skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a third option: fix your government.
Definitely post that thesis here when you're done. We'd all like a read!
Yes, I did read the whole thread.

Nobody is stopping one from voluntarily donating to a non-profit or for-profit organization, or being involved in one for that matter.

In Europe, most people don't work 3 jobs because either it's not legal to do so or those jobs don't exist because of debilitating regulations... or at some point, making more isn't really worth it because of how high the taxes go up.
I agree, but I feel that measures that are only available to the wealthy (like putting your finances behind an anonymous corporation) are making things worse. The powerful, who are in the best position to bring about change, are shielded from the consequences of the pervasive loss of privacy and so have little reason to do anything about it.
She is merely saying..as I read it..that she doesn’t mind paying more taxes because she has already benefited more from the system than she expects to earn.

The world we live in right now was created because of CAPITAL. Not TAXES.

Even taxes exist only because of capital.

I am tired of people instructing others how to think. If someone wants to compare their EU salaries with the US, let them!

What is even the point of the Twitter thread except that the author says she is ‘ok with paying more taxes’. This literally has no value unless she also reveals how much she pays and how much she has gotten out of the system.

The problem we have with our economic system..at least in theory..is the lack of A Constant. Either we should have a constant fixed population or a constant steady rate of consumption or stable prices or constant renewable resources. It is very difficult to have maintain equilibrium all the time when there is so much dynamic flux.
Stocks are backed by real companies with real products and cash flows.

With Bitcoin, the only way to make money is to sell it at a higher price to someone else later. It’s a purely speculative asset.
My impression was that during the early stages there was more concern about touch based transmission, so there was a feeling that the benefits of masks (trapping respiratory droplets) might be outweighed by causing people to touch their faces more frequently.
The forks don't "disappear", but they get overruled since the consensus has shifted to the majority opinion of the ledger. Thus all of the transactions on a local fork (that doesn't become the majority) are wiped out -- including possibly deposits in exchange for cash.
I don't know if I'd call it brittle, I would call it super complex (when you get into wmic & friends) and harder to get info online, compared to Linux, because everyone has to tinker with Linux while only a minority of power sysadmins dig that deep into Windows.
No, unless you plan to print them out, PDF is atrocious for ebooks.
Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues
On almost all trading platforms, the trading volume is lower than 2017. I think a lot of people just bought coins over the last year, but not really trade, so just the "few coins left" are traded and make the price.
Because if you're in a country that measures in metric you have to convert one side from imperial, and if you're in a country that measures in imperial you have to convert one side from metric.
Because it is early 2017. Everyone seems to get lost in the huge peaks and valleys and miss the slow growth due to supply impacts. Why did it go up in 2017? IMO the halving in july 2016. Same reason it is going up now, it halved in may 2020 and we are just now seeing the impact.
I find the opposite, WSL1 is much faster for pretty much every usage except workloads that involve reading/writing lots of files.
Why the passive aggression?
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I don’t see how you could honestly and falsely believe that.
The web version of Outlook has come a long way, and in my opinion has become the superior product (for my use cases, at least).
I agree, I don’t consider a good trade a much higher salary but having to live in that society. Life is not only about money and in this sector we are lucky enough to have a above average salary everywhere in the world.
"Ever wondered how some of these joints are able to pay rent and employees with so little customers?"

I have always wondered about this. In Manhattan, for example, you fairly frequently hear about restaurants that seem to be popular and busy all the time closing because they couldn't keep up with rent increases. And yet it's also somehow full of corner stores, gift shops, laundromats, pizza places, Chinese restaurants, lunch buffets, etc. etc. that no one ever seems to go into and have 2 stars on Yelp, but are still there year after year.

I figured that in some cases it could be a family that owns the building or a sweetheart lease deal or whatever, but there are just so many that it doesn't seem to add up.
Ohhhhh, I didn't realize that. Makes a lot more sense, I guess it is a better comparison to an Arduino than a raspberry pi.
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Yeah, movies and tv shows are much harder to (legally) find DRM-free…
Denial of your opponent’s access to the battlefield is “table stakes” in the next war.

I assure you — all terrestrial and major satellite up/downlinks will cease within minutes of the next major conflict starting.
am overwhelmed by the sheer beauty and mature design of this language - it almost reads like Python or as well as any compiled language can.

All those lifetime annotations are not sheer beauty or pretty, sure they are necessary but not nice to look at if you are comparing it to a higher level language.
> the fear we have is being completely dependent on the government

It's the same in Europe, though. No one wants their government to have too much power.

The political class is both out of touch and untouchable in the US, EU and pretty much most countries I'd say.
Floating point isn't the issue. 'and' is a logical operator here. 0.1 and 0.1 is 0.1.
> What do you make from someone like Kary Mullis?

