skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google turn every result on their search result page into a tracking URL if you have JS disabled. The solution is to allow JavaScript and install the Google Search Link Fix add-on, until they break that too I guess. Or use another search engine.
I'm not sure that the area that's affected by this drought has a large amount of ranching activity. I'll just speak for Nevada, but the state is very unhospitable for ranching activities because it's pretty much a desert.
Seems nice in theory, though I'm immediately turned off by having to reach for special characters not on my keyboard.
Even domestically - US interstate sales tax rules are a mess too.
oh, and any given dev can switch from high performance to bare minimum depending on the project, week of the month, what they ate for dinner last night, etc.
Your first point is very good.

Covid-19 is caused by a virus. The resulting etiology has a complex interaction with underlying conditions resulting in bacterial and other viral infections.

The fact that so many doctors, who I agree are not scientists and often ill equipped to tease apart causality, seem to be experimenting with it, should at least give us pause to look at it with a neutral posture. HCQ's incredible efficacy and safety, probably billions of doses are ingested every year, makes it a good candidate for this investigation.
Wait, which part of it is bullshit? I have a feeling there is some terrible misunderstanding here.

>>My 2009 328i has heated seats I've never once had to pay to activate.

Yes, what's your point?

>>No one in a fleet vehicle pays for their own 'upgrades', man.

In modern 2021+ and higher BMW models in the US, they do, man. That is literally BMW's payment model on NEW cars. Don't know why you'd assume I'm talking about a 2009 model.

>>DLC on cars and people are here defending it

So far I had like 40 replies to my comment with maybe one or two people defending the practice. Is it really worth getting upset over it(the people commenting, not the practice)?
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Nah, we're not talking past each other but we likely come from wildly different backgrounds.

To make a general statement saying managers are not needed is as silly as saying all developers are delusional
If I read it right harry8 is referring to themselves as the Bozo.
there isn't desert spread around the USA. I assume you meant middle of no-where, but often times there are farms spread out in the middle of no-where. 10-15 miles to next structure isn't "far away" for nuclear.
Indeed - the LG NEON-R 365 panels I got two years ago have these specs:

* First 5 years : 95%
* After 5th year : 0.4% annual degradation
* 25 years : 88.4%

The NEON-2 380W from this year looks roughly equivalent, and they have these specs:

* 1st year 98.5%
* from 2-24th year: 0.33%/year down
* 90.6% at year 25
If you want to learn more about array programming languages there is a new podcast series at https://www.arraycast.com with some banter, philosophy, history and a collection of related resources https://www.arraycast.com/resources
> There's a lot of non-billionaire retirement money in that $35 trillion

That’s my point. Soaking billionaires is just virtue signaling.

To 98% of the world, millionaires and billionaires might as well be the same thing.
Are there companies still producing modern keyboards with APL in mind? I like the idea but can't see how it would be practical with a normal keyboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_scheduling

Round robin is one of the algorithms that may be employed by an OS to handle scheduling. The problem you're talking about is known as 'starvation'.

The frequent context switching is a source of inefficiency here- if you interrupt one job to switch to another, you've got to ditch everything in memory from job 1 and load a bunch of new data from disk for job 2. And then when you switch back to job 1- same deal. I'd imagine the same would apply, maybe even more so, for people
All problems can be fixed. How you fix them is relative to what are you trying to optimize for. If the management is bad to development culture, the developers can go elsewhere. If the leaders (including developers and management) is bad with decision making, the market will fix it.
To be fair Citroen has made a lot of innovation from cooking foil!
> I'm not sure what understanding of "reparations" excludes those things? Both from a pure legal perspective and from a transitional justice perspective, monetary restitution is just one possible aspect of reparation.

Another comment in this thread says that giving money to the Namibian government was wrong because it was not going in the hand of those who suffered the consequence of the genocide which seems to indicate that for reparations to be considered "valid" it must be addressed directly to the wronged people. I don't see how a museum in Germany is going to repair the degradation of the descendant of the Namibian people who where massacred.

But anyway, let's assume that all these things could be considered reparations.

> To stretch the company/settlement analogy a little, I personally think it's rather clear that offering an out-of-court settlement rather than facing civil judgment is still cowardly/insulting (with an added helping of weaselling) if it comes from the successors of the company execs/staff that committed the wrong rather than the actual perpetrators.

But all the actual perpetrators (the killers or those who gave them orders) are dead. Justice in the case of dead perpetrators is moot. What remain is civil actions against the company itself. But as far as I know, there are no judicial framework to trial countries for "historical" acts. If this was the case, it would open many questions. What are the "historical" acts that can be brought to that court? Another commenter was talking about the invasion of eastern Europe by the Golden Horde ; should it be a candidate of a trial? Of course not but it means that there are some criteria that will be hard to get an agreement on.

