skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My next side project is completing the 101 bioengineering course from The Odin. I really want to have a basic understanding of what's going on in biology.

Someone here did something similar or can recommend some resources?
I beg you explain. First of all, what are you going to tax? Sales / VAT tax? Revenues? Profits? Why is the existing VAT inadequate for this? Is the new tax just going forward, or is it retroactive? How much is Germany specifically supposed to tax NASDAQ:ZM, incorporated in the US?

Why just tax Zoom — Cisco, Google, and others have meeting products too (I'm stuck on WebEx, eww) so why should they be treated differently?

And if we do that, what does it say that we tax this thing that helps keep the economy from collapsing in the current crisis, punishing it financially, as if we resent it and want less of it?
The colloquial term for this sort of defense is "JAQing off"; "I'm just asking questions, you can't get mad at me for just asking questions."
Science and academia are different.
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I think a PhD is a rewarding experience in its own right. It’s hard work but many worthwhile things are hard work.
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We should also tax people who bring there lunch or coffee to work depriving sandwich and coffee shops a sale
> your examples are not the issue discussed in the article

From TFA:

"By working from home, people aren't paying for public transport or eating out at restaurants near their places of work"

It's exactly what the GP comment referenced.
I used to run a Windowed OS with real multitasking on a 33MHz 486 DX with 4MB of RAM! Sure, apps are a little more resource hungry these days, but there's nothing about multitasking or windowing that inherently requires tons of RAM. An iPad could for sure enable full multitasking without any problems. Apple has made millions of laptops that ran OS X perfectly fine with less than 6GB of RAM. It's just that iPad users aren't accustomed to having to manually manage which apps are open at any given time.

I have a 2019 Macbook Air with 8GB RAM and it runs OS X fine for dev work. RAM compression and fast SSD storage make a big difference. The newer Macbooks will have even faster SSDs.

I think the main reason Apple don't want to add lots of RAM to the base Macbook models is that it's the wrong compromise between battery life and performance for most users. They are probably betting on continuing gains in SSD performance obviating the need for additional RAM.
I am also there. Ugly.
Also only a single external display (6K@60Hz) for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro as per the tech specs, which is a deal breaker for me. The Mac Mini supports one on thunderbolt also and a second at 4K 60Hz that has to be on the HDMI port.

https://www.apple.com/au/macbook-pro-13/specs/

“Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display in millions of colours and: One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz”
In the article, it says

> The tax would be paid for by employers and the income generated would be paid to people who can't do their jobs from home.

But somehow nobody in this thread seems to have read that sentence.
The difference is clearly explained but then the contractor (@brtkdotse) does the work of the consultant but as a contractor and reduced their own billable hours.

Business renewed the contract because they're realizing they're getting both roles for the pay of one.
The ideas are always around taxing the middle class, the hard working engineers, lawyers, doctors and sold to the masses as taxing "the rich", but in reality the rich never pay as much tax as middle class (as a proportion of income). Tax is often used as an instrument to discourage certain behaviour and this proposal seems to be also hitting engineers, but also people on lower income who for example assemble parts at home. It seems like the goal of DB is to discourage home working disguised as a help to those who cannot work from home.
It's kind of "we know better than you what is good and you must obey or give us your hard earned money."
Why people are not ashamed to put such proposals forward?
From [1]: "Many musicians have made songs referencing their heroin usage." That article provides references and examples.

What do Apocalypse Now and A Scanner Darkly have in common? Drug abuse (I use the term abuse because the usage turns out harmful in both works). Philip K. Dick (writer of A Scanner Darkly, and other science fiction) is known to have used e.g. amphetamine.

I would assume its because the authors are or have been recreational users as well. Heroin was used as medicine long before it was made illegal. Musicians used it, and wrote about the usage. A lot of the references are hidden, for example Alice D. in Wonderland or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. When I told my parents about that (they were teens/young adults in the 60/70s) they were flabbergasted. Its kind of like a wink or nudge, given drug usage or abuse being socially not accepted.

Edit: Another thing to add: Religions and traditions are full with drugs references as well. Find the mushrooms in old paintings of say Jesus Christ.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#History
I think the point they're trying to make is that the money you and your employer are saving is not going into the economy as it was before, which is having a net-negative effect overall.

> Quite simply, our economic system is not set up to cope with people who can disconnect themselves from face-to-face society.

So it's plausible that there is actually a problem here with the very sudden change of workforce distribution and how it affects society and the economy. But addressing it by simply taxing employers more for work-from-home jobs is definitely short-slighted. But in the short term it seems that something needs to be done to prop up the system because billions of dollars have left the economy overnight and it will likely never return.
To be fair, he was Flemish so he was already half way there.

