skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically any time you use work equipment for personal use you’re either supposed to pay rent or they have to put it on your w2. Including every time you take your work laptop home and check your personal email on it.

But the IRS right now doesn’t enforce those small amounts. They only care when you use the corporate jet for personal travel.

But when you leave, if they let you keep the stuff, they either have to include the depreciated value as income on your last check or you have to pay them for it.

When I left my first job they let me keep my computer and phone and I paid them $60 for it, which was the legal depreciated value.
CCC is great. I use it rarely, only because I intentionally use Amazon itself as rarely as possible. As a result, 100% of my Amazon shopping is done through CCC, which is great.

Were it not for CCC, I'd imagine I'd use Amazon even less than I do right now. Possibly not at all.
I still use a 1995-manufactured HP LaserJet 5P. It rarely jams. Works great with a USB->Parallel adapter. The cartridge in there right now is probably a decade old.
Maybe the take-away is that in different eras statues were broken in different ways for different purposes.

Various Egyptian groups broke each other's statues, which they fully understood, for instance breaking the left hand of gods understood to be giving things, and the right hand of those receiving things, to prevent them from performing their function. And often digging out the inscription of the name of the king depicted -- which implies they could read it, both when it was a new regime, and when it was grave robbers (who wished to escape retribution in the afterlife).

Early Christians feared these and other pagan statues. They thought it more powerful to break just the nose, or to shave statues of Greek gods they could recognise, rather than decapitate or completely destroy them.

After the Arab conquest, they were mainly seen as just building material, and seated statues tended to be broken off to make cubic pieces for re-use. With no special regard for their identity, nor attempts to erase names. And, aside, it took about 1000 years they say for Islam to become the majority faith, not just the ruling one.
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I don't have hard statistics to back this up, but my impression is that Congress has a habit of adding strings and restrictions on whatever they fund.

I would hesitate to accept that Faustian bargain.
Newsletters/blogs to follow to stay on top of best practices/industry news?
I'm transitioning to a product management role and I was wondering if there are any good blogs and newsletters to follow for this type of content. What have you read recently that made an impact on how you think about your work?
At the end there is this conclusion:

Answering the question of why the nose is broken on any particular Egyptian statue, relief, or sarcophagus mostly depends on two key factors: the condition of the inscription, and the original location and purpose of the statue. Additional breakage to other parts of the body or to symbols is also informative.

Iconoclasm on a grand scale — such as the destruction of royal imagery following the reign of Hatshepsut and during and after the reign of Akhenaten — was primarily political in motive. Hatshepsut’s reign presented a problem for the legitimacy of Thutmose III’s chosen successor; and Thutmose solved this problem by eliminating a significant portion of the imagistic and inscribed memory of Hatshepsut. Akhenaten’s religious revolution presented a large-scale problem for his successors, who restored the worship of the god Amun; the destruction of Akhenaten’s monuments was therefore thorough and effective.

The condition of an inscription is revealing when it is clear whether the name itself was the primary target of the destruction. Damage to the name strongly suggests that the attack took place during the Pharaonic period when hieroglyphic writing was still understood. The reasons for damage in that period are likely to have been personal animosity toward the one represented in the image or, when a criminal violates a tomb, a desire to evade a deceased person’s revenge.
Evolution, Cooperation, and God
To add to this Trump's official campaign Twitter had it's account locked this morning and a video Trump uploaded was promptly deleted. This is new information from today. The thread yesterday was about the initial wave of censorship. I posted about the new actions this morning but it got flagged as a dupe of yesterday's discussion. It was not a duplicate, Twitter has taken new action and decided to go further this morning than they did yesterday.
You can't cross through the round-about regardless, it wouldn't take longer than a sidewalk would.
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This is 100% because Apple decided to pick up the CUPS developer. I called him after he was hired to do a story about it and he acted like I was trying to kill him . "I CAN'T TALK TO YOU!!! you're a reporter!!" Imagine that feeling being imparted like 2 days after yer hired. Also imagine how hard they made it for him to keep contributing to CUPS. I only wanted to talk about CUPS, I didn't give two shits about the Apple news, only what it meant for CUPS going forward. They never let me even speak to Apple PR about it, let alone him.
Funny thing about Slack is they had a super strict no remote policy before covid. If they had really believed their tools they would have allowed WFH even before covid. Now they don't really have a choice to not WFH.
Of course, that's the topic - perhaps you should read my post, and realize the contradiction your idea creates that I clearly pointed out for you.
I'm not even talking about policy. I'm talking about basic factual matters.

Start with something simple: the in-person attendance and TV viewership of the President's inauguration. This is completely irrelevant to policy and has no long-term implications whatsoever. Yet somehow it became a major "partisan" controversy, when it was never controversial in the past for Presidents of any party. Of course crowd size estimation isn't a perfect science, but this particular controversy had nothing to do with science. And if you're going to tell me the problem there was "both sides", I'll have to disagree.