Anyway, my beef with this is that the goalpost is not defined. And probably some people have qualms taking extensive (and expansive) steps to a moving goalpost.
But the Linux kernel had Linus Torvalds who acted as a dictator. We can argue he did some kind of technical management there.
Strongly agree with this. I've been in situations where my team had no manager, a bad manager, and a great manager. The situation where I had no manager was the worst, by far.

I've found that if you throw a bunch of Alpha Geeks together without constraints you may as well be herding cats. They'll want to work on their individual wishlists of strategic research problems (throw in this new tool! new methodologies I saw at this conference!) with less concern for the unromantic tactics, socialization, and alignment that makes a project succeed.
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Yep, operating as a "reseller" paper-wise. We currently use FastSpring for that
Has Serverless Jumped the Shark?
the reason wallstreet is poshing this as positive news is because investors react positively to the idea of pandemic recovery. most commenters have already proven this false. even if the 5% were true, it doesnt erase the billions in back-rent debt most americans are saddled with due to the eviction moratoriums. recovery IMO is still 2-5 years out.

The reason you should be seriously concerned about this inflation is because the fed never backed off quantitative easing from 2008, and in doing so has created a corporate credit bubble. To combat inflation in 2021, all they can do is hand-wave and insist this is "transient" inflation. nudging interest rates would cause a corporate debt crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_debt_bubble
I've honestly grown to hate my iPhone.

It hit me during a particularly stressful work period about a year ago that this device doesn't bring any happiness to my life and only brings anxiety, stress and saps my energy like a parasite.

Once that stressful period was over the feeling didn't go away though and now I can't even get rid of it because all my friends use apps to communicate rather than SMS so it's either I allow this parasite in my life or I just go disconnect almost completely.

and I don't think what I'm saying is ridiculous and I think Apple knows its bad otherwise they wouldn't be creating things like screentime tracking and focus modes.
Nah I'll take the cheaper Chinese alternative, this is exploitation.
Was hoping to find out who the next LTCM or Bear Stearns is.
When I was younger I wondered what all these other people in the business did with their time. Surely it was all about the code and all these other corporate drones just needed to respect that. Then I guess I started moving over to the dark side and got a bit more empathy for the real jobs that other people have to do - so devs don't have to spend ALL their time talking to customers, paying the bills, handling the marketing etc. Strangely many of these people, even customers, were curious about likely dates for shipping the work. Turned out their jobs depended on it too. I recently interviewed an engineer working at a startup run by engineers. There is no management, which he thought he'd like. Instead they use commitment. After 18 months of very long hours and weekends guess why he wanted to move on? Organizing the work and the people is an art, lots of people get it wrong even when they try hard to get it right - but these articles? I hope my competition is reading them.
If you want to see GUI evolution and the current state of the art, you have to look at very specific video games. Namely, ones where modding is allowed and acting smarter or faster is a competitive advantage.

From the article:

> Despite the best efforts of many dweebs, one handed text entry has never caught on [2].

One-handed text entry may not have, but putting one hand (usually your left) on the keyboard and one on the mouse, and using your voice for text related communication has taken over PC gaming. I wonder what an equivalent productivity app (or set of emacs modes) would look like.
Two words: base effects.

Year-over-year comparisons reflect the abysmal economic conditions during the pandemic. It's like comparing your current net income to one year ago but one year ago you were unemployed and paying off student loans while today you have a job at Google.

The comparisons to watch are month-over-month (MoM). The BLS reports MoM CPI increased 0.6%, after a 0.8% MoM increase in April:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

So the rate of CPI change is negative MoM.

From the same page, BLS reports CPI less food and energy fell MoM from 0.9% in April to 0.7% in May.

The real headline here should be that inflation is slowing on a MoM basis.

It's that rate of change of inflation that matters. If it remains negative (disinflation), then price increases will continue to subside.

But if CPI growth remains negative for long enough, it can translate into deflation. That's not an outcome being discussed widely now, and for that reason (among others) it should be considered seriously.

Policy makers talk and act as if only one of those two outcomes truly terrifies them: deflation. Japan has been in an on-again-off-again deflationary slump for decades, despite the BoJ now owning a good chunk of the Japanese stock market, many years of QE, and substantial deficit spending.
Tabular Data: Deep Learning Is Not All You Need [pdf]
I was able to just click through. Here's the PDF:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b4e34d1f2e6b166c33dc...
My answer was intentionally phrased to mirror the absolutism of the GP. A large part of my time is spent explaining why certain process is in place or why we cannot get a license for this or that tool or why one needs to be considerate of the other crafts.
In Australia, we have desert courses where the greens are a fine bitumen/gravel. The fairways are not irrigated.
Our company was part of the beta and we were having buggy issues when trying to use Stripe Tax alongside the Customer Portal, which AFAIK they haven't resolved yet. So just FYI if you implement and bump into this, it's them not you.
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I'd pay to breathe polluted air if that was the only air that was available to buy in my area. After all, people will choose to die slowly instead of choking to death immediately.

