skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that the "gut-and-replace" wealth tax happened in the first place is a problem. Rob Bonta then gets on TV and justifies it ensuring no one with substantial assets will come here.

Income tax at 13% is enough to encourage some founders not to come here. 16% will be worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrEK5hgr3vY
Worth mentioning the very popular 1960 self-help book “Psycho-Cybernetics”, by Maxwell Maltz. Predates Doctor Who’s Cybermen as a mainstream use of the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Cybernetics
You really think that this phenomenon only happens on one side of the political aisle? I can’t relate to any worldview where that situation is possible.
UX designer here who read all the cereal boxes. Still a compulsive reader, and the internet makes this a dangerous trait.
Sure, because the Times is a newspaper and the Hoover Institute is a think tank. Part of the mission of a think tank requires having people with real world experience in government. I don’t think that’s a good proxy of whether the work is politically biased (rather than ideologically biased). Arguably, the Times is more overtly politically biased with its new “moral clarity” angle.
What is your definition of intelligence?
I have no skin in the game (though no love for the current version of the GOP, either) and actually read the thing, along with their sources. I’d like to think I’d be critical of another fact-free rant after wasting time on it, regardless of the slant.
That's not anti-US sentiment, it's satire critiquing the "all lives matter" crowd. Everyone who posts that message still thinks that 9/11 is a national tragedy - in fact, that's why the comparison to "all lives matter" is apt.
So what you're saying is California can continue its current policies and be just fine?
Everyone is making the usual Oracle joke once again... but Oracle owns BlueKai, one of the largest data collection companies.
That is the answer.
TikTok will feed straight into BlueKai.
That data is the value it'll add to their company.
That's my beef with this report too. Business leave and come all the time. It's important to clarify how many are created in the same period, and what types of business left/prospered.

As much as I wish California had a better check and balance in its government and particularly policies, the report does not necessarily show that California has lost its way.
So companies leaving have nothing at all to do with how the state is run?

You don't think that the housing policy of California has any impact on companies struggling to hire because of housing costs? Because it definitely impacts the Bay Area company I work for.
You're missing the point. Their bias doesn't come from whether they've literally worked in the White House, it comes from their political beliefs and how strongly those beliefs are held. How many in the NYT vocally support the Republican Party vs vocally support the Democratic Party?
If that's the question you're pondering in order to decide whether or not to switch, you basically have no reason to switch yet. Stick with Node.

However, if you've gotten more and more annoyed with Node's legacy method of requiring modules (because it predates modern modules) and legacy method of dealing with asynchronous code (because it predates promises and async/await), then you already know why Deno might -once it's matured a bit, because it's super early days still- be worth your time.
Imagine 10k years in the future. 2 aliens arrive on earth, and examine the rubble. "Hey, check it out. They were right on the cusp of developing stardrive". "Weird, what happened? Nuclear war? Climate change?" "Nah, looks like they just couldn't work the math out, so they gave up."
If they start restricting arm licenses or attaching other requirements to the license...
Reasonable guess, although I think it would be impossible to guarantee that no data is going back to China.
It's media owners who decide the direction of their holdings, not the lowly reporter on the beat.
It was actually named after the butler from Scooby Doo (Hudson was named after Angus Hudson, the butler from Upstairs, Downstairs)
This trouble for Facebook and well anyone attempting to combat misinformation is that the falsehood can be created in seconds. The clever ones are designed to be hard to fully disprove, or at least seem that way.

Everyone else has to then scramble and spend hours, days or more gathering evidence to prove lies are incorrect. It's a denial of truth attack that is impossible to police fairly on a time scale that matters.
It would still exist in the same universe subject to the same laws of thermodynamics, and would still extract energy from fusion stars in a way that leaves an unmistakable technology signature.
They have a free tier that I’ve heard people will run matrix instances on. It seemed somewhat generous.
Where I am it's largely dominated by Java and .NET with bits of other languages here and there.

I jumped ship to .NET after Oracle changed their licencing. I don't like them as a vendor and don't want to be tied to them.

Java will still live to a pretty ripe old age but it does feel like it's a little over the hill nowadays.
I tried literally 20 times in a row with no actual website as a result. Did I get super unlucky or is the web really this rotted?
MySQL success is a mix of momentum, innovation in forks being backported, and a strategic focus on InnoDB at the expense of all other engines.

I'd say they are doing a mediocre job on the whole. But I may just be bitter over recent bugs like renaming a table crashing the server.
Please read the article. These are people trying to buy tardigrade-themed items from an online store. PayPal is not taking and then freezing their funds, they are just refusing to process the transaction.
One of the most important things to discover as an interviewer is a candidates thought process. The actual solution is often not that interesting, but how the candidate rose to the challenge, what questions they asked of us to improve their understanding, and how they explained their solution tells us a lot about their work attitude. While it would be great to present them with problems from our everyday work, that often requires too much background knowledge to cover in an interview.

