skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With the vaccine, and even if new variants appear, the number of people having to go to the hospital will plummet.

I mean, I think Delta (at least in the US, I won't speak to/for other countries) has proven this incorrect since we have multiple instances of hospitals filling up right now even though (IIRC) we just hit the 70% first shot mark (for 18+).

Also we haven't yet, and I hope we never, see a variant that not only causes lots of breakthrough cases but also results in higher rates of hospitalization/ICU/vent/death even for the vaccinated.

What we can't afford is to continue to put up with the unvaccinated. My state, just a few hours ago, announced that 70%+ of our hospitals are now collectively going to require the vaccination to continue working there and it's my fervent hope that more and more private sector companies do the same (as have at least a few major manufactures in my state). I'd actually prefer to see something akin to what NY just did. I understand the privacy concerns with having to prove vaccination status but the alternative (what we did for the last 1.5 years+) is not something I'm willing to put up. I'm so incredibly tired of having the people who refuse to do the bare minimum drag the rest of us down.
Virginia also has some oddities here, frustratingly.
Hey amigo, looks like you're confusing "shame" and "unintentional" because you have a habit of conversing in the tone of disputation.

No judgements! I only mention because it was a boon when someone pointed out i had a similar habit
Agreed about packages - you can no longer make custom updates to them to them either if they are installed via the package manager. They didn't think through their package manager before rolling it out. And now that it's out, it's going to be super hard to change it.
I for one am really pleased that those cars will enter the used car market soon - yes the benefits hit one group today, but soon that will be spread further.
How computers work is a very stretchy term. And what you need to know depends what you're working on. For example if you're scripting you don't need to know a thing about how computers work, your concerns are mostly at the software level.

If you're writing a high-performance server or a game engine, you need to understand the topology of computers. Network performance and protocols, disk, memory and cache architecture. But you still don't need to understand every machine code on the CPU.

We're risking falling into the trap of "more is more" like a chemistry teacher that is adamant that you need to absolutely understand covalent, ionic and so on bonds, because everything around you chemistry, including you. I mean how would you find a job as an accountant and start a family without understanding chemistry?
Where did I call you fascist, what I am saying is that your website is going to be over run with them, and for that I could never recommend it for anyone to use. Falling back on the law and misguided notions of "free" speech is intellectually lazy.

> You seem scared of any opinion that is not shared with you, and then go directly to straw man arguments.

And you, too scared to confront your nihilism apparently.
> There is no way to acquire a permanent, unassailable monopoly over ASIC hardware in general.

Is ASIC hardware made of silicon? In that case, an entity who owns the entire supply of silicon has a "permanent, unassailable monopoly over ASIC hardware in general".
Some people get T2 diabetes without being overweight, some lung cancer patients have never smoked. It's not "completely the victims fault".
The complete lack of a disk cache integrated with the OS on the Amiga hurt as well. Even MS-DOS was shipping with disk caching software to make use of high memory on 386 systems in the early 1990s when AmigaOS had just launched 2.04.
And what's wrong with this? Personally I'm very happy to see it. The idea that you make tons and tons of money by what America has worked hard to offer you and then you want to skip town because of taxes? Taxes that help pay for all the advantages that got you that wealth in the first place?

Good for Congress for trying to prevent this.
As a vim user, I'm happy about EMACS popularity and converge increase...
Anything but Electron re-skins is a "right" technological move in my books...
Ah that's a good point. In my example I thought of the original authors expanding on a theme. Wouldn't that be the same for Soderbergh, except that by economics he is not the sole author = owner? So how should morality come into play when ownership is divested and possibly limiting of artistic freedoms of the principal artist(s). And who might the principal artists be in film. I'm mainly saying the morality argument is a lot more diverse in film and immoral is too strict in my perspective.

Correcting myself: Soderbergh was not involved in Heavens gate so the argument is less applicable. Still, say I paint a set of artistic variations on Mona Lisa (or a more current work) - am I stealing or interpreting. Isn't interpretation a strong theme in arts?
That's also a really interesting idea - though the substation one probably. Right now drones capable of lifting a box of cans are well over 1k which is an uneconomical one time expense for slightly easier package delivery... and extremely uneconomical if occasionally some neighbor is going to hit your drone with a frisbee or if drone theft becomes more profitable than package theft (which it almost certainly would be).
At least in the past Microsoft and Nintendo (not sure about Sony) used to actually pay Unity to implement/maintain support for their consoles. IIRC, when you had to buy licenses for each platform separately, developers who had the Nintendo SDK used to get the engine support for free (can't remember if they had to pay for the editor license themselves).
Why do you want everyone else to be back at the office?
When you hitch your wagon to someone else's horse you can't get mad when it goes in a direction you don't like.
In the book Apollo's Arrow (which came out in oct 2020), Dr. Christakis said

