skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was having a conversation about the pandemic with a friend who is a dog trainer, and she commented that the shelter she works with saw a lot of people get dogs during the pandemic when they were homebound, and now those dogs are starting to come back to the shelter.

Note that this is one anecdote, not well sourced data.
The issue is that if you break one HSM, you get the ability to bruteforce thousands (millions?) of users' PINs, without their knowledge. You could bruteforce someone's PIN ahead of time, then acquire their phone knowing you can get at the data with zero risk. Getting the phone first then figuring out how to break into it is a lot trickier.

I do in fact trust the SEP more than I trust cloud HSM, because the SEP is an Apple design, and the HSMs they use, as far as I know, are third-party.
Joe Public doesn't get any of that. They see the headline and run with it.
"A Writer at War" - the translation of his diary from 41-45 - is truly the most moving, most horrifying book I have ever read. After reading the account of the uprising at Treblinka, I was changed forever. I think it goes to show what an incredible man Grossman was, as just weeks after liberating the death camps, he resolutely chronicles the mass rape and murder of German civilians by his own forces.
@sleepingsoul , how good is your database? Just tried a random paper I've read recently (DOI 10.1109/32.748920). It shows "no citations" in Scite, but Google Scholar shows "Cited by 1180": https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=9052935302971671123...
half a liter and I'm going to the WC in 15 minutes. But then I weigh little. If you drink 2 liters and don't need to check the toilette for several hours, I'd visit a doctor.
Yes, they do employ a quite holistic view on online privacy; requiring you to put a lot of trust in them. I did not intend to diminish the value of your service.
How would DSM-IV treat this delusion? Not too long ago, those with non-conventional or distored self-views and views of society would be put in mental institutions and treated as mental disorders. I'm referring to the puppy delusion above.
^^^ This.

Comparing artifacts at 0.2 bpp is tempting because the artifacts are big there. But it's like buying a car based on how it performs when you are using only the first gear.
> Since most of the population has absolutely nothing saved, capital gains taxes on their index funds are completely irrelevant.

That’s not true for US - “ overall median net worth of U.S. households, which is $121,700.”[1]

Capital gains can be especially problematic on housing, where let’s say a retire bought in the 70s and now wants to downsize, that $250k individual or $500k married exception isn’t going to cover their “gain” on the house, when in reality only part of it is real gain. Let’s say the house was bought for $25k in 1970 (CA average at the time) and sold for 814k (CA average for April 2021). That’s 814k - 25k base price of the asset less 250k (assuming windowed filing single) = 539k taxable capital gain. However, that 25k in today’s money is more like $178k[2], so we are taxing inflation “gain” that’s not actually real value already.

The Biden approach of taxing cap gains over $1m is going to impact a lot more American dream type of regular people (sold home for a good gain, sold a small business, etc).

The Warren wealth tax approach is going to be next to impossible to collect.

Swiss have managed to pull off a wealth tax (0.3 to 0.5%) on all wealth and also have low income tax rates, compensated for with VAT and other consumption/use taxes[3].

Perhaps we can learn something there - I’d prefer to see lower income and gains taxes for most people to enable wealth building for most of the population and more focus on use of the money, e.g buying regular food should be no tax (it’s a necessity), but buying a private jet can be 50% VAT (value added tax). Buying a Camry same idea say 10% VAT (or no tax at all as necessity?), but buying a $500k sports car, can be 25% VAT. This way the regular folks leading regular lifestyles don’t end up heavily taxed, but luxury consumption is.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/select/average-net-worth-by-age/
[2] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=25000&year1=19...
[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Switzerland
> The only people working will be those that want to work

and there wouldn't be enough of them to support the remaining.

The "funding" of UBI have to come from a technological advance, such as effectively free energy, which powers automation in such a way that owners of these resources would not miss a small tax to pay for the bare minimum UBI.
I am using the built-in webcam for video as well as a boring white wall as backdrop, as to not over-design the self-presentation. But I invested quite a bit of time in setting up a good microphone and pre-amp, as listening to bad audio is the most tiring part of videoconferencing for me.
Since they want to move to a digital Yuan (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/chinas-digital-yuan-what-is-...), this is no surprise

China can't control what they don't own

And the CCP has been about control since they started
That doesn’t explain taxing boats/cars/etc.

