skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Out of curiosity, do you consider the federal minimum wage ($7.50, last updated in 2009) to be livable?

The minimum wage is probably somewhat too low for the states, but is far too high for territories like Puerto Rico. Many employers can only afford to pay people less than minimum wage by either employing youths, who can be paid $4.25 an hour or remaining small enough to legally avoid having to pay minimum wage. Even then, labor force participation there is significantly lower than that of the US, which implies that a lot of them are simply working for less under the table.

> It’s not a fair supply/demand market.

We don't live in a perfectly efficient market. An American citizen is always going to have an advantage over a foreigner from a poor country no matter what. However, the fact millions of people work so hard to seek employment here is proof enough that the market is efficient enough to improve people's lives.
>>> good developers solve problems, not languages or tools

>> At 25 years I have come to really appreciate some tools ability to help.

I've come to find there is a bidirectional connection between good developers and their tools. Good devs recognize and gravitate towards systems that help them thrive, and away from painful ones. Good tools draw in good devs, and the community gets stronger as a result.

IMHO, One hallmark of less-than-stellar devs is a tendency to stick with tools they are familiar with, because "it works." Great devs could get by with a magnetized needle and a steady hand, but they know there is better out there.
Intermittent fasting in mice effective at promoting long term memory retention
Have you tried the newest MoveNet from google?
That thing works really well. I only started experimenting with the Lighting model (not Thunder) for our VR game but even that is pretty robust.

If you want to see how stable it is, have a look at that: https://youtu.be/zz9S5hgrWpM?t=147

It's tracking me with the Oculus Quest on the head, so it does not even have facial features to go on
I think you completely misread what I said. I didn't say that losing out on a $10,000+ gain is a good thing. I'm just asking why we are only selectively applying that argument to certain lost gains.

Every single person who had $50 lying around in 2014 who didn't buy some Bitcoin also lost out on a $10,000 gain, did they not?

Why do we criticize those people who had $50 worth of Bitcoin and sold it, and ended up with $50 in USD - but not those people who had $50 of USD and chose not to buy Bitcoin?

What's the difference?
I agree. Taxing personal income is better, taxing land is even better.

Simplify the tax code and there will be no loop holes.
One attack vector is consolidating all your passwords into a password manager, and then being able to unlock the password manager on your phone w/ biometrics (e.g. face, fingerprint).
I hope it causes VPNs to become more popular.
I disagree, NATO countries (including Japan) have benefited from sabotaging/disrupting Chinese trade for more than a century. They know what they stand to gain by making China the "virus spreader/origin" of the world.

The Fauci emails in March 2020 that described the exact components of the virus with subject 'coronavirus bio-weapon production method' hints at the actual purpose of this release.
Yep. My almost surely is philosophical. Socially, it also keeps me humble. Rather than blurting out "That's ridiculous!" when someone tells me about their ridiculous beliefs, I shrug and think . o O ("there is a non-zero chance that {insert absurdity} is true")
Both of your perspectives are equally toxic... have kids if you want them, don't if you don't. I'm sure one can find happiness or misery either way
Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA Today records ID'ing readers
"Religion" is fine... the "groups" that practices, can be not so much. I can be a Christian and follow Christian tenants without following the Dogma of the Catholic/Lutheran/Baptist/etc. (I consider myself Lutheran even if I don't agree with stuff like baptism of babies - a carry over from the Catholic Church.)

I also tend to follow JBPetersons line of thinking in that "religion" is a result of hundreds of thousands of years of "evolution". "religions" codify, as you've said, the important parts of life (Don't steal, kill, that's not your wife, etc).

There is physical truth - an apple weighs this much, an atom has these parts, etc.

And then there is Truth - don't lie. Don't steal. Don't screw your neighbor or your neighbors wife. Those aren't "true" like the weight of an atom is true... but it is true as in life is better if you live with those "rules".

Religions give a basis of reference - and yes, that comes with some of the baggage (IE: Catholic priests, holy rollers in churches getting caught in bath houses, etc). It is hard - and at times impossible - to separate the Church from the Truth at the core.

Like you said, all religions have similar cores... but there ARE differences - Jesus was a carpenter... Muhamad was a warlord. Buddha was a scholar. Their cores are very similar but there are differences in and out of the religions.

Bit of a ramble as it's hard to pack a complicated conversation in a few paragraphs.
> People should be able to decide for themselves what they see and read, including delegating that authority. HN, for example, has the "showdead" preference option for opting in to seeing comments marked dead by the mods.

> HN strikes a good balance, and lets people opt in or out of comment moderation.

While this is a good idea (and I use the showdead option myself), it is incomplete. To complete it might include such thing as:

- Add another preference option to force everything to be displayed in chronological order.

