skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good question. I assumed that cocoa existed in Ancient India, but it's native to Mexico, so that doesn't really make sense. The best explanation I could find just from Googling it seems to be that this is actually an interpretation specific to Thailand of a more general rule:

FAQ 9: "In Thailand, it has been observed that Thai Buddhist monks are allowed to drink tea, cocoa, coffee (but without milk) after midday. But in some other Buddhist countries like Burma, monks are not allowed to do this. Is this part of the Vinaya rules or is this just tradition, custom, or local practice? If it is in the Vinaya, how do you explain the differences in interpretation?"

A: The fourth of the Recollections of the Bhikkhu's Requisites is:
"Properly considering medicinal requisites for curing the sick, I use them: simply to ward off any pains of illness that have arisen, and for the maximum freedom from disease." (OP p.47)

There is an allowance in the Paali texts that 'medicinal-tonics' can be taken in the afternoon while 'lifetime-medicines' may be consumed any time they are needed. (See Lifetime Medicines.)

There are different interpretations and practices about how ill a bhikkhu has to be for it to be allowable to take such 'medicines.' Some bhikkhus will not take anything other than pure water, while some will over-stretch the Rule to even drinking 'medicinal' food-drinks (e.g., Ovaltine) in the afternoon. Some bhikkhus will consider tea-leaves allowable (as 'herbs') while some will see it as food or as a 'stimulant' (caffeine) and therefore not appropriate. Also, the ordinary rural villagers of South East Asia (until very recently) would have had no tea or coffee to drink, so such items could be considered quite a luxury. It will depend on local conditions and interpretations, which are allowed for in the Vinaya through the Great Standards. (See also Lifetime Medicines.)

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/ariyesako/laygui...
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> The real world is not like that, because different people see things differently, because they have different vantage points, different interests, and different constraints.

Sure - but this doesn't change what I said.

You're saying that an employee is obligated to sell this (what they are currently already doing for employment) to their employer. But... the employer has already proven that they value this work, paid at that rate.

Surely, instead, the employer ought to sell coming back to the office to the employee. The employer can't depend on this being the default any more.
I don't think it's related to a time period, more just random external factors. Obviously, there has to be some periodicity because a there's no such thing as a back to back crash, it would just bigger crash, but I don't think there's evidence that the market will have a done year every 8-12 years.
My only point was that I'm willing to accept the argument that it's more difficult to secure more, smaller reactors.
Depends on what you want to know. Of course my company isn't looking for cheap coders to replace full-time employees without having to pay any benefits, but that is sadly how most vendor/contractor relationships in the industry work today.

The author of the post is a full-time employee, despite what he is (possibly illegally) classified as. He should be negotiating as such.
I suppose this really calls into question, what bail out means to you. If we label every private company transaction for a struggling company as a bail out, rather than the traditional one where only ones where the government steps in, then it's almost impossible for anything to not get bailed out.
So you never actually read the articles, "China's economic/negotiation weapon against Trump". CNN, MSNBC and many other news agencies were pushing that narrative.
I think it's pathetic to moan about your salary in some Hacker News plea for sympathy.

It's a free market, there's a million job ads, recruiters and what else. If you are worth $500k/year, you'll get $500k/year. If you can't take $500k/year either coze you're incapable of putting up with the job requirements or you're just incompetent in general, that's entirely on you.

You're not starving. Just penible.
Computer Modern is the "plaid shorts" of TeX fonts. I profoundly admire all of Don Knuth's efforts, and I've had the pleasure of a number of conversations with him. He threw in the towel himself, recognizing that artists could design better fonts than computers.

To excel at math requires focus. When I see Computer Modern I see an author who didn't get distracted choosing a better font. Not just undergraduates.
Well, I am surprised how poor that went. I’ve been reading HN for probably a decade or so, commenting occasionally, but never had anything to ask - and always thought that if I did have a question one day, it’ll probably get at least some attention. I was really wrong.
Not the person you're replying to, but I can't say I've ever felt anything noticeably different after drinking tea. The hot water is nice and the tea tastes & smells good, but for me, nothing more.

I like tea, but I only drink it occasionally.
Is it even true? There is a common stereotype of "older individuals", at least in the US, as cranky and irritable. Stereotypes aren't truth, but I think we've all encountered at least some examples of this.

I'm not actually sure that contradicts the article, which takes a somewhat specific view of "control". But I've just spent four years dealing with a very prominent older individual who seemed to have absolutely zero control over his feelings, and also seemed to bring out a very large cohort of similar individuals.
Federal + FICA for self-employed is barely 30% for that income and state is going to be well under 10%. Flat tax states will be 3-5% (or 0%) and even California is barely 5% effective rate.
It's neither. Their interviews are proxies for time spent studying CS textbook trivia: a poor indicator of IQ or any other skill for that matter. It's not easy to just casually walk into, either (except for recent CS grads or experienced professionals who happen to be among the 0.1% working day-to-day on tasks requiring understanding of said trivia in depth), as it requires a lot of time devoted to study the nonsense.
> EU Travel Pass doesn't care about your antibodies.