The historic reality is property tax was equivalent to wealth tax for thousands of years. It’s only recently that intangible assets became so valuable.
Yes running your own mail is still hard, and our approach is to manage and automate existing MTAs via an Open Source app: Lightmeter.io.
Maddy looks great, and necessary. For people wanting to stick with Postfix, Lightmeter is worth a look. FYI we recently did the YC S21 interview but flunked the last hurdle this time around.
I admit I don't know how this all works. But just a few naive questions: if these folks are taking out loans backed by the shares of their stock, how do you repay that loan without triggering a taxable event (ie selling shares). If we as a society want to prevent this from happening, can the government force the banks to raise the rates on these types of loans so it becomes less attractive for these individuals. The US could then require that some % of that loan to account for taxes.
WeWork Posts Best Sales Since Dropping IPO Plans in 2019
China has given away millions in its digital yuan trials. This is how it works
Surely you aren't comparing people's expectations of a gun manufacturer versus Amazon?
Congress Announces Willingness to Give BLM Protestors Statue or Holiday - Onion
> Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns disintegrating did not bring total collapse to the financial markets.

The market started to collapse when the Fed stepped in to bailout banks and AIG and others.
It wasn't Jupyter related, but I can't remember which specific packages it was. It was quite a few years ago
Based on the health differentials between formula/natural, I wonder if actuaries have calculated the effective cost burden of the different methods. E.g. are the health externalities of formula such that one should pay women not to use it?
Forcing employees to take a holiday is often done purely out of the company's self-interest, as accrued leave is a liability on the books.
Mine was infinity.
What is a true female only space? That sounds like transphobic rhetoric.
I'm definitely going to make friends with a personal posession assessor, together we'll make sure that our enemies with gold teeth have those teeth valued higher. I'd bid that tooth up higher. It's got real value AND emotional value.
It's just not the same thing.

I recently switched from high-end Atari emulators to real hardware, and there's no comparison. Even the best emulators have latency issues, and compatibility issues.

When I switched from emulators to actual hardware, suddenly my paddles work perfectly, and the screen artifacts that appear in some games disappeared! I guess emulators just can't handle the A/D conversion well.
Already discussed many times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27441277 (267 points/12 days ago/404 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432326 (1031 points/13 days ago/970 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27434307 (609 points/13 days ago/568 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27474673 (37 points/9 days ago/21 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27435983 (28 points/12 days ago/6 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27546005 (25 points/3 days ago/8 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27465272 (20 points/10 days ago//21 comments)
If you are taxed 99 cents for every dollar you earn, you're still better off earning the dollar.
Came here to say this - the next line made it even more clear that Yegge is making a joke.

Here's a mirror of the original essay: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

Ha, ha! You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a shit about your day.
Is your employer going to write down a loss of $20k on the books when you take a week off work? Probably not, because opportunity cost isn't actually an expense.
Not sure if Sarcasm. Drinking salty/sugary water will actually dehydrate you.
TrueSpace 7.6 Scripting Docs (2009)
Crossies and the rescue of Murfie, and looks like it based on the info on the website(s).
Maybe this will motivate us to finally design and launch a probe that launches in two or more launches, all but one of which are fuel.

All our normal expectations for probe arrival times and such are based on one-shot launches, straight out of Earth's gravity well into escape velocity in one shot. It's not like launching with fuel suddenly makes it a two-day trip or anything, but it can do quite a bit of shortening and allow for quite a lot more maneuvering.

This is one of the next touchstones in space progress I've been looking for. A lot of previously impractical things become practical if we can routinely do multilaunches.
If we can afford to keep people alive surely we can arrange for them to do something useful too. Unless we intend to condemn large numbers of people to chronic poverty we have to pay more than starvation wages even to those who do nothing.

It seems to me that the question to be answered is: how can we afford to not have full employment?
Picture-in-picture is finally coming to YouTube for iOS users
This looks like they're the spiritual siblings of this company [1]. Apart from all the tat, they used to be the main source of electronics parts for more casual hobbyists in Norway, though new rather than surplus.

I grew up going to his shop, and getting their print catalog of several hundred pages.

When they went online, they spewed the print catalog onto web pages, and added animations. He sold the whole thing to someone who wanted make it into a more serious business - said acquirer ran it into the ground, and the original founder bought it back.

[1] https://www.arngren.net/
Modern obsession in American culture?

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-evolution/news/2018/feb/archaeol...

Do a search on "oldest dog burial" and you'll find that humans, from many different cultures and regions for thousands of years, have had dogs in such high esteem (pets) that burying them was important. Theres even some studies that claim humans and dogs evolved together in some respects due to the high prevalence of interaction for 40,000 some odd years. Dogs as pets or even family/tribe members ain't new, by a long shot.

