skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is wrong. The tax applies above and below $100K. The process is a bit different on each side of that threshold.

https://assessor.lacounty.gov/personal-property-assessments-...

From the page:

"businesses with personal property and fixtures that cost less than $100,000 are not required to file a Business Property Statement annually. Instead, a value is established based on an initial Business Property Statement filing or by an on-site appraisal. That value may be adjusted by subsequent annual on-site appraisals."

You pay this amount annually so long as you didn't buy anything new. They can show-up and do an on-site appraisal and get you if you under reported.
For real. People here are treating them with whistleblower gloves. There's nothing of that sort going on here. Just unethical, horrible stuff.
Yeah, plenty of books at archive.org.

"Assembly language for the PC"

https://archive.org/details/assemblylanguage00soch

"TASM Reference"

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturemblerVersio...

"Structured Assembler Language For IBM Microcomputers"

https://archive.org/details/structured-assembler-language-fo...

Or just go to MASM documentation, you will find plenty of directives that look like an high level language

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/assembler/masm/directiv...
twitter_list_mgmt is a python package I created to make it easier to add users to your Twitter list from other lists, among other things.

Say you've created a covid twitter list to keep track of news around the pandemic. You've just found another list on covid curated by an epidemiologist in London, and you want to add members from that to your own Covid list. This is the package you use for it.

Now for most basic operations like retrieving the current membership of a Twitter list, adding users to it, removing them etc. the Tweepy library is good enough. twitter_list_mgmt just adds extra functionality on top of Tweepy to make working with lists easier.

This package will help heavy twitter and tweetdeck users, especially those who use lists to manage the firehose of information from social media.

Have any questions or comments, do let me know! Also, not a professional developer/programmer, so be nice :)
Are you planning to operate as a for-profit company? If so, it seems exploitative to consider utilizing children as free labor.
Why do you think so many crypto miner companies are moving to Texas? They want to be paid by ERCOT to not draw power during peak times.

Yes, ERCOT will actually pay them money, if they’re not drawing power.

Chinese crypto miner companies are moving here, and taking over old aluminum smelting operations, kitting them out with tens of thousands of crypto miner computers, and then getting paid for not turning them on.
Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency (1955)
I see this same issue with books Particularly with international students (who are ironically paying the most in tuition and housing oftentimes). Though I go out of my way to find cheaper textbooks sometimes, or accommodate older editions that can be bought dirt-cheap used, students will still just find a scanned version somewhere and share them with each other. There's online networks where they do this apparently.
Thanks for this explanation. I found it really useful.
Right, doc, I understand what you're saying. However, 90% of those underprivileged people probably would not make the changes you suggest, even if they had $20 million in the bank. They would still just sit on the couch all day, except it would be a much nicer couch. Most of them would react to you like they do to the Covid 19...."fake news" and curse at you. I'm not saying all would react that way, but my faith in humanity is low, low, low. So I think 90% would just sit on their asses anyways. I mean, 70% of the USA is overweight or obese. That covers more than just the poor. That's pretty much everywhere, across all social and income strata. The only subpopulation where I see that 90% of the people are in shape is at the gym. For some strange reason. Go figure.

My father, who is a physician, used to have a diet clinic as one of his ventures. Out of the thousands of people he saw, none, not one, person stayed with the program. Some did for a while. But then bam, fatso again.

It's really super sad. Back in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s, everyone was thin. Everyone, except for a very, very few people who were horrifically fat to our eyes, although now they would be on the light side of overweight.

As the population started to get fatter and fatter, starting in the 1990's, I 100% knew, KNEW, back in the 1990s, that at some point in the future, things were going to change and fat women would insist that they are beautiful, and revile slender women. Which we see every day now. I mean, it's not guys, guys don't give a sh-t if you call them fat. You never read anything about men wanting to be called BBM or "curvy" or body acceptance or whatever the phrase of the day is. But women have it in their DNA that they want to be perceived as beautiful, in order to attract a mate, I guess.
It doesn't and it can all be undone by the next president unless Congress acts and makes some of these laws (they wont).
I think a lot (not all) of people will use C and C++ because they need good performance, compile time checks, portability across OS/CPU architectures and reasonable memory usage.
Most of the people who use C and C++ are average programmers who think their programs will do exactly what they wrote in the source code.
The issue is that optimizations are required to get expected performance but some optimizations will result in programs not doing what user specified in the source code.
Compiler should offer a clear split between "safe" optimizations that will not change what source code says and "unsafe" optimizations that will do their best to create fastest code.
I don't use C or C++ very often and I don't know how optimizations are currently structured but if a lot of people are constantly caught unaware of what optimizations are in use and how they affect the output then this is obviously either a documentation issue or compiler interface issue - both of these are up to compiler writers to fix.
But to buy those kick ass startups you originally have to be kick ass.
> Disclaimer: I made the above.

