skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly big student loans are the problem.

Kid one goes to college, graduates with a degree in musical theater, has a $120k debt and gets a $50k first job in marketing. Kid two does two years an a plumbing apprentice. She's been making $45k per year, has no debt and just got her license... And is now making $90k.
Taxation is theft. Fuck you and your blind support for the war machine, the war on drugs and the killing of millions of people at home and abroad. No tax in today's society is just. The US's case against John McAfee is weak at best and he should not be dead. Downvote and censor all you want because rational debate has been dead hear for while now.
So now we have come full circle, back to "the poor are poor because of the rich". I'm open to the possibility, but the comments this far inspire little confidence in the soundness of the argument.
Oh yes it does! It is amazing. With the `--download-archive` option you can specify a text file where it stores which videos it already downloaded. So you can periodically make backups of your playlists without unnecessarily downloading videos that you already have.
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Thanks for the feedback.

"Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work" -> Our platform includes frameworks (e.g. Next.js), deployment and hosting (e.g. serverless infrastructure), and collaboration (preview deployments, nextjs.org/live).

The first section of the docs (https://vercel.com/docs) says:

"Vercel enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly and scale automatically – all without any configuration."

How could we improve this further? Which part is still unclear? Open to any feedback.
Pelosi doesn't get paid enough is a surface of the sun level hot take.
What would happen if you had removed the photo but continued to run the site, without using the photo. Then the only issue is the "back-pay". Seems like their argument for "back-pay" is weak if you were previously under a good faith belief that you had permission to use the photo.
I work in the public sector in the midwest... though I've also been in the private sector out here too.

You've got a small, IT team which includes some bespoke software to keep local companies running... you know, the web pages or data processing requests. There's a SaaS product that's the regular income, but its not that much. You're paying competitively for the area - about 2x the average per capita income for the area for a junior dev (per capita income is $28k, you're paying $55k - compare; per capita income in Minneapolis is $40k (Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/eau-claire-software-devel... - make sure to look at the 0-1 years of experience)). Your clients are local companies in the neighboring counties.

There's a new junior hire from the local college... and a few months later, their interviews for Amazon in Minneapolis pan out and they're gone.

There's no way that you can compete with Amazon in Minneapolis.

Is that a red flag that the small company can't pay Amazon wages? Should the small company close up shop instead?

Do they try hiring another junior dev from a local college... to have them move to Minneapolis also? Or do they just put out a req for a mid or senior who wants to live in northern Wisconsin where you can go fishing after work on a small lake and settle down?

All of the "you're not paying enough" means that the small companies are expected to pay big tech wages... and they can't.

They close up shop and now the other clients are going to need to go to the larger consultancies for their work... or not do it at all.

Yes, this is globalization played out with software developers... even if its just companies that are a few hours away by car for a move.

This boils down to "can / should every developer be expecting to get wages equal to Amazon?" Can the company afford to pay the junior dev $70k? $80k? $90k?

Likewise, "can you hire a junior dev with no real history of employment and have them stick around for a year when given alternative offers from a tech company?"

If the answer is "no", then why are people complaining that these companies aren't hiring junior devs and training them and instead deciding to not incur extra costs while they wait for someone who will add to their team for a few years rather than a few months?
Sounds neat! Thanks for sharing. My only comment from research (no practical experience) is that I'd worry about the spring force of the MX making chording tiresome. I know the Georgi goes to some lengths to get switches with a lower force.

> I don't post my private projects because after work and kids I have barely any time for them.

I hear ya. I was excited because I've been mentally toying with the same project. But you know, first I need to finish my remodel, fix the truck, build a deck....
>It just feels like we're being distracted.

It is how they killed OWS. Now it is cool to be a member of the party of the rich, and to support megacorps and endless war.
"the development of mathematics within a type-theoretic foundation (including both previously existing mathematics and new mathematics that homotopical types make possible)"

I'm sure Mr Hilbert would approve.

"and the formalization of each of these in computer proof assistants."

Aah, loosely IT related (hence the post) and surely Lean and co can't be far away from the discussion.

"As such, this article may not represent the views of all researchers in the fields equally. This kind of variability is unavoidable when a field is in rapid flux."

The WP article is quite dense for a civilian to get through so I hope something cool is on the horizon.

Is a result on the way or has Lean blue screened?
This article seems to confusingly mix together free speech issues with the issue of whether things are true/moral. A lot of things are completely legal to say, but obviously false (eg, 2 + 2 = 5) or abhorrent (eg, Kim Jong Un is a great leader). You can support free speech without agreeing with a particular viewpoint.
> to bring up the damage imposed by TERF talking points

Even to the extent that there is a debate to be had about trans identity and how gender/sex works, it's really hard to have that debate when one side is terrified that their rights are being taken away. For trans people, this debate has immediate consequences.

