skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with echolocation is that it degrades as you age. My mother was blind from infancy--as a child she could run along the sidewalk, able to sense the curbs. As an adult she could walk through a familiar room accurately enough you would have no idea she was blind. In her old age she couldn't hear the room anymore, she had to move slowly and likely would go off course even then.

Growing up knowing it was possible as a child I was able to move about slowly except I couldn't sense stuffed furniture. As an adult, nothing--but I have some pretty major high frequency hearing loss, origin unknown.
In much of the US there is only one ISP that provides reasonable speeds. In my area, that's Spectrum. The only other options here are slow DSL and satellite.
I think Safari on Mac OS has them. If not, what’s https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/advanced-ibrw1075/mac meaning where it says

“Style sheet

To use your own CSS instead of webpage style sheets, click the pop-up menu, then choose Other.”?
> Not my concern really, but if you need to comment that someone else used a conservative website as a source for something and that’s “an issue”... you might need more conservative sources in your own reading.

The reason I would raise an issue with most conservative “think tanks” as sources for fact claims is that I read, and have for years read, their output extensively. The same is true with center-right (liberal) and progressive think tanks in general (there arr a very few exceptions in each category.)

If you are using them as fact sources, you might need more outlets that aren’t ideological propaganda mills in your own reading.
You can link to any kind of meaningful content to do with rust and do that.

This is using HN as an ad platform.
I philosophically agree with you, but the reality on the ground on US trails is that many people (dog owners or not) do not observe rules or etiquette. Go on a hike near Seattle and you'll probably leave with a Drake song memorized from how many kids are blasting it on their Bluetooth speakers. The actual trail is sometimes indistinguishable from the switchback cuts people make. Even take some time looking at US centric comments on this site lately: even with respect to a global pandemic, people will vehemently put their own wants over the greater good of society or the environment. The only solution is heavy handed enforcement. It sucks but I don't see a better way.
I have used R a few times now, and I definitely agree with the statement that thinking in vectors is central to writing good R scripts. However, as a computer engineer and performance junkie, its unfortunate that it doesn't get as much attention as other "STEM DSLs" (Julia, MATLAB) when it comes to performance.

The same could technically be argued for Python; The current approaches to dealing with high-performance compute workloads either rely on JITing (e.g. Numba, Tensorflow/JAX's XLA) or bridging over to giant binary blobs through the CPython's well-supported C interop.
This is incorrect, capital gains rates in the US are currently similar to or higher than many European countries. Federal (20%) + NIIT (3.8%) + State (up to 13.3%) puts you firmly in the middle of the pack for European countries. The proposed changes would make them the highest in the developed world, by a large margin.

The elephant in the room is that the main difference between US and European tax rates is that the middle-class tax rates in the US are much lower than their European counterparts. If you are in the top tax bracket in California, the income taxes aren’t that much different than in most of Europe and the capital gains taxes are typically lower.
Disease is not a very good description, but basically what happens is that somebody does some work, say child care, which does not scale. They are paid x dollars for this service.

Then the job market changes and they can go and get a better job somewhere else, so you now have to pay them x+y dollars for child care. Child care has not become more productive, the cost of living has not changed, but your child care is now more expensive.

You could call that a rising boat that lifts all boats, but if you need child care it doesn't.
* Untaxed profits go to shareholders and executives, not employees.

* Higher taxes does not mean companies will attempt to output less revenue.

Why would companies work /less/? Do HNers work less or ask for lower salaries due to being in higher tax brackets?
As the article explains, that has been taken care of. Search for "top-up".
Urban office land is easily more expensive.

I say the land value tax (LVT) is best grouped with Pigouvian taxes; as PP says, normal property tax relatively incentivizes holding undeveloped land, which is like charging a higher carbon tax if your car has a better MPG.

One one hand, we can also do a VAT in developed countries --- perhaps more feasible than in the 19th century and making more sense if we are no longer rapidly developing and reliant on private investment to foster those changes --- on the other hand in big closed economies we can also just print money quite safely, so Henry George is quite right to focus Pigouvian taxes when "taxation for the revenue" is far less important than curbing bad material outcomes.

(I only suggest VAT with a UBI to make it no longer regressive.)
Gameifying Exploratory CS with Tech Roulette
SVG in Flutter still leaves a lot to be desired. We've ended up building a subset of SVG that can be composed using const code that fills some of the missing gaps in packages like flutter_svg.
It helps in RDD (resume driven development)
Standard ML of New Jersey
That incorrect in my view. Higher taxes might mean more profits if those taxes go towards infrastructure or other things that increase productivity.

