skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a Linux OS becomes a good at gaming as Windows and get an office suit as good as Windows, we can't move away general public from Windows. These are the two things left which most people use it for.
If we lower taxes and minimize regulations on employers, the market will settle on a stable clearing price for labor.
Wait, wha? I worked for myself and it was busy time. I'd spent almost as much on other IDEs as PyCharm. Not a flex. When I flex, the Hulkamaniacs go wild and everyone takes their vitamins and says their prayers. WTF is a flex about buying software?
My favourite thing in this book is Guy’s injunction to build for passengers AND sailors. Make things that are familiar and offer good affordances for people who just pick it up and need to get something done. But also make room for those who want to “go belowdecks” and fool around with the engine.
Not without reason, it was all part of M$ofts plans…why people don’t see the red flags of GitHub becoming a monopoly over the code ecosystem is beyond me…..
This has to be the larger play. I don’t think the Wirecutter is going to push anyone over the edge, but it rounds out the value of their subscription service and probably a first in things to come.

At some point, if they offer a large enough diverse selection of written word media of modest appeal they probably can increase their subscriber count. Probably as good of a strategy at this point as any and they are in a position to do it.
China mobilises civilian ferries for Taiwan invasion drills
I'm not saying the we is wrong, I just miss there being a diversity of methods for fun and experimentation.

A huge issue of free software under capitalism is it's really hard to sustain more than one way of doing things. And so we got monster metastasized too-big-to-fail Linux, Chromium, etc.
>No, when a company uses its revenues to buy stuff and hold onto it, the government counts the value of that stuff as profits

This is not quite right, though it is mostly correct in describing depreciation. When you purchase a depreciating asset it has a book value that is depreciated over time. That book value is not counted as income and definitely not as net income (profits), though it will appear with other assets on the balance sheet. You've essentially converted one type of asset to another, there is no gain or loss there to tax.

For depreciating assets, the depreciation is deductible because it represents a loss in value of the asset. In general, this can be taken when the depreciation is realized. If you dispose of the asset you pay taxes based on the deprecated value, like you've described.

It's important to realize that corporate taxes are almost exclusively on net income, that being the money left over after the business has done all of it's financial activities.
> I don't think cannabis is just a drug for having fun

Where did I even allude to this? In fact I implied the exact opposite in my last sentence.
How many people have been around when PG gave away the t-shirts when it was sold for $30 million?
Stores can become large vending machines with minimal staff
Hi! Thank you so much for pointing out it's not a man! I thought it was "Lucas", because of the comment . I've updated my comment to reflect that.

I also completely agree that it's a much bigger picture and that life situation plays a giant role in it.
Also worth noting that California's felony threshold is still much lower than most states (i.e. it's easier to get charged with a felony), including conservative ones that are usually "tough on crime." And the Bay Area's cost of living is higher as well.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/10/felony-threshol...
These are fabulous and really solidify a lot of concepts. I would have loved this when I was in school.
Florida changed how they report deaths early last month. They went from counting them on the date they were recorded to counting them on the date of death. This is almost never the same day, often it is quite delayed. Florida’s recent daily deaths are significantly understated.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25379689...
But why are you learning Go?
> because the crushing realization that I'd have to return to work was almost worse than losing myself in the uninterrupted, repetitive, dead-eyed grind

I feel this so much. The anxiety of not working while dreading it on the horizon is often worse than the work itself.
From RpcView to PetitPotam
If this is for serious use, curious as to what the scientific connection between dates and rain.

Clearly seasons affect rain, so there is that but I find it hard to believe you can pin it down to a specific Saturday, as there would be too much “chaos” to make such a prediction.
>Government regulators do have access to credit scores. The CFPB analyzed 2019 HMDA data and found that accounting for credit scores does not eliminate lending disparities for people of color.

There's a graph below this passage that shows the disparity quite clearly; it's lower at higher credit scores but never quite disappears. A person of color essentially has to have an excellent credit score to receive the same consideration as an average white credit-seeker. I'm reminded of the purported "race bonus" on SAT scores wrr college acceptance; I wonder which is more important to the average American, and who has the greatest grievance.
Thank you for the anecdata. Got any data to go with it?
VS Code originally did not have tabs, since their introduction you have always been able to turn them off with the workbench.editor.showTabs setting.
They can’t make it too good they still have to sell us Windows 12.
Hello! Thank you for pointing that out! I was a bit silly and somehow came to the (wrong) conclusion that "Lucas" (the first commenter) was the name of the author... I don't even know what to say lol. I just went a bit derp there.
Websites crash all the time, but a domains being ceased is another level you don't have access to your email or any accounts with that email, and all customer support is gone.

4k plus new users a day loose access their health information.

