skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% this. I learned Emacs in college for LaTeX and R (pre RStudio). I used it off and on for years after college to be a contrarian if I'm being honest.

With LSP and the various client implementations I'm legitimately more productive in Emacs writing Python, Go, or Rust than whatever flavor of the month IDE thingamajig. Magit and Org are the cherry on top of the sundae.

That said I don't push my beliefs on anyone in my team and I try to learn JetBrains products to make pair programming easier for folks that don't use Emacs.
I’m advocating for it as government policy; I have no desire to go out and deal with those morons myself.
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> Once most of the population will be vaccinated, there will absolutely be no reason to keep facilities closed anymore

Most of the population has been vaccinated.

50.4% of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-trac...
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>>>>Protect by a world superpower military and diplomacy,

>>That's the argument the British crown once made for taxation without representation. ...

IIRC Those living outside of the US still have the right to cast votes for President, and are not compelled to pay non-federal taxes. An argument might be made for non-state citizens to at least have a single representative and senator they can vote for.

>>>> (social programs)

>> ... Ponzi-scheme ...

I agree about the problems with the funding and fulfillment structure. However the reality still exists even if the current implementation is unfair for those of us not yet seeing the benefits. If you're also a US citizen, please vote to get this fixed.

-- The next set of points contradict my historically long viewed claim of stability. Generally both viewpoints are correct; though I would like to compare the current issues with the virus and unrest in the US to the latest 6 WEEKS lockdown in portions of Australia. Stability is __relative__.

-- The last point was my hopeful view for benefits I'd prefer all US taxpayers to receive in the future. If your opinion differs from mine, you could share what other befits you'd like to see instead.
Old thread about an Acrological building in Whittier, Alaska : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8840005
The Incoherence of Gender Ideology
I just tried to run a script and no domain till at-least 3600.com seems to be available. Anyone has idea on what the smallest natural number with an available .com may be?
IMO an even more important question is, why aren't we pursuing early outpatient treatment with combinations of existing over the counter medicines?

Such techniques have proven to be very effective at preventing hospitalization and death for SARS-CoV-2 [1][2], yet you will rarely find anyone advocating for them.

The papers I've cited are some of the most highly cited in the literature, with world-wide support from experts at top institutions who are actually treating COVID-19 patients.

These alternatives to vaccination are likely more palatable for the anti-vax crowd, and can help prevent over-utilization of precious medical resources.

[1] Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30673-2/fulltex...

[2] Multifaceted highly targeted sequential multidrug treatment of early ambulatory high-risk SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19)
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
I guess the issue is this could be used to track any kind of image, from dissidents a government doesn't like and wants to pick up to anything else.
Thank you so much for making this! The sound effects take me back. I've been hoping to find something like this for my daughter to experience a fun paint program like I had.
If you're using IPBox as average software engineer that has nothing to do with actual R&D or innovation then you should feel ashamed cuz it's straight doubtful from ethical and moral standpoint
And that’s totally ok. Taxes are one of the tool a government can use to lean towards societal goals.
Criticisms of academic writing are a popular and well-justified trope, but I have yet to see any speculation of why otherwise intelligent people acting in good faith would produce writing that everyone dislikes.

My hypothesis is this. In a single piece of academic writing, the author has several competing goals:

1. Get the ideas of the paper into the reader's head.

2. Persuade the reader to believe those ideas and that they are objectively true.

3. Give the reader the impression that the author is a prestigious, intelligent person doing difficult, original work.

When people argue for clearer writing, they are advocating disregarding the latter two, but authors don't have that luxury. In particular:

A big part of academic style, I think is an over-correction for a failure mode of 2. As we can see in the popular media today, often the best way to persuade people is to child-like appeals to emotion stated boldly and repeatedly. But that is also effective at persuading people of things that aren't actually true.

Academics are seeking truth, so they are rightly suspicious of any style that veers too close to unjustified proclamation and verbal strong-arming. Thus a style that is more passive and hedges its bets also comes across as more trustworthy. That is a necessary goal for the author too. A paper that is understood but not believed is no more useful than a paper that is incomprehensible.

The other part of persuading people is the impression of the merits of the author themselves. If some rando parent at your kids' soccer match tells you that wearing fabric on your face prevents disease, you might rightly disregard it. When a highly reputable epidemiologist does, you pay attention because they have earned your trust.

We grant more prestige to people, especially people professing novel insight, if they have a reputation of doing hard things. If the writing makes the idea seem too obvious or easy, we might wonder why it hasn't been discovered before? And if not, perhaps there is some fatal flaw?