The aim with these questions is to discover what it would be like to work with the candidate.
And yet Black students are better represented than non-Jewish White students.

Google "Princeton Basketball Team" or "Princeton Football Team" and you will see that Blacks are over-represented on these teams (27% to 30%). I suspect many other sports are similar. You can see how colleges boost the number of Black students in areas where it serves the interests of the school.

https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster
https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/football/roster/2019
>We'd all love it here if we could enjoy all that California has to offer with fewer transplants around.

This sentiment has been around for decades. My family moved to Southern California from Illinois in the 1970s and there were bumper stickers that said, "Welcome to California, now go back home."
You think the threat of hyper-targeted propaganda is overblown? Can you elaborate on that?
I'd argue California's economic success is in spite of the government (or at least the government of the last 4 decades or so), not because of it.
I'm from the Metro-Detroit area. The city of Detroit did this. Everyone moved out and a few decades later the city had to file for bankruptcy.

It took the skyscrapers downtown being at rock bottom prices (and generous state and local incentives) to get businesses to move back.

It seems like people in Texas on average are doing better than California.
> If the government buys Mercedes cars it doesn't demand Mercedes to hand over the engineering designs for the cars.

> In fact in the entire military and intelligence space I don't even think this is practically possible due to secrecy and avoiding to give away software that is vital to national security.

The military is likely a case where the government does demand the engineering designs, production lines etc.

Open source doesn't have to mean public source, it means the user has access to the source and can modify the program if they want to. Seems like a perfectly reasonable approach for military or intelligence procurement.
There's an idea. MM/DD/YYYY (or worse, YY) should be an indictable offence.
This is likely because many error messages are not helpful. Blame all the developers who just put an error code in their error messages and called it a day.
It’s not really comparable. The difference is that scholars who aren’t GOP operatives generally live in what one senior Bush-administration official derisively called the “reality-based community.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

Of the people who work for CAP, Brookings, or the like, which ones do you think are hack pseudo-scholars?
On the other hand, when I think fun, young, quirky, etc...my mind goes right to Oracle.
One-sided drivel. "The bill would impose a tax of 0.4% of a state resident’s worldwide net worth in excess of $30 million" becomes "tax wealth at 0.4%".
Does it apply to Self Proprietor's or partnerships? How about LLC's? Or, is it just C and S Corps?
PayPal DOES do that frequently, mostly if you trigger some risk threshold on your account. But, then again, so do regular credit card processors.
I don’t think you have to go that deep. We can simply say they don’t care at all.

If we’re hair picking students vs. teachers then it is likely political distinction.
> Qualcomm switching to Mali

When did that ever happen?

Qualcomm used to license AMD's handheld GPUs (IP), then acquired that whole business unit from AMD. They've never used either Mali or PowerVR in any products that I know of.

Source: worked at PowerVR 2006-2007, then worked at AMD's handheld division including during the acquisition by Qualcomm, and stayed there until 2017.
Cybernetics is really an old word, or one of the old words, for AI/robotics.

The overarching, multidiscipline, that subsumes cybernetics, can be summarized here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Complex_...
Yahoo had a similar decision some years ago, greedy corporates per se
My claim was not "Every worker at Apple"

But Apple the organization, Apple CEO and Board for sure, and probally all of the C-Level are looking at the share price...

Every public company would be the same

Every Private company would be looking at some other Shareholder value, be it dividends or some other Shareholder ROI metric

Many if not most of the employees would be shielded from that in some ways, and often presents itself in frustation over company policies, public statements, or actions because they feel the company should be looking to something other than Shareholder value because many companies present publicly to be doing something other than that, present to their employees as "we are all a family" and other platitudes because if a company came out with the hard reality people would recoil from that as most people do not desire to exist in reality but instead a nice delusion (this is also why we get the politicians we get)
See Cory Doctorow's response to the article, and broader "campaign" developed from this theme, in his piece How the Attack Surface audiobook can reform Audible:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/13/theory-of-change/#avalanc...
One amazing fact is that the Democrat:Republican skew among reporters is higher than almost every group traditionally perceived to skew Democratic. Gay people, for example, skew Democrat versus Republican closer to 3:1.

But circling back, this is a theme. Conservative organizations and think tanks (Federalist Society is another example) have more Democrats than putatively objective professions (journalism, academia) have Republicans. That’s bad.
> Do you think it would be a better use of time and resources to find each and every single market that is subjectively not sufficiently competitive and break up the participants/introduce new participants -- or create some blanket rules that stop people from being taken advantage of (up to and including UBI and socialized medicine)? Why let anyone fall through the cracks?

