skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems like the definition of material, non-public information. In the past I don’t think Congress was bound to the same trading rules as the general public (blech), but last I checked, Mr. Pelosi is not in Congress.
I am more worried about Time Clock Fraud[0] being treated as an actual issue. (It's just a byproduct of any business).

Amazon simply increasing the wages[1] is not enough. Wages also need to be adjusted for inflation.

[0] https://www.nettimesolutions.com/blog/time-clock-fraud-steal...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/24/amazon-extends-unpaid-time-o...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/13/amazon-to-end-wage-increases...
The media spin machines are in action. Pick the worst parts of the letter, ignore the good parts, and use it to reinforce the chosen narrative.

People think totally differently when primed. Compare how the comments here are totally different compared to the comments in the original thread, where people can read what Jeff Bezos actually said and form their own opinions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819523
> no one forgets about non-trivial resources

The number of articles I've read about someone who left a non-trivial number of resources running unused in AWS and were later surprised by a large bill would seem to be a counterexample to that point.
Just for completeness, many former British colonies inherited criminal defamation from the general body of English common law. Apparently UK only repealed it in 2010.

Of course, Singapore is famous for actually using it, but still, in many parts of the world defamation can technically be a criminal offence even if in practice the legal risk is low..
Why is more moderation asked for? The 1st is restricting the government to do it, so they are pushing private companies to do it? To what end goal? It does not make sense to me, but I don't know the political aspects of this.
Any sufficiently robust advanced species is indistinguishable from fungi.
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Williamsburg has a large population of Australian expats.
The Australian dev we just relocated already had a good 10 friends there.
you mostly pay for it with taxes, or other people's labour (slaves)
So all movies with CGI now need a disclaimer?
Given that the set of possible searches is unbounded, first instinct is that the whole system would have had to be designed around that use case from the bottom up for the problem to be remotely tractable
My initial comment was a bit cryptic to be honest :)
I respect him for building a company this huge. Luck and privilege played a part for sure, but without laser-focused willpower and endurance, it won't have been possible to get Amazon to what it is today.

At the same time, this is almost comical.Amazing, indeed, that he doesn't get called out by major news reporters.
You should read some good book about how we learn.

And take maximum from your work time, and get a good rest afterwards.

Good rest is as important for learning as concentration times.
From the government's perspective, they're the same. They want 25% of all content consumed to be Canadian, and piracy is a problem because it interferes with that. Whether someone in America makes money off of Canadian citizens isn't the primary concern.
Interesting chart. For someone who doesn't follow the industry, does it show current capability, or capability at the time a given node was cutting edge? If the latter it really does show a tremendous winnowing. To what extent is that winnowing attributable to consolidation (M&A) vs dropping out?
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I'm a bit confused; the linked article talks about TSMC's profits and makes no mention of the chip shortage or any predictions related to it. Am I missing something?
They are detectable I see them every few nights, and yes it was a joke...
That's the problem, bcashers ignore technical reality.
Actual pro-bitcoin altcoin project like Zcash and Litecoin are ignored for the altcoins that fell into the bcash camp and memes.

Litecoin is a better "bitcoin" than bitcoin cash, and with its move towards Mimblewimble Extension Block's, will have additional privacy that does not exist in bcash. But accepting that would require more a technical understanding of mathematics and cryptoeconomics.
It baffles me as well. Especially because I do get feedback like wow your voice “carries”, or it is clear, or that it is “calm”. The best comment I received was that it sounded like I was there in the room and that it captured my voice well. Related to the OP my voice also has been called convincing.

This is with a beyer dynamic microphone extension for a studio headphone. And I have the gain fixed.

Everyone else in our comp keys team sessions has keyboard sound, plops, distortions. But in general it pretty well understandable at the cost of having to spent effort to understand. So maybe software is doing a hell of a job here.
while 200M might seem like a lot, and every little bit helps. Apple alone has $195.57 billion in cash on hand to spend.

These companies look at what they can spend that seems a lot for common people just so those people buy Apple products because of "status."

Considering this was them less then a year ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/29/lens-te...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...
Now do gold.
this is the guy who spams literally all of chamath's tweets and everyone else in involved with finance and investing
Laws need to come into force sometime - and as long as we're not going to get a ping-pong law that's repealed as soon as republicans get into power then I don't mind it happening while democrats hold the torch. I am well aware of the hypocrisy some folks show on this topic but, honestly, it's a good law no matter who is in power and if we're just trying to be petty we won't get anything done.
Why should that be any different than how you look in person?
Anyone ever use this? https://waytools.com
I just installed a user agent switcher and tried it on a prominent financial news site. The offer to subscribe was replaced by the article when I reloaded using the Googlebot user agent.
WinFS was an attempt at this. It'd be interesting to learn why it was cancelled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
I think the article was updated
> I'd be more interested in what you think it "should" look like for an "advanced" species besides optimal?