By academic credentials, Mullis was a 3rd rate scientist. Then he had that one brilliant invention. Then he went back to being almost a crackpot.

For comparison, the inventor of the fundamentals of the now famous mRNA vaccine technology, Katalin Karikó, was 2nd rate scientist by academic credentials. Could not get tenured permanent position, but was able to stay employed in the normal workforce at a university.

Of course, by scientific importance they are both first rate scientists, because of their important inventions.
I did use TinyC/tcc successfully on Windows a few times without any header problems, but it was very admittedly a far less rigorous test and may well have not touched any headers with MS-specific extensions. I never tried it on MacOS, though it would be unsurprising if that NeXT/Mach-O derived object format were unsupported.

Anyway, the world of C extensions has mostly seemed syntactically judicious/surgical. That's more just cultural, not guaranteed by anything, but it makes me suggest (without knowing) that MS extensions would probably not be hard to support without complexity explosion. Apple, on the other hand, doing their own chips now and Swift and just generally being even more of a closed system..They seem most likely to make that hard someday if they ever think they can make more money by not supporting POSIX-like programs. :-( { EDIT - there will likely always be some demand for/a way to create C callable wrappers/headers for system services, though. So, I don't think that it's crazy to hold out hope that this will remain possible/not too bad for the foreseeable future. }
Other than the startup time (mitigated by starting the VM right after startup) I have no issues with virtualbox. File mounts, copy & paste... everything works more or less fine.

WSL, on the other hand, has been nothing but trouble.
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No, but WSL1 (which they are referring to in that quote) also has never done that.
I'll use the gawker article[0] about what he thinks of his users:

[0] https://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-us...
>You'll get ruined in US if you get cancer in your close family despite 'paying for healthcare' all your life.

Not really if you have insurance which as a software engineer you would have. Might hit your $10k out of pocket maximum but you salary will easily cover that.

edit: When my dad got cancer his insurance actually PAID him a cash payout for every treatment on top of paying the medical costs. He works at a non profit.
Agreed. Whatever the implementation the name indicates the next step in this solution. To do otherwise would be like naming windows95 something other than windows after windows3.1. Marketing.
I took this graduate course, which I think did a good job covering more advanced / modern CV approaches: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~ahowens/eecs504/w20/
The python notebooks are locked, but the slides & recommended reading materials are freely available.
Vaccine distribution and the Obamacare web site
Movie scripts follow a very strict format. Always courier 12pt, no bold or italic. Every scene have a standardized header. Characters names and certain other keywords are ALL CAPS. It probably originated in the age of mechanical typewriters, but the format has become completely entrenched and everyone in the industry knows how to read it.

Lots of script guidelines like ("1 page is one minute of screen time", "the first turning point should happen before page 20") assumes a standard script format. So you cannot just change to Times New Roman if you think it is more legible.
If Amnesty International estimates it to be "1000s", which I think we can agree is a reputable source, and the Chinese government is extremely restrictive in news and data that it releases, it's quite possible it could be 5,000 people a year. What's unknown is if they still charge your family for the bullet.
I love Stripe, it's amazing. For the 95% use-case it works better than all of the alternatives for payments in North America.

But it's the last 5% - 15% that will keep you up at night and/or eat up your time. Accepting payments from EU customers and international users. A typical B2B SaaS will eventually end up accepting checks in the mail, bank transfers from a half dozen countries, and (heaven forbid): PayPal. And you have to support tax compliance on top of all of that, and integrate it with your single source of truth for billing, and company accounting software.

Billing is a pain. Nothing is perfect. Stripe is a wonderful component of a complete solution, and a great starting point.

Most of the alternatives you listed handle a very narrow set of credit-card dunning issues, which Stripe is getting better and better at every day.

One thing on my radar is Paddle. They seem to be tackling a broader set of issues upstream/downstream of actual payment processing in an integrated way.
The US salary situation is clearly superior. I wish I had somehow made my way into the US after getting my MsC in CS. But some choices led me elsewhere. Anyway, if I did, I'd probably be retired by now.
The majority of your comments on HN are downvoted because they are all one-liner negative quips.

Is there a reason you take your anger out on HN? Have you considered the zen of a plant-based diet?
If this is the best that anyone has to say about him, he sounds like a pretty mediocre thinker...
I have a pretty extensive personal system partially based on OKRs but I find the key element is doing the exercise as a group and having accountability partners.
> I don't have much of an idea of what their science classes might have been like.

Class "adjustment" is usually simpler than you might think. Expect the following differences as the class gets dumber:

- Less material is covered by the instructor.