You say that as if they're mutually exclusive, but they really solve two separate problems.

If you have a monopsony on labor (note that this is not very common for unskilled labor; think company towns), it means that people are being compensated unfairly, in the same way that monopolies overcharge customers unfairly.

But even if you don't, there may be people whose fair market wage isn't enough to live on. Even if there are thousands of employers who need unskilled labor, it's still possible for the supply to outstrip the demand, which is the exact scenario that a UBI works well for -- the market wage may be $4/hour, but supplemented by a UBI it's enough to live on. Meanwhile in the same circumstances some other policies, like minimum wage, do the opposite -- when there is a glut of labor, price controls increase unemployment and make the problem worse, because then people don't get $4/hour plus a UBI, they get to collect unemployment until it runs out and then starve to death.
> Were ... If so, I feel like the conversation might shift.

This is a bizarre way of looking at the world. The question is about the state of the world decades ago (were the laws written to further racist goals?). Yet you posit that the answer to this question might have some effect in the future. It's an excellent way to deflect from facing facts; suggesting that somehow we couldn't have known about what happened. We can, though. It's trivial to look up the history of minimum wage (without even checking Wikipedia, though, I'm sure it has a censored version of the history so you'll have to look elsewhere). Why do we get to deflect the consequences of the past to the future, to a "might", to a mere "shift"?

Minimum wage is and always has been a way to keep minorities from getting jobs by carefully drawing a line - and redrawing it, so the whole racist enterprise has surely been up and running this whole time - to be just above where it's worthwhile to hire people with poor job history (a proxy for minorities, just redlining with wages). As the economy improves of course this line has to be drawn higher and higher because it becomes more and more economically viable to make risky hires.
Exactly. New Jersey was also a powerhouse state 75 years ago. Been in a slow decline for the past few decades.
Or taxes are already ridiculous and this is a sign of things to come. It's a huge red flag especially when Rob Bonta get's on TV to promote it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrEK5hgr3vY
i have a variation on this i like based on george harrison,
"all things must pass" including my car passing yours.
This discussion has been going on for a long time now, It seems like just Yesterday that the world was outraged about how Madonna presented herself, that was 35 years ago!

Im guessing there were people back in the 30s shunning Shirley Temple movies too.
This is the answer!
Yeah, this smoke is great.
The parent did say editorial board but I would suggest that a criticism of the NYTimes in the same spirit that actually warrants attention is its board of directors. Many if not all of them are wealthy lifelong democrats.

I'm not trying to move the goal posts on you, just pointing out what I think was the original intent of the comment that - that left or right you should always follow the money.
This world of yours where there are presumably only “real intellectuals” in one camp, and a plague of “hack pseudo-scholars” in the other, is simply absurd. It makes no sense to me so I cannot comment on it.

I could go into how I feel about the whole cult of NPR news-announcers going after their enemies day in and day out, but you probably wouldn’t want to hear it.
There is a huge power in networks. Networks introduce you to nodes that might have the capacity to action next steps for your work.
> If this is not life, then our understanding of rocky planets is severely lacking.

While I would love for this to be true, ignorance requires fewer assumptions than life at any level of complexity.
It's funny because you can just zoom out and see the house from satellite view in 3d and see almost the same amount you'd see from street view.
You sound like you need a refresher on both Hoover and the Institution.
Preparing for the realtime future of the Linux kernel
They are doing something very right over there.
turn on, tune in, drop all from all.
Not likely, except if it were somehow, coerced to evolve, like, in a lab.
Oracle can audit the app code and also probably sandbox the back end in such a way that they can be fairly sure things aren't escaping, at least not on a large scale.
Those are all excellent points. Furthermore, the article does not mention any business moving INTO California. Surely there must have been some. What would be interesting is NET migration statistics.

Furthermore, between 2009 and 2016, 1,250,000 businesses were started in California [1] (and more than a million went out of business).

But at least wingnut welfare still seems to be a thriving business in California.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/web/cewbd/ca_table9.txt
ohh please...

There is many many many ways apple could protect consumers while still allowing more open application installation

There are many many many ways Apple could support independent repair while still protecting consumers.

hell the entire problem of "counterfeit, defective components" is 100% an Apple created problem since the prohibit vendors from selling components to fix the devices

You are a shining Example of "Apple Wins" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFA3szW9nWk
The central valley is working class Trump country. The mountains are getaways for coastal wealth. You have some minorities that are disadvantaged who clean up after the coastal wealth or farm. Housing is near impossible and stopped at all costs to preserve inequality. If you grew up here you probably had to move, if you have kids here the chances are they won’t be able to afford a home without your help (assuming you’re a home owner).