Before this I always assumed the DNS layer was untouchable considering many deplorable websites still have a domain. But this protection only applies to certain top level domains. .org for example
Things always go back to normal no matter how many doom preachers there are.
> I'm surprised no one has submitted this one, actually.

They did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28378734
Mason Currey has a book called "Daily Rituals" that gives two pages each to dozens of famous writers' and artists' daily routines throughout time. It's striking how similar they are.

The bulk: Wake up early, write/paint/do the creative thing for a few hours. Then spend the rest of the day taking walks, attending to mail, and the other nonsense.

The core message, similar to Pressfield's the War of Art, seems to be just sit down and do it, same time, same place, every day.

As an aside, we're building a creative writing tool specifically made to jump in when writing block hits and get you going again. https://sudowrite.com/ Sometimes you just need a little kick to get inspired and keep going.
I think it might be time to change to Linux. I really hope Valve can get EAC and Battleye running soon (Gaming anti-cheat services).
Which is normal... Thousands die each day and we are fine with it... Because that's normal.
In Texas if you aren't otherwise in the commission of a crime, you may use a weapon to prevent a crime. And yet the news was not filled with concealed carry permit owners drawing on people to do exactly that. I never bothered to get a permit but a friend who did told me the instructor heavily emphasized if you did use your weapon it would be minimum $25k in legal fees even if exonerated.

Now that permitless carry is legal it remains to be seen if there's an uptick in vigilantism, but I have my doubts.
Coming from a country where 4 weeks plus 11 (soon to be 12) public holidays is the legal minimum I really don't understand the US system.
Maybe? Back in July, 94% of english adults had antibodies! Their cases peaked and are rising again. This 94% doesn’t include kids, but with plenty of cases and vaccinations since then, not obvious high prior immunity makes it like flu. Influenza is basically dead right now with our current precautions, incidentally.

The UK is in summer, snd the virus is still spreading at near record rates with 94% adult immunity. On what basis do you believe it to be like the flu?

This isn’t doomerism btw. My position is SARS-Cov-2 likely isn’t livable, and we should eliminate it. Multiple societies have succeeded at it. Readily possible.

Maybe the winter will prove you right, but if it doesn’t I’m hoping people will come round to actually trying to get rid of the thing. Basically every country that tried to succeeded. It’s possible. Frankly the people who say we can’t beat it seem like the pessimists to me.

https://gizmodo.com/whopping-94-of-adults-in-england-have-co...
Or course it was. Any front end developer worth his salt could have told you that.

Use the tools you need and ignore the ones you don't. It's the same as any kind of software development.
Sorry for being ignorant but sincere question: where / which culture considers the V gesture offensive?

I'm assuming the V gesture you are referring to is the one that consists of holding up both index finger and middle finger, rather than the one with thumb and index finger.
F) They received requests to scan for other forms of content from various governments.
> Sen. Ron Wyden expressed alarm after an Insider investigation revealed details of RAVEn, a powerful data-mining and analytics tool that private companies are developing for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

This does bring to mind some questions not just about immigration but about privacy. To put it poetically:

Will the ICE agents come knocking, by this contract, on the door
Of a poor unwelcome family who were not born on this shore,
While the Googl'rs wonder if their *own* rights will for long endure?
Quoth the RAVEn, "Nevermore."
I'm one of those people that quite heavily customised their Windows 10 experience to run away from the actual Windows 10 as far as possible. I can confirm that Classic Shell (now Open-Shell) is 100% the one piece of software that makes Windows 10 usable. Having to use an unfamiliar Windows 10 machine with its Start Menu is jarring and unpleasant. The replacement Start Menu is just better.

Windows 10 Explorer has a couple of mods that change its functionality, but I guess that it could be replaced by a third party application entirely. There are both Explorer-style and Norton Commander-style (dual pane) file managers that would do the job just as well if not better than the stock application. Notepad and Task Manager also seem very easy to replace with freeware alternatives. I haven't tried such measures recently, but I can see no reason why they should fail.

If you want to mod away the Windows 10 taskbar (which is the one thing I actually like about Windows 10), you may want to check out RetroBar. It's a C#(?) replica of the classical-style Windows taskbar from 95 to XP eras. It even has the same icons and hides the original Windows 10 taskbar. It actually feels uncanny, running something so close to the real thing on such a new OS. It's very nice.

Other than that, I don't know of anything that would e. g. get rid of the new Control Panel or other mandatory parts. In practice, if you replace the things I listed above, it's really unlikely that you'll come across the stock Windows UI in the course of normal daily use.
Cross-Platform versus Native is a false choice.

It is perfectly possible to do both.

You don't have to use something like Electron or even Qt to make cross platform apps or games.
Yeah I’ve redone the Math in a sibling comment.

1) it was 7 and some change. Not 8w
2 ) due to a special arrangement with my employer.
> Something is alive or it is not. We don't say something is more alive than something else.

