skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well maybe it's intended to be tongue-in-cheek, like "prepare for the zombie apocalypse, and you prepare for all catastrophic events."
It's completely useless for intro courses. But in my experience, intro courses are completely bimodal for CS: some students just get it and some just don't.

Sure the later can copy their assignments. But once they'll hit a non-trivial assignment or a code review in a more advance class they won't be able to fake it anymore. You are just delaying their transfer to another major. And that gives the CS department one extra course they can collect tuition from and justify hiring TAs for...
Look up double Irish with a Dutch sandwich. Not really my area of expertise, but in the past at least basically all big tech companies used that strategy.
Or building a house without a buyer already under contract, and trying to sell it for a profit.
The cutting off a hand thing might be satire, but the threat of biometric data being replicated and used if its the only measure of authentication isn't. If we have the ability to read and scan palm prints, than the technology to replicate those prints into maybe a faux glove and trick this system isnt that far off i'd assume, right?

Comparing this system to, for instance a chip card reader, the palm print is significantly less secure because it uses a single factor (something you are) versus a chip which requires the customer to both have the card with the chip present for payment, and to know the PIN in order to authenticate. Or your phone for example, if someone steals your fingerprint (or even models your face), they still need to have your physical phone to unlock it. With this palm scanning tech, all you need is the palm and you can pay for anything anywhere because there's no secondary confirmation
As an engineer I find both ideas very innovative.

Nobody is desalinating their own water at home using waste heat. Oil wells are often located in an area where it would make no sense to transport a bunch of water to desalinate (perhaps that's a good idea for sea-based wells though).

I don't know enough about co2 extraction or electrolysis, only that those also don't sound like things people are likely to do at home.
so i think. The means through which the device was obtained must have conformed to at least the barest definition of the word 'legal'. I think so for the purely logical reason that signal wouldn't be crowing like a rooster over stolen property. Though obviously, they didn't exactly walk into cellebrite and request a <whatever it was> by the front desk....
I didn't mean to suggest that PoW is sufficient to drive 100% green energy adoption. Your point about it driving any/all energy consumption is well taken. You'd need to have regulations that prohibit using non-green energy, but my point there was you'd need these regulations anyway even if Bitcoin was never invented.
capital gains tax doesnt effect investment levels. here's a chart: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzmSJpLWYAgVY3V?format=png&name=...
Very fun game! Some observations:

1. don't know why it need to calls to get https://simulator.money/img/windows-xp-bg.jpg and dings/chimes.mp3 on every month. (Although cached by browser)
2. After purchase a property, it does not listed under properties tab in the bank, even with monthly utility bills.
3. Some missing mails there, maybe associate with mismatch unread count.
4. As a player, I am not sure what is the unit of "mortgage last", is it month or years?

Very looking forward to other options such as college/cars/jobs, etc. Great work!
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I love being able to explore citation graphs this way. I tried creating a couple of maps from recently published seed articles (from Pubmed, if it matters) and found that only 50–60% of the cited works showed up in the map. I assume this reflects incompleteness of the underlying public citation data? Is there any way users can help fill in the gaps?
> I have a web site that has multiple sections in it

Cool. Scroll up to change sections.

> and some of those sections have articles or stories in them

That's pretty spiffy.

> and some of those stories have chapters. I have breadcrumb navigation for it.

When I read an ebook, I scroll down. When I scroll down I expect the navigation elements to move with (and disappear from) the screen.

If you want to repeat your navigation elements at the bottom of the page, that'd be a nice compromise. But please do not keep navigation elements on screen.

> There are also web sites that have menus in them

Menus are not discoverable in websites. Most websites implementations of menus is god-awful. It's absolutely _not_ intuitive, ever, that hovering a mouse should open a menu. And if you click a menu, should that navigate to a new page like clicking on anything else? Or should clicking suddenly _not_ navigate to a new page but instead do something different? How do you tell the difference?

Answer: you don't. The site shouldn't use menus. Use hyperlinks.

> because they have different sections and they choose to let you navigate between those sections using tabs or buttons or left-hand navigation columns or whatever. Those web sites are, nonetheless, still web sites.

And they're trashy websites that should be apps instead.
Referring to "the American continent" is a very South American thing to do. I think in the US they consider themselves to be sharing a continent with just Mexico and Canada.

Furthermore I think you don't go far enough. Around the world, abolishing the death penalty seems to be a mark of high development, apart from Japan (and arguably China and India) there aren't any highly developed nations that are still killing people.
I can run the code behind a network that prevents outbound file transfers for large data.

