skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Logical replication and decoding for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Ouch. Dylan: America's tough-but-fair national psychoanalyst.
Manipulate as in: the general ranking algorithms were explicitly overridden for a very specific search phase.

I guess it shouldn't really surprise anyone that they have this capability for edge cases, but it begs the question what other results are being manipulated for political or corporate self interest.
Some Android features you might see in iOS 15
Is that a very recent change? I don't know that I've ever noticed that on macOS, but I started using this OS around Lion, I think
> The GDPR however does require explicit consent.

I think you missed my point. I not asking about what the law says. I'm asking why a person willfully choosing to visit a site is not considered a form of consent, since it requires an intentional action from a user. If intentionally visiting the site isn't consent, how is it that clicking an "Accept" button magically is? Both are intentional actions by the user.

Feels like walking into a store and saying, "I don't consent to be here". That's fine, but you chose to be here, so now here you are. Feel free to leave and not come back. You have that choice.

Answered by another user: It depends on what the cookie is used for, and I understand this perspective to a degree.

Session cookies are required for a lot of basic functionality and have been around forever - people are used to them. But cross-site tracking and other telemetry tracking for targeted advertisement is a bit of an overreach, and very invasive. I get that people don't like it, but you can block a lot of that, and opt out of visiting the site entirely. I don't understand how adding an "Accept" does much. Feels like a superficial change.

> I didn't type in anything or click enter to get to that site.

Are you being pedantic...? If you clicked the link, you engaged in an intentional action - which is my point.

> Except when that breaks stuff.

Then don't visit?
Short previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14614196
My last girlfriend picked me up in San Diego and we drove 6 hours to Tucson after we had been apart for about a month. During the drive with her two dogs she told me while I was away there was an incident where her dog mauled a smaller dog and then bit the owner's face when she bent over to rescue her small dog. Her take away was pride as she was smart enough to just run off with her dog implying an idiot like me would have stayed and taken responsibility.

My response was there are two options, your dog either needs to be destroyed or never off leash again and we didn't discuss further. Then we stopped somewhere to take a break and she let her dogs run out of the car off leash. When my jaw dropped, she replied, "it's no problem, I don't see anyone around".

So it's worse than getting "hostile" or "violent" as you mentioned. Many of these people never learn. You could sue them into oblivion and the take away would be they are the victim of an unjust world.
Was anyone else annoyed that the "research paper" hotlink did not lead to the paper but to a list of "News tagged with research paper"?

I was hoping I could manage to understand enough to get an idea of what predictions this would lead to.
The sourness is often just a factor of cold proof time. The bacteria pick up in activity as the yeasts slow down.
What I generally hear is a wealth inequality frame: raise taxes on the rich so that they won’t accumulate savings so fast. Income inequality is much steeper than consumption inequality, and taxes are proposed at the top end of income, not consumption. So it is already sensitive to this concern, and steering clear of reducing personal spending.

Now it’s true that invested savings become goods and services, capital purchases, etc. for the companies you invest in. But the idea is that government will take over some of that role and invest the taxes collected in more socially beneficial activities, with returns accruing to the public.
Immigration relaxation actually starts in the ‘60s so it doesn’t quite match up with your timeline. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_...

We do have an example of an industry that was protected by tariffs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax. For the most part Volkswagen, Toyota and friends are still doing fantastically in the US.
What? Of course humans have decided to harm the environment. It happens every day and has happened for as long as humans have existed. I don't think his comment "divides the world into good guys and bad guys" -- it merely points out an abundantly obvious truth.

Clear-cutting, overfishing, fossil fuel extraction, emissions, etc didn't just happen on their own -- they all required a human decision.

Whether or not humans making these decisions realize that their actions will contribute to the irreparable harm of the environment is a moot point. The decisions are made and the harm is done. Even so, willful ignorance and indifference to the impact of ones actions are decisions too.

If we ever want to turn the tide on global environmental destruction, then it is imperative that we as a society not diminish individual responsibility for the impact of one's decisions and actions.
It isn’t very strong in the USA, but it exists here too.

Biggest example is high school. Popular is god and you must follow it. Ie. There are a limited number of socially approved ways of excelling and standing out is the worst thing you can do.

Also in the military there’s a motto, “never volunteer for anything”. The thought being, being noticed for anything is bad.
Selling Domain Names
I recently rewrote a computation-heavy Typescript program in Go and what once took 12 hours can now be done in about 3 minutes - there was also some trickery involved running things in parallel but Go made that possible, trying to do that in JS just froze my computer.