An advanced species would recognize the uniqueness and importance of the natural world, and would fence off huge sections of it to protect it for future generations.
You're seriously overthinking this. Descriptivism isn't some plot to twist our cherished language, it just describes the language as it is currently used by speakers.
Why not just 1 or 2 keys and you type with morse code?
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> component makers shut down manufacturing capacity and it's taking a long time to ramp it up

Not really. The component manufacturers canceled their fab time contracts with fab companies as they could not afford to hold onto them if their customer (the car manufacturers) were not buying from them. And once they did that fabs just sold the capacity to the next buyer.

So now the component manufacturers only option is to buyout the contract from someone else (really really expensive with current available capacity) or just wait until the contracts expire to get a chance to bid for them again. Also as fab time is auctioned if the shortage still continues then the fab time will be really expensive even then.
> Why not?

Because money is finite? Not every research grant gets funded. So let's start with the most promising ones?

Funding vaccines that are not meeting standards should be dropped so that standards can be met. These companies don't need money for R&D, they have enough and can recoup it if they create a product that the market wants.
> https://tunshell.com/ works great for nix runners.

Oh and their interface is a `curl | sh` that execs whatever happens to be lying around in `/tmp/tunshell/client`. I guess* that is probably fine on a single-user system but I prefer not to run binaries that just about every process on my system can write to.

https://lets.tunshell.com/init.sh

Edit: I filed a bug https://github.com/TimeToogo/tunshell/issues/19
Pelosi is a master politician and the pandemic has been a fast moving situation. I could see Pelosi being against the stimulus and then fast switching based on changing currents in the minds of voters.
In my opinion the only thing stops that is the fear of punishment.

But then the initial question arises: how to prove that there was a broken law in gaining more wealth/power (by chance vs intentionally).

It feels like this question was asked for thousands of years.
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Yeah, the only downside of tmate is that you need to add/uncomment the line with it, push, then remove the commit again.
It's much nicer in circleci, for example where you can simply rerun wish SSH in a button click. Even better would be if the VM was around for a bit after failing, so I could connect and inspect the state without rerunning at all.
Yeah, in a low-liquidity market, this market cap is a fantasy market cap.
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Am I missing something obvious or do these kinds of systems lack a good story for testing?

With Travis and now GH Actions I find the fastest way to develop is to just push countless commits and incrementally develop my work flow in a live-ish way while asking peers to ignore the email spam on failures.
Start with the 3 best examples you can name and we can go over how regulated various industries are, what percentage of income is paid in taxes, and what percentage of their GPD is non military government spending.
Speaking as a Day 1 Apple Watch owner, not as a watchOS developer.

I think the first generation of Apple Watches were woefully underpowered for what they pitched as a development platform. The resources were very limited. Developers had to nail optimizations, and that was a shock in today's world where too many developers just npm install or pip3 install their problems away. It's very telling that early on, despite having a ton of apps, the fastest, most stable ones were the included ones by Apple and Google Maps.

The result were a ton of slow, crashy apps with poor connection reliability. Users, myself included, got pissed, blamed the apps, and developers just said this wasn't worth it.
No, because "unless this is obvious from the circumstances and the context of use,”" as it says in TFA

But to a point, photoshopped images also require a disclaimer in some countries (e.g. France)
That's not what T9 is. T9 is predictive text - you hit a combination of keys and it guesses what word you meant.

Here is an emulator:
https://www.sainsmograf.com/labs/t9-emulator/

Type `422537` to receive `hacker`. You hit `2` twice to get `ac`, not `b` - and it picks `ac` given the context.
It's an open marketplace for anyone to sell or buy compute power, not a giveaway from someone. I think the word "democratize" is clunky but I think it has some overlap with the idea that you don't need special connections to trade in the system and act as a seller or a buyer in it.
Yup, to me it’s fascinating.

We’re another level of the fractal of life, replicating patterns seen in bacterial biofilms, slime molds, circulatory systems, nervous systems, leaves, all manner of multicellular architectures.

It’s certainly a bad thing that we are growing in a sort of zero-sum manner against many original ecosystems though.

