skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To everyone saying, "this will kill low wage jobs", most companies already outsource their low wage jobs. Their janitors and cooks and maintenance people are already via contractors. Their lowest paid employees are most likely their admin assistants at $50K a year.

So basically this is targeting companies whose CEOs make over $50M a year, which is basically Twitter, Pinterest, Google, Facebook, Uber and a few others that actually have an office in San Francisco.

And I'm sure Google and Facebook et. al will fight them over how much money they "make" in San Francisco.
for me, the basic keybindings are what matter. I use a full fledged ide, but still have vim bindings. When you become comfortable enough, editing becomes quicker and more in line with my train of thought. Thought->action->code change becomes very quick
There's no value in rotating them. Wallet keys are essentially random. Keeping it in one wallet doesn't increase the chance of the key being discovered.
I thought you allowed to send messages to guerilla addresses only, but you allow to send messages to the rest of the world? If you intend it only for replies, maybe check that inbox has a message that passed DKIM verification, aged no more than 4 days.
LAW ENFORCEMENT NOW SEIZES MORE PROPERTY FROM CITIZENS THAN BURGLARS: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/law-enforcement-now-seizes-mo....
They don't need to be 100% sure at all. The whole point of the startup is to get ridiculously rich.
Are you still in school? If yes, well just take RAM into consideration next time. If no, get your boss to buy you a decent laptop immediately.
I had a 5s die at one point, it got reset to the point where it needed to activate, and couldn’t.
That's not the use case here. The process you are describing leaves us vulnerable to the government and state actors who can access your bank accounts, see the records, and steal your money. We have absolutely no reason to allow government in to our finances, so we must do things like this.

With crypto, the only way the govt is doing that is if they coerce you. Try that with a "bank account".
I have lived in San Francisco since 2005. Over the time I've lived here, we've had the opposite problem: lots of highly paid tech firms moving into SF. This has changed the nature of San Francisco in a way that many dislike, including me. I was initially attracted to San Francisco because, it was chill, it was beautiful, and it had a lot of eccentric, really interesting people. Many of our good friends had to leave over the years as SF has becoming more unlivable because rents have gone up so much, and also it's just not as fun, it's crowded and stressed.

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

These issues are complex.

I voted yes on Proposition L: the tax is quite small and I think the tech firms are unlikely to leave, meanwhile SF can get more taxes from them (many of them were historically given tax breaks, like Twitter, to move into the mid-market area). If they do leave, I don't see that as a bad thing.

Meanwhile socioeconomic disparity is an oozing sore in San Francisco, we have billionaires rubbing elbows with homeless people every day. Nationally, we've had round after round of tax cuts for the wealthiest, if SF wants to tax excessive income disparity, I say, fair enough.
The cloudflare and google catcha are terrible. It's so bad that at this point I just close the tab if they challenge me with it. I use Brave and always have Shields UP, it seems having it up makes the captchas extremely difficult. Mission accomplished I guess.
The impact of mobile app performance on user experience
That is the point of optimal tax theory: maximize revenues while minimizing downside.
I use userstyles to browse in black and white, 11px regular font, and no images:

https://userstyles.org/styles/137906/s-somesites-black-white
https://userstyles.org/styles/107911/o-small-text-hide-images

Less colorful websites -> less time browsing.
Is this go only?
- take out a loan (or borrow) money

- slowly buy bitcoins on exchanges over several years

- destroy the wallet with 1B publicly ( I assume here it is possible. I heard of possibility to transfer to reserved/impossible wallets )

- wait a bit for the exchange rate to go up

- sell your previously bought bitcoins

- pay back the loan

Edit: OK, maybe $1B is too small for this scheme to work. But if the wallet would contain say 50% of all bitcoins this would be a possibility.
It's not a full rewrite, just an extension

The majority of packets on the internet pass through fairly hard-coded switching chips that probably couldn't be updated to handle this. They can handle IPv6, though.