So it's more like "I would love one of the steps to be my project" rather than "should be".
have you considered that emojis are a lot of fun and can add to your "voice"?
Lol, exactly making my point thank you
Nigeria receives $5.46 bln investment pledge in Q1 2021 ~NIPC
There's an element to slow shipping that has less effect today, since we're starting the week, it doesn't matter if things turn up tomorrow or Friday if it is for weekend DIY projects.

I wouldn't mind using another retailer today and near enough forget about it until the weekend. If by some chance it doesn't arrive until the following Tuesday, it doesn't matter, I'll find something else to do at the weekend quickly enough!

However, if you need it pronto, I'd rather pay for a courier.

Many people have grown up with Amazon, and in the early day it looked like they were undercutting retail from top to bottom, making the highstreet look like the bad guys. As their warehouses get exposed, and the issues of no union appear, I'm less likely to buy from Amazon as I think there are ethics involved that need consideration.

Do I really want to buy something knowing that a poor soul was probably operating at 98%, just below maximum threshold before collapse to get this item boxed?
It seems to contain many HN topics
Thanks for sharing your work.

In my opinion, it is not powerful yet. It is only when it is able to update its model when user corrects it.
There's probably a lot less going to landfill today. That said, maybe more getting thrashed too:

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millio...
The amount of damage made to IT industry by that cargo cult is immeasurable and will take generations to recover from, if ever.
I thought it was

those who cannot teach teach gym
They obviously aren't experts then. I don't know many people who can edit in a GUI as fast as a seasoned vim user. Maybe seen it twice.
All the strategic decisions I’ve seen lately, management doesn’t want anyone to know how they came to those conclusions. They want that kind of information to have never been logged, or to be buried as deeply as possible.

They don’t want to be embarrassed six months in the future when people find out how that decision was made.

I don’t know how you can solve that part of the problem.
What is "cough" in italics in this article ?
Central limitless money printing is putting almost everyone into debt.
Brian Kernighan also teaches.
True. Google at least does not create walled gardens like FB. You are not even allowed to post link in comment section. That's a tactic to keep users on its own platform. Recently they have stopped allowing people to browse even browse public profiles.
> but don't reorder or combine operations

I hope you're not programming for anything more advanced than a Z80, PIC16F or 6502 then because pretty much any CPU more advanced than that will likely also do that internally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-order_execution
The same applies to any field. The primary skill of a good teacher is...teaching. Domain expertise is important but still secondary.
Has a strong vibe of "I never asked myself if I should do something, having discovered that I could do something" which is ever-present in a lot of creative work. The self-censorship implicit in "should" tends to make people go no, but sometimes, you do have to wonder if yes might have been better. (yes as in Yes, I should think twice about doing this)

Its not "piss christ" (Serrano) or Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons, but it has a similar vibe to me: The transgressive quality of what he did, obviously partly appealed. The consequences of annoying people didn't, until was too late. Now in the case of Serrano and Jyllands-Posten, one was just being offensive to make a point, the other paid the ultimate price.

What if e.g. it was "accidentally outing US secret forces because you map where fitbit are via the GPS leak"
I only upgraded from my 8GB laptop a couple months ago. And I did run into issues with memory frequently—but here's the thing: I would be running 4 or 5 Electron apps at the same time and they were fine; the memory issues were always from Chrome, so I had to be careful not to keep too many open Youtube, Github, Amazon, etc. tabs open.

A heavier Electron App, e.g. Slack, would be equivalent to maybe two Youtube tabs, out of the ~50 tabs I would have open.

It's not ideal, but it's nowhere near as egregious as comments on HN would leave you to believe.

> it’s also about being a poor citizen on the computer and making things worse for all the other applications running at the same time

I'm not familiar with this argument. How is it a poor citizen aside the dubious claims about excess memory usage? Or is this just a repetition of that argument?

(Incidentally I've also had the misfortune of using MS Teams recently, and I would fully support anyone's complaints about it.)
Given that 16 bit compilers were already doing that, although in clusmy ways, what you really want is Assembly.

Beware that microcoded CPU might still do magic to your beloved Assembly opcodes.
just curious: if books had a webcam built into them, would the pictures of people staring at them look different? Discuss.
And the Congress mandated monopoly on residency positions and building new hospitals. We would have a lot more advances in medical science if MD positions were not gate kept by the artificially limited residency positions.
No. First, you don't hit esc at the end to get back into insert mode, assuming that's what you mean - you'd hit "i". Also, it doesn't make sense to include mode changes since you don't know what mode you are in to begin with or what mode you want to be in when you are done. Lastly, this is all you need:

5dd

But as long as you are including preparation keystrokes, how may keystrokes would it be to get to a particular line in vscode? I guarantee it will be a lot more than vim. There are countless ways to navigate to a position in a buffer.
Sorry, I’m gonna need you to start over with 5,000 words on the history of words before I can process this joke.
> The most wonderful thing about computing is that it’s pure castles in the air, and that if you’re sufficiently motivated you can build the whole castle. The most dreadful thing about computing is that it’s pure castles in the air and you have few real facts to anchor your arguments to.