Plus it’s a binary I can drop anywhere, will always be backwards compatible, no updated dependency is going to break it, I’m a fan of Go.
> What about Hungary? Corporate tax rate at 9%.

That's the whole point of this agreement, it doesn't matter what Hungary does. I mean, if a business wants to only sell in Hungary, sure, but what this agreement does is prohibit multinationals that want to sell in any of these G7 nations from cooking up the corporate fiction where a company is "headquartered" in a low tax jurisdiction, and then the "real" company pays all of their income to this shell corp in "licensing fees".
I've done plenty of research on this topic and I'm immediately reminded of [1] James Webb Young's short but brilliant book called 'A Technique for Producing Ideas'. I first came to know about it on [2] Kirby Ferguson's YouTube channel. Other resources that are equally good are [3] John Cleese's talk on creativity and his [4] little booklet on the same topic.

Also ideas can seem fascinating by themselves but only chasing ideas (without validation/trials) is an obsession you don't want to have. Please remember to strike a healthy balance between generating ideas and executing them. That infamous claypot anecdote from Art & Fear by David Bayles on quantity vs. quality comes to mind.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/technique-producing-ideas-simple-form...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJ3oy-rWUk

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Short-Cheerful-John-Cleese...
SMEs tend to already pay their taxes, as opposed to corporations.
I remember my economics professor arguing that would be the most efficient tax after he explained how all taxes have the side effect of reducing the thing being taxed.

So taxing something bad like CO2, great idea. Taxing something good like income or creating jobs - bad idea.

Land tax would be simple, and very progressive, the tax rate of most young people renting world now be 0. It's more complex than that because the landlord pays the tax and hikes the rent appropriately. It enforces that land is used efficiently, which is so dysfunctional in many large cities.

It's a great idea in my opinion. You'd solve taxation, eliminate personal accountants as a class, and solve the housing crises with one stroke (there is still zoning, but this makes poorly zoned land undesirable to hold because it bleeds money - creating an incentive for the land owners to vote for zoning the land better). But politicians deal with popular ideas, not smart ideas. The odds of any country trying it seem slim.
Some of this stuff happens because providers own unclean hands causes them to mount an inadequate defense.

For example, providers should be in the position where they would defend themselves by saying that monitoring their users online activities would be a criminal violation of wiretap law. Unfortunately, providers have taken the ability to monitor users through terms of service provisions so that they can collect data on their users to sell to advertisers, thus diminishing their ability to argue that they're just a dumb pipe.
The modern web loads the whole website on your first visit, aka SPA.

Plus React 150kb, Bootstrap 150kb and all their plugins make it multi megabyte.

I was thinking about converting my old server rendered web site into modern web. Still wondering if it's worth it.
The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions

"The incident is a reminder that browser extensions — however useful or fun they may seem when you install them — typically have a great deal of power and can effectively read and/or write all data in your browsing sessions."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/the-case-for-limiting-yo...
Fixed wing drones require considerably more skill and training to fly. They also cannot take off/land vertically, they need a runway or catapult/arrest system to operate. As a result, fixed wing drones are not generally a realistic substitute for quad-copter drones.

The poster you're replying to has already mentioned getting permits to fly near wildlife, and taking appropriate consideration for the welfare of the birds being filmed. It sounds like they're doing a fine job of flying responsibly, already.
that's not was is being said here though.

you can have your advertising and everything else you want, but if the bread and butter of your advertising strategy is over-exploiting dark patterns and others shady mechanism while keeping the products the same, are you creating value (for the consumer)?

I don't think they have any problem with the original theory of advertising, which is informing the potential consumer of your product, about its existence, its usefulness and the advantages it has over the competition.

a more coherence basis of what is said in the book is simply that a a non negligible part of today economy is about wealth extraction but disguised as wealth creation, and the people that are tasked to do that can tell.
Media’s Lab Leak Debacle Shows Why Banning ‘Misinformation’ Is a Terrible Idea
That's neat. Great project
> Western dotcoms are pretty impotent when it comes to the Chinese ban.

Because they never even tried.
> Good. It’s a shame that Biden had to back down from the initial 28% because of domestic opposition.

This presupposes that maximizing revenue to the state is itself beneficial.
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I think you can do this in OBS with the virtual cam driver.

You would just expand the camera input and crop and position it as a ‘scene’.
I agree. Just charge everyone a monthly fee for essential gov services. And do I mean essential. If you want extra programs from the gov, you need to pay voluntarily.
Previously..