We need to learn to restrain our own growth (a tough one that we’re in the process of trying to beat into all of our heads it seems), and also we need to learn how to maximize the potential for biodiversity to exist within the structure of human occupied areas as well. (A good book on this last subject is “Win-win Ecology”).
This has basically already occurred IIRC - the entire bitcoin blockchain is now too massive for most people to entirely download and authenticate; most people rely on exchanges, etc to do it for them.
Makes me think about this recent thread:

"If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9905847

The bacteria within us certainly don't know anything about our consciousness. Yet somehow the sum total of their activity results in a conscious being. If we as humans look and act like bacteria when we zoom out, do we suffer the same myopia of our bacteria friends, unable to recognize the consciousness our collective activity creates? It's fun to think about.
I also thought this was odd. This site alleges malfeasance based purely on analysis of data but then alludes to a person's thoughts on specific dates without citation.

I also found this article on 2020/12/21 where Pelosi says she wanted more stimulus, but the $600 checks were significant.[1] So it seems all the more unlikely that she said she was against further stimulus at any point on the 22nd.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/nancy-pelosi-wanted-more-600-22542493...
Yes. I used to. Now I want to write backend code in the front end.
The people only care about convenience.
Speaking of ant and slime simulation, this recent video Coding Adventures video was pretty mind blowing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-iSQQgOd1A

(Especially part 2 starting around 10m in).
The ability to ssh into the Travis VM and investigate the terminal state on failure is just amazing.
Combine all of that with a major housing crisis that makes it hard to find a good apartment...and if you're in Berlin, the locals resenting you for the gentrification...I'm really puzzled why so many of my friends have left the States to go work there.
> Spotify is thriving on Apple platforms even though Apple has had its own music products for longer than Spotify has been around.

Some portion of Spotify's success, I'd argue, is that they were the first successful entrant in the streaming space. The product isn't particularly remarkable compared to other options and in fact has some notable downsides (such as its ever-changing-for-unclear-reasons UI) but it's what people know and thus what people use.

It having a free ad-supported plan is also a massive factor, but I suppose that would fall under "lowering the bar".
This is definitely my biggest issue at the moment. I understand the intent is to make it easy to port software to support it but I dislike the method none-the-less.

I'd much prefer they provide a constrained environment and dedicated compilers (or compiler extensions). At least that way the code can be sandboxed in such a way that you don't have to worry about what it's actually doing.

Honestly with the types of tasks they are targetting, a purely functional or algorithmic language requirement would serve them well. For example, I would be far more comfortable if they were using something like [Halide](https://halide-lang.org/) with some static analysis to deny any low level fuckery. At least that way the providers could have a reasonable assurance that they aren't going to accidentally unleash some malicious code onto their system.
Thank you!

You only see posts intended for you to see, whereas on Instagram, you at best will get a mix of publicly or locally publicly shared posts. Only allowing selected audiences guarantees the personal and intimacy aspect of Khuro.

Working on some additional features to compete with existing platforms too.
Hi all -

Pigeon is a Chrome extension I built that allows you to get the contact info about your elected officials right from within Gmail.

I wanted a quick-and-easy way to click a button, see my official, and then click to open a new compose window.

I use two different APIs (one for American, one for Canadian) to access elected official data, based on your location.

Happy to answer any questions :)
No, it was not true. It was predicated on the falsehood that congressional acts are announced as they are decided.
This is really disappointing. They failed to address the very basic privacy requirement given that this billed as privacy tech. Apple tackles this head on when they say the GUID is per app precisely to ensure users cannot be tracked across apps.

This tells you where google's priorities are, not that it was in question before, but it just makes it clearer.
Funnily enough this comment illustrates his point exactly.
VPN by Google One is among the first ioXt-certified apps
I'm a big fan of the model M. Its one of the loudest keyboards produced "Their buckling-spring keys are noisy enough to be inappropriate in quiet locations such as libraries and medical facilities." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard
Whichever one you're most comfortable with
It would be interesting if the universe consists of a self-executing computer like you suggest, but I don't think it's a logical necessity for such a thing to exist.

The laws of the universe could just be abstract concepts that describe how these particles interact with each other.
I mean... I am a living proof that you can just move to a place like Austria. And yes, we were a family of 4, quite poor, and had nobody to turn to for help. My sister loves it there, I didn’t so I moved to the US. If we were able to make those decisions, why is it that other people can’t? I know the usual excuses, but we’re taking about life-transformational decisions that IMO are worth making a few sacrifices for (eg: moving kids out of school, not seeing your parents for an extended amount of time, living in a tiny studio apartment, etc). Not recommending it to most people, but I would push back on the idea that it’s impossible.
What Should We Do If Extraterrestrials Show Up?
This seems stupid. They should have a 7-day policy or something.
But where are the 3x funds that pay 3x the dividends?
T9 Emulator
>Too little too late. Hopefully peoples' memories aren't so short to forget that he's been nothing but the encyclopedic example of greed.

uhh... bill gates?
Why is this? It certainly doesn’t need to be so I suppose?
India will use Aadhaar-based facial recognition in its coronavirus vaccine drive
Edit it to "secret bets" or even "non publicly announced".
Actual, a budgeting app built by @jlongster (creator of Prettier), is a local-first webapp built with in-browser SQLite. It uses CRDT's to sync state to the server.