- There is less of an expectation that any given material will be remembered more than a week after it was covered.

- Hints for questions asked of students in class will be more direct.

- More time is spent on watching movies with themes notionally related to the class, and on playing games (think "chemistry bingo") during class.

Note that all of these are pretty smooth continuous scales; there's lots of room for tuning.
What you say is true only in the most basic sense. If you look at the movement of some stocks, there is clearly a ton of speculation. There are whole stocks (and classes of stocks, like some recent SPACs) that essentially move on almost nothing but speculation. Regardless, he said he liked to "earn his money with effort", so I am interested in learning how far that goes...
My resolutions are mostly themes & goals. The main one being to release new version of Learn Anything.

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusing/goals
Try a grocery that carries Taiwanese (most asian grocers) or Mexican food. These places usually have it for sale cheap.
This is an interesting subject. I wish I knew and understood more, so I can eat less meat and eat more healthily.

My problem is that I’m Chinese and I live in Hong Kong. I’ve lived many years in Montréal before but I never picked up any “Western” culinary knowledge. Meanwhile, I get the impression that a lot of these nutritional studies seem to be based on Western diet, and there are ingredients that we Chinese are not familiar with (e.g. I can’t name at least half of the beans and vegetables that go into a salad at Passion by Gérard Dubois), let alone know where to buy without getting ripped off. Things that one would find completely ordinary and affordable in US/Canada can be ridiculously expensive and/or hard to find in Hong Kong.

If anybody has recommendations (books, YouTube channels, links, etc.) for someone living in East Asia to replicate similarly satiating, nutritious, and appealing meals, that would be awesome
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So many assume that programmers get handed high 6fig salaries here... Good luck with that, hope you are really the best of the best or you're barely going to scrape 6fig despite what all the comments / articles say!
I chortled when I saw the health warning against railway-oriented programming. Reading that post deeply influenced (and continues to influence) the architecture of Snowplow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) and I titled a chapter of Event Streams in Action 'Railway-Oriented Processing' (https://www.manning.com/books/event-streams-in-action). Thanks Scott.
> You are simultaneously being needlessly pedantic, and less than charitable by needlessly interpreting inconsequential ambiguities in OPs sentence in a way that would have made them incorrect.

Dial it back.

When I hear "most volume per surface area" I think of dome architecture, and anyone with even a slight interest in geometry or architecture would probably think similarly.

I wasn't being rude, I was helping explain their point because the words they used didn't match the ideas they meant to convey.
It sounds like this information will be available to people at banks and law enforcement without a subpoena. Is this the case? If so, this represents an enormous threat to privacy. It should not be possible for people at a bank or law enforcement to do a db query without judicial consent, find out everything someone owns, and illegally leak that data to their friend / reporter / relative / lawyer / PI who asked. I don't care if that makes their work harder or more expensive; unless someone has reasonable suspicion that a person is engaging in illegal activity, there are good reasons for that data to be private.
One downside there is the constantly huge RAM consumption of such a setup.

EDIT: At least compared to WSL1. However WSL2 also has some advantages in that it can reclaim unused memory and suspend the VM when not in use.
The occasional donation to a non-profit might help people subsist, but it doesn't build a better society with more opportunities for everyone.

Nobody needs an obscene salary for writing code when others are struggling to afford the basics.

As an aside, I remember being really taken aback when I went on holiday to the US and most of the menial jobs were being carried out by Hispanic and Black people. I guess if you are a white American you get inured to it, but as a white European it was kind of creepy and a bit repulsive.
> non related stuff to huge bills like defense appropriation

An inspiration for this bill was mitigating circumvention of the Magnitsky Act. Americans using shell companies may evade taxes. Foreign entities using shell companies may evade our counterintelligence.
That seems pretty good to be honest. I’ve seen affordable housing listings in NYC for families of 1-2 with income limits topping out at 160K.
That's fascinating, also that it was written by a single person. I remember how surprised I was when I discovered that Konqueror was at that point in time on par or better in terms of rendering quality compared to Mozilla and others. Also browser speed, memory usage etc. was just flawless. But yeah, IMHO one person projects are doomed to be abandoned unless the person is really dedicated to that project. (glibc maintainer Ulrich Drepper is probably a well-known counter-example)
I have to say, she might be wrong about that. The US is different, sometimes worse, but people have adapted.

In the US, she would've been able to buy a laptop for dirt cheap or get it from some charity or just someone looking to get rid of it for free. I myself got my first laptops and smartphones from the US, it was cheaper than buying locally, believe it or not.

Most, if not all MOOCs are from the US. Tons of blogs, content, documentation in English, written by Americans. Free for all, just learn and show your skills.

