skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obvious solution is to tax high earners more than low earners. If the inequality is increasing anyways, increase the amount of tax the high earners have to pay, and lower the one for low earners.

But if you're one of those high earners (that let's say works at Deutsche Bank) who sit in an office, you're not gonna write a proposal for higher tax for yourself. So instead you focus on those other people, who are "stealing" your salary by not having to go to the office anymore.
From the source (https://github.com/schlae/snark-barker/blob/6b967f8c165fedcb...):

const char *names[] = {"Snark Barker", "Snood Bloober", "Sound Baster",
"Sad Bluster", "Sod Duster", "Sand Duster",
"Sun Buster", "Sound Sphincter", "Sound Stinker",
"Sound Bladder", "Sound Bleater", "Sow Blaster",
"Snud Bluffer", "Snard Blarger", "Snorp Blorper",
"Sud Buggler", "Snot Blotter", "Sneet Beeper",
"Snoot Booper", "Soup Blooper", "Snout Flouter",
"Snake Baker", "Spung Bunger", "Star Barper",
"Snood Booger", "Sound Barker", "Sound Basher",
"Snort Snorter", "Ear Blaster", "Sound Bluster"};
But then you get worse CPU and GPU performance. What a choice.
Yeah, the analyst's conclusion seems to be very dumb/unworkable...

What if monthly public transport tickets (if we're talking about places with public transport) and lunch subsidies are added to employees' benefit packages, but if you work from home these will be reduced at a pro-rata basis (WFH 40%? You only get 60% of that money)...
It looks like InfluxDB is going to target general-purpose analytical workloads. It would be interesting to look at how InfluxDB will compete with ClickHouse in this space.
I wonder who is supposedly doing the "real" research, then?
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Maybe a "Paircast[0] for lecture notes"-type application could help with this. Records audio, maybe even transcribing it (if high enough quality), while also tracking how the notes relate to the audio across the time of the lecture.

As for lectures in the past, it is a shame we may have lost them, as it seems to me (purely speculatively) that the lectures from the 70s and 80s seemed to make a whole different class of programmers to the ones of today. Or maybe it was the tinkering and not the lectures, who knows.

[0] https://paircast.io/
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We also need a name for those who wish to ruin everything good with taxation.
"Zukon, SolidWorks, Catia and Altium don't run on Macs." -- Windows does: https://support.apple.com/boot-camp.
Just in relation to the connection of technological advancement, porn and sexualized violence: There is also a great (and frankly frightening) podcast episode by Sam Harris with Gabriel Dance about child sexual abuse and how the Internet has played a huge role in making it an even bigger problem: https://samharris.org/podcasts/213-worst-epidemic/
DB is an international company. The analyst in question seems to be UK-based.
re cyborgs

Yes, and... "Continuity of the Mind" sounds complimentary to, an update to, Norman's Things That Make Us Smart and McLuhan's Understanding Media.

https://www.amazon.com/Things-That-Make-Smart-Attributes/dp/...

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Media-Extensions-Marsha...

--

We geeks are truly well served by the seminal texts, the classics. I'd heard about cybernetics second hand. But I was already a cyborg, taking the modern world for granted. Reading the source blew my mind. Somehow the impact of progress were clearer to the observers present during the transition(s).
People who can work and kept their jobs already pay more taxes than people who couldn't and lost their jobs. I'm not against supporting people who find themselves in dire straits. But that is already happening.
Exactly! We've built an unsustainable system around consumption by the smaller lot of creators. COVID only exposed it.
One word: Amazing.

How was this done? Raytracing? If yes, what was the resolution of the spacial data?
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Completely agree with this. I've wanted to test type A logs, and often heard people saying that "you should never test logs"
No - you should never test most types of logs - sometimes logs, particularly in error situations, are part of the output of a function.
I really have no clue what apple is thinking with regards to the touchbar.

Why should any developer spend time developing sorely lacking features for the touch bar, when they just released the most popular mac without one?

The only way I can make sense of the decision to release the air without a touch bar, is that it must be really expensive to manufacture and they were struggling to hit the $1000 price point.

As a result the touchbar lives in this weird limbo state. Apple themselves clearly are uncertain what they want from it, and it shows. Since its release the touch bar has been left mostly abandoned and it’s been up to third party developers to make it useful.

It can be useful, at least after heavy customization – something a screen lends itself well to. Why isn’t apple doing more to help users customize it?

macOS comes with an application called Automator. Automator is confusing for power and regular users alike and as a result, nobody uses it. Why not rethink Automator completely with the touchbar in mind? Bring the power of programming to regular users with an easily accessible ‘create your own button’ feature that lets users add custom commands accessible from their touchbar?
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I guess that still need to trust Signal's centralized servers, located in the USA, to not give away your metadata ?
Straw man. I never said the taxes should cancel out their entire gains.
Yeah, no, 30 Africans? Fucking no way, let's just let no one in, better for you and me.
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> We want to give people an economic incentive to go out and mix with people in the middle of a pandemic.

