skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are all kinds of schemes, but the main vehicle used is to put all assets in something called a trust. Do your research. With a trust you can move your assets around without other people knowing where they are invested. While the US laws applies to all citizens, a trust is not a citizen of the US so according to international laws there is nothing the US can do about it. If Eric has another citizenship, this becomes even easier.
and 40% of assets over $2m. Thanks, Obama :(
> Also, don't worry if the coach, course, therapist is imperfect

Why not worry about that?

Because one will still pick up enough useful things, for it to be worthwhile? And if changing to a different therapist or coach, that one will probably also be imperfect?

(Assuming the therapist / coach isn't really bad of course.)
There are plenty of messenger apps that don’t have 50% of the US population.

iMessage is one of them, as is Facebook messenger.

There are many other messengers with far smaller user bases. There is no reason at all that a messaging app needs to address 50% of the population immediately.
I think the Rebel Whopper branding is really spot on. It‘s like the opposite of the McLean problem described in another comment: it‘s not the reasonable choice.
Because it isn't?

The author can only find tentative experiments. Rust probably will not be viable for coding games in production without a new compiler that is at least two orders of magnitude faster.

The good news is that it seems eminently doable. The bad news is that there is no apparent effort going into writing one. Undergraduate classes implement a complete standard-conforming Java compiler in a semester. Surely a compiler for a language less than, what, 3x as complicated as Java can be coded by an experienced professional using modern tools in little more time?

I don't know of anything in the language to make it inherently slow to compile. The macro system complicates the parser, but parsing is very mature technology. Even compiling a new parser to machine code and dynamic-linking it when new macros are encountered would be faster than what is done now.
IntelliJ is probably the best IDE out there but it doesn't even support C/C++, even with plugins.

That's all the reason you need. It's why I switched back to vim.
Try this:

(use-package window-numbering
:ensure t
:config
(window-numbering-mode))

This will rebind M-1 through M-0 to become window-switching keys, and also display each window's number in the modeline. I've been using this for years now, and haven't found anything else that beats the speed of pressing M-1 through M-5 with my left hand (I rarely have more than 5 windows per frame).
Anything done to the community affects it in some way - that criticism could be applied to sending a fruit basket to every Cypriot. Someone could get sick by eating fruit from it after it went bad.
Do you mind expanding a little bit on what you use it for? I am thinking about getting one myself.
None of those countries are able to actually enforce that however, in the same way the US can.

Myanmar, Turkey, etc. do not have the power to force foreign banks to report on all of their expat citizens.
People are going to discover where they sit on the global privilege scale. 1.3 billion doses next year and 50 million this year. Let's call it 1.4 billion by the end of 2021. The USA + Canada will get half (USA gets 100M guaranteed and the option of an extra 500M). I assume Europe gets the other half based on the numbers I'm seeing that UK has ordered. Africa, Asia, and South America will probably not see meaningful levels of this vaccine until 2022.
I like a few things about alacritty - it handles file drag and drop better than some IMO; config takes effect immediately and has extensive options (eg arbitrary keyboard mapping); I somehow got shift-enter to work on vim which I had trouble with in other emus; it’s noticeably fast.

On the downside it has no tabs and fewer typical GUI features like right click.

If you love your emulator I wouldn’t suggest switching.
It's probably because they will sell it as "plant based" vs vegan/vegetarian as it'll be on the same grills as real burgers.
Theory of Genius
Vivid3d – open-source OpenGL App/Game framework
Looks neat!

Similar to https://www.manifest.app
I can confirm having developed some intolerance to animal fats since becoming vegetarian. It isn't usually a problem if my fake-meat is cooked on the same surface as real-meat, but every so often I will experience some stomach discomfort. Pig fat seems to be the most likely to cause it.
The price of animal agriculture products is artificially lowered by direct subsidy, price controls, and indirectly lowered by the unaccounted ecological costs. It is largely a matter of policy rather than a reflection of market forces.

On a level playing field, the cost competitiveness is there. For instance, in New Zealand, one of the largest dairy export markets, I can buy a vegan pizza for the same price. In fact, I can buy it from Dominos, a US brand that doesn't even offer it in the US.
Reminds me of Fuck You, Pay Me.

https://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1
I don't think they were ever planning on hundreds of millions of customers. The price makes it a nonstarter for 75% of the worlds population. Between Canada and the US the number of people with no other options likely numbers in the 10s of millions, not hundreds.
It becomes a tax dodge only when you renounce your US citizenship, which some millionaires have done already, such as Eduardo Saverin
While I'm confident your reply is tongue-in-cheek, it's a sad indictment of the patent system that a half-billion-dollar "innovation" can be infringed by a few nebulous sentences on a technical forum.
You have full access to the memory in Rust. There's nothing in Rust that prevents you from doing those things. You can even do in-line assembly.
How is this a "conspiracy", that post is pointing out how wealthy and powerful people don't have to worry about the long term effects of their actions like their employees do.
I think Rust is actually much easier to use than C/C++. Sure, the borrow checker can be a pain, but the tooling and design is light years ahead.

