skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emacs Conf 2020 had this talk about using org-mode and org-roam by Noorah Alhasan who AFAIK identifies as a woman.

Org-mode and Org-Roam for Scholars and Researchers
https://emacsconf.org/2020/talks/17/
The “short” could be a problem depending on how short we’re talking. I’m working on thousands of files that can sometimes be only a few kilobytes or less. I wouldn’t expect to use it to speed the process of a single file, but if it could be used to hash a thousand or multiple thousands of files at a time it could offer one or more orders of magnitude of improvement for some use caes.
I was sitting in gridlock in LA traffic when I calculated how many hours a year I'd been doing that. I did the math in my head and figured I must be wrong. So I did it with a calculator when I got home. I was not wrong.

It was pretty close to a solid year in every 10 years because I spent as much or more time in traffic on the weekends.
Thousands Descend on Miami to Glorify Bitcoin
Yes we should discuss it. Nothing should be off limits to discussion, and additionally nothing should be above criticism or questioning.
I justify the second factor as having the 128-bit security key for the vault.

It's not that easy to install a 1Password vault onto a new device, so I'm okay with the 2FA codes getting stored in the same place as the passwords and sync between.

The realistic scenerio for my passwords leaking is target database exploitation or MITM attacks and not vault exploitation. The 2FA is still a rolling phrase that makes any capture of my password useless after about 1 minute, and not only that but I actually even get email notifications ('xx logged in from a new device') if someone uses my password but can't get past my 2FA. It feels very secure and I reject the dogma that 2FA means 2 separate physical devices.
Installing the Hi-Tech Z80 C Compiler for CP/M
That's what I'm asking too, how did they know? I get no answer.
The RTX 3060 in my machine is working well under Windows and Linux. It's a bit tricky to set up, but it's been super stable for me, with no crashes in the past few months.
Anonymous' Message for Elon Musk
Nations are sovereign they can do what they want. Short of going to war its hard to force a country todo something it does not want too. Although if you pull out of agreement don't expect the other country to continue following it.

Also there are other countries not part of this talk nothings stops a company from setting up there and doing the same tax games. So i dont see how this idea does anything
This isn’t a complicated scenario to research.

My own story is pretty basic. I don’t work for Apple, but the housing near my org is very expensive. Schools aren’t very good. To find the first public schools and safe neighborhood combo, that was 45 minute commute. That was years ago and jobs changed but family is still in same house.
From an future economic perspective Indonesia seems to have the most potential.

From a defensability perspective (from diego garcia), it wins there as well. Indonesian government has also sunk the most (Chinese) ships operating illegally in its waters so it's government seems most willing/able to assert its sovereignty in SEA (esp considering that these "fishing" boats are likely to be used in lieu of conventional naval forces in any conflict that could erupt initially).
Why do people expect stability from a currency that was designed to be unstable?

It's probably a bad idea to piss off tjat many criminals at once. Musk is becoming like a Batman.
Why is the presence of noise cancelling headsets considered a symptom of something being wrong?

Most often, I like to have a mix of time spent interacting with coworkers and time spent working “by myself”. I like to be accessible to coworkers and have coworkers accessible to me if I need their assistance, but I don’t necessarily want their full attention all the time, right?

I kinda expect the office to be a bustling place. Not loud and shouting all the time, but just a lot of activity of people discussing things.
How is it a huge step forward? Note that no prices are denominated in Bitcoin in this arrangement.
This is more about corporate activities leading to other kind of taxes. E.g. they pay rent, the landlord pays property tax, they pay salaries, employees pay income taxes, dividends are taxed, capital gains on stock price rises are taxed, etc...

