skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that escalated quickly. And this may be a hot take deserving of more thought... but I don't think companies existing is why there is homelessness nor general food insecurity. I think it' more than likely there's another, more important factor in play.
Right and you probably do not follow the market very closely. Which is fine, that is most people. If you start watching it closely though (and I mean over several months to years) there are many patterns that emerge. I knew a lot of people that bought the dip last year. They weren't worried about how long it would take the economy to recover, or if it would go down further because they knew things were VERY cheap and it would eventually come up unless there was a global economic collapse at which point it wouldn't matter anyways.

Most I knew dollar cost averaged down. It paid off very well.
I’m an Angular/full stack dev consultant in the UK. I quit my job and took a contracting role. That was it.
Earned interest is taxed as income at the federal level.
Can't be hard to invent an exemption for that case. When you buy the new house, the tax is deferred, in proportion to the cost. So if you trade down you pay and you will have the money. If you buy a more expensive place there's nothing to pay, but you have a balance. When you die, you pay the balance or your heirs inherit it.
First of all, if Twitter executives were compensated on whether these Twitter threads are visually easy to read, I would hope they all get fired with negative bonuses each year.

Second, and more to the point, people in tech aren't getting rich "because tech is evil" or some emotionally charged political rallying cry like that. Tech people are getting rich because every single one of us is willing to part with some of our money to pay them to produce things we can't resist consuming! And these companies are operating totally rationally according to the rules we give them (and are / are not willing to change as a society).

It's like yelling at realtors getting rich when you're the one buying a house. Or cursing at the traffic jam you're sitting in. Or finding out that your minor recreational drug habit is causing a refugee crisis.

There is so much money built up in wealth around the world, and tech has found a way to tap into it.

Now, that raises other fundamental problems as we all know. But as long as we continue demanding these services, are you surprised that someone is making money from it? Or just unhappy it's not you and me?
Alright, thanks for the clear up!

I'm confused about your quote though: is "remarkably minor" meant to mean "less important than expected"? Were there other forms of "phonetic writing" at play? If yes, then does that mean that there actually were case of symbols appearing directly as written translation of phonetic "concepts"?
Double taxation is more about how if if I own a c corp it pays a tax on profits, and then distributes that remainder of that profit to me and I pay the dividend tax on the same money. Thus the corp tax + the dividend tax should be close to the individual tax rate. When they aren't, you are tax advantaged to run an s corp.
In Emacs, hit Alt-Q (fill-paragraph), which will line-wrap and preserve your current line indent.
This is as "serverless" as gmail.
SES is literally Simple Email Service.
Now do that without SES.
It sounds a bit like the no-cors request that lets you see if the resource was available but won't let you see anything?

I nearly tried to use it once to try and see if a react app was on an intranet or not, but the client decided they didn't want it.
> Putting $1 dollar in the market to get $1.04 back out 30 years later is not a positive investement.

This is not how annual returns work. If you put a $1 an average return was 4%, you will get $3.25. And if you put it in a tax deferred account or did not withdraw a lump sum after 30 years, the effect of taxes would be less dramatic.

What other investment performed better over the long time? For instance, housing did not grow much until 30 years ago.[1]

[1] https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/
I think that's a great thing to think about when you are established.

A bit of overkill/premature optimization when you are starting, though.
Yes, he has a point. Just treading water with respect to inflation triggers a tax bill. I doubt the cap gains calculation will ever tax real gains rather than nominal gains.
In addition to better efficiency, it also means that multiple devices can act as remotes at the same time, and if the original person who started the stream leaves the WiFi network the stream is not disrupted. It's definitely the more sensible way to handle streaming from cloud services- I just wish it would get standardized as a web standard so that it's not limited to the Google ecosystem
The votes will decide.
> Django doesn't occupy the same space as flask;

This is just wrong. Django absolutely occupies the space as Flask, this is pretty obvious, but you're splitting hairs to defend your argument - the bottom line is that a Python developer building a web application has to decide if Django or Flask is a better choice for their engineering needs, you wouldn't use both (though you could, same as you could use react and vue together).

> Web2py is nonexistent

This is totally wrong. You can selectively discard every example that doesn't meet your arbitrary standard of popularity, but I could just as easily discard a criticism of Vite which is far more "non-existent" relative to webpack than web2py is to Django

> Numpy is a basic linear algebra library and Pandas is a high-level tabular data analysis library.

Once again you're splitting hairs. Yes, Pandas and Numpy have different specialties, but there is clear overlap between them and a developer who is unfamiliar with the ecosystem wouldn't necessarily understand why e.g. they might choose pandas dataframes vs numpy arrays, and this dynamic is also true in the JS world where different packages have overlap but particular specialties that make one more attractive than the other depending on the needs.
Schrödinger's Plates
Hey all, I made this, because I wanted to share my thoughts very casually with people. That's why I implemented a 10-second limit.

