skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flip side of the egomaniacal types in the story and comments is that the world is equally full of skilled people with great ideas and coding skills who write really useful software but have no clue of how to get it off the ground and growing it into a valuable business.

How do some salespeople learn the art of dressing up absolute crap as 'the next big thing' and wielding substantial power with zero capability, whilst many brainiacs are effectively ego-midgets who even if they invented time travel would struggle to find a ready buyer?

I think Jordan Peterson is right for many people when he says you need to act beyond your self-imposed mental limits because otherwise you sell yourself short.

There seems to be a level of self-criticism which causes certain types of people (say type Theta) to work on developing real skills but hurts their sales ability and self belief. People who lack that (say type Zeta) are capable of selling sand in the Sahara but may have very little other technical / professional skills - and this is in no way a criticism of sales ability, which is worth gold.

If you're a Theta, perhaps you need to be more Zeta, and vice versa.
Is AM radio still on the air? or has digital kicked it to death?
I'm asking simply as a thought experiment.

And the reason to stop it is obvious-- to procure other taxes from those people. For example, many jurisdictions don't have an inheritance tax, and the US Gov't would likely want that cut upon the (ex?)-citizen's death.
I hope this eases the demand for graphics cards somewhat.
Super rich people have the same phone as me. They got the same vaccine as me. The same flue as everyone else can knock them down every winter. On average their kids die with the same frequency and for the same reasons as mine.

Once you get a decent salary utity of money decreases badly.
Level of Covid in Houston's wastewater is 320% more than 2020's benchmark level
Your second-hand anecdote proves nothing to anyone except to you. And even you should be wary of trusting random people with personal stories to tell of how they were involved in some well-known historical event. Especially when there was major news coverage starting the very next day which exaggerated the event way out of proportion. People’s memories are affected by what they read.

It’s at least very disputed if any significant amount of people were actually affected: https://www.snopes.com/collections/debunker-10-30-2019/
Fantastic stuff. I walk past the redwoods local to me very regularly and often admire them. Last weekend my partner and I visited Ramster Gardens and saw these mighty specimens: http://www.redwoodworld.co.uk/picturepages/chiddingfold.htm

BlueSky provide a National Tree Map[0] - "a unique, comprehensive database of location, height and canopy/crown extents for every single tree 3m and above in height.". From their data I learned that more than 40% of the borough where I live is tree cover.[1] It's hard to describe how much I enjoy walking the miles and miles of public footpaths through woodland there are on my doorstep.

[0] https://www.bluesky-world.com/ntm

[1] https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/homes-and-gardens/places-...
How I learned to stop worrying and love overfitting models
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I find the argument about the familiarity of cultures very strong, and you're likely onto something there.
I built a pair of full-range speakers and was therefore introduced to that effect — an effect I had only experienced before with headphones.

No special modern receiver in my case, just simple speakers. It seems the 2-way, 3-way speakers I grew up with kill stereo imaging. (Never mind the crossovers eat power and diminish the efficiency of the speaker — requiring a higher current amp, etc... Lovely what a small ½ Watt tube amp and a pair of full-range drivers can sound like ... and throw in a sub.)
A practical guide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_and_Rise_of_Reginald_...
Your own company.
This is a medevac flight and Auckland is the closest major city to where he was located. It's not clear that he's being treated differently than other people would be in the same situation.
And?

You're just presenting the other side of "arguably". Thanks, but unnecessary.
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My vacant rental property has been off the market since the pandemic started. It will not go back on the market until this ends. The government is giving renters the legal ability to squat until this is all over. Why would I want to risk end up with an unevictable tenant who could do more damage to my property during that time that their rent is worth?
Love all those, Aquatic Ambience is straight of my childhood sitting on the carpet combing through the reefs

I love the DK "Bramble Blast" def my fav one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73n7HTcmb5g

Seems like all these DK soundtracks all use Korg Wavestation samples in the tracker.
2% discount, stacking

>Some even accumulated enough referrals for two free Founder Series Roadsters and Tesla confirmed that it would be giving two Roadsters away to those who get the 105 referrals needed.

>over 60 people are qualified for a Roadster and over 20 of those should get a second one too
It is true that everyone gets the same 24 hours each day.

It is not true that the ability to allocate that time is egalitarian.

It is much, much more likely that people with less money will have to spend more of their time working, taking care of children, cooking, cleaning, commuting on public transport, and 1001 other things that pick away at their time, but would be easily resolvable if they just had wads of disposable cash to throw at them instead.
If a company cares about you, it is shown in money. The People and Culture guy is a snake oil salesman meant to scam you.
It's not so much that one is stuffing random/unknown types into the database without type-checking. Programming language types do not map exactly to database types even in statically typed DBs. ORMs manage this translation for you (imperfectly at times), but for those of those of us work with directly with SQL, we do typecheck, otherwise the INSERTs will fail.

