skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not GP, but besides career opportunities, the US is just not very appealing (anymore) to many. It is not even necessarily about things where you could objectively say something is better or worse, but personal preferences on how to live life.

For me the biggest luxury of being a software engineer is, that pretty much wherever I go, I’m going to be solidly middle class within that region. So I can afford prioritizing other things over maximizing salary.
The riots were because filling a car tank would get expensive. I’m not sure people would not notice, until a majority of the population is driving electric.
At least you can see screenshots of what those ‘garbage apps’ are.
Similarly, I lost interest when I clicked a link to another of the author's posts talking about the FTC declining to sue Google in 2012 and it treated the claims of Yelp as gospel for proof of Google's anticompetitive behaviour.

Yelp like to paint Google as the bogeyman because it distracts from the fact that Yelp hasn't changed in a decade and the product, well, sucks.

The core claim here seems to be that Google is giving itself preferential pricing on impressions. Maybe that's.true? It's not clear to me what the effect of that is. I would've liked more detail about that and less grandstanding on the evils of Google, honestly.
Some St Vincent evacuees will leave shelter if Covid vaccine is mandatory
You want to flip this. Google/Facebook operate the ad tech and own the site (or, more accurately the audience) so they don’t need to deal with third-party publishers on a per-request basis at all.
Planting cellphone-spying devices around the White House?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/12/israel-planted...

Although, judging from the consequences (none) you could say that even that had the US's blessings.
> Bitcoin is like FedWire.

Except that FedWire connects Banks and Financial firms and BTC is traded by everyone? Just wishing BTC to be the equivalent of a settlement system doesn’t make it so.

Millions of people hold BTC in wallets and elsewhere and will continue to transact on chain. That’s what it was built for (decentralised electronic cash).

This shifting of narratives behind BTC is just tiring.
When a smoke alarm goes off, it’s telling you to get out of the house. The Nest design encourages opening an app on your iPhone instead. A smartphone has many uses but it is not a practical fire extinguisher.

Each of its convenience features for non-critical events is potentially a deadly distraction when life is a matter of seconds. It’s the smoke that usually kills.
Thanks!

Yeah, jsonlogic does not seem THAT popular. A JSON-based solution that looks like an AST means you can skip query parsing & just do generation. I started this project with my own JSON Lisp DSL before going with jsonlogic.

In either case, I like the idea of being able to swap out arbitrary storage layers - sqlite, postgres, mongo, etc. - while keeping the JSON api.

Had not encountered odata - thanks for sharing!
Here's what the OP was referring to.

> On the one hand, the IRS said, auditing poor taxpayers is a lot easier: The agency uses relatively low-level employees to audit returns for low-income taxpayers who claim the earned income tax credit. The audits — of which there were about 380,000 last year, accounting for 39% of the total the IRS conducted — are done by mail and don’t take too much staff time, either. They are “the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources,” Rettig’s report says.

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...
I think it's tooling. But tooling follows from adoption in most cases.
Let's say that BigCo wants to buy a $50M office building on the outskirts of the capital city of Taxis, where corporate owners of real estate are taxed at 8% of the market value of the property each year but individual owners are taxed at 1% per year.

BigCo writes a contract with Jane Schmidt, a citizen of Taxis. BigCo will loan Jane $50M to buy an office building, and Jane will lease the building only to BigCo. At the end of thirty years, Jane will have paid back the loan via the payments that BigCo has made, including necessary maintenance (handled by a BigCo subsidiary) and insurance (handled by BigCo's main insurance company). BigCo will also pay all reasonable and actual legal fees arising from Jane's ownership of the building. The contract provides that at any three year boundary or in the event of Jane's death, BigCo can direct Jane or her estate to sell the building to an entity of BigCo's choosing; Jane will get a fee but owe the remainder of the sale price to BigCo.