It's kind of frustrating to me that people don't see this. People are mad about not being able to have academic debates about trans identity as if it's unreasonable for the trans community to be prioritizing their own rights instead of the intellectual curiosity of university professors.

2020-2021 has seen one of the largest jumps in anti-trans legislation since... I don't even know when, since before I was born. So yeah, everyone who cares about this issue is on edge about TERFs, because TERFs don't want to have a friendly academic debate, they want to pass legislation blocking affirmative care, policing bathrooms and sports, and generally erasing trans people from society. I'm annoyed when I see people online acting like the trans community is the reason that these topics are politically fraught. They're politically fraught because TERFs and anti-trans politicians are using them as a front to take people's rights away.

If that problem got fixed, if trans people weren't under attack, if a lot of the questioning wasn't tied up in bigotry, then conversations online about gender wouldn't be so tense. It's wild to try and blame the trans community for prioritizing self-preservation.
Properly head-mounted AR technology (ideally in the form of a pair of glasses/sunglasses) can have lots of potentials, but does require science-fiction level of imagination to visualize those use cases.

Unfortunately, this is really hard. Mark Zuckerberg calls it "one of the hardest technical challenges of the decade". There are lots of fundamental technical breakthrough required to make it a reality. In different prototype labs, people are excited to see feasibilities being proved out in individual fronts. But moving all of them into production ready consumer grade hardware is a completely different story.

Give it another 5 years, we might be able to see whether it's indeed possible.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-calls-ar-glass...
This suggests a Bayesian approach. If there is a lab leak, we'd expect a Chinese cover-up to be a more likely than a Chinese cover-up to a zoological origin. So if your priors are that the zoological and lab-leak origins are equally likely, the evidence of Chinese cover-up weighs in favor of the lab leak hypothesis.
I'm starting to suspect this isn't because the vaccines are inherently particularly good, though. They're incredibly effective against one particular strain of Covid-19, and for a while that was pretty much the only thing in circulation, but as soon as more came along their effectiveness against those started to drop. Viruses less novel than Covid-19 presumably have a lot more genetic diversity, so being incredibly effective at one specific variant with one specific genome would achieve a lot less.

Honestly, I'm seriously starting to doubt whether it's even remotely feasible to achieve herd immunity with the current vaccines - the Delta variant is looking really worrying on that front.
Seems a bit overly dramatic. Lots of aggressive adjectives.
It is insane to me that kernel maintainers do not have build pipelines that automatically run for every PR. The computers should be checking formatting, basic compilation, testing, etc etc.
I agree a more humane approach would have avoided his death probably, but look. He has to pay his taxes like everyone else to pay for all these stimulus, vaccines, medicare, debt interest, foreign invasions the US does all the time.

He could have renunced US citizenship and found something else, could have made money elsewhere. Im in Hong Kong with French citizenship and it s clear if France starts making me pay taxes while im abroad, Ill just find a way out of the citizenship.

No instead he paraded everywhere saying taxes were illegal... idiot.
For reference, Wikipedia lists her net worth at ~$115 million (as of 2018, likely higher now). It looks like ~$20 million of that is real estate but if she just put the rest in the S&P 500 that would give her over $5 million worth of AAPL.
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From the article:

>...when groundbreaking legislation gave transgender, intersex and nonbinary inmates the right, regardless of anatomy, to choose whether to be housed in a male or female prison... When asked whether inmates in the men’s prisons trying to manipulate the transfer system has been a significant issue, Thornton said that “a person’s gender identity is self-reported and CDCR will evaluate any request submitted by an incarcerated person for gender-based housing.”... Inmates can request transfers to their correctional counselor, which are then considered by a committee that includes the warden, custody, medical and mental health staffers, and a PREA compliance manager. Staffers review the inmate’s criminal record, health needs, custody level, sentence and safety concerns.

There's certainly room for interpretation here, but it seems like the evaluation is based on specific personal requirements and any explicit safety concerns, not a medical or psychological exam to determine whether the request is due to one's genuine identity.
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(and the tone)
Is this what Radicle is designed for?

> Radicle is a decentralized code collaboration network built on open protocols . It enables developers to collaborate on code without relying on trusted intermediaries. Radicle was designed to provide similar functionality to centralized code collaboration platforms — or "forges" — while retaining Git’s peer-to-peer nature, building on what made distributed version control so powerful in the first place.

https://docs.radicle.xyz/docs/what-is-radicle.html
What about having Google and also other(s) analytics in your site? I mean, if you have more than one analytics script, is it harmful for speed/SEO? It's supposed to use only one?
Studies have consistently shown that most trans children revert to their original gender identity post-puberty [0]:

>The exact rate of desistance varied by study, but overall, they concluded that about 80 percent trans kids eventually identified as their sex at birth. Some trans activists and academics, however, argue that these studies are flawed, the patients surveyed weren't really transgender, and that mass desistance doesn't exist.