The problem with corporate taxation is that...we really want R&D and employment to be tax deductible for them, but a company like Amazon can just plow all their profits into R&D and focus on growth (even without R&D tax credits, they would still take a loss on earnings due to R&D outlays). Of course, all of that R&D money is still mostly taxed (via tech worker income taxes), so its not like the government isn't seeing any of it. Corporate income taxes really come down hard on a successful company that doesn't have any avenue to grow...maybe they should?
I suspect the parent is coming at this from the MMT angle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

For states like the USA that print their own currency and enjoy tremendous global demand for their currency, taxes are less about revenue and more about controlling behavior and unemployment outcomes. Some argue that taxes are just a way to force demand for a currency the government has a monopoly on to ensure it always has _some_ value.

(Note: this is a rather polarizing theory and still somewhat young. The US Fed pulled off printing trillions last year and things haven't gone to hell yet do there's something there )
That sounds like an argument about "if one's time is worth less than minimum wage, one cannot find a job". And sure that is true for some people, but saying it benefits _only_ ... sounds like it is never good for any worker, which is way too strong a conclusion, because other situations exist.

For example: hiring one of two candidates, Nick and Joe, would be profitable under 30$ per hour. Nick asks for 15$, its Joe's first job so he's willing to take 10$, I go to Nick and say, "look Joe will do it for 10, so I really can't justify paying more, but I'd prefer to pay you those 10, since you're experienced". If Nick has a better offer elsewhere, he has no problem. If not, Nick gets just 10.

If the state says 15 is the minimum wage, not only Nick but also Joe must get 15, so my best move is to take Nick at 15. Clearly, a higher minimum wage _can_ benefit the worker, and not only the very weakest one.

Capitalism allows each participant to seek only the best available deal that is agreeable to them, sure, but availability is subject to negotiating power, and that is distributed very unevenly.
Rackspace actually did this. They didn’t do well as a company but their culture was pretty great for a long time.
You should unionize, then you can demand things. Like in this case, +20% salary for coming to office.

Or, like I previously suggested, make the commute salaried time. That should provide mostly sane incentives against wasting hours of everyone's time on the road.
I don't know if Yang's math checks out, but I think his proposal was $1000/mo and a 10% VAT. So the breakeven point would be $120k spending on taxable items/yr for an individual, or $240k spending/yr for a couple, with people below that coming out ahead and above coming out behind.

Where you draw the line for "middle class" is somewhat arbitrary - I think you could be middle class and still earn over $120k, especially in a high cost of living area - but probably most people who consider themselves middle class would fall under that. Especially because people who earn $120k are probably not spending $120k/yr once you factor in retirement contributions, income taxes, etc.

A relatively high-profile economist wrote positively about the UBI idea last year. [1]

Not that you couldn't make it more progressive. I think I've seen proposals for a progressive individual consumption tax, which would look something like a progressive income tax but then removing the limits for IRA contributions. The theory being you would put money you want to save in the non-taxable account, then you would only withdraw what you want to spend in a given year, which could be taxed at a progressive rate.

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mankiw/files/how_to_increa...
The author (as she admits herself) is in a pretty good situation - she has a very meaningful amount of stock options, a respectable salary, and she enjoys her job. Consider how much worse the situation gets when that last one isn't true. What if you're ready to leave, have an offer from another company that wants to double your salary, but have no way to keep your stock options? Or what if you're not ready to leave, but the company has decided that it's time for you to go? This happens frequently at rocketships, where an essential contributor when the company has 50 people may have a different skillset than that required when the company is 5000 people. Should employees lose their options if they need to leave a company before the IPO?
Well, for me more interesting to know is that did he work with JIRA laborers and had daily stand-ups where people stood like chump and offer roughly same status updates for last three years.
Iran
In Salvador silver would be easier and better.
> Taxing gas is a great example. Gas consumers emit carbon which has a cost for society.