Moreover, C++ is actually one of the most difficult languages to use.
It's still more difficult and expensive than the alternative.

It's not a big deal for the first world, but poorer nations may hold out for future vaccines that remain stable at higher temperatures and only require a single dose.
> Each starlink satellite can only handle ~20Gibps

Just running the math, as 2 people that uses ~250gb/m total, that's 2000gib / 2.7m seconds in a month, we're using on average .0007Gibps.

(Badly) assuming perfect distribution of demand, each 20Gibps could support 30k connections like us.

While there are 10k of these satellites in space, I'm not sure how many (if any) are overlapping the same area. They're probably hovering over an ocean half the time.
Haunted Radio
> There are no tax benefits for US citizens in Cyprus

- Dividend gains exemption

- Capital gains exemption

- Pension income capped at 5%

- Abolished inheritance tax

- All of the above plus bonus EU freedom of movement/residence

The guys fortune is parked on GOOG stock how can you say he has nothing to gain? There is a reason russian oligarchs are parking their money in that tiny island.
Also... if the renunciation is motivated by avoiding taxes, the person is banned from re-entering the USA.

excerpt[1]: If the Department of Homeland Security determines that the renunciation is motivated by tax avoidance purposes, the individual will be found inadmissible to the United States under Section 212(a)(10)(E) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(10)(E)), as amended.

EDIT REPLY to : "Would they have to prove intent?"

Probably not because granting admission into the USA of a non-citizen (ex-citizen) is at the discretion of the Executive Branch of government and doesn't go through "due process" of any court system. So no "burden of proof" required.

[1] https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
They're talking sales and marketing, not software packaging and delivery (which most software devs can do just fine).
Listing payment processors does not explain methodology. Did the startup owners send screenshots of their revenues from these processors to listt.xyz? Or did listt.xyz reach out to stripe, paddle, baremetrics ask to verify revenue data?

If the whole premise of listt.xyz is showcasing financials of private businesses, I wouldn't trust the data integrity so blindly without at least some credible explanation of how those numbers came to be.
That's entirely possible.

But one could argue that would be even more reason for him to step in and try and make it better.
If he renounced his American citizenship, he could. Just like Saverin.
Everyone expected/hoped that there would be a vaccination within a month. However until now it was just hope: there was always the risk when all 8 of those ran their data they discover they don't work at all.
because 45 years worth of polishing makes a nice thing, my hands have spoken that thing since i was 15, so bite me?

more to the point: why does anyone care, as long as my stuff’s done in time and doesn’t shit all over the coding style or formatting guides?
I think one of the problems is the interface through which we access these tools. I know when I walk into a Walmart that I'm dealing with a huge organization and if I accidentally break something while I'm walking through an aisle, I don't necessarily feel that bad. If instead I was walking around in a mom-and-pop store and broke something, I would apologize profusely and demand that I pay them for their troubles.

When accessing open source projects, there's no visual trigger that makes me subconsciously distinguish between downloading tensor flow that's being developed by Google or some small personal project. It all looks the same.

The same thing goes for music, graphics (e.g. iconography, fonts, ...), and even things like physical products on Amazon - it all feels the same.
My startup has 0 MRR and I’ve been working on it for 7 years. What should I do?
> importantly, for all SSDs, disable write-cache buffer flushing for best performance.

Is this actually good advice, especially without mentioning the durability risks?
Like what Facebook's cofounder did right before the IPO.
IoT is only a part of embedded, and no it's not anything with a micro-controller and an internet connection.

Aerospace, automotive, automation and self driving, oil and gas, power... all of those employ thousands of embedded engineers. Saying the nav systems for a plane, a satellite, an electric car of a self driving system are "IoT" only because they have a network connection and you can pull and push stuff to them from the Internet is a a stretch.

There's also a lot of consumer electronics that are not IoT, like peripheral software for laptops and consoles, appliances, audio, musical instruments, toys, displays and signage, etc...
Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope
I understand now. The issue basically comes down to pensions not being pre-funded, right? Although one could argue that by paying a substantially lower salary than the private sector, they are sort of funding the plan by saving money now.

