skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Look, if OP wants to suggest a wealth tax, I think that's a concept that can usefully be debated. They're not without precedent; France has had one, off and on, for many years, and sure, property taxes are closely equivalent.

If OP wants to suggest a tax on (realised) income, then, well, we already have that. There's not a lot to debate here.

If OP wants to suggest a tax on unrealised income, that's a pretty silly idea with enormous practical obstacles. Also, it is fundamentally not a wealth tax. It is different in every particular; one is a tax on a stock, and the other is a tax on a flow; they are charged at different times, on different things; if an asset declines in price, the wealth tax levy declines, whereas an unrealised gains tax would...what, have to issue tax credits to be carried forward? The whole thing is unworkable.

(And even if it was workable, it would be in principle and in effect, vastly different than a wealth tax.)
I really wish we could evaluate the cost of these types of frauds. The article hints that there may be more fishy with Ozy Media than this one call.

An easier example for my concern is Theranos. How many legit companies didn't get funded because Theranos was lying and getting funded? How many viable alternatives were killed?
I find test-first most useful when debugging a hairy problem, and I think that's somewhere it's not used enough.

Reproducing the bug consistently* is the first step to understanding how it works, and how to fix it. And then you get the thrill of trying to turn that test green as you tinker.

...

* Okay, sometimes "consistently" is "fails about 1/100 executions", but that's not so bad if you can run your unit test 1000 times in the span of 30s.
ETH miner to return the $23m tx fee from earlier this morning
The focus issue is not that things are too close (as jiggawatts covers) but that the focal plane never changes. You might want to specifically do some eye exercises by focusing on objects at different distances outside of VR.
Yep.. a more sophisticated face detection tech would be able to predict how someone's funny face looks like. Maybe that's what this is training for.
Meh, what the hell. Immersed has a Linux build, I've got a spare headset, I decided to give it a whirl. While I'm a little disappointed by how little input the controller affords me, I'm impressed with how well it works! You've got my attention, but not my 40-50 hours a week... Yet.

Edit/disclosure: corrected a typo I made while in VR
The problem is that you're missing guard rails. People know they have to be paranoid, so they move slowly; just like people drive more carefully without seatbelts and ride bicycles more carefully without helmets. Care is good, but does not come without cost.

I think it's hard to measure the impact of not testing, because in order to compare A vs B, you'll have to write tests (and it's a large job to write a test suite for existing code), but that's why it's insidious -- you know writing tests is going to slow you down, and you don't know how much time it's going to save in the long run. You end up with a heavy bias for the status quo. And, if f the tests aren't any good, you'll spend a lot of time writing them and you'll just get friction on future changes, slowing you down even more. But if the tests are good, then people that are new to the codebase can arrive with confidence.

Manual testing is good, but it scales O(n) with the number of features. What works for the simple prototype with two big features quickly becomes a drag when every engineer has to test all 100 features against every change they make. (That's why organizations make some other team do the tests, and then the bug comes back to you 3 weeks later, and then you stop what you're working on to fix the bug you caused -- context switching off of new feature work, and delaying that feature. Slow, and annoying!) The solution to this slowdown is usually more process (if we just write it down, it feels like it's not work) and "we need more engineers". The associated O(1) overhead of new proces plus the O(n!) communication slowdown means that the n in n features to test for every change grows much more slowly -- it's feels under control, but what you're really doing is less work with more resources.

I look at the tricky edge cases in my own work, and look at where the bugs creep in (we do a quarterly review of these), and it's always in the "that's too hard to test" code. Some examples: assuming that the test suite's view of the database is the same as a database without the new migrations applied, simple refactoring leading to null pointer dereferences in an edge case, third party applications that call into the API that "has no users" (according to grep), and things like that. These are the things that burn new team members, and make them overly cautious forever. Caution and velocity are incompatible, so to me, it's crucial that these dark corners get addressed, so a passing test suite means a codebase with only bugs we haven't seen before. (There are always going to be bugs, but you shouldn't fix the same bug twice.)

(Oh, and there are definitely bugs in code with 100% coverage. 100% coverage just means you found the bugs you already thought of, but it doesn't mean you found every bug. A test suite will never ensure your code is bug free.)