No, but we do want to incentivize those essential workers who are risking their health and who are often at or barely above minimum wage. Workers at long term care homes, grocery stores, schools, et cetera.

But such a plan is only superficially similar to the crazy Deutsche Bank plan.
I think you (and users like you) are simply not the target customer for Apple anymore. They used to aim for the professional market segment, where people are using multiple displays, need external GPU for creative work and other external gear, and computers that don't throttle their CPU that easily.

But if the last few years of Apple's new hardware is telling us anything, is that Apple is now strictly casual-oriented, and if you're in any capacity a professional, you need to start thinking about getting a PC again.
> are the controllers for these also all integrated in the chip?

Yes, in the unveiling video they showed the thunderbolt controller as one of the things they'd put in the SoC. I'm not sure if this is reflected in the documentation, but in the video itself it was pretty clear.
[Warning Advice from a Beginner]

I started self learning Maths (number theory) this year from scratch I am extremely slow but I am progressing. My advice is take a textbook of the kind of maths you want to learn and skip the theory jump straight to the exercises do them and compare the answers, if your answers are wrong then read the theory. Also when doing exercises you can reference the theory but don't read the theory alone.

One thing that will block you is notation, if you are a coder Math As Code [0] is great way to decode the advanced Mathematical symbols, It helped me start reading math:

[0]- https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code
Go HERE:
https://youtube-dl.org/
and download the youtube-dl.exe file directly
this will give you the 2020.11.01.1 version
https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl.exe
When I did my MBA, I was supposed to read a lot of articles on the subject and then form my opinion from them. That was too much work, so I just searched for articles that supported my existing opinion. A lot easier. I never failed to find supporting evidence for my opinion. I originally supposed that this meant I had correct opinions. I've since learned that actually this means there are supporting articles for almost any opinion on a subject.

Having sources doesn't eliminate bias.
Greenpeace is to the environment what Peta is to pets ( https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/peta-taking-pets/ )

Smaller, safer, mass produced (and low start time) reactors is one way that fission power could make a comeback.
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I read it and I still disagree strongly.

As an employer I would have an incentive to request works to show up in the office in order to not pay that tax.

Let’s say for a big company scaling down workspace they can offset the tax. For smaller companies it might actually be more cost effective to keep the office and demand works to come in.

Also why should anyone subsidise someone because their job requires them to be physically somewhere?
Also why stop there? Why not tax ppl who have a less stressful job? Or less mentally demanding? Or less physically demanding? And then distribute that tax around.

Honestly, I chose to be a CS because I can work from home. That was the one thing that made me switch from medicine or experimental physics. Why should I be put in a worse situation because of that. And finally I have invested heavily into creating a room in my flat that acts as an office: Multiple monitors, desk, chair, servers, gigabit internet, etc. This contribution to the economy would not have happened if I was not WFH.
As a reviewer, it’s when you see one of those papers where the impact is not so clear, and at best is extremely incremental or just a slightly different take on something that has already been done. You can tell a grad student spent a lot of effort to come up with this. If you reject it, you’re just going to make his/her graduation that much harder. It’s like looking at a very involved homework. The alternative is to gatekeep the field a lot more and make people drop from their PhD midway through.
Are you sure your parents weren’t just pretending to be flabbergasted? I was a kid in the seventies and it was pretty common knowledge that Lucy was a drug joke despite Lennon’s insistence that it was just based on a drawing his kid did.
What I don’t understand is why they need to be placed so close to a water body?
I work in a ML ecosystem ATM and concurrency is a major problem in python:

- Threads can't be used efficiently because of the GIL

- multiprocesses has to serialize everything in a single thread often killing performance. (Unless you use shared memory space techniques, but that's less than ideal compared to threads)

- You can't use multiprocess while inside a multiprocess executor. This makes building things on top of frameworks/libs that use multiprocess a nightmare... e.g try to use a web server like over something like Keras...

Those are the top reasons I don't like python but if you got appetite for more:

- The dependency ecosystem is a pita, between python versions, package versions pinned or unpinned, requirements.txt, pipenv, poetry, conda... pick one and you're still sure to get into issues with other tools needing one system of another, or packages working a bit differently in conda etc... (I use poetry, with conda or pyenv)

- The culture of let's write code easily is good to start with but it becomes a problem as people especially maybe in DS don't go further then that... and you end up with bad practices all over the place, un-testable code (the tests systems are also a pain to navigate), copy & pasted blobs etc... Reading the code of some major libraries doesn't inspire confidence, especially compared to like Java, C++, go...

