skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I half agree, there are no doubt interested businesses. I don't know what the breakdown in benefits between people and businesses, but I do agree.

But when you think about housing and capital gains tax benefits at a federal level, specifically related to one's primary residence, I think it's reasonable to say that taxing real estate sales (or at least housing) is not very popular in like, a literal sense. Now obviously people don't usually go selling their home every two years, so it might not be frequently relevant.

I just feel that housing transactions are, I don't know, more in public consciousness, than like selling a mutual fund? That assertion is basically speculation though, i.e. people might more commonly identify more as home owners, than people with large amounts of equities etc.

And I guess part of that is mental, and part financial, in that it seems housing is more frequently the biggest piece of one's total picture than I would guess.
Computer vision inches toward ‘common sense’ with Facebook’s latest research
Serve Wordpress themes/plugins on-demand via cloud
Building a platform that lets Wordpress developers host their themes/plugins on-cloud and serve them on-demand, without user needing to manually download, install and verify theme.
For each request user sends, platform renders plugin/theme files. Charging per request also makes it affordable.
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When the 2008 crashed happened the office I worked in had lots of people take their money out of their 401ks, IRAs, or brokerages for years. In hindsight it may have been irrational but from what I remember, people were scared. Some people lost their job for years (remember the various news stories about 99-week unemployment people?), you needed whatever money you could get. If that meant cashing out everything you had, so be it.

There were other people that weren't fazed by it and obviously had the chance to not miss the "days."

Guessing this type of anecdote may be more common than people think.
The word 'serverless' is certainly a bit misleading.

By your definition, is there any possible architecture that is truly 'serverless'?
I didn't say they don't work. However, most do fail. My point was they come with an extreme cost and in this case you may never get to the resolution you are seeking. Alternative means are much much more likely to be successful.
I moved back to rural Midwest and be with and around family and it's made me appreciate them a lot more.

I've thought about why I sacrificed this, by moving away to a big city, just to get an ok paying job with healthcare.

So, I wonder if more people are re-thinking their life if they moved during COVID to be near friends/family during this time.
First off, it's not $50 per day, because you're probably paying income tax. But let's assume it is.

Second, it's not really "per day", that's an average. Most bills recur monthly. Assuming a month of four weeks, and working 5 days per week, that's 20 * $50 = $1000 per month. Doesn't that seem like an extremely low number to pay for rent, transportation, food, health care, kids, utilities, etc? I pay more for that in rent every month.
For a lot of kids, if they don't have a job in high school, they don't have any of the things they want. When I was 14 I had a job so I could buy the things my parents couldn't afford which was almost everything. I wanted new shoes and new clothes so everyone wouldn't know how broke we were. I wanted a car when I turned 16 and I knew the only way that was going to happen was if I worked for it. I didn't like not having money in my pocket when all of my friends did.
You can't take over the browser without chaining to a browser exploit, which is a much higher bar. If you already have a browser exploit I think you are unlikely to need to chain it from a wasm binary.

You can potentially take over the page, but again only if you have vulnerabilities in the JavaScript interfacing with the wasm code. There is only one browser-based example in the paper and the vulnerability is due to using document.write which is always a security no-no.
I'm not as familiar with Hyper-V but certainly for KVM you would probably interact with it (indirectly) using virsh which I find pretty capable. No sane human should be interacting directly with the qemu command line if they can help it, it's written more for consumption by other software.
and Apple devices score 7 out of 10 and up. Its all self assessment. This law is a farce.
I love Tantacrul, weird but welcome to see him on the front page.
Agreed. UX designers are a rare breed in open source, and Tantacrul is a treasure - as is Audacity. I'm also hopeful of the approach. The video is already very respectful of the existing work, UI, and workflows, which is promising.
Vortex race 3 w/cherry mx silent red switches.

Pros: has function, arrow, home/end keys while still being compact. Very quiet. Solid build quality. Fully remappable without requiring software.

Cons: doesn’t make awesome clicky sounds

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Leopold fc750r w/cherry mx blue switches

Pros: CLICKY, more space than the compact race 3, comes in a lovely classic PC beige color

Cons: too loud for a room with other people in it

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Vortex pok3r w/cherry mx silent red

Pros: very compact, quiet

Cons: missing too many keys for me to use for anything except gaming.

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Apple wireless magic keyboard

Pros: quiet, wireless, rechargeable

Cons: no full size arrow keys, pairing with multiple computers is a pain in the ass

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Surface designer compact keyboard:

Pros: wireless, easily pairs with multiple computers, long battery life

Cons: No full-size arrow keys
A concept demo video at https://youtu.be/5ykKy_w9IkE
$24 in twitch subscriptions, $10 for a vps, $7 for amazon prime. Rough conversions from euros.

