skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would only need to store the relative differences between the coordinates, so the actual precision is much lower than 12 bytes, even for a naive scheme.
>It’s not exactly unfair or nefarious.

>Eric Schmidt, the former Alphabet CEO, has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus.

The rich jerk who needed free trillions or otherwise the world would end left us high and dry. Wow imagine that. And I wonder how this is going to end. Not like it's too difficult today to spread word through Turkish prisons that it's open season on rich Americans in Cypress.

Public outrage? Likely you'll get complementary cigarettes sent to you in the mail.
Well there are a handful right here on this comment section. I'm a Brit and have known maybe half a dozen US citizens reasonably well here in London over the years, at least two of which renounced US citizenship for tax reasons while I knew them. It's definitely a thing.
I explained it pretty clearly what you get when you add a month on January 31st. You get February 31st.

A month is a discrete unit of measure. It is not decomposable into any number of days.

When you increment a month, you get YYYY - (MM+1). Any higher significance is maintained, but irrelevant to the operation. (This applies to the hypothetical statement in the doctor's office, the specific day is indeterminant, but can be assumed the same as current day next month.)

The fact that not all possible days exist is orthogonal to the singular meaning of the operation. It's obviously not greatly valuable to an end-user, but the method of addressing the ambiguity involves a second operation that ensures validity.

End-users want an method that does both the addition and coercion, but you can create consistency if you follow the simple path I laid out in GP.

I'll use your syntax but with the strictly correct definition of the operation.

Datetime x = new DateTime(2021, 1, 31);
x.AddMonths(1); // DateTime(2021, 2, 31)
x.AddMonths(2); // DateTime(2021, 3, 31)
x.AddMonths(1).AddMonths(1); //DateTime(2021, 3, 31)

// Ensure Valid, using a coerce to clamp overflows
DateTime(2021, 2, 31).EnsureValid(); // Feb 28
DateTime(2021, 3, 31).EnsureValid(); // Mar 31
DateTime(2021, 4, 31).EnsureValid(); // Apr 30
For those unfamiliar (like me) "Kid Pix Roundup" by Cathode Ray Dude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK6-ZSaBzjc
A lovely concrete expression of this phenomenon: a popular toy wagon from the 1920s (still sold today) is called the ”radio flyer”. It is a red wagon with big rubber wheels and was so popular that a red wagon in its shape became the canonical or generic image for such a toy.

“Radio” was so modern and so exciting (as was the idea of flight) that its name was used talismanically as were “cyber” or “iXXX” a couple of decades ago. I mean, I can understand why zooming down a hill might make a kid think of flying, but radio? Simply modern and cool.

Same reason for the name “Motorola” — radios in cars is super cool.
I've never worked as a nurse or doctor but it's hard to imagine what they go through. Every day they deal with people in serious pain, people with traumatic injuries, rude people, rude people with traumatic injuries, screaming children and babies. Apparently nurses in particular are also routinely disrespected by higher-ups, put in danger by higher-ups, and don't get paid much.

In college I heard insane stories from the nursing majors. Apparently going on shifts working 72+ hours non-stop is the norm. Imagine spending 72 hours in that hell: delivering this guy's meds, then checking this guy's blood pressure while he berates you, then typing in some paperwork, then giving this baby lab work while he's screaming, then doing more paperwork, etc. for 72 hours straight. I can't imagine it, I can barely imagine spending more than 3 hours.

Anecdotally, the few times I've been to doctors' offices and hospitals, I always notice the stress on doctors. Doctors and nurses are rushing everywhere, and they try to act nice but are simultaneously drained of emotion from disrespectful patients and general fatigue. Ironically sometimes they don't look that healthy, with all due respect, probably because of the immense stress and that it's hard to fit in exercise when you work 12-hour overnight shifts.

Also, I live in Massachusetts where hospitals haven't been near capacity for some time now. Everything I described is just regular operation, pre-Covid.
> Don't buy Apple products...

What is the follow-on? Which products should we buy then? Any phone other than Apple's? None?
So basically this guy wants a dwarf fortress level city sim.
The social gestures of Bill Gates is that of hugging himself, which shows that the question made him visibly uncomfortable. The way he speaks, with his tongue curling into itself, also reveals clear discomfort.

I really don't like the implication of the whole interview. CNN is merely capitalizing on guilt by association. Sure, Epstein was a bad guy. No question about it. But tacitly accusing people who merely had dinner with him of also being bad, is stretching it beyond both reason and fairness.
Yes, it probably could. And Apple users are helping them to normalize constant surveillance of private information. This is a read permission on the content of you phone.

