skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"merit does not have a high degree of subjectivity and bias associated with it."

really? how does that explain the tendency for white men to fail upwards while women and minorities face a higher standard once hired?
I'm fine with this statement, just wanted clarity. : )
I often find these to be worse. Audio quality for boom mics is unnatural and often very cheap and on the odd occasion you can hear heavy breathing the whole time.
Ah so that’s the sort of inconsiderate stuff I was saying I havent personally seen, but I guess it does exist here after all. So if there are people playing with something a dog might consider a “toy” (a frisbee, football etc) or having a picnic everyone I know would leash their dog unless they’re the type who are totally not into these things (some dogs are enamoured with their owners and just are not interested in the outside world). Mine wouldn’t bother anyone, he’s too interested in his own frisbee, but I do it as its just a good idea anyway

I’ve had a couple of friends who were afraid like you, where I would not bring my dog (a Vizsla - Quite energetic and very into people, so not a good idea to take him if I want those friends to feel comfortable). They started to come round to dogs generally after hanging out with friends that have smaller more docile breeds. Eventually they felt more comfortable and after shorter interactions with mine they got familiar with how the dog behaves, what motivates them, what they understand etc and slowly figure out that most are similar. So I’m not sure this is helpful, but that’s been my experience.
Or a desk lamp pointed at the wall behind your laptop if you’re at a desk.
I'm a birder, so some extra info...

On dogs, training and leashes only matter a little. The problem is birds immediately identify a dog as a dangerous predator. They are far less bothered by humans.

Birds pay more attention that we might realize. They identify potential threats from much farther away that we do. This leads to them being disturbed even when the casual rule-breaking dog walker thinks "I'm not doing anything wrong."

I'm extremely surprised so many birds abandoned their nests permanently. I would have expected only the closest nests to be abandoned.

Some people rely on their drones to tell them when they are in a no-fly zone. Terrible idea. Once at Hayward Regional Shoreline, I had to tell a guy that he was potentially creating a problem. I told him the two locations where endangered species can be found and that he should avoid -- and also that he was definitely within the limits of Hayward Regional Airport. He was both contrite and horrified that his drone didn't tell him.

They other issue is boundary-pushing. Literally. Give people a space, and many people will act like selfish toddlers and push the boundaries. Sunnyvale Baylands allows drones and it's a great space for them. There is a clearly marked fence they must not go beyond. So of course people constantly violate the fence. The fence is to a marshland with endangered species. Drones can fail, and a drone that falls into the marsh is not retrievable and then what happens to the toxins in the battery?
If you can deduct work-related expenses, income tax is a tax on "profit".
One thing to keep in mind is the non-monetary side of taxes: they are used to influence behavior. Offering employee benefits (healthcare, retirement, etc.) is incentivized by US tax code thus influencing more companies to do so.

I'm not saying that corporate behavior becomes uninfluencable when profit taxation is removed, but rather that it will require a different incentive mechanism. That is assuming that we still want to influence corporate behavior through government without legislating it.
Yesterday I had a candidate late for her interview (senior tech recruiter position). What happened next was absurd: she joined from her phone, in her bra. A moment later her partner was running in the background naked. She realized the situation and in panic turned off the video and then (like in comedy movies) faked her wifi was breaking and was faking her voice as if she was in a tunnel. Then she just quit the call and I haven’t heard back, no response to my email request to reschedule.

Not my weirdest experience, but the lack of professionalism for such a serious role just caught me off guard.
Great! Now we all pay more! Taxes come from somewhere.
Interesting that it mentions the book "High Performance Browser Networking". My feeling after reading it was that latency is all that matters, not page size.
> it's just part of learning to not be a spoiled brat that gets everything their way.

I don't understand the idea that not wanting to eat food you hate makes you a "spoiled brat". Adults aren't expected to eat food they hate, and they don't. It's one of the few things kids are forced to do that has no analog in the adult world. This isn't the same thing as teaching a kid how to wake up early or do chores. Eating food you hate isn't like, a necessary life skill.

If a kid is a picky eater, you're usually not cooking up an elaborate meal for them - you throw a hot dog in the microwave or pour them a bowl of cereal. That seems easier than just about any other technique for dealing with a kid who doesn't want to eat "adult" food.

> I can't fathom how one would call this traumatic

It's not traumatic like a car crash, but pick a food that would make you vomit and imagine a person in authority and twice your size trying to force it down your throat. This happened to me in preschool, and it sucked. At home I was allowed to eat (or not eat) in peace.
Go does runtime instrumentation to detect data races, rather than compile time checks.
Love that book!
This sounds like a highly biased perspective of both R, and what it means for a language to be respectable.

