skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not getting into the whole IQ thing, but have you watched some of what was on TV in the later 1970s? Treat yourself to a binge viewing of "Love Boat", "Lenny and Squiggy", or "Three's Company" or even ostensibly serious stuff like "Marcus Welby" or "Lou Grant". When you have recovered, tell me again about the cognitively elite at the network executive level.
Knowledge management is often forgot. When starting a new project I like to put some effort on summary, (planned) features, (expected) usage/API and license before I begin coding.
More simply: "Betting with the momentum works until it tanks."
This bit is just mind-blowing to me:

> Today, as new services continue to appear and the AWS customer base continues to climb, this function now handles more than 400 million API calls per second worldwide.

Would love to see some details on how that service runs, what sort of scale it requires, etc.
(Not to imply that copyright isn't useful: OSS licensing, and especially restrictive copyleft licenses, literally piggyback on copyright law.)
A well-known glaring exception with .edu is Academia.edu, which is a commercial paper repository/"social network".
Nice to see a NZ startup on here!
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The article has a whole section on VCV's efforts to suppress forking

> VCV has been trying to prevent forks both through legal and social means, so there’s no viable fork yet.

> There’s MiRack, a fork of VCV for Mac OS and iPhone. Any mention of it within the VCV community is immediately deleted, and its author is banned, so it exists completely disconnected from the VCV community

> There used to be VeeSeeVST, another fork of VCV for the VST plugin architecture, but it’s dead: the VCV project asked the author to discontinue the fork in June 2019, to avoid competing with VCV’s commercial offering

> The last fork I know of is the Sonaremin, but it is better understood as a customized distribution of a VCV Rack build for the Raspberry Pi than as a fork
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For what it's worth:

It's not "start" is an alias to "explorer", it's that "start" runs the args through "ShellExecute".

I mention this only because it has some other uses. For instance, Windows apps can install run handlers so that something like Start->Run->Excel will launch Excel. Just running "excel" on a command prompt won't work, but "start excel" will work, since that kicks off the right path.

You can also use something like "start /w filename.txt" to start an instance of your editor, and wait for it to close (well, mostly, some apps do weird things and break this)
Seconded. On iPhone 8, you can also set it to enable/disable Color Filters via triple tapping the home button.

For eye strain, use the Reduce White Point setting combined with minimum brightness at night.
in many taxing jurisdictions, property tax is actually a combo tax on (unimproved) land (square footage/acreage) and on the value of the structure. sometimes these are the same rate and sometimes not. in other jurisdictions, market value dominates, though they often consider land value and structural value separately as well. once upon a time i managed a product to help assessors determine building values so they could do the necessary discrimination for property taxes.
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What many people fail to consider is the alternatives to this.

There is no scenario where the US and Florida government are just going to say that mosquito born illness is just a fact of life and we just have to life with it.

Mosquito control efforts will happen. Right now that involves spraying a bunch of pesticides everywhere. If the mosquitos develop resistance, likely new pesticides with potential more environmental effects will be used. In fact, one of the reasons DDT was used so widely throughout the US was for mosquito control.

What these genetically engineered mosquitos offer is a chance for a more surgical, more environmentally friendly mosquito control option. Instead of massive spraying that kills not only disease causing mosquitoes but likely harms a lot of other bystander species as well, if we can specifically target the biting, disease carrying mosquitos effectively, both humans and the environment will be better off.
California's property tax system is completely messed up to prevent that person from ever having to move or be impacted in any way. Why does that person get to be exempt from change when everyone else has to deal with it?
That makes sense but I can understand it being disruptive in group projects because any change to the method effects the whole group. If you're used to remote designing in a group call with Google docs or something, trying to go to pen and paper just wouldn't be possible until everyone was in the same place again.

For single person things though I definitely understand and respect the utility.
Can you really call the results of Proposition 13 "property taxes"? If an owner is currently paying next to nothing in taxes on their O($10M) plot of land, then practically any sane tax scheme is going to be better.