He was also a Hapsburg, so he was already half way there on both sides of the family since they were both the same side to start with.
It's such a shame, the original Macintosh programmer manuals (from 30 years ago) - where superb. I can't remember the exact name so can't find them on the internet but they were Multi Volume A4/US Letter size, beautifully typeset and full of information.
re sharecropper

Usury, debt bondage, gig economy, aggregators. I think about this all the time.

The last stage capitalism flavored critiques hold no weight for me. I don't even understand what they're saying.

I want to hear about restoring and nurturing entrepreneurship, financing for cooperatives, fair profit sharing arrangements, community banking.

How did the Progressives and Good Government reformers talk about these issues leading up to The New Deal? I've been reading about those movements, but haven't gotten very far.

David Graeber and Clay Shirky make sense to me.

Recommendations, please.
To get clicks and sell ads, you know that.
Will R Work on Apple Silicon?
What's the most open security key right now? Best experience?
Build a kickass workstation for far less money: https://www.theserverstore.com/
It is scary that so many so called economists are strangers to the concept of opportunity cost...
It looks like that they need funds in emergency to save the project from further damages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25045573

Sure crowdfunding will probably not raise huge amounts but it can probably help a little and show our support to the project
The macroeconomics of this make sense, but the behavioral impacts of this could be damaging. For that reason, I'd rather see this framed as a tax credit for essential workers. It ends up being similar, but framed as a positive reinforcement instead of a negative punishment.
Eleven Years A-Go?
Computer model that can predict how Covid-19 spreads in cities
I don’t dispute the possibility, but it does beg the question of why that’s more likely than life developing on Earth?
Pay people who can't more, then tax them.
Doesn't this deepen the rift between people trying to make a living from it and independantly wealthy people focusing on learning ?

It can't be great to be pitted against people who can forgo money altogether.
Yes but those certain professionals can now only upgrade to 16GB on a MacBook Pro in 2020 which is shameful. Oh and it's soldered so you have to buy the beefed up version today, cannot upgrade the RAM 6 months from now.

Go look at a non-techie webbrowsing habits alone: they have 50 tabs open in chrome, some of which are months old. And they install all sorts of other crappy software, anti-virus, browser extensions. Some of them use Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer at the same time. And/Or if they use Slack/Steam/Spotify/VS Code/etc they are running another 300MB RAM per app.

If you are a programmer, try all that, with Visual Studio or Eclipse running, sometimes at the same time as Android Studio with an emulator running, maybe with a local postgres or sql server etc... it easily eats up that 16Gb. Oh lets sprinkle some docker/vagrant ontop..

Good luck if you are into video/image editing, 3d modeling, illustrating, CAD etc... then MacBook Pro's are basically the wrong tool for the job today, where it became very famous for being the right tool for the job in ~2010.

Same problem with Intel CPU's...they've been riding the wave of success of their initial chip redesign for 10 years and now AMD seems to be wrecking them every 6 months.

My problem with the RAM situation is that we've been paying ~$100 for 16GB for 5 years now.. instead of getting scale up to ~$100 to 64GB and down to ~$25 for a 16GB dim. The RAM companies riding the wave too at the moment. Luckily SSD's forced HDD manufacturers to up their game else we would've still paid ~$200 for 500GB hdd with 8mb cache, so now we at least have 10TB+ drives avail for consumers.
What I said originally was that everything is synchronized at some point.

You started talking about ordering and addition unprompted. Are you sure you meant to reply to this thread?
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The guy works at Deutsche Bank in London, this has nothing to do with Germany.
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Japanese town deploys 'Monster Wolf' robots to deter wild bears
I've mostly spent my career in Python/Javascript and recently jumped back into Go. How a Go programmer can use an interface to effectively mock another object feels very natural and core to the language, I like it.

(I'm probably using incorrect terminology here, so happy if someone corrects me)
So perhaps the system was broken (and punative measures against remote workers aren't going to fix it).

God forbid we question our banking system or other broken systems that have been brought into the light of day since COVID started.
Yeah it's not feasible at all to use external storage on a two port laptop. Dongles that allow you to plug in power and monitor are still just not reliable enough for storage, the only reliable connection I can get on my 2 port MBP is with a dedicated Apple USB-C to A adapter.

Shocked they're still selling the two port machine, it's been nothing but hassle for me as someone who has to use one.
The RNA had still to originally come from somewhere.