There is literature about how obedience enables totalitarianism. Tons of it. Should be part of any schools curriculum in my opinion.
Vaccination rates are extremely poor among Nurses and other healthcare staff[1], poorer than the general population you seem to imply they despise for lack of vaccination.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2021/06/28/covid19-va...
> All the lockdowns started because we didn't want to overwhelm the hospital system. In the US, the hospital system, at least the ERs were already running on fumes. Our politicians have decided it's better to play world police and kill people overseas than invest in community hospitals.

America had more ER capacity than I think any other country on the planet. Perhaps due to a lack of preventative medicine? I don't know, but it shouldn't be due to lack of ER capacity that this is happening.
Unfortunately it's not available on MacOS: "We're considering developing Mac version"
when it became inevitable..
I check this every week: https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/ Don't be put off that it's ZDNet, they monitor the infosec landscape really well.

The only personal blog that covers infosec, similar to Krebs is Graham Cluley, but it's usually watered down language explained in simple terms: https://grahamcluley.com/
I think it's also shown in time. I've had jobs that paid me more than my current one, but I was paying for that by my personal time being completely abused on a regular basis, even if it's just a small thing or 3 daily it ends up feeling like you never stop working. I don't have any means of work communication on my phone now, and I've gotten one call that I said I was open to in my current role. To me, shutting my computer and work being completely over till I open it again is such a relief.
For example, Israel goes to extremely great lengths extracting its citizens in trouble (search Operation Entebbe), and no, they don't charge you any taxes if you reside permanently abroad.
I can't remember the last time I booted Win95 but I remember the first. I had installed a Cyrix 586 overdrive chip in my Lazer 486sx 33mhz system that was maxed out with 32mb of RAM. It took forever and I wasn't sure if it would work.
Thanks! And love your thinking. To be frank, we have not had the chance to get enough insights on how strong the 'beauty standards' are in food factories. We know from one local chips maker that they do get potatoes that are too small for them and hence cannot be made use of. So it depends on the type of food product we talk about, but defenitely the standards in the food factories are lower than in the B2C space. We actually think we can start creating products like jam ourselves with fruits that are so mistreated that we cannot even include them in our produce boxes.

That said, the problem is also a bit educational. 1) many people don't know that imperfect produce is actually very common (as in supermarkets only perfect fruits&veggies are displayed) 2) some people think that imperfect produce is imperfect as they were genetically modified (which is not the case).

And lastly, the problem is also due to the existing supply chains. Supermarkets do not only optimize for looks but also size, for logistical and pricing purposes.

Apart from that, we do not only tackle food waste by offering imperfect produce but further only offering seasonal produce and shortening the existing supply chains.
There can be two issues happening simultaniously:

1. It's unfair for the US to tax it's "citizens" when they no longer live in the country.

2. Billionaires can only become billionaires through exploitation and now some are using this to further shirk any sort of social responsibility or paying back to the systems that created them.

The real problem is that we've allowed billionaires to exist.
You are assuming they want all of the guests to attend. Plenty of family and friend obligations that become socially awkward to snub.

Destination wedding will eliminate some percentage of guests who "do not matter", which has the side benefit of reducing the venue expense.
Honestly it's just bittersweet that YC does due dilligence like this for gaming startups. I mean some of them are cool businesses (like this one), but I'm a little salty since selling items not through steam is absolutely against valve's TOS. Remember that startup that wanted to do an mmo with thousands of players, VR etc etc and the demo was a compilation of free assets in UE4..?

Ok, now back to work.
Couldn't agree more. In the short term it can be very effective. It's much like taking steroids, it will work temporarily but can easily spiral and impose a long-term cost.
I posted the second tweet in the article which dives into one of the apps (note that nearly all the apps featured by Apple were subscription scams of a similar nature, one was non-functional, and the last one sold "coin packs" — probably the most benign of the bunch)

My main complaint is that the App Store allows developers to sell subscriptions which feature free trials that automatically convert into paid subscriptions

This system of automatically rolling-over a trial into a subscription provides zero benefit to the user. This only benefits developers who want to see extra revenue from people who forget to cancel their subscriptions prior to the trial ending

I have no idea why Apple does not prompt the user to purchase the subscription when they attempt to launch the app after the trial period. It would help a ton of people, it would prevent scam apps like this, it would drive trust in subscriptions as a business model for apps, it would help legitimate developers, and it would be good business for the App Store in the long term

There is no business sense to enabling the current trial mechanism, nor is there any benefit to users
I want to specify and create a secure networked virtual machine derived from this: https://esolangs.org/wiki/RarVM with someone.

When we've agreed on instructions/semantics and a deterministic format, we can send each other programs - suspend and serialize them on one machine and deserialize and resume them on the other!
While I think this is a cool idea, the thought of hitting the network via an API call at minimum once per request sounds ... less than ideal. That's a lot of latency add just to check authorization. And you go to all this effort to configure authorization in Warrant per-user and per-resource, why not just put it into your own tables?

