skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully eventually
Taxes should exist to fund the needs of the government, not to punish people. Confiscating incomes and gains as described in this thread (punitively) would destroy working capital and investment capital which would would lead to lower incomes for everyone, higher unemployment, and in essence make everyone poorer.
Agree with the unix bit. I was expecting something "unix philosophy" but it turns out they just meant it looks retro.
What about stay at home parents? If the right to enjoy the fruit of your labor only extends as far as the individual, then we should be equally worried about the spouse who gets to live in a nice house, eat nice meals, buy nice things, etc. while doing no more work (possibly less, with staff) than her lower class counterpart.

I’m in favor of inheritance tax. But I can see an argument that things just stop making sense when you start slicing into smaller units than the family. I think we’d have to say it’s a meritocracy of families. If families want to support some of the individuals within them out of proportion to their economic contribution, maybe that’s their business.

While it rubs me the wrong way to know that people are out there coasting on the backs of more productive family members, I think the bigger story is some people are out there equipped to be knowledge workers in superstar cities, and others aren’t. This advantage is definitely related to family but isn’t literally inheritance. High earners become high earners well before their parents die. That’s just extra.
I'm native polish speaker and after 3 years of learning mandarin, and I need to somehow confirm, and somehow rebute.
Pinyin ch is almost exactly like polish cz. Pinyin q is quite close to ć, but to make that sound you need to touch your lower teeth with your tongue. In polish the tongue stays mostly flat.
There is similar difference in x vs ś and j vs dź.
That was what sparked it for me -- I have a project that requires GraalVM for polyglot scripting stuff, and I wrote a proof-of-concept in Java, Scala 3, and Kotlin.

Had never really used the JVM prior to this. I enjoyed Scala 3 the most out of all of them. Though of course the tooling is not up to par with Java (not much is), that's kind of the tradeoff you make.

Also, F# is really nice I think. Though again same sort of tooling situation when comparing Scala to Java.
Agreed, same for me. I do have high cubicle walls.
No I got the point but the point is misinformed.

We have many blocks (roughly 10x10 blocks, so 100 square blocks) sharing a single charger site now and for the last 3 years with only two plugs in a high EV density area and we don’t have any conflicts that I know of.

Most of these objections are just imagined problems coming from the minds of people
without actual experience of owning an EV.

That being said, some
EVs, once bought, are an easier ownership experience than others, but that’s getting off track.
If two people could get the same result then that would be strictly better, but I think the issue is that two people couldn't (or at least the two people you actually have instead of two hypothetical people who maybe were more capable). But output doesn't scale linearly with number of people involved due to various coordination/communication issues. So I think the root of the intuition we have that there is more "wasted" effort is just that people are building larger, more complex systems that need larger teams to build and the larger teams spend more effort (on a per-person basis) on coordination.
Even things that used to do battery swapping, such as forklifts, are moving away from that. Now that battery forklifts can get through a workday on one charge, it's easier to just recharge during off hours.
> This is a messaging app we're talking about here. There's nothing outrageously difficult or complex that hasn't already been done 25 years ago.

If you think it's so easy, be your own change and do it, and then we can judge the results.

> If 36 people and $100 million in funding is not enough to make a messaging app that doesn't suck, what _is_ required and why is it more than that?

You're assuming there's a solution of a certain form to get you what you want, but maybe it's your assumption that's wrong.

I mean, there are formally verified systems that might be like what you're asking, but they're both 1) very expensive, 2) extremely feature poor.
> What's wrong with using an EV for daily driving and renting a gas vehicle for the rare trips that really need the extra range?

Well right now, legislation is being discussed that bans gas vehicles outright, rather than leaving them as an option, so even your rental suggestion is precluded. I'm not a fan of bans on consumer products in general - I would rather price in externalities. Additionally, this rental model doesn't work when everyone has the same holiday weekends when they want to go out with the family, or the same great weather conditions they want to take advantage of (for example to go skiing). The surge in demand won't match up to a limited supply of rental vehicles.

> I'm also going to point out that the mileage I saw on my car at the dealer does not match the gas mileage I get in practice. That isn't something that is unique to EVs.

Sure, but with EVs there are more variables at play like temperature. The max range on gas vehicles is also still a lot higher than EVs - for example I can easily get over 500 miles in my SUV on a single tank even driving aggressively. Plus the range is less of an issue when I can just carry an extra can of gas or fill up in an unplanned manner virtually anywhere in the country. If we don't have portable battery packs, or battery packs that can be swapped, it's simply not an equivalent substitute.
I mean, why make people do a phone call if it doesn't actually help with the interview process?
Maybe a majority of big tech. Following is from quick news searches. Those in the know please correct if you want and if you're allowed.