All of this means that authors have real incentives to write in a more complex, less clear style, even though it has negative consequences for other goals. Choosing a style always involves trade-offs and our style is always intepreted in a certain social context that affects how it will be read.
You obviously stop at some point, a 6 month gap on your resume is not a good look.
Does the country where they live run the embassy too and I just never knew about it?
… create powderkegs of old, unhealthy, and highly flammable forests is not news. It's been known for decades. It just wasn't something that fit into pop culture narratives, so we've let things get worse and worse.

I’ve concluded it’s actually more like NIMBY ism and willful ignorance. Nobody wants controlled burns in their backyard, and many don’t want to maintain defensible space. So everyone joins together to create this shared illusion that they can manage the land and their property however they want AND never suffer the consequences.
Vaccines are great and very effective at preventing bad outcomes, but let's be realistic about risks. Very few people without an underlying health condition have died.

94.9% of hospitalizations had an underlying health condition. Mainly high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes.

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0123.htm

99% of deaths in Italy had an underlying health condition.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/99-of-those-who-died-fr...
The words "static" or "analysis" do not appear there. I imagine you meant that you can runtime check the specs, which, well, is no replacement for a type system.
Misunderstood in the value system of western civilisation. I think there are other cultures that afford far more respect to other animals and humans.
IIRC the point that Dijkstra made was that the available programming languages, like Fortran or Cobol were already FUBAR. He considered them toxic.

So he would have thought differently in a world with more mature tools like Haskell, Rust, or a decent Lisp implementation.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Established, tenured experts from every single one of the world's top medical institutions have expressed agreement with this statement (and also some in apparent opposition).

Examples:

* https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/05/07/covid-vaccines-for-chil...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbvO4sUg1eA (Gupta is a pioneer of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford and has broken ground on a new platform for generic influenza vaccination which is very exciting)

* https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/status/13716384856863580... (note: In addition to his decades at Harvard researching vaccine safety, Kulldorff served two terms on a CDC vaccine technical subgroup - he is certainly in the very top echelon of experts on the topic of your comment)
35% is the fatality rate of MERS, a related CoronaVirus, and you have presented zero evidence to prove it's impossible SARS-CoV-2 mutate up to that rate. You sound like you're trying to cover up peer-reviewed data suggesting we take this into account. You have also presented no evidence that with increased transmissibility we won't see increased fatality. Put up or shut up.
If you're in the Bay Area and interested in an up close encounter with a giraffe, I recommend https://www.safariwest.com/ .

(Disclaimer: no affiliation, I just enjoyed my visits there. I also have done no research into whether the animals are mistreated or anything.)
Apple adds CSAM scanning to iCloud Photos
>I wonder how long it'll take for China...

All iCloud Data in China are already within their control. The whole DataCenter are done with "partnership" agreement.

HK user have their Data in US but I believe there could be a temporary server in HK DC before it is sent to US.
Apple announces new protections for child safety
Good working conditions are also an aspect of the company caring about you. If a company pays you well, but still abuses you, they don't care about you.
That looks amazing! Well done.
All in Your Head: Exploring Human-Body Communications with Binaural Hearing Aids
The fact is that contracting COVID is the worst possible way to achieve protection from COVID.

And at some point, you're just classifying everyone as having some sort of "factor". Which isn't useful either. If everyone has a factor, then factors don't matter. Especially if you have a factor that isn't obvious, like Vitamin D deficiency.

And like I implied, healthy, young people have been hospitalized with COVID and some of those have died. Just like some with "factors" have done ok.

But the one thing that reduces complications with a very, very high degree of success is the vaccine. It even reduces your chances of contracting the disease itself.

Not getting the vaccine is entering yourself in the stupidest lottery in history.
> ... please remember that the HN community is not homogeneous, and various people have very different (and strong) opinions on many things.

Honestly I'm not sure I consider HN a "community" in the same way I consider other online ... communities, communities.

With notably rare exceptions you don't have a lot of sharing of personal milestones, and while you might occasionally "recognize" a poster (and we have a few "famous" ones) it's much easier to deal with each comment as a stand-alone statement without any provenance.

Even meta-discussion about the nature of HN like this seems a bit gauche and is discouraged.
It does make a huge difference to keep it out until the population could be vaccinated. No casualties, no sick. And that despite of no masks or other precautions.
Don’t forget the poor responses at home to disasters natural and unnatural. Katrina was only 15 years ago, and that was before mainstream myths of omnipotence were broken. Such a travesty. Such a failed social contract — esp. for common security, welfare, and wellbeing.
> Prizes are tax-free here

Off-topic but: this always seemed like the most bizarre thing to me. What's the rationale? Why do governments want to incentivize people winning "prizes" over "honest work"?