Yes we do. There's a whole continuum from prions through viruses to cells.
Aws is going away because it takes down normal american websites like parler catering to american citizens and it's an american company.
> Absolutely

Oh dear.

So that means anyone can storm the capitol and call it 'a protest' because they were 'prepared to fight for what they believe is right.'

Just like how many damaged federal buildings and other businesses in the process and call it 'a peaceful protest' because they too were also prepared to 'fight for what they believe is right.' as well.

Even terrorists can claim this, just like how the awful events of Sept 2001 happened. Perhaps they were 'prepared to fight for what they believe was right.' as well.

How is all of the above normal? How are any of these examples protests? Guess what? Not only all of the above are certainly not protests, they are all illegal and you're defending all of the above cases. I don't see how the events that happened in 9/11 can be called 'a protest' or even remotely 'just'.
I regularly see on this very site liberals outraged about things "private" companies are fully within their rights to do. You can't be for and against something depending on the political affiliation of the affected party. That's pure hypocrisy. Then again, hypocrisy is the main currency of politics, as well as the only true manifestation of power. Fortunes change, though. Don't wail 10 years from now when corporations decide that they like the conservative side better and ban you from the internet. Because that's within their rights too.
> This leans far too heavily on the word “intelligence” to describe the behavior of fungus.

True dat. However since there is not a single valid definition for intelligence, I started to speak and think of heuristics when others are referring to intelligence. As long as any traits can be learned and trained their testing has nothing to do with what I'd call intelligence.
I believe OP wants musicians to be compensated for the music they create because they believe that this will improve the quality of the music that is created.

I am sure that if there are no incentives to creating new music some people will still do it. Just like I am sure that if there are no incentives to creating new books some people will still write. Or movies will still be created even without funding.

That being said, I enjoy having access to blockbuster movies, AAA video games, books by professional authors, and songs by professional song writers.

I prefer to live in a world in which those things can exist. For those things to exist, they need business models that can support them. I would choose a world with high quality professional content over a world in which everything is free.
Look at chia.net
How often do you see Rust mentioned here? Rust's actual use in the industry is minimal. Yes, it's growing, but it's relatively unknown. The small academic team I was on wrote a stats app package using Mithril. Nobody's using mithril, it's hardly discussed here, even though the author posts often.

I truly believe that mithril is better than React or Vue people just don't know about it, it's not part of the hype cycle. React is FB and was one of the first and Vue is designed in a very community-centric way. Had we done that project today, we'd probably pick one of those because they are a lot better on resumes.

HN is full of people that post dozens of comments a day. You have to ask yourself what the people who don't need to talk about it all the time are using.
Where would you draw the border between "merely alive" and "intelligent"?

All multicellular living things seem to do some information processing. We would not agree to call a fungus intelligent, but would agree to call a human intelligent.

OK, from human we can descend to an ape, a dog, a crow, a sparrow, a crocodile, a goldfish, a flatworm, a jellyfish. Jellyfish don't have a dedicated nervous system and probably can't be called "intelligent". But can you determine where in the sequence there is a cliff, an abrupt enough change that delimits "intelligence"? I have trouble doing that in a meaningful, non-arbitrary way.
Don't understand the downvotes, but brave search is a pretty decent product so far. Competition is always good, especially in the area of search.
European conservatism and american conservatism is different. America was founded on ideals progressive to most Europeans at the time.

To be conservative in america means to have progressive ideals but not woke ones.

In other words moderate.
Note that there's a difference between what makes sense as a public health measure and which interventions are ethical for medics, and thus between government policy (public health focused) and what medics agree to do (ethics). Specifically, the medical ethics concern benefits specifically to the patient being treated, while public health is interested in the whole population.

This is why HPV vaccination for boys was much delayed compared to girls. As a public health measure, vaccinating boys obviously makes sense because as likely future sexual partners they can give the girls HPV and thus induce cervical cancer. But, from a medical ethics point of view that's not beneficial to them at all, why should they care if some one night stand they never saw again dies of cancer?

However, once there was enough data to say that vaccinating boys likely protects them from non-cervical cancers induced by HPV, yet significant side effects were very rare, that's a clear benefit to giving them a vaccine, while the public health outcome (fewer women die of cervical cancer) means it makes sense to spend money on delivering it.

So, it can be true that vaccinating all 12 year olds would benefit public health e.g. by reducing the amount of disease spread in the community, while at the same time being true that vaccinating them wouldn't be ethical because the risk to them is similar to or greater than the benefit of not getting COVID-19 when you're young and healthy and very likely to survive with few problems.
What do you mean what do I mean by everyone?

I MEAN EVERYONE

https://i.imgur.com/fTTBLia.gif

100%, Including kids under-12.

The one thing delta really changed was that we're all either getting vaccinated or getting infected and recovering.