The most harm being done to this industry — a world of a trillion floating castles — is by those pretending their castles are founded, never revealing the Big Secret, all while fervently demanding would-be competition fully justify their most minute castle-building minutia down to asking which grain of sand is the Seed of Truth, upon which anyone would DARE build a castle in the air.

One day, Intelligence will build itself a castle, and it will not be in the air.

I think I should like to go build a boat, and study something with a more solid foundation, like quantum physics or Jazz.
The most curious thing about this project is how people seem to have a visceral reaction to having photos of them made without their permission; but having their activity tracked online hardly evokes the same reaction.

It's weird. What harm is a random picture of my face in public going to do? But still some people worry so much about that.

Whereas only very few people show the same reaction to the fact that Google stores a copy of every word you typed into their search field ever. Or that Apple stores a copy of every message I have sent to a loved one with my phone on their servers.

We accept that our most private thoughts are being captured, analyzed, sold; but the outrage is about someone taking an anonymous photo of us in a public setting.
For an example, search for 0073 or CHRGET at https://www.pagetable.com/c64ref/c64disasm/
There is an inherent skepticism about typing your password into a web form even/especially if it says it is not sent to the server. My read of this comment was on the one hand telling security conscious people how to achieve the same goal in a way that does not leave the computer, and on the other hand putting a lower bound on the complexity of the value provided by the site.
Everything about Microsoft's Fluid Framework
We’ve probably heard Fluid Framework a lot recent, coming from Microsoft’s grand vision for the next generation of Office 365. Given Microsoft’s "magical advertising capabilities" (smiley face) , which many people may have chosen to ignore. I’d say this time it’s for real, and not just for Office 365, it’s about the evolution of the entire Web.

Your Time is precious, and the Fluid Framework is complex, if you want to understand it quickly and deeply, then you’re in luck, I’m doing just that, and the goal of this site is to introduce the Fluid Framework in a language that anyone can understand. I'm trying my best to explain what it is, why Microsoft is betting on it, and what the implications are for the future.
I have been using vim (and recently - nvim) daily for almost 15 years for development and general text editing.
I'm certainly a big fan.

However, I couldn't really find any set of configurations that surpasses simple todolist applications like todoist/etc.

Sure, If you want to spend your days tinkering and hacking the app that's super cool. But most of us want a todo-list app that just works.

Ability to send notifications to the OS/phone would be nice

Calendar sync would also be nice

Per-project tasks is cool too

But that's mostly it. I couldn't understand from the wiki of that project how can I do those things. Those are the most important issues to address, way before an elaborate discussion on modularity and customization.

Show the simple functionality first.
Once it's backed with a scripting language like Python or Lua it will be a very compelling Flash alternative (even though Flash is long dead now).
That was true at one point, but the newer formulations of insulin are old enough to mostly have biosimilars, aka follow-ons, the equivalent of generics for drugs produced by bioengineering. Humalog/Lispro/Admelog, Lantus/Basaglar and others, in many cases made by the same company as the original.

The prices of insulin have been increased steadily each year by about 11% for the past 20 years. There's nothing about research or costs that justify that for 20 year old drugs.

https://www.businessinsider.com/insulin-price-increased-last...

The old formulations (Human insulin, NPH) can be purchased without a prescription at Walmart for fairly low prices - the price that people pay for modern insulin in the rest of the world.
it makes sense that Biden wants to tax big corporations to finance his infrastructure projects. [1] that would make sense if Biden is a big fan of president Franklin D. Roosevelt, i am not sure if Roosevelt is as attractive to someone from the generation of Harris. (however i don't know if the generation aspect is a matter of importance, in this context)

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/biden-offers-tax-d...
in Kashmir at least, there is a big thing about "Six months later, I still get nervous when I hear an unexpected knock."

this late night knocking has been connected with bad omen because for the past 30 odd years, many homes have gotten bad news of their loved ones being killed or they having disappeared.

that said, if you have to go to a neighbour house, or a friends house, you never just go and knock. people might faint or have a heart attack. instead you call first or just wait till morning.
Yes to all of your questions. But the point is on day zero (technically the last "cum dividend" day) you get the stock plus the right to receive a dividend the next day, and on day zero + one (the first "ex dividend" day) you don't get the right to the dividend, but everyone who was a holder yesterday gets the dividend. So the stock price drops by the amount of the dividend.
I always assumed a fairly significant chunk of that research is to find minor modifications to existing drugs in order to maintain patents that are about to expire. It certainly feels like that happens a lot.
That doesn't mean that your CPU isn't gonna optimize it anyways afterwards, see for instance all the macro-fusion cases described in here : https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/macro-operation_fusion
Well, to be honest, university textbooks (at least in US) is in general a predatory market. There are courses that require $800 worth of textbook.