I dislike subscriptions, most purchases are one off. i didn't count mandatory things like internet access.
From the top of my head not really, but this would depend on a few things:

- Is it a vendor lib ?

- It's not but is some particular file that is big enough to not make sense including on the root layout?

- It's neither, but functionality that can trigger multiple times and should be only once and only on those pages because it can conflict? or some variation of that?

I think they're all solvable but what makes sense will depend on those, but also on how you're using LiveView (is it LiveView only for logged-in users/some auth, can you set those on the live_view layout...)

But in some cases this is a problem also in spa's, where you have to use a snippet to check if the lib has been loaded, if not add a script tag to the body, or load it through js, etc...
In python there are a handful of .so files in subdirectories you need to sign. You can basically `find . -name \*.dylib -o -name \*.so` and codesign those.
Drop Alt for daily use, BM43A for fun.

I can never go back to a keyboard without something as flexible as QMK. I wrote a bit about why I love it so much: https://jkaptur.com/layout/.
> I suspect that a minority of people would choose to repair their old phones even if they were more repairable.

Repair shops exist for this purpose. I’m not saying every individual will repair their device themself if it breaks. That would be as out of touch as saying most people will just buy a brand new phone anytime theirs has an issue.

Making things less repairable means that whether you’re willing to pay someone else or not to fix something, you will be unable to.
yep... I had a cell phone stolen when I was in high school, we could track it to a specific house, and they didn't even knock on the door.
Check out the Fujitsu Realforce R2. Was just discussing this in the other keyboard thread.

https://fujitsuscannerstore.com/cg01000-291001/

You will find these to be very expensive and not to everyones taste. If you have been using a mechanical keyboard with lots of force required to depress keys, this one is going to feel like its not there at all. It is also extremely quiet. You can be typing fairly aggressively and no one would be able to tell 1 cube over.

I feel like this keyboard is for those who have the patience to reform certain typing habits. My first few days with it were a dumpster fire because my hands were so used to slamming the shit out of Cherry MX Blue switches. Once I became adjusted to it, I felt like the keyboard on my late 2013 macbook pro is too stiff by contrast.

Overall, my ability to code for long duration without hurting has improved dramatically with this keyboard. 80g+ of force will wear you the fuck out if you are pushing those things thousands of times a day.
I think they were conflated farther up thread, not initially by me.

>>> Aside from that, there are people who go into consulting and gain a lot of skills, and others who do the least work possible and leave. Some who find great fulfillment in the right corners of the work, some who find it totally dispiriting.

So I don't think it's entirely obvious which type of consulting was being discussed at the point I replied. Even so, I'm not sure the type matter as much as might be thought, I'm positive there are management consultants that bring useful knowledge and real benefits to the table. I think the incentive alignments make that harder, because of some of the same reasons I noted previously, but I don't think the type of consulting really matters, other than one type or the other being more common at different levels.
Breaking the implementation of CountingStack by changing the implementation of Stack is the kind of stuff that unit tests should pick up. It's easy to write a test case for "CountingStack.pushAll() counts once per given element"
Standing in the Shadow of Giants: The Frontier in Open Source (2016)
This is my sentiment too. People seems to give the market far more importance than what it is in reality: an exchange for second-hand stocks, with money just circling that can never touch the company and the economy. And they also forget that if they don't invest for dividends they are just betting that they'll be able to dump the bag for a higher price in the future.
> Now they have an unfair advantage since Spotify must pay 30% to apple while apple music "pays" 0%.

I think this does not account for the opportunity cost. If Apple Music competes with Spotify, then Apple Music implicitly pays the 30% fee of the next best alternative. If Spotify operates at a loss with the fee, and Apple Music is otherwise an identical business, then Apple should prefer Spotify - it makes more money this way. The fee is basically irrelevant.
> Do you imagine AWS billing you a % of your revenue instead of a given price for a given service ?

hey, thanks for the great business model idea!
“ It is estimated that this tax only affects the 7000 richest individuals in Washington.”

Careful, that’s how it always starts. Give it a decade or so and politicians will be upset at how few people are actually paying this tax. They’ll demand all sorts of changes to the exemption structure so that they can raise more revenue. All while saying it’s only going to effect other people.
Google did a study that showed in-person collaboration fosters innovation, which is key to success for software companies. This study is why Marissa Mayer banned remote work when she became CEO of Yahoo.
>If someone sells half a million dollars worth of stock, it seems very fair the state gets some cut of that

Yes very fair, after all the state took all that risk on those stocks and deserves something too. And to think that business you built should be all yours and not theirs also.

Like Warren said you are only successful because of the rest of us......

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.

