skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like that forecast was wrong then. Also, you should've been looking at the forecasts from epidemiologists, not economists. Viruses don't care about what economists want.
The implication that government policy has an effect on individual choices is a fallacy -- assertions that lockdowns destroyed productivity (it didn't) are false and assertions that relieving lockdowns restored productivity (it didn't) are also false.

Individuals will behave in their best interest regardless of external factors like unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats.
Roughly 7% of the US population is self-employed (a little over 10 million people).

It's not clear to me what "the returns should be file[d] automatically" means for this group of people.

In addition, there are many non-employment based events in the US tax code that change your tax liability. Last year I received a roughly US$3k tax credit because I installed a 6.6kW solar PV array on my house. There are dozens or even hundreds of cases like this in the US tax code.
I recently found a new-ish zine with similar content and current publication dates, loosely led by a principal sec eng at a FAANG, but can't recall the title. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, would love to know the pub's name.

These security zines add so much value. Smashing the stack for fun and profit is taught in CS programs, for instance. I'd love to see this style of security research culture with the personality that it has return/grow outside of Project 0 blogs.
Build a solid understanding of accounting/financial analysis. Read lots of similar documents. That is it. No magic.
> I'm reading release notes to get a feel for how the new release might impact me. This takes so much time to scan, because there's so much useless cruft (to me, as a user) I have to ignore.

so true, I even wrote a small script to drop the obvious cruft:

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-eslint.git;a=blob;f=debian/sc...

(I know I could make that shorter, but I explicitly split some sed statements to make it easier to read, it's a few lines only anyway)
Banks should be banned. Waste of human effort, advanced manufactured goods, and electricity.
Yes for string theory and all related topics, with the exception of interpretation of quantum mechanics. In which his adoption of the Copenhagen interpretation is very reasonable as praxis, but doesn't make sense to me as metaphysics.
This is such a good read. I hope this person goes far and gets wider support for this. I really like their project and their motivation.

> Sorry guys, but I don't want you to hold Linux terminal users hostage for your petty concerns over what is the "right" way to do something like sixels. [...] It's something that has been done successfully for over 30 years.

...

> Still, you could successfully block sixel support by having control over the terminal emulators or the libraries. Ok, but now, try to prevent your users from running sixel-tmux!

...

> Also, you guys like to say that the only voices that matters are from those who can code? Hmm, ok for that too. Let's see how you like the code I release to show the pointlessness of your petty fights, and free your users from your questionable decisions.

Also, I wasn't familiar with the term "sixel". They've been around since DEC introduced them in the 80's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
> I've never met a worse company in terms of how corrupt they are and how little they actually care about instructors

Can you explain how?

The general world of being a content creator for someone else's platform is ... well the bar is pretty low. You're pretty much on your own everywhere aren't you? Most of these sites are ultra top heavy with the top creators also generating the most revenue.
I prefer x86 compatibility over improved M1 speeds.
The iPhone revolutionalized touchscreen smartphones. It was the first very succesful capacitive touchscreen smartphone. After that, UIs had to get ready for capacitive touchscreens. Before that, resistive smartphones existed, but did get popular. Websites, for example, hardly optimized for these. They did optimize for the new capacitive touchscreen paradigm, as did smartphone 'apps'.
In my opinion, blaming it on the pandemic is misleading, and hides the true cause of our problems. As I said, supply chains are disrupted because everyone was confined to their houses and completely changed their consumer and business spending habits. Referring to the title of this article, Intel NIC orders are not disrupted because all of the factory workers are dead of Covid. They are disrupted because supply and demand of all goods has radically changed, and our modern way of life depends on a very fragile balance of the flow of goods being maintained.

As I also pointed out, we will also never know how much good we actually did. You can tell me it's "obvious" that it did, but there's no evidence to back that up.
See also, this article from 2015 where a few well-known creators have problems getting pirated courses taken off the platform.

https://robconery.medium.com/how-udemy-is-profiting-from-pir...
Yes, the important bit was they where the canary in the coal mine for the pandemic.

However, it’s really difficult to be proactive here as avoiding an issues means people assume it isn’t a problem. Shutdowns likely saved millions of lives in America but as people are only aware of the downsides they see not the horrors that where avoided.
High level description of why it sorts:

The inner loop takes an array and an index i in the array, and rearranges the array to put the largest value at index i. This is done in such a way that if the sub-array up to but not including i is sorted, then afterwords the sort will be extended such that the sub-array up to and including i will be sorted.

The outer loop says, just call in to the inner loop with i from 1 to n. This will result in a sorted array, because the initial array of a single element is trivially sorted, and then we'll have by the sort-extension property of the inner loop that the progressively larger sub-arrays of 2, 3, ... up to N elements become sorted.

You can see that the inner loop has the sort extension property by thinking about two cases.

