skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was like, wait I'm gonna go look better on wirecutter for recommendations, when the NYT logo throw me off..

Then I realised...
Sounds like this just incentives the drivers who don’t care to hop on and make more money then they normally would.
For those people who use it, yes.
Microsoft Linux has arrived, but it's not what you imagined
It implies we might find performance optimizations, especially at the lowest level. Lazy loading, caching, pointers to constants, that sort of thing.

Nah, as other have noted, no simulation could have a 1-1 relationship between data humans observe and data in a physical device that exists in a world congruent to what humans observe - because there aren't enough atoms in the reachable universe for this. So such simulation either compresses the actions it simulates using higher level constructs or its happening in some universe congruent to the world we're in. Any such machine is going be a product of a future we don't know about yet and so it's constraints could be wildly different. Moreover, since the standard assumption of this simulation foolishness is that future humans or future post-humans want to learn about their ancestors, one can naturally assume you mechanisms that compensate for any "glitches" that might otherwise be obvious. Which just adds to my original claim.
Carbon Tax, Beloved Policy to Fix Climate Change, Is Dead at 47
If anyone think renters were making above minimum wage, I have a bridge to sell them.

The cost of renting was often so high the car had to stay on the road for 24h a day for it to maybe make a profit.
There's a large body of established case law that organizations do not have to bear the consequences of their employee's private lives, or continue their association with an individual when that association is harmful to the organization. You're proposing an appealing ideal, but it's already contrary to a lot of existing decisions on the first amendment and balancing the competing rights of the different parties.

In other words, you're stripping the rights of some to enhance the rights of others, which is rarely intended, but still something that has to be recognized.
I have not done much traveling, but Americans seem to self-medicate more?
> Your computer might be a tool, mine’s the spaceship I spend most of my life inside.

If that's the case, then OS developers should spend less time making it fit some designer's aesthetic of beauty and instead make it super mailable, so users can make it look pleasing to them instead.

Not surprisingly, 90s OS did that better too.
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Are we supposed to take your word for it that it's a "Leninist organization"? Your only supporting evidence for that idea is the passage above mentioning that members of the group studied ideas from Lenin (and others), but that alone is not enough to make an organization "Leninist" (if it were, then I guess our high schools are all Marxist/Leninist/Nazi organizations too since we studied and discussed those beliefs there).

It is possible (necessary, even) to study, discuss, and debate all of history's notable policial/socio-economic ideologies and movements, regardless of which ideals you yourself hold (and which actions of those movements' prominent figures you view as justifiable).
Given the severe drought and fire danger conditions in the southwest over the last decade or two, it's not surprising.
Years ago, I played around with Robocode and genetic programming to "evolve" battle strategies. I was always surprised by how simple the generated winning strategies were. They were always counter intuitive.
Yeah- but you postpone it indefinitely, or pay it back in a year where you have negative income or other circumstances that afford a better tax situation.

Or get sneaky and attempt other "creative" legally questionable solutions, like having an entity you control buy that debt from the bank and hold it while giving you a 0% rate, or something similar.
So is Facebook
Borrowing mean returning the money at some point. Where does this money come from, and how isn't it taxed?
Adding to the confusion: there's also the Mocha varietal for Arabica coffee beans. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocha_coffee_bean

This looks like an excellent writeup for anyone interested: https://dailycoffeenews.com/2019/02/07/the-coffee-roasters-c...
Is that really the interesting discussion here? It seems like the same ground journalists tread all the time when they want to waste a bunch of time opining on nothing. What's the alternative? Waste money on purpose? Make shittier user interfaces?
> How about understand the OS internals? How about write a compiler? How about write a library for their fav language? How about actually troubleshoot a misbehaving *nix process?

That's what I expect from someone who graduated from a serious CS/Engineering program.
If you visit some of the 'street food' markets in the urban cores of Rawalpindi or Lahore you can find food cart vendors with fried sheep and goat testicles for sale. It's fairly common.
> They made billions from excellent businesses on which the world relied during a time of crisis. What would people have done without the likes of Amazon and fast delivery of nearly everything?

And the people earning the low wages were all doing crappy jobs? Did Bezos personally deliver all the packages? I mean you can be as capitalistic as mr Moustache (or whatever he is called) from Monopoly,but you have to agree this is equivalent to defending the feudal lords who "gave" us their lands so we could all eat.

> No one makes minimum wage at Amazon.

They make 17 USD/h. Double in actual dollars from 1975 minimum wage. College, medicine, housing have increased 5-10 times. In 1975 the richest man in America (Howard Hughes) had around 11 billion of CURRENT dollars, 5% of Bezos. It is Bezos 20X as productive?

Meanwhile in the real world : https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2020/12/18/amazons-wareho...