Big bang produced hydrogen and helium. Primordial stars converted those to heavier elements - carbon, nitrogen... and at some point in time between the first stars exploding and spreading the heavier elements into the universe, and now, the first RNA molecules were formed. What was the chemical process that produced them is the specific question here. Not where in universe this happened. Although that question is exciting as well.

Nothing stops from using Darwin's idea here as well - there was a puddle on a planet, somehwere else, long ago and far away...

Panspermia makes the argument actually more complex, not simpler. But it's not unlikely - space is apparently full of rocks from far away places.
Another thought, why not tax internet traffic instead? In a world where internet is driven by natural resources, be they spectrum, cables, or other, it makes sense to internalize the costs of those resources to the system.
Amazon Charged with Antitrust Violations by European Regulators
Preserve the status quo at all costs.

Is there a term for that?
It looks like Influx-IOx and Apache Druid have many common base building blocks. The main difference is that Influx-IOx is optimized for time series workloads, while Apache Druid is optimized for analytical workloads. While time series workloads can be treated as analytical workloads in most cases, time series databases usually provide specialized query languages such as Flux, InfluxQL, PromQL [1] or MetricsQL [2] that simplify typical queries over time series data.

P.S. Apache Druid should be compared to ClickHouse [3] or similar analytical databases.

[1] https://valyala.medium.com/promql-tutorial-for-beginners-9ab...

[2] https://victoriametrics.github.io/MetricsQL.html

[3] https://clickhouse.tech/
Levitt's discovery that income distribution within drug gangs is extremely skewed in favor of those at the top, seems very uninspired. The same is true for just about any company or organisation, so why should we be at all surprised that it also holds true for an illegal enterprise?

Now, the question of why a drug gang pays low-level members less than (say) McDonald's, is more interesting. Is it because gang members have a higher expectation of future wealth than McDonald's staff, i.e. McDonald's has worse career mobility than drug trading?

Your chance of rising from a burger flipper to McDonald's board or C-suite is effectively zero, whereas you might rise high in a drug gang (promotions might be faster if your bosses have a tendency to get shot or imprisoned!) So you could say that McDonald's has to pay its workers more to offset the smaller future wealth expectations.
That is like saying the materials the baker needs to bake bread cost 5¢. Why doesn’t the baker price his bread at 5¢?
So does natural stupidity.

It doesn't matter whether you come up with a stupid idea yourself, you get it from a stupid friend or from a stupid AI.

In the end, it's up to you to decide.

What's the point of this article anyway? To "prove" we need more regulation?
Dalek sized?
This reminds me of Shell (the oil giant, who had allegedly known for decades that they are pushing towards an environmental catastrophe but hid it actively for $$$) tweeting

> What are you willing to change to help reduce emissions? #EnergyDebate

I'm going to sound like a total commie, which I'm not, but when are people going to get fed up with companies/persons earning billions telling us that WE need to be paid less so that THEY don't loose money or are paid more.

What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Hah yes this is definitely a part of it. Remote working spreads money around the country rather than concentrating it in expensive city-centres where the rich have stockpiled property.

Good riddance to them.
Beyond a degree, what qualifications are needed to be an economist?
I cringe every time I see a plan of the form "tax x to help y", with some supposed relation between x and y as justification. Is x something we want to discourage? Does y need help the most? These questions are completely unrelated. If x is something we want to discourage, we should tax it, then think about how to best spend the money. If y needs help the most we should help, then think about whether to spend less on other things, raise taxes or go further into debt.
You act like this is the linchpin of the article.

It's not.

It's the fact that a BANK is suggesting that CUSTOMERS take care of THE BANK's problems.

Their piss-poor planning is not my emergency. And if it IS my emergency, you can bet that additional taxes will not be on the table as a fix. Getting rid of the banking system and replacing it with something that works WILL be on the table, though.
One could argue that since these services are no longer needed or as heavily utilized due to people being able to work from home, then the service as is isn't feasible anymore and will need to change, rather than taxing those who are no longer interested in partaking in this service.
The article continues to talk about 6 out of 7 of the UK's nuclear plants going offline by 2030. Given how slow UK infx projects - especially nuclear projects - move, I'd be surprised if these were online by then.
> If technology does not include some additional biometric property (blood vessel arrangement, unique capacitance?!, unique heat signature that will not change over time?! ...)

The fingerprint technology which is used appears to be from http://fingerprints.com/ . It means the tech is based on an "image" from capacitance, not optics. It also has what is called "liveness" detection - it will be able to differentiate between a dead object and a finger which is alive. So it would not even be enough to cut the finger off.
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Pretty sure my 2014 ish 13inch MBP with 16gb and 512 storage cost me around £1200, today speccing an M1 13inch MBP to the same 6 year old specs would cost almost £2000.

