skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things off the top of my head:

1. collecting a DNA sample from a corpse is more difficult than having someone spit in a tube and drop it in the mail. It takes tools and a specialist

2. they want to compare with lots of different databases. Most GEDMatch data comes from genotyping arrays, that look at ~500k variants on the genome. However, different companies use different sets of single-nucleotide variants. Meanwhile, law enforcement databases look at microsatellites, which can't be assayed easily with an array. Sequencing someone to be able to use all the different databases would be on the order of a thousand dollars

3. The genetic testing companies do things in bulk. Your cousin's spit was run though the various steps (like PCR) with 100s of other samples. Doing it for a single sample is going to be more expensive
I disagree on your second paragraph. It's literally true but that state, again, has no bearing on the actual result of the computation. It's just an optimization.

There is no hidden state in the editor that can change the values between runs.
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Ispc used to support NVPTX (since it’s based on LLVM) but for obvious reasons they dropped it.

I agree that OpenCL should have won but OTOH most of us have AVX2 or NEON to work with at least and things like ISPC make that trivial to write for, for the workloads where it matters.
The coins moved.

That doesn't just happen.

There will be more orders. Who had access to the wallet, etc... Wiretaps, observation, all of it is part of the game now.

In short, investigation will continue, as well all available means and methods applied to better understand who moved the coins and why they were moved.

That is likely to be an expensive, potentially freedom limiting, time.

Being unable to prove it NOW doesn't mean forever being unable to prove things.

Good luck with that game. It's very difficult, time consuming, dangerous, and expensive to play. Your opponents are willing to play hard indefinitely.

Best not benefit from the moved coins in the future.

Both implication and deduction are available legal means too. Remember that part.
Doesn't this type of tax violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to The Constitution, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause?
On a similar note, I recently found the Instagram and FB tokens for a prominent media outlet right in their website source code, presumably for auto posting to those sites. Is that a security issue or normal? (Sorry in advance, I'm new to the whole security space)
This is actually a very critical concern, compared to other programs in general.

Thunderbird must have changed the WebExtensions APIs after v68 (based on what I see in the addons compatibility).

Several extensions in the top list by users, are not compatible with v78¹. Thunderbird snap users are literally going to wake up one day, and find that [some of] their extensions are not working anymore.

¹=https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/extensions/...

edit: Removed Lightning reference, as it's not 100% clear if it will be bundled with TB.
yep first year. Funnily enough, I have a laptop grant from uni, waiting to see how those ARM Macs turn out.
>Does it matter?

Yes?

Considering it was the measuring stick that person seemed to feel was important.
Does anyone even know how the taxes will be used?

To fund currently unfunded pension liabilities? To hire more city employees at above-market rates? To build new parks and roads? To fund public transportation?

The money will be used for what it always is - some of it will be good and some of it won't be very good. Once it's in the pot, it gets stirred around and all sorts of people and projects get a full bowl. That's not what's interesting about this story - taxes get raised all the time by all sorts of authorities. What's interesting is that the tax is full of perverse incentives and may very well lead to lower, not higher tax receipts.
github != git ... I'm not sure why people strongly conflate these two so much.

It would be equally as valid to self-host gitea/gogs/sourcehut/gitlab and/or an issue tracker of your choice, which arguably is preferable to adopting a completely different tool over what is a provider issue.
LOL. I want to go back 10 years then. Or just use dokku. We've gone crazy guys.
His income in 2020 was listed at $23M, all under "other income", mostly for the costs Facebook paid for his personal security and personal air travel on the corporate jet.

But he wasn't the highest paid exec. Sheryl Sandberg was, at $30M. Probably still not high enough to trigger the tax.
If you want a phone that you have control over, don't buy one from Apple... At this point in time, choices are mostly limited to Librem and PinePhone.
When Connecticut hiked its taxes, even long-standing businesses headquartered there, like GE, packed up and moved to Massachusetts. (You know you're doing something wrong when "Taxachusetts" is a relative tax haven compared to your state.)