Edit: and I just saw the pricing... 1k API calls a month? I'd quite literally hit that in minutes. :)
This does happen. People get unwanted US citizenship have to renounce. Rediculous to tax someone for that
YouTuber Unlearning Economics addresses this point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2gwS4VpHc
The alternative is?

Google phone? This is not an alternative if you care about privacy.

The allegory presented sounds insane (growing your own food) but honestly if you're not rolling your own flashed ROM on a 'droid then your privacy is dead already;

I understand throwing all your eggs in one basket is a terrible idea but Apples walled garden and heavy sandboxing was at least somewhat protective.
Undoubtedly, the writers at the Guardian were thinking the same. However, one would do well to doubt whether the above described behaviors would be good were they to be performed by humans.
Better Mousetraps (OR Screw Drives) Don’t Always Win
I mean, every hospital director needs at least three vacation homes and two boats right?
That's why I love Chrisjen Avasarala, in The Expanse! But does her potty mouth count as "toxic masculinity"?

https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Chrisjen_Avasarala_(TV)

>A master politician and maneuverer, she achieved one of the highest ranks in UN government without ever standing for election. She manipulates those in the highest seats of power through careful cultivation of relationships with their spouses, friends, and staff nearest to them. [...]

>Avasarala's personality is often one of clashing traits. She is erudite and elegant, always properly and beautifully dressed, but is also notorious for her use of foul language and profanity, and was described by Bobbie as cursing "like a trucker". She has been shown to be cold and ruthless one moment, as she tortures a prisoner for information or manipulates her close friend DeGraaf into ruining his career for her political gain, while she is warm and maternal the next, playing with her grandson or giving Errinwright a chance to redeem himself. She is shrewd and intelligent, knows her way around people, and is also an astute and remorseless deceiver, often lying to advance her goals, such as when she pretended to know Captain Yvgeny to convince Sorrento-Gillis to do what she wanted, or attributed fake quotes to the deceased Admiral Souther and called him her friend, while in truth they barely spoke to each other.
The first ( and only ) way to solve any problem is to first admit it is a problem.

It doesn't even need to be an "action". You will have to be at least conscious of what is happening.

That is not what is happening, right now ( or before that ) many are defending Apple, and also an attitude of not "my problem". Writing off any warning as either pessimistic or conspiracy. Having some healthy dose of skepticism is somewhat an unpopular view in modern day society. Especially in Tech and America.

An action could and will be taken once enough people are conscious of what is happening. Right now the scale and critical mass just isn't there (yet).
To be honest, I just need to know if you’re coming so I can plan the right size table, transport, food, whatever.

If you’re not coming, I’m largely indifferent as to why and certainly won’t investigate to see if you’re telling the truth on the reason.
That’s my point, too, the inevitable will come, at one point or another. Countries like Thailand or Vietnam used to be relatively Covid-free until a few months ago and were given as positive examples.
The solution won't be technological, it will be in realm of laws and regulations. We are weak peasants and don't have any power over big tech, but we can change legal environment for them.

IANAL but we (via our elected representatives) can push a law that prohibit restrictions on execution of users' code on their own devices. Or we can split app stores from vendors and obligate them to provide access to third-party stores, like we do with IE and windows.

Also, it's completely doable to stop NSA/Prism totalitarian nonsense.

What we can do as tech people?

- raise awareness

- help people to switch from big tech vendor locks

- help people harming BT by installing adblockers, pihole etc

- participate in opensource (with donations or work)

- probably something else
You realize I used this placeholder name just as an example, since I have no idea what function this code was a part of.

That said, a one-liner function that's semantically specific to an app (where 42 bits is important for some reason) is absolutely harmless. The compiler will inline it, while for you it represents an opportunity to refactor this in one place. Because the assumption is you call a function at least twice, or it wouldn't be a function in the first place (some exceptions but mostly it's the rule).
More importantly: how did this link open without my provider blocking it?!
It would be speculation to say "Google is removing alert()"

It is not speculation to say "Google is considering removing alert()". Multiple engineers from Chrome have confirmed on Twitter that they have an eventual goal of removing alert() at some point in the future (or making it non-blocking and removing prompt/confirm, which is the same thing). See https://twitr.gq/domenic/status/1422647331804037120 as one example.

Maybe it won't happen! There's a lot of time for feedback. But it is accurate to say that Google is considering it.

Also as a small sidenote, they are not considering removing alert() for cross-origin iframes. They are removing it for cross-origin iframes and have very temporarily walked the changes back in order to give devs more time to prepare. Short of some kind of massive blowback that forces the devs to change their mind, Chrome's decision to remove alert() from cross-origin iframes has already been finalized.
This feel like a modification of the rules.