If you define a language that "will expand your programming views" as one that can verify correctness easily then yeah, R is terrible at that. But so are many languages that are as flexible as R. Would you have the same opinion of FORTH? Or LISP? or TCL? I think these languages definitely count as "hacky" languages and yet they don't seem to draw the same derision as R (in my experience)
Yes, Actix today is much different than Actix from a couple years ago. All the unsafe, save a necessary few has been removed, and the architecture switched from an actor model, to a finagle/tower inspired service model.
Why aren't people looking at guanine-positron hole trapping for building quantum circuits? I mean they are super easy to construct and can readily trap potassium and calcium in close enough proximity to get spin coupling with electron resonance to a gold scaffold. Attach to a GeAu alloy and you might be able to tune the singlet-triplet state to omit the noise from the DNA scaffold allowing for scalable quantum dots, e.g. a quantum computer with trillions of qubits.
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It appears in the article:

'Bans on so-called ‘assault weapons’ are unconstitutional and cannot stand.”'
Israeli scientists extend mice's lives by 23%, say method may work on humans
> It’s not the same thing.

Coercing other countries to have the tax rates that you wish is the same thing
Thankfully, it is perfectly legal for a citizen to walk down the street in America without carrying any papers, so not having any papers does not prove anything.
This has been going on for a while now. Perhaps even more unsettling than the covid denier crazy taking guns to the people deciding about lockdowns is the fact that he's been gathering support from all over the far right. Many of his supporters are also in the army, making them an even bigger threat.
Q2 movement is similar but different enough to Q3, that's for sure. But... soft/squishy? I am not sure what you're getting at. Q2 seem to care a bit more about jump timing though. It just never felt right after the first Quake 3 betas hit.

Warsow/Warfork used to be largely Quake 2 based but never felt anything like it. Maybe Nexuis/Xonotic still do?
also, xah largely doesn’t know as much as he thinks he does.

it’s like, what if w3schools was also kinda creepy?
The timing of Facebook's decision almost immediately after the American president waded into it makes it almost impossible for me to interpret other than with the following reading. Now that the current American political leaders consider the idea legitimate, or presumably at least useful, you are permitted to discuss it in American media.
If it's a cheap phone, I'd rather them do something brute force but reliable than try and be clever when they know they don't have the budget to QA it.

I honestly consider that a pretty reasonable trade-off.
So smart and lucky!
communism is a totalitarian regime, just mentioned it as an examlpe
I switched to rust-analyzer and it made a huge difference. Have you tried it?
This kind of thing, whilst fun, is kinda dangerous. I'm not so sure what to make of it. I sniffed it out quickly because I have extensive experience with maths. Many people don't, because unlike me most people have social lives.

My dad still believes that the Sun makes the "Om" sound after seeing a post by some kind of Hindu nationalist on Twitter. I have told him many times, in the kindest way I can, that it's a load of rubbish. He still doesn't really believe me, mostly because the idea of the Sun making that sound is a pleasant idea that agrees with his world view.

Send this article to a hundred people and a lowball of seventy will take it as fact. Of that seventy, there will be a fraction who will believe it - or rather, internalise the notion of it - even despite being told that it is false.

In all fairness it's also very likely that I'm a just a nasty killjoy.
But phone call audio quality is terrible.
An empty Google Docs document (read-only) is 6.5MB, making 187 requests…
One way of looking at Rust is that it is kinda at the intersection of three different language families: {Ruby,Python,JavaScript} x {C,C++} x {OCaml, Haskell, Scala}

“Needs” is a bit strong but “may find some things familiar and therefore easier” is a common refrain.
I bet some forum account they're trying to de-anonymize posted a screenshot or link during that time.
From a capitalist devil’s advocate point of view: does it really matter that your website works poorly with 90% of the web when these 90% either don’t have any disposable income (there’s got to be a correlation) or are too distant geographically and culturally to ever bring you business? The “commercial quality” (i.e. to avoid looking worse than competition) web development has become unbelievably complicated and expensive, so in reality probably only individual enthusiasts and NCOs should care about the long tail. Local small businesses will just use some local site builder or social media, so even they don’t matter.
They're talking about going against the jetstream, so that doubling air velocity means more than doubling ground velocity. If the boom plane gets to miss the jet stream entirely that only improves the situation.
What's with the scare quotes on 'refugees'? There are a lot of obvious reasons to settle newly displaced refugees somewhere they can get reliable low-skill jobs without having to look far.
For the drama, I was talking about this: https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/21/rust_actix_web_framew...

I'm not passing any judgements, I just know that people were somewhat worried about the future of the project after its creator very publicly washed their hands of it. Sounds like it's still going, which is good to hear
> The biggest barrier to adoption, in my opinion, is that people are scared of learning Rust because it has a reputation as being difficult.