This is very much an early stage product. I built in a few days. So, I'd love to hear feedback.

You can download > make an account > create a recording or listen to one in under 20 seconds. So please try it out!
I don't want to misrepresent it, but my understanding is that an expressed preference for working remotely is consistently associated with high self-evaluation of productivity. The abstract says "our results also suggest that software developers’ self-rated productivity is more strongly related to task variety and ability to work remotely."

https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-...
My advice from years of notarizing my apps is to make sure you do it at least once per day for each of your apps. If you only notarize once every release (say, every month or so), you are almost guaranteed to encounter some new cryptic error that you've never seen before, either due to some glitch in signing your app or frameworks, or else some server-side error such as new terms & conditions that you are being "encouraged" to agree to. It will take you hours to research and resolve them if they aren't spotted right away.

As others pointed out, https://github.com/mitchellh/gon is a great tool for doing this on your local machine (e.g., with a cron job). In addition, if you are building your app using a GitHub action (which I highly recommend if it is open-source), you can use my https://github.com/hubomatic/hubomat action to package, notarize, and staple a release build in one shot. The sample/template app does this automatically on every commit as well as once per day: https://github.com/hubomatic/MicroVector/actions.

So when this fails from a scheduled job, you at least know that something has changed on the Apple side and can investigate that right away. And if it fails as a result of a commit, then at least you can start looking at what changes you may have made to your entitlements or code signing settings or embedded frameworks or any of the other million things that can cause it to fail.
All Engineers Must Understand Management: The View from Both Ladders
In functional programming you'd just create a new function that takes a value of the same type of those other 3 methods.

But anyway, creating a new method without changing any of the methods of the super class I think it's generally ok. The problems arise from modifying methods that the super class already implemented.
Thanks for bringing that up. It looks like local income taxes are not allowed under law and that any tax at the state level has to be flat. It seems the article may have misrepresented that with "Income taxes are unconstitutional in Washington state.". (Unless there's some obscure case law regarding flat income taxes)
It was 1993, my first job in Silicon Valley. After about 6 months my boss said "you don't belong here." He hired me as a consultant an 1/2 time and the same salary. Danny helped me start out as a consultant building "webistes" for companies. I've been on my own ever since, helped many a friedn start their own companies too. Thanks Danny Baron that was a solid move.

-rick
Oregon treats capital gains as regular income (so do most states, including CA).

Oregon also has one of the worst tax regimes in the country. For most earners, a resident of a state like CA without sales tax on groceries, medical care, or medical necessities will end up with a substantially lower tax burden than a similar earner in Oregon. To be more taxed than CA is crazy.
Nvidia RTX 30xx Series vs. AMD Radeon Linux Gaming – April 2021
FiretTV has been great for us.
They understand it perfectly when solar panels appear on your roof, a Tesla appears in your driveway, and vacations appear on your docket.
If month 1 was the crash then 0 to 12 and 1 to 13 look very different. No?

Aren't you basically saying your precise entry point to a 10 year period doesn't matter, e.g. if you enter at year zero or year 2, or January vs May in year zero? But clearly it matters a lot because the market can make huge moves in short periods.

In other words, you're saying to look at 10 year returns we should just take each decade on its own with no overlap? Clearly if I pick 1970-1980, 1980-1990, 1990-2000, or pick 1975-1985, 1985-1995, 1995-2005 I'm gonna end up with very very different results? And sure, at some point the overlap becomes too fine. But saying that 2 decades is just 2 data points doesn't sound right either?

I definitely would like to see an analysis over a much longer horizon, that'd be a more significant result.

EDIT: Totally agree the points are not independent. But it feels like there's still residual value (which I can't quite put in mathematical terms) from this "moving window".
I don't consider ip property. So the answer is it's complicated.
The MCS-4 Story
Cleaner, faster, ad-free :D
>Most people aren't able to get food without money obtained from a job. So unless your food is provided elsewhere then getting a job that pays you money which you spend on food does magically make the cost of food a cost of getting the job.

That makes zero sense from an accounting point of view.

>> I made no such statement. Please point out where you think I made that statement.

>> $7.25 8 hours = $58. It's hard to imagine expenses adding up anywhere close to $58/day*

1. I'm not sure how you're getting "minimum wage is a livable wage" from that comment.

2. you seem to be fixated on "expenses" meaning living expenses (eg. rent, food, clothing, etc.), whereas I was only talking about expenses related to getting the job (eg. transport). This was pointed out several comments ago.
You're proposing for price fixing agreements to be legal, at which point companies could enter into a contract to fix prices and be able to sue each other for defection in court.

