skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average returns are what you should base a decision like that on right? Looking back it’s easy. But you can’t assume outsize performance when making such a decision.
Or if published publically provide the name of everyone everywhere...
The issue is not that the investor selling their shares incurs a tax liability, but that other investors who do not sell their shares incur some liability.

Scenario A: You own mutual shares in the apple tree mutual fund. When a new investor enters the apple tree fund, the fund uses the proceeds to buy another apple tree. When an existing investor exits the fund, the fund sells an apple tree and gives the money back to the investor. But that is also a transaction recorded in the fund, and the fund itself may recognize a profit or loss. Moreover, if the investor is not buying an entire apple tree but only part of an apple tree, the fund may be forced to sell off an entire apple tree. Thus the apple tree fund has to have some cash and it is constantly buying and selling apple trees, as there is a churn of inflows and outflows, which means it is constantly incurring taxable events.

Scenario B: if there an apple-tree ETF, then one share of the apple tree ETF corresponds to an ownership state of 1 apple tree. When you buy the ETF, you are not entering a fund, you are buying from an existing holder of the ETF. When you sell your ETF, you are selling your ownership share to a future holder. These may be taxable events for you, but they are not taxable events for the fund management or for other ETF holders.
My PGP key used to be here
When my first electric razor stopped working, I decided to open it up and figure out why. It turns out the connection from power to the motor rotor was by graphite rods, similar to pencil leads. It's certain that the graphite was designed with a specific lifetime in mind, and once it ground down to nothing you got metal-on-metal grinding that destroyed the motor.
Sounds dramatic, but on my scale of existential dread, nowhere near up there with simply being trapped in a human body where there's no offsite backups and you (or anyone else close to you) can just get an aneurysm and die at any moment.

I'm not sure I'm helping. >.>
https://emacsformacosx.com/ works fine with Rosetta.

Edit: actually they've published a universal binary now which should work natively on M1.
Usually simpler code is better. I used to see a lot of mistaken "high performance" code where someone has unrolled all of the loops because they think unreadable code goes faster, though maybe people have gotten better about this? (OpenSSL is an example here.)

Unfortunately not all kinds of slowness only happen in hotspots. This is true for CPU cycles, but if an occasional task uses all memory, it's going to mess up everything downstream as well.
> humans will settle Mars soon.

> -Not happening. Primarily due to radiation and general life support problems.

You don't really understand the science here. The radiation effects are vastly overstated and the media loves to fearmonger them. Secondly the life support issue is a solved problem if you have the mass payload ability. Yes if you don't have a large rocket capable of taking many tens to hundreds of tons of payload to Mars, then there's life support issues, otherwise there isn't.
The price of BTC will continue to rise as long as people believe that it can become a currency or respected asset class in the future -- but only so long as that doesn't happen. Treated as a currency, if folks actually started to spend it, velocity would go up and its value would inflate away with no central authority to jump in and help.

As an asset, at some point, all the money that will go into it will go into it, and it won't grow anymore, the get-rich-quick game will be over, and people will start to sell, and the price will crater. This can even by triggered by the $30 billion dollars in new money required to pay miners each year.

LN is perfect because unless you squint it's a plausible attempt to solve some of the limitations of the underlying asset.

But here in reality, opening and closing a single LN channel for everyone on earth would take over 150 years. It would cost 1/3 of a trillion dollars in transaction fees. If you broadcast an old wallet state you'll lose your coins. If any intermediate node goes down, it'll lock up your funds. It suffers from terrible illiquidity.

The same number of channels now as 3 years ago. Usage is not growing. It's not a viable solution. It is, however, great distraction.