(My HN engineer brain also wants to know what the distinction is that prevents companies from calling any payment for a one-time contract a "prize" for completing the work, but I'm sure there's some unsatisfying "you know it when you see it" or "laws are people not code" type answer.)
> but somewhere around the turn of the millennium things... broke

The rise of electron as an 'acceptable' (to some people) substitute for platform-native applications and the myth of the possibility of the "cross platform UI" has accelerated this, really. It's quite unfortunate.
> I can 100% understand why very wealthy people hate this system, but as a software dev making a modest living it was not onerous or unfair or difficult to manage.

Okay, now apply your experience with this system but instead of being a salaried employee you run a <5 person LLC that is incorporated in the US that does the same work but on contract and has a small leased office. It goes from being one form and a simple exercise into a massive nightmare, even though the dollar amounts you are actually making in income aren't any higher (at the time I think my AGI was like $126K USD).

Anything off the path of salaried employee stationary in a foreign tax residence exponentially increases the complexity involved and therefore the expense to file. Most years, my accountancy bill was actually higher than the taxes owed, and it would have saved everyone quite a lot of trouble for little gain to just do away with this archaic and pointless rule which no other civilized nation has.

This is not just a problem for the very wealthy, it's a problem for anyone who does not fall in a very narrow bucket but happens to reside abroad while having US citizenship. Even in your case, where you found the process simple, you must admit it made it difficult to secure accounts and form business relationships abroad because of the tax implications and reporting implications for your possible business partners.
I have a link to one below. My guess is corporate lawyers who want to limit liability without any understanding of the underlying issues.

Even my job has said that you have to be vaccinated to return (limited medical and religious exceptions). They also said it wouldn't make sense to keep the unvaccinated people working remotely, implying that they will fire people. They are not accepting antibody tests.

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/hospital-workers-prepare-t...
Even better -- someone could remotely exploit their adversary with malware like Pegasus, implant actual CP on the phone, hide malware traces, and then the Apple's system would alert the authorities. Who would believe the protests of innocence when there is the evidence on the phone, and the infraction is so horrific? A Perfect crime.
Sometimes it’s okay. Like when you made a metric ass ton at your last job and you know they can’t match that number.

Now you get to negotiate fridays off, 2 months of vacation, and a golden parachute of $X per year worked. Everyone is mad at CEOs but I once negotiated a $25k golden parachute for when I left, _just to see if it was possible_
I think I would recommend reading about some of those philosophies you consider "dead wrong" and how they came to be.

Once you start to understand how they were formed in the first place, I think you would be less ready to deride them.

In fact, I'll bet you it entices you because you'll end up catching yourself saying "hey, I thought of that".

But what you'll find is that that one notion you may have figured out on your own is itself a nuance of a larger system of understandings. That you'll find a lot more work has been done than you realized to understand and prove each of those notions to the best of our collective knowledge.

Then you'll understand why grabbing a single notion and anchoring to it like the author is doing is so fundamentally flawed that it's not a positive exercise.

To use the "rich man's spiritual" reference again: the "rich man" of the poem is basing his salvation on the idea that he has to have enough of whatever new thing he decides is between him and heaven/salvation/happiness before he can ever attain it.

The "rich man" put that barrier there, himself. He created the frame for his experience and bound himself to it by creating it in the first place. In the poem, the central character is making the declaration that he needs more to defend his existing material accumulations, so it's not exactly a 1:1. But that kind of self-imposed framework based on nothing grounded can be self-limiting. It can make it hard to understand real fundamentals.
I should think that it would be obvious that you don't put in 1.24 BTC and then take out 1.24 BTC later. Someone trying to hide the source of their funds via a mixer or Monero or whatever would put in 1.24 BTC and take out 1 BTC + 0.2 BTC + 2*(0.02 BTC) (or some other set of common denominations) in separate transactions to distinct BTC wallets, taking steps to ensure that these transactions can't be correlated with each other by IP address, time, etc. They want to hide the withdrawals in a sea of indistinguishable, uniform transactions; moving a unique, traceable quantity all at once would be a clear red flag. The principle is hardly obscure; it's exactly the same as the popular image of criminals conducting business with suitcases full of unmarked $20 bills. They use $20 bills because they're commonplace, not because they're more convenient than $50 or $100 bills.
Didn’t leaks in the WHO say we’re in for 15 years of perturbations? I’m not sure Covid is the real target, I’m suspecting it’s a way to reach carbon emission targets.