Case 1: If the i-th element is already larger than all previous elements, it won't touch any of the elements before i, and will only potentially make the i-th element bigger, thus clearly extending the sort though the i-th element.

Case 2: If the i-th element is smaller than one of the previous elements, it won't touch any elements until reaching that smaller element; then it will start a series of swaps until it reaches index i, at which point the the original value of the i-th elment is left inserted in sorted position into the sub-array up to and including i. So at this moment we have the sort extension property. From there, it may increase the value of the i-th element and change later elements, but of both those will preserve the sub-array sort.
do you really think this guy invoking Godwin's law is heinous enough to cancel this guys speech about extra solar planets?

At best, its a petty retort isn't it?
Ageism seems penny wise and pound foolish. I do think a lot of people overfit for “culture” and shoot themselves in the foot.

(Looks around furtively in case HR is within earshot) I prefer people who’ve already made mistakes on somebody else’s dime. Though a mix is good.

I’ve been hiring people for decades (yes, I’m an OF too) and this approach has worked out well whether I was 25 or 55 myself.

There is a problem with “we did it this way at company X so we really have to do it that way here too”. Better is “we did this at company X and i think what we learned that would make sense here is YY”. Newbies can’t say either; the older ones are more likely to say the second rather than the first, thanks to perspective.
When I saw the time lapsed footage of a emergency hospital being built in Wuhan in only 10 days I turned to the wife and said there is some big $hit coming.

Three weeks later we had 4 cases from Italian tourists - it all went pear shaped from there - 2.91M infected and 87,819 deaths.
Using Makefiles and Envsubst as an Alternative to Helm and Ksonnet
>"hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome?"

In an ideal world the best browser would win but marketshare doesn't work that way.

Microsoft has full time development teams working on Edge and it is just barely chipping away at chrome's dominance. And, in no small part because they pester Windows users to make Edge the default at every opportunity.
re-reading this, when I said "rather affordable texts", I should have said that I've got unlimited texts for contacts in the country, as part of my subscription (5€, got also 2 hours of call and 100 Mo per month)
There's no recourse against the mob because the mob doesn't have real power. A mob can't cancel your speaking engagement at MIT. Only MIT can do that.

Also, it's hard to assert that you're ruined. I get that this is an emotional response, just like an angry mob's, but rest assured that time has shown that's it's not really the case. Getting fired from one speaking engagement does not ruin a person. It's more like temporary embarrassment, which happens to everyone. Kevin Spacey, Jeffrey Toobin, Bill O'Rielly, etc. have all been "cancelled", but are back working today.

One solution, at least in America, would be a better social safety net, so that most of your benefits aren't tied to having a job. Losing your job shouldn't be so scary, no matter what the reason (although that wouldn't matter in this specific case, since this person didn't lose their job).
> A bunch of you here are clearly concerned about the financial impact of the fine on Tesla’s bottom line, but maybe you should consider they could’ve gotten the house straight instead.

Well, shareholders who voiced concerns regarding systemic racism in Tesla sought to actually fix the problem by looking into the arbitration process and making it clear they do not tolerate racism.

I'm afraid some of the comments in this thread are directly advocating against any need for Tesla to address systemic racism, and instead are deeply invested in blaming the victim.
Contributed last to Issue 67. Wow it's been forever.
Five-year breach gave hackers access to billions of text messages
IPv9 is where it's at.
>as fast as possible before the next major economic catastrophe

I'm trying to think of a time where this wasn't being predicted ... I'm not sure it really makes a lot of sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion_sort ?
Really? Which camps or day cares have sexually abused hundreds of thousands of kids?
https://libre-software.net/avif-test/
Um, I never stopped using uBlock Origin, and generally run beta Firefoxen and haven't seen a problem.
"Upcoming changes to your account" - What anti-pattern hogwash.

"Upcoming changes to our fee structure"
I think those are su-25 from Russia.
>That continuous limit where the rank of a matrix goes to zero for example?

What the fuck?
Something tells me you're not in the fashion industry.

The average customer doesn't give a shit about the hot new thing, be it fashion or web framework, but the customers aren't the ones hiring talent and shaping the industry.
Whats the problem with uBlock Origin as an extension? https://ublockorigin.com/
If making $10 an hour as a retail employee when you have an advanced degree is what you were talking about when you spoke of the non-linear careers people have today...that seems a little facetious to me. I guess if I make some money panhandling, that's also a career change too....right?
This is great, thanks for the link. Love how it was written in 2004.
Technically speaking you can write a check on anything. One company paid their tax with one written on a 150lb halibut.

https://mobile.twitter.com/barclays/status/77386310895160115...
That said, Phrack is where I learned things like this (not that I have ever or will use the knowledge):

http://phrack.org/issues/1/7.html

So it has it's counter culture roots.