- If you have enough disk space to allow it, allow replies to dead and old messages, which are automatically also dead.
This have antialiasing on, while Tufte CSS doesn’t, making the text little less “bold” on my Mac. I prefer the antialiasing: auto one (browser on the right)

https://i.imgur.com/qEkfG06.png
Going vegetarian is an anesthetic? It's the single biggest thing a meat eater can do to reduce their carbon footprint! What do you consider effective action if going vegetarian doesn't count? If you tell people nothing they do is adequate, odds are you aren't going to win them to your cause. I'm pretty sure most vegetarians are fighting for stronger action, not sitting on the sidelines saying, "nah, I've done my bit." The vegetarians are your shock troops, not sellouts.
OK, that is very cool. It makes Zig seem like a markedly better choice than Rust for adoption in Linux.
This is true. People imagine the Spanish conquistadors destroying the Aztec empire, but really it was something like 700 Spaniards + 100,000 pissed off Aztec-neighbors who destroyed it. The Spaniards, as far as I know, tried to actually stop the raping and pillaging of Tenochtitlan but didn't have much luck in that regard.
Oh right, there was OS-9 Level I which ran on the CoCo 1 and 2, but with the max of 64K it was fairly limited in practice, although still a great learning platform.

Later there was OS-9 Level II on the CoCo3 which was much more usable as a daily driver OS.
I agree that there will always be a need due to other bits of information, but IMO if you follow this train of thought for authentication specifically you wind up at "passwordless" WebAuthn.
I get a tax rebate for rent. Maybe it depends where you live.

For a house, your net worth hasn't decreased by the cost of the house. A company wouldn't be able to deduct that. They can deduct for assets that depreciate.
I love that Conway published a request for proof that infinite games existed, or something to that effect. And the proof turned out to be known as a Gun structure (iirc). A Gun is essentially a starting condition that leads to new projectiles continuously getting launched into the world, thus creating infinite (and non repeating?) games.
Your average Biden voter is either not a leftist or probably voted against Trump. I was with you until that point, because what you're pointing out is that the US is intensely conservative on a national scale, especially compared to Europe. Biden would be center right, at best, in Europe.
Looking at the source, I think it "renders" and reprints the whole "frame" everytime... In which case it might be bad...
Nonviolent Communication by Rosenberg

Quick Summary:

"1. Observe what's happening - what's really going on? What is happening or being said that you either like or dislike?

2. Identify your feelings about it - anger, joy, hopeful, inspired, lonely?

3. Figure out what need you have that is driving that feeling

4. Ask for what you need (explicitly)"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71730.Nonviolent_Communi...
How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie. Effective communication is about listening more than speaking. It all boils down to people wanting to feel important. In order to influence people, you have to open yourself up to being influenced by them first.
Latin America isn't North America. There were large populations of agrarian peoples used as a workforce by the Spanish. And these people weren't wiped out in most cases. They mixed with the colonizers to varying degrees and are now those you call Latinos. The reason people from the older Hispano-American colonies often look *nothing* like Spaniards and Portuguese people is simply because they're partially or fully indigenous.

North America remained available so late to colonization because the Spanish saw it as worthless as it didn't fit at all with their latifundial industry, precisely because it lacked the population and the farming that could easily be converted over to estates.
Difference between class diagram and object diagram
Thanks for the link - Does MoveNet give you 3D positions / rotations for each joint or just a 2D position on the image?
It is only natural to include a font which was commissioned by original author.
If Zig doesn't have lambdas yet, that is a clear omission. It would be wise to reserve syntax for it early.
The infinite set is the set of all cosmologies. An axiom of my personal metaphysics is that any assertion about the cosmos is almost surely wrong, including those informed by science. That's not a formal statement of the principle, but gets at it.

My belief is that human understanding of the cosmos is much more limited than we generally understand it to be. Relative to what (I believe) the cosmos contains, human beings have no more, and no less, capacity to understand it than any arbitrary animal. We can explain only that which is important and relevant to ourselves, and vast arenas are foreclosed even to our perception.
Basically, you do not consider payment to non-cooperating countries for tax purposes.

For example ACME Inc. produces widgets with costs of 50 and revenue of 100 in the US. To avoid taxes, it also pays 50 in "licensing fees" to ACME Tax Heaven in the Cayman Islands, so that the profit in the US is 0.

If the payment to the Cayman Islands is not counted, then the taxable profit in the US becomes 50.
I'm a little disappointed in the conclusion because there are more secure password managers out there that still offer the same level of convenience as the browser built-in password manager. Yes, if you use a password manager that's implemented entirely as a browser extension, you may as well use the browser's built-in password management features. However, if you're an advanced user and are comfortable using a separate password management application, there are options out there that don't force you to choose between a difficult-to-use app and the convenience of something in-browser.

