...
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The best resources for this would be the sites that talk about the marine life around nuclear power plants. I do not have links handy, but those would be good places to start.
Ask HN: If you prefer physical books, how do you read without breaking the bank?
I know tablets and e-readers are getting better all the time. But I still prefer physical books, esp if the material is technical or part of a textbook.

Please share some tips if you have any?

On a related note, would people be interested in a "book share" platform where people rent out/give away their old books for shipping fees only?

For example, I think I'd gladly pay $2-4 via media mail shipping for books that aren't available at the library yet. And maybe the book owners can receive a small "royalty" every time the book changes hands.
> Nvidia is a total powerhouse when it comes to chip design. Most people here are looking at this from the angle of "how does ARM benefit Nvidia", but I think its more valuable to consider "how does Nvidia benefit ARM". In 2020, given what we know about Ampere, I really don't think there's another company out there with better expertise in microprocessor design (but, to be fair, lets say top 3 next to Apple and AMD). Now, they have more of the stack in-house, which may help produce better chips.

In my view you have this completely backwards. I think the opposite is true and that Nvidia is not a powerhouse CPU designer at all. They make extremely impressive GPUs certainly, but that does not automatically translate to great capabilities in CPUs. In terms of CPUs they have so far either used standard ARM designs and have attempted their own Project Denver custom architecture which are not bad but have not impressed CPU wise either. In this area Nvidia would need ARM - primarily for themselves.

> The other important point is Mali, which has a very obvious and natural synergy with Nvidia's wheelhouse. Another example of Nvidia making ARM better; Nvidia is the leader in graphics, this is no argument, so their ability to positively influence Mali (whether by actually improving it, or replacing it with something GeForce) may be beneficial to the OEMs who use it.

I know you're only entertaining the thought, but the image of Nvidia shipping HDL designs of Geforce IP to Samsung or Mediatek in the short term future seems completely alien to me. Things would need to change drastically at Nvidia for them to ever do this.

Certainly Nvidia has the capabilities to sell way better graphics to the ARM ecosystem, and very likely only one line of GPUs can survive, but it just seems extremely unlike Nvidia to ever license Geforce IP to their competitors.
It's almost like a for profit health care system creates a bunch of really bad downstream effects that are a net negative to the total long term economy.
then there should a law which makes hardware and software I paid for - mine.
I agree. C++ offers a fairly good compromise between performance, low-level control and convenience. C++ strings and vectors, classes, make it much easier to implement a number of things in C++ than in C. The popularity of C++ is very much a matter of fitness for purpose.

You could write code in D or Nim, and your code might be marginally more readable, but you wouldn't have as many easily available libraries, or as much support (eg: stack overflow). It's hard to compete with the fairly good compromise that C++ offers.
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Yes. A thousand times yes.

oAuth outside a browser is just training people to be phished.
> Turns out, the type system they built guarantees 100% that type checking is undecidable (in software developer terms, you can crash the compiler by typing perfectly legal Swift code and nobody at Apple knows how to fix it without breaking existing code because they didn't even know they built a language that has this property up until very recently).

Undecidability means there's no algorithm that is guaranteed to terminate, not that any algorithm will crash. In this case, using a completion procedure to convert the same-type constraints into a confluent rewrite system should be sufficient. If completion fails an error can be diagnosed. This shouldn't break any real code in practice.
I would like to just point out, the actual bottlekneck is not the framework which many frameworks and blogs tend to put on their cover photo, but the logic, database, 3rd party APIs or other micro services. Please do look into them before optimising your framework aggressively, even if you use a framework written in Godslang and your database can answer only 5 Req/sec its no use.
As a young developer I was there, and now I speak of experience that framework Benchmarks dont workout in real world as expected. New comers beware.
Since that discussion, Applied Science did a pretty thorough video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvzWaVvB908
We use repl.it in an AP Computer Science course I co-teach. Incredible tool for students who are learning Java, allowing them to code and collaborate on their Chromebooks, no Java local setup required.

The AP CS course exercises and concepts don't require persistence of data, but this could really open up opportunities for students to create more advanced projects!
Hubert L. Dreyfus's "On Internet" contains, amongst many things, one of the most succinct overviews about how one goes from novice to expert. I highly recommend reading this short book, especially in this time of online learning:

https://cryptome.org/2013/01/aaron-swartz/On-the-Internet.pd... (PDF)

The later chapters on virtual worlds in the second edition have dated a bit, but before that, it's almost entirely gold, even though it was written so long ago.
"All of Orkney's electricity comes from wind and solar power"
Interestingly, Eno composed the startup sound for Win95: http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/08/24/the-coolest-fea...

Even more interesting is that Robert Fripp (a frequent Eno collaborator) composed the startup sound for Windows Vista: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-LYZt2jisE
From some angles it reminds me of the Sinclair C5, which probably isn’t what the designers were going for!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
Table views are the most striking example. Native table views were designed from the start to lazily load items, and so can trivially support very large lists.

The web has no APIs for this. Instead laziness is tacked on through JS, and invariably breaks find, scrolling, etc. Try scrolling to the bottom of your Chrome history: the scrollbar jumps and it's often not clear if/when you reach the bottom.
If they're serious about it, they could buy it to IPO it later.
Cambridge used to be very easy to access from mainland Europe with direct flights by Suckling Airways!

Flying low over waves of the North Sea, you were guaranteed to not be bothered by passengers sitting next to you because the noise of those 2 propellor engines made any conversation impossible.

(Funny enough, I took that flight for 30 minute meeting at ARM headquarters. Great trip: the night before was that famous England-Argentina games with David Beckham’s red card. Good times at the local bar!)
That layer of Venus’ atmosphere isn’t habitable even for Earth extremeophiles. It’s true that the pressure and temperature are similar to that of the Earth, but the only water there is contained in droplets of nearly pure sulfuric acid. No known extremeophiles can survive that.
It's still the shareholders even if debt financing is used. The shareholders, through the company, have to pay off the debt. It increases the risk of bankruptcy.

When doing a deal, it comes down to price and source of funds. Changing either can drastically change how good or bad the deal is.
The UK has a similar rule and they needed a lawsuit over whether a Jaffa cake was a cake or a biscuit.

Consumption taxes force you to choose between simplicity and progressiveness. Now, That's a great feature of a tax system if you live to exploit the loopholes.