I'd argue actually charging the owner of the shack $100,000/year in property taxes (~1%) wouldn't have a radically different effect than charging them a 2% land value tax.
Sure, when your "I Quit" rant needs a table of contents you might want to dial it back a little. They make a lot of valid points but you can also just stop working on stuff (and there's a paragraph saying that several other plugin makers have just quietly quit). They're making this post for multiple reasons.

You might want to read it and think about some of it, what would you do in the same situation, etc?

Having been in the same kind of mood at times, I can totally understand the motivation to write this all down and walk out the door with two middle fingers in the air saying "I QUIT".
It took me way too long to realize that the player in the intro is an actual media player and not a GIF:)
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Interestingly, modern C++ is the closest production language there is to Rust in terms of compile time safety guarantees (though C++ is unsafe by default, and that’s a huge problem), type expressiveness, runtime behavior, and so on.

Also, many of the best Rust ideas have been backported to it.

I wonder if it’ll still be in second place after whatever new hotness replaces Rust in a decade.
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Oof! that's diabolic (the puzzle, not the subscription model or the hack).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492506/ is a great documentary on the NYT crossword puzzle editor and crossword nuts in general.

As a remote developer I find doing cryptic crosswords one of the few things that helps me switch off entirely from work.
True. I think there are more lottery winners today, but we know the names of the previous generation more.
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I have been doing a lot of writing lately, short and longer essays. I have also written on-and-off for the last ten years.

Writing well is not easy.

I used to think I wrote well until I started reading better writers. The whole idea that we will just slap together a bunch of text using some “AI” and it will resonate with people is crazy to me. As an engineer whose dabbled with some AI and ML, and has even seen what GPT3 can do, we are as far away from being able to use AI to write a best seller as we are from landing on the Sun. Not saying it will never happen just that nothing we are building right now will be able to do that.

Good writing factors in human culture, sparks emotions in people, tells stories that resonate. I will keep going to sleep at night safely assuming that no AI will out-write humans anytime soon and you should too.
GPT-3-generated writing is a combination of comically absurd and incredibly deep. The weak infants of the woman next door who had to be picked up with the tongs and thrown into the dustbin is quite silly but then there's He wanted to crawl away from it, but there was no place to go. which is a surprisingly deep statement about the revulsion he feels towards himself. That a computer can generate that says very uncomfortable things about the skill of humans in recognizing genuine creative significance.
> $700k is half what I'd need to buy a place and still end up with an hour long freeway commute.

Yeah, but that’s because you live and work in a place that is ridiculously expensive by California standards. (I'm guessing SFBA.)
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Property tax itself is not the issue. The issue is caps on property tax increases that are meant to protect those poor fixed income people. Essentially, people do not make any change that would require the property to be reassessed, which may massively increase the taxes to where they should be. Hence people not doing some minor addition.
There is much irony in hosting this on a .org...

On the other hand, I still have an almost instinctive aversion to all the sites with new TLDs that I come across in search results, because they almost always seem to contain SEO spam or similarly vapid content.

Likewise, .ws and .us used to be the TLD of choice for cracks, warez, and all the "fun" stuff.

Either way, I think all TLDs do have an implicit bias associated with them. For me, .com .org and .net are a neutral connotation. They don't mean "credible", but also don't "stick out like a sore thumb" unlike some of the other newer ones.
Read these to understand:

http://www.ntanet.org/NTJ/63/1/ntj-v63n01p63-92-evidence-dis...

Here's the abstract summary:

> This study examines how replacing a uniform property tax with a land value tax
(LVT) would shift the tax burden for single-family residential properties in Tarrant
County, Texas, over the period 1997–2006. Results suggest that a LVT would shift
the tax burden away from single-family properties and on to other property classes.
For the more recent years in the sample, the average tax liability for single-family
properties would decrease about 30 percent, regardless of household income, and
SuitsIndices suggest that, within residential properties, a LVT would be slightly more
progressive than a property tax. Horizontal equity problems would be greatest for
the lowest-valued properties relative to other properties. This study also examines
how a LVT would change property values due to the effects of tax capitalization.

