skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "An experiment began when a subject was shown the code “41234” on a screen and asked to type it out as many times as possible for 10 seconds and then take a 10 second break. Subjects were asked to repeat this cycle of alternating practice and rest sessions a total of 35 times."

I was hoping this would be about taking a few days or weeks off from whatever you are learning and have that break strengthen that skill. It's worked for me for several things in the past when I get bored or burnt out. When I get back to the task after about a week or so, I instantly understand the task I was learning. Also, some things that weren't clear before suddenly make sense.
Yea, the Ohio Republican Party has rewarded DeWine's reasonable approach to the pandemic by his party threatening to impeach him (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/republican-ohio-gov-dew...) strip him of his executive power (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/ohio-republicans-...)
and their leader, trump, has called for him to be challenged in a primary (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/11/16/trump...).

His great crime was that he listened to a medical doctor, implemented pretty reasonable common-sense strategies, and for a while did a pretty good job keeping Ohio's pandemic rates low.
The uPlot change is amazing. The canvas based stuff seems so fast.
Overall this is a great criticism of the dubious assumptions in the ProPublica piece, but this part is over-the-top:

> But imagine that we forced lots of people to sell shares every April to pay for their gains. There’d be more sellers than buyers as everyone raced to raise cash, and prices would go down, and our collective wealth with it. No one really wants this. (To the degree that anyone wants it, it would be the rich — as they have the collective borrowing power to buy back shares on the cheap while poorer folks can’t.)

Such a scheme shouldn’t introduce an imbalance: with how liquid and efficient the stock market is, these exchanges would be known about well in advance and easy profits would be arbitraged away. It’s like saying that stocks of hot dog makers peak near the Fourth of July.

Now, this is a valid concern for illiquid assets, but:

1) The previous paragraph makes clear the argument refers to the stock market, and

2) It’s not fair to compare the most naive, reckless way of assessing a wealth tax, which forces such sales of hard to value assets.
I am not rich by any means, nor do I own a house/car/stocks etc. And I have a severe dislike for Bezos, Buffet, Bill Gates and other CEOs (I do like Elon though as he seems to be one of the few ceos who’s actually heavily involved with his products). I also hate the massive influence big tech and massive corporations have over politicians.

But I really don’t see the fascination of people with “we need to tax the rich more”. For what? To give even more money to the already bloated and corrupt government? The government has plenty of money and yet it’s not used to achieve anything positive. Places like Chicago, Baltimore get crazy amounts of money for decades but the lives of Americans living there hasn’t improved and kids are worse off today education wise. San Fran and LA have crazy taxes and yet have the worst homelessness crisis and defecation on the streets. What we should be talking about is taxing people less and getting rid of the massive bloat and corruption in the government. Getting rid of the lobbying power corporations have over Washington. Getting rid of insider trading being legal for congress and senate. Making any big tech with over a million users in the US into public utilities. Looking into how to make the military spending more efficient, stopping forever wars and cutting down on private contractors. Forcing universities to co-sign the student loans and use a percentage of the salary of the said student after graduation to pay back.

Taxing the rich just for the sake of it while the government gets to eat it all without any improvement in lives is silly.

I would recommend watching the first 4 minutes of this Walmart vs Morons podcast:

https://youtu.be/oKFdAOKq4Lk
They borrow money using their assets as collateral
Google is more effectively constrained than, say, the US federal government.
Yes, in many greenhouses CO2 is added to the atmosphere. But 10% faster plant growth does not compensate for thay fact that we reduced forest cover in uk to like 12%
I think an alternative would be an economy where most people own some piece of the economic whole. For example through worker cooperatives as Richard Wolff advocates. Then everyone can share in the wealth of a healthy economy.
The titles are matching for me.
AMD 3D Stacks SRAM Bumplessly – WikiChip Fuse
Cool idea! Shouldn't this work also by concatenating the single document (you want to classify) with the compressed version of the conc. class corpus (saving compute time)?
> However, evidence before the committee suggests that senior American officials were unconcerned about the situation because the billions were not US taxpayers' money. Paul Bremer, the head of the CPA, reminded the committee that "the subject of today's hearing is the CPA's use and accounting for funds belonging to the Iraqi people held in the so-called Development Fund for Iraq. These are not appropriated American funds. They are Iraqi funds. I believe the CPA discharged its responsibilities to manage these Iraqi funds on behalf of the Iraqi people."