Jane is happy because she makes some money for the next three to thirty years. BigCo gets to avoid 7/8ths of the tax burden in exchange for a much smaller sum going to Jane. BigCo doesn't show the building as an asset but as a rent expense plus an income-generating loan.

At the end of the contract, BigCo directs Jane to sell the office building to Steve Jones for the current market price of the building, Steve having a similar deal in place with another company.
> I personally have no idea if it was shut down for a week in September, that's a very specific thing. Do you know exactly when a company in your line of work started doing work from home?

I'm quite familiar with my own industry and could easily fact-check claims of this specificity or follow-up with people who would know. If I could not do this, I would not be making appeals to authority in public.

> Sure I could ask around and probably figure that out. But I also don't want to, because I'm not interested in fueling your conspiracy theory when I have no idea what relevance that would have to the likelihood of a lab leak.

Conspiracy theory? This is a claim by the US Government. And you're clearly interested in "debunking" it given the amount you have written on the topic and your holding proactive AMAs. So - yeah - this leaves anyone reading your comments wondering (1) why you are rebutting strawmen arguments, (2) why you don't appear familiar with the facts [i.e. pushed the wet market hypothesis long after we knew it wasn't the origin], and (3) why you still aren't addressing basic, specific and addressable claims from sources with assumed credibility who take a different position.

> Science doesn't work the way you want it to work

The sad thing is that it does. You figure out what the most viable hypotheses are and then evaluate the evidence. Update your priors based on what you find and repeat the process. That's how you end up being able to make statements about Occam's Razor. Quite different from building strawmen, knocking them down and calling anyone who asks questions you a conspiracy theorist.
To me, the best solution to this kind of scenario is video calling, which is currently being normalized and will be readily accepted going forward.
not free.
This (and the recent ish attack on the IRGC ship) is most likely the doing of Israel to prevent the JCPOA from being reestablished and from Iran getting any sanctions relief.

If Iranian lawmakers believe these attacks were by the US (they possibly do believe that), they will be less willing to enter an agreement with the US, and Israel furthers it's goal of isolating it's adversary, Iran.
Years of life lost to Covid-19
Yes, you're correct, and yes, it's the same concept as Twitch plays Pokemon.

Does there have to be an advantage? :) I thought it was a fun project, and a fun way of playing around with and learning about Cardano. It's basically not a project to convince people that blockchains are cool it's a project for people who already think so. If that makes sense?

I'm hoping to do more interactive (and cheaper) stuff once smart contracts are live. Would love to build something with chess at that point.
not preinstalled. Wanted something anyone could run out of the box.
Very interesting read. Some things about the difference between middle/senior/lead-developers is a bit too generalized / controversial. But this quote stuck with me:

"What you do not want are employees who are blindly following you down a potentially self-destructive path because they believe anything the company does is what it should do."

What I find fascinating about the Unreal engine is, how fast they are able to iterate or implement new features, without that whole thing falling apart. Reading their release notes [1] is crazy. No idea, how the manage to keep going at that pace.

[1] https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/release-notes/
This is great! DBeaver has always been my favorite DB management tool, being able to run it as a server in a container is fantastic.

When trying to get a remote admin UI for SQLite databases I always had trouble for one reason or another, cloudbeaver may be a good alternative. I'm just a bit sad entity diagrams are not part of the free edition.
I had to vouch for the comment to reply to it. I also looked back through the history and saw some perfectly acceptable comments showing as dead.
> The reality is Gen Z'ers are desperate at this point and they're turning to gambling in the hopes of making up lost economic ground.

There is a certain rationality to this, when you're coming from so far behind.

If you need a million dollars and you start with $200K, you set a timeline and a prudent plan.

If you need a million dollars and you start with $2K, you're so far behind[0] you may as well gamble.

I do not necessarily advocate the latter. I'm just articulating the thinking/emotion.