There are real world examples of this. Internet, tap water, etc.

Your philosophy doesn't seem very well thought out.
This can only be true for teams built of mid level to senior engineers, right?
I try to line up several interviews at once. Always assume you're not getting any particular job.

It also helps to not get hung up on one particular company.
I've come to the conclusion that software managers are not needed

I think some layer of management is needed for strategy, business operations, market positioning, etc., but they should get out of the way as much as possible, similar to how Joel has done it at Fog Creek.

Many years ago I was visiting a startup being incubated at Stevens Institute in Hoboken, and there was a group of graduate engineer students on-site looking at a demonstration; the CEO asked what the most important factor in building the product was, and the very smart engineers talked about output, efficiency, portability/miniaturization, etc. The CEO stopped the brainstorming and said "whether or not someone will buy the product".
Its only the most expensive thing in most people's lives that has doubled in cost in about 10 years... 10 years i'd be able to afford a 150m2 house with my salary. Now a 75m2 house costs the same.

Yes, I can sell the house for more money afterwards, but the inflation is still there, people are getting less whilst paying more. This is an especially rough deal for non-homeowners who want to enter the market, because they have not profited of the apprecation in the past decade.

Its by far the most expensive purchase in peoples lives, vital to our needs just like food and water... And I really dont agree with not tracking it in CPI.
> doesnt erase the billions in back-rent debt most americans are saddled with due to the eviction moratoriums

“Most” Americans? Surely it’s not even close to 50%. Source?
My point is when you own a house your expenses don't skyrocket because your neighbor sold a house for a 30% higher price this year than your other neighbor last year.

Houses may or may not be half of people's spending like the poster above claimed, but homeowners generally do not see prices inflate when a small portion of their neighbors buy or sell homes.

So whether or not housing is 50 percent of people's expenses that doesn't mean 50 percent of expenses have been subject to inflation.
Conservatives don't like change. We shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good enough. A carbon tax is the right solution, but it isn't the one we will see in this congress. Meanwhile actually doing something actually makes a difference. Pontificating hypothetical policy is not an alternative solution.
I recently purchased an old 4Runner from the mid 2000's, I though I would hate it, but it's become my favorite car (that I've owned) of all time. The biggest reason is seeing articles like these, more and more cars are closed off, requiring you to "subscribe" to get all the features of the vehicle.

My car doesn't play those games, it's a simple car, no infotainment system, no self driving or autopilot features, no subscription features. Everything works exactly as expected, something breaks and it's easy to fix. Even thought its super basic and doesn't have any modern features, its my favorite car I've ever owned.
I think this is great. I hope other podcast apps start supporting a similar protocol. Perhaps they could connect directly in the app to a Patreon feed.

I think a fair number of people would pay small amounts of money for a podcast, but even the tiniest bit of friction will reduce that number. The payment system is also friction, but if people could centralize on one or two systems (like Apple and Patreon), then they could reduce it to "You've already signed up, just click this button to throw $1 per episode at these guys."

My "podcast bill" is about $30 a month, all of it voluntary. I consider it a bargain for the over 100 hours of podcasts I download per month. (I don't throw money at all of them. Many are entirely ad-supported.)
$0?

ProPublica's piece said that Bezo's paid $955 million, Elon Musk Paid $455 million and Buffet paid $23 million. This being 18-33% of their income. ProPublica then made the leap to compare their income tax to their net worth for some reason so they can say they are taxed "almost nothing".

Now they are taking that "almost nothing" tax and saying that it was literally a $0 income tax? Come on.
Ask HN: What's a good TS codebase to learn from?
I have dipped my toes into Typescript a few times but whenever I've started a project with it I get stuck on things that aren't covered in the basic intros. I'm looking for a couple of codebases that I can dive into to see how things are done (and maybe learn something about structuring projects too).
They are run through a shredder and the materials reclaimed. Veolia in Europe has a plant in production, Australia is building one.
Thanks for the quality work here. Have been considering using this over infinicache or hazelcast for locally replicated caching scenario. Are there any battle testing stories/case-studies out there?
On one level, yes, that's true. On another level, I think you may have left out the human factor. To me, the most important thing about these sorts of models is that they're mental models - they don't govern how the computer language works so much as they govern how the computer programmer works.

