skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ibains made a specific point about language processing in IDEs being different to that of (traditional) compilers. Presumably there exists a state-of-the-art there just as there's a state-of-the-art for conventional compilers, but academia doesn't give it as much attention.
Depends.

We don't have a network for our (young) children. Because their aunt and grandmother live 1+ hour drive away. Things like that severely limit your freedom. If you can park the children at grandma's easily, or have grandma visit easily, it allows you to even get things done for which otherwise one would need to stay at home, or you'd have to take all children to the appt.

Luckily, we got really nice neighbors, but we try to not play that joker card until inevitable. Its not something to rely on on the long term. Family is reliable.

If you live near each other, you just need to make proper appointments. Something with scope & boundaries...
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I wish there were more well run 501.3c open source initiatives that relied on major donations from organizations wanting to diversify their risk to being forever beholden to major software providers.

E.g. if an O365 subscription costs your organization $10MM per year, why not donate $100k per year (along with 10 of your peers) to a group writing open source bare bones versions that handle 90% of your employee needs.

The world would seem to benefit in this model...
I Stopped Hating TDD
It's easy to forget the historical context, in an era when the web and cross-platform toolchains have made computing platform choices a function of taste and preference. Bleeding-edge PC gaming and niche applications notwithstanding, we take for granted that any computer can do any task, be it Mac or Windows or Linux.

But in the 90's, desktop Linux and the web were still in their infancy, and Windows held a quasi-hegemony over computing. Mac was the only alternative, constantly fighting for survival, both of Apple itself, and of the legitimacy of the platform ("why should we double our development budget to chase a market with 3% share?" went the refrain). The prominent black Mac blogger Rodney Lain went so far as to compare the "second-class citizen" feeling of being a Mac user to his African-American experience [0].

So yeah, it went over the top, and I got caught up in it too. To some extent, selection pressures were at work: the pragmatically-minded shrugged and bought PCs, and the religious ideologues were the only ones left clinging to their Macs (and each other) for dear life.

It's ironic that Apple has become a far greater hegemon/monopolist than Microsoft in its hey-day. ("You die a hero or live to become the villain.") Nonetheless, for all our struggles with walled gardens and data silos, in some ways the modern computing ecosystem enjoys much greater platform fluidity and interoperability than 25 years ago. Everything speaks web; everything speaks *-nix; and there are a plethora of tools that make it feasible to target a dozen different platforms with the same codebase.

[0] https://www.macobserver.com/columns/ibrotha/2001/20010928.sh...
The MBA-ization of America is a risk management strategy to avoid failure-by-bad-management among small companies that get big enough to receive outside investment. It has probably saved a lot of companies from cratering early.

Musk is correct that it also vacuumed up creativity and reduced total entrepreneurship as a result, Stanford Business School professor opinions notwithstanding.

This is a big impact. It is much easier to get a highly technical job at one of dozens of entrepreneurial companies that are bouncing along. The appeal of those jobs makes it less urgent to go do your passion project and succeed.

Is this situation definitely bad today? Does it point to a bad future?
What do individuals even do when the proper legal channels are willfully deaf?
Off the top of my head, what happens to any farm, family business, or house in California?
> Unfortunately many of these people vote against their own financial interests...

I get so tired of this poorly reasoned idea that continues to be spouted from the left as if it is gospel, and that the "rubes" are just not as enlightened as some journalist in New York or a javascript dev in Mountain View.

How exactly would voting for someone like Biden help the average working class voter in middle America?

* Tons more quota / diversity based help that will re-distribute the already small amount of aid to people who are NOT them.

* Medicare for all and similar schemas: Ask them how Obamacare has worked out. It's likely they now can't even use any health services since they're still paying premiums, but now have a $7K deductible for their family of four.

* Shoveling money from the right's corporate masters to the left's friends in the public unions, legal industry, big tech, etc. is not a net gain for these voters.

* Increased immigration and globalization that may very well increase the economy as a whole, but certainly won't be trickling the wealth down to them.

* changes in the tax code that may raise or lower rates by a few points here and there, but have absolutely no effect on average working class voters who don't pay much in federal taxes anyway.

* Green energy initiatives that will allow rich people who can afford it to virtue signal, but will raise the prices of gas, heating, electricity, etc. for everyone else.

Please let me know which actual policy changes that Biden and Co. can and will implement that would help these voters, but who are just too dumb to realize?
Hiring for exact skills is what you do when you need the skills ASAP and the actual supply of engineers is there. The time you waste looking for someone with the exact knowledge you need could have been spent getting a good compiler engineer and just teaching them what you know. And magically that good engineer will get better, it's pretty amazing stuff.