It's more that static database types provide a standard contractual interface that is enforced (agnostic of application and programming language) and has reproducible behavior upon retrieval.

The advantage of static types is the guarantee that if a data point is successfully INSERTed, it can be successfully retrieved in the future.

In a dynamically typed DB you have a problem of standardization across codebases -- every new program/microservice that is written will have to use the exact same typechecking code, or else risk future retrieval issues. Those that do type coercion on the other end are essentially guessing and hoping that the original type was successfully reproduced upon retrieval. Plus if you work with different programming languages, that same code has to be ported to all the different languages. You also find yourselves having to reinvent the wheel a lot -- for instance the SQL DECIMAL type. In SQLite you can either store it as an INTEGER or REAL, and then either store metadata in another field or create a specific function to retrieve the INTEGER and recreate the specific DECIMAL type with the right number of digits (say DECIMAL(18,0)).

On the other hand you can rely on SQL types and get all this for free and have the assurance that it will work impeccably.
You just described the entire field of gender studies.
He then also criticized the Trump admin for not giving him that number even though they were giving him thousands already. 40k new ventilators didn't even exist at the time, there is no warehouse with tens of thousands of them, they were being built and distributed nationwide; but the media ate it up because orange man bad.
Most people don't actually owe anything so the burden is mostly administrative, and what you're going through it for is not "where you were born" but continued citizenship and attendant benefits. As the article describes, you're free to give that up if you don't think it is worth it.
Almost my entire day is spent in meetings with at least three of these characteristics. I love it. I get paid to just go from meeting to meeting and talk to people. It's been like this for so long that I'm afraid to try and go back to writing code. This is so much easier.
I think the outcome shows what's terrible about it.
> I'm just advocating that tax laws exist & are enforced, so as to redistribute wealth, which I don't view as oppressive

Laws are strongly enforced in this country (USA).

Where is the bar for "oppressive"? I come from a country that thought that 70%+ taxation was acceptable. In the USA, we are now at 60%+ (across federal, state, local). It sure sounds oppressive to me and one way out is to give the choice to people to opt out.
The garbage fire of 2020 was almost worth it, it seems. First, the reconfiguration for hybrid remote work, but also - helping the "essential employee" class realize they have been taken for suckers. I can imagine it's hard to go back to pulling overtime around ungrateful anti-vaxxers, while the office TV is showing billionaires take off into space in personal rocket penises.
> The system we were building could theoretically have up to 1GB of memory, but we laughed at this idea at the time, because it would require multiple refrigerator-sized cabinets and millions of dollars to build it, and who needs a gigabyte of memory, anyway?

> Now of course, a USB drive in the back of your desk drawer that is only 1GB gets thrown out for being too small, and a suitable replacement can be found for under $10 at the supermarket checkout stand.

The first few paragraphs made me cringe because the writer conflates volatile memory with non-volatile storage. It's problematic to compare the two types together because for many decades, storage has been an order of magnitude cheaper than memory. The rest of the article isn't that bad.
Yea, I totally get how you can make that comparison. I think the difference is that those that support Trump view him being a “self-made” businessman and offering them something. Does he have an ego? You bet, but the stereotypical New Yorker? Idk.

Cuomo is a silly caricature of what the rest of the country think of when they poke fun at New Yorkers: vain, aggressive, crooked, loudmouth bully.

Also, his appearance and mannerisms make him seem like a character from the Sopranos or a Scorsese movie. It is hilarious. He is just so obviously full of shit.

It would be like if the Governor of Minnesota acted and spoke like someone from the Movie “Fargo”.
Tongue in cheek but totally true. If everyone has a voice and feels like they can express it (everyone "carries a gun" so to speak) yeah that is a pretty good approximation of true progress.
> that were infected

These are the key words. But the odds of being infected in the first place are lower if you are vaccinated. So given a choice to spend time with a vaccinated stranger or an unvaccinated one, you should prefer the former if you want to avoid getting sick.
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Or worse yet having the neighborhood get gradually worse. What if they don’t kick you off but the ads get more sleazy, distracting, annoying? What if the sidebars are full of engaging clickbait that hurts people psychologically, socially, and poltically?

Ultimately you are complicit in that if you stay, but moving is hard, you wind up making excuses for yourself, your heart won’t really line up in your writing.
The look on the interviewed Director’s face and the tremor in his voice speaks volumes about the stress he and his colleagues are enduring. The explanation Phan gives that healthcare workers expected this point in time to be easier because of warm weather and vaccinations is heartbreaking.
"power corrupts". Politics by nature is about assigning power to a few decision makers.