>Indeed, some of the studies cited by Cantor had sample sizes as low as 16 people and were more than 40 years old, and one was an unpublished doctoral dissertation. But the most recent study, published in 2013 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, followed up with 127 adolescent patients at a gender identity clinic in Amsterdam and found that two-thirds ultimately identified as the gender they were assigned at birth.

This does not imply any percentage of patients who underwent surgery to "restore" their original sex. Orchiectomies, mastectomies, and histerectomies are irreversible in any case, not to mention bottom surgery.

[0] https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/06/28/25252342/the...
I mean, what's the flip side complaint? That a person posted a video that they didn't want to share, but as Unlisted, then forgotten the password to change it, then the video will be discovered, and it's compromising information but was uploaded to YouTube, and it comes back to harm that person?

They're both pretty unlikely but at YouTube scale both are real.
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Not specifically. Imagine the war without US involvement. No more Western and Eastern front. Germany still wouldn't have captured Moscow but they would have secured large swaths of eastern territory and thus economic might. They would've had stable control over most of Europe and been further bolstered economically and militarily to eventually take the UK.
> Education does not significantly improve outcomes. Period.

Define "significant".

People who don't graduate high school do much worse than people who graduate from college on average.

Even if you only graduate high school, you'll (on average) make half as much over your lifetime as someone who graduated with a Master's Degree [1].

Right now (on average) - people who dropped out of college make nearly 1/3rd as much as people who graduated with a Master's Degree [2].

You're also 36x more likely to be in prison [3]. Only ~10% of the >25 population has not graduated high school. Despite that, 80% of prisoners have not graduated from high school. ~18% of high school drop outs are in prison. Less than 0.5% of the rest of the population is in prison.

You're also almost 50% more likely to be obese (mostly because you're more likely to be poor and live somewhere un-walkable) [4].

You also have a ~13% shorter lifespan (9 less years) [5].

Sure - an education isn't a license to be in the top 1% or have a perfect life - but it certainly helps...

[1] https://www.aplu.org/projects-and-initiatives/college-costs-...

[2] https://study.com/articles/How_Much_More_Do_College_Graduate...

[3] https://slspotlight.com/opinion/2018/03/19/high-school-dropo...

[4] http://educationbythenumbers.org/content/education-might-be-...

[5] https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2005/october/high-schoo...
If your defence is straightforward, then turning up in court and defending yourself is still a cheap option, is it not?
IIRC in the early days basketball teams had a maximum average height, which I think might be neat to bring back.

If you want a giant on your team, you'd need to balance him out by recruiting an exceptionally talented shorter guy.
I see your point... but we do leave the rich people alone. That's why we have individual people who have more money than entire countries.

We do a lot of counter-intuitive things to keep the rich people on board.

We haven't evolved from aristocracy, I'm not sure we can.
It is based on peak frequency, you can visually see it here: https://speakerdeck.com/hdm/derbycon-2011-acoustic-intrusion...

IIRC (it has been a bit), there was a specific frequency only used by modem negotiation but not fax machines (3150?).
I do not find that sufficient to explain away the phenomenon. It could account for part of it.
http://br.onedayabc.com/home/watch?id=1227985#token=ZzRSSE90...
Oh wow - it just gets more and more gory! Hilarious.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/131680121508322509...

I am content in here. I have friends.

The food is good. All is well.

Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.

— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) October 15, 2020
Your experience is honestly exactly how I felt trying to help my mother with her Android a couple weeks ago.

No idea what the official settings looks like or where I would find what I wanted. No idea what the quickest ways to navigate the ui are. Just pages and pages of icons to scroll through. Multiple of which were called some variant of “settings”. Many of which were dodgy phone tuning apps she’d downloaded then Android and her phones manufacturer both had their own.

It’s not an iPhone or Android thing it’s an unfamiliar phone messed with by a tech illiterate thing.

FYI fastest way to get to settings or anything on iOS is to pull down in the middle of the screen. A search bar will come up and by the time you’ve typed “se” in to it settings should be the first result.

Works for contacts, calendar appointments, etc as well. It’s a solid choice for first thing you try when looking for basically anything.
The Linux Kernel development process is old-fashioned and there are lot of particular processes and conventions which make submitting a patch difficult. Also, if you use gmail with mutt to submit a patch, you have to change your email preferences to make gmail less secure[1]. It would be nice to have a friendlier way to contribute to the kernel, and a GitHub bridge seems like a good idea.