"Either way, we will be wearing masks, for example, and avoiding crowded places. I’ll call this the immediate pandemic period. For a few years after we either reach herd immunity or have a widely distributed vaccine, people will still be recovering from the overall clinical, psychological, social, and economic shock of the pandemic and the adjustments it required, perhaps through 2024. I’ll call this the intermediate pandemic period. Then, gradually, things will return to “normal”—albeit in a world with some persistent changes. Around 2024, the post-pandemic period will likely begin"
The vast majority people at my org enjoy hybrid over full remote.
I replaced a 17-year-old Panasonic Inverter microwave oven with a new one. The firmware seems almost the same. The only differences I spotted:

1. "Quick min" (increment by 60 seconds) has become +30 (increment by 30 seconds)

2. When the microwave is done cooking, and starts beeping, the beeps stop immediately when the door is opened. The 17-year-old model rang out its beeps regardless of door state.
Just wait until Omega.
Then why don't you spend that few minutes explaining the thing to the person you initially replied to, or link them to a resource instead of doing what you're currently doing?
Ask HN: What kind of basic research goes on at tech giants?
The personal computer industry gained from basic research done at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Wondering if we have a parallel for that today.

I'm interested to learn about basic research being done at tech giants and promising results that have been produced.
Oops, meant 8-9 figure range. Too many zeroes. $50+ million.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068741 (640 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075021 (296 comments)
We use H2 Database (JVM only) at work for that. It solves the problem really well of a bunch of stuff that needs access to a single file DB, while still being able to embed the DB engine.
Who are they?

You know the answer to this question, you just don't care. Or you care more about enabling the grift and hate then you do about any sort of truth or free speech.
I already knew the answer to that, but up until recently the free/cheap tier Unity let you output for ps3.
I'm guessing if you have already had the virus then the pressure is off.
The version that was used by secretaries in that story was programmed in Lisp, MACLISP for Multics specifically, and extended in Lisp.
GNU troff is maintained, though.
They're all made up numbers that exist only to get the bill passed.
Oh, don't worry. I'm not necessarily criticizing you in particular (I wasn't part of that interview :-) ). Its just kind of in the abstract sorta thing.

If anything, I'm trying to agree with your original post, and just kinda ranting a bit myself on a similar subject.
I love the datasets but they are still way to small especially for exotic languages.
How did you get a job at a FAANG and not elsewhere? The way people talk about it, getting a FAANG job is like the highest bar to aim for
Actually it is just the IRS. The US government (by way of USCIS/DHS) has a very different definition of citizenship and residency. Most long term visa holders are considered residents by the IRS for tax purposes, for example.
A better format than random Twitter thread where a mob tries to cancel him [0]. You might recognize one name that got really famous not long ago!

[0] https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter...
The use of combustion based propulsion is doomed IMHO, except for imminent collisions that warrant a rush launch of a mobile, attachable thruster.
My preference would be the perfection of a number of attachable(glue or epoxy or clampable?) ion jets with a suitable steerable solar cell to power it along with a refillable mother ship with a dozen of these deployable systems within it - perhaps in a standard large cube sat that is large enough to boost and refill the mother ship - which would have it's own solar array to power it's own ion jets to meet the prey to be de-orbited. Once there the small de-orbiter would be released close to the prey, whereon it would deploy it's own solar array and steerable ion jet system (which might be a set of 3 for steering. I agree, their thrust would be low - but continuously applied until depleted it would act to lower the prey to a higher drag orbit.
In addition, I might suggest that all satellites be designed with a number of standard push-on attachment fittings, perhaps with orientation ridges(to prevent rotation) alongside so one of these thrusters could attach and lock to the prong without need of glue or threads. I am sure that such an attachment prong can be designed.
There are fairly frequent cube-sat launches that could, for a fee, be willing to orbit more of these thrust recharge cube sats to add to the fleet that is gradually going to solve this issues.
>2nd only concerns tyranny

The 2A was written with tyranny in mind but the 2A does not mention tyranny. It recognizes militia, recognizes security of free state (which can come from foreign sources), and the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

If you start with the right to self defense, and add a right to bear arms => you now have self defense + a gun. But your argument is you're not allowed to use it for your "right" to self defense?

>So you believe that prior to 1788 no right of self-defense existed?

The framers of the constitution believed the bill of rights merely codified natural human rights that have always existed.

>Again, the 2nd only concerns tyranny, and prevents the government from disarming militias in order to have a check on tyranny.

The right to keep and bear arms is ascribed to the people.

In practice, rights are whatever you can get away with. You have the right to travel freely in most public land, but you may be eaten by a bear. But the legal distinction helps in restraining the government, to the point that they acknowledge them. If the government stops acknowledge the right of people to bear arms then you're left with the result those of us that can get away with it will and the rest will be killed or imprisoned.
Good!