I've was told multiple times, University/School teaches you how to learn. You get your actual knowledge and skills from the job. What I learned in 3 years of university was nothing compared to what I learned in 6 months on the job.
OK, I understand. I didn't mean to imply that you didn't see the problem of hypergrowth and I apologize if it came across this way. However, in the sequence of tweets it does sound like the conclusion / lesson is to throw ever more heroic engineering at the problem or to get better at eng. planning, as opposed to solving the organizational issues and messed up incentive structures at the root of it all.

I realize this isn't a small ask. I've worked in BigTech myself where the reward / risk ratio of trying to actually solve problems at the root is basically 0 if you're not SVP or higher. Anyway, I enjoyed the tweets nevertheless. Good luck.
that's a concern based on a reality that doesn't exist.
I'm working on something like this (macOS/iOS), although it is not quite ready yet.

Notes can have tags and attributes so you could have attributes per note like: topic=rocketscience, semester=fall2020. Later you could say: "sort all my notes by semester and then group by topic" or if you change your mind, set up a second view for "all notes grouped by topic then by semester".

If you're interested, feel free to contact me through the site (kitestack.com/lnotes). I'd love to learn more about how you currently organize your notes.
Is blocking the collection of samples from a storm drain an extreme measure that's OK? If they're justified, why are they hiding evidence?
Politicians are one thread in the tapestry of news and information that blankets the country. Yes, people listen to them.

It's abundantly clear that the entire GOP coordinates with Fox News and other sources (reddit, FB, etc) to deliver consistent messages that are curated and on-brand. So when I say politicians, I really mean this entire machination.

If the entire Conservative Messaging Platform decided to tackle this problem and encourage mask wearing, we could get a critical mass of people to do so. They could have Laura Ingram, Rush Limbaugh, Mitch McConnell, and a bunch of lesser known pundits/politicians harping on this day-in and day-out. While having facebook and r/conservative bots posting pro-mask memes.

We know this is an effective way of influencing behavior, because we've seen it work numerous times throughout the past decade. Too bad it's never used for anything good.
It isn't really that different, it can just be used in inline expressions. Having the macro do nothing or just evaluating to the expression in debug mode is trivial, since a debug symbol would be defined.
Oracle Moving HQ to Austin
While it definitely is not a 'Show HN', I think it is pretty much on topic. The last sentence even references a real story:

> And if you'd like to read a true, but much more boring story about getting MRR, go here.

Not everybody might like that type of humor, but I found it amusing ;-)
Hyp: A command-line tool for peer-to-peer file sharing
If you were a manager, could you honestly say it was ever in a subordinate's best interest to do more than the bare minimum?

This should illuminate why these conversations constantly go in circles.
I'd love to see this data but for men vs women
Interesting point of view, thanks for putting it that way ! It makes me think of artists :

- how many hours did a musician spent on his instrument before selling his first record ?
- How many drawings/paintings before Picasso could sell something ?
(etc.)
Relevant text: Oracle is implementing a more flexible employee work location policy and has changed its Corporate Headquarters from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas. We believe these moves best position Oracle for growth and provide our personnel with more flexibility about where and how they work. Depending on their role, this means that many of our employees can choose their office location as well as continue to work from home part time or all of the time. In addition, we will continue to support major hubs for Oracle around the world, including those in the United States such as Redwood City, Austin, Santa Monica, Seattle, Denver, Orlando and Burlington, among others, and we expect to add other locations over time. By implementing a more modern approach to work, we expect to further improve our employees’ quality of life and quality of output.
I guess my eyes have deceived me.
Keep in mind it's the hexite gas produced which is even more alarming.
'FP' covers 2 meanings:

A. Pure functions + immutable data structures.

B. Expressive type systems, all the way to compile-time metaprogramming and dependently typed proofs.

Writing programs in style A. is tremendously valuable. Expending too much effort in the fine points of the type system, which invariably is simultaneously both under-expressive and over-expressive, is a complete waste of time. Some critical projects require high defect-free confidence, and for those it's legitimate to go full in formal proofs and take the 10x-100x productivity slowdown. For mere mortals, documenting the structure of the data (json) manipulated by the respective functions suffices.
Text -> parser -> AST -> job done. If it's any different in an IDE vs anything else I'd like to know how.
> In fact I think that it’s perfectly consistent to believe a wide number of things with a great deal of passion, and then believe about those beliefs that you could be wrong. I hope that’s not a further paradox, I do not think that it is. It seems to me to be perfectly consistent to believe something passionately, to believe it in a very deep way and have a belief about that belief that “Well, you know. I could be wrong.”