Eve: Programming designed for humans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12817468 (2016) 386 comments

The Eve programming language project is winding down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16227130 (2018) 264 comments
More horrific than having to guess what switches are supported by any given command on the target machine, even though shell scripts are supposed to be cross platform?
> I've had a fair share of "well trained" dogs chase me and nip at my ankles

Not sure why you say "well trained", the owners have obviously not trained the dog and has no business being off the leash, they are not well trained by any definition and you won't see dogs like that without a leash here in Barcelona.

> > Taking them off leash, when others have a fair expectation that they will be leashed is rude and inconsiderate.

> This sums it up perfectly. Thank you!

So... If there is no expectation of having your dog on the leash, then it's not rude and inconsiderate? Makes me feel a bit better at least, as the expectation here where I live seems to be very different than where you folks live.
An espresso beverage that is described by a list rather than a short phrase is, IMHO, crossing the line into bad taste-- both for the customer to ask for it and for the vendor to make it possible.

TBH, whatever Stabuck's is doing is perfectly fine. They're not killing-off the super-cool coffee shops who employ skilled baristas, they're making them more desirable and rarified.
>Good marketing, but a bad outcome once you've read Bastiat -- jobs and wages are a cost.

Wrong. You can't expect to increase the minimum standard of living without also increasing the minimum wage you have to pay to attract talent. The fact that companies have gotten away with lowering wages thanks to their monopsony power was a mistake to begin with. If you really want to lower the cost of production you also have to lower the cost of living.
You guys do everything in your power to twist a seemingly good thing into something evil. Understandable I guess but at this point I don't even know if Google actually is evil or if that's just a presumed narrative this place likes to put on every initiative from them.
FBI asking for IP addresses, phone numbers of people who read USA Today article
you can have positive value for the one paying while having a net negative value for the one paying the one paying you or society at large.
Would I be correct in suspecting that you don't get interest on overpaying, but get charged serious fees for having to pay too much on tax day?
No.

So you say you're not an activist at work. So do I. Then you say that I'm an activist.

And you're kinda implying that you are, too.
Also, don’t forget about your internet connection. As an interviewer, it is really hard to look past the first impression of blurry and stuttered audio/video. Check if the speed you’re paying for is reasonable and if better service is available (and affordable to you), check WiFi vs. Ethernet speeds, check if other users on your LAN are hogging your connection. If your connection is unavoidably slow, I would suggest being upfront with the interviewer that you’re aware of the situation and that you have put effort into getting the best possible result, instead of leaving me to wonder if you’re not detail oriented enough for the position.
>Maybe such people could be shared a per-share fine based on shares held at a particular date?

I think it’s nearly impossible to expect most shareholders to understand the business underpinnings to this degree within the existing system. Think of pensioners with mutual funds, do you think most even understand all the businesses in those funds let alone the operations of those businesses?

To me, this is akin at employees being punished as well. Both benefit from the business operations but it’s hard to expect employees to have knowledge and be responsible for the decisions of the C-suite.
a few pages into the article link states that he was involved at least somewhat with the sequel
If you want people on your side, you're really going to need to get some more tact over here.

Unnecessary snark isn't going to get you fans.
>Not sure the quotes support the article's contention that is only a "reporting" issue.

I agree.

From his responses to questions in the related Twitter thread, he is of the opinion that while the SSD thrashing will stop going forward, this wasn't simply a reporting bug.

>The update isn't going to magically undo the existing wear.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1400845974197530627
If you have a RealSense D455, I made a virtual camera for Linux that does bokeh based on the actual depth instead of the fake segmentation-based stuff.

https://github.com/dheera/bokeh-camera

It could be edited to work on a D435 or L515 but those have pretty narrow RGB cameras and may not look as good.
Ask HN: Ecology Charities for IT Volunteering
I am looking for a Climate change or Ecology related charities or social enterprises (pref. UK. Based) that or other developers could volunteer towards - for all the talk, most project i found so far are either dead or zombies.

Like many folks, we. i've got some volunteering hours provided by my e employer and i would like to use them productively.
Chicago gun laws aren’t the problem. 60% of the crimes in Chicago involving firearms are committed with a gun purchased out of state, specifically Indiana, which has some of the laxest gun legislation in the country. Downtown Chicago is closer to the Indiana state line than the suburbs of Chicago.
Not convinced, they may appear to be taxing them more, to the public eye
But the offset from new "grants" and "funding initiatives" will result in the same outlay for these corporations
Basically all politics and double speak
Rust requires more of an initial investment than Node/Java, but IMO the ROI is higher or at least more consistent. Others have noted “correctness” as a reason for using Rust, this is accurate. A few reasons I’d give for why it’s easier end more ergonomic to write correct programs in Rust are:

* exhaustive pattern matching

* Result and Option types

* builtin first class unit testing ability

* builtin first class documentation ability

The enforced exhaustive pattern matching tells you “hey you didn’t cover all cases.” Result and Option types make error handling explicit and ergonomic—the notion that each function can either succeed or fail is supported at the language level (in other languages, it’s up to you to ensure you’ve covered all cases and have thought about what “success” and “failure” mean for each function.