So the code shows file, all my proof of storage is correct and users are hosed. There’s no “proof of bandwidth” (yet)
Ah sorry - I missed that they are different lawsuits. From an HN moderation point of view this is a bit of a distinction without a difference, because "Proctorio lawsuit against student" is really one topic, not two. But I can see how it has made several comments confusing to mess up the contexts like that.

Perhaps the best thing will be to post the different links with an explanation at the top of the thread.
Different scenario, but tech giants in the US have some amazing arrangements. I’m in New Zealand and their clever arrangements here see them paying minuscule bills on massive revenue

“In 2018 Google NZ Ltd (an entity of Alphabet group) paid income tax of NZ$398,341 – about 0.055 per cent of the estimated gross ad revenue “extracted” from the New Zealand market.”

Facebook, Apple and Amazon have all been in and out of the news here for their arrangements too.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/121505796/google-and-facebook...
I'm always amazed by the crazy crap people deal with in space, and how much protection the Earth affords us. Extreme temperatures, radiation, small bits of material traveling fast enough to go through structural metals like a knife; it's a thrill a second.
I agree it is an excellent tool. At GitLab we released our Semgrep integration today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26903114

"GitLab SAST historically has been powered by over a dozen open-source static analysis security analyzers. These analyzers have proactively identified millions of vulnerabilities for developers using GitLab every month. Each of these analyzers is language-specific and has different technology approaches to scanning. These differences produce overhead for updating, managing, and maintaining additional features we build on top of these tools, and they create confusion for anyone attempting to debug.

The GitLab Static Analysis team is continuously evaluating new security analyzers. We have been impressed by a relatively new tool from the development team at r2c called Semgrep. It’s a fast, open-source, static analysis tool for finding bugs and enforcing code standards. Semgrep’s rules look like the code you are searching for; this means you can write your own rules without having to understand abstract syntax trees (ASTs) or wrestle with regexes.

Semgrep’s flexible rule syntax is ideal for streamlining GitLab’s Custom Rulesets feature for extending and modifying detection rules, a popular request from GitLab SAST customers. Semgrep also has a growing open-source registry of 1,000+ community rules.

We are in the process of transitioning many of our lint-based SAST analyzers to Semgrep. This transition will help increase stability, performance, rule coverage, and allow GitLab customers access to Semgrep’s community rules and additional custom ruleset capabilities that we will be adding in the future. We have enjoyed working with the r2c team and we cannot wait to transition more of our analyzers to Semgrep. You can read more in our transition epic, or try out our first experimental Semgrep analyzers for JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python.

We are excited about what this transition means for the future of GitLab SAST and the larger Semgrep community. GitLab will be contributing to the Semgrep open-source project including additional rules to ensure coverage matches or exceeds our existing analyzers."
Persuasion in the current bipolar political environment is way overrated.

You're not going to persuade a Q follower or BLM protester about the opposing viewpoint.

Polemics in this realm are far more effective.
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The reason I strongly disagree is that I was intimately involved in the VR (vacation rental) space at that time. I have seen those articles before, and yes, both Fred Wilson and pg missed seeing the potential benefit, but in my opinion despite their phenomenal success otherwise, this "miss" here was just the miss in their minds, not the space more broadly.

My understanding is that one of the first big investors in AirBnB did so because he was familiar with the VR space. Being very familiar with the holes in user experience and technology at the time with VR websites, it was not a leap in my mind at all to see how a winner was destined for the space.
Most of TDWTF is a kernel of truth surrounded by about three pages of fiction.
Good point, this is also one of the aspects of skill. There are techniques you can use effectively to mitigate this.

One unfortunate thing is that poorly done, orals can be very uneven.
here's a chart of market returns vs cap gains tax rate, you will notice there is no correlation. So dont argue that there is!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzmSJpLWYAgVY3V?format=png&name=...
That's federal. FERPA.
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Well, we don't take separation of church and state as seriously as we should. The state collects the taxes for the churches, it's around 9% of your income tax. This happens automatically if you're baptized, and you have to leave the church if you don't want to pay this, which also happens at a government office.
Yes, BUT... that money is reinvested... you are allowed a 1 time deduction for your primary residence to downsize... otherwise you are always going to pay the tax when you eventually try to realize gains.
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If you aren't switching between your computers too often, you can just get a USB hub like this and switch between display inputs from your monitor: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083JKDNRJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
iirc these non-FDA-approved (instead, emergency-use-authorized) products use a separate compensation fund compared to the typical vaccine compensation fund. but having these compensation funds instead of allowing legal action against manufacturers of products is kind of ridiculous on its own, when you get down to it... but it's become highly uncool to question the motives of big pharma in the past year.
And once again the law of the excluded middle strikes. No, the only two options are not the ones you suggest. The other option, that you conveniently ignore, is that cities build a good infrastructure that attracts talent and the businesses come to either serve the talent or employ the talent -- no subsidy needed.