Facebook: local employees are expected in the office "at least half the time." But Zuckerberg is quoted elsewhere as saying he thinks a majority of the workforce will eventually be remote. Remote pay is adjusted. Do not know if employees or teams can just arbitrarily choose that setup.

Apple: 3 days in the office (postponed 1 month)

Amazon: 3 days in, 2 days at home as "baseline."

Netflix: 9/2020 articles suggested bringing everyone back full time. Hastings was quoted then as being against home/remote including a joke that he though the RTO deadline should be "12 hours after a vaccine is approved," with the serious followup thought to be after a majority of their employees were vaccinated. That was a year ago and things are more relaxed now; it sounds like it will be voluntary in the near future.

Google: "hybrid" 3 days in, 2 at home for local employees. Some fraction of the workforce will be remote.

Extending to honorary FAANGUM:

Uber: 3 days in, 2 at home

Microsoft: different "hybrid." Microsoft seems to be the only one of the group to have committed to generally allow employees to choose?

reminder those may all be outdated, this was a very quick search. Aside from Apple all the articles were written pre-Delta in the US.
> super common for people to take sickies on fridays or mondays to get long weekends

Why not just give them enough PTO so they can get a few long weekends here and there, and they won't need to lie.
It shouldn't have anything to do with getting there soon enough. If they find shell casings, victims, or other evidence that a crime occurred (usually even discharging a firearm in a major city is considered a crime with very limited defenses), then they should still be collecting evidence and logging a report. Now, they may not be doing that because they don't want to have high crime numbers that are unsolved, or even dragging down the reputation of the safer areas (I've heard of officers doing this).
I don't like the update system introduced in Big Sur. An update that is only around 124MB on iOS is 2.20 GB on Big Sur.
I live in Philadelphia, often times when the roads are in need of repair (read: all the time) parts of the subsurface get revealed. Often time there are old trolley tracks, that are still in the ground, which were simply paved over for a road and cars.

Cities were recreated over the course of the last 100 years to support car travel over any other means.
You compare it to Rust compile times, but Julia's are much worse than Rust's. I say this as someone who has used both languages quite a lot.
So excited for WebGL2!
In a way being able to engineer and produce something simpler at a large scale very consistently with few defects is more advanced than having more advanced but unreliable technology you sell at a lower volume
> What an obnoxious, stupid way to make us work. Little did we know that cubicles were the NICE version of office work.

When I started working, in cubicles, 20 years ago, people would complain and say we should have offices, not these awful cubicles. Now I'm wishing for cubicles. I pity the next generation that missing open offices because somehow something worse was foisted upon us.
> My personal friend had been stuck on the intersection because his model 3 started automatically updating system software

(X) Doubt

I'm going to be blunt here. I think either you or your friend are lying. Teslas don't automatically update system software. It tells you when there's an update available and allows you to choose when to install it. Once you tell it to start installing the update, first off, it gives you two minutes to cancel the update. Once it begins, you can't drive until the update finishes. In short, the car will NEVER interrupt a drive to install an update.
But many landlords (especially corporate ones) own a lot of property, and furthermore landlords can and do cooperate. I think you're assuming perfect competition, where all pricing is transparent and all market participants interact with each other exclusively through price signals. In reality landlords compete but also cooperate, and their associations are more integrated/coordinated than those of tenants. There are far fewer landlords than tenants, and a non-rental motivated by collective/cooperative solidarity means a lack of profit maximization for the landlord but often lack of a place to live for the tenant, so the incentives as well as the market structure are wildly asymmetrical.
reamde is essentially unrelated. you could enjoy fall without it, stand-alone.
I think you're on the right track, but hybridized offerings / total offerings isn't the right way to depict this. If you have a car company that sells 10 vehicles per year and only have 1 model, then that would be 100% in your books.

I would look at how many models total that Toyota group offers, which I believe is one of the highest in the industry. Couple this with the fact that they are the biggest car industry in the world, means that they are doing more for the reduction of gasoline burning than most other companies, including EV only companies.

Total USA EV market share is somewhere around 2%, and at best that means 2% of those people replaced their non-hybrid with EVs.

I believe they are planning a mass hybridization of their line-up with each new model that comes out now. The Sienna only comes in hybrid now, and that was released a year ago.

See my other comment in this thread. If all 300k EVs sold in North America were used as the battery source for Hybrids, then there could be an estimated 7900% more reduction in full usage due to the fact that you can make 14 million hybrids with those vehicles.
> Package management also needs to get better.