It’s our bill for emitting more carbon than Earth can absorb since the 0-neutral day of 1990.
The bit syntax in Erlang is for deconstruction and assignment (pattern matching), not just assembling.

The entire language is built around pattern matching to the point where it simply wouldn't exist otherwise, and I assume binary protocol handling was a core requirement when the language was designed since it was created for telecom switches.
Godot is a toy engine compared to Unity, for consoles it's not even a dicussion.
A theory of changes for higher-order languages (2013)
Why can’t we keep going like this? Profit continues whether workers go back to the office or not. Companies are making money hand over fist right now.

If this stretches past the end of 2021, WFH will simply be a feature of the white collar economy. Companies are already finding it hard to break inertia and get people back into the office; after another 6 months of this they’re not even going to try.
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"Nearly perfect" is doing a lot of work there. I am perfectly fine with offices, conferences, etc. mandating vaccines for people. ADDED: People do have a choice, especially at companies not requiring people to come back to offices.
I wonder if you could post the transcript to a git repo and allow corrections via pull request. Auto-captioning is a great first step to get phrases set to time-codes, and then open it up to the community for corrections and translations.
We always look at our code in a file/folder list - I explored an alternative way to view codebases, showing a bird's-eye-view of its structure. This write-up walks through the motivations, ways to use the visualization, and potential future directions (there are many!).

There's also an interactive tool to check out your own repos and a GitHub Action if you want to integrate a diagram into a README.
If "if" the holdouts can be convinced there won't be a reason anymore, right now though the resistance has become ideological so god only knows when this'll end.
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I think I disagree about the nature of the "hype cycle." Too often it's portrayed as a negative thing, or some kind of grift pulled on the hapless public. More optimistically it's like a period of brainstorming. Not all the ideas work out, not all the promises are delivered on (world peace is a big ask), but eventually the good ideas survive and come to fruition.

It's easy to be cynical about new technology in a world of nonstop bullshit marketing and incremental improvements sold as the Next Big Thing. But in the long run I don't feel like I've ever been truly let down by a "hyped" technology. Even Segway, the textbook example of reality distortion, eventually produced descendant technologies that found their way into a number of widely-used PEVs.
Yes, most people in this situation liquidate them. Dual US / Canadian citizen here living in Canada.

While you can keep a TFSA around you'll end up paying taxes on the gains back to the states as well you need to file additional paperwork come tax time. If your TFSA gains exceed the filing requirements it might still be worth keeping. Historically you needed to file a TFSA as a foreign trust however recently the IRS has deemed them a foreign disregarded entity which reduces the filing requirements thus making it cheaper.

In your situation you could open up a US based fund with that money and Canada won't care so that's likely your best option.
1) It's Sandy's actual area of expertise. With AI and self driving, he's just a layperson.

2) His mechanical engineering content comprises about 99% of what he says about Tesla.

Given these two factors, your (seemingly only) supportable observation seems awfully weak.
I hope so. There's this unfortunate tendency, myself included, to treat going back to the office as not taking health seriously, and when that's combined with a lot of people having stable social structures like a family or roots in the area, group discussion centers around this as an endless snow day.

But, it's not: if you moved from a smaller city to one of the expensive FAANG areas the past few years, you were trading remote work for getting to work with people. My mental state is...not great...with the isolation of leaving behind my social circle to move here, and now not having a social circle built up here. I almost feel cheated that I moved to work here, this is _exactly_ what I ran away from: remote work, coworkers with no incentive/forcing function to collaborate, and detached management "managing" problems by rote bon mots that don't actually fix anything.
Dijkstra actually recommended Haskell as a teaching language.
Is there a point of pledging to feed a cow after cow is dead already?
As a counterpoint, golf courses drastically increase the course difficulty prior to tournaments by growing out the rough and cutting grass on the green shorter (which lowers friction and makes the ball roll/bounce off the green easier). Of course, golf is an inherently difficult and frustrating sport even on the friendliest course conditions, so it's pretty hard to think the pros are no better than average joe.
Here are a variety of techniques: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_delay_line

I think a better word than "physical" domain is "mechanical" domain. Mechanical waves propagate much more slowly than electromagnetic waves.
I'm simply stating the claim that US is pushing for herd immunity through the choice of infection of vaccination is not true. That only vaccination is being pushed, and it is not exactly a free choice if you're going to lose your job or be denied service over it.
What a sweet game, really fun to play
I don't think of it as making good writing work in academia. Good writing is an advantage in academia. Reviewers are more likely to accept your paper, and readers are more likely to read more.
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>I bet Apple understands this is a bad idea

That would be Steve Job's Apple. Tim Cook's Apple will think they are doing it for the greater good.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions