skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only people engaged in a field are prone to have a conflict of interest. Not only aren't those two things mutually exclusive, they are highly correlated.
It does need a fan: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/raspberry-pi-4-needs-...
I only used an ASR-33 in 1987 or so, attached to a Siemens CNC simulator used in training. I was trained on week 1 and instructor on week 2, to a class of students from the same college I attended, but 3 years my seniors.

I deeply regret not being there when the machine was decommissioned to save it from being scrapped.
California already has one of the highest total tax rates in the world skimming from the top of the #5 GDP in the world. Lack of money is not the problem.
It is useful to hear your perspective. It is also useful to know that perspective is informed by self-interest.
The problem isn’t even an ideological commitment to confiscation. The problem is one of simple corruption and incompetence. Nobody is willing to confront bad urban planning, out of control NIMBYism, corruption in government contracting, etc.

More money won’t fix a broken government any more than more revenue fixes dying companies.

IMHO one of the roots of all evil was proposition 13, which created a kind of property owners caste with a vested interest in actually making the housing problem worse. From that flows the homeless crisis, as housing costs start at upper middle class income levels anywhere in the state that also has jobs.

The problem is that proposition 13 is a hole from which it would be really hard to dig the state out from. Any politician who challenges it is voted out instantly by the landed caste as well as by the financially vulnerable younger folks who over-leveraged themselves into unaffordable homes and would be ruined if housing fell.

The infrastructure problem is also partly related to the housing problem. Nobody dares change anything because it might pop the housing bubble.

Prop 13 was a Republican thing, which shows that this isn’t just a Democrat or “too much liberalism” problem. It’s deeper than that.
I can't really get upset until I understand who got it instead of the resident.
Being kind to others is good for your health
Before the licensing change if you purchased a major version such as 5.0 you would get all upgrades for free until 6.0. This was the change that caused the uproar because that was no longer the case.
The odds of Biden being President in 2021? About 100%, unless either the current President attempts to stage a coup or the GOP in Congress attempts to flex their power and we end up with President Pelosi.

The odds of a terrorist attack succeeding on home soil or one of our foreign bases in 2021 because the current President is a petty fool and looks to be repeating the mistakes of the 2000 to 2001 power transition? Sightly higher than they were.
I’m skeptical. There was a big thing about a 100 mile bike trail going through my county but when I looked it up, 3/4 of it was just dumping you on various roads and they counted that as part of the trail.
No he’s not. He’s just using a song that starts with the line ‘a long long time ago’ to tell a story that starts ‘long ago in a galaxy far away’.

American Pie is filled with metaphors and allusions and is an impressionistic tale of the declining optimism of the sixties after the original exuberant promise of rock ‘n’ roll was lost in the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly.

The Saga Begins is a literal retelling of the story of The Phantom Menace - it doesn’t allude to themes or disillusionment or draw a clever parallel between the narratives. It doesn’t comment on American Pie or even on The Phantom Menace. It’s just a ‘humorous’ cross-cultural mashup of two copyrighted properties.

But that’s irrelevant, anyway. The point isn’t what I consider constitutes parody, but rather what the law considers as parody, which is specifically that if you are critiquing or lampooning a work, you are permitted to do so by borrowing from it and using elements that otherwise you would not be permitted to under copyright law.

Its intent is not to say that ‘anything that’s just intended to be funny is exempt from copyright requirements’, it’s specifically to prevent copyright owners from suppressing criticism of their work using copyright law.

So if you wrote alternative lyrics to American Pie that, for example, drew attention to the fact that its rose tinted view of sock hops and rock ‘n’ roll at the end of the fifties is rooted in a privileged white perspective, Don McLean would not be able to use copyright law to stop you publishing that.

But if you decided to just tell the story of a movie using Don McLean’s music, he is well within his rights to tell you you can’t (or come to a license agreement with you so that you can).

Weirdly, though, now that Weird Al has been there and done that, if you were to write an alternative set of lyrics to the Saga Begins that told the story of some obscure art house movie, say, parodying the way Weird Al used the song to just retell a movie plot... you might have a parody defense.
"A small investment" and the ability to take on risk sounds like a significantly privileged position the average worker is not afforded.
The underlying counterargument was that it was never completely "your stuff" to begin with.
Pytest:

- lets you use regular assert statements, rather than assertEqual, assertTrue, etc.

- does not impose the use of classes

- the way it does fixtures just feels nicer to use than unittest

Basically, it's more ergonomic and IME more flexible.
It’s not possible to build any new housing in California. The vast majority of projects are blocked by the powerful landowner lobby. Throwing money at the homeless problem doesn’t help the homeless much and just pushes property values higher. The government and tax system of California is a perfectly designed instrument to transfer wealth from newcomers to homeowners.
Thing is we’ve done the experiment and it doesn’t work. France had a wealth tax (called the ISF, impôt sur la fortune) and it never actually garnered the expected revenues. This is because wealthy French people moved to Brussels, where you still have a pretty nice city and you can still speak French. Macron got rid of it and there was a mini-crash in Brussels real estate as people move back. There’s nothing stopping me or anyone in CA to move to CO or UT or TX. Sure I’m further from the ocean but those are still pretty nice places to live. I love CA and I’m very far from the $30M threshold, but if I did have this sort of tax it’s hard to justify not moving for lower taxes AND cheaper cost of living with very little downside. With the rise of remote work, there’s even less of a downside.
Cyprus is a money laundering center of EU.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/cyprus-urged-laund...

The body also said the money laundering risk in the real estate sector has “increased exponentially" under the Cyprus Investment Program which enables third county nationals who buy property in the country to gain Cypriot — and by extension European Union — citizenship.
Thanks! I just ordered "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" after reading the OP then saw your comments. Would you recommend one of these more than the others?
It's more tough for the family than anything. My girlfriend works with elderly with dementia and says her residents are all still mostly happy despite the disease.
const is really popular in JS... (i.e. could they surreptitiously be taking on Orinoco?)
Which part of user choice do you not understand?
Yes, exactly right. If people are paying any amount at all they expect it to work and work perfectly. I'm not saying that's unreasonable, but it does quickly become unfeasible at scale with users who have no training at all.

Then on top of that the skimming the payment processors do makes a large percentage of that $1/month go to transaction fees. Charging yearly helps with that but many people won't want to do that.
From me they get both: I am, and will be, a revenue loss, and in addition to that got to enjoy this remarkable screenshot.

Not going to say anything positive about apple here, but also nothing negative.
"Deep Rectal Extraction"
And all is plebs do is comment on their actions. If they have no consequences why would they stop screwing us?
Tangent: the title is unfair to bullshit, which is a useful substance in its own right, as fertiliser.
There are two things I'd like to do with Smalltalk. That's one, and the other is giving each object a thread-like construct and make all execution asynchronous apart from dependencies.
This is so disappointing. I really enjoyed Caliphate; it was fascinating, and I trusted the NYT to be able to vet its claims. Now I know I enjoyed a piece of nearly-fiction, and I feel cheated, because I still want to know about the subject matter.

I'm not sure retracting a years-old podcast is going to be enough to rebuild trust. I need to hear how the NYT is going to engage some actual experts on this, and I want to hear their perspectives on the story Calpihate presents. The fundamental questions the podcast asked are still very live: What was it like to live under ISIS? How did that organization operate in the areas where it had control? And so on.

Editing to add: I'm not sure how to trust further work from Rukmini Callimachi. The fact she's still working at the Times, with no information on how they'll be vetting her work, is concerning.
Does it matter? The NYT is not as relevant as it was in the near past, nevermind a generation or two ago.

And the NYT has no standard for peer review, and in the digital age routinely edits its works after publication without any discernible changelog. See the 1619 scandal.
Most of the arguments I saw were about the chain of custody being broken and allegations that ballots were tampered with at that point. That is different from not understanding how a paper ballot works.
My only experience with ombudsmen is ignored emails until top stakeholders face the pain, then immediate action to resolve their and only their issues.
I posted direct quotes from Greenpeace. You're linking to ZDNet, and a random study that has no published data as far as I can tell. Note that I am not easily swayed by studies - I work in Vaccine R&D and I read tons of research papers, and many of them are junk. A study doesn't mean something is true. I'd trust Greenpeace knowing about the environment more than ZDNet.

>The fact is repairability simply isn’t a significant factor in environmental impact overall.

This is not a fact. Every single environmental group on this planet agrees that repair is significant component in reducing environmental impact. By definition it means fewer devices need to be re-purchased, fewer devices end up in landfills, more local repair jobs, more support-economy jobs, etc. I don't think I will be able to convince you otherwise. I will let you have the last word. Have a nice day :)
Ahem! Not every glass should go into the recycling bin. Most drinking glasses would spoil the stock. So if in doubt, anything which doesn't have a recycle sign on it's label or those dot markings at the bottom for the sorting machines is wrong there. That would be "Restmüll". :-)
Then

1. Don't use the offending developer's apps
2. Ignore the notifications

It really is that simple
They came clean too late for any congratulations.
California does have high income tax, but property taxes are some of the lowest in the nation, and a recent attempt to reform those taxes failed. That leaves California 12th in state tax burden.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur...
Yeah, sure. Just don't eat, and that'll prevent alzheimer's.

If you study history, you have to reconcile these views with the fact that we've been wrong about every medical development until recent history. At one point we were killing cats to curtail the black plague, when in fact it was the fleas that were the cause.

We just don't know. And it's fine not to know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q
It's a shame amtrak's bike transport service is so terrible. It would be nice to be able to take the train w/ your bike to start and finish points.
Link please?

I think curation of music is a large part of the ultimate answer to recreating the relationship we used to have with music. If you think it's "stunning" I want to hear it!
What makes you think that Facebook even considers the moral impact of its actions?
Check out all these new job postings https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?search=ads%20platform&so...
You can try looking up job adds. But yes it is true for hs libraries.
Since many surgeries have risks, perhaps the FDA should treat surgeries similar to drugs. Either regulate both, or deregulate both.

But heavily regulating drugs, while surgeries that could have severe risks, complications, or have no proven effect in placebo-controlled trials, go mostly unregulated, strikes me as odd.
I think this experience makes their opinion more valuable actually. Maybe they should have put in a disclaimer, but I always assume posters on HN have distinct insight based on relevant experience in the topic. At least this person provides a nice counter-argument to the general trend in these comments. I appreciate it even if I disagree.
At least they had the decency to retract. I get the sense that other news sites these days would leave it up with its "alternative facts".
Yes, you're totally right. I think in general people do these things because they think they're special. You could ask the same question about why people found startups or attempt to become olympic athletes.
The people behind that website would love monkey puzzle trees.
Seriously. When 10000 m/billionaires decide to flee the states they're going to have bigger problems to contend with. These people have spent so many decades ignoring the poor they won't know they're actually fucked until their mansion in Beverly hills is on fire.
> It's important to remember that Facebook can precisely measure the impact of news articles like this. And even without messing with the newsfeed algorithms, they have way more influence over consumer perception of Facebook than a few news articles do.

This is what worries me the most about this. I'm seeing full front-page ads around the "Facebook stands for small businesses" mantra in India - a country where Apple is by and large insignificant in the smartphone space. I can only assume they're confident about this PR blitz, and I hope Apple doesn't drop the IDFA changes due to this.
I own an iDevice, but refuse to use iCloud. Apparently iCloud data is stored unencrypted due to pressure by law enforcement. Even if I'm not committing crimes, I don't want people snooting around in my iCloud account. It's creepy and wrong.
Hello Steve, I hope you're well and baking more breads for Christmas!
I am not saying Java's model of never adding important things is better or worse. I might now say it is worse, but that wasn't the point I was making - I was simply responding to a comment saying Java has added important things, when it hasn't.

Also, auto-properties are binary compatible with computed properties, whereas public fields aren't, and you can use 'ref' on a public field whereas you can't make a ref to a property.
You may be misunderstanding what this is a plan for. All Stanford medical staff are expected to be vaccinated over the coming weeks; the allocation in question is for deciding who's getting vaccinated today, with the first available shipment. It does seem like this particular error could have been caught easily, but conducting a thorough, laborious review process rather than getting shots in arms ASAP would have been an even worse decision.
Of course, the NYT got rid of their public editor--i.e. their ombudsman. But I disagree a bit, an ombudsman is more reactive; it's not reasonable for them to vet every story before it's printed. That's the job of the editors and their editors.

This seems a pretty major failing. Of course, they always seem that way after the fact. And TBH a lot of stories run that can't be verified beyond the tiniest shade of a doubt that are substantially accurate.
There are no dumb honest mistakes when it comes to putting people’s lives at risk. Engineering and algorithmic errors like this and the Boeing 737 max debacle are absolutely worth being outraged over.
My parents used to check out power tools from the library when they were doing home maintenance. Libraries are awesome.
I'd recommend the 2019 pseudo-blacklisted documentary Salafistes^1 (released as Jihadists in the US) if you want an unvarnished view of Salafist Islam.

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1 - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/jihadists
The Blazor tutorials just run (C#). It is trivial

Same with Unity. Click build. Trivial

I suspect others are similarly trivial
I actually don't think it would effect it long term, only short term. People would use something else.

I have been critical of Apple in the past, but given the choice of Apple or Facebook, I'd choose Apple.

And I don't even own an Apple device.

I guess I just believe that people still place the quality of their products over any particular service.
In my experience, for tasks like everyday operation, kernel building etc.:
Thunderx < ThunderX2 < eMAG (Ampere's platform before N1).

I wouldn't say it's the same order of magnitude for the 2 comparisons, but it's definitely noticeable.
Sorry about misunderstanding.

I think that's where SRP and naming comes in like mentioned elsewhere in the thread. If methods really do one simple thing and are properly named, it's easy to tell if they should be re-used or not.

A lot of the time, side-effects are not mentioned in method names or params (or the params are optional, that's where the issue comes in).

E.g.

SaveCandidate(Candidate candidate);

In reality, SaveCandidate does two things, saves the candidate and updates their "ProfileCompletionStatus".

If someone sees SaveCandidate and not SaveCandidateAndUpdateCompletionStatus

or

SaveCandidate(candidate, SaveSideEffects.DO_UPDATE_COMPLETION_STATUS)

they will re-use SaveCandidate in places here completion status shouldn't be updated (contrived example - data migrations).

The problem, of course, is that these overly-clear, overly-detailed methods are a pain to read. The common advice is "it's separate", but then we are repeating

SaveCandidate(candidate);
UpdateProfileCompletionStatus(candidate);

everywhere, despite them being generally one process. I guess this is all pretty pedantic. When you spend a ton of time on this, you are missing out on getting stories done, but if you don't, the code eventually becomes umanageable.
You have to submit photos for US many visa applications. Perhaps he had a US Visa (eg L1) at some point.
You can see a similar story with Loveland Pass & the Eisenhower Tunnel.
What the railroad will bring us (1868)
C-Suite and WFH admins - the low risk, safe group. The system forgot front-line infantry (again)
Which is why the proposal is based on where time is spent, not what you're a citizen of.
It’s great that people are working to treat or cure this terrible disease.

However in the meanwhile, there is unbelievable damage and burden on family members that the sick person least of all wants, as articulated by Jo when he still had his faculties.

And there’s a long tail of other diseases. I believe we’ll make progress on those too, but this does not preclude mercy for the victim of the disease.
If passed, this would be a huge incentive for the rich to avoid living in or even traveling to California, and not even so much for the amount of the tax as for the enormous decade-long legal, accounting, and compliance burden that would suddenly hook on to them like a barnacle. Every tax lawyer in the world would tell their clients that California is now radioactive: "touch it, and I'll be racking up $400 billable hours from now until your kids are in college".
Well, we're all agreed that this was a dumb mistake that could've been easily avoided. And, the admins should own up to it and implement a QA process to avoid a second occurrence.

That said, I think the reason this story is getting so much attention is because of the assumed selfish intent. And, that assumption is probably wrong.
Similar to how many people just up vote or down vote a comment. It is far easier to believe something you want to be true than to believe something you don't want to be true.

We all do this. Most of the time its harmless but when it is a news organization it can become harmful and there will still be people who believe the story is true or that it is based on a truth.

Fortunately the internet has given us more of both, the stories we want to be true but are not and the stories that are true we wish there we not. Now we have many more eyes on both so that they can be called out for what they are.
Christ. Their broken property tax system is a big part of their problems, and they’re still avoiding it.
Ah a classic of American foreign policy.
Wouldn't wealth tax also create bureaucratic burden? I would imagine that it is much harder to determine the value of the assets of all Americans than it is to determine their income.
Yes. I didn't want to be nuanced there, though, because the nuanced version is:

nobody wants the kind of 'smarter AskJeeves' that technology is currently capable of producing.

Had I written that, the next thing you know, someone would be calling me an idiot and informing me about the wonders of GPT3 and Tesla autopilot :)
I think it's one of the tools that regimes use. Not neccessarily on everyone, but in certain settings and scenarios. China for example has "reeducation" camps that brainwash/torture people.
Yup. It's called boiling the frog. I am not totally against wealth taxes, however I disagree with the approach.

What I do not understand is why not just implement a more aggressive estate tax on people and close the "trust" and "foundation" loopholes for avoiding the estate tax.

Let's take Jeff Bezos as an extreme example (who isn't even a California Resident). At least until we figure out immortality, Jeff Bezos will die someday. Let him enjoy the wealth that he has earned by creating a company that has benefited society as a whole. When he dies, his wealth should return to the society from which it came. He was rewarded for his work/ingenuity/effort during his life, and now that he is gone, society reclaims the rewards it had given him. What is wrong with that?

The way I see it, once you are dead you don't get a vote, and you don't get a say in the affairs of the world so you shouldn't be able to direct that wealth through any kind of inheritance, foundation or trust. His children have done nothing to earn or create that wealth themselves so why should they deserve any of it? They will have the same opportunities to create and earn wealth that he did, and they will benefit from the society he contributed to.

If they are able to build equivalent wealth via another Amazon.. Great! They earned it! if not that is fine too. You want to help your kids? Teach them how to fish for themselves instead of giving them an unlimited supply of fish.

Passing down wealth from generation to generation or directing wealth long after you are dead through foundations and trusts is directly opposed to any effort to give "equality of opportunity" for future generations.
Good on NYT for coming clean

They didn't come clean, it's clear from the article they were busted.

They strongly resisted multiple challenges to the obvious problems with his accounts by other writers and organisations culminating in him being arrested for fraud.
Also, Die Draufgänger's "Looking for Freibier"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZtnqnV2Jc
plays with both semantics.
Perhaps the plan is something like, finish the rest and then the feeling of "almost there" will put the pressure on to make it happen in Wyoming.
Bad example, it was more complicated than that. Azure functions have a different file system than App Services, and the method tried to determine where it was hosted 30 times, or something like that. Genuinely don't remember.