This is just one example of extreme reality denial. What makes it notable is again that the dispute was of no particular importance in the grand scheme, and yet reality was still vehemently denied.

I mean, this kind of shit comes right out of George Orwell, where the test of party loyalty is how you can make yourself believe things that are obviously false.

What was the attendance at Lincoln's inauguration? FDR's? Who knows. Who cares! The only person who truly cared was Donald J. Trump himself. But Republicans have been primed to take anything critical of what he says as a partisan attack by the "liberal media". Every fact, no matter how trivial, is now a political controversy.
Part of me, completely without data and gut feel, thinks if I was going to smash a statue, I’m going for the head.

A lot of these statues have broken heads too ... not all though.

When I hit the head, I’m also a terrible person, meaning I’m definitely going for the face, no?

What’s the part that I am likely to hit on the face first because it sticks out? What’s the part most likely to break on the head?

Just a no-data no-expertise thought...
> I intrigued by the support for the 28S these days. I still have my 28S (with working battery door) from when I was at University. But, while I was impressed by it's potential, I never loved it as a device to use

I came to the higher end HP calculators with the 48SX, which was essentially v2.0 of the 28S. Aside from the 48's larger display and single keyboard, the two machines operated essentially the same, and my experience tends to align with yours. (Even if the 48 addresses the specific concerns you mention about direct access to common features, bidirectional I/O, and the split keyboard.)

For me, the I way I'd put it is that these machines were better pocket computers than they were pocket calculators. Everything was just a touch too slow and overwrought to be as quick as you want a pocketable tool to be.

In HP's defense, these machines were designed in the mid-1980's as a sort of next generation calculator architecture. They developed a higher level programming language (RPL) and a suite of tools for the purpose of getting themselves a solid foundation for continued work after the HP41 series (which was pushing the limits of HP's traditional SW/HW processes).

So the The first RPL calculator in this new series was a business model (19B) very similar to the slight later 28C and 28S scientifics. Notably the 28S was sold in parallel with the 41CX, largely, I think, because HP recognized the appeal of the 41 and the fact that the 28 wasn't in a place to be a full replacement. The 48 was the combination of the two lines, learned from the issues of the 28, and was intended to replace both the 28 and 41 series.

So like I mentioned above, the 28 really the first try at a high end scientific based on RPL and the 48 is the second. And for better or for worse, this is where funding for further development became highly marginal. There was a 48GX that doubled the clock rate and bundled the formula library, but my understanding is that that was really the last major development of the platform by the original engineering group, and they didn't ever really do a third version. (Which is probably where they'd have gotten it fully right, based on experience with other HW/SW products over the years.)

One place people might argue with this narrative is that there were, in fact, two follow ons in the form of the HP49 and HP50. These bundled in additional open source libraries developed by the community (MetaKernal, IIRC) and at least one used an ARM CPU running emulation of the old HP Saturn CPU used previously. Neither were built to the same mechanical standards of the previous models, and I don't believe there was much continuity in the engineering teams. (The follow on work was done at least in part by members of the open source community that HP hired to briefly form a new calculator engineering group.)

> and I've stuck with my older FX-7000G as the calculator on my desk.

I use an emulated HP42S.
While that may be true of some companies, it has not bee my experience. In most of my jobs if I had an ergonomic setup it was because I took responsibility for it myself and asked for all the things I needed to make it happen.
This quote comes from Chomsky's book "Understanding power" [1], which I highly recommend reading.. more than once

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Power
“If you compare whites and Asian Americans with the same amount of schooling, Asian Americans actually make less money.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/29/the-a...
> 10% of self-identifying gay men in America born in the baby boomer generation died from AIDS by 1995. Nobody locked them in their houses for 6 months.

The government policy response for most of the first decade the AIDS epidemic was known about was “do nothing, it's just killing undesirables we'd like to eliminate, anyway”, so it's kind of a weird model to hold up for emulation.

But (1) HIV isn't a respiratory virus, so taking the kind of precautions that apply to a respiratory virus wouldn't make any sense; (2) prevrnting the spread of the epidemic outside of the undesirable groups was used as a pretext for the Justice Department permitting employers to fire people for having AIDS, and was part of the overt pretext in a number of new adopted (and more proposed) laws across the US extending discrimination against and exclusion of homosexuals.
> Which one would you prioritize?

I'd absolutely prioritize doing three easy things if I'm strapped for cash, can't hire new developers and need all focus on my initial market. I totally understand why nobody immediately starts offering their product globally.