Just 18 more months!
This is also humanity’s situation in Warhammer 40,000—but seeing as how randomly lobotomizing people is the norm in that universe, I hope we don’t end up there :-P
If I could flag it I would. It's completely off topic and also mostly incorrect.
Depends on direction.
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Slack is definitely faster than my IRC client since it's not running over ssh to a host. You can't actually run IRC locally or you'll miss all the chat from when you're not signed in.
Depends on your reference frame. From the point of view of the star, no. From our point of view, yes.
Damn. I wonder if the concept of mapping phone numbers to words is still up for grabs. I'd love to see the look on Oscar Mayer's face when they realize they need to pay me royalties for 1-800-HOT-DOGS
Something like this would feel like a small first step, maybe the other way around though.

I'd like to put a timeout on any blogspam web sites I come across, and not have them show up in my search results again for one year. By that time they might have switched to having decent content, or maybe just gone down the toilet anyway or been pushed down by Google's algorithms. Or if not I could ban hammer them again.
As I understand it they're aggressively marketing and lobbying to become the standard mapping system in underdeveloped countries without a strong addressing system.

Once they've achieved this (either informally or by getting enshrined in the legal system) they can start squeezing local businesses and the government for access to their service. It's pure rent seeking.

As part of this strategy, it's in their interest to create an unnecessarily unintuitive service so you can't go anywhere without using their app. The three words provide absolutely zero geographic information about the location.

They're about as close to a truly evil company as I can think of. Luckily they seem to have had minimal success so far, as the revenue numbers are awful.
> humans will settle Mars soon.

> -Not happening. Primarily due to radiation and general life support problems.

You must be kidding. We have fastest progress in launch systems since 1960s. Seriously, when was the last time multiple spaceships for human spaceflight carried tests at the same time in USA alone?

Radiation and weightlessness - two biggest roadblocks for interplanetary flights - are known for quite some time, there are some plans and propositions, even though experiments are mostly long-term ISS flights. But it's hard not to see progress - would you say, for example, that Moon flight can't be used as a stepping stone in preparing Mars expeditions?
> The interactions between a silicon chip and software drivers has nothing to do with right to repair. Never has been.

Software bugs... you could reasonably end up with a right to fix them given the current direction of right to repair lobbying. And that right might include the right to documentation.

> Apple doesn't have a monopoly on any hardware, except insofar as any company has a natural monopoly on their own products, as made explicitly legal by copyright and patent laws.

Which is to say they have a monopoly...

Anti trust never makes having a monopoly illegal, it makes exploiting that monopoly to gain further monopolies illegal. It doesn't care about where the monopoly came from.

It does care about the kind of monopoly, current anti trust rules probably don't consider the monopoly Apple has from copyright and patents on hardware to be of the right category (to cover an entire market)... but that could easily change.

> Obviously legal. See above.

On the contrary...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_misuse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_misuse

> Obviously legal. See above.

Yes, I agree under current definitions, but it would be a reasonable way for the laws to evolve. It is very similar in nature to the existing limits on patents, for example: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/business/university-s-dru...
Bootstrapping an Amiga without a bootable floppy
I am sorry but what does this mean:

> the author trying to be clever (in the Kernighan sense)

I know that Kernighan is the author of the C book, but its been a while since I skimmed it.
No idea. I only follow things at a high level. Wife likes her Model 3. Great performance and value for the price. She hasn’t tried autopilot once and we never paid for FSD. I don’t think the market really cares about FSD. Tesla is the first modern and new auto maker in decades to really see any significant cultural and market penetration. I’ll give Elon a pass, or rather Tesla a pass for Elon’s overhyping everything. What they have done and delivered is quite amazing to me.
I paid for WinRar. :)

There’s even a subreddit for it.
Given their widespread uses on phones, the overall average is likely very small. KBs even.

A more relevant question might be: what would the average size of SQLite databases for web type (or even this specific use case) applications. I don't know, but 10s or 100s of MBs might not be a bad guess.
I am not sure why using military plane, even fighter jet to survey earth quake damage is unacceptable and was resisted so much by Gen Jones. It’s inefficient, sure, but if the plane is not used for anything else and it can be used as an exercise as well, as a tax payer, I think such inefficiency is acceptable.