In my experience it is close to perfect. What issues did you encounter?
The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is how.

Michael Crichton explains:

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
Give me high cubicle walls, a moat and a vat of boiling oil ...
Yeah, that's an issue which can be avoided by using 1 repo per client.

There are some ideas on the issue tracker for fixing this long term (like random nonces, session keys, ...), but that stuff will have to wait until after borg 1.2 (which soon goes into release candidate phase).
If you were an IM at this age (14-15), you were actually stronger than myself at this age. I believe it is not about being smart enough, but more about what you are willing to invest (time/energy/finances). I understand everybody that says it is not worth it to go for the GM title or more.
But saying you are not smart enough is a limiting believe I don't really like, especially if you got so close. Certainly not everybody has the ability to get a GM title, but 99% that get the IM title can also get the GM title with the right work.
Yup! My favorite Stratechery post is on this very topic, Chips and Geopolitics: https://stratechery.com/2020/chips-and-geopolitics/
From what I've seen, the cameras don't really catch those angles to give video on that, and even if they did, that's a problem easily solved through a piece of fabric around the problematic area (as opposed to on the camera, which could be accidentally left in place). Beyond that, requiring sounds from the bathroom be audible is not too much to ask, IMO.

If it came down to it being absolutely essential, you could have one office take the camera off (but leave it running), and hand it to their partner to point at the bathroom door as that officer enters and uses the bathroom, and they put it back on as they exit the bathroom.

The whole point of a camera system is to be a reliable audit trail of interactions that police have been in, for both their benefit and the public's benefit. Every exception you allow that lets things happen without the camera is a problem for an audit, so you try to reduce those as much as possible.
There's basically no difference between a jailbreak bug and a 0 day.

Both are vulnerabilities in the sandboxing.
One of the best things about accomodations is that they benefit nearly everyone.

Ramps instead of stairs? Necessary for wheelchairs, but good for elderly knees and people temporarily on crutches or roller scooters.

Keyboard of your choice? Necessary if you have low motor control, still good for preventing people from getting RSIs.

Interview in writing instead of via voice? Guess what: benefits Deaf people, those who are hard of hearing, and people who have difficulty speaking.
How about Fraunhofer, IMEC, Amkor, AEMtec, ICsense, Infineon...?
Fine, a criminal fraud case. Nobody went to jail.
TV Went from David Brent to Ted Lasso
Has anyone ever programmed with Ward Cunningham? What code has he shipped?
People who is tired of wrapping C++ or Fortran libraries. It's not exactly a drop in replacement but it's almost there. If speed is not relevant to you then it may not be a good choice unless you are into language learning for the sake of it
The court doesn't waste it's time; the company does.

Furthermore, these sorts of bulk lawsuits can be used as scare tactics to scare up settlements. Obviously, prosecuting a lawsuit over a $2,700 debt makes no financial sense if you were to carry the lawsuit to completion. But it also makes no sense to defend against. Just settle. The vast majority of people do this and thus you can get lots of money by suing people this way.

Indeed, they basically outright stated this:

"As of January, the company has decided to take patients to court only if they make at least twice the federal poverty level — or about $52,000 annually for a family of four."

In other words, they target people who are most likely to settle and pay up.

(Bonus points: this is intended to sound exonerating, until you realize that there is no such thing as a "federal poverty level". $52,000 is dirt poor in New York City or San Francisco.)
They need to bring Ballmer back to throw some chairs around for the sake of the developers.
> Death Valley

...
I have played a few hundred games against the various levels of Maia (https://lichess.org/@/maia1), and it has helped me improve from 1100 to 1425 blitz rating on lichess (along with playing against stronger players in the arena tournaments). It does seem to encapsulate the “average” playing style and common mistakes of the different ratings. It feels much fairer, more instructive, and more relaxing than playing against Stockfish, who will wildly blunder and then subsequently torture you.

However, even as a weak player, Maia is exploitable in a way that even novice humans are not. For example, it loves to give up obvious back-rank mates and almost never protects against it (e.g. with h3). It is easy for humans to spot if they are in danger of back-rank mate (especially if you’ve been burned before) and defend against it, so it does not happen much even at low levels. But Maia, game after game, gifts you an obvious mate in 1.
Apple Business Model: A Naive Nostalgic Look
A constant decline when they started at an incredibly high starting point still puts it at much worse than other countries.

I don't care about 'trying' or 'trends'. I care about current results. That's the behaviour we should incentivize. Results. Not 'projected results maybe 20 years from now.'