Hmm, you are right :(

The rules are still evolving. They will need to care, since the people who recovered after a positive test are much fewer than people who recovered without being tested.

From https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...

> The period of relevance of certificates depends on scientific evidence and will be determined by the verifiers following their national rules. As new scientific evidence is emerging, the periods for which certificates are relevant for waiver of applicable public health requirements could be adjusted ...The regulation also introduces some basic principles, for example, setting the maximum validity period of the certificate of recovery at 180 days. These principles could be adjusted by the Commission through delegated acts to align with new scientific evidence once it is available.

Going strictly by the text above, what would happen to the recovered people after 180 days? If they have immunity they cannot get another positive test, so no recovery certificate and no travel? Or if you already recovered more than 6 months ago, you cannot travel?

It will come down to some metric of immunity, which is apparently "TBD" but will almost immediately be a concern, as all stakeholders look more closely at the rules, logic and implications.

The EU and many western governments are not dictatorships, relying on human judgement to enforce policy. If proposed policies fail basic checks of reason and fairness, humans at border checkpoints can exercise judgement. If and when policy makers find their policy is not enforceable, they can improve the policy until it is supported by science, citizens and enforcers.

The travel industry expects these passes to bring their customers back. They will not sit quietly while their recovered/immune customers are blocked by incompetent bureaucracy from spending money across the EU, without a substantive scientific case.
We have the claim:

> The magic seems to be that the people, via referendum, can add and/or delete laws they don't like.

I'm saying that this cannot be the magic, because this state of affairs obtains in California, and it does not have the results which are, in Switzerland, ascribed to it. Those results do not come from this; they come from something else.
Sincere question - for starting greenfield projects, what would make you choose Flask over FastAPI[0]?

[0] - https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
No, but as a contractor you have to pay the full payroll tax (15%) + all the other SS / medicare costs (usually comes to about 2-3%), plus income tax (progressive and varies, but for this bracket is probably federal 15-20%, and up to 10% state). So, add it all up, and it's ~40-45%. Then they have to cover their own health insurance, which again, depends on state, but could be 400-700/mo. So yeah, it's easy to end up with half your money gone with each pay check.
It’s not rocking my world, but I know which one I’d rather grep for (especially if the methods kwarg got pushed down to another line due to formatting).
It does not answer the question he asks but if he’s as good as he says, he can just refuse to log his hours.
$6k/mo ($72k/yr) is a marginal tax rate of ~13% in the US. Combined w/ FICA (self-employed), you'd be looking at ~25%.

Also, no benefits being deducted in this case.
IMHO HTML documents backed by a versioning system (probably fossil or pijul rather than the overly complex git) are the way forward for documents where content is much more important than presentation.
I always wondered: Why are screenplays written in a monospaced font? To me that just looks like an odd relic from typewriter times. Is there any better explanation?
Hey we know what is going to be the hot product to buy for bitcoin miners :-)

I was thinking about data centers (20 - 50MW) and a "farm" of them to provide N+1 redundancy would be an interesting thing. 99% carbon neutral as well.
In a democracy everyone needs to vote. Which can be at the polls. Why do you assume that everyone needs to sit in on every legislative session? It could be that way, but I don't see where it has to be.

There's a lot of ways to be democratic. For example, perhaps our block elects a representative to attend council meetings, who will inform our group on issues in front of council, maybe someone else contributes with some extra research, etc, then we decide how our block will vote in council. Just one of many possibilities.
... but it’s cool that I can have a conversation with myself. So that’s something I guess. Next step’s reddit probably.
Banks take equity positions in struggling hedge funds as they do for everything they loan money too. Is a homeowner who instead of defaulting on their mortgage refinanced with less equity being bailed out?
Oh, interesting! I'd seen the "macaroni" articles before, but until your comment I had not realized the song is making fun of the character's low-effort mimicry.
The negative side effects of our technology including electricity led to environmental pollution, species extinction and climate change.
How this will turn out for mankind is not certain. This could just be the calm before the storm for mankind.
And the greatest benefit of the web is not at the user level, but below. Control and measurement signals do not need HTML, TCP and UDP are sufficient. All the APIs also deliver mainly text in the form of Json and the like.
Apart from that, the technology may have improved for developers, but as a user the web pages were faster, slimmer, more informative 10-15 years ago.
Today there is a lot of click bait and dark patterns.
If you are looking for information off the mainstream ( I don't mean news but technical information) the data is mostly hard to find. Much is also simply gone because the links are dead, without Archive.org it would be even worse.
"The net doesn't forget"? Bullshit. It forgets many things, but it remembers concert pictures of Beyonce.
The Cityscapes transformations have a photorealism advantage because they're blurrier and more washed out. It's easier to match less detailed photos.