> who are ironically paying the most in tuition and housing oftentimes

It's not ironic. They have no choice (other than not attending the university of course). If there is a loophole that lets students not pay the tuition fee without any punishment, a good amount of students would not pay.
Science based on experiments that are not repeatable by anyone cannot have the legitimacy that have been traditionally assigned to Science.

World is recognising this simple fact. If you do an experiment, one that very few people in the world is able to replicate, by collecting raw data again, then the rest of the world has to trust you.

This is no longer science.

So the decision of an individual if they want to trust you (the entity that did the expiriment) or not, is really up to them. And if you do mandates based on such science, then you are really imposing your trust on to others.

This is exactly like imposing your religion over others of a different faith.

And that should be pushed back and resisted with everything we have got.

I am pretty sure we will loose some good things, but the alternative is much darker.
Ask HN: How are you going to dispose of your butterfly keyboard MBP?
Like many HNers, I have an MBP with the dreaded butterfly keyboard. I will soon be upgrading and am trying to figure out what to do with it.

I’m guessing the resale market for these laptops is very buyer-friendly, both because of the infamous keyboard issues on the old MBPs and the amazing performance of the M1 MBPs. I can’t imagine who would buy a used MBP these days, and there must be a glut of them on the market as people upgrade to M1 models.

What are people doing with their old MBPs? Does it even make sense to sell them? Or are people repurposing them as media machines or something? My laptop still works, but it’s just terrible to type on and runs the fan all the time for no apparent reason.
By the same logic a broken lock on a store's door does literally nothing except prevent customers from entering the store to buy stuff. Sure, but this is just a risk of having security. The solution is to fix the problem, not discard locks and security.

Also one might argue there are second-order benefits to the paying customers, like lower prices and more products being offered since the seller can make more money.
Thank you for this explanation. It makes sense. But still, I find that vim is overcomplicating things for no good reason. What happened to KISS? Like every time I make this sort of remark, the thread becomes a thread about vim people debating that actually typing dd multiple time is better, or that dk could do the trick, or that select text followed by d is better, or that d% does the trick, or soon someone will share their custom shortcut that address this particular case, etc. Vim people have to think about Vim way too much.

Meanwhile, keyboard shortcuts on a Mac do compose: arrow=Move, shift-arrow=Select, arrow=a character at a time (or vertically, a line), shift-arrow=a word at a time (or vertically a paragraph) cmd-arrow=the whole line (or vertically the whole file).

Also cmd-d has immense powers when you know how to use it.

And finally let me mention that syntax-aware editing is overrated when you use a linter/formatter because regular indentation and normal shortcuts work flawlessly already.

Last but not least: these shortcuts work system wide! So we don’t have to reimplement every possible software within my text editor so I can use these shortcuts.
An ISP I was working for in the late 1990s, early 2000s were looking at acquiring new modem kit with higher port density (yes, this was totally sensible at the time). Among the providers we were looking at were Nortel.

Now, we had a price separation between multi-link PPP and single-link PPP and for a variety of reasons, we did this by having the multi-link calls terminate in dedicated equipment.

This worked fine for a day or so, until the Nortel CVX started rebooting in "peak dial-in time" (somewhere in the 3 PM - 4 PM bracket). And we could not for the LIFE of us understand why. Got Nortel on the case, they could not even recreate the crash in their lab. Until I happened to ask about their simulation parameters. They were doing a 1 multi to 5 non-multi mix, at about 75% of the incoming call rate we had.

That, alas, was not enough to tickle the bug, which was basically that the CVX had to shift either the first or the second call of a pair onto the same DSP, and if a new cal arrived between "start the move" and "finish the move", the call being moved would simply be lost to data corruption. And when the watchdog would go through and check for internal data sanity (once per second or so), it'd fall off the data chain and the watchdog timer would reset the chassis.

Nortel declined to fix the bug. We declined to keep (or pay) for the equipment. I was not massively surprised with Nortel eventually folding.
It's not edge location count that matters, but Cloudfront doesn't use BGP Anycast but rather does a more traditional DNS-based routing and tries to spread the requests across multiple edge locations (even those farther away) for redundancy, intentionally.

When I asked for detail about why they don't use Anycast, the Cloudfront engineering team basically said their customers care more about uptime than latency and that full Anycast was too sketchy. Apparently amazon.com disagrees, at least. I'm also happy getting much lower first page view latency out of Cloudflare.