skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He embezzled millions of dollars from his brother and co-owner, who later sued him, and him taking a pay cut and increasing his employees' pay was nothing short of a settlement.

That is not correct. You cannot claim this guy embezzled millions of dollars when his brother lost his lawsuit.

https://www.inc.com/paul-keegan/dan-price-gravity-lawsuit-wi...

> Gravity Payments' Dan Price--who made headlines around the world last year when he instituted a $70,000 minimum wage at the company he founded--won a resounding victory in a lawsuit brought last year by his brother and co-founder, Lucas Price.

> Judge Doyle wrote in her ruling that "[t]he court finds that Daniel's compensation decisions in 2013 and 2014 were a reasonable business judgment made in good faith," and "[t]he Towers Watson report corroborated the reasonableness of Daniel Price's compensation."

> In her ruling, Judge Doyle said, "There was evidence that Daniel Price used the company credit card for expenses that were not subsequently reimbursed. However, Lucas Price has not proven this claim"--along with many others he made in his lawsuit, judging from her decision.
Auth0 WebAuthn Passwordless with Device Biometrics Is Now Available
Passwordless is an authentication method that verifies a user using two factors, something they have and something they are. WebAuthn is a web standard for passwordless authentication.
Exactly what I was going to reference.

An Aussie with a $1M home, and a $500k mortgage will have $500k in "wealth." But if that wealth is tied to their home, and all other homes cost the same or more, what good does that do them?

We're seeing the same happen in many US cities.
s disheartening that this is what the political machine is focused on, instead of raising money and investing in things like infrastructure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/business/economy/biden-in...
I think the problem, for many, is exactly that. The belief is that the constitution, and the system itself, is inherently racist and needs to be dismantled so that we can move forward. While that refrain echos across our media and academic institutions, one doesn’t hear any suggestion as to a better replacement. I’ve searched for such ideas, but so far hear nothing. If we are to burn down the current system, we need a plan in place for what’s to come after. There are none.
Huh! With all that vitriol, I would sure hope the unparalleled salary for software people is not the reason why you migrated (and continue to stay) here.
USENET had an entirely different set of users than today's anonymous trolls, which minimized flame-fests. Sure, disagreement drove much conversation on the groups, but it was generally topic-driven and constructive, targeting ideas much more than people. Vitriol back then was the exception rather than the rule. Those groups (aside from alt.*) where denizens crossed the line often added moderation, which usually tamped down the flames.

No, I think things are MUCH worse now than USENET ever was.
OK, but you've highlighted the difference between US and AU median wealth; a lot of Australian wealth is tied up in this real estate. My relatives who own property (purchased cheap decades ago) can hop from enormously expensive house to enormously expensive house; the ones that don't can only dream of home ownership anywhere near a major city.

There is functionally a 0% tax bracket in the US, because everyone gets a default tax deduction.

In general, I agree with you - particularly in the realm of healthcare and college educations - but there's a lot of nuance in the details.
Is it not the standard everywhere? All my links, on every page, are lighter when visited. I suppose some sites might override this, but I've rarely seen it.
This is similar to how I overcame the game 2048. When that game first came out, I couldn't stop playing cause of all the dopamine hits. So one day I sat down, pulled source code for it off github, and made a little Q-learner. After watching that successfully learn the game, and how good it was (especially compared to me), it just felt pointless to keep playing
No, there must be a sequel; Open Office Space.

Office Space is great but the cubicles date it firmly in the 90s.
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> Could you clarify what you ran into? Why docker?

Not sure I follow why you had to turn to docker

> Some things might even surprise you and run for a while before a classloader can't find something and explodes in runtime.

The JVM is deterministic - I don't follow this statement?
What are the reasons for it constantly being 3-5 years away? Technology? Regulations? Both? Manufacturers not thinking the public will understand tradeoffs and unwilling to take the risk and explain this to them? Can it at least work as a spare tire?
i wonder how this is handled in vr browsers?
> could be tricked to ignore the Content-Type

I think even browser nowadays still do it. A file in <script src="" /> will be treated as script even mime is wrong. A file ended with .mp4 will be play as video even it says it is a text/plain file. Browser guess mime from contents at many places, just you may not notice it.

unless XCTO is set
> And I used relatively minor in context

I see no part of the context makes that would make your statement accurate.

> And I know many people find it inconceivable that I have an anti authoritarian aversion to forced medical treatment,

That isn't what I find inconceivable. I entirely understand why people are opposed to this. What I find inconceivable is that you believe that people who choose not to get vaccinated don't bear a moral responsibility for the effects of that choice.

You seem fixed on thinking I am arguing something I am not.
I looked into their [0]codebase and I'm concerned about stability and maintenance.

0] https://github.com/amark/gun

https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/src/chain.js
It's why standard base pay plus 'incentive/commission' tends to work the best.