Amazon is colony of locusts,devoring everything in front of them.
Jamal Khashoggi was married three times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi
This is big, very big. Completely blows up lots of assumption I have in tech along with cost model.

>Although PlasticArm is an ultra-minimalist Cortex-M0-based SoC, with just 128 bytes of RAM and 456 bytes of ROM - it is twelve times more complex than the previous state-of-the-art flexible electronics!

There are lots of folks on HN working on embedded systems. I am wonder what are their thoughts on it?
How would making a byte-compatible protobuf by simply looking at the existing one be different than say, creating metric-compatible fonts, or, for example, pretty much exactly what Google did in the Oracle lawsuit? (Copy them verbatim because they shouldn’t be copyrightable...)

Even if you subscribe to the belief that the protobufs are eligible for protection under copyright law, which is fair since it seems to be the current understanding even if it is relatively new, I still don’t understand how creating compatible specs without reversing is illicit. It’s fair use, no? I thought interoperability was a valid claim for fair use.
Depends on if you are concerned if your new potential employer has an issue with employees moonlighting or not.
Interesting. Resetting cost basis upon inheritance does seem like a massive tax avoidance loophole, I can't quickly think of a reason why this should be allowed. I agree also that this would probably be a popular (and sensible) modification to the tax code.
I don't like the NCH 700s because your ears will get hot (good for reducing outside sounds, bad if you're not in an air conditioned environment). Additionally my ears hurt after several (6+) hours of use (if you're sleeping on a plane you won't notice, but at your desk you might).

I think they're great for the 30+ flights I've been on, but I wish I got the QC 35 IIs instead for everyday activities.
It's seriously distracting that the headline describes these recipients as "CNN contributors"....
This definitely falls under the category of "Why Did I Not Think of This?"
I would give 200$ each to 1M people.
I don't find the comparison to systemd to be convincing here.

The end-result of systemd for the average administrator is that you no longer need to write finicky, tens or hundreds of line init scripts. They're reduced to unit files which are often just 10-15 lines. systemd is designed to replace old stuff.

The result of Kubernetes for the average administrator is a massively complex system with its own unique concepts. It needs to be well understood if you want to be able to administrate it effectively. Updates come fast and loose, and updates are going to impact an entire cluster. Kubernetes, unlike systemd, is designed to be built _on top of_ existing technologies you'd be using anyway (cloud provider autoscaling, load balancing, storage). So rather than being like systemd, which adds some complexity and also takes some away, Kubernetes only adds.
I try to disconnect during weekends. I may not go without touching the phone for more than 12h as often as I wanted, but the significantly lower usage during the weekends makes a difference for me.
Its honestly not worth arguing about it. I have personally benefited with driving for uber as well as lots/most of drivers i have talked to. Its not perfect but it works great when you have kids and other things you have to worry about. The job was never meant to solve wealth inequality but it sure has helped a ton of people. Jesus my life would have been 100x better if i could have driven uber in college instead of working absolutely shit job with managers who hate you because you aren’t going to be stuck working this crap job until your 60 like them.

However if you go online you would think uber was killing peoples first born child. Internet forums are getting rather stupid over the past 5 years. You are mostly forced to use a few big ones that all have a hive mind of downvotes on anything contradictory to what the majority thinks. Unfortunately being the majority doesn’t make you right or even smart. Often times its the opposite. But i like to write up these posts so someone can downvote me and feel a little power.
Worked for Tesla.

NSO groups clients aren’t going to care. If anything they’d probably prefer them saying nothing at all.
I wonder which way the financials tip for Uber/Lyft. If Uber/Lyft are losing money over fewer riders willing to pay the higher price? Or if people need to go where they're going anyway and will pay the premium during the (limited time) strike?
… and this is not a criminal case, but a civil one.
Slightly different but I remember viewing the subways in Athens and seeing the ruins that they had discovered while just digging subways. I know the tube in London has run into similar issues.

In the UK, a lot of archeologists are employed by building companies in order to ensure a new development isn’t on archeologically significant land and that if something is encountered that it is cataloged. There are definitely standards that can be implemented to allow archeology and development to coexist.
Wow. That incident (and result) honestly almost sounds like the sort of "experiment" that could net you a research grant from somewhere if worded and submitted properly to the right folks. ;)
Or perhaps they are only saying they regret it so they aren't thrown into a mental hospital. I wonder if there was a follow up on longterm survival.
And made $100B that year. Can I get a 1% effective tax rate too?
I too feel frustrated that we know so little. One big issue, I've come to realize after visiting so many sites around the world.

A lot of the amazing archaeological sights are in countries that struggle/struggled economically and security wise. (E.g. Iraq, Ethiopia, Turkey, Syria, etc.)