The last paragraph is where the salt is, imo:

In October, Newsom’s office denounced the Guard’s decision to send a military spy plane to suburban El Dorado Hills, where Baldwin lived, to help civilian authorities monitor demonstrations over the Floyd killing. Baldwin said the fact that he resided in El Dorado Hills, where the protests were small and peaceful, had nothing to do with the deployment of the RC-26B reconnaissance plane.
What’s bizarre to me is this company is funded by IKEA, including $20 million this past March.
I was wondering that too. Support was spotty in general ~20 years ago but I assume things have improved since then.
An exploration of the privacy-oriented browser changes and identity federation
> What is this Taproot about?

If accepted by the miners, Bitcoin will a bunch of low-level upgrades:

- more compact signatures (decrease blockchain size)

- paves the way to smart contract

- improve transaction privacy

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/taproot-coming-what-it...
The Bitcoin Blockchain PostgreSQL Schema (2017)
For really large sites Next.js already has Incremental Static Regeneration which is usually the right solution to fast [re]builds: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/04/incremental-static-...
And if they could raise rates more to get more profit, they would do it right now.

(But this is why we need EVERYONE to have EVs. At least plug in hybrids.)
There's an argument that tax prep companies block that automation in the U.S.: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/its-tax-ti...
People who have different thought processes from me are great! There's plenty to be learned.

People who are Always Right and who believe that anyone who disagrees or sounds like they might be disagreeing is Always Wrong and must be shouted down... those people are not worth fixing. I assume these people are what GP is talking about.

And yes, those people are real. Quite rare, but real, and a major pain in the ass to route around.

Always assume that it is possible for you to be wrong. Even if you think you are not wrong... just consider what the world might look like if you were wrong, and you'll be fine.
Yep, exactly that one. There's a simple example of a VFS implementation on the examples page that's a reasonable starting point:

https://rogerbinns.github.io/apsw/example.html

Once you wrap your head around how you need to pass parameters to the helper, it's really straightforward, you just need to implement the xOpen and xRead calls.
I have a feeling this kind of legal attack is usually the result of someone misusing a company trademark.

If he called it anything else they would never have noticed or cared.

They risk drawing attention to their non-existent competition by raising this legal action if they don't have a "sure" chance of winning.
Amazon Q1 2021
Sort of a tangent, but on the topic of web apps, what I can't understand is how every single browser is still missing position:device-fixed [0] - if you want to let people zoom in, you basically have to recreate the entire zooming yourself if you have any sort of overlay menu whatsoever

[0]https://css-tricks.com/the-fifth-position-value/
How to Achieve Enlightenment
It’s actually Adobe that owns Marketo now.

Source: former Adobe employee
> Are there distinct advantages to this?

It improves fungibility (if that's even a word).
> How about maintenance? I do most of my own work on our vehicles. I bought an older truck because I didn't want to deal with all the electronics. Now I'm supposed to buy a vehicle that's not only all electronics, but has potentially dangerous batteries that I don't have the skills to touch?

What your doing is great, don't change a thing. If your happy with your system, absolutely DO NOT go out and buy an EV. Your doing more for the environment by continuing to use that older vehicle than buying electric. The carbon emissions of manufacturing a new vehicle are often as high or higher than the lifetime tailpipe emissions [0], and it's a price that has already been paid. The longer we can keep existing cars on the road the better.

Sure if it's a given your going to buy a new car, and EV is probably better for the environment than an something gas or diesel powered, but if your looking to really do what's best, keep that existing vehicle in good condition as long as possible.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
I can't wait until someone gets a patent on quick sort.
There are other studies that show we can understand speech at a much higher rate. The critical bandwidth constraint seems to be on stream out, not stream in.
The LA Times is not a small paper. It has the fifth-largest circulation in the U.S. (greater than the Washington Post) and over 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It's arguably the only major newspaper in the U.S. not based on the east coast.
It's a mirror for the crypto community. All the same arguments they make for the supremacy of Bitcoin are actually better made with Doge.