Democracy has less corruption than other systems due to separation of power, but it's foolish to think there isn't temptation to become corrupt when you think you can get away with something.
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When I lived and worked in East Africa, I know that most, if not all of my income, was not taxed back in the US because of the Foreign Income Exclusion Act. Basically, for foreign earned income anywhere below ~$80,000 at the time, I didn't have to pay tax, which the limit is now around $108,000 or so.

However, as you point out, that doesn't seem to apply to dividends and capital gains and other types of income [1].

I wonder why it doesn't apply to those other incomes and if it did, whether that would alleviate many of the problems for most Americans overseas. In other words, why not just have a threshold below which all foreign income is not taxed and then tax above it?

I'm curious to learn more about the history of that act and why it developed as it did.

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
First they came for the Communists. And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists. And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews. And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me. And there was no one left
To speak out for me
If the guy was going there for a vacation, yes I would 100% agree with your sentiment. But from the story it sounds like his son had to be medivaced from Fiji.

Since this is a medical emergency I would imagine that they would grant this to whoever, not just Page.
Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster plans
The Oh No sound that plays with undo has lived rent free in my head for 20years now.
Since when did rules/laws start mattering for vc-backed startups? Continue paying fines until you're large enough to bribe, I mean lobby, for the law to change. It's just cost of doing business.

It's very difficult to go after/shut down sites that breach ToS like this. See nearly every gold-selling site for any MMORPG in existence. They do sometimes get shutdown eventually but typically after many years and they often re-open with a new brand name.
I think it reached a point of no return. HK is still a very special place, but I see a lot of expats leaving for Singapore and Hkers leaving for overseas(BNO visa).

Singapore is more stable, but has even less freedoms than HK though.
> Doesn't mean we should stop trying.

Who is suggesting ‘stopping trying’?

To me the only thing that sounds like ‘stopping trying’ is boycotting Apple, as though that has anything whatsoever to do with the problem.

It doesn’t matter what vendor you use. The only thing you can do to help is to identify parts of the solution, explain them, and build them.

I don’t have time to check out your email solution but I hope it is part of the solution.
How many Americans actually end up with real tax liability from a foreign country? Probably need to answer that before we determine whether it's "worth it" because my understanding is most people don't.
I was a longtime scientist and have a publication record. I know what science is. I am intellectually honest. My area of study included quantum chemistry. I have researched all the work in consciousness and QM and so far, nobody has even the most basic of theories that woudl explain the data in a simpler way than existing, classical ones.

If you do some reading you'll see Hameroff (who cares about penrose) isn't operating in good faith.

I don't see your point about "fake jew science", relativity is very different from "the neural correlate of consciousness necessarily exploits quantum phenomena".
Because, I suppose, people seem to have forgotten that.
There are a number of Native American languages that have numerous speakers, but until recently have been marginalized, repressed and ignored (and some to this day). Guarani is the most numerous, but also Quechua, Nahuatl, and the various Mayan languages (spoken by around half of Guatemalans, and another 2.5 million Mexicans).
Definitely still a thing in the US
The claim of novelty for time-travel filtering seems odd, so I wonder if this was a mistake in transcribing the quotation for the article. Any FIR filter can effectively time travel if you consider the peak to be time zero. Negative delay of one part of the sound is positive delay of the rest. It's not new to this article, but this is something that is new with DSP that is not so easy without DSP.

The DRC room correction software could achieve excellent results with frequency-dependent temporal correction back in the early/mid 2000s: http://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/
Governments and corporations are just not clearly separable entities.

Corporate executives regularly go in to politics, and there influence legislation or regulations that affects the industries they came from or award government contracts to their former employers or other companies which they wind up working for at high paying jobs after they leave government.

It's an open secret in Washington that after leaving office politicians get cushy, high paying jobs at firms they favored while in office.

The back scratching between corporations and governments never stops.
Why the downvotes? It's well documented.
> What is the utopian perspective of this

You will make Apple tons of money.
doh! https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-trans...

~8K
I agree with the Franken incident. It was "bro" culture, but I don't think it was enough to dispatch someone from office. But Cuomo and the Virginia governor cases, had they been another party we would have had lots of clamoring for removal.
[1] appears to be a spider or some kind of bug, suspended by a web or fiber. It's really close to your IR leds, what's why it's blown out in white (overexposed) and casting a shadow into the distance.
US states do the same thing.