Testing is “built right into the language,” it’s frictionless. It’s super easy to write unit tests. You don’t have to canvass and vet a ton of testing frameworks to get going.

Documentation is easy, fun, and quick to write. So, now combine all the above with the culture of detailed documentation Rust has and now you’re really thinking through your codebase—you can use writing docs to tighten up the interfaces, seamlessly transition to writing a test that enforces some invariant, leverage “compiler driven development” to rinse and repeat this process.

The strongest reason to use Rust is that you’ve detailed the requirements for a piece of code and determine Rust is a better fit than LangX. A weaker, but still valuable reason to use Rust is to experience the discipline and idioms Rust enforces/enables and then take that experience back to your native language (I.e. exhaustive matching, which of used in certain ways can be a kind of “proof by cases” that your code does exactly what you expect, then you can easily inspect what you expect via tests).
I wish I knew the source to this, but an acquaintance owns a yeast lab and he's said that there's a study looking into the biodiversity and source of sourdough. They found that over time the origin of the feeding material is a much greater contribution than the original culture. Ie, over time the flour you use will cause a drift in your culture and be the factor of the quality of your sourdough.

For sourdough I've had good results with active starters that I retarded overnight. You can probably also cause biases in the fermenting dough by creating a dough that's higher in simple sugars (LAB/LAY is much more fast acting and prefers glucose), maybe an autolyse does that for you.
Where there’s tons of land, it’s not that valuable. LVT would be low. It would only be punitive to people with a lot of land (per person) in those spots that are valuable because of those restaurants, culture, jobs, etc. nearby.
A virtual camera like OBS can do that for you.
We initially used it on a small project that had the requirement that the chances of a crash / failure should be very low because it would be used as a remote control process for a wider system. We had good success there and so the company was keen to use it in more places. It's now formally "adopt" on our technology roadmap.

We've actually bootstrapped relatively easily. We have a some developers who have picked it up quite easily, perhaps with some pairing. We run an hour session every week where all the Rust developers get together to share production code and present on Rust topics. The discussion focusing on Rust production code has been particularly helpful.
Sprawl affects wildlife. Density, particularly infill density, generally only impacts land already being used for human habitation anyways.
The trick is to remember that they're almost certainly working on that stuff because they enjoy making users happy, so they're also doing support for the same reason.

I do feel a little bit embarrassed if it turns out they're reading the docs to me, but I feel embarrassed about that whether it's an expert or a fellow n00b ;)
The wiki article I responded to stated she was charged with filing a false police report.
No, a gross receipts tax is on sales and not profits.

If I understand it correctly (I don't know the details for every state), a gross receipts tax doesn't even adjust for value added (the VA in VAT).

For example say a few companies are involved in producing a good (starting from raw materials) so the supply chain looks like this:

$7 (raw materials) -> $8 (components) - > $9 (finished good wholesale) -> $10 (store price)

With a VAT, the total taxed amount is $10, which is divided up among the companies based on how much value they added (so if they move from $8->$9, they pay tax on $1).

With a gross receipts tax, the total taxed amount is $7+$8+$9+$10=$34. Goods that are produced by many small companies working together will pay a lot more taxes than those produced by huge vertically-integrated ones.

There's some good reasons to use a VAT if you want to tax revenue, and one of them is to avoid problems like this.
Introducing Mercury: A Visual Basic Language That Keeps Getting Better
HN pretty much originally existed as way to advertise ycombinator. Entrepreneurs make up a huge HN demographic. Marketing, sales, and advertising is a regular topic. “Show HN” is a special tag for certain kinds of marketing to HN users. Doesn’t seem out of place to me, to be honest.
I interview a lot of candidates over zoom for remote positions. For me, few to none of the specific details matter. What's important is if the candidate demonstrates that they've had the empathy and self awareness to consider how their call setup affects others' ability to communicate with them. All the suggestions in the linked article seem painfully obvious for anyone working in 2021.

I actually prefer when the candidate has some sort of uncontrollable distraction that comes up during the interview. It provides a good opportunity to see how they handle the real world challenges of remote work. For anyone not sure how to handle this, interrupting with "excuse me, I'm going to mute for 20 seconds while garbage truck passes" is completely reasonable, even in a fairly formal situation.
I think you misinterpreted a timeline here.