If it were made truly backwards compatible

It can't be made backward compatible. Every switch on the internet needs to understand your new extended address scheme otherwise they'll send your packets to a dead-zone somewhere in Uzbekistan. Backward compatibility was never an option. As soon as you add new bits to the address, old routers won't send them to the right place.
You can obtain you Bitcoin with a portable power generator and satellite dish if you are on the move or cannot access conventional utilities.
There is the small fact that, once those platforms became antiquated, the population that constitutes "average users" also changed significantly, skewing vastly more toward the more technical end of the spectrum. They are therefore not valid examples to talk about here, IMO.
Skylake Client is "4 cycles for fastest load-to-use (simple pointer accesses) 5 cycles for complex addresses"

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylak...
A friend of mine runs a business servicing fork-lifts and similar vehicles. Mostly old propane or diesel powered fork lifts. When people ask him for recommendations about replacing a dead machine, he recommends they go electric due to reliability. It's a bit counter to his self-interests because they do require a fraction of the maintenance.

He also owns several electric golf-carts he's tunes up for speed and light 4WD.
Because that's how founders make money. The vast majority of exits now are purchases by private equity firms, and they will do a thorough technical due diligence and look at those decisions and what it will take to run the company the way they want to. (I do those diligences for a living) If you're doing a tiny lifestyle company with no exit plan, you wouldn't. Which ironically, is exactly what I'm doing on my own time, so I use Scheme for that. :-)
Bringing in betting markets has nothing to do with the point, but you are right on one thing: if you had bet along with Nate’s odds in a simulation you’d lose money in a Monte Carlo simulator based on current results.

The end story is the polls weren’t a reliable measure of the vote. Their predictive ability was low, and even playing by the rules of Nate’s model you have to admit he was off by some 30% at minimum.

Nate’s model has the average PA poll at Biden +6 (!!) where the final result looks to be under 1 (and could go either way). It’s simply impossible to argue that was an accurate model.
The wallet was completely illiquid. No market would accept coins that were linked to it. You could exchange small amounts(like thousands of dollars at most probably) with in person transactions but then the government would know where you were when they track down the person you sold to. And they really want those billion dollars. Plus there's a non zero chance that the person on the other side of the in person transaction is law enforcement.
San Francisco voters approve first-in-the-nation CEO tax that targets income gap
Including the US of A
Exactly. And it's not really worth "millions" either. You might have a thousand acres at $2,000 an acre. But you wouldn't usually be able to sell it all at once at that price. Because few people have a few million on hand that they want to invest for a $50k annual return. (and that assumes you want to do a lot of the labor yourself.)
A gross receipt tax is relatively difficult to evade. A company generally cannot avoid the SF tax without also foregoing the associated SF revenue.
Yes and QAnon claims to #SaveTheChildren. It doesn't mean they're actually making good faith efforts. Specifically, facebook mentions calls to violence.
25,000,000!
When I started at my current C# job in 2009, I decided to choose (being the sole dev) WPF for the UI because it was the future. The future is now, I'm still coding in WPF!
Ok HN what the f is happening. Why are people minusing a question? like.. can i just know what is even wrong here?
That's a valid complaint, but at the same time it's not always easy to come up with a good name from the start. I often find myself putting in placeholder names for variables/functions because I'm really not sure what it's going to encompass by the time everything is finished.
IDE refactoring makes it easy to clean up names after spending some time with the feature and better understanding what the scope of each function is going to be.

It's great to pause and come up with meaningful names and I agree more developers should do it, but refactoring is a normal part of coding and I'd rather have an easy way of renaming things as the code evolves.
Anu: Version control software in Rust, written by Pijul developers
Hi Chrismorgan,

Could you please point me to some resource where the kind of abbreviation you show in the arc example are specified? I googled and couldn't find it.