[1]: https://medium.com/@crhenr/submitting-your-first-patch-to-th...
Then said nomads have several different residencies each year.
Probably because he pays his taxes and doesnt try to flee to Turkey?
Freelance sites means competing on price (I know, not really, but pretty much). LinkedIn has worked great for recruiters bringing contracts to me, along with keeping in touch with other contractors and them sharing work with me. This might depend on your location, industry, and area of expertise. But it's kept me humming since I went independent in 2015.
The built-in classifier to fasttext is abysmal. Putting a default XGB on the embeddings is just as easy, and once you're just using fasttext for embeddings, using a better embedding makes more sense.
McAfee terrorized him with his dogs, he killed McAfeed dogs, McAfee killed him.

Is that in the eccentric free pass list? Can you put the list on GitHub?
Egregious with their evasion for lots of money and then running off to foreign lands to evade.

When the catch up to you, you are going away for a long time.
The internal representations (Video 8) look suspiciously like The Lawnmower Man ...
> if humans were rational we’d be focusing topics that affect the masses

Are there any academic articles on ethics that you could cite to back up that assertion?
One way to think about AR is that it can do everything your Oculus Quest can do, but in the form of a pair of glasses that you can wear all day (like those prescription glasses that people already wearing).

VR is like the PC you use at home / in office, AR is more like smartphones on the go. There is obviously quite a big technical gap :)
> First, the vast majority of people who insisted on the lab leak theory did it to deflect blame and target China as a scapegoat.

If China did have a lab that leaked the virus, they _are_ to blame. To say that we shouldn't hold their feet to the fire if this is the case, well, that's a fine political opinion you can have. It may or may not be prudent.

The essence of the argument why we shouldn't discuss the lab leak hypothesis is "people's feelings". In other words, feelings are more important than what is true.

Truth should be the highest priority, damn whoever's political interests it will help. It is so sad that thinking of truth as too dangerous is part of today's milieu.
Considering that one of the key arguments for gun legalization in the US is self defense - due to the argument that a criminal will find a way to get a gun anyways - is an interesting parallel to the lack of unisex bathrooms. Creeps will find a way to violate the privacy of bathrooms regardless, so why don't we just simplify things for building codes.

Granted, I really appreciate urinals and I feel like they might be a casualty of switching over to unisex bathrooms in a lot of cases.
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison
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He did a lot more than that, it's a shame that is what people know him for.
At the time of this writing (mid 2021), US tax breakdown for the highest income bracket in California is as follows.

# Federal

* Long Term Capital Gains Tax = 20%

* Short Term Capital Gains Tax = 37%

* Earned Income / Ordinary Income Tax = 37%

* Net Investment Income Tax = 3.8%

* Medicare Payroll Tax (W-2 Wages) = 1.45%

* Additional Medicare Tax (W-2 Wages) = 0.9%

# State (California has the highest rate)

* CA State Income Tax = 12.3%

* CA Mental Health Tax = 1%

In summary, if you make "a lot" of money in California, you'd be paying combined Federal/State taxes of at least 37.1% and as much as ~55%, depending on the type of income. Deductions and credits mostly phase out at said income levels. In particular, Trump's doing away with the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction meant that now you also pay both Federal and State taxes on the same income as if the other tax (Federal or State) did not exist.
Yeah, there is a huge disconnect between online and IRL discussion of trans issues. Online you see all this seething outrage but IRL there are two camps — either you run in a ‘blue’ crowd and someone being trans is a non-issue. Nobody cares, they use your name and pronouns, let you live your life, celebrate legal victories, and commiserate losses, but when push comes to shove won’t actually do anything that requires effort and can’t be posted on insta. Then if you run in a ‘red’ crowd you’re quietly not accepted, you’ll be party to dinners where phrases like “gender ideology”, “the trans agenda”, “indoctrination”, “free speech” are brought up whenever articles hit the news. And if you come out you either are kicked out of your family, ghosted by your friend group, or just ignored and expected to never speak of it again. If you do being up that people aren’t using your name, pronouns, or being otherwise not treated like your gender you’re called “political” and it’s taken as an attack. And if you say, “no it’s because what your doing hurts me” it’s doubly taken as an attack because now you’re “playing the victim.”

Only when the two groups mix do you get this fired up hate because the mechanisms within the groups that lead to people not talking about it don’t work and the social graces that tamp out arguments aren’t present on the internet so it explodes.

I hate so much that my existence is the hot button political topic right now. Like it’s good I guess — seems like we need to get this out of our systems but ugh does it bring out the worst in everyone. This should have never been a party thing and it’s so stupid that it’s now a billion times more political because of it. Both sides are trying to out woke or out red pill each other while the actual lives of trans people fall by the wayside.