What we're doing now is dragging it out while the virus burns through the unvaccinated population still trying to flatten the curve to keep the hospitals from getting knocked over.

We could have no restrictions tomorrow if everyone were fully vaccinated today.
I’ll add a small insidious realization of what stress is. It’s one thing to work hard and feel tired after working hard, the causality is natural. It’s when you feel fatigue before you even start the work. Why am I tired before I even begin? That to me it’s a dead giveaway something is wrong.

How do you solve that? We mythologized grit, the strength to overcome this preemptive fatigue. But even that, is fatiguing.

Life’s a sport no matter what they say. Whoever doesn’t get tired of it, wins.
Well, "Duh!".

Tunnels are wonderful, they keep stuff from getting in the way on the surface. But, in most places, they sit below the water table, or below access from sea, rivers, or storm water and naturally they tend to fill up.

Usually the pumps, that are working away on an continuous basis, can keep in front of water ingress so we don't notice that the tunnels would normally be flooded all the time.

It's only when the pumps break down, or they get swamped by sudden water flows, that we suddenly get to scream about the normal state of affairs.
That's a nice unattributed quote you've got there. Now for some actual data that say the exact opposite:

"The numbers show the prosecution rate for shoplifting cases involving a misdemeanor petty theft charge for a loss of $950 or less fell under [San Francisco DA Chesa] Boudin, from 70 percent under former District Attorney George Gascon in 2019 to 44 percent in 2020 and 50 percent as of mid-June
2021.

Prosecutors filed charges in 116 of 266 cases presented by police involving petty theft in 2020, compared to 450 of 647 cases in 2019, according to the data provided by the District Attorney’s Office."

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/data-shows-chesa-boudin-pros...
The creepiest thing I had ever seen was one time going to the restroom in the Mall in Seattle and there were two guys at the urinals masturbating to eachother. I had to nope the F out of that place real fast.
>Accept that you are just boring plumbing, and don't have any "value added services", and you earn my money.

I'd love to see numbers on how much long term projected revenue their captive audience telemetry and ad delivery platform are valued at. I wouldn't be surprised if it renders the actual OS license sales look like a drop in the bucket.
Cannabis does and will have medicinal uses. The laws and and the mindset about it are going to vastly change. Delta-8 and all the other numbers are already legal in illegal states.
Flexibility is a multiplier to the existing work environment. Flexible work hours and unlimited PTO make an already good environment better, and make bad environments miserable. Rigid rules for when you're working and when you aren't working is a great defense if your management is going to push you to work as much as they can so you should be wary when job hunting if they are "flexible", but flexiblity can be great too.
>the right direction under Hu, if only because Hu was a weak leader

Seems you imply that the right direction for China is having weak leader, which historically it was disaster. That aside, lots of the ugly things on China you heard like airpocalypse, corruption, inequality and weak governance expanded steply under Hu, so there's that.
Thank you, I didn't know that. That's helpful regarding the discrepancy between 3-day and 7-day moving averages compared to other states.
I think there’s a line between empathizing and excusing, though. Understanding why someone feels a certain way doesn’t mean you have to give credit to those reasons, which the above article does.

I think that it’s difficult to consume articles like this, even if the goal is empathy. At best, this is one viewpoint among many, and at worst, it’s a borderline straw man hypothetical. Particularly with the assumptions the article makes (like when it asserts that the reader is white…)

There probably are people whose vaccine hesitancy follow the exact steps laid out in this article, but they are certainly not everyone. The first set of events which the author present as undermining mainstream authority are a lot newer than vaccine hesitancy writ large, which has been steadily increasing through various avenues on the social internet. I try my best to understand, because it’s been clear for a while that yelling doesn’t help, but I don’t think this article does a good job of fostering understanding, it seems more interested in yelling just in the other direction
Sign of the times... no way this NFT craze is going to last.
When I returned to work after my 6 month break, CodePen was moving their backend code from Ruby on Rails to Go, and Front End to Next.js. So I am now learning how to program with Go and reading a lot of Next.js docs and resources.

If you go to the front page of her site, it says

Hi I'm Rach. I'm a developer building software for CodePen, wife, mother of two, productivity nerd and recovering screen addict. This is my blog.

So: someone at $dayjob decided it was time to rewrite $dayjob in Go. Thus, everyone there must learn Go.
I'm wondering if you're more likely to have these adverse cardiac affects from energy drinks than the COVID vaccine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5501707/

Though, quite recently, UK did ban the sale of energy drinks to those under 16 y/o
There are quite a lot of folks in this thread claiming that they are not prosecuted at all in SF. As in police don’t even bother showing up. I’m not living there so I’m not sure what the on-the-ground situation is, do you mean that this is not the case?
Why Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Refuse to Believe in Quality Time