Thanks!
Notably, Tesla didn't really go this route until the CyberTruck. The Model S and X are both quite normal looking. The Model 3 and Y as well. If they didn't have the smooth grill-free face, you'd never know they were electric.
Aside from occasional snark, I don't understand most of your comment, and certainly don't see any good points that support IPv6 over IPv4.

> This is 99.6% wrong. I guess v4 isn't _that_ simple, huh?

Apologies for not being concise enough, I thought my point would have stuck regardless... 192.168.x.x

You are correct though. Mistakes also happen with v4 and it's not simple to a laymen, but it is certainly simpler than v6.
Most motivated people with the means to scrape enough cash together to even try to start something dislike legislation and the idea of "redistribution" because usually these plans raise far less money than politicians think, but moreover the politicians coming up with these plans have already proven they have no clue how to spend taxpayer dollars.

To be frank, as a supporter of capitalism - I generally support the notion of high taxes in europe because the populations who pay these taxes clearly see HUGE societal benefits as a result of half their income evaporating. There also seems to be more respect of the people's money from these gov'ts regarding how they spend taxpayer money is spent and with a clear aim to help the people NOT partisan goals, wars etc. I may be incorrect here (open to correction) but it seems like US politicians (federally at least) seem entitled to taxpayer dollars. Most forget that until WW2 the idea of federal witholding simply wasn't a thing and many middle class families were flushed with savings.

Unfortunately, both sides are at fault in the US. The only way this is going to change for the better is to cease the cycle of one political party only pandering to it's base instead of motivated and able americans.
> That's some serious longevity

Well, yes, its better than your average Android vendor. But on the other hand Windows 8 was released 2012 (i.e. about a year before iPhone 5s), and is scheduled to get updates until 2023. That is pretty serious longevity. And supporting handful of Apple devices must be comparatively simpler than supporting the hodgepodge fleet of Windows 8 devices.
If you leave your car unlocked and the guy who stole it uses it to run someone over and leaves the scene, you should certainly be fined.
until Apple throttles the hardware with their software updates [1]

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/13/21322867/apple-iphone-bat...
So weird, I think the article has been almost entirely rewritten since it was first posted...
Nigeria’s poor power supply is hampering the country's development
Well, they probably want to dethrone GA just so that they can take their place, not to help humanity.

About your first point, maybe there is some GPT-3 AI that can read Terms & Conditions and make a summary of what personal data is collected, how is it used and if it's shared with third-parties.
This sounds like the setup to Graham’s Number. Are they connected, and if so, what’s special about Graham’s Number as compared to other Ramsey numbers?
How is it so fast and with tiny executables. My assumption is that even though this is BASIC, there is no REPL/SHELL like you would get with BASIC on a C64 right?
Taxes tend to increase price levels, not reduce them. Costs are passed through to every level.
Interview with Douglas W. Jones, a computer scientist at the University of Iowa and co-author of the book Broken Ballots

A fundamental flaw of direct-recording voting machines—that is, ones where you pull the lever on an old mechanical machine or you touch the touch screen on a modern one—all of those machines end up being completely impossible to audit. There’s no way to know whether the machine was honest or not, short of taking it apart and actually being able to inspect the mechanism. We have no good way of doing that with software. The complete lack of any auditable record of the count, so that you had to completely trust programmers, was a real problem. [But] the vast majority of votes in the U.S. today are being recorded on paper ballots that are filled in by hand. That makes me feel reasonably good. And furthermore, a growing number of states have some kind of an audit law.
Maybe many users would prefer a desktop app if they use it repeatedly, I agree. But if it's a website you just visit once, it's simpler and safer to just download 10MB of compressed data than to install an app.
Is there demand for this?

Most real complaints about git are around scalability of giant monorepos, and a lot of work has gone into various solutions.