And last note I've seen way better emacs setup for python and presentations, it's ok as it is but I would not call it a Jimi Hendrix of python like a comment said...

I wish ML/DS would switch to Julia
That is a cool idea! Why don't you post it as a Show HN?

That way you will be able to link to your website. That's where people who are interested in giving reviews on new projects would be looking.

It is ok to do a new post as Show HN for the same.
It's much more likely that this comes from a PR team aiming to achieve commercial goals of Deutsche Bank.
> dual screens

> touch screens

> vapeor chamber cooling

...Thank you apple for not listening to the HN crowd
With an alternative analogy, pushed to the limit, it's like trying to change someone's mind by appealing to the neuron. When there's a system advanced enough to exhibit adequate emergent behavior (which most big companies probability are), the subsystems are less and less important for the macro-system's outcomes. There are neural networks with fewer neurons than the population of the corporate leadership at Zoom that we still don't really understand.
It's worth noting that Rolls Royce does have quite a bit of experience with operational small reactors in nuclear submarines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_PWR
1. As with books, the physical media doesn't actually cost a lot under most circumstances vs. paying for the person or people who are attending boring meetings, interviewing people, and writing stories.

2. A lot of local once you get out of urban neighborhoods and dense suburbia doesn't even have a lot of businesses.
That's fair. Personally, I used the tactile function keys for exactly six things (brightness up/down, volume up/down, mute, play/pause). Those six functions are now available on my touchbar. They're no longer tactile, which, yes, is a minor inconvenience. I wouldn't use a touchscreen for touch-typing code, of course. But for a handful of buttons way off the home row, it doesn't affect me much.

In exchange, I get to add other buttons which can also display customizable state. Yes, zoom has a global shortcut to toggle the mic. The problem is, the mic state is not visible on your screen unless the zoom window is visible. This is a frustrating design flaw IMO, which really should be addressed in some consistent way across every phone/video app. But, it's not, and so I need to pay attention to my mic state. My touchbar button toggles the mic, and displays the current mic status. I would imagine that every phone/video chat app is similar.
Slides are from 2016 -- perhaps put that in the title.
I am very curious about the other products that can be seen on the desks. Which brands / products are the various electronics equipment, table work mat, white and black table lamps visible? Is there anyone who can name one or more products? Thanks in advance!
4 digit maybe, 4 bit would just be 16 different combinations.
Daytime usage of residential internet connections? I'd be surprised if ISPs didn't have a record of that already.
If Greenpeace was full of scientists that understood nuclear power (not weapons), I'd take them seriously.

Instead it's full of people that get their science from tabloid newspapers and facebook.
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Taxes have many purposes, and one of them is incentivizing preferred behaviors. Why should we discourage working from home? Is wasting a significant part of your life commuting to work really that good for the society? It's certainly not for the environment.

Also, there are many hidden drawbacks of working from home – it's more socially isolating, the work-life balance suffers, setting up a home office may be costly. I can imagine such a tax making working from home not worth it for lots of people.
Not everyone has a broadband Internet connection worth that label or adequate phone service.

The mandate to publication in the local newspaper in laws is precisely to account for as wide and barrier-free distribution as possible.
If you do that, Zukon, SolidWorks, Catia and Altium vendors will tell you to piss off if you want support because the hardware isn't ISV certified.
They're water-cooled.
ToS are regularly found to be legally void by courts.
No man, let's build this thing rapidly using Kanban and the nodejs equivalent of nuclear energy technology. They'll have one whipped up in two months. Soon there'll he one of these hunks of metal in every neighborhood!
Free cooling. And it needs to be a sea, and not a river. France's nuclear power stations have had problems during the recent hot European summers because the river water warms up too much.
Where does the US store highly radioactive waste from the nuclear plants?
I came here to say that it was about commercial real estate incentives and glad to see someone pointed it out. Seems like the obvious reason why someone would suggest such an otherwise ludicrous idea, backed up by such fallacious reasoning. It’s a bit of an insult that they believe anyone would fall for it.
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They need large amounts of cooling water in order to function. Thats what the huge cooling towards are for.
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I agree with this mostly but what about the following:

Tax a very small % for automation at grocery stores. Low enough tax so that it is still profitable to automate checkout but also so that you don’t get a huge dump of unemployed ppl on the street.
That's the point. It's the companies that are little known that get squashed. I don't know much about the space, but I tried Google and chose zoom instead because it was easier— and I pay for Google. I tried Jitsi. But what about the ones we haven't heard of, struggling to solve the problem that Zoom lied about solving, but because they're honest they never took that step forward.

It's like RealPlayer. By the time the courts catch up, the game is over.