Let me expand. Everyone gets paid the same base rate. Then you give an incentive based on KPIs that AREN'T easily manipulated by an employee. For example, a good KPI might be on Time delivery of a project or ticket. Bad KPIs would be things like lines of code or number of tickets closed.
Most sites would have the URL to their username be something like gitlab.com/profile/index.html. The URL structure here is the problem.
The BoM cost of the i.MX 8M Quad in the Librem 5 is $35.49. The BoM cost of the Snapdragon 865+, when it was brand new, was $57. That $22 price difference brings a 700% performance increase.
I do wonder if that kind of thing is awkward just because we're not used to it...
If you litter on a street I'm not on, then it doesn't affect me.

If nobody will ever get paid for intellectual property again, then it will absolutely affect me. It's the end of a whole category of creation, and a huge net reduction.
if utilities move to natural gas we don't solve the emissions issue
Well, we have gotten rid of other viruses in the past and it also makes sense in theory given what we know about viruses, so the burden of proof is on those claiming we can't.
If you're interested in this topic, we're building a tool for building cluster manager components (like policy-based container schedulers) using constraint programming, where constraints are specified using SQL.

Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi20-suresh.pdf

Code: https://github.com/vmware/declarative-cluster-management/
I'm guessing some combination of staining to accentuate detail/structure in the thing being photographed, manipulation of contrast/saturation/etc., and maybe some outright false color.
Thx, this is great news, but why the back and forth, they thought anyone would pay for something that has been free for 27 years?

Java does not belong to Oracle, it belongs to whom ever codes Java. I have still to find a company that understands open-source.
PMs who think like this are the kids who stand around two kids about to fight, egging them on.

These are not your friends. These are not good people.
>She didn't write the "first program" but she was the first to understand what computers would be capable of doing

Or merely the first to express it? I'm pretty sure Babbage himself, as the inventor, understood well what computers would be capable of doing.
Considerations in boosting Covid-19 vaccine immune responses
Sure, but Gravity Payments has barely grown, while their competitors have since created thousands of $70k+ jobs.
Go 1 compatibility promise is not about std lib API at large: a set of core APIs, the "standard packages" of the Go library.

Also none of the std libs are versioned, and I don't see any time soon a v2 for it.
> There is such ignorance and arrogance on the coasts about places like West Virginia.

yes, agree

> The state is extremely poor

ok

> coal is still a massively important industry

similar arguments could be made for plenty of industry, historically.. even going back 200 years

> Manchin is driving a bargain and is representing his people

you are dramatically off-base on this. People do not form industry, companies, their executives and stakeholders form industry. Individuals are paid wages and then also have expenses, for example to their landlords, and also a company store perhaps?

> who've ruined their economy and environment

many lives are suffering now, and in the past, agree

> powering the rest of the country for the last 100 years

wasted water, electricity and money, are not unique to our age

> The rest of the country needs to help make the impact on coal country

that has been an explicit goal for union organizers, environmentalists, policy makers and is a core reason to have a common governance. Your emotional appeal is probably well-meaning, but.. falls apart quickly. King Coal - your time is over
Mecanic: An framework to create web-based design tools
I can think of a few possible ways to fix it.

1. deny-list only usernames that are actually existing conflicts

2. Change the URL for only usernames that have conflicts, to `https://gitlab.com/u/<username>`.

3. Change the URL for _all_ usernames to `gitlab.com/u/<username>` as this collision points out the flaw in the original URL design in the first place, because of possible collisions. 301 redirects could of course be used for any non-colliding usernames.

I am now wondering how _github_ takes care of it though. Github also has `github.com/<username>` urls. What does it do with collisions? Github pages don't even all end in `.html` or contain a `.` at all, so gitlab's particular solution would not work. For instance, there is a page `https://github.com/topics`. What happens if you try to create a github user called "topics"?

If I try to create one, it says "Username 'topics' is unavailable." Same for say `marketplace` or `trending`. Perhaps they've deny-listed only actually-existing github urls? That does seem tricky, whenever they want to create a new top-level /page on github, they can only do it if there isn't already a github account with that name?

But if as someone else says `/dashboard.html` is just a weird non-canonical alternate for `/dashboard`, which already had to be reserved, maybe gitlab is already doing (1) anyway? Then why do they need to also deny any username with ending in any valid extension? Unclear.

It still makes me wonder if they have a routing precedence problem, which they worked around by just forbidding any username that triggered it, instead of fixing the actual issue.
the manufacturers caught on to that specific mitigation, and it doesn't work that often in the wild anymore.
lottery mindset
No love for the internet Oracle? What else was one supposed to do late at night when they had a deeply meaningful question that just had to get answered?
Adding to your point, most successful markets are positive-sum -- hedgers gain value from mitigating their structural risks, and speculators get paid to assume price risk. For example, the wheat futures market has two natural participants -- farmers and bakers. Farmers can sell future produce to buy seeds right now. Bakers can hedge their wheat price exposure to reduce their chance of getting ruined by a bad harvest. Speculators get paid to hold onto wheat futures contracts if a farmer wants to sell a future when the bakers aren't around to buy (presumably baking), selling to a baker later for a higher price reflecting the price risk assumed.
All of these participants derive value from the market.