I would say the biggest barrier is developers not wanting to jump on yet another "this language will solve all your problems, trust me" train.

My experience in my 15 years in software, is that good developers solve problems, not languages or tools.
Page size becomes latency when your connection is slow.
> Probably the best solution is a minimum tax worldwide.

I saw a similar comment earlier this week. I don't understand why first world people think developing countries would agree to this minimum tax and not undercut them on day 1 to attract investments and jobs.

There are no global tax authorities. Nobody is going to enforce these things. Even this G7 treaty is going to be a mess in practice because multilateral treaties are flawed like that.
TBH I'm kind of frustrated with Swift's lack of dynamic dispatch options, so things like network models, network service interfaces and testing mocks need to be code generated, while in JVM and Objective-C land, you don't need to do the same.

Swift's Codable is doing code gen under the hood, so it also has a binary size and compile time cost.

Swift also doesn't scale that well with core size like many other languages do, so your compile time is not easily fixable with large thread ripper style workstations.

Do you have similar issues with golang and rust? At least golang was designed to be compiled fast.
Do you have a non-personal reply? Maybe with some substance or explanation?
Deduction means hiring people to do your deductions. Flat rate for everyone means less money spent on tax consultants.
Historically, what are actual pragmatic ways to bring lawmakers to justice when those lawmakers themselves have made it impossible to improve things by voting?
Not the OP, but I agree. Also, coming to Rust from a higher level language is very hard. Beginners who do so cannot understand why something like this:

fn foo() -> &str {
&String::from("foo")
}

Does not work. Whereas coming from C or C++, you will appreciate the safety guarantees the borrow checker is giving you.

Learning Rust coming from an OO background is also hard, as you have to adapt to the more functional approach of the Rust type system.
Go doesn’t offer the same sort of guarantees as Rust does, but the goroutine/channel model nudges you towards a safe style
Can you provide an example of an island that will be 'left alone'? Right now we have treaties extending the rights of countries to all the land, the seas and up in space. Even in international waters they are removing people who want to seastead there. There's truly nowhere to go because a global government expands itself until it fills the vessel.
I’m 100% fine with that perspective. However, I think it means taking away other “anthropomorphic” rights from the entity.

If you say: we’ll only collect taxes from the individuals that are paid by Microsoft, instead of taxing Microsoft, that’s fine by me. But, I would then say that Microsoft also doesn’t have free speech rights as a corporation, after all each individual in the corporation has free speech rights.

If we decide that a corporation *is* entitled to some rights granted to people (such as a right to free speech), then the corporation should also be subject to taxation, separately from all the individuals that compromise it.

I’m unwilling to give one without the other. If a company want rights, it should have obligations. If it has obligations, then the company should have rights.
Aren't Apple and Google phasing out extensions? The v3 manifest is taking some power away from extensions and both Google and Apple banned extensions on mobile devices so it seems like they are trying to get rid of them.

If they are serious about this then is this the first step towards extensions on mobile?
I think the days of developers caring about 16 KB of bandwidth savings for an image have long passed. Pages with GIFs for video content, photos saved as PNG, multiple megabytes of JS are the norm now.
I figured it was a chatroom or stream, given the narrow time range.
> But then it's highly unfair to tax humans on revenue, but corporations on profit.

Wow, it's a good thing we don't do that. Good news, the income you spend to further your business is deductible. We include a personal exemption for generic costs, child exemptions, mortgage exemptions, healthcare cost exemptions, retirement savings exemptions, and numerous others.

Additionally, the whole concept behind a progressive income tax is to tax people in a similar way to taxing them on profit. After all, percent of income spent on necessary goods goes down as income goes up.

But I don't think anyone wants a system where this is done by itemized receipts instead of with generalizations.
Thank you to all the heroic commenters here. Now I have a beautiful, concrete example of a "storm in a teacup".
While I enthusiastically retweeted it with a little nostrum on how funny people's interests are. Then read the comments, and then deleted the tweet.
You don't need the full theory of complex numbers. Start with a zero vector, then iterate doubling the angle, squaring the magnitude, and translating by the vector you're evaluating. It's not totally inconceivable that somebody could have come up with it by just messing around geometrically.

But yes, good instincts.
That and when you can’t pick up multiple packages of something, scan them and then bag them all at once. You have to complete each individual process before starting the next.

Painful for small items or when you have a helper.
People have all sorts of reasons to air dirty laundry; publicity, for one. Assuming you know the whole story based on the retelling of one side in a tweet is a mistake.
We do ban humans from certain spaces and limit humans behaviors and ability to travel without restriction or direct watch though.
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With a VAT each layer deducts the tax they pay. The net tax is only on the the value added. The company in the middle pays tax on $7 and collects tax on $8, and forwards the difference.