Find me an affordable electric vehicle that can get me to work and back home on a single charge (360km) even in the winter, and I'd be down. But alas, I have yet to find one, so I'm currently looking at a diesel and hopefully can trade that one in for an electric one in a couple of years (thanks to the innovation in batteries that the current purchasers stimulate).
a lot of very rich emacs development has happened in the last few years, both to emacs itself and to extensions. it’s been an absolute pleasure to use and has genuinely increased my productivity tremendously. eg after getting used to magit, the git cli becomes ludicrously cumbersome
I've been using emacs for many years now, and I'm sad to say that it has never been slower, despite the hardware getting better. Now it lags like crazy when editing a latex document, no matter the recent version. Something went off the rails in the last year or so, and even Atom is more responsive.
As an ex-pat what bothers me most is the lack of representation, I'd keep paying taxes if we actually had some virtual state. Citizens abroad are essentially gerrymandered by their last state of residence meaning there is no useful representation for those abroad. However with an estimated 9 million+ citizens living abroad ex-pats all together would represent the 10th or 11th most populace state. 9 million US citizens is similar to the population of New Jersey which has 2 senators and 12 representatives working for them. Where's my Cory Booker?
This is actually something I'd consider adding to all of my big projects. It really does help with discoverability.
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According to statcounter.com, Firefox is already on the level of Edge and Samsung Internet, with 3.45% market share globally. US: even slightly lower at 3.44%, down from 4.3% a year ago. Europe is still higher, Germany at 12%, France at 7%, but also falling rapidly.

The future is now.
LOL boy you sure CaLLeD ME ouT!

Your opinion is worth less than dogshit on a shoe, an 11 minute propaganda piece isn't going to change that.
Structuring/smurfing is done to evade specific bank deposit reporting requirements, though. Unless there's a specific requirement you're trying to evade (e.g. an exchange must, by law, report deposits or balances over a certain size), I don't know if the general notion of "hiding" can be considered illicit.
Well, Dijkstra, on the other hand, was known to disrespect people...
After seeing a salesman voluntarily using it and getting away with it at work, multiple influential devs using it both in my organization and at customera, meetings be held with Teams on Linux desktop at the client etc I have already declared year of Linux desktop on Oslo, Norway.

Feels exactly like when Mac broke through 15 or so years ago: all the cool kids used it and advocated it, management wanted it and several people in IT preferred it and use it whenever they can get away with it.
Humans deserve to go extinct.
> It has a $6,000 yearly contribution limit.

I haven't looked into the exact details of Peter Thiel's IRA, but those have a contribution limit too, and look at all the press recently about him "abusing" [0] that.

[0] I can't claim to know enough of his specific situation and the exact regulations to have an opinion on whether that's a fair characterization.
Not disagreeing with you - but this reminds me of my college job spending all day looking through personal photos.

I put myself through school working at a one-hour photo shop in a drug store. It was my job to feed the machine, keep the chemicals balanced, paper loaded and perform white-balancing and cropping to make sure the end result matched customers' expectations. It was a relatively small town, and I lived in the same neighborhood that I worked in - so I basically saw 80% of my neighbor's photos during the development, cropping, and packing process. I saw hundreds of baby's in bath tubs, and bare a* toddlers on the run, in the mud, etc. Also saw a lot more bedroom photos than you (or at least 17yo me) might expect.

In the three years of work, I only had one roll of film for which I called the police. It was obvious child abuse. I stopped the machine, called the police and they collected the film directly into evidence and made the arrest when the person came to pick it up. The guy in question thought that the 1hour process was "all automated" and he was pissed that somebody was looking at all his photos.

Not sure that has anything to do with the iPhone AI scanning - but it might be an anecdote of interest to those that don't remember a time when somebody looked at all your photos as part of the creation process.
But again, you could just say that anyone arriving, citizen or not, has to go through testing and/or quarantine. Saying people need permission to leave because they might come back is pointless indirection.
Yes, and the rate depends on the amount of ordinary income you have (including short-term gains) and the amount of long-term capital gains. The capital gains rate is 0% under $40k (for single individuals) but ordinary income is calculated first (after deductions) and the total income determines the bracket. So if you have $40k or more in ordinary income (after deductions) then the 0% rate won't apply to any of your long-term gains. If you had $20k in ordinary income (a.d.) then the first $20k of long-term gains would be taxed at 0% and the next $400k (from $40k to $440k of total income) would be taxed at 15%, with anything beyond that taxed at 20%.