There are a lot of open source projects that lose their primary maintainer, and they never get another feature again because of this. Someone wants to add one, but they can't figure out how, and just rewrite it, or give up completely. Be on the lookout!
Didn't they end up not being able to prosecute most of these guys because of entrapment? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment
Ah. So the issue is catching stray sunlight through one of the lenses and having it focus onto / burn the display? If that's avoided, are there other issues to worry about?
St Teresa of Avila’s writings cover the topic indirectly at least.
> Personally it makes me feel a bit nauseous, particularly if there’s any movement (I get motion sick easily in VR but not normally in real life). My understanding is that about 20% of the population is like this and nothing is known to prevent it.

This is almost always one of two things:

* A low or unsteady framerate or tracking

* Lack of spending twenty minutes in it to teach your body to cope with the aforementioned low or unsteady framerate or tracking

The Quest 2 won't drop below 90hz if in any productivity app, and you can even turn it up to 120hz (it can handle games at 120hz; a productivity app won't put any stress on the hardware), so there isn't really the opportunity for nausea.

It really does sound like you've only used Cardboard or Daydream, since the only thing you're listing is Street View. There's nothing wrong with Cardboard and Daydream, but they're 3DoF and you were lucky if it would hit 60hz consistently. They're a box for nausea. Even the original Vive (still an admirable headset, although pretty rough these days) is significantly below the state of the art enough that judgements about VR as a whole can't justifiably be made.
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how does that interplay with the 10th, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.", where it seems the residual between positive grants and negative restrictions goes to the states/people?
I tend to think the word PR is the result of propaganda applied to the word propaganda. It isn't obvious to me that there is a good form of propaganda. Useful, perhaps, but not upright and positive.
Your third question is non sequitur, possibly a ruse to gain information. The author of the article is a neuro-cognitive scientist from the University of California, San Diego. As far as it being a "pua site", the psychology industry as well as mainstream media have been stealing intellectual property from the PUA community since its inception.
I can't read that; can you elaborate on how it's different?
Aiming for 100% test coverage actually produces negative value.

You don't need a "study paper" to know this. Just work with a team that aims for 100% coverage for a few months and you will see it for yourself.

The negative value comes from:

1. The time wasted on writing all these tests that are mostly ceremonious in nature.

But, more importantly:

2. It makes refactoring a big pain in the ass.

Why? Because 100% test coverage forces you to test the implementation details of everything.

So, every time you do a non-trivial refactoring, you will get tens or hundreds of failing tests. This is mostly noise. If there's any signal in any of these failed tests (signal = information that you screwed something up during the refactoring) it will be very difficult to catch.

What do you do when you refactor something and break a 100 tests?

You delete all the failing tests and start again: look at the coverage report and start writing tests for the portions of the code that are not covered.
I hid every page, person and group on my Facebook except maybe 3 or 4 whom don't post much or are enjoyable.

It works. I can't even remember what normal Facebook looks like. I've lived like this for the last 5 years.
I second.
To add, I work on a pretty busy team. It’s hard to catch time to just talk to my manager and having that time carved out every week to talk is valuable.

Also, there is stuff that needs to be discussed that shouldn’t be in an email or be discussed out in the open. You know, things meetings are actually good for.
Unlikely to be valuable, but lying and bankruptcy are two different things.

And I try and be pendantic, as "(Proven bad thing), so (worse thing that doesn't logically follow)" appears to be the paintbrush of our times.
Maybe already mentioned. The economy usually crashes when gas prices go up.

Gas has almost hit that pinnacle $5 a gallon in some parts of California.
Even small cars weigh thousands of pounds. Fifty pounds is objectively not a lot. If you're trying to tell me you can tell a significant difference in performance and handling in a car with a 7-year-old in the backseat versus no 7-year-old in the backseat, well, I don't believe you at all.
Except for now when China is done stealing and has something to protect, they are all about it.

https://www.ft.com/content/c78b69e3-82bd-4f72-881c-12b2ca1ce...
It’s very obviously a thing in the US, and you don’t need to look back into history to prove it. Every right guaranteed by the constitution can be suspended by the government, with the only limit being whatever SCOTUS thinks it should be. Given FISA courts are operated by the SCOTUS Chief Justice, it could be reasonable to conclude that SCOTUS hasn’t done a particularly great job of safeguarding those rights.

The US arguably makes some of the robust constitutional guarantees in the world, but they still pose little obstacle for a government that wants to subvert them. The illusion of civil liberties is even weaker in most of the rest of the world, where they’re often granted only by ordinary legislation, which can of course be changed by ordinary legislative processes.

The argument for this system is that the government must be able to suspend rights in response to an emergency, but the problem with that is that there’s always an emergency going on somewhere. The war on terror is already in its 4th presidential administration of being an emergency.
It's painfully hilarious to me how many glaring security holes are all throughout companies, but they will have the most asinine and pointless rules.

