skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$15/day for coffee at home is way too high. You can buy a pound of high-end coffee beans for that price. A good grinder, aeropress and kettle will cost you less than $200. That’ll easy beat the quality of corporate cafe coffee. Even at five cups a day, you’re looking at $4/day.
Capital gains taxes are accrued on disposal. Until you sell you owe nothing
which may even be technically true - if measured in quantitative terms :-)
Yes, agreed. I meant BR can't veto to hire for that team without HM being inclined.
The way I mostly deal with the open filepicker is just drag and drop a file in there. In Windows, this tries to copy the file to the location, which is an insane thing for a filepicker to do: in gtk, this just shows the file and selects it.

Most file managers have better facilities to find and manage files, so you can paste the path into it or use a command like `rox -s (paste)` to get the file you want. It also works if you drag and drop a folder in it to switch to the folder.

Improving the filepicker to make it work for everyone is a fool's errand. Much better off making it integrate with filemanagers adequately.

As for the systemd dependency, I think this is firmly a case where the only way to change their minds is to make the changes yourself, maintain a rebase fork[1] for several years, and show that the demand is there and the complexity is worth it. Considering the major Linux distributions default to systemd and it has a variety of features not included in traditional init, I can understand why they wouldn't want to do it unless it was proven to be valuable in advance.

[1] Do not give it a different name: it's just "the gnome fork that takes full advantage of systemd when it's present but does not require it". Do not increase or decrease its scope: no fixing filepickers or adding traditional menubars. Either of those will cause Gnome to say "It's a different product" rather than "it proves the demand for non-systemd" amongst gnome users.
The US market is much more accepting of this data collection by the Chinese.
That has nothing to do with the article, where the bug is in assignment from struct fields to function parameters, all typed.
There is no authoritative source of truth for the courts. When a property dispute goes before courts, they are allowed to look at many different forms of evidence and make a ruling based on that, even if said ruling disagrees with an official government database.
Only finite amount of integers like 10^91 (or so, number of protons in the universe) exist in this sense.
You sound like you're arguing from a point of insecurity or emotion rather than making a rational argument.

> Why would you not believe me if i told you i have feelings and affinities that cannot be measured or ranked and do not reflect a material interest? Why is it so hard to accept that not everybody lives through live the same way that soulless suit-heads do?

Why would you not believe that I have a long, committed, happy relationship today that I arrived at through consciously ranking and evaluating qualities of my current partner and other people that I met? Why is it so hard for you to accept that humans are inherently judging and comparing creatures? Why do you think that to just think about important life choices like a partner doesn't make you a "soulless suit-head"? If you want to live your life that way, go ahead.

The fact that you and even most people seem to let your subconscious steer you with important life decisions doesn't affect me. But I don't see why you have to indirectly call the other user names (psychopath, soulless suit-head) just because they do things differently than you. Are Indian and Chinese parents who perform arranged marriages also psychopaths or soulless suit-heads just because they choose matches for their children based on a variety of metrics? Does it make Chinese or Indian culture soulless or psychopathic since they've been doing this way before the "commodification of everything"?
The intersection of "HN readers" and "Wendover youtube subscribers" is surprisingly large.

I also suspect we also all watch Technology Connections, Techmoan, LGR, Map Men, HAI, and Periscope Films...
You're not wrong, but you are discussing this in community full of largely well paid professionals. The majority of is have the financial ability to live within walking/cycling distance of the office, even if we choose not to.
Fuel from carbon-capture or biofuels.
Looks like something they intend to do in the future, not necessarily the first prototype.
More details here :
https://blog.boomsupersonic.com/booms-principles-of-sustaina...
Aligning incentives would be so easy.

And yet profit sharing is so rare.
Quant or anything that's combo of CS and finance or biology.
Youtube playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6...
We Celebrate Because Achievement Is a Myth
Blitzstein is a good lecturer. I think I did this course back in the day.
It doesn't really matter. Schools should be educating. Often, politics is just the easiest way for bad teachers to get by -- all they have to do is repeat whatever is fashionable at the time.

It acts as a shield because, no matter how useless the teacher is as an educator, any criticism of them becomes political criticism.
Yeah I hope this debate is started soon. I think if a company offered 6 hour working days and private offices, it would be a whole different story.
> In fact, the top 1% paid 24.3% of all income tax. And the top 5% paid 40.6% of all income tax.

Those numbers aren't normalized btw. Americans in the top 1% net worth account for more than 30% of the total net worth of all Americans [1] [2]. 30% > 24.3% so it is slightly regressive from that standpoint.

But there's a bigger picture and that is, what do these rich people do with their money? Does it help people or not? Arguably Jeff Bezos hurts many people's lives (eliminating mom and pop stores, mistreating employees, etc.) while Elon Musk is probably overall helping people (space exploration, more transportation options).