This isn't even why gas is tax heavily in developed economies. First, gas taxes pay for roads. Second, the negative externality that Europe, at least, is trying to reduce is dependency on Middle Eastern oil, since that opens a huge can of worms with respect to world stability. If they really cared about air pollution, they wouldn't have pushed diesel so much.
I believe amazon's insurance expressly forbids commuting by small aircraft for employees. I know that's not like executive jet but...
I've heard of R.A. Lafferty and I must have read stuff by him, but I don't recollect any of it offhand. Except the "Camiroi" sound familiar.

"Lafferty’s books are his short stories stretched profoundly past breaking, which is perhaps why he thought of them as inferior"

I used to think a lot of classic SF authors more or less fell into this pattern. My impression is that short stories had neither prestige nor were paid decently, but the constraints of writing them made them the sharpest and most focused form.

I could make an almost endless list of authors who made more of an impression on me back when I read SF, like Jack Vance, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree (Alice Sheldon), Theodore Sturgeon...

Le Guin and Delany are writers who are celebrated, but never reached me the same way. Still, I would think I would remember reading something by them about Lafferty if they thought he was so great.
Hah, reminds me of InstaCharge.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/03/fiji-pm-endors...
QKD is snake oil. It rears its head once in a while. Wake me when quantum crypto provides authentication, on an end-to-end basis, and without having to use expensive kit. Until then, merely doing key exchange and encryption is not enough and is pointless because a) it's point-to-point rather than end-to-end, b) we already have superior classical technology that does authentication, key exchange, and encryption w/ integrity protection, all for very cheap and more than secure enough.
This is quite common in the product world. Even before the internet we had "as seen on TV" where people would go to extreme lengths to get their product mentioned either on some magazine show or, failing that, just an informercial. They then have a circular reference which can be used to gain legitimacy when trying to get covered in a more prestigious publication.
Yep. Why would Facebook not want to outsource fact-checking to a truly non-partisan entity led by a diverse set of bi-partisan and prominent people if they didn’t want to manipulate the world for their political aims.

Why not entirely abstract themselves from fact checking to the best they can?

Why not offer extreme transparency to people when they are banned. The exact details along with a multi-stage appeals process?

Imagine getting a health department violation that shuts down your business without any details or ability to appeal it. This is the stuff North Korea is made of.

How our tech community does not see this is startling. We are so blinded by hate, fear, and political power that we have become accepting of an authoritarian and corrupt overlord.
The man who kidnapped a 727 and parachuted out
lol, anonymous is so cringeworthy.
Anyone know of something like this for Hugo?
In my technical drawing classes, I was taught that in three point perspective, lines that aren't parallel to the three vanishing axes are still straight, and you can in fact use that fact to construct additional vanishing points.

So for example, once you've established an axis-aligned cube, you can draw parallel lines across the diagonals of two opposite faces and they will meet at a new vanishing point, which you can use to construct more lines parallel to them, lying in that 45 degree plane.

It turns out that that vanishing point will lie on the line through the vanishing points that you used to define the cube axes, which is kind of interesting - each orientation of a plane in 3d space has a straight 'horizon' line in the drawing space, and parallel lines on those planes all vanish at a particular point on that horizon line.

I was specifically taught the diagonal projection technique particularly to transfer measurements throughout the perspective space - once you've established a diagonal baseline you can use it to transfer a length from one axis to another, which is great for doing things like counting out distances along an architectural facade to space windows. Laying out perspective-correct squares also turns out to be important for being able to correctly size ellipses for perspective-correct circles.

So I'm not sure where you got the idea that three-point-perspective as usually taught is a weird curved geometry. It's meant to be straight-line-preserving, which is precisely what makes it good for technical and architectural illustration. There's no such rule as 'don't get too close to your vanishing points' - it works just fine.
Photos of dried-up lakes and empty marinas show how bad the drought is in CA
Yes, for thousands of files of a few kilobytes each, GPU might be a good speedup. On a discrete card, a potential bottleneck is copying the files to device memory, but this might be a case where high end integrated graphics might perform well, as there's no need for staging buffers and the copy. But it's hard to know the real performance without trying it and measuring.
> There are plenty of other companies working on space exploration and electric vehicles you are just the only CEO who has gained a cult following through sh*tposting and trolling the world on social media.