The secondary complaints about usability seem to be papered over by popularity, and of course the relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1597/
I agree they shouldn't be seeking to grow their budget endlessly. Why do we accept that behavior from businesses? IME, they often effectively ruin their own products and do harm to society by attempting to extract the maximum benefit from market position. It seems that in many people's opinions they're just behaving as they should.
The larger design patterns build on that immutability on the local level. Inheriting the design patterns from Erlang/OTP also make larger programs much more feasible. I can be away from a piece of Elixir code for months and come back and the structure is usually pretty straightforward to pick up again. Primarily due to supervisor hierarchies combined with the lack of weird OOP hierarchies and entanglement.
Plus customers pay per wafer, so you have put different customers entirely.

TSMC themselves don't care how many chips gets made from a single wafer.
I think 'rearchitect' should be interpreted as 'redesign the UI', not as 'start from scratch'. Most big changes seem limited to the UI (and done as part of a Qt -> QML migration). And it looks they'll do even those piecewise:

> In order to get the release of 4.0 out as fast as possible, we will be porting over many of our less used interface elements and dialogs directly from MuseScore 3. The plan is to gradually replace these with redesigned versions (built in QML) in subsequent releases (4.1, 4.2, etc.).

That doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
The worst case scenario is a democratic super majority where CA and it's insanely mis-managed cities are bailed out by the federal government. Think GM Auto Bailout, but this time for an entire state...

This is coming from someone who's never voted for a single republican. Let's remember that [0] SF also just elected a DA who's parents were literally complicit in the Weather Underground bombings...

[0] - https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/san-francisco-voters-e...
Or securely send it over the internet for $12. Quite a bit cheaper than transferring $1B via the banking system.
> But I don't think you'll be asked these questions. What are your strengths and weaknesses? Why should we hire you? Come on, that's ridiculous

I’ve been on both sides of a lot of interviews. These are common questions.
Finding this format might be timely for me. I broke out my TRS-80 CoCo the other day and I've been trying to do some graphics work inside its constraints. Maybe this format, or a variation of it, could work for that.
The point is that the judge won't say, "Aha! You got me!", the judge will say, "Cute trick, now back to jail."
Normally, traceability doesn't extend that far (since generally unless you're the government you don't have the ability to determine the provenance of cash) but with blockchains, you can know if the money you receive is tainted, so it's possible that some jurisdictions might extend tracing to completely innocent parties.
In that Vein, so does USC. MSc in Quantum Information Science https://viterbigradadmission.usc.edu/programs/masters/msprog...
At face value, seems decent... and maybe (speculating) it will be throttled less than the current Intel processors?

To what extent can benchmarks be compared between different architectures?
I've done election clerking, which I highly encourage everyone to do. Here in SF, it's an entirely paper election, and at every precinct there is a ballot scanner. As people fill out their ballots, it gets scanned, tabulated (aka "counted"), then deposited in a locked box that's part of the machine. Your ballot has no personally identifying markings, and is now lost in a pile of other ballots. That is how ballot secrecy works in practice.

At the end of the night, the electronic tabulation is removed from the machine (CF cards), then given in a security sealed bag to a deputy officer who takes it to city hall to be summed up for the results. The paper results are organized, and put in security sealed bags, and given to a sheriff (person with gun), and locked into a van to be transported back to city hall.

So now we have the best of both worlds: fast results, and paper audit trail. Any precinct can be retabulated - just run all the cards thru a machine again. The mail-in ballots are processed separately, and once the envelopes have been verified, the ballots are put thru a tabulation machine as well. My understanding is city hall has a ballot tabulator for every precinct mail-in, and as they process mail they drop them in the appropriate machine. If a mistake was made - it's easily correctable because each ballot has the precinct number printed on it.

It's a very easy to understand system, that requires only basic elements of computer security. Cross checking a ballot tabulator for accuracy is easy. Recounting is easy.

And finally, for accessible voting, people use a tablet to choose their selections, then their ballot is printed out, which contains the summary of the vote, and a QR code the ballot machine scans.