By now there must be entire libraries, or at least large warehouses, filled with case studies from HBS and similar schools that show state and municipal tax incentives are ALWAYS a bad deal for the city and state finances. The only purpose they serve is to make a politician appear effective and to enable that politician and his or her cronies to collect a bit of graft.
Vaccinating healthcare workers first makes perfect sense when you're dealing with a virus that has the potential to overwhelm your healthcare capacity.
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Google will sell you domains that it doesn't own. I've purchased .MX and .CO.UK domains from them just recently. I've purchased Thoth.zone, Thoth.mx and Thoth.pw from them. From networkingsolutions.com I've bought thoth.domains. It's a crazy turf war situation right now, given the broad international legal overlaps and so on and so forth.
Didn’t know that, thank you!
All your questions mostly answered, my unknown internet friend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax
That's certainly a perspective you can take. Then you'd really want to look at consumption inequality instead of wealth inequality. Consumption inequality is both much lower at an absolute level than either wealth or income inequality, and pretty much flat over time [0].

To the extent that we care about the distribution of net worth, though, unrealized gains are an important part of the story.

[0] https://voxeu.org/article/consumption-and-income-inequality-...
It’s like Find My iPhone but much scarier
Money belongs to people, and those people don't tend to move. Heck, the US is especially good at taxing people abroad. How many would really renounce citizenship just to save on taxes, and where would they go that taxes less?

There's always a pull between spending and saving, but if you save, you're either investing, or losing money to inflation.
That's not relevant. If you pay out dividends, you cant evade those taxes. Capitol gains is supposed to be based on expected future dividends.
Extremely expensive in terms of storage, but still much cheaper than S3.

I consider it as a mitigation against disaster and expect to never retrieve other than for testing the process. So it seems good for extremely low probability, high impact events. And I trust amazon to meet their SLA.
The issue here isn't "double taxation" so much as "equitable taxation". There's a theory that economically equivalent situations should face equal tax burdens; if you compare the situations of "person is a sole proprietor" vs "person creates a corporation which earns profits and pays them out as dividends" you conclude E = C + (1-C) D, where E is the tax rate on earned income, C is the corporate tax rate, and D is the dividend tax rate.

In Canada, we don't have a separate "dividend tax rate" but instead taxpayers who receive dividends get a credit for the amount of taxes the corporation paid "on their behalf".
Part of the issue is that we divide the trial into (guilty or not) and (determine punishment if guilty). There's no 95% chance of guilty, go to jail and 100% chance of guilty, death penalty.

But, ultimately, some people are going to go away forever. People like Manson are never going to get released. What's the big difference between the death penalty and life imprisonment with no parole that attenuates the error in the conviction process.
That's only a helpful responds if you believe exams are testing for your ability to synthesis novelty, which seems absurd to me.
Well, the "officially ruled a homicide" part seems false too, the reference after this sentence in the wikipedia article leads to a tut.by news post, where nothing is said about "ruled a homicide".

But overall, I agree, his case looks unlawful and politically motivated, from what I can find in the public sources (the wikipedia and tut.by) - he was sentenced for stealing computers that US Embassy provided to his NGO, while US Department released a statement that they don't have any claims against him.
For me there is no practical value.

I don't see anything wrong with that book. It is covering very broad scope and maybe if you would want to know why building software is complex and you don't have any knowledge in the topic that would be a good starting point.

Like if you would be an owner of a gym chain and because of current situation you would like to start software company. This could give you an idea why it is not just having "an app idea" and why those pesky developers demand so much money.

I like this part in the book:

Most people are limited in their ability to hold complex structures and information in their working memories, especially over long peri- ods of time. This proves to be a major factor influencing how people convey intent to com- puters and leads to one of the strongest drives in software construction: minimizing complex- ity. The need to reduce complexity applies to essentially every aspect of software construction and is particularly critical to testing of software constructions.
The class should effectively teach you how to make that distinction in a given field/topic. If you didn't pay attention at all, you won't know what to look for or how to figure something out quickly enough to pass. Cheating would be most damaging if the actual answers were shared or similar attacks on the integrity of the test itself.