So even if these changes were implemented statewide, it can be an impetus to leave. Laffer's curve is a bitch for the eat-the-rich crowd.
Why did they have to move? This new law, or something else?
Also I think if you have access to an A100 (which is 6k+ eu before tax academic price), you aren’t really worried about using a proprietary API.
Wait until you learn how many cars, guns, cash, and expensive valuables the feds seize a year. Not to mention businesses, land, and homes.

I just found a multimillion dollar SF condo and land in Liberia, Costa Rica on the US Marshalls website.
And/Or move their companies too. Particularly all the "tech startups" that think they don't need physical office buildings anymore. For a lot of companies, SF is becoming difficult to justify.

Well-intended ideas, not fully thought out, leading to unintended consequences... nothing really new for SF.
Sweden is far from a government-controlled society.

The problem with people in the US who have convinced themselves that more government is a good thing is simple: Ignorance.

I mean that as a statement of fact, not a pejorative.

Nobody who has ever lived under heavy government control supports these ideas. The only way they gain support is by pushing the fantasy of big government vs. the reality.

Context: I have lived under those conditions. The average American has no clue.
VRChat surpasses 2018's peak hype concurrency – but few users log in via Oculus
studying :)
I mean, it's apparently still in alpha. I imagine there will be installers and it'll be included in package managers when it gets to 1.0.
I am talking about 9900k at 5.1-5.2 GHz.
"Have a stash that people dont know about,"

... is probably illegal in almost every known reasonable country because it usually amounts to tax evasion.

So I'm not sure about this meme of "mega millionaires hiding their money is 'bad' if they identify as 'CEOs' but 'maybe good' if they identify as 'hackers'".
Yeah, it’s a weird thing to test for. Sort of like trying to double-blind broken bone procedures with a hard cast for the experimental group, and an Ace bandage for placebo. All parties can tell the difference while it’s being applied.

Maybe it requires a different kind of experimental structure that still allows for single-blind follow-ups. Imagine the subjects talking a different set of therapists or researchers after 1 month, 3 months, 6 months. The patients/subjects would have to be instructed not to talk about whatever they experienced during the psilocybin/placebo phase, only about their personal development since then: outlook on life, lifestyle changes, etc. The therapists would have to self-invalidate if anything was divulged by a patient. It would probably have to be a large group, since with 1000 people you might only get 300 therapist-blind reports.
I mean voting is a very human affair. If you don't trust the humans to count the votes to verify the results then you couldn't trust them to count normal paper ballots either.
Board member comp should rarely be that high given their part time status.
Thanks for the PMapper shoutout!
Users that care about having control over their devices shouldn't be buying Apple hardware in the first place. Not that I support Apple's anti-consumer practices, but if you buy one of their products, you have to know what you're getting yourself into.
Also gives them a lot of flexibility with binning which should give them excellent yields.

The ones that don't have full 8 (well enough) working cores just use them for 5600X (6 core) or 5900X (12 cores) if there is 6 or 7 good cores.

The fully working chiplets you can bin for 5800X or 5950X (or for threadripper/Epyc for the very best ones)
> It is nice to know where your p人ople came fr元m.

That's an interesting way to learn kanji. I wonder if the brain can make the association with 人==people if it sees it enough times. Creating a Browser extension to automatically substitute these words seems like a good tool.
CEO compensation historically wasn’t orders of magnitude greater than worker pay like it has ballooned to today and there were plenty of long term jobs. This just formalizes the idea that there shouldn’t be an egregious difference in compensation that was commonplace before the idea that a corporation’s sole purpose is to maximize shareholder value became the main driver of CEO compensation.
But does the digital count ever get verified in the real world?

If it is every time, it means at the end of the day you don't really trust the machine. You could announce results early but they wouldn't be official so what's the point?

And if the count only gets verified every once in a while, what triggers the process? Something abnormal? A random check? Something else?