But yes, if there's an unforeseen medical emergency, you could go bankrupt in the US, while you'd be taken care of for free (or nearly free) in Europe.
Don't forget Chinese "peaceful expansion" which is just another way of saying "We're going to come over and set up in your backyard, and if you don't like it, you're just causing aggression." The Chinese government is the most opaque and two-faced system in the world. At least in America we (almsot always) give you a trial before we kill you.
I grew up in a family whose income put us below poverty line.

I didn't have to pay for college, due to Pell grants, yet she thinks that in the USA, a good student can't go to college without money. That's just not a thing. But the media in the US creates that impression for Europeans.

Also, the idea that poor people with cancer in the US are left to die. Not accurate. Medicare, medicaid, etc. Not saying its good, just saying she's deeply misinformed in the typical socialist left-wing media stereotypes and oversimplifications.
"small guys" ? Like the Roman Catholic Church, which likely has been moving it's money and holdings, just as it moves its guilty priests around, to hide them all so the pedophile lawsuits cannot get to it?

Exempting churches was a terrible, terrible mistake.
The first book is the slowest, the second is thoroughly entertaining, the third is a wild roller coaster ride across unfathomable time and space in a universe that doesn’t care.
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The US National Weather Service recently updated their radar page. The linked page has a similar feel to the old one. I prefer it.
Ah okay, for some reason I didn't get that when I first read it, thanks!
The person in the Twitter thread notes how her minimum wage mother had cancer. I think it is highly unlikely that someone working at a minimum wage job would be covered for that by their insurance (I may be wrong)

This now infamous reddit comment puts it into perspective very well: https://old.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/hj6t3t/not...
The difference on I/O is enough to make WSL unusable.

I wasted a day trying to figure out if I had a problem with anti-virus or something that was blocking me before realizing that WSL I/O is just... well, slow.

People kept telling me to upgrade to WSL2 to solve that but the version of windows I had didn't allow it. Might have been a blessing in disguise given the data corruption bugs.
> Couldn't they have fit that within both budget and size?

Oh they could have. The problem is: it's extremely hard to get access to powerful SoCs - the vendors simply won't work with you and most of the documentation is under NDA.
crap, thanks
Primary and secondary selections are specific to X11 which is not involved at all when running WSL command line apps in a Windows terminal
In the context of the census that certainly makes sense and there are obviously strong links between religious backgrounds and political beliefs.

The reason I mention it is because I've encountered too many people in continental Europe who assume the Troubles were purely due differences in religious beliefs which seems absurd given how similar those two branches of catholicism are. I realize it's entirely based on my personal experience but I've seen it too often to ignore!
Very sad to hear this. I was fortunate enough to be in his college as an undergraduate and have him for tutorials. He was a great tutor and a great person.
I expected the list of platforms to be a list of companies that actually have programs, not a list of companies that offer to manage the program for you...
Look into C++17, that one makes C++ look like Python but with worse basic libraries (not that Python ones are great either).
Important I think to point out that these are (numerous) user reports of files "corrupted". There isn't afaics any confirmation yet as to exactly what's happening nor the underlying cause.
Might want to look at an Amazfit bip paired with Gadgetbridge. Gadgetbridge can export sleep, heartrate, and exercise data. It exports as a db though I have yet to fool around with it or with my raw data.
Strings are always big endian because the most significant bit comes first when you compare them lexicographically.
Agreed. China is going backwards socially for all its economic progress...
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Purely speculative stocks are traditionally called penny stocks, and brokers go out of their way to advice you against investing in them.

The same caveats should apply to Bitcoin.
Florida is already linked to Alabama at the top:

> AL -- FL, GA, MS, TN
There are other ways to confine people then prisons. E.g. you can place people under house arrest, curfew, etc.

Also your logic if flawed. Confining people after the deed seem logically a really poor and inefficient way to reduce crime. While one criminal is confined, there will always be another. So your 50% crime reduction is closer to 0%.
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> There are also expectations that it may gain more widespread traction as a payment method from the likes of Starbucks and Microsoft.

As with nearly all BBC articles including their newest one [0], it's always about what they don't tell you. This time it's about the transaction fees from Bitcoin which make it expensive to move / convert your BTC. Making it pointless to use for micro-transactions.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55515529
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Race aside, how is that different than western europe importing eastern europeans to work their menial jobs?
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No, although I once recorded myself playing Beethoven and posted it on Facebook and the audio got muted by a stupid algorithm that thought I was violating some Sony recording of some artist.

I don't know whether to feel honored that my playing was decent enough to be (mis-)recognized by the algorithm as a professional artist or sad that I got muted.
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