They pretend to follow PCI[1] in a few ways while breaking it in orders of magnitude more ways. Explaining this to them is a nightmare.

I've seen so many post-its with login/pw just everywhere, unlocked machines, hints that were the password, one-word obvious dictionary passwords- but if you bring in a personal cell phone/book that's a serious and terminable offense!

Side-note: the worst offenders kf post-its woth sensitive info are people with offices, like someone doesn't clean their offices every night (see further down).

I once proved a point I could easily remember a complete CC# with all PII, walk out and write it down in the bathroom, yet still have rules saying you cant even bring so much as a book in with you. Which makes sense for following laws but not when you let random people walk in (HR, random favorite employees, whatever) with them even straight up notepads and pens.

Someone could also easily walk in with a voice recorder on and just record all day and go home. So the rules did nothing practically, was probably more of a way to get rid of undesirables.

All while the company is recording with ceiling-mounted cameras which went against their contracts (was to be visual only per compliance but wasn't), with public-facing IP without even a password(for the sole reason of wanting to make it easier to view the feeds from their cellphone), and hosted on a windows PC with Norton 360(PCI compliance after all!).

Once someone high enough up is making stupid decisions they are defended mindlessly and to the death. Pointing out the reasoning behind the decisions and ways to reach those goals without just pretending to will always fall on deaf ears.

Also many businesses seem to purposefully turn a blind eye to this[2], they do only enough KYC to CYA, etc.

I've seen businesses follow PCI and recommended FTC best practices only to contract out their janitorial services, who then subcontracted to someone else.

[1] https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pci_security/maintainin...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/sta...

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Time to buy stocks in Canadian shredder companies...
Its the exact same thing. Also under the same definition: misinformation, disinformation, actual information.
With wood things get a bit unclear for me. Using something like district heating which uses wood as a source to generate hot water/steam and pipe that to houses is a way to stay carbon neutral while keeping emissions away from people to avoid impacting their health. But this assumes that heating needs can be sustainably forested. Right now there's also all sorts of shenanigans where wood is imported from the US as biomass in Europe as a sustainable source, but the carbon costs from shipping wood across the ocean are not considered.
You mean, like the reason hypertext was created? "News" organizations don't even verify their own reporting, so how are they supposed to provide sources? Alison Morrow, former NBC correspondent who now has her own YouTube/Locals/Odysee/Rokfin channel talks about this all the time. The internet has made the news cycle so fast they not only don't have time to give stories the time and nuance they deserve, they simply "trust" who they see as being experts or authorities whether they are or not (mostly those whose narrative the corporations agree with because it doesn't upset advertisers) without verifying anything.
Focal distance is only part of the issue another is is consistency. Using a headset for 8 hours means your eyes are constantly focusing within a very narrow range of distances for 8 hours which isn’t good. Your brain might be somewhat fooled when looking at a wall vs a VR window, but your eyes don’t change focal distance.

Similarly VR has a narrow range of possible brightness, this is less of an issue but can also cause problems long term.
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I think the big difference here is that you're allowed to talk about those things on Hacker News without getting your internet shut off or a talking to by the appropriate authorities.
Also, part of the infrastructure bill gives $15,000 credit to new EV car purchases (if the manufacturer hires union labor). Musk is fighting this.
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Short form can force the creator to cut the cruft and show the important part. Recipes, for example, don't include backstories about Grandma's doll collection or unnecessary banter between hosts, but do show how to "fold in the cheese".

[0] meme reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NywzrUJnmTo

[1] how to fold ingredients: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1JjaT-Y8Pc
It's not a good thing to make fun of someone by calling them a known flatulist.
Their presence hasn't threatened to depopulate public schools yet. When (if) it does, you can expect pushback.
Still sounds better than killing hundreds of thousands of them in the Middle East.
It's not simply a matter of trust. You should assume it's all insecure. It's a matter of whose interests align with yours the most.
That is pretty obvious.

The main reason is that what we would really want is measure coverage of the specification of the unit.

Now, that would be difficult, so we measure something else with obvious poor result.
The F150 is arguably a lifestyle truck these days. But that's okay -- it probably makes it easier to build an electronic version that can do what its owners expect of it.
I wanted to follow up after giving sufficient time for other replies.

I sincerely hope you check your history and read this :-)

First off, thankyou for the in-depth response.

I, personally, think the race to the bottom style economics hurts everyone. It promotes a style of business that isn't healthy to employees, and allows companies to find loopholes to abuse Labor.