Clearly Musk is neither famous nor admired just because of “trolling”. He’s famous because of repeatedly making bold bets and pulling otherwise stagnant industries forward (like cars and rocketry). Both Tesla and SpaceX are hugely successful and are forcing everyone else to rethink their R&D. Other companies following Musk’s lead as latecomers doesn’t diminish Musk’s critical role in changing those industries.

> It appears that your quest to save the world is more rooted in a superiority and savior complex than it is in actual concern for humanity.

This is self serving, convenient speculation. It is a high school insult wrapped in bigger words.

> You may think you are the smartest person in the room, but now you have met your match. We are Anonymous! We are legion. Expect us.

This letter is ultimately a thinly veiled threat, and the actions undertaken by “hacktivists” are plainly illegal. I hope governments take notice and take action against this collective and others like Distributed Denial of Secrets.
Disinformation.
Ho Chi Bear and the Ravens (2019)
Drummed out of Vietnam, misfit American pilots had a choice: Face the music of military justice or go someplace where oddballs and rule breakers were appreciated. Dubbed the Ravens, they soon learned they could fly, fight, and drink as they pleased in a CIA-sponsored secret war. There was just one catch: They answered to General Vang Pao.
> the failed open-office concept

That to me seems like the main reason to hate Apple Park [1] and to prefer individual walled offices like Infinite Loop used to have:

>"Greg “Joz” Joswiak (VP of product marketing, 1986–present): They built this campus fast, and it was obviously a bright shiny object. Everybody wanted to move in. It was a gigantic shift in the way we worked, because we went from being in cubes to, all of a sudden, literally every person had an office." [2]

[1] https://www.dezeen.com/2017/08/10/apple-park-campus-employee...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-infinite-loop-oral-history...
> The Holder continuity condition looks sorta like the limit definition of a derivative with an exponent on the denominator.

This is actually stronger than the epsilon-delta definition of continuity, as noted in the wiki article -- "For any α > 0, the condition implies the function is uniformly continuous."

Normally, you'd have something like

For all ϵ > 0, there exists δ(x, ϵ) > 0 such that

if |x - x₀| < δ, then |f(x) - f(x₀)| < ϵ.

(namely, at any given point, there's a ball of nearby points such that all their corresponding outputs are close together.)

But, with absolute continuity, δ is purely a function of ϵ, namely, that ball doesn't change size even as we move further away.

For instance, f(x)=x is absolutely continuous, while f(x)=x^2 is not. (for the former case, we can use δ = ϵ/2; for the latter case, we'd need a δ that looks something like 2ϵ·x)

In this case, since the Holder condition depends only on the distance between x and y, it automatically implies absolute continuity.
> people complained that [my microphone] was taking up all their bandwidth

That's not how I expect your choice of mic to affect anyone else's experience.

It would surprise me if additional network load is part of what happens.
If you didn't explain why X doesn't work, it's absolutely justified that people ask if that simpler solution X would work as well. Assuming you considered "the obvious answer" is unfortunately often not sufficient, as what's obvious to one person might not be obvious to another person.
Choosing a dev laptop right now is very difficult.

On one hand, you have Apple silicon MacBooks redefining efficiency.

On the other hand, XPSs/Inspirons/Thinkpads have caught up a lot in what used to differentiate MacBooks: The linux emulation on Windows is suitable for unix-like development, desktop linux is better than it's ever been, AMD is selling laptop CPUs that have 8 physical cores (with hyperthreading), 4k displays are available on basically every model, large trackpads are everywhere, Lenovo has a model out with a haptic (read: mac-like) trackpad, it's all very competitive.
I disagree that the learning curve is steep. I had no functional programming experience and no FPGA/hardware design experience and jumped straight into it. The doc is really nice and within a week I could make my own basic circuits.
This is a recent development, but 1Password is now available on Linux as a native program, and it’s probably my favorite implementation!

https://1password.com/downloads/linux/
Android can do this too. Platform rivalry aside, you're right. It would be good to see a proper password manager interface in browser extension APIs.
> … or there will be military action to bring Taiwan in line.