Many sites are destroyed or we simply can't invest the proper time and money. Very frustrating.
Could you please expand on what you mean by "neural fauna"? I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to.
In the US, you would get $600/week on top of the usual unemployment (which is 60% of your regular wage) which amounts to significantly more than Canada. For a minimum wage worker, that would be over $40K/year.
This line of argument is so completely unhinged. Bezos paid roughly $1B in taxes in 2018, and Amazon warehouses pay well above the minimum wage.

I understand progressives wanting to raise taxes and raise minimum wage, but why in the world would you blame someone personally for just paying the going rate? That's what we all do for the taxes and service providers we pay.
Disrupt Art answers commonly asks questions about NFTs
Fusion will likely never happen (maintenance costs are simply untenable - any fusion plant would need to be rebuilt about once every 20 years because of structural issues caused by the high-energy radiation that escapes the reactor that makes any material porous and radioactive). The amount of energy required to water the country through desalination would be mind-boggling. Not to mention the impact on ocean ecosystems of dumping that much salt near the shore.
I would make a big distinction between 'without knowing' and "without worrying about." Software productivity is directly proportional to the amount of the system you can ignore while you are writing the code at hand. But not knowing how stuff works makes you less of an engineer and more of a artist. Cause and effect and reason are key tools, and not knowing about TCP handshake or windows just makes it difficult to figure out how to answer fundamental questions about how your code works. It means things will be forever mysterious to you, or interesting in the sense of biology where you gather a lot of data rather than mathematics where pure thought can give you immense power.
I don't think so. Setting a pice you are willing to pay is fundamental to a functional capitalist market. The status now is no cap on coats, so I don't see how adding them to existing programs is more socialist.

The key here is I'm not proposing the gov set a cap on prices across the board, just on what they are willing to pay for through their own programs. They should be able to say the ROI on X treatment is too low for the gov to pay for it, but someone with gold played insurance can still get it.
my problem with k8s, is that you learn OS concepts, and then k8s / docker shits all over them.
Every time I'm done with a Teams meeting, I `killall -9 teams` because I can't trust it to behave if I leave it in the background.
Another vote for Sony noise cancelling headphones from me. I have the WH-1000XM3, and they're fantastic. I easily wear them for 3-6 hours at a time.

The only thing I dislike is the lack of multiple device support, but that was added in the XM4, so yeah. Basically perfect.
How many of the decisions that determined whether Amazon would become worth >$1T or yet another mediocre web store were made by warehouse workers? Jeff is primarily responsible for Amazon's success. For making Amazon what it is, him being worth ~10% of the whole company is a totally reasonable compensation
Why are you making a false statement when you could easily have checked for yourself?

https://www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2015/08/swatting-uk-tr...
Yeah - it's worth pointing out that BBEdit itself, can partly be used for free, indefinitely. You're allowed access to a subset of features (which is very similar to what TextWrangler offered), without needing to pay.

I think they reached a point where, even if the codebase had originally been forked from BBEdit, it was just plain dangerous to have a second codebase floating around. I think after they had done the same work (bugfixes, feature additions) twice for quite a while, they just decided "yeah, this was a mistake", and pulled the plug.
If consumed dissolved in a liquid on an empty stomach, it can be absorbed rather quickly.
Okay? And the Astrazeneca vaccine shows a detectable level of antibodies and possible protection within 24 hours in some people. There are like a dozen COVID-19 vaccines in use right now, all of which likely have slightly different properties in this regard.

Which brings me to the bottom line of my last comment, again. Wait at least several weeks, because there is absolutely no guarantee that would happen for you, or for the particular vaccine you got.
I think learning the fundamentals is a worthy pursuit, but in terms of getting stuff done well, you realistically only have to grok one level below whatever level of abstraction you're operating at.

Being able to glue frameworks together to build systems is actually not a negative. If you're a startup, you want people to leverage what's already available.
Uber and Lyft hare both non-profitable organizations. Even if rides were matched by some zero cost magic oracle, drivers would be making almost the same amount of profit, because that number’s defined by the next best alternative.

Really, what you find objectionable is not the presence of Uber or Lyft, but the fact that people are running independent businesses, competing with each other.
This article wrongly conflates being gay with being “only a step away from sexual predation.”

> But any use of the app by the priest could be seen to present a conflict with his role in developing and overseeing national child protection policies, as Church leaders have called in recent months for a greater emphasis on technology accountability in Church policies.

That a priest is gay might violate Catholic teaching but it has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on his ability to develop child protection policies and to suggest his sexuality "could be seen to present a conflict" is, at best, willful ignorance.
Title should be : Pine64's $30 open-source Smartwatch Launches
Okay, maybe I didn't get your point. You introduced CA into this, but igetspam didn't say GTFOTX-and-go-to-CA. I see that you're using it because lots of people do look at the two states as two options for setting up shop.