- Doge is the best performing asset class of the last decade.

- Doge is the best performing asset class of all time.

- Doge has lower transaction fees ($1.24 vs $20).

- Doge has 10x as many blocks, so much more capacity.

- Doge transactions are much faster.

- Doge has a dog on it.

Frankly it's better in every way than Bitcoin and this makes the maxis very sweaty. It's making them scared for their paper windfalls.
What does ARRAY['k'] mean?

EDIT: Okay, so I looked up what {'k'} means, i.e. it's an array with one element 'k'. And in the article's function it's the "path" to the key to be set.

Still not sure if ARRAY['k'] is a thing, though. I could only find this sort of syntax described in the context of definition, e.g. ARRAY[4] for an array of length 4.
Yes, it takes special fortitude to fight off the demands of your precious new mega-customer, be they a Cisco or whoever. Sometimes they'll really screw your product up if you let them. (Though sometimes also they'll give you those jewels of requirements that you really needed).

It's a sliding scale. You have to pander to them to some degree - there's no choice. But it takes grit to refuse to e.g. branch your core code or otherwise compromise your architectural integrity.

The problems are when the sales team does not appreciate the downstream costs of just letting this one patch in. And when you're a struggling startup, sometimes they're right and the social proof of the deal (and the revenue) make it a good choice to compromise your principles this once.
Great suggestions already given on how to limit your phone use... But I can only imagine that it leaks into other areas of your life.

Have you’ve looked into treating the causes you mentioned? Perhaps behavioral therapy.
Bears and raccoons have very dexterous hands.
Same with those! They'll just grab the chunks they need (also with range requests) to do what you want from binary ROOT or (presumably, I haven't actually used jsfive) HDF5 files.
Yeah, but... space pen!
Taproot, aside from the upgrade itself, is very interesting because it will be a test of Bitcoin's upgrade-ability.

Last effort to improve Bitcoin (Segwit) was basically a giant shitshow.

Let's hope the ecosystem has matured and this one will be a little more orderly.
Ignoring EVs, it's often cheaper to rent for road trips. There are a bunch of other benefits; they're more consistently maintained, if there is an issue there is the option of swapping cars, you can rent for the size you need for that specific trip. This prevents you from overbuying when getting a commuter car that you'd use for rare stuff.

The only downside to renting is they may not have inventory on holiday weekends. I've never had this problem.
I don't think the posts specified the ethnicities of the people who made the lists. Are you sure it is intra-group and not inter-group?
Sorry for the delayed response. I have done a sleep study, because I have severe restless legs syndrome (which is not benign--it really can be terrible) and periodic limb movement disorder, because of it.

So, in the middle of the night, my limbs jerk and it affects my sleep quality. So, I also have a surface EMG (electromyography) sensor connected to my leg when I sleep. I use a Bitalino [1] to record it. I share this info with my neurologist.

All of the sensors I use (I use other ones during the day to detect stress and affect using AI--I recreated the peer-reviewed journal articles in code) interface using LabStreamingLayer (LSL), which makes coding easy. Even the OpenBCI board uses LSL. It basically is a streamlined way of dealing with data from these devices.

A lot of the code in general that is posted on GitHub interfaces with LSL, so you search on like DuckDuckGo.com for like:

* "LSL" AND "EEG" site:github.com

* "LabStreamingLayer" AND "EEG" site:github.com

Anyways, you can find all sorts of interesting programs, including neurofeedback. But, you have to be good with coding and also Linux to use it. They even have code that interfaces with LSL that does LORETA scoring for neurofeedback, which is very therapeutic and useful. But, you want the 16 channel OpenBCI device to do this.