Seems absurd.
Well they're not building an RBMK reactor so Chernobyl is not really relevant since they are totally different type of NPP
In a lot of ways it's just punting the problem isn't it?
Work independently with $1k telescope from balcony? Why? This is completely out of context.

First I talked about data analysis and software development.

Secondly, even in observational astronomy, anyone can make proposal and get observing time on large instrument. Or rent 20" in Chile and use it remotely.
Of course, it depends entirely on your cohort/field.
My point was that it's extremely common for PhD students to just go through the motions and pretend to be doing impactful work.

There is at best a tacit approval of treating your studies as "pretend research".
At worst, depending on how the grants/scholarships are doled out and the personality of the supervisor, there is active pressure to go down a certain path that both you and your supervisor know will not produce impactful research but instead maximise your probability of publishing a "passable" thesis.

This is not in Lesbian Dance Theory, this is in the Faculty of Engineering at a top-ranked university in Australia.
Where did you see the Apple II? I saw the original Macintosh on the left, and the original Bondi blue iMac on the right.
Touch ID has been on the MacBook Air since 2018.
Frankly I'd be fine with simply stepping up the game against tax evasion. If corporations paid their fair share to begin with, we'd have a lot less issues like this to begin with.

In terms of concretely for this year (and not being a fiscal expert, just some rando on the web, as I'm sure you're aware) I see governments giving out help to people/companies in need, based on a comparison of current incomes/profits and last year's income in the same month. Not that that's perfect, but if it is workable, I don't see why this couldn't be generalized to the case where companies (or people, but that's probably a fringe) make significantly more profit now than last year around this time. Given the broad economic problems, that should separate out the winners of the crisis quite neatly.
Paired with possibility for individual recourse, that should bring in some decent tax revenue and leave room for people who feel their increase in earnings is nothing to do with the pandemic. Of course, those people would have to make the effort to defend that case, and might also stand in the "court" of public opinion as a result.

Apart from that, I don't see why it seems a foregone conclusion that e.g. rent will have to be paid in full. That basically says "we guarantee that whatever happens, people who are well enough off to own more property than they inhabit themselves will not bear the consequences." I don't think as a hard-and-fast rule that's fair either. Because the inversion of that is "whatever happens, we'll have it be paid by those who have the least already."
I propose to tax workers who are commuting to work but aren't required to for their job and causing increase in pollution.
Mathematicians already know that random selection is a powerful tool in fairness in electoral processes, the problem is with asking the modern democratic citizen and politician to accept a random process.
Worker always pays all tax. If you get X and pay Y tax and employer also pay Z tax, the reality is that you make X+Y+Z and pay Y+Z of tax, it just happens that Z is attributed to the employer, but it makes no difference. So if the Z increases, then X and Y will decrease or if X and Y stays the same, it only means you are now making more, but the difference goes to the state purse. Now if the increase goes beyond the budget allocated for salaries, the solutions are - increase the budget, make cuts, fire someone and if employer increases the budget then you just made a rise.
this!

when i started with computers, they had a few KB of L2 cache, L3 did not exist. Main Memory was a few MB.
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I tried Portacle, and my experience was utter frustration. Once you go astray, there's no way to know what is going on. It threw me into so sort of debugger, with no obvious way out.

Lispworks looks like exactly what I want, except it seems to be in the Delphi business model, thus I can't afford it.

DrRacket looks better... but it doesn't seem to be lisp?

I thank you for the lifeline. If only Borland had made TurboLisp back in the day.
I really hope some of the limitations we are seeing with the M1 chip being from a slow roll out to the new technology and not some sign of a new wall.

the biggest concern to me is the on die memory. while nice from a performance perspective I do not understand how they will do this going forward for true Pro models where users want 64g or even more memory. I also await their on dGPU solution.

A few users have also commented on the lack of ports and while I have not dug into this, are the controllers for these also all integrated in the chip?
Getting Graphical Output from Our Custom RISC-V Operating System in Rust
Humanities tend to have much lower stipends such that it needs to be supplemented with tons of teaching assistantships.
The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine (2015)
"Why not punish people for building the infrastructure that helped us survive this crisis?"
Watching the Cosmos series those giants in their times were like Atlases carrying their work and the social sigma of trying to break dogma. Many of them suffered greatly for us to enjoy the elevated view.
I think the expectation is that employers would just reduce the salary of all WFH employees until they are paying the same amount as they were before. I would expect very few, if any, US companies would shoulder the burden themselves and keep their employees salaries the same
Postgres Observability
Jupiter's ocean moon Europa probably glows in the dark