It's very elegant and fair, but imposes a lot of accounting. Sales tax is easier in that it only collects at the end, but it's actually hard to define "end". (Buy a screw and you pay tax, buy a manufacturer buying the same screw usually does not.)

There are still problems about regressive taxation (are stock profits value add? Services? Plain old labor? What's the difference? Usually poor people end up paying the taxes on everything while rich people buy things that aren't subject to the system). Still, if you want to tax profits on consumables, it's remarkably straightforward.
I would have said it was mor like ocaml.
Yes, and the guys in the article had fun, recovered their expensive phone - and got some fame - I originally replied to the comment who stated the whole thing would be nothing for him, simply because of the amount of time invested vs. his hourly wage. That sounds like a more money centered philosophy to me, but each to his own.
Yes I feel that proverb applies for Australian culture too. It’s all about superiority of the group over the individual and maintaining the silent rule of “this is normal, you’re a freak if you divert from that.”

That sounds like a pretty toxic workplace. Good thing you could escape it.
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Why should a corporation not pay taxes to support the infrastructure they use (which is paid for by taxpayers) to undertake their business. Amazon ship a lot of goods, that is a lot of road miles. I pay toward the upkeep of the roads and I get considerably less use out of them than Amazon do, in fact they are vital in order for Amazon to do business, so they should be willing to support it. The only reason they dont (support it) is because they are rich enough to argue with the government over it, and that argument is not due to ideological reasons, rather it is because arguing (in court) is cheaper than paying the taxes. So it is just because it is financially beneficial, even if the net effect is negative to society.
In the US, income based fines have questionable constitutional allowability. I fall on the "the seem constitutional" side, but some people apparently think it violates the 8th amendment.
Yes, but at least intelligible. Both Zoom and Hangouts suck and drop audio when the connection is bad. They are also seemingly excellent at dropping the most important words while keeping the most irrelevant words. :)

Clubhouse, which uses Agora for voice, actually does a much better job at this, it buffers the missed audio and then when the connection comes back, it continues playing the audio slightly faster (it uses some signal processing trickery to speed up voice without shifting the spectrum) until it catches up to the real-time stream, and avoids dropping any audio.

What I really want to see eventually, when we have the hardware to do it real-time, is sending minimal data (on the order of just text and a pose) and deepfaking the voice and video on the receiving end during short periods of bad connectivity.
The point is it would be so much more intuitive and friction free if it is part of native camera UI.

I didn't know about OBS. It sounds much complicated for me to explore that option.. https://streamshark.io/obs-guide/adding-webcam

I wanted a util which would have placed + and - overlay icon on top of the camera ui itself (or something of equivalent simplicity).
Looks nice. As someone unfamiliar with Make, can someone explain why YAML is a bad idea for something like this?

My favorite part (unironically) is how this is written in TypeScript. Easier for me to contribute features and fixes.
I really like the idea of server side rendering. Flask/Django style backend and use Jinja2 templates, sprinkle some vanilla JS for interaction if needed.

I wonder if it is safe to say vast majority of websites are simple enough to use the aforementioned pattern? There are so many "Doctors appointment" type dynamic websites that I don't think need anything like React or Angular.

I think React is great if you're building the next Notion or a web-based application such as Google Sheets.

Edit: Yeah, I am new to webdev and I find server side rendering "refreshing" :-)
Because of aerodynamics. The other day I saw an F-350 that was covered in smashed bugs.
https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.0/release-notes.html#Rework...
Actually I think both surveys are meaningless. The meaningful part is that the popular interest seems to affirm a repressed feeling that is extremely common.
Markdown is great and can be easily used and saved, but writing markdown needs learning. I want to help people who is not very familiar with markdown to use it.
Eagle populations have recovered enough to become a problem for colony-nesting species. Murres on the North American west coast are one example [0].

Walking, dog, and bicycle restrictions are normal in wildlife refuges that prioritize being a wildlife refuge ahead of recreational use. Humans walking can be interpreted as a potential predation threat. Bicycling has a tall, loping aspect that checks off more of the "predator" boxes than walking. Dogs are always identified as an irrefutable predation threat by wildlife, on or off leash.

Drones peering into a bird nursury are likely to get a pretty similar reaction from birds as if it was a human nursury, minus the adults calling police or coming after you themselves. If parents decide there's a problem, they will abandon the nursury.

[0] https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/eagles-and-murres
Such are the ethical pitfalls that we fall into when one species decides to domesticate and selectively breed another species for thousands of years. The subjugation is baked in already, literally in their DNA.
> In this case, the same court found that Cox was on the hook for the copyright infringement of its customers and upheld the jury verdict of $1 billion in damages—by far the largest amount ever awarded in a copyright case.

What a terrible decision. Was this jury composed entirely of corporate "persons"?