As an American, yea, the USA is awesome, but we're not so awesome that we invented having pets.
It's actually a crazy feeling to go 24 hours without water and then take a drink of water when it's warm. I've felt the crossover where my body decided that is safe to ramp up sweat production.
This seems so true. A friend of mine got hired in Northern Virginia. He was Java developer for ten years. But at Amazon it is about same as you described.
Contaminated blood inquiry: The school where dozens of pupils died
Gender describes a person's identities, expressions, socially constructed roles, and behaviors. It has nothing to do with biological sex. Choosing your gender is effectively equivalent to choosing what you want to wear: it's an expression.
I did that exact same thing, highly effective. It essentially tells your opponent during the negotiations that you have the advantage and that now you are both aware of it.
I suspect the amount you can "carry" in your body (ie. not including the amount you'll urinate 1 hour later) is in the order of 1-2kg tops, so ease of carrying isn't noticeable.
USDC is controlled by US, which has been playing geopolitical games with El Salvador (and other countries) already.

People El Salvador didn't get the $1200 checks that US citizens got from printing more USD, even though they both use USD in theory. The president tried to get a deal with the IMF, but they couldn't agree on the terms, so he decided to give a choice to the people between a safe but inflating currency and a volatile / experimental but deflating currency.

Luckily there are enough market makers in both countries that transferring USD and recieving USD through the Bitcoin / Lightning network is cheaper and faster than using the traditional banking infrastructure.

I have a girlfriend in Colombia, and in addition to the 10% remittance fee she always has to go to the city from her village (1 hour bus ride) just to get money. I wish I could just send her money through Lightning network (she has internet + iPhone, so installing an app is not a problem).
Indeed, but haggling can go both ways, there is no set rule that says you can only haggle down.
It already is taxed as ordinary income - RSUs are taxed as cash when vested. Incentive stock options (you have to buy these out at strike price) are taxed as income for value at exercise less strike price.

The advantage of RSU over regular cash comp is that they can appreciate while not yet vested - it’s like putting your future salary into stock market, it can go up or down. Then when vested, it’s taxed as cash salary (no long term capital gains advantage here).
Is "puppy pregnancy" a medical term, or something? The way this is written makes it sound like it's a pre-existing concept in the space.
I don't think you can change human behavior.

But you can accept it and design systems with that in mind.

So I guess I do like theory. But I think having conversations about how to force humans to behave differently is a waste of precious resources.

Human nature is to help disabled people when there is a surplus of resources, and to not help when there's not enough. So I think talking about what should happen during times of scarcity is not a good use of resources, because disabled people will always be abandoned when the resources do not exist to care for them. Nothing can change that.

Better to focus on building systems that reduce the severity and duration of bad times so they are short lived and prosperous times are longer lived.
The martian atmosphere will have a negligible impact on a 200km wide object. Tidal forces would likely shred the object and the surface of Mars if an aerobraking maneuver was attempted.
It's all standard HID interface these days.
Footprints of dinosaurs that walked on Earth 110M years ago found in UK
All of this is assets that can loose value when inflation goes up, as they are denoted in the same currency that's inflating the reason they don't now is that we deliberately tie the value of money to the value of land.

The problem for the wannabe feudalists is the same that killed off the landed gentry, when workers got rights and privileges in the 18th century, is that land not worked is not really worth anything so they will have to spend more and more of their profit maintaining the productivity as people gain more economic power to live elsewhere or differently.

And cheap land is around especially if you break free of the large cities.
I totally agree on that. I tried the old version (intel based). And it to me quite some time to do the projects. But I learned a lot in the process.
I think it’s more like « this place is full of smart people that knows this is shit so if nobody fixed it already, it must be hard to fix ».

And since this is a shared behavior, even your potential fix can be hard to get reviewed because everyone will be afraid of the potential side effects because nobody understands why it even worked like this.
Amazon has "Warehouse Deals" for damaged items (either in the warehouse or transport, or, I guess, returned by customers). You can specifically search for them.

A few times I got perfectly brand new products, box not opened or damaged.
> It’s 10x more useful, and way more user friendly.

It just isn't in my use case. For me, the only use of a watch is on the go. When I'm not on the go, I already have a computer w/me which is more powerful than any smartwatch. Therefore, if I am on the move, I want to blindly use my watch, just like I type this message blind on a keyboard. Physical buttons aid with that. If I am catching a bus, I want to be able to control Spotify. If I am running, I want to be able to control Spotify. Touchscreens are far more cumbersome in that regard.

Apple Watch, yes very powerful computer, beautiful screen, and very expensive (more so if you want the medical features). You have to give it juice every night, and it requires either a 4G connection or you're having to pay for another plan or it uses Bluetooth w/your smartphone. These devices don't have enough storage for my liking. I mean, I am sure I could add and use a microSD with 256 GB or more to it, if it had that option. Instead we gotta rely on very little storage, Bluetooth with smartphone, or another SIM + data plan. All in all a completely different purpose and price class.
Humans are high-maintenance.