Edit: Which I actually just noticed is from 2600 so I guess the point stands?
> Demand for electronics is way, way up. Everything from people being bored at home to extra stimulus dollars has put extra demand on everything electronic.

Yep this is a really good point, and not so widely understood. A compounding effect of increased demand and extremely limited supply...
A lot of this comes from the US aversion to explicitly re-distributive federal policy (i.e. sending people checks), and a preference for implicit mechanisms (i.e. tax credits, refunds and deductions).
For those advocating auto-syncing cloud systems like Dropbox, OneDrive or iCloud: what kind of files are not safe?

I remember that DB famously had to make special provision for Outlook files — is that kind of thing still the case?
Or scenes where a white van stops and couple of folks in Hazmat suits jumps out and then proceed to drag infected people away.
The same could be said about downvotes. You ought to remember that we're all guests here on HN, that HN is private property, and that we have no free speech rights. Otherwise dang couldn't threaten to ban me for using a common slur against rural Americans.

If you want to exercise mostly unfettered freedom of speech, you need your own website. Preferably one not tied to your "real name" that doesn't show photos of you or mention your day job.
Even 2FA's aren't safe from the hackers and to think that it is coming from Coinbase.
12 days, 13 hours, 37 minutes
On the other hand, properly knowing UNIX/POSIX meant being confortable dropping into any random UNIX box at customer site and being able to sort out their problems without any kind of extra tooling.
I'm impressed how much "plain English" there is there.
> Sixel is a terrible encoding

This is not based on technical facts, but bias against an old format.

> png/gif/jpg--for higher quality output & lower bandwidth

For bandwidth, my ssh stream is compressed.

For quality, I can't see difference in a 24 bit bitmap when comparing with a png or jpg, unless I compress them too much, in which case the compression artifacts start playing AGAINST the formats you recommend.
Demand for electronics being up is directly correlated to lockdowns. PCs had been a declining sector for years before covid lockdowns.
can one not be state curious with people and relationships?
To be fair, if you bulk send via mail, you pay a very small fraction of normal postage.

A very small fraction.

4th class mail, sent to the occupant of every house, is very very cheap.

Really, the cost of adwork, logos, placement, 4 colour print is more expensive than post.
I do not know. I believe the literature reports at least some correlation between trait curiosity from surveys/ratings/inventories and intelligence (e.g., IQ tests), so your intuition is probably reasonable.
For one point I do also believe that adding sum types would be great. Even if the only benefit is eliminating 3-value-logic, it is a huge benefit. I also agree that while it can be modeled it is very ugly, though I wouldn't necessarily blame the relational model. The relational model is a modelling tool. The physical implementation doesn't need to be 1 to 1 with the model. Same as you rarely find pure OO or pure FP languages.

Current DBMSs do also have plenty of solutions for the problem of non-homogenous data. Some allow XML and JSON columns on which you can also enforce schemas. SqlServer proposes sparse tables. PostgreSQL has arrays, enums and structs (and arrays of structs) as data types. But I do agree that sum types ammong other things would really be nice.

As for your example I still believe it is incomplete, but I would like to discuss that in a separate thread.
I don't think I'd want any pull requests from devs who still use Facebook.
You have a very peculiar view of language if you think that elected officials are less political than ones that are appointed for life.
FF92 is much better than Chromium on Arch Linux. I look forward to FF93.
Couldn't you buy three? I mean, if you're already price insensitive to pay 5 euro for one...
Facebook Whistleblower Senate Hearing
Can someone elaborate on on this?
People were issued gag orders, which were diametrically contrary to the constitution of Weimar which ultimately undermined it.
Did they do that once or multiple times?
Though we're now in a situation where lots of software (see: Word and Excel) is painfully slow even on high-end desktop hardware.
The push to demonize self-signed certs literally makes me think browsers are in the pocket of BigCert
Does blaming the declining mental and physical state of previously healthy people on "lockdowns" also get vaguely political? My wife and I did not come near to breakdowns as we tried to care for our young family through the lockdowns and restrictions because of Covid itself, I can tell you that much.
No doubt. I suppose it is reasonable to include reverse engineering in the category of engineering to begin with.
It's not going to happen. People want to veg out after a hard day of work, most are not going to volunteer even if all video games and social media ended tonight.
I think this is an interesting case where people just want different things

For some people Python is really more of an end user application. They don't want to develop and distribute and deploy software, they want to write scripts and analyze and transform data. They expect the script a colleague emailed them to just work and expect their colleague to be able to open and run their Jupyter notebook as easily as they can open and run an Excel document. For those people Conda comes much closer to solving their problems.
> Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?

Best we can do is spending the money on women who code outreach.