[0] 2000 at 7% p.a. takes 92 years to top a million if my arithmetic is correct.
I don't disagree,but I think there's space for several levels of abstraction between where we are today and no-code tools.
> A cyber-treaty won’t be coming overnight: As a comparatively new area of international relations, there are fewer 'rules' and far more grey areas – for example, blurred lines between Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups and Nation States. While there is hope we will one day come to an agreement on cyberwarfare and cyberweapons, today there is very little in place that can stem the tide.

And there it is on page 1!

Excellent contribution, thank you so much for this.
Matt Stoller is an expert in the field of antitrust, feel free to look him up.
It still makes me a bit sad that the concept of "meme" managed to shift from being an informational analogue of genes to a viral image with goofy text. I'm not sure how that happened, but at this point the ship has sailed.
If you like this brand of wonderful nonsense, you should check out his other videos. He usually posts a video on at least one wacky idea each year, then publishes a research paper about it at SIGBOVIK[0], a joke computer science conference with proceedings released every April 1st.

0: http://sigbovik.org/
I think it’s more like insurance than a social safety net. It’s also private instead of public and therefore by necessity, political, which is undesirable for many people.

And I don’t think it’s in lieu of a social safety net. This would exist to stabilize a lifestyle. A social safety net would still exist for adults that can’t take care of themselves through government funded shelter and food and other things.

I would expect a professional couple with plans of a family wouldn’t be able to (or want to) rely on the whims of government assistance. You’d maybe want to plan a lifestyle and getting up front money could have benefits. Similar to purchasing additional life insurance if you have kids.
Roche bug warning over its mySugr diabetes app
The perigee of an orbit originating from a collision cannot be higher than the collision point and is very likely to be lower. Apogee could be higher, but it won't be for most of the debris. And even if it is, the low perigee will still cause the orbit to decay. And as Gwypaas points out, the pieces will in general decay faster than the whole satellite would due to higher surface area to mass ratio.
Define "everyone"?
I prefer single-duty one liner pieces of code/commands over large and complex programs that tie all these code snippets into one large abstraction.

I would not be hired because I only enjoy executing 'one-thing-well' snippets of code/commands. My minimalism would be a turn-off for most software companies or code shops.
Apple explicitly markets that the iPhone is locked down.

How is that ‘trying hard’ to look like a general purpose computer?
Had I put 600$ in the S&P500 when I ordered my Librem 5, I would have 1068$ in S&P500 shares. Now, I have occasional spam in my inbox about Librem 5 related blog posts. I expected to at least get a shipping date 2 years later. I understand the times have been tough, but nobody's told me if my order is cancelled or if it's still being worked on. I've seen some people receive their Evergreen phones. I'm OK with waiting, but being left out in the cold is starting to get to me.
Off topic: The draw-an-iceberg game posted recently here taught me that icebergs do not look like that. That thing would float sideways!
Ah. The lowest point of the orbit is the previous orbit.

The fragments can still have more energy and decay slower than the original satellite. Especially when they don't have drag generating solar panels anymore.
> Profit apportionment. If 20% of your revenue comes from a particular state or country, that jurisdiction gets to tax 20% of your profit.

There's already a local tax on revenue. Sales tax.
It was a carbon tax on gas that was going to affect the lower classes disproportionately. I don't think we'd see an uprising for a carbon tax on intra-national flights, which are much more of a business travel mode
Operation Rheinübung – First and Last Voyage of the Bismarck [video]
While Israel would be the #1 suspect as they want the JCPOA deal to fail, I would assume that some people in Iran are also against the deal and want it to see it fail, so an internal sabotage isn't really out of the question.
What’s your point? What do you want? Some people are stupid, you can’t change that.
What is the benefit of going from desktop application to web browser? (DBeaver to CloudBeaver)
It is odd...

Iran has lots of energy resources, is a huge energy exporter, and has a ton of heavy polluting industry...but they are also investing heavily in nuclear energy? Odd.
Thread about autoencoders, things they can do, and a pretty cool example
I really urge to not play games like Wolfenstein VR for this reason. I have seen people continuously accusing everyone that they see to be a triple SS agent or an outright Twitter bot since it has blurred the signs of reality and the video game.