You left out something pretty damn important, it was Iraqi money to begin with. Maybe they requested large pallets of cash, it shouldn’t matter since it’s their (Iraq’s) money!

I don’t doubt the government has had a hand in shady stuff (US history from 1946-now in particular proves this), but this isn’t what it seems. We didn’t just break off $12B of US treasury money and send it off to Iraq with no oversight.

> EDIT: like Iran-Contra, I'm pretty sure in the future movies are going to be made about these $100 bills.

I highly doubt it, unless it is what Iraq did with its own money after they received it from the Fed, what would the movie be about even? Iraq requests it’s money and receives it is a pretty boring plot
Here's ProPublica's article, which I think would is much more informative and interesting, and includes a lot of research:

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...

And here's the NY Times coverage of it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/us/politics/income-taxes-...
Police can access Ring footage without a warrant
The main problem is that they had a failover system, the mystery is where was it in this outage?

Why didn't this trigger? where was this system in place to prevent further cascading failures?

> Blame the companies that relied on Fastly

So it's everybody's fault Fastly went down now? That is a new one.
The title matches the article's title. If you want it changed suggest a replacement.
Can't speak to this library but in general Perl stands out as being extremely performant, if that is the goalpost you want to go with.
The Pomodoro method jumps to mind.

But I’m with you - if the work at hand isn’t stimulating, any break will take a long while to “recover” from.
Those cities sound familiar from high school geography. We were told that Pittsburgh was the city with the world second largest Croatian population. Not sure when that would have been true but cool nonetheless.
Though it still happens a few times for these expensive drugs.

https://smanewstoday.com/news-posts/2021/04/26/danish-family...
Why not? Isn't that the whole point of satirical fiction?
Why are we using wealth as the metric for what's a "fair share?" In terms of competing with everyone else for purchase of scarce goods and services, income is what matters.
The revolt against ambition started out well, but quickly petered out, failing to meet its goal...
Which article and author are you referring to? The Substack ... er ... rant, or ProPublica's piece it's responding to?

(Qualify your pronouns and referants, peeps.)
Bullshit. Delivering power and water are incredibly complex. Water has to be sourced from God knows where, you have to do planning on building reservoirs. You have to manage run off (hey, your horses can't keep shitting near that stream!). You have to treat the water and manage it's acidity. You have to keep mains running. If a leak springs and the system goes under pressure, the whole supply can become contaminated! So now you have to notify your users that they need to BOIL THEIR WATER! you have to detect leaks in the last mile of delivery so that you can protect the system. You have to keep your pumps from getting flooded. You have to manage subsidy programs and different user classes. You have to integrate with federal and state water authorities.

Utilities are complicated. There's no such thing as delivering and not failing to deliver.
What a silly straw man. Engineers may not be fungible but funding is.
so lazy/terrible developers were using random tools online and not noticing injected spam links into their pages. Whatever man, you're getting beat because of it, better find a new strategy. There's tons of link spam and stuff out there but google's results are still good for real content for the most part if you build it up
Other than digital forms?

The printer at work, which is free and convenient if you work in an office.

Or the one at the local copy shop, which is 10c a page. I probably spend ~$1/year printing out forms, there aren’t that many left…
... and then have to pay interest on top of the taxes for whatever they realize to pay it back (and the eventual “legit” realization)?
I can think of a number of ways to do that that preserve privacy far better than real-time reporting of power usage.
I agree. Trolling / inflammatory language in titles should be changed, per the guidelines (and I think it's a good idea).

The whole thing is yet another Internet rant.
Yes, and that's why printer-scanner combos are called multimalfunction devices. Extra demerit points are accorded for scanning to email or CIFS share.
What I like about modern Fortran is that it has array operations and it executes loops fast. You have flexibility in writing a performant program. A language where loops are very slow is a straitjacket.
It would be nice to have a comparison to non-US costs.

I know the medication I take costs 5-6k a month in the US (without insurance) but I am able to get it for 700-2k in everywhere else.

I suppose it's about what you'd like to highlight.
Sounds horrible. I don't want people outside of my tech circle knowing how much money I make.