It seems the real answer to this would be to have a more generous version of social security at the federal level. And the interim answer is to switch to defined contribution pension plans at the local level, I suppose. Though one thing I don't understand is how governments plan to attract workers when they pay substandard salaries and don't even offer very generous benefits anymore. I was looking at government jobs with the city here (which has a defined contribution pension pretty similar to a 401k), and across the board it was so much worse than any private sector job I've worked.
Slingbox can't grant anyone else the right to distribute source code they don't have a copyright for, either. They could release it, but then everyone else could be just as liable as them if they redistributed it. It would be DMCAed to death (nobody would dispute it, since Slingbox is defunct). It doesn't just become public domain, it's still closed-source.
In other words, if we could exploit you even more, we would. But it's against the law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtjTRTKHDjg
The discoverability and querying part of GraphQL seems to be a net loss, and the RPC part seems to be a net win. I think REST is going to lose some a big chunk of its popularity, but that it will be to gRPC, not GraphQL.
If by any chance all modern processor manufacturers simply cease to exist at the same time (e.g. WWIII happen and those manufacturers are marked as strategic target and destroyed), I wonder how long it would take for us to get back to the same level of tech. 10 years? 20 years?
Goldman Sachs Open Sources Its Data Modeling Platform
My idea that I’ve bandied about here a few times would be to create some kind of a semantic database (not based on relational algebra). All tooling could deal with this rather than the text of the source code.
Great article that matches my experiences: running with max_connections=100000 is not an issue when you have more than enough ram, the problem is the idle connections that you are tempted to tolerate (after all, you've got lots of RAM, so why bother?) linearly decrease the TPS even if nothing is done

pgbouncer does help, but brings in unneeded complexity.

postgres 14 should offer an "alternate" port doing essentially what pgbouncer does, next to the regular port.

Typical usecase: a large fleet of IOT devices with a write-only access to a central database, feeding new data every second. No visibility of the current transactions is needed.
HTTPS (SSL) is end-to-end encryption, right?
Case in point, these poor things ...

"Denmark to cull millions of minks after mutated coronavirus spreads to people"

- https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/05/denmark-to-cull-millions...
Are there US citizens here who wouldn’t take dual EU citizenship if it was offered to them? Taxes and social stability aside, Europe is full of nice places to visit, do business, and live. The value of being able to do these things without restrictions seems self-evident. I don’t see why you’d presume a nefarious motivation.
Sand isn't soft, at least when you land on it.

As young man I tried jumping down a steep dune ~100+ meters tall. My plan was to run, jump and roll all the way down. I got enough speed and air that I was about 2m up, which is high enough even at steep slope landing on sand to knock the wind out of you. And then I rolled, and bounced, and each bounce hurt. It was like whoosh, oww, bounce, owwww, bounce, owwww, etc. Also, sand in every orifice.

Moral victory: I probably lost 60m altitude rolling.
> From a raw ingredients standpoint plant based food should almost always be cheaper than animal based food

Genuinely curious: is it though? I can certainly see the strength of the argument if we're merely comparing 1 lb of soy vs 1 lb of beef, but my understanding is that veggie burgers require quite a bit of processing to become "meat-like". It'd be interesting to keep track of cost and environmental impact differences between a low-tech soy-tasting patty vs an impossible burger.
You can do circular structures like doubly linked lists in Rust. You can do them efficiently. But you do need to use "unsafe". Of course you do, a moments thought shows you why.

It is not as "safe" as Rust without "unsafe" blocks, but it is still reasonably safe.

But circular structures are usually a bad choice.
I can't vouch for their current ones, but HP printers generally have great Linux support. Anything you can do with the printer under Windows, you can do under Linux, and sometimes you have more capabilities under Linux (such as scanning over the network).

The whole "ink as a service" debacle is ridiculous, but their normal printers with normal ink cartridges work perfectly.
It's just a thought experiment meant to highlight a common fallacy in how people think about p-values.
You could also buy print-jobs through an online service for forms and stuff, which is probably cheaper than buying a printer.

So why buy a printer at all? Well, because of the convenience factor primarily. Buying from a store (or online service) requires driving, and/or waiting for the mail to arrive.

When scrapbooking, or doing other projects with photos, its far more convenient to know that you have a printer that can instantly make a copy of any photo in your entire digital library. You don't necessarily know what photo you want yet, you may need to lay out a few pages in the scrap book before you know what you want.

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In any case, a "community printer", ie: the local library, is probably best for people who only need a few documents a year.

I think leveraging your local library resources is a skill that any adult should know how to do as well. When your documents grow beyond the ability for your local library, that's when you get your own printer.
I can't find my sources for this but I wrote a paper about it in University. The last time something like this was promised (by the previous Harper government), they made most of their progress by redefining "high speed" to be a barely usable speed, something like 3mbps if I remember correctly.
Looks like the CRTC has updated the definition again to be 50mbps down/10mbps up. Not ambitious at all compared to eg. South Korea and some European countries. But it is enough to eg. do video conferencing. So hopefully we can see some real progress. Northern communities experience a horrific digital divide due to their unusable internet speeds.
Vim and Emacs minimize magic, modern monolithic IDEs maximize magic. I think there is fundamentally no good reason why an IDE should be provided as one gigantic tool, because that's not how software works. You could say Vim and Emacs aren't IDEs, they're platforms for composing IDEs. Software engineers swear by these platforms because their very structure is exceptionally well-aligned with the sort of high-quality software they want to build.
I'm intrigued.
Not sure how that gets you free ink though - I presume printer tracks usage in software through what it prints and logs that against the chip to guess what's in the associated cart.
So if say I switched the chip on my instant ink cart for a 'regular' chip I won't be charged for printing, but once that cart's empty they won't send me a new one as the 'instant chip' thinks it's unused.
Or if I put the instant chip on a regular cart, I'll be charged for printing, but I'll be left with ink in.. nope, can't work it out.
He got more minority votes than any other republican though.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/04/despite-racist-charges-trump-d...