What tells you the count is valid or not? How do you ensure the machine is working as it should, wasn't altered in any way and so on?

To me these problems can't really be fixed: you need the paper trail. And you can't "count" (haha) on a machine you can't really audit.
IMO that's the same question as 'does a progressive tax violate the 14th'; here's a Quora: https://www.quora.com/Does-the-federal-government-violate-th...
As far as I know, you can form groups about that too. Or at least you should be able to.
City that depends on high paid tech workers to pay for their inefficient public sector approves law to encourage those tech workers to leave...
Love papercups!
Do they threaten/organise violence on facebook?
When someone buy a 5S in 2017 they surely know already, or should, that it is a cheap buy to last less than a newer model. So 3 years in this case is actually a great deal.
>we've had the opposite problem: lots of highly paid tech firms moving into SF.

Quite the problem ... the kind of problem that multitudes of cities and regions in the world are desperately trying to recreate.

>This has changed the nature of San Francisco in a way that many dislike, including me.

This is where progressives don't live up to their name. The nature of cities is constant change. Meanwhile the activists are desperately trying to keep change to a minimum so that the character of neighborhoods never changes. It's an interesting dichotomy.

>because rents have gone up so much, and also it's just not as fun, it's crowded and stressed.

Rents will drop if you increase density ... but that would mean building higher density housing and thereby accepting that the character of cities and neighborhoods change.

>I am aware that I am a part of the problem: my wife and I are white, yuppie, dink tech workers. :)

The fact that you're white and a tech worker isn't the problem. It's that you had the opportunity to move to San Fransciso for work due to the tech boom, and now you're trying to pull the ladder up so others cannot do the same.
That’s because the “mostest wokest” dont live in SF long enough to be bothered by the consequences of their votes.
I prefer mature and stable.
Macs are severly behind in terms of audio work. If you get something like UAD then Mac is viable, but when you start using better quality plugins like from Acustica Audio, then Mac no longer makes sense as it is too slow.
Looks nice. Won't be able to use it for the foreseeable future unfortunately.

Apart from the considerable effort of having to enter the sheet music, there is one problem. At least where I teach, the big no-no prohibiting us from using this is always the copyright issues.

A public music academy where I teach once got sued by the local sheet music copyright maff^^^organisation. Not because piracy was rampant. It wasn't. It most probably happened to us because at the time, our boss was relatively young and they guessed easier to push around.

No larger music educational organisation will want to touch nice toys like you built before getting a legal opinion they have no budget for :-( Hat off to you for spotting that and staying at the teacher level. Good luck with your project.

P.S. Always welcome if you'd like to have chat about where music education and technology touch!
What phone/browser are you using? Works ok on my Moto G5 with Firefox which does have problems crashing/reset on some websites but not sure why.
It's a gross receipts tax on the business. E.g. so if you make $100, but the business has $1,000,000 in gross receipts, then 0.1% would be $1000 in taxes or 10x your total compensation. It's got teeth.
This comment sounds like a criticism of the way AWS is designed, not the concept of the CLI.

As someone who prefers CLI to GUI and works exclusively in CLI, I find the AWS CLI offerings no better than a GUI. AWS is a big ball of mud that keeps getting bigger. Commercial success does not change that fact.

Perhaps the point of starting with a CLI first instead of a GUI is that it creates limits, it favours simplicity and creativity. If you find yourself creating dozens of single-purpose utlities or one utility with dozens of options, then maybe you are doing something wrong.

Rather than looking to AWS as a model, why not look at something non-commercial, like djb's software or Wireguard. There is "power" in keeping a CLI simple.
In English, as long as you pedometer instead of pedo-meter you shouldn't have any misunderstandings.
Maybe not a bad thing really
I think you missed parent’s point, which is that companies will have (yet another) incentive to replace their lowest paid workers with contractors.