This is one of the lectures where Roderick discusses fallibilism which he characterizes as "strong beliefs, weakly held."
> I've had Macs and PCs which don't seem to suffer from the same issue.

It's funny, I don't have a problem with sleep/wake on my 6.5 year old HP laptop under Linux but on Windows 10 it can't seem to ever stay asleep. It loves to wake up at random times and stay awake, even when it is only on battery.

With that said, Linux can't successfully manage the laptops P-States. I have to force the system to just not manage them under Linux because it will randomly lockup.
Kibitzing outside of any expertise that I have, here, but thorium reactors are generally regarded as a significant nuclear weapons proliferation risk. This has been an inhibiting factor with regards to investment in research.

This design — cheap and transportable in a standard shipping container — significantly ups the ante on that risk, to put it mildly.

Deployed singly, small, low-power, short-lifespan reactors would increase the burden of maintaining regulatory control over those reactors — destined, by design, for catastrophic failure unless they are retired within a safety period — which in turn would the risk of a nuclear contamination incident. This could be mitigated by operating the reactors in banks at a containment/maintenance site.

I'm not sure what parts of the reactor could be usefully recycled. All the metals would be embrittled by neutron bombardment.
With bootloader exploits, yes: https://projectsandcastle.org
Yeah, that could be the case. That being said, lots of projects aren't on GitHub, and SQLite does have a mirror there which is kept up to date:

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/
The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
Docker is using hyperkit [1], an xhyve fork that's still actively developed.

[1] https://github.com/moby/hyperkit
So throwaway account here for obvious reasons.
I shoplift quite a bit of food from my local Walmart, not necessarily out of need, but simply because it is very very easy.

This Walmart has at least 10-15 checkout lanes that are always empty and instead have a handful of people "Keep watch" of the self checkout lanes in an effort to keep the bare minimum amount of people employed.

Most of the time they are too busy authorizing Alcohol and helping people to actually notice if anyone isn't scanning sometihng. In fact one time one commented to me that "They don't pay me enough to care about shoplifting" after I "accidentally" forgot to scan something.

I don't really feel any pity for Walmart though, they have a bad system and have taken into account that the amount of money lost through shoplifting is less than it would cost to employ more people.
I think the most interesting part of the paper is the inventory of attachment styles as they relate to TIV. It looks like anxious-attachment styles are more likely to have it.

The thing to think about when you run into someone like this is that, for whatever reason, their victimhood has been the only reliable tool that has enabled them to receive positive attachment from others. It's no wonder they get highly defensive about their victimhood being called into question.

These issues are probably intransigent (narcissism, for example, is one of the most immune-to-therapy personality disorders), but maybe one way around victimhood with a friend or family member is to notice positive things about them that don't have anything to do with their victimhood (which is a tough task with some people).
I'm still bummed that the removal of Carbon and 32-bit support in macOS Catalina meant the final death of running EV Nova natively on macOS. It got me checking out emulation options for older OSes to see if there would be a way that I could ever play it again, but I either couldn't get them to boot properly (for most versions of OS X), or the performance was too poor (in Sheepshaver).
Fun fact: eBay used to be a 20% owner of MeLi.
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Could this be viewed as supply exceeding demand?

Context-free grammars are ripe for theoretical computer science work even if they're not practically relevant. On the flipside, I suppose the constraints of context-free grammars are seen as a price not worth paying when designing a language.
They use collective action to protest, and doing so they make themselves more powerful than any individual.
It is a carcinogen though. Whether or not something is a carcinogen is different from what rate it causes cancer at.
There's no need to stereotype.
Ah, the Valve Proton model!
How about Claris Home Page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claris_Home_Page
https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13

Thank You. I had not seen that one before.
No worries. Just to point out though, SQLite does have an official mirror repo on GitHub:

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/
I know it doesn't really work this way anymore but the theoretical point of a public offering is raising capital for business operations. This represent billions in working capital that AirBNB missed out on.
I acknowledge I'm not typical. But, that sounds horrible. And torturous. Constantly smoothened by all these people. Whom I'm expected to be cordial to, regardless of how douchebag they are, because of the accident of being related.

Fuck, can't even eat breakfast in peace!
Can you give an example (or three) where that lets us down? That would be very helpful to me I suspect.
Historically, rise up in armed rebellion.
If you just want to run a recent Ubuntu VM, you can use https://multipass.run/ from Canonical. (It uses hyperkit rather than xhyve as the hypervisor.)
How about banning debt? People live according to their means?

No debt. Just gifts or charity.
In theory....the share price is the discounted cash flow of Tesla in all future years. Using a discount rate of 8-10% means the annual cash flows for the next 20 years or so are important (any further than that has very negligible effect on the share price). So the share price is counting on explosive growth.

Now, considering Tesla doesn't pay dividends ... what's really the "cash flow" for investors?

This is why it's mostly a theory...human beings don't behave like Excel spreadsheets.
I believe this would be a valid use case for the National Guard. They should be able to remove any barricades in their state. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
ROS itself is basically a glorified message bus, and the ecosystem around it allows you to quickly cobble together a robot from disparate parts (use one thing to publish frames from your specific camera model, feed it into some other module that does SLAM).

Very popular in research, so in practice little of it really works together, much is abandoned and most stuff barely compiles. Lately there have been "smart" people thinking they can just install ROS and presto robot AI startup. These people are in for a harsh lesson.
Sellers of used products are still required to charge sales tax if they are in the business of making such sales.
The laws of war don't apply outside of war.

The military can't use tear gas on the battlefield; military police can use tear gas against rioting soldiers and sailors. Soldiers can't use hollow point bullets even in those calibers, like 7.62x51mm, where that is by far the most common type of bullet used by civilians because of its effectiveness in hunting; but police use hollow point bullets all the time, in part because they are more effective against unarmored targets (though less effective against armored ones) and in part because they are much less likely to pass through a wall and strike someone the officer can't see.

These differences are not due to governments deciding that tear gas is not a chemical weapon or that hollow point bullets are not hollow point bullets, but rather because the laws of war apply in war and not elsewhere.

If you were serious about the war crimes thing, you'd have to acknowledge the Antifa and BLM committed war crimes by not having uniforms and clear insignia and by not distinguishing between civilians and non-civilian property when destroying things during their raids. There is no such thing as a body of law that applies to only one side. Talking about war crimes in this context really is disinformation: it confuses what those laws are about as well as the difference between international and domestic jurisdiction.
Which protestors killed people?
Politics is the opposite of insignificant, and everything is related to politics, so you're sitting on a ticking time bomb if you're as a group trying to ignore it. Ignoring the pink elephant in the room doesn't make it go away.
I disagree with this reading of the article. Perhaps the author edited the article after this comment but I see it structured as:

1. Small introduction briefly mentioning that while exemptions do exist for business inputs, tax systems often fail to have exemptions in all the cases that they ought to (ie the cases that would be exempt under a VAT regime), including four links to estimates of these failures

2. Mention that the real world lies between the following example and a true VAT system.

3. Detailed toy example of the effects of these inefficiencies (ie in the cases where the exemptions do not apply)

4. Brief discussion about reasons for the current system

I’m going to guess that the reason you missed this is that two key points of the argument are hidden in the introduction and the article is dominated by the (perhaps) less important worked example. But maybe you think the claims in the introduction are so obviously false that you don’t see any need in mentioning them, or maybe they were added to the article after you read it.
Bones May Be the Future of Battery Design
The percentage doesn't matter, but the example is clearly misleading on the relative tax revenue collected under the example.

How does it provide a vertical integration incentive? Sales tax is only applied at the final step (or rebates if applied before that). The main integration incentive is the ability to reduce margin at each step (if needed) and have tighter supply chain control.
Worst I've seen was a fresh grad product manager who felt they needed to make Bold Executive Decisions and was really just fucking things up (since they didn't understand the product) and not listening to people...
I’m not talking most people. I’m saying what little knowledge I have on this topic has saved me hundreds if not thousands on my home setup and I have complete control over it
Obviously Epic dropped their prices, at first. I mean they got everyone rallied up and used their in game propaganda machine and everyone believed they are the good guys. By the end of the day, all they saw was 30 % loss of income. In a few years time their prices would have increased to their old level.

Also about that amazing fact that Epic has given part of the previously paid commision back. It's interesting to note the time of that decision compared to the popularity and online spending on Fortnite. Epic basically changed its business model, creating a precedent in the process. Using it two years later. If we can charge less, why can't you?

I mean I still think myself the 30% are too high, but Epic lining up your kids in front of a virtual stage to make them all hate Apple? It concerns me quite a bit!
In don’t think that Java fits the bill either in this regard. White it does have BigDecimal in the standard library, it is both slower(because object and supports arbitrary precision) and more cumbersome (no operator overloading ) than a native type.
Political capital. A large part of the US population supports this. I'm reminded of an interview with a Kent State protestor. After going home unharmed she witnessed her father react to the news reports: "damn hippies should all be shot". That attitude, the dehumanization of young people and fear of public protest, remain alive and well today.