The blurriness, green tinge, and washed out colours are qualities photos sometimes have, but it's not what we see with our eyes. But they do help hide details that would give the image away as a computer rendering.
10%-20% federal, 0-10% state, 15% FICA, 3-5% other (varies, includes things like medicare). It adds up.
This looks great, I looked on the API but I'm not sure if I'm missing this, is it possible to serve documentation to Docusaurus and have it generate from that served documentation? I've been working on, what I consider, a pretty powerful auto documentation tool and it'd be cool to integrate with this to produce self-hosted doc sites from our auto generated documentation.

I suppose we could generate separate markdown files as well and pass them to the CLI!

Either way I think I'll be adding support for Docusaurus in the near future, cool stuff!
In my experience, points are more accurate than hours, since most people work with high variability in productivity over time that can't be captured by a mechanism as crude as a stopwatch, so a corollary metric creates a more accurate number than an absolute metric.
There’s an Exodus from the ‘Star Cities,’ and I Have Good News and Bad News
I didn't read through the entire thing but...

* Would be wise to compare x86_64 under Rosetta as it'll support some AVX translation if I remember correctly.

* I didn't see use of Apple's accelerate framework. To comply with ARM64 additional custom Apple magic is within Private extensions / ops that should use higher level frameworks such as Accelerate
Setup Simple Workflow to Write Node TypeScript Application in Live Reload
At 72k it would be ~13% fed (and also much lower in any state I can think of).
Luck is a big factor. I've gotten offers where I feel I shouldn't have, and I've gotten rejections that I feel I shouldn't have.

The thing is, you can adjust luck to be in your favor. While certainly nowhere near 100%, if you feel you're being paid below market, becoming a master at leetcode will probably help you tremendously in increasing your compensation whether it be at a FAANG company or some other company that will still give you a raise.
Here's what indisputable: If you gift money to bondholders, bond prices will go up. If you gift money to food buyers, the price of food will go up.
There are reasons institutions are less willing to loan your average saver money in the same way as hedge funds.
> because the web is document-first: HTML and CSS were/are all built-around describing and styling textual content

They were built to display static textual content. Moreover, they were built to display static textual content on 90s-era computers in a single rendering pass. IIRC two-pass rendering didn't appear until some improvements around tables in early 2000s.

For that, yes, they are quire fast. Anything else? Nope.
that title entirely contradicts personal evidence working for the same company.
Assuming you make a baseline cut in terms of experience for the position, getting a job at a FAANG basically just boil down to a LOT of prep. Anyone can do it, if they can afford to spend 6-12 months prepping via leetcode and system design exercises.
This is covered in the blog post. There doesn't currently appear to be any rate limiting. And the rate limit would be tricky to implement because there are times when you need to catch up on the location of a device over a longer period of time. But yes Apple could limit to say 16 * 4 * 24 * 7 = 10752 requests per week.
Very nice! The nice thing about these kinds of notations is that they last. Simplicity is timeless. I can immediately grok exactly what you are doing here. :)
It’s important if your billing against a clients retainer or per an hourly contract. There’s also cases where some time might be able to count as part of the R&D tax credit.

We ask all of our employees and contractors to track time against tasks. Yes it can be a pain but it helps prevent people from spending way more time on a task than there was budget for.
Is it another attempt to "make programming easy"?. I keep wondering if it's even possible. Can everyone be code literate? or do you have to have an "algorithmic" (for lack of a better word) way of thinking? Is it something like woodworking class vs real carpentry?

Minecraft, for example, opened a door to system thinking to a lot of young people, but there's probably many more that just like the fun and not the understanding and craft, so maybe those people's brain already leaned towards it?

Right now we're in peak "Everyone should know how to code" but sometimes it seems like we keep chasing the golden goose - Visual Basic, Dreamweaver, Node based programming, Webflow etc.

Edit: forgot to add that the CEO has that confident delusional/visionary vibe so this certainly fits the bill. Time will tell which it is.
+1. Want energy-efficient, electric-based transportation? Electric trains between major routes, they could even be autonomous, or at least don't need a meat engineer on cockpit. Electric small trucks to carry from hubs to final destinations.
Why did you pick Toptal? From those numbers, their technical people are grossly underpaid. $85k/year for their Director of Engineering? That's laughable.
Unfortunately, it still says summer 2021.
This is great! I can see this saving me a lot of hours of hunting down the citations.