First they came for the janitors, but I did not speak up, for I was not a janitor...
Having everything written with Electron is an advantage to users? Because that's the result.
In the same way your comment is a very long way to say: something happened.
A trade between two parties is not a redistribution of wealth .

If I buy a car for $10,000, then I now have a car worth $10,000, and the seller has $10,000. Wealth was not redistributed, we’re both where we started.
The cost of compliance is never factored into the making of law.
The strengths or weaknesses of CoreRT aside, it's a simple fact that Mono was ready and CoreRT was not. No number of strategic or tactical decisions will change whether a piece of software is ready to ship. Uno going all-in on CoreRT would have meant they shipped a working product later.

For context, the Blazor team started with their own interpreter compiled to WASM (via emscripten) instead of using either Mono or CoreRT - because shipping and getting user feedback is really important, and you can't do that while waiting for the ideal tech to be ready. It was swapped out later.

CoreRT is pretty cool tech but I rarely encounter anyone using it. Hopefully that will change in the future. The only CoreRT-based production app I know of is Streets of Rage 4 and it's a very recent release.
I use Thunderbird on three computers continuously, and manage three IMAP accounts.

I'm possibly using it more than 15 years as of today and it never corrupted a mailbox or lost any mail. Its filters are top notch and it has one of the best and fastest spam filtering as I've seen.

One of the same accounts on Thunderbird is also managed via KMail on my (personal) workstation and I love some features of KMail too but, it doesn't feel as fast and nimble. I keep KMail because of its KDE & Akonadi integration (it continues to process mail even if KMail is not running).

At the end of the day, Thunderbird is an awesome E-mail client. It does everything and doesn't crash even if I leave it open for weeks. 78 integrates lightning so, calendars are well integrated and works flawlessly for me too.

I've also did some enterprise integration work on Thunderbird and it has some nice flexibility options under the hood.

However I need to note that (in my case) all systems it communicates with are UNIX servers (Sendmail, Postfix, Dovecot, et. al).

Of course, YMMV.
> this had the interesting side effect of only using well documented libraries

That's great that you get to choose your own libraries. I'd wager most people that are using IntelliJ (or any IDE) also don't often have much of a choice in libraries they're using.

IDEs never seemed to appeal to me when I was writing 100% of my own code. When I migrated to using more and more OPC (other peoples' code), whether project legacy stuff, or third party libraries, the ability to more quickly scan/jump/drill into that OPC, the more value I realized from various IDEs. Mostly JetBrains these days (interested in pairing with folks with their newish 'code with me' plugin/service), but vscode and eclipse make their way in to my life for small periods now and then.
Why not? It's the natural consequence of wealth accumulation in free market economies. Not everyone has the same warchest, and money is a great moat for inefficient or rent-seeking businesses.

Being able to outspend your competitors is kind of the point of having it.
Feels like a great way to encourage companies to leave the state.

I left California many years ago. Every single part of my life is much better. Fiscally , romantically, mentally. SF over values how essential location is. With Covid it's clear remote work is the future, base the company out of Delaware and go full remote
Vacations. My father once said that a distant relative in Europe should come and visit the US. His remark was "Who will feed the cows?"
> why this rewrite was needed

We all know why
The problem is that bad actors can masquerade as a lot of independent clients (The first D in DDoS stands for "distributed").

Figuring out whether a site is under a DDoS attack or getting legitimate requests from many sources is a very hard problem, and can just be worded "telling good actors from bad actors" -- no simple solution works; also, who YOU consider a good actor and who the website owner considers a good actor may be at odds.

Most people (and CloudFlare by default) consider FAcebook a good actor; but as far as I'm concerned, Facebook is an evil an actor as one can be.
> But I think web development easily swamps that kind of work in terms of number of developers.

does it though. IBM alone, a service company, has 380000 employees. And there are tons of service companies like that - at least in my country they are mostly doing Java and the like.
> to cease the cycle

sooo ranked choice voting? :D
Graphics on Windows: 15 years long development of a game engine now open source
Looking for Github sponsorships to help port to Win64, Linux, macOS and maintain/improve the application.