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2653

In this one the book says:

> A land tax is considered a progressive tax in that wealthy landowners normally should be paying relatively more than poorer landowners and tenants. Conversely, a tax on buildings can be said to be regressive, falling heavily on tenants who generally are poorer than the landlords

So in general the idea is you tax the market value of the land, but not the value of what was done out of it. So an apartment building with 10 units would be taxed approximately the same as a single family home if their land is in the same area and of the same size. But since there are 10 units, each tenant of the apartment building would pay only 1/10 of the tax. Same thing if it's a Condo building. It also means that if someone wants to live near some "hot market" they'd pay higher tax for being there than if they were to move further away, since the tax is based on land market value.
As someone who partied away my teens and early twenties, then spent seven years working 14/7/365 founding a successful company, and finally got married and had 2 kids a couple of years ago, I can tell you that the family is by far the most meaningful and important. I regret the drinking and partying. I wish I had prioritized family sooner.
Computer-played chess or go games are already more interesting than the human-played ones. If you get computer-written novels indistinguishable from the best human-written novels, or even better, would you read them? There will be 1 million of them generated every day, all better than Harry Potter, or by taste, War and Peace.
Great to read about the progress made, it would be awesome to have a Linux phone.

I wonder how complicated implementing the phone part really is. Personally I would be happy with a device that

1) Has a web browser

2) Has a podcast app

3) Can connect to WiFi

The rest could be added later, but those are the essentials for me.
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It has hints of "reverse racism" and tends to dismiss that racism is an issue...and if it is an issue, racism against white people is the actual and bigger issue. That's closer to the camp of "white supremacist" or at the very least, a common defense used by white supremacist. Generally, this would be someone who is, in his position, at the very best, wilfully ignorant.

I was not the one dismissed him, nor do I work at basecamp, nor am I Ryan Singer, so I can't be sure that's why he was suspended...can only guess with the same information available to you.
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the youngest is 18 now. maybe the marriage is gone for years and they were waiting for the kids to come of age? pure speculation
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Amazon invested $3B in video and music in Q1 FY2021 [pdf]
Their deal with NFL just got moved up one year early as well.
Oracle requires ksh93 when installing their database.

For myself, I write to the ksh93 standard, but reduced to mksh, because I desire functionality, but portability.

The question of s/BASH/bash is not relevant to me. The toolset is the question.

Noted again is that Cygwin only implements mksh, not ksh93. Write for what you have.

It would make me nothing but happy should "bash" adopt ksh syntax. Perhaps I should struggle to be sufficiently adept to submit patches.
I would say Ada/SPARK is much closer to compile-time safety guarantees than both C++ and Rust, along with type expressiveness, runtime behavior, and so forth. I wish more people knew about the language and about its current state.
I believe it is "dee-no".
I mean, racial equality has always been political.

It became more so when a major segment of the USA decided they didn't care to hide being racist anymore after the 2008 elections.
The open source + standalone. Most reporting (of the kind this is needed) is made by selected user with different needs to the main app, so it work for us.
Ah interesting. Yeah, I’m not sure how a full proper ranking or comparison for digital ad market would be done. There’s lot of ad networks including the DSP list. Ad spend perhaps? Most of the major sites or apps that are only for their own property don’t include outside ads. I’m thinking LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snap, Twitter, Reddit, Yelp.
I’m not certain on all of this though. Chumbox ads (Taboola, etc) have proliferated to a whole range of sites including top ones by now too.

But then IAC, Verizon Media’s biggest properties, would be a mix of different things.
Maybe one day computers will even learn to write like the New Yorker... starting every article an initial page of irrelevant artful content and then moving to an overly flowery essay lacking actual insights into the topic at hand.
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for what it's worth, I find the picking on DHH for taking this call from bed unnecessary

If he was sick, whether physically sick because of their own actions or otherwise...sick is sick. Seemed like a no-win for him whether he could either refuse to show up because he is sick, or show up to at least listen to what's going on (assuming recording it wasn't an option).
It's tough to get it all down here in a comment. Maybe now this is all out I'll share more in some channels soon. I will say that last comment in Casey's article: “They don't want to deal with people, which is something you have to do as a manager … Jason and David just threw us away.” That could easily have been written from someone at Highrise. (It wasn't. But it could have been) We killed ourselves to turn that thing around. And it hurt. Some of this coming out I can definitely empathize with and concur with what people experienced. Thanks for asking.
Oops I upvoted... and commented. facepalm
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TIL a LVT is currently implemented throughout Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, Singapore, and Taiwan. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to analyze these countries rather than Houston when proposing such a dramatic policy shift?