States with income tax will tax you whether you work in the state, or you are resident in the state.
> Not really strange. Why would something like "earning potential" correlate possitively with happiness?

Many people (esp. if you're on min wage) think accumulating wealth increases happiness as TFA suggests and as I did when I was younger. But as I pointed out with the benefit of hindsight to my younger self: money isn't the main source of happiness, prioritize enjoying your youth and friendships instead.
> 1. No access to covid vaccine

Countries were not vaccinating permanent residents? I had no problem getting a vaccine as a foreigner in Turkey. I thought all countries would be like that.
I've got such opportunity. Now, every time somebody jokes about the "it's a UNIX system. I know that!" I have to explain that that file manager actually exists but still looks like sci-fi for mere mortals even today.
EIP-1559 changes the transaction fees of Ethereum
This sounds like the scammy computer sales company I worked for as a teenager.

We charged $120 to upgrade to a black tower and monitor (white towers and monitors were so last year at the time), but surprise surprise... if you didn't pay for the upgrade, we gave you a black tower and monitor anyways as a "gift to you".

All of our computers were always black.
Ok, but they're also not very sympathetic. I don't feel sorry for anybody who can afford private security that he has to pay if he wants to hang on to the benefits of US citizenship.
Ontario is squeezing nurses as well: https://cupe.ca/despite-heroic-sacrifices-ontario-health-car...
you're just pushing pop culture QM here, not scientific QM.
> Mainframe systems are facing a critical shortage of developer workforce as the current generation of COBOL developers retires. Furthermore, due to the limited availability of public COBOL resources, entry-level developers, who assume the mantle of legacy COBOL systems maintainers, face significant difficulties during routine maintenance tasks, such as code comprehension and defect location.

Old stuff is hard to maintain? Who would have thought!

This myth of a Cobol developer shortage really has a lot of legs. I personally know of hundreds of former Cobol developers who moved on after their jobs were offshored over the past 12 years. If Cobol paid current salaries, a lot of former Cobol developers would be back. But companies don't pay, and developers stay away.
I'm also an NZer overseas.

I believe there was plenty of time to fly home before the MIQ was put in place. (I was told about MIQ when I went to vote). However, yeah, I've never seen open spots on the MIQ.
I feel like there's a middle ground here. I've mentioned in other threads that my team does (and had done previous to the pandemic bc we were distributed already) a daily teams call that's open all day. We drop in and out depending on our meeting schedules, but when you are at your desk at the office or at home, you're expected to be present.

It works remarkably well, and there's no real appreciable change in office vs. remote. We definitely had a leg up because we were destributed previously, but I feel like this is a good model, as it makes you feel like you're not alone and you see your colleagues all day just like you do when you are in person.
Play Store also are plagued with this issue for years. There are reports and news about this for years and years. It is not surprisingly that App Store also plagued with this issue.

I recalled a news last year that a dev is SOL because someone in China registered the trademark of dev's work and use that trademark to force Google to suspend/ban the original dev without any recourse.

Fraudulent Trademark and patent trolls uses this method every chance they get and there is usually nothing that the original devs can do.
Learning to Be Thoughtless: Social Norms and Individual Computation [pdf]
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Not true. It has conditional marketing authorization.

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/comirnaty#...

Also it is in pharma's interest to have this as long as possible. They like their immunity from prosecution.
Congratulations on the launch, Aditya and Karan.

Building SaaS from India (assuming that you eventually will) is always going to be advantageous [0] given the comparatively lower wages and access to a global client-base. Apart form that, in what ways does warrant differentiate itself from authzed.io, another YC-backed startup? I see that both these services are influenced by Zanzibar, but I am particularly curious if DevX is warrant's focus? If so, what might be the current competitors missing?

Thanks.

[0] Given the Indian SaaS ecosystem is up and running and there does not seem to be dearth of talent, community (https://archive.is/B5OHl) or capital (https://archive.is/ZXvzL).
[googling "oil patterns"]
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Nations engage in a lot of propaganda themselves to ensure their citizens feel that way, things like the pledge of allegiance every day in school, the way history is taught, the anthems before football games, national news and what is presented by journalists and politicians, etc.

I assume people would identify with more local groups, if left to their own devices. National politics usually seems to revolve around bigger is better, even if they have to force people to remain.
Not exactly. I am insinuating you are a brainless monkey if you need a ginormous SPA framework to build a simple web page with a couple click events.

> Classic elitism, and it shows your hand as a gatekeeper. Not cool.

Cry me a river. I am not being elitist by suggesting you should learn to do your job. I really don't care how uncool it sounds or how many tears you shed.

I am not sure what you or the downvote brigade want here. Do you want me to feel sorry for you?