For example, exploiting a browser-based password manager likely means escaping the sandbox that contains web pages and accessing the shadow DOM. But this is still a larger surface area than 1Password, where the password selection menu (on Windows at least...) is actually rendered by an entirely separate process on the system. (I.e., clicking the icons that the extension displays triggers the 1Password desktop application to display UI at the cursor's current position. Picking a password from this UI will transmit it to the browser extension for filling. The password is only present in the browser's memory once you've interacted with the desktop application's UI.)

As always, do your research. Don't get suckered into paying a subscription fee for a browser extension that offers the same functionality your browser has built-in. But realize that there are other options out there that may actually be worth investing in.

Disclaimer: I've been a happy 1Password customer for a few years now.
"Difficult Conversations" was a great read —

https://www.amazon.com/Difficult-Conversations-Discuss-What-...

The basic idea is that in any difficult conversation, there's actually three sub-conversations happening —

(1) What happened?

(2) How do we feel about it?

(3) What are we going to do about it?

A lot of times people get into cross-talk or can't get on the same page because they mix up what sub-conversation they're happening. This can happen when one person gets right into proposing solutions (#3) while another person is still trying to work out why things went the way they did (#1). Likewise, sometimes a conversation around "we really screwed this up" is meant to be a neutral "what happened" conversation (#1) but is taken as a negative or put-down (#2).

Useful book. Very readable and informative.
What version of iOS? It works for me on my iPhone 8 running iOS 14.4.2.
President of El Salvador Says He’s Submitting Bill to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender
That clears up a lot. Thanks!
Square and Square Crypto both form Jack Dorsey, have done a lot for this space already.

Bitcoin mining farms will always look for the cheapest energy. If that is in a remote oil rig location where methane needs to be flared, or near a hydro power centre, or in a desert next to a bunch of solar panels. But yeah, if there is an excess of coalplant energy that will do as well.

I don’t really understand the hate ₿ gets for this. The existing alternatives (fiat currencies) are way more polluting, minus the dependable know inflation.
Double taxation only matters because it complicates the tax code, there is no other justification against double taxation.

For example, if you have one tax there is only one way to optimize it, if you have two taxes there are two ways to optimize it. As you add more taxes you are adding more room for loopholes. Solving the problem by taxing profit by country is just adding more room for loop holes.
Reuters really thinks the world is stupid. You know search engines won't make this error on the anniversary of Jan 6th. But just a coincidence this "error" works in favor of the CCP.

Are we really that dumb?
What Is Phuket Like?
Trans-Pacific Cable Chaos, Shifting Asian Hubs
Then the effect would be that all the taxes on facebook, google etc go to the US, not in the countries where they earn the money. The problem exist for example with internet advertising - the local agencies are all doing badly, advertising has moved to the internet - to google and facebook, so they receive most of the money that otherwise would be spent on local radio, print and tv advertisements, the local ad agencies organizing that would pay taxes in our country but now all the money and the taxes leave our countries and we get nothing - no taxes, and no money spent locally. this is what all the countries except the US want to avoid.
Artists don't draw all the way to the vanishing points, we only draw in the part that looks normal

I am a professional artist and I would just like to confirm this line. 3-point perspective tends to start looking weird once you get outside of a certain sweet spot; I did so many beginner drawings with the vanishing points too close, which resulted in a weirdly exaggerated set of shapes.
Just me. Granted I don't feel the need to save as much as I can in this department. I like quality meat that is not from a factory farm and vegetables. Probably $500 on groceries and $300 on going out to eat.
El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
El Salvador is looking to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar.

In a video broadcast to Bitcoin 2021 President Nayib Bukele announced El Salvador’s partnership with digital wallet company, Strike, to build the country’s modern financial infrastructure using bitcoin technology.
President of El Salvador to introduce bill that will make Bitcoin a legal tender
If they want to make this a formal treaty, yes.

But it could be an informal agreement between the leaders of these countries, that they will all pass such laws. In that case, passing a law that changes the corporate tax rate would fit into a reconciliation package with no issues.

Though, if it’s an informal agreement then no such law even needs to be passed, since our corporate tax rate is above the agreed minimum.
U.S. Waged Secret Legal Battle to Obtain Emails of 4 New York Times Reporters
"When CEO Satya Nadella took over Microsoft, he started defusing its toxic culture by handing each of his execs a 15-year-old book by a psychologist"

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-satya-nadella-nonv...

"""

- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella bought all the members of his senior leadership team a copy of the book "Nonviolent Communication" in 2014 when he took over the company.

- At the time, Microsoft was known for having a culture of hostility, infighting, and backstabbing.

- "Nonviolent Communication" preaches compassion and empathy in communication, and it has lessons that apply beyond the boardroom.