Also, if you have significant income from investments then a surcharge of 3.8% in Net Investment Income Tax may be added on top of the long-term capital gains rate for part of that income for a marginal rate of 18.8% or 23.8%.
I don't work at a FAANG, but I work at a company that wants to be like a FAANG. Now and even if I did work at a FAANG, I would feel 0 guilt. The only reason I don't apply there is because of work life balance, but I'd gladly program attack UAVs or eviction services if it got me a FAANG salary AND a good work life balance.
Eh, it's not as rare as you'd think - there's literature on how to avoid it: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Avoiding_travel_through_the_U...
I was really hoping to hop over to affinity photo couple months ago, but there was something essential missing with masking in multiple exposures, can't remember what exactly but everyone on the forums were complaining about that missing feature.

Really liked the rest of affinity photo but it was a deal breaker for me.
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"The big picture: Only the U.S. and Eritrea tax people based on citizenship rather than residency. For most countries, if you are a citizen but don’t reside there, you aren’t taxed in that country."

Sounds like we need to start taxing based on residency.
Good I'm glad, I was only harsh because I don't want to see an innocent programmer tossed in jail because of one mistake. xoxo
That's not true; they are in fact citizens under US law. They may not have an SSN or a passport, but neither is a condition for citizenship.

Also, at least from a tax perspective, if you plan on remaining a US citizen, you might benefit from getting SSNs for your kids so you can claim the child tax credit and stimulus payments for 2021.

And if they don't want to be citizens, renouncing citizenship in the 6 months immediately after they turn 18 can avoid tax complications.

https://hodgen.com/expatriation-between-age-18-and-18-12/
honestly, because some of us aren't nearly as productive at home as we are in the office. I'm glad you are, and I'm glad you found a remote job, and I wish you success in it. But I'd like to get back into the office where I don't hear my dogs bark at every bird that lands in the back yard, or constant interruption by my retired neighbors, UPS/FedEx/USPS, etc etc etc.

I miss the delineation between work and home. I've lost it.
GNU CoreUtils ls is evolving. One example of that is that it can quote names with spaces in them and has started doing so by default.

Here a search for "ls:", of the GNU CoreUtils mailing list:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=ls%3A...
No, I was responding to the parent comment which implied that "standing up to Jobs" was something few people did. Having 2nd-hand knowledge of several incidents, my impression is that it was not uncommon and sometimes necessary.
The license doesn't allow doing that, you can't really mix free and pro on the same project (also if you work with multiple people probably the company has > 100k revenue). Of course Unity doesn't really have any good way to enforce this...
Dang that's a brutal commute
Yes, but the doe tho..

99% of the time, it's not a technical problem.
Not necessarily wrong, but there isn't much evidence either way.
Public weddings are also about the guests. The guests serve a function: they witness the promises, and tacitly agree to help support them in fulfilling it. (I've even been to ceremonies that make that explicit: the guests are asked to reply to a vow with "We do".)

Not every couple wants that. Some elope, and others hold ceremonies only because they think relatives and friends demand it of them. The latter is unfortunate, because it imposes a burden on the new couple that they shouldn't have to shoulder.

But the couple should consider that community can be a crucial part of the success of their marriage, in ways that they may not recognize (especially if they're young). It can benefit them to have the community at the ceremony and feel invested in the marriage (for however they define "community").

Having taken that into account, they should by all means do whatever the hell they want, since it's their damn wedding. But if they do want that kind of witness and tacit promise of support, they do need to make compromises with everybody involved.
Honestly curious, which other cultures have more advanced and fairer human rights setup compared to "western civilizations"?
Regarding SQL Server at least (I can't speak to Oracle), they've created something of a network effect.

SQL Server is really expensive. But, the more Microsoft stack you have in house the more discounts you get. The more Microsoft certified staff you have, the more discounts you get. This biases companies to hiring more developers with Microsoft certs, which leads to more developers getting Microsoft certs, which leads to more discounts and a feeling of investment at higher levels of the company that lead them to be unwilling to switch.

I spent 5 years at a company that was using SQL Server as the backbone of it's flagship product. They pushed it as far as they could, but ultimately the biggest issues with the product at the company revolved around either limitations of SQL Server, lack of features with SQL Server or licensing being prohibitive of different types of beneficial scaling strategies. I pushed for them to make the switch to PostgreSQL for probably my last 3 years there as part of the architecture group, including migration and training plans, etc but it was like talking to a wall. Nobody could acknowledge the SQL Server issues. Everyone who had a part in considering solutions was too invested as far as I could tell. Eventually they tried moving to Couchbase (NoSQL) before finally making the switch to PostgreSQL from what I heard from people I know who still work there.

As far as query interfaces go, you can use just about any tool you like. I prefer Navicat myself but I know a lot of people like DBeaver and DataGrip.
There are various Firefox forks already (the ones I'm aware of are for old OSes) but there aren't enough people to sustain them.