I don't see how this won't cause further escalation… perhaps just one ohio class authorized to target up to 288 civilian and military installations needed to "bring Taiwan in line"…
Did anyone really thought it was the "last" version of Windows? It was pretty obvious that Microsoft would reconsider that choice 5 years later or so.

And since Mac OS recently bumped to 11, Windows has to do it too, to keep up with the number, much like Firefox adopted Chrome's numbering.
Funny how when elon musk tweet send btc price up there wasn’t anyone crying about price manipulation. Maybe if one person can manipulate a nebulous product so much perhaps it had little value to begin with
A modern Visual Basic that generates native code, great!

$50/month... suddenly out of my price range again. 8(
Wow this website works remarkably poorly on mobile.
To all of human history it is not, but it is the overwhelming majority of cases.
It's interesting that the west coast of Canada only has one cable and it's to connect to Alaska.
Here’s a map that shows what Taiwan considers its airspace for anyone who’s curious: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/JADIZ_an...
Internet Archive / Wayback Machine works.

Archive.is runs Tor through a Cloudfront captcha which fails consistently in my experience.
I’ve worked a year in downtown Palo Alto, five years in San Francisco, three years in Mountain View, a year in Walnut Creek (their branch office in San Francisco didn’t pan out), and four years in Palo Alto down by Los Altos. Each of these was at least twenty miles away from the next. Even for renters willing to move continually, it’s pretty easy to get stuck with a bad commute until your lease is up.
Nah, it's much simpler: American's are tired of spending 10x more than all other nations combined on the Pentagon budget, solution: create an even bigger boogey-man than all other nations (what's bigger than aliens bent on world-domination), hell they don't even need to say that last bit, just insinuate aliens and they'll get twice as much $$.

That or it really IS aliens, and we're just used to not believing the Pentagon, or U.S. govt... cause they haven't always looked out for our best interests (NSA / Snowden ring's a bell).
Your point is true, but it is highly unlikely that a website providing 2FA would also be storing passwords in plaintext.
Nice. Has anyone seen a good list of best practices for a zoom instructors? I work at a large special education organization and the instructors are mostly teachers but when it comes to Teams training for staff they seem to forget everything. We're commonly facing wall of text slides, several hours without breaks and monotone monologues :-)
> Nations are sovereign they can do what they want. Short of going to war its hard to force a country todo something it does not want too

In today's world economic pressure is a much bigger factor than war. If you upset enough countries, they can all start imposing trade and financial sanctions on you, which then ruins your economy. International law is a useful (even though of course not always perfect) guide in answering the question "is doing X going to upset a large number of countries?"

> Also there are other countries not part of this talk nothings stops a company from setting up there and doing the same tax games.

Most of these companies are actually headquartered in major economies – US, the EU, etc. What they've been doing is exploiting complex loophole interactions between the tax laws of those major economies and the tax laws of small countries with favourable tax regimes. If the major economies close those loopholes, they can stop most of this. The small countries only get away with it because the major economy tax law loopholes let them. Most of the time, companies don't want to move their actual headquarters to these small countries due to the negative consequences
Maybe not for consumer devices, but maybe to secure the connections of long communication links which are already physically switched (fiber, laser, etc) to protect against MITM?
Mann also wrote an article called 1491 for the Atlantic that’s an abbreviated version of the book for anyone who hasn’t read it:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30...
What resource could we have they could possibly want? I mean there's a HUGE universe out there and resources are EVERYWHERE, every element. All over the place. Seems our only use is the same as we'd have: Zoo.