[1] https://plux.info/kits/38-bitalino-revolution-plugged-ble-81...
Couldn’t find the video on the link above but I guess the previous one is this:

https://youtu.be/rglmJ6Xyj1c
Cocoa has been a great OOP-based UI framework forever. The key is that it doesn't use inheritance and has messaging (https://wiki.c2.com/?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers).
I guess it slipped fast from earthquake monitoring to protest monitoring.
In political decisions like this, the stated reason is always just an excuse for the public. The real reason usually boils down to rivaling circles of cronies competing for influence.
How to get English working on the Xiaomi InkPalm 5 mini e-reader
So all the years when a roll was 160 sheets at the same price meant no inflation for a decade?
The first approach creates a list, which means cheap insert/delete. But it's not a fair comparison, as the second approach doesn't let you do that. For that, you would need to allocate an array of objects in the first approach instead of a list.
I don't think what you are stating is the definition for planned obsolescence. For example, even though there is a used car market, the fact that someone upgrades their car due to fashion means it's planned obsolescence. In fact, that's where the term was born.
I pretty much only log in to make comments like this and the message is well received.

We are the ones doing this. Doing something wrong isn't right because someone paid you to. No, it's even worse. It's immoral.

I was instructed by management to implement signature fraud into a contract management system for a multibillion dollar real estate brokerage.

It was illegal. I refused. They fired me on illegal grounds. I sued and I am currently waiting for a verdict.

You can do what is right. You can say no. You can share your complaints about illegal behavior by corporate employees who don't care about what is right with the world.

If all the software engineers who are doing the immoral things at Facebook would just quit, there wouldn't be anymore of it. It'd be over.

Just walk away.

It's destroying the planet. That is not hyperbole. We are, in fact, intentionally creating suffering for millions of people, ... billions of people for ... money.

Just stop doing it and the world will instantly become a better place.

Not a single person on the planet thinks Zuckerberg is a good person. He is on the record explaining the nefarious reasons he created Facebook. The entire business was built for lecherous, creepy, misogynist purposes.

If you work there, you are part of the problem. If you work at Google, you're part of the problem. If you work at the big banks, you're part of the problem. If you work for Monsanto, and on and on and on, then you are part of the problem.

You are destroying the planet and humanity and minds.

Just... stop.
It doesn't matter if it mimics the browser. If you are trying to stop the browser from protecting the user as intended, it is a dark pattern, regardless of how well you camoflage the attempt.
What are you talking about?

Nobody here said about Apple "directly upstreaming code to Linux to support M1".

Parent said "adding support for booting alternative OS's on M1 Macs", which Apple did do.
I did some napkin math and a star the size of our sun passing through intergalactic space (not a dust cloud obv) at the speed of light would only encounter about 1kg of matter per second on average.

(pi1.3e9m^2 cross sectional area 3e9 m/s velocity) / (1e-27 kg/m^3 density)
I will try melatonin again, for sure. Thank you for the thoughtful suggestion! :-)
..and they put up a strong fight as newspapers were waning. The NYT was already garbage in 1999 when LAT was going strong and publishing stories about the primary function of the US intelligence establishment being economic espionage.
More interestingly, do reverse-proxies like Varnish / CDNs like Cloudflare support range requests? If so, do they fetch the whole content on the back, and then allow arbitrary range requests within the cached content on the front?
https://simonwillison.net/2002/Jun/26/useRealLinks
A rate of increase that drops over time isn't intrinsically inflationary or deflationary. It exerts inflationary pressure, but inflation is a function of both supply and velocity. We'd have to actually measure to determine. Its increase in price means you can buy more goods with it, which means it has demonstrably been insanely deflationary.
likelihood of confusion
perhaps... "Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be explained by laziness"
I recently read an excellent short book on this topic, titled “Capitalizing in crisis” [1] in which the author traces the path that lead to today’s situation where a large portion of profit across all companies in the US is through financial activities.

It’s an excellent read, albeit repetitive at times.

[1] https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066199
Haskell uses linked lists as a metaphor for generators (since it's a lazy language), which is a strange decision since linked lists are a bad data structure, so you have to write the program to avoid accidentally ever doing what it says it does.