For other people in the academic research field, I would recommend Scite(https://scite.ai) which provides similar functionality.
This feels like a somewhat disingenuous promotion for the remote hunt website. Is it real or not?
cheugy
You’re Lucky They’re Only Asking for $15 an Hour
Oh man! An SPA for viewing pages!
$250/hr is a reasonable ballpark figure. Working as a contractor, providing own benefits. I've worked with a lot of people in this position. He should expect to pull about $300k/yr gross, which is about how a company is going to allocate costs for a full time employee. He needs to be setting aside money for retirement, paying for health insurance, paying all relevant taxes, compensating himself for his own expenditures such as laptop, and paying himself a comparable wage for the industry.
We're also talking about measurement after the fact.

"How many points did you spend on that story last week?" is not something anyone is going to accurately answer (and it doesn't mean anything, anyway).
Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service
For a contractor, where the employer is not paying half of the employment taxes, it's not too out of line.

And yes, as a DevOps developer a few years back, I was able to charge $120 an hour without an issue. My roughly desired pay per hour, times two to cover the un-billable, yet still required, work to be an independent contractor, and another 2x for taxes and health benefits.
I think the numbers on Glassdoor are representing actual Toptal employees, not their contractors.
In the Cambridge Analytica scandal, there was no direct payment to Facebook, just to an intermediary.

Without an obvious payment, but maybe with mutual consideration:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/faceb...
That's honestly one of the parts I'm most intrigued by. It would seem that he would owe income tax for the airdrop (not sure what the "price" for the airdrop would be though, and if it's anywhere near the current price, it would be absurd). Then, in theory he gets a tax writeoff for the transferred tokens, but given the percentage of the total supply, the charity is unlikely to get anywhere near that amount for it?

Also, presumably the charity is going to dump... all of these tokens on the market to get USD.
Serializing the user's session state to LocalStorage comes to mind as a reasonable solution. Comes with it's own caveats, of course (you now have a state versioning problem), but addresses all the points you bring up pretty adequately:

1. As long as their on the same device/browser, they lose zero data. This is a pretty reliable happy-path use case.

2. The only onslaught you'll deal with is simple pageviews since everything in the trial is stored client side, which also makes #3 no problem.
Before substantially modifying the language, make sure your parser can still load vanilla C header files with no new features.

This way if you accidentally create a new language, programmers will still be able to load existing C header files without having to manually write and maintain FFI bindings.
Ask HN: 3D Printer News and Questions
Got a 3d printer last week - Anycubic Mega X. I'm in love with it. From coffee cup holders to lamp shades to cable grips for my desk poor thing has been working basically 24 / 7 since I got it lol

1 - found thingiverse.com - amazing resource! Anything else like it?

2 - If you own one, how many do you own? Thinking about getting a 2nd one and using 1 for longer prints (15+ hours) and 1 for shorter prints (2 hours ish)

3 - Do any of you sell printed items on etsy? elsewhere? Need to make money from this investment! :) Ideally I don't want to print things from thingiverse.com and sell them (that sounds like steeling to me) but my own designs, why not?

4 - where else to go from here? Any benefit to printers with dual extruders? Any low cost of entry aluminum printers?

5 - any "hacker news" sites for 3d printing?
You can run the X server on your local linux with a modern monitor and run the X clients over the SSH from the Sun Ultra 1.

Or better yet, login right into it with your Linux X server.
When does "one institution investing in another become a bail out"? Also, why are "bail outs" bad at all?
Great and interesting work! The slowness of division operations is overlooked too often IMHO and is key to (my approach to) avoiding things like integer overflows (there may be a better way than dividing TYPE_MAX by one of the operands but I don't know an alternate technique). Pretty impressive if the M1 really can achieve two-clock-cycle division on a consistent basis.

May I offer a nitpicking correction? 1.058ns compared to 6.998ns is an 85% savings, not 88%. The listing you have suggests that going down to 1.058ns is a bigger speed-up than going down to 0.891ns.

(PS - Verizon's sale of Yahoo has been in the news lately so I thought of you and the other regulars of the Programming chat room the other day. Hope all is well.)
It works well! I remember being pleasantly surprised by this feature when I was searching for an unrelated document last time I logged in, and it found a bunch of images. I was like, wait, how did it know that...? It's a cool stealth feature.

Any chance Dropbox might want to add more DAMS-like features in the future, so that Dropbox can be used as a central image repository not just for photo originals but public websites, etc.? Kinda like Imgix or Cloudinary? I know our org already uses Dropbox to store asset originals, and it would be lovely to be able to hook in to a powerful API to serve it at different responsive sizes, formats, cropping, etc.
There were a few really interesting blog posts about the architecture choices for the xi editor a few years ago, ending with this

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.h...

But I personally never worked on this kind of problem, I just remember reading these over the years