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How would these ml predictions be explainable?
Ever since I developed code coverage tools at Apple in 1989, and tested them for Borland in the early 90’s, I knew and have been telling people in MY conference slides that code coverage is a nearly useless metric. Anyone who thought critically about it for ten minutes knows it’s nonsense.

The one thing code coverage tells you that is of any significant value is what you haven’t tested. You still know very little about what you have tested.

Meanwhile, this article continues the dopey practice of using the word “coverage” only with respect to code and not with respect to many other forms of coverage, such as data. Data coverage is not easy to measure, yet it is far more important.

Generally speaking, academics know very little about testing, and academic papers about testing are nearly useless. If you want to learn about testing from an academic, read sociology, philosophy, and cognitive science.
My retired father?
FWIW, I fly FPV and am aware of this issue but haven’t had a problem with it.

I probably average about 4-6 hours per week outdoors in sunlight with my Skyzone 04X. It has dual OLED screens and a very similar (if smaller) form factor to my Quest 2.

I’d say it’s more a “be aware of this and be careful” problem than a “you’re going to break it once a month” problem.
Could you really just not have managers in an org that reached a certain size? Past a certain point hierarchies and power structures are going to form, and an explicit management structure is way to make them clear and explicit.

I think in a lot of ways managers are just the glue that holds orgs together. Nobody at all might really want the glue a whole lot, but I'm not sure what not having glue would look like.
My point is more that a voucher system would tend to hollow out bad schools, taking out the more high-functioning kids. Perhaps they would hollow out the ranks of teachers as they'd prefer to work in a safer/less crazy-making environment.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate the idea of vouchers.
Can't wait to see a thinner new design every year.
Very informative tips! It speaks well to the current working environment.
The issue, as I understand it, is that even slight vibration mixes the UF6 enough to ruin things. Getting the centrifuges to rotate absolutely smoothly is difficult.
There's plenty that can be cut.

Managers at my company do not attend most postmortems, standup/scrum, and backlog grooming.

On top of that, my company expects managers to work 9-10 hours.
> though if you need to preserve decimal results, you need approximation logic for division, since dividing two rationals with denominators that are powers of 10 may result in a rational with a denominator that is not a power of 10.

This is also true for adding, subtracting, and multiplying, though in those cases it is always trivial to convert the result into a form where the denominator is a power of 10.
I have videos that I've pulled down with youtube-dl in mine. Like random 'let's plays', random concert footage, one off JRE episodes, etc. I put them in "videos".

I've accidentally put TV shows in the movies category and had them not show like you describe.
No problem, JanNash. Only great UX after the hiccup w initial install. It's a keeper! Recorded 3 quick tracks and it's already clearly my new go-to "back of napkin guitar ideas" app.
Psst, folks. It's not just Canada that's doing this. Just sayin'. A lot of unsavory, freedom damaging shit is currently being enacted in the US under the same pretenses and distractions, too.
Elevr had some great research and blog posts about this kind of thing, but they ran out of funding and even the website is gone now. Here are a couple of my favorites:

The Office of the Future https://web.archive.org/web/20190816013625/http://elevr.com/...

The Three Scales https://web.archive.org/web/20190830025347/http://elevr.com/...
Reading your first sentence, I was prepared to answer with "well you must have never had a truly great manager who cared about you as a person and helped you grow", but you revealed that later.

It's one of those Pareto principle things. I had 4 terrible managers, but my 5th one helped me grow in ways I wouldn't have alone, and taught me lessons I still carry today. There's no measuring an effective manager.

The ones that do it because it's a job or because they were Peter principled into the role eventually work themselves out of the role, thankfully (or at least out of the company).
Actual title: "Keystroke tracking, screenshots, and facial recognition: The boss may be watching long after the pandemic ends"
$1.4B loss would lead to huge market dip though, as crypto is fairly sensitive to these events.
This kinda feels like a answering "what does an engineer do all day" with "writes code". Like, ok sure, but that's not the the detail that's interesting.

What are you doing in these meetings, how do you help things go more smoothly, how would you describe your role in terms of the benefit you provide to the org, not just where your time goes.
It's not, in Canada. The government may elect to invoke the War Measures Act [1]. Pierre Trudeau did this when he drove tanks into Montreal to quash the Québécois nationalist terrorist organization, the FLQ in the October Crisis of 1962 [2].

[edit] Posse Comitatus is more of an American thing - for the record the War Measures Act was subsequently replaced with the Emergencies Act [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Measures_Act

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergencies_Act