Most people who play this game often suffer from this special form of VR sickness. /s
Don't forget about those rails. A lot of energy is locked in them, not to mention land. Planes need airports and nothing more.

Planes also spend their time where there is less wind resistance to deal with.

Trains are still a win, but it isn't as clear as it seems.
Famous Iran lover... Joe Biden?
Dbus won't allow it because you have to switch to that user before it lets you connect. You would have to have whatever is doing the access running as root and then change its user. There's not really any magic here, it's just a socket with access controls on it, the same thing you would be building anyway.
> None of those gets anyone out of the house.
> None increases life safety.

Well, if your neighbor happens to have an adjoining home (for instance living in an apartment two floors above you) then contacting them could be life saving.
Use comp-speed 2 for Emacs as a whole though. 3 will break some semantics of the language if I understand correctly.
Sometimes those 29€ are just the emerged part if the iceberg, with local airports subsidies which distorts said market.
I've found this paper interesting, as while there is a lot of discussion of number of deaths from covid-19, a common concern/theory is whether many of elderly are primarily dying from other underlying causes. This paper actually computes the number of live year lost, and interestingly it turns out that a largest number of those is for ages between 55-75. Overall I think the years of live lost is probably more helpful statistic than excess mortality for example.
> but I doubt highly I could pass the tests to even get an interview.

I don’t get this “won’t even try” attitude for a job interview - what is the worst thing that could happen?
That's not quite what happened. First, Iran blamed it on cyberattack, then Israeli media took credit for it, because why the hell would they not? It's also not even confirmed, just assumed:

> Israeli public broadcaster Kan said that it could be assumed that the incident was an Israeli cyber operation, citing the discovery in 2010 of the Stuxnet computer virus
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I don't know, if Ayatollah Khamenei's fatwa against nuclear weapons is to be trusted, I can identify somewhat with the argument for Iran gaining a deterrent, even though I'd _much_ prefer total nuclear disarmament in the region (effectively meaning just Israeli disarmament).
The article is discussing how seeking short term profit may not be the natural thing to do when most public companies are owned largely by index funds.

It's not the first one, either. So I'm not introducing that into "the discussion" nor is this article.

I'm not advocating or asserting that it has good consequences either. I'm saying it's weird that when people speculate, they don't speculate about a class of consequences of their new view.

It is a fact that the major index funds have been putting a little pressure on companies to be more socially responsible, and regardless of whether this is only performative and insignificant, it demonstrates that they could promote whatever one thinks is good for society at the expense of individual profits.

So leaving any reference to it out is an odd oversight. Again, I'm not claiming that common ownership of all the companies is good, or that the funds are doing meaningful good. But a reasonable article would say something about the possibilities to promote the things that people want companies to do that ameliorate competition. Activists are trying to pressure the funds. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.

I believe Matt Levine has written about this from time to time, so really I'm asking why other journalists aren't as fair and balanced as he is.
Technologies I thought my son would never use
Thank you! That was an interesting read

It's so hard to get to the actual truth where CCP is involved. I'm sure there is actual corruption - hear about it on the low level personal stories of manufacturing businesses working with HN commenters. But it's also used as an excuse to sideline potential opposition.

The byline starts it off ha: "Well-connected Chinese power players, including some with links to political families that represent a potential challenge to President Xi" "Mr. Xi has used the antigraft crusade to target both actual corruption as well as to strengthen his own hold on power."