I guess I was really pointing out that parts of CA has much bigger problems that make it ill-advised to compare state-for-state. Maybe that's unfair but they're both pretty colossal states.

And there are other options. Portland, Seattle, etc.
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I'm curious if you actually think there's a real equivalency between choosing to eccentrically live in a van despite having more socially acceptable alternative options enabled by a salary far above the median vs making desperate moves to keep a poverty-low-but-not-the-absolute-lowest job that is designed to force turnover for all but the "highest performers." I understand there's a lot of hyperbole in a topic that deserves way more nuance, but IMO trying to make these seem the same causes more damage than anything else, since it drives this negatively reinforcing cycle where the effectively disenfranchised group of poverty wage workers somehow has a real stake at the table.
Yes you can, just don't realize your capital gains.
Thanks for the details - given that, they could have written a real response to the allegations rather than this blog post they posted and it would have come across better.

This blog post comes across very defensive somewhat clueless, doesn't inspire confidence.

I get why they'd not want to engage with the media (media writers are often useless at best, if not actively/intentionally harmful with regard to this kind of technical nuance), but that's no excuse for the response they have here. If they were going to go direct they should have done it right.

For the curious, their report: https://www.nsogroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ReportBo...
You’re completely missing his point. Think in generalities, the specifics of his example.
> at what dollar amount will people be satisfied that Bezos is being fair?

70k a year :)
https://www.inc.com/magazine/201511/paul-keegan/does-more-pa...

$15 an hour is $120 a day (8h) and $600 a week (5 days) and $2400 a month and $28800 a year.

$20 an hour is $160 a day, $800 a week, $3200 a month and $38400 a year.

$35 an hour is $280/d, $1400/w, $5600 a month and $67200 a year
If he was identified then it was not anonym data. This would be a grave break of the GDPR in Europe. Anonymizing data is a hard problem that usually requires statisticians.
again it's not a partisan issue... literally both parties are passing these bills almost unanimously. it's a class issue i'll give you but not a partisan one.
ELI5 does this mean I can prepay and not be at risk for more than I have prepaid?
NSO Group

Enough Is Enough

In light of the recent planned and well-orchestrated media campaign lead by Forbidden Stories and pushed by special interest groups, and due to the complete disregard of the facts, NSO is announcing it will no longer be responding to media inquiries on this matter and it will not play along with the vicious and slanderous campaign.

We will state again:

The list is not a list of targets or potential targets of Pegasus.

The numbers in the list are not related to NSO group.

Any claim that a name in the list is necessarily related to a Pegasus target or Pegasus potential target is erroneous and false.

NSO is a technology company. We do not operate the system, nor do we have access to the data of our customers, yet they are obligated to provide us with such information under investigations.

NSO will thoroughly investigate any credible proof of misuse of its technologies, as we always had, and will shut down the system where necessary.

NSO will continue its mission of saving lives, helping governments around the world prevent terror attacks, break up pedophilia, sex, and drug-trafficking rings, locate missing and kidnapped children, locate survivors trapped under collapsed buildings, and protect airspace against disruptive penetration by dangerous drones.
This is total fallacy, I'm sorry. "We do this thing because we have always done this thing" isn't actual any justification whatsoever. It's whats leftover when realizing you're having a hard time actually justifying why it needs to be done.

"It's the way things are" are perhaps in all seriousness the 5 most dangerous words in the English language.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0607-mrna-reduce-ri....
I did not know. Thank you.
Well, does it seem like he has realized any gains? The prevailing argument is that as a society we do not have to let one individual amass this much power. It's ok to hold that view without having a deep enough understanding of tax law to know what needs to be changed.
> "Yes, this is a big part of why there's now a common argument that unrealized (but very large) capital gains should be taxed."

So how will the person pay for those taxes WITHOUT selling the underlining asset.

This is a huge problem in startup land with something called AMT. Where you "on paper" are a millionaire but have no ability to sell your paper shares since the company hasn't IPO yet.

I'd hate to live in a word where you have to pay taxes on unrealized gains because it's not like you're going to get a tax break for unrealized losses.
Police are much less likely to be shoot at then rumor has it. Including by "criminals" which is quite wide category.

I also find it ridiculous that a country that says it is OK to defend your house with gun, also says it is OK for police to create situation in which people think they are attacked by violent strangers - where those strangers are cops.
You die without ever selling your stocks. Your heirs can pay off your loans by selling some of the stocks they inherit. Their cost basis for those stocks is their value at the time of inheritance. This way no capital gains tax is ever due on the stock gains made in your lifetime.