Easily create graphics and audio applications!

Written in Visual C++ for Win32 using WinAPI as a WinProc Application. Does not use SDL. External dependencies kept to a minimum.

This game creation framework has taken well over 10 years of my life to develop.

I am releasing it because:

It's in a space that always needs more input, so it adds value to the spaces it interacts with (software, image analysis, automation, graphics and gaming)

It would be useful for third parties who wish to produce transparent research and small independent developers who wish to learn and make games

It is solely a Windows targetted project, and is stuck in the Win32 legacy, and when the project started Windows Desktop Users represented over 76% of all gamers, but today that number is more like 24%. While useful for producing Windows Desktop games, it wouldn't easily be ported to any other platform including the Xbox (though it might work on the Xbox with some effort).

It is built on the aging OpenGL library, a tried-but-true-but-deprecated library from Khronos, and thus is stuck in the throws of that beast
It contains over a decade of distilled knowledge and shows an evolution in home PC entertainment

It is useful for makers and DIY enthusiasts

It is powerful and will empower people who choose to learn it
Come find us on our Discord. DM "@Retrofriends" or join #framework to start a conversation with the author. https://discord.gg/yvXMs2DFzk

Additional documentation can be found on the wiki https://github.com/LAGameStudio/apolune/wiki
Don't CEOs only take $1 in salary anyways to keep their income taxes as low as possible and optimize for long-term capital gains through stock compensation instead?
>Rents will drop if you increase density ... but that would mean building higher density housing and thereby accepting that the character of cities and neighborhoods change.

I keep hearing proponents of strict exclusionary zoning laws arguing that they don't like the risk of having the value of their investment decrease because of this. SF will be a great example of how change happens weather you like it or not and allowing dense housing is what makes the change good or bad. You either sacrifice some of the view or sacrifice not having homeless camps.
Yes there are multiple ways that ipv4 can be translated into the ipv6 range. That's not what I'm suggesting here. I'm suggesting the existing ipv4 assignments to natively work in ipv6.
You’re talking about a scenario where your wife is moving to Russia avoid US jurisdiction. You can already do that. You can move to Russia, put your money in a Russian bank, and voilà, it is difficult for the US government to sieze it.
There are many debunkings of The Game Changers, this is a good place to start: https://youtu.be/jClsLOuQ2DE?t=772
WEREN't That FBI guy who brought cocaïne soap to silk road's webmaster who stole bitcoin but got caugh... :Ð

Was those bitcoins the one they stole and then put back in the wallet to respect their own law?... :D

Gov took his money and sentenced the guy to double life sentence...

an awful story...
Might be effective in reducing rents though!
Hey! I strongly suggest using CAI rather than the GCP apis, it simplify a lot the collection of data and you won’t hit a road block with quotas and hidden quotas.

Pulling data from the APIs won’t scale and it’s the exact reason why we migrated off Forseti (forsetisecurity.org) , which we helped build in the first place.

Feel free to ping me if you want more details, my contact is in my profile.
Lightning is bundled with 78. At least Debian's packages integrate that. I use a couple of online calendars with it and, it works very stable.
Because that's traditionally how open source has been done? For decades? Especially if you're in a Unix/Linux environment? Eventually we started getting package managers and the distro maintainers started creating binaries of most of the packages you'd want to install, but the distro maintainers usually build those packages from source. This is new software and I imagine the distro maintainers will package it up if it starts to gain steam.

Doing it from source also has the advantage that the package maintainers can customize the build process so that it works better with their system. Photoshoto and MS Word are closed source and proprietary, which creates issues if you want to package them.
Aren't they expensive with performance limitations?

Yes we could do that, but we had already been using rabbit in a bunch of places. It made no sense to change it.
How do they determine that, does the CEO has to be a SF resident or the company's HQ has to be SF based?