The article gave me some new insight I think in showing how corruption could be viewed by the party as anything that threatens the party's power and their all important stability - a different definition than my perspective; like the kind of nouveau riche spend bragging and Saudi 'prince' instagram type behavior alluded to in the article
phone/sms spam is definitely more noticeable and actually hard to block
Blue-Subtitle
Blue Subtitle are text gotten from either a record or screenplay of the discourse or critique in movies, TV programs, computer games, and such, normally showed at the lower part of the screen, however can likewise be at the highest point of the screen if there is now text at the lower part of the screen. They can either be a type of composed interpretation of a discourse in an unknown dialect, or a composed delivering of the exchange in a similar language, with or without added data to help watchers who are hard of hearing or deaf, who can't comprehend the communicated in language, or who have complement acknowledgment issues to follow the exchange.
It can also be a cover for no attack.

The blackout happened when a previously unused part of the site was being brought online it could’ve been simply a normal fault.

Calling it a cyber attack may be beneficial for both parties, the administrators of the site get to save face, and the Israelis would happily take credit unofficially because they know that it would cause a longer delay because now the Iranians will be scrubbing their networks.

If they’ll also be replacing some equipment such as PLCs it opens the site to future attacks if any entity has the ability to compromise the supply chain.
To be noted : we have a extensive fast train system.
As a user, I prefer to take the train. It’s faster, more confortable and overall less hassle.
( you get from city center to city center, no security check; you can move around, use your mobile hotspot or the train wifi )

The one use case is going from Paris to Toulouse for instance. It’s take a day of train. But even Paris-Marseille is less than 3h at this point.

Paris, Lyon, Lille; Marseille, Nantes, Strasbourg; Those are our « top » cities and they are all connected with fast trains.
Israel is clearly enjoying a great moment for inflicting damage on its arch-enemy. If Iran reacts, it's going to get the blame for attacking (because history always begins after Israel's latest offensive action) and the US will find a much hoped for excuse not to re-enter the nuclear deal. So Iran can only endure the humiliation and suck it up. So far they've shown an incredible patience.
Nice! The nested explorer you have there is REALLY slick. Great work!

This is something I had been thinking about - when dealing w/ normalized JSON documents, how might I allow exploration of referenced documents? & how might I encode those relationships is some way that's lightweight?

Thanks for sharing.
In big data's defence, after first 150 episodes pokemons became ridiculous.
The History of 4chan?
I dont know. However, you can see from the following:-

Publishers: "Nintendo, Game Freak, The Pokémon Company",
American_Publisher: "Pokémon",
Japanese_Publisher: "Pocket Monster",
Chinese_Whisper: "big data".
Sources: memory, Wikipedia entry.

Something is incorrect here.
Why would Biden give the blessing now of all times, right before the deal. Why would he not wait and see how to deal goes first? The place just opened it's not like it'll pump out bombs within a day.
If you look at the history this theory seems quite rational. Israel has the most to gain RIGHT NOW, and while others have something to gain too (e.g. Saudi Arabia), they lack Israel's technical prowess.

It is really up to the US, if they want the JCPOA to move forward, to try and corral Israel (or better bring them in so they're fully onboard with JCPOA).
well we're talking about a facility that isn't supposed to be connected to the internet. so there has to be an internal actor. like there was with stuxnet
one of the rare occasions that Israel has taken independent action. From what i've read, some of Carters cabinet were furious but he refused to issue sanctions against Israel.
That's what I thought but didn't know for sure. I know that clearing price is in the official openRTB spec on loss notification.
Is this an American project that sources & aggregates data from American police forces, or is it some general thing that wants to draw from multiple countries? (Because the site doesn't mention anything about locale).
Thanks for getting into the details. The fine prints change everything.
> _very_ competent cyber-actor

Please elaborate on this. As someone with direct exposure to this area and in this geography, my experience could not be described this way at all.

Let's not forget Iran's first "military satellite" was launched with an over the counter unencrypted amateur cubesat transponder manufactured by a Californian company
‘Frat Boys’ Culture Reigned at Startup Hit by Security-Cam Hack
“I'm at my limit with Jason Hickel..this is a personal story over several years”
OP doesn’t seem to be financially independent just yet:

> I have family, I can't risk to lose my job

Maybe building FAANG CRUD apps can offer something here