Because we have skills to maintain ourselves in advanced ways, the optimal answer was apparently to give us more problems to solve while liberating us from the drawbacks of built-in solutions.
It was more a case of "someone else sold a service to people, failed as a business, all the physical media of those clients was close to being trashed, and he stepped in and took it on." http://www.crossies.com/murfie/crossies_history.html
There are _many_ turtles all the way down here:

- The Pinephone uses a Quectel EG25-G, which is a System on a Module that combines a baseband modem with the necessary RF front-end bits and power needs.

- The Quectel EG25-G itself, uses a Qualcomm chipset (the Qualcomm 9607).

- Qualcomm chipsets in this category tend to have an ARM component and and the actual modem bits which are combination of ARM and Hexagon DSP cores that you talk to over an interface called "QMI."

I'd expect that if Pinephone reached scale (and they hadn't found an alternative) they would just buy the Qualcomm chipsets directly and not have to "free" themselves from Quectel's "integration" that translates between QMI and AT commands (which are miserable) or whatever else Quectel has exposed an an API.

This quirk of modern modems, where you (as a small scale manufacturer) can't buy the chipset itself unless packaged up and marked up by someone like Quectel or Sierra Wireless makes me absolutely livid.
Connemara – An 'open' prison with a unique concept
Work around animals for a bit and you lean that a sweet critter that becomes pregnant or a new mother are often the nastiest things imaginable. Only to go back again after babies have moved on.
Water is pretty heavy (eg, denser than wood, denser than oil, denser than fat, etc).

Weight is costly (eg, mv^2 energy to accelerate). I guess human bodies have spent a lot of time trying to find the minimum amount of water necessary rather than trying to build up a reserve.

The little micro-optimisations add up over time. The penalty for excess weight doesn't have to be large before evolution tries to get rid of it. Historically, fat people are an anomaly.
I had a double whammy of a corroded display connection and a loose usb-c port, meaning recovering data from the phone was a very sensitive and frustrating affair.
From our experience religion seems more important. There is some support for this observation: https://ifstudies.org/blog/how-income-affects-fertility
Startup: Which Market to Focus?
From personal experience, what made low-level concepts "click" for me was looking at documentation for linkers and the various ELF tools. Once I could see the "ends", it gave me the inspiration to dig into the "means". Ymmv, of course.
I went once at about 3-4PM and also came away feeling like it was a bit understaffed. One worker and about 8 people in there eating. I didn't have to wait a crazy amount of time so maybe it's fine though, gyudon doesn't take a long time to prepare if some ingredients are prepped
The lightboard.info site has instructions for building an $8k professional setup, using tempered glass etc. It does explain the mechanism of the lightboard (frustrated total internal reflection), but otherwise doesn't seem very useful for DIYers.

Instructables is the goto site for this sort of thing, I found these instructions for building a small one for under $100: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-Lightboard/
Unlikely, as there’s no Russian verb that directly corresponds to “curate”; the loanword курировать kurir|ovatʹ is (of course) etymologically related but refers to managing, mentoring, or otherwise overseeing people or organizations, not things, and the sense of using one’s judgment to choose and present a subset of a collection is instead usually expressed by a word (roughly) meaning “select, choose” that does not convey an implication of being in charge. Neither has much to do with the words for “code”, “program”, or “develop”.

(Source: native speaker.)

I’m somewhat surprised by the reaction here. Does “curating” a map really sound so wrong? One can curate libraries, museums, exhibitions, bibliographies, or other sorts of collections, so is sifting OSM data in order to get something presentable so different? I’d have said “lovingly curated” rather than “curated with love”, but that’s another matter.
Fractional reserve banking isn't a real thing though...
Dogs and humans have been working and living together for quite a bit longer than modern America has existed, so I don’t think you can chalk it up to that or really diagnose it as a disorder after several thousand years of evolving together the way we have.
If you're brand new to the industry I'd say stay for at least 2 years. I worked on a service which operates an enormous scale and while I'm thankful for the opportunity it takes several months to ramp up (I'd say about 6-8 months for my team). But obviously YMMV.
If your skill is moving boxes onto a delivery truck your work is not more useful/valuable as part of Amazon than at a small traditional company with no scalable internet components. The excess value in these companies should flow to those who took risks to set them in motion and continue leading them. Asserting this ownership premium is theft is pretty ridiculous on the face of it.

Also, imagine if the guy loading trucks for Amazon did make 100x more money just because he’s connected to a high-growth internet company. The economy would be thrown into chaos because no logistics workers would be willing to do less remunerative but essential work like unloading food at the grocery store without substantial wage increases that get passed to the consumer as higher food/gas/delivery prices. Many sectors without productivity growth would get annihilated by Baumol’s cost disease, and consumers would have to spend a much larger share of their income on anything that is trucked around (which is basically everything we buy).
“they specifically exist so property isn’t used solely as a speculative investment”

Judging by the increasing amount of US housing stock owned by investment firms, this doesn’t appear to be working.