Oh yes, and the ballot machine scans and keeps image files of every ballot. I'm not sure what they do with that, but there we go.

It's fascinating, and my experiences in the SF elections department gives me high confidence that the SF election, and any run like it, are very secure, and accurate.
I recall we also did a huge bunch of signatures electronically (like the disclosures) ahead of time.
Quantum Computing as as Service
> Not even remotely the same thing.

Well, Mt. Gox and Bitcoin?
Not even remotely the same thing.
At this point, it's impossible to get a single code-base for all types of platforms. I have settled on using electron for desktop applications and using react native + (swift, kotlin for specific features) for mobile.

Also I would like to avoid using anything Microsoft, if I can avoid it.
These appear to be old trucks. In the brochure there is a link to a YT video which then links to a playlist. This playlist contains the following video "Volvo Trucks - Say hello to the future - Volvo FL Electric & Volvo FE Electric" [1] which was posted on May 14 2018.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIIhkqRc-_Q
San Francisco is a combined city and county (the only one in California), so its budget includes things that would be in county budgets for places like Los Angeles and San Jose.

For example, SF MTA is part of the SF budget, but LA MTA is a county agency, and isn't part of the LA city budget.
I can only take the folklore article as accurate here, but it seems that it boiled down to timing and cost. They probably could've done it, but their existing BASIC project had already taken a couple years. If they'd elected to replace MS's BASIC implementation with their own, they'd have had a year or so to get it done. And failure would've been very costly.

Corporate risk tolerance comes into play at that point.
There is no such thing as inflation free money. Whatever you use the money on will see inflated prices. Governments and central banks decided to exclusively use the newly created money supply on assets even when those assets are already overpriced.

Inflation is merely what happens when demand exceeds supply. When people talk about inflation they do not just mean the increase in money supply but they actually talk about consumer inflation which is indexed through a basket of consumer goods. The money entering the economy is not driving up demand for consumer goods and therefore it results in no consumer inflation. There is no surprise.

Basically what we are seeing is supply oriented monetary policies in demand starved economies.

One should look at the reasons for why demand is decreasing and try to solve problems on the demand side.
Exactly. And there’s no reason to announce to the world that such cracking can be done when you can invent Individual X.
They aren't superficial. You aren't wrong in that assessment. But, you are ignoring how law works. Here's a little bit about that:

Criminal law is all about intent.

So, here's an example of the non superficial elements here:

Say, one gets the "gimme your coin" order, says no, goes to jail.

While in jail, the coins move, OK?

Person in jail cries, "Uncle!" and gives up the wallet.

Authorities find it empty.

Who had what intent?

If the intent is to circumvent the order? That's an additional crime period. It may involve others too, who may also be committing crimes. The intent will link it all back together somehow, and that's what the law will resolve. Crucially, the person supposed to give up coin won't end up with coin, because they are ordered to give it up.

If the intent was not to circumvent the order? Someone, somewhere did something with intent, and that intent will boil down to theft from law enforcement, who is entitled to that coin, due to the order. That person would now be a criminal, and on it goes. The person ordered to give up coin still won't end up with it, and someone else is now being hunted down for having stolen coins from law enforcement, who will do whatever it takes to end up with the coins so ordered to them.

Put in very simple terms, understanding intent and law can all look like this:

Say we find a dead person. Is that a crime?

If anyone else, other than the dead person, anywhere, intended that dead person end up dead, yes! It's murder. Could be for hire, vengeful, whatever.

Maybe someone was stupid. That's a different intent, and a different crime. Maybe it's manslaughter of some kind. Could be reckless, for example, or negligent.

If there was no intent associated with the dead person then there is no crime, and we've just, sadly, got a dead person.

Maybe the person stepped in front of a bus. That's suicide.

In all cases, there is a dead person.

Intent determines whether there are also criminals, what their crime is, and all that other stuff.

Make sense?