- Elizabeth Warren
I have a number of the Cherry MX Board 1.0 TKL that has a backlight, I use them on keyboards for computers at theatrical (stage) shows. No need to turn on a light that may get noticed by the audience to see where the keyboard is or to find your place on it.

And some people do not 100% touch type, or don't touch type in the strict way everyone expects all touch typists to do so.
Very true. I worked for the DoD for a few years and it's definitely a good job to e.g. settle down and have a family and work for 50 years at with good job security, benefits, etc.
I've been wondering if we're going to need to do something like that some day.

With the way tech is increasingly getting locked down, what if we end up in a future where all the major computer vendors won't sell you anything, only lease it to you under strict terms, which include the right for them to brick it for any reason. Sure, you can still buy parts and build your own computer, but you can't use it for any bank or credit card transaction or government website because it's not SECURE. If fact, even wanting to own your own computer makes you a suspicious person to law enforcement because why do you need it? Are you trying to distribute child porn? In fact, child porn is the reason Comcast stated to justify a new policy that will go into effect soon, which will only allow devices running on trusted hardware/OS to connect to the internet at all...
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has regulation ever done for us?”
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The stock market has more or less monopolized the global fiat monetary system. Politicians can decide what the returns will be in any given year because they control the currency.

The returns are only meaningful in the short term while everyone is in a trance thinking that fiat currency is worth the same as it was before... The longer everyone can stay in this trance, the more 'real' the numbers are.

However, it's my opinion that the real value creators of our economy (the backbone of all economic value) don't have much incentive to believe in the fiat numbers anymore. That's why they're moving towards Bitcoin and crypto.

The next decade is going to be interesting; we're going to find out if all the hype about 'automation' and 'big data' was genuine or if it was just moral cover for the elite to justify their monopolization of everything.

If the corporate elite have managed to automate the economy to a degree that people and non-corporate entities cannot compete with their machines, then fiat will continue to thrive. If it turns out that non-corporate entities still have the competitive upper hand, then fiat will deteriorate and Bitcoin will take over.

My PoV as a developer who has worked for many big tech companies is that the corporate sphere has been deteriorating for years and most advancements have been vaporware. I believe that apparent growth in profits and market cap are a trick of the money printers and the numbers are not grounded in real economic value; they are extremely fragile and the only reason that the stock market doesn't collapse along with fiat is because of extreme herd mentality among investors who have been primed to believe in the supremacy of fiat currencies for their entire lives.
This is correct, it's over 250k in gains. Important distinction that may be getting intentionally muddied.
Hey Alex - try us out! I think you'll find some significant differences between us and others.

In general, we put a lot of work into performance, developer experience, product flexibility, and support.
yea i do leetcode to "relax" and distract myself from life problems for a little bit. Almost like meditation but more relaxing.
> Uhhhh, not a percentage ? Do you imagine AWS billing you a % of your revenue instead of a given price for a given service ?

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> It's ridiculous that it doesn't matter if my app has a 5$ sub or a 50$ sub, I owe them 30% anyway. What they provided is the same in both cases, they should be able to price it out to me. Their current pricing structure is not setup like a fee for services and infrastructure usage, it's setup like a tax.

I'm curious if you've ever made the same argument for credit cards, debit cards and the like. All of them charge a percentage to the seller too (and many a times it's a fixed fee plus a percentage).

I do believe that 30% is quite high for Apple's poorer management of the App Store with respect to scams and other aspects (see the lawsuit against Apple by the developer of FlickType, Kosta Eleftheriou). And it's not just the 30% or 15% alone that the developer bears, but also the annual $99 developer program membership fee.
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Ergodox EZ
Likes: easy customization of layout, dead keys, etc with firmware, construction, choice of keyswitches.
Dislikes: Thumb cluster small buttons which I never use.
> Gish gallop

Thanks for that; I learned a new phrase ^_^

Yes, admittedly your post throws a bit of a wide net, but I think I see what you're angling for.

> it raises the question of what the minimum necessary set of instructions to express theorems in that language

That's a really good question. Take the NAND gate as an example: we know we can implement any boolean function with only NAND gates. So the circuit language consisting purely of the NAND gate (and wiring rules for connecting gates) is ridiculously compact, even minimal. In some sense, it has a very very low entropy.

However, the circuits we construct are conversely ridiculously complex! Any given circuit is just a wad of NANDs, and trying to extract meaning from that circuit beyond executing it as a black box is going to be very difficult. You could say that these circuits have a very high entropy.