But also, what you're describing is already what happens in more consolidated markets that can coordinate without formal contracts enforced by the government, because defection isn't profitable if you expect the incumbent competitors to respond in kind.
It's a meaningless point in the chain. Browser security is not intended to be only for running "trusted" or known JavaScript or WebAssembly code and hence competitions like Pwn2Own are perfectly happy to have you navigate to your own page that then runs whatever WASM or JS you want. Nobody requires you to first find an XSS on HN for your exploit because getting someone to load a random page is an extremely low barrier.
I don't think so. Not only was grandma not protected after all (if it even was Covid that she died of), she wasn't even allowed to have her family with her.

And really: Emotional arguments like that help no one. Yes, people suffer badly because of Covid. They also suffer badly because of lockdowns. At that level of detail, there's no difference. What we need are numbers, something we can meaningfully compare. Like, how many years of life did we actually safe? How many did we destroy by not allowing people to actually live their lives? What's the impact on children's development, everyone's mental health, etc.? But apparently we have collectively decided not to weigh the effects of our decisions and protect the elderly at any cost.

Unless, of course, it would inconvenience them. You can't ask them to protect themselves, that would be discrimination.[1][2][3] Churches must be kept open, or grandma will be lonely. Hairdressers are very important for old people, so they're open.[4] Note that universities have been shut down for more than a year and schools have only partially reopened recently, as they're only important to irrelevant young people. And those are just the most obvious examples but.

Maybe my attitude would be different if I wasn't governed by openly antisocial elderly people.

[1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

[2] https://www.zeit.de/2020/17/corona-pandemie-risikogruppe-alt...

[3] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...

[4] http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=...
Today's attempt has been canceled.
That would only be true if, when I went to the supermarket, there was a display of strawberries that said over it "Low Low Prices Enabled By Virtual Slavery And Other Worker Abuses!", and another display of strawberries next to it that said "Slightly Higher Prices, But Their Workers Live Well!"

You can't claim the market will resolve things when there is no meaningful opportunity for customers to "vote with their wallets". It requires not only equal access to the two products, but also full information about what the differences are.
Their product is a basic IDS with loads of marketing materials that claim to be driven by AI. Instead of calling it an IDS, they call it an immune system, because the people making purchasing decisions need an ELI5.

It's a frothy market we're having, isn't it?
"Your function runs from scratch on each request, with some intelligent caching for performance reasons."

Gestures at LAMP and PHP-FPM
This was in a very different era, when manufacturing was difficult and expensive. Having the schematic didn't necessarily get you anywhere. That's no longer the case - now the design is expensive but the manufacturing is cheap.
these are exactly the kind of tax structures that just beg to be gamed by the wealthy. instead, there should be no cutoff at all, and especially no exemptions for real estate, much of which is unproductive rent-seeking.

the tax should be a smooth function with positive slope, not a discontinuous one with carve-outs. combined with lowering taxes elsewhere, it would encourage broader investment rather than hoarding, especially with so much excess capital sloshing around looking for returns. it actually helps an economy to principally tax this excess capital and unproductive rent-seeking behaviors, allowing an economy to cull unproductive investments in favor of productive ones.
> I eschew Cavendish bananas entirely since, just like a boca-burger tries to mimic a real burger, the Cavendish banana tries to mimic the real banana.

That's a strange analogy. Cavendish bananas are a type of "real" banana already. They're not "trying to mimic" anything, and are not at all like Boca burgers in that regard.
> Should the calculation of capital gains take inflation into account?

Isn't this one of the justifications for cap gains rates typically (jurisdiction dependent) being lower than regular income?
I feel similarly, but I think a big part of that is that my schooling was so bad. Ideally I'd have not had to work and actually been learning something (and that's the goal I have for everyone, as a collective political desire).

On the other hand, I notice people who didn't have to work as kids and went straight into college and respectable white collar jobs usually have absolutely no idea how the rest of their fellow citizens actually work and live, so I'm thankful for the perspective.
Has Covid-19 been a forced experiment with WFH?
Looks like it was scrubbed.
This does not make the paper “stupid”.
And a million other moving parts: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0x4447/0x4447-product-s3-e...
While that is a large part of it, it also seems like an unfair simplification, for two reasons:

1. You can construct portfolios of derivatives that are almost equivalent to holding the underlying except at a smaller initial cost. This gives you nothing but flexibility in ownership.