Not sure what that has to do with web browsers, but I'm sure the CEO who managed to lose 80% market share knows better than me.
Jeremy Clarkson fell victim to this. He published his bank details in his column to prove it was no big deal, and someone set up a £500 direct debit to charity.
> Is Albert racist, or is he responding to past trauma as you are suggesting by blocking all Indian calls?

I'm not sure why you're phrasing things that way, it's not my proposed solution to the problem.

A similar but more practical solution might be an account setting toggle for allowing or blocking international calls. That's not super practical for people living in a small nation who spend a lot of time on international calls. In a country with tens or hundreds of millions of people, it's more practical. Most people wouldn't have any trouble with having to arrange international calls beforehand. They might very well decide to rely more on Zoom or some other IP solution, which I think would be fine...
> My understanding is that forbidding priests to marry stems from a desire to maintain the wealth of the church

As I understand it, the discipline in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church forbidding priests to marry was a response to a epidemic of scandal in the medieval church of priests neglecting or misadministering their clerical duties for courtship and family issues. Church property isn't personal property and can't be inherited even if you have children.
Write it down or it didn't happen. More directly, write down the result separate from the method or it won't be discovered by the right audience.
I'm thinking about some times when I chose "paid" over "free" and a big part of it was that the paid option was 1) considerably better and 2) unavailable for free due to physical limitations.

The first example I thought of was when I was younger and wanted internet access. I didn't pay for dialup as long as I could figure out a free option. Our library had some free system you could dial into and I figured out a way to make reasonable use of that. Then when I moved, I used some of those Juno and Netzero type services for a while.

But once I had the option to pay for cable internet, I just went straight for it. The experience was an order of magnitude better, and there was simply no way to hustle a roughly equivalent free option out there. But looking back, I don't know if I would've considered a free, ad-based cable provider if it existed back when I was a broke young dude pinching pennies wherever I could.

Then again, nowadays, I would pay a bit extra to ensure my cable internet provider did not read, prioritize, or otherwise mess with my data if that was an option. But I doubt many others would choose to do that if it was extra charge for nebulous benefits.
Fear of a bad trip is also something you need to control. If you're working through some stuff in your life, and you want to use psilocybin for it, you may encounter some darker things. It's important to expect this and learn what works for you to work through it. Fighting some negative energy out of fear of a bad trip makes the trip so much worse, in my experience. I also normally have some happy music queued up that I can always throw on as a lifesaver of sorts.
Maybe part of that throughput includes marketing people furiously writing articles like this.

I'm sure it's related but I'm also sure it's not as related as they are trying to casually sell it.

In the end, this whole FB outage and this blog post it's just a blip with a half-life of a few days.
How many places globally are going to accept the Amex? If you are in Europe somewhere, are you going to be able to use it to buy groceries?

Probably not, and almost definitely not at the small retailer. Amex charges are more for the retailer, so they often simply don't accept it.

Other than that, though: I'm not sure how often you even need that $1000 'no questions asked' policy. Second, return policies through the EU market (plus at least one country) are pretty good without credit card protections. It just really isn't a big concern. Finally, the culture around returning goods differs in different areas. Folks here (Norway) seem way less disposed to returning items - especially for simply not liking an item and would rather do some research upfront. (Not working as desired, defective, and things like that are a bit different, but folks still hesitate).
I agree. I have a whole blog[0] about what I wish I had known when I was a new developer. Those "soft skills" (which are actually pretty hard) come up again and again as something I wish I'd known earlier.

0: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/
JPEG XL supports a recompression and bit-perfect reconstruction of JPEG(1) files, so once it got universal support it does have the biggest potential to completely displace JPEG.
Edge is a chrome skin. They don't have engineers working on a browser, they have engineers working on a _theme_.
If it went up for the reasons mentioned, it means that your (previousl) itemized deductions put you in a rather small percentage of Americans. Also an unfortunate group: rich enough to have deductions at this scale, but not rich enough to have wriggled out of a large chunk of tax obligations.
It's yet another thing to install & configure manually. For a browser that boasts about privacy at every possible opportunity I'd expect something as standard & essential (in this day and age) to be included.
Seriously, no https in 2021? For a website dedicated to security?
There was actually a third excellent course launched at the same time - Jennifer Widom's Introduction to Databases. The original version is no longer available, but there are mini-courses in its stead. Highly recommended - https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/DB-mooc.html
No, he is fine with me having remote access, it's just that he lives in USA and the internet there is so bad (not everywhere, but where he lives there was only AT&T 2.5Mbps DSL and "12Mbps" (it wasn't) Comcast.

So the remote option technically did exist, and if my dad was gonna die or something if we didn't recover those files, I could have done it. But there was like 20-30 second menu latency with remote access (partly Apple's fault, the Windows machine is 5x better with the same connection, but it seems macOS can't forego its stupid animations no matter what).
Right, but tablets aren't...fungus.