EDIT: while Denmark and Singapore are considered very expensive places to live, the rent in Denmark is actually cheaper (while Singapore could be forgiven to some degree due to the country's high density).
I thought so too, until I read the second (third?) article. Quite a few racist statements were made in the meeting itself and many employees mentioned that it was the meeting that convinced them to resign.
Why does an online forum about music software need to go out of its way to create a welcoming environment for women?

Obviously if there was abuse, and misogyny going on it should be addressed but I don't see anything on that forum that is gendered at all really.

To quote someone from the VCV forum "I dont get it…
is somebody doing something not appropriate against a woman here?"

EDIT: Why am I being downvoted? What makes that forum not welcoming for women? What needs to be changed?
There were clap farms before click farms. There's nothing new under the sun.
I don't know about that option. For metabase, was the UI that our support rep think easier to get ;)
Where can you afford to live without working in the USA? It can't be many places.
sheeeeeeesh
Was expecting the final tweet to be about students complaining that the Finder kept popping up any time they tried to drag anything.
I suspect it's because the US printed money while other countries did not.
From most analysts. Once they pay creators, bandwidth and storage.
Dhall looks lovely. Just enough programmability to avoid repetition, but not Turing complete so it can't evolve all the way to reading mail.

Or at least, that's the promise - it's on my list of "solutions to try as soon as the problems catch up to the corresponding level".
Specialists have a choice where they go unless their company keeps them contractually under thumb. Let's not use language that implies companies earn/deserve loyalty.
Proving defamation is actually quite hard. You have to prove both the untruthfulness of the statement made and prove that you have sustained monetary damages from it. If you manage to win, you will still likely be on the hook for your own legal fees. Finally, you will never recover the time sunk into this endeavor. For most people, it's simply not worth it.
I start going crazy visiting family too. Beeps and boops everywhere: phone notifications and ringing, the washer and dryer play electronic tunes, every external door makes the alarm system make an alert sound when it opens. Kitchen timers and microwaves. A driveway sensor goes off when anything arrives (plus false alarms). Somewhat related: the tv always on, generally including commercials.

Plus my own stuff: the car’s beeps from lock/unlock, opening the door with keys or not putting on the seatbelt fast enough. My phone if I’m on call. My work computer’s email and chat.
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Regardless of whether you care about the leak of possibly private information, it's always a good idea to shorten and clean URLs before pasting them, like so:

https://www.google.com/search?q=abry+partners+donuts+dot+org

(There is some sparse discussion that the gs_lcp parameter may contain an encoded form of your physical location. "When in doubt, leave it out" is a good policy to follow for such things.)
Or simply interspecies reproduction.
Had no idea there was a Rockstar office in Andover! I grew up there.
Do you understand how it is hard to take anything you say in good faith, when you were not able to figure out that a person who spent 10 years in social isolation, may not have a normal social experience, and therefore might not be the best person to get opinions about social topics, if we are looking for the opinion from a person who has a normal social experience?
The actual paper title is:

Meta-analytic evidence that animals rarely avoid inbreeding
I always felt that poaching was meant to say more about the poacher than the poached. Rare species in the wild are poached, after all.
Public beheading.
> Can't believe only 21 employees walked

The article said they extended the buyout offer indefinitely, so I wouldn't be surprised if more people leave over the next few weeks.

Even if you weren't thinking of leaving, 3-6 months severance would be really hard to turn down, especially if you know you can get another job quickly.
Well, technically it isn't his video, it is a reaction video that contains the entire content of his video.

Youtube apparently considers such reaction videos as "fair use" and thus consideres the takedown request fradulent. Youtube also makes a lot of money off of the "reaction video" genre and has an incentive to view such videos as "fair use".

This guy needs to hire a copyright lawyer and should probably retract his removal request and file real legal papers.
i upvoted, but the submitted title is inaccurate clickbait. "animals rarely avoid inbreeding" is correct