For my part, I think about very data (and, by extension, memory) differently depending on whether I'm working in Java or Forth (admittedly it's been a while) or SQL or APL (admittedly not much experience here, unless you're willing to charitably allow me to count numpy). Apache Spark is perhaps yet another model; I'm not sure how to reconcile it with the six in the article. And the different ways of thinking lead to fundamentally different approaches to domain modeling when I'm working in each language.

Reading the article actually helped me understand another angle to my disdain for object-relational modeling: By trying to hack the relational database into being just an object store, you end up sacrificing the unique data modeling possibilities that the relational model offers, and replace it with a rather poor implementation of object graphs. It's difficult for me to see that sort of thing as a clear win. If you want Gemstone, just use Gemstone.
> Despite the bizarre housing market right now, I wouldn't be surprised if on average most people were spending less on monthly payments.

To add a supporting anecdote from my recently finished adventure in house hunting, condos in desirable HCOL areas are also on fire but the demand actually dries up at a certain price point - around 1.3-1.4MM where I live. The most expensive downtown areas (where condos regularly go 2MM or higher) seem to have a massive glut of units and sometimes entire buildings on sale.

Personally, I bought a 1MM condo that was originally priced at 1.2MM and had a price decrease. It's not particularly cheap by any means, but it's not significantly more than I would have been paying in 2019, I don't think.

edit: A fun way to see this yourself is to use a search on redfin for "price reduced in 14 days" and see which neighborhoods / price points show up in your city. Where I live, it's the pricy condos. Single families still sell at almost any price point, and more affordable condos sell as well.
Wow, that's certainly a faster way to read HN! :-D

Thanks!
Agree, when you have thousands of simultaneous users, it could be time to think what the hell are you doing.

But the number sounds a bit off… I have fuzzy memories of some fun around that many concurrent requests with Apache 1.3 — that is, one process per user. Doesn't the fun begin quite a bit higher with just any more modern software?
Exactly why more people should switch to Linux on their desktops/laptops.

> but Linux sucks, it's ugly, it's broken, it doesn't work, blah blah blah!

The amount of time people spend complaining about the evil shit their monopolist is doing to them would be better spent learning how to use Linux. It's not that hard.

A farmer isn't going to make changes to their business model because the cattle is complaining. Microsoft is going to keep doing what they're doing until the government steps in (which is unlikely to happen any time soon). Same goes for Apple, Amazon, Google, and all these companies that are immune to competitive forces.
Microsoft to sell streaming devices in Xbox Game Pass expansion
It looks like Dyalog are selling keyboards

> A different keyboard is not required to enter Dyalog glyphs. However, if you would like one, Black Cherry G80-3000 keyboards with Dyalog glyphs engraved are available in UK, US, DE and DK layouts. USB and PS2 adapters are included. The keyboards have been tested using both Microsoft Windows and Linux

https://www.dyalog.com/apl-font-keyboard.htm

I wonder if there are keyboard sticker sets available somewhere. I think I've seen some in the past for video editing software.
This is so on point. About a year ago I was thinking of opening a company and selling digital products with Stripe in Japan (where I live). They offered a quick free call to answer my questions, and I did so. I am not fluent in Japanese so any help I'm offered I take it, and I wanted to know how many other troubles I could face at this endeavor.

All my questions were answered promptly and greatly by them, and I was getting more and more convinced to do it. Until I asked, "Stripe handles sales taxes, right?" and the answer was "no". They gave me a brief overview of how that works though. Let me tell you I know why you don't see an "Amazon of Japan", apparently in here I'd have to calculate the sales taxes for every country where my products are sold through agreements of Japan-{said country}. Some countries don't even have agreements like Brazil so they are in a gray area.

It seems like Stripe Tax might be a game changer for this specific situation! I'm not ready right now personally/professionally to try to do the company, but let's see in 6 months - 1 year. I am so jubilant!

PS, this is from a quick conversation I had ~1 year ago, so some small details might be fuzzy/outdated/incorrect. Ofc this is no legal or accountant or any kind of advice, just my experience.
Because HN is full of people who care about the Internet and Google has been working to destroy the Internet for the past 15 years?
It's not really a wrapper - it's a client in client/server architecture - the difference is important because it means that .NET is a first-class citizen here (like selenium and unlike tools like puppeteer-sharp) and that updates propagate to all languages automatically.

The downside is indeed that you need a "server running".
> That is if you believe biological general intelligence is the end goal of evolution, which I believe is highly unlikely.

I would agree, but might add that evolution doesn't have 'goals'.

Is that the point you were trying to make?
> which is obviously nonsense.

I think I've observed enough of this sentiment over the years, from some very smart and successful people, to come to the conclusion that, if it is nonsense, it is non-obvious.

> I never diminish anyone

Perhaps you never _intend_ to diminish anyone, but to some, your statements may reasonably appear to be diminishing some cohort.
This is a nice response. Thank you for sharing.