Welcome to California.
I would assume few businesses that move would convince a significant number of their employees to move.

In other words, I can't imagine very many businesses with lots of employees moving at all.
I'm sorry you seemed to have interpreted this article as a critique of designers from an "exclusively technical" person. I'm sure this wasn't your intention, but some of your choice of words supports what I think is a pretty harmful idea in software development: that technical people aren't qualified to critique or discuss product design. Ultimately, you are right that I am not a designer, but I've actually worn product management and business hats in the past. Still I don't claim to think I "completely understand the product design process". Ultimately, this was an article I wrote and posted to a primarily technical website. It was primarily intended for technical people, but would hopefully be relevant to anyone involved in building software products.

> the author citing Facebook as a prime example of low-agency infinite scroll traps when services like TikTok and Instagram are far better examples hints he might not be very familiar with the current design landscape which he is critiquing.

This felt a bit presumptuous. I am familiar with Instagram and TikTok, but I chose Facebook as the prime example because they were the _first_ massively popular site to implement this type of interface.

> Overall, this article seems to argue against a design perspective I've never once seen a designer present.

I'm somewhat envious of you, then. I've unfortunately worked with product managers, designers, and engineers who have said that users are stupid. Sometimes, it's well-meaning and in a sort of abstract form, meaning "we should make it so simple that even an idiot could use it". But often, it's unfortunately quite literal.

> he's a bit overconfident in his layman's interpretation of designers' perspective and intent

Again, this was more of a critique of software development than of designers' intent in particular.
Please show me the API where I can write a generic function on a TPU. I'm talking about writing something like a custom reduction or a peak search, not offloading a tensor flow model.

I'll make it easier for you, directly from Google's website:

TPUs
Cloud TPUs are optimized for specific workloads. In some situations, you might want to use GPUs or CPUs on Compute Engine instances to run your machine learning workloads.

Please tell me a workload a gpu can't do that a TPU can.
No they don't?

They're pointing out that anecdotally, Deno seems to be a non-player right now. Which is pretty spot on: it's still very new, and hasn't found a critical application yet (e.g. would Node have taken off the way it did without Express? Probably not). So right now, it's an enthusiast's plaything, even if the architectural principles are much cleaner (wrt modern JS) than Node can ever become - without a rewrite so drastic it'll split the Node community like Perl 5/6 or Python 2/3, at least.
I'm not saying this went viral, but I did encounter it while just normally browsing TikTok.

https://www.tiktok.com/@jperkinsauthor/video/686526224212490...

I think the US has more than a few skeletons in its closet that they'd prefer remain there, so having a means of exerting control over popular platforms seems like plain old common sense.
We certainly are likely to find more prehistoric sites, but they're highly unlikely to match the fantasy that Hancock is pushing. Here's an article about why: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-there-wasnt-an...
Big Tech’s India Plans Can’t Seem to Bypass Asia’s Richest Man
True, but they have both operated independently & incredibly successfully with full support from Microsoft’s leadership.
If TikTok had a future, it was at Microsoft.
Detroit took decades to go bankrupt. Sometimes previous polices can have long term effects before diminishing.
> it’s pretty mind blowing how little the districts prepared for and invested in a virtual year.

I think you're underestimating the effect of poor direction from their districts, and in turn poor direction to the districts from the state and federal government on this.

Up until a month or so before the start of the school semester, we were still receiving communications about "if we start with in-classroom learning". These schools have set budgets, and large expenditures are planned and paid for over years, and to be faced with a hard fork in the road choice over a summer about whether to put all your eggs into distance learning (when many politicians were vowing students would be in classrooms) or to try for a hybrid approach, or to assume the politicians know what they're talking about and kids will all be in class come late August/early September, it's not hard to see how this situation could turn out as bad as it had.

Extreme circumstances require solid leadership. All it would have taken would have been the President (or even someone high in the Department of Education with the President's blessing, so it wasn't contradicted a day later) to say "we're hoping students will be able to return to class come the start of school, but we're allocating funds and directing districts to prepare for the eventuality that it may not happen, either overall or in their locality." and that clear signal that schools needed to prepare for this and would be supported in doing so would have made all the difference.

This whole year has been a comedy of errors. Like so many of those, what you're really seeing is just a tragedy.
There is the power law heuristic, that 90% of results are often due to 10% of phenomena.

If there are several filters, then they may differ in effectiveness by many multiples, and then it's semantics as to whether you say any beyond the largest are "great".
Cambridge is one of the most beautiful cities on the planet.