A tweet storm: https://twitter.com/jlongster/status/1341586372252078083

A blog post which mentions some of how it works: https://actualbudget.com/blog/porting-local-app-web

A more recent tech talk (which I haven't watched): https://blog.fission.codes/building-actual-budget-with-james...
Did your clients have their employees pee in bottles as a de-facto company policy? Is that the sort of thing that just tends to happen as companies scale?
Median household income is up to $69k now. In 1980, it was $17k. Wages are up 3.7x since 1980. REAL median household income is up 32% [1]. And this is with labor force participation absolutely plummeting [2].

Less people are working, and yet households are bringing in 32% more.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
I played professionally for years. I wanted my opponents to play as badly as possible.
> It, including these trades, is working as intended.

You can view the US in a lot of cynical ways but it was not created as a vehicle to allow the wealthy to continue to gain wealth at the expense of the poor. Insider trading between congressmen using their posts to fleece the public was never an intent of the government.
More than 3-4 hours of TV is considered unhealthy, and that number has been constant since the 90s. Why isn't there such a number for phones and computers?

Productivity took the limits away, for the worse I feel.
Look at this abomination that someone posted in the comment section there:

⌈e⌉ = ⌊π⌋

This is … evil.
Thank you for posting this. I eventually figured out that I had to hold and swipe to make the delete option show up. Just swiping it started it.
Our top officials are compensated to the tune of 174,000 which is 95th percentile. Making people wealthier doesn't make them more honest.
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> Young software engineers in France or Spain don't earn as much.

Central European companies seem to outsource so much development work to Barcelona. You'd think that salaries would start increasing there by now.
> With many buying latest smartphones, and returning them after a week after trying them

Lots of products should have a return window this long or longer.
> Replacing the people that made a city’s culture notable because they can’t afford it is not good for anyone.

Berlin's attraction in the last 70 years (from the Western perspective) has been that it's cheap, has kind of an frontier spirit, laws and rules are much less strict, and it's being well-funded as an enclave and a thorn in East-Germany's side (it's still losing money, and is a drag on the German economy; capitals in comparable Western countries are typically strong economic motors in their country [1]).

For many young men, Germany's draft (or the alternative civil service) could only be circumvented by moving to Berlin.

With the Reunification, Berlin was on track to become the capital once more. That meant: gigantic amounts of money, jobs and opportunities, and that in return made Berlin extremely attractive. Before that happened, Berlin was actually shrinking.

With the government moved many large corporations in Germany, and brought even more money and jobs. They made Berlin attractive. It wasn't Berlin's night life and cultural scene, those are a consequence of the attractiveness and funding, not the other way round. So it's really not that those who built it are being forced out. It's that those who were attracted to it have to share with other people who want to also live there. Sucks for them, I agree, but there's nothing unfair about it. It will also happen to those moving there today, and they'll complain as well.

[1] https://qz.com/753244/berlin-is-the-only-capital-city-in-eur...
Yes. The decision calculus here really boils down to how many clients the API has and how much you care about those clients.

If you have 100 other teams each with 5+ developers consuming your API -- or especially if your API is a product -- then keeping the API to frontend interface relatively stable with rare breaking changes is much more valuable than saving yourself even a major time commitment on DB to API work.

On the other hand, if you have relatively few clients -- or if the clients are "lower status"/"cheaper" teams -- saving time on the DB to API work a the expense of client teams might make sense.
There are self-centered people from all countries.

I used to feel good/bad depending on what people from my country/region/group etc. do. But it's so silly. Why do I care what another person does - whom I don't even know? It's the same with long lost ancestors.

So now a days I notice such thoughts quickly and remember that it's a silly heuristic that my brain uses and I should ignore it.
IMO, it ought to be an even number. It would help make the court less active and more (operationally) conservative by requiring them to have more consensus in their rulings.

The US Senate has a hard time passing new bills precisely because it reflects the growing ideological divide in this country. This should be a time for less activism and more consensus-building, not less.
Has anyone had any luck debugging via USB 3 on modern Intel CPUs?
Sorry, I’m not into language wars. I would say the best language to get something off the ground is the language you already know. No language will offset the time it takes to learn it in the first project.
> With the deprecation of Web SQL, I highly doubt this is a use-case anyone cares for anymore.

WebSQL didn’t die as a standard because noone wanted client SQL on the web, it died because SQLite was the only reasonable way of providing it, preventing multiple really-independent implementations.
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