But when your product has matured, you've secured the next $10m (or $50m or $100m) in funding, you no longer have a single product manager, you can rent offices in Nigeria and hire locals who know the market and the requirements, and you can hire additional developers to deal with local quirks etc, why wouldn't you? Is the attention at the C-level spread so thin that even choosing someone who will set up a local team is taking too much away from growing the core product?

I have no doubt that it's easiest to wait, have somebody else develop the market and then buy them. But it also costs a lot of money. Is not having to figure out how to work with M Pesa worth $200m?
Since you are otherwise liable for the safety of your own home (if you own it), then this should be no different. You're responsible for your own bed/couch/etc's ergonomics, and also for your own home office. Like, it's your house.
This sounds good as a soundbite, but how? Knowing how federal bidding works in general I can't imagine the funds being used constructively, it would end up as some kind of popularity contest.
> approach freelance bloggers to write articles about their clients

This particular industry isn't particularly secretive. I know of mature agencies in the UK and US doing this with real offices, full time staff, nice websites, senior staff with LinkedIn profiles, etc. And I'm sure there are others outside the anglophone world.
What everyone knows and what no one knows
You can get a modern HP-41 from Swissmicros which just launched its DM-41X. I just received mine and it is a very nice device.
Where do you get the idea that free speech means "freedom from consequences"? You're allowed to say offensive things, but you're not immune from (eg) getting fired for it
YouTube Cracks Down on QAnon
Senate Judiciary to Subpoena Jack Dorsey After Twitter Suspends Trump Campaign
I found this quote particularly damning:

> Even with the stress and anxiety caused by
the covid-19 pandemic, 36% feel either much more or somewhat more focused working from home as opposed to their office, compared with 28% who feel less focused. Given that most people’s home environments are not set up to be workspaces, this casts a negative light on corporate offices that are theoretically designed to support productivity.
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I wonder if they tae 'break things' as core part of the commandment.
You have a fat spam comment. Good read otherwise.
> It's now commonly suggested that the statue's noses most obviously indicated African heritage: that they were representing Black Africans - and white Christians wanted to erase that heritage

If I'm recalling correctly, this comes up in Ishmael Reed's novel, Mumbo Jumbo (1972).
Whataboutism: "the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation or raising a different issue."

Seems like a textbook case actually.
I started dabbling with chess engines written in Nim (lots of bit twiddling but also interesting concurrency challenges) and found it delightful. Genuinely the most fun I'd had with a language for years. I think the combination of native power with light, accessible syntax and a simple mental model is very promising indeed. The fact that you also get JavaScript compilation seems great, although I've not yet used it. I have tried, and will keep trying, to fall in love with Rust because I do buy into a lot of its philosophy but just never get there.
On the bright side, I can print reliably from Linux now, which is the first time I've been able to do that since 2005. Thanks Greg Kroah-Hartman!
Not sure what you’re talking about. Microsoft came out with their plans to let employees work remotely days ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24728887
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Not all instructions are re-startable. ldm/stm that writes back to the base register is only re-startable if the write-back and the update to PC are last.

The microcontroller-scale cores have a few extra bits in the control/status register that govern restart of an interrupted ldm/stm or IT (if-then, a form of hammock predication).
I will take 4K video and audio that doesn't drop off and a world where there is universal fiber/good connectivity. Then after that, we can talk about VR.
I'm not telling you to completely isolate, but this is wrong:

> I keep telling my friends that you can't eliminate risk, just mitigate it to an amount that you're comfortable with, and that amount is different for everyone

This is a pandemic, any risks you consciously take are risks you're forcing the people around you to take too.

No single person can set the amount of risks he wants to take, it has to be decided globally.
This is a great and introspective article about individuals reintroducing butterflies and beavers into Britain. Well worth reading to the end. If you hit a registration popup, you could try here: https://archive.is/3pZVW.
Fantastic work. The on-boarding is excellent and first use is very intuitive. You've done a great job of abstracting away the complexity of defining the data models so that I was able to build and deploy an example in just a few minutes.

It's a snappy admin UI and I love the auto-generating docs. All around excellent job!
Printing should have been one of the millennium problems..

Like seriously, what company provides actually decent printers? None of them do, because they’re beholden to old paranoid execs who think that their shitty printer drivers or whatever somehow represents a competitive “asset”.

It’s our economic system’s biggest flaw, that old clueless people can fuck up things beyond recognition (mostly for their younger, more informed and more educated colleagues) just because they have “seniority”, while being completely disconnected and ignorant of any relevant technologies past the fucking 1960s.

(Then, of course, they vote in fascists, and complain about young people not voting, as if that excuses the fascists they voted into office.. disgusting..)
I'm way more interested in laser than inkjet.

I casually poked around to see if I could find some old HP LaserJets. Do some teardowns, get some part numbers, maybe transplant a Raspberry Pi for the brains.
If it's paid for by the people, it should belong to the people.