2. Remember that fire insurance is also straight up gambling that your house will burn down. Gambling counter to your interests is what we call insurance, and the proper mix of underlying and derivative is a hedged, lower risk portfolio than just the underlying.
Wait, wouldn't you get taxed capital gains on a standard savings account? I'm genuinely curious even though right now saving accounts are not saving anything at all.
iPhones are surprisingly repairable. But yes, some scores are... unexpected.
And... more secure, detecting zero-days Gmail won't :D
This reminds me of a project I did a few years ago:

"Stockify is a live music service that follows the mood of the stock markets. It plays happy music only when the stock is going up and sad music when it’s going down."
https://vimeo.com/310372406

(it's of course a parody, but I made a functional prototype)
Something link that could be useful as disaster recovery action. I case of problems with the Mail infrastructure redirect the DNS to something like that and incoming e-mails won't get lost in the meantime. The standby cost for something like that is much lower then a independent secondary e-mail system.
Alien Invasion
Ok, I admit, the title of this post was 100% clickbait. Now let's talk :)

In today's world I read plenty of articles about the possibility of an alien invasion (I promise I'm not a nut job so please keep reading :) ).

The point I'd like to try to make is that in essence an "alien invasion" has already happened on our planet. That statement is probably not what you're thinking so again, please keep reading.

I'm an agnostic so religion isn't in the equation, so let's step back into the recent history of human civilization. I'm not talking Rome or even the original civilizations along the Nile river in Africa. Let's imagine we're a little birdy (the proverbial fly on the wall) who has just witnessed the first human to human communications. Not just grunts of cavemen but real speech of words in some language that both (or all) of them understood.

If I'm that little birdy I'm at first in disbelief but also then immediately in awe of this new power that has arisen, that no species has exhibited or witnessed in the entire history of our planet. I'm not trying to waste your time or stroke my ego with elegant prose to get to the point so let's just talk about it. That must have been an amazing event. In all probability my guess is that other species, who had yet to evolve to the point that they could communicate in language, MUST have encouraged the further evolution of this "super" species. But, that would assume that other species had the ability to perceive this event for what it was. A truly remarkable and historic event. I can't say for sure but of all the articles I've read on the topic and my own observations of the world around me I can't help but think that other species did in fact understand what was happening. Imagine the excitement of possibilities that would entail.

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The title seems to be loaded. Aren't those broadband organizations / associations?

The regulation proposed by the NY is also strange. If you want to help low-income families to access internet, why don't you just pay their internet bills directly? Or, just to give them money and they can choose where to spend it?
How rich people are getting, or how many people are getting "rich"? If you go for the former you should take an average, and it's not going to be impressive. If you go for the latter it'll be clear you're focused on a small minority, so it's not going to be impressive.

So you have to go for something ambiguous and nebulous to impress people. No wonder you have a hard time "explaining" it!
What happens when the cert root expires? Does it not expire or does Apple grant an eternal valid signature when apps were signed before the root expired?
So about 0.3% of the price of an SF Bay Area home?

At least in this area, the price has a lot more to do with NIMBYism than the cost of materials.
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Flash forward to today, what have we done with this new capability? So far I would say we've mostly squandered it. We've distrusted one another (from different countries, and even within our own countries). We've created enormous devastation to one another, the planet and every species that has existed ever since. I wouldn't necessarily say this was "on purpose", but let's reflect for a moment on what has happened on this planet due to the extraordinary phenomenon that is human civilization.

Now let's get back to the original title, which is (for me) a question as to how we should expect aliens, should they exist and/or should they discover and attempt to learn about / understand us as a civilization. We wonder how they would treat us should they encounter us in the not-too-distant future. I would propose that we already have a reference point from which to extrapolate.

Humans have already experienced an alien invasion in my mind. But we were it. We were the aliens with extraordinary super powers. I think with that in mind we should reflect on how we behave and (dis)respect the other species surrounding us already. I think this could be a useful way to view how any other alien civilization might observe and interpret who we are as a species and whether or not we are worth "keeping around".
And as reduced down, it essentially gives the Fed the ability to seize 20% (soon to be 40%) of all property in the name of the IRS, by printing arbitrary amounts of money (which the Fed board can do independently of congress) to blow up the nominal "capital gains" on any asset, triggering capital gains tax.

It hasn't been an issue historically, in an era of hawkish fed leadership, but this year... we'll see.
Trapped Aboard an Abandoned Cargo Ship for 4 Years: A Sailor's Ordeal
I really liked this older blog post about visually mirroring the Great Wave so you see the boatmen first: https://diamantia-kai-skouria.blogspot.com/2011/03/looking-a...

>Your initial focus was no longer on the overwhelming wave. Instead, your automatic visual scanning habits focused you first on the struggling boatmen and their descent into the wave as it begins to tumble over them.
Same. Figured pop-pop-poppop-pop could be the background noise when we go back to the office...
I feel like this is a rhetorical question, but I’m not very confident that they should when it comes to data. It’s definitely less clear cut than physical ownership in my opinion. Abstractly it seems wrong to limit people from certain bit arrangements without paying. The source is limitless.