Corporations aren't also a zero sum game. More taxes could mean more profit. Make the whole pie bigger an all that.
The problem I don't see addressed is that no/low corporate tax leads to bad market incentives. It is more efficient for my company to buy me things than for me to buy me things. But my company will inevitably buy inoffensive/cheap things that appeal to all employees rather than what I really want. This is most often implemented as a food perk or car perk, but obviously extends to almost any consumable purchase.
I frequently come to the conclusion that personal grocery bills should be free, as charging for food punishes existing.
I’ve mentioned an easy example of why this is bad in my other comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27405841
9. Kept in cash

Like Apple likes to do: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/apple-q4-cash-hoard-heres-ho...
Thomas Bayes?

...but you might have wait another 400 years to be sure
But an LVT isn’t a tax on the infrastructure it is a tax on the value of the underlying land.
> There are people that are afraid of dogs. They have no way of knowing, at a distance, whether your dogs will behave or run up to them. So when they see any dog off leash in a leash required area, they have to take a large detour to give the off leash dogs a wide enough berth.

This is my sister, exactly. At age four she was chased by an off-leash Alsatian and to this day is nervous of any off-leash large dog
> it selects Nazis and approximately nobody else

You are seriously suggesting that "nobody else" is ever going to attempt what the Nazis did, ever? We've got billions of years until the sun makes Earth uninhabitable.
History clearly shows us these things are cyclical. Also, your point about symbols is wrong, they are constantly looking for new dogwhistles and using them.

It seems like you're either lost in the weeds or have some obtuse agenda. This 'intellectual' sophistry is meaningless to 99% of your fellow humans. I don't see how anything you've said negates the paradox of tolerance-- there is a line to be drawn or fascists win, it's that simple to me and I cannot imagine an argument that would convince me otherwise.
You mean to say colonizers paid tax to the colonized country? Is this a joke?
We actually do have such a tax! And I'm glad you reminded me because my residency status changed meaning that I now need to start paying this :D

The tax is from the local municipality, and I think it’s for upkeep of some dog infrastructure - dedicated dog parks, bins with little bags. It’s not much
Well, I don't think it can be viewed as a text UI since you interact with components and don't type commands. I would say it is a keyboard based GUI.
Tom Paine no doubt is the most influential because even Bob Dylan sings about him:
...

Just then Tom Paine, himself
Came running from across the field
Shouting at this lovely girl
And commanding her to yield

And as she was letting go her grip
Up Tom Paine did run
"I'm sorry, sir", he said to me
"I'm sorry for what she's done"
> Marin county became the first county to impose mandatory water-use restrictions on 1 May.

Given the apparent speed with which reservoirs and rivers are drying up, the surprising part is how slow local governments have been to react.
Wouldn't Golang be the TypeScript here as alternative to Rust ?
How do you figure? Say I have 8 kw of solar panels + storage on my house and those exceed my needs by 25% in the summer, but run short by 10% in the winter.

Sure, I grid power, but the peak is on a hot day in the summer and even if I don't meet my needs because it's cloudy, I'm still producing power and therefore decreasing the peak.
Extracting value from one nation/people and not paying taxes to support the public services of that nation/people is "not pulling your weight". Your corporate entity is involved in the life of these people so it should pay for their growth. That is more of an axiom for me.
Zwift is great if you like cycling.
My mom's first response after I deployed AdGuard Home in her network was "I don't know what you did but my phone feels faster" lol
> Surprised other countries aren't calling this out as an attack on their sovereignty.

That is called out early in the article: that issue has blocked progress* on this issue until now but the financial impact of the pandemic (greater calls on governments as “insurers of last resort” and greater profits at the top of the power law distribution) plus changes in governments has created a different environment.

* “progress” in the sense of forward motion; not using the word in any political sense.
You see exactly the same thing in ecology/environmental circles.

If you're concerned about climate change and resource constraints but you don't see a problem with migrating or bringing seven billion people up to American consumption and carbon emission standards, I don't know what to tell you.

Neoliberalism has infected every progressive movement and it's disgusting.
This is really a great lesson at always taking things in skeptically. I saw yale.edu and the great detail in multiple sections and the block of citations at the bottom that I let my guard down.
cURL has above-average name recognition. It's like mentioning a Dremel tool instead of a handheld rotary tool.
At the end of the day, though, you can't remap keys in a fully general way in Firefox[1], so the experience has regressed.

[1] Extensions can change it, but they don't take effect until the tab for current page has loaded, which often defeats the purpose.
Oh Yeah: Dieter Meier, of the band Yello, made a plaque with a promise that he honored 22 years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Meier

>As a conceptual artist, he has been keeping himself busy with many art exhibitions. He began his career as a performance artist in the late 1960s. In 1972 as part of Documenta 5, Meier installed a commemorative plaque at the railway station in Kassel (Germany) which read: "On 23 March 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later.

https://www.dietermeier.com/1994

https://fawny.org/shyello.html
Probably because the definition of "assault weapon" is pretty bogus. It's defined as possessing a certain number of features from a list--but some of them are effectively just cosmetic. There are perfectly legal hunting guns with exactly the same performance as illegal "assault weapons"--all the important parts are the same.