Open-source meets this requirement, proprietary software doesn't.
"It's not much, but it's honest work."

I wonder if there's still a market for stuff like that. I mean, WordPress runs 50% of all websites? I know that there are a couple of scripts out there helping you to install WordPress "with one click".

But my script brings a lot of options and also adds random content, images, tags and so on.

It's not a fancy web app and not AI tool, no hacker insides. However I had a lot of fun creating it.
What I find more interesting in that graph is the steady state of about 4M sq ft of vacant space at all times.
Every time I’ve tried it, it falls apart within minutes of using it. You’d think after 20 years of development it might be somewhat stable but I guess not.
> don't start tuning things just because they exist. Down that path also lies madness.

But also fun butterflies! and ponies!
> Even rebuilding sites in Jamstack harkens [sic] back to the Movable Type days, where the bigger your site gets, the slower it is to rebuild or update templates."

Oh I remember that. But that was before the era of SSD and Multicore CPU. And Echoing all the other comments, the two system ( at its current form ) aren't even targeting the same market.
I assume that's in the US?

You don't have to do that in Canada.
Uh-huh. So, uh, use those clients? Chrome will presumably even send ftp:// links to those clients.
> I also can't block it for my daughter because she has school assignments that involve watching YouTube videos.

Our school uses http://www.viewpure.com/ to avoid this.

Also, I agree you don't even need to watch a political video to see political garbage on youtube. Last night they showed me some bizarre political conspiracy ad saying Pelosi and Harris are going to invoke the 25th amendment on Biden to make Harris the president. YouTube was promoting this nonsense at the top of the feed.
So employers know what patients don't: they have no clue. Consequently they rely on the school the applicant came from as a better signal.
That seems to indicate that usenet can’t die, can it?
> which is problematic for building teams and culture;

Why? I've been remote for about 8 years. I don't think I've had any problems building relationships. The only thing you miss from the office is the time spent screwing around with co-workers. I guess you could consider that "Team building".
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This project differs from things like supercollider in that it doesn't generate static files, the sounds you hear are being created dynamically via WebAudio.

So for something like a web game, one can use this project to make a sound effect, then copy/paste the code at the bottom of the page to play that sound in the game. (And since the sounds aren't pre-rendered, one can also twiddle the parameters at runtime to add variation to the sound each time it plays.)
> I suppose I don't feel overpaid, given that I'm living in a 1BR apartment.

I was about to post on this topic as well when I saw your post. There are people on our team who have been working in less than ideal circumstances at home for more than six months now, and who are really struggling as a result.

Even if people do have a good space to work, if partners are working at home together there's often only enough room for one of them to use that good space at a time. Again, not ideal.

My priority at the moment is securing some office space so that people have some respite from the endless grind of working at home under these circumstances.
Re: utility, how about enscript? E.g. enscript -E -2rj *.c
I agree that it's not the worst but it definitely leaves a lot of interpersonal drama unresolved. It makes the effective ending very bittersweet, which might indeed be fitting for this particular show.
That’s what I would hope but since they aren’t vested I’m not sure?
Do you think its correct to delibrately spread a false story about Hunter Biden? Is this type removing false information censorship?
I'm close to some very-charismatic people, in music and business... and if they falter in life, the charisma habit can definitely be a trap. They keep charisma-ing hard, but the reality of their circumstances are hard to square with their immediate effect on people. But real outcomes are often the result of longer term efforts and circumstances. And later in life, the "luck" factor seems harder to capitalize on..

I was once denied an opportunity by a Hollywood finance guy because, as he said, "You're not that smooth.." He was smooth, but not exactly charismatic. Possibly another side of a related coin.
ARM looks to be even friendlier than my previous favorite assembly language on the Motorola 680x0 family. I'm tempted to learn it but wonder if I could produce code that would take advantage of processor parallel execution as well as a good optimizing compiler.
I have both insomnia and delayed sleep syndrome, and I was born with both. As a newborn I was only sleeping 1-2 hours a day. I almost destroyed my family, if you've had children imagine having a baby that's awake 22 or 23 hours per day, everyday.

I've been in sleep studies and what they've learned is that the normal fall asleep process for me happens very quickly and it's very easy to to disrupt.

During my teenage years I was averaging 4-5 hours sleep every 2-5 days. In my 20's, 30's, 40's and early 50's I averaged 1-2 hours of sleep a day. With a lot of 2 and 3 days of no sleep.

A few years ago I started using an app on my iphone called Brainwave, it's a binaural beats program. This program has saved my life. Since I've started using the program I'm getting about 4-5 hours of sleep per day.

I use small wireless ear buds, and I use the deep sleep program. It runs for the entire time I'm in bed, the program will put me down, keep me asleep, and then wake me up.