It's not clear to me that prediction markets usually have natural hedging participants (maybe political operatives, but the tx costs are probably too high relative to the value at stake).
I guess the right way is to look at alternative options and costs associated with them.

If the alternative option is for example something that requires human, then this is likely quite much cheaper.
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> (There may be environmental reasons to accelerate that shift even faster.)

Yeah, that's.... the entire point. That's why his statement is not just wrong, it's morally repugnant.
Oh thanks, my bad…
Physicists make square droplets and liquid lattices
YouTube removes St. Louis Council meeting recording over Covid-19 misinformation
Swappie increased mobile revenue by 42% by focusing on Core Web Vitals
What are the odds of pregnant person being a woman?
We have the notation for a small amount of Hellenistic and Roman era music, and I think a tiny little bit of Euripides. We'll never know what Sappho sounded like, though.
You shouldn't accept Oracle's new license, migrate to OpenJDK.
The contract offers my mother received involved good money, but that was actually part of the problem. She got the impression that most of the managers at "Big Corp" had little/no regard for these "critical" systems; they were just looking to save their own jobs, either by way of a miracle worker (wave a magic wand and fix 40 years of tech debt in 3 months) or a fall guy (it's the contractor's fault, not mine).

Also, COBOL work is kinda crap. Debugging 20-year-old Java code sucks, but a 40-year-old COBOL project, with source code backed up to 5-inch floppy disks - forget about it. (I just watched the trailer for 'The Many Saints of Newark'. LOL)
Paying a fine isn't a real punishment?
I'm putting this paper experiment in my list of things to do with my nephew when he's a bit older. Neat idea, thanks!

About the correct word: I have no idea what the best word is, but the way you wrote it certainly brought images to my mind of various ways I've seen falling debris act. I honestly wonder if using the "best word" would have been less useful to my comprehension - but I'm in general a big fan of the word1/word2/.../wordN way of describing multi-faceted/ambiguous/complex statements.
A way to spot computer-generated faces
I just wanted to share that you can take a shot at photomicrography even on a very tight budget. Here are three pictures I took with my Pixel 2 and a $20 microscope from Amazon.

https://imgbox.com/g/WQt0DyEtmV (fly's wings, salt cubes, a mashed raspberry)

I am no photographer, so I am sure people who know more about it than me can take much better pictures. (And I'd love to see them!)
Am I following your implication here correctly? People in rural west Texas deserve to have their hospitals closed down because of their political affiliations?

Hell, Trump wasn't even an anti-Medicare politician, he actually campaigned on keeping it going.
As skills crisis mounts, tech leaders pivot to new strategies
I still love that people actually went through the effort to "implement" it.
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"The higher minimum wages in Australia are also clear cut."

Do you have any links to studies around this? From what I've heard of the past couple years, most economists believe only a marginal increase to around $10/hr would be beneficial. I'm not arguing against that, but $10/hr doesn't seem like it would afford those workers the opportunity to build wealth, and increasing it further is supposedly not going to provide any additional benefit to that group.
> its a grift

Even if you assume that all those allegations are true (seems like they didn't hold up, but whatever)...

...if it takes a grifter to raise wages in this country, so be it. If it's between grift that helps centralize wealth compared to grift that distributes it, I know what I'm picking.
> I get rather annoyed when a USA resident boasts about wealth. You have massive loans dickhead.

Isn't much of Australian household wealth built on surging property prices? Which is also backed by the same massive loans that Americans are dealing with? And also, the Australian government is forced to keep the property bubble going at all costs, even more so than the American government?

https://www.ratecity.com.au/home-loans/mortgage-news/rba-gov...
How many School of the America's instructors were prosecuted?
Orthography in specific and natural language in general (formalized and written, or otherwise) is not beholden to be "logical;"

idiosyncratic deviance from established cultural norms looks adolescent in anything other than a private subculture.

Specifically in American English, which unlike French French or German German, does not have a state-sanctioned standards body attempting (and often failing) to police or mandate its evolution.

Earnest advice for those tempted to adopt "logical" style in American English language written communication: adhere to the standards.

Relevant:
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/Item/Ruzvelt%20...
> To be fair, workers are not interchangeable pieces.