My point is, all the Americans in the bottom X% have to provide something of value to others to maintain / increase their net worth. Many people (not all) at the top Y% are maintaining / increasing their net worth by pushing many people far below them slightly down.

[1] https://windfalldata.com/blog/what-it-takes-to-be-in-the-top...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/10/08/top-1-of-u...
I have serious doubts that SNL is culturally relevant enough in 2021 to trigger a rebranding exercise for this company.
> One thing to watch out for is that the molten salt tank doesn't rupture or leak

Yeah, from reading [0] this seems like to be a big thing to kill even CSP projects.

> Flourine based molten salts are quite corrosive.

Seems like they are going with "Molten Chloride Fast Reactor "[1] which I have no idea what kind of eutectic mixture will make this up (can't find anything besides marketing), maybe its something similar to what I was exploring back in early 2019 with various ionic chlorides with alkali earth metals [2].

[0] https://www.solarpaces.org/wp-content/uploads/Concentrating-...

[1] https://www.terrapower.com/our-work/molten-chloride-fast-rea...

[2] https://gist.github.com/cinquemb/015f8b0775db2381513f0e20186...
Curse NFT
I've been through this back and forth, the devil is in the details. I'm sure with enough customizations and configuration, a tiling window manager can do all of the following, but I just don't have the time or energy anymore, and Gnome does most of these well enough that it doesn't matter.

- Works well with 1, 2 or 3 screens as I hop around between desk, laptop, and home office

- Seemlessly allows me to share screen with Zoom, Teams, and Discord.

- Easily allows me to select microphone and speakers on the fly, and connect and disconnect bluetooth headphones.

- Modify network settings easily and quickly as I hop between wired and wireless networks.

I've found the best compromise to be Gnome with the MaterialShell, which gives me back the tiling I need without removing the ease-of-use from a full desktop environment.

https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell
> I don't know the answer, but it seems like a bit of a snowflake situation. I'm sure someone is out there is basically a psychopath who'll hire someone just to fire them, in order to protect their buddy. But it doesn't sound like a common pathology.

I generally agree with your comment, and the above is a great way of phrasing your point. However, I do think the above behavior is extremely common. There are tons of people out there who show great loyalty to friends, but not strangers. I personally know many people who have said that they will help cover up their friends' crimes, regardless of the severity of the crime. Taken one step further, there is no shortage of people who are extremely patriotic and loyal to their fellow countrymen, but completely callous to foreigners and immigrants.

If you want to pursue the psychopath angle, there is ample avenue there as well. Everyone has a handful of work-friends who they know will have their back. They will give them glowing feedback to upper management, references, and job referrals. Cultivating this inner circle of peers, is a fantastic way to grow your career. "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine."

I do agree with the overall point of your post. But I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss managerial pathologies or hire-to-fire practices.
I think I might have the complementary partial understanding to yours, so I'm interested in comparing notes.

I use containers quite often. In my mind, it's just like managing a physical server -- I'm responsible for configuration/patching/system upgrades/etc -- but with the significant upside that I obtain a (mostly) reproducible environment in which to run the software. This is the part I really can't live without anymore. I don't have to deal with builds from a colleague that don't work on my machine.

>How one is meant to know when a patch is required and how one applies it, what the "conventional" or "best practice" workflow for this is.

How do you do this without containers?
what if the terrorists broke up 1mil into 1000 $1000-transfers?
web-vitals is still there. What is it used for? https://github.com/erikmartinjordan/jsonmatic/blob/f926f197b...
If anyone takes the time to read the entire article (it's somewhat long), it's an uplifting feel-good story.

Worth the read.
> the rich have their own public school

> communist propaganda wards

I think you may not have an actually functional understanding of political theory.
Symbolism doesn't also necessarily need to exist.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

My complaint was (and still is 30 years later) is that an entire cottage industry seems to have arisen around finding hidden meanings.

Would we do that to television today? Does the cartoon "King of the Hill" contain hidden significance and deep moral lessons? Maybe. Or maybe it's just wit mostly designed to entertain.
Even if there are more than 4 components, they are still required to be sequentially ordered. Their decoder also errors out if there are more than 3 components (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27375596), so all you need to do is keep the IDs in an array of 3 entries and check that they match later. That's what the fragment of code I posted from my decoder does.
That trio is a tool-centric nerd solution.

ATP is a fully integrated product, both from a business (E3/E5/etc) and technical solution... for example for O365 mail security it's a much cleaner integration than an appliance solution.

Unlike Sysmon/ETW/WEF, the Microsoft rep can sell ATP with incentives during 1 EA cycle, and then sell the M365/E5 bundle with phone, etc in the next. Microsoft's superpower has always been smart bundling strategy.
The first one (or at least aspires to).
Good old Guardian. Always first with the hypocrisy. https://www.rt.com/uk/401323-guardian-newspaper-tax-avoidanc...
Yup, it’s easier to just look at total tax revenue as a percent of GDP.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rev...

It’s not perfect as not all taxes are borne by the individual, but it’s gives you a ball park.

Netherlands 39%

Switzerland 29%
Well, in that case I didn't learn much in high school, I avoided homework like the plague.
Boom's premise is that they can reduce the sonic booms to acceptable levels while making incremental progress on fuel and maintenance costs.

Airlines are likely expecting that business trips flying coach are going to radically diminish. Offering a super-premium fast flight for the remaining business travelers who must travel but have a reduced tolerance for it is a smart move.
Teams is already so slow and bloated. It’s damn near unusable even or fairly new hardware (eg surface 7 pro).

More encryption overhead is the last thing i need on that front
Then explain to me how I was rated LE six months into the job when half the time I was without a manager and without ever causing a Sev2 let alone a Sev1?
But if you sold a hundred notes saying "the bearer of this paper owns the Mona Lisa", they're going to lose value pretty quickly once people catch on. That seems more like the right metaphor to me.

I don't know about cloning an NFT, but creating an NFT is just putting a link, or hash etc, on a blockchain, isn't it? Or thereabouts. Anybody can do that, without owning the copyright. I think it's pretty well established that a link is not copyright infringement. I'm not sure about a hash, but I very much doubt it.
Nice! I had fun solving this problem in my head:

> I have two children. At least one of them is a boy born on Tuesday. What is the probability that both children are boys?

An interesting thing about this problem is the unspoken assumption of what happens in other counterfactual worlds. If the person always answers the question "is one of your kids a boy born on Tuesday?" then the problem is solvable. But if a different family history would've caused the person to answer a different question ("born on a Monday" instead of Tuesday), then the answer would depend on the person's algorithm. Eliezer gave a dramatized explanation here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ti3Z7eZtud32LhGZT/my-bayesia...

Further on this path, there are seemingly basic questions that cause disagreement among actual statisticians. For example, see the voltmeter story in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_principle:

> An engineer draws a random sample of electron tubes and measures their voltages. The measurements range from 75 to 99 Volts. A statistician computes the sample mean and a confidence interval for the true mean. Later the statistician discovers that the voltmeter reads only as far as 100 Volts, so technically, the population appears to be "censored". If the statistician is orthodox this necessitates a new analysis. However, the engineer says he has another meter reading to 1000 Volts, which he would have used if any voltage had been over 100. This is a relief to the statistician, because it means the population was effectively uncensored after all. But later, the statistician ascertains that the second meter was not working at the time of the measurements. The engineer informs the statistician that he would not have held up the original measurements until the second meter was fixed, and the statistician informs him that new measurements are required. The engineer is astounded: "Next you'll be asking about my oscilloscope!"
Python 2.7 is not getting any security/crypto updates backported.

There are several projects out there that are supporting python 2.7 with security updates. Tauthon is probably the biggest one.
Pretty stock response:

- Identify the characteristics of the attack.

- Block as much as possible, as far forward as possible.

- Cache as much as possible to minimize load.

- Scale the parts of the backend that are the bottlenecks.

Of course it was a lot more exciting than that during the actual event. :)

DDOS attacks for ransoms are a part of life in crypto, so this wasn't our first time dealing with things. We also load test copies of our sites in peacetime until they break in fun ways, to know what and where the failure modes are.
My thoughts exactly. Surely they won't let you reverse that would be just silly.
They claim the new Rolls Royce engines will run on biofuel.

It's left as an exercise for the reader to figure out how to make biofuels net zero.
Oh, you mean other people maintaining Python 2 for you is being taken away.

You can maintain Python 2 yourself just fine, though, if you like.
How does that "actively take away from people the option to maintain Python 2 indefinitely"?

It appears to only take away from people the option to use the unmaintained Python 2.
Ok, but bring it back to this article. It is marshaling typed struct fields to typed parameters, but because the types are all primitive, the author entered them backwards and the language platform didn’t notice. The type system can prevent this flaw.
IIRC it included a JIT compiler, which was fast enough to offset the overhead of fine-granularity locking.
Entrepreneur Raised $68M to Power the Future of Streaming Video
Wow, that’s a pretty big boost in credibility if the terms of the deal are firm. As far as I know XB-1 is still preparing for its first test flight. So my assumption is that this deal is a commitment to buy if (and that’s a big IF), Overture actually comes into existence with adequate specs. Hopefully there’s some immediate money in the deal as well.
https://youtu.be/kraWrYS6CsE
Sorry I should have clarified, I meant "closed" as in "virtual". Which for a lot of families is effectively "closed" given how school is such a focus for social services and social/emotional learning.
Makes you wonder when we'll get back to the point they have their own militaries
I hate to say it because I love it, but GitLab.

When I'm on a repository, the sidebar has 5 items that I don't use and cannot remove (Github in comparison lets me hide almost anything I don't use: discussions, issues, wiki...).

Issues are bloated and nothing can be hidden: designs, linked issues, votes, comments, right sidebar with todo, assignees, time tracking, due date, labels, weight (even though the feature is "locked"), confidentiality, status and references.

That's true on every single page on Gitlab: tons of great stuff hidden between things that I don't use.

I love that Gitlab has so many features, but I hate that I cannot cherry pick what I actually use to cleanup the UI.
No need to cook the books if the government already gave you everything that you'd otherwise have to lie to obtain!
Terrible, terrible name..
> Ultimately there is no proper justification for any tax, except its necessity to let society fonction properly.

But a tax law should adhere to the same standard of quality as other sections of the law. Under the rule of law I -- for one -- expect tax laws at least not to be arbitrary. Just the fact there is money on the table does not entitle the society to grab it.
I am not an American, nor live in the USA anymore, but this comment made me sad.

That the first thought of public school issues is not writing to your representatives and voting for better schooling of future generations; instead, to isolate your children's education.

As a Frenchman, I noticed this feeling from USA citizens that the government is against you and there is nothing you can do about it. It was pernicious.
It’s not that different from regular Linux distros. A container built from a distro base image (like Debian or alpine in the first part of this article) is just a packaged version of that distro + your app. Distro maintainers apply patches to software in their repositories and its your responsibility to update your system or image.

What this article gets wrong is that it builds from a Debian base image without first performing apt-update && apt-upgrade. It’s similar to running a vulnerability scanner on a fresh install (with apply updates during install unchecked).
Similarly, one of the most suprising things for me was that complex numbers are built into the language (no imports at all).
Despite these problems, Concorde managed to fly for a long time... on the routes that they managed to fly.

The reasons that they stopped flying were different. It cost a lot, and was a lot more cramped than first class or private... the competition. Meanwhile, the time you spend in airports diluted the time you save by flying faster. If these could fly from LCA to a similarly small US port, speed makes a lot more sense.

That said, this will probably fail. Most air travel stuff fails. I'm hoping it won't. Progress is fun.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed:
Revised Edition, Diamond

Interesting overview
Not even then - nobody likes to return to a very cold home after a day at the office. It'll take advances in insulation to become much more widespread before a meaningful amount of people starts shutting off heating when away. That means first tearing down and rebuilding a lot of buildings, because you can't just bolt this kind of insulation tech onto an old construction.
>More importantly, fuck anyone who wants to direct my budget!

Is your budget going at all to maintaining Python 2 or the ancient Django you use? I'm gonna guess not.
afavour (via Benedict Evans) c. 2005

- No charging network, can't drive away from home

- Battery tech not there, no realistic range

- Too expensive, no one will pay that much for a car they can't drive anywhere

- Everyone wants an SUV or an affordable sedan, not some niche vehicle. Who's going go buy it?

Which ones has Tesla solved?

Moving an industry takes time. Will Boom do it? Who knows. But this line of thinking is kind of short sighted and defeatist, don't you think?
The parent you responded to is suggesting that hard-shutdowns at a certain time are a way to help prevent that. Shut it down at a set time and don't turn it back on until later.

You won't be as tempted to just pop in for a few minutes of work here or there to respond to some chats or emails.
> I think becomes difficult to argue and render this question invalid if we fail to quantify a problem.

It is difficult. It's probably the central difficulty of UIs on the web. However what I said is still true: The quantification inherently rests on users' perception of their experience. This is more a question of psychology than of computer science.

What percentage of your users feel that the app is too slow or confusing? What percentage would you be okay with? If you're selling some kind of enterprise software whose users will not be the buyers but rather the buyers' employees, who cares if it takes 30 seconds to load every page and another 30 seconds to find the widget you need once it's loaded?

The definition of "too bloated" is a function of both how users feel and also how much value you get from reducing it, and the measurement of "bloated-ness" (as well as many other parameters of UX) can't happen without getting feedback from users, which means there's a pretty strict limit to how much we can understand just from discussing theory.

And just to further complicate things: If I'm making a richly featured web app (something like Slack for example) I have a predefined set of features that will need to be implemented using javascript. Obviously there are many parameters that determine how well these are designed and implemented and optimized, all of which will affect how the users perceive the app as a whole. However, what about users (say, some plurality of HN readers) who intrinsically value websites which function without javascript, and will always consider those that don't to be bloated; What use is it to quantify that if it's always going to run up against my stated goal of building a chat app in the browser?
I don't know about "accepting," but China has some very strict "real identity" rules and laws when it comes to accessing just about anything connected to the internet. It is authoritarian.