Knowing how to find or determine the current correct answers yourself is often more useful in the long run than memorizing what amounts to trivia. This is especially true when it comes to open ended and quickly changing fields...
Wouldn't it be funny if DDG was actually Google.
Good point. It does have kind of a hyperbolic snark about it if one didn't know that I was a little bit of a fanatic for Ubuntu. :)

I kind of get the downvotes.
That's pretty hand-wavy. Anyone can read the published code, but you can't read the code being run by each individual entity in the network. Any individual might change their server to not make the stored data available to those paying for the storage.

It's not _likely_, as that would negate the usefulness of the whole system if it became an issue, and therefore negate the cash flow into the system.

Ultimately what's keeping the storage providers honest, whether they're centralized or decentralized, is that their future profit stream is based on their current behavior, and they presumably care about future profits. Code and SLAs ain't nothing but words.
When the item they shouldn't eat is in the “safe for children” toy you got sold, how're you meant to keep it out of reach? As soon as a child notices that you can pull the velcro and expose the battery compartment, nothing short of screws is going to stop them putting the batteries in their mouth, and it will only leave their mouth (heavily chewn) if it's too hard to swallow.

Source: me, aged nine. (I didn't have the “eat everything” instincts, but I still wanted to know what batteries taste like. Given how much time I spent with my tongue on a battery, I would probably have swallowed a button cell had I had access to one – and that's with warnings about “batteries will burn a hole through your insides” from my parents. Your average one-year-old doesn't stand a chance.)
Compared to most jobs, developers are still pretty valued. I'm a junior software engineer in Sweden with an MSE degree. My entry salary was a bit lower than average for this industry at $50,000/year ($3000/month after taxes), but that's still higher than what 95% of nurses make in this country.
As a Blue Card holder, upon registration in town hall, they ask about your religion and if you don’t want to pay church tax, you have to say you have no religions.
Germans also can get out of the church “in an official sense” and stop paying that tax.
S3 has no durability SLA, only an availability SLA. S3 also explicitly says it is not designed for 100% durability, but for a certian number of nines (99.999999999%).
I've heard and read a lot about this in the past couple weeks and I sincerely hope public health officials and media don't freak out. We need to stay the course on this and emphasize the positive.

1. Vaccines are still difficult to get in a lot of places. I and my partner only just got appointments for this weekend for our first dose. As long as appointments are required and you have to fight to get a spot at 9am it is going to be difficult to get hesitent people to sign up. I think hesitency will go down dramatically when you can just walk in without an appointment and get it.

2. I really don't understand why Public Health officials keep downplaying the vaccines. They are still talking about everyone masking for months, limited gatherings, no vacations, etc. Why is it always doom and gloom? There is no evidence to support this level of paranoia and the messaging should be the exact opposite. These vaccines are scientific miracles. Get the vaccine and go out and have fun again!

3. The worst thing we can do at this point is to start shaming people for being hesitant. I don't think it has started just yet but I can see it bubbling in certain circles. I was just in a work meeting where we were talking about vaccines and everyone on the call was on board BUT some people only wanted the JandJ one because it used older tech and they didn't want to try the new mRNA ones. This was with a group of all college educated software developers...

There is no evidence at all to support this form of hesitancy and yet there it is. Are they Anti-vax? Kind of, but would it have helped matters to argue that they were wrong and that they were helping kill their neighbors by only wanting one of the vaccines? No, let them have their hesitancy, continue vaccinating, and in 6 months when hundreds of thousands of people have it and nothing bad happens they will quietly go get it done.

We know the vaccines work. Just make them widely available and the proof will be in the results.
I still don't think it is okay to end the life of another human being.
they've already tried blatantly racist things like producing rap songs/videos promoting vaccination and offering VIP access to strip clubs for the vaccinated. seems like people are out of ideas.
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(Forgive me if this sounds really dumb, I'm running on surface-level knowledge from doing a similar thing on Android a few years ago)

Would it be possible to grab a filesystem from a arm64 installation of macOS and chroot into it from a jailbroken iPad, or are there too many kernel level differences to make that impossible (without breaking stuff)? chroot is shipped with macOS, so you should be able to do it from macOS->macOS.
From what I remember of playing around with X-Plane's Mars atmosphere model, you can glide, but at very high speeds (for most planes close to the speed of sound), you can barely turn, and it's horribly easy to stall.
It's not a trivial problem to solve. The amount of cheating that goes on at the university level is pretty astounding.