Several people are on zoom instead of Google, for instance, even though I pay for Google. I don't know the other players in the space.
Some of us are power users don't have a choice in what computer our work provides us with and many companies just buy the absolute base level MBPs, "cos it's Pro right, says it right there on the box so its good enough"
> Shitty design ... Chlorophyll is immensely inefficient

A simpler explanation is chlorophyll is balancing energy production vs. safety.

Instead, for a safe, steady energy output, the pigments of the photosystem had to be very finely tuned in a certain way. The pigments needed to absorb light at similar wavelengths to reduce the internal noise. But they also needed to absorb light at different rates to buffer against the external noise caused by swings in light intensity. The best light for the pigments to absorb, then, was in the steepest parts of the intensity curve for the solar spectrum — the red and blue parts of the spectrum.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduc...
It looks like what Apple did was take their cellphone Arm processors. Do the minimal changes to get it to work in a laptop, and jammed that into laptops they already had.
Which seems to me, to be the right strategy, but you do then end up with some weird limitations. I expect these issues to be sorted in the future generations of Apple silicon laptops.
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Bit of a problem if you want to write iPhone or Mac apps though...
The problem is that there's a subset of the population that thinks taxation is inherently good and blindly goes along with the people who propose taxes for their own benefit and the people who propose taxes as a lossy way to legislate away behaviors they don't like but could never get the support for actually legislating away. The result is a baseline support for even the dumbest taxes that is too damn high. This makes bad policy seem like it has actual support when it's just the mechanism of the policy (taxes) that has support.
Overreaction much? Last I checked the vast majority of their devices are sold with Intel chipsets. So if having multiple displays while running your MacBook Air for "professional work" is a deal-breaker then you can just get a different Mac. M2 chips and later will obviously support multiple external displays. Not everyone needs to be an early adopter. Sheesh.

As a "professional", getting a PC is a deal breaker. It's not a Mac. It doesn't run macOS. That's the whole point.
In any case, an RBMK would still be very safe. They're well tested and we know not to do the thing that makes them explode.

Additionally, you could just not skip the containment dome like the builders of Chernobyl did.
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WTF. That's insane. Instant dealbreaker.
$10/year as a subscription to an online service, probably not. Especially when it's a paywall. But 25c for a copy of an actual paper newspaper once a week? Sure, a lot of people will. Businesses will buy 5 copies to put in their reception area.

It's weird how the online vs print business models change (source: I ran a newspaper for a while).
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I see what you are saying but the connotative meaning of experience is not that. At least not in the media I consume. Usually experience means "I have been in that situation" but it does not take into account how the person arrived there. It's like trying to do a simulation without knowing any starting condition
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Nuclear should do a big comeback. It is time to develop a better fission energy and more efficient reactors. I understand that we were traumatized by what happened in Chernobyl but that was almost 40 years ago, we should unlock investments and the science to bring this technology to the future.

At least if we want to go zero emissions and save the planet, that is.
In managable containers that you can bury underground?
But I assume the SoC or the processor itself does have PCIe expansion ports, right? Internal GPUs should in theory work should the part be sold by itself.
I wish more people believed this. The number of lines of code I've seen written of pointless unit tests is staggering.

If your code is mostly passing data around and managing side effects a unit test is more like a parasite. It will couple to your code and fail noisily when refactoring but not provide any actual useful feedback.
If the employer finds a way not to pay Z - do they give it to you? (No they don’t)
I think of "plain old" as meaning "not having dependencies on any framework" as opposed to "not inheriting from anything" or "not having logic".
I wonder if it would be feasible to release a product with different classes of memory. So you'd have the 8GB or 16GB in the M1 chip + an extra 48 GB elsewhere one the board.

Obviously the M1 memory would be faster, but e.g. Xbox series X has 16GB memory of which 10GB is considerably faster than the remaining 6GB.

So I guess it becomes a software challenge then... can they make the necessary changes to MacOS to manage different classes of memory efficiently?
not much different from France's Carrefour or Auchan supermarkets selling their own brands on their shelves, but this time it's happening online. Am I wrong to make this analogy?
Well proliferation is a constant bogey man but sadly far too much politics is involved that seems to insure it occurs more often than not. Just that the world tolerates North Korea should be example enough that politicians would rather look the other way and hope nothing goes boom.

That ten year lead time seems to be excessive for announcing at this time unless its more of a trial balloon - looking to gauge public and political reactions before sinking more money into it. Renewable combined with storage solutions cannot guarantee one hundred percent coverage and I doubt they ever will. However a well connected grid with wind and solar spread across the country as a whole can minimize some of the effects of weather.
Someone posted this on HN: https://medium.com/technicity/big-banks-are-at-the-front-cen...

Deutsche Bank placed number one in money laundering.
> if large corporations can come around to the idea of giving the govt an unlimited backdoor to their internal communications, say good bye to any/strong encryption for the average person.

You mean like what happened with PRISM ?