Thus it comes down to evil-looking guns.
People were rarer too. 3B in 1960 to 7.7B today. Not to mention resource consumed per capita exploded.
It's not obvious to me that huge growth in immigration starting the mid/late in 1970's accompanied with the increase in international trade were not the main reasons why labor unions lost most of their power. As soon as companies were able to bypass the unions by hiring "cheap" immigrants or by altogether moving/outsourcing manufacturing to other companies they were doomed. While outsourcing was probably not the most significant factor in the meat packaging industry (or food/agriculture industries in general) the decrease in high-paying jobs with low entry barriers in other manufacturing sectors still allowed companies to decrease wages.

I don't really see how any attempt to prop up the unions without introducing prohibitive tariffs would have resulted in anything but American companies becoming totally uncompetitive (this mostly happened anyway, though...).
There were always concessions and deals with kings and empires for monopolies, free trade and exclusions from taxation. There are myriads of examples from the age of empires. E.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
This should have “Ask HN” in the title.
it’s inconsiderate because you’re forcing strangers to trust you in a situation where you could alternatively follow a simple rule… it also sets a bad example for people with poorly trained dogs. We live in a society, not everything is about you.
That statement seems incomplete to me. It should be "you overtax what you want less of, but you tax most things at a baseline level".
"difficult to onboard", yeah why not if your juniors are not self learning. But "too slow"? What?!

Edit: oh I get it, "too slow" as in "compilation time". I guess they really needed excuses to move back to another language.
I'm particularly confused because this comment of mine is downvoted despite me agreeing with the idea that dogs should be leashed in these situations. But I understand - people get annoyed and irritated, and really it's just meaningless internet numbers at stake so it doesn't matter :)
Sure, but these people must have left that golden zone at some point and had their clicks stolen like the rest of us.
Because people are interested in what exceptional people a country produced, not which ones it merely imported from elsewhere.
PDF supports this use case by adding an invisible text layer on top of the raster content.

On the other hand, JBIG2 doesn’t actually do OCR. It only does template matching of similar-looking blocks of pixels. The compressor doesn’t try to understand which letter those pixels represent.
The release date is supposed to be "early 2021" which I'm guessing would be Q1. If I go to walkingdre.am and try to subscribe to their mailing list, I get a 404. I wonder what the status of this project is.
> Patriot Act was voted in and was the law of the land.
Show HN: Taskbar notifier for Outlook folders
Ask HN: Are accelerators worth it anymore?
I’ve seen accelerators grow from an energetic space filled with smart people solving hard problems (~8 years ago) to massive scale transactional factories that churn out anyone that can sell anything, and in some cases, even if it’s vapourware.

The controversy with YC investing in that ridiculous MMORPG game has partly led me thinking this, but also I think I’m seeing this trend of accelerators creating lower mean value per startup in a cohort across the board.

Any thoughts on this?
"Before his death in 1849 at age 40, Poe largely created the modern short story, while also inventing or perfecting half the genres represented on the bestseller list, including the mystery ("The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Gold-Bug"), science fiction ("The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion"), psychological suspense ("The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado") and, of course, gothic horror ("The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Masque of the Red Death," the incomparable "Ligeia")."

I love Poe, but whether he can be credited with inventing these genres is highly debatable.

On the origin of the mystery tale, Poe published "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841, and "The Gold-Bug" in 1843.

In 1819 ETA Hoffmann wrote "Mademoiselle de Scuderi".

To my knowledge, it was Hoffmann's work, written decades before Poe's, that was the prototypical detective story (featuring a female detective even!).

On the origin of the Gothic, Poe published "The Fall of the House of Usher" in 1839, "The Masque of the Red Death" in 1842, and "Ligeia" in 1838.

By then, the Gothic genre was well under way, with Horace Walpole having published the classic The Castle of Otranto in 1764. Ann Radclife (the mother of the Gothic) had published The Mysteries of Udolpho in 1794 and it was already parodied by Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey in 1817, long before Poe even started writing any of his Gothic fiction.

Science fiction has a very long history, and depending on how you define it could go back at least to the 2nd Century AD, with Lucian's A True Story (featuring travel to outer space, encounters with aliens, and interplanetary warfare), but if you didn't accept that as "true science fiction" there are plenty of other candidates which predate Poe, such as parts of the Arabian Nights (well over a thousand years old by the time Poe started writing), Gulliver's Travels (1726), Voltaire's Micromegas (1752), and of course Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818).
But they aren't always treated the same as humans. In some cases they are, but it is not a blanket "corporations are people". In order for me to buy an argument like this, you'd need to dig into the specifics of how the ways in which corporations are treated the same as people justifies the argument. And also consider the ways in which corporations aren't treated the same, why they are treated differently, and how that also impacts the argument.
The main issue tackled here is that multinational corporations operate across borders, and thus create problems of capital flight out of a country. Thus, even if the economic activity is almost entirely happening within a country (e.g. a local shop uses locally targeted online ads, sold by a sales team working out of a local call center, to attract neighborhood customers), the profits could be captured somewhere else, like an Irish subsidiary handling profits from continental Europe. Even if those profits get reinvested or distributed to shareholders, they might not get reinvested or distributed in that country where the revenue was generated.
Because it doesn't allow people to leave it.