EDIT: It is of course very cool.
Chinese political engineering, AI tool failure, new IT, and Time Crystals
OK, I guess the temperature is high enough after ~20 years, frogs are boiled, it's time to move in and consolidate power everywhere.
There's probably some floor for X below which 1.5x is more valuable than the non-monetary incentives
A consultant is basically anyone who is paid by the hour/day to works on projects and isn't employed by the company whose project they're working on.

Generally the difference between a consultant and a contractor is kind of diffuse, but basically a consultant has more autonomy and is expected to offer advice and guidance based on their experience, while a contractor is expected more to just implement a plan given to them. But as I said it's very diffuse and many people use the term contractor and consultant interchangeably.

As to what it requires, literally just that you can convince someone to pay you money for you to give them advice. Often a consultant will have a lot of experience in a specific area and will be brought on by companies that need help and expertise in that area for a specific project, but don't want to hire an expert full time.

There are also consulting companies that employ people and hire them out to other companies as consultants. At which point you just get a regular salary from your employer and the company you are hired out to pays your employer for the hours you work.
At times there have been a lot of idle doctors and nurses. Hospitals cancelled elective procedures to reserve capacity for an expected surge of COVID-19 patients (which in most areas never really arrived). My neighbor is an anesthesiologist and was only working half time for months. Doctors can be retained for other specialties but it's a slow process.
I'm terrible at bowling, but I've found that I can get kid-weight balls to curve by holding them in my palm (no fingers in holes) and tossing them with a gratuitous amount of spin. I'm sure that serious bowlers laugh or cringe, but I'm only there for the company of friends.
Having an open corpus means that researchers building the next thing in voice research - which may or may not follow DeepSpeech - have something to work with. This is enormously important and their change of direction lets a thousand flowers bloom. Meanwhile, their partnership with Nvidia provides a fertile ground to prove the value of the open corpus in action. Nvidia get access to Mozilla's (presumably superior) ability to build said corpus, while Mozilla lay the foundations for others to contribute work in the open. It is a great example of comparative advantage, and a win win choice, IMO.
I find it absurd that we allow medical staff to work 24 hour shifts. We don't let pilots do that. We don't let truckers do that.
> Haven't found a low-tech way to make a piezo earphone just yet

The closer way I've found is this guy making it with a recycled transformer, a hard drive magnet, a jar lid, some wood, and some cables.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEMXlLqwwTA (First part. 7:07 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXpprO5h79I (Second part. 9:32 min.)

Those videos are in Spanish but subtitles are available.
Vaccination reduces the exponential in the transmission. More hospital beds just fights a constant.

Doubling healthcare capacity roughly lasts for about 3 extra days if no other measure is in place.

I'm all for improving healthcare, in the US or otherwise, but you just can't fire up and destroy healthcare resources like it's your k8s cluster.
I don't see how this is relevant. Of course lawyers must make more in a HCOL to make ends meet, but how is this different than any other profession? Are there significantly more lawyers in HCOL areas?
Why do people have a fascination with proving others' real life experiences "wrong" using some aggregated idea from a self-appointed authority figure? Statistics and summaries don't remotely represent or contradict individual experiences. Try telling someone who was struck by lightning that, no, they really weren't, because lightning strikes are rare.
Liberal Biden voter here: Totally. Everyone is absorbing media that spends 90% of its energy encouraging them to think that they're being attacked by the other half of the country. Both ends of the spectrum are encouraged to have a victim complex that makes them feel totally justified in their heinous behavior, because in their minds they're just defending themselves against the aggressor.
How to Run an Effective Sprint Planning Meeting
Have you ever wondered if it weren't HK - where your exit country would be? Did Italy or any other place in the EU appeal to you at all? I hold dual US-UK, which means the EU isn't really an option for me anymore.
TL;DR - Some senators think that the language is too vague and a crypto developer could fall into the definition of a broker, causing them to have strict IRS reporting requirements.
Still using my heavily upgraded G4 Cube on a regular basis. The transitional part your're referring to is the Dot-Com times this Mac reminds me of — In addition to simply being a joy to look at.
> while the office TV is showing billionaires take off into space in personal rocket penises.

Stripped of the emotional phraseology, I 100% agree with your point. There is something pointedly psychotic about flying rockets just because when your employees are not paid or treated fairly.

But that's just psuedo "capitalism".
Can activist shareholders mitigate changes like CSAM scanning?
Not true. A company can pay 50% over market and have a complete trash culture that burns people out in weeks. Not being total assholes is also a form of soft comp that doesn’t get enough recognition.

I do realize “pay me more” is a balm that is acceptable to many, but I actually like to enjoy what I do.
I am really not sure if this comment is ironic or not. It reads like it has to be, but today you never know.
At least from those expats posting here, the issue isn’t the actual real tax liability, but the burden of having to show the IRS every year that you don’t think you have a tax liability.
Wealth inequality is proof of exploitation. Look at CEO to worker pay. The capitalists have the system rigged.