"""
One advantage is that the password manager encrypts the password database on your device. So the encryption part is decoupled from the online service part.
A company cannot depreciate land, but they can depreciate the value of the buildings on top of it over a fixed period of time. So in addition to writing off the mortgage as an expense, you can also amortize it since the value of additions (not the land) decreases.
> Aside from that, you suggested voting...which is exactly what was attempted to make insider trading illegal in the first place.

... And succeeded. That was the whole point.
> I never became comfortable with doing object oriented programming with Go, which has not been the case with Rust.

Ouch, OOP in Go is just asking for a trouble. "Inheritance" by embedding anonymous struct/interface should be rarely used. Playing with a magic dependency injection, reflection mocking often do not leads to anything good too.

> In addition in Go I find the project setup and settings like GOPATH, GOBIN quite confusing.

I guess you work on Linux :) Yeah, it is weird, I am glad they have improved that flow by guessing empty GOPATH will be equal to $USER/go/ directory. GOBIN is actually not needed, only if you have used dep dependency manager, which for many years is deprecated.
If they really wanted to do it, they'd do a requirement for a company to show their books to IRS in a given country.
They would call out fake charges to hide profits and demand back tax on that.
It's all doable, but all those politicians are corrupt.

The whole piece reads as if it was bought by Facebook and Amazon for PR.
It's going to be business as usual unfortunately.

I hope a party will show up and have guts to actually do something about those tax dodgers.
To charge tax on these fake intellectual property arrangement you don't even need any laws changed. You only need a few officers that are not bent.
This is not how geometrically-correct pinhole-camera perspective projection works; Pomax is approaching the vanishing points exponentially rather than hyperbolically, which is why straight lines turn into curves. If you work out the geometry of the pinhole camera setup [edit: with a flat imaging plane], you find that you're just doing a division (conventionally, dividing by the Z-coordinate in camera space, though you don't have to set it up that way) instead of an exponential. This is a "projective transformation", and those do map straight lines to straight lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_transformation

If you have a sufficiently wide field of view, even the standard projection transformation gives you things that look pretty "distorted", which is a fun trick often used in art photography. Also fisheye lenses are often designed to do a non-projective transformation and get effects you can't theoretically get with a pinhole camera, like mapping straight lines to curved lines as Pomax does.

Pomax's invention is super cool, even though it isn't the usual 3D→2D mapping motivated by pinhole-camera geometry. Weird is good! I wonder if there's a version of it in which straight lines become curves, but polynomial curves of some reasonable degree, or maybe something involving square roots and division, so we can rasterize them without computing a bunch of exponentials? Is that even a reasonable way to seek optimizations in 02021?

Pomax may have a good point that projective transformations aren't "strict three-[vanishing]-point perspective" because, instead of having three vanishing points, they have an infinite number of vanishing points, a point others have made in the comments here. The profoundly weird and cool aspect of Pomax's invention is that every line converges to one of those three points.
Redrawing state lines to affect the makeup of the Senate is definitely something that's been considered. DC statehood is an example, so is the proposal to split California into two states. (Then there are less serious proposals, like New York City seceding from New York State.)

Trust me, if there's a plan to make "your guy" win, someone has seriously considered it.

It is also worth noting that redrawing lines like this do have some real benefits beyond just making a certain party have more representation. A lot of people live in DC, and it's pretty unfair that they don't have voting power in the federal government. The only reason they don't get representation is that 50% of people don't agree with the way they vote, and you need more than 50% to admit a state. It is very awkward.
I have used `tac`, `shuf`, and `yes` in real life (the latter obviously for driving an obnoxious installer). `yes` is pretty common, not just on Linux.

`figlet` is great for pretty MOTDs, and used it back in the `finger`/.plan days on big multiuser systems. Great stuff for "pet" hosts vs "cattle" :).
Bitcoin Beach Project in El Salvador
In addition, https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/
Well, you can do actual 3D projection using a fisheye lens! It might even be a worthwhile thing to do.
> These fear mongering comments about data collection have never demonstrated real world harms

Notable examples:

* Strava revealed the position of US military bases

* Muslim prayer apps sharing location data with US military

In my own experience, I work for a call center. We have many important American companies as clients. They give us access to their systems so that we can service their clients. I am overseas dealing with their customers and I can access their personal information. I can see their face linked to their Facebook profile. I admit I've been tempted to misuse the information any time a customer makes me angry.
Thanks! Operational transformation is the same technology that powers Google Docs. It's been studied in academia for real-time collaboration since the 1990s and has eventual consistency guarantees. See the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

The Rust operational-transform library was not written by me, but it's listed on crates.io by spebern, and it's worked wonderfully so far. It seems to be a very close port of ot.js (https://github.com/Operational-Transformation/ot.js). The text transformation algorithm isn't very complicated (<700 SLOC including tests), but there's probably room for optimization!