"Nationally, preliminary numbers indicated that 26 percent of Trump’s voting share came from nonwhite voters — the highest percentage for a GOP presidential candidate since 1960."

"Kids now freed from facilities" The same people who worried about cages will be as silent about Biden using them as they were when Obama made and used them.
Do you have any articles or any info on why they decided to stop using Rust? I remember seeing things about them using Rust but never saw anything about them not using it and I'm curious.
In my org we frequently run Bayesian regression fitting on datasets of millions of samples.

The key is: don’t use pymc or stan for large data, just actually write your own MCMC code and write log likelihoods for your own models. It’s very easy and very fast, even in Python.

We do still use pymc and stan for other, smaller modeling tasks.
The same advice applies to REST.
> Traveling FROM the US is the problem, regardless of where your passport is from.

Which is why he would be traveling from Cyprus
Yeah, it's not like we've already developed and deployed hundreds of vaccines safely. This new vaccine could turn out to suddenly kill people exactly 5,263 days after injection, death from a sudden super-herpes rash. Better wait it out just to be sure.
I did and it's never good enough for me. I just re-did my last non-trivial search on ddg and none of the first page results were useful.
Rust will not change drastically in the next six months. The ecosystem is moving fast.
I'm all for it, but I don't think posting it on a website is going to suffice. Get the EFF behind it, get others experienced with lobbying behind it, then it might get some momentum.
Yeah I agree it'll never be mainstream for gamedev. Haskell is not really built to have runaway adoption. It's a strength as much as it's a weakness.

But I think it'll allow me to be insanely efficient as a gamedev. So I'm a Haskeller-turned-gamedev. Not a gamedev-turned-Haskeller.

Haskell performance and memory usage is kind of like JVM programming. You need a mental model of how GHC and its RTS & GC operate. Having frame-oriented code honestly makes it easier to reason about. We Do need more learning materials about this stuff, but first we need more experience!

But idt it's any different than using GC for gamedev. And manual memory management is well within Haskell's capabilities.

Haskell profiling IME makes space leaks very obvious. That's a too-common paper cut, but once you get cut once you don't make the mistake again :)
If they don't have the right to distribute the source code, then "open source the code anyway" doesn't really do any good. No one else will be licensed to use it even after the company discloses the code to the world. It would just be like if a hacker broke in and released their source code.
> Some health departments have taken it upon themselves to arrest people that won’t sign documents.

Which health departments, what documents, and how many people?

And how did they get arrest powers?
"pious" is a term of art in parliamentary systems that means that its a feel good motion eg "this house believes that kittens are cute".
> This is not a tax dodge

I bet he is well into only paying capital gains territory. Like Warren Buffet who said he pays less than his secretary [1]

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secret...
>>Brother is a typewriter and sewing machine company

Do you think they still have any mechanical engineers working on typewriters? Which industry still has a need/requirement for typewriters?
How is north america not an island?
Look at the map of where responses to that survey came from in the city; it's like a 2015 Uber service map, a map of where people of color don't live.
Try putting it inside another function and then return the string_view before printing. The behavior will be more interesting. The first time I got "V", then consistently "f" or "+" after that.

A lot of C++'s (and C's) memory "fun" doesn't readily appear when you're inside a particular function because the memory (like here) is on the stack. So your behavior within that function scope looks like what you want. Then you start returning values and, oops, something was a reference to memory on the stack. In which case it more or may not work depending on what else has happened between the value being placed on the stack and its use (I had to run a fun crash course for EEs on stack vs heap, when your only programming experience is a bit of Matlab this is not a topic you'll be familiar with).
That's a different line of reasoning, and it falls under the category of "regret the previous laws".

The solution for the future is to try to harder to make good laws in the present rather than somehow retroactively change the past.
Last time I had to edit a huge file vim failed and vscode succeeded. Is there some special mode you need to be in while using vim on huge files?
given that a behavior in a race condition can be undefined, he or she may have been right. You might get the merely delayed behavior your want now, but something else on a future version of the compiler.

Perhaps you are aware of all these subtleties and knew it was ok in this case.