Oh, and by the way, China's per-capita emissions peaked in ~2013, and have been ~slowly declining since then. [1] If current trends continue without any change, it's going to take another 24 years for the US to hit their level of emissions. [2]

It's odd that whenever people grouse about China's emissions, they never make note of either of those two facts...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states
Are there original signers of the Agile Manifest who aren't consultants?
I haven't been asked that question in a long long time in the US. The cashier just swipes it.

Then again, I don't know anyone that uses a debit card after high school. Not using a credit card kinda implies that they're financially irresponsible right now (leaving cash back/points on the table) or were in the past and ruined their credit.
I really hate that they demand Wifi - I never have Wifi, but I have an unlimited data plan that is well good for multiple terabytes.
They're different titles though. Grandmaster (GM) != Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Judit Polgár, for example, peaked at an Elo of over 2,700, so she easily qualified for Grandmaster (requirement of 2,500).

Similarly, a Brigadier General is not the same rank as a General, despite some commonality in word choice between the two ranks.
If BTC uses clean energy, someone else has to use the dirty energy because BTC took the renewable they could have used. Mining has also driven up costs for communities that had cheap renewables.

BTC is a waste of energy because it doesn't do any of the things it claims to do. It's highly centralized, far more wealth imbalance, and trending towards custodial accounts if it ever wants to reach mass adoption.
Sometimes there are also privacy laws that would need to be addressed at the state level. For example, many places prohibit the camera from being active in a private residence unless permission is granted by the resident.
They will in 5 years when it's worth 2x that.
Usually when someone says something is unix-like, they mean it "embraces unix philosophy", which usually means something like it operates on stdin/stdout so it can be composed in a pipeline on the shell.

Which is why I was mislead in this case :)
I don’t think they’re talking about people driving 200+ miles to an office every day. Think more along the lines of service technicians (plumbers, electricians, etc), home builders (working on multiple projects at a time), and on and on. There’s millions of people who’s office is the job site wherever that may be.
the film overall is not, but I don't think you want your wearable exoskeleton to take any cues from HAL 9000
Short list of current priorities (in no particular order)
Making it easier to interface with the compiler (this is step 1 on better ability to static compile/debug)
Better garbage collection
More performance
Reducing the memory footprint of small strings
Lowering the overhead of multithreading
It's worth noting that Julia doesn't really have a core team. A lot of the development is done by a pretty large community of developers without any central management.
Nuremberg 2 is so close I can taste the iron.
According to this, the hunters in the US can't keep up: https://www.popsci.com/feral-pig-problem/

> To wipe out a population, you need to shoot 60 to 80 percent a year, says Mayer, but recreational hunting can only cut their numbers by about a quarter.

These aren't anti-hunting liberal states, either. But apparently that's only made it worse, historically:

> But even when state officials encouraged sport hunting for the explicit purpose of curbing the tidal wave of pigs, it’s backfired. Hunters love to shoot them so they transport the animals to new areas. Even when the new hunting spots are fenced properties, the swine are notoriously good at digging their way out and escaping.

See also this older article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-plague-of-pi...

> And yet wild hogs were barely more than a curiosity in the Lone Star State until the 1980s. It’s only since then that the population has exploded, and not entirely because of the animals’ intelligence, adaptability and fertility. Hunters found them challenging prey, so wild hog populations were nurtured on ranches that sold hunting leases; some captured hogs were released in other parts of the state. Game ranchers set out feed to attract deer, but wild hogs pilfered it, growing more fecund. Finally, improved animal husbandry reduced disease among domestic pigs, thereby reducing the incidence among wild hogs.
> there are exceptions to most rules, but break them only if you know what you are doing and are able to justify doing so.

Isn't this exactly the kind of vague advice that GP was talking about?
I’ve heard of it: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/a-brief-history-of-q...

Frankly, I don’t understand anything you‘re trying to say in your multiple replies to my comments, and I suggest you spare yourself any further effort in this direction.
How about "everyone has a laptop, so just take the first free desk when you get in in the morning?"
>Because since "gaining" has to happen before "uncovering", either of the alternative will imply "gain of function"

If it happened naturally in one of the viruses collected by the lab, it wasn't because of gain of function research.
They do that here in texas. Actual automatic machine guns, helicopters, huge traps that can catch 40 at a time. They are still blowing up in numbers. They breed too fast and too often. It's a real problem even with no bag limit.
The vast majority of detached houses can charge an EV at home, assuming you either own it or have a landlord willing to let you install the charging equipment.