In comparison, suppose we allow ourselves the usual set of {AND, OR, NOT} gates. We know that any logical function implementable by {NAND} is implementable by {AND, OR, NOT}, and vice versa, so there is no loss in functionality. But circuits expressed in this language have far more structure, making them individually much easier to analyze. We can define such notions as "conjunctive normal form", in that any circuit can be transformed into an equivalent three-layer circuit: a layer of NOTs feeding into a layer of ORs feeding into a layer of ANDs. These circuits have far lower entropy in exchange for a modest increase in our circuit language.

So when you say this:

> it implies to me that the less complex program is the more universal modelling language.

I think we have two competing notions of "complexity" at hand, and it's very hard to say which one ought to win out. As a personal preference, I like to imbue my creations with more inherent structure, so I prefer things like {AND, OR, NOT} over things like {NAND}. It makes the constructions easier to understand.

If you're studying the languages and not the things created in those languages, then things like {NAND} may be superior. But you usually need some kind of language in which to describe your languages -- did you notice I was using set-theoretic notation? -- and so you have the same question again at a meta level.

One of the attractions of category theory is that it's also a pretty good language for speaking about category theory!
I don't think so. If you as the player make bets a series of bets, each with a negative expected value then your total expected value will also be negative. It doesn't matter if you double after every loss.

The limits are mostly because the casino can't afford to take on a 20 billion dollar bet from someone like Bezos. Even if it has a positive expected value, they will still go broke the 49% of the time they lose it.
No broker.
Facebook is completely ad-supported. I guess the hole in Apple's revenue model is that they don't charge 30% of ad sales (of course I think this demonstrates how absurd the whole idea of charging a % of subscription revenue is.)
Is it really that hard to imagine?

For starters, you don't want to have to work every single day. If you work 5 days out of every 7, you only have $41.43 to spend per day.

The average cost of a studio apartment is over $900 a month. That's $30 per day. Even if you get roommates, that's going to cost you at least $15 per day.

That leaves you $26 a day to spend on food, clothing, hygiene, Internet access, electricity, transportation, health care (since most minimum wage jobs don't include it), and all of the other expenses of life. And then pray you don't get sick -- even with health insurance you're now losing income.

It adds up fast. There is basically nowhere in the US that this is a living wage. At best you can barely scrape by with no margin for error -- and certainly no money to spend on training for a better job.
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With all the sustained civil unrest and property destruction I’d steer clear of Portland if I wanted to open an office.
Macy’s store employees score victory in challenging self-checkout in mobile app
TLDR: Can someone explain if this is because WebAssembly is not doing the same kind of strict validation that NaCL (google native client) was doing ?
Very cool! So, would it be achievable to use Repl to both host and create (eg sort of as a web/code based cms) posts for a Jekyll (or some other ssg) blog, but/and also have the content be git-integrated? Would I just use a guide like this?: https://replit.com/talk/learn/GUIDE-MAKE-A-BLOG-USING-JEKYLL...
That is extremely interesting. I've never seen a cloud provider that prominently advertised Anycast IP addresses.
"a bricked phone is just spare parts (less the main board)."

The main board should be just as repairable as any other device. If that requires changes to copyright law, the DMCA and or even WIPO treaties then that will eventually happen.

It's not that many years ago—certainly well within my lifetime—that 'deep' repairs of this kind were not only commonplace but actually encouraged by manufacturers. (If you want examples then I'll provide some).

By such action, we would only be returning to the status quo as it was some 40 or more years ago.

(To detractors of this comment, I accept and understand that you never lived through that time to see it in action, if you had then very likely you'd have a changed point of view.)
In the short term or long term? I skimmed the study and it looks like they only looked at two years? In the short term I can see it happening due to psychological effects like price stickiness, but I'm skeptical that in the long term the trend would hold. As evidence to the contrary:

>Ashenfelter says the evidence from increased food prices suggests that basically all of the "increase of labor costs gets passed right on to the customers."

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/02/16/967333964/what...
To mass-produce glass, researchers borrow process from plastics manufacturing
Sounds hypothetical ;)
Humble Bundle creator brings antitrust lawsuit against Valve over Steam
Do you really use the numeric keypad? I have an impression, probably wrong one, that they are only used by accountants and take too much space on the table.
I'm 1 of 2 devs in my office that use mechanical keyboards, and the other one is only in the mechanical category because they have a Kinesis Advantage to eliminate the wrist pains they were having. It's all down to personal preference with input devices and there's no shame in using whatever suits you best.
Ooh, the original Chaum paper!

Chaum "coins" behave a lot more like bearer instruments or "free banking" notes; they're IOUs issued by a bank that can be traded.

The advantage over a database is that there's some ability to do offline transactions, although the double-spend prevention is done through the originating bank.

The advantage over bitcoin is that is uses a tiny fraction of the energy. It's also naturally a "stablecoin", rather than highly volatile.