This is the recipe that gets you communism / nazism / all kinds of single-minded societies. Do people forget that millions died for the freedom from such regimes?
Absolutely. If anything, the paragraph-long drink orders have become iconic; in my mind, they are now a large part of Starbucks’s brand identity. They may take longer to make, but customers also pay the price for this.

In any case, I visit Starbucks often and the only thing I ever order is black coffee; it is exceedingly rare for the line to be so long that I leave without ordering.
"You say jump, I say 'how high'?"

Yes, it's just a line from a trite song you saw through even when you were in high school. But the awful truth is that it captures the reality of the corporate mindset very, very succinctly. Give people enough money and security... and whatever bullshit you ask them to sign onto, no matter how abusive and destructive it is to other people... they will happily come on board. And push the sleep button ever so firmly whatever parts of their brains might have (in a younger self) screamed out in protest.

"Hire people just to fire them, Mr Bezos? It's not exactly what you're asking us to do of course, but if one reads between the lines in these mandatory attrition guidelines... okay, sure, we get it. And sure, it will inevitably lead to ruined careers, mental breakdowns, more than a few divorces, maybe a suicide or two... but hey, as long as the music's playing, we gotta dance, right?"

It's just the way things work, and have always worked in hierarchical social structures.
a) s/yourself/you to/
b) a laughably small number of whales -- even though it's more than it was -- doesn't invalidate the premise of the article. The only reason there are a few more whales than there were is the ban on hunting. The reason there aren't lot more of them is that there isn't enough food, because you, and me, and everyone else is fucking up the climate.
Alternatively one department's product conflicts with another department's tool.
NVMeTCP Offload Bits Coming for Linux 5.14 to Lower CPU Utilization and Latency
I made this for myself at first but I thought I could share.

- Motivation 1
Outlook does not show an envelope icon if the emails are moved into sub folders. Sometimes I don't notice unread mails if I miss the desktop notifications.

- Motivation 2
There are many web services which have notifications. However, their ways of implementation vary. Some have desktop notifications but don't have badge notifications or some only have email notifications.
I wanted to make them somewhat consistent and thought of utilizing basic email notifications. The customizable icons, actions and thumb buttons of the notifier are intended to make it work like a desktop app that handles notification and navigation part of the service.

If you are an Outlook user please have a try. Thank you.
1. Make typsafe query builders that compose like SQL more popular than the left-to-right DSL style that paint you in a corner when you know the SQL that you want but end up writing it verbatim because the DSL is less understandable/maintainable.

2. Make concurrent functional languages with type inference (like F# or OCaml) taught more and popular.

3. Make a framework with static typing more popular than Rails. Spring fails because of JPQL and Hibernate/entity-manager. This doesn't have to be for the JVM or any VM, but it must have fast compile and run times.

Machine Learning does not solve these problems, though it may solve a small subset of problems these tools are used to solve.

Edit: In general, make things popular on deeper merit rather than initial convenience. Even in this internet age, there's still strong local popularity and not-invented-here syndrome.
People hold crypto for the same reason that someone would hold any investment, they believe it will go higher. Of course that could be wrong with crypto, but the same applies to any investment. Risk/Reward.
So if someone has a small company in Bermuda with 10 employees and they serve US customers primarily, will they be impacted by this?
NAS 101: An intro chat about Network Attached Storage
I think "too slow" is "too slow to onboard juniors", not "too slow in terms of performance".
> what DO you want?

The freedom to do whatever i want. Societies don't really provide freedoms, they exist to curb them. Technology on the other hand is empowering individuals
I don't think building "private infrastructure" in the sense of streets on public ground would make any sense or ever be allowed.

The company could just pay for the usage of the road (in some way) and the government makes sure the roads exist. Besides the bureaucratic overhead, I don't see why that couldn't work.
Here’s an emacs tutorial written by Laura Viglioni. Her tutorial covers setting up a react dev environment in emacs.

https://dev.to/viglioni/how-i-set-up-my-emacs-for-typescript...
I think bathroom breaks in warehouses was an issue several years ago. When that got enough media attention, it seems to have stopped (at least mostly); but now that bathroom breaks for drivers is an issue, a lot of people are assuming it's the same thing, so it must have been going on the whole time.

But while it's the same type of problem, it's not quite the same problem as before.