True - but job posts can be occupied by interchangeable pieces; some are overachievers, but all meet a minimum requirement. "Software Engineer I" in department A can be filled by any suitable candidate, and the budget maxes out at $XXX,000. If you're being paid less than this, the employer should tell you why (commitment,disposition, ambition, networking, etc).
The numbers on variolation (the intentional infection he was talking about) still look like a pretty clear net positive. Were variolation trials not so legally problematic, they would likely have saved many, many lives, because as Hanson pointed out very early on the amount of exposure seems to be one of the larger factors in disease severity with COVID-19 (which was very predictable). And for most of his futarchy claims, he's relying directly on fairly good evidence. That's not a good reason to overhaul society in its image, but neither is it a good reason to dismiss the ideas.

I'm the first to agree that Hanson has pretty big blind spots, and he's about as non-neurotypical as they come (and therefore seems to often fall into a trap of terrible assumptions about how others will behave), but this is an awful example to use.
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> the technology is always 3--5 years away from release

just in time for Tesla's FSD then /s
At the "Fortran Code on GitHub" repo https://github.com/Beliavsky/Fortran-code-on-GitHub there are many codes listed in the "Climate and Weather" and "Earth Science" sections.
> So let people share their files in peace. No profit will be made.

This is so naive and ignorant. Some people will maintain the huge libraries of movies. And it won't be free to do so.

They will do this service for pay.

This happens today, with pirate topsites and even closed torrents.

> Make terms last 5-10 years.

I'd say 10-20, but no more than that.

> Between computing freedom and the whole copyright industry, I choose computing freedom.

Good thing we don't have to make that choice.
37% for federal, and another 13% in places like California, bringing it to 50% (vs 45% in Australia)
That's if they charge conspiracy in the first place.

The more general answer here is that the criminality of exploitation depends a lot on your state of mind (a property of law that something HN always has a hard time with). A professor teaching a class to an anonymous group of students is not at all the same thing, in criminal law, as that same professor standing behind foreign intelligence operatives coaching them on a targeted attack.

The confounder here is that there are statutes you can theoretically violate by providing some specific exploitation tools to foreign nationals.

The MIT professor, in an MIT classroom, is never going to be charged (same almost certainly goes for a consultant teaching an exploit class at Black Hat USA).
Ok let's get off-topic because it's not everyday someone posts about bash.org. My favorite:

http://bash.org/?835030
Different language though. Greek poetry was so conservative it can be hard to tell what is a living form and what is a clever pastiche, especially as the Hellenistic era goes on.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, median total income for Australians in 2017-2018 was 49,805 AUD (68,232 USD)[0]. According to the US Census Bureau, median total income for Americans in 2018 was 63,179 USD. That's about 7.4% less which isn't insignificant, but it's also not near enough to account for such a striking difference in wealth. There's clearly something else going on here.

[0] https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-work-h... (Table 1)

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2019/demo/income-poverty/... (Table A-1)
'The long run' looks like it's going to play out over three generations, not unlike Big Tobacco.

Not only can you get rich in that sort of time frame, you can retire and let your kids take over. The grandkids will be proper monsters who don't work at all, so they will probably cash out before the lawsuits get teeth.
Ignoring for a moment the nativist undertone of your comment, it is not unheard of for people to hear the term-of-art for a concept they already understand and have to look it up.

It seems to me that once one realizes what a "wet bulb temperature of 35 C" means, it's only a hop, skip, and a jump to comprehend the immense vacuousness of your claim that billions of people will be regularly experiencing it.

> poor power infrastructure to run AC is bad

I agree. Let's not stand in the way of any developing nation building cheap, reliable power infrastructure along with cheap, reliable, flexible transportation infrastructure (aka roads and gas stations), so they too can travel in air-conditioned comfort from air-conditioned location to air-conditioned location.

Oh, yes, that means not destroying economic wealth.
So now you agree that "ownership" is not inherently real?
"Grift" captures the state of affairs perfectly. This is the standard "backup" grift for most public figures, particularly folks such as congressmen, who fail to wangle their way into a lobbyist position, or folks like ex-presidents or ex-presidential-candidates, who can't stoop to the level of being lobbyists (I wonder if there are explicit laws against ex-presidents indulging in lobbying).
One could be a terrible person and yet be completely correct - one does not preclude the other.

Hitler was a vegan- was he just misunderstood, or are all vegans closeted antisemites?
China’s property market runs out of steam as millions demand their money back
The law seems very debatable at present. See for instance the current uproar over milley/esper decision to resist well established presidential powers. The law is whatever the media conglomerates collectively decide.
> I was shocked when i found out there's no 0% tax bracket in the USA.

That isn't exactly true:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/09/18/161333783...

Yes, the bracket isn't zero percent, but after deductions and the child credit, it effectively becomes that. That doesn't include payroll taxes however, which are much more regressive (in the case of social security with an income cap even more so). Does Australia exempt low earners from payroll taxes as well as income taxes?
How can people have such strong unsubstantiated opinions about people they don’t know lol