I like my privacy. Having people know I make over $x00k a year would invite all sorts of bad things.
mental burnout is a thing. The best way to take breaks ... Is to take breaks! :D

Benefits of taking breaks are many. Such as getting up and moving, increasing blood circulation. Also relieving eye strain by focusing on far away things, rather than your close-up monitor.
Perhaps we are having some miscommunication here. I don't know if the original poster was making a precise statement when they said "hundreds and hundreds of hours" anyway.

>Could you provide a reference to these studies or accounts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYZvMByRjU&list=PLT9cfjU1yk...

I haven't watched any of these videos in a while so I don't remember which ones are good, and it's a lot to go through, sorry about that. But there are some accounts here of people who have followed "mostly-input" style methods. I don't think any of them are 100% passive input though, and I'm not sure anybody argued that is the best way to do it.

I also seem to remember a study I found recently on whether uncomprehensible input works for language acquisition with very interesting results, but I cannot find it right now.

>spending 7,000 hours of passive "experiencing" would be a hugely inefficient way to learn a language

The efficiency really depends on if it's something you want to do or not, but I don't know if anybody is doing a full 12 hours a day (maybe some super hardcore people). I believe it's closer to 6, maybe 8 hours if you're very serious about it and have the time.

>learning anything requires some effort/active practice

Yes, you need to actually try to understand what you're listening to at least part of the time, maybe most of the time, which means you need to be actually interested in the content, otherwise you will get bored quickly. But passive listening while you are doing other things definitely helps in combination with active study.

I'm not sure if we're using "passive" in the same way though. Actively focusing on, and trying to understand what you are listening to isn't what I'd call passive.
Which .env fits better, exactly?
uMatrix developer moved on to primarily work on uBlock Origin. It is a good successor.

I think some people do not like UBo because by default it is a little light on blocking so most websites just work. Well, you can configure it to block more things, and if you use uMatrix you already are willing to deal with the pain of this process.
To answer the question directly by typing out all the little choices I make, I'd probably be still typing tomorrow morning. The problem is that I'm quite certain that my emissions still above half anyone else's (where 1/10th would be sustainable, so "not even 1/2"...), since I also try not to live like a hermit despite caring a lot. Basically you could say I'm doing nothing effective... :/

The biggest thing I'm doing at the moment is thinking how to improve this. My next career move should be to a company that reduces CO2 emissions. As a last resort, I'd invest some capital in a startup that does what I can't (I'm not a physicist or chemist that can make methane-free cows or work on GMO crops or improve solar panels' efficiency).

The company I currently work for is very small and we don't have any processes that are a significant contributor to global warming (we hardly travel, don't construct buildings, use considerable amounts of steel, those sorts of things), and my colleagues are already doing more than what one can expect from the average person anyway (both in business and privately) so not much influence I can have there. As a security consultancy, it's also not as if we've got the expertise to help other companies reduce theirs. I'm not sure this is what I want to do forever because while it doesn't hurt, it doesn't really help either.

Suggestions here would be very welcome if anyone else struggled with this kind of life choice.
Yep, medicine is incredible. The cost of medication is still a massive issue in the world, though.
Thanks for all the answers. I learned so much!
You don’t even need a library. Modifying a CSS variable is as easy as:

myElement.style.setProperty('--my-custom-property', 'some-value');
Would you care to elaborate on that logic chain?
Annual periodicity of CO2 is due to seasonal drawdown of C by greening-up plants in the Northern Hemisphere.
> Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform

Never heard of it before, but it looks very good and has a healthy community of large corporate users.
No you can’t. They don’t know if you have generation or battery capabilities, even if they detect generation capabilities they don’t know how much.

With that in mind what could they “infer”?

I go weeks without triggering a single bit of usage on my meter. I bet you they aren’t thinking: this guy is mining heaps of crypto.
1) Google isn't carrying anything. It's your ISP that's actually carrying the bits to your house/work/phone/implants.
2) What google search is providing is literally content that they've created. I really don't see how this suit won't get dismissed on first amendment grounds.
That's a good thing right?

right?
Yes, thats what happens when you ignore the problem for 70 years, chickens come home to rootlst
If your vote is as powerful as you claim, then explain to me how the wealth disparity has increased over time, and that most politicians weren't complicit in that process. Your politician allies are not your allies. Do you think it is difficult to lie to constituents and double-deal, especially when all of your peers are doing the same?
This very depressing number should be on the mast-head of every news paper/web along side the covid statistics. One good thing about covid was a distraction from climate depression.
That then would create the ‘perverse’ incentive for poorer people who are dying of major diseases to sign up for any and all trials possible to lock in prices, regardless of relevance, and make things much, much worse for themselves due to misuse. Richer people would not do that since they can pay the full price without locking the old price in, so this risks converting the sick and poor people already battered by life into lab rats.

If you instead don’t enforce the requirement to actually take the drugs to lock in the price, then everyone signs up for everything and your drug companies will stop making any new drugs.
I think that is what is being suggested in the other comment. One would have to try! My instincts tell me the results would not be identical.
Does anyone know if the alpha builds will work with react native? I'm really hoping so because the flickering between transitions when using latest relay is super annoying to get around.
That's old news but it doesn't make it any more right... It's probably the largest spying network in the world...
Ah, that must be the issue. I'm using Edge on Linux (I know, it's weird).

I'll go ahead and file an issue for it now :-)
It's not necessarily that they're declaring no income, it's that their income is entirely composed of long term capital gains which are taxed at a lower rate than standard income tax.
yep, I'll give Eleventy some praise. As they mention 'unobtrusive and transparent' it's so lightweight and adaptable and great for workflow without being so insane over the top like any of those React 'site builders' which all seem more like building giant PWAs instead of a site of content etc.
The way I understand it, Warp is just a VPN without the double proxy setup of Private Relay. Is there any commercial service similar to Private Relay? Tor is not great for day to day usage but a Tor Lite could be good enough for most people.
First Carbon Offset Provider to Enable Funding Offsets with Cryptocurrency
FWIW, I've used Firefox on a daily basis for years, and I have no complaints about desktop Firefox. (Firefox Android does leave some things to be desired, but also functions just fine as a web browser.)
That is a trade off that consumers should have the ability to evaluate and decide for themselves.
From TFA:

> But even there either the heirs are withdrawing money to spend or they aren’t. If they are, it gets taxed.

Under current US tax law, the heirs are inheriting the assets on a "stepped-up" value basis, i.e., any gains realized BEFORE they inherited the assets are NEVER taxed.

The fact that this detail is not mentioned once in the article means that the author either is not as knowledgeable about finance as they present themselves, or they are, themselves, trying to sell a "BS Tax Story".
So sounds like Australian smart meter companies are better at security than British ones.

The energy usage tracking can be done without smart meters, in this country electricity companies (and lots of private companies) offered induction clamp based electrical usage logging devices. These may not have been quite as accurate as onboard measuring but this could have easily been solved with some kind of serial protocol exposed on the meter which a third party datalogger could attach to. The ability to track energy usage is not a feature of a smart meter, it's just a feature of having access to the meter's data, this data could always have been made available even if the meter wasn't networked.

Open banking is a complete disaster that I seriously don't think deserves the name "open". I still don't understand how an API which requires you to be a BANK to be able to interact with can remotely claim to be open but having tested some of the implementation for banks it's some horrific over-engineered mess.

Let's hope the data access API for your meter doesn't require you to be an electricity company to access it. As it stands, in the UK, meters are not intercompatible between utility companies so if you switch providers (which I do annually) the old smart meter just becomes a dumb meter again.
MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH is 250MB. You won’t be able to send 4GB of data.
Driverless cars to driverless printing .. Oh my how far have we fallen.
Except we don't really have politicians anymore - just parties. Politicians vote in unison now more than ever. So even if the voters of the state are pretty evenly split politically - whichever party is in power of the state is pretty much all that matters.
When does a loan "function like income"?

What happens when they pay the loan back?

Does the lender get a deduction?

> But if they’re reporting 80k income but spending 10M, maybe they should be paying their fair share on that.

A tax on spending (i.e. a sales tax) is a much more efficient means to achieve this.
And why not :)

People have different preferences for what they like to work on, but you seem to be implying the weather app engineers are incapable of doing that work. Like they're some kind of lower caste that must be kept away from working on security mitigations for filesystem drivers.

I don't believe there's some category of human that's capable of shipping Windows 10 feature apps, and only that. People can move internally! People can leave and other people can be hired. It's all priorities and task allocation.

The impression I get (and please correct me) is not really that there's an oversupply of news feed app builders on the market, but that